North Carolina Newspapers

Two Aerial Daredevils Start on Non-Stop Trip ? , Reginald Robbins and H. S. Jones Hope, to Reach Goal 5,000 Away by Refueling in Air Seattle, Wash., July 8.?Two dare devil fliers rode their yellow and white monoplane northward tonight in quest of a record no mait has yet at tained, a nan-stop flight of 5,100 miles over treacherous land and sea to Tokyo. * Reginald C. Robbins, a Texan who broadens his As, and Harold S. Jones, oil man who flies as a hobby, started with the dawn from Seattle, pointed the nose of their Lockheed-Vega ship * toward Fairbanks, Alaska, for the first of two scheduled refuelings in the air, and flew steadily all day. They were reported passing over Prince George, B. C., shortly before - 9:30 a. m., Pacific coast time. From a previous sighting at Soda Creek, B. C., it was calculated that they were ( flying slightly less than 100 miles an hour, the ideal speed for their fuel- , economizing motor that burns only ( about half as much gasoline per hour as similar faster models. From Prince George they head acress Stuart Lake into the wild mountain wilder- ( ness of British Columbia. Robbins, 28 year old drawling sou therner, who said he was "kidded" in to risking his neck in this attempt to win a $25,000 prize, was at the con trols of the monoplane Fort Worth as it roared along on the flight that may become an epic. _ .< Jones, an oil man who left Cnicago for Texas and a fortune, was the nav- ,j igator. Laughingly, he told friends , before they started that "if we land on a cake of ice in Siberia, it will be ( my fault." Lifting their heavily loaded plane with difficulty, the fliers, eager to get away after being delayed five days, took off into a hazy Pacific dawn at 3:59 a. m. Eastern standard time. .As Jones, smiling broadly and pre dicting he would "have his next real cockpit, there was a commotion near meal in Tokyo," stepped into the cockpit, there was a commotion near by. Robbins, looking more like a cowboy than an aviator, was having trouble convincing a policeman he should be allowed near the ship. "Man, ah'm goin' to ride in that ship to Tokyo," exclaimed Robbins, , embarrassed, as the policeman shoved him backward. The policeman apologized. Robbins climbed aboard, and almost before the group realized he was in the pockpit , the ship was rolling down the runway, wabbling dangerously under its heavy load of 410 gallons of gasoline. "Tokyo by tomorrow night," shout ed Jones, as the ship rolled away. "So long," shouted Robbins. The ship picked up speed slowly as it roared down the long runway and for a moment spectators gasped as it appeared Robbins would not be able to lift it in time to clear some trolly wires. The route Robbins and Jones plan ned to follow would take them first to Fairbanks, then to Nome for the final refueling, thence westward across the ocean and down the Asia tic coast to Tokyo, where a $25,000 prize, offered by a Japanese newspa per for the first non-stop airplane flight from the United States to Ja pan, awaits them. Jones, to whom Robbins leaves most of the talking, estimated the trip would take about 55 hours. The Fort Worth, built more for endurance than for speed, has a cruising speed of ap proximately 100 miles per hour. It uses only from 111-2 to 12 1-2 gal lons of gasoline per hour in contrast to almost double that amount by speedier ships of the 3ame design, such as Wiley Post and Harold Gatty used in their flight around the globe. The fliers carried only a few sand wiches, prepared for them by the chef of Washington Athletic Cluh. U. S. Takes Mai Sehnefing Champion Musi Pay the 1 Government $17,546 on Share of (lie Gate | Cleveland, July 6.?Max Schmeling will have to give Undo Sam 117,546 on his share of the gate in his title bout Friday night and may jtove to pay an additional yw to 6I? cative by the. internal fievenue Bureau here on the basis of flfl?,l38X which promoter Dick Dunn said was the champion's share. Tax officials ?ahi Schmeling will have to pay the differ Slate's Deficit Is $2,230,064 Explanation Made That $720,000 Due to Late Collection of Taxes Raleigh, July 9.?North Carolina's third biennium under the executive budget act ended" on June 30 with a deficit of $2,230,064 as compared with a surplus of $1,403,583 on June 30, 1927, and $2,121,079 on June 30, 1929, it was officially announced yesterday by the budget bureau. The actual deficit compares with an estimated deficit carried in the pres ent budget of $1,224,151. The statement issued in the name of Governor O. Max Gardner, ex-offi cio director of the budget, who is ex pected back today from a ten day va- j cation that has included Atlantic City, New York and Shelby, explains the deficit as due entirely to shrinkage in collections. It is explained that ex penditures only exceeded the esti mates of last November, which had been revised downward sharply, by only $122, although the general as sembly exceeded its own appropria tion of $180,853 by $5r,737, and it was necessary also to absorb an in crease in debt service expense ,of $50,531. ' "On the decrease in revenue collec tions, $240,000 inheritance taxes are assessed but uncollected and $480,000 Schedule B license taxes should have been collected in June, but on ac count of the general assembly pass ing the revenue act as late as the end of May, collections of Schedule B usu ally begun June 1 were only begun July 1," says the statement "These two items will be collected now in 1931-32 the effect is to increase the debit balance to .$2,230,064 when it should be $1,510,064. The disadvan tage to the year 1930-31 should be to the advantage of 1931-32 and the re sults for the biennium should not be affected." "The collections for 1930-31 should be a warning to us for the new bien nium a call for economy and retrench ment in spending," says the 'state ment, presumably written by Henry Burke, assistant director of the budget. The statement shows that revenue fell $86,775 below estimates for the fiscal year 1929-30 and $3,392,190 be low estimates for the year 1930-31. Roger Caldwell Found Guilty Tennessee Banker Con victed in First of Trials Growing Out of Crash Nashville, Tenn., July 6.?Eight months after his nationally known in vestment banking house failed, Rog ers Caldwell was convicted today on the first of several criminal charges growing out of the collapse, and the jury fixed his punishment at one to three years' imprisonment. The 41-year-old president of Cald well and Company was found guilty of fraudulent breach of truft, a charge carrying indeterminate? Sen tence of one to ten years in the dis cretion of the jury. Regardless of the maximum ' stipulated, however, one is eligible for parole after eleven months. Counsel* for Caldwell gave notice of a mation for a new trial. "The verdict came as a tremendous surprise," the former banker told newspaper men. "I shall use .every means I can to fight it. #I am confi dent of complete vindication eventu ally," He was accused in the indictment of having moved collateral pledged to secure deposits of Hardeman county, Tennessee, and to have substituted securities of less value in violation .of a trust agreement with the county. * ? Harold patty and WOey Post (right) are sfrwh looking-at course of the night tney nave eiccmnea uie world by nuking. Ten days was all tbey allowed^for the feat. Below are shown closcups of Post (left) and Gatty. Above is shown Ruth Nichols' plane shorty hefioreit crashed lm attempt to fly the Atlantic. * ^ New Auto Law Is Severe On Drivers Law Says You Must Compensate Those You Injure or Surrender Drivers'1 License Greenville, July 9.?A new law which went in effect in this state on July 1 penalizes reckless driving and points the way to sound protection both for motorists and those dotting the daily casualty list in the state, says Mr. Moseley, local agent of the Standard Accident Insurance Com pany, Detroit, Michigan. Mr. Moseley continues: "It is a sound law and a credit to the state which has been often wise in its legislative acts. It is sound be cause it reaches the reckless drivers without making safe drivers suffer its rebound. It is sensible because it points rather than forces the way to sound accident cost production?it has teeth because the law is almost auto matic in its enforcible qualities. "If you cannot compensate those whom you injure while driving and through your own fault then you can not drive, says te law. "The law takes a shot at reckless driving in the clause which, says, 'Op erators' and chauffeurs' license and registration certificates of any person shall be forfeited if convicted or pleading guilty to any reckless driv ing while in the state.' "The new Financial Responsibility Law points the way to sound auto in-1 surance protection, when it says, 'Op erators' and chauffeurs' license and registration certificates of any per son shall be revoked in case of fail ure within 3C days thereafter to sat-1 isfy any judgment which shall have become final for damages on account of personal injury or damage to prop erty in excess of $50.00 and the li cense or registration certificate will not be renewed until such judgment shall be satisfied.' Bankruptcy will satisfy the judgment but will not give back the license or registration plates." "DADDY" DISTILLERY IS FOUND IN EDGECOMBE Tarboro, July 6.?Chief of Police J. T. Parker and Deputy Sheriff C. E. Pridgen made a raid 6n a still Friday afternoon in No. 13 township near Norville's store, and found one of the largest and best equipped stills in cent years. It was a still of 50 gal lons' capacity steam plant. The offi cers found three vats with 3,000 gal lons of beer, two wboden tubs, six barrels and a pump. They took pos session of the still and the equipment, but the operators could not" be lo cated. HIGHWAY SYSTEM SAVES $1,000 DAILY Raleigh, July 9.?A savings of ap proximately $1,000 a day in the main tenaee of the 10,000 miles of state highways, has been announced by Les lie R. Ames, highway engineer. Mr. Ames explained the sayings had been effected chiefly by elimin ating of^ lOl of the 369 maintenance sectiond. In addition, a t?h per cent cut in wages was put into effect for work ers on the revised sections. - . . ?. By . the.interception of eight letter*, i written jwith lemon juice, the warden of the state penitentiary, Salt Lake City, was" enabled to frustrate a plot i Ounnj[ his 12 y^ears .^^s cluef ThisfVeekln Washingto | Washington^ D. C., July 9.?The weeks that have elapsed since Resi dent Hoover made his notable sug gestion for a debt moratorium to the European governments have served only to strengthen his position. When a week later iie hacked it up by a suggestion to the Federal Farm Board that it withhold its surplus of wheat until the domestic price had gained a satisfactory level, he only added to his prestige. In both moves he has done what the country has been demanding of him; assume active leadership. Mr. Hoover has never been accused of lacking force, but ? many observers had come to wonder whether his life time habit of proceeding as the head of a big business was not handicap ping bim as far as results were cor cerned. Acting as bead of a concern staffed with politicians is far differ ent from initiating the policies of a private, business concern, and his at tempt to adapt his old methods is said by many hare tfehavu been the cause for many of hls Hecisiohfl tfiaf Kate aroused criticism. Twice within a month he has bro ken through red tape, each time his action being met with such a storm of approval that it will undoubtedly hearten him to similar actions. As Will Rogers, one of the most astute of all commentators on public offi cials, says, the coming campaign is almost certain to be a contest between Hoover and Curtis, on one side, and Governor Roosevelt and some running mate on the other. The strong tide that is setting in favor of Vice President Curtis' re nomination, threatens to overturn one political precedent, that no vice presi dent ever succeeds himself. In the 150 years of this government there has always been a different vice'pres ident every four years and Curtis, if he is^re-elected, will hold a unique honor. His choice is by no means sure, as political trades for votes for head of the ticket at rtext summer's convention may return him to his Kansas prairies. John 'J. Ra&kob, the executive head of the Democratic party, who has just returned from a three months' trip to Europe, has nothing but praise for President Hoover's debt proposal, but declares it has nothing to do with the coming campaign, which will be fought on the old familiar lines of prohibition and the tariff. What he does not say, however, is that- the president has unquestionably won votes by his display of eminent states manship and bis evident desire to give the country the leadership it had a right to expect from a man of his known ability. Foreign newspapers frankly ex plain that the <iebt proposal means less in actual financial relief than in its psychological aspects. The .first announcement resulted in a healthier I tone in all business lines, including the big exchanges where the greatest sensitiveness is always shown to po litical moves. Stocks have kept climbing and both wholesale and lie tail business in this country and abroad, have shown marked improve ment ? Nobody expected an overnight return to the prosperity of 1928 so there is no feeling, that the plan is merely a political gesture instead of a practical project for releasing the restrictions on capital, which all con cede is the real cause of the present ent hard times, along with drought and over-production. The president's attitude towards helping out the South American re publics in a financial way is another thing that is adding to his popular ity. South America is a market that must always be fought for by this country, Europe being actually near er to it in aailing time than New York, besides being closer in blood ties and culture. By initiating plans for financial help, Mr. Hoover has mAde-a strong bid for friendship that should result in substantial gains in trade, observers; asw-rt The impor tance of such markets is best shown ^ the^nt.good wifl trip M the Pnnce of .v Wales to all the leading Man Is Jailed For Shooting John Stepp Believed to Be Fatally Injured by Roscoe Wainwright in Shooting Affray Greenville, July 7.?Roscoe Wain wright, Farmville painter, was lodg ed in the county jail here yesterday charged with shooting and probably fatally wounding John Stepp during an altercation in Marlborough, about a mile from Farmville, last Saturday night Stepp, who was brought to the hos pital here immediately after the shooting, was described as dangerous ly wounded and little hope was held out for his recovery. An entire load of gunshot was fired into his thigh, almost' completely shattering that sec tion of the body. Wainwright and Stepp were said to have disagreed over some work; which they had previously done. When the argument reached its height, Wainwright was said to have gone home/ obtained a shotgun and returned to the s&ne of the verbal engagement When the argument was resumed, he was alleged to have fired Stepp. : Walter Stepp, brother of the in jured man, Was said to have attempted to intervene, but was hit across the head with the gun barrel by Wain wright. His injuries werer arid ^ U W aimm'ght was nen - committal Seventy-Four Physicians Pass State Board ' ?' Second Time in History That AM Who Took Ex amination Passed ? Raleigh, July 6.?Seventy-four new physicians, all who took the recent medical examination, held licenses to day to practice in North Carolina. ? The licenses were awarded yester day by the State Board of Medical Examiners, Dr. John W. McConnell. secretary of the board, said it was t.ie second time in the history of the state that all who took the examination passed. In addition to the 74, thirteen were issued licenses by ? endorsement r of credentials from other states, making a total of 87 to receive licenses. Those licensed included one white woman, Mrs. Vida C. McLeod, whose husband is a physician at Southern Pines ;one negro woman and three In the examination, Arthur B. Pea cock and Clayce R. Tew, both of Ra leigh, tied for high honors with marks of 95. Both studied at Wake Forest, Peacock later attended Jef ferson Medical School, Philadelphia, and Tew, Johns Hopkins, Baltimore. The board elected Dr. T. W. W. Long, of Roanoke Rapids, president for one year. Dr. McConnell, of Da vidson, was re-elected secretary for the fifth time. I ' * " I French Agree to Pkm to Suspend Payments 1 Year President Hoover An nounces Acceptance of His Plan by All of Im portant Powers Washington, July 6. ? President Hoover announced tonight that his proposal for a one-year suspension of war debts and reparation payments has been accepted in principle by all the important creditor governments. ? To ail intents, the proposal, which may make history, went into moral effect when the president, standing with his right, hand thrust in his trouser pocket, read his announce ment to newspaper men. The plan is effective as of July 1. Details remain to be worked out. A committee of experts, with an American observer, will settle these details. They will be instructed, as the president had insisted, to reach their agreement within the spirit of the president's plan. This spirit, briefly, is to give Ger many a real one-year holiday from her staggering reparations burden. Behind this idea is that by saving Germany from her imminent financial collapse, and in turn by relieving Eu ropean governments generally of war debt payments for one year, the world may be helped out of its economic de pression. For 16 days the president has worked, to the exclusion of nearly all other business, on his debt plan. The end came suddenly, after a series of conferences in Paris, with Secretary of the Treasury Andrew W. Mellon as chief American negotiator. There was a series of telephone conversa tions between Mellon and the White House also. The result was the dispatch of a French note, which, the president said, accepted his plan in principle. mere was compromise on Doth shies. France has receded from her original stand materially. The presi dent was willing to offer every pos sible concession, desiring to make the debt holiday a friendly one and real izing the sacrifices France was forced to make. He insisted only that the debt and reparations holiday should be a real one, and this point his an nouncement indicated ;he had won. "^^pi^fSehtV imri&dricement to newspaper men summarized the sit uation. The terms of the French ac ceptance, he said, were subject to ap proval of other interested govern ments. .He does not expect any diffi culty as to this, it was indicated. Germany, as expected, will make some payments in reparations in kind. The president's only concern in this matter was to insure that these pay ments, which are under current con tracts that could not well be suspend ed or cancelled, were not large enough to deprive Germany of a sub stantial amount of the reparations she normally pays. The president pointed out that al together $800,000,060 is involved in I his suspension plan. The sum sounds large. In terms of world trade, it is insignificant. But it means, from what has been developed since Mr. Hoover first announced his plan, a new era in Europe. No one in authority here believes that the debt and reparations struc ture can return exactly to its satus of a month ago. On the surface, however, the plan is a simple one, filled as it is with technical details. The' president's original proposal, made 16 days ago, on June 20, began: "The American government pro poses the postponement during one year of all payments on inter-gov ernmental debts, reparations and re lief debts, both principal and interest, of course, not including obligations of governments held by private parties. Subject to confirmation by congress, the American government will post pone all payments upon the debts of foreign governments to the American government -payable during the fiscal year beginning July 1 next (last Wednesday), conditional on a like postponement for one year of all pay ments on inter-governmental debts - owing the important credit^ pow ers. # This holiday, morally, is in effect now. The suspended ^febts and repa rations are to be repaid over a period of 10 years, beginning July 1, 19.13. Sets Record On Potatoes The Live at Home Farm Produces 160 Barrels Per Acre During the Present Season Greenville, July 7.?In addition to demonstrating the live at home idea as enunciated by prominent agricul tural leaders by prominent agricul tural leaders throughout the state, the State Live-at-Hqme farm on the Greenville - Bethel highway has es tablished something of a record in the production of Irish potatoes during the present season, it was revealed today. On two acres o'f land the farm produced spuds at the rate of 160 bar rels to the acre, including 20 barrels No. 2s. The normal yield per acre, it was said, is around 60 barrels, which gives the farm a record that others may shoot at a long time be fore surpassing. The farm had a total of 45 acres of potatoes under cultivation this year, and ha3 already marketed 2,500 bar rels of No. Is, with an unestimated number of barrels of No. 2s yet to be disposed of. The farm also epecxts to produce a bumper crop of sweet potatoes this year, and the first shipment is ex pected to be made around the middle of August. Thirty-three acres of po tatoes are under cultivation and give promise to exceptional yield. Approximately 120 acres of corn are under cultivation at this time, and if expectations ,are fulfilled, this will yield around 50 bushels to the acre. The average production per acre in this country is estimated at approximately 30 bushels to the acre which will give the farm a clean gain of 20 bushels per acre over the gen eral county average. Other sections of the farm are con fined to the cultivation of crops car rying out the live at home idea and show in an impressive way what can be accomplished in the various fields of agriculture. to^embracinif . 808 acres or fertile land, was established last year at the suggestion of Gover nor O. Max Gardner as a means of more fully impressing upon the grow ers the importance of raising more of the things which they consume at home. Scores of farmers have al ready profited by the plan and it is probable that Pitt county will pro duce more food crops this year than in any other year in the last decade. New Evidence in Clayton Killing Negress Says She Heard Someone Say ''You've Killed My Father" Smithfield, July 8.?Mary Penny, Clayton negress, will prove to be a Valuable witness at the inquest of Jesse J. Williams, Johnston county political leader, which occurred on June 26, at his residence in Clayton Mary Was seated on her front porch, which is directly back of the Williams residence, at the time the tragic shooting occurred. Mary stated that she heard a shot a little after midnight, which was preceded by a violent quarrel. She is of the opinion that several persons were participating in this quarrel, in stead of merely Williams and his wife as was previously stated by other wit nesses at an earlier investigation. Shortly after she heard the shot fired, Mary says, she heard someone, who she thinks was Jesse McCoy, 17 year old son of Williams, -exclaim, "You've killed my father." Sheriff Richardson stated Wednes day afternoon that two negro men who were walking the railroad, which divides the Williams residence from the home of Mary Penny, have stated that they heard a similar shot and - exclamation. Coroner James H. Kirk man has not made known the identity of these two negroes. ? ? ' It has been said that there waa an attempt to prove that Williams waa shot before he arrived home. This theory has been exploded by the tes timony of several young men of Clay- r ton who talked with Williams just before he entered his residence that aight In .the minds of the most of the . * cit&etm of Clayton and of the neigh boring community, Williams is thought not to haVe committed sui cide. All of the carrier pigeons used by I the tJ. S. A. Signal Corps are hatched t at-Fort Monmouth, H. Jh * v ? ! ?*',?. ? ? - ;:.V. ? ?' ' ?' *? * A Classical Beauty % V'' - ? :? H 11 i