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HENDERSON gateway TO CENTRAL CAROLINA TWENTY-THIRD YEAR Hoffman Hurls Lie At State’s Witness At Trial Os Bruno Charge Against Millard Whited May Be Basis of Perjury Action Against Witness SAYS RECORD WILL BEAR OUT CHARGES Whited Had Twice Testi fied He Saw Hauptmann Near Lindbergh Estate Few Days Before Baby Was Kidnaped; Was Only Jer sey Witness in New York Trenton, N. J.. Feb. 24 (AP)—Gov ernor Harold G. Hoffman today ac cused Millord Whited, Sourland moun tain lumberjack, and one of the State’s chief witnesses against Bruno Richard Hauptmann, of lying, a charge which might be the basis of perjury action against him. The governor, who questioned Whit ed at length Saturday, said the “print- i ed and written record shows that he was lying. Whited was one of the two witness es who placed Hauptmann near the Lindbergh estate at Hopewell about the time of the kidnaping March 1, j 1932. The Sourland logger was the only witness New Jersey called at Haupt mann’s extradition hearing in New York to place Hauptmann near the scene of the crime. Whited swore he saw Hauptmann prowling about the j Lindbergh grounds on two occasions late in February, 1932. He repeated this testimony at the Flemington trial. Prosecution officials, the governor said, seemed to be making “a studied effort’’ to “surpress important infor mation in the Hauptmann case.’’ Prosecutor Anthony M. Hauck, Jr., of Hunterdon county, replied at once to this criticism by accusing the gov ernor himself of withholding some of the facts. Whited’s testimony, he said, “shows there has been nothing sup pressed.” “The governor,” he said, “has taker, part of the story to show he (Wfhited) lied. Why doesn’t he be fair about it it and shew the full record, as well as the full statement Whited gave Saturday, instead of making public a few excerpts?” “In view of the fact that there (Continued on Pa.ee Fiva.> Tanker Shaken by Explosion Reaches Charleston Docks Charleston, S. C., Feb. 24 (API-Fly ing red flag of danger, the oil tanker Albert Hill, whicr. exploded 200 miles due east of Charleston, came into the navy yard here today under her own power, and a search was begun imme diately between decks for four miss ing season who were painting when the blast occurred. The Atlantic Re fining tanker was in convoy of the Coast Guard cutter Yamacraw, but was not in tow. It was put under guard immediate ly. so to remain until the danger ele ment of further gas explosions was definitely removed. Ethiopians Claim Push Into North Slaying of Many Italians Unconfirm ed; Rome Poised for Fresh Victory 'By The Associated Press) Ethiopian sources declared today 'hat their soldiers had cut through Italian lines between Makale and Aduwa, killing hundreds of Italian troops in a sudden thrust to the north ward . This report was not verified by Ita sources, which announced in stead that the army, under command of Marshal Piedro Cadogiio, was con tinuing its move toward its immediate objective of Arnba Alaji. With the Italians known to be with *n 13 miles of that objective, Italian newspapers were ready to print extras concernig its capture as soon as the Italian government announced it. The tightening war situation came before the British House of Com mons today for a decisive debate de signed to disclose Great Britain’s at titude toward extension of sanctions •’•gainst Italy. 3he Commons proceedings called for Anthony Eden to make his first speech before the House as foreign secretary under opposition criticism * bat the League of Nations war pen alties were being insufficiently ap plied. HmthVrsmt Hatln Utapafrhl ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA AND VIRGINIA LEASED WIRE SERVICE OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS. Out for Auditor GEORGE ROSS POU. Poll’s Entry Livens Race For Auditor Campaign for Minor Office May Rival Gubernatorial Bat tle in State Daily Dispatch Bureau, In The Sir Walter Hotel, By J. C. BASKE»VILL Raleigh, Feb. 24.—With the ar» nouncement today by George Ross Pou that he is a candidate for the Democratic nomination for State au ditor in the June primary, the belief in many circles here is that the cam paign for that office for which there are now four candidates, may rank next to the gubernatorial campaign in general interest. The four candi dates are State Auditor Baxter Dur ham, who has held the post for 16 years and is expected to seek renom ination; Willard L. Dowell, executive secretary of the North Carolina Mer chants’ Association; Charles W. Mil ler, of Asheville, 25-year-old directory publisher there, and Pou. Two of these four candidates have been colorful characters in North Carolina politics for ten years or more j although this is the first time either has ever run for a State office. These two are Dowell and Pou. Both are regarded as being experienced and canny in political matters, with un usually broad contacts and acquain tances extending into every section of the State. Pou was superintendent of the State Prison for 12 years, from 1921 to 1933, until it was merged with the highway department, and for a year after the merger was executive "director of the prison division until he resigned to run for the seat in Congress left vacant by the death of his father, the late Congressman Ed ward W. Pou, of Smithfield. Ancl while Pcu was defeated for Congress by Harold L. Cooley, of Nashville, this if!nntinm>rt on Page Two.) BARBARA HUTTON IS MOTHER TO A SON London, Feb. 24 (AP)—A son was born today to Countess Barbara Hut ton-Haughitz-Reventlow, heiress to the Woolworth millions. The countess was married to Count Haughitz-Reventlow May 14, 1935, fol lowing her divorce from Prince Alexis Mdivani. Mdivani was killed a few months later in an auto accident in Spain. To Provide ForGrading Os Tobacco Washington, Feb. 24. (AP) A $250,000 item to administer the to bacco inspection and grading act was included in the agriculture approp riations bill reported today in the House. The measure also carried a $137.- 744 item for continuing research for improvement of tobacco production and handling. The tobacco inspection act provides for government grading of tobacco and the designation of auction mar kets as government-graded markets where two-thirds of the growers ap prove such service. Expenditure of SI,OOO toward equip ping the tobacco research station at Oxford, N. C., is contemplated under the proposed 1936 appropriation. HENDERSON, N. C., MONDAY AFTERNOON, FEBRUARY 24, 1936 HIGHWAYSNOTYET REALM STATE Vast Extent of Ravages Os Snows, Rains and Severe Cold Beyond Com prehension FINANCING REPAIRS WILL BE DIFFICULT Will Take Time To Restore Roads to Normal and Work Cannot Even Begin Until Dry Weather, Chairman Waynick Says; Outlines Phases of Problem Daily Di.simtch Bureau, lu The Sir Walter Hotel, By J. C. BASKERVIM, Raleigh, Feb. 24.—The bigness of the job now facing the highway de partment in trying to repair the thou sands of miles of roads damaged by the snows, rains and sub-freezing temperatures this winter, or the tre mendous cost of this work, is not yet realized by the public at large, Chair man Capus Mi. Waynick, of the State Highway and Public Works Commis sion, said today. There are still 23,000 miles of roads in the State which have never even had a topsoil or sand clay surface put on them, while there are 22,000 miles of roads with nothing more than topsoil, sand clay or sur face treated surfaces, Waynick point ed out. “It has required a period of 16 years and the expenditure of $300,000,000 j for us to build only 8,000 miles of con- i Crete and asphalt pavement in North Carolina, so I do not see how we can possibly be expected to put the 22,- 000 miles of soil or bituminous sur faced roads and 28,000 miles of dirt roads back into condition in a few weeks time. But we are going to do the best we can and do it as quickly as we can with the money available,” Waynick said. “But we cannot make a move until the roads dry up enough for us to start work, since it is im possible to scrape or repair a muddy road. We have just got to have some patience and wait on the weather.” It has been suggested that the high way department put down gravel on the dirt roads. But it would cost at least SSOO a mile to put down only a light sprinkling of gravel, the engi neers estimate, while to do much good and to last any time at least SI,OOO worth of gravel per mile should be used. Thus the cost of gravelling or putting crushed rock on 28,000 miles (Continued on Page Two.) Party’s Treasurer Paid Well by Firms Having RFC Loans Washington, Feb. 24 (AP) — Senator Cou»ens, Republican, Michigan, told the Senate today that Walter J. Cummings, treas urer of the Democratic National committee, received salaries of $90,000 a year as an official of firms borrowing from the Recon struction Finance Corporation. He made this statement in op posing a bill supported by Chair man Jesse Jones, of the RFC, exempt bank stocks held by .e corporation from State taxation. Couzens said Cummings receiv ed $75,000 a year as a chairman of the board of the Continental Illinois Bank of Chicago, to which the RFC has lent $50,000,000, and $15,000 a year from the Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific railroad, another borrower. “If these banks can pay these salaries,” he continued, “they ean certainly pay taxes on these pre ferred stocks.” Puerto Rico Slayings To Draw Probe Police Chief, Once U. S. Army Colonel, And District Police Chief Slain San Joan, Puerto Rico, Feb. 24 (AP) —Puerto Rican Nationalist agitation, which resulted in the slaying of E. Francis • Riggs, chief of tne insular police, and a district police chief, drew today a vigorous official investi gation . Riggk, 48-. year-old former United States Army colonel, was shot to death here at noon yesterday by two nationalists, both of whom were kill ed later by police. Just two hours later, District Po lice Chief Francisco Velez Oritz at tempted to put down a Nationalist riot at a case in the central town of Utuado, and was killed. IGovernor Blanton Winship an nounced that a full inquiry into the incidents would be energetically pushed. Dies In Baltimore Albert C. Ritchie ALBERT CJICHIE, LONG GOVERNOR OF Was Candidate for Demo cratic Nomination for President at Chi cago in 1932 WAS VIGOROUS FOE OF ADMINISTRATION Held That Roosevelt Poli cies Tended To Override U. S. Constitution, and Had Been Mentioned As Probable Hard Campaign er Against President In 1936 \ a Baltimore, Feb. 24 (AP) —'Former Governor Albert C. Ritchie, vigorous advocate of states’ rights and a pio neer in the movement that led to pro hibition repeal, suddenly at his apartment here early today. He was in his 60th year. A stroke apparently caused the death of the noted Marylander, a con tender for the Democratic presiden tial nomination at the 1932 Democrat ic National Convention in Chicago. The end came about 1:45 a. m., less than two hours after he was stricken. Death ended speculation over the possibility of his taking a leading role in opposition to renomination of Pres ident Roosevelt at this year’s Demo cratic convention in Philadelphia. His lioutspoken criticism thht Roosevelt New Deal policies tended to circum vent the Constitution and engulf states’ rights stamped him as an out standing figure ; among intra-party foes of the administration. His last public utterance was on the Constitution. Addressing a church meeting across the street from his home a few hours before his death, he had sharply criticized centralization of government in Washington as op posed to constitutional tenets. News of his death spread rapidly, and expressions of grief and tributes were widespread, coming from nation al leaders in all sections of the coun try. lEmSiW May Be Unconstitutional, But Cannot Be Acted on Before Election By CHARLES P. STEWART Central Press Staff Writer Washington, Feb. 24.—1 tis hard not to agree with the statesmen, like Sen ators William E. Borah of Idaho, George W. Norris of Nebraska and Charles L. McNary, of Oregon, who say that if AAA was unconstitutional, as the Federal Supreme Court held, the New Dealers’ substitute farm plan is unconstitutional, too. The AAA act outspokenly provided for crop control by the United States government, through payments to farmers for what they refrained from producing, up to a certain limit. Friends of the scheme argued that agricultural surpluses thus would be (Continued on Page Two.) OUR WEATHER MAN FOR NORTH CAROLINA. Partly cloudy and warmer to night; Tuesday mostly cloudy, warmer in east and central por tions. sl6l,l63,l47Appropriation To Agriculture Work Asked As New Farm Bill Comes Up General Hagood, Critic Os New Deal, Is Ousted From High Army Office Relieved of Eighth Corps Area Command at San Antonio After Testi mony at Capital REFERRED TO WPA AS “STAGE MONEY” General Malin Craig, Army Chief of Staff, Declines Comment on Action Ord ered by President Roose velt; Said Funds Spread Over Country “Like Mud” Washington, Feb. 24.—(AP) —Major General Johnson Hagod was sum marily relieved from his command of the eighth corps area at San Antonio, Texas, today and ordered by Presi dent Roosevelt’s direction to proceed to his home and “await orders.” Hagod, in recent testimony before a House appropriations sub-commit tee, suggested that Congress take ad vantage of what he termed “WPA stage money” and use it to improve housing at army posts. The order was signed by General Malin Craig, army chief of staff, by order of the secretary of war. When asked the reason for the un expected order, Craig said he had “no comment” on what he described as a routine administrative procedure. The chief of staff said he had no immediate new assignment in mind for Hagod. In his testimony on the War De partment appropriation bill, Hagood urged that $150,000,000 be used for army housing. “At the present time,” he said “there is a vast flow of silver —I won’t say gold—spreading out all over the country like mud. “It will soon dry up without any thing permanent to show for it. I shall not be accused of profanity when I say, ‘For God’s sake, put some of it into stone and steel’.” Hagood said he was “not familiar with the various pockets in which Uncle Sam keeps his money, “but un derstood” there is budget money, which is very hard to get; there is PWA money, which is not so hard to get, and then there is a vast quantity of WPA money, which is very easy to get for trifling projects, but almost impossible to get for anything worth while.” A native of Orangeburg, S. C., Hagood, who holds one of the most distinguished service records in the army, has been in cnarge of the eighth corps area since October 4, 1935. Security Os World, Goal Eden Seeks Even U. S. Must Help He Tells Commons In Discussion About Sanctions London, Feb. 24.—(AP)—A British plan to induce all nations, including the United States, to join a worldwide system of collective security in an effort to end war was outlined to the House of Commons today by Anthony Eden, foreign secretary. “Our final objective,” Eden declar ed, “must be a worldwide system of collective security, which embraces all nations, in an authority which is unchallenged and unchallengeable. “We are far from that objective at present. We can only hope,to realize it by strengthening the authority of the existing system and facilitating it by agreement based on wide understand ings and cooperation of other ntaions in our work.” Eden declared that the future of disarmament depended in a large ex tent upon the military strength of Great Britain. In his first speech as chief of the British diplomatic ser vice in the House of Commons, the young stateseman declared: “The road to disarmament lies in the increased power and authority of the League of Nations.” He said that the League, in turn, depended “in a considerable measure (Continued on Page Five.) PUEUSHED EVERY AFTERNOON EXCEPT SUNDAY. Denies Huge Fee Xv.-a’.v.v.' Er&mSSS'* 1 . . • ■>' » SSS-.<' .••. . ■ > ■■■&, ■■■ '. jjSOTSs iffim Former Governor O. Max Gardner, of North Carolina, has issued a flat denial of data revealed at the Senate Munitions Committee investigation that he was paid $75,000 at one time and $25,000 at another for represent ing the aircraft industry in a profes sional way in Washington. The gov ernor said he got $52,000 the first year and much less than that the second, and that he paid a large portion of that to the Federal government and to the State of North Carolina in in come taxes. GGVERNMENfSNEW BONDS FiNOMARKET Offering of $1,500,000 March 15 Will Be Read ily Gobbled Up INFLATION IN CREDIT Present Market Kiting Believed Largely That; Consumption May Catch Up With Demand, and Then New Drop By LESLIE EICHEL Central Press Staff Writer New York, Feb. 24.—The United States Treasury is expected to make a $1,500,000,‘000 offering on March 16, an offering which will be satisfactory to financial New York. It will be grabbed up. In spite of all the shout ing from financial interests, the gov ernment’s securities still rank first. There is a reason —the federal govern ment’s taxing- powers are enormous, and it has taxed merely one-third as much as England, for example. Not that financial New York de sires any more taxes! No, but the power to tax the income of 127,000,009 persons is an asset with which no private bond, even of the staunchest corporation, can compete. Then, again, there are funds that can find haven only in such “legal” securities as “government.” There is a disagreement in finan cial circles as to what kind of securi ties will be to their liking. Bitter anti (Continued on Page Two.) Pollard Strongly Denies He Struck Victim With Club Lillington, Feb. 24 (AP)—Oris M. Pollard, former Angier police man charged with murder in the death of F. G. Collins, well-to-do farmer, denied emphatically in Harnett Superior Court today al legations he had hit the farmer, with a blackjack after arresting his last Christmas eve. Pollard was on the witness stand more than two hours this morning, and this afternoon C. F. Deans, former chief of Angier po lice, who is under indictment with Pollard, was expected to testify in his own behalf. The officer testified as to the details leading up to the arrest and jailing of Collins on a charge of being drunk, and admitted striking the farmer with his hands hut asserted he did not take his blackjack from his pocket. 8 PAGES TODAY FIVE CENTS COPY SOIL CONSERVATION MEASURE TAKEN UP BV THE CONFEREES Agricultural Supply Bill Is In Excess of Current Year, With Re-Ap propriations SHELTER BELT OF TREES IS DENIED Appropriation for That Cause Is Turned Down; Farm Credit Administra tion Gets $4,000,000, Same As This Year; Would Eli minate Diseased Cattle Washington, Feb. 24. —(AP) A $161,163,147 agriculture department appropriation bill for the 1937 fiscal year was laid before the House today as the new $590,000,000 soil conserva tion farm program headed for confer ence on House and Senate differences. Although from the viewpoint of ac tual new money appropriated, the supply bill was $28,528,857 under bud get estimates, there were reappropria tions of unexpended balances totall ing $18,000,000. The measure was, at the same time, $21,635,563 above cur rent appropriations, not counting re appropriations. In addition, the bill allowed $4,000,- 000 for the Farm Credit Administra tion —the same as this year. Following the policy laid down in the War Department supply measure, the appropriations committee refused to allow the $1,000,000 requested in the budget for the shelter belt tree plant ing program down the great plains belt. The principal provision for using unspent balances which otherwise would revert to the Treasury, was $17,500,000 for the elimination of dis eased cattle work —the amount re quested in the budget. Chiefly accounting for the meas ure’s total increase over this year’s fund was inclusion of the soil conser vation service for the first time as a regular item under the agriculture de partment. The committee cut the $27,- 500,000 budget estimate to $22,469,265. It is under this law that the sub stitute AAA program is being set up. Status Os Farmer Is Improving Washington, Feb. 24. —(AP) —De- clarations that the farmer’s financial status as shown “vast improvement," and that the nation is threatened with “billions of dollars” loss oy soil eros ion, were placed before Congress to day by government agencies. Governor W. I. iMiyers, of the Farm Credit Administration, which holds about 40 percent of the farm mort gage debt of the country, said there had been such a “vast improvement" in the farm status that need for gov ernment credit is decreasing. His testimony was given in hear ings on the annual agricultural de partment appropriations bill, made public today. The warning that business invested (Continued on Page Five.) Comptroller For Georgia Is Removed Man Who Refused to Sign Talmadge’s ' Warrants Is Di s - missed by Him Atlanta, Ga., Feb. 24 (AP)—Gover nor Eugene Talmadge removed Com troller General William B. Harrison from office today, commissioning Ad jutant General Lindley Camp to serve the order for Harrison’s refusal to countersign warants under the Tal madge “dictatorship’’ set up in the absence of a 1936 appropriation act. The governor’s order suspended Harrison until the 1937 session of the (Continued on Page Two.) ;
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