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GATEWAY TO
CENTRAL
CAROLINA
TWENTY-THIRD YEAR
COLLAPSE OF PEACE EFFORT IS AVERTED
Tax Committee Is
Driving Hard For
Early Agreements
Decision Hoped for During
Day on AH Points Still
Unsettled as To
Form of Levy
CORPORATION LEVY
TO BE GRADUATED
Will Be Scaled According to
Percentage of Profits With
held from Stockholders;
Doughton Says Patience Is
Required *in Favor of
Reaching Reform
Washington, April 11 (AP)
—Bent on reaching a decision
today on all points still unset
tled, Democrats on a House tax
sub-committee gathered this
morning to continue the task of
drafting the new $799,000,000
tax program.
The drafters, who later will submit
their work to the full House Ways
and Means Committee, already had
rounded the main provision of the
plan into shape.
Tax on Incomes
This provides for a tax on corpora
tion net income, graduated according
to the percentage of profits withheld
from the stockholders.
Full details were not disclosed, but
some corporations will receive special
treatment. Chairman Samuel B. Hill,
Democrat, Washington, announced
that sub-committee Democrats had
agreed of definitions of corporation
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Evidence Shows
Woman Assaulted
Before She Died
New York, April 11.—(AP) — Evi
dence that Mrs. Nancy Evans Titter
ton was criminally assaulted before
she was strangled in her Beckhan
apartment was shown by an autopsy
today, Assistant Chief Inspector John
A. Lyons announced.
Dr. Thomas Gonzales, who conduct
ed the autopsy at Bellevue hospital
morgue, declined to discuss further re
sults of his examination.
Meanwhile, top rank police detec
tives, hunting the slayer who stran
gled Mrs. Titterton, attractive 34-year
old authoress-wife of a National
Broadcasting Company executive, dis
closed today a man’s fountain pen
found near the victim’s nearly nude
body, was the only definite clue.
Fingerprints on the wall beside the
bathtub where Mrs. Titterton’s body
was discovered late yesterday were
smudged so badly they were worth
less, the officers said.
6 Suspects
In Bombing
Free Again
All-Night Question
ing Fails To Solve
“Easter” Package
Fatalities
Wilkes-Barre, Pa., April 11. —(AP) —
Six suspects questioned all night in
the “Easter gifts” bombings, which
killed one man and maimed four other
persons, were released by post office
investigators today. s
Among those questioned was a for
mer miner, in whose home police said
they found a cigar box similar to the
ones in which the Good Friday bombs
were mailed.
At Philadelphia, Chief Postal In
spector W. N. Johnston said his men
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Hrtthrremt Satin Dispatch
LEASED WIRE SERVICE OF
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS.
Weather Mixture
Forecast Easter
Washington, April 11.—(AP) —
Both fair weather and cloudy skies
were forecast today for the nation’s
Easter parades—all depending on
their geographical locations.
Middle Western states, the
weather reports show, will get the
best break tomorrow, with fair
weather predicted for that area.
But the sun may not beat down
on new bonnets in New York, east
ern Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Del
aware or Maryland. For those
states states the word now is “Sun
day cloudy, not much change in
temperature.”
For most of the southern states
the forecast Is “partly cloudy.”
of the Far West will enjoy sun
shine
No heavy rainstorms, however,
appear to be on the books for any
section.
Feel Extra
Legislature
Is Unlikely
Ehringhaus Believed
of Opinion It Would
Do More Harm
Than Real Good
Dally Dispatch Bureaa,
In The Sir Walter Hotel.
By J. C. BASKEBVCiL
Raleigh, April 11—No special ses
sion of the General Assembly is re
garded as likely any time soon by
those known to be close to Governor
J. C. B. Ehringhaus, despite the de
mands being made for an immediate
session by Dr. Ralph W. McDonald
and A. H. (Sandy) Graham, two of
the four Democratic candidates for
the nomination for governor, and by
tobacco farmers in some sections of
the State.
The reason for this belief is that
Governor Ehringhaus is known to be
that it would be useless
to call a special session to consider
any tobacco crop control legislation
unless and until both Congress and
South Carolina pass the crop control
legislation now before them. And
some are convinced that Governor
Ehringhaus will not even then call a
special session unless Georgia also
enacts a tobacco crop control com
pact law. But the prospect of a spe
cial session of the Georgia legisla
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DEFENSE SCORES IN
IMPEACHMENT TRIAL
Florida Judge on Trial Before United
States Senate for Accepting
of Bribes
Washington, April 11.—(AP)— The
defense won a technical victory today
in the Senate impeachment trial of
Federal Judge Halstead L. Ritter, of
Florida.
Over prosecution objections, a list
of two score cases pending In the
firm of Ritter & Rankin at the time
the defendant went on the bench in
February, 1929, went into the record.
With Ritter himself waiting to take
the stand, the defense attempted to
show by the list that the judge had an
interest in the law firm at the time of
its dissolution substantial enough to
justify A. L. Rankin paying him $4-
500 after he assumed the bench.
Rankin has testified taking money
out of an advance on a $75,000 re
ceivership fee Ritter allowed him in
the Whitehall hotel case because at
the time of payment he was so deeply
in debt he had no other funds for the
purpose. The prosecution charges the
money was “corruptly” received by
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ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA AND VIRGINIA
CHANCES 9 TO ONE
ADVISESSENATORS
Made Statement in January
During Consideration of
Neutrality Leg
islation
SAYS NATION MUST
FIGHT IF MADE TO
Should Guard Agaifnst Im
pression Abroad That
United States Just Won’t
Fight; Extreme in Either
Direction Could be Harm
ful to United States.
Washington, April 11. —(AP) —
A January statement by Secretary
Hull that the chances were “nine
out of ten” against “a general
war” were made public today by
the Senate Foreign Relations
Committee.
It was coupled with a warning from
the State Department head that the
United States must not let the “im
pression go out that we will not fight.”
Wants Laws Changed.
These views were given by Hull dur
ing committee hearings on neutrality
legislation, and were made public to
day for the first time.
Hull also told the committee that
because of changing world conditions
necessitating new neutrality rules, the
United States intended to “urge other
nations to join us at the earliest op
portunity in re-examining and re
stating and re-vitalizing neutral rights
under international law as they exist
ed prior to the World War, as nearly
as We find it consistent and as other
nations might find it consistent to do
so.”
Must Avoid Extremes.
Stressing the need for cooperation
between Congress, the State Depart
ment and the President to avoid any
steps that “might jeopardize our neu
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THREEARE INJURED
IN PACKING STRIKE
Police Fire Tear Gas Shells To Dis
perse Mob of 300 Strikers
At Sioux City
Sioux Falls, S. D., April 11.—(AP)
—At least three persons, including a
woman, were hurt, and a strike leader
was arrested today as trouble flared
’anew at the John Morrell & Company
packing plant, where some union but
chers have been on strike for more
than a year.
Police, firing several tear gas shells,
dispersed an estimated 300 strikers
and their sympathizers who besieged
the plant last night and attempted to
halt employees on their way to work.
Three persons were injured, and more
than a score of cars damaged by
stones before the police acted.
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North Carolina Man Con
demnedl To Die in Texas
for Killing Officer
Dallas, Texas, April 11.—(AP)—
Dwight Beard, 25, was convicted of
murder and was sentenced to death
here today for the hold-up slaying of
former Detective John Roberts De
cember 23, 1935.
A jury, which had deliberated 20
hours, brought in a verdict of guilty
and decreed the North Carolina man
should die in the electric chair.
Defense attorneys announced im
mediately that the case would be ap
pealed.
Edwin Fore, foreman of the jury
said there was never a vote for ac
quittal. He said the first vote taken
was nine to three for a guilty verdict.
It was the second time Beard has
heard a death sentence read for him.
Two years ago in North Carolina he
was sentenced to die for the murder
of a merchant. The penalty was com
muted to life imprisonment there.
HENDERSON, N. C., SATURDAY AFTERNOO N, APRIL 11, 1936
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Liquor Issue
Has Become
Big Factor
Many Present “Dry”
Counties Want
Right to Vote on
Local Stores
Dally Dispatch Bnrean.
In The Sir Walter Hotel.
By J. C. BASKF.RVILI/
Raleigh, April 11.—The liquor ques
tion is rapidly becoming one of the
major issues in the present campaign
for the Democratic nomination for
governor, though by no means the
major issue. But it is agreed :by most
observers that the positions of the
various candidates with regard to the
liquor question and liquor control is
having a very definite effect upon
their chances to win the nomination,
especially in the 17 eastern counties
in which liquor is now being sold in
coupty liquor stores, as well as in the
25 to 50 other counties which want
legal liquor and wants to share in the
profits from its sale.
Wet Counties Oppose Change.
It is already evident that the 17
counties now having legal liquor
stores and from which all the profits
go into the county treasury, want to
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OUR WEATHER MAN
FOB NORTH CAROLINA.
Fair to partly cloudy tonight
and Sunday; slightly cooler in
central portion tonight.
Gen. Hagood Sees
Roosevelt Again
Washington, April 11.—(AP) —
Major General Johnson Hagood,
disciplined army officer, spent half
an hour with President Roosevelt
today, but upon emerging would
only say, “I have nothing to re
port.”
It was the second hearing Mr.
Roosevelt had granted Hagood,
who was relieved of command of
the eighth corps area after criti
cizing WPA spending.
Asked what he had seen the
President about, Hagood replied:
“I saw him about 11:30.”
He declined to disclose any of his
plans. The disciplined army officer
was given a three months leave of
absence after a talk with the Presi
dent aboard his train last month in
Florida.
Some Think Peak of His
Strength Reached With
His Radio Speech
Dally Dispatch Unreal*.
In The Sir Walter Hotel,
By J. C. BASKKHVILL
Raleigh, April 11.—Dr. Ralph W.
McDonald, of Winston-Salem, reached
the peak of his campaign and the
climax of his popularity with his radio
speech in Winston-Salem last week
and has been gradually slipping since
then, although he is still the most
dangerous opponent any of the other
three candidates have for the Demo
cratic nomination for governor, ac
cording to a cross section of opinion
gathered here this week from visitors
from all sections of the State. While
most observers continue to agree that
Dr. McDonald would probably be in
first place if the primary should oe
held today, they do not believe he
would get as many votes now as he
would have a week ago, while a great
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PUBLISHED EVERY AFTERNOON
EXCEPT SUNDAY.
3 Drown As
Plane Sinks
In Collision
Brazilian Clipper Is
Overturned in Trin
idad Harbor Fol
lowing Crash
Miami, Fla., April 11.—(AP)— The
19-ton air liner Brazilian Clipper sank
today after a collision with a fishing
boat in the harbor of Port-of-Spain,
Trinidad, drowning two passengers
and the steward and injuring possibly
a score of others, including Jose
Iturbi, world famous pianist.
Radio messages to Pan-American"
Airways divisional headquarters re
ported others of the 18 passengers and
seven crew men were rescued from
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Bells Ring
Easter For
‘Holy City’
Rome, April 11—(AP) —The familiar
clamor of bells of Rome’s churches
and cathedrals filled the air today,
proclaiming Christ’s resurrection and
the end of the 40 days of Lenten
mourning.
The bells have been silent since
Holy Thursday while the devout at
tended services commemorating the
Savior’s passion and death.
Within the churches joyous organ
music poured forth once more, flames
flickered on the paschal candles and
holy images and relics were divested
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BRITISH STALL OFF
DELAYS AT GENEVA
Serious alnd Dangerous Dis
agreements Among Pow
ers Involved Persist,
However
GREAT BRITAIN AND
FRANCE NOT AGREED
Peace Talks Between Italy
and Ethiopia Undertaken,
Meanwhile, Starting Tues
day; Turkey Now Demainds
Abrogation of Her World
War Treaty
Geneva, April 11 (AP)
Great Britain’s diplomats won a
breathing spell in negotiations
for European peace today, and
avoiding a complete collapse of
conciliation in the two-fold
crisis after the nations clashed
almost to the breaking point.
Serious and dangerous disagree
ments among the great powers still
dominated peace, however, as the
statesmen who had been conferring
in the League of Nations center dur
ing the week returned to their homes
for the Easter holiday.
Bitter Differences
Bitter differences persisted between
Britain and France not only over
how to hasten a settlement of the
Italo-Ethiopian conflict, but also over
the fundamentals of Europe’s atti
tude toward Germany’s remilitariza
tion of the Rhineland.
Britain, in a conference of the Lo
carno powers, which lasted until near
midnight, nevertheless won from both
France and Belgium acceptance of the
view that conciliation with Germany
(Continued on Page Five.)
Soldiers Protect
Negro Accused of
Crime in Georgia
Danielsville, Ga., April 11.—(API-
National Guardsmen sped to this city
from tornado-stricken Gainesville,
Ga., today to protect a wounded Ne
gro accused of an attempted assault
upon two white girls from the viol
ence of a hammer-armed mob.
Sheriff T. L. Henley, said a throng
of 150 men gathered about the Madi
son county jail seeking custody of
the prisoner, who was booked as Lint
Shaw, farmer.
He said he believed the situation
was under control.
The Negro was shot three times last
night, the sheriff said, when he slash
ed two officers with a knife in an at
tempt to escape from custody.
Sheriff Henley said Shaw was Iden
tified “by the girl he choked,” a
young woman in k party of three
whose motor car stalled at dusk yes
terday near the village of Colvert,
Ga.
Sheriff Henley reported T. A. Elder,
one of the officers stabbed by the
Negro, suffered a serious wound in
the lung. The other was slashed on
the right arm and left hand.
Four Deaths
From Floods
Over South
No Serious Damage
or Loss of Life In
Sight at Present
Time, However
Memphis, Tenn., April 11 (AP) —
With some 5,000 residents of six sou
thern states seeking refuge from the
menacing Mississippi, smaller rivers
claimed four lives yesterday and
caused considerable property damage.
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