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HENDERSON
GATEWAY TO
CENTRAL
CAROLINA
TWENTY-FIRST YEAR
BIG PUSH TO REOPEN COTTON
12,000,000 BLAZE
NEARLY WIPES OUT
BIG ALASKAN CITY
Gold City of Nome Razed
by Disastrous Blaze on
Monday That Burns
Itself Out
government flans
TO HASTEN RELIEF
Coast Guard Vessels to Race
There Before Harbor
Freezes Over in Winter;
Many Homeless and
Genuine Food Shortage
Looms Real Menace
Nome, Alaska, Sept. 18 (AP) —Alas-
ka's famous city of gold lay in ruins
today with two dead and a property
loss estimated as high as $2,000,000.
iFaced by a definite food shortage
and an early winter, which will look
the city’s roadbeds with ice, Nome’s
homeless citizens pleaded for immedi
ate aid from the States.
"We must have help from outside
speedily,” said Dr, Rex M. Swartz, the
city's physician-mayor.
The Federar government, Red Cross
and American companies promptly
promised to rush aid in an effort to
beat the winter' sice in the harbor.
Starting from a spark on the roof of
the Golden Gate hotel yesterday,
flames roared through the wooden
town, leaping from building to build
ing and then from block to block. Ef
forts of firemen, aided by men, women
and children, were futile.
Federal buildings, the Miners and
Merchants Bank, every grocery store
and restaurant, and all of the hotels
but one fell before the flames.
Two Eskimos were trapped by the
flames. They burned to death,
COAST GUARD SHIPS ARE
ORDERED TO SPEED HELP
Washington, Sept. 18 (AP) —Coast
Guard headquarters today ordered six
vessels scattered in Pacific waters
from San Diego northward to stand
by for possible orders to proceed to
the stricken city of Nome,
The cutters, which already have
been ordered to Nome are around 600
miles away and may require nearly
two days to make the trip.
MORRO CASTLE IS
VISITED BY BOARD
No One Allowed to Accom
pany Government Offi
cials to Vessel
.Asbury Park, N. -J., Sept. 18. (/P)~
Members of the Department of Com
merce Board of Inquiry investigating
the urning of the Dner Morro Castle
went aboard the charred hulk today
fm an inspection of the wreck.
Clad in overalls, Dickers.in N.
over, chairman, and his hree fel
low board members, rode a. breeches
b-'oy to the deck of the shio.
No one was permitted to accompany
♦he board.
I»( mission was lefused by F. D.
Ctocco, Ward i|r.e j epresen-rtive.
Russia Now
Member Os
The League
But Vote of Assem
bly Is by no Means
Unanimous for Her
Admission
Geneva, Sept. 18. (AP) — The Assem
bly of the League of Nattons today
elected Soviet Russia into member
ship.
The election took place before a.
packed hall, which took *on a gala ap
pearance to rthe occasion. For an
hour prior to the election, spectators
bed poured into the meeting place.
A crowd *ormed outside.
Smartly-clad women vied with care
fully garbed men so rthe few places
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Datht Mmtxuith
Two More Guard Companies
Ordered To Gaston County
WAGE WISCONSIN POLITICAL BATTLE
/fw dtt
William B. Rubin
One o fthe most interesting primary
fights to be waged for the guberna
torial nomination has been going on
in Wisconsin where Governor A. G.
Schmedeman, right, Democrat of long
standing, has been challenged by Wil
Germany Uses Impounded
Foreign Funds To Assist
Airplane Manufacturers
Money Diverted into Sub
side Amounting to 20
Percent, Senate Com
mittee Is Told
MUNITIONS PROBE
DRAWS SENSATION
United Aircraft Treasurer
on Stand at Inquiry When
Fact Is Brought Out, and
Says That Letter Was His
Only Information on the
Subject
Washington, Sept. 18 (AP)—A re
port that Germany was using im
pounded foreign funds to subsidize
German aircraft manufacturers was
read today to the Senate Muniitons
Committee.
A letter written December 4, 1933,
by the International Engineering
Company, Inc., to the United Aircraft
Exports, Inc., was put into the rec
ord.
It said the German government
was subsidizing German manufactur
ers to the extent of 20 percent against
non-German competition in all lines.
"This fact should be known to
American firms, as we have recently
noted that the foreign funds impound
ed in Germany are now used in fi
nancing such subsidies,” it said.
.“Did you know that foreign funds
impounded in Germany were being
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ABOUT THE FUME
Can’t Adjust Itself to Tex
tile Changes; See Roose
velt as Dictator
By LESLIE EICHEL
(Central Press Staff Writer)
Boston, Sept. 18. —Night life in Bos
ton seems second only to New York,
in America. But New England seems
unhappy. The spirit of change is in
the air. Change may mean a changed
New England. It will be difficult for
the old New Englanders to change.
The textile strike has brought a bit
(e i determination to New England.
Employers set their jaws firmly and
defied anybody to force them to op
erate their plants under conditions
set by the NRA and strikeis.
Strikers, on their side, set their
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ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OP NuRTH CAROLINA AND VIRGINIA
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the associated PRESS*
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liam B, Rubin, left, former Socialist
and Progressive Republican, Rubin
in his colorful campaign tactics, is
said to resemble Louisiana's Huey
Long. The primary is being held to
day.
STRIKE AT A
GLANCE
Charlotte, Sept. 18 (AP)—An
Associated Press survey of the
strike situation in the Carolinas
today gave the following approx
imate figures:
North Carolina: Mils closed, 177
open 307; workers idle 67,220; ac
tive, 90,650.
South Carolina: Mills closed, 85
open 105; idle workers, 37,525;
active, 44,751.
Even Republican Managers
Privately Admit That
Is the Prospect
BOTH PARTIES SCARED
They Fear They See General Break-
Up of Two Old Groups; Michi
gan One of the Very Few Re
publican Bright Spots
By CHARLES P. STEWART
(Control Press Staff Writer)
Washington, Sept. 18. —The Maine
election throughout the country have
left the political situation too)
scrambled for even the foremost ex
perts to make much sense out of it.
It generally is agreed, to be sure,
that an emphatic indorsement of the
New Deal on Nov. 6 is indicated.
Republican spokesmen, indeed, don’t
agree to it openly. Confidentially
they do, however. For exmaple, I
happened in at G. O. P. national com
mittee headquarters on the morning
of Sept. 11. when and where, in the
midst of tremendous activity, the
committee’s publicity staff was en
gaged, as freely admitted by mem
bers of the organization, in an effort
to “alibi” (that was just how they
expressed it) the Maine election re
sult. V
There are signs in spots, even De
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LITTLE GIRL HIT "
BY LARGE TRUCK
Winston Salem Sept. 13 UP) —The
five-year old daughter of Mr and M?v.
J H Johnson wn« killed this morning
w.’rn she wa sst. id: and run over
hv a heavy true r in the Southside stc
t >r L, R. If«> vi-iv, of (he Mineral
Strings sect' n, the drivr\ is being
held pendin gan investigation.
rSVinTea
OF BELMONT MILLS
F
Metts Says HefWas Advised
Strikers Had Overturn
ed Automobiles in
Vicinity
additionai3troops
THOUGHT NECESSARY
Winston-Saleof Infantry
Company and Sanford
Artillery Unit Sent to
Belmont; 40 Companies
with 2,200 Officers and
Men Now on Strike Duty
Raleigh. Sept. 18. (/P) —Two addi
tional National Guard companies
were ordered on strike guard duty
in he Gastonia area this afternoon.
Assignment of Company G. 120th
Infanry, Winston-Salem .and Battery
E, 113th Field Arillery, of Sanford, to
duty in the Gastonia-Belmont sector,
raised to 10 the number of units on
duty there and to 40 the number now
on cstrike duty over the tSate. Slight,
ly over 2,200 officers and men are in
volved.
Adjutant Generla J. Van B. Metts
said he received reports from the Bel
mont area that strikers around mills
there ’“‘turned automobiles upside
down and engaged in general disor
ders” this morning, and it was felt
that additional rtoops should be rush
ed there.
POLICEMEN SCATTER
300 SILK STRIKERS
Passaic, N. J.. Sept. 18 (AP) —
The hundred silk strikers from
Paterson weredispersed by half
a hundred clubswinging policemen
today as they attempted to picket
the Botany Worsted Mills on Day-,
ton avenue.
Three men, including the gen
eral manager of the Associated
Silk Workers, were arrested.
Ehringhaus
Gets Ickes
Fully Told
Says North Carolina
Will Get Park Road
If Spoils Idea Is Eli
minated
By J. C, BAskerville.
Daily Dispatch Unread,
In the Sir Walter Hotel,
Raleigh ,Sept. 18. —Governor J. C. B.
Ehringhaus fs in Washington today 1
wit hthe North Carolina delegation,
appearing before Secretary of the n
treior Harold L. Ickes wit hregaiu to
the location of the park-to-park high
way to extend from the Shenandoah
National Park to the Great Smoky!
Mountains National Park in Western
North Carolina and Eastern Tennessee
A large delegation from Tennessee is
alos in Washington today to urge that
part of the parkway be located in*
•Tennessee.
‘‘l am going to tell Secretary leeks
that if the prakway is to be located
on a spoils basis or on a political
basis, with each state to get a definite
share of the allotment, that then part
of the route should go hrough Tenn
essee”, Governor Ehringhaus said
yesterday, before leaving for Wash
ington. ‘‘But I am also going to see
that if the parkway is to be a real
scenic highway, as was originally in
tended, it cannot be located along any
other route than through North Caro
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V'EATHIR
FOR NORTH CAROLINA
Partly cloudy tonight and Wed
nesday; not much change in tem
perature.
Defends Strike
NGRMAN THOMAS
Socialist candidate for president in
1932, who is speaking in North Caro
lina in upholding the textile strike.
ss
He was Invited to Come
Here by Francis Gorman
In the Hope of Stirring
Up the Strikers
SOCIALISTS ATTACK
STATE NEWSPAPERS
Deplore Fact That Only
One Paper is for Strikers;
Calling of Troops by Gov
ernor Also Condemned
by Party Meeting in High
Point, Which is Bitter
Durham, Sept. 18 (AP) —Nor-
man Thomas, Socialist candidate
for president in 1932, arrived in
Durham this morning to launch
his speaking tour of North Caro
lina strike centers.
He will address a labor rally at
the Durham baseball park, the
open air meeting being necessary
to accommodate the crowds. Fol
lowing the address here, Thomas
will motor to Burlington, where
he speaks this afternoon. He will
make a third speech tonight at 8
I o’clock at High Point.
In (be Sir Walter Hotel,
By J. C. Baskerville,
Raleigh, Sept. 18—The coming of
’Norman Thomas, head of the Social
ist party and its candidate for presi
dent in 1932, to North Carolina today
at the invitation of Francis Gorman,
chairman of the general strike com
mittee of the present textile strike,
is being welcomed in officia lcircles
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SEEK TWO NEGROES
IN ATTACK ON GIRL
Pulaski, Tenn., Sept. 18. (JP) —Two!
Negroes who tore the clothing from
a young white girl while they held
her companion captiev at the point
of a shotgu nwere the object of a
widespread search today.
Tobacco Exchange Begins
Active Trading Tomorrow
New York, Sept. 18 (AP) —The long
awaited opening of the New York To
bacco Exchange tomorrow will be
marked by the first organized trad
ing in futures contracts in America’s
third largest cash crop.
Tobacco, with 300 years of history,
never before has had a recognized
market place where manufacturers,
shippers, plants, bankers and merch
ants could buy and sell their commo
dity and avail themselves of the
price insurance offered by hedging
facilities.
For the time being, the price of to
bacco known under the government
classification as type 12, grade B4F,
PUBLISHED EVERY AFTERNOON
EXCEPT SUNDAY.
MILLS STARTS
Nine Plants Open l
In Gaston County,
Making Total 15
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Last photo of Rev. Elliott Speer,
headmaster of two select schools in
Northfield, Mass., who was found
slain in the library of his home.
(Central Press)
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GUARDIUM
State Is Quiet in Textile
Strike to Extent Gov
ernor Orders De
mobilization
STRIKE EXTENSION
BEING CONSIDERED
Leaders in Washington Plan
to Order Out All Remain
ing Textile Workers in
Nation; Ranks of Idle Re
duced in Carolinas as
Some Mills Open
(By the Associated Press)
Over 420,000 textile workers were
idle from the general strike in the in
dustry today as unions and employ
ers made determined moves to streng
then their psitions.
In Washington, national strike
leaders gathered to consider a quick
extension of the walk-out by calling
out every cloth maker in the nation.
An additional 100,000 would be effect
ed.
Employers opened many mills and
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WORKERS ASK FOR
JOHNSON OUSTING
Pawtuckets, R. 1., Sept. 18 (AP)
—(AP) —At a meeting held at
noon today the Rhode Island Tex
tile Strike Committee drafted re
solutions condemning the atti
tude of General Hugs S. Johnson
and demanding that he resign as
NRA administrator.
will be the basic grade dealt in.
Nine types and numerous grades will
be deliverable under specified differ
entials.
One futures contract will consist of
10,000 pounds of re-dried leaf packed
in hogsheads. The minimum price
fluctuation will be .05 of a pound, or
$5 a contract, while a tharing limit
of two cents a pound from the previ
ous session’s closing price will be
fixed.
In addition to hedging facilities, the
new exchange hopes to assist the
orderly marketing of the crop through
the dissemination of trade informa
tion and by supplying a continuous
barometer of values.
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TODAY
FIVE CENTS COPY
Number of Workers Rises to
3,200 but 22,800 More
Are Still Idle in the
County
GUARDSMEN PATROL
AREAS AT OPENING
Pickets Held Back from
Mills, but no Disorders
Develop; Most Mills
Work One Shift; High
Point Hosiery Mills Run
with 60 Percent Force
Charlotte, Sept; ',lB (ASP) —Gaston
county, North Carolina’s largest tex
tile center, today began its “big push”
against the tight hold the general tex
tile strike has held on the area for
18 days.
Nine plants reopened this morning
with an estimated 1,200 persons on
the job, bringing the total of operate
ing plants to 15 of the county’s 104.
The number of persons at work jump
ed to approximately 3,200 with 22,800
still idle.
Ntional Guardsmen, heavily equip
ped with machine guns and tear gas,
patrolled the area at opening time
and held pickets back from the mins,
but no disorders developed.
Most of the mills announced they
would attempt at present to operate
with only one shift.
Many other mills which have re
opened in the past few days continu
ed to operate with reduced forces. At
High Point, a hosiery center, a survey
showed all 29 plants running, but only
3,925 out of 6,359 employees at work*
The first closedown of the w««k
was reported at Rock Hill, S. C. r
(Continued on Page Three)
WALMSLEYSTARTS
OUT TO CLEAN II
Tells /Police to Rid City of
Vice and Gambling or
They Must Go
New Orleans, La., Sept. 18. (£»)—.
Mayor T. Semmes Walmsley today laid*
down the law t oevery ranking police
officer in New Orleans at a meeting
at police haedquarters, and said that
if vice and gambling, were not stamp
ed out, he wuold dismiss them from)
the force.
Walmsley’s orders to the police!
force followed alleegd revelations of
gamblin gand vice in the city of NeW
Orleans by a legislative investigating
committee dominated by Senator;
Huey P. Long.
At the close of an hour’s confer*
ence, one police captain, leaving thfll
squad room at headquarters said:
“This is to be he most far-reaching
vice and gambling crusade the city
of New Orleans has ever knwon.”
Strike Aids
Machine Gun
Production
Business Up Five to|
Ten Percent Sincd
Textile Strike Got
UnderWay |
Washington, Sept. 18 (AF) —A Sen
ate committee was told today that tha
business of a gas bomb and machine
gun making concern has jumped from
five to ten percent during the textile
strike.
John Y. Young, president of the
Federal Laboratories Company of
(Pittsburgh, related that individual
purchasers must have the approval of
their local police or sheriff before
they could buy the gas bombs.
“Then, if there is a strike in ai
town and the police happen to be oig
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