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fHENDERSON ! gateway TO | CENTRAL Icarolina invent ieth year FLUE-CURED VANDYKE ON STAND ALL THE FORENOON IN ASSUALT TRIAL Everett Seeks To Develop Cuts on Young Woman May Have Come From Barbed Wire delay in calling SHERIFF STRESSED Witness Tells Pearce, Bul lock’s Attorney, Sheriff Not Notified Until Monday After Girl Had Partly Iden tified Bullock on Seeing Him Sunday A T Vandyke, father of Miss Mrv Lena Vandyke. 1. was on the stand practically all mcrning in Vanc> Superior Court today testifying' in conn'Ctirn with ’the charges of kh'r.jping and attack for which Beaufort K'Lv and Florida Bullock. yVeroes. ve now cn trial. They are irujed of taking th<* girl from her father's faim yard and forcing her ;jt o the woods, gagging and blind ffld'ng hei and rendering her uncon scious by a blow i nthe stomach, and cutting ner on h> r left arm and left h;. On crosss - examination. R. O. Ew.rett. oi Durham, counsel for Kelly sought to develop th*- id**a that the cuts cn tlr young woman’s limbs may havp come from a barbed wire and aho that sh*' may have had a love affaii m school that could have had a b aring on the case. But the witness t mphatically and vigorously denied any love affair of his daughter and said th'-re wa« no barbed wire fence tn the woods into which the g'-l was taken, but was one near the sycamore trc< a half or three-quar ters of a mile uwav u*-ar the scene whee she regained consciousness after being left in the woods by her a'sailants. ‘ Ths two defendants are not charged with crini nal attack on the girl, as Dr. W H. Furman has testified in f hc rase that she had not been so assaulted. If C. P arce. counsel for Bullock 'aid much stiess on the contention that r he girl on Sunday afternoon after th? attack had seen Florida Bul- Icck and said he looked like one of r he Negro' s who abduct' d her, and Mrs. Vandyke had said be did not notify Sheriff J. E. Hamlett of that ; 2ct unt:l Monday morning, and the warrant was not made until Tuesday. Asked why h* did not report the mat ter to the -h'-riff promptly, Mr. Van dyke repih d at first he did not know, and then he was “just so nervous and torn up/' and shat he was anxious that the right man be taken. There was no semblance of threats (Continued from Page Six.? Submarine Explosion Is Probed Iwo Deaths, 14 In jured on British Un der Sea Craft Off Scotch Harbor CampbeUtown, Harboro, Scotland, Oct 9.— (API — An investigation pro ceeded today into an explosion and fir*' in the submarine L-26. which caused two deaths and serious in juries to 14. bis was the worst British naval accident since January. 1932, when the submarine M-2 sank off Portland ■with seven officers and 53 men. The • ause of that disaster continues a mystery, and costly efforts to raise ’he hull have been baffled by the cur re its and depth. 'The L-26, a si?ter ship of the L-24, Yhich wa rammed off Portland in 1024 by a warship with the loss of 43 lvrs - wa - about to go to the autumn maneuvers after being grounded five houra or. the rocks (ait KUnjtypue P' nlnsuln. 1 nder t b own p owe r and apparently it good shape, the L-26 was re-floated from the rocks and proceeded here. •h* blast occurred yesterday and was due, officials believed, to water reach ir>g the batteries, which were being -charged through a hole in the hull. Statements of the men less seriously mrt and those who escaped agreed • n 'he sii m margin by which a great er disaster was averted. Utettiterann Batin Sltstrafrlt —... PUBLISHED M THIS SECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA AND vJSoi » WIRE SERVICE OF IHE ASSOCIATED PRESS, , L ncle Sam Calls mßk> «n PRESIDENT FRANK GRAMAM University of North Carolina Graham Is Drafted By IN RA Board Most Important Pub lic Relations Effort of Whole NR A, Johnson Says Raleigh, Oct. 9.—<AP)—The Nation al Recovsiy Administration in Wash ington today telegraphed Governor Ehringha.ua a request that President Frank Porter Graham, of the Univer sity of North Carolina, be allowed to leave his duties' and direct an educa tional-economic plan for the consum ing public of the United. General Hugh S. Johnson, national recovery administrator, signed the telegram to Ehringh-aus. He termed) the work for which President Graham is wanted “the most important pub lic ra lat ions effort for the future of the whole recovery pjrogram.” The governor said he did “not have the pow*“r’’ to grant the request, but would lav the matter before the vxe <Continued on Page Six) UNREST K OVER i Labor Troubles and Serious Food Shortabe Point To Cuban Crisis Havana. Oct. 9 —( AP)— Oriente province and its capital;, Santiago, seethed with unrest today because of labor troubles and serious food short age. Adherents of former President Ma rino G. Menocal were reported pre paring for a revolution in* several Oriente towns. Labor unions met bo formulate die. mands and to plan a general strike. Food stocks wind led. A thousand' (hungry bgcgarsj walked the streets. The: political situation was tense. Consumers of elctricity in at least five towns struck for lower rates. In Havana. Joldiem and ; flj&dical) members of the A. B. C. secret so ciety were shot at from house tope while troopers searched for arms in homes of leading oppositionists. Attempts to conciliate differences between the Grau San Martin admin istration, and its opponents, rneamv while, advanced with the appoint, invent by the pro-Grau student direc tory of four professors to enter nego tiations broken off more than a week ago by the government’s uncomprO. mising rejection of demands for its resignation. 1 American Ambassador Sumner Weltas and Colonel FuJgencio Batista (held ain'cther consultation. nn which <Mt. Welles said the protection of k American progeny was a mlajoir topic. HENDERSON, N. C., MONDAY AFTERNOON, OCTOBER 9, 1933 TOBACCO Increased Prices On Peanuts Asked Washington, Oct. 9.—(AP)-'The Farm Administration has asked peanut buyers and she'ler* to pay increased prices to growers for this gear’s crop, while a production limitation program is being work ed out for 1934 in an effort to per manently improve this industry. Buyers were asked to pay S6O a ton for No. 1 Spanish peanuts, as compared with a recent price of S4O a ton. The advance if the re quest is followed, would go into ef fect at cr.ee. SOLDIERS SENT TO MINE AREA AGAIN Threats Between Workers and Union Sympathizers Responsible SOME HOMES BOMBED Picket Lines Again Formed Around Mine That Has Already Been Scene of Disorders Dur ing Strike Trouble Sulliva, Ind., Oct. 9.—(AP)—Threats ,of a series clash between miners who ■have been operating shafts in northern fjnliliv&n county on the cooperative plan and union sympathizers resulted in a call today for nationl guard troops to preserve order. Several homes of miners here and at Hymera were bombed during the night, and this morning strong picket lines were formed around the Sar burn mine at Shelbum, ten miles north of this city. The Starburn mine has been the scene of recent disorders, and Frank Stalder was killed several days ago when an automobile dashed - twrm (Continued on Page Six.) Return Os Matthews Is Sought Raleigh. Oct. 9 (AP) Governor Ehringhaus today issued requisition papers asking the governor of Cali fornia to allow Ellis A. Matthews to be returned to Halifax county to face trial on charges of embezzlement. The extraction was issued at the resuest of Solicitor W. H. S. Burgwyn who set forth that Matthews was in dicted for embezzling $3,800. Reports from Roanoke Rapids, where Matthews lived prior to 1926, are that he embezzled more than $50,- 000 from barks, individuals add bustr nesses in that section. Matthews was arrested yesterday at San Pedro, Cal. as he stepped from I a liner from Honolulu, 1 _ [ nl| BL _ ; Jl|L ___ U «*****»*«**»**«J2| There were much safer places than behind the camera that took these | pictures of the battle between striking steel workers and mill deputies at Ambridge. Pa., in which one man was shot to death and 15 wounded >v buckshot and clubs. Too left, shows the battle in front of Spang-1 AGREEMENT 12,885,000 Bale Crop Os Cotton Forecast For 1933 Trade Commission Ousts Humphrey From Councils Board Officially Recognizes Roosevelt’s Order Remov ing Him from Its Membership HUMPHREY WRITES PROTESTING LETTER Contends He Is Still Mem ber and Asks Statement of Reasons for Decision Re fusing To Recognize Him; Says Roosevelt Has No Right To Oust Him .Washington, Oct. 9.—(AP) The Federal Trade Commission today of ficially recognized President Roose velt’s order removing William E. Humphrey as a member. After a meeting an hour and a half, <the membership resolved to “recog nize the validity of the executive or der removing Mr. Humphrey, arid we hereby decline to further recognize Mr. Humphrey as a member of the Federal Trade Commission.” The ousted Humphrey attended, presenting a letter saying. “I refuse to recognize such order (referring to the -President s removal order) as valid or as being within the President’s right ful powers. I am convinced that the order is without warrant of law and is ineffectual. “I am, therefore, notifying you that I am still a member of the Federal Trade Commission and am ready and killing to exercise the powers and func tions of my said office. “Should the commission decide to deny my said rights, then I ask that such act : on be made of record and a statement of the reasons for such ac tion be made.’’ SIT AT OFFICIAL DESK IN DEFIANCE OF ORDERS Washington, Oct. 9—(AP)—William E. Humuhrey “removed’’ by President Roosevelt Saturday as Federal trade commissioner, sat at his official desk today in defiance of the order. He also attended the regular meet ing of the commission. Neither he nor the commissioners would say what action was planned. Humphrey reiterated, however, that he has not the slightest intention of giving up hib office unless forced to do so by the courts. While (he daily calendar came to Humphrey’s desk, no other official business apparently was being sent to tom. u oj- Chalfant mill at its height, bullets and tear gas being freelv used b* deputies to disperse pickets; below, the retreat of the strikers, and at skull' an anested P ,ckete er apparently trying to avoid a cracked Wholesale Food ■Men, Asking Code Washington, Oct. 9. (AP) — Trade association men claiming to represent 75 percent of <h*‘ whole sale grocers today asked approval of the proposed master code of the food and grocery' industry calling for elimination of “loss leaders’’ and for a minimum mark-up in prices to retailers and consumers. M. L. Toolmee, New York exe cutive secretary of the National American Wholesale Grocers Asso ciation, ai a Farm Administration hearing advocated the code, and said a majority of the non-mem bers of liis organization also ap proved of it. HOLD WHITEMAN^ Negro Done To Death For Threatening Group of Whites With Knife Ninety-Six, S. C., Oct. 9 —(AP) — (Bennie Thompson, Negro, who had been arrested for threatening a group of white men with a knife, was taken from the jail here during last night, beaten to death, and his body left on the roadside, where it was found early today. Sheriff E. M. White said the jail door was broken open and the Ne gro taken from the jail while the jailor, who had gone to the station to meet a train, was away. Burley Leopard, a textile worker who caused the Negro’s arrest by re porting he and others had been threatened with a knii'e, was arrested. Sheriff White said he found blood in Leopard’s car, and that the textile tvorker declined to make any state ment regrading it. Thompson’s body was discovered in plain view of the highway by a Ne gro boy. The body was found about two miles from here on the highway leading to Newberry. WEATHER - FOR NORTH CAROLINA. Fair tonight and Tuesday; pro bably light frost in west portion and slightly cooler on the coast today. . , ;, . !..... PUBLISHED EVERY AFTERNOON EXCEPT SUNDAY. IS AGAIN DELAYED Department Estimate Again Revised Upward Over 450,000 Bales from Month Ago GOOD CROP YEAR IS RISING PRODUCTION Texas Shows Greatest In crease in Mnoth, With Most of Rise in That State; Un usually Good -Weather Partly Defeats the Reduc tion Campaign Washington, Oct. 9.—(API — The Federal crop reporting board today again revised its estimate of cotton production this year by predicting a 12,885,000 bale crop, as compared to the forecast of 12,414,000 a. month ago. Meanwhile, however dissatisfaction with prices on the part of the grow-, ers and the Farm Adjustment Admin istration had led the government to announce that it would lend farmers ten cents a pound on the cotton from this year’s crop they still hold or have yet to gather. Despite the emergency acreage re duction campaign this summer, which took more than 10,000,000 acres out of (Continued an Page Six). Seek Link In Cannon Slayings Roanoke Rapids, Oct. 9. — (AP) — Through the slaying of a 23-year-old woman here, officers sought today to shed light- on the unsolved murder of four men in Virginia. Hear body severely bea-ten and her throat slashed, Marvel Culium, of Roanoke Rapids, was found lifeless yesterday within 300 yards of the home of where she lived with her widowed mother. At a preliminary into the suadruple Cannon slayings in nearby Boydton, Va.. she was a witness and officers said -they were closely investigating the possibility of her connection be tween her death and the Cannon mur ders. Coroner W\. C. Williams, said today he had issued one warrant and was preparing two more for Roanoke Rapids men who he believed might be able to throw some light on .the case 1 . ■Williams emphasized the men were wanted now only for questioning, and expected to complete this phase today. Meanwhile an inquest was pending the accumulation of more details. The coroner said he had a.n open jury ready, but that no inquest would be held unUl all information was gath ered and all rumors investigated. 6 1 PAGES TODAY FIVE CENTS COPY FARM HEADS WISH DF THE CONTRACT Secretary Wallace With- Holds Announcement Pending Still More Examination of Pact DOMESTIC BUYERS ACCEPT AGREEMENT Calls for Parity Price of 17 Cents and Governmenl Wants Licensing Privilege:; in Order To Force Com pliance With Price Boost ing Specifications Washington, Oct. 9.— (AP) An nouncement of a marketing agreomen for flue-cured tobacco was delay again to day by Farm Administn tion officials to give the propose contract another scrutiny. The agreement, said to have be i signed by domestic buyers, vres vh tually ready for announcement lat last nignt, but Secretary Wallace cr dered it withheld for further enamln i tion. No details of the agreement, de signed to give farmers an avoyage o 17 cents a pound for their leaf, hav been announced. A large part of the delay in an nouncing the contract has been due t the government’s efforts so to Wor' the agreement that it. will retain th right to license flue-cured buyers i the event the 17 cents average is r< paid. The administration has indicated does not intend to license buyers' a the outset, but desires to reta/n tli right as a control measure. WAKE FOREST GAME FRIDAY CALLED OFF Wake Forest, Oct, 9.—(AP)-**-Wekf’ Forest College athletic officials an nounced today that the football gam * scheduled with the University ( ' Richmond Friday has been cancelled Assistant Coach Mills said the ocr • test was called off at the reau r t c Richmond authorities, who a*k l to be relieved of their contract. H jr.t he did not know any details. LA Splete parboi Man Sentenced To Electri Chair Likely To Be Freed Shortly Daily Ulxpatrll Enren*. • In the Sir Wnlter Hotel MV -I O. BASKERVIU,. Raleigh, Oct, 9. —Commissioner cf Paroles‘Edwin M. Gill is now prepa ing his report of his investigation in to the case of Gus Colin Langley of Asheville, convicted of first degre murder there about, a year ago apd sentenced to death. This sentence has already been commuted by Goverpc J. C. B. Ehringhaus. on the recopi mendation of Commissioner Gill. It is now expected that as the result of the finding of still more evidednen tending to indicate that Langley is entirely innocent of the burder with which he was charged, that Commis sioner Gill will recommend a full par don. Langley was tried for and convicted of the murder of a filling station op erator named Lonnie G. Russell* cu the night of September 27. 1932. B a at the time of his arrest —not sever-l months after it—Langley maintain l 'he was in Wilmington on that dr a and not in Asheville at all. He p • duced witnesses at the trial who t - tified he was in Wilmington on t > afternoon of September 27, 1932 e l his attorneys maintained it woi have been in Asheville on that da' But he was convited anyway. Commissioner Gill has been inv tigating the case for several mon t now and has gone both to Wilmt ton and Asheville to hold hearir 1 and examine witnesses. As a result these heatings Gill is already or • vinced that was in Wilmi - ton rather than in Asheville the nif t Russell was murdered and that con sequently Langley i s entirely Innocent and should be pardoned In the hew - ing he held in Asheville last F- - day, not a. bit of evidence was fen . l to in any wa2 F invalidate any of * testimony or affidavits of witnes 1 supporting Langley’s alibi, Gill said In fact th A prevailing belief here ? those who followed the course of » Langley case are of the opinion t* t Langley was more or less “railro* - ed” to the electric chair in the Ashe ville trial in order to make of him a jj eg L*ags Si*-' J
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