"hENDERSON,
ATEW ay TO
CENTRAL
CAROLINA.
Twentieth YEAR
BALBO PLANES
Roosevelt Elated At
« PLEDGES DE
WORT ARE SENT
Id IDE PRESIDENT
Others Reach Director
Johnson as He Works
For Approval of More
Industrial Codes
HONOR ROLLS WILL
BE GIVEN PUBLICITY
Are To Be Displayed In Post
. Offices for Public Scrutiny,
as President Announced in
His Address Last Night;
Hearings Are Continuing
Washington. July 25. —(AP)—Presi-
dent Roosevelt was represented at the
White today as exceedingly en
couraged by the immediate response
to his summons for employers to
raise wages and shorten working
hour?.
Even before mid-morning .almost
’,OOO pledges of support for his course
-?re stacked on desks in the executive
offices.
More err ved at the Industrial Re
ccv*ry Administration, where Hugh
S Johnson—the chief there—and his
aides sped studies of proposed wage
wnrk agreements for a variety gs spe
cific industries.
Al! th® communications were to be
brought together for compilation of
the “honor rolls” of those enlisting
in the campaign. These lists, as the
President disclosed last night; are to
he posted in post offices for public
scrutiny.
Meanwhile, hearings on competitive
“codes" for the oil, lumber, wool and
raven weaving industries progressed,
with attempts by Federal agents to
have laboi and the employers agree.
The President was said to be not
ing mo- 1 particularly the reaction of
the ’mailer employers to his last
night's appeal. Upon them he believes
r.ow rests the big burden of carrying
through the campaign for mass re
employment and increased purchas
ing power.
AO CLUES YET FOR
KIDNAPING IN WAKE
P-alegh, July 25.—(AP)—Federal
agents and Wake county offeers
working on the abduction and release
!a. c Saturday of Miss Essie Kelly,
v ’k® county school girl, today said
f h?y still we e without clues as to the
identity of the k dnaperg.
Th® ag®nts of the bureau of inves
tigation were seeking to establish if
’h r re was any connection between the
kidnaping of the girl and the recent
» duetjon in Georgia of John C. "Lyle,
who was released near Wake Forest,
13 miles from here.
Ehringhaus
Refuses To
Pay Big Fee
T rank Carter, of Ash
ville, Seeks $30,-
800; Already Paid
$19,000
f>nllv Tlnreitw.
nv ! n HIP s,r Winter Hotel,
p . , •’ n'«*KF.nvir,i„
p ‘ /’Rh July 25.—Governor J. C.
r has indicated that he
v PX P e ct to approve any ex
a'.l 1 an* bills for legal services by
ninry W ho fc ave been doing spe
pj, r >rk ' f° r North Carolina
th-> - in connection with
? '? C| \ n ?‘ , * on of ,an<l * or t * ie Great
tnd., " , ' cu ntain3 National Park and
,ovea Pd that he had refused to
payment of a bill for $30,000
Pr, V tPd tO thfJ pirk commission by
' a, ’ ,p r. Ashville attorney,
' Ehringhaus also revealed
OCO f M i r a,r ° afi y been paid $lO,
w h . ! , Pa ' al services in connection
~, 'y. 1 K for (hp Park commission.
b< P , n ' s s ia - 000 which Carter has
fu ' from park commission
t 517000 waa P aid Prior to the
: nor Ehmghaus had any
‘ i4l over the fees paid to a>-
(ll( , .’ park commission. An
' ' I,’. 12.(100 was paid to him June
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Every store, factory, organization
and establishment that co-oper
ates with the government in its
gigantic recovery program, whose
employee are paid and work the
number of hours prescribed by
Economic Conference’s
Next Meeting Is To Be
In Geneva In September
Adjournment of Present
London Sitting Is Sche.
duled To Take Place
On Thursday
SUPPORT GROWING
FOR COX PROGRAM
Wants Parley To Go on “Un
til World’s Economic Ills
Are Solved”; France
Fears British Pound Mhy
Be Unhitched From Franc
at Early Date
London, July 25. —(AP) —The next
meeting of the world economic con
ference after its adjournment Thurs
day will be held in Geneva in late
September, according to the program
drawn up today.
In two days the conference will re
cess, but increasing support was man
ifest for James M. Cox’s thesis that
“we shall continue the attack along
the whole line until the world’s eco
nomic d fficulties are solved.”
The former governor of Ohio ad
vocated formation of a permanent
executive body, which could re-as
semble the congress.
In submitting an oultine of the
monetary committee’s deliberations,
Finance Minister Georges Bonnett, of
France, is said to have made it plain
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Three Gaston Men
Tried For Killing
Wife of One Man
Gastonia, July 25.—(AP)— Three
men, one a former deputy sheriff,
went on trial in superior court here
today on charges pf murdering Mrs.
Maude Whitworth, 40-year-old Gas
tonia dress-maker, ‘ and esetranged
wife of one of the accused trio, who
d ed May 27 from a fractured skull.
The defendants are A. F. Whit
worth, P. C. Falls—the former of
ficer—and Falls’ son, Fort, 20.
They pleaded not guilty when ar
raigned yesterday, backing up their
contentions that Mrs. Whitworth
jumped from their automobile in car
rying out a suicide threat, and fatally
injured herself.
The jury was chosen with little
trouble. It was completed in less than
an hour and a half after court open
ed. and taking of testimony started.
Stephen Stone, the Stales star wit
ness .told the s»ory of a plot to frame
Mrs. Wh tworth, so her husband could
obtain evidence to use in. fighting a
1 divorce action.
ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER
the various codes, will display thia
seal before long. The seal has
been approved by President
Roosevelt. Evangeline Rice is
shown displaying the insignia in
Washington.
Regional Works
Heads Be Named
Washington, July 25. (AP)—
Early announcement of the names
of regional and State public works
administrators was promised by
Secretary Ickes’ organization today,
but the: e was no inti cation as to
the exact time.
The men to be selected will co
operate ewith the central ageney
here in picking out the most
worthy projects to be constructed
in the government’s vast re-em
ployment program.
iSTnciF
AUDITOR’S DUTIES
Quotes Law In Face of “Ef
forts To Prevent” Pass,
ing on School Fund
(Special to Daily Dispatch)
Raleigh, July 25—Attorney General
Dennis G. Brummitt today issued a
(further statement with reference to
what he termed “th effect to prevent
the State auditor from passing on or
auditing" school funds of the State
of North His statement in
full follows: \
“It is vitally important that the tax-<
payers of this State get the facts with
respect to the efforts to prevent the
(State auditor from passing on or aud
iting the State school funds.
“A basic and fundamental princi
ple of our government is that, for the
protection of the public, there must be
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BALING UPCOTTON
AS HAY IN WAYNE
Goldsboro, July 25 (AP)—Cotton
■hay was added to the stock diet on
Ellis P. Lupton’s Brogden township
plantation today.
He baited the cotton cut from 30
acres destroyed under the reduction
program. (
‘<T am moving it just like I would
any other hay.” Lupto n said, “raking
(it up and baling it. taking care r '
to let it stay in the sun over one day.
Under shelter it will keep all right.'
“Cows and mules Ike it, and it will
cut the feed bill.” ~ 1 , , ■
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HENDERSON, N. C., TUESDAY AFTERNOON, JULY 25 193;
START
Employers 9 Response To Plea
FLIGHT BACK TO ITALY
KIDNAP SUSPECTS
ARE ARRESTED IN
SOME LOCALITIES
Four Members of “Terrible
Touhy” Gang in Milwau
kee and One in Chi
cago Are Held
NUMBER OF OTHER
CASES NOT SOLVED
B* - —
Touhy Mob Held in Kidnap.*
ing of William Hamm,
Rich Milwaukee Brewer,
for Whose Release SIOO,-
000 Was Paid; Nationwide
Ring Is Now Suspected
(By the Associated Press.)
Fbderal agents
four members of the *terrible Touhy*
gang in. Milwaukee tr/lay, on war
rants charging them with kidnaping,
and arrested another Chicago gang
ster, Leon Mongovirn, a survivor of
..e George 'Bugs** 'Liiiran gang, for
nuestinning in connecptm an
epidemic of kidnaping throughout the
Tiation.
The Touhy mob was charged wiGi
the abaction June’ T 5 of William
Hamm, jr., Paul brewe*
iater released for JluO.OuO ransom.
*TTey were arrested In Sllthorn, Wis - .,
*asl week in conjieetion with thee
snatching of John Factor, Chicago
barber, turned stock, pperatqr, who
was held for morfrtßan a week- for
ransom.
Factor, however, was unable to
identify them, but the goveg-nment
agents succeeding in holding them
for the Hamm abduction.
Factor’s son, Jerortie, also was a
kidnap victim a few weeks ago. No
arrests have been made in either case.
Relatives of Charles F. Urschell,
Oklanwma City o.i man, kidnaped
last Saturday, requested the author-
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COMMISSION ENDS
DISTRICIiNG TASK
State School Board Ready
To Begin Allocating
Operating Funds
Raleigh, July 25. —(AP)—The State
School Commission today completed
its re-districting of counties as pro
vided by the 1933 school law, and pre
pared to begin work on allocating the
school funds and considerat on of the
transportation of school children.
Delegations were heard on re-dis
tricting matters from Bladen and
Robeson counties.
The commission this afternoon had
not reached consideration of the mat
ter of auditing school funds. Under
the 1933 school law, the commission
and Local Government Commission
are authorized to audit its funds,
while Attorney General Dennis G.
Brummitt has ruled that the funds
should be audited by Baxter Durham,
State auditor.
Mollisons
Lay Plans
ForFuture
New York, July 25. fly
ing Mollisons ,who set bravely out
from Wales In their own plane only
to reach New York in a flying am
bulance, settled down today for “a
good long rest” and said little about
their plans for the future.
Captain Jim and the former Amy
Johnson, stars of British aviation, ar
rived last night from Bridgeport,
where their plane. The Seafarer, was
wrecked Sunday night in sight of the
lights of New York.
They came as passengers—in a
roomy cabin plane converted into a
sky ambulance for the trip. They lay
'wearily back on white hospital pil
lows. A nurse and two physicians sat.
beside them. A four-plane escort of
honor, led by Commander Frank
Hawks, accompanied them.* ■_
One for Three
„ A
Ara! Jo Palanca was named by
Mussolini to direct the Italian
trans-Atlantic lines business in the
United States and Canada. He
supersedes a triumvirate which has
been in charge since all the lines
were merged.
' Central Preu)
dimwingF
1933™ CROP
Destruction of Acreage Uik
der Way Under Gov
ernment’s Program
HOPE TO LIFT PRICE
3,500,000 Bales To Be Plowed Under;
Some Localities Still Waiting
on Official Govern
ment Permits
Atlanta, Ga., July 25. —(AP) —Dixie
where cotton and cash have been
synonymous for generations, watched
the plows of planters mow down the
crop in scattered communities today,
while other sections awaited only per
mits from the government to start re
ducing acreagee.
Actual destruction of the crop un
der the Federal program to reduce
the year’s potential yield by 3,500,000
bales, to stimulate the market, was
rfeported in Georgia, part* of west
Texas and west Tennessee yesterday,
while perm- ts were issued to place ad
ditional planters in position to lay
waste portions of their fields today.
Officials in Alabama said they ex
pected destruction to start there at
once. Permits were beiri gdistrvbut
ed in the Carolinas and officials in
Louisiana, Oklahoma and Arkansas
said the formal agreements were being
awaited in those states.
Farm Policy
Sympathetic
But Is Firm
Insists Upon Sound
Financing, Speaker
Says at LState Col
lege Meeting
Raleigh, July 25. —(AP) —The Fed
eral Farm Credit Administration’s po
licy with respect to cooperatives was
described an “sympathetic, but firm
and insistent upon sound business fi
nancing,” by Francis W. Peck, coop
erative loan commissioner, in an ad
adress today to the American Institute
of Cooperattion here.
Peck said the administration felt
that, with this point of view, it could
"best serve the permanent develop
ment of agriculture.”
He read a message from Henry Mor
genthau, Jr., in which the governor
of the Farm Credit Administration
said he did not believe “any new form
of economy or new regulation, of pro
duction will ever make cooperation
k®3 necessary.”
“We intend to assist cooperative en
terprises and to promote cooperation,”
the message added. , _ -
PUBLISHED EVERY AFTEBNOOM
EXCEPT
650-Mile Hop To
New Brunswick Is
Begun At 9 A. M.
k . .
New Austrian Envoy
w ■ wft I
E9ML ’*?. .y’ 3
George Karie 111
- Appointment of George Earle 111.
president of the Pennsylvania Sugar
ccmpstny, as. American anlnisi'.ter to
AAistria, is regarded as highly emport
, ant in view of the present re-
Earle succeeds Gilchrist B. Stocktdh.
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HUTTON, SHE SAYS
T Can’t Believe She
Says About Hubby's
Divorce Appeal
SHE ARRIVES IN U. S.
Grants Interview Aboard Ship at Nor
folk; All So Hasty She Doesn’t
Know What To Say About
Becent Events
.. .. BY MILES H. WOLFF.
Aboard the Liner City of Havre, off
Norfolk, Va., Joly 25.—(AP)— An/y
Semple McPherson Hutton, the Los
Angers evangelist, returned to Am
erica today protesting that she still
loved her husband, David Hutton,
“more than anything in the world.”
Asked about his recent action in
instituting divorce proceedings she
said:
“O, I can’t believe it. Os course. I
still am in love with him.”
Attended by a nurse, she lay on a
bunk in the captain’s quarters to re
ceive newspaper men as the City of
Havre pulled into port’.
“It is all so hasty that I don’t know
what to say.” she’ said. “His last
words were that he was counting the
hours until I returned. It has been a
tremendous shock.”
She was pale and her lips and eyes
trembled as she talked, and on one
occasion, after she had talked a few
minutes, her nurse protested Mrs.
Hutton was unable to continue. The
interview was resumed after a brief
pause.
The City of Havre remained in Nor
folk part of today, and then is to con
tinue on to Baltimore, where Amy is
to disembark.
FRANK HAWKS OFF
UPON A LONG HOP
New York, July 25.—(AP)—
Frank Hawks, speed flier, took off
from Floyd Bennett field at 12:08
p. m., eastern standard time today,
on a non-stop flight to Regina.
Saskatchewan. He said he would
make no attempt to set any speed
record.
WEATHER
FOB NORTH CAROLINA.
Mostly cloudy tonight and Wed
nesday; showers Wednesday and
probably in west portion ton’ght;
somewhat cooler Wednesday.
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Great Cry of “Viva Balbo”
and “Viva Italy” Arises as
Great Armada
Roars Away
HOPE TO MAKE HOP
IN 5-HOUR PERIOD
Balbo To Decide on Reach
ing Shediac, N. 8., Wheth
er to Take Northern Route
by Which He Came Or
Southern Route; Armada
Visited World Fair
St. John’s N. 8., July 25.—(AP)
—Twelve seaplanes of the Italian
armada which left New York to
day passed over here today at 1:55
p. m., eastern standard time, fly
ing last and well over the Bay
of Fundy.
Reports from Campobello Is
land, N. 13., said the Italian air
armada began crossing the inter
national boundary there at 1:50
p. m. EST. The fleet passed over
the summer home of President
Franklin D. Roosevelt and con
tinued on in an easterly direction
toward St. Thomas, N. B.
* ONE PLANE DOWN.
Rockland, Maine, July 25.—(AP)
—One of the 24 planes composing
General Italo Ba!bo’s air armads.
landed in Rockland harbor short
ly before I p. in., eastern standard
time, today.
The office of the seaplane base
said the Italians apparently had
been forced down by minor motor
trouble. The crew moored the ship
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Saving of Cotton
Will Be Permitted
Only To Make Hay
Washington, July 25 (AU)—
Farm admin fstrators said today
that cotton farmers agreeing to
destroy portions of their clrop in
return for government cash will
be required to destroy the cotton
‘‘competely,” with on e exception.
It is that in event the' crop is
ycung and green and still far from
a state where it is developing bolls,
farmers w’ho desire can cut the
crop for hay to be fed on their
farms, providing they have spe
cial permission from county
agents.
Administrators said there may
be few instances where farmers
will be able to salvage any of
their crop for hay, and that in
many cases farmers have no de
sire to do so.
Plan Bank
Set-Up As
Statewide
New Guaranty Insti
tution To Serve
Towns That Had
Old Banks
Raleigh, July 25.—(AP) —Gurney P.
Hood, State bank commissioner, said
today that it was his understanding
that the proposed new Guaranty Bank
would be a Statewide institution.
Commenting on the report that R.
L. Smith, Sr., Albemarle attorney, had
said the new bank would have only
12 branches. Hood said:
“The proposed new bank to be or
ganized from the Page Trust Com
pany, North Caroling Bank aAd Trust
Company and Independence Trust
Company is, in my understanding io
be a Statewide bank.
“It will operate branches at every
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