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HENDERSON GATEWAY TO CENTRAL CAROLINA TWENTY-FIRST YEAR TOBACCO FARMERS GREATLY PLEASED AT TOBACCO PRICE Growers In Eastern Carolina Look Back on First Two Days of Season As Good greater optimism FOR COMING WEEK Average Range to Above 27 Cents in .Some Markets; Meantime, Prices In South Carolina Belt Continue To Bring Smiles of/ Satisfac tion Raleigh, Aug. 25. (/Pi — Saturday is g holiday on the tobacco auction mar and the giant warehouses wero deserted, but growers of the IN cr/ Bright B'dt looked back on the high est opening prices in more than a decade. An upward trend in pt i-.es since the opening/ of the market Thursday caused growers to look forward to next week's sales with optimism. Prices throughout tire oelt yester day were generally high?!* than those on the first day of the season. Although the prices Thursday were generally kept down by a preponder ance of low grades, nevertheless price levels reached the highest point they had touched since the years immedi ately following the World War. Official reports of sales yesterday (Continued on Page Three) Hitler Banishes American Wife of Sinclair Lewis Berlin. Aug. 25 (APl—Mrs. Sinclair Lewis, vvho writes under her maiden name of Dorothy Thompson, was to day ordered by the State police to leave Germany within 24 hours. The banishment order against the wife of the Nobel prize winner was based on her_ alleged hostile attitude toward Germany, Mrs. Lewis recently has written many magazine articles on Germany and Hitler movement. It was pri vately reported that an interview with Hitler, which she published in a magazine before he came to power, had to do with Hitler’s acts. Although she has been here scarce ly a week, she is leaving tonight by the North Express for Paris. Innocence Plea Made In Slaying ! aylor Sticks To De nial in Strange Death of Faye New, Pretty Co-Ed Birmingham, Ala.. Aug. 25. (/P) — Harold Taylor continuer* his protest °f innocence in the mystery slaying of pretty Faye New. Howard College co-ed, and at the same time denied charges that he had attempted to ravish Mrs Clara Cost a few hours be for*' he took Faye for an automobile ride, i Mis. Cost marie her charges In a warrant yesterday shortly after a spe cial grand jury session had been or dered to inquire into the slaying of Miss New. The body of the 19-year-old girl, who so far as people knew, hadn’t an enrmy in the world, was found in a cornfield last Tuesday after a wide spread search. Every day since then (Continued on I*ago Three) West Shivering In Freezing Weather (Bq the Associated Press) With perspiration from record heat hardly dry on their brows, farmers in ’he midwest shivered in frost-bit fields today. Prophets saw a long and severe winter in the sudden plunge of tem peratures, hut their views were with out official confirmation. Meteor ologists said the long-range predic tions wore unscientific. Records fell as the mercury fell to Menten son Sat hi SisuirtTh A.l Smith Joins New League “to Fight Radicalism* ■1 i I Jouett Shou«e" Nathan L. Miller 5 _ John J. Raslcob |« BBS] Joining with two Republicans, four leading Democrats led by A1 Smith of New York, former candidate for president, have launched a new American Liberty League, whose ostensible func tion will be “to combat radical ism, protect property rights and defend the constitution”. On the Schall Reiterates Charges Roosevelt Will Censor Press Washington, Aug. 25. (/P)—Senator Schall, Republican, Minneesota, sent an open letter to President Roosevelt today reiterating that the adminis tration intends to “force a censorship of the press”. It followed a demand by. the Presi dent for the “facts’’ on which the sen ator based his recent assertion that plans are under consideration for “a national press service to take th*. place of the Associated Press, the Hearst News Service and the United Press". This service, Schall said, would have exclusive use of all gov ernment news and be in a position to give its service only to those news- JOHN jt BAGGETT. OF HARNETT, DEAD Former Legislator Died Sud denly While Talking to His Physician Kinston, Aug. 25 (AP—John R. Baggett, 62. Lillington lawyer and Democratic leader, died in a hospital here today. Baggett came here Wednesday to undergo treatment after suffering for some months from kidney and heart diseases. He was talking with his physician, Dr. Ira M. Hardy, a class made at the University of North Carolina, and his colleague in the (State Senate several years ago, when he died without warning. A brain embolism was the immediate cause of his death. The Lillington attorney had served thre terms in the State Senate and was prominent in Democratic coun cils of his section. Funeral arrange ments have not been made. 28, four degrees below freezing tem perature, in North Dakota; 34 in Minnesota; 36 in Yellowstone Park, and Iowa; 37 in Wisconsin; 29 in South Dakota; 40 in Michigan, Mon tana and Wyoming; 41 in Nebraska; 44 in Missouri; 46 in Colorado; 52 in Kansas nd Oklahoma and 5 in Illi nois. Only a few days back, temperatures rocketed to 110 degrees and over in several of these same s^tes. ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA AND VIRGINIA. LEASED WIRE SERVICE OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS., HENDERSON N. C. SATURDAY AFTERNOON, AUGUST 25,1934 ———i ii■ i i. ■ i n ii i ' executive committee of the league, which denies its aim is to combat President Roosevelt’s New Deal policies, are Smith; John W. Davis, former Demo cratic presidential candidate; John J. Raskob and Jouett Shouse, Democratic chieftains of the 1932 “stop Roosevelt” cam papers loyal to the Roosevelt dictator ship.” ! “Since I should assume that the statements were not made without basis in fact,” Mr. Roosevelt tele graphed the senator late yesterday, "I request that you be given bene fit of such facts as you nave in sup port of the charges you caused to be made. Once these facts are in my hands, they will receive immediate attention in order to make impossible the thing you say will be done, be cause I am just as much opposed to them as you are.” Schall’s 650-word reply was issued a few hours later. Survey For Park Road Is Started Red Letter Day For State, Highway Ex pert Says; Means Much In Future Daily Dispatch Bureau, In the Sir Walter Hotel, By J. C. Baskerville. Raleigh, Aug. 25—Work was started today on that portion of the park-to park highway survey extending from the point where it crosses the North Carolina line near Sparta, in Alleg hany county, on to Blowing Rock, it was announced here this morning by R. Getty Browning, chief locating en gineer for the State Highway and Public Works Commission. The sur vey party of some seven or eight men in charge of G. A. McKinley as sen ior party chief, moved into the Sparta area yesterday afternoon and was expeelfcd to be in the field with in struments and rods today. “This should be a redletter day in North Carolina, since it marks the beginning of the survey on the great est and most important highway con struction project in the lystory of the State,” Browning said. “For while the general public has no idea of what a ' (Continued on Page Five) WEATHER FOR NORTH CAROLINA Mostly cloudy, probably occa sional showers tonight and Sun day; slightly cooler in north and west portions tonight and in north east and north central portions Sunday. „ paign at Chicago; Representative James W. Wadsworth, of New York, former senator understood to have presidential ambitions, and Nathan L. Miller, former Re publican governor of New York. The league, with headquarters in Washington, will have branches In every state. BIK Highway Officials Summon ed Before Grand Jury to Give Testimony GO FOUR YEARS BACK Senator’s Actions While Governor Un der Fire; Highway Records Taken on Truck To Scene of Inquiry Baton Rouge, La„ Aug. 25. (/P) — Senator Huey P. Long’s income tax payments bounetd into the limelight today while he was gunning for his arch political foe, Mayor T. Semmei Walmsley. of New Orleans, and seek ing to remove Walmsley from office through a State legislative committee investigation of ‘‘vice and gambling” under Walmsley’s city administration. A. T. Tugwel!,, chairman of the Louisiana Highway Commission con firmed current reports that he with others in administrative capacity in the department had been summoned to appear Monday before the Federal grand jury in New Orleans which is investigating the income tax returns of Long and his political associates. Tugwell said he would place the highway department records on a truck and convey them to New Or leans for the grand jury, records cov ering the period of major road con struction while Senator Long was governor, 1929 to 1932. Man’s Body Found In the Stotesbury Home in New York New York, Aug. 25, (/P) —The body of a man, was found in a trunk today in the Areaway of General Louis W. Stotesbury’s home and later was iden tified through fingerprints as that of Bernard McMahon, 41, an ex-convict. Police said that McMahon, who was also known as “Dalton”, an« “Mun ray”, had beenarrested six times since 1914, the last time in 1933 for the theft of a truck. The body, its legs hacked off at the knees, was discovered by Tony Tar rantino, caretaker at the temporarily vacant home of General Stotesbury, former adjutant general of New York state. White House Didn’t Like Rainey Rale By CHARLES P. STEWART (Central Press Staff Writer) Washington, Aug. 25.—Speaker Henry T. Raineys’ death in one way clarifies next January’s prospects in the House of Representatives. In another way it muddles it. Sincere as Democratic administra tionists* mourning for the late states (Continued on Pag/e Eight) Regional Conferences On Textile Strike Plans Are Called By Labor Leaders FAST USING COSE ROOSEVELT WORRY Incomes Not Advancing In Proportion and Menace of Inflation Is Fur ther Concern PLAN DRASTIC MOVE ON UNEMPLOYMENT NRA Codes To Bring Work Hours Down to 30 Hours Talked as Spectre of 12 Million Unemployed This Winter Looms; Fear Radi cals May Get Upper Hand By CHARLES P. STEWART (Central Tress Staff Writer) Washington, Aug. 25. —Advancing living costs are beginning to worry the national administration very acutely. Thus far the increase lias not been pronounced enough to arouse any formidable amount of discontent, but now there are hints that it will not be long before they will be sufficient to pinch the average consumer mighty severely. From the outset New Dealers have realized thfe importance of boosting incomes proportionately to the extent that they foresaw their program wa» t-ound to result in a boost in the price of life’s necessities. Few of them deny that they have failed to maintain such a parity. However, as yet there has been lit tle evidence of unmistakle, outrage ous profiteering. But at last the New Deal management senses the threat of it. * * * NRA’s shortening of hours without (Continued on Page Five) Witness at Coo Trial Reels Off Damaging Story Cooperstown, N, Y., Aug. 25 (AP) Fred Palmer, a State witness in the trial of Mrs. Eva Coo for the murder of Harry Wright, her handyman, to day testified that Mrs. Coo “expected trouble," and asked him and Clara Meyers, a neighbor, to be prepared to say “she had been home all even ing" the night of the murder Palmer, a farm hand employed by Miss Meyers, who lives 500 feet east of the Coo premises, said he had been over at “Little Eva’s Place," the Coo roadhouse, between 7 and 8:30 that night and found the place locked up and no one at home. He went over again around 9, and Mrs. Coo had re turned. Around 10 30 p. m., Palmer and Edna Hanover, another State’s wit ness, went to look for Wright, who Mrs. Coo had told them had gone to Jim Johnson’s earlier that evening. They returned without him. “What did Eva Coo say then?” he was asked. ' “She said, ‘I believe I had better call the troopers. Maybe there had been an accident,” the witness replied. BETTER BUSINESS LIKELY fOR FALL One Gloomy View of Future, However, Sees Roose velt’s Defeat By LESLIE EICHEL (Central Press Staff Writer) New York, Aug. 25. Business is looking up. Says the authoritative National Re tail Dry Goods Association: “Despite the havoc of the drought, merchants in the major part of the rountry view prospects for fall busi ness with estifates of moderate, and in many localities, substantial gains over the fall seson last year. “Gains in dollar sales totals through out the country’in September, October and November may be expected to register an approximate 10 per cent increase over sales in the same months of 1933”. The association bases its figures on (Continued on Page Five) PUBLISHED EVERY AFTERNOON EXCEPT SUNDAY. La Follette to Run Bec is > 11 IBB Phillip F. La Follette Waiting until the eleventh hour, Phillip F. La Follette, former gov ernor of Wisconsin, has filed nom ination papers for that office as a Progressive. His brother, Sena tor Robert M. La Follette, also is a candidate for re-election. D GRAHAMFORPOST Many Telegrams Urging Clinton Man To Head In dustrial Commission WANT FRIENDLY MAN They Didn’t Like Chairman Allen Be cause He Fought High Fees Sought by Them Above Approved Scales Daily Dispatch lliirean, In the Sir Walter Hotel, By J. C. Baskerville, Raleigh, Aug. 25.—With an intense struggle already going on behind tne scenes between the doctors and the employers over the eselection of a new chairman of the State Industrial Commission, with each group seek ing to have a chairman named who will be favorable to them, the general belief here is that the doctors are already actively backing Archie McL. Graham, of Clinton, as their choice (Continued on Page Two) Cuban Pact Made, Accord Sought In Coffee Countries Washington, Aug. 25. (/P) —Now that the government has struck a bar gain with Cuba in the opening of a “new tariff era”, it is expected to pre sage negotiations with certain Latin- American coffee interest* The State Department hopes to lose no time in extending the new recip rocal trde policy of the administra tion, which bore its first fruits in pro clamation of the Cuban-American treaty by President Roosevelt. The document, which goes into effect Sep tember 3, was signed with ceremony yesterday. It grants Cuba substntial reductions on sugar, rum, cigars and cigar to bacco, as well an. seasonal cuts on winter vegetables. t Convict Riots Crushed In Pennsylvania Prison Collegeville, Pa.. Aug. 25. (/p) —State police and guards today crushed an outbreak at the eastern penitentiary at Grateford after 200 Gonvicts had rioted for more than three Tiours. The prisoners started fires in cell blocks and outbuildings, destroying a barn and damaging several other shacks. Forty state policemen, summoned from barrack# in eastern Pennsyl vania, armed with machine guns and rifles, subdued them at noon without firing a shot. No one was seriously injured and none escaped. The convicts, after their destructive rampage, were cowed by the troopers after they had massed on « hill inside the wall and defied the guards to dis arm them of the clubs, iron bars and 8 PAGES TODAY FIVE CENTS COPY seeSßut Bent cm Calling Workers Out Next Week Unless Demands Are Met For Grievances MASSACHUSETTS TO SUPPORT WALK OUT Locals There Vote To Fol low Executive Body in Any Action It May Take; Fede ral Relations Board Seeks Viewpoint of the Textile Workers Worcester, Mass., Aug. 27. (AP) —Representatives of 26 local unions of the United Textile Workers in this part of Mass achusetts voted today at a meet ing in the labor temple here to endorse any action taken by the executive board of the United Tex tile Workers and to join any gen eral strike that may be called. Washington, Aug. 25. (/P) The “supremej court” of labor disputes strove to maintain peace today as chief of the United Textile Workers gathered to perfect plans for a na tional strike which they say will in-* volve 600,000 workers. Strike leaders were called into three regional conferences—at Chrlotte, N. C., and in Masschusetts and Rhode Island. " And they apparently were (Continued on Page Two) Oklahoma Desperado Shot Dead Killed in Gun Battle With Officers After, Robbing, Shooting Merchant Watts, Okla., Aug. 25. (JP) — 'Dennis Morris, escaped Oklahoma convict, was killed in a gun battle with Adair county officers near here today after Morris and two companions had shot and wounded H. C. Waldroop, Watts merchant, during a robbery of his store. T State penitentiary guards from Mo Alester, with bloodhounds and county officers, were trailing tne confeder ates of Morris, who escaped during the gunfight. Aroused by his watchdog at the store, Waldropo, 46, went to his es tablishment about 1 a. m. He was confronted by three robbers, one of whom fired at him with a shotgun. Waldroop fell wounded. Th* jobbers then fled afoot, carrying bundles of shoes and drygoods. Following the fleeing trio, officers came upon them at a camp two and a half miles west of.Watts, where the battle ensued. other crude weapons they carried. The penitentiary houses about 1,600. A member of the board of trustees said the prison kitchen was ruined and thousands of dollars Tr of new machinery in the industrial plant was wrecked. None would say immediately what startedt he outbreak, but reports fil tering from behind the walls said the spark was set off in the penitentiary kitchen. After widespread damage was caus ed by fire and otherwise, aobut 200 convicts massed on a knoll east of the cell blocks and defied the guards. In tervention by state police precluded other trouble, and convicts, gazing into machine guns and rifle barrels submitted tc orders. ,
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