HENDERSON,
GATEWAY TO
CENTRAL
CAROLINA.
NINETEENTH YEAR
House To Vote Tomorrow
On Sales Tax Proposals
After Lengthy Argument
tcdcral Worker* Will tie*
Salary Cult Unleaa Levy
Is Passed, Labor
Head Is Told
ANSWERS PROTEST
OF WILLIAM GREEN
End of Long and Eurging
Debate in House Glimpsed
Ai Thursday Night Is Fix
ed as Time for Vote on
Bill; Tax on Cooper Not
Acted Upon
tV •••‘'lngtoM. March IS (Al*)
Tin- Hour glimpsed Ur end of the
MirtiiiK dehair that has swept oevr
ih«- <a!tt and all Imports tax pro
pnal* today and fixed tomorrow
■qht for its comp Ml—
A »»x on coooei la s wis sug
gested to the ways and means cotn>
j. ?r b< >re the <Aay\i round of
-nr.: h-making began but kt took no
»'i on.
About the nnt time. Representa
tive Railsy, of Illinois. the Democratic
k»<ier. In a reply to the opposition
rs William Orem, of ttie American
F«dpration of Labor, to the sales tax.
earned that cuts in the salaries of
Federal workers promptly would b«
•fcessMatsd by failure to adopt tha
levy.
)08S ARE PRWIDED
10 7,304 IN STATE
Legion Employment Cam
paign 1» Declared To Be
Getting Results
DaMr Wisps tea ftseesw
la tSe Sir Waller Haiti.
M *. C. UIKUivaL.
Ijiieiffh. March if A total of 7,-
JM persons In North Carolina have
keen given employmen since the open
i»; of the nationwide American Le
gion employment campaign one month
ago. Major M. A. Perry, executive di
rector for North Carolina, announced
today The Jobs for these 7.301 per
sons were found by the American Le
mon employment committee of 32 of
the 120 Legion poets In North Caro
lina. representing activity ort the part
of 27 per cent of the posts in the State
jn (his employment drive, as com
pared with only 14 per cent of the
posts for the United States as a whole,
Major Perry points out.
The number of unemployed given
Jobs by the various Legion posts over
the State are as follows: Albemarle,
2«i. Charlotte. 527; Clinton, 27; David
m>h. 12; Dunn, 27; Durham, 283;
Elizabeth City, 23; Farmville. 46:
Goldsboro. 38ft; Greensboro. 771;
Hickory. 25; High Point, 252; Kanna
polis. 1.091; Mebane. 15; Morehead
City. 1.648; Morganton. 50; Mount
Airy. 50; New B«rn. 200; Oxford. 1;
Raleigh. 197; Retdsville. 151; Rich
Square. 9; Rocky Mount. 369; Salis
bury. 26; Sanford. 76; Smithfleld. SS;
Statesville, 79; Tar boro. 116; Warren
ton. 178; Whttavllie. 4; Wilson 15;
'Continued on Page Five.)
ROCHESTER HONORS
LATE GEO. EASTMAN
Hocheeter. N. Y.. March 16.—(AP)
Thn city today paid homage to it*
fnoMt renowned son and greatest bene
factor George Eastman.
Hundrends of sorrowing friends and
employees of the Eastman Kodak
Company filed past the bier of the
>nan who gave Rochester its greatest
industry, made it the bub of camera
nnd film manufacturing, donated mil
lions outright to those working for
him. and dispensed other millions for
schools, colleges and dental dines for
iheir children.
DEPUTIES SAY GUN
SHOT ACCIDENTALLY
Gastonia. March 16- —(AP) —Con-
stable O T. Sams and Berry Dilling
ham. his assistant, today testified
Everett Stroupe was latally wounded
by the acciddental discharge of Dil
lingham's gun as the two officers
sought to halt his car. which they bus
pected contained liquor.
Sams and Dlllington are on trial for
second /degree murder Jn superior
court here.
ask confirmation
OF CHICAGO JUDGE
Washing!—. March IS. —(AP)—Con-
firmation of Judge James H. Wllker
*on. of Chicago, as circuit court judge
was asked of the Senate today by
Frank J. Loeech. president of the
Chicago Crime Commission, and
Robert Is ham Randolph, chairman of
the “secret six" to free the Judiciary
of iati mi nation from gangsters.
Hruiirrsmt Daily Dispatch
FULL LEASED WIRE SERVICE
OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS.
Eastman Kills Self.
1
The suicide oi George Eastman
above, chairman of the board of the
Eastman Kodak company and one of
the richest m<en in the world, came
only two days after Ivar Kreuger.
muX I -mi II lona Ire Swedish match king,
ook his life in Paris. Eastman shot
i Ur. seif through! the heart in his
home at Rochester, N. Y., “My
'vork is done. Wthy wait?” read &
note signed “G. E.," he lea to
friends.
SECOND PRIMARY ”
FOR U. S. SENATE
BEUEVED LIKELY
While Morrison Is Well In
Lead Now, Reynolds And
His Wetness Get.
ting Support
MORRISON BACKERS
CITE HIS RECORD
Has Stood by Party Through
Thick and Thin; Answers
Charge of Those Who Crit
icize His Wealth, Saying
They Used to Call Him too
Poor
RnlO m.piaJfh llaima.
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«T J C- HASKF.ItVIM.
Raleigh. March 16. In spite of the
vhoopee and apparent political en
thusiasm attendant to the address
made here last night by Senator Cam
eron Morrison in opening his cam
paign for re-nomination as Senator in
the Democratic primary June 4, the
opinion prevails in political circles
here that Morrison is going to have
one of the most difficult campaigns
of his career and that a second pri
mary' will be almost certain.
For Morrison has three candidates
who are seeking to wrest the nomina
tion from him In the primary—Robert
R. Reynolds, of Asheville; Tam C.
Bowie of West Jefferson, Ashe coun
ty; and Frank D. Grist, of Raleigh.
Os these three candidates a majority
agree that Reynolds will undoubtedly
cause Morrison more trouble than
cither Bowie or Grist, although these
two are likely to prove quite irritat
(Continued on Page Two)
Governors Back Campaign
State after State I* giving its of
ficial. endorsement, to the WAR
AGAINST DEPRESSION.
Governor after Governor is Is
suing a Proclamation calling upon
the municipal authorities to ap
point committee* to Join In this
UNITED ACTION CAMPAIGN.
Every Proclamation calls open
the citizens of the State to enlist In
this great army already twenty
million strong.
Their Chief Executive summon
them to volunteer for sendee In
this outstanding humanitarian en
terprise.
To volunteer for unselfish serv
ice to their fellow men.
Do volunteer to lift the spectre
of want and desperation from some
American home.
NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA AND VIRGINIA.
ONLY DAILY
New Justice 'lakes His Seat
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Taking hisi seat for the first time as a member of thjunited States
Supreme Court, Justice Benjamin Nathan Cardozo * shown with
Chief Justice Charles E. Hughes arriving at the Captol for his in
stallation- The new Supreme Court Justice is forme! Chief Justice
of the Court of Appeals of New York, f
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Presidential Candidates
Face Prospect Os Probe
By Congress Os Expenses
By CHARLES V. STEWART
Central Pres* Staff Writer
Washington, March 16.—While fun
ny. the interest of regular Republi
canism in political purity this year is
not particular puzzling.
The probing of irregularities In the
last two or three campaigns has not
resulted at all to the advantage of
the G. O. P. Old Guard. Orthqdox
Hamiltonians did not want these in
quires but had to acquiesce in them to
avoid being accused of reluctance to
have their candidaiaa’ methods Vooka.
ed into.
In the present instance, however,
the demand for an investigation comes
from a regular of regulars—Senator
Lester J. Dickinson of lowa.
In 1926 it was the Democrats, It wll
be recalled, who launched an inquiry
into expenditures by aspirants for
senatorial nominations.
James A. Reed of Missouri, then a
senator, was made chairman of the in
vestigating committee. It was not a
Nearly Million Rise ln
State Income Tax Funds
Due to Higher Rate, But
Even With That, Deficit
Is Over $2,000,000
Rs'eifh .March 16.—(AP)—A. .1.
Maxwell, State commissioner of re
venue, said this afternoon no new
figure* on State income tax pay
ment* were available, hot “a very
heavy mail of returns” came in
today.
M.\ Maxwell said the R. J. Rey
nolds Tobacco Company yesterday
handed its check to a deputy at
Winston-Salem, but this has not
been received here. The check Is
“far over ft2.00e.000.”
Tobacco companies will pay the
State a total of about »3ji00,000 In
income taxes this year, Mr. Max
well said. •
flallr uiMnirl Nareas,
l« the *lr Wittier HeteL
ST J. C. HA«KKH VIM.
Raleigh, March 16.- Income tax col
lections at the close of business last
night amounted *0 S 2 7(JO 2.V» as com
pared with collections of £1,923,150 on
March 15, 1931. an Increase of $877,
138, It was announced this morning
(Continued on Page Six.)
Let every American citizen heed
Utls flail.
Let every American citizen com
municate with the Chairman of his
local committee and tell him
he Is ready to work.
Let every employer of labor tell
• him, that be will add one more
worker ho his force.
Let every property owner tell him
that he to ready to make those re
pairs to hla property.
Let every person now holMng a
Job tell him that he will gladly
ocmfcrtbute something each week
to take on one man to do the odd
job* in his block.
United Action can accomplish
miracles.
Let every American citizen help
to prove it again ss he did fourteen
years ago.
HENDERSON, N. C., WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON, MARCH 16, 1932
presidential year. Fights for senate
seats alone were available for Reed to
• .concentrate on. for the representa
tives, of course, do their own inves
tigating. He did not concern himself
with elections .either; the committee
on privileges and elections settles con
troversles of that *ort. Reed devoted
himself exclusively to nomination con
tests.
To be sure, there were constitu
tional authorities aplenty who argued
that nominations also were none of
i.hto .bmtnepgj. Jkatoit (be primaries
were satisfactory to the state in which
they were held, that was all there was
to It.
Nevertheless. Reed insisted on mak
| ing nominations his business. As hts
; tory records, he did it to such good
: effect that two Republicans -William
j S. Var(» of Pennsylvania and Frank
j L. Smith of Illinois -were denied the
| right to take their senate seats, on
(Continued on Page Two.)
Children Hurt In
School Bus Blaze
Salisbury, March 16—(AIM—Six
teen high school students were
burned, cut and bruised, four sev
erely, ae they broke windows and
escaped from a flaming school bus
that caught fire as it was being fill
ed with gasoline at Dukeville school
today.
The bua was preparing to leave
for Salisbury from the school, five
mile* from here. All sustained
severe burns on their faces, arms,
legs and body.
UNITED STATES HAS
FAVORABLE BALANCE
Washington, March 16 (AIM—
The United Stales had s favorable
foreign trade balance of ft£4,990,990
during February’.
The Commerce Department an
nounced .today tha tprefiminary
figures showed exports were ftlftft
-099,066 and Imports ftlSlJWiJlO#.
Exports In February, 19S1 were
and Imports 6174.946,-
000.
ROCKY MOUNT MN
TAKES OWN LIFE
Rocky Mount, March 16 (AP)- W.
D. Rives, 41, automobilUe accemory
salesman ww found dead’in the cel
lar of ids home here today with the
Jet of a gas beater open. Police pro
nounced it a suicide.
WIATHIR
FOR NORTH CAROLINA.
Cloudy and much warmer to
night and Thursday; showers
Thursday In west and north cen
tral portions.
FOR HENDERSON.
For 64-hour period ending at
noon today: Highest temperature,
66; lowest, 18; southeast winds;
no tain; dear,
Babe Ruth Signs
At $75,000 Salary
St. Petersburg. Fla. MarqJi is.—
f AP) —Babe Ruth signed a contract
here today with the Newe York
Yankees for the season of 19SS at
r salary of 875.000.
The signing followed a brief con
ference at Ruth’s hotel between the
home run slugger and ColonM
Jacob Ruppert, owner of the club.
Ruth’s new salary Is a compro
mise between Colonel Ruppert’s of- *
ter of $70,000 and for one year and
Ruth’s demand for £BO,OOO, the
amount he has received for each of
the last two years.
unemploymentTs"
MINIMIZED BY FOE
OF MEASURE
Bingham Says 6,000,000 and
Not 10,000,000 Idle More
Nearly Represents
Conditions
READS TELEGRAMS
FROM MANY STATES
Most Governors Say Local
and State Agencies Have
Been Able To Take Care of
Situation, but Pinchot Re
ports Starvation in Penn
sylvan fa
Washington, March 16 (AP)—Sen
ator Bingham. Republican, Connect!i
cut. brought a bundle of telegrams
from governors of mott of the States
Into the Senate today to bolster an
attack upon th- $132 500,000 Demo
cratic highway construction bill.
One of the telograma—tha tof Gov
amor Pinchot. Pennsylvania, said star
vation was widespread in his Stale.
The others reported conditions of
vsvyksy-eertcmsnesa, tot (Hat tooa! and
rtate agencies had thus far been aMe
to cope With the situation.
Bingham said the report received
in response to telegrams he had sent
out indicated that 6,000,000 was a fair
estimate of tftve number of jobless, in
iead of the 10,000,000 figure that has
been mentioned in the Senate by
some of his colleagues.
BIG INCREASETN
COTTON EXPORTS
Heavy Purchases By Japan
And China Account for
Much In Business
Washington, March 16.—(AP)—Cot
ton exports jumped almost 25 percent
during the first seven months of the
cotton season, as compared with the
previous seoeon. The textile division
of the Commerce Department an
nounced today that 5,925.000 bales had
been exported from August, 1931.
when the cotton season opened, to
February this year. This was an in
crease of 1,013,000 bales over the ex
ports for the first seven months of
the previous season.
The Far East, the division said,
continues the principal factor in the
larger shipments. Japan took 1,695,-
000 bales during the period, compar
ed with 732,000 the previous year, and
China's takings were about three
times as large as previously. No fig
ures were given for China.
CAPTURE MORE OF
ESCAPED CONVICTS
Greensboro, March 16.—(AP)—Two
more of the 11 convicts who escaped
from the Stokeedaie prison camp Sun
day were recaptured early today.
Lonnie Holt, Negro, was taken
when he knocked on the door of a
case in the county. Two others with
him fled. Sample Temple, Negro, was
i picked up by police here.
| William Jackson, another of the
| convicts who escaped, was caught yes
terday.
POWERS CONTINUES
BATTLE FOR LIFE
Elkins, W. Vja., March IS (AP)-r
| Harry F. Powers’ fight tor life was
1 back to Clarksburg today, where a
decision on a new attempt to stay hie
execution k expected to to given to
day. His hanging to set for Fttay.
17 FISHERMEN ARE
SAVED FROM LAKE
Buffalo, N. Y„ March 16.—(AP)
—Seventeen fishermen adrift for
more- than fenr hoars on a huge
Ice floe In Lake Erie were re
scued by Coast Guardsmen short
ly before t o’clock this afttraoos.
PUBLISHED EVERY AFTERNOON
EXCEPT SUNDAY.
Police Hunt Kidnaping
Crimes Os Other Years
To Solve Baby’s Theft
Baby Linßy’s Double
Hr
mt
SMB js Hj
Ever siace the kidnaping of the
Lindbergh baby, 21-month-old
Arthur Reinhom of V/nn, Mass,,
has been attracting Auch atten
tion when playing around his
home or taking a walk with his
tpother. * He has the same blonde
curly .hair, the same blue eyes and
a remarkable facial resemblance
to the missing child.
oWkibnaper IS
GIVEN LIFE TERM
! ~
Mail Who Stole 1 l.Year-Old
Boy Sentenced by Court
At Warren
WAIVE TRIAL BY JURY |
Judge Says Kidnaping Is One of Most
Cruel and Heartless Crimes and
Is Becoming All Too
Prevalent These Days
Warren. Ohio, March 16. —(AP) —
Declaring kidnaping is “one of the
most cruel and heartless" crimes, and
Is becoming “all too prevalent," Com
mon Pleas Judge Lynn B. Griffith
today sentenced Dowel? Hargraves. 31
to life imprisonment for the abduc
tion of 11-year-old James DeJute, Jr.
The judge, who heard the case with
out a jury, at the request of the de
fense. found Hargraves guilty of kid
naping with intent to extort money.
Under Ohio law, conviction on such
charge, in case the victim jy under
12 years, carries a maximum sentence
of life. Defense pleas for a recom
mendation of mercy, .which would
have reduced the penally to ten years
to 30 years, were ignored.
Roosevelt Well
Ahead in Voting
In North Dakota
Fargo, N. D.. March 16 (AP)—
Returns from 230 of ££s6 precincts
In North Dakota’s preadlenttal pri
mary election yesterday were for
Democratic presidential prefer
ence:
Roosevelt, 6JMB.
Murray, 4,214.
Returns from 19# precincts gave
for Republican presidential pre
ference:
France, 4.M9.
Coxey, ££36.
HENRY’S CAPITAL
TO GET NEW NAME
Changchun, Manchuria March 16.
—(AP)— name of Changchun as
the naxhe of the new federal state is
to be changed to "Sinking,” which
means “new capital,” the government
dictator Henry Pu Yl decided today.
A planning and construction com
mission was appointed in charge of
the task of building a new presiden
tial palace and government iiftc*
building.
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PAGES
TODAY
FIVE CENTS COPY
Paroled Convict, Central
Figure in Case In 1923,
Is Freed After
Hard Grilling
TWO FOREIGN-BORN
SERVANTS MISSING
Tip at Highland Park, N. J.,
Where Pair Left Day After
Lindbergh Baby Was Stol
en, Is Investigated; Chisel
Figures in That Inquiry
Bristol, Pa., March 16.—(AP) —
Charged with attempting to ex
tort *60,000 from Colonel Charles
A. Lindbergh, Oscar NearchrisL
36, has been committed to the
Bocks county Jail without bail.
State police said Seachriat at
mitted writing two letter* to
Co r»nel lAn doer gh declaring toe
would deliver Jhe aviator’* kid
naped ton If $60,090 ransom was
lei. at e designated spot. Police
said the letters threatened Col
onel Lindbergh if he tailed to com
ply. Seachrist, who is employed at
a mission at Croydon, was arrest
ed Monday.
New York, March 16,—(AP)—
Police at the Lindbergh home re
ceived an anonymous letter to
day saying the kidnaped Lind
bergh naby was safe Ln a house
at ISS Green Street, Syracuse, N.
1, occupied by Callle Folx.
, Rochou-r N. Y., March 16 <AP) -
(Anley G. Ci.ind.tli • paroled convict
.nd central figure in the Alexattder
ou kidnaping case i n 1923, was freed
jf ail suspicion today in connection
wtth the kidnaping of baby Charles
t. Lindbergh, Jr.
RECORD OF OTHER YEARS
ARE SEARCHED FOB LEADS
Hopewell. N. March 16 (AP)—
Police delved s.ill further back Into
be history of kidnaping today in per
siaten efforts to see if from alffKmS
.01 gotten famous causes they might
iear n the sven-t ol the theft of tha
Lindbergh baby.
Yesterday attention of investigators
(vas focused on Ihe fantastic and frue
;rat<*d attempt to kidnap Max Phil
lips, wealthy notified collar maker,
.even years ago.
Nothing boing learned from study of
.hat case which might help solve the
present mystery, police eyes were
turned to another famous case which
occurred nine years ago.
In 1923 little Verner Alexanderaon,
ton of a Schneotady, N. Y., scientist,
was kidnaped. There was a terrific
furor of public excitement and the
reai-ch spread across the country.
The child was found at last near the
Canadian border.
Today RocQjerter. N. Y., pokce
picked up Stanley G. Crandall, pa
i«l4d convict, who was one of the
mfnclpal figures in the Alexandereon
kidnaping. It was announced that
he was to be questioned about the
Lindbergh kidnaping, but it could not
be imanectoatety learned whether police
working on the case here would go to
’he up-State New York cRy to Ska
part in the examination.
The morning bulletin Issued here
today made no inference to Crandall,
but K was known that ttoe reports of
his examination was eagerty awaited.
The bulletin, signed by Colonel H.
Norman Schwarzkopf, superintendent
of State poHce. said tbaA Investigators
sent to the home of Mr*. Leandro
Ligbtfoot, in Highland Park concern
ing the most likely local lead of thn
moment had not returned, and E wan
not known whether anything of value
had been discovered. 1
Mrs. Ligtotfoot had Md of tot(
foreign-born servants who left her em
ploy the day tfifter the kidnaping-
Coincident with Vftetr departure, Miw.
Ldghtfoo* discovered ♦>—t a rfiinul and
some rough wood such as the kid
napers’ ladder eras made of were aton
ing from her estate. A chtoei vas
found beneath the Lindbergh nursery
window. 1
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Bank Robbers Get
Life; Imprisonment;
From lowa Judge
Clinton, lowa, March Ik—(AIM
—Pleading guilty to a charge of
roh) ling the City National Bank
yesterday of SIOMN, which was
later recovered, fear men who
were Nubneauently arrested were
I sentenced In district court today
j to life imprisonment at Anamoaa.
They will be taken to Anamoaa
[ sometime today.