North Carolina Newspapers

HENDERSON GATEWAY TO CENTRAL CAROLINA rWENTY-FIRST YEAR SIB,OOO HOLD-UP IS SOLVED BY ARRESTS OF THREE SUSPECTS Charlotte Police Get Trio in Robbery of Springs Mill Payroll in South Carolina think money will SOON BE LOCATED IMective Littlejohn, Os Charlotte, Believes Money |, Hidden in Union Coun ty; Deputy Sheriff Who Drove Payroll Car Wednes day Is Also Held - Charlotte. Dec. 27 (AP>-Charlotte | rrested three men here today ! i.il announced the SIB,OOO payroll I hold-up near Lancaster. S. C.. yes- j Ifrdnv \\}v- solved. mien Frank Littlejohn, chief of detective- announced the case was > -(.Ken the loot taken from a Springs < 'till pavroll car by four bandits in a 1 iudd-up’ on the Chcster-Lancaster | highway, had nut been recovered. Littlejohn, however, said he belie'- I t „l the money would be recovered in a ;,nrt while. With a squad of offic- : ,. 0 he left for an undisclosed point in Vniori county, where he. said he ex -I't'ied to find the SIB,OOO. The men arrested here were Man- U r| mid James Miller, brothers, and Leroy Holliday, a taxi driver. Mean- , hilc. it was disclosed that Phil 1 hur- 1 a deputy sheriff and driver of j (he payroll car. was bein« held at Lancaster \ few hours after the roljbery. She- j n ff Roy Flack man. of Lancaster coun- i P took a woman. Noll Garney. 24. and i 1 rvo men, Robert Craig. 35, and i Im lt Dees. 30. into custody for •jus.-t loning. The Garney girl lives near the ; tone of the jobbery, a short distance i from the Catawba rtvei bridge on the j Lancaster side of the Lancaster- i Chester county line. Craig and Dees I (Continued on Page Two) Vandalism Blamed In S, Rail Crash Cleveland. Ohio. Dec. 27. —(APi Vandalism was blamed by F. H. Krick. superintendent of the Cleve ruidd ivision of the Pennylvania rail d. for a passenger train wreck near f' iumbu today in whicn two train men were killed The dead are A B. Eckles. of Lake wood, load foreman of engines: En gined H. S Beach, of Mount Ver non. Ohio: and Fireman John Skolar of Cleveland. Superintendent Wrick .-caid his of fice had received a report from the vena of the wreck that a switch had been locked open. The train, carrying two coaches, ran i into a. line of eight box cars on a 1 siding. Our Information indicates that ime one locked th e switch open with r heintention of cauing a wreck.” ! Wrick said. The. uperintendent’s office later re- | • civcd word that Fireman John Skolar. of Cleveland, the mail clerk, and three pasenger had teen taken t<> L’n I versify hopital in Columbus. MIA Codes I) * IT'* • rice T lxmg I livid Illegal Kansas City Federal lud g c Rules Against (J over n 'ucut In Test Case bilious City. Dec. 27 ( AP)-Code f,xll 'k" under the NRA was rul b-v Judge Merrill E. Otis in "tmal district court here today. -ongress has no power to fix " ' f ' v, n in transactions undoubt .' a hHrt of interstate commerce,” '' '< Mis held in his opinion. iiiling was made .In denying a m horary injunction sought by the "Vfinimcnt against Robert Suther ■ : °h'>ratJng as the Sutherland 111,1 ) Company. The company, with '•' quarters here, operates lumber 1,1 Oklahoma. lowa and Mc- on * “cash and carry” basi. (Continued on J’afcß Two) Tinttirrsmt Bafhr Btsuntrh LEASED WIRB BERVICB OF v'HB ASSOCIATED PRESS. Authored Pamphlet fi A\M 1 I * ? jr §S| fiK| l||ft •:«»< Jm * |j Mary Belle Spencer # Receipt by members of Hauptmann jury panel of booklet containing imaginary story of trial of case similar to Lindbergh ease may re sult in calling new panel. Mrs, Mary Belle Spencer, Chicago at torney, is author of the pamphlei bu* says she doesn’t know wht mailed copie* to prospective jurors (Central Preen) France Will Not Give Up Trotzky Yet Will Keep Him For Protection, Even if Russia Asks for Him, Paris Says Paris. Dec. 27.—(Ah) —French offi cials said today that Leon Totzky, exiled former Soviet Russian leader, is "safely hidden in France.” and even if the Soviet asks his extradition he j will not be surrendered. 'The Soviet government announced at Moscow that Leonard Nicolaieff, j confessed slayer of Sergei Kiroff at | Leningrad, had implicated Trotzky in 1 a plot to assassinate various leaders of Soviet Russia.) Tlie official said that the widely j known revolutionary was "a long dis tance from Paris, living quietly and cloely watched. They said secret ser vice men were on guard, both to pro- 1 tcct him and to prevent him from engaging in undesirable activities. Trotzky is kept in France, it was I explained, “because no other country is willing to take him.” France, because of her traditional poTicy of harboring political refugees, was said to be unwilling to force him to leave, on the ground that such ac tion would be equivalent to sending him to deatii or to prison. cause Wreck NOW DETERMINED Brakeman by Mistake Threw Switch That Ended in Canadian Tragedy Toronto. Dec. 27.—(AP)—W. A. , Kinglsland. general manager of the i central region of the Canadian Na- I tionai Railway's, issued an official j statement today saying E. S. Lynch, forward brakeman of the London- Toronto passenger special, which was wrecked Christmas night with a loss of 15 lives, thiew the switch which sent the Detroit-Toronto express in to the standing special. The statement, in part, said: “After the passenger express had ! entered ih t siding. Rear End Brakc ma i Phelps properly set and locked the switch for the main line and turn ed the marker lights on the rear of his train from red to green to in dicate to the enginemen of any fol lowing train that the passenger ex tra was clear of the main line. “On examination of engine 0300, (Continued on Page Sik.) ONLY DAILY To Be Floor Leader Iw 1H ilk i JUgs 9 S 1 M mm Representative William Bankhead Representative William Bankhead of Alabama is assured of selection as Democratic floor leader in the new house of representatives. Ha will succeed Representative Jo seph W. Byrns of Tcnneseee, who will become speaker to succeed the late Henry 'l’. Rainey of Illi nois. Representative John .1, O Connor of New York will be come chairman of the important rules committee. TRIO OF HALIFAX PEOPLEMED AT Mrs. Mary Woodard, of En field, and Two Youths of Weldon Lose Lives at Enfield CAR DRIVEN UPON A BLIND CROSSING Fast Coast Line Train Hits Car; Two Others Injured, One of Whom May Die; Crash Occurs Wednesday Night; Mrs. Woodard’s Daughter Injured Enfield, Dec. 27.—(AP) —Three per sons were killed and two others in jured, one critically, when a speeding passenger train struck an automobile at a grade crossing lierel ast night. The dead: Mrs. Mary Woodard, of Enfield, be lieved to be about 42 years old. William Shaw, about 25. Weldon. John Bland, about 12, Weldon. Edith Woodard. 18. daughter of Mrs. Woodard, received head wounds and a broken arm. Henry' W. Lowe, of Weldon, was injured, but not seriously". The crash occurred when the au , tomobile was driven onto a blind crossing directly" in thep ath of the ; northbound train. IGNORE ALIbTIAW IN HAUPTMANN CASE Flemington. N. J.. Dec. 27.—(AP) — i The State of New Jersey", an official 1 source said today has decided to ig nore one of the cards in its hand a gainst Bruno Richard Hauptmann—• its “new alibi law.” By invoking the law passed by the 1134 legislature, the State could force Hauptman’s defense to give notice of any intention to claim that Haupt mann was not at the scene of the Lindbe"ch kidnaping at the time of the crime. $7,000,000 Will Be All I Libby Holman’s Boy Asks Os The Reynolds Estate Winston-Salem, Dec. 27. —(AP)— Seven million dollars of his fathei s estate is enough for little Christopher Smith Reynolds, he told the court tlirough a paper filed today by his “next friend.” R. C. Vaughn, appoint ed to represent the infant son of Libby Holman Reynolds in the va rious legal jockeying for the Smith Reynolds fortune. Vaughn in Forsyth cou~t made a formal acceptance of the proposal of the surviving Reynolds children for division of their brotliei s foitune. 7be proposal "accepted today gi^es NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OF CAROLINA AND VI^INIA. HENDERSON, N. C. THURSDAY AFTERNOON, DECEMBER 27, 1934 DR.ARCH JOHNSON, BAPTIST EDITOR, IS CLAIMED BY DEATH Was Editor of Charity and Children 35 Years and Writings Widely Quoted WAS PROMINENT IN WORK OF BAPTISTS Native of Scotland; County and Will Be Buried There After Funeral at Thomas ville Tomorrow; Had Been in Declining Health 12 Years Thomasville, Dec. 27 (AP) Archibald Johnson. 75. for half a centufry' a prom inent figure in the Ba.ptist church of the State and South, and editor of Charity’ and Children, pubjeation of the Mills Home Baptist Orphanage here, died at 3:30 o’clock this morning following a long illness. Ho had been in declining health for the past 12 1 \"ears. He was the father of Gerald W. Johnson, associate editor of the Balti more Evening Sun. and formerly head of the Department of Journalism at the University of North Carolina. He was a brother of Dr. Livingston Johnson, also a well on own figure of the Southern Baptist Church, who died three years ago at his home in Raleigh. Mr. Johnson came to Thomasville j from Scotland county in 1899 and be came editor of Charity for Children, a j position in which his clarity and vigor I of expression made tlat. organ a re spected organ in Nortk Catolina jour- I (Continued on p t g e Two) Final Arguments In Morals Case In Smithfield Begun Southfield, Dee. 2V— (AP)— C'aude C. Cannady, sotoitor-elect completed his argument for the prosecution, and William Weilons made a plea for the defense at the morning session of the trial of eight defendants charged with kidnaping three girls and taking thorn to New York for immoral purposes as the ease neared tlie jury stage in Johnston County .Superior Court here today. i Only two more arguments, one for each side, and the charge of Judge Frank Daniels, remained before the case will /j to the jury. It was estimated at the close of the morning session all speaking will be completed tomorrow morn ing. ■ j Arrests For 1934 License Tags Ordered Daily Dispatch Aarfin. In the Sir Waller Hotel, Hy J. O. BaakervUie. Raleigh, Dec. 27.—The sale of new 1935 automobile licenses is still going much more slowly than had been hoped and is just catching up with last y r ear’s sales, Director L. S. Har ris, of the motor vehicle bureau of the Department of Revenue, said this morning. While total sales up to this morning had not been tabulated. Di rector Harris estimated that not more than 75.000 new sets of license plates had been sold, while sales to the same date last year amounted to 74,150. “Only four day's are left, including today, during which those who want i to use their cars January 1 and thereafter may' buy their new plates” Harris said. “It will, of course, be impossible to sell more than 350.000 sets of license plates in four days. So (Continued on Page Six) Christopher Reynolds $7,000,000; Anne Cannon Reynolds. 11, his half-sister, $9,000,000; his mother, Libby Holman, $750,000 and his uncle and two aunts, $9,000,000, which they are to use for benevolent purpose. The proposal is understood to have the approval of the Cabarrus Bank and Trust Com pany, co-guardian of Anne Cannon Reynolds 11. It has been rejected and attacked by Ann Cannon Reynolds Smith, of Concord, and her mother, also co-guardian of little Ann, and by the Safe Deposit and 7’rust Company, of Baltimore, trustee of the fortune. 13 Miners Killed, 43 Hurt As Work Train Locomotive Explodes In West Virginia LEGION CHIEF SEES BONUS NEAR .Jiami .3:1 ' A ...j; • .JlHf m*# J aIMMBgPjIiSIW vwo R 'i:£o§o§&oraßb ' . v-» Expressing certinty that World war fore spring, Frank N. Belgarno, Jr., can Legion, is pictured responding to town. San Francisco from Washing Talk Liquor Law To Get New Money 1935 Legislature May Turn T o Control Plan as Source For Revenue Dully D|*putch Bureau, In the Sir Waller Hotel, By J C. Ruftkerviile. Raleigh, Dec. 27.—Wi1l the need for more revenue result in the modifica tion of the State’s present prohibition law and reslult in a State liquor con trol law similar to that In Virginia? This is being discussed more and more here as the time for the 1935 General Assembly to meet draws near. While present indications are that the forthcoming legislature will try to side-step and avoid the prohibition law question if it can, there are other indications that a de termined effort will be made by some of the members to get the State to forsake its present position with regard to prohibition, regarded as ex tremely hypocritical by many", and get some revenue from the tremendous liquor business being carried on in all sections of the State, but from which the State collects no one pen (Continued on Pasa Two.) SOME SCHOOL FOLK AGAINST DIVERSION Realize Rural Schools De pendent on Upkeep of Country Roads Daily Dispatch Bureau, In the Sir Walter Hotel, By J. C, ItiiNkervllle. Raleigh. Dec. 27.—Not all of the school people and county superinten dents are favoring diversion of part of the highway fund into the general fund, although it is a well known fact that a large number of the school po liticians are openly advocating the diversion of $5,000,000 a year from the highway revenue into the gen eral fund, to be used for school pur poses. But a large number of county superintendents, who know how close (Oonfcinucil on I’aire Thre«> wmiiiii FOR NORTH CAROLINA. Fair tonight and Friday; Friday increasing cloudiness, slowly ris ing temperature, folio wed by rain or snow in extreme west portion in afternoon or night PUBLISHKD KVERY AFTERNOON EXCEPT SUNDAY* veterans would receive a bonus be national commander of the Ameri welcome as he arrives in his home ton. Deplores Wresks; Is Victim of One 1 ayette v tile, Dec. 27.—(A I*) — “We seem to have more automobile accidents in North Carolina than in any other State,” Rev, Archer Rougher, rector of St. John’s Epis copal church, remarked to a visit ing clergyman as they started across Green street last night. Before they reached the other side. Rougher had bebn knocked down by a car driven ;by A. J. Purdie, local barber. He sustained a badly lacerated scalp and sev ersd bruises. Purdie was charged witli operating an automobile w'hile under the influence of liquor. BiG BUSINESS FOR A TEMPORARY DOLE Young, Raskob And Asso ciates See Insurance Far In the Future By CHARLES P. STEWART Central Press Staff Writer Washington, Dec. 27. —The business leaders (Owen D. Young. John J. Ras kob and associates), who prefer a straight-out unemployment dole to work relief, because the dole is less costly, are not quite as coldblooded in their suggestion as it sounds, badly (Continued on Page Two.) HOLD NEGROES FOR PATROLMAN’S DEATH Asheville, Dec. 27.—(AP)—Two Negroes sought for the slaying of E. B. Milan, a State highway pa trolman, in Greenville county, S. C., were arrested here today and turned over to South Carolina of ficers. The highway patrolman was slain Christmas day while trying to quell a disturbance in a Ne gro church yard. Three Held for Mystery Killing Wilmington Man Wilmington. Dec. 27 (AP) - Three men were ordered held today by the coroner’s jury for the death of Cole G. Pridgen, linotype operator, who was fatally injured in a drinking club here Sunday night. Those held are James B. Lewis and Luther Hargrove, of Wilmington, al leged operatives of the club, and H. B. Sealey, of Greensboro, reported to have served as doorkeeper of the club. Evidence at me inquest tended to snow Pridgen w,s either thrown down the steps or tn<G he fell after being struck over the >eed with a heavy m ’(’••q.ent. 6 PAGES TODAY FIVE CENTS COPY EgToirus BLAST LETS LOOSE Feared Number of Injured Will Die of Wounds in Hospital Where They Are Treated BOILER IS~HURLED OVER UPON COACH Streets Quickly Fill With Men, Women and Children Inquiring Anxiously for Loved Ones; Tragedy In Mining Country Occurs In Early Morning Montgomery, W. Va., Dec. 27—(AP) —Thirteen miners were killed and at least 43 injured today by the expos ion of a locomotive of a train taking workers to a mine of the Elkliorn- Piney Coal Company in the heart of this mountain country. The fireman and engineer were among those killed. The blast, said to have been caused by a buckling of a fire box cover and the subsequent loosening of the boil er tubes, echoed through the valley, along which the little train daily hauls the workers to and from their homes. Pieces of the locomotive and cars were blown 100 yards away and the flying debris cut or bruised those of the workers who were able to flee the wreckage itself. More than 100 were riding on the three-coach train. The blast hurled dozens of the passengers clear of the track, and thei njured cried out as they lay exposed in the bitter cold. Company officials, rushing to the (Continued on Page Two) Two Sisters • " i, Found Dead In Bedroom Hot. Springs, Ark., Dec. 27.—(AP)— Two sisters, members of a prominent family here, were found shot to death in the bedroom of their home today. Coroner J. P. Randolph pronounced the tragedy “murder and suicide,” and said Miss Christine Burrouglis, 27, shot her 14-year-o>ld "favorite” sister, Claire, and then turned the gun on herself. Members of the family of Mr. and Mrs. E. H. Burroughs, hearing a hot, found the body of the older girl on the floor, a pistol clutched in her hand. They saw the body of the younger girl in bed, and, thinking she had slept through the, tragedy, did not dicover at once that she was dead The older girl recently suffered a nervous breakdown, members of the family were quoted by Xiandolph ag saying, and had returned from her position she had held at Houtou, Texas. Members of the family said Christine regarded her youngest sis ter as her "favorite.” Cherry Will Probably Be Finance Man Gaston Man Looms as Clioice for Im portant Cliairman sliip in House Daily Dispatch flarena, la the Sir Walter Hotel, By J. O. naakerville. Raleigh. Dec. 27 —While there has been some speculation to the effect that Representative R. Gregg Cherry, of Gastonia, might become a ‘‘dark horse” candidate for speaker, in case a deadlock should develop between Representatives Robert Grady John son, of Pender. Laurie McEachern, of Hoke and Willie Lee Lumpkin, of Franklin, the thre epresent candi cm ,?a£c Tv.o)