"Henderson,
gateway to
central
CAROLINA.
nineteenth year
Greystone
Prison Camp
Is Burned
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Fire Destroys State Prison
Barracks Where Negro
Convicts Were Leas,
ed For Work
NONE INJURED AND
NONE MADE ESCAPE
About 50 Prisoners at Camp
Were Taken in Trucks Dur.
ing Forenoon to Central
Prison at Raleigh; Fire
Originated In Small
Guard s House
Fire that originated in a guards
huu.-e a few yards away destroyed the
tMtrarku of the State Prison convict
ramp at the Grevstone quarry of the
FUleizh Granite Company at 3 o'clock
ihL' morning No prisoners were in
jured and none escaped, it was re
ported During the forenoon today,
the prisoners were loaded into trucks
and taken to Raleigh to be quartered
temporarily at the Central Prison
there
The blaze is understood to have
originated from a defective flue at
the guard's house, which was destroy
ed and the flames spread quickly,
and before they could be checked, to
the main barracks, which building
war. also a total toss.
It is understood that about 90 pri
soners. practically all of them Ne
groes. were employed at the quarry
and housed in the barracks. They
were asleep at the time the fire start
ed. but all were awakened in time to
escape the burning building. Guards
huddled them In a nearby building
and preventing any from aacaplng.
For several years a group of pri
soners has been under lease by the
State Prison to the Raleigh Granite
Company for work at the Greystone
quarry.
Nothing could be learned today a>
l<> whether or not the structure would
be replaced Immediately so the pri
soners could be returned there for
work.
Drastic Cuts In
Federal. Salaries
Sought In House
Washington. March 17.—(API— A
hill drastically cutting salaries of all
government employees is being draft
ed by the special House economy com
mittee.
Chairman Byrnes, of the economy
group, said off the floor? “A bill cut
ting salaries promptly will be reported
out by the committee next week.”
Estimates of savings to the govern
ment, he said, ranged from 150.000.000
to *100.000.000. depending upon the
percentage of cuts to be made.
Manchurian City
Attacked by Big
Force of Chinese
f hangchun. Manchuria, March IT. —
'AP> A powerful Chinese insurgent
force under a Manchurian leader
iMmcd Tsinghal. and equipped with
srtiiiery. attacked Fu-Yu. a city of
people. 100 miles southwest of
Hurbin. last night, K was reported
here today.
Although nominally within Kirin
Province. Fu-Yu, which is also called
Petuna. or Sincheng. Is a commercial
outlet for inner Mongolia.
B. & O. FAST TRAIN
PARTLY DERAILED
I'.ltimore. Md March IT—(*P)
Th " Capitol Limited of the Baltimore
Ohio railroad was partially de
iHiied a t Welverton. Maryland, this
Morning, but there were no personal
injuries either to passengers or train
man the executive offices of the rs.il
i'>id stated.
kreuger associate
REPORTED A SUICIDE
Berlin. Mtorth 17—(API— M.
Margua, head of the Eathonlan
'latch Monopoly, associated with
'be Interests of Ivar Kreuger.
banged himself yesterday because
"f financial difficulties, a telegram
iri»m Welssenstein Ksttiunia, said
l "day.
lhinese'marching
ON CITY OF MUKDEN
Shanghai. Friday, March 18—
'APl—Reports from Manchuria
t» the Kuawiln (Chinese) News
Agency today said 100,0*0 Chinese
volunteer* were marching on Muk
den from time directions, destroy
ing the flag of the new Man
churian state at all the villages
Hung the way and hoisting in its
Place tk« Chinese national em
blem.
ItrniU'rsrm
FULL LEASED WIRE SERVICE
OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS.
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Lindberghs Believe Baby Is Alive
And Will Return When Furore Dies
Hopewell N. H., March 17 (AP)
Colonel end Mrs. Charles A Lind
bergh who were waking stoically
hrough the dragging day sand nights,
were reported today to pin their
hopes oa:
1. A police belief that Charles Au
gustus Lindbergh. Jr., kidnaped 18
day* ago. Is atari 1 alive.
2. A feeling Chat when the furore
lubetdea the kidnapers may negotiate
he 20-asouEie-old child's return.
Tobacco Company Taxes
Fifth .Os State Revenue
Will Pay Nearly $5,000,000 of Anticipated $24,250,000
Under Present Tax B ill; Receipt* Greatly Ex
ceed Those at This Date Last Year
Dallr Dlaznlrl Karma,
la (to Sir W»H*r H-teL
MV J. C. HMKrRVILL
Raleigh. March l*i. Income tax
collection at the opening of the office
his morning amounted to $5,576,857.-
8 as compared with coHtctions of $4,-
’45.050.03 on the same date las tyear.
according to figures announced by
Commissioner of Revenue A. J. Max
veil. Collections yesterday amounted
o $3,476,569.
While Commissioner Maxwell de
clined to announce the amount of in
ome tax received from the R. J. Rey
iolds Tobacco Company, of Winston
■alem. since the law prohibits the
üblishing of the exact amount of tax
>ald by any individual or corporation,
t is understood that the check re
ceived from the Reynolds Tobacco
Company yesterday amounted to ap
proximately $2,100,000 or more than
$500,000 more than was paid by the
Reynold* company last' year under the
old income tax schedoles. It is also
understood that the income tax paid
by The American Tobacco Company
amounted to -more than SBOO,OOO. It
was not learned whether or not the
PHARR WRITES IN
FOUNTAIN'S BEHALF
Raleigh Now Think* Cam
paign Will Be Handled
From Charlotte
Dallr Ulapatak Baraaa.
I* Ike Sir Walter Hotel.
■ T J. C. RASKGRVILL.
Raleigh- March 17.—Quite a number
here are beginning to believe that the
unofficial headquarters of R. T. Foun
tain, seek!rig the Democratic nomina
tion for governor, is in Charlotte and
Jiat his campaign, or at least a good
ly part of it. Is being conducted from
‘.here as • result of a letter appear
ing here urging the support of Foun
tain for governor. This letter, which
appears to be a form letter, is from
rharlotte and Is signed by Edgar W.
Pharr, Charlotte attorney, viho was
speaker of the House In the 1925 Gen
eral Assembly, and extols the char
acter and attainments of Fountain.
That the letter is being sent gen
srally over the State Is indicated In
the Tirst paragraph, in which Pharr
says: “I am writing a few acquain
tances and friends over the State to
express a personal testimony for the
character and attainments of Honor
able R -T. Fountain, who is now a
for the Democratic nomina
tion for governor." The letter has been
received by at clast one man In Ra
(Continued on Page Two.).
ONLY DAILY
NEWSPAPER PURT.TfiHE’.n
The world's excitement (hat fol
lowed the crime is already dying
down Yesterday newspapermen here
sent out by telegraph only 50,000
words. On March 3. at the high pitch
240,000 words streamed over trie wires.
The latest theory of the mystery fell
apart today.
For several days police from the
Lindbergh home have been investigat
ing the story of Mr. and Frs. C.
Leandro Ldghtfoot. of Franklin Park,
who toM of their foreign servants
leaving the day after the kidnaping.
income tax check from the Liggett
and Myers Tobacco Company had
been received yet.
While Mr. Maxwell would not dis
cuss the amounts paid by any parti
cular company, he did say that the
law permitted the publishing of total
tax payments by groups, end that the
tobacco companies would pay appro
ximately $3,000,000 in income taxes
alone and a total of between $4,000,-
000 and $5,000,000 in income and
franchise taxes combined. Since the
maximum revenue anticipated from
the present revenue bill is now $24,-
250,000, the tobacco companies of the
State will supply fully 20 per cent
of this amount, or one-fifth of the
State's total revenue. In income and
franchise taxes. They will pay almost
one-half of the $7,200,000 the income
taxes are expected to yield—if they
yield that much.
The increased collections under the
new revenue law show the value of
analytical study of taxation and the
importance of the changes made by
the 1931 Qeneral Assembly, Mr. Max
well pointed out
PUPILS OK STRIKE
AT THOMASVILLE
35 to 40 High School Chil
dren Protest Firing of
Stringfield
Thomasvllle, March 17.—(AP)—Be
tween $6 and 40 students walked out
of Thomasvilie high school today in
protest against the school board's re
quest for the resignation of D. Vann
Stringfield. teacher and athletic ad
viser, who was recently arrested on
chargee of violating prohibition laws.
After the students had been out of
their classes for some time, they be
gan to ride about in the school auto
mobiles. blowing horns and creating
confusion and tending to disturb those
who remained in the building at work.
Police were called to the school
grounds to quiet the • group, which,
however, remained away from classes.
They said their only reason for the
strike was in protest against the ac
tion of the board which Tuesday ask
ed for Stringfield’s resignation.
ROOSEVELT IS FAR
AHEAD IN DAKOTA
Fanro f N. D., March 17 (AP>—
Returns from 1,424 of 2J535 pre
cincts in North Dakota gave for
the Democratic presidential pre
ference: t
Roosevelt, 30,066. *
Murray, 26,681.
HENDERSON, N. C., THURSDAY AFTERNOON, MARCH 17, 1932
Saflu Oisrtotrli
> IN THIS SECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA AND VIRGINIA.
The Lightfoots reported also that wood
similar to that used in the kidnapers'
ladder was missing from their home,
as was a chisel like the one found be
neath the Lindbergh nursery window.
Today the Lightfoots found the
chisel and police acknowledged that
they were just about back where they
started on the night the baby was
stolen. •
Colonel H. Norman Schwa rzk erf,
superintendent at the State police,
Cold of the finding ad the chtoe! In his
mld-moming bulletin.
WORST NOW OVER.
STEOMAM THINKS
State Treasurer Think* Re
turn of Normal Business
On Threshold
CONFIDENCE IS NEED
Then Investments in Real Estate Are
Necessary, and After That Pur
chase of N ©rtii’ Carollna’s
Own Bonds
D«tlr Disaatek Bareaa.
In Ikr Sir Waller Hotel.
mx * r nt<KKRVII.Ia
Rocky Mount, March 17.—North
Carolina and the entire country have
already weathered the worst of the
depression and a return of normal
business conditions is on the thres
hold, State Treasurer John P. Sted
man told the members of the Kiwania
club here this afternoon.
Three things will do more to hasten
the return of normal economic con
ditions than any thing else, Striman
said. The first of these Is the banish
ment of fear and the restoration of
confidence in local institutions, both
business and governmental. The sec
ond is the investment of maney ,ln
local real estate, rather than in stocks.
The third is the investment in{ North
Carolina State bonds. Stedman cited
figures to show that North Carolina
bonds have continued to remain the
safest and soundest investment of all
and that real estate has been next,
showing much less depreciation dur
ing the last two years than have
stocks.
“I have called your attention to the
several depressions in the past, In
each of which a restoration of con
fidence In established institutions has
been an important factor in bringing
about a return to normal conditions,”
Stedman said. “To break the vicious
circle of business Inactivity that has
been holding up bound, we must first
banish fear. The life blood and growth
of your community depends upon its
confidence in your local institutions.
So trade at home, put your money In
institutions located In your city.
“Then, if you have any money to
invest in anything more than your
immediate needs, buy local real es
tate. I know that real estate is not
popular as an Investment at this time.
Yet when you consider the value of
real estate today and compare It with
stocks purchased in 1929 at 1929
prices, you will find that the depre
ciation in real estate has been much
less than the depreciation in the vdiue
of stocks. The average depreciation
in stock* since 1929 has been 66 per
cent. The depreciation in real estate
has not bee nnearly so great. I doubt
If you can find any real estate that
would not bring as much now as one
third of its value in 1929. Fortunes
(Continued on Page Two) *
LEATHER
FOR NORTH CAROLINA.
Showers tide afternoon and pro
bably tonight; colder tonight; Fri
day generally lair aad ceMcr,
GOVERNOR CERTAIN
STATE WIU MEET
NOTES! JULY 1
Obligations to Amount of
$7,225,000 To Mature
July 1, Henry Burke
Declares
INCOME TAXES ARE
ABOVE EXPECTATION
Will Equal or Pass Revised
Estimates Made January
In Amount of $7,280,000;
Other Sources Drying Up
To Disappointing Levels,
However
Raleigh, March 17.—(API—Gover
nor O. Max Gardner, A .J. Maxwell,
commissioner of revenue, and Henry
Burke, assisant <ftrector of the budget,
all expressed the opinion today that
income ta xreceipts would equall or
pass the revised estimates made last
January of $7,280,000.
“I am very gratified at the income
tax receipts,” Governor Gardner said,
"and I anticipate that the total will
reach our revised estimates, but other
sources of revenue in some Instances
are drying up to disappointing levels”
The governor referred particularly
to receipts from the 15 cents ad
valorem tax for school aid and the
inheritance tax. both of which are
running far behind estimates, though
the income Is the only tax class now
running ahead of the revised January
estimates.
“I am absolutely confident, how
ever," the governor said, “that we
will meet our obligations and ma
turities due on July 1.”
Mr. Burke said maturities due July
1 aggregated $7,228,000.
Bill Offered for
. Repealing of Jones..
“Five ancfTen” Law
Washington. March 17.—(AP>— A
bill subtsantially to repeal the Jones
* five-and-ten’' prohibition law, has
been introduced by Representative
Britten, Republican, Illinois, who pre- 1
dieted it would pass if the judiciary
committee permits it to come to ttie
House. ‘ •
The five year penalty would’ rs
- to' six months, except in the
case of known' iarge scale dr habitual
violators of the prohibition laws, while
the maxim muifne would be cut from
SIO,OOO to $500.;
SCHOOLS OF STATE
NOW ON FIRM BASIS
Charlotte, March 17.—(AP)—
Dr. A. T. Agon. State superin
tendent of public Instructtoh, to
day told city and county super
intendent* of schools that the
public school system In North
Carolina Is now on n firmer basis
than ever before.
The superintendents met here
this morning preliminary t# the
opening otonight jof the North
Carolina Education Association
convention.
DOCTOR KILLED AS
DYNAMITE EXPLODES
Tryon, N. C.. March 17 —(APt—Dr.
E. F. Bell, of Spartanburg, 8. C„ was
killed at his mountain orchard, near
here, yesterday when several sticks of
dynamite wtybch he was
suddenly exploded.
Still in Durance
X ta ———■ si 1U ,
Looking quite unconcerned, thongfe
he has been repeatedly grilled in
connection with the Lindbergh
baby kidnaping, Henry “Red”
Johnson, the sailor friend of Betty
Gow, the baby's nurse, is shewn as
be appeared during a qais at
Newark, N. J. Johnson Is new
held under arrest for illegal entry
to the United
PUBLISHED EVERY AFTERNOON
EXCEPT SUNDAT.
Germany Learns
Hitler’s Plot To
Force Civil War
Officials Haffied
Col. H. Norman Schwarzkop,, su
perintendent of the New Jersey
state police who has been the most
active official in the Lindbergh
baby kidnaping case, has admitted
that official investigators arc com
pletely bewildered in their efforts
to find the stolen child. Schwarz
kopf hasn't slept mors than 2D
hours since the kidnaping oc
curred.
imcAlir
HOUSE SALES TAX
Degree of Solidarity Possible
Will be Determined at
Party Meeting Fri
day Night
VOTE LIKELY UPON
. 2.7f> PERCENT BEER
Raed Denies In Senate For
President Hoover That
Mellon Will Go to Londop
To Undertake Scaling
Down of British Debt To
United States
Washington. March 17.—(API-The
Republican House members will de
cide tomorrow night whether they can
support the sales tax with any de
gree of solidarity.
Representative Snell, of New York,
their floor leader, called a meeting
after a petition had been presented to
the clerk of the party conference to
day bearing deficient signatures to
force a meeting under the rules of the
conference.
About the same time. Speaker Gar
ner expressed the view that a vote
would be in order on an amendment
calling for a $5 a barrel tax oi\Y.7s
percent beer. /
REED VIGOROUSLY DENIES
PLAN FOR DEBT '"REVISION
Washington, March . 17.—(AP)— A
Democratic attack in the Senate today
against revision o' the British war
debt owed to Atp%rica brought a denial
from Senator Reed. Republican, Pen
nsylvania, on behalf of President
Hoovec that the subject was even un
der consideration.
Senator Reed specified that the
'‘question had not been discussed"
with Ambassador Mellon, who is
about to sail for his London Post.
Williams Trial
At. Smithfield. Is
Further Deferred
Smithfield. March 17.—(AP)—Trial
of Mrs. Ivey Hinton Williams, charged
'with the killing of her husband, Jesse
J. Williams, was again delayed In
Johnston Superior Court today, and
Solicitor Clawson L' Williams said he
did not expect to reach the case until
tomorrow. . t
The solicitor said the firft degree
murder charge' originally placed
against lira.: Wiliams would be
changed to deouhd degree murder.
Judge W. C. Harris, presiding, said
lie would hold night sessions of the
court tomorrow and Saturday, If ntc
enaiy to’complete the case.
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Prussian Government Ord
ers Raids on National So
cialist Headquarters
Everywhere
PLANNED TO MARCH
ON BERLIN SUNDAY
Made Preparations Under
Guise of Putting Down
Communist Revolt, But in
Reality Were For Civil
War; Government Accepts
The Challenge
Berlin. March 17 (AlM—The
Prussian government accepted a
challenge of the forces sf Adolf
Hitler | tdzy. nrdiYinx raids sn
national soclulixt headquarters
throughout the state after disclos
ures purporting to reveal Nazi
plans for s virtual civil war.
Backing up iu action, the ministry
of interior issued a statement in
winch it said its investigation revealed
■lst the Nazi's signal for a inarch
upon the big cities in their neighbor
hood was to be the flash. “Grand
mother dead "
The statement said the Hitlerites
were ready foi a march on Berlin at
the time of the presidential election
*«st Sunday, and that all details had
been planned, such as arrangements
for transportation and provi Aons.
“These preparations were made,” the
ministry statement said, “under the
?ulse of putting down a Communist
revolt, but. in reality, they were pre
parations f<Jr civil war. ”
tiiietllkller
SEES HOPE WANING
Harry F. Powers Moans
Over Law That Exacts
Capital Punishment \.
MoundbsvlHe W. Va., Uadt 17—
<AP) —Hope waning for a stay of his
xeeutkm. Hurry E.. Powers, cunpu
'ent kHler of Quiet Dell, paced hia
evil in death row today and decried
he law which alibwe capital punish
ment. / •’
The State/Suprems Court at Char*
Seaton yoF’erday refused to Intervene
n his oe-se Judge William Baker, of
•he United States District Court at
JhtKsburg. denied a writ of habeas
Corpus. Two things may intervene
;o stay the hanging, set for tomorrow
light. The go\emor may grand a
-cprieve. or a writ of supersedeas may
be granted to allow an appeal to the
United States Supreme Court.
Discount Rates
Further Reduced
. By Bank of England
Londr.n, March 17 (AP)—The Bank
if England reduced its dieoouot rate
tody/ fro mfour to S 1-2 percent.
The decision of the bank autfcorittaa
rarpriaed the market, which was not
prepared for a further reduction after
the two recent declines.
The monetary situation has grown
so easy, however, as revenue has been
coming in so steadily that apparently
the bank directors decided to give
trade and commerce that benefit of a
further half of one percent.
Hood To Request j
Loans on Closed V
State Banks Soon
Raleigh, March 17.—(AP)—Requests
for loans from the two billion dol
lar Reconstruction Finance Corpora
tion to pay dividends to depositors of
every closed bank in North Carolina
will be made soon to officials of the
corporation. Gurney P. Hood. State
commissioner of banks, said today.
Mr. Hood is acting under instruc
tions given him last week by the State
Advisory Banking Commission, and
has already set in motion machinery
for getting up the necessary data on
the closed banka to forward to Wash
ington with requests tor loaiib.
CHILD KILLED IN
BUS-TRUCK CRASH
Rye, N. t Y., March 17.—(AFWAn
eight-year-okl child was killed
18 persons injured early today wfeefi
a New York-bound bus from Boston
crashed into a parked truck on ii* •
Boston poet road, near here. , ~ '
The child was Christine Linkfleid,
of Huntington, W, Vfc ■ -