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HENDERSON .UTEWAY TO ‘central CAROLINA twentieth YEAR Wiggtn Confesses Schemes To Avoid Payment Os Taxes P stired Banker Testifies Short Sales in Chase Hank Stock Was for That Purpose wantedTtTreduce FAMILY’S HOLDINGS Denies Sales Were Intended To Depress the Stock; Says High Values in 1929 Not Excessive for That Era, but Above Real Values Os Today Washington. Nov. 1 »AP>—Albert p. ir.gins trsMf'ed to Senate inw**s tlgators today that the purpose of hi • ]-;?e ?hort Files in Chase National Bank stock through a personal cor poration in 1029 was to “postpone" tax payments. Pn»-iously the retired chairman cf the Chase bank (hold the Siena to Banking Ccmrn’ttee be had paid in come taxes totalling $1,365,000 In the last five years. Replying to question's by Senatore Gore, Democrat. Oklahoma. Wiggins «ftid the short sa.es were to “produce •biding power" and to reduce the family holdings in the stock, whch he said were very large at the time. Wiggins d'-nied the sales were de signed to “d opr ess the stock,” though K agreed it might have prevented the price from rising. Ferdinand P«cora, committee coun kl, asked if prior to the 1929 market fo.'.'apse the price of the stack was “out cf all proportion to its true worth." "I don’t tlvnk so at the time." Wiggins said, “but it 'has so develop ed." ? In response to questions. Wiggins Mid the sales were nradu to “post pone" the tax. SALES TAX RISES 111 OCTOBER TOTAL Maxwell and McMuillanj; Highly Pleated With $549,603 of Revenue Dnllr DlMimtoli In the Sir Walter Hotel, ttV .1 C. n.\SKERVH,L. :icv. l.—The collection of J 549 603 from the three per cent {rnera! «=ale3 tpx in October, as an nounced by Commission* r of Revenue A. J Maxwell, is regarded as emi nently satisfactory both by Commis sioner Maxwell and Director Harry McMullan, of the sab’s tax division, since it reflects a healthy growth over collections of the two previous months The August collections amounted to only $358,579 and September collec tions to $411,755. Director McMullan Velievea that the collections that will come in during the next few days *vi’. 1 bring the. total to more than S6OO, ( 00 for October. He also pointed out lha 1 . thn $549,603 collected through Oc tober 28. when the books for the :r»onth were closed, was received from ■ 7,580 nv-rchants. while in September only about 12,000 merchants made re ‘Conti aued on Page Four.l Mills Not To Reopen For While Augusta and Horse (-reek Valley Plants Still Tied Up By Labor Trouble Augusta. Oa., Nov. 1. —(AP) — Re pP'ning of the John P. King cotton mill here, cne cf several that have been •’’hut down by labor troubles, was post poneri today after labor leaders told a mass meeting of strikers last night that th‘- mill “must not reopen.” The resumption of operations was delay'd until Thursday. Th" mill em -1.300 workers on two shifts. Meanwhile. Robert W. Breuerc, chairman and Ren E. Geer, of Green vii e. H. C., iwo of the Cotton Textile Industrial Relations Board, conferred v 'yh Itthor leaders, and with a con fi iaiion commissioner of *he United St itt-s Department of Labor in an ' ffe t to stttle labor troubles here a.n3 in the Horse Creek Valley area A lirttiWrsmt Hatty Bigmtfch — ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OF CAROLINA AND VIRGINIA. * WIRR SERVICE OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS. Kidnaped Candidate H SC * m -A ''' * \ ■L vj w Jr Jr WBsFm- . JKI Willis Staton, of Pikesville, Kv., who was kidnaped by lour masked men while campaigning as inde pendent candidate for a Circuit Court judgeship. His family sent ashes from the ruins of a shack near the scene of the kidnaping to a chemist for analysis or. the sup position that the kidnaped man may have been put to death by burning. 4 Central. Press) Carlos M&ndieta Can Be President or Dictate Who Will Get It GRAU WILL BE OUSTED Present Government iScems Certain of Elimination; Mcndieta Holds Situation in His Hand, Is The Belief i ■ , Santiago, Cuba, Nov. ill—(ATI~ A 10-yoar-old boy was killed to day during frequent street shoot ings which marked the political labor strike which went into ef fect at midnight, and is scheduled to end at the same time tonight. Strikers and strike-breakers mix e:l in fighting, which saw many vehicles overturned in the streets. An ice Iruck driver shot and killed the hoy during an affray in which the truck driver was wound ed. Havana, Nov. 1. —(AP) Carlos Mendieia, grizzled veteran of many a poli'ioal conflict, was believed today to hold the Cuban political situation in the palm of his hand. It was reliably reported that the Na tionalist leader, whose own home was bombed only a few days ago in the current political and labor disorders, could have the presidency if he want ed it. As an alternative, it was said on good authority Mendieta could dictate the selection of a new government to supplant President Grau s. All political leaders, except a few intimates of President Grau. agreed a crisis was near. Need of Rain Is Acute Over Part of Coast States Washington, Nov. I.—(AP) A need for rain in many sections was reported today’ by the Weather Bureau in its weekly summary of crop conditions. The summary said that in the Atlantic area, Pennsylvania New Jersey, Maryland and South Caro lina were in fairly good shape, but the moisture was bad’v need ed elsewhere, and that the late truck crop in southeastern Vir ginia had been virtually ruined. The need for rain was reported acute in the southern states and drought conditions remained lar gely unrelieved in the central Rocky Mountain district. WEATHER FOR NORTH CAROLINA. Fair and probably Thurs dayt M.ttl p 'ha n ire in tcmpßra*ur<\ HENDERSON, N. C., WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON, NOVEMBER 1, 1933 INDICATIONS STILL POINT FOR DEFEAT OF REPEAL EFFORT Wets Claim Victory, But Drys Are Making House to-House Canvass in Many Places REPUBLICANS SEEK POLITICAL BENEFIT Trying To Appear Dry But May Vote Wet To Get Is sue for Legislative Cam paign in 1934; Shifting Back Toward Repeal Seems in Progress, How ever n«||y nupntet Rnrcaa. In the Sit Walter Hotel. IIV J C H,sm iivk / Ra!< igh, Nov. 1. —Wlhile the prevail ing opinion in political circles here is to the etfect thaf the anti-repeal or dry forces still have the advantage and that if the election were to be held today instead of next Tuesday the dry forces would probably win. a consid erable shifting of sentiment back to wards repeal is being noticed in some sections of the State. The repeal for ces are confident the tide has turned and that by next Tuesday. November 7, the date of the election on whether or not North Carolina will vote for repeal of the eighteenth amendment, there will be no question as to how the State will go. Leaders of the re peal movement are .still confident that between 70 and 75 repeal delegates will be elected to the State conven tion. thus giving the repealists a safe margin over the dry’ or anti-repeal forces. Republicans Shifting. One of the things that is giving the repealists decided p ncouragment 13 the apparent shifting of the Repub lican vote in the Piedmont and west ern counties, where there is very lit tle difference between the Democratic and Republican strength and where counties are just as likely to go Re publican as Democratic. While so far the tendency in most of these counties has been for the Republicans to join forces with the. dry Democrats in op posing repeal, indications now are that many of the Republican leaders are becoming frightened for fear the State will actually vote Tot repeal and that they will thus be deprived of vir tually the only thing on which they can base a campaign for members of the General Assembly next fall. It is agreed that if the drys win in this election n*-xfc week, it will make it .difficult for Republican candidates to run for the General Assembly next 'year on a dry platform. It i& also -agreed that with repeal an accom plished fact in the pat.ion., and with vthe platform of the Democratic party ’declaring against prohibition that most of the Democratic candidates are likely to favor modification of the Spate’s liquolr 'laws, tespfec-ially if a majority cf the votes cast in this elec tion next week is for repeal. But if the State votes against repeal now, a majority of the Democratic can didates for the General Assembly next fall are likely to run on a dry plat form. This would make, it difficult for the Republican candidates to run on a dry platform and as friends of prohibition. Attempt. Dual Role. Thus, while a good many Republican leaders art- posing as advocates of prohibition and enemies of repeal, re ports being brought in here from these close counties in the Piedmont and west is that these leaders are (Continued on Page Three.) Smith Very Puzzled By NBA Plans Some Phases of Pro gram Called Incon sistent if Not Really Illegal New York, Nov. I. (AP) —To A1 Smith some aspects of the NRA are very puzzling. In an editorial in the November is sue of the New Outlook magazine, published today. Smith set forth cer tain features of the government’s re covery program which he believed in consistent, or bordering on illegality. “It is all very puzzling,’’ ha said, “and the bewildered observer, hop ing ultimately for an honest test of these issues in the courts, is further confounded by the editorial suggestion in a newspaper of wide circulation that the President could ask Con gress to create a few more Supreme Court judgeships and fill them with *nen sympathetic with the aims of the national recovery act. , would indeed be a new deal.” seekpujgfortaxloopholes THOMAS OTTO KAHN \ The senate committee which is conducting an inquiry into the stock market has revealed that congress, at its next session, will be asked to plug a series of loop holes in the federal income tax law, through which the govern ment has lost millions of dollars Slaying And Kidnaping In New Jersey Gang War Second Man Critically Wounded; His Wife and Girl Companion Whisked Away In Mysterious Auto At Door of Hospital and Police Launch Search Camden, N. J., Nov. 1. —(AP) —An outbreak of what police termed gang warfare resulted today in the machine gun slaying of one man, the critical wounding of another and the mys terious disappearance of two women. An hour after a man who gave his name as John Paul, 32, was brought into a Camden hospital with three steel-jack*ted bullets in his body. State police found the body of Ed ward (Cowboy £ Delonzo, 30, with a bullet through the head lying in a lonely spot near Bdmawr. Despite his wounds, Paul told Law rence Doran, chief of Camden county detectives, that he* and Delonzo were shot by three men with whom they went riding in an automobile and were dumped out between Brooklyn and Litvinoff Sails On Mission Here Paris, Nov.. I.—(AP) Maxim LiO innff, Soviet foreign commissar, sail’d fry's Cherbourg ./today on the Borengaria. <-*« rout*- to Wash ington for his conversations with President Roosevelt concerning Russian recognition. M. Litvinoff was accompanied by Constantin Oumanski, press di rector of the commissariat for for (efgn affairs, and Ivan Divilkoffski, general secretary of the foreign of fice. Oil Well Is Fired From Explosion Blaze Rages 11 Blocks from Okla homa City’s Chief Business District Oklahoma City, Nov. I. (AP)— An explosion set fire to a 10.000-barrel oil well, the Russell Petroleum Company’s No. 1, eleven blocks from Oklahoma City’s business district today. The blast, of undetermined origin, tore out the well’s connections, loosen ing a roaring colum of oil and gase that shot high into the air and ignit ed. No one was injured. The flames quickly melted the steel derrick and consumed 25.000 barrels of oil in four storage tanks. Fire Chief George Gaff quickly or dered surrounding wells shut down. Six wells are within a 100-yard radius of the fire. BELIEVE LADY WAS SLAIN, HOUSE FIRED Rockrort, Mass., Nov. I.—*AP) — F rerr.cn broke into the burning home of Mrs. Augusta Johnson. 55, today and found the body of Mrs. Johnson laying across a bed. Police said the woman appeared to nave been beaten to death. &rd her homo set Dre. _ of revenue in recent years. Dur ing the investigation, it was dis closed that several Wall Street financiers, including J. P. Mor gan, Otto Kahn and Thomas S. Lamont, had taken advantage of the present income tax law to es cape payment of taxes. Belmawr, “I know who shot these men and there will b e an arrest soon,” Doran said later. While surgeons strove to save him, Paul asked that his Wife, be summon ed from a hotel opposite the hosptial. This was done, but wh-'n the wo man and a girl companion reached the hospital entrance a man met them and apparently forced them into an automobile, which was driven away. Doran said he believed Paul was a former Philadelphian, living in Cam den under an assumed name, and that his wife had been abducted because she had see n the three men who shot her husband. A widespread search was started for the women and their captors. CHARGES AGREED ON IN MEDICAL RELIEF Doctors and Relief Office In Accord on Fees In Char ity Cases Dally nittpnfpb Bvrena, in in«* Sir Walter Hotel, nr J. c. HASHER VI 1,1.. Ralsigih, Nov. I—The long-awaited schedule of medical fees which, will' be pai dto doctors within the State at tending patients receiving' relief from Federal Relief funds, was announced today by Mrs. Thomas O’Berry, di rector of the Governor's ;Office of Relief. The schedule has fi.na.ly been (agreed to by the executive commit tee of the North Carolina Medical Society and most of the doctors have expressed their complete satisfaction with it. Mrs. O’Berry said. The only item that has not been agreed to is the fee for X-ray work, but an, agreement on a schedule of charges for this is expected soon. The schedule of charges agreed to is as follows: v Office calls, 75 cents: home visits inside city limits, $1.25; home calls outside city limits, $1.25 plus 15 c**nts a mile On eway for the first eleven miles and beyond 11 miles 5 cents for each additional mile. Additional mileage cannot be collected for other visits made on the same trip. Maternity cases: Delivery. three to five parental visits at office 75 cents each; two home visits fol lowing confinement, $1.25 each; one final gynecological examination at. end of month at rate of either office or home visit. 1 Surgery: Major operations,.' $25; minor operations, $5, both to include dressings. These fees will be paid from relief funds, but a written order from the local (city or county) Relief Admin istrator, on the regular relief order blanks, must be had 'by the doctor be fore attending a patient eadcept in extreme emergency, when an order by telephone will be sufficient, accord ing to the memorandum just sent out by Mrs. O’Berry. A telephone au thorization must be followed up later toy a written order. Bills of the pre ceding month must be mlade out and submitted by the doctor between the first and fifth of each onth. A list of doctors who agiee to accept tbase fees must be obtained in each com munity and only those doctors may foe called to attend relief eases. I 503& EXCEPT 1 RN °° N FIVE CENTS COPY Roosevelt Thinks Recovery Program Making Progress Patriotism Wins Because the Republican organiza tion of the district voted to “put patriotism above partisan consider ations,” Oliver Frey, of Allentown, Pa., Democratic candidate for mem ber of the House of Representatives finds himself with no G. O. P. candi date to fight. He is virtually cer tain to succeed to the seat of the late Rep. Henry Watson, Republican. (Central Press ) GOLD PRICE AGAIN IS LIFTED BY U. S. Quotations Abroad Also Raised, Narrowing Mar gin of Payments PLAN SPEEDY ACTION Roosevelt Continpps Effort To If.ft Commodity Prices; R. F. C. Purchases Are Now Quot ed Here at $32.26 Washington, Nov. I.—(AP)—ln tention of the government to start foreign gold purchases today was stopped by the closing of hanks in France in observance of All Saints Holy Day. This became known today in of ficial quarters that assumed t.hc gold operations would begin to morrow in the foreign market. Washington, Nov. I—(AP) —A jump in the price of gold, both here and abroad, today accompanied President Roosevelt’s preparations for quick ap plication for his plan intended to lift commodity prices for purchasing the yellow nvtal on European markets. The administration advanced its fixed price for R. F. C. jiurchases of newly-mined domestic gold to $32.- 26, fourteen, cents above yesterday and a new high. Meanwhile,, the London bouillon quotation increased from $31.05 yester day to $31.52 today, both figures trans lated into dollars at the day’s open ing rate of exchange. Thus, while the domestic price yes- t p rda ystood $1.07 higher by the world’s price, the margin today was reduced to 74 cents. 3 Killed As Large Tank Collapses Trenton, R. I.; Nov. 1 CAP)— Hihrce men were killed, a fourth was reported missing and five were in jured today as a huge new tank col lapsed at the plant of the New Eng land Terminal ompany. Shortly aft erward four other tanks filled with oil burst into flame. The loss from the ensuing fire was expected to reach $300,000. The tank being tested had be«. fill* ed with water. Several workmen were on top looking it over to 6ee if it was in good condition while sev eral others were inspecting it from the ground before filling it with oil. / Without warning the big tank col lapsed. The explosion followed, and the resulting fire spread to the big oi tanks nearby. 'Although firemen were promptly on the ecene, nothing they could do prevented the rapid spread of the iliuncc. _ ... 6 PAGES TODAY! President Reaches Comclu* sion After Study of Charts Showing Employ ment Increases J HOURLY WAGES RISE, MISS PERKINS SAYS Have Gone From 42 to 51 Cents an Hour and Work Week Declines from 42 to 36 Hours; Recession From July Peak Was Natural, Reports Claim Washington. Nov. l.—(AP)—Presi dent Roosevelt was said in highest quarters today to fueling that >h f ' recovery program is .getting along well, after a study of charts he had just received showing increases in employment and the total wages being paid. Secretary Perkins reported to him that the average hourly wages have risen from 42 to 51 cents, while the average hourly work week has de clined from 42 hours to 36. A special report by government eco nomists asserts that the reaction, in production in some of the major In dustries is a result of over-production between March and July and is not due to a lack of demand. In o’her words, the report says, this recession from the July peak was to be expected. It was between March and July that the National Recovery Administration to control production and hours of work -was being organized. Intense production in that period existed principally in the textlje, leather and steel industries. The President credits the NR A with the increase in work wages and th decrease in working hours. Three Firemen In Norfolk Are Hurt '* In $30,000 Blaze y { ' Norfolk, Va*. N*>v. I.—(AF)—- Thn*o firemen wore injured, a warehouse destroyed and the ter minals of the Colonial Ol! Com pany jeopardized in a fire f'ts morning that caused $30,00" '* r -- age at the Sinith-Douglass - pany’s fertilizer plant on the Jrr /olk and Western raUr"’! an 1 ail eastern branch of iL ■ L-l'-zz b»‘*h river. Flames believed ‘to have bee *. caused by sjKmt&hebUs combut tion were s*-tn spurting from the fish and bean mill warehouse at 7 o'clock this morning. Apparatus from Norfolk, South Suffolk and other points responded. Constantly in danger of explosion from the oil company’s plant, firemen con centrated their efforts in confin ing the fire to the huge ware house. The fire was under control at 9 o’clock. Roper Puts 5 New Men On Council Plans To Rotate Leading Industrial ists on Advisory Board of NRA Washington, Nov. 1. —(AP) —Secre- tary Rop<-r, at a meeting cf the Nau tional Business Advisory and Plan ning Council today, named five lead ing industrialists to s*-rve on NRA* industrial advisory board for the ne , t four months, replacing five, including Walter C. Teagle, of the Standard Oil Company, of New Jersey, who had just ended their service. Pierre duPont, of the 15. I. DuPont Nemours Company, was selected, to gether with Clay Williams of the Rey nolds Tobacco Company: Myron C. Taylor, of the United States Steel; General Robert E. Wood, of Seam- Roebuck, and R. E. Flanders, of Springfield, Va. Roper announced that a rotation plan would be continued, so that at the beginnffig of • next March fi»e more new members will supplant oth ers now serving on the board. The planning council, after hearing from Gerard Swope, chairman, a pro posal that all business organizatio s he merged into a national chamber f commerce and industry, which woi i name a pan'i of distinguished ind - t.rialists to supervise operation f codes, voted on the motion cf Hen v I. Harriman, pr<‘3ident of ihc Che - her of Commerce of the United Stat to place the proposal in the hands H a committee for stu
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