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CAROLINA
TWENTY-FIRST YEAR
TWO CONDEMNED
State’s General
KOI MORE THAN
3 MILLIONS; UNDER
MILLION YEAR AGO
Most of Increase* Are Due
to “Getting Taxe* on
Time, When They
Are Due”
FIRST QUARTER IS
62 PRCT. INCREASE
Highway Receipt* for Sep
teber $1,764,318, or
$291,760 Over September
Last Year; Sale* Tax $60,-
000 Higher This Month
Raleigh. Sept 29 (AP)-General
fund revenues of the State of North
Carolina in September aggregated $3,-
U 53.522.52, or more than three times
the receipts in the same month last
year, when they were $962,222.45.
Di. M. M. S. Noble. Jr., executive
assistant commissioner of revenue,
ipleased the monthly report today in
the absence of A J. Maxwell, the com
missioner.
A tthe revenue offices, it was point
ed out that most of the increases in
collections of various classes of reve
nue in September were due to “get
ting th*» taxes on time, when they are
due."
Tne heavy September receipts push
ed the first quarter total for the gen
eral fund to $7,112,562.98, or 62.34 per
cent above the total 1933-34 first quar
ter figure of $4,434,162.87.
With details of the htghway fund
receipts for September not complete,
it was shown that $1,764,318.58 was re
ceived during the month. This was
an increase of $291,760.31 over the
September. 1933 figures, and gave the
fund an increase for the first quarter
of $545,946 over the similar period last
year.
Sales tax receipts in September
were $470,996.91, compared with
$411,755.12 in the same month last
year.
The biggest incraese shown was in
franchise taxes, where receipts last
September were only $165,864.49, and
jumped to $2,169,102.37 this Septem
ber. , i t
Beer taxes last eptember aggregated
(Continued on Page Eight)
No Case
Against
Suspect
Chicago, Sept. 29. (Jp)—‘ The hope of
Chicago police that they had nabbed*
-he man who received the) $50,000
Lindbergh ransom seemed faded to
day as Chief of Detectives John L.
Sullivan announced he could find
nothing tangible to link John Bow
, man with the crime.
Bowman, alias James O’Dea, an ex
convict. was seized last night on an
tnunymous tip, and was questioned
during the early morning by Melvin
H Purvis, chief of the Chicago unit
the Bureau <V Investigation.
The police said the suspect bore a
striking resmblance” to the “John "
glimpsed by Dr. John P. Condon dur
in 8 the payment of the ransom.
Chief Sullivan, however, admitted
the link was weakened by the lack of
an y of the ransom bills in Bowman’s
possession, and failure to find any
other uspiciou evidence.
Walmsley Charges Long
Bought Recent Victory
New Orleans, La., Sept. 29. (/P>—
Mayor T. Semmes Walmsley today
charged that Huey Long “bought” his
victory voer the Walmsley forces in
the September 11 congressional elec
tion here.
We made the statement right after,
the electon that there was wholesale*
fraud in the election,” * Walmsley
sa ' d He based his accusation that
the election was “bought' on the fact
that the four Long ward leaders, all
itmutersnit Hat hi Htsuafrh
WIRB BBRVICK n*
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Litvinoff Gives League a Shock
Bfawlb'
i m Wmi
Litvinoff (arrow) signalizes the victory of the Soviet In being
admitted to the highest councils of the League of Nations by the “capi
talist countries” which excluded it for 14 years, by making a speech of
concilß^i°n ' Tie followed it up with an unexpected demand
that the League made a decision as to the future of the world disarm**
rnent conference, now moribund because of League inactivity.
f Central Press)
Hauptmann
Trial Will
Be Speeded
District Attorney to
Move Next Week for
Special Jury Panel
for Case
New York, Sept. 29 AP) —Dis-
trict Attorney Samuel J. Foley
said today that early next week
thre psychiatrists, one appointed
by the district attorney’s office,
one by the State of New Jersey,
and one by the defense will exam
ine Bruno Richard Hauptmann in
the Lindbergh kidnap case.
New York, Sept. 29 (AP) —'District
Attorney Samuel J. Foley said today
that on ne*t Wednesday he will sub
mit a motion in Bronx county court
for a special jury panel in order to
get under way as quickly as possible
the trial of Bruno Richard Haupt
mann, indicted for extortion as the
receiver of the Lindbergh $50,000 ran
som payment.
The actual date for trial is to be
determined at a conference between
the prosecutor and defense counsel.
Fqley today did not indicate what
date he expected the case here to go
to trial, but said he would make the
motion for the panel in order to ac
celerate preparations for the trial.
Hans Kloppenburg, who was ques
tioned by members of the district at
torney’s staff for several hours yes
terday, was recalled for questioning
again today.
Foley said that Kloppenburg, whose
pictures in groups taken with Haupt
mann at Hunter’s Island in Long Is
land Sound were found in albums at
the Hauptmann home, was not under
any suspicion in the case, but that
he was a “very close' friend of the
prisoner, and “because he was closer
to Hauptmann than any one yet pro
duced, we are questioning him at
great length.”
Chicago police held for questioning
today a man who they said bore a
“very remarkable” resemblance to
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State job holders, stood charged to
day with a multiple array of alleged
election frauds, chiefly the handing:
out of cash money to unemployed
transients in New Orleans to vote for
Long’s slate of candidates.
“The system used by Lon gin -he
second ward, as charged in the bills
of information filed by the district
attorney in the criminal court was
the same system used all over tne
city, Walmsley said.
ONLY DAILY ]
HENDERSON, N. C. SATURDAY AFTERNOON, SEPTEMBER 29, 1934.
Fund Revenues Treble Receipts Os Year Ago
Strike Witnesses
Held For Perjury
Anderson, S. C„ Sept. 29. (AP) —
J. A. McGaha and Paul Moon, wit
nesses in the inquest into the kill
ing of even Chicola mill pickets at
Honea Path, were held in the
county jail today on charges of
perejury.
They Were arrested on warrants
sworn out by J. D. Beacham, mayor,
of Honea Path, and superintenedent
of the mill. The mayor said their
testimony that thy saw him firing
from a rear door of the mill dur
ing the battle was false.
He had publicly denounced the
testimony as untrue in a state
ment issued after the inquest.
State Rail
Lease Held
Forfeited
Directors of State-
Owned Line Take
Property from the
Norfolk Southern
Raleigh, Sept. 29 (AP)—Governor
Ehringhaus said this afternoon he was
informed over long distance tele
phone that the board of directors of
the Atlantic and North Carolina rail
road, meeting at Kinston, unanimous
ly voted to declare forfeited the lease
of the road to the Norfolk Southern
railroad. t ({l*l9l
The governor some time ago recom
mended that the lease be forfeited
due to the default of the Norfolk
Southern in its renta lfor two years.
The next step In the matter, the
(Continued on Page Eight)
ffKE 6PRCT.
Some Wound Up for as Lit
tle as Two Percent; 182
Are Handled
Daily Dispatch Bureau,
In the Sir Walter Hotel,
By J. C. Baskervtlle.
Raleigh, Sept. 29. —A total of 182
banks have been placed in the hands
of the estate hanking department for
liquidation since ethee 1927 General
Assembly passed the act putting the
liquidation of closed banks under the
direction of this departmenet, Com
missioner of Banks Gurney P. Hood
announcede today. Os this number,
the liquidation of 40 banks has been
completed© and final reports issued,
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NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OF"NORTH CAROLINA AND \
MURDERERS BREAK RICHMOND JAIL
BHMME
FEDERAL AID LESS
Highway Commission Re*
quire* More a* Uncle
Sam Won’t Play
Santa Claus
MAINTENANCE WORK
IN BAD CONDITION
$45,000,000 Sought for
Biennium Not Far Out of
Line With Current Bien
nium Expenditures, Ex
cept Government Has
Paid Much of It Lately
Daily Dispatch Bureau,
1 1. the Sir Walter Hotel,
By J. C. Baskerville.
Raleigh, Sept. 29 —The fact that the
iState Hijhway and Public Works
Commission is asking a total of $45,-
000,000 for the next biennium, includ
ing $10,000,000,000 the first year and
$6,000,000 the second for new highway
construction, is causing something of
a flurry in such circles both here and
elsewhere over the State. But even
taking into consideration these
amounts for new construction, the
total requests are not far out of line
with the actual amounts spent last
year and this year. The difference is
that last year and this year the Fed
eral government has been supplying
the money for new construction,
while from this year on the govern
ment is ceasing to be Santa Claus and
will require that the state put up
some money and match all Federal
grants dollar for dollar.
Still another factor that is making
it increasingly imperative that the
state again provide for some new
highway construction work, is the
fact that some received from the
Federal government last year and this
year is restricted to limit usage, with
the result that there are many miles
of highway that need to be construct
ed but for which Federal funds can
not be expended, highway officials
point out. A great deal of recon
struction work is also needed, but
which must be done with State funds.
So, after four years during which no
new construction has been done with
State funds, those familiar with the
situation maintain that the request
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Naming Os
Williams Is
No Surprise
Winston Tobacco
Head Has Long
Stood High With
Roosevelt
Dally Dispatch Bureau,
In the Sir Walter Hotel,
By J. O. Bumkerville,
Raleigh, Sept. 29. —Gratification but
not surprise was being expressed here
today at the selection of S. Clay Wil
liams, of WjinstonnSalem, as the chair
man of the new National Industrial
Recovery Board just created by Presi
dent Roosevelt to take over the ad
ministration of the NRA. It has been
no secret here among those who have
<had to visit Washington recently that
Williams, former president of the R.
J. Reynolds Tobacco Company, and
still chairman of its board of direct
ors, has been steadily gaining IB'
favor with the administration in
Washington for more than a year.
Williams has already served as vice
chairman of the former National
Labor Labor Board, under Senator
Wagner, and also as the second chair
man of the Industrial Advisory Board,
(Continued on Page Eight)
WEATHER
FOB NORTH CAROLINA
Cloudy, showers in the Interior
tonight; Sunday showers, not
much change in temperature.
BACK TO WORK IN WASHINGTON
*- " ■■ »
r .
'' v - •>, .v,ws.«i.
Tanned and rested by his vaca
tion at Hyde Park, N. Y., Presi
dent Roosevelt is shown in his of-
Two Lose Lives
In Pennsy Wreck
Convoy, Ohio, Sept. 29 AP) —Both
the engineer and fireman of the
Gotham Limited of the Pennsyl
vania railroad, eastbound from
Chicago to New York, were kiUed
when parts of the train were de
railed when it struck a stalled au
tomobile early today.
All of the passengres, however,
were reported to have escaped se
rious injury.
Harry Tourgee, 58, of Fort
Wayne, Ind., the engineer, died
while being taken to a hospital at
Fort Wayne. H. *J. Gladen, 32, of
Delphes, Ohio, the fireman, died
at the scene of the wreck. The
mail clerk, whose name was not
immediately learned, suffered a
nose injury and was taken to the
Methodist hospital at Fort Wayne.
Will Start
Liquidating
Cotton Pool
$20,000,000“ Allotted
for Selling Cotton or
Making of New
Loans
Washington, Sept. 29 AP) —Liquida-
tion of the Farm Administration cot
ton producers’ pool was read yto be
gin today, following allocation of $20,-
000,000 to carry out final details of
selling the cotton or making new
loans.
Conptroller General McCarl of the
Department Justice have approved
plans for the orderly liquidation of
the pool, the offic eof Oscar Johnson,
pool manager, said. During the com
ing week, forms wil. be sent to hold
ers of cotton in the pool to sell it or
take advantage of the new 12 cents
per pound loan, an advance of two
cnts per pound over the 1933 loan.
Approximately 455,000 producers are
now participating in the cotton pool
and hold certificates on about 1,050,000
bales of cotton. The ten cents loan
and the present market price, less
carrying charges of 30 cents per bale
if they decide to sell on the open
market, or in paying them the addi
tional two cents loan if they were pre
fer to hold the cotton under the new
loan
WILMINGTOtTsEEKS
PORT DEVELOPMENT
Wilmington, Sept. 29. (JP) —A port
conference will be held here October
23 for the purpose of promoting water
traffic through Wilmington and the
lower Cape Fear river.
PUBLISHED EVERT AFTERNOON
EXCEPT SUNDAY.
ficial automobile upon his return
to work in Washington ready for
the grind.
SUPREME COURT TO
RULE ON NEW DEAL
Muttering* Heard in Wash
ington Against Its
Power to Nullify
JUDGES CONSERVATIVE
Supposition Is That Radical Phases of
Recovery Program Might In
cur the Disapproval of
Majority
By CHARLES P. STEWART
(Cemral Press Staff Write*.’)
Washington, Sept. 29. —Mutterings
of a rising storm of protest against
the Federal Supreme Court’s power
to nullify the New Deal program, in
whole or in part, are beginning to)
be audible in Washington.
The national tribunal of last re
sort, to be sure', has not as yet ruled
on any New Deal issue.
However, Judge W. Calvin Chestnut
already has decided, in the U. S. dis
trict court at Baltimore, that the Fra/«
ziei-Leinke law (enacted at the last
(Continued on Page Six)
Major Neyland Is
Ordered To Panama
Washington, Sept. 28. (JP) —Major
Robert R. Neyland, Jr., University of
Tennessee head football coach, today
was orderd by the War Department
to sail to the Panama Canal Zone on
January 9.
Neyland’s present assignment is as
sistant to the ditrict engineer at Nash
ville, but he has ibeen at Knoxvlile
several months in charge of the en
gineer reserve officrs training corps
unit at the University o fTennessee.
In Panama he will perform duties
assigned to him by the commanding
general of the Panal Canal depart
ment.
Shorter Work Week Now
Burning Issue For NRA
Washington, Sept. 29 (AP) —
The new NBA board today named
C. M. Nelson, Willard E. Hotch
kiss "and Father" Francis"
as an impartial committee to in
vestigate working hours in the
cotton garment industry
Washington, Sept. 29. (IP) —The ques
tion of a shorter work week, one of
the most controversial of all recovery
issues, crept into the new NRA. picture
today.
President Roosevelt acted to obtain
further light on the problem. In call
ing for a hearing on an order setting 1
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FIVE CENTS COPY
PRISONERS SHOOT
PATHTOFREEDiI,
Commandeer Mail Truck
and Automobile in
Escape, Police in 9
Hot Pursuit
WERE BEINGTAKEN
INTO CONFERENCE
Their Attorney Wa* Wait"
ing to |See Them About
Appeal from Electrocu
tion Sentence; Convicted
of Killing Federal Re
serve Bank Agent
Richmond, Va., Sept. 29 (AJF)—The
convicted gangsters, Walter Legenza
and Robert Mais, sentenced to die
for murder, shot their way out of the
Richmond jail today, wounding three
officers and commandeering a mail
truck and an automobile in their es
cape, with State and city police in
pursuit.
Mais and Legenza shot their way to
freedom when they were brought from
their cell into a corridor leading into
a reception room where Charles W.
Moss, their attorney, was waiting to
confer with them in regard to plans
for appealing their cases to the State
Supreme Court.
When they were led into the corri
dor by Warden Moore and Deputy
Sergeant Selph, the tw goangsters, in
stead of turning left into the room at
the rear of the jail, where Moss was
waiting alone, drew pistols, ordered
the officers to put yp their hands and
made a break through the front re
ception room leading to the jail en
trance, shooting wildly as they went.
The two gangsters were convicted
of participation in the hold-up-mur
der of E. M. Huband, driver of a Fed
eral Reserve Bank truck last March.
Huband was shot to death and the
gang made away with the truck’s
(Continued on Page Eight)
“Break” Is
Aided By
Outsiders
Richmond, Va, Sept. 29 AP) —
Two gangsters convicted of a gang
land hold-up murder here, and sent
enced to death, escaped from \the
Richmond jail today in what was re
ported to be an "outside job,” In
which two policemen and a guard were
reported shot
Details at first were meagre, but
a police report said among those who
broke from the jail were Walter Leg
enza and Robert Mais, both awaiting
death in the electric chair for their
participation in the hold-up of a Fed
eral Reserve Bank mail truck, and the
murder of its driver, E. M. Hubbard.
Both were alleged members of the
notorious tri-State gang headed by
“Big George” Phillips, who was slain
by Washington police
A general radio call summoned all
Richmond police and detectives in
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hours in the cototn garment indus
try without reducing wages he was
believed to be seeking to reassurs in
dustry that changes in the racovory
program would be made only after
deliberation
His action followed a statement by
Donald R. Richberg, director of his
polciy-making commttee, that there
will be “full discussion” of any im
portant changes.
Last month the president issued an
order 4 cutting the hours of cotton gar
ment workers from 40 to 36 without!
loss of pay. Amendments to the code*
putting the changes into effect, were(
due to take effect next Monday. :