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HENDERSON gateway TO CENTRAL CAROLINA TWENTY-SECOND YEAR GUFFEY COAL BILL SIGNEO BT ROOSEVELT BELGIANS SEE BODY OF THE DEAD QUEEN WHO DIED IN CRASH Long Lines of People Pass Bier of Astrid in Chapel of the Palace at Brussels FUNERAL SET FOR TUESDAY MORNING It Was Just 18 Months Ago That Belgians Filed Past Bier of King Albert, Also Killed Accidentally; Weep ing Crowds Line Streets as Body Arrives Brussels. Belgium. Aug. 30.—(AP) —Lons: lines of Belgians entered the royal palace in sorrow again today, paying their last homage to Queen Astrid. who was killed yesterday in an automobile accident in Switzer land. It was 18 months ago that these same folk came to view the mortal remains of King Albert, who also died bv accident. Funeral services are to be held next Tuesday, probably at 11 a. m The dead Queen Astrid came back to the capital to the muffled roll of drums and the sound of bugles play, in g "Aux Champs I ' —the call usually sounded at funerals. Banked with white flowers and lighted by six large candles, the sim ple coffin was placed in the palace chapel. The special train that bore the body from Switzerland, as it drew into the station at 8:40 a. m., found a city in deep mourning. Sorrowing crowds wept openly In the streets, and behind them doors were draped with blactr crepe, and shop windows were shuttered. A deathlike hush fell over the crowd outside the station as the queen’s body was lifted from the coach in which it made the overnight journey from Lucerne. Sobs from the bareheaded crowd broke the deep silence as attendants placed the casket in the motor hearse outside the draped station and step ped back to await the start of the drive to the palace. Council Is Undecided Onßuilding Raleigh, Aug. 30-—(AP) —The Coun cil of State, after a three-hour ses sion this morning, had not completed its study of applications presented by heads of charitable institutions with a view of ascertaining the necessity for proposed construction with State and Federal funds, and will resume study of the projects at 3:30 o'clock. Governor Ehringhaus announced after the meeting, which was execu. tive, that no decision had been reach continued on Page Five.) Pensions For Vgedßlocked By Congress Aid Halted In Many States by Failure of Appropriation At Fast Session ( By The Assocoiated Press ) Bland new old age pension plans ro. snarled in many states by Con failure to appropriate money f ° make the social security act ef fective. An Associated Press survey brought r '-ponses from 31 states and the Dis iiict of Columbia. Typical replies: We cannot start without Federal aid.’* We are ready to proceed, but need federal cooperation.” We can go ahead only on a cur i (Continued on Page Five.) __ HxnuVrsmt lUtthj iUspafrh ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA AND VIRGINIA. LHABBD WIRE SERVICE] OW THB associated PRESS. Woman General ■ I HI !H 'W'" "v ■ AVv Pjf lUg fail ililllf v T :Jr Si M . f :• As organizer of Ethiopia’s woman ■warrior movement, Voyzero Abebech (above) is prepared to lead wives and mothers to defense of country. Ethiopian women have fought against invaders in past. (Central Press) They Think Roosevelt More Interested In Himself Than In Them HARD ROAD IS AHEAD President Working ITp Another “Must” List of Legislation To Dump on Congress’ Door step Early in January By CHARLES F. STEWART Washington, Aug. 30.—Many Demo cratic congressmen go home this year very much out of sorts with Presi dent Roosevelt. Few of them dare to admit it alcAid, but there is a deal of muttering. What they suspect is that the White House does not intend to per mit the short, quiet congressional ses. sion next winter that they have been hoping for. Rumors have been current for some time that the executive mansion v/ill have another program of “must” leg islation to submit to the lawmakers when they reconvene in January. Re cent presidential letters to Chairman Harrison and Doughton, respectively of the Senate finance and represen tatives’ ways and means committees, asking for the drafting of measures (Continued on Page Eight.) Babson Says Now’s Time To Plan To Make Money Ten Business Indicators Point Unmistakably Upward; Inevitable American Boom Is On, With “Go” Sig nal Blazing; “Get Ready for Prosperity!” BY ROGER W. BABSON, Copyright 1935, Publishers Financial Bureau, Inc. Babson Park, Mass., Aug. 30. —La- bor Day is the real New Year for business. Vacations are finished, schools reopen, fall shopping gets un derway sales drives are launched, crops move to market, and this year new automobile models are being in troduced. People will now again get down to the everyday, business of making a living after the summer let down. In most lines an active fall sea son means the difference between red or black ink for the entire year. This is probably the reason why so many HENDERSON, N. C. FRIDAY AFTERNOON, AUGUST 30, 1935 Sea Drama . **. . .. : '> >•*< : • ** j’i * • .. # * •. a ’ *:£ ’ ; . v : ; : ' *> " ; : ** <w. ;> :• - s N.:-.:.;....: - - Passengers on New York-bound Rex were treated to unscheduled thrill when liner rescued five mem bers of crew of disabled yacht, La Dahama, of Philadelphia, far at sea. Note distress flag still flying from stricken craft. (Central Press) newsiateMce TAKE IHEffi OATHS Start Tomorrow for Assign ments In Various Parts Os the State PAGEANT~AiF RALEIGH P ith Shining New Uniforms, Motor cycles and Autos, Group Rides to State Capitol as Train ing School Ends Unlly P*«patch Bareaa, In S*- Wnlter Hotel. BV J. C. BASKERVILL. Raleigh. Aug 30.—The final review and parade of the enlarged State Highway Patrol was held here this afternoon as the tiVining school was dissolved at the State Fair grounds Tomorrow morning the 120 patrolmen and officers will be on their way to their new assignments and ready to start work Sunday morning. Following the final review at the patrol training school grounds, the entire patrol, consisting of 80 men on motor cycles and 40 patrolmen driving the new highway patrol roadsters, formed in line with Captain Charles D. Farmer at the head and proceeded from the fair grounds into Raleigh and to the State Capitol, where the oath of office was administered to the 66 new patrolmen in the hall of the House of Representatives. The parade of the patrolmen thro (Continued on Page Five.) HEAVY OFFERINGS ON TOBACCO MARTS Raleigh, Aug. 30.—(AP)— The last day of the sales week found heavier offerings today on the to bacco markets of the New Bright Belt. Rains yesterday and the day before kept receipts at a mini mum, but prices remained firm with some markets reporting bet ter prices for interior grades. have asked me to give a special sum mo ly of general business at this time. Ten Indicators Point Upward. First, get the background straight as to what business has been doing so far this year. Last February the Babsonchart stood at 84. That was the high point for 1935. (Peak to date for the recovery was July, 1933, at 90.) From February until July activity gradually declined to 80. Just when business should have been in the worst slump of the year, it suddenly turned about in the late July and started moving vigorously upward (Continued on Page Five.) Death Claims First Victim >4s Long Air Race Is Begun CECIL ALLEN DIES WHEN PLANE LALLS Eight Other Fliers Soar Away from Burbank, Cal., for Cleveland Ignor ant of Crash EARHART AND TURNER ENTERED IN FLIGHT Woman Aviatrix Says, How ever, She Is Not Competing for $12,500 Beindix Trophy; Some Planes May Continue On to New York and Set Continent Record (By The Associated Press) Seven racing fliers were in the air in the annual Bendix trophy race from Burbank to Cleveland today, one had been killed and another forced down. Cecil Allen was killed a mile from Burbank airport, when his tricky ship failed to gain altitude and struck a power line. Amelia Earhart, Colonel Ros coe Turner and Earl Ortman were reported past Albequerque, and Royal Leonard has been sighted over Winslow, Arizona. The other entrants, Russell Thaw and Roy O. Hunt, were un reported. BENNIE HOWARD WINS BY MAKING CLEVELAND FIRST Cleveland, Ohio, Aug. 30 lßennie Howard, competing in the Bendix trophy race, landed at the municipal airport here at 1:40 p. m., eastern standard time today. He was the first of the contestants to reach Cleveland. Howard said he would not go on to New York in an effort to (Continued on Page Two.) Goldsboro Blacks Urged To Provide Ethiopian Plane Now York, Aug. 30 (AP) —Tovfc ering Sussi Abdul Hamid, whose followers call him the “black Hit ler of Harlem,” was sentenced to ten days in the work house here on .January 19, for preaching ath eism without a license. When he appeared in magis trate’s court, he said he was a Mohammedan. The beturbaned six footer laun ched a campaign among Golds boro, N. C., Negroes for funds to be used to buy a plane for a Ne gro flier in Ethiopia’s service. EXPECTRECAPTURE ESCAPED KILLERS Net Is Spread in Hunt For Dwight Beard and Clar ence Peterson Dali)' nwpntoli Bareaa, In the Sir Wnlter Hotel. BY J. C. BASKERVIIiL. Raleigh, Aug. 30.—Capture of the two killers who escaped from the Central Prison here Tuesday is ex. pected any day by Chairman Capus M. Waynick, of the State Highway and Public Works Commission, al though s 0 far no definite trace of them has been obtained, he said to day. Complete descriptions of the two convicts, Dwight Beard and Clarence Peterson, have already been sent to every police department in the coun try, as well as their fingerprints, over the private wires of the U. S- Depart ment of Justice and all of the “G- Men” of the U. S. Bureau of Inves tigation, as well as all police depart ments, are now actually searching for them, Waynick said. “The only chance these two escaped (Continued on Page Two.) WEATHER FOR NORTH CAROLINA. Partly cloudy tonight, Saturday fair; not much change in temper ature. _____ u 1 » Lindbergh Baby AHve? PBCTMWipF .gUtfiTx x .yfe. ■. •. B I BMWMM Child now 6 years and 6 months old (right) adopted from orphanage b> Long Island family is declared to be Charles A. Lindbergh, Jr. (shown left, before kidnaping) by. Lloyd Fisher, attorney for Bruno Hauptmann, who bases demand for new trial on theory body found at Sourland Mountain was never positively identified. * * (Central Press) * Laval Shapes Policy Os France In African Spat French Premier, With Free Hand, Studies Whether To Side With Italy or Britain REAL WAR GAME IS PLAYED BY ITALY Actual Artillery Shells Used In Barrage Thrown Over Heads of Soldiers in Man euvers in North So As To Accustom Them To Sound of the Shells With the Italian Army, Bolzano, Italy, Aug. (AP)—Make-be lieve was abandoned in the war maneuvers on the Austrian fron tier today as the Italian artillery and machine guns poured shells and bullets over the heads of thousands of advancing infantry. (By The Associated Press.) Premier Laval of France, “with a free hand” authorized by his cabinet went to the quiet of the country to make up his mind as to whether France should support Italy or Great Britain in their opposing stands on the Ethiopian question. S The League of Nations Council will meet next week on the subject. Italy wants the other nations to keep their hands off. Grealt Britain wants a (Continued on Page Two.) iextleHrs ARE RESPONSIBLE Blamed for Own Plight By Their Head, Who Says They Should Act Durham, Aug. 30 (AP)—The negli gence of textile workers who char acterized here this morning by Thomas McMahon, president of the United Textile Workers of America as the reason for the industry oc cupying the lowest rung of the lad der as far as wage and working hours are concerned.” Speaking before the several hun dred delegates and visitors to the 29th annual convention of the North Carolina Federation of Labor, Mr. McMahon, in a forceful address, de clared that “when the enthusiasm of the textile workers is regained, fear will drown out, and we will be better able to secure the benefits entitled to us.” . Featured on this morning s program of the convention, Mr. McMahon, who arrived here from Washington, D. C., predicted that the day is not far off when the .textile workers of the country will recognize their plight and “rise up in their arms for the welfare of all.” FUBUSHBD BJVBJRY AFTHKNOOB HXCHPT SUNDAY No Paralysis For Day Is Reported Raleigh, Aug. 30.—(AP) —The second break in the typhoid fever epidemic and the sixth in the spread of poliomyelitis were re ported to the State Board of Health today ais no new cases of either disease were reported to au thorities. The only other day this month that no sufferers were called to the attention of the board of health was the 13th. There have been six days, including today, that no new cases of infantile paralysis have been reported. Ehringhaus Silent On Legislature Dally JLMnpatek tlarena, In the Sir Waiter Hotel, BY J. C. BASKEHVILL. Raleigh, Aug. 30.—Governor J. C. B. Ehringhaus continues to keep sil ent about whether or not he is con sidering calling a special session of the General Assembly, although he is still talkative about the vacation trip from which he has just returned. He changes the subject whenever any question is asked about a special ses sion and starts talking about the Dionne quintuplets, Dr. Dafoe or some incident connected with his va cation trip- But those close to him are convinced he is not considering calling a special session of the Gen eral Assmbly, and that he is really grateful to Senator Huey P. Long, of Louisiana, for killing the deficiency appropriations bill in Congress which contained the appropriation of $75,- )00,000 for old age pensions. If this bill had passed, the governor might have been compelled to call a special session so North Carolina could par ticipate. But now the Federal govern, ment must wait until Congress meets again in January before it can do anything about old age pensions. Accordingly, it is believed that there will be no chance for a special session of the North Carolina Gen (Continued on Page Two.) MISSOURI HANGS 2 HOLD-UP SLAYERS New Maldrid, Aug. 34(- — (AP) —Eddie Gay and Roy Hamil ton, county hold-up slayers, died on the gallows at dawn today in southeast Missouri's first double hanging in 30 years. The two were executed for kill ing Arthur Cashion, filling station attendant, in an attempted rob bery on Christmas Eve 1933. 8 PAGES TODAY FIVE CENTS COPY FIXES LITTLE NRA FOR COAL INDUSTRY IN UNITED STATES Will Afford Further Test For Government’s Power To Regulate Na tion’s Business SIGNATURE PLACED ON LIQUOR MEASURE Sets Up New Board To Con trol That Industry; Presi dent Is Wading Slowly Through Stack of Bills In. Hope of Finishing and Leaving by Saturday Night Washington, Aug. 30( —'(AP) —Ma- terial for a new test for the govern ment’s power to regulate industry was placed on the statute hooks to. day when President Roosevelt signed the Guffey bill setting up a “little NRA” for the soft coal industry. The law is designed to allow soft coal producers to fixe prices under Federal supervision. Proponents con tend this will assure the industry suf ficient income to pay higher wages. President Roosevelt today signed the hill establishing a new alcohol control agency to replace the one crippled by the Supreme Court’s NRA decision. President Roosevelt concentrated today on a stack of bills he must sign or veto to clear his desk. He chose to sign the Guffey bitu minous coal stabilization bill first and then to act on other measures he has been studying since Congress adjourn ed He also planned last-minute con ferences with his aides on domestic and foreign problems. iMr. Roosevelt hopes to leave Saturday night for his home in Hyde Park, N. Y. Among other measures still before him is the liquor control bill, setting 1 up a new commission to supervise the liquor agency. Government statistics showed today that there were now 200,000 fewer per sons at work on relief jobs than A month ago. Politics continued to be a lively sub (Continued on Page Two.) Knox-Borah Battle Notv Seems Sure ’ Washington, Aug. 30.—(AP) —Seek, ing to discern the dim and uncertain outlines of 1936, some Republican leaders figured today that there might be a memorable contest be tween Colonel Frank Knox, Chicago publisher, and 'Senator Borah, of Idaho, for the party’s presidential! nomination. They agreed that it is too soon to make a definite prediction; that much can happen to change the pic ture again and again before decisive events occur. Nevertheless, while leaders are (Continued on Page Five.) 200,000 Are Taken From Relief Rolls WP A Program Is Speeding Up and 3,- 500,000 Expected at Work by November, Washington, Aug. 80. —(AP3 —Gov- ernment statistics showed today that there are now 200,000 fewer people at work on relief jobs than there were six months ago. High relief authorities, while de claring that this figure was correct, added that the new works-relief pro. gram is speeding up, and that Harry L. Hopkins will attain his goal—which is to have 3,500,000 persons at work in November. , They said Hopkins had been weed ing out many work projects conduct ed under the old relief set-up aim ing to substitute “more desirable ’ work made possible by larger eunu for materials and mre careful plan ning. During the transition period the number of jobs has decreased.
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