HENDERSON
GATEWAY TO
CENTRAL
CAROLINA
TWENTY-FIRST YEAR
FIND MORE RANSOM
Roosevelt Is Pushing Speedy Reorganization Os NRA
PRESIDENT HEARS
ALSO PROTEST OF
TEXTILE STRIKERS
No Mention of Johnson’s
Resignation Made in the
Conference with News
paper Group
WILL NOT REPLY TO
CHAMBER QUESTIONS
president Turns Query
Aside by Joke; Says He
Cannot Answer All Ques
tionnaires Put to Him by
Various Organizations;
More NRA Changes Com
ing
Washington, Sept. 26 (AF)—Presi
dent Roosevelt said today upon his
return to the White House that he
•would take up immediately, possibi
jv late today, the question of NRA
reorganization and the protest of tex
tile strikers of discrimination by
employers.
At his desk in the White House the
President talked with newspaper
men at his regular press conference
following his return from the sum
mer White House at Hyde Park, N. Y.
He did not refer to his letter of last
night accepting the resignation of
Hugh S. Johnson as recovery admin
istrator.
The President emphasized again
that the reorganization of NRA
would he of an evolutionary nature,
and that changes would be (made
from time to #time on the basis of
tiial and experiment.
Asked about the questionnaire sub
mitted to him by the Chamber of
Commerce of the United States, the
President said he did not have time
to answer all questionnaires put to
him by various organizations.
He said that in reading the ques
tions of the Chamber of Commerce
he was reminded of the lawyer who
put the question in the form:
“Have you stopped beating your
wife?”
Little doubt was left that the
Chamber of Commerce would not re
ceive a reply from the President.
Body Os Missing
Girl Is Found In
Trunk At Detroit
Detroit, Mich., Sept. 26. (AP)
The body of LilHlan Gallagher,
missing since Thursday afternoon,
was found today — on her eleventh
birthday— In an apartment only a
few blocks from her home.
The body was stuffed into a
trunk. The girl had been slain, but
police did not disclose at once how
she had died.
Police Immediately began a
search for a man and a woman
who had occupied the apartment,
Vo. 41, at 68 Warren Avenue. West,
until a few days ago.
Widow Kills
2 Children,
Fires House
Shoots Two, Wounds
I hird Who Escapes
and Herself Dies in
Flames
Newberry, S. C., Sept. 26
Mrs. Annie Strauss Bleaell, 45-year
°ld farm woman, who shot her hus
band to death two years ago, killed
two of her children today in what
apparently was a maniacal rage and
set fire to her home.
Martin, 17, and Annie 12, were the
children slain. Emanuel, 15, was shot
in the shoulder and arm, but fled to
a neighbor’s home. By the time the
neighbors reached the home, it was in
flames. Two bodies were taken from
the house.
Mrs. Bizzell was believed by offio
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Workers Voting On
Renewal Os Strike
At Roanoke Rapids
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As search for Dorothy Ann Distel
hurst, six-year-old daughter of
A. H. Distelhurst, of Nashville,
Tenn., continued, the girl's father
declared his belief that she had
been kidnaped. The child is pic
tured above.
rSwEs
OF DISCRIMINATION
Prospect of Federal Inter
vention. Acts as Leaven
ing in Carolinas
Textile Areas
LEADERS URGED TO
SUPPRESS TROUBLE
Charlotte, Sept. 26 (AP)— Prospects
that governmental agencies would
handle charges that mils were dis
criminating against their erstwhile
strikers acted as a lavening agency in
the Carolinas textile industry today,
but at Roanoke Rapids a new strike
appeared imminent.
At strike headquarters here for
North Carolina, In which state the
principal discrimination charges have
been made, local leaders were urged
to keep down trouble among disgrunt
led strikers until government agen
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Winbome Predicts Big
Cut In Power Rate Soon
Raleigh, Sept. 26 (AP) —Stanley
Winborne, State utilities commission
er, said today that confernces look
ing toward reducton of electric light
and power rates in communities in
North Carolina served by the Carolina
Power and Light Company, have pro
gressed to the point that new rate
schedules have been proposed and re
jected.
The commissioner expressed the
hope that power rates may be effect
ed in the near future to save con
only daily newspaper published in this section of north Carolina and virSnia.
HENDERSON N. C. WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON, SEPTEMBER 26,1934.
No Question of Outcome and
New Strike Will be Or
dered for Sunday
at Midnight
DISCRIMINATION ON
UNION IS CHARGED
Organizer There Says He Is
Acting on Authority of
Francis J. Gorman, Strike
Chairman; High Union
Official Expected There
To Take Charge
Roanoke Rapids, Sept. 26. (AP)
—J. Dooley, United Textile Work
ers organizere here, announced to
day that a vote would be taken
this afternoon on plans for re
sumption of the strike in the six .
Roanoke apids textile mills.
Dooley said there was no question
of the outcome of the vote, and that
the strike would ihe called, effective
at midnight Sunday.
The action was taken, he said, fol
lowing what he termed wholesale dis
crimination against unioni members as
the mill prepared for resumption of
operations following he general tex
tile strike.
Dooley said he was acting under
authority of Francis J. Gorman n:
tional vice president of the union, whci
had advised that local leaders taka
whatever steps they deemed neces
sary.
Doolejy said he had been advised
that either R. R. Lawrence, president
of the State Federation of Labor; Paul)
Christopher, president of the Statel
Textile Council; or C. M. Fox, member
of the national strike committee,
would come here today to assist n
plans for the local strike.
Pickpockets Ride
Crest Os Tobacco
Prosperity Wave
Winston-Salem, Sept. 26 (AP)
Pickpockets rode on the crest of
tobacco prosperity here today,
olcie received reports from one
farmer whose pockets was looted
of SBOO and from another who lost
150. i •
Find Body
Os Man In
The River
Hickory, Sept. 26 (AP)—The body
of an unidentified white man, evi
dently murdered and thrown into the
Catawba river, was found today at a
point a few miles below Rhodiss, in
Burke county.
The body had been weighted down
with rocks tied with wire around the
waist. It was believed to have been
in the river for several weks, as its
bloated condition had apparently
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sumers in North Carolina who are
served by the Carolina company as
much as $300,000 yearly.
Late yesterday the South Carolina
Railroad Commission announced that
the Carolina Power and Light Com
pany had reduced rates in South
Carolina soi as to allow consumers an
annual saving of $94,937.
Mr. Winborne said this mornipg
that the South Carolina reduction
“put rates there on the same reduced
basis they were put on in North Caro
lina 20 months ago.”
MONEY AS LINDDERGH TESTIFIES
Lindbergh Not to Face Hauptmann at Hearing
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Grand jury proceedings do not require presence of tjie accused, so Bruno Richard Hauptmann will be
spared ordeal of having to face Col. Charles A. Lindbergh as latter appears before grand jury in Bronx
county, New iork, m proceedings against Hauptmann on extortion charge. Here are shown the form of
subpoena issued for Lindbergh's appearance, the Bronx courthouse and a photo of him testifying at grand
jury inquiry into kidnaping in New Jersey. (Central Press)
Prohibition
Revision To
Arise Again
New U. S. Ruling on
Beer N May Throw
Whole Issue Back to
Legislature
Daily Diupnlck Bureau,
Yu the Sir Walter Hotel,
By J. C. Baskerville.
Raleigh, iSept. 26 —The entire ques
tion of revision of the State’s prohi
bition law, as well as of the present
law permitting the sale of beer of not
more than 3.2 per cent alcohol, is like
ly to be thrown into the lap of the
1935 General Assembly as a result of
the new ruling by the U. S. Bureau of
Internal Revenue imposing an addi
tional. excise tax of SI,OOO each on all
dealers who may seek to sell beer of
more than 3.2 strength in dry states,
according to many observers here.
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Basic Farm
Crops Show
Sharp Gain
Wheat, Corn, Hogs
and Cotton 101 Per
cent Higher Than
in Sept. 1932
Chicago, Sept. 26 (AP) —Market
value of wheat, corn, hogs and cot
ton, the basic farm commodities de
fined by the agricultural adjustment
act, were shown today to be 101 per
cent higher than the average, of late
September, 1932.
Whereas late in April this year the
Chicago market prices of these com
modities averaged 37 percent higher
than April 1932, they now average
101 percent above the corresponding
date two years ago.
Early in June this year, these prices
averaged only 71.5 percent higher
than the corresponding date in 1932.
Compared with a year ago, the
basic farm products now average 35
percent higher, corn and hogs show
ing the greater percentage of increase.
To Meet Budget Requests:
Would Take Ten Millions
More New State Revenue
Most Departments and Institutions Asking 50 to 100 Per
cent Increase in Their Appropriations During the
Coming Biennium; Teachers To Get More
Daily Dhpntch Bureau,
In the Sir Walter Hotel,
By J, C. Baakerville.
Raleigh, Sept. 26 —-The next Gene
ral Assembly wil have to find at
least $10,000,000 in new revenue if it
is going to grant the requests which
the various State departments and in
stitutons are now presenting to the
Advisory Budget Commission ,in ses
sion her ethis wek, and to which the
various department and division heads
are submitting their budget requests
for the 1935-1937 biennium. It is al
ready apparent, after three days of
these hearings, that most of the de
partments and institutions are ask
ing that their appropriations be boost-
FINDS THAT VOTERS
WANT NBW PARTIES
Some Think There Ought to
be Three Instead of
Only Two as Now
By CHARLES P. STEWART
(Central Press Staff Writer)
Washington, Sept. 26 —A political
party realignment decidedly is need
ed, in the judgment of ani overwhelm
ing majority of readers who have!
answered the query I recently put
to them: >
‘‘Have the old-time Republican and
Democratic labels ceased to mean,
much, except as labels, and would the
country’s voters do best to sort them
selves out again into a couple of new
groups, with a rael distinction be
tween them?”
I launch this inquiry following an
nouncement of he organization of the
American' Liberty League, under
Jouett Shouse’s presidency and the
sponsorship of A1 Smith, Congressman
(and ex-Senator) James W. Wadsworth
of New York, Irehee du Pont of the
munitions du Pontsl of Delaware, Gen
eral Counsel (and former Democratic
presidential candidate) John W. Davis
of J. P. Morgan & Co., and General
Counsel (and former Republican gov
ernor of Niew York Nathan L, Millers
of the U. S. Steel corporation.
This set-up Was quite generally re
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PUBLISHED EVERT AFTERNOON
EXCEPT SUNDAY«
ed from 50 to 100 per cent and that
when all requests are in the amount
requested will exceed the amount ap
proprited by the 1933 General Assem
bly by at least $10,000,000.
It is further apparent that virtual
ly all departments and institutions
are requesting an increase of at least
20 per cent for all employes. This
would necessitate an increase of at
least $4,000,000 in the appropriation
for all departments and institutions,
exclusive of school teachers. A 20
per cent increase in the salaries of
school teachers, who this year are
getting a total of about $13,000,000 In
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ANDKUL WEEVIL
Pick Cotton Soon as Pos
sible, Agriculture Ex
perts Advise
Washington. Sepet. 26. <7P) —Areas of
the ecotton country severeely infest
ed by the boll weevil were advised
by the Department of Agriculture “to
pick your cotton as soon as possible
and destroy he stalks immediately”.
No weevil control measure, said Lee
A JSrong, chief of entomology and
plant quarantine, is more effective
and practical than early fall destruc
tion of cotton stalks.
Each day of delay means the de
velopment of many addition weevils,
he sad.
In Strong’s opinion, he opportuni
ties for early fal ldestruction are bet
ter this year than ever, because the
drought matured the crop early over
large areas, moral of he! crop has been,
picked hlan is usual at this date, and,
the average to be picked s smaller!
than for many yeears and because
labor for picking is abundant.
WEATHER
FOR NORTH CAROLINA
Fair tonight and Thursday
PAGES
TODAY
FIVE CENTS COPY
EVERY BILL FOUND
CERTIFICATES PAID
Hauptmann Says New SBOO
Find Also Given Him
for Keeping by Dead
Isadore Fisch
ROLLS FOUND BACK
OF GARAGE BOARDS
25-Calibre Automatic Pistol
Also Found There; Money
Rushed to District Attor
ney’s Office and Immedi
ately Placed Before the
Grand Jury
New York, Sept. 26. —(AP)— Four
rolls of bills amounting to SBOO were
found today in Biano Richard
Hauptmann's garage and District
Attorney Samuel J. Foley said Haupt
mann told him that it was part of
a bundle of money given to him for
safe keeping by the late Isadore
Fisch.
“Every one of the bills is a Lind
bergh certificate,” Foley stated.
MONEY FOUND ON BEAM
BEHIND BOARD IN GARAGE
New York, Sept. 26.—(AP>— Police
in their search of Bruno Richard
Hauptmann’s premises, today found
more money in Hauptmann’s garage
and rushed it to the district attor
ney’s office.
The money was not immediately
identified. 1
The money was found by Lieuten
ant Martin Tobin ten minutes after
a police crew of two carpenters and
three laborers had begun to disman-
Me the garage. ;
Tobin declined for the time being
f ° state the amount of the money
found or whether he believed it was
a part of the Lindbergh ransom
money. It was left in a burlap hag,
and was resting on a beam inside the
garage. , . |
After announcing the find, Tobin,
’umped into an automobile and sped
toward the district attorney’s office.
Persons who got a glimpse of the
bag as it was rushed to the district
attorney’s office, estimated that the
bundle was three feet in length and
six inches wide. Later it was re-,
ported the monev was found in four
boles back of a board on the side of
the garage, having been rolled to fit
*he holes.
Bank of the board also was found a
0( >-ealjhre automatic pistol.
When Lieutenant Tobin arrived at
*he conn tv building, the monev was
immediately rushed to the grand jury
room.
Hauptmann
Indicted By
Grand Jury
Col. Lindbergh Tells
Jury of His Futile
Efforts to Ransom
Infant Son
New York, Sept. 26 (AP)—A3 Bronx
Bronx county grand jury 30 minutes
Bruno Richard Hauptmann on the
charge of extortion as the alleged
receiver of the $50,000 Lindbergh ran
som.
The indictment was handed up to
Supreme Court Justice Charles B. Mc-
Laughlin in the Bronx county build
ing in less than an hour after the
grand jury had returned from a lun
cheon recess.
At the morning session the grand
jury had heard from Colonel Charles
A. Lindbergh his own story of his
futile attempt to ransom his kidnap
ed son two and a half years ago by
the payment of $50,000 through Dr.
John F. Condon, the “Jafsie” of the
negotiations, to a supposed emissary
of the kidnapers at the St. Raymond’s
cemetery in the Bronx.
COL. LINDBERGH BEFORE
GRAND JURY 30 MINUTES
New York, Sept. 26 (AP) — Colonel
Charles A. Lindbergh was before a
Bronz county grand jury 30 minutes
today in the investigation of Bruno
Richard Hauptmann, alleged Lind
bergh ransom receiver.
As the flier come out of the grand
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