HENDERSON
gateway TO
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CAROLINA
TWENTY-FIRST YEAR
PRESIDENT BACKS HOUSE’S STOCK
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Group Os Powers, Including U.S., To End SouthAmerica War
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CONCERTED MOVES
PARAGUAY, BOLIVIA
Measures of Repression Con
sidered Include Political,
Financial, Econo
mic Phases
ACTION NOW BEING
SERIOUSLY TALKED
Washington and London Co.
operating, and League Os
Nations Itself May Take
Action Shortly; Would Be
Aimed at Both Govern
ments Equally
London, May 16 <AP) The Asso
ciated Press was informed authorita
tively today that a group of world
powers, including the United States
and Gif it Britain, plan to take con
retted action to end the bloody war
in the Chaco between Paraguay and
Bolivia.
These powers are considering meas
ures of reppression, which would in
clude political, financial and economi
phases.
The action is being seriously con
sidered here, in Washington and Ge
neva. It is icgarded as possible that
the League of Nations itself may take
action shortly.
A high authority asserted that the
action ‘‘would be aimed at both gov
ernments equally/'
The posible lines of action might
involve economic and financial non
cooperation with the two nations, in
addition to political ostracism.
Clemency
Asked For
Lea, Jr.
Raleigh, May 16 (AP) —A petition
asking for clemency for Luke Lea, Jr.,
young Tennesseean, who entered the
North Carolina State |?rison last
Thursday to serve two to six years for
violation of State banking laws, was
hied here today with Edwin M. Gill
State paioles commissioner.
Young Lea and his father, former*
1 nited States Senator Luke Lea. of
Tennessee, were convicted of conspi
racy to deffraud the now defunct Cen
tral Rank and Trust Company of Ashe
ville
The elder Lea entered State prison
v 'ith his son to serve from six to ten
years. No petition has been filed In
hi** behalf
was said the young man had suf-
f p red from a malignant tumor since
his conviction.
fh p fietition asked for a pardon as
Soon as possible.
Hanghart To
Serve Long
Prison Time
•liaise Webb Gives
Him and Schmidt
•fa-32 Years For
Hold-Up
Asheville, May 16 (AP)--Basil Bang
,art and Ludwig Schmidt, Chicago
■? d >igsters. were sentenced to 36 and 38
car; in prison, respectively, here to
fl,‘ a R f “f their conviction of partici-
in the $105,000 Charlotte mail
,ru <l robbery last November..
The j ur y j n p e( j era j district court
its verdict after but 25 min
utes of deliberation, and Judge E.
a te;s Webb passed sentence immedi
ately.
hb'nghart’s sentence is to run con-
CU| rently with a 99-year-term he is
saving i n im nois for the John (Jake
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HENDERSON, N
Smtiteramt Hatlit Bfsrratjrh
Pond and Sabelli Opening Ocean Flight Season
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Cesare Sabelli (left) and George Pond a few minutes before they started the 1934 transatlantic flight sea
son by taking off from New York for Home* and their plane leaving Floyd Bennett Field.
(Central Press)
Britain Blames U. S. For
Arms Embargo Collapse
Tobacco Process
Tax Hearing Set
Raleigh, May 6. (AP) —Governor
Ehringhaus was notified today that
Secretary of Agriculture Wallace
will hold a nearing in Washington
on May 24 in regards to the pro
cessing tax on fiue-cured tobasso
used in the manufacture of plug
chew tobacco and twist.
CHANGE ALLOIMLNT
ON TOBACCO, COTTON
Tobacco Slash Reduced But
Cotton Set-Up Still Some
what Clouded
Dully DlMpntch imrMie,
in ikf Sir Waller Hotel.
BY J. C UASKICUViI,!,.
Raleigh, May 16—The original allot
ments of how much cotton and tobac
co the growers were to raise this year
under reduction contracts have been
altered, Dean I. O. Schaub, of State
College, announced today. The latest
alternation was in the tobacco con
tracts which will now give them the
privilege of reducing their average
production by only 20 per cen tinstead
of 30 per cent specified in the con
tracts.
Meanwhile, the cotton farmers who
have signed contracts to reduce their
average production by approximately
40 per cent, do not know whether the
Bankhead bill will permit them to
market all their contracts will allow
them to grow.
Growers who have signed contracts
were to have reduced their production
to around 400,000 bales this year, and
the Bankhead bill has allotted North
Carolina 507,840 bales. However, a
large percentage of the Bankhead al
lotment must be distributed among
growers who did not sign contracts,
including the small growers who were
not producing enough cotton to be
eligible to sign.
Most of the tobacco growers now
know how much they will ,be allow
ed to produce. Those whose contracts
were accepted after the first revision,
and who have planted 70 per cent of
their base acreage, are well in line
now. But a few whose contracts had
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WEATHER
fob NORTH CAROLINA
Generally fair tonight and Thurs
day; slightly warmer Thursday In
north portion.
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HENDERSON, N. C. WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON, MAY 16, 1934
Refused Last Year to Co
operate in Shutting Off
Shipments to South
Americans
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STANLEY BALDWIN
ADVISES COMMONS
Says Washington Explained
Embargo Could Not Be Im
posed on Bolivia and Para
guay Unless Congress As
sented and Congress Had
Not Done That
London, May 16 (AP) —Stanley
Baldwin, president of the Council, to
day inerentially accused the United
States of causing a breakdown a year
ago of efforts to impose an embargo
on arms shipments to Bolivia and
Paraguay at war in the Chaco Boreal.
During a discussion of arms ship
ments in the House of Commons, Bald
win said that the United States at the
time of the negotiations for an inter
national agreement announced it was
impossible to impose an embargo un
til the Congress at Washington could
pass legislation and that no such leg
islation had been passed. :
Sir Percy Harris asked: “Is the fail
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4 Men Are
Due To Die
On Friday
But Reprieves for at
Least Two of Them
Are Now Consider
ed Probable
I
Dully Dispnteh Bnrena.
In the Sir Wnlfer Hotel.
BY .1 C. BASKERVILL.
Raleigh, May 16. —Three white men
and one Negro are scneduled to die in
the electric chair at Central Prison
here Friday, riginally six were slated
for execution on that day the largest
number ever set for execution on a
single day. But the Supreme Court
has failed to act on the appeals of two
of the six so that only four are now
left. Indications are, however, that
reprieves will be granted at least two
of these four and that not more than
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Alamaba Tornado
Is Fatal to One
Birmingham, Ala., May 16 (AP)
—Reports received here by the
Alabama Great Southern railroad
said one Negro was killed and sev
eral persons injured this morning
when a tornado struck Livings
ton, Ala., about 125 miles north
west of Birmingham.
AH telephone lines into Livings
ton were down. The railroad’s in
formation came over a single rail
road wire into Sumter county.
An unconfirmed report said the
roof was blown off Bibb Graves
hall at the State Teachers College
at Livingston, and several white
people were injured.
ipTOANOFFICr
GOES TO MEMPHIS
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Will Be Transferred There
Frotn Washington June
1, FCA Head Says
Washington. May 16 (AP)—S. M.
Garwood, production credit commis
sioner of the Farm Credit Administra
tion, announced today the business of
the Washington emergency crop pro
duction and seed loan office will be
transferred to Memphis, Tenn., June 1.
None of the personnel of the Wash
ington office, which serves the At
lantic seaboard state, will be sent to
Memphis, Garwood said, as the region
al office in that city has a staff suf
ficient to take care of collections, now
the chief business of the organization.
Garwood said Memphis was chosen
over Columbia, S. C., to take over
the Washington business because it
where the bulk of the' crop and seed
is “more centrally located” in the area
loans have been made.
Governor Faces Tortures
In Pleas For Doomed Men
Dolly Dloi»nf«*ii ftnrena.
In the Sir Walter Hotel.
BY J. C. BASKERVIU
Raleigh. May 16. —A brother of one
of the four men who are scheduled to
die for murder in the electric chair
here Friday had just left the office of
Governor J. C. B. Ehringhaus. The
day before, the wife and mother of
another man doomed to die had plead
ed with the governor to spare his life.
When newsmen reached his desk,
the governor’s face was drawn and
tense hiss ingers clenched into his
palms, suffering writtene in his whole
attitude. Tears were on his cheeks.
U. S. Stand On Armament
Limits To Be Presented
In Roosevelt Statement
Might Involve Fresh Ap
proach Toward Strength
ening Geneva Meet
ing for Results
DEPOSIT INSURANCE
PLAN TO CONTINUE
Silver Bobs Up Again Late
In Afternoon, as President
and Senators Seek To Get
Together In Phrasing Bill;
Market Control Is First In
Spotlight .
Washington, May 16. CAP) —
gressional conferees on the stock ex
change bill were put on notice today
that President Roosevelt wants the
definite House marginal requirements
and Federa Trade Commission juris
diction. (
While both Capitol branches took a
breathing spell from paramount leg
islation, the chief executive, in con
ference with the press and again with
legislative delegations had something
to say as well on disarmament, bank
deposit insurance, silver and the like.
He has under preparation a re
statement of this country’s position on
armaments limitation to be communi
cated to the approaching Geneva con
ference. Whether this involves any
fresh approach toward strengthening
the Geneva meeting remains to (be
seen. I
The House aßnking committee heed
ing a Presidential wrsn, set itself to
vote on continuing the temporary de
posit insurance plan that protects de
posits up to $2,500 instead of having
the permanent insurance rund take ef
fect uljy 1.
Silver was not up until late after
noon, with Mr. Roosevelt, a coterie or
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Woman Denounces
Highland Methods
Os Federal Agents
Chicago, May 16 (AP)—Mrs.
John J. McLaughlin, whose hus
band and son are in Federal cus
tody, indicted as conspirators in
disposing of part of the Edward
Bremer $200,000 ransom, announc
ed today she had telegraphed a
protest to Joseph B. Keenan, of
the Department of Justice, against
the alleged method of the govern
ment’s agents, and would also ap
peal to President Roosevelt for
justice. Her telegram to Kenan,
in part, read:
“If evidence obtained by the officials
by knocking people’s teeth out; hang
ing a man out of an 18th story win
dow, telling him to confess or they
would drop him and say it was sui
cide; searching my hous ewithout a
search warrant; knocking me and my
husband down in our home; nine men
with guns and machine guns keeping
us prisoners from nine in the morn
ing until nine at night; putting a gun
to my son, who was coming home
from work, forcing him to come in
the house and become a prisoner with
out a warrant of any kind; the same
with my 11-year-old daughter coming
home from school; if evidence and
records are written by such men and
upheld by high officials like yourself,
where is justice?”
It was several moments before he
could acknowledge the “Good morn.
Ing, governor”, of the newsmen.
“No one knows how the governors
of this State have suffered in trying
to carry out the law and do their
duty” the governor finally said. “Very
few will believe it, of course, but aiu
sure I have suffered almost as much
as those men out there on death row,
in studying their cases, listening to
their friends and relatives and in try
ing to decide what I must do in ordei
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EXCEPT SUNDAY.,
CONTROL MEASURE
Reed Is Winner
Over Pinchot
Jgiv
U. S. SENATOR DAVID A. REED
iffm
GOVERNOR GIFFORD PINCHOT
Governor Gifford Pinchot, of Penn
sylvania, today conceded his defeat by
U. S. Senator David A. Reed for the.
Republican nomination to the Senate
for the seat now held by Reed.
Philadelphia, May 26. (AP)—Gover
nor Pinchot, at 10:30 a. m. today con
ceded his defeat for the Republican
nomination for senator and said he
would send a telegram of congratula
tions to Senator David A. Reed, his
principal opponent.
The governor said he blamed his de
feat on the illness which prevented
him fronty making a personal tour
throughout the State. He pointed out
that after the return from a New York
hospital he spent considerablle time
going to and from Washington ar
ranging for Federal relief funds
P. 0.5.A.1s
To Gather
Here 1935
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Hickory, May 18 (AP —Aender-
son was selected for the 1935 con
vention hy Relegates attending
the annual State meeting of the
Patriotic Order Sons of America,
which came to a close here today
following elections of officers.
Dates for next year’s convention are
May 14-15.
Most of the State officers were Re
elected without opposition at the close
(of the morning business session, but
hot races developed for the offices of
State conductor and State inspector.
A. J. Morton, of Asheville, won out
over a field of five candidates for con
ductor, and Russell Ridenhour, of
Cooleemee, defeated W, M. Kearns, of
Albemarle, incumbent, for the inspec
tor post.
Other officers re-elected included W.
R. Fleming, of Henderson, master of
forms. , _ :.
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Conies Out Emphatically for
Stringent Marginal Re.
quirements For
Stock Deals
TWO DIFFERENCES
RISE IN CONGRESS
45 Percent Margin Inserted
By House and Trade Com
mission Control Not Satis*
factory to Senate; Roose
velt Takes Sides With
Rigid House Plan
Washington, May 16 (AP) —Presi-
dent Roosveelt declared emphatically*
today* for regulation of the stock ex
change by the Federal Trade Com
mission, as proposed by the House.
Mr. Roosevelt also sent word to the
Senate and House conferees that he
wanted the stringent marginal re
quirement sfor stock exchange deals*
provided in the House bill. The House
set up a 45 percent marginal require
ment as a staandard. The Senate bill
contains no specific figure.
These are the two principal points
of difference between the Senate and
the House in their stock exchange
control measures.
Mr. Roosevelt declared for the more
rigid House bill in talks today With
the conferees. i
These views were made known later
at the President’s semi-weekly press
conference.
Case For
2 Instills
Postponed
Chicago, May 16 (AP)—Samuel and
Martin Insull appeared briefly in crim
inal court today, both getting post
ponements in criminal charges in con
nection with the collapse of their uti
lities empire. ’
The elder brother ,who sponsored
Martin’s rise to the presidency of Mid
dle West Utilities, heard his attorney
file a plea to the jurisdiction of Illi
noise courts challenging their rights
to try him on indictments for embez
zlement and larceny.
Insull had entered the same plea in
Federal court last week, contending
he was “kidnaped” from his chartered
Greek freighter by Turkish officers
and was illegally held in this country.
Judge James Fardy instructed th©
State to answer the plea by June 4
and be prepared to argue it June 11.
Rain Worth
Millions To
N. C. Farms
Drought Was Begin
ning To Be Serious
From Wake West,
Parker States
Raleigh, May 16 (AP) —(Rains which;
fell generally over North Carolina in,
the last 48 hours were worth “seve
ral millions of dollars” to the farm
ers, Frank Parker, o fthe State-Fede
ral Crop Reporting Service, said today.
The precipitation broke a sever©
drought which extended from John
ston and Wake counties west, and the
east “could use rain,” but was not in,
as severe need as the west,” Mr. Park
er said.
With the strawberry crop already
cut by probably 25 per cent by dry
weather, Mr. Parker said, the rain
would “help the growers quite a little”
The official also said the wetness
would materially aid the beading of
small grains and the germination and
coming up of cotton and corn already
planted, which had not sprouted be
cause of the dryness.
“The dry weather interfered with
the breaking up and preparation of
land for summer planting, too, but
now it can be prepared," Mr. Parker
pointed out. t