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HENDERSON GATEWAY TO CENTRAL CAROLINA TWENTY-SECOND YEAR GEORGIA TOBACCO OPENS AT ABOUT 20c Lynching Inquiry Fruitless As Hearing Adjourns [DUISBURG SCENE OF INVESTIGATION Os DUAL TRAGEDY Officers and Others Tell De tails of Rampage Roose velt Ward Went On Tuesday NAMES OF MANY AT SCENE ARE CALLED Spurgeon Ayscue, Assaulted by Ward Before C. G. Stokes Was Killed, Says He Was in Henderson When He Heard of Lynching of The Negro at Noon Lcuisburg, Aug. 1. —(AP) —No evi dence to link any one with the lynch ing Tuesday of Govan Ward. Negro a xe-s!ayer of a Franklin countv far mer was adduced at the forenoon tession of a judicial inquiry opened here today. From officers who arersted Ward. Superior Court Judge W- C. Harris received details of the rampage the Negro went on when he chopped off C G Stokes’ head, but none of the witnesses connected any one with the lynching. Solicitor William 1. Bickett, of Ra. leigh, did most of the questioning of Probe Continued to Some Future Date Louisburg, Aug. I. (AP) Judge W. G. Harris, on motion of Solicitor William Y. Bickett, at 8:26 p. m. today, continued the in quiry into the lynching of Govan Ward until some future date, which was not set. The action was taken after questioning of a number of wit nesses failed to develop any evi dence to connect any one with the 1 hanging and shooting Tuesday of the 25-year-old Negro who had chopped off the head of C. G* Stckes, 67, prominent Franklin county farmer. Sheriff John T. Moore testified that he did not recognize any of the 20-odd men who took the Ne. gro from him. the witnesses, assisted hy ttorney General A. A. F. Seawell. Dr. H G Perry, of Louisburg. who 6aw the Negro an hour or so before he was taken from Sheriff J. H. Moore and two deputies by 25 armed men and hanged to an oak tree, testi fied he believed Ward was under the influence of a narcotic when he ran amuck. Some 30 witnesses were summoned fcr the hearing, which opened with the court room of Franklin county's 82-year-old court house, intended to seat 250, jammed with upward of 400 spectators who crowded in despite the stifling heat. C 0 Wrenn, deputy sheriff of Havesville township, was the first witness called He described how he ar.d Deputies A. A. Fuller and Elmer heal went to the home of Otho Kear- MV to arrest Ward for assault on Spurgeon Ayscue and learned there cf the murder of Stokes and an as fContinued on Page Five.') Goes After Evaders Os Income Tax Washington, Aug. I.—(AP) —Presi- J„ e _ nt Roosevelt today allotted $5,112.- of work-relief funds to the Tera- Department for a three-fold r :” e to tighten up on tax collections. ncluded will be an intensive check- W on income tax returns of the “lit ."e t ell ow" and a drive against “evas -lof liquor taxes. j n sh e wor j t Officials said hey hoped the studies would bring m creased tax revenues, ocr nP lar & es t allotment was $2,448,- _ a survey of delinquent taxes •nuisance” tax collections in 20 lBr £e cities. , allotment for an income tax f 'w*stigalion will be allocated among "ii divisions, with North Carolina iirnitcrsmt lUttlu ©fspatrh ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA AND VIRGINIA. ’ L ®ASE d WIRE SERVICE! OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS. QUICK SETTLEMENT FOR ETHIOPIAN ROW IS NOW PREDICTED He’ll Only Whittle flgjg & v .‘ c ' -* Thoma* Raycraft Defying welfare authorities of Windsor, Ont., Thomas Raycraft, Windsor alderman and avowed Communist, whittles away on a stick at the municipal woodyard and declares “this is. all the wood cutting I’m going to do.” Ray traft was warned he will be taker Off the welfare rolls unless he takes his turn cutting wood.’ He says wood-cutting is no real job. Revenue Os State Gains Over 10 Pc. $4,140,442 First Month of Fiscal Year, or Increase of $382,427. Dally Dispatch Bnreaa, In the Sfr Waiter Hotel. BY j. C. BASKERVILL. Raleigh. Aug. I—Collections of State revenue fro mall sources during July amounted to $4,140,442 as com pared with $3,758,014 from the same sources in July, 1934, an increase of $382,427 or of 10.18 per cent, accord ing to figures released this morning by Commissioner A. J. Maxwell of the State Department of Revenue. Collections of general fund revenue, which is the revenue for all State pur poses, with the exception of highways and prisons, amounted to $2,330,956 in July, as compared with $2,195,908 in July, 1934, an increase of $135,048 which when reduced to percentage re presents an increase of 6.15 per cent. Highway fund collections, obtained (Continued on Paga Two ! Three Johnston Men Held For Conspiracy To Kill Raleigh. Aug. 1.- (AP)-Three members of a Johnston county fam ily were ordered held under bond of SIO,OOO each today on . a .^ conspiring to assault and a. ' eral alcohol tax inspector and a Wake county constable following a hearing before United States Commissioner c T'£r%: i** HENDERSON, N. C. THURSDAY AFTERNOON, AUGUST 1, 1935 Burst of Optimism Follows Telephone Conversation Os Laval With Mussolini ETHIOPIA STARTS MASS RECRUITING Military Review Is Held Aft er Emperor’s Advisors Tell Him It Is Likely Too Late To Prevent War; More Sol diers Leave For East Africa Geneva, Aug. 1. —(AP) —Q&rtam League of Nations circles predicted today, following a long distance tele phone conversation between Premier Laval of France and Premier Mus solini of Italy that a formula for the settlement of tTTe Italo-Ethiopian dis pute would be agreed upon within 24 hours. The impression grew that Ii Duce had proved somewhat conciliatory in his talks with Laval. This optimism was expressed de spite the fact that only a few hours earlier the Italian delegation to the special session of the League Coun cil. summoned to attempt a solution of the crisis, had declared the Anglo- French formula “entirely unaccept able.” The formula had been prepared overnight by Anthony Eden of Great Briatain and Premier Laval of France The test of the formula was com municated at once to Premier Mus solini in Italy. A spokesman for the Italian delegation told The Associat ed Press. 'The atmosphere among Italians-is. one of distinct pessimism.” ; \ A formal council session scheduled for late afternoon was cancelled an hour before it was to be called, and the cancellation was interpreted as meaning that more time was neces sary to negotiate the difficult situa tion with Premier Mussolini. MASS RECRUITING BEGUN FOR THE ETHIOPIAN ARMY Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, Aug. I. (AP) —Mass recruiting for the Ethlo (Rnntlnned on Paga Flv«» M’DONAIDII^ Says Ehringhaus-Gardner Regime Running State for Privileged Few Durham, Aug. I—(AP1 —(AP) —Dr. Ralph .McDonald. Forsyth county legislator, and potential 1936 gubernatorial can didate called for a “new deal” in North Carolina politics here today as he criticized Governor Ehringhaus, said the State’s tax system was “the most unbalanced in the nation,” and warmly defended the national New Deal of President Roosevelt. Speaking at a Kiwanis. luncheon meeting, McDonald said that “recent ly the State had been gripped in the control of the point of view which holds that the entire State, its peo ple, its wealth, its resources and even its government, should be used for i promoting the profits and wealth of a privileged few. This point of view in government has reached its climax in disregard for human rights under the Ehringhaus-Gardner Grahams Hoey machine brand of politics.” merchants and farmers of Johnston county, are charged with beating A. E. Bennett, Federal investigator, and Garland Jones, Wake officer. The warrant further charges the three men did -‘feloniously associate, com bine and conspire to assault and kill the officers.” A hearing has been set'for Saturday mornine' 108 Heat Deaths For Middle West (By The Associated Press-) Young August today inherited the simmering wayes of heat that beset July through its month of existence. A new recorded high for the year —lll degrees—blistered Philips burg, Kan., on the final day of July, and Topeka, Kans., saw the mercury) reach 106. Reported heat deaths in eleven middle western states reached 10n. Nebraska had 10, Oklahoma 18, Minnesota 13, and Texas 10. Deaths reported from other states Includ ed: Kansas 9, Illinois and Missouri eight each. Arkansas seven, with Kansas and lowa four. In contrast to the heat of the midwest, Port land. Oregon, had a cool top of 66 degrees. Still More Barriers In Port Plans Washington, Aug. 1 (AP) —Another barrier loimed today in the path of the propoipd $2,000,000 port develop ment at Morehead City. N. C. Army engineers notified the office of Senator 1 Bailey that either the Senate Coirtnerce Committee or the House Rivefc and Harbors Commit tee must adippt a resolution asking for a report o nthe project in order to circumvent the Supreme Court’s de cision in the Parker dam case. In the Parker decision the court held the army engineers must have specific authority 'fecm Congress be fore work can be started on a PWA project. Has Been Able to Save State Millions of Dollars by Its Control In the Sir Walter Hotel. Dally Dispatch Bnreaa, AY j. C. BASKERVILIi. Raleigh, Aug. I.—Just what is this Budget Bureau which Dr. Ralph W. McDonald has been talking about so much lately? Is it some kind of a monster with Ijprns and fangs, or is it a necessary branch of the State government? In its final analysis, the budget bu reau is the emergency brake on the •State governmental automobile. It is the duty of the budget bureau not only to examine all the requests of the various State departments and in stitutions before they are presented to the General Assembly, but also to su pervise the expenditure of all appro priations after they are made by the General Assembly and see that no more money is spent than is absolute ly necessary. In order to keep the closest possible check on expendi tures, each State department, office »nd institution is required to submit its requests for allotments each quar ter. These requests are gone over in detail by the budget bureau, which then allots what it thinks is necessary and no more, regardless of the re. quests or the amount appropriated. As a result of this system, known as budgetary control of appropria tions, the budget bureau until recent years was able to save from $1,00b,- 000 to $2,000,000 a year out of appro priations and turn this much back into the general fund at the end of each fiscal year. This in turn made it possible either to reduce taxes or unnecessary to increase them and saved the taxpayers of the State mil lions of dollars until the “depression hit and the State started showing deficits iftste\d of credit balances or surpluses. Here is the way the Budget Bureau operate in holding down expendi tures: A department has an appropriation of $200,000 a year from the legisla ture. The department head estimates how much money he needs for the first three months, which would be approximately $50,000 and submits an itemized request to the budget bu (Continued on Pago Two) Miu mr FOR NORTH CAROLINA. Partly cloudy tonight and Fri day; not much change in tempera- Lester Barlow H. C. Hopson ' Punishment of two summoned as witnesses is threatened by Senate investigating committees. Contempt proceedings were mentioned as possibility after testimony of Lester P. Barlow, Stamford, Conn., en gineer, before finance committee; and power lobby probes indicated they’d put F. B. I. men on trail of H. C. Hopson, vice president of Associated Gas & Electric Co.* unless he responded to summons. (Central Press) Urged Utilities Men To Start Whispering Story That F. D. R. Was Insane New Jersey Advertising Man Suggested It As Means Os Beating Holding Company Bill; Morgenthau Refuses To Be Specific About New Tax Measure Washington, Aug. I.—-(AP) E. P- Carmer, New Jerseyr advertising man, old Senate lobby investigators today that he had suggested utility com panies start a “whispering” campaign that President Roosevelt is insane. The suggestion, Carmer said, was made last March, and was part of a detailed program to defeat the New Deal. He said the whispering cam paign was not carried out. On the other side of the Capitol, the House lobby committee heard a Chicago utiltiies official testify he had paid a Washington lawyer SSOO to teach him his way around Wash ington so he could work against the utility holding company bill. In the midst of these developments, the President issued a statement ex pressing hope that the dispute be tween Italy and Ethiopia would be COITON RENTAL IN STATE $3,349,036 $4,500,000 In First Install ment; About That Much in Second College Station, Raieigh, Aug. I. Rental payments to North Carolina growers cooperating in the 1935 cot ton adjustment program have amount ed to $3,349,036.70 to date. Close to $4,500,000 will be paid out in the first installment of the 1935 rental payments, said J. F. Criswell, of State College. The second install ment will approximately equal the first. The payment distributed thus far are on 70,987 contracts covering 1,- 137,338 acres of cotton land, of which 384,628 have been withdrawn from the production of cotton. Around 98,000 contracts are in force this year, Criswell stated, or 30,000 more than last year. Since practically all of the old signers are still cooperat ing in the program, he added, the in crease represents growers who signed up this year for the first time. The bulk of the payments distri buted to date have gone to old sign ers, he added, but during the past two weeks a large number of the checks have been going to new signers. Nearly all of the old signers have received their checks, he added, but a few have been delayed by techni calities, such as minor errors and changes in ownership of the land af fected. , _ . .. By the end of this week, Criswell added, the State cotton office will have completed the work of checking ■and approving the new contracts (Co2t!nti-3d cv. Paco F.vc.) , 1503? In "Lobby” Spotlight PUBLISHED EVERY AFTBRNOO* ■XCHPT SUNDAY. adjusted. The House today moved toward de bate on the $270,000,000 tax bill. Meanwhile, Secretary Morgenthau de. dined to tell the Senate Finance Com mittee whether the measure disre gards the President’s recommenda tions. He agreed the Treasury would have to be satisfield with whatever bill Congress enacted. Prior to considering the tax mea sure, the House planned to vote or, the bus and truck regulations bill. The Senate continued debat on the copyright bill. Working rapidly toward agreement, House and Senate conferees on the AAA amendment bill tentatively agreed to accept Senate provisions for permitting suits for recovery of pro cessing taxes and for restoration of the export debenture program. RELIEF IS DELAYED Much of Money Provided for That Purpose Going to Departments By LESLIE EICHEL Central Press Staff Writer New York, Aug. I.—Relief works have not been going forward. But it is not for political reasons. It is for reasons of disorganization, and be wilderment as to direction, as well as disagreement of disbursal between Secretary Ickes and Administrator Hopkins. The administration seems to be in a serious situation over its entire re lief program. The President may have to seek the biggest executive that he can obtain and turn the whole mat. ter over to him —if it is not already too (ate. That is the opinion of some anxious Democrats outside of Washington. CHAOS Persons are being shoved off direct relief, supposedly to work relief of private work- There is little or no work relief, for the government has not got its jobs into hand. And private corporations are not employing additional men. With the exception of agriculture, this is not the time of year for any large reem ployment. Besides, capital remains hesitant. It is not certain what the trend in government is. In the meantime, the large centers at least, go toward autumn with thou sands of persons actually without de (GontLs'jed ca F3vo) 8 PAGES TODAY FIVE CENTS COPY PRICES FOR WEED ’ Warehouses Report Range At From Six To 33 Cents On First Sales of The Day HEAVY BREAKS ARE RULE DURING DAY Farmers Express Opinion Demand Is Stronger For Common Grades, With Market Off Slightly On Better Quality of Leaf; Figures Not Official Atlanta, Ga„ Aug. I.—(AP)—Bright leaf tobacco auctions began today in 15 cities 0 f South Georgia, with open ing prices reported by warehouses at from six to 33 cents a pound, and better. Under the rush of heavy first-day offerings and spirited bidding, exact figures and average prices were not available, but two warehousemen pre dicted the first day average would be around 20 cents a pound. For the 1934 season the average for the State was 18.75 cenfb. Some Houses Highter. Heavy receipts were announced from all cities making early reports on sales. At some warehouses opening prices were reported slightly above first day’s figures last year, and at others they were about the same. First sales on two of Valdosta’s four warehouses were reported at 22 and 25 cents a pound. The State Bureau of Markets here said advices from the Red Warehouse at Douglas indicated first day prices there would average about 20 cents. The same warehouse said opening sales ranged from six to 33 cents- The bureau said the Twin Brick Warehouse at Tifton i gave opening: prices at from six to 40 cents a pound with the warehouse estimating a 21- cent average for the day. The Hahira tobacco warehouse re ported its first sale of a 96-pound pile of the loose leaf at 28 cents. About Like Last Year. The Tifton Daily Gazette said: “The first half hour of selling on the Tifton market indicated tobacco prices were about the same as last year. Good tobaccos were selling from 20 t 0 30 cents, medium grades from 10 to 20 cents and low grades under ten cents. Very few piles were sold as high as 30 cents, and not many sales were under ten cents. “Farmers offering tobacco express ed the opinion that thed emand for common tobaccos seemed to be stronger, with the market off slightly on best grades. Opening offerings on the Tifton market were the heaviest ever recorded.” The first sale of the Kersey Smith warehouse at Moultrie was reported at 31 cents. The average for the first row was put at 29.08 cents, said the Moultrie Observer. Farmers Warehouse at Waycrosse reported its first sale of 110 pounds of inferior grade at 8 1-2 cents. Open ing sales on better grades were re ported by the warehouse as slightly above 20 cents. There were approxi mately 300,000 pounds on the floors of warehouses in Waycrosse. Hahira reported about 60,000 pounds on hand. Vidalia reported 250,00 b, Moultrie, 1,500,000; Caldosta about V 000,000 pounds; Douglas, 750,000. A (Continued on Page Five) 10 OIRVEIS OF PAROLE SET-UP New Board Not Going to Recommend Any Whole sale Clemency Moves Dfiiiy Dispatch Barean, In the Sir Walter Hotel. BY J. C EASKERVILL. Raleigh, Aug. I.—The main objec tive of the new parole system being set up under the 1935 law were ap proved by the new Advisory Parole Board which met here for the first time Wednesday in the office of Gov ernor J. C- B. Ehringhaus, who is ex officio chairman of the board. The two main objectives of the new sys. tern are: 1. To enable a larger number of de serving prisoners come under the (Continued cn 'PwO.a
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