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I HENDERSON i GATEWAY TO CENTRAL I CAROLINA TWENTY-FIRST YEAR GUARDSMEN OPEN FIRE AS STRIKERS MCE More North Caroline Cotton Mill, Reopen ForWortl WARRENTON GUARD COMPANY SENT TO BURLINGTON MILLS Makes Three Units of Soldiers I here as Mills Continue to Oper ate Normally SOME HIGH POINT HOSE HANDS QUIT Strike Leaders Throughout Carolinas Start Campaign for Relief Supplies; State Relief Administration Re fuses to Give Funds to Strikers Charlotte, Sept. 12 <AP>—Nation nl Guardsmen patroled the property of the I.oray mill at Gastonia again today as the Manville-Jenckes branch scene of rioting and; bloodshed in 1929, once more sought to break the strike. Automobiles, escorted through lanes of troops, began bringing returning workers to the plant at 4 a. m. today, and machinery started running at 7 am„ while the soldiers held back approximately 600 pickets. Three other Gastonia mills, the Hanover, Pickney and Rankin, also defied the general textile strike to day. reopening with approximately 40h workers on the job and the mili tia alert. Estimates of the number working in the Loray plants vary. Three companies of National Guard smen were on duty, and additional reopenings were expected today and tomorrow. Efforts continued at High Point to get hosiery workers out of the large plant there ahead of their actual strike call. Reports differed as to the number out, but several mills were known to be running with short forces. Some estimates said 1,000 of the city’s 7,- (Continued on Page Three) SonOfMill President Is Shot In Hip I’istol of Policeman Strike Duty at For est City Mysterious ly Fires Forest City, Sept. 12 (AP)—D. D. Little. Jr., son of the president of the Florence mill here, was wound- in the hip today by what witness said was the accidental discharge a pistol of a policeman on strike tf'iard duty at the plant. -V M. Welch, superintendent of the mill, said he and Little were talking w i*h Officer C. N. Stalnacker, when the latter’s holstered gun was dis charged in some manner which none 'd those present was able to explain. W<>ieh said there were no strike pickets about the plant, which is in (Continued on Page Three) $6,000 Taken In Fourth Robbery Magnolia’s Bank Magnolia, Sept. 12 (AP>—The of Magnolia, much-robbed in stitution in the past two years, was entered again during the ngiht by a which got away with $6,000 after r utting through the vault with an acetylene torch. T *ie night robbery was the fourth ♦he past two years, but the first ' !rne the bank had been entered du? ing the night. last robbery before last night ' as ir. May, when a bank officer was livttiWrsmt tlatlit Dtsuatrh -ids New Death Gas jggaap' JH Dr. George H. Cady Discovery of a deadly gas which can be exploded by the heat of the hand was revealed by Dr. George H. Cady, above, tire chem ist, during sessions of the Ameri can Chemical society of Cleve land. The fluorine compound, similar to phosgene gas used in the World war, is expected to have wide industrial uses. fOBAGCD GROWERS BECOME JUBILANT AT HIGHER PRICES Middle Belt Averages Put at High Mark, With the Leading Markets Around 27 Cents QUALITY OF WEED HELPS PRICES UP Glutted Warehouses and Blocked Sales Result from Large Offerings; Addi tional Buyers To Be Available Next Week on the Larger Sales Markets Raleigh, Sept 12 (AP) —Tobacco growers of the North Carolina Middle Belt were jubilant today over prices which prevailed on the floors of the auction warehouses yesterday Esti wates placed the general price aver age at S3O per hundredweight. This was more than double the opening prices which prevailed a year ago, and was lightly higher than the prices which have been reported by the belts opening earlier this year. Offerings on the first day’s sales yes terday were unusually large. The quality of the weed offered tendered to bring a high price aver age. Glutted warehouses and block ed sales resulted from the large of- Durham and Henderson, reported ferings. Two of the larger markets, enough tobacco on hand to keep the buyers busy until Thursday. Addi tional buyers will be sent to the markets next week. Official price averages available (Continued on Page Three) hit over the head and a citizen was shot and wounded as the bandits fled. The robbery was discovered this morning by L. D. Dail, cashier, when he came to open the bank fqr the day’s business. Authorities did not know the exact hour of the burglary nor were any clues immediately evident. The intruders came in after break ing a glass door on one side of the bank. The $6,000 was insured. ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA AND VHtoINIAi L J?™ SBD WIRB SERVICE OF the associated PRESS., HENDERSON. N. C. WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON, SEPTEMBER 12, 1934. LONG CANDIDATES WIN NEW ORLEANS PRIMARY ELECTION Olid D. Johnson Defeats Cole L. Blease for Gov ernorship in South Carolina FOE OF NEW DEAL WINS IN VERMONT Senator Austin Re-Nominat ed There; Woman Barely Misses Nomination for Governor in Colorado; Comstock Re-Nominated Michigan Governor (By the Associated Press) Tuesday’s primaries in eight states, as far flung as Washington on the west and New Hampshire on the east showed these results today: Louisiana Huey Long candidates win. ‘South Carolina —The veteran Cole L. Blease, beaten beaten for governor by Olin D. Johnson. Colorado —A woman gives Governor Johnson close run for re-nomination but apparently lost. Arizona Senator Ashurst leads close contest for renomination. Michigan—Governor Comstock re nominated; Frank D. Fitzgerald is G. O. P. Choice. Vermont—Senator Austin, New Deal foe, re-named by Republicans. Dem ocrats pick Fred C. Martin. New Hampshire Congressman Rogers, Democrat, and Tobey, Re publican, reniminated. Washington—Close race for Demo cratic senatorial nomination. Mr. Jeffress Has A Restless Night Condition Worse Richmond, Va„ Sept. 12 (AP)— Attaches at Memorial hospital here today reported that E.' B. Jeffress, chairman of the North Carolina Highway Commission, had spent a restless night and his condition was serious. Graham Is Facing Difficulty Dally Dispatch Bureau, In the Sir Walter Hotel, Raleigh, Sept. 12 —Dr. Frank Gra ham courted trouble a few days ago when the president of the University of North Carolina offered to sign the bond of Socialist Alton Lawrence, of High Poinj.. That is the view of many visitors in Raleigh who think the head of the University will find a lot of oppo sition among the trustees. It is re called by them that when Governor Max Gardner was asked by some of the most prominent business men of North Carolina to express an opinion (Continued on Page Three) Sherman s Monument Is Opposed Daily Dispatch Bureau, In the Sir Walter Hotel, Raleigh, Sept. 12—Representative R. O. Everett’s historic run-in with the Durham Daughters of the Con wederacy some years ago may be dup licated as the result of a recent vote of the Durham-Orange Historical Commission and the Bennett Place Memorial Commission to ask the Fed eral government to put a monument to General W. T. Sherman on the spot (Continued on Page Three) National Guards Being Kept Busy in South «§§»£ Vera!.■ ftHgSjWra .... Ji Jmm 1,6611 . asked to send federal troops to states in South where National Guardsmen are being n n / sts rese "j u ® e of Guardsmen in North and South Carolina strike centers against their pickets and New Orleans residents want protection from friction between Guardsmen called out by Huey Long and Cl i y P ° - lce controlled by his opponent, Mayor T. S. Walmsley. Newest photos from these battlefronts show Louisiana guardsmen billeted on pier; N. C. Guardsmen mobilizing at Clinchfield, and Guardsmen .pushing back strikers at Greenville,*S. C. (Central Press) Gorman Urges Roosevelt To Ask Governors To Be Fair In Using Soldiers Charles A. Levine ?ound Unconscious Brooklyn, N. Y., Sept. 12. (AP) — Charles A. Levine, first transatlan tic passenger, was found uncon scious beside five open gas jets in the kitchen of a friend’s house. Three notes lay on the table. He was revived by a police emergency crew, who worked over him with an inhalator for 20 minutes. He probably will re cover. One of the notes said: “I just cannot go on.” Levine flew with Clarence D. Chamberlin to Berlin in June, 1927. They covered 3,905 miles before landing. ROOSEVELT HWRS Big Interests Have Reached Ear of People and He , Realizes It By LESLIE EICHEL (Central Press Staff Writer) New York, Sept. 12.—The rialroad man' who with President Roosevelt most frequently is John Jeremiah Pelly, president of the New York, New Haven & Hartford railroad. In the plans of Federal Co-ordinator Eastman to bring about co-ordinated loom large. He is expected to be chairman of a new organization of railroad executives which will work 9 * (Continued on Page Three) WEATHER FOR NORTH CAROINA Prtly cloudy, probably showers in west portion otnight and Thurs day and in east portion Thursday. Principal Function Is To Protect Strike-Break ers, Textile Leader Asserts SAYS NO NEED FOR CALLING OF TROOPS Not Needed in Any Case, ' Charges; Declares Union Is Preparing for Struggle of jat Least a Month in Order to Win the Textile Strike Washington, Sept. 12 (AP) —Chair- man Francis J. Gorman, of the tex tile strike committee, today request ed President Roosevelt to advise gov ernors who have ordered State troops out in the textile strike to urge fairness in their activity. In his telegram, Gorman said: "Governors of several states have called State troops into action in the strike of textile workers. So far as we can learn and observe, the prin (Continued on Page Three) Two Dead In Wreck Os Truck Burlington, >ept. 12 (AP)—Two men were killed near Graham today when their truck wrecked on High way 54. I. H. Showers, of Near Hillsville, Va., a produce dealer, was killed, along with A. J. Johnson, of Greens boro. Johnson had boarded the truck, loaded with cabbage, in Greensboro, to go to Elizabeth City to visit a dau ghter. The crash occurred about eight miles from Graham. PUBLISHED EVERT AFTERNOON exempt Sunday. Wants Bankhead Rule Suspended Florence, S. C., Sept. 12. (AP) Senator E. D. Smith, who thinks the Bankhead cofton control act should be suspended this year, be cause the tax exempt limit of that statute, in tends to ask Attorney General Cummings for an opinion on the question. Capital Eager to Hear Him Detail His EPIC Plan for California By CHARLES P. STEWART (Central Press Staff Writer) Washington. Sept. 12.—1 f any poli tical candidate’s program ever was subjected to microscopic scrutiny, it (Continued on Page Three) Describes Discontent On The Burned Morro Castle Hyde Park, N. Y., Sept. 12 (AP) —Aroused by the Morro Castle disaster, President Roosevelt wants Congress to enact legislar tion eliminating wooden steam ships and requiring fireproof New York, Sept. 12. (^P) —George W. Rogers, chief radio operator of the burned liner Morro Castle, testified at a government inquiry today that sometime ago his first assistant, George Alagna, and another operator, "tried to instigate discontent on the ship”. Rogers testified hesitantly on this point, and only after he received per mission to consult his attorney, who subsequently was found not to be present. The witness said he feared his statement might be misconstrued. Dickerson N. Hoover, conducting the inquiry for the Department of Com 8 PAGES TODAY FIVE CENTS COPY SAYLESVILLE, R. 1., SCENE OF ATTACKS ON STATE TROOPS i Strike Scene in Other States Also Take on Omin ous Look Around Factores UNION “DIGGING IN” FOR A LONG SIEGE “Peace Is Denied Us,” Gor* man Declares; Gunfire at Saylesville Follows Night of Violence and Blood* shed; Troops Are Order ed to Shoot , ; (By the Associated Press) The textile strike took on a grim mer aspect today when the National Guardsmen of Rhode Island opened fire. They discharged a volley over the heads of advancing strikers at Salyes ville, R. 1., where scores have been injured in the last 48 hours in serious rioting. , The strike scene in other states had an ominous look. National Guards men stood watch over the mills in Maine, Connecticut and Mississippi. Three additional units converged on' Gastonia, N. C. ~'m?Tle the textile mediation board assembled in Washington trying to find some basis for peace, union lead ers ‘‘dug in” for a long siege. Francis Gorman, national strike leader, declared "peace is denied us and we must face management on the (Continued on Page Three) Third Ship Discovered As Burning British F reightei; Canal Zone With Races Back to Blaze on Board Ship. Cristobal, Canal Zone, Sept. 12. (AP)—The British freighter Brad burn, currying a cargo o fcotton and phosuhate out of Tampa through the Canal Zone ,and bound for Kobe, Japan reported today that she was afire. The Bradbura reported that she was returning at full speed to Balboa, from which she sailed September 9. No further report came immedi ately on her progress, rior was there an immediate estimate as to ■ how serious the fire might be. merce, told Rogers he wanted to lean* whether discipline was maintained aboard the liner. When his attorney did not Rogers said: ‘‘Some time ago there was a strike among the radio operators. Alagna. and another operator tried to insti gate discontent on the ship by seekfhg signatures to a protest that the food on the ship was bad.’ Rogers testified that one operator “got drunk and was discharged ini N§w nad added that when h® became chief operator, "things went along smoothly. Dr. Gouvreneur Morris Phelps, al passenger on the Morro Castle, waa the first witness before the grand jury today. He testified for more than two hours, and was understood to| have repeated the story he told yes-* terday before the Department oI) Commerce board. J
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