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HENDERSON GATEWAY TO CENTRAL CAROLINA TWENTY-FOURTH YEAR SPANISH WARSHIP SUNK, FIRST BY PLANES STATE INCOME FOR 10 MONTHS ROCKETS ABOVE 59 MILLIONS Gain of $11,323,853 Over Corresponding Ten Months Last Year Shown by Maxwell INCOME TAXES FOR PERIOD 10 MILLIONS Inheritance Levy Returns $3,872,215 and Gasoline Taxes Increase $2,273,000 to $18,074,994; Sales Tax $9,383,670, Gain of $908,- 153. Raleigh, April 30 (AP)—Skyrocket ing revenue receipts during the ten months ending today gave the State $59,617,248.30 income, Revenue Com missioner A. J. Maxwell announced, which represented an increase of 23.45 percent, or $11,853.05 over the similar period a year ago. Only two tax classifications, privi lege and miscellaneous groups, failed to show' an increase during the last ten months over the similar months in 1935-36. Income taxes to today toalled $lO,- 407,514.11, and inheritance taxes $3,- 872.215.89. In the highway fund gaso line taxes showed a gain of $2,273,001.- 90, with a total of $18,074,994.47. The sales tax in ten months return ed $9,383,670.17, a gain of $908,153 over last year. EURE WILL RETAIN OFFICE PERSONNEL Secretary of State Keeps Max Aber nethy and Adds Robersonville Stenographer Raleigh. April 30 (AP) —Thad Eure, secretary of State, announced the du ties of administration of the capital issues laws, being transferred from the Utilities Commission to his office tomorrow, would he “handled by the personnel of the department" Eure said Max Abernethy would be retained as deputy secretary of state and Miss Marjorie Smith, of Rober sonville, would join the staff tomor row as “an experienced stenographer.” TO CALL PARKERS IN KIDNAP TRIALS Government Plans To Use Defendants as Witnesses in Procedure At Newark, N. J. Newark, N. J., April 30 (AP) —The government disclosed its intentions today to call Ellis Parker and four co-defendants along with several high State officials as witnesses in the Wendel kidnap conspiracy trial re sulting from the Lindbergh kidnap ing. Federal Judge William Clark imme diately afterwards adjourned the trial until Monday morning. COTTON UP HIGHER ON FOREIGN CABLES lirnier Liverpool and More Assuring Financial Conditions Push Prices Up New York, April 30. futures opened very steady 18 to 21 higher on firmer Liverpool cables and :riore reassuring ’ reports on foreign financial conditions. After the first hour, July reacted from 12.98 to 12.85 leaving quotations two to nine points net higher. The market was about steady at midday with net ad vances of 9 to 11 points. July recover ed from 12.81 to 12.86. Futures closed steady, 22 to 25 higher. Spots steady, middling 13.51. Open Close Ma V •• 12.94 12.97 Jul y 12.93 13.03 October 12.71 12.78 December 12.70 12.75 January 12.73 12.7 S Maf ch 12.75 12.79 Juror For Henhardt Suspected Newcastle, Ky„ April 30 (AP)—Com °nwealth Attorney H. B. Kinsolving, an J Defence Attorney John Mar aii Berry said today one of the jur » in the Denihardt murder trial had rv. sci an a fDflavit stating Brigadier "eial Henry Denhardt could not fc Th fa * r tr * a * n Henry county. e defense, in its efforts to force (Continued on Page Six.} Ifettiiframt iailu iisuatdt Buys “Empire” || 1! m Allan P. Kirby Leading the trio of young men who purchased control of the vast Van Sweringen rail and real estate em pire, Allan P. Kirby, 41, of Wilkes- Barre, Pa., has been associated with wealth since birth. His father is F. M. Kirby, one of the chief stockhold ers of F. W. Woolworth Co., five-ten store operators. Others who joined Kirby in purchase of the “empire” from George W. Ball, Munice, Ind., fruit jar multi-millionaire, are Robert R. Young and Frank K. Kolbe, New York investment brokers. Waynick To Take Job Os State Buyer Had Decided to Pass It Up But Governor Persuades Him Into Staying Dally Dispatch Bnrens, In the Sir Walter Hotel. Hr J c HASKERVILI Raleigh, April 30—CapuS M. Way nick, who retires tomorrow as chair man of the State Highway and Pub lic Works Commission, will accept the appointment tendered him as direc tor of the Division of Purchase and Contract, despite the fact that he twice declined the appointment, also declined three other appointments ten dered him, according to the belief in official circles here today. While no announcement had been made this forenoon either by Governor Hoey or by Waynick, the conviction grew that Waynick will accept the new position which it is known Governor Hoey is urging him to take as head of the di vision which annually buys more than $50,000,000 worth of supplies each year for the State government, including the highway department. It was definitely learned today that when Waynick went to confer with Governor Hoey Wednesday afternoon he had definitely made up his mind to decline the appointment tendered him, that he did decline it, but that the Governor refused to accept his deci sion as final and persuaded him to re (Continued on Page Four.) ONLY NEW TAXES ON WINES AND LIQUORS Commissioner Maxwell Explains New System of Levies Going Into Effect May 1 By A. J. MAXWELL. State Commissioner of Revenue Raleigh, April 30 (AP) —The only new tax law that goes into effect on May 1 is the tax on wines and spirit uous liquors. The tax on spirituous liquorss, be ginning May 1. sold in county ABC stores, is seven percent of the gross sales, in lieu of the present tax at three percent. License and stamp taxes on wines become effective. Saturday morning, May 1, and consist of license taxes on quantities of wine sold to be evidenc ed by a revenue stamp on each pack age. License taxes are of two kinds, “on premises’.’ license, SSO, and off premises” licenses, $5. Two kinds of wine are permitted to be sold, unfortified and fortified wines. Each package is required to carry a revenue stamp, the stamp tax on unfortified wines at the rate of ten cents per gallon and on fortified wines at the rate of 30 cents per gallon. ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA AND VIRGINIA. leased wire service of the ASSOCIATED PRESS. HENDERSON, N. C., FRIDAY I; AFTERNOON, APRIL 30, 1937 WAVE OF STRIKES OF STRUGGLE ENDS Current Walkouts Few and Scattered, Compared to Hundreds Only Few Weeks Ago LOSSES STAGGERING IN MANY WALKOUTS Possible Violence Feared in Clash of A. F. of L. and C. I. O. Unions at Parker Dam in California; C. I. O. Sets Up Picket Lines Against Rival Parker Dam, Cal., April 30. —(AP) —Nearly 100 workers passed through silent and passive C. I. O. picket lines today and returned to jobs on Parker Dam, where officers had gateherd to curb possible violence. Not a hand was raised against the 94 men, members of the American Federation of Labor. More than 200 members of the C. I. O. were lined along the road for 100 yards leading to the dam. Chicago, April 30. —(AP) —A six months period of unprecedtented la bor turmoil in the United States end ed today with its wave of strikes on the ebb. Current walkouts, a survey showed, were comparatively few and scattered compared to the hundreds which flar ed only a few weeks ago. Exactly a half year ago today, Pa cific coast maritime workers began a walkout, the first major manifes tation of labor unrest that was de stoned to cross the continent. Statisticians calculated the cost of industrial conflict in millions. The United States Department of (Labor (Continued on Page Four.) Roosevelt * In Fishing Water Now New Orleans, La., April 30. —(AP) —A radio report to temporary White House headquarters here today said the destroyer Moffett, carrying Presi dent Roosevelt on his fishing vaca tion, was cruising in the gulf after developing slight engine trouble near the mouth of the Mississippi rived last night. The message said the new destroy er developed a clogged oil line and put in at Pilottown at the mouth of the river shortly (before 10 p. m. The trouble was remedied and the iship got under way again early this morning, and was expected to trans fer the President to the U. S. Potomac sometime today. ROCKY MOUNT HOLDS . ITS CITY ELECTION » Mayor and Five Aldermen Being Chosen in Face of Record Registration of Voters Rocky Mount, April 30 (AP)—With a »£cord registration on the books, Rocky Mount voters went to the polls today to elect a mayor and five ald ermen. J. Q. Robinson, railroad man and alderman, was seeking to unseat Mayor T. W. Coleman, venerable city official and business man. fiEALKim Trying to 'Sell State! “Up town” Lot for New Of fice Structure i i" ■ Dali? Dianatch Bareaa. In the Sir Walter Hotel. R* J C. BASKERVILL Raleigh, April 30. —Local real es tate men here are trying desperate ly to persuade the building commis sion in charge of the erection of a new State office building and the ex penditure of some $650,000 of State money to spend part of this for a building site near Capitol Square, and are doing everything possible to get the commission interested in some other location for the building than the State-owned land in Caswell Square, where the State Board of Health building is now located. Mem bers of the commission have intimat (Continued on Page Four.) KING WINTER PLAYS A PRANK—OUT OF SEASON ft Snowbound tractor at Crookston, Minn. One of th4 worst spring snowstorms in history in Minnesota’s Red River valley snaps telephone lines, fells power poles and causes much damage. Snow Babson Again Warns Os Federal Spending Spree And Says Disaster Sure Beard in Cell To Await Fatal Day i | «4» i ‘-i. »■ ■ • Huntsville, Texas, April 30. (AP) —Dwight Beard, 27-year-old convicted murderer from Valdese, N. C., returned to a cell in Hunts ville prison today to await death in the electric chair June 4 for the slaying of John Roberts, 69, a re tired policeman. The court of criminal appeals de nied Beard’s .motion for a rehear ing lalst week and Judge Groer Adams set the execution date in Dallas yesterday. Beard, a college-trained man man who escaped from a North Carolina prison wihile serving a life term for murder, was convict ed of slaying Roberts during a Dallas hold-up December 23, 1935. ROOSEVELT LEADS f 1 Oldsters Won’t Go With Him, and Youngsters Go for Their Future By CHARLES P. STEWART Central Press Columnist Washington, April 30.—Tom L. Stokes, a political commentator for whose opinions both official Wash ington and the capital’s newspaper corps have a high respect, spoke in the most casual fashion in a recent article of “the new party that” Presi dent Roosevelt “has envisioned." It was just an incidental reference, Tom did not take the trouble to as sert that the President does “en vision” a new party. He simply took it for granted that every one knows he does. And it’s a curious thing that every (Continued on Page Three.) 245,000 CABMEN IN LONDON MAY QUIT London, April 30 (AP) —A strike by 245,000 bus men at midnight threatened London and its sub urbs today. There were about 125,000 in the • city proper and 120,000 in sur rounding counties, who announced they would step from their buses unless their demands were met by 4 p.m. tXIRW^THiPMAM FOR NORTH CAROLINA. Mostly cloudy tonight and Sat urday; showers Saturday. was 12 to 18 inches deep In places. This scene of a snowbound tractor was taken at Crookston. The moisture, however, is good for crops. —Central I’resa Federal Expenses Doubled Since 1932, but Nation al Income Third Un — der Peak LAUDS ROOsIEVELT ECONOMY DEMANDS Says Nation Should Back President in This Under taking; Danger Signal Is That No Progress Is Made Toward Balancing Budget; Recalls Warning BY ROGER w. BABSON, Copyright 1937, Publishers Financial Bureau, Inc. Marietta, Ohio, April 30. —President Roosevelt’s recent message on the budget was a vigorous, Courageous statement. He ras taken a strong stand on the economy issue. The na tion must back him, to the limit. His address has given the middle-of-the grounders— the great majority of the voters of the country—new hope. Thq President promised a balanced budget in his campaign last fall. There is no doubt how the voters felt on this is sue. Now it is time for Congress to HIGHTLIGHTS OF FEDERAL FINANCE 1. Federal Annual Expenses have increased 100 per cent since 1929 and now cost a family of five $275 per year. 2. Federal Debt for a family of five amounts to $3.75. 3. Tax Receipts are highest In history, yet our deficit for this year will be about $2,300,000,000. 4. Business is now 6 per cent above normal; but expenses are even now greater than when busi ness was much below nonjial. help the President carry out his plat form and put Federal finances back on a firm footing. My only interest in these political goings-on is to analyze their probable effect on business trends. During the past few years I have discussed many Washington developments—‘but from this angle only. On some occasions, I have applauded the government’s ef forts to end various abuses. On others I have differed sharply with its po licy. The basis of most of my criti cism has been that the government has set in motion forces which it may not be able to stop for many to come. For instance, the creatiori of consciousness of “class” is a danger ous rock to start rolling down the (Coatinued on Page Six.) COLONEL NEWELL ON STAFF OF GOVERNOR Henderson Military Man Named By Hoey from Among Other Mil itary Men of State Raleigh, April 30 (AP)—Gover nor Hoey announced appointment of his personal staff today. The governor pointed out under State laws all staff members must be National Guard officers. The staff members include: Colonel Hodge A. Newell, of Henderson; Captain Henry B. Culbreth, of Wilson. , PUBLISHED EVERY AFTBRNOON EXCEPT SUNDAY. Lord Speaks, Then Faster Sips Wine Chattanooga, Tenn., April 30. (AP) —A special dispatch to the Chattanooga News today from Stooping Oak said “the Lord spoke to Jackson Whitlow this morning, saying ‘Take a little wine for your stomaeh’s sake’.” “He preferred elderberry,”' the dispatch added. The brief report did not say whether the 45-year-old moun taineer had taken food. He began the religious fast 52 days ago after “a call from the Lord.” Kentucky’s Conditions Are Recited Harlan County Af fairs Related; Gov ernment Urges Vote on Court Issue Washington, April 30. — (AP) Theodore Middleton, two-fisted Ken tucky mountaineer, and high sheriff Harlan county, said at a Senate in quiry today he did not “as a rule” dis charge his deputies who commit viol ent crimes “until they are convicted.” The chief law enforcement officer 1 of the rich Kentucky coal county, long the scene of bloody labor battles, told the civil liberties committee two deputies whom he named as Wash Irvin and Frank White “gave me the guns’ with which they shot Hugh Taylor, another deputy, the night of February 28. Taylor had told the committee pre viously he was shot five times and leit in a. ditch for dead because he (Continued on Page Four.) SHARP GAINS FOR STOCKS ARE SHOWN Rails, Steels and Other Industrials Lead Way to Advances of One to Six Points New York, April 30.—(AP)—Rails, ably abetted by steels and other lead ing industrials, put rallying power be hind today’s# stock market. 'Gains of fractions to six or mord points appeared at the opening in fast dealings. Volume, however, con tracted later, and extreme advances were chipped off moderately in many instances near the fourth hour. United States governments were higher and commodities were mixed. Transfers were around 1,400,000 shares. _ American Radiator Z 2 1-2 American Telephone 162 1-2 American Tobacco B Anaconda ~ , Atlantic Coast Line 47 1-2 Atlantic Refining 11l Bethlehem Steel 1-4 Chrysler “J Columbia Gas & Elec Co 13 1-2 Commercial *5 Continental Oil Co DuPont "JJ Electric Power & Light : 20 General Electric 53 3-4 General Motors 58 1-4 Liggett & Myers B 98 Montgomery Ward & Co 55 3-8 Reynolds Tobacco B 50 1-4 Southern Railway 38 1-4 Standard Oil Co. N J 66 1-8 U S Steel 101 1A O PAGES O TODAY FIVE CENTS COPY FRANCE, BRITAIN TO AID,EVACUATION OF BILBAO POPULATION Refugees from Spanish Strife in Basque Country Will Be Returned There Later NO WARSHIP BEFORE EVER SUNK FROM AIR In All Naval History Such a Feat Has Not Been Accom plished As Government Planes Do To Insurgent Man of War; Loss Feared Heavy Bilbao, Spain, April 30.—(AP) —The Spanish insurgent battleship Espania was sunk today in 32 1-2 fathoms of the Biscayan Sea by a fleet of govern ment bombing planes, possibly with hundreds of casualties. She was the first war vessel of any size to be sunk by an airplane in all naval history. One hundred ten members of the crew of the Espania were known to have been saved ty the insurgent de stroyer Velasco, by government fish ing boats and by armed government trawlers from Santander. Hence, if the Espania carried hen full complement of 854 officers and men, that would leave 744 unaccount ed for. It was possible, however, many cf the rescued were not immediately reported. The government planes sent to thq aid of the beleaguered Basques by the main Valencia government struck back at sea, while insurgent armies rolled toward Bilbao’s “maginot line" of trenches from the southeast and ea3i, while insurgent planes blasted ferociously at Bilbao’s last lines of defense. Bilbao, a city of near hysteria, a waited foreign aid for the evacuation of her 300,000 non-combatant war re fugees. Tonight the civil governor of San (Continue I on Page Three.) CORONER PROBES IN FAYETTEVILLE DEATH Ernest Adderton, 19, Durham Roofer, Found Dead; Two Durham Men Are Questioned Fayetteville, April 30 (AP)—Coroner W. C. Davis began an investigation today of the death of Ernest Adder ton, 19, roofer of Durham, whose body was found in his room in a lodging house here last night. Davis said the cause of Adderton’s death was not apparent. When the body was found, he said, the head was partly under a bureau and the room was in disorder. Furniture was scattered about and a stove broken, the coroner said, but no other occu pants of the house heard any dis turbance. Two men, listed by Davis as Ora Goss and Wallace Fowler both of Dur- Roomers in the/ house, were questioned. TWO YOUTHS EXECUTED Knoxville Boys Were Convicted of Hold-Up Killing of Marketing Bureau Official Nashville, Tenn., April 30.—(API- Two 20-year-old Knoxville youths, Howard Dunn and William Farmer, died in the electric chair at dawn to day for thp murder of J. K. Milliken, an official of the Tennessee Market ing Bureau. Both walked stolidly to the chair. Dunn went first at 5:30 a. m., and Farmer followed ten minutes later. Each was pronounced dead within five minutes. The pair held up Milliken March 16, 1936. and both shot him after rob bing him of sls. They were captured in Florida 15 days later. Control, Not Money Urged By Governor •Raleigh, April 30 (AP) —Governor Hoey told the new State Alcoholic Beverage Control Board today as he understood it “the trend of the new liquor law is toward control rather than to find new revenues.” Hoey conferred with the board mem bers for the first time since they had taken office. Chairman Cutlar Moore said the board was studying control data from other states and preparing rules and regulations for North Carolina. He said no action on price lists would be taken until May 14, but add ed, “I don’t think there will be any increases allowed at aIL”
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