HENDERSON,
GATEWAY TO
CENTRAL
CAROLINA.
NINETEENTH YEAR
HOUSE
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Lindbergh Baby Reported On Yacht Near Norfolk
House Votes 223 To 153
Against Heavy Tax Bill
After Fiercest Debating
Both Parties Split and Open
Dispute on Floor Occurs
Between Democrat
Leaders
RAINEY AND HYRNS
ON OPPOSITE SIDES
Republican Leaders Hold
Firmly for Sales Tax; Vote
'Comes After One Amend,
ment After Another Is
Tacked Onto Measure Dur
ing Hot Debate
Washington, March 34 (AP)—
The sales tax rejected by the
House today after fierce debate,
which split both parties and
brought an open dispute on the
floor between Democratic leaders.
The vo'e by teller counts was
223 to 153.
Aa the House was in committee of
the whole, no roil call vote was taken.
In the closing moments of debate,
two of the Democratic leaders, both
House veterans — Rainey of Illinois
and Bvrns of Tennessee arrayed
themselves on opposing sides, with
Rainey advocating and Byrne oppos
ing the tax.
The Republican leaders held firmly
for the tax.
The Crisp amendment to the re
venue bill exempting from the sales
tax- food, clothing, medicine, farm
implements. Insecticidee and malt
syrup used in making bread, was ap
proved today by the House, prior to
the vote against the bill.
The House today excluded from the
proposed sales tax materials going
snto the construction of ships for
whl«*h the government loans the
money, as it drove toward a decisive
vole on the controverted issue.
The House adopted an amendment
to exempt electric power used in ag
licultural production from the sales
tax.
PEACE PARLEN IN
SHANGHAI BEGUN
Chinese and Japs Not Hope,
ful; War Preparations
Along Front
Shanghai, March 24.- (AP) — The
Chinese and Japanese armies went
methodically about the business of
grooming their trappings of war out
ride Shanghai today, as formal peace
negotiations finally got under way in
the International settlement.
China was represented by General
Tai Chi, Shanghai’s military garrison
commander, succeeding General
Chiang Kuang Nai. Chiang walked
out on the opening session yesterday,
declaring that he could not sit as
military delegate unless Japan named
* full ranking general to sit opposite
him.
The first session started at noon and
v-'aj very brief. When the delegates
filed out of the British consulate, both
Chinese and Japanese were gloomy,
but the neutral observers were In a
kopeful mood.
BANKER IN ATTACK
ON GLASS BANK BILL
Washington. March 24.—(AP) —Fea-
tures of the Glass banking revision
kill were criticized before a Senate
hanking committee today by Wilson
M. Mills, chairman of the board of
directors of the First Wayne Nations'
Bank or Detroit as "disadvantageous
to banks, communities, business and
the country in general.
COMMITTEE FAVORS
LEASING OF SHOALS
Waahlngton, March 24.—(AP) —
The House Military Committee to
day approved the James Mil pro
riding for the disposal of Muscle
Shoals.
It provides for leasing of the
21C0.090.000 war-time nitrate plant
for private operation, and In event
that It cannot he leased it pro
vides for government operation.
Hettitersmt Hatltt tUapatrh
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__ K the associated press
Seven Negroes In
Rape Case To Die
Montgomery. Ala., March 24.
(AP)—Heath sentences for seven
of the eight Negroes convicted at
Scottsboro, Ala., a year ago of as
saulting two white gir's were af
firmed today by the Alabama Su
preme Court.
The death sentence for the eighth
Negro was revrsed and remanded
for trial.
The Supreme Court fixed Friday,
May 13, as the date of execution
of the seven prisoners.
FfflEß DECREASE
IN HOARDING SHOWN
Hoover * Campaign Declar
ed To Be Getting Re.
suit* Over Nation
A
BANK FAILURES FEWER
Drop From Do Week ending January
Ifi to Five Ia»1 Week, Secretary
of Treasury Announces
In Statement
Washington. March 24.—(AP)— A
'ecrease of *157,000,000 in currency in
drculatlon since the inauguration of
'’resident Hoover’s anti-hoarding cam
aign, marking a definite trend to
ward bringing money out of hiding,
was announced today by Secretary
Mills.
At the same time the secretary
oolnted out that bank failures had
I ropped from 95 in the week ending
January 16 to five in the week ending
March 19.
It was disclosed that the Recon
tructlon Finance Corporation has
about used up Its *150,000.000. which
'he Treasury subscribed to its stocks
-uid that another *200,000.000 would
Se subscribed.
KILLS SWEETHEART,
IS KILLED HIMSELF
Double Tragedy Occurs at
Raeford; Dead Girl *
Brother Freed
Raeford, March 24.—(AP) —Frank
flusseJfc *4O, suitor of Miss Carrie
Wright, 20, killed her during a quar
rel at her home last night and was
himself killed by Pearce Wright, 30,
the girl's brother.
A coroner’s Jury held the slaying
of Russell was justifiable homicide.
Rpssell was said to have called on
the young woman, who informed him
she would not see him, and turned to
leave the room.
"Don’t leave the room,” Mrs. P. H.
Wright, the girl’s mother, said she
heard Russell say. The fatal shot fol
lowed, she said, and then Russell fired
at her and another daughter, Viola,
when they rushed into the room, she
added, but missed.
Meanwhile Pearce Wright ran for
his shotgun* and killed Russell as the
latter sought to leave the house.
MISSINGAVIATORS
ARE LOCATED SAFE
Memphis, Tenn., March 24.—(AP)
Missing since they took off from a
Memphis airport Sunday in an unli
censed airplane, Karl Williams, pilot,
and W. H. Harrah, both of Berkley,
W. Va., were located today, Williams
at Brownsville. Tenn., 60 miles north
of Memphis, and Harrah en route to
Beckley by train.
TAX RECEIPTS FOR
TUESDAY ANNOUNCED
Washington, March 24.—(AP)—In
come tax receipts on March 22 amount
ed to *5,843,933. as compared to *B.-
337,873 for the similar date a year
ago.
The collections brought the total for
the month to *184,416,046.
NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA AND VIRGINIA.
ONLY DAILY
DEFEATS SALES TAX
In the top picture is shown the
wreckage of railroad station at
Columbiana, Ala., resulting from the J
meTtofirT
INTO ENEMY CAMP
Expected To Tear Into
Ehringhaus and Fountain
On Sales Tax
Dally DUpatrk Bare**.
In Ikr Sir W'nlfer Hotel.
ST J. C. IIASKF.MVI 1.1-
Raleigh, March 24.—With a cloud
of Indifference again threatening to
engulf the gubernatorial campaign,
despite the efforts of J. C. B. Ehring
haus to inject some enthusiasm into
it with a rather mild and gentlemanly
assault upon the positions held by R.
T. Fountain and A. J. Maxwell, some
new interest is promised tonight when
Maxwell will make the first real po
litical speech so far in his campaign
and unloose some new shots at the
opposition.
In his last speech several weeks ago
Maxwell turned loose some new shots
that neither Fountain nor Rhrlnghaus
were expecting and made some holes
In their fortifications through which
he has been gaining votes ever since,
according to reports reaching here.
The two shots that did the most dam
age to the opposition and which have
served to help his campaign more
than anything else were his statement
in favor of cheaper textbooks, pro
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HENDERSON, N. C., THURSDAY AFTERNOON, MARCH 24, 1932
PHOTOS SHOW DEVASTATION IN STORM
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devastating tornado of last Tuesday
night. In the lower picture rescue
crews are shown searching other ruins
Relief Work Is Started
In Tornado Region, With
Appeal For Money Made
Testimony Begun
At Woman’s Trial
For Killing Girl
Lexington. March 24.—(AP)— A
jury to try Mrs. Lola Pickett, middle
aged widow, for the poisoning of her
six-year-old daughter, was completed
in Davidson County Superior Court
today.
An alternate Juror also was chosen.
The State promptly swore in twelve
witnesses and announced that others
would be called later.
The solicitor then ordered H. H.
Koontz to the stand as the first wit
ness.
LEATHER
FOR NORTH CAROLINA.
Fair, slightly colder on the coast,
with light frost tonight; Friday
fair and warmer,
; in the wake of the storm in the same
I town. Columbiana was in the heart of
, the tornado section, and is near the
| center of the state of Aiao&ma.
Survivor* Work With Rc4
Cross and American Le
gion to Bury Dead,
Care for Jnjured
1 DEATH TOTAL NOW
AT FIGURE OF 358
Red Cross Quarters Estab
i lished in Birmingham,
With Eight Other Centers
of Operation Set Up; Sur
vey of Conditions Made by
Relief Crews
S Birmingham. Ala.. March 24.—(AP)
| Relief agencies and neighbors of the
i stricken lent a hand of mercy to the
I South's tornado victims today as the
] death list grew to 358.
Survivors worked with the .American
| Red Cross, the American Legion and
1 other organizations to bury the dead,
(Continued on Page Three.)
PUBLISHED EVERY AFTERNOON
EXCEPT SUNDAY.
Kidnaped Infant Aboard
Yacht In Chesapeake Bay,
Norfolk Paper Has Heard
Highway Convicts
Cost 65c Per Day
Raleigh, March 24.—(AP)—The
State Highway Prison department
housed, fed, clothed and worked an
average of about 4.000 prisoners
through (he first six months of the
current fiscal year at a cast of H 5.11
cents per day for each convict, the
first semi-annual reuort of Sam D.
.Scott, supervisor, showed today.
Total operating expenses of the
highway prison department were
$453,5842)6 from July 1 until Decem
ber 31. 1931.
The new road law, which trans
ferred maintenance of the county
roads to the State Highway Com
mission, also transferred all long
term county prisoners to the State
for work on the roads.
FARM REFINANCE
BILL IS PROPOSED
i
Senator Wheeler Say* He
'‘"'Will Introduce Measilfe
Very Shortly
LOANS FOR FARMERS
Would finable Them To .Save Their
Farms With Mnnej at Same In
terest Rate Now Charged
Finance Companies
New York, March 24.—(APJ—U. S
Senator Burton K. Wheeler. Derhocrat
Montana, said today he intends to In
troduce in Congress within the next
few days a farmers' re-finance bill
with provisions parallel to those in
the recently adopted measure affect
ing financial institutions.
"It will provide.” he said, "for loans
to farmers so they can save their
farms, at the same interest rate now
charged by the refinance corporation
to financial institutions.
CAPONE CRIMINALS
SEEK HIS RELEASE
Hatch Plot To Control Of
fice-Holders of Both
Parties /
Washington. March 24.—<AP>—An
attempt by criminal organizations
headed by A1 Capone to %ecure his
freedom through control of public of
ficials was charged by Frank J.
Loesch. president *bf the Chicago
Crime Commission j n a letter to Sen
ator Borah.
Lewis, in long letter reviewing at
tempts ot-*thicago gangland to con
trol laly, r unions and public officers,
said*>
"It is my opinion, based upon these
tacts and other indications that the
combination here now formed for get
ting men into public office, turns very
largely on the efforts of the criminal
organization headed by At Capone to
control sufficient of the elected public
officials, party lines not cutting much
figure, to get Capone freed from the
penitentiary, sentences now hanging
over his head, or secure reduction of
the sentences.
GIRL LEAPS FROM
ROOM TO DEATH
Pinehurst, March 24.—(AP)-Arriv
ing here today for a visit to his father
Philip S. T. Randolph, Jr., New York
broker, declined to discuss the death
in New York of Miss Laura Anderson.
23, who leaped from a window of
Randolph’s apartment early today.
Young Randolph had entered the
North and Sojth golf tournament, but
scratched his name soon after hix ar
rival. He would not say whether he
intended to remain in Pinehurst or
return to New York.
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Three Representative Nor.
folk Citizen* Motor to
Lindbergh Estate,
It I* Stated
WENT TO ARRANGE
RETURN OF CHILD
Nor folic Automobile Seen In
Lindbergh Home Tends to
Accentuate Story; Head of
New Jersey Police, How
ever, Say* No Truth In the
Story
Norfolk, Va., March 24 (AP)—
The Ledger Dispatch said today
hat Charles A. Lindbergh, Jr.,
.1-months-old son of the famous
viator, kidnaped from his pa
■ents’ home in New Jersey more
han three weeks ago, is reported
m a yacht “somewhere in Ches
apeake Bay. ’ ’
The paper said three represen
ative Norfolk citizens motored to
he Sourland mountain estate of
he Lindberghs Tuesday night
ind yesterday interviewed Col
>nel and Mrs. Lindbergh.
* The visit of the Norfolk men wax
or the purpose of securing the assent
f the Colonel to plans for the return
f the baby. Involving the payment
f a substantial ransom, the Ledger
Mspatch says.
These developments were learned
jday, the paper say*, from an ap
arently authentic source, accentuat
i by report* from New Jersey of an
utomobile with . Virginia and Nor
*lk license plate* having beeti seen
t Hopewell. N. j„ and later at the
undbergh estate.
(O TRUTH IN IT. DBCLARFJ4
SUPERINTENDENT OF POLICE
Hopewell. N. J„ March 24. (AP)-
ihown dispatches indicating that the
:ldo«ped Lindbergh baby might be on
I yacht in Chesapeake Bay, Colonel
I. Norman Schwarzkopf, superinten
!ent of State police, said:
“There is abosejutely no truth in it."
JNDBIGHAGENTS.
HIM 2 KIDNAPERS
fore Baby Wa* Stolen,
But Not Since Then
Hopewell. N. J„ March 24. (AP)—
Police investigating the kidnaping of
the baby son of Colonel Charles A.
Lindbergh concentrated their efforts
today in a search for two "known
kidnapers,” who have disappeared
<ince the child was stolen.
The pair are Harry Fleischer, De
troit purple gangster, and Abie Wag
ner, an alleged associate. Raids in
New York City and Long eland failed
r o trap them, but the hunt has only
been intensified by their eiusiveness.
“Abie Wagner, recorded as a known
kidnaper, was alleged to have been
seen around central parts of New Jer
sey shortly before the kidnaping,” Su
perintendent of State Police H. Nor
man Schwarzkopf said in today’s of
ficial bulletin on the case. "Since the
kidnaping, he has not been seen or
accounted for in any way," the bul
ietin continued.
romeTauncheT its
EASTER OBSERVANCE
Rome. March 24.—(AP)— The
helh* of Rome's 461) r.hurrhfw
heralded Holy Maundav Thursday
today, the anniversary of Christ's
institution of the eocharist, then
became silent to remain mate un
til Saturday noon. Rome has be
gun to mourn the passim and the
cruclflzlon.
Thousands of Pilgrims, includ
ing many Americans In Rome for
Easter, went to Rome's cathedral
church of SL John’s Latersn ta
generate the table exhibited as the
one used for the Last Sapper.