HENDERSON GATEWAY TO CENTRAL CAROLINA TWENTY-SECOND YEAR Stronger NRA To Be Asked For Department Plans Full Inqui ry Into Mitchell Charges Cumin H’gs Promises Probe 0 \ Graft Alleged by De posed Commerce Department Man MUCH ELL ADMITS HE HAS NO FACTS Sh*rp Questioning by Hos tile Senators Reveals He Lacks Support for His Charges; Says Proper Gov ernment Efficiency Would Have Avoided Tragedies Washington. Jump 20.—(AP)— At. tcrney General Cummings said today the Justice Departmentw ill make a full investigation of charges of “in efficiency. graft and favoritism" in departmental bureaus made by Ewing T Mitchell, ousted assistant secre tary of commerce, regardless of the outcome of the investigation by the Senate Commerce Committee. This announcement came shortly after Mitchell had ended his second dav of testimony before the commit tee with assertions that proper ef ficiency in the air commerce bureau and steamboat, inspection service of the Commerce Department might have prevented the recent airplane crash in which Senator Cutting, of New Mexico, was killed, and the burn ing of she liner Mono Castle, with a large loss of life. He acknodledged under sharp ques tioning by openly hostile committee members, however, that he had no actual facts to support his charge. The attorney gneeral said the de partment investigation was' being handled by Joseph B. Keenan, assis tant attorney general in charge of the criminal division, who was at the ommittee inquiry yesterday. Mitchell said, would be given opportunity to amplify his charges at any time.” LABOR ASKS TAKING OF RAILROADS NOW "ashdigton, June !?0 (AP)— Charging that financial houses have looted the railroads of the country, the Railway Labor P3xe cutive Association today adopted a resolution urging immediate tak ing over of the carriers by the Federal government. Nine More Paralysis Cases Now Raleigh. June 20 < AP) — Nine new of infantile paralysis in North Carolina were reported officially today an d Dr Carl Reynolds. State health r -Hcer, said federal health officers rrith him that everything pos sible was being done with regard to ,v,( - situation in the State. ,v ith 177 oases having been offi cially reported si.ace January 1 for an all-time high record. Dr. Reynolds 'aid he discussed the outbreak with —ding health authorities of North America while at. the surgeon gencr ? conference in Washington, and all a S rcc d that this Stade was doing as touch if not more, thaV- any other was — A imuterstfit 9 mitt Btstmtrh WIRB SERVICE) OF associated press. HAUPTMANN PLEA IS ARGUED BEFORE NEW JERSEY COURI Strictly Legal Aspect* Pre sented to Highest Tri bunal From Hunt erdon Verdict CLAIM DEFENDANT FAILED OF JUSTICE Charge State Wrongfully Used Varying Theories as to How Child Met Death; Wilentz, in Summing for State, Says Baby Was Kill ed In Crib Trenton. N. J., June 20.—(AP) Bruno Richard Hauptmann's lawyers stripped his case of its emotional wrappings today and presented the strictly legal aspects to the State’s highest court in an appeal from the Fiemington verdict, which decreed he should die for the murder of Charles A Lindbergh, Jr. , To the four judges of the court of errors and appeals, sitting in the op. pressive hush of a big white-walled room, they presented a lengthy brief citing numerous legal opinions to sup port their contention that Haupt mann did not receive justice in the crowded Hunterdon county court house. In ♦ lie brief they added to their appeal three hours of oral argument. The Hauptmann brief laid its heaviest emphasis on the charge that the State had wrongfully used vary ing theories in the trial as to how the kidnap child met death. The burden of State's evidence, it Ms said, that the child had been' killed When he was dropped from the kidnap’s buck ling ladder. Despite this. Attorney General David T. Wilentz, summing up for the State, espoused the entire ly different theory that Hauptmann had killed the child before removing him from his crib. More months of waiting—three or sont —will follow the hearing, while the 14 members of the court study file record of the trial and weigh the arguments of the defense and the prosecution. | * hintTleleais BEING PERSECUTED Some Think He Was Con victed Here for Offenses in Tennessee llatly Dupntcli Boreae, In the Si- Walter Hotel, AT J. C. BASKERVILL. Raleigh. June 20.—Friends of Col. onel Luke Lea may be driven to the publication of all the evidence in his conviction in Buncombe courts, in or der to give people in this State an opportunity to read the “newly dis covered evidence" to see whether it (Continued on Pago Plvn) coroner’s jury sought today to un tangle a web of conflicting accounts of the fatal shooting yesterday of two men during a short-lived strike at the Monarch mills here. Approximately 50 witnesses were expected to testify concerning the killing of A. L». Stutts, 63, overseer of the card room, and W. B. Frank lin. 57-year.old magistrate’s constable before a jury empanelled by Coroner George Noland, of Union county. George Royster, a mill deputy, and John Stutts, son of 40-year-old son of the slain man, were arrested and a warrant charging T. M. McNeill, su- ONLY DAILY This is the scene of the dramatic barricade of 299 prisoners in the load ing shaft of the Kansas state peniten tiary mine near Lansing, Kan. The New Deal Snubbed By Georgia Press Carrollton, Ga„ -Innr 20 (AP) The Georgia Press Association to day tabled motion to endorse the Roosevelt “New Deal" after list ening to Governor Talmadge renew his attack on policies of the Demo cratic administration. ___ i SSI I j . Fascism Is Threatened in Italy and Germany Is Due to Soften MEXICO TURNING LEFT United States Expected To Turn De finitely from Right in Few Years; Bankers Won’t Defy New Bank Bill By LESLIE El CHE L Central Press Staff Writer New York, June 20.—The world pendulum once more is swinging. It is away from the far right. Fascism in Italy may be able to maintain it self in pfiwer by means of a war in Ethopia, but it is reaching a precar ious stage through economic failure. Germany may .be expected to moder ate its severities. Mexico Is swinging far' to the left, in a modern experi ment of social democracy, England has even begun to mumble criticisms of the royal family v And the United States is looked up (Continued on Pago Thr«o» IS SLOWING DOWN Operations In May T wo Per cent Less Than For April, Record Shows Washington. June 20.—(AP)— The cotton spinning industry was report ed today by the Census Bureau to have operated during May at 83.4 per cent of capacity, on a single shift basis, compared with 85.3 for April this year, and 98.2 for May last year. Spinning spindles in place May 31 totalled 30.585,726. of which 23,027,780 were active at some time during the month, compared with 30.770,400 and 23,853,816 for April this year, and 31,- 029,950 and 25,891,366 for May last year. Active spindle hours for May total led 6,095,334,830, or an average of 199 hours per spindle in place, compared with 6,057,601,513 and 194 for April this year and 7,279,092,293 and 235 for May last year For the month, North Carolina re ported 1,355,536,958 active spindle hours and an average **• 221 per suindlt NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA AND VIKHNIA HENDERSON, N. C. THURSDAY AFTERNOON, JUNE 20, 1935 Scene Where Mutinuous Prisoners Held 12 Guards Mine where prisoners barricaded themselves is adjacent to pr ison wall. main entrance of the mine is adjacent j to the prison wall above. The convicts 1 attempted to seize the gun cage but I were forced to retreat. Twelve guards l Ethiopian Army Begins Hard Training For War Tribal Warriors Prepare To “Defend the Empire To Last Man” Against Invasion VOLUNTEERS CALLED BY NATIONS RULER No Age Limit Fixed, But • Elderly Men Preferred; Ethiopian Aviator Snatches Italian Flag From Italian Legation Automobile In Addis Ababa Addis Ababa. June 20 —(AP) Ethiopia s tribal warriors cast aside their shoes today “ready to defend the empire to the last man" against the anticipated Italian invasion. European military advisors had tried to introduce the footwear but the troops reverted to hare feet while plunging with almost fanatical fer vor into a new military training pro gram The tribesmen submitted to west ern ways in one respect, doing away with tiie cumbersome white toga 3 which are the national dress, adopt, ing instead khaki garb to camouflage their movement. The emperor's call for voluntary en listment placed no limit on age. Eider ly men were preferred, being con sidered more accustomed to the hard ship of a rugged outdoor life. ETHIOPIAN AVIATOR TEARS ITALIAN FLAG FROM AUTO Rome. June 20.—(AP)—The foreign office was informed today that an (Continued on Page Eight) PARALYSIS BLOCKS id SHORT COURSE Health Officials Advise State College to Call Off 1935 Meet College Station. Raleigh, June 20 — Indefinite postponement of the 4-H short course, scheduled to be held at State College the latter part of July, was announced today by Dean I. O. Schaub. Due to the prevalence of infantile paralysis in eastern North Carolina. (Continued on Paee Eight) “weather” FOR NORTH CAROLINA. Fair, warmer in ex treme west portion tonight; TTi day partly cloudy: possibly 10. i 111 i, • till •*..» 1 . were held as hostages by the mutin ous inmates. Warden Lacey Simpson, inset, appealed to the federal peniten tiary at Leavenworth for gas masks rnd tear gas to quell disturbance. Italy May Resign From the League Rome, June 20 (AP)—An autho ritative source stated tonight that Italy ; would resign from the Lear , ; giie of Nations if the League . Cpurtcil ifitetferes In tH6 Italo- Ethiopian controversy 6n tiie bafc is of the protest sent Geneva fcd ; day by Ethiopia. (Ethiopia appealed to the Lea gue of Nations again today against Italy invoking Article X of the League covenant under which members of the international body are pledged to respect the territo rial integrity of other nations.) It was said that the Italian gov ernment does not regard the con troversy with Ethiopia as being within the competence of the League. Unit for Wage Worker Must Be Changed, Sup erintendent Erwin Says la t!ifc sir Walter Hotel Dally Dispatch Barest, BY J. C. BASKERVIEX. Raleigh. June 20. —(State Superinten dent Clyde A. Erwin, is even more worried over Washington’s plans in spending the $4,880,000,000 Roosevelt money than is State Chairman Capus M. Waynick. of the highway and pub lic works commission, for Mr. Way nick’s unit for one wage worker is : $1,400 and Mr, Erwin's is only $l,lOO. (Continued on Paee Four) DRYsIn BEAUFORT WITHDRAW PROTEST Washington. June 20.—(AP)— Beaufort county drys have decid ed not to oppose further the county liquor referendum set for June 29. The dry forces, after obtaining a temporary; injunction to prevent the election, appeared in the clerk of court’s office here yes. terday and entered a voluntary non-suit. CASE IS RESTED IN PAYROLLS ROBBERY Lancaster, S. C., June 20 (AP) — The State rested its case near noon today in the trial of T. 55. Thurman, former deputy sheriff charged with .j.spuacy in the slß,ooo Springs Mill .yajrrfiU h-.c! ~ -4-t E_ceo PUBLISHED EVER* AFTERNOOM EXCEPT SUNDAY. Roosevelt Wants Sequel To Scheme To Share Wealth TSSk ROOSEVELT TAXES P ————— Finance Committee Declines To Add Proposals To $500,000,000 Nuis ance Bill NUISANCE LEVY IS EXTENDED A YEAR Time Cut In Half as Passed By House; LaFollette Seeks To Get Roosevelt’s “Share- the - Wealth” Scheme Tacked Onto Modest Emergency Bill Washington, June 20.—(AP)— The Senate Finance Committee refused today to add any of President Roose velt’s tax proposals in approving the House resolution extending $500,000,- 000 of nuisance and excise levies ex piring June 30. Higher taxes on the wealthy were proposed yesterday by the President in a special message to Congress. He asked this action to reduce large in comes, and to prevent concentration of great wealth. Considerable difference of opinion existed as to whether he wants the program passed this session There was a clear implication he wanted most of it enacted before adjourn, ment, but some leading Democrats privately opposed this. The) Senate* committee voted to extend the nuis ance taxes for one year, instead ol two, as voted by the House. Senator LaFollette. Progressive, Wisconsin, proposed that an inherit ance tax and higher surtax and cor poration taxes be incorporated in the resolution, but Chairman Harrison announced the "sentiment 0 f the cc#n mittee” was that the proposal should go through without amendments. LaFollette said, however, he would renew his fight on the Senate floor. It was indicated the committee ma jority would oppose the amendment on the floor. BAILEY,REYNOLDS SENT MANY PLEAS > Both Implored to Vote Against Clark Amend ment to Social Security Dally Disnate!* Bareaa, In the Sir Waiter Hotel. BY J. C. EASKBRVILIi. Raleigh, June 20.—North Carolin ians stormed Senators Josiah William Bailey and Robert Rice Reynolds Tuesday night and yesterday in an effort to persuade them to vote a gainst the Clark amendment to the social security measure which was be ing discussed. Big ones sent messages to the sen ators who had managed to breeze through the debate to the end with out committing themselves ,by inter view or betraying their position by (Continued on Paare Th«w> Economists Say Race Is On Between Business Recovery And Serious Labor Trouble By* CHARLES P. STEWART Central Press Staff Writer Washington, June 20. —Non-partisan economists in Washington generally agree that a race is on between busi ness recovery and serious labor trou ble. Their theory is that business has been greatly relieved by the Supreme Court’s decision, outlawing NRA, of the fear of governmental interference with its activities. For some time, ac. cording to such authorities as Gen era,! Tornoc Trtmprir rvf Spaces today FIVE CENTS COPY New and Broader Recovery Act Would Be Compan ion Measure to New est Tax Levy LATTER CRITICIZED AND ALSO DEFENDED Another “Surprise” Message From White House Antici pated ; Share-the-Wealth Program Sent in Against Advice of Chief Leaders in The Congress Washington, June 20.—(AP)— Be fore Congress had recovered from its surprise at President Roosevelt’s call for share-the-wealth taxes, close con fidants of the President passed the word today that lie is considering a new and broad NRA designed to be in a sense a companion measure to the tax program Hie tax plan, intended to break up gieat fortunes and reduce large in comes, was greeted by expressions of gi ettification from the “left” and cri ticism from the “right.” It was pre sented to Congress late yesterday with the presidential comment that it would encourage the “very sound policy" of a “wider distribution of wealth.” The revived NRA which the Presl. dent is said to Ibe considering was pictured bv some of his advisors, who declined to be quoted by name, as an effort to increase mass purchas ing power. Thus, they said, it would be akin to the tax plan. They fore saw the possibility that another "sur prise” message on the subject might be forthcoming. There is one major "if” on NRA, it was said. The plan may be recom mended if the administration can find a definition of interstate, com merce it considers satisfactory and ajble to stand the test of constitu tionality. Authoritative sources said the President had remarked that he was inclined to believe Congress could constitutionally define inter state commerce, so the Federal gov ernment could supervise some things over which the Supreme Court held the old NRA had no power. The quest is for words to define what the constitution means when it say s Congres “can regulate commerce among the several states,” it was said Yesterday’s tax messave, it became clear today, was written and sent to Convress against the advice of nearly all the high Democratic advisors on Capitol Hill. After counselling against such an idea some time ago, some of them had been predicting recently that no new taxes would be recom mended. But the Presoident, It was said authoritatively, wrote the mes sage without their knowledge and sent it to the Capitol in a hurry so pressure would not be brought to him to withold it Huge Georgia Loan Recalled ByPWA Head Washington, June 20. (AP) — Charging that Governor Tal madge of Georgia had broken an * “implied” promise to the pubiio works administration, Secretary Ickes today cancelled a $2,691,800 allotment to the University of Georgia system. National Association of Manufactur ers, whom I recently had occasion to quote on the subject, it has been jockeying for just such a start on the course toward recovery. If it makes a quick get-away, ahead of strikes and lockouts, these critics think it will not be difficult for wel-inten tioned. industry and commerce to maintain wages, prevent a lengthen ing of working hours and forestall a return to sweatshop and child labor t Oonftniift/l nn mthti