HENDERSON
GATEWAY TO
CENTRAL
CAROLINA
TWENTY-SECOND YEAR
EHHNGHAUS REFUSES TO PARDOH LUKE LEA
U. S. -Soviet Trade Accord
To Treble Value Os Trade
Between The Two Nations
SOVIET WILL MAKE
PURCHASES IN U. S.
OVER 130,000,000
“Most Favored Nation’'
Treatment To Be Ac
corded Russia by the
United States
EXCHANGE OF NOTES
BRING AGREEMENT
All Benefits of Similar Ac
cord? Already Negotiated
By Washington With Oth
er Nations To Accrue To
Soviet; Ends Estrangement
Os Eighteen Years
Moscow. July 13. (API —Russo-
Arr.erican negotiations at Washington
have come to a successful conclusion
in the form of a Soviet-American ;
trade agreement it was officially stat
ed here today.
Details of the agreement were ex
pected to be made known this after
noon.
An exchange of notes between for
eign Minister Maxim Litvinoff and
American Ambassador William C.
Bullitt today culminated the negotia
tions. They are understood to pro.
vide for a temporary agreement and
the granting to the U. S. S. R. ot
most favored nation treatment.
AGREEMENT IS EXPECTED
TO TREBLE TRADE VOLUME
Washington, July 13.—(AP) — The
United States and Soviet Russia to
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COLTICONSIMED
ABOVE JUNE, 1934
But Active Spindles for
Month Considerably Less
This June
Washington, July 13.—(AP) —Cot-
ton consumed during June was re.
ported today by the Census Bureau
to have totalled 385,946 bales of lint
and 61.905 bales o's TmTers. compared
with 469.250 and 65.501 during May
this vear, and 3F3.262 and 54,587 dur
ing June last year.
Imports for June totalled 6.403
bales, compared with 10.423 for May
this year, and §7751 for June last year.
Exports for June totalled 344,955
bales of lint and 19.006 of linters, com
pared with 278,977 and 21,910 for May
this year, and 45.226 and 14,363 for
June last year. '•
Cotton spindles active during Jun®
numbered 22,790,200, compared with
23.027,780 during May fins year and
24,621,334. during June Tast year.
New Cases
Paralysis
Number 14
Raleigh, July 13 (AP)—The State
Board of Health today received re
ports of 14 additional cases of infan
tile paralysis in Nofth Carolina, but
nine of them occurred in June and
had been delayed in the local counties,
it was pointed out.
The new reports made 364 cases for
this year over the State, but only
around 100 are still in the contagious
stage.
TEN NEW CASES REPORTED
FOR THE DAY IN VIRGINIA
Richmond, Va.. July 13 (AP)—Ten
new cases of infantile parilysis was
reported to the State Health Depart
ment today, five of them from coun
ties which had not previously record
ed a case of the disease.
The addition i aised to 57 the num
bei reported since July 1, and boosted
the total since June 1 to 109.
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Telephone "Trust” Inquisitor
m*j •• -a-*' " ' . >•:.•s£
Ferdinand Pecora, who became headline inquisitor in 1933 a* special
counsel of Senate’s inquiry into Wall Street activities, is slated to resign
as New York Supreme Court justice to become Federal Communications
Commission counsel in investigation of American Telephone & Telegraph
Co., world’s largest corporation. (Central Press)
New PWA Set-Up For State
Shot Through By Politics
Announcement of District Directors Looks Like Con
gressmen Trying To Assure Their Re-Election; Coan
Is Able But He Knows His Politics
Dfitly Dispatch Bnrearn,
Id the S|r Walter Hotel,
BY J. C.* BASKERVILL,
Raleigh, July 13. —Does WPA stand
for Works Progress Administration
or Works Politics Administration?
Does this new Federal organization,
whose running gear has just been re
vealed through the announcement of
the eight district directors and their
assistants in North Carolina, have the
relief of the unemployed in the State
as its basic objective, or the relief of
the relief workers and the re-election
of members of Congress as its prin
cipal aim? Is the WPA the answer to
Automobile Strikes Tree
Near Linz; Chauffeur Is
Badly Injured
Vienna, July IB. —(AP) —The
Austrian cabinet decided tenta
tivly today! to to Chan
cilor Kirk Scheusehnigg that he
quit office for an xtnded vaca
tion as th rsult of an automobil
accident in which the chancellor s
wife was killed and he was in
jured.
Vienna, July 13. (AP)-Mme.
Schussnigg, wife of the Austrian
chancellor, was killed and her son
badly injured in an automobile acci
dent near Linz today. The chancellor
was reported uninjured, but in a hos
pital at Linz
An official communique said the
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"WEATHER
FOR NORTH CAROLINA.
Mostly cloudy, with showers to
night and possibly in extreme east
portion Sunday morning: slight
ly cooler tonight in west portion.
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the relief clients prayer or to th® sup
plications of the patronages seekers
and the politicians?
There is no doubt among most ob
servers here that, regardless of what
style of body may later be mounted
on the new WPA chassis, that this
chassis is undoutedly of the the lat
est 1935 political model, constructed
with a very definite view to assist,
ing in the re-election of the present
members of Congress. Many of the
parts and appliances tried out in the
old CWA and ERA machines have
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FRICTION CAUSE OF
PURVISRESIGMfNG
J. Edgar Hoover, Head of
“G-Men”, Refuses To
Comment on Incident
Washington, July 13 —(AP) —A sug
gestion that dissension between Di
rector J. Edgar Hoover and Melvin
H. Purvis, ace of the Chicago force
of “G.Men,” was .behind Purvis’ re
signation went unconfirmed here to
day at the Justice Department.
After telephoning Hoover at At
lantic '(City late yesterday,* Justice
officials said:
“Purvis has resigned and Mr. Hoov
er sees no reason for comment,”
One source* declining to he quoted
by name, said, however, that friction
between Hoover and Purvis wa£
known to exist.
Several months ago, Hoover hotly
denied that Purvie had been relieved
as agent - in charge at Chicago, say
ing:
“That’s 100 percent wrong.”
Persons familiar with the work of
the “G-Men” report the job has dis
advantages. A special agent is on call
24 hours a day, and frequently is
shifted back and forth among divi
sion points, sometimes as often as
thre times in a year. _
Sees U. S. Dictator
iJIII
11IIS
vs. : ..,
Karl Radek, Soviet editor whose
declarations reflect official views, is
telling readers of Russian press
that a dictatorship of middle class
origin will be set up in U. S. within
a short time.
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amlicadlalT
FULL OBSERVANCE
OF PEACE TREATY
Hull’s Stateme'nt Makes No
Mention of Italo-Ethio
pian Controversy
However.
ROME SAYS ITALY
NOT VIOLATING IT
Meantime, London Specu
lates Over Whether or Not
, United States Will Join
Hands With Britain To
Stave Off Hostilities In
East Africa Area
(By the Associated Press.)
The United States took a central
role in the Italo-Ethiopian quarrel to
day with a statement by Secretary
Hull in support of the Briand.Kellogg
pact outlawing war.
He mentioned neither Italy nor
Ethiopia by name, but said Washing
ton expected then ations to live up
to the treaty.
Rome quarters hastened unofficial
ly to assert Italy had not violated the
treaty, but was the victim of hostile
Ethiopian acts. Milifary preparations
went forward at a rapid pace.
London speculated as to whether
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StateWiU
Save $35,000
On Coal Bill
In the S|r Walter Hotel,
Dally Dispatch Bnreas,
BY J. C. BASKERVILL.
Raleigh, July 13.—North Carolina
will save from $35,000 to $50,000 this
year on its annual coal bill for State
institutions and the public schools,
as a result q£ the slight decline in
coal prices that has resulted since th®
death of the NRA, A. ©. Brower, di-
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Balkans To Arm If
Hapsburgs Return
Bucharest, Roumania, July 18.—
(AP) —Foreign Minister Tltueclue
announced today after a confer
ence with Prince Paul, regent of
Yugoslavia, that that if the pro
posed restoration of the Hapsbur
dynasty! in Austria were carried
out, it would mean the automatic
mobilization of the Little Eentente
armies.
“The Little Entente policies with
respect to a Hapsburg restoration
have been settled on a position
basis and mobilization would fol
low as a matter of course if the
dynasty is re-established in Vien
na,” the foreign minister said.
He added that a formal state
ment probably would be issued In
the course of the day.
PARTY MOGULS WILL
DISCUSS PROSPECTS
ON SUNDAY CRUISE
Roosevelt, Garner and Far
ley Head Party of Prom
inent Ones at Ches
apeake Club
BUSINESS FURTHER
PROTESTS NEW TAX
U. S. Chamber Urges $400,-
000,000 Expense Slash In
stead of Seeking That
Much Money in New Taxes;
Relief Load Declines In
Some of Major Cities
Washington, July 13 —(AP) —Capital
interesF today turned to she journey
of President Roosevelt. Vice-Presi
dent Garner, Postmaster General Far.
ley and other Democratic leaders to
the Chesapeake Bay fishing grounds
of the Jefferson club, an organization
of Senate Democrats. <
The White House said the President
went merely for a week-end of out
door recreation, but so many prom
inent men were invitd that observers
agreed that some of them at least
would talk of 1936 prospects and
strategy.
Both the Senate and House were in
recess, but important committees ot
both were at work.
Before the House Ways and Means
Committee the Chamber of Commerce
of the United States' renewed its at
tack on the Roosevetl tax program.
A spokesman for the business organ
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EHRINGHAUS, JOHNSON
SIGN STATE’S BONDS
Raleigh, July 13 (AP) —Gover-
nor Ehringhaus and Treasurer
Charles M. Johnson will go to New
York tonight to sign 3,304 new
North Carolina bonds Monday and
deliver them to a syndicate head
ed by Lehman Brothers of New
York.
The $3,304,000 issue of securi
ties recently was sold at an all
time record low rate of interest,
2.7212 percent.
Veneer Operatives
At Fayetteville To
Demand NRA Pay
FayetTevUTeT July 13.—(AP)—(Strik
ers and management oil the Lacy
(Manufacturing Company, a veneer
concern, held a conference this morn
ing, but were unable to reach an
agreement. Another conference was
set for this afternoon at 4 o’clock.
Fayetteville, July 15.—(AP) — The
plant of the Lacy Manufacturing
Company, a veneering concern, was
closed late yesterday as the result of
a strike on the part of 80 or 100 whit®
and Negro workers/ Strikers said
theiF objective was the “NRA wage
scale of 23 cents an hou.”
The management said it had not,
been informed of the demands, but
that a confrence with the strikers had
been arranged for this morning.
The plant has been operating on a
profit-sharing system of compensa
tion. It has not been operating full
time for several month®
Greene County To
Get Liquor Stores
As Judge Recants
Snow Hill, July 13.—(ARr—Jucfge
J. Paul Frizzelle, after a two-hour
hearing here today, agreed to modify
a restraining order preventing the
opening of county liquor stores in
Greene to the extent that the stores
may be put in operation if the coun.
ty commissioners take steps to in
demnify the county against any pos
sibility of loss in the matter.
Walter G. Sheppard, county solici
tor and county attorney of Greene
county, today presented a petition to
Judge J. Paul Frizzelle in superior
court here asking that a restraining
order issued by the jurist some time
ago to prevent the opening of cofcnty
liquor stores here, be amended to al
low their operation.
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life,” said Nikola Tesla on his 79th
birthday, pictured in New York
when speaking of his latest discov
ery, a method of sending mechanical
impulses to all parts of globe as
guide for ships and as indicators of
world’s mineral wealth. Impulses
ian also be used in time of war to
explode bombs anywhere.
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To High way
Employees
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In the Sfr Walter Hotel.
BY £. C. BASKERVILL.
Raleigh, July 13 —The new wage
scale in effect for employes of the
State Highway and Public Worxs
Commission is giving all employes a
substantial increase in pay in all of
the various classifications, Chairman
Capus M. Waynick said today. The
salary schedules in the varlocs class
fioations have all been revised and
the various employes have all been
re.classified. As a result, some em
ployes probably will not get a salary
increase of 20 per cent, while some
who have been placed in higher class
ifications are now getting increases
of more than 20 per cent, Waynick
pointed out.
“When the General Assembly wa«
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The attorney, acting for the county
commissioners, pointed out that the
voters, at a special election, had voted
by a majority of 141 votes in favor
of county operation of liquor stores
and county liquor control.
John D. Langston, of Goldsboro, ap
peared as chief counsel for the dry
forces, which secured the original re
straining order in opposition to any
amendment.
A hearing has already been set by
Judge Frizzelle on a petition from
New Hanover county and the city of
Wilmington t 0 vacate the restraining
order Judge Frizzelle recently issued
there preventing tHe operation of li
quor stores.
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GOVERNOR SEES NO
PRISONER’S PLEA
Former U. S. Senator From
Tennessee Serving Term
For Asheville Bank
Failure
EXECUTIVE IS^OT
AT ALL CONVINCED
Every Point Presented In;
Appeal for Clemency Has
Been Previously Advanced,
Statement Says; Son of Lea
and Wallace Davis Have
Been Freed Already
Raleigh, July 13.—(AP)—Governor
Ehringhaus announced today he had
declind the petition of Luke Lea, for
mer United States senator from Ten.
nessee, for a pardon.
Lea was sentenced in Asheville af
ter his conviction on charges of con
spiracy to defraud the Central Bank
and Trust Company there. He fought
his conviction through every couft at
his command and enterd prison on
May 5, 1934, to serve his term of six
to ten years, though he had been con
victed in August, 1931.
Luke Lea, Jr., was convicted with
his father and entered prison at the
same time, but was released last year
on parole due to his physical condt
tion. Wallace B. Davis, president of
the Central Bank, also w’as convicted
in the same case, and after one peti
tion for elemney was denied in his
case, he was freed under parole sev
eral weeks ago.
Usually in refusing a clemency peti
tion, the governor merely announces
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HARWOOD FAILS TO
GET LICENSE BACK
Raleigh, July 13 (AP) —J. H. Har
wood former Bryson City attorney
and superior court judge, who served
a term in State Prison for destroying
State Revenue Department records,
today had lost another battle in his
long fight to have his law license re
stored .
The council of the North Carolina
State Bar, meeting here yesterday, re
fused to restore Harwood’s license.
Harwood was sentenced to serve one
year on his conviction and was re
leased from prison November 2, 1932.
Since then he has waged an unsuc
cessful fight to have his license re
stored. #1«1
Walev Jury Waits
Only Charge From
Presiding Judge
Tacoma, Wash. July 13 lAP) —The
Margaret. Waley jury awaitgd only
court instructions today before delib
erating her guilt or innocence in the
$200,000 George Weyerhaeuser kid
naping.
Defense and prosecution completed
arguments before the overnight recess
alternately presenting the 19-year-u’d
plump bonde as an unwilling partici
pant and a remorseless conspirator to
the abduction of the little lumber for
tune heir.
WEALffAXPLAN
CANNOT GAIN ENDS
Only Way To Get Money Is
Broaden Tax Base, Which
Politicians Fear
By CHARLES P. STEWART
Cntral Press Staff Writer
Washington, July 13. —As to taxa
tion, there are almost _as many
schools of thought on Capitol Hill as
there are members of Congress.
The House of Representatives’
Ways and Megns Committee, trying
to make heads and tails out of these
varying and conflicting philosophies
In the course of its hearings on Presi
dent Roosevelt’s “share our wealth”
or “soak the rich” or “tax the thrifty”
program (to quote a few among the
numerous designations it is knwon
by), likewise is split in about 25 dif
ferent directions —since there are 25
members of the committee.
Just what the White House really
desires is one problem.
For one thing, is It essentially a
“share our wealth” program that the
executive mansion desires? If so, the
plan scarcely promises to be one. It
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