'HENDERSON
gateway to
CENTRAL
CAROLINA
TWENTY-FIRST YEAR
Luke Lea Is Permitted
Freedom From Prison To
i Attend Funeral Os Son
Goes by Automobile as Far
as Asheville, Thence by
Train to Home At
Nashville
placed IN CUSTODY
OF PRISON GUARDS
Tennessee Authorities Will
Have Charge of Noted
Prisoner After He Crosses
State L»ne; Fred L. Seeley
of Asheville, Goes Bond of
SIO,OOO
Raleigh. Aug. 4 '(AP) —Luke Lea left
State Prison under temporary parole
this afternoon flt 2 o'clock in the cus
tovd of Jack Roach, director of the l
prison division, en route to Nashville,
Tenn.. to attend the funeral of his son,
Percy Lea.
Roach will take Lea by car as far as
Asheville, where Lea will b egiven into
custody of Oscar Pitts, of the prison
department for the trip to Nashville
and return to Raleigh.
Arrangements were completed this
afternoon for the release of the pris
oner. !
Lea. former “Maker of governors”
and financial wizard in Nashville, was
allowed to go to Tennessee under the
escort of one North Carolina officer.
Two Tennessee officers, and Fred
Seeley, of Asheville, a bondsman and
personal friend of Lea.
Governor Hill McAllister, of Ten
nessee. this afternoon advised Edwin
Gill. State parole commissioner, that
he would instruct Benton McMillan,
chief of the Tennessee highway patrol,
and Laurence Bauman, sheriff of
Pavidsnn county. Tenn, to meet the
party from North Carolina at Hot
Springs, N. C.
tthen the party goes into Tennessee,
Lea will technically leave the custody
of North Carolina officers and be in
the hands of the Tennesseeans.
Governor Ehringhaus, on vacation
cruising near Acracoke, had previous
ly announced the terms under which
he would free Lea, who is serving six
to ten years for bank law violations.
The parole gives Lea the privilege
of going direct to Nashville for the
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Gang Hunted In
Los Angeles for
Warning Letters
Lo., Angeles, Cal., Aug. 4. (JP) A
tfar.g known to police only as “the
tric is being sought in connection
an extort.'oi plotd irected against
I've rnillionnuires, among them Wil
•lrn F G?tt!f. Beverly Hills old man,
vho was kidnaped last May and freed
the payment of a ransom
The.s earch for the gang was dis
''•"’sed today as Investigators for the
11 rif* stforney’s office attempted to
f race letters in which $60,000 in cash
’A.-:s demand*?! of the five men
Resides Oettle, the men who recelv
(Op thif-ats were Pen
filri impressario; E. L. Doheny,
oil king; J. j. Doyle, oil and fight pro
rnoter. and Ora Monnette, vice presi
dent of the Bank of America.
Police «aid none of the five intended
’ !cr -ims were greatly alarmed 'but all
tavf take- steps to protect them
selves.
5 Negroes
Being Held
In Assault
But Officers Hunting
Still for Man They
Believed Attacked
Mrs. Wilson
Louisburg, Aug. 4. (Jp) — J. H. Boone,
rianklin county tax collector, said to
f | \ that five Negroes were being held
’’’ CUS) tody in an unannounced jail on
‘ suspicion that one or more of
criminally assaulted Mrs. J. B.
'Lon, of near Ingleside, yesterday.
* c * on ’t know the names of any of
'■ men, and we won’t say where they
ar c> Boone said. ‘‘We are not sure we
Java the right man yet, but we are
holding five Negroes.”
Sheriff f. N. Spivey was still con
unuing the manhunt In the section,
Boone said, which indicated that it
w as thought the perpetrator of the
attack had not been caught.
Hetriteramt Datlit Btatmirlt
Press Wins Fight
Bp
m r
Judge Jay W. Harlan, above, police
judge of Danville, Ky.. gave up his
daily sentencing of Jack Durham and
Wesley Carty, reporters on the Dan
ville Daily Messenger, for contempt
when they persistently refused to
break a newspaper confidence. The
judge dropped the case against the
two reporters yesterday when he de
clard the case settled.
TWO MEN SHOT IN~
TRUCKMEN STRIKE
Ice Cream Truck Driver Lets
Loose Bullets at Attack,
vng Pickets
THEY HAD STONED HIM
Twenty Pickets Defying National
Guard, Stationed Three Blocks
Away, Swarm Over Ice
Cream Truck
Minneapolis, Minn., Aug. 4. (AP)
—Two men were reported shot and
wounded by an ice cream truck
driver today in another outbreak
of violence in the truck drivers’
strike.
Leo Holscher, driver for an ice
cream company, reported to the
National Guard that he had fired
a shotgun at strike pickets stoning
his vehicle. One of the stones, he
said, struck him in the back. The
pickets escaped.
Twenty pickets defying the National
Guard, stationed only three blocks
away, swarmed over the truck, while
Holscher, the driver, was In a nearDy
building.
He returned to seize a shotgun,
squeezed the trigger and drove the at
tackers off. Earl Collins and George
Schirts, with minor buckshot wounds,
later were admitted to a hospital
where they were treated.
Jack Dempsey Is
Proud Father of
A Baby Daughter
New York, Aug. 4. (/P) —Mrs. Jack,
Pempsey, former Hannah Williams,
singer, today became the mother of a
7 1-2 pound daughter. The baby was
born at Polyclinic hospital and the
mother and child were reported to be
doing well. The baby’s father is the
former heavyweight champion of the
world.
Deposed B. & L. Head At
Columbia Kills Himself
Columbia, S. C„ Aug. 4. (JP) —Arm-
ed with two pistols, John E. Black,
former executive of the Security
Building and Loan Association of Co
lumbia, set out today apparently to
attack its ten directors, but ended by
fatally wounding himself. :
Black fired two shots at O. Frank
Hart, grand master of South Caro
lina Masons, and one of the directors,
before thrusting one of his pistols
against his own chest and firing a
bullet, wlhich penetrated his heart.
Hart was unharmed by the bullets,
which were fired in his office, in the
heart of the business section. The
Masonic leader told police he seized
one pistol which Bmcx attempted to
draw from a hip pocket, and was
standing at window unloading it when
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HENDERSON, N. C. SATURDAY AFTERNOON, AUGUST 4, 1934
Ouster Target
Mayor A. G. Bainbridge
Ouster proceedings have been begun
against Minneapolis’ mayor, A. G.
Bainbridge, on the gi-ound he was
“misled into acts which resulted in
shooting and killing unarmed men,”
during truck drivers' strike. Bain
bridge is fighting the action.
( Central Press J
KEMP D BATTLE TO
NEW CONSTITUTION
Rocky Mount Man, Former
State Bar Head, To Di
rect Educational
Drive This Fall
EHRINGHAUS NAMED
HONORARY CHAIRMAN
Clifford Frazier, .Honorary
Vice-Chairman; Dr. Frank
Graham Among Leaders;
Aim Is To Acquaint People
With Proposed New State
Constitution
Dully DfHiintob Brireim
In the Sir Wnlter Hotel.
BY J. C BASKISBVH.I,.
Raleigh, Aug.. 4.—Kemp D. Battle,
former president of State Bar Asso
ciation, has been selected as active
chairman of the organization which
will direct the educational campaign
in North Carolina for the adoption of
the proposed new State constitution
which will be voted upon in the No
vember election, it was announced
this afternoon by Dr. Frank P.
Graham, president of the University
of North Carolina, chairman of the
committee named to select the offi
cers of this campaign committee. It
is regarded as rather significant that
Mr. Battle is from Rocky Mount, he
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Four Policemen
Are Suspended by
Wilson’s Manager
Wilson, Aug. 4 (AP)—Four Wilson
police officers were suspended by City
Manager W. W. Wiggins today pend
ing a hearing before the board of ald
ermen at which they will be charged
with receiving and accepting rewards
for their own persona use instead of
depositing them in a pool for division
among all department members at
Christmas time, as is the custom here.
The men, Detectives L. T. Lucas and
J. C. Fulghum, and Officers J. C.
Pittman and J. E. Gregory, are under
stood +o have received $660 as their
share of rewards in solving a mail
truck robbery here last October in
which they recovered a $50,000 money
shipment.
Black pulled another pistol from a
box under his arm and fired.
Hart said he ducked and the bul
let missed him. With Andrew Brown,
elevator operator, and L. C. Shaw, of
Columbia, a passerby, who heard his
.-call for aid, Hart broke from the of
fice and took refuge In a room on an
other floor.
Hart said he heard Black fire two
more shots after they escaped. One
was believed to be the bullet which
took hisl ife. He died shortly after
noon at a local hspital.
Plice said they found a letter In
the association, and asserting:
“In taking the Security Building
and and Loan Association, that I con
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JUSTICE HEADS TO
{TO DETECT CRIME
Department’s Scientific
Equipment Set-Up Will
Surpass Even Scot
land Yard Work
IT WILL’TRANSLATE
clues to Evidence
New Laboratory Will Have
Equipment Far Superior to
That Established in 1932;
Violet Ray Will Bring Out
Hidden Imprints; To Test
Bullets
Washington, Aug. 4 (AP) —The De
partment of Justice is creating a lab
oratory for scientific crime detection
that will surpass Scotland Yark.
To translate clues into evidence in
the national war on evildoing, it will
have specially designed microscopes,
precision instruments, violet ray de
vices, fluoscopic machines and many
other aides to the modern sleuth, offi
cials disclosed today.)
The division established its first
laboratory in 1932. The new one will
contain equipment far superior.
Calling the Department of Justice
the ‘‘American Scotian dYards” is an
under-statement from some stand
points. For example, the department
has on file 4,460,000 fingerprint record
cards, as against only 500,000 at Scot
land Yards, and about 1,500,000 at the
Paris Suret. Scotland Yard, of course
confines its work largely to the Lon
don area and does not cover the na
tion.
Sorting over 4,450,000 records cards
would be a hercul'ean job if it were
not for the fact that prints can be di
vided atnd sub-divided according to
characteristics. The new system, ap
plied to only 22,000 cards thus far, pick
out the desired ones automatically
Invisible writing tg Ad stuff to the
laboratory experts. A violet ray ma
chine brings out the hidden imprints.
e A special microscope compares min
ute markings made on bullets when
projected through agunbarrel.
The apprehensions of a high offi
cial who received sometime ago a
suspicious package through the mails
were allayed by the fluroscoptf, it
showed the parcel contained a gift
gavel, not a bomb.
Railroads
Will Test
Pensions
Washington, Aug. 4, (AP)—The
assiciation of Railway executives
have disclosed that the major rail
roads of the nation have under
preparation an injunction suit to
challenge the constitutionality of
the new compulsory railroad law.
An announcement made by R,
B. Fletcher, general counsel for
the association, indicates the
challenge will be based primarily
on the contention that regulation
of pensions does not fall within
the scope of interstate commerce.
The suit is expected to be filed
in District court within a few
days.
Medical
Soldiers
Entrain
Columbia, S. C., Aug. 4. (AP)—
Approximately 1,200 National
Guardsmen from five states left
Camp Jackson today to make
room for a like number of others
who will begin tomorrow a two
weeks training period similar to
that just ended for the first group.
Before returning to their homes,
troops of the 116th Field Artillery,
Florida National Guards, and the
105th Medical Regiment, composed
of North and South Carolinians,
Georgians and Tennesseeans, were
paid $30,000 in drill allowian«M« for
their fortnight in camp.
WEATHER
FOR NORTH CAROLINA
Partly cloudy tonight and Sun
day, wfith local thundershowers
this afternoon or tonight in east
portion and In extreme west por
tion Sunday-
Hitler Orders Reichstag
To Convene On Monday For
Him To Justify His Power
First u. S. "Sky Train” Starts
Carrying mail for Philadelphia,
II Baltimore and Washington the
country’s first “sky train” leaves
Floyd Bennett Airport, New York.
§ll The train consists of the “locomo
-111 tive” airplane and three motoriess
| gliders, one of which is dropped off
mat each destination. Each glide?
H carries a pilot and one hundred
pounds of mail.
(Central Press)
-.jap*' Brißsya
Dynamite Is Found
Close To Track Os
Roosevelt’s Train
Spokane, Wash., Aug. 4. (AP) —
A sack of dynamite and percus
sion caps found lying near the
railroad right of way over which
President Roosevelt’s train passed
early today ledt o extreme pre
cautions of Federal and county of
fivers to avoid any attempt
against the Presidential train.
Roosevelt’s train passed over the
ioKcted
Mrs. O’Berry To Name First
of Cities To Get Relief
Packing Plants
Daily Dispatch Barca*.
In the Sir Walter Hotel.
BY J c. BASKEUVIIiL.
Raleigh Aug. 4.—Location for at
least two relief beef canneries are ex
pected to be decided upon some time
today ‘by Mrs. Thomas O’Berry, State
FERA administrator. She declined to
state this morning just where the first
canneries would be located. It was
learned, however, that George Ross,
director of rural rehabilitation and
thus in direct charge of allocating all
of the 75,000 cattle being shipped into
the State and in selecting sites for
beef cannries, has recommnded that
canneries be established in both Ashe
ville and Greensboro.
Mrs. O’Berry intimated that she
would probably approve the recom
mendation for locating one cannery In
Greensboro, but that there were sev
eral matters holding up her decision
with regard to a cannery in Asheville.
“We would like very much to have
a cannery in Asheville, ‘but have not
yet received a contract from the city
of Asheville,” Mrs. O’Berry said. “In
addition, there are several other mat
ters involved with regard to Asheville
that have not yet been ntirly worked
out. We are hoping, however, that
he able to locate one of the
canneries there, since one of our prin
cipal stock concentration and fuaran
tine yards is located there.
Cities desiring canner?3S must agree
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spot, two and a half miles south
west of Spokane, without any un
toward incident.
The explosives wfere discovered
by a Union Pacific agent four days
ago, who became suspicious of
three men he saw depositing a
package. Sighting through a watch
tower door, the agen* directed
searchers to the spot where the
“cache” was hidden In the brush.
PROPAGANDA 'HPRP
One Phase Is
Kind, Other of Austrian
“Sacrifices’*
By LESLIE EICHEL
New York, Aug. 4. (CP) —Perhaps
the man at the New Jersey seashore
is correct: He said to the writer of
this column:
“You go ahead writing how Europe
is spreading propaganda to try to drag
us into another war.
“But you don’t think Americans
ever would go into another European
war as long as they remember the last,
do you?
“You dont think we’d go over to
fight for France, do you,
“You don’t think any politician
would risk his life by trying to lead
us into a war, do you?
“No, sir—Americans won’t be trap
ped into another European war. There
aren’t enough jails to. hold 120 million
objectors”.
** * j
The Propaganda
European propaganda in America is
persistent.
It has two phases.
One is of the sob-story kind, telling
of the heroic sacrifices of the Austrian
Fascists.
The second is of this type, by cor
respondents in some staid American
papers:
“Pans asks backing of Austria by
U. S. Hopes for strengthening of
‘moral isolation’ of Germany’s posi
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, TODAY
moSto
LADD HIiENBURG
But Address Will Be Mainly
of Political Nature, Main ■
Eulogy To Come
on Tuesday
WILL ATTEMPT TO
PLACATE COUNTRY
Precipitate Action in Assum.
ing Absolute Power on
Hindeinburg’s Death Thurs
day Will Be Discussed Be
fore All-Nazi Reichstag of
German Nation
Berlin Aug. 4. (JP)— Adolf Hitler,
seeking to consolidate his position as
‘‘the new Napoleon”, summoned the
“all- Nazi-Reichstag” to assemble
Monday for a memorial service to the
late President Paul von Hindenburg.
Chancellor Hitler’s address, it was
intimated, will be of a political nature
with a direct eulogy of von Hinden
burg reserved for Tuesday at Tannen
berg. • •
Because of the unusual circum
stances of his coup d’etat, whereby he
merged the offices of president and
chancellor, Hitrer was believed to be
Intending to seize the occasion to jus
tify his assuftiptkm of th power of a
monarch.
From the Reichstag rostrum Der
Fuehrer is expected to util!*e what
may be his best opportunity to justify
in a guarded way to the German peo
ple and the world his precipitate ac
tion of Thursday immediately after
Von Hindenburg’s death.
Austrian
Nazi Will
Fight On
(Copyright by The Associated Press)
Somewhere on the Yugoslav
Border, Aug. 4. (AP)—Konstantin
Kammerhofer, chief of staff of the
Austrian Nazi armed forces, told
The Associated Press today that
the Nazi rebellion in Austria has
\ only just begun.
Louisiana’s
Metropolis
Very Quiet
Long and Walmsley
Armed Forces Face
Each Other In Bit
ter Dispute
New Orleans, La., Aug. 4; (£*)—
Swords rattled !r scabbards today on
the New Orleans political war front,
but nothing happened
There was grimness in the unused
machine guns of National Guardsmen
called out by Senator Huey P. Long
and Governor O. K. Alien and a poten
tial menace in the rifles and side arms
of Mayor T. Semmes Walmsley’s spe
cial police, but the martial atmosphere
ended there.
The troops were entrenched in the
martial law zone of the city registra
tion office, and the mayor’s forces
swarmed in the offices just across the
park.
Bums slept peacefully In the park
nearby and citizens began to joke
about the farcical warfare now going
Senator Long announced at Baton
Rouge that he was “going off” on a
fishing trip.’’ i
Mayor Walmsley, sticking to his
post post in New Orleans, continued ta
issue staccato orders to his police to
repulse militia attacks, which never
, materialised- . . *