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twenty-fourth year
NEW SPANISH UPRISING REPORTED ENDED
ETHERIDGE AGAIN
APPOINTED CHIEF
OF CONSERVATION
Three Directors Re-Appoint
ed Also by Governor
Along With Head
of Department
three new men on
BOARD DESIGNATED
Six Old Members Whose
Terms Have Not Expired
Hold Over; Etheridge, Na
tive of Manteo, First Ap
pointed in 1933 by Gover
nor Ehringhaus
Raleigh, May 5. —(AP) —Governor
Hoey today re-appointed Bruce Ether
ide as director of the Department
of Conservation and Development for
a four-year term.
The governor re-appointed as mem
bers of the board of directors of the
department: Colonel J. W. Harrelson,
J. P. Rawley, High Point; and Sant
ford Martin, of Winston-Salem.
As new members he named Roy
Hampton, of Fiymouth; Coleman W.
Roberts, of Charlotte, and John Mc-
Laughlin, of Statesville.
Six old members whose terms have
not expired are: J. Q Gilkey, of Mar
ion: J. J- Stone, Greensboro; J. L.
Horne, Jr., Rocky Mount; Harry
Lindsay, of Leaksville; F. P. Carter,
of Asheville, and J. L. McNair, of
Laurinburg.
Etheridge, a native of Manteo, was
appointed as director in 1933 by Gov
ernor Ehringhaus.
The governor said that under a
ruling of the attorney general the
terms of Senator W. C. Ewing, of
Fayetteville, and Representative D. L.
Ward, of New Bern, on the board
were ended when they took their leg
islative seats. They were not re-ap
pointed.
Motions In
Denhardts
Case Fail
New Castle, Ky., May 5. —(AP)
Circuit Court Charles Marshall today
overruled defense motions to dis
charge the jury trying Brigadier Gen
eral Henry Denhardt on charges of
murder for the death of his sweet
heart, Mrs. Verna Taylor.
Judge Marshall also overruled a
motion to exclude the paraffin tests
which the commonwealth held prov
ed Denhardt had fired a weapon and
Mrs. Taylor had not shortly before
she was found dead on a roadside
last November.
Clark Otte, defense attorney,
sought to have the jury dismissed on
the grounds the judge had failed, to
instruct its members not to discuss
the case outside of the jury room
when they were locked up last night
(Continued on Page Three.)
Dare Ruled
To Be 6 Wet’
At Inquiry
Dry Votes Thrown
Out by Election
Board; Columbus
Drys Are In Lead
Manteo, May 5 (AP) —Dare coun
ty was declared wet by six votes
today when the County Board of
Elections, after an investigation
into the ballot box of Avon pre
»'inct, threw out 2€: dry votes and
one wet vote from that box. Wet
forces had demanded an investi
gation after alleged irregularities '
By drys at the referendum April
24. l)ry forces’ attorneys today
said they would appeal to the
Mate Hoard of Elections.
•he final vote, as put by the
county board, was: 651 wet, 645
dry.
co limbus DRYS LEAD
BUT RECULT UNKNOWN
whiteville, May 5 (AP)—Columbus
unty, taking its liquor election calm
tr A• * wa ’t until tomorrow to learn
u lln al outcome of the vote taken
(Continued on Page Three.)
Hroftmmn Hat lit £1 tsnafrii
Charleston Looms As Trans-Atlantic Terminus
r.;.
This airview shows the incompleted
seaplane base which may make Char
leston, S. C., the southern terminus for
Flat Increase Two Justices
On Supreme Court Proposed
Washington, May 5. — (AP) A
Democratic opponent of President
Roosevelt’s court plan, Senator Mcr
Carran, Nevada, proposed today a flat
increase of two justices in the mem
bership of the Supreme Court.
Under his substitute bill, provisions
of the President’s plan for 50 addi
tional lower court judges, a Supreme
Court proctor and other changes in
the judicial system would be discard
ed entirely.
McCarran’s action was a departure
from precedent in the long course of
YOUNG DEMOCRATS
TO HOLD MEETING
Committee to Confer in
Raleigh Next Wednesday
to Pick Dates
Daii.i Disnatch Itnrena.
In the Sir Walter Hotel.
(ts J C. BASKKftVII,I.
Raleigh, May s.—The officers and
members of the executive committee
of the Young Democratic Clubs of
North Carolina will meet here Wed
nesday, May 12, as the guests of the
Wake County Young Democrats Club,
to make plans for the annual State
convention, select the meeting place
and attend to such other business as
may come before the committee, it
was announced here today by S.
Brown Shepherd, president of the
Wake County Young Democrats, fol
lowing a conference yesterday with J.
Ed Butler, of Morganton, president
of the State organization, and Miss
Mae Oliver, vice-president.
Members of the Young Democratic
Clubs in all sections of the State are
invited to this meeting and as many
clubs as possible are being asked to
send delegations, Shepherd announced
Since the committee will select the
meeting place of the summer conven
tion, it is expected that good sized de
legations will be present from those
cities which are seeking the conven
tion this year. Since the convention
was held in Greensboro last summer,
it is expected that Wilmington will
make a strong bid for the convention
this year, although Asheville, Hen
dersonville and some of the other re
sort cities in the mountains are also
(Continued on Page Six.)
OFFERINGS LIGHT,
BUT COTTON RISES
Market 9 to 12 Points Up At Close,
With Middling Selling at
13.65 a Pound
New York, May 5. —(AP) —Cotton
futures opened steady, up 10 to 14
points on higher Liverpool cables and
trade and foreign buying with offer
ings light. At midday, July was sell
ing at 13.11, with prices generally 6
to 9 points net higher.
. Futures closed steady, 9 to 1-
points higher. Spots steady, middling
1365. High Close
July , 12.915 12.93
October 12 91 12.90
December 12.93
January
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the Senate Judiciary Committee’s
hearings on court reorganization.
Heretofore, changes suggested by com
mitteemen have been included in pro
posed amendments to the bill.
The beginning of the fifth month
of the 75th Congress found the Sen
ate idling and the House attending
to minor legislation.
The Senate civil liberties commit
tee was scheduled to wind up its in
vestigation of conditions in Harlan
county, Kentucky, during the after
noon and then recess for several
weeks before beginning new inquiries.
Wally And
Duke Plan
Ceremonies
Monts, France, May 5 (AP) —Wallis
Simpson and her gay duke walked
arm in arm behind a sharp-eyed es
cort of two in the ancient Chateau de
Cande today.
Fifty yards in front of the strolling
lovers an alert British detective paced
along with Herman Rogers, of New
York, Mrs. Simpson’s friend and
spokesman.
Police at the various gates were
doubled to keep the curious out and
Rogers said neither the Duke of Wind
sor nor his betrothed planned to leave
the estate today.
In fact, they were reported in mild
argument about their choice of a
home.
Tomorrow, it was stated, the fa
mous couple may visit some neigh
boring chateau.
The Chateau de Cande grounds were
bathed in a warm sun as Edward and
Mrs. Simpson walked and presumably
made their wedding plans.
Rogers refused for the first time to
accept telephone calls, and also de
clined to discuss plans for the wed
ding—presumably put off until after
mid-May, when Edward’s youngest
brother, the Duke of Kent, may be
best mam.
$700,000 NOTE FROM
RASKOB TO DUPONT
New York Tax Appeals Board Hears
Ramifications of Million
aires in 1929
New York, May s.—(AP)—Govern-
ment attorneys brought into the in
come tax case against John Raskob
and Pierre DuPont today a $700,000
note given to DuPont by Raskob,
which the government contends was
given without any idea of collection
“to balance 1929 stock transactions
later deducted as losses on their in
come taxes.”
Frank Garey, secretary to Raskob,
testifying before U. S. Tax Commis
sioner Richard Disney, said there was
no collateral put up by Raskob when
he gave the note.
The “balancing” related to stocks
sold back and forth on November 13,.
1929, and re-purchased January 6, 1930
DuPont sold $4,582,750 of securities
to Raskob, and Raskob sales to Du-
Pont totalled $4,606,000.
The stock sold to DuPont by Ras
kob increased in value more than the
others in the next few months.
background. The work of completing
the base is sponsored by the city and
is being done by the Works Progress
I Administration.
Representative Rogers, Republican,
Massachusetts, proposed Congress or
der a securities commission investiga
tion of price fluctuations of Alumi
num Company of America common
stock immediately preceding and fol
lowing annountunent the government
had brought an anti-trust action a
gainst the big firm in Federal court.
Looking back over the first four
months of Congress, now involved in
controversies undreamed of when it
convened in January, leaders were un
certain whether to expect adjourn
ment in July or October.
PAROLE SYSTEM IS
OUTLINED BY GILL
State Commissioner Speaks
to Southeastern Group
in Alabama
By Staff Correspondent.
Montgomery, Ala., May 5. —States
that do not yet have well worked out
parole systems should proceed slowly
and cautiously and work out parole
plans that are best suited to their lo
cal conditions and local attitudes to
wards paroles, Commissioner of Pa
roles Edwin M. Gill of North Caro
lina. today advised in an address be
fore the Southeastern States Parole
Conference, in session here. Commis
sioner Gill also recommended the en
actment of broad enabling acts rath
er than detailed parole laws, so that
the details of the parole system set
up can be worked out by the agency
or agencies charged with putting it
into effect to meet the needs of the
State and conditions prevailing.
“A parole system, in order to be
(Continued on Page Five)
SITDOWN STRIKE IN
ST. LOUIS STARTED
Chevrolet and Fisher Bodies Plant'of
General Motors Involved in
New Walkout
St. Louis, Mo., May 5.—(AP) —
Members of the United Automobile
Workers of America at General
Motors Chevrolet and Fisher Body
plants began a sitdown strike today
in protest against the discharge of 37
employees.
Norman Smith, organizer for the
C. I. 0., with which the automobile
workers union is affiliated, said 3,700
men ceased work an hour after the
plants opened this morning, forcing a
complete halt in operations.
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Showers tonight; Thursday fair;
slightly cooler in northeast por
tion.
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Although Hollywood’s screen players decided to postpone aligning their Screen
Actors’ Guild with 11 striking film lot unions, pending a conference’with pro
ducers, the strike of studio hands spread, threatening a tieup of the $225,000,-
000 industry. Above, girl strikers are seen picketing the Paramount studios
as a quartet of film players are seen picketing the Paramount studios.
NINTH CLEVELAND
MURDER IS FOUND
Torso of Woman Located in
Lake Erie at Pier Near
Business Area
Cleveland, Ohio, May 5.—(AP) —
The mutilated, body of Cleveland’s
ninth torso slaying victim, a woman
was faUnd today in Lake Erie at the
East Ninth Street pier, only a short
walk from the downtown district.
The woman’s arms and legs and
head h".d been cut off. The torso had
been in the lake for about two weeks,
police estimated.
The body was taken to the county
morgue, where Coroner Samuel Ger
ber was to make a closer examina
tion.
First reports indicated the slaying
followed all the weird details of the
previous killings.
Coroner Gerber a month ago warn
ed police the mad torso slayer “prob
ably was making friends” with his
ninth victim. .
Today’s victim was the fourth wo
man in the list of slayings. All of the
women’s bodies except one have been
found in Lake Erie.
Only three of the nine victims have
ever been identified.
Cleveland, May 5 (AP)—Coast
guards took the lower part of a wo
man’s torso from Lake Erie today,
giving new impetus to the police in
vestigation of Cleveland’s series of
beheadings.
Coroner Samuel Gerber reported to
police the piece of human flesh found
today definitely was the lower part of
a torso found in the lake nearly ten
miles away about two months ago —
the eighth victim of the killer. The
vertebrae of the two parts matched as
did the angles of the cuts, he said.
The portion of the body found today
had been cut off below the breasts
and at the hips. It was first seen
in the lake by Howard Yochem, ope
rator of a concession at the Great
Lakes Exposition on the lake front,
who called coast guards and police.
Bomb Is Exploded
On French Train;
One Dead, 5 Hurt
Marseilles, France, May 5 (AP)—A
mysterious bomb exploded aboard the
Bordeaux-Marseilles express today,
killing one man and wounding five
other persons.
The explosion set fire to the first
class passenger coach, in which the
bomb was secreted, and to a second
class coach.
Both cars were detached at Sant
Martin de Crau, away station, while
the train continued toward Marseilles.
Ten minutes after the bomb went
off the Paris-Nice express thundered
by on its daily trip carrying haany
tourists to the Riviera.
The dead passenger’s body was so
badly burned it could not ,be identi
fied immediately. • •
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EXCEPT SUNDAY.
PLANS HEAVY TAX^
That Appears to Be Roose
veltian Theory As Told
by Mr. Wallace
By CHARLES P. STEWART
Central Press Columnist
Washington, May 5. —The Roose
velt administration appears tq be con
centrating its policies in an feffort to
break up the alteration of booms and
depressions.
At least this is the obvious con
clusion to be drawn from remarks
made by Secretary of Agricultures
Henry A. Wallace in a lecture he de
livered a few weeks ago at the Uni
versity of North Carolina, a lecture)
which, rather oddly, for it was very
interesting, was only belatedly given
out for publication.
Wallace by the way, is supposed to
be much in the presidential confid
ence and presumably expressed him
self authoritatively.
THEY DO ALTERNATE
Booms and depressions do alter
nate; that is a matter of historic re
cord.
Secretary Wallace referred to
slumps as averaging 10 years a/part.
Major crashes occur at about 20 to
30-year intervals. These intervals may
he punctuated by mild flattening out,
but the frightfully bad ones do not
occur as often as that.
We had one in the 1870’s, one in,
the 1890’s and were on the verge of
one when the war broke out and in
(Continued on Page Six.)
STOCKS LOSE SOME
OF RECOVERY GRIP
Majority Settle Back Into Lower Ter
ritory During Day’s Trading
At New York
New York, May s.—(AP)—Stocks
lost some of their recovery grip in
today’s market and the majority set
tled back in lower territory.
There was no appreciable change
in the new picture, but buying steam
was lacking after a slightly improved
opening.
Bonds improved. Transfers were
around 800,000 shares.
American Radiator 21 3-4
American Telephone 169
American Tobacco B 82
Anaconda 1-4
Atlantic Coast Line 47 3-4
Atlantic Refining "Of-®
Bendix Aviation 21 1-2
Bethlehem Steel f 5 5-»
Chrysler 3-4
Columbia Gas & Elec Co 13 7-8
Commercial J® 3-4
Continental Oil Co 15 7-8
DuPont 155 I'2
Elec Pow & Light 20
General Electric 53 3-4
General Motors 59 3-8
Liggett & Myers B 98 1-2
Montgomery Ward & Co 52 7-8
Reynolds Tobacco B 50 7-8
Southern Railway 38
Standard Oil Co N J 67 5-8
U. S." Steel 192 3-4
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PEACEFUL ACCORD
WITH ANARCHISTS
ABOUT BARCELONA
Announcement of Settle
ment Comes As Two
British Warships
Speed to Scene
ITALIAN DESTROYER
POSTED AT BILBAO
Reputedly Joining Insurgent
Fighting Ships To Prevent
Evacuation of Civilians
from Basque Capital; Ital
ian Troops in North Are
Trapped
Perpignan, Fra'nce-Spanish Fron
tier, May S.—(AP)—A government
radio broadcast from Barcelona an
nounced peaceful settlement today of
the anarchist uprising against the
Catalan and Valencia Spanish re
gimes.
Thp brief rebellion is reported to
have cost 100 lives and split the for
ces lighting the Spanish insurgents.
The radio announcement reported
Juan Oliver, minister of justice in the
Valencia government, and spokesman
for the revolting anarchists, had ar
rived a< a peaceful solution of the
crisis wiln President Luis Companys,
of autonomous Catalonia.
The announcement of peace came
as two British warships sped to Bar
celona as a p'-c cautionary measure
because of the violence there.
ITALIAN DESTROYER IN
BILBAO ENEMY'S FLEET
Bilbao, Spain, May s.—(AP)—The
Basque government defenders of Bil
bao charged today “an Italian de
stroyer” and seven insurgent fight
ing ships were massed off this port
in an attempt to prevent by force the
evacuation of 2,300 women,’ children
and old men.
The Basques said they would defy
the insurgent fleet and would eva
(Contiuued on Page Three.)
Hollywood
Strike May
Close Soon
Hollywood, Cal., May 5. —(AP) —
Picket reinforcements from long
shoremen were promised film strikers
today as major producers predicted
ar, end of the five-day strike.
A riotous union clash in the head
quarters of the International Alliance
of the Theatrical and Stage Em
ployees last night apparently marked
a crucial turn in the walkout of 6,000
studio employees.
It was followed by a statement
from Pat Casey, labor relations execu
tive of the producers association, that
the Los Angeles Central Labor Coun
cil had suggested a peace plan to bo
studied today.
“If all parties find the terms of
the proposed agreement satisfactory,
I feel justified in asserting the strike
will be called off,” he said.
Later the screen actors’ guild, po
tentially capable of making or break
ing the strike, opened committee
negotiations with the producers to bo
(Continued on Page Three.)
Germany and
Italy Offer
Cooperation
Mussolini’s Editorial
Spokesman Warns
Britain and France
To Accept
Rome, May 5. (AP) —ltaly and
Germany held out to other powers an
offer of “wider collaboration” for Eu
ropean security today.
Themselves bound in a “come what
may” alliance, the Fascist state and
the Nazi state made the offer at the
close of conversations between Pre
mier Mussolini and Foreign Minister
Konstantin von Neurath, of Germany.
It was contained in an official com
munique.
Virginio Gayda, often Mussolini’s
mouthpiece, writing in II Giornale de
(Continued on Page Six.)