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gateway to o 'central CAROLINA TWENTIETH year HOLD PRICES RISE AGAIN IN bjew Certificates Backed By War Debt Silver Is Considered Probable ISSUE PERMITTED UNDER PROVISION IN THE FARM LAW process of Assaying Metal Received on Debt Pay ments Has Just Been Completed s not INFLATION, OFFICIALS ASSERT Certificates Will Be Used In Normal Course of Business To Replace Other Forms of Currency As They Are| Turned in to Treasury for; Redemption Washington, Nov. 2. —(AP) — Th#: "'rtasutv may s oon issue $11,000,000 in r liver certificates backed by silver re ceiv'd in ’act June's wax debt pay ment The Thomas amendment to the farm Ijr. which authorized acceptance of «eV. pavments in this medium, rc .vired that the silver thus received r.4e th A backing: for an issue of cer tificates. he process of assaying thy metal revived has just ben completed. The next step would be the engrav cf the certificates. Treasury officials denied today that, this would be consiaered inflationary ni the certificates will be used in the normal course of business to replace rther forms of currency as they are ’ trned in at the Treasury for redemp tion. here was no statement as yet as to vnt denominations the certificates would be. Policeman Given Four Months for Blackjacking Boy Oor-nvilH b. CV. Nov. John Harris, West Greenville police man accused of beating Grady Wilson, 11. with a blackjack, was found guilty c' assault and battery of a high and aggravated nature in general sessions ” rt todav and was sentenced by Judge C. J. Rammagf to serve four n nths or pay a fine of $250. Ihe jury took only 55 minutes to cenvict Harris. After the verdict was j received and sentence passed, defense ccunsel filed notice of intention to ap- P‘ al the case and Harris posted bond Os SSOO. Big Cheese Factory Is Dynamited % Farm War Still Rag ing in Wisconsin; Roosevelt To He’ar Gov ernors’ Plea Milwaukee, W*s., Nov. 2.—(AP)—A 'v ami to bomb today demolished the ecse factory of E. L. Bley near "t Washington. Fire which followed blast completed destruction of thoj ic* cry. ■h'-rlff Peter J. Jung, said there was doubt that the blast was set off strike pickets. It was the fourth r mbine of a R heese factory since the "-inning of the strike. p,lf ‘y. the owner, estimated the dam* S" at $15,000. **■ group of strikers today made an r^ v ’ r raid on the plant of the Snn *’hine Ttsiry a t Waterford south of . rp where milk was spilled from two ntepirhan train cars last night. The y auif today was made by about 50 v ieUets who over-powered four deputies in ,’ destroyed about half a carload of mi k for shipment to Milwaukee. ROOSEVELT TO RFCFJVF. NORTHWESTERN GOVERNORS Washington, Nov. 2. —(AP)—Presi- f' Roosevelt arranged to receive 1)1 J governors from the farm strike g s \ today at 2:30 p. m. Hevr,ijr| 11ms. therr was no indica i'ni fi«,m *he White House this ?ore '' r,n as th a presidential attitude on the visit, ilntnrrsmt DatUt Btapatdi L thw E ?c^ VIRE sk 11 vice of THE associated press. Factions In Cuba Demand That Mendieta Take Reins POLICE ON GUARD AFTER RIOTS rMaMSwTv', ##fWv aww«flfv»wßW Police guards have been stationed at Detroit's tool and die plants following a riot of striking plant workers who raided the factories And hurled stones through win dows, causing several thousand dollars in damage. Five men were injured and six were arrested, in COTTON RATES TO i BE INVESTIGATED I. C. C. to Delve Into Freight Charges From South to The North Washington, Nov. J.—(AP) — Tha Interstate Commerce Commission to day ordered a general investigation of freight rates on cotton between points in the southwest and from the southwest by rail, or by rail and water to points in New England trunk line territory, in the south generally, tout not including traffic from points on 'he Mississippi river. A series of five hearings were or dered starting on January 8 at Hous ton, Texas; New Orleans on January 15; Dallas, Texas. January 19; Okla homa City, January 29 and Memphis, Tenn., February 2. The investigation will cover rate re gulations and practices in Texas, Ar kansas, Oklahoma, Kansas, Missouri, Louisiana on and west of the Missis sippi river and Memphis, Tenn., and including transportation from points in the southwest to Gulfport, Mobile, Ala., and west for export, or coastwise movement beyond such ports. LIQUOR LAWS HEAD STATE IN CONGRESS Wasington, Nov. 2. —(AP)—Re- peal of the Volstead act and re vision of liquor taxes and tariffs were placed at the head of the • legislative calendar at the January session of Congress today by Speaker Rainey. WEATHER FOR NORTH CAROLINA. Cloudy tonight and Friday; ao casional rains in north portion Fri day and beginning in south por tions late tonight or Friday; war mer in extreme west portion to night; colder Friday night and in wt-st portion in afternoon. ONLY DAILY cluding Edward Suvano, below, right, former worker at the Fagle Tool & Die company and asserted ringleader in the strike. Some of the damage incurred at the Fagle concern is shown, below, left. At top, police are pictured guarding one of the plants. Farmer Says This m/ Ehringhaus Times Dally Disintrh ilarran. In the Sir Walter Hotel. nv .r. r. uaskehviu,. Raleigh, Nov. 2—Tobacco farm ers in the eastern counties are al ready Iteginning to forget about the “Hoover Depression,” and are be ginning to call these better times “Ehringhaus Times” instead, ac cording to a State official who has recently relumed from the eastern part of the Stalq. “Wiellv how are Wiilngs coming along?” he asked a tobacco farm er in a Kinston tobacco warehouse the other day, merely thinking to make conversation. “Are things looking any better?” “I should say things are looking better,” the farmer said. “It sure looks as if the old Hoover depres that these new times have come sion times have gone for good and to stay. These new times are Ehringhaus times. That governor we got now has sure helped things for us farmers down here.” INTERSTATE SALES TAX TO BE ASKED 1 Will Be Sought In Congress; Will Get Sales Tax on Mail Orders Daily Dlapatch In the Sir \Valti*r Motel. 11V J. C. BASKKH VIM Raleigh, Nov. 2 Enactment of a law by Congress to permit states that have sales tax laws to impose the tax on Jntier-tetate/saleis. thus Allowing them to collect the sales tax on mail order sales as well as on sales made within the state, will undoubtedly be considered by this next session of Con gress, according to Director Harry l (Continued on Page Throe, l NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION QF NORTH CAROLINA AND VIRGINIA. HENDERSON, N. C., THURSDAY AFTERNOON NOVEMBER 2,1933 ° NF Seissoe Labor Situation Continues Tense and Veteran Lead er Is Called MAY DECLINE OFFICE Might Request Tl|at Re Ospedes Re Returned to Power Even Though lie Was Forced Out bby Present Regime Havana, Nov. 2 <AP) —All eyes were on Carlos Mendieta today as Cuba turns back jo the political coun cil tables after a night of near ter. ror in the capital. Demands were renewed as the labor situation continued pmse tha tthe vet eran national leader from a new gov ernment to supplant that of Presi dent Crau San Ma:rtin. But was reported in some quar ters that Mendieta might decline to sacrifice his 'political future by be coming provisional president. Sources close to Mendieta said he personally favored fhc return of Car los Manuel de Cespedes. who stepped out of the wa yof Grau. The politcal session was overshad owed during the .might by violence marked by the explosion of 12 guns and rfle and machine gun firing. Wiggins Stock Sold For Saving Washington. Nov. 2. — (AP)—Evi dence was presented to Senate inves tigators today that Albert H. Wig gin so:J large holdings of stock in the Brooklyn-Mauhat’an Transit Company in 1932 shortly before the board of directors, of which he was a member, voted to pass a dividend. Previously the former chairman of Chase National Bank testified that his income during thei past five years ag gregated $5,881,000. His payments dur ing that time on. Federal income tax totalled $1,365,234. The banker, who was head of the finance committee of the B. M. T. at the time of the sales, said he didnot definitely know the dividend would be passed, tout thought it probable because of notes due to his bank. Referring to documents, Wigg’n said ithie Shermar Corporation, one of his family companies, held about 26,000 shares of the stock, and dispos ed of virtually all of it. He agreed that there was a “mark ed depreciation” in the price of the stock after the dividend was passed. LINDBERGHS MAKE VISIT IN HOLLAND Amsterdam, Holland. Nov. 2 (AP) —Colonel and Mrs. harlcs A. Lindbergh landed here this after noon after a successful flight from France. They made a splen did landing in the outskirts of the city. The couple’s arrival was not known to the general public, and only officials were aware of their arrival. MISUNDERSTANDING ABOUT REPEAL; HERE ARE FACTS Dally Dlsparrit Bnr<-sa. In tne Sit Walter Hotel. ST J C BaSKERVILI,. Raleigh, Nov. 2.— With the repeal election now only five days away, there are still thousands of people who do not yet understand just what win be voting for in that elec tion or just how they will vote, jud ing from the questions being asked of election officials. Many still have the impression that there will be only one ballot and that the only thing neces sary will he to vet teither for or a gamst repeal of the eighteenth amend ment. But this is not. the case, since, there will be, nothing on the main. bai- GENERAL OFFER TO BUY V r o V M t. In NRA Couit Fight j Frank W. Smith A battle that may end in the U. 9. Supreme Court looms as the result of coui*t action asking a permanent injunction restraining the New York Edison Co. from allegedly co ercing its 33,000 employes into join ing a so-called company union in violation of NRA code. Frank W. Smith, president of the utility com pany, denied the charge brought by s. group of company workers. (Central Press) N eSnghaSys Governor Tells Lumberton Folks Not To Forget Their Own State Xiumberton, Nov. 2.—(AP)—Gover nor Ehringhaus today urged citizens of this section not. to forget their own Statpi and its problems when they re joice at tha fight of President Roose velt to restore prosperity. The chi*f executive reviewed a long NRA parade here and addressed the mass meeting of citizens from sur runding counties. Asserting the nation is fighting the greatest and most paralyzing economic stress it has known in more than a century, the governor said it is sig nificant “we fight it in the spirit, of a crusader at war, willing, yea. eager, to make every sacrifice and endure every burden which a holy cause im poses to the end that our country’s good name and welfare may be pre served . ” North Carolina as a State and its individual citizens are joining in do ing their part in the recovery move ment, he continued. Death of Woman i At Charleston Is Police Mystery Charleston, S. C., Nov. 2. —(AP) —A woman’s screen, a pistol shot and the sound of a fleeing automobile--or mere phantoms so fare as police were concerned—were all officials had to work on today as they investigated <the slaying on a street here of Mrs. John Ravenel, Charleston widow. The 60-year-old woman was found dying, a. bullet wound near the right ampit. on a sidewalk here last night. She died a short while later in a hos pital. and police were reluctant to label the death murder, accident or suicide. Mrs. Harry Salmons, who lives near the spot where the woman was found told officers she heard a pistol shot, followed by a woman’s scream and the sound of an automobile being driven away fro mthe section about the time Mrs. Ravenel was believed to have been wounded. lot a'bout. hte eighteenth amendment at all. Here are some of the facts about the case: There willbe two ballots for each voter. One ballot will contain only the word “Convention” with a square space at the right, and right below It the words “No Convention” with an other square space opposite it. There wishing to vote for the convention which in turn will decide whether or not will vote for repeal of the Eight eenth amendment, will make a cross mark in the square opposite the word “Convention.” Those opposing the t (Continued from Page Six.),. PUBLISHED EVERY AFTERNOON EXCEPT SUNDAY. ALL FOREIGN GOLD SHIPPED HERE WILL BE BOUGHT BY U. S. After Steel Parley • A * :p- Jf ;. . # \* : r •J: ••• : </ :• Myron C. Taylor 4 Myron C. Taylor, chairman of the board of the Bethlehem Steel cor poration, is photographed leaving the White House after a confer ence of leading steel company of ficials with President Roosevelt and NRA officers, which resulted in the settlement of the month-old strike in “captive” soft coal mines operated by steel companies. The steel officials, bowing to the wishes of the president, promised to re employ all former members of the closed mines, and agreed to reduce the price of steel to $36.37 \k a ton. 26,000 Get River Jobs Asßelief Washington, Nov. 2 (AP)—-Army engineers said today more than 26,000 ,men are employed on river and har bor and Lood' control work made pos. tsible bby public works funds. The exact figure for the week end ing October 23 was 26,075. of which 13,898 m fj n were hired labor and 12,- 377 employed on work done by con tract . Bids will be opened shortly for starting work at Cape Fear, N. C., the Sacramento river flood control* ,project, and on the Fort Peck reser voir on the upper Missouri river. Typhoon Spreads Death and Horror Over Philippines Manila, P. 1., Nov. 2 (AP)— A typhoon spread death and de struction over the Southern Phil ippine islands today. Six persons were killed and nine injured in Oriental Negros province on Ciay as island. Governor Segnndo Gas ton reported to the interior de partment. Other governors told of heavy damage and appealed for Red Cross aid. 8 PAGES TODAY FIVE CENTS COPY Ounce Price Raised Ten Cents Above Wednes day's Figure and Is Fixed at $32.3& DOLLAR DECLINES IN FOREIGN MARTS Details of Foreign Purchases and of Status of Negotia tions With Great Britain Are Guarded Secret; Hop ing To Avoid Currency Depreciation Washing-ton. Nov. 2.—(AP)— The Roosevelt administration today dan gl'd before the world an offer to buy all the foreign gold that is ship ped to this country and again advanc ed the figure a,t which the R. F. C. makes purchases of the new output of domestic gold mines. For the latter a price of $32.36 an ounce was established, as compared with $32.26 yesterday. Meanwhile, the boullion quotation at Xjond.on, presumably in response the Roosevelt plan, rose from $31.52 yesterday to $32.11 today. The dollar was weak, declining over night to $4.82 to the pound. It also weakened against the franc. Details of plans for purchasing tu > imported gold, including the price t > be paid, remained undisclosed, aa did the status of negotiations with Great Britain. These were undertaken for the pur pose of avoiding a currency deprecia tion rate between the two countries as a result, of the American operations. The theory behind Mr. Roosevelt's program is that if gold prices can be raised and held at a high level l oth here and abroad, there will be ' i nu tomatic adjustment which will lariy domestic commodity prices upward a. well. Higher prices is the first object V • f the President’s recovery program. BOSTON"MERCHANT HEADS NRA BOARD Washington, Nov. 2 '(AP) —Uouln Kiirkstein, Bosfon .merchant, toda r was elected chairman of NRA’S In dustrial Advisory Board, succeeding Walter C. Teagle, of the Standard Oil of New Jersey t retiring from the board. Mills Open In Augusta Labor Area Union Leaders Agree To Withdraw Pickets As Plants Resume Workings Augusta, Ga., Nov. 2 (AP) —Under a-n agreement of union leaders to withdraw pickets, the John T. King Manufacturing Company mill reopen ed here today, the second textile plant to resume operations after la bor troubles paralyzed the cotton. * mill industry here. Resumption oft operations at the King mill and at the Riverside mill yesterday will mean, re-employment for 2,000 and the Augusta Herald sa d conferences concerning strike troubles at other plants employing an addi tional 2,000 were planned during th s day. The labor situation was reportc ! quint in the Horse Creek valley, W r.earbby South Carolina, where C > mills are running. * Read “Your Carrier Boy’ A aeries of articles about the car riers of the Henderson Dally Di‘ patch beginning today in th paper.