North Carolina Newspapers

HENDERSON. GATEWAY TO CENTRAL CAROLINA. NINETEENTH YEAR NEW DEVELOPMENT IN LINDBERGH CASE IS HELD AS SECRET Admiral Burrage Say* To Divulge It Would Hinder Negotiations For Baby’s Return JERSEY OFFICERIN EUROPE IN SEARCH Assistant to Police Superin. tendent Sailed Week Ago, Schwarzkopf Announces, But He Declines To State Boat or Port Where He Will Land Norfolk. V*., April 1. (AP>—Rear Admiral Guy H. Burrage. retired. *ald today there has been a new develop ment since yesterday In the tlons for the return of the kidnaped Lindbergh baby. The admiral, spokesman for three Norfolk men acting aa Intermediaries fur the child's return, declined to In dicate the nature of the development, saying its publication “would binder nfTotiationa.” His statements eras made at the miming press conference in answer to s question by one of the reporters. JtKSEY POLICE OFFICIAL FOLLOWS CLUE TO EUROPE Hopewell. N. J., April I. <AP» Mate police announced today that Major SchoifeU assistant to Colonel H. Norman Schwantkopf, sailed for Europe a week ago in connection with the search for the kidnaped Lindbergh baby. Colonel Schwankotf. who made the announcement, refused to give the name 01 the boat on which Sehoffei sailed or to designate the tort for which he is headed. He promise' to give "more details" in bis next re gular bulletin this afternoon. College Girls In Appeals For Seven Gmdemned Negroes Washington. April 1. <AP> Pour girl college students came to the Capitol today to seek some interven tion in behalf of seven Negroes sen tenced to die May 13 for assaulting two white girls at Scottsboro. Ala. The girls. Vassar and Wellesle> stu dents were sent by the National Com mittee for the Defense of Political Prisoners to urge members of Con gress to assist in obtaining a reveiw of the case by the Supreme Court. Man Who Operated Upon Himself Dies At Ripe Age of 72 Kane. Pn. April 1 .AP>—Dr. Em mett O'Neill Kane, who attained na tionwide note In 1919 by removing h a ow n appendix, and who recently jk i formed a second operation upon himself. <Sed today. He was 72 years old. The Mirgeon long prominent for his work In treatment of cancer. (Med at 1 ». m . after a alege of pneumonia. He had been in 111 heeMh for several week*. FREIGHTER DOCKED AFTER A HARD TRIP Spring*, leak Half Way Across Alls-, marle Sound But Races Back To Elizabeth City Elizabeth City. April 1.- (AP> The freighter LJoyd, Junior, was dry docked here today after a race from •he middle of Albemarle Sound, with I it* pumps clogged and water pouring in through a hole In its bottom. The Lloyd was half way across the sound, carrying two passengers, yes terday when & plank gave way. The passengers. Mias Hazel Owen and Miss Nannie Harrell, teachers en route to Mashoes. were warm in parise of Captain Cudworth's navigation. Cropping Time In Dixie; Banks Reopening To Help •larkaon. Mias.. April I—(API— The cotton, tobacco and ’tater belt of the agricultural South has re opened 81 banks this year, and has begun Its spring piewing with renewed faith In the sell. The pungent odor of rich dirt, freshly stirred dogwood gleaming like a dowager's tiara and the •eneroud chant of Negro plow Htfttiterjsmt Bath} Bispatrfi ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OF NORTH CAROUNA AND VHtoINIA. AI? Il ULL LEASKD Wiua —.—-———■ . PULL LKASKD WIKB OF THE ASSOCIATED PRgajf* AM3isnosal of Kidnap Intermediaries '~nmwi limn iiiii mm, . Mgl fill*- bile the utmost secrecy cunuuuc* iu veil tne •ravines of the three intermediaries. Rear Admiral , **? Barrage, John Hugh Curtis and very Rev. H. t odson-Peacoek, who are reported to b« negotiating lor the return of the Lindbergh baby, the general Pou’s Secretary And One Other Man Killed In Bus Collision In Washington Washington. April I.—(APi M. C. Williams of Liberty, N. C., secretary to Representative Edward W. Pou, of North Carolina, and Benjamin Pet tus. a Washington attorney, were killed today in a collision of two busses at a downtown street inter section. Twelve other persons were injured, five seriously. Williams, is 35 years old. and had Congressman Who Collapsed Is Dead Washington, April 1 (AP>—Rep resentative Albert H. Vestal, of Indiana, the Republican whip of the House, died today at the naval hospital. VestalV death was uurtunerd hy Sergeant-ai -Arms Kenneth Rom ney. of the House. Two days ago Vestal collapsed and was sent to the naval hospital HR condition had been reported *•* Improving, STATE LEADING IN SEARCH FOR JOBS 15,036 Placements In State and 400,000 In Nation Since Feb. 15 Raleigh. April l (AP)—North Cano kna n°w leads all southeastern states in number of perrons returned to work through the American Legion Employ ment Campaign. Major Miohael A. Peny, State director, reported today. Since February 15, there have been 15.096 persona put to work in this State. NATIONAL CAMPAIGN WILL PASS 400.000 MARK TODAY New York, April 1 (AP)—The Unit ed Action Campaign for a million pobs for the unemployed Is expeoted to I ass the 400.000 mark today. Yesterday communities In 34 states reported that 9.941 more wage earn ers had been put back to work. That brought trie total up to 396,141. TEXTILE GROUP OUT IN SOUTH CAROLINA Langtoy. 8. C.. April 1-—<AP»- The strike at Langley milts spread to two affiliated textile mills near here this morning. Workers in mills at Bath and Clear water in the Horse Creek valley sec tion walked out. The number was said to be 600. hands tell that It Is planting and trading time in Dixie, and bankers are ready to barter. North Carolina banks at Blow ing Rock, Coleraln. Fayetteville, 8 tan ton burg and Black Mountain have been reopened since last August, four es them this year. Their total resources approximate $1,177,000. HENDERSON, N. C., FRIDAY AFTERNOON, APRIL 1, 1932 " leeUng is one of optimum. The Norfolk, Va., lead is the most promising since the chile# was stolen. Above is the yacht Marcon, which hag been placed at the disposal of the intermediaries by Charles H. Consolo (inset), wealthy Norfolk hotel owner. been secretary to Congressman Pou for many years, Pou. clean of the Democrats, is chairman o ft he House Rules Committee. Pettua was a law partner of Ed ward J. Coll&day. Republican National Committeeman for the District of Columbia. Clyde Culp, an insurance Inspector, was so seriously Injured physicians said he might not recover. Williams is survived by his widow and a four-year-old son. COUNTIES SLOW IN PAW SCHOOL TAX Unless 15-Cent Levy Is Re mitted Treasurer To Withhold Allotments Pull? Dispatch Bareaa. ts thr Sir \Vi*M*-r llolrl. J e. BARHKHVIL.U Raleigh, April 1. Payments from the counties of the amounts they have collected from the 15 cents tax on property for the support of the six months school term, have been com ing In very slow, according to State Treasurer John P. Stedman. Total collections up to today amount to only 32,578.000. while collections dur ing March amounted to only $285,000. The collections in February were a little larger, amounting to $737,000 Treasurer Stedman believes that ap proximately $1,000,000 more should be collected by the counties and paid into the State Treaaury during April, May and June, the only months re maining before the expiration of the present fiscal year on June 30. The Budget Bureau has estimated that the State should pspt $3,800,000 from this 15 cents tax this year, although the General Assembly expected to get $4,- 500,000 from it. Treasurer Stedman does not think the State will likely get more than $3,500,000 before June 30, although he admits there Is a pos sibility that the payments may in crease and the entire amount be col lected. He hopes so. at least. State Treasurer Stedman Is also worried at the manner in which a number of counties are falling to meet their payments of interest and prin cipal on loans they have T<>oeived from the State's special build! ,g fund and literary fund, to help them build school buildings. “Some of the counties have gotten right down to business and either paid alt that was due or materially re duced the amounts." Stedman said. “It is true that some of the counties just do not seem to have the money. But many of them could have had the money if they had planned ahead and made proper provision for it." Unless the counties that owe this money to the school building funds pay the amounts due--they still owe $500,735 —by May 1, Stedman plana to hold up the allotments from the State school fund so rthe extended term un til these county payments are made, since the law makes it mandatory for him to hold up all payments at sdbooi funds to seize any county funds, df necessary. The counties still oVe $268,- 103 on amounts due In December 1030 and 19J1 and 3102,632 on amounts due in February, 1932. . CHILDSAVED FROM MINE DRILL HOLE Miami. Okla., April I—(APi - After tossing fretfully and telling his nurse frequently "I feel bad," three-year-old Gerald Boltins, who was rescued last night fro ma drill hole at a mine near Ticher. Okla.. was carefully examined at a hospital today. Physicians found his head was swollen apparently from bruises and he bad a tod cold* NO POWDER BURNS ON LEONARD'S COAT Army Reserve Officer Testi fies For State As Fire arms Expert TWO MEN AREACCUSED Former Solicitor fouice and W. F. Brinkley, Pcanoeratic Chairman Charged With Manslaught er in Sheriffs Death Lexington. April 1. —(APi—Major R. T. Larkins, army reserve officer, and firearms expert, was called as a wit-. I ness by the State today in the trial of George A. Younce, former district solicitor, and W. F. Brinkley, attorney. ( of Lexington, tor manslaughter. . Solicitor H. nooniz nanded Major '/Larkin the coat'Sheriff James A. Leonard was wearing the night he was shot to death in front of Brink ley's home here in February, and, after an examination of it. Major Lar kins said he found no evidence of powder bums around the hole where the fatal bullet entered. Younce. Brinkley and Leonard had been drinking together that night, and Younce told a coroner’s Jury Leonard was shot while he struggled with him for possession of his pistol after the sheriff shot Neal Wimmer, 18, of Roa noke, Va., in an agrument over the wrecking of Leonard's car. Federal Revenues 17 Millions Less - In State to Date Raleigh, April I.—(AP) —Federal re venue collections for North Carolina for the first nine months of the- cur rent fiscal year are $17,615,110.04 be low collections to the same <fcte last year, Gilliam Grissom, collector, re ported today. "* Receipts for the ntfie ’months this year were $176,695,767.75, compared with $194,310t377.79 for the same per iod a year ago. VICTORY FUND FOR STATE NOW $10,900 Greensboro, April I.—Democrats in 43 cf the 100 counties of the State have contributed to the Victory Fund of the National Democratic party, their total contributions amounting to $10,900.30, it was stated here today by C. L Shuping, chairman of the cam paign in North Carolina- Mr. Shuping made his statement in commenting upon the latest report he has made by John D. Davis, of New York City, chairman of the Vic tory Fund Campaign for the entire nation. This report, filed with Mr. Davis Monday of this week, covered contributions received through March 26. Mr. Shuping said. PHILIPPINE GROUP IS NOT INSTRUCTED Manila. P. 1.. April l.—( API- Demo crats from the Philippines voted to day to send an uninstructed delegation of six to the Democratic National Con vention. but stipulated that the unit rule must be followed. CHAS. L ABERNATHY ILL IN WASHINGTON Washington, April 1. -(AP)—Repre sentative Charles L Abernathy, Demo crat, of New Bern, N. C., to ill and confined to his hotel room. WEATHER FOB NORTH CAROLINA. Fair, slightly odder on the coast; possibly light frost In the interior tonight; Saturday fair, slowly ris ing temperature. . . I Miners Strike to Number of 75,000 Chicago. April I—(AP) Atner hsa’s unionized bituminous coal belt wan a land of Idleness today'. From Illinois east to the West Virginia panhandle, hundreds «g mine tipples were closed, and ap proximately 75,60# members of the United Mine Woorkera were with out work. And there was no Indica tion of when operations would re soma STATE FORTUNATE FOR NOT LEVYING LUXURY SALES TAX Had 1931 Legislature Done So, New Tax In Congress Would Double Levies On People WOULD NOT HAVE PRODUCED MONEY Amount Claimed Would Have Fallen Far Short, Re ports Have Shown; Daniels Still Arguing For It De. spite Facts as They Have Appeared Hally t)l«|»at<-b lluri-jn, In thr Mir Wallrr Hotrl. MV J. <\ IIASKKKVII.I.. Raleigh, April I.—The argument ad vanced oy josephus Daniels in a column-long editorial in the News and Observer of Thursday morning, that North Carolina should have adopted the luxury sales tax a year ago a3 a means of balancing its budget, in stead of waiting and letting the Fed eral government adopt this tax. is causing some of the facts concerning the luxury tax as proposed for North Carolina in the Hinsdale bill to be revived. Mr- Daniels also maintains that if North Carolina had adopted the luxury sales tax. this fact would pro bably have so discouraged tne Federal government that it would not have proposed it as a source of national revenue, is also giving rise to con siderable argument. Few agree that if North Carolina had adopted this tax that the government would have re frained from imposing it. citing the fact that Souqth Carolina and sev eral other states already have a State luxury sales tax, and that this fact has not served to stop Congress In Its determination to impose it. In fact, the prevailing opinion here among thooe who followed the course of the luxury sales tax fight In the 1931 General Assembly, is that the people of the State should be rejoic rn gmore than ever that this ULx was not imposed as a State measure, since if'it had been enacted it would have required the people of North Carolina to pay a double sales tax instead of one. Every time a resident of this j State bought a soft drink, any chew ing gum, candjr, cosmetics, ah auto mobile. radio, phonograph, or any of the cither hundred or so. other articles that are to be taxed under this bill now before Congress—which is essen tially. a Republican measure to fin- j (Continued on Page Three.) Toy* for Lindy, Jr. ‘m 's , j * Bringing toys and other present*, for the kidnaped Lindbergh bahy, procured abroad before the pfold disappeared, Mrs. Agnes tforrow Scandrett of Tenafly, N. J., a grand-aunt of Charles A. Lind bergh, Jr., is shown shortly after Her arrival in Bo.tun* Mrs. Scandrett declared herself “ashamed of a country in winch such a tragedy could occur," PUBLISHED EVERY AFTERNOON EXCEPT SUNDAY. Dividends Paid On: Stocks Levied On To Boost Revenues New Steel Mogul Jt ~ Succeeding J. P. Morgan, inter national financier, as chairman of the board of the U. S. Steel Cor poration, Myron C. Taylor (above), lawyer who turned industrial has assumed full executive direc tion of the world’s largest enter prise. Taylor will hold the full power wielded by the late Judge Gary, since whose death in 1927 the corporation has been ruled by a triumvirate. autTtag CHEAPER ON WEIGHT BASIS First Three Months Sales 310,231 Against 346,- 933 Year Ago Raleigh. April 1. (AP)—Automobile license plates cost an uveiage of about 36 cents less under the new weight basis of charge than they did last year under tne per horse power basis, revenue figures for tne first quarter revealed. During the first three montns of this year 310.231 tags were sold, net ting $4,638,382.01 in revenue for an average of $14.94 per pair of plates. For the same period last year 346,- 933 plates were sold for 55.3U8.239.87. | for an average of 515.30 per pair of plates. * I DELAY HEARINgIn HUSBAND SHOOTING 4 ■— Greensboro. April l.- (AP)—Hear ing for Mrs. W. E. French and D. B. Owens in connection with the shoot ing of Mrs. French’s husband here February J. was postponed today until April 28. Campaign Expenditures In Senatorial Elections Will Be Under Scrutiny By CHARLES P. STEWART , Central Press Staff Writer Washington. April I.—A fierce bat-/ tie impends for mastery of the sen- ] ate's committee to watch for evqg. expenditures or other irregularities, in j this year's campaign for seats in the j upper congressional chamber. Politicians foresee that the x>ming fight for senate domination will be unusually bitter. > As everyone knows, ecortomic con ditions are such that many folk ex pect a heavy progressive vote next November. Presidential landslides have a bulk which nvakes them ir resistible. Lower hot*;* contests are so numerous and sc, local as to be hard to deal with A sen atorial-struggle ir" statewide, permit ting concarUcatj*on of effort. And there are 33 <jt them: one avalanche does not «wy,p the whole landscape. As for a Senate majority—by itself, ti can accomplish nothing, but it can block atrythlng. Thus,, even though conservatism shoujtj lose all else, if it holds onto the, senate, it can dig itself in and let tfcfe storm blow over. It is customary to speak of the up per house as very evenly divided. This is true, between Republicans and Democrats, ad officially labeled- However, as between conservative** and liberals, the conservative* still have a margin of safety—a margin of at.least a dozen or IS, out of the senates total membership of 92. This margin Is adequate. But it is not sufficient for the conservatives if the autumnal elections causes a large turnover. Now, It is the Idea of the progres sives' that political campaign results O PAGES ° TODAY FIVE CENTS COPY By 133 to 90 Vote, House Adopts Amendment to Bill To Raise Addi tional $80,000,1000 t HOOVER AND MILLS NOT COOPERATING Garner Says Federal Ex penses Could Be Cut 250 Millions If Administration Would Try It; Mills Says Present Bill Inadequate In Revenue Total Washington. April 1.- (APl—The House today adopted an amendment to apply the normal Income tax rate to dividends paid on stock, estimat ed to swell the total of the revenue bill by $80,000,000. The standing vote was 133 to 90. The body completr.-d consideration of amendments to the new revenue bill estimated by the Ways and Means Committee to pro/ luce $1,049,000,000. and prepared for separate votes on several items before finally passing it. HOOVER AND F IILIX WONT COOPERATE, GARNER SAYS Washington. nprn i.-iaPI The House Ways and Means Committee turned to a tar on dividends paid on stocks to raise $80,000,000 of the amount which Secretary Mills said the present revenue bill would lack or balancing th?s budget. At about the time that Speaker Garner was calling the Treasury esti mate “unfa'lr," the committee was ap. proving an amendment to subject di vidends fn un stocks to the normal fa come tax rate. Mills estimated that the Mil as It stand* bc i» would lack sls.' (00,000 of balancing: the budget because the ap propriations tor the next fiscal year could not be trimmed $223,000,000 as the coo imittee had estimated. Garner at a a inference with newspaper men said (.hat “If Mr. Hoover and Mr. Mills ‘would cooperate we could reduce exper ses $250,000,000 without U»a least troul ie." fe'deraldeFkSt NEAR TWO BILLION ’Washington April 1 (AP)—lncome t? x collections for Maroh 30 were 11.- L' 18.665. as compered with $1J)X,133 oq t he similar day a year ago. . For the mouth, income tax has re turned 1194.2U6.815 against $334,890,214 for the same number of days In last March. On March 90 Ilia government had a deficit of $1,831 772.728. , PRISON POPULATION '' NOW EXCEEDS 2,900 Raleigh. April I.—(AP)—The popu ’ation of State’s Prison and its cam pa has passed 2.900 for the first time in 'he State's hjsPory. ■*?.e susceptible to the influence of large sums of money, which they open ly charge has been used in home instances less in actual elections ' than to win nominations and in pre election activities. Its employment, in amounts run ning into the hundreds of thousands, has, in fact, unmistakably been proved in several cases In recent years. In each case it has chanced that the can didate in whose behalf It was shown to have been spent was of the com plexion ordinarily classified as u*.rm conservative. While the explanation may be <tbe perfectly simple one that person# with plenty of money generally are conservative, the progressives Hive sought to give the impression Chat it is the conservative element wl)ich especially requires surveillance. The senate's 1990 “snooping coran tit tee" (jocularly so-calied) was the widely-advertised investigator;*! group which, under the chairmanship of .Senator Gerald P. Nye of North TDa kota. revealed the high cost of the farmer Mrs. Ruth Han pa McCor mick's primary victory over Senitior Charles 8. Duncan in Illinois. catSgkt Executive (rector Robert H Luca 4 of the G. O. P. national organisation In the "Grocer" Norris trick In ’Nebl ap ka, caused the indictment 'of Blsi idp James Cannon, Jr., and created J va rious other sensations. This year Nye is a candidate. A new resolution was aceordliggly prepared by Senator Bronson Cutting of New Mexico—etoo a .strenuous U ro gres*iv*-i i nthe usual farm. Neitjher Cutting nor his colleague. Sent* tor (umtwued m Pag# Hsi I. >