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HENDERSON GATEWAY TO CENTRAL CAROLINA TWENTY-THIRD YEAR ROOSEVELT IS ENTERED IN ILLINOIS PRIMARY 26 DEATHS RESULT FROM RAGING FIRES IN EASTERN CITIES Lakewood, N. J. Hotel Blaze Accounts for 15 Dead and at Least 20 More Injured FIVE DEAD IN FIRE IN NEW YORK CAFE Four in Family Perish In Minnesota Home and Ex plosion in Chicago Takes Two Lives; Investigation Begun of Restaurant Blaze In New York City (By The Associated Press) Tv.i'iity-six deaths and 71 injured, many of them seriously, were listed today as the result of four fires and mi explosion. A fire that turned a merry-making throng in a Now York restaurant into a fear-maddened mob left five dead and IJ injured before it was brought under eontrol today. At Lakewood, N. J., the official count of deaths resulting from the burning of the Victoria Mansion ho tel was increased today to 15. At least 20 other persons were injured in the blaze yesterday. Four members of the Paul Fole larl family died in flames that con sumed their farm home at Jackson, Min n. Two workmen were killca and sev i ji others injured in an explosion that wrecked t* portion of a tunnel being dug for a now sewer in Chicago las! night. Throe nuns were burned as a fire swept a convent at Montreal. INY ESTI GAT CO N ST ART EJD OK NJBW VO UK HOLOCOUST Now York, Feb. 13 (AP)—lnvesti gators sought today to place the blame for a fire that, trapped guests ut a gay dinner dance in a Chinese-Ame rican restaurant, leaving five dead rnd 41 injured. While several of the injured were reported near , death in hospitals, the ejtv fire marshal called Luni Fong, proprietor of the restaurant, and 1 Tarry Itieker. real estate mail, before* board of investigation. Tbr»*e men and two women died in the fjaines, which swept into the sec (Conl Inued on Page Two.l No Traces As Yet To Ba ker Body Kub'igh, Feb. 13. —(Al’) —Efforts to find joiue trace of Henry lv. Baker, wea.ltby Zebulou farmer, believed to have drowned in the No use river six eiib-s from here Monday night eon limicd today without avail. K)a.:.< Inverts, deep sea. diver, of Norfolk. Ya., was brought here yes terday by Baker’s family, but, after surveying- i| Jf . scene, be said he could he of no help and returned home to day. I he lln ory that Baker was robbed, murdered and then thrown into the ■ ■•ream, was openly advanced by' some or ibc n'. ciir workers, but Coroner L. M. Waring and other Wake county o'ficiul: continued to express the op 'uion the man fell into the stream v.b'F in a dazed condition after his ■'Utomobile struck, an abutment of a. bridge over the river. I dynamiting and draging of the s s-.;mni ,sin<>(> Tuesday have failed to bow any trace of the man, and a net of wire has been placed across the fiver a mile from the bridge. AAA Preparing Payments To Farmers Os All Sums Unpaid Under Crop Plan Wa.bingLon, Fob. 13.—With the ap proval uC the secretary of agriculture, Uio Agricultural Adjustment Adminis tration took the first steps today look * * todward payment, as soon as pos of obligations to farmers grow out of the production adjustment programs under the agricultural ad justment act. This action followed the approval h.v the President of HR 10464 which provided $296,185,000 to make pay ments to producers for performance in connection with the adjustment programs. The appropriation and au thority for payment from Congress UrttJtrrsnn Batin Ut snatch ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA AND VIRGINIA * ' Seriously 111 g||gg||., •A f&L IBk 1 JB CLAUDE A. SWANSON, Secretary of the Navy Washington, Feb. J 3 (AP)— Secretary Swanson, who is ill of piiieris.v at the naval hospital, was said at II a. m. to he in a “seri ous but not hopeless” condition. A bulletin issued at that hour by Dr. G. C. Tliomas. eommandant of the hospital, said “the secretary is better now than at 6 o’clock this morning.” Washington. Feb. 13. — (AP) —Secre- tary Swanson, who suffered a frac tured rib in a fall at his home a. week »*s<> has— -developed- piuerisy and a brother has been summoned to his bedside at naval hospital. Hospital officials said Mrs. Swan son this morning summoned H. C. Swanson, brother of the 74-yea.r-old secretary of the navy, from his home at Danville, Va. Swanson’s condition was described as “serious, but not immediately alarming.” His age was a factor that caused some worry. 2 Continents Bailie With Storms, Fire Bitter Cold, Snow, Fire, Gales Sweep Portions of North America, Europe (By The Associated Press.) Continents of the northern hemis phere were racked by the elements to day as bitter cold, drifting snow, firo and winds of ga.le or tornado propor tions brought death, destruction and privation. North America counted at least 26 burned to death in fires, at Lake wood. N. J., Jackson, Minn., New York and Montreal. In Southern California, tornadoes twisted through four cities, injuring six persons, while floods and fires ad ded to property damage estimated a.t $J 00,000. lowa highways, already (blocked by snow and with lower forecasts, were unavailable for coal deliveries, and the fuel shortage was so serious that •Continued on Page Two.) was necessary because of the decision of the Supreme Court on January 6 which declared the production con trol provisions of the Agricultural Ad justment Act unconstitutional. “The work which must be done fboth here and in the field before the pay ments can be made began immediate ly after we were notified that the Pre sident had approved the measure car rying the required funds,” Chester C. Davis, administrator of the Agricul tural Adjustment Act, said. “Em ployees in the field and producer (Continued on Page Two.) LEASED WIRE SERVICE OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS. HENDERSON, N. C., THURSDAY AFTERNOO N FEBRUARY 13, 1936 Games Cancelled At State College Raleigh, Feb. 13 (AIM—AII in ter-collegiate athletic contests sche duled for the North Carolina State College campus for the remainder of this week have been cancelled upon orders of Dr. A. C. Bulla, Wake county health officer, due to a ease of meningitis and the pre valence of influenza among the students. The action resulted in calling off the State-North Carolina basket ball game set for tomorrow night, the State-Florida game scheduled for Saturday, and the Duke-State wrestling meet set for Saturday afternoon. FOSTER RELATIVES CLOSE EVIDENCE IN STATLER WILL CASE Want Set Aside $560,000 Will of Bradley David son’s Wife of Only Two Months PREACHER RELATES WOMAN’S CONDITION Says Mrs. Davidson, Heiress to Statler Hotel Fortune, Was Melancholy at Dance at Pinehurst Night Before Her Dead Body Was Found In Garage Carthage, Feb. 13. —(AP) —Evidence upon which foster relatives of Mrs. Elva Statler Davidson are asking the court to set aside her will, leaving the bulk of her $560,000 estate to her hus- T:.and, H. Bradley Davidson. Jr., was completed today. The case of the ob jectors was rested at 10:20 a. in. in Moore Count'* Superior Court, here. Immediately after the objectors rested, counsel for H. Bradley David son, Jr., her husband, requested a 30- minute recess for a. conference, and Judge Don Phillips granted the re quest.. The caveators closed their case after calling four minor witnesses. One of these, the Kev. T. A. Cheat - ham. of Pinehurst, added to previous testimony that the young and attrac tive Statler heiress was depressed the night before she was found dead of carbon monoide gas in the garage of her Pinehurst home last February 27, less than two mouths after her mar riage to Davidson. Mr. Cheatham said he saw Mrs. Davidson at a charity ball at the Pinehurst country club, and describ ed her as “melancholy and depressed” Prior to the recess, counsel for Davidson, the principal beneficiary under the contested will, declined to say whether they would offer rebut tal testimony, but. promised only a short time would be required if they did. MENACE TO PARTY Norris Opinion He Should Quit Cabinet Shared by Many Democrats By CHARLES I*. STEWART Centra! Press Staff Writer Washington, Feb. 13. Senator George W. Norris’ warning that James A. Farley as postmaster general, will cost President. Roosevelt “millions of votes” next November is a sugges tion that plenty of Democratic poli ticians wish the White House would heed. On the other hand there are com petent political judges who believe it is too late to unload Farley now. They wanted him jettisoned a cou ple of years ago, which would have given the public time to forget bis cabinet connection. At the present writing, however, they reason that the damage lie has done cannot Ibe re paired, and that dumping him over board simply would amount to an ad mission that it ought to have been done sooner. NORRIS IS IMPARTIAL No one else could have deplored the postmaster generaly nearly as effec tively as the Nebraska senator. Pro-administration Democrats can not afford to deplore him at all. It is taken for granted that insur gent Democratic statesmanship will deplore him; that brand of criticism discounts itself. Republican criticism also is recog nized as to be expected. But Senator Norris certainly is im partial. I’d use the word “honest,” but I don’t like to imply that the others are dis-honest. Rather they are open (Continued on Page Two.) Pilot Fiuts With Death to Succor Islanders _ _ t BF^ An unusual picture showing a giant army bomber dropping one of fifteen fifty-pound cartons of food to the ice-locked residents of Tangier Island on Chesapeake Bay. The plane seems to be suspended above th« ground as the pilot flirts with death to avoid dropping the package from a height and smashing the cargo. <Central Preen) Tax Lien On Colton Now Is Repealed Nullifying of Bank head Act Carried That Provision, Congressman Says Washington, Feb. 13 (AP) —Officials of the AAA cotton section said today they had been informed by the Bu reau of Internal Revenue that cotton on which there was a tax lien as a re sult of the Bankhead act can be sold freely without paying the tax. This development followed an asser tion by Representative Chandler, Democrat, Tennessee, in a message to the Memphis Cotton Exchange, that Congress intended to cancel the tax and lien when it repealed the Bunk head law, and that he would intro duce a clarifying resolution if the Treasury did not concur in his inter pretation. A spokesman for the Internal Reve nue Bureau told reporters that taxes which became due under the Bank head act, and were never paid are still due. He said, however, that Con gress had repealed the provision that cotton could not be sold, transported cd or opened unless it had a tag show ing it as tax-paid or entitled to tax exemption. This will permit the cot ton to be sold freely without payment of the tax. As to whether Bankhead act taxes paid by farmers would be refunded, government lawyers said today the levies would be kept by the govern ment "unless the tax is declared in valid . ” °” GAS TAX SLASHES Big Distributing Companies Have Started Propa ganda Already !>nliy Dispatch Bateau, In The Sir Walter Hole*, lly J. V UASKERVILL Raleigh, Feb. 13.—The gasoline and oil trust, working through the Amer ican Petroleum Industries Committee of New York and the North Carolina Petroleum Industries Committee, is already starting its campaign for low er gasoline taxes in North Carolina. Thousands of pieces of literature de signed to stir up opposition to the pre sent State tax on gasoline, likewise the Federal tax, are being sent out from the new offices of the North (Continued ou Page Two.) OUR WEATHER MAN FOR NORTH CAROLINA. Probably rain tonight and Fri day; warmer in east and central portions tonight. Coalition Cabinet If FDR Loses Out Washington, Feb. 13. —(AP) — Henry P. Fletcher, Republican Na tional chairman, said today lie had heard talk about a coalition cab inet. if the New Deal is defeated in November. He declined to discuss the subject. 0. S. COURSE MAY PREVENT OIL BANS League Committee at Ge neva May Decide Effort Futile Otherwise Geneva, Feb. 13 (AP)—Advices from Washington that congressional legis lation to authorize an oil embargo seemed improbable strengthened to day a general Geneva belief that' ap plication of a League of Nations oil sanction against Italy appeared un likely. The League committee of experts, in its report on the possibilities of enforcement of an oil sanction, had ruled that unless the United States participated, the extension of penal ties upon Italy in its war upon Ethio pia woul dfail. A report on the possibilities of en forcing an oil sanction, drawn up by the committee after many hesitations and repeated changes, particularly with reference to the position of the United States and Venezuela, now goes to the League of governments. SAYSPEOPfEARE GREATLY CONFUSED So Many Divergent Views One Scarcely Knows Which Way To Leap By LESLIE EICHEL Central Press Staff Writer New York. Feb. 13. —Are people be coming confused iby the mass of op inions being offered them? That is the question posed by G. J. Kochen derfer editor of the Mansfield, 0., News-Journal. The News-Journal, in an editorial headed, “Seek the Safer, Sounder Middle Ground,” remarks: “Small wonder that many millions of persons in America are confused by what is going on around them — the things they are reading in news papers. magazines and books and hearing discussed at meetings or lis tening to over the radio.” The editorial after relating some of the arguments presented, makes these conclusions: “In the speed with which material advancement has been made during the past half century an impatience has developed among many people who seem to think that some form of magic can be submitted for slow growth and that the present genera tion is competent to make greater im provement in human relations than was accomplished during the preced ing ten thousand years. “It is a long stretch of mental vi sion from the extreme of optimism represented by the Townsend Plan and the extreme of pessimism which sees Moscow as the future capital of the United States. “Somewhere between these two ex tremes is the sound, sane, sensible (Continued on Page Two.) PUBLISHED EVERY AFTERNOON EXCEPT SUNDAY. Far Eastern Situation Os Graver Turn Manchukuo Sees Clashes as Worst Y et; J apart-Russia In Background - . Tokyo, Feb. 13.—(AP)—The Man chukuoan government took a most grave view of the latest Iborder clash, with Soviet-influenced Outer Mon golia, a Dome! (Japanese) News Agency dispatch said today, especially since the enemy allegedly used bomb ing planes. The dispatch from Hsinking, capi tal of the Japanese-advised state of Manchukuo, quoting a spokesman for Uie Manchukuoan foreign office, said the encounter yesterday at Olahodka was the most serious thus far of the last year’s frontier incidents. Military reports from the border confirmed reports that planes attempt ed to bomb the Japanese Manchu kuoan column involved, but failed to inflict casualties, the dispatch said. Accounts differed as to whether two or three planes took part in the en gagement, and as to whether they were Russian or Outer Mongolian. Ethiopia Claims Recaptures Along Southern Frontier Addis Ababa, Feb. 13 (AP) —An Ethiopian government communi que announced confirmation today of the reported recapture of Kora Ali, south of Sasa Bameh, on the southern front, from the Italians. Ras Nasibu, Ethiopian com ma nder-In-chicf of the south, said “an important Italian garrison in the region of Gurati was dispers ed with heavy losses.” “Our troops captured much booty. Details wHI follow,” the communique announced. Sales Tax Secret Ruling Is Resented By Merchants Attorney General Held Mer chants Must Get Money for Sales Sent Out of State; D ©well Says Court Action Likely Unless Ruling Is Changed Soon Hail} Dispatch Mareaa, lu The Sir Walter Hotel, ID* J. C. BASKERVILL Raleigh, Feb. 13.—A recent ruling by the Department of Revenue, cre dited by it to the attorney general and which has so far not been made public to the newspapers here, to the effect that merchants must collect the State sales tax on purchases made Iby and shipped to customers in other states, was vigorously protested by the board of directors of the North Carolina 'Merchants Association, which met here in an all day session Wednesday, it was revealed today by Willard L. Dowell secretary of the as sociation. The protest is being con veyed to Commissioner of Revenue A. J. Maxwell and if the ruling is not changed, it was intimated that court action might follow. “It is our understanding that no O PAGES OTODAY FIVE CENTS COPY PRESIDENT, ALONG WITH BORAH, WILL ENTER ALL LISTS President Not Expected To Have Any Opposition on Illinois Democra tic Ballot ROBINSON TALKED FOR KEYNOTE JOB Will Likely Make Chief Ad dress at Democratic Con vention in Philadelphia in June; Republicans Attack New Deal Widely In Lin coln Day Address Springfield, 111., Feb. 13.—(AP>— Petitions entering President Roosevelt in the April 14 Jlloinis Democratic presidential preferential primary were filed today at, the office of Secretary of State Edward J. Hughes. The President’s signed declaration of his candidacy for a second term was received by mail from Chicago. The petitions were circulated by National Committeeman Patrick A Nash, who conferred at Washington this week with Postmaster General Farley. Democratic leaders here said they expected President Roosevelt would be unopposed in the primary. Two Republican candidates, Senator William E. Borah, of Idaho, and Col onel Frank Knox, of Chicago, filed yesterday. ROOSEVELT ANI) BORAH TO ENTER IN MOST PRIMARIES Washington. Feb. 13.—(AP) —In the afterglow of political fires kindled on Lincoln Day by both major parties, the New Dealers and their foes warm ed up today for impending primary and election struggles. .While Republicans, led by former President Hoover, aissailed the ad ministration, the New Deal leadership moved quietly about the business of crystallizing plans for the June con vention at Philadelphia. It was said that Senator Robinson, of Arkansas, might be selected as the (Continued on Page Three.) Bruno Not To Change His Story Trenton, N. ,J., Fob. 13 (AP) —'The chief of Bruno Richard Hauptmann's defense staff, C. Lloyd Fisher, wel comed today the entrance of Samuel S. Leibowitz, New York criminal law yer, into the celebrated case, )>tM ex pressed doubt of Leibowitz’s useful ness. Fisher, who was associated with the defense of the Bronx carpenter through Flemington trial for the kidnap-murder of Colonel Charles A. Lindbergh’s first son, said he doubt ed the condemned man would change his plea ctf innocence. “Hauptmann has only one story to tell," said Fisher. “That is the story he told me the day of his arrest, at his trial at Flemington, and has told me fifty times since. That is the story I believe to be true.” “If Mr. Leibowitz can’t depend on the story as told by Hauptmann, I don’t see how he can be of much help.” slate has the power to levy a tax on interstate commerce," Dowell said. “But if a customer comes into a store in North Carolina, buys a quantity of goods and asks the merchant to ship them to him in Virginia, Tennessee, or South Carolina, our contention is that this transaction immediately becomes one in interstate commerce and that this customer is not required to pay the sales tax. If the purchaser takes the goods bought with him, he is of course liable for the tax and must pay it. But if the purchaser lives in another state, order the goods by telephone, telegraph, by mail or in person and the merchant delives them in the other state, we cannot see how the purchaser could possibly be re quired to pay the sales tax or how the merchant can be required to collect (Continued on Page Two.)
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