HENDERSON
GATEWAY TO
CENTRAL
CAROLINA
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twenty-third year
12 FEMED DEM) AS BIG AH UNER CRASHES
S°nOf Rich Tacoma Doctor Kidnaped From Home
128,000 PAYMENT
REPUTED PRICE OF
RELEASE OF CHILD
r *
Boy Is Nabbed from Living
Room of Home in Full
View of Brothers
and Sisters
RANSOM NOTE LEFT
WITH INSTRUCTIONS
Masked Intruder Escapes
With 10-Year-Old Boy
Through french Windows,
Place of Entry; Mask Slips
From Face and Children
Get View of Man
Tacoma, Wash., Dec. 28 (AP)
A police official who declined
to allow the use of his namfe,
reported today the Dr. W. W.
Mattson family had been direct
ed to make contact with the kid
naper of Charles Mattson, ten,
sometime this afternoon.
Officials said the instructions were
included in the note left by the kid
naper when he abducted Charles from
the Mattson living room last night.
He indicated the note demanded $28,-
000 ransom.
Os this, the officials said, the kid
naper demanded SIO,OOO in old bills
of small denomination (2 or $5) and
the rest in old bills of SSO or over. In
each case, the official said, the bills
were ordered to be “old and wrin
kled.”
INVADER FLASHES PISTOL
AND TERRIFIES CHILDREN
Tacoma, Wis., Dec. 28.—(AP)—A
masked, shabbily-dressed man, the
first major kidnaper of 1936, hid from
a swiftly-massed army of searchers
today after abducting the 10-year-old
son of a wealthy physician from his
home, and leaving a crude ransom
note.
The note, reported to demand $lB,-
000 to $28,000, and apparently turned
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Pope Losing
Confidence
Os Recovery
“Better That I Die,”
He Is Quoted Tell
i Official Follow
ing Hemorrhage
Vatican City, Dec. 28. —(AP) —Pope
Pius, despairing of his recovery after
light hemorrhage in his paralyzed
■ ft leg, was reported tonight to have
; nld a church official:
In this condition I cannot be the
pope. It is better that I die.”
Hi us, apparently the only person in
the Vatican not worried over his
piralytlc condition and pain, earlier
had broken his own ban against re
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New State Office Building
Becomes Urgent Necessity
Multiplying Agencies of Government Requiring Space;
Legislature May Authorize Million Structure at Once
With 40 Percent G ift by Government
Daily Dispatch Bnrcnn,
In the Sir Walter Hotel,
lly J. C. lIASKKRVIL.L
Raleigh, Dec. 28.—One of the great
-1 t needs here now is a new State of
fice building to provide space for
both existing State agencies and new
ones which have been recently creat
ed. The belief in most circles here is
that when the General Assembly gets
here next week and sees the lack of
space for legislative committees, as
wel] as for State agencies, it will not
he long before it takes some action to
provide additional facilities. At the
present time, the State is paying some
$16,000 a year in rent for space in
privately owned buildings here and
this is expected to be increased to at
least $20,000 a year by the end of this
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Hitler—Will It Be Peace or War? World Awaits
Fuehrer Adolf Hitler with his aides, and center, speaking
Once more Europe is tense, wondering whether it
will be peace or war. The crisis centers about the
figure of Fuehrer Adolf Hitler, Germany’s dictator,
ifie key point is Hitler’s decision on whether to
intervene in Spain. Europe maintains a mount
ing hope that Germany will avoid any step en-
Drastic Tax
Probable On
Intanglibles
Dally Dispatch Bureau,
In the Sir Wnlter Hotel.
By J. C. BASKEIIVILL
Raleigh, Dec. 28.—A Statewide tax
cn intangible property, such as cash
deposits and savings in banks, notes,
mortgages, stocks, bonds and possi
bly even on the cash value of life in
surance policies, is regarded as cer
tain to be proposed in the forthcom
ing General Assembly, according to
reports which have been current for
several weeks. A good many observers
are already ceitain that such a tax
may even be recommended by the Ad
visory Budget Commission in its re
commendations to the New General
Assembly and that it v/ill he included
ir. the revenue bill recommended by
the commission.
Those *vho have been studying the
possibilities of a tax of this nature
are already convinced that it would
y’eld several millions of dollars a year
and go a long way towards providing
the new revenue needed for the vari
ous social security projects, especially
old age pensions. It is maintained that
the counties could not get much from
a tax of this sort because of the dif
ficulty of collecting it, but that the
State can get much from it, because
it can collect it so much better.
A tax on intangibles has not been
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year, a.s a result of the new special
security agencies which have already
been created or which will be created
■by the forthcoming General. Assem
bly. This amount would be more than
enough to pay the interest and retire
the bonds for a new State office build
ing, it is maintained.
What the State really needs is about
a 12-story office building, or even a
15-story building, since there is need
for that much space already, in the
opinion of Commissioner of Labor A.
L. Fletcher. The Industrial Commis
sion, which now pay s some SBOO a
month for space in a downtown of
fice building, could use two floors of
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HENDERSON, N. C., MONDAY AFTERNOON, DECEMBER 28, 1936
Germany Will Skirt War
With Spain But Avoid It
Six-Power Naval
. Patrol Suggested
London, Dec. 28.— (AP) —A six
power naval patrol designed to
“keep volunteers and arms out of
Spain” is under consideration by
British officials, informed sources
asserted today.
Germany, Russia, Italy and Por
tugal may be invited to join Great
Britain and France in forming the
coastal patrols, they said.
Ships of the fleets would carry
foreign observers as a guarantee
of impartiality in blockading ship
ments of munitions and men to
either side in the Spanish civil war,
reliable persons declared.
In authoritative quarters, the
plan was described as “scrapping”
ail previous efforts of the interna
tional non-intervention committee
and making a new start to isolate
the Spanish conflict.
MINE UNION GAVE
FDR Um SUM
But Little Is Heard of That
as Huge Contribution
In Election
By CHARLES P. STEWART
Central Press Columnist
Washington, Dec. 28. —Quite a lot
has been said about huge contribu
tions by plutocratic folk to the last
Republican campaign fuud.
Less emphasis has been laid upon
the fact that expenditures in the
Democratic party’s behalf are said to
have run to an extraordinarily snug
figure in the case of at least one in
terest which may fairly be described
as “special”— though it wasn’t pluto
cratic but proletarian.
In short, Senator Agustine Loner
gan’s campaign Investigating com
mittee chalks up $469,668.91 as having
been spent by the United Mine Work
ers of America on the Rooseveltian
side of the contest.
ALL FROM WORKERS
This total is disputed, to be sure,
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dangering widespread peace. Above Hitler la
shown, right, with two military aides, War Min
ister Werner von Blomberg and Air Minister Her
mann Goering, extreme left. In center, he is seen
speaking. Goering ranks second in power to
Hitler.
Will Permit Volunteers To
Join Fascist Armies and
May Convey Her
Own Vessels
ARMED RESCUE FOR
SHIP IS UNLIKELY
Steamer Palos Reported To
Have Carried Contraband
Materials When Seized By
Socialist Government Au
thorities; Britain Sees
Hope for Peace
(By The Associated Press)
Germany will skirt the edge of war
with Socialist Spain without resort
ing to actual hostilities, persons in au
thority in Berlin indicated today.
Berlin —Tne Reich probably will con
tinue to permit volunteers to sail for
Fascist Spain and may station war
ships at a Spanish Fascist port to
convoy German vessels. There will
be no armed rescue of the seized
freighter Palos at Bilboa, and whole
units of the regular army will not be
sent to the war.
Bayonne, France —'Basque authori
ties at Bilboa, supporting the Madrid-
Valencia government, said the master
of the Palos had destroyed compro
mising” documents before last week’s
capture, that she carried contraband
of war, and that there was no ques
tion of her release.
London —Great Britain held grow
ing hopes Spanish refusal to free the
Palos would be settled through diplo
matic channels.
OUR WEATHER MAN
FOR NORTH CAROLINA.
Cloudy, probably scattered show
ers tonight and Tuesday; slightly
colder Tuesday.
U.S.SALESTAXON
TOBACCO PROPOSED
AS CONTROL PLAN
Hutson Makes Suggestion
as Possible Way To Main
tain High Prices
For 1937
TWO OTHER PLANS
ARE ALSO OFFERED
One Is Continuation of Soil
Program and Other Would
Be To Supplement That
With State Compacts as
Authorized by Congress at
the Last Session
Washington, Dec. 28. —(AP) —J. B.
Hutson, Federal tobacco expert, sug
gested today a Federal sales tax on to
bacco, combined with a subsidized
crop control, as a possible way to
maintain profitable prices next year.
Talking informally with a national
steering committee called here from
eleven tobacco growing states, Hut
son, AAA assistant administrator said
three courses were open for possible
agreement:
First, continuation of the soil con
servation program alone, “with as
much control as possible with a bi
product.’’
Second, supplement this with State
compacts as authorized by Congress
last session.
Third, Federal sales tax program,
possibly 20 percent on the first sale
of tobacco, with a separate congres
sional act appropriating ten percent
of the Federal customs receipts to
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GREEK STEAMER IS
SINKING AT SHOALS
Filling With Water Off Frying Pan
Shoals, Coast Guard Cutter
Reports from Scene
Wilmington, Dec. 28 (AP) —The
United States Coast Guard Cutter
Modoc wirelessed the Oak Island
Coast Guard station at Southport this
morning the Greek steamer Mount
Dirsys, which went aground on Fry
ing Pan Shoals Saturday is filling
with water.
The Moaoc said she was abandon
ing efforts to remove the stricken
steamer as the Tug Reliance of Nor
folk, was then in sight and was ex
pected to begin efforts to remove
the steamer this afternoon.
Meanwhile, the cutter reported she
had replaced some of the members of
the crew removed from the steamer
last niglht (when she was deemed
unsafe.
COLUMBUS FARMER
SENT UP TO COURT
Albert Shepherd, 44, Charged With
Keeping 14-Year-Old Girl in
Cavern Under Garage
Evergreen, N. C., Dec. 28 (AP) —
Albert Shepard, 44-year-old farmer of
this community, was bound to Colum
bus Superior Court on charges of kid
naping and having carnal knowledge
of Estelle Shaw, 14-year-old local girl,
after a preliminary hearing here be
fore Magistrate W. T. O’Berry this
morning.
The search for the girl, daughter of
a neighboring farmer, who had been
(missing since November 3s led a
posse under the direction of Sheriff
Herman Stanley to Shepard’s farm
about two weeks ago. There the girl
was found in a cavern beneath Shep
ard’s garage. Officers said Shepard
was there with her, but escaped into
the night halfclad.
Bond for Shepard was at $3,000,
which he had not posted prior to noon
today.
parolEslsTate
ON MERIT SYSTEM
That Is Why Christmas
Clemency by Governor
Is So Very Scarce
Daily Dispatch Bureau,
In the Sir Walter Hotel.
By J. C. BASKERVILL
Raleigh, Dec. 28.—'The principal
reason no “Christmas paroles’’ have
been issued to prisoners in a number
of years is that, under the parole sys
tem in effect in North Carolina, cle
mency is based solely upon merit or
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EXCEPT SUNDAY.
Wreckage Sighted
Atop Os Ridge Os
California Hills
Chiang May Give
Chang Job Again
Nanking, Dec. 28 (AP)—Marshal
Chang Hseuh-Liang, it was believ
ed today, will be restored to the
army he led in the revolt against
Chiang Kai-Shek and the civil cris
is his capture of the premier pre
cipitated will soon be forgotten.
Chiang was reported already to
have told his erstwhile captor he
would be returned to Sianfu, rebel
lion seat, and his military post.
“Legally, the marsh; i is guilty
of treason and should suffer a tra
itor’s punishment,” a loreign min
ister said, “but his release of the
generalissimo t. harmed, Was en
titled him to consideration.”
60 Are Dead
In Air Raids
From Rebels
Insurgent Planes
Bomb Santander,
Loyalist Govern
ment City in Spain
Madrid. Dec. 28 (AP) —Insun-
gent bombing planes attacked the
northern coastal city of Santand
er yesterday, killing 60 persons in
a destructive air raid, the Social
ist defense council reported oday.
In the capital the Socialist com
mand claimed advances on the
western line of fortifications
along the Manzanares river.
Militiamen seized insurgent
trenches and fortified houses on
the edge of the Usera district, the
council said.
Capture of strategic positions
on opposite sides of Madrid was
reported in an official communi
que.
Man Admits That
He Slew His Wife
By Firing on Her
Kenansville, Dec 28 (AP) —Dep-
uty Sheriff German Powell said to
day James Wilson, of Mount Gil
ead, had atimit.ed he fired the
shot killing his young wife De
cember 19, but that the
old farmer insisted it was an
cident.
Powell said Wilson called him
to his jail cell where he has been
held since the day after the shoot
ing and dictated his statement to
him and to the Icierk of thv court,
R. Vowell Wells.
Earlier, officers had quoted Wil
son as saying his wife, Adele, had
committed suicide.
SAYS CONSTITUTION
: UNCONSTITUTIONAL
Nation’s Gigantic Law Is
Framed Contrary to
States’ Instructions
By CHARLES P. STEWART
Central Press Columnist
Washington, ,Dec. 28 —“If ever a con
stitution was unconstitutionally adopt
ed it was the Constitution of the Unit
ed States,” says Congressman Sol
Bloom, who is direcor general of our
Constitution’s sesqui-ce tennial cele
bration.
“You see,” explained the New York
representative, “the pre-constituticnul
Congress which voted the convention
which framed the Constitution did
not vote a convention to frame a con
stitution at all. It voted a convention
to revise the articles of confederation,
and the states sent their delegates to
the gathering on that supposition.
“Insead of going ahead with the job
assigned to it, the convention turned
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Rest cf Plane ‘‘All Spread
Out” in Valley Below Is
Word 1 Brought By
Searchers
SEEMING TRAGEDY
NEAR BUR3ANK, CAL.
Meantime, Fruitless Search
Goes on for Plane Missing
With Seven Aboard in
Utah Since December 15;
ißcdies Found in Northern
Idaho
Burbank, Cal., Dec. 28 (AP)
—United Air Lines announced
today searchers had sighted the
wings of an airplane in the
mountains north of here, pre
sumably their missing air liner
with 12 persons aboard.
The wreckage was seen from the
air near Saugus, about 15 miles from
here.
Airport Manager R. D. Dickinson,
flying his own plane, returned to Bur
bank shortly after 10 a. m., Pacific
time, telling United Air Lines execu
tives he saw the ship’s wings atop a
ridge.
He reported the rest of the trans
port was “all spread out” in the val
ley below.
INTENSIVE SEARCH OF
WIDE ARI A CARRIED ON
Burbank, Cal., Dec. 28 (AP) —Three
air liners sped northward into threat
ening skies today, carrying searchers
fer an Unted Air Line transport with
four women and eight men, the third
laige passenger ship to disappear in
the west this month.
Twelve hours overdue, the latest
ship was feared to have crashed as it
approached the Union air terminal
here last night from SarT Francisco.
The ship’s radio was silenced after
reporting it was about to land.
A regularly scheduled air liner and
two surplus transports piloted by
TJnited’s men. hopped off a few min
utes after 7 a. m., Pacific time (10 a.
m., eastern standard time).
They were instructed to make a de
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RECORD BIG STILL
IS TAKEN IN EAST
Charlotte, Dec 28 (AP)—Seiz
ure of what a Federal officer
termed the largest still ever taken
in North Car .tina was reported
today to Edward Patton, investi
gator of the Internal Revenue De
partment.
The still, found in the Blount
Creek section of Beaufort county,
had a 100-h -r; t-power boiler and
a capacity o. i,OOO gallons, Patton
said.
A total of 20,700 gallons of mash
150 gallons of liquor and 2,600
pounds of sugar was taken, he
said. •
Kidnap Gang
Grabs Son Os
Ambassador
Ecuadorean, Envoy
Reports Incident of
Christmas Night to
Government
Washington, Dec. 28. —(AP)— The
Ecuador ambassador, Senor C. E.
Alfaro, reported to the State Depart
ment today his 15-year-old son had
been restored to his home after hav
ing been kidnaped by three unidenti
fied men Christmas night. He had
been missing about five hours.
The ambassador gave details to
Walton Moore, acting secretary of
state, bu made no request for action
by this government.
Moore said he assumed Washing
ton police were handling the case.
The envoy’s son, Olmeda Alfaro,
told his father ue was strolling near
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