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HENDERSON GATEWAY TO CENTRAL CAROLINA TWENTY-THIRD YEAR SEHSAHOHS HINTED IN HAUPTMANN CUE NewLocamo Pact Proposed By Hitler O n® Representative Each of Britain, Italy and Neutral Power Would Have Charge NEGOTIATIONS OVER four months seen Plebiscite of Peoples In volved Would Then Be Called To Ratify Whatever Agreement Might Be Reached; Military Forces Would Not Be Increased Berlin, April 1 (AP) —Adolf Hitler, in a memorandum to British Foreign Secretary An thony Eden, proposed today ne gotiations covering a period of four months for what might be termed a new Locarno, replac ing the pact broken by Ger many. During these negotiations, Der Fuehrer suggested. Germany, France and Belgium should accept control of their frontiers by a commission of one representative each from Great Britain, Italy and one neutral power. Both sides—Germany, which re militarized the Rhineland in viola tion of the Locarno pact, and France and Belgium, which protested this ac tion—should refrain from casting as persions on each other, either in publications, public utterances or teachings. Plebiscite Would Folow A plebiscite of the three peoples in volved was proposed by Hitler to give solemn sanctions to the work of statesmen, once the negotiations were concluded successfully. These negotiations, with neither side to increase its military forces along the border zone, would be fol lowed by a general conference for limitation of armaments. The German terms offering Hitler’s way out of the Rhineland impasse, were disclosed today after Joachim von Ribbentrop, Der Fuehrer’s am bassador-at-large, carried them to London to be presented to Eden. Congressiolnial Probes Not Helping Telephone Com pany Any, Either By CHARLES P. STEWART Central Press Staff Writer Washington, April I.—The Town send plan, the American Telephone and Telegraph company and the big industries which have been arming in anticipation of labor trouble, have been getting considerable undesirable publicity out of pending congressional investigations. The Townsend quiz might not be particularly damaging to the pension planners’ cause if it were not for the split which occurred, just at the psy chological moment, between Dr. Fran cis E. Townsend himself and the scheme’s business manager, R. E. Cle ments. The Townsend - Clements rumpus has its aspects of the ridi culous, in that it is advertised as re sulting from the elderly doctor’s jeal ousy of his junior associate’s growing reputation as the “real brains” of the plan. It was an incident, however, which perhaps would have blown over except for the investigation of the pension proposition, right in the midst of it, to keep discussion of it alive. Briefly, the inquiry and the row co ordinated in away to do one another the most good. MERITS NOT ON TRIAL The investigation, in its nature, never was calculated to make out much of a case. The Townsend program may or may not be workable. It is not disputed that the Townsendites are entitled to advocate it, anyway. Its merits are not on trial before Representative Bell’s committee. All that the commit tee is at liberty to determine is, “Is it a racket?” Few folk,, if any, who have met Dr. Townsend, believe him to be a racketeer mistaken, possibly, but honest. Thus the investigation was not de tined to get anywhere. Nor would it have done so, except as a means of emphasizing the break between the doctor and Clements. This break presents the Townsend (Continued on Page Two.) PERRY MEMORIAL MeHOßfe _ Hniftrfshtt Battii Btsrmfrh LEASED WIRE SERVICE on* THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Two "Confessions” —And an Enigmatic Smile PPtlil&ft. be had kidnaped the tragic Lind- fe : • MW '■■ ■'■ bergh baby. Gaston B. Means. T 0 right, “confessed” that a relative off: JH 7 . Wgk. ippilpfifo 7 Mrs. Lindbergh had hired him to do W j|§| ; gf| : away with the child. Behind them 5 . mm : is the only man who knows—Bruno J§| Jig Richard Hauptmann, and that •nigmatic smile reveals nothing, Compulsory Service For Austria Now Other European Powers See New Menace in Sweep ing Vienna Action Vienna, April I.—(AP)—-The Fed eral diet, by unanimous vote today, made “service to the fatherland” com pulsory, granting the government un limited authority to conscript men for labor on public works projects and for military duties in emergencies. The extraordinary law stated,. “Any Austrian may be called upon to serve the fatherland with or with out arms, according to his physical and spiritual capacity.” The age range runs from 18 to 42 years. (A spokesman for the Czech govern ment in Praha said Czechoslovakia would protest against compulsory military service in Austria as a viola tion of the treaty of St. Germain, with which Austria made her peace with Allies at the end of the World War. French officials in Parris offered the same criticism. State Tax Program Is Held Fair Daily Dispatch Bnrean, In The Sir Walter Hotel, By J. r. IIASKERVILI. Raleigh, April I.—The winning of the Norfolk & Western tax case be fore the United States Supreme Court by the State Department of Revenue not only means that the State will not have to refund some $200,000 in taxes to that railroad, but serves to establish the State’s method of tax ing railroads as sound and equitable and removes for all time the danger of any further effort by any railroad to question the North Carolina laws taxing railroad earnings within North Carolina, Commissioner of Revenue A- J. Maxwell pointed out today. He paid high tribute to the work done by At torney General A. A. F. Seawell, who argued the case for the Department of Revenue before the U. S. Supreme Court several weeks ago. Paid Under Protest. Since 1927, the Norfolk & Western has paid under protest the taxes levied by North Carolina on the por tion of busines rone by its lines in North Carolina, on the grounds that (Continued on £ age Three.) ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA AND VIRGINIA Selassie Battles With His Troops Rome, April I. (AP) —ltaly’s northern army smashed through to its first major victory over the troops of Halle Selassie—led by the emperor himself—Marshal Piedro Badoglio reported today in an of ficial communique. Badoglio announced that 7,000 Ethiopians were killed and that the Italian forces had suffered more than 1,000 casualties. The Fascist commander-in-chief said the Ethiopian king of kings fought personally in the battle yes terday in the Lake Ashangi sector, 30 miles south of the former prin cipal Italian front lines at Amba Alaji. Tax and Liquor Plans Chief Center of Interest in Conming Speech Daily Dispatch Bureau. In The Sir Walter Hotel, By J. C. BASKJSHVILL Raleigh, April I.—The speech which Dr. Ralph W. McDonald, of Winston- Salem, will make Thursday night over a Statewide radio hook-up, in whicn he is expected to outline his program and platform in greater detail than he has so far, is being keenly awaited in all political circles here. McDonald’s supporters are confident he will riddle the opposition with the oral machine gun barrage he is expected to turn loose, and that the speech will put him out still farther in the lead for the Democratic nomination for gov ernor. Those opposed to McDonald, how ever, are just as much interested in the forthcoming speech as are Mc (Continued on Page Two.) Borah Will Enter Jersey Primaries; Maybe Landon, Washington, April 1 (AP) —Senator Borah decided today to extend his primary campaign for the Republican presidential nomination to New Jer sey. Whether supporters of Governor Landon of Kansas would enter his name there was asked immediately at the Capitol, in view of indications that such would be the case if Borah went in. If this happens, the New Jersey contest will be ;the first and possibly the only one in the primaries between the two. Carl G. Bachman, chairman of the National Borah-for-President Commit tee; made the announcement after a conference with the Idaho senator. HENDERSON, N. C., WEDNESDAY AFTERNO ON, APRIL 1, 1936 New Events ... , _r- " 4*l Based Upon Grand Jury Nature Not Disclos ed, But Revolve Around “Con fes - sion” of Wendel Trenton, N. J., April I.—(AP) —The sensational Lindbergh case, still reel ing from the literally last-minute halt ing of Bruno Richard Hauptmann’s execution last night, was with further startling developments today. The new break, the nature of which was not disclosed, promised to come from the IM'ercer county grand jury’s investigation of charges that the mur der of the baby Lindbergh was done by Paul H. Wendel, now held under a formal charge in the county jail here. The Mercer county prosecutor, Erwin Marshall, announced that the jury’s investigation, scheduled to have been resumed this afternoon, had been deferred until tomorrow morning to permit him to inquire into circum stances surrounding Wendel’s “deten tion” at Mount Holly in February by the nationally known Burlington county Detective Chief Ellis Parker. Parker, conducting his own unoffi cial investigation of the Lindbergh (Continued on Page Two.) sjt support U. S. and Britain Could Have Stopped Him, but He Held Upper Haimd By LESLIE EICHEL Central Press Staff Writer Economic sanctions have fizzled. There are two reasons: 1. To apply sanctions would cause cutting off business profitable to large corporations, such as oil com panies. (Oil companies are powerful politically.) 2. To apply sanctions fully would mean as much harm, in the end, to the country placing the embargo as to the nation upon which it is placed. (Disrupting the world’s credit stops trade —and the modern nation cannot exist without trade. Countries which can be affected by sanctions have far less trade to lose than countries which soinp on embargoes.) OIL Mussolini could have been stopped (Continued on Page Three.) 15040 24-Hour Battle on Far East Frontiers Ended, Accord ing to Reports from Moscow EACH SIDE SADDLES OTHER WITH BLAME Russians Claim Fight Was on Mongolian Soil, While Japatojese Say It Was On Manchukuoan T erritory; Mongols! Accused of Using Poison Gas Weapon (By The Associated Press.) A 24-hour battle, which inform ed Soviet sources asserted con tained the danger of another Russo-Japanese war, was reported in Moscow to have ended today. The battle was fought on the bor der between Manchukuo, the Japanese created empire, and Outer Mongolia, the Soviet-advised state. Russian sources said the battle was fought in Mongolia; the Japanese gen eral headquarters claimed it was fought in M'anchukuo. Each party to the dispute claimed the other had used airplanes, and one Japanese source implied that the Mongola used poison gas. Official advices received in Moscow from Mongolia said the Manuchuku oans and Japanese had been forced to retreat from Mongolian territory. A Soviet spokesman said “serious responsibility” would devolve on the Japanese government if the fighting in Mongolia continued. 750 Loans To Farmers Each Week Doily Dlopatcli Bureau, In The Sir Walter Hotel, By J. C. BASKERVILL Raleigh, April I.—Approximately 750 farm loans per week are being made to families eligible for rehabili tation under the rural rehabilitation activities of the Resettlment Admin istration, Vance E. Swift, State direc tor in charge of this work, announced today. Loans totaling approximately $1,000,000 have already been advanced to farm families to finance spring planting of crops, and additional loans are being approved every day, Swift said. * Before any farm family can get a rehabilitation loan, it must voluntarily agree to follow approved farm and home management plans worked out by the copunty rural rehabilitation supervisor in cooperation with the county farm agent. Plans for food and feed, including a garden to help provide food for the family, are a mong the requirements which must be met. Distressed Families Helped. “These loans are extended to dis tressed farm families for such things as seed, livestock, fertilizer, farm equiment and other supplies needed for making a crop,” Swift said. “From one to five years are allowed for the repayment of the loans. A longer term is allowed for the repayment of loans for mules and equipment than for other items. This makes it possible for the farmers aided by the rural re habilitation division to re-establish themselves without being forced to sell their food and feed crops at the end of the first year to pay their debts as was the case under the old sys tem under which the, small farmers had to give crop liens to the time mer chants for their seed and supplies. Buys for Gash. “Under the rehabilitation plan, the (Continued on Page Two > OUR WEATHER MAN FOB CAROLINA. \ Cloudy, with occasional rain to night and Thursday; slightly war mer in ea«t and central portions tonight and in northeast portion Thursday. • PUBLISHED EVERY AFTERNOON EXCEPT SUNDAY. CONVICTED MAN NOT NOW LIKELY TO DIE TOMORROW EVENING He Also Escapes . l l ' v '. Charles Zeid Zeid, who killed a policeman, and who was a member of the notorius Mais Tri-State gang of Philadelphia, escaped death in New Jersey’s elec tric chair last night along with Bruno Richard Hauptmann. Gover nor Hoffman granted him a 30-day reprieve. He had been scheduled to go to the chair just ahead of Haupt mann. Hints Board “Planted” In Bruno Home PWA Wood Expert Urges Governor Hoffman To Invest igate Discovery Washington, April I.—(AP) Arch W. Loney, PWA materials - expert said today he had urged Governor Harold G. Hoffman, of New Jersey, to investigate the origin of the board from which part of the Lindbergh kidnaping ladder reportedly was made. Loney said a carpenter named Boyer had told him that a 20-foot board bought from the National Lumber Company—the Bronx firm which had sold lumber to Bruno Richard Hauptmann—a week aft er Hauptmann’s arrest. “It looks like somebody bought teh board and put it in Haupt mann’s home,” Loney, who last week accompanied the governor on an inspection trip of Haupt mann’s home, told newsmen. Hauptmann’s Wife Is More Hopeful Now Trenton, N. J., April 1 (AP) I think this will be the means of sav ing him,” said Mrs. Anna Hauptmann today of the delay of the execution which snatched her husband from death last night. Instead of wearing the mourning veil she had bought, Bruno Richard Hauptmann’s wife, jubilant, her hopes soaring again, laid out a gay checked spring suit for another visit to his death cell. Her joy in Hauptmann’s new lease on life was the greater for receiving “loving messages” from him, relayed by the Rev. D. G. Werner, who was praying with Bruno in his cell when news came of the delay. What happened at the hotel room where Anna received the news was as dramatic as the cell scene when Bruno heard it while praying. Mrs. Hauptmann was transformed from a despairing woman on the verge of collapse and under a physician’s care to a picture of animation. This morning, she told Robert W. Hicks, an investigator who called on her early, that she had been able to sleep well again. Hicks said she seemed very composed. “She appeared to be in high spir its,” Hicks said. “I warned her not to build up false hopes. ’* 8 PAGES TODAY FIVE CENTS COPY Haupt man fm Prosecuto. Questions Detention of Paul Wendell by De tective Parker EXECUTION DELAY HAS NO PRECEDENT Possibility of Further Post ponement Looms as Grand Jury Probing Welndel’s Al leged Confession Is In Re cess Until Sometime Thurs day Morning Trenton, X. J., April 1. —(AP)— Colonel Mark O. Kimberling, of the New Jersey State Prison, an nounced this afternoon that Bruno Richard Hauptmann’s exe cution has been set for Friday night at 8 o’clock. Kimberling said, though, that if the Mercer county grand jury, at wlv>se request Hauptmann’s exe cution was delayed last night, is still in session, he would probably again defer execution. Hauptmann has not yet been told that a new date has been set. Kimberling told Mrs. Anna Hauptmann, the condemned man’s wife, of the new date when she called at the prison at noon. She was weeping slightly when she left. She had not seen her husband but expected to return later in the day. Trenton, N. J., April 1 (AP) —Prosecutor Erwin Marshall, of Mercer county, announced to day he was investigating the de tention of Paul H. Wendel, charged with the murder of the Lindbergh baby, in Burlington county by Chief of Detective Ellis H. Parker. There were unconfirmed re ports there might be sensation al developments in the case. HAUPTMANN WILL LIKELY NOT DIE ON THURSDAY NIGHT Trenton, N. J., April I.—(AP)—■ Once more Bruno Richard Haupt mann has dodged his date with death —this time most dramatically of all —by an unprecedented action which today gave him new chance for life. While his executioner awaited his coming in the little room of lost hope in the State Prison last night, the man three times sentenced to die for the Lindbergh baby murder, was almost literally snatched from the electric chair. Further Delay Foss Ale. His respite was for jj’t.t least 4 & hours.” It came from w unexpected source—the Mercer county grand jury which convened unexpectedly yester day to consider charges that another man, the middle-aged Paul H. Wendel was the kidnap-killer of the infant son of the Charles A. Lindberghs. The possibility of Hauptmann’s es caping the death chair beyond tomor row night grew as the grand jury de layed until tomorrow morning further consideration of the alleged Wendel confessions. It was Colonel Mark O. Kimberling, prison warden, “acting entirely on my own responsibility,” who cancelled the execution at 8:05 p. m., five minutes after the hour set “The delay in the execution is for (Continued on Page Two.) MliWl[o Indictments Against Field Man on West Coast Be fore House Committee Washington, April I.—(AP)—-A written statement by Dr. F. E. Townsend that “it looks to me if there might be millions in it” was submitted today to the House committee investigating the Town send old age pension plan. Washington, April I.—(AP) —Three indictments returned against Edward J. Margett, San Francisco area mana ger of the Townsend old age pension organization, were submitted to the House investigating committee today by James R. Sullivan, its counsel. Sullivan said two indictments charg ing grand larceny and the other in Kings county, Washington, charged him with “accepting the earnings of a common prostitute.” Robert E. Clements, resigned na (Continued on Page Two).
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