HENDERSON
GATEWAY TO
CENTRAL
CAROLINA
TWENTY-FIRST YEAR
HENDERSON’S PROGRESS LAUDED RY VISITORS
HAUPTMANN ALIBI
PARTLY REFUTED BY
GROUP OF LETTERS
pertain to Package of Money
He Contends Deceased
I&adore lisch Gave
to Him
FOL EY DISCUSSES
NEW JERSEY ANGLE
jays He Won’t Give Up
I indbergh Suspect Unless
Indicted There Before the
Bronx Trial Starts Next
Thursday; Jersey May
Seek Him
\ou York, Oct. 3 'API —Possession
: , Bronx county authorities of 13 let
ter written in Gfi’man. which Dr.
Javviol Dubliner, .interpreter for the
Bronx Supreme Court, declared refute
. 1 i,.j dates nr.d places given bv Bruno
Richard Hauptman was disclosed to
day
On* 1 of the letters, written by Fritz
Hauptmann, brother of the prisoner,
n<i a tailor in Dresden. Germany, was
addressed to Max Halleck, a Seventh
.•ivt-mre furrier, and asked whether
-he late Isadorc Frisch, who died in
i ’.f>- mny last March, had any assets.
The prisoner has maintained that
Pi;' h gave him a package which
•tue weeks before his arrest he dis
ci vm-ed contained the money which
Uthorities later found was part of
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OFFENSE RESTS IN
WILKESBARRE CASE
Wilkesbarre. Penn.. Oct. 5 <AP)
'I he defense in the trial of Robert Al
• n Edwards rested at noon today aft
.! calling a procession of character
witnesses and the mother and father
of the young surveyor, who is charged
•»i'h the murder of Freda McKechnie,
hr- neighborhood sweetheart.
The State closed its rebuttal a few
minutcsleter after calling one rebut
tal •■'•’♦nesses
.Tirder Valentine nrde-ed summation
1 v both sides started this afternoon,
end announced it was his intention to
;rf ' the case to the jury today
Documents
Lri InsulFs
Trial Given
‘Paper Witnesses”
'•bout Stock Activi
ties Offered bv the
f jo\ ernment
"".ago. Oct. 5. (/Pr —Government
•or neys succeded today in introducing
the first of their '‘paper witnesses"
gainst Samuel Insull. Sr., over the
weakening protest of the eight lawy
t' defending Insull and his 16 asso
' on mail fraud charges.
I ie paper witnesses" were ledgers
• i d customers' boks of various brok.
houses from which the prosecu
t:on hopes to bring evidence that In
■'ill and others in the financial struc
of Insull’s vast financial system
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Cities With Airports
Will Reap Big Harvest
Second Assistant Postmaster General, in Raleigh Speech,
Speaks of Great Advantages Such Communities
Will Have Over Their Neighbors
Daily Di»|iat«'h llarena.
In (he Sir Wulter Motel,
lly J. C, Isnakerville.
Raleigh, Oct. s—Those5 —Those cities and
towns which have had the foresight
to provide adequate airports are de
-tined to reap a great return from
them within the next few years, while
those who have neglected to look into
the. future and provide for the rapidly
increasing air traffic on every hand
doomed to pay for their short
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ture. which was made from the speakers’ stand at Breckenridge street, looking north. This is part
of the estimated 15,000 persons in attendance. —(Photo by Goodrich)
GIRL TELLS STORY
OF ABUSE, SLAYING
Staggers Into Los Angeles
Police Station With
Weird Narrative
Los Angeles. Cal.. Oct. 5. UP) A
story of havin gwitnessed the slaying
of her girl friend and having been
beaten, slashed and attacked herself
in a Central avenue den. where she
was held prisoner for two days by a
gang of Negroes, was told today by
Irene Willard, 26.
She staggered breathlessly and
bruised into the Newton street police
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sightedness. Barlee Branch, second
assistant postmaster general in charge
of air mail, said here yesterday in
addressing the luncheon assemblage
of several hundred Raleigh business
men and visitors preceding the for
mal dedication of the new Raleigh
airport.
“Commercial aviation has become a
veritable Jack’s beanstalk that is only
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ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OF iTORTH CAROLINA AND VIIJSnIA.
HENDERSON N. C. FRIDAY AFTERNOON, OCTOBER 5,1934.
MISS PERKINS IN
PLEAS FOR PEADE
Woman Cabinet Member
Addresses Labor Conven
tion in Frisco
San Francisco, Cal. Oct. 5 (AP) —
A plea for industrial peace through
arbitration was voiced at the Ameri
can Federation of Labor Convention
of today by Miss Frances Perkins,
Secretary of Labor, today
Making claims that the government
would not coerce either side in a cap
ital-labor dispute, she asked for vol
untary use of the mediation machin
ery the Roosevelt administration has
set up
“While the government,” she said
in an address prepared for delivery,
“does not prevent strikes or prevent
employers from closing down their
industries, it would be a forward look
ing step where differences arise to
utilize services of the impartial agen
cies, set up as constituted groups for
the purpose of keeping industrial
peace for the benefit of employers and
labor and in the public interest”
The woman cabinet officer, who is
also a member of the recovery policy
board, did not mention President
Roosevelt’s proposal for a truce to
halt strife between workers and em
ployers, but her speech left no doubt
that she is striving toward that end.
WEATHER
FOR NORTH CAROLINA
Cloudy, probably rain tonight
and in north portion Saturday.
MAN AT ALBEMARLE
AITACKS DOUGHTON
71-Year-Old Congressman
Badly Treated by Re
publican Leader
Albemarle. Oct. 5. (/p> —J. S. Blalock,
a county Republican leader, today
I faced trial on an assault charge in
county court, October 15, as the re
sult of a fist fight on the street here
with Representative R. L. Doughton,
71_year-old North Carolina congress
man. i
The veteran North Carolina Demo
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TEXTILES™
IMPROVES SLOWLY
Some Increased Demand
Results from Shortages
During the Strike
New York, Oct. 5. (TP) —The textile
industry has emerged from its three
weeks strike period with moderate im
provement in operation.
A sharp quickening of output had
failed to materialize, but there- has
been a decided pick-up in output of
several fabrics in which supplies had
’ run low during the shutdown.
The generla statistical position of
the industry was somewhat improved
by the shutdown, but, save in special
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\ isitors Are Impressed
With Celebration Event
As A Tremendous Affair
Distinguished guests and others
who yesterday attended the Greater
Henderson Day celebration here were
geneious in their praise and commen
dation of the program that was put
on.
It s the greatest crowd I ever spoke
to, ‘Governor Ehringhaus was quoted
as saying. “We are proud of you.”
“It is not difficult to go with the
tide,” said Senator Bailey, “but you
have done it in the midst of universal
adversity.”
"This will help your town; it is a
great thing for you; you are getting a
lot of publicity on it. was the com
ment of John A. Park, publisher of
The Raleigh Times.
“It was the greatest parade ever
pulled off in North Carolina,” declar
ed Captain Charles D. Farmer, head
of the State Highway Patrol. And he
lught to know, for he’s been at all the
big functions for many years. He was
here in command of the patrolmen
erving in handling traffic.
Civil War Sweeps Spain
In Fight On Government
12 Known Dead, Over 100
Injured in Bloody Tur
moil in Extremist
Uprising
AIRPLANE DEATHS
ARE UNDETERMINED
Bombs and Machine Guns
Aimed by Government
Fliers at Strongholds of
Radicals ; Anarchists,
Communists, Socialists
Are Combined
Madrid, Spain, Oct. 5 (AP) At
least 22 persons were killed and more
than 100 wounded as virtual civil war
between extremists and government
forces threw Spain into bloody tur
moil today.
Six villages and cities, including the
important firearms manufacturing
town of Ebar, were captured by the
extremists, who compacted into their
forces anarchists, communists and
socialists. All six of the localities
were recaptured in gun battles by sol
diers, police and Spain’s famous civil
guard, the “Texas rangers” of this
republic.
No one knows how many were kill
ed by the airplanes. They flew over
the Pyrennes across the land of Bas
tues with orders to direct both bomb
and machine gun fire at strongholds
of the extremists
By 6 p. m. the village of Medina had
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NRA ACHIEVEMENT
OWED MAHER
Some Think It Has Wrought
Well, Others Not So
Enthusiastic
By CHARLES P. STEWART
(Central Press Staff Writer)
Washington, Oct. 5. A govern
mental friend of mine, who also is
somewhat a student of evolutionary
processes, finds fault with a compar
son I tried to draw the other day
(borrowing from the phenomena of
natural history) between NRA and the
amoeba. /
The amoeba, as I undertook to ex
plain, in my treatise on the subject is
a life cell, which in splitting in two
in the middle, becomes two cells—
these two each splitting in two. upon
attaining adulthood, and so on indefi
nitely.
My theory was that NRA has just
split into two baby NRA’s (labor and
capital), which presently wi’l resplit
and re-re-split, into dozens, anyway,
final iy.
My government friend says this is
mighty poor metaphor.
His version is that NRA has been
hitherto, much more like a caterpillar,
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PUBLISHED EVERY AFTERNOON
EXCEPT SUNDAY.
“The parade was the greatest and
best I have ever seen,” commented
Judge Walter L. Small. “It would
have been a credit to any town or city
in North Carolina.”
Several business people from Ra
leigh and Richmond happened to be
here for the event. While their names
were not learned, they said nothing
like it had been put on in their cities.
I he judges of the parade were just
as enthusiastic and called it “great.”
The comments were voluntary. They
were not solicited and came voluntary
from those making the observations.
Will Woodward, of Rocky Mount, a
prince of fellow .member of the
State Highway Commission from this
district, was being introduced to a
Henderson man. "We’ll have to get on
the good side of him to get him with
us," said the Henderson man. “No
you don’t have to do that; I’m al
ready with you one hundred percent,"
he replied.
Strike In
Cuba Now
Threatens
Havana, Oct. 5. ifP) —Labor unions
united in protest against th> Ameri_
can-owned Cuban Telephone Com
pany today, giving impetus to a
movement for an island-wide strike.
The national Federation of Labor
decreed a general strike to begin at
midnight Sunday.
The united front of major unions
threatens “energetic action” if the
telephone company does not reem.
ploy 256 men who participated in a.
strike some months ago.
Added to this controversy and tho
Santiago strike, were cavalry squad
rons have been sent into action was a
serious situation at Guynes, Havana
province.
CARY GRANT HAS
TOO MUCH LIQUOR
Hollywood, Cal., Oct. 5 (AP) —Cary
Grant, movie actor, whose domestic
difficulties with Virginia Cherrill, ac
tress, were made public a few days ago
was treated for alcoholism early to
day by emergency doctors, who had
responded to a call that he had been
poisoned.
FEAR DEATH TOLLS
FROM L. & N. WRECK
Birmingham, Ala., Oct .5. (Jp) A
freight train wreck on the Louisville
& Nashville railway's mainline 16
miles south of here was reported this
morning. Officials were not advised
whether any one was killed or injur
ed, as all lines to the scene were
down.
Governor Urges Farmers
Not To Forget Lean Days
Tells Audience at Epsom Community Fair to Cooperate
Fully in Whatever Program May Be Devised
Don’t Let Prosperity Go to the Head
In an address at the Epsom Corn,
munity Fair at Epsom, just before he
came to Henderson, Governor Ehring
haus admonished the big audience of
farmers who heard him in the school
auditorium not to forget the lean days
the yhave just come through, and to
conduct their affairs in such away as
that they may make the most of the
prosperity they are enjoying now.
He talked about the tobacco and
cotton sign-up campaigns , that
brought about the present fancy
prices growers are now receiving, and
told the farmers that when the pres.
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“PROUD OF YOU”, IS
GREETING EXTENDED
BY GOV.HGHAUS
‘You Have Done It in Midst
of Universal Adversity”,
Senator Bailey
Asserts
PRIZES ARE GIVEN
ON PARADE FLOATS
Whole Program Moves Off
with Precision and to De
light of Huge Throngs;
Crowds Here Early and
Stay Late and Everybody
Has Big Time
“Veni, vidi, vici!”
That’s a stab at a Latin immortal
ifter a little more than twenty years
away from the textbook, and it might
not rate “100” with the high school
instructors, but it is certainly express
ive of the crowds that were here
Thursday for the Greater Henderson
Day celebration.
It was variously estimated that the
crowd was from 10,000 to 15,000 per
sons. There were many in the aft
ernoon crowd who were not on hand
it night, and many here at night who
.vere not here in the afternoon, so
hat, including all the visitors who
A'ere here in the afternoon, so that(
including all the visitors who were
during the day, it is probably true
hat fully 15,000 outsiders honored
Henderson with their presence for the
big occasion, believed certainly the
•reatest civic event in the history of
the city.
Henderson celebrated the. comple
tion of re-pavement of Garnett street
and the installation of seven blocks of
a white way system. All of which
gives the city a main street believed
without a peer in any North Carolina
city or town Henderson’s size and
many much larger. Friends and neigh
bors in all the adjoining counties were
invited and they came from far and
near, from over in Virginia and more
distant sections of North Carolina.
Governor Speaker
Governor J. C. B. Ehringhaus was
the feature speaker in the evening.
With him were United States Senator
Josiah William Bailey, of Raleigh, and
Congressman Harold D. Cooley, of this
listrict, who came from his home in
Nashville to attend the festivities. And
there were countless others.
In the parade in the afternoon were
111 entries and 140 individual units in
all, according to announcement of W.
ness houses, civic organizations, the
S. Corbitt, parade chairman. Busi
schools and others were represente'd
in the long line of march, which re
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NATHANIEL MACON
DIES IN FLORIDA
Former Well Known Henderson Man,
Son of Late Dr. F. A. Macon,
Died on Monday
Lake City, Fla.., Oct. 5. (/P) —Na-
thaniel Macon, son of the late Gen_
eral Francis A. Macon, of Henderson,
N. C., and Carolina Litchford Macon,
former of Raleigh, N. C., now of Nor
folk, Va„ died here Monday.
He wa sa descendant and name
sake of Nathaniel Macon, of Warren,
county, one of North Carolina’s early
statesmen. He is survived by hia
widow, Helen Leak Macon, and one
son.
ent agreements expire they ought to
give their utmost cooperation to new
devices that may be worked out to
maintain the high prices. He outlined
the goals of his administration as gov
ernor.
The governor was met at Louisburg
by a committee of the Epsom fair,;
headed by O, W. Eaves, its president.
He inspected the exhibits at the fair
and then went to the school audi
torium for the speaking. Mr. Eavea
presided and presented J. W. Senders,
countty agent for Vance, who intros
ciuced the governor. |