HENDERSON, GATEWAY TO CENTRAL CAROLINA. NINETEENTH YEAR COLUMBUS POLICE SAY M’COIN NEW INDICTMENT IN WOMAN MURDER CASES 13 RETURNED Pho«nix Lumberman Alleg ed to Have Attempted To Conceal Murders In Arizona City. MURDER CASE UP TO U.S. SUPREME COURT , Will Be In Form of Writ of Certiorari and Will Aliege Winnie Ruth Judd Did Not Get Fair Trial in Superior or Supreme Courts of Ari zona l h tnix. Ail*.. Dec. 30 (API J J il :onn. Phaonix lumberman and it.-man. was indicated by the c md jury today in connection with ' Winnie Ruth Judd murder case, • t -hortly afterwards accepted a be rh warrant charging he was an i. < .\-.-ory in the slaving of Agnes An * I .croy and ReHvig Samuelson. M-s Horan appeared at the court b i'C and posted $3,000 bond. He was K "! pd pending preliminary hearing ’o-\t Tuesday. Tne charge against the lumberman w based on alleged attempted con > ilment of a crime. He waa not eb jrged with implication In the sl&y lngs themselves. The maximum (Continued on “Pafid Pour) Streams In State \ Are Now Receding In Most Sections Raleigh Dec 30. (API-North Car "iiiu streams today were receding In to their banks in their middle arid upper sectors as a day and night of more rain was predicted. but the li>wcr reaches of the eastern rivers mi ip still in flood. Turbulent waters of yesterday in Western North Caro lina -tteams had moved down Into South Carolina. l>*e A Denson, in charge of the Tinted States Weather Bureau here, -••nd more rain was the prediction for t!i** State, but that no further flood < .ndKions were expected unless the precipitation was heavy. The slight overflows this week have done very li'Me damage. The upper stretches of the Cape V. ii Neu.se and Tar rivers were see . i he waters slump today. Denson 3'Persons Injured In Auto Crash Win..ton Salem. Dec. 30. (API Three persons were hurt. possibly and a fourth narrowly escap ed injury when an automobile and a truck collided here today. The injuicd are: Mis. Wayne Spicer. North Wilkes boro: her brother. Frank Holland, aTo of North YMtlkesbom. and R. H. Wooten, of Winston-Salem. Wayne Spicer escaped. Mrs. Spicer was badly bruised and tv. pital attaches said she may have internal injuries Holland was cut and bruised about the head and arms and Wooten received an injury to his leg and a cut on the head. Preparations Made For Administration Changes In Raleigh Coming Week Raleigh. Dec. 30.—(API Among tsigns of the times in Raleigh are 'HVfial of political significance. The offices of Gov. O. Max Gard oei in the Stale capitol reflect that ‘his four-year term as governor is t ipidlv drawing to a close. Wooden pirking baxes can be seen almost any time ir the executive offices, and f i'* as they have been filled with the governor’s belongings htey are hauled away The governor himself will de part for his Shelby home January 5. On ’he second floor balcony of the Capitol visible evidence that a legis -1 i f ive session is just around the cor icr can be aaen. The biennfly re imtitersnn 33 at hi Hfsrratrir WIR» SERVICE OF THU ASSOCIATED PRESS. WHICH ONE WILL BE NEXT SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE? ■* s= f==v iAI: : A... X mniv MM ffIHHBHK McDuffie Rainey Byrn* One of the three tanking members of (he Democratic party in (lie house of epr«>_=entaiives will he chosen speak Business In 1933 Will Be Ten Percent Better Than 1932, Babson Savs 7 j Under Double Lift of Bigger Volume and Higher Prices, It Will Be 15 Percent Better; Will Be More Jobs; Final Opportunity for Investments BY KOGKR W BABSON, Copyright 1932. Publishers Fin ancial Bureau. Babson Park. Fla.. Dec. 30 Busi ness in 1933 will total at least 10 per cent greater than in 1932. I refer to the volume of business, measured in tons. husheL«. dostens. 'and other units of quantity. There is an other way to look at business, name SALES TAX f 0 BE TALKED NEXT WEEK Despite Roosevelt Opposi tion, House Democrats To Consider It Washington. Dec. 30. (API De spite the reported opposition of Presi dent-elect Roosevelt to a general sales tax. Chairnii.n Collier said today he would give the House Ways and Means Committee an opportunity to pass on it next Wednesday. The Mississippi Democrat told news paper men he was going to give the group “full opportunity to consider all proposed taxes. including the manufacturers sales tax.” when it un dertakes to formulate legislation de signed to balance the budget. The specific sales tax bill to be considered is that proposed by Re preaentat i vo Republican, Michigan, providing a 1 S-4 percent levy on manufactured products, ex clusive of necessities of life. freshment stand (operated with legis lative consent) has been p"* In pl«ce and is ready to dispense soda-pop. smokes and food. The session opens January 4. with a Democratic caci.s January 3. Numerous State departments and divisions are still topsy-tury as staffs work, often long hours overtime, to put finishing touches to reports to be made to the General Assembly. The budget bbureau is grinding away to have the administration re venue and appropriations bills ready to go to the printer next week so they (Continued on Pag* Seven.) ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED HENDERSON, N. C., FRIDAY AFTERNOON, DECEMBER 30, 1932 er of the next congress, succeeding j vice president elect John N. Garner. , Left to right, ala conference in the capitol. are John McDuffie, of Ala- ; iy, its money value in dollars. In gen eral, prices in 1933 will tend to ad vance. Hence, under the double lift of bigger volume and higher prices, the doiar amount of business this coming year will total at least 15 per cent above that of 1932 I am not stat ing these definite percentages with (Continued on Page B!x> WORLD PRODUCTION OF COHON SLUMPS 3,500,000 Bales Under Las Year and Smallest In Five Years Washington. Pro. 30 Foreign production was estimated at 11,300,000 bales, which is 900,000 above last season and 600,000 below 1930-31. Cotton textile mill activity in the United States and mo6t of the im portant foreign cuntries was said to have been apparently maintained dur ing November at the improved levels reached a few months earlier. AW ILL Rogers Santa Monica, Calif., Dec. 30. DM you see the list of refunded income taxes this morning? If anything should prove that a sales tax was a (air tax, it Is the uncertainty of income tax. Through no one’s particular fault, people pay in a lot of money, then in a year or two they get it tack. Then others think tltey paid it all up: then In a year or so the government wonts more, there Is no expert living that knows exactly what is, and *hat ain't allowed. Remember tomorrow. Sunday and Monday are the people’s last two days of mind relaxation. Con gress meets Tuesday. Yours, WILL* P. S. Have any of you seen my friend Chariton Ogburn, Jr, late of Harvard. IN THIS SECTION OF NUKTH CAROLINA AND ’VIRGINIA. bnma; Henry T. Rainey, of Illinois, Democrat floor leader, and Joseph Ryrns of Tennessee. AH are vete rans. Fear Veto Philippine Bill Sure If Hoover Does Re ject It, Worse One Likely, Senator Bingham Says Washington. Dec. 30 -Presi dential veto for the Philippine inde pendence bill passed yesterday was forecast reluctantly today by Senator Bingham ' The Connecticut Republican, who heads the Senate territories Commit tee, told new paper men he feared President Hoovei “could not sign the Philippine bill, in view of the oppo (Continued on Page Eight.) FARM REUF.FBILL READY NEXT WEEK Washington, Dec. 30.—(API Hopeful of reporting a farm relief bill to the House hy the end of next week. Chairman .tones today summoned members of the agri culture committee to a special meeting tomorrow to study details of the domestic allotments plan. ASSERT ROOSEVELT FAVORS MR. RAINEY Washington, Dec. 30 (AP)—The speakership race In the House was tftirtfd today hy a published report that President-elect Roosevelt was favorable to Representative Henry T. Rainey, of Illinois, the Demo cratic floor leader, as successor to speaker John N Gamer. WHthFr FOR NORTH CAROLINA. Cloudy, probably min in north and west portions tonight and Saturday: warmer In central and northwest portions tonight; colder in extreme west portions Satur day. Says Average U. S. Family Is Worth Sum Os $12,000 Cincinnati. Ohio. Dec. 30.—(AP) Believe it ,or not, the average Amer ican family is worth $12,000. That, at leant. in the estimate of M. R. Niefeld. New York statistician, pre sented today before the American Statistical Association here. Neiield said the average of Arn icas 30,000,000 families will find cur rent assets more than double current liabilities, despite the last three years and he displayed a balance sheet to prove *t. Total assets of the Amen can family RAIDS UPON ROAD FUNDS CERTAIN TO CRIPPLE HIGHWAYS Serious Inroads Might Force State to Turn Roads and Schools Back to Counties AID NOW EXTENDED MIGHT BE STEPPED v Going Limit In Assistance to Counties Already, and Even Comparatively Slight Diversion Would Be Felt in Probable Withdrawal of Money Daily IMxpntch llttrrne. In the Sir Waller Hotel. nv j c. na“t-nivii.y, . Raleigh. Dec. 3*5 Unless the coun ics. the school people, the truck and lUtomcblie owners stop trying to tam per with the gasoline and license tax 's, by trying to get rebates or diver sions from the 1 highway fund, the 'ta'c is likely to withdraw what aid t is now giving and throw the road: "d schools back into the laps of the •ounties to be supported entirely by id valorem taxes, according to many 'f those here who have been studying ‘ho question seriously. Not that the State would withdraw (Continued on Page Eight.) New York Wonders What Its Retiring Mayor Will Do Now< —■— / New York, Dec. 30 (AP) —The din ‘hat greets the New Year on sky scraper isle will herald also the des cent of a scholarly young man from the mayoralty of New York and all over town they’re asking: “What will Joseph V. McKee do then? 1 f The former teacher of Greek, the Scotchman with hardly a wise crack in his system, who stepped up from the aldertnanic to the mayoralty when the airy James J. Walker stepped out, goes back to hfs old post the first of the year. Youth steps aside. An older head in the person of Joseph P. O’Brien. Tammany man. goes in. Accused Man Leaves Town Taking Wife Laurinburg. Dec. 30. (API— Dr. W C. Caldwell- prominent veterinary sur geon who was bound to si perior court several days ago under $1,250 bond on charges of beating his wife, was re ported to have left town with Mra. Caldwell today in his automobile. It was reported they were headed for concord, the veterinary sur geon’s former home, and speculation was rife as to whether they hud been reunited after the night several weeks ago when Mra. Caldwell from hei home in her bloody nightgown follow ing a beating her husband had given her. At a preliminary hearing a phy sician testified Mrs. Caldwell suffer ed cuts and bruises on almost every part of her body after being struck repeatedly with a doorstop. He aaid her skull had been fractured. She did not take the witness stand as her oondition .would not permit, and neither did Caldwell testify in his own behalf. < at the end of 1929. he figured, were $421,079,000,000. while total liabilities were only $46.360J00.00ti. "In other words.” he said, “for every dollar the American family owes, they had $9 in their possession.” The statistical expert placed cur rent assets at $208,477,000,000, com posed of $31,519,000,000 in cash and $176,958,000,000 in investments. Fixed assets included $145,000,000 in real es tate. $50,000,000,000 in furniture and the like, $7,600,000000 in automobiles and the rest in miscellaneous things from a can of beans to a yacht. PUBUBBMD EVERT mUNOOI EXCEPT SUNDAY* WAS THERE Identification Is Claimed Positive i ■ In Announcement Glass and Byrd To Refuse Posts Klcjimond, Va.. Dec: 30 (Al*) The News leader aaid today it had leaned authoritatively tht neither United States Senator Carter Glass nor former Governor Harry Flood Byrd would he able to accept port folios ’“Til Roosevelt cabinet In the event I hat Hther should be asked. ' SOME SCHOOLS 10 EXTEND VACATION INTO NOT WEEK Weather Conditions and Prevalence of Influenza Reason, Highway Head Says • RANDOLPH TO WAIT UNTIL JANUARY 9 Forsyth, Davidson and Guil ford bounties Considering Such Action and Suspen sion to January 5 Has Al ready Been Ordered In Henderson, Vance Raleigh. Dec. 30.- (APi E. B. Jef .‘re«H, chairman of the State Highway Commission, said today that all pub lic schools in Randolph county which use school buses to transport pupils will remain closed until January 9 for the Christmas holidays, due to weather conditions and prevalence of influenza. Yesterday Mr. Jcffress and Dr. James M. Parrolt. State health of ficer. issued warnings that it might be wise at this time to postpone the opening of schools one week due to influenza. Mr. Jeffreys said he had also been notified that Forsyth and Davidson county schools using buses would pro bably not open until at least Wed nesday. that the question of postpone tng a week was being seriously con sidered in Guilford, and that that counly and Henderson city and Vance county schools would remain closed until January 5. FEDERAL LOANS AT $1,502,168,401 TOTAL Washington. Dec. 30. (APi— The Reconstruction Corporation has lent $1,502,168,401 to help the country meet economic difficulties General Sales Tax Viewed As Only Remaining Means Os Balancing U. S. Budget ■ U By CHARLES P. STEWART Washington, Dec. 30.—“A balanced national budget is the first essential for business improvement.” says Re presentative George Huddleston of Alabama, senior member, after Chair man Sam Rayburn, of the house com mittee on interstate and foreign com merce. "Not a mere paper balance. like the last one” T?e current fiscal year’s end, June 30, will flpd Uncle Sam an additional two billions in the red, drawing conclusions from the treasury's own bookkeeping. "There is a limit to tbfc federal -credit ’ Traders’ confidence can scarcely be ex- in one another 8 PAGES TODAY FIVE. CENTS CMS Made by Man Who Talked With McGoin Garage , When He Left Car There Saturday NEWS NOT WHOLLY CONVINCING HERE More Details Awaited By 'McCoin’s Friends, Though They Admit Police An nouncement Very Strong; Will Continue Search In Hope of Success MURDER THEORY NOT ABANDONED Columbus. Ohio. Dec SO (AP) Thomgs J Scully, axsuteti( chief of Clumbu* detectives, said late to day that, df'spitt what he consider ed positive identification of photo graph, he was unwilling to aban don the theory that K 8$ McCotn. missing Henderson lawyer, had been slain. - - Columbus, Ohio, Dec. 30 (AP) —The theory that R. S. McCoin, 60-year-old miss ing attorney of Henderson, N. C., was slain by robbers December 22, was exploded here today when police offi cials announced the former North Carolina State Sena tor was in Columbus the night of December 24. Thomas Scully, assiatant chief of Columbus detective*, said a police (Continued on page Flv*s.) Photos Os McCoin Car Sent Here Show License Taj; and Dents on Left Rear Fenders; Made In Columbus. Photographs of the automobile in which R. S. McCoin. missing Hender son attorney, was traveling when he left here Thursday of last week, and which were made by police in Colum bus, Ohio, where the automobile waa (Continued on Page Four.) pected to revive as they grow* ln« creasingiy doubtful of the govern ment’s ability to meet Its obligations.” The frankness of the Alabama re presentative makes many of his fel low lawmakers shudjder as they lie ten to him. Nevertheless, as an eco nomic authority he; has not his equal on Capitol Hill today, and his voice will be potent in the shaping of financial policies for the coming administration. "A genuine balancing of the bud get.” continued 1h« Cotton State leg islator "will call for economies and increased taxation to a total of about a billion. "A cut of 500 millions will have to come In part frorn savings from ordi nary civil expenditures in part from the army and uavy allowance, in part from appropriations in behgif of vet erans. "The entire sdash cannot be made (Continued on Page Seven)