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HENDERSON GATEWAY TO CENTRAL CAROLINA TWENTY-THIRD YEAR TAX QUESTION 1$ MUDDLED IN CONGRESS ROOSEVELT’S VOTE IN OHIO’S PRIMARY STANDS AT 13 TO 1 Meanwhile, Robert A Taft Has Wide Margin Over Senator Borah for Republicans PRESIDENT LEADING FOR WEST VIRGINIA Has Three Times Vote of Borah in Slow Returns; North Dakota Instructs for Roosevelt; Fletcher Char ges G. O. P. Mail Is “Muti lated” in Transit Washington, May 13 (AP) Ohio’s primary election results commanded sharp attention in the capital today as incomplete returns showed substantial leads for President Roosevelt and Robert A. Taft in the Demo cratic and Republican presi dential contests. The chief executive had a 13-to-one lead over Colonel Henry Breckenridge, foe of the New Deal, on the basis of an incomplete count of the State’s 8,- 579 precincts in the party’s presiden tial preference ballot. Taft, “favorite son” candidate, sup ported by the Ohio Republican or ganization, appeared to be piling up an increasing lead over Senator Bo rah in the struggle for national con vention delegates. In the primaries of West Virginia, where the State’s interest was cen tered on the bitter senatorial strug gle. the returns were slow. Comparison of the Democratic and Republican votes, respectively, in the presidential primary showed that in 232 of the State’s 2,437 precincts, Mr. Roosevelt had 23,070 and Borah 7,- 803 Other political grist today included a charge from Republican Chairman Henry P. Fletcher that his party’s campaign material had been "mutilat ed'’ while in the mails. The North Dakota Democratic Con vention selected eight delegates and instructed them to vote for President Roosevelt. , Charge Is Discounted By Farley Minneapolis, Minn., May 13. —(AP) —Postmaster General James A. Far ley termed assinine today the charge of Henry P. Fletcher, of the Repub lican National Committee, that Re publican campaign matter had been “mutilated” in the mails. "When I return to Washington I will investigate Mr. Fletcher’s com plaint,” which on the surface appears assinine,” said Farley in his private car en route east from Devil’s Lake, D., where, he addressed the North Dakota State Democratic Convention yesterday. Borah Gains 5 Delegates In Ohio Vote State Mas 52 In All; Roosevelt Over whelms Anti-New Deal Opponents (By The Associated Press.) Senator Borah’s militant campaign against the regular Republican or ganization in Ohio appeared today to liave won him only five of the 52 dele gates the State will send to Cleve land. He did not contest for 17 in the primary held yesterday. Supporters of Governor Alf M. Lan hon, of Kansas, and Colonel Frank Knox of Illinois for the presidential (Continued on Page Three.) limtih'rsmt lUttht Btsurrttlr Zeppelin Nearing Its German Port Aboard the Zepplin Hindenburg, En Route to Germany, May 13. (AP)—Favored by a good tail wind over the great northern circle, the Zeppelin Hindenburg sped into the second stretch today of its return flight across the Atlantic to Ger many. Despite fog and favoring winds during the first day's run from Lakehurst, N. J., the massive air liner had maintained an average speed of 71 miles an hour yester day for the first half of the flight to its home base at Frankfort. (A radio report gave the Hin denburg’s position at 5 a, m., east ern standard time, as 3,1000 miles east northeast of Lakehurst.) 4 Prisoners Escape From State Camp Driver Badly Cut and Thrown Out Os of Truck Seized and Headed to North Raleigh, May 13 (AP) —Four convicts in a road gang attack ed a prison truck driver, stole the vehicle and escaped near here today, and this afternoon were reported being trailed by bloodhounds in northeast Wake county after abandoning the truck. Four hours after the men escaped, the prison department announced they were: Ray James, serving two to three years from Wayne county for larceny; Herbert Lewis, given a year in Wayne for breaking, and larceny; James Eberts, sentenced to 18 to 24 months in Iredell for break ing, entering and larceny, and Charlie Adams, alias Marvin Barber, serving two years from Wake for forgery. Oscar Pitts, acting director of the Penal division, said he was told the four men attacked a truck driver, Lee Fleeter, between 7:30 a. m. and 8 o’clock this morning on the Creed moor road. At midday the truck was spotted abandoned on the Louisburg road, five miles northeast of Raleigh, and blood hounds immediately found a trail, Pitts said. Raleigh, (May 13.—(AP)—Four prisoners whose identity had not been established two hours after their escape, seized a prison truck and driver and escaped be tween 7:30 and 8 o’clock this morning on the Creed moor high way several miles from here. Oscar Pitts, acting director of the penal division, notified officers thr oughout this section to be on watch for the escapees. The truck they seiz had license number H-3416, Pitts said. Pitts said he was notified the pri soners had taken a dirt road toward Louisburg and were headed in the general direction of Virginia. The truck driver; Lee Fleeter, was cut on the back of the neck and thrown out of the truck by the es capees soon after they seized it. “My information is Fleeter was painfully cut, but it is not thought to be a serious wound,” Pitts said. It was more than two hours after the escape before the identity of the truck driver was established, and ef forts were still being made to identi fy the escaped men. Pitts was first informed the pri soners had kidnaped Fleeter, 'but quickly received word of his being thrown off the truck. TWO MEN KILLED IN PENITENTIARY BREAK McAlcster, Okla., May 13.—(AP) — Two men were reported killed today in a daring break from the Oklahoma State Penitentiary brickyard. Warden Roy Kenny, said he believ ed at least 12 of the 160 prisoners as signed to the yard fled after an ex change of shots with guards. Kenny said C. D. Powell, about 50, foreman of the brickyard, was one of those killed. He said the other slain man had been identified tentatively a? Robert Dunningham, a convict. ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA AND VIRGINIA LEASED wire service of THE ASSOCIATED PRESS. HENDERSON, N. C., WEDNESDAY AFTERNO ON, MAY 13, 1936 he h vdlv ad °^ S ° f the map at the left show the Roman Empire in its I heyday, when the Caesars were riding high in the saddle In the man ireamfof^r 0861 ;' Ita * * HasDDro •reams of conquest which will restore the power and might of the! FIGHT IS I WATCHED Impression in Raleigh Is Tail Is Trying to Wag Dog in Scrap SNOBBISHNESS HINTED Chapel Hill Faculty in Engineering Unit Do Not Want To Leave Cloistered Atmosphere in the Village Dnlly Ulxpntch Bureau. In The Sir Walter Hotel, Br J. O. BASKERVILL, Raleigh, May 13.—The renewal of the efforts of the Chapel Hill branch of the University of North Carolina to prevent the removal of the School of Engineering to the State College unit here in Raleigh, despite the fact that two sessions of the General As sembly, the board of trustees and President Frank P. Graham have de cided that it should be located at State College, is causing many who are familiar with the facts to won der if the Chapel Hill unit is not only attempting to dictate how the entire Greater University shall ibe admin istered, but to also dictate the future course of higher education in North Carolina. Comment here today, fol lowing the two faculty meetings of the Chapel Hill unit yesterday and Monday for the purpose of opposing the removal of the Engineering School to Raleigh, is generally to the effect that the Chapel Hill faculty is a case of the tail trying to wag the dog, since there are two other units of the University. Don’t Want To Leave. The facts in the case seem to be that Dr. H. G. Baity, head of the Chapel Hill Engineering School, and his fellow faculty members, do not want to leave the highly superior ana cloistered atmosphere of Chapel Hill, according to those who have been reading between the lines of the (Continued on I age Three.) Four Perish In Panic At Frisco Club Torch Dancer’s Can dle Ignites Flimsy Decorations In Coast Night Club San Francisco, May 13.— (AD — Two men and two women were killed early today when the toe of a torch dancer transformed a gay San Francisco night club into a flaming hall of horror. The hat check girl was trampled to death as the 50 patrons stampeded from the lone exit from the Shamrock club in the hotel district of downtown San Francisco. The other three died of suffocation in the closed second floor room. Nine persons were injured, three of them so seriously they were kept at on Page Three.) Caesar’s Roman Empire—and II Duce’s Halo-German Pact Now Feared By League Heads As Mussolini Gets Out Old Triple Alliance With Austria and! , Hungary In cluded May Result if Italy Is Permanently Alienat ed; Mussolini Expected To Resign from League Geneva, May 13.—(AP) —Whether Benito Mussolini and Italy will re sign from the League of Nations and join forces with Adolf Hitler and Ger many worried diplomats today. Well informed Italians said the pos sibility that Italy would resign from the League, following the example of Germany, should not be excluded as a possibility. Such an act, political observers sur mised, would mean the political align ment of Europe in two camps, and might even brin gabout. the resuscita tion of the famous “triple alliance”— the military association of Germany, Italy and the former Austro-Hun garian empire. And Maybe Leftists Might- Put Stop to Internation al Arms Race By LESLIE EICHEL Central Press Staff Writer WHAT WILL a Socialist govern ment of France do? Well, strange to say, international financiers seem less disturbed over it than the election of a nationalist gov ernment. It is the nationalist govern ments —the Fascists and the Nazis— which have been disturbing world af fairs. A Socialist government in France is less likely to disturb monetary con ditions in favor of French bankers. It is likely to have an “international mind”—to endeavor to reach out for a monetary stabilization agreement rather than resort to a monetary war to keep the French franc on top. That seems to be the reaction among international bankers. HALT ARMS’ RACE? Furthermore, a Socialist govern (Continued on Page Three.) OUR WEATHER MAN Partly cloudy, thundershowers in north and west portions this afternoon or tonight; Thursday generally fair, and cooler, except scattered thundershowers along coast. |£?® sarS? I J?, the background of Ancient Rome is the mightv r aP , ar (Central Press) Diplomats said they believed Pre mier Mussolini would try to Ascertain the eventual attitude of the Council members concerning Ttalian sover eignty over Ethiopia and the contin uance of economic and financial sanc tions. They said they believed it likely that Mussolini would resign from the League before the Council has a chance to discuss the question if he thinks the Council members will re main adamant on both points. Hungarian spokesmen said they an ticipated that if Mussolini breaks with the League, he will seek to influence Hungary and Austria to do likewise. 5edSS School Commission Says Drivers Named by Local School Boards Dally Dispatch Durean, In The Sir Walter Hotel, By J. C. BASKERVILB Raleigh, May 13.—(AP)—As a re sult of the recent school bus accident in Moore county in which one child was killed and as a result of which another has since died, Assistant Sec retary Claude F. Gaddy, of the State School Commission, today issued a statement in which he pointed out that under Section 27 of the 1935 School Machinery Act, the authority to select school bus drivers is vested in the local superintendents and prin cipals, “subject to the approval of the school committeemen or trustees of said school,” at the termination of the bus route. He also pointed out that, according to the school records, “neither Roy Callaway, driver of the bus at the time of the accident, nor Robert Callaway, his (brother, regular driver of the bus, had entered school in Moore county” for the school year 1935-36. From these two facts, Gaddy point ed out that the school commission could not be blamed either for the selection of Robert Callaway as driver of the bus, nor for allowing school pupils to drive school buses, since neither Robert nor his brother were enrolled in school this year. He also pointed out that no school official had authorized Roy Callaway to act as substitute driver for his brother on May 5, the day of the accident. “I am pointing out these facts, not as an alibi, but in order that the pub lic may know the real facts,” Gaddy said. Some of the other facts outlined by Gaddy in connection with this and (Continued on Page Three.) PUBLISHED EVERT AFTERNOON EXCEPT SUNDAY. tSSf Will Do It If His Lawyer Will Let Him, G-Man Quotes Prisoner as Having Said PLEA OF INSANITY BEING CONSIDERED Father of Youthful Kidnap er of Mrs. Stoll at Louis ville Says Boy Has Been Insane for Several Years; Employs Attorney for His Wayward Boy Louisville, Ky., May 13.—(AP)— Thomas H. Robinson, Jr., was quoted by a Department of Justice agent to day as expressing a willingness to plead guilty to the $50,000 kidnaping of ;Mrs. Alice Speed Stoll, provided his attorney, Monte Ross, of Nash ville, Tenn., “will let him.” O. C. Dewey, in charge of the Louis ville office of the Department of Jus tice, said Robinson told him that, since he already had confessed the kidnaping, he might as well plead guilty. Dewey did not reveal whether the plea would be conditional upon a life sentence. Arraignment of Robinson was sche duled for 2 p. m., central standard time, today in Federal district court. If Robinson chose to stand trial, he was expected to seek refuge In a plea of insanity. Announcing that he "was employing counsel, Robinson, Sr., said at Nash ville, “I know he is insane, and has been for several years.” United States District Attorney Bunk Gardner said he anticipated a plea of guilty, with a probable sen tence to life imprisonment to follow. HOOVERIUIOSE DESPITE ACM Moreover, He Worries G. O. P.; They Wish He Would Choose Not to By CHARLES P. STEWART Central Press Staff Writer Washington, May 13.—G. O. P. man agers have no notion of renominat ing former President Hoover, nor have they any idea that he will be renominated against their wishes. But he worries them, for all that. No, he cannot be renominated, but he can create a “scene” if he insists on trying, and they do not want a “scene.” The Democrats would not object to a moderate amount of excitement to brighten up their Philadelphia con vention, which promises to be pretty flat. The Republicans, however, are desirous of all the harmony they can get. And it will not look very har monious if they are compelled to be (Continued on Page Four) O PAGES O today FIVE CENTS COPY MORGENTHAU SAYS NEW DEAL TO HELP Would Pay Less or No Taxes Under Proposed Levies Upon Undis tributed. Profits FARM MORTGAGES BILL TO LOSE OUT 'Labor Opposes Measure and' Speaker Byrns Pre dists Its Defeat; Senate Most Likely Will Simplify Administration Tax Mea sure Before Committee Washington, May 13 (AP) The tax question, foremost is sue of the day in Washington, was in a state of flux today with leaders uncertain just how the revenue bill will read when it emerges from the Senate Fi nance Committee. Secretary Morgenthau entered the struggle anew as administration forces strove to prevent senatorial critics fror* demolishing the key stone of the Roosevelt tax program. He was expected to defend before the committee the proposed levy on un distributed incomes of corporations. So much hostility developed within the committee to the House of Rep resentatives version of the tax bill that administration men had put for ward two new plans. One was a sim plification of the House’s complex schedules. The other would change the House provisions considerably. Republicans and Democrats contin ued to hammer at each other on re lief, the other major issue before Con gress, Demanding that the proposed new $1,450,000,000 appropriation for relief be administered by local authorities with the aid of non-partisan boards, Senator Vandenberg, Republican, Michigan, said yesterday that the existing WIPA system could not be protected from the “consequences of poliltical administration, prostitution and duress.” Senator Robinson, of Arkansas, the Democratic leader, replied: "Don’t get the idea in your head that by vesting responsibility in gov ernors and county officials, relief will be as spotless as the white robes of a virgin.” He said “more politics” would result from such a shift. SAYS HALF OF CONCERNS WOULD HAVE SAVED MONEY Washington, May 13 (AP) —Secre- tary Morgenthau told the Senate Fi nance Committee today that 283 of the 1600 corporations which made more than a million dollars in 1934 would have paid less taxes under the plan to base levies on undistributed profits. At the same time, Treasury experts told the committee they were confi dent an equal number of the corpor ate tax plan in the House t«y bill than they actually paid under the present flat corporate tax levy. Morgenthau’s figures, laid before the committee in A closed session, showed that 600 corporations showed a net income of $1,000,000 or more in 1934. If they should have distributed their earnings under the new plan in the way they actually did, 283 would have had their taxes reduced (Continued on Page Four.) Students In Puerto Rico Stage Riots Troops Called In In dependence Uprs ing; Zioncheck Fig ures in Moves San Juan, Puerto Rico, May 13. —The National Guard was mo bilized in San Juan and all public and private schools were closed today to calm student independence uprisings. Governor Blanton Winship said all steps would be taken to preserve law and order. The administration’s move followed accidental entanglement of Represen tative Marion Zioncheck, the honey mooning American congressman, with the student “freedom” demonstrations Zionchck, here on a honeymoon, at tained islandwide interest Monday by a series of automobile mishaps. Last night he found himself in the center of a riot of high school chil- Continued on Page Three.)
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