central CAROLINA- | twentieth YEAR SEVEN ARE KILLED Excessive Prices Won’t Be Allowed, l Johnson Declares NRA Chief Tells Retailers T 0 Resent Big Increases And He Will Back , Them Up RUNAWAY MARKET WILL BE CHECKED Retailers Present Their Code Which Has Been Adopted by Many National Associa. tions; One of Biggest of; ths Major Businesses Yet Heard Wuhnyron, August 22 'AP>— Ade c'n'im thrt the Nat.onal Recovery i Admr.s ilraticn would net count—u an?? unreascnabe-1 price Increases today by Hu?h S. Johnson :n tMresrngr rcta.l dealers at the' cp'tln? of i hearing on their code of j ccaw’dion. Tht reta 1 trade was urged by John, r, to rgp'st pie? increases in the rear future from obbers who supply them v‘h their Roods. I sav." Johnson said, “recent tjiese price increases and w e will support yru." Th? recovery administrator assert *hut so fnr as speculative price rtf? w?t° concerned, his admnistra ticn considered it “our dutv to see thy th<"Te is no runaway market.” He sa d th* national industrial re ctrery act would increase prices t~ tree* m>w costs imposed in comtrdi n?» wi s h trad n charters, but lift be came c f this “thcr-e is no reason to ?r> wav beyond reason. If you do this, you just kill the geos-? that toys ; th eeolden r<:g. The house that we | ere trying to build will collapse lake hour- of cards.” The ret a:' hearing was described by Jctrr n 3? cn? of tha moat signifL (>r » fnr held. The retail trad eabracin? virtually all stores . and shops, except drug end food, affects mor employers and more employees 'hm anv cf the major business. «K SHP.DU SHRD SHRDL SHRD The code was presented and ap pro-ei bv the National Retail Furni ture Association. f hc National Retail Association, the National Prtfil D’ y Goods /Association, thp Mai! Order Association, the National Association of Clothiers and Furnish t’: and Shoe Retailers Association. It proposes in part: A 4t-hour work week except for a 1'!- ur week nt peak periods and ex- C! F"g tnos earning more than S3O ? w??k, registered pharmacists and o:h«r professional persons. That a store must keep open for 52 hours of operation unless it was op- c ”’ , ed less than that prior to July 1, 1933. Maximum hours in towns under 10,- C f »i 'ecept wh»re the towns are not r ,:> of a larger trade area) set at ■h hours for employees. Cities over 500,000 (by 1930 fContinued on Puce Six* COLUMBUS MAN IS SAVED FROM CHAIR Ed Deaver Gets Life Im prisonment; Harnett Ne gro Slated To Die Aug 22—(AP)—Ed Deaver “•-Par-old Columbus county white hilled Isaiah Hester, far ‘‘"l an argument over a water *" f ' had his sentence of death ‘ 1 fe,€p, r ic chair commuted to one r *• imprisonment. " .nar Ehringhaus, announcing "tnency action through Parole til?' : )nL ' r Edwin Gill’s office here "j, " 'C' convinced Dfaver does not ' '' mental balance, even of a lu, le child.” r ! ! t 11) believe that he has the 4 f) ‘ n, ‘ 01 mental power to refrain »hc/ ' rnt action when he is under . 1 'hat an injustice has been lit hm ’- ,lle governor wrote. ’ I'' , who WH ' 3 convicted in Au * 11 • had been granted siy re r.,,.,. b V former Governor «!„, three by Ehringhaus o, ;k office in January. hew had been no recom i ' : " r "r clemency in the case of Harnett county Negro !| JPd to die in the electric hr the murder of Jacob , '■' r t rocution as a result Is • >•■ --ed without executive imtitersnn 59 mitt 33 1 snatch Coal Code Again Greatly Delayed Washington, Aug. 22. (AP) The Reco\cry Administration to day abandoned hope of completing a. code for the bituminous coal in dustry before tomorrow at the ear liest. A tentative draft has been com pleted and is the basis for negotia tions. RALEIGH’S GOSSIP" REFUSES TO DOWN Ehringhaus* Statement About Highway. Prison Set-Up Aids Little BOGEY MAN ~IS SEEN Anti-Ehringhau# Group Feairs Huge Political Machine i n Making; No. body Talking About Reve nue Changes Dally UlNpnfrt Karen a. In M»e Sir Wnlter Motel 3Y J r n t SKir.lt VIT.J Raleigh, Aug. 22. —The declaration : by Governor J. C. B. Ehringhaus that Chairman E. B. Jeffress, of the State Highway and Public Works Commis sion, is ‘‘both in name and in fact” head of that organization, has served somewhat to quiet the talk concerning the recent reorganization within the commssion and the claims of many that Executive Director George Ross Pou rather than Jeffress. was the real head of the commission. There are still a good many however who remain to be shown that Jeffress rather than Pou is really the chief motivating pow er in the commissio nand who are con vinced that more politics has been played in the reorganization of the highway-prison department than has yet become known. It is also being pointed out that both Governor Ehringhaus and Com missioner of Revenue A. J. Maxwell are continuing to keep eloquently silent with regard to the activities of Executive Assistant Commissioner of Revenue Marcus Cicero Stephens Noble, Jr., and as to whether Noble or Maxwell is the chief in command in that department. Ever since Noble was appointed to his present position in the Revenue Department, the op inion ho ? been growing in anti-Eh ringhaus circles that Noble rather than (Continued on Page Six.) Tide Pours Over Beach Nag’s Head Northeast Wind And High Waters Near Hatteras; Warnings Still Hoisted Manteo, Aug. 22. —(AP)—Cape Hat ter as just before noon todfay reported a, northeast wind and rain with a high tide running over the beach from Nag’s Head to Chicacomico. Captain John Allen Midgett and his coast guard crew were standing by watching an unidentified four-mast schooner anchored a mile off shore three miles south of Chicacomico, while a coast guard station cutter was en route to ascertain if the craft needed assistance. STORM WARNINGS STILL HOISTED ON THE COAST Washington, Aug. 22. —(AP)— The Weather Bureau this morning issued the following storm warning: Advisory 10 a. m. Northeast storm warning continued, Boston, Mass., to Cape Hatteras. Tropical disturbance, attended by fresh to strong shifting gales central about 350 miles west southwest of Bermuda, and some dis tance southeast, of Cape Hatteras. Di rection of movement uncertain, but probably will remain nearly stationary next 12 hours. Strong northeast winds [ probably reaching gale force off the coast. , , ONLY DAILY LEASED WIRE SHRVii-b. OF THE ASSOCIATED PRES* NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OP NORTH CAROLINA AND VU&IINIA. HENDERSON, N. C., TUESDAY AFTERNOON, AUGUST 22, 1933 Aircraft Carriers Will Tour Globe Y . |N OXU |.irrrnnnnnnnnnnfßm. , r hree ]P n i ted States Nav y airpla ne carriers which will take part in the round-the-world the Lex?nvton f l,Tl?in! 1 0 W ® r tv, re G entl y reveal ® d ™ Washington. Upper is an unusual view of the bow of R a n™? n iS • n nt t J S th u Sarat °S a Wlth a brood of eagles roosting on her deck, and at bottom the son ffnU H f h 13 exr,e cted to be completed this Fall. The proposed cruise would involve stops at nearly 100 cities, where aerial maneuvers would be undertaken. This would be the first time since the regime of tne b».x! President. Roosevelt that an American naval sauadron would make such a trip. Mills Show Big Up turn Over 1932 Spinning Industry at , 117.5 Percent Capa city on Single Shift Basis Washington, Aug. 22.—(AP)— The cotton spinning industry was reported today by the Census Bureau t 0 have operated during July at 117.5 percent of capacity on a single shift basis, compared with 129.1 percent in June . '■<<' t ■■■. ■W; * •:' xj ? • •: v•• " I f- " L .... 5 ..y...-.yX<»vs4 Winthrop Rockefeller Winthrop Rockefeller, grandson of John D. Rockefeller, wealthy oil magnate, is being guarded closely by agents of the United States department of justice, presumably against kidnaping threats. While returning to the east by airplane from Houston, Tex., where he had been working, young Rockefeller was met by federal agents at airports wher« the plane landed. ROOSEVELT PLANS A BOAT TRIP BACK Hyde Park, N. Y , Aug. 22.—(AP)— President Roosevelt will conclude his stay here on August 31 and board the yacht of Vincent Astor in the Hudson River for a cruise to Washington. FLOGGING HEARING POSTPONED A WEEK . ► » Laurinburg. Aug. 22. — A pre liminary hearing for six Scotland county men charged with flogging Douglas Monroe after routing him from bed early in the morning of Au gur! 13 was postponed today until next Tuesday. PUBLISHED EVERY AFTERNOON EXCEPT SUNDAY* Tobacco Truck In Crash With Train On The Seaboard Virginia To Drop Beer Sale Bonds Richmond, Va„ Aug. 22. —(AP) —The provision of Ask Slash In Tariffs « Upon Beer 50 Percent Cut in Duty Requested By Brewers from Tariff Commission Washington, August 22 (AP) —Im- porters of foreign brews appealed to day at a hearing befor e the Tariff 'Ccirrrissicn for a 59 percent slash in the tariff on beer that would bring tihe (iuty down from $1 a gallon to half that figure. Coupled with an assertion tlfat the present, tariff was “intolerable,” tihe commission heard pleas biased also upon taste and sentiment. Harris S. Radciiffe, 1 representing William L. Howlitz Company, of New York, put it this wayq “To one who has tasted Pilsen beer in Bohemia, nothing else has the same ♦appeal.” He also described the "sent.'mentu! exrer.'snci 3 ’’ cf dr nklng beer at Heid f’borg. Domestic brands, he added, (might well he preferred by f ho£« wb i u '-d not cuKivaibd the “foreign tang.” He contended the two were not in competition. _ L ± _~ <, r a pages [0 TODAY FIVE CENTS COPY Mrs. E. C. Palmour, of Gainesville, Ga., Believ ed To Have Been Tem porarily Deranged husband isTsLain FIRST, THEN MOTHER Woman Then Shoots Her self and Dies 40 Minutes Later; Pair Slain as They Sleep; Mrs. Palmour Had Been in 111 Health Long Time, Police Report Lumber ton, Aug. 22.--(AP) Seven (persons were killed today when a to bacco truck carrying 12 men and boys from Deep Run, Lenior county, crash ed into a Seaboard Air Line passenger train near here. Three were killed instantly, two died while being carried to hospitals and tw odied soon after reaching hospitals. The ether five on the truck were in jured, four of them seriously. The dead: Jesse Davenport, 26. Louis Davenport, 32. Clyde Taylor, 12. Walter Smith, 20 Burohard Smith, 23 Dick Harper, 19. Wesley Davenport, 13. All were of Deep Run. The injured: Haywood Smith, 27, severe lacera tions. Woodrow Taylor, 20. head injury, | probably fractured skull, and frac- I tured arm. ; Millard Davenport, 50, probable skull j fracture. Furnie Davenport, 53, serious head injuries. Zeb Brown, 27, serious head injuries. All live near Deep Run. The truck was owned by J. R. Davenport, of Deep Run, Haywood Smith was driving it, and the men ware carrying the tobacco to the auc tion market at Fairmont. Smith said his view of the track 3 was obstructed by a horse and he dil not see the approaching train a two car unit drawn by a gasoline engine. The truck crashed into the baggage, car of the train and was demolished. Bits of wreckage and parts of the bodies of the dead men were carried for several hundred yards down the track. Several Negroes at the crossing noted the impending collision an l waved toward the truck in an attempt to stop it, but Smith was unable to stop the truck. Three ambulances wore called to the scene to carry the dead and injured to Lumberton. Within a few minute* hundreds of persons had gathered at the crossing. No inquest has been set. The train, No. 14, en route from Hamlet to Wil minton, was in charge cf Conductor Buck Williams. J. E. BAXTER, JR., IS GRANTED A PAROLE Raleigh, Aug. 22.—(AP)—Parole of eight short-term prisoners was an nounced today by Parole Commission er Edwin Gill. Applications for cle mency were denied 33 other prisoner#. Among thhse paroled was J. E. Bax ter, Jr., colored, Vance county, serving six months for reckless driving. BURKE MAN FREED OF MURDER CHARGE Magistrate Holds Jack Walker Killed Shuping In Self Defense Morganton, Aug. 22.—(AP) — Jack i Walker, filling station employee, waa. | liberated here today following a pre , liminary hearing, in which Magstrate i W. E. Gilliam ruled Walker acted in j self-defense when he shot to death, i Woodrow Shuping during a fight at 1 the filling station yesterday, j A half dozen witnesses testified that j Shuping attacked Walker with a knife ! threw bottles at him and threatened | his life. j Magistrate Gil'iam ruled the slayiAg j was a justifiable homicide. The as- I fair stared wi'h a fight of several j men near the- filling station. The m°n. j then came into the station, wbf -a j (Shuping attacked Welker. Walker picked up a shotgun and fired at [ Shuping, who died a few hour# later.