Henderson daily dispatch., May 06, 1932, Image 1

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HENDERSON,
gateway TO
CENTRAL
CAROLINA.
NINETEENTH YEAR
FREN CH
$2,000,000 Cunard Steamship Piers In New York Swept By Flames
FUMES SPREADING
RAPIOLYIO OTHER
RIVER PROPERTIES
Landing for Huge Ocean
Liners Juts Out Into Hud
son River for Thou
sand Feet
PIERS THREATENED
BY QUICK COLLAPSE
Nineteen Firemen Overcome
and Treated at Ambulance
Stations; Lower Manhat
tan Covered by Cloud of
Smoke. Hampering Fire
men in Fight
York May * 'AD Fire rafted
for hours 'hi ough the 52.000.000 Gun
art pirr in the Hudson river at 131 h
eir**'. ;oday. and at noon, with the pier
thrwtening »«* coltapee at any mo
sent. 2ie flamer were -a,iU out of
rontrei and .-teadily spreading to other
water fron’ property.
me rare ,-iatieo early in the morn
ing in rubbuh under pier 54. a ikeel
and conm e s‘.t;cture extending 1.-
006 sett into ’he Hudson river.
By noon the flames were crepeing
Stradly aion; the creosote-soaked
piling.* on which the river piers res*,
toward the aljtoining pier at 12Mi
itreet and hid advanced to the two
stcry office building on West street,
connecting 'he pier* at 12th and 14th
stieets with the 13th street -aructure
Five alarms land been turned in.
tad dozens of pieces of Land
■P4* r *l<**. five fireboats were pour
ing Aou.-ands of gallons of wter on
tb“ fhaie* from tho river.
By noon 19 firemen had been treat
ed for minor injuries at ambulance
set up in the street adjoining
the burning pier.
Bliek '-moke pillowed across the
k*er erty and rut over the Hudson,
nuking accurate use of fire-fighting
fkf.kties '.rrvpnHßible.
COMPROMISE TAX
BILL AGREED UPON
Senate Committee Accepts
Revenue Proposal of
Secretary Mills
Washington. May fl. -fAPi—Acting
ln **** of administration warn
ings that their tactics were diaturb
og th- country, the Senate Finance
ommittee today accepted a com
promise plan designed to produce a
billion dollars in revenue.
The plan carried to Capitol Hill by
• fretarv Mills, was estimated to
yield Sl.not.nno.nno in the 1933 fiscal
dear
T* 1 * M,r,n * rate graduates up to
•' percent on incomes over $1,000,000.
The new manure was approved 13
0 * assuring strong bi-partisan sup
**’r' in the Senate.
Normal income rates of three per-
on the first $4,000; six percent
or > 'he second $4,000, and nine percent
on incomes over SB,OOO were approved.
Raids On Highway Fund
By Legislature Likely
Thos#> Advocating U«e For School Buses Say Better
That Than Some other Things; Foes of Maxwell
Proposal Point to Danger of Diverting Money
Hull; f)i«|inl<-h lt»r«ii,
In tkr Hlr Wnltrr Hotel.
11V J. r. IIAtKKitVILI,.
awigh. May 6 The proposal that
* cost of transporting school chil
rpn in the State should be paid from
*** highway funds Instead of from
** funds and that the school trans
Portation system should be under the
lection of the State Highway Com
mission, made by A. J. Maxwell, can
d«te for the Democratic nomination
f or *?y ern or in a speech in Smith
th d Thure< **y night, is causing some
ln S of a sensation in political cir
cs here. Opinion is sharply divided
to whether or not Maxwell has
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Far r.r.ay from the raucous blare !
of the night clubs and the shaded
lights of the speakeasy, Al Ca- j
pone, erstwhile leading gangster i
BONUS BILL REJECTED
BY HOUSE COMMITTEE
Washington. May 6-—(API—AII
plans for cashing the two billion
dollar soldiers bonus were rejected
today hy the Home Ways and*
Means Committee on a 15 to IQ
vote.
The committee further voted to re
port the new money bills to the House
adversely.
This action creates a parliamentary
utuation that will delay any effort
to force the bill before the House
through a discharge petition.
Acting Chairman Crisp announced
RANSOM SANDERS
TAKES OWN LIFE
Jumps From Window of Bal>
timore Sanitarium; Mar
ried Local Lady
Raleigh. May 6.--IAP) A special
dispatch to the. Raleigh Times says
W. Ransom Sanders, prominent Ra
leigh automobile dealer, and presi
dent of thp Raleigh baseball club of
th Piedmont League, killed himself
today by jumping from a third floor
window at the New Home Sanatorium
in Balitmorc.
The dispatch said Sanders, who hal
been a patient at the hospital for
five months, jumped from the window
while his nurse had gone to get his
lunch.
Dr. J. J. Morrisey, Baltimore coron
er. pronounced the death the result
of suicide, the story said.
Sanders, the dispatch added. landed
on his head on a concrete court room,
death resulting almost instantly.
A message to the family here said
{Continued on Page Six.)
icored another hit in the political
target as a result of this proposal.
Those who are definitely opposed to
eny "raid" upon the highway fund,
which so far has been dedicated to
the retirement of road bonds, the
payment of interest on these bonds,
the maintenance of the highways and
new construction, are of course, op
posed to the Maxwell proposal. They
see in this plan to pay for the opera
tion of the school transportation sys
tem from highway funds nothing
more than an entering wedge that
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NEWSPAPE R PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA AND VIRGINIA.
ONLY DAILY 1
of the nation, look's forward to 11
years within these walls as a guest
of Uncle Sam. With good be
havior he can nope to reduce his
the committee action, but declined to
give out the individual vote of mem
bers All the 25 members were record
ed. some by proxy.
Representative Patman. Democrat,
Texas, chief bonus advocate, has op
posed the committee action making
an unfavorable report to the House.
Under the rules. Patman said. June
13 would be the first day on which
a vote could be forced through a
petition signed by 145 members.
Representative Rainey, of Illinois. 1
the Democratic leader .was designated
by the committee to make the ad
Democrat Saving
Outlined in House
Washington, May B.—(AP)—Re
plying to President Hoover’s
charges against Congress on eco
nomy, Chairman Byrra, of the Ap
propriations Committee, presented
figures to the House today to show
$563,801,223 had been saved by re
ductions in supply bills for 1933,
as compared with 1932.
BOND BUYERS TOLD
OF SENATE CREDITS
Gardner Addresses Munici
pal Bond Club In New
York Luncheon *
New York, May 6 (AP)—North
Carolina has stabtlJbed the credit
of its local government units by a
law which Is attracting national
attention. Governor O. Max Gard
ner told the Municipal Bond Club
of New York In a luncheon ad
dress here today.
The law. enacted by the 1931 Gen
eral Assembly, created the Local Gov
ernment Commission, with supervisory
power over the fiscal affairs of all
unite of the government within the
State, he said.
Its most important power is the
authority to limit the incurring of
debt, Governor Gardner explained.
“Besides stabilising the credit of the
local unite, the North Carolina execu
tive said the raw has live -cased the
confidence of boMens of North Caro
lina securities."
Until 1927, Governor Gardner de
clared. “we did not know what our
local governments owed. When It
was figured up, the sum dtaggered us,
but did not check bond issues.”
The local government commission
supplied the barracade. he continued,
pointing to the fact that during the
first year of Us operation only SBIO,-
500 in new bonds were Issued, com
pared to $6,147,512.50 local government
obligations incurred the previous
HENDERSON, N. C., FRIDAY AFTERNOON. MAY 6, 1932
PRESIDENT SHOT
I'sentence to seven and one-half
years, in the federal prison at At.
I lanta, which is shown. Capone is
! seen, inset.
verse report to the House.
The course now open to bonus ad
vocates is the introduction of a spe
cial rule to give the bonus bill a pre
ferred legislative status. Such a re
solution would go to the rules com
mittee. and if this committee failed
to act after seven days a discharge
petition would be in order
Rainey said that, in view of the
forthcoming adjournment of Cong.ess
in time for the national convention,
the committee action definitely killed
any opportunity for a House vote on
the bonus issue
SALES TAX ONLY
WAY, MILAN SAYS
State’s Finance Problems
Demand It, He Tells
Bankers Convention
riimhurftt. May 6—(AP)—Some
form of ml«n tax in the only solu
tion to the financial problems fac
ing North Carolina’s government,
Angus D. McLean told the State
Hankers Association here today.
McLean, Washington. N. C., at
torney and leader of the sales tax
action which lost out In the five
months fight In the 1981 Legisla
ture, declared the 1983 Assembly
must turn to a sales tax If the
State is to meet its obligations.
Stricter and more competent bank
supervision, both Federal and na
tional, was urged as the most effec
tive solution for banking ills by Word
H. Wood, president of the American
Trust Company, of Charlotte, in an
address before the bankers this morn
ing.
Lack of courage and fear of com
petition are among the most out
standing weaknesses of bankers, he
said. Smaller deposits and safer loans
are preferable to loans made because
some individual can control large de
posits which are slow, , he said.
Clark York Given
Thirty Y ear T erm
InState Prison
Dobson, May 6.—(AP) -Clark York
was sentenced today to 30 years at
hard labor in State Prison following
his conviction Wednesday of murder-;
ing Jim Burrus, Mount Airy taxi
driver.
York was convicted of second de
gree murder, and today Judge
Thomas Shaw, in pronouncing sen
tence, said: **l gave him the limit be
cause the case was as had as any I
have known.”
Court attaches said York would re
main in jail here for a few days and
that he probably would be taken to
Raleigh to enter the penitentiary
Monday.
ESTHER
FOR NORTH CAROLINA.
_ Fair tsnlght and Saturday, 'v
Monday Is
Dead Line
k ** #,
For Baby
l'ull Force of Law To Be Let
Loose If Not Return
ed By Then
Norfolk, Va.. May 6. (APi—John
Hughes Curtis. Norfolk negotiator,
and his associates sailed from the
naval base again today to make fur
ther efforts to complete negotiations
for the return of the stolen Lind
bergh baby. They used the yacht Mar
coon.
FORCES OF THE LAW TO
GO INTO ACTION MONDAY
Norfolk. Va., May B <AP>- The Led
ger Dispatch said today it had learned
.hat next Monday had been set as the*
deadline for the consummation of the
Norfolk negotiations for the return of
the Lindbergh baby, unless there Is
something more tangible developed
than has so far come to light.
Notice to that effect, the paper add
ed. has been seived on the agents, in
termediaries and go between* for
transmission to the principals in the
kidnaping The paper said the alter
native will be to throw the full police
power of the Federal government and
the various states into the search.
fountalndeles
JEFFREY ATTACK
Gubernatorial Candidate
Say* He Never Made
Statements Alleged
Daily Ilt-paf rh llure.nt,
In the Sir Walter Hotel.
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Raleigh, May 6.- R. T. Fountain.!
candidate for the Democratic nomm- j
•ion for Governor, today denied that !
he had ever stated in a speech or I
privately thHt Chairman E. B. Jes-j
fress of the State Highway Commis
sion was "half Jew. half gentile, half
Democrat and half Republican," as
he was reported to have stated, and
asked this correspondent to write a
Correction.
For the past week or ten days it
has been reported here from several
sources that Fountain had been re
ferring to Chairman Jeffress either ,
in his speeches or privately as above, i
The report gained such currency that ‘
cognizance of it was taken by Major
•L P. McLendon, State manager for
J. C. B.‘ Ehringhaus who iasutii- a
sttaement in which he said that "Mr. j
Fountain's personal attack upon the '
Chairman of the State Highway Com-1
mission in one of his speeches in
Western North aCrollna has reacted 1
against him. He evidently forgot that j
Mr. Jeffress is a native of the western
part of the State and has many I
friends and relatives throughout the ;
State." When asked what he had re-j
ference to. Major McLendon admitted !
it was the "half Jew, half Gentile” j
statement which Fountain was alleg- i
ed to have made. So the flill state- I
ment was used by this correspondnt l
in the story. I
Mr. Fountain, however, maintains
that the report he referred to Chair
man Jeffress in these terms is incor
rect. in the following letter to this
correspondent, which he requested be
given In full, as follows;
**Dear Mr. Baskervill:
“I have Just returned from a trip
and it has been called to my atten
tion that you stated in your news
article sent out to the evening papers i
of the State on May 2 that I stated <
in a speech in the West, that Mr. j
E. B. Jeffress was a half Jew. half!
Gentile, half Democrat and half Re- j
publican.
“This statement is untrue, absolute- !
ly false, malicious and a complete fab- !
rication. It is without any kind of
foundation. No such statement has
ever been marfe by me. either pub
licity or privately.
“You should be ,fair in your state
ments and I trust that you Will give
the sarrie publicity to my letter as you
did to. the statement .herein mention
ed. I request you. to publish this let
ter in its entirely.
"Yours very trusly.
“R. T. FOUNTAIN."
DESPERADO TAKEN
WHILE HE SLEEPS
Burnsville, N. C., May E—(Ap)—
Surprised while he .slept in e tobacco
barn, Reese Bailey, alleged member
of a bend of desperadoes -who killed
a policeman at Greenville, S. C.. Sun
day night, was arrested early today
by Yancey county officers, ; _ v
PUBLISHED EVERT AFTERNOON
KXCBPT SUNDAY.
PA UL DOUMER
T IS WOUNDED
BY RUSSIAN
Rally Follows Emergency Operation and
Transfusion; Would-Be Assassin Had
Planned to Kill Doumer
Paris, May 6. (AP) —At 6:45 o'clock this evening- the senior
surgeons attending President. Doumer left the hospital after
pronouncing his condtion “very satisfactory.”
The Presidents nephew said the president's chances now
h * r * !^ ge l y %J natte *' of hls advanced age, since no vital spot had
s ruck. He said his uncle had shown some improvement in
the past two hours.
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Paul 06ume(^
GRAND IURY PROBE
OF GASTON MEANS j
case is started:
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Alleged To Have Obtained l
SIOO,OOO From Mrs. Ed— J
ward McLean of
Washington City
PROMISED TO GET
LINDBERGH BABY
Mr*. McLean Says It Is Dis
tasteful, But She Is Going
Through With It, and Her
Lawyer Says She Thought
Means Would Ct> m e
Through This Time
Washington. May 6 (AJP") —A grand
Jury investigation of charges that
Gaston B. Means obtained SIOO,OOO on
false representation that he oould ob
tain return of the kidnaped Lind
bergh baby from b 4 js abductors was be
gun today,
Mrs. Edward B. McLean, estranged
(Continued on Page Six.)
Leading Progressives
Hesitate To Recognize
Wet And Dry Question
By CHARLES P. STEWART i
Central Frees Staff Writer
Washington. April o. — Leading pro
gressives. most of whom hold that I
the coming national campaign should
hinge entirely upon economic issues, *
may fret all they like, but the wet
and dry question is going to figure
importantly in it also.
The progressives' difficulty is that
a great majority of their Itey-men
have dry reputations.
This has been all very well hith
erto. because progressives territory. *r.
large part, has been dry territory, m
the past. Now, however, due to dis
content arising from the degression.
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TODAY
FIVE CENTS COP*
PRESIDENTS DEATH IS
UNOFFICIALLY REPORTED
London, May 6. —(AP)- The Press
Association reported this afternoon
that it had learned in well informed
quarters in Paris that President
Doumer had died in a hospital of
wounds inflicted by an assassin.
THREE BILLETS STRIKE
WHITE HAIRED EXECUTIVE
Paris, May 6.- <AP> President
Paul Doumer, white-haired 74-year
old head of the French republic, was
shot three times and critically wound
ed today by an assassin as he open
c i an exhibition of books by war
veterans.
He had come from the Elysse
palace with Claude Parrere. the not
ed author. Today, they entered the
grand hotel of the Baron de Roths
childs Foundation, near the palace.
Farrere walked with him up the
Grand staircase, where the president
pa ysed to sign, a copy of a book by
» teontemporary author.
Then he moved over to a tatfle and
stood talking with Farrere and
Madam Farrere.
Firen Five Tim*-*.
Suddenly a man sprang seemingl*
out o? nowhere, levelled a pistol at
the president and flfad fiv, turns
!d. Doumer'a knees ciAumpled. Ha
Vink to the fjoor. There were bullets
m the front of the head, behind th*
car and In th «chest.
Farrere sprang forward. The as
sassins pistol was still smoking in
his hand.
He raised it and fired twice.
Farrere stopped with a bullet in thß
left arm, but lunged forward agai«
and graprpled with the man.
Paul Guichard, director of the Paris
police /-an forward.
The assassin fired again. The bultot
strucJx Guichard in the arm.
ky this time a dozen police *<tr
ronnded the men and a crowd gath
ered about them .
Mnh Is Infuriated.
As the crowd grew, it became an
infuriated mob. The police had (the
greatest difficulty protecting tlieir
prisoner. g
At last they got him away.
At police headquarters they fflen
tified him as Paul Eouguloff a f tus
sian physician.
They had no idea of hls motive., but
some one heard him shout, an he
fired; j
“Died for the fatherland." *
Meanwhile, back in the exhibition
room. Farrere and others bent over
the president. |
Nearly Unconscious.
He was nearly unconscious, bfit he
mumbled a few Incoherent words as
they lifted him, placed him on «
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there seems to be an excellent
chance for them to gain a foothold
in new. wet areas -only they lai ;k the
humid affiliations to take advi tntage
of it .. ..
What occurred in Pennsylva; lia il
lustrates the embarrassing situation
in which they find themselves.
It is quite evident from oond itioas
of widespread unemployment a.c>d un
rest there, that the Keystone state
would have responded readily to the
right sort of a progressive appeal—
but the Butler-Pinchot appeal was
not of the right sort: it was pitogtes
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