HENDERSON
GATEWAY TO
CENTRAL
CAROLINA
TWENTY-FIRST YEAR
JOHNSON DOTES
NRA GREATEST AID
FDR THE FARMERS
“AH Other Government De
partments Have Not Done
So Much for You,”
He Asserts
ADDRESSES GROUPS
AT WATERLOO, IOWA
Says Recent Events In Ger
many Have Made It Clear
To Him Why Newspapers
Demanded Clause in Their
Code Guaranteeing Free
dom of the Press
Waterloo. lowa. Julv 12 e —Farmers
heard today from Hugh S. Johnson,
militant Blue Eagle salesman, that
"all the other government departments
have not done so much for you as
NR A".
In the first speech of a western
tour. Johnson said his industrial ma
chinery had put 3.000.000 city weft Iters
t uck on payrolls and added three bil
lion dollars to domestic purchasing
power.
"That may not be much, but ain’t
that something?” he added. “That’s
fJHA’s contribution to vour welfare
and 1 am here to tell you that not all
the billions spent in vour behalf by
ail other departments of government
put together have done so much for
you’.
Johnson said it was time for “a new
confession of faith in the new deal".
He struck directly at the projected
speaking tour of Senator Borah, Idaho
Republican, saying:
*•! understand that Senator Borah
intends to make a field day out of the
summer lambasting NRA. I speak of
the noble old Roman with the great
est of respect and deference. No man
has to a greater degree my sincere
admiration. H and Hiram Johnson
went out and busted the League of
Nations in one speaking tour.
“Single-handed he went out to Min
neapolis or St. Paul, I forget which,
and took the west away from A1 Smith
and gave it to Herbert Hoover by one
(Continued On Page Four.)
YOUNG DEMOCRATS
MEET AT RALEIGH
Raleigh. July 12. UP)— D. Staton Ins
coe. Raleigh lawyer and chairman of
the fourth district Young Democratic
Clubs, today issued a call for Eastern
North Carolina members of the or
ganization to meet here Tuesday night
"to talk over a few things that are
slated to come up" at the Young
Democratic State convention in Ashe
ville July 27-29.
MRS. ROuTEVELT TO
SEE HER DAUGHTER
Sacramento, Cal., July 12 (AP) —
Leaving a trans-continental pas
senger plane here this morning,
Mr 9. Franklin D. Roosevelt report
edly departed by automobile for
Lake Tahoe, Nevada, to join her
daughter, Mrs. Anna Roosevelt
Ball *jgf
2 Bombings
Occur Again
In Austria
/
Five injured on Heels
of Government’s
Move To Stamp Out
Disorders
Vienna, July 12. (/P) —Two new
bombing outrages were reported in
Austria today, only a few hours after
Chancellor Dollfuss had announced a
new anti-terror campaign, with the
death penalty for possession of explo
sives.
Five persons, four of them tourists,
were injured Vat Salzburg when $a
bomb destroyed the automobile of a
member of the Dollfuss .‘fatherland
front” organization.
Another bomb shattered many
windows and slightly damaged a
priest’s house at Duers in western
Austria.
Meanwhile, the German legation
here issued a firm denial of reports
that the minister had been notified to
prepare to return to Berlin and said
such instructions are not expected.
The car at Salzburg was parked in
front of a small tavern near the pic
turesque Klosterbreau, a beer hall well
known to most Americans who have
visited Salzburg.
The tavern was partially wrecked
and automobile Was blown to bits.
The tourist members of the group
were arriving at Salzburg from Graz.
All were Austrians.
Utfttiteramt Satin Stapatrb
WIRE SERVICE OF
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS..
First Walk-Out Occurs In
\ ' % t • v' Vy*’;/'
Alabama Textile Workers
First Air Photos Show Muscle Shoals Progress
——————————— I ——. i —•—
The first airplane picture taken of
Wilson dam at Muscle Shoals on the
Tenncsse river, showing the dam and
nitrate plants, .are shown here. Top,
the vast outlay of plants downstream
from the dam are shown. Below, a
Germany Waits Tensely
For Hitler Explanation
Iron-Handed Chancellor To
Address Reichstag and
World Tomorrow
Evening
WILL TELL ABOUT
PURGING PROCESS
Some Observers See German
Statesman Facing Major
Crisis Jn His Appearance;
Many Questions Unansw
ered in Public Mind Must
Be Explained
Berlin, July 12. (/Pi—A Germany
more critically minded than it has
been for months waited somewhat
tensely today for Adolf Hitler’s own
explanation of the June 30 "purging'’
of his storm troopers.
Some observers feel that when Hit
ler addresses the Reichstae tomorrow
night, he will be facing a major crisis
of his chancellorship
Official statements have applauded
Hitler’s action in the execution of
storm troop leaders, but many ques
tions are unaswered in the public
mind, and Germans are looking to
Hitler himself to answer those ques
tions to their satisfaction in his Reich
stag speech. Storm troops wonder
who is going to guarantee that the
Nezi program will be put into effect
with their pioneer leaders gone.
At the same lime, manv non-Nazis
who hitherto have regained Hitlerism
tolerantly have now fallen into doubt
and want assurances as to the future.
Graveyard of the
Atlantic Claiming
One More Victim
Buxton, July 12. (AP)—The
graveyard of the Atlantic, that
voracious body of wars? so feared
by sailors, now damns another
victim—-Hatteras lighthouse itself,
which has brightened that sea so
faithfully since 1870,
Once a mile from the treacher
ous breakers, the tallest tower on
the eastern coast now is washed
drsily at its base in the grinding
crash of heAvy seas, siowiy eating
their way. Soon another complete
modern lighthouse will be planted
a mile inland, and 191-foct brick
building will be abandoned a prey
to the water.
All that now delays construction
of the new skeleton open steel
tower is a clearance of titles to
land, says the Federal Lighthouse,
Service. , ... < .
ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OF
view of the dam and nearby industries
with a large power house in fore
ground. The project, long regarded
as a “white elephant,” soon will be
working for the people of the United
States. •;
Three Are Slain
In Bank Robbery
Miami, Okla., July 12 (AP)—ln
a gun battle between two bandits
who robbed the Bank of Techum,
Craig county, today, and a posse
of officers led by Sheriff John
York, of Vinita, the two robbers
and Sealum Gregory, president of
the bank, were reported killed.
IEBBNGIVED
Collector Robinson Hopes to
Be Established In Greens
boro Monday
.-Dally Dispatch Barraa,
In the Sir Wiilter Hotel,
BY J. C UASKEItVILti.
Raleigh, July 12. —First van load of
internal revene office materials left
Raleigh yesterday afternoon for
Greensboro the new home and for
three days the moving will continue.
The job comes to SSOO or there
abouts. It is the purpose of Collector
Charles H. Robertson to have every
ing ir. Greensboro by Saturday after
noon, and work in the new quarters
will begin July 16. The disruption has
slowed up regular routine and much of
that will be piled up when the work
ers get into their new quarters.
There wili be a few of the old em
(Continued on Page Bight)
Dozen Injured As
Porch Balcony at
Hotel Gives Way
Bethesda, Ohio, July 12 (AP) —
A dozen persons were injured, none
seriously, in the collapse of part
of a porch balcony at the Epworth
Park hotel shortly after noon to
day.
At police headquarters, it was
said the injured were on the bal
cony when about 30 feet of it gave
way.
A call immediately was put in
for every doctor and ambulance
* for ten miles around.
Hundreds of persons had gath
ered at the hotel to attend . a con
vention of school admission.
HENDERSON, N. C. THURSDAY AFTERNOON, JULY 12,1934
SSuNI
EMPLOYEES FIRED
Dwight Mills Local One of
35 in State Alleged To
Have Voted for
a Strike
1,500 WORKERS ARE
REPORTED AS IDLE
Picketing Begins Immedi
ately After Walk-Out;
State Representatives Os
National Union Going To
Gadsden To Assist In The
Situation
Gadsden, Ala., July 12. (/P) —Em-
ployees at the Dwight Manufacturing
Company cotton mill here, one of the
South’s largest, walked out today,
charging their employers had dis
charged five men for union activities.
James Holland, president of the local
of the United Textile Worners of
America, said 1,500 were in the walk
out.
He said the strike was called for
today at a meeting held at 11 p. m.
yesterday, following the discharge of
five workers. The Dwight local was
one of 35 in Alabama which had al
ready voted to strike. Date for the
state-wide walk-out is %o be fixed at
a meeting of representatives of the
states local in Birmingham Sunday.
Picketing at the Dwight mill began
immediately.
State representatives of the United
Textile WJorkerg of America were ex
pected her today to aid in conducting
th walk-out, and to confer with local
union ■
The Dwight mill was operating in
two shifts, approximately 750 persons
being employed on each shift.
REACfII AGAINST
DICTATORS SETS IN
Germain Debacle Is Revers
ing World Sentiment On
One-M&n Ruler
By LESLIE EICHEL
(Central Press Staff Writer)
New York, July 12. —As a result of
the German debacle, a reversion from
dictatorships is observed. For a de
cade the trend has been toward dic
tatorships.
Stores from Germany at last bring
to light the immoralities and terrible
injustices of the Storm Troopers’ rule.
The Middle Ages contained little as
revolting, as degrading and as anti
social.
The German government in power
is itself making public these facts now,
in justification for mass executions
without trial.
Yet the same government knew all
(Continued on Page Three.)
Pardon To
Ponzi Now
Declined
Boston, Mass., July 12 (AP) —Gov-
ernor Joseph B. Ely today denied the
petition of Charles Ponzi, one-time
“wizard of finance," for a pardon
which Ponzi sought to prevent his
deportation to Italy.
With only two hours of fredeom re
maining before he was to surrender
to Federa 1 immigration authorities,
the little gray man who once promis
ed 50 per cent profit in 45 days in a
postal reply coupon financial scheme,
went before the governor to beg his
clemency and to clear his record of
one charge of moral turpitude.
The Federal government has hoped
to deport Pbnzi on account of two of
fenses involving moral turpitude. One
of these is Ponzi’s conviction in Mas
sachusetts of larceny. The other is a
federal conviction of using the mails
In a scheme to defraud.
Ponzi arguesL that they both were
based upon the same offense, and con
sequently there should be only one
moral turpitude charge against him.
WEATHER
FOB NORTH CAROLINA
Showers tonight and Friday.
NORTH CAROLINA AND VIRGINIA.
Speaks to Editors
:.4- •
Dr. John Dickinson assistant secre
tary of commerce, headliner speaker
at the North Carolina Press Associa
tion banquet at Banner Elk tonight,
is expected to make a vigorous defense
of the New Deal.
ioßiuiir
WAGE HADE SAME
AS LOCAL STALES
State Board Receives Bids
on $1,000,000 of
Mostly Federally
Financed
BOARD HAD BEFORE
DECLINED TO ACT
Refused To Abide NRA
Scale of 40 Cents an Hour
for Skilled and 30 Ceints
for Unskilled Workers;
NRA Had Taken Cogniz
ance of Complaint
Atlanta, Ga., July 12 (AP) —The
State Highway Board today inserted
in State-road projects being awarded
a provision that only the prevailing
local pricesi for wages are to be paid
workers. The board received bids on
some $1,000,000 in projects, all but two
of which are to be constructed with
Federal aid funds.
The highway board had declined pre
viously to fiv a scale of wages for con
struction providing for the NRA code
wages pf 40 cents an hour for skilled
and 30 cents an hour for unskilled
workmen.
John Whitley, of LaGrange, a mem
ber of the governor’s staff and per
sona! and political friend of the gov
ernor, did not place bids for any of
the projects today. He is head of the
Whitley Construction Company.
Only recently NRA. at Washington
took cognizance of complaints made
against Whitley’s company not pay
ing code wages and ordered him to
surrender his theoretical blue eagle.
Whitley said he never had the eagle,
Johnson, Lumpkin
Will Fight It Out
Over Speakership
Dnlly Dlapiiteli Bnrean,
In the Sir Walter Hotel.
BY J C. BASKEnVIIiIi.
Raleigh, July 12.—Representative
Robert Grady Johnson, of Pender
county, who is a candidate for speaker
of the 1935 House, thinks the battle
for the speakership i s between him
and W/illie Lee Lumpkin, of Franklin.
Mr. Johnson beat one furious anti
sales taxer and Mr. Lumpkin five.
Mr. Johnson said nothing about the
tax, his one opponent talked it to
death. Mr. Lumpkin joined the anvil
chorus and made as muen music about
the tax as anybody. He best the whole
bunch.
A third man in the race is Laurie
McEachern, of Hoke. The Scotchman
doesn’tadmit that either Johnson or
Lumpkin is the high men.
5 American Airmen Plan
Round-The-World Flight
Chicago, July 12. (/P)— Five American
fliers plotted a round-tho-world course
today for a "good will flight" to be
started Sunday under the sponsorship
of a group of American business men.
The long trial so% their solitary ship
led chiefly to Moscow, where they
routed, their return across Siberia and
Alaska to Chicago.
Lieutenant Commander William H.
Alexander, of New York, former chief
instructor at the U. S. navy training
station at Pensacola. Fla., will be in
command of the plane.
With him will he as co-pilots lieut-
PUBLISHED EVERY AFTERNOON
EXCEPT SUNDAY*
NRA PLANS TO END .
CODE-MAKING WORK
NEXT THIRTY DAYS
Admires Hitler
George Sylvester Viereck
George Sylvester Viereck, noted
journalist and friend of former
German Kaiser, is sworn as witness
at congressional committee hearing
in New York into Nazi activities in
U. S. Viereck admitted payments
for propaganda advice and ex
pressed great admiration for Chan
cellor Hitler.
'Central Pressl
SIMM
Advocates of New Basic
Law of State To Get Cam
paign Under Way
HAS MANtToPPONENTS
Short Ballot Feature Arouses Ire of
Enemies of Organic Law Changes; .
But Its Friends Will Also
Be Active
Dally Dispatch tioreaa.
In the Sir Walter llotel.
BY J. r HASKEH VILL.
Raleigh, July 12 —Advocates of the
new State constitution, who find ef
fective opposition to it within the
State government and closely allied
outsiders, are expected to get their
campaign under way with the regu
lar primaries out the way.
Governor Ehringhaus is in New
York, but several times this spring he
has uttered his intention at the pro
per time to campaign for the instru
ment which has been submitted as a
part of his administration. The gov
ernor has not written or spoken on
the subject. Attorney General Den
nis G. Brummitt has headed the op
position, and former Lieutenant Gov
ernor Richard T. Fountain has made
considerable trouble for the advocates
Representative R. A. (Doughton, of
Alleghany, has declared his purpose
to vote against it despite its good
feature. The bad ones, he says, are
too bad.
Meanwhile, Judge John J. Parker,
Chief Justice W. P. Stacy, Revenue
Commissioner Allen J. Maxwell, Edi
tor Clarence Poe, Major George Butletf
and others have spoken or written, or
both, for it. .The stock attacks are
leveled at its “concentration of pow
er” and its adoption of the short bal
lot The Biblical Recorder has joined
the attackers and predicates its posi
tion very largely upon the articles
written by Mr. Brummitt. The Rec
irJontfcMlA-Y on Pn.ec Bi»>
enant Commander John Wycliffe Ise
man, of New York, author of several
text books on aviation, and Major
William C. Brooks, of Lincoln, Neb.,
who organized the Nicaraguan air
force, and was the first man to set a
loop record with 237 consecutive loops
and the first altitude record-holder,
with 27,500 feet, both made in 1919.
The plane will go first to New York,
arriving about midnight Sunday. Re
fueling, it will take off Monday at
dawn for Bermuda, and continue Tues
day to the Azores. Wednesday it will
fly to Paris and Thursday to Mos
cow,
8' PAGES
TODAY
FIVE CENTS COPY
Johnson Leaves Orders 'For
Wind-Up of Job On De
parting for Trip to
The West
PROMULGATES CODE
FOR SCORES MORE
Basic Set-Up For Small In
dustries Is Constructed;
Completion of Code Mak
, ing Will Free NRA To De.
vote Its Energies To En
forcement Work
Washington, July 12 (AP) —NRA.
focused every energy today on the big
job of completing blue eagle code
making within 30 days.
"We are all set," said Robert K.
Straus, youthful chairman of the 1
three-man committee named by Hugh
S. Johnson for the clean-up task.
“Every division of NRA is pushing
the plans,” Straus said. “We wqnt to
clean up every code in the building in
30 days.” •
The time limit was set by Johnson
just before he flew westward on a
speaking and vacation trip. Simul
taneously, the NRA chief promulgated
a “basic code” designed for the scores
of still uncoded small industries.
Straus described the program out
lined by Johnson to end code making,
and free NRA for enforcement work,
as falling into four parts:
“First,” he said, “there are indus
tries for which we will continue to
develop individual codes.”
In thi sgroup were ranked 1,135
pending codes on which NRA wants
an agrement within two weeks.
Also there were codes described
as having “special and important
labor or economic conditions."
These do not come under the basic
code order, but will have individual
codes developed. The class includes
shipping, anthracite coal communicar
tions and all the major utility and
complicated structural steel indus
tries. j f
“Second”, Straus said, "we have in
dustries which will choose to merge
with existing kindred codes.”
NRA expects most of the uncoded
industries to.,choosA this method.
“In the third class, we have indus
tries applying for the basic codes,
and, finally, those which will do noth
ing" Straus explained.
SEED CRUSHINGS IN
11 MONTHS SMALLER
Washington, July 12 (AP) —Cotton-
seed crushed in the eleven month per
iod August 1 to June 30 was reported
by the Census Bureau today to have
totalled 4,054,891 tons, compared with!
4,462, 934 tons in the same period a.
year ago, and cottonseed on hand at
mill 3 June 30 totalled 280,476 tons,
compared with 317,623 tons a year
ago. V
Train Hits
Wake Auto;
Kills Man
Car With Man In It
Carried Quarter \of
Mile After Collision,
Near Garner
Raleigh, July 12. (A*) —S. G. Harris,
cabinet malNr and carpenter, of Wake
county, was instantly killed today
when a Southern Railwav passenger
train struck his car at a crossing near
Garner, six miles from RA»igh.
Both the car and passenger were
carried along the railroad track
nearly a quarter of a mile. The crush
ed body of the man was still in the
wreckage when the train stopped.
Deputy Sheriff Clyde Wfiitaker re
ported the engineer as saying he did
not know the wrecked automobile was
being carried down the track until
the fireman called his attention to
something on the cow-catcher.
C. B. Smith and H. G. Wood, who
witnessed the wreck, said Harris had
just left a filling station, and his car
apparently became stalled on the
track or the man drove it in the path
of the on-coming train without seeing
it.
Harris, who was 58 years old, is sur
vived by his widow, a second wife, and
several children. _ _ ....