HENDERSON, GATEWAY TO CENTRAL CAROLINA. NINETEENTH YEAR GANDHI’S WIFE IS, GIVEN SIX WEEKS UPON CONVICTION Charged With Urging Vil lagers To Adopt Boycott and Civil Diaobedi. ence In India TWO OTHER LEADERS TO GET TWO YEARS Must Serve at Hard Labor In Prison; Mrs. Gandhi W as Arrested Several Days Ago; Denied Request To Accompany Her Husband To Jail Recently Rombav. India. Jan. 15.—(AP) Mrs Mohingas K. Gandhi, who la al v great an idol among India’s unlettered multitudes as the Mahatma himself was sentenced at Surat today to serve six weeks in prison for urging the villagers to adopt her husband's principles of boycott and civil dis obedience She wn arrested several days ago. When her husband went to jail, she asked the policemen who took him to I*l her g > along, but they left her be hind with a warning not to engage in anv activity which would bring her afoul of the law. Sentence of two years at hard labor were imposed this afternoon on two other leaders of the Nationalist move ment. I SOUTH CAROLINA’S SCHOOLS MAY STOP Resolution In Senate Would Suspend Them All For Period of Year Columbia R C Tan APf^A* joint resolution whieh If passed, would close many oubttc schools is | South Carolina for a year was before the State Smite today. Three senators have proposed that the .act providing for payment of salaries of school teachers be "suspend eJcw Fern. Jan. 15. fAP>—David Livingstone Ward. 72. former State Senator and superior court Judge, died M his home here last night after a rudden heart attack. Gasoline Bootlegging In North Carolina Reported D»l>? Dlapafefe >«(««■• *■ the Mr Walter UeteC *»▼ J. C. IIMKKKVIM. nalrieh. Jan. I.H.— The bootlegging " K RS °line In North Carolina, ip order to evade the payment of the State tax rh is used exclusively in this State " hui M and maintain highways. State and county, so far has not been much ° a Problem, according to Commis sioner of Revenue A. J. Maxwell, and _ Sears of the gasoline tax di vision of the department. But neither « State nor the legitimate gasoline ealers are going to run the risk of t h e ‘Bootleg Gasoline acket to get started in North Caro 'ra and have already organized to omhat this “racket" if it show* Itself ,n 'his state. f P' 1 * fading gasoline and oil dls "'or* formed a definite organisa- Thursday. to be known as i “ N orth Carolina Gasoline Tax Evas- r n Cor omittee, to cooperate with nmmissioner Maxwell and the gaeo n“ «ax division of the Department of , ’* nu «. in tracing down any *« T n or gaaollne bootlegging. H. *„ u °rtch. of Goldsboro. Texas Com- distributor, is chairman of this _> ninutee. The executive committee b: entire committee la composed _ ' H. LESLIE PERRI MEMORIAL ÜBRAIW MM HENDERSON, a a Hrnuprsmt Bmkt JBtsnatth ’2^TH l ?*JiR c lgSB ) «g5jC» Determination Versus Suavity F* -ar| ~ : ’■ <' ~ A “▼ MB ; i v L * V' £■ Hk I—Hfc dtßw' ml fIHWBw: - ■& h^.. Bk — ig whiJh l ?h« Sl o‘ 8 ? ho L° slu ? y ’ "? ade durin * 8 session of investigations bond* rh Se ?f t? t ? conducting into the sale of foreign S„ c h , Un 'i ed SU i te E’ showa . S " Bhar P contrast the determined ” f ,C Si° f Senator Hiram Johnson (nght) of California and the suavity of Victor Schoepperle. vice-president of the National City Company " ho "" under ,nterr ogation. The banker admitted during the course of the two-hour examination that his company’s loan to Colombia !Jor«JT a ' e a , b ° U ‘ lhe same that the Colombia Government re i c L concession m which a Mellon-owned oil company is in terested. Schoepperle testified that the State Department had called hi? objections to making the loans “technicalities." Hawaiian Law Enforcement Machinery To Be Revamped Assifttant Attorney General Richardson To Make Thorough Investiga tion on the Spot INQUIRY IS SOUGHT BY SENATE’S VOTE GpxernorJudd To Recom. mow tofshmd Legislature That Rape Be Made Pun* ishable With Death or Life Imprison; Seek to Protect the Women Washington. Jan. 15. —(AP)— A thorough overhauling of the law en forcement machinery in the Hawaiian Islands may result fro ma stndy to be conducted on the spot immediately by Seth W. Richardson, assistant attor ney-general. An outcome of the Massey-Fortescue Incident In Honolulu, the Justice De partment investigation requested by Senate resolution took definite form last night with announcement of de tailed instructions from Attorney Gen eral Mitchell to his assistance. WOULD MAKE RAPE CRIME PUNISHABLE WITH DEATH Honolulu, Jan. 15.—(AP)—In efforts to curb assault upon women in Hono lulu. Governor Lawrence M. Judd ex pects to recommend to the forthcom ing special session of the Hawaiian legislature that the crime of rape be made punishable by death or life im prisonment. MOREMARINES TO GO TO NICARAGUA Washington, Jan. 15.—(AP) — Secretary Adams said today that additional Marines would be sent to Nicaragua to help supervise the election there. of Mr. Dortch, C. C. Beasley, of the Pure Oil Co., and L. F. Manning, of the Gulf Refining Company. All of the other leading gasoline refining com panies are represented on the entire committee and represent millions of dollars of Investment In North Caro lina. They also pay millions of dol lars each year in taxes to North Caro lina and employ thousands of work ers. It is hence to their interest as well as to that of the State, to see that the tax is paid on every gallon of gasoline sold in North Carolina, For if a few dealers here and there man age to get bootleg gasoline, evade the tax and sell It from one to two cents a gallon cheaper than the com panies that are honestly paying the tax, they are -’both injuring the busi ness of the legitimate companies and defrauding the Bfate, and at the same time doubling or tripling their own profit. The system which the State De partment of Revenue has worked out to check up on gasoline sold In the State is eo air-tight that it is vir tually impossible for a tank car of gasoline to be shipped Into the State (Continued on Ftp TwoJ, NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA AND VIRGINIA. ONLY DAILY So This Is Winter! (By the Associated Press.) . j *Tts winter, tush. Mid-January-mid-winter; and yet. Bees went to work at High Point, N. C. anssr The boys went swimming near Auburn, N. Y. i Dandelions yellowed the Boston scene. Bass were biting In Lake Chau tauqua. N. Y. Union town, Pa., had a baseball game. Sap flowed from mid-western maples. And In Elko, Nevada, It was 35 degrees below sero. FEAR PACKAGE TO KLEIN HAD BOMB Turned Over lb Police Then To Bureau of Standards For Opening Washington, Jan. 15.—(AP) — A package addressed, to Dr. Julius Klein, assistant secretary of commerce, was turned over to police today after of fice attaches became apprehensive that it might contain a bomb. After examining it, police took It to the Bureau of Standards for fur ther examination. Dr. Klein’s secretary said that be did not believ the package contained explosives, but that the suspicion of a messenger became aroused after he noticed that it had no return address, other than a street number in Chicago. Refusing to open it, the messenger took It to a policeman in the build ing, who, after looking at the small wooden container, also decided not to look inside. In turn, Washington po lice decided that it should be ex amined at the Bureau of Standards. Moves For Delay In Trying Accused Slayer In Raleigh Raleigh. Jan. 15.—(AP)—A new mo tion for a continuance of the case against Joe "Pistol’' Pete Truitt, of' Memphis, Tenn., who is under indict ment in connection with the slaying here of Guilford Brown, Corning, N. Y.. carnival concessionaire, was lodged in Wales Superior Court today. Leon S. Brassfield, who was employ ed as counsel to represent Truett .this morning lodged the motion on the ground he was not sufficiently famil iar with the case. Judge W. A. Devin did not immediately rule on the neV motion. Not Out of Danger. Pasadena. Cal., Jan. 15.—Herbert Hoover, Third, was not out of danger today according to a bulletin by his physicians, but his condition showed a slight improvsment. The grandson of the President underwent a sinus operation last Saturday. HENDERSON, N. C., FRIDAY AFTERNOON, JANUARY 15, 1932 IAP DELEGATIONS ISSUE MEATS TO CITY NEWSPAPERS Warn of Reprisals For Pub- Tishina of News Unfavor able to die Japa nese Interests FOREIGNER* LEAVE SEVERAL OF TOWNS Fear for Their Safety In In creased Military Activities; Chinese Trapps Reoccupy Tahushan, jßeating off • Japs Who Suffer Terrific Losses • {| Tsingtao, China, Jan. 15.—(AP) A delegation of Japanese residents of this city, where & Chinese newspaper plant was burned earlier this week, visited ait other newspaper offices, including s British daily, today And threatened reprisals for publication of news unfavorable to Japan. FOREIGNERS SEVERAL SMALL TOWNS FOR SAFETY Hankow, China, Jan. 15.—(AP) Foreigners ip several towns in this vicinity left their* homes and come into Hankow today alarmed over military activities in the area and fearing for their Mhfety. JAPANESE BEATEN BACK BY CHINESE WITH HEAVY LOSS Tientsin, China, Jan. 15. (AP) Chinese newspapers today said that Chinese regular troops and volunteers have reoccupled Tahushan' after 48 hours of severe flghting with* the Japanese, who lost 100 dead and wounded before they receded from the city. DEADLINE NOW ON NON UpSE CARS Drivers Without Tags Sub ject to Arrest by High way Patrolmen Raleigh. Jan. 15, —(AP)—Motorists operating automobiles hi North Caro lina today which do not bear 1932 li cense tags “are suoject to arrest," E. B. Jeffresa, chairman ol the State Highway Commission, said this morn ing. “The matter is out of my hands now." Mr. Jeffresa said. “The law al lowed no extension, but we told high way pat rt I men not to molest tardy license buyers. For 15 days have pass ed and thousands of cars are still running without new licenses. Any body that takes an unlicensed mac hine or one with a 1931 license on the highways from now on does so at his own risk, and is subject to ar rest and indictment.” Sampson Negro Is Saved From Chair By Gov. Gardner Raleigh. Jan. 15.(API—Ernest Her ring, 22-year-old Sampson county, Ne gro, lived on In his ceil on death row of State Prison today under a 80-day reprieve of his death sentence by Gov ernor Gardner, after a personal inter view last night Herring was scheduled to die in the electric chair this morning for taking part in the slaying of F. F. Newton, aged Kerr, N. C., postmaster. His brother, Chevis, was executed Decem ber 15, maintaining to the last that he only was guilty of the murder, and that Ernest had nothing to do with it W. S. LEE NEW HEAD ENGINEERING GROUP Washington, Jan. 15.—(AP)—Elec tion of William S. Lee, of Charlotte, N. C., as president of the American Engineering Council, was announced today. Lee is president of the W. S. Lee Engineering Corporation, vice-chair man of the Duke IgndowmenL and is an officer and consultant with head quarters In New York of many large public utility and industrial enter prises. ASK AN ORDER AGAINST CHAIN STORE TAX LEVY Charlotte, Jan. 15.—Attorneys for the S. C. Grocers Association appear ed before a three-judge federal court here yesterday seeking an injunction against enforcement of South Caro lina’s chain store tax levy. WEATHER FOR NORTH CAROLINA. Cloudy tonight and Saturday; probably light rain tonight and in extreme south portion Saturday; colder Saturday in west and north central portions tonight. Moderate southwest shifting to north wind*. FEAR RUM CHASER SUNK WITH CREW OF 93 MEN Murdered Society Beauty JL —■ EHi C ««f f Mt lid « ,ebUrg, l| V i a * , are - conducting a frantic hunt for the killers of Mrs. Spencer Ilsley, society beauty and leader of the exclusive hunting set in that city. The murder is believed to have been the work of burglars as Mra Ilsley’s maid was also slain and the house ransacked throughout. The murdered woman was 32 years old and was prominent in Washington, Chicago and New York society. Since ter husband’s death two years ago, Mrs. Ilsley had resided at her home in ftliddieburjr, taking part in many social activities, particularly la tbt hunting field, where she was a familiar figure. She is Bhowu on a favorite horse. Farrell Retires | Is wPpSSPb JB ' Jv, , j: ' bBl ~ Rounding out more than 50 years of service with the United States Steel corporation, James A. Far rell, president of the concern and onp of leading steel figures in the country, has announced his retire ment, effective April 18. His suc cessor has not been announced. Farrell is 69. Trade Commission Sharply Criticized For Its Practices Washington. Jan. 15.—(AP)— The Trade Commission was critlcir.ed to day for holding and sanctioning trade practice conferences before the Senate Interstate Commerce Committee as hearings began on the renomination of Commissioner William E. Hum phrey ,of Washington ,to the commis sion. GOV. SMITH'S SON IS HELD IN CRASH New York, Jan. 15.—(AP) —Wal- ter J. Smith, 22-year-old eon of former Governor Alfred E. Smith, was arrested early this morning on a tchnieal charge of homicide as the result of an automobile ac cident. TEN IN FAMILY ARE ' KILLED BY TORNADO Trenton, Tenn.. Jan. 15.—(API- Ten members of a family were killed and three others Injured yes terday when a tornado swept through two farming communities, bowling over houses and barns. PUBLISHED EVERT AFTERNOON EXCEPT SUNDAY. ROBBERY MOTIVE IN BRUTAL MURDER Hunt For Slayers of Mrs. Ilsley and Her Maid Is Broadened Out NEGRO IS SUSPECTED Discharged Employee Nought For Kill tog Wealthy Divorced Woman In Middle burg, Virginia, Resort Commuunlty Middlehurg. Va.. Jan. 15. (API —A simplified theory of the motive behind the brutal murder of Mrs. Agnes Boe ing Ilsley and her maid was adopted by authorities today as their search for the suspected killers spread to wider territory. Proceeding on the belief that George Crawford, discharged Negro employee of the wealthy divorced woman, com mitted the crime with the aid of an accomplice, the officers said they had practically decided robbery was the motive, although no valuables were taken. WLEAN. URGED FOR POBT IN REBUILDING CONCERN Washington. Jan. 15.—Senator Con nally. Democrat, Texas, said yesterday he had heard considerable advocacy of Angus W. McLean, former Gover nor of North Carolina for selection by President Hoover as a director of the proposed $2,000,000,000 reconstruction corporation. Department Heads Will Co-Operate With Gardner Dally DtoMtrt Barra*, la the Sir Walter Hotel. BT 4 C. BAIKRRVILL. Raleigh, Jan. 15—Complete approval of the program for retrenchment in State expenditures, involving a cut of some $3,750,000 In the budgets of the various State departments and in stitutions and their full cooperation in putting it into effect was pledged by the various department heads to Gov ernor O. Max Gardner following their meeting with him Thursday. The department heads knew the sit uation In a general way when they convened for the meeting, since they had already received notice that they could not expect more than 30 per cent of their' appropriations for the balance of this year. They knew that they were not going to h*ar anything very pleasaht or hopeful. Quite a num ber, who have not been in close ac cord with Governor Gardner’s ideas throughout his entire administration, were not at alt sympathetic when they assembled. But after listening to Governor Gardner talk straight from the should ar and from the depths of bis heart for almost an hour,,during which he explained in detail the seriousness of the situation with which the State is 8 PAGES TODAY FIVE CENTS COPY. COAST GUARD SHIP IS RAMMED IN FOG BY BIG FREIGHTER Collision Occurs 60 Miles South of Montauk Point, off Harbor of New York City DESTROYER HUNTING FOR RUM RUNNERS Sends SOS and Then It Sil ent; Fog So Thick Rescue Ships Steaming to Scene Can See Only Few Yards* But Sea at Spot It Believed To Be Calm New York. Jan. 15.—(AP)—Pa trolling for rum runner* in a dense fog 90 mile* Houth of Montauk Point, the Count Guard deatroyer William C. Ilerndon, with a crew of 85 men and eight officer*, wm* rammed by the freighter Lemuel Burrow* this afternoon. Hhe sent out an SOS, and then was silent. It was feared the destroyer might have sunk. "She is lightly built," Captain Ran dayy Ridgely, commander of the New York Coast Guard division, said, "and if she was hit by a freighter the chances are she might be pretty badly smashed up." Although the fog was so thick that rescue vessels steaming to the scene could see only a few yards ahead, of ficials here found comfort in the con dition of the sea. It was believed to be smoothed at the place of the col lision, with very little wind blowing. All radio broadcasting was suspended to leave the air clear in connection with rescue efforts. Treaty Navy Best Way To Safeguard Peace of America; Washington, Jan. 15.—(AP)—A treaty navy was held today by Rear Admiral Frank B. Upham, chief of the navy's navigation bu reau. to he the beat means of safe guarding |*oace. Neglect in building up In all categories, he told* the House Naval Affairs Committee, In urg ing passage of the Blnson bill, "would imperil rather than safe guard the peace." KNOXVILLEJOURNAL IS SOLD FOR $152,000 Knoxville, Tenn., Jan. 15.—(AP) — The Knoxville Journal was sold at foreclosure today for $152,000 to the Canal Bank and Trust Company, New Orleans. H. G. Thompson, of New Or leans, was agent for the bank- WETS BACK RETURN OF LIQUOR CONTROL’ Washington. Jan. 15.—(AP)— Both House anti-prohibition blocs decided today to support a sug gested change In the eighteenth amendment, returning liquor con trol to the states. now confronted, the department heads —even those e-Tio have been and still are politician *- -eahzed that they had dddddddd cirJwyp et&oin shrlu cmfwy a responsibility to perform to the State an its. people and that it was up to them to meet this crisis standing up—like r ten. They realized that if they ever was a time for them to show their patriotism and love for North Caroline that now Is that time. And to a rj a nthey pledged their loydlty to Governor in carrying through the y ogram he proposed to prevent a d jcit and to preserve the State’s credit against impairment The first man on his-feet after ties Governor had concluded his address was Attorney General* Den pis Q. Brummitt. who immediately ptopfeeod a resolution that the department heads present give their unanimous approval to the plane outlined by Governor Gardner and especially Chat part of the plan mhlch called for a complete cessation of any further borrowing of the State of North Oip lina for any purposes whatever, even were it possible for it to borfew. This (Continued on I'sgt Four.)