HENDERSON
li ATE WAY TO
CENTRAL
CAROLINA
TWENTY-FIRST YEAR
YUGOSLAV MOVE LESSENS WAR
Satterfield Gives
Testimony Against
Ruby Sasser Grice
Condemned Slayer Brought
From Death Row to
Testify Against Ex-
Paramour
TELLS OF START
OF THEIR AFFAIR!
Relates How Woman’s Hus.
band Mistreated Her And
How Trio Plotted To Get
Rid of Him; Mrs. Grice
Suggested They Throw
Him in the River
• ; Id-boro. Dec. 10.—<AP>— Rufus
field. -12-year-old married man
li r .-entence to die for the slaying j
Het e>t Giice. today began his
. : v <>f hi- affair with Mrs. Grice in !
trial with rer brother. Donald
-sir, for complicity in the killing.
I’ndi r the questioning of Solicitor j
wson Williams, the condemned
1 i,dated the development of his i
inat<> relationship with Grice's
i ia" wife, hut had not reached tin*
' ai" of th-- killing—October 22. j
"■'hen .Judge K. Hunt Parker recess
re eouit for lunch.
Sett.M fieh; said that, while he had
a fi equent visitor to the Grice
an t arlier, he first had relations
i ■ Mrs. Grice on August 10 before
the killing.
Sh, told me she loved me and 1
.•eil her." he said.
A-, Satterfield testified, the 30-yeai
widow kept her eyes downcast. !
:! • brother, 21-year-old fainter, was
- ■ ii-. In side her.
Suit- • field said he first began “pay
iiieatiun" to Mrs. Grice in No
•nhi". 1932. and by the following
A was calling at the home about ,
■ > nights a week.
A' Mrs. Gt ice’s suggestion, he said.
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ARREST OIL YOUTH !
IN GORRELL DEATH
Homer Wilcox Bonded On j
Malicious Mischief”
•Charge In Tulsa
Tulsa, Okla., Dec. 10 (AF> Homer
J\ Wilcox. Jr.. 17. son of a wealthy
Tulsa oil man. was arrested by city !
officers today after he and his father
appeared at police headquarters for
conference in connection with the
slaying of John Gorrell.
He wa- booked on a charge of "nm- 1
lioious mischief.’’
Asked wliut would constitute ‘‘mu- ,
1 icious mischief’’ in this Distance. Po
lice Cidef Charles Carr, said. “Well.
1 noting out street lights in the vi
' ity of the spot where Gorrell was \
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Department
Os Welfare
Now Talked
Gossip Puts Hopkins
At Its Head; Would
Direct Pensions, In-;
i
suranee i
lly CHARLES I*. STEWART
Central Press Staff Writer
Washington, Dec. 10.—a new cab- j
• ct department sos public welfare, or
•umet.!|ing t 4 that general .effec/.,)
A ith Harry L. Hopkins at the head
of it. is gossiped about in Washing
ton. as more than a possibility, of the
near future.
Cabinet departments, iby the way,, j
simply are of congressional creation.
A’o constitutional tinkering is nece3-
f. y to establish a new one—or j
■ holish an old one. either. None ever
t-' s beers. abolished., However, five 1
have been brought into being since
l-*i evident Washington’s appointment
of his first secretaries of the state,
the treasury, war. justice and the post .
office administration. The last two
were as recent as President Wilson’s
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vtetmtr&cm Bada Btsrratrh
LEASED WIRE SERVICE OF
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS.
Garner Back Early
jmh
Vice President Garner
Vice President John N. Garnei
returns to Washington from his
home at Uvalde, Tex., to prepare
for the opening ol‘ congress, Jan.
8. It was the first time that Gar
ner had arrived in the capital so
Jar in advance of the session.
■* came at President Roosevelt’*
request.
°ROGRESSIVES ARE
FOR LONG SESSION
Group Is Aroused by Rum
ors Roosevelt Favors A
Short Congress
SEEK TO PREVENT IT
They Are Afraid They Can’t Get
Their Program of Liberalism
Through; Hear President
Is Against It
By LESLIE EICHEL
.. .. Central Press Stuff Writer ....
New York. Dec. 10. —Rumors that
President Roosevelt desires a “short
session” of Congress have aroused
Progressives.
They will try to prevent it.
They hear that the President will
try to sidetrack what they consider
basic reforms, in favor of expansion
of the New Deal on its present base.
There is a new phrase that has
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Eastern America
Struck By Winter
(Bv the Associated Press)
Winter spread its cloak of gales,
icy temperatures and'snow over the
eastern United States today.
n mid-Atlantic the Japanese freight
er. Victorioa Maru floundered ,help
-1 lesslv, her rudder and bridge torn
away her captain and chief officer
1 dead, and her third officer missing.
Other liners were behind schedules.
One man was frozen to death in
New York City, where the tempera
■ ture rivalled those of yesterday,
which went down to 11 degrees above
zero. A six-year-old boy was burned
to death building a fire to keep warm
in his home.
ONLY DAILY
Abductors Foiled
Ok
- JfIRH
?!l | jHvgPp ggn
", f
Eugenic Grew (above) is being
Hosely guarded at Iter home.in Jlan
2hcster-by-thc-S.ea, Mass., follow
ing abduction attempts which were
foiled by police vigilance. Her i’a
ner, Kandolpli Grew, banker, is the
irolher ol tlic U. S. ambassador
Li Japan.
(L < ill nil /’/ ras)
TEXTBOOK GROUPS
HOPE FOR ANOTHER
MELON NEXT WEEK
Publishers and Salesmen
Hovering Around Ra
leigh Waiting Letting
December 20
IT WILL .PRECEDE
THE LEGISLATURE
Contracts, if and When
Awarded, Will Last For
Five Years and Amount to
Millions of Dollars Annual
ly for the Lucky Textbook
Publishers
Majlj I—1>;»t«*l» ItHrcag,
In the Sir Walter llelel,
Uv J. U, UusKrrvllle.
Raleign. Dec. 10.—Textbaook pub
lishers and their salesmen are again
hovering about the hotels here like
crows over a corn field, as the result
of the high school text book letting
scheduled for December 20. This will
be the first large letting of higli
school texts, if the bids submitted
are accepted, since the new law en
acted by the 1933 General Assembly
requiring uniform textbook adoptions
for the high school grades, went into
effect. Some months ago a high school
history series was adopted.
But in the letting to be held here
December 20, it is proposed to adopt
books for all of the high school grade
comprising some 150.000 pupils, in
general science, biology, chemistry,
physics geography, health, agricul
ture. home economics, together with
laboratory manuals in those subjects
I which require laboratory work.
So this letting is going to be a veri
table gold mine for the book pub
lishers that manage to get the con
tracts for these texts, especially since
the contracts will be for a period of
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f Temperatures fell below zero in
New England. Mount Washington re-
I porting a low yesterday of 20 de
grees. t was eight below at North
field, Vermont, and three above at
Boston.
Virgin snow sparkled in Cleveland,
where ten inches fell. Two inches
or more fell on central Indiana—the
first of the season—and Kentucky
had an inch of snow.
The cold wave spread down the At
lantic coast into Florida, where aim
; Beach had a minimum temperature
; of 41, the lowest in thre years, and
! Miami experienced one of its rare
[heavy frosts.
NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OFWRTH CAROLINA AND VltfilNlA.
HENDERSON, N. C. MONDAY AFTERNOON, DECEMBER 10, 1934 *
A SS
NOT LEGAL GRANT
Smith Reynolds’ First Wife
Says She vVas Never
Properly Separated
From Him
DEMANDS SHARE OF
TOBACCO FORTUNE
Another Sensation Is Sprung
In Forsyth Court at Wins
ton-Salem; Daughter of
j Rich Cannon Family Has
Since Married and Divorc
ed Again
Winston-Salem, Dec. 10. —Charging
! that the divorce she obtained from
Smith Reynolds in Reno, Nev., was
“illegal and void and mat Libby Hol
man, being versed in law.’’ knew that
the divorce was illegal and void be
fore she married Smith Reynolds. An
nie Cannon Reyonlds Smith of Con
cord. today entered the fight for the
Reynolds tobacco fortune.
Heaping sensation upon sensation
in a case already plentifully flashed
with drama. Mrs. Smith, who also
i divorced her second husband, today
! went into Forsyth courtw ith a plea
that the proposed Reynolds heirs set
: dement be disallowed, and that the
$25,000,000 estate be distributed ac
cording to lav- and fairness. She pre
sents herself as the lawful widow of
the young tobacco heir.
The claims she set forth include the
.
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KENTUCKY SHERIFF
MUST “CLEAN OUT”
• State Moves in Fight of Or
ganized Labor in Harlan
Mine Area
Frankfort, Ivy., Dec. 10.—(AP— A
j recommendation that Sheriff Theo-
I dore R. Middleton be ordered by Gov-
I ernor Ruby Laffoon to “clean up”
| his force of depnties, on pain of re
! moral from office, was prepared to
i day by Adjutant General H. H. Den
! hart, after a flying visit to Harlan,
| where National Guardsmen were call
j ed on duty Saturday night.
ORGANIZED LABOR GRIDS
FOR A FLGHT TO FINISH
Harlan, Kv., Dec. 10.—(AP‘— Or
ganized labor today girded for a fin
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GOVERNiMttD
Ehringhaus To Preside And
Speak at Washington
This Wednesday
Unit* UispstrH
l*» the Sir Muller Hotel,
M) J, t'. Uuakerville.
Raleigh. Dec. 10. —Both the State
of North Carolina and Governor J. C.
B. Ehringhaus were honored when
Governor Ehringhaus was selected
from among all the governors of the
! 48 states sto preside over and deliver
I the principal address before the Na
| tional Crime Conference in Wasliing
! ton, D. C., on Wednesday, according
! to opinion here. The invitation to ad
dress the conference adn also to pre
side over it was extended to Gover
nor Ehringhaus Friday of last week
over long distance telephone from
Washington by Attorney General
(Continued on Pasta Two.)
1IZ) Shopping
days till
THREAT OVER EUROPE
Y ngoslavia Expels Hungarians
' 'fit
. y.srjgm
.. '■ '
National animosity between Hun
gary and Yugoslavia reached a
new crisis with the order of Yugo
slavia compelling 27,000 Hungar
ians dwelling within Yugoslavian
borders to leave the country with
in 48 hours. The situation be
came fraught with peril when
Serbian contingents of the Yugo-
Olive Branch To Hungary
Is Offered By Yugoslavs
Latter’s Delegate to League Denies Intended Reflection
on Hungary’s Honor; Permanent Court for Repres
sion of Terrorism Proposed
Geneva, Dec. 10. —(AP) —Yugoslavia
offered an official olive branch to
Hungary today as the League of Na
tions Council opened a public session
on the two nations’ dispute.
Even as the members wondered
whether Hungary would follow Yugo
slavia’s lead in accepting a League
plan for settlement of the quarrel,
Nicholas Titulescu, foreign minister
of Yugoslavia, spoke before the body.
He emphasized that Yugoslavia’s
Phone Rate j
Cuts Being
Written Up
l>«i■ I > !ji«pulr)i Oarru>,
4«» the Sir Walter Hotel,
Ur J. b. UusKervllle.
Raleigh, Dec. 10.—Theo rder by the
State Utilities Commission reducing
the rates now charged by the South
ern Bell Telephone and Telegraph
Company in 58 cities and towns in
North Carolina will be completed and
madep üblic probably jby the middle
of this week, Utilities Commissioner
Stanley Winborne said today. For
while the order has ben in process of
preparation for more than a week,
the fact that a, different schedule of
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Extend Contracts
On Dark Air-Cured
Flue-Cured, Burley
Washington, Dec. 10 (AP) —Pro-
duction contracts for burley, fire
cured and dark air-cured tobacco will
be continued in 1935. But flue-cured
growers, the first to sign contracts,
today waited Secretary Wallace’s de
cision as to their crop.
A movement is under way to have
a new sign-up of flue-cured growers
to extend that program for three
years. ~ ■„
PUBLISHED EVERY AFTERNOON
EXCEPT SUNDAY.
Hungarian refugees.
slav army crossed the frontier
into Hungary. Yugoslavian re
sentment over the assassination
of King Alexander by Croat ter
rorists, who allegedly maintain a
camp in Hungary, precipitated the
mass deportations. Eleven-year
old Peter is the new king o i
Yugoslavia.
appeal to the League against Hun
gary on the charge of having har
bored the assassin who killed King
Alexander in no way questions the
national honor of Hungary.
Then France introduced the draft
of a treaty providing for the crea
tion of an international criminal "court
for the repression of terrorism. It
would be permanent, and would con
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HUNTING LICENSE
SALES HP $23,000
Thanksgiving Period Boosts
Totals Above Same
Period Year Ago
Unity j»isi>;i t«*h tlnrcsiß,
In (lie Sir Mil Iter Hotel,
lly J C. IluskervllJe,
Raleigh. Dec. 10.—Seasonal sales of
hunting licenses through the Thanks
giving period and up to this week,
brought the receipts from this source
to more than $23,000 ahead of a si
milar periodl ast year, John D. Chalk,
state game and inland fisheries com
missioner, announced today.
Hunting license receipts for the cur
rent season, according to Mr. Chalk’s
report, had reached $93,049 in com
parison with $69,897 for a similar date
last year, a lead of $23,152 for the
present shooting period.
More late season hunting than has
occurred in several years is expected
during the next several weeks be
cause of unsuitable weather holiding
sway during tlie Thanksgiving per
iod. Continued heavy sales of licenses
are also taken as an indication that
more hunters than usual will probably
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WEATHER
FOR NORTH CAROLINA.
Partly cloudy tonight; Tuesday
fair; nor much change in temper
ature.
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BALKAN CRISIS IS
RELIEVED BY PLEA
FROM THE BRITISH
Yugoslavia Will Not Act
Against Hungary If League
Decision Proves
Adverse
DEPORTATIONS ARE
WIDELY RESENTED
World Against
Action Has Retarding Ef
fect on Belgrade Govern
ment, Which Suspends
Ouster of Citizens From
Hungary
Belgrade Yugoslavia, Dec. 10.—
(AP >—High government officials told
The Associated Press today that
Yugoslavia will take no independent
measures against Hungary should the
League of Nations rule against Yugo
slavia and in favor of Hungary in the.
two nations’ present dispute.
This declaration, it was said, was
to dispose of the widespread fear
abroad that war might break out it
tlie League ruled against Yugoslavia.
The intervention of the British gov
ernment through Prince Paul, regent
of the crown, was said to have "Been
responsible for this decision.
It was also said that an unfavorable
world reaction to Yugoslavia’s mass
deportation of Hungarians—now end
ed —had a distinctly restraining effect
on the Belgrade government, which
seemed at first inclined to take mat
ters in its own hand respecting Hun
gary, regardless of international op
inion.
Prince Paul is known to have rais
ed the English opinion of Yugoslavia
enormously during his recent visit to
London, but it was said here that.
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Village In
Lenoir Is
Submerged
Kinston, Dec. 10 (AP) —The village
of Happersville across the Neuse
river from here, was under several
feet of water today as the rampaging
river, swollen by torrential rains up
state. continued its rush toward the
Atlantic.
It was believed however, that the
crest of the flood has passed, and that
damage had been comparatively neg
ligible. The low-lying village has
been flooded many times in the past,
the water on one occasion reaching
12 feet.
The rise ceased late yesterday sev
eral feet short of the record.
Because the stream here rises and
falls slowly, families were expected
to be marooned for several days. A.
number of families moved to higher
ground when the flood became immi
nent.
Commission
Paid China
By DuPonts
Official Admits Pay
ments for Business
There Were Pure
“Graft”
Washington, Dec. 10.—(AP)—Evid
ence that the DuPont company paid
large commissions to secure powder
business in China in 1929 was laid
today before the Senate Munitions
Committee.
Dujfont officials did not deny tho
commissions were in then ature of
bribes, explaining they had been told
"it was an old Chinese custom.”
Documents laid before the commit
tee showed a "commission” r
percent on a large powder sale in
1929 was paid to a Colonel de Fre
mary, a Dutch officer working un#er
contract with the Chinese government
Another “commission’’ of four per
cent was paid to “Chinese army,
Nanking.”
K* K. V. Casey, DuPont official*
conceded the four percent was
“graft,” but testified he did not
[to whom it was paid. ;,n
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