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HENDERSON
GATEWAY TO
CENTRAL
CAROLINA
TWENTY-FIRST YEAR
Textile Strike Orders Are Issued
Roosevelt Watches Strike
Situation, But His Course
Is Not Yet Decided Upon
WHITE HOUSE NOW
LAST BULWARK FOR
AVOIDING CONFLICT
It Appears Inevitable That
Strike Will At Least
Start Before An
Agreement
MANUFACTURERS ARE
PREPARED TO FIGHT
Some Plan To Close Their
Plants When Strike Begins,
But Sloan Says Owners In
General Expect To Keep
Running; Says Workers
Against Strike
Washington, Aug. 30. —(AP) — The
cotton textile strike committee .in
stalled a. special telegraph wire at itr
headquarters today ready to flash
within a few hours a summons to
425.000 workers to leave their mac
hines in 1,281 factories. Peace nego
tiations are in collapse. The summer
White House appeared to be the last
conceivable bulwark against a tide of
economic conflict sweeping down or
the nation’s cotton mills.
President Roosevelt is known to b
watching the situation closely, but
what he will do remains to be sec
It appeared inevitbale that the na
tional strike set for Friday and d'
to begin actually on the day after
Labor Day. would at least start. Many
believe that some new peace mov
will seek to halt it quickly to save
the recovery program from severe
shock
The strike committee of the Unit
ed Textile Workers said its formal
order would cripple factories from
the Canadian border to the deep
South.
The unions’ executive council ex
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Hearing Put Off
L ntil Sept. 7 for
Ev angelist Askew
Goldsboro, Aug. 30 (AP) —Prelimi-
nary hearing for R. H. Askew, 28-year
o!d evangelis. who admitted recently
that he “kidnaped himself,’’ has been
postponed from tomorrow until Sep
tember 7, Commissioner E. Pearson
Announced today.
Askew is in jail awaiting trial on
charges growing out of ransom notes
nii'l threats lie mailed his wife and
Aimo Semple McPherson. Los Ange
; evangelist, while he was supposed
to bo in the hands o abductors early
this month.
Drive For
Safe Roads
Is Started
Cale Burgess Leads
Campaign For the
Reduction of Traf
fic Accidents
Daily D|M|iat<*h Bureau,
In the Sir Walter Hotel,
Raleigh, Aug. 30.—North Carolina
Safety Association, Incorporated, has
started its safety drive to reduce “the
number of accidents and promote
safety in industry and on our public
highways and streets,’’ as Cale K.
Burgess ,its organizer, describes its
purposes.
Since the announcement of this lea
gue’s purposes was first. made the
'iaath 001 l appears to have been en
largd. if there have been fewer ac-
Cjal killings and mainings, the quality
the slaughter has improved, Chief
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Idintiirrsmt Hailu snatch
Wallace Asserts South
Must Decide Its Policy
On Size Os Cotton Crop
North Carolina Is
King in the South
Washington, ug. 30 (AP)—North
Carolina continues to maintain its
position as the most populous state
in the southeast.
The State population on July 1
was estimated today by the Census
Bureau at 3,301,000 compared with
3,170,276 shown by the official cen
sus of April 1, 1930.
Georgia, he State’s nearest rival
in the southeast, fell further be
hind, having an estimated popula
tion of 2.911,000 on August 1, com
pared with an official 1930 census
of 2,908,506. *
Until 1930, Georgia, the South’s
empire state, was th emost popu
lous in the southeast.
RAJEV«W
Roosevelt Didn’t Like Him
and Doesn’t Like the
Prospect of Byrns
IS TOO CONSERVATIVE
Fight on Byrns, in Line- for Office,
Would Split Democrats Wide
Open; Republicans Are Also
Guessing
‘ By CHARLES P. STEWART
(Central Press Staff Writer)
Washington, Aug. 30. Speaker
Henry T. Rainey’s death has set Re
publicans as well as Democrats
guessing.
On the Democratic side of the fence
it already becomes evident that Con
gressman Joseph W. Byrns of Ten
nessee, Democratic floor leader in the
House of Representatives since the
Jeffersonians gained control there, is
by fair the strongest [candidate ’to
succeed Rainey.
Deppite all the tears arministration
folk have shed for Raney (a wonder
fully likeable old man, whose passing
unquestionably is genuinely regret
ted), it is no secret, as I have had
occasion to menton hertofore, that
they were doing their utmost to get
him out of the speakership in some
such fashion as to give the impres
such afshion as to give the impression
that they were promoting him, on
the ground that he was a bad politi
cal manager.
They are .not glad he’s dead U
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WILL BEGIN INQUIRY
OF MUNITIONS RING
Washington, Aug. 30.—(AP)
American links in an internation
al munitions chain were disclos
ed today ot be ready for open
scrutiny when a senatorial in
quiry into the trade opens next
Tuesday.
Says Austria Is Wholly
In Control Os Mussolini
(Copyrighted by Associated Press.)
Praha, Czechoslovakia, Aug. 30. —
.Franz Winkler* former Aus
trian vice chancellor, charged today
that Prince Ernst von Starheiriberg,
present vice chancellor, has “been on
Mussolini’s payroll since 1929.”
“Austria today is completely in the
hands of Mussolini,” said Winkler, a
fugitive from his country.
In a startling interview, he listed
the Vatican as among the contribu
tors to von Starhemberg’s Fascist
heimwehr (home guard) in its fight
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HENDERSON N. C.
Whether To Limit Yield To
Domestic Needs or Grow
Surplus for World
Is Issue
ANOTHER REDUCTION
PROGRAM NECESSARY
Must Be Carried Out Next
Year, as Carry-Over Still
Is About Normal, Agricul
ture Secretary Declares;
Surplus Better .{lf Imports
Were More
Memphis, Tenn., Aug. 30 (AP)
Henry A. Wallace, Secretary of agri
culture, said here today that the
South must decide whether it is going
to shrink its cotton production to ac
tual domestic needs or continue to
grow surplus cotton for world mar
kets.
Secretary Wallace stopped here en
route to Mariannaj, At'k„ where he was
cheduled to speak this afternoon.
“It is a uestion of which policy
will bring the cotton farmer the
greater opportunity,” Secretary Wal
lace said in an interview. “Heretofore,
despite objections to the contrary, wo
have been putting the customary
amount of cotton on world markets.
“With the reduced crop this year,
however, the farmers of the South
must decide whether they will con
tinue to grow an extra eight million
bale crop and compete for foreign
trade,, or whether an extra six million
bale crop is more profitable to them.
“Personally, would prefer it if we
had away to increase imports suffi
ciently to go ahead with our custo
mary world trade. It is not the duty
of the southern farmers, however,- t*>
produce for foreign markets so that
importers can profit by it. Unless it
brings the farmer a greater prosper
ity, there is noi use growing such sur
plus.
Another cotton reduction program
will undoubtedly be necessary again
next year in spit of this year’s drought
he said, since “our carryover in cot
ton is still about normal.”
Potato Growers
Called Together
By Congressman
Washington, Aug. 30.—(AP)— Re
presentative Lindsay C. Warren,
the first North Carolina district, p
nounced today he had called a meet
ing of the potato growers of this
State and the eastern shore of Vir
ginia for September 20 to be held
here “to take definite action on be
half of the growers.”
Warren said he favored making po
tatoes a basic commodity under the
AAA. and was ready to lead a fight
to that end.
"A condition of virtual agricultural
serfdom exists in the potato belt,” he
said. The congressman expressed the
belief that the most vital thing to be
done now was to arrange for curtail
ment and regulation of the crop.
against Naziism.
Mussolini, he said, matched nego
tations when Germany and Austria
were on the point of an agreement
18 months ago.
“Von Sarhemberg has received not
less than $1,000,000 since 1929 to do
Italy’s dirty work in Austria,” Win
kler said. “The first ‘Judas money’
given by Mussolini to von Starhem
berg was split at the time with the
notorious German Major Pabst (once
a heimwehr leader who was expelled
from Austria in 1930.)”
THURSDAY, AFTERNOON, AUGUST 30, 1934.
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Greenville
Workers Not
To Walk Out
Employees of Two of
L a r g o-s-t -Mills
Pledge Disregard
of Strike Orders
Greenville, S. C., Aug. 3ft (AP) —Em-
ployees cf woof Greenville’s largest
textile mills today pledged tnnri
selves to th regard the call for a gen
eral strike in tlia industry.
All employees cf the Mills Mill. 478
strong, issued a sworn st’atemer.that
they had signed cuch a pledge with
out the knowledge of the mav.age
tnent.
Monaghai Ivliil workers announced
that most of tbs 800 operatives had
signed a Similar pledge,
From Ware Shoals .came a leport
that a secret ballot there had resulted
in a vot of 1,786 to 47 against a walk
out.
Ask for Removal
Os Blue Eagle in
Quarry In State
Washington, Aug. 30. —(AP) — The
National Labor Relations Board was
asked today to recommend removal
of blue eagles from the North Car<
lina Granite Corporation and the J.
B. Sergeant Corporation of Moun'
Airy, N. C., for alleged discrimination
against union workers.
Sam Squibb, of Quincy, Mass, presi
dent of the granite cutters interna
tional association, and R. R. Law
rence, of Winston-Salem, president of
the North Carolina Federation of L--
bor, appeared before the board to
prosecute union claims.
Price of Tobacco
Continues Upward
In Eastern Marts
Rocky Mount, Aug. 30 (AP)—To
bacco prices continued higher today
with about half a million pounds on
the floors. Tobacco men estimated
the average for The first hour about
S2B average.
LARGEST BREAK SO FAR
IS HAD AT SMITHFIELD
Smithfield, Aug. 30 (AP) —Good to
bacco brought up to S6O per hundred
here today, but large amounts of tips
on the market brought the average
down to $26 or $27..
The largest break this year was ex
perienced today.
WEATHER
FOR NORTH CAROLINA
Partly cloudy tonight and Fri
day; not much change in temper
ature
I viewing the nation’s military I
| leaders of tomorrow as they swing
I along in perfect cadence on the |
Law-Making By Strikes
Is Declared Big Issue
George W. Sloan as Cotton Textile Code Authority
Says Coming Strike Is Equivalent To Demand for
Amending a Law Under the Threat of Force
New York, Aug. 30. — (AlELr— The
Cotton Textile Code Authority put the
question of law-making by strikes up
to the American public and the 682
industries under NRA codes today.
Speaking as a governmental offi
cail, as chairman of the Cotton Code
Authority, George A- Sloan told The
Associated Press Monday that the
Arrierican people are now faced with
a demand, “that consideration be
given to amending a law under t
threat of force.”
Sloan, who is also president of the
tomveSent
Lot of Teachers Think He
Let Them Down in
1933 Legislature
Daily Dispatch Bureau,
In the Sir Walter Hotel,
Raleigh. Aug. 30. —Superintendent
A. T. Allen, of the State Department
of Education, is back in his offieme
after many weeks of illness which
probably removed his fundamental
trouble. He attended the first offi
cial meeting of the Council of State
Monday of this week.
Dri* [Allen’s illness, which gave
great anxiety to all the people in his
department, apparently has left him
in no worse shape than he was be
fore he went to the hospital and he
believes he wil lbe regularly at his
desk. His supporters hope so, for
they prophecy stiff opposition for
him in the 1936 campaign.
Former President Clyde A. Erwin,
of the North Carolina Education As
sociation, is the pick of the anti-Al
len teachers, it is said. The fight
would be very largely on professional
lines. The opposition would come
largely from teachers and their sym
pathizers who feel that Dr. Allen did
not put up the fight against salary
cuts and slashes that he should have
done. In a word, the objection to him
is that he stood with the administra
tion.
Apparently a very much greater
percentage of the people generally,
and particularly of the observers of
legislative action, will agree that the
superintendedt did wisely and well.
There was a powerful legislative bloc
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A. P. THORPE TO BE
BURIED TOMORROW
Rocky Mount, Aug. 30. — (AP)
Funeral services for A. P. Thorpe,
tobacco and textile manufacturer of
this city, who died in Philadelphia
Wednesday, will be held from the
First Presbyterian church here on
Friday morning at 10 o’clock. Burial
will take place in the family ceme
tery in Nash county.
PUBLISHED EVERY AFTERNOON
EXCEPT SUNDAY.
I plains of West Point, N. Y. it
was the first presidential review at
I the academy since 1922.
i terday with, uui^a.leaders of the Uni ~
Cotton Textile Institute, refused yes
ed Textile Workers of America in ai
effort to prevent the calling out of
000,000 cotton textile workers in a
general strike by noon today.
“The bitterest injury will be in
flicted on the public,” he said today
“At the best it is industrial warfare,
and it almost inevitably runs into
intimidation and physical warfare.”
(Sloan stated that the strike was
pointed out not only against the cot
ton industry but against all codified
industry.
LITTLE LIKELIHOOD
OF REPEAL EFFORT
Legislators Fear That (Dry
Majority Year Ago, Ob
servers Think ,
Daily Dispatch Bureau,
In the Sir Walter Hotel,
Raleigh, Aug. 30.—Raleigh neigh
bors, co-workers and opponents of
Cale K. Burgess, United Dry Forces
loader of the 1933 campaign, are wond
ering what Democrat or Republican
courts fame, or oblivion, by cham
pioning the repea lof the Turlington
act in the 1935 General Assembly.
Mr. Burgess has sent out a general
as well as a specific warning that the
wets are seeking to destroy the State
act. Considering the fine victory that
Mr. Burgess won last year, and the
evident wisdom of a manager who
saw everything before it happened,
the United Dry Forces leader is gen
erally listened to, but he sees things
that are invisible to most eyes. If
there were such a movement there is
little doubt that Mr. Burgess would
detect it. The only question now is
whether he would see it if it did not
exist.
He is sure that the repeal attempt
will be made. Leaders on the other
side do not think so. They recall the
fact that the 1933 General Asembly
would not try to take the Turlington
act off the books and'that happened
at a time when everybody, including
the drys, thought the fixate would
vote heavily for repeal of the 18th
Amendment.
The revenue question conceivably
could figure in the liquor agitation,
but the tendency is toward raising
more money all the time and the de
vice of a liquor tax is probably a
poorer appeal today than it was in
1933. The point that the nwespaper
men make is that they se eno sign
a repeal effort, and do see all evi
dences of a dormancy of the liquor
issue. Whatever time may in the
future or might have been in the
past, propitious so rtampering with
the State liquor laws, the 1935 Gen
eral Asembly does not seem to fur
nish it.
Besides, the satires of outside
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11 : 30 p. m. Is Hour Offici
ally Designated, But
Holidays Delay It Un
til Tuesday
WOOL, SILK, RAYONS
TOLD TO STAND BY
They Will Wait Orders As
to What To Do; Order for
Strike Sent Out Over Tele
graph Key in Textile Head
quarters to All Parts qf
Country
Charlote, Aug. 30 (AP) —Strike
plans will be issued to local unions
and textile workers in this terri
tory at a conference here late to
day.
The meeting was called by How
ard Payne, of Charlotte, district
president of the textile union.
Washington, Aug. 30, —(AP) — A
general strike in the cotton textile ini
dustry was called today to become es
fective at 11:30 p. m. Saturday night.
Workers in the wool, silk, rayon'
and synthetic yarn industries wei*
ordered to stand by for further or
ders. The first working day after the
effective date will be September 4. •
The strike order follows:
“To All Locals'.
J'Sti *ke of all cotton textile workers
will begin at 11:30 o’clock your time’
Satr"day night. Put all previous in
structions into effect. Wool, silk and
rayon and synethetic yarn member
ships stand by for further orders. ViG
-ory through solidarity.
"Francis J. Gorman, chairman spe
cial strike committee, United Textile
Workers of America.”
The order for the strike, the lar
gest numerically to confront, the
Roosevelt administration, was ticked
out over a telegraph key set up in
the headquarters of the strike com
mittee. It went to the union headquar
ters over the country, which in tur.
will transit it to their membership. ■
Johnson Removal
Put Off by Board
Until Next Week
Washington, Aug. 30 (AP)—The Na
tional Textile Industrial Relation
Board today deferred consideration of
labor’s petition for removal of Theo
dore S. Johnson, of Raleigh, N. C., as
chairman of the North Carolina Tex
tile Industrial Relations Board on
ground,? he is unfair to labor.
Robert W. Bruere, chairman of the
national board, said consideration
scheduled for today was posponed be
cause Major George W. Berry, a mem
ber of the body, had been called out
of the city.
“It is a matter for the full board to
consider,” Bruere said.
Major Berry is not schedule dto re
turn here until next week.
Steady Hand
Is Needed In
Washington
Johnson To Go and
When He Does Blue
Eagle Will Really,
Crack Down
By LESLIE EICHEL
(Central Press Staff Writer)
New York, Aug. 30. —Newspaper
readers indicate by their letters that
some steadying hand is needed at
Washington—some steadying hand
and sound, straightforward thought.
These readers evince no dseire to
turn back the leaves to the “old age”.
They desire acton, straight ahead, for
their benefit.
They presumably do not heed cries,
one way or another, of disaster. To
the majority there already is disaster,
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