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"HENDERSON gateway TO CENTRAL CAROLINA Twenty-first year BISHOP CANNON IS ACQUITTED * * * **** * ********** ***********} Prospects Lor Coming Disarmament Conference Appear Very Slim Bankers Commend Great Leadership From Ehringhaus His “Courageous” Guidance and “Wise and Timely > Action” of Legisla. ture Approved INSTITUTIONS AND CREDIT PRESERVED No Mention Made of Sales Tax; Millard Jones In stalled as President of State Association, and Oth. er New Officers Presented at Final Session Piiiehui'tit. April 27. (AP>- Gover ns j, C. B. Ehringhaus’ “courageous leadership" was commended in a reso lution adopted by the North Carolina Hankers Association today at the clos ing session of its 38th annual con vention. Without mentioning the sales tax uy name the resolution also commended the General Assembly for “wise and timely action" for maintaining our in stitutions and the general credit of the State.” Millard F. Jones, of Rocky Mount, was installed as the new president of the association, and the other offi cers elected yesterday were introduc ed. Selection of next years convention city was left to the executive com mittee. Man Taken In Bremer Kidnaping Chicago. April 2'.--(AP) —Arrest of a suspect carrying $3,000 of the $200,- 000 paid for the release of Edward B G. Bremer. St Paul banker and brewer, from kidnapers several months ago, was dsclosed here today.' The suspect, Wllam E. Vitler, 3d, a reputed ex-convict, was arrested yes terday in a Chicago gambling estab lishment, and ha* been held incom municado. After others in his office had denied reports of the arrest for several hours, Msl' in H. Purvis, chief of the U. S. division of investigation here acknowl edged that Vitler was in custody and the money recovered. Hansom For Arizona Girl To Be Given Offi cers Stand by at Request of Family ns Contact Is Had o ith Kidnapers 'useon, Ariz., April 27.—(AP —A Ir »a county deputy sheriff, who de ' mod to allow his name to be used, > ai ' l today he understood a contract made during the night with the K 'dnapera of six-year-old June Robles, n army of searchers, hunting for “ kidnapers of six-year-old Jean 0) . was called off early today to ’* mnit the father to negotiate for pay -I!,' °f $15,000 ransom, ci *'i? o, der, -which temporarily : t(1 ,lle widespread manhunt, was -ued by Under Sheriff Colby S. of*"* 1 aJter Fernando Robles, father dark-eyed girl and Carlos in’’? 8, an u »cle, said they were will '> meet the ransom demands. Phi- G safc t oy the child comes irst’, win l 1 Said ‘ * don’t believe any one ane» ? y tha * tt is o primary import able” dune Robles be found Farrar's order, war veterans Tiir« a rolle d highways in and out o» Bu h° n ? 2:30 °’ cloclt this morning, offio f av y arme d volunteer and peace ' lB s tood toy awaiting further or owiti,.. 1 family. The child’s *' was reported near cllapse. jHwtitemm Batin Bis pairb Defeated Kingfish it ■■■■■■■ Wjjm&fm * • , J J. Y. Sander*, Jr. A distinct set-back to the political machine controlled by Senator Huey P. Long in Louisiana is seen in Democratic primary victory of J. Y. Sanders, anti-Long candidate for U. S. Representative from the Sixth Louisiana District. fCentral Press, iIINGER’SGANG AHEAD OF POSSES Continue To Hold Lead In Race Against Capture or Death in The . Northwest NELSON AVOIDING ALL HIS PURSUERS Dillimger Leaves No Trace, But Everywhere In His Wake Trouble Pops Up; Doctor Who Treated His Wounds Says He Had No Alternative but That (By the Associated Press- John Dilllnger and company held the lead today in the race against cap ture of death. eorge "Baby Face” Nelson appar ently had evaded the posses that tramped through the tall ‘timber around Firefield, Wis. last night in* search for him. Police squads at St. Paul were warned by radio to look for Nelson on his way to the Twin Cities in A car bearing a Wisconsin license. Dilllnger had left no trace, but everywhere in his wake trouble pop ped up. Evelyn Frecette; his companion, now under arrest in ®t. Paul, gave Holly wood, Cal., a start when the report was published that she was carrying keys to the Hollywood jail. The grand jury was preparing to inquire into charges that two Twin fCont.lnue.rt on Paae Thrw» ’ Lumberton Pastor Commits Suicide Lumberton, April 27.—(AP) . The Rev. Henry P. Flemig, 30, pastor of the Christian church here, and a na tive of Greenville, N. C. committea suicide by shooting himself, through the head at his rooming house here today. . . Mr. Fleming came here March 4 from New Haven, Conn., whereh is wife still is employed at Yale Univer sity. She and an 18-months old son ONLY DAILY THE^ARRr'ri*^SERVICE of IHE ASSOCIATED PRESS., NEWSPAPE R PUBLISHED IN THIS S ECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA AND VIRGINIA. HENDERSON, N. C. FRIDAY AFTERNOON, APRIL 27, 1934 GENEVA SITUATION MD TO PRESIDE! Republicans in Congress Battle Against Adminis tration Reciprocal Tariff Plan HOUSE WILL DECIDE OIL INVESTIGATION More Statistics on Business Improvement Given In Freight Car Loadings For Week as Compared to Pre vious Week and Same Week One Year Ago Washington, April 27.—(AP) —Slim prospects of progress at the impend ing resumption of the Geneva dis armament discussions were canvassed today by President Roosevelt and Sec retary Hull with Norman H. Davis, American ambassador-at-wirge. Although mainly concerned with domestic affairs,. members of Con gress had a reminder of the world sit uation, too. It dealt with trade ad ministration officials seeking commit tee approval of the reciprocal tarift biil. By such bargaining as this legisla tion will allow, it was contended, in the face of Republican opposition, (Continuwi on Pag* Tbroo.l Many Mysteries Are Seen in Duke Engineers’ Show Durham, April 27 (AP)—Hundreds of visitors to the annual Duke engi neer show today were being .given a comprehensive # introduction into the achievements in» the realm of engi neering. With engineering students serving as guides and demonstrations, the vis itors were shown many mysterious and interesting exhibits. They saw their own voice waves, a well as those of music and odd sound, transmitted by a beam of light. Power was concentrated by wind and one motor receded its power en tirely from two beams of light. Radio and other electrical exhibits were in spected. D MMAREA Recent Quiet in Strike Area Vanishes as Property Is Destroyed Birmingham, Ala., April 27 (AP) — Comparative quiet in Alabama’s coal fields was shattered last night and early today bby roving bands of arm ed men who burned a railway trestle, riddled an automobile with bullets and forced a mine that had resumed production Wednesday to shut down. Already heavy forces of special de puty sheriffs in Jefferson county, whom authorities hoped to dismiss within a few days, were reinforced and National Guard patrols were ordered back to the field in this and Walker counties. Authorities sai dthe situation was "more serious” than at any time since th eshutdown of the mines on April 6, but held hopes that serious trouble might be averted by a report that Wayne Ellis, coal administrator of the NIRA, was en route here. ha 4 been expected to join him here soon. Coroner G. W. Biggs investigated an 4 called the death a suicide. The minister sent a bullet through his head in. his room at the home of John Herring A note, evidently in Fleming’s handwriting, apologted to Herring for the use of Herring’s pistol which had been missing for several days. HOUSE COMMITTEE PROBERS OF NAZI ACTIVITIES Preparing lo start hearings at once, members of the special house committee assigned to in vestigate Nazi activities in the United States are photographed Durham Negro Who Killed For Pay Is Electrocuted Brummitt Resists Luke Leas’ Appeal Washington, April 27.—(AP) — Attorney General Dennis G. Brum mitt, of North Carolina filed in the Supreme Court today a brief opposing a review requested by Colonel Luke Lea, former senator from Tennessee, and his son, Luke Lee, Jr., of the action of the Tenn essee Supreme Court ordering them extradited to North Carolina to serve sentences. e SX,t .But May Run and May Fight Field for Speakership in 1935 Session Dally Dispatch Borean. In the Sir Walter Hotel. BY J. C. BASKERVILL. Raleigh, April 27—Political atten tion has turned momentarily from the various congressional contests, espe cially those in the fourth and third districts, to the contest for the speak ership of the House in the 1935. Gen eral Assembly as a result of the reve lation to the? effect that Thad Eure, of Hertford counyt, not even a mem ber of the last two general assemblies, but well known in both, may be a candidate for speaker in 1935. For while Eure was not a member of eith er the 1931 or 1933 legislatures, he was principal clerk of the House in both, after having served as a mem ber of the 1929 House. As a result, he is well kknown to every member of the 1929, 1931 and 1933 general as (CSontJmied on Pace Six.) TWO S. C. NEGROES ARE ELECTROCUTED Columbia, S. C., April 27 (AP) — John Ellis and James Kinlaw, young Negroes who confessed killing a white store-keeper near Charleston, paid for the crime with their lives today in the State electric chair. For the first time in a number of years, the electrocutions were held after noon instead of at dawn. The court ordered them between 10 a. m. and 2 p. m. and prison authorities fixed the zero hour at-12:30 p. m. "OETAOIN vbgkqj cmfwyp shrdlu et WEATHER FOB NOBTH CAROLINA. Partly cludy and cooler tonight; Saturday fair and cooler. at their organization meeting in Washington—left to right, front row, Representatives Samuel Dickstein of New York; John W. McCormick of Massachusetts. Theodore Cooper Made Full Confession of the Crime While Still In Jail At Durham HE ALONE KILLED LASATER YEAR AGO Testimony Showed Cooper Admitting Shooting Lasa ter After Latter’s Business Partner, Will Hesse, Doing Life Term, Had Promised SIOO for Job Raleigh, April 27 (AP) Theodore Cooper, 30-year-old Dur ham Negro, went to his death in the electric chair at State’s Prison today denying he fired the shot that killed J. N. Lasater, Durham white man for whose murder he was convicted. Three shocks of current were re quired to kill the man, who entered the death chamber in a highly nerv ous condition. Just before Cooper went to the chair, W. N. Hesse, Durham white man, who was convicted of hiring the Negro fio kill Lasater, denied any knowledge of the crime. Hesse is serving a life sentence at the prison for being an accessory. “I feel sorry for Cooper,’ Hesse told fContinued -n P*«» Stan 200 Years Os Bladen Celebrated Elizabethtown, April 27 (AP)—Two hundred years of Bladen county his tory were delineated in pageantry and oratory here today as the county s citizens celebrated the bicentennial of its founding. With Governor Ehringhaus and President Frank P. Graham, of the University of North Carolina, as the principal speakers, the exercises be gan this morning in an open field about hAlf a. mile from the center of Elizabethtown. Praising the efforts of Bladen coun ty groups which sponsored the his torical celebration, the governor said. “Any man or woman who has no regard for the past can have no am bition for the future.” The governor, who was introduced by General Manus McCloskey, of Fort Bragg, avoided controversial issues in his address, limiting it to a review of the early history of this State. PUBLISHED EVERY AFTERNOON EXCEPT SUNDAY. chairman; Thomas A. Jenkins ot Ohio; rear row, Charles Kramer of California ; U. S. Guyer of Kansas, and Carl M. Weideman of Michigan. Parts of Bremer Ransom Recovered St. Paul, Minn., April 27.—(AP) —Federal agents arrested a man in Chicago Thursday and recovered 3,000 of the $200,000 ransom paid for the release of Edward B. Brem er, St. Paul banker, kidnaped last January it was reported today. The source of this information declared that this was the first of the ransom money recovered. The suspect seied in Chicako was de scribed as “hot”. 11 Texts for Fifth Grade Through High School Are To He Adopted Dally Dispatch narena In the S»< Walter Hotel. nY J. *' BASKERVILL. Raligh, Apri. 27.—Clerks in the State Department of Public Instruc tion are still working tabulating the bids received yestrday on the 29 dif ferent books before the State Board of Education, from which it is ex pected to adopt 11 books for use in the fifth, sixth and seventh elemen tary grades and the four high school grades for next year. Dr. A. T. Allen, State superintendent of public instruc tion, and chairman of the board of education is hoping to complete the task of tabulating the bids either late this afternoon or tomorrow morning. This tabulating the bids, however, is a real job since 32 different types of bids had to be submitted toy each pub lisher on each book, which means that a minimum of 638 bids were sub mitted. But in addition to this, a good many of the publishers submitted any where from three to seven bids on each book, quoting different prices on <W*nt.lniiPrt on page Three.) Britain To Resist Policies Os Japan (Copyrighted by the Associated Press) London, April 27 (AP) —A British authority’s answer to the “Asia for Asiatics” doctrine came today from a source close to the British Indian administration. Japan, the authority said, may dom inate China by force and may gain some influence in Siam through in trigue—though this latter is doubtful —but she will never exercise even minor influence in India and other areas of southern Asia. “Asia for Asiatics” is rapidly becom ing the slogan of all eastern peoples, he added, “but only the Japanese con ceive of this new Asia as being run by Japan.” 8 PAGES TODAY FIVE CENTS COPY Sra Pictured as “Ward Heeler Passing Out Money from Pockets of Bishop Robes” In 1928 SHOULD HAVE KEPT HIS SKIRTS CLEAN Unfrocked Himself And Went Snto Campaign On Smith, Government Lawyer Says in Closing Argument; Punishment Two Years or SIO,OOO Fine Washington, April 27, —(AP) — Bishop James Cannon, Jr., and Miss Ada L. Burroughs were ac quitted today of conspiracy to vio late an election law in the church man's 1928 campaign against Al fred E. Smith. The jury had been out three and a half hours. Washington, April 27 (AJP) —A jury of eleven men and a woman today sought an agreement on the guilt op innocence of Bishop James Cannon, Jr., and Miss Ada L. Burroughs after the Southern Methodist churchman had been pictured “like a ward heeler passing out money from the pockets of his bishop robes” during the 1928 anti-Smith campaign. “When a bishop unfrocks himself and goes into a political campaign under the banner ‘it is a blessed thing to love the Lord,’ he should at least keep his skirts clean, his hands un soiled,” Leslie C. Garnett, the district (Continued on Page Three.) College Has F ourth Fire At Midnight Wake Forest Alumni Building .Damaged as “Fire Bug” Comes Out of Hiding Wake Forest, April 27.—(AP)—Fire discovered early today in the alumni guilding of Wake Forest College gave rise to the toielief that the towns “fire bug” has come out of hiding. Thef ire was discovered about 12:15 a. m. by W. A. Brickhouse, student from Long Island, N, Y., who was studying in his room in Hunter dor mitory next to the alumni building. His atention was attracted by light from the fire, and he sounded an. alarm. The blaew hich had started in a closet, was extinguished by student* before firemen arrived. It was the fourth fire of a mysterious orgin the college has experienced within a year. Two of them wered isastrous, de stroying W|ait hall and Wingate hall. In addition, there have been a number of suspicious fires in the town of Wake Forest. The authority attributed the popu larization of the slogan to Japan’s rise to power and imperialistic ex pansion. A doctrine of “Asia for Asiatics” under the leadership of Japan, acting in close collaboration with other Asiar tic powers, has been enunciated offi cially by the Tokyo government through Masayuki Yokoyama, consul general at Geneva. No official reply, it was made plain, has come from Great Britain, bbut the answer given the Associated Press was represented as accurately re flecting the views of the British In ; dian administration. ; t
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