North Carolina Newspapers

HENDERSON GATEWAY TO CENTRAL CAROLINA TWENTY-FIRST YEAR CLOTHING FIRM TO SUSPEND OPERATION DUE TO NRA RULING Men r Clothing Concern At Fredericksburg, Va., Throws 500 Workers Out of Jobs COMPLETE SHUTDOWN INDEFINITE PERIOD First I ime Plant Has Been Idle In Its 21 Years, And Not Due This Time Because of Any Lack of Orders; Management Refuses To M«kr Any Statement Ki *■'!»• i ick burg, Va., July 11. (/J’i— The (5 and H- Manufacturing Com- 1 (limy, makers of men's clohting. clos- j ♦>d its plant here today, throwing out I nf employment nearly 500 workers, ! must of whom tire women and girls. The shutdown, which is complete, ! j., fm an indefinite period, and is the first time the plant has been idl*- in ! the 1!1 years since it was established here. The management had no statement tu make, 'xeept that the factory would he rinsed indefinitely, and no indica- i tion was given as to when it might re open. The decision to close the plant is mi? dti' to lack of orders, as operation has been going on at full capacity in lecent years, but follows last week's ruling by the compliance hoard of the (Continued on Page Three.) Girl Desperado Is Determined Not To Be Captured Alive Little Hock, Ark., July 11. (AIM —"To whom it may concern: “I’ll never he takena live'’ was Helen Spencer Eden's grim warning to prison officials as they searched today for the comely White River country girl, slaper of two men, who made her fourth escape from the State Farm for Women, near here, yesterday. The note waa found In the 22- year-old fugitnve’s locker this morning asa posse led by two bloodhounds combed the country tide between the women's farm and the White River country, where prison officials believe she is head'd. Helen, who dislikes cigarettes hut smokes an occasional cigar, despite her complete femininity in appearance and manner, is armed with a pistol which she stole from the night watchman’s room as she left the narrow rows of a prison farm strawberry patch to strike the road to freedom. Labor Men Disagreed On Strike Some Say Vote Has Been Taken And Others Not In Ala bama District ______ Birmingham, Ala., July 11. (TP) — I*abor leaders were in disagreement today over a reputed impenatng strike hi the textile industry in Alabama. The reported impending strike an- I nounced by John Dean, representing the president of the United Textile Workers of America at Huntsville yes- j terday, was indirectly discredited by executives of the Alabama Federation i O Labor, whod oclared they had not j been appraised of any strike votes. Also there was lacK of confirmation bom any local of the union in the ■Shite whose officials could be reach ed. two in Montgomery declaring that if vote had been taken, and here also was denial. One Big Code Is Planned To Cover 450 Industries Washington, July 11. (>P)—One big r ode for 450 small industries is ex pected to emerge from NRA’s hamper momentarily. This code, carrying the recovery units another long stride on the road tf -> simplification, will touch only such ba sic standards as wages, hours and prohibition of child labor It will not l ,AM HENDERSON, Tsteimtt&titi BatUt Btstmidi G. O. P. Opens Comeback Drive Henry P. Fletcher, chairman of the Republican national committee, bom barding the Democratic administration at the rally in Jackson, Mich., birthplace of the party, at which he and Sen. Arthur Vandenberg (inset) launched the G. O. P. drive for control of Congress. War chest of $1,000,- 000 is being raited for campaign which will center in mid-western states. (Central Press) KENNEDY SELECTION IS VERY UNPOPULAR Chairman of Stock Commis sion Worst Move Roose, veil Has Made CLOSE TO PRESIDENT He Was an Original Roosevelt Man; But Senate May Reject Him In January If He Hasn’t Made Good at That Time By CHARI.ES P. STEWART (Central Press Staff VVriter- Washington, July 11. President Roosevelt’s choice of Joseph P. Ken nedy for a place on the Federal’ gov ernment’s new Stock Exchange Com mission undoubtedly is about the most unpopular selection he has made since his White House inauguration. With his record as a stock ex* change professional himself. the chorus of objections to him as a stock exchange regulator is understandable Os course he may prove to be a*? ardent reformer. Such occasionally happen. Anyway, the country wil/ have a chance to estimate him be* tween now and next January, when Congress will meet again. The com mission will be on the job in the meantime. If Kennedy has failed to give a satisfactory account of himself, it. is well within the possibilities that, the Senate will refuse to confirm his appointment. The assumption is that, the admin istration picked him because he was an “original Roosevelt man", besides being an old and close personal friend of both the President and Postmaster General James Farley. Even so, critics complain, he might have been rewarded with some other post. But, on the opposite hand, it’s surmised that the one he got was the one he particularly wanted. In short, “the presumption is against him,’ as the Rev. Dr. John A. Ryan, the eminent catholic edu cator, economist an( T liberal, said of G* n. Hugh S. Johnson (a professional soldier, ex-deputy provost marshal general and captain of industry) when the latter was given the NRA director ship. Still, a. presumption is only a pre sumption. Five or six year s ago, when the late Senator Thomas J. Walsh was trying to start a Congressional investigation of the power industry, the industry presumed that it could control the proposed inquiry to much better ad iContinued on Page Three.) contain price-fixing. General Hugh S. Johnson, who dis eased yesterday that he wants to turn Mis NRA over to a commission and step back into private life as soon as the President feels he can spare him, hopes to promulgate the ««ew code be fore leaving today on a combination vacation-speaking tour westward. ONLY DAILY LEASED WIRE SERVICE OF the associated press. NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA AND VIRGINIA. * HENDERSON, N. C. WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON, JULY 11, 1934 Roosevelt’s Ship Sails Canal Lane Cristobal, Canal Zone, July 11. (AP)—President Roosevelt’s cruis er, the U. S. Houston, dropped an chor in the harbor here at 8:30 a. m. today and aboard Sec retary of War George Dern, pre paratory to a trip of inspection through the Panama Canal. The President came on deck early to witn*“s s thlTirip through the gi gantic canal connecting two oceans. DEFACTO OFFICERS MAY ISSUE BONDS Supreme Court Rules on That and on Escheats for State University Raleigh. July 11 (/P) —The North Carolina Supreme Court, in 28 deci sions handed down today, ruled that “de facto” officers of a municipality ligations of the town and in several may contract valid and legal bond ob cases decided on questions involving issuance of bonds for public improve ments with PWA funds The court also found that Harry E. Nissen. fire chief of Winston-Salem, killed while going to a fire on Novem ber 28, 1932, was an employee or the city under the scope of the workmen’s compensation act. and his widow, Mrs. Eva Carter Nissen, is entitled to com pensation from the city. In another decision, the court held that unproven and unclaimed divi dends of closed banks shall be paid to the University of North Carolina for its use after they have been properly advertised and the clerk of the court has held them for 90 days to consider contentions and pay those properly claimed. Bitter Protest To Czechoslovakia Is Made By Germany Prague, Czechoslovakia, July 11 (AP) —The German minister to Czechoslovakia delivered a sharp protest today lo the foreign office over utterances of a Socialist de puty named Humehlanas, which was said to be interpreted as an direct suggestion Chancellor Hitler should be killed in the best in terest of Germany. The protest wa smade in the in terest of “continued good relations” between the two countries. The deputy in question, address ing a meeting of international workers declared: “It is high time the Reich’s chancelor and his comrades should be removed if the culture of the German people is to be saved.” The German minister was re ported to be particularly perturb er, inasmuch as the utterance was made in the presence of govern ment representatives and foreign diplomats and broadcast through out the country. mm Damages Sought of Sheriff Adkins, His Deputies and Marion Manufac turing Co. ADMINISTRATRIX OF ONE VICTIM SUING Polly Vickers Asks Damages Growing Out of Fatal Shooting in Disorders Years Ago; In Other Suits Plaintiffs Are Estates of Four Other Slain Men Marion, July 11. (/P)—*One of five $50,000 civil action suits against coun ty officers and the Marion Manufac turing Company brought; to superior court today an echo of that chaot:*j October morning in 192$ when tex tile strikers here culminated in riots and sudden death. The suit was instituted by Polly Vickers, administratrix of the estate of Sam Vickers, who was one of six men slain in front of the gates of the manufacturing company on October 2. The action is directed against Sheriff O. F. Adkins, eignr of his depu ties, the manufacturing company and Superintendent. Hunt of the company. In the other pending suits, the plain tiffs are the estates of four of the 13 Million Road Work For State Washington, July 11. (/p)—A $13,800,- 000 road building program is under way in North Carolina, with Federal government donated dollafS. Work on 292 projects estimated to cost $8,981,000 has been advertised for contracts, already begu-» or complet ed by June 30, the Bureau of Roads reported today. In addition, $4,840,941 was appro priated by the last Congress for high tContmued on Para Three.) CASWELL WILL GIVE ITS VOTE TO HILL County Not Sore Because of Durham Getting Senator When Caswell Claimed the Right Dußy Dtapatch namie, lu the Sir Walter Hotel. BY J V. BASKEUVILL. Raleigh, July 11. —Representative R. T. Wilson, of Caswell county, does not share some of his neighbors in the de feat of Tom Neal for the Senate by Senator John Sprunt Hill, and the Caswellian thinks Mr. Hill and Dur ham were well within the proprieties when the senator sought and receiv ed renomination. “Although I am a good friend of Tom Neal, I voted for Mr. Hill’’, Mr. Wilson said, “and he is going to get the full strength of Caswell. The ‘gentlemen’s agreement’ of years ago is not expected to bind all the future generations. Caswell has 18,000 popu lation and Durham nearly 80,000. It was asking too much that the alterna tion should be perpetua* “No, Caswell isn’t sore and Mr. Hill is going to get the vote of that county just as any other man would have done. And the Senate of 1935 is going to need him even more than it did in 1933”. Tornado Damages $500,000 Jacksonville, Hi.. July 11. (/p) —A tor nado struck here late last night, in juring at least seven persons, one seri ously, and causing $500,000 damage to property. For 40 minutes a highw ind swept this vicinity, unroofing 12 buildings, toppling two homes, tearing out bricks and masonry and smashing windows. The known injury included a circus employee, possible skull fracture, broken shoulder and leg injury. Originating 15 miles north of here, the wind swept a narrow path south ward, destroying lights and communi cations, with exception of a single wireless outlet. It was accompanied by a torrential rain and hail. WIrfHER FOR NORTH CAROLINA Local showers tonight and Thursday; not much change in teurpvruture. Austria Launches Campaign To Oust Nazi From Country, With Dollfuss As Iron Ruler Reich's "Strong Men” Together jgppljjpl PSIHwBIffi SR : H H Newest photo of Chancellor Adolf Hitler and Gen. Hermann Goering, rulers of Germany, show? them together when they were planning the "Bloody Saturday” which was onlj a few days away. With Hitler “vaca tioning” in the Alps, Goering is the strong man of the Reich. (Central Press) U. S. REVENUES IN SEME RISE PAST $47,000,000 More Past Fis cal Year Than For Last Previous Year SOME ADJUSTMENT TAX Trifle Less Than $30,000,000 in That Class; Tobacco Taxes in North Carolina Up Almost $17,000,000 More Washington, July 11 (AP)—lnter nal revenue colections in North Caro lina increased by approximately $47,- 000,000 for the 1934 fiscal year, which ended June 30, as compared with the previous 12 months period, but $29,- 773,169.98 of the gain Was represented in agricultural adjustment taxes. Receipts in that State totalled $260,- 344,351.11 through June 30, as com pared with $213,487,759.08 the preced ing fiscal year, the Bureau of Inter nal Revenue reported today. A slight increase in income- tav col ections was reported, receipts for 1934 being $12,960,071.83, against $12,760,- 720.22 in 1933. Miscellaneous revenues which includ et.he tobacco tax, jumped from $200,727,038.86 in 1933 to $217,- 611,109.30 for 1934. The State maintains second place among the states in Federal revenue, being exceeded only by New York. OFFICIALS OFflti SIGN STATE BONDS Governor and Treasurer To Validate Securities Sold at Record Low Interest Rate flMily Dmiii'frh IlHi'ea*. in lh«> Sir Walter lintel. »>y .1. C IIASKFBVII,Tj Raleigh, July 11—Governor J. C. B. Ehringhaus, State Treasurer Charles M. John ton, and Charles G. Powell, private secretary to the governor, left last night for New York City where the governor and the treasurer will write their names 6,000 times each to make valid $12,230,000 of State bonds recently sold at the record low av erage of $3.76. This three-days torture will be miti gated by attendance upon the Giants- Pirates baseball games, but his excel lency and the treasurer must put their pens to paper 6.000 times apiece, according to the calculations of Mr. Powell. The bonds are in SI,OOO deno minations. It takes a thousand writ ings to make a million dollars good. But there is some way of doubling up. Anyway, Mr. Powell says the job can be done with 6,000 strokes of the pen. These bonds recently sold so ad vantageously that they stirred South Dakota’J interest, are funding obliga tions representing a long accumulating deficit. They are to be retired sl,- | 000,000 a year. PUBLISHED EVERT AFTERNOON EXCEPT SUNDAY* 8 Charred Bodies Taken From Wreck Morrisville, July Is. (AP)—Coro ner L. M. Waring, of Wake county, said this afternoon that what ap pear to be the ashes and charred torsos of at least eight hoboes have been removed from the debris left when 31 cars of a Southern Rail way system freight wain derailed and burned here yesterday. GIVE iKI SIDE Standard Oil Goes Into Great Detail In Explain ing High Prices Dally Dispatch Burena, In the Sir Walter Hotel. BY ,1. C. IIASItERVILL.. Ralegih, July 11—Governor Ehring haus may have had the gasoline deal ers on the mourner’s bench here last week but the spokesmen for the manu facturers’ do not indicate complete conversion. The governor told the companies very frankly that North Carolina auto mobilists are irritated that they are patient and peace-loving but detest injustice. The governor has a legis lature to cozen next spring. That body can make some reprisals. All that was intimated in the meeting here Following that conference deal ers wrote and asked him if they migljfc present their side to the public. The jxecutive told them to shoot. In "their statement signed by A. M. Byers of he Standard Oil Company is cited the many-sided marketing of gasoline. Virginia the specially ad vantaged state has a 5-cent road tax (Continued on Page Six.) Germany May Force Out Foreign Correspondents Berlin, July 11. (jP) Germany threatened today to expel foreign cor respondents whose accounts of the bloody "second revolution’ aroused Nazi ire. Adolf Hitler’s own newspaper edi torially underscored a warning given the journalists by Paul Joseph Goeb bels, sharp-tongue minister of propa ganda, in an address last night. "We wish to emphasize the minis try’s frank warning that the German government is no longer inclined to 6 PAGES TODAY FIVE CENTS COPY Death Penalty Will Be Dealt Out for Mere Possession of Explosives, He Announces WILL HIMSELF HOLD FIVE CABINET JOBS Defense and Security Posts Will Concentrate In His Hands Complete AuthoH ity; Communique Declares Measure Necessary To Preserve Peace Vienna, July 11. (/P) —Engelbert Dollfuss, Austria's fighting little chan cellor, announced a huge new drive against Nazis today after concentrat ing in his own hands all the military and police power of the nation. The death penalty will be dealt out for the mere possession of explosives, Dollfuss announced, in an effort to stop widespread bombine outrages. In a cabinet shake-up, Dollfuss present ed the resignation of the whole group to President Wilhelm Miklas, and then submitted a new list for Miklas’ ap proval. Dollfuss appeared determined to stamp out the whole Nazi movement in Austria. Taking a leaf from the notebook of his neighbor and friendly protector. Benito Mussolini, Dollfuss will add several cabinet portfolios to his active duties. He will be chancellor, foreign min ister, minister of det'enae, public se curity and agriculture. All military and police power in Austria will be concentrated in his hands through the defense and secur ity posts. State To Answer Dealer Protests On Coal Purchase Washington, July 11. (I P) —North Carolina officials went before coal code authorities today to answer pro test by retail dealers against the pur chase of coal by the State from whole salers and mines. A. S. Brower, purchasing agent for North Carolina, and Leßoy Martin, secretary of the State School Com mission, represented the State. Alcohol Is Fatal To 3 At Winston Brothers Die After Drinking Party With Poison From Furniture Factory Winston-Salem, July 11. (/P) —Dena- tured alcohol stolen from a furniture factory here for use In a family • drinking bout had claimed the lives of three brothers rhis morning and left six others ill, three of whom are in a critical condition. The dead are Claude (Ket) Kiger (Continued on Page Throe.) tolerate foreign correspondents incit ing nations against eacn other,” said the newspaper. Germany otherwise was compara tively quiet, following days of bullets and then of oratory. It awaited an account of its steward ship from the lips of "Der Fuehrer”, Hitler himself, who has caused puppet Reichstag to meet Friday night, Hit er is expected to explain his ruthless suppression of the "Roehm revolt” of June 30.