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HENDERSON, gateway TO CENTRAL CAROLINA. twentieth year CONFERENCE <p X, X. JUL v u Roosevelt Puts Every Ounce Os PUBLICWORKSAND mmmrn By This Means It Is Hoped Thousands of Men Will Be Back at Work Be fore Winter CABINET OFFICERS CALLED TO REPORT President Back at White! House After Long Vaca-, tion at Sea; Reads Reports and Requests From Lon don Conference and Cables Fresh Instructions Washington. July s.—(AP)—Prosi- j dcnt'j Rooapvejjt today put hi 3 every ( ounce of force’ .behind the domestic rtjovery campaign after messaging the American delegation to try for cent nuance of the London economic conference. * ' • ’ Back in the Whit* House from more than two weeks on the open sea. the vacation-rested President immediately studied pessimistic reports from Lon don and requests for fresh instruc tions. Before going to bed last night, he dispatched a message telling the dele gallon to use every means to keep the deadlocked parley go.ng. There was. however, no intimation at the Whits House of any modifica tion in his stand against the imme diate stabilization of currencies. Cabinet off ccrs got calls to report today to the President. First atten tion was focussed on the public works and industrial recovery program by which hopes to put thousands of back to work before winer sets In. muthcaSa Shot, Beaten, Strangled After Seized by Four Men; Struck Boy Clinton. S. ~ July 5 (AP)—Shot, beaten and strangled, the body of Morris Bendy. Laurens county Negro *’ BS found seven miles from here to day a few hours after four white men had spirited him away from the Clin ton jail where he had been held for striking smll white boy. The body was found by Deputy She- Tf t Thad Moor* at Old Sardis church on the Calhou n highway. It was lying on the ground. he negro is said to have been badly beaten, Sheriff Columbus Owen *a:d, with marks of blows on his head, body and “all over.” He had bfrn shot once. , Around his neck was a rope. Sheriff Owe n said it appeared he had been hanged, the body cut down a nd removed to the church. Sheriff Owen said he had no clues to the lynchers. Warning By Schaub For Cotton Men Says Many Growers Holding Back Hop ing Neighbors Will Agree To Reduce . ing bac cfmwyp shrdlu etaoinshrdlu Raleigh. July s.—(AP)—Cotton far mers holding back from signing acre age reduction contracts while they hope their neighbors will agree to re duce their crop are threatening the tuccess of the entire program, Dean \ ° Schaub, of N. C. State College, Ktate director of the Federal cotton program said today. Desn Schaub reiterated again his < onfidence, however, that North Car ina’s quota ,cf 363,000 acre*, for re- U orient would be reached. m .LSRbj. Utt Btsuatrh J®™"a, tgssr ,.i, Domestic discord ha,sj iwiecked an other Hollywood home with the re sult that one of the most popular couples in the_ screen colony, Mary Pickfofd and Douglas Fairbanks, is on the verge of divorce. For the past three years, after, a decade of OBJECTIONS FROM - ROOSEVELT GIVEN Does Not Desire To Let Down Bars for Gold Ex ports From U. S. SEEKS DURABLE BASIS Wants More Permrnence Than Seems Attainable Now and American Theory Difftry Radically From Europe Washington, July 5 (AP) —Main objections of President Roosevelt to Immediate stabilization of currencies as demanded at London were outlined in\official quarters tgd a y as follows:' First, he feels it would morally bind the United States to let dow the bars for gold exports to support the dollar in international exchange. Second he wants to look to a more permanent basis of stabilization than appears attainable now" with” each country first putting its currency on a lasting basis in relation to its own domestic purchasing power. Third temporary stabilization of currencies in international exchange and creation of funds to support the program is not regarded by him as on the agenda of th e economic con ference. Fourth, the American theory for the us eof gold as collateral for currency is in contrast to the ideas of the Eu ropeans for its use as a medium of International exchange. He wants to keep the American gold supply In American to back up American cur rency. > . DAVIDSON’S MUSIC TEACHER BOY OF 20 Winston-Salem, July 5.—(AP) — A 20-year-old boy, James C. Pfohl, of Winston-Salem, is to head Davidson College’s newly creat ed music department next year. He is now teaching at the Uni- ; versity of Michigan. UNIDENTIFIED WOMAN KILLED BY AN AUTO Salisbury. July S.—(AP) —An un identified woman about 30 years old died late last night in a hosp.tal here from a fractured skull sustained when struck by an automobile driven by L. M. Miller oof Salisbury., , ONLY DAILY happy married life —Fairbanks has been traveling almost continually in Europe and th e orient. Pickfair, the $400,000 home of “Mary and DdTlg” in Beverly Hills, is for sale according to Miss Pickford. Above the most re cent picture and a view/of Pickfair. 15 Percent Cuts To Be Continued Washington, July 5. (AP)— President Roosevelt • today iskued an executive order continuing the 15 percent cut in the pay of Fed eral employees. The slash was at first .made ef fect.ve under the economy bill to extend until Jane 30, the close of the fiscal year, which Mr. Roose velt authorized to continue it if justified by living costs. The pay cut today was ordered to stay in effect until the first of the year. The order said that the living costs index for the first six months of this year was 130.2, as compared with 171 for the base period, the six months ending June 30, 1928. Greensboro Man Robbed Os $2,000 Lone . Bandit. Holds Up C. T. Mclver, Ice Company Cashier, On Way to Bank j Greensboro, July 5. —(AP)—A lone bandit held up C. T. Mclver,, ashier of the Colonial Ice Company,- on .a downtown street here today and forc ed him at the point of a pistol to drive his automobile several blocks, and then fled with his machine and $2,000 the cashier was taking to a bank. Mclver said the man stepped into his automobile, stuck a pistol next to h : s face and ommanded him to drive on. i The cashier said h# was afraid to look around and did not kjiow wheth er the bandit was white. After driving several blocks, the man. shoved Mclver from the car and fled. . i WEATHER FOR NORTH CAROLINA. Fair tonight and Thursday; slightly warmer tonight. NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OP NORTH CAROLINA AND VlftlNlA. HENDERSON, N. C., WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON, JULY 5 1933 TOMORROW Energy Behind Recovery Program THREE DEAD WHEN TRUCK AND WAGON MEET IN FRANKLIN Mrs. Willi* Gupton, Her Daughter, 8, and Steph en Cook Fatally In jured In Crash negro hurried off AS THREATS HEARD Crowds at Castalia And Louisburg Talk of Lynch ing and Sheriff Takes Ne gro to Unnamed. Jail; Truck Owned by Ben Wood, of Spring Hope Rocky Mount, July 5.—(AP)— Three persons were fatally injur ed and two others hntr when a truck coll ded with a wagon in the rural section of Franklin county late yesterday. Nci ae Gray Gupton, 8, was in stantly killed in the crash. The child’s mother, Mrs. Willis Gup ton, and Stephen Cooke, 40, died in a hospital here a few hours after the wreck. Mrs. Gupton’s infant child and hei 11-year-old son, Percy Edward Gup ton, were injured. The truck was owned by Ben Wood, of Spring Hope. It was driven by Alvy Bessett, a Negro, who was . arrested by Sheriff S. N. Spivey, qf Franklin county, and placed in anj unnamed jail after “ crowds at Castalia, where Bassett was. I first taken, and at Louisburg had ; threatened the Negro’s life. - - - j |. w TOWN IN ANSON IS MADE SCHOOL UNIT Raleigh, July 5 (AP)—The State School Commission today approved the setting up of Morven in Anson county as a city administrative unit. The commission continued its work of re-di3tricitng counties and has de cided on boundaries for districts in , about 30 divisions Leßoy Martin, secretary said. BALI. PLAYER SUED BY GIRL FOR $50,000 Chicago, July 5.—(AP)—An alleged hit that never got into his official baiting average brought Harley Bost, young first baseman of the Cleve land Indians, into court today in a SSO 000 damage suit. Miss Eloise Mitchell, of Winston- Salem, N. C., demanded $50,000 for a blow on the chest she said Bost ad ministed to her during a party. MECENTENNIAL , EVENT AT CAPITOL ? < i Exercises Held Independ ence Day on 100th An niversary Occasion Daily Dispatch Bnreai*. In the Sip Walter Hotel, fir J C. BASKBRVILL. Raleigh, July 5. —In a colorful cere mony modelled as nearly as possible after a similar eremony one hundred /years ago to the day, when the ori ginal cornerstone of the capiiol build ing was laid, a second cornerstone was put into place yesterday shortly after 11 o’clock immediately above the old' stone, in celebration of the centen'al' of its laying. The trowel was wielded yesterday by Past -Grand Master Francis D. Winston, of Windsor, Ber-: tie county, in the presence of mem bers of the Grand Lodge of the Mason ic Order, State officials and hunderds of interested citizens. One hundred years ago yeterday, the original cor nerstone was laid by Grand Master Simmons J. Baker, members of the Grand Lodge and the State officials of that time. After the second cornerstone had been laid by Judge Winston and he told something of the history of the laying of the first stone, an address dealing with the history of the Capi tol building and its architecture was made by Dr. Delia Dixon Carroll, a member of th*i Centennial Commmis sion that arranged yesterday’s cere monies. Governor J. C. B. Ehring haus accepted the new cornerstone in behalf "f the State, in a brief address in which he reviewed some of the pro gress made by the State since the ad (Continued on Page Six). [ Crash Mars Italy’s Big Flight • T~" ' , r % fniriiinninn nr * &*’ > * •':/ A ’•••* .*£' * % • .*’* £. ■. ■. £ •• • (n : J- ft; ■. X- -gw-v.'' -‘w • mm ' • T • 1 Rushed from Amsterdam to London by airplane and radioed to New York the lower picture shows the first dis aster which overtook the spectacular flight; cf the It a! an armada from' Rome to Chicago. Wreckage is shown Italians Hop Off For Iceland City Londonderry, Northern Ire’and, July S.—(AP)—A squadron of 24 Italian seaplanes took off for Rey kjavik Iceland at 12:40 p. m. to day (7:40 a. m. eastern daylight time). The Lying boat BS, on its stage flight to Chicago, was the f.rst to take off, rising like a bird. The other seaplanes followed the chief at regular intervals. Big Scale Expansion In Offing i • f _ y Great Industrial Up turn Last Half Os 1933 Seen by Statis tics Bodv T J i A. ~f * New York, July 5 (AP) —Stand ard Statistics Company said today that a conttinuation o fthe upward business trend during the re mainder of the year was probable “The usual mid-summer reces sion,” it stated, “will be greatly moderated or entirely eliminated in many lines because of the ac crued and belat'Hg buying. By the cli'jse of the year, buusiness volume in most of the essential industries undoubtedly will com pare favoraMby with levels wit nessed in the earty statges of the depression. “Indications now point decisive ly to a broad scale * ldustrial ex pansion during the lust half of 1933.” South Carolina . Markets Talk of , - Earlier Opening Columbia, S. C., July S.—(AP) — J. Roy Jones, commissioner of agriculture, said today he was making inquiries in the South Carolina tobacco belt to determine sentiment regarding a possibly earlier opening of the markets than August 15. , PUBLISHED EVERY AFTMUtfOOH EXCEPT SUNDAY. after one of the 25 planes had over turned in the Zuider Zee. drowning one member of the crew. Top photo depicts the manner in which the planes l , flying in formation of .were grouped to make the transat ,lantic flight. * heldES \ Two Accused of Murder and Two for Assault In Vir. ginia Camp BODY OF MAN FOUND / Alleged Killing Occurred at Roxbury Camp Near Richmond Where All of Principals Involved Were Employed Richmond, Va., Ju:y 5. —(AP) —Four civilian conservation corps workers from the camp at Roxbury have been placed under arrest, two of them charged with murder and the other two wi.h assault it was learned today as camp authorities and Charles City and county officers continued their investigation of the death of Clifford Crist 35 of Berkley. W. Va., and the beating of Ernest E. Cox, 36, of Nor ton, Va., also workers at the camp. Sheriff M. D. Lampkin, State offi cer, and Harry Hubbard last night arrested and brought to Henricoa county jail H. Owings, 40, and S. B. Heffner, 40, against whom the mur der charges were lodged in connection with the death of Crist, whose man gled body was found on the Chesa peake and Ohio railway tracks near the camp on Sunday. C. E. Lee, 43, and W. C. Carter, 43, were also brought to Henrico coun ty jail charged vjith felonious as sault upon Cox. Cost America More To Ob serve Independence Than First Skirmishes (By the Associated Press) America paid a greater price in loss of lives in its annual celebration of its independence yesterday than it did in the initial skirmishes of the Revolutionary war, it was revealed by a survey which showed, fiowever, a sharp decrease in fireworks fatalities, A total of at lea/ft 185 mien, women and children perisifed during the hol iday, compared with the total loss of seven men at’Lexington and 93 at Con cord back in April 1775, when the forces of the original colonies clashed with those of King George 111. In addition, there were hundreds of cases of injured. New York City alone reported 670 treated at hospitals for fireworks injuries. ; • . , 8 PAGES TODAY FIVE CENTS COPY ToSrs PLAN TO PEG CURRENCY Woiiid Use International Standard To Measure Exchange During Fluctuation Period AMERICANS ARE FOR RECESS FOR WHILE Partial Disbandment of Eco. nomic Parley Only Course Seen by U, S. Delegation After Telephoning to Pres ident Roosevelt In Wash ington London, July s.—(AP)—The world economic conference will virtually be wound up tomorrow, according to highest authorities, barring some eleventh hour developments. The steering committee of the con ference meets tomorrow to consider a proposal for adjournment or recess ipade by Henrryk Colijn, Dutch prime . minister, and leader of a glod bloa country. Even the American delegation to night agreed that “recess” was de sirable. While expectations, for dispersion of the great world conclave were becom ing more certain, Cordell Hull, sec retary of state, prepared a statement explaining the American position, and showed (it to Ramsay MacDonald, chairman of the conference. It was understood in authoriative American quarters that the statement included a suggestion from President Roosevelt for the institution of an in ternational dollar as a measurement for currency during the period of fluctuat.on in foreign, exchanges. INTERNATIONAL DOLLAR IS SUGGESTION OF ROOSEVELT London, July s.—(AP)—The crea tion of an international dollar for use as a measuring rod during the period of flaunting exchinges preceding stabilization was understood in Am erican quarters today to have been suggested by President Roosevelt in his instructions to Secretary of State Hull regarding the future of the world’s economic conference. At the same time, it was said in American quarters that the flat im pression prevailed that the major part of the parley would recess this week, leaving commtitees to carry on tech nical work, possibly at Geneva . Th's view was expressed after lead ers of the delegation had been in tele phonic communication with Washing ton to determine American action up on the proposal for adjournment of the conference at tomorrow’s meeting of the steering committee. AMERICANS THINK BEST PLAN IS ADJOURNMENT Dorudon, July 5.—(AP) —An ex exhange of messages between the United States delegation here and President Roosevelt reslulted this aft r£»ntlnucd on Page Six) Favor Plan For Partial Adjourning American Quarters at London Thinks Impossible for Par ley To Go on Now (By the Associated Press.) Today at the London conference: In American quarters at London, i was said that it miht be best partial! to disband the world economic con ference, as it seems impossible to kee, the parley going at this time. The delegation exchanged communi cations with President Roosevelt at Washing’on in an effort to discove means of saving the conclave frofi collapse. The President, it was said in Wash* ington, has directed Secretary of State Hull and his co'leagxies to do every thing poss.blo to keep the conference going. European gold bloc countries still awai.ing some move frdm Wash ington which might justify them in remaining at London for discussion oil economic problems, , w
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