Henderson daily dispatch., December 07, 1934, Image 1

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fIENDEUSON
GATEWAY TO
CENTRAL
CAROLINA
TWENTY-FIRST YEAR
EUROPE TREMBLES FROM NEW BALKAN CRISIS
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Father, Son And Son-In-Law Executed For Murder
STATE HAS TRIPLE
ELECTROCUTION, ALL
FROM SAME FAMILY
Greens, Father and Son, and
Black, Sor-in-Law, Pay
for Taylorsville
Bank Slaying
49 MINUTES NEEDED
FOR GRUESOME JOB
One After Another, Three
White Men Walk Last
Mile, Making Four Men To
Die for Killing of Cashier
of Taylorsville Bank Over
fear Ago
llaleigh, Dec. 7. —(AP» —North Car
( ;ina. for the first time in its his
tory. today exacted the lives of three
white men of the same family on a j
single day in the electric chair at
State’s Prison for the crime of mur- j
The triple electrocution, which was
the second time in three weeks three |
men had been put to death the same I
. y. saw a father, Bascom Green. 41; j
his son. Lester Green, who would
rve been 23 on Monday, and R. E. *
r.lack, 25. son-in-law of the eluer '
r.i eon. walked their “last mile.*'
The men all lived in High Point (
win n they were anvsied and all re- .
i < ,ved the death sentence for com
plicity in the attempted robbery of j
tin- Merchants and Farmers Bank of
T ylorsville. in which T. C. Barnes.
he cashier, was fatally shot, and
ts ion Little, another employee, was
■ iou.-ly wounded.
The State required but 49 minutes j
'i . xact the death penalty of the trio.
Mike Stefanoff. a Bulgarian im- j
n .rant, and a fourth man convicted
* tin same case, went to his death j
i: the chair early last summer.
Tin electrocutions took place with
untoward incident and followed a j
■ tit l>|.■ siege of pleas to Governor j
i llu aus to intervene, the weight ;
o/ the requests being for Black, whom
’ • evidence showed took no actual
!: r t in the shootings that occurred j
*.h> bank.
The two Greens both lost appeals j
the State Supreme Court, the ad- !
se decision having been rendered |
> ly last month.
Until November 16. when three
■ .Jug Negro men paid the supreme
pi na.lty for the crime of murder, the ,
State had never taken more' than two
lives in one day. Now within three
w.’Ctks a second triple electrocution
1 i- be. n written on the little brown
i cord book at the prison.
The execution of the two Greens
marked the second father and son
’o die the same day in the chair, a
uilar event having been recorded in
IJu.-com Green, who only last night j
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l. S. Arming
World And
May Suffer
Military Secrets
Bared While Du-
I’onts Kept Selling
War Munitions
Washington, Dec. 7. —(AP) —Evid-
' < cc that the War Department con
doled it more important for the
DuPont company to continue produc
tion of powder than for the nation
to guard military secrets drew asser
tions today from members of the
Senate Munitions Committee that
America was arming the world to its
own future disadvantage.
The statements from Chairman Nye
lb publican, North Dakota, and Sen
itor Vandenburg, Republican. Mich
.an, drew from an official of the
DuPont company the defense that no
military secrets last more than two
,) <_*lll J>.
Their assertions were produced by
• vidence presented in the smoke-filled
hearing room that the War Depart
ment urged tlie DuPonts to continue
in the. powder business after the
World War.
THtutitrrsmt Qathi Bispatrh
LEASED WIRE SERVICE OF
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS.
Little Entente Is
Prepared for War
Geneva, Deo. 7 (Al*)—Edouard
Benes, Cv<ecli oslutukiun foreign
minister, warned the League of
Nations council today that If any
one strikes a blow at the unity of
the Little Entente—Czechoslova
kia, Yugoslavia and llouinania—
war will result.
Dr. Benes declared that under a
treaty between Soviet Russia and
the Little Entente that country
would become an aggressor which
would give support to armed
bunds with terrorist intentions.
Revision Os
Murder Law
Is Demanded
Triple Electrocutions
at State Prison
Arouse Public Over
The State
Hally U|sp,-iti’h llurcaa.
In Ikr Sir Waller Motel,
lly J t). Busker vllle.
Raleigh, Dec. 7. —The execution of
three white men here today—a father,
his son and son-in-law —ofr the mur
der of one man who was killed by a
fourth man, who has already been
executed, is causing many people to
wonder if the North Carolina law that
exacts four lives for one life is not
too strict. For several days there
have been rumblings of dissatisfac
tion, even among lawyers, with in
dications that, a determined effort
is likely to be made in the rapidly
nearing session of the general as
sembly to amend tlie present laws
governing first degree murder.
There is no doubt that under the
existing laws Bascom G. Green, his
son Lester Green and his son-in-law.
R. E. Black, who paid with their
lives in the exeetric chair here today
for the murder of T. C. Barnes?,
cashier of the bank ip Taylorsville
which the trio, together with Mike
Stefanoff. attempted to rob more than
a year ago, were guilty of first de
gree murder. F’or the present law.
which is designed notl only to punish
the offenders but to act as a de
terrant to others, holds that if any
person is killed in the course of a
robbery with firearms, that all of
those who participated in the robbery
are eaually guilty with the person ox
persons who actually did the killing,
-
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Third Jury Being Picked
In Grice Murder Charges
One Man Lacking When Venire of 100 from Johnston
Is Exhausted; Judge Parker Reduces Jail Sentences
of Two Jurors Who Perjured Themselves
Goldsboro, Dec. 7.—(AP)—For the
third time, Mrs. Ruby Sasser Grice,
and her brother, Donald, came be
fore the bar in Wayne Superior Court
today for trial on charges of plot
ting her husband's death with Rufus
Satterfield, her professed lover, who
is under sentence to be die a week
hence for the killing.
A venire of 100 men from adjoin
ing Johnston county reported at 9:30
a. m. for possible jury duty, but frr
malities of Judge R. Hunt Parker s
explanation of their rights to the de
fendants delayed the start of the ac
tual quest for a jury until after ten
o’clock.
Only 11 jurors had been selected
when the Johnston county venire was
exhausted at 1:30 p. and Judge
ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA AND VUTOINIA.
JAPS ACCUSE U. S. OF WORLD CONQUEST AIMS
BIG NAVY PROGRAM
HERE IS ATTACKED
BY PROPAGANDISTS
j
American Stand Declared
To Be for Purpose of
“Subjugating All
the World”
COMMENT INSPIRED
BY DAVIS ADDRESS
American Envoy at Naval
Conference Sounded
Warning That Abrogation
of Washington Treaty
Would Mean Costly Naval
Race for World
Tokyo. Dec. 7. —(AP) —Japanese
naval propagandists were quoted
today as accusing the United
States of desiring to expand its
naval armaments “for subjugation
of the world.”
Tlie comment was inspired by the
speech of Norman H. Davis in .Lon
don yesterday.' in which he sounded
the warning that a costly naval race
would result from abrogation of the
Washington treaty.
The newspaper Jiji Shimpo attri
buted to anonymous naval authorities
the statement that the speeclt shows
the intention of the United States “to
establish an overwhelmingly superior
navy, both in the Atlantic and the
Pacific for subjugation of the world.
If such ambitious plans are uncheck
ed. world peace will be endangered.’’
Similar quotations m all the verna
cular papers indicated a common
source supplied the common story.
Charges Plot
Upon Smaller
Governments
(Copyright by Associated Press.)
Geneva. Dee. 7. —(AP) —A general
conspiracy against the territorial in
tegrity of the new states born of tne
World War was charged before the
League of Nations Council today by
Dr. Edouard Benes, foreign minister
of Czechoslovakia.
Benes’ startling allegation came dur
ing heated discussion of Yugoslav
charges that the assassination of
King Alexander at Marseilles October
9 was plotted in Hungary.
To this, Hungary, through her re
presentative, Tybor Eckhart. counter
ed with the assertion that Croats,
meeting in the United States, passed
the death sentence on Alexander.
Parker ordered a second venire of
50 drawn and summoned to report at
9:30 a. m. tomorrow.
After the venire was exhausted
Judge Parker called the two jurors
who were sentenced to jail yesterday
before him and reduced their sen
tences.
That of T. W. Hood, who was re
ported to have said Mrs. Grice and
Sasser were “as guilty as Satterfield
and ought to be electrocuted.” al
though during his examination for
jury duty he said he had formed no
opinion, was reduced from 30 to ten
days.
J. T. Halton’s sentence was reduced
from five to two days. Talton was
disclased after the jury had been em
panelled to be a relative of Mrs. rice,
HENDERSON, N. C. FRIDAY AFTERNOON, DECEMBER 7, 1931
HOW SENATE IS CONDUCTING MUNITIONS QUIZ
JpS illiil - sofe m ,
SMalKIL''
Hfs Jfi *"
Dr. Manley O. Hudson of the Har
vard Law school is pictured in
Washington as he testified before
the senate munitions committee
SETTLEMENT UPON
|REYNOLDS FORTUNE
OBJECTED BY BANK
i
Safe Deposit and Trust
Company of Baltimore
Is Trustee of the
Vast Estate
SAYS COURTS HERE
LACK JURISDICTION
— -
Must Be Passed Upon In
Baltimore Before It Will
Recognize Any Agree
ment Reached; Volumi
nous Answer Filed At Win
ston-Salem by Bank
i Winston-Salem, Dec. 7. —(AP) —The
Safe Deposit and Trust Company of
i Baltimore today contested the propos
ed settlement of the Smith Reynolds
estate as put forward by Reynolds’
brother and sisters on the ground
that the Maryland court had sole
jurisdiction over distribution of the
fortunes of R. J. Reynolds, Sr., de
ceased. and his wife, Mrs. Katherine
Reynolds Johnston.
In a voluminous answer filed in
Forsyth Superior Court today, the
Safe Deposit and Trust Company,
trustees of the vast Reynolds estate,
does not admit that the settlement as
proposed is right and proper, or that
the terms, even if approved in Mary
land. can be validly and effectually
carried out. The answer states that
the trustees simply acknowledge the
filing of such a proposition.
The respondent states that it is
not aware of the charitable intentions
of the petitioners, and does not admit
j the funds now distributable could be
j distributed for the purpose stated
j after such a settlement as proposeo.
The contention is that all funds in
| the Reynolds estate, under both of
] the wills of the late R. J. Reynolds
I end his wife, Mrs. Katherine John..
i ston. under a deed executed by Mrs
I Johnston creating certain trusts, are
(Continued on Page Five)
714) Shopping
Mays till
Ctiristmds
WEiiiiCß
FOR NORTH CAROLINA.
Partly cloudy slightly colder to
night, Saturday fair.
during its current investigation.
Merpbers of the committee shown
are, left to right, Senator Gerald
P. Nye of North Dakota, chair
Babson Sees Newspaper
As Key For Prosperity
Whatever Other Advertising Means There Be, None Is
So Thorough and None So Complete as Your News
paper; It Knows People, Their Thoughts and Habits
BY ROGER w. BABSON,
Copyright 1934, Publishers
Financial Bureau, Inc.
Babson Park, Mass., Dec. 7. — The
press of North America stands in a
unique position today. With so many
natural and human resources on this
continent as yet undeveloped, oppor
tunity is very great. Few people real
ize to what extent tlie newspapers, by
their popular appeal, help to release
the energies that make news. Thro
ugh the efforts of the press, old in
dustries will expand and new indus
tries will be nurtured into growth.
SAYSPARAGiYir
ENTITLED TO CHACO
But Objective of Long South
American War Is Dense
Wilderness
By CHARLES P. STEWART
Central Press Staff Writer
Washington, Dec. 7. —Wrong, back
ed by an apparently overwhelming
majority, so generally is victorious
over right, at a seemingly hopeless
numerical disadvantage, that Para
guay’s nearly-consummated series of
successess over Bolivia, in the Chaco
war between the two South American
republics, not only is a novelty; it's
downright cheering.
It- is cheering to a disinterested
bystander, chiefly as evidence that,
semi-occasionally, right actually can
be triumphant, even against odds —
(Continued on Page Two)
Licenses
Are Sold
Speedily
■■ ■ - - •
Daily Dispatch Itireat,
In the Sir Walter Hotel,
B» J. C. Baskerville,
Raleigh, Dec. 7—The sale of new
automobile license plates is gaining
in volume every day and sales are al
ready running ahead of last year,
according to Director L. S. Harris of
the motor vehicle bureau of the State
Department of Revenue. Up to this
morning approximately 17,500 sets of
license plates had been sold, com
pared with about 14,000 to the same
last year and every mail is bring
ing in more and more mail orders.
Many more automobile owners
must buy their new license plates next
week than purchased them this week,
(Continued on Page Two)
PUBLISHED EVERY AFTERNOOM
EXCEPT SUNDAY*
man; Senator Arthur Vandeit*
berg of Michigan, and Senatoi
Warren Barbour of New Jer
sey.
American and Canadian newspapers
will play a tremendous part in this
march toward economic and political
greatness.
Solves Problem of Distribution
Many concerns curtailed their ad
vertising during the depression to an
extent that was “penny-wise and
pound-foolish.’’ In continuing this po
licy, they are even more short-sighted
Authorities agree that the greatest
problem facing business today is dis
tribution. Not the shorter work week
(Continued on Page Six)
CONGRESS TO PASS
One Observer Thinks Solons
Will Just Do What
Roosevelt Says
By LESLIE EICILEL
Central Press Staff Writer
New York, Dec. 7.—One Washing
ton observer has decided that the in
coming Congress, under pressure from
many powerful elements, will decide
to stand with the President —and let
him take .the blame or the credit.
New York financial interests evident
ly have made the same decision.
Thus the plans that will count this
session of Congression will be those
advanced by such leading advisers of
the President as Raymond Moley,
Rexford G. Tugwell, Secretary of La
bor Frances E. Perkins, Secretary of
Interior Harold L. Ickes, Secretary
of Agriculture Henry Wallace, Relief
Administrator Harry Hopkins and
“Assistant President’’ Donald Ricn
berg.
That is a group satisfactory to the
(Continued on Page Five)
Noble Shuts His
Eyes on Signing
Tax Executions
Daily Dispatch Bareaa,
In the Sir Walter Hotel,
By J. C. Baskerville.
Raleigh, Dec. 7. —Although he has
signed thousand of tax executions
and hundreds of warrants for the ar
rest of those who have refused to
pay their taxes except under pressure
Assistant Commissioner of Revenue
M. C. S. Noble. Jr., does not. know
the name of a single person for
whom these executions or warrants
have been issued, it was learned here,
today from a source close to Noble.
In fact, he has made it a rule not
to look at the names in any of the
executions or on any of the warrants,
which are perpared in the collections
division and brought to him only for
1 his signature
8 PAGES
TODAY
FIVE CENTS COPY
YUGOSLAV TROOPS
WITHDRAWN ACROSS
HUNGARIAN BORDER
Nearness to Line, However,
Causes Greatest Anxiety
In Hungary of War
Outbreak
BELGRADE DENIES
SENDING SOLDIERS
Have Not Crossed Frontier,
Yugoslav Minister De
clares; No Mobilization
Whatever Since King’s As
sassination , Blamed on the
Hungarians
Szeged, Hungary, Dec. 7. —(APt—
After intermittent forays across the
frontier into Hungary this morning,
Serbian troops attached to the Yugo
slav army retired, temporarily reliev
ing a highly dangerous situation.
As the forces remained only a short
distance from the frontier, however,
their presence is a souree of great
anxiety to Hungary.
The official Hungarian news agency
said the “Chetniks,” an organization
of armed men, made midnight raids
on evacuated Hungarian homes in
Yugoslavia, carrying off valuables.
A program, the agency said, was
announced by the “Chetniks” to be
impending against Hungarians.
The Hungarian news agency declar
ed the Yugoslav authorities, in their
wholesale deportations, did not spare
any one by reason of age, sex or
illness.
“At the railroad terminal, on the
front point.’’ said the agency, “moth
ers were looking for lost children and
lost children were looking for moth
ers.
“The Yugoslav police showed a
complete lack of mercy to those ex
pelled. The refugees were forced at
(Continued on Page flight)
'Dictator
Huey Long
Pushes On
Baton Rouge, La., Dec. 7.—(AP)—
The Louisiana Public Service Com
mission was reorganized today with
Wade O. Martin as chairman and im
mediately ordered retention of Sen
ator Huey P. Long as counsel to push
investigation of Statewide telephone
rates and of rates of the New Or
leans Public Service, Inc., and the
Baton Rouge Waterworks Company.
All present members of the com
mission are political supporters of
Long. In the fall primaries O’Connor
defeated Francis Williams, former
chairman of the commission, an anti-
Long man.
In retaining Long as “special coun
sel and attorney,” the commission au
thorized him to employ “such auditors
consultants and experts as may bo
necessary to properly investigate and
inquire into the records, accounts and
affairs of the companies.”
Alexander’s
Death Topic
For League
Hungary’s Envoy
Says Croats In U. S.
Plotted (It; Charges
Are Hurled t
(Copyright by Associated Press. - *
Gevena. Dec. 7. —(AP) —Tibor Eck
hart, Hungary’s delegate to the Lear
gue of Nations, charged today that
Croats, meeting in the United States,
had pronounced a death sentence a
gainst the late King Alexander of
Yugoslavia, who was assassinated two
months ago in Marseilles.
He concluded with this charge in
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