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HENDERSON
GATEWAY TO
CENTRAL
CAROLINA
TWENTY-FIRST YEAR
THOUSANDS AT WHITE WAY CELEBRATIONHERE
Insult Stock Sales Mere
Plan To Beat The Public,
Government Charge Says
OUTLINE GIVEN OF
CASE AS TRIAL IN
CHICAGO IS BEGUN
District Attorney Says Com
pany Was Mere Dump
ing Ground for Stocks
Acquired
FALSELY DECLARED
COMPANY’S ASSETS
Huge Issue of “Allotment
Certificates” Are Floated
Under Pretense of Letting
Friends in on Opportunity
“To Make Plenty of
Money” in Deals
Chicago, Oct 4 <AP) Samuel In
-ull'rf .stock sales in his ill-fated cor
poration Securities Company were
♦ rimed “a simple conspiracy to swin
dle. cheat and defraud the public,"
by the government as it outlined the
mail fraud case against the utilities
executive today.
I'nited States District Attorney
Dwight H. Green, in a calm state
ment detailing what government in
vestigators uncovered in Insult's fin
ancing. charged that the company was
set up simply as a “dumping ground"
for large quantities of stocks acquired
in market deals to boost the price of
Insull stocks.
itisull and the others put into the
new company the common stock of
another Insull company, Insull Utili
t\ Investments, then on this property,
Green charged:
"The defendants falsely represent
ed to the public that the new corpo
ration would commence business with
assets of over 5H0.000.000 "
Green declared that four of the 16
defendants on trial with Insull floated
n huh? issue of “allotment certificates
under the prtense that they were let
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Lawyers
In Fight
In Court
IViuston-Suleni, Oct. 4 <AF) —Fred
.M Parrish and John J. Ingle, prom
inent locul attorneys who were in
v"Ked in a fist fight, in Forsyth coun
ty court yesterday, were cited today
lm contempt of court
Judge Oscar O. Efird, who was out
of the court room when the fight oc
curred, cited them to appear before
him today and show cause “why they
should not be attached for contempt
of court."
A continuance was granted until
Friday.
The attorneys, rivals in a civil case,
had conferred outside the court room
on a possible settlement Entering
'he court, they engaged in a heated
v, rhal exchange, which led to Parrish
attacking Ingle.
Wave Os Terror Sweeps
Two Cuban Cities Again
Havana, Oct, 4 (AP) —A double
barreled outburst of terroristic bomb
*nga in Cuba’s two largest cities, Ha
vana and Santiago, ended at dawn to
day without a casualty.
Squadrons of cavalry platted
’hrough Santiago last night and took
' nitrol of the streets after electric
• ights and power lines had been slash
ed, making nervous citizens oven
tore anxious
More than 20 bombs exploded
throughout the city. Motion picture
houses and other public places closed
immediately.
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LEASED WIRE SERVICE OF
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS.
Labor Convention Near
Showdown Over Dispute
In Ranks Os Federation
Rocky Mt. Airport
Mechanic Killed
Koeky Mount, Oct. 4 (AP) —Paul
Stewart, 88, ItAul mechanic, was
almost instantly killed here to
day at the Finstead air field as he
stepped into the path of a whirling
propeller llis skull was crushed
by the impact ol the blow.
Stewart was preparing to accom
pany n number of local planes to
Raleigh for the municipal airport
celebration there and was wearing
a heavy leather helmet at the
time. The plane was owned by
W. K Sellers of this city.
Stewart’s death is the first in
the history of the local airport.
TEXTBOOK RENTALS
FAVORED. IN STATE
Sentiment Growing More in
That Direction as Leg
islature Nears
INVESTIGATING COSTS
Hill and Gravely May Sponsor Measure
to Save Parents $5,000,000 An
nually in the Purchase
of Books
llnib Dis|Mit«'H llurcnn.
In the Sir Walter Hotel,
Ily J. C, Baskerville.
Raleigh, Oct. 4 —An increasing
amount of interest is being shown in
the move for the establishment of a
Statewide textbook rental system,
whereby school children in all parts
of the State may rent their textbooks
from each school upon the payment
of a nominal rental fee, rather than
have to buy these books outright, as
(Continued on Pago Five)
Kidnapers Given
Nine-Year Terms
In Federal Court
Columbia, N. C., Oct 4 (AP) —
Sentences of nine years each in
the Atlanta Federal penitentiary
today confronted Harry Copper
smith and Quint Carter, both of
Portlock, Va„ after they had
pleaded guilty in Federal court
here to kidnaping Will Morrisetfe
last August G and taking him
across the State line into Virginia
The defendants were given sev
eral other sentences Ir connection
with the crime, hut they will run
concurrently. Five other men
are charged with kidnaping Mor
rissett and heating him for aiding
in the seizure and destruction of a
liquor still, hut they have never
been apprehended.
auguration of Dr. Ernesto Ganivet as
Terrorists were protesting the in
mayor Radicals oppose him because
they claim he is an attorney for bank
ing interests and United States firms.
Some 18 bombs went off in Havana
but most of them were small. Army
forces and Savana police wielding riot
ing props and night sticks, chased
suspicious persons and loiterers off
the streets.
There was a slight disturbance at
Central Park Soldiers were reported
to save struck several persons who
were reluctant to obey orders.
ONLY DAILY
Last-Minute Effort Is Being
Made to Keep Dispute
Off the Convention
Floor
DISPUTE CENTERS
IN BUILDING TRADE
Executive Committee of
That Department Re
versed in Its Efforts to
Have Carpenters, Brick
layers and Electric Work
ers Delegates Seated
Sdn Francisco, Cal , Oct. 4 (AP)—
The storm brewing in the building
trades department came to a head to
day, casting a shadow over the Ame
rican Federation of Labor convention.
The executive council of the fede
ration decided to take up th econ
traversy today in a last-minute effort
to keep it from the floor of the con
vention. Leaders of both factions said
they saw little likelihood of a com
promise.
The dispute involves the refusal of
the building trades department, re
versing the recommendation of its
executive council, to seat delegates
from the carpenters, brick layers and
electric workers international union
While the delegates watched an
xiously the developments in this inter
nal dispute, the words of President
William Green Green were still fresh
in their minds that workers of *the
world must unite in the interest of
international peace.
Textile Mob
Threatening
5 Deputies
Strikers at Pennsyl
vania Mill Angered
as One of Number
Is Killed
Bridgeport, Pa., Oct. 4 (AP) —Five
sheriff's deputies arrested after a by
stander was shot to death during a
textile strike outbreak, were taken
to the Norristown jail, today for pro
tection from several thousand arous
ed citizens
Eiwood Quirk, 23, was shot in the
disturbance at the James Lees and
Sons textile mill yesterday as offic
ers escorted workers from the plant
through a crowd of strikers and died
later in a. hospital.
The five deputies took refuge in the
mill, where police arrested them on
charges of homicide.
With thousands of men menacing
the Bridgeport borough hall, the de
puties were hustled instead to Norris
town, only to be followed by a crowd
tht surrounded the jail.
Officials said “all is quiet,” how
ever, early today
WEATHER COOL AND
CLOUDY FOR GAME
Detroit, Mich., Oct. 4 (AP)
Cool and cloudy weather was fore
east again today as the St Louis
Cardinals and Detroit Tigers pre
pared to take the field for the sec
ond game of the World Series.
WEATHER
FOR NORTH CAROLINA
Cloudy, probably rain Friday
and on the coast and in extreme
west portion tonight; not much
change in temperature.
' NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA AND VIRGINIA.
HENDERSON N. C. THURSDAY AFTERNOON, OCTOBER 4, 1934.
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Plotted To Kidnap Girl
On Eve Os Her Wedding
Two Wheeling, W. Va., Men Admit Scheme and Are Put
Under $50,000 Bond; Young Woman Is Daughter
Wealthy Tobacco Manufacturer of That City
Wheeling, W. Va., Oct. 4 (AP)
Frustration of a plot to kidnap Betty
Bloch, 24-year-old daughter of a weal
thy Wheeling tobacco manufacturer,
and arrest of two men for the con
spiracy was announced today by De
partment of Justic agents
Arraigned before U. S. Commission
er John Kindleberger, the men were
held in $50,000 bail each and remand
ed to jail on charges of conspiracy
to kidnap.
The men are Harry Thornton, cleric
in a haberdashery, and Thurman
Bowen, a. semi-professional football
player
J. J. Walters, chief agent for the
87,000 Enroll In
N. C. Textile Rank
Winston-Salem, Oct. 4 (AP) —
Roy Lawrence, president of the
North Carolina Federation of La
bor, last night declared the textile
union had been greatly strength
ened by the general strike Speak
ing to a union rally here, he said
the United Textile Workers now
has 87,000 members in North
Carolina.
BORAH SEES THIRD
PARTY IN POLITICS
)
Destruction of Monopolies
and New Division of
Wealth Is Needed
0*
Jeromem Idaho, Oct. 4 (AP) —Sen-
ator William E. Borah foresees a pos
sibility that “we may soon return to
the constitution on the wing of a new
party', which will solve our two prob
lems —the destruction of monopolies
and a proper distribution of wealth.”
“If our present parties don’t solve
these problems, such a thing is pos
sible and even probable,” the Idaho
ssnator told an audience here last
night without committing himself to
any third party movement.
Department of Justice in the Pitts
burgh district, announced both men
had admitted they conspired to kid
nap Miss Bloch and hold her for $25,-
000 ransom.
Miss Bloch, whose father heads the
Bloch Brothers Tobacco Company, is
to be married Saturday She is prom
inent in West Virginia society, and is
prominently identified as an eastern
golfer. ’
Waters said the two men confessed
they intended to “snatch” the young
woman last night from the home of
Miss Esther Leddy, a friend of Miss
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Bad Checks
Are Reduced
To Minimum
Uuily Uisyateh Rarena,
In the Sir Walter Hotel,
By J. C, Buokerville.
Raleigrn, Ocv. 4. —The new reorga
nized Department of Revenue has
been going after its bad check ac
counts with a vengeance during the
past few months and has reduced tile
amount outstanding against these
checks to a minimum. On February
1, 1934, when the reorganization was
made in the bad check division, a
total of $33,466.28 was outstanding in
bad checks, ranging from 60 days to
six years old, according to the report
(Continued on Page Five)
Asserts Highway
Board Will Build
Bridge At Sound
Columbia, N. C., Oct. 4 (AP) —A
Bridge across Albemarle Sound be
tween Tyrrell and Perquimans coun
ties has been promised by State high
way commissioners if their hands are
untied, according to C. W. Ttaum,
Tyrrell county representative in the
General Assembly.
“The commissioners have promised
to build us a bridge across the sound
if we would untie their hands,” Ttaum
said today. “What they meant by
‘untying” their hands was to give
them power to spend money' which
they now have,” he said.
PUBLISHED EVERY AFTERNOON
EXCEPT SUNDAY.
AFTERNOON PARADE
PROVES BIG FEATURE
OF DAY’S PROGRAM
Governor and Other Dignitaries To Ad
dress Crowds Tonight, Over 100 „
Floats Listed for the Parade
Thousands of visitors were in Henderson this after
noon foi the Greater Henderson Day celebration marking
the completion of the new Garnett street pavement and
the election of a new and modern white wav lighting
system. The city was host to people from all over Vance
and adjoining counties in this State and some from across
the State line in Virginia and from a distance in other
parts of North Carolina.
Hauptmann
Kept Maps
Os Estate
Was Very Familiar
S o u r 1 a n d Moun
tain Area About the
Lindbergh Home
New York, Oct. 4.
torney Samuel Foley announced to
day that investigators had found in
Bruno Hauptmann’s trun road maps
of the Sourland mountain section of
New Jersey,) where the estate of
Colonel Charles A. Lindbergh is lo
cated.
Foley also announced that Haupt
mann “is able to reproduce certain
sections of the Hopewell territory
from memory, even down to the small
est intersecting forks of roads."
“We also found) in this trunk,"
Foley said, "an English-German dic
tionary of the 1,000 most commonly
used words. The more difficult words
appearing in the ransom note were in
the dictionary and this to some extent
confirms the theory that Hauptmann
misspelled a number of the smaller
(Continued on Page Two.)
Dynamite Bomb
Damages Home Os
One Non-Striker
Atlanta., Ga.. Oct. 4 (AP)—A dyna
mite bomb hurled from a speeding
automobile demolished the porch and
damaged the living room of the house
of J. E. Garner, head machinist of
the Nunnally-McCrea Manufacturing
Company plant here, but failed to in
jure Farmer and two other persons
who were sleeping in the house.
A strike has been in progress at the
Nunally-McCrea plant, and police said
said they were of the opinion the
bombing was in connection with the
labor troubles. Farmer had continued
on the job during the strike.
Next Legislature Will Be
Easier For The Governor
1935 General Assembly Will Be Much More Favorable
and Sympathetic Toward Ehringhaus Than Was
His First One Two Years Ago; Popular Now
Daily Dispatch Bureau,
la the Sir Walter Hotel,
By J. C. liaskerville.
Raleigh, Oct. 4 —Governor J. C. B.
Ehringhaus is expected to have much
smoother sailing when the 1935 Gen
eral Assembly meets in January than
he did back in the 1933 assembly, ac-
Tcording to those who have been ob
serving developments during the past
21 months. Not that the Governar is
going to have a “push over” in the
next legislature session, since it is
already certain that in some quarters
he is going to have some very deter
mined opposition to some of his poli
cies. But opinion here is that there
is going to be a great deal less bit
terness towards him than existed in
the opening weeks of the 1933 ses
sion, and that there is also going to
be a very general commendation of
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The mammoth parade this after
noon had more han 100 entries listed
for the line of march, and got under
way shortly after 4 o’clock. At the
close of the program, there will be a
band conceit and other outdoor
amusements and novelty numbers
during the interim until 7:30 o’clock,
when the speaking will take place on
the stand erected on Garnett street
opposite Breckenridge
Governor J. C. B. Ehringhaus is
the chief speaker on the evening
program. But with him also are
United States Senator J. W Bailey,
of Raleigh; Congressman Harold D.
Cooley, of Nashville; representative
iiom the fourth district, in which
Henderson is located: Congressman
John H. Kerr, of Warrenton, of the
second North Carolina district; and
Congressman Frank W. Hancock, of
Oxford, of the fifth North Carolina
district There are also other State
officials and the mayors of sur
rounding towns, all here as guests of
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AGITATORSCHASED
OUT OF THE TOWN
Vigilantes Group in Georgia
Warns Them Never to
Come Back
Shannon, Ga., Oct. 4 (AP) A vigil
ance committee of Shannon citizens,
working as the Vigilantes did in days
gone by. cleared this modern mill vil
lage of 19 agitators with the warning
that they were “very, very undesir
able," and to get out and stay out.
The 19 men were arrested by the
Georgia National Guard for their agi
tation in the mill village of the South
ern Brighten Company and were tak
,en to Atlanta.
However, the men returned yester
day after being reelased and started
their activities again, local citizens
said,
Wrking smoothly and with preci
sion, the modern Vigilantes gathered
the agitators and escorted them to
the city limits. They were released
with the warning that they must never
return to Shannon.
Sheriff O. L. Betts, of Floyd county
said the village was quiet this morn
ing, and everything was normal.
his program and policies as carried
out so far in his administration.
It is doubtful if a governor ever
took office under more adverse cir
cumstances than did Governor Eh
ringhaus in January, 1933, or that one
ever had to contend with a general
assembly that was split up into as
many factions, several of these bit
terly hostile to him. In addition, Gov
ernor Ehringhaus was in poor health.
But in spite of these handicaps, he
finally emerged victoriously and saw
virtually all of the program he had
sponsored enacted. But for many
months after the adjournment of the
legislature, there were murmerings
and mutterings of dissatisfaction and
discontent in many sections of the
I State. Within the past few months,
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