Henderson daily dispatch., August 19, 1935, Image 1

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HENDERSON
gateway to
CENTRAL
CAROLINA
TWENTY-SECOND YEAR
BODIES OF ROGERS AND POST COME HOME
Alarms Os War Ring Throughout Western Europe
MUSSOLINI FLATLY
REJECTS PROPOSAL
OF PARIS PARLEYS
League of Nations May Be
Unable To Survive Blow
Dealt To It By
Italians
CRISIS RESEMBLES
THAT BACK IN 1914
France Expects Loss of
Italy’s Friendship As Sabres
Rattle In Ethiopia and Hos-1
tilities in East Africa May
Break Out at Almost Anyj
Moment
London, Aug. 19.—(AP)—Alarms or
Tar rang through Great Britain today
as its people .awaited Anthony Eden’s
report on the torpedoed peace parleys
in Paris
The British press commented rtark
!y on the possibility of war. and in
formed sources saw in Italy's action a
challenge the League of Nations may
rut urvive.
The British are eager to hear from
their miniate” for League affairs the
possible consequence-v cf Mussolini’s
emphatic “No” to Anglo-French sug
gestions for compromise
But more Important, thev
learn from him how far France will
tack Britain in the critical League
Councils sessions in Geneva Septem
ber i.
Britain is now convinced that II
Duces blank rejection of any econo
mic concession, i:i lieu of waging war
in Ethiopia, hopelessly foreshadows
Italy's withdrawal from the League
unless the League weakly sidesteps
its obligations under the covenant.
This. Britain, and apparently France,
is determined not to countenance.
MOMENT FOR BEGINNING
OF HOSTILITIES IS NEAR
Rome. Aug. 19. —(API —The omin.
ous moment when the Fascist mili
tary might will be unleashed against
Emperor Haile Selassie’s barefooted
Ethiopian troops is not far distant,
informed quarters forecast today.
This opinion gained adherence hour
ly as the nation primed for war and
read somewhat disdaintfully of tne
suspension of the Paris negotiations
of the three powers.
CRISIS RESEMBLES THAT
IN 1914 BEFORE THE WAR
Paris. Aug. 19—(AP; Europe
faces a crisis like that of 1914, a high
French official said privately today.
The three-power Stresa front —Great
Eritain, Italy and France —is unbrok
en. he sadly admitted, and “France
must resign herself to losing Italy’s
friendship ”
FOUR lie FOR
PRESIDENT TALKED
Lltra-Left and Ultra-Right
Groups May Compete
With Old Liners
By C HARLES P. STEWART
Washington. Aug 19.—Politicians
generally speak of a third party next
year as seemingly inevitable —and
rnaybe a fourth party.
The third party, they predict, will
he ultra-leftist, though short of com
munism in any or its forms. The
fourth party, if there IS one, will be
ultra-right, it is prophesied.
Che fourth is not considered as
r(-rt -.in as the third.
Still, there is a faction which makes
seem possible. For example, J re
cfntiy talked with Col. Wuliuoi C.
t'erilec a retired marine officer, who
!s campaigning for South Cat "lina's
-cnatoiial nomination in 1936, as an
srq-N'w Deal Democrat.
Senators Horry E. Byrd and Carter
r D.as;; of Virginia and Senators Josiah
Bailey of North Carolina and Wal-
F. George of Georgia also surely
rl .assify as Democratic anti-New
Dealers, who might gravitate into
a ’ninth party group.
There are some northerners, too,
might be conceievable recruits.
LV’LRY alignment split
Every alignment, however, is split,
the southeast’s so-called “better
'mass (as witness Senator Carter
nasx' position against all mass opin
lon i n Virginia) is wholly contrary
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THAI ABBOCIATBD PMSBB.
Coal Bill Passes In House
And Is Sent To The Senate
Fatal Flight Start and Route
1
Fairbanks]
■ W H I) HIM 1
The seaplane carrying Will Rogers and Wiley Post to Alaska and then .
deaths leaves Seattle on the first leg of the fatal flight. Map shows flight »
route and Point Barrow where crash occurred.
(Central Press)
No New Cases of
Paralysis Listed
•/
Raleigh, Aug. 19 (AP) —No new
cases of infantile paralysis were
reported to the State Borfd of
Health over the week-end.
Only one new typhoid fever suf
ferer—from Durham county—
was reported.
TOO MANY TRUSTY
PRISONERS ESCAPE
Camps Warned No More
Trusties May Be Made
Without Permission
Dally Dispatch Bnreaa,
In the Sir Walter Hotel.
BY J. C. BASKERVILL.
Raleigh, Aug 19—Too many “trus
ty” prisoners have been walking off
lately without returning, with the re
sult that the prison division of the
State Highway and Public Works
Commission has just cautioned prison
camp superintendents again to the
effect that they must not make pri
soners trusties without having sunn
action approved b the director of the
prison division here. They were also
advised against recommending any
short term prisoners for trusties.
(Camp superintendents and gang
foremen were also instructed not to
send even their most dependable trus
ties to farm houses or springs to get
drinking water for road gangs, since
it is regarded as poor judment to al
low trusties to get out of sight of
guards. It was also pointed out that
even a trust prisoner ma yield to th<*
urge of temptation and make an ef
fort to escape if allowed to get too
far away from the guards.
“We have had several cases recent,
ly in which ‘trusties’ with excellent
records have either escaped, attempt
ed co escape or have committed acts
they otherwise would not have at
tempted if they had been kept under
closer scrutin by the guards and su
perintendents.” L. C. Whitley .assist
ant superintendent of the prison di
vision said today. “Some of these
(Continued on Page Five.)
Rural Electrical
Lines Over State
Will Be Planned
Raleigh, Aug. 19.-(AP)-Power
comnanv officials and members of
the State Authority will confer here
Wednesday to study the field for
rural electrification lines in North
Carolina and to try to line up initial
projects so applications for Federal
funds may ho speeded to Washington.
HENDERSON, N. C. MONDAY AFTERNOON, AUGUST 19, 1932
September 16 Earliest Date
Advisable, Due to Par
alysis Situation
Raleigh, Aug. 19 (AP)—Although
there has been a sharp decline in in
cidence of polyomyelitis, Dr. J. S.
Kncx State epidemiologist, advised
aeain today against the opening of
any public schools in North Carolina
before September 16, and in some sec
tions before October 1.
For the third day this month, there
Kvere no new cases reported, and
thus far in August only 61 have been
listed, as compared with 229 in July,
thus showing the decline of the dis
ease.
HOPSON’S TESTIMONY
STORMY AND HEATED
Washington, Aug. 19 (AP) —The
Senate lobby committee examina
tion of Howard C. Hopson became
stormy and heated today as the
questioning turned to the utility
head’s profits from the Associated
Gas and Electric System.
Signing Os
Relief Men
Is Lagging
In the Sir Walter Hotel.
Uaily Diniinteh Bnreaa,
AY J. C. MASKGRVILL.
Raleigh, Aug. 19. —Registration of
relief clients with the National Re
employment Service, to be eligible for
work on WJPA projects, amounted to
only 62.533 this past week despite the
fact that more than 200,000 persons
are now on the State relief rolls, ac
cording to figures obtained today
from the office of Msr. May Thomp
son Evans, State director of the Na
tional Reemployment Service. The
total unplaced balance in the files of
the reemployment service last week
was 142,533 But since the normal un
placed balance before the registration
of relief cases started was unusually
about 80,000 the number of relief
cases which haver egistered is de
termined by subtracting 80,000 from
(Continued on Page Three.)
WEATHER
FOR NORTH CAROLINA.
Mostly cloudy, probably show
ers tonight and Tuesday; not
much change in temperature.
CONGRESS MOVING
FOR ADJOURNMENT
OY THE WEEK-END
House Does All It Can For
Guffey Measure, Despite
Doubts of Its Con
stitutionality
CONFERENCE GROUP
STILL DEADLOCKED
Senate and House Groups
Unable To Agree on New
Tax Bill; Roosevelt To Ad
dress Y oung Democrats
Over Radio Saturday
Night; Meat Price Protest
Made
WasH.’mfton, Aug. 191—(AP) —.The
House did all it could today to grant
President Roosevelt’s request that tne
Guffey coal stbailization bill be en
acted regardless of doubts—“however
reasonable" —as to- its constitution
ality.
It quickly passed the measure and
sent it to the Senate where leaders
have promised a vote before adjourn
ment.
The Guffey bill is designed to set
up a “little NRA” with «. tax-en
forced code over the soft coal indus
try. The President has advocated it
to obtain a new legal test of the gov.
ernment’s powers.
The vote was 195 to 168.
While the House held debate lor
a last-minute drive to enact the ad
ministration program and congress
home this week, members of both
branches got together in another un
successful effort to reconcile differ
ences on the $250,000,000 tax bill.
At the White House it was an
nounced President Roosevelt would
(Continued on Page Five.)
North Carolina
Bar’s Cruise Has
Reached Halifax
Halifax, Neva Scotia, Aug. 19 (AP)
—The North Carolina Bar Associa
tion’s convention cruise reached its
northern terminus today and the law
yers and their friends spent the day
visiting Grand Pre in the Evangeline
country,
A special train carried the visitors
the 70 miles through the Annapolis
Valley, famed orchard country, from
Halifax to Grand Fre.
Members of the association reported
fine weather on the northward trip
from Norfolk, Va., which they left
Saturday morning in the S. S. Re
liance.
Utility Fees
Paid Lawyers
Are Fabulous
By LESLIE EICHEL
New York, Aug. 19.—The list of
lawyers who have received huge fees
from utilities companies to represent
them in Washington this year reads
like a who’s who of barristers. The
senate lobby investigating committee
has the list.
The $75,000 retainers seem numer
ous.
One thing seems certain—President
Roosevelt will name none of these
lawyers federal judges. (And that in
clude j the highly-prized Supreme
Cou „.)
But there are plenty of federal dis
trict judges on the bench now who
were utilities company lawyers in tht*
past. And they are there for life.
STOCKHOLDERS “WORSE”
Utility holding companies probably
will have more trouble with stock
holders than* with Congress.
Stockholders in companies which
(Continued on Page Tv/o.)
Roger’s Widow
« ■ ■■ . ~ •
The mourning widow of Will Roger*
is the former Betty Blake of
Oolagah, Okla., whom he met at a
“candy pull” and married in 1908.
They have three children.
(Central Press)
stateTsseeking
CHAIN SIORE LEVY
ON LIQUOR STORES
Some Counties Are Resisting
But Others Are Paying
Without Much of a
Protest
MORE THAN SINGLE
STORE MAKES CHAIN
Levy Is SSO Per Store Above
One and Some Counties
Have as High As Five —
Revenue Department Ac
tive in Trying to Get State’s
Pound of Flesh
Dftiiy J)>»pntrh Baream,
In the Sir Walter Hotel.
BY J. C LASKERVILL,
Raleigh, Aug. 19.—The State De
partment of Revenue is attempting
to collect the chain store tax, Im
posed by the 1935 General Assembly,
on the county liquor stores in all
counties which are operating more
than one sfore, it was learned from
a reliable source today. While re
venue department officials refused to
discuss the matter, they also did not
deny that an esffort was being made
to impose this tay in all counties in
which more than one liquor store is
being operated.
In a few counties, the county com
missioners and county liquor control
boards are paying the chain store
tax without any objections. But in
some of the counties the boards of
commissioners and control boards are
vigorously objecting to’ the payment
(Continued on Page Two.)
Robeson Negro Is
Sought For Crime
Lumberton, Aug 19.—(AP) —Offi-
cers, citizens, members of the State
patrol and three airplanes searched
today for Jim Watson, Negro farm
hand, accused of attempting to attack
criminally a four-year.old girl while
a group of citizens reported they had
wounded him as he fled from this
section last night.
A carload of citizens, a portion of
a group of 300 in the hunt, told offi
cers they fired on the Negro with a
shotgun and wounded him in the arm
on Lovett road, near here, but were
afraid to follow him as he escaped.
The Negro fled into the countysirte
after the child told her father, J. B.
Bruton of the alleged attempt. He
was said to be armed with a pistol.
PUBLIBHHD BJVHJItIc AFTHWNOOV
IXCBPT IUNDIY
JOE CROSSON WILL
FLY FUNERAL PLANE
TO SEATTLE TODAY
For President
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m Ufa
CoL Frank Knox
Knox-for-President booms hav*
been set going in New Hampshire
and Illinois by Republicans, The
publisher is now regarded as one of
the leading contenders.
Sales Heavy,
Prices Good
For Tobacco
Averages As Good
As Last Week and
Some Blocked Sales
as Week Begins
Lake City, S. C., Aug. 19.—(AP)—
Official season tobacco sales were
given today as 3,667,808 pounds, sell
ing at an average of $19.33 per hun.
dred, slightly lower than last year’s
to date, bu t pleasing to the farmers.
LUMBERTON PRICES ARE
AS GOOD AS LAST WEEK
Lumberton, Aug. 19.—(AP)—Ap
proximately 600,000 pounds of tobac
co were reported on the Lumberton
market today, with prices as good
as last week.
CHADBURN IS BLOCKED
W ITH PRICES UP HIGHER
Chadbourn, Aug. 19 (AP) —The to
continued on Page Five.)
Today the child was under care of
ap hysician, while Sergeant F. R.
Bell reported as false a report that
friends of the Negro had taken him
to South Carolina.
Immediately after the child told her
father of the alleged attack, said to
have taken place about four weeks
ago, Bruton sent his J. B. Jt.,
to guard the Negro. The son, carry
ing two pistols, fired five shots at
Watson as the Negro fled, but none
was believed t 0 have hit him.
Officers hunted the fugitive with
bloodhounds throughout the aftet
noon, but lost the trail, and during
the night citizens, airplanes and State
officers augmented the searching
party.
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, TODAY
FIVE CENTS COPY
Hour of Departure From
Vancouver and Arrival
In Seattle Is Kept
Deep Secret
SEATTLE AWAITING
SAD HOME-COMING
Meanwhile, Oklahoma, Na
tivity of Both Notables,
Who Died In Plane Crash in
Alaska Thursday Night,
Suggests Commemorative
Postage Stamp
Seattle, Wash., Aug. 19.—(AP)—The
curtains of its passenger cabin close,
ly drawn, Pilot Joe Crosson.’s plane
bearing the bodies of Will Rogers and
Wiley Post from their tragic air crash
death in Alaska, arrived here at 9:15
a. m., Pacific time, from Vancouver,
B. C.
The plane landed at Boeing field,
the municipal airport, in the southern
part of the city.
Without stopping his motor, after
the plane had come to a halt, Pilot
Crosson taxiied it into a United Air
Line hangar at the side of the field.
The hangar was completely sur
rounded by State patrolmen, city po
lice and Marine Corps reservists.
A crowd of persons, some of whom
had remained at the airport all night
were at the field.
Within the hangar Colonel Clar
ence Young, Pacific coast manager
of tjhe PankAmefrican Airwas, and
Amon Carter, of Fort Worth, Texan,
personal representatives and close
friends of the Rogers famil, were a
mong the group awaiting the plane’s
arrival
Earlier three morticians had arriv
ed at the airport and had gone into
the hangar.
A group of civic representatives
were at the field. Mayor Smith was
expected here about noon, flying one
of three planes back from Kansas
City for a flying friend.
Crosson’s 100-mile flight from Van
couver was through the early morn
ing haze.
From Alameda, Cal., a large Doug
las transport plane with a crew of
five men aboard, was reported wing,
ing its way north, due here about
11 a. m. or shortly after, to meet
Crossoft’s plane.
At Chicago today on the way by
train, Will Rogers, Jr., spoke for his
family aboard a private car, saying
that a public funeral would be held
Thursday in Los Angeles for his fath
er.
Young Rogers said that the body
(Continued on Page Three.)
STORM WARNINGS ON
COAST ARE ISSUED
Jacksonville, Fla., Aug. 19 (AP)
—The Weather Bnjreau today is
sued the following storm warn
ings:
‘Advisory 10 a. m. Tropical dis
turbances apparently of slight to
moderate intensity central about
400 miles northeast of Curk's Is
land, apparently moving north
ward. Caution advised vessels
near path.”
PLANIiiOF
NEW COTTON CROP
American Cotton Coopera,
tive Entrusted With Huge
Cotton Movement
New Orleans, La., Aug. 19. —(AP) —
has given the Air.e:-
ican Cotton Cooperative Association
the job of performing the greatest
cotton movement ever attempted, tho
re-concentration of 2,000,000 bales of
the staple before November 1-
Small interior warehouses are bulg
ing with cotton on which the gov
ernment has lent the grower 12 cents
a pound. Meanwhile, the new crop
is coming along and room must be
made to store it.
The American Cotton Cooperative
Association has undertaken the work
of moving the loan cotton to large
interior points and to the huge port
warehouses.