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HENDERSON
GATEWAY TO
CENTRAL
CAROLINA
TWENTY-FIRST YEAR
Wealthy Canadian Brewer*
Is Set Free By Abductors
Without Ransom Payment
[A BAIT RELEASED
IN TORONTO SUBURB
IN EARLY MORNING
Provincial Police Quick On
Trail To Make Example
of First Dominion
“Snatchers”
VICTIM UNHARMED
EXCEPT BY SHOCK
Already Suffering From
Heart Ailment, He Is Freed
In Highly Nervous Condi
tion After 65 Hours of Hor
ror and Agony by His Fam
ily Since Tuesday
London Ontario A.ugust 17 (AP) —
Police heads of the province of On
tario gathered here today to start the
laws course on the trail of the kid
nap gang which early today released
T.hn S. I.aßatt after 65 hours of ter
ror.
Venn Chief Inspector John Miller,
of the criminal investigation depart
ment of the pprovincial police, arrived
from Toronto at 10:20 a. m., eastern
daylight time, this morning and went
into conference wtih Sergeant P.
Crowe, of Toronto, and Inspector H.
Gardner, of Windsor, who arrived
from the border city.
They conferred in the office of In
spector W. C. Cousans, in charge of
the London detachment of the provin
'•‘al police. At the conclusion of the
conference Cousans left the confer
ence room hurriedly and drove away
in his car.
The $150,000 ransom the kidnapers
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Celebration
For Manteo
Is Started
Coast Country Ob
serves 350th Anni
versary of Raleigh
Colony’s Landing
Manteo, Aug. 17. (IP) —Docked at the
water’s edge of Roanoke Island to
d?>y were the ships of Amadas and
Barlowy and a Spanish galleon. Flags
fluttered and Manteo and Roanoke
r 'i«nd hummed with excitement. For
D was the first pageant day of the
♦hr*-e-day celebration commemorat
ive »he 350th anniversary of the land
in? in the New World of Sir Walter
R;*l>igh’s first expedition.
Yesterday's scaffolding was remov
from the little log church which is
u < be dedicated Sunday. The speak
er's stand, bedecked with flags and
covered with a canopy is ready.
All over Manteo were first aid sta
ti'ui and information booths.
At the docks at the foot of Water
street the United States Coast Guard
cutter, Pamlico, was tied up today. A
steady stream of visitors went aboard.
I lome Building The Key
Toward Rapid Recovery
High Costs of Materials and Labor and Fear of What
future Holds Are Principal Facts in Retarding
Construction, W hicli Is Lagging
By ROGER W. BABSON
(Copyright, 1934, Pub:?3hers Fi
nancial Bureau, Inc.)
Babson Park, Mass., Aug. 17. —Last
March, in writing about the building
industry, I said: "The first six months
1934 will be a test period. .If priv
as - building has not taken its proper
in the recovery pattern toy June,
then I expect there will be a busi-
n ‘ -s set-back similar to the one
w -’-ich took place between August
’'! Octobr, 1933”. Recent develop
ments have followd this rough fore
cast very closely. Home building con
tinues to languish and business ac
UJmiiErsmi JJatht Btauatch
Hard Winter Seems Inevitable
\ 11 - t iv j t "" *' «i»w
MONTH ASO YEAR AGO-
BIRTHS AND DEATHS
INCREASED JULY
Death Rate 10.7 Per 100,000
Population For The
Past Month
STATE BIRTH RATE 23,6
Maternal Deaths Decline and Typhoid
Fatalities Fewer; Cancer, Whoop
ing Cough, Measles on
Increase
Daily Dispatch flnrenn,
In the Sir Walter Hotel,
Raleigh, Aug. 17. —North Carolina’s
high death rate for July and likewise
its lofty birthrate for the same 31
days, do not disturb the doctors who
are having some extra work to do to
hold the dying down.
The commonwealth still finds pride
in its children who come with greater
frequency, and the medical men hope
with greater cordiality, than they do
anywhere else in the nation. There
is an incidental satisfaction, too, in
the compilation of these figures in tne
'office of Dr. J. M. Parrott, secretary
to the State Board of Health, who has
■had a remarkable delivery from a
serious illness and is now apparently
getting back to his own fine health
which enabled him to do hiss irst 50
years the work of an average cen
tenarian.
There were 2.913 deaths in Juiy.
1934, against 2.264 for the same month
a year ago. The death rate ran to
10.7 in each 100,000. That was a hop
from 8.4 for the same period in 1933.
There were 6,427 births in the Stare
in July. 1934, as against 6,031 for the
preceding month. The birthrate was
23.6 for the one and 22.3 for the other
July. But there was an Immense in
crease in infantd eaths for July, 1934,
the number rising from 400 even in
July of 1933 to 534 for 193*. And these
were infants under a year age.
Maternal deaths fell from 48 a year
ago to 39 a month ago. Maternal
mortality dropped from 6.1 to 7.8,
meaning the 7.8 figure of July, 1933,
represented the higher death rate
among mothers. There was a fall
from 28 to 21 in typhoid and para
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tivity has declined eight per cent from
May. .
Reaction Not Due to Europe
Or Drought
Recent headlines in the last six
weeks have featured the Nazi
“putsches” in Germany and Austria
and the terrific drought in this coun
try. Everywhere political upheaval
In Europe and crop troubles in the
United States have ben blamed for
the recent letdown in business and
the reaction in stocks. The truth of
the matter is, however, that such a
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HENDERSON, N. C. FRIDAY AFTERNOON, AUGUST 17, 1934
Mussolini
Will Meet
Austrian
Rome, Italy, Aug. 17. (#») —An offi
cial communique announced today
that Premier Mussolini of Italy ano
Chancellor Schuschnigg of Austria
will meet in Italy during the period
of the Italian army maneuvers Aug
ust 19-24.
The exact day of the meeting was
not announced, nor was the place for
the encounter stated. Semi-official
circles said the meeting date would be
August 21.
It was regarded as possible that
Mussolini might take the leader of the
Austrian nation to see part of Italy’s
military maneuvers, but well-inform
ed sources said the political meeting
between the two premiers would be
in a city removed some distance from
the maneuvers.
politMls
IN NEW CAMPAIGN
Drive on New Constitution
To Show Learnings Os
Both Sides
Daily Dispatch Bnrean,
In the Sir Walter Hotel,
Raleigh, Aug. 17. —Campaign for the
constitutional issue, which formally
opened here this wek, may reveal just
how much the advocates of adopting
th new law and the opponents of it
know in their present uninstrfltetsa
state of mind.
As was xpected, former Lieutenant
Govrnor Richard T. Fountain sees
the Brookmgs Institute report in tne
new constitution and seeing Brook
ings beholds ex-Governor O. Max
Gardner, and seeing Mr. Gardner, Mr.
Fountain sees very red. The new
constitution is ‘,the creature of the
power trust, the larger Ibanks, the
hotel monopoly, and the public office
holders of the State”.
These, Mr. Fountain expects to fi
nance and carry the amendment if it
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PRICE OF TOBACCO
STILL ABOUT SAME
Lake City, S. C., Aug. 17. (£>)—
Prices were about the s«me on the
tobacco market here today, with over
half a million pounds on the floors.
Sales yesterday were 463,760 pounds
at an average of $23.66 per hundred.
COMMON GRADES HIGHER IN
SALES ON DILLON MARKET
illon, S. C., Aug. 17. (#*)—Common
grades of tobacco were selling a lit
tle higher on the market her today,
and other prices were unchanged.
The estimated average this morning
was between $24 and $25 per hundred.
Deliver is wer betwn 75,000 and 100,-
000 pouuds.
WEATHER
Partly cloudy tonight and Sat
urday; local thundershowers this
afternoon or tonight in southeast
• portion. . _
$24,540,270
Is Allotted
To Projects
Washington, Aug. 17 (AP) —The
Public Works Administration to
day allotted $24,540,270 for 215 non-
Federal projects.
Many of the allocations were to
communities in the drought areas
of the west.
The $400,000,000 allotted to PWA
by President Roosevelt from the
deficiency appropriation provided
by the last Congress virtually was
depleted by today’s allocations,
which brought the total of non-
Federal projects to 4,028.
Simultaneously PWA announced
its expenditures were providing
jobs for nearly 700,000 persons en
gaged directly on the site and
probably twice that number en
gaged in industries supplying ma
terials and transporting them
hitlerMles
FAVORS BF WORLD
Talks To Waterfront Work
ers at Hamburg in Un
scheduled Speech
During Afternoon
THINKS PROSPERITY
CAN BE RESTORED
Convinced of That, He Says
If Germany Will Unite Be
hind Her Leaders and
Prove to the World Nation
Is United; Explains Elec
tions of Sunday
Hamburg, Germany. Aug. 17. —(AP)
—(United Germany asks no favors of
a hostile world, but has the right to
expect to be allowed to go its own
way in peace, Chancellor Hitler told
shipyard workers in an unscheduled
waterfront spech this afternoon.
Hitler, on a tour of Hamburg, prior
to his political speech tonight, talked
briefly to the workers of Hamburg’s
hard hit harbor about the problem of
restoring Germany’s industrial pros
perity.
“I am convinced it can be solved,”
declared Der Fuehrer, “but I also am
convinced it can be solved only by a
united nation —with a leadership back
ed by the united strength of the peo
ple.”
Hitler brushed aside any thought
that he might xplain the details of the
solution.
“I am not here,” he said, “to make
promises based on theories. What we
need now is results.
“A theory is good only it brings re
sults, and if it does not it must be>
discarded to mak eroom for a better
one.”
The purpose of Sunday’s election,
he continued, is to consolidate the un
ification of the German people and
show the world that Germany is unit
ed.
Claim Big
Sums Paid
Abductors
Toronto, Aug. 17 (AP) —Despite
information from an authoritative
source that no ransom was paid
to effect the release by kidnapers
of John S. Laßatt, London brewer,
information was made public in
Hamilton today that “less than
$50,000 ransom was paid for re
lease of John Laßatt.”
This statement, made a few
hours after the wealthy London,
Ontario, brewer had been releas
ed from a gang which held him
captive 65 hours, followed one de
claration that “not a cent of ran
som was paid,” and another that
the complete $150,060 demanded
had been put up.
Laßatt was interrogated at the
home of his brother, Hugh, in
London by a police official and
Canadian police drove forward in
an attempt to round up the crim
inals.
At the same time Attorney Gen
eral A. W. Roebuck issued a state
ment in which he said he regret
ted the lack of cooperation in the
Laßatt case.
General Textile Walk-Out
Might Be Staved Off With
McMahon President Again
LAUNCH HOUSING MODERNIZATION
This tableau marks the formal
launching of the federal housing
administration’s $1,600,000,000
modernization program. James
A. Moffett, federal housing ad-
Second Note
By Askew’s
Abductors
Wife of Goldsboro
Preacher Again
Warned to Get $25,-
0 0 0 Ransom De
manded
Goldsboro, Aug. 17. (^p) —Mrs. R. H.
Ashew was reported today to have re
ceived a second communication from
the presumed kidnapers of her hus
band, “Four Square Gospel” evange
list, who has been missing since Tues
day.
Federal agents, assigned to the
of the Department of Justice, and
case by the division of investigation
Sheriff Paul Garrison’s office veiled
their investigation, and upon their in
structions Mrs. Askew declined to
answer any questions anout the hunt!
for her missing 28-year-old husband.
Reports from reliable sources, how
ever, said she received a telegram
sent from Washington, which read:
“Have the money ready Saturday"
Last Wednesday Mrs. Askew receiv
ed through the mails a. typed note
which told her:
“Get $25,000 at once or you will
never see your husband alive again.
Instructions will follow.”
It wias mailed in Goldsboro |.nd
bore no signature.
Two federal agents were working on
the case. They explained their re
quest that Mrs. Askew refuse any in
formation about the case by saying
they feared something might be dis
closed which woulcj endanger the
evangelist's life.
SCRAItEIILY
FDR ALLEN’S PAST
Raleigh Speculates On Eh
ringhaw Choice on Com
pensation Board
Daily Dispatch Bureau,
In the Sir Walter Hotel,
Raleigh, Aug. 17.—Resignation yes
terday of Major Matt H. Allen, chair
man of the State Industrial Commis
sion of which he has been its head
since Governor Gardner named him,
will bring out many candidates for
the successorship if Governor Ehr
inghaus long delays the appointment.
Commissioners Dorsett and Wilson
ara eligible under the law to succeed
Major Alien, but the impression here
is that Governor Ehringhaus will
name a “seasoned lawyer'’, a steady
practitioner who also has some of the
qualities of a good superior court
judge. A political sense is also im
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PUBLISHED EVERT AFTERNOON m'TUI? /iTXTrrv't riAiw
EXCEPT SUNDAY, ±* IVill CENTS COPY
ministrator, puts the seal of his
congratulations on the first loan
made in the District of Columbia.
The borrower, in the photo, is
Miss Alma McCrnm. Washington,
ROOSEVELT ALONE
-< .
McMahon Says (Textile
WalkjOut Sure Sept. 1
Unless President Acts
NO DOUBT ABOUT IT
Says Roosevelt Must Force Textile
Leaders To Sit Down at Confer
ence Table With Union
Representatives
New York, Aug. 17. (AP)—
Thomas F. McMahon, re-elected
today as president of the United
Textile Workers of America, de
clared that only President Roose- ’
velt could avert a general strike
in the cotton textile industry.
McMahon said:
“President Roosevelt is the only
person in God’s green world who can
Stop the general strike”
McMahon said that, under the man
date of the convention issued yester
day, there was no doubt of the strike
being called, unless the President
“forces the leaders of tne textile in
dustry to sit down at the conference
tablew ith representatives of the
United Textile Workers”
He added that General Hugh S.
Johnson, NRA administrator, was not
high enough up to be able to do any
thing about the strike.
HIGH POINT TO PAY
HIGHER SWITCHING
Washington, Aug. 17. (IP) —The In
terstate Commerce Commission today
ordered discontinued proceedings on
the complaint against the proposed in
creased switching charge at High
Point, N. C.
This places into effect the $6.30
switching charge previously approv
ed, but subsequently suspended until
August 10, 1932. The previous rate
was $2.25.
The new switching rate has to do
with transferring cars on and be
tween the Southern Railway Com
pany and the High Point, Randleman,
Asheboro and Southern Railroa/i Com
pany. The latter is owned and con
trolled by the Southern but is sep
arately operated.
RICHMOND CLEANERS
DROP NRA SCHEDULE
Richmond, Va., Aug. 17. {IP) —The
Richmond Cleaners and Dyers Board
of Trade today notified NRA offi
cials that its members would aban
don the wage and hours provisions
of the NRA.
HANES IS PUT ON
BANK CODE GROUP
Washington, Aug. 17. (#>)— Robert
M. Hanes, president of the Wachovia
Bank and Trust Company, o* Winston
Salem, N. C., was one of four bankers
approved today as a national trade
practice complaints commission under
the code of fair competition for banks.
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TODAY
GALLffIROTKE
Radical Element, Led by
Fiery Delegates From
Dixie, Finally Comes
Over to Chief
HIS RE-ELECTION
IS REAL SURPPISE
Strike Resolution Adopted,
However, and Would Give
Employers Only 12 Hours
Notice, But Deadline for
Strike Order Fixed As Sep.
tember 1 at Meeting
New York, Xyg. 17. (IP)—Conserva
tives today re-elected Thomas F. Mc-
Mahon as president of the United
Textile Workers of America, and the
move was interpreted by Francis J.
Gorman, unanimously re-elected first
vice president, as meaning that there
may not be a general strike of cot
ton textile workers.
“It is possible,” Gorman declared,
“that, with the strike as a weapon,
negotiations may be brought to a suc
cessful close without the necessity of
caJlling a general strike”
The convention yesterday ordered
the union’s executive council to call
a general strike of the cotton workers
on or before September 1
Re-election by acclamation of Mc-
Mahon, who lives in Providence, R.
1., was a surprise development, in view
of successful maneuvering of insur
gents at yesterday’s stormy session.
The insurgents threw their support
to McMahon ofllowing a series of
early morning conferences.
Half a million persons work in the
cotton mills and a quarter million m
other textile plants affected by the
strike order of yesterday. The unlou
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NEGRO DESPERADO
SLAIN IN ALABAMA
Carbon Hill Ala., Aug. 17. (fl*)—
Sam Hol’ey, Negro desperado, who
killed one man and wounded two
others in West Alabama this week,
was shot to death by a man who rec
ognized him on the streets here to
day.
2 Officers
Os Iredell
Shot Down
Sheriff Kimball Crit
ically ,Wounded By
Former Convict
Desperado’s Bullet
Statesville, Aug. 17. (A 3 ) —Sheriff Q.
C. Kimball and Deputy R. L. Gilbert
were wounded today in a gun battle
with Ralph Davis, former convict,
who was being sought for the theft of
an automobile.
With Deputies Gilbert and A. L.
Sims. Sheriff Kimball had trailed
Davis to a tenant house on Whit
Dry’s farm in Chambersburg town
ship, ten miles from here, and the
officers surrounded the house about
11 a. m.
Davis appeared in the doorway and
began shooting Sheriff Kimball drop
ped with a bullet through the abdo
men, and Gilbert was shot above one
knee. Exchanging shots with Sims,
Davis jumped into an automobile and
fled toward Highway No. 10, whicn
leads to Salisbury.
While a posse armed with machine
guns set out after Davis, the two
wounded officers were brought to a
hospital here. The sheriffs condi
tion was described as critical.
SIGHTED IN WINSTON BUT
ELUDES POLICE OFFICERS
Winston-Salem, Aug 17. (IP) —Ralph
Davis, notorious oltlaw was sighted by
Winston-Salem police here this after
noon, but escaped as patrolman turn
ed their car around to pursue him.
City and county began, comb
ing the section for the thief, who was
positively identified, it was said.