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HENDERSON GATEWAY TO CENTRAL CAROLINA TWENTY-FIRST YEAR FIRST TEST OF STRIKE Will COME ON MONDAY GUARD KILLED WHEN PRISONERS ATTEMPT CALEDONIA ESCAPE [ ive Convicts, Three Con victed Murderers, Over, power Him in Break For Freedom OTHER GUARDS FIRE KILLING CO-WORKER Hid Not Know Would J Be fugitives Had Man Con cealed in Fleeing Car; Es cape Is Frustrated In Run ning Battle Between The Guards and the Prisoners Raleigh, Auk. 31.—(AF)—Ernest Hux. guard of the Caledonia prison f arm in Halifax county, was killed yesterday afternoon when five prison <l si. three of them convicted murder ers, overpowered him, took his gun and forced him to accompany them in an unsuccessful effort to escape. Jack Roach, in charge of the pri son department of the State High way and Public Works Commission, was informed today of the killing. The convicts forced E. L. Sherron, who was working at the prison can nery, to hand over his automobile keys, and with Hux in the car they s'arted to flee from the farm. The alarm was spread and I. D Hinton, assistant superintendent of farm, and a guard named Cook, ovet took the prisoners before they ha' pot ton off the farm proper. A gun battle ensued, and Hux ..was.-killed-r A coroner's inquest today found that Hux was killed by a buckshot wound in the head, fired by an em ployee of the prison. The guard was exonerated on the ground Hux was concealde by th prisoners and he did not know Ht was n the car when he fired in r attempt to frustrate the escape. Th' verdict did not say whether Hintor or Cook fired the fatal shot. Hea\ y Breaks In Tobacco Markets In East Carolina Pockv Mount, Aug. 31 (AP)—Offer "‘2* of more than three quarters of a 1 ion pounds of tobacco here today, heaviest of the season marked the ' a .v s sales. Prices apparently slight v in advance of yesterday. Thurs- d *- v the market sold 685,076 pounds of tobacco at the average of $26.63 per hundred pounds, accordin gto official figures. Sales were stopped for an hour at 10 o’clock today in tribute to A. P. Thorpe, tobacco piopeer, who died and who was buried to day. biggest break of season ON THE GOLDSBORO MARKET Goldsboro. Aug. 31 (AP) —There was the bgge.st break on the Goldsboro to t'Hiroo market of the season today. Yesterday's sales were 184,1)15 pounds. New Inquiry In Army Air Corps Seen Bern’s Refusal To Fire Foulois Arous es Ire Os House Committee W.-shngton. Aug. 31 (AP)—A new inquiry into tile army; ar corps is ex pected to result from Secretary Dern’s refusal to discharge Major General B'njamin D. Fulois forthwith from his post as chief of th ecorps A demand by a House Military At f«i»s sub-committe tthat Foulois be dismissed summarily was turned down yesterday by the. war secretary on ,v, e ground that the general has not v, een granted “sacred rights of Ame rican citizenship” guaranteed by the Constitution. Uern declined to act until the com* rnittee reopens the case and gives Fou iois a "fun and complete hearing.” Uruiirrsmt Dafln tlisuatrh Author Sinclair Wins ; : i -flp. SK- Upton Sinclair Walking away with the Demt> * cratic nomination for governor in California’s primary, Upton Sin clair, above, former Socialist and world famous author, defeated George Creel, war-lime prt\ss bureau chief, backed by the regu lar state organization, on a plat form “to end poverty in%Cali fornia”. He will face acting Gov. Frank Merriam, Republican, in the fall election. SINCLAIR^ELECTION SPLITSDEMOCRATS Primary Opponent of Cali fornia 'Socialist Refuses To Support Him WILL SEE ROOSEVELT Democratic Gubernatorial Nominee Speeds East for Conference With President, Hoping for Support San Francisco, Cal., Aug. 31. — (AP) —As Upton Sinclair sped eas today for an nterview with Presider Roosevelt, the expected rift in the Democratic party over the former cialist’s nomination for governor broke wide open. As he boarded a train in Pasadena early today, Sinclair expressed con fidence he would win the California governorship in November and hoped he would return witn the indirect sup port of the President. In San Francisco Justis S. Wardell, one of the leading party figures in the State, and third on the Demo cratic ballet, which Sinclair won in Tuesday’s primary, said he would .support either Acting Governor Frank Merriam, conservative Repub lican nominee, or Raymond L. Haight, Progressive and commonwealth party candidate. Family Os Juror Threatened From Underworld Gang Richmond, Va., Aug. 31.—(AP) —The News Leader today says police are Investigating a report hat underworld friends of Robert Mats, of Philadelphia, convicted last night as a participant in the hold-up murder of a Federal Re serve truck driver here, had at tempted to Intimidate the jury in the case by threats of bodily in jury to a juror’s family. Judge John L. Ingram, who tried the case in Hustings court, was not in his office, and his tele phone had been temporarily dis connected at his request, tele phone authorities said. ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OF NuKTH CAROLINA AND VIIIiINIA. WIRE BERVICB OF the associated press. HENDERSON N. C. FRIDAY AFTERNOON, AUGUST 31, 1934 Won Over Farley id, M, '; mL U r ' j§L John Wellington Finch. Idaho man named director of the Bureau of Mines over the opposition of Post master-General and Patronage Dis penser James A. Farley, is shown taking oath of office. (Central Prese) ROACH ISIOSTED ~ AS THE SUCCESSOR 10 E. B.JEFFRESS Prison Director Put For ward Vigorously by His Friends for Highway Board Headship JEFFRESS BELIEVED OUT Os THE SCENE His Illness Expected hy Some To Incapacitate Him Permanently for Duties; Hand of George Ross Pou Seen In Agitation That Is Now Getting Under Way In the Sir Walter Hotel, Dally Dispatch Bureau, Raleigh. Aug. 31—Belief of many people that the critical illness of Chairman E. B. Jeffress, of the State Highway and Public Works Commis sion. may ncapactate him perman ently for the drection of that work, is being used to boost Jack Roach, director of prison operations, to suc ceed Cr. Jeffress, it has been discov ered. Shortly after the accidental death of Chief Engineer John D. Waldrop, who was killed in an automobile col lision near New Bern, Mr. Roach be gan to b« discussed with considerable enthusiasm. It was observable about the hotels that his backers werd largely among the people who put up such a ight to make George Pou chairman of the commission. Road contractors and their political friends (Continuedon Page Seven) Rooseyelt’s Money Probe Is Continued Nation’s Fina nc e s Discussed With Douglas, Morgen thau and Others Hyde Park. N. Y., Aug. 31 (AP) — President Roosevelt called in Treas ury Offcials today in a resumption of his study of the national financial sit uation begun last night in talking with Lewis Douglass, di/ector of the budget. Secretary Morgenthau and Thomas Jefferson Coolidge, under secretary of the treasury, headed the group that had an appointment for noon. Smiling confidence, Mr. Roosevelt frankly told a throng of neighbors assembled late yesterday to welcome him home, that: “We people in the town of Hyde Park ,no matter whether we like it or not, we are paying and will have to pay for the correction of mistakes that were made in other parts of the country ni the past and par to get things better.” Government May Initiate Neutral Investigation Os Cause Os Textile Strike COMMITTEE WOULD STUDY DIFFICULTY, Chairman Garrison, of In dustrial Relations Board, Still Is 'Seeking Quick Peace OTHERS MAY JOIN GENERAL WALK OUT Unless Silk, Woolen And Rayon Managements Meet Demands, Their Workers May Also Be Called To Strike Lines; Estimates of Strikers in Conflict. Washington, Aug. 31 (AP)—The gov ernment appeared ready today to launch a neutral inquiry into the issue behind the egneral cotton textile strike as all hop eof averting the giant walk-out vanished. Still striving or a quick peace. Chairman Lloyd Garrison, of the Na tional Industrial Relations Board, “supreme court” of lab ordisputes, ha(T-r Jn" mmd of - 8 - committee of three to explore the conflict impartially and perhaps re commend a solution. Union leaders \hreatened to call silk, woolen and rayon operatives out “on the strike line” unless their em ployers met demands. This, they said would boost the grand total involved from 425.000 to 725,000, including union, non-union and unemployed op eiatives. who would aid strikers. The estimates conflicted sharply with those of managements, which said that in many mills none would walk out and the total would not amount beyond 10 or 15 per cent. Garment .Workers To Quit Chicago, Aug. 31.—(AP)— Strike (President Morris Bailiss, of the In ternational Ladies Garment Wlorkers said 60,000 workers of his union were preparing to strike coincdient with the textile union strike. He said there was a possibility that the strike would be called shortly. Bailiss said he had received orders from President David Dubinsky to prepare for a walk-out of the ladies’ garment union in Chicago. baileYlsteamed WITH “OBJECTORS” Magazine Story Lines Him Up With Smith and Davis Against “New Deal Daily Diapntch Unreal, In the Sip Walter Hotel, Raleigh, Aug. 31—Current issue of the Reviews containing the All-Star anti-New Deal team, Includes for cen terfielder Senator Josiah William Bailey, of North Carolina, who teams with big leaguers as Vice-President John Nance Garner, Governor Alfred E. Smith, John W. Davis, Senator James A. Reed. Senator Carter Glass and Hamilton Fish. Tljie line-up amazed Raleigh people. Senator Bailey had given quick nega tive to all suggestions that he play ball in the American Liberty League (Continuedon Page Seven) WEATHER FOB NORTH CAROLINA. Fair and continued cool tonight; Saturday fair and slightly war mer. Actors in Textile Strike Drama i.. Y....... >• '*•" " r” -’“T. Call for strike of 600,000 cotton textile workers has cast spotlight upon these,four men. Harry L. Hopkins (top, leftX, Jfedefal ReliefAdmiqls- ... trator, reiterated that strikers whose resourcesrbecome exhausted will be entitled to benefits on same basis as other needy. George A. Sloan (top, right), as head of Cotton Textile Institute, is spokesman for manu facturers. Lloyd Garrison (bottom, left) is cast in peacemaker role by bis position ?)* chairman of the National Labor Relations Board. Francis J. lioiniiin id of the union strike commiuc, r (lau.Lrtil Plena) Sees Roosevelt Veering Strongly To The ‘Right’ Seeking Support for Social Insurance Program, With out Which Revolution May Come; Johnson-jßich- Jserg Dispute Is Basic and Is Not Ended at All By LESLIE P. EICHEL Central Press Staff Writer [New York, Aug. 31. —The Roosevelt administration is veering strongly to the righ tin order to -put over its so sial insurance program and trade re ciprocity. The administration evidently be lieves that without social insurance there would be despair that would eventuate in revolution, and that without exchange of trade with for eign countrise there can be no real recovery of business. All sorts of pats on the back, there fore, are being given to business e reassurance that the “bad” medicine Girlie ills Banker And Is Suicide Morristown, Tenn., Aug. 31—(AP) A. grl registered at a hotel as Miss Mary Sam Bruce, of Nashville, but carrying a card giving her address as Lebanch, Tenn., today shot and fatally wounded J. C. Shelton, 35, president of the Hamblen National Bank, and then killed herslef with the same weapon —a 38-calibre re volver. Shelton died in a hospital a short time later of a bullet wound below his heart. The girl, described by po lice Chief B. R. Richardson, as a blonde of about 27 years of age, died almost instantly of a bullet wound through fcer head. She was under stood to be a Lebanon minister’s daughter on vacation her# Witnesses said she walked into Shelton’s private office and fired as she entered. Shelton came out of his office clutching his breast and slump ed to the floor in the lobby of the bank. Police Chief Richardson said he had no clues as to the motive for the shooting. Shelton was unmarried. He had ibeen president lof the bank about three years, coming here from Chat tanooga. PUBLISHED EVERY AFTERNOON EXCEPT SUNDAY. is necessary for recovery. The majority of business leaders of course prefer social insurance to re volution. And the majority of leaders of big business always have advocat ed trade reciprocity. The interior of the. country has been the doubter — and perculiarly so, too, for wheat is the largest American export. Just how “skeery” the administra tion maneuvers to bring in feed for livestock free of duty from Canada. ’ The livestock was perishing. No body could be harmed by lifting vhe duty from Canadian feed. Yet pre (Continued on Page Three) MANTSTAFTER UTILITIES RATE CUT Dowell Quotes Power Man As to Why They Are 6ad cPed With High Charges Dally Dispatch Bureau, In the Sir Walter Hotel, Raleigh, Aug. 31—North Carolina merchants are going to get into the fight to lower utilities rates, accord ing to Willard Dowell, secretary of the merchants association, who makes in the August issue of the Carolina- Virginia Retailer, charges that utili ties companies are discriminating against merchants. The leader in this issue of the mag azine sets forth certain facts and de mands action* “It ;is a recognized fact,” Mr. Dowell says, “that electri city costs the same to manufacture and distribute regardless of the pur pose for which it is used ,but the rates which apply to merchants are several hundre dper cent higher than those which apply to large commer cial consumers, and in many insances merchants are paying nearly 100 per cent more for electricity used in their places of business than they would (Continuedon Page Seven) 8 PAGES TODAY FIVE CENTS COPY Automobiles Are Attacked, Company Officials Threat ened, Plants Armed At Macon, Ga. WARRANTS ISSUED AGAINST STRIKERS NR A Is Center of Fight As Unions Demand Right To Represent Labor In Col lective Bargaining; 30* Hour Week With 40-Hoar Pay Is Asked For (By the Associated Press.) The nation’s greatest labor conflict under the NBA—the gen eral strike in the cotton textile industry—will face its first test on Labor Day. Textile mills of the South uniform ly do not observe the Labor Day holi day, and operatives have served no tice that plants will open Monday as usual, despite the nationwide walk out called for 11:30 o’clock Saturday after the last shifts of the week go off duty. From many sections union organis ers reported that strike will be “on* hundred percent effective.” From oth ers (mill operators claim that less than ten percent of their employees will answer the strike call. Violence already has echoed the strike call. Employees of the Payne Mills, Macon, Ga., struck yesterday, and before midnight two automobiles had been attacked, company offi cials had been threatened and five persons arrested. Pickets armed with clubs marched outside the mill fence; company (guards [firearms patrolled inside the gates. Early today seven warrants were issued in municipal court against striking mill workers at Bibb Mill No. 2, where disorder was reported this morning. Twelve more warrants, pos sibly more, would be sought later ini the day, it was stated. An estimated 425,000 workers in the cotton textile trade are expected to affected by the general strike. An other 300,000 employees in affiliated fields, such as silk, rayon and wool* have orders to “stand by.” Francis J. Gorman, strike committee chairman, predicts they will join the walk-out. About 300,000 mill hands are mem bers of the United Textile Workers of America, which says that their aver age weekly wage is only $10.86. The manufacturers’ organization, the Cot ton Textile Institute, disputes this, saying the industry has granted big (Continuedon Page Seven) Woolen Industry Refuses Meeting With the Unions New York, Aug 31.—(AP)—Ar thur Bess, chairman of the wool textile code authority, today tele graphed Francis J. Gorman, strike chairman of the United Textile Union that that industry could not confer with the work ers’ union in view of the threat ened strike in the textile industry. “This industry,” he said, “can not appoint representatives to confer with your committee, es pecially in view of your announc ed intention to threaten coercion in the form of a strike.” Bess’ telegram was in reply to a telegram from Gorman for a conference. Textilers For South Will Meet Washington, Aug. 31.—(AP)—A ral ly es Southern cotton textile strike leaders to be held at Charlotte, N. C., Sunday was called today by Fran cis J. Gorman, chairman of the strike committee. He said he probably would fly to Charlotte Saturday night with, John Peele, vice president of the Unit ed Textile Workers, in charge of southern headquarters at Greenville* S. C., and G. W. Watson, of Salle* bury, N. C., secretary of the strike committee, _ juJmud
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