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HENDERSON gateway TO CENTRAL CAROLINA " twenty-third YEAR State Revenue For Ten Months Higher By Nearly 10 Prct. I Total from All ISources Is $48,293,395, or $4,062,- 452 Above Figure Last Year SALES TAX YIELDS most except gas General Fund Collections $25,172,633, or $3,691,199 Higher Than First Ten Months Last Year; Sales Tax Revenue for Period Is $8,475,517 Raleigh, May 1 (AP)—The State Department of Revenue reported today that collections from all sources the fii st ten months of the current fiscal year were $4,062,452.52, or 9.68 percent above the yield for the corresponding period a year ago. General fund and motor vehicle re venues through April 30 totalled $48,- 0(13,395.25, as compared with $44,030,- 941 73 to May 1. 1935. The sales tax led the way in in creases and, aside from the gasoline tax. was the largest single revenue producer. General fund collections were -25,172.633.44, against $21,481,433,- 57 on April 30, 1935, a gain of $3,691,- 199.87, or 17.18 percent. Under the general fund, the sales tax yielded $8,475,517.17, or approxi mately $2,400,000 more than for the ten months of the previous fiscal year The income tax yield was up from $6,704,722 to $7,235,537. $350,000 Loss By Lexington Fire In The Early Morning Lexington, May 1. —(AP) —Fire destroyed the United States Furni ture Company, a Negro church, three Negro houses and damaged other property here early today with a loss, owners said, of ap proximately $350,000. The blare started in the furni ture concern, Lexington’s largest and spread rapidly from the fin ishing room. The church and three houses soon were aflame, and other near ly buildings caught, but the lat ter were saved before much dam age resulted. The cause of the fire was not determined. $40,000 Os Loot Taken In Robbery Of'roit, Mich., May I.—(AP)—Four "ihhers Held up a branch of the De ,r('it Rank shortly before 11 a. m. lodf '.V. escaping with a sum early re perts placed at $40,000, while police investigated a false hold-up alarm "‘"Kd in from the northern limits of !Ih ' suburb in which the robbery oc cuned three minutes before. 1 hree of the robbers entered the ■'tik carrying sub-machine guns, vv . hil,; th e fourth waited at the wheel "! ;in automobile in front of the bank. Menacing employees and customers, m< n climbed over a teller’s cage aml scooped the money into a white "k. Only one shot was fired, em ployees said, but one woman was re p 'Morj injured in the confusion which followed the sudden rajd. business Up, Roosevelt To Win The Wheat Belt Lpturn in Mining Helps Utah, but Further East One Comes, Cheerfulness Begins Slowly to Fade; Spend ing Worrying Man y; New York Not Cocky By ROGER w. BABSON, Copyright 1936, Publishers Financial Bureau, Inc. x, ' w York, May I.—“ Business is the 1 1 in years” is what people in the mountain states are saying, accord -1 *o the report I received from my •• '.sociate who has just passed through 'ml region. Readers will remember hut we left him last week on his way ’ l ‘~ i from San Francisco. I asked him stop both at Salt Lake City and Denver. These two cities reflect con ditions in the mountain states just as 'nsitively as San Francisco mirrors activity along the Pacific Coast. TUntiHn*smt Hmht Btsualrh Presidential NomineJ ip John W. Aiken (above), 40-year-old hardwood finisher of Chelsea, Mass! has been nominated by the Socialist Labor Party at the New York con? vention as Presidential candidate. (Central Press) W eather Big Factor With Trade Gains Business for Week Is 12 Percent Over Year Ago, Dun & Bradstreet Says New York, May I.—(AP) —Better* weather conditions during the week enabled retail trade to advance to a level eight to 12 percent higher than a year ago, Dun & Bradstreet said today. “Defintic turn to more seasonal weather reacted favorably on nearly all branches of trade buying during the week,” it was tsated. “It influenced shoppers to sepnd more freely, which pushed sale of spring goods to a new high for the season. The outstanding gain, how ever, was in wholesale markets, the influx of buyers building up the best volume for the period since 1931. “The few instances of recession provided no check to the general move ment of the industrial pace, the pro fits reported by numerous manufac turers for the first quarter attesting the extent of the improvement.” At retail, it was stated, consumers apparently had more money to spend and not only purchased more goods but also demanded better quality than at any time in the past five years. “Although the strong recovery of consumer buying enabled a number of cities to report increases up to 15 per cent over the preceding week’s retail sales,” the review continued, “the gain over the previous year’s total was narrowed.” BANKER SWAN TO START SENTENCE Raleigh, May I.—(AP)—W. J. Swan, former Bayboro banker, must enter Central Prison here before midnight tonight to begin serving a four-year sentence for State banking law viola tion. People in the Rocky Mountain re gion look forward to the 'best summer since 1929. Some even think business will be as good as in the hey-day of this section—the early 20’s. Freight and passenger traffic on the railroads have picked up remarkably well and this means much to the “division” towns. In spite of the drought in the “dust bowl” east of the mountains, there is more water than usual. Live stock are in good shape so that cat tlemen can soon cash in at favorable prices. It is mighty encouraging to (Continued on Page Three.} 11 1 111 INI I SECTION OF NORTH I.EASKD WIRE SEIiVK'IB -■ ■ ,* ' ' ‘ Till-: A SSI M’IATEI) I'ltE ' ' ' North Carolina Leads All States In Percent Outlay For Educational Purpose 68 Percent of All General Fund Revenue Goes to That Cause, Revenue Department Reveals; Corporation Franchise and Income Tax Producing Most Dally Dispatch Bnreaa, In The Sir Walter Uote., By J C. It ASKER VI LI/ Raleigh, May 1. —No other State in the United States spends as large a share of of its revenue for educational purposes as does North Carolina, which pays out 68.1 per cent of all its general fund revenue for educational purposes, of which 63.2 per cent goes to the public schools and 4.9 per cent to the various State educational In stitution?, according to figures made public here today by the Department of Revenue and shown in cuts in the Henderson Daily Dispatch today. If the legislature had the power to abolish every State office from the governor on down, both elective and M meals:ss Graham and Hoey Shooting At Professor for His Vote Last Year Dully Dispatch Tlitrean. In The Sir Walter Hotel, By J. <J. RASIvERVILL Raleigh, 'May I—The1 —The vote which Dr. Ralph W. McDonald, of Winston- Salem, cast in the House of the 1935 General Assembly for House Bill 1360, which made the sales tax apply to meals in cases, restaurants and board ing houses, bids fair to become a stumbling block in his campaign to win the nomination for governor on an antLsales tax platform, since both Sandy Graham and Clyde Hoey are pointing to his vote for this sales tax as being somewhat inconsistent with his present attitude. In his speecn in Washington, Beau fort county, last night, Graham de voted a good deal of attention to the vote Dr. McDonald cast for the bill levying the sales tax on meals, while the Hoey forces are also making ex tensive use of their recent discovery that Dr. McDonald voted for this sup plementary sales tax, even though he voted against the sales tax section of the revenue bill. It is also being point ed out that this bill levying the sales tax on meals in hotels, cases, lunch rooms and so forth, was in reality a “spite bill” first introduced in the Senate by the wets in retaliation a gainst a group of dry senators, head ed by Senator Hall Johnson, of Ashe ville, because they would not vote for Continued on Page Three.) Three Lose Lives As Tornado Sweeps Northwestern lowa Spirit Rake, lowa, May I.—(AP) —Three known dead, 50 injured and heavy property damage were listed today in the wake of a tor nado that cut a swath of destruc tion across northwest lowa and southern Minnesota. At least 25 persons were injur ed in lowa and as many more across the line in Minnesota as the twister pursued an erratic course a quarter mile wide over a 50-mile stretch late yesterday. Hundreds of small buildings in the path of the storm were de molished or swept away, appointive, should abolish every State administrative department and every employe of these departments to dis charged and the State Capitol and va rious administrative department build ings closed here, the saving that would result would amount to only 4.5 per cent of the State’s total ex penditures, these figures show. For North Carolina has the lowest per centage of cost for admipistrative pur poses of any State government, the figures show. And if the cost of main taining the judiciary—the Supreme Court and the superior courts —should be added to the general administra cContinued on Page Six.) Governor Is Speaker At Exercises Held At More head City Site By Staff Correspondent. Morehead City, May 1. —A new page in the recerational life of North Caro lina was written today and important events in the history of the State were commemorated with the formal open ing of Fort Macon State Park, the first unit of the new system of re creational and histpreal areas whose development has been completed. In the main address in the exercises held in the old fort building, Gov. J. C. B. Ehringhaus stressed the impor tance of the event, particularly with reference to the future ni that the oc casion represents the culmination of the first steps in giving North Caro lina a system of State parks that meet the highest standards in the nation. Other units of the State park now under development, Governor Ehring (Continued on Page Two.) SIO,OOO DAMAGE SUIT BEGUN IN RICHMOND Richmond, Va., May I.—(AP) —Trial of a SIO,OOO dajnage suit brought by Lewis Brown, Washington Times Photographer, against W. A. Bell, of Fredericksburg, for injuries alleged to have been received when he was struck by a church collection bag opened in Federal district court here today. The incident occurred on the night of December 9, 1934, on the eve of the trial of Bell’s brother, Edward C. Bell, on a charge of attempting to poison his wife. OUR WEATHER MAH FOB CAROLIN A. Generally fair tonight and Sat urday, except overcast at times on the coast. CAROLINA ANn vreoTMTA 1»I lajor Issues of Relief and Taxes Still Unsettled, But Other Things Now Loom OOD, DRUG LAW IS ADDED TO THE LIST Hrect Ship Subsidy Also Desired by President; New Treaty With Britain and France on Naval Building May Also Be Sent Up For This Session Washington, (May I.—(AP) More isks for Congress were discussed by resident Roosevelt today as May 1, le day originally set for adjourn lent, arrived with, the major issues f relief and taxes still unsettled. In press conferences, he expressed ope that a new pure food and drug iw and a direct ship subsidy bill ould be enacted. He said it also was possible the new •eaty between the United States, reat Britain and France, limiting the ze of certain types of warships, ould be sent to the Senate this ses sion. A search for amendments to the House tax bill to make it provide all the revenue the President wants was carried on by some members of the Senate Finance Committee. As the committee continued public hearings on the program, Senator Bailey, Democrat, North Carolina, challenged a Treasury spokesman’s contention that under it corporations would have the same opportunity as they do now to accumulate reserves as they do in prosperous years. Opposition to the legislation as “un sound” was expressed by a represen tative of the Philadelphia Chamber of Commerce. A schedule preliminary to congres sional consideration of the $1,500,000 relief appropriation proposed by the President was postponed. Government Seeks Peace By Coal Men! New York, May I. Fed eral government, using Edward F. McGrady, Labor Department trouble shooter as the lever, threw its weight behind a move today to break the deadlock in negotiations for accord in the anthracite coal industry. Working on borrowed time, after what otherwise might have been a walk-out deadline for 106,000 miners, McGrady prepared to re-enter the long drawn parley of operators and Unit ed Mine Workers’ representatives over a new wage and working conditions contract. The industry’s five-year-old contract was given its second extension last night two hours before it would have expired at midnight with what both sides had pictured would be disas trous results for the $600,000,000 in dustry. The extension gained by McGrady, after a hurried flight from Washing ton, on order of Secretary of Labor Perkins enabeld McGrady to drive for agreement through one or both of these avenues: 1. Virtually to force concessions by the deadlocked parties, so as a com mon ground could be reached; 2. Persuade the conferees to con tinue their deliberations until one side or the other receded. SENATE TO REVAMP HOUSE’S TAX BILL Crashing Prices May Mean Passing of Inflation! Scare; Fear 1940 By LESLIE EICHEL Central Press Staff Writer THE TAX BILL will be rewritten by the Senate because many sections are believed to be unconstitutional. Furthermore, the bill is so complicat ed that no one knows whether it will take in as much as present laws or more. It must take in nearly a billion more to be of any use. NO INFLATION? Crashing security prices and declin ing commodity prices seem to indi cate that fear (or hope) of inflation has passed. That is not quite the case. A huge debt is in itself a form of in flation. At present, however, capital Is frightened by the prospect of punitive taxes. It is frightened, too, by the ease that “Lefe” governments come into power—as in France. IN 1940? . . There are many persons who be lieve that a Farmer-Labor coalition will win power in the United States in 1940 —due to a failure of both Dem ocratic and Republican parties to (Continued on Fag© Six) PUBLISHED EVERY AFTERNOON EXCEPT SUNDAY. Italy Prepares To Celebrate Victory In Ethiopian War Held in Wendel Case Harry Weisa Quizzed by police following hit return to New York from Youngs town, 0., where he was arrested, Harry Weiss, Brooklyn cab driver, allegedly admitted his part in the abduction and torture of Paul H. Wendel, who said he was forced to confess and then repudiated the Lindbergh baby slaying. Meanwhile, police sought to trap Ellis Parker, Jr., son of the New Jersey detective, hunted as the “master mind” behind the Wen del abduction. —Central Press Parades In Many Cities On May Day Soldiers March In Moscow, While Radicals Parade in New York as Well (By The Associated Press.) The tramping of tens of thous ands of soldiers in Moscow’s red square, a plea for peace by Adolf Hitler and a long Communist-So cialist parade in New York were high lights today of the obser vance of May Day, Labor’s inter national holiday. Workers parade in many countries and in several European states sol diers marched. In a demonstration of Soviet Rus sia’s military powers, tanks and ar mored cars rolled past Lenin’s tomb. A fleet of 750 war planes droned over columns of troops. Police estimated 300,000 persons would march in the New York parade, where for the first time communists and left wing socialists joined forces. Germany’s May Day was a “joy (Continued on Page Three.) CABARRUS WOMAN FREED BY COURT Concord, May I.—(AP) —Mrs. Ola Troutman, 42-year-old farm woman accused of choking her invalid moth er-in-law to death, was freed today by Judge John M. Oglesby, who grant ed a motion for a non-suit. Defense counsel filed the motion up on completion of the State’s evidence. In granting it, Judge Oglesby ruled there was not sufficient evidence to warrant giving the case to the jury. Testimony of State’s witnesses in cluded assertions that Mrs. Troutman had been cruel to her mother-in-law, Mrs. Sarah Alice Troutman, 77, and that there were finger marks on the invalid’s throat when she was found dead in bed several months ago at the Troutmans’ rural home. Eleven Killed In Wrecking of Huge German Airplane Neu-Ulm, Bavaria, Germany, May I.—(AP) —A German mili tary plane crashed during night maneuvers, it was learned today, killing eleven person instantly, in cluding the members of the crew. The soldier fliers plunged to death early in the morning of April 29, it was learned, but of ficial sources declined to disclose details of the crash and civilians withheld strictly further news of the accident. 8 PAGES TODAY FIVE CENTS COPY Emperor Selassie Says, However, Fall of His Capital Won’t Mean End of the War BLOODY BATTLE ON SOUTHERN SECTOR Ethiopian Losses Put at 5,- 000, Against 1,850 Italian Casualties; Ba d og 1 i o’s Forces on High Plateau Above Addis Ababa Ready For Victory (By The Asociated Press) With the fall of the Ethio pian capital expected momen tarily, all Italy prepared for an “adunata,” or mobilization, to celebrate victory over Ethiopia. Emperor Haile Selassie declared, however, that the fall of Addis Ababa would not mean the end of his na tion’s fight against the Italians. The “adunata” is the second mobi lization of the Fascist nation sum moning almost half of Italy’s 44,000,- 000 inhabitants to assemblages In ail towns of the nation. The previous “adunata” was called one day before the Fascist armies crossed into Ethiopia to begin their campaign of conquest on October 3, 1935. The latest reports from the Italian forces in Ethiopia said the northern column under Marshal Badoglio were on the high plateau leading to Addis Ababa, while the southern un der General Rodolfo Graziani drove toward its goal of Harar, second city of Ethiopia, after the capture of Sasa Baneh, 175 miles southeast of Harar. Marshal Badoglio reported that the battle around Sasa Baneh was one of the bloodiest actions of the war. He said the Ethiopians lost 5,000 men, while the Italians suffered 1,850 casualties. Cotton Men Informed Os Sharp Drops Pinehurst, May I.—(AP) —Thomas H. Webb, of Concord, told ootton manufacturers here today that mill production, cotton consumption and cotton exports have fallen off since the Federal farm program was in augurated. manufacturing,” he said, “will move on to some other country, or countries, if not treated sanely. It is not destined to remain in any area or be dominant in any country.” Webb is president of the American Cotton Manufacturers Association, in convention here., He read in his presi dential address these statistics, which he called “ominous”: “Consumption of American cotton in the United States from 1928-29 to 1934-35 dropped 1,417,000 bales. “Production of American cotton dur ing the same period dropped 4,020,000 bales. Exports last year dropped ap proximately 4,000,000 bales. “And yet world consumption drop ped only 350,000 bales.” Webb asserted that the farm pro gram, as it affects cotton, was “even tually harming the farmers.” “Agriculture and industry are not in separate compartments operating independently and wtihout Influence on each other,” he said. Dismissal Asked For Duke Case Washington, May 1. —-(AP) —Green- wood county, S. C., today urged the Supreme Court to dismiss an appeal filed by the Duke Power Company at tacking the constitutionality of Pub lic Works Administration loans for publicly-owned hydro-electric projects In a brief, the county contended that it had a right to use a $2,850,000 PWA loan and grant for a power plant at Buzzard Roost, S. C. The government won the case be fore the circuit court of appeals at Charlotte, N. C. If the Supreme Court agrees to review the controversy, a final decision will be deferred until the fall term of court, beginning in October. The county asserted that all the Federal questions raised by the Duke petition had been "clearly settled by this court on other occasions, and that Duke is, therefore, merely asking for a review of this case on its facts, which, in view of the findings of the circuit court of appeals, it would be unnecessary for this court to allow.” It added that the question of the right of Congress to make appropria tions for the general welfare had been settled in the decision holding AAA unconstitutional.