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HENDERSON GATEWAY TO CENTRAL CAROLINA TWENTY-THIRD HOFFMAM DEMANDS KIDNAP CASE MQUIRT BUSINESS ATTACKS TAX MEASURE WHILE HOUSE PRESSES IT Administratidm Motive In Urging New Corporate Levy Is Questioned In Statement DOUGHTON PUSHES FOR HOUSE VOTES Hopes To Get Measure Through in Fortnight; Public Hearings To End Early Next Week; Passage In House Expected After Four or Five Days Debate Washington, April 4. (AP)— Ad ministration motives in urging that ttvi present corporate tax system be discarded in favor of a new system based on undistributed earnings were questioned today hy the Chamber of Commerce of the United States. As the ways and means committee pressed its tax hearings toward con clusion in order to get the new rev enue program through the House with in a fortnight, the chamber, in its weekly business summary, said: "Those business representatives who have appeared before the House com mittee have generally contended that the proposed tax on undistributed cor porate earnings would have a retard ing effect on recovery and re-employ ment, that it would work a severe hardship on corporations with little or no accumulated surplus, that it would penalize thrifty and prudent management, and that it would use the taxing power to enforce economic changes. "The question, therefore, troubling many business men is why the ad minietration insists on discarding a tried and proven corporate tax sys tem and substituting in its place a system that at best would be uncer tain in yield, and complicated in ad ministration/’ DRIVE FOR PASSAGE NEXT FORTNIGHT IS LAUNCHED Washington, April 4.—(AP) —House tax experts set out today to drive their new revenue program through the chamber within a fortnight. Assembling for what was scheduled to be the next to the last day of pub lic hearings, members of the House Ways and Means Committee said they expected to turn the $799,000,000 plan 'Continued on Paare Four.) Extends for One Year Au thority for Loans To Re pair Residences Miami, Fla., April 4 (AP) —Presi- dent Roosevelt has signed the bill extending for one year title one, of the Federal housing act authorizing loans for repair and modernization of homes. The renewed housing authority is to continue until next April 1. The bill was signed by President Roosevelt aboard the U. S. S. Potomac, was announced here today by Marvin H. Mclntyre, a secretary to the Presi dent. Meanwhile, a corps of Federal ex perts were seeking to work out a long term housing program, but there was still some doubt whether this will be ready in time for action at this ses sion of Congress. . Committee Favors Kerr Compact Bill To Check Cotton Washington, April 4.—(AP)— The •Senate Agriculture Committee’s ap proval was placed today upon the House ibill of Representative Kerr, Democrat, North Carolina, authoriz ing the principal tobacco-growing states to enter into contracts for leaf tobacco control. Chairman Smith, Democrat, South Carolina, said he was instructed to introduce the measure in the Senate and the committee probably would vote a favorable report Monday. It will substitute for a compact bill Smith offered in the Senate sometime ago. mvtwtt&ttti Batin jHtsmitth ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA AND VIRGINIA * YEAR leased wire service of 1 EutXIX the associated press; In Bruno Spotlight IbL ’ * .■_ - Stephen Spitz (top) released Chi cago con man, who claims he has $5,000 Lindbergh ransom money in a New York safety deposit box. Tito Salamandra, of New Jersey (below) denied to the Mercer County Grand Jury who “con fessed” to the kidnaping, used -his I car. /Central Preee) Meantime., Reconstruction) Starts in Area Demolish ed by Thursday Night Tornado FOURTH OF AMOUNT SOUGHT IS RAISED Death List Rests at 13, With at Least One More Feared; Two Scoi*e Persons Badly Injured; 56 Business Plants aln)d 319 Dwellings Ruined or Damaged Greensboro, April 4 (AP) — A SIOO,- 000 drive for relief funds began today as a reconstruction program went for ward in the lumber-littered waste of a tornado which struck this city of 60,000 Thursday night, leaving 13 dead and property damage estimated unof ficially at more than $1,000,000. The death list was increased to 13 last night, with the death of nine year-old Garland Jones of a fractured skull. He was hurt when the tor (Contlnued on Page Four.) The Kerr bill is scheduled to come up for debate in the House Tuesday as a special order. The House Rules Committee allowed a special order for consideration of the measure. Each cooperating state would be required to enact legislation similar to a control act already passed in Virginia. Provision is made, however, for forming of “associations" in Georgia, where there is no likelihood Governor Eugene Talmadge will call a special legislative session to consider the State control proposal. HENDERSON, N. C., SATURDAY AFTERNOON, APRIL 4, 1936 corpse awaiting UNDERTAKER FKJM To Be Embalmed During Afternoon and Clothed 111 Suit Made Bn the State Prison HOPED TO THE END FOR NEW REPRIEVE New Jersey Closes Its Case Against Convicted Kidnap- Slayer of Infant Lindbergh Son; Widow Grieves In Hotel Room, Refusing To Be Consoled At All Trenton, N. J., April body of Bruno Richard Hauptmann lay in the State Prison morgue today awaiting the arrival of a New York City undertaker at 3 p. m., eastern standard thne. The body will be embalmed this aft ernoon, by Elmer A. Kemp, Mercer county coroner and prison undertaker, and will be clothed in a new blue gray suit made in the prison. JERSEY’S CASE AGAINST HAUPMANN IS NOW ENDED Trenton, N. J., April 4.—-(AP) “This, man is dead.” With those words, spoken by a phy sician in the crowded prison death house at 8:47 1-2 last night, was told the end of New Jersey’s ©as© against the Lindbergh baby killer—the end of Bruno Richard Hauptmann. He died as most people thought he would unspeaking, unshaken, cold, unsmiling. A mile and a half away, in a hotel, hie weary wife—his widow now—or led piteously, unconsolably: “Oh, God, why did you have to do this?” There was no hysteria, no break down, no tears, Inside the dirty white (Continued on Page Three.) Houslpm^ Less Heard About Central ization When It Comes to Relief Money By LESLIE EICHEL Central Press Staff Writer Not much publicity has been given to a recent proposal of the American Federation of Labor. It urgee a per manent federal housing authority, of nort-partisan makeup. Appropriations then would be asked for housing for persons In lower brackets. The houses would be built by workers in the build ing trades at prevailing wages. Representative Henry Elenbogen of Pittsburgh, Pa., has such a housing bill in the house. It probably will be smoothered. Senator Robert F. Wag ner of New York, with a bill lees com prehensive, cannot get it through the s&n&tG* The lobby against federal housing ie one of the most powerful in Wash ington. 1 Os the millions spent by the Roose velt administration, less them 1 per cent has gone toward housing for per sons of the lowest brackets. CENTRALIZATION Talk against centralization of gov (Continued on Page Six.) New Plans To Dispose Os Cotton Washington, April 4 (AP)—The Sen ate Agriculture Committee approved a plan today to dispose of 4,600,000 bales of government-owned cotton by permitting farmers to repossess it be low market price. The privilege would be extended to those farmers who obtain 12-cent-a --pound loons. The committee voted a favorable report on the bill by Chairman Smith, Democrat, South Carolina, authoriz ing the Commodity Credit Corpora tion to release the cotton to certi ficate holders upon payment of a price of one-fourth a cent a pound be low the current spot price. However, in no instance could the cotton be redeemed for an amount less than 11.25 cents a pound, mean ing that the spot price would have to be in excess of 11.50 cents a pound for repossession. The certificate holders, Smith said, would benefit from sale of the cotton at a higher figure than he re-possess ed it. When Executioner Elliott threw the switch that ended Bruno Richard Hauntmann's life, he wrote finis to a great tragedy. But that tragedy still lives in the lives of these, the persons most intimately touched by the death of Charles A. Lindbergh, Jr., (center). At top, left, is Anne Morrow Lindbergh; right Col Charles A. Lindbergh. Below, left, is Mrs. Anna Hauptmann, with her son, Mannfried, and at the right Bruno's mother. Mrs. Pauline Hauptmann. (Central Press j Italian Planes Launch New* Raids On Ethiopian Centers (By The Associated Press.) Italian planes launched an aerial attack today on two main points on the Addis-Dijihdujti! railway, Ethio pia’s sole link with the outside world, as France coupled its dispute with Germany to existing war sanctions against the Fascist nation. Five Italian planes attacked an Ethiopian airdrome near Addis Ababa after encircling the capital and throw ing the population into panic. One plane was fired and a hangar burst HOEY TO OPEN UP WITH GLOVES OFF Will Hit Back Hard at Mc- Donald From Now On, Observers Believe Dally Dispatch Bnrenii, In The Sir Walter Dote.. By J. C BA SK ERVll.ti Raleigh, April 4.—Clyde R. Hoey, of Shelby, one of the four candidates for the Democratic nomination for gover nor, has decided to take off the kid gloves he has been wearing, if nec essary take off his long-tailed coat and stand-up choker collar, do away with the soft words and velvety dic tion of his past campaign speeches, and to wade into Dr. Ralph W. Mc- Donald with both fists, both feet and his entire vocabulary, conceded to be one of the largest in the State, it was learned here today from a source close tb Mr. Hoey, although this is not supposed to be generally known. But the Hoey campaign strategy from now on is to sock Dr. McDonald as hard as he can and treat him rough. Hoey Experimenting. In fact, Mr. Hoey has been experi menting with this new type of cam paigning this week although it has not become generally known. But at (Continued oh Page Six.) OUR WEATHER MAN FOB NORTH CAROLINA. Increasing cloudiness and slight ly warmer tonight and Sunday; probably followed by light rain in west portion Sunday And in ex treme southwest portion late to day. into flames. Diredawa also was reported to have been attacked from the air, together with Jijiga, 75 miles southeast of the mid-point on the railway. In Paris, diplomatic sources said Pierre Etienne-Flandin, French for eign minister, would confront Great Britain with a demand that sanctions either be imposed on Germany for its Rhineland action or lifted from Italy for its African aggression. Marshal Piedro Badoglio, comman German Zeppelin Crosses Atlantic i ■* /- "- . 1 . Rio de Janeiro/ April 4.—-(AP) The new German Zeppelin Hinden burg completed successfully today its first voyage across the South Atlantic to- South America, com ing to Its mooring at 7:50 a. m. (5:50 a. m. eastern standard time). The great airship carried 37 pas sengers, 19 of whom are starting back to Europe tomorrow on their round trip. TAX ON MERCHANTS PUT AT $775,000 Doubtful If Business Folks Would “Welcome” It, As McDonald Said Dally Dispatch Boreas, In The Sir Walter Hotel, By J. C. BASKBJRVILI. Raleigh, April ‘4.—The “small mer cantile license tax not greater than that in Virginia,” which was proposed by Dr. Ralph W. McDonald, of Win ston-Salem, in his Statewide radio speech Thursday night as one of the sources of revenue to replace the sales tax, and which he said would be a “welcome relief to the merchants of the State from the burden of the sales tax,” will yield not more than $775,- 000 a year, computations made here today show, while the sales tax is now yielding more than $10,000,000 a year in revenue. But the application of the Virginia mercantile license tax to gross sales in North Carolina, show that the merchants would have to pay all of this $775,000 a year, that the tax falls heaviest upon the smaller mer chants and lightest upon tihe large merchants, especially the chain stores and that the tax is the same on whole salers as on retailers. Those who have been studying the application of the Virginia tax to (Continued on Page Two.) PUBLISHED EVERY AFTERNOON EXCEPT SUNDAY. der of the Italian northern forces, telegraphed his government at Rome today that Italian forces in northern Ethiopia had scattered the imperial troops of Emperor Haile Selassie, sending them “in desperate flight southward.” As the Italian invasion of the Negus kingdom reached the capital itself, League of Nations officials at Geneva 'were preparing to call a meeting of its concilation committee to review efforts to bring peace to East Africa. STATE GROUP ML i *»- Wallace Will IBe Guided Largely by Dean Schaub’s . New Comfnittee Dally Dlapatcb Bureau, In The Sir Walter Hotel, By J C. BASKEHVILI/ Raleigh, April 4—Policies of the new soil improvement program in North Carolina will be formulated largely upon the recommendation of the State committee appointed by sec retary of agriculture, Henry A. Wal lace, Dean I. O. Schaub of State Col lege announced today. The members of committee were se lected upon the recommendation of the agricultural extension service, which has the final responsibility for administering the new program in this State. County and community committees will complete the organ ization and these committees will be charged with passing upon the com pliance of individual landowners who apply for grants under the Federal act. The personnel of the State commit tee was so selected as to give repre sentation to the various regions of North Carolina and to the types of farming found in those regions. It members are as follows: L. H. McKay, of Hendersonville, represents the mountain region. He also brings to the committee the viewpoint of the livestock, poultry and Irish potato? young man with' vigorous intellect and a successful farmer. Tom Cornwell, of Shelby, represents the southern piedmont regiqp. He is well known as a successful cotton cotton produced but he also repre sents the varied interest of farming as found in that region. Flake Shaw, of Summerfield, Guil ford County, represents the north ern piedmont region. He also is a dairy farmer and engaged in general agriculture. T. B. Upchurch, Jr., of Raeford, represents the southern coastal plain (Continued on Page Two.) 8 PAGES TODAY FIVE CENTS COPY fiMOR LASHES Will Ask Republican Legis lator To Introduce Meas ure That Is Already Prepared EX-REPRESENTATIVE FORT STRIKES BACK Will Contest Hoffman's Selection as Delegate To Cleveland Conveln ti o n ; Moves Begun for Payment of Jersey’s Reward For Hauptmann’s Conviction Trenton, N. J., April 4.—(AP)—Gov ernor Harold G. Hoffman’s office an nounced today he would press for a legislative investigation of the hand ling of the Lindbergh kidnap-murder case, now that Bruno Richard Haupt mann is dead. At the same time the governor took the first steps to close the books of the Lindbergh case itself. Ho directed Colonel H. Norman Schwartzkorpf, State police superintendent, to sub mit to him recommendations for pay ment of the $25,000 reward for the ap prehension and conviction of Bruno Richard Hauptmann. The State legislature in May, 1932, offered the reward. Three men have filed claims for it. William S. Conklin, the governor’s press aide, said the governor would confer Monday afternoon with As semblyman John Kerner, Union Re publican, and ask him to introduce the already drafted resolution for a thorough investigate both of his own activities and the conduct of the whole inquiry. The governor also struck back sharply at critics of his candidacy for delegate-at-large at the Republican National Convention in June. The candidacy was challenged to day iby former Representative Frank lin W. Fort, who announced he would oppose the governor in the May pri mary solely on the issue of Hoffman’s activity in the Hauptmann case. “When a governor makes a key of our courts and juries and drags his high office into the mire,” (Continued on Page Two.) Widow In Seclusion In Bronx Trenton, N. J., April 4.—(AP) —Mrs. Anna Hauptmann was in seclusion at her home in the Bronx today while the body of her husband lay in the New Jersey State Prison morgue awaiting the arrival of a New York City undertaker at 3 p. m. She abandoned her plan, announced last night, to return to the execution scene to claim the body. C. Lloyd Fisher, Hauptmann’s at torney, telephoned the principal keep er at the prison that he would be there when the undertaker arrived. In a telephone conversation with relative, Harry Whitney, Mrs. Haupt mann said the body would be cremat ed in Fresh Pond cemetery adjoin ing the Lutheran cemetery in Queens, New York. Lindberghs Stay Abroad Longer Time Probably Won’t Re turn Until Winter, Until Public “For gets” Weald, Kent, England, April 4 —The Lindberghs—mother, father and son, Jon —left their home ear ly today after Bruno Bichard Hauptmann died for the kidnap murder of their first son. They left behind them only a servant who gave the same reply to all callers: “I do not know where they have gone.” Weald, Kent, England, April 4. (AP) —Colonel and Mrs. Charles A. Lindbergh have arranged to remain in England for many more months, (Continued on Pace Four.)