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NRA Officials Drive Hard For Quick Retail
PERiWANENT CODE
FOR COAL SET UP
AFTER BIG FIGHT
Johnson Regards Agreement
as One of Most Signifi.
cant Advances of
' Whole Drive
COMPROMISE MADE
ON PACT ADOPTED
president So Pleased He
Congratulates Johnson In
Personal Telephone Con
versation; Retail Code Is
Expected To Be Ready by
Next Monday
r/ashington, Aug. 29. —(AP)— The
NP.A worked swiftly today to c inch
Vi h p permanent code the basic agree
neat finally obtained for the coal in
dustry. a victory regarded by Admin
istrator Hugh S. Johnosn as one of the
most significant advances in the sky
rocket career of the industrial con
trol enterprise.
Af'er skirting me edeg or failure for
a we =k, union labor and representa
tives of the biggest bitumious coal
fields of the country, the strictly non
union Appalachian area, last night
was brought into a compromise which
the administration was ready to ap
prove. Enthusiastic at this outcome.
President Roosevelt expressed to John
son his congratulations in a personal
te.ephone conversation.
Today and tomorrow at least were
reel red. in Johnson's estimate, to
convert the agreement Into a bind'ng
(Continued on Page Three.)
Roosevelt
Loosens On
Gold Order
Gold Mined In U. S.
Can Be Consigned
to Treasury Secre
tary for Sale
Hyde Park, N. Y., Aug. 29. —(AP) —
President Roosevelt today authorized
th; secretary of the treasury to re
ce ve on consignment for sale, subject
to such rule 3 as he may prescribe,
gold recovered fro mnatural deposits
‘n the United States.
At the same time the President
tphtened the regulations against
hoarding to safeguard the new gold
c .'sr. By lifting the embargo to per
m ’ sales of new mined gold. Mr.
Roosevelt gives American miners an
opportunity for the higher prices pre
vailing abroad.
In h :3 second order the President re
quires that within the next 15 days
every person owning gold coin, gold
foulicn or gold certificates shall file a
statement to the government, giving
the amount held and the reason why
currency cannot be used in i t 3 place.
Charlotte Man Kills His
Infant Son, Then Suicides
R. C. Myers, 30, Apparently Crazed by Heart Ailment;
Had Just Gotten Job Washing Windows, His First in
Six Weeks; Shoots Wife, but not Seriously
Charlotte, Aug. 29. —(API —Appar-
cnty c r P?e'l by a heart ailment, Rich
ard C. Myers. 30, Charlotte window
vmher. killed his six-year-old son,
*h~t his wife in the hand and com
rnitted suicide late last, night.
Myers, who six hours before had got
his first job in six weeks, was left
with hh child, R. C., Jr., while his
wife, 29-year-old brunette and her sis
ter, Mrs. Grace Cochrane, went to
church. ,
While the women were gone, Myers
*cok his young son next door to visit
'i and XTi ••• C. A. White. They said
h’ .ipjjca: od normal while there, and
lid them he had got a job washing
- fiidnw i i the “biggest, building in
town.'
Srnlu Stsunffh
March to Honor !NRA.
marchers tl£ng N fiv£hCs ” paT'revie^n; 6 stands
grouD at Miaaouri farmers is seen oassing. ‘ A
(Central Press)
Roosevelt Names Ickes
Administrator For Oil
14 Other Members of Oil
Planning Board, Submit,
ted by Ickes, Due
In 24 Hours
PRICE-FIXING FOR
INDUSTRY IS SEEN
Secretary Will Have Power
of Virtual Dictator For
That Industry; He Is Also
Administrator of $3,300,.
000,000 Public Works Pro
gram
Hyde Park, N. Y., Aug. 29.-(AP)
President Roosevelt today named
(Harold L. Ickes, his secretary of the
interior, as ths administrator of the
new working agreement for the oil
industry.
Tne President will name the other
11 members of the oil planning and
Conservation commit/tee without the
next 24 hours, taking under consid
eration a list of names submitted by
Ickes.
As oil administrator, Ickes will have
the virtual power of dictator over this
industry, which has been engaged in
a war that led to over-production and
a wrecking of prices. Price-fixing is
possible.
Ickes also is the Roosevelt admin
istrator of the $3,300,000,000 public
works program, and it is likely that
he will rely strongly on an immediate
assistant, expected to be James A.
Moffett, former vice-president of the
Standard Oil Company of New Jer
sey.
“When we got back from church,”
Mrs. Myers said, “my husband was in
the living room with R. C., and ho
talked to ms as he always. I put
the baby to bed and a littie later I
went into the bedroom, where Grace
had gone. I was going to slerp with
her.
“We heard a shot and I jumped out
of bed anti ran to the door. I thought
Curley had killed himself. I ran into
the room and saw Curley with
a pistol in his hand. He ran after me
and grabbed me around the waist.
“Then I heard something explode,
and the next ihing I knew I was ly
ing on the floor. I thought I was dy
ing. Then I heard another shot and
something fell on the floor beside me.
It was Curie#.*
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HENDERSON, N. C„ TUESDAY AFTERNOON, AUGUST 29, 1933
HIGHER, GOOD GRADES LOWER IN EAST
AA x u v v u u .. ®
ROAD LETTINGS TO
BRING MANY IS
20 Projects on Which Low
Bids Are Being Received
At Raleigh
WORK SOON TO START
Will Be First Actual Disbursing Os
Government’s $11,000,000 Road
Allotment Made To
North Carolina
Dally Dlspnfoli Bn re ns.
In Ihe Sir IVnltfr l»•
■Riateigh. August 29—First lettings
under the NRA and the new State
Highway Commission, which is going
o n today, is expected to to work
tih© largest number of individuals yet
•given employment under any direct
Federal aid.
There are 20 projects on which low
bids are being taken today. They
cover about 95 miles, most of which
work is to be done on surface. The
near 100 miles will not be new con
struction. in the main, ontractors
from all parts of the four states sur
rounding North Carolina began confi
ding n last night. The House of
(Continued on Page Three.)
But Raleigh Has Regrets as
It Looks Back Over the
Past Year
Daily nispn tci> Rnreni,
In tne Sir Walter Tlotel.
Raleigh, August 29—Raleigh and
Wake people welcomed the opening
of Raleigh’s branch of the Security
Ntaiunal Rank yesterday, though the
directing personnel means a wholly
new dea Iso far as the Security Na
tion’s predecessor, the Citizens Na
tional, figures.
The reopening of a bank in the
city’s tallest bank building Fecal's in
teresting history. The Commercial
National built a ten story bank far
baric in 1912. The Ctizerus National
went one better. In that day the
late 01. A'. B. Andrews was the Cit
terns National in association with the
late Joseph G. Brown. The rivals
under the presrderjc.y of B. S. Jer
ur.an. of the Commercial National. and
of Joseph G. Brown of the Citizens
(Continued on Page Three.)
LOW BIDS AMOUNT
TO $781,263 UPON
20 ROAD
John D. Waldrop, tfew State
Highway Engineer, In
Charge of Opening
of the Offers
1,500 MEN WILL GET
JOBS UNDER WORK
Will Be Startid~ by Middle
of September, After Final
Approval Is Given by Fed.
eral Bureau of Roads In
Washington; Out-of-State
Bidders
Raleigh, August 29 (AP)—Low bids
■.otal-jag $781,263.69 were opened here
today by the State Highway and Pub.
lie Works Commission fo.r th© 20 rr>ad
construction projects which will
launch North Carolina's $11,000,000
Federal financed highway bucilding
program. °
Chairman E. B. Jeffress, who had
climated the projects would ccst
arouund SBOO,OOO sacd: he was pleased
tw'l h the low bids. John D. Wald
rop, new chief hi ghway engineer, was
;n charge of the opening, which was
/held in the hail of the House of Rep
r. csentaUvea, end attended by more
than 100 'contractors.
Out.of-State contractors submit
ted 1 n of 'the 20 low b d j for the road
'wtork, and the tiwo low brids on ne
cessary structures. ■
The low bids will be considered by
the highway and public works com
mission at a meeting here tomorrow.
They rnujit also meet the approval of
tthe Federal Bureau of Roads at
Washington.
Highway cfficfcl’s and Capua M.
Wayne ck, State director of the Fed
eral re-employment campaign., have
estimated 1,500 unemployed worker?
iwtull be recruited on the projects.
Work is expected to be started by the
middle of next month.
LARGER REVENUES
LIKELY IN AOGUST
State and Federal Agencies
Expect Better Business
For Month
Dnll, Rnrwi,
In the Sir Walter Notcl.
Raleigh, Aug. 29. —Without official
figures, which in the nature of things
would be incomplete, the Federal and
State tax gathering agencies are pro
miscing that for August there will be]
a big booot in the totals.
In the Federal realm the processing j
■tax is due to make itself felt and the i
new rules in the collection of the gen- }
eral sales taxes are diagnosed to make
a big showing this month. The first j
month’s work fell far short of the gen- !
(Continued on Page Three.)
One Negro
Fugitive
Captured
Raleigh Aug. 29.—(AP)—One of the
13 Negro convicts who escaped from
the Rolesville prison camp near here
Sunday night was shot and recaptur
ed today as prison posses pushed their
search for the others, who were be
lieved to be in the vicinity of Wake
Forest.
Odell White, of Mecklenburg coun
ty, who was serving five to eight
years for breaking and entering, was
shot by guards when they said he fail
ed to surrender. White was found
alone near the MUbourne section of
Wake county.
At State's Prison hospital here it
was said his wound was not believed
serious.
WBATHER
I FOR NORTH CAROLINA,
i Cloudy, piokahiy showers to
-1 night and Wednesday; slightly
cooler in the rail portion tonight.
RENEWFKIHTTO EXTRADITE INSULL
Returning new indictments to
conform to an extradition treaty
effected with Greece, the United
States government is renewing its
fight to end the voluntary exile
of Samuel Insull, right, former
Chicago utilities company mag
nate, in Athens, Greece, and bring
him to justice in American courts.
Efforts also are to be renewed to
extradite Martin Insull. inset.
Five Dead, Many Injured,
Missing In Train Wreck
HOPE OF BRYS IS
i |
Not Going To Try To Con-'
vert Any Wets In Cam
paign in This State
CERTAIN OF WINNING
They Are Confident They Have
Enough Votes To Win If Only
They Can Get the Voters
To Go to the Polls
Dni>y Dispatch lliirenir
In the Sir Walter Hotel.
Raleigh, Aug. 29.—Strategy among
the United Ddry Forces who desire
to defeat repeal of the 18th amend
ment is to get out the' dry vote com
mitted in a dozen different campaigns
and to overwhelm the wets witih those
votes.
The beginning is Sunday of the
coming week. Mass meetings will be
held in many places and these con
gregations will go on during the
we.k. The United Dry Forces have
studied the returns in all the states.
Most of the trouble in the dry camp
is the failure to vote. Three has been
no big poll in the states which have
gone back on prohibition.
Take Texas, for instance, the wet
and the; dry vote in that state is hard
ly half of what the emepire is cap
able eof casting. In Tennessee where
a r:al fight was made the official
vote was almost an even break and
(Continued on Paee Three.)
SIX MEN TRIED ON
FLOGGING CHARGES
Lueinburb, Aug. 29. —(AP) —Six men
charged with assault with intent to
kill in connection with the flogging
August 13 of Douglass Monroe, old
job man of Laurel Hill, were given a
prelwiminary hearing here today.
The six were all present for the
hearing. _ < _ ,
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EXCEPT SUNDAY.
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brother of the fugitive, who has
been residing at Orillia, Ont., and
who was re-indicted along with
Insull, the latter’s son, Samuel,
Jr., left, and other officials of the
Corporation -Securities Co. They
were charged with violating the
federal bankruptcy act by trans
ferring assets of the corporation
in anticipation of its imminent
collapse.
Crack Rock Island Train
Plunges Through Water-
Filled Draw Bridge
In New Mexico
SEVEN CARS DROP
INTO THE STREAM
Heavy Rains Swell Water
Level; Train Was Running
Slowly In Fear of Trouble
But Washout Not Observ
ed In Time; Total Dead
Not Determined
TucumJcari, New Mexico. August 29
(AP) —At least five persons were kilt,
ed. 25 injured and many passengers
were missing when the Golden State
Limited', crack Rock 131 nd train,
plunged through a bridge into a wa
ter filled draw five mileis west of Tu
cumcari at 5 a. mt today.
C. J. Cross, cf Tuicumca.rl, engineer
( on p» ae t> Tbr— »
Agricultural Adjustment
Upheld In Court's Ruling
Suit for Temporary Injunction Restraining Enforcement
of Chicago Milkshed Agreement Is Dismissed; Emer
gency Justifies L aw, Court Decrees
Washington, Aug. 29. —(AP) —Jus-
tice Daniel W. ODonoghue, of the
District of Columbia Supreme Court,
today upheld the constitutionality of
the agricultural adjustment act.
Dismissing a suit for a temporay
injunction which would restrain Sec
retary of Agriculture Wallace from
enforcing the Chicago milkshed agree
ment. he declared the emergency justi
fied. the iaw.
Attorneys Neil Burkinshaw and
Nugent DcddSj of the plaintiffs, an
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TODAY
FIVE CENTS CUt
TOBACCO GROWERS
ARE DISAPPOINTED
AT PRICE OFFERED
!
Averages Estimated at
Range of $9 to sl4 Per
100 Pounds, Depend,
ing on Market
DOMESTIC, EXPORT
COMPANIES ACTIVE
Independents Buy Freely
Also on Some Smaller
Markets; Few Tags Turned
Despite Feelings of Grow
ers; Drizzling Rain Cut
Down Size of Breaks
Raleigh, Aug. 29.—(AP>—V/ith in
ferior tobacco bringing more, and bat
ter grades less, than a year ago, th®
bright leaf tobacco belt open! today
to be greeted at most warehouses by
silent, farmers who had hoped for
higher opening prices.
Offerings consisted mainly of sand
lugs and first primings, with average
prices ranging from an estimated $9
to approximately sl4 per hundred, de
pending on the market.
Farmers generally were silent, but
few turned t'heir tags. O, L. Boytf te,
sales supervisor at Smithfield, said
prices were “not. as good as we hoped
for, but -just about what we expect* i.”
Domestic and export companies were
(buying freely on most markets. In
seme cf the smaller markets. Indepen
dent or smaller tobacco manufacturers
were particularly active bidders.
Rain Cuts Down Volume.
A drizzling rain over most of the
bight belt section served to cut do - /n
'■■he poundage on floors, and it was not
considered likely that today’s breaks
I would be as large as a year ago.
Rocky Mount, one of the larger mar
kets, had approximately
pounds on the floors there. An uiv 1-
ficial average of $9.81 per hundred was
reached by taking the figures from
(Continued on Page Three.)
Eight Dead
In Crashes
Os Planes
Three Perish As
Training Planes
Collide; Five Die In
Big Air Liner
(By the Associated Press.)
Eight persons crashed to their
deaths today in tir airplane mis
haps in the southwest.
A flying instructor and two
cadets died when two pursuit
training planes collided in mid
air over Randolph field, San An
tonio, Texas.
A fourth man hailed out and
landed safetly, suffering only a
broken ankle.
A second crash occurred about
60 miles west of Clovis. N. M. A
tri-motored plane of the Western
A»r Lino fel Hn a heavy rain with
three passengers and two pilots
aboard. A ranchman found the
wreckage.
nounced they would appeal the de
cision.
The suits were entered against Wfal
laoe by Milton R. Beck, of Stickney,
111., and the Economy Milk Company,
of Norman, Park, 111. Both are way
side station milk operators in th®
Chicago suburbs.
They contended that the Chicago
milkshed agreement which places the
price at 10 cents a quart would ruin
their over-the-counter cash business.
They now sell milk for 6 1-4 cents a
quart,