HENDERSON
CATEWAY TO
CENTRAL
CAROLINA
TWENTY-FIRST YEAR
SENATE’S LIBERALS
DRIVE FOR HIGHER
TAXES ON ESTATES
Bealen In Effort To Restore
War-Time Levies, Sena
tors Back LaFol
lette Proposal
finance committee
favors lower rate
Levies of 20 to 50
Percent, Against 27 to 60
in FaFollette Amendment;
Committee May Accept
Compromise and Send Bill
To Conference
Washington. April 6. (AP)— Sen
ators who want to re-distribute wealth
concentrated today on a drive to in
crease the estate taxes sharply.
Beaten back in their move to hoist
income taxes to war-time levels, li
lt,mi Is from both political parties turn
ed their "hoavy-levies-on.the-rich"
campaign to the support of the La-
Kollette estates transfer amendment.
The plan for which Senator LaFol
lette sought approval today calls for
rates of 27 to 60 percent on estates
valued at from $1,000,000 to more than
SIO,OOO 000. The Senate Finance Com
mittee. of which Senator Harrison,
Democrat. Mississippi, is chairman,
favored rates of 20 to 50 percent.
Under existing laws the rates are
lit to 45 percent.
Harrison told the Senate in his re
pot t that, under the committee plan,
the new levies would “tend to prevent
undue accumulation of wealth.”
Harrison's committee has yet to be
defeated on the floor on any of the
scores of revisions it made in the
SDKi.OOO.OOO tax hill after the House
sent it to the upper chamber.
Harrison has indicated he would
probably accept a compromise on the
LaFollette amendment and let it go
to conference with the House.
Wirt Sends Word
He Will Testify
On “Brain Trust”
Bury. Ind., April 6. — (AP) — Dr.
William A. Wirt today announced
he would he present next Tuesday
to tell a House of Representatives
• onimittee at Washington details
<d his charges that certain mern
hprs of the administration "brain
trust" were plotting to overthrow
the government.
I>r Wirt dispatched to Repre
sentative A. L. Bulwinkle, Demo
nat North Carolina, a telegram
announcing he would appear.
Bulwinkle, chairman of the se
lect committee of the House nam
ed tn investigate the charges, sum
cioned the Gary educator yester
day by w ire.
bridge approved
IN BEAUFORT AREA
U'ashington, April 6 (AP)—The War
Department approve dtoday plans sub
mitteri hyb the United States Bureau
Fisheries for a bridge to be con
structed across a small shallow chan
"'*i north of Pivers Island, near Beau
fort. N. C,
U. S. Funds
For Buses
In Schools
Allots First In
st aliment And
Ihousands More
Expected Later
(•'tty DNpnteb Unreal*.
to the Mir Walter Hotel.
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hr., 6. —Notice has just
W( P, 'i, r ° Cf '' vp d here that the Public
*" s Administration has approved a
$23,000 asked toy the State
f)( ( orn mission for the purchase
in w school trucks, according to a
Uh?'! 01 . from Dr; H G Baity, of
j, p ” PWA administrator
thr, artin ’ secretary of
cor,, , ," rnmisakm - said lfKla y- The school
rate rU ,0n kas aslted for two sepa
ot!,e. r ants ’ fme for $60,000 and an-
Oor, in 7, $120,000 or a total of SIBO,-'
expert a , ' W ' th which the commission
In' r»fu' H ’ fUlt $*20,000 of State money
to r„ lt ' V , r w ? r4s - lt Is asking the PWA
xn, nt J , J per cent of the replace
ost of about 750 old school
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F. D. R. Jr. Punished
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Franklin D. Roosevelt, Jr., won’t
be able to drive the car of his father
(with whom he is seen) any more
if Massachusetts authorities have
their way. They recommended sus
pension of his driving license fol
lowing accident in which woman
was hurt. President’s son, fresh
man at Harvard, was fined S2O.
f Central Press )
m REPUBLICANS
WILL SWEEP STATE
Grissr.m Says G. O. P. Plat
form Embraces Issues of
Many Democrats
Daily Dispatch Barmn
In the Sir Walter Hotel.
BV J. C UABKERVILL.
Raleigh, April 6.—“ The Republican
party is goin gto sweep the State in
the election this fall and again in
1936. since most of the things which
a majority of the Democrats in the
State and all the Republicans want,
su<;h as the repeal of the sales tax,
$5 license plates, economy in State
government and elimination of t:ie
many useless State bureaus, commis
sions and divisions are contained in
the State Republican platform adopt
ed Thursday in the State convention I
in Charlotte.” Gilliam Grissom, for-!
mer collector of internal revenue in
North Carolina and admitted Repub
lican candidate for governor in 1936,
said today. He had just returned from
the Republican State Convention in
Charlotte.
“We not only included in the plat
form many of the things being ad
vocated by former Lieutenant Gover
nor R. T. Fountain and Attorney Gen
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M lO taKlife
Central Figure of Honolulu
Trial Slashes Wrist On
Ocean Liner
Genoa, Italy, April 6.—(AP)—Ship’s
officers of the S. S. Roma said today
that Mrs. Thalia Fortescue Massie,
principal figuse in the sensational
Honolulu assault case of 1932, attempt
ed suicide by slashing both wrists and
throwing herself from the liner s top
deck on the voyage from New York.
Professor Darrio ESorelli, director
of the nervous ailments clinic in
Genoa where Mrs. Massie has been
taken since the ship’s arrival yester
day, ronfirmed the officer’s report.
The director said that Mrs. Massie
told him she attempted suicide when
the steamer was three days out from
Genoa because:
“I wanted to die. I regretted hav
ing got a divorce from my husband.’
Mrs Massie and Lieutenant Thomas
H. Massie, U. S. N., were divorced in
Reno February 23.
Dr. Borelli told The Associated
Press she woold have to remJ^ L *”
the clinic from 30 to 40 days before
she coo Id recover completely-
Ship’s officers said Mrs. Massie
threw herself from the top deck, but
that she did not know whether she
intended throwing herself into the sea
or only on a lower deck.
ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA AND VII^INIA.
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THE ASSOCIATED PRESS.
HENDERSON, N. C. FRIDAY AFTERNOON APRIL 6, 1934
Doesn’t Know Fate
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Roma Garret
Roma Garret, 4, of Eastview, N. Y.,
can play with her dolly only 10 min
utes a day, because she is easily
exhausted. She is unaware that
she’s slowly dying of leukemia, rare
and almost incurable blood disease.
Willie Mae Miller, Memphis, Tenn.,
child, has same ailment.
(Central Pres*)
SKS
Republican Platform Con
tains Program of “Mug
wump” Democrats
KEYNOTE SPEECH, TOO
Language Used by Frazier Resembled
Some Democratic Speeches Made
Recently at Points
Over the State
Dally Dispatch Harene.
In tli** Sir Walter Hotel.
BV J. C. BASKEB.YIL.Ij.
Raleigh, April 6.—The prophecy
made by Governor J. C. B. Ehringhaus
in his speech at the Jackson Day din
ner last Saturday night to the effect
that the Republican platform that
would be adopted by the Republican
State Convention in Charlotte Wed
nesday would be almost identical with
the program being advocated by the
Democratic “mugwumps" within the
Democratic party, has already been
fulfilled, according to most observers
here today. The governor also pre
dicted that the Republican keynote
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Borrowed SIO,OOO
Os Air Mai! Head
And Loses Office
Washington, April 6. —(AP) —Testi-
mony that he borrowed SIO,OOO from
Paui Henderson vice-president of the
United Aircraft and Transport Corpor
ation has resulted in the suspension
of Chase C. Grove as assistant super
intendent of the Post Office Depart
ment’s railway mail service.
Hardee Branch, second assistant
postmaster general, said today Grove
had been suspended .pending comple
tion of an investigation by postal in
spectors, Henderson told the Senate
Air Mail Committee recently that in
1930 he had loaned SIO,OOO to Grove,
who then was deputy to W. Irving
Glover, second assistant postmaster
general in charge of ocean and ai.r
mail contracts.
SI,OOO Reward Posted In
Cigarette Truck Hold-Up
Above Norlina Yesterday
Winston-Salem, April 6. —(AP) — A
reward of S3OO offered last night for
capture and conviction of the men
who hi-jacked a truckload of cigar
ettes en route from Winston-Salem
to Norfolk, this afternoon was boost
ed to SI,OOO.
It was also learned that the Unit
ed States Department of Justice is
working on the robbery, which occur
red near Norlina.
The truck belonged to the Epes
Transportation Company, of Blacks
burg, Va., with offices here. It is un
derstood that the cargo, valued at
$25,000, was the property of the R. J.
Reynolds Tobacco Company, but of
ficials of that company would not give
out any information on the subject
today.
Bowling Green, Va., April 6.—(AP)
Two men found handcuffed to a
tree near here yesterday morning
said they were victims of a hi-jack
gang which had taken a truck loaded
with $25,000 worth of cigarettes from
them. The pair identified themselves
as L. H. Paxson of Norfolk, Va., and
HAVE FUSS TAKEN
OFF THE RECORDS
Missourian First To Make
Motion for Expunging
Record, and Long Joins
In Request
BOTH REGRETFUL OF
VIOLATION OF RULES
Long Says He Will Go More
Than Half Way To Meet
Senator Clark In Having
Quarrel Taken Out of
Pages of the Congressional
Record
Washington. April 6.—(AP)—At the
request of both Senators Clark and
Long .who yesterday engaged in bit
ter ana at times highly personal de
bate on the floor of the Senate, all
the comment of both men, which
violated the rules of the Senate, was
ordered expunged from the Congres
sional Record.
The order, however, did not apply
to the exchange between Long and
Harrison, Democrat, Mississippi.
Whether either of them would re
quest removal of their remarks re
mained to be decided, with neither
giving any intimation that he would
be the! first to make the request.
Clark, rising shortly after the Sen
ate convened, made the motion first.
“Upon reflection,” Clark said, “I
realize I made remarks which were
an infraction of the rules of the Sen
ate. I ask unanimous consent, hav
ing .these in mind, that my remarks
and those of the senator from Louisi
ana be stricken from the records.”
Long, who listened to Clark with a
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SMALL EXCHANGES
MAY BE EXCLUDED
Washington, April 6 (AP) —An
amendment to the stock market
control bill to permit the Federal
Trade Commission to exclude
small exchanges fro mregufaition
was adopted today by the Senate
Banking Committee in its first
important action on the measure.
Wayne Boy
Turning To
Stone, Too
Goldsboro, April 6—(AP)—The
name of two-year-old Levi Thomp
son, of Wayne county, was added
today to the rolls of those medi
cal science is attempting to save
from unnatural death—for Levi is
slowly “turning to stone.”
His case, physicians said, paral
lels that of Benny Hendricks, of
Wilkes Barre, Pa., who is grad
ually becoming ossified, the vic
tim of a disease that causes the
muscles of the body to assimilate
calcium, which should go only in
to strengthening the body’s bones.
The Thompson child lives with
his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Brutus
Thompson, on route five. Mount
o'!ve, near here. Already some of
his muscles have almost ceased
to function, and he can turn his
head only slightly.
Sam H. Young of Winston-Salem, N.
C.
They said six or seven men, armed
with machine guns, trapped them on
a road between Norlina and Weldon,
North Carolina, at 3:30 a. m. yester
day as they were en route from Win
ston-Salem to Norfolk.
The gang unloaded the cigarettes
and placed the two truckmen in the
empty van. Hours later they were
handcuffed to a tree, their eyes ound
with adhesive tape and abandoned.
The two men were released after
their Shouts had attracted the atten
tion of a Negro worker who notified
John Pitts and Robert Upshur, who
lived near iby. Pitts and Upshur saw
ed the links of the handcuffs and
brought the two drivers to Bowling
Green, where they reported the theft.
WEATHER
FOR NORTH CAROLINA.
Cloudy with showers in extreme
west portion tonight an din north
and west portion Saturday, and
in the interior tonight.
Order Restored Following
Riot Os 3,000 Unemployed
In Center Os Minneapolis
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Alone, in a snow-covered hut,
with only a radio set and scien
tific instruments to keep him
company, Rear Admiral Richard
E. Byrd anticipates a pleasant
stay of six or seven months sep
arated from other members of his
expedition in Little America by
123 miles of snow and ice while
he makes extensive weather ob
Strike Menace Up Again
As Labor Asks More Pay
Three Nash Motor Plants In Wisconsin Resume As
Agreement Is Reached; Coal Miners, Soup Makers
and Other Motor Workers Now Threatening
(By the Associated Press.)
The Federal Automobile Labor
Board today announced settlement or
strikes involving 4,600 employees at
three Wisconsin plants of the Nash
Motor Company. The settlement ag
reement calls for a wage increase of
ten percent and an hourly minimum
ELECTION FOR 4TH
FOLIOWSPHARY
Short Term Primary With
Regular Primary
2 Now Assured
Daily Dispatch Bureau,
In the Sir Walter Hotel.
BY J. C. BASKEBVILL.
Raleigh, April 6.—No special elec
tion for the selection of a Congress
man to fill the unexpired term of
the late Representative Edward W.
Pou, in the fourth congressional dis
trict, is expected to be called by Gov
ernor J. C. B. Ehringhaus until after
the Democratic primary June 2, it
was learned from reliable sources to
day. Governor Ehringhaus is still
studying the law and trying to deter
mine whether or not he has authority
to call a special primary as well as a
special election, and is not yet ready
to announce when he will call the
election. Attorney General Dennis G.
Brummitt is also assisting the gov
ernor in studying the various election
laws, it is understood.
Hqwever, there is no State law, so
far as is now knows, which empowers
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CORRESPONDENTS TO
SEE F. D. R. FISHING
Miami, Fla., April 7.—(AP)—
President Roosevelt today accept
ed a proposition by White House
correspondents stationed here to
investigate his fishing capabilities
and Monday was set for the even
ing.
PUBLISHED EVERY AFTERNOON
EXCEPT SUNDAY.
servations which ht believes will
greatly enlarge present knowledge
of polar meteorological conditions,
While the admiral kej?ps his lonely
vigil in the tiny shack other mem
bers of the expedition will carry
out the duties he has outlined and
follow out the scheme of govern
ment he has devised under which
all will be equal.
of 50 cents for men and 44 cents for
women.
A short time before announcement
of the strike settlement, Edward F.
McGrady, labor assistant to Hugh S.
Johnson, had cancelled all engage
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Constable Slain
And Police Chief
Kidnaped by Trio
Miami, iOkla., April 6. —(AP) —
Constable Cal Campbell was slain
and Chief of Police Percy Boyd,
of Commerce, near here, was kid
naped today by two outlaws and
their blone woman companion.
Boyd and Campbell tried to In
vestigate a bullet hole in the wind
shield of a car in which the two
men and the woman had become
stuck in a mudhole.
RURAL MERCHANT
Crime Believed To Have
Been Done By Mid
night Thieves
Durham. April 6 (AP)-The body
of John B. Lynch, 60. was found in
his store in Cedar Fork township to
day, and officers expressed the opin
ion he had been shot and robbed by
thieves near last midnight.
Sheriff W. T. Sloan said $37.75 was
missing from the store till.
The store is about five miles north
of Mebane, and had been operated by
Lynch for 21 years. Sloan said he
believed the shooting took place
around 11 o’clock, and that from th©
position of the body, the storekeeper
had his hands up when shot.
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Machine Guns Are Mounted
Near Entrance of City
Hall and Court House
To Keep Order
NATIONAL GUARD’S
AID IS REQUESTED
Traces of Tear Gas Bombs In
Air As Traffic Starts Mov
ing Slowly lira Vicinity Aft
er Order Is Restored; Red
Bands on Arms of Sbme
Minneapolis, Minn., April 6.—(AP)
—Machine guns mounted near the en
trance of the city hall and court house
today as authorities drove to restore
order among 3,000 unemployed who
i ioted there about 10 a. m. Four po
lice and a woman were injured, none
seriously.
Chief of Police Michael Johannes
earlier had said he would accede to
the request of a group of judges ana
asked for aid of the National Guard
in restoring order.
With estamblishment of machine
gun positions and the advance of a
detachment of police into the streets,
the temper of the crowd died down.
Traffic, paralyzed on all four sides of
the building, started moving slowly,
with traces oi tear gas from bombs
flung hack and forth between police
and rioters still in the air.
Finally, one patrolman, to pacify
the mob shouted the throwing of
bombs had been a mistake.
Some of the unemployed, many ol
whom wore red arm bands, shouted,
back they wanted no more bombs. A
speaker who attempted to re-assem
ble his cohorts by speaking from the
top of an automobile was given scant
encouragement.
Twenty persons were under arrest
and four policemen and an unidenti
fied woman had been injured, though
not seriously, during the bombard
ment of the building.
China Says Japan
Plans Seizure Os
City of Peiping
Geneva, April 6 (AP)—Chinese •
oircles alleged today that Japan
plans to seize Peiping and put
Emperor Kang Teh of Manchukuo
on the throne there as emperor
of the northern provinces of China
At the request of Wellington
Koo, Chinese delegate to the Lea
gue of Nations, the League distri
buted to all of its members
China’s proposed against the en
thronement of Henri Pu-Yi, as
emperor of Manchukuo, the Japa
nese-created state.
Bandits In
China Loot
Wailed City
Sweep Out of Moun
tain Fastness, Rav
age Populace and
Apply the Torch
Shanghai. April 6. —(AP) — Laying
feudal siege to the walled city of
Kingu, 300 miles north of here, 2,-
000 Chinese bandits scaled the walla,
looted and ravaged the populace and
applied the torch to the town reports
reaching here today said.
The renegade Mongolian Genera*
Liu Kwel-Tang, known as China s
most sensational bandit leader, com
manded the tattered outlaw horde
which scaled the walls with Ladders
carrying flaming brands.
Like medieval armies, which once
sacked Europes embattled towns with
cataupults and fiery arrows, Liu's
forces swept out of the mountain fast
nesses of Shantung province to with
in easy traveling distance of Shan
ghai, one of the world’s most mod
ern cities. i _