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"hENDERSON, .mtewayt o central CAROLINA. TWENTIETH YEAR CONTRACTS AWARDED FOR 37 NEW U.S. NAVY SHIPS Roosevelt Orders Speedy Completion Great Smoky Park President Signs Permit Carrying $1,500,000 Ap propriation from Pub lic Works Fund WILL BE ENLARGED OVER ORIGINAL SIZE Use of $500,000 of Fund Available Will Also Meet Conditions of John D. Rockefeller, Jr.’s $5,- 000,000 Condition Gift for The Park Washington. Aug. S.—(A?)—The In- . '■roi Department was advised today | tht President Roosevelt had signed; a? e .ecu’ive order for the completion of the GreaL Smoky Mountains Nn trncl Park in North Carolina and , Tennessee. Th? oru’Er will carry with it an ap- | plica’tcn of $1,500,000 from public • works funds to round out and enlarge the park beyond the 125,000 acres pro- J vi’ns jn *h‘ original plan. John D. Rockefeller, Jr., gave $5,- • OCvOvO for the park on the condition that one half of it should be a mem orial ’a his mother, Laura Spellman Rcckefelle;, and on the condition that the 'wo .dates and private citizens Cortii> u‘ an equal amount. The con- I tribua’ron' from private citizens how-i -:ver fell $500,000 short of th? goal, I and SSOO 000 of ’he $1,500000 will be | wed to make up this deficiency. The remaining $1,000,000 will be ti-ei to procure additional land and will furnish all winter work for men of the civilian conservation corps. wider appliance 1 SALES TAX COMING Odium Being Transferred From Merchants to Buy ers, Agents Find Unity Tllnpntch Bureau. In the Sir Waller Hotel. HV J C. iiASKEHVII.L,. Ralt-gh, August 3—More general a PP-':i:?n of ’Tie sales tax for this me nth than for July 1b transferring ti'im f;r?m merchants to buy tr*. £ aite workers who have this bus ir<. a c: ■. jay, a nd the proposed l campaign to get the tax repeal gets impetus from the increased tax con. £ ’OW .’V'TS. * Until the pa.t few days it had been ■very difficult to get the sales tax slant ■ n the cha n stores, but they excel fnw in publiis'hvng the application. The’r old nCne-cent packages, have e - r - and the psychological dime is a ,r u' to pa -3 out with the oni? penny ® ’-’icn. If the vendor can make the vendee aware about ten dimes t.tch purohasin e hour that there is a P f "ncious penny to be added to each -'e ”e world will know about it June. 1931. Yei. senators and representatives ’’b? hive b?en here this week believe re:i f frem property taxation will b con derible enough to make ver c.ffrujt a : ucce? ful campaiigin of re- P?al for the sales tax. Secretary Wil- (Continued on Page Eight.) Recovery Depends Upon People, Judge Kerr Says Respect for and Faith In Government Stressed by Con gressman at Field Day at Oxford Tobacco Experi ment Station; 1,000 People Attend Oxford. Aug. 3 (AP)-The North Al . "" ma Department of Agriculture two fth annual field day at r ’ v ' rr o station here today and '' lan John 111 Kcrr > of War r/ , , n 3S Principal speaker, said that per, depends on the American c- evidence of respect and the they give to the government. i ( 1,000 people came h ' the farms, learn various 1,1 oombatting plant diseases '’e shown how <o improve their : tj ..Senator J. W, Noell, of Rox- HENDERSON# N Hrtthrrsun Dcttltt Slisnatrh FULL LEASED WIRE nwuvin- THR ASSOCIATED PRHBB Blown to Pieces 3 r ’ :: E/" v|: gL : : :• L :i WS I I w SI * noil Mrs. Demaris Rubright This is Mrs. Detnaris Rubright, 27, of New Castle, Pa., who was blown to bits when a bomb ex ploded in her automobile as she was driving on an isolated coun try road near Portersville, Pa, Her husband, James Rubright, a garage mechanic, denied any knowledge of how his wife met death following his arrest in Pittsburgh, though he admitted being with her a short time be fore she was killed. The explo sive was placed under the hood of the car. according to police. FINDS WIFE WITH MAN, SHOOTS HER Robeson County Indian Farmer Blames White Overseer on Farm Lumberton, Aug. 3.—(AP) —Charlie Clark, an Indian, shot his wife, Epha to death early today when, he told officers, he found her in the company of R. H. Hill .white overseer of a to bacco farm. Clark, who works on the farm Hill has charge of, said he found Hill and his wife in the yard of his home. He said both had attended an Indian church service a few hours earlier. Clark and HiTl were arrested by Duoglas Smith, rural policeman, and lodged in jail pending an in quest into the woman’s death. Mrs. Clark was shot through the breast with a shotgun. She died in stantly. boro, presideded, Kerr commended the citizenry of the country for “its love and respect for government,” and said • the people make the government "stable and powerful,’’ adding that "we must rid ourselves of the spirit , of indifference toward governmental functions.” s He said the "greatest indictment that can be brought against the peo- • pie i ; th? Jack of interest in govein i ment .and their failure to learn of its t greatness and abi ity to care for any • situation. Great credit and respect for the government are the greatest forces ■ of recovery.'- _._ ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER DISSATISFACTION IN TOBACCO BELT Os GEORGIA AGAIN Growers Displeased at The Prices Offered Them on Some Warehouse Floors During Day BETTER GRADES OF LEAF ARE EVIDENT But Poorer Qualities Are Likewise Seen on Sales; Government Agents From Washington To Be Sent to Flue-Cured Tobacco Re gions In The South Atlanta, Ga., Aug. 3.—(AP)—Better grades of bright leaf tobacco appeared today, the third day of the annual auctions in the Georgia belt. Poorer grades however, were still in evidence. Reports from the markets today in dicated dissatisfaction at some points oveir prices offered the growers. Offerings on the Moultrie tobacco market were light again today. Moul trie said that the morning sales in dicated Ihe estimated 200,000 pounds would sell for an average of 4 cents. “The better grades, growers insist, are not commanding as high prices as they did last season, while com mon tohacco is selling considerably higher than it did last season,” the correspondent reported. J. P. Hutson, acting chief of the tobacco section of the Department of Agriculture at Washington, said yes terday the complaints were being con sideied, and that two experts from the Bureau of Agricultural Economics would be sent to the flue-cured to bacco regions. r Sales at Vidalia showed increased volume today, with prices holding but not showing gains said the Atlanta Journal correspondent. He added: “Hundred and seventy-five thou sand pounds: average eleven cents; low grades sold from two cents up. Good common brought 14 to 18 and best baskets sold for 20 and 25. Grow ers expect better prices.” LENOIR-RHYNE GETS ESPEY AS A COACH Hickory, Aug. 3. —(AP) —William H. (Red) Espey, former star athletic at North Carolina State College, was sign ed today as assistant coach at Lenior Rhyne College here. Guards at Prison Are Suspended for Granting Privilege Washington, Aug. 3. —(AP)— Three members of the staff of Leavenworth peniteniary have been suspended for granting privileges to Terrence Drug gen. Chicago beer baron, serving a two and half year prison sentence there. The Justice Department announced today that, acting upon confidential information that Druggan was receiv ing improper privileges, the Bureau of Prisons had investigated and found the charges true. The department did not say from whom the confidential information had been received. SHEPARDAPPEAIS FOR NEGRO CODES Urges Secretary Perkins To Take Side of Defense less Workers J , Unity iMnpntch tlnreni, In the Str Waller Zlotel, BY J- c. BASKERVILL. Raleigh, Aug. 3. —Taking notice of action by various employers of labor in this State in which it is asked that the industrial code do not apply to elevator operators, janitors, porters and similar workers, Dr. James E. Shepard, presiden of North Carolina College for Negroes in Durham, has written Secretary Frances Perkins of the Department of Labor, urging her to use her office to prevent a “dis crimination so indefensible as this.” Dr. Shepard, recognized widely thr oughout. the country as a tactful and remarkably intelligent leader of his race refers in his letter to the very low salaries, coupled with high stan dards of training, character and ef ficiency that Negro school teachers [receive. But he puts the emphasis for qu Page PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OF NORTH CA ROT,TN A AND VIRGINIA. HENDERSON, N. C., THURSDAY, AFTERNOON AUGUST 3, 1933 Uses Troops to Aid Huey Long life ImSST FM ? ww .. 3 - • sb - -—£l« w * KU h <. A V V * MR Lr'. 2 -1 ■j m Hnk ■r w ' |» i lßn'l ■ \ Hl ’BBS B Bflf Gov. Oscar K. Allen, of Louisiana, political ally of Huey Long, is enfor«. ing martial law. in New Orleans, coincident with beginning of investiga tion of alleged irregularities in voting on amendments shoved through by Sen. Huey Long, before Judge Alexander O’Donnell, in Criminal District Court, in defiance of the state attorney general’s order to turn the probe over to a grand jury. The grand jury attempted to return a “no true bill” on a blanket indictment against 1,048 election commissioners. Judge O’Donnell declares he will proceed with the investigation until “physi cally restrained.” Photos show Gov. Allen and entrance to the New Orleans courthouMb Note the inscription. (Central Press) Way Is Now Opened For Big Employers To Join Existing Wage Contracts, N egotiated on Union Basis, Conformity Must Be Givien Need Not Be Altered, But Otherwise; Newspapers A Principal Group Washington, Aug. 3.—(AP)— The way was cleared today for big em ployers of labor under contracts to join the counrytwide NRA program without altering existing wage and hour terms. While Hugh S. Johnson as head of the recovery administration, continued efforts to bring peace to the coal strike territory of western Pennsyl vania, Donald Richberg—his general counsel—issued an interpretation of President Roosevelt’s voluntary agree ment under which contracts reached by colic live bargaining and which specify a dclhrtte number of hours of employment a week may be main tained unimpaired, The employer affected to obtain his blue eagle insignia must conform in other ways to the wage and employ ment increasing moves however. FINDiMMAr IN VACANT SECTION Man Arrested in Discovery of Gastonia Woman’s Body In Charlotte Charlotte, Aug. 3. —(AP) —A woman identified as Mrs. Chris Madlin, of Gastonia, was found beaten to death today in a vacant lot in Charlotte’s wholesale district. Robert Clark, of Charlotte, was ar rested for questioning in the case. Police announced they were looking for “other men.” The body was discovered by two po licemen, who were called to that sec tion by residents, who complained that a number of hoboes were hanging around the Piedmont and Northern railroad tracks, not far from where the body was discovered. The woman’s head was badly beaten with a hole in it. She had two black eyes and other wounds. Police said she had apparently been dead since laXe last night or early this morning. The body was found shortly after noon ATTEMPT TO KIDNAP CHILDREN OF MAYOR Rochester, Minn., Aug. 3.—(AP( An apparent attempt to kidnap one or more of the three children of Dr. and Mrs. Charles W. Mafro Tuesday was made known today. WEATHER FOE NORTH CAROLINA. Probably showers tonight and Friday. ...... Newspapers are a principal group affected by the new ruling since a huge proportion now have their me chanical forces under union negotiat ed contracts. Johnson’s coal peace conferences begun last night were resumed this morning but suddenly suspended until late afternoon at the request of mine operatives involved. Meantime the effects of one of the codes of fair practice now in force became evident. The navy awarded millions of dol lars worth of ship contracts to pri vate yards which will operate on a 32- ho<r week basis under the code and simultaneously civilian employees in the navy yards were ordered on a flat five-day 40-hour week. FurtheY adjustment and changes may be made later. NeVKidnap Threats To O’Connells Snatchers Riled By Marked Money and Maneuvers In Re lease of Youth Albany, N. Y., Aug. 3.—(AP) Threats to kidnap the wife of Edward J. O’Connnell prominent Democratic leader, or one of the three O’Connell brothers, uncles of the ransomed John J. O’Connell, Jr., were reported to have been received by the efamily to day. The threats were said to have been responsible for the heavy guard main tained at the mountain camp of Dan O’Connell, where several members of his family are staying. Police and private guards, armed with rifles, patrolled the O’Connell camp 20 miles from this city. Young “Butch” was returned to the camp last ■Sunday after a 24-day captivity in New York City. It was understood that the snatch mob, angered by the revelations that it had been given marked money and the knowledge that the O’Connells worked with the authorities, sought to silence the youth and his uncles with threatening letters. LAWYER FOR GO-BETWEEN THREATENS TO “TELL ALL” Albany, N. Y„ Aug. 3.—(AP)—Louis Snyder, young Albany attorney, who acted as counsel,, for Manny Strewl, go-betwee. in the O’Connell kidnap case, today threatened to “tell the (Continued on Page HUBUSHHD EVBRY AFTfIKNOOS EXCEPT SUNDAY,. Private Concerns Build2l Os Them And Navy Sixteen Heard Eight Miles IWBL& •111 ■. r< •* ..j Leo Chrisman By shouting so loudly that hi« voice was heard—according to judges—a distance of eight miles and in three states, Lee Chris man, 32, farmer living near Dan ville, Ky., set what his followers claim as a world record. The shouting was done at 3 a. m. from a mountaintop at Cumberland Gap, Tenn., overlooking Ken tucky. Tennessee and Virginia. EXPECTDRAMATICS AS EOGLEMAN DIES His Attorney, Allen Gwyn, Reported Planning March to Chair CONFESSION - IS SEEN Guessers Point Out Prisoner Has Re fused To Reveal His Where, a bouts Night Garage Ope rator Was Killed Dnity Dispatch Unreal, In the Sir Walter Hotel, nv J e. UASKERVILL. Raleigh, Aug. 3.—Drama tomorrow morning at the execution of Olin Clay Fogieman is expected if one of his attorneys, Allen H. Gwyn, travels the last mile with him and watches him die. About the prison the story was out last night and today that Mr. Gwyn, who defended Fogleman and helped to make the most protracted fight for life that any prisoner has had in modern days, will march to the chair 'with his impecunious, client. Senator Gwyn, who was a member of the 1933 General Assembly, has made four ap pearances before the clemency powers in behalf of Fogleman. It was his passionate speech of Monday that got for Mr. Gwyn the request that Solic tor Carlisle Higgins, who prosecuted Fog’eman, should come before Gov- (Continued on Page Three.) Brooklyn Kidnap Victim ‘Bought Back’ On Credit Tale That He ‘‘Hasn’t Got 3 5 Cents to His Name” Appa. rently Turned Trick; Installment Payment of $2,- )000 Is Promised By Man’s Brother New York, Aug. 3.—(AP)—Nathan Baskowitz was home today—the first kidnap victim to be brought back on credit. Shortly after police proclaimed that Baskowitz, a sports promoter “hasn’t got 35 cents to his name.” kidnapers released him last nigh’ under a noth ing-down -and-easy-payment plan.. Baskowitz was seized Monday night by five gunmen who snatched him from in front of the home eof friends. His brother, associated with Humbert o PAGES o TODAY FIVE CENTS COP) Charges of Collusion Be tween Bidders Not Sub stantiated, Senator Trammell Says HOURS OF WORK IN NAVY YARDS FEWER Government Plants To Con form to Provisions Affect ing Private Companies; Some 44,000 Employees Will Be Affceted by New Work Soon To Begin / Washington, Aug. 3.—(AP)— The Navy Department today awarded con tracts “to the lowest responsible bid der’ for 2 new naval vessels. The department also allotted 16 ves sels to be constructed in navy yards. Bids for the vessels awarded pri vate yards were opened July 26. Announcing the awards, officials said charges by Senator Trammell, chairman of the Senate Naval Com mittee. of collusion between the bid ders had not be substantiated. Meanwhile, in view of the ship building code as to wages and hours, in private yards, the navy today or-l dered a five-day week of 40 hours for civilian employees at all shore stations. The new work week will replace the present five and a half day week fpr which six days pay is given. Pay will now be on the basis of five days wages for the five days work. Some 44,000 employees will be af fected. The awards to the navy yards for construction were one light cruiser and two destroyers to the Philadel phia navy yard; two destroyers toi Norfolk yard; two destroyers to the Puget Sound yard and two destroyers to the Mare Island yards. The department announced it would carry forward its previously indicated (Continued on Page Three.j Lowlands Os Denver Inundated Denver. Col., Aug. 3.—(AP) —Cherry creek, which several times destroye ’. pioneer Denver, and which for many years has been confined within con crete walls swept over its barriers to day and inundated the lower section of the city after destroying two bridges. The flood result of a cloudburst last night southeast of here swept into town shortly befgore 6 a. m. took off the wooden Colorado Boulevard bridge and broke down the steel and con crete structure spanning the break at Logan street. The first creit. four feet high, was soon swelled to <iudh proportions it swept out of' the re taining walls erected by the late mayor Robert W. Speer, at tremen dous cost, and began to spread. There was no loss of life reported in Denver, but near Mathieson, in the cloudburst area, Mrs. Claude Hill, 50, was swept away by a six foot wall of water when she stepped into her yard. Fugavy, another sports promoter, re ceieved a letter demanding $35,000. Artie proceeded to outtalk the kid napers. He said, according to reports reaching police, that while he did not have a large sum handy at the mo ment, his credit was good and he could pay $2,000 in time. Yesterday Chief Inspector John J. •Sullivan said, the kidnaped man “ieaJ 1y hasn’t got 35 cents.” Whether that influenced thre kidnapers is not known but at any rate a few hours later Bas kowitz arrived at Coney Island, Si Kha. I