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CENTRAL
CAROLINA
TWENTY-SECOND YEAR
LEADERS TRY HARD TO SAVE HARRISON BONUS
EXPOSITION OPENS
MONDAY NIGHT AND
RUNS ENTIRE WEEK
Decoralions Arc Completed
anH All Booths Will Be
Placed During the
Week-End
CIRCUS IS FEATURE
FOR EVERY NIGHT
Th VV ill Be Dancing,
With Famed Orchestra To
Furnish Music; Costellos to
Make Their Final Appear
ance; Legion and Auxiliary
Are Sponsors
Th« fourth annual Henderson Mer
chants Exposition. Automobile Show
ar.ri Circus will open next Monday
evening a s the High Price Warehouse
jr.d wi!) nm nightly through the en
tire we<*k It is sponsored by the Hen
derson Post, No. 80 of the American
Legion, and the legion Auxiliary.
P C Loughlin. business manager
of th* 1 exposition, said today that he
anticipated the largest attendance and
the most successful exposition Hen
derson has ever put on. He has been
connected in one capacity or anotrver
with all that have been operated here.
Th»re was a lapse of several years
during the worst period of the depres
sion, but it was felt that conditions
warranted the resumption of the an
nual event again this year, and coop
eration that has been given so far and
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BREMER KIDNAPER
IS UNDER ARREST
Harry Sawyer Taken On
Mississippi Coast and
Held for St. Paul
New Orleans. La, May 4.—(AP> —
Harry Sawyer, alias "C. Lyon,” in
dicted in St Paul, Minn., in connec
tion with the kidnaping of Edward G
Bremer was arrested last night by
Department of Justice agents on the
Mississippi coast, andw as brought to
New Orleans to await removal to
Minnesota
Officer's had been shadowing Saw
yer for several days and he made no
resistance when arrestde.
Sawyer had been residing at Long
Bea-'h Miss., with his wife. After the
arrest of Sawyer officer went to
Long Beach and escorted Mrs. Saw
yer to New Orleans, but it was said
no charges would he filed against her
A formal complaint was to be filed
here against Sawyor later in the day.
arvi then it was to he determined
’r’hen he would be removed to St. Paul
Vatican And
Japan Agree
On Relations
Each To Have Em
bassy as Catholics
and Oriental Faith
Reach Accord
Vatican City, May 4.—(AP)— For
first time in history the Holy
',? r Japan are to enter mutually
'Plomatic relations, the prelate re
perted today
1 hey S ped the establishment of a
nunc *° >n Tokyo, to replace the present
a Postolie delegate and the establish
ment 0 f a Japanese Embassy or lega
'lon in the Holy See is imminent,
in high Vatica'p circles it was said
understanding between the land
the rising sun. with its mystic
nent a i religion and this center of
J" Homan Catholic world followed
r ir th y negotiations between them.
’e negotiations came to a head re-
these said, and a for
n nnnouneement\ concerning the
tirndalion r .f mutuail diplomatic rela
ti^ ns „ Wou hl be forthcoming in "due
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50 Measures
Passed Oil In
Senate Vote
Page Prohibition Bill
Passed by House
Sent to Senate Cal
endar Committee
Raleigh. May 4 TAP)—dna three
hour regular session today, the Sen
ate passed or killed more than 50 bills
as it worked to clear the calendar and
pave the way for sine die adjourn
ment next week
The upper branch will not - resume
work until 2 o'clock Monday afternoon
while a hearing before Judiciary Com
mittee No 1 is slated for 5 o'clock this
afternoon to consider proposed meas
ures relating to tax foreclosures.
The Page prohibition bill, which
was passed yesterday by the House,
was given to the Senate Calendar
Committee, and a report on the act is
expected Monday. It would tighten
the State's present dry laws by setting
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TRAIN KILLS WOMAN
AT KING’S MOUNTAIN
Gastonia, May 4.—(AP) —Lessie
Barnett. 20_year-old daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. R M. Barnett, of the
Cora Mill Village in Kings Moun
tain, was instajntly killed about 4
a. m. today when a Southern
freight train struck her as she
was fitting on the side track near
Bessemer City.
Tex tile Industry Is In
Terrible Condition Now
Processing Tax Straw to Break Camel’s Back, Babson
Says, Adding That World Markets Will Forever
Be Lost If Present Govrnment Policy Continues
BY ROGER W. BABSON.
Copyright 1935, Publishers
Financial Bureau.
Babson Park, Mass., May q .—I was
surprised to find on my return home
how discouraged people ure in New
England at the present time. This
section is a hot-bed of indignation a
gainst the New Deal cotton program.
One old Yankee mill after another
has been forced to close its doors,
throwing thousands of workers onto
public relief. At the same time, big
growers and shippers in the South
are alarmed by the fifty per cent drop
in American cotton exports since a
year ago. So the cotton program is
caught between the crossfire of the
mills and the growers.
Textile Industry in Terrible Condition
Mill operators are blaming their
current trouble on the cotton process
LWASB3D WIRE! SERVICE OF
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS.
HENDERSON, N. C. SATURDAY AFTERNOON, MAY 4, 1935
Mount Ararat May
Become a Volcano
Istanbul, Turkey. May 4.—(AP) —
Mount, Ararat, traditional resting
place of Noah’s ark, was reported
today to be showing volcanic ac
tivity following violent earthquakes
which did widespread damage in
Turkey.
Fresh anxiety spread to the
quake area upon receipt of the re
ports. Three days of quakes and
tremors brought the estimated kill
ed and injured to 2,000, with 1,600
houses destroyed.
The activity on Ararat wajs said
to have begun since the first major
shock in the Kars region, near the
Turco-Russian border.
The mountain, which towers to a
height of 17,000 feet, is perpetually
covered by snow.
LEGISLATORS PLAN
FINAL ADJOURNMENT
END DF NEXT WEEK
Liquor, Prohibition, Taxing
and Spending Vied for
Spotlight During
Past Week
DRY ENFORCEMENT
FORCE IS PLANNED
Salaries Increased for Many
State Officials, and Elec
tric Chair Is Abolished Aft
er July 1 for Lethal Gas
Chamber of Exe
cutions 1
Raleigh, May 4.—(AP) —Liquor, pro
hibition, taxing and spending vied for
the legislative spotlight this week as.
the General Assembly made rapid
strides toward early sine die adjourn
ment.
With biennial supply and spending
measures enacted into law, the liquor
issue dead as a door-mat and a move,
ment for stringent enforcement of
the Turlington Act in full swing, mak
ers in general are preparing to say
good-bye to the Capital City not later
than Friday of next week.
Already passed by the House, the
school machinery act. one of the few
remaining outstanding roll call bills,
is expected to be finally adopted by
the Senate early next week.
A committee substitute for the
school book rental bill, considered by
many one of the most important
pieces of legislation of the session,
was adopted Friday by the lower di
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TWO ESCAPEES AT
CAMP RE CAPTURED
Raleigh, May 4i—(AP)—Two pri
soners who escaped from a Duplin
county road camp yesterday were re
captured last night near Wallace by
a group of officers headed by L. G.
Whitley, assistant superintendent of
the State penal division, he reported
today.
The prisoners were Bill Hunt and
John Joyce. One of them was slightly
wounded as guards shot as they ran.
ing tax. I fear they are over-stress
ing this for the real present difficul
ty in the cotton textile industry is
basic. Among the esential difficulties
are: First, a tremendous excess of
producing capacity, which became
evident right after the war. Second is
the cost differential between north
ern and southern mills. Third is ter
rific competition from other fibres,
particularly rayon, in recent years.
Now there is a fourth factor and one
of growing importance—competition
from Japan.
Despite all the loud protests, I do
not feel Japanese cotton goods com.
ipg into the United States are a se
rious menace as yet. They may cause
some priced isturbance, but where
Japan is really raising fiavoe is in
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Labor Head Denies He Will:
Order General Auto Strikes
STRIKERS’ LAWYER
_
Conference* Toward Set
tlement of Controversy
Making Progress,
It Is Thought
NEARLY SCORE OF
PLANTS ARE IDLE
30,000 Workers Affected in
Chevrolet ain!d Fisher Body
Plants Over Country; At
torney Quoted Green As
Warning Early Settlement
Must Come
Washington, May 4—(AP) —William
Green, president of the American Fed
eration of Labor_ denied today that
he had told Nicholas Klein, Cincin
nati lawyer, "or any one else,” that
he would call a strike of federation
units of the automobile industry un
less there was a speedy settlement of
the Chevrolet walk-out.
STRIKERS’ ATTORNEY IN
CINCINNATI TOLD TALE
Cincinnati, May 4. —(AP)—Consei
for striking Chevrolet Motor Company
and Fisher Body Company workers
here said today that William Green
president of the American Federation
of Labor, is considering a general
strike in the automobile industry un
less present labor disputes with the
General Motors Corporation are quick
!y slettled.
Nicholas Kline, Cincinnati attorney,
acting as general counsel for the
striking General Motors workers here,
made the statement.
"Unless," he quoted the labor lead,
er as saying, “there is an early set
tlement, there is a possibility of call
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Worth Proctor, of
Raleigh, Gangster,
Escapes Caledonia
Raleigh, May 4.—(AP) Worth
Proctor, former gang leader in this
section, escaped from the Caledonia
State Prison farm in Halifax county
late yesterday and was still free to
day after being hunted all night and
this morning by a posse with blood
hounds.
Jack Roach, head of the State penal
division, said Proctor escaped under
a hail of gunfire by .‘picking his time”
and “breaking from a gang on the
the way back to quarters after the
day’s work.
Roach knew no other details.
Proctor faced 19 years in prison for
burglary .breaking and entering and
other offenses. He was convicted in
Wake county last year.
Goldsboro
Strike At
Standstill
Goldsboro, May 4. —(AP)—Each side
apparently awaited the other’s move
today as the strike of 400 employees
of the Atlas Plywood Corporation’s
two plants here entered its four day.
A strike committee conferred yes
terday with local plant officials, but
no agreement was reached. Officials
indicated they were awaiting orders
from the company’s general offices in
Boston, Mass., before taking action.
At a meeting last night plans were
made to take a collection in all the
Negro churches here tomorrow for
strike relief funds. Five white work
ers present at the meeting were also
asked to seek contributions in their
churches.
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night and Sunday; probably rain
Sunday in west portion,
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Scope of strikes and shutdowns in
General Motors and allied plants is
indicated on the map With nearly 25,-
000 men idle, Edward F. McGrady,
assistant secretary of labor, came
House Puts Senate On Spot
With Enforcement Measure
It Voted Against Liquor and Now House Tells Senate To
Help Provide for Prohibition Enforcement; Bill for
200 Deputies Loaded With Dynamite
Dally Dispatch Bnreas,
In the S»- Walter Hotel.
BY J. C. BASKERVILL.
Raleigh, May 4 —The Senate today
received the answer of the House to
its action in killing the Day liquor
control bill, when the Page prohibi
tion enforcement bill, passed Friday
by the House by a vote of 52 to 21,
came over to the upper house. The
main provisions of thi3 biT lare that it
sets up a force of more than 200 State
prohibition enforcement officers whose
sole duty shall be the enforcement of
the bone-dry Turlington Act. to be
STATE STRIKES OUT
TO GET OLD TAXES
Goes After Arrears on 15
Percent Advalorem Levy
F*rom Counties
In the Sir Walter Hotel.
Dally Dispatch Bnrean,
Raleigh, May 4.—Passing the bill
which is designed to facilitate the
collection of back taxes due the State
now-abolishe» i 5 cent ad
valorem property levy, the Senate
took a $500,000 step toward providing
sufficient revenue to carry out the
terms of the biennial appropriations
bill it had approved only the day be
fore.
The bill, offered by Senate Finance
Chairman Harriss Newman, would
permit counties to take a maximum
ten per cent discount if such taxes
are remitted to the State treasury
before next November 1, seven per
cent if paid before December 1, and
six per cent if paid before January
1. The discounts would be allowed on
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PUBLISHHD EVERY AFTBRNOOV
HXCHPT SUNDAY.
from Washington to Detroit to con
fer with A. F. of L, Organizer Francis
J. Dillon, who Called the move a
"showdown” with General Motors.
William Knudson is executive vice
president of Chevrolet.
paid from a fund derived by adding
SSO to the costs in every case where
a conviction is obtained. If this fund
is not sufficient to pay the salaries
of the more than 200 dry law enforce
ment officers, the cost shall be borne
jointly by the counties and the State.
It is agreed that a good many of the
House members who voted for the bill
did so largely in ora >r to put the wet
drinking, dry-voting members of the
Senate “on the spot” because they
voted against the Day liquor control
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$19,959,083 PAID
FARMERS IN STATE
$242,021 Comes to Vance In
Rental and Benefit
Disbursements
College Station, Raleigh f May 4.
Rental and benefit payments to North
Carolina farmers cooperating with
the agricultural adjustment programs
had reached a total of $19,959,083.79
by March 31.
This um includes all the payments
distributed to signers of cotton, to
bacco, wheat, and corn.hog contracts
since the adjustment programs were
started in 1933.
However_ Dean I. O. Schaub, of
State College, who announced the a
mount of the payments, pointed out
that these payments do not measure
che total increase in farm income as
a result of the adjustment programs.
The tobacco growers had received
the greatest amount up to March 31,
a total of $11,090,812.41. Cotton grow
ers came next with $8,274,809.52,
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GROUND,WELL F 0 R
INFLATION PAYMENT
GROWS IN SENATE
Surging Drive for Immedi
ate Cash Payment in Full
Startled Senate
Friday
ROOSEVELT HITS
AT BUSINESS MEN
Says He Does Not Think
Chamber of Commerce
Represents Nation’s Busi
ness Men, Who He Thinks
Approve His Policies; De
bate Banking Bill
Washington, May 4.—(AP)— Tho
Ser/ite got a day off today as Roose.
velt leaders of that chamber strove
desperately to reform shattered lines
to turn back a surging drive for im
mediate cash paymen tof the soldiers’
bonus in full.
It looked to many legislators as
though either the Patman or Vinson
plan—providing for such payment—
might be passed. In that event. Chair
man Harrison. Democrat. Mississippi,
of the Senate Finance Committee,'
warned that President Roosetyelt
would exercise a veto.
The House has already
Patman bill, which, unlike the
bill, would" provide for issuance -of
new currency to pay the bonus.*, '.
The leaders hastily adjourned'jljie
Senate yesterday when
strength lined up behind 'the Vinson'*
bill. Senator Harrison’s cbnVpjsnniiai i
providing for immediate payment b£
smaller sums to veterans, <
headed for defeat. Harrison warned
that of the three bills only, his
obtain the approval of thbLJdmHdenV
The House was kept rih the job
day struggling onwgrd; Witlvj oortjj
troversial banking bill, Which,,'ttlfcoJW,
other things, would •■increa9ib4ij^a|l^
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Giant Bomber of f; ! l
Germans Arrives 1
At Paris Airport
Leßourget, France, May 4.
(AP) —The airport played host to
day for the first time to what
French aviation men described as
a German bombing plane.
The Lufthansa passenger plane
from Berlin arrived today at Le-
Bourget in the record time of
three hours and 62 minutes, aver
aging 285 kilometers an hour,
and at times going over 300 kila
meters an hour.
The plane carried seven passen
gers.
Auto Sales
In State At
High Level
Raleigh, May 4.—(AP)—Sales of
new automobiles in North Carolina la
April showed a substantial increase
over March and also over sales In
April, 1934, the motor vehicle bureau
reported today.
There were 6,482 new cars and 1,-
256 new trucks sold last month, com
paredw ith 4,002 cars and 818 trucks
in March, and 4,922 cars and 1,153
trucks in April, 1934.
Philippine
Trouble Is
Not Ended
Manila, P. I, May 4.—(AP) —R'.am-
ing bands of Sakdalistas kill i a
truck driver and woundea two . ior_
ers near the Ipo gold mine in * an.
province today, indicating u.eb re
bellion, which claimed 60 Irror. .a
still simmering.
A constabulary deta t vaa
dispatched from Manila t e
same time to investigate v *-
eral hundred of the i ' non
entrenched themselves o-Yt)
iri the same provir. z^