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HENDERSON gateway to CENTRAL CAROLINA TWENTIETH year GOVERNMENT CUBA GOVERNMENT SENDS TROOPS TO . SCENE OF STRIFE Machine Gun Units on Way to Camaguay Province as Labor Troubles Are Increasing hershey's sTjgar PLANT SUSPENDED Efforts of Mediators Fail As Strike in Havana Continues and Others Are Feared; Situation Remains Tense at Match Factory Near Ma~ tanzas . Havana, Sept. 28.—(AP)—Govern ment machine gun units were en rov:e to the interior today as labor troubles increased. Army headquarters said the troops were going to Camaguey province to guard sugar mills against workers’ a'lacks, but the soldiers themselves *:larei thrir purpose was to sup a revolution. All th Heishey sugar interests sus pended operations in M&tanzas and Havana provinces because of strikes, and the Hershsy electric railway be treen Havana and Matanzas was not operating. The si f uation remained tense at a cutah and cigarette factoiry near Mr-tanzas. where men workers attack ed women employees, one of whom wes wounded. Efforts of neutral meditors have failed, a strike of Havana newspaper employees continued, and it was learn ed authoritatively that members of a service club were working to avert several strikes which it was believed night lead to a general strike. PICKETS FORMAT ASHEBORO FACTORY 2CO W orker* O n Strike at Hosiery Mill as Third Shift of Work, ers Is Dropped Asheboro, fiept. 28.—(AP)—Pickets formed around the Bossong hosimy mill here today a3 approximately workers went on strike. The plant we% closed yesterday by mill officials l *vh«n employees ierpjetssed rtissatis fec'ion over discontinuance of a third rhift in compliance with the NR A. Workers who were finishing up left ever wet material were pulled from their job* today. Says State Offered To Drop Drake Condition of Action Was That Raleigh Man Pay $5,000 To Bank Bureau Raleigh, Sept. 28 (AP)—The Ra leligh Timea says it learned today that State’s attorneys in the* prosecution of W. B. Drake, former president of Ittfe defundti B&leftgfh, Banking and T tU£'t Company, Wednesday offered to drop th ecasef if the defendant would make a payment not to exceed $5,000 on obligations against him held the State .Banking Department. Drake has been on trial a week on charges of embezzlement and charts cf making false reports. The Times says: "The proposal (Continued on Page Three.) Rotogravure Issue Will Benefit, Jenkins Thinks The rotogravure edition the Daily is preparing to issue in the kear futui* will be helpful in that it -wUI result in a greater cooperative spirit in -the community, and will serve to put Henderson before the pub'itc in a large way. in the opinion (? Colonel James W. Jenkins, distrl iii finis section of the State for 'in Ruif Refining Company products. In u letter to the Dispatch com* i r'jv’j '" the * effort, Colonel Jenkins 'vrote as follows; H&ititeranit 53 atlit Btsaatrlr BYRD SHIP HEADS FOR SOUTH POLE [||jK Jf •■■ ■ willllli ' i'P'- .1 •' One of Roar Admiral Richard E. Byrd’s two Antarctic ships, the Bear of Oakland, is shown here pulling out of the Charlestown navy yard at Boston as she de parted fo* a two years’ expedition TEACHERS DESERT SCHOOL STRIKERS IF IT MEANS CUT Agitation Takes New Turn As School Authorities Sense Another Whack At Salaries no changeUkely IN ANY OF SET-UP School Commission Learns of Methods Resorted .to in Some Localities To Spread Propaganda Demand For Bus Service, in Which Com mission Is Powerless Dully llfxpnlrk nnren*. In the Sir Wnlier Hotel. BY 'll. C UANKERVIM, RaleUgh. Sept. 28 —The “school bus strike” has taken a decoded .y differ ent turn since teachers and pa trend ■have come tc realize that If children' are to '>e transported to school with, in the two mile limit as well as out ride of it, teachers’ salaries will have Ito be reduced at least another 15 per cent. As a result, the 'State School (CommrfssOom, in session here today, bias before it a stack of telegrams from teachers and. parent-teacher as. ,sedations over the State urging iit not to make any further reduction in salaries, even if it bontiwues Ito Insist that all children living within two milics of school must walk tlhe law says. It allso has several jpetrittomis amd resolutions from vari ous oountllea virtu?liiy dtemand&ng that it lilgniar the law and transport iall children to school, whether they live within tw 0 miles of the school or m'ot. : Teachers Beady To Strike One of these telegrams, rather paradoxically, is signed by all the (teachers 5n one of the largest schools in Forsyth county, and says that “we (Continued on Page ’Three.) “It is very gratifying to note that your paper is preparing to get ou-t a Rotogravure edition, advertising Hen derson and this community. “It is through mediums of this kind that our town can be brought to the attention of people who are looking for a desirable community in whim to settle. It also, in my opinion, will create a csr>peratjvn spirit which otherwise would be hard to attain. “I congratulate you, on your effort and hope you will be successful in getting out a most creditable lssu y ONLY DAILY L thp E a«^ ire service op the associated PRESS NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN THI2 SECTION OFNOOTH CAROLINA AND VmjINTA. HENDERSON, N. C., THURSDAY AFTERNOON, SEPTEMBER 28,1933 TOBACCO LICENSING DELAYS AGREEMENT at the South Pole. Admiral byri is shown, inset, on the bridge as he rode with her down the harbor. He will make the trip aboard the other vessel, the Jacob Ruppert. Deposit Guaranty Examiners Named Washington, Sept. 28.—(AP)— The Federal Deposit Insurance Cor poration today announced appoint ment of 99 new bank examiners to look into qualifications oF banks for membership in (he corporation. The corporation will commence guaranteeing bank deposits after January 1. The force will supplant the pre sent staff of national bank exami ners now under direction of the comptroller of the currency. Oth ers are to e named later. The list included: North Carolina—J. E. Bobbitt, Raleigh; T. C. Hunter, Kinston; H. W. Turnage, Albemarle; William M. Wiggins, Raleigh. Prison Division Cuts Corners To Cut The Bill For Tax-Payers Dnfly IMmtatofe Burma, In the 3fr tVnlter Hotel. J C Bi!*KP!Bvn,li Raleigh, Sept. 28. —Thousands of dollars a month are being saved by (the State Highway and Publig Works Commission-on the cost of food alone for fits lieaniy 8,000 prisoners by buy ing tihjs food, in carload lots and then distributing ;it to the 85 prison camps and units by truck from Raleigh, it was learned today from W. Z. Betts, in charge of all purchasing for the commission. Accurate records kept over a series of months allows that the cost of warehousing and distri buting (this food 'has been steadily re duced during the past year, despite the fact that the total amount of food and supplies needed has beefri increas ing. The total cost of all food and sup jpiies for prison units in July was $17,837 and the total cost of ware housing and handling this only $730, or only 4.2 per cent of the total cost. The <wet of buying this food and these •supplies locally would have been frOm 20 per cent to 40 per cent greater (Continued on Page Three.) TO SPEND BIG SUM ON INLAND ROUTES $1,250,000 Allotted for Improvement of Cape Fear-Winyah Bay Waterway Channel Washington, Sept. 28. —(AP) —Major General Lytle Brown, announced to day the allotment of $1,250,000 for the improvement of tihe intra-coastal waterway, Cape Pear river, North Carolina, to Winyah Bay, South Caro i lina. Various sections of the waterway will be dredged and three bridges will be built across the waterway in Horry county. S. C. Thfe allotment is from th? fund as signed to the War Department by the Federal Emergency Administration of Public Woi i'-b . „ . —— ■ I i BVHbI Judge Small Orders Com mission To Appear For Hearing October 3 to Defend Itself schools~not OPEN, DUE TO CONTROVERSY New Action Plunges Com mission Stin Deeper Into Transportation Muddle In Addition to pozens of Pro tests Against Its “Two- Mile” Ruling ± — Raleigh, Sept. 2$ (AP) —(New con teoveirsdes over talattt3ipl:Hr*t&tiio*n of schocdl children in Norths Carolina faced tlhe State School Cammisokm' today with the anjhpunceanertt that s t writ of noanda)n% is bei ng sought in Tyrrell oountyjfco force the State to provide “adequs|e” tramsipoirltatdon for children there. 1 The Tyrrell suit is based om the *•_ fuml of the commission to allot enough funds to nneet costa of trans portating children, f% the county to school under a cowtract system. In tlhe complaint It is set forth that the schools of thaf couanty have not yet opened due the controversy over the date for the openin e is uncertain, as facilities to get the children *to schools cannot, bo provided with art allotment of only $4,500. Already faced wftih doens of pro tests against its Jbling that school children OlLving witJfctn tow mUe* of •the schols they attwd cannot ride in buses, the new- dwtion “piwngfcd the commission deeper into the transpotr. tatdon mfuddle. f Judge Walter L. Small, of the su perior court, signed: a rule ordering the school commission to show cause at Washihngton on. October 3 why the mandamus be tXg. sought should mot be issued. First announcement of the Tyrrell suit was made today when the com plaint in the case, was read to the commission by Leßoy Martin, the ' f ■ ■;,.>• . S' ■• - > j ■'>' i JAMES W. COLLIER 1 DIES AT CAPITAL Was 24 Years Stsaissippi Congress man But Cater Member of the Tariff Commission » Washington, Sept. 28. — (AP) James W,. Collier, of Mississippi, member of the Tariff Commission and former Democratic chairman of the Bouse V and Means Committee, dieo at h<s home ls« e today. Death was due to heart trouble, his office assistant "*d TV 13 was his birthday. He was b. rn a°ir Vicks burg 61 years ago. Collier served 12 terms in the Hous.> and declined (too run again last No vember after a coniroveiw over whether candidates should run at large or by districts. Fords Fix Schedules For Work Detroit, Sept. 28.—(AP)—Officials of the Ford Motor Company today said the plant will be operated on a five-day 40-hour week, with a. com plete Shutdown several days each month to bring the average down to 35 hours prescribed by the NRA au tomobile code, which the company has not signed. The officials said it was planned originally to operate the plant on a four-day 32-hour basis followed later by a period of five-day 40-hour op eration + -o bring the average to 35 hours a week. That plan, officials said, has been abandoned Officials declined to comment on the closing of the Ford assembly plant at Chester, Pa., and said they knew nothing of a “sympathy walk out” of 500 employees in their Edge water, N. J., plant. WtATHIR FOR NORTH CAROLINA. Mostly cVHidy tonight and Fri day; probably occasional show ers in west portion; slightly cool er in. noith portion ionigiii s , KELLY NABBED; SHANNON ON STAND . V i Y,'Q /ids S K v ; V | KA>7< ; V AUK ’’ ts r>ry i , teMUKQHtsj | i jf|pyipv:V At left is George (Machine Gun) Kelly, western desperado sought in the $200,000 Urschel kidnap ing, who surrendered to federal agents at Memphis, Tenn., follow ing a nation-wide search and a sensational raid on a Memphis house. Kelly had recently sent bold threats from Chicago to the prosecutors of the 12 persons on trial at Oklahoma City, where he Seeking Jury In wj—wjl Cemetery Murder Camden, Sept. 28.— (AP) —Efforts to Select a 13th juror in the murdei trial of Wilton Forbes and Win fred and Comey McPherson, were continued there this afternoon when court reconvened following the noon recess. Forbes and the two McPhersons are charged; with shooting Earl Barnard,, of the Shiloh Road, to death oh August 15 when they at tempted to hi-jack some liquor which, Huhert Whitehurst, one of the witnesses, testified at the preliminary hearing was hid den 6n the Barnard farm. OfLOVMiW DUE TO ROOSEVELT Labor Head Says, However, 11,000,000 Still Idle; Sees Hard Winter Washington, Sept. 28. —(AP) — Big employment gains were attributed to dlay <to the Roosevelt recovery pro gram by William Green, American Federation of Labor chieftain, but employer-labor difficulties —this time involving Henry Ford —continued ta worry NRA officials. Green said the federation estimate that 815,000 persons returned to work in August represented “greater pro gress ,in employment than in any month since the depression.” He counted the remaining unem ployed at 11,001,000, and said “relief needs this winter will be greater than ever before.” Coincident with Green's comment on the recovery program were fresh intimations that a change in mone tary policies to aid farm policies may be forthcoming soon. Dr. James H. Rogers, of Yale, returned from a talk with President Roosevelt to confer With ranking Federal financial of ficers . Though official comment was lack ing, the Rogers conferences served to revive talk of a commodity dollar with less than the present dollar's buying power. Mail Bags With Likely SIOO,OOO Taken in Boston Boston, Mass., ept.. 28.—(AP)— Three sacks of registered mail con taining money and valuables es timated by postal officials *o be worth more than SIOO,OOO were stolen from the South Station ear ly this morning by four daring daylight thieves. They fled in an automobile j, ; PUBLISHED EVERY AFTERNOON EXCEPT SUNDAY. was named as a partner of Albert Bates in the actual kidnaping of Charles Urschel. At right is R. G. (Boss) Shannon, hard-bitten Texas rancher and one of the 12 on trial at Oklahoma City, shown on the stand as he denied any connection with the kidnaping, al though admitting Urschel was held captive at his farm house by Kelly and Bates. HMCANE’S TOLL IS IRE EVIDENT Mrs. O’Berry Stays In Wash ington Seeking Special Relief for Needy .. Dally Dlxpntcli Bnrcna, - ? In the Sir Walter Hotel. It* J O- DASKUHYILL. : Raleigh, Sept. 28.—Mrs., Thomas •G Bdjry director 'of the Governor’s Office of Relief was still in Wash ington today confeirring with Relief Administrator Hopkins with regard to getting more relief funds for use in the counties where so much dam age was done by the recent hurricane. iShe is expected back here Friday. White no definite estimate of the total damage done by the storm had teen made up here yesterday or the total additional load the relief agen cies would have to carry, some quite definite figured had been received from several of tbs counties. A pre liminary suirvy e'in Carteret county showed that 100 homes had been com pletely destroyed, 1,000 homes dam aged and that 1,095 families have al ready been aided either by the! Red Cross or by the relief agencies work ing out of the Governor’s Office* of [Relief. Os these 1,095 familie#, 910 were fishermen’s families. These* fa milies can be rehabilitated and made self-supporting if they can be provid ed with houses, boats and nets. But if tihey are not rehabilitated, they will Jiave to be carried on. reilief inde finitely. Mrs. O’Berry hopes to be able to persuade the Relief Administra lion to undertake the rehabilitation of these families as the cheaper of the itwo undertakings, although it will re « Continued on Paee Three.) Says Government Means To End Kidnaping Crime Oklahoma City, Sept. 28.—(AP)—j 'Joseph B. Keenan, assistant United States attorney general, opened the final argument in the Charles F. Urschel kidnaping case today with a declaration that the government is de termined to wipe out kidnaping and the activities of machine gun gang sters. “The interest of the nation is now focused upon the drama now coming to a close in this court room, and we are here to find an. answer to the question of whether we ahall have a government of law and order or ab dicate in favor of machine gun gang sters,” Keenan told the jusry. Albert Bates and Harvey Bailey are accused as principal defendants in the S2OO 000 kidnaping case with George KelV£, gurman arrested in Memphis. 8 PAGES TODAY FIVE CENTS COPY MARKET PROPOSAL j ' BY THE WEEK-END’ Government Wants To Re tain Right To License Companies Not Sign ing the Contracts IT WOULD BE USED ONLY IF NECESSARY i Examination of Records Would Pertain Only to Flue Cured Purch ases and Not Company's Entire Affairs; Await Carft linas Reactions Washington, Sept. 28.—(AP)—Ches ter Davi3, chief of production of thie Farm Administration, said today that signing of the flue-cured tobacco ■marketing agreement was being held up by government scrutiny of a pro-r vision covering the administration’s proposed agreement not to invoke its licensing powtir at his time on do mestic manufacturers who signed thd contracts. Davis said the government wants to retain the right to license domes{• tic buyers on thejir flue-cured Opera tions only later on if it i s necessity license companies that do not sign the contract. He emphasized this was intndtd a$ a precautionary measure to protect the grower and assure the governmant ■ of its ability to enforce tht contract 'if this should become nece!s»ary. Under the proposed agreement, the (Continued on Page Three.) .Cooperation By Farmers Insisted On Ehringhaus Says It’s Same as NRA to In dustry; UfgeS Td bacco Belays | Mount Olive, Sept. 28.—(AP)—Gov ernor Ehringhaus urged the farmery to give their united support to the Agriculural Adjustment AdminislirA.- ition, which he described as the same thing for the farmer that the NRA j? for the business man, in an addftpfc today, at the Mount Olive farthetß* festival. , "I hope to see the day when farmer chiseler will be held up ,tc scorn by his neighbors,” added the governor, explaining he meant ti}« farmer who agrees to make acreage reductions and then doesn’t carry out the agraemen. Governor Ehringhaus said the Agri cultural Adjustment Administration intended to bring peanuts under its scope soon. Discussing the preteent prices beihg paid on the tobacco markets, hfe urg ed growers to keep back their crop to prevent a glut on the market, and to offer only as much tobacco as tne buyer can handle conveniently daily. “We must leam how to apply tl|e principle of cooperation in produc tion,” he continued. “If we do th#t ; the selling will take care of itselfl” Thousands of farmers from through out this section were here for the all- I day festival. * Keenan referred to the unusual spe ctacle of four separate groups of de fendants linked in the same case. “It would seem that kidnaping his betcome a modern act,” he said. “It requires the ‘spotters,’ those who de termine what the intended victim can. pay; it requires the actual ‘snatches,’ the bold outlaws who smash their ways into a home in the dead of night to whtek away their victim at the point of machine guns. “The third group comprises the guardsmen and those who hide the victim from the searching pub lie, spurred by the outraged community. “Fourth, and not less important, aina >thip I money .changers, si ha fS'ppiejr'y; slimy creature*, scheming in the man ner and fashion of the modern fences who exchange the marked currency into mon££ that identified.’'
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