HENDERSON,
gateway TO
CENTRAL
CAROLINA.
NINETEENTH YEAR
JAPAN DEFIES LEAGUE OF NATIONS AND RUSSIA
Veteran Wall Street Trader Denies Bear Raids
BROOKHART SNAKES
HANDS WITH BRUSH
ID SNOW PLEASURE
Senate Banking Committee
Member* Lean Forward
To Get Every Word
ot' Testimony
BRUSH’S ATTITUDE
CAPTIVATES GROUP
Admits Short Sales Could
Depress Market By Creat
ing Supply in Excess of De- 1
mand. and Draws Laugh |
from Members in Joking
About His Statements
AVhinjrton. April 82.—<AP> A
vntran Wall Street trader. Matthew
V Bru*h. testified to the Senate
B-mking Committee today that under
ttr.tin conditions short selling could
dtpre?.* the stock market, but he de-
there had been bar raids in re
cto'. months.
O.itnmittee members leaned for
ward over the long table to hear
every *«rd as the gray-haired opera- j
ti,r gave an inside story of playing J
the marfte: and told of being as much
125. uV thates on both sides of the
aaritet at various times.
Bru;h said short sales could de
press the market by creating a sup
ply in excess of demand, and drew
« laugh when he added he expected
tv get shot' when he returned to
New York tor that admission.
After the hearing, senators express
ed themselves as pleased by the at
titude taken by Brush. Senator Brook
hart. Rpubllcan. lowa, one of the
*evfie»t critics of Wall Street, shook
hands with the witness.
AE CAPONE APPEALS
IQ SUPREME COURT
Gangster Asks Review of
Conviction For Evading
Federal Taxes
Washington, Aprii 22. (AP> A!
<’a|«.ne today filed in the Supreme
<%nt. « petition asking a review of
the action of the seventh circuit court
of appeals affirming his conviction
awl pemtntiary sentence on the
ch'.itge of evading Federal taxes,
lit his petition. Capone asserted
• hat he had not been informed by
♦h* indictment filed against him of
the nature and cause of certain ac
cusations, ixv-ause the indictment had
b*<-n diawn in general terms, which
he .<aid was contrary to a rule of the
Supreme Court.
Capone cited as a second ground
f‘4 asking the review that certain
counts in the Indictment had been
hrid by the lower court to set up an
when they did not allege that he had
failed to pay taxes. This, he asserted,
had failed to bring him within the
statute he was charged with violat
ing.
Butler-Davis Campaign In
Pennsylvania Rip-Snorter
Battle I* As Much Between Pinchot, Who Is Backing
Butler, and Vare, Who Is Behind Davis; Butler Is
Dry, But Davis Turned Wet To Suit Vare +
Hv ( HARI.F.K I*. HTEWART |
< entral Prt** Staff Writer
Washington. April 22. Word cornea
fi'>m Pennsylvania of a tearing cam
paign between Senator Jamea J-j
Davis and Maj. Gen. Cmedley Liar- 1
bngton Butler for the Republican sen
aim iai nomination at the Quaker
•states primary April 26.
Any campaign in which General
Butler is a participant Is certain to
be a rip-»norter. especially with the
dynamic Governor Gifford Pinchot as
>t« enthusiastic backer.
Senator Davis, however. Is no neg
•igibie opponent, and If Governor Ptn
*’bot is behind Butler, the Vare mar
chine is behind Davis.
B Is. in fact, as much a fight be
tween William Scott Vare and tLa
governor as between Davie and But-
Ifenitersmt BatUj Dispatch
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VIRGIN ISLES INVITE EX-KAISER
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Wilhelm Hohcnzollern, the former
German kaiser, has been invited
to pass his declining years of exile
in United States territory, the
Virgin Islands. In view of the
report that the climate of Doom,
Holland, is not suited for his pres
ent condition, the Chamber of
House Committee Lacks
Courage, Fish Tells It
Too Poor To Run,
Baggett Retires
Raleigh. April 22.—(AP)—State
Senator J. R. Baggett, of Harnett
county, who announced sometime
ego he would seek the Democratic
nomination a* attorney general, re
moved himself from the race today,
and asserted:
“It** a shame that a |»oor man
can't mn for office In this State."
Senator Raggett said he did not
have the money to finance a cam
paign such as he felt would he
neceoeary to secure the nomination,
after Attorney General Dennla G.
BrummtU withdrew from the gub
ernatorial field and offered for re
election.
Ax an auxiliary attraction, the
struggle between Congressman l»uis
T. McFadden and the governor's wife,
Mrs. Cornelia Bryce Pinchot, for the
G. O. P- nomination as representa
tive from the fifteenth district, over
shadows all other congressional con
tests in the state.
On political form. Senator Davis
should win over General Butler.
In the first place, Pennsylvania pre
sumably is wet. It certainly is very
wet indeed as to Pitts
burgh and in several other of its lar
ger cities. The state’s rural districts
are so dry that there has been some
question how a state-wide referen
dum would result, but the consensus
(Continued on P»d*
ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPE R PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA AND VIRGINIA.
• Commerce at St. Thomas has In
j vited the former kaiser to take ui
) hi* abode there. In layout above
j are photos of the ex-German cm
! peror, St. Thomas, top, and the
! entrance to the castle he has ot:
j cupicd at Doom since ISMB. The
1 former kaiser was 7.1 in January
.Charges Ways And Means
Group Hasn’t Leadership
To Meet The Econo,
mic Crisis
URGES BOND ISSUE
OF BILLION DOLLARS
Would Keep People Employ
ed by That Method; Fish
Testifies at Bonus Hearing
as One of War Veterans in
Congress Opposing Pay
ment NOW ,
Washington. April 22. — (AP)— Re
presentative Fish, Republican, New
York, an opponent of full payment of
the bonus, turned upon the House
Ways and Means Committee today
t and charged it with a lack of "nerve I
and leadership" for not bringing out l
legislation to meet the ceonomic
crisis.
He urged a billion dollar bond issue
for a two year program to keep peo
ple employed.
Fish was one of several House vet
erans of the World War who opposed
payment of the two hilli-jn dollars
outstanding on th* Lonus ceriif•.nates,
contendin' ira tance of that amount
of new v u ider the Patman
hill would force the colintry off the
gold standard. 5
Boone Man Given
Penitentiary Term
For Manslaughter
Boone. lAprll 22—(API -Ephraim
Wallace today pleaded guilty to man
slaughter in the slaying December 26
of Thursday Oliver, and Judge P. A.
- McElrov. of Marshall, sentenced him
1 from three to five years in State’s
! Prison.
Wallace said he shot Oliver to
i death after Oliver crowded him Into
a dark corner and threatened him
with * rock and knife!
HENDERSON. N. C„ FRIDAY AFTERNOON, APRIL 22,1932
MOONEY’S FRIENDS
10 CONTINUE EIGHT
EOR HIS FREEDOM
Governor Roth s Refusal To
Pardon Convicted Cali,
fornia Bomber Is
Not The Last
fourth Governor
TO REFUSE PARDON
Mooney Himself Says Gov
ernor’s Decision Makes
Him Outstanding Figure in
World's Labor Movement
In Strubble of Workers for
Their Rights
Sacramento. Cal., April 22. -(AP) —
As supporters of Tom Mooney gave
notice his account with justice was
not yet closed, filing clerks here set
the covers on another chapter of the
convicted dynamiter's struggle for
freedom--the refusal of Governor
James Roth, jr., to grant a pardon.
The governor California—the fourth
-setose wiiom tiie Mooney case has
been brought--declared in a 700-word
decision announced at the State
Capitol yesterday he was convinced
Mooney and Warren J. Billions, con
victed accomplice, were guilty.
Various comments greeted the de
cision, but Mooney'and his support
ers were confident In their prediction
the fight would go on.
Among these < was Fremont Older,
San Francisco newspaper editor, who
said: "The case is no more settled
by Governor Roth's action than it was
before he made it."
Mooney himself, in a statement re
leased by the moulders' defense com
mittee over his name, declared the
struggle had gained added eignifi
cance. with the assertion,
“This makes me the outstanding
figure in the world's labor movement,
and a symbol of the struggle of labor
for its rights.”
Drys Offer Terms
To Wets On Issue
Os a Referendum
Washington. April 22 (AP)—F. Scott
Mcßride, superintendent of the Anti-
Saloon League .today proclaimed on
behalf of the dry forces entire will
ingness to meet the wets in a prohi
bition referendum if the Constitution
is first amended to permit all future
changes to be made by popular vote.
In a Statement Mcßride pronounc
ed “the one real referendum proposed
down U> date a plant under which to
Constitution would be amended to per
mit that in future, by majority vote
In two-ehirds of the states, the people
could intimate amendments making It
mandatory on Congress to submit the
proposals to popular vote in the states
modification being by three-fourths of
the states.
One Dead, Another
Dying as Bandits
Fight the Police
Detroit, April 22—(AP) —One bandit
was killed, another probably mortally
wounded and a policeman was shot
in the hip in a pistol fight here early
today.
The dead bandit was identified as
•WJIMs Irvin, of /Detroit. His com
panion, Ben Mitchell, a bullet wound
in his abdomen, was taken to a re
ceiving hospital; The wounded patrol
man also was was In the receiving
hospital. His condition was thought
to be not serious.
RUNS FOR CONGRESS
UPON G O. P. TICKET
Coats, April 22.—(API—John Mc-
Kay Byrd, nominated for Congress
by the seventh district Republican
convention, today said he would ac
cept the nomination and would file
his candidacy with the secretary of
state.
LEATHER
FOB NORTH CAROLINA.
Tartly dowdy. tonight and Sat
urday; not much change ia tear
Remember* the Maine
a i
J
I
Thirty-four years ago, April 25,
the United States declared war on
Spain. That date stands out vivid
ly in the memory of Emil Severin,
above, of Gary, Ind., now 57.
Severin was given the task of
bringing up the bodies of the 25S
officer* and men who met death
when the battleship Maine wan
destroyed by an explosion at Ha
vana. Cuba, in February, 18K8.
HARVARD RIOTING
HALTED BY POLICE
Eight Students and Four
Citizens Arrested, Two
Officers Injured
DEPARTMENT~STORMED
j
Police Headquarter* Attacked After
Dormitory Is (needed By (Score of
Students; Trouble Over
Bell Clapper
Cambridge. Mass., April 22.-MAP)
A riot of Harvard undergraduates,
characterized by police as one of the
worst of recent years, was subdued
early today after eight students and
four Cambridge residents had been
arrested and two police officers in
jurde.
Scores of students invaded the dor
mitories of Radcliffe College, a wo
man's institution; an automobile was
overturned, the Brattle Square sta
tion of the Cambridge police depart
ment was stormed as hundreds of
undergraduates attempted to rescue
comrades who had been taken into
custody, and bonfires were built in
Harvard Square.
The disorder started in the yard l
when a group of freshmen, in search
of the bell clapper stolen from Memo- j
rial Hall several days ago. chanted
the Harvard cry: “Reinhart."
Freshmen were joined by upper
clansmen as the group started for
the Lampoon building, some distance
from the yard, and the crowd had
?rown to several hundred when &
false alarm was rung near the office
of the Lampoon undergraduate hos
pital.
HEARS NEW PLANS
OF RECONSTRUCTION
House Committee May A»k
Hoover To Have Scheme
In December ;
! Washington, vAprU 22 iAFi- The
i House economy committee today be
gan work OB a new proposal by Chair
man McDuffie to direct President
Hoover to make certain recommenda
tions to the December session of Con
gress tor reorganization of the -govern
ment to reduce costs. St turned to
this plan after failing to agree on a
1 proposal by Representative WBLUntn
i son. Republican. South Dakota, to em
power the president bo reorgarilze the
government, and on another proposi
tion to give him limited authority to
merge certain phases of the Federal
structure.
The group ran into difficulties over
constructional provisions in seeking
to work out away to give the chief
executive authority to transfer sod
consolidate Federal activities. ,
PUBLISHED EVERT AFTERNOON
EXCEPT SUNDAY.
Both Are Warned
To Lay Hands Off
Manchuria Region
Baby on Farm at
Syracuse May Be
Lindbergh Child
.Syracuse. N. V, April tt.~ (AO
’—Syracuse police, Investigating
what they considered a poaslMc
“hot tip” i n the Lindbergh kid
naping rane, annonm-i 1 ibis afmr
nnon that t.hev naJ fi ind a c h'.d
resembling Char let* Augustus Lind
bergh, Jr., on a farm nrnr Rmvcr
lon. and were bringing into the 1
city under an open charge a Mr.
and Mr*. Harry Scott.
The Scott** had lived at toe fa.-m
about two week**. They said they
were the grandparents of the child
and Hlk name wan Bernard \ r ;hur
Lafullt. Sheriff Smith said the
child appeared to be “a dead ring
er.” for the Lindbergh bab\. He
had a picture of the kidnaped liuhy
in hit* hand.
SIEDFLiFOR *
TAX LONG PROCESS
Owner* Have Actually More
Than Three Year* Before
Final Closing
PROCEDURE OUTLINED
Ample Opportunity Afforded Owned*
To Redeem Their Property If It
ia Worth More Than The
Amount *>f Taxes
Dally Dlapalrh ftureau,
la the Mir Walter Hotel.
IIY J. «’ lIASKKH Yll.l.
Raleigh, April 22.—Although the low
requires that the property a* all iax
payers who have noi paid *heir texts
by the first Monday ‘.it May nu.si be
advertised and sold for taxes on the
first Monday in June, the owners of,
this property actually nave a period
of three years, seven months andlll5 1
days in which they may pay the
taxes and redeem the land before a
foreclosure deed can be obtained to
it and th owner* actually dispossess
ed.
"A great many people oelievc that
when their property ia advertiied for
sale for taxes or even sold, that it is
gone and that there is nothing more
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Heavy Damage By
Stormy Weather on
California Coast
Ism AngHes. Cal.. April 22 (API
—Southern California’s stormy
weather of the past two days has
left in Its wake heavy damage to
grape crops and a loos of at lease
*IOO,OOO to owners of fishing craft.
Shipping was moving on delayed
schedules.
County Officers Seek To 1
“Pass Buck ” On' Tax Sales
f Dally DlajuMeli Harraa,
r la tfcr Sir Walter Hwlrl.
IIY J. C. KAXKKNWIJ
Raleigh. April 22.- While a great
many county officials are reported to
be almost 100 per cent for R T. Foun
tain for governor because he advo
cates less centralization of power in
the State government with a return
of more power to the county offi
cials, many of these officials seem to
be unwilling to exercise the power
they now have and. to seek to make
it a pear that some State agency com
pels them to. do certain thtn.rs when ,
the law clearly defines their duties
without any authority from "higher 1
up,” it i* being pointed out here.
The Latest example of this tendency
on the part of some county officials
to “pas* the buck” to certain State
department* or officials because their
duties may not be jlartlcuiariy popu
lar at this time, is the. effort some
county official* have 'made to' make
It appear .that land most be sold for
taxes the firit M'.ndrv In June, “be
cause the. attorney gcntial say* so”
or “oecausc the Local Government
Commission says so." The facts are
that the law passed by the 1931 and
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TODAY
HTVE CENTS COPS
Speech by Japanese Minister
of War Is Informally
Endorsed In Gov*
ernment Circles
SAYS NOBODY CAN
FRUSTRATE PLANS
Says Japan’s Mission Is To
Make Manchuria a ‘ Para
dise on Earth Cannot
Understand Gradual Con.
centration of Russian
Troops on the Border
Tokyo, April 22. (API A blunt
warning to the League of Nation*
ind Soviet Rusitii to keep hands off
Manchuria was laid down today by
Genera) S&dao Araki. Japanese min
ister of war.
The warning, issued in a speech in
Pa&ka before the Kokuhonaha pa
triotic society, nucleus of the Japa
nese Nationalist movement, was later
informally endorsed in foreign office
and in other government quarter*.
Japan's mission, be said, was to
make- Manchuria, a paradise on
earth, safe for everybody.” and noth
ing the League or anybody else did
could make her deviate from that
course.
After declaring Japan would resist
resolutely any attempts by the League
to apply the nine power treaty, he
turned to Soviet Russia and called at
tention to what he said was a threat
ening situation in north Manchuria,
due to Russia's massing troops on the
frontier and strer.gthnniug her air
force in the Far East.
“We are unable to understand what
these warlike preparations mean." he
; aid. "The situation is becoming se
rious. Russia is concentrating four
divtaioius in Siberia ot. the M<ti.-
churian border. Wa can only wait;
and see whether the storm break*.’*
JAPANESE AMBASSADOR HERE
THINKS REPORTS OVERDRAW V
Washington. ' April 22 —<AP)—Am
bassador Debiich) of Japan does not
Petieve the relation* between Soviet
Russia and Japan are as badly strain
ed over the Manchurian situation as
some dispatches from the Far East
have indicated.
Britain’s Tariff
Upon Imports Will
, Double on Monday
London. April 22 (AP)— Begin
ning at midnight next Mopday tba
British tariff wall against foreign
products goes up to twice it* present
height
The British Import* dutlea advisory
committee recommended last night
that the duty be raised from 10 to 20
percent on almost every kind of manu
factored product Imported into the
country, effective, April 28.
On e limited number of articles
the duty wiU be 18 ercent. and for
some article? in the luxury or eemi
luxury classification the rate wiD be
25 and 30 -per cent.
other t receding leginlature* *ays that
land ynd property must be Hold for
taxes the fir.-it Monday in June. The
1931 legislature p.»»:' |-oned the date
fort The sale of land foi taxes in lA3I
from the first Monday in June until
the, first Monday in November, but
did not make any change In the
diite for tax sales for 1931 laxeK. uche
d tiled by law to take place the first
Monday in June of thin year.
It i.H not the duty of the attrerney
Renerai or of the Local Govern*lent
’Commia.-non to point out these facts
to county commissioners and -cuiimty
official*, but rather the duty of the
county attorney, according to opinion
here. And while Attorney Gee erel
firummitt has .unofficially givert his
personal opinion pn this and other
questions to county officials a* a Shat
ter of courtesy, he has pointed out
I that he has no power to advises pr
tell county officiate what they roust
or caii do. .since on(y the laws passed
by the General Assembly do thiiL
Many county -officials, howevet con
. to seek some higher official to
"pass the buck” to when their duUee
become unpopular, __ __ .