Henderson daily dispatch., April 12, 1932, Image 1

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HENDERSON,
GATEWAY TO
CENTRAL
CAROLINA.
NINETEENTH YEAR
BONUS GROUP SPLIT ON PLAN TO
Woman In Green Town Car
Sought In Lindbergh Case
As Woman With S2O Bill
GREEN SEDAN WAS
SEEN NEAR ROUSE
NW BABY LEFT
One Theory Is One Member
of Original Kidnapers
May Have Become Es
tranged Now
NORFOLK TRIO ARE
MORE PESSIMISTIC
Do Not Expect Child's Re.
turn As Result of Payment
of This $50,000; Writer of
Mysterious “Jafsie ' Ad In
Paper Is Quoted A* More
Hopeful
Hope-well. N J April 12. -IAPi A
rhick woman in a green town car be
(H.-ne r quarry in the great Lindbergh
ktdnapinc hunt today.
On the highwavsi of many states po
lice ««uzht her after a bakery pro
pi leue-.- hi Oieenwich. Conn., spotted
a JJO hill she proferred in payment
lm .i strawberry pie a* part of the
jviKut ransom mulcted from Colonel
Ch-irle. A Lindbergh.
The hunt was intensified when de
tertr.es mailed that a green sedan
u is seen neat the Lindbergh home on
NntirUnd Mountains on the night
o' th- kidnaping of Charles A. Lind
b-igh .It.. <>n March 1.
This development ami a theory that
•he person who took Colonel Lind
hcizhs JSii.nnn without returning the
stolen rhild was an estranged mem-
V-e, rkidnap gang, who no longer
hs.: ’h“ haby in his possession, stirred
th* mystery to a new boiling point.
,V«> word fiom the kidnapers since
th* swindle has been received by
Colonel Lindbergh, said Colonel H.
Norman Schwarzkopf, head of th?
N*w Jersey State police, after a ron
fe; rrre in New York with Colonel
H*nry l?r»ckenridge, legal advisor of
1 indbergh.
T>r John K Condon, aged educator,
dr-irnfred as the author of the series
of rrptir newspaper advertisements
. trued "Jafsie." which led to the
thwarted negotiations for the baby’s
le'arn. was believed to have attended
•h» conference. Dr Condon was quot
ed as believing the "situation would
adjust itself.’ hut the three Norfolk
ni'-n who have been negotiating with
a person thev believe to be an agent
h>i the kidnapers wer represnted as
Timistie about the return of the
•”»bv by the persons who took the
s><*¥>.
MRS. MARY LONDON
CALLED BY DEATH
Charlotte. April 12. fAPi Mrs.
Man N’orcotl Bryan London, wife of
I lent v A. Ijondon, died here today fol
lowing a serious illness of four weeks,
hum-nil services will beheld here to
nvii low.
Halifax Resolves Signed
Just 156 Years Ago Today
Hull y llloitalrh Itiirr.iM,
In Ikr Sir Wnllrr llatrl.
n> .« V. IUHKKKVII,I,
f:»lPi|h, April 12. North Carolina
'"•k the first step toward independ
*'•<*- from Great Britain 156 years
today, when the Provincial Con
»**i-3 unanimously adopted the “Hali
,: «x Resolution" empowering the North
* iitolina delegates in the Continental
r < -egress to "concur with the dele
ta*e-. of the other colonies in declar
it>« independency" from Great Britain
*’ was pointed out here today by Dr.
A It. Newsome. Secretary of the State
Historical Commission.
"This action was the first explicit
•'‘auction of Independence by any Am
erican colony and historians agree
ihat North Carolina achieved the per
manent distinction of being the first
colony to officially sanction the move
for independence from Great Britain."
Newsome said. "There is no doubt
but that the Halifax Resolution adopt
ed by the North Carolina Provincial
Congress so thrilled the other coloniea
that it is almost directly responsible
fur the more famed but later De
claration of Independence of July 4,
17“6.
"No event in the history of North
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VROFKSHOR JOHN T IfOMAS ALDERMAN
Prof. J. T. Alderman, 78,
Dies At His Home Here
Was 25 Year* Head of City Schools, Long High In Ma
sonic Fraternity and Prominent Leader In Baptist
Church; Funeral at Church Wednesday Afternoon
John Thomas Alderman, educator,
churchman, historian and prominent
Mason, died at his home on Turner
avenue in this city today at the age
of 78. He had been In falling health
for several months, and for several
days his condition had been critical.
Death was not unexpected.
Several woek ; ago. Professor Aldei
man. as he was affectionately known
throughout the city, and nearly every
one knew and respected him, under
went a serious abdominal operation
at Marla Parham hospital here, and
recovered from that ordeal. But he
Carolina should awaken more pride
or be better known to its f>eople than
the adoption of the Halifax Resolu
tion on April 12. 1776. It is a genuine
and creditable North Carolina "first.”
This date was ordered placed on the
.State Flage in 1685 and in 1909. the
date of April 12 was made a legal
holiday by the general assembly,"
The battle of Moore’s Creek Bridge
on February 27. 1776, gave a tremen
dous impetus to the independence
movement in North Carolina, and un
doubtedly the way for the
adoption of the Halifax Resolution,
Dr. Newsome believes. The resolution
was prepared by a committee com
posed of such outstanding leaders in
North Carolina at that time as Allen
Jones, Thomas Burke, Abner Nash,
John Kinchen, Thomas Person and
Thomas Jones. The chairman of the
committee was Cornelius Harnett. The
Fourth Provincial Congress, which au
thorized the preparation of the re
solution and then adopted it, was
in session in the little town of Hali
fax. About a month later, on May
15, the Virginia Provincial Congress
passed a similar resolution that had
been prepared by Richard Henry Lee.
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HENDERSON, N. C., TUESDAY AFTERNOON, APRIL 12, 1932
had suffered from a heart aliment,
which was considered the immediate
cause of his death.
Funeral services will be held from
the First Baptist church Wednesday
afternoon at 3 o’clock, in charge of
the pastor. Dr. H. A. Ellis, assisted
by De. Charles E. Maddry, of Ra
leigh. general secretary of the Baptist
State Convention, and interment will
be in Elmwood cemetery. Prof. -Aider
man was a past grand master of the
North Carolina Grand Lodge of
Masons, and that body is To have
tContlnued on Page Three.)
FACTS ON HAWAIIAN
LYNCHINGSOUGHT
Prosecution Tries To Bring
Out What Happened In
Fortescue Home
Honolulu, April 12 (AP)- Effort® to
picture what happened behind the
drawn blinds of the home of Mrs.
Granville Fortescue January 8 when
Joseph Kahahawai was allegedly
lynohed were made by the pYbedcution
today in the trial of the society wtv
man and three navy men for the kill
ing.
John C. Kdlley, public prosecutor,
has produced witnesses to link the de
fewfejijs with the abduction of Kaha
trswsl' and with the motor car (Sopped
jby v polled while rushing toward Koko
with the body, which apparently was
to have been thrown to the sharks.
The prosecutor lined up today’s wit
nesses In an attempt to show that the
killing took place in the orteecue
home. As far as te publicly known he
has no actual witnesses to the Shoot
jng, which ended Kahahatmi'f tife„
ORGANIZE!) LABOR
OPPOSES CUES FOR
FEOERALWORKERS
Such a Step Would Preface
Breakdown In American
Standard of Living,
Is Claim
EARLY SHOWDOWN
ON ISSUE IS SEEN
Meantime, Hoover Calls Spe
cial House Economy Com
mittee Together To Meet
With Him Again Tomor
row To Discuss Further
Expense Slashes
Washington, April 12. (AP) An
early showdown on Federal pay cuts
was assured today as a new protest
came from the American Federation
of Labor characterising such a step
as one prefacing a breakdown in the
American standard of living.
At about the same time President
Hoover called the special House econ
omy committee to meet with him
again tomni row to discuss further the
general economy program, by which
it is hoped the government will save
more than $200,000,000 in the next fis
cal year.
EAR HEEL GIrTiS
FOUNDIN DETROIT
Wan and'Woman Arrested
For Taking Child Fif
teen Years Old
Detroit. Mich., April 12. <APi
Police of Dearborn, a suburb, were
holding Mrs. Evr Byrd Marenkoff, 22,
md Palos Karcarkian. 25. today, fol
lowing the discovery in a house in
house in Dearborn of a 15-year-old girl
who disappeared from her home in
Aquone. N. C.. several days ago.
The girl is Hazel Maybelle Totherow
Cries heard by persons passing the [
house in Amazon avenue led police to
search th- building Monday after
noon. They fuuntl no one. but, return
ing later, discovered the girl and Mrs.
Marenkoff, and later arrested Karcar
kian as her accomplice. A letter re
ceived by the police from the girl’s
father asked that his daughter, if
found be sent to Andrews, N. C..
where he planned to meet her. Lieute
nant Reuben Orr, of the Dearborn
police, said Mrs. Marenkoff admitted
Karcarkian had given her ssl and in
structed her to go to North Carolina
and get the girl. Orr said he would
communicate with Federal authorities
regarding the case.
Fears Worldwide
Volcanic Wave Is
• To Come Shortly
Bueno* Aires, Argentine, April
12 (AT) Government officials
made tentative preparations today
to evacuate the 80,000 Inhabitants
of Mendoia, Argentine’s principal
western city as a chorus of erupt
ing Andean volcanoes continued to
menace a wide area with dust and
***.
Ashes lay more than 14 inches
deep over some of the territory to
day. westerly winds showered the
fine dust down In a fan-like belt
800 miles across central South
America, and Martin Mills, local
meteori>logtot, expressed the be
lief that the eruption might be the
forerunner of a wworidwide vol
canic wave.
HOOVER WON’T CALL
BUSINESS LEADERS
Washington. April 12.—<AP>—
President Hoover will continue In
close touch with business leaders
throughout the country In an ef
fort to better economic conditions,
but he has no Intention of mak
ing a dramatic move for a White
House conference with leaders at
this time.
WEATHER
FOR NORTH CAROLINA.
Fair, colder In east portion to
night; possibly light frost in the
Interior. Wednesday, fair; slowly
rising temperature in the in
terior, . - _
New Republican Whip
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VHPP C ISj
Representative Carl Bachmann,
above, of West Virginia, has been
elected Republican whip of the
house of representative.-, succeed
ing the late Representative Albert
Vestal of Indiana. Barhitiann
was assistant w hip during the pa.-t
year.
STOCK SHRINKAGE
• IS SIX BILLIONS
Decline In Pa*t Two or
Three Weeks Estimated
By Whitney
WILL NAME “SHORTS '
Stock Exchange President To Return
Next Monday With Information
Wanted By Senate Bank
ing Committee
Washington, April 12. (API—
Shrinkage in stock \alues during
the past two or three weeks was
estimated at six billion dollars to
day by Itichard Whitney, presi
dent of the New York Stock Ex
change.
Whitney made hi* estimate at
the conclusion of the second day
of testimony In the Senate Bank
ing Committee’s Investigation of
short selling.
The Inquiry was recessed until
next Monday, when the name of
ahort dealers will he presented by
the stock exchange head.
10 FORCE VOTE ON
2.75 PERCENT BEER
Signatures Are Sought In
House To Bring Bill Out
Os Committee
Washington. April 12.—(AP) A,
petition to force a vote in the House
on the O'Connoi-Huil bill to legalize
the 2.75 percent beer was filed in the
House today by Representative O'Con
nor. Democrat. New York.
It requires 145 signers to discharge
the Ways and Means Committee and
to force a House vote on whether it
will consider the bill.
O'Connor told the House he expect
ed the 145 signatures in time to bring
the matter to a vote April 25 or May
9.
Money for Closed
State Banks Near,
Mr. Hood Believes
Raleigh. April 12 (AP) —Commis-
sioner of Banks Gurney P. Hood
said today he thought the State
Banking Department was a step
nearer securing aid from the Re
construction I- (nance Corporation
for advances to deposttoes In doa- ,
ed North Carolina hanks.
Application forms issued from
Washington have been received be
said. They will he filled out and
submitted to the corporation imme
diately.
BANKLJQUIDATED
HUNDRED PERCENT
Raleigh. April 12 (AP)—One
hundred percent liquidation of the
Citizens Bank of Gates, In Gates
county, was announced today by
C. 1. Taylor, liquidating agent of
the State Banking Com ml Minn
In addition to paying depositors
and complete aocouuts due them,
about $14,040 waa left to be dis
tributed among . the ptocfchelder*.
Taylor said. t , .
PUBLISHED EVERY AFTERNOON
EXCEPT SUNDAY.
GET MONEY
Patman *s Currency
Scheme Is Opposed
By Senator Thomas
Get* Human Finger
j39SB
mte jgjjgmß
\ finger from a human hand fig
jri'd as the gruesome warning in
i death plot of extortionists aimed
it John B. Wilberding, wealthy
ausincssman and sportsman of
Cleveland. The finger, hacked
from a dead man’s hand, was sent
to Wilberding in an envelope ac
companied by a demand for SB,-
000. “I mean business!" the note
said.
CANDIDATES Os FIN
VERY ACTIVE WEEK
Campaign Rapidly Gaining
Momenutm as Between
Three Aspirants
VOTE 53 DAYS HENCE
Maxwell Stands by Bailey's Statement
Against Govptnmitil Extrava
gant*; Ehringhaus In West
ern North Carolina
Dully Dlsfmlrh Itnnan,
In the Sir Uniter Hotel.
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Raleigh. April 12 W-tn only 53
days left before the Democratic pri
mary on June 4, the campaign for
the Democratic nomination for gov
ernor. between R. T. Fountain. J. C.
B. Ehringhaus and A J. Maxwell, is
rapidly gaining momentum as the
three candidates stoke their campaign
furnaces to get up more steam for
the final race down the home stretch.
Both Ehringhaus and Maxwell are
making more and more campaign
speeches, while Fountain, though not
doing ao much speaking as formerly,
is reported to be carrying on his ’*per
sonal contact” campaign with more
and more vigor.
This week Ehringhaus is entering
one of the busiest* of his campaign,
and is actively carrying his campaign
into western North Carolina, where
he will be for the entire week. To
night he is speaking in Tryon, Polk
county, which was visited last week
by A- J. Maxwell and where Maxwell's
friends say the situation has been
very favorable for him. The Ehring
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Ogden Mills Aristocrat
As Well As Millionaire
By CHARLES P. STEW Alf T
Central Frees Staff Writer
Washington. April 12.- Secretary of
the Treasury Ogden LivlngsJ.on Mills.
Think of that!
A scion not only of one of the
oldest, bluest-bipoded fav.iJies in the
country, but of a trio est them!—the
Ogdens, the * Livings tons and . the
Mills'. A historic blend")—those names
And a blend representative of millions
as well as of aristocracies—of millions,
moreover, descended, in all three di
rections. through several generations;
in fact, from pre-revoltitiorfkry times.
If such a combination wouldn’t
classify, in ancestral Europe, as gen
uine nobility,.’ what Are nobility's in
gredients, anyway’
Be that a* it may-x-
Secretary Mills had in Washington
A few days ago something .in the na
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FIVE CENTS CO
Oklahoma Senator Say*
Plan Would Kill Federal
Reserve System Un
less Supported
BANK NOTES ASKED
AS MONEY RAISER
Father Coughlin, of Detroit,
Tell* Committee Veterans
Wonder Why Government
Can Help Railroads and
Bankers and Not the For
mer Service Men
Washington, April 12. (AP) A
sharp difference of opinion over
means to secure money for paying (he
X 2.400.000,000 soldiers' bonus developed
between advocate.* of the legislation
in today’s hearing before the House
Ways and Mean- Committee.
Representative Patman. Democrat.
Texas, who is directing the bonus cam
paign. has urged the issuance of Unit
ed States currency on the Treasury.
Today. Senator Thomas. Democrat.
Oklahoma, another advocate of the
bonus payment, testified the Patman
plan would "kill the Federal Reserve
system unless Congress appropriated
directly for its support.”
Thomas said the bonus certificate*
-hould be cashed in Federal Reserve
Bank notes based on two per cent
government consuls, issued to the
amount of $2,400,000,000.
Against the United opposition of the
administration and Democratic lead
ers in Congress, advocates of the $2,-
mOOOJXXt cash payment on the sol
diers' bonus today prenved their case
before the House Ways and Means
Committee.
Father Charles E. Coupblin. of De
troil. was introduced toj Representa
tive Patman. Democrat, Texas, spon
sor of the measure, and read a pr«-
I ared statement before a crowded
committee roum.
He «Hid Reconstruction Finance
Corporation whs hurried tnrough both
the House and Senate to make avail
able t'#o billion dollars of public funds
' for financing financiera and strength
r .ring tottering railroads'*
Coughlin, who conducts a radio pro
gram. said that within six weeks of
the passage of the Reconstruction act,
he received over 1.500,000 letters, say
ing:
“If the government can pay two bil
lion dollars to the bankers and the
railroads, to whom It owes no obliga
tion, why should it not pay two billion
dollars to the soldiers tr> whom it re
cognizes an obligation?*
Revolver Battle •
Marks Elections 1
Held In Chicago
Chicago. April ’12.-AP)—A revolver
battle between h political worker gnd
gunmen cruising In an automobile
past a Snuthsii/e polling place climax
ed a morning; of minor election dis
turbances.
Henry Hess, 85, a Republican piw
cinct worke/-, was caught in the cross
fire and Diken to a hospital, where
he was fmmediately operated upon
for a possible fatal wound.
’jack fielly, a Democratic precinct
captain,, was taken into police custody,
although he asserted he was forced in
self-de-fense to fire upon the auto
mobile. The gunmen flist alighted and
slufyged Kelly, witnesses said, then
got, into their sedan again and Bred
«» they drove away.
ture of a coming-out party as a full
fledged cabinet member.
in other words, he made his first
appearance, as head of the treasury
deportment, before a congressional
committee, to explain his ideas on the
subject of taxation for the fiscal'year
1932-’33.
It was at a meeting of the HWnate
finance committee that he ma<Ae bis
official debut.
The truth is that Mr- Mills actually
had been running - the treasury, fcn
his under-secretarial capacity, for
many months prior to Secretary Mel
lon’s retirement and bis Own appoint
ment to succeed tn Pittsburgher. He
spoke Indeed, with just as much’ real
authority last l*ecember. when he ad
vised the representatives' way*, and
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