HENDERSON
GATEWAY TO
CENTRAL
CAROLINA
TWENTY-FIRST YEAR
RAILROADS LOSE FIRST SKIRMISH OVER PENSION LAW
$150,000 Ransom Is Ready
To Be Paid The Kidnapers
Os Rich Brewer In Canada
10IKER CARRIES
HUGE RANSOM FOR
RELEASE OF MAN
Sister Reveals Movement in
Effort Io Obtain free
dom of Rich John
S. Laßatte
FOLICE EXPECTING
DEVELOPMENT SOON
Toronto and Ontario Offic
ers Refuse To Elaborate
on Their Plans; Ransom
Money Is Drawn London,
Ontario, Bank To Be Paid
To Abductors
Toronto, Canada, Aug. 15 (AP)—
The provincial criminal investiga
tion deportment today cancelled
*1! holidays and leaves, mobilizing
every investigator to bring back
the kidnaped .lohn Laßatte alive.
TOO MUCH WATCHING FOR
CONTACT TO BE MADE NOW 7
London, Ontario, Aug. 15 (AP)
—Claude Savage, spokesman for
the family of the kidnaped John
$. Laßatte, stated today that con
tacts eannot be made in Toronto
with the kidnapers because of the
large number of interested persons
following the movement of Hugh
Laßatte, brother of the missing
man.
The time limit set in the $150,000
ransom note that threatened
death to the kidnaped brewer was
reached early this afternoon with
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NRA Prosecution
In South Carolina
Has Been Started
Columbia. Q. C., Aug. 15. (JP) —
Lawrence M. Pinckney, of Charleston,
state NRA compliance director, an
nounced the arfest today of Bartley
P McEntire as the first move to
prosecute alleged NRA violators in
South Carolina.
Pinckney and William Burgurson,
of Charleston. United States marsh/l
for the eastern district, served a war
rant on McEntire at the office of the
Capital City Casket Company at Case,
' v bich he heads.
The warrant charged seven viola
tions of the general suppply codee
marshal impounded the books of
the firm, and left with McEntire for
a preliminary appeamnce before tn«
United States commissioner at
Orangeburg in the absence of tb£
commissioner here.
Tobacco Is
Still Higher
In S. C. Belt
Day’s Averages Ap
parently Even Bet
ter Than Tuesday;
Quality Improved
Lake City, S. C., Aug. 15. (IP)—' To*
haeco prices made a further advance
° n the market here today. The first
hour and a half of sales was at an
average of $24.60 per hundred. There
wer ® 450,000 pounds on sale.
Yesterday’s sales
pounds at an average of $23.35 per
hundred.
REST QUALITY OF SEASON
OFFERED AT TMMONSVILLE
Timmonsville, S. C„ Aug. 15. (IP)—
quality of tobacco delivered to
th& auction warehouses here today
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Hbmforamt Batlu StsmtlHr
Pastor W ins Bout With Snake
’ .ii’s
J North „
i AAYLVA RALEIGH
e •charlotte.
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Albert Teester, preacher in a church
of the Holiness sect in the North Caro
lina mountains near Sylva, used a ve
nomous rattlesnake in his pulpit to
illustrate a sermon on faith and was
bitten. He writhed in agony a week
from the poison, but has virtually com
Tugwell Says South Must
Decide Future Os Cotton
Tells Group at Clemson College That Temporary Acre
age Reduction Program M ust Be Made Permanent;
New Control Plan D eclared Essential
Clemson College, S. C., Aug. 15. (JP)
—The South itself must decide its
future policy on cotton, including the
part it will play in the world market,
Rexford G. Tugwell, under secretary
of agriculture, said here today.
The temporary acreage reduction
program must be transformed into
something of a permanent policy, he
asserted, and the decision must be
made in time to influence 1935 spring
planting.
As to the part the South may play
the world market in the future, Tug
welel said: “I doubt if you will care
MELT (M^
If Business Must Pay The
Taxes, It Wants Right
To Make Money
By LESIAE EICHEL
New York, Aug. 15. (CP)—President
Roosevelt’s frank response to his bus
iness critics at Green Bay, Wis., did
not satisfy those critics. They say
that they admire his frankness but
still desire an outline of policy, so
that a course can be charted.
Prior to the speech the managing
head of a good-sized business made
these remarks to this writer and these
views are fairly representa
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LAST OF MARINES
LEAVE FROM HAITI
Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Aug. 15.
( Xhe United States Marine
Corps exacuated Haiti today, the
last detachments sailing at 9 a.
m. aboard the Argonne and the
V. S. S. Briggs.
ONLY DAILY
LEASED WIRE SERVICE (IE
the associated press
NEWSPAPK R PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OP NORTH CAROLINA AND VIRGINIA.
HENDERSON N. C. WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON, AUGUST 15, 1934
pletely recovered,, and preached last
Sunday. On Tuesday he spoke over
a nationwide radio hook-up and is in
great demand for revival meetings.
Teester recovered from the snake bite
after refusing all medical attention
in accordance with the tenets of his
church.
to enter into world competition again
for six-cent cotton.’’ adding, "but that
is a problem for the future.
With the world supply of cotton
now near normal proportions, the un
der secretary said, the American
grower must face the clear-cut deci
sion of constructing a new control
plan to determine “the annual pro
duction which we can expect to dis
pose of at home and abroad, without
disastrously depressing prices.”
Tugwell spoke at Clemson College,
in the home state of Senator E. D.
(Cotton Ed) Smith, who led the Sen
ate fight against his nomination.
HITLERISM LIKELY
TO LEAD TO FIGHT
National Press Club Thinks
U. S. Will Not Get Into
This One
By CHARLES P. STEWART
Washington, Aug. 15. (CP) With
Congress off watch, Washington’s
principal source of speculation con
cerning America’s interest in the
threat of war in Europe is tne Na
tional Press club.
Perhaps the Press club isn’t so very
unreliable a cross section of public
opinion throughout the country, at
that.
The club’s membership today is far
more sophiscated one. internationally
speaking, than it was in 1914. Then,
in all candor, it knew mighty little
of old world conditions. At present
it includes a considerable number of
writers who can fairly be regarded
as first class authorities on foreign
affairs; of associates who have serv
ed in diplomatic capacities abroad; a
sprinkling even, of representatives of
the army and navy; and, of course,
scores of reporters who have a pretty
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Ever since the glacier retarded
northward and uncovered Niagara
Falls, the mighty cataracts have
been slowly committing suicide by
steadily cutting backward until
eventually they will become mere
rapids. Latest step in this self
destruction is the crashing of
hundreds of tons of rock from
SEEI MOVE FOR
■SALARY INCREASES
23,000 Teachers Want More
Pay, Together With 5,_
000 Highway Com
mission Workers
REGULAR EMPLOYEES
OF STATE TO SHARE
And Legislators Had Better
Get the Money from Some
where and Give It To
Them; Officials Joining in
Demand for Paying Larger
Salaries
Dnily IJlupatoli 3n^fl«.
In th* k Sir Walter Hotel.
BY J n IIA SKEBVILL.
Raleigh, Aug. 15. —Members of the
1935 General Assmbly are going to
hav to increase presnt appropriations
at least $4,000,000 a yar with which to
raise* the salaries of 2ftyjJ)o '.school
teachers, 5,000 highway department
employees and some 3,000 other State
employees, if they ever want to come
back to the General Assembly again.
And most of them want to come back
again and again. But the big ques
tion they are going to have to solve is
where to get this additional $4,000,000,
There is no doubt that terrific
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Roosevelt
Goes After
Profiteer
Washington, Aug. 15 (,/p)—President
Roosevelt gave notice today that
‘chiselers” seeking to profiteer in food
prices as a result of the drought
would have to reckon with the Fed
eral government.
Speaking at his regular newspaper
conference, Mr. Roosevelt, in response
to inquiries, asserted there was plenty
of food for the nation and no excuse
for profiteering or for any alarm by
consumers.
He expressed little \donoern that
there would he profiteering, but made
it plain that all such cases would be
met by government action.
He also said Federal agents were
intensifying vigilance over the grain
and produce exchanges to prevent
undue speculation in food stuffs
which might jopardize natural prices.
TviSjpr
FOR NORTH CAROLINA
Generally fair tonight and
Thursday.
the crest of the famous Horse
shoe Falls on the Canadian side.
The rocks hurtled down into the
gorge, 160 feet below, leaving a
cavity 100 yards in length and
about 15 to 20 feet in depth.
Constant pressure of the roaring
Niagara river furthers the work
of erosion which goes on hour bf
Alleged Slayers Rowan
Rich Fanner Are Taken
Bids Opened For
New Navy Ships
Washington, Aug. 15 (AP) —Be-
fore the naval high command, Sec
retary Swanson today opened bids
for construction of the first fight
ing craft under the program to
raise the navy to full treaty power >
Under this year’s construction
program, 24 ships will be laid down.
Proposals from private yards were
opened today for the building of
half of these, including two cruis
ers, seven destroyers and three sub
marines.
Estimates from navy yards, which
will construct the remaining doben,
were held confidentially and were
not opened publicly.
The first bids were for a 10,000-
ton cruiser carrying eight-inch guns
which under the London naval tre
aty cannot be laid down before next
January 1. One contract will call
for completion by January 2, 1938.
smmM
Federal Figures on Retail
Sales in North Carolina
Enlightening
Dally DMpatcß fiareaa.
11l the Sir Walter Hotel,
ny -I C. y\SKRRVII,L.
Raleigh, Aug. 15.—North Carolina is
collecting the sales tax on retail sales
almost 100 per cent, according to the
figures of the U. S. Department of
Commerce showing total retail sales
iri North Carolina for 1933 and taking
into consideration the number of
exemptions allowed under the North
Carolina law, it was pointed out to
day by officials of the State Depart
ment of Revenue.
Total retail sales in North Carolina
for the calendar year 1933 amounted
to $363,207,000, according to figures
just released by the U. S. Department
of Commerce. Retail sales in the
State in 1929 amounted to $653,419,000,
the figures also show, a decrease of
44 per cent from 1929 to 1933.
If the three per cent sales tax was
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ROOSEVELT STEERS
CLEAR OF CAMPAIGN
Washington, Aug. 15 (AP)—
President Roosevelt, in response
to inquiries at his regular press
conference, said today he is tak
ing no part in any primary fcam
uaign, regardless of any press
dispatches or statements hitherto
published. ...
published every afternoon
EXCEPT SUNDAY«
hour. It is only occasionally that
great chunks break off of suffi
cient size to change the contour
of the falls. Such a crash oc
curred at the American Falls, in
1931, developing a large curve.
Arrow at left shows the change
in the American falls; right, the
recent cleavage point..
Lowell Massie and Roland
Allen Wounded by Posse
In Mountains Near
Lynchburg
TAKEN AT HOME OF
FATHER OF MASSIE
Men Are Captured After
Flight; Alleged To Have
Shot Will Reeves In Ro
wan County After Search
ing Farm Home Posing as
Convict Guards
Lynchburg. Va., .Aug. 15. (#*>—
Wounded with buckshot from a po
liceman’s gun, Lowell Massie, 23, and
Roland Earle Allen, 21, were brought
out of the mountain fastness of Nel
son county this morning to face mur
der charges in North Carolina.
The reputed bad men were captur
ed at the home of Massie’s father
after a posse had kept an al-night
vigil.
SOUGHT FOR KILLING OF
WEALTHY FARMER IN ROWAN
Salisbury, Aug. 15. (TP) —Roland Al
len and a companion known here as
Jack Massie, or Massey, have been
sought by officers of this county since
the night of August 9 Following the
killing of Will Reeves, prosperous
farmer of Morgan township.
The two men who said they were
convict guards went to the Reeves
home and said they were seeking
allowed to search the house and cov
ered the first floor. A slight argu
ment ensued, and the two men went
out the front/ door and a fw moments
later Reeves was killed by a pistol
bullet while he was standing inside
th front door. The men fled.
T AR HEELYOUTHIS
Elizabeth City Boy Also Ac
cused Under Mann Act
In Norfolk
Norfolk, Va., Aug. 15. (/P) —Bervel
Colson, of Elizabeth City, N. C., ar
rested yesterday under the new “Lind
berg law” was ordred today held for
the Federal grand jury under $25,000
bend by United States Commissioner
Karry A. Brinkley, after a prelimin
ary hearing.
The young man is charged with
kidnaping last August 8 Janice Wals
ton, seven-year-old daughter of Srr.
and Mrs C. P. Walston, of Norfolk.
He also faces charges of violation
of the Mann white slave act and the
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TODAY
FIVE CENTS COPY
ORDER RESTRAINING
OPERATION OF LAW
REFUSED BY JUDGE
Holds Roads Not In Danger
of Sufficient Damage
For So Speedy Rul
ing As Asked
FURTHER HEARINGS
WILL EE DELAYED
Probably Will Be Several
Weeks Before Matter Is
Taken Up Again; 150
Roads Join In Court Action
Staying Act Passed By Re
cent Congress
Washington. Aug 15. (JP)—' The rail
roads of the country today were deni
ed at emporary order in District of
Columbia Supreme Court to restrain
the railroad retirement board from
starting operation of the pension law
passed by the last session of Com
gre3s.
Judge Proctor, after b«ing told by
Hammon Chaffitz, representing the
attorney general, that the board con
templates tisking only enough ad
vance of funds by the railroads to
start administrative work, held that
the railroads were not in danger of
sufficient damage to warrant a tem
porary order.
As a result of the decision, further
hearings on the case probably will not
be held for several weeks.
One hundred and fifty of the larger
railroads have attacked the retirement
act on the ground that It violates the
commerce laws of the Consitution be
cause it was not a regulation of in
terstate commerce, and also the fifth
amendment by being arbitrary in de
priving the carriers of property with
out due proeesfe of law,
BANKHEAD WANTS TO
PEG j COTTON PRICES
Washington, Aug. 15. (AP)—
Suspension of all processing taxes
and pegging the price of cotton at
the present 13-cent level was rec
ommended to Presidnt Roosevelt
today by Senator Bankhead,
Democrat, Alabama,
- ,
Shenandoah Park
Deeds Presented
U. S. Government
Washington, Aug. 15. (JP) —Deeds to
the Shenandoah National Park in
Virginia were accepted today by Sec
retary Ickes of the Interior Depart
ment, conditioned upon their approval
by the attorney general.
Ickes proposed an additional con
dition that the residents of the para
area who already, have not moved ou*
should be vacated as soon as possible.
He told newspaper men, however, that
he and William E. Carson, chairman
of the Virginia Conservation and De
velopment Commission, had “an un
derstanding’’ about that.
“We will cooperate in getting the
people out of the area,” Ickes saia.
Carson presented the three leather
bound gold-embossed deeds to 188,000
acres in eight Virginia counties to the
secretary without any formal cere
mony.
Conventions
For, Against
Sales Levy
Commissioners (Fav
or, Labor Opposes
State Tax; Both
Meet in Asheville
Asheville, Aug. 15. (JP) —Adoption of
a legislative program, including ac
tion upon the controversial sales tay
issue, and consolidation of small coun
ties loomed today as the major busi
ness before the State Association of
County Commissioners and County
Auditors.
The association, entering the sec
ond day of its three-day convention,
devoted this morning to reports and
speeches, but prepared to consider
several controversial resolutions at Its
meeting tomorrow morning.
Resolutions endorsing the sales tax,
advocating legislation granting boards
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