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4S«°to Central CAROLINA. YEAR former President Menocal Will Try Comebackln Cuba Exiled Leader and Carlos Mendieta To Return from United States Un der New Regime MAY COOPERATE IN CESPEDES PROGRAM Menocal Has Been Directing Activities of Revolutionary Junta From His Exile In This Country; Predicted Revolution Par Back as Last February —— • i Havana Aug. 17 (AP) —Cuba 1 jwai f *d today the return from exile c f former President Mario G. Men coc] and Colonel Carlos M.?ntf'e:a and what part '(bey will play m rJC ira*ruction plan's of “he ntw prcvlfi: n? 1 government. Quailed obe?rvers profes&rd to see a pcrsibJllty that the two famou? leiders again. ‘ the overthrown re- : gme of Gerardo Machao might ride ! back into far ro, take ( an important j rr- >n Presiden i de Cespedes’ adm’n. ist ration, and he'p selva the polifca' and economic issues born of last risk's revolition. Orion ?I M'ndi r a. one time ccn- j and newspaper editor (El j Htraldo). who first took up arm« In j 1)06 and since has been linked with revolutionary activities, went to Flo rida on February 18, remarking that “liberty is crushed in Cuba." General Menocal has been in the United States more than a year, dur. lag which time he has directed activi ties of a revolutionary junta. As early as February he declared \ .that the tine was at hand for the re- \ volution that came last Saturday when i Machado and several followers in ] their return became exiles. Concord Man On Trial for Murder In Apperson Case Concord. Aug. 17. — (AP) —Blumt Teddington. 27 member of a weil known family here went on trial in Superior court here today on a charge r* for killing Joe Apperson a highway employee last June. Solicitor Zeb V. Long announced lien court opened the State would not tik a conviction in the first degree, fu! would be content with a second degree or manslaughter verdict. K’tddington’s plea at a corner’s hianng was self-defense. There had hen ill feeling between him and Aps prsen for sometime prior to the ihaoting. and he asserted he shot vhen h-; thought Apperson was draw ing a gun. Apperson was shot at the home of Fred Miniz where he boarded. Wed dington and his wife formerly lived there, but moved after Weddington snd Apperson quarrelled. fatal heat wave IN FAR WEST ENDS San Francisco, Calif., Aug. 17. —(AP) -bunder crashed over sections of the Far West today wrile sudden gales and downpours of rain broke the ex ktme heat which has cused 11 deaths since the first of the week. KIDNAPERS Min THREATEN FACTOR His Unwilling Cooperation With Police Draws My sterious Warning Chicago. Aug. 17.—(AP)—A heavy K'isrd protected John Factor, million a:r“ market plunger, today from gang yar.genance from his involuntary part ln f h fi police effort to entrap his kid rap'r.q—•which failed. Meanwhile 60 selected Chicago offi rers armed with Federal commissions | make their search an interstate af fiir, scoured the southern Wisconsin •f-*ort region—haunt of the Touhy gangsters- for tvace of the extortion h, S Wno s '*PP cd out of their massed _’9gnet near suburban LaGrange Tuesday. A ')<; <th threat telephoned the spec aor w ho already reportedly has raided more than SIOO 000 to kidnap p who seized first hLs son, Jerome, hen himself, brought the police ' ,r 'sil to his door and bitter complaint fr ”m him. .. ! was reluctant to assist the police,’' ' ' “ 11,1 ief erring to the foiled en i plans, “Now that we’ve fail -1 1 m I fi nui on a limb, considered ' r V ki Inapers to have broken my ‘ to pay off the balance of the 1 '>'i and to shield them.’’ flrniiteramt Satin B tsnafrh Desperado Cornered Harvey Bailey When Harvey Bailey, escaped convict and brutal gangster, next appears in court, he will be fight ing for his life, according to fed eral agents who tracked him down and cornered him while he slept, near three guns, on a farm near Dallas, Tex. Bailey is charged with participation in the Kansas City Union station massacre and with playing a leading part in the more recent kidnaping of Charles F. Urschel, Oklahoma City oii mil lionaire who was held, in a Texat shack, until $190,000 was paid for his release. 50.000 DEAD FROM FLOODS OVER CHINA Many Natives Swept To Their Deaths as Dykes In River Break BANDITS ARE ACTIVE Plundering Towns and Villages In North China; Thousands Home, less and Total Deaths May Never Be Known Hankow. China August 17 (AP) —Widespread floods o fthe Yellow river in Nctthern China were said today to have caused 50,000 deaths in the last few days. Officials of the! K hit ow_Hankow r? iiway, in giving this estimate, sat that many mors undoubtedly had per ched sine edykes 'began breaking over a wide area early this month, bint tbn- I’l’-i:; complete ftotial will never tb known. To add to the misfortunes of tihe destitute population, bandits have ap peared and are plundering towns and villages. Dozens of towns and 1 villages were destroyed today as the flood waters mloved slowly towards tihe river’s (Continued on Page Seven.) Teachers’ Pay As Y et Untouched Local Delegations Occupy School Commission’s Time During Forenoon Raleigh Aug. 17. —(AP) —Disousr/on of teacher and re-districting problems with scores of individuals here from various parts of the State today kept the State School Commission from reaching the important matter of set ting teachers’ salaries this fall. Delegations from nearly all counties in the State were conferring with members of the cofmission from their home territories on local school mat ters and as a. result the commission’s morning session was being held in three or four different rooms. Leßoy Martin executive secretary of the commission, said he doubted very seriously if the delegations would be' disposed of in time for the teachers’ pay question to be discussed today. ONLY DAILY : HS»» NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA AND VIiTOINIA. HENDERSON, N. C., THURSDAY AFTERNOO N, AUGUST 17, 1933 Presidential Hug for U. S. Envoy L L " fij • Jfl IJH Biff * m 1 d& 1 hh HHH ' 1 Jr I ■j HHHI Wm iiwWi x 1 K sH *:>• iIMW ¥ a-M. •:>?. ‘v MO"; § i ■Hg ~ . 1 "* "' Affectionate recognition for his work in promoting the Change of regime in Cuba is bestowed upon United States Ambassador Sumner Welles by President Carlos M. De Cespedes, who is shewn embracing the American Envoy m the Presidential palace, Havana, after De Cespedes had been i-worn in. At right is Colonel Kimberley, Military Attache to Ambassa dor Welles. ,fCentral Press) Gov. Pollard Asks Extra Session To Seek Repeal State’s Prohibition Law Urge* Virginia Legislature To Submit Eighteenth Amendment and State Law Repeal Both on October 3; Legalizing of Beer Will be Voted by Session Richmond, Va., Aug. 17. —(AP)—The General Assembly of Virginia, called into extraordinary session by the mem bers themselves, convened propmtly at noon today. Bills to repeal the Layman or State prohibition act and to abolish all special fees in prohibition cases were placed on the clerk's desk at the open ing of the House today by Vivian Page, of Norfolk, long a wet leader in the lower house. Gov. John G. Pollard today urged the extraordinary session of the Gen eral Assembly to legalize 3.2 per cent beere, provide a referendum on re peal of national and State prohibition FOR AUTOINDUSTRY First Modification of “Col lective Bargaining” Clause Granted Washington, August 17 (AP) —Ajn agreement between tne automobile in dustry and the NRA upoin thie> “open shop”’provision of tihe industry’s code was reached today with spokesmen for the manufacturers accepting a modification proposed by Robert W. Lea , deputy administrator. The change which officials indicat ed represented tih e views of Hugh S. John,son, the administrator, was the first modification of the “collective bargaining” labor clause of the indus. trial act whciih has been written in cooperation with the NRA. 'The law as written provided for the organization and col’ie'ctive bargaining of employees, with no restraiiint upon the type of representation they might select. 1 Buoyant Spurt In Stocks, Staples Is Shown In Markets New Yoi’k, Aug. 17.—(AP) —Stocks and staples spurted today in a rather buoyant but brief rally, which recalled the soaring price movement of several weeks ago. Grains at Chicago dropped sharply at the opening of trading, but liquidation apparently having run most of its course, there was a quick turn about, in which early declines were re placed with substantial gains. Cotton leaped forward for an advance of around $1 a bale. The stock market was quick to take its cue from the commodity contin gents and leading issuese in fast trad ing quickly ran up $1 to around $5 a share. Bonds were equally responsive. The dollar eased a bit in foreign ex i changed dealings. u __ , on October 3 and to name a commis sion to study and report to the regular session in January a liquor control bill as a substitute for the State pro hibition act. , As to 3.2 per cent beer, the governor recommended that it be sold in the open by persons whose good moral character should be determined by the courts gianting the license; that a SSOO bond be j squired for observance of the law, with iocalitites allowed to im pose additional instructions; that breweries be prohibited from owning or becoming interested financally in the retail sale of beer, and that sale to poisons under 38 years of age be pro hibit ei Relief Purchases With NRA Stores Daily I)isf ntrh Itarfnn. In the Sir Walter Hotel. TXT .*. C. lIASKERVILL Ra’eigh, Aug. 17. - Purchases made with Federal relief fund must be made only in stores that display the blue eagle and operate under the NRA code, effective after Sat urday, August 19, according to a ruling just received from Washing ton. This ruling is being transmit ted to all county welfare superin tendents and state relief workers by Mrs. Thomas O’Berry, State di rector of the Governor’s Office of Relief. Relief directors in the counties and cities are instructed to secure a list of all merchants now operating under the NRA code and to notify all merchants in their communities about the new ruling at once. After Saturday, aH relief orders for food, clothing or other supplies will be stamped “Good only with stores under NRA,” the letter states. Mystery Death Is Baffling Spokane, Wash., Aug. 17.—(AP) — Another death, an apparent suicide, today added tragedy to the mysterious shooting of J. I. Gaines, 41-year-old sportman and drugless practioner. The body of Miss Pauline Pluym, 35, of Los Angleses, whose sister, Kathleen, was Dr. Gaines’ office girl, was found in the home of her broth cr-in;law lust night. The coroner said she had poisoned herself. Police expressed belief publicity given her sister in connection wilh the nvestigation of the death of Dr. Gaines may have added to the despon (CoLtliiUed on Page Seven.) ONffiSIN JULY Purchasing Power (of All Manufacturing Workers Rises $29,000,000 Weekly for Period OVER MILLION BACK SINCE LAST MARCH 300,000 Others Go Back In Non-Manufacturing In dustries, Including Rail roads and Agriculture, In Same Period, Secretary Perkins Announces Washington, Aug. 17.—(AP) —Secre- tary Perkins announced today that a-p --fcaximately 400,C00 factory workers re turned to jobs in July, and that the purchasing power of all workers in manufacturing plants had increased about $29,000 000 in weekly wages in July compared with March. The labor secretary on the basis of reports by her experts estimated the re-employment of 1.100.000 wage •earners in the manufacturing indus tries between March and July, and figured that another 300,000 addtonal workers went back to ther jobs in 16 non-manufacturing industries, including railroads and agricultural industries, in the same period. Transportation Cost To Be Cut By Half Million tinlly ntMpntrli Rnrcoa, In the Sir Walter Hotel, j < PStfKßwmi. Raleigh, Aug. 17. —Most of the coun ties are rapidly getting their new bus routes laid out and the county super intendents and boards of education are doing everything possible to co-operate with the State School Commission to shorten the routes as much as possible and still reach the children that need t.o be transported to school, C. F. Ga/fclyT in charge of-transportation for the State School Commission, said to day. Mi . Gaddy has just returned from a trip over the State epnfeijring with county superintendents and is en thusiastic over the manner in which l bc county school authorities are. co operating with regard to the bus routes in order to reduce transporta tion costs to a minimum. “Many of these new routes will have to be purely tentative until after the schools open and we find out how they work,” Gaddy said. “Some changes will undoubtedly have to be made later on to meet actual conditions. But pres ent indications are. that we will be able to reduce transportation costs at least $500,000 below last year’s fig ures.’’ LUMBERTON MARKET HAS A LARGE BREAK Lumberton, Aug. 17.—(AP)—Lum berton’s six tobacco warehouses were, packed today, wilh the poundage esti mated to be at least 700,000. Sales during the morning Were in line with yesterday’s average of $13.55 per hundred. A third set of buy ers will come to the market Monday. WLLSFOR LABOR At Times Raleigh Re-Em ployment Office Swamp ed With Requests Daily Dla|»ntp|» Bnreaa, In tne Sir Walter -Hotel. HY .1. V- iIASKERVILL Ra’CLgih, August 17 —The reemploy meant offices already dpe*n in the State are getting an increas 'ng nuni. ber of calls from employers for l’abor of various, State Director of Reem ployment Capus W. Way nick said -to. day. So far most of these calls) aro oomtng from individual! employers .wanting only from one to ten men for various types of work, although in some eases requests are received for miore. The reemployment office here in Ra Oeiglh yesterday received a requst for 50 carpenters and 25 labborera from one employer, and it i ssUll busy try ing to round up the 50 carpenters, although it was a simple matter to supply the laborers. Earlier in the week the office was asked tot supply 15 carpenters for some special work out at State College in connection (Continued on Page Seven.) WEATHER FOR NORTH CAROLINA. Partly cloudy, with showers in extreme west portion tonight and in north and extreme west portion Friday; slightly warmer in. ex treme west portion tonight. PUBLISHED EVERY AFTBKHOOM EXCEPT SUNDAY. Waldrop Is Given Job Ames Held As Highway Engineer Quits NR A Board >• ■. 'vS. •. .VywjoHjH Prof. William Ogburn With a categorical denunciation of methods adopted in the inter ests of consumers, Prof. William F. Ogburn, sociologist and econ omist, has resigned from the NRA consumers' advisory board. He had rejected peace offerings made by Recovery Administrator Hugh S. Johnson and Secretary of Commerce Daniel Roper. I ts Small Businesses Will Be Forced To Quit Unless Given Relief WASHINGTON REFUSES ' Recovery Administration Continues To Turn Deaf Ear; Commissioner Fletcher Learns of the Situation Daily DlNiiulch Tlnrena. ln the Sir Walter Hotel. Ilf 3. C. BASKERVILL. Raleigh. Aug. 17.—While the new hours and wage scale called for in the NRA code seem to be working satlsfctorily with the larger business firms in the state, they are working real hardship on smaller businesses and individual undertakings in certain lines, according to Commissioner of Labor A. D. Fletcher, who has just returned from a trip to Charlotte and other places in the Piedmont after attending the State Federation of Labor convention in Charlotte. He is convinced that the NRA administra tion should make some modifications in the regulations, especially in the w!age scale, as they apply to small establishments with only a few em ployees. “On the whole, the NRA program for shorter hours and better pay is a, splendid thing,” Commissioner Fletch- Back Debts On Cotton Are Small Only SIOOOO,OOO Os $110,000,000 Cotton Advances Owed To Government Washington, August 17 (AP) —Sec- retaTy Wallac esaid today Southern •cotton farmers were pajnticipafed in th coetton reduction campaign thin year would be required to pay back debts to the government amounting to less thain $10,000,000 out of the sllO,- 000.000 they will receive in benefit paymiemits. The secretary of agriculture told* newspaper men today that a check by the Farm Credit, adwrinfstratiori 'and Farm Adjustment Administra tion financial experte has shown that less than f en percent of the funds would !>e affected .by debts the farm ers owe the government for seed and feed loans in the past. [ O PAGES o TODAY FIVE CENTS Uoev Governor Said To Hive Backed Displacera6it| of Ames by the New I Chief Engineer ROSS AS ATTORNEY V ALSO LIKELY TO GO Honeycutt a s Warden Bell as Auditor of State Prison Are Retained at Modest Salaries; No fur - ther Changes in Personildl Likely During Day Raleigh, Aug. 17. —(AP) —John . £>. Waldrop, a.ssi.scant chief State high way engineer, today was named chief engineer to succed Leslie Ames, ad the State Highway and Public Wtorks Commission announced a portion of its reorganization scheme. The commission announced . that Ames submitted his resignation and that Waldrop was elected in his stead. It weis said that Ames has no plans for the future. The change is understood to have the backing of Governor Ehringhaus. Chaa-man E. B. Jeffress said he ‘“did not expect” any further changes in the highway personnel to be announc ed today, but it was learned authorita tively that it was likely that Charles Ross, general counsel, would be dis placed. A complete setup of personnel for the prison division of the highway and public works division combining State Px i.son system and State highway pris on camps was announced. H. H. Honeycutt was retained aa warden of Central prison here At a salary of $2,100 yearly, and Chester O. Bell, of Rateigh, was named account ant and property ofifeer, with pay of $2,400. Porkchops, Bacon And Cracklins to Jobless Approved Washington, Aug. 17.--(AP)—Rdrk chops,, bacon and iracklins for the jobless. That was approved yesterday by President Roosevelt. The hogs will be among 5,000,005 slaughtered under the AgiWulture De partment’s proposal to let fanners kill the porkers they can’t feed, thoa in creasing the value of those that ara left. The Federal relief administration is making arrangements for distribution of the meat. Finally the farmers will be paid sums yet to be announced for the hogft they slaughter, the money to be raised by a subsequent tax by those who turn live swine into marketable pork. Secretary Wallace will discuss th> program in detail in Chicago tomor row. Storm In Jamaica Kills 70, and Does $2,000,000 Damage Kingston, Jamaica, Aug. 17. (AP) —Relief and repair work was in progress in this vicinity today after floods, lightning and high winds resulted in the deaths of 70 persons and property damage estimated at $2,000,000. Houses, banana plantations bridges., roads, (crops and com- * munication facilities were destroy ed or damaged in the storm, which lasted six hours and was described as the worst in 80 years. NOT m PLEA BY POISON SLAYER Akron Lawyer Held In Ar kansas, However, For Deaths of Four Benton. Ark., Aug. 17.—(AP)—Mark H. Shank, 41 -year-old Akron, Q., at torney, entered a formal plea of riot guilty to the poison murders of Alvin Coley. Coley’s wife and two young teons, before Justice of the Peace J. P. Carter here today. He waived preliminray hearing, and was ordered held without bond for ac tion of the Saline county grand jury, which meets September 4. The information filed by Prosecuting Attorney Millar Halbert includes the murders of ail four persons. Sepa**at« indictments in each may be returned by the grand jury Halbert said. Shank was brought here under heavy guard from Hot Springs. A gun rt stood outside the building where if.a justice’s office is located and prevent* ed all spectators from entering.
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