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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. —<AP)—Reduc-
tion of the Federal tax on tobacco
products will serve to increase the de
mand for and consumption of tobacco
S. Ciay Williams ,of Winston-Salem,
president of the R. J. Reynolds To
bacco Company, today told the North
Caiolina Tobacco Growers Advisory
Committee.
Appearing on invitation of the com
mittee, Mr. Williams, as well as A.
B and H. T. Taylor, owners of the
tobacco concern of Taylor Brothers,
of Winston-Salem, discussed three
-at jects: types of tobacco and qual
ities most likely to be in demand next
season, how would proposed tax
changes affect, growers' returns, and
how can growers best secure coop
eration of manufacturers in increas
ing efficiency and use of official
grades.
Mr. Williams said increased de
mands. which probably would follow
a taxation reduction would be re
flected in better prices for growers.
I)r. Dean Is
Held Guilty
For Murder
Jury Convicts Missis
sippi Woman and
GixesHer Life Im
prisonment
Greenwood, Miss., March 3. —(AP>
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
h<u hands clenched in her lap. She
Died to smile, as she a to go to
waiting room, hut broke into sobs
a she swept out of the court followed
by women relatives and her attor
neys,
Half an hour later, however, she
wms composed and smiling as she re
''inied to stand before Presiding
Judge S. O. Davis for sentence,
'The jury has found you guilty of
murder and fixed your punishment,”
Dm judge said gravely. “It now be
eom.es my duty to sentence you to
spend the rest of vmir natural life
baifl labor in the penitentiary.
That is the verdict of the jury. I
have no discretion in the matter.”
The judge asked If she had any
thing to say.
The smile suddenly dawned front
het lips, Dr. Dean looked at her at
torneys, then shook her head, keep
ing silent.
You are under a. SIO,OOO bond, so
1 arn going to let you go home until
- o’clock,” the judge said kindly.
Deputies had claimed the prisoner
immediately after the verdict was
i sad.
When her attorneys served notice a
"ew trial would be sought. Judge
Davis told them to appear at 2 p. in.
to present their motion.
2 Wake Forest Students
Questioned About Fires
' ,r ake Forest. March 3 (AP) —Chief
us Police John Taylor and Captain W.
A Scott, special investigator for the
N’ate Insurance Department, this aft
•■iiioon started an,. inquisition of a
number of students of Wake Forest
College and a number of other per
'»ns as they sought to determine the
' *use of a number of fires there.
Chief Taylor said D. B. Teachey,
D&tlii 53ispnirh
CAPITAL AND LABOR
HEAD TO SHOWDOWN
OVER NRA DISPUTE
“Advance Man’'
v.wwxj:
Capt. Alan Innei-Taylor
With four sled loads of supplies
and a party of men, Capt. Alan
Innes-Taylor, head dog driver of
the Byrd Antarctic Expedition, has
left Little America and is plodding
out into unknown land to establish
an advance base 200 miles south of
the main camp, to serve as a con
centration point for Byrd’s extend
ed explorations.
(Central Pres* l
SiKASSUir
AS COMMITTEEMAN
Greensboro Man Will Have
No Opposition at Meet
ing Thursday
HE IS A BAILEY MAN
Adds Another Spoke to Wheel In Sen
ator’s Patronage Control Mach
ine In Federal Jobs
In State
Dully liitipub'h nureim.
In the Sir Walter Hotel.
IIY J. C IIASKIOItVILL.
Raleigh, March 3.—C. Leßoy Shup
ing. of Greensboro, will undoubtedly
be elected Democratic national com
mitteeman to succeed former Gover
nor O. Max Gardner when the State
Democratic Executive Committee
meets here March 8. it is generally
agreed here. But it will not, be be
cause Mr. Shaping and Senator Bailey
are such super political strategists,
or because there is no opposition to
Mr. Shuping. It will be because the
opposition has decided not to offer
any fight, on the election of Mr. Shup
ing to the place on the National
Democratic Committee vocated a good
many months ago by former Gover
nor O. Max Gardner, according to
those who are well informed in po
litical circles here.
Thus the strategy of the anti-
Bailey, a.nti-Sh aping forces seems to
be let Shuping be elected national com
mitteeman virtually without opposi
tion and thus hand over to the Bailey-
Shuping forces virtually complete
control of all Federal patronage in
the State. It is already evident that
Senator Reynolds i 9 being allowed to
distribute only very, very little of
governmental pie. For with Shuping
as one of the State’s two national
committee members, and with Mrs.
J. Palmer Jerman, of Raleigh, wno
was appointed as assistant collector of
internal revenue in North Carolina by
Senator Bailey, as the other, it is ex
pected that they will see eye to eye
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of Rose Hill, and Paul P. Byrum, of
Taylor, whose names he had with
held previously, would be questioned
in detail as the result of bloodhounds,
following a trail from the bubrned
Wake Forest glof course clubhouse to
the room they occupied. ' '
The chief declined to discuss the
case further, but said his question
ing of the students and others would
probably last through the afternoon.
ONLY DAILY
SERVICE OF
THE ASSOCIATED PTtmas
NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA AND VIITOINIA.
HENDERSON, N. C. SATURDAY AFTERNOON, MARCH 3, 1934
President Roosevelt Is Out
to Enforce Collective
Bargaining Part
of Law
U. S. CHAMBER HITS
AT FEDERAL PLANS
Protests That Government
Agencies Should Not Be
Used in Enforcement Os
Provision Not Provided I'n
Law; Roosevelt Hints Pros
ecutions
Washington, March 3.—(AP)— I The
capital-labor differences over NRA
headed for more of a showdown today
with President Roosvelt out to en
force the “collective bargaiing” sec
tion of the law.
Across from the White House, the
board of the Chamber of Commerce
of the United States recorded a pro
test against compulsion for code en
forcement as proposed in the Wagner
bill to strengthen the NBA labor
board.
These events attracted all the wider
notioe to the forthcoming assembly
of code uthorities to be addressed
Monday by the President.
Congressional activities were dwar
fed. The Senate remained in recess,
but quarrels faced the House again on
the Senate bill for extension of time
in which Federal Reserve currency
can be issued on the security of gov
ernment bonds.
The presidential NRA move was to
authorize the compliance division to
take “appropriate action” against
such violations of “collective bargain
ing,” as are reported by the National
Labor Board. He also empowered the
labor board to make ‘‘appropriate re
commendations” to Attorney General
Cummings.
The Chamber of Commerce position
on the Wagner bill, in part, that
“we oppose the use of governmental
agencies as means for enforcing or
ders or regulations relating to em
ployment not contemplated or pro
vided for in t.he act.”
Many members of Congress took the
day off, enjoying almost the first
break in ccld weather in a month. For
many more, however, the lack of pres
sure, of committee hearings, and the
like, meant, only a long awaited
chance to work at accumulated mall.
Paper’* Stinging Remarks
Like “Bitiing Hand That’s
Feeding You”
Hally Dispatch Horeus,
In the Sir Walter Hotel.
BY J. C. UASKERVILL.
Raleigh, March 3—Former Gover
nor O. Max Gardner still has many
friends and followers in North Caro
lina, despite the fact that he is at
present practicing .law in Washington
and the further fact that a strike or
threatened strike has forced the shut
down of the Cleveland Cloth (Mills in
his home town of Shelby, owned joint
lyby himself and Odum M. Mull, of
Shelby. And while the full facts con
cerning this strike or shut-down have
npt been generally made public, the
understanding is that most of the
trouble among the employes of these
mills has been fomented by a group of
out siders or Communists, similar to
those who started much trouble in
Gastonia several years ago. Until the
full facts become known, the feeling
here is that both former Governor
Gardner and Mr. Mull will do the
right thing.
Hence there was much surprise
here and in other sections of the State
at the editorial in the Greensboro
News of Friday, March 2, bitterly as
sailing both Gardner and Mull, with
out any attempt to present or discuss
the facts, under the heading “New
Deal Glamour is Missing.” The edi
torial was the more noticeable here
since E. B. Jeffress, woner and pub
lisher of The Greensbpro News, was
appointed chairman of the State
Highway Commission by Gardner
when he was governor" and still holds
that office. The editorial reminded
some of that old song “Don’t Bite the
Hand That Feeds You.”
After going into some detail with
regard to the prominence of both
Gardner and Mull, and mentioning
the fact that active management of
the mills has been left to Mull, the
editorial says:
”... Thei former Governor, so far
as the public prints have reported, is
busily engaged in his legal practice—
the unkind say lobbying—in Wash
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fig url in Rasputin lubll trial
r
Alleging that a character in the
motion picture, “Rasputin and the
Empress”, libeled her, Princess
Irina Alcxandrovna, above, wife
of Prince Youssoupoff, inset,
right, last of the Youssoupoffs of
Russia, is seeking $2,000,000
damages from a film company in
a trial at London. The princess,
daughter of Grand Duke Alex-
Greece Instructs Insull To]
Leave Country At Once
Informed Final Permit for His Residence There Has Ex
pired; May Head for Syria, But Utilities Magnate
Seems Oblivious of Newest Order
Athens, Greece, March 3.—(AP)—
The foreign minister today notified
the minister of the interior that Sam
uel Insull, Sr., former Chicago utilities
operator, must leave Greece.
The notification said that the final
extension of Insull’s permit to re
main in the country has expired.
Insull previously had gained repeat
ed extensions of the permit by which
he remained in Greece secure from
United States government authorities,
who sought his extradition to face
trial on charges of embezzlement and
grand larceny in connection with the
Mystery Disease
Closes College
Clinton, S. C., March 3.—(AP)—
Presbyterian College here has sus
pended ail class and campus ac
tivities until March 12 because of
an epidemic of an undiagnosed dis
■ ease similar to scarlet fever.
The college closing was ordered
as a safety measure after seven
cases of the malady developed with
local physicians and a State Board
of Health exminer professing In
ability to diagnose it-
Four Men
Perish In
Hotel Fire
Worcester, Mass., March 3 (AP) —
Four men were burned to death and
a d&zen people nijured' in a three
alarm fire which destroyed the Hotel
Pleasant this morning, with a loss of
SIOO,OOO.
At least ten persons were saved by
firemen or escaped down rope fire
escapes. Many of those injured were
elderly.
They were carried down swaying
lad«*Drs, while other victims leaned
from windows screaming for their
turn.
The fire, origin yet undetermined,
started in an elevator well.
WEATHER
FOR NORTH CAROLINA.
Cloudy, occasional rain in the
interior tonight; Sunday show
ers; mild temperature.
ander, uncle of Czar Nicholas ol
Russia, contends that the film de
picted her as a woman unfit to
be the wife of the man she loves.
On the witness stand, Prince
Youssoupoff told the jury he had
killed the monk, Rasputin, inset,
left, who held sway over Empress
Alexandra and other members of
the Russian court.
collapse of his Middle Western utili
ties organization.
Whether Insull will go to the United
States was not immediately certain.
He merely is expelled from Greece
and now may go to whatever country
will receive him.
It was said today that he may head
for Syria..
Tt was understood that Insull was
not immediately informed of the gov
ernment decision. In any case, he
seemed to be ignoring the fact that
the last extension of his permit ex
pired today.
Wynekoop
Testimony
Completed
Woman Doctor At
Chicago Becomes
Hysterical and Ses
sion Is Delayed
Chicago, March 3 (AP) —Alice Lind
say Wynekoop today completed her
testimony as a witness in her own be
half and the celebrated Wynekoop
murder trial was ajourned until Mon
day. She had been on the stand one
hour and 40 minutes during the morn
ing session.
The 622-year-old defendant’s second
day in the box was marked by a col
lapse which delayed the cross-exami
nation by almost half an hour.
4 Dr. Wynekoop became (hystreical
as she was taken back through a pas
sageway to the county jail. Clutch
ing the arm of her daughter. Dr.
Catherine, she screamed convulsive
ly, then wrenched her head back
against the rest of her wheel chair.
The jail physician administered
medicine to her and she became quiet.
WOMAN AVIATRIX
ARRIVES IN MIAMI
Miami, Fla., March 3 (AP) —Laura
Ingalls, New York aviatrix, en route
to South America, landed her plane
here shortly after 7 p. m. today. She
reached Miami from Daytona Beach
where she made a short stop.
PUBLISHED EVERY AFTERNOON
EXCEPT SUNDAY.
Dillinger Escapes
Prison In Indiana
With Machine Gun
“Reform, Too”
NScT-v. ' -llPsl! |
: S|ajgH‘\< • >M. *.
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
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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-
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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, .