''SeNDERSON, *
GATEWAY to
CENTRAL
CAROLINA.
NINETEENTH YEAR
Relief Program Os
\
Farm Groups Given
Favorable Report
Three-Fold Plan Endorsed
by Major Organizations
Endorsed by Sen
ate Committee
EQUALIZATION fee
INCLUDED IN BILL
Export Debentures and Do
mestic Allotment Plan of
Distribution Also Involv
ed; Only Minor Changes
Made in Wording As
Farmers Wrote It
W* Kington. May 20 <AP>—The
Tfcrvefoid farm relief program of the
®ajor farm organize Mans. calling for
iHe fqiMiixaiion fee. export debentures
md » demotic allotment plan of dis
tribccoo wa# reported favorably to
-4,y |>y the denote Agriculture Com-
Tut committee made only minor
rtun;e* in the warding of the me*-
u pmeflted by the National
Gunfe. the National Farmers Union
itd he American Farm Bureau Fed
tntua. which agreed upon and draft
« 4 5
Tbt measure* authorizes the farm
boaiJ a put into effect any one or
a combination of the three plan*
when considered necessary to assist
tier culture.
The vote was not announced by
Chapman McNalry.
Powerful Move
For New Credits
Headed By Young
w York. Mat 20.—(API—A
new move to put hundreds of
million* of Idle dollars to work
»a» started today hy a powerful
committee of hankers and indus
trialist* under the chairmanship
es Owen It. Young.
The group wa» called together
l>\ i leorg— 1,. Morrison. governor
"f the New York Federal Reserve
Bank, to make the policy of credit
expansion effective, and In an
swer to a demand from many
quarter* of k more drastic mean*
"f Htlmulatlng a recovery tn
price*.
1931 COTTON CROP
11,096,000 BALES
Revised Estimates of Pro
duction Made By Cen
sus Bureau
'Vashingtnn. May 20. —(API— Re
fried estimates of the 1931 cotton
crn P announced today by the Depart
ment of Agriculture, placed produc
tion at 17 096.000 bales of 500 pounds
fr'vr weight, and ginning* of 17.098.-
equivalent 500-pound bales, as re
ported hy the Census Bureau, com
r*rM with 13.932.000 and 13.931.597
fur the 1930 crop.
The area in cultivation July 1 last
>‘*»tr was 11. 169.000 acres, and the area
Picked was 40.693.000 acres, compar-
M with 46.076.000 and 45.091.000 for
the 1930 crop.
The yield es cotton picked per acre
2012 pounds, compared with
1 *T,7 pounds for the 1930 crop.
Tomorrow Is Final Day
To Register For Primary
Hull y |l|<|m(rk
I* tkr Mir Uitltrr Hotel.
in J. I . II\MKKHVIKL
Raleigh. May 20 Tomorrow. May
-I. is the laat day upon which persona
"wy register for participation in the
Statewide primary of June 4. it was
P r, in»ed out ’nday by R. C. Mawell.
eeciitjve secretary of the State Board
Elections. Both Democrats and Re
publicans must register if they desire
,f > vote in the primary, since there
I s a contest for the Republican nom
for the United States Senate
between Jake F. Newell, of Char
lotte. and Oeorge Depriest, of Shelby.
Those who still live in the same
Ptecinct they lived in two years ago
in<l who are already registered in It,
not need to register again for this
Primary. But any person who has
changed hl« place of residence or
tnoved into another precinct since the
ast registration, will need to rtgister
“gain before tomorrow night.
Buy Bank Stock And Help Business To Improve In Henderson
Hotitersmt Bath; Btspatrh
ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA 1 AND VIRGINIA
\ K FULL iIVUUtUI.
WIKB SBRVICB
or THt ASSOCIATED PRESS.
Mexico Hunts Him
+■ P®|l||
SMkri ' A
Half a hundred picked detectives
have been scouring Mexico City
for Harry Fleischer, -Detroit gang
*ter long sought in connection
with the Lindbergh case, believed
to be hiding in Mexican capital.
GARNER PROPOSALS
ELICIT APPROVALS
Hundreds of Communica
tions Pour Into Speaker’s
House Office
BACK RELIEF SCHEME
Plans To Expedite House Action And
lav Measure Before Senate In
lew Than Two Weeks
For Action There
Washington. May 20.—(API—Hun
dreds of communications poured Into
Speaker Garner's office today endors
ing the three-point relief program he
proposed yesterday, and which was
warmly received by both Republican
and Democratic members of the
House.
Indications are the $2,100,000,000
program will be incorporated Into one
hill and referred by Speaker Garner
to the House Ways and Means Com
mittee.
Colleagues of the Texas Democrat
believe that he plans to expedite
House action and lay the bill before
the Senate in less than two wekes.
Buried under dissenting Ideas as to
how far the government should go.
the proposition had been more or less
stalled until Speaker Garner yester
day advanced his plan.
Garner called for $2,000,000,000 in
reconstruction funds and $100,000,000
appropriated without strings for use
of the President in relieving sharp
distress wherever it might exist.
ROCKY MOUNTMAN
SUICIDES BY GAS
Rocky Mount, May 20.—(AP)—
George Roy Hales. 47. former whole
sale merchant was found dead in the
gas-filled bathroom of his home here
today.
Mrs. Hhles discovered the body.
Police said no inquest was necessary.
They were told Hales, at present a
flour salesman, had been worrying
about financial difficulties.
The law requires that all registra
•ion books be kept open Saturday un
til midnight at the poling place in
every precinct, so that any who may
want to register may do so.
It is also required that each pefson
who registers give his or her party
affiliation, although this is not bind
ing. since the attorney general has
ruled that any person may change
his party affiliation at any time. Fre
quent changing of party affiliation,
however, may become grounds for
challenging the right of the individual
to vote.
The last date upon which candi
dates for the nomination for the
State General Assembly or for coun
ty offices may file notice of their
candidacies, closes at midnight to
night, Mr. Maxwell pointed out. These
candidacies, must be filed with the
chairman of the county board of elec
tions in each county. . —.
HENDERSON, N. C., FRIDAY AFTERNOON, MAY 20, 1932
North Carolina
Spindles Leader
Hwhiigton, May 20—(AP)—For
the f n*t time In American cotton
spinning history, Massachusetts
ha* relinquished her supremacy in
the number of ootton spindles In
place in her mills.
North Carolina wa* shown today
by the Census Bureau's monthly
spinning report to have 16,658 more
spinning spindles in place on April
36 than Massachusetts. North Car
olina had 6.192,322, as compared
with Massachusetts, 6,175,664. \
tarheelsattenF
THE PRESENTATION
OF AYCOCK STATUE
Educational Governor Rated
Above Presidents By
North Carolinians
at the Capital
GOVERNOR GARDNER
MAKES THE SPEECH
Declares Aycock Is “Worthy
To Stand In This Valhallah
of the Nation,’’ In Statuary
' Hall in Center of Capitol of
The United States
Washington. May 20.—(AP)—A hun
dred North Carolinians came to the
capital today pridefully to present to
the nation the statue of a man they
rated above president—former Gover
nor Charles Brantley Aycock.
Sculptured in bronze by Charles
Keck, the Aycock figure was to shqre
North Carolina's honor in Statuary
Hall with that of the Civil War gov
ernor. Zebuton Baird Vance.
Over James K. Polk, and Andrew
Jackson, both horn within her bor
ders, North Carolina chose to perpe
tuate the name of the "educator-gov
ernor," whose regime was brief, 1901-
1905, but whose impressions on his
State was indelible.
Again the story was told of how he
was fatally stricken in the midst of
a speech with the word “education"
on his tongue.
"Worthy to stand in this valhallah
of the nation," was the tribute of
Governor O. Max Gardner, chosen to
present the statue at 3 p. m. cere
monies.
Details Big Sum
Paid In 1929 For
General Foods Co.
Washinftgon. May 20 lAPi-Walter
E. Sachs, president of the Goldman
Sachs Trading Corporation, deitailed to
the Sena to Banking Committee today
the payment of $23,500,000 in purchase
of the General Foods Company, which
had an investment, of 1,750.000.
Testifying In the stock market In
quiry. he said that in 1929 his firm
paid more than $12,000,000 and the
Postum Company more than $10,000,-
000 because tihe General Foods Com
pany owned valuable pa tends' for
freezing pei'ishable foods.
_ 'r. ~
HOME LOAN BANKS "
MEASURE REPORTED
Washington, May 20.—(AP)
President H<w>vw'» home loan
hank hill today was ordered fa
vorably reported to the House by
its hanking committee.
The measure revised greatly by
the committee, would create a
system of Federal borne loan
banks somewhat in the nature of
the Federal* Reserve system to
lend support to home financial In
stitutions.
LOWERRATESFOR
COTTON ALLOWED
Will Benefit Shippers in
South; In Effect at Once
To August 1
Washington. May 20.—(AP)—Rail
roads througnout moet of the South
were authorized by the Interstate
Commerce Commission today to re
duce rates on cotton approximately
20 percent until August l.
The authorization covers cotton to
and from points in the Mississippi
Valley, southeastern and Caroltnas
territories. Including Gulf and South
Atlantic porta, Ohio river crossings.
St. Louis, Mo., district and certain
points In southern Virginia.
The rates are expected to go Into
effect about June 1. They will ap
ply to cnttorl -in bales, either com
pressed or uneoutpreseed, in any
quantity, _ .
Curtis ’ Whereabouts Night Os Ransom
Sought; Peacock Ref uses To Make Trip
CURTIS’ CONFESSION REVEALS HE TRICKED LINDBERGH
• tmtaoxvit of John Hughes Curtis 702 R«d#i te Avenu*. Morfolk, Ya.
by my own hand and own free will* '
• tBUMOte “ 4 * pr * 710n81 7 V"• »» ™?»r4. to
‘ n \r:?r •v* 0 * ,b , u i l h ° nsßti -y r or i,. t
6 «i o eight months i hare not been myaelf.due to financial troubles.
my Banßeß hy «y telephone conversation
* f t*rnoon when she told me of the troubles she was
Sartor ? Q mlßßed “** b? “ y OOD "» r 8»tion with
J eMarkß about the newspapers are true and can
Mr U 1 t 0 my 8 tory about Ur. Haskell and
£; * th Heml J Tribune, Ur. Lee of the News and Ur. Turin and
o? tto tolby?* me m ° n<fy my tflowl6d «* of the Llnbergh Case or pictures
itotTiJL !! 1 8 , broUght t( \T y a ttent lon during a conversation and dun to
what I now believe was a distorted mind *»y brooding over It I
“ bJ9 TT f f the ««
he story in its entirety., which were untrne in every respeot .
I never knew such people that I named to Colonel Llnbergh and thev wore
•reaturee of a distorted mind . with the axoeptlon of ifrri.
who hud no oonneo tion with the crime. 1 Truesaaie,
J exceedingly regret that I caused Colonel Linbergta and others ant
inconvenience and wish it warn in my power to
In juetioe to my wife and two children I tmat tk*i « + <„ <„
ao»nt b*. b... brought .bout by tb. tHlintiu of th. wrong I
fitnesg ~)lki f
4:p5
Horc is the confesaion of John H.
Curtis. Norfolk shipbuilder, which dis- '
dosed that Ms participation in the)
CONGRESSMEN’S
PAYROLLS OPENED
Employment of Relatives
Will Now Be Revealed
Where It Exists
BILL IS PUT THROUGH
Requires House Clerk To Have Rec
ords Available tor Inspection at
AH, Times By Those Who
Wish To See Them
Washington. May 20. —<AP> The
Warren' resolution throwing open the
record of the representatives' pay
rolls was unanimously adopted today
by the House.
Without debate the House adopted
the resolution, which orders South
Tremble, clerk of the House, to keep
the records of the disbursing clerk
open for inspection at all times.
Attacks have been made on mem
bers who employ relatives on Capitol
Hili, or who have their wives, chil
dren and other persons on the pay
roll. Representative Mitchell. Demo
crat, Tennessee, recently made a for
mal demand on the House clerk to
see the payroll, but was denied the
privilege.
Ruark Statement
Misrepresentation,
McLendon Asserts
Dillr Dtapntr* norm,
In the (Mr Walter Hotel.
RT J. r iIASKERVILL.
Raleigh, May 20.—The letter being
sent out by the campaign headquar
ters of A. J, Maxwell, signed fay
Robert Ruark. Maxwell's campaign
manager, containing the statement
that J. C. B. Ehringhaus is under
stood to prefer the general sales tax,
m branded as "a misrepresentation
of Mr. Ehringhaus’ view and is evi
dently designed to array the mer
chants of the State against Mr.
Ehringhaus,’*■ Major L P. McLendon,
campaign manager for Ehringhaus.
said in a statement issued today.
"The merchant friends of Mr.
Ehringh&ue resent this propaganda
and refuse to be misled by it,” Mc-
Lendon said.
WEATHER
FOR NORTH CAROLINA.
Showers tonight and Saturday;
not much change in temperature,
ca**e including his repotted contacts
with the kidnapers, was faked. Curtis
typed out the above confession after
Betty Gow to Remain
[jfr y.
HHHBBK, * 1
Betty Goq\ the Lindbergh baby
nunc, who has been at the Lind
bergh home negTi Hopewell since
tht child was kidnaped, is expect
ed to remain with the Lindbergh
family in view of the
birth qf another child August.
She is,recovering from the recent
ordesr , of identifying the tjodyrof
€hrr>» Lindbergh, Jr., at I ,the
Trenton morgue,
SENATOR TYPINGS;
PUSHES UP TARIFF
Washington. May 20.—(AP)—Sena
tor Tydings. Democrat, Maryland, to
day ordered 500 tariff amendments
to the revenue bill after demanding
that President Hoover force elimina
tion of the four disputed import
in the measure.
ADMIRAL BENSON
DIES AT CAPITAL
Waabtagtbe. May 20 (AP)—Admire!
WlUiam WUham 9. Benson, chief of
naval operations during the World
War, died suddenly today at his home
taro of cerebral bemorzfeage. ~i ri v .
PUBLISHED EVERY AFTBRNOOM
EXCEPT SUNDAY.
a long grilkng by police at the Lind
bergh estate at Hopewell ,N. J,
MORRISON PLIGHT
IS CAUSING WORRY
Candidacy Reported in Real
Danger, With Serious
Consequences
REYNOLDS MIGHT WIN
But Party Chief* Fear That Jake
Newell, Rone I)r> Republican,
Would Re Elected Sena
tor Next November
Dally Dlapnlrk naareaa,
la the Sir Waller Hotel,
BY J. C RASKEKVIU.
Raleigh. May 20. The factor that
is causing more worry right now both
to the friends of Senator Cameron
Morrison and to Democratic leaders
generally, even though they may not
tie so enthusiastic over Morrison, is
the constantly growing danger that
this State may elect a Republican
Senator this fall If Morrison is not
re nominated, according to political
talk being heard in many different
quarters. Democratic leaders are be
coming increasingly apprehensive at
(Continued on Page Five.)
Lindbergh Kidnaping
Committed For Ransom,
U. S. Sleuths Believe
By CHARLES P. STEWART
Central Press Staff Writer
Washington. May 20.- Federal
slueths are d-awing heavily upoh ihe
government's sources of scientific in
formation in their search for light
on the Lindbergh kidnaping.
The word "kidnaping" rather than
murder is used advisedly; Uncle Sam's
investigators are nc* entirely con
vinced that the baby was deliberately
killed. Not, indeed, that the crime
would be regarded as any. the less
outrageous, even though It should
prove that the child’s death yto no
part of the plan of those' whp stole
him. However, the distinction does
weigh with those engaged in the at
tempt to fix guilt upon Its perf>e
trator. or .perpetrators, as a factor
In shaping of ttakir inquiry.' * ■
The government quest, at any rate,
i has a certain peculiar interest In that
8 PAGES
, TODAY
FIVE CENTS COP
POLICE IN JERSEY
OFFER TO PAK ALL
EXPENSES ON TRIP
Anxious To Confront Curti»
With Peacock That They
May Straighten
Out Stories \
‘JAFSIE ’ TESTIFIES
BEFORE GRAND JURY
When Finished There, In
vestigators Will Continue
to Work Wipth Dr. Condon;
No Lawyer Has Yet Visited
Curtis In Jail at Fleming
ton, N. J.
Hopewell, N. J„ May 20 < AP)
State police liiacloxed today they are
■‘till Investigating the whereabouts of
John H. Curi.iß. jailed Norfolk hoaxer,
on the of April 2. the night
that Dr. John F. Condon paid a $50.-
000 ransom in futile hope of obtain
ing return of the Lindbergh baby.
PKACOCK STILL DECLINES
TO MAKE TRIP TO JERSEY
Norfolk. Va„ May 20.—(AP)—Dean '
H. Dobson-Peacock. associate of John
Hughes Curtis in the Lindbergh ne
gotiations. which Curtia confessed he
faked, said today that the offer of
New Jersey police to pay his way to
Hopewell for questioning would not
influence him in his decision not to
make the requested trip.
POLICE WISH TO CONFRONT
CURTIS WITH OK. PEACOCK
Hopewell. N. J., May I*o. (AP) -
Still anxious to confront John Hughes
Curtis, Jailed hoaxer of the Lindbergh
kidnap case, with the Rev. H. Dobeon-
Peacock. Curtis' assiciate in a fan
tastic hunt for the murdered baby.
.State p%lice offerde todfay to pay the
Norfolk ministers expenses if he
would come to New Jersey fur ques
tioning.
Dr. John F. Condon was palled ap W
witness today before the Bronx grand
jury investigating the SSO.Ouu ranao u
he paid In a futile hope ol obtaining
the return of the murdered baby*
Colonel H. Norman, Schwarzkopf, su
perintendent of State police. *atd that
when he had concluded bis testimony
there investigators from Hopewell
would continue their Investigation
with Dr. Condon.
Schwarzkouf said that no lawyeY
had been to see Curtis in the jail at
Flemington. N. J., where he was
placed in default of SIO,OOO bail after
waiving examination on a charge off
giving false information. No one haa
come there. Schwarzkopf said, to ar
range to furnish ball.
1
Wheeler Demands T
Investigation Os *
Capitol Lobbies
Washington, May 20 (AP)—A de
mand for a congTeeeional Invest iga
tlon kibbles was laid be>fore the Sen
ate today by Senator Wheeler. Demo
crat. Montana, in the midst of debate
on the tax Mil.
Wheeler coupled with his demand »
resolution t»» authorize (he inquiry.
Opponents of some of the Important
levies in the revenue bill have cha rgad
lobbyyt afjiivlties put them them.
it fa< being directed along lindi con
siderably different from those ordi
narily followed by police in til elr ef
fort’s to unravel such mysteries.
Local medical testimony in Heated
that the Lindbergh infant wins slain
only a very short time after Ihe was
taken from his crib in the flyi t«g colo
nel’s Sourland home.
This would seem to dispose; of .tb#
theory that desire for a rewifrd was
the kidnaping’s motive.
Officials of the United State*) public
health service insist. howev»r, that
after a lapse of from 60 to J.O days,
the date of the child's deatlb could
not possibly he determined -l a
week or 10 days. On the sni((R)dlUbn
that he remained alive for so long a
period, in his abductor*’ hancts, room
still would remain open for sertoyis
, (Continued on <*age Fin* 4 ««- j