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THE OHA mnnifji JLTJft E'A'THER Fair continued cold tonight Sunday fair and lightly wanner Final 1 EDITION -Largest Afternoon Newspaper in the Two PROGRESSIVE ESTABLISHED DAILY 1888 CHARLOTTE NORTH CAROLINA SATURDAY AFTERNOON NOVEMBER 1 1930 14 PAGES- PRICE 5 CENTS TTD uanant not In Attempt To Mol Mfiaiiu oanijn 1 TT Davidson Wildcats Beaten Dead Companion Escapes In Automobile Holdup Man Instantly Killed By Neighboring Merchant ho Fired Shotgun at Close Range Woman Frustrates Plans Mill Women Oppose Ending Night Work Leaders of National Party Tell Cotton Officials That Starvation Hurts Health and Morals More Than Night Work Washington Nov 1 (P) Some plain talk against limiting production in textile mills by throwing women out of night work and keeping men on the Job has been spoken by leaders of the National Women's Party to official of the Cotton Textile Institute Fly to New York Headquarter of the party disclosed today that Mr Harvey Wiley widow of the Pure Food pioneer flew to New York with three other members of the party to make the protest to George A Sloan president and Walker Hines chairman of the board of the Cotton Institute Hines admitted said the women's party that the action taken throwing women out of night work Job was In order to limit Replying Mr Wiley said "No matter how unhygienic the condition of work may be nothing Injure the health and the morals more than Mrs Elisabeth Selden Rogers snd Mia Jane Norman Smith of New York and Mrs Florence Bayard Hilles of Delaware members of the party's National Council Joined In the protest Mrs Wiley Is chairman of the party "Mr Hines' seoond point was that the elimination of women from night work Is but a first step toward abolishing night work for both men and women and Is an important aid in bringing about the stabilization of production and employment" the announcement said is a bad principle to do evil that good may Mrs Wiley replied "All over the country there Is tendency as Is always customary in times of unemployment to dismiss women and give the places to men" Mrs Wiley oontlnued "With regard to night work In the mills no one thinks It Is desirable but It la more desirable than The announcement said the women "left the Interview Insisting that night work stop for both sexes or be left open to Twenty Cops and 2000 Negroes Battle Here jLa 9 Army Post Building Is Speeded Up Construction Calls For Outlay of $3074721 and Will Be Move Toward Relieving Unemployment Sonic Work Begun Work at Fort Bragg to Be Done Along With Building at Other Posts Washington Nov 1 UP) The War Department today advised the President's emergency committee for employment that It would expedite construction at Army post calling I for an outlay of $3074721 aa a move toward relieving unemployment Some of the work already has been started and Payne assistant secretary of war told Colonel Arthur Woods chairman of the committee the department was removing every obstacle to permit the work to go forward "Every effort la being made to facilitate action and to stimulate employment by advancing the starting datea cf Jobe which have already been Payne said Among the most Important of the project authorized by the war department for Immediate construction are: Maxwell Fle'l Alabama construction of tactical school building 8119273 Fort Meade Maryland construction of roads and walks $34-800 and officers quarters $191674 Randolph Field Texas hospital and baracks $226 074 cadet baracks and mesa hall $401 276 gas mains water and sewer a-wtera $71-641 Fort Bragg North Carolina sewer and water works $4618 road $54913 Fort Humphreys Virginia sewer and water works $5 625 Give Year-Round Work Col Woods announced that -oc-tor and Gamble soap manufacturers had advised him they had worked out a plan providing fof steady year-round employment for 10 000 workers In plant In eight cities In the United States and Canada The firm estimated It monthly payroll at $1000000 and said 50-000 men women and children would be assured under the plan of their customary living during the Winter months Discussing campaigns Woods said persons of fixed Income and savings who could afford to make purchases could stimulate business by making purchases now He added however It waa too much to expect people who have little or no money to make purchases of things which were not actually needed Wood aald a restoration of normal buying would not only aid Industry but tend toward relieving the unemployment situation Bulgar Capital dicers Royalty Sofia Bulgaria Nov ftp) Sofia celebrating the return of Czar Boris III and hla bride Queen Ioanna danced the night through In aa heart-felt and spotaneoua a celebration as the capital has known In generations The royal couple happy In the plaudit of their subjects attired themselves In the plain clothes of ordinary Bulgarian citizens and after midnight left the palace by its baik door to mingle with the merrymakers Gas Fumes Kill Family Of Five New York Nov All the members of a family of five were killed by coal gas fumes In their apartment In the Bronx todav The dead are: Gustave Peterson 55 Ills wife Susan 48 and three Rose 17 Gustave Jr 13 and Kathleen 9 Hungry 'Fries To Sleal Gun Chicago Nov Rabbit weie scampering around lit the bsrkjsrd of Ernest Rudtke Radiks out of work was hungry So were his wife and two children But It la difficult to catch rabbit without a gun he told Judge Edgar A Jonas who listened to his story when arraigned for making a fruitless effort to steal a gun from a department shirr Democrats Heady For Huge Rally Meet Tonight at Mecklenburg Courthouse "With Morrison as Chief Speaker Honor For Vets Fifty Year Club to Guests of Honor Rouse Voters Be To Mecklenburg Democracy was on It toes today In anticipation of it biggest rally of fair weather of a tiemendous crowd of rare entertainment and of a Republican-routing cheer-fetching Democratic political speech by former Governor Cameron Morrison at the Armory-Auditorium this evening when the party brings to a climax it campaign here Mr Morrison returned to hi home last night after a speech In Albemarle and today was enthusiastic about Democratic prospect throughout the State The rally here tonight expected to draw thousands of Democrats from Mecklenburg and other counties will be preceded by band music and singing program as the various delegations arrive and take the sections reserved for them The band music will start at 7 and at 8 the Goodfellowa Music Makers consisting of some of Charlotte's leading singers will open 30-mlnute program of singing The speaking will begin at 8 Occupying a specially reserved section of seats aa an honor In recognition of thelr long service to the Democratic party the F'dty-Year Democrat Club composed of veteran Democrats who have voted the ticket for half a century will be one of the leading delegations Other delegations will come from Gaston Lincoln Cleveland Catawba and other counties of the Ninth Congressional District Still another group of delegations will come from Iredell Stanly Union Cabarrus and other nearby counties The Fifty-Year Democrat Club organized by Judge McA Currie chairman of the Democratic execu-tlme committee: Redd rally chairman and The Charlotte News ha a membership of nearly 300 veteran Democrats of Mecklenburg and adjoining counties Each has certificate of membership and each will wear a badge Mr Redd requested them today to on arrival at the Armory-Auditorium entrance to present their tickets to one of the ushers who will conduct them to the reserved section Each member Is entitled to have one guest with him In the reserved section No others except the club membeis will have tickets Paul Whitlock will be In charge of the entertainment program Mr Redd will present the Fifty-Year Club Judge Currie will present the various local candidates and Julian 8 Miller will Introduce Mr Morrison Hold Shipowner For Scuttling Mobile Ala Nov A wealthy Mobile shl powner was under bond here today and the body of another suspect who died before he could be questioned waa being brought to Norfolk as a consequence of a government charge that an American ateamshlp was scuttled In conspiracy to collect Insurance Other persons were reported sought by authorities Captain Murphy of Mobile posted 815000 bond upon his surrender yesterday to answer an Indictment accusing him of assisting In srutting the freighter Rose Murply off the Florida coast In 1927 Properly Owner In Tight Place Minneapolis Nov 1 UP) Psrker Minneapolis property owner admittedly Is In a tight place He faces a Jail sentence If he does and he may go to the workhouse If he doesn't Today he was under a 30-day suspended workhouse sentence for falling to wreck a structure which the city building department says Is standing In violation of the zoning regulations But should Parker comply with the demands he la liable to go to Jail for destroying mortgaged property because the holder of the mortgage refuses permission to wreck the structure Calvin Coolidge Says Northampton Mass Nov 1 Too much emphasis cannot be placed on the constructive efforts our Government la making for International pe a We have not only aecured by two epoch-making treaties an agreement among the great naval powers for complete limitation on the building of all kinds of war-vessels but we are taktng an active part In the movement to compos the difference between France end Italy so that they may be able to Join In a treaty to the same end When Europe la financially depressed when taxation la almost unbearable burden her people and governments will naturally desire to take advantage at once of the savings that can be made In public expenditure by reduced armament They could then avoid the new outlays for fortifications and other equipment proposed In the name of national security Unless the burden Is diminished the people Involved will reach a point where national security will be of no benefit They will have nothing to secure We should not criticize We should not underestimate their great difficulties It Is cnly through true sympathy that we can help We seek to promote a humanitarian policy of peace and friendship among distressed people CALVIN COOLIDGE Copyright 1930 for The New Hoover Arrives In Asheville For Long Rest Sou to Live at Collage for Recuperative Purposes Asheville Nov 1 (P) Herbert Hoover Jr son of the President of th United States arrived In Asheville early this morning for a stay of aeveral months for recuperative purposes 1 To avoid station crowds and excitement Mr Hoover left th train on which he made the trip from Washington at Azalea station eight miles outside of Asheville Instead of at Blltmore where It originally was planned for him to detrain He made the rest of the trip on into Asheville by motor Mr Hoover waa met at the station by hla wife who preceded him here by three days to open Blue Briar Cottage on Sunset Mountain where the Hoovers have established residence Mr and Mrs Fred Beely friends of the family Mrs Stark Mc-Mullln friend of Mrs Hoover who came to Asheville Thursday and a group of newspapermen secret eerv-lre operatives and police The young Mr Hoover waa amlling as he stepped from the train He showed no atgns of hla recent Illness He was tanned and apparently In good health He was wearing an Oxford gray overcoat and a light gray hat As ha got off the train he pulled off hla hat and nodded to the group around the car door and then rushed over to kiss Mr Hoover The two got Into the rear seat of a car driven by Mr Belly Dr Joel Boone White House physician end Lawrence Ritchie President Hoover's secretary who accompanied Mr Hoover to Asheville got Into another rar with Mrs 8eely and Mrs Mi Mullln Arriving at hla home the young Mr Hoover paused for a moment on the porch to admire the view "I think this 1 he laughed He was enthusiastic over the acenery and the weather The eun was shining and the air was crisp and tool He wm reported to have etood the trip well but he was ordered to bed Immediately upon hla arrival at Blue Briar Cottage He occupies the central west room on the second floor of the cottage overlooking Asheville and the surrounding mountain region westward Three large windows have been cut In the wall of the bedroom to give Mr Hoover plenty of light and elr as well aa to permit him good view Fxlra Edition On Carolina-Tech Go The Charlotte New lia hen Its custom during the current fool ball season will publish extra edition containing both the result of the I nlverslfy of North Carollna-Georgla Tech game and the More of all other major contests This edition will he on the streets nf llie city Immediately after the game at hapel IIIII approximately 5 10 Cadets Win By Scoring Touchdown At Opening Davidson Allack in Latter Stages of Contest Successfully Repulsed By Virginia Eleven leams Are Almost Evenly Matched Wildcat Efforts to Crack Through Cadet Team for Touchdown Baffled Lexington Va Nov 1 (IP) Scoring six point In the opening quarter and repulsing Davidson' attack thereafter X' Cadet defeated the Wildcat from North Carolina 6-0 In a morning football game her today First Quarter I started an early march fiom their own 35-yard line to the Davidson three yard line with Dunn Retting away for 23 yards and Laug-horn passing 27 yards to Gill Dunn fumbled and Davldaon recovered but another drive by the Cadets carried the ball over The pass for extra point failed Score: I fl Davidson 0 Second Quarter Davidson punted to 41 -yard Hue and Williams and Dunn made first down Laughorn went around right end for nineteen yards and William around left for eleven The Wildcat held on the four-yard line and took the ball on downs The period ended In a punting duel and attempt by Davidson to score by passing Third Quarter Third quatrer: Davidson netted three first down with Captain Fraley the mlan ground gainer but passe failed and I took the ball on their own 34-yard line King Intercepted a I pas on Davidson' 35-yard line and the Wildest made three first downs that Included King's 15-yard dash around end aa the quarter ended Scora: 1 6 Davidson 0 Fourth Quarter The Wildcat had the ball on I 28-yard line but passes failed snd the Cadet took the hall on downs After sn exchange of punts Davidson made two first down but drew a holding penalty and again the Cadet broke up a Wildcat overhead attack The game ended with the Cadets In possession of the ball at midfield Final: I 6 Davidson 0 Will Ask Death For Kidnapers Kswauee III Nov 1 UP While State and local police sought Floyd Winslow reputed master mind of the plot to kidnap Earl Yocum Galva III hanker the authorities today prepared to ask the death penalty for hi two alleged confederate held here Winslow' capture waa believed Imminent with report that a man answerng to his de-ci iptlon had been e-en driving a stolen truck toward Peoria Orville Whiskers another alleged member of the extortionist gang was being hunted tn the vicinity of Watauga 15 miles from Oalvi Cruise Lake For Crippled Ship fiaulte Ste Marie Mich Nov 1 4b The roast guard cutter Seminole today cruised Lske Superior nil Ittlchlplcoten In search for easel reported In distress The lighthouse keeper at Mtchl-picoten yesterday wirelessed he saw a boat either a freighter or a barge wallowing through waves as if in trouble Two freighters and the Seminole nosed through the area without finding trace of the boat Asks Work For Ex-Service Men Katie City Nov ((F) Paul Wolman of Baltimore commander of the veterans of foreign wars In statement released today by the national headquarters nf the organization appealed for work for unemployed ex-aervloe men Classified Ads For The News Th classified department of The New Is open and will accept ads for Sunday's Issue until 8 Saturday evening For Haying (nil The Charlotte News Phone 4151 TOR REM (Unusually low seven time rate) ntrniuin Charging L1Y 01 CC Michael Cudahy youthful heir to the millions of the packing king unth naqqing her so much that she nearly had a breakdown Muriel Cudahy has icon a divorce in the Los Angeles courts Maxwell Favors Classification Tax System Com missioncr Declares Uniform Taxation Can Never Be Successfully Operated Urges New System Raleigh Nov 1 A Maxwell chairman of the State Tax Commission Issued a statement at tils office In Raleigh today concerning the classification tax amendment In which he declares he thinks It Is a sounder policy of taxation than the old uniform system He points out that the system has proved a failure in a number of States The statement follows: "The classification tax amendment presents a question that easily lends Itself to attack It Is easy to arouse suspicion aa to Us purpose and effect It Is for this reason that It waa voted on ten times In Ohio before Its final adoption last year My support of It Is without reference to an opinion as to whether It will win or lose In the election but because of a reasoned conviction that It represents the bettpr and sounder policy of taxation Its adoption In 34 Ktates Is strongly argumentative of this and the progressive failure of the 'uniform' policy In every one of the few remaining States ts even more convincing There is not a single State In which the 'uniform' rule as applied to Intangible peisonal properly Is not a cumulative progressive and admitted failure If any one of the American States had made a success of It we might hope to But when Ttf Tea IB New Shocks Fell In Italy Flastra Italy Nov 1 UP) Eighteen earth shocks were felt here last night and continued Intermittently until 1'20 A today Hie population of the town Which Is near Marerata on the fringe of the rone ehaken earlier this week was hrown Into panto but no Injuries or riamsge were reported two negroea followed home He became frightened bed rifle and killed Mosely and Horace Allen Then he went to a polk tlon end surrendered Ew polio weie fooled by hit turn Dead Man Believed to Be Bruce Carpenter of Durham Efland Nov 1 A womans daring today frustrated the robbery of th Bank of Efland and brought about the death of one bandit As man tentatively Identified a Bruce Carpenter of Durham fled from the bank sever thousand dollars of loot tn his pockets a shotgun In the hands of 6 Forrest merchant and vice-president of the bank roared from across the street Carpenter fell dead two charges of ahot In his back A confederate waiting in front of the bank In a yellow Bulck coupe sped away in the direction o' Greensboro while shots whistled about him Mrs George Shambley local woman spoiled the bandits' plans As ahe started to enter the bank at 10:30 this morning the man In the automobile warned her to atop trouble he said He commanded Mrs Shambley to stand In front of the car Instead she hastened across the street to Forrest's store where she gave the alarm Arms were hastily collected Aa Carpenter having held Efland bank president and Robert RUley cashier at bay while he scooped together all available cash ran from the door the shot sounded The dead body waa held here today penrt'ntr mor comolet Identification Papers la hla pock-eta however made bank official certain he was Carpenter Efland la without police protection Carpenter Former Inmate Of State Hospital For lnan Durham Nov 1 Bruce Carpenter reported slain In an attempt today to rob the Bank of Efland was a former Inmate of the State Hospital for the Insane and had been In police court several time charged with minor offenses He wa about 29 years old Police here today arrested a Roanoke Va man whose name they did not divulge His automobile they said answered the description of that used by the escaping robber The suspect declared he wa on his way to Chapel Hill for a football game and police were Inclined to believe his story Aged Woman Commits Suicide Mullins 8 Nov 1 fjv-Mrs Joe Atkinson 55 ahot herself i death yesterday while visiting b-r brother Sheriff John Rowell tn Marlon David Shelley brother-in-law of Sheriff Rowell ended his life to a similar manner about ten da' a ago Mrs Atkinson had suffered miit a nervous aliment for some tine Foiled Thieves Kill 9 Persons Lucena Tayabaa Province I Nov 1 (Jb Eight men and a co 'd were ahot and killed here today 'iy two men caught in the a-t of sailing Authorities said the men rati amuck when apprehended One of the men was raptured and placet under arrest hut the other escaped Abe iMartin Nohuddi knows ion In a hlg city that' the reason quite a few ordinary people make good In 'em Sirs tester Jet wuz arrested tod ter lettln' her engine ron wlul nkln' fer help at the township truster office Four Hour Fight Willi Halloween Revelers at First and McDowell Uae Gas Bombs A four-hour battle with negro Halloween revelers during which tear gas and blackjncka were used es brteka and rocks sailed through the air brae staged by 20 police officer at First and McDowell Street last night From 10 to 1 A the officer iutermltteniy clashed with the negroea who had been hurling bricks into the street and shoving wheel barrow and other obstacles into the path of moving automobiles Fully 2000 negroes some of whom according to the officers were half-drunk Jammed the street in the vicinity of a negro motion picture theater and dance hall and "pulled" bo much on passing motorists that police reserves were called out to disperse the crowd The police contingent was helpless In the face of the negro revelera many of whom apparently resented the presence of officers who were compelled' to ue force to break up the mob Tear gaa bomba were hurled Into the crowd but this was not particularly effective because pf the high winds which carried the fumes away from the rrowd A brick was hurled through the bark of one police car and Officer Bowlin was hit In the back He was not seriously hurt although today he still felt the effects of the blow A brick building Is under construction on McDowell Street and the bricks piled up on the street offered the revelera a ready supply and the street was littered with them Wheelbarrows used In the construction of the building were rolled Into the street and often these were pushed Into the path of moving automobile Bricks were aleo thrown at passing care Several arrests were made by the officers who preferred charges of drunkenness against the negroes Thl disturbance among the negroes was the only aerlous trouble during the Halloween celebration It was reported at police headquarters While the streets downtown In the vtdnlty of Independence Square were crowded with thousands of costumed Halloween revelers the crowds were orderly and no disorders were reported police said Man Stabbed By Negro Elizabeth City Nov 1 Halloween was no lark for Daniel Muse of this city He was stabbed In the chest by sn unidentified negro Muse is In a hospital but will Carolina Gels Lead In Second Quarter Of Go Passes Give Tar Heels Six-Point Margin as Magner Opens Aerial Attack Kenan Memorial Stadium Chapel Hill Nov 1 Two passes one from Magner to felusser and the other from Magner tu Branrh gave Carolina slv-polnt lead over Georgia Tech as the two schools resumed their old rivalry here today Kenan Memorial Stadium Chapel Hill Nov 1 Chuck Collins' University of North Carolina Tar Htels and Oeorgla Tech'a Golden Tornado battled through a scoreless first' quarter today In their annual grld-lion classic The game waa the feature of Carolina's Homecoming Day celebration A brilliant home coming assemblage of over 20000 persons was In the stands a bands paraded on the football field while the team warmed up Charlotte band paraded first and formed the letters on the field The Shrine band from Salisbury brilliantly garbed In Zouave costumes followed the Charlotte band on the field Georgia band and Naval drum corps then paraded and Raleigh's American Legion drum corps followed Carolina' own Tar Heel band arrayed In the school colors of the White wound up the display by the bands and musical organizations Equipment for taking sound moving pictures of the game was put In place while Carolina's band paraded Carolina won the toss and elected to receive it the tut (oil MiKeel kicked oft tor Georgia Tech kicking oil to Bluster who caught the ball on the ten-yard hne snd returned It to the 31-yard line Blusaer made the fl(at down on the forty-two yard line McNeill made five yards at left tackle Houae made a yard at center Marea made the tackle McNeill made a first down over right tackle being downed on Tech' 46-yard line Underwood Carolina right tackle suffered a badly spilt finger on the play Looks like Underwood finger Is broken McDade eubstltuted lor Underwood Georgia Tech held Carolina and took the ball on Ita 16-yard line when House lacked an Inch of first down Strickland mad ls yards through center for Tech snd then mtde five mors for first down on his own 47-ysrd line Barron failed to gain and Flowers made three yards over bis own right tackle On a center play wide around right end Barron made six yads Flowers punted high the btll landing on the Carolina 36-yard line rolling to the six-yard line before It was downed by Maree House was hurt aa Carolina punted Banka punted The punt waa called back when Georgia Tech was oftalde It waa first down end five yards to go on Carolina's eleven-yard line Carolina took a rast while Home got back hie wind Branrh was back again sa If to punt but started around his left end slipped got up snd eluded several Tech lacklnre to run to his 31-yard lint for first down McNeill tnada nine yardi oft right tackle Brooks went In for McGee of Tech Blusaer failed to gain In the midst til the line Branch punted from hla 30-yard line outside on Georgia Tech a 28-yard line Flowers waa back aa If to punt lie kicked but the headlineimsn called ai oftalde penalty The punt went out of bounde on Carolina! 41-yard Une and aa the penally waa on Tech Captain Branch took the ball at that point Bluaser mads five yards over left tackle before Farmer and Btrlrkland got him Chandler slipped while coming around right tackle and got one yard ae Marea held him Branch tried a paes to Chandler and It failed but Georgia Tech lift end waa offside and It gave Carolina a first down on Tech'a 41-yard line Branch made two yards left tackla and waa stopped by Strickland House hit fight guard for five yarde Jonei tackled him Blueeer slipped through over hit own lift guard tor 13 yards to Gonrgla a 39-yard Una Us stumbled be bad 0 almost tot by the whole Tech teem snd Strickland tackled him Tom Jones Oeorgls Tech ft acting captain si Dunlap li not In the game Magner substituted for Chandler Maree Tech i giant tackled Magner for ilx-yard loss the first lots by any runner In the game Bluaser went over he left tackle to get back six yardi Magner passed to Branch for five yards Magnet hurled pasi to Bluaser hut It lacked yard of first down on Tech' 17-yard line and Tech -ik th ball Strickland mada three at center Flowers punted to Branch who waa downed after five-yard return by Mare snd Erred on th 80-yard line Magner paased to Blusaer fro eight yarda Magner failed again aa Marea hit him Bluaser failed to gain when Brooke got him aa the quarter ended Branch punted over the goal line on ths fl rat play of the second quarter hut Oeorgls Tech ai off aide The penally gave Carolina first down on 7 ache 88-ysrd line Magner passed to Blusaer fur first down on th 38-yard line Magna passed to Branch who caught the ball on his 30-vard line end cut hark to cross the Tech goal Lora Caroline 8 Georgia Tvch 8 Branch mlsasd hla drnpklck attempt fur point Atlanta Negro Dressed Is Girl Kills Two Atlnta Ga Nov 1 (P) As a Halloween celebrant cld In female clothe Ivy Allen negro ulrnply killed hla male admirer Allen attired In high-heeled hoe and a modish hat attended a Halloween party Hla coetum waa so realistic that e-sn-xenesew.

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