HENDERSON
GATEWAY to
CENTRAL
CAROLINA
TWENTY-FIRST YEAR
Italy Ready To Invade Austria
STRATOSPHERE FLIGHT BEGUN IN SOUTH DAKOTA
WORLD’S LARGES!
BALLOON OFF FOR
IS MILES ASCENT
Craft Goes Straight Up,
Clearing Mountain Bowl
In Short Time of Only
One Minute
fverything OKEY
AT 7,400 FEET UP
Radio from Big Ball Sent by
Three Intrepid Airmen
. Inside It; Crowd of 30,000
Waits All Night to See
Take-Off; Army Air
Corps Is Co-Sponsor
(him go, .luly 28.—(AP)—Major
William E. Keppner, reported by
radio at 12:04 p. m., central stan
dard time, that the stratosphere
balloon bad reached an altitude of
40 fuo feet and had leveled off
•off there. The swift ascent of
(he huge bug came after it had
virtually “stalled” at 14,000 feet.
Rapid City, S. D., July 28. —(AP) —
•pi? world's largest balloon, with three
intrepid airmen in the huge metaj
gondrl.'i, took off at 5:45 a. m., motinl
tain standard time, today for a dar
ing flight into the stratosphere.
The craft moved, straight upward,
r' arinf: the walls of the mountain
ous bowl from which it started in
about one minute.
ri'o take-off was entirely success
ful. and the balloon moved out north
east. Major William E. Kepner was
on top of the gondola as it moved
cut. Later, he will join Captain Albert
W. Stevens and Captain Orville A.
Anderson, inside the gondola.
A few minutes after the take-off.
tV men radioed “everything O. K.”
from an altitude of 7.400 feet.
Sponsored by the National Geo
graphic Society and the United States
Army Air Corps, the expedition aimed
at a new altitude mark of 15/Thiles
to study conditions in the unmapped
regions above the clouds.
Crowds estimated at 30.000 waited
throughout the night to witness the
ascent.
Democratic
Split Hope
For G. O. P.
Expect /Roosevelt to
Run in 1936 as “New
Deal” Man, Not as
Democrat
Dally DUpntch Unreal!
In the Sir Walter Hntel.
UV .1 r baskf.hvill
Raleighf July 28. —North Carolina
Republicans are talking Democratic
? p!it which gives the minority hope
» return to the presidency and
control of Congress as the Democrats
took it in 1912.
There is a local end to this hope,
too. Th" more progressive Republi
cans have been praying for a west
erner of the Lowden type, a regular
"tlio plays the game with the party
but >uees the hopelessness of attempt
ing to win with the old slogans. They
rp gard Borah with favor, but like
Lowden better, despite the ex-gover
not’s age. Thev have Mayor La-
Guardia, of York, to reckon
w ’ith. but he is too socialistic to get
f V dominant element in the party.
When the country gets a president
from the Republicans it generally
takes one on the mold of McKinley,
Loolidge, or Hoover, rather than a
Morris, a Borah or a Hiram John
son.
Rut there are feelers! in North
Carolina. Recently when Senator
b’.etcher made his attack on the New
Leal these observers watched the
f action over the country. There were
democrats and Republicans who felt
that common cause might be made
wn issue. But the rise w*hich Mr.
- p was not J imprelssibe
‘ nough to determine in North Caro
hna whether the Republicans in 1936
go left or right.
Republicans and Democrats think
President Roosevelt will be renomin
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paied to intervene if necessary to block country’s transformation into Nazi puppet state. Sarajevo, where*
World War began, is indicated. (Central Press)
General Strike Looms In
Cotton Textile Industry
Ten F ishermen On
Boat Lose Lives
Halifax, Nova Scotia, July 28.
(AP) —Ten fishermen were believ
ed killed today by *an explosion
aboard the Lunenberg schooner
“Astride w.” off the coast of Nova
Scotia. •
A /brief report of the disaster
came from the Danish steamship
Alssund which told of picking up
five survivors about 80 miles off
shore.
YOUNG DEMOCRATS
ATTACK M LAWS
Resolution Prepared for the
Asheville Convention
Calling for Repeal
Asheville, July 28.—(AP)—Plans of
the resolutions committee to submit
a resolution calling for repeal of the
State prohibition law shared interest
with election of officers as the Young
Democrat convention neared its im
portant business session this after
noon.
As drafted by the committee, the
repeal resolution reads:
“We consider the absolute prohibi
tion of liquor in North Carolina a
failure under prevailing conditions,
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HOPESFfKiER^
Officials at Oxford Rally
Thursday Optimistic
Over Prospects
Dfiit? Dispute*
In the Sir Walter Hotel.
BY J. C WASKER. VIMj.
Raleigh, July 28,-Oxford s rally
Thursday, at which James B. Hutson,
of the AAA in Washington and Gov
ernor Ehringhaus spoke, left the pic
; nic party which had gathere there for
the annual tobacco demonstration at
' the State’s experiment station, high
ly hopeful of a 20 or 21 cent price this
i y ear - . «
Mr. Hutson think the North Caro-
I lina growers are going to get it and
Governor Ehringhaus is shooting a
little higher. He thinks the planters
• ought to have 22 cents, he economic
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ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN
Threat Is Voiced in New
York by Thomas F. Mc-
Mahon, President of
Textile Union
NRA VIOLATED IN
ALABAMA, HE SAYS
Says Union Will Actively
Support Movement for 30
Hour Week; Vote for
Strikes Declared Sure Un
less Employers Show A
Willingness to Cooperate
New York, July 28. (AP)—The
threat of a general strike in the tex
tile industry was voiced today bby
Thomas F. McMahon, president of
the United Textile Workers of Amer
ica.
GHe made the assertion that textile
operators in Alabama were showing
“an utter disregard for the principles
of the NRA,” and said that his or
ganization would actively support the
movement for the 30-hour week.
Unless the employers ‘show some
inclination to cooperate with labor in
the adjustment of grievancse,”’ his
statement read, “the United Textile
Workers’ special convention, called
for August 13, will vote in favor of
strikes.”
siam™
Lawyers More Afraid of Ex
posure There Than in
Book Kept at Prison
Dally DUpntoli Barcnt,
In tbe Sir Walter Hotel.
BY J C- UASKERVILL.
Raleigh, July 28. Registration
books at the State’s prison enter
the names of visitors and attorneys
who appear in clemency cases, are
applauded as means of keeping a sense
of the proprieties and decencies pres
ent in the efforts to help prisoners,
but the pubblic hereabouts is going to
bank more on the State Bar, Incor
porated.
Registration of lobbyists has made
the practice more open, bbut how
much the evil lobbying has been re
duced it would be very hard to say.
But for the knocks which candidates
give each other in campaign years
there-is little advantage in the publi
city given to the lobbyists. They were
jujst as plentiful in 1933 as in 1929
and they will probably be more plenti
ful in 1935 than they were in either
of these years quoted.
The important thing which the State
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HENDERSON. N. C. SATURDAY AFTERNOON, JULY 28,1934
Daily Dispatch
THIS SECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA AND VIRGINIA
$1,129,533,000 Is
Claimed In Suit
New York, July 28. (AP) —A
and addition restitution of $5,000,-
000 was begun in United States
district court today against the
Grain Stabilization Corporation
and 32 other corporate and in
dividual defendants.
The complaint and statement of
claims were filed in behalf of Rob
ert A. Gilchrist, grain bbroker, of
New York. The complaint charges
that through chicanery and hypo
thecation, the Federal Farm Board
and the jgovernment had been
“cheated, swindled and defrauded.”
PRESIDENT WALKED
INTO HIS M TRAP
Many Answers Negative on
Questionnaire, “Are You
Better Off?”
By CHARLES P. STEWART
Central Press Staff Writer
Washington, July 28. —1 tis Presi
dent Roosevelt’s own fault if most of
the answers to his recent question
naire (“Are you better off than a
year ago?’’ etc.,) are purely destruc
tive in their nature.
I quote from one of the letters I
have received, in response to the list
of presidential interrogations.
Q Are you better off than you were
last year? A. Lots worse.
Q. Are your debts less burdensome?
A. No.
Q. Is your bank account more se
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HISTOICM IN
N. C. TO BE MARKED
State Conservation Board
Would' Tell Tourists of
What Is Here
Dally DUpntrfc Barra*.
In the Sir Walter Hotel,
BY J. C BASKERVU-T,.
Raleigh, July 28. —The movement
for proper marking of historic spots
of North Carolina, launched recently
by the Board of Conservation and
Development, has drawn widespread
favorable comment and offers of co
operation.
Those interested in developing the
State and in giving due recognition
to the historical background in which
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WEATHER
FOR NORTH CAROLINA.
Local thundershowers this aft
ernoon or tonight; Sunday gen
erally fair except probably show-'
ers on the southeast coast. ’
20 Years
Ago And
Now!
t
(By the Associated Press.)
Tvfenty years agotoday, Count
Leopold von Berchtold signed his
name to a 70-word manifesto—
the World War was on!
That document, penned at
Vienna, where army officers again
are poring over their maps, was
an open telegram from the Aus
. tro-Hungarian minister of foreign
affArs to the Serbians.
One of the shortest, mightiest
messages of history, it launched
a hurricane of hatred, which en
gulfed the world in a tidal wave
of blood. It embroiled 27 nations
and sacrificed more than 8,000,000
lives.
Guardsmen
In Control
At Kohler
“Model” Industrial
Village Shaken by
Two Dead, 40 Hurt
in Rioting
Kohler, Wis., July 28.—(AP)—Na
tional Guardsmen today hurried to
this turbulent “model” industrial vil
lage, where gunfire between deputy
marshals and strikers took two lives
and sent two score of persons to hos
pitals.
Lee Wakefield and H.
both of Shebcygan, were killed in a
battle last night between some 125
deputies and a throng of 1,200 strik
ers, villagers, curious spectators and
neutral employes of the strike-bound
Kohler Company plant.
Shortly after midnight, after streets
had been cleared by deputies using
tear gas, rifle and shotguns to check
stone-throwing at the huge plant, the
sheriff appealed for troops.
Young Lea
Free From
State Pen
Raleigh, July 28.—(AP)—Shaved,
bathed and clad in a suit of his ow
clothes, which was found only after
a search which delayed his departure,
Luke Lea, Jr., of Nashville, Tenn.,
wjalked as a free man from State’s
Prison here today after serving 80
days in stripes as a convict.
All necessary details required be
fore the young man could be freed
under a parole granted him by Gov
ernor Ehringhaus were completed at
11:40 a. m.
Twenty minutes later, he left the
prison.
“I couldn’t sleep last night; I was
sc elatedj” (Lee confided to news
paper men.
This afternoon he returned to the
prison to say goodbye to his father,
Luke Lea former United States sen
ator from Tennessee, who was con
victed with him and sentenced to six
to ten years.
Communists Driven Away
From Germany’s Embassy
Washington, July 28. (AP)—A
dozen policemen broke up a commun
istic demonstration today at the Ger
man embbassy by arresting five of
the pickets who were protesting
against Nazi persecutions in Germany.
Embassy officials refused to receive
a written protest which six other de
monstrator sattempted to present.
(There was no violence. Those ar
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Mussolini Rushes
More Soldiers To
Northern Borders
Holds Reins in Austria
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a-RwSSs
Camera study of Prince von Star
hemberg, monarchist leader, who has
been shoved into a leading role in
Austrian affairs, by events following
the Nazi putsch and murder of Chan
cellor Dollfuss.
imjisicT
Dramatic Happenings in U.
S. and World Since Presi
dent Went Away *
HE MUST TACKLE THEM
There is Confusion at Washington as
Labor Department and |NRA
Struggle for Hand in Di
recting Recovery
By LESLIE EICHEL
Central Press Staff Writer
New York, July 28.—Momentous
problems awit President Roosevelt’s
arrival on American shares August
2 at Portland, Ore.
Dramatic events have occurred in
his agsence—the most dramatic hav
ing been the San Francisco strike
and the so-called Vigilante raids fol
lowing it.
Beneath the surface, howeber, there
lhas been more. France has suffered
a severe financial crisis. Germany has
headed definitely toward revaluation.
And American securities have tum
bled in sympathy.
In ’the United S!|ates, a drought
has blighted millions of acres, cost
of libing has outstripped wiages, and
industrial production has declined
(athough good business has been
promised for autumn.
Bitter strugges between empoyers
and employes have been marked by
no real settlement (critics say..
What will the president’s words to
the nation ve? What action will he
take, or what action, can he take?
Those are questions repeatedly ask
ed of this writer.
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BASIC TROUBLE?
Agitators habe been blamed for the
San Francisco, Minneapolis
strikes. Persons in the Roosevelt ad
ministration who have made a study
of the labor problem and who un
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rested included three women and two
men. They were charging with parad
ing without a permit.
Eleven persons, representing as
many organizations, most of them
communistic, came to the mebassy to
present a document addressed, to Am
bassador Hans Luther, protesting
against conditions in Germany and
demanding that “persecution of the
JewisH people cease.’”
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TODAY
Rome Continues Greatly Dis
turbed Over Reports of . ,
Fresh Nazi Fighting
In Austria
MUSSOLINI IS NOW
THROUGH TALKING
Further Diploma,
tic Overtures Are Use
less; Determined to Lend
Prompt Hand in Defense
of Fascist Rulck.if
Thinks He is Justified
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Rome, July 28. (AP)—A second
wave of Italian troops started
northward today to support 48,-
000 men now concentrated on the
Austrian border, The Associated
Press has learned.
These reinforcements are not op
the border, bbut are within striking
distance of it. They were sent up
from military posts in th esouth.
Official military circles demonstrat
ed great uneasiness today as reports
from Austria showed the Nazi revolu
tion stil flamed.
Premier Mussolini is represented As
feeling that any further diplomatic
overtures can serve no useful purpose.
He appeared determined to lend A
prompt hand if he feels the situation;
warrants.
REBELLOUS ENEMIES OF
DOLLFUSS ARE DRVEN OUT
Vienna, July 28.—(AP,— Govern
ment rifles, machine guns and
lery drove the rebellious enemies of
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ISN'T 72
State Prison Expert Asked
$25 Fee as Witness, hut .
Did It Openly
Dally Dispatch Berea*.
In the Sir Walter Hotel.
BY J C. IIASKERVILL.
Raleigh, July 28.—Judge Henry
Grady’s “turning up” Finger Print
Expert F. D. Dorsey, of the State’s
Prison, vylsen the employee sought a
$25 a day fee as an expert, is not
to be regarded by the men over Mr.
Dorsey as a part of the “parole
racket” which got Morale Man Loomis
Goodwin and Guard T. B. Leake “in
bad’’ several days ago.
Mr. Dorsey had been a witness in
Judge Grady’s court and had put in
his claim before Judge Grady and
Solicitor J. C. Little, who tried the
case in which the prison expert ap
peared. But when Mr. Dorsey sent
the requisition down to Clinton to
get it back with the notation that it
would be sent to Governor Ehring
haus. His Excellency received it and
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Nazis Form
Lines Again
For Attack
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Driven Across Yugo
slav Border, They
Promise More Sue*
cess Next Time
Vienna, July 28. (AP)—Government
forces today smashed fighting Nazis
over the Yugoslav border in Styria but
a Nazi leader declared:
“If (the Nazi forces in) in Carin
thia can only hold the executive party
at bay until tonight, we shall be ready
to start a new putsch in Styria,and
this time, believe me, it will be moro
successful!”
While in Vienna thousands of mour
ners filed past the bbier of the slain
Chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss, whose
murder Wednesday was the signal for.
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