HENDERSON
GATEWAY TO
CENTRAL
CAROLINA
TWENTY-SECOND YEAR
New Tobacco Program Offered
SANCTIONS LOOM AS
NECESSITY TO HALT
MUSSOLINI’S PLANS
Premier Laval Virtually Has
Abandoned Hope of Be
ing Able To Pre
vent Warfare
LEAGUE GROUP IS
ALSO DISCOURAGED
British and Italian Cabinets
Hold Formal Meetings,
Manifestly Worried Over
Seriousness of Situation;
Committee Reports And
Ceases To Exist
(By the Associated Press.)
Discouragement at attempts to
solve the Italo-Ethiopian crisis were
expressed in two important quarters
today.
French officials in Paris said Pre
mier Laval was convinced his person
al efforts to avert war were useless,
and that the League of Nations pro
bably would have 10 move ahead with
sanctions against the agressor na.
tion.
The League committee charged with
attempting to solve the crisis also was
regarded as having failed in its peace
efforts.
The cabinet of both Great Britain
and Italy, worried by the interna
tional situation created by the latter
nation's dispute with Ethiopia, met in
formal deliberations today.
In Geneva the “big five’’ committee,
acknowledging defeat in its efforts to
find a basis for a solution of the
crisis, turned in its report to the Lea
gue of Nations.
This report, which draws no con
clusions, but merely recites the his
torical facts of the case, will be taken
up by the League Council.
There were indications that the
Council in turn rflight turn the whole
matter over to the Assembly.
With the submission of the report,
the committee, composed of represen
tatives of Spain* Great Britain,
France, Poland and /turkey, ceases to
exist. *
From Rome came reports that the
relations between Italy and Great Bri
tain seemed definitely improved at
the request for a conferenc between
Premier Mussolini and Sir Eric Drum
mond, the British ambassador to
Rome.
Italian newspapers said a one-day
mobilization of 10,000,000 Fascists was
imminent.
In Ethoipia warriors were reported
marching toward the border as a pre
cautionary measure against a surprise
attack by Italian forces.
9 Fugitives
Are Sought
In 4 States
Western Carolina
Desperado And
Woodville Convicts
Included in Number
(By The Associated Press.)
The bandit-killers, a mountain des
perado and six fugitive convicts were
sought by officers today in four
southern states.
In Virginia, where suspected bank
robbers killed a State policeman, an
organized search was under way or
two men, while officers held one man
reported by State troopers to have
confessed shooting the officer. A
young military academy student was
accidentally killed in the hunt.
Mississippi authorities joined in a
hunt for two Louisiana convicts who
kidnaped and later released a Tunrca,
La., family of four in their flight for
freedom. . ,
Four long-term Negro convicts who
escaped from the State Prison camp,
Woodville, N. C., were believed to be
surrounded by officers in a swamp
near Hertford. The Negroes fled after
knocking a guard unconscious and
taking a shotgun and pistol.
Stach for Ray Bailey, wanted in
South Carolina on a charge of
a policeman three years ago, -
ed into north Georgia near Clayton
after officers reported he had fled
into that section.
He was believed to have been
'wounded. _ ■ -
ITrniU'rsmt Hath; Bisrmtrh
ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA AND VIRGINIA.
SB3RTICB OF
THE) ASBOCIATHD PMM.
Large Gain Shown
In Creating Jobs
Washington, Sept. ?4 (AP)—A
definite trend toward business nor
malcy was seen today by Secre
tary Perkins in reporting an in
crease of 180,000 workers on the
payrolls of manufacturing indus
tries in August as compared with
July.
Although the increase was some,
what offset by an employment de
cline of 25,000 persons in non-man
ufacturing industries, Secretary
Perkins described the net gain as
“substantial progress” back to
normal.
Hopes Held
For Ending
Coal Strike
Negotiations Con
tinue and No Dis
orders Are Report
ed in Mine Areas
Washington, Sept. 24.—(AP) —New
efforts to settle the soft coal strike
were started today with Edward F.
McGrady, assistant secretary of la
bor, hopeful that the miners and op
erators would agree speedily upon a
new wage contract.
The negotiating committee was call
ed to meet again to discuss once more
the minebs’ demand that the pay for
digging a ton of coal be increased
nine cents. McGrady described the
conferences as “very friendly.”
No disorders was reported in the
soft coal fields as the United Mine
Workers, estimated by union officials
to number 400,000, responded to the
general strike call summoning their
members from the pits. The strike
call was effective Sunday at midnight
Yesterday news dispatches report
ed that generally only mine main
tenance crews were at work.
The miners’ union said that 250,-
000 were idle in the big producing
states of Pennsylvania and West Vir
ginia. It also said 30,000 struck in
Ohio, 25,000 in Illinois and thousands
of others in the mid-west and far
west as well as the south.
McGrady told reporters after a
meeting of the negotiating commit
tee last night that “we hope to get a
settlement in time to get to the prize
fight in New York” tonight. He ad
ded:
“As long as they agree to sit down
at a table and talk to each other,
there’s hope.”
ELECTRIFICATION
SURVEYS CONTINDE
TVA May Help in Work in
Counties That Have
Done Nothing
Dallr biapatrfe Bare**,
In (ke Sir WnMw nutel.
BY J C. CASKRRVILL.
Raleigh, Sept. 24.—Surveys to deter
mine the need for rural electrifica
tion in the 12 counties in which sur.
veys have not been made will he con
ducted by the North Carolina Rural
Electrification Authority, regardless
of whether the Tennessee Valley Au
thority, with headquarters in Knox
ville Tenn., will find it possible to
help’in making these surveys, Chair
man Dudley Bagley, of the State Au
thority, said today. Chairman Bagley
spent a day last week in Knoxville
conferring with TVA officials and an
other day Tn Western North Carolina,
looking into the rural electrification
needs in a number of western coun-
TVA officials with whom we
conferred were very much interested
in what we are trying to do in North
Carolina and are going to cooperate
with us all they can,” Chairman Bag
ley said. “TRey were not certain,
however, whether they could assist us
in making these surveys in some of
(Continued on Page Three.}
HENDERSON, N. C. TUESDAY AFTERNOON, SEPTEMBER 24, 1935
Van Sweringen Railroad Empire Which Goes on Auction Block
Control of the $3,000,000,000 systems of railroads, Industrial enterprises
and real estate projects that comprise the holdings of the Van Sweringen
brothers of Cleveland will probably pass to others next week at a New
York public auction of Van Sweringen securities pledged with J. P, Mor-
BAILEY REPORTED
ANXIOUS 10 DBOP
SHUPING FROM JOB
Greensboro Man’s Continuec
Criticism of New Deal
May Embarrass Senior
Senator
STATE DEMOCRATS
FAVOR ROOSEVELT
Bailey Himself Came Peril
ously Near Brink of Poli
tical Disaster by Opposing
President Until He “Got
Right” Year Ago; Farley
Checking Shuping
Or.My !i<«pnti>t Bureau,
In rhe S|r Waller Hotel.
BY J. C EASKKRVILL.
Raleigh, Sept. 24—Can it be that
C. Leßoy Shuping, erstwhile “Mir
acle man” of North Carolina politics,
credited with having done miore to
elect Josiah William Bailey to the
United States Senate than any other
one man—though now it is generally
agreed that anti-Simmons sentiment
elected him —is now causing embar
rassment to the Senior senator and
his supporters? It is a fact that the
Baileyites are now fearing that Shu
ping, even though now one of the
State’s two national committeemen,
may prove more of a drawback than
a help to the forthcoming primary?
Yet these are the reports that are
gaining in circulation here, along
with a definite move to try to force
Shuping out as National committee
man and to replace him with some
one more in sympathy with Presi
dent Roosevelt and the present ad
ministration in Washington.
It is no secret that Shuping is now
(Continued on Page Five.)
Grand Jury
May Ferret
Hoey Death
Members of Coron
er’s Jury Are Get
ting Drunk, District
Attorney Declares
West Chester, Pa., Sept. 24.—(AP) —
William E. Parke, Chester county dis.
trict attorney, indicated today he is
considering a request to the county
court for a grand jury investigation
of the death of Evelyn Hoey and or
the unusual turn events have taken
since a coroner’s jury inquest of the
shooting got under way.
“I’m not satisfied with the stuff
that’s going on around here, getting
tTTe jury drunk, etc.,” said Parke. He
denied shortly before scheduled re
(Continued on Page Five,} _
100,000 Veterans In Parade
At American Legion Meeting
St. Louis, Mo* Sept. 24.—(AP)—
In colorful peace-time demonstrations
100,000 veterans of the World War
marched here today in the annual
American Legion parade.
Hundreds of thousands of specta
tors lined the two-mile route of the
march. More than 125 musical organ
izations, including 100 drum and
bugle corps, and many crack drill
teams, excited wave after wave of ap
plause.
Survivors
Beached As
Boat Sinks
Battered Lifeboat
Reaches Novaj Sco
tia Shore After Galt
Swamps Ship
Judique, Nova Scotia, Sept. 24. —
(AP) —A battered lifeboat bearing six
living and one dead man reached this
Cape Breton village today to disclose
the sinking of the motor vessel “Hut.
ry On” and the deaths of six seamen.
The ,‘Hurry On” went down last
night in a gale which struck her off
Henry Island, 23 miles west of here.
She carried 13 men. Six of the sur
vivors made land in the lifeboat. One
man floated in alone to be found,
barely alive, on the beach.
Os the six men in the boat only one
was conscious. The one man man
aged to crawl on his hands and knees
to a nearby house after the waves
had tossed the boat on the beach.
■IMA
England Fighting for Her
self, but Plays Role of
Ethiopia Defender
By LESLIE EICHEL
New York, Sept. 24.—1 s the United
States being flooded with British pro
paganda, much as it was prior to
American entry into the World War?
A sudden realization of the situa.
tion is dawning on a few students of
affairs.
The British government—dominat
ed by Tories (reactionary politicians)
—has recently moved the greatest
war fleet in the world’s history to the
Mediterranean. Not even the British
public has been informed of this
move.
British newspapers have co-operat
ed with the British admiralty in sup
pressing the news.
American news associations and
American newspapers however, have
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Igan & Co. for an unpaid loan of $50,000,000. It will be the biggest sal*
of its kind in American fiscal history. The map shows the railroad sys
tems controlled by the Van Sweringens and the Union Terminal in Cleve
land built bv them and headauarters of their “emDire.”
(Central Press l
It was perfect Missouri early fall
weather, a few white clouds flecking
a deep blue sky.
Most of the marchers retained a
semblance of military order, but snap
and precision was not expected and
was not apparent on the part of the
blue-capped legions.
Infantry from Jefferson Barracks;
St. Louis, and St. Louis National
Guardsmen reinforced the entire St.
Negro Plainly
Identified By
Forsyth Child
1 'Winston-Salem,, Sept. 24 (AP) —•
Willie Taylor, 25-year-old Negro, to
day was positively identified by 14-
year-old Audrey Farmer, as the man
who attempted to criminally assault
her early Monday morning in her
home near the city.
Meantime, sheriff’s officers contin_
ued an investigation of an alleged as
sault on Miss Edna Dodson at Og
burn station the same morning.
State Cotton
Yields Valued
At 57 Million
College Station, Raleigh, Sept. 24.
North Carolina’s cotton crop in 1934
brought the growers $30,070,900 more
than in 1932, according to Dean I. O.
Schaub, of State College.
Lint and seed of the 1932 crop, pro
duced before the adjustment program
was instituted, sold for a total of only
$27,048,000, the dean said.
Last year the lint and seed sold for
$51,614,000. Benefit payments of $5,.
504,927 to growers who had signed ad
justment contracts brought the total
cash income that year to $57,118,927.
The 1933 crop of cotton was sold
for $40,918,000. Benefit payments a
mounted to $5,470,544. The growers
received a total of $46,388,544.
From these figures, the dean' point
ed out that the first year of the ad
justment program, the income of the
growers increased $19,340,500 over the
preceding year.
In 1934, the second year of the pro
gram, the total cash income from cot
ton in this State increased $10,730,-
000 hiore.
Furthermore, Dean Schaub stated,
the net income of the growers, in
many instances, increased more than
these figures indicate, for the smal
ler acreage required less expenditures
for labor and for fertilizer.
And much of the land withdrawn
from cotton production has been
planted to food and feed crops for
home consumption. This also has tend
ed to reduce farm operation expen
ditures.
FUBLIMHHD BVBRY AFTBRNOOM
JBXCHPT MONDAY.
Louis police department in keeping
order.
Regular business of the convention
which began yesterday and will re
sume tomorrow, was waived in favor
of the six.hour parade.
Small groups knotted in committee
rooms, however, plotted the business
for tomorrow, the day that will see
the Legion’s ambitious 1935-36 pro
gram geared around a demand for a
cash bonus set in motion.
DROPPING NEW DEAL
AGETiCIESJARD JOB
Choking These Thousands
Off Public Payroll Will
Be Tough Task
By CHARLES P. STEWART
Washington, Sepi. 24.—The scrap
ping of the government’s recovery
and relief agencies, when the time
comes, promises to be about the most
difficult task which ever has confront
ed any administration.
An attempt is being made now to
cut down the staff of just one of these
agencies—NßA.
The uproar that even these com.
paratively few dismissals are creating
is terrific. What it will be like when
a general liquidation is undertaken is
a fearsome thing to think of.
MYSTERY BOUNCER
WJhoever is trying to reduce the
NRA personnel’s proportions evident
ly was terribly afraid of the job!
when he began it.
NRA’s workers all have political
pulls of more, or less potency, or they
wouldn’t have received their appoint
ments to begin with. Fired, their first
thought is to appeal to their various
representatvies, senators or local
chairmen to get them reinstated. Such
politicians howl frightfully at the sa
crifice of their constitutents.
But they don’t know to whom to
howl. The source of the dismissals is
a mystery. Obviously that was the in
tention.
DIVISION HEADS MYSTIFIED
The head of one of NRA’s divisions
thus described the procedure to me.
“Twelve of my assistants recently
were dropped from the payroll. They
came hurrying to me. I hadn’t even
known that they were slated for dis
missal. They were dropped by order
of the administrator. They hastened
to the administrator. He swore that
he wasn’t the author of the dismissals
the orders must have come from else
continued on Page Five.)
OUR WEATHER MAN
FOB
Fair tonight and Wednesday;
slightly warmer Wednesday in
the interior of north portion.
O PAGES
o TODAY
FIVE CENTS COPY
'questiiSuring
WASHINGTON MEET
Clarence Poe Wires Hutson
Proposals for Conference
With Tar Heels
Wednesday
TAKING OF EXCESS
OFF MARKETS ONE
Declaration for 1936 Reduce
tion Is Another, While De
termination of Parity Is In
cluded; Delegations Go To
Capital Tonighti For Con
ferences
Raleigh, Sept. 24.—(AP)—Represen
tatives of North Carolina tobacco
growers, headed by Governor Ehring
haus, Senator J. W. Bailey and Dr.
Clarence Poe, agricultural editor here
will leave tonight for Washington to
confer tomorrow with AAA officials
as to possible procedure to bring
about better tobacco prices.
Governor Ehringhaus said he had
been assured of cooperation In any
"reasonable” program by the gover
nor of South Carolina and Virginia,
but said no tobacco holiday was con
templated unless it met with the ap.
proval of AAA officials and held out
some definite hope of helping the sit
uation.
Dr. Poe today telegraphed J. B.
Hutson, tobacco administrator of the
AAA, suggesting six “definite ques
tions” for discussion at tomorrow’s
conference.
Dr. Poe said he did so to make ‘ : a
real conference for concise discussion
of practical issues,” eliminating ex
traneous subjects and all unnecessary
oratory.”
Briefly the subjects he proposed
were:
1. Cannot, the government retire
from the market at least the differ
ence betwen the tobacco crop of 715,-
000,000 the AAA contemplated and the
production of 743,000,000 pounds now:
indicated?
2. Can the farmer expect coopera
tion of buyers when the AAA adopts
policies designed to balance produc
tion with demand?
3. Does the situation now call for a
specific declaration for such a reduc
tion in acreage and production as will
be calculated to provide a crop not
in excess of the estimated annual con
sumption of 650,000,000 pounds?
4. Are there not important factors
which justly need to be given greater
weight in order really to reflect ac.
tual expenses involved in producing
flue-cured tobacco?
5. Would it not be practical and
sounder to calculate and announce a
parity for tobacco as of planting time,
1936, and annually thereafter?
6. Would it be wise to establish a
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Baer-Louis
Bout Nearly
Called Off
Max Walks Out Os
Conference Declar
ing It’s All Off, bat
Gains Concessions
New York, Sept. 24 (AP) —Mak'ng
concessions to avoid any prolon ’dd
hitch in preparation for tonight’s l lil
lion dollar heavyweight battle, .h«
managers of Joe Louis agreed to hat
use of specially made gloves afte • a
bitter argument marked by a < ra
matic threat by Max Baer to oall off
the fight.
Baer scored two important po'atM
during a stormy session in the do rn
town. office of the State Athletic C< m.
mission which followed the weigh .ng
in.
During the height of the dead! >ck
ovefr what kind of gloves were tc bo
used, the former heavyweight ch m
pion walked abruptly out of the m vet
ing, shouting:
“The sight’s off.”
But his manager, Ancil Hoffn an,
remained to get the concessions 1 lati
Max wanted.
John Roxborough and Julian Bb ck*
the < co-managers of Louis, not < nly
agreed to adopt the special type of
gloves desired by Baer but conce led
the use of additional bandages ind
tape on the hands, thus, in efl iot,
yielding to Max’s desire for all ; >os«
Isible protection to his previously d im«
aged wrist.