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
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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 '
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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
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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
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