HENDEItSON
GATEWAY TO
CENTRAL
CAROLINA
TWENTY-FIRST YEAR
19 NORTH CAROLINA TEXTILE MILLS REOPEN
Master Os Burned Liner Thinks Fire Was Os Incendiary Origin
MPTIO FIRE
HUGE FINER MADE
ON PREVIOUS If
•
Locker, Where Blaze Was
Discovered, Blew Out
At Start of Fatal Fire
Last Saturday
CHARGES CREW WAS
NEW, UNDISCIPLINED
Congressman Advises U. S.
Steamboat Inspection
Service of Information
Obtained; More Than 100
Persons Perished De
struction of Ship at Sea
N<>w York. Sept. 10. (AP)—Chief Of
ficer W. M. Warms, master of the
Mono Castle, as frie brought death
to more than 100 of its passengers
Saturday, told the government inquiry
today he suspected the blaze was
started by an incendiary.
Warms said he based hi 3 belief on
the fact that an incendiary attempt
was made o nthe boat on its previous
voyage.
Ho also thought significant the fact
that a blaze was discovered in the
ship's locker, which blew out at the
start of the fatal fire. When, speak
ing about the earlier fire, Warms said
"some one set it”. Inspector General
Dickerson N. Hoover, of the steam-
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PROBEffISOF
Crash Near Wilkesboro on
Sunday Afternoon Has
Only One Eye Witness
Clingman, N. C., Sept. 10— '(AP) —
An investigation was launched today
into the crash of a cabin monoplane
yesterday near here which claimed
the lime of the Pilot-Owner Carl S.
Coffey, 36, and three of his friends
Tiding with him.
Passengers of the young North
Wilkesboro aviation enthusiast were
Murph Mathis, 43, Roaring River
farmer; Robert Green, 27, Clingman
merchant, and Lester Boyd. 25, ar
auomobile mechanic of Yadkinville.
near here.
The plane crashed into a field.
There wa sno eye witnesses except
an 11-year-old-girl, on whose mother’s
farm the plane fell, just a few hun
dred yards from Greene’s home. The
girl said the motor of the plane sud
denly stopped and ti fell to the ground
turning completely over.
Maine Vote
First Os 10
t his Week
Senators, Congress
men, Governors to
He Chosen in Pri
maries Over Nation
(By the Associated Press)
The Maine election today, forerun
ning the November 6 elections in 47
other states, opened a week of prima
ries in ten states.
. Primary elections for representa
tives will be held tomorrow in seven
states —Arizona, Colorado, Louisiana,
Michigan, New Hampshire, Vermont
and Washington,
Arizona, Michigan, Vermont and
Washington pick senatorial candi
dates as well.
Primaries for the House will be
held Wednesday in Maryland and
Georgia and Thursday in New York.
Maryland, too, will make nominations
£° r the Senate.
Democrats of South Carolina wiV
choose between Cole L. Blease and
Glin D. Johnson tomorrow for gov-
Is a run-off primary.
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aboard the S. S. Monarch of Bermuda to which she swam from the burning wreck.
(Central Press)
Communists Are Blamed
For Morro Castle Blaze
And One In Canal Zone
Internatonal Radical Or
ganization Accused by
Crew of Vessel at
Balboa
COMMUNISTS NAMED
BY HAVANA OFFICER
United States Has Asked no
Inquiry at Havana of
Sabotage in Connection
with Saturday’s Holocaust
in Early Morning Off Jer
sey Coast
Balboa, Canal Bone, Sept. 10 (AP)
—Several officers of the Grace liner
Santa Rita, which made port today
with a fire in her hold, declared aft
er docking that "the fire here and
also on the Morro Castle was the
work ‘of an international radical or
ganization.’ ”
COMMUNISTS ARE BLAMED
BY HAVANA PORT POLICE
Havana* Sept. 10 (AP) —Captain
Oscar Hernandez, chief of the Ha
vana port police, declared today:
"The Morro Castle fire seems to
have been the work of Communists,
apparently of a passenger who board
ed the ship with fire-making chemi
cals in his baggage.”
U. S. NOT REQUESTING ANY
INVESTIGATION IN HAVANA
Havana, Sept. 10 (AP)—Gabriel
Landa, secretary of the treasury, to
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15 Negro Convicts
Make Their Escape
At New Bern Camp
New Barn, Sept. 10. (AP) —Fifteen
Negro convicts escaped from the
State Highway prison camp near here
early last night. The escape was
made through a hole in the barracks
floor, cut with safety razor blades.
Eighty other prisoners refused to ac
company them.
J. L. Jordan, Negro preacher .this
morning carried his 17-year-old son
back to camp. None of the remain
ing 14 had been located at noon today.
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LEASED WIRE SERVICE OF
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS.,
NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA AND VISHNIA.
HENDERSON N. C. MONDAY AFTERNOON, SEPTEMBER 10, 1934.
Reciprocal Pact
With Greece Near
Washington, Sept. 10 (AP) —The
State Department announced to
day it would immediately negoti
ate a reciprocal trade agreement
with Greece, increasing to ten the
nations with which the United
States will soon seek pacts in the
hope of increasing trade.
snkMiii7
Want Hand
In Parleys
Van Horn Wires
His Industry De
sires Part In Agree
ments
New York. Sept .10. (AP) Peter
Van Horn, chairman of the code au
thority of the silk tetxile industry, to
day telegraphed a request to the
President’s strike mediation board in
Washington that the silk mill own
ers “be let in on the board’s efforts
to settle the textile strike”.
The telegram pointed out that the
silk employers had only learned of
the union’s latest offer of settlement
terms through the newspapers, and
asked the board what it expected the
silk manufacturers to do about it.
Mr. Van orn said that the board,
which is headed by Governor John G.
Winant ,of New Hampshire, has not
invited the silk industry to partici
pate in its efforts to settle the srtike.
Wather
FOR NORTH CAROLINA
Generally fair tonight and.
Thursday. . r .
STRIKE oKITY
i
Manufacturers Take That
View, and Workesr Los
ing Faith in Set-Up
WHERE TROUBLE LIES
Administration Hoped Capital Would
Sacrifice Part of Its Profits
to Restore Employment,
But It Has Not
By CHARLES P. STEWART
(Central Press Staff Writer)
Washington. Aug. 10.— NRA is blam
ed by the generality of the employing
class’ representatives, who are num
erous in Washington in connection
with strike negotiations, for the
spread of labor trouble throughout
the country.
The workers’ spokesmen do not
exactly blame the National Recovery
Administration, but they do say that
increasing friction between capital
and labor conclusively demonstrates
the set-up’s inability to cacmoplish
what its creators hoped it would ac
complish.
From talks with leaders on both :
sides of pending issues, it is quite
evident what the basic difficulty is.
The White House clearly expected
to improve labor’s status, including
the taking up of the slack of unem
ployment, at the sacrifice of a con
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Willing to Accept Sales Tax
Substitute, But Not
Legalizing Whiskey
Daily Dispatch flnreno,
In the Sir Walter Hotel,
Raleigh, Sept. 10. —The lady from
Yancey, Mrs. Charles Hutchins, who
is to be the only woman member of j
the 1935 General Assembly, has gone
back home, but she tells your bureau
that she isn’t afraid to say where
she stands on the general sales tax.
She is for it. ?
“It was no embarrassment to me
in the campaign,” she declared before'
returning home Saturday. “It was
no issue. I did not hear one objec
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Manufacturers Make Big
Inroads In Strike Ranks
In Carolinas Territory
However, Many Mills That
Were Closed Operate
with Heavily Re
duced Forces
BIGGEST RE-OPENING
MOVE IN BURLINGTON
28 of 39 Plants Running,
but Number are Hosiery
Mills and N6t Yet Affect
ed by Strike; Heavy
Guards Make Openings
Possible in All Cases
Charlotte, Sept, 10 (AP) —Manu-
facturers made heavy inroads into
strike ranks in the two Carolinas to
day, reopening 52 mills with the aid
of National Guardsmen and heavily
armed special officers.
However, many of the mills which
were closed by union flying squad
rons ran today with heavy
reduced forces.
The largest reopening movement
was at Burlington, N. C., where seve
ral National Guard companies escort
ed those who wished to work, but
only an estimated 1,200 of the county’s
7,000 workers were on the job.
Twenty-eight of the 39 plants are
running.. _ A number of them are hos
iery mills and not yet actually af
fected by the strike call, although
some of them were not running.
Survey figures shortly after noon
revealed 160 plants running in North
Carolina and 65 in South Carolina,
with 200 still closed in North Caro
lina and 95 in South Carolina. Os an
estimated 117,400 workers normally
employed in the involved area in
North Carolina, 64,000 remained idle
and 53,400 worked. The strike per
centage was larger in South Carolina,
where 42,355 were idle and 21,955 at
work.
In no case were reopenings effected
without the aid of heavy guards.
Ehringhaus
Reply Gets
Hugh Okeh
Many Messages
Commend Answer
to Lawrence Criti
ism
Daily Dispatch Bureau,
In the Sir Walter Hotel,
Raleigh, Sept. 10 —'The impression
hereabouts is that Governor Ehring
haus got President R. R Lawrence,
of the State Federation of Labor, told
in the telegram replying to Mr. Law
rence’s statement the governor had
broken faith with the federation pres
ident.
The executive has not at any time
since he took the office made a state
ment so direct. He hasn’t consumed
anything like so much space as his
bristling retort took up. He received
yesterday and toda many telegrams
commending him for his reiterated
purpose to protect any strikes who is
being maltreated, but also to protect
and citien who may wish to work.
The governor turned neatly upon
Mr. Lawrence in the Flying Squad
ron’s activities. The federation head
had been warned at least 24 hours
that the squadron must not fly about
North Carolina- The Gorman mes
sage from Washington repudiating
the squadron and disclaiming any
federation authority for its visits,
turned the issue back upon Mr. 'Law
rence. The governor made a stinging
allusion to the labor leader’s inability
‘to lead.
| Other Governors have had fine ser
vices from labor heads. The late
Thomas W. Bickett, who disliked to
use troops, found in President Jim
Barrett of the state federation a man
who would go among the strikers and
stay up all night with them. In the
'Albemarle riot near the close of the
‘Bickett term Mr. Barrett gave his
word to the governor that the strik
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EXCEPT SUNDAY.
Ehringhaus Won’t
Answer Lawrence
Raleigh, Sept, 10 (AP) —Gover-
nor Ehringhaus today said “no
reply was necessary” to charges
made last night by R. R. Lawrence,
president of t-lie State Federation
of labor, regarding use of troops
on guard duty in connection with
the textile strike.
“No reply was necessary, as every
statement made in Mr. Lawrence’s
telegram, both general and parti
cular, had been covered by pre
vious statements from this and
the adjutant general’s office,” the
governor said iq a brief state
ment answering inquiries as to
whether he would wire Mr. Law
rence an answer.
Both Countries Sought to
Outdistance Each Other
During Truce in
Leticia War
SENATE COMMITTEE
TOLD OF ACTIVITIES
Nothing in Armistice Ar
rangements to Prevent
Them from Arming Dur
ing Truce; President of
Arms Corporation Helped
by American Attaches
Washington, S#pt. 10 (AP) —Testi-
mony that Peru and Colombia en
gaged in an armament race during
their armistice in the Leticia trouble,
so as to be prepared for war at the
end of the truce, was given today
to the Senate Munitions Committee.
The armistice, which terminated
five months ago, led to peace, how
ever. A. J. Miranda, Jr., president of
the American Armament Corporation,
told of the race to build up their arm
ies. 1 i
Previous testimony had brought out
that Colombia was keeping closely in
formed on the purchase by Peru of
planes in the United States during the
armistice.
Miranda said he knew of nothing
in the armistice arrangement to pre
vent the governments from arming
themselves for expected eventuali
ties.
Evidence that Miranda, while in Rio
de Janeiro on May 27, 1933, boasted
the American commercial and mili
tary attaches there had been “100 per
cent helpful” was given to the com
mittee.
WAITGIMAJ
Both Sides Anxious to Hear
from Meekins and Also
David Clark
Daily Dispatch Bureau,
In the Sir Walter Hotel,
aleigh. Sept. 10. —Neutrals and parti
sans alike in the constitutional con
test in North Carolina have been read
ing the announcements to see which
way epublican State Chairman Wil
liam C. eekins and Editor David Clark
of the Southern Textile Bulleltitn are
going to jump.
Both sides are now accusing the
other of catering to the “interests’.
Governor Dick Fountain sees some
thing very sinister in the support of
many revisionists. Governor ax Gard
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PROTECTION IS GIVEN
BY GUARDSMEN AND
SPECIAL OFFICERS
Section of Roadway Lead
ing to Cherryville Mill
Wrecked by Dyna
mite Blast
FLYING SQUADRONS
LARGELY INACTIVE
In Only One or Two In
stances Are They Seen;
Pickets Placed at Cannon
Mills at Kannapolis, but
Workers Are Escorted to
Jobs by Troops and
Guards
Charlotte, Sept. 10 (AP)—Nineteen
strike-closed North Carolina textile
mills reopened this morning behind
National Guardsmen and special of
ficers, and there was little disorder.
A dynamite bomb wrecked a sec
tion of roadway leading to the Ho
well mill at Cherryville, N C., but
the mill continued to operate. No
on was injured.
The Howell is the only one of Gas?
ton county’s 104 plants which is run
ning.
Eleven mills which resumed opera
tions today after being closed by
union flying squadrons last week are
in Lincoln county. They employ 1,300
of the county’s 1,700 textile workers.
Two plants remained closed.
Three small Mecklenburg county
plants reopened, with approximately
500 at work. Other Mecklenburg
plants remained closed.
The largest mill to reqpen was at
iMooresville, where the MooresviUe
'Cotton Mills, employing 1,200, made ,
Iredell county completely free from
strike effects.
The Chicola Mills at Honea Path,
S. C., where a clash between union
men, non-union men and officers re
sulted in seven deaths last week, re
opened with a full force today. It
was started by 65 National Guards
men.
Reports this morning indicated ap
proximately 4,000 workers returned to
their jobs under armed protection.
Pickets at such armed points were at
a minimum. . -
Union leaders apparently, failed to
produce the numerous flying squad
rons which last week coursed through
both states, closing more than 100
mills. Only one was reported this
morning, and it split into two parts
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TO SUPERVISE CANE
SUGAR WITHDRAWAL
Washington, Sept. 10. (AP) —Secre-
tary Wallace announced today that
the Agricultural Adjustment Admin
istration would supervise withdrawal
from warehouses of accumulated cane
sugar supplies, beginnning next Jan
uary 1.
Industry’s
View Given
By Sloane
Head of Textile In
stitute Silent, How
ever, on Visiting
Mediation Board
Washington, Sept. 10 (AP) The
cotton textile industry’s position on
the United Textile Workers’ proposal
for arbitation of strike issues was
explained' in the government’s new
textile board today by George A.
Sloane, president of the Cfttton Tex
tile Institute.
Sloane had nothing to say to news
paper men as he went into confer
ence with the board shortly after 10
o’clock this morning.
In a statement yesterday in NSw
York he turned down the union pro
posal. Even if the manufacturers
were willing to arbitrate, he said, the
arbitration would have to be on a
mill-by-mill basis, as the manufact
urers had no central agency capable
of speaking for all of thepa. g