Henderson daily dispatch., September 17, 1934, Image 1

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HENDERSON
GATEWAY TO
CENTRAL
CAROLINA
TWENTY-FIRST YEAR
NINE N. C. TEXTILE MILLS REOPEN
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Georgia Governor Declares Martial Law In Strike
BARB WIRE CAMPS
CONSTRUCTED FOR
ARRESTEDPICKETS
Flying Squadron of His
Own Organied by Ad
jutant General of State
for Quick Duty
TALMADGE DECIDES
TO PRESERVE ORDER
That Is His Instructions to
National Guard; Areas
Where Troops Are Sta
tioned Are Those Affect
ed by Martial Law Regu
lations Invoked in State
Atlanta, Oa„ Sept. 17. (/P> —Gover-
nor Talmadge today invoked martial
la win textile srtike areas where Na
tional Guardsmen were in control.
At the same time, preparations were
going on under orders from Adjutant
General Lindley Camp for the con
struction of a barbed wire interment
camp on property of the state in At
lanta.
The governor’s proclamation order
ed the military “to preserve order in'
Georgia and to protect the lives of all
citizens as well as their property”.
Adjutant General Camp gave orders
for the erection of the camp from
Newman, where he personally led a
flying squadron of guardsmen against
pickets.
The general ordered that the camp
be ready within two hours to receive
some 150 pickets at Newman, who
composed a flying squadron from
nearby towns.
Afer the quick action at Newman
’the general ordered his prisoners
loaded into two huge trucks of the
state highway department and hur
ried them off to Atlanta, where they
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Germany Is
Defiant To
The League
Claims Her Stand
Can’t Be Discuss
ed While Equality
Rights Are Denied
Geneva, Sept. 17 (AP)—Oermany
holds that her relationship to the
League of Nations cannot be dis
cussed as long as her equality rights
are "in any way questioned from cer
tain quarters.”
This position wa soutlined in a re
cent reply to European powers, in
which she refused to agree to the
'eastern Locarno” treaty sponsored
by France to insure peace in eastern
Europe.
This project was discussed unoffi
cially today as the Assembly of the
League engaged in formalities, ex
pected to culminate in election of
Russia to membership.
It was reported that the delegation
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League Group Approves
Membership For Russia
Geneva, Sept. 17 (AP)— After hear
ing broadsides against the Soviets by
five nations, and a defense by France
♦he political' committee of the League
of (Nations Assembly recommended
♦oday the admission of Russia into the
League.
Switzerland, the home of the Lea
gue of Nations, declared dramatically
at a public meeting of the League As
sembly today that she would vote
against the administration of Rus
sia into the League "because Russia
communism seeks to take effect every
■where and because its ambition is a
,world revolution."
Heuilersmx tlathi tltsuairh
Where Henderson Troops Are In Strike Zone
Imm JH
This is a scene at the Lot ay mill, at Gastonia, textile center of America, to which point Company
C, Henderson National Guard unit, was ordered Saturday night. To enter the Loray mill, strik
breakers must run the gauntlet of jeering striker s outside the mill. Above, striking textile work
ers are shown lined up ready to attempt to dissuade workers from entering the mill. The plant,
? Manville-Jenckes chain, as the scene of violent rioting in communist uprisings
in 1929.
Troops Cost State $4,500
Day; $45,000 Over Nation
Raleigh, Sept. 17 (AP)—With 38
units of National Guard companies
under arms on strike guard duty, the
State of North Carolina’s treasury is
spending somewhere in the neighbor
hood of $4,500 daily due to the textile
strike.
The State expense is in addition to
the cost on counties and cities for
extra sheriffs’ deputies and police.
Adjutant General J. Van B. Metts
would not venture a close guess of the
actual cost of the National Guard on
duty, but from data made available at
his office this morning, it was indi
cated the cost would approximate
$4,500 daily.
The total of $4,500 was reached only
yesterday, but the cost had been
growing almost every day since Sep
tember 5, when the first troops were
Roosevelt
Again Sees
Yacht Race
Newport, R. 1., Sept. 17 (AP) —De-
spite a light rain and a brisk sea
breeze, President Roosevelt poised
himself on the starboard bridge of
the Nourmahal, ordered binoculars
and signalled full steam ahead for the
starting point of the second Amer
ica’s Cup race.
The Astor yacht, which the presi
dent is using as a floating White
House, was equipped to keep him
constantly informed of developments
in the textile strike. The chances of
further Presidential intervention
were described by officials as no
greater than last week, when disord
ers were at their peak.
Mgiusette Motta, former president
of Switzerland, expressed this atti
tude in an emotional address before
the committee, which examined the
Russian candidacy. He declared the
League of Nations was embarking on
a hazardous undertaking.
“As we see it,” said the Swiss rep
resentaive, "the League of Nations
ventures to wed water and fire. If
Soviet Russia suddenly ceases to in
sult the League, which Lenien defied
as an institution of brigandages, we
read the explanation of this novel at
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ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA AND VI^NIA.
WIRB SERVICE OF
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS.
HENDERSON, N. C. MONDAY AFTERNOON, SEPTEMBER 17, 1934.
ordered on duty.
11,000 SOLDIERS IN NATION
COSTING $45,000 TO STATES
New York, Sept. 17 (AP> —In a sur
vey of eight states, approximately 11,-
000 National Guard troops have been
mobilized for textile strike duty.
Wages and subsistence to maintain
these units are reckoned roughly at
$45,000 daily, the cost being met by
State governments. Tear and nausea
gas costs are extra.
Georgia, which has ordered the
greatest mobilization of all states af
fected, has approximately 4,000 offi
cers and men patrolling strike cen
ters. Two regiments of infantry and
62 special National Guard units have
been called out, and an artillery regi
ment at Savannah was ordered to
SLAYEROF SCHOOL
HEAOISJYSTERY
Questioning of Witnesses
Resumed in Killing in
Massachusetts
Northfield, Mass.. Sept. 17 (AP) —
Systematic questioning of persons
who might shed light on the'mysteri
ous shotgun slaying of Dr. Elliott
Speer, headmaster of Mount Hermon
School, Friday night, was resumed
today by detectives.
Torrential rains temporarily inter
fered with plans of the investigations
to search nearby wooded sections for
new clues and for the weapon used
by the slayer.
District Attorney Joseph T. Bartlett
announced that Brigadier General
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Virginians
May Adopt
Sales Tax
Daily Dispatch Burma,
In the Sir Walter Hotel,
Raleigh Sept. 17.'—‘Virginians who
were at the Creedmoor celebration
Friday afternoon when the last link
of No. 21 was joined to the Oxford
road and a direct shoot into Nortl*
Carolina from the north and into Vir
ginia from the south was finished,
whsipered to Tar Heels that their!
State is going to enact the abomina-
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stand by. Wages range from $6 a day
for brigadier genera! to $1 for pri
vates.
Rhode Island has mobilized 1,900
guardsmen, and with the average
wage of Guardsmen set at $3.50 and
subsistence set at 75 cents daily, it
is calculated that the State pays SB,-
075 daily. The cost of tear~and nau
sea gas in the state thus far has
amounted to between $5,000 and $6-
000.
In North Carolina the adjutant
general’s office estimated that 2,100
men have been called out. They con
stitute 36 companies. In South Caro
lina there are 24 companies, with
about 1,700 men.
Six companies of Conecticut Guards
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calSSmen
May Mean “Speculative In
flationists” Have Given
Up Hope Now
By LESLIE EICHEL
(Central Press Staff Writer)
New York, Sept. 17.—Decline in the
stock market at the present time is
looked upon by conservative bankers
as a good omen. They interpret such
decline to mean that speculative in
flationists had given up "hope”.
The Federal government’s conser
vative refinancing program has had a
good effect throughout the world. The
dollar immediately responded to it
on world exchanges. (To be sure, the
United States goevrnment is support
ing the dollar abroad through a stabi
lization fund, which is secretly op
erated.)
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Bankers Complain
Bankers complain that they are the
object of too much criticism in regard
to loans —or, rather, the lack of
loans.
Says F. M. Law, president of the
American Bankers Association:
“It stands to reason that as long
as Federal bank examiners believe it
to be their duty to constantly ham
mer on loans that are admittedly
good, only because they are slow, it
will have the effect not only of forc
ing banks to exert unnecessary pres
sure on such loans, but will prevent
them from making new loans except
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WEATHER
FOR NORTH CAROLINA
Cloudy tonight and Tuesday,
and occasional rains.
Other Textile Units To
Be Called Unless Strike
Is Settled During Week
Ultimatum to Industry Issu
ed by Francis J. Gorman,
Chairman of Strike
Committee
STILL DEMANDING
JOHNSON OUSTING
Says American Federation
of Labor Will Adopt Res
olution Calling for NRA
Head’s Resignation if He
Does Not Get Out Before
October Meeting
Washington, Sept. 17 (AP) —Fran-
cis J. Gorman, chairman of the tex
tile strike committee, issued an ulti
matum today that if the strike was
not settled this week, all remaining
divisions of the industry would be
called out.
At the same time Gorman disclos
ed plans to have a resolution adopted
by the approaching convention of the
American Federation of Labor in San
Francisco demanding the resignation
of Hugh S. Johnson, national recov
ery administrator.
“Neither General Johnson nor State
militia, “Gorman said at a press con
ference, “has been able to break the
strike. If General Johnson is an of
ficer in NRA at the time the Ameri
can Federation of Labor convention
meets, our delegation in that conven
tion will introduce a resolution de
manding either his resignation or his
discharge, and you can take it from
me the resolution will be actepted.”
“I think I know how organized la
bor in general feels about the gene
ral. There is scarcely an interna
tional union that has not been dam
aged by his unjust rulings and ac
tions.”
Party Heads Are
Concentrating On
Election Battle
Washington, Sept. 17 (AF) Al
though five states stil are in the
throes of primary campaigns for Sen
ate and Huose, party leaders already
are concentrating on the election
drive.
Both Democratio and Republican
headquarters plan to send speaking
talent into the field soon after Octob
er 1. Criss-crossing the nation, they
will give special attention where the
battle is clocest. The fight for con
trol of Congress promises to be bitter
MORRO CASTLE FIRE
IS HURTING TRAVEL
American Lines Fear Traf
fic to Tropics May Take
Drop This Winter
By CHARLES P, STEWART
(Central Press Staff Writer)
Washington, Sept. 17. —The Ameri
can mrecantile marine’s press agents
have been looking exceedingly glum
since the Morro Castle disaster.
Washington has a very liberal rep
resentation of these gentry, lragely
because of the series of attacks Amer
ican shippin gcompanies have been
under) recently, in connection !with
the Senate investigation of the last
few months into the subsidies the
government is paying them for ocean
mail transportation..
Naturally they are anxious for the
prosperity of the lines which employ
them. ;
Probably it should go almost with
out saying that publication of such
gruesome stories as those of the
Morro Castle’s destruction are not re
garded as good advertising for ocean
travel.
* * *
Spokesmen for America’s trans-
Atlantic lines od not care so much.
The easterly-bound tourist season is
over anyway. Americans who still
are abroad must get home, whether
o rno. And it is reckoned that, by
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PUBLISHED EVERT AFTERNOON
EXCEPT SUNDAY*
Quits Congress
Representative James M. Beck
Because he is “tired of being on«-
four-hundredth part of a rubber
stamp”, and feels as a critic of
the New Deal he can “help in this
great cause more effectively in the
federal courts”, Representative
James M. Beck, Republican, of
Pennsylvania, is retiring from tha
house, although he has been re
nominated. Beck is regarded as
one of the foremost authorities on
constitutional law.
Disorders
In Strike
In Maine
Portland, Maine, Sept. 17 (AP) —
Stones were thrown, mill windows
broken an dthe ranks of textil estrik
ers swelled today as the nation-wide
textile strike bit deeper into Maine.
Additional National Guardsmen
were ordered to duty, one company
each being sent to Sangerville and
Biddeford, increasing to approximate
ly 750 the numoer on duty in textile
communities.
Saco and Biddeford, comprising
one of the largest cotton textile cent
ers in the State, saw from 10 to 25
per cent of the employees of the Pep
perell Manufacturing Company and
the York Manufacturing Company
join the strike in response to the first
local strike call.
The Pepperell Company normally
employs 800 and the York 700. Prior
to today strikers in Maine totalled
nearly 4,000.
U. S. Department Backed
An Air School In China
Washington, Sept. 17 (AP) —Testi-
mony that the United States Depart
ment of Commerce aided in recruitt
ing and formation of a military air
school for the Canton, China, govern
ment was laid down before the Sen
ate Munitions Committee today.
The matter was described as hav
ing been handled "very confidentially”
early last year in order that it might
not come to the attention of another
Oriental power which might chal
lenge the "impropriety” of the action.
The testimony came out in ques
tioning United Aircraft Export offi
cials, , . > '■
8' PAGES
TODAI
FIVE CENTS COPY
PICKETS DEFIANT
TD STATE TROOPS
AT BELMONT MILL
Skirmishes Reported at
Other Centers as Strik
ers Seek to Consolidate
Their Positions
FIFTY AT
TARBORO ARRESTED
All Later Released, How
ever; Weldon Mill Re
opens, but Nobody Goes
to Work; Workers Vote
to Return to Work in
South Carolina Plant;
Guardsmen on Duty
Charlotte, Sept. 17 (AP) —Nine tex
tile mills reopened in the Carolinas
today with the aid of National
Guardsmen, boosting the industry’s
employment figure by approximately
2,100, but the expected “big push”
against strike ranks failed to deve
lop.
A score of mills in Gastonia, "comb
ed yarn centers of the world,” which
have been almost completely throt
tled by the strike, made no effort to
operate, despite Saturday plans to
reopen, and the presence of ten Na
tional Guard companies.
THREAT OF REVOLUTION
IS SHOUTED AT BELMONT
Charlotte, Sept. 17 (AP) —A thou
sand or more pickets crying, “You’ll
start a revolution,” faced a company
of National Guardsmen across one of
the State’s busiest highways at 861-
mont today as the textile strike en
tered its third week in the Carolinas.
Strike skirmishes were reported
from various other centers as strik
ers sought to consolidate their posi
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Ehringhaus
Cites Court
Authorities
U. S. Supreme
Court Held Peace
ful, and Only Peace
ful Picketing, Legal
Daily Dispatch Bureau,
In the Sir Walter Hotel,
Raleigh, Sept. 17 —'Frequent recur
rence to the “peaceful picketing” de
cision of the United States Supreme
Court, Governor Ehringhaus htinks,
will be helpful to North Carolina peo
ple during the present industrial
troubles and the executive has re
quested the newspapers to put on the
fortissimo in playing this song.
The governor’s perpetual Raleigh
newspaper critic let up on him some
what the past week, but Rhode in
land’s way with troops: furnished the
newspaper with new prqof that it is
very difficult for that journal to be
wrong. The executive office, however
if concerned with obedience to the
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F. H. Love, director of the com
pany, said the matter had been hand
led quietly to avoid arousing suspicion
of the other power.
Reference to the Canton transac
tions was made in a memorandum of
S, A McClellan, assistant to Love ,to
P. G. Johnson, president of the Unit
ed Aircraft and Transport Company.
Earlier testimony had told of enor
mous profits made by the Pratt and
Whieny Aircraft Company, a subsidi
ary of United Export ,and of efforts
of the company to sell airplanes in
Bolivia and Paraguay during the way
feetween those two countries, ,jj