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CENTRAL
CAROLINA.
TWENTIETH YEAR
10 DEAD, MILLIONS
SHERIFF LIBERATES
ELEVEN NEGROES IN *
ATTACK CASE HERE
Mary L«na Van Dyke Un
able To Identify Any of
Them as Her Assail,
ants Wednesday
ANOTHER HELD FOR
an investigation
She Said His Voice Resemb
led One of Pair Who At
tacked Her at Home In
County; Taken to Wake
Forest an d Raleigh To
View Suspects Held There
Eleven 01 twelve Negroes held for
investigation in 'he attempted crim
inal ??sa i)t on Mary Lena Van Dyke.
daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
A!? Van Dyke, of the Linbank road sec
tion of Vance county late Wednesday
af:ern~on. were freed today at the
Vsrr? county jail after the child had
failed to identify either of them as her
assailant. Sheriff J. E. Hamlett an
nounced t)iis afternoon.
A Negio who gave the n&me of Jeff
Quarre’s. apparently about 25 years
ell. and who said he was from Edge
field. S. C., was being held for fui
thtr investigation as the result of the
girl's staitment that his voice some
what resembled that of one of the men
mho grabbed her at her home Wed
nsdav afternoon. She did not positive
ly identify him. Sheriff Hamlett said
Quarrels was picked up by police in
Ker.derso i during the night.
Released from Hospital.
Mias Van Dyke was released from
"Maria Pv him hospital today after
te ng here overnight following treat
tant of h'r rnjiiHct!. severely
tut on tn 1 arm and leg and received I
o terrific blow in the abdomen at the
hands of her assailants, and was still
■veak and a bit nervous today as the
re ult C: hoi experience. Physicians
who examined the child said she had
ret been criminally assaulted.
Sheriff Hamlett said this afternoon
(Continued on Pace Three )
Coal Operators
And Miners Talk
Over Their Code
Washington. August 24 (AP) —
Hugh 8 Johnson today brought
Vig‘th:r non-union Mtumiiyjus
coal operators and representatives
'* the United Mine Workers of
America for a conference on tho
code* of competition for the in
dustry.
•lohnson and Deputy Adminis
<f2tcr Kenneth M Simpson went
into the conference with the ope.
rators and miners whose conflict
ing views have held up the code
completion.
Neither Joh n L. Lewis, ppresi
dent of the mine workers, nor any
°f operators, would predict
’'hat would come out of the meet
• n ? or say wliat proposals they in
tended to make.
Big Stores
At Odds On
Price Rule
Some Favor and Oth
ers Oppose Price
fixing and Adver
tising Regulations
1 ■ Aug. 24. —(AP) —Con-
betwee nthe big New York de
stores arose In the Recovery
Thru 1 rathearings on the re
’ code today, with one group de
ending price and advertising regul
s 'ms a tic: another opposing it.
AT [ ’crcy S. Straus, president of R. H.
--"' V and Company, assailed a pro
’-'I ■ o write into the code a pro
i-mn to i egulate prices.
)n n H. Namm, representing 14 other
New York department stores,
_ "landed (he price-fixing clause as
of preventing stores from
|' / c; Usinp: that they generally un-
; < competitors. ,
' * •“*' raid that “if retail trade
' "l i c&n fix prices at net. invoice
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Banker Indicted
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Charged with mfsapplcation of
funds. Sterling B. Cremter. former
president of the defunfct First-Central
Trust Co., largest baulk in Akron. O
I'ras been hadlc.trd with five other for.
uner osfficrs of the bank by a county
grand jury. Cramer, now executive
vic e president tof the Fifth Third
Unir.n Truest Co., of Cincinnati, was
lin'dicted in connect iojv with the B. F.
Goodricty company’s idteged-* •with
drawal of $294.000 frern the Akron
hank during the banking critrs Inst
February. . .
ETHERIDGE 10 GET
CONSERVATION JOB
Manteo Legislator ’Offered
Headship of Department
by Governor
AWAITS HIS DECISION
He Is Expected To Accept, And Di
rector Harrelson Will Probably
Go Back so State Col
lege Professorship
Raleigh Aug. 24.—(AP)—Ap
pointment of R. Bruce Etheridge,
Manteo banker and Dare county
representative in the General As
sembly, as director of the State
Department of Conservation and
Development, to succeed Colonel J.
W. Harrelson, was announced here
today by Governor Ehringhaus’
office.
A new Local Government Commis
sion also was named by the chief exe
cutive. Only one member of the old
board, Mayor Earl B. Horner, of Bur
lington. was re-appointed.
The new members are: J. L. Skin
ner, of Littleton, secretary of the State
Association of County Commissioners;
Lewis Fisher, Wilmington business
man; Meade H. Willis, Winston-Salem
insurance man, and E. B. Denny, an
attorney of Gastonia.
Appointment of Joseph P. Rawley,
High Point publisher, to the Board of
Conservation and Development, and
Mrs. R. B. Boger, of Morganton, to
(Continued on Page Five.)
Condemned Negro
Waits Fate After
Hurried Inquiries
Raleigh, Aug. 24.—(AP) —The fate
of Johnny Lee, Harnett county Negro
scheduled to die tomorrow in the elec
tric chair, today hinged on a rapid
fire investigation by Solicitor Claw
son Williams into a story told by Lee
that another Negro confessed the mur
der to him.
The solicitor, who prosecuted Lee,
was going into the records of the
death of Arthur Campbell, Negro, said
by Lee to have been a victim of poison
Asa Herring, Negro, confessed to him
he administered.
Herring is under sentence of 30 years
in Stale's Prison for hiring Lee to
kill Jacob Hill, Negro barber, of Clin
ton, for which Lee was sentenced to
die. T>ee said he was paid 75 to com
mit the crime.” , _
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UF THE assckjiateo press
HENDERSON, N. C., THURSDAY AFTERNOON, AUGUST 24, 1933
DAMAGE IN NORFOLK STORM AREA
Hoover Decline s To Testify
Former President Herbert. Hoover,
inset, has declined an invitation of
Judge Harry B. Keidan, right to tes
tify at a one-man grand jury probe
the judge is conducting into the clos
ing of two Detroit banks. Senator
Two Trainmen Killed As
Crescent Limited Wrecks
Crack Southern Railway New York-New Orleans Flier
Derailed at Bridge Over Anacostia River Near
Washington; Passengers Miraculously Escape
Washington. Aug. 24. —(AP)— The
Crescent Limited, crack Southern Rail
way train, tn route from New York to
New Orleans, carried two enginemen
to instant death and sent 13 passeng
ers and members of its crew to hos
pitals when it was derailed over a
swollen stream near here at 3:45 a. m.
today..
A weakened bridge over the eastern
branch of the Anacostia river, just
outside the capital, caused the disas
trous before-daylight wreck.
The engine left the rails, pi tinging
into a mud bank with its operating
cab submerged in the stream.
A. 11. Bryde, of Washington, en
gineer, and J. H. Faye, firemen of
Perryville, Md., were killed.
A mail car and a coach were hurled
ahead of the engine, diagonally across
the tracks. A Pullman car was thrown
into the stream and practically sub
merged. Several passengers were in
it at the time, but all managed to es-
MAXWELL PASSED
POWERS TO NOBLE
Governor Cites Commission,
er’s Announcement In
Discussing Status
Pnlly Dlnpatph Bureau,
In the Sir Walter Hotel
BY J. C BtSKERVIU,
Raleigh, Aug. 24.—Dr. M. C. S.
Noble, Jr., was appointed executive as
sistant commissioner of revenue by
Commissioner of Revenue A. J. Max
well and the authority given him over
personnel, reorganization and so forth
was delegated to him by Commission
er Maxwell rather than by the gov
ernor, it was pointed out indirectly
here yesterday by Governor J. C. B.
Ehringhaus. For while Governor Eh
ringhaus declined to comment direct
ly upon the situation in the Depart
ment of Revenue, where Executive
Assistant Commissioner Noble has
been giving out statements indepen
dently, he advised newspaper men to
read the statement issued by Com
missioner Marwell in announcing the
appointment of Dr. Noble. This state
ment is as follows:
“The responsibilities of the Depart
ment of Revenue have been greatly
enlarged by the recent Genral Assm
bly in th ceonsolidation with it of the
highway patrol and the gasoline in
spection service, as well as Che spread
of the tax laws, including the sales
tax. Machinery adequate in design and
•character must be set up to efficiently
darry this increased load. I anticipate
full cooperation in this purpose and
it has been agreed to designate an
additional assistant with particular re
ference to organization responsibilitie
and that Dr. M. C. S. Noble, Jr.,
shall be apponted for this purpose
(Continued on Page Three.£
PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA AND VIRGINIA.
James Couzens, of Michigan, l»ft
above, made he request that the for
mer President be called, while testify
ing that Hoover told a director of one
of the banks that Couzens was a “very
dangerous man. ’
cape.
Four other cars hung precariously
to the roadbed, saved from a worse
crash only by their couplings. Two
cars, off the track, swung directly
over the stream, partially submerged,
and only the pull of the cars in front
and behii.d saved them from toppling
into the water.
Ben Johnson, railroad employee,
who had been riding in the engine
cab, was pulled out of a sunken com
partment. These at the wreck said he
probably had been fatally injured, but
at the hospital doctors said none of
the wreck patients was in any imme
diate danger.
Th ’c were conflicting reports as to
the speed of the train. Officials of the
road said it had been proceeding un
der reduced speed orders.
Several of those on board the train
said it was their impression that it
had been moving at a high rate of
speed in order to make up part of the
hour it was behind schedule.
FUNDS AVAILABLE
■
But Can Be Had By State
Only If Matched Dollar
For Dollar
IJnlly Uhpntch nnrcnn,
In the Sir Walter Hotel.
|U ,1. C. BASKEHVILIi.
Raleigh, Aug. 24. —North Carolina
can get $29.030. during this coming
year from the Federal government for
use in the maintenance of Fedenai-
State employment bureaus, provided
the State will match this monej with
State funds or funds appropriated for
this purpose by cities and towns, ac
cording to Commissioner of Labor A.
jL. Fletcher, who has just returned
from Washington where he conferred
.with officials of the U. S. Depart
ment of Labor on this matter. Prsent
indications are that this State may
,not, be able to get any of this money,
due to the fact that the total appro
priation for the maintenance of em
ployment offices is only $3,360 a year,
which is less than the minimum of
25 per cent of the Federal appropria
tion. The Wagner law requires that a
State must match at least 25 per cent
of the total available from the Fed
eral appropriation in order to get any
of it.
“I am hoping we will be able to
work out some way to get enough
money for employment work to get at
least 25 per cent, of the Federal allo
cation of $29,030, although I do not
know yet where we we going to get
(Continued on Page Three.)
WEATHER
FOR NORTH CAROLINA.
Generally lair tonight and Fri
day.
Tales Os Heroism Told
As Storm-Lashed Liner
» Limps To Norfolk Port
Sterling Seamanship of Cap
tain and Crew and Cour
age of Passengers
Save Vessel
TWO OFFICERS FROM
CREW SWEPT TO SEA
Three Others Hurt In Battle
With Great Hurricane Off
Virginia Capes Tuesday;
Ship Badly Battered and
Damaged and Many Life
boats Carried Away
Norfolk, Va , Aug. 24. —(AP) —A tale
of sterling seamanship on the part of
"aptain and crew and superb courage
rhown by passengers was brought to
port here today with the storm-bat
tered Old Dominion liner Madison.
Escorted by the coast guard destroy
er Upshur, the Madison docked early
this morning with two members of
her crew missing and two others in
jured, her forward deck house and sec
tions of her railing and superstructure
swept, away, scores of cabins smashed
and many of her lifeboats gone.
The dead are Second Mate Lycurgus
Lawrence, a North Carolinian, lost
early yesterday morning when he went
aft on the starboard side to cut loose
a banging lifeboat and Quartermastr
Edward Corbett, swpt overboard front
his post in the forward deck house
when a gigantic wave, estimated at
more than 70 feet in height, sent the
deck hou-e spinning overboard at 7:20
Two members of the crew—Ma,lachi
Nelson, and Robert Turner were
taken £iw.&y from the vessejj in am
bulances when she docked at 2 o’clock
this morning. Nelson suffered a brok
en leg and Turner a broken ankle.
In addition, an unidentified Negro
woman passenger was reported early
today as having sustained injuries
during the storm, and was taken to a
hospital.
The haggard group of passengers,
corralled at 5 a. m. yesterday into
social hall, on the promende deck,
when a gigantic wave smashed in a
great section of the port side of the
promenade deck and sent two tons of
water streaming into the state rooms
of the deck below, grouped on the
deck to send up a rousing cheer for
Captain W. S. Heath, master of the
vess?l, whose superb seamanship
brbought the vessel safely through the
worst storm in the history of this sec
tion of the coast.
Father Coughlin
Admits Purchase
Os Lot of Stocks
|
Detroit, Mich., Aug. 24. —(AP) —The
Rev. Charles rj. -Jougnun, on the wit
ness stand today, accused the Detroit
Free Press of publishing a fake rec
ord to show that he had engaged in a
stock market transaction. The priest
later admitted, under questioning,
however, that the stock described had
been purchased for an organization
connected with the church.
Checks On
Cotton Due
By Monday
Being Mailed From
Washington at Rate
of 30,000 to 50,000
Daily
Ra’eigih, August 24 (AP)—North
Carolina farm agents should begin to
-ncei’ve rotten checks from Washing
ton by Monday, according to telegfa.
pfitc information received at State
College today.
Dean I. O. Sobaub was advised yeis
terday -that these checks are now be
ing written at (the rate of 30,000 a day,
and that, the rate would be stepped up
to 50.000 a day as the machinery be
came better perfected. Even at the
faster rate, ti would take about one
rronifh for all checks to be prepared
and mailed, he said. The deadline,
for completing distribution of checks
has been set for September 22 by C.
A. Cobb, cotton production chief of
agricultural administration. L _ ,
PUBLISHED EVERY AFTIENOOI
EXCEPT SUNDAY.
Liner Is Aground
In Norfolk Area
Norfolk, Aug. 24.—(AP) — The
Chesapeake steamship liner City of
Norfolk is aground in Polomokc
Bound, one mile east, of the north
end of Waits island. Her passengers
are safe.
News of the discovery of the
steamer, missing and unheard from
sine sh lfi Ba’timor arly Tusday
night, was rcivd by radio at 1:30
today from on of th two navy
plans that had bn sarching for
the missing vessel since early to
day.
ffsfi DAMAGE
Summary by Coast Guard
Headquarters in Norfolk
Reveals Heavy Loss
NOT ALL~KNOWN YET
Impaired Comm urlcat tons
Likely Hiding Catastrophes Un
re ported; Many Ships
Suffer Extensively
(Norfolk, Va., Aug. 24 (AP) -Storm
dswn&ge toy shipping-mot yet complete
ly known because of dF»*np*cd com
munications and efforts of
coast guardsmen to combat the havoc
■wrought by wind and wave, are ter
sely recorded i n the following offi.
c'al report furnished by the Norfolk
division headquarters of the coast
guard :
“City of Norfolk.’’ from Baltimore'
to Norfolk, missing.
Four-miasited schooner, G. A. Koh
ler wrecked two miles, south of Guil
Shoals coast guard station:; nine men
and women stewardess of the Bihip
saved by breeches buoy.
Dredge sunk in Cut Off channel,
Baltimore: 27 men saved by patrol
boats.
Coast guard cutter Mascoutin brings
In barge Rockland from anchorage
cuts idle Cape Henry.
Coast guard Ponchai*tra:,n severally
(battered by heavy seas when >in and 1
Os four-mjasted schooner Kohler. Two
bulkheiads damaged and life boats
'carried away, now in port undergo
ing repairs.
Norwegian freighter Langhaug
ashore on Crany Island near Pig
Point. f
mow job
State Game Warden May Be
Forced Out If Harrelson
Is Dropped
Daily Ul«pat«t ffnrenw.
In the Sir Walter i<ot«l.
7ir J <’ H/tSKRUVILi,.
Rakygh, Aug. 24 —If R Bruo e Eth
ridge is appointed director of the DeL
partment of Conservation and Deve
lopment, as tho« e i n informed politi
cal circles expect him to be, what will
he do baout or with Charles M. Eng
land- erstwhile State gam© warden,
whose job was abolished by the 1933
General Assembly, but who is still
ian employe of the Conservation De
partment For England has the
principal storm!, center of this de u
partruent for several years and was
th© principal cause of the opposition
to it and th© efforts, to abolish it in I
(this last 1933 general assembly, ac_
oording to those who are familiar with
the background of things in. the Con
eervation Department.
In fact, the prevailing opinion in
many quarters both her© and in oth
er sections of the State, is that on©
of the principal reasons Colonel J.
W. Harrelson. present director of ih©
department, is not slated for reten
tion is that toe hais insisted in retain
ing England in the department. The
board of conservation has known of
|thc opposition to England among ‘he
sportsmen and other conservation ; sts
ever the State for a long tim e nud
(Continued on Page Five.£
8 PAGES
TODAY
FIVE CENTS CUr'Y
RESORT SECTIONS '"I
SEEM HARDEST HIT
BY BIG HURRICANE
Two White Men and Six Ne.
groeg Killed on Land and
Two Officers Lost
From Ship
COASTAL CAROLINA
SLOWLY RECOVERING
Thankful Damage ao Great
er Than Preliminary Esti
mates; Biggest Loss Is In
Highways, Communica
tions Systems and in Truck
Crops In That Area
Norfolk, Va., Aug. 24. — (AP) —Vir-
ginia. counted ten dead and million»
of dollars in damage today in the
wake of the wildest hurricane ever
experienced here.
The death list mounted to ten when
coastal liner Madison staggered inta
pert before dawn minus two of her
officers.
Two wnite men and six Negroes
died on land, while tho fashionable
resorts of Virginia Bench, Cavalier
.Snores, Cape Henry, Ocean View and
Willoughby Spit presented scenes of
devastation.
Terrifying waves wrecked sea walls
and undermined countless structures
until they collapsed.
COASTAL NORTH CAROLONA
RECOVERING FROM STORM
Wilmington, Aug. 24. (AP)—Co* ital
North Carolina, was recovering today
from tho vigorous hu-hing of an an
gry tropica: hurricane, but. was thank
s ll the loss was no greater than pre
liminary estimates indicated.
Much of the coastal section was still
.cut off; front communication with the
ciUside world, but meagre reports in
dicated thrt most damage had b en
done to highways, telegraph and ti le
phone lines and to truck crops. No
loss of life has come to light.
The crew of the schooner G. A.
Kohler, which had been in distress o(f
Cape Hatteras since Tuesday ni[ ht,
was removed by coast guardsmen j •?-
terday afternoon when the ship i a *
ibached. Nine men and a woman wjvs
taken from the boat.
Details of the rescue and the ship's
condition were not given in the w.. t*
less message received by the coa' -
guard cutter Modoc from the navel
station at Cape Hatteras.
A report from Elizabeth City svi l
a raging surf had broken across the
beach at Nag’s Head yesterday nn 1
had flooded summer cottages at rfc >
resort.
v
Banker Os
Shelby Is
President
Forest Es k ridge
Heads State Asso
ciation; Bankers
Hear Ehringhaus
Wrightsville Beach, Aug. 24.— (AP)
—Forest Eskridge, cashier of the First
National Bank of Shelby, was elected
president of the North Carolina Bank
ers Association at the opening session
of its convention here today. He suc
ceeds Robert N. Page, of Aberdeen,
who is ill and unable to attend the
meeting.
Other officers elected were: Millard.
F. Jones, Rosky Mount, first vine
president: C. T. Lineback, Winstrn-
Salem, second vice-president; M. 3.
Hogan, Chapel Hill, third vice-presi
dent; R. E. Kerr, Charlotte, treasurer.
The executive committee i 3 exp act
ed to re-elect Paul P. Brown, of Ra
leigh, secretary, and Willis Smith, Ra
leigh, general counsel.
New members of the executive com
mittee chosen were J. H. Waldron,
Greenville; C. A. Kramer, Kinston; R.
L. Pate, Thomasville; R. B. Davis,
Raeford, and H. C. Alexander, Char
lotte.
Governor J. C. B. Ehringhaus and
Dr. Harold Stonier, educational di
rector of the American Institute of
Banking, addressed (he convention.
Urging the same degree of coopera
tion between citizns and the State
government that 5s being demons frat
ed in th- Federal government in the
NTtA ririvt., Governor Ehringhaus call
ed upon>the bankers to work for the
teturn of Tnr Heel money deposited
elsewhor:. He declared. 4lie Htum
(Continued on PaAe Three.), M j\