HENDERSON,
gateway TO
CENTRAL
CAROLINA.
NINETEENTH YEAR
LINDBERGH SUSPECT DENIES GIRL’S CHARGES
Prohibition Big Issue As Republicans Move On Chicago
WETS DEMANDING
REPEAL AND DRYS
OPPOSE THE PUN
Dfgree of Wetness of Plat
form Declaration Is Cen
ter of Interest At
Convention
DEMONSTRATIONS BY
GROUPS ARE READY
Wei* Will Stage One Last,
ing Two Days, While
Sound Call to Arms; Dry
Agents Raid Speakeasies
In Advance of Gathering
G. O. P. Army
Chicago. June It. —•< AP> —The dust
cf the prohibition rumpus continued
to settle down upon the convention
city today, obscuring virtually all else
In the face of the march upon the
Republican National Convention of
the organized wet demanding repeal
*n<l of dry? who oppose It the ques
tion of whi will be the next chair
man of the national committee, and
whether there wiil be any definite
move to replace Vice-President Curtis
a» a running mate tor President
Hoover were relegated to the side
line*. ..
(a tu- minds of arriving delega
tion* who discussed the prohibition
plank 'he Republicans will adopt next
week the primary interest seemed
to he the degree of wetness.
The organized wets and drys ear
ned their dispute fro mthe statements
road* in* oa series of demonstrations,
wi'h the former laying plans for a
two-tlav demonstration to begin to
morrow an dthe latter beginning a
•rotes of meetings described by F.
Scott Mcßride general superintendent
of th- Anti-ltialoon League as a ''call
to arms."
As convention crowds flowed into
th- ci*v. .Vi Federal prohibition agents
under personal direction of Chief En
forcement Officer AI Aon an raided 15
alleged saloons and beer clubs and
?eu*d 17 men last night.
The raiders were aided by a list
»t“akeasies which it swas reported
were placed in the hands of the local
enforcement officers by Amos W. W
Woodcock, national enforcement di
rector. at Washington.
Moratorium Debt
Funding Accord Is
Reached by U. S.
Washington. June 11 <AP)—The
Treasury announced today that agree
ment had been signed with four Euro
pean countries, including France, p«o
--vid ng for (funding over a ten-yefcr
period of J59.000.6fi5 postponed by the
Hover moratorium.
S gnatory nations were France.
*h-'te postponed payments amounted
to 150.000 000; Belgium. *7.950.000;
Roumanla *BOOOOO and Latvia *250.553.
TOBACCO SALES IN
KENTUCKY STATED
Frankfort, K .'June 11 <AJ*>—Eu
gene Flowers. Skate commissioner of
•xricirgure. reported today Kentucky
wn rehouses sold 5.898.245 pounds of
tobacco during May for *194.153.04, or
»n average of *3 29 per hundred.
Debit Balance For
State $3,475,180
Raleigh, June 11 < AD— Henry
B'Jrke. assistant director of the North
CeroMn* Budget Bureau, said today
that appropriations allotments to
s ’«te institutions and deparaments
inpvitabty must be lees next fiscal
>** r than they were this year."
The act’al debit balance for the
current fecal year is expected to be
*3 <75.180 on June 30. Burke said.
* w-auid have been $6,087,364 bad
,w *c* been no reduction in aJtotments
bek>w appropriations.
Tbe percentage the alkrtmeow will
HiutlU'rsmt Batin Bfapafrti
r Sw L T A* 4 f*p win* umvici
w AMXoCIATHO PMtt.
Gardner In Washington
Seeking Assistance For
Industry In This State
Stadium Is Ready
Ralph Williams, vice chairman of j
the Republican national commit
tee, has completed his work at
chairman of the convention's com
mittee on arrangements with ali
in readiness, at the Chicago Sta
dium for the opening G. O. P.
session. Willianfe directed ,the
elaborate decorations in the (A&m
uioth halL
FOUNTAIN DENIES
PLAN FDR RUN OFF
ONWETPLATFORM
Still Undecided Whether or
Not To A*k For Second
Primary at All, He
Declares
REYNOLDS BACKERS
URGING FOUNTAIN ON
Would Tend To Divert In
terest From Senatorial
Fight to Advantage of
Leader—But It Might En
danger Reynolds Own
Campaign, Some Believe
Rail? Dispute* Barn«,
In the Sir Walter Hotel.,
nr J. C. RAXKP.RVILL.
Raleigh. June 11.—Lieutenant Gov
ernor Richard T. Fountain is still un
i decided as to whether or not he will
call for a second primary with J. C.
B. Ehringhaus for the Democratic
nomination for governor, he told this
correspondent here last night. In spite
of persistent rumors during the day
that he had decided to ask for a sec
on primary. There were also rumors
throughout the day that if Fountain
did J enter a second primary with
Ehringhaus. he would run on a “wet"
platform, but Fountain vigorously de
nied these reports.
"Those rumors are Just bull and
be cut next fiscal year has not been
determined Burke said, nor has the
time the reductions wW be made been
decided. It is expected, however, to
hold the debt balance for 1932-33 to
less than $1,360,000, and, if necertary
on account of oontimkng distressing
conditions, to hokl expense* within
the Income for the next year.
Burke said the State would be ready
Juno 30 to pay some $6,280,000 in in
terest and bond maturities, including
•bout $3,000,000 for retirement otf
botxkj. 1
ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA AND VIRGINIA.
Henderson, n. c., Saturday afternoon, iune n, issa
Governor Tells President
Hoover North Carolina
Textile Business In
Stagnation
SYMPATHETIC EAR
BY CREDIT GROUPS
Gardner and Senator Bailey
See Chairman Meyer of Re
construction Body; Has No
Complaint Against That
Corporation, Governor De
clares
*
Wa.shington, June 11. —<AP>—After
a lengthy conference with President
Hoover, Governor Gardner of North
Carolina said today he had Informed
the chief executive that the State's
textile industry was In a state of stag
nation and that aid was needed.
Gardner said he had conferred pre
viously during his visit in Washing
ton with drectors of the Reconstruc
tion Finance Corporation. Asked if
help had heen given by that source, he
replied:
"The Reconstruction Corporation
has been very sympathetic. We have
no complaint."
GABF»Nf!R ANO- BAILEY SEE
RECONSTRUCTION CHAIRMAN'
Washington, June 11.—(AP)—Gov
ernor O. Max Gardner and Senator
J. W. Bailey of North Carolina had
an appointment to confer with Presi
dent Hoover today, presumably with
icgard to the several relief measures
pending in Congress or already enact
ed.
The governor And the senator yes
terday talked at some length with
Eugene Meyer governor of the Fed
eral Reserve Board, and with offi
cials of the Reconstruction Finance
Corporation discussing the same sub
ject.
CRIMINAL CHARGE
ON LONDON WOMAN
London. June 11 (AP)-A second
criminal charge was filed today agalnsk
Mrs. Elvira Dolores Barney, young
Ivondon society woman. who is accus
ed of the murder of Michael Scot*.
Stephens, following a oockXail party In
hpr apartment May 31.
She was accused in tihe court today
of having shot at Stephens “with in
tent to do him grievous bodily harm"
one*. before on May 19. nearly two
weeks before the fatal shooting.
without any foundation, just like lots
of other rumors that get started and
get into the papers anyway," Foun
tain said. “For I have not yet decided
whether I will ask for another pri
mary or not. and hence have not de
cided on any platform. Besides, the
emocratic convention writes the plat
form. anyway, sis I announced several
days ago, I do not intend to announce
whether or not I will call for a sec
ond primary until after I have care
fully gone over the official results of
the first primary and consulted with
mere of my friends."
The official vote announced last
night by the State Board of Elcttons
after canvassing the results sent in
by alt the counties, still gave Etartng
haur a lead of more than 47 000 votes
over Fountain, giving Ehringhaus
162,489. Fountain 115.127 and Maxwell
102,032.
Would Be Unwise.
Because of this lead of more than
47.000 votes which Ehringhaus had
over Fountai.i. the opln on persists in
polHical ei.n.-r here that Fountain
woa’d be v*-y unwise to call for a
second primary. In fact, all except
the most ardent of his supporters seem
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Find Dynamite In Bonus Seekers’ Camp
Washington, Jun« 11 fA_P>—Pohee
today destroyed a small quantity of
dynamite discovered by bonus seeking
war veterans In one of their encamp
ments. •
Officers of the police crime preven
tion squad declined to comment on the
i seisure, or to say whether they baked
"bonus Army” Camp from the Air
This striking aerial view oi Hit buiiu.- Alloys en
campment at Washington recalls the days when the
boys were fighting for another cause—when there was
no lack of food, shelter and Dlentv of ammunition
Developments In Lindbergh Inquiry
(By The Associated Press)
Today's far flung developments I
from the suicide of Violet Sharpe, !
Morrow maid, yesterday, were as fol
lows, in bri't<;
Alpine, N. J. —Sanest BrinkeJt,
with whom ‘Mias ftya'p nald btTbr '
taking poison that sbe had spent the
evewireg the Lindbergh child was kid- i
naped, arrived here after being at
tended at Nw Rochelle. N. Y. He de
nied he had spent that evening with ;
Miss Sharp, and said be had been with :
his wife In Bridgeport, Conn.
Mamaroneck, N. Y. Claude W. j
Moody disclosed that Brinkert had ;
worked as butler for him for five j
morWthe. giving up his job on March111, 1
the day tshe baby was stolen. He ex-
PROHIBITION REAL
ISM RUN OFF
Other Considerations Fade
Into Insignificance In
July Voting
REYNOLDS CONFIDENT
Morrison's Friends Figure He Will
Oct Enough Bowie-Grlst-Siiiunon*
Strength To Put Him Across
Next Month
f
Dnlly tllspntrh Burma,
la the Sir Walter Itntrl.
BY J. C. BASKERVI 1,1,.
Raleigh. June 11.—The big issue be
tween Senator Cameron Morrison and
Robert R. Reynolds for the emocratic
nomination for the United States Sen
ate in the second primary is prohibi
tion, with everything else incidental,
it a more and more agreed here. In
the frsb primary there were several
other issues Involved in the opposition
to Morrison, such as his vote for Mc-
Nlnch, hie money and his praise for
the Southern Power Company. But
from no wuntil the second primary
on July 2, the issue is clearly pro
hibition with Reynolds favoring modi
fication and repeal and Morrison for
prohibiton • and enforcement—unless
the State Democratc Convention
should adopt a “wet" plank }n Its
MTATHER
FOR NORTH CAROLINA.
Occasional rain tonight and pro
bably Sunday morning; not much
change in temperature.
it with communist activities among
the veterans.
Meanwhile, the bonus army of occu
pation reached formidable numbers,
and still they trudged or rode into the
capital. Registration at the veterans’
encampment reached 12,033.
The dusty, dirt roads out through
brambles and brushes into the Ana
loere are veterans here from all corners of to
United States, camping in rude shelters and wond"i
ing where the next meal is coming from. But they'r*
determined to Slav until thev receive oavment.
pressed the opinion the laddcT m>ed i n
tjhc kidnaping had been stolen from
his grounds.
Washington lmmigration records
revealed that Edna Sharp, sister of the
suicide, applied for' permission to
make a vt»K <o England the day she
baby waa stolen. She sailed four day
after a *50,000 ransom was paid by
Dr. John F. Condon in New York
City.
Stourbridge, England Edna Sharpe
denied she knew anything about the
kidnaping and said her sister was
equatly Innocent, but that the police
had ‘"driven her crazy."
Trenton, N. J.—Colonel H. Norman
Schwatxkopf, superintendent of Stat
police, bays autopsy shows Violet
Speaker Garner
111 With Grippe
Washington, June 11 (AP)—An
attack of la grippe this morning
compelled .Speaker Garner to leave
his Capitol office and take to bed
nt his holel.
The speaker reached his office
at 7 a. m as usua., apparently
able to work. After he had dic
tated letters for several hours, how
ever, hts temperature began t»
rise. Dr. George Calver, House
physician, was called and directed
th c speaker to bed.
State platform. But this is not con
sidered likely.
Reynolds Confident.
The Reynolds forces are confident
of victory in the second primary. With
Reynolds' lead of more than 15.000
votes, given him in th final tabula
tion of the returns by the State Board
of Elections yesterday, togethr with
the votes which his friends believe he
will get from those who voted for
Bowie. Grist and Simmons, the other
thre ecandidates in the first primary,
they regard his nomination as vir
tually assured. They point out that
Bowie. Grist and Simmons received
68.792 votes, that all of these were de
finitely anti-Morrtson votes, since
both Bowje and Grist made a more
bitter personal attack upon Morrison
than did Reynolds, that Reynolds
can thus count on getting the larger
portion of these 88,792 votes. They also
point out that even if just as many
votes are cast in the second primary
as in the first, when 355.187 votes
were cast for those seeking the Sena
torial nomination, Reynolds will need
to get only 28.000 more votes than the
150.763 he received in the first pri
rContinued on Page Two)
costa flats receiving camp was worn
to ruts and holes as new members'en
tered to be distributed in other more
permanent camps ■
As vigorously as their leaden be
sieged Congress for bonus payments,
the men bee edged their leaders for
blanlUs or earn protection from the
unusually chilly nights.,, p
PUBUtSHKD EVERT ATT SIMOOM
■XCMPT SUNDAY.
Sharpe suffered no ailment which
migiht explain suicide.
Bridgeport, Conn.- Police have no
information concerning Negro with
whom Brinker* said he spent the
night of March 1, but rumor is that
Jersey police are on the way to check
the alibi.
Detroit Handwriting samples of
Robert Burns taken by police ques
tioning him in connection with the
Lindbergh case.
Englewood. N. J. -Body of violet
Sharpe heki at undertaking tswablish
ment. No funeral plans yet.
New York CWy—Dr John F Con
don, (cite Bronx district attorney
Blinker* is nek, the "John" to wnom
he paid *50,000 of Colooel Charles A
Lindbergh’s money
MORE SCHOOLS OF
STATE ARE MERGED
Equalization Board Turns to
This Plan As Measure of
Economy *
A
Dully Dlupnlrk Rarne,
la Ilk Sir Walter ■l'vtel
ftV J. f. IIAiKIRVIIiJ;
Raleigh, June 11.- Eigh.'ty-nine ad
ditional schools have N-. en eonsptidat
ed for next year by the State
Board of Equalization, in order to re
duce operating expenses and make
more fund? available for additional
teachers, it was announced today by
Leßoy Martin, secretary of the board.
Os these 89 schools. 81 are elementary
schools and eight are high schools.
Last year more than 200 schools were
consolidated by the board, when it
put the new school law into opera
tion. This law authorized the board
to consolidate schools In any county
when by so doing It can reduce op
erating oosts without decreasing the
educationa (opportunity of the chil
dren affected.
The board this year did not deem It
wise to make extensive consolidations
(Continued on Page Two)
Congress Presses
For Adjournment
Washington, June 11.—(AP)—Sys
tematically Congress today pushed its
stride for adjournment, cutting fast
into the pile of legislation which must
be made law this morning.
After an overwhelming majority of
the Senate yesterday approved the
$300,000,000 Democratic relief* bill and
sent it over to a none too friendly
House, the great stack erf appropria
tion bills was tackled. The one pro
viding for the Congress-regulated ex
penditures of the District of Colum
bia was first up today. Committees
hurriedly turned out more of them.
The House approached the passing
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FIVE CENTS COM
EX CONVICT SAYS
HE WAS NOT WITH
GIRL FATAL NIGHT
#
Waitres* In Morrow Home
Makes Statement Just
Before Drinking
Deadly Poison
POLICE CHECKING
ALIBI HE SET UP
Claimed To Have Spent
Night at Negro Residence
In Connecticut With His
Wife; Goes to Jersey City
Voluntarily After Waiving
Extradition
Alpine. N. J., June 11. iAP)-Er
nest Brinkert. ex-convict, arrested in
the Lindbergh case, told his story to
State police today, and immediately
hereafter officers drove away at
breakneck speed for an unannounced
iestination.
Arrested in New Rochelle. N Y .
ast night after the suicide of Violet
"harpe, waitress in the Englewood.
"i. J., home of Mrs. Dwight W. Mor
ow. grandmother of the murdered
Lindbergh baby Brinkert came here
voluntarily early today, waiving ex
tradition.
He flatly denied tan antemortem
-tatement bv Miss Sharpe that she
had spent the evening of March" 1. the
night the baby waa stolten with him.
On the contrary, he insisted he and
his wife spent most of that night and
‘he night following at a "very nice
home," owned by a Negro in Bridge
port, Conn.
Booh after this alibi was made pub
lic, Inspector Harry Walsh of tha
T ersey City police, wtm has charge of
he Brinkert ttxamlnaAlon. left the
itate police station in an automobile
with a trooper and an undentlfled
man in civllan clothes.
It was determned that this man was
not the prisoner and It was learned
that Brinkert would be held at Alpine
at least until his alibi la checked.
Presumably, he gave police the namee
of the Bridgeport Negro, but this In
formation was not made public. j
CRAVEN DEMOCRATS *
FAVOR ROOSEVELT
New Born. June 11 (AP)—The
Craven county DemoeraAlr convention
today unanimously endorsed Frank
lin D. Roosevelt for the Democratic
nomination for president.
SENATE TOlillE I
' FARM RELIEF BILL
Philippine Legislation I* Al
so Due Before Final
Adjustment . \0
Washington, June 11.—(AP) — Tha
Senate today agreed to consider farm
relief and Philippine legislation this
session as Republican leaders point
ed for an adjournment of Congress
at the end of next week.
Senators from the farm states fi
nally .after many unsuccessful at
tempts obtained an agreement to con
sider the McNary farm relief bill aa
soon a sthe Senate has disposed of
the pending District of Columbia ap
propriations measure.
Agreement then was reached to
consider ihe Philippine independence
bill for three a half hours Mon
day night. Leaders predicted, how
ever .that a vote would not be obtain
ed within that limited period.
vote on President Hoover’s home loa»
discount system with the leaden con
fident this final item in tbe original
adminstraton reconetructon program
would be sent over to the Senate by
evening.
Possibility developed that an agree
ment would be reached today in con
ference on the economy bill. Some
forecasts were that the Presidn’a fur
lough plan for cutting Federal pay
roll costs approved by the Senate
would be accepted by tbe House. It
saves much more ihan the limited pay
cut the House voted, and has the ap
proval of employee group*.