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U--— I »•**** r. o.ve.( ” Victory In Sight In Bank Campaign, But More Money Is Yet Needed "hEMDERSON, GATEWAY TO CENTRAL CAROLINA. NINETEENTH YEAR WOMAN SOLO FLIER COMPLETES ATLANTIC HOP * V. K X v « » Curtis Hoax Story May Be False In Itself, Police Intimate “Jafsie” In Connecticut But Declines To Reveal Real Purpose For Trip Ha> Received Communica tion and Expect* Other* on the Way, To Where Is Secret NORFOLK ATTORNEY CALLS ON CURTIS W. C. Pender Employed by Relatives and Friends ot Hoaxer and Goes to Hem ington Jail To Confer With Prisoner; Mysterious Gangster Sought Hops'll. N. J., May 21 <AP)—The pwibory that John Hughes Curtis' >'t<ry of hU astonishing lie may in it «if hav* bean false in part received police attention today. A portion of the Norfolk shipbuild er confession that his mediation in the Lindbergh baby case was a hoax already hx.-= considered as this proved. Thtf was the portion in which Curtis e • ilamed his purpose in the elaborate lie »t. to cat money by the sale of hi? utory to newspapers. DR. (ONDON NOW MOTORING IN NEW ENGLAND STATES Danbury. Cann.. May 21.- lAPi —/ Dr John F. Condon. ■•Jafsie." of the Lindbergh kidnaping case, arrived on the outskirts of this city shortly be fore noon. EST . today after driving (Continued nai Page Four) Bill Would Drop Glover's Salary As Postal Head Washington. May 21.—(AP' —An ••nendment to the Treasury-Post Office appropriation* »111 elliolnat- i lag the anlary of W. Irving Glover, vrond rsalatant postmaster gen eral. was introduced In the Hcnnte today by Senator King, I>emo cral, I'tah. In a brief statement, King re ferred w> remarks attributed to (••over at a rerent convention of .Vlwmuri postmasters at Spring field. which were assailed recently "o the floor of the House and Senate. Glover, whom King did not name, referring to him only as the "second assistant postmaster t'txeral," told (he Missouri post "•••lem. In unbalance King said. *•» "actively engage In supporting Hoover." DO-X Flying Boat Far at Sea on Way South for Azores Halifax, N S , May 21 (AP) The government wireless station tonounced receipt %f a report that •he German air line DO-X. flytng •o the A/mres, was 300 mllea east ‘stithcaat of Cape Race al R a. •*» . EXT The position of the alr •hin at that time was given aa latitude 45.30 north. 45 30 we»t. Hoover-Robinson Plan Os Unemployment Relief Viewed As “Blueprint” Br UIARI.KS r. STEWART Cent rml I’rrnu Staff Writer Washington. May 21 -Opposition alike by Q. o. P. and Jeffersonian progressive < to the unemployment re lief program upon which President Hoover and Democratic Senate Leader •Joseph T. Robinson now seem in 'irtuttl agreement, la based on the complaint, as expressed by Represen ’alive David J of Maryland, that, in place of bread to feed mil Ifettiterjson SJafUj SUapatcft ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA AND VIRGINIA. FULL LIABGD WIKI BBRVICS OF THB ABHOCIATKD PRBBS Aboard the Do-X vt I The only woman aboard the giant flying boat DO-X, on its flight from New York to Germany, Frauiein Antoine Strassmann (above) is a daughter of Professor Strassmann of the University of Berlin. She ia an accomplished aviatrix and is 1 listed as assistant purser among the crew of the big plane. CANDIDATES FIRING UPON EACH OTHER! 1 | Ehringhaus and Maxwell Exchange Arguments During Past Week LITTLE AT FOUNTAIN , Maxwell Invades Eastern Carolina In Clear Bid For Fountain Follow ers; Arguments Offered ion Both .Sides llnllr m»|Nir<» Rurcns, In the Sir Wnllrr Hotel. nv j. «• iiA!iKEimi.i. i Raleigh. May 21. —The fact that J. ! C. B. Ehringhaus and A. J. Maxwell have turned their guns on each other almost exclusively In their campaign for the Democratic nomination fbr governor this week and have devoted little or no attention to R. T. Foun tain. the third candidate, may or may not be significant. Political circle* here, however, Interpret this as an indication that Maxwell is making a stronger and stronger bid for second place in the first primary and that the Ehringhaus forces are becoming increasingly alarmed at tbe gains which Maxwell seems to be making. The Ehringhaus managers continue > to maintain that their candidate is continuing to gain In every section of the State and that the chances for him to win the nomination In the first primary are becoming increas ingly bright. However, very few can be found who share thi sbellef. ex cept among the ultra enthusiastic Ehringhaus supporters. For a major ity of the more impartial observers (Continued on Page Four) - lions of jobless workers and their fa milies. the plan appears to be to of fer a blueprint. "That this attractive design may take the form, -some time in the in definite future, of actual public im provements is indeed, possible, con cedes Executive Secretary Benjamin C. Marsh of the People's Lobby, who Is just completing the most exhaus tive investigation yet made into labor (Continued on Page Thr«a.£ t HENDERSON, N. C., SATURDAY AFTERNOON, MAY 21, 1932 HAWAII GOVERNOR RESENTS REFORMS FOR THE ISEANDS Says No Greater Disaster Could Befall Territory Than Measures Now In Congress THEY GREW OUT OF RICHARDSON PROBE Recommended by Assistant Attorney General After Attack on Naval Officer’s Wife and Slaying Native; Would Remove Official Requirements Washington, May 21.—(AP)An as sertion that “no greater disaster could befall any part of our country" than enactment ot three measures de signed lo sCrentiien federal control over Hawaii was contained in a re port by Governor Lawrence Judd of Hawaii made public today by the Senate Territories Committee. Among the bills to which Judd ob jected was three by Senator Bingham, Republican, Connecticut, carrying out j recommendations of Assistant Attor ney General Jess W. Richardson. [ Richardson investigated conditions in I tbe island as the result of an attack { on the wife of a naval officer and the | subsequent killing of a native accused ! of the crime. Judd objected particularly to a bill 1 which would remove all residential requirements for all Hawaiian offi cials. Match king Owed 168 Millions When He killed Himself Stockholm, Sweden. May 21.—(AP) - Ivar Kreuger. the worlds' famous "match king,” who until he fired a bullet into his brain in Paris March 12 was considered the greatest finan cial genius of modern times, died practicaly penniless and owing $168,- 300.000. It was revealed today. The announcement was made by the Swedish investigating committee which has been probing Kreuger’s af fairs since his suicide. The $168,300,000 is in personal debts and Indirect liability against the match king's name, the committee said, and there will be little, if any thing for distribution to unsecured creditors. The committee found that fictitious assets were set up on the Kreuger and Toll book since 1924, and that j the state of the books was such that it was extraordinarily difficult to pro duce a definite balance sheet for tbe company. FACULTY OFO. C. ACCEPTS ITS CUTS Fine Spirit of Cooperation Prevails, Dr. Branson Has Found flallr DlupotrS flarea*. In tkr Sir Wnltrr Hotel. BY J. f! IUSKERVIM, Raleigh. May 21.—1 n spite of the heavy cuts that have been made in the appropriation for the University of North Carolina «id the fact that most of the members cf the faculty have had to take salary cuts amount ing to from 20 to 30 per cent, the faculty members and the students body are showing a fine spirit and a determination to "carry on.” accord ing to the most recent reports from the university. Several months ago, when the salary cuts were first made, it was reported that there was considerable bitter feeling among some of the fa culty members and some criticism of Governor O. Max Gardner and the Advisory Budget Commission for making the cuts they deemed neces sary. But reports now indicate that this feeling has passed entirely and that the faculty members are “dig (Conttnued qn Page Eight ), I| FIRST WOM AN TO HOP ATLANTIC ALONE Amelia Barba rt Putnam, shown hi | . above at the right, tended in Ireland afternoon after a aok> flight Know the Atlantic from Harbni Grace Newfoundland, where she hopped off State Primary Two Weeks Off; Filing Period Ends RaPsigSi. May 21 'AP) Two weeks from today fonute'rude upon thousands of North Carolinians will cast baltots to nominate public offieei-s to serve them for t)he next two, four and six years. From every pari of the State comes word of an unusually loi-rc number of SENATORS MAY NOT GO TO CONVENTION ■■ " -■ ■ Reed and Moses Say They .Wont Leave Unless k Congress Finishes [ Washington, May 21. (AP>— Two Republican senators destined to play leading roles In the Republican na tional convention - Reed of Pennsyl vania and Moses of New Hampshire —today issued a joint statement an nouncing their purpose to remain In Washington unless Congress com- , pletes its emergency program before June 19. A little earlier the House leader. Representative Rainey, Democrttie, of Illinois, announced belief that Con gress could not complete Its work in time for the national convention. He said he would resist any effort to receea for the convent'oti.® unless the appropriation bills had been passed by that time. DECLARES WHITNEY MISREPRESENTED TAX Washington, May 21.--(AP> Rep resentative LaGuard*a. Republican. New York, t >ld tho House today that Richard S \Vhi*n*v, president of ihe New York Stock Exchange, "deliber ately misrepresented" to the Fcnate Finance Committee the English tax on stock transfers in testimony on the revenue bill. WEATHER FOB NORTH CAROLINA. Mostly cloudy; probably occa sional showers tonight and Sun day; Utile change ia temperature. yesterday afternoon. She is shewn above with Bernt Bak-hen before leav ing Teterboio.Att'Sort. N. J.. for Har bor Grace on Wednesday. Below is the Lockheed Vega monoplane in crindldaics liMcd for almost every of fice at stake. Last night filing time for at! offices exxpired. W,th complete returns not available today. It was indicated the total list of candidates running fAr township oomtabte or justice of the peace all the way up to United States Relief Program Is Opposed by Mills Wa»hington, May 21. —(AD Secretary Mills said today he could not approve the $2,300,000,900 rebel program advanced yesterday by the Democratic committee of the Sen ate specializing on that problem, hot he refrined from Indicating just what portion to which the admin Ist ration objects. While not assuming to fm tfte President on the propo>al i«n nomiced yesterday In (be special Democratic committee. Mills said: “I sill say that there is no great amount of enthusiasm for an mi- Italaucedhbudget and a pork barrel plan at the Treasury department." stateirStT BECOME AROUSED Question Gubernatorial Can. dictates as to stand On Tax Matters p.iib Dlsixiteh Rnrenn, In the Sir XX niter Hotel. BY J. t . H4SKKHVII,IL. Raleigh, May 21. The merchants of North Carolina, usually inclined to "slay out of 'are showing a vital interest in the present campaign | for the Democratic nomination for ! governor and especially in the views ; of the three candidates with regard to either form of sales tax and on new taxation in general. This is evi denced by the manner in which the Carolina-Virginia Retailer, trade mag azine of tbe merchants in this State and Virginia, has put tbe three /can didates for the gubernatorial nomina i - (.Continued on Page PUBLISHED EVERY AFTBKNOON EXCEPT SUNDAY. which «ho flew the .rtean Mrs. Pul n< r >m is the oniy woman ever lo have flown the Atlantic. She made the , ftigtet from HsThnr Grace to Wales in 1928. She married George Palmer 1 Putnam, New York publisher, in 1930 i Senator—would aggregate 2.500. Today was the last day for regis tration, A new registration was not necessary except in a few isolated in ■Mances, but all persons who had c banged thHr aeeddcnce from one pre cinct or -those wtio had become of age since 1930 were required <o register to be eligible to vote. ATLANTIC FLIER “ FALLS TO DEATH Hungarian and Hi* Me chanic Killed When Falls at Ronte Rome, May 21 (AP) —Captain George Endree, who flew the Atlantic in 1931, was kitted today in a short practice flflgtvt. The filer bad come to Rome to at tend t/he convention of tr&ne-A/Uantic airmop opening tomorrow. He made the trip from Budapest by air tikis morning. FHve hour* after he had tended, he took off from Ijittorio air field for a brief flight with his Hun garian mechanic and a few minutes teter both of them were dead. The plane was trying to gain atfci (ude when the motor «Kkl«ily pop ped and the ship crashed to the field. Tells Weired Tale About' Missing Girl Companion Derby. Conn., . May 21 <AP> —Dr Royal Pinney. wealthy retired physi cian of New Haven, reported to police today that two men had abducted Miss Agnes O'Neil. Ms companion, on an automobile ride after they had beaten him severely- The physician, a reputed millionaire, told tbe police the attack occurred at 11:45 p. m. last night when he Mop ped ttis machine on a side road in Orange to enable his companion to light a cigarette. _ A _ 8 PAGES TODAY FIVE CENTS CO; AMELIA EARHART - DOWN IN IRELAND AND SAFELY OVER Left Harbor Grace Friday Afternoon, and Found Going Rather Rough Much of the Way i FIRST WOMAN EVER TO MAKE IT ALONE , . | First Act Is To Get Her Hus band on Phone In New York and Report Her Safety; Aimed at Paris, But Minor Faults In Plane Forced Her Down EARHART FLIGHT IN FIGURES DlKtanei-, 2,026.5 mile*. Time, 15 hour*, .19 minute*. Average *|>efd, 129.5 mllea per i hour. l/cft llarhor Grace, N. F_ 4:51 p. nr., EST, Friday. Arrived Culmore, Northern Ire ! land, »:lo a. m., KST, Saturday. - - Cuimore. UUler. Ireland, May 21 i • AH) Amelia Bm-hart Putman . brought down her red and gold rrwomo ptene in a field on the Donegal aide ‘of Lough Foyle this afternoon, and I '.hereby became the first women to fly I the Atlantic alone. She landed on this aide of the oceso live 'year* to the day after Cokmei Charles A. Lindbergh arrived at Le : Bourg>e, field in Paris, successfully i < ompl'klng the first solo ilight acroe* ! ihe Atlantic. “I've done it.” Mrs. Putnam exclaim* <-d when she go) out of T.fte atvip ! She had intended to go to Parts, but ■tt was neceasaiy to curt the Bight short because her exha us! manifold had burned out, and the gasoline guage was broken, causing a UUiie i leakage. 1 The little blonde flier, wtm look off i from Harbor Grace, yesterday at 4:51 p. m EST. .got a lift by motor to Londonderry, five mllea away, where, the fim thing she did was to get on the telephone to report her fcUQcesn* to London, In order that her hit-band. George Farmer Putnam. New York publbisher, and her friend* bar khome might know that ah* wu rxf e. • • *1 Her plane was not damaged Ri til* Innding. and .die wan unhurt. "For a kk of the way." Mr* Pul man «aid. 'I waa flying ihrougto t'.trrma. mist, min a rad a little fog. Lost Li\ es In Auto Accidents In State Last MontK Raleigh. M*y 21 • AP) - Forthy three peraons weie killed and 537 injured in automobile accident* in North Caroline* in April. L. S. Harrta, director of tbe motor vehicle bureau, reported today. The total killed and Injured was below that (of March, when 45 were killed and TB4 hurt, and the total fa.- talitie* for the first four months of the year x*as raised to 181. There w*»re 356 drivers involved In Ihe 241 reported in April, and 169 of them were htw*en 25 and 54 years of age. Only 13 drivers un der 18 years of age were in arcldnets listed grid 98 drivers were between 18 and 24 year*. The hsnda- one of whom wu* arm ed. dragged Dr. Pinney from l»« ma chine. best and robb**d him of h»* watch and sls. and then drove away with Miss O'Neil, after they bad thrown him into a crump of brushes Dr. Pinney said he walked to Che main highway after regaining con sciousness and was picked up by a motorist who drove him to the Derby police headquarters. Dr. Pinney’s Up wp* b*Av epHt by the bandit* and one of hts teeth was knocked out. -■ - ■
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