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"HENDERSON cateway TO G CENTRAL CAROLINA YEAR V iolent Britain To Pay negotiations end WITHOUT AGREEING ON FUTURE POLICY Token Payment Will Be In American Currency In Lieu of $117,000,000 Due Dec. 15 WILL SAVE BRITAIN ODIUM OF DEFAULT Conference Closes Without Prejudice Umtil Commer cial and Monetary Condi, tions Become More Clari fied; France’s Default Po licy Is Unchanged Washington. Nov. 7. —(AP) Presi-j dnif Roosevelt today announced th* 1 oid of British war d<‘bt negotiations w'hoiif an agreement, hut with the payment of $7,500,000 by Great Britain ! rn i;s pecembebr 15 installment. This token payment will b*- paid in I American currency In lieu of the 1117000000 due from the British in mid-D>cember under the existing ag- j rc-ment. The President announced that, m 1 view of the part payment would j not regard th l Br itish government as I in defauP. This was the attitude taken last] Jum. at which time the British paid! about ten percent of the amount due, and that in silver at the ra te of 50! on's an ounce to the amount of sll.- OC'.OOP. 1 In his statement today, Mr. Roose v-lt said the debt negotiations were concluded without prejudice “until certain fac'ors in the world situation ' (Continued on Paze Five.) KIANIOI TO PALMETTO WOMAN Litvinoff First Cousin To Mrs. Bella Bogen, of Denmark, 5. C. S. C. Nov. 7 (AP) Imre’s a ‘‘local anglte” for Soutlh Carolina in the forthcoming visit to r s country of Maxim Litvinoff, So. v iet commissar of foreign affairs, to di'cuss Soviet recognition with Pres- Ufit Roosevelt. Mrs. Bela Bogen, whose (home is in Denmark, S. C., but. who is visit " r a daughter here revealed that she lis a Rr*t cousin of the Russian dip lomat, and that she and Litvinoff as r hiidron lived in Byalostok, Poland. I remember him conrving to moth ers house for cookies,” she said. “He v.’as very fond of them.” Wet-Dry Fight In State Is Only Just Beginning Kegardless of Outcome Next Year’s Primary and Flection Campaigns Will Be Knock-Down-and Drag- Out Affair for Members of Legislature • *nflr nupfllrk nprriß, • n tk; Sir Walter Hotel, J C JlitrKKnriM Nov. 7.—Regardless of ' outcome of today’s election on of the eighteenth amendment, f*£ht over prohibition in North H,,, lina is just starting, according t« r |'" t observers here. It is also evi ' r " tha| »;s Uvnd prohibition ' M “ Soing to bebcome about as badly ' "'Kicd up together a sha-s ever been 9 CHse in the past and that a good tnany politicians in both parties are 7' lin R t( > f j nd themselves tangled up, to-;. , 1w ° thore campaigns in which the ] |MOr issue will be dominant and in ’ iirh feeling Ls expected to be arus (< to a greater extent than in the closing today, are in pros ,'\rl f °r next year, it is agreed, no 111,1 tt' l ' which way the state votes on '•peal today. For in spite of the ''"ms of the drys to the effect that 1 election today is really an elec -1 n t° decide on whether or not the ' P"*t saloon shall be brought back [' ‘ s ’ or tb Carolina, the only issue in v' v "'l today is the xiepeal of the e; e>ht.eenth amendment «,r.d wheth&t TirttiU'rsnu Body Submerged In Boiling Water Kdenton, Nov. 7.—(AP)—Lee Hoi lowell. 67, foreman at Wilkes Ve neer Company plant here for about 20 years *vas ear lied fco a Norfolk hospital today suffering from hor rible burns received ai the plant, where he was working when he fell into a si earn vat where gum logs are steamc*.. I .title hope is held for his re covery. Hollowed was working at the plant whe n he fell into the va», and his body was completely sub merged in boiling water. The skin was peeled off from his neck down. LITVINOFF RIDES FOR CONFERENCE Five-Car Special Carries Him to Washington Aft er Leaving Liner At Quarantine RECOGNITION FOR RUSSIA INVOLVED Soviet Envoy Faces Momen tous Conversation With President Roosevelt on His Arrival; No Treaties Are Planned, Litvinoff Tells Interviewers Jersey City, Nov. 7.—(AP)—Maxim Litivinoff. Soviet commissar for for eign affairs, left ere ahf 11:32 a. m. today in a five-car special train for Wasington for conversations with President Roosevelf. Litvinoff arrived for his momentous conversations with President Roose velt. expressing the hope that “the establishment of normal relations be tween the Soviet government and the United States would, now bring actual disarmament." “We shall negotiate no treaties while we are here,” the Russian for eign minister told interviewers, who met him down the bay on the liner Berengaria. From the liner he was taken in a special tug to Jersey City, where he caught special train for Washing ton. INSULT U. S. FLAG DENIED BY CUBAN Miami. Fla., Nov. 7.—(AP) J. A. Rubio Padilla, Cuban stu dent,, today issued a signed state ment denying Havana dispatches saying he was reported to have wiped his hands on the American flag before boarding an airplane for Miami yesterday. this state will vo t e for or against it. It is also conceded even by most of the dry leader that the eighteenth amendment will be repealed regardless of the action North Carolina may fake. But North Carolina will con tinue to have theoretical prohibition and to remain technically dry as long as the Turlington act, the State’s pro hibition enforcement act passed in 1923, remains a law. And it will re main a law until the next session of •he General Assembly meets in Jan uary, 1935, unless a special session should be called. But no one here be lieves there is any chance for a spe cial session. So t,h e question of whether North Carolina will continue t° remain dry or whether it will modify the Tur lington act and legalize the sale of liquor, will be a question for the 1935 General Assembly to decide. Thus the liquor question will be the overshadow ing issue in the Democratic primary in June of next year, when all of the Democratic candidates for the Gen eral Assembly are nominated —with (Continued on Page Seven.) ONLY DAILY L^w?, ED WIRE SERVICE OF IHE ASSOCIATED PRESS. NEWSPAPER published IN THIS SECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA AND VIRGINIA. HENDERSON N. C., TUESDAY AFTERNOON, NOVEMBER 7, 1933 Disorders In $7,500,000 Dec. 15 On Debt Here Here Are the 19 States Where Sale oi Liquor Now Is Legal —1 1— 1 ■ ■ --- mm • - 4 to With the repeal of the eighteenth j becomes legal in 19 states, 10 of | to control the liquor trade. Six- | bition and 13 have constitutional amendment, the sale of liquor | which have already adopted laws 1 teen states have statutory prohi- 1 or statutory provision or both. UPWARD SWING OF GOLD HALTED HERE IN U. S. QUOTATION Price for Day Is Fixed Same as Monday When Gold Develops Weakness ■r; In : Londpn CONTINENT BUYS UP SUPPLY IN LONDON Ounce Price Here Again Fixed at $32.84, Same As Yesterday as Temporary Halt Is Called In Flight of Price for Domestic Metal Mined Here Washington, Nov. 7.—(AP) — The upward price swing for newly-mined domestic gold was halted at least temporarily, today when an R. F. C. price of $32.84 announced was set for the metal, representing no chan ges from the previous quotation. The local price came in the face of dispatches from London telling of new gold weakness, which had develop ed there. The London opening slipped off to 129 ehi|l|ng3, 11 143 pence, )repre senting a drop of one shilling. 10 1-2 pence. The United States equivalent of the London price was $31.84 on t^ e basis of sterling opening at $4.90. Foreign dispatches said that the available supply of bar gold in Lon don, amounting to 490,000 pounds sterling, was reported sold for the continent. . , j Dispatch To Give Returns Returns from the Statewide , election on repeal of the eigh teenth amendment will be given out by the Daily Dispatch to night, and the public is invited to gather in front of the office t° receive the returns. WEATHER FOR NORT HCAROLINA. Fair tonight and Wednesday; slightly colder Wednesday and in west portion tonight. _ Hattn Hismrtrb Six States Vote On Repeal; One Man Killed In Kentucky (By the Associated Press.) Voters in half a dozen widely scat tered states today are inscribing the answer t.o whether thirteen years of national prohibition shall end next month. Os almost equal importance to a large portion of the {electorate is New York Gity?s three-way mayoralty contest, in which Tammany's long reign is at stake. Elsewhere on the off-year Novem ber election horizon—in scattered city and staje elections —political obser vers hoped t'j g-tuge sentiment with an eye to congressional campaigns next year. Confidence that the balloting in Pen sylvania, Ohio, North and South Car olina, Kentucky and Ufah would W ashin gton Hoping For Farm Help Strikes Are Settled In Many Places, But Farm -Tension Is Not Lessened Washington, Nov. 7. —(AP) — The administration, professedly cheered by reports that Southern farmers had acquired a better frame of mind along with ten-cent cotton loans .today, re newed its efforts to temper the mid western unrest that frequenly has flared into violence. In an effort to interpret the NRA to a stafe that is one of the local points of farm discontent. Hugh S. Johnson, recovery administrator, was to speak in Minneapolis. He had the difficult job of explain ing higher retail prices to an agri cultural state that found its purchas ing power declining. Secretary Wallace had voiced his opinion that payroll increases would soon be reflected in greater urban purchasing power for farm products. He said the rise in industrial prices seemed to have been checked, remain ing practically unchanged in Septem ber and October. “FLOGGING” GUARDS IN S. C. SUSPENDED Greenville. S. C., Nov. 7.—(AP) —Four county chaingang guards ordered he'd by a coroner’s jury in connection with the death of a Negro convict, following a. flog ging October 24 have been “in -iUopcndou., • climax the administration’s campaign to restore liquor was expressed by Postmaster General Farley. Wet organization leaders forecast anti-prohibition majorities in at least three of the six abates voting—all that is necessary to assure elimination of the eighteenth amendment from the Constitution —while dry organization captains said there were good chances for halting the hitherto unbroken wet parade. Although voters expressed themsel ves today, actual repeal could not ma terialize until the first week in De cember. The ballots elect delegates to State conventions, which December 5 or 6 will ratify or reject a new con stitutional amendment repealing the eighteenth. Repeal leaders in North Carolina Ehringhaus’ Auto Tagged In E. City Elizabeth City, Nov. 7.—(AP) Because Governor J. C. B. Ehring haus’ automobile Was narked in such a manner as to block pedes trian traffic, police placed a warn ing card on it here this afternoon. The automobile was parked near a case. was parked in such a manner as to violate traffic rules, police said. FEWER DIPHTHERIA CASES FOR STATE Decline Reported, But Scar let Fever Shows Increase for Week Rally Uimintcli In the Sir Walter Hotel. HY J. C. IIASKERVILL. Raleigh, Nov. 7.—Although the number of diptheria and scarlet fever cases in the State continues so be much fhan last year, there was a slight decrease in the number of diptheria cases reported this past week, and a sharp increase in she number of scarlet fever cases, accord ing to Dr. D. F. Milam, epidemio logist of the State Board of Health Only 163 new diptheria cases were reported this past week as compared with 186 for the week before, while 232 new scarlet fever cases were re ported this past week as compared with only 171 for the previous week. “This is the peak season for both diptheria and scarlet fever, however, with the result that t* l " number of cases of both diseases are not run ning much above the average, - ’ Dr. (Continued on Page _ PUBLISHED EVERY AFTERNOON EXCEPT SUNDAY. Elections predicted that, the count tonight would show the Tar Heel states, bone dry for a quarter of a century, in the anti-prohibition column. But dry spokesmen countered with the prediction that today would record an interruption in the hiterto unbro ken march of the stages into the re peal brigade, and that t’h is State would not be one of the three more needed to erase prohibition from the Constitution. Violence flared in Kentucky. One man was slain in a quarrel between Negroes as a voting place near Louis ville. He was tentatively identified as Hugh Charles. In Fleming county, Warr Hearing, 72, was shot and critically wounded, and his son, Jim, 48, was arrested in connection with the affair. Industrial W rangling Is Quieter Cheered by Better Feeling in South, Ad ministration Turns to the West (By the Associated Press.) Further progress toward settlment of industrial disputes was reported today. But in the troubled farm strike area there was no apparent lessening of the tension. A request for State troops from Mayor W. D. Hayes, of Sioux City, at whose markets the anti selling movement has been directed, was held by Governor Clyde Herring of lowa, pending developments. The past 24 hours saw a settlment of the tool and dye makers strike in some of Detroit’s automobile factories and in more than a score of smaller plants in that city. Wage agreements (for seven coal mines in Vanderburgh and Warrick counties in Indiana sent back to work (Continued on Page Seven) LINDBERGHS TURN BACK DUE TO FOG Amsterdam, Nov. 7.—(AP) Colonel Charles A. Lindbergh and Mrs. Lindbergh returned to Hol land, making a safe landing near Walhaven airdrome today when unfavorable flying conditions pre vented them from continuing to Geneva after a flight over Bel gium and France in a heavy fog. O PAGES 0 TODAY FIVE CENTS COP SSnSn AS TERROR RULES % One Entire Election Board Arrested in One of Storm, iest Elections In Generation FUSIONISTS 'WARN OF TROOPS APPEAL Thugs In Evidence At Many Voting Places and Fusion Workers Are Their Objec tive; Force of 18,000 Police Officers and Men On Duty New York, Nov. 7.—(AP)—Violence and disorders accompanied voting - in the municipal elections today, with Fusion forces threatening to demand protection of National Guard troops trom gangs of marrauding fhugs. One man was stabbed, a score of election workers blackjacked and beaten, and an entire election board arrested as voters ballotted in one of the stormiest elections in a genera tion, in which Tammany is fighting for survival and national politcal n fluences re exertng strng utsde pres sure. Assemblymn Hckenburg telephned Chief Police Inspector John O’Brien from Fusion headquarters that a re quest for troops would be forwarded to Governor Herbert H - Lehman un less widespread disorders were quell ed within fifteen minutes, A police alarm was sent out in Brooklyn for a cruising squad of thugs who stabbed George Bennett, a worker for Candidate Joseph V. McKee, and manhandled workers and watchers at various polling booths. Added jo an increasing number of arrests for illegal registration w~s ‘he entire election board of the 2Dil e.ac tion district, which was jai’n i < \ charges of permitting votes to be c-t t by persons allegedly unquo 'l. The first instance of violenc r < •* a few hours after the polls open'et, when three Fusion party workers i-t (Continued on Page Five.) LITILEIIST SEEN IN RALEIGH Light Vote Cast, With Wo, men Voting Im Larger Numbers Than Men Raleigh, Nov. 7. —(AP) —Raleigh voters showed little interest in the State repeal referendum today. A survey of a number of city P r< “" cincts at 11 o’clock showed that none had more than 185 votes up to that time, though some cast about 750 each in shef he la«t State election. Precinct officers said women were voting in larger numbers than men during the morning, with the ballot ing apnearing light, CRAWFOII GO ON TRIAL DEC. 12 Virginia Court Overrules Objection on Lack Os Negroes on Jury Leesburg, Va., Nov. 7.—(AP) George Crawford, Negro, is to go to trial in the Londan counfy circuit court on December 12 for the alleged slaying of Mrs. Agnes Boeing Ilsley at Middleburg, Va„ on January 13, 1932. The defense motion to quash the in dictment was overruled today by. Judge James L. McLemore .in circuit court here. Immediately after the jurist render ed his verbal opinion, Charles H. Houston, of Washington, Negro at torney, filed an exception with the court. He asked for a ruling on his charge that a caste system of using only white persons on grand juries in, Virginia exis*t e cl- It required 22 minutes for the judge to state his conclusions on the basis of testimony taken at yesterday’s
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