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HENDERSON
GATEWAY TO
CENTRAL
CAROLINA
TWENTY-SECOND YEAR
Business And Industry Fight Tax
Tobacco Crop Will
Be Much Less Than
Growers Expected
Flue-Cured Production Now
Estimated at 684,240,000
Pounds for This
Year
GOVERNMENT ASKED
700 MILLION POUNDS
Last Year s Yield Was 556,-
930,000 Pounds; 893,000
Acres Planted to Flue-
Cured Leaf This Year,
Against 687,000 Acres for
Last Summer
Washington, July 12.—(API —Flue,
cured tobacco production c or 1935 was
estimated today by the Agriculture
Department at 684,240.000 pounds
compared with 556,930.000 pounds last
year.
The 1935 estimate, mad? n? of Jury
1, was below the figure expected by
growers as a result of a 15 percent
acreage increase. The acreage in
crease was expected to result in a
700.000.000-pound crop.
Acreage planted to flue-cured to
bacco this year was placed at 893,000
acres, compared to the 687.000 acres
harvested last year.
The Department forecast produc- j
tior. of fiire-cured tobacco 123.305.000 j
pounds. Production of burley was es
timated at 47.930.000 pounds.
Indicated acreage and production of
Maryland tobacco this year is not ma
terially different from the 1934 crop,
the department reported.
Defense Os
Mrs. Waley
Completed
Tacoma, Wash., July 12. —(AP)
The defense in the kidnap trial of
Mrs. Margaret Waley rested its cas®
today with Mrs. Waley the only wit.
r.ess placed bn the stand.
With a brief government cross-ex
amination of Mrs. Waley finished.
John F Dore. chief defense counsel,
told the court the defendant's testi
mony was ended.
Owen P Hughes, assistant United
States District attorney, began imme
diately a summation of the testimony
submitted by the government in its
efforts to prove Mrs. Waley guilty of
kidnaping and conspiring to kidnap
George Weyerhaeuser, nine-year-old
timber fortune heir May 24.
The woman's husband, brought here
from prison where he is serving a
45-year-term for his part in the kid.
raping, was prepared to testify in be
half of his wife, but was not called.
U. S JFliers
Will Fight
In Ethiopia
Dozen Recruited In
France To Aid Af
rican Kingdom
Against Italians
Grasse, France, July 12. —(AP)—Hal
du Barrier, former American com
merical air pilot, announced today he
had recruited 12 American fliers to
fight for Ethiopia.
Be Burrier said Major Granville
Pollock, the famous veteran of the old
Lafayette Escadrille, was aiding him
to raise a force to form a nucleus
for an Ethiopian air corps- He refus
ed to divulge the names of the other
Pilots.
“We are willing to fight for an
ideal,” said Du Burrier. “The Ethio
pian authority assured me there
would be money and promotions and
decorations.”
He said Emperor Hailee Selassie
would furnish the planes, but he re
fused to say when he planned to go
to Addis Ababa. He said that his
Potty, he hoped would be greatly
strengthened in Egypt.
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ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA AND VIRGINIA. *
LEASED WIRE SERVICE OF
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS.
2 Die in Triple
Truck Collision
Occaquan, Va„ July 12. — (AP) —
people were killed and two injured
early today in a triple truck col
lision near the District of Colum.
bia work house here.
The dead:
W- T. Fraley, 48, of Salisbury, N.
C., merchant, and Park Connor,
24, of Orangeburg, S. C., merchant.
Two trucks were in a head-on
collision on a curve with a third
truck piling into the wreck.
Young Connor was the son of Dr.
A. W. Connor, a member of the
South Carolina legislature.
IN IN TO JUDGE
TO ALLOW VOTING
Clawson Williams Won’t
Vacate Injunction to
Permit Liquor Elec
tion There
FRIZZELLE LIKEL Y
TO RELENT SHORTLY
May Withdraw Order atad
Permit New Hanover and
Greene to Go Ahead and
Open Their Stores, As
Both Have Voted for Liqu
or Control
Daily Ouimtcfc Bnreav,
In the Sir Walter Hotel,
BY J. C. BASKERVILL.
Raleigh. July 12.—Although Su
perior Court Judge Clawson L. Wil
liams. who granted the permanent in
junction preventing the citizens of
Franklin cou ty from even voting on
liquor cont.ro and county liquor stores
continues to turn a deaf ear to all
pleas to vaca’e his order, the belief
is growing that Judge J. Paul Frlz
zelle. who permitted New Hanover
and Greene counties to vote but en
joined the opening of liquor stores,
may soon vacate his order and thus
permit stores to open in those coun
ties. It is pointed out that the vote
by which the people voted for liquor
control in New Hanover and Green*,
counties lias already -rendered the
Turlington Act inoperative in those
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DILLMSWILL
DF MRS. DAVIDSON
Papers Filed In Carthage;
Woman Found Dead At
Pinehurst In Wi'nter
Carthage, July 12.—(AP)—Objectors
to the purported will of Mrs. Elva
Statler Davidson, which bequeathed
practically her entire estate of more
than $500,000 to her husband, H.
Bradley Davidson, Jr., today filed a
bill of particulars in Moore county
Superior Court.
It alleged Mrs. Davidson was sub
jected t 0 undue influence, was “ad
mittedly ill” the dya she signed the
will, and was subject to “mental de
pression.”
Mrs. Davidson was found dead un
der mysterious circumstances in her
Pinehurst garage in February, 12 days
after she drew the will being contest
ed. and less than two months after
she married Davidson, who was 20
years her senior. She was a foster
daughter of the late E. M. Statler,
hotel magnate
Ellsworth Morgan Statler, a foster
brother of the young heiress, and his
foster sivter-in-law, Katherine (M l .
Statler, as guardians for Joan Marie
Statler’ a foster granddaughter of E.
M Statler, filed the original caveat,
and Miss Isabel Baer, of Minneapolis,
Minn., a college chum of Mrs. David
son before her marriage, was later
allowed to become a party as she had
been bequeathed property and named
executrix under ap revious will.
HENDERSON, N. C. FRIDAY AFTERNOON, JULY 12, 1935
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White Man And Negro Both
Electrocuted At State Prison
Raleigh, July 12.—(AP) —Luis Sen
telle, white man convicted of murder
in Cleveland county, and George Whit
field, Negro, sentenced to die in Guil
ford for criminal assault, were elec
trocuted at State's Prison this morn
ing.
Sentelle went to his death first and
had little to say after entering the
death chamber alone.
Whitfield, proceded in his last mile
walk by a Negro Episcopal minister
of Raleigh, prayed aloud until the
mask was placed over his face.
Sentelle, 39. was convincted of kill-
Governor Is
NotAskedTo
Call Session
McDonald and
Lumpkin Doubtless
Decided Action
Would Have Been
Futile.
Dally Dispatch Berea*,
In the Sir Walter Hotel.
BY J, C. BASKERVILL.
Raleigh, July 12.—Dr. Ralph W. Mc-
Donald, the youthful pedagogue from
Winston-Salem, lately turned politi
cian and governmental braintruster,
and Willie Lee Lumpkin, of Louisburg
the likewise youthful Franklin county
attorney who has been one of the
leaders of the anti-sales tax move
ment in last two sessions of the Gen
eral Assembly, failed t 0 call upon
Governor J C. B. Ehringhaus yester
day to ask him t 0 call a special ses
sion of the General Assembly. For
while Messrs. McDonald and Lump
kin were here in Raleigh Wednesday
(Continued on Pago Fl*e)
Furniture Mills
Decline Demands
Os The Strikers
Sumter, S. C., July 12 (AP)—The
Williams Furniture Company and the
Williams Veneer Company early this
afternoon refused to grant any of the
eight requests made by the strikers
yesterday.
The reply of the management was
given to J. C. Johnston, chairman of
the strikers’ committee at noon to
day. Johnston said the strikers would
meet tonight and decide on their fu
ture course.
GOVERNOR ASKS FEDERAL
MAN TO GO TO THE SCENE
Columbia. July 12 (AP)—Governor
Olin D. Johnston telegraphed J. L.
Bernard, at Greenville, Federal labor
relations commissioner, today re
questing him to go to Sumter since
efforts of the management and strik
ers to reach an agreement had failed.
ing Mrs. William Drake on the streets
of Shelby. He lost an appeal to the
Supreme Court-
Whitfield. 22, was sentenced in 1933
for criminal assault on a Guilford
county white woman and lost appeals
to the State and Federal Supreme
Courts.
The Cleveland man had requested
to be executed first, and had eaten
no breakfast. He was very nervous
as he walked into the death cham
ber after kissing R. A. Bridgers, the
executioner on the cheek.
Before he went to the chair, Sen.
telle told the Rev. Forrest C. Feezer.
Raleigh Baptist preacher, that he
Five More Cases
Paralysis Listed
Raleigh, July 12.—(AP) —There
were five new cases of infantile
paralysis reported in North Caro
lina today as the disease continued
to show a slight decline in in
increase.
Durham, Duplin, Franklin, Samp
sen and Buncombe counties each
listed one additional case today,
making 38 this week thus far in
the State, as compared with 45 for
the similar period last week.
SIX MORE IN VIRGINIA.
Richmond, Va., July 12—(AP) —
Six new cases of infantile paraly
sis were reported today to the
State health department, bringing
to 99 the total since June 1, and
raising to 47 the number since
July 1.
Newßecord
Attendance
In Schools
In the Sir Walter Hotel.
Dolly Dispatch Bnream,
BY J. C. BASKERVILL.
Raleigh, July 12. —There were lib,-
849 more pupils in average daily at
tendance in the public schools in
North Carolina this past year of
1934-35, than during the hey-day of
the schools in 1928-29, when the coun
ties and State together were spend
ing $28,500,000 a year for maintain
ing the schools, figures obtained to
day from the State School Commis
sion and the State Department, of
Public Instruction show. Yet the total
cost of maintaining the schools this
past year, including local supplements
from local taxes and the amount lo
cal units pay towards the mainten
ance of plant, v/as only $17,500,000,
a difference of $11,000,000.
It is agreed of course, that the
State has not been able to spend as
much on its public schools during the
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WEATHER
FOR NORTH CAROLINA.
Generally fair tonight and Sat
urday, except local thundershow
ers Saturday afternoon.
held no ill will toward any one.
“Strop me in and get shed of me.”
Sentelle said as he sat in the chair.
“Tell everybody I don't care.”
At 10:29 he was given his first
shock, onem inute and 12 seconds, but
it took three before he was pronounc
ed dead at 10:38.
Whitfield prayed, “My God, help me
this morning,” as he was seated in
the chair.
As Whitfield, looked at the wit
nesses in the death chamber, he said:
“May God have mercy on all so
you”.
He was pronounced dead at 10:52
after two shocks.
MELVIN PURVISIO^
G-Man Who Got Dillinger,
Pretty Boy Floyd and
, Others Resigns
Chicago, July 12. (AP) —Melvin
Purvis, head of the Chicago office of
the Department of Juslce’s Bureau of
Investigation, and the man who di
rected the successful hunt for John
Dillinger, announced today that he
has resigned from the Justice Depart
ment.
Purvis said that he was giving up
his government job to take over new
duties. His plans, he said, were too
indefinite to disclose at the present
time. 1
His resignation, he said, had been
accepted by his chief at Washington,
J. Edgar Hoover, He prepared to leave
his office today.
Purvis said he would remain In
Chicago. Purvis, normally mild.man
nered South Carolinian, was the most
dangerous memesis of the gangsters.
Purvis had directed the relentless
search that resulted in the death of
“Pretty Boy” Floyd in Ohio, and it
was his men who shot down John Dil
linger in Chicago.
newlealeom
Retaliation Begun Against
Those Who Bolted on
Utility Bill
By CHARLES F. STEWART
Central Press Staff Writer
Washington, July 12—Democratic
revolt in the House of v Representa
tives is worse than appeared directly
after the chamber’s anti-administra
tion vote on the utilities bill.
The first revolt was a conservative
revolt against the New Deal admin
istration’s wishes.
Now the New Dealers are in revolt
(incipient revolt, anway) against the
conservative leadership which permit
ted the “anti’s” to get out of control
and defeat so important a New Deal
policy.
It is a badly mixed.up situation—
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PUBLISHED EVERY AFTBRNOOM
EXCEPT SUNDAY-
ENGLAND IS STILL
SEEKING TO AVERT^
Sir Samuel Hoare, Foreign
Secretary, Calls in High
League Officials
at London
LEAGUE SECRETARY
ON PEACE MISSION
Joseph Avenol Trying To
Preserve Peace Between
Italy and Ethipoia; Britai’n
Will Not Act Alone, And
Will Not Order Any Block
ade On Italy
London, July 12.—(AP)) —The Brit
ish government, persisting in its ef
forts to head of hostilities between
Italy and Ethiopia, sought today an
other solution to the crisis.
Sir Samuel Hoare, foreign secretary
called Joseph A. C Avenel, seceretary
general of the League of Nations, to
a conference at which informed cir
cles said spme new way out of the
impasse might be advanceai.
The gray-haired Avenel, on a mis.
sion to avert war in East Africa, and
to bolster the League alsa arranged
a second conference with Anthony
Eden, England’s secretary for League
of Nations affairs.
It was generally believed any key
to possible peace still lies in London.
It became clear, however, after Sir
Samuel’s exposition of foreign policy
to the House of Commons yesterday
that Great Britain will not act alone,
and has never even considered an
economic blockade againsF Italy.
The House of Commons endorsed
the foreign policy of Premier Stanley
Baldwin’s new government.
Heavy Industry Revival
Real Road To Find Jobs
Only Real Cure for Unemployment, Babson Says, De
claring Most of Unemployed Would Be Cared for by
1936 If Government Would Remove Scarecrows
BY ROGER W. BABSON,
Copyright 1935, Publishers
Financial Bureau, Inc.
Babson Park, Mass., July 12-—Ma
chine tool orders have reached a new
high for the recovery period. This is
very significant for it means that
the heavy industries such as build
ing, machinery, equipment, iron and
steel, and the like are finally begin
ning to take on workers. For two
years the core of the unemployment
problem has been in these industries.
Hence, I view this improvement as
one of the most optimistic indicator®
in the business outlook today.
Consumer Vs. Heavy Goods
Roughly, industry is divided into
two major classes —heavy or capital
goods; and consumer goods. Capital
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FIVE CENTS COPY
PRESIDENT STILL
DEMANDS PASSAGE
AT M SESSION
White House Is Assuming
Congress Will Put Through
His Tax-the-Wealth
Program
AAA AMENDMENTS
STOUTLY RESISTED
Lobby Probe Continues On
Utilities Bill Defeat In
House; Roosevelt Trying
To Interest Ferdinand Pe
cora In Telephone Investi
gation
Washington, July 12.— (AP) — While
organized business and industry
massed opposition against President
Roosevelt’s tax program, word came
from the White House today that the
chief executive is standing by his pro
posal, and assumes it will be enacted
before Congress adjourns.
Before a House committee conduct
ing hearings on the legislation, a
spokesman for the Ohio Chamber of
Commerce called the program “one
of the six major menaces that hang
over the country like a black cloud.’’
A representative of the National
Association of Manufacturers was on
hand to continue the attack.
Earlier the Chamber of Commerce
of the United States had broadcast a
statement attacking the proposed tax
as confiscatory, destructive and a
“perversion” of the Federal taxing
powers,
Some Democratic leaders in Con*,
gress expressed fear that this cam
paign might cause a flood of tele
grams to members protesting the
plan. But they denied rumors that
(Continued nn Pago Five)
2nd Footless
•t
Negro Tells
Abon l Camps
Corroborates Testi
mony of Shropshire
Against Live For
mer Camp Guards
Charlotte. July 12. —(AP) —Footless
and diminutive Robert Barnes, with
his barred stumps on an untured
bucket, took the witness stand here
today to lay before a superior court
jury his claims of mistreatment by
five former prison officials-
He corroborated to a large degree
the testimony yesterday 0 f his Negro
companion in the solitary cell, Wood
row Shropshire, also footless, be
cause of what the State Contends wm
mistreatment by the prison camp of
ficials in placing the two short-terxa
Negroes in unheated ce'ls where, it
is contended, their feet froze, requir
ing amputation.
The defense has countered with the
charge that the prisoners brought cn
the gangrenous condidon \ by wrap
ping strips of cloth around their legs
and cutting off circulation.
goods are those which last for a long
time such as houses, bridges, locomo
tives and machinery. Consumer goods
are those which are used up imme.
diately such as paper, shoes, electri
city, food and clothing The consum
er goods, which are mostly neces
sities, are by far more stable. They
experienced only a relatively minor
drop in activity between 1929 and
1933. Because the heavy goods are
durable, purchases can be postponed
temporarily until the business outlook
is more favorable. Hence, the num
ber of workers in capital goods con
cerns declined sharply during the de
pression.
The consumer indusFries hit their
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