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HENDERSON GATEWAY TO CENTRAL CAROLINA TWENTY-FIRST YEAR ENGLAND MAY AGREE TO ASSURE BELGIUM OF HER NEUTRALITY Technical Collaboration With France Is All Latter Is Asking of Great Britain POLITICAL ALLIANCE IS NOT LOOKED FOR Britain Months Ago Advised Paris Locarno Pact Was AH She Wished To Adhere To; Military Cooperation Matter for The Two Gen eral Staffs London. July 6 (APl—Technical col laboration from Great Britain in the event Belgium is ever invaded i 3 all that France is asking of England, and indication are that she may get it, The Associated Press was informed today. Fiance has not asked and does not expect, it was learned, any sort of political or defensive alliance with Great Britain, not because the French would not want it, but because months ago Britain plainly informed Palis that the Locarno pact was the only one to which she wished to ad here. The technical collaboration would consist of purely military cooperation, which is a matter affecting the gene ra! staffs of the two nations’ military forces, and not a political point. In return for technica lcooperation. Fiance would have to divorce herself entirely in any military way from the Belgian general staff and reconstruct a French defense policy on the basis of a strictly neutral Belgium. The recent visit to England of Gen eral Maxime Weygand, head of the French army, and the return visit of the chief of the British general staff to France, the first steps taken in a tentative cooperation program, an informant stated. ANOTHER BAY LETTING JULY IT Depends on Washington’s Approval of Three Char lotte Projects Dally Dispatch Rnrena In the Sir Wiiltcr lintel. BY J. r BASKERVILL Raleigh, July 6.—The next highway letting will be held here July 17, pro vided the U. S. Bureau of Public Roads approves the three Charlotte projects which are scheduled for this letting, W. Vance Baise, assistant State high way engineer, said nere today. If the Charlotte projects are not approved before this date the letting will be postponed until they are approved, he said. It is expected, however, that they will be approved in time to have the letting as scheduled on July 17. The three Charlotte projects which »<v*T»tirmed on Page Three.) Preacher Is Fined After Altercation Gattis’ Troubles Grew Out of Dis pute Over Pullen Baptist Church Raleigh, July 6 (AP)—The Rev. F.cki® H Gattis, Baptist preacher here who had a fight over the keys to the property of the John T. Pullen Baptist church last Friday, today was fined $lO and costs in city police court on charges of having assaulted E. D. Green, deacon and custodian of the church. Mr. Gattis immediately noted an ap peal to superior court, and was releas ed under $25 bond. In another charge of trespass, which was lodged against Mr. Gattis, Judge Wiley G. Barnes ordered prayer’ for judgment continued. The case grew out of an attempt of Mr. Gattis to “reorganize" the heavily indebted church, It. was alleged. It was charged that Mr. Gattis for cibly ejected Green and two other men including the church’s regular pastor, O 1,. Riggs, from the church study while the preaeher was trying in get the keys to the property. Tiettfrcremt Hatlu Btapatrh FoeofNßA # S Polk Tarwater Decision of U. S. Attorney general that Harrison tTenn.) Hosiery Mill cannot be prosecuted for alleged viola tion of section 7A of KRA, for which its ‘ Blue Ea,gle” was taken away, causing President Folk Tarwater to close the mill and throw .635 out of work, is expected to have important consequences in southern textile in dustry. Gas Prices I &ue To Drop In 30 Days —— -,r — . r Governor’s Insinua tions to Distributors Did Not Fall Upon Deaf Ears Daily DPpatch Bureau. In ttae Sir Walter Hotel. BY J. C BASKRRVILt Raleigh, July 6. —Gasoline prices have reached their peak in North Carolina and will probably start down ward within 30 days, possibly less, ac cording to the opinion of a number of observers here. They will not be de creased immediately because the big gasoline and oil companies that fix the prices cannot afford to heed the protest of any one State and let the public know that they pay any atten tion to governors or State officials, it is agreed. But there are indications that the 15 to 20 representatives of the leading gas and oil companies who attended the conference called the first of the week by Governor J. C. B. Ehringhaus have already informed iContlnued on Page rhree.» NEGRO EDUCATION MEET CALLED FOR Raleigh, July 6. (/P)—Governor Ehr inghaus today called 52 persons. 26 white and 26 Negroes to meet .herb Monday afternoon to consider the whole field of Negro public education in the State. It was announced that a consultant committee of about 20 members would attend. FOUR MEWS OF FAMILY ARE SLAIN Father Apparently Killed Wife and Two Daughters, Then Himself ! Beniamin, Texas, July 6 (AP) j Four members of the Hollis McQuire ; family died today of gunshot wounds. Mrs. Odessa McGuire and her two daughters, aged 10 and two, were found shot in their homes in the Vera community. The husband, Hollis Mc- Guire, 32( died of a self-inflicted bul let wound shortly afterwards at Sey mour. McGuire had been in ill health and was unemployed. Investigators said h eapparently had killed his family. The bodies of Mrs. McGuire and the children lay on the floor of the bedroom. The children had been shot through the head. McGuire drove to Seymour and end ed his life with a pistol while seated in a car in front of the home of his l brother. ONLY DAILY LEASED WIRE SERVICE OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS.. NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA AND VlffilNlA. HENDERSON, N. C. FRIDAY AFTERNOON, JULY 6, 1934 WHITE MAN, NEGRO ARE ELECTROCUTED AT STATE’S PRISON First Time In History of Chair Two Races Repre sented in Day’s Executions BOTH CONVICTED OF MURDER PREVIOUSLY Clyde Ferrell, of Durham, Is White " Man, and John Lewis Edwards, of Char lotte, Is ) Negro Victim; “Pm All Right” Is Ferrell’s Last Statement Raleigh, July 6. (JP) —Two murderers a Negro and a white man. were elec trocuted at State’s Prison today. Clyde Ferrell, the white man. was was given three shocks of currents as his life was exacted for the murder of Thaddeus Tilley, Durham county filling station operator. John Lewis Edwards youthful Meck lenburg county Negro, was given two shocks after he had reiterated his pre vious statement that he was innocent of the murder of J. W. Brown, Char lotte street car motorman. Ferrell, 25 years old, entered the little death chamber trembling and was very pale as he sat in the chair. “I’m all tight’’, was all he had to say. It took 15 minutes for the execution of Ferrell and at 10:17 Edwards walk ed into the death chamber. This marked the first time in the State’s history that a white man and a Negro had died in the chair on the same day. The 17-year-old Negro spent several minutes shaking hands with Warden H. H. Honeycutt, prison attaches, the Negro ministers who accompanied him and others, anl to each said: “May God bless you’. “I am not guilty of the crime I am accused of and some day God win show everybody who is the guilty man", Edwards said. May Eject Huey Long Off Floor Baton Route, La., July 6. (/P) —Rep- resentative Rupert Peyton , of Caddo, today in a warm personal privilege address in the House served notice that he “and others’’ would force Senator Huey P. Long off the Louisi ana House of Representatives floor .‘if he and other notorious characters continued lobbying among members’’. Peyton described Long’s floor activi ties as a “rotton spectacle" and said that he and other anti-administration ists Would invoke the House ejection of outsiders rule “the next time he comes in and starts lobbying". Peyton took the floor as the House opened. For several days we have been treat ed to the roten spectacle of his pscha torial majesty, the crawfish, walking around and conducting himself with no respect to decency,” he said “On the Fourth or July I made a motion to adjourn. It was a respect able motion. Up jumped the craw fish and opposed it”. Long, busy in the Senate on a liquor tax bill, was not in the chamber os Peyton spoke, but strolled in soon aft er he finished, stayed a while and left again. Most of the people who come to this legislature act like ladies and gentle men,” Peyton asserted. “That is some thing Huey Long doesn’t know the meaning of”. WEATHER FOR NORTH CAROLINA Mostly cloudy, probably showers and thundershowers in west por tion late tonight and Saturday, and in east portion Saturday; cooler Saturday night and in interior Sunday. U. S. Firms Might Leave France To Escape Taxes Paris, July 6. (JP) —Many American firms in France fearled today they will be forced to quit the country be cause of Premier Dbumergue’s failure to get parliament to ratify a olng pending treaty with the Unitec States lifting double taxation. Somef irms were said by spokes man for American interests to be al ready considering leaving the country in order to avoid collection of SIOO,- 000,000 in excess tnxe* vrbieh have been suspended by the French for sev eral years. LONGSHOREMEN IN ! EAST MAY STRIKE WITH PACIFIC MEN Can’t Be Expected To Stay at Work for Men Respon sible for Trouble, Is Claim TWO DIE IN CLASH AT SAN FRANCISCO Soldiers Are Ready for Emergency To Protect State Property, And Are Given Orders Not To Shoot Unless Attack Is Made By The Strikers San Francisco, Cal., July 6. (AP) —John O'Connell president of the Central Labor oCuncil here, an nounced today that representatives of 100 unions with a membership of 45,000 persons will meet tonight to discuss the possibility ot a gen eral strike in sympathy with the maritime unions. San Francisco, Oal., July 6 (AP) — Bayonets bristled along San Fran cisco's blood-stained waterfront today. Two thousand National Guardsmen patroled the area where 34 persons were shot down, at least two fatally wounded by police gunfire yesterday; scores were gassed, beaten and tramp led. The soldiers occupied the battle ground of the Pacific coast maritime strike during the night. Embattled strikers huddled around picket lines and nursed wounds. “Wc are not gfcfcig to retreat,' from the water front,” declared Ralph Mal len, of the International Longshore men’s Association publicity commit tee. “We are going ahead and expect to obtain plenty ot help from all other unions toward a general strike.” The National Guardsmen were spe cifically ordered by California's act ing governor, Frank Merriam, to pro tect life and property and maintain (Continued EASTERN AIR DROPS ELLIOTT AS HEAD New York, July 6. (#>) —H. A. El liott, vice president in charge of op erations of Eastern Air Lines, Inc., has been succeeded in that position by Captain C. W. France, it was learn ed today. LABORWSNEAR AUGUST 1 EXPECTED I New Deal Skeptics All Along Have Feared What May Happen By CHARLES P. STEWART (Central Press Staff Writer) Washington, July 6.—Many good judges of industrial trends look for a climax in the labor situation by about August 1. There is trouole now and it seems to be increasing in the number of spots where it already has developed, but it appears to be a fairly general con sensus among qualified observers that the opposing forces will be engaged during most of July rather in maneuv ering for position than in actual of fensive and defense operations. The recent decision of the Harriman (Tenn.) Hosiery Mills to shut down, in protest against NRA’ S policy to ward them, is regarded here as giving an advance idea, on a small scale, of the method much larger concerns may be expected presently to begin employ ing in resistance of the New Deal pro gram. * * * Skeptics concerning the New Deal all along have been asking: If labor refuses to accept the wages, (Continued on Page Two) French-American trade relations also may be seriously complicated through an avowed intention of the Chamber of Deputies committee handling the matter to hold up treaty ratification for trading on the war debts matter or to get more favorable treatment in a commercial treaty. The anti-double taxation treaty, under which France agreed to abolish its tax on the dividends of American parent corporations having branches in France, was signed in April, 1932, but never was ratified by the French parliament. Germany Is Still Fearful Something More “Brewing” Among Friends Os Rebels SWAP MAY GIVE TEXAS STRIP AWAY j i qS *. *.» mPM jiiilg jljS | J* --- n-nnnnnnnnmromnrnpnwwwii ll■||||||||||H—| I Conference between Jose Puig Casauranc (left), foreign min ister of Mexico, and Josephus Daniels (right), U. S. ambassador, may settle Chamizal problem over which the governments have been wrangling for many years. Pro posed settlement is for the U. S. to give Mexico a strip of Texas territory in return for the Chami Vance County Has Spent $111,287 In Relief Work CWA Payroll $65,194, CWA Materials $12,942, While PER A Funds Were $35,150 TOTALS FOR STATE MORE Than $19,098,998 Each of 100 Counties of State Share in Distribution of Federal Funds; Report for Fiscal Year Given By Mrs. Thomas O’Berry, State Agent Raleigh, July 6 (AP)-jA total of ■519,098,998.15 was spent in North Caro lina during the fiscal year 1933-34 for relief and civil works, Mrs. Thomas O’Berry, State administrator, revealed today. Each of the 100 counties of the (State shared in the distribution of both relief and civil works funds, with religf conies being expended each month, while the Civil Works Administration functioned only dur ing the six months starting in Nov ember. The - table shows CWA expenditures and payrolls and materials the Fede ral Emergency Relief disbursements and the grand totals for each county, as well as the administrative expenses and disbursements on Federal pro jects, and included: Vance county: CWA payroll, $65- 194.37: CWA material, $12,042.79; FERA expenditures, $33,150.18; total expended $111,287.31. Commission Will Make (Supplement School Allotting Flnlly DUpfltrli H«rpn«. In the Sir Walter Hotel, TIT J. C BASKERVIU. Raleigh, July 6. —The State School Commission is in session here today hearing delegations on various mat ters and making some additional al lotments of funds that have been de ferred from previous meetings. It is exvected that the commission will also confirm the election of sev eral new city suverintendents for next year, among them the election of J. H. Knox of Salisbury to succeed former Superintendent C. C. Ha worth. About a week ago there was indications that (certain '.groups an Salisbury might appear before the commission and protest the confirma tion of Knox as the new city suver intendent. But indications this morn ing are that the election of Knox will be approved without any opposition. PUBLISHED EVERY AFTERNOON EXCEPT SUNDAY* zal tract, a valuable corner of El Paso left by the shifting of the Rio Grande which used to be on Mexican side. Mexico won a $25,000,000 award from arbitra tors in 1908 and has since refused to accept cash in settlement. In vicinity of arrow in map she ex pects to get back instead a big slice of Texas territory. Roosevelt Visits Puerto Rico City Aboard the U. S. S. Gilmer, Ac companying President Roosevelt, July 6. (AP) —The President of the United States prepared! to pay a friendly call today on Puerto Rico, America neighbor and possession. The cruiser Houston, bearing Mr. Roosevelt on a vacation voyage, steamed toward Mayaguez, where the President was to land and motor to San Juan. He planned to remain there over night. HITLER MOT SAFE yet, mm Ecdnomic Isolation Threat ens Nation; Chief Him. self Responsible By LESLIE EICHEL (Central Press Staff Writer) New York, July 6. —There is a feel ing in the New York financial district that Chancellor Adolf Hitler of Ger nanp has not yet won the “second revolution”. It is not France or the monarchists or political intrigue that threatens the collapse of the Nazi regime, but eco nomic isolation. Germany has no credit. It cannot carry on. At least, it cannot carry on as ah ighly organized state. There is no more potent force than hunger. The enemy that “the leader” has to fight is not within—nor without. It is an inexorable 1 law of economics. And the results of thrit law were brought On by Hitler, himself, or his advisers. That is the judgment of careful ob servers in New York’s financial dis trict —and they are the men on whose judgment world politicians still de pend to a great degree, although the politicians pretend to be independent ly-minded statesmen. * * * Farley Postmaster General James A. Far ley has a difficult summer task. He is to fill many jobs. That should please him. But the President is said to have left word with him that merit will have to come berore partisanship, * * * president's Return President Roosevelt’s return across (Continued On Page Four.) 8 PAGES TODAY FIVE CENTS COPY Nazi Leader Says Revolution Had Wide Ramifications And Was Well Organized HITLER IS TAKING NO MORE CHANCES Storm Troopers Discard Uniforms During Vaca’ tion; Renewed Vigilance Taken To Show “Iron Fist and Strong Will Still Rule In Germany” Berlin, July 6. (/P)—The Nazi vigil ance against revolt was resumed to day with disquieting reports that “something more is brewing’’ among friends of “liquidated Nazi leaders’. The Nazi party spokesman said th« Boehm revolution had wide ramifica tions and was well organized, and tha those delegated by Chancellor Hitler to preserve the regime are taking no chances on Roehms symathizers. Storm troopers in civilian clothes, un der s orders not to wear uniforms dur ing a vacation period, were reported to have met today in the wedding dis trict of Berlin, former stronghold of communists, and to have shouted, ‘Re venge’. Further disquieting, although un substantiated reports from the German provinces of renewed anti-Jeilish ac tivities and events which have disturb ed Catholics were heard in Berlin. Meanwhile, the course of the gov ernment policy was believed to hava taken a step toward conservatism with the delegation of new powers to (Continued On Page Four.) Disorders Break Out In Austria July 6. (JP) — The govern ment’s fatherland front headquarters at Knittlefeld, Styria, were dynamited today and the house of a government commissar at Kindberg, Styria, was bombed, with heavy damage in both cases. Continuance of terrorism in Austria aroused a conference of Catholle storm troop leadeis at Klagenfurt to de mand that the government do some thing against the Nazis. The Conference urged particularly that Nazis in government be dismissed and government commissars be in stalled in all business establishment* and factories suspected of being pro- Nazi. Hitler Had Close Call From Foes Barely Escapes As sassin At Ernest Roehm’s Home In Breslau Saturday Breslau. Germany, April ft. (AP) —Chancellor Hitler, it was revealed today, barely escaped assassination . Saturday at the bands of Edbiund Heiness, one of those whom Hit ler tried to arrest at Ernest Roehm’s home near Munich. Only the determined and timely intervention of one of the chancel lor’s aides, who shot and killed Heiness when the latter ran up to Hitler with a revolver, was disas ter to the chancellor averted, it was revealed. The story was told to an Amsri eitizen residing here by a friend of Heiness, who was said to be abso lutely reliable. Heiness was chief of police of Breslau and a pi emin ent Nazi.,