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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<!rif He is gradually losing
■wuriousness. His heart is slow
ing."
HITLFR PLIES TO HOME OF
HINDENBURG FOR HIS VISIT
Neudeck, Germany. Aug. 1. (^zp) —
P-«i(ienf Paul von Hindenfcurg. with
86 years of life benind and death be
'■ led close ahead} was visited by
Chancellor Hitler tcday.
The former field marshal, said his
physician, had grown weaker during
tne night, but retaining full conscious
ness; the chancellor the man who
once served in von Hindenburg’s
armies as a corporal -came to his bed
sido from Berlin by airplane.
At 12:20 p. m., the physicians an
nounced .
"Condition as compared to this
morning is unchanged. Full conscious
ness remains. Toward noon the patient
took light nourishment.”
It was shortly afterwards that Hit
ler and an entourage arrived by auto
mobile from the airport at Marien
burg Thp motorcade comprised nine
automobiles. Each carried seven men.
Most of them were members of the
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Student
Gives Up
To Lawyer
Oklahoma City, 0k1a.,! Aug. 1. UP)—
Facing death charges in the death of
Marion Mills, former University of
Oklahoma beauty queen, Neil Buyers,
young pharmacy student, surrendered
to his attorney today after eluding of
ficers three weeks.
Tired and worn from his wander
in f> >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<y was at the wheel,
fc/ened a crash At the city limits
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Hungarian empires indicated by shadings.
'Central Press)
Leaders Arrested
In Truck Strike
Soldiers Enforcing Martial Law Order in Minneapolis
Raid Headquarters of Group Attempting To Prevent
Trucks From Moving in the City
Minneapolis, Minn., Aug. 1 (AP) —
Heavily armed troops in quiting truck
drivers today raided the central labor
union, where scores of men and wo
men were found.
Twenty army trucks with guns and
machine guns lined up outside the
building and the guardsmen took con
trol of the place.
Minneapolis. Minn., Aug. 1. (AP) —
Men in khaki with guns on wheels
seized headquarters of striking truck
drivers today, arrested the ring lead
SEME ED PURCHASE
MORESCHOOL BUSES
300 Additional Chassis To
Be Bought Later, Com
mission States
Tlflllr Di»pnt«-fe SateAfl,
In th«* Sir Wnlter Hotel,
BY J. C. BASKERVI 1,1,.
Raleigh, Aug. 1. —The State School
Commission is going to 'buy 300
chassis for school buses in addition to
the 450 purchased last week, it was
learned today at the offices of the
commission. All of the 450 bought
last week are of the short wheel base
type, commonly known as the 15 foot
chassis type. They will be equipped
with bodies that will carry about 50
children.
The 300 trpck3 to be purchased later
on, however will be lareer and with a
longer wiheel base, most of them of the
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Mrs. Brennan drove her car from a
side street onto the driveway directly
in front of the roadster. Miss Hickok
swerved the car barely in time to
avoid the collision. A few minutes
later, as Miss Hickok was making a
left-hand turn, Mrs. Brennan tried to
cut her machine in between the blue
roadster and another car following
closely behind. Miss Hickok stepped
on the throttle and again avoided a
crash.
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THE ASSOCIATED press.
NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA AND VIRGINIA.
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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
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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
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FOR NORTH CAROLINA
Partly cloudy tonight and
Thursday, with scattered local
showers Thursday; not much
i change in temperature.
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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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.