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HENDERSON gateway to CENTRAL CAROLINA TWENTY-FIRST YEAR VOTE ON ENDING STRIKE IS SET FOR TONIGHT ** * * * * * *************%# North Dakota House Meets In Defiance Os State’s Acting Governor TROOPS ON GUARD EXECUTIVE DUTIES Quorum Present, With 57 Answering Roll Call and 56 Absent at Opening At Noon QUORUM IS ABSENT IN SENATE SESSION Truckload of Farmers Holi day Members Arrive To Support Cause of Ousted Governor Langer; Olson Tries To Block Extra Leg islative Meeting Bismarck, N. D., July 19. (IP) —The North Dakota House of Representa tives. meeting in defiance of Lieuten ant Ole H. Olson's proclamation re voking special session of the legis lature convened at 12:03 o’clock, cen tral standard time, today. A quot um of the House was declar ed present, with 57 members answer ing the roll call and 56 aDsent. The Senate convened a few mo ments later, but a quorum was not present. TRUCKLOAD OF HOLIDAY GROUP MEMBERS AHRIVE Bismarck, N D.. July 19. (IP) —A ttuckloul of members of the North Dakota Farmers Holiday Association, whose forces stand behind William Langer. ousted governor, came into Bismarck today. , The party consisted of 22 farmers from Lamoure county They said ad ditional truckloads were on the way. The men were non-communicatlve about their purpose, but said they planned to drive to the State capitol building Bismarck, N. D., Juh” 19. (AP) — Lieutenant Governor Ole H. Olson, acting governor, took physical posses sion of the chief executive's office at 10 o'clock, central standard time, to day. Ht merely walked into the office, accompanied by two friends. Nation al Guardsmen at the same time were posted in the corridors of the State House There was no disturbance. Olson immediately posted a procla mation in the corridors of the State House revoking a special session of the State legislature calling by Wil liam Langer. ousted governor. Doors of *he two assemblies were locked. National Guardsmen were posted j in the corridors, but were not before j the executive loffices at the time Ol son appeared. Legislators favoring Langer had in dicated they would attempt wholesale impeachment of State officers un» friendly to the ousted governor. Reports were heard of possible mob violence, hut on the surface all was calm ; Sales Levy Upheld Now First Time Hues Imposed for Failure To File Re turns on l ax, and Appeal Is Taken Winston-Salem, July 19. (IP)—J. M White and W. R. Tesh, who pleaded guilty to the charge of failing to file letums under the State sales tah law, were fined $25 and costs and given fu pended sentences of three months ';'ch in municipal court here today. Both appealed. The merchants offered no evidence, hut. later Mr. Tesh stated that book aeping in connection with the tax tepresented about an hour per day per person In his establishment. For this work he said his personnel was hot bonded and received no remun eration from the State. These are the first such cases aris es here, and merchants think a test bn provided for the act. TUmilprsmt Where Labor Troubles Flare WMWIM [..if. ..Mil. HU. I. Irr.rl ..1.... .. t.j. map showing locations of various strikes and threatened strikes. (1) " oolen workers, (2) hatters, (3) threatened truck walkout, (4) textili workers, (5) dock workers, (6) pecan shellers, (7) faetory workers, (8) truck drivers, launderers and dry cleaners, (9) longshoremen, (10) general. (11) general, (12) harvesters. Shaded portions show whers farm laborers are on strike. (Central Pratt) Claims Wholesale i Murders Sweeping Camps In Germany Johannes Steel, Former German Os ficial, in Copyrighted Article in New York Post, Tells Harrowing Tale of What Is Going Oini In Germany New York, July 19. GP)—Johannes Steel, former German official, who fled from the Reich because of his opposi tion to the Nazi program, said in a ropyrighted story in the New York Post today that a ‘quiet w'ave of mur der is sweeping the concentration camps’’ of Germany. The writer said that the inmates of the camps “have, according to a secret order of! General Goering •(premier of Pru33ia) been cut off completely from the outside world.” ‘ Their relatives.” writes Steel, “have been without news from these prison ers for three' weeks. It seems that massacres have taken place wnich are beyond human imagination. “The toll of deaths has been put by absolutely reliable sources at no less CRIME CRUM| Attotfrriey - General’s Plan Creates Little Interest For Newsmen By CHARLES P. STEWART (Central Press Staff Writer) Washington, July 19.—Attorney Gen eral Homer S. Cummings’ plan for a conference of representatives of all anti-crime agencies throughout the country, to be held in Washington in the fall, for a co-ordination of activi ties against outlawry, created no wild outburst of enthusiasm among mem bers of the National Press Club, be fore which the Federal government’s chief prosecutor outlined ftis program at a recent luncheon. For the ordinary Washington Press Club luncheon the flat rate is 65 cents. Considering the attorney general’s speech an additional attraction, the club management increased the price on that occasion to an even six bits. It was the consensus among mem bers that maybe 10 cents was not an overcharge for the cabinet member’s address, but it was the consensus also that a dime per listener was about all it was reasonable to expect thet raffic to bear —and, even at that, some three quarters of the scribes, ate the regular 65 cent meal in the outer restaurant and let the 75 cent affair in the club auditorium, with Attorney General Cummings as its guest of honor go. • • * The capital’s correspondents have had considerable experience with anti crime crusades. They recall that the Hoover admin istration began with one. The Wickersham commission’s in vestigation still is fresh in most of iheir memories. The conviction unquestionably was strong among them, and is yet, that prohibition • gave racketeering its initial impetus, and that It will take quite a while for prohibition’s influ ence to wear off. The present attorney general’s own subordinate (and one really efficient assistant), Joseph B. Keenan, espe (Coutiaued on Page 'TbroeJ ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER WIRE SERVICE OB' the associated PRisSf HENDERSON, N. C. THURSDAY AFTERNOON, JULY 19, 1934 than 2,000 men and women.’’ • The writer said “a life and death race between communism and conser vatism has begun,” and added: “The odds are six to four for the conserva tive solution”. Steel says: “The army during the last week has been able io sonsolidate its positions and the military dictator ship is complete. (Vice Chancellor Franz) Von Papen at this moment is the man who runs everything. He has come out on top.” | Steel says Hitler “is the absolute prisoner of the Reichwehr tarmy) which watches every move he makes, and is waiting for the moment when Hitler’s prestige has dissipated to such an extent that he can be put away safely”. Sentiment Seems Favorable To Candidacy for State Secretary Dully Dispute h Onma In the Si. Walter Hotel. BT J ** BASKERVILL. Raleigh, July 19.—Opinion continues to grow in many political circles here that George Ross Pou, former super intendent of State Prison, and recent ly defeated for the Democratic nomi nation for Congress from the fourth district here, is likely to be named secretary of the State Democratic Executive Committee when it meets to organize some time withm the next 30 days. The post of secretary is now vacant, since the former secretary of the committee, John Bright Hill, of Wilmington, resigned some weeks ago when National Chairman Jim Farley, of Washington, hinted that those hold ing Federal offices and offices in State Democratic committees, had better re sign one post or the other. Hill for some time has been collector of cus toms for the port of Wililmington. He decided to resi/n as secretary of the Slf.tr committee, a purely honorary office, rather than resign as customs collector, a remunerative one. It was due to this same “hint” by Chairman Farley that Mrs. T. Palmer Jerman, national committeewoman from North Carolina, decided to re sign that honorary office rather than her job as deputy collector of internal revenue in North Carolina and first as sistant to Collector of Internal Reve nue Charles H. Robertson. While there will probably be Several other aspirants for tne job of secre tary, indications are that Pou cgn have it if he wants it—and indications are that he is in a receptive state of mind. The office of secretary is ap pointive, but the State chairman usually consults memebrs of the com mittee before making th* appointment. Since Pou admittedly has a large per sonal following over the entire State, and is regarded as being of an excel lent political organizer, many feel (Oontinutod on Page Tfcree.) Hatht Dispatch PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA AND VIRGINIA. Policy of Disarming Is To Be Abandoned by Govern, ment, Baldwin Tells Commons \ BRITISH ARMAMENT DANGEROUSLY LOW f Other Governments Have Failed To Fo)low Example Set Until Britain Now Is Forced To Look After Its Own Interests, Council President Asserts London, July 19 (API-nStanley Bald win, lord president of the council, in formed the House of Commons today that the British government has de cided on a program of increasing its air force by 41 [squadrons during the next five years. The president of the council said that ever since the World War suc cessive British governments had act ively pursued a policy of internation al disarmament and had reduced the (British armament “to a dangerously low level in the hopes that others would follow our lead.” The government’s policy, he said, remained ;one of international dis armament, but, owing to the failure of other governments to follow the British example, the government felt that the time had come when the possbiility of keeping British armar ments at their present level must be reconsidered, CAPIIM LABOR Issue Is Much the Same In Strikes Now On in The United States By LESLIE EICHEL (Central Press Staff Writer) New York, July 19. —Close observers of the opinion that: 1. —The German struggle will de velop into a battle between industral ists and communists. (That may be true of France and Spain also.) 2. —The American strikes are caused by an endeavor of Industrialists to prevent the svread of unionization and, unless the government backs union men more strongly than it has (whether rightly or wrongly), it will be a long drawn out affair. Already more blood has been svilled than in the average modern day revolution. * * * Kennedy Joseph P. Kennedy, chairman of the new federal comnHssion which now rules the securities markets, ranks himself as a liberal. At 45, he has made his money, 'hat interests Wall Street, however, (Continued on Page Three.) 120 Dead In Floods In Poland Warsaw, Poland, July 19 (AP)— * Bodies of 120 victims of raging floods in southern Poland have been recovered, an official reports said today, with 180 missing and believed to have perished. A new flood menace was feared at Cracow as a crest of water from the mountain regions roared down into the valleys. More than 55,000 were without food and shelter as swollen riv ers continued to leave their banks after days of continuous rains. "weather FOR NORTH CAROLINA Generally fair tonight and Fri day; slightly warmer tonight in southwest portion. His Regulars Ready Maj. Gen. Matin Craig In event of vandalism, rioting or bloodshed in the San Francisco general strike, Maj. Gen. Malin Craig, above, stands ready to or der regular army soldiers et the request of acting Gov. Frank Merriam of California. He Is commander of the Ninth corps area with headquarters at the his toric Presidio which overlooks the Golden Gate. EXPECT GOVERNOR ' PAY tO TEACHERS . i If Salaries Are Raised Be yond Budget, Federal Government Will Sup ply Difference STATE IS PIONEER IN SCHOOL PROJECT School Commission Must Act Quickly, However, Since Some Schools Have Already Started New Terms i/ni Piedmont and Mountain Sections of State Dally Digputcb flateai, In tbt* Sir Walter Hotel. Bf J C HASKERVILL Raleigh, Jul> 19 —Whether or not the 23.000 school teachers in the State get a 10 per cent increase in salaries this coming year, as now seems pos sible, depends very largely upon whe ther Governor J. C. B. Ehringhaus asks the State School Commission to boost salaries by that amount, accord ing to prevailing opinion here. And while Governor Ehringhaus is in Morehead City today, inspecting the National Guard troops now there at Camp Glenn, the belief here is that he will recommend the increase of 10 per cent for all the teachers in the State this coming year. If such an increase is recommended by the Governor, it wil be based large ly on hope that the Federal govern ment, through the Federal Emergency Relief Administration, will award North Carolina the difference between its present salary budget for teachers of approximately $13,000,000 and what it will amount to if increased 19 per cent. However, officials of the FERA have virtualy assured officials of the State School Commission that if it in creases the salaries of the teacherrs 10 per cent, thus increasing the esti {Continued on Page Thro* ' Bombing Planes Are Off Upon Flight To Alaska Washington, July 19. (IP) —Ten bombing planes comprising the Alaska flight squadron of the army air corps, hopped off from Bolling Field at 10 a. m. eastern standard time, today for Dayton on the first leg of their 8,000 mile flight to Alaska and return. Mr. and Mrs. Elliott Roosevelt were among 500 who gathered at the field to wave the 0 airmen farewell. PUBLISHED EVERY AFTERNOON EXCEPT SUNDAY„ FRISCO’S WALK-OUT SHOWING SIGNS OF EARLY COLLAPSING Frisco Knight ~ .x . k llarefm MmJBR Looking like a nightmare monster, this San Francisco mounted police man, wearing gas mask, rides his masked mount into midst of geners\3, strike demonstrators. FreteS* inSaote Estimates of Idle Men In Textile Walk Out From 13,000 to 22,000 CLAIM 30 MILLS OUT Union Leader Puts That as Figure, While Associated Press Survey Reveals 13,150 Employees Off Their Jobs , Huntsville, Ala., July 19. (/P)—Con flicting claims of mills closed and workers out in north Alabama’s tex tile strike today placed estimates of strikers at figures ranging between 13,000 and 20,000. > John Dean, international represen tative of the United Textile Workers of America, and head of the strike bureau here, said the "situation is in complete control’’. He said more than 22,000 men were on strike iri 30 mills. A survey of the State by The Asso ciated Press showed 24 mills down, with employees estimated at 13.15 Q. Figures on the number of employees out were given principally by mill operators. Union figures were far higher in most instances. No efforts at settlement of the three day old walk-out was under way. Mill owners stood on the statement, of Scitt Roberts, president of the Ala bama. Cotton Textile Association, that the walk-out was a strike agamst the >NRA and offered no solution for the strike. Just before the take-off Major Gen eral Benjamin D. Foulois, chief of the air corps, wished Lieutenant H. H. Arnold, flight commander, good luck. “Let us show our people in Alaska,” he said, ,f that while thousands of miles separate them from the parent country, only a few days intirvenp between a possible emergency and the arrival of a powerful air defense.” 8 PAGES TODAY FIVE CENTS COPY Workers Under Pressure From Federal, State and . City Authorities for Return To Work maritime Strike REMAINS PROBLEM Officials Admit That Situa tion Is Still Loaded With Dynamite; Wheels of Bus iness in Sain Francisco Me tropolitan Area Move More Freely During Day San Francisco, Cal., July 19 (AP)— Wheels of business in San Francisco’s metropolitan area moved again today under relaxing brakes of a general strike. i_ ■ _ , j Under pressure from Federal, State and city governments, the general walkout gave indications of collapsing rapidly. „ The strike “strategy’’ committee of Alameda county, in which 500,000 of the area’s 1,300,000 residents reside, announced a vote would be taken at Oakland tonight on a proposal to end the walk-out. Resumption of east, bay transporter tion service, controlled by the Key Routes system, including tis ferry boats on the bay, employing a total of 900 men, was announced for tomor row by the carmen’s strike committee (tJont.l niied on Page Three.) Grant On Huge Dam Is Given Washington, July 19 (AP) —The.., Public Works Administration has lift ed the suspension on its $2,767,000 al lotment to Greenwood county, tS. C., for construction of a power project on the Saluda river, which had been strongly protested by the Duke Pow er Company. The company challenged the cost of the development, and said it would permit one particular mill to obtain cheap power. Duke University and other institu tions dependent on funds from thd Duke Foundation, deriving its income largely from the Duke Power Com pany, also entered protest. Doumergue Just Saves His Powers 9 French Premier Pre vents Wreck of Cab inet by His Shrewd Political Ability Paris, July 19 (IP) —Premier Gaston Doumergue was to have averted the werck of his cabinet to day by spreading the words— the boys must be good. The veteran Statesman made a lightning decision at a rail road station last night and sent his friends to tell former Premiers Andre Tardieu, Edouard Herr lot and Ca mille Chautemps and party leaders that Tardieu’s charges that Chan tempts and radical sociliasts knew the late Serge Stavisky was swindling th# country and must be limited to a con troversy between Tardieu and Chau temps, without involving parties. Resignation of Herriot and other! radical socialists from the cabinet was threatened because of Tardiejjs charges, which they claimed broke thei political truce under which the Dou mergue cabinet was created in tho grave days of last February, U>J
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