men person
o VI'KWAY TU
central,
cakuee^a
I \\ KNTY-SECOND YEAR
CLAIMS FISCH OFFERED TO SELL HIM “HOT MONEY”
POWER FIRMS, WITH
CORPORATIONS, MAY
GET HIGHER TAXES
Theatres and “Crown” Tax
on Bottled Drinks Also
Slated for Some
Increases
I KVY ALSO PLANNED
ON FOREIGN STOCKS
These Are Some of Meas
ures M acDonald Expects
To Propose as Substitute
for General Sale 3 Tax
When Revenue Bill Reach
es House Floor
1 1 ,|ii _M. Feb. I.—(APi —lncreased j
• . ui, power companies, corpora
- and theaters are expected by
m legislative leaders to be offered
iineiulments to the revenue bill
it is reported out of the fin
r >mmittees to the House of Rc-
I . i:i: ives. j
(Jib'd expected changes are a i
; tax on bottled drinks and J
■ sloe Its in foreign corpora- 1
Th- proposals would be offered as
n'"s lor the three percent gon
t ix which the Ehringhaus
lin'ristration favors for re-enact
withon. picscnt exemptions.
Th' substitute money bill, which
; p -intativo MacDonald, of For
!i i - promised to introduce, is
1 authoritative quarters to con
some of these proposals in lieu
:li tax. Tin* Forsyth law- I
-aid his revenue measure does
pm taxes back on land.
French Strikers
In Serious Clash
With The Police!
' iieieiines, France. Feb. 1 (AP»
Jii i- steel workers, swinging
si uddi'd with razor blades, stag- N
l ife eliisb with police today at
I I c h-Xnint-I.eger, near here, carry-i
' ( a score of injured when fin- i
a"d. Two mobile guards were
liously hurt.
Si:-; hundred strikers who sought to
1 ■ 1 workers from returning to the
mills tore up the streets and
' ;' icades out of paving blocks,
dtnge points they rained mis-
I utiard reinforcements who ,
1 "barging in. mounted and afoot.
hil" the strikers were wielding
• '"ii< Idade-s!ndded clubs and
paving blocks, guards broke
" 1 r ili" backs of the bolligcr-
Dn" mounted guard, stabbed
l'iiif", was not expected to live.
Congress Is
Civen Right
To ‘Punish’;
•l ; iil Sentence on Mc
(Tncken for Snub-!
hino; Senate Upheld
lb Court
idngion. Feb. t iAP) —Marking
'l"' significant milestone in the
■ ''“'pinout of jurisprudence, the Su- !
I|M held today that congress :
V, 'H as the courts —has power to
’ bn- contempt.
Ili ' deeigion affirmed a ten-day
'' 1,1 mi imposed by the Senate
William P. McCracken. Jr., for
t 1 T; mt secretary of commerce
■"'l'oiiau! ics for failure to produce
'■'l"' td] by its air mail investi
" " f, urmnitt.ee.
/ l: " kin wp... found guilty after
;, ‘ (| tnui j le permitted
r " withdraw some of the sub-
J records from his office and
T Toy others.
11 "’sentence was imposed on
'‘Win. former vice-president
-ui ib west Airways, but he served
appealing to the courts.
Llaiiy F. Sinclair, wealthy
'’"i. wa.- sentenced to 90 days
II '""I lined SSOO for refusing to
'jue.-t.ioiis during the Senate’s
‘•iipot Dome on inquirv
Si&tltf Si xspattk
LEASED WIRE SERVICE OF
YHK ASSOCIATED PRESS.
! Lawyer Denies “Fix”
■n - | I
£, .'il
Alex Gravem
Former attorney for the U. F. C.,
Alex Gravem is shown on the wit
ness stand at the senate munitions
inquiry as lie denied all knowledge
of any transactions by which a
“fixer” offered to obtain naval
contracts for Gulf Industries. Inc.,
for a fee of $200,000. Gia’ etn
previously had been named as a
go-between lor mysterious iixer.
FIVE MAINS ARE “
INVITED 10 UNITE
FOR AIR OEFENSE
I ]
Each Would Be Guaranteed
Against Air Attack From
Either of the
Remainder
/ (
1
GERMANY IS COOL
TOWARD PROPOSAL
Under Agreement Reached
at London, She Would Be
Allowed To Re-Arm on Re-1
turning to League of Na
tions; Italy Is Not Enthusi
astic
I
(By the Associated Press.l
Five powerful nations are asked to
pool their aerial fighting strength to
guarantee themselves against aggres
sion by any one of Ihem. following
conversations in London this past
week-end between government heads
of France and Great. Britain.
The Anglo-French agreement pro
vides that, Germany. Italy and Bel
! gium shall unite with France and
Great Britain in such a >nct, and al
so recognizes Germany’s right to re
arm provided the Reich re-enters the
League of Nations.
The reaction in Berlin was not es
i
(Continued on Page Four)
Six Killed During
Week-EndOnßoads
In Carolinas Area
” I
(By Uie Associated Press.)
j Six persons were killed on the
highways in the Carolinas over the
i week encL a compilation of reports
! showed today.
Seventeen persons were injured in
collisions in North Carolina.
Three fatalities were reported in
the vicinity of Morganton.
William Bolich, 30. of Granite Falls,
apparently was hit by a train while
walking the railroad tracks five miles
west of Hickory. Friends said he was
hard of hearing.
Ocorif#* WorlMy ?fi fn.tH.lly I,r •
HENDERSON, N. C. MONDAY AFTERNOON, FEBRUARY 4, 1935
Perjury Charges Are Hinted
At Senate Munitions Inquiry
TESTIMONY ABOUT
“FIXER” TO OBTAIN
CONTRACTS SEEN
Evidence Before Committee
May Be Referred To Fed
eral District At
torney
SHIPBUILDER TOLD
ABOUT DISCUSSIONS
His Woman Secretary Is Re
called for Further Testi
mony; Letter Received by
Vandenberg Contradicts
Part of Statement by At
torney
Washington. Fob. 4. —CAP)—Cita-
tion of one or more witnesses for
perjuiy in testimony in connection
with shipbuilding contracts was con
tem.plalcd today by the Senate Muni
tions Committee.
“There is before us." declared Sen
ator Vandenberg. Republican, Michi
gan. a committee member, “sufficient
evidence to certify the evidence to
the United States district attorney
to learn whether perjury is involved.”
The statement was dictated into the
record immediately after the Michi
gan senator read a letter from Char
les H. Hoyle, of Port Washington, N.
Y., an attorney, in which pervious
testimony of Axell B. Gravem. Wash
<Cnntinii">l in I‘iiye Throat
Captain of Boat
And Son Missing
Fully Two Weeks
Elizabeth City. Feb. 4.—(API -
Seevnth district coast guard head
quarters here today reported that A
H. Dermary, captain and owner of
the stranded steamer Ethel Demary.
and little son. Frank, are still missing
The captain and his son have been
the objects of a widespread search by j
coast guardsmen since the Ethel De- j
marv was discovered two weeks ago
stranded and abandoned at Great
Shoals.
Cancelling
Os Air Mail
Was Breach
Washington, Feb. 4.—(AH)—.
The District of Columbia Court of
Appeals held today that Postmas
ter General Farley’s cancellation
of air mail contracts amounted to
a breach of contract which gave
the air lines the right to sue the
government in the court of claims.
Action of the district supreme
court in dismissing the injunction
suit brought by five air line com
panies attacking Farley’s order
was upheld.
After holding the applications
for an injunction were properly
• Continued on Page Three).
as he attempted to board a passenger
train at Nebo, a station near Mor
ganton.
Injuries suffered by Miss Ellen
Branch, 68, struck by a truck as she
walked across the highway in front
of her home near Glen Alpine, proved
fatal a few hours later. The driver
of the truck was held blameless.
1 Clifton Pridgen, 21, of Roanoke
j R.apids. apparently lost control of his
j car and it left an approach to the
| Roanoke river bridge near Roanoke
tfJontinnoH od P{ip-»*
TELL OF CONTRACT “FIXER’
/ : v # : (
f|||
Judy Kitchen
Laurence R. Wilder, former presi
dent of the New York Shipbuild
ing corporation, and now chair
man of the Board of Gulf Indus
tries, !?, rhown talking to his for
o.n secretary, Miss Judy Kitchen,
n the munitions committee
h r ' .':>y u Washington. Wilder
-.ctarv told the com- ,
State Hospitals’ Inmates
Are Real ( "Forgotten Men ”
Newman Says Insane Need Additional Funds Far More
Than Teachers, State Employees and University Pro
fessors Need Higher Salaries Now Demanded
Daily Disiiali'h lluri'iiii,
In (In- sjr Walli'r lIoDI.
11l ,i. lUShKIIVII.I,,
Raleigh, Feb. 4. —The “forgotten”
men and women of the State are the
inmates of the State’s three hospitals
for the insane in Raleigh, Goldsboro
and Morganton and in its other char
itable institutions, in the opinion of
Senator Harris Newman, of Wilming
ton, chairman of the Senate Finance
Committee, former chairman of the
House Appropriations Commiittee and
since 1933 a member of the Advisory
Budget Commission. These hospitals
and institutions are badly overcrowd-
Few Friends
Os Diverting
Road Money
People Seem Con
vinced Highvv ay s
Need A 1 I Money
Available for Work
Daily Disiiali-li Hurra u.
In ilir .S!- Waller Hotel.
IIY J. C. DASKEItVILL
Raleigh, Feb. 4—ls any fight is
brewing in the General Assembly
over diversion of highway funds to
other than highway purposes, there
is not much evidence of it so far.
those who have been observing the
general assembly so far as convinced.
The few bills so far tossed into the
legislative hopper designed to divert
a part of the highway revenue back
to the counties to be used to heip re
duce the road bond debts of the coun
ties have aroused only a flicker of in
• C or> !>•.T>»..... - '
Laurence R. Wilder
mittee of an all-night hotel con
ference of shipbuilding executives
in the summer of 1933 that grew
so violent that one of the con
ferees collapsed. They also told
of an offer of a “fixer” to obtain
naval contracts in return for an
honorarium. The hearing is de- ;
velouing new startling facts daily.
ed with other hundreds waiting to
•:c admitted from counties in all sec
tions of the State, hut which cannot
betaken for lack of room.
“In my opinion, there is too much
| misplaced sympathy in the legislature,
too much helter and skelter in trying
to find three or four million dollars
to increase the salaries of State em
ployes, school teachers and university
professors instead of trying to find
only a few hundred thousand dollars
to increasie the facilities of the State
hospitals to take care of the thous
(Continued on I’age Three)
47 Listed
Lobbyists
In Raleigh
Daily Disiiatch Iliiri‘U«,
In llu* Sir Waller llotel.
Bv C A. PAUL.
Raleigh, Feb. 4.—-Forty-seven lob
' byists are registered in the bootc re
• served for that purpose in the office
of Stacy Wade, secretary of state.
The 47 have thus duly qualified them
selves for membership in the “third
house” of the 1935 legislature.
Strangely absent are the representa
tives of school book companies. They
are here, but they are not registered.
For unannounced reasons they have
(Continued on Pajte Thro* '
WEATHER
FOB NORTH CAROLINA.
Colder in east portion tonight;
Tuesday fair; slightly warmer.
FOR HENDERSON.
For a 24-hour period ending at
noon today: highest temperature
59; lowest, 30; no ruin. ru.rth«e«v
• fl
PUBLISHED EVERY AFTERNOON
EXCEPT SUNDAY.
DEFENSE REFUSED
EVIDENCE OFFERED
BY NEW YORK MAN
Named by Carlstrom
W
HjjwL ..
Esther Ellerson, named by Elvert
Carlstrom, surprise Hauptmann de
fense witness as the heart interest
who drew him to Bronx night of
Lindbergh kidnaping, isn’t backing
up his story that he was there that
night,. Carlstrom said he saw Haupt
mann in Bronx bakery near Eller
con dwelling at hour of kidnaping.
(Central Press)
DRIVER’S LICENSE
BILL IS BUSINESS
WAITING SENATE
Most Important Legislation
Offered so Far, and Its
Passage Is Regarded
Certain
WALKATHON BILL IS
DUE IN THE HOUSE
It Would Ban Walkathons,
Marathon Dancing and the
Like in State; Numerous
Minor Bills of Local Inter
est Are Also Av/aiting
Some Attention
Daily l)ls|inl<'h It lire.'in.
In (In' Sir Winter lintel.
BY C. A. PAUL.
Raleigh. Feb. 4—The driver's license
bill, formulated by a special sub-com
mittee of the roads committee, faces
the North Carolina Senate when the
legislature resumes its deliberations
here tonight at eight o’clock. The
bill, a comprehensive measure, is the
most important pieces of legislation
thus far. That the measure will pass
both houses with only minor changes
is the opinion of most observers here, i
j
(Continued on Page Three*
PRESENT CONGRESS
CONSERVATIVE ONE'
—
At Least That’s New York’s!
View; But Liberals See
Trouble Ahead
By LESLIE EICHEL
Central Press Staff Writer
New York, Feb. 4.—The financial
district has taken the measure of the
new Congress.
“Conservative,’’ is the word. That
is, conservative for these times.
But increasing debt and inflation
still are hurdles.
LIBERALS
Liberals are none too happy.
They believe the “conservative”
trend of the administration bodes no
good.
They see extremes coming to body
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FIVE CENTS COPY
Hauptmann Witness Ad
mits Man With Ladder
Looked Like Ger
man Carpenter
| SAW TWO SECTIONS
OF LADDER IN CAR
Lupica Says He Was Sub
poenaed by State But Not
Called to Stand; Sommer
Cross-Examined About
Man and Woman Seen the
Night of Kidnaping
Flemington, N. J.. Feb. 4.—(AP)
At thur J. 1 rost, a New York painter,
asserted today Isadora Fisch had of
fered to sell him “hot money” three
months after the Lindbergh kidnap
ing.
Chief of Defense Counsel Edward J.
Reilly, Trost said, rejected his prof
fer of testimony yesterday and ac
cused the would-be witness of being
a stool-pigeon for the State of New
Jersey.
frost said Reilly did not give him
time to complete an account of de
tails through which he professes to
know of tli e offer of “hot money.”
A defense witness today admitted
that a man he saw in ear with a
ladder near the Lindbergh, home the
day Baby Charles A. Lindbegrh. Jr.,
was kidnaped and slain resembled
Bruno Richard Hauptmann, who Is
on trial for the crime.
Ihe witness, Sebastian Benjamin
Lupica. a Princeton student, insisted,
however, that he could not identify
Hauptmann as the man. Tie said he
had been subpoenaed but not called
by the State.
His acknowledgment that. Haupt
mann resembled the man he saw
j was brought out in cross-examination*
Lupica said the man he saw wils
thin, about 40 years old. In the rear
of his car, he testified, he saw) , two
sections of a ladder and said the'Toc
tions were the same as those shown
to him later by police.
He also testified he was at th«
trial under subpoena by the State,
(Continued on I’agc Throe)
German s
Alibi Gets
More Help
Flemington, N. J., Feb. 4.—(AP)—
Bruno Richard Hauptmann’s second
important alibi—for the night on
which the $50,000 futile Lindbergh
ransom was paid in a Bronx grave
yard—was supported in his trial to
day by one of his friends, who said
Hauptmann was at his home on that
night.
Hans Kloppenburg testified he was
at the Hauptmann home all evening
of April 2, 1932, the date of the ran
som payment, and that he and
Hauptmann spent the evening play
ing the mandolin and a guitar.
Kloppenburg also testified that Is
(Contiimed on Page Three)
$98,185,500
Asked For 4
i Departments
T
(Congress Also Told
of Plans To Secure
! New American
i Markets Abroad ?
Feb. 4 (AP) —Con-
gress was asked today to provide $98,-
185,500 to operate four government
departments and at the same time
heard of administration plans to seek
new markets for American commerce.
A report on the appropriations bill
for the State, Justice, Commerce and
Labor departments disclosed the j i y»
bability that President Roosevelt a yl
draft outstanding business I :j
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