Newspapers / Henderson Daily Dispatch (Henderson, … / Aug. 23, 1938, edition 1 / Page 1
Part of Henderson Daily Dispatch (Henderson, N.C.) / About this page
This page has errors
The date, title, or page description is wrong
This page has harmful content
This page contains sensitive or offensive material
HENDERSON’S POPULATION 13,873 twenty-fifth year ELECTIM BOARD ACCUSED OF ILLESALITY At Un-Americanism Hearing fix v wm **' ~ IP ,v?<xw f .... * "M'.w-.. —... . •■ ■;■ •<;. ~.<.. . ..... <*>X’ ply * flenry Frank (left) in the payroll department of the New York Federal Theatre Project is pictured with Representative Harold Mosier, of Ohio, a member of the Dies committee investigating un-American activities, trank said many employes are in constant fear of losing their jobs if they don’t join the Workers’ Alliance. (Central Press) Capital Wonders Whether Farley Will Aid Losers Hog Populace Is ._... Reviving Slowly Chicago, Aug. 23.—(AP) — Re building of the national hog popu lation progressed under the most favorable circumstances in years today, with fifth anniversary of the government’s inauguration of a slaughtering program. Swine herds on farms have come back barely 13 percent from the century’s low point, after the serious 1934 drought, hut an abundance of cheap feed, a good market price and favorable weather conditions are stimulating breeding and fat tening. The hog price is more than dou ble that on the day the first of 6,- 000,000 small pigs and 200.000 bred sows sold to the government were killed. In August, 1933, hogs were bringing around $4 per hundred weight, a recovery of less than $1 from the record lows touched in 1932. With corn now quoted around 50 cents, the current hog price of close to $9 offers an unusually favorable feeding ratio, livestock men said. Soldiers Who Were Poisoned Are Recovered Mobile, Ala., Aug. 23. —(AP) —All but three or four of the 65 soldiers admitted to Marine hospital here last night for treatment of food poisoning are expected to be dismissed from the institution today, Dr. David Prather, head of the hospital, said. Prather described the condition of the men as “much better”. The men were part of an army de tail of 400 enroute to their home forts from the Gulf Coast maneuvers of last month. None was considered in a dangerous condition, though Dr. Dr. Prather said some were severely ill. Members of the company said they had eaten sandwiches, salad and beans at noon, and that about mid afternoon several fell ill. The men be (Continued on page six) PEANUT GROWERS IN 'FAVOR SOIL PLANS Jackson, Aug. 23. —(AP) —A group °f Eastern North Carolina peanut growers was on record today as favor hrg the 1939 soil conservation pro gram as applied to peanuts. At a meet * n ß here yesterday the farmers passed a resolution asking AAA officials not to change the peanut section of the program. E. F. Arnold, secretary of the North Laiolina Farm Bureau Federation, said Congressmen Kerr arid Warren, ■who were present at the meeting, had pledged their support to the grower. - I hender iHttwvtx&n Bmltr Htstraidi LEASED WIRE SERVICE OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS. Weinberg Tells of Pay-Offs to Tammany Leader in Policy Game In New York Washington, Aug. 23. —(AP) —Capi- tal politicians were discussing today the question of whether Democratic Chairman James Farley would aid in dependent races for re-election by Senator Pope, of Indiana, and Repre sentative Maverick, of Texas. Pope and Maverick, full-fledged Roosevelt backers, suffered narrow defeats in in Democratic primaries. Earley immediately afterwards gave the winners "the usual pledges of or ganization assistance in the fall cam paigns, and since then has made no comment. Some of the President’s lieutenants, however, have urged the two legislat ors to run as independents. Both men conferred with President Roosevelt during the last few days at Hyde Park. Pope said afterwards he would not reach a decision until he returns to Idaho. Explains Farm Groupings Meanwhile, an Agriculture Depart ment report explained why a group cf southern states were grouped in the eastern area which will receive one of the four agricultural research laboratories authorized by Congress. Division of the nation into four “ma *jor farm producing areas” for the purpose of establishing one laboratory in each region was based in part, it was said, on general consistency with the regional set-up under the AAA. The seven states in the AAA’s east central division, which includes such southern commonwealth as Tennes see, North Carolina and Virginia, were grouped with the nine states in the AAA’s northeastern region to (Continued or. i age six) Four Accused Os Abduction In Coast City Olympia, Wash., Aug. 23.—(AP) Prosecutor Smith Troy announced to day officers had rounded up all four night raiders accused of the revenge abduction and attempted mutilation of Irving Baker, former Coast Guard officer. The fourth man taken into custody, Troy said, was Robert Smith, 32, arrested early today at his farm home 2o miles west so Olympia. Smith admitted he participated in the kidnaping and assaults under “al together different , circumstances” from the others involved, the prosecu tor reported, and promised a complete statement later. Previously jailed on kidnaping and assault charges were Dr. K. W. Berry, 54-year-old Olympia physician; James Reddick, 27, taxi driver, and William K. McAloon, former night marshal at Montessano, Wash. The prosecutor accused Dr. Berry of organizing the kidnaping. ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA AND VIRGINIA. HENDERSON, N. C., TUESDAY AFTERNOON, AUGUST 23,1938 Says Hines Had Pledged Protection National Chairman Had Pledged Aid to Men Who Beat Sena tor Pope and Repre sentative Maverick, Both of Whom Might Run as Independents New York, Aug. 23. —(AP)—George Weinberg, 36, ex-convict, and once business manager of the multi-mil lion dollar Dutch Schultz “policy em pire,” testified in supreme court today that Tammany district leader James J. Hines promised “protection” from police raids on Harlem policy banks. “I paid’ Jimmy Hines SSOO a week and hire for protection,” Weinberg said. The witness testified that dur ing one of his frequent “pay-off” meet ings with the politician, he talked to Hines about the police. “What did you say to Hines?” ask ed District Attorney Thomas Dewey. “I told him there were too many arrests,” Weinberg said. “Hines asked if there was some particular cop causing the trouble,” the witness continued. “I told him I didn’t want to have any cop broke.” Hines promised he would try to do something about the police, Weinberg went on, “and later the number of arrests in policy ban kraids decreas ed.” “Before UtTr talk, the arrests aver aged about 20 a day. Afterwards they dropped to maybe four, five or six a day.” Hines listened placidly to Wein berg’s story. The 61-year-old Tam many stalwart showed no sign of emotion. Negroes May Drop Fight In University Daily Dispatch Bureau, In The Sir Walter Hotel. Raleigh, Aug. 23. —Relatively liberal appropriations to Negro institutions by the late General Assembly are said to have taken much of the enthusiasm for the courts away from citizens of the race who had indicated their pur pose to try those courts again. The General Assembly gave to the Negroes much bigger proportion of the money asked than was allotted the whites. It is true, the white in stitutions made much bigger requests. For the whole University of North Carolina plant, there was asked near ly $4,500,000. The compromise was less than one third. One of the Negro in stitutions which sought $350,000, in round numbers, got about $240,000, more than two-thirds. The legislature adopted toward these schools some what the philosophy employed toward the elemonsynary institutions. One set of needs was immediate, man datory. The hospitals were bulging with patients and the jails were be ing used for purposes of detention until enlargements could be made. It was contended that in the colleges there was no actual suffering, that the plants could get along some how. Negroes have been demanding great er facilities, but most of the requests have come from the outside. Nearly all the incentive to use the courts is foreign. The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People has clamored for larger institutional appropriations so that full university courses shall be available for Negroes. No State institution has those, except (Continued on page six) Liquor Sales T0ta15481,767 During July Daily Dispatch Bureau, In The Sir Walter Hotel. Raleigh, Aug. 23—Figures for July reveal that North Carolinians consum ed legally $481’,767.70 alcoholically, a good hot season business, in which Wake and Durham stood out like a naughty deed in a good world. One year ago, when Wake voted for ABC stores, Chairman Ciitlar Moore, of the North Carolina Board of Al coholic Beverage Control, prophesied that the two counties, Durham and Wake, would sell “more than one-fifth of all the legally sold liquor in the State ” Durham dispensed $60,520.80 for July and Wake $63,070.80. This (Continued on Page Six.), Legion Beauties ¥ mW mitpp <** — M ' W IHI x V.;....; j. m Ik WBrnm 4: ■;!! r&i iw Sprr ::« ffe*;! -•■•jvxJ’V.:* '' :• r •':' : X .%■ : :v-- Mississippi misses These three Mississippi beauties will add a decorative touch to the parade of the American Legion during the organization’s annual convention in Los Angeles in Sep tember. The girls are Bobbie Vaughan, below, of Magnolia, Miss., champion drum major who will lead the second band in the parade; center, Elaine Russell, Mississippi’s “queen of peace”; top, Annie Laurie Bishop of Tupelo, who will lead the first band in the parade. —Central Press Hoey Might Lead Reform For Ballots His Amazing Control Over Legislature Shows He Can Have His Own Wishes Daily Dispatch Bureau, In The Sir Walter Hotel. Raleigh, Aug. 23. —Governor Hoey’s amazing hold upon his 1937 General Assembly, first shown in the regular, then demonstrated more convincingly in the special session, appears fairly certain for the 1939 body. The incoming parliament is one of those bodies which nearly all the scribes in Raleigh know aforetime. Many of the 1937 members fell in primaries and convention, but their, victors in many instances are just as well known. Governor Hoey looked over the list of 1939 a few days ago and one of his close friends said his excellency can shake hands with the utmost familiarity, calling 80 per cent of them by their first names. Mid-term assemblies generally have been friendly to incumbent gover nors, the executive having gained the advantage of individual strength and weakness in the regular sessions. The 1939 legislature has a very large num ber of individuals set upon ballotbox purges. Governor Hoey probably will have to put brakes upon them. They will repeal the absentee bal lot law, in their present mood, cer tainly as it applies to primaries. It is considered doubtful that Governor Hoey would be willing to leave the is sue there. He has not said or done anything yet to justify the reformers (Continued on Page Five) "WEATHER FOR NORTH CAROLINA. Generally fair; Wednesday part ly cloudy; possibly scattered show ers in north portion. Coericion Is Charged In Oaths Given “Illegal and High - Handed” Methods At tributed to State Board by County Board Members I n Certifying Returns Giving Deane Victory Over Burgin Raleigh, Aug. 23 (AP) —Affidavits from five members of county election boards, read in Wake Superior Court today, charged the State Board of Elections with using “illegal and high-handed” methods in revrsing re sults of the Democratic run-off pri mary in the eighth congressional dis trict. J. C. B. Ehringhaus, counsel for W. O. Burgin, of Lexington, asserted the State board coerced county boards in to signing returns that gave C. B. Deane, of Rockingham a bare ma jority over Burgin. County board mem bers, Ehringhaus said, were informed if they did not follow the orders of the State board, they would be dis charged. “The State board sent orders to county boards which said: ‘Do what we say, or you will die officially’,” Ehringhaus asserted. Ehringhaus read an affidavit from Sam H. Lee, chairman of the Union County Board of Elections, which said the State board forced him to count congressional ballots in the wrong boxes, even though he and other mem bers of his board were convinced there was a strong possibility the votes were fraudulent. An affidavit by Jesse C. Leigh, a member of the Richmond board, said that the other two members of his board changed originally certified re turns without informing him of their plans. Burgin seeks a mandamus to force the State board to certify him as the Democratic nominee for the United States House of Representatives in the eighth congressional district. Counsel for the State board objected to the affidavits being included as evidence. Judge W. C. Harris sustain tained the objections tentatively, but ordered that most of the facts con tained in l,he documents be admitted. indict Cabarrus’ MAN FOR MURDER Concord, Aug. 23. —(AP) —A Cabar rus county grand jury today indicted Albert Wilkinson, of Kannapolis, for first degree murder in connection with the death last May 4 of Charles Sanford, of Concord. Sanford died four days after his throat had been slashed while a guest in Wilkinson’s home. Campaigns In U. S. Different From England By CHARLES P. STEWART Central Press Columnist Washington, Aug. 23.—1 f our poli tical system were more like England’s there could be no doubt of President Roosevelt’s right to get out among the voters, here, there and everywhere campaigning for his kind of congress ional candidates. Maybe it’s all right here, too, but its rightness is disputed. There the property of such cam paigning is unquestioned. Frequent Elections. England has what we would call a national election once in every seven years, whether or no. However, it can have them at much briefer intervals. In fact, it generally does have one oftCner than that. Seldom does an ad ministration last for a full septem inum without one, to test its popu larity. Assume that there has just been an English election. The recognized leader of the win ning party immediately is appointed prime minister, a post corresponding to our president’s. He has a parlia mentary majority behind him, and, for a while, everything is lovely. A Split Begins. But assume farther that the prime minister’s party gradually begins to split, as has occurred in this country. Say that he was elected as a liberal, head of a liberal parliamentary ma jority. But later a considerable num ber of the erstwhile liberals begin to vote conservatively, just as quite a block of our anti-New Deal Democrats have taken to voting with the Repub licans. Presently it becomes doubtful that on Page Six.) PUBLISHED EVERY AFTERNOON EXCEPT SUNDAY Another World War Treaty Is Abrogated To Allow Re-Arming Pastor Gets Life Rev. Helo Janssen . . . feared scandal Sentenced to life a few hours after he had confessed to poisoning and burning his 16-year-old house maid in his parsonage to conceal their illicit relations, the Rev. Helo Janssen, 51, of Krem, N. D., is shown in prison garb in the penitentiary at Stanton, N. D. —Central Press 4 Prisoners Scalded -T o Their Death Hunger-Striking Men Met Violent Deaths in Philadelphia, Coroner Declares Philadelphia, Aug. 23—(AP) —Coron- er Charles Hersch said today examin ation of the bodies of four hungry striking prisoners found in cells at the Philadelphia county prison showed de finitely that the men were scalded to death. “There is no question but that these men met their death by scalding,” he said. “Their hands were shriveled, in dicating immersion in hot water or steam.” Warden William Mills said he could not contradict the coroner, but ‘‘can’t see how that could have taken place. We certainly used no steam or hot water on the men, and there are no steam or hot water pipes in the build ing in which they were confined.” Meanwhile, at least four investiga tions got under way, and autopsies were scheduled for later today. State Secretary of Welfare Charles Engard sent two special investigators to the institution with orders to “get to the bottom" of the hunger strike which resulted in the four being placed in punishment cells, where their bodies were found yesterday. They were a mong mors than 600 prisoners who had refused to eat in protest against a “monotonous diet” of hamburger and spaghetti. Dr. Morton Crane, the coroner’s phy sician, declared the men had died violently. The warden began a separate inves tigation along with city and county officials. Counties May Place Burden On The State Daiy Dispatch Bureau, In The Sir Walter Hotel. Raleigh, Aug. 23.—Though no an nouncement has been made, the late special session of the General As sembly brought forth a story that the counties, which now pay 25 per cent for the social security benefit in old age assistance, and of course the al lotments for dependent children, are going to ask the 1939 regular session to put that burden on the State. As the money is now divided the State and the counties pay 25 per cent each to match the Federal govern ment’s 50 per cent. The generally (Continued on Page Five.) 8 PAGES TODAY FIVE CENTS COPY Little Entente Balkan Nations Free Hungary To Build Military Machine; Regent of Hungary Now Offici ally in Berlin Viewing ‘ Might of Hitler Bled, Yugoslavia, Aug. 23.—(AP) — The Little Entente swept away the military clauses of another World War treaty today, and gave Hungary the right to re-arm “in the interest of peace.” The three nations, Czechoslovakia, Roumania and Yugoslavia, agreed to abrogate arms restrictions in the Trianon treaty and grant military equality to Hungary. The action followed a similar move by the Balkan Entente, which in cludes Roumania and Yugoslavia, on July 30, wiping out military clauses of the treaty of Neuilly, which limit ed Bulgaria’s re-armament. Dr. M. Stoyadinoviteh, premier and foreign minister of Yugoslavia, made the announcement at the close of a three-day conference of Little Entente foreign ministers in this little resoi’t. He said the principle of an under standing had been reached with Hun gary also, on bi-lateral non-aggres sion pacts, and minority problem de tails which would be negotiated be tween Hungary and the three nations individually. Conversations on Daubian naviga tion, he said, also would be held in Belgrade “in the fall”. The action of the Little Entente came while the Hungarian regent, Ad miral Nicholas Horthy, and other high Hungarian officials v?er6 on a visit of state to Germany. CONCORD MAN GOES ON TRIAL IN MURDER Jury Being Selected for Trying Jack Freeze for Killing of Boy Lentz Last May Concord, Aug. 23.—(AP) —Selection of a jury t<» try 62-year-old Jack Freeze on charges of murder result ing from the death of Roy Lentz pro ceeded slowly today in Cabarrus County Superior Court. Only two jurors had been chosen shortly after noon from a special venire of 50 men. Coroner N. J. Mitchell quoted the former automobile salesman as saying after the killing that he had shot Lentz because the latter “kidded and horsed” him. The shooting occurred in the business section of Concord last May 24. Furman James, one of Freeze’s court-appointed attorneys, indicated he might enter a plea of temporary insanity. LOCAL BOND SALES HELD AT RALEIGH Securities for Albemarle, Winton and Burlington, and Forsyth > and Bertie Sold Raleigh, Aug. 23.—(AP) —The Local Government Commission sold bonds today for the municipalities of Albe marle, Winton and Burlington and for Forsyth and Bertie counties. Winton sold $26,500 water and sewer bonds to KirChofer & Arnold, of Raleigh, at $29 premium and five percent. Bertie county had SIO,OOO bond an ticipation notes sold to the Bank of Windsor at Windsor, par and 4 3-4 percent. Motorman Is Blamed For Subway Crash New York, Aug. 23. —(AP) — A transit commissioner report today blamed motorman S. Cota, 46, for New York City’s worst subway crash in a decade. Cota and a passenger were killed, and 51 persons injured yes terday when the train Jie was driving crashed into the rear of another train that had made an emergency stop at the Interborough Rapid Transist Company station at 116th Street and Lexington Avenue. William Fullen, chairman of the commission, said Cota had violated a company rule that no train should en ter a station until the train ahead had completed cleared it. The motorman, a veteran of 21 years service, died in a hospital shortly after his leg was amputated to free him from the wreckage. The other victim was E. Auerbach, 33, a social worker.
Henderson Daily Dispatch (Henderson, N.C.)
Standardized title groups preceding, succeeding, and alternate titles together.
Aug. 23, 1938, edition 1
1
Click "Submit" to request a review of this page. NCDHC staff will check .
0 / 75