“HENDERSON gateway TO CENTRAL CAROLINA TWENTY-FIRST YEAR Georgia Tobacco Is 100% Higher * ***** * # ******* * • • • * ** **** . * , tiinaenburg Dying As Austria Accuses Germany 86 YEAR OLD HEAD JNCONSCIOUS FAST Hitler Visits German Presi dent as He Apparently Nears End of His Long Life FLANS FOR REVOLT FOUND IN AUSTRIA Captured Who Said He Was Paid SIOO for Bring ing Them from Germany; Dying Slayers of Dollfuss Shout Hitler’’ In Out cry Seen as Significant Neudeek, Germany, Aug. I (AP) _Th*- physicians of Reich Presi dent Paul von Hindenburg issued th«> following communique tonight. "Thf» president's weakness is in (•rcu >n three states, the 21-year-old student appeared at the home of his attorney. W. P. Morrison, and dis claimed responsibility for the death of Mins Mills at Norman, Okla., July 10. I committed no crime,” he cried. I just couldn’t face the disgrace.” Young Buyers fled from Norman following the death of the girl at the apartment of Mrs. Hazel Brown, a fra ternity house cook. Mrs. Brown told authorities the girl had been taking black medicine in an effort to avert motherhood. Mrs. Brown, after being held In jail a week, was released on $2,500 bond as a material witness. Mrs. Roosevelt Has 2 Narrow Escapes Eureka, Cal., Aug. 1. (£>)—Two nar 'ov; escapes from motor car collisions **** marked the vacation tour of Franklin D. Roosevelt in her lit— , e blue roadster. Twice an automo bile driven by Mrs. Frank Brennan, "if« of the collector or customs of ois port, nearly rammed Mrs. Roose s roadster, and each time the quick action of Lorena A. Hickok, her companion, wh THE ASSOCIATED press. NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA AND VIRGINIA. ONLY DAILY ers and smashed before it got started an organized movement to stop all truck transportation in defiance of military law. » With the National Guard in full con trol and occupants of the building dis persed, Adjutant General E. A. Walsh mapped a plan of action designed to break up any other unauthorized meet ing of strikers. “The round-up of these officials," said General Walsh, “was started be (Continued on Page Three) Five Large Balloons In Long Races Leave Birmingham In Northeast Direc tion in Competition For Honor Atlanta, Ga., Aug. 1 (AP) —One entry, the Goodyear VIII, was found in an Atlanta suburb today and three other bags were slowly moving eastward from here and the fifth bag was unreported in the Gordon Bennett international trophy race at Warsaw, Poland, in September. Birmingham, Ala., Aug. 1. (/P) —Five huge balloons raced today over the Southland with a cash price and a place in the international races at Warsaw, Poland, on September 23, as the reward. At the mercy of fickle air currents, four of the bags floated off in a north' easterly direction into the darkness from Legion field here last night, while a crowd of approximately 8,000 cheered. / A fifth, the navy entrant, went higher and caught a northwest wind. The balloons are without motive power and remained aloft only so lqng as enough of the gas with which they were inflated here remained to keep them up. The winner is determined by the air line distance from the starting point to where with the gas finally ex hausted, the balloon comes to a land ing. * HENDERSON, N. C. WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON, AUGUST 1, 1934 Roosevelt’s Ship Speeding to U. S. Aboard the Cruiser New Orleans, with President Roosevelt en route to Portland, Oregon, Aug. L (AP)— President Roosevelt was approach ing Portland Oregon, today wHI ahead of the scheduled pace. The President’s plan to land Fri day morning still stands. SKSn CIGAREHES TALKED Best Way For Farmer To Get His Share of Profits from Tobacco, Tobacco Chief Says 15 CIGARETTES FOR NICKLE SUGGESTED Special Consideration Would Be Given Package of That Type; AAA Expert Speaks at Farm and Home Week Audience Gathered At State College Raleigh, Aug. 1. (/P)—J. B. Hutson, chief of the of the Agriculture Adjustment Administra tion, today told farmers of North Carolina at the Farm and Home Week here that the AAA is ready to suggest for consideration ai erarduated tax scale for cigaretts which would en courage the production of a package of 15 cigarettes to sell at five cents. Explaining he was not assuming to state the administration’s policy, Hut son said, ‘‘We have given careful study to the general idea of reduc tion in tobacco taxs over a period of several months, and if a substantial reduction in the tax rate can be made we suggest consideration be given to: x x x x’’ He then outlined a proposal for three levies; three dollars per thous and on cigarettes, with a net whole sale price of more than $4.25 per 1,- 100; $2 per thousand on cigarettes selling between $3 and $4.25 per 1,000; and $1.40 per 1,000 on cigarettes with net wholesale price not more than $3 per 1.000, provided they are sold in packages of 15 cigarettes each.-’ ‘‘ln our judgment the above rate would more nearly accomplish the ob jective of tobacco growers for increas ed returns from their crop, than any other combination of rates that has been proposed,” Hutson said. G. W. Watkins, assistant chief of the AA A cotton section, told the farm ers that the future of cotton crop conrol aepended on cooperation from all the growers. “This is a case f all hanging to gether or all going back to ragged in dividualism,” he said. He predicted that the 1935 reduction program “will probably contine on lines similar to that for this year.” 7m Public More Aroused There Than In U. S. in Oppos ing Any New Fight By LESLIE EICHEL New York, Aug. 1* There is not much danger that England would go to war because of any squabble among continental European countries. Pub lic opinion in England is more arous ed than in the United tSates against war. One has only to read English news papers to see how strongly “Hands off!” has taken hold. England, like the United States, regrets having en tered the argument which became the World War. England lost more than (Continued on Page Three) ~WE4THER FOR NORTH CAROLINA Partly cloudy tonight and Thursday, with scattered local showers Thursday; not much i change in temperature. WHERE PRESIDENT STOPS IN WEST y.: ->"'■ ■... .... f % Jill pf »: ■ •• • nHHH my- BELTON I Going-to-th»-»un highway, Glacier National park,] l — 7 , __ 4nV/ * GLASOOvJi ■* >^==^s. r«*«»*>-) / / » -1 J|p^ » |B S f -Pz?- \ CUICAGCr V ILLINOIS . I I J Working on Bonneville An inspection trip at Bonneville dam, at Bonneville, Ore., is on the program for President Roose velt when he debarks at Portland, Aug. 3. A motor trip through Slacier National park, beginning Three Men Held In Death of Man At Rutherfordton Rutherfordton, Aug. 1. (AP)— Charles Whitner, 21, was found dead beside the highway west of Rutherfordton early today and three men who wfcre with him earlier in the night were being held pending an investigation. Whitner’s skull had been crush ed. Then men held are Paul Con nor, Wallace Hampton and Clyde Ledbetter. They said Whitney left them about midnight to walk home and they presumed he was struey by some vehicle on the road. Big Flaws In Recovery Plan F ound NR A Already in Rough Water And AAA Perceives Rough Water Ahead By CHARLES P. STEWART Washington, Aug. 1. (CP) Two serious flaws in the administration’s recovery program are beginning to demonstrate themselves in a fashion too noticeable for even the most opti mistic of administrationists to over look. They can’t admit, for publication, that they see them. Nevertheless, talking cnfidentially with NRA and AAA experts, one soon ascertains that they clearly recognize this couple of vital mistakes —and that it is open to grave question whether or not they can be corrected now before they have caused a deal of trouble. NRA already is in rough water. (Coßttaued oa rage Three) 156» PUBLISHED EVERY AFTERNOON EXCEPT SUNDAY. dam, Bonneville, Oregon. at Belton, Mont., on the follow* ing day, is scheduled. The fa mous Going-to-the-sun highway in the park, and progress on the dam are pictured in the layout shown above. BUYIOO,OOOIONS State Expects Big Saving by Delay in Shipments for New Rate Dnlly Diapntcti Burene, In the Sir Wnlter Hotel, hi 4 c BA9KERVILL. Raleigh* Aug. 1. —The State will purchase from 85,000 to 100,000 tons of coal for use in the public schools this winter, A. S. Brower, director of the division of purchase and contract, said today. Some of this coal has already been ordered shipped to some eastern points, since the contracts were sign ed for the coal several months ago. But shipment orders are being held up on virtually all coal for points west of Durham pending a reduction in freight rates on coal that will be come effective September 28, Brewer said. This reduction in freight rates will average about 20 cents per ton on all coal for points west of Durham and in some cases will amount to as much (Continued on Page Three) U. S. Hands Off In' New Orleans Row Washington, Aug. 1 (AP) —Acting secretary of War Woodring has in formed a representative of Mayor T. Semmes Walmsley at New Orleans that the War Department will take no action in the controversy between the city administration and Huey P. Dong. Woodring said today a representa tive of the Walmsley faction —whose name he did not obtain —telephoned him from New Orleans last night seek ing information of the department’s attitude. He explained no official request had been received from the New Orleans Mayor and that pending receipt of j such a request the department would J 6 1 PAGES TODAY FIVE CENTS COPY ofSemade FROM 20-22 CENTS Individual Piles Bring From Few Cents Up To 50 Cents as 1934 Season Is Started HEAVY BREAKS FOR ALL THE MARKETS Ten Cents Over Last Year’s Opening at Tifton, With 500,000 Pounds Offered And Prices 12 to 45 Cents; Great Interest In Price Trends Is Seen Valdosta, Ga., Aug. 1. (/p)_Marked improvement in prices over last year came in the first reports of the Geor gia tobacco sales, which began today at 15 south Georgia towns. Tifton reported that the actions opened there with more than 000,000 pounds offered. First row sales ran from 12 to 45 cents per pound. The Tifton Gazette said an unofficial es timate placed the average price at 10 cents a pound over last year. At the warehouses here more than 400,000 pounds were on the floors for the opening of the annual auction sales. Prices ranged from a few cents a pound to above 30 cents. At Statesboro price tags ranged from six to 40 cents per pound, and more than 125,000 pounds were on the floors of warehouses when the auc tions began. The Bullock County Times unofficially estimated an aver age price of 20 cents per pound. A quantity of tobacco offered at States boro came from South Carolina. The peak price at Baxley during the morning was 42 cents per pound, with the low six cents. It was ex pected that 65,000 pounds would be of fered at Baxley during the day. Moultrie reported that the tobacco prices there were running more thdn a 100 per cent up as compared with the opening day last year. Offerings totalled more than 500,000 pounds. The Moultrie Observer estimated an average of 22 cents per pound. Prices at Vidalia opened strong. Good lugs sold from 25 to 28 sents, better Jeaves bringing 30 to 40 cents, with a high of 50 cents per pound. Off grades were finding buyers at 20 cents. The sales started with 200,000 pounds on the floors at Vidalia and a string of trucks at each house to be unloaded. Interest in the sales at Valdosta centered on the price cards laid on piles of the flue-cured leaves. After the sing-song chant of the auctioneers (Continued on Page Three) Oklahoma Bank Is Robbed, President Kidnaped by Gang Wayne, Okla., Aug. 1 (AJP)—Two men robbed the First State Bank of Wayne shortly after it opened today, kidnaped V. V. Hane, president, and escaped with an undetermined amount of cash. No shots were fired. A. third man drove the sedan used by the robbers. Haney was released unharmed after 15 minutes. It was the 12th bank robbery in Oklahoma this year. take no official action. if 7; ADDITIONAL POLICE ARE SWORN IN BY THE MAYOR New Orleans, La., Aug. 1 (AP)— Further answering the challenge of Senator Huey P. Long’s militia mobi lization south of the city, Mayor T. Semmes Walmsley today called 500 additional police to duty from the civil service list, swelling the local consta bulary force to 1,400 men. Full arms, including riot guns, were issued to the augmented force at head quarters. All officers now on leave were recalled to duty and 12-hour po lice shifts were decreed for the first (time here in 15 years.