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LgSTo I central < CAROLINA J twentieth year defendant denies PART IN KILLING IN MORSVILLEBANK I E. Black Says He Did Not Knowingly Take Part In Crime Perpetrated July 29 CLAIMS ignorance of THEIR conferences Tells of Movements of Party of Four Prior to Attempt ed Robbery and Fatal Wounding of One Man; Identifies Cap as That Os Co-Defendant Taylorsvi!:?. Sept. 8 (AP)-R. e. j:iek ent* of th? co.defendants on trial for the mlurder of T. C. Same's a bank c.vber in &n attempt to hold up he-e July 29. took the witness etenl today and testified that he did net know ugly take part in the crime Black declared ttoat he sat in the ear while the robbery was attempt ed but t'ha-t he wiao entirely inno cent of his companions' intensions. He told of meeting the other three members of f b? party several might® before the robbery, but that they had discussed any of the plan s with "We went to Wilkesboro.” he said, "and they had conferences I didn’t hfar I slept in a separate car from the others for two nights. AU four of Us came to Taylorsvife the next ircming We stopped near the town; sr.l the others went into the woods tr change their clothes. I stayed in t field near the car.” At this point/ Solicitor John R. Jcnes exhxibited a hat. a cap and an (M coat. . Ehck Identified the het as that wem by M k« Stevenson, who is al to tn trial with him. Dr Z. E. Thompson, a High Pct.' physician, took the stand to ttf!y to Black's low mentality. .Millions Paid to Forestry Workers Fort McPherson, Ga . Sept. 8 (APl—Major General Edward D. King commandant of the fourth corps area, says $3,600,000 has been distributed, *o Civilian Con servation Corps workers and their families in the southeast dnee the camps were established His report showed $290,000 had been sent to families in Ncirth Carolina. Latest Figure on Cotton Reduction Shows Fourth Cut Washington, Sept. B.—(AP) — The latest estimate off the ref snlts of the cotton reduction (ampaign are that 10.396,000 arcres "ere taken out of production this year. This is a little more than one fourth of the cotton in cultivation on July 1, the crop reporting be?rd said today. , North Carolina's estimated re duction was 230,000 acres, or 17.4 Percent of the total amount in cultivation on July 1. 2 Balloons Missing In Air Races Goodyear IX A n d Polish Entry Feared I o Have Fallen Into the Atlantic Chicago. Sept. B.—(AP)—A widd- search was under way today ‘ r two missing balloons in the in- : national James Gordon Bennett bahocn races. ‘ e «s were expressed that the four ’'P'rnts of the missing balloons — Goodyear IX, piloted by Ward T. >7. rmf *n, and the Polish entry, P 'i by Captain Francizek Hynek . ' :,v hava drifted out over the At c to their doom. O'y took off last Saturday. Four ” ’ landed safely, including the balloon, piloted by Lieutenant ’■o p g. W. Settle, He will U'd winner unless one of the balloons is found to have ■' greater d's’ance. He made ' " 75«'i miirng landing on Long ;u ’d iuund, Hritiirrsmt NAV ALAI r MEN TRAVEL 750 MILES f J KB F K wll K dfr * 11 J is ■ —i Lieut. Kendall Landing art. Branfordi, Ccn»a., after driving from Chicago in the Gordon. Bennett interna tien'i! balloon race, Lieut. Commander T. G. W. Set itie, right, and hi aide. Lieut. Charles This Year’s Cotton Crop Put At 12,414,100 Bales Increase of 100,000 Bales Above August 8 Report; Per Acre Yield Down Fractionally; Government Forecast Is For Virtually Normal Yield Washington, Sept. 8. — (AP) —A 12,- 4d4,000-bale crop of cotton today was predicted for this year by the gov ernment reporting board, the forecast being an increase of 100,000 bales over that of August 8. Government experts said the staple east of the Mississippi had deterior ated. but this had been more than off set by western improvement. The board predicted the yield per acre for the entire cotton growing section would be 197.8 lint pounds, as compared to the forecast of 198.4 pounds on August 8. The indicated yield per acre for this year is about 80 percent higher than womaOiF AMUCK, KILLS TRIO Belfast, Maine, Deranged Citizen Then Shoots Him self To Death Belfast, Maine, Sept. 8. —(AP) — A mentally deranged man who for years had been considered iiarmless ran amuck in the business section of the city today, killed three men and cri tically wounded another and then blew off his own head. Adrian Jones, the killer, suddenly appeared on main street in front of the Masonic temple just after the dinner hour, with a shotgun in each hand. People scurried into doorways and around the corners of buildings. He first shot down Herbert E. Ellis, 65, an insurance man. As Ellis slumped to the sidewalk in a pool of blood, Jones turned to a man who had been unable to find cover and said: “Well, 1 got that fellow all right.” Then Jones walked rapidly down the street, and turned off on Wash ington street. Here he entered the offices of a trucking concern operated by W. W. Blaidsell, 75, and his son, Raymond, 40. Wasting no time, he poured shots into them both and went into the nearby office of R. B. Stanhope, a veterinariam. Ellis and the Blaidseils died almost instantly. He wounded Stanhope so seriously that a physician said he could not live. The killer then ducked into a black smith shop on the same street, and while officers, hurriedly summoned from the court house and other parts of the city, prepared to lay siege to the place, a shot was heard and they entered to find him dead. Retired Builder Held for Attempt At an Extortion Anderson, 8. C., Sept. 8. —(AP) — Charles C. Jordan, 57-year-old retir ed contractor, of Anderson, was for merly charged today with attempted extortion of SIO,OOO from Lcffell Tucker, of Anderson, under threats of kidnaping Tucekr’s two sons Tucker and R. C. Surratt, agent of ifhe Department of Justice’s bureau of investigation, signed the warrant and Jordan was placed under arrest. He was allowed to spend l*t night at a hotel after being questioned for hours. Federal authorities said he had con fessed. < u— <■ - ONLY DAILY LEASED WIRE SERVICE nt’ THE associated press p NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED HENDERSON, N. C„ FRIDAY AFTERNOON, SEPTEMBER 8, 1933 Lieut. Comdr. Settle H. Htandlam, representing the U. S. inixvy, are elhow, n a® they consulted maps and news reports to dr it erm Line (whether the 750 mfl'Cs they covered would win, | the en-year average, and is the high est since 1914, with the exception of the yield in 1931. The prediction that the United States would have virtually a normal crop of cotton was made after esti mates that the Farm Administration reduction campaign had resulted in the removal of 10,396,000 acres from cultivation, 92,000 more than was an ticipated on the August 8 report. The crop reporting board said that boll weevil activity and unfavorable weather conditions had resulted in a decline in prospects since August 1 in all states east of the Mississippi river except Mississippi and Tonnes- - see. WIISEARMERir VICTIM OF CHAIR Bryant Stone, 46, Slayer of Son-in-Law, Electrocuted At Raleigh Raleigh. Sept. B.—(AP) Bryant Stone, 46-year-old Wilkes county mountaineer, was electrocuted at State’s Prison today for the confess ed murder of his son-in-law, Wayne Norman. Mumbling, “Lord, have mercy on me; I didn’t mean to do it,” Stone was executed at at 10:35. He did not make any final statement. Two shocks of electricity were given him, one lasting one minute and 45 seconds and the other one minute and three seconds. Paul Yelveiton, Raleigh undertaker, and one of the witnesses, fainted, Stone’s body was taken to Wilkes county for burial beside a daughter, Annie Lee Stone. The body of Stone -was not placed lin a coffi n a’t the prison Yancy Hafr ris, a brothea-, and some Mends wrap ped it in a sheet and placed it in tfHe truck. It was taken to Cycle, Stone’s home. Governor Ehringhaus this afternoon after he was told of the way <4bwe’s (body was handled, said he was soriy he had not been notified the family •would not send an. undertaker for Ithe body. “I would at least have seen to ft that the State provided a coffin for bis body,” hlte governor said. Tobacco Sign-Up At Greenville Is Now; Off To Start Greenville, N. C., Sept. g. (AP) —The first of the tobacco acreage reduction fepntructs ar rived in Greenville today from Washington, and sores of workers began distributing them imme diately to get ready for the sign up campaign to begin tomorrow. The first contracts arrived from Washington by automobile. A complete lists of every land owner in P»tt county was being made up here in preparation for the campaign in put county. A mass meeting here tomorrow ineming, to he followed by similar meetings in every township in th6 county, will launch the campaign. _ Gatin tltspafrli IN THIS SECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA AND VIRGINIA. GOVERNOR URGES FARMERS TO SIGN (PLEDGES QUICKLY Ehringhaus Proclamation Asks Fullest Cooperation In Acreage Reduc tion Campaign Wants Speed In Campaign So Warehouses, Now Clos ed Throughout Two States, Can Be Reopened To Per. mit Sales To Continue Without More Delay Daily Dimpnfrii Ilnr<*na, In the Sir Walter Hotel, j <> lUKKEK VII.I. Raleigh, Sept. B.—Without letting up an instant in the vigor with which he has been pushing his campaign to •secure better tobacco prices and thus help the tobacco farmers of the State Governor Ehringhaus today issued another proclamation calling upon all the tobacco growers to cooperate to the fullest extent with the Fed eral government in its efforts to stab ilize tobacco prices by signing the acreage reduction contracts in the campaign to be arried on Monday and Tuesday of next week. Governor Ehringhaus ontinues to be more optimistic than evre about the general tobacco situation and is con vinced that the Federal government, from President Roosevelt on down, is doing everything possible to help the tobacco farmers. He is also convinc ed, however, that in order to make any of the measures being planned by the government effective, it will be necessary for the growers to show a willingness to cooperate by signing the temporary crop reduction con tracts that will be sent out Monday and Tuesday. If the farmers sign these contracts willingly and rapidly, thus showing their confidence in and willingness to cooperate with the gov ernment, there is no doubt that the Agricultural Adjustment Administra tion will take steps to stabilize the price of tobacco immediately, as well on Page ruur.; TEACHERSSCHEDULE IS BEST AVAILABLE Governor and Others Think “ Every Possible Cent Put on Salaries Dally DlNpntch Bnrrne, In the Sir Walter Hotel. lIV J C. D&SKERVILL Ralc'gh, Sept. 8. —Deciding it was better to adopt a salary schedule for teachers based on the amount of money available for them rather than a schedule that was higher than could actually be paid, the State Board of Education finally approved the sal ary schedule as drawn up by the State School Commission several weeks ago. The only vote against ’ts ap proval was cast by Attorney General Dennis G. Brummitt, who last week sought to get the board of education to approve a salary f schedule for teachers 10 per cent higher than the one that has now been adopted. The board at that time refused to act on the motion of the attorney general, deciding that it should, wait until Governor J. C. B. Ehringhaus and Lieutenant Governor A. H. Graham could be present, in spite of h<s vig orous protest. This action by the State Board of Education bears out the prediction made by this correspondent early this week to the effect that the board would refuse to adopt the motion (Continued on Page Four) SETTING TRAP TO GET TAX EVADERS Dr. Noble Not At All Satis fied With System Now In Use By Bureau Dnlly flare nw In the Sir Walter Hotel. FT J C BiSKERTII,!. Raleigh, Sept. B—The weaving of a net designed to catch both the bVg and IfrtTe tax eocaiders that have so far been slipping through the mash es of the old tax coFliecting net of the State Department of Revenue, is one of the primary objectives of the re organization now in progress in that department under the direction of (Continued on Page Six). WEATHER FOR NORTH CAROLINA. Generally fair tonight and Sat urday, except probably light show ers in extreme southeast por tion. ; _ Coast Guard Cutters Sent To Points On Cuban Coast As Americans Request Aid Members of Cuban Junta K' ’ Sf vSkS / . Ml ■ ... 1 illlßSb frapWV W ?: .._/J iwß’Wl it - >■ Z >' V ' * W • Following the new uprising of Cuba's armed forces, which resulted in unseating the Government of Provisional President De Cespedes, these two men have entered the spotlight as members of Cuba’s “Big Five ” They are Guillermo Barrientos (left), of Cuba’s radical party, and Dr. Ramon Grau San- Martin, two of the five revolutionaries comprising the Junta which Look control after President De Cespedes had resigned. <Central Press) Witnesses In Burgaw Case! Can f t Identify Any Os Mob Physician of Wallace Says He Thinks Negro Was Alive When Seized from Officers; Much Dispute at Time as To Whether Negro Was Already Dead Burgaw, Sept. 8. —(AP) -Dr. R. C. Williams, a physician, /of Wallace, testifying today at an inquiry into the death of Doc Rogers, Negro, express ed belief the Negro was alive when the mob pulled him from a truck near here and riddled him with bullets on August 27. Before Rogers was seized by the mob, he had been shot down by a posse seeking him for the shooting of Mrs. Tom Piner, a farmer’s wife. Mrs. Piner was wounded in the shoulder and recovered. Dr. Williams said he examined Roger's after he was shot by the posse and found the Negro seriously wound ed, but alive. , STATE WILL FIGHT PARK LAND VALUES $975,000 Price In Condem nation Award Held Gross ly Exaggerated Raleigh, Sept. B.—(AP)-—The State of North Carolina took steps today to fight the condemnation award of $975,000 placed on the Ravensford Lumber Company tract of land in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park when Governor Ehringhaus in structed J. Wallace Winborne, of Marion, and J. Hall Johnson, of Ashe ville, if necessary, to take the matter to the’superior court, Winborne is State chairman of the Democratic Executive Committee, and an attorney at Marion, while Johnson has been engaged in pre vious legal proeefiings for the State Park Commission. The valuation of $975,000 for the 32,000-acre tract was tremed excessive by the governor, who said half that much would be excessive for that treat. A three-man award jury composed of Judge James S. Manning, of Ra leigh; W. G. Garrett, of Asheville, and T. L. Gwyn, of Waynesville, set the fig ure. Johnson told the governor this morning that the total tax valuation placed on the 32,000 acres before 17,- 000 acres were cut over during lum bering operations was only $395,000, including the values of the new lum ber mill and its logging railroad. “The Ravensford Lumber Company bought that property at a receiver’s' sale for $50,000,” Johnson explianed. “The sum of $975,000 is an enormous ly exaggerated valuation.” SAYS U. S. SEEKING ~ FRENCH DEBT TALK Paris, Sent. 8 (AP)—The con servative newspaper L’Echo de Paris said today war debt, nego . tiations between France and the United States were about ot be resumed on Washington’s initia live» PUBLISHED EVERY AFTERNOON EXCEPT SUNDAY. The posse put the Negro ina truck and started to Burgaw with him when 'the mob stopped them. The hearing was before Judge E. H. Cramner, sitting as a committing magistrate, with Solicitor Woodus Kellum calling witnesses. Reports at the time of Rogers, death differed as to whether the Ne gro was dead or alive at the time he was seized by the mob. Governor lih ringhaus, however, Called Rogers’ death a lynching and offered a reward of S2OO for the. anest of the slayers. None of the witnesses at the hear ing during, the morning were able to identify any person at the scene of tlie shooting of the Negro, except of ficers and members of the posse. 2 STRIKES SETTLED BY EFFORTS OF NRA Avert Cleveland Street Car Walk-Out; Embroidery Strike Ended Cleveland, Ohio, Sept. _(AP) A strike of Greater Cleveland’s stlreet car employees, orginally called for called for today, has been averted, at least temporarily, through efforts of the National Recovery Administra tion and city officials. Nearly 3,000 workers would have gone out. EMBROIDERY WORKERS IN NEW YORK BACK ON JOBS New Yoik, Sept. B.—(AP)—A settle ment was reached today after an all night conference in NRA headquarters which will enable 15,000 striking em broidery workers to returns to work Monday. NAVY GETS MONEY FOR STORM DAMAGE Washington, Sept. 8 (AP)—The public w*orks administrator, Har old L. Ickes, today announced an allotment of $856,985 to the navy for storm repairs. including $237,585 for the Norfolk yards and operating base. Construction in South In August Nearly $30,000,000 Baltiimoaf', Md., Sep®. 8 (AP)— Soufthern 4tomtTlac|t» re-ached $29,351,000( in. August, the Manufacturers Record Hepo|r|ted rttor day. The August nWards taeiuded $16,- 151,000 for industrial plants, with new (breweries, textile mills, refrigeration projects for steamships and rayon expansions prominent among the building activities, ithe bulletin said. ft PAGES v TODAY FIVE CENTS COPY CRAFT FROM SHIPS | ALREADY GATHERED IN HAVANA REGION American Lives Reported Endangered by Unsettle ment in Various Shore Localities NO NEW SYMPTOMS OF DISORDER HEARD Secretary Hull Says Emphat. ically no Landing Party Has Been Put Ashore, Eith er of Marines or Bluejack ets; Only Soldiers Ashore at Embassy Washington. Sept. B.—(AP)—Coast guard cutters, those fleet sentinels of the seas, were dispatched to several points on the Cuban shore line today on reports of American lives being endangered by the unsettlcment there. These craft were of the powerful American concentration already in the neighborhood of Havana. The cutter Unalga was sent to Puerto Padro, located about 100 miles from the eastern tip of the island. The Gresham was dispatched to Matanzas, and the Yamacraw was sent to Cardenas. The last two towns are within 100 miles to the east of Havana. A foutrh cutter sent to Havana, the Tuscarora, meanwhile, was dispatched to Key West for repairs and stores. Secretary Hull announced that re quests for protection had come from, Antilla, and that a ship had been sant there. At the navy it was thought the Unalga would take care of that situa tion. Outside of the reports from Antilla, Secretary Hull, who had just talked with Ambassador Wlelles at Havana by telephone, said there were no more symptoms of disorder than yeste day, and that conditions generally were reasonably quiet. Hull said emphatically that as yet no landing party of bluejackets or Marines has been put ashore in. Havana, and that no sailors except a possible a handful of mechanics to do work around the embassy, were on shore. SATURDAY TRADING RESUMED IN STOCKS New York, Sept. 8 (AP) —Satur- /diay bradding in the New York SK fcunity markets and most of the cam modity excha|nlges wilii) be resun.'ied tomorrow. The stock exchange. e'Josad for the past six Saturdays, wllil go back to its usual twb-ihour week-end session. A few markerts will recnat'n. closed tomorrow. v Prices Os Bread Are Under Fire Farm Administration Scrutinizing Charg es for Loaf at Char leston, S. C. Washington, Sept. B.—(AP) —Bread prices at Charleston, S. C., came un der the scrutiny of the Farm Adjust ment Administration today. Dr. Fred C. Howe, consumers’ coun sell flor the administration said he would ask an explanation of bread prices in six other citeis. ‘ln these seven cities” Dr. Howe said, “the average price of bread is one cent or more above the national average price for a pound loaf.” Howe said he had asked the presi dent of the American Bakers Associa tion for a report which would give information on costs and wages of the bakers in the seven cities he named. Other price increases and the cost of the pound loaf of bread for the country as a whole, Dr. Howe f»a‘d, continued to check with advances in material esots Dr. Howe reported that on August 15 the retail price of bread in 51 cities studied was 7.6 cents, ;I com pared with 6.4 cents a pound loaf on February 15.
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