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CENTRAL
CAROLINA
TWENTY-SECOND year
Hauptmann Verdict Is Awaited
Rental Textbooks
Measure Presented
State Legislature
Provides for Setting Up
Commission of Eight
Members To Admin
ister the Plan
DRIVER’S LICENSE IS
FINISHED IN SENATE
Measure Sent to House
Without Negative Vote;
Six Legislators To Go To
Washington With Tobac
co Growers To Protest In
crease in 1935 Acreage
iitli. Feb. 13 (AP> I icensing
Htiiumobilc drivers, regulation of
• • uiparlor operators and provision
.•I rental textbooks for school chil-
An’ii held the center of the legislative
■ {;ige today.
The Senate passed without a nega
i vote the driver's license bill and
ui i' to the House. It then de
but'd before crowded galleries for
'Tore than an hour over creating a
i;w hoard of cosmetics examiners.
>.il referred the measure to a com
•viltee.
Senate iind House approval was
uti'iJ ti joint resolution naming six
'euishitors to go to Washington to
i"nrnr.v with tobacco growers to pro
against increasing the 1935 to
i'Mceo crop.
During Senate debate on the propo
-1 Senator Gravely, of Nash, a tobac
i... export man. predicted the day was
eyniing when farmers would set their
viv ii prices for tobacco.
The House got from thre represen
ivos Cherry, of Gaston; Johnston,
f Iredell, and Blount, of Beaufort —
bill to create a State textbook rental
■v emission of eight members, with
•' State treasury to supply funds to
*t up the commission.
This afternoon the finance com
teiuecji heard oil companies protest
in t a proposed new chain busi
■te,s levy.
The appropriations committee con
tinued executive sessions considering
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Bill Would
Keep Patrol
Where It Is
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In the Sir Walter Hotel.
Hull;' llisitiileh II nr Cliff.
Ilaleigh, Feb. 13. —A State highway
11,1I 1,1 Til <>r 121 patrolmen and officers.
be set up under the supervision
of ;i division of highway safety in
' • State Department of Revenue, un
-1 the terms of a bill which has al
’"Mdv boon drawn, it was learned here
'"'lay- The bill also provides that in
Edition jo patrolling the highways
d enforcing the State drivers’ 11-
<■ Inw. which is expected to be
! i.-.-'d within a few days, that the
'lnti' Highway Patrol shall be sub
' ’ to such rules and regulations as
'"ny l.e adopted and enforced by the
" "tiitissioner of revenue and shall al
rei|uired to perform such aa
‘■ ■ 1 i«>nai dntic.s as may be required of
Dorn time to time by the commis
‘Oiier of revenue.”
1 "dot this section, the patrol could
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Radical Revenue Measure
From Anti-Sales Taxers
1 fr ,ai,n Their Proposal Will Produce $5,000,000
Additional Revenue Without Sales Tax; Burden
some Levies Would Be Imposed In Places
llinimlt'k llurnia,
Sir Waiter Hotel.
Hv C A. PAUL.
*' <; b- —A proposal to in
-1 ' >•! budget revenue bill by al
.'''• , M V)00 without imposing the
Hx Provision for more ade
ropport of schools a broaden
tax base, recapturing of a
Cl 01 '. ht: ad valorem tax. and a
, p-wp Lohcy „f tax levying are the
l ‘ c antl-eal* tax group’s
: a,tute for the sales tax.
* Pr " d ‘ c t«d by this bureau, the
iirnnrrsmt tlatlii tKsrmtrh
NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA AND VIRGINIA. *
EKASED Wirttt SERVICE OF
the associated press.
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Map shows territory in which the
latest Italo-Abyssinian dash oc
curred near the town of Ualual.
As a result Italy began mobilizing
troops on a war basis and Pre
mier Mussolini intended
sending an ultimatum to Emperor
Haile Selassie of Abyssinia unlese
Italy received “complete satisfac
tion.’'
LIQUOR TAX CHIEF
HOPE FOR INCREASE
IN APPROPRIATIONS
Requested Expenditures
Now Sta;nd at $34,500,-
000, an Excess of
$3,500,000
REVENUE IN SIGHT
NOW ONLY $31,000,000
Appropriations Committee
Must Cut Unless Liquor
Tax Is Levied or Some Os
Anti-Sales Tax Proposals
Are Accepted by the Gen
eral Assembly
Dully Disiuitvh lliirciiN,
In lh<« Sjr Waller Hold.
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Raleigh. Feb. 13.—A total of $34,-
500.000 has been requested of the
House and Senate Appropriations
Committees by the public schools, the
institutions of higher learning and
other agencies supported from the
State general fund as the minimum
needed each year for the next two
years. Chairman Victor S. of
the House, committee, said today, now
j that all hearings have been complet
ed. This amount is about $3,500,000
; more than the total general fund re
venue now in sight from the revenue
bill, including the $1,000,000 a year
which the budget revenue bill would
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antis did not produce a new bill, but
offered their proposals as amend
ments to the present bill as drawn
by the budget commission. Several
of the features embodies in the anti s
program were forecast by this bureau
The antis declare that their substi
tute sections for the revenue bill will
raise approximately $34,000,000, an in
crease of about $5,000,000 over the pre
sent budget bill of $29,000,00. A total
estimated revenue' of $12,361,094 would
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HENDERSON, N. C. WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON, FEBRUARY 13, 1935
Death, or- Freedom?
Upon this historic old bell, in accordance with New Jersey tradition, verdict of jury in trial of Brun«
Kichard Hauptmann will be tolled. Bell is in steeple of Hunterdon County courthouse.
(Central Prtte)
U. S. Navy Dirigible Macon
Is Lost In Pacific; 2 Dead
San Francisco, Cal., Feb. 13. —(AP)
—The giant dirigible Macon, destroy
ed by a sudden mysterious disaster,
lay at the bottom of the Pacific ocean
today, while 81 survivors were elng
brought into San Francisco bay oy
cruisers of the United States fleet.
Only two members of the crew were
missing.
The tragic fate of every American
made giant dirigible the navy has
possessed dyertook the queen of the
skies as she neared her Funnyvale
base at sunset last night.
One or two of her 12 gas cells sud
denly burst as'she sped through squal
License Os
Drivers To
Pass As Is
Dully Disimti'h tlnreii*,
In tb*- Sir VVnller Hotfl.
Raleigh, Feb. 13. —The driver’s li
cense bill will likely be enacted into
law, after much delay, virtually as
drawn by a sub-committee of the
Senate Roads Committee. Considera
tion of the bill has been delayed at
the motion of several senators to con
sider the measure at later dates. It
was thought for a time that perhaps
some of them would voice serious ob
jections, but no effort to defeat the
bill has been made, although some
amendments have been accepted as
compromises with those who have ob
jected to certain features.
One of these, offered by Senator
Spence, roads chairman, would re
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Tun! ISDEFEATED
Elimination of School Bus
Drivers from License
Bill Means That
. Unity Dispatch Bnreua,
In the Sir Walter Hotel,
BV J, C. UASKEUVILL,
Raleigh, Feb. 13.—Refusing to be
tricked into adopting a section that
might cost the State millions of dol
lars and compel the diversion of from
$2,500,000 to $3,000,000 from the high
way fund to the school fund later on,
the Senate struck out the section in
the diivers’ license bill that would
have required adult drivers for school
buses before passing it on second
reacting Tuesday. Instead, it decided
to defer consideration of this ques
ti n until the school machinery act
comes up for consideration and after
the revenue bill has been reported out
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ly air and fog 110 miles south of San
Francisco.
The delicately balanced craft nosed
abruptly skyward and the immediate
efforts of Lieutenant Commander
Herbert C. Wiley, skipper of the
Macon, and survivor of the Akron
disaster, to balance the ship proved
futile.
Under his orders, the unmanagable
dirigible landed, stern first, on the
water ten miles off Point Sur. She
sank almost but her
crew had taken to rubber lifeboats,
and all but two men were picked up
by the cruisers Richmond, Concord
MAY CALL TROOPS
Strike of Relief Workers
Agitated; Legislature Is
Informed
Little Rock. Ark., Feb. 13 <AP) —Gov
ernor J. M. Futrell sent to the House
of Representatives today a message
saying from information he had re
ceived from Fort Smith, the calling
out of the National Guard to protect
life and property in that section
seemed imminent.
Governor Futrell told the Associat
ed Press that he had received a phone
call from Mayor J. K. Jordan, of
Fort Smith, this morning describing
the situation there as “bad”, as a
result of a prolonged agitation in Se
bastian county seeking to promote a
general strike on relief projects be
cause of cuts in the wage scale.
‘‘The situation is bad and we may
need help. I wanted to let you know
so you could be ready,” the governor
quoted the mayor as saying.
Fay Webb Vallee
Loses Appeal for
Bigger Allowance
New York, Feb. 13.—(AJP)— Fay
Webb Vallee today lost her attempt
in supreme court to obtain a more
generous slice of the income of her
estranged husband. Rudy Vallee, the
crooner.
Justice Salvatore Cotilla ended the
action by granting a motion to dis
miss the case, which hd been made
by counsel for Vallee.
In his decision, Justice Cotillo rul
ed that Mrs. Vallee had not proved
her allegation that the separation
agreement with her husband had been
made under duress and with coercion.
The financial clause of the agree
ment gives Mrs. Vallee SIOO a week
maintenance.
WEATHER
FOR NORTH CAROLINA.
Rain tonight and probably
Thursday morning; slowly rising
temperature Thursday.
i and Cincinnati.
The exact fate of the two missing
! men—Radioman Ernest Daily, North
i Bend, Oregon, and Florentino Ed
| quiba; Filipino mess serg%ant was
: not known. Daily presumably broke
I his back in a, 250-foot leap from the
I ship before it landed. Edquiba was
! last seen aboard.
i In the faint 1 hope of finding them
alive, a cruiser division and the
cruiser Milwaukee were directed to
continue searching the waters off
Point Sur until noon. If they kre not
found by then, the hunt Will be aban
doned.
Burlington
Bus Crash
Hurts Five
Burlington, Feb. 13. —(AP) — Five
children were injured, one seriously,
in a school truck which was struck
by two trucks on the Greensboro-
Burlington highway two miles west
of here today.
A truck driven by C. H. Byers, of
Eufola, struck the rear of the school
bus and knocked it across the high
way into the path of a Richmond
freight truck driven by T. E. Davis, of
Richmond.
The school bus was virtually de
molished by the impact of the truck,
but the nine children and driver in
the bus, only Harold Whitscll, 8, was
seriously injured. He suffered inter
nal injuries and severe abrasions.
State Highway patrolman W. W.
Clark made an investigation of the
wreck. No charges were filed imme
diately.
Correspondent Paints Dark
Picture of Auto Code
Aftermath
By LESLIE EICHEL
Central Press Staff Writer
Cleveland, Feb. 13.—1 n this region
of steel and auto industries there is
fear now that there will be industrial
warcfare.
Evidence tends to prove that if the
administration had put through a la
bor bill with enforcement clauses at
the last session of Congress, many
of the present difficulties would have
been avoided.
The Wagner bill originally was such
a bill—establishing a paramount tri
bunl for labor. Large employers tho
ught it favored labor and killed it.
At that time, Senator "Robert F. La
, CCo&titteed Pan®
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EXCEPT SUNDAY*
JURY GETS CASE AS «
JUDGE ENDS CHARGE
OF BUT 70 MINUTES
Federal Workers •
Get Pay Increase
Washington, Feb. 13—(AP) —Full
restoration of government salaries
effective April l was approved to
day by President Roosevelt, but he
gave notice that Congress must
provide funds to meet this and any
other increases in the budget.
He called attention that restor
ing of the last five percent of the
15 percent cut in government sal
aries on April 1 instead of July 1,
nsi he recommended, would oost
the government $16,000,000.
ROOSEVELT WONT
ASK FOR ANOTHER
NAVALJIRIGIBLE
Not Ready, However, To
Dispense With Lighter-
Than-Air Craft Fin
ally for Navy
MANEUVER AGAINST
BONUS IS EVIDENT
President Says Any New
Appropriation Must Carry
Taxation To Pay It; Su
preme Court Gold Ruling
Anticipated by Some, But
Unlikely Before Monday
Washington. Feb. 12 (AP) Although
Congress was in recess, the loss of
the Macon, another administration
maneuver against prepayment of the
bonus, and the fair chance of a Su
preme Court decision in the gold cases
made for somewhat of a ferment in
the capital today.
President Roosevelt and Secretary
Swanson, rejoicing that loss of life
was no greater on the dirigible, show
ed there would be no immediate offi
cial attempt to get funds to replace
it. They did not consider that lighter
than-air craft were to be dispensed
with finally, however.
Not mentioning the bonus, the Pres
ident, in a press conference, repealed
his view that any increase in the bud
get should be accompanied by reve
nues to meet the cost. His words
were addressed immediately to full
restoration of government salaries
April 1.
Again the meeting of the Supreme
Court to hear arguments in varied
cases attracted some persons eager to
be on hand in case it should set a
precedent and announce its gold con
clusions in mid-week. Informed ob
servers were not inclined to look for
a, decision until Monday.
Seeking to compromise administra
tion and organized labor differences
on the $4,880,000,000 work-relief bill,
the Senate Appropriations Committee
voted to require payment of prevail
ing local wages on public works only
when the President finds lower rates
are disrupting private pay levels.
CHILD IS HURT IN
SCHOOL BUS CRASH
Fayetteville, Feb. 13.—(AF)—
Toka Matthews, 13, of near Wade,
sustained a lacerated forehead
and was in a hospital this morn
ing as the result of a school bus
skidding into a ditch near here.
Twenty-fofcir other occupants oi
the bus were uninjured.
Italy Is Ready To Spend
850 Millions In New War
Rome, Feb. 13. —(AP) —The Italian
government was said authoritatively
today to be ready to spend $850,000,-
000 on a two years military campaign
in Africa in the event hostilities break
out with Ethiopia.
The Italian military plans became
known as Negradas Yesua, Ethiopian
charge d'affaires, handed Sylvio
Suvitch, under secretary of foreign
affairs, Emperor Haile Salassie’s de
fiant retort holding Italy responsible
for the frontier conflict, which pro*
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Lengthy Evidence Reviewed
by Court in Delivery That
Is Sharp and to
Point
EMPHASIS PLACED
ON KIDNAP LADDER
Jurors Are Told To Weigh
Evidence of Dr. Condon
and Liindbergh, Whoae
Statements Have Not Been
Challenged; Warns of
“Reasonable Doubt”
Flemington, N. J„ Feb. 13.—< AP3—
The murder case against Bruno Rich
ard Hauptmann was given to the jury
today at 11:15 a. m.
The jury received the case after an
hour and ten minutes of charge from
Justice Thomas W. Trenchard.
Tt was taken at once to a bare
room in back of the court to begin
its deliberations on the guilt or in
nocence of Hauptmann as the kid
nap and murderer of Baby Charles A.
Lindbergh, Jr.
Justice Trenchard’s charge, though
brief, was sharp and to the point, It.
reviewed a number of the defense con
tentions, with conclusions of "Do you
believe that?’’
On the State’s important ladder evi
dence, the court asked the jurors:
"Does not the evidence satisfy you
that at least a part of the wood from
which the ladder was built came out
of the flooring of the attic of the
defendans?”
“If you find that the murder was
committed by the defendant in per
petrating a burglarly, it is murder
in the firstd egree,” the court said.
“Even though the killing was unin
tentional.” ;j
"If there is a reasonable doubt that
the murder was convicted, .toy the
defendant in perpetrating a byrglttfijy,
he must be acquitted. V. slur ♦
"If you find the defendant guYtty
of murder in the first dejgree, you
may. if yob see fit, by your Verdict,
and as a part thereof,! retiomtnend
imprisonment at hard labor foil* life.’’
The jury was instructed that it may
conclude from the evidence that the
baby was stolen by some one who en
tered the nursery of the Lindbergh
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3 Verdicts
Are Open To
Kidnap J wry
Electric Chair, Life
Term, Acquittal Is
Possible; Defense
Attacks Charge
Flemington, N. J., Feb. 13.
(AP) —The jury trying Bruno
Kichard Hauptmann for the kid
naping and murder of Baby Char
les A. . indbergh, Jr., began its de
liberations before noon today,
after being Instructed it could re
turn one of three possible verdicts
—murder in the first degree, the
same with recommendations for
life imprisonment, or acquittal.
The final charge of the court paid
particular attention to the disputed
reliability of the important State wit
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cipitated the present crisis.
It was learned Italy is recruiting 5,-
000 physicians for colonial services.
A battalion of fascists left Rome for
Sicily at 7 a. m. with full colonial
equipment.
AGREEMENT REACHED FOR
PROVIDING NEUTRAL ZONE
Addis Ababa, Feb. 13. —(AF) The
Ethiopian and Italian gov- ’ —nta
(C~x-t'r.ned -cr. Akift