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HENDERSON GATEWAY TO CENTRAL CAROLINA TWENTY-FIRST YEAR STRIKE HUGE TRIBUTE FROM LOTTERY REPORTED PAID TO WALMSLEY Huey Long » Probe In New Orleans Begun And Newsmen Barred from The Hearings STATE TROOPERS ON GUARD AT BUILDING Inquiry Is Into Conduct of Affairs of City of New Or leans, Ruled by Mayor T. Semmes Walmsley, Bitter Political Foe of Long In Louisiana New Orleans, la., Sept, I. (AH —Henry R. Long, a native Mississippi, otld the State legisla tive investigating committee to day that the “lottery ring” of New Orleans paid weekly to Mayor T. Semrnts Walmsley ap proximately SI,OOO and Superinten dent of Police George Reyer a round S7OO. Each of the some 20 lottery estab lishments, the witness said, paid SSO wekely to the mayor and $35 weke iv to the police superintendent. A witness saying he was J'. A. Knight, testified that in the third precinct he had participated in pay offs to policemen, but that occasion ally the police would jail handle op •tntors and lottery venders, despite their paid protection, “just to cover P i heir dirt and make it look as >nough they were doing something,” the committee adourned until Tues day at 2 p. m. Long said mere wc><, o% itiSbt lot teries operating in New Orleans un der organized management. The lot teries, he said, were divided between above and below Canal street, with separate pay-offs for aech division. New Orleans, La„ Sept. I.—(AP) Senator Huey P. Long opened his investigation of the hostile New Or leans city government today in a sky m Hi IST TALKED-OF Only Borah Is His Rival In Public Interest; Friends Are Increasing By f IIARLES P. STEWART Washington, Sept. I—Perhaph ex r‘.pttng William E. Borah, I'm con vinced that Huey P. Long is the most talked-about senator who comes to Washington. There dougtles3 are other senators "ho are more talked about, locally— "ithin the border of their respective home states. But averaging the states I Icel sure that Huey is better known to more folk than any other rational solon, except, maybe, as pre viously lemarked, the Idaho lawmak- PI and Huey can tie even him I im agine. I base my judgment on the response! 1 have received to an appeal I recent ly broadcast through this column for a reader-opinion of the Kingfish, as a statesman. T'»i a long time’ I have believed Huey to be about as widely popular with a large part fotherank-and-file (Continued on Page Three) Third Insane Desperado Is Taken In Rocky Mount Raleigh, Sept. 1 (AP)—N. S. God-. fiat d, one of the seven prisoners who , escaped from the criminal insarte ■wai'd at the Staet Hospital here early Wednesday morning, was returned to bte institution this morning. God flard was taken by Rocky Mount po- Rc® in that city late last night. Led by Assistant Chief Paul Zimmerman, police found Goddard in the home of Ephus Buount, near the city. Blount told police he recognized the convict took him home and put him to bed. Later he called officers. They ex perienced no trouble in arresting him. With the return of Goddard, only - o ’»r of the sever, insaners remain Rt S&tllt BtSMfrh Ascend* 17>/ 2 Mile* i Jilll ' ! y * f • -M ♦ ** / M I•' -v s v •• '' , ' <'a 1 I £ 'fsM+ 'C* ~ , , «• . \f> s/jp i j || : I si ... lißi Breaking loose from ground wire attached to a laboratory roof at the University of Chicago, a min iature, radio-equipped, robot bal loon, designed by Prof. Arthur H. Compton, Nobel prize physicist, soared 17 V 2 miles into the strato sphere to set a recognized new world’s altitude record. This shows the balloon as it ascended with the instrument box dangling below. GOVERNOR AWAITS JEFFRESS’ ILLNESS Meantime, Agitation For Roach on Highway Com mission! Continues Dully Diapntch fliirenn, In the Sir Walter Hotel, Raleigh, Sept. 1.-n Decision of the State Highway and Public Works Commission no tto designate a chair man protem and to stay in meeting until such news from th beedside of Edwin B. Jeffress as will give thme the correct idea as to his future, ha; come, somewhat scotches the boo 1 ers of Jack Roach for the chairman ship. Further inquiry into the campaign for a successor to Mr. Jeffress re veals the growing unity in favor of Mr. Roach. The unity comes from people who have single thoughts. In terruption of the campaign followed (Continued on Page Three) large. Joe Stafford and Tom Jack son, two of the original seven, were re-captured in Johnson county Thurs day. Dr. J. W. Ashby, superintendent of the hospital, said Goddard told him that Ed Deaver, leader of the gang who fled from the hospital, asked him Tuesday afternoon if he would like to escape. Goddard wa ssaid by Dr. Ashby to have been one of the four inmates who, Blandishing chair rock er sand other siimlar weapons, de manding the keys from guards while they were eating a midnight supper and opened cells of three other pris oners. f ' \ ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER service of the associated press. HENDERSON N. C. SATURDAY AFTERNOON, SEPTEMBER 1, 1934 MAY BE AVERTED TWO DOCTORS ARE DILLINGER GANGS Identified as Surgeons Who Performed Face-Lifting Operations on Late Desperado LAWYER AND FOUR OTHERS ALSO HELD Arrests of Doctors Made Under Personal Direction Os Edgar Hoover, Head of Bureau of Investigation of Department of Justice in Washington. Chicago, Sept. 1 <APi —Chicago phy sicians, identified by Federal agents as the surgeons who performed face lifting operations and tried to change the finger-prints of Jolvi Dillinger and Homer Van Meter, slain outlaws, were under arrest from Department of Justice agents (oda ywith Louis Piquette, attorney ,and four other persons. All are accused of harboring and concealing the notorious gangster. The physicians held are Dr. Wil helm Loeser and Dr. Harold Bernard Cassidy. Piquett, a criminal defense attorney, was the man who planned the defense of Dillinger on the murder charge at Crown Point, In<i.,j before Dillinger talked his way out of the jail with a wooden gun. The others held, all on charges of concealing the fugitive, are: Arthur W. O’Leary, an employee in Piquett's law office. lib ~«x*nforbt -.woman - friend of Varr Meter, charged with harboring him in Calumet City, 111. The arrests last night were made under the personal direction of J. Ed gar Hoover, head of the Bureau of In vestigation of the Department of Just ice. Hoover left last night for Wash ington after the capture of the seven HAVANA’SSTUDENTS IN demonstrations Havana, Sept. 1.-(AP)-Demon strating students blocked all traffic around the University of Havana for several hours today by sniping at police from university windows, but early in th eafternoon they began sur rendering in small groups to police men armed with rifles, who released those they found unarmed. The students appeared to be aban doning their stronghold after several bursts of firing around noon. Crop Seeds Big Source Os Incomes Daily Dispntcl* Bureau, In the Sir Walter Hotel, Raleigh, Sept. I.—lnquiries from other states about the available sup ply of crop seeds in North Carolina gives rise to the belief that local far mers may cash in on their surplus supplies of good seeds during the next planting season, according to Dr Gordon K. Middleton, seed at the North Carolina State College During the past few days the col (Continued on Page Five) Constitution Revisionists Making Gain Daily Dispatch Bureau, In the Sir Walter Hotel. Raleigh, Sept. I.—Biggest gains for the constitutional revisionists were " made yesterday when the Democratic e State organization as it is personi *- fied ih Chairman J. W. Winborne, Vice Chairman Mrs. C. W. Tillett, Jr., ►f National Committeewoman Miss Bea n trice Cobb, and Chairman D. Hoyle g Alley of the Young Democrats of n North Carolina, came out for that e paper instrument. r. At the moment that Kemp D. Bat lr tie, of the revisionists forces, was an c- nouncing his gains, Attorney General s- Dennis G. Brummitt, was attracking le the proposed revision. He was lunch sr eon speaker for (the Kiwanians in 3. ; (Continued on Page Three) PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OF inoKTH CAROLINA AND VIwINIA TEXTILE STRIKE WINS UNION HELP .J&.. ■ ***>. .<■'46. -A M ,v:xv. lT* %~Z> • --iflPbWsk •dSt'VK -.d»‘ • \iSPF' : " : §Bg§ PUjjjf PPi |l W McMahon At a conference at Washington headquarters of the American - Federation of Labor, textile work ers’ chiefs are shown discussing strike plans with William Green, center, president of the federation Bank Statements Reveal Huge Gains In The State North Carolina Ha* Today Soundest Banking Structure It Ever Knew; Over $35,000,000 Gain in, Resources In Past Year Is Shown in Exhibit Daily DiMpatek llarena, i jtuttu. *m,uuu.vwT ,(§•/.. I Slate-controlled institutions from June 30, 1933, to June 30, 1934, are gfven in the consolidated bank state ment issuing today from the office Hood. Peak millions have not been regain ed by something more than $100,000,- 000 but the comparison is to be made not with banking iconditions when every village in the State had one or more depositories, but with the years relate dto recovery, March 31, 1924, the State had $286,489,668.38 total re- Movement ini England May Spread to U. S.; Jap Move Echoes Here By LESLIE EICHEL New York, Sept. I—A1 —A movement begun in England may spread to the United States. Houses and shops unoccupied be cause of high rents may be subjected to high taxation —in England . The London Daily Express explains the move. “Every property owner in Britain may be affected by a secret inquiry being conducted by the London coun ty council into the possibility of forc ing owners of unoccupied office s.hop and house Jproperty to ipay (taxes.) “Such action would be taken if it was found that the properties re- mained unoccupied because excessive rents were demanded by owners .• • “Empty offices in one building in (Continued on Page Three) ACCUSED NEGRO IS TAKEN OFF BY MOB Savannah, Ga.. Sept. 1. (AP) A Negro accused of attempting to at tack a young white woman was taken by a masked mob from Bryan and Liberty county officers last night, and his fate was unknown. The young woman was accosted on a lonely road in Bryan county betwene Ways Sta tion and Kellers. The mob took the INegro from the officers near the scene of the crime. ROSCOE TURNER IS AFTER NEW RECORD St. Louis, Mo.. Sept I.—(AP) Colonel Boscoe Turner, speed flier, attempted to lowr the west east flight record, landed at Lam bert field here at 11:29 a. m., eastern standard time, and hop ped off five minutes later. He flew from Wichita, Kansas, 360 miles distance, in an hour and 33 -.minutes. Green who pledged the federation’s sup port for the textile strike. At left is Thomas McMahon, presi dent of the United Textile Work ers, and at right, Francis J. Gor man. first vice president. sources, March 7, 1929, the grand to tal-jew-s. &29A im an? 34 But,.,by ,t„„« sources downward to" $302,891,852.91. By June 30. 1930, there was an upward climb which brought them to $312,- 050,629.74 and then the tumbling be gan. The in June, 1931 to $252,178,42.62, the next year to $199,- 927,812.69, and a year later to $175,- 855,727.35. They are now, June 30, 1934, considered back to $210,872.65. The weeding out o banks al lover the State was all done during this (Continued on Page Five) GREAT FALLS Its WILL BE PICKETED New Threat of Violence Flares In Alabama s Seven Weeks Strike Great Falls, S. C„ Sept. 1. (AP)—- H T. Pike, president of the Great Falls locals of the United Textile Workers of America, said today the three large plants of the Republic Mills here wr dd all be picketed Mon day morning. He claimed approximately 700 of the company’s 1,100 employees were members of the union. threatening notes are PINNED ON MANY DOORS Birmingham, Ala., Sept. 1. —(AP)— A new threat of violence in the Ala bama textile strike, now in its seventh week, came today from Albertsville, where threatening notes were found pinned on the doors of strikers favor ing a return to work. The note followed organization of the independent textile workers of Alabama at the Albertsville and Gun- tersville mills of the Saratoge-Victory mills. Workers of the two mills have been on st'fike since July 17. Business Section Os Mountain Town Nearly Wiped Out Culiowhee, Sept. I—(AP) —Four business buildings were destroyed and two homes damaged here early today by fire which endan gerde the entire town before it was brought under control. The loss, based on estimates of the owners of the various build -30,000, with little insurance, ings, was between $20,000 and WCiTHfH FOB NORTH CAROLINA. Generally fair tonight and Sun day, except overcast; possibly with occasional rain on the north east coast; somewhat warmer in the interior Sunday. Gortnan PUBLISHED EVERY AFTERNOON EXCEPT SUNDAY? Textile Employees In North Carolina Opposed To Strike May Allow Liquor fIK '• |l|||l Olin D. Johnston Modification of South Carolina’s bone-dry liquor law appeared probable with the nomination of Olin D. Johnston of Spartanburg, the Democratic gubernatorial can didate, regarded as tantamount to elect'Cii, in November. Although s. dry, personally, the next gover nor, who defeated former U. S. sign-any reaßoname nquor Dill proposed. ~ SSjobs Latest Additions Make Walk J Out Complete for All Branches of Tex. tile Business EMPLOYERS LIMIT NUMBER TO 15 PCT. Claim Not More Than That Number Will Quit Jobs; First Tests Will Come Monday; Strike Leaders Given Warnings Against Communist Agitators Washington, Sept. 1. (AP) general textile strike had extneded to day to include 200,000 silk workers. iThe inclusion of the silk workers in the general walk-out, effective at 11:30 p. m. tonight, local time in all textile communities, makes the walk out complete in hte textile industry. Already the strike had involved some 425,000 workers in the cotton textile, and 100,000 more in the wool (Continued on Page Eight) Opposition To Strike Is Widespread In Carolinas Burlington, Sept. 1 (AP) —An unof ficial survey here today of the atti tude of silk mill employers and work ers indicated that the operatives earnestly desire to continue working, while mill officials said they would gladly shut down plants for economi cal reasons, bub wanted to keep wheels turning for the workers’ bene fit. MONDAY WILL BE HOLIDAY IN MOST REIDSVILLE MILLS Reidsville, Sept. 1 (AP)—Most of the mills in Rockingham county plan to observe Monday Labor Day as a holiday, but the management of the Edna Mills Corporation said their plant would operate. 8 PAGES TODAY FIVE CENTS COPY Chairman Garrison, of Lab or Relations Board, Says ‘‘District 'Possibility” Os Peace OPTIMISM IS HIGH OVER SETTLEMENT ___________ v Important Announcement Promised in Hour if All Sides Agree; Negotiations With Government Leader Reported To Strike Com mittee of Textile Union • Washington, Sept. 1 (AP)—Lloyd Garrison, chairman of the Labor Re lations Board, told newsmen today he felt there was a distinct possibility of averting the textile strike. OPTIMISM RUNNING HlCftl OF AVERTING THE STRIKE Washington, Sept. 1 (AP)—Optim ism that a settlemjit might be reach ed to avert the general textile strike was expressed today by Lloyd Gar-r risen, chairman of the National Labor Board, shortly alter silk mill work ers had been ordered to join their col leagues in the cotton, woolen and worsted industries. Garrison made the statement in a fn ieif recess of a conference with pi wiucm lac n /rcl tV/au rcu* eration of Full-Fashioned Workrs. “We are still exploring the popsi bilities of averting the strike,” Garri son said of the conference. “If all sides agree I. may have an important announcement within an hour.”- Thomas F. McMahon, after confer ring with Garrison, told reporters he was going to report the discussions to the strike committee. He refused to tell details of his conversation with Garrison. The Strike leaders arranged to confer with Garrison again at 3 p. m. WINSTON-SALEM WORKERS WON’T BE ORDERED OUT Winston-Salem, Sept. 1 (AP) — Tex til eunion leaders here said local unionists will not be called out in the National walk-out'Tuesday. They re refuseld to say whether Jthey will strike later or not. Auto Code Continued Sixty Days Hyde Park, N. Y., Sept. I. j (AP) —President Roosevelt today signed an order renewing the au tomobile code of NBA 'for 60 days. ' Mr. Roosevelt declined flatly to discuss the resignation of Lewis Douglass as director of the bud get. “If and when there is some thing to say,” added Marvin H. Mclntyre, secretary, “it will come j from him.” MILL WHERE COMMUNISTS STRUCK FEARfNG TROUBLE Gastonia, Sept. 1 (AP) —Manage- ments of 43 of Gastonia’3 45 mills an nounced today their plants would open Monday mottling ns usual, de spite the general strike scheduled to start at 11:30 tonight. Management of the other two mills said their employees had been grant ed a holiday Monday in order that they might participtae n Lib.»r Day activities. Reports from) East Gastonia said unions in some mills were sufficiently organized to cause a walk-out. Ob server at the Loray plant of the Man« (Continued on Page Sight)