HENDERSON (i \WAY TO CENTRAL CAROLINA TWENTY-FIRST YEAR WIRT NAMES ALLEGED BRAIN TRUST PLOTTERS Senate Committee Approves Government Control Os Silver Supply PREMIUM ALLOWED (IN SILVER PAYMENT UPON FARM CROPS House Refuses To Pass Ban on Political Appoint, ments to Home Own ers’ Corporation TAX BOOSTS AGAIN BLATEN IN SENATE Effort? To Raise Income and Surtax Rates Fail; Senate Bank Committee Adopts Amendment to Seek Stock Market Bill; Roosevelt Against Farm Plan Washington, April 10 h “ :s “ n ate of the 1933 General As “ml.ly, and who is again a candidate rr the state Senate from Guilford. p does believe however that the 1935 ' ""ion of the State’s tax load and iat u and should do this. The l( ontlnuod on Page Three.) Million Dollar Letting i or Highway Commission Scores of Contractors Bid on 31 Different Projects Ag gregating $1,100,000; Brings Total of Federal Aid Projects to $6,700,000 for This State Chilly l)U|t»ti>k Hnrraa u»r th “ s,r Walter Hotel. Ral , B ’ 1 c - HASKEHVILL. w , sh > April 10 -The largest high s ettln K held by the State High sihro *! übllc Works Commission Cf , n .' ( '’* federal emergency highway - ruction program was started, is Conti ° H \ ress here today with scores of Pto:„!f tors biddin S on the 31 different. j e «{V S ’ be otal cost of these pro snooll stimated at approximately of t h l by Ch airnaan E. B. Jeffress commission. All of these pro H. LESLIE PERRY MEMOKIAU . HENDERSON, N. O* MetuUM*son Batin Btsaatrb NEWTON D. BAKER TO HEAD ARMY’S PROBE OF AVIATION STATUS Party Finance Head ■nf- Ml JH| m mm Jama* W. Gerard Here is James W. Gerard, ambas sador to Germany when the United States entered the World war, who has been appointed hoad of the finance committee of the Democratic national committee by Postmaster General James A Farley, national chairman. MAN FROM INSIDE WILL SUCCEED POO I J. B. Roach Talked for Pri son Job Made Vacant By Resignation SALARY WILL BE LESS Fou Got $6,000, But New Man Will Be Hardly More Than Half That; Governor and Jeffress Point to Needs Dully Dispatch Rnrenn In the Sir Walter Hotel. DY J. C DASKEHVILL. Raleigh, April 10. —Some one al ready connected with the prison di vision of the State Highway and Pub lic WJorks Commission is expected to be appointed by the commission to succeed George Ross Pou as head of the prison system, rather than some outsoider with no previous experience in prison work it was learned authori tatively here today. It is not expected however, that this new head of the prison division will receive as much salary as Pou received, or that he will have any authority over, any thing except prison matters, Pou’s salary was $6,000 a year, without the “perquisites” which he had formerly received while superintendent of the State Prison, before it was merged (Continued On Page Four.) jects are being built with Federal money, of course, since no State fund have been used for new highway con struction work for morp than three years. This letting here today will bring the total of Federal aid projects al ready contracted for in North Caro lina to approximately $6,700,000 and get the Federal Aid highway construc tion program two-thirds under way or (Continued on Page Two.) ONLY DAILY I t?ik E a D r J S^ e se Rvice OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS. NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA AND VIRmNIA. HENDERSON, N. C. TUESDAY AFTERNOON, APRIL 10, 1934 War-Time Secretary of War Accepts Appointment Refused by Colonel Lindbergh FIVE OTHER CIVIL LEADERS TO ASSIST Will Aid Army Generals In leaking Military Aviation Inquiry; First Meeting Set Late This Week or Early Next Week; Follows Mail Deaths Washington, April 10. —(AP) —New- ton D. Baker, war-time secretary of war, today accepted appointment as chairman of the army air corps in vestigating committee upon which Colenel Charles A. Lindbergh declin ed to serve. Secretary Dern, announcing the ac ceptance of five other civilians to aid army generals in making the mili tary aviation inquiry, said the first meeting would be held here late this week or early next. The investigation, planned by the War Department itself, stepped into natJ|ona|l focus following a list - mer dictator of Spain, and himself leader of the fascist movement. The attempt took place in the central section of Madrid. The shot which was fired went wild. EPISCOPAL WOMEN GATHER IN OXFORD Oxford, April 10 (AF) —The 52nd annual meeting of the Woman’s Aux iliary of the Diocese of North Caro lina of the Protestant Episcopal Church, convened here today with (Bishop Thomas C. Darst and Bishop E. A. Penick on the program. South Carolina Farmer Kills Wife, Her Mother Bamberg, S. C., April 10. —(AP) — Joe Barre, 45-year-old farmer, was arrested near here early today after an extensive hunt since late yester day by officers, who charged him with killing his wife and mother-in-law at their home near Batesburg. Officers said Barre had shot the women to death evidently in a fit of anger, reporting they could learn noth ing that precipitated the affair, except that there had been a quarrel. Sheriff T. J. Hadwin and Police men J. W. Price said Barre was drunk when they arrested him. 8 PAGES TODAY five cents copy Says Budget Director Doug las and W. I. Westervelt Can Throw Light On Subject SPEAKER RAINEY’S NAME ALSO CALLED House Leader Quoted as Having Said Congress Would Become Rubber Stamp, Government Would Seize Some Industries and Things Would Happqn Washington. April Kk—(AP)—Nam ing “brain trusters” and their “satel lites" as his iniormants. Dr. William A. Wirt indicated today that he traced back to Dr. Rexford Ouy Tugwell, as sistant secretary of agriculture, his conviction that a plot exists to "over throw the social order.” Fort two sensation-studded hours, he recounted his fears to the House investigating committee while a mass ed crowd followed his words. The story ended with the Indiana educator unable to complete his testi mony today, suggesting that the com mittee summon Lewis W. Douglas, budget director, and W, I. Wester velt, Chicago business, man formerly with the Farm Administration. They, Wirt asserted, could throw more light on the alleged plotting to brink com munism. Speaker Rainey’s name figured, too Wirt quoting Westervelt as having said he had asked Rainey what Con gress was going to do and Rainey replied that Congress “would assem ble, pass certain laws, stay in esssioh (Continued on Page Four.) simWEo in Heard Plans at Dinner He Attended Near Washing ton September 1 Washington, April 10. —(AP) — Dr. William A. Wirt testified today in' the House investigation into his “brain trust” charge that six persons were present at a dinner where he first heard the assertion of a plot under way to bring communism. He gave the names as Robert Bruere, Lawrence Todd, Hildegrade Kneeland, Mary Taylor and Alice Bar rows and David Cushman Coyle. Chairman Bulwinkle, Democrat, North Carolina, asked Dr. Wirt where he first heard “brain trusters talking about a revolution.”. “From a group of individuals pre sent at a dinner in Virginia near Washington,” W!irt answered, refer ring to cards on which he had closely written notes. “When was that?” Bulwinkle pur sued. As a hush settled over the more than 600 persons in the committee room, Wirt replied: “As I remember it was Friday eve (Continued on Page Four.) The officers received a telephone call from a man who said he was Barre’s brother and were asked to take the fugitive into custory. When the officers arrived they found two other men in an automo bile with Barre and his brother. The other men said they were cousins of the Barres. Barre was placed in county jail, while the brother explained he had taken the fugitive’s two children to the home of a relative, where they were safe.