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gateway TO central CAROLINA. nineteenth YEAR GUARD SUPR 4 • 7 T T T T ▼ T *r ¥ H* «\* y» L y, y y Japanese Cabinet Will Continue Following Assassination PREMIER IS SLAIN 81 BAND OF CADETS IN ARM! AND NAVI Second Assassination Os Premier In Japan Within 1 Brief Space of Lett Than a Year CABINET RESIGNS BUT STAYS WHILE Emperor Hirohito Requests Ministry To Continue To Function Until Change Can Be Effected; Last “Elder Statesman ’ Confers With Emperor Tokyo Janan. May 16. (API i Premier Tsuyoachl Inukat. Japan's ! TT-vear-old “old grey. fox." was dead | the second Japanese premier to die by an assassin's hand in less than a year. Premier Inukat was shot down in hi* home yesterday by a band of young army and naval eadeta. who apparently had attempted an abortive plot to destroy the government and setae the capital. Following the death of the premier, which occurred at 11:36 p. m. six hours after he was shot, the cabinet decided to resign, and acting Premier Korrktvn Takahaahl. aged finance minister, railed up on Emperor Hornhito to hand in the resignation. The emperor instructed Mr. Taka hsehi and the rest of the cabinet to continue in office until they received further orders. In the meantime. It wee announced that the aged Prince Saoinjl laat of Japan's “elder states men. was on his way to Tokyo from hu villa at Okltau to confer with the emperor about a new cabinet. 2D DEll RiOTS AT BOMBAY, MIA! Moslems and Hindus Clash In Three-Day Struggle In Great City Bombay. India. May 16. —(API Thirty were dead and approximately •00 Injured by noon today as a result of rioting between Moslems and Hindus, which has been in progress for three days. Police fired Into the mob in several parts of the city, and the situation w *' considered so serious that Sir Frederick Sykes, governor of tLe' Bombay presidency, who left Saturday | for Mahabaleshawrar. returned post haste by airplane The casualty lint rose rapidly yes tnday from 16 to 24. and a few hours sfter the riot broke out at daybreak today, the list had risen to 30. Nearly wore injured in the first few hours of today’s fighting. The riots began last week, when t»o Hindu boys wrere attacked by a group of Moslems. Moslems stoned street cars carrying Hindu passeng ers E. B. M’LEAN OUSTER TRIAL IS POSTPONED Washington. May 16. (API— The tfial of ouster proceedings to remove Edward B. McLean, publisher of the Post, as co-trustee of his ftther’a estate, was postponed today Bn tll tomorrow. Justice Jennings Bailey brought crowding spectators to their feet, an nouncing that a proceeding docketed ■ head of the McLean case would “take all day. I am sure.” Strong Support Accorded For Huge Bond Issue For Relief Os Unemployment Washington. May 16— (API Strong support for the Federal bond issue to finance a gigantic public construction program came today front a group of economists college professors and business ,ru ' n «s Senate Democrats prepar ■<• their new program for unem ployment relief. Senator Wagner. chairman of th<- committee In charge of draft ing the Democratic program, an- H^niteramt LBASBD WIKB SBKVIca OP THE ASSOCIATED PRRBS. Assassinated Hi PR KM IKK IM'KAI OK JAPAN MORRISON REALLY IN SERIOUS DANGER DESPITE SPEECHES Senator Resents Bad News When Brought by His Friends and Is Los ing Thereby HE IS SUSPICIOUS OF ‘GOLD DIGGERS Fears Many Who Represent Situation as Bad Are Mere ly Trying To Bleed Him; Trying To Hold Expenses Within Law, Despite His Money Dally DUpntrk Hnr*aw, la the Sir Walter Hotel. BY I. r. RAXKKRVILL. Raleigh. May 16.—Senator Cameron Morrleon may still have a safe lead in the contest for the Democratic nomination for dhe United States Sen ate over his four opponents and may have done his cause a lot of good this past week as the result of the speeches he made in a number of eastern counties. But the opinion of most of the observers here Is that Morrison is being harder pressed every day. especially by Robert R. iContinued on Page Three.) HOOVER DISCUSSES ECONOMIES FURTHER Sunday Night Conference Held At White House With High Of ficials of Government Washington. May 16— (AP>— Presi dent noover .went ahead today in his conferences on governmental af fairs that have engaged Him so fre quently of late. Following conversations in hlsstudy Sunday evening with Secretary Mills, J. C. Roop, director of the budget, and other officials, he consulted with Representative Snell. Republican lead er. on prospects for House action on the program of dispatching legisla tive items. DRINKING DRIVER HELD FOR MURDER North Wilkes boro. May 16.—(AP)—• Oscar Vare. 20. of Ashe county, was iin jail today charged with murder , end driving while drunk folfowing the i death yesterday of Miss Polly. Weatb- I erspoon. 28 of Ashe county. nounced he had received an over whelmingly favorable response to a questionnaire he sent out on his bill proposing a $1,100,000,000 bond issue to finance public works already organized. Wagner made the responses public as his committee prepared to meet to consider a comprise relief bill he has drafted, the key note of which is a public con struction program. ONLY DAILY NEWSP EME COURT 55.000.000 CREDIT TO STATE GRANTED BY TWELVE BANKS Eight In North G&rolina and Four In New York Join In Loan, Gardner Announces CHASE NATIONAL IN NEW YORK IN GROUP Distinct Compliment T o Credit of State, Governor Says; Re-Financing Made Possible by Rigid Econo mies in Operating Costs Inaugurated In 1932 Raleigh. May 16.—<AP> Eight North Carolina and four New York banks have agreed to lend the State of North Carolina *1.200.000, and to renew notes aggregating *3.800.000 which come due May 25, Governor O. Max Gardner and State Treasurer John P. Stedman announced today. The total Issue of *5.000.000 will car ry an Interest rate of six percent. The new *1.200,000 is for general fund use. as was the original *3.800,000. The Chase National Bank, of New York, which has not been listed as lending money to the State for the last ten years, will take *1,000,000 of the new Issue. "This is a distinct compliment to tfce credit of the State." Governor Gardner aaid. Re-financing of the *3,800.000 Issue in sale of the new issue was made possible only because it was found that the State was reducing its ex penditures. Governor Gardner said. Expenditures of governmental costs of the State for the current fiscal year are now *400,113 leas than was esti mated January 1, he said. INTERPRETATION Os ABSENT VOTE LAW Brummitt Tells Only Two Classes Eligible Thus To Cast Ballot Dally Dl<imlrk ffnreiia. In the Sir Walter Hotel. BY J. C HANKKIIVII.I. Raleigh, May 16.—Only two classes of people are entitled to vote by ab sentee ballot under the trems of the absentee voting, according to Attorny General Dennis G. Brummitt, in ex plaining the terms of the law to Judge J. Crawford Biggs, chairman of the State Board of Election, in a letter made public today. These two classes, according to At torney General Brummitt, are (a) those who are absent from their home county on the day of the primary or election or (b) those who are phy sically unable to attend the {Killing (Continued on Page Two) ABERNETHY LETTER ERROR CLEARED UP Sending of Wet Propaganda To His Constituents is Explained By House Folding Office Washington. May 16—(AP)—Finnls E. Scott, postmaster at the House of Representatives, today pointed out that it was not his division of the legislative branch that sent an anti prohibition speech from Representa tive Britten. Republican. Illinois, to the dry constituents of Representa tive Abernethy, Democrat. North Car lina. It was the House folding room Don nelly F. Davis, the superintendent, who mailed letters to the constituents of Representative Abernethy, a dry, explained the error. EMBEZZLING CASE IN WILSON GOES ON Former City Clerk, His Sob And Woman Street Collector Are On Trial Under Charges Wllpon, May 16—< AP)—The em bezzlement trial of three former city officials was resumed here today aa Charles N. Goodno, author and State witness, was called back to the stand. Goodno left the stand Saturday after he had testified for two days. Those on trial are T. A Hlnnant, clerk; his son and former assistant, G. G. Hlnnant, and Miss Mary Boger, former street assessment collector, >APER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA AND VIRGINIA. HENDERSON. N. C„ MONDAY AFTERNOON, MAY 16, 1932 Batlu Dispatch Where Murdered Eaglet Was Found It i —JHBE • ' . An air view of the hour-land district in New Jersey where the murdered body of the kidnaped Lindbergh baby was found by the two men shown in inset. They are William Allen (left) and Orville Wilson. Lower LINDBERGH SEARCH HAS TURNED AGAIN TO RANSOM MONEY New Vigilance in Country wide Hunt for Currency Asked of Treasury Department CONDON NEVER SAW BUT ONE KIDNAPER Evidence In Bronx End of Negotiations To Be Turned Over to Grand Jury In Hearing Tomorrow When That Body Convenes For Its Session Hopewell. N. J , May 16 (AP)— Police turned again today to the ransom currency bills as a chief hope for success in running down the kidnaper-murderers »i the Lindbergh baby. In his morning news bulletin. Col onel H. Norman Schwarzkopf, super intendent of State police, disclosed that he bad telegraphed the treasurer of the United States asking new vigi lance in Che countrywide Dank search for the notes. Fifty thousand dollars ransom was paid by Colonel Lindbergh through Dr. Jdhn F. Condon, aged educator, who negotiated with persons he be lieved to be the kidnapers through a series of newspaper advertisements signed "Jafsie." Colonel Lindbergh kept a fist of the serial numbers of every bill and when the baby was not returned, he appeal ed to the treasurer of the United States for anMance in tracing them. The treasurer sent a list of the num bers to every national bank In the country. Ooionel Schwarzkopf also disclosed in his morning bulletin that Dr. Con don never had seen but one member of the gang with which he negotiated While Jersey police were appealing to Washington for help in tracing the ranaocn money, offletelfe in New York CDty announced that ail evidence avail able cancerwing payment of the ran som by Dr. Condon In the Bronx woufld be presented to the Bronx county grand jury tomorrow. P. & N. RAILROAD’S APPEAL IS DENIED Washington, May 16.—(API— Piedmont and Northern railway lost Its attempt to connect its electric lines in North and South Carolina today when the Supreme Court hel dlt must obtain permis sion from the 'lnterstate Com merce Commission. WEATHER FOR NORTH CAROLINA. Generally fair, somewhat war mer In extreme west portion to night: Tuesday showers; cooler In k neat and north central portions* ’ n * FROM COMMUNISTS Revenge Is Considered Most Probable Motive In Lind berg h Tragedy By CHARLES P. STEWART Central Press Staff Writer Washington, May 16. - Dr. E. E. Dudding. founder and head of The Prisoners' Relief Society, whose un derworld acquaintance perhaps sur passes that of any other man in the country, accepts the finding of the Lindbergh baby's body as verification of a theory he has expressed from the first—that the kidnaping was at least as likely to prove an act of re venge a san attempt to extort ran som. “Fantastic as the idea may seem," the doctor told me ony a day or two after the crime was committed, “the colonel has many bitter enemies. "Jealously is, of course their inspir ation. "To make this frame of mind clear let me quote a conversation I had with one of my own charges directly following the theft of the baby. “The Individual I mention could not possibly indeed have been connected Nudist Parade Is Again Broken Up Nelson. B. C.. May 16.—( AP) A third Sunday raid on a parade of nude Doukhohors resulted in an Increase of tile Jail population of members of the sect 511 today. For the third Sunday In succes sion, the nudists gathered in an orchard at Thrums yesterday and began disrobing. Police Immediate ly ordered trucks sent from Neltw, and loaded the 254 naked meiv, wo men and children and Lrought them to the Nelson jajl, There was no resistance. Mt. McKinley Is Scaled, But Death Is Found at Peak Washington. May !6. (API Tragedy and success mingled in a tale that reached here today of the first scaling of both peaks of Mount McKinley In Alaska by a [Airty which found dead on Its descent a member of the Allen Carp* band that attempted to rear If the Icy height. Harry J. I .elk. superintendent of the national park there, sent the world news he had found the body of Theodore Koven and “dear Indication of Carpe dead dead in crevice" near the Muidrow glacier. SAYS BEER WOULD BOOST CONFIDENCE Washington. May 16.—(AP)— An overnight return of national confid ence was predicted in the Senate to day by Senator Barbour. Republican, of New Jersey, if Congress would legalize and tax beer. Barbour said the country wants relief in the form of a balanced bud get and pointed out that *284,000,000 was raised by taxing liquor in 1927. Prohibition, he said, is “definitely Involved in Um economic situation," PUBLISHED EVERY AFTERNOON EXCEPT SUNDAY. arrow points to the spot where they discovered th* baby’s body covered with soil and leaves. Upper arrqw points to the Lindbergh home at Hopewell. iwst.f{iui and a half miles away. - with the Lindbergn atrocity. He say service, however, In France, during the war. as an aviator. Hack home and demobilized he served a prison term for an offense of which he un questionably was guilty. Recently his eyes failed and he applied to the vet erans’ bureau for assistance. It was forthcoming, but, he thought, grudg- Jngly. "Relating his experience to me he said. 'Lindbergh ran not half the risk Jn flying the Atlantic that I faced day after day on the western front and here he is at least a millionaire while I have trouble to get a pair of cheap glasses.’ Add to that fellows rankling an ger at what he con.sigeYed the in justice of fate and la his desire some how to give it the concreteness of some personality— add to these the streak of mental abnormality which is 'common to the criminal tempera (Continued on Page Two.) IVERASKS NEW $17,306,750 FUND Would Be For Army And Npvy Pensions and Homes For The Disabled Washington. May 16. (APl—Presi dent Hoover today requested supple mental appropriations totalling *17,- 306.760 to be made available imme diately for army and navy pensions and for maintenance of homes for diß abled service men. With *3.000,000 requested Saturday, the chief executive has asked for more than *20,000.000 to be carried in the second deficiency appropriation bill yet to be formulated by the House Appropriations Committee. The funds requested today Include *12.650,000 for pensiona; *4.233,000 for military and naval insurance; (24,480 for State and territorical homes for disabled soldiers the current fiscal year, and *98.280 so rthe 1932 fiscal year. In another supplemental estimate, he requested *200.000 tor deportation of destitute aliens. Norris Calls Fov Glover Dismiss al Washington. May 16. —(AP)— Dis missal of W. Irvin Glover as second assistant postmaster general was de manded in the Senate today by Sen ator Norris, Republican. Nebraska, for his order to Missouri postmasters to “go out on the firing line for President Hoover's re-election." Norris asked for a repudiation of the official by President Hoover for bis speech to the postmaster* Sat 6 PAGES TODAY FIVE CENTS COFIB EXTRA POLICE GET, f ORDERS ON REPORT OT DEMONSTRATION Firgt Time Such Precaution* Have Ever Become Necefr cess&ry In Nation's » High Court | URGED TO ACT IN SCOTTSBORO CASE Letters From Distant Coun tries Have Been Received Demanding Intervention For Seven Negroes Con demned for Assaulting Two White Girls Washington. May 16. (APl—Extra policemen watched the doors of the Supreme Court today after reports that communists planned a demon stration. but the justices took their placea with nothing to interrupt the calmness of judicial atmosphere. No one among the spectators was questioned. In the clerk's office It was said this was the first time that extra offiaers had been detailed to the court to fane stall a reported communist demon stration. While R has not yet formally reach ed the court, many letters have been received from communists In distant countries urging the court to inter vene in the Kcnttsboro, Ala., case. In this case seven Negroes were con demned to death for assaulting two white girls. owenTyoung NOW IS DEFINITELY 01) T Declares He Cannot Accept Democratic Nomination For President LiUie Falla, N. y.. May 16 j (APl—Owen I>. Young ha hdeft* j nitely and dually declared he ran i wl accept. a Democratic nomilt*- | Hon far the presidency. il Ills Nlnimi'-nt was contained to- )J day lit a letter to John ( rowley. I piililishei of the Little Falls Time*. | an bid friend of the mduntraJUt. , | “'l'd wbowe paper la the “homo | t’own paper' of Van Hornesvlllo, i Mr. Young's ham. / JQJ On April 28 Mr. Oowloy. In hi* newspaper, made a plea for f the nomination of Mr. Young by 4 the Democratic National Convco- 1 lion. Durham and Oxford Ladies Winners In World Bridge Pjlay Chicago, May 16—(API—.Mrs. H. G. Hedrick and Mrs. R. M. Gantt, of Durham, N. C, wow the North Carolina championship for North-South In the world's 1 ridge Olympic played April 1. Miss Olivia Hurwell and Mrs. C. K. IsMilrr, of Oxford, ft'. C.. won the North Carotins east-west. These and other winners of the international contract hridg-* pair championship in the Olnipic were announced today hy Kb Oflbert son before the Culbertaon nattional teachers convention. ILLINOIS BANK IS ' T ~ ROBBED OF $?25*000 Streator. 111., Msy 16.—1(AP) —• Streator's largest hank, th* Union National, was robbed of bet’»een *25,- 000 and $30,000 today by six: robbers, who held the assistant casliler cap tive In his home all night and forced him to open the bank vault after tbs time lock was released at 61-0 o'clock. The men escaped in an aut (.mobile. urday at Springfield, MoV "If the President of (the United States wants to retain tFa: confidence of the patriotic people of th ecountry." Norris said, "he will repudiate in the name of his adminietratlc>n these sen timents expressed by the; second as sistant postmaster general “He will not only repudiate them, but Mr. Glover will be a pm ate cit izen nightfall,' t
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