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First National Bank Cannot HENI •' v^n fiATE" " T 0 central CAROLINA. nineteenth YEAR |[|WL OF 15C PROPERTY TAX IS TO BE HARD TASK. Won t Be So Easy as Cam paigners May Have Thought When They Vigorously Prom ised It I general sales tax relief to business ; Would Lift Taxes Off Cor- j portions and Put Them on i Shoulders of People Too } Poor To Pay Property I Tax; Their Agents Fight ing for Sales Levies |i • i!« llnrfni, In iHe »lr \V nlfrr llitfrl • i r. \ I'* The removal of ! ... \ *■ • •*-. v-'w levied hv the 1 . • z - ri! v supposed to be < .: ;>•■•* of the ;*ix months | , v::i; ’h "ith nothing in the’ . iratrs that it is for ! , - , rr.i.ii' than ar.v other pur ... -,■ pr vi* i mure difficult task. m; " thin those who have -- t '•l'tii.: it realize, according . >n • h>* candidates who advo-1 e . *h-* removal of this tax of r - *' B Khringhaus. Demo nin-• for governor was one ri . 1 . .nc h:rg thev arc going to, :> » i H-f'ic: ;• time to put through. 1 •• •; -►•cr' , t hete that those fa- j -viz *h» removal of the 15 cents! m ' property are the same , i r ~ *hi hive been advocating a | 1- x and that this same' b'»' ; . • return to the 1933 ! *l*tin A'-’T.h v with more deter-. - •' rr before to impose p jt • < • ’ax upon the people • •*>" >t-> place of the 15 cents ! •t( .re- Those favoring the : (m.-cd on Page Four.) MRS ROCKEFELLER AT POINT OF DEATH fhieafi. Xug. 19.—(AP)— The 1 iHth n| Mrs. F.dtth Rockefeller MvCornlrk. physician* say, Is but r , **s*ter us hours. Isrh this morning, however, the "wen who once was known as th» n< lost in the world, was aleep ,n» pear cfijlly in her suite In a I'Vil h.itrl I Chowan Will Test ! Powers of State | Penalizing Board; F l»- 1 n, \;ig. 19.( AP)—Chowan j •'"hn-itiis have announced they ' "Ml in«.fitnt« rnandxnnw action ttonsr IV state Hoard of F,quali ?t'i t-i test its right to order j ' ■nsii'nlrtiii.n of whools against j •in* wishes of school patrons In ''ilifd, lest vear the Ward, Rlvervlew '■*'l l{\iaod sehools were ordered with Chowan high X'h*M.| Patrons balked, and the 'M»*> Hoard countered try refusing 1 1 pilot teachers or provide trana o*'riiiiiori until its ruling had been j '■■•"plied with. State May Get One Os Loan Banks Winston-Salem Has Inside t rack for Lo tion If State Does Succeed ■ llisunt* k Rnrena, \n the sir Walter Hotel. ' 1 ‘ HtSKEIMIU, ' ' A,, S 19 North Carolina ‘ - it chance to secure the ' ‘ <*f °oe of the district • '.. r " !n " o*n banks, according '**'*'• have been working to v " “ '’f these banks for this j. 4 »l-n agreed that at the , ,nr Winston-Salem would t a be»ter chance for be- Ws> ri:i th * location for the • - t . *' ‘‘'tabllshed in the State, . ’ \ v '’h j r city, although Ra i : ‘ ,r ham. Charlotte and Ashe , ‘ *. h ipmg to get the bank. N . ’ n " r hief advantages which ... ' n3 has over other south iv . en*itl« it to one of " H > tk4 ce-.tr®.'. location i.nued on Pag# Plea.) Hiutfrrrs FULL LEASED WIKE BMtVICB or THE ASSOCIATED PIUMA * RIKING iowa farmers picket state highways - - y ySmE&e Al Wl.- Two views from the lowa farm strike area where determined agri culturists have picketed the roads leading into Sioux City halting all ♦■rucks bearing livestock, milk and Reconstruction Finance Loans $1,219,000,000 To July 31, Mills Announces Father, Mother and 4 Children Burned Midland, Mich., Aug. 19.—(AP) —A father and mother and their four children were fatally burned early today in their automobile, which caught fire after colliding with another car. ! The victims are Mr. and Mrs. i George Mesner, of Thompsonville, Mich., and their children. Three of the children died In the burning car before rescuers could reach then. The others died in hospitals later. RAILROAD CREDITS WOULD HELP MANYj Independent Equipment; Companies Would Bene, fit From Huge Loans By CHARLES P. STEWART Washington, Aug. 19. If the Re construction Finance Corporation Ttakes the country's railroads to the required number of hundreds of mil lions to put them once more in first class repair, who will get the money for doing the work? It is a job that the railroads’ own shops can handle. Or it can be handled by the inde pendent repair and equipment com panies which cater to the transporta tion industry. Railroad workers want their own shops to attend to it. President A. O. Wharton of the In ternational Association of Machinists is authority for the statement that they can do it better than he inde pendent concerns. ! Besides, if it is assigned to them, a maximum share of the many millions to be spent will go to labor. If the contracts are turned over to (Continued on Page Six.) Davis Says That He Will Answer Lottery Charges ________ New York, Aug. 19 (AP) —Senator James J. Davis, of Pennsylvania, not ified the United States attorney’s of fice through an attorney today that be would appear August 30 to plead to indictment* returned yeterday charging ’him and six others with par ticipation in a lottery. Senator Davis will attend the na tiocval convention of the Loyal Order of Moose next week, and will be here throughout the following wspk. ONLY DAILY R PUBUSHED IN THIS SECTION OF NORTH CAROUNA AND VIRGINIA. other farm produce in an attempt to raise the price of these com modities. Top photo shows a group of livestock trucks halted at Hinton, la., and below is one j Great Majority of Banks j Borrowing Have Been Those in Small Towns, Secretary Says 346 CLOSED BANKS FURNISHED MONEY 541 Building and Loan As sociations Share In Credit Together With Numerous Agricultural Groups; Large Sum Loaned Out Been Paid Back Providence, R. 1., Aug. 19.-—( AP) The Reconstruction Corporation loan ed $1,219,000,000 to 4,947 institutions, including 4,190 banks and trust com panies, from February 2 to July 31. Secretary Mills make the figures public today in an address at (com mencement exercises of Bryant-Strat ton College of Business administra tion here. He denied the corporation had help ed only the city banKs and other large institutions, and described the efforts to revive business. Mills said the corporation had ad vanced $736,000 000 to banks and trust companies. Os that sum $30,000,000 (Continued on Page Four) SERGEANT COMMITS SUICIDE AT FORT Charleston. S. C.. Aug. 19. (AP) Sergeant Roy T. Thurman, 46. for the paat 16 years in the recruiting ser vice at Greenville, S. C., committed suicide at Fort Moultrie this morning by slashing his throat. He had been in the army 21 years, GIRL S STEPFATHER j IS ACCUSED BY HER ! Johnston County Girl, 14, Tells Sordid Tale Os Man's Advances Smlthfield, Aug. 19.—(AP)—Bethel ’Langston, 14-year-old Johnston county girl, related on the witness stand in superior court here today a sordid story of alleged criminal attacks com mitted on her person by her step father C. L. Summerlin, who is charg ed with the capital crime of rape. The £trl testified that Summerlin first at tacked her shortly after he married her mother five years ago, and re peated the act periodically until last month. Two unless testified to par tially corroborates her testimony. Summerlin, who denies the chargee was accompanied in court todiiy by the girl’s mother. V. „ . * i mt Satin HENDERSON. N. C. t FRIDAY AFTERNOON, AUGUST 19, 1932 »/ • Re-Open Until Depositors Sign—Sign Now of the trucks used by the strid ing farmers to delivef free mijk to citizens of Sioux City during the progress of the strike. The movement was reported spreading. Legion Votes For Short Work Week Indianapolis, Ind.. Aug. 19.—(AP) —A shorter or "flexible” working week is overwhelmingly favored by American legion imnU as a means of spreading work and increasing employment, iucompieie return* of a poll of legion poet* showed to day. Henry L. Stevens. Jr., national commander, announced that the first replies from the 16,900 post*, showed a ratio of almost seven to one favoring the iirntmil. He said 789 voted for the shorter week, and 122 against It. Th ■ figure*, the l egion head said, represent c. imomnltie* in ©v’®y Stale. TELLS LEGION TO GO INTO POLITICS Daniels So Advises PennsyL vania State Convention Os Service Men Pittsburgh, Pa.. Aug. 19. —(AP) Josephus Daniels. Raleigh, N. C.. newspaper publisher, and war-time secretary of the navy, today urged the American Legion to "go into politics." The admonition, the North Carolina Democratic leader tol*l the Pennsyl vania State Legion convention here, "has no suggestion that the Legion creed against participation party politics for individual advantage should be violated.” "Go into politics,’’ Daniels said, "is another way of urging that every man and woman study the science of gov ernment and seek by devotion to party or cause to bring about the best government.” In the war against depression and for the restoration of prosperity, he declared the ‘‘call" was for men of all political creeds “to let party politics be adjourned while the governments (Continued on Four) Full Benefit 67 New Federal Tax Is Not Yet Felt Washington, Aug. 19.—(AP)— The full benefit of the new taxes hasn’t yet been realized by far. but they con tributed more than three percent of the Federal income in July. The Treasury’s report, though, dhows that some of the old standbys provided a big share of the $61,688,467 received in that month. Income taxes, for instance, gave $17,457,131; ebtes $28,605.437; chewing and smok ing tobacco- $4,373,873. The total fell short of that of ST4,- 169.258 in July. 193 L But it included these .returns many of wMch an» expected to get larger with a full month of application. vHeather FOB NORTH CAROLINA. Partly cloudy; aMghtly ; ceelar tonight; Saturday dowdy; Jtlghtty cooler in the eastern parties* Htspatrh PRICES CONTINUE TO SHOW ADVANCE ON BORDER MARTS 1 Dissatisfaction at Darlington 1 Since Opening Dissipat. ed As Averages Climb Higher FAIR BLUFFSHOWS AN AVERAGE OF sll Ltunberton 4 s Sale Friday Brought $8.93, While Dil lon Market Reports $9.75 Price for Light Break; ( Growers Cheered by Pros-! pect of Improvement (By the Associated Preae.) Steadily increasing prices today brought cheer to tobacco growers in the South Carolina and North Caro lina border markets. The most significant change in at titude came at Darlington, S. C., where dissatisfaction that has spread among the growers since the market opened Tuesday was dissipated by rising quo tations and vale of approximately 25,000 pounds for an average of about l $9 per hundred. The price range at Darling;on was from three to 28 cents a pound, with the market forced to close early be cause rains last night and today had prevented farmers from reaching the floors with their product. Fair Bluff, N. C., where rains held offerings to 24.340 pounds, reported an average of }ll, the highest in the belt. Prices at Lumbert.on, N. C., also were reported rising today, while of ficial figures for yesterday’s business 3howed sales of 288.074 pounds at an average of $8.93. THe break at Dillon. S. C.. today also was light, official figure# for the abort.day showing 21,438 pounds sold for an average of $9.75 per hundred.' Kingstree. S. was the only re porting market wnicn failed to show a higher trend. SIOO,OOO Suit Is Result of Recent High Point Strike Greensboro, Aug. 19.— (AP) An echo of the recent High Point strike was heard here today with the filing by Robert Reese of a 1100,000 damage suit against C. L Amos and the Melrose Hosiery Mills and F. H. Clark, foreman In the mllL His comp’alnt alleged be enter ed the milt owned by Amps at 4 p. m., July 18, with other strikers, went to the boiler room and blew the whistle to halt operations in the mill. As he came out, he claims Clark threw a pitcher of acid at him, inflicting serious bums. Mrs. David Poole, Clayton Woman, Is j Fatally Wounded| Clayton, ta 19.—(AP)—Mrs. David Poole, prominent young Clayton woman, was fatally wound ed in her home here late last night by what relatives described as (» yeflf Jin fretted rharge from a shotgun. Mrs. Poole, her husband said, left him and her son and went Into an adjoining room at their home. She was apparently In good spirits, but a moment later he reached his wife, she was dying, Poole said. A shotgun lay by her side. SAULTE STE. MARIE HAS A LIGHT SNOW Sault Ste. Mario, Mich., Aug. 19 (AP)—Snow fell here but j night as the temperature dropped ho 52 degrees. A drizzling rain | fell earlier in the evening and changed to a tight snow ss the i mercury went lower. Three Dead, She Burned As Truck And Wagon Collide ptthwa, Ala, Aug. 19>—(AF>— Three persona were injured fatal) •ad six! wade burned seridoaty to day In the eolUsien of a State highway truck loaded with con victs and gneoHnn, and n wagon on n bridge near Newton, Ain. Two convicts eica pod Clarence Beckham, 49* Dale county fanner, and Us qfght-year-' odd son, Preston, were sprayer with burning and died toon after reaching a Dothan hoepitaL PUtOdSHBD EVERY AFTBRNOOM EXCEPT SUNDAY. First Solo Flight Westward Enacted By British Aviator Betty Gow Abroad • j ■ ijyw Jr iKHBHHfIn sfl| wßk jßjpßaß 4 Betty Gow, Scottish nurse oi ths jmß’dcred Lindbergh baby, is re ported overjoyed at news of tha birth of a second son to Col onel and Mrs. LindVrgh. She is shown eo m ing down the gang plank. at Plymouth. Engla’ J, as she set foot on British soil for the first time sir.ee the t*agedy. It is understood will return to the l,inflh«rgli hfiusehold WALKER ATTORNEY ARGUES DISMISSAL Curtin Pleads With Roose velt To Drop Ouster Charges on Mayor MAY HEArTuBLISHER Paul Block, Whoso Joint Brokerage Account With Walker Netted Huge Sum, Is Ready To Testify For Mayor Executive Chamber, Albany, N. Y . Aug. 19 (AP>-John J- Curtin, at torney for Mayor Walker, resumed h*is argument today for dismissal of oust er charges by Governor Roosevelt. Paul Block, newspaper publurtier, ap peared in the “Hall of Gowmore" to A testify for the mayor. Block estab lished the joint brokerage account, from which the mayor had testified he received *246,000. Resuming his argument lor dismissal of the 15 Sea bury conclusions, which extended Throughout yesterday's session. Cur tin took up No. 10. involving the Mayor’s buisiness rleartons with the missing accountant, Ruseeil T. Sher wood. Samuel Seabury- counsel to the Hof skadteT legisla-t ivf committee, had charged that Sherwood, as Walker's fiscal agent handled in five and & half years stock transactions totalling nearly $1,000,000. The third vidtlm was a Negro whose name wae not learned Im mediately. Jeff Davis, of Qsark, a guard aboard the truck; Ewell Frahsh and Spencer Ziegler were brought to the hospital here. Davis and Frahsh were In a se rious conditions. Witnesses said the truck struck the wagon, which pushed out onto the highway In the path of Che machine* 6 PAGES TODAY FIVE CENTS COPy ; Captain J. A. Molliaoo Makes Perfect Landing In Canada, 30 Hours i From England ! HAS PLENTY FUEL LEFT IN HIS TANK Would Have Continued On To New York But For His Own Weariness After | Hard Grind Across the At lantic; Flie* • Far Inland | Before Landing ! Penfield Ridge, M. r . Aug 19.-- 1 AP) Captain J. A. Moilison. the first j man to make a solo flight westward , across the North Atlantic, landed just I outside of this little village at 11 35 a m.. EST.. today too tired to go uny farther. j For more than *3O hours he ha i ' pushed his "The H< art's Content.’ I stripped down so that it was little more than a flying gasoline tant. ! across nearly 3.(m0 miles of ocean 1 through weather that waa none too ! good. He had plenty of fuel, and but for ( his own weariness might have gone on to New York, he said. When h» j got this far. however, and saw thro ’ ugh a break in the clouds a broad ; meadeaow below him, he dropped I down to a perfect landing. I I FIRST WESTW ARD SOLO HOP OVER THE ATLANTIC OCEAN { Halifax. Nova Scotia, Aug. 19—(AP) -Captain J. A. Mollison, who already holds speed records for flights from Australia to London and from Lon don to Cape Town, today completed the first westward solo flight across the North Atlantic, j At 5:05 a m.. EST. just 23 hours ■ and 40 minutes after he left Port- I marnock island, he was sighted over ; the airport at Halifax. N. S., ap i proximate!)- 2.653 mi lei from his start 1 ing point. > His silver gray sport plane, which ia little more than 'a flying gtasolina tank, passed over the airport headed west. Apparent)* Mollison had omit ted a scheduled refuelling stop at Har bor Grace. N. F., 550 miles east o£ j here. 1 Albemarle Man 1 Fatally Shot At '■** Filling Station ’i j Albemarle, Aug. 19.—(AP)—Bernard ! Hudson, 23-year-old Albemarle man, 1 was shot and fatally wounded at a filling station on the Badin highway) L early today by Willie Shepherd. Ne gro night watchman. Shepherd wa a placed in jail pending investigation of | his story that Hudson was attempting I to steal gasoline. Shepherd said he wan sleeping in thd I station when, a noise outside aroused ' him. He said he saw a person ap ■ parently trying to get gasoline from | one the tanks, secured a shotgun I and fired through a window. Tha charge entered the back of Hudson’s head, and he died in a hospital a short time later. # <f| Piccard To Make Third Climb Soon Next Ascent Into Stratosphere To Be From Shores of the Hudson Bay Desenzano, Italy. Aug. 19.—(AP) Professor Auguste Piccard, resting to day after his record-beaking ascent into the stratosphere yesterday, an nounced he would begin immediately to prepare for a third ascent from the northwest shore of Hudson Bay. in Canada. “The moment we finish the work I of calculating the results recorded by our instruments on yesterday’s flight," he said, "we will begin preparations for the third experiment.” "We plan to take off from the north west shore of Hudson Bay. and close as we can get to the North Pole. Our purpose will be to complete the study of cosmic rays and at a point wh?re the line of magnetic force penetrates ' the stratosphere."
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