HENDERSON
GATEWAY TO
CENTRAL
CAROLINA
TWENTY-FIRST year
ROOSEVELT PLANS
TO HOLD INFLATION
FOLLY IN CONTROL
Refrains from Becoming an
Anti-Inflationist to Hold
the Rabid Element
in Line
WHITE COLLAR MAN
IS BEING CRUSHED
Set* Himself Intimidated on
All Sides and His Stand
ards of Living Declining;
Roosevelt’s Biggest Job Is
To Satisfy Divergent Ele
ments
Rv CHARGES P. STEWART
(Central Press Staff Writer)
Washington. Aug. 20. President
Roosevelt evidently Is deiermined not
|ot currency inflation get beyond
control and overdo itself
Hp does not say so. for the equally
bnvious reason that inflation (more of
•,t than he seems to believe in) mani
fp.q]y is n mighty popular idea in
manv parts of the country.
If he were to give the impression
that he is an anti-inflationists, infla
tionaiy forces in Congress might pro
ceed to inflate “ah lib" in spite of
him By acquiescing in just a little
inflation now and then, however, he
Ins succeeded thus far in keeping
•hem. if not exactly satisfied, at least
from taking the bit in their teeth and
running entirely away from him.
This, to impartial nonpartisan eco
n,.mists <1 have talked with many of
them), appears to be the purpose of
his recent silver nationalization pro
zram. All agree that it does no* real
ly inflate much;; still, it has some
slight effect, and. moreover, is a
placatory gesture toward the infla
tionists.
* * *
Senator Elmer Thomas of Okla
homa is Congress’ chief inflationist;
he ha. an agricultural constituency.
A farmer is a natural inflationist
anyway. If he is a good farmer, he
producer, the bulk of everything he
requires on his own land, and does
net have to buy much. Consequently
high prices are comparatively imma
terial to him, as a purchaser. Essen
tially hp is a producer; is a producer;
high prices for what he has to sell
principally concern him.
Unluckily, however, the farmer did
tun heavily into debt during the war
period He was getting maximum
figures for hi.s crops then, and was
doing his utmost to expand, in order
to produce more, and thus make still
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Says ‘Dry’
To Oppose
Mr. Bailey
Giles Sees Undoing
of Senator for Fav
oring Repeal Cause
Last Year
UnJly Dispatch Bureau,
In (lie Sir Walter Hotel,
Raleigh, Aug. 20. —Former State
Senator D F. Giles, whose infrequent
trips to Raleigh always carry muen
politics, says United States Senator
J W Bailey will inherit opposition in
s he 193* primary.
Mr Giles, who voted against re-
P ea '. thinks that Mr. Bailey, who vot
?d for it, will draw his opponent from
’ h * anti-repealers rather than from
New Dealers. Ass popular as
President Roosevelt is, Mr. Giles
fhinks it would he harder to run oui
hifi champion and beat Bailey with
than it will be to trim the
Sleigh man with a good; prohibition
■sts. The MacDowell Democrat askea
a 'so about Senator Bob Reynolds who
with having attached the
Marion lawyer to the 107,000 majority
,p ceived in 1932. Being for repeal
not hurt Mr. Reynolds, Mr. Giles
seems to think. He expects it to ruin
Mr Bailey.
ri, e lawyeb does not admit chat he
y l ' get into the race against Mr.
ailey, but there is something of th&
alley militancy about him. It was the
senator’s passionate demand that
’’cnator Simmon’s have opposition
which eventually landed Mr. Bailey
imself into the thickest of the battn*.
Chief Justice Stacy, Associate
.Lstice Brogden, Ex-Governor Me
or almost any other man been
y !? ng to try Mr. SimmonS that
•.onvn*e and not Mr. Bailey would
been sitting pretty in Washing
y Mr. Bailey never got off the
yinline—opposition to Senator Sim
yons. He just had to have it and
M Bailey to furnish it.
r Giles talks that way now.
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ibmfterenn Batin Btauairh
Hitler Fights For Support
Os Foes In Sunday Election
Huey Says It With Gestures
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i he fiery “Kingfish," Senator Huey Long, addresses a special session oi
the Louisiana legislature on behalf of his “spite" bills that may cripple
the power of the anti-Long city government of New Orleans.
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Food Merchants To Help
Keep Living Costs Down
Family’s Grocery
Bill Is Climbing
Washington, Aug. 20. (JP) —Gov-
cri inent figures show that Amer
ica’s average family paid 51 cents
more on July 31 for a month’s
supply for 14 foods than it did on
April 24.
The Farm Administration don.,
sumers* Council said today that Db
cause of the drought prices rose
from sl7 75 to $18.26.
Ranks with Best of Them
and is One of Only 14
Over SIOO,OOO
Daily Dispatch Bureau.
In the Sir Walter Hotel,
Raleigh, ug. 20— Mecklenburg paid
more than three quarters of a millin
dollars in sales taxes the first year
of its operation, almost doubling the
next highest, barely failing to treble
the third high county, and contribut
ing more than 400 times as much as
Clay county, the smallest of them
all.
The department of revenue has
compiled the figures) itemizing the
payments of 100 counties into the
fund of $6,011,700.16. Only 14 coun
ties gathered a total of SIOO,OOO each,
but Mecklenburg with its $772,696.66
paid more than 12 per cent of the en
what they are about, Mecklenburg’s
tire fund. And if the observers know
1935 delegation, with full knowledge
of the burden borne by that county,
will be less hostile to that tax than
the 1933 Mecklenburgers, who put up
100 per cent fight against the enact
ment of the emergency measure.
Guilford with Greensboro
and High Point, the biggest pair of
cities and county claims, paid $399,-
643.19. No other county came within
SIOO,OOO of this mark. The immense
business done by Forsyth and Guil
ford is but partially reflected in
figures, Forsyth’s massive merchan
try in tobacco naturally being scat
tered all over the world.
Clay county collected only $1,838.81
Camden is next low with $3 996.58.
The Piedmonters do the heavy pay
ing. The eastern cities, relying eo
much on agriculture do not match
the western, which do much more
trading, he Treport will furnish an
interesting basis for coming leg
islation.
The 14 counties which paid SIOO,OOO
or more were Alamance, Buncombe,
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only daily
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THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN THIS
HENDERSON. N. C. MONDAY AFTERNOON, AUGUST 20, 1934
Prices to Consumer Rising
More Rapidly Than
Prices Paid to the
Producers
TO WAGE CAMPAIGN
UPON PROFITEERING
Roosevelt’s Move To Get
Feed for Livestock To Be
Hut Into Effect; Southern
Farmers To Profit Big If
Price of Cotton Goes Much
Higher
Washington, Aug. 20. (/P) —Food
merchants promised today to help the
government half the growing spread
between the prices the farmer gets
and the consumer pays.
The drought effect on the cost of
living has aroused several United
Utates agencies. Officials indicate
♦hat the prices the housewife pay r
across the counters of stores were
rising even more rapidly than prices
paid to the producers.
The National Food and Grocery
Distributors Code Authority pledged
its support to the Agriculture De
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Tobacco In
Georgia Is
Lower Now
Approach of End of
Selling Season Sees
Customary Slump
In Averages
Atlanta. Ga., Aug. 20. (JP) —The av
erage price paid for tobacco in Geor
gias' 14 bright leaf markets during
the week ended August 17 mapped to
$14.38 per pound, H. K. Ramsey, sta
tistician of the State Department of
Agriculture, announced today. The
average price for the second week of
the season was $20.45 per hundred and
for the first week was $22.62.
Sales during the third week totalled
6.893,032 pounds, compared to 20,053,-
604 pounds last year. The average
price per pound during the third week
in 1933 was 9.80 cents per pound.
During the opening week this year
-6.966,738 pounds were auctioned, and
the second week saw sales of 15,247,-
178 pounds. »
Sales to date ranged around the 30,-
000,000 pound mark. The government
maximum production allowed Georgia
for the year is around 40,000,000
pounds. w , i
Must and Will Succeed In
Winning Them for Na.
tional Socialism, He
Declares
WANING POPULARITY
IS SEEN BY MANY
Sunday’s “No” Vote More
Than Twice Number Cast
Last November; Also
Greater Than jn Reichstag
Vote; 35 Major Districts
Increase Opposition
Berlin, Aug. 20. (/P)—Adolf Hitler
today took cognizance of the one out
of ten votes in opposition in yester
day’s plebiscite, with tned eclaration:
“We must and wll succeed in win
ning over the last 10 per cent of the
people for national socialism”.
Hitler thanked the Nazis for “yes
terday’s glorious victory, for which all
sections have done marvelous work”.
“We shall,” he declared, “carry on
with fresh courage. We must and
shall succeed in winning over the last
ten per cent of the nation for national
socialism. That will re our last and
crowning victory".
INCREASING OPPOSITION
IS SEEN AS SIGNIFICANT
Berlin, Aug. 20. f^PV—Germany has
given Adolf Hitler a 30,000,000 vote
“ja”. .
The Sunday’s one-m»u election,
called to let the people say by ballot
if they approv’d Chanecllor Hitlr’s ac
tion in making himself upon the death
of President von Hindenbrug as presi- i
dent, too, the vote was:
“Ye5’'—38,362,760; “n0”—4,294,654;
“invalid"—B72,296.
Some see in these preliminary of
ficial figures a waning in enthusiasm
for Hitler pointing out that yester
day’s “no" votes were more than twice
the number as were cast in last No
vember’s plebiscite. Attention is also
called to the sharp decline in the
volume of Nazi party votes as com
.pajod with the November voting.
In the November plebiscite, there
were 43,453.000 “ja" votes.
In the November Reichstag vote the
Nazi vote was 43,453,000.
With but few exceptions the 35
major voting districts produced in
yesterday's election fewer “ja” votes
than were cast in November. Some
observers sees this as a failure of the
German voters to respond to the ap
peal of Nazi orators during the past
few days that a large affirmative
vote be cast so that the woHd might
know the nation is solidly behind
President-Chancellor Hitler.
John D. Waldrop Critically
111 In New Bern After
Auto Injury
New Bern ,Aug. 20. (/P) —John D.
Waldrop, chief engineer fqr the State
highway department, continues to lose
ground at St. Luke’s hospital, where
he was taken Saturday for treatment
of injuries sustained in an automobile
accident. Dr. S. F. Patterson, at
tending physician, described Wal
drop's condition as “very grave” but
has not yet given up hope for his re
covery. Waldrop has been unconscious
since the accidenj.
C. J. Hayes, whot ravels for an ad
vertising concern, and who was driv
ing the car which collided with Wal
drop, is under SSOO bond pending the
outcome of the latter’s injuries.
WEATHER
FOR NORTH CAROLINA
Generally fair tonight and Tues
day; slightly cooler in north and
west portions tonight.
Insull Denied Separate
Trial From Colleagues
Chicago, Aug. 20. (JP) —Samuel In
sull, Sr., was refused a severance to
day and ordered to stand trial with
his 16 co-defendants September 18 on
the charge that they used the mails
fraudulently in marketing Corpora
tion Securities Company stock.
Insull had asked to be tried sep
arately, assuming responsibility for
the conduct of the investjnent house,
and its calamitous crash, arvs pleading
that a trial lengthened by the multi
plicity of defense might endanger his
health. _
SECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA AND VIICTNIA.
Called by Death
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Speaker Henry T. Rainey, one of
greatest leaders in Congress, died sud
denly of an attack of angina pectoris,
or heart attack, in St. Louis early
Sunday night.
BMHOMEAGAIN
AND PUT TO BED
His Wife Meets Him In Ra
leigh on Leaving Train
Bringing Him from
Nashville
FOUND SATURDAY IN
TENNESSEE CAPITAL
Visitors to His Home Could
See Him Lying on His Back
in Bed Being Fanned By
Women in Household; Un
certainty of Disappearance
Cleared Up
Goldsboro, Aug. 20. (JP) —Rev. R. H.
Askew, who turned up in Nashville,
Tenn., after a bizzare disappearance
from his home here last Tuesday,
was brought back shortly before 2 p.
m. and was put to ©ed immedi
ately.
Mrs. Askew, who met the preacher
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Hindenburg
Last Will
Falsified
Paris Newspaper
Says Aged Presi
dent Recommended
the Kaiser’s Return
Paris, Aug. 20. (JP) —The newspapei
Paris Soir charged today that the will
of the late President Paul von Hin
denburg, of Germany, had been falsi
fied so as to eliminate a recommen
dation that former Kaiser Wilhelm
should succeed him.
The newspaper said the last section
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U. S. District Judge James H. Wil
kerson himself raised the question to
day of the continuation of tfifi trial if
the elderly defendant be too
ill to attend. Well now to
vnture out to the Worlds Fair occ«©
sionally, Insull’s physician, neverthe
less, have pronounced his condition
fragile because of a weak hand
diabetes.
It was intimated the court might
sek a precedent or establish one by
allowing Insull to absent himslf from
the trial when his prsence is not ac
tually necessary.
PUBLISHED EVERY AFTERNOON
; EXCEPT SUNDAY„
SPEAKER RAINEY’S
FUNERAL WEDNESDAY
IN CARROLLTON, ILL.
Preacher Is Freed
9k I
HI
gill
111 l mm..
M.
The Rev. R. H. Askew
Asserting kidnapers had tossed him
out of their automobile after bring
ing him from Raleigh, N. C to
Nashville. Tenn., the Rev. R. H. As
kew, above, of Goldsboro, N. C., walk
ed into the police station at Nasn
viUe last Saturday morning. Shortly
before his appearance at Nashville,
a letter to Aimee Semple McPherson.
Los /Angeles (evangelist, demanding-’
$25,000 ransom for the young Caru
lina preacher of the “four square
gospel,” was turned over to police in
liLos Angelea« 'Askew, lurgder
questioning, admitted he may have
had a nervous breakdown, ard latest
advices are Askew was reported to
have stayed at a Nashville hotel last
Friday night.
More and More Work Piled
on Laborers Without
Increased Pay
SYSTEM IS DENOUNCED
Francis J. Gorman Calls it “Device
of the Devil;” Says It Is Ensiav
slaving Workers, Making
Wrecks of Them
New York, Aug. 20. (JP)— I The pri
mary object of projected general
strike in the cotton textile industry,
set for “about Labor Day”, was dis
closed today as a fight “against the
machine".
Francis J. Gorman, head of the re
search department of'the United Tex
tile Workers of America, described it
as a battle against the “srtetch-oui
system”, under which more and mor«
speeded up machines are assigned to
each worker.
"A true device of the devil," Goi
man termed the system in his report
to the biennial convention of tir«
union, just ended here.
“It is enslaving our workers, mak
ing nervous wrecks of them and
bringing their usefulness to a prema
ture end.”
Gorman and, other union leaders
charged the system is a device to in
crease production without increasing
the employed man power or tue
wages of the workers.
DOCTORS FFIGDI
FOR ALLEN’S POST
Want Industrial Commis
sioner Who Won’t be So
Unfavorable to Them
Dnily Dispatch Burenn,
In the Sir Walter Hotel,
Raleigh, Aug. 20.—North Carolina
doctors will take a hand, perhaps a
very velvety one, in the election of
the successor to Major Matt H. Allen,
chairman of the North Carolina In
dustrial Commission.
Os course, it is not an election by
any other than tj?e governor’s vote,
but what seems likely to happen is
just this: Governor Ehringhaus prob
ably will receive 10,000 letters of en
dorsement for one or another candi
date. The executives will read them,
probably will suffer a relapse that
nullifies all the good of his vacation,
and then take his own vote on all
these boosts.
The doctors are anxious to get a
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Body Will Leave That Morn
ing From St. Louis,
Where He Died Sun
day ofAngina
HOLD SERVICES IN
EPISCOPAL CHURCH
Senatorial and Congression
al Funeral Committees To
Be Named Tomorrow;
Byrns, of Tennessee, Is
Talked as Successor In The
House Speakership
Washington, Aug. 20. (A*)—The fun
eral of Speaker Henry T. Rainey will
be held late Wednesday afternoon at
Carrollton, 111. The body of thd
speaker, whod ied last night in St.
Louis, will leave that city Wednesday
morning for Carrollton. The funeral
will be at the Episcopal church and
burial will foe in the Carrollton ceme
tery.
The plans were made known, here
today by Mrs. Rainey in a telephone
conversation.
The senatorial and congressional
funeral committees will be named to
morrow.
DIED SUNDAY NIGHT FROM
ANGINA PECTORIS ATTACK
St. Louis, Mo., Aug. 20. (£>)— Henry
T. Rainey, picturesque speaker of the
House of Representatives, is deau.
Apparently on the road to recovery
from an attack of bronchial pneu
monia, he suddenly developed angina
pectoris last night and died at 7:50
P< m., as three physicians, hastily
summoned, stood by unable to aid
him. Today would have been his 74th
birthday.
The speaker’s unexpected passing
brought expressions of deep sorrow
from .political leaders from all parts
of the nation.
President Roosevelt called him a
“humanitarian, whose fine patriotism
thought first of all what he conceived
to be the well being and interest of
the common man”. ,
His predecessors as speaker, Vice
President John N. Garner, was
“shocked speechless”.
Leadership of the next House is in
doubt as a result of the death of Mr.
Rt iney. but Representative Joseph W.
Byrns, of Tennessee, who helped him
put through the “must” legislation
of President Roosevelt’s program in
the last Congress, is prominently
mentioned as his successor.
New Air Maps For .
Navigating Planes
Being Worked Out
Washington, Aug. 2& (JP) —When
airplanes fly over the Carolinas In
the near future pilots won’t have to
automobile maps as they now
have to do in some instances.
North Carolina and South Carolina
were included among the states for
which $508,000 in PWA funds-' waa
made available to rush completion of
the “master series” of navigation
maps of thei nation.
The fund will foe administered by
the aeronautics branch of the De
partment of Commerce.
Chain Store
Magnate Is
Threatened
J. J. Scurry, George
town, S. C., Re
ceives Letter De
manding SII,OOO
Georgetown, S. C., Aug. 20. (/p) —
Authorities revealed here today that
J. J. Scurry, well-to-do chain store
operator, had received a note threat
ening him with death unless he paid
SII,OOO.
The note, left in Scurry’s mailbox
Saturday night, but not postmarked,
said:
“Bring us SII,OOO at 316 High Mar
ket street at midnight or you will be
killed”.
The envelope enclosed a picture of
a man’s head which had been punched
full of holes.
Sheriff H. B. Bruorton and Chief of
Police E. E. McLeod posted men at
various points in the neighborhood,
but for two nights no extortionists
appeared. The address given in the
note is only three, blocks from
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