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('A KOI,IN A
TWENTY-FIRST YEAR
FRANCE TAKES
Four Deaths Laid
Upon Wintry Blast
In The Carolinas
Man Loses Control of Car in.
South Carolina and He
and Wife Drive Into
Creek
MOTHER AND CHILD
BURNED TO DEATH
t
Child’s Clothes Ignite At
Fireside and Mother Tries
In Vain To Save Little
Girl; Srow Everywhere In
Carolinas, But Heavier in
I he West
i 'liiirlotU 1 . Dec. 8 »API \Vint*»»
iu*'l its icy fingers around the
Carolinas today and thennomet
dippeil down to the freezing point,
our deaths were indirectly attri
d to the cold weather as snowfall
reported overnight throughout
•wo state- from the white-capped
. mt ins of the west to the balmy
els along the coast.
TAroughout the eastern and coast
. . lots, however, the snowfall, the
: of tin winter, was very light. It
e, rly last night, the harbinger of
• weather, and melted almost a
it touched the ground.
.:• ■.i*: falls were reported in the
.II Asheville. Spartanburg,
ilk and Anderson reported a
dot of snow. Elizabeth City and
• ; i! n town. on the coast, reported a
i. of snow.
-e mi the windshield of the auto
nile of G. T. Ford, of Georgetown
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Find More Money
Os L'rsehel Ransom
Paid In Kidnaping
Wash;, gt. n. Dee. B.—<AP> The
n iDvciy iif additional $"0,000 of the
r <ch' kidnap ransom money near
P',vtlai.tl. Oregon, was announced to
il by tin Department of Justice.
Detail -of the discovery were with*
D Id.
The inn unt found yesterday makes
•• i■ • total recovered $121,000 out of the I
".000 ransom.
r 'at es F. Urschfel. wealthy Okla- 1
' n. City business man. was abduct- .
' m July. 1033. Fifteen persons, »i« j
Tding such characters as Harvey j
J Bailey. George “Machine Gun" I
K Uv. and Albert VV. Bates were con
v i<• ted of the crime,
mmm now
TREASURY BULWARK
Morgenthau Has Shown
New York Trick or Two
Holding Confidence
IJy LESLIE EICHEL
Central PresH Staff Writer
Atw York, Dec. B.—Henry Morgen
‘hau. Jr., is proving to be a better sec*
''•‘taiy of the treasury than financial
N' w York had expected.
That is nod isparagement of Moi
seathau. Not. everybody is expected
'•» know the intricate financings of
governments.
Put Morgenthau has even shown
" all Street a few tricks.
The treasury closed its books in
‘day on a 900-million-dollar issue
(Continued on Pago Two)
Louisiana University’s
Head ‘Hanged In Effigy’
Baton Rouge, La., Dec. B.—(AP) —
Dr. James M. Smith, president of !
■ Louisiana State University, was hang- !
"<i in effigy today from a flagpole in '
Hu center of the university campus,
l lie body "was cut down at 6:45 a. ,■
m.
The identity of those involved in ;
Hu effigy affair was undetermined,
hut the hanging was reported to have |
been an outgrowth of Dr. Smith’s i
refusal to permit a student meeting
yesterday ford iscussion of the Huey
Long censorship of the “Reveille." i
Louisiana State campus paper.
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•Hmtftrrson tJatht Btsrmtrh
LEASEI WIRE SERVICE OF
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS.
New NR A Attorney
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G. Stanley Arnold
Newly appointed U. S. assistant
attorney general is (>. Stank y
Arnold, above, San Francisco
Cal., lawyer, who will have charge
of all NRA litigation. The ofiicc
was created to bring the U. S
department of justice and the
NR A into closer co-operation in
the enforcement of the llluc
Eagle codes.
ONUNEMPLOYMENT
INSURANCE IN N. C.
Employers and Employees
Alike Each Say Other
Should Pay Entire
Cost of Plan
FINAL HEARING BY
COMMITTEE IS HAD
Willi Make Up Its Report to
1935 General Assembly,
Which Is Not Expected To
Adopt Proposal, Unless
Federal Government Con
tributes Heavily
Daib OispntvH itnr«*ji«.
In thu Sir Waller Motel,
Uv J. C. Uufikervllle.
Raleigh, Dec. B.—The final public
hearing on unemployment insurance
and old age pension legislation is be
ing held here today in the hall of
the House before the special com
mission appointed by Governor J. C.
B. Ehringhaus to make a study of
these two matters and to report its
findings to the 1935 General Assembly
Members of the commission met In
executive session yesterday afternoon
to discuss various angles of its find
ings so far. in preparation for the
presentation of its report. It is also
expected that the commission will
! submit a tentative bill to provide for
unemployment insurance in Nortn
(Continued on Page Three)
The effigy of the college president,
a grotesque figure, was discovered
about 12 feet in the air, dangling by
a rope from a greased pole. Major
Troy Middleton, directed a detail to
remove it. The figure, a “straw man."
was then spirited away before many
persons viewed it.
A placard upon his chest read:
“James Monroe Smith, ‘Jimmy the
Stooge,’ hanged in effigy December,
1934."
A corporal of the guard of the
university R. O. T. C. regiment, made
the queer find on his early rounds of
the campus.
ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OF i
SIDES WITH YUGOSLAVIA IN DISPUTE
MORE ROCKS TUMBLE AT NIAGARa
m
Thousands of tourists are swarm
ing to Niagara Falls to view the
ruins of historic Table Rock and
h spectacular change in the con
tour of tlio Canadian border of
Cotton Crop Os 1934 Is
Put At 9,731,000 Bales
Nearly All of it, or 9,029,792 Bales, Has Already Been
Ginned, Census Bureau Reports as of December 1;
North Carolina Grows 650,000 Bales
Washington, Dec. 8. —(AP) — This
year’s cotton crop was estimated to
day by the Department of Agriculture
in its final report of the season to
be 9.731,000 bales of 500 pounds each,
as compared with an estimate of 9.-
63-1.000 bales a month ago. 13,047,000
bales produced last year, and 13,001,-
000 bales the year before.
Cotton of this year’s growth gin
ned prior to December 1, meanwhile,
was reported by the Census Buerau
to have totalled 9.029.792 running
bales, counting 167,658 round bales as
half bales, and including 9.965 bales
of American Egyptian.
The estimate of the cotton crop
Bowie For
Sixty-Day
Assembly
Daily l>j»unt,ch riurnic,
In Ike Sir Waller Hotel,
Hj" J, O, UaskervUle,
Raleigh. Dec. 8. One of the main
objectives of Judge Thonps C. Bowie,
of West Jefferson. Ashe county, when
he geto down here to the 1935 Gene
ral Assembly, will be to see that it
adjourns within 60 days, according to
a local man who stopped to see Judge
Bowie several days ago. The legis
lator from Ashe, who will again rep
resent that county in the General
Assembly, also indicated that he is
considering becoming a candidate for
ernor in 1936 and that he is already
l the Democratic nomination for gov
r receiving many letters from all parts
of the State urging him to run.
‘"I am getting letters every day
urging me to run for governor in
1935” Judge Bowie is reported to
j have said. “But all the newspaper
' men write about as prospective can
| didates are Robert L. Doughton and
Clyde Hoey.”
With regard to the forthcoming
IPnntimierl on Pane Thrp» >
WEATHER
FOR NORTH CAROLINA.
Cloudy, not so cold, with rain
in central and east portion and
light snow in extreme west por
tion tonight; Sunday fair.
HENDERSON, N. C. SATURDAY AFTERNOON, DECEMBER 8, 1934
•
the Horseshoe falls. Photo above
shows where the break,. 60 by 3 00
feet, occurred; below, part of 200
tons that broke loose. End of Ni
agara in ages to coin? is predicted.
was based on an indicated yield of
169.2 pounds, indicated on. Novembr
1 this year, 208.5 pounds produced last
year, and 169.9 pounds the' 1923-32 av
erage production.
The area harvested this year was
27.515,000 acres, while the area in
cultivation July 1 was 28,412,000. acres
making abandonment after July 1
about 3.2 percent.T he area in cui*
tivation July 1 last year was 40,852,-
000 acres, and the area picked 29,-
978,000 acres while in 1932 it was
36452,000, acres on July 1 nad 35,-
939.000 acres picked.
The estimated acre yield and pro
duction for North Carolina was 320
and 650,000, respectively.
Carolina Farmers
Pay Their Loans
Washington, Dee. 8 (AP) —Geor-
gia and Carolina farmers who have
obtained short-term loans from
production credit associations this
year probably have repaid more
than 93 percent of the money Ern
est Graham, president of the Pro
duction Credit Corporation of Co
lumbia, S. C., said here today.
Os the $6,200,000 which has been
loaned to about 30,000 farmers in.
the three states, all hut about
$475,000 had been repaid by Nov
ember 30, he said.
j.
New Highway Chairman
Confident Road Funds
Won’t Be Mutilated
Daily Dispatch Uireai,
In the Sir Walter Hotel,
llv J. C. UusKervlUc.
Raleigh, Dec. B.—Capus M. Waynick
newly appointed assistant chairman
of the State Highway and Public
Works Commission, and in reality the
official head of the highway depart
ment as long as Chairman E. B. Jef
fress remains incapacitated by illness,
is digging into his new job with vigor
(Continued on Page Three)
NORTH CAROLINA AND VH^NIA.
Grice Slaying Is Again
Recited Before Jury As
Wayne Trial Continues
j Neighbor Who Lived Block
From Grice Home Tells
Os Hearing Fatal
Shot at Night
t ■ -
FOUND VICTIM OF
SHOOTING ON PORCH
l
| Saw Rufus Satterfield At
Grice Home and With Mrs.
Grice During Day; Satter
field Already Convicted
and Due To Die In Raleigh
on Next Friday
Goldsbo;o. Dec. B—(AP>—The State
j today launched its case in the trial
1 of Mrs. Ruby Grice and her ibrotner,
| Donald Sasser, accused of plotting her
' nusband’s slaying - , with the testimony
of neighbors who went to the scene
shortly after Herbert Grice, an iron
worker, was shot to death one Sun
day night in October a year ago.
B. B. Wilson, who lived a block
from Grice’s home, was the first wit
ness called.
He had been to church, ne said,
i the night of th e killing and had been
; home only a short while, when about
j 9 o’clock he heard what he thought
to be the backfire of an automobile,
followed by a shot.
About five minutes later, he said,
lie heard Mrs. Grice calling Mrs. Wil
son and went to the Grice home.
Grice was lying dead on the front
porch, he related, and Mrs. Grice was
on a sofa in the house and was “sort
of whining.” Jim Herring, a neigh
oor. was at the house.
In reply to questions from Solicitor
Clawson Williams, Wilson said he had
seen Rufus Satterfield go in and out
of tlie house earlier in the day, and
had seen him with Mrs. Grice, but
he did not know whether Grice was
at home at the time.
Satterfield, 42-year-old married man j
was convicted of the murder of Grice, i
and is under sentence to die next
Friday. The State contended, at his :
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Padlock Dealers
In Drive To Get
Taxes From Beer
Atlanta. Ga., Dec. B.—(AP) In a
sudden start to collect the Federal
excise tax on beer distributers in dry
states, deputy collectors of the in
ternal tax collector’s office today pad
locked one beer selling place in Au
gusta and took liens against four
others.
W. E. Page, internal revenue col
lector for the State, said there were
3,500 beer sellers and 700 whisky
dealers in Georgia, and that the Au
gusta drive was the opening of a
Statewide campaign to collect the l’e
venue.
Page said thed eputies proceeded
with jeopardy” assessments approved
by Washington authorities.
More Mills
Listed For
Complaints
i ”
Roanoke Rapids -
Rosemary Among
Six Whose Hearings
Already Had
Washington, Dec. 8.-(AP)- The
United Textile Workers announced
today a list of 26 more Southern mills
all in North and South Carolina, a
gainst which charges of discriminat
ing against union members after the
September strike will be filed with
the Textile Labor Board.
Francis J. Gorman, vice-president
of the U. T. W., said hearings would
;be requested in each cas«.
Already six hearings have been
held on complaint against Southern
textile plants, and the first -was de
cided yesterday in favor of the union.
The Roanoke Rapids-Rosemary mills
were in the five not decided.
The mills were charged with dis
criminating against union members
by not re-hiring them in accordance
with President Roosevelt’s truce,
which ended the bloody September
strike.
PUBLISHED EVERY AFTERNOON
EXCEPT SUNDAY.
Fired by Hitler
_—_ 2. •
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Helmuth Brueckner, who was fired
hs Nazi governor of Silesia, is be
lieved to nave lost his post because
• f his open opposition to new eco
nomic policies of the party.
(Central Press)
Funeral On
Sunday For
Executions
Black Will Be Buried
In Sparta nbu r g;
Greens Will Be In
High Point
Spartanburg, S. C., Dec. 8 <AP)—
Private funeral services for R. E.
Black, 25. electrocuted Friday at Ra
leigh. will be held Sunday at. sun
down in accord with one of his last
requests, from the Glendale Metho
dist church. Spartanburg county.
Rev. W. M. Lever, State chaplain
of the American Legion, will offici
ate He will be assisted by the Glen
dale pastor.
High Point, N. C., officials and fire
men have been asked to serve as pall
bearers. Black requested this, rela
(Continued on Page Three)
Name Asheville
As The City For
1935 P. T. A. Meet
Greenboro. Dec. B.—(AP) —Asheville
was selected as tliep lace of the 1935
convention of the North Carolina Con
gress of Parents and Teachers, and
April 16-18. inclusive, named as the
dates for the convention at the De
cember meeting of the board of di
rectors of the congress, held at Wo
man’s College here otday.
The theme of the State convention
will ibe. “Today’s Child in Tomorrow’s
World.” Grove Park Inn will be head
quarters for the convention.
International Army For
Saar Okeyed By League
Geneva, Dec. B.—(AP) —A secret
session of the Council of the League
of Nations formally approved today
dispatch of an international army to
patrol the Saar territory prior to its
plebiscite January 13.
The Council voted to issue official
invitations to Great Britain, Italy, the
Nehtrelands and Sweden to contribute
contingents to the armed forces.
The army, officially designated
“the international force,” will be
placed under the direction of the
League’s Saar governing commission,
president, of which is the dynamic
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KING’S ASSASSINS
They Were Striking at Peace
And It Was
Work They Tried
To Stop
CALLS ON LEAGUE
FOR FIRM ACTION
Urges Move To Preserve
Peace of Europe Before It
Is Too Late, and Com
mends Sending of Interna
tional Force Into Saar Be
fore Plebiscite
Geneva, Dec. B.—(AP) France
dramatically resumed discussion of
the Central European conflict before
the League of Nations council today
with a declaration of Foreign Minis
ter Pierre Laval that “in this grave
affair France stands besides Yugo
slavia."
Amid an impresive silence in the
Council chamber, Laval said that, in
striking King Alexander, “it was
peace they sought to strike.”
“Ttw as the work of Alexander they
sought to destroy,” lie continued
dramatically. "This work subsists and
depends upon us as the Council of
the League of Nations to see that
peace shall not be placet? in peril.’’
Laval, cooperating with the great
powers of Europe in efforts to pre
(Conti lined on Page Three)
Billion Dollars
More is Sought
For Home Loans
Washington. Dec. B—(AP)—Re
presentative Hancock, Democrat.
North Carolina, expects President
Roosevelt to ask Congress to au
thorize the Home Owners Loan
Corporation to issue at least a
billion dollars more in bonds.
In a statement today he said
the new bond issue would be used
to lake eare of the “honestly dis
tressed” eases among the appli
cations for a total of $2,650,000,<MK>
from the HOLC.
Reeently the HOLC disclosed it
had applications pending for more
money than was available. Han
cock said the intention was not
to receive any additional appli
cations, but to use the new bil
liou dollars for those already on
file.
REVAMPING G.O. P.
IS VERY DOUBTFUL
If lit Turns Progressive, It
Has Nothing on Roose
velt New Deal
lty CHARLES P. STEWART
Central Press Staff Writer
Washington, Dec. 8. Senator
Borah’s plan for aR epublican party
reorganization, in progressive lines, is
all right in theory.
How will it work out in practice?
Borah is regarded by conservatives
as a radical. Radicals always have
been skeptical of him. on the ground
that, whenever there has been an ac
tual showdown, he invariably has
proved to be a “regular.”
He knows that a party, to have
strength, is a compromise.
There are liberals who will not go
too far toward radicalism and mild
conservatives who are disposed to
make modei’ate concessions to liber
(Continued on Page Two)
Englishman G. G. Knox.
It was expected a resolution em
bodying the committee’s recommen
dations would be submitted for ap
proval at a public session of the Coun
cil this morning.
The size of the army and of the
national contributions for its support
was to be left to a special commit
tee composed of representatives of
the Argentine, Italy, Spain, Great
Britain, the Netherlands and Sweden.
The supreme commander of the
force, the committee decided, would
be an Englishman. _j