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VOL. 53—No. 221
HENDERSONVILLE, N. C., FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 1934
SINGLE COPIES, FIVE CENTS
Way Call Georgia troops
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f. R. PLANNING
MR CONTACT
KITH STRIKE
fejicde Island on Edge as
I Assemblymen Debate
I the Use of Troops
(governor blocked
\ IN OBTAINING AID
ATLANTA. Sept. 14. (UP).—
[ \t::e strike \io
|i-r >• « n GeorjrU, Gov
I . mad*re today or
r, •. • rial iruard to be
ks". . '< hi< words.
(Jovernor Talmad-sre irave Ad
a! I.indlev Camp in
g that troops
t. a: i strike areas after
|r- rvx: • act ot' flyinir picket.
!■' * oops are called'
i>u\ -H* third south
i -se the military to
i once.
| Ti" - been out in the
wo weeks. Gover
i a-..- announced his read
:-v- troops after he had
' -' ■ »y a jrroun of mill
1 ■ - led by T. If. Forbes.
I he Georgia Cotton
I ra association.
PRESIDENT MAY GO
INTO STRIKE ZONE
HYDE PARK. Sept. 14. (UP>.
Prr>i»ierrt Roosevelt lfft today
award Vincent Astor's yacht for
Newport, where he will confer to
morrow with Secretary of War
Dern and Major General Fox Con
nor to decide whether to intervene
with federal troops in the Rhode
Island strike.
The president said that upon
*hat Pern and Connor tell him
r;>oml> whether he will witness
t f international yacht races from
'rv \V ahal Sunday or go on
: Providence aboard a naval de
"••Ari n order to be in a com
manding position in the heart of
!h- >'r:kc area.
Close White House friends he
Kh.itio Island legislature
How meeting will not ask for fed
fra! ti"i»p intervention.
RHODE ISLAND ON
HYSTERICAL EDGE
PROVIDENCE. R. I., Sept. 14.
IIV».—Textile districts here were
Etryeii to a hysterical edge as the
e«>!ature met this morning to
- ia-t night's rejection of
v»-rr Theodore Green's pro
' » a:i>eal for federal troops.
National iruardsmen ruled with
>ay. . : lies in Woonsocket.
"here two have been killed and
cores wounded. and at Sayles
ille where other scores were
foun.ie.i • ru'ting.
Authorities believed that agita
w- w, > l- culating among the
tr.kei. njj new violence.
ASSEMBLYMEN FAIL TO
iack UP GOVERNOR
PROVIDENCE, R. I., Sept. 14.
IP>.—Governor Green's worried
Pp«a; for (*. s. Army interven
on tn the Khode Island textile
;r'*e riots was rejected last
Kht because Democratic legisla
>rs. members of the executive's
Vv; Party. doubted the urgency
"'i wisdom of the move.
^ • :<>m Hyde Park,
eanwhil*- iat President Roose
ht a.is" was opposed to sending
ftontini.>-(i on page four)
Tells How SOS
Was Delaved
w
George W. Rogers, chief radio of
ficer of the ill-fated Morro Castle,
told the Department of Commerce '
inquiry board that he sent SOS.
on his own initiative because
Captain Warms had failed to act.
in time.
10 Arrests Made
In High Point By
National Guards
Disorderly Conduct Is
Charged; Only One Man
Known To Be Striker
HIGH POINT. Sept. 14. (UP).
Ten men were arrested here last
night by national guardsmen on
strike patrol at a local textile
mill.
The ten were charged with dis
orderly conduct and sent to jail.
The troopers reportedly were pre
paring: to eliminate any further
disorderly demonstrations here.
Only one of those arrested defi
nitely was identified as a striking
textile worker. He was Tom
Hooks, president of the High
Point hosiery mill workers' union.
900,000 SP1NDALES
RESUME ACTIVITY
CHARLOTTE. Sept. 14.—AMI
the evidence points to resumption
of full textile mill activities with
out delay, said W. M. McLaurine,
executive secretary of the Ameri
can Cotton Manufacturers associa
tion, yesterday in announcing that
in cold figures this week a total of
900,000 spindles have been re
turned to work in the two Caro
linas.
Plans for reopening other mills
indicate that the march toward
reinstatement of the whole indus
try on a normal productive basis
is well under way. The record of
the cotton textile plants reopened
during the first four days of the
second week of the strike, he de
clared, "is a convincing evidence
that the great majority of work
ers, if protected against alarms
and threats of bodily violence, are
(Continued on page four)
^ministration Calls On Industry
To Do All Possible To Provide Work
I ^eac^ Says It s Up to Business, Not the Preident
to Get People Off Relief Rolls
m *KSO\* PARK. Mass., Sept.
B a fmmistrauon
B n industry to
V "hun inly possible"
■' ' irkers before
V >ivn\ fiit-s.
I of industrial
V mnual national
■ here. Jesse
■ Reconstruction
■ i, said bluntly
V ness and industry
V ent Roosevelt to
w' , off relief rolls.
I tichberg, secretary
I executive coun
^ i-: mired 23,000.000
■ i - r on relief rolls
U t . ary
" na;iped at reports that
- irke<i confidence in the
v A i " and wanted a word
[ ' ' >•. ••• ! <>m the president
' '•< to the lal't wa$
i
f■ 1 <• r since when should
• ■ i>t of the I'nited States
1^- ivq,..icd to assure or guaran
tee any class of citizens a net
, profit, whether business, banking,
[ labor, * farming:, or what not,"
I ones said.
"We all have our opportunities
and our responsibilities, and our
living to make, and those who fail
to meet these responsibilities and
i to do everything within their pow
er to make a living1 for their fam
ilies and themselves are simply
not playing ball.
"Every bank, every business
and industry—public utility, rail
road, highway and airway trans
portation, in fact every actual and
pptential employer, should find
ways and means of employing as
many additional men and women
throughout the winter as is hu
manly possible:"
President Roosevelt, Jones said,
wants every business to have a
fair profit. But, he added, the
chief executive wants the profit to
be "fair and earned by fair
(Continued on page four)
DOLLAR LINER OFFICIALS SAY
ACCUSATIONS CAREY AT FAULT
IN RESCUE WORK ARE 'ABSURD'
' A
TOMATO PACK
FALLS SHORT
OF GOAL HERE
Orders in Car Lots Reject
ed by Cannery Kiwanis
Hears at Dinner Meet
i
After having; made preparations
to handle the largest pack of to
matoes and yellow tomato juice
in its seven-year history, the
Western North Carolina Cannery
is being forced to reject orders
in carload lots because the crop
is short, George Evans, manager,
told the Kiwanis club yesterday
afternoon.
Mr. Evans said this condition
has arisen partly because of ex
cessive rainfall, partly because of
late planting and improper fer
tilization, and finally because
farmers do not yet realize the
I financial possibilities in raising
tomatoes, beans and other vege
tables for the cannery.
"We have made progress at the
cannery." Mr. Evans said, "but
even with a superior product and
an unusual demand we are whip
ped if we can not tret the raw
product. We haven't bad more
than a five-days run this season,
and all the while orders have
piled up."
"Carolina Sunshine yellow to
mato juice." the speaker con
tinued, has been found bv labora
tory tests to have vatamines A, B
and C, and to contain little acid.
It has a flavor that can't be pro
duced in the lowlands, it will
raise or lower blood pressure,
and it will add or reduce weight
for the user."
More than 800 plants are can
ning red tomato juice, Mr. Evans
said, while only a few are turn
irtr out yellow tomato juice.
Dr. \V. W. Carpenter, chairman
of the agriculture committee, con
ducted the program. President
0. Y. Brownlee presented the
proposal to send a club represen
tative to the parkway hearing in
Washington next Tuesday, and
later the directors voted to send
an official representative: Kill
Keith asked for stock subscrip
tions in the Henderson County
Fair association and was told
[that practically the entire club
membership will invest; the Kev.
Broadus Jones announced Octo
ber 7 as church loyalty day and
President Brownlee was author
ized to appoint a committee to
co-operate with the Ministerial
Association in the movement, and
Mike Ogle, secretary, requested
the election of three delegates to
the Carolinas district convention
to be held in Asheville, Oct. 10,
II and 12. Tme directors later
authorized the president to ap
point the delegates.
Stanley J. Owens
Will Be Deported
NEW ORLEANS, La., Sept. 14.
(UP).—Stanley J. Owens, dapper
international swindler, citizen of
the world and its assorted pris
ons, was released from parish
prison last night and turned over
to immigration authorities for de
portation to England.
He was under sentence of a
year's imprisonment here for try
ing to operate a confidence game.
Governor O. K. Allen commuted
the sentence so that the jrisoner
could be deported.
Owens came to this country on
a visitor's visa, nosing as an au
thor seeking color for a novel. He
was said to have landed at Miami,
Fla.,,by airplane, by way of Ha
vana] Federal officers said his
criminal record dates back to
1897, when he was sentenced to
two years in prison at Sydney,
Australia, for fraud Later he
served six months in Tasmania for
conspiracy; a year in Melbourne
for conspiracy; was deported from
Johannesburg for violating immi- j
gration laws and served five years!
in London for a $250,000 swindle, j
SUES BREWERY
DURHAM, Sept. 14.—A year]
ago Robert Delapp, Rockingham |
traveling salesman, bought a bot
tle of beer here, yesterday he'
filed suit against a Baltimore '
brewing concern charging that the,
brew had insects in it and madej
him critically ill.
Skipper Declared Gearing
of Ship Inadequate (or
Quick Maneuvers in Mor
ro Castle Hearing
By H. ALLEN SMITH
United Press Staff Correspondent
NEW YORK, Sept. 14.—(UP).
Bluff Capt. Robert E. Carey, skip
per of the Dollar line's President
Cleveland, was accused yesterday
by four of his under officers of in
competency in the emergency
which arose at dawn last Satur
day when he took his ship to the
side of the flaming Morro Castle
off the Jersey coast.
The chief officer and the first,
second and third officers of the
President Cleveland testified be
fore the government's board of in
quiry that they would never again
sail under Captain Carev because
of the manner in which he be
haved at the scene of the great
sea tragedy.
Forty - eight minutes elapsed
from the time the President Cleve
land reached the Morro Castle un
til the first life boat was lowered,
the secondary officers said, and
none of them could offer an ex
planation why the order to lower
was not given immediately upon
arrival at the scene.
This procession of condemnatory
witnesses was interrupted only by
Sidney F. Curtis, a seaman on
President Cleveland, who in turn
criticized the conduct of Chief Of
ficer Henderson.
"My officer," said Curtis, "could
have offered to take some surviv
ors off the Morro Castle, even
thou eh we could not see anyone
but the officers who were sticking
by their ship. Men in another life
boat asked us if we were going to
take more people off and my of
ficer didn't reply."
Officials of the Dollar Line
came to Captain Carey's defense
and branded yesterday's testimony
as "absurd." The Dolar Line, they
said, has the utmost confidence in
the President Cleveland's skipper,
who has been with the company
for 15 or 20 years.
Captain Carey himself preceded
his under officers in the witness
chair but his testimony was brief
and routine.
When asked the reason for the
delay in lowering boats, Captain
Carey said:
"Because the Cleveland is a
slow ship in backing up and be
cause as you know her gear is not
up to date."
Two boats were finally put out
from the Cleveland but no one
was rescued. The boats circled the
ship but found no one in the
water.
Mill Man Slays 2
Women And Self
AUGUSTA, Ga.. Sept. 14.—
(UP).—Raeford Weaver, unem
ployed textil« worker, killed
Gladys Smith, 19, and fatally
wounded her sister, Mrs. Agnes
Elliott, 21, then committed suicide
with a shotgun here today.
Officers learned that Weaver
was enraged when Mrs. Elliott
forbade him to visit her. Mrs. El
liott died later in a hospital.
ICAROLINAS
STRIKE AREA
QUIET TODAY
Restraining Order Granted
by Court to Avoid Mill
Interference
ONE MILUS~CLOSED
IN GEORGIA TODAY
ATLANTA, Sept. 14—(UP).—
Occasional forays by flying* squad
rons today continued on the south
ern strike front.
A tense situation existed at
Aragon, Ga., after 250 strikers
forced the closinjr of a cotton mill,
causing: officials to request Gover
nor Eug'ene Talmadge to send
troops.
Adjutant General Lindley Camp
surveyed the situation, reporting
that troops are unnecessary.
Mrs. C. C. Cannon and Mrs. .T.
C. Taylor, pickets, suffered scalp
wounds when beaten after at
tempting to dissuade employes of
the Atlanta Hosiery Mill from re
turning to work.
A thousand national guardsmen
continued patrolling the Carolina's
strike area where quietness was
reported.
FLYING SQUADRONS
PEACEFUL, HE DECLARES
CHARLOTTE, Sept. 14.—(UP)
The restraining: order secured to
Textiles, Inc., of Oastonia,
%vill have little effect upon the
strike, R. R. Lawrence, president
of the State Federation of Labor,
declared last night.
The order, granted by Judge E.
Yates Webb, enjoins against inter
ference with the operation of the
14 plants controlled by Textiles,
Inc.
Lawrence said the injunction
does not forbid peaceful picket
ing, which he averred is the only
activity of the flying squadrons.
The injunction was no doubt in
tended to prevent the squadrons
from forcibly closing a plant,
Lawrence observed.
Meanwhile, it was estimated
here that in North Carolina 61,
000 operatives are working in 217
mills, while in South Carolina 24,
000 operatives are busy in 76
mills.
In North Carolina, it was esti
mated, there are 206 mills and
100,000 workers idle, while in
South Carolina there are 77 mills
and 36,000 workers idle.
Hosiery workers joined the
strike yesterday, but only a few
mills were closed. Accurate fig
ures on the number of operating
and of closed plants were not
available here last night.
C. M. Fox, member of the cot
ton textile national relations
board, said there were no plan#
for picketing knitting mills here
or any other plans'in reference
to the local knit goods industry.
Strikers at the Gossett plants
in Hoskins, near here, set up a
commissary yesterday to provide
food to members of strikers' fam
ilies. it a
COMMUTES SENTENCE
RALEIGH, Sept. 14.—(UP).
Governor J. C. B. Ehringhaus
yesterday commuted Willie White,
negro convicted in Mecklenberg
county of first degree burgalry
and sentenced to die in the elec
tric chair.
Johnson Would Withdraw Funds To
Whip States Into Line With NRA
i
Roosevelt Asked to Say if Road Money Could Not Be
Withheld Where Federal Law "Thwarted"
WASHINGTON, Sept. 14 (UP)
Recovery Administrator Hugh S.
Johnson proposed a new weapon
to President Roosevelt yesterday
to force states to co-operate with
the NRA.
He asked the chief executive to
determine whether federal high
way funds should not be with
drawn from Georgia whose offi
cials have displayed hostility to
ward Johnson's agency.
In a lengthy memorandum to
the president, Johnson outlined a
situation which has been worry
ing him for many months. It is:
Early this month the Whitley
Construction Co., of LaGrange,
Ga., was enjoined by the federal
court from violating wage and
hour provisions of the construc
tion code. The order was handed
down two months after the com
pany had been ordered to surren
der its blue eagle for similar al
leged violations.
The NRA charged the com
pany was paying its workers be
low the minimum wage fixed in
the code and was working the men
longer hours than provided in the
agreement.
The state then took over the
construction work. It continued to
pay the same wages and imposed
the same hours of work as fixed
by the Whitley Co., according to
NRA officials.
Johnson was powerless to inter
vene. The state could not be
charged with code violation be
cause it is not a signer to the
code.
As a last resort, the recovery
chief appealed to President Roose
velt. He asks this question:
"Should federal highway funds
continue to be paid into a state
which uses this money to thwart
the purposes of a federal law?"
Johnson believes it shouldn't.
President Roosevelt's ruling will
be watched with interest because
of its possible extension to other
fields of federal activities.
England's Great Endeavour
(Photo by Marglret Bourke-White; copyright, 1934, NEA Service)
They are more than toys, those lean and mighty yachts that race for
the America's Cup. Sumptuous laboratories for the ship builder's
craft, half-million dollar experimental pieces for the naval architects,
they nevertheless can sail safely beyond the horizon toward which
the Endeavour is pointing. The graceful challenger even here is
proving her prowess with a feat of finest vachstmanship—sailing into
the wind to reach her owner's power yacht a few miles ahead.
Friday Evening
Entertainments
To End Tonight
The final Chamber of Commerce
Friday evening entertainment will
be given at the high school audi
torium this evening1 at 8 o'clock.
The program will consist of a
variety dance and musical pro
gram and will be as follows:
Group of pupils from the Child-!
Fluker School of the Dance.
Little Piggies—Barbara Bennett,
Barbara Staton, Betty Redden,
Ginger Lee Smith.
Ballet dance Joan Sample
Song and dance
Yetta Mottsman
Tap Shirley Frymoyer
"Stay Young and Beautiful"
Sara Buchanan
Dance—Ann Holsford, June Loy,
Cecile Few; accompanied by
Miss Kate Dotson.
Spring Joy (Debois)—Mrs. Gus
Staton, Miss Tommie Shepherd,
Miss Margie McCarson; accom
panied by Miss Kate Dotson.
Piano solo Miss Mary Brooks
Jazz tap—Emmie Lou Wilkins; ac
companied by Miss Kate Doston.
Indian Dawn Zamecnik
Estrelleta (Messina)—Miss Kate
Dotson; accompanied bt Miss
Mary Brooks.
Numbers by Royal Entertainers:
Old Folks at Home Trio
Old Black Joe Trio
Give Me That Old Time Religion
—Chorus.
I Am Going Down to the River
Jordan ... Chorus
INDIANIANS VISIT I
CITY SECOND TIME
Mr. and Mrs. James E. Blair
of Gary, Ind., are visiting Hen
dersonville for the second time.
They are guests of W. I. Matter
who is spending his third sum
mer in Hendersonville.
Mr. Blair expresses himself as
delighted with this section and
states that he plans to visit here
as often as his business duties
will allow.
BANDITS LEARNING
CHICAGO, Sept. 14.—(UP).—
Two youthful bandits found out
it does not pay to try to hold up
a policeman. When the pair ap
peared, James Gordon fired his
police revolver. The two ran pell
mell and escaped.
Anatolian Says
He's 154 Yrs. Old
Father of Boy, 11, Claims
Late Agha's Honors
ADANA, SOUTHERN ANA
TOLIA, Sept. 14.—(UP)—Claim
ing an age of 154 years and that
he is the father of a boy of 11,
Hadji Boz Agir, a resident of the
village of Mardin, said yesterday
he considers himself as the World's
oldest and best preserved man.
He claims to be the successor
of the late Zaro Agha, who died
recently at a proclaimed age of
164.
Hadji Boz Agir went to Mardin
about 30 years ago, where he ac
1 quired a small farm. He then was
already considered a centenarian.
He maintains now that when
Turkey still exercised control over
Egypt, he served the Sultan there
as a gendarme, and that he took
part in the suppression of a Waha
bite uprising in 1821.
SECRETARIES
HARRASSED BY
BIG PROTEST
Foreign Nations Roiled by
Sensational Testimony
at Hearing
DUPONT TELLS HOW
MARKETS DIVIDED,
WASHINGTON. Sept. 14. (UP).
The sensational disclosures of the
special committee investigating
arms and munitions .sales meth
ods in this country were today
curtailed after Secretary of State
Cordell Hull and Secretary of
Commerce Daniel Roper protest
ed against the wide scope of the
hearing.
Secretary Hull told committee
men that the department of
state had been harrassed by pro
tests from foreign governments
as a result of the revelations.
Se<*etary Roper declared that
American business will suffer be
cause of the fact that private
negotiations have been revealed,
i
By RONALD Q. VAN TINE
United Press Staff Correspondent
WASHINGTON, Sept. 14. (UP).
Opposition to an arms embargo
resolution, proposed in the sen*
ate bv Senator William E. Borah
in 1932, was led bv the DuPont
de Nemours Co., Wilminerton.
Del.,, evidence presented before
the senate munitions investiga
tor® revealed veeterday.
The committee was told the
firm had solicited support in op
posing the resolution, introduced
by Borah at the renuest of then
President. Herbert Hoover, from
high officials of the war and
navy departments. The measure
eventually was "filibustered to
death- by Senator Bingham." ac
cording to Senator Bennett
ChamD Clark, D., Mo.
"Bingham" is former Senator
Hiram W. Bingham, R., Conn.
Earlier, the committee heard
testimony to the effect that the
DuPont company Wflq a party to
an agreement with Imnerial
Chemicals industries, a' British
concern,'which provided thnt the
the world would be divided in
two aectfons. one for each firm,
and the profits from each split.
The agreement applied onlv to
high explosives intended for mili
tary use, evidence showed, but
salesmen were Instructed to re
port eny inquiries they received
regarding small arms ammuni
tion. Earlier testimony revealed
the DuPont company held stock
in the Remington Arms Co..
which manufacturers small arm*.
Late in the day, the commit
tee was told bv Lamont DuPont,
president of the concern, that the
DuPont company "might have
'been" planning to sell munitions
to both China and Japan when
trouble developed in Shanghai
and Manchuria.
An intra-office memorandum
was offered in evidence, from F.
W. Pickard, vice-president, to tlic
smokeless powder division head,
Major K. K. V. Casey, dated Oc
tober 1931, asking what steps
had been taken to secure mili
tary sales business in the un
happy event of hostilities be
tween China and Japan."
Casey explained to the com
mittee that sales would have been
made to both sides, because if
they sold to only one nation "we
would be accused of taking
sides."
Pierre DuPont defended the
firm's war-time activities to cor
rect what he called "a wrong im
pression" about profits made
from munitions sold to the allies.
"We went into the war at the
solicitation of the allies," he said.
"They came to us because we
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Small Town Editors Of 18 States
Favor New Deal By Narrow Margin
Poll Stands 5 1-2 to 4 1-2 Where Pulse of People,
Under Stress of Necessity, Is Indicated
NEW YORK, Sept. 14.—(UP).
Small town editors in 18 states
are in favor, with reservations, of
President Roosevelt's "New Deal,"
a survey of Newsdom, a weekly
publication, revealed last night.
The survey said the administra
tion's program for recovery was
given the approval of these edi
tors, 5 1-2 to 4 1-2, in early re
turns. The poll is continuing, .but
this ratio prevailed when the pub
lication went to press for its Sept.
15 issue.
The poll made no attempt to
canvass the metropolitan centers,
the paper explaining that "The
New Deal stand of Roy W. How
ard, Hilliam Randolph Hearst, Col.
Robert R. McCormick, Col. Frank
Knox, and other leading publish
ers is too well known to need am
plification or inclusion. The re
ports come from smaller communi
ties where political bias has been
greatly reduced by dire necessity
and the pulse of the people is
more clearly indicated by the find
inffs of their editors."
The survey, although showing a
balance in favor of the "New
Deal/' admits that less than half
the editors answering the query
on their attitude were In favor of
the administration's deviees to re
store prosperity. The magazine's
report of its activities said:
"So far, the newspaper fratern
ity favors by about 5 1-2 to 4 1-2
the administrative acts of Wash
ington toward relieving the cha
otic condition of this oountry. But
almost every editor, in favor of
the New Deal ofTers restrictive
suggestions toward what might be
generally termed 'overselling the
nation.' Of the poll, 48.73 per
cent favored the New Deal. There
were 38.98 per cent against and
12.29 per cent agreed to the prin
ciples, in part."
The report said that 236 an
swers had been, received to date,
with 115 fo^ the/New Deal, 92
opposed to it, abd 29 agreeing to
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