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’""’Henderson, jateway to CENTRAL CAROLINA. twentieth teak GEORGIA TOBACCO IS ABOUT 15c ITTPENING HOOSEVELT PLANS DEIERMNED SLAP AL KIDNAP MENACE l/nifoim Method of Attack Soon To Be Presented to Governors of All The States GOVERNMENT"GIVES full cooperation Conference Held at Hyde Park With Raymond Mo ley, Who Is Expected Soon To Get New Appointment In View of His Break With Secretary Hull Hyde Park. N. Y.. Aug. I.—(AP) j Pruident Eeosevelt opened a special j inquiry ini oa means of battling the j kidnaping racket in a conference to- l day with Raymond Molev, intimate i advisor anti assistant secretary ol j Th? Molev conference follows close- j ]y the organization of an enlarged bu reau of investigation in the' Depart- 1 aent of Justice. Mr ooseveit is determined to give j fu'.l Federal cooperation to the states! in tbe drive against stealing in hu- i man lives. Al.-o there is indication he will sug- ! gert shortly to governors of the states a uniform method of attack against j thi* nerves tof rackets, which is j flourishing at alarming rates. Obejievers here were inclined to j place double significance to the Moley | visit. He has been at odds witij Sec- i retary Hull over State Department ' policier, and persistent rumors pre-1 vail that Moley is to be fgiven a new ! assignment. J State's Housing: Commission Picks Broughton Head Raleigh Aug. I.—(AP)—The newly i authorized State Housing Commission j trta'ed by the 1333 General Assem bly me* hire today and elected J. M. Erouphion, of Raleigh, as chairman, the suggestion of Governor J. C. E. Ehringhaus. Tt‘ commission will be the State's control agency through which cor poration.- may apply to the Reionstruc f;on Finance Corporation for funds w l f h which to erect limited dividend housing facilities. Details; of the duties of the com mi■ f-ion are now being studied by Chairman Broughton. WOUNDS CLERKS AND FLEES FOREST CAMP FredericksLurg, Va. Aug. 1. — (AP) —• j! sheriff s posses and scores of con servation corps workers were search ln? the woods of Spottsylvania coun- r odry for Grady B. Bound of E -ookland, Va., who left Camp No. about .hn miles from here, last n s‘hf after wounding two camp clerks with a pistol. Clarkson’s Dryness Is injourious Supreme Court Just ice May Be Opposed! in 1934 by Some et Candidate •bib IMapntrh nnt-pflN, >n th«» Sir Waller Hotel. .1 «\ kASKICU V 11.1,. ’’ ’ :s t'i Aug. I.—Judge Heriot -son activity in the anti-repeal olv M " :r ’ ' interpreted by many wise ' ' * n North Carolina as an in . 1 ’ n ,n ’h° wot forces to bring out "•■ndiriatc again:-, t him in the 1934 CPihpaign. r.r| i ' who was appoint vp,,' rOV( mor Cameron Morrison in " u f rCEril JFtdffc Plait D. Walk t • 1 up f>r the 'ong *erm beginning "’Y 193. d. Chief Justice W. JP. A,> ~ ,Hi Associate Justice W. J. r , ’ r ‘ 'c ! 'lso to be nominated and ~ 1 11 if> 34. There is no hint of " s li" »*i. TL\y are known ü big no port in the repeal and beyond ruling that it !l " uional to vote on the IBlh tOoit’nuwJ on Pagt Three.) ~~ ] Hrnht'rsmt , gy-Tfer;g a vyi?g D »»»v.g» Troops Sent to Overrule Sheriff in Penn. Strike Members of the 112th Infantry, Pennsylvania national guard, sent from the summer encampment at Mt. Gretna to Brownswille to quell disorders between striking miners and deputy sheriffs, are shown on the march. Also pictured are Gov. Pinchot, a pair of typical miners striking for “filled dinner pails ” and a mao of the trouble area. Troops were ordered out by the governor after Sheriff Harfry E. Hackney refused to remove his deputies from the strike area. Code Regulations Are Summarized In Brief Washington, Aug. 1. —(AP) — Some ; pertinent facts about the wage rais ing, hour shortening agreements that go into effect today for retailers and foodstuffs dealers: Ono agreement applies to the grocery and i'ooa business, the other to furniture, hardware, department! store, specialty shops, mail order, | clothing, shoe and dry goods retail-! ers. Both contained stipulations that re placed provisions embodied in the general agreement offered by Presi- > dent Roosevelt to all employers. Ihcse new stipulations .together with oiiginal provisions not supplant ed, become effective until final codes may be studied and promulgated. The retailers’ code provides: A 40-hour week, expanded to 48 for inventories, pi e-holidays or other peaks, if the 48-hour service is not demanded more than three weeks out of each six months, s, A 48-hour week or longer for pro fessional maintenance, delivery and outside salesmen, employees or exe cutives making more than $35 a week, if these are paid time and a third for all over 48 hours. Weekly minimum wages are sl4 in cities ever 500,000 population, $13.50 GOVERNOR TO RULE ON CAPITAL CASES Chief of These Is That Os Clay Fogleman, Rock, inghaxn White Man Dally UlHpntefi Bnrcmi. In (he Sir Wallrr H*H, J. CJ BAfKKII V«1.1.. Raleigh, August I—Governor Eh ringhaus must wind up jhfis work pre_ Jiimanaay to the annual vocation important capital cases sett Led before I ihe goes . There is* universal impress'.on that he will commute the sam'iance cf Ed Hines, Winston-Salem Negro, who sweats to his Irurt. Bines has the help of a wiling witness who says Hines shot hts man in self-defense; but the prisoner says the witness was nowhjer Recently Soflicitar Carlisle Higgins, who prosecuted this defendant, was in Raleigh, and indi cated a desire to have th e death sent. ! on t changed. Gimt-nor F.hriroghaus apparently "ill ret that way. Then Ed I aver, of Columbus, a 1 white has considerable sentiment work (Continued on Page Three.J, ONLY DAILY NF.WSPAPrr in citit3 of 100.000 to 500,000, and sl3 j in others down to 2,500. (One dollar j a week less in several southetn j states, including North Carolina, be cause of lower living costs.) A 20 percent increase, for all com munities of less than 2.500 if this does not establish a minimum higher than. sll. The foodstuff code provides: A 48-hour week, with days limited to eight hours except 12 days in any six months, plus the days before each holiday when the daily limit may be expanded to ten. Longer weeks njay be • worked by outside delivery men or salesmen, em ergency maintenance or repair crews, or executives making more than $35 a week, if time and a third is paid for all over 48 hours. Weekly minimum wages of sls a week in cities over 500,000 population, $14.50 in cities of 250,000 to 500,000, and sl4‘ in cities from 2,500 to 250,- 000. (One dollar a week less in sev eral southern states, including North Carolina, because of lower living costs.) A 20 percent increase for all in com munities of less than 2,500 if this does not require minimums in excess of sl2. Still Trusted In North Caro, lina To Make Voters Go Straight Daily IHnpntcli Rnrr.ia In Ihe Sir Walter Hotel DV J. C. HA.SK.KRVILL. Raleigh, August I—Pun'ltirve1 —Pun'ltirve mea sures are still trusted in North Caro lina to make voters go straight, ac- I cording to from the various j departments now engaged in the em ployment of workers. Yesterday Guilford county mep were here protesting that some of the most important place-holders i n the ne<w re-employment agency were Hoover crats in 1928 and that at least one of them sinned two elections % succes sion . Senator Caipus Waynliick was moit here to receive the protest-, but its carrier wa that the direc tor should get the Word. It war. con j tended by these protestante' that \ there are two many persons enjoy'r t | State and Federal pay who were n'ct loyal to the ticket j n 1928 and that j (Continued on Page Two.£ PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA AND VIRGINIA HENDERSON, N. C., TUESDAY AFTERNOON, AUGUST 1 1933 i 3 atlit Sisnatrii iwreleased Urschel Blows Into His Home at Midnight; Of ficers Pounce on Case Oklahoma City, Okla., Aug. I. (AP) —Charles F. Urschel, kidnaped oil mi Imraire came home today un harmed a:r-’ silent. He steped out of the rain acoss his threshold at the stroke of mid night. ending nine days as the host age of kidnapers, whose swarthy ma chine gunmen rushed him from a bridge game in his mansion the night of July 2p. Then, with but brief greetings from a wildly jubilant family, he went to bed—“in good health, but very tired,'’ said his spokesman. With that word and little else, the Urschels and their strategists sealed their , lips. A statement was promised later today—but for the time being al most every question was turned away —the ransom, if one was paid; the manner of negotiations; the place of release. Acting swiftly, ten operators of the Federal government and every avail able police investigator swung back into the manhunt. For a week they had shunned the house in deference to Mrs. Urschel’s plea that nothing be done to delay the kidnapers’ de mands. FIRST BALE SELLS AT 11.20 c A POUND Orangeburg, S. C., August 1— (AP) —South Carolina's first bale of 1933 cotton was sold here to. day at 11.20 cents a pound. The , cotton was grown by H. S. Feld er on his farm near Farler* Or angeburg county. The i*ae weighed 585 pounds and graded middling 7-8 staple. Be. cause it was the first bale, it brought a price considerably above the market. APPROVAL GIVEN TO WOOL TEXTILE CODE Washington, Aug. I.—(AP) President Roosevelt today signed the wool textile code providing a 40-hour week -for the workers in this industry, with minimum wages of sl4 weekly in the North and sl3 in the outh. It is expect ed to put 27,000 additional em ployees to work. j - WtATHER FOR NORTH CAROLINA. Fair tonight, Wednesday pos sibly local thunder showers. Johnson Seeking Quick Spread Os Retail Codes To Every Type Os Sales Expects That Every Kind of Public Sales Agency Soon Will Be Blank eted by Terms CHAIN STORES SEEK CODE OF THEIR OWN Calls for Longer Work Hours and More Wages Than General Retail Agreement, but No Con cession Is In Sight From Administration Authorities Washington, Aug. I.(AP) —A quick spread of the retail code which went in force today by order of Hugh S. Tchnson. recovery administrator, is ■being sought by his assistants with expectations that soon every type of public sa'ss agency will be blanketed under its terms. A major development following the order, which yesterdayj brought the majority of dry goods, department clothing, i hoe and furniture dealers, as well as food dealers, into two temporary agreements to remain in force until hearings are held, was presentation of a separate codee to cover the country's five and ten cent stores. This was stated authoritatively to call for longer work hours and more wages than the general retail agree ment. No concession, however, was in sight from the administration. Louisiana’s Vote Probe Sees Clash Military and Civil Authorities Conflict Over .Report of Grand Jury New Orleans, La., Aug. I.—(AP) A clash between military and civil j authorities loomed here today as Dis trict Attorney Eugene Stanley pre pared to examine ballots cast on con stitutional amendments in last No vember’s election fo>r evidence of fraud. While a proclamation of. mar tial law by Governor O. K. Allen “to protect the grand jury which sought to return a true bill in the ballot in vestigation’’ was in effect, judge Alex ander C. O’Connell, of the criminal district court, ordered the district at torney to bring the ballots into open court for examination tomorrow. The judge said only superior phy sical force could restrain him from performance of duty and the district attorney declared he would not be “turned aside by threats, villification or abuse’.’ Governor Allen issued his martial law order yesterday following a con ference called Sunday by Senator Huey P. Long, whose faction had sup ported the constitutional amendments in question. Eleven of the 12 grand jurors, whose report- of a no true bill in the fraud investigation was refused by Judge O'Connell after the 12th charged it j was made without examination of bal-, lots, petitioned the governor to pro tect them from “near anarchy in court,’’ and to order the ballots de stroyed. High Point Cotton Mill Strikers Are To Return High Point, Aug. I—(AP) Ap proximately 300 strikers at the Pickett Cotton Mills here today decided to return to work Monday under ar rangements yet to be worked out by mil! official;-- and a committee of strikers. The decision was made at a meeting ’ailed today by D. V. Bradley, presi dent of the Industrial Workers Asso ciation, and the operatives who quit a week ago said they would return “as PUBLIBHBD EVERY AFTIKNOOM EXCEPT SUNDAY, Co-operation ft " it ■ .4 I * ? < • v*F' y c, j i This flag, signifying complianca with the National Recovery act, will soon be a familiar sight throughout the United States. It ic the first N. R. A. flag in Chi cago, shown flying over Reid, Murdock & Co. In the back ground looms the Merchandise Mart, huge office building. Gunfire and Tear Gas Used by Authorities In Hand, ling Situation » STRIKE IS SPREADING Threatens To Tie Up Every Colliery in Pennsylvania Bituminous Fields; Contented Workers in Sym pathy Strike. Brownsviuee Aug. 1. —(AP) — Gunfire and tear gas sent 16 men to hospitals in the southwestern Pennsy lvania strike zone today, as the walk out spread to other mines in the dis trict and threatened to tie up every colliery in the State’s great bitumin ous coal fields. Disorccr between deputy sheriffs and pickets broke out at the State Junction Colonial No. 3 and Eden boro mines of the H. C. Frick Coke Company. Eight men were wounded by pistols and shotgun fire, two so seriously that they may die. Three were injur ed by stones and bricks and five were severely burned by tear gas. Miners in the pits of the Pittsbugh Coal ICompany and the Pittsburgh Terminal Coal Corporation, both of which recognized the union, quit in sympathy with men in adjoining com panies who are striking for recogni tion. of July V-” They explained that they would go back to work Monday under regula tions applying now to the textile code, and that any adjustment made would be made in comparison to working conditions in force before the code wen’ into effect. A meeting is scheduled Tuesday morning between mill officials and representatives of the operatives, in which difficulties are expected Lo be ironed out. O PAGES O TODAY FIVE CENTS COPY GROWERS PLEASED. AS BETTER GRADES BRING U TO 25C Medium And Common Grades Ranging Much Higher Than in Recent Years In' Georgia SAND LUGSBRING TEN TO 15 CENTS Nashville Market Estimates Average at 16 Cents, With Majority of Weed Sand lugs; Fairly Large Breaks Reported by Most of The Leading Markets Atlanta. Ga„ Aug. I.—(AP) The tobacco crop went on sole in South Georgia today with better gradps bringing from 15 to 25 cents per pound Growers expressed pleasure the early prices. Waycross reported the market open ing with the best quality offerings in recent years. Prices ranged from 5 to 6 cents for the poor sand lugs to 20 to 25 cents for better grade lugs. From Douglas came reports of a very active market, with 750,000 pounds on the floors of the ware houses. Twenty-three cents per pound was paid for 970 pounds and the high est basket of tobacco brought 29 cents. Tlie general run was 14 to 15 cents per pound. Warehouse officials at Valdosta es timated a half million pounds of weed were being offered for sale on four warehouse floors there. They said sales to the present indicated an aver age of about 11 to 12 cents.. The ot bacco included many pounds of Sand lugs and poorer grade weed, but the good tobacco is bringing a fair price. Morning sales at Moultrie indicated prices there would average at least 12 cents a pound, although lugs con stituted the major portion of the of ferings, which totalled more than 700,000 pounds. Statesboro’s markets opened with sales in two warehouses estimated ta aggregate 160,000 pounds. Prices rang ed from 5 to 30 cents per pound, al though conservative estimates placed the average price at 13 cents. At Nashville, Ga., it was estimated approximately 650,000 pounds will be sold by this afternoon. It was con servatively esdlhated that the day’s price would average around 16 cents a pound. The weed was selling as high as SSO per hundred pounds. The bulk of the poundage was selling from (Continued on Past Seven.) New Bridges For The Dismal Swamp Canal Authorized Washington, Aug. I. (AP)— Th? War Department today allotted $115,- 000 for the construction of a new dmw bridges across the Dismal Swamp canal, at Deep Creek, Va., and South Mills, N. C. They will fepjaoe wooden draw bridges constructed many years ago in the same localities. The Dismal Swamp Canal, forming an arm of tha intra-coastal waterway from Norfolk, Va. to Beaufort Inlet, N. C., was pur chased by the United States from the Lake Drummond Canal and Water Company four years ago, and the bridges across it, which are on Fed eral highway No. 17, became the pro perty the government. LOWER INTEREST IS GRANTED TO STATE Balancing of Budget Hera Has Seen Credit Im prove Daily’ In me Sir Walter Hotel, Daily Dimiinteli Tfnreaa T«V .1 f lIASKERVILIi. Raleigh, Aug. I.—North Carolina awaits New York for the interest rate on the recently renewed notes which ■Governor Ehringhaus and State Trea surer Charles M. Johnson flew to Gotham to sign. Governor Ehringhaus said yester day on returning to his office that North Carolina’s legislation and the guaranty of a balanced budget have done wonders to steady the State’s credit. While lie was in New York: Mr. Eh in gh aus spoke briefly on tho safeguards M at ’ho State has thrown around its tremendous investments. . (Continued on Page Seven.), |
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