gateway to
CENTRAL
CAROLINA. |
TWENTIETH ihaxv,
ROOSEVELT
Gen. Balbo
Armada At
Land’s End
Planes Alight In Waters Os
Shoal Harbor, Newfound
land, Coming From
Shediac
ONE PLANE DOWNED
IN VICTORIA WATERS
Crew Refuses Aid, How
ever, and Makes Repairs;
Unfavorable Weather Part
of Distance Fails To Halt
Flight on Third Lap of
Home Trip
Sheal Harbor, Newfoundland, July
The Italian armada com
peted the third leg of its homeward,
i.ijhf today. By 11:48 a. m.. eastern
it&ndard time, ten of General Italo
l Babo s planes had alighted on Shoal
I Hsrbor and others of the squadron
I «re circling overhead.
Victor a Harbor, P. E. I„ July 26.
(API—On? of the planes of the Italian
air armada alighted here today for
repairs The other 23 continued on to
wards Shoal Harbor, Newfoundland,
their destination, when they took off
front Shediac, N. 8.. this morning.
The 23 planes completed thrir pas
sage over Prince Edward Island at
9 a. m.. eastern standard time. When
one cf the ships came down in Vic
toria Harbor, the other circled about
fer a few minutes and then resumed
their flight at a signal from below.
A motor boat went out from shore
and towed the plane to the wharfside.
/ The airmen spoke no English and the
fishermen in the motor boat were un
able to learn what was wrong, but the
Italians busied themselves about the
motor a? though they expected to
make repairs and get back into the
a
Leaping across Prince Edward Is
land. the armada faced cloudy weath
er but visibility was fair and clear
v/ea'her was reported off the coast.
WOMAN LOSES LIFE
AS TRUCKS COLLIDE
1 Camden, S. C., July 26.—(AP)—Mrs.
I Nannie Hemls, of Dallas, a widow,
fas instantly killed near here today
the truck she was riding crash
ti into a transportation truck parked
cn the side of the highway.
Mr? Helm 3 was going to Charles
ton to visit relatives. The truck she
was r.ding was driven by R. O. Fer
g’JSon. produce dealer, en route from
Charlotte to Charleston for a load of
produce.
Hatteras
Steamship
Destroyed
Hatteras. July 26.—(AP)—The auxi
■aty steamer Ethel, locally owned,
Jrn?d t<) the water’s edge here early
o ay with a loss esttimated at ap
proximately $7,000.
vessel was not insured,
he weasel was owned by W. L.
A. S. Austin and others of
•Bmeras. It was one of two boats the
• * pie of this section defended on for
marketing of their fish.
I e boat operated on a schedule be-
J een heie and Elizabeth C.ty. None
‘ Crew aboard when the boat
v." K * ire . and the origin of the
tVI WaS not determined,
rp i °recently been equip
i-l a new crude oil engine, cost
, 300 ' Captain J. I. Stowe, was
* aat «r of tho ship.
Wain County Game Warden
Fatally Shot By Own Son
j Knosr -v*l!e, Tenn., July 26.—(AP>—
- • Calhoun, 38, game warden at
ar| a, N. C.. died in a hospital 10-
*Mom Crn * bul,et WOUnd ‘hrough tne
b< D ' V ' Hendcr son said Calhoun
V, hi: h ;, to,d him he was shot
. ' 'I -jIiJ son, after he had
„ "'''l ll Ml.
•* hu •
B’i8’i 1,1 brought here yesterday j
t.j lu ' un'aiia is in Swain coun-■
iirig lIG Tennessee-North Caro-j
HrniU'rsmt
FULL L BASEL) WI.KJB BHrv
or TUB
Laughs at Death
jT|: i . • < .j:’v
Carolyn Wells, prominent author,
has just revealed that 20 years ago
doctors told her she had only two
years to live. She had a heart ait
went pronounced incurable. Think
vg the end was near, she began
“joying life to the utmost, has
•ver regretted being “doomed” to
die.
LEGISLATORS SAY _
STATE TO GO WET
Visitors ]to Raleigh Nearly
All Bring Much the
Same Story
EAST IS LIKELY WET
Orange, Bertie, * And
Pitt Put Down in Column
Against Prohibition; Robe
son Man Won’t Comment
Raleigh, July 26. —(AP) —i legisla
tors an dformer members of the Gen
eral Assembly who are coming to Ra
leigh these days continue to predict
that their home communities, in prac
tically every case, appear ready to
vote for repeal of the eighteenth
amendment.
Lieutenant-Governor A. H. Graham,
of Orange county, says: “My county,
I believe, will give a wet majority,
but there is a strong element of dry
sentiment, there.” •
Judge Francis D. Winston, lieute
nant-governor in 1905, and veteran
legislator, says his home county of
Bertie “will vote for repeal if the
preachers will let us,’’ and Represen
tative C. W. Spruill, of Bertie, says:
“I think Bertie will be for repeal.”
Representative Ernest Graham, of
Robeson, refused to comment on the
s.tuation in his county, but Repre
sentatives Van Watson, of .Nash, and
F. M. Taylor, of Halifax, predict re
peal majorities i,h their counties..
Senator A. B. Corey, of Pitt, be
lieves Pitt ‘‘will be for repeal by a
big majority,” and added, “11l be
darned if I don’t believe the State will
go for repeal by a two to one vote.”
Rogers Hornsby
Is Made Manager
St. Louis Browns
St. Louis, Mo., July 26. —(AP) —Phil
Ball owner of the St. Louis Browns,
today announced signing of Rogers
Hornsby as manager for the remain
der of this season, 1934 and 1935.
1 Horsby succeeds Bill Killefer, who re
’ signed recently.
Ball made his announcement as
soon as President John Heydler, of
: the National League, had informed
the St. Louis Cardinals, with whom
! Hornsby had been playing this sea
son, that all clubs in the league had
waived on Hornsby’s services. As the
Browns are in last place, they had
i first claim to Hornsby under base
ball law.
DEPUTY SENT TO SCENE
TO ARREST CALHOUN BOY
Bryson City, July £6. (AP) —Sheriff
J. H. Seay today sent a deputy to the
lower section of Swain county to ar
rest a son of Jack Calhoun, game
warden, who died in a Knoxville hos
pital from a bullet wound.
Sheriff Seay said he did not know
the so: ‘s name, but was Informed the
17-year oio youth had fined at his
father after becoming angry over be
: ing punished. Reports that Calhoun
j had been ambushed were not true, so
t far as he knows, Sheriff Seay said.
ONLY daily newspaper
SiYSWRK
PURITY OF PRICES
IN DAIRY INDUSTRY
BY WINTER UGED
v ' an Be Had by Christmas
Without a Tax Ir Dairy
Farmers Will Help
Themselves
U. S. ADMINISTRATOR
MAKES STATEMENT
Tells Cooperati ve Institute
at State College How It
It Can Be Done; Govern
ment Ready to Carry Out
Its Program; Control of
Supply Is Discussed
Raleigh, July 26.—(AP)—Dr. Clyde
L. King. Federal dairy products ad
mlinistrator, predicted to the Amer
ican Institute of Cooperation th s aft
ernoon that “we can get pre-war
parity prices in the dairy institute by
Christmas, without a tax” if dairy
farmers will help themselves.
Dr. King called for further organi
zat on of the dairy industry, asserting
it was essential that cooperatives be
organized “not only to enforce milk
agreements but to help the govern
ment to keep them, and this cannot
be done unless organization can be
perfected.”
When dairy farmers agree to “run
their own show,” the government will
be ready to carry out the provisions
of the dairy program, he said.
Government assistance in farmers’
organization plans for control of sup
ply will provide the element of com
pulsion which cooperatives have
found to be needed.” C. C. Teagoe, of
Banta Paula, Cal., president of the
California Fruit Growers Exchange,
and former farm board member, told
the institute.
Relief Fund
To Be Based
On Local Aid
Cities and Counties
Must Do Their Part
If They Get Federal
Money
Daily Dlnpnfoli Btirm*
In Sir Walter Hotel.
J C nAFKKRVI 1,1,.
Raleigh. July 26. —State and local
emergency relier organizations must
not only cooperate with all agencies
that can put people to work, but most
also provide sufficient State and lo
cal resources, by taxation if neces
sary, which, when added to Federal
Relief grants, will provide “reason-
Ifcbjly adequate” relief tor those in
need, according to a letter just sent
to the governor and relief admin
istrators of the various states by
Harry L. Hopkins, Federal emergency
relief administrator. This letter was
made public today by Ronald B. Wil
son, acting director of relief for North
Carolina. He is also sending copies
of this letter to all local relief di
rectors and to all boards of city and
county commissioners.
This letter from Administrator Hop
kins makes it plain that no city oir
county can expect to continue to get
Federal relief funds unless they make
substantial contributions to relief ac
tivities from city or county funds,
Wilson said. During the past three
months, the Federal government has
been supplying more than 85 per cent
(Continued nn Page Six).
Times To Apply Code.
Raleigh, July 26.—(AP)—The Ra
leigh ’ Times today tlegraphed Presi
dent Roosevelt that it is ready to ap
ply the blanket industrial code to its
entire plant.
ROCK HILL MAN IS
HOME OWNER HEAD
Washington, July 26.—(AP) —A. E.
Hutchison, of Rock Hill, S. C., has
been appointed ex-officio general
manager of the Home Owners' Loan
Corporation, and will combine the
duties with those of secretary of the
Federal Home Loan Bank Board.
WfATHIR
FOR NORTH CAROLINA.
Occasional showers tonight and
Jhursday. u
PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA AND VIRGINIA.
HENDERSON, N. C„ WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON, JULY 26, 193;
T 9 at Ut D isiaatdr
Mollison Plane Too Damaged to Fly Again
Photo taken from the air the day after crack-up of Mr. and Mrs. James Mollison shows the terrain
Vs c J ash * d n< : ar Bridgeport, Conn., almost within sight of their New York goal after ffvimr
Atlantic. As picture indicates, they almost landed in a creek. Plane is too much of a wreck to % agaii.
(Central Press)
Stretch-Out
Witnesses
Not Fired
South Carolina Tex
tile Man Denies Re
ports After Hear
ings Held There
Bennettsvifie," - *0?; July 26—(AP)
W. P. Jacobs, of Clinton, secretary
of the South Carolina Cotton Manu
facturers Association, said here today
he had made a personal investigation
of each mill employee who testified
at stretch-out hearings in this State,
and that “not a single one has been
discharged.”
Jacobs, here on business, said after
he read press dispatches yesterday
saying some of the “stretch-out” wit
nesses had been discharged because of
their testimony, he contacted each
employer operatives who were heard
in Greenville and Spartanburg.
“The dispatches,” Jacobs said, were
“absol”te!y incorrect. I talked with
each ex'cu'it whose employees testi
fied and not a single one of the em
ployees has been dismissed. I checked
every single witness.”
Excessive Price
On Land May Kill
Forestry Chances
DnlljF ;ii»pn toh Ttnrena,
In the Sir Witltfr Hotel.
BT J. C. BASKERVIU,.
Raleigh, July 26. —Refusal of land
owners to cooperate by placing pro
hibitive values on their holdings and
inability to locate suitable tracts of
sufficient area, threaten to block ef
forts to establish a national forest
in Eastern North Carolina, State For
ester J. S. Holmes said yesterday.
Mr. Holmes fears a repetition of the
same factors which resulted in a si
milar defeat of efforts of the Depart
ment of Conservation and Develop
ment and others to obtain establish
ment of a national forest i nthe east
ern part of the State several years
ago.
Requirements of the National For
est Reservation Commission, which
has charge of the acquisition of Na
tional Forest lands, the State fores
ter continued, include a block of rea
sonably continuous land aggregating
in the vicinity of 100,000 acres or
more; a price in keeping with the
productive capacity of the area; and
land without an excessive proportion
of swamp or poosin.
If such conditions are not met, the
State forester feels sure that the fed
eral commission will not consider set
ting up a National Forest in the east
ern part of North Carolina. Recently
the Conservation Department, thro
ugh Director J. W. Harrelson, has
urged consideration of the cioastal
plains in the new program of Na
tional Forest acquisition.
Word from Washington reveals that
a fund of approximately $20,000,000
ha,s been made available by the fed
eral government for the purchase of
National Forest lands in Eastern
United States. State officials believe
that the greater part of this money
will be used for the acquisition of
lands in purchase areas already es
tablishedt They are of the opinion
that the approximately half million
acre- of these holdings in Western
Nor<h Carolina will be materially au
gmented and are eager that the coas
tal plains also shall share in the ad
vantages of such reservations.
PROGRAM SUCCESS
N. C. Is Allotted
Another $713,003
Washington. July 26.—(AP)—
Harry L. Hopkins, Federal emer
gency relief director, announced to
day that North Carolina has been
granted a loan of $713,003.
The loan was made on the basis
of expenditures of public money
during the second quarter of the
year.
North Carol na previously .had
received a total of $1,273,377.
Hauling Os
Children Is
Large Item
Many Restrictions
Ordered In Opera
tion of School Buses
This Year
Dolly Dtnpntrh Tlnreaw.
In the Sir Waller Hotel,
nv J C. D 4SKERVILL.
Raleigh, July 26.—The transporta
tion of some 240,000 school children
to and from school every day in some
5,000 school buses is not only one of
the biggest and most hazardous jobs
in connection w.th the operation of
the public schools, out one of the
most expensive, the State School Com
mission has found as a result of its
study of the transportation problem.
The commission started work on the
transportation set-up in its meeting
here yesterday and will continue on
this phase of school operation until
the new transportation routes in the
various counties have been worked
out and approved.
Last year the cost of transporting
approximately 240,000 school children
to and from school every day was
about $2,100,000 .according to figures
obtained from the office of the State
School Commission. Because of the
reduction in the appropriation for
schools this year and the fact that
all the school buses must now be op
erated for eight months instead of
six, the cost of transportation must
be sharply reduced. It is expected that
the new school law, putting the op
eration of the school buses directly
under the control of the school com
mission, instead of under the county
superintendents as in the past, will
result in some saving. Additional sav
ings are eypected from the sections
of the law making it unlawful for
school buses to transport any chil
dren that live within two miles or
less of the school they attend, or for
buses to leave main roads more 1 1-2
miles to pick up children. The com
mission has already passed a ruling
(Continued on Page Seven.)
Negro Taxi Man
Robbed and Tied
To Tree an Hour
Fayetteville, July 26.—(AP)—
Archie Clark, Negro taxi driver,
was found tied to a tree in a wood
near here early today and told
police he was robbed of $1.40 and
his car by two Mranee Negroes
who trussed him to the tree.
Clark had been tied up for about
an hour and a half when he was
released by Dave McDaniel, for
mer living in the section. i .
PUBLISHED EVERY AFTERNOON
EXCEPT SUNDAY,
GASTON TRIO ALL
DENY THEIR GUILT
Whitworth and Two Fails
i Claim Innocence of Mrs.
Whitworth’s Death
Gastonia, July 26. —(AP) —A. F.
Whitworth, on trial for murder in
connection with the death of his wife,
made a blanket denial of the State’s
charges from the witness stand to
day. When he completed his testimony
the defense in the case, involving
Whitworth and two others, rested.
Philip C. Falls, a former Gaston
county deputy sheriff, and his 20-year
old son, Fort Falls, <he other defen
dants in the case, denied the State’s
charges when they testified yesterday.
W.th only one or two State rebuttal
witnesses to be heard, indications
were that the case would go to the
jury late this afternoon.
Mrs. Whitworth. 40-year-old dress
maker, and estranged wife of Whit
worth, died May 27 from a fractured
skull. Whitworth and the elder Falls
maintained the woman leaped from
an automobile after having threatened
to commit suicide and struck her
head on the pavement.
The State contends she was either
killed by a blow on the head or thrown
from an automobile.
Reduction in Service
Charges Planned by Cor
poration Commission
In tne Sir Walter Hotel.
Daily Dispatch Rnrena.
nv ,i r. n/vsKKitviiii,.
Raleigh, July 26.—The State Cor
poration Commission is expected to
issue an order this week instructing
the various telephone companies in
the State to put lower charges into
effect fer the use of so-called French
style hand telephone sets, for instal
lation and moving of telephones, and
other similar incidental charges, Com
missioner Stanley Winborne said to
day. The commission does not expect
to be able to issue any order with re
gard to the regular monthly rental
charges made by the various com
panies for some time yet, however,
Winborne said.
Most of the telephone companies
are now charging 50 cents a month
extra for telephones equipped with
the new French style hand sets, about
$3 for installation and $3 moving a
telpehone from one location to an- |
other. The Corporation Commission
hopes to get the various companies to
agree to a material reduction in these
charges immediately, and to issue aa
(Cm»tinu«d on Page Five.)
Pledges Made Roosevelt
Given Most Cordial Reply
Washington, July 26.—(AP)— Each
person who telegraphs a pledge of
coperation to President Roosevelt in
his economic uplift movement has
been sent a reply from Hugh S. John
son .the national recovery administra
tor. saying:
“I felt sure that the administra
tion could rely upon the people ol
America to render the loyal coopera
8' PAGES
TODAY
FIVE CENTS COP
NEAR 6 MILLIONS
BACK TO WORK BY
LABOR DAY LIKELY
Pledges of Support to Presi
dent Continue To Arrive
As He Holds
Press Meeting
ROOSEVELT CERTAIN
NEW DEAL CLICKING
Recovery Program To Be
Applied In Nearly All In
dustries Immediately, the
President Declares; Chiefs
In Charge Join Him In
Optimistic Views
Washington, July 26.—(AP)—Presi
dent Roosevelt today declared the in
dustrial recovery program for shorter
working hours and higher wages to
be a success.
Meeting with reporters at th s . White
House while pledges of support con
tinued to arr.ve, he based his judg
ment on 12,000 replies already re
ceived fro mevery section to his ap
peal t 0 put a new charter for Amer
ican industry into immediate effect.
Meanwhile, at the hard working In
dustrial Recovery Administration
hear ngs progressed on individual
wage and working time codes for the
oil, lumber and men’s clothing indus
tries.
Mr. Roosevelt was described as con
vinced that the “ne wdeal” of a short
er working week and higher wages
will go into effect almost immediately
in the vast, majority of industries.
While he has not had opportunity
to read all the telegrams, he rejoiced
over the public response.
The recovery chieftains who have
made a hurried survey of the replies
of employers joined the President in
declaring the campaign a success.
Hugh S. Johnson, the administrator,
predicted the re-employment of be
tween 5,000,000 and 6,000,000 before
Labor Day.
HIGHWAY HEARINGS
ALMOST COMPLETE
Roads and Streets Asked
Far In Excess of Gov
ernment’s Money
Raleigh, July 26. —(AP)—The State
Highway and Public Works Commis
sion hopes to complete its hearings of
delegations asking street and highway
improvements this afternoon.
The commission has heard hundreds
of since Monday and reques '.
have been made for roads which
would cost far in excess of the sll,-
000,000 which will be available. Chair
man E. B. Jeffress said. No tabulatio r
of the reouests has as yet been m<i f '
it was said. tlf UHMBI
New Scale
Teachers ’
Pay Soon
Raleigh, July 26.—(AP)—The State
Board of Education met this after
noon to lay plans for a conferenca
with a committee of the State School
Commission with a view to setting
new teacher salary schedules for tha
State.
Governor J. C. B. Ehringhaus called
the group together under the terms of
the 1933 school law.
The school commission spent the en
tire morning d scussing transporta
tion of school children and allotment
of school funds to the counties, but
reached no definite decision, Leßoy
Martin, secretary, said.
l j tion needed in this great ;mergency.
f r Therefore, your telegram is most
i i gratifying.
s 1 “I hasten to than! you, your or
i ganizat on and other civic groups for
l_ your prompt response.
“I will see that complete plans ana
■ i sent to you as soon as possible and
h f , will watch with great interest the re-t
f 1 port of the progress you make.”