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HENDERSON gateway to CENTRAL CAROLINA TWENTY-FIRST YEAR Winter Grips The GOVERNMENT CASE AGAINST INSULL IS SUDDENLY RESTED Defense Taken Completely hy Surprise in Dramatic Turn of Trial at Ch icago FINAL EVIDENCE IS LAID BEFORE JURY Pertains to Last Meeting of Defunct Insull Corporation When It Was Decided Not To Resist Receivership; Fictitious Earrings Are Alleged ('hi 'iuu. Oct. 21* i AIM Tin- govern "m iii ("l.iy rested its case in the trial .•i Semin 1 Insull and his 10 co-de !■ (Lniis. licensed of mail fraud in the . ■ . li .. |• of the $ 150.000,000 Corporu umi ■securities Company of Chicago. THe ciiii o! i lie government's evi ct nee came with dramatic sudden . as I >wight H. Green, United Stair • di tiiet attorney, completed . diny to the jury the minutes of the in. i meeting of the Corporation Secu niie Company, in which it was un :n linotisly voted not to fight the pe tition ot Frank B. Schoencmann for Die appointment ot a receiver for the company. The defense was taken by surprise )*■ 111 " government's • sudden action. Before the opening of the day's -ion, Green had said he hoped to '.<■ through with his ease by Wednes day, but that he expected the defense to devote most of the day to a cross • xaminution of the government’s wit ness. I lie government completed its case .'7 days after the start of the trial. The vi. t government witness was ]>r. I toy B. Chester, professor of ac eounting at Columbia. University. He was questioned by Leslie B. Salters, .'peeial assistant, to the attorney gen . i nk "U lint .vould be the ettect on ttie ' 'inning account if that dividend were inkea on the books of a company as lriec’nc?" Suiter asked. It would result in showing ficti- Mi'ua earnings." In Chenier's testimony was design id by the government to uphold eiiajls presented last Friday and Sat uidHy, showing that the company had ictijdh suffered losses in 1929 and l!'3b when the company's report. .!«>vvml net earnings. Frederick H. Burnalim, counsel for ■S :nlev Field, one of the. defendants, (Continued on Page Four) DIES I ROM WOUNDS FROM OWN PISTOL Oi-|, :!>, (AVI Waccidentally by the dis charge of a |ii>*ti>l bo wore on a licit, Ira l/omax, filling station proprietor. died on the way to a I" s|dtal in Salisbury from loss of loud, ibe accident occurred cur lj >csterday. PROBE SLAYING OF COLORED DRUGGIST V-.'iiiniiigloii. Oct. 29. —(AP) —Author i! i' today coiiLinucd an inquiry into " ' Hying of a Negro druggist in a Itold up Saturday night by a man ' hi name as F. G. Legase, of Giiai i., ton, S. C. •m'hci . H;i id Legase confessed tiie ''tiling of the Negro, C. W. Mason, •‘"-a 1 i alleged to have shot tne fl! " -i.t lour times and fled. He was [' taken and captured by a Negro ’’ ’tinder and held until police ar riv. d. SLAYER SUSPECT IS NABBED IN TURKEY Ivan Mihailoff, of Macedo nia, Wanted in Murder of King Alexander s 'lia. Bulgaria, Oct. 29.—(AP)— | ;i) t Mihailoff, leader of the dreaded "tedonian revolutionaries, sought in ' -1 ion with the slaying of King ,u> mder of Yugoslavia, has been ar ’ lin Turkey, said advices reach -1,1 diplomatic circles today from Is tanbul. lb.lll Mihailoff and his wife were -io n into custody, according to the 'dvu; They recently fled from Bul t-tatia. to Turkey. it was reported both Bulgaria and ' ugoslavia. are demanding Mihailoffs ti'idition on murder charge*. ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION CAROLINA AND VTrMwta * T YEAR LEASED WIRE SERVICE ™ “ Z_ LEASED WIRE SERVICE OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS. Sinclair Has November 6 Spotlight Outcome of Socialist Upton Sinclair’s race for governor of California on the Democratic ticket, is claiming more interest than any other phase of November 6 elections, despite their national character. Photos illus trate some of the highlights of his career as a public figure. Left, above, with his second wife, whom he married after sensational divorce from his first. Center, above, on trial at Tarrytown, N. Y„ on I. W. W. charges. Right, hawking one of his books in Boston. Below, at the ballot box as he won Democratic nomi nation; and as lie is today, in closeup. iCetitral Press) Mussolini Starts Plans For Militarizing Italy Kingston!-Smith Lands In Hawaii Honolulu, Oet. ‘*9 (AD—Com pleting one of the most difficult ocean flights i*> the world, Wing Commander Charles Kingsford- Kmifh arrived here today from Nasalci beach, Fiji, en route to California. Robinson,Sr. Liberated In Kidnap Case Father Os Alleged Snatcher of Mr s. Stoll Freed at Nash ville, Tenn. Nashville, Tenn., Oct. 29.—(AP) —U. S. Commissioner Julian Campbell rul ed today that Thomas H. Robinson, Jr., may not be removed to Louis ville on charges in connection with the kidnaping of Mrs. Alice Speed Stoll. “From all the facts before me.” Commissioner Campbell said in a pre pared opinion “I find that, there is no probable cause to believe Thomas Henry Roisnson. Sa., guilty, and no facts to reasonably belMve a suspicion of his guilt.” The opinion added: “The government attests that this defendant is only sought for crime at Louisville, Ky.. on what he did or might have done before the actual kidnaping as a conspirator. “It results that it is my duty to refuse to order the defendant Thomas H. Robinson, Sr., held for removal. Let the defendant be discharged.” government to appeal TO U. S. DISTRICT JUDGE Washington, Oct. 29. —(AP) — The Department of Justice said today it would apply to a Federal district court in Tennessee to remove Thomas H. Robinson, Sr., to Kentuck to stand trilal for the abduction of Mrs. Alice Speed Stoll. United States Commissioner Julian (Continued on Page Four) HENDERSON, N. C. MONDAY AFTERNOON, OCTOBER 29, 1934 i “Back to the Glory of the Caesars’’ Is Goal of Dic tator in Program Launched REVIVAL OF SPARTA IS NOW HOPED FOR Last Echo of Disarmament Talk Dies Out In Rome as Mussolini Orders Military Training for All Males from Eight to 33 Years of Age Rome. Oct. 29.(AP) —The last echo j of disarmament talk died out here today when Premier Mussolini, dress ■ ca in a uniform of a Fascist warrior, set in motion machinery to make i Italy a “militaristic’’ nation. | Every male Italian between the age. 4 j of eight and 33 will be trained in the j use of arms under the supervision of an inspectorate of preand post mili i tary service, which he inaugurated this afternoon. "Back to the glory of the Caesars” and a “revival of Sparta" are phrases used to describe the Italy Musssolini intends to forge. Disarmament, which only a few months ago filled codlumns (Continued on Pago Four) SAYS WOLTZ LOST $1,420 AS TOURIST j Woman Also Listed in Ex- Senator’s Experience At Sanford Greensboro. Oct. 29. —(AP)—Former State Senator A. E. Woltz. of Gas -1 tonia, was robbed of $1,420 at a tourist I camp near Sanford on the night so j September 29, according to disclosues ■ macle here today by State Highway Patrol Lieutenant W. J. Croom. Raymond Riddle and C. C. Kelly, operators of the camp, along with a woman whose name was not known here, have been arrested and will be charged with the theft. According to Lieutenant Crooni. Woltz stopped overnight at the tour ist camp wih the sum of money on his person. Next morning he found both the money and the woman miss ing. Court Action on NR A Is Dismissed Baltimore, Md., Oct. 29 (AP)— What was regarded as one of the most important legal attacks upon the NR A was ended today by dis ers, men’s clothing manufacturers, missal of a suit of L. Grief & Broth after an agreement between the company and NRA had been reach ed. SUPREME COURT TO UPHOLD‘NEW DEAL’ Belief Growing In Washing ton That It Will Go Whole Distance WHISPERERS AUDIBLE Their Activities Directed At Labor Legislation; Some Complaints From California Are Heard Also By LESLIE EICUEL Central Press Staff Writer New York, Oct. 29.; —Belief is spread ing that the United States Supreme Court will uphold the New Deal in its entirety. Strange to say, it ay go be yond the New Deal as at present con stituted. The high court may uphold features of the New Deal already abondoned. The Supreme Court is not static— as some would wish the public to Relieve. Law and its interpretation grow as social justice grows. There is a definite relatio. There is nothing sacred concern ing dictunis written down on paper by a few men at a certain time. Laws and constitutions are mere guides to government. * * J«T “PLOT”? For a time it seemed ag if there were an organized attempt to dis quaify Justice Louis D. Brandeis, most liberal member of the U. S. Su preme court. There were whispers and even open statements that he/ was of fering advice to President Roosevelt’s “Brain Trust.’’ If there were a. “plot,” it failed. The majority of the public probably hoped the justice was advising. Justice Bran dies is known as one of the most bril liant men —and one of the most hon est intellectually—who ever has ap peared in public life. His writings and* his decisions are likely to live far beyond the expressions of any other public man of this age. It perhaps was unfortunate for the nation that Justice Brandies was not in position to offer advice to Presi (Continued on Page Four) East And South Parts Os Country Held Fast In Grip Os Labor Troubles Closing of 300 A. &P. Stores in Cleveland and Others in Milwau kee Hold Interest CLEVELAND STORES TO BE ABANDONED Grocery Chain Faces Furth er Troubles; Unemployed Now Nearly Million More Than Last Fall, William Green Claims; Rayoni Strike Still Deadlocked (By the Associated Press) Three hundred grocery stores all that Hie Great Atlantic and Pacific Tea. Company operates in Cleveland - were under orders to remain closed today. They will be abandoned be cause of labor troubles, the company said. The chains unionized butchers were called out in Milwaukee, where meat departments have been closed in 26 of 36 stores. The company said they were unprofitable. The union claims labor troubles. Butchers in smaller chains were called to strike. William Green, president of the American Federation of Labor, said he would begin an inquiry into labor’s differences with the A. & P. Green, in' a statement last night, fixed the number of unemployed at 8-13.000 more than a year ago at this time. IMichael Schuld, State chairman of the Ohio meat cutters union, said its convention, beginning Saturday, might be asked to authorize a State wide walk-out of A. & P. butchers. Delegates at the convention of the Federation of Plate Glass Workers of America in Pittsburgh, talked of a nationwide strike after rejecting the Pittsburgh Plate Glass Company’s answer to labor demands. Deadlocked employers and repre sentatives of 20,000 silk and rayon strikers in the ea.st planned to re new their conferences today. The union ordered picket lines establish ed to prevent work being resumed. In Beaumont, Texas, 98 street car and bus operators went on strike halting service. Exchange Had Huge 1933 Loss Washington, Oct. 29 lAP)—The New York Stock Exchange, where millions are made and lost, operated in the red last year. The biggest securities mart, in an unprecedented and voluntary publi cation of its year-end balance sheet, disclosed last night it lost .$287,986.74 in 1933. The exchange figures, pub lished at its own request yesterday by the Securities Exchange Commission, showed it spent $4,243,574.31 last year, and took in only $3,954,587.57. The statement was in line with a policy giving investors fuller infor mation. The exchange reserved the right to request that future state ments be held confidential. WEATHER FOR NORTH CAROLINA. Partly cloudy tonight and Tuesday; warmer in extreme west portion tonight. Huge Benefits Os Cotton Control In State Evident l)uib Dl*i»ulcfc llnrcnii, In the Sir Walter Hotel, Ilf .» C. U:i»Uerville. Raleigh, Oct. 29. —If the 1932 mar ket conditions were still prevailing, North Carolina farmers would have to plant 2,437.000 acres of cotton and raise 1,631,000 fealeg to sell th e 1934 crop for the same amount of money they are slated to get under the ad justment program. With the program they planted 967,- 000 acres to raise 646,000 bales, ac cording to the official forecast, which they will sell for about $56,195,000. After paying the Bankhead tax, they will still have $53,853,000 for the crop this year. It the price goes above 12 1-2 cents PUBLISHED EVERY AFTERNOON EXCEPT SUNDAY. Attention, Police! JSJSMF ■ m —■ m.- . : Jj Presuming that Thomas H. Rob inson, Jr., kidnaper of Mrs. Alice 1 Stoll of Louisville, Ky., may be j masquerading as a woman in hie (light from justice, an artist has dtawn his conception of how he i would look. Robinson was ar rested in Nashville for imperson ating a woman some years ago. DEMOCRATS SENSE HUGE MAJORITY AS LAST WEEK OPENS Heaviest Barrage of Speech making of Entire Cam paign Is Due Dur ing This Week EFFECTIVE APPEALS ALREADY DELIVERED Speeches by Ehringhaus and Bailey Especially Getting Results; Agricultural Un rest Being Allayed; Repub lican jChances Growing More Dim llajl.v ItiKpnti'h llnrcan. In tin* .Sir Walter Hotel, Uj’ J. C, ttamkeri ille. Raleigh, Oct. 29.—The outlook for a bigger Democratic majority than had ever been expected is better than ever as the Democratic campaign swings into the final week, accord ing to State Chairman J. Wallace Winborne at Democratic headquart ers here. The opposition that existed for a while in some sections of the States especially dissatisfaction in some of the cotton and tobacco growing counties with the allotments received by the farmers that they could market tax free, has already been pretty well dispelled fey the speeches made so far by Governor J. C. B. Ehringhaus, Senator Josiah W. Bailey, Congressman R. L. Donghton, Clyde R. Hoey and others. During this week, the heaviest bar rage! of Democratic speechmaking yet turned loose will be heard in all eec (Continued on Page Throe! 3 pound or the crop .greeds the fore cast, as some authorities behove it va ill, the income from the 1934 crop will be even greater. H. E. York, assistant director in the cotton program f r Mg state, has predicated a 660,001 crop, At S6O a bale, and the se,_ . from each bale selling for $lB, such a crop with the benefit payments would bring the growers $57,947,000. The 1,631,000 baUt the growers would have to raise to sell at 1932 prices in order to get their 1934 in come is far more than the state has ever produced before. At the current high average yield , (Gontiuued £Q Page Four) 6 PAGES TODAY FIVE CENTS COPY SHIPS SUFFER IN STORMS ON COAST AND TWO MISSING High Winds and Gales Rage from Boston to Hatteras, On North Carolina Coast SNOW FALLS OVER EASTERN REGIONS Three Inches Reported In Parts of Pennsylvania; Temperature Drops To 34 in Raleigh; First Freeze of Season for Area Around New York City (By the Associated Press) Blustering advance ol winter in vades sections of the Last and Bouth today. At least six ships suffered in storms oil the Atlantic coast. Fears were lelt lor liio salcly of two men missing m an open boat off the Maine coast, anil storm warnings told of high winds and gules from Boston to iiat teras. fcinow fell frequently early today in eastern Pennsylvania, covering the Cocono mountains with a coat ol three \ four inches, 'lliere were flurries yesterday in parts of New Jersey, New England and Ontario. .temperatures dropped to freezing yesterday in Maine and as low as 28 in up-State New York. They reached 37 in New York City, and the Weath er Bureau predicted they would fall to 30 tody, the first freezing weather of the seas ofnor the metropolitan area. In the South the mercury ranged in the 30 s and. -10’s with a reading of 34 at Raleigh, N. C. Reported Kidnap Case Has Officers Puzzled In Ohio Dayton, Ohio, Oct. 29 (AP)- A re ported abduction of a girl student from Belmont elementary school per plexed police today when a prelimi nary check indicated no pupil was missing. Two women living near the school reported seeing a Negro in an old tinn ing car stop at the curb and speak to a girl. After a brief conversation the girl entered the car and was driven away. First reports said the girl was Betty Cams, 11, but a check showed she was safe at home. The witnesses of the kidnaping con tradicted first reports that the child was forced into the automobile, and said she had entered willingly. GREENVILLE MAN IS INJURED IN CRASH Tarboro. Oct. 29 (AP)-Claude Can non, 23, of Greenville, is in a hospital here today suffering from head injur ies following an automobile accident last night near Lawrence. Youth Held In Death Os Negro Man Prominent W bite Man of Charleston Sh o t Wilmington Colored Druggist Wilmington, Oct. 29.—(AP)—Fran iis Ygunce Legare, Jr., 20-year-old North Charles! on, S. C., man was or dered held wifhout bail today for the murder of C. W. Mason, Negro drug gist, who was shot to death in a hold up here Saturday night. Legare, who first gave the police the name of W. L. Young, of Char ldftte, and then the name of F. D. Legase of Charleston, revealed his identity when confronted by author ities with letters taken from the room he had been occupying at the local Y. M. C. A. Later his identity was- made ab solute when Lamot Smith, editor of the Star-News, visited the youth and questioned him about connections in Charleston. Smith called a friend of the senior Legare in Charleston and was prom ised word would immediately be com municated to Legare. He has not heard further from the Charleston PTUI.