■I UNPERSON gateway to CENTRAL CAROLINA TWENTY-FIRST YEAR SAYS TOBACCO TAX SLASH WOULD MEAN MONEY TO FARMERS S. Clay Williams, Head of Reynolds, Discusses Pro posal With Advis. ory Board tells of quality FOR BEST DEMAND Also Talks of How Grower and Manufacturers Can Cooperate Most for Effici ency and Use of Official Grades; Invited To Attend Meet. ILilrijjli, March 3. — Dr. Sarah Ruth Dean, 36-year-oid baby specialist, today was convicted of the alleged "poison whisky highball death of Dr. John Preston Kennedy. 11-year-old Greenwood surgeon, by a jury which fixed her punishment at life imprisonment at hard labor. The jury deliberated 13 hours and •'ll minutes, reporting at 10:57 a. m. Obviously shocked, the woman phy dcian heard the verdict read witn hM. *. lEf Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt is snapped telling 3,000 women in New York, members and guests of the American Jewish Congress* “The philosophy behind all that is happening today is the determina tion that when we come out of what we call the depression we shall come out not only with recovery from an economic standpoint but with some measure of reform.” (Central Press ) L ON SALES tSI Merchants in State Show Virtually No Interest In Measure Dully Disimteb H»i refill. In the Sir Wnlter Hotel. BY J. C. HASKERVILL. Raleigh, March 3.—The merchants of the State, and especially those op ponents of the sales tax who main tained that its imposition would ruin North Carolina merchants by driving business into other states, especially to mail order houses, are “on the spot,” whether they know it or not, as a. result of the bill now in Congress that would permit states having a sales tax to impose it on interstate transactions, according to much op inion here. For if the merchants and anti-sales tax forces refuse to urge passage of the bill or openly oppose, they vir tually admit that there is nothing to their argument, voiced so loudly dur ing the 1933 General Assembly, that the sales tax would drive business into other states and to mail order houses and still is doing it. They would thus be deprived of one of their strongest arguments against the sales tax. But if merchants, merchants’ asso ciations, chambers of commerce and other merchandising organizations should endorse the bill and seek its adoption in Congress, they would in dicate that the arguments they made against the bill were made in good faith and that now they are interested in both protecting their own businesss and the revenue of the State. It was also learned here today, up on the return of Commissioner of Re venue A. J. Maxwell and Director Harry McMullan, of the Division of Assessments and Collections, that the North Carolina delegation in Congress is virtually the only State delegation from a State having a sales tax that is not advocating this bill with a united front and effort. So far Con gressman Lindsay Warren is the only North Carolina Congressman who has come out for it. The others are be lieved to be waiting to see what the political effect would be “back home** before taking any stand on it. There is nothing in this bill, it is explained, that would in any way af fect interstate shipment of goods pur chased wholesale, since it would ap ply only to retail sales in interstate commerce and would require the pur chaser or the merchant or mail order house to pay the prevailing retail sales tax in effect in the State in which the purchaser resides. It does not apply to purchases made by resi dents of North Carolina persanally in other states. Thus if a farmer ordered a bill of goods from a mail order house a mounting to a total of $lO, either he (Continued On Page Four.) 8 PAGES TODAY five cents copy ; Walks Out of “Escape- Proof” Jail After Hold, ing Up Guard With Wooden Pistol TAKE MACHINE GUNS IN WARDEN’S OFFICE Goes to Garage and Steals Automobile and Forces At tendant T o Accompany Him a|nd Unwilling Mem bers of Party; Head North Toward Chicago Peotone, 111., March 3.—(AP)— John Dillinger and Herbert Young blood, who escaped today from the county jail at Crown Point, Ind., * freed Deputy Sheriff George Blunt and Edward Sager, garage employee, whom they had taken with them as hostages here today. Crown Point, Ind., March 3.—(AP) —At the point of a, wooden pistol he had whittled out in his cell, John Dil linger, America’s most notorious out law, broke out of the county jail here today. With the fake pistol he forced jull officials to surrender to him and a. Negro, confiscated two machine guns from the prison armory, commandeer ed an automobile and sped away to ward Chicago with a guard and a garage employee. Oklahoma, City, Okla., March 3. —(AP)— Ford Bradshaw, long- sought outlaw, was the hoodlum slain last night in a road house , near Fort Smith, Ark., the State bureau of criminal identification ~ announced today after a check of fingerprints. Crown Point, Ind., March 3.—(AP) —John Dillinger, notorious killed and bank robber, awaiting trial for mur der, walked out of the “escape-proof" Lake county jail today with a Negro prisoner—each armed with a machine gun. Dillinger’s escape from the prison, in charge of Sheriff Lillian Holley, whose husband was slain by a mad man, apparently climaxed weeks of planning, during which he whittled a dummy pistol out of wood in his cell. He used the pistol today to threaten a. guard and force him to unlock the first floor cell in which Dillinger and four other prisoners were locked. Once outside the cell, Dillinger and his companion went to the warden’s office, seized two machine guns and departed with Deputy Sheriff George Blunt as a hostage. They took Blunt, to a nearby puo lic garage, stole an automobile and forced Edward Fager, an attendant, to accompany them. They headed north toward Gary and Chicago. Mrs. Holley, who had declared Dfcl linger never would escape from her jail, immediately ordered all entrances to the jail locked and guards posted about the building. No one was al lowed to enter or leave. Dillinger forced all four of the pri soners in the cell to accompany him, but three of them willingly gave up to deputies after they reached the street. The car in which the men escaped was a small black (Ford) sedan. The most elaborate precautions had been taken to guard Dillinger day and night since he was returned here sev eral weeks ago from Tucson, Arlz., by what he termed, ‘‘hick cops.” Extra deputies had been sworn ia to guard him, and in his court ap pearance he was watched by a score of officers armed with madhine guns. Dillinger was to be tried March 12 for the murder of a policeman in the robbery of a bank at East Chicago, Ind. , DILLINGER HENCHMEN AT LIMA GET EXTRA GUARDS Lima, Ohio, March 3. —(AP)—ltn- (Continued on Page Four.) Cabinet Os Centrists For Spain Madrid, Spain, March 3. —(AP)— Premier-designate Alejandro Lerroux today formed a new government of Spain, succeeding his own govern ment, which resigned three days ago. The new cabinet is of the “center,"' with the addition of liberal indepen dent factors. The cabinet will go before Congress next week dependent upon the sup port of the right minorities and the popular, agrarian and Catalonian re gionalists, .