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HENDERSON
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CENTRAL
CAROLINA
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TWENTY-FIRST YEAR
INSULL RELATES BIG SUCCESSES TOTHTJURY
Hundreds In Posse
Seeking Assailant
Thomasville Girl
Pulled Gun and Threatened
pcath to 26-Year-Old'
Woman Who Was
Twice Assaulted
SUSPECT NOW HELD
IN LEXINGTON JAIL
Officers Fear To Take Him
Back to Scene of Alleged
Crime; Mob, Armed With
Pistols and Guns, Is In
“Ugly Mood”; Bloodhounds
Pick Up Trail
Thi'inHSvn.c, Nov. 1. —A posse of
M'vtnii hundred men, many' of them
i mode with pistols and guns, and
ili scribed as in a “very übly” mood,
this afternoon continued to scour a
wide section south of here in search
of the j'hort, heavy set Neegro who
this morning, allegedly under threat
of death from a pistol he brandish
ed criminally attacked Mary Dor
sett. 26-year-old farm girl, near her
hmc tlirce miles out the Fisher Ferry
toad.
Meanwhile in jai, at Lexington us
John Brosby’, former Lexington Ne
;:ro who was taken into custody
.-Ik rtly afterwards near the Cedar
Lidge farm, about a half from the
cone of the alleged attack. Because
>{ the temper of the crowd gathered
al out the community, Brosby has not
been taken back to the scene of the
crime to >bc identified by the girl,
who told officers that she would be
; 1 1 * 1 1 • to identify him positively when
shi* sees him again.
Th< girl, who tended her sisters
children while the sister worked in a
cotton mill here, was described as in
a -ercious and higlilf nervous hondi
tion. She said she had been assault
ed twice by the Negro, who overpow
ered her. Deputy Sheriff G. L. Bryan,
who is condulting the investigation,
said that there was unmistakable ev.-
dence that the girl had been assault
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Rich berg Is
Given Great
Authorities
Washington. Nov. I (Al*) —Donald
!■ Kichbcrg is tlie uiau President
well is counting on to start the
11 e ( ,\ ~|-y campaign
< *•>f of another shuffle of New Deal
' •• nej*.ld- fmerged today as director
"f ihe combined executive counsel and
the nationu lcmcrgency council.
Uiehberg will keep his eye on in
«ln trial and agricultural trends and
■iggext the next, step to be taken in
:lie idministrution’s efforts to achieve
recovery.
He will check the alphabetical or
ganizations to determine if they arc
functioning.
Not to long ago, Richberg, who
-tatted his career in the Roosevelt
administration as general NRA coun
cil, -ave the President reports on
what has been accomplished since
March 1, 1933.
Germany In
W arning To
The French
Haying With Fire In
I’re paring To Oc
cupy the Saar, Ber
lin Paper Says
f ' '-in, Nov, 1. (/p)—A semi-official
'"''man source, answering reports
,n ' France is preparing for possible
upation of the Saar territory,
W; I n< d today that France is “playing
with fire”.
H" Deutsche Diplomatische Tolip
'' 1 Corregpondez, mouthpiece of the
eminent, In an editorial headeu,
’'eying With Fire”, said:
1 nder no circumstances could
I” ict- and order be enforced in the
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mtmmn Sathi Bisuatrhl
Sues for $10,000,000
Mrs. James Gardner Rostman
Asserting the berths on the new
Union Pacific streamline train *r«
her invention, Mrs. James Gardner
Rossman, above, Pittsburgh.
society woman and former x*
tress, is suing the Pullman com
pany for $10,000,000 in New
York City federal court. The
sleeping car firm declares th*
Rossman patents have expired.
SeSara
Increase of $88,869 in Sep
tember Over Same Month
Year Ago
FOUR MONTHS UPTURN
Gasoline Tax Collections $1,100,780 for
Month, With $0,603,742 For Four
Months of Fiscal Year
Ra.cigli. Nov. 1. f/p) - Highway
fund revenues of the State of North
Carolina in Ovtober aggregated sl.-
620,273.85, an increase of $88,869.09
over the same month a year ago,
Revenue Commissioner A. J. Maxwell
reported today.
For the four months of the fiscal
year receipts have been $6,482,137,27,
an increase of $728,258.55 over the
figures for the similar period of
193 ; !-34.
Collections from the sale of auto
mobile license tags for ten months
this calendar year aggregated $6.5q3,-
988.47. an increase of $1.366,902.8a
over the same period of last year.
Gasoline tax collections with an in
crease in October of $114,871 over
October, 1933, led the various items
in increase as in tota., with the re
ceivts of $1,406,785.35. For the fiscal
year the receipts have been $5,603.-
742.36 from gasoline, an increase of
$570,409.46 over last year for the
similar period.
Pair Taken
Here Waive
Examination
Rocky Mount,, Nov. 1. (/P) —Charged
with kidnaping and robbing Herman
Creech. Benson farmer, Ralph Long,
30, and Sarah Taylor, 28, of Roanoke
Rapids, waived pre.iminary hearing
in police court here today and were
sent to Nash county jail to await
trial in the Nobember session of Nash
criminal court.
Probhbly cause on robbery charges
was found here and bond was set at
SI,OOO fort the couple, but Prosecuting
Attorney Lin wood Elmore immedi
ately prepared charges of kidnaping,
and the couple waived preliminary
examination.
They are charged with persuading
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ONLY DAILY
LEASED WIRE BERVICS OF
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS,
NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OF'TuRTH CAROLINA AND VimNIA.
HENDERSON, N. C. THURSDAY AFTERNOON, NOVEMBER 1, 1934
HIGHWAY BODY IS
SUFFERING BADLY
FOR ACTIVE HEAD
Chairman and Chief Engi
neer Greatly Needed If
It Survives 1935
Legislature
ROADS WEARING OUT
IN NEED OF REPAIR
Millions for That Purpose
Must Be Made Available in
Next Legislature or State
Will Lose Its Vast Invest
ment in Improved High
ways
lliijl.v istireini,
•ii tbe Sir Waller Hotel,
llv J. G, liiixkervill**,
Raleigh, Nov. 1. —The State High
way and Public Works Commission is
on the verge of getting into a tight
jam for almost the first time since
its existence, principally because for
more than two months now it has not
had either an active chairman or chief
engineer, according to those here who
have been observing developments.
As a result, important matters that
need to bo attended to have been pil
ing up for weeks, the morale among
he is getting lower and low
er while the higiiways over the State
are getting in worse and worse condi
tion.
The most serious angle of the situa
tion, however, according to observers
here, is the fact that the session of
the 1935 General Assembly is now only
a .ittle more than two months away
and that unless the highway commis
sion obtains an active executive head
and chief engineer veiy shortly, it
will not be able to amass the date
and material necessary to the presen
tation of its case in the legislature.
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Depression
Is Now Over,
Ford Asserts
Detroit, Midi, Nov. J (A I*)-
Henry Ford said today that the
Ford Motor Company is out of the
depression, and that its 1935 pro
duction schedule will be set at 1,-
000,000 units or more for the first
time in four years.
“The depression,” said Ford in
a statement, “would be over for
the whole country very soon, if
American industrialists would just
forget the alphabet scheme and
take hold of their industries and
run them with good, sound Ame
rican business sense.
“They slioul dtake hold of their
country, too, In the same way,
and run it with good sound, Ame
rican common sense.”
Ford managers called into De
troit fro mall parts of the coun
try, expressed the belief that bus
iness conditions generally had Im
proved sufficiently to warrant pre
parations for a great sales year
of 1935.
Revenue On
Sales Taxes
Rising Fast
December Co 11 ec -
tions May Pass sl,-
000,000, Due To
Heavier Buying
Daily Dispatch Uurea*.
In the Sir Walter Hotel,
lly .* Ilaskerville.
Raleigh, Nov. 1— With sales tax
collections increasing each month
and with a heavy increase in retail
buying noted in almost all sections of
the State, Department of Revenue of
ficials are greatly encouraged and
are expecting December collections to
be at least $1,000,000, it was learned
here today. October sales tax col
lections, which were collected by
merchants on business done in Sep
tember, amounted to $668,632 as com
pared with collections in September
of $550,173, an increase of more than
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INSULL POUNDS THE KEY AGAIN
tf||| Jjjj ||L Sp'Jn
Milk HHyiyi
V AH/
Visiting the telegraphers who !
Hash to the world from a Chicago I
federal courtroom the story of his !
trial on charges of fraud, Sam- I
ucl Insull, Sr., former utilities I
king, sits at the key and exercises i
Main Fight In Congress
Will Be For Assu ranees
To Limit Emergency Law
Many Members Will Want Radical Measures Restrict
ed; Independence of Coming Session Will Be Sur
prising; Swing Will Be to the Left
By CHARLES P. STEWART
(Central Press Staff Writer)
Washington, Nov. I.—The main
fight at the coming session of Con
gress, it already is evident, will be to
obtain assurances that the emergency
measures for which the administra
tion seeks authorization, or wants ex
tended, ar” to be only temporary.
This idea was strongly emphasized
in dozens of conversations overheard
at the recent Washington convention
of the American Bankers’ Association,
a gathering attended by more than
4,000 financiers from every corner of
the country and from its depend
encies, not to mention a few guests
from Europe, the southern! new world
republics, the orient and elsewhere.,
Formal speeches at tnej various
sessions were .ess indicative
of the trend of opinion among th*
money magnates than were the
scraps of conversation it was possible
Death Date Set For Novem
ber 16 After Losing
Supreme Court Appeal
Raleigh Nov. 1. (/P) —Their appeal
to the Supreme Court ,ost, a trio of
Sampson county men—Tom Johnson,
ester Howard and Johnny Hart—to
day were under sentences to die in
the electric chair November 16 for the
murder of Howard Jernigan, a filling
station operator.
The death of the three men was
automatically set late yesterday when
the court announced it had found “no
error” in their murder convictions.
The court handed down opinions in
36 other cases.
The court also found “no error” In
the case of Eddie Mozingo, as an ac
cessory before the fact to the murder
of Bennie Mozingo by Fred Wade in
Lenoir county on September 6, 1933.
Eddie Mozingo is under a sentence of
life imprisonment for his part of the
crime. Wade, after pleading guilty
to second degree murder, is serving
30-yeart sentence.
The court, however, granted a new
trial to Claude Clemmons, convicted
in Pitt county on a charge of mur
dering Louise Roberson, an infant,
burned to death in a fire. Clemmons
had been acquitted on an arson
charge in connection with the case,
and then convicted of murder by the
same evidence.
WEATHER
FOR NORTH CAROLINA
Fair and colder, with light to
heavy frost in west and probably
light frost in the interior or east
portion tonight; Friday fair,
colder on the coast.
his touch. Insull once worked »*
a telegrapher. Seated, left to
right, Insull, Rex Covington and
Clarence Jansen. Standing, Jim
mie Gardner, left, and Edward
Tedeski.
to listen in on at casual little huddles
of them, between regular proceedings
on the official program,
* * *
REASSURING
To any one who is at all familiar
with the present White House ten
ant’s personality it will come as no
surprise to learn that the assembled
bankers left Washington greatly re
assured by the Presidentia. address
to their body on Oct. 24, as well as
by confidential talks between a few
of their number and Mr. Roosevelt
during their stay in the capital.
The* New Yorker never is otherwise
than reassuring.
He reassures the most contradictory
groups, one after another.
Not long ago he reassured labor,
at its annual convention in fcsan
Francisco. The result of his A. F. of
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FOiEFIjESARE
State Forester Calls Atten
tion to Necessity of Ob
serving Laws
Daily UjMpatch lliimi*,
la Hie Sir Waller Hotel,
U*' J. O. UaMHervflle,
Raleigh, Nov. I,—With serious dam
age threating the woodlands of North
Carolina from forest fires, W. C. Mc-
Cormick, assistant State forester in
charge of fire control, announced
that wardens would be instructed bo
enforce vigorously the State laws for
the protection of the forests against
fire. i •
The forester called particular atten
tion to that statute which provides a
fine of not less than $lO nor more
than SSO or imprisonment up to 30
day for any person who kindles a
campfire without first removing all
combustible materials for a space or
ten feet surrounding the site of the
fire or who shall leave a campfire
without fully extinguishing the flames
or who shall accidently or negligently
start a fire on grass, brush or wood
land.
Mr. McCormick said that he had
personally warned nine persons in one
night recently of the penalty for the
violation of this statute, not one of
whom had complied with the require
ment for clearing th e ten-foot space
around “warming” fires.
“The only way that we can save
thousands of acres of our woodlands
this fad is through the use of every
practicable means of preventing fires”
Mr. McCormick declared. “Once fires
get a start in the woods which are in
extremely inflammable condition, they
cannot be stopped before, serious dam
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PUBLISHED EVERY AFTERNOON
EXCEPT SUNDAY,
DEFENDANT ASSERTS
BRITISH GOVERNMENT
TENDERED HIM POST
Smith To Try To
Junk Cotton Act
Washington, Nov. 1 (Al*)—De
scribing the Bankhead cotton con
trol act as a heart-breaking disap
pointment, Chairman Smith, Dem
ocrat. South Carolina, of the Sen
ate Agriculture Committee, said
today he would do all in his power
to have it repealed “in toto” at
the next session of Congress.
ss
Manufacturers To Go To
Washington November
9 for Concerted At
tack on the Levy
CONFERENCifwiLL
PRECEDE MEETING
Secretary Wallace Willing
To Give Them Up If New
Way To Finance Payments
To Farmers Can Be Found;
Mentions Federal General
Sales Tax As One
Washington, Nov. 1 (AP) —The to
bacco manufacturers are coming to
town for the first organized attack
on AAA processing taxes.
Two meetings to consider revision
of taxes on burley, flue-cured, fire
cured, dark air-cured and cigar leaf
tobaccos have been scheduled for No
vember 9, but in the meantime a con
ference will be held between AAA of
ficials and large tobacco manufactur
ers. (
Some critics, attacking processing
taves in general, have demanded they
be scrapped. Secretary Wallace said
the processing taxes are the heart of
the program of crop adjustment, but
he was willing to discontinue them
if another wal could be found to fi
nance payments to farmers for cut
ting their production.
Just to indicate some possible al
ternative, he mentioned a general
sales tax, increased income taxes on
the higher brackets, loans of $500,-
000,000 to foreign interests to buy
American goods, or importing $500,-
000,000 of foreign goods so other na
tions could get exchange to buy Unit
ed States farm products.
That he would suggest these to any
group pleading for abolition of pro
cessing taxes was the belief of his
advisors.
TELEPHONE BRIEFS
READY NEXT WEEK
Southern Bell Fights Rate
Cuts; Utilities Board To
Act Speedily
Daily Dispute* Hurra*,
In Ike Jir Waller Hotel,
My J. (J. Huakerville,
Raleigh Raleigh, Nov. I—Althoughl—Although
the Southern Bell Telephone and
Telegraph Company in North Caro
lina will not be abl£ get their
brief opposing any reduction in rates
in this State in the hands of the State
Utilities commission until next week,
the commission is still hoping to reach
and announce its decision with regard
to telephone rates by the Middle of
November, Utiltites Commissioner
Stanley Winborne said today.
“I received a letter from the At
torneys for the telephone company
yesterday in which they said the
brief was almost completed, that it
would be printed as soon as completed
that copies would be filed with the
commission some time next week,”
Commissioner Winborne said today.
“So if they get the brief to us next
week, I feel confident that we can
reach and announce a decision with
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8 PAGES
TODAY
five cents copy
Testifying In Own Behalf at
Fraud Trial, Utilities
King Reveals
Secrets
SAYS HE ASSISTED
CHICAGO DISTRICT
Corporations He Saved Or
Revived and Boosted On
Their Feet Did More Than
All Losses From His Fail
ures; Story Sounds Like
Horatio Alger Tale
Chicago, Nov. 1. (£>) —Samuel la
zuli, defending himself against mail
fraud charges, today told the jury
(hat his Middle Wiestern Electric Pow
er pool has “contributed mone to the
wealth of this section” than stock
holders lost in Insull’s $2,000,000 com
mercial failures.
A moment after he had made this
proud declaration, pounding his fist'
emphatically on the arm of the wit
ness stand, Insul; told the jury that
he had turnede down an important
post offered by the English govern
ment in 1926 to stay in this country.
“This statement, gentlemen, ha 3
never been made public,” said the 74-
year-old utility executive, waving his
hand at the jury.
“Mr. Stanley Baldwin offered m*
the chairmanship of the British hign
tension power development”, Tnsii.il
said almost in a shout.
“He offered me a chanceto do iu
the country of my birth what I had
done in the country of my adoption.
It was a tremendous temptation”,
H e counterede charges of huge fi
nancial crimes by telling the jury the
story of his successes and his
triumphs as a utility operator.
A typical Horatio Algier story—.
from poverty to riches—lnsull told
it partly in smiles of satisfaction and
once in tears, when mentioning how
kind Thomas Alva Edison and Mrs,
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Says Condon
Not Certain
Os His Man
New York, Nov. 1. (A 5 ) —James M.
Fawcett, counsel for Bruno Richard
Hauptmann, accused slayer of the
Lindbergh baby, said today that
Hauptmann told him that Dr. John.
F. “Jafsie” Condon had not recogniz
ed him as the receiver of the $50,-
000 ransom money.
Fawcett said that yesterday Bern
hardt M. Meisels, associate defense
counse., visited Hauptmann in the
Hunterdon county jail in Flemington,
N. J., and asked the prisoner a series
of questions, among them.
“Did Dr. Condon say he recognized
you?”
“No.”
“Do you think he recognized you?”
“No.”
“Did he look as if he recognized
you?”
“No.”
Insull Calm
As W itness
In Defense
Chicago Waits With
Bated Breath His
Story Os Alleged
Great Swindle
Chicago, Nov. 1. (/P) —Samuel 1 In*
sull took the witnes stand this morn
ing to deny chargst hat he ended his
career as a public utilities magnate
with a $100,000,000 stock swindle.
A capacity crowd had formed an
hour before the doors of FederaJ
Judge James H. Wilkinson’s court
room were opened. It was charged
with excitement as Insull walked to
the front.
Chicagoan s have waited two yearfl
to hear how Insull would meet the
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