HENDERSON
GATEWAY TO
CENTRAL
CAROLINA
TWENTY-FIRST YEAR
SENTIMENT FOR
Condon’s Address Secreted In Hauptmann Home
PANELS IN CLOSET
GIVE EVIDENCE AT
PRISONER’S HOUSE
‘‘JafsieV’ Phone and House
Numbers and Serials of
Ransom Money are
Revealed
FOOTPRINTS POUND
BEAR RESEMBLANCE
Close Similarity in Tracks at
Foot of Ladder Night of
Kidnaping and Those of
Bronx Carpenter; Nails
Found Like Those in the
Ladder Used
New York, Sept. 25 (AP) —District
Attorney Samuel Foley announced to
day after a three and a half hour
"rand jury session that the case
against Pturto Richard Hauptmann.
receiver of the Lindbergh ransom
money, had been “completely broken”.
Foley said it had been disclosed
before the grand jury that two closet
panels had been found in the Haupt
mann home which bore the address
and telephone number of Dr. John
& Condon, the “Jafsie” who paid the
$50,000 Lindbergh ransom to a sup
posed representative of the kidnapers.
The two panels, Foley said, were
lose and placed in the closet in such
a manner that they could be removed.
On one. the district attorney disclos
ed. was the home address of Dr. Con
don, and a telephone number which
Foley said was Dr. Condon’s at the
time of the kidnaping.
On the other, according to Foley,
was serial numbers, one of which has
teen found to be the number on one
of the ransom hills.
Folev onid that the hoards were
proof to him that Hnuntmann was in I
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h the r*v»n who received !
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"nip, -or hit of rarnentrv.” and It was
that at the time of his ar- |
me* ipr.t week Hauptmann described ;
himself as a carpenter now out of
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Net Closer
On Bandits
I n Arkansas
One of Four Men:
Called Double of
Pretty Boy” Floyd,
Woman With Them
Gentry, Aik., Sept. 25 (AP) —Assist-
ant Superintendent L. J. Acklin, of
Tucker State Prison farm, was en
route here today with bloodhounds to
join officers from three states in a
hunt for a woman and four men —
one of them described as a double of
Charles (Pretty Boy) Floyd—wanted
tot the robbery of a New York sales
man last Friday.
The quintette, said to be armed
"oth machine guns, was trailed to a
wooded spot near here last night,
where the officers’ posse forced Ahem
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Seven Accused Os Fraud
In Spending Relief Funds
Prestonburg, Ky., Sept. 25 (AP)
Seven persons, including a mayor,
bounty judge and a minister, were in
dicted here today on charges of fraud
ulently converting $122,50C in the ad
ministration ol Federal relief money.
The defendants are A C. Carter,
Mayor of Prestonburg; Floyd County
Judge W. L. Stumbo, Rev. W. M.
r ’hapman, Mrs. Regino Mayo. George
Wood. Otto Finn In and Herbert Salis
bury,
TUmfrcrsmt Uaihi Dtsunfrlt
leased wire service
the associated press.
SEEK INDICTMENT
RANSOM PAYMENT
Ransom Note and Other
Kidnap Messages Also
Presented to Bronx
County Grand Jury
TWO HANDWRITING
EXPERTS TESTIFY
Albert S. Osborne, One Wit
ness at Inquiry, Has Found
Great Similarity in Writ’
ing on Ransom Note and
T hat on Hauptmann’s Au
tomobile Applications
New York, Sept. 25 (AP)—The $13.-
750 in ransom money found in the
garage at the home of Bruno Rich
ard Hauptmann, alleged receiver of
the $50,000 Lindbergh ransom, and
the ransom note and other messages
from the kidnaper were taken before
the Bronx county grand jury today.
The evidence w;as presented in Dis
trict Attorney Samuel J. Foling’s ef
fort to obtain an indictment charging
extortion against Hauptmann, unem
ployed German carpenter, illegally in
this country.
The money and notes were taken
into the grand jury room while Albert
S. Osborne, handwriting expert, and
his son Albert D. Osborne, wei
before the jury. The two were there
about an hour, with the father, who
has said the handwriting on the ran
som note and that of Hauptmann on
applications for automobile licenses
were similar, being questioned most
of that time.
REGULATIONS FOR
MARKET COMPLETE
Washington, Sept. 25. f/p)—Federal
Reserve officials disclosed today that
stock market regulations had been
completed except for a few controver
sial points and had been placed in the
hands of the 12 reserve banks for
simultaneous release when these is
sues were sttld.
The indictment, returned yesterday
and filed today, charges “fraudulent
ly misapplying and converting legal
tender relief orders, equivalent to
money ,funds and effects.”
The indictment charges the accus
ed persons were entrusted with $435,-
000.
Mayor Carter, it is alleged, deprived
the poor of $25,000 by using relief ord
ers to pay for work on his garage
and in conducting his motor agency.
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(Central Press)
NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA AND VhYRnIA
HENDERSON. N. C. TUESDAY AFTERNOON, SEPTEMBER 25., 1934.
RENEWING
Kidnapper Nabbed
In Oakland Raid
Oakland, Cal., Sept. 25 (AP)—
Brought to bay in a checking cloud
of tear gas, John Baldwin, gun
flashing jail breaker, was in cus
tody today after police had unwit
tingly interrupted his second dou
ble kidnaping in four days.
LlIiTiT
GIVEN OPEN ROAD
/
For More Than Two Years
It Has Pushed Everything
Else Off Front Page
By LESLIE EICHEL
(Central Press Staff Writer)
New York. Sept. 25.—This is written
as a newspaperman, from a newspa
perman’s point of view.
The Lindbergh kidnaping story has
•usbed more stories off the front page
ihan any other story in newspaper
listory.
In fact., it pushed Franklin D. Roose
velt off the front page whein he need"
d front page publicity most.
In March. 1932, Mr. Roosevelt was
eady for the final big push for the
nomination. He needed the unosten
tatious front-page publicity that every
man heading for the presidency must
have.
Mr. Roosevelt wasn’t so well known
then as Alfred E. Smith —strange as
that may seem now.
You will recall that the Lindbergh j
story frist “broke” on March 1, 1932.
Mr. Roosevelt went off the first page
for ten days.
Along came convention time —June,
1932. The politicians were all set for
having exclusive first page space. Rut,
10, another angle of the Lindbergh
case broke, the Lindbergh baby was
found dead and Mr. Roosevelt lost,
first page space that he> needed
badly.
* * *
Election Time
Toward election time, more angles
to the Lindbergh story “broke”, and
to boot. Lindbergh announced he
would vote for Mr. Hoover.
Now we come to Sept. 20. 1934.
President Roosevelt has returned to
Hyde Park from viewing the yach;
races off New port.
The greaetest strike in American
history—the textile strike—is reach
ing a climax. The President is re
ceiving a report from the special fact
finding commission he appointed, and
his secretary of labor. The strike
leader intimates that the report con
tains “startling” findings. The Presi
dent is to make it public the follow
ing day—with intimations that the
strike will bu settled with a dramatic
meeting.
And then—the Lindbergh case
“breaks” once more! The man who
allegedly took the ransom money is
arreseted—and trie story crowds
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WEATHER
FOR NORTH CAROLINA
Fair in the interior and mostly
cloudy, possibly' with occasional
slight showers on the coast to
night and Wednesday; little
change in temperature.
Action Soon
Expected On
Rail Lease
i i
G o 1 d s b o r o-Mofe
head Line May Be
Taken from Norfolk
Southern Road
By J. C, Basker-ville,
Unify Uhpntch Bureau,
In tlie Sir Walter flute*,
Raleigh, Sept. 25—Quick action by
the State of North Carolina with re
gard to the disposition of th elease of
the State-Owned Atlantic and North
Carolina Railroad from Goldsboro to
Morehead City, which has been under
lease to the Norfolk Southern Rail
way, was foreshadowed by the con
ference held here this morning be
tween Governor J. C. B. Ehringhaus
and Morris Hawkins receiver for the
Norfolk Southern. The conference, al
so indicated that all present obstruc
tions in the path of the immediate
construction of the port terminal at
Morehead City are about to be remov
ed. For Governor Ehringhaus, Sena
tor W. Bailey and others interested
in the Morehead ity terminal were
assured last week in Washington that
the only thing now holding up final
approval of the PWA allotment of
$450,000 for its construction was final
disposition of the lease to the A. and
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Will Press
Delinquent
Tax Payers
Revenue Depart
ment Planning to
Crack Down On All
Classes Shortly
By J, C. Bustkcrville.
Daily Dispatch Bureau,
* In the Sir Walter Hotel,
Raleigh, Sept, 25 —Those business
and professional men in the State who
have not yet paid their license taxes,
which were due June 1, had better
plunk down their cash for licenses
in the very near future if they do
not want executions or warrants is
sued against them, officials of the
State Department of Revenue indi
cated here today. There are some
12,000 delinquents who have not yet
purchased their Schedule B license
tax certificates, and most of these
have already been visited from two to
ten times by the deputy collectors of
the department but without results.
From now on the deputy collectors
have instructions to issue either exe
cutions, if the delinquents have suf
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STRIKE REPORTED STRONG
Dies In New York
PERCY A. ROCKEFELLER
PERCY ROCKEFELLER
DIES IN NEW YORK
Brother of Oil King Spent
Much of His Time in
North Carolina
New York, Sept. 26 (AP) —Percy A.
Rockefeller, nephew of John D. Rock
efeller and a prominent New York
financier died early today. He was
director of important banks and in
dustrial corporations.
Rockefeller, who was a son of the
late William G. Rockefeller, brother
of the founder of Standard Oil, had
been operated on at the Doctors’ hos
pital Saturday for a stomach disorder,
and had been critically ill since. He
died at 5 a. m. today.
Percy Rockefeller was rated as one
of the nation’s wealthiest men, but
was retiring and shunned the lime
light. One of his few public appear
ances was during the Senate Banking
and Currency Committee’s investi
gation of the New York Stock Ex
change. He was called before the
committee in April, 1932.
OWNED COUNTRY ESTATE IN
THE FAYETTEVILLE SECTION
Fayetteville, Sept; 25 (AP) —'Percy
A. Rockefeller, who died in New York
this morning, owned a large country
estate, Overhills. 18 miles from Fay
etteville, where he had spent much of
his time in recent years.
CORPDRAINSARE
ARMING FACTORIES
Revelation One of Develop
ments of the Senate
Munitions Inquiry
By CHARLES P. STEWART
(Central Press Staff Writer)
Washington, Sept. 25. —The Senate’s
munitions investigation (to continue,
the story of a “probe” I already have
discussed a time or two, hut a “probe”
which has touched so niany sensitive
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PUBLISHED EVERY AFTERNOON
EXCEPT SUNDAY,
Last Os Troops
In Gaston Leave
Raleigh, Sept. 25 (AP)—Nation
al Guardsmen, who have been on
strike guard duty in the Gastonia-
Belmont area, today had been ord
ered withdrawn and demobilized,
and with the demobilization of
another unit in the Greensboro-
High Point area, the number of
men left on duty was reduced to
htre full units, Adjutant J. Van B.
Metts figures.
Last Saturday 40 guard units
were on duty.
Ehringhaus
Says Plenty
To Meddlers
Asks V irginians Why
They Don t Stay at
Home; To Use
Troops When Need
ed
Raleigh, Sept. 25 (AP) —Gover-
nor Ehringhaus today told three
members of the southern section
of the National Committee, for
the Defense of Political Prisoners
that National Guardsmen would
be used in North Carolina when
ever they are needed to preserve
law and order,” and expressed
hope that proper relief agencies
would aid the family of Ernest K.
Riley, Mount Holly textile worker
killed in a strike disorder at Bel
mont.
The governor talked over the strike
situation with Cary White, former
Maryland college professor who now
lives in Richmond, Va.; Myra Page,
Virginia author of books on Caro
lina textile conditions and Sara Hart
mann, a Richmond, Va., social work
er.
Acting as spokesman for the three
committee members, White said they
were interested primarily in four
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industrlalboard
HAS 28,814 CASES
194 in Vance County, with
$6,045 Paid Plus $2,293
in Doctors’ Fees
Daily Dispatch Bureau,
In the Sir Walter Hotel,
By J. C. Baakerville.
Raleigh, .Sept. 25—The North Caro
lina Industrial Commission handled
a total of 28,814 cases during the fis
cal year from July 1, 1933, to July 1,
1934, and paid out in compensation
a total of $779491 to injured workers,
in addition to paying out $338,680 to
doctors for treating those injured, ac
cording to figures released today by
Chairman Harry McMullan, of the
commission.
During the preceding fiscal year,
from July 1, 1932, to July 1, 1933, the»
Industrial Commission handled 23,-
635 cases, paid out compensation to
injured workers amounting to $775,-
420 and paid to doctors fees totaling
$382,523. Thus there was an increase
of 5,189 cases handled by the com
mission this past year with an in
crease of 4,081 in the total amount of
compensatio npaid. The amount re
ceived by the doctors of the State in
fees, however, was $44,243 less this
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Web Tightens On 2 Men
For Slaying In Atlanta
Atlanta, Ga„ Sept. 25 (AP) —
Claiming a confession from one man
and “the finest piece of evidence you
ever saw” against another suspect,
police today resumed their investiga
tion into the bandit slaying of Max
Sjoblom, of Davenport, lowa.
Officers announced the two men
arrested in the slaying would be plac
ed in a line-up at the jail tonight and
that victims of ride-and-rob bandits
who have been active recently would
be invited to look at them. .«, „
8' PAGES
TODAY
FIVE CENTS COPY
GOMAN DECLARES
MILL CENTERS IN
SOUTH DISPLEASED
Workers Aroused by Alleg
ed Widespread Discri
mination in Taking
Strikers Back
LEADERS ARE URGED
TO SHOW PATIENCE
Gorman Charges Y ellow
Dog Contracts, Company
Unions and Refusal to Re
instate Workers Unless
They Repudiate Union
Being Used by. Mill Own
ers
Washington, Sept. 25 (AP) —Fran-
cis J. Gorman, chairman of the tex
tile strike committee, said today sen
timent for renewal of the strike was
strong in southern mill centers be
cause of allegedly widespread discrim
ination against strikers in re-employ
ment of the workers.
Gorman said he was urging union
leaders to be patient until the new
textile relations board was appoint
ed and had been given time to act.
“We know now with certainty,”
Gorman said, "that a number of em
ployers, particularly in the cotton in
dustry, are using methods of reprisal
against members of the union. In
the South the vast vicious type of dis
crimination is evident.
i’Yello wdog 1 contracts, company
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Prices High
On Old Belt
At Opening
North Carolina and
Virginia Markets
Start Off Right
Around 30 Cents
Richmond, Va„ Sept. 25. (/P) —The
opening of nearly two score ware
houses in 11 Virginia cities today
found the Old Dominion golden weed
selling for an average of 30 cents a
pounds. x
Although conservative’ 1 ’ estimates
had indicated a price of about 22
cens, the first few rows at many of
he markets sold at piMces ranging
from 26 o 34 cents.
There was more than a million,
pounds of tobacco on( the Danvilld
market when it opened, and about the
same amount on the South Boston,
market.
Tobacco men, said the color of this
year’s offerings is unusually good,
especially so in the cigarette types.
REIDSVILLE AVERAGE IS
REPORTED AT $34.21 LEVEL
Reidsville, Sept. 25. (/p)—Prices on
the eidsville tobacco market today
were the highest for an opening day
in its hisory, and growers and tobac
conists were overjoyed. The first 54
rows sol 4 brought an average of
$34.21 per hundred.
$28.30 AVERAGE REPORTED
ON SALE AT BURLINGTON
Burlington, Sept. 25. (AP) —The break,
as the tobacco market here opened
today was about 75,000 pounds. Ani
average struck for the first half
hour’s sale was $28.30 peir hundred.
Police Chief T. O. Sturdivant said
Robert Riley, 20, had admitted firing
the shot that killed Sjoblom.
“Against the other man we have the
finest piece of evidence you ever saw”
Chief Sturdivant said. He said half
of a dollar bill had been found at the
lonely spot in a pine thicket where
Sjoblom’s was placed.
“When we arrested the second man,
Hoyt Summers, we found half of ai
dollar bill in his pocket,” Sturdivant
said. "The two pieces matched up.”