HENDERSON, GATEWAY TO CENTRAL CAROLINA. NINETEENTH YEAR Candidates Open Fierce Fire Upon Each Other In Hot Fight For Governor Maxwell Charges Ehring. hails Did Nothing to Pre vent Tax Burden He Complains Os EHRINGHAUS MAKES DRIVE AT FOUNTAIN Says Latter Failed To Use His Influence as Speaker And Twice as Lieutenant Governor To Correct Evils He Is Now Making Objec tion To I>>| If > lli.iiali'k nurf.ni, la tkr *lr Wallrr Hotel. HI .1. «\ BI'KKHI 11.1. Knlrigh. the Democratic nomination for gov ernor was being discussed here more today than at any time during the week as a result of the two campaign >pccches made last night by A. J. Maxwell and J. C. B. Ehringhaus. and h -perch bv R. T. Fountain Thursday night in Asheville Maxwell * speech was over the radio from the Raleigh station and Ehringhaus' speech was delivered in Statesville Maxwell devoted a good portion of hie time to assailing Ehringhaus es pecially Ehringhaus contention that Maxwell had had a great deal to do with the taxation laws passed by the General Assembly during the last 20 years, and his plan for reducing the c»?t of textbooks in the State by a Btute rental system. Ehringhaus de voted a good deal of his speech to what he pictured as Fountains at tack upon laws and legislation which Fountain had helped to enact, and to Fountain's extravagance in giving out jobs while the presiding office of the State Senate. Fountain, in his Asheville speech, continued his attack upon the short ballot and centralization of govern ment maintaining they are the burn ing issue* of the day. although both Maxwell and Ehringhaus agree with him on both and maintain that they thus are not campaign Issues. With regard to Ehringhaus. Max well said 'Mr Ehringhaus has been saying that so far as taxation is concerened I have seen the General Assembly, the .Supreme Court and the whole works so rthe last 20 years, and that , if there is anything wrong with our tax system I am responsible for it. Heie m the funny part about that. After the Department of Revenue was created in 1921. and from that time until 1929. I had no more connection «ith the tax machinery of the State than Mr Ehringhaus or any other citizen. I wonder if he doesn't know that it WHS during this period that we entered on the extravagant pro giam of borrowing, spending and in creasing tax burdens that demand re lief today. I was not responsible for that extravagant program, but I was u ing every megaphone within reach •*> warn those In authority and to " a| n the people of the State that debts and taxes were being increased more rapidly than the wealth and »“rning power of th peeople of the State could reasonably sustain. I dare say every person in the State who is listening to me knows this is true It would be chartable to -•V that Mr. Ehringhaus is ignorant "f this fact. But it must be that he km.ws it is true, when he charges me with responsibility for tax trouble* that | did everything in my power to prevent and that he did nothing to prevent The program I am offering to the people of the State now as mv platform is Intended to curg some <>f the troubles I have been trying to pievent for years. If Mr. Ehringhaus ever offered any helpful advice while (Continued on Page Eight.) GERAROQUITS AS I PARTY TREASURER H«*kob Says HU Successor Will Be Appointed “In Due Time” _j Wa-thlngton April 2. (API —James " Gerard today notified the clerk of *h»» Houae that he had resigned as treasurer of the Democratic National Committee. The letter, under date of yesterday, only: Thin la to advise you I have today resigned aa treasurer of the Demo cratic National Committee, my re signation to take effect immediately.” M'('.—. fexas bad its first tynchtng In more than a year when four men last night hanged Dave Tints, 50, Negro, after he was alleged to have entered a white woman's bedroom. The Negro was seized by the men as he was being brought to Crockett by Arch Maples, a planter on whose farm TlJlis was a tenant. The sheriff was notified and of ficers found Tillis’ body hanging tu a blackjack tree. The body was cut down and brought to Crockett for an Inquest. House Wet Bloc At Odds on Plan of Procedure Now Washington, April 2. (AP)— A House wet bloc leaders are at odds over whether they should press their plans to force a vote on a bill to legalize and tax 2.75 percent beer. Before the tax bill came eup, they had itnended to follow a course simi lar to that which brought rejection by a 227 to 187 vote of a proposed new eighteenth amendment to estab lish State liquor control. TWO CASES HEARD BEFORE RECORDER One case yesterday and one today constituted the volume of the record er’s court for the two days. On Friday L, Burroughs Wiggins was charged with false representation, but was found not guilty ana dlsch&rg. Today Lonnie Cannady and Seth Pot ter were charged with an laffray, and judgment was suspended on payment of the costs. POLICE TRAIL FOUR BANDITS AT DURHAM Durham. April 2 (APl—Police said today they believed they were on the •trail of four bandits who wounded Ashby Penn. 22, heir to a tobacco for tune, Thursday night as he pursued them with Miss Anne Gordon Ed monds. University of North Carolina 00-«d t and L, E. Rack ley, a police man . 17 WEST VIRGINIA PRISONERS ESCAPE Huntingdon. W. Va., April 2 (AP) —Seventeen prisoners escaped from the OabeJl county jail today after saw ing: through the bars of their ceils and overpowering their guards and a turn key. *, lift,. NEGRO YOUTH, 16, IS DOOMED IN KILLING Phi lade Iphl a., Apr! I 2.—(APl—Willie Brown, 18-year-old Negro, Is doomed to die in the electric chair convicted of murder In the first degree for the attacking and slaying of seven-year old Dorthy Luts, -(—lu ... t , Rivers Johnson Is Out For Congress Raleigh April S.—(AP)—-Stale Senator Riven D. Johnson of War saw, veteran of mere ethan t* yean of public service. Including eight yean an sens tar fro mthe ninth district, today said he would seek the Democratic enngressional nom ination in opposition to diaries L Abernathy, veteran representative from the third North Carolina dis trict. Abernathy was eieetd to Congress In 1922, and has served continuous ly since then. TERRIFIC STRAIN MENACING HEALTH OF CONGRESSMEN Capitol Physician Seriously Worried About Condi tion of House Mem. bers Especially HARDER WORK THAN IT APPEARS TO BE Pressure of Urgent Legisla tion and Tension Over Vital Ossues Telling on M any Representatives; Condition of Senators Not So Noticeable By CHARLES P. STEWART Central Pro** Staff Writer Washington. April 2.- Congress is Working itself nearly to death, ac cording to its medical adviser. Dr. George W. Calver— Capitol physician, to give him his formal title. It is not eithically permissible for Dr. Calver to give out detailed infor mation concerning the ailments of even so impersonal a patient as the national legislature. FY>r example, if he were to announce that at least 80 of its members are on tne verge of nervous collapse. It might make the puhHc uneasy; consequently he doesn't announce It. However. It is officially of record that he wrote the other day to Ma jority Floor Leaeder Henry T. Rainey of the house of representatives, call ing "attention to the physical condi tion of many of the members.” “The purpose o fthis letter,” said the doctor ominously, “Is to avoid catastrophes among them.” The practice of medicine in Con gress has its difficulties. It calls for a thorough understand ing of the fact that numerous prob lems which, to ordinary folk, are pure ly academic are intensely practical and of Ihe utmost material impor tance to politicians. Illustratively, while the average cit izen of a district which is very even ly balanced on. say the wet-and-dry issue, may feel exceedingly strongly on the question, one way or the other nevertheless he loses no actual slep .over it; but the right guess on it means a SIO,OOO job to his congress man. and, believe me. it keeps him awake nights. Being a member of congress is hard er work than it looks, anyway. It Is harder (except at sextennial (Continued on Page Sight.) Stacy Presents Mediation Board - Report to Hoover Washington, April 2. (AP> Chief Justice Walter P. Stacy, of the North Carolina Supreme Court, today sub mitted to President Hoover his report as chairman of a special emergency board of mediation on a dispute be tween the Louisiana and Arkansas Railways. Chief Justice Stacy declin ed to discuss the erepbrt. The Presi dent recently appointed the mediation board by an official proclamation. GEN B. H. TYSON, 88 ' PASSES IN WAYNE Goldsboro, April 2.—(AP)—General B. H. Tyson. 88. one of the ranking officers of the North Carolina Con federate Veterans Association, died at the home of a daughter at Ptkeville today. General Tyson had been ill for two months at the home of Mrs. Cooper Person. A week ago double pneumonia set in and death followed today. RUTH BRYAN OWEN ILL OF INFLUENZA Washington, April 2 (AP) —Repre- eenftiaUve Ruth Eryan Owen, of Flor ida- is Ml with influenza at a hotel in Atlantic ORy. but her condition is not considered serious. LEATHER FOR NORTH CAROLINA Partly cloudy mI warmer to jtigM. Sunday fifaadft Billion Dollar Tax Bill Is' Sent Senate After Passing House By Vote Os 327-64 AIDS FATHER IN LINDBERGH CASE ■J fIWL' 4 wfiuwSjfccW .Mdri v rn : * JNLiI m Wt 7/ If* /T 4^«’ *4 Miss Margery Peacock, daughter 1 of the Rev. H. Dobson-Peacock, j dean of Grace Episcopal church at Norfolk, Va., has been kept unusually busy answering phone calls since her lather became one of three Norfolk intermediaries More Japanese Soldiers t* - Ordered Into Manchuria Curtis Will Not Speak For G. 0. P. Washington. April 2.—(AP)— Vice-President Curtis was unable to accept an invitation extended him today to address the North Carolina Republican State Conven tion to be held April 14. W. H. Foster, of Charlotte, called upon Mr. Curtis and urged him to address the North Carolina con vention, but the vice-president rut pained that previous engagements made for that same time absolutely prevented him from accepting. He expressed regret to Foster that he could not go to North Carolina, and sent his greetings to the State. VICE GANG LEADER IS TAKEN IN SELMA “Red " Stanley Found To Be Same L. Johnson Arrest ed In Wilson Smithfield, April 2. (AP) Red Stanley, alleged ring leader of the “vice gang” recently rounded up by Johnston county officers, wa* arrested near Selma last night while driving the bandit caf stolen from a Smith field garage last night. He was un armed. A small quantity of whiskey was found in the car. officers said. Officers discovered that Stanley is the same man arrested in Wilson dur ing the round-up of six alleged gang members where he was known as L. Johnson, a respected citizen. The of ficers said he was known to the gang members merely as "Rbd" Stanley. Johnson furnished bond af(er his ar rest ten days ago and w at free when the bandit car was taken from a gar age where deputies had stored it. communist group IN ATLANTA FREED Atlanta G*., April 2 n. April 2.