iIENDEItSON
; A TEW AY TO
CENTRAL
< r m i v \
TWENTY-FIRST YEAR
SPECIAL GRAND JURY TO PROBE STOLL KIDNAPING
Sees Dismal Future For
Air Mail Carriers With
Present Federal Set-Up
[ Hrmms Dor, F ornier East
ern Air Transport Head,
Justifies Before the
President’s Board
BANKRUPTCY AHEAD,
EXECUTIVE ASSERTS!
nc of Men Farley Had Said'
Attended Confer
ence” and Was Put on
“Black List”; He Is Asked
What He Thinks of the
“Black List”
Washington, Oct. 18 'API Thomas
I: Dot?, former president of Eastern
Ait Transport. Inc., today assailed
th> air mail set-up with the assertion
that "at the present rate all the lines
will he in bankruptcy not later than
June JO. 1935,
Doe, one of the executives Postmas
l>'i General Farley charged with at
tending a “spoils conference.” ap
peared before the President’s Avia
tion Commission.
Charles A. Lindbergh this week told
the commission httawhat he termed
:h< post office "black list” was “one
o fthe most disturbing factors in the
industry."
Doe reddened when Franklin K.
Lane, Jr., of the commission .asked
him his opinion of the “black lsit.”
• The popular opinion that the so
called Wall Street crowd is being
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WOINMWIRE
RIDER IS KILLED
'
•
Falls To Death on Stage of
Roxy Theatre as Thous
ands Look On
New York. Oct. 18 (AP)— Death
rode tandem with Mary Larkin de
Lbil on the tight wire at the Roxy
Theatre yesterday evening.
It was the second show of the day
f"i the “flying Philips"—Mary de Phil
and her husband, Charles. Three
thousand patrons of the theatre had
watched as the 26-year-old woman
r-d** a unicycle expertly along the
’’and of eel 40 feet above the stage
floor
\ti - de Phil rode the unicycJe to
the platform and alighted. Somehow
-he missed her footing. Even as the
applause tolled up from behind the
footlights she fell. The sound of her
hodv Liking the stage echoed through
" • auditorium, which became sudden
1 hushed as though by a mammoth
damper. *
-ii\ women fainted Men gasped
" d paled, Charles de Phil, horror
h-hti 11 g the eves that but an instant
t‘'ore had smiled happiness, ran to
" tieu his wif« had fallen, half hid
dsn by the wings.
Japan May
Compromise
Arms Ratio
liutTwo Concessions
As To Tonnage and
Replacements May
lie Demanded
London. Oct. 18 .AP- The belief
•vss growing in American quarters to
'iav that Japan may accept a naval
limitation plan somewhat similar to
present, ratios if she gets two conces
sions.
1 hey are tonnage quality in ‘‘prin
• iple” and leplacemcnt of the term
ratio" by one less offensive to her,
indicating relative strength.
Enthusiasm over this possibility,
however, wa sovershadowed by the
problem of reconciling the vast differ
ences between the basic program of
th*> two countries. Americans held
hopes a suitable compromise might
affected during the tri-power na
al conversations to open next week
preliminary to the 1935 conference.
Untitrrsmt Batht Hiatratrh
LEASED WIRE SERVICE OF
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS.
To Revive ExecutedV
iSiF
■■F 1 ■ mHHHI
iPy
Dr. Robert E. Cornish
This youthful San Francisco scien
tist has requested governors erf
three Western states, in which
lethal gas is used to execute the
condemned, to permit him to at
tempt to restore life to an executed
convict. Dr. Cornish’s successful
experiments with dogs have at
tracted international attention.
t Central Press)
S4OO,DDO HIGHWAY
BMDPENEBi
Call for Construction Os
Nearly 30 Miles of Roads,
Mostly Concrete
Dilily Dispatch lltirriiu,
In the Sir Walter Hotel, j
ll> J. (!, Hngkerville.
Raleigh, Oct. 18.— Bids on eleven
projects calling for the construction !
of 29.73 miles of highways, most of j
this concrete and a good deal of it
through towns, were opened here to
day b> the State Highway and Public j
Works Commission. The cost of these
projects iv estimated as in excess of
s■lo 000.
Six of the projects are for concrete
pavement, one calls for sand asphalt
surfacing, one for crushed stone sur
facing and three for bituminus sur
face treatment. One project is for
the bridge and approaches over Red
dies river in Wilkes county, whilC an
other is for concrete approaches to
the bridge over the Yatkin river, on
Route 60.
Included 'in this letting are the
projects for the laying of concrete
pavement the towns of Murfreesboro
and Spencer and of 'bituminous sui
fac treatment in Blowing Rock and
Boone. Other projects included in this
letting are as follows:
Hertford county. 5.31 miles of 20
foot concrete pavement from Virginia
line towards Murfressboro on Route
12.
Sampson and Duplin counties. 7.22
miles of sand asphalt pavement on
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Devaluing
Os Dollar
Is Likely
By LESLIE EICHEL
(Central Press Staff Writer)
New York. Oct. 19.—Maybe there
was more truth than poetry in Sena
tor Robert Bulkley’s miscue. The Ohio
senator, it will be recalled, when
emerging from the White House ad
vanced the opinion that the dollar
would be devalued further*. Such a
statement coming from an adminis
tration member of the Senate Bank
ing* Committee was considered au
thentic. But both the White House
and Senator Bulkley soon made it
clear that the senator was cogitating
on the distant future—and that sur
mises remained merely surmises.
'Behind the senator's * surmise,
nevertheless, there are some potent
facts.
The chief potent fact is Congress.
Another potent fact is the refusal
of commodity prices to stand up ex
cept by unnatural processes.
And dangerous as well as potent,
is the again increasing number of un
employed, with 8 tendency to check
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ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OF NORTH CAR OLINA AND VIRATA
Price Probe
Brought Gas
.
Price Cuts
Due to That Rather
Than Gasoline War
As Claimed by Big
Companies
Daily Dispatch flurena,
In the Kir Waller Hotel,
V-y J. O. fliiNkerville.
Raleigh, Oct. 18—The tumble in
gasoline prices in North Carolina dur
ing the past ten days or so from the
peak of 22.7 to 23.1 per gallon that
prevailed almost the entire summer
to 18 cents a gallon as of today, al
though it is selling even less than 18
cents in a few places, is being attri
buted by the gasoline and oil cofti
panie-j to a “gasoline war” between
the large companies and the inde
pendent filling stations that have
been selling at prices less than those
charged by the large companies. But
those who know what has been going
on behind the scenes are convinced
the real reason for the sudden and
sharp reduction in the retail price of
gasoline is the investigation which
Secretary Harlod L. Ickes, who is also
petroleum administrator, instituted
several months ago at the request of
Governor J. C. B. Ehringhaus. It is
recalled that after Governor Ehring
haus had asked the gasoline compan
ies to give North Carolina some re
lief frory the high prices charged here
and they disregarded his request, he
wrote Secretary Ickes asking him to
make an investigation of the prices
being charged for gasoline in this
State.
Shortly after this, press dispatches
from Washington carried the fact
Riqt Secretary _lckcs had ordered an
ol the gasoline prices
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Contact Had With
Kidnapers of Son
Os Rich Merchant
New York, Oct. 18. (/P) —Contact
has been established with the kidnap
ers of Louis Esposito, 23-year-old son
of a reputedly wealthy junk dealer,
a brother of the Victim disclosed to
day.
The brother. Joseph, said that only
an accord as to terms of the ransom
remains to assure the release of tne
young man who disappeared Monday.
Joseph. 21, a graduate of Notre
Dame in the class of 1933 expressed
the opinion that the kidnaping was
“big time stuff”.
He disclosed that, a letter in his
brother’s handwriting had been re
ceived yesterday, and. although he did
not say so. it was reported from an
other source that yesterday’s l'ettre
was delievered by messenger.
ROOSEVELT EASILY
But Important Thing Is
Whether He Can Hold
It Once He Gets It
By CHARLES P. STEWART
(Central Press Staff Writer)
Washington, Oct. 18— Few White
House visitors, who actually are ad
mitted to the Presidential presence,
leave the executive mansion in a
i frame of mind otherwise than favor
i able to the administration.
Callers who are turned away fre
i ouently leave In a highly embattled
1 frame of mind. Arriving angry, they
are still angrier at not getting in.
Those whod o get in, however, gen
ejally get in because they are recog
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Hauptmann Extradition
Will Be Decided Friday
New York, Oct. 18 (AP) —Bruno
Richard Hauptmann probably will
know by sundown tomorrow whether
he must face “Jersey justice” for the
murder of Charles A. Lindbergh, Jr.
Presiding Justice Edward R. Finch,
waiving a rule that requires the print
ing of a record on appeal, and the
five-day notice to the prosecutor, has
set 2 p. m., for the appeal from ex
tradition recently granted by New
York to New Jersey.
HENDERSON, N. C. THURSDAY AFTERNOON, OCTOBEILWrI934
King Alexander Is Buried
In Atmosphere Os Terror *
LEAR ANARCHISTS
MIGHT SEEK LIFE
OF THE RULERS
Little Peter 11, Son of De
ceased ; Carol of Rou
mania and Boris of
Bulgaria Attend
TROOPS HOLD BACK
MASS OF MOURNERS
Children on One Side And
Adults on Other as Train
Passes by; Many Arrests
Made by Secret Service
Agents Seeking Firearms
and Bombs in Crowd
(Copyright by Associated Press)
Belgrade, Yugoslavia, Oct. 18 (AP>
—The body of King Alexander was
placed today near those of his ances
tors in the memorial chapel at Po
polo.
up a hill through three long lanes to
While 50 men bore the sarcophagus
the chapel, all activities throughout
Yugoslavia remained at a standstill
for two minutes as the common peo
ple paid tribute to their fallen king.
Then, as Alexander was laid: in the
tomb which he had only recently com
pleted chiircn hells were tolled
throughout the country. They ming
led strangely with heavy guns on land
and sea, which roared out a mighty
dirge.
Trumpeters sounded a farewell tap
for the dead soldier-sovereign. “Mig
non,” as Alexander called his wife,
the dowager Quen Marie, took leave
of her royal consort and the doors of
the tomb were closed.
Massed thousands of mourners were
held back by troops standing shoulder
to shoulder as the funeral train pass
ed from Belgrade to Popolo. Only
children were allowed on the right
side o fthe route, enabling troops to
supervise more efficiently the activi
ties of adults on the left.
Spectators were not allowed tc
carry canes or umbrellas, despite a
drizzling rain. An atmosphere of ter
ror prevailed, lest anarchists attempt
to take the lives of the three kings in
the funeral cortege—Little Peter 11.
son of Alexander; Carol of Roumania.
his uncle, and Boris of Bulgaria.
Secret service agents made many
arrests as they mingled among the
crowds, seeking firearms and bombs.
Jurv Is Told of
ml
“Dummy Accounts”
m 1
In Insull Stocks
Chicago, Oct. 18 (AP)—J. Df.
Scheinman ,a brother, testified in
the Insull mail fraud trial today
that “dummy accounts” were used
for trading in Insull stocks, some
of them on orders given by .Sam
uel Insull himself.
About December 1, 1929, Scheinman
told the jury which is trying Insull
and 16 associates Insull told him to
trade in the first stock issued by the
company now under fire —the Corpo
ration Securties Company of Chica
go.
“He told me to operate in the al
lotment units,” said Scheinman, re
ferring to the form in which the
stocks was distributed, and “and said
he’d like to put them up to $75 a
share. He said a lot of people had
paid that for them.”
“Within reason I could use my own
judgment on what to buy and what
price was necessary to get the stock
up.”
Hauptmann, through his counsel,
James M. Fawcett, sought a writ of
habeas corpus, which was denied, but
which delayed his extradition. To
morrow, if his appeal is denied, fur
ther delay may be sought, Attorney
Fawcett saying today that he would
carry the case to the State Court of
Appeals at Albany, and, if unsuccess
ful there, might even apply for a
writ of certiorai in the United Ctates
Supreme Court. , j_
Alleged Kidnaper of Mrs. Stoll
I iff
1!
HP Jul TO
S • sEBhK
Thc plcture is from a recent pttoto--
graph of homas Robinson, Jr., alleged
kidnaper of Mrs. Berry V. V. Stoll,
wealthy young society matron of Lou
isville, Ky. Mrs. Stoll was released
last Tuesday by Federal agents, who
Declares Mrs. Robinson
Tried To Free Mrs. Stoll
She Worked With Justice
Department Agents To
Undo Work of Her
Missing Husband
LATTER NOW BEING
SOUGHT FOR CRIME
His Father Also Named In
Same Warrant; Car Bear
ing Robinson License
Found in Springfield, Ohio,
But Robinson Makes Good
His Escape
Louisville, Ky., Oct. 18 (AP) —The
claim that Mrs. Francis Robinson
worked with Department of Justice
agents in an fefort to free Mrs. Alice
Speed Stoll was made today by coun
sel for the wife of the discharged lun
atic named as the actual kidnaper.
Clem W. Huggins, representing her,
said she had befriended Mrs. Stoll and
that he believed Mrs. Stoll would help
her.
The woman was arraigned late yes
terday and held in default of $50,000
bond, charged with kidnaping and
conspiracy to kidnap. Her fugitive
husband and the latter’s father.
Thomas Henry Robinson, Sr., of
Nashville, Tenn., were named in the
same warrant. Huggins said he would
move her bond reduced to about $5,-
000.
After a restless night in jail, in
which she twice was visited by the
jail physician and given sleeping tab
lets, Mrs. Robinson sent a note ask
ing that Huggins, a leading criminal
lawyer here, be named as counsel.
Huggins, who said he went to school
in Nashville “many years ago” with
the elder Robinson, announced he
would defend her. He added that
“for old time’s sake” he would defend
the elder Robinson, if requested, but
said he would not defend, the fugitive
if he is caught.
CAR BEARING LICENSE OF
ROBINSON IS DISCOVERED
Springfield, Ohio, Oct. 18 (AP) —
Chief of Police George Abell said to
day a car bearing the Illinois and In
diana license plates belonging to
Thomas H. Robinson, Jr., sought as
the kidnaper of Mrs. Alice Stoll, of
Louisville, was located here today.
The automobile was located on a
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PUBLISHED EVERY AFTERNOON
EXCEPT SUNDAY.
wiih
dramatic suddenness, stopped a speed
ing car near Scottsburg, Ind., to res
cue Mrs. Stoll, who was being ‘re
turned home by her alleged abductors
after payment of $50,000 ransom.
Master Minds of
Slayings Nabbed
Turin, Italy, Oct. 18 (At*) —Dr.
Ante Pavelich and Egon Kvater
nlk, alleged by French police to
be the master minds behind the
assassination of King Alexander
of Yugoslavia and Foreign Minis
ter Louis Barthou of France, were
arrested today.
The arrests were made at the
request of France.
Both men denied complicity in
in the assassination, hut they were
held in jail avraiting the arrival of
French police.
An official communique an
nouncing the arrests did not state
any suspected connection between
the two prisoners in the murders
at Marseilles.
Fear Loss
From Fire
In Forests
l)aib Dispatch k«ren«,
In the Kir Walter Hotel,
By J. C. Ilaskerville.
Raleigh, Oct. 18.—A warning' that
unusually damaging forest fires are
likely in the southeastern section of
North Carc’ina this fall unless the
public cooperate? fullly with conser
vation forces in their prevention, was
sounded today by W. C. McCormick,
assistant State forester, upon his re
turn from an inspection of this area.
Mr McCormick declared that he
found an abnormally high fire haard
throughout the territory extending
fiom Union county to Carteret. He
described the undergrowth the hea
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WEATHER
FOR NORTH CAROLINA
Cloudy, possibly occasional light
rains in west and north portions
tonight and Friday; slightly war
mer in west portion tonight.
19 Pages
Today
FIVE CENTS COPY
U. S. ATTORNEY TO
DEMAND DEATH OF
Crime Is Flagrant and De
fia'nt Violation of United
States Law, Prose
cutor Says
TYPEWRITER FOUND
IN THE APARTMENT
Declared One Used To Type
Demands for $50,000 Ran?
som, Which Was Finally
Paid; Writing Tested In
Laboratories of the De
partment of Justice
Louisville, Ky., Oct. 28 (AP)—A spe
cial grand jury to inquire into the kid
naping of Mrs. Alice Speed Stoll to
day was ordered empanelled Saturday
by Federal District Judge Charles R.
Dawson.
The older was issued on motion of
U. S. District Attorney Thomas J.
Sparks, who announced yesterday that
lie would demand the death penalty
lor the man who abducted the young
society matron and held her six days
for $50,000 ransom
Sparks recounted how the young so
ciety matron was slugged and taken
from her home the afternoon of Oc
tober 10 and held six days in an In
dianapolis apartment.
“The action of said parties cousti
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EIWPAIJANSASK
Convention Votes Favorable
Upon Asheville Rector’s
Proposal
Atlantic City. N. J., Oct. 18. (jpt—
Federal regulation of th'e motiori pic
ture industry was endorsed today oy
the sJst triennial general convention
of the Protestant Episcopal c)fc®jch.
A resolution offered by Rev. George
Floyd Rogers, of Asheville, N. C., call
ing for “supervision (not censorship) T 'd
of films before they are made
adopted by the House of Bishdps,
ratifying 'earlier action by the Hoilse
of Deputies.
The loss of Christian influence in
modern public education was deplor
ed, meanwhile, in a resolution offer
ed by Rev. Arthur B. Cinsolving, of
Baltimore, wnich the House of Depu
ties adopted.
Several attacks on the motion pic
ture industry followed from th'e floor
when the Rgeors resolution was intro
duced in the House of Bishops.
California
Storm Has
Heavy Toll
Two Boys Missing,
500 Homeless, Dam
age Over SIOO,OOO in
Southern Section
Los Angeles, Cal., Oct. 18
Two boys misisng, 500 people home
less, highways blocked by landslides
and property damage estimated at
more than SIOO,OOO was the result to
day of a southern California weather
potpourl.
Starting with a mild earthquake,
nature brought out about every trick
in its bag yesterday, including a mild
tornado, thunder,, lightning, hail,
snow, torrential rains and a water
spout.
Donald Butterworth. 9, Los Ange
les, was reported fcnissing by his
mother. Police said they had been in
formed a boy had fallen into a storm
drain near the Butterworth home.
Lloyd Spindale, 11, also of Los An
geles. failed to return home from
school, and it was feared he had
drowned in flooded streets.
The homeless were largely in the
North State area of Long Beach,
where nearly five inches of rain fell
in 24 hours.
flooded homes would approximate
Police estimated the damage toi
SIOO,OOO.
In addition to this, severe damdgO
was done to State Highways. «u. -l