“HENDERSON
gateway to
CENTRAL
CAROLINA
TWENTY-FIRST YEAR
WITS GET
ARMORED TRUCK IS
ROBBED 6Y USE OF
SOB MACHINE GUNS
Vehicle Is Cleaned Out In
T hree Minutes by Quick
Work, Moving With
Precision
THEY GET DROP ON
GUARDS FOR TRUCK
One Is Disarmed Before He
Knows What Is Going On;
Robbers Leave $29,000 In
Hasty Flight for Liberty,
Pursuit Being Futile For
The Time Being
Brooklyn. N. Y.. Aug. 21. u—A bond
0 f .)f lfist a dozen robbers, armed
with sub-machine guns, held
up an armored truck in one of the
nv*t dating robberies in Brooklyn t,
polio' hi-tory and escaped with $427,-
!W
Th‘> robbers cleaned out the truck
in three minutes, leaving only one bag
containing $29,000 in the truck as they
away in two automobiles.
The robbery took place in front of
the RubH Company icep lant at Bay
l?th street between Cropsey and
Bath avenues.
The armored truck, manned by a
driver and two guards, drew up in
ftont <f the plant on its collecting
tour and one of the guards, William
L’l'.icnthal. stepped from the truck to
enter the Rubel offices.
A- h* 1 left the truck, two men dress
ed a- laborers, who had been stand
ins beside an ice truck, lifted an old
automobile seal from the of of the ic®
truck and exposed a machine gun,
mored car,
"Say a word and this stips", one of
which was pointed directly at the ar
the bandit» warned Joseph Alien,
driver, and John Wilson, theo ther
guard.
At t. v is point two automobiles which
apparently had been following ten-
c;.i shrieked to a stop.
Five to a dozen men---witnesses
rue uncertain of the exact number—
jun ped from the two cars, carrying
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Constitution
Drive Aided
B\ Good Men
I heir Influence Ex
pected To Count In
Effort To Put New
Charter Across
Dully l»is|Uit<-h Unrfnn,
In tlie sir Walter Hotel,
Raleigh, Aug. 21. Beginning today
th® advocates of a new State consti
tution v egan to hear down from the
ninth floor of the Sir Walter Hotel,
w hnre headquarters are now open and
from which there will be about 75
'hvs of hard work.
K<mp D Battle, of Rocky Mount,
artivf> chairman of the campaign
"mmiOeo is in charge and will spend
a ?reat deal of time directing the
"Mitost. Members of the commission
fContinued on Page Three)
Tobacco Manufacturing
Code Sharply Attacked
'Shington, Aug. 21. (JP) —A pro-
I" °d code for the tobacco manufac
u,lr‘? industry was before the NRA
.!' 8 public hearing.
11 oor|p would provide an eight
rp' anc J 8 40-hour week for the
wiV,! ity . of wor kers fn the industry,
r,t rn!nimum wage in most cases
of r ir) an hour.
n ,,' r ; Tt - in exceptions to the 40-cents
M Um WB ? e - particularly one that
Cfht pf!rr «it. a wage as low as 30
p . ’* n hour in cases where worker.l
Vqou' !ess th an 40 cents in July,
d,., '" as backed soy Mias Mary An
of the Labor apartment Wo
~’JrC2-u, who suggested that all
- i A ** Ue perry MEMORW4.yStoa«i
llwuteramt Hatly Slfepatirh
japan Prepares City Residents for Next War
Gas and bomb defense drills now
are regular procedures in Japanese
cities, with every citizen required to
Mussolini Seeking Right
To Send Troops To Austria
Florence, Italy, Aug, 21 (AP)—Un
confiriped reports said today that
premier Mussolini, of Italy, and Chan
cellor Schuschnigg, of Austria, meet
ing here, were drafting a military
clause for the Italo-Austro-Hungarian
accord.
The clause would be one of mutual
assistance between the three coun
tries and would permit Italy to march
into Austria if necessary to aid that
nation.
Well informed sources, however,
MAY NAME POU ON
INDUSTRIAL BOARD
Hi* Selection For Matt Al
len’s Job Would Be
Quite Popular
Ds«|ly Dispatch Bureau,
In the Sir Walter Hotel,
Raleigh, Aug. 21. —Suggestion that
Governor Ehringhaus appoint George
Ross Pou chairman of the North Car
olina Industrial Commission proves
popular.according to the h**el and
State capitol talk.
Mr. Pou relieved Governor Ehring
haus of c, deal of embarrassment in
the late congressional fight when the
former head of the State Prison re
signed and made it impossible for
anyone to attack him. his office ot
the governor for "pernicious activity
The fight was lost, but the popularity
of Mr. Pou was unabated. But lor
his personal strength the race would
not have been so close as it was.
But a lot of Democrats whod id nol
support him for Congress would like
to hack him for chairman of the com
mission. He has practiced law In
Smithfield with his distngushed
fathet, Congressman Edward W. Pou
and s now building up a clientele as
practitioner again. His legal knowl
edge and practice, his supporters feel,
would be fine equipment for him and
his immense acquaintanceship, per
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exceptions from the 40-cent minimum
be eliminated from the proposed
code.
Mi3S Anderson also took issue with
wages paid ieCfe werklers, for
whom a minimum of 5 cents an hour
would be stipulated. She said piece
workers in the tobacco manufactur
ing industry were in the sweated
labor classes, a “condition which the
earnings of the industry show is en
tirely unwarranted”.
I M. Ornbourn, president of the
Cigar Makers International Union of
America, and co-labor advisor for
T.jprfi., presented a brief attacking the
cigarette industry for payment of low
wages. i
LB the D aSp, Be R vice OF
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS.
HENDERSON N. C. TUESDAY AFTERNOON, AUGUST 21,: 1934
$427,000
I take part. No business was transact-1
I ed for three days while went I
through “attack” pictured here. Sinn- '
said they were not included to give
the rumor much credence.
Certain it was, however, that Mus
j solini and Schuschnigg conferred to
gether with Fulvio Suvich, the Italian
under secretary of state, after Schus
chnigg’s arrival by plane from Aus
tria this morning.
They talked in the magnificent old
villa De Marinis, set deep in a park
of trees overlooking the city.
Both premiers emerged from their
meeting looking apparently satisfied
with the long talk, but without giving
Forsyth Tobacco Is
Damaged by Worms
Winston-Salem, Aug. 21 (AP) —
Tobacco worms have done thous
ands of dollars of damage to this
year’s tobacco crop, County Agent
R. W, Uugh reported today. He
reported the pest on practically
every farm in the county, and said
damages ranged from one to 25
per cent on the acreage investi
gated.
Hobo Here
Confesses
To Murder
Says He Robbed and
Killed Man In Kan
sas City Four or
Five Years Ago
A man giving his name as Sam
Simkoyich, alias Edward Stokes, who
said he was 26 years old, was arrest
ed here this afternoon by Sheriff J.
E. Hamlett on a charge of vangrancy
and confessed to W. F. Bailey, State
highway patrolman, and the sheriff
that he helped rob and kill a man
in Kansas City “four or five years
ago.”
He did not give the name of his
partner in the crime, but said their
victim was named Driews. The latter
was said to have been lured into a
lonely suburb on the promise of a
farm job, and there was robbed and
killed, and the body buried in a shal
low grave dug by the two men. Sim
koyich said the robbery netted S7O
in cash, of which he got S3O as his
part and the other fellow got the re
mainder. The body was buried, he
said, between Port Leavenworth
prison camp and a nearby railroad.
While not satisfied the man is tell
ing the whole truth about the alleged
Kansas City episode, the sheriff said
he was convinced his prisoner is
wanted somewhere for some serious
crime. He is a “tough looking cust
omer,” and jobeoted strenuously to
being photographed and fingerprint
ed, and was extremely fearful of his
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lar drills recently were held in Tokio.
Japan fears air attack launched from
Asia.
■ i any indication of the subject of their
conversation.
From their conference room they
• went into, a rich but restricted lunch
eon, attended by 14 other dignitari*
including Suvich and Archlile Starce,
■ the general secretary of the Facist
party. .
Because Florence is the center of
military maneuvers, the city is under
strict war-time measures, and the
" heads of the neighboring governments
entered it under cover of darkness
‘ early today.
WARREN. DOUGHTON
IN BAILETCW AK E
Warren Won’t Be Speaker
Now But Some Day He
Will, His Friend* Say
Manteo, Aug. 21 (AP)—“I have
nothing to say as to my probable
candidacy as successor to the late
Speaker Henry T. Rainey, said
Congressman Lindsay Warren, in
a telephone conversation to the
Daily Advance correspondent here
late last night from Hatteras,
where the congressman and Sen
ator J. B. Bailey are fishing.
Daily Dispatch Bureau,
In the Sir Walter Hotel,
Raleigh, Aug. 21.—While Speakei
Henry T. Rainey’s death is not ex
pected at this time to be followed by
the election of Congressman Lidsay
C. Warren, of the first district, the
natural promotions, the seniorities
and the undoubted capacity of the
North Carolinian will put him nearer
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compTltslght
BE HEALTHY OMEN
But Here * Sample of Gene
ral Store Owner of Way
Things Are Going
By LESLIE EICHEL
(Central Press Staff Writer)
New York. Aug. 21. —< Can anyone
please the component groups that
make up the United States?
From all sides complaints flow in
to this column.
That may foe a good indication. A
yea and a half ago every one seem
ed too prostrate to comptain.
Yet, the monetary inflationary pro
cesses and certain restrictive actions
are pinching very hard.
A small clothing manufacturer
complains. He cannot borrow a cent.
He has been in business 20 years. Hrs
reputation is good—but the NRA set
certain standards. Specific cheaply
made goods were to be removed from
the market.
That—rightly or wrongly—evidently
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IN BROOKLYN HOLD-UP
IREDELL SHERIFFS
SLAYER NABBED BY
Ralph Davis, 25-Year-Old
Outlaw Captured by
Sheriff, Police Chief,
Two Deputies
SURPRISED IN BED
IN BOARDING HOUSE
Proprietor of Place Recog
nizes Desperado from Pic
ture in Newspaper and Ad
vises Officers; Davis Gives
Up Without Fight When
Officers Apper
Concord, Aug. 21 (AP) —Ralph
Davis, 25-year-o!d outlaw, wanted for
the slaying of Sheriff C. G. Kimball,
of Statesville, was captured here to
day.
The outlaw, object of an intense
hunt in two states since Kimbajl was
slain last Friday. was found in a
rooming house here and surrendered
to Sheriff R. C. Hoover, Chief of Po
lice B. F. Widenhouse and two de
puties without resistance.
Davis denied to the officers that he
killed Kimball.
Information that Davis was in the
rooming house was given Sheriff
Hoover by R. P. Hagler, who operates
the house.
Hagler informed the sheriff this
morning that Davis had been in his
'louse for two days. He said he
cognized his roomer as the outlaw
this morning from a newspaper pho
tograph and immediately communi
cated with the sheriff.
With two deputies. Sheriff Hoover
and Widenhouse went to HaglerY
home. The deputies were left to
guard the doors and Hoover and Wid
enhouse went to Davis' room, enter
ing with drawn pistols.
The outlaw was in bed and sur
rendered without a show of resist
ance.
“I know when I’m beaten," the ar
resting officers quoted him as say
ing. Davis had a pistol under his
pillow.
After Davis’ arrest he was taken
to an undisclosed jail.
FEDERAL HOUSING
PLAN IS TOO SAFE
So Much Surety Required
That Government Back,
ing Is Unnecessary
B,v CHARLES P. STEWART
(Central Press Staff Writer)
Washington, Aug. 21.—1 f the federal
housing plan has a weakness, it clear
ly is the economic consensus that it’s
this:
Hasn’t the government so thor
oughly safeguarded its»sff against
losses, through delinquency on the
part of those the plan seeks to bene
work at all?
Washington is full of economists
now, but most of them are in the gov
ernment service. Naturally they are
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Spinning
Industry
Picks Up
Washington, Aug. 21 (AP) —The cot
ton spinning industry was reported
today by the Census Bureau to have
operated during July at 74.3 percent
of capacity on a single shift basis,
compared with 72.7 percent during
June this year, and 117.5 percent in
July last year.
Spinning spindles in place July 31
totalled 30,907,816, of which 24,417,682
were active at some time during the
month, compared with 31,002,965 and
24,690,312 for June this year.
Active spindle hours for July total
led 5,151,979,342, or an average of 167
hours per spindle in place, compared
with 5,253,454,142 and 169 for June
this year.
North Carolina reported 1,104,917,376
active spindle hours, and an average
of 180 per spindle in place July 31.
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EXCEPT SUNDAY„
GENERAL STRIKE OF
TRANSPORTATION IS
MENACE IN CHICAGO
Benefactor
Dr. John A. Kolmer ‘
High hopes are held by medical pro
fession for vaccine developed by Dr,
John A. Kolmer of Temple Univer
sity, Philadelphia, as an infantile
paralysis preventive. No forth
right claims are being made until
its powers of inculcating immunity
have been tested exhaustively.
(Central Press)
SaiSgains
Deposits Rise Over $7,000,-
000 in First Six Months
of This Year
JUST UNDER $60,000,000
End of Period Finds Two More Na
tional Banks Than First of Year,
There Being 42 at the
Present Time
Washington, Aug. 21. (AP) —
National bank deposits registered
a gain of more than $7,000,000 in
North Carolina the first six
months of 1934.
J. F. T. O’Connor, the comptroifer
of the currency, today reported na
tional bank deposits in that state to
talled $59,438,000 as of June 30, com
pared with $52,923,000 on December
30, 1933.
There were 42 national banks in
North Carolina at the end of the six
months period, compared with 40 at
the beginning of the yeas.
Total assets in creased from $69,-
298,0C0 to $75,300,000 during the
period; capital increased from $6,600,-
000 to $7,070,000, while surplus, prof
its and reserves decreased from $5,-
084,000 to $4,443,000.
■weathFiT
FOR NORTH CAROLINA
Partly cloudy tonight and Wed
nesday; showers in extreme west
portion Wednesday.
Nazis Launch Drive Upon
Christianity In Germany
Berlin, Aug. 21 (AIF) —Nazi propa
ganda guns fired an anti-Christianity
barrage today which caused grave ap
prehensions in Roman Catholic and
some Protestant circles.
Developments in the troubled
church situation indicated fresh ten
sion despite Chancellor Hitler’s ac
gnowledgement of “positive Christian
ity” recent declaration at Hamburg.
Heading the developments was an
appeal for abolition of Christianity,
apparently inspired by Hitler youth
leaders.
Paul Joseph Goebbels, minister of
propaganda, added to the fears with a
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Union Considering Proposal
for Complete Tie-Up of
City’s Transporta
tion System
TEXTILE WALK-OUT
IS BEING PLANNED
Workers Look to Washing
ton for Next Move in Avert
ing Walk-Out September
1; Tear Gas Bombs Used in
Milwaukee Strike; Clash in
Portland Fatal
(By the Associated Press)
Union labor is considering today a
proposal for a genera transportation
strike in Chicago, where a police exe
cutive has described the bus drivers’
walk-out as "about right to blow wide
open.”
Chicago surface line employees are?
to ask the executive board of the
Amalgamated Association of Street,
and Electric Railway Employees of
America, meeting in Detroit, for per
mission to declare a sympathy strike.
Elevated line unions made a similar
request yesterday.
Should the executive board approve,
20,000 transportation workers will take
a walk-out poll.
Tear gas bombs and riot sticks
were used to quell a, riot in Milwau
kee, where 250 FERA strikers sought
to rescue a comrade from police yes
terday. A woman in a gray dress
goaded the workers into action.
Police at Portland, Oregon, were told
to arrest 23 men for uestqioning as a
result of a clash between working
longshoremen and strikers, in which
one man was shot to death.
Philippine Island officials planned
intervention to prevent the walk-out
of 8,000 cigar makers from growing
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Cotton Mill
Chiefs Talk
Strike Act
Bruere and Sloan
Consider Threats
and Ultimatums of
the Labor Leaders
New York, Aug. 21. — Robert
Bruere, chairman of the Cotton Tex*
tile Industrial Relations Board, and
George A. Sloan, chairman of the
Cotton Textile Code Authority, met
today to discuss strike threats in the
textile indusry and ultimatums of
labor organization leaders.
The conference at the offices of thfc
Cotton Textile Institute was held be
hind closed doors. Neither Sloan nor
Bruere could be reached immediately
for comment concerning the meeting.
The conference apparently was due
to the ultimatum announced yesterday
by Francis J. Gorman, chairman of
the strike committee of the United
Textile Workers, that “the next move
is up to the industry or the adminis
tration.”
veiled threat against Catholic, and a
church drive was announced by Reich
bishop Ludwig Mueller, announced to
“cover every city and county fronrt
autumn to spring.”
Another indication of strife was
the hesitancy of the German Roman
Catholic hierarchy to establish the
status of a concordat between Vati
can City and the nation.
The death of the late President Paul
von Hindenburg, who had admonish
ed Dr. Mueller to “see to it that
Christ is preached,” apparently has
removed a curb on the Nazi church
experiments.