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"HENDERSON gateway TO CENTRAL CAROLINA TWENTY-FIRST YEAR Mil JAILED IN DEFAULT OF v, Cf* cf* v * v # AL V. V V V o at u .. Pittsburgh Grand Jury Refuses To Indict Mellon For Tax Evasion GOVERNMENT HOLDS EX-TREASURY HEAD CUT INCOME TAXES Mellon Claims Government Trying To Get Him for $2,000,000 on 1931 Earnings SAYS HE ACTUALLY OVERPAID HIS TAX Charges Action is Move To Discredit Him and Three Republican Presidents Un. der Whom He Served; Jury Deliberates Only Hour and a Half Pittsburgh. Pa., May 8. (AP) A gland jury which heard evidences m the Andrew Millon tax case, refused to indict the former secretary of the treasury' today. The government had presented chaises that the international!} known banker had underpaid his in come taxes in 1931. Mellon himself, in a -tatement last Friday disclosed the government was seeking to collect ap proximately $2,000,000 from him. He had charged the action was a move to discredit him .and the administra tions he served under three presidents. Mellon, 79 years old. and one of the country's wealthiest men, said he ae on 11 v had overpaid his 1931 income tax Tit* jury reported its findings at in 10 this morning to Federal Judge R M Gibson. The jury deliberated an hour and a half late yesterday aftei hearing the witnesses and scanning bulky files of documents and records. Its report this morning came imme diately after the group reassembled for sessions at which other cases on its routine are to be considered. TRY BANGHART IN ASHEVILLE COURT Asheville, May 8. ( AP)—Marcus A. Er"in United States district attorney, announced here today that Basil Banghart. charged with leading the $195000 Charlotte mail hold-up last November, would be tried at the term cf Federal district court which opens here next Monday. Might Fund Big Deficit State Has Bond Market Anx ious for North Caro lina Securities, Gov ernor I .earns Dolly I>lm|iht<*h flurena. In Mm- Sir Wnlter Hotel. »v ,i c rt vsKßiiviiii,. , KaWffh. May 8. -With New York ' Ml ‘k> and bond houses ready to ouy lltw issue of North Carolina bonds 1 i t per cent the lowest interest I' 1 "' P - V( ' r obtain on North Carolina oT id with one exception—indications 'hut the governor and Council of • ' "* will soon authorize State T reay M Charles M. Johnson to prepare 1,1 *‘ll a sufficient amount of bonds . 'Com umed on Page Two) British Cabinet Splits On Armaments Question ca^° n ,' May 8 - AP)—The British nierr' [ (^erred statin S its disarma lnitt, J J ' J (; lCies today after a long corn ed th'/ ’ :US3 ' on an< * re Ports persist- a break in the cabinet on tne JJ* 18 likely. a,,.../ 13 k'dlcated after the disarma stat*' “’"'H'ittce’s session that no tho r r .l'' ’ Cttn he expected until after ing, " U; of Nations CLouricil meet- I Tbhtiicrsmt Not Indicted jr • ■ ANDREW W. MELLON HIGHER PAf SCALE FOR THE TEACHERS LIKELY NEXT YEAR State Treasurer Johnson Sees Good Chance for Increase as Busi. ness Rises PEOPLE ARE ASKED TO USE PATIENCE Sees Little Chance for Cut ting Taxes Unless Counties Are Willing To Take Some of Burden Be»ck in Form of Levies Upon Property D:ill.r Di«pntrh Rarmi, In th»* Sir Wnlter Hotel, BY .1 f!. BASKERVILL. Raleigh, May b. —rThe present reve nue till, adopted by the 1263 General Assembly, is not nearly as bad as some people seem to think and shouic yield enough revenue in excess of present budget estimates for next year to make possible a substantial increase in the salaries of all the sohool teach ers and all other State employes, in the opinion of State Treasurer Char les M. oJhnson. This present revenue act (Continued on Page Two.) Brooklyn Bank Is Robbed of $30,000 By Five Gangsters Brooklyn. N. Y., May 8 (AP>—Five men armed with machine guns and automatic pistols held up the Pruden tial Savings Bank this afternoon and escaped with several thousand dol lars. Police estimated the amount of loot at between $30,000 and $50,000. The robbers held up atelier and the customers in the bank and ran out to a waiting automobil ein which witnesses said a woman was sitting. Arthur Henderson, chairman of the ■ disarmament conferenece, will leave • for Paris tomorrow to discuss the ■ threatened collapse of the parley with * Louis Bartheau, French foreign minis ter. t was believed likely that he . would ask the French to propose a » new basis of arms regulations. Some newspapers went so far as to ■ describe the situation in the cabinet as a "critical split." ONLY DAILY THE B SERVICE OP THE ASSOCIATED PRESS. NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA AND VIITOINIA. HENDERSON, N. C. TUESDAY AFTERNOON, MAY 8, 1934 Explosion Os Grain Dust Fatal To One; Ten Injured FIVE MEN INJURED IN SI. LOUIS BLAST IN BAD CONDITION Blast Shatters All Windows in Huge Missouri Paci fic Elevator Structure 1,600,000 BUSHELS OF GRAIN IN STORAGE 33 Men at Work in Building At Time of Blast, Which Is Yet Unexplained; Origi. nated Apparently In Head Room at Top of the Con veyor St. Louis, Mo., May 8. (AP) — One man was killed and ten were burned, five of tnem seriously, in a sudden series of three violent grain dust explosions this morning in the huge Missouri Pacifio ele vator on the Mississippi river front in South St. Louis. St. Louis, May 8. (AP) —Ten men were burned, six of them seriously, in a violent grain dust explosion this morning in the Missouri Pacific ele vator at the foot of Prim street. The blast shattered all of the windows in the huge structure broke long cracks in the upper portion of the building and caused a fire in 1,600,000 busheis of grain stored there. The! ire burned for half an hour. Thirty-three men were at work in the building at the time of the explo sion, which appeared to originate m the head room at the top of the con veyor, which is used to carry grayi from the tracks below to the storage chamber of the elevator. Julius Meyer, vice president of the Continental Export Company, which leases tho elevator, a 240-foot tall structure, said he had been unable to determine the cause of the explosion. Says Recovery Is Impossible Under Sales Tax Levies High Point, May 8. (AP) ln vigorous denunciation of the prin ciple of sales taxation, John C. Watson, president of the New York Council of Retail Merchants, said here today a continuance of a retail sales tax in any common wealth would prevent a return to normal economic conditions. Making the closing address bs— fore the two-day convention of the North Carolina Merchants Asso ciation, the speaker asserted such a tax would defeat the program of rehabilitation which he describ ed as being conceived in the name of patriotism and humanity. M. E. Body To Ordain No Women Jackson, Miss., May 8 (AP) —tA pro posal to ordain women in the min istry was defeated . lynching and all mob violence was condemned, and ef fort sto reduce membership in the an nual and the general conference were rejected today in the final session of the 22nd quadrennial assembly of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South Ordination of women was voted down by 130 for to 197 against. The, action was taken on a motion to adopt a minority report from the committee on itineracy, whose ma jority members reported non-concur rence in appeals for equal rights. Women candidates to preach had asked eqqual rights with men in the ministry and other church offices, re gardless of sex. Batlu Btauatch As U. S. Took Charge of Insult : •' '■ i . i § i i § mnmmm ay 153 Aided by a sailor, Samuel Insull, former Chicago utilities czar, climba down the ladder of the S. S. Exilona, which brought him from Turkey, as he was transferred to a government cutter off the Ambrose Light outside New York Harbor. Arrangements for transportation of pris oner to Chicago were veiled in secrecy. (Central Pres*) Find House Where Robles Girl Kept Little Tucson Child Was There Only Two Days Ago, Os., ficers Report, Declaring Abductors Are Believed Near Capture Down lini Old Mexico Cananea, Sonora, Mexico, May 8. — (AP- —-The house in which June Robles may have been held as recent ly astwo days ago has been found, two patrolmen disclosed today. The statement came as a manhunt such as this ancient mining settlement has not seen since Mexico’s dread rurales swept down in pursuit of early day brigands, spread through Cananea and the surrounding territory. The policemen, Corporal George Ashe and Tom Newell, of the Arizona highway patrol, did not disclose the exact location of the house, but they said they were convinced the six-year old heiress to the fortune of Bernabe State Will Likely Adopt It If It Can Be Made At State Prison !>uily UiMpatck Bareaa, In the Sir Waiter Hotel. BY J. C- UASKERVILL. Raleigh, May B.—A non-removable automobile license tag such as Is al ready in use in Florida and Mississ ippi, is being studied by the Division of Purchase and Contract with a view to its possible use in North Carolina next year, it was learned here today. The tag will not ibe used, however, un less the holders of the patents permit it to be manufactured in the States own auto tag plant out at the Central Prison here. The advantage of this non-remov (Continued on Pass Two.) WEATHER FOR NORTH CAROLINA Fair tonight and Wednesday; little change in temperature. Robles. Texas cattle baron, was now in the hands of the two men. They pictured as the abductors as dodging desperately from abode shacks to sun-baked arroyo, some where inside the district around which a closing ring of steel-hando leered Mexican Federal soldiery, with bayonetted rifles, is converging. They were confident the kidnapers could not escape. When they came upon the house, the found evidence the child had been there but two days ago, her kidnap ers apparently having fled with her in alarm asthe search, originating m Nogales, on the border to the west, touched points near Cananea. Survey Made of Youiug Peo. pie Put Out of Indus, try Under NR A Dully Dispatch Burma, In the Sir Walter Hotel. Bf J. C. BASKERVHjL. Raleigh, Maj 8. What happens when boys and girls between the ages of 14 and 16, who have been working in mills and factories, are thrown ou* of work? Do they become problem*' and clutter up the juvenile courts? Or do they go back to school and get more education ? This could not be determined here tofore, since when children of these ages once started to work, they gen erally stayed at work, according to Commissioner of Labor A. L. Fletcher. But when the textile code went into effect in August, 1933, it automatical ly threwf out of employment 2,171 children between the ages of 14 and 16 who had previously been certified for work by the State Department of (Continued on Page Two.) PUBLISHED EVERY AFTERNOON EXCEPT SUNDAY., $200,000 OOND ONCE MIGHTY KING OF UTILITIES CAN’T RAISE HUGE SURETY Seek G. O. P. Post Prank O. Lowden Sen. Dickinson ———i——^,, ~ IjM Hanford MacNiderJas. E. Watson Following resignation of Everett Sanders as chairman of the Repub lican National Committee, these G. O. P. stalwarts are being men tioned as in line for the post. Lowden is former Governor of Illi nois; Dickinson, Senator from Iowa; MacNider, former com mander of the American Legion is an lowan and Watson was Senator from Indiana and G. O. P. leader in the Senate. (Central Press) 87 Miners LnGermany Entombed Burggingen, Baden, Germany, May 8. (AP) —A flaming shaft of the Burggingen potash mine form ed a temporary crypt today for 87 trapped miners, throwing this village into sorrow and suspense. With the shaft hermetically seal ed because of fire and gas hazards the blocked entrance must be re garded as a tombstone for two weeks while the blaze burns itself out. Search for the bodies cannot be gin until it is safe to open the shaft. To the sealed entrancec hildren and widows of the victims took tearstained floral offerings and prayers. Report Dillinger Is Being Pursued In South Chicago Chicago, May 8. (AP) —A report that John Dillinger and members 01 his outlaw band were being chased by detectives on a South Side street was broadcast over the police radio this afternoon. Three Shot And Property Damaged In Mine Trouble Birmingham, Ala., May 8. (AP) Three persons were shot and extensive property damage caused by dynamit ing early today and last night fn a wave of terrorism and intimadltions sweeping Walker and Jefferson county mine fields. Henry Whip, employed at the Rai mund mine of the Repuolic Steel Cor poration, was wounded seriously, and Rich Foster, Tennessee, Coal and Iron Railroad Company, was less seriously hurt in a dispute over disarming a non-union man at the Raimund mine. James Austin, 23-year-old Negro miner was wounded seriously last 8 PAGES TODAY FIVE CENTS COPY I Charged With Fraudulent Use of Mails and Viola- . tions of Federal Bank ruptcy Act SMALLER SECURITY REFUSED BY COURT Turns Deaf Ear To Pleadings of Insull Counsel and Rules With District Attorney; Insull Resigned To Jail Life; Placed in Jail Hos pital a * Chicago, May 8. (AP—Samuel In sull, a tragic figure, was placed under $200,000 bond by a Federal judge to day, and unable to furnish it, was led away to jail. Eyes brimming with tears, step lag ging, he trudged silently between his guards to ibe locked up a prisoner in the a4ty where he had risen to great ness among the financial and utilities potentates of the nation. Shortly after 1 o’clock, five hours from the moment of his arrival by train from the east, Insull was dressed in at the county jail and assigned to the hospital. Thirteen thousand miles of hurried wandering across Europe, the Mediter ranean and the Atlantic had brought him at last to the bar of justice. Crowds gaped at him in the station. He faced them impassively. At the United States marshal’s office he heard the charges read: “Use of the mails fraudulently and violation of the bankruptcy act.’’ He collapsed, his heart overtaxed by the physical and emotional strain. He was finger-printed, then led be fore a judge. United Stales District Attorney Dwight H. Green demanded $200,000 bond. The government, he said, haul (Continued on Page Four.) Closing Os Congress Is Further Off Sugar, Silver, Steele and Myriads of Is sues Rise To Face Legislators Washington, May 8 (AP) — -Sugar* silver and steel contributed three sig nificant angles today to the multiple activties in Washington. The ever-variabble national doings and interest had. other counterparts here, also, with Senate and House arguing, respectively, over stock ex change contro land public utilities. To add to the complexities there was news of avaiation, communica tions, labor, oil, bankingg, immigra tion. Running through it all was (Continued on Two.) nights rom ambush as he was en route home after spending a week in tne East Thomas plant of the Republic Corporation. Three explosions and sporadic gun fires swept the Wialker county area near Coal Valley last night, and in: f Jefferson county a charge of dynamite was set off on a rail line used to haul iron ore. Meanwhile, there has been no prog ress in settling a strike of 8,000 iron ore workers who stopped work Friday demanding union’ recognition, a seven hour day, and pay raises of from Jl to -2.84 per day. (
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