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iIENDERSON M l-WAY TO CENTRA], FAItOIJNA TWENTY FIRST YEAR FRANCE BRUNO HAUPTMANN TO BE EXTRADITED, GOVERNOR DECIDES G<?v*nii>! Lehmann lo Sign Papers ! ale Today Turn ing Suspocl Over lo New Jersey HAUPTMANN LAWYER PREPARES TO FIGHT Tawcell Says He Will Go ! imit In Courts To Keep His Client In New York; Hauptmann Indicted In Jersey ‘Last for of Lindbergh Baby !,.iiiv. N. Y. Oct. tO. (AP) —G0v- ,,1 r m i/'hniami mmouneed today he ■v, ilO dgn papers at A p. m, extra- Hmiiio Richard Hauptmann to jfew Jersey to face trial for the mur tPi of the kidnaped Lindbergh baby. James M. Fawcett, counsel to Hauptmann, said that Governor Leh iii 1111 would sign extradition for Hauptmann to New Jersey late today, hut that Hauptmann would fight ex iinditiou to the end in the courts. F’hwco r made his announcement sifter a conference with the governor andt.is counsel, Charles Poletti. He s>.id he would apply tomorrow morn in- to >he Bronx Supreme Court for wait of habeas corpus, which, if panted, will, in effect, stay the gov ernor's extradition order temporarily. [|. said lie did not ask th“ governoi r <-1 a hearing for his client, who was indicted in New Jersey last week for dm murder of the kidnaped Lind bergh baby. ‘Governor Lehman told me.'’ he =aid. "that he was ready to grant the rennesf of New Jersey that Haupt mann he sent there from New York ' tv fare trial for the abduction murder. t did not psk a hearing because T preferred *o carry the case direct to h tc eourst." Fawcett said Albany N Y.. Oct. 10 </p»—Gover : r Lehman indicated today that he ■ Mild take no action ow New Jer sey s application for the extradition (Continued on Page Three! Constitutionality Railroad Pension Act L p On Ruling Washington, Oct. 10 (AP) —Con- stitutionality of the railroad pen sion act described as the Roose ' ‘•lt administration’s first major *»periment In social legislation, came up for review toda yin the district of Columbia Supreme t ourt before Chief .Justice Alfred A. Wheat. The act, which compels the rail roads to set aside funds to care for retired employees, has been made the subject of a strenuous assault by 134 of the nation’s < Triers, which contend it violates the commerce laws of the Consti pation and deprives them of pro perty without due process of law. Says Prices %! Are \ol Yet Up Enough Commodity Levels Should Go Further 'i et, President Roos evelt Things v a.'hington. Oct. 10. (Jp) —President feels that commodity prices ' °uW 20 a little higher before an ' !f ' ni Pt is made to stabilize the price ! p,, cl I hi F'i evident was described as feel ~ 'h't* considerable progress has made in the last year and a , ' 1 bring the nation’s assets and 1 **l i»* t<» a more even relation "O' hut that Ihe assets column '"" i higher. wa, emphasized, however, that r "" hould he prevented from go ;; 1,1 the roof, so to speak, and wh**n a reasonable level [was (Continued on Pago Three.) HENDEaro" iicnfirrsou Drnht Ufapatch ONLY daii.y newspaper published in this section of nEKth car OLINA and virSjia. * LEASED WIRE SERVICE OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS. Connor Appointed To Federal Job - __ g|j. l&j||| 1 a ihdm 1 H. I>. W. CONNOR Washington, Oct 10 (>P) — President Roosevelt today appointed Professorß i‘* W. Connor, of North f arolina. a? archivist of the United States, a new position in the Federal govern ment Dr. Connor is principal professor in American history at the Univer sity of North Carolina, and formerly was archivist of that State. His job will be to keep the official records of the government and ito make plans, estimates and recommen dations for such historical work arjj, < ollections of sources, materials as seem appropriate for publication at public expense. FEDERAL AID FOR NORTH CAROLINA'S SCHOOLS UNLIKELY Hopkins Reminds of High Tobacco Prices In State In Connection With Appeal DIRE NEED IS NOT SHOWN FOR STATE Unless Schools Actually Close, There Is Little Chance for Aid, Except To Unemployed T cachers, Helped Just as Any Others Unemployed Doily Dispatch Bnrenn, In the Sir Walter Motel, y.jr ,f. O, Iloskerville. Raleigh, Oct. 10.—The outlook for obtaining any Federal aid for schools in North Carolina or any money from the FERA with which to increase teachers’ salaries was regarded as anything but bright today, following word from Washington yesterday ts the effect that Harry L. Hopkins, Federal relief administrator, had an nounced that no plans whatever have been made with regard to helping the public schools this coming winter. (Continued on Page Three! New Row Now Brewing With Labor Group San Francisco, Cal., Oct. 10 (AP) Bitter resentment of trade union leaders against the deserpition of their new members as “rubbish brought forebodings of a tempest to day on the floor of the American Fed eration of Labor Convention here. Refusing to let go unchallenged the insinuation these new members do not measure up to the calibre of elder members o f the A. F. of L., Francis J. Gorman, head of the United Tex (Continued on Pago Three) MOURNS HENDERSON, N. C. WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON, OCTOBER 10, 1934 Long Man Wins m, ;F. ' Election of John R. Fournet to membership on the Louisiana State Supreme Court yesterday gives Sen ator Huey I*. Long control of the State's highest tribunal. There were already three Long and three anti- Long members of the bench. Long supported Fournet. INSULL LEADERS AFRAID ID ENTER STOCK FOR SALE Letter Written in 1929 Ex pressed Concern Over Operation of Blue Sky Laws ADMITTED AS PART OF STATE EVIDENCE Defense Objection To Enter ing It Is Overruled By Court; Relates to Corpora tion Security Company and Called “Heart of the Case” Chicago, Oct. 10. (AF) —The gov ernment has struck at a bit of cor respondence of which it calls the “heart of the Insull case". Offered as evidence about the for mation of the Corporation Security Company, of Chicago, the correspond ence was a letter in which the writ ei expressed concern over listing stocks of “the new company” on “any exchange" and referred to “the blue sky laws" It was admitted in evidence, ovei the objection of the defense. The letter, dated August 29, 1929. was addressed to F. J. Shrader, a di rector of the Corporation Securities Oompany, and former vice president of Halsey Stuart and Company It bore the initials C. B. S., which were comptroller of the investment house, identified by V Lamont, former as those of Charles B. Stuart, vice president of Halsey, Stuart and Com pany. A carbon copy, o« the letter taker from the files of Corporation Securi ties. bore the initials of “H L. S.” supposed to be those of Harold L. Stuart, head of the brokerage con cern It was ?ead to the jury and said, in part: “In connection with the new com pany, I told my brother this morn ing in my opinion I thought we would make a great mistake in listnig either the preferred or common stock on any exchange”. State Fair Structure Is Burned Raleigh, Oct. 10. (/f*> —The east wing of the main exhibition building at the State Fair grounae here was in ashes today but the annual fail continued as crowds made merry on the midway and visited the exhibit: and o*her attractions. An early morning blaze, discovered short’y after midnight, destroyed east wing of the exhibition building housing most of the agricultural forestry and other state exhibits. The fire was confined to the east wing. The origin of the fire has not been determined, and there was no esti mate of the damage. Firemen battled the fire until nearly dawn. They were handicapped by lack of water facilities on the ground. FOR Terrorism Grips Northern Spain As Federals Strike GOVERNMENT WILL HURLIROOPS UPON REVOLUTIONARIES Labor District of Asturias Province Appears Center of Revolt By Extremists STRIKING~WORKMEN BATTLE SOLDIERS Ten Killed At San Sebas tian, Where More Than 500 Arrests Have Been Made Past Few Days; Vol unteers Join Government To Put Down the Uprising Madrid, Spain. Oct. 10. <7P) —Terror- ism gripped northern Spain today as government troops concentrated for an attack on revolutionaries in the labor district of Asturias province^. San Sebastian reported ten persons killed and undetermined numlber wounded in a brush between striking workmen and soldiers. The military reported capturing 40 strikers in a single house, where a quantity oi arms also was found. Within the past few days more than 500 arrests have been made in San Sebastian area, and 24 persons faced the death penalty. Sporadic shooting continued all night in Bilbo arfd along the entire northern coast. In the Ovedio region General Edourd Lopez Ochoa, fresh from successful sorties against revo lutionary deaths in Trubia, expected to join other government forces today for a drive against the apparently well-armed robbers. Ochoa’s forces vKere augmented by more than 3.000 volunteers of the Populist and other government parties who have per formed valiantly in encounters! to date. COOD PROGRESS IN PARK ROAD SURVEY Mountain Highway Neither As Expensive Nor Diffi cult as Thought Daily Dispatch fitireatt. In the Sir Walter Hotel, By J. C. Baskerville. Raleigh, Oct. 10. —Excellent prog ress is being made on the survey of the park-to-park highway route from the Virginia line to Blowing Rock, according to R. Getty Browning, chief locating engineer for the State High way and Public Works Commission, who has just returned from an in spection trip along the route of the new scenic highway. The survey party of about 25 men. has already com pleted reconnaissance surveys over the entire route from the point where the highway will cross the Virginia line into North Carolina all the way to Blowing ock, a distance of about 85 miles. These preliminary surveys are being followed up with more de tailßed surveys and in some cases engineers are surveying two or three different routes so that these may be studied before the final location or the highway is decided upon. “1 was very much pleased at 4 progress which our surveying party had made along the route of park-to-park highway and indications are that the survey should be ji> about completed if not entirely com pleted by the first of the year at the latest”. Brown said. “There is always the possibilityof bad weather holding things up. But so far the weather has been very good and we are hop ing that it will remain favorable. It is impossible for any one who has not been through the sections of Alleghany, Ashe, Wilkes and Watauga counties, throug which this, portion of the park-to-park highway will pass, to have anything like an adequate idea of the scenic beauty along this route. Browning said. For the most part of the highway route will fol low the crest of 'the mountains, (Continued on Page Three) WEATHER FOR NORTH CAROLINA Rain tonight and probably Thursday, not much change in temperature. ____ VICTIMS Trotzky Reported U. S. Bound Hill Leon Brownstein, known to the world as Leon Trotzky, is reported to he on his way to the United States for a visit. It will not be his first one to thij* country. He was a waiter in a hotel and movie extra in New York beiore he went to Russia to become first foreign minister and later commander of the Red Army. Photos show him at. the time he was the Red chieftain, smilingly addressing an audience in Denmark after hr exile, and as he appeared as a movie extra in 191 fi. (Central PressJ Plane Wrecked On Mt. Mitchell Found High Point, Oct. 10, (AP) —Wini- fred Miller, of the forestry division of the soil erosion service, today told of finding in a laurel thicket near crest of Mount Mitchell the wreckage of an airplane which he said had apparently fallen several years ago and not since then visited. The discovery was made while Miller was reconnoitering on his own during a week-end visit with friends in the western part of the State. He CONSUMER GIVEN 1A BOARD VOICE Leon Henderson Speaks Loudly in Representing Public Interests By CHARLES P. STEWART (Central Staff Writer) Washington Oct. 10.—The hitherto almost completely forgotten consumer can congratulate himself on having an exception competent representative representative on the new NRA board m Leon Henderson, at the head of the administration’s research and Iplanning division. t perhaps is significant of the esti mate by the recovery management’s estimate bf the consumer’s impor tance that Henderson, as his spokes man on the board, is only an ex officio member, without a vote Henderson, however, is capable of howling loudly. He howled, under Cen. Hugh S. Johnson’s regime, to the extent of having his resignation on the general’s desk for some time be fore the latter was eased out of office. It wasn’t accepted because the gen eral was too much occupied with his own troubles t.o stop long enough to accept it, and when he retired, or WAS retired, without having had an opportunity to do so, Henderson was included in the reorganized set-up. Even lacking a ballot, then, the re search chieftain is a personality to be reckoned with. » * * Practical Ideas As a researcher, Henderson has (Continued on Page Three) PUBLISHED EVERT AFTERNOON EXCEPT SUNDAY. or said that he made efforts to determine ownership of the plane, but was un successful and will go back in a few days to take a party to the scene where the wreckage was found. Some bones were found a short distance away, but they were scatter ed, although he found what he thought might have been the bones of a man’s leg. He said that his inventi gation as to any plane being lost in the vicinity were fruitless. DEVISE NEW PLAN TO RESTORE BANKS Cleveland Move May Be Emulated; Would Cut Tax Exemption By LESLIE EICMTL (Central Press Staff Waiter) Cleveland, Oct. 10.—There is an In teresting experiment under way in Cleveland, an experiment that gives some hope to smaller depositors in banks still closed. An effort is being made to organize a liquidating corporation to take over the remaining assets of the defunct Union Trust Company of Cleveland. eorganization of the Union Trust receivership from state liquidation to control by depositors would be the largest bank reorganization plan ever attempted in the United States, ac cording to the Cleveland Press. Elimination of three-quarters of the bank’s 250.000 depositors through a payment in full of all depositors hav ing up to SIOO in the bank will per mit the establishment of a liquidating corporation in the hands of large de positors. Such a payoff, advocated also in etroit, for the defunct First National bank, has been deferred there by the alleged refusal of competitors of Henry Ford to agree. ford has 25 million tied up in the bayk. # * * Tax Exempt Property A fight being waged in New Yor 1 ’ to put certain tax exempt property on the assessment lists Is being ofr (Continued on Page Three). _ ASSASSIN KING ALEXANDER’S BODY BEING TAKEN BACK TO BIS HOME French Foreign Minister Barthou, Assassinated at Same Time, Taken To Paris YUGO SLAV KING ON VISIT OF GOOD WILL Marseilles Scene of Tragedy That Rocks Europe; Two Others Fatally Injured In Shooting During Parade Through Streets; Last Wish for Peace (Copy Tighter by Associated Press) Marseilles, France, Oct. 10. (/P) —- King Alexander of Yugo-Slavia was started back to his homeland today. His body was borne through streets which yesterday reveito#rated suc cessively to cheers, pistol shots, shrieks and weeping. At 4 p. m., exactly 24 hours after he had set foot in France, on what was intended to be a gala visit of good will, the assassinated king was taken back to the Yugo-Slavian de stroyer Gusrocnik which brought His Majesty here. Again today there were massed thousands ot\ spectators, but their silent faces mirrored Europe's anxiety over what the assassination of tne Yugo-Slav king by a Croatian on French soil may mean. France had hoped that Alexander's visit would be a. Jong' step toward a pact including Italy and sealing the peace of the Balkans tor yieears to come. That was the dream of Eouis Barthou, foreign minister ofir France, but all through the day tne dead Barthou had lain in state besides Alexander. Together they were shot at 4:10 p m. yesterday by Petrous Kalqmen, a (Continued oil Page Three) Confederate Vet At Age 88, Weds Maid of 42 Years Columbia, S. C., Oct. 10 (AP)— A month’s courtship, which the bridegroom described as “cyclo nic,” culminated today in tlie mar riage. of •). F. Howell, XS-year-old Confederate veteran of Bristol, Va., and Miss Maude Sharpe, 42. A soldier at Hi, Howell said he married at 21 and lived happily through the stormy reconstruc tion period, and long after years until his wife died a little more than a year ago. At the end of a year, the Con federate said, he decided to re marry. Youth Os 11 IN ew King In Y ugo-Slavia But Little Peter Karageorge Doesn’t Yet Know What It Is All About London, Oct 10 UP) —A sleepy-eyed eleven-year-old hoy was told today he must henceforth tread the royal path of a monarch. Little Peter Karageorge was called shortly after dawn from his bed in (be Sanroid- school and tn rust into a He was told that he now was Peter 11, king of Y ugo-Slavia, successor to King Alexander I, slain yesterday at Marseilles. After a hasty breakfast, and after being told his father was dead, Peter was taken to the Yugo-Slav legation, and was preparing to join his mother* Queen Marie in France. , After three hours, during which a steady stream of diplomatic callers visited the legation, Peter seemed somewhat dazed, hut with n stiff up per lip he wb.s hurried to a hotel for a reunion with his maternal grand mother, owager Queen Marie of Hour mania Meanwhile Jugo-3ia>. officials wer» busy with plans f or removal of the naval party, and at noon tre boy king emerged rom the 1* ration, ard, carefully guarded, motored to Picadik lv i,j jqm his grand moth ei . 6 TODAY FIVE CENTS COPY
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