HENDERSON
GATEWAY TO
CENTRAL
CAROLINA
TWENTY-FIRST YEAR
MILITARY RULE IN
iNNEAMGETS
Governor Olson’s Action In
Truck Drivers’ Strike Up
held By Federal
Jurists
INJUNCTIONSOUGHT
BY TEN EMPLOYEES
Three United States Judges
Hand Down Decision Aft
er Long Study of Case Fol
lowing Hearing Thursday;
Governor’s Authority Is
Upheld
Minneapolis, Minn., Aug. 11 (AP) —
The Federal court today upheld the
legality of Governor Floyd B. Olson’s
military rule in the truck drivers’
strike in refusing ten protesting em
ployees an injunction against con
tinuation of the decree.
The decision, handed down by Judge
Gunnar H. Norddye, Joseph W. Molley
naux and John B. Sandborn, was un
animous and was signed by all three
jjurists.
Employees attacking the legality of
the governor's martial rule edict, and
the administration of it by the military
had requested first a temporary re
straining order and then a permanent
injunction. Application for a court
writ was filed early this week.
A hearing was held Thursday and
the three judges spent the entire time
from late Thursday until late last
night in considering their ruling.
The decision upheld the governor’s
authority to take over the metropolis
under military rule and administer the
city's affairs as he saw fit.
Mussolini Meets
Von Starhemberg
For Conferences
Fome. Aug. 11.—(AP)—Premier
Benito Mussolini and Ernst von
Starhemberg. vice chancellor of
Austria, met at Ostia today and
conferred shortly after the Aus
trian official had arrived hy air
plane from Vienna.
The conference was in a tent in
an encampment of Austrian boys
who are having a vacation at the
expense of /the Italian govern
ment.
Official quarters had denied
that von Starhemberg wias com
ing to Italy tef confer with II
Duce.
SEED CRUSHINGS IN
YEAR ARE SMALLER
Washington, Aug. 11. —(AP) —Cot-
tonseed crushed in the year ending
July 31 was reported today toy the
Census Bureau to have totalled 4,-
111.058 tons, compared with 4,620,558
tons the previous year and cotton
seed on hand at mills July 31 totalled
224639 tons compared with 220,938
tons a year ago.
Tobacco In
First Week
Above 21c
Border .Belt Growers
Count Rosy Re
turns From Two
Days of Selling
/By the Associated Press.)
Tobacco farmers of North Carolina
and South Carolina today took holl
d!W with warehouses closed and
counted up their rosy returns from
sh,! first two days of the 1934 crop.
F r ed C. Stewart, sales supervisor at
lake City, S. C., today reported that
this week on that market were
*>98,824 pounds at an average of $21.50
Per hundred. TJWis compares with
sales for the firs£ week last season
of 633,086 pounds at an average of
$11.20 per hundred.
Official figures on the opening
breaks at other markets were expect
ed today, but they already knew that
increased demand, a government
shortened c"op and late curings had
)T ought them a flow of gold Un
dreamed of, despite pre-opening pre
dictions of prices far above parity.
Unofficial averages on total sales
markets of somewhere in the
neighborhood of 5,000,000 pound 3
ralnged between s2l and $22 per hun
dred pounds—approximately 100 per
cent above the figures for the same
time last year. And this despite un
usually poor ar.d light offerings.
Himfrrrsmi Hailii Btsnalrli
U S. Moves Billion in Gold for Safety
%£ jjjj ,1 jfl
“ 3UII * rancisco mint Hop;, amounting to SI,oUU,UUU,UOO, is being moved to the mint at Denvpt*
(below) as a precautionary measure. The metal, which is stored in bars and bags as shown is bein?
moved to get it out of an area sometimes visited by earthquakes. Treasury officials explain. They denv
apprehension over possible seizure during an attack by a foreign power or ia an uprising. y
(Central Pres*}
Baxter Convicted
ForFirst Degree
J. B. Willis Gets 25-Year Sentence in Chatham Superior
Court; Both Convicted in Slaying of J. B. Routh,
Siler City Business Man; Death Sentence Given
Pittsboro, Aug. 11.—(AP)—Harry
Baxter was convicted of first degre«
murder and J. B. Willis of second de
gree murder by a Chatham county
Superior Court jury today in the fa
tal shooting July 9 of Hal C. Routh,
Siler City business man. Both defen
dants are 20-year old convicts.
Baxter was sentenced to die Oc-
CANADIAN EVENTS
BOOST ROOSEVELT
Gouging of Poor by Rich
Denounced by Cabinet
Minister There
By LESLIE EICHEL
Central Press Staff Writer
New York, Aug. 11.—A curious
thing occurred in Canacxa the other
day—to the advantage of the Roose
velt administration. It occurred un
expectedly, but greatly strengthened
the Roosevelt administration with
“Big Business.”
The Canadian Minister of Trade
and Commerce, Harry Stevens, issue
a statement charging the “unservp
ulous financiers and business men
had exploited Canada's consuming
public, starved her producers, sweat
ed her workmen, gouged ner pulp and
paper and other industries and had
left the country faced with a choice
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Registration In
New Orleans Ends,
Troops Stay
New Orleans, La., Aug. 11.—
(AP)—The city registration office
was closed promptly at noon to
day on the deadline of registra
tions for the September 11 con
gressional primary without the
National Guardsmen who have
been in charge of the office for
13 days showing any sign of with
drawing.
The usual eleventh hour rusn
marked the last morning for the
office to remain open, but there
was no diporder.
Agreement was reached under
which Mayor T. Semmes Walm
sley’s forces will maintain two
watchers in the office over the
week-end, a final tab being mane
on Monday. _ .
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HENDERSON N. C. SATURDAY AFTERNOO N, AUGUST 11, 1934
tober 12. while Willis was sentenced
to a prison term of 25 to 30 years.
Motion of appeal was made for Bax
ter, who will be allowed 40 days to
perfect it.
The jury received the case late yes
terday and returned the verdict a*-
9:55 o’clock this morning. Judge M. V.
Barnhill complimented the jury and
said he concurred in the verdict.
ifoRESSM S
What It Considered Strong
Evidence Barred by
Judge Oglesby
Wilkesboro, Aug. 11.—(AP)— The
prosecution in the case of five moun
taineers charged with murdering 18-
year-old Deota Childress today was
overruled in an attempt to prove
Luther Tilley, one of the defendants,
had tried to destroy specimens of the
girl’s handwriting.
The evidence was contained in tes
timony of Mrs. Hill Cox, sister of the
slain girl, was heard in the jury*
absence, and then ruled out by Judge
John M. Oglesby as irrelevant.
The witness said a box filled with
letters from her sister was destroyed
when fire burned her home 20 miles
from the Tilley home three days after
the slaying.
She said the fire started in the wifc*
chen, where there had been no fire
the night before.
She said she had seen Luther Til
ley lurking near her home a short
time before, and that she heard him
tell a companion:
“There she is now.”
Cuba Post Office
Employees Sttike
To Get Back Pay
Havana, Aug. 11 (AP) —Employees
of the Cuban Post Office Department
went on strike this morning, paralyz
ing not only the mail service, but also
the government telegraph system.
The employees are demanding three
months back pay and dismissal of per
sons who were allied with the admin
istration of Former President Mach
ado.
Officials of the department said
they expected to settle the strike dur
ing the afternoon, and that a partial
telegraph service was being maintain
ed in the interior.
WALIACE BLAMED
Department of Agriculture
Experts Never Thought
Anything of Idea
By CHARLES F. STEWART
Central Press Staff Writer
Washington, Aug. ll.—Secretary of
Agriculture Henry A. Wallace ecid
edly is on the defensive, in connec
tion with Jhis «rop reduction pro
gram, which the widespread drouth
e-rtainly is beginning to make look
mighty ridiculous, as tot h© wheat
yield, anyway.
It is no secret that permanent of
ficials in the agriculture department
never did think well of the plan.
While not in a position to be too
critical of administration policies and
hold their jobs, they also are, con
fidentially, exceedingly skeptical of
the proposition that much of the so
called wheat beit really is submar
ginal land, for chop-producing pur
poses, and ought to be surrendered
back to cattle raising.
As departmental wheat specialists,
under pledge of strict anonymity,
analyze the situation:
Most of the American wheat coun
try always has been a region in
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LABOR OBJECTS TO
HARRIMAN DECISION
Washington, Aug. 11 (AP)—
NRA’s labor advisory board, head
ed by William Green, took to Hugh
S. Johnson’s office today a com
plaint that the agreement restor
ing the blue eagle to the Harri
man Hosiery in Tennessee was
repudiation of the workers.
Heat Dead
Mounts To
Total Os 50
(Chicago, Aug. 11.—(AP)—The
mid-continent counted more than
10 dead today as th© result of the
tremendous heat.
Some sections received relief
yesterday from the rains. Others
continue to swelter.
Seventeen additional deaths
were reported, four in St. Joseph,
Mol, eight in St. Louis, one in
Memphis, Tenn., two in Chicago
Sd two in Oklahoma. Earlier in
9 week 36 victims were listed,
including 11 in Texas, and seven
in Nebraska.
"WEATHER
FOR NORTH CAROLINA.
Probably local showers tonight
g-gd Sunday*
Aluminum Strike Marked
By Serious Disorders In
The Pittsburgh District
Burlington Plant Told
To Reinstate Four Men
Fired On Union itating
£
Case Will Be Turned Oyer Hindenburg in Death
to NRA Compliance Di-
FIFTH MAN ALREADY f >!
PUT BACK TO WORK F r' 1
Company Statement Says He j |M| f ;
Was Laid off Temporarily
for Learner To Use His Ma-
Company Is Involved in the J|
tional Labor Relations Board today ''Jil
ordered the Foster Knittin Company. lßm||||k ||l
Inc , of Burlington, N. C„ to reinstate v .gTSS
within seven days four employees it
said were discharged because of union
activities. f
The board found that Woodrow Wil- This death mask of the late field
son, Werner Hohlfeld, H. L. Alcox and marshal and President Paul von
Theodore Melton had, in effect, been Hindenburg was made at Neu
discharged by the company because deck, shortly after his death, by
as their union affiliation and that as the noted German sculptor, Pro
i result the company had violated Sec- fessor Phorak.
Lion 7A of the NRA act.
It ruled that unless the men are re- *
instated within a week the case would HHI IHHf”H 01 110101” 141'
be referred to the compliance division |WM|UHLU VI Ml |||L |m
>f the NRA for appropriate action. 111 U |\LJ I11 ijLllLllUE-. 11l
Five employees of the company were
not taken back when the mills at Bur- ■ IJ|| lift ft 141 11 1 OJ I
ington reopened after a short shut- \| A f|mT \|M hIA VU
town. Originally J. R, Holbert was |\| H I II ill Ij 111 I lflljn
rncluded in the complaint, but the **■ Il* I
joard found that since that time Hoi-
>ert had been taken back and placed
>n hi sreguiar job. Young Farmer Shoots His
The company, in a statement to the D . , £ n ,
abor board, said that Holbert had Bride Or 21 Days and
nerely been given a temporary lay-off Then Shoots Himself
n order that a learne rmight he given
:raining at his machine.
~ THEY HAD QUARRELED
rotal Jobless In
. Willard Ferrell, 22, Said To Have
Nation Estimated
At Only 7,000,000 Pna " Arreßt
Rocky Mount, Aug. 11 (AP) —Mur-
Washington, Aug. 11 (AP) — De- der and suicide has been returned to
nouncing ‘current exaggeration” day as the coroner’s • verdict in the
of unemployment, the Chamber of death of Willard . Ferrell, 22, Nash
Commerce of the United States to- county farmer, and Elsie Glover Fer
day estimated* the nation’s total roll, 20, his bride of 21 days,
jobless at 7,000,000. The American Ferrell, witnesses told Coroner M. G.
Federation of Labor has placed Gulley, of Nashville, walked up behind
the figures above $10,000,000. his wife as she strolled along a county
he Chamber, through Its Wash- highway late Friday afternoon, send
Ington review, said exaggeration fired two loads of shot into her body,
of the problem had an “unsettling one striking her in the shoulder and
influence,” and added that its esti- the other in her head. Then he walk
mate included many persons who ed 500 yards in the direction of his
were “unemployable.” mother’s home and killed himself.
Conceding that all unemploy- Neighbors said that the couple had
ment figures were only estimates, quarreled since their marriage and
the Chamber further contended the last week Mrs. Ferrell had her hus
number of jobless who were with- band jajiled for disorderly conduct,
out work because of “business Ferrell told a relative he intended kill
conditions” was not more than five 1 ing his wife and himself, Deputy She
million. riff J. H. Griffin said,
Case Will Be Turned Over
to NRA Compliance Di
vision After Seven
Days Expire
FIFTH MAN ALREADY
PUT BACK TO WORK
Company Statement Says He
Was Laid off Temporarily
for Learner To Use His Ma
chine; Foster Knitting
Company Is Involved in the
Action
Washington, Aug 11 (AP) —The Na
tional Labor Relations Board today
ordered the Foster Knittin Company,
Inc., of Burlington, N. C., to reinstate
within seven days four employees it
said were discharged because of union
activities.
The board found that Woodrow Wil
son, Werner Hohlfeld, H. L. Alcox and
Theodore Melton had, in effect, been
discharged by the company because
of their union affiliation and that as
a result the company had violated Sec
tion 7A of the NRA act.
It ruled that unless the men are re
instated within a week the case would
be referred to the compliance division
of the NRA for appropriate action.
Five employees of the company were
not taken hack when the mills at Bur
lington reopened after a short shut
down. Originally J. R. Holbert was
fncluded in the complaint, but the
board found that since that time Hol
bert had been taken back and placed
on hi sreguiar job.
The company, in a statement to the
labor board, said that Holbert had
merely been given a temporary lay-off
in order that a learne rmight be given
training at his machine.
Total Jobless In
Nation Estimated
At Only 7,000,000
Washington, Aug. 11 (AP) —De-
nouncing ‘current exaggeration”
of unemployment, the Chamber of
Commerce of the United States to
day estimated* the nation’s total
jobless at 7,000,000. The American
Federation of Labor has placed
the figures above $10,000,000.
he Chamber, through its Wash
ington review, said exaggeration
of the problem had an “unsettling
influence,” and added that its esti
mate included many persons who
were “unemployable.”
Conceding that all unemploy
ment figures were only estimates,
the Chamber further contended the
number of jobless who were with
out work because of “business
conditions” was not more than five
million.
Smoky Mountains Highway
Finest Os Scenic Routes
Government Expert Says It Will Have No Superior
Anywhere, and Most of It Will Be In North Caro
lina to Reach Greatest S cenery Marvels of Section
Dally Dispatch Bare*.*.
In the Sir Walter Hotel.
BY J. C B4SKERVILL
Raleigh, Aug. 11. —The park-to-park
scenic highway, on which surveys will
start next week in North Carolina,
will be the finest scenic highway in
the world and untold value to North
Carolina according to R. Getty Brown
ing, chief locating engineer for the
State Highway and Public Works
Commission, who has already (been
over much of the route of the pro
posed highway in Virginia, where the
preliminary survey has almost been
completed. He plans to leav© in *
few days to join the National Park
Service and U. S. Bureau of Pudiu/
Roads engineers when they arrive in
Mount Airy to start their first sur
veys of the proposed route from tne
point whetre it crosses jfche North
Carolina line on to Blowing Rock.
The route from Blowing Rock on
to the Great Smoky Mountains Na
tional Park has not yet been de
finitely determined, present plans
calling for the route to turn back
pver into Tennessee. But many are
PUBLISHED EVERT AFTERNOON
EXCEPT SUNDAY,
still hoping that when definitely de
termined, most of the highway route
will continue along the crest of the
mountains in North Carolina to the
National Park Area.
“We have the greatest opportunity
we have ever had almost in our lap
right now and will have it there per
manently if we do not muff it,”
Browning said. “I have been through
almost all of the national parks and
mountain systems in the United
States and hav e talked with people
who have visited all of the outstand
ing beauty spots both in this and
other countries. And I am convinced
that when the park-to-pajrk scenic
highway is completed it will rival
anything either in this or any other
country. I am also convinced that if
it is to be a real scenic highway, as
President Roosevelt said he wanted
it to be, that most of it will have to
be in North Carolina.”
Mr. Browning has either driven or
walked over every mile of the pro
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PIGKETS FORM AS
ONE IS ARRESTED
Closed Shop Contract And
Recognition of Union as
Bargaining Agency
Demanded
LABOR BOARD FLANS
FOR LONG STRUGGLE
Strike Said to Reach 15,000
Workers; Baden Plant In
This State, Subsidiary Os
Aluminum Company, Not
Affected Yet; 425 Are
Employed There
Washington, Aug. 11..—(AP)
William Green, president of the
American Federation of Labor,
viewed the next step in the alumi
num strike as a concession by the
Aluminmn Company of America
to bargain collectively or inter
vention by the * National Laboi.
Relations Rolard.
“I feel the Aluminum Com
pany refused to bargain collec
tively when it replied to the de
mands of the workers *y letter,”
Green said. “The men will stand
there until the management indi
cates a willingness to bargain col
lectively. (pr tlie J labor relations
board steps in.”
Pittsburgh. Pa.. Aug. 11.—(AP)—
Picket lines surrounded three strike
closed Aluminum Company of Amer
ica plants in the Pittsburgh district
today, marking the first day in an
employees’ walk-out in which two
men have already been injured and
another arrested.
Representatives of the nearly 4,000
employees att he company’s plants at
New Kensington, Arnold and Logan’s
Ferry are demanding through their
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Two Convicts Are
Slain In Louisiana
In Trying Escape
Baton Rougaf, La., Aug. IL—
(AP) —Two convicts were today
reported by Penitentiary Manager
R. L. Heims, to* have ben shot .
and killed when 13 prisoners
broke from she State peniten
tiary at Angola.
The prisoners killed were Ray
mond Candler and Bill’ Bryan,
both long-termers. Six of the es
caping convicts were wounded
and caught and the remaining
five surrendered later.
Heims described the break as
a concerted and apparently pre
arranged dash for liberty by a
detail of the “red cap” gang of
“incorrjgibles” working in a gar
den after breakfast.
Large Scale
Inflation Is
Now Feared
Observers Raise Eye
brows at “For the
Present” Reserva
tion jn Policy
Washington, Aug. 11.—(AP)—A de
cision to issu e currency to the full
extent permitted by the law against
certain silver in the Treasury prompt
ed spculation today whether a si
milar policy would be applied to fu
ture purchases, which might put more
than a billion dollars of new money
into circulation.
The Treasury’s surpris© announce
ment last night, a sharp change of
policy, applied to a comparatively in
significant amount of silver held in
the Treasury when the new silver
purchase law was enacted. Its impor
tance pointed to the possible future
course under the huge silver pur
chase permitted under that law.
Observers raised their eyebrows at
threq words in the Treasury announce
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