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•"Henderson
gateway to
CENTRAL
CAROLINA
twentieth YEAR
Eight Violent Deaths And
Score Os Injuries Sum Up
State Thanksgiving Toll
ONE KILLED, WITH
l SERIOUSLY HURT
IN HAMLET CRASH
All From Charlotte, Consti
tuting Hunting Party
from City o n Thanks,
giving Day
three are killed
AROUND REIDSVILLE
James Wall, Dairyman, Kill
ed by Live Wire Going To
Aid of Disabled Airplane;
Farmer Near Carthage Is
Killed In Argument Wih
Hunters
il’.y tiir Associated Press.)
,\ total of eight persons met violent
deaths yesterday as the Caroiinas
celebrated Thanksgiving. Nearly a
score of persons were injured.
,\ hit-and-run car crashed into a
Charlotte hunting party as they stood
on the highway near Hamlet examin
■Bj the damage done to their car by
mother hit-and-run motorist who had
lit swiped it a moment before.
Junes Smith, 65-year-old realtor,
m instantly killed ,and FI. C. Black.
Cfiarlotte dairyman, and Alva E.
Alexander, the third member of the
huntiiur party were seriously injured
end feat was expressed by physicians
for their recovery.
Three persons were killed in the
vicinity of Reidsville. Miss Ruby
Moortfield. of Danville, Va„ died in
stantly when the automobile in which
she was riding was struck by a freight
train, while three other occupants of
the ear were slightly hurt.
The second accident in the Relds
villc area brought death to Will
Brando, an employee of the State
Highway department, as his auto
mobile ran off the approach of a
bridge.
At Madison, a short distance away,
James Wall, a 60-year-old dairyman,
was electrocuted as he went to in
vig;i‘e a plane accident on his farm
The tiller. o<’< Mounts of the plane were
• Continued on Page Four)
Gangster
Is Suicide
In St. Paid
St. Paul. Minn., Dec I.—(AP)—Wil
lie Sharkey alleged Chicago gangster,
banged himself with his necktie in a
cell in the Ramsey county jail here
early today.
Sharkey, witli three other members
of the Touhy gang, including Roger
Touliv. the leader, was recently ac
quitted in Federal district ocurt of the
SIOO,OOO kidnaping of William Hamm,
■lt'., millionaire brewer.
Sheriff George E. Moeller said Shar
key was found dead by a jailor mak
ing his 6 o'clock rounds. He said
rounds are made hourly, and that ap
parently Sharkey had hangedT itfc-nself
sometime between 5 a. m. and 6 a. m.
Hi:; cell was on the second floor.
Sheriff Moeller said Sharkey bad
complained of the headache to a guard
about 1 a. m„ and had asked for as
pirin tablets.
Kd Davis the jailor who discovered
Sharkey said he found the body sus
pended from the uppermost Bsrs of
bis cell. One end of the prisoner’s
necktie was fastened to the bars, the
other around his neck.
Jury Still Deadlocked
In The Scottsboro Case
Decatur, Ala.. Dec. 1. —(AP) — The
J u, y holding the fate of Haywood Pat
''i son, accused of attacking Mrs. Vic
toria Price on a freight train near
Soot taboro, Ala., two years ago, re
sumed its delibeiations at 8:30 this
morning.
A>i hour and a half later there was
uo indication that a verdict was near.
Die jury was locked up last night
after three hours deliberations.
While the Patterson jury deliberat
ed, difficulty was being encountered
imtitersnn DatUt Btsuatrh
STATE’S ACES IN SCOTTSBORO CASE
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» v JjlMßPr i 'f? ££«
Victoria Price
Orville Gilley, the state’s star
witness in the Scottsboro case and
the only white man named as hav
ing witnessed the alleged attack
upon Victoria Price and Ruby
Hates bv 12 negroes, is shown
Kidnap jury
Threatened
In A Letter
Foreman of Group
That Freed Touhy
May Be Taken for
Final Ride
Kenyon, Minn., Dec. I.(AI’) —Deatli
threats contained in an unsigned let
ter were received today by T. O.
Sundry, of Kenyon, foreman of the
Federal court jury that Tuesday ac
quitted four Chicago men of kidnap
ing William Hamm, Jr., millionaire St.
Paul brewer.
William Sharkey, who committed
suicide today in a St. Paul jafl. was
one of four acquitted. The others
were Roger Touhy, Eddy McF’adden
and Gustav Shafer.
Sundry, a 69-year-old farmer, said
he received today six letters and a
post, card, four postmarked Minnea
polis, one Red Wing, Minn., one Ap
pleton, Wisconsin, and one St. Paul,
all unsigned except one letter from
Minneapolis.
All were critical of the jury ver
dict, and were abusive, Sundry said.
The letters said Sundry “would be
taken for a ride” and “would never
come back.’’
Accused Worker
At Cetwick Mill
Freed Upon Bond
Ashefooro, Dec. 1. —(AP) —Paul All
red, one of the three Cetwick mitt
workers arrested on charges of threa
tening Claude Willis, a mill employee
was released here today on bond.
Howard Way, another of the trio,
will be given a hearing this afternoon.
Jim Phillips, the third, has refused
efforts to obtain his release.
Each man is held under S2OO bond.
in selecting 12 men to sit in the case
of Clarence Norris, who, like Patter
son, is charged with attacking Msf
Price.
The Negroes, with five others, are
under indictment for attacking Mrs.
Price and Ruby Bates.
The venire for the Norris trial yes
terday was whittled through excuses,
challenges for cause, objections to
capital punishment and fixed opin
ions to 24, six less than the mini
mum required by law for striking the
jury.
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NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA
HENDERSON, N. C., FRIDAY AFTERNOON, DECEMBER 1, 1933
Orville Gilley
here with Victoria Price at De
catur, Ala., where a retrial of tlu
sensational case has been in prog
ress. The other victim, Rubj
Bates, is ill in a New York hos
pital.
, WO,OOO Sought In
Slaying of Negro
Greenville, S. CL, Dec. I.—(AP)
Two actions seeking to recover
$119,1)00 from C. S. James, wealthy
planter of i,he Greer-Taylors sec
tion as a result of the mob slaying
of George Green, Negro, were filed
here today.
W. E. Bowen attorney, filed the
action in behalf of Mary Green,
widow of the Negro, and adminis- 1
tratrix of his estate. One suit was
brought lor the estate and the
other for the beneficiaries of the
slain mail. Each asked $15,000, and
alleges James was the instigator of
an assault upon Green.
The Negro was slain two weeks
ago hy a masked band which visit
ed his home during the night. A
member of the band shot him to
death when he resisted the invasion
of ais home.
Jess Jones
Exonerated
In Inquiry
Washington, Dec. 1. —(AP) — The
Senate banking sub-committee inves
tigating Reconstruction Finance Cor
poration loans today exonerated Jesse
H. Jones, R F. C. chairman, of char
ges that he was personnally interest
ed in loans by the government cor
poration to three Texas mortgage
companies.
The committee, made up of the
same senators that are investigating
stock market practices, concluded
that the loans to the Bankers Mort
gage Company the Midland Mort
gage Company and the Southwestern
Investment Compnay all in Jones’
home state of Texas, were justified,
adequately secured and Jones “had no
personal interest in any of them."
Chairman Fletcher made public the
conclusion informally in a talk with
newspaper men after a brief executive
session of the sub-committee.
R. B. Mellon, Big
Banker, Passes at
Pittsburgh Home
Pittsburgh, Dec. I.—(AP)—R. B.
Mellon, president of the Mellon Na
tional Bank and brother of Andrew
Mellon, died today at the age of 75.
The multi-millionaire banker and
philanthropist had been in failing
health for a month, and last Wednes
day his condition took a turn for the
worst. Death occurred at his home at
5:19 a. m.
The aged man lapsed into uncon
sciousness several hours before his
death. At his bedside were the wife,
Mrs. Jennie King Mellon, a son and a
daughter.
pSEhere
CAUSE OFCONCERN
Federal Government Mak
mg Little Effort ond Lo,
cal Officers Like=
wise Seem Lax
RUMORED VIRGINIA
PLANS ARE STUDIED
State Said To Be Consider
ing Licensing Any To
Make Liquor Who Desires
To Do So, Big T)r Little;
Will Make Situation More
Difficult Here
llnilr
In Hi«* Mr Walter Hotel.
••V .1 I FIVSKKItVIM,
Raleigh, Dec. I.—With the Federal
government and. surrounding states
giving more and more thought to li
quor control methods, since the sale
of liquor will be legal in most slates
except North Carolina after Decem
ber 5, a good many here are also giv
ing a good deal of thought to the li
juor situation in North Carolina. For
while North Carolina is still theoreti
cally dry and had the bone-dry Tur
lington act stiti on the statute books.
H. is generally known that bootleg
iquor has always been easily obtain
ible in the State and that it is easier
■ o buy it now than ever before, al
though prices have increased some
what since the State voted against
repeal.
There is nothing here to indicate
that the. Federal government is mak
ing any effort to enforce the Federal
prohibition laws in the State from now
until December 6 or that county and
city peace officers are making any
attempt to tigiiten up on the enforce
ment of the State liquor laws. Police
officers and deputy sheriffs are ar
lesting about the usual number of
small fry violators in this section, but
these arrests do not seem to have any
effect cn the flow of liquor or to make
it any more difficult to obtain, accord
ing to those familiar wit hthe situa
tion.
With Virginia completely wet and
not only permitting the sale of liquor,
tour a .so considering licensing the mak
ing of it, some of the larger liquor
operators who have been making tneir
liquor here in North Carolina are re
pci ted making plans to move their
stills into Virginia, For while it has
not yet been decided definitely what
Virg'nia will do, it is known that its
uquor commission is considering are
. Continued un H a »ie Poui.
Gov ernor Touched
With Thanksgiving
Token from Wayne
Raleigh, Dec. 1. —(AP( —Governor
Ehringhaus was “deeply touched” to
day when citizens of Wayne county
sent him as a Thanksgiving gift a
tribute to his work in getting higher
tobacco prices for Eastern North Car
olina.
The governor pointed to the neatly
bound volume of complimentary let
ters which was delieverd to him this
morning, and commented:
"I’d rather have that book to give
to my children than anything else I
know of. That certainly touches me.
The tribute from those citizens is
worth more than any public office.’’
The letters apparently were fixed
in book form by N. B. Nicholson, em
ergency county aegnt of Wayne coun
ty, and the first in the volume was
signed by Lionel Weil, chairman of
the Wayne county cotton and tobacco
acreage reduction committees.
Auto Hits
Fire Truck;
2 Injured
New fßern, [Dec. I.—(i^P) —Three
men were injured, two perhaps fatally
as their automobile crashed • with a
fire truck here today.
Physicians held little hope for Wil
liam L. Wiggs, of Richlands, one of
the three in a light passenger car, and
Willis Waters, a companion. Both had
fractured skulls. OJus Ashe, of Clay
county was less seriously injured. The
three are between 20 and 25 years old
Stacy Dowdy was driving the fire
truck with its sirene open. He and t\wo
other firemen were knocked to the
pavement, but were uninjured.
Wiggs, driving the passenger mac
hine, was hurled clear of the wreckage
in a head-on collision.
Firemen said Wiggs was traveling
at a fast rate.
Watiier
FOB NORTH CAROLINA
Partly cloudy: slightly colder
tonight; Saturday partly cloudy,
followed by rain in extreme west
portion.
40,000 Jobs Are Provided
With Civil Works Projects
Covering The Whole State
Clerics At Odds On Lynching
.;V •
Bishop William T. Manning Rev. Dr. Henry Darfi-
Voicing opposing views. Bishop William T. Manning, Prolesta/,
pal Bishop of New York, denounced stand of Governor Rolph on oari Jose
lynehings shortly after Rev. Dr. Henry Darlington, rector of Episcopal
Church of Heavenly Rest, sent message to California Governor approving
his attitude fCentral Press)
Ehringhaus Seeks
Boost in Peanuts
ltalcigh, Dec. I—(AP)—Governor
Ehringhaus will go to Washing
ton tonight for conferences with
officials of the Agricultural Adjust
ment Administration with regard
to proposed steps to raise the price
of peanuts.
“I also plan to see if something
can be done for Irish potatoes,”
the governor said.
LABOR MAY PLACE
MAN IN CODE BODY
Johnson Says It Is Up To
Labor, But He Sees No
Reason For It
Washington, Dec. 1 (AP)—-Indica
tions that labor may obtain repre
sentation on important code authori
ties came today from Hugh S. John
son, recovery administrator.
Discussing the position of the Ame
rican Federation of Labor, that the
working man should be represented
on the code authority, Johnson said
he thought it was “a question of
whether labor really wants it."
“I never would lay down a hard
and fast rule," he told newspapermen
“It seems to me when labor as
sumes responsibility for manage men
it is assuming responsibility for pro
fit and loss—which is not labor’s tra
ditional position.’’
Labor has centered its fight for
code authority representation on the
national bituminous coal industrial
board.
Office-Holder at
Louisiana Hearing
Denies Assessing
New Orleans, Dec. I.—(AP)—In a
tangle of questions and cross-ques
tions. a city employee testifying be
fore the Senate committee investigat
ing the election of Senator John H.
Overton, said today he belonged to
two people, his wife and Mayor T.
Semmes Walmsley.
Walter Morgan, who served as an
Overton election commissioner, was
the witness, one of a long string of
city and state job holders who have
appeared in the past several days to
rebutt charges of fraud at the polls.
After Morgan had testified that, he
had “a fair and open mind.” and that
there were no irregularities at his pre
cinct, Senator Tom Connally, Demo
crat. Texas, chairman of the inves
tigating cqmmittee, said:
“Os course, you work in some dry
goods store downtown?”
“No, in city hall,” said Morgan.
Connally then asked if city em
ployees’ salaries were regularly as
sessed ten percent when campaign
funds were needed.
“We don’t assess them,” said Mor
gan. “All we pay are dues to the
Choctaw club.”
AND VIRGINIA.
PUBLISHED EVERY AFTERNOON
EXCEPT SUNDAY.
Mg l
J ohnson To
Force Code
In 2 Cases
Telephone And
Aluminum Compan
ies May Be Object
of New Orders
Washington, Dec. 1 (AH)—-Hugh ,S.
Johnson told newsmen today that if
necessary he would (impose NRA
codes containing only labor provision}
on both the telephone and the alumi
num industries.
He had received from the A. T. &
T. a communication objecting to com
ing under a code at all, on grounds
that the company was non-competi
tive.
In response to questions at a press
conference, the NRA administrator
said the Aluminum Company of Ame
rica was refusing to accept a code
with fair trade provisions.
Since this company controls 98 per
cent of the. business in this country,
and the law requires that a substan
tial portion of any industry is need
ed to propose any code, Johnson saic’
he did not see how one was to be ar
rived at voluntarily containing the
first trade practices demanded by
independent concerns forming two
percent of the industry.
He said, however, that he was pr«
,pared to impose, if necessary, wages
hours and other conditions for this
industry and the telephone business
as well.
crop JudgersTrom
STATE TO CHICAGO
College Station, Raleigh, Dec. I.
The N. C. State College crops judging
team will compete in the Intercol
legiate Judging Contest to be held
at Chicago on December 22, in con
nection with the International Live
stock Exhibition which sponsors the
contest.
W. E. Adams, of Dunlap, a mem
ber of the judging team, has also been
selected to represent State College at
the National Collegiate Agricultural
Council to be held in Chicago at the
same time of the judging contests.
Liquor Imports Will Be
Based On Quota Figures
Washington, Dee. 1 (AP) —The
executive commercial policy commit
tee, representing four governmental
departments, decided today to allow
importation of liquors from foreign
countries for a four months period
on quotas based on the 1910-1914 aver
age for each country.
This committee, one of many in
the administration, working on the
program in general, is con
cerned especially with ways and
means of making foreign trade flour
6 PAGES I
TODAY!
FIVE CENTS Copy
1,220,000 JOBSIN
COUNTRY AS WHOU
HAVE BEEN Gift.
Hopkins Tabulate? Rep
From 44 States, Includ.
ing All But Four In
the Nation
BENEFICIARIES ARE
OFF RELIEF ROLLS
All of 100 Reemployment
Offices, One in Each
County, Start Allotting
Unemployed Persons To
Civil Works Projects To
Furnish Work for Them
Raleigh, Dec. I.—(AP—Mrs. Thomas
O'Berry, (State civil works adminis
trator said today she had given fi
nal approval to enough projects to
create jobs for 10,000 of North Caro
lina’s unemployed, but that probably
only 30,000 to 35,000 would be placed
at work this week.
“We send out the projects creating
the jobs, and we’ve sent out enough
to put 40,000 or more people at
work,” Mrs. O’Berry said. ‘‘The local
authorities get the jobs started as soon
as possible I doubt if more than 30,-
000 to 35,000 will be actually on pay
rolls this week.”
Today the 100 offices of the reem
ployment service, one in each county
of the State started alloting unem
ployed persons to the civil works pro
jects.
Since the program was inaugurated
all persons given jobs Jiave been taken
from the emergency relief rolls which
were in hand November 15. The civil
works allotment was 34,000 workers
from the relief rolls and 34,000 from
re-employment lists in this state.
MILLION AND QUARTER
JOBS IN WHOLE NATION
Washington, Dec. 1 (AP) —The
Civic Works Administration announo
ed today that approximately 1,350,-
(Cont)nued on Pave i* - out
Gold Price
Is Boosted
Above ss^
Even at That There
Is Little Buying by
Government Here
or Abroad
Washington, Dec, 1 (AP)—Ne
vigor in applying the administratio
gold-buying policy was indicated
day by three swift boosts in the P
IF. C. price for newly mined metal.
Today’s quotation of $34.01 an ounc
was eight cents above the pre-Thank -
giving figure of $33.93. Since the le
vel of $33.76 on last Monday, the gov
ernment had pushed the price up
ward 25 cents.
London’s gold price today war
($32.57 on an opening sterling quota
tion of $5.20 1-2 to the pound.
Neither at home nor abroad has
the R. F. . acquired mu(% gold
its first offer of October 25. Only
a small portion of the $500,000,000 ac
count for this purpose has been used.
ish. On It are officials of the State
iCommerce and Agriculture depart
ment and of the Treasury.
Secretary Wallace, who recently
with President Roosevelt
at Warm Springs, had a hand tn to
day’s meetings.
The import policy becomes ef
effective when repeal caWres into
force next Tuesday.
The Agriculture Department is set
ting up the liquor manufacture and
import regulations.