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SENATE. COMMITTEE TO PROBE MITCHELL’S CHARGES
O Kansas Convicts Mutiny In Prison Coal Mine
15 11 OFFICERS
BY CONVICT GROUP
A(l M<-phone Communica
tion With Prison Office
Broken by Mutin
ous Prisoners
CAUSE OF TROUBLE
IS NOT YET CLEAR
No Demands Received from
Self Imprisoned Convict
Mineis; Officers Armed
With Gas To Go Into Shaft;
Mutiny Occurs Eight Years
After 1927 Riot
Lansing, Kans., June 18.—(AP)
—Fighting broke out In the Kan
sas penitentiary coal mine today
when a group of striking convict
miners attempted to capture a
fj.n cage manned by five prison
officials on the 730_foot level.
the convicts, part of 380 miners
"ho mutinied early today ana
since have held the mine were re
pulsed hy gas guns. The five men
in the cage reported hy telephone
to the surface that they hold
their position indefinitely.
Lansing, Kans.. June 18—<AP)—
Holding 15 mine officers as hostages
more than 300 Kansas State peniten.
tiary convicts mutinied today in the
prison coal mine. All telephone com
munications with the prison office
were broken toy the strikers shortly
after they went dwon into the mine
at 7 a m.
Warden LUvy M. Simpson's office
said the purpose of the mutiny was
r.ot known, yet as no demands had
been received from the self-entombed
convict miners. 1 ... <
Plans were •hM4fcf r, tdi send officers
auned with ga3 into the mine.
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Th tee Admit \
S, C. Hold-Up
For SIB,OOO
Lancaster. 3. C.. June 18.—(AP)—-
Three men pleaded guilty and a
fourth man v-ent on tria! today for
the >IB.OOO Springs Mill payroll hold
up near here last December.
A* the opening of court. James and
Manuel Miller and Leroy Holiday
pleaded guilty to charges of highway
Jobbery and conspiracy, but T. S.
Thurman, former deputy sheriff, de
manded a trial.
A jury was selected quickly, and
’akir.g of evidence began shortly ibe
-°r the noon recess.
Sentencing of the Millers and Holla
da v "-jar: deferred puending outcome
cf the Thurman case.
Thurman with two other special of-
n-as stooped last December 28
between here and Chester. The rob
"'ere traced to Charlotte, where
M ei and Holladay live, and
?15.000 r,f the money wag recovered
bv the Charlotte police.
foSSes
by Roosevelt to Exa
asine All Changes in
Hours and Wages
Washington June 18.— ( AP)— The
r '~ VJ NP A was directed today by Pre-
s !d ( :nt Roosevelt to examine any
changes which occur in labor stand
or fair trade practices which fol
low cancellation of the codes.
Tn a letter to James L. O’Neal, act
n 8 administrator, the President stat
ed
Tt is 0 f primary importance that
this work should be done very care
*’M!!y and under the supervision of an
impartial committee.”
Tic proposed a committee including
an chairman, a representa
t!V‘ of management and a represen.
tafi”o of labor, and member designat
ed by the . O »* m< rcc
Himiirrsmt tlatlii Htsmttrh
Frizzelle Delays Decision
New Hanover Liquor Issue
national guard quells rioting
Four companies of Illinois na
tional guard kept martial order in
Freeport. 111., following a pitched
battle between strike pickets and 1
deputized company foremen at the
Government To Continue
Tobacco Control Even If
Act Is Killed By Courts
j
10 Police Injured
In Paris Riotings
Paris, June 18 (A P)—Ten police
men were injured today when 250
angry laborers demonstrated out
side the Polish Embassy against
France’s wholesale expulsion of
foreign workers.
The riot was similar to the one
which took place almost simultan
eously at the Polish consulate in
Lille, where one gendarme was In
jured. The demonstrators used
clubs and bottles. One woman hit a
gendarme. Sixteen persons were
arrested.
Say' l extile
Factories To
Close Week
Will Suspend Full
Week In July to Sta
bilize Market and
Reduce Stocks
Charlotte, June 18 (AP> —The Char
lotte News says many Southern tex
tile manufacturing plants will close
for a full week in Julv for the pur
pose of reducing stocks and stabiliz
ing price levels
The curtailment, which will be in
addition to a genera! program of sim
ilar nature, which has been in effect
throughout the industry recently, will
reduce operations during the month of
July to 50 per cent of normal, the pa>-
per said it was informed
The industry for three months has
operated under an NRA order reduc
ing production 25 per cent
Thomas H Webb, of Concord, pres
ident of the American Cotton Al inu-
ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OF NCHTTH CAROLINA AND VISHNIA.
Bbj RVICB of
HK ASSOCIATHD PRESS .
HENDERSON, N. C. TUESDAY AFTERNOON, JUNE 18,' 1935
plant of the Stover Manufads*-
ing and Machine compaa|fe Wicto
shows some of the 300 guards
-1 men who wen* lustily fc§r
2.000 strike sympathiz .a*
Some Way Will Be Found
To Benefit Cooperating
Growers, Hutson
Tells Georgians
TALKS TO GROWERS
AT ANNUAL MEETING
World Consumption Is
Around Last Year’s Levels
and Will Be Greater for
Year; Program Will Be
Formulated on Basis of Tax
Being Effective
Tifton, Ga, June 18. —(AP) —J. B.
Hutson, of the tobacco division of the
Agricultural Adjustment Administra
tion, announced today that the gov
ernment plans to continue its tobacco
control program, even if the Kerr.
Smith act is declared unconstitutional.
In a prepared address before Geor
gia tobacco growers at their annual
summer meeting here. Hutson said:
“The program will be formulated
with the thought that the tax provid
ed in the Kerr-Smith act will be ef
fective; if this should be declared un
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WETS FEARFUL OF
Once in Supreme Court,
Drys May Win on Con
stitutional Grounds
Dotty Dupntcfe Snrn*,
In the Sir Walter Hotel,
AY j. C. BASKBRVILIi.
Raleigh, June 18. —Quiet wets thro
ughout the 18 counties to be affected
by elections on liquor stores explain
their reticence by directing inquirers
to the legal situation precipitated by
restraining orders against holding
these elections.
Tim wets are fearful that mo-j of
Jurist Gives No Indications
When He Will Announce
Ruling on Injunc
tion Plea
PASQUOTANK DRYS
NOT TO INTERFERE
Will Allow Question To Go
to Polls and 4 Win There”,
Says Dry Leader; Sum
mons iin Vance and Warren
Important Developments in
Wet-Dry Status
Elizabeth City. June 18—(AP)
—No order restraining the voters
of Pasquotank county from ex
pressing their desires on legal li
quor stores July 6 will he sought
by) the United Dry Forces of Pas
quotank county.
This announcement was made
today by Judge J. B. Leigh, head
of the United Dry Forces of this
county, following a meeting with
dry leaders and misisters here.
“We are going to let it go to
a vote and win at the polls,” said
Judge Leigh. “We feel that is the
best way to handle the situation.”
Wilmington. June 18.—(AP) —The
first case to test the constitutionality
of the North Carolina act permitting
certain counties to hold liquor con
trol elections was in the hands of
Judge J. Paul Frizzelle today, with
no indications from the jurist as to
when his decision would be reached
After hearing eight hours of argu
ment. with drys attacking the legality
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DR. EDWARDS WILL
BE DENTISTS’ HEAD
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Bidwing flock. June (AP) —Dr.
Z. Ei! Ed*wjS.bels,' Os WlaShingfton, presi
dent-elect of the North Carolina Den*,
tal Society during the past year, will
be made head of the society at the
annual election tonight when other
officers, will also toe named.
The new officers will be formally
installed tomorrow morning at the
concluding session of the 61st annual
convention of the body.
OLD BELT TOBACCO
MEN TO TALK CODE
Winston-Salem, June 18.—(AP)—
The Old Belt Tolbacco Warehouse As
sociation will discuss a voluntary
code and opening dates for the auc
tion season at a meeting fn Danville.
Va„ Saturday. A committee from this
belt will make recomemndations to
the United States Tobacco Associa
tion. which fixes opening dates for
all belts.
ROOSEVELTPOUCY
IS SHARE WEALTH
IPs Huey Long’s Idea but
Obtained Under Differ
ent Procedure
By CHARLES P. STEWART
Central Press Staff Writer
Washington. June 18-— When Sena
tor Huey P. Long proposes a “share
our wealth” program, it is supposed
to be a perfectly wild-eyed idea.
But when President Roosevelt is re
ported by his spokesmen in Congress
to be planning a “redistribution of
wealth” campaign his suggestion is
received with a considerable degree of
.national composure.
The main difference seems to be
that the president uses more refined
language than the senator.
“SHARING WEALTH”
The trouble with “sharing our
wealth,” as Senator James Couzens
of Michigan remarked in the course
of an interview I recently had with
him, is that it can’t Ibe done.
Money can be divided up into
stacks, of equal size, tne senator
agreed, but wealth (in the form of
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FOR NORTH CAROLINA.
Partly cloudy; probably showers
Wednesday and in extreme west
portion tonight; slightly cooler !H
_Ly •«!£ J3UI4.
Tanbark Lures Him
vnnnnm
y ; <;.
Harper Joy. Spokane, Wash,,
banker-clown, heeds the call of the
circus every summer and spends his
vacation in “chalk-face” as profes
sional clown.
<Central Press)
MAN PRAISES
SET-UP MADE HERE
Says Roads and Schools
Wonderful and Road-
Prison Merger Fine
HE DEFENDS TALMADGE
Says Georgia Governor Is Right In
Opposing Unbridled Usuration
Os State’s Rights In
Washington
Dally Dispatch Bereatj,
In the Sir AValter Hotel,
BV *. c. AASKERVILL.
Raleigh, Jiine lPß.—Georgia JijcfeS;
North Carolina , ’s laws well eridtigh id
feend a commission here td‘ ‘study tHe
statutes.
Senator W. M. Lester, of the eigh
teenth Georgia district, Augusta the
biggest city, is in the State. He visit
ed High Point last night after spend
ing the day in Raleigh. He interview
ed Governor Ehringhaus who had
just returned from Biloxi. Mississippi
where the governors’ conference took
place last week, and the executive
was in good mood to talk North Car
olina after he had heard other gov.
ernors acclaim their commonwealths.
Senator Lester, a great friend of
Governor Talmadge, is chairman of
the commission on “Economy and
Taxation.” He came to North Caro
lina particularly to study the State
Highway system, both the construc
tion portion and the prison features.
He also goes through the school sys
tem, and makes a specialty of the
revenue study. He admits a deep dis
like for the sales tax. but he does not
go so far as to commit himself un
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Many Homeless In
Flood Waters of
The Middle West
(By the Associated Press)
Turbulent rivers, fed by melting
snows and heavy rainfall, surged
from their banks in nine mid-west
ern states today, driving thousands
from their homes and inflicting
heavy damage to property and
crops.
Three of the same states and a
fourth—South Dakota—were vis
ited yesterday by dread tornadoes,
injuring several persons and caus
ing heavy property damage.
13 New Paralysis Cases
Put State Total To IS3
Raleigh, June 18.—(AP) —Officially
reported cases of infantile paraysis in
North Carolina this year jumped to
153 today as 13 new ones came into
the State Board of Health, and two
more were unofficially listed from
Bertie county.
With the sufferers from the dread
disease steadily increasing in num.
;,er, Dr. Carl V. Reynolds, Stale health
officer, and three otner members of
He 1 ft' t T» •*/ i, y r
PUBLISHED EVERY AFTERNOOW
EXCEPT SUNDAY-
Deposed Secretary
Claims Favoritism
And Graft Abound
Still Says He’s ‘A-T
Mary L, Bolles
Mrs. Mary L. Bolles of Cleveland,
80 years old and almost blind,
feels fully capable of getting
along without the husband sh«
married 60 years ago. So sh#
sued for divorce. After carrying
her fight to the Ohio supreme
court, she lost. Now she wants
her husband, William Bolles, who
is 88 and now lives in Newark,
N. J., to know that she still thinks
he i* “an A-l man”.
OH I9ISIELD
And “Rights of Labor and
Cheap Money” May Be
the Big Issue
HARKS BACK TO BRYAN
Coughlin-Sllverites and Industrial
Workers May Unite; They Re
gard Roosevelt As Mere
ly a Stepping-Stone
By LESLIE EICHEL
Central Press Staff Writer
Cleveland, June 18.—Onto is likely
to be an intensive battleground in the
1936 election. It was won only nar
rowly by President Roosevelt in 1932.
It and Pennsylvania and cMihigan
probably will be the hardest fought
for states.
And here the issue already has
been forming. It is the issue of 40
3 r ears ago—the issue of 1896, when
William Jennings Bryan of Nebraska
very nearly beat William McKinley of
Ohio.
That issue is “rights of labor and
cheap money” versus “industrial
banking domination.” Some persons
do not like to hear that definition.
It sounds too much they say, “like
Father Coughlin.” It is Father Cough
lin. Except that it will be more de
finite than Father Coughlin’s vague
outlines.
Labor itself is creating a definite
outline of a democracy it desires to
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further conferences with the surgeon
general in regard to the situation.
Never before since the disease be
came reportable in 1917 has the num
ber of reported cases exceeded 133 in
any one year.
As has been the general rule, most
of the 13 new cases officially listed
today came from eastern counties. By
division they were: Two cases each
in Craven, Lee, Robeson and Wake
counties, and one each in Columbus,
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Commerce and Other De
partments Shot Through
With It, Commerce
Official Claims
CRITICIZE POLICIES
ON SHIP SUBSIDIES
Senate Ocean Mail Commit
tee Says Men Bent on Rob
bing Tax-Payer; Holding
Company Bill Meets Huge
Obstacle from House Com
mittee Members
_ Washington, June 18. (AP)—A
Senate investigation of charges made
against the New Deal by Ewing Y-
Mitchell, deposed assistant secretary
of commerce, was directed today by
the Senate Commerce Committee &a
another branch of that foody—the
ocean mail committee—sharply cri
ticized past ship subsidy policies.
While the Senate itself continued
to drive ahead on the administration’s
social security b/1, in hope of pass
ing it before nightfall, the commerce
committee, by unanimous vote, or
dered an aiNng of Mitchell’s allega
tions that “favoritism and graft”
abound in the commerce and other
departments.
Mitchell recently was dismissed by.
President Roosevelt after his refusal
to resign.
The ocean mail report, which de%
tailed results of a lengthy investiga
tion. charged that ship subsidy po
licies, led to a “saturnalia” by men
bent on “robbing the tax-payer,” and
that some publica officials “flagrantly
betrayed their trusts.”
The House, meanwhile, devoted it
self to consideration of the contro
versial AAA air/mdments.
Foreshadowing breakers ahead foF
the administration’s utility holding
company thill, a House interstate com
merce sub-committee was understood
to have voted to delete the section to.
abolish “unnecessary” holding com?
tanies, and that it was believed the
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Navy Pact
Puts Limit
OnGermans
London, June 18 — (AP) —A final
agreement ibetween Germany and
Great Britain on all important points
on a treaty to maintain the German,
navy at 35 per cent of the British
navy strength was announced offi
cially today.
It was stated officially that the
principle of the 100 to 35 ratio should,
in general, apply to each category.
It was understood that this means
Germany will be allowed some latitude
in building submarines because of the
French and Italian underseas fleets,
which are larger than the British.
It was stated that Germany will
be allowed to make a limited trans--
fer of 35 percent of her tonnage from
one category to another, but that the
ratio would be strictly maintained in
regard to the entire under-age “ef
fectives” fleets of the two nations.
The announcement followed the
first full meeting of the delegation
in several days.
LAUSANNE PACT IS
INVOLVED IN DEBTS
Cannot Be Finally Ratified
Without Settling With
United States
London, June 18.—(AP)—Neville
Chamberlain, chancellor of the ex
chequer, announced in the House of.
Commons today that the Lausanne
agreement virtually cancelling the
German war reparations cannot be
finally ratified by the World War Al
lies until their war debts to the Unit
ed States are settled.
William Mabane, Liberal member,
asked whether the counclf would pro
pose to France, Italy and Belgium
that this condition be waived prece
dent to the ratification of the Laus
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