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HENDERSON GATEWAY TO CENTRAL CAROLINA TWENTY FIRST YEAR TWO KILLED AS PLANE IN AIR DERBY CRASHES PLEAS FOR SPEEDY PAYMENT OF BONUS PRESENTED LEGION tarly But Not immediate Settlement by Govern ment Suggested by Senator Steiwer STRONGER NATIONAL DEFENSE PROPOSED Georgetown University Pro fessor Says Disarmed Unit ed States Menace to World Peace; Denies Nation Could Prepare for War Merely Overnight M mi Fin., Oct. 22. (/P) Pleas for „;,;lv lm: not immediate payment of , soldier bonus and for strong ni— V -t weio heard at the opening ses i;,,n Ik i today of the American ; i,i[i -• sixteenth national conveif lien. ,meeting was tailed to order by _\;,iUuinl Commander Edward A. li - in i large amphitheatre in Hay Font i’aik. where thousands of neat ly uniformed Legionnaires gathered i; tropical, gaily decorated setting. Tin listing the controversial bonus ,|i,stion into the opening session, !' ,t (I States Senator Steiwer. Re- T.'ihlic in. Oregon, urged that action on payment of the adjusted compensa te certificates be deferred for tn. present. • Disinterested and patriotic service in., nts n question whether this con • ii.tion should take an unequivocal •.land fm immediate national pay- Tiie senator proposed thai. tne if- mi consider the advisability of • i ding for early payment and ask *!.- 111 .l> that our government meet i!ii-- obligation at a time when result in the minimum burden to tin people of the country”. So aking for strong national • S tn. e, Thomas H. Healey, assistant I (Con tin tied on Page Four) Says Deaths On Highways Must Cease b" .enior Is Aroused ii\ New Record ot I**6 Killed in Sep-j tanher Daily Hnrenn, »« tin* Sir Walter Hotel, II) .1, (', IliiMkor* ille. DUigh Oof. 22. More iblood was I ''"l the highway of the State i "d'.rnobilns during September than ! " previous month on record, | 1 persons k<)!ed and 646 in-j ‘•' , 153 automobile accidents, j riiny t,, f|^ut fiH -•|| h ( compiled by ; • ’imtnr v(>hicle bureau of the De- I'.io nif'iit of Revenue. This brings the ' ;| i automobile fatalities In the ' sot the first nine months of ■" to 017 killed and 4.260 in- D'yd in 3.1J06 accidens. Tn September ’"ii 03 were killed and 425 in j;: to.-* 1 ‘ rrifie and useless slaughter ' b" highways in North Carolina ( to stop." Governor J. C. B. - an- said today w.icn intorm "l the figures. “We have tried " ;,| *ug to the automobile drivers ;u * consideration for other peo (f'nntinued oil Page Four) Large Posse Hunts Notorious Gunman ' Vr||: *>l*. Ohio. Oct. 22 < AP)—One 1 " 1 posses in recent history beat today through the ill, ; "!‘ J tickets surrounding this *" a search for Charles Hoy; Floyd, notorious Ogla gunman. r >! J <' 'ioci and desperate, Floyd es- Chi. :i,urda y a gun fight with v ", |* * Fultz and two citibens " l -!)t to arrest him and Adam I Mtnmtzmx Umlu Bistratrb Held In Kidnaping t * / fifl sL fmSp • y "II iliinF'‘ ■P # v hHI > ■! Shown here is Thomas H. Robinson Sr., tather of the alleged kidnaper of Mrs. Berry V. Stoll, of Louisville, Ky„ as he appeared at the court house in Nashville, Teom. to post $25,000 bund for his release on charges in connec tion with the kidnaping. HIGHWAY BOARD IN NEED OE CHAIRMAN Chief Engineer Should Also Be Named, Both Quickly As Possible WORK NOW SUFFERING Jeflrev* Can't Get Back Under Six Months or Year, if Ever, Ob servers Think, And Urge Governor To Act llnily i>iM|»(«t<'ll ilurrnn, 111 llie Sir Walter Hotel, fly J. I', DiiMkerillle. Raleign, Sept. 22.—Friends of the State’s highway system as well of the highway commission, are becoming more and more concerned as wecK after week goes by with Governor J. C. B. Ehringliaus making no move to secure the appointment of a perm anent State highway engineer or ot a chairman It is not expected that he will appoint another chairman un til it becomes apparent that Chair man E. B. Jeffress, who has been seriously ill over eight weeks, will not be able to again assume his duties. But the fact that the commission has not had an official acting head for two months, makes it more import ant that it should have a permanent State highway engineer who is thoroughly familiar with the entire highway program and all its problems to keep things running smoothly, many observers believe. For while Acting Chairman Charles Whedbee has been doing excellent work in that job and Acting Highway Engineer W. Vance Baise has been carrying on the engineering end as best he could, those who have been (Continued on Page Four) Richetti. a confederate. Richetti was captured. Melvin Purvis, head investigator of the Chicago bureau of the department of Justice, expressed the belief today that Floyd is either dying or dead in the woods near the village. Purvis gave this opinion after tak ing to George McMillan, owner of one of two automobiles which Floyd ap propriated in his flight from Fultz Saturday. ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN THIS LEASED WIRE SERVICE OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS., HENDERSON, N. C. MONDAY AFTERNOON, OCTOBER 22, 1934 A o Cash Bonus, Roosevelt Hints v ■ ||Ka 1 apli H pip, F v 11* S M j | |Hn| h M kjyji* mm Dedicating the new $1,700,000 j veterans’ hospital at Roanoke, Va., President Roosevelt is pic tured during his address which political observers construed as a : warning that World war veterans j could expect no cash bonus at this j Vanderbilt Home Under Guard Following Threat New York. Oct. 22. (/!*» The for bidding brownstonc front of Mrs. Gloiia Morgan Vanderbilt’s home frowned down today on a police guard established after Mrs. Vanderbilt re ceived a threat against the life of her little millionairess daughter. “If you value the life of your child, do not fail to meet me in front of the Metropolitan theatre in Brooklyn at 10:30 p. m. riday”, said a crude note deliever at the Vanderbilt home last Tuesday. “I will be waiting for Mooney Now Taking Case High Courts U. S. Supreme Court Asked for Review By Famous Sa n Francisco Bomber Washington, Oct. 22. (/p)— Thomas J. Mooney, now serving a life sent in the San Quentin penitentiary, hat prepared a petitio asking the Supreme Court for permission to file a writ of habeas corpus with it. In a 78-page printed petition, coun sel for Mooney reviewed at length the refusal of the Federal district court for northern Caliofrma 1 spring to release Mooney on habeas corpus proceedings. The petition advances the same grounds or asking Mooney’s release as were presented to the Federal dis trict court. These are principally that Mooney was convicted on perjured evidence and that the California prosecuting authorities knew the evi dence was perjured. Mooney was convicted of participat ing in a preparedness day bombing irt San Francisco nearly 20 years ago. DYNAMITE KILLS 27 SPANISH SOLDIERS Loudon, Oct. 22 (AP) —Reports from Madrid to a British news agency today said 27 Spanish sol diers had beer killed and many others wounded in the explosion of a motor truck loaded with dy namite in the Langeroes mining district. Rebels had abandoned the dyna mite, which was being collected by troops. 1 SECTION 21 NORTH CAROLINA AND VffiftllA. time. The president said care of “the disabled, destitute and starv ing is the first thing”. The ad dress, on the eve of the national American Legion convention in Miami, Fla., was regarded as par ticularly timely. you. If you do not keep the appoint ment you will hear from me again . An iously Mrs. Vanderbilt commun icated with police and a guard was posted about the five-story mansion on east 72nd street just off Fifth ave nue. Not until today did the threat become publicly known. The child. Gloiia, is at the old Wesbbury Island, estate of her maternal aunt. Mrs. Harry Payne Whitney, with whom Mrs. Vanderbilt is engaged in a court contest over custody of the ten-year-old heiress. To Fix Dates For Hauptmann Case Trenton, N. J.. Oct. 22. (AP)-» The date for Bruno Richard Haupt mann's arraignment and his trial on charges of murdering Charles A. Lindbergh, Jr., will lie fixed this afternoon, Attorney General David T. Wilentz, announced to day. The dates will he decided on at a conference attended by Wilentz. Prosecutor Anthony M. Hauck, of Hunterdon county; Defense Coun sel James M. Fawcett and Supreme Court Justice Thomas C. Trenchant, whow ill preside at the murder trial. WEST COAST STORM DOES HUGEDAMAGE 16 Dead and Shipping And Property Loss Terrific Along Pacific Seal Lie, Wbsh., Oct. 2 (AP)—An Oc tober storm, lashing at the coast of Washington and Oregon, left at least 16 dead today and a huge shipping and property los in its wake. The gales, whrch reached a recorded velocity of 83 miles an hour, had sub sided, but two flooded cities, damaged shipping, wrecked, buildings power and communication lines tangles, deb ris-strewn areas and the death list remained. Striking with fury shortly after daybreak yesterday, the storm swept over this region all day, subsiding only after nightfall. The waters of high tides flooded the business sections of a large part of the residential sections of both Grays Harbor cities, Aberdeen and Hoquiam Nine Lose Lives During Week-End In The Carolinas Airplane Crash at Morgan ton Accounts for Two Deaths as Bridal Couple Are Killed THREE DROWNED IN MOTOR BOAT UPSETS Archie Pick, Tobacco Auc tioneer of Rocky Mount, Fatally Injured in Collision Near Scotland Neck; Child Killed in Elkin, Another at Winston-Salem (By the Associated Press) Nine persons were killed in acci dents in the two Carolinas during the week-end, an Associated Press survey showed today. An airplane crash accounted for two deaths: drownings took three lives, and three persons were killed in automobile mishaps. Oscar Womack, 25, of Durham, who was killed and more than a dozen persons were injured in a series of highway accidents in the vicinity of Raleigh. John F. Kistler, young Morganton business man, and his bride of a little over a month were killed when Kist ler’s plane crashed at the Morgan ton airport. The plane plunged from an altitude of 250 feet. Miss Helen Moose and Morris Wil son, of Charlotte, were drowned in the Catawba river near Charlotte when their motor boat overturned. Waters of the New River near Ver ona were dragged for the body of Samuel P. Cook, Charlotte insurance man, who was drowned in a motor boat accident. Waren Cockeham, 13, of Yadkin, was fatally injured last night when struck by an automobile near Elkin. Mrs. Bertha Phipps, 50, was fatally injured near Greenville, S. C., when the automobile in which she was rid ing left the highway and turned over. SCOTLAND NECK CRASH IS FATAL TO AIR AUCTIONEER Rocky Mount, Oct. 22 (AP)-D. Archie Pick, 44, tobacco auctioneer of (Continued on Page Five) Tar Heel Boy and Girl Arrested by Chicago Officers Chicago, Oct. 22 (AP) —A youth who gave the name of Alfred H. Brauer, 19, and said he was a stu dent at LaFayette, Ind., was ar rested here last night with a girl companion, when police, finding them in front of a fur store win dow, suspected they were about to steal a $2,500 coat. His companion gave her name asi Miss Thelma Underwood, 19 of Durham, N. C. Police Lieutenant James Garrey, said a hammer was found under Brauer’s belt. Lieu tenant Garrey declarde they told him they arrived in Chicago Sat urday night after stealing a car at Lafayette earlier in the day; also that Brauer has a wife, Elsie living at Raleigh, N. C. Battle Fire In Ship Hold In Wilmington Washington, Oct. 22 (AP) —Local firemen this morning were engaged in fighting a fire in the No. 4 aft hold ; of the freighter Willzippo, which ar rived at Wilmington last night to dis charge a general cargo. Fire aboard the ship was not dis covered until this morning, when the hatch was opened preparatory to un loading the cargo. Then it was found the fire was smouldering in the cargo. The master of the vessel said no fire was noticed on the way to Wii mington from Forto Rico and Char leston, and that the ship had been given a clean bill by inspectors. The Wilmington firemen were over come by smoke and intense heat and were removed to a loca lhospital for treatment. Their condition is not se rious. weatheT FOR NORTH CAROLINA Fair, slightly colder in east portion tonight; Tuesday fair. PUBLISHED EVERY AFTERNOON EXCEPT SUNDAY. Mrs. Stoll Recovers * BIT * v . ’ ■gk yQf^e.- gmi Mri. Berry V. Stoll * This is a new picture, hitherto un published, of Mrs, Berry V. Stoll. Louisville, Ky., society leader who was kidnaped, held for $50,000 ransom and returned to her home when the ransom was paid. She is recovering from the ordeal of her abduction. STATE'S BUSINESS AT STANDSTILL AS TRIBUTE TO ALLEN Body of School Head Lies in State Under Dome of State Capitol In Raleigh FUNERAIT SERVICES IN MID-AFTERNOON Held at Edenton Street Methodist Church, Os Which Official Was Mem ber; Guard of Honor of Four Enlisted Men Keep Watch at the Bier Raleigh, Oct. 22. (/P) —Business of the State government of North Caro lina came to a standstill this after noon as the body of Dr. Arch T. Allen, for 11 years the State’s superintendent of public instruction , lay in state under the Capitol dome. At noon all buildings except the Capital itself were shut. In the center of the historic Capi tol, directly under the dome, the body of Dr. Allen was placed at 1 o’clock. A guard of honor of four enlisted men (Continued on Page Three) Income Os Cotton Growers Doubled Get More Than Twice As Much This Year as They Did For Even Larger Crop Last Year; Increased Seed Prices Will More Than Pay Bankhead Act Tax Daily Dispute* Bureau, lu the Jir tValter Hotel, By J, C. Bnskerville. Raleigh, Oct. 22.; —North Carolina cotton growers are selling their 1934 < crop for more than twice as much as they got for a larger crop in 1932 be fore the cotton adjustment program : was inaugurated. The 646,000-bale crop forecasted for 6' PAGES , TODAY FIVE CENTS COPY ALL FLIGHT MARKS ARE DISTANCED BY BIG BRITISH PLANE Scott and Black Nearly 1,700 Miles Ahead of Nearest Rival In Australia Race DUTCH TEAM DROPS INTO SECOND PLACE Turner and Pangborn, Ame ricans Are Third, While Mollisons Are Downed In India by Engine Trouble and Virtually Out of the Race Paris, Oct, 22 (AP)— A ucwl' agency dispatch from Italy today reported the London to Melbourne air race had Harold D. Gilman, British entry in crashed and burned to death with a co-pilot named Baines in the province of Pottjnza. riie crash happened near Palazzo San Gervasic. The plane was reported to have burst into flames while still in the air and crashed immediately. ALL FLIGHT RECORDS ARE BROKEN BY BRITISH PAIR Mildenhall Airdrome, England, Oct. 22 (AP) All flight records from England to Australia were shattered today when C. W. A. Scott and his co-pilot, Campbell Black, hurtled into Darwin, approximately two days, four hours and 22 minutes out of Milden hall. While the nearest contestant in the England to Melbourne air derby had just taken off 1,688 miles behind, the fleet Britishers badly shattered the best previous record for the long trip. This was a journey by Charles P. Ulm, of Australia, of six days, 17 hours, 15 minutes in 1933. The Britishers landed at Darwin at dusk (6:08 a. m., eastern standard time) to maintain their commanding lead. The veteran Dutch team of K. D. Paementier and J. J. Moll was in sec ond place, while the American one of Colonel Roscoe Turner and Clyde Pangborn was in third place, 2,210 miles to the rear. Captain Janies A. Mollison and his wife, Amy, appearing tiled and dis consolate, at Allahabad, India, saw a faint ray of hope to continue in the races as the resources of the entire city were placed at their disposal to fix two damaged cylinder heads. Optimistic Feeling Now In Wall St. Gradual Upward Trend if Inustrial Peace Continues, as Expected By LESLIE EICHEL (Central Press Staff Writer- New York, Oct. 22.—Wa1l Street is becoming optimistic. For one there are many inquiries from woula be investors. For another thing, Wall Street sees industrial disputes fading out. It now is conceded tnat the gov ernment’s machinery will bring aJbout a meeting point of minds. It does (Continued on Page Three) this year will yield the growers ap proximately $55,563,000 as compared with $23,412,000 received for the 660,- 000-bale crop in 1932, according to Chas. A. Sheffield, of State College. After the growers have bought tax exemption certificates to cover the 114,000-bale excess production ovef (Continued on Page Two);
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