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i iifNDEKSON Lateway to central. Carolina IWLNTY-SECOND YEAR GRANDMOTHER MORROW IS REBOTTAL WITNESS japan thinks plans ON HAWAII AIR BASE AIMED AT HER OFFER Tokyo Had Suggested New Pacific Agreement On Fortifications In That Region congress MAY GET hill VERY SHORTLY Proposal Discussed At Sec ret Meeting of House Mili tary Affairs Committee on Friday; New Base In Is land Possessions Would Cost $11,000,000 \\ 1 •.)iimutoii. Fob. 9 i APi There i, indications from congressmen ,„l i\ that the proposal to build an 1 1 army air base in Hawaii ■, : ,v -non find its way to the House in l,il| form \ .-niruo'tion to establish such a , ••.py aimv in the United States’ . h. most point of defense in the r, wms discussed in secret nieet , ; v. -t, • dn\ by the House Military ■yiiimit i d General Douglas Mac ehi“f of staff, and other high ~r ,i:it~ of the army. ri)Mi; man McSwain. Democrat, h Carolina, emphasized that any tnUon bv the committee on the u’opo'-il would bo “for defensive pur mul it would have been consid ,i . Mil. if Japan had not taken m scrap the Washington naval ivr\s «tr.KS RLI’LY TO IIKIC I ot: l l|'l( A I'IONS lIKMANDS r„l,v„. i*',,),. ;> (AIM High Japanese m! officials expressed the opinion i that the Hawaiian air base for ■ fictitious project announced in " • !ii ll io ll apparently was the re of tti“ United States to Japanese j .i-i ions regarding a new Pacific ..itifimtions agreement. Gram ille Negro Slayer Sentenced j To Electric Chair' Oxford, Fell. 9.—(AIM—Dortch Waller IS, n Negro, was sentenced lot lay in Granville Superior Court la lie electroeuted April 26 for the murder of John Harris, white merchant of Providence. Waller was eonvineted late yes ••‘rilny |,\ a jury wliieli deliberat* nl la minutes. Harris was killed Peeeinher 30. GENERAL FREEMAN, CONFEDERATE, DIES Uieliiiiond, Vh„ Feb. 9 (API — htnernl Walker 11. Freeman, hon ""i»r.v loiniiiaiider-in-eliief of the l idled ( nofederate Veterans, and "in of tin- few remaining Confed ''riitc xeleraus who enlisted in Util fur service for Hie whole per i"d of the W ar Iletween the States •lied today. lie was in his 92nd '•‘Hr, -7 \l(‘inl>ers 01 Assembly AI Meeting Session Is Mnrkcd by Wake Ml for Hospital * Expenditures lUllee 1 , ■ ~, ~ 9. -(AP) —Twenty-six IM ' ( ' (a*■ m'.• i> of the State legls ,. '' >hc 15 minutes Senate >" <1 ;ie 12 minutes House , hl .‘“ hi the House, Ropre of Gaston, presided 1 111 t!w absence of Speaker v, ~1(, 1( .’ " Foi.dor. and in the Sen .••• 11 tr was absent, so ()1) , ' 1 ,lli!n ' of Yadkin, filled U"|„M. B on, •ii Th,,,,, / ' Micheli. Douglas fill. |, ( offered two o i rnj,(,' W( ll,:al th laws so as v ;| iir) county authorl- Ik n,. h,KS P i tals for hicteo v,., ,'’ an ‘ of th « sick and af iiUtiti. j l(> | x P«nditures would be IMI county or city. Hctthirsmt Batlu Dispatch <)XM L>AILY NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA AND VIRMNIA. ' Navy Man Quizzed • x&T ■ U: .- v ' w I Whm l Naval Court of Inquiry will investi gate charge that Comdr. Ralph D. Wyerbacher (above) offered his services to a commercial aircraft manufacturer. A letter attributed to Wyerbacher and introduced in Senate munitions inquiry caused probe to be ordered. (Central Press) Schoolbook Rentals At Big Saving Parents Would Save Millions Annually Under the Gravely Proposal Dnil.v lll*|>:i ti-li It ii red ii , 111 the Sjr Walter Hotel. HY J. C. It ASK l<llt VI til,. Raleigh, Feb. 9.—The bill to provide rental textbooks for all the school children of the State, introduced by Senators L. L. Gravely, of Nash, and D. E. Griffin, of Chowan, and now before the Senate Committee on Edu cation. is expected to provide more financial relief to the children and parents of the State than any meas ure yet introduced “this session or likely to be introduced, in the opinion of the introducers and many others in the General Ascmbly. A rental textbook plan will save the parents and children not less than $4,500,000 a year, as compared with the present cost of textbooks and supplies bought outright by children and parents, if tlie average outlay for boons and sup plies at present as much as $lO per year child. Charles Whedbee, legisla tive counsellor to Governor J. C. B. Ehringhaus. who wrote the bill at the request of Senators Gravely and Grif fin, and with the full approval of the governor, estimates that the cost of books and supplies is nearer S2O a year per pupil rather than $lO per pupil and that as a result the cost of books and supplies for 900,000 chil dren is nearer $18,000,000 a year in stead of $9,000,000 eyar. These same books can be retnted to the children of the State under a Statewide rental plan for an average rental of $5 per child per year. Whed bee belives, which would be a total cost of $4,500,000 a year and thus bring about a saving of $13,500,000 a (Continued on Page Six) 10 Negroes Killed In Texas Tornado Gateland, Texas, Feb. 9 (AP) —Ten Negroes were killed and 40 were in jured last night when an east Texas tornado wrecked the community on the Mu ray farm near this city. Thirty one tenant houses were razed. At Ninevah, in Leon county, 16 oth er Negro tenants were hurt and ten ant houses were wrecked. One ranch was damaged badly and a commissary was destroyed/. Twelve Groveton residents received light injuries. He LEASED WIRE SERVICE OF THB ASSOCIATED PRESS. HENDERSON, N. C. SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 1935 GOLD DECISION TO COME NEXT MONDAY OBSERVERS THINK Supreme Court Met In Regu lar Saturday Conference In Capitol Basement CONFERENCE WATCHED CLOSELY FOR WORD Officials Feel If Decision Is Given Today After Stock Exchanges Close Govern ment Will Have Time To Act Before They Re-Open Next Monday Wsliington, Fe. 9. — (API —The lung suspense over the gold clause cases appeared to be near an end today a.-* all source indication lead observers to believe that the Supreme Court would announce its decision Monday. The regular Saturday conference of the justices this afternoon in a base ment room of the Capitol was watched closely in the hope that Chief Justice Hughes might emerge with definite word of a decision date. There was no expectation in in formed circles that the opinion itself might be announced today. Late yesterday, the court adjourned over the week-end. It may change its mind and meet in formal sesion to day but there had been no sign that an administration official’s recent ad vocacy of such procedure appeal to the tribunal. The officials felt that if the gold cases were decided on Sat urday after the stock exchanges clos ed, it would give the government more time to take any action deemed necessary. The demand for seats In the court room Monday is fully as great as it i was a week ago before Chief Justice | Hughes made his unprecedented an nouncement that it would not. be handed down Monday. AAA PREPARING AID FOR SMALL GROWER Washington, Feb. 9 (AP) -The AAA is preparing, an authoritative source said today to carry out President Roosevelt’s promises to small cotton growers that proved production up to two bales will be exceeded from limitations on the Bankhead bill. LAND PLAN MARKS POPULATION TREND Increase in People Here Shortly To Reach Sta tionary Point By CHARLES P. STEWART Central Press Ctaff Writer Washington, Feb. 9. President I Roosevelt’s land plan takes into con sideration an American population ten dency for which few scientists have made the slightest allowance in their search for causes of the depression of the last five years. Yet it looks as if it were a mighty important consideration. Increase of population is slowing down. There still is some increase, but. j with each succeeding year, there is a shrinkage in the annual percent age of increase. Professor Oliver E. Baker of the agriculture department’s bureau of economics, the country’s foremost au thority on the subject, estimates that by 1960. or only 25 years hence, Amer ica’s population will arrive at con stant of about 139 millions; thencefor ward the death rate will equal the birth rate. READJUSTMENT NECCESSARY This will be all right, saves Pro (Continued on I’age Six) ports indicated that a number of the Negroes injured on the Murray farm in Houston county might die. Widespread damage, occurring in the counties of Leon, Trinity and Houston, extended north to Marshall, where two airplanes at the ai.port were destroyed. In the Brevard community of Hous ton county, the Beasley cotton gin was ruined, along with the Beasley and Smith store, Hauptmann ’s Fingerprints, Which He Didn’t Find ~ " EHQHT HAND ' « \ -Right TiuunH t-Jl. 3-X, MHdlt 4— R. Ring Pingm * -i* *** 'jjk ~ ~—-.<3| wmM Actual finger print? of Kruno Richard Hauptmann, jfff " inch E. M, Hudson (right?), noted fingerprint ex perl, '( \ testified lie didn t find among DUO prints developed § on Lindbergh kidnap ladder, thereby bolstering the \ \ wobbly Hauptmann defense. 'U^ (Central Pre*»> 11 1 "■ ' Sales Levy Substitutes Are Opposed Farmers and Labor Bitter Against Three Percent Tax on Gross Income In (he Sjr Walter Hotel. Dnil.v IHtttMitoli Unreal), K V ,1. C. BANK BitVl I<l,. Raleigh, Feb. 9.—Much opposition is already developing to many of the plans which the anti-sales tax group has indicated itw ill propose in place of the sales tax and some members of this group are already hearing from their constituents back home in vigorous protest to some of the substitute plans it was'learned here today. There is miich difference of opinion among the anti-sales tax group has not decided definitely on what it will offer to the joint finance committees Tuesday or Wednesday, when it has announced it will lay its cards on the table and reveal its plans. Representative W. L. Lumpkin, one of the chief spokesmen for the group, frankly told this correspondent that while many different plans had been discussed and were under con sideration that no definite decision had yet been reached on a number of these. Strong reaction has already set in against the proposal to impose a three per cent tax on all gros incomes of individuals in excess of SI,OOO a year, which was under consideration by (Continued on Page Six) CLASSIFICATION OF PROPERTY SOUGHT Would Lead Way Out of Present Muddle, Promi nent Legislator Says llall) Jltopntfh ttorpiia, In (he Sir Waller Hotel. Raleigh, Feb. 9. —Clasification of property is being seriously considered by a prominent legislator who sees in it away out of the tax muddle. The North Carolina Constitution would have to be amended in order to put in effect clasification of pro perty' as basis for collection of re venue. The legislator mentioned may ask the legislature to place, such an amendment before the people at the next election. The question of classification has been up before in North Carolina, but has always failed of approval. Several states, including the neighboring State of Virginia, tax property and intan gibles on that basis. Tax experts have long pointed to classification as a method of actual ly collecting taxes on solvent credits, bank deposits and so no. At present no one will deny that many millions in bank deposits are not taxed. True, the law requires that such deposits be taxed, hut few efforts have ever (Continued on Page Three! “Weather - FOR NORTH CAROLINA. Cloudy, probably occasional rains in west and north portions tonight and Sunday; slightlr w«r me r oij the coast tonight Legislative Week Ends With Many Major Bills Thrown In The Hopper Sales Tax Substitute and Hill’s Liquor Proposal Chief Matters Next Week; Demands for Higher Salaries Outstanding Events of Past Week i Raleigh, Feb. 9. (AP)—A legislative | week that saw bee-hive activity by j major committees and introduction jof many important measures in the General Assembly proper ended to day’’ as brief, profunactory sessions were held in both the Senate and House. Solons at home during the week end will unquestionably sound out their constituents on vital matters booked for next week, including pro posals for taxation substitutes for the general sales tax and the over controversial liquor question. Representatives McDonald, of For syth, and Lumpkin, of Franklin have announced they will submit substitate tax proposals Tuesday to the joint finance committee and there is every indication a battle of no mean pro portions will result. Chairman of the group. Senator Harriss Newman and Brains Os Anti-Sales Tax Named Daily Diaiiatch Bureau, lu tbc S*” Waller Motel. Raleigh, Feb. 9.—Who compose the self-appointed “brain trust” which has been supplying the brains and ideas for the McDonald-Lumpkin anti sales tax group in the General As sembly? It has been evident for sev eral weeks that Dr. Ralph McDonald, the ex-college professor from Win ston-Salem, who started off like a skyrocket, is now playing only third or fourth fiddle in the anti-sales tax group despite the fact that at one time he appeared to be the orchestra conductor, many observers here now agree. Nor is it believed that Repre sentative W. L. Lumpkin, of Frank lin county, is doing very much of the brain work, although he is permit (Continued on Page Three) Wake Negro Given 14-Year Term For Assault Attempt Raleigh. Feb. 9.—(AP)—- Garland Walker, 27-year-old Wake county Ne gro ex-convict today was sentenced to serve from 14 to 15 years in State’s Prison following his conviction of at tempted criminal asault on a young white matron. Walker was convicted by a jury in W|ake Superior Court last night fol lowing his one-day trial, at which Mrs. Willie Parrish, the prosecuting witness testified as to the charge. The attack, Mrs. Parrish said, took place after the Negro and the wo man’s husband had taken several drinks. Walker was charged with as sault, but the jury found him guilty of the lesser crime, Parrish testified he went to sleep and did not awake until tha morning following the as , PUBLISHED EVERY AFTERNOON EXCEPT SUNDAY. Representative R. Gregg Cherry, are hopeful the matter can be thorough ly threshed out in committee before the revenue bill is offered. Number two of the liquor bills, Senator John Sprunt Hill's long awaited measure, was finally intro duced in the Senate Friday. It pro vides for a referendum to amend the Turlington Act so as to make sale of liquor legal under rigid control. State operated stores would be established and worked on a package basis. Pro fits would be for relief work. Meanwhile, Representative Day’s bill to provide for a referendum on a three-way Stale liquor control system has been referred to a suz-committee of the House group on propositions and grievances. The author thinks it has a better than even chance to (Continued on Page Three) Whisky Bill Will Easily Pass Senate Ihiily Dispatch Itnren*, In (he Sir Walter Hotel, Raleigh, Feb. 9—“ The liquor control bill will pass the Senate easily,” says Senator John Sprunt Hill, introducer of the measure and one time great contributor to prohibition forces. “It will get the approval of between 30 and 40 of the 50 senators. The bill is favored by drys, but we are not blind drys. We recognize the seriousness of the present liquor situation and we know that existing conditions must be changed. Os course, I know the attitude of the confirmed drys. Once (Continued on Page Six) FOES OF SALES TAX ARE BADLY DIVIDED At Odds on Line of Attack As Reason for Delays in Their Plans Hally Dispalcb Bareaa, In (he Sir Walter Hotel, Raleigh, Feb. 9.—A difference of opinion among prominent anti-sales taxers is responsible for the indecision and rumors surrounding the sales tax substitutes. Some leaders have swung around to the vfe.w that they should present the substitutes now. That op inion was voiced on the floor of the lower house by Representative Willie Lee Lumpkin when he urg<ed those who have substitute plans to present them now. Back of the delay is a prominent anti-sales taxer who is not a member of the legislature. He urges a policy of “suspense.” tie is a believer in «£ T'.VZ\ 6 PAGES TODAY FIVE CENTS COPYi J racSSS 1 MAID IN HER HOME Violet Sharp Had Been In sinuated by Defense In Connection With Kidnaping MORE EVIDENCE HAD ON KIDNAP LADDER State Trooper Seeks To Re but Defense Testimony In tended To Cast Doubt On That Part of Evidence; Mrs. Lindbergh Accom panies Mother into Court Flemington, N. J„ Feb. 9.—(AIM —Testimony came to an end to day in the trial of Bruno Richard Hauptmann for the kidnap-niur der of Baby Charles L. Lindbergh, Jr., witli the baby’s grandmother, Mrs. Dwight Morrow, giving testi mony to clear away defense in suniations against her maid, Violet Sharpe. Mrs. Morrow was a rebuttal wit ness foif the State. The defense of fered no sur-rebuttal. Flemington, N. J„ Feb. 9 (AP) Anne Morrow Lindbergh came back to court today with her mother, Mrs. Dwight W. Morrow, who was called as a rebuttal witness for the State in the trial of Bruno Richard Haupt mann . It was the first appearance of the bereaved young mother since she tes tified on the second day of the trial. The two women —mother and grand mother of the kidnaped and slain baby Charles A. Lindbergh, Jr., slip ped in quietly after court opened for the 29th day of the trial Louis Bornmann, a. New Jersey State trooper, was on the stand to re but defense witnesses whose testi mony was offered to cast doubt upon the State’s ladder evidence against Hauptmann. Mrs. Morrow’s testimony was sought by the State to rebut defense insinuations involving her late • maid. Violet Sharp, who committed suicide just before she was to be questioned the fourth time in connection ‘With the investigation. Defense used two witnesses, who said they saw her, or a woman re sembling her, on the night of the kid naping, March 1, 1932. One said she carried a gray blanket and was near a Yonkers, N. Y., ferry early in the evening, before the time of the crime, and another said he saw a woman re sembling her carrying a baby wrapped in a blanket and being assisted onto a street car by a man who resembled the late Isador Fisch. This incident was alleged to have taken place later in the early hours of the next morn ing. Bornmann’s rebuttal testimony at tacked the testimony of a defense witness who qualified as an expert, and said that an attic board in evi dence showed no tool marks which would have been present if the board was ripped from the joists. The trooper said he pulled the board up with his bare hands. He also iden tified nails taken from it and they were put into evidence. The defense (Continued on Page Two) Elopement Os Society Bride Ends Sees Her Lawyer and Asks Annulment Or Divorce From Chauffer &,j Washington, Feb. 9. —(AP) —A case of “act in haste and repent at leisure” was how the “disillusioned” Mrs. Jane Cooke Scarlette described her recent elopment with the family chauf feur when she called on an attorney to discuss an annulment or ad ivorce, The 20-year-old society bride of two weeks remained in hiding today after she disappeared Thursday with her husiband, George S. Scarlotfcei, was being cleared in police court of carg ges that he made off with SSOO worth of jewelry belonging to his mother-in law. The bride left a note containim; tha wedding ring Scarlotte had • ner. Another message to an auui . jareti she “Would never ret.;. . .. km iafton, - r(f^
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