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rIENDEUSON GATEWAY TO CENTRAL CAROLINA twenty-first year HAUPTMANN CLAIMS ALIBI IN LINDBERGH KIDNAPING Nothing Heard Os Mrs. Stoll 5 Days After Money Paid But Belief Is Meld That f amily Has at Least Con tracted Abductor of Woman NO APPEALS MADE DURING WEEK-END Willi Law Forces of State, Nation, County, City Join ed in Hunt, Primary Con sideration Is Still for So ciety Matron’s Personal Safety ! iui:- 1c Ivy* Oct. 15. </p>- The fj:*h day, the most portentious for Speed Stoll .since she was kid naped. brought the belief today tha, rh. family had established contact •ai !i the abductor. Those in a position to know thought ih.. fifth day played an Important p.u? in the $50,000 ransom note. K, m s have been expressed that the 'Kidnaper intended to kill the young soviet.' matron if at that time he had not rec* ived the ransom and make his wav to safety. W ith the case at this critical stage, it was pointed out significally that Sunday was the first day since the knit.aping last Sunday without an ap peal to the kidnaper. Wuh all the law forces of the na tv.ll. state, county and city massed in a hunt for the wealthy soung victim the primary consideration was still for her safety, coming before mak ing ;m attest or even establishing a cuse. # My*t promising of the clues run down by the officers today seemed to b that suggested by the reported sighting of aw oman who looked like Mrs. Stoll in Warren county half way between liouisville and Nashville. It was in this direction that Stoll drove furiously last Fiiday. This section of Kentucky is honey combed with caves. Beneath every hill and opening in every valley they lie in hundreds. The region is wild and sparsely settled. Labor Is To Fight Williams •Hu Francisco, Cal., Oct. 15. {&*)■ It "<• 'tigation of the labor attitude of f-T-tv Williams, NRA board member, "ill be n quested by William' Green, F>" idont of the American Federation nf Libor, on his return to* Washing h ii. he announced today. Cii'cn. who plans to leave tomorrow h>! Lie east, said the federation’s exe <"uti < council had requested him to I"“ iid the request to President oo.evelt. An investigation of Williams' attl ’nd while head of a tobacco com- Fmv was d< manded in a resolution adopt.<l bv the American Federation nt Labor convention here last week, h neeij. ~(i him of opposition to trade 'on find to collective bargaining w itb them. Hitter Fight For Slice Os Highway Fund Looms Half Dozen Different Agencies Preparing To Grab Aft er Surplus If Funds Are Di verted; Anti-Diversionists Are Organizing T o Resist Attacks I>:ijly llis|iiit«'h lliiresi u, in (hr Mir Walter Hotel, Uy J. C. JlllMkervtlle. Haleigh, Oct. 15.--Tile various that want a slice of the high "!)V fund *o use for other than high 'Vh > v Purposes are working as hard as though as quietly as possible, "‘tli the result that the fight over diversion of the highway revenues ik “Xpected to be one of the most bitter hiat will take place in the approach j' » iegislature, according to observers For while the forces opposed Hrniirrßmt tlatlri Biauatcb LEASED WIRE SERVICE OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS. John D« in L loricia H Ml IH kShS Here is John D. Rockefeller, 95- year-old former financial king, standing near his limousine at the Rockefeller winter home at Or mond Beach, Fla. When this pic ture was taken, John D., after a long trip from his summer home in New Jersey, was replying to the questions of reporters. Inflation In Reality Is Likely Warning of Evil Ef fects Has I.ittle Ef fect in Checking the Clamor By LESLIE EICHEL (Central Press Staff Writer) New York. Oct. 15.—Inflation sud denly lias become the foremost econo mic topic of the United States once more. No less a person than President Roosevelt ha.; brought the topic to the f>ont again by intimating that sill higher prices are the aim of the administratis rt. The President undoubtedly is see ing the handwi,ting on the wall of a belligerent, inflationist Congress. * * * Kemmerer’* Warning Backing the conservatives. Dr. EL (Continued on Page Three* to diversion are already organized or in process of organization and pre paring to put up a reaL battle against using any highway revenue for other than highway purposes, the very fact that the anti-diversionists are orga nizing is regarded as an indication that they know they are going to have a real battle on their hands. Some of the forces that are in favor of diverting part of the highway revenue into the general fund to be used for general State purposes, are (Continued on Page lour) ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OF NORTH CAR OLINA AND VIR^NIA. SUSPECT SAYS HE WAS AT HIS HOME THE FATAL NIGHT ! Remembers It By Going to Lunch Room for His Wife That Night, He Declares HE IS EXAMINED IN EXTRADITION CASE Can’t Remember, However, Whether or Not He Was Working for Majestic Ho tel March 1, 1932, Night of Abduction; Direct Exami nation Is Concluded New York. Oct. 15 (AP> Bruno Richard Hauptmann testified before Supreme Court Justice Ernest E. L. Hammer in supreme court, Bronx, to day tliat he was at his East 222 Street home in the Bronx the night of March 1. 1932. the night the Lindbergh baby was kidnapedj Hauptmann was called to the stand in his own defense in his effort to forestall extradition to New Jersey to face a murder charge in the Lind bergh kidnap case. Asked by his counsel whether he re called the first day of March, 1932, Hauptmann testified w’ithout hesita tion that he remembered taking his wife. Anna, w'ho preceded him on the stand, home from a Bronx lunch room where she worked that night. He remembered clearly, also, he said, taking her to work that morn ng. The prisoner said he called at he bakery between 6 and 7 p. m. the night of the kidnaping and had sup per there and went home with hir wife, remaining at hom ethat night. James M. Fawcett, defense counsel completed his direct examination of the witness shortly before one o’clock and a recess was taken until 2 p. m. The recess wms taken at the re quest of David T. Willentz, attorney 'eneral for New Jersey, so that the cross-examination would not be inter rupted . Although Hauptmann testified un hesitatingly that he remembered tak ing his wife home the night of March l, 1932, his memory failed when he was asked whether he worked fo the Majestic hotel on March 1, 1932. His counsel pressed the point, and a' length Hauptmann replied: “As far as I can remember, I work ed every day.” “But you don’t remember exact!- -vhat days that check was in pay ment for. do you?” Fawcett asked. The cheek in question was one of two introduced in - evidence and was dated March 31, 1932. drawn for '36.72 on the Reliance Property Man agement Corporation .evidently the miners of the Majestic hotel. The second check was dated AprT 15. 1932, ands was for $6.67. The prisoner’s alibi was given in a • uiet. almost offhand manner shortly s efore the recess. 11l WE IS GREATLY REDUCED Slouching of Postal System One of Most Noticeable Things in U. S. By CHARLES P. STEWART (Central Press Staff Writer) Washington. Oct. 15.—The deterior ation of the average citizen’s mail service in the last five or six years has been one of the most noticeable things in the life of this country. In the matter; of extra-rapid transs mission, by plane, of mall for which particularly high rates are paid, there has been an improvement. The air service, however, is too ex pensive for the generality of folk. It is in ordinary first class mail that the rank and file of American men. women and children are chiefly interested. Anyone who gets an ap preciable amount of it cannot but be aware how decidedly the postoffice department’s handling of it has there abouts. despite the government’s 33 1-3 per cent increase in its charge for carrying it. * * * Disorganization Begins As recently as Postmaster General Harry S. New’s day, under the Cool idge administration, no community of much consequence was without two efficient daily deliveries, even in its residential districts, and more than that in its business area. Collections were frequently and regularly made, as per duly advertised schedule. Postmaster General Walter F. (Continued on Page Three) HENDERSON, N. C. MONDAY AFTERNOON,OCTOBER 15, 1934 Hauptmann Fights j 4- * aifll' —SI WSm, k xHHI? .'I/?-- • vi- SE 1 : iiylß jiiyijjgL : I Bruno Richard Hauptmann in- Bronx County court, New York, , when his attorney, James Fawcett filed a petition for writ of habeas corpus, challenging the right of New York to order the kidnap sus pect’s extradition to New Jersey. (Central Press) GOVERNMENT w¥s CONTENTION OVER AIR MAH COURSE Supreme Court Upholds Cancellations Last Feb ruary on Transcon tinental Appeal COURT REFUSES TO ASSIST AL CAPONE Sustains Injunction Against New York Milk Control Act; Refuses To Pass Upon Validity of Telephone Taxes Levied by State of Montana. Washington, Oct. 15 (AP) —The government succeeded today in the Supreme Court in turning back an attack on the constitutionality of the cancellation of air mail contracts last February. The court refused to review a case brought by Transcontinental and Western Air, Inc. Lower courts had held it should be dismissed because the government could not be sued without its consent. The decision stands. In addition, the court refused to aid Alfonse Capone, convicted Chica go gangster, recently removed to the Alcatraz Federal penitentiary, in his j (Continued on Page Three) Extensions Os 5 Years For R. F. C. Jesse Jones Says Farm Notes Can Be Stretched Where Possible Washington, Oct. 15 (AP) —A five year-extension. where possible and desired, was decreed by the Recon struction Corporation today for all outstanding loans, Jesse H. Jones, chairman of the corporation, released at his press conference a note which has been sent to management of the 1 R. F. C. farm agencies. “I wish to emphasize,” it was said, j “that it is the desire of the directors I of this corporation that leniency be ; granted to all borrowers, and where our security will not suffer by giving (Cunt Limed un Page Two) Raymond Poincare, Veteran Statesman Os France, Dies At His Residence In Paris 13 Meet Violent Deaths During The Week-End In Carolinas, Auto Leading Motor Cars Account for Nine 1 Fatalities in Tabulation By The Associated Press TWO HIGH POINT MEN i KILLED IN CRASH Car Hits Tree, and Two Men of Morganton and Valdese Lose Lives on Highway; Middle - Aged Man Dies In Mysterious Manner at Mount Gilead (By the Associated Press) A survey of the Associated Press showed today that 13 persons were killed by violence in the two Caro linas over the week-end. Automo bile wrecks accounted for nine of the fatalities. L. L. Lowdermilk, 40, and Leonard Oliver, 24, both of High Point, were killed when the car in which the> were riding left the highway and struck a tree between High Point and G cecnsboro. J. R. Griffis, an other occupant of the car, was seri ously injured. Charles Belk, 40, was struck down by a hit-and-run motorists near his home on Monroe, and J. T. Weed, 35, of Hamlet, was killed when his car overturned between Hamlet ana Rockingham. The other three high way fatalities occurred in South Caro lina. William T. Davis, farmer, was slug ged to death near Greensboro by highwaymen. His father was serious ly hurt. The robbers took S4OO from the two. Mystery surrounded the death of George Scarboro, 45, whose body was found, about 250 yards from his home near Mount Gilead. He had been burned to death. At Winston-Salem, Jesse Tucker, a Negro, was slain by Motor Patrolman W. T. Bond, who said the Negro hau tv r ned a gun on him. John Davis, 50-year-old tenant farmer near Fayetteville, died from knife wounds inflicted by John L. B’>rns. a Negro. Officers said Burns admitted stabbing the faimer when the latter attempted to steal hit whiskey. JUROR REPORTS HE WAS ‘ APPROACHED” Trenton, N. J., Oct. 15. (AT)— A Federal court juror told the court today that he had been approach ed b?' an unidentified man con cerning Dr. Leo Brandenburg, of Union county, charged with re ceivig SIO,OOO stole from the mails i Charlotte, N. C. “Sunshine” Jones, Noted Desperado, Is Dead at Prison Raleigh, Oet. 15 (AP) —Jake (Sun shine) Jones, regarded as one of the most dangerous young Negro crim inals in North Carolina, died peace fully this morning at State Prison from a sudden attack of acute indi gestion . Dr. G. S. Coleman, prison physician said Jones had been suffering from malaria for several days, hut had not been sick enough to be placed in the hospital. He ate some pie late yes terday after having been on a liquid diet for some days and was seized with indigestion early today. Jake was sentenced to die in the electric chair a little more than a vear ago for the murder of J. H. Poole, a filling station operator near here. Governor Ehringhaus com muted the sentence to life imprison ment. WEATHER FOB NORTH CAROLINA Fair tonight and Tuesday; slowing rising temperature. PUBLISHED EVERY AFTERNOON EXCEPT SUNDAY. Frenchman Dies - , J | f -y-C ' ' <**»—»*»> r.^M.,11. CAPTURE SUSPECT OF ASSASSIN GANG Mysterious “Doctor” Also Reported See'n In Geneva By The Police (Fontainebleau, France, Oct. 15 (AP) —Sylvester Malny, alias Zilni, named by alleged accomplices as a member of the Marseilles assassination gang, was reported captured today at Nelun. He escaped from Montainebleau po lice the day of the assassination. MYSTERIOUS “DOCTOR” IS REPORTED AS IN GENEVA Geneva, Oct. 15 (AP) The myste rious "doctor,” supposedly the chiel of the squad responsible for the as sassination at Marseilles, was report ed to have been seen in Geneva to day, causing a sensation. Police stated that the doctor had been spotted here and immediately spread a dragnet through the city \and its suberbs. Robt. M. Hutchins To Head National Labor Board Soon Washington, Oct. 15. (AP)—Ap pointment of Robert M. Hutchins, president of the University or Chicago, to the chairmanship of the National Labor Relations Board, appeared imminent today after he had talked with Presi dent Roosevelt. Hutchins declined to comment after his talk with the President,, but it became known that an an nouncement probably would be made today by the White House. Laborer Admits Killing Little Girl In New York Mount Vernon, N. Y„ Oct. 15. (/P) — Police said today that Lawrence Stone, husky young laborer, had con fessed throwing five-year-old Nancy Jean Costikan into a huge apartment house furnace. A tiny gold ry*g, a child’s wrist watch and a few blackened bones were removed from the furnace yes terday after the six-foot oil-fed flames had been turned off. They were all that remained, trail of blood through a basement maie was interpreted by police as mute testimony of a brutal assault, but Stone’s confession aa announced 6 pages" TODAY FIVE CENTS COPY WAS THE LAST OF GREAT WORLD WAR GROUP IN FRANCE Shock of Marseilles Tragedy of Last Week Believed To Have Hasten ed His Death IN RETIREMENT IN LAST FIVE YEARS Had Held No Political Of fice Since Resigning as Premier in 1929; Will Be Buried at His Old Home; “Just Worn Out,” His Phy sicians Declare Paris, Oct. 15. (/p)—Raymond Poin care. one of the last of Fiance’s great World War figures, died quietly early this morning. i The war-time leader, and “savior of the franc” ten years later, was 70 years old. The shock of the Marseilles assas sination may have hastened the end. M. Poincare grieved over the diastr jous event, for he knew King Alex ander well and Louis Barthou was his lifelong friend. Death came at his home here after a short illness, which doctors thought was not serious. The elderly states man was expected to leave shortly on his annual trip to the iviera. Although virtually in political re tirement since he resigned as premier in 1929, Poincare had just been rw elected to a department council seat, after a spectacular physical comeback. Doctors two years ago gave him up for lost. “He was just worn out,” they said today. < All last night his wife and friends watched with him. He was conscious, but an extension of paralysis stilled his voice. He died in a silent room as a cold and windy rainstorm rattled (Continued on Page Two) Yugoslavs Weep For Alexander Zagreb, Yugoslavia, Oct. 15. (/P) —- Yugoslav subjects wept today before the coffin of the king many of them had opposed in life. A royal train bearing the coffin made its way through long lines of weeping peasants yesterday from Split, where it had been brought from Marseilles by the destroyer Dubrov nik. Because of the thousands of request for ah opportunity to pay last respects to Alexander, it was decided to have the train halted at various towns be tween Zagreb and Belgrade, delaying its arrival in the capital until tonigh. Belgrade is already thronged with foreign princes and notables who will attend the funeral. The king’s body will lie in state for two days before the funeral. by Chief Inspector Michael R. Silver stein said the girl was hurt, in a falL Stone discharged handy man at tno apartment house was quoted as con fessing he had been playing with the child in the basement and had hit her with her rubber ball. She fell he said striking her head on the concrete floor. Then she “turned blue’’. Stone started to carry Nancy Jean, upstairs but became panic-stricken. He threw her into the flames. Blood smeared on his clothes led to the arrest of Stone who is 24. Ho insisted during hours of questioning that he knew nothing of the slaying
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