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'"ufNDERSON gateway to CENTRAL CAROLINA Twentieth year [HRINGHAUS READY ID LEAD DRIVE ON RURAL ELECTRICITY Governor Tells State Grange At Lexington He Will Call Conference if Desired TELLS OF EFFORTS ' TO RUN THE STATE frying To Be Efficient De spite Reduced Revenue, He Tells Grangers; Says He Has No More Love for Sales Tax Than Any One Else in ,The State Lexington. Sept. 27.—(AP) —Gover- B cr Efcr ; nghaus offered today to call s ecnteufnce of rural leaders to dis cuss a program of rural electrifica tion in North Carolina if the Stat 3 Grange, now in session here. thinks it idvi?able. Announcement of the gov ernor’s offer was made in hi& absence bv \V Kerr, Scott, of Haw River, nia<er of 'he State Grange, at the Grange’s mcrning session. Action on th suggestion is expected to be aken by 'he Grange later during the con vention. Previously the governor had ad fttued the convention, devoting most cfhis remarks to a discussion of the Sate administration and its efforts to tep fell government -work at top most efficiency despite reduced re raues. Discussing the sales tax. the gov ernor said: "I hava no more love for it than aay one else.” He asserted, however, that the sales tax had kept the State from either npud'ating ite debts or destroying *» school sysem. Pc'.nttog out tihat ‘he Federal gov ernment has ateo levied certain sales taxes. th« governor said the merchants were collecting this tax for the Fed eral government and said they should be willing to do as much for the State govenment. Approximately 400 Orange members are attending the convention. UNIFORMED OFFICERS AT THE STATE FAIR Ralegh Sept. 27. —Uniformed offi c. *s detailed by Wake county and City of Raleigh notice authorities will work hand in nand with North Caro lina State Fair officials for the first nine this year to safe-guard the In terests of the thousands expected to attend he 1933 exposition ,o he held here Ocober 9 o 14. Both N. F. Turner, sheriff of Wake county, and C. B. Barbour, chief of the Raleigh police force, have rtsponded to requests for cooperation from Norman Y. Chambliss, secre 'ary-manger of the State Fair, with offers to supply regular men from their staffs to assist fair officials in ’heir effort* to make the fairgrounds this year the cleanest they have been *n the history of the annual event. Think Girl Had Aid In Extortions U. S. Officials Dig ging Into Anson Case; Mrs. Clay Wil liams Got Letters Charlotte, Sept. 27.—(AP)— The Came cf Mrs. S. Clay Williams, wife ts the president of the* R. J. Rey nolds Tcbacco Company, of Winston- Salem, was added today to the list of Prominent Carolina women from whom Willie Mae Wheelees. 15. at- Cmp*ed to extort money for a col- Itge education. Federal officials would reveal no further Infctrnatfion concerning the letter to Mrs. Williams beyond saying rhe was an inttnded victim along with Mrs. c. F. Harris, of Wadesboro, wife nf a wealthy physician and bus :n ss man, and the late Mrs. E. A. Judd, cf Spartanburg, S. C., who died several years ago. Frank N. Littlejohn, chief of Char- ’ d-.'xctives. said the investiga t n would be continued on the theory ’hat the girl was not alone in he plot. ’The girl is suave and shrewd,” the said. "We know a lot about w/sat she did. and attempted to do, hut we may not know all. You will have to give her credit for cooking IJ P some w>ld letters if she did it all by herself, and maybe she had help *ni inspiration from some other s, )Urre than a story she she says shp ,)r i H :i detective magazine.” Me di while, .the child remained In ‘‘irtody of her father at Ansonvill®, • ' ’ Sheriff s. M. Gaddy, who oa*d: “'he will not get away.” 1 Hrithi'rGrnt WIRE SERVICF ™ E a “ MEXICAN CITY DESTROYED BY CYCLONE r _— .’: 1..•••• ' _ - . ■ ’A • • •:•••••- .WX ? * S * ' u.ubb®,. _ v,”"'V~ . A V.ew of the waterfront of Tampico, Mexico, destroyed by a cyclone that swept inland taking a toll of many lives. $73,250 Urschel Kidnap Money Found Buried In Cotton Patch In Texas Indicts Attorney On Gold Hoarding Ne# lork, Sept. 27.—(AP) — Frederick Barber Campbell, attor ney, who yesterday filed suit to test the constitutionality of Presi dent Roosevelt's orders against gold hoarding, was indicted by a Federal grand jury on a charge of hoarding gold. Campbell's suit was filed in Federal court yesterday against the Chase National Bank to com pel that institution to return to ti*m 27 bars of gold bullion he said he had entrusted to the bank's care as custodian for him. Federal authorities here said that the indictment today 'made him ♦he first defendant in a prosecu t*on involving the gold hoarding act and executive order. 200 IN DANGER AS IWO SHIPS CRASH Passenger Boat on Hudson River Rammed by Swed ish Freighter ALL PUT OFF SAFELY Effort To Proceed on Trip from Al. bany to New York Fails, and List Threatens River Craft With Sinking Poughkeepsie. N. Y., Sept. 27 (AP) —Two hundred passengers on the Hudson river ntg'h't line steamboat Rensselaer were imjpeirfiled and four injured at 2 a. m. today when the .Swedish freight steamship Roxena. in a fog, collided with the river vessel A hole was torn in the of the passenger boat. In a sinking condiWon, the Rens selaer, bound for New York from Al bany, stopped and warped up to a stone barge and put her passengers ashore. She then attempted to con tinue her voyage from Albany to New York but abandoned the trip when, her list became so bad that au'tomo. (Continued on Page Two) Forest Fire Loss In August Is Low Point for Years Dally Dlapatc* rhtmw. In tne Sir Walter Hotel. 7»v J r IM«KF.RVn.I. Rale/irh, fMV W— Damage f*>m forest fires reached the lowest fig ure in counties organized for protec tion against the "red demon dur'ng the month of August for any similar period in several years, according to a report from the division of forestry of the Department of Conservation and Development. The report from cooperating coun ties last month showed a total of only 17 fires which burned over 378 acres and caused damages estimated at sl,- 527. Next smallest total of fires and damage to last month was October, 1932, when only 21 fires were record ed as having burned 1,808 acres of woodland and caused damage esti mated at $3,025. Smokers >arte lie-ported <as having* been the most destructive factors to the woods in August being blamed with 10 of the 17 fires. Thre? were nf indendiary origin and one each was Recorded /as nating from brush burning, campers and fisher men, lumbering operations, and light ing. - «—— ONLY DAILY Farm Occupied by Uncle of Wife of ‘‘Machine Gun” Kelly, Now Held In Memphis, Tenn ex-brotherTn LAW OF KELLY ARRESTED Gives Up and Is Charged With Harboring Criminal; Kelly To Be Removed from Memphis by Plane, Prob ably to Oklahoma City for Trial There Washington. Sept 27.—(AP)— The Justice Department announced today that $73,250 of the ransom money had be’-n located, buried in a cotton patch on a fanti near Coleman, Texes. The farm is occupied by Cass Cole mkn, by offtjSialls as an uncle of Kathryn Kelly, wife of “Machine Gun” Kelly, now under ar rest in Memphis. Coleman w r as ar rested. Os the S2OO 000 paid in ransom for /Urschel, a total of $79,650 has now been recovered. FORME Fl BROTHER-IN-LAW OF KELLY ALSO ARRESTED •? Memphis, Tenn., Sept. 27. While Gfeorge (-‘Machine. Gun’* Kelly snarled his defiance to the' law from a heavily guarded cell at the county jail today, police added his former brother-in-law to the list of those ar rested. Lankford Ramsey, an attorney, a brother of Kelly’s first wife, surrend ered to W. T. Griffin, inspector of detectives, this morning. Kelly and his wife' were taken yesterday. John M. Keith, of the Chicago bu reau of the Department of Justice, said Ramsey will be charged with har boring a criminal. Keith said Ramsey took Geraldine Arnold, tha little girl who revealed the whereabouts of the Kellys, to Fort Worth, Texas, from Memphis, after Mrs. Kelly had brought her here as a “bl ud.” representing the child as her daughter. Meantime, it was no secret that of ficers planned, to remove the Kellys from Memphis by plane at the most auspicious moment. , An officer who would not be quot ed said an order of removal was ob tained from Federal Judge H. B. Anderson, at Jackson, Tenn., this morning. The officer said the dash inay be made today, but he did not know whether the Kellys would be taken direct to Oklahoma City. The Keiiys were arraigned last night at a secret hearing before Les ter H. Lienr.er, United States com missioner. Bretaner said the hearing was held on warrants based on in dictments returned to Oklahoma City. BARBERSELECTIONS BITTERLY OPPOSED Woman Cosmetologists Un able So Far, However, To Budge Ehringhaus Dally Dlxpatcfc Rnren* In t*o 3tr Wnlter Hotel, ev j c DiDKEnrn.). Raleigh- Sept. 27—The North Caro lina Cosmetologistis Association is still up in arms because two men, alleg edly barbers father than bona fide “beaui-tcians,” were appointed as mem bens cf t^ e State Board of Cosmeto logists’ Examiners by Governor J. C. B. Ehringhaus. There was much talk about these appointaiehts when the beauty parlor operators held .their ffSontinued cm Page Jbur«l NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA AND VIRGINIA. HENDERSON, N. C., WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON, SEPTEMBER 27, 1933 . - D ailit Wfiairii Map of Disaster ■7 —7- i —— - / x\uNn» a < *\Y- ’ '.•MOKrwifrf -7 OT| Map shows Tampico and Victoria, Mexico, both destroyed by a cyclone with a loss of many lives? Disease Is New Horror AtTainpico Hunger and Thirst Also Added to Hur ricane Suffering In Mexico City • ■ . - I '’-I. Tampico, Mexico, Sb.pt. 27. —(AP) --Disease, hunger and thrist threaten ed to add their terrors today to those of floM and storms.which four., daya hgo trough. 1 death and destruction here. An official estimate placed the dead at 51. and the injured at more than 850. It was feared many more bodies were buried in the city-wide ruins, and that the number hurt may total well over 1.500. The store of wheat is sufficient to last only three days more. Other food supplies are nearly gone. Medical and food articles have been sent from Mexico, D. F., but their arrival was problematical because of disrupted rail service. Much of the city lies in ruins. TW harbor, filled with mud and debris, cannot be used. Residents have to take water from small private, wells for fear broken public water systems may be contaminated. It was feared a heavy loss of life had occurred in the Puntilla district on the right bank of the Panuco. WEATHER FOR NORTH CAROLINA. Cloudy with showers tonight and probably in east portion on Thursday morning: cooler Thurs day and in northwest portion late tonight. Many Business Concerns Have Reserved Space In Dispatch’s Rotogravure Since the announcement by the Daily Dispatch one week ago regard ing the (publishing and fcirculating* of a rotogiavure edition telling of the many advantages of Henderson and vicinity, the work has been progress ing rapidly, and already more than a score of the leading merchants, manufacturers, banks, business and professional men and firms have sub scribed toward the undertaking. The Dispatch has reason to be grat ified by the manner in which the peo ple of :his section have cooperated in the forthcoming edition. This feel ing coms no l so much from the fact that the Dispatch will be benefited, as from the fact that the edition will be a great adverisement for Header- Warehouses Overflow As Farmers Rush Tobacco In Despite Low Price Level Eleven More Convicts Escape State’s Camps And Three Re-Captured Six Get Away From Road Gang Working In Cleve land County, Over powering a Guard FIVE ESCAPE FROM CALEDONIA PRISON Guard Is Severely Beaten There, But His Name and Extent of Injuries Not Learned; Two of Five Be lieved Drowned Trying To Swim the Roanoke River Ral'cdj'A, Sapt.' 27 (AP)— Ef(gbt ‘Stall’ ptr’scnisrs were at large today in two widely separated sections of the Stri’.e aftier aittackinig and over-pow ering thedir guards, and three others Who took part in the uprising- had been recaptured. Six of tho eleven broke away from the road gang in Cleveland county liarte yesterday after overpowering th'S’r guards, and the other five es caped from Caledonia prison farm im Halifax county after beating a guard, but the time of the ehe escape was not I'aport.ied to Central Prison. Two of the road gang men, Robert Brown and Harvey Ross, were re»- captured a. short time later and Ned Ilefl’in. who took ipart in the Cale donia break, was caught and was in solitary confinement today. Among the et’lght still at large is Jim Tyndall, convicted of second de gree murder ir» Wayne county, and ‘given 15 to 20 years and thlree other men serving long terms. The report from Caledonia, which (Continued on Pare W>ur.) Defense Is To Be Plea In Killing Waynesville Sept. 27 (AP) —Dewey ■potter, 34, slayer of Thomas Prilce, 60-year_o*'d former Union Pacifism railroad executive and three others held in connection with the slaying, •will be given a preliminary hearing here tomorrow. DoyDe D. Alley, of Waynesville, at torney for the men. aid today he had reached an agreement with Magistrate ',R. M. Leatherwood before whom war rants served on the defendants are returnable, for the hearing to be held at 3 p. m. tomorrow. “Adi of them/ will p'Jead guilty,” said -Alley. Dewey Ttojbte’r is prepared to plead die shict in defense of his own life when he killed Price on Lifekstone (Mountain Sunday, the attorney sad. /the others held are WUyne Potter, 14, son of Dewey; Clarence Potter, 28 ■brother of Dewey and Eric eford, 22 a cousin of Dewey. son and 'h<s entire territory. Its pur pose is to call attention to the ad vantages and to the many oppor tunities for profitable business offer ed by this section, that this roto gravure development edition is to be published. The edition will be given a wide circulation not only in this section but copies will be sent throughout the United States. A large mailing list for that purpose is now being compiled. W|e desire that any of our citizens who may have friends or re- JYhJt jyegi , who may tye /interested in Henderson and its community will bring the names to this office, so a copy may be mailed to such a person anywhere in the United States, PUBLISHED EVERY AFTERNOON EXCEPT SUNDAY. Price Agreement Still Is Held Up Washington, Sept. 27.—(AP)— Further conferences on a proposed marketing agreement today again held up announcement of the gov ernment’s plan to bring higher prices to flue-cured tobacco grow ers. Secretary Wallace himself took a hand in the situation when he summoned J. B. Hutson, chief of the tobacco division of the Farm Administration; Chester Davis, di rector of the production division, pnd Representative Frank Han cock, of North Carolina to his of fice. Before goin gto see Wallace, Hutson conferred in his office with S. Olay Williams, president of the R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Company and chief spokesman for the do mestic manufacturers. commimW TELEPHONECHARGE Reduced from $3.50 to $2.50 Where Instruments Not In Place SUPPLEMENTAL ORDER Immediately Protested Orally To Commissioner Winborne By Bell Manager From Charlotte at Raleigh Offices Raleigh. Sept. 27.—(AP) — State •Corpofh'tiion CommfSpston tocKay or dered that rates charged to North Carolina by telephone, Companies for Installation* of service where' instru mentalities are not in place shall be $2.50 instead of the present rate of s3.go. Hua order supplemented one issued in August reducing the monthly ren tal for French-type phones from 50 cents to 25 cents and changing other general exchange charges. R. O. Self, clerk of the commission, estimated the various reductions made thus far will save telephone users of the Stae nearly $175,000 yearly. No general rate revision have been made. Fred J. Turner, Carolinas manager of the Southern Bell Telephone Com pany at Charlotte was here today and when shown the new order, he im- Imjediately lodged oral protest with Stanley Winborne, a member of the Corporaion Commission. SIORMICTiS TO BE GIVEN RELIEF Etheridge Hopes for Federal Aid for Fishermen Who Lost Heavily Dally Dlspatc* Barrnr In the Sir Waiter Hotel. RY J C BAHKHRVIVI.. Raleigh, Sept. 26—No class suffer ed more from the recent hurricane 'tihan 'the ■ fishermen along the coast ■whose nets and boats were destroyed and who are now entirely without any means of making a living, ac cording to R. Bruce Etheridge, di rector of tha Department of Conser vation arid Development. Director •Etheridge was at his home in Manteo When the hurricane struck that efc. tion st™! has since visited the New Bern, Beaufort, Morehead City sec tion, where the hurricane did the greatest) damage. In order to get an accurate esti mate of the damage done t o tsher. men’s nets and boats Director Ethe ridge has had a survey under way for several days in the storm area. Oaipbain John A. Nelson, State fishr eries commissioner, with era in Morehead City, 1 6 visiting every fishing village and every fish erman in that section to fear n the ex tent of their loss in nets and boat®. t _ ! on Page Two.) 6 PAGES TODAY FIVE CENTS COPY WEED IS UNLOADED I INNEARBYSTREETS Al SOME MARKETS Growers on Smithfield Mir het Dissatisfied as Price Ranges Little Over 11 Cents NEW BERNA VERAGE GIVEN AS ONLY $5.74 Bulk of Sales, However, of Common Types, and Farm ers Make Few Complaint!; Rocky Mount and Wils on Figures Are Much Better Than Some Others Raleigh, Sept. 27—(AP)—TobacCb market warehouses in the Carollpa were swamped today as farmws rush ed their weed to them, eager to sail despite the failure, of prices to ap proach the pariy figure of 17 cents at It as the goal during the market holiday and subsequent efforts to raise price®. ' “ Tobacco was being unloaded iij th® streets at Rocky Mount, while ware housemen struggled to clear floors of the deluge of the weed. Estimated were made that 2,500,000 had been brought to market, and were expected to pass the 1,000,000 pound mark for the third consecutive day. iiJ Conditions were similar in South Carolina markets. At Darlington floors were piled with tobacco and some was being put in the street. Blocked sales were in prospect again. Prices were little changed, but !:o«t of the markets reported no dissatis faction was evident. ‘ O. L. Boyette, sales supervisor at Smithfield, said farmers there, how ever, were expressing much dissttfl* sass ion. “This is a dissatisfied bunch today, the most dissatisfied I’ve st . ?n this reason," he said. He -estimate I thd price average for the day wcr.J. r.,-t be mere than 11 1-2 cents a ’ ui.l. ; About 500,000 pounds were c.i t-tr* floors. with indications' little iir.‘ra ! than half of it could bfefbudtioned .o <!ay. . Official figures for the New tern market gave the sales there as 107,- 930 pounds yesterday at an average of $8.74. The bulk of the sales, however, were of common and damaged grades, and farmers were making few Coih plaints and turning few tickes. Early sales indicated no change in prices at Greenville, where 1,485,372 pounds were sold yesterday at an average of $11.75 a hundred. The market at Kinston was. blocked. (Continued on "•age Two.) CoOpsWill Advance 10c For Cotton American Cotton Co operative To Assist Price-Lifting Cam paign in South Washington, Sept. 27—(AP)—§. F. Qreekmore, general manager of the American Cotton Cooperative Asso ciation, told newspapermen today that his organization intended to lend the full amount of the government loan on cotton to itsrfnembers as soon as the government had worked out details of the plan. Creekmore, other officials of the American Cotton Cooperative Associa tion and cotton farmers today dis cussed details of the government loin plan announced recently with Oscar Johnson, finance administrator of the Farm Adjustment Administration., The Farm Administration an nounced that it would lend ten cents a pound on cotton still in the hands of producers. The meeting was called to diseuss whether premiums were to be leaned on cotton higher than low middling 7-8 inch. This grade and length of staple haa been tentatively selected as the basin for the ten cents a pound loan. Creek more sa<d his organization planned to assist the campaign to advance cot ton prices by lending the full amount that the government decided upon on k the yarious grades and staples.
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