Henderson
gateway to
"central
CAROLINA
twentieth YEAR
SIZE OF VOTE WILL
DETERMINE OUTCOME
TUESDAY’S ELECTION
Side That Can Get Its
Strength io the Polls Best
Stands Chance of
Winning Out
heavy DRY VOTE IS
being looked for
Will Be If They Are As Ac
tive Election Day as Here
tofore; Repealists, How
ever, Have Been Working
Quietly Along and Expect
Results Also
Hilly nMmMi k H»rr«R,
In ill** Sir iVnllfr Hotel,
nr .» c miKniivii.L
Kaleigh. Nov. I.—The side of that
ran ge* out i|v vote to best advantage
In the election Tuesday on the repeal
0 f t|v’ 'tphte' nh amendment will win.
in 'he opinion of impartial observers
her. 1 h*‘ claims of both the
r ,.peal and anti-repeal forces that each
will win by substantial majorities. It
ihe anti-repeal or dry forces are as
ac'ivo on election day in getting peo
pv to the polls as they have been
during the campaign in speechmak
ing and the stirring up of sentiment,
an unusually heavy dry vote is to be
fxp eted, H is agreed. It is also main
tained that, unless the repeal or so
called wet forces show a great, deal
mor? energy and enthusiasm next
Taejday ui getting 'heir voters *o the
pdhthan they have shown so far in
Ihe campaign, at least on the surface,
they are likely to have a very light
w'e for repeal and consequently lose
the election.
The older and more experience po
liticians. however, point out that it
Is not possible to judge the outcome
from any election from surface indi
cations and 'hat it is not the oratory
and 'he noise that wins elections but
the county and precinct organization.
"The sid*' that has the best working
organization to get out the vote on
■lection day is the side that almost
always wins," is the obbservation of
rmwt of the old timers. They main
tain ’his holds good in the present
election with repeal of the eighteenth
amendment as well as in any other
election.
Thei>- is no doubt that, the anti-ie
peal forces gives every indication of
having a strong organization over the
(Conlinuad ir Page Five.)
FOUR GUARDS HELD
FOR NEGRO’S DEATH
South Carolina Officers Beat
Negro Severely Follow
ing His Capture
Greenville. S. C., Nov. 4.—(AP) —
Four convict guards wore ordered held
today on charges of causing the
'l'a'h of Roy Hudson, Negro convict,
" - October 24 by beating him when
li> was captured after he had escaped
ftom a prison camp.
The four are Posey Dill, a former
sup- rvisor but now a prison boss,
Charles Bak* r, Bill Forrester and
•Junius Hightower.
The jury came to a verdict that the
gro “came to his death a« a result
of a, heart attack induced by exhaus
tion and sever*' corporal punishment
inflicted" by th*- four. The verdict
pointing out that Dill and Baker flog
d the Negro and were assisted by
Forrester and Hightower “they know
ing that Roy Hudson was in poor
physical condition and was suffering
'tom heart trouble.
Raleigh Finds Mr, Farley
Very Affable And Genial
Oflftr nupatrh flare**.
In ti>* Hit Walter Sotel.
J C ■JiyKKtlV|l,l„
Raleigh, Nov. 4.—National Demo
f,Htir Committee Chairman James A.
l arky w ho a i. S() i S postmaster gen
is nothing if not democratic and
:i; affable and approachable as a life
"■istirance salesman. Although his stay
i ,r rc wav short yesterday. h« found
time i 0 B t. o p an( j shake hands and chat
with scores of people who had not
sough* nor expected an opportunity to
rr ''et him. He even stopped to speak
'o newsboys and to a group of chil
dren who had waited to get a glim
pse of him as he left the auditorium,
ohoiii th*- only one who was able to
• s hake as many hands and speak to as
many persons as Mr. Farley was Gov
ernor j. c. B. Ehringhaus.
Following his undress in the muni
'ipal auditorium, Mr. Farley visited
the local post, office and Federal build
Ul o. He shook hands with mail car
• Mrs. talked to letter carriers, joked
' v -'h janiforg and time after time went
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New Socialist Head
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f* ~T t
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Leo Krzycki
Leo Krzycki, of Milwaukee, Wis.,
newly-appointed chairman of the
Socialist Party of the United
States, succeeds the late Morris
Hillquit, of New York. He is a
former Milwaukee alderman, secre
tary of the State Socialist Party,
and was Socialist candidate for
U. S. Senator in 1926.
/Central Press)
A ffiS™
Personal Appeal from Roos
evelt Brought By Farley
May Turn Trick
EXPECT GOOD MARGIN
Farley Promises Roosevelt Will Do
Everything Possible to Protect
Dry States, With Advrr.
Using Illegal
Dully DlM|»ni«-fi Bnrene,
In tne Sit Walter Hotel.
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Raleigh, Nov. 4.—The personal ap
peal to the people of North Carolina
from President Franklin D. Roosevelt,
asking th<m to continue to back up his
program by voting for repeal of the
eighteenth amendment and brought in
person by Postmaster General James
A. Farley in his address here yester
day. has already had a far-reaching
effect, it is agreed in political circles
here. In fact, most of the political
anlysts here now expect a good ma
jority for repeal in the election next
Tuesday, although a week ago most
of them agree the State would have
voted against repeal if the election had
been held then. But the clear cut,
concise, common sense presentation
of the arguments in favor of repeal,,
as presented by Mr. Farley here yes
terday morning, and his emphatic de
claration that President Roosevelt and
the Federal government in Washing
ton are irrevocably committed to do
everything possible to encourage tem
perance and to prevent the return of
the saloon, allayed the fears of those
who have been afraid that by voting
for repeal they might be voting for a
return of the saloon, most of those
who heard him agree.
“The goal of President Roosevelt is
the achievement of true temperance
through the enactment of such laws
by the national and state governments
for the control of he sale of liquor
(Continued on Page Two.)
out of his way to speak o clerks and
stenographers in offices, leaving the
governor, Senator Josiah W. Bailey
and others in the official escorting
party, waiting for him in the cor
ridors .
Nor was Farley playing politics in
doing this. He is the type 'hat just
naturally as a fellow feeling for other
people, especially the people in the
more obscure walks of life. Position
and authority seem to mean nothing
to him in his contacts with the pyir-*'
lie, despite the fact that he is gen
erally credited with being closer to
President Roosevelt than any other
one man. To the man in the street
he is still “Jim,” with a big. genial,
Irish disposition that makes him the
friend of every one.
As the automobile in which he was
riding passed down the street, a man
standing outside a garage observed:
“Well, there goes Jim. Its in the
bag now."
That’s the way they fall for Jim
Farley. ... - ——
HENDERSON N. C., SATURDAY AFTERNOON, NOVEMBER 4, 1933
Soviet Envoy En Route in Imperial Suite
I -
Owing to last minute bookings at Cherbourg, France,,Maxim Litvinov, Soviet Foreign Minister, en route t 9
the United States to confer on U. S. diplomatic recognition with President Roosevelt, was obliged to dis
card his proletarian principles and accept the only available accommodation left on the liner Berengaria
which happened to be the imperial suite, usually reserved for royalty. The suite consists of two bed
rooms, breakfast room, salon and private verandah, interior views of which £re shown above. Below, the
£>. S. Beremraria: inset. Commissar Litvinov
(Central Press)
Government May Renounce
Greek Extradition Treaty
Washington, Nov. 4.—(AP) — The
government was understood today to
be contemplating instructing its min
isters at Athens to renounce the ex
tradition treaty with Greece as a re
sult of te refusation to extradite
Samuel Innull.
It was indicated in the State De
partment that this government feels
the exradition treaty is useless to the
5 Cent Tax
Proposed
For Corn
Tax Os 8 Cents Was
Considered by Farm
Adjustment Admin
istration
Wasington, Nov. 4.—(AP)— Farm
Adjustment Administration indicated
today that an - initial processing tax
of five cents a bushel would be levied
on corn.
It was said, however, that an initial
tax of eight cents had also been pro
posed and that the matter had not
been definitely settled.
There is felt to be strong sentiment
for the five cent levy.
Recently the farm administration
announced the processing tax on corn
would be 28 cents a bushel but a hear
ing was called immediately afterwards
to determine that this figure might
not result in a heavy decrease in con
sumption of corn products.
WEATHER
FOR NORTH CAROLINA.
Rain tonight and Sunday; cold
er tonight.
What - Congressmen
Are Thinking
Babson Makes Startling Statements
By ROGER BABSON,
Copyright, 1933, Publishers’
Financial Bureau
Babson Park, Mass., Nov. 3—When
ongress assembled last March it had
done little thinking. The country
was i n a state of panic, and there
really was n*ot time for Arguing.
'Bills were handed to the Senate and
House, with orders so pass them,.
During the past few months however
our Senators and representatives
ihave had an opportunity to talk with
the home folks and do some real
itlbfrnkiing. flPhds |s -especially true
■since the President’s recent announce
iment relative to the “rubber dollar.’’
The following is a summary of their
present attitude: \
(1) Congressmen will return to
Washington in January with a con-
United States because the Greek au
thorities had twice denied Insull ap
plication.
Expectations were that a cablegram
stating this government’s position will
go forward immediately to the min
ister, Macßeight, who will act in ac
cordance-* with it There
were indications these instructions
will be made public otmorrow.
Greek court had denied two requests
MRS. ADAMS NAMED
HEAD OF TEACHERS
Jtalejfch, Nov. 4.—(A I’)—MS's.
William Adams, principal of Four
Oaks high school, was elected pre
sident /of the North Central district
of the North Carolina Teachers As
sociation at their annual meeting
here - today.
L. S. Inscoe, of Nash county, was
named vice president and M. V.
Weldon, of Granville county; secre
tary.
FACTIONS REFUSE
GRAU RESIGNATION
Representatives Ratify Him
Again As President of
Cuba After Night
Session
Havana. Nov. 4. (AP)—Represen
tatives of all factions, which original
ly backed President Grau San Mar
tin, today refused to accept his re
signation and again ratified him as
president.
After a night long session at the
home of Sergio Carbos. the group an
nounced if not only had refused the
president’s resignation but had not
even considered the resignation of the
cabinet.
tinned desire to h e lp President Roose.
velt. They admire his courage, good
nature, and willingness to try things.
IFurthermore, a majority are in sym
pathy with the President’s goal to
(have a. mo-re eqqua.l division of the
-nation’s income. Every week, how
ever a large number ar wondering
*wihetiher the NRA and -the AAA and
the XYZ will -bring it about. Al
though still hopeful and anxious for
thd ‘‘New Deal” to work yet they are
ibecomlingi a (UlStle 'jskepjplcail l . Tod
ma-ny are using it just to take a
buggy ride. •
(2) Congressmen recognize that spe
-cu.ation and debt are the basic cau
ses of the nation’s economic troubles.
If convinced- that inflation would
solve this problem Congressmen would
follow Thomas on faij wild id-as.
for Insull’s extradition. The first was
on a Cook county indictment and the
second on charges of violating Fed
eral bankruptcy laws.
Renunciation of the treaty as car
ried out as reports was interpreted in
some quarters as meaning the drop
ping of the Insull case since its de
finite termination would move inter
national machinery for returning In
su!l to this country.
'Ford Plans
i
To Layoff
W orkers
Says Compelled to by
“New Prohibition
Against Work In
This Country”
Washington. Nov. 4.—(AP) —Hugh
S. Johnson, NRA administrator, in a
formal statement on the Ford Motor
Company’s propos’d payoff of em
ployees, said today he assumed this
was being done because Ford produc
tion had fallen oft; but if the manu
facturer wants to give work to these
| men “we will be glad to consider an
exception” to the automobile code.
Johnson said until he 1 sees the wage
and hour figures to be submitted by
the company on November 7 he will
not know “how fairly he (Ford) had
dealth with his average 35 hour
week.”
The Ford Company last night an
nounced that all of its workers would
have to be laid off 9,000 at a time for
a seven day period to bring the aver
age working hour in his plant within
the 35 hour maximum fixed by the
automobile code. It said it did not
wish to take this step but was com
pelled to do so by the “new prohibi
tion against work in this country.”
Congressmen however know that if
they should get their constituents once
free from speculation and debt it
would be but temporary. The love of
speculation is as inbred as the love
of liquor. Ninety per cent of those
now burdened with debt would im
mediately get into debt again even
if freed! from it now.
(3) Congressmen are willing that
the President continue his experi
ments with she government mixing
up twit'h agriculture manufacturing,
retailing etc. Yet when talking with
the home folks these congressmen
; .lear.n that the only thing the people
really want Is reduced (taxation (also
reduced interest charges if they are
1 in serious debt) and to Ibe let alone.
They find thiait although their consti
tuents want a ball and chain put on
> 4,he other fellow, they do not want it
i put on themselves. 1
l (4) Just now the President is try
ing to sell the country “controlled cur
' rency” or what the people call a
‘rubber dollar.” This is “'all Greek”
■to most congressmen, but the older
1 ones are shy of government control
1
(Continued on Page Three.)
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EXCEPT SUNDAY.
Jobless Textile Worker
Held By Authorities In
Reynolds Kidnap Plot
CONVICT IS NAMED
AS DAWES’ FLOGGER
Rocky Mount Nov. 4 (AP)—At.
lantic Coast ine police said here
today thal E. L. Dawes (old them
Dewey Wiiliaiqs, convicted box
car thief, was one of three men
who took him from his home two
nights ag oand flogged him.
Williams recently escaped from
jail in Raleigh where he was serv
ing a three year sentence on con
viction as a member of a gang of
box- car thieves operating in this
section. Dawes was given a pro
bationary sentence in the affair.
REM STRIKE
Milo Reno Wires 21 State
Leaders To Be Prepared
To Put It In Motion
IF PLAN REJECTED
Leaders Say Wallace Is Opposed To
Farmer’s Union And Holi
day Program
Deg Moines, lowa, Nov, 4 (AP) —
Milo Reno, leader of the National
Farmer’s Holliday association’s farm
strike today wired the 21 state lead
ers of his organization to be prepar
ed “throw the strike into full gear’’
should President Roosevelt reject the
cost of production on farm products.
The demands were presented to the
president by five midwesters gover
nors. “If the press correctly stated
the situation 'ait Washington” Ren'o
said “the governors have been flatly
turned down by Secretary Wallace.
TJiis conies as no surprise to me.
Secretary Wai.ace has been opposed
to the farmer’s union and the holiday
(program and obstructed it i nevery
way possible. i \
“His plan to make the farmers dole
takers and medicans depending upon
government bureaus for their exist
ence, has always been a hope of a
group the trained with.”
BELIEVES WE
IT SHOTBY NEGRO
Investigating Officers Find
Different Calibre Shells
In Sheriff’s Car
Winnsboroy S. C., Nov. 4 (AP) —
Officers investigating the killing of
Sheriff R. A. Feaster, said today they
had found four empty $32.20 calibre
shells in the sheriff’s car, leading
them to be.ieve the slayer may not
(have been a negro arrested shortly
before.
The sheriff carried a .38 calibre re
thought at first that John Watkins
vo'ver .the officers said, and it was
25, the negro, had shot him with his
own gun. Watkins whs said l to have
been unarmed. )
Plans for a post moi-fim to deter
mine the calibre of the bullets in the
sheriffs t«ody were made following the
discovery.
WISCONSIN FARM
STRIKE TRUCE ENDS
Madison, Wis. Nov. 4 (AP) —The
farm strike truce declared by the Wis
consin Holiday association several
days ago, was officially ended today
hy Arnold Gilbert, state president of
the association.
Negotiations On War
Debts Reach Impasse
Washington. Nov, 4.—(AP) — The
American-British negotiations on war
debts were taken again to President
Roosevelt today as mediators reach
ed another impasse.
The British ambassador Sir Ronald
Lindsay, and the head of the British
War debts commission, Sir Frederick
Leich-Ross at the White House were
joined by Dean Acheson, the under
secretary of the treasury and with him
Wjilliam Phillips, the under secretary
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John Lamier Captured As He
Takes “'Planted” Pack,
age Placed By
Officers
MRS. REYNOLDS WAS
INTENDED VICTIM
Expectant Mother And So.
ciety Leader Had Received
Two Extortion Notes De
manding $10,000; Prisoner
Now In Hands of Federal
Authorities for Prosecution
'Winston Salem, Nov. 4 (AP)—The
government today claimed another
victory, swiftly gained in its war on
its kidnaping war.
A thirty five year old jobless textile
worker was hdld in jail here after
confessing officers said, that he pen
pod fwo extortion 'letters to R. J.
(Dick) Reynolds, youthful tobacco
heir, under the threat of kidnaping
his wife and expectant mother and
local society leader.
The accused extortion plotter. John
anier. was arrested rs he picked up
a dummy package wrapped by coun
ty a.nd federal investigators at a snot
where the notes directed young Rey
nolds so place a sum of SIO,OOO.
The liters and the confession, the
contents of which were not divulged
wore turned over to federal authori
ties. who announced they would pros,
ecute under the "Lindbergh” kidnap
ing lay/, proving >a. maximum penalty
of 20 yearis imprisonment for using
the mails in extortion, and kidnaping.
WI FARLEY 1 ™
They Think Raleigh Speech
Changed Very Few Votes
In State
Dnlly :>i»pnO»i
In th« Kir Wtilt* r I
nv J. O UASKICIt Vll i
Raleigh, Nov. 4. —Anti-rcprr.l <«r
dry leaders were unimpre* •" ' K v
speech made here Friday by I’os'r’ - -
ter General James A. Farley and d >
not feel that he changed any dry
votes. Neither do they feel that he ad
vanced any valid arguments for repeal
of th<- eighteenth amendment for hi
favor of legalizing the sale of liquor.
When asked what he thought of
Mr. Farley’s speech. Cale K. Burgess,
campaign manager for the United Dry
Forces, at first declined to comment,
but finally said:
“Mr. Farley failed to advance a
single argument in favor of the legal
sale of liquor.”
Other drys commented on the ab
sence of uproarious applause, even
when Mr. Farley delivered the per
sonal message sent, to the people of
the State by President Roosevelt. But
repeal leaders point out that there
was nothing in Mr. Farley's speech
designed to generate much emotion
alism or noisy enthusiasm, but that
iit was directed to appeal to the
thoughtfulness and intelligence of Un
people instead. They also point out
that the repeal of the eighteenth
amendment is a constitutional ques
tion and in no way related to the le
gal sale of liquor, since under tfye
twenty-first amendment, each state
will be permitted to decide for itself
whether it will remain we or dry. As
a result it would have been out of
piece for Mr. Farley to have discussed
the sale of liquor any more than he
did, they maintain.
ROOSEVELT ASSURES
MIDDLE WEST GROUP
Washington. Nov. 4.—(AP)—Presi
dent Roosevelt today assured the gov
ernors and the farmers of the middle
west “that he would make every pos
sible effort to bring about an increase
in prices without exerting Hi" com
pulsion of the individual farmers."
of state.
The conference followed two days
of discussion on British appeal for
war debt revision after a talk with
the President on Thursday.
No final conclusion was expected
from today’s meeting.
In fact, no particular hope is held,
out by either the British or the Am
erican negotiators for an understand
ing but continued conversations are in,
prospect, _ _ ... . ... , .