HENDERSON,
gateway TO
CENTRAL
CAROLINA.
NINETEENTH YEAR
HOUSE PASSES
Republicans Minutes f'orPresidentHoovei-
Full Payment For
Veterans At Once
Is Given Approval
Measure Now Goes To Sen
ate. Where Leaders Claim
Enough Voles To De
feat The Bill
HOOVER PROMISES
VETO IF ACCEPTED
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Former Service Men Pack
Galleries as Vote Is Taken,
Marking One Step Nearer
Their Demands; Bonus
Seekers Pay Tribute To
Dead Friend
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Washington, June 15 (AP) — !
Immediate cash payment of the
$2,400,000,000 soldiers bonus cer
tificates —demanded by 20,000 i
former service men bivouacked in
the capital—was approved today
by the House.
The measure now goes to the Sen
ate where loaders claim enough votes
fer rejection.
PreHder.t Hoover has promised a j
ri:o if t+ve VegteJatton reaches the ■
Wh re House.
The Patman bill pasaed by the
House, would redee mfthe bonus cert i- |
ftcites at their face value in new
Treasury j,otes. distributed to She vete- 1
ren; through the Federal Reserve j
Bark
Before final approval, the measure j
wj* amended to provide an equal id- ;
sue of government bonds to be used j
fer retiring t<he currency If the dollar
became too cheap.
Former service men packed the g*l- |
leres as the vote was taken. It rep
resntd one step toward victory in their
demands for the bonus legislation.
The bonus expeditionary force paid
tribute to R» present stive Es>Uck. of
Tinnassee. w4io died in the House yes
terday whil« oleadlng for payment of
the soldiers bonus.
A call went out for the war vete
r»n» in camp here to mass at the
Vrlcn Station this afternoon when
th» funeral cortege moves to the train
which will take the body back home.
In an effort to_ action on leg
ation to .pay war veterans $2,400,000.-
°OO on their soldiers bonus certificate**
the House today agreed to terminate
further debate and proceed at once
to the consideration of proposed
•"tsendmenta.
Leas, Davis
Must Serve
T heir Time
Raleigh. .June I.V—(AP) The
v >rth t arollna Supreme Court to
day ruled Luke lea. former Unit
ed States Senator from Tennessee.
1 uks lea. Jr., and Wallace B.
IhTlt, former Aahevtlle bank
president, must serve terms In
'•tate’s Prison here.
Two bulky opinions upheld the con
v’etion and sentences of tne Leas.
T erinessee newspaper publisners. and
Davis in Buncombe county trials last
rummer growing out of the $17,000,000
f*»lnre in October. 1930. of the Cen
tr*i Bank and Trust Company, sec
ond largest individual banking unit
in the State.
T he Leas and Davis were convict
ed kHntlv of conspiracy to divert
funH, 0 f bank and Davis was con
v»c»ed in another trial of publishing a
fslre report of the bank's condition.
The sentences, under North Carolina
law take effact upon certification of
the Supreme Court's record to Bun
combe County Superior Court.
There was speculation here that the
two cases may be taken to the Unit
•d States Suprsme Court.
Lea Sr., who gained public atten
tion during the World War with a
plot to Capture the German kaiser
*ftcr tne Armistice, faces a six to tan
v rar prison t*rn». L>avia faces a four
’° y«sr sentence on the con
spiracy conviction, and five to seven
years for publishing the false report.
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Washington. June 15. —(AP)—Gas
ton B. Means today was sentenced to
15 years imprisonment for swindling
Mrs. Evelyn Walsh McLean of $104.-
000 in an alleged plan to return the
kidnaped Lindbergh baby.
Justice James M. Proctor, In the
District of Columbia Supreme Court,
sentenced the former Justice Depart
ment investigator to ten years for
the larceny of SIOO,OOO ransom money
and five years for larceny of the $4,-
000 expense money. The latter sen
tence is to begin after the ten-year
aentnee has ben fulfilled.
T. Morris Wampler, one of Means'
defense counsel, noted an appeal.
Justice Proctor, in addressing
Means, said:
"The vt rdict reveals that the de
fendant capitalized not only on the
sweetest and tenderest emotions of
the human heart, but also on the
basest in his clever and adroit plan.
"The Lindbergh case brought out all
the best in the hearts of men. but
also gave the opportunity to some to
display the weakness and wickedness
of human nature.”
SHOOTS FATHER IN
MOTHER’S DEFENSE
Albert Ludlum, of Robeson
County, My Die; Boy
Is Held In Jail <|
Lumberton. June 15. (AP> —Albert
Ludlum, of Bladenboro, wtu taker to
a hospital here early today with a
probably fatal bullet wound said by
police to have been inflicted by his
14-year-old son. Alton.
The boy was placed in jail by Chief
Vance McGill pending the outcoma of
the older Ludlum's wounds.
Police said the shooting was the
outcome of an attempt by the boy. to
prevent his father from beating his
mother. J
After the family dispute, Alton came
to Lumberton and stopped at the
home of his sister, Mrs. R. A. Mil
ligan. His father followed him and
the shooting occurred about midnight
Mrs. Milligan suffered a slight hip
wound from the same ballet that
penetrated the elder Ludlum’s abdo
men. Physicians said he bad Uttle
chance of recovery, , , n -
NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA AND VIRGINIA.
ONLY DAILY
British, Flowers
On CjirFs Casket
Englewood, N. J„ June 15.
—Attended by Gerald Shep
pard. acting British consul gen
eral, who brought a wreath of
red roses to be placed on the cas
ket funeral services were conduct
ed to day In an undertaking es
tablishment for Violet Slmrpr.
English servant who committed
suicide at .the home of Mrs.
Dwight W. Mnrrojv last Friday.
WORLD'S HOPE FDR
RECOVERY CENTERS
NOW ON LAUSANNE
European Statesmen Con
verging on Swiss City to
Lay Plans For Eco
nomic Relief
HELP
TO GERMANY FIRST
More Than $300,000,000
Falls Due July 15 If New
“'Arrangement Fails; Eve of
Conference Shows Whole
Problem Shrouded In Deep
Uncertainty
Lausanne, Switzerland, June 15
<AP)—Statesmenl of a dozen Euro
pean countries began arriving here
today In preparation for the opening
of the international conference tomor
row. which will make this Swiss city
the center of much of the world's
hopes for economic recovery.
The first problem to oe discussed is
relief for Germany from the burden of
reparations payments, more than s.'*oo,-
000.000 of which will fall due July 15,
unless a new arrangement is arrived
at here.
The eve of the conference showed
the whole problem shrouded in deep
uncertainty. The most hopeful sign
was the result of the conference last
week-end in Paris between Prime Min
uter Ramsay MacDonald of Great
Britain and Premier Edouard Harriot
of France.
Akron Is Sighted
Over Wilmington
Headed For North
Wilmington, June 15.—(AP)
The navy dirigible Akron passed
over Wilmington, at 12:36 p. m„
following a northeast route along
the coast from Parris Island, 8.
CL, to Lakehurst, N. J. About two
hours earlier the ship passed over
Charleston. S. C.
CHARLOTTE WOMAN
EASTERN ST Ah HEAD
Rocky Mount, June 15. (AP
Mrs. Marjorie Hogan, of Char
lotte, was elected grand matron of
the North Carolina Order of the
Eastern Star here today and Char
lotte was selected as the 1953 con
vention city.
WEATHER
FOB NORTH CAROLINA.
Cloudy with ociaaloaal showers
tonight and Thursday: not much
change In temperature.
Favorable Foreign Trade
Balance For U. S. For May
Washington, June 15.—CAP)— The
Commerce Department announced to
day that the Untted States had a fa
vorable foreign trade balanc of ap
proximately $20,000,000 during May-
Exports last month, the report said,
were approximately $132,000,000 and
imports about $112,000,000. During the
same month in 1931, exports were
$203,970,000 and imports $179,694,000.
The Department also announced
that exports of cotton during May
aggregated 501,000 bales, a decrease of
44,000 bales from April, but an' in
HENDERSON, N. C., WEDNESDAY
LEADING WETS AND DRYS ASSEMBLE AT CONVENTION
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These personalities have a leading
part in determining what is con
ceded to be the ptuumount issue
at the Republican national con
vention in Chicago-- the party's
-da.id on prohibition. Upper left
*< Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler,
■«ident of Columbia university.
FOUNTAIN MAY GET
OUT Os NEXT RACE
BY DEFAULT ROUTE
Barely Possible He May Not
Make Announcement as
To Second Primary
For Governor
HAVING TROUBLE IN
RAISING FINANCES
Brummitt Resolutions At
Granville Convention May
Damage Him and Fountain
Both if Fountain Runs
Again, Unless State Con
vention Endorses
Dally Ulapntrk Sirrni,
la the Sir Walter Hotel.
RT J. C. lItSKKRVIM,
Raleigh. June 15. —The only uncer
tainty remaining about a second pri
mary- is whether Lieutenant Gover
nor R. T, Fountain will demand a
run-off with J. C. B. Ebringhaus. who
led Fountain more than 47.000 votes
in the first primary for the Demo
cratic nomination for governor. A sec
ond primary has been assured be
tween Senator Cameron Morrison and
Robert R. Tteynolds. since Morrison
has already filed his request for the
run-off with the State Board of Elec
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crease of 165.000 bales over May, 1931.
Exports of cotton during the first
five months of the calendar year ag
gregated 3,863,000 bales, an increase
of 1,564,000 bales over the correspond
ing five months of 1931.
The value of cotton expprjed in
May aggregated $17,577,000, compared
with $20,518,000 in April, and
060 in May. 1931. The total valufc of
cotton exported during the -five
months of the calendar year was $147,
435,000, an increase of $13,968,000 over
the first five months of l*3h ,
AFTERHOON, JUNE 15. 1932
BONUS BILL
champion of the wets; upper
right, Mrs. Charles H. Sabin, Mrs.
Courtland Nichol, and Mr 3. Archi
bald Roosevelt, leaders of the
feminine battle for repeal; lower
left, Major Henry H. Cum..i, na
tional president of the Association
Against the Eighteenth Amend
Says G. 0. P. Solidarity
Means Saving Os Nation
Snell, Permanent Conven
tion Chairman, Lauds
Hoover, Flays
Democrats
Chicago. June 15—(AP)—Represen
tative Bertrand H. Snell, permanent
chairman of the Republican National
Convention, told Its delegates today
that the solidarity of their party in
"this crisis means the salvation of
the United States."
The New Torker alternated denun
ciation of the Democrats and praise
of President Hoover, but like Senator
L. J. Dickinson, of lowa, in the key
note speech yesterday, he did not men
tion prohibition.
"By long trial In the actual respon
sibility of conducting the govern
ment,” Snell said, “the Republlacn
party has become capable of govern
ing.
He asserted that outside the Repub
(Continued on Page Six)
PROHIBITION MARS
G.O. P.’S HARMONY
Troublesome Dry Law Plank
Disturbs Quiet of Chi*
cago Parley
By CHARLES P. STEWART
Washington, June 15. —But for the
prohibition plank. Republican man
agers could have bad their party's pl&t-
Yorm ready to a<sap* at the first gavel
tap. opening the G. O. P. convention.
In its economic details it was fram
ed in Washington bo*n« days ago.
Participants in the job of putting
it together described it at the time as
including:
1. Recognition of the depression's
ilk. with th« quahftoation that they
would have been vastly worse exetjit
that the Republics op fortimaiely werg
in power; a reference to the situs 1
Uon as due to world oorxMtiom. great -
hr modified in thetr severity bjh Prta
(Continued on Page Biz.},
PUBLISH!) D EVERT AFTMLNOOM
*XC*PT SUNDAY.
ment, and Warren Bay Icy. Seer#*
tary of the Illinois division; lower
right, Dr. Ernest Cbarrington, Dr.
F. Scott Mcßride and George H.
Wilson, Anti Salvor league of
ficials, who are every
move of the wets at the Chicago
conclave.
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BERTRAND H. SNEjJu^
Dawes Would
Not Run Even
If Nominated
Washington. .Jnn« 15.—(AP)—
Charles Gates Dawes, In a formal
statement today, said he could not
accept the Republican nomination
for the vice-presidency If It were
offered him.
The vice-president, who con
cludes today his tenure of office
as president of the Reconstruc
tion Finance Corporation, said he
had given the question of the
vice - presidency "‘considerable
thought."
He made the statement at his
home In the Willard hotel, per
sonalty telephoning it to the As
sociated Tress.
The situation In the convention
as to the vice-presidential nomina
tion, as reported by the press this
morning, wouid seem to call for a
more explicit statement of my at
titude,” Mr. Dawes said. "To have
been considered for this nomina
tion is a high honor, and I ap
, pertate the proffers of support. I
~ have givea the question consider
able thought. I could not accept
the nomination, U made.”
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, TODAY
FIVE CENTS COPU
SNELL’S MENTION
OF HOOVER, SIGNAL
FOR BIG OUTBURST
In Old-Time Fashion, Dele
gates Parade and Sing,
“California, Here
I Come
MENTION OF NAME
STARTS FIREWORKS
absolution Condemns Party
Irregularity In Congress;
Stadium Owner Demands
$8,500 Due Him For Pay;
Prohibition Tonight at
At 8 O’Clock
Chicago Stadium, Chicago,
June 15 (AP) —With a new show
of confidence, the Hoover helms
men steered the Republican con
vention unfalteringly today
through a second session which
raised enthusiasm to a new peak
in a 20-minute demonstration for
the President.
In old-time fashion, delegates from
every state paraded their banners to
the tune of "California, Hare I Coma."
ringing and clapping vneir hands,
laughing and yelling, determined, it
seemed, that this is no doubt a Hoov
er convention.
Then* they got through routine busl
(Contlnued on Page Two.)
NEWELL FRAZIER.
URGE DRY PLANK
1 At Request of Bishop Can*
non, They Present Plan
To Committee |
Chicago, June 15. (AP> Two
North Carolina delegates today were
playing a leading role in the arduous
task of whipping the Republican plat
form into shape at the national oon
ventlon here.
Clifford Frazier, of Greensboro, can
didate for governor, and Jake F.
Newell, senatorial candidate, were
picked by Bishop) James Cannon,
chairman of tho United Dry Forces
Board of Strategy, to present a bone
dry plank to the platform commit
tee.
All prohibition elements, including
the Anti-Bkioon League and other or
ganization, have banded together in a
fight Ik keep the platform as dry as
possible.
Newell and Frazier went together
* n *.o the committee room where
razier then asked consideration of
the proposed dry plank.
GERMAN AIRMAN IS '
REPORTED MURDERED
Windham. Australia, June 15.
<AP>—Native runners came in today
with stories that the missing German
aviator, Captain Hans Bertram, and
his companion. Clausman. had been
"murdered by blacks.”
Officials declined to accept their
story until it was thoroughly check
ed. however, and went ahead with
plans to send & launch to the spot
where Bertram s plane was found yes
terday near Drysdale Mission.
G.O.i’EYESIRN
ON IHE DEMOCRATS
Chicago Delegates More In
terested in Who Opposi
tion Will Be
By LESLIE EICHEL
Central Preae Writer
Chicago, June 15.—1 t seems more
tike a Democratic convention than a
Republican. Everybody is asking:
"Who will be the Democratic nomi
nee?” Then, there’s the fight over
the wet plank.
Democratic nominee? The RepiS
lieans seem to incline toward Ba^dr
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