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hkndekson GATEWAY to CENTRAL CARO LI N A TWENTYFIRST YEAR THREE DUD IN LUMBERTON Five Raleigh Men Nabbed Trying To Rob Wendell Bank Sixth Man Is Sought After Allrtjcclly Escaping from Officers Watch ing Rank Si IKK IIE RECEIVED A TIP IN ADVANCE Officers Were Posted At Spot In Wait Robbers; Bank Had Recently Adver tised Its Deposits at All- Time Peak from High To bacco Prices r i ii.li. Oi l. 27 <AP) Five Raleigh \\'H' .iriestcd at Wendell this ■ i .l • iiiu while allegedly engaged in i.-nipt to enter th evnults of the T*• 111 1. >'l Wendell by officers who had I"": tipped off to watch the insti ; i which this week published re- ;■ >i»' its deposits had l eached a new :il! rinn high record. This morning, the six officers who ionic the arrests could not be reach il is they sought J. C Johnson, a iVh man. who was alleged to have '.'ii in the party which sought to «r< ik into the vault. !he lie men placed in the Wake * I here were Eugene Albright, 32; wioi: 11. <Crip) Wilson, 36; Robert ■'"V.ln. 32; James A. Waller, 30, and i K. Johnson, 50. sin ain Numu F. Turner, who did "t take part in the round-up, revcal 'l Mi.it his deputies had been aiding V'-lab'll poliee for 30 days or more in > ' it lining a watch of the bank fol ev in;: a tip that it would be robbed. Wendell is 1s miles of Raleigh, and tobacco town. Definite word, it was thought, was «' l ivi d yesterday that last, night •"uld tie the time for the robbery, and In watch was intensified. This morning tit about 3 a. in. >ln t iff Turned said be was inform d. a party of six men drove up to ' ' Dank <>f Wendell and one. Waller '"♦“led the institution. The watch ' pdfieri said they allowed him to '"a a bole ip live vault door with an v<lv|ct;e torch before they opened fitr on ilie would-hc robbers. Some " "i aft shots from shotguns and pi 'nl were fired, mainly at the car n which "f'rip” Wilson was seated. !")' ti" one was injured. Mrlhodists To Support Preachers I’l.in lor Equalizing ■Salaries Studied By Eon lere nc e at litccnsboro '■"‘i boro. Oct. 27 (APl—The ' '"in North Carolina of the Meth -1 copal Church, .South, today 1 '''' 1 wtiat was described by Bishop 1 1,1)1 R. Kern as a forward step when " adnid'd recommendations for the ’ I'l'nintHu nt of a fellowship fund ’ '"ini -ion of five members to study 11 '• commend to the next annual • b'C'iice a plan for the equalizing " daties of the ministres. ( ' " r<a ommeiKLations. submitted by 1; C. Weaver, gave certain sug- R antiimed on Page Two) 36 Books Written By Tar Heels Past Year 1 Itisptifrb flnmin, • (he Sir Waller Hotel, J. O, Hanker \ Hie. 1 ' ‘'crl». Oct. 27. —Thirty-six books 1,11 by residents of North Caro " 51 u*J published during the 12 , Period ending September 1, ' ' ' bgible for the 1934 award of the ' ‘lower Society Cup offered an 1' 11 by ttie State Literary and His- Association, Dr. A. R. Newsome ‘•'rotary, announced today. The "'| ,<s deal with a wide range of sub poetry, acting, history, botany, i "olofty. economics, fiction, indus politics. literature, sociology, ilrnitrrsmt *j I\D, R. Wants Tenant SW' V . 5 1 »■* * A “For Rent” sign is displayed on President Roosevelt’s New York City home as painters touch up the house in anticipation of a new ten ant. The President and his family have used the house on East 65th Street since 1!>20. CANDIDATES GIVE CAMPAIGN COSTS Republican Aspirants In North Carolina File With House Clerk Washington, Oct. 27 (AID —'Calvin K. Edney, Republicans candidate for the House from the tenth North Caro lina district, reported to the clerk of the House today that lie had spent $745.50 in bis campaign so far against Representative Bulwinkle, Democrat incumbent. r Representative Lambeth, Democra tic candidate for re-election in the eighth North Carolina district, report ed expenses of $525. while It. Clar ence Dozier, Republican candidate in the first, listed expenditures of $158.- 20. Representative Weaver, Democratic candidate for re-election in the elev enth North Carolina district, reported expenses of SSO. BODY OF PHYSICIAN IS FOUND IN CREEK Wilmington, Oct. 27 (AT) —Word was received here today by rela tives of the discovery of the body of Dr. L. S. Webb, prominent re tired physician, in a creke near C’resweli, N. C., ills homeplace. It is presumed that he stumbled into the water while strolling near his home. For the past five days i lie had been reported missing. . psychology, engineering and religion. The Mayflower Society Cup, pre sented to the State Literary and His torical Association in 1930 by the North Carolina Society of Mayflower descendants and awarded annually to the resident of North Carolina who publishes th € best original work was i won in 1931 by Prof. M. C. S. Noble ! for his history of public schools in North Carolina, in 1932 by Dr. Arch bald Henderson for his life of Ber nard Shaw, and in 1933 by R. B. (Continued on Page Four) ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED WIUK SERVICE OF ihb: associated press., HENDERSON, N. C. SATURDAY, AFTERNOON, OCTOBER 27, 1934 rSSEk serious DRAWBACK t Will Be So Overwhelming Af< To Cause Independ ent groups To Rise Within SOCIALISTS LOOM AS FRESH PLAGUE Norman Thomas Going Up and Down Country De nouncing Destruction of Food While Millions Suff er; It Is Real Threat Even To Liberalism Ity LESI.I IS EK IIKI. (Central Tress Staff Writer) New York. Oct.. 27.—The tremend i ous Democratic victory nationally ; that is predestined Nov. n may not be i a god send to the Roosevelt adtninis- j (.ration. As a moral mandate it will ! b fc without precedent, something like j Hitler's victory in Germany. Hitiei, ! however, disqualified the opposition. I President Roosevelt has disqualified ■ i no’oody. He could not nor would if he could. Hut his chief tactician, James A. I Farley, national Democratic chafr man. has don,> something that may, j in The end prove as damaging to the i ! Roosevelt cause. He has, in some j states, turned on the Progressives who ■ have been Roosevelt .supporter*; and j has been trying to displace them with ■ Old Deal Democrats. The one place where the ad minis- j tration is giving tacit support to a j Progressive is in Wisconsin, where ! Senator Robert F. LaFollette stands j to win over John M. Callahan, con ; servative Democrat. But. Phillip La . Follcttc, seeing to regain the gover- 1 (Continued on Tage Three) Unemployed Veterans In i State Less I Doily l>i<ipiiti'li llurron, lo the Sir Welter Hotel, M} .1, lluskerv tile, Raleigh, Oct. 27 —The number of unemployed war veterans in North Carolina has been reduced from more than 15.000 a little more than a year ago to only about 500 tit the present time, due to the combined efforts of the Veterans’ Placement Bureau of the State Department of Labor, of the National Reemployment Service, and the Federal requirement that war vet erans be given pcrfercnce on all PWA construction jobs, it was pointed out here today by H. F. Williams, vete rans’ placement officer of the De i partment of Labor. I Until March of this year, registra- I tions of unemployed veterans with the j National Reemployment Service con- i i tinued to be in excess of the place- 1 meats, fWilliams pointed iouit. In (Continued on Tage Three) I Youth Os 131 jls Made To Kill Sister Mississippi Lad Says Father Made Him Shoot Girl 15 Years Old Laurel, Miss., Oct. 27 (AF) —A 13- I year-old boy’s confession that his | father made him take a shotgun and kill his 15-year-old sister was under study by authorities today. The boy, Kermie Jackson, was said by County Attorney J. L. Thompson, of Jasper county, to have confessed that he killed his sister. Hester Jack son, at the direction of his father, and also wrote a “suicide’ ’note which his father dictated. The girl was found dead in a room at her farm home on October 15 and it was was rpeorted that she had com mitted suicide. An investigation was launched at the insistence of neigh bors. The body, when found, was fully clothed, neighbors said, but there was no blood on the clothing. Satin ' IN THIS SECTION OF NORTH I End of Record Cocist^^ ! f i I ' V ]B|fl 1 San A.jrview of the Union Pacific’s new streamlined aluminum alloy tram approaching Grand Central si 0..,n New York, where it came to a stop fifty-six hours and fifty-six minutes after leaving £i? AngeS A w i ll eil 1? r th< i f ecord f dash th f ' rain attained a speed of 120 m.p.h. Inserts show the bullet I fife noscof the Diesel motored locomotive and Engineer H. D. Robinson being assisted from the cab at the end if the run (Central P rpfw i Florida Negro Lynched j For Assault And Murder Body Badly Mutilated and Strung Up In Court House Yard at Marianna; Father of Victim Sorry Mob “Done Me Wrong”; Investigation Demanded (Copyright by Aassociated Press.) | Mairanna, Fla.. Oct. 27. (AI 1 ) —'The ! body of Claude Neal, a Negro .shot i and mutilated with knives, swung j from the limb of a tree on the court | house square here today, bloody evi j deuce of the fury of a mob that exaci* | ed toll for the assaulting and slaying | of a. white woman. The body was brought into Mairan- l "a in the early orning by a small band of men who found it stretched in the yard of George Cannidy, farmer of near Greenwood, whose daughter, Lola Cannidy, 23. was ravished and beaten to death by an assault last week. While a crowd of hundreds of per- Two Little Boys Burn In Stable j Neptune, N. J., Oct. 27. —(AIM — j Two little boys, Stanley Bennett, 7, of Aslmry Park, and William McClellan 5. of Neptune were burn j ed to death today when they were trapped by fire in a box stall In a bakery stable where they had been playing. j Chief of County Detectives Usu ry (Jr ooß, and Chief of Polios* Wil lisun Msiss ssiid the children had j sipparently slid down into the box I stall from si,hove and were playing 1 with matches, which ignited the ha?. They run to the wrong end of the stall when the fire started and were trapped. ; DE mEAL ESTATE Colton; and Tobacco Ailot jment.s Make 'Land Much More, Valuable Daily Di»t|isit«'h Bureau. In the Sir Walter Hotel, lly .* O. Ilsiskerville. Raleigh, Oct 27.—There is a renew ed activity in real estate circles in this section of the State and a brisk demand for farm land, alhotugh most of the demand for farm land depends upon whether or not it has any “al lotments” on it for cotton and tobacco, according to real estate men here. The reason for this is that unless a farm already has an allotment ot the number of acres which may be planted to cotton and tobacco, neitn (Continued on Page Three > 'Bx&txntth CAROLINA AND VIllciNIA. CROSSING CRASH j sons waited at the Cauuidy home for j the mob which took Neal from a pail at Brcwton, Ala., early yesterday to bring the Negro in front of the par ents of the dead girl and kill him, others, reports said, slipped him away through the woods to a spot on the banks of Chiplola river, and killed him. Whether the Negro was shot to | death first and mutilated afterwards, j or whether he died in agony from his wounds, could not be determined. Dead, witnesses at Greenwood said. ; he was dragged several miles tied be hind an automobile to the C (Continued on Page Three) COHON EXPORiS ‘ : I Bailey Will Support Govern ment Subsidy to Grow ers on Exports’ Unily Uwrena, l»i the Nlr 'Walter Hotel, llv J. C, liusker vllle, Raleigh, Oct. 27 —The alarming de crease in cotton exports litis year as compared with last .year and previous years, has convinced Senator Josiali W. Bailey that this country’s export cotton business is going to vanish en tirely unless the government comes to 1 the aid of the cotton growers and grants them a subsidy or bounty on all cotton sold for export, he said here today. Accordingly he expects to sup port any move made by the govern ment to pay the farmers* a bounty rep resenting the difference between the price paid for export cotton and the existing market or parity price. “There has already been such a. heavy decline in sales of American cotton for export that export sales so far this year have been only 60 per cent as long as export sales last year,” (Continued on Page Three) HARRY WOLLCOTT, 56, DIES IN WILMINGTON Wilmington, Oct. 27 (AP) —Harry Wollcott, brother of Alexander Woll cott, noted dramatic critic and author died at his home here this morning after a lingering illness. He was 56 years old. WCATHIP Fair tonight; Sunday fair. Cold er. _ PUBLISHED EVERY AFTERNOON EXCEPT SUNDAY. Mon arch Abdicates KING OF SIAM Singapore, Oct. 27 (AP)— King Fra jadhipok of Siam has abdicated his throne at Bangkok, said reports reach ing here today. The king is in Lon don. REMOVAL OF JAIL Richmond Grand Jury De nounces Escape of Two Condemned Men Richmond, Va.. Oct. 27 (AP) —The removal from office of the Richmond city sergeant, John E. Saunders, and two of his deputies, was recommend ed today in a report submitted to Judge John P. Halsey by a special grand jury investigating circumstanc es surrounding the escape of the con (Cmittnued on Pmte Three.' Government’s Testimony Ready Against Robinson Nashville, Term., Oct. 27 (AP) —The Government was ready to offer testi mony today in support of its claims i that Thomas Henry Robinson, Sr., 51- year-old engineer, should be removed to Louisville to stand trial on charges linking him with the kidnaping of Mrs. Alice Speed Stoll. The preliminary inquiry into the charges against Robinson brought a parade of defense witnesses to the stand. Taking the stand in his own defense, Robinson told U. S. Commis sioner Julian Campbell that he receiv ed the $50,000 ransom for Mrs. Stoll and turned it over to Mrs. Frances Robinson for delivery to the kidnap pageT TODAY I llWll—■— FIVE CENTS COPY TRUCK GIVES INTO SIDE OF A BOX GAR ON FREIGHT TRW Two Killed Instantly And Third Dies In Hour Os Critical Injury Received two othersTbadly HURT IN COLLISION Driver, Henry Liles, Who Was Killed, Apparently Did Not See Train Until It Was Too Late; Swerved To Right To Crash Into The Box Car Lumberton, Oct.. 27 (Apt—Three men were fatally injured and two oth ers seriously nurt today as a large truck crashed into a Seaboard Air Line freight train at a crossing here. Henry Liles. 27. driver of the truck, and S. M. Shepherd, 30, were killed instantly. Willie Pickett Locklear. 25. an Indian, died of injuries within an hour. Johnnie Locklear. 23. suffered a broken thigh and Ralph Oxendine, 24, an injured leg and back. Both are Indians. The three dead and two injured were all residents of Maxton, and all except Shepherd were employees of the Lembee veneer plant at Alma The Indians had been cutting logs in a swamp five miles from Fair mont, and Liles was taking them to their home. Shepherd, a friend of the driver, was accompanying him on the trip. Liles apparently did not see the train until too late to avoid the col lision. He swerved to the right and struck a. box car near the end of the train. Coroner D. W. Biggs said no inquest, would be held. The crossing, on the southern edge of Lumberton, is the same at which eight tobacco farmers from Lenoir county were killed last fall when a truck struck a train. GENERALS DEFEAT V. P. 1., 13-7 SCORE Lexington, Va., Oct. 27 (AIM— Washington and Lee defeated Vir ginia Tech 1 3to 7 in their game here today. Silk-Rayon Strike Now Near Close Agreement About Reached Involving 30,000 Workers In North Paterson, N. J., Oct. 27 (AP)—Settle 30,000 silk dye workers in the Pater ment of the 30-day-old strike of the son and New York metropolitan area was expected today. A committee of the federation of silk and rayon dyers and printers of America was discusiug a tentative agreement which, if accepted, would send the workers back to their jobs on a 35-hour week. The agreement was reached yester day in Washington at a conference of union leaders and employers with the National Textile Labor Relations ' Board. er at the request of relatives of the prominent Louisville society woman. Robinson told of his shock when he was inforriaed that the man who spirited Mrs. Stoll from her home was his son. “I just felt swamped,” he declared. Tracing his activities from the day ot the abduction, Robinson said that he had placed all his information about the crime in the hands of the authorities. He said, however, that he did not tell them that he knew his son was living at 2735 Meridan street Indianapolis on September 27. It was from an apartment at that address that Mrs. Stoll was released after t£l9 ransom had been delivered. . iiti .■