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HENDERSON GATEWAY TO CENTRAL CAROLINA TWENTY-THIRD YEAR OVER 130 KID IN KW STORM IN SOUTH Securities Commission Loses Ruling ?MIOFI9M NOT DECIDED UPON Commission Ruled Against in Effort To Require Witness To Testify at Inquiry RULING GIVEN 6-3 BY HIGH TRIBUNAL Three Dissenters Hold, However, Witness Was Under Duty To Respond; Court Defers for at Least One Week Final Decision on Status of Guffey Coal Act Washington, April 6. (AP) —ln a six to three decision, which did not pass on the con stitutionality of the 1933 securi ties act, the Supreme Court ruled against the Securities Commission today in its effort to compel J. Edward Jones, of New York, to testify concern ing a proposed issue of oil se curities. The promoter was within his rights, the court held, in conttending that withdrawal of the registration state ment for the stocks made it no" longer incumbent upon him to respond to the demand to testify. He also had at tacked the legislation itself as uncon stitutional. “We are unable,” said the majority in a decision by Justice Sutherland, “to see how any right of the general public can be affected by the with drawal of such an application before it has gone into effect." Three Dissenters. Justices Cardozo, Stone and Brand deis, in the dissenting opinion, main tained that the regulation prohibiting a registrant from withdrawing a state ment once placed before the SEC was valid. “The rule now assailed was wisely (Continued on Page Two.) State Board of Health Of ficial Sees Effort to Arouse Public Dntly Dispatch Itnreiin. In The Walter Hotel. By J. C. nASKF-RVILL Raleigh. April 6.—The general sani tary conditions of the public schools of North Carolina still are very bad, according to Warren H, Booker, di rector of the division of sanitary en gineering of the State Board of Health. Approximately 30 per cent of the public schools of the State have ab solutely no water or sewerage supply, Booker asserted, declaring at the same time that persons confined in the prisons and prison camps of the State are enjoying far better sanitary facilities than are the school children of North Carolina. - „ Making Survey. “The Department of Education," Booker said, “now is working on a (Continued on Page Two). Taxation Now Big Issue In State Gubernatorial Race Outcome May Depend on Ability or Inclination of Voters to Analyze Claims and Promises Being Made to Voters by Candidat es in Their Speeches Dally Dispatch Tlnrena. In The Sir Walter Hotel, By J. C. BASKBRVILI. Raleigh, April 6. —Taxation is the big issue in the campaign for the Democratic nomination for governor, with the outcome depending upon the balance which exists between the in telligence and cupidity of the public, now that Dr. Ralph W. McDonald has had his say and definitely made taxes and revenue the dominant ques tions in the campaign, many who lis tened to Dr. McDonald’s opening radio campaign speech agree. If a majority of the Democratic voters are inclined to believe all that Dr. McDonald said, without any in UrnJirrsmt Datlit Btsualrfi LEASED WIRES SERVICE OB’ THE ASSOCIATED PRESS? Kill' VB iH 11 ST jfir if HI fffilllfk - Jfl iilk iW Wmßhk HHHIW - y-'■■■•: The sensational disclosures m the House investigation into the Townsend Plan Movement are attracting 6 u Pe ° P n Above are three interested witnesses at the hearing. Below is James R. Sullivan, counsel ta the House Committee, reading from the official Townsend paper. In the testimony a letter from Dr. Town send was read in which the sponsor of the movement urged an intensive organization drive because “there’s , millions in it” (Centred Press) Court Holds Gold Clause Issue Valid Equivalent Value of Foreign Currency Holds if Stipulated In Bonds Washington, April 6.—(AP) — The Supreme Court refused today to inter fere with a lower court decision that the congressional resolution barring payment of obligations in gold does not prohibit collection of the equival ent value of foreign currency, if that alternative method of payment is specified. This left in effect a ruling by the second circuit court of appeals that the St. Louis Southwestern Railway Company had to pay $42 on a $25 coupon payable in gold, or the equival ent value of Dutch guilders. The Federal district court for south ern New York had ruled likewise. Approximately $780,000,000 of bonds were said to have been issued by American debtors with this alterna tive provision. Ethiopian Troops Are In Retreat Eritrea, April 6. —(AP) —Native As kari of Italy’s northern army, after capturing the important town of Uoram, pressed on in pursuit of Em perior Haile Selassie’s fleeing army today, traveling rapidly down the road to Dessye. An official communi (Continued on Page Two.) vestigation and without any effort to arrive at the facts involved, and have sufficient cupidity to believe that the five sources of new revenue he sug gested will be sufficient to remove the sales tax, now bringing in more than $10,000,000 a year, and provide be tween $15,000,000 and $20,000,000 of ad ditional revenue without recourse to a Statewide property tax, then they will vote for and nominate Dr. Mc- Donald, it is agreed. ' If They Analyze It. But if a majority of the Democra tic voters do some independent think (Continued on Page Two.) ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA AND VIRGINIA "There’s Millions in It!” Hoffman Will Push! Own 1 Jt- Lindbergh Case Inquiry Senate Backs Up On Its AAA Probe Washington, April 8. —(AP)—-The Senate Agriculture Committee back-tracked partially today on its resolution asking the names of all AAA beneficiaries of SI,OOO or over, and voted to ask only for data on those receiving SIO,OOO or more in any contract year. The action was taken after the committee had received from Sec retary Wallace a report showing payments under the AAA had ranged up to $1,67,665, the sum paid one Florida sugar corporation. Movement Got Under Way Here Long Before New Deal Began It Dally Dispatch Korean, In The Sir Walter Hotel, By J. C. BASKERTiMi Raleigh, April 6. —North Carolina is now leading every State in the Unit ed, States in rural electrification and started the movement before the Fed eral Rural Electrification Administra tion was even thought of in Wash ington, it was pointed out todaf by Chairman Dudley Bagley, of the Elec trification Authority, in reply to the intimation by Dr. Ralph W. McDon ald that North Carolina was not co operating with the “New Deal” in its program. At the present time more than 1,- 200 miles of rural electric lines have either been built, are now under con struction or under contract in North Carolina since the Njorth Carolina Rural Electrification Authority was created by the 1935 General Assembly at the specific request of Governor J. C. B. Ehringhaus, and without a sin gle penny of aid from the Federal government, Bagley said. The cost of these 1,200 miles of rural electric lines (Continued on Page Five.) OUR WEATHER MAN FOR NORTH CAROLINA. Showers and thunderstorms this afternoon and in east and central portions tonight; colder frost in mountains; Tuesday partly cloudy, possibly showers on coast; colder in east and central portions. HENDERSON, N. C., MONDAY AFTERNOON, APRIL 6, 1936 V Claims Ground for Doubt Hauptmann Guilty Alone And Postsbly “Not Guilty at All” HAUPTMANN BODY BEING CREMATED Widow of Executed! Kid nap-Slayer Gets Last View of Dead Husband i/ni Bronx Crematory ; Wejidel “Con fession” House Searched For in Brooklyn Trenton, N. J., April 6. —-(AP) — Governor Harold G. Hoffman, target of a political censure In the death of Bruno Bichard Hauptmann, took the offensive against his critics today with the announcement he would press his own investigation for “the com plete truth” of the Lindbergh kid nap-murder. “Not Guilty at All.” In his first formal statement since Hauptmann’s execution Friday night, the governor, who once reprieved Hauptmann, and who was prevented by law from doing so again, said there was ground for doubt that Haupt mann was not guilty alone, and per haps “not guilty at all.” > Meanwhile, a man who claimed to have “bought” $5,000 of the "Lind bergh ransom” money, was reported to be “somewhere in the East,” pre sumably in a search for the money which he said he hid in a safe deposit vault. The man, Stephen !Spitz( of Chicago, started on a secret mission, in com pany with an attorney, Bernard M. Finnigan, last Wednesday. The governor said he was convinc ed the Lindbergh kidnap-murder was not a one-man job, and expressed the (Continued on Page Two.) candHtespress FIGHT THIS WEEK Hoey, Graham and McDon ald to Be Active; Graham Comes to Hdnfd^rson Dally Dispatch Barcas, In The Sir Walter Hotel, By J C. BASKERVILL Raleigh, April 6.—Three of the four candidates for the Democratic nom ination for governor plan to increase the tempo of their campaigns this week, their managers indicated to day. Clyde R. Hoey will continue his intensive speaking campaign, already under way, and has campaign speeches scheduled this week in Pitt, Craven, Cumberland, Harnett and Surry counties. He is also expected to stop at his headquarters between speeches for conferences with his managers, who are carrying on a high (Continued on Page Five.) ittEiat Tornadoes Virtually Lay Waste Both Cities and Fires Add Later to the Horror TUPELO CITY HALL MADE INTO MORGUE Fire Department at Gaines ville Helpless To Combat Flames as Headquarters Is Blocked by Debris; Churches and Hotels Are Turned Into Hospitals Atlanta, Qa., April 6 (AP) —Tornadoes claimed nearly 100 lives—perhaps 200—and heavy property damage in the ISouth today, levying the greatest toll at the cities of Tupelo, Miss., and Gainesville, Ga. Seventy-one bodies were recovered at Tupelo ,and a score were killed in half a dozen other towns of Mis sissippi, Alabama, Arkansas, South Carolina and Tennessee. How many died at Gainesville was a subject of frantic speculation as repair crews labored to restore com munication lines. Fire Adds to Horror. Fire added to the horror of the twister in Tupelo and Gainesville. With water pressure gone, power lines and gas connections twisted awry, firemen struggled against heavy odds to hold the flames of shattered dwellings in check while rescue work ers toiled through the ruins seeking the dead and injured. The dead in other communities: Booneville, Miss., four. LaCrosse, Ark., one. Red Bay, Ala., five. Columbia, Tenn., area, six. Elkwood, Ala., three. Anderson, S. C., one. The storm first struck LaCrosse, Ark., killing one person, then roared east into Tupelo in northeast Missis sippi. Booneville, Miss., was next to be struck. To Northeast. From there the storm rushed north eastwardly into Red Bay, Ala., then veered into the Armour Mines, Har lan mines and Cross Bridge villages in the Tennessee hills, near Columbia. J. P. Nanny, mayor of Tupelo, said the dead and injured were pulled from the wreckage of their homes for hours and it was feared many yet un reached were trapped and injured or killed. Thirty-three bodies lay in the city hall, turned into a morgue. Churches, hotels and other places were coverted into hospitals. One-third of the city’s houses were piled up in the streets. Most of the business district escaped. Heavy Toll at Gainesville. G. C. Reed, manager of the Gaines ville telephone company, drove to the nearby town of Buford and reported to Atlanta that “there is no way of telling how many persons may have lost their lives. There will be a death toll and it may be heavy.” Reed said two buildings in the bus iness district were centers of fires, and that the local fire department in the city hall was helpless, because it was blocked in by wreckage of the city hall and other buildingß. Congress To Stay On Job Until June Middle Class May Be Saddled With More Taxes; Phone Probe Is Pressed By LESLIE EICHEL Central Press Staff Writer Working out a “satisfactory” new tax bill Is expected to take congress till June I—at least, that is the word received back home. That will give senators and representatives barely time to get to the respective political conventions in June. The new tax bill is not proving so simple as had been indicated. Any thing that will not harm anybody or (Continued on Page Two.) PL BLI SHED EVERY AFTERNOON TJynUI? PFMTO D ADV except Sunday. rJLVi!i ULNTS COPY Flames Break Out To Add To Horror From Wind Storm 82 Dead in Tupelo, Miss., 42 in Gaines ville, Ga.; Six States Struck by Morn ing Twister in the South Atlanta, Ga., April 6 (AP) —Tornadoes whipped across the South from Arkansas to South Carolina to day, leaving mare than 130 dead, 1,000 injured and property damage estimated i n the millions Gainesville Laid Waste By Tornado Fire Sweeps Business District After Wind Storm; Colleges Are Safe Gainesville, Ga., April 6.—(AP)—De vastated by a tornado which took at least 4|2 lives and then seared by flames the business district, Gaines ville, prosperous northeast Georgia textile mill center, was in ruins today. Scattered fires raged in various parts of the wrecked business sec tion as workers dug in the ruins seek ing additional bodies. Five of those who lost their lives were trapped in a tornado and fire swept hardware store. Much of the business section and some residential areas in an area two and one-half miles long and half a mile long were ravaged by the storm. The area of the city in which are located Brenau College and Riverside Military Academy were not struck by the tornado. France Asks, For Peace To Include All (By The Associated Press) France has begun a campaign for an all-inclusive agreement against war, in answer to Reichfuehrer Hit ler's proposals that a separate peace pact be negotiated bi-laterally among the nations of Europe. \ IFrench officials indicated they wanted any new security system con structed on the framework of the League of Nations, while the German idea is that such a method is too un wieldly to insure peace. In consequence, the world is likely to see the. diplomats of Germany and France conducting international cam paigns in favor of their own particu lar plans for peace. The first demonstrations of this conflict are likely to take place this (Continued on Page Two). Textile Measure Will Be Revised Further In House Washington, April 6 (AP) —The controversial and much-revised El lenbogen textile control bill appeared due for further revision today as its author and members of a special House sub-committee sought new changes that might appease both la bor and management. The bill, on which hearings were held more than a month ago, was drastically modified later and a fav orable sub-committee report had been expected. Chairman Keller, of the sub-committee, said today, how ever, that efforts still were being made to make the bill acceptable to mill owners. “What we are trying to do,” Kell er said, “is get a bill that will help industry as a whole, both labor and management. It ought to be done and it can be done, if both sides will come clean.” O PAGES OTODAY Tuperlo, Miss., and Gainesville, Ga., were hardest hit, with the menace of storm-generated fire adding to the horrors of the twisters and rain. Physicians and nurses were rushed to the stricken towns by the Red Cross. Stat and Rational agencies united to relieve the suffering of the injured and homeless. Lengthening death rolls at 11 a. m. central standard time, listed these figures: Tupelo, Miss., 82. Gainesville, Ga., 42. Booneville, Miss., 4. Fayetteville, Tenn., 1. Residents of Gainesville said 100 may have been killed there. There are no confirmation of rumors of “1,000 dead.” 5 Soldiers Killed With Plane Crash Fredericksburg, Pa., April 6 (AP)— In a tangled mass of wreckage, the remains of a once trim bombing plane, the army today found the charred bodies of five flying soldiers, missing for hours on their return from a week-end hop to Cleveland. A storm caught the big twin-mot ored ship as it took off from Potts town on the last leg of its trip back to Langley Field, Va., last night, buf fetted it far off its course, and (Continued on Page Two.) «m3Se Claim Machine Age Boosts Unemployment Does Not Hold Water Always By CHABLES P. STEWABT Central Press Staff Writer Washington, April 6.—With business rapidly getting back to a highly sat isfactory prosperity level, why is em ployment lagging? Economists do not answer this question at all convincingly. That business is much better there is no doubt. Income tax collections are up about 35 per cent. The gov ernment’s industrial figures are rosy. Financial publications all speak of greatly advanced earnings by the (Continued on Page Two.) Keller indicated he would attempt to obtain agreement from both groups on “three or four basic things” and forget everything else.” Meanwhile, an intensive drive by the United Textile Workers for pass age of the bill was reflected in the deluge of mail received by House members from textile centers. Representative Martin, Republican, Massachusetts, said he had received several hundred cards from textile workers in the Fall River area urg ing support of the measure. A decision was expected soon from Secretary Roper on the proposal of Representative McCormack, of Bos ton, for creation of a special com mission to visit South American countries in an attempt to expand the foreign markets for American tex tiles.
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