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HENDERSON gateway TO CENTRAL CAROLINA twenty-first YEAR Minneapolis Sees Truck Strike End And Troops Leave Truck Owners Agree To Take Back Drivers With out Discrimination Under the Plan GARMENT strike in boston also ends But Outlook Darkens In Bus Drivers’ Strike In Chicago, Where General Transpor tation Tie-Up Threatens; Aluminum, Textile Dis putes Negotiating ißy the Associated Press) The military returned Mineapolts tp (he citizenry today -the truck driv ers' stiike was over. Agreement of the truck owners to take Lack strikers without discrim ination paved the way for the accept ance of peace plans advanced by Fed eral negotiators Shouting drivers ] a3 f night announced the union’s al most unanimous vote to return to work. Governor Floyd B # Olson said mili tarv rule would be revoked, prisoners of the military courts pardoned and National Guardsmen withdrawn. Four deaths had resulted from tho five weeks strike. Settlement of the garment workers' strike in Boston also was effected. The Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America announced several hun dred strikers would return to their shops late today. The strike outlook was darker in Chicago, whree leaders of the week old hus drivers’ strike denied, they had agreed to arbitrate, and other trans portation workers awaited authoriza tion fe: a sympathy walk-out. No progress" reported mediators tr'inc to avert a transportation tie-up, Twenty-inen murder warrants are v eing served in the Portland. Ore gon, strike troubles. Othpr strikes, including that of the Aluminum Company of America em plovees, and the impending nation wide walk-out of textile workers, «'ere in the conference stage. 1 liink Police Now Hot on Trail for Brooklyn Robbers Ntr: York Aug. 22. (£>)—Al! squads an( i detective cars in the five boroughs of the city were ordered to communicate with their precinct and district offices in a command broad cast from police headquarters short ly after noon today. No explanation of the unusual oraer was forthcoming, but it was learne.. unofficially at police headquarters that secret orders to all squad and car men were to he transmitted by tele phone Also It was learned that officials of { the police department feared that third car used by the robbers in their 1427,000 armored truck hold-up yester day might contain a wire receiving set This car has not been found. More Teeth In The AAA Farm Plan Old Set-Up To Be Strengt hen e d in Bills To Be Given the Next Congress Washington, Aug. 22 (AP) —The AAA went to work today to draft legislation to strengthen its farm pro ?ram and perhaps put more teeth in Sports were busy writing new pro- and revising those that, failed the last Congress. Measures the AAA considered vital will be laid be ,iro the next. Congress. There is ex pccted to be another fight over some them. r hies of the new measures will be a **** storage bill, aimed at clarifying, and extending powers to loans on farm commodities stor *d under seal. Ij ° a ns were made the past year on and cotton, partially under au f>tity of stat ewarehousing laws. '' proposed law would eliminate ar 'i'itions in the state measures to (Continued on Page Three) Imtitereatt Batin Bispatrh WLY DAILY NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA AND * EAR LEASED WIRE SERVTcit * Favored for Speaker ■H m ksßmi wtep. Joseph W. Byrns A fight for speakership of th« house of representatives follows the death of Speaker Henry T. Rainey. Favored among the half dozen candidates reported seeking the berth was Rep. Joseph W. Byrns, above, of Tennessee, Dem ocratic floor leader. U. S. PEGS WON AT TWELVE CENTS Government Will Lend That Much to Farmers On Stored Staple FACTORS BEHIND MOVE One Is Threatened Textile Strike and Another the Drop in Consump tion of Cotton Textile Commodities Washington, Aug. 22. (jP)—The 12 cents ‘‘bottom” which President Roosevelt has placed under King Cot ton was described today as a move to permit the South to market the staple in orderly fashion. Farmers will not have to sejj at low prices should the quotations drop in the near future, officials said. Several factors prompted the ad ministration to announce late yester day that the R. F. C., through the Commodity Credit Corporation, would increase its lending from 10 to 12 cents a pound on cotton, low, mid dling or better. One is X threat of a widespread strike in cotton mills, which would tendt o diminish the demand for tne staple. There also has been a drop in consumption this year, compared to past years. < If a grower decides against selling his cotton now, he can borrow 12 cents a pound on it from the govern ment. The regulations are expected to follow closely those issued last year when the government lent ten cents a pound. Bandits Feign Injuries To Take Motorists’ Car Spruce Pine, Aug. 22. (AP)—. 1 Sheriff A. L. Honeycutt, of Yan cey county, and Sheriff O. F. Ad kins, of McDowell county, orga nized a posse here today and start ed hurriedly for a Yancey coun ty cove where they sahj they ex pected to find four or five men who robbed a Clayton, Ga., bam* of $1,200 yesterday. Sheriff Adkins said just before leaving: “I believe we’ve got them”. The four men he expected to trap were those who took the car of D. Scott Blanton, Charlotte in surance man, after wrecking theu own gun-laden automobile near Old Fort about 3 a. m. today. Old Fort, Aug. 22 (AP) —Officials of two North Carolina counties today LE THR D A«n E SERVICE of the associated press. HENDERSON. N. C. WEDNESDAY (AFTERNOON, AUGUST 22, 1984 T intomar°Sof EASTERN CAROLINA But Threat of Rain Holds . Fear of Reduced Open ing Breaks as Sea. son Gets Going SALES WILL START TOMORROW MORNING Prices Double Last Year In .Georgia and Border Terri tory Give Rise to Hope of Much Better Returns from .Crop in New Bright Belt Territory Raleigh. Aug. 22 iAP) —Trucks and wagons laden with the season’s first offerings of freshly cured tobacco formed a steady stream into the to bacco market towns so Eastern North Carolina today on the eve of the opening of the New Bright Belt auc tion season tomorrow. Threats of rain, however, caused tear the volume of offerings on the first day might be cut. Heavy opening day breaks were ex pected on the dozen or more markets and a note of optimism prevailed among the farmers, the vast majority of whom cut their acreage this year in accordance with the AAA produc tion control program. Prices almost double those of last year, which have been paid on the ear lier Georgia. South Carolina and bor der markets gave rise to the hope that better prices would be paid. With President Among Mourners, Rainey Is Buried Carrollton, HI., Aug. 22. (/P)—Henry T. Rainey came back to his “home folks” today, and the President of the United States mourned with 30,000 citizens at his bier. Through streets draped with mourn ing and past half-masted flags the funeral cortege from St. Louis wended its way slowly to the little court house where the body lay in state. All the business houses on the court house square were closed, and the 2,280 resi dents of this little city were present almost enmasse to pay their last re spect to ‘‘Henry T.” Hours Cut In Garment Industries Washington. Aug. 22. (jP) —NRA to day announced Presidential approval ofa reduction of weekly work hours from 40 to 36 without any cut in weekly wages for the 200,000 workers in the cotton garment industry. President Roosevelt signeda n exe cutive order late yesterday amending the cotton garment code to that end. The change is effective October 1. NRA said the effect of the order would be equivalent not only to an increase of about 11 per cent in the hourly pay rates and a rise of about ten per cent above May 1 levels in piece rates, but would also permit re employment of more than) 10,000 workers. Thed irect cost to the consumer of The shorter hours, higher wage rates and re-employment of the many thousands of workers was estimated ,by officials at less than two per cent. believed themselves close on the heels of four bandits who stole the auto mobile of a passing business man aft er wrecking their own gun-laden ma.- chine near here during the early morn ing hours. The men were believed to be afoot hiding in the mountains of Yancey county after abandoning the car they took from D. Scott Blanton, of Char lotte. The car, soaked with blood, believed to have been from injuries the men received in the wreck, was located near Micaville some six hours after the hold-up. Officers said no other automobile had been reported stolen, and that it did not appear the bandits had an other car hidden in the vicinity. The (Continued on Page Three) . mailed to strike.besiegeddads ,y % <’ HHHit ':!; ?> |.si K V- <• • < v. Pleasant packages! two proud fa thers received byl mail as they were marooned In the Alcoa, Tenn., plant of the Aluminum Company of America by strike pickets, are shown above. The Tankersley Is New Head Os Juniors In The State Heads Juniors ■I PSjH S - lb JH Hf C F. Tankersley, Jr., of Henderson, today was elected State Councilor of the Junior Order United Amerircan Mechanics of North Carolina, with out opposition in the annual election at the State convention in Winston- Salem. He was elevated from the office of State vice councilor. Green To Stand By Strikers Washington, Aug. 12 (AP) — President William Green, presi dent of the American Federation of Labor, today endorsed the pro posed general strike in the tex tile industry and pledged the full cooperation of his organization. Meanwhile, a closely guarded state ment beliveed to outline a plan of the Cotton Textile Industrial Relations Board for averting the textile strike, was being prepared by Robert W. Bruere, chairman of the board, After an executive session of the board, Bruere said the statement if approved by other agencies of the government, would be given out later (Continued on Page Three) Two CCCCamps In This Section To Be Operated Washington. Aug. 22. (jp) —Location of 39 Civilian Conservation Corps in North Carolina for the fourth period of the 1934-35 fiscal year was approv ed today by J. J. McEntee, acting ad ministrator of emergency conserva tion work. Private land camps approved in cluded one at Hollister; Halifax county, and another at Windsor, Bertie county. WEATHER FOR NORTH CAROLINA Mostly cloudy, probably showers In extreme west portion and on the coast tonight and Thursday. little girls were sent to their fa-, thers by special delivery. At left is John Hood, and in front of him is Evan Rees Hedge, daughter of James R. Hedge, shown at right beside Hood’s daughter, Marmie. Henderson Man Becomes . State Councilor at Con vention Session Held At Orphanage LONG BEEN ACTIVE IN THE FRATERNITY Has Held Many Offices In. Local Council, In District .and State Groups; Reaches Culmination of Ambition To Head Organization Ini .North Carolina Lexington, Aug. 22. (Special)— Charles F Tankersley, Jr., of Hender son, was e!e\ated to the office of State eounciior in the closing session of the 44th annual convention of the State Council of the Junior Order here today. The session was held in the Sam F Vance auditorium at the orphanage. Councilor Tankersley succeeds B. C. Siske of Pleasant Garden. He has been an active member of the Junior Order for 11 years. As district deputy his work has been outstanding. His district was one of the few districts in the State to register a net gain in (Continued on Page Three) CRITICISMS BEFORE TOBACCO CODE MEN Washington, Aug. 24. (/P) —Mmbers, of the code committee of the tobac co manufacturing industry considered today criticism directed at minimum wage provisions of their proposed code at a public hearing yesterday, MISSING CO-ED IS DISCOVERED SLAIN Birmingham, Ala., Aug. 2j*. (/P) Miss Fay New, missing Howard Col lege co-ed was found by volunteei searchers this afternoon in a‘ com field near Irondale, Her throat had been cut and she had been dead for at least 24 hours. COMMUNISIVI HERE; NOT SERIOUS YET Many Think It Will Disap pear at First Signs of Real Revival By CHARLES P. STEWART (Central Press Staff Writer) Washington, Aug. 22.—Answers I have received thus far to a question I recently put to my readers —“How much communistic sentiment is there abroad in the land?”—strongly indi cates that there is mighty little of it. Out of 856 letters I have received to date on the subject, the writers of only an even half doben openly pro claim themselves in favor of ariovus programs which some silk might call communistic. Illustratively, one cor respondent expresses himself in favor of the governmentalization of all na tcral resources, banking, trade, trans portation, communication** and manu (Continued on Page Six) PUBLISHED EVERY AFTERNOON EXCEPT SUNDAY„ Askew Confesses Tale Os Kidnaping Is Wholly Untrue Human Century Plant » Ilf BSIBP pSfcp^ Bill Cantrell Having sprung from a family of human century plants, Bill Cam* trell of Brady, Tex., expects to live to be more than 100 years old. His father, who died a few months ago in Tennessee, was 115 years old, his grandfather reached the age of 116 and thre6 of his the. century mark. ' The Cantrells are among the pioneer families of the Appa lachian mountains of North Caro lina and Tennessee, nearly all of them except Bill, still live in the mountains of Tennessee, North Carolina, Alabama and Arkansas. Governor Is Soon To Fill 2 Vacancies Successors To Wal drop and Allen May Involve Some Poli tical Sharpery Daily Dispatch Bureau, In the Sir Walter Hotel, By J. C. Baskerville. Raleigh, August 22—Governor J. C. B. Ehringhaus will have plenty of troubles on his hands when he gets gack from his vacation the latter part of this week, with two particu lar tasks that will require most of his time until they are completed. One will be the selection of a new chief highway engineer, to succeed the late John D. Waldrop, who was injured in an automobile accident in (Continued on Page Six) Bank Near Atlanta,Ga. Is Robbed Palmetto, Ga.., Aug. .22 (AP)—Arm ed bandits early today held up the Farmers Bank and escaped with an unestimated amount of cash, C. Hudson, cashier, and C, C. Aus tin, bookkeeper, were in the bank as two bandits entered, flourishing pis tols. Making their way into the cake, they took all cash in sight and fled. A third man sat in an automobile outside. Bank officials described the two who entered the bank as young, one of them about 22 years and shabbily dressed, and the other about 35 years old, tall and well dressed. Palmetto is located on the Frank lin D. Roosevelt highway between At lanta and Warm Springs ,the Roose velt part-time home. _ _ 6 PAGES TODAY FIVE CENTS COPY Goldsboro “Four Square Gospel’’ Preacher Tells . Officers He Wrote All Ransom Notes i NEEDED REST AND HAD TO GET AWAY Had Written Note and Sent Telegram Demanding $25,- 000; Evidence as to Using Mails Fraudulently Will Be Turned Over To U. S. District Attorney Goldsboro, Aug. 22. (#>)—The Rev. R. H. Askew, ‘‘Four Square Gospel” evangelists confessed today, Sheriff Paul Garrison said, that his story of being kidnaped was untrue, and that he wrote the ransom messages re ceived by his wife. “I needed a rest and had to get away”, the sheriff quote Askew as saying in explanation of his action. The 28-year-old evangelist disappear ed August 13 and turned up in Nash ville, Tenn., four days later, and told officers there he had been held pri soner by-three men in a big green au tomobile. Sheriff Garrison said Askew con fessedt hat he fabricate** the entire story of the kidnaping, sent a note and telegram to his wife demanding $25,000 and also sent a note to Aimee Semple McPherson demanding a simi lar sum on threat of death for Askew and the bombing of Angelus Temple. Sheriff Garrison quoted Askew as saying that after he left Goldsboro on August 13 he went to Raleigh and took a train to Richmond, Va. His first ransom note to his wife was mailed here before he left and (Continued on Page Three) U. S. Navy Without An Equal Is Fast Being Undertaken WashingtoLn, Aug. 22. (AP)— The program to raise the United tates to a power unsurpassed on tho seas swung forward today with award of contracts for con struction of 24 fighting vessels. Eleven of the ships will be built by private shipbuilding yards and 13 by navy yards. One 10,000-ton light cruiser was awarded to the Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry clock Com pany, Newport News, Va., for sll,- 650,000; another lighter cruiser to the New York Shipbuilding Cor poration, Camden, N. J, The vessels to be built by navy yards included three destroyers to the Norfolk, Va., navy yard. Virginia Gangster Sentenced To Die On Murder Charge Richmond, Va., Aug. 22. (JP) — In one of the swiftest and most drama.tio criminal trials in Richmonds history, Walter Legenza, alleged member of the ‘‘Big George” Phillips tri-state gang, was found guilty by a jury in Hustings court early today of mur der in the first degree in the slaying ing of E. M. Huband, Federal Re serve Bank mail truck driver here last March 8. and sentenced to die in the electric chair on October 22. Spread In Gas Prices Is Evident Low Prices in North and Terrific Prices in North Carolina Compared Daily Dispatch In the Sir Walter Hotel, By J. C. Baskerville. Raleigh, Aug. 22.—Why should gaso line sell for 12 cents a gallon in. Washington, D. C., including a threa cents tax and for 22.7 cents a gallon in Raleigh, and as high as 23.2 cenra a gallon in Hickory and Mt. Airy, in cluding the seven cents State and Federal tax in North Carolina? Or, •leaving the tax out of consideration, if the big gasoline companies can sell gasoline at 9 cents a gallon in Wash (Continued on Page Three)
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