HENDERSON
gateway to
CENTRAL
CAROLINA
twenty-second year
LINDBERGH IDENTIFIES HAUPTMANN’S VOICE
19585,049 NEEDED
10 RESTORE ROADS
IN NORTH CAROLINA
Lack of Maintenance Funds
Past 18 Months Caused
60,000 Miles Roads
To Suffer
CHAIRMAN WAYNICK
TO REQUEST FUNDS
He Declares and Backs Up
With Figures That Every
Dollar of So-Called High
way Fund Surplus and
Money in Sight Are Need
ed for Highway Work
llaDr OHpntt'* narrtii,
In the Sir Wiillrr «»tH,
Ur J C, lliiaken illr.
Ualeigrh. Jan. 4. —The almost 60.U00
miles of State and county highways
the State have suffered so from
laek of adequate maintenance funds I
luting tin' past 18 months that $9,- j
&5.049 is now needed to restore thase
toad- to tits same condition they were
in on July 1. 1933. Chairman Capua
M. Waynick of the State Highway
and Public Works Commission de
clares in the report and recommen
dations which he will make to tlie
19d’> General Assembly, which he
made public here today. He also de
* Lu es in emphatic terms, backed up
with facts and figures, that every dol
Ur now in the so-called highway fund
urplus tnd in sight from highway
i .venues is needed for the roads and
nothing but Toads and will ask the
General Assembly to immediately ap
proprinL .<3.<>00.000 from this surplus
to ben sed immediately between now
and July 1. 1935 in starting to re.
• ulld many miles of road and hun
dreds of bridges that need attention.
Th. principal recommendations
which Chairman Way nick will make
t>. the 1935 General Assembly arts a&
follows:
1. That it cease any further diver
don of highway funds. • ,
2. That it immediately appropriate |
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QUESTION NEW DEAL
Wisconsin U. Economists
Quoted As Saying Entire
Setup Unlawful
By CHARLES V. STEWART
Central I’rens Staff Writer
Washington. Jan. 4. —Dr. John Ft.
Commons of the University of Wis
consin, one of the foremost econom
h-’ts of America, is quoted as having
-aid. at the recent Chicago convention
IJ f social scientists, that academic dis
-1 u dons of the Mew Deal are of small
'•'insoquencfi. because, within a few
months, most New Deal legislation
” il h>' doclaredu nconstitutional, any
way.
Official Washingtons reaction to
this; prediction is overwhelmingly to
•he effect that Dr. Commons, while
undoubtedly a great savant, is not
much of a politician.
Tlt> New Deal’s friends naturally
believe that their program will stand
'■ u ‘ constitutional test.
Maybe they are prejudiced.
However, by far the larger propor
tion »f competent judges in the nti.
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Crime Expenses Jump As
School Budgets Are Cut
HV ItOGKH W. BABSON, ,
Copyright 1935, Publishers Fin
ancial Bureau, Inc.
i i&b.'on Park, Fla., Jan. 4. — Scarce- j
'y a (lay passes but what some of our
newspapers carry an announcement
tuat another town is drastically slash
b >chool expenses. The chances
that the headlines of this same
papi r carried a sensational murder
’''ty or in the adjoining column told
the latest armed robbery. There,
i. arl irect relationship between the
' oi • v nn though before the depres
“"i crime was increasing at an alarm
ra te. Hence, at this New Year
' "ii; | should like to present some
and give my comments on this
l,,J c problem now under investiga
‘•a\ e We Spent Wisely on Ou.r
Schools?
" 1 question which cumee up
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Roosevelt Delivers Message in Person
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President Franklin D. Roosevelt again took his message to Congress today in person, giving the
legislators some idea of what he expects from the present session. He is pictured above as he ap
peared when he delivered his first message bes ire the governing body last session.
President Addresses
Congress, Proposing New
Plan For Work Relief
WHAT WILE LIVE
OUTTO DEAL
Newspaperman Digs Up
Happenings of 25 Years
Ago Showing Many
Changes
By LESLIE RICH El.
Central Press Staff Writer
New York. Jan. 4.—A newspaper
man in a certain city is busy dig
ging up “news items” of 25 years ago
for a weekly radio broadcast.
Much of the news sounds humor
ous—or tragic.
The world has expanded, greatly
since then. Entire new philosophies
and economic systems have taken
their place on the cosmic stage.
People of today, however, are not
so much interested in looking back
ward. as forward.
What will people 25 years hence
say of today?
WHAT WILL LIVE?
What, for example of the New Deal
will live?
The cations of the other President
Roosevelt who used a “Big Stick,”
seem antiquated and wholly inade
quate. Barely 30 years have passed.
Yet we now look back on that riot
only as the Victorian age, but the
age of American economic innocence.
Twenty-five years from now?
NRA labor clauses, in all prob
, ability, will seem mere distant mile
, stones. (The mastery of employer over
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l is: “Have the American people been
; spending too much on education?”
These are abnormal times but only
| four years ago one-quarter of state
and local taxes was being spent on
school's. The real question, however,
is not so much whether we have spent
too much on public education but
whether our investment has yielded
a good return. Taxpayers and citizens
(have a right to expect good dividends
on this huge investment —dividends in
the form of better citizenship and
stronger characted Are we getting
I them?
Let us examine the “profit and
j loss” statements and “balance sheets
| of our schools. Here is what We find
on the credit side:
1. Americanization of millions of
, immigrants practical elimination of
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OMA DAILY NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA AND VIRGINIA
States That Government
Should Put 3,500,000 Un
employed To Work
ASSURES THAT PLAN
: WITHIN SOUND CREDIT
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Addresses Both Houses In
Joint Session, He Re-Af
firms His Belief in “Profit
Motive” But Warned
Against Wealth That Cre
ates Too Much Private
Power
Washington, Jan. 4.—(AP)—A “new
and greatly enlarged plan” of work
relief was proposed to Congress by I
President Roosevelt today.
Without estimating or going into j
great detail he declared for discon
tinuing outright doles, the govern
ment should put 3.500,000 unemployed
to work at slum clearance, elimina
tion of grade crossings and other
prominent public works. He assured
that the figures to be proposed for
this in his budget message next Mon
day, would “ibe within the sound
credit of the government.”
Addressing the Senate and House
in joint session, he reaffirmed his be
lief in the “profit motives”; but warn
ed against wealth “which through ex
cessive profit creates undue private
power over private afairs, and to the
misfortune of public as well.”
He reported “more gain than lea
ses” in 1934, and “a strong hope in
the coming year.”
No attempt was made to outline
general legislative program but a
promise was given soon to propose
definite legislation covering unem
ployment and old age insurance as
“well as benefit for children and
mothers” and other aspects of social
security.
“We have undertaken a new or-,
der of things.” the President remind
ed, ■ “yet we progress toward it under
the framework and in the spirit and
intent of the American constitution.”
Fo ™son
Definite Plans for Spring
Fire Season Will Be
Made Shortly
Daily Dispnti'h Bureau,
In tke Sir Walter Hotel,
Hr J. C. Bnakervllle,
Raleigh, Jan. 4. —Definite plans for
the spring forest fire season will be
made by W. C. McCormick, assistant
State forester, on a tour of inspection
(Continued on Page EigiiiJ
HENDERSON, N. C. FRIDAY AFTERNOON, JANUARY 4, 1935
TN RALEIGHENOS
i
Declared Suc
cess”; Dr. Van Ness Re
tires as Board Secretary
U -
Raleigh. Jan. 4.—(AP)—Education
which .teaches, students how to weight
diamond dust and to solve complex
mathematical problems but dbes not
teach them the value of character. Mid
man's duty to God is a failure, Pat
M. Neff, of Wuco, Texas, today as
serted at ibe closing Session l of the
Fifth Baptist Sunday School Confer
ence.
Neff, now president of Baylor Uni
versity, twice served Texas as gov
ernor.
As the four day conference ended,
leaders of the Southern Baptist
church who attended the session here
said that ‘‘the meetings ( were a com
plete success.”
Dr. I. J. Van Ness, an outstanding
leader in the ranks of the Southern
Baptist church for two score years to
day “sang _ his swan song” as execu
tive secretary of the Sunday school
ooard at Nashville, Tenn. Dr. Van
Ness will retire from active work on
June 1, with a record of 35 years of
service as executive secretary of the
board.
Taken lin Asheville for Auto
Theft Readily Admits
Middletown Slaying
Asheville, Jan. 4.—CAP) —Carroll
Rhodes, 19. of Middletown. Ohio, held
here for an automobile theft today
was quoted by R. J. Jones, deputy
chief U. S. marshal, as confessing that
in August, 1930, h e killed Lennox
Taylor, of Middletown, whose death
was listed as accidental.
Jones said Rose made a signed con
fession that he struck Taylor with a
wrench and either killed him or
knocked him unconscious.
He and Kathleen Renner, of Mid
dletown. put Taylor in an automobile
then, Jones quoted the bay as say
ing, went out to “dump” the body.
Before they got rid of the body, Jones
I said Rhodes related, the car struck
a bridge abutment and the Renner
girl was killed.
Both Lennox and the Renner girl
were found dead in the automobile
and their deaths were listed at Mid
dletown as accidental, Jones quoted
Rhodes as saying.
VIAIIIIR
FOR NORTH CAROLINA.
Fair tonight and Saturday; cold
er tonight; slowly rising temper
ature Saturday in west and north
portions.
FOR HFNDERSON.
Lor 24rhour period ending at
noou today: the highest tempera,
tore was 56; lowest 32: n.oi'tliea&fc
' lind; a© rsfcj slvley
MAY ATTEMPT SOME 1
CHANGE IN DRY L A W 1
WITH LOCAL OPTION
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Little Chance for Repeal of j
The Turlington Act
When Assembly
Meets Soon
NO LEGAL OBSTACLE
FOR THE OPTION PLAN
It Has Been Customary for
Years and Entirely Legal
for Any Legislator Who
Did Not Approve of Law to
Attach Amendment Ex
empting His County
Ilnily Dispatch Hurrjin,
In lU<? Sir Walter Hotel,
H V J. C. BASKKRVILL .
Raleigh, Jan. 4, —Wliile it is gen
erally agreed that there is virtually
i n° chance for the repeal of the Tur
lington Ast, the State’s prohibition
! by -.the General Assembly that
j orieets next Wednesday, it is very like
ly that several attempts will be made
to either circumvent this law or to
j ‘i-dopt a liquor control law on the '
county option plan, according to re
ports heard here the last few days.
One plan that may be attempted
will he to get through bills exempt
ing certain counties from the Turling
ton Act For instance, if Guilford.
Buncombe, Mecklenburg, Wake or any j
other county wants to legalize the sale
of liquor, all that will be necessary
will be to get the General Assembly
to pass bill specifying that th eTur
lington Act shall not apply to that
, particular county. In this manner,
j those counties that want to retain the
j Turlington Act and remain theoreti
j cally dry can do so and those coun
' counties that want to get out from
under it and legalize the sale of li-
I quor can also do so—provided they
can get a majority in both Houses
of the General Assembly to agree to
the bills exempting them from the
operation of the State dry law.
There in o legal obstacle in the
path of such procedure, according to
those well versed in the law herb,
since it is agreed that for years it has
been ciistomary and entirely legal for
i any legislator who did not approve
of a law that was going to pass as
a Statewide measure, to attach an
amendment exempting his county. It
j has also been customary to permit
' these amendments to pass without
| any opposition. Also, if a Statewide
; law has already been enacted and a
i county wants to get out from under
it. it has been customary to permit
the representative from that county
to introduce a bill and for th e legis
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Arkansas Sheriff Slayer Is
Found After 40-Hour
Man-Hunt by Posse
Batesville, Ark., Jan. 4.—(AP)— A
youth, identified by officers as Rob
ert Rose, 24, president of the Brock
Mountain community, wanted for the
slaying of a deputy sheriff, was cap
tured while sleeping in a little moun
tain shack near here today, ending a
40 hour manhunt in which 500 armed
citizens and 60 national guardsmen
took part.
PREPARE rat
J
Seven Carried Into Lake on
Breaking Ice Floes in Sub-
Zero Weather
Barre, Ont. Jan. 4 (AP) —Prepara-
i tions were made by airplane and life
j boats today to rescue seven men on
j a giant ice floe in Lake Simcoe dur
i ing a gale in 20 degrees below zero
weather.
At G)ro station, 14 miles north of
here, six Toronto life guards awaited
improved visibility before setting out
| in a row boat to take off three fish
ermen from a floe more than a mile
; from shore.
The trio was trapped late yesterday
when the ice on which they had set
up a fishing shack had broken away
from shoiv and their.
the Ick.
PUBLISHED EVERY AFTHRNOOM FTITI? nrt\ T rPo oadV
EXCEPT SUNDAY. rIVE CENTS COPY
Famous Flier Says
Voice Was Heard
In Bronx Cemetary
j Hauptmann Foreman
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j Charles Walton, Sr., 55-year-old ma
chinist, is the foreman of the Hunter
ton county jury that is trying Bruno
Richard Hauptmann at Flemington.
N. J. for the kidnaping and murder
of Charles A. Lindbergh, Jr., infant
son of Col. and Mrs. Charles A.
Lindbergh in March, 1982.
STATE MAY EIGHT
TELEPHONECASEIN
No Decision Reached Yet
Whether It Will Appeal
To The Supreme
Court
CASE NOW IN HANDS f
ATTORNEY GENERAL
Superior Court Judge W. C.
Harris’ Writ of Supersedeas
Held Up Low Rate Order
For Southern Bell by The
Utilities Commission Re
cently
Daily iMspatrh Barent,
In the Sir Walter Hotel,
liy J C, Bankervllle.
Raleigh, Jan. 4. —No decision has
| yet been reached as to whether the
State will appeal to the Supreme
Court from the action of Superior
Court Judge W. C. Harris, who last
week held up the new and lower tele
phone rates that had been ordered
into effect by the State Utilities Com
mission when he granted the South
ern Bell Telephone Company a writ
of supersedeas. Utilities Commission
er Stanley Winborne said today. In
stead the Attorney General, who Is
now handling the case for the State
' since it is now out of the hands of
the utilities commission, may decide
to go ahead and fight it out in su
perior court in the belief that it can
j get it settled more quickly that way
| than to take an appeal.
‘ “I have had several conversations
t with Assistant Attorney General A.
At F. Seawell, who is in charge of
the telephone case, and we are still
! in some doubt as to the wisdom of
taking an appeal,*’ Commissioner
Winborne said. “We have decided to
wait and confer with Attorney Gen
eral Brummitt, who has been ill for
several days, before reaching a final
; deciion.
“We are rather strongly inclined,
however, against taking any appeal
to the State Supreme Court, since in
dications are that we can try the case
in superior court and get a final ver
dict there, before we could get a de
cision on an appeal. Even then there
would be additional delay and the
case might then have to go to trial
in- the superior court anyway. How
ever, we are going to wait until we
can talk the matter over with Mr.
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TODAY
Buzz Goes Over Court Ropm
When Statement Madej
v Hauptmann Flushes, *
Wife Pales
LINDBERGH TELLS OF
SEARCH FOR CHILD
Tells of Flight Over Land
and Sea in Futile Attempts
to Find Baby; Defense
Counsel Asks Flier If He
Was Armed at Trial,
Answers “No”
1
Flemington, N. J., Jau, 4
| (AP)—Lindy said‘today that he
believed Hauptmann the jkid-
I naper of his baby. i •
j Flemington. N. J.. j an . 4._(AP>-
Colonel Chas. A. Lindbergh todav
identified Bruno Richard Hautmann
as the man whose voice he heard in
a Bronx cemetery when he paid
a J ° hn F ‘ C ‘ "Jafsie” Con
don §50,000 in ransom in a vain ef
«o-t0 8:61 back hls kidnaped baby.
Since that night in St. Raymond’s
cemetery, th e prosecutor asked Lind
bergh. “Did you ever hear that same
voice?*'
“Yes.” j :
“Whose was that voice?" V
“Air. Hautmann.’’ he replied. ’
Hauptmann, sitting at the defense
counsel table, flushed. Mrs. Haupt
mann paled, trembled slightly. -
“t heard very clearly a voice com
mg from the cemetery." the flier t&~
"**
“What were the words?" ' f
1 “In a foreign accent, ‘Hey Doctor’"
,| “How many times?” , '
“I heard, that voice once." •
A buzz went over the court room
as Lindbergh gave his dramatic testi
mony about the cemetery event. Chief
of Defense Counsel Edward J. Reilly
called for a glass of water and. smil
ed. Justice Trenchard paid no, heed
to the mild disorder in the court
mom and continued with the notes
he was making.
When the flier's ransom story end
ed Attorney General David T. Wilen
tz turned him over to Reilly for cross
examination. ,
Reilly’s first question was: ) i
“Colonel are you armed?’’ \l ’
Wilentz objected. t
“I’ll answer your honor," the flier
said, and then in a low firm \lpice:
“I’m not armed.”
Before the cross examination was
taken up Lindbergh described all of
his futile search for his son, his flight
over land and sea—all of them in
vain.
He told of putting $70,000 in a small
wooden box at the cemetery and the
taking out of $20,000 after Dr. Con
don told him that the ransoming,
could be don e for $50,000. The box
was slightly cracked he said, because
of the bulk of the money.
“The doctor got out of the auto
mobile,’’ he related, “and returned la
from 10 to 15 minutes."
Reilly mdae the flier show wSth a
pointer on the State’s charts of the
layout of the nursery of the home and
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SIX CONVICTEDfN t-
KANSAS MASSACRE
All Found Guilty of Con
spiracy in Killing of Nash
And Officers ,
Kansas City, Jan. 4.—(AP) — Six
persons were convicted by a jury in
Federal court of arraignment of the
deliberate plot which cost the lives
of Frank Nash, convict, and four of
ficers in a blaze of machine gun fire
the trial of conspiracy charge agiinst
June 17, 1933.
The jury, which for four days heard
the rrial of conspiracy charge against
Mr. and Mrs. Richard T. Galatas, Mr.
and Mrs. Hubert Farmer, Louis
Sacci and Frank B. Mulloy, was ioclc*
ed up last night but resumed delib
erations today.
The sexfcett was convicted of a a al
leged conspiracy to liberate Lash
from our officers who were tailing;
him to the Federal penitentiary Ini
Leavenworth, Kansas.
The five were killed Iby machinal
gun fira fr. fr r.t if *'>,q rcr -r» as