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HENDERSON GATEWAY TO CENTRAL CAROLINA twenty-third year ETHIOPIAN EMPEROR FLEES CAPITAL CITY Karpis Rushed By Plane To St. Paul ir* • T • f ror Coming Inal Accompanied by Eight G- Men on Night Hop From New Orleans, Scene of His Capture TAKEN TO SCENE OF MAJOR tKIDNAPINGS Did One SIOO,OOO Snatching Job There and One Later for $200,000, Involving Banker and Brewer; J. Ed gar Hoover Personally Supervises Capture St. Paul, Minn., May 2 (AP) —Alvin Karpis, the nation’s Public Enemy No. 1, who was captured last night in New Or leans, arrived at the municipal airport here at 8:50 a. m., cen tral standard time, today and a few minutes later was whisked away by Federal agents to the Department of Justice head quarters in the Federal Build ing. The plane which brought Karpis here from the Louisiana city carried eight Federal agents besides the long pought leader of the gang who kid naped William A. Hamm, Jr., St. Paul brewer, for SIOO,OOO ransom June 15, 1033, and then abducted Edward G. Bremer, St. Paul banker, for $200,000 six months later. Chained to Seat At the Kansas City airport an at tendant said Karpis was chained to his seat and was not permitted to leave the plane during a stop there. Twenty St. Paul Federal Agents awaited the arrival of Karpis and his guards at the St. Paul airport since 3 a. m. It was presumed Karpis would be taken to the Ramsey county jail in St. Paul, where six others with whom he was indicted only ten days ago for the Hamm kidnaping are being held. Hoover In Charge J. Edgar Hoover, head of the De (Continued on Page Eight. Zioncheck Nabbed In Brunswick Shallotte. May 2.—(AP)—Represen tative Marion Zioncheck, whose fast (hiving twice has brought him under charges, ran afoul of the law again to day, but was allowed to continue his honeymoon trip after being detained ' everal hours. Sheriff J. A. Russ, of Brunswick county, overhauled the Washington congressman’s long roadster two and a half miles south of here on U. S. highway No. 17 this morning. He said f hc car was making 70 miles an hour. Zioncheck and his bride of four days a former PWA stenographer, were brought back here and detained at 'he sheriff’s office while he communi cated with Alexandria, Va., officers. Zioncheck failed to appear at Alex andria yesterday to answer charges of reckless driving and disorderly con duct and a capias was issued for him. Advised that Alexandria did not '■'re to have Zioncheck returned there Sheriff Russ permitted him to con tinue on his way. State Bonds Dropping As McDonald Strength Grows t ears That, if Elected Governor, He Will Put Budget Far Out of Balance Cause of Selling by Holders of State Securities; Ma ny Sources Unloading Bnlly Dispatch Bnrenii, In The Sir Walter Hotel, .1. (!. IIASKKRVILI. Raleigh, May 2.—State bonds are already beginning to drop in price as banks and insurance companies, as well as some individuals, are begin ning to sell due to the progress which f>r. Ralph W. McDonald is making in his campaign for the Democratic no mination for governor, it was learned from several different sources here today. Some are selling now in order to make a profit, convinced that they can buy the bonds back at a very low figure if Dr. McDonald should be Hintftrrsmt Batin Btapairfi ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA AND VIRtHNIA SHORT WORK WEEK 10 SWELL RELIEF, COTTONMEN HEAR Lower Weekly Eailnings Would Lessen Induce ments tor Employ ment in Private Work REPORT IS MADE TO PINEHURST MEETING Welding of Industrial and Agricultural Interests Held Up as Means of Improving Southern Textile Industry Pinehurst, May 2 (AP)—The American Cotton Manufacturers Association expressed opposition today to the Ellenbogen bill to reg ulate the textile industry now pending before Congress. It recorded itself as favoring voluntary continuation of the for mer NRA code hours and wages. Resolutions embodying both senti ments were adopted unanimously. Pinehurst, May 2: —(AP) —‘A report of the National Industrial Conference Board, submitted to the American Cotton Manufacturers Association to day, asserted a reduction in industry’s work week would tend to swell relief rolls. Reducing the hours of work, the re port said, would probably result in lower weekly earnings, which in turn would lessen the Inducements to ac cept employment in private industry. “The seemingly greater security of relief, and the payment of relief wages at prevailing rates have tended to offset whatever advantage private employment may offer in the way of higher weekly or monthly wages,” the report said. Remedy Discussed. An answer to the question, “How can the southern textile industry im prove its condition ” was found by three speakers, one of them a farmer, in the welding of industrial and agri cultural interests. Donald Comer, of Birmingham, Ala., the association’s first vice-president, (Continued on Page Eight. FARMERS CALL FOR THEIR LOAN COTTON Release of 389,123 Bales Held By Commodity Corporation Is Requested by Owners Washington, May 2 (AP) —The Commodity Credit Corporation said today that farmers have applied for release of 389,123 bales of a total of 4,500,000 bales of cotton held under government loans since 1934. The corporation recently announc ed a plan to permit sale of 1,000,000 bales of the loan cotton. Farmers with cotton under loans are permit ted to withdraw it at a price a quart er of a cent a pound less than the average price of cotton on the date preceding the request. Farmers may not sell the loan cotton for. less than 11.25 cents a pound. The AAA said that on May 1, the 1933 Cotton Producers Pool was hold ing 618,000 bales in futures contracts and 212,882 bales of spot cotton. nominated and elected governor. Oth ers are selling because they are fear ful that Dr. McDonald, if elected, would fail to keep the State’s budget in balance and hence might force the State into default on its bonds. So in order to play safe, they are selling their bonds while they are still above par. “A banker friend of mine called me into his office several days ago and asked whether or not I thought his bank should sell their holdings of (Continued on Page Three.) LEASED WIRE SERVICE OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS. HENDERSON, N. C., SATURDAY AFTERNOO N, MAY 2, 1936 FIRST OF MAY AND LARGE FREIGHTERS ARE ICE-BOUND IN LAKE ERIE! . § View of freighters locked in ice field in Lake Erie off Buffalo It’s the first day of May and the Buffalo end of Lake Erie is so full of ice that 22 freighters are ice-bound, unable to reach port! Part of the 40-mile ice field and some of the freighters are pictured in Cotton Crop Os 1936 Gets Good Start Heavy Rain in Tex as Changes Com plexion of Outlook; Prices Also Drop New Orleans, La., May 2. —(AP) — With rains banishing fears that Texas would be left at the post, this year’s cotton crop appeared co be off to a good start. While it was agreed that anything could happen before the eleven cotton states come down the home stretch in August, heavy precipitation in Texas seemed definitely to have broken a widespread drought that threatened for a time to cut deeply into the State’s yield. Prices, quick to respond to any po tentional increase in the crop, dropped back nearly $2 a bale during the early part of this week, although a surprise reversal of trend restored some 50 cents of this loss yesterday. Crop experts pointed out that an other favorable development was the excessive cold weather of the past winter. Disastrous in some areas in the cotton states, the low tempera tures wrought havoc with the boll weevil and other pests. Too early for any definite estimates on acreage, the trade is accepting the administration’s prediction of a ten to 15 percent increase over last year. As the second week of selling loaned cotton drew to a close, there was no indication of a let-up in world demand As fast as the cotton could be passed through the official channels it was being sanpped up both here and abroad. G. 0. P. LJUGHM Committee’s Experts Doing Good Job But Real Punch Is Lacking By CHARLES P. STEWART (Central Press Staff Writer) Washington, May 2 —The Republi can high command is being laughed at by Democrats and bitterly blamed by many Republicans for having cre ated a “brain trust” of the G. O. P.’s own to aid the national committee in formulating a campaign policy. • There is a certain amount of in justice in the charge that this was a piece of rank stupidity. The complaint all along has been that the Republicans haven’t had an issue—'that they have done nothing except find fault with the New Deal without offering a substitute for it. Now, when Chairman Fletcher of the national committee surrounds him self with a board of experts, to frame (Continued on I age Three.) Swansboro Death Probe Postponed Swansboro, May 2 (AP) —An in quest into the deaths of three high school baseball players was con tinued until next week when the jurors empanneled yesterday re convened at 11 o’clock today. The postponement was necessitated be cause of the inability of injured members of the party to attend the inquest at this time. Howell Jones, 18, of Swansboro, and Grady C. Koriche, of Morehead City, driver of a loaded log truck, that collided with the small truck in which the ball players were traveling to White Oak for a game, are the most seriously injured, but their condition today was reported as satisfactory. SIREMDROP Hoey and Graham Forces Profess tp Confidence of of Their Own Gains Hally Dispatch Bureau, In The Sir Walter Hotel, By J. C BASKERVILI. Raleigh, May 2. —Is Dr. Ralph W. McDonald, of Winston-Salem, going to continue to remain in the lead for the Democratic nomination for governor, as at present, or is he going to have difficulty in holding on to what sup port he already has? Will he show even more strength than is now evi dent and win the nomination in the first primary, as his supporters are now predicting, or will he do well to stay in first place or even second place from now until June 6? Or will the intensive organization work which both Clyde R. Hoey and Sandy Gra ham and their managers have been doing begin to take effect and show results soon and mow down the lead which Dr. 'McDonald is now conced ed to have in most sections of the State? Strong in East. These questions are being heard more frequently and being discussed more here than any others, as a re sult of the tremendous lead Dr. Mc- Donald is conceded to have in most of the eastern counties and in many of the Piedmont counties. For it is (Continued on Page Five.) ~OIJR WEATHER MAN FOB NORTH CAROLINA. Partly cloudy, scattered show ers in north and west portions Sunday and extreme southwest portion late tonight; somewhat cooler in west* portion Sunday aft ernoon. this air view taken off Port Colbome. Start of navigation on the Great Lakes was greatly delayed this year by unprecedented ice fields due to the extreme cold of last winter and its duration. —Central Press BESTICEI93O Associated Press Index of Industrial Acativity Is Lifted to 87.2 A NEW TOP FOR YEAR All Components Except Cotton Man ufacturing Register Gains; Steel Activity In New High for 1936 New York, May 2.—(AP)—lndus trial production during the past week advanced to a new top for the year at the highest level since June, 1930. The Associated Press index of in dustrial activity today was 87.2. The latest figure compared with 85.8 in the previous week, and 72.9 a year ago. All components save cotton manu facturing registered gains. Steel mill activity continued to push into high ground for the year. Carloadings were up on increased shipments of coal. Electric power pro duction and residential building im proved for the week. Cotton manufacturing activ it y slumped abruptly. WHEAT PRICES NOT TO DROP VERY FAR Will Be Governed by De mand in U. S.; Gold In flux Causing Worry By LESLIE EICHEL (Central Press Staff Writer) Wheat prices are not expected to drop far. Even if the spring wheat crop exceeds expectations, the United States still will not have a large sal able surplus. In other words, there swill be little overplus for foreign sale. The price will be governed by demand within the United States. If Europe or Canada should have crop failures, prices would rise in the United States. Such is the best available opinion. GOLD INFLUX Government financial advisers are worried over the renewed influx of gold from France. That gold adds to the "fexcess reserves (at a phenomenal height). And excess reserves, if they ever break the dam, would bring about a flood of inflation that might wipe out every real value. On the other hand, gold from France is a distinct liability. If France does not devalue, or does de value and stabilizes, that gold will flow back suddenly—and American security values, bolstered by the in flow, will sink suddenly and rapidly, with the outflow. QUEER Earnings of soft drink concerns are higher with liquor in than with liquor out. SABOTAGE Senator Royal Copeland of New York brought out a serious condi (Continued on Page Three.) PUBLISHED EVERY AFTERNOON EXCEPT SUNDAY. Selassie Palace Being Ransacked Paris, May 2. (AP)—The French foreign office received a message today from Addis Ababa, which re ported the palace of Emperor Haile Selassie had been pillaged. The message from the Ethiopian capital declared disorders and pil laging were reported in various parts of the city, and French na tionals had taken refuge in their legation. French officials at Addis Ababa confirmed the departure of the emperor with his family by spe cial train due to arrival at Djibouti tonight. DUKE POWER WARNS OF BIG RATE COTS Cuts for Commercial Users Means Rise in Domestic Service Costs Raleigh, May 2 (AF) —Duke Power company attorneys and witnesses told the State Utilities Commission here today an adjustment in the rates charged commercial consumers .of the Company would bring about in creases in residential charges. The testimony was given in the action brought by the North Carolina Mer chants Association, seeing lower commercial rates. W. S. O’B. Robinson, of Duke coun sel, said the earnings of the company were about 2.5 percent on actual value of properties. Adjustment of com mercian rates on the same basis with the domestic rates and provide the same revenue would result in an in crease for 32,000 residential consum ers, and for 9,800 of the commercial customers. The merchants association contends (Continued on Page Eight. HUNTING SLAYER OF CHATTANOOGA LADY Mrs. Ella Mae McConnell, Wife of Theatre Manager, Brutally Slain in Apartment Chattanooga, Tenn., May 2 (AP) — Working on varying death bed state ments, police hunted a “nice looking” young man today for the fatal beat ing of pretty Mrs. Ella Mae McCon nell. Detectives said the 23-year-old wife of a theatre manager, and mother of twin baby girls, may have been the victim of either of a maniac or a re jected suitor. Mrs. McConnell, found beaten and slashed in her apartment just before the dinner hour Thursday, died yes terday after giving rambling and con flicting accounts of the attack. Investigators hesitated to place much credence in any of her state ments because of her semi-conscious condition. Police Captain Homer Edmondson said the brutality of the assault, in which Mrs. McConnell’s abdomen was crushed by a man’s kicks, lent basis to the theory that a madman was re sponsible. _ _ , , 8 PAGES TODAY FIVE CENTS COPY SELASSIE MAY GO 10 FRENCH RIVIERA' 101AKEJJP EXILE Monarch of Crushed Empire Has Money om Deposit in Many Centers of the World ITALIAN ARMY NOT AT CAPITAL CITY Northern Soldiers Halt Be fore Last Grand Drive as Natives Mass Before Ad dis Ababa in Final Stand; Widespread Disorder Pre vails in the Capital London, May 2.—(AP) —Sir Sidney Barton, British minister to Ethiopia, advised his government today that Emperor Haile Selassie had left Addis Ababa by train for Djibouti, French Somaliland. Sir Sidney declared in a wireless message that the Ethiopian capital is the scene of widespread disorder. The disturbances include shooting and looting, the report of the British minister asserted. SELASSIE MAY LIVE IN EXILE IN THE RIVIERA Paris, May 2—(AP) —Wolde Mariam Ethiopian delegate to the League of Nations, said today Emperor Haile Selassie might come to the French Riviera to establish his residence in exile. “I hope he comes to France, 'but I do not know his plans,” said Mariam, who is also Ethiopian minister to France. “I do not know what is go ing to happen.’' “First, I want some official news,” he added, explaining that he had been without official word from Addis Ababa for several days. The minister said the Negus has money deposited in different parts of the world. • • Mariam did not show surprise when (Continued on Page Eight. U. S. Proposes Neutral Pact Open To All Washington, May 2. —(AP)— Con clusion of a new neutrality conven tion open to the signature of all na tions has been proposed by the United States government for consideration at the forthcoming all-America peace conference in Buenos Aires. A “tariff truce” among the 21 Am erican republics involving a pledge to create no new trade discriminations also has been offered by this govern ment as a subject for the conference agenda. This was announced today by the State Department in a list of items (Continued on Page Eight. Compromise Sought For Phone Rate Utilities Body Offers Concession to Bell System To Settle Litigation ' Raleigh, May 2.—(AP) Efforts were being made here shortly after noon today between the Southern Bell Telephone & Telegraph Company and the State Utilities Commission to com promise telephone rate reductions or dered some 16 months ago by the com mission, authoritative sources sadi. The rates, ordered into effect Jan uary 1, 1935, would save 78,000 cus tomers of the 58 Southern Bell ex changes in the State an estimated $321,000 annually. Effectiveness of the rates was stayed by court order. Official sources said the commis sion had offered some “minor conces sions” to the telephone company and that Southern Bell counsel, rather than press their fight on rates thro ugh possible further lengthy court procedure, was considering acceptance of most of the reductions. Definite announcement this after noon as to the compromise or de cision to continue the fight was ex (Continued on Page Eight. . j
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