Henderson daily dispatch., August 18, 1934, Image 1

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HENDERSON
GATEWAY TO
CENTRAL
CAROLINA
TWENTY-FIRST YEAR
NEW ALTITUDE IS REACHED IN STRATOSPHERE FLIGHT
Missing Goldsboro
Preacher Is Found
In Nashville, Tenn.
Rev. R. H. Askew Walks
Into Police Station and
Relates I ravels Since
‘Last Tuesday
TELLS AUTHORITIES
HE WAS KIDNAPED
Wife Is Overjoyed at News
of His Release by Alleged
Abductors, Who Had Sent
Threatening Notes De
manding $25,000 Ransom
for Her Husband
Nashville, Term., Atig. 18. (/P) —R.
H Askew, 28-year-old North Caro
lina evangelist, walked into the Nash- 1
ville police station today and said he |
had been in the hands of kidnapers j
sincp last Tuesday.
Dressed in overalls, the Four Square
Gospel minister said his three abduc
tors had taken his clothes away from
him in Washington and then driven
him around the country until about
daylight this morning, when jßiey put
him out on the edge of Nashville.
Hetiold of being driven to Rich
mond. Washington, Knoxville and “I
don't know where else”.
Askew said he was enroute from
Goldsboro to Smithfield with $lO to
buy some brick for his church when
ho was stopped by a man at a cross
road between Catch-My-Eye and Pine
Level.
The man, the evangelist told offi
oots, told him he had a sick, child in
Raleigh, and asked to be driven to a
hospital there. Askew said he agreed.
Arriving in Raleigh, the evangelist
continued, they stopped near a city
park so that his passenger might go
toa nearby hospital. A car drove up
with three men and one, poking a
pistol against his ribs, told him to
"step in",
“I got in”, he added. ,
The evangelist related that the
three gave his passenger some money
and then started off with him, talk
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ALABAMA TAX ON
TV A IS DISPUTED
Montgomery, Ala., Aug. 18.
(AP)—Attorney General Thomas
E. Knight, Jr„‘today declared and
Governor B. M. Miller denied that
the State ot Alabama will tar the
Tennessee Valley Authrolty on its
public utility operations in this
State.
Textile Worker
Found Shot Dead
In Gaston County
Cherryville, Aug. 18 (AP) —Clarence
McGee, a 25 year-old textile worker
of Lincolnton, was found shot to
death today in his automobile on a
littXle-t raveled country road near
here.
A shotgun charge in the back of
the head had killed him and he was
slumped over the steering wheel as
though he had been killed without
warning and while his back was to
his slayer,
Carl Rudisill, who lives in the sec
tion, discovered the body about 8
o'clock this morning while he was
coming to Cherryville,
Coroner George Riddle and Sheriff
Clyde Robinson, of Gaston county,
Wf, ie called to the scene.
The sheriff said he learned that M3c-
Gpo left, home late yesterday without
telling his father, also a textile work
er, where he was going.
Roosevelt Asks Johnson
To Reorganize The NRA
Washington, August 18 (AP) —Pres- Meanwhile, Johnson is going to es
ident Roosevelt today asked Hugh S. tablish a vacation retreat in Dela-
Johnson to work out an NKA reor- _ , ~ . , ....
. , '“ . . „ . ware Bay, from which he will keep in
ganization and to put it into effect,
The President went over tentative contact with Washington by plane
plans of Johnson to set up a com- and wire.
mission form of administration for Johnson indicated he. would obey
the national recovery acti orders and carry on at the will of the
After the White House conference, President.
Johnson said he hoped soon to work At the White House, it wa ssaid Mr.
out detailed arrangements for the new Roosevelt wants Johnson to continue
set-up and would take up the whole to administer the national recovery
situation then with Mr. Roosevelt. act .which he helped to prepare.
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WIRE service OF
the associated press*
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Donald Campbell
“Talking sickness,” strange brain
disease with which Donald Camp
bell, 32, Mt. Gilead, 0., truck-driver
is afflicted, keeps him speaking con
stantly and prevents sleep. Fatal
results are feared.
(Central Press)
FEDERATION lOOK ~
UNPOPULAR SIDES
Labor Opposed Sales Tax,
Which Has Admittedly
Gained Favor
AND FAVOIRED LIQUOR
State Has Gone on Record Against
Liquor, and Politicians Fear To
Espouse Wet Cause
Even Yet
Daily Dispatch Bureau,
In the Sir Walter Hotel,
Raleigh, Aug. 18. —North Carolina
Federation of Labor, which abhors
the sales (ax and asks its repeal, and
likes legalized liquor and seeks sta
tutorw control, probably pulled tne
most interesting of them, so hotel
gossips think.
Allowing fully for the popularity of
liquor as a beverage and for the use
to which bootleggers and blockaders
are put in serving the public, there
is nothing popular in the appeal for
legalized liquro and It is generally
conceded that the Chinaman’s chancs
is a runaway by comparison with the
hope of getting the next legislature to
pass such a bill. The body which
enacted the beer bill and appeared to
bo surrounded with a sentiment in
State and nation that would have sup
ported any sort of liquor legislation,
hesitated to try it in 1933. Then came
the November election which gave
184,000 majority against the conven
tion which would have acted upon re
peal.
But while the proposal to legalize
liquor had a crushing defeat less than
a year ago, the general sales tax has
(Continued on Page Five)
CALIFORNIA GIRL
ASSAULTED, KILLED
San Diego, Cal., Aug. 18. (AP)
—Choked to death in what po
lice say was a fiendish crime!,
the )body of (pretty llf-tyear-oKjtt
Celia Cota whs found in the hack
yard of her home today. She had
been the victim of a criminal at
tack, police said.
ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA AND VlrfmNlA.
LONG MACHINE IS
GIVEN UNHEARDOF
POLITICAL POWERS
Called Session of Louisiana
Legislature Adjourns
After Enacting Laws
Demanded
FIST FIGHTS AND
SLUGGING COMMON
Newsmen Barred From Fin
al Session of Assembly as
Senator and His Faction
Grab Almost Absolute Au
thority in State; Long On
Hand for the Finish
Baton Rouge, La., Aug. 18 (AP)
The Huey P. Long machine today held
the broadest powers of military and
political control ever conferred on a
single faction in Louisiana.
The Louisiana legislature handed
over the powers to Senator Long in
the early hours today amid a welter of
parliamentary confusion, marked by
exclusion of newspaper representa
tives from the House, slugging in the
lobby, fist fights on the floor, and
arrests in various parts of the State
House.
Uproar and disorder such as has sel
dom been witnessed in Louisiana’s
always tumultuous legislature filled
the closing hours of the assembly,
which Senator Long called to enact
lgeislation broadening his powers
over elections, the courts, the National
Guard and the local city and parish
governments throughout the State!
Squads of State Highway policemen
and (he State Bureau of Criminal In
vestigation and officers in plain cloth
es swarmed through the State House
throughout the night, as House and
Senate rushed through the Long-en
dorsed measures in an after-midnight
session!
Senator Long, actively directing the
course of business, remained to the
end to see that last of his proposals
put through.
The legislature adjourned at 3:11
a. m., and a few minutes later Politi
cal Dictator Long was escorted by 20
body guards down three flights of
stairs to a private door in the Capitol
basement, where he entered his lim
ousine to be whisked to a downtown
hotel.
ANOTHER CANADIAN
BREWER THREATENED
Toronto, Canada, Aug. 18. (AP)
—The Toronto Star said today
that H. C. Hatch, prominent dis
tillery head, has been threatened
with kidnaping Within the last
few days in an ote deliver-Ts by
mail, although no demand was
made for any stated sum of
money.
LAKE CITY SALES
AVERAGE IS $23.09
Lake City, S. C„ Aug. 18. (IP)— Fred
Stewart, supervisor of sales on the
-Lake Cityt obacco market, reported
/oday total sales for the week were 2,-
119,460 pounds at an average price
ts $23.09 per hundred, giving farmers
a total of $489,322.89.
Drouth May
Be Benefit
To Country
By Retarding Recov
ery, Will Preserve
Many Advantages
of the New Deal
By CHARLES P. STEWART
(Central Press Staff Writer)
Washington, Aug. 18. —One of my
readers (a woman), writing from the
driest region in the farm belt ad,
vances the interesting suggestion that
th drought, "if not too serious as she
says, undoubtedly will make for a
more secure future” for the reason,
she points out, that “a too rapid re
coery would indefinitely postpone
some much-needed economis changes”
Hints of this sort, coming in at
random from points throughout the
entire country, serve as highly en
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HENDERSON N. C. SATURDAY AFTERNOON, AUGUST 18, 1934
High Spots in Canada’s First Kidnaping Drama
This layout and map tells the sen
sational story of the kidnaping of
John Labatt, wealthy Canadian brew
er, held! by kidnapers for $150,000 ran
som following his abduction while
driving from his summer home ati
Sarnia, Ont., to his town residence at
London, where large Labatt
2 Governors
Speakers At
Celebration
Ehringhaus An ,d
Perry Link N. C.
and , Virginia His
tory; Bailey Speaks
Manteo, Aug. 18. (fP) —Virginia,
where the first permanent English
colony in America \wrs established,
joined today with North Carolina In
observing the anniversary of Virginia
Dare’s birth in 1584 in the ill-fated
Fort Raleigh colony on Roanoke Is
land here, where the first settlement
of English-speaking people on this
continent was made 350 years ago
Governor George C. Peery, of Vir
ginia, and Governor J. C. B. Ehring
haus, in addresses at the birthday ob
servance, linked the two states as the
scene of the first settlementiv
PARNtNGSREPORTS
AID TOjtOOSEVELT
Wall Street Can’t Get
Around Figures, Yet It
ILambasts President
By LESLIE EICHEL
(Central Press Staff Writer)
New York, Aug 18.—Whoever “sells
the United States short” is likely to
be caught short. That is a saying De
coming popular again in speculative
circles.
Optimistic persons point out that
earnings o fcorporations, in the main,
have risen strongly
Among 224 corporations reporting
for the second uarter net earnings
showed a gain of $51,997,288 over 1933.
That is a gain of more than 37 per
cent. t q
This report of earnings, comp ;led
6y Eastman, Dillon and Co., and ac
cepted in Wall street as authentic,
is an aid to the much-attacked Roose
velt administration in the "Street”.
(Continued on Page Five)
WEATIIER
< FOB NORTH CAROLINA
Mostly cloudy tonight and Sun
day; showers in extreme west por
tion Sunday.
is located. Although Detroit police
have been working on the theory that
Detroit gangsters may be involved In
the Dominion’s first kidnaping, Hugh
Labatt, brother 1 of the victim, rushed
to Toronto with the ransom money
demanded and awaited further word
from the abductors at the Royal Y one
Prince George of
England May Wed
Balkan Princess
Gled, Yugoslavia, Aug. 18. (AP)
—King Alexander’s object in invit
ing Prince Georg of England to no
his guest in the royal summer
palace here was larned on high
luthority today to be directed to
ward promoting a marriage be
tween the British kings fourth son
son and Princess Marina, the thira
daughter olf Prince Nicholas and
Princess Olga of Greece.
This authority stated that Princt
Paul, Alexanders nephew, who is
very close to the king, has been
designated as match-maker, be
cause is speaks fluent English.
No Grounds To Suppose He
Will Ride Constitution
To Senate
Daily Dispatch Bureau,
In the Sir Walter Hotel,
Raleigh, Aug ; who
do not indicate their own attitude are.
asking The question “Can Governor
Ehringhaus ride into the eastern sen
atorship on the ne wconstitution.”
A ervy prominent eastern supporter
of former Lieutenant Governor Rich
ard T, Fountain, and very aggressively!
against George Ross Pou for Congress,
has propounded that query. Mr. Foun
tain is quite vehemently opposed to the
(Continued on Page Two.)
Push Hunt
For Slayer
Os Sheriff
Statesville, Aug. 18. (£>)—Search
was continued in this section and
around Danville, Va., today for Ralph
Davis, outlaw, who killed Sheriff C.
C. Kimball, of Iredell county yester
day and shot R. K. Gilbert, a deputy,
in the leg, in escaping a trap.
The sheriff’s office reported its
members believed Davis had doubled
back to this section and was hiding
nearby, while State patrolmen believ
-1 ed the killer was in Virginia.
PUBLISHED EVERY AFTERNOON
EXCEPT SUNDAY.
hotel.
Labatt was released by his abduc
tors early Friday in the suburbs of
Toronto. It was said that no ransom
whatever was paid, but other reports
were that from $50,000 to the full
amount was turned over to the kid
nap gang.
Blue Eagle
Taken From
N. C. Hotels
Eight Concerns Al
leged To Have Vio
lated Wages and
Hours Set in Code
Greensboro,. Aug. 18. (/P) — Eight
North Carolina hotels today were or
dered by the State NRA compliance
office here to hand over all Blue
Eagle insignia to theip respective
postmasters on the ground that they
have violated the wage and hour pro
visions of the hotel industry’s code of
fair competition.
The order went out t>y telegram
from E. W. acting State NRA
compliance director, to the following
hotels:
O. (Henry hotel, Greensboro; Sir
Walter hotel, Raleigh; the
and Rosemont hotels at Fayetteville;
the Washington Duke, at Durham,
and the Carolina, the Sanford and the
Willrick hotels at Sanford.
The general telegram directed that
these hotels refrain from the use of
any Blue Eagle insignia from this
date until a reinstatement has been
made.
Will Begin Negotiations
To Avert Textile Strike
Washington, Aug. 18. (A 5 ) —Robert i
Bruere, chairman of the Industrial
Relations Board for the cotton tex
tile and silk and wool manufactut- i
ing industries, told reporteds today <
he would call meetings of 'both groups
next week to discuss the projected
general strike in the textile lnuus
try ordered by September 1.
UNION VOTES DOWN TAX TO
PAY EXPENSES OF STRIKE
New York, Aug. 18. (IP) —The Unit
ed Textile Workers of America today
vote down a proposal carrying a tax
on workers designed to raise $15,000
a month as a ‘‘war chest” for the pro
jected striae of 500,000 cotton textile
workers.
At the same time, Francis J. Gor
man, first vice of the'
At the same time, Francis J. Gor
man, first vice president of the
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TODAY
FIVE CENTS COPY
OF SS
Message from Airmen Say
They Can Remain Aloft
For Five More Hours
In Gondola
REPORT SUFFERING
FROM SEVERE COLD
Both Well* However, Mes
sage States; Altitude
Reached Is Fraction Bet
ter Than Reputed Height
Reached by Soviet Bal
loonists, Who Were Killed
Brussels, Belgium, Aug 18. (£>)— It
was announced today that a wireless
report from the stratosphere balloon
stated today that Max Cosyns and
Neree Vanderlist had ascended 22,000
meters (72,178.38 feet) a height which,
if verified, has broken all existing at
titude records.
The message was reported receiv
ed at 3:20 p. m. (9:20 a. m., eastern
standard time), at which time the bal
loon was supposed to be above Czecho
slovakia and still able to remain in
the air five more hours.
The previous altitude record, which
Max Cosyns and Neree Vanderlist
were reported to have broken today
was held by Lieutenant Commander
T. G. W. Settle, U. S. Navy, who rose
to a height of 62,320 feet on Novem
ber 20. 1933. /
DEATH SENTENCES
TO AUSTRIAN NAZI
Vienna, Aug, 18, (AP) —Out of
15 Austrian Nazi plotters who
went on trial today, one was sen
tenced to death* and the other 14
to life imprisonment.
In lnnsbuck, another oo ur tartar
tial, trying 20 Nazis charged with
smuggling explosives and weapons
into Austria, sentenced two to
death and turned over the other
18 to ordinary courts.
battlebegOnfor
INDUSTRIAL OFFICE
Governor Must Decide It and
He Will Be Besieged
Everywhere i
Unity Dispatch Bureau,
In the Sir Walter Hotel,
Raleigh, Aug. 18 Signs point
straight to a warm contest in the exe
cutive office for the appointment as
chairman of the State Industrial
(Commission, which organization ad
ministers the workmen’s compensation
law and loses in another fortnight the
headfi, Majojr Matt H. Allen.
Commissioners J. Dewey Dorsett
and T. A. Wilson are eligible for the
appointment. The name of Archie
McL. Graham, of Clinton, is promi
nently mentioned and that of High
way and Public Works Commissioner
Charles W. Whedbee, There will be
many other good lawyers who will
have supporters in abundance. The
$4,500 salary isn’t fascinating, but it
helps. ,
Friends of Commissioner Dorsett ddi
(Continued on Page Five)
union, announced that he would open
strike headquarters in Washington,
D. C., Monday, at which time exe
cutive officers will confer with Presi
dent Green of the American Federa
tion of Labor.
ThealWpowerful executive
which has been given mandatory or
ders to call on strike 500,000 cotton
textile workers by September 1, and
which has discretionary power to call
a strike in affiliated industries—silk,
rayon, wool and worsted—will meet
this afternoon following adjournment
of the convention.
Gorman said the council would then
set a date for the strike. This will
not oe made public however, accord
ing to the plans to give employers
only 24 hours notice before the waia
out f . J