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HENDERSON gateway TO CENTRAL CAROLINA YEAR ROOSEVELT URGES ”OME BUILDING PLAN first Atlantic Flight Os Year Marts From Brooklyn Air Field POND AND SAKELLi IN NON STOP TRIP, ■ THEIR GOAL Oranee and Maroon Mono, plane Expected To Make the 4,500-Mile Flight In 40 Hours fuel SUPPLY will MEET THEIR NEEDS Favorable Winds Indicated b v Weather Reports, But if Storms Occur They May Stop in France or Spain; Plan To Follow the Great Circle Route Brooklyn. N. Y.. May 14 (AP)-Cap (ajn ( >orno R- Pond and Lieutenant Oar Cabelli soared away from sioyd Bennett field at 6:24 a. m.. e4i j e ,n standard time, today, with the announced intention of reaching Rome without a. stop. They said their large orange and maroon monoplane could make the 4.500-mile flight in about 40 hours. Fond, a former navy flier, and Sa belli, one-time Italian war ace. have been planning the flight for months. They had hoped originally to make the attempt last fall, but abandoned <> idea because of unfavorable wea ther. Their plane, "Leonardo de Vinci, tarried enough fuel to last more than * hours. Weather reports indicated favorable ends hut noted a low pressure area oer the North Atlantic coast, which the fliers said they would fly, They set a course over Cape Race. ! (Continue/ 4 .on (>«»/■ Twn) Manchukuo Sailor Shot By Russians Fire from Russian Positions on Amur River Fatal, Tokyo Report Says Tokyo. Dec. 14. (APi—A Japanese ertny report said today that rifle fire from Russian military positions on jj l ' Russian bank of the Amur river -aturday killed one Manchukuan sailor and wounded another aboard a steamer. The army report made no mention advjrps from Tsitchar to the news- Asabi that a detaohment of Japanese troops hound for duty at •lerho wq.s aboard the vessel. The war office declined to comment, 'powesman saicl the government of ‘ Japanese-protected empire of Jwnchukua was investigating. He la protest might be made to Mos cow "Tjit shooting took place near the! ' ■ uen/ c •,f the Amur and Fungdrl j l' 1 ' 1 Amur forms the northern oundary of Manchukuo. Strikes Still Trouble Industry Over America Thf- Associated Press) in 4 ?,ou *'l es hit the meat pack- | t » b n U ' T 1 V today with 2,500 employ-' p.* tr,kin S in «t. Louis. Plants li! We ' ‘‘ ,)08ted at packing |' termed ftX ng What union ifficials em P | r H f ' ollapse ‘>f negotiations with flwranhe wu*® 1,8 demand the iji lni ' a 32-hour week and a Os) ffl 7 ' n Wa S e scale ranging from J 7(1 merits an hour. of fi7 o workers in Desf bt «D ran IT*' packin £ Plants has A’nak™ ? I° r today ’ off lcials of the J Ho'JceT w MCat Cutters Union an-| are involveT 11868 working hours the regional labor I strike ,hat the lo’-tßshoremen’s j to iab or ® , 3pread - issued invitations of ft* f’lvd 1 iL Sentatives and officials Ivde-Mallory Steamship Lines 1 ytetwvt&tttx 'Bmlu Bfamtirh Gettle Kidnaping Emissary Escapes Gang Os Hijackers Lea Saga Has Jail Chapter Another chapter in the spectacular career of Col. Luke Lea, lorn,. Tennessee Senator, begins as he dons stripes in Raleigh, N. C., state prison where he and his son, Luke, Jr. (left) began serving prisMQ sentences for violation of banking laws. A 11. S Senator at 32, a colonel in the A. E. F.; and leader of unofficial expedition to kidnap the ex-Kaiser are highlights in'Lea’s career (Central Press) KERR BILL HOLDS POSSIBLE DANGERS Tobacco Farmers Face Short Crop and Lower Prices If It Fails Dully Dlapiifrli Barrua, In the Sir Walter Hotel. I)Y J. C BASKERVILI. Raleigh, May 14.—1 f the Kerr to baccobacco control bill should not pass the growers of flue-cured tobacco in North Carolina would face the possi bility of having both a short crop and short prices, according to Dr. Clarence Poe. editor of Th» Progressive Farmer here, and E. S. Vanatta, master of the State Grange, powerful farm organi zation. They have just sent a tele gram to Congressman John H. Kerr, of the second district, author of the bill, urging him to redouble his ef forts to secure its passage. They also suggest that tobacco farmers and others interested in its enactment would do well to either write or wire all of the North Carolina congressmen and senators to do all they can to se cure enactment of the bill as soon as possible. The telegram which Dr. Poe and Mr. Vanatta sent to Congressman Kerr is as follows: “If your tobacco control bill should not pass, there is grave danger that thousands of farmers in hurley areas who can plant several weeks longer may tremendously increase production and that large hurley production may work disaster to flue cured prices so that flue cured growers will have both a short crop and short prices. We be lieve all orth Carolina farmers and farm organizations should immediate ly use all their power to get quick and favorable action on your bill and of fer you our cooperation to this end.” Despite the fact that the U. S. De (Continued on Page Four.) for conciliation conferences. Gulf and Pacific coast ports are also troubled by bthe dispute, which con cerns union work recognition, not working conditions. Police surrounded the East Hart ford, Conn,, plants of the Pratt and Whitney Aircraft Company as work went on in the face of a strike by 1,400 employees. Picket lines were estab lished. In Detroit, Jay J. Griffin, organizer for the Mechanics Educational Society of America, announced a committee would go to Washington tomorrow to protest against what he described as i the “locking out” of several hundred [ members by the Ford Motor Company. Truck drivers in Minneapolis and St Paul will vote this week on wheth er to strike for a closed shop agree ment with employers. ONLY DAILY LEASED WIRE SERVIPir nv THE ASSOCIATED PRESS. NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA AND VITO! INI A. HENDERSON, N. C. Kerr Bill Given Favorable Report Washington, May 14. (AP)—The tobacco marketing control bill by Representative Kerr, Democrat, North Carolina, took another stdp forward today when a House Agri culture Committee received a fav orable report from a sub-committee and decided to open heaerings on them ensure before the full commit tee Thursday. The measure, revised, follows closely the plan of the Bankhead cotton production control bill pro viding for allocations of tobacco quotas to producing areas with a penalty tax imposed on marketings in excess of the allowed maximum. Attempt To Free Gettle Is Held Up Failure to Make Con tact With Abductors Halts Negotiations For Time Los Angeles, Cal., May 14 (AP) — Negotiations with the kidnapers of William F. Gettle, Beverly Hills Mil lionaire, came to an abrupt and dra matic halt today after failure of inter mediaries to make an attempted con tact with the abductors. It was be lieved the interruption was but tem porary. Ernest E. Noon, attorney and' inter mediary for the Gettle family, went to Downey, a suburb, in the southeast section of Los Angeles, at 3 a. m. in hopes of bringing the abducted mil lionaire home to his family. He returned home empty-handed after one of the most sensational de velopments in the case since the ab duction of the millionaire Wednesday midnight from his Arcadia country estate. Two notes penciled in Gettle’s hand writing and with the 1932 life mem bership card of the millionaire in the local Shrine temple attached indicat ed that ransom payment instructions were loading to the end of his trail as a prisoner and that he is alive. COTTON CONSUMED IS LESS IN APRIL Washington, May 14. (AP) —Cotton consumed during April was reported today by the Census Bureau to have totalled 512,703 bales of lint and 67,822 bales of linters, compared with 543, 90 of lint and. 74,529 of lintersd uring March thisy ear and 470,359 of lint and 60,031 of linters during April last year. MONDAY AFTERNOON, MAY 14, 1934 SgS Intermediary's Identity Kept Secret by Police But Was Not Gettle Family Lawyer ATTEMPT MADE TO SEIZE BIG RANSOM $60,000 Carried in Black Satcuel in $5 and $lO Bills of Old Issue; Emissary Es capes Hijack Gang After Running Gun Battle Fought With Them Los Angeles, Calif., May 14. (AP) — In a sensational escape from a mob of men apparently attempting to hi-jack $60,000 offered as ransom for the re lease of William S. Gettle, kidnaped oil millionaire, an emissary fled today after shooting his way to freedom and shortly afterwards two escapees were caught in an immense police trap. The intermediary, whose identity was kept secret at the reequeset of police, was not Ernest E. Noon, family lawyer, who has been attempting to contact the kidnapers since the abduc tion of Gettle from his fice acre wood ede estate in suburban Arcadia last Wednesday. The attempt to seize the money, carried in a black satchel and made up of $5 and $lO bills of old issue, but genuine currency, came after a drama tic series of maneouvers which had thrown the entirep dice forces of Los Angelees county into action. After the emissary had picked up several notes apparently left by the kidnapers and containing instructions for payment of the ransom he noticed as he drove down a street that he was being surrounded by about three machines. Confident that the occupants could not be the actual kidnapers because of the information he had obtained (Continued on ’’age Two.) Income On Sales Tax Increases Dully Dispatch Bnrena. In the Sir Walter Hotel. HI J C. BASKERVILL. Raleigh, May 14.—Sales tax collec tions are already increasing as a re sult of the intensive drive beeing put on to make collections from mer chants who are delinquent, it was learned from an authoritative source in the State Department of Revenue today. For the past several days Col lections have been averaging some $5,000 a day more than in any previous month and this is expected to go still higher from now until the end of the month. It was also learned that there are more than 75,000 delinquent returns whicti are being checked up on by the 56 field deputies. All of these dep uties now have the names of every merchantw ho has not sent in a return either during thep ast month or dur ing previous B<orr»ths and each deputy j, expected to check and make col lections from all those on ,»is list be twasa now and June 1 ii possible. The deputy colic-dors are ■alr-o increas ing their May collections by auditing the returns a? they are received, as they were trained to do in the special school held in the Department of Rev enue here some ten days ago. "One collector has ust written in that by auditing the return of a mer chant when it was given to him, he found errors in deductions and other places that resulted in his collecting SI,OOO more from the merchant than he otherwise would have obtained if he had note becked the return on the spot," an official of the department ssid today. “Still another deputy audited five returns that did not look exactly right to him and obtained $3,- 000 more than the returns showed on their face. So the training given these deputy collectors in the week they (Continued on Page Four.} How Dust. Cloud Hit Gotham BPSILJI Jr ilSl BEGAN WE O.A.M- \ I ■ /// V\ \ V 7 .. \ t*t » ft h*\%~ s l_ ;) f Map shows the track of the dust storm, resulting from the prolonged drought and high winds in the Mid-West, which came east in a 1,500-mile long yellow pall and powdered New York’s face with a fine layer of dust. Beginning in Winnipeg, Can., the storm reached maximum intensity at lowa and had thinned considerably before it hit Gotham and Southeast. ' n "viral Press) Exchange Control To Include Cotton Washingtn, May 14. (AP)—The House Agriculture Committee voted today to make the commodity ex change control bill apply to cotton as well as grain. State Board of Education Completes Adoption; Let Contracts May 17 Dnlly Dtapatcli Burma, In the Sir Walter Hotel, BY J. C. BASKERVILL. Raleigh, May 14. —The State Board of Education has at last completed virutally it only official task —the adoption of textbooks to be used fr the next five years in history and civics in the fifth, sixth, and seventh elementary grades and in the four high school grades. The board se lected the last of the history and civics texts to be used in the high school grades Friday of last week. Con tracts have not Ibeen formally let yet. however, as the board is still study ing the bids submitted, tis expected the contracts will be finally let Thurs day of this week, when the board is scheduled to meet again and take final action on the textbook contracts. While most of the prices obtained on the new books are about 10 per cent lower than the prices of the books that have been in use in these sub jects, it is estimated that the new his tory (books for the three upper ele mentary grades will cost from $200,- 000 to $250,000. Thisf igure is based on the number of pupils enrolled in the fifth, sixth and seventh grades in 1933 and on the assumption that each child in these grades will be required to buy one of these new books On the same basis, it is estimated that the cost of the new history and civics books for the four high school grades will also cost in excess of $200,000, so that the total ost of a:l the new books adopted for the next school year will amount to more than $400,000. All of the books that, have been in use here tofore will have to be discarded ,of course. t is also estimated that the various textbook publishing companies have kept not less than 15 representatives here in Raleigh for the past five or six months incident to this adoption of new texts. Figuring the salary and expenses of these representatives at $lO a day regarded as very conserva tive and their stay hree as five months or 150 days the expense to the pub lishers to keep them here has amount ed to not less than $22,500 before a single contract was obtained. ATiathiF FOR NORTH CAROLINA Cloudy, probably occasional showers tonight and Tuesday; slightly cooler Tuesday in north and west portions. PUBLISHED EVERY AFTERNOON EXCEPT SUNDAY. sis Ehringhaus Claims He Has never Advocated It As Permanent Tax Program IT WILL BE KEPT TWO MORE YEARS Only Alternatives To Its Re. tention Are More Repulsive To People Than Sales Tax; Interstate Sales Tax Advo. cates Defend Their Posi tion Dally Dhpntrh Tin roan. In the Sir Walter Hotel, BY J. C. BASKERVILL. Raleigh, May 14.—Governor J. C. B. Ehringhaus is not now favoring and never has advocated the State sales tax as a permanent tax, but only as an emergency tax, he said here today in answering those who are apparently trying to make it appear that he is irrevocably committed to the sales tax as a permanet taxing policy. He does not believe, however, that the emerg ency that existed only a little more than a year ago when the 1933 Gen eral Assembly enacted the sales tax, is yet over or that it is likely to be over any time soon. So he does not believe there is a possibility for the State to discard the sales tax even as an emer gency tax within the next few years and still continue to carry the entire cost of maintaining the public schools, county and State highways and other State activities. “I have l ever advocated the sales tax except as a purely emergency tax, as any one who has read or heard my (Continued on Page Two.) Husband, Father, Brother Facing Execution, Womati Pleads For The Husband Raleigh, May 14. (AP) —A young wo man whose husband, father and broth er face electrocution for murder, today brought her three small children to Raleigh and asked Parolee Commis sioner Edwin M. Gill to recommend clemency for her husband, R. E. Black, of High Point. The wife, Mrs. Nina E Black, is the daughter of B. G. Green and the sister of Lester Green. The two Greens. Black and Mike Stefanoff were aU sentenced to die for the killing of T. C. Barnes during an attempted robbery or the Farmers and Merchants Bank of Taylorsville. 6' PAGES TODAY FIVE CENTS COPY ADEQUATE SUPPLY COST ANTICIPATED Moderate Terms of Repay, ment Would Be Allowed Under the President's Proposal LOANS ARE REFUSED FORPOWER PLANTS Huge Appropriation of sl,- 322,000,000 Planned By Roosevelt To Carry New Schedules of Recovery Pro. gram During Coming Months Washington, May 14. (AP)—A presi dential recommendation to eaese home building and a Senate tumbsdown at titude on R. F. C. loans to municipal opwer plants were foremost activities as the capital opened another busy week. Many people needed to repair their homes or get new ones where repair is no longer possible the President in formed Congress in advocating Fed eral co-operation with private capital to that end. Senator Johnson, Republican, Cali fornia, lost his R. F. C. lending pro posal on a tie vote of 37-37. Among arguments against him was one Iby Jesse H. Jones, chairman of the gov ernment’s biggest loan agency, that to advance funds to municipally-owned power units would be to enter the corporation upon a 'highly undesir able’ field.’ * Clearing its docket toward adolm ment, the ouse accepted agreement with the Senate on bills enabling muni cipalities to scale down their indebted ness and strengthening Sederal au thority against “big time” criminal® The Senate has as yet to act on all before President Roosevelt gets them for signing. Controversy over the 30-hour week (Continued On Page Four.) Witness In Dillinger Case Gone Police Seek Woman in Case Against Trip Who Harbored Notorious Killer ■ (Copyright by The Associated Press) St. Paul, Minn., May 14. (AP)—An important government witness in the case of three defendants charged with lharboring John Dillinger has disap peared and today, 24 hours before the scheduled opening of the trial, the De partment of Justice was frantically searching for her. Object of the extended search is Mrs. Dolores Smart, 22, Minneapolis blonde, who was releeased on her own recognizance to appear at the trial of Evelyn Frechette, half-breed Indian sweetheart of the notorious killer, Dr 1 . Clayton May, of Minneapolis, and his nurse, Mrs. August Salt The government, it was learned froin a reliable source had “banked'* on Mrs. Smart’s testimony as one of the strong links in its chain of evi dence against Dr. May and Mrs. Salt. “I hope you will do all you can for him.” Mrs. Black told Commissioner Gill when he asked her if she had anything to say for her husband. The young woman, together with counsel for her husband, his mother and two brothers appeared before Mr. Gill. Commutation was urged for Black on the grounds that he was led into the attempted bank robbery, which re sulted in the killing of Barnes and the wounding of Solon Little. Mrs. Black told the commissioner husband was "easily led into thingsb y other people when he was drinking.”
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