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Your Presence ~HENt)EIU>ON, gateway to •"central CAROLINA. NINETEENTH year - BRUENING CABINET IN BERLIN RESIGNS AND LEAVES OFFICE No Personal Differences With President Hinder)- j burg, But At Odds on Certain Policies SPLIT ON DIVIDING JUNKERS’ ESTATES Hindenburg Unwilling To Break Up Large Landed Estates Into Small Farms; Will Follow Usual Chan* nels In Forming New Min istry To Serve Berlin. May 30. -<APt-Chancellor Hfiirich Bruening and the members I c-tuti cabinet resigned today, and the mifnations were accepted by Presi d«nt Paul von Hindenburg. For more ttia- two years, two of the most critical years in Germany's history. Chancellor Bruening fought hu wav through a series of crlsee t tbit would have unseated many an other premier. Prseident eon Hindenburg announc-1 ed that he intended to follow regular i parliamentary procedure In forming a new cabinet. This means that he will first summon Paul Loebe. speak- j er of the Reichstag, and then. In turn, the leaders of the various parties In i the order of their present Reichstag ' strength I* w *-t semiofficially announced j that no personal differences existed be'ween the president and Dr. Bruen ing. and that the old field marshal would write the retiring chancellor a letter expressing his appreciation and affection. During his stay in East Prussia, from which he just returned, the J piwident was so beset by friends who I supported him in 1925, and who ob-1 jec*»d to the CHbinet plans for divid ing Junkers' estates to make room for *mall farms, that he felt he could not sign emergency decrees making those tplans effective It abo was reported that he ob jected to provisions in proposed em ♦tgency decrees which would have Frovided for further sacrifices in the 1 fotm of "tax on persons employed" ; on th part of Germany's vast army of i government Job holders. four bound over IN BANK ROBBERY Troy. May 30. (AP) —Four men charged with the daylight robbery of t h“ Bank of BUcoe May 21 today *aived preliminary hearings In re fmder s court here and was bound °v*r to superior court. Recorder W. E. Cochrane set bond *’ each. The next term of crim inal court for Montgomery county convenes July 11. BftOWN UNABLE 10 j GET INTO THE AIR! Seattle-Tokyo Flier Halted Second Time; Bromley j Flying U. S. 'cattle. Wash. May 3*.—(AP) v *t C. Hrowne, New York aviator. Marled to take off here today to refuH in the air for a projeetd non-atop flight to Tokyo, but topped in front of the adminis tration building. 'By the Associated Press.) The soliary skies smiled a dare to-' dav to two trusted rangers of the air. j *'* ,t Browne. Texas cowboy turned flier, bad an eye bn the prize money that will go to the man who makes • successful flight from America to Japan before June 1. He started yea- [ terday from Seattle, but was forced to turn back when his oil line went He was in the air about seven •nd one half hours. Harold Bromley, another Texan long distance flying ambitions, * long day s transcontinental fjifcht ahead of him from New York City to Burbank. Cal. He took off in hi# oil burning orange-winged plane ** ‘ 01 a. m. EST. from Floyd Ben bett field, Brooklyn. Hrtth k*A**D WIRI URViCB or THK ASSOCIATED PRBM. a atm —I MM lifil. IMf J 0 -acr Cahinet Quits HEINRICH BRUENING BORAH AND HOOVER ARGUE' DRY PLANK 0 U T KEEP SILENT Any Way, Borah Is Still De termined Not To Attend Republican Conven tion In June HAS DRAFTED OWN PROHIBITION PLANK But Closely Guards It From Public Gaze; He Wrote En forcement Pledge In 1928; Senator Breakfasts With Hoover And They Talk Sales Tax Washington, May 30. —(API—For the second time in ten days President Hoover and Senator Borah, of Idaho, dry champion, today discussed the subject of a prohibition plank in the Republican platform. but whether they came any closer to an agree ment was not made known. The impending sales tax dispute in the Senate also was given some at tention at a White House breakfast conference between the President and his leading campaigner in 1928 Senator Borah ’indicated afterwards that he had not changed his plan to remain away from the Chicago convention. The Senator has drafted his own orohibitlon plank, but is closely guard ing Its text. He shaped the rigid en forcement plank of 1928 and Is known to hold the view that the only true referendum on prohibition or any other subject is by the election of members of Congress to carry out the will of the electorate. The Idahoan and Mr. Hoover have been at odds on almost every major issue in this administration, and there has been considerable speculation whether Borah will be found on the hustings in the coming campaign as in 1928. «* Death Penalty Ig Drawn From Kidnap Bill In Congress Washington. May 30.—(AIM The Senate Judiciary Committee agreed today to report favorably on the hill of Senator Patterson. Republican. Missouri, for Federal punishment of kidnapers, remov ing its optional penalty of the death sentence. It provides im prisonment for any term the court desires upon defendants convicted of transporting a kid naped person from one state to another, _ , / ””* ’ * , .. . . * its-jpi Is Needed At The Bank Mass Meeting Tonight trstm SlatUi Hisrratdi ONLY daily newj 51 ARE SIGNED AGAINST SALES TAX IN SENATE Washington, May SO.— (AP)— Fifty-one senators, a majority of the Sente’s 96 members, were de wrilM'd today as having signed a pledge to vote against a sales tax. Senators laKollette, Republican. Wisconsin, and Harrison, Demo crat, Mississippi, who circulated the |«etitions. made the announce ments off the floor, while the Sen ate was driving toward a vote on a proposal to substitute the gen eral sales tax for some of the ex Ehringhaus As Governor And Morrison As Senator Expected To Be In Lead Mayor’s Brother ■r~~ v ' ; V j Dr. William Walker, brother of Mayor James- J. Walker of New \ ork, whose name was mentioned during the muyor’s recent testi mony before the Hofstadter legis lative committee, is shown above. The mayor stated he has not seen his brother for several months and did not know his present whereabouts. DRAFT PLEA FOR f» OUSTING WALKER Seabury To Draft Charges Against Mayor Follow, ing Long Inquiry Now York. May 30. (AP)—News papers said today that Samuel Sea bury. counsel for the Hofstadter leg islative committee investigating New York City's government, is ready to draft removal charges against Mayor James J. Walker. Banbury jwill resume his investi gation of Walker tomorrow, complet ing it on Wednesday. Then, tbe news papers said, he will prepare the charges and file them with Governor Roosevelt. Investigators were trying to locate the mayor’s brother. Dr. William H. Walker, whom Seabury desires to ex amine in connection with his inves tigation of the mayor. WOMAN LOSES LIFE IN AIRPLANE CRASH Portland. Oregoin. May 30.—(AP)— A woman registered as Mrs. W. W. Smith, of Portland, died in the wreck age of a mill-passenger plane when it crashed In the Willamette river here today. Dick Gleason, the pilot, suf fered severe head and back injuries. He was rescued by a harbor patrol ü bpaU - - - - —" SPAPER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA AND VIRGINIA. HENDERSON, N.’C., MONDAY AFTERNOON, MAY HO, 1932 else levies in the bill. Senator laFoUette said 16 Re publicans signed his petition, while Harrison reported 35 Demo crats pledged In opposition. A little earlier the Senate had rejected a House tax of one-fourth of one jiercent on stork transfer*. This leaves n four cents per share stock tax on such sales, however, I nthe hill. President Hoover was ready to send a message oil the hill to the Senate, hut withheld it. Advance Forecast Gives Eh ringhaus 135,000 4 Foun. tain 115,000 and Max well 100,000 RESULT PREDICTED COUNTY BY COUNTY Vance Conceded to Ehring haus, With Warren Prob ably to Fountain; Contest Apparently Is Becoming Increasingly Close In Many Parts of the State Dolly Dispnlek Ilnreoa, In the Sir Walter Hotel, nv J. V. UASKKRV'II.r,. Raleigh. May 30.—J. C. B. Ehring haus will be hi~h man In th* contest Tor the Democratic nomination for governor In the primary Saturday, June 4. with R. T. Fountain probably second and A J. Maxwell third, ac cording ot the opinion of almost all of those who have been studying the political situation over the State re cently, and based on reports of im partial ooservers. In the contest for the nomination for the United titates Senate, the bulk of opinion is that Senator Cameron Morrison may be able to get a lead of from 10,000 to 15,000 over Robert R. Reynolds in Saturday's primary, al though most of these who think Mor rison may lead admit that at present Reynolds seems to have a better chance to be high man than Morrison. Frank D. Grist is generally conceded (Continued on Page Four) OTEENMANFOiIND STABBED TO DEATH Four, Including One Woman Arretted In Killing of Bill Pruitt Asheville. May 30.(AP>—Bill Pruitt, of Oteen. was found stabbed to death by a roadside sijj miles from here early today and three men and a wo man were immediately jailed in con nection with the slaying. Cannie Lunsford, one of the quar tette arrested, admitted ownership of a bloody butcher knife found near 1 Pruitt’s body, but denied having struck the fatal blown with the knife. Another of those jailed. Mrs. Bamie Shop*, told police she was with Pruitt shortly before he was killed and placed the time of ttie slaying about 8:30 o'clock last night- She de nied knowledge of the assailant. The other two in jail are Bill Lunsford, brother of Cannie, and John Lunsford their father. All were arrested and held for investigation. WEATHER FOR NORTH CAROLINA. Fair tonight and Tuesday; slightly wanner tonight and in the interior Tuesday. _ _ , „ Bonus Army Lays Program To Remain In Washington Until Bonus Is Paid Them THEY COMMAND ‘BONUS ARMY’ VETS A. F. Taylor, right, commander in-chief of the “bonus army” of World war veterans, journeying across the country in trucks and by other means from Oregon to House Is Ready To Quit, Garner Says Washington. May 30. (AP)—The “gnes*" that Oongree* will he In semioil until July 1 was made today by Speaker Gamer at a conference with newspapermen. “Its all up to the Senate. The House can get ready to quit hy June 12," he said. FOUNTAIN'S TOWN ~ LOYAL TO GARDNER Great Demonstration Fol lows Governor’s Me morial Day Address Dully Dlnpatt-h nttr—.iM, Is the Sir Walter Hotel RY J V. II ASK Kit V 11. I. Raleigh. May 30.-More than 1.50 U citizens of Rocky Mount, home town of Lieutenant Governor R. T. Foun tain. yesterday afternoon snowed their loyalty to and approval of Governor O. Max Gardner and publicly apologiz ed for the attack which Fountain has been making upon Gardner and his administration, when Governor Gard ner delievered the memorial address for the American Legion, under the auspices of the American Legion Auxiliary of the Rocky Mount post. The memorial services were held in tbe high school auditorium with gj (Contlnued on Page Two.) Ira Hall Leading Indianapolis Race. At 250-Mile Stage .Speedway, Indianapolis. Ind.. May 30.—(AP)—At 275 miles in the’ Sbo-ntile automobile race to day, Ira Hail, Terre Haute, Ind., had moved into the lead, with Howard Wilcox. Indianapolis, sec ond, and Louie Schneider, also wf Indianapolis, third. • covered the 275 miles in 23:7:04.89, averaging 105.041 miles an hour. Billy Arnold, 87-year-old Chi cagoan, winner of the 1930 classic, smashed Into a retaining wall while leading the race, but was not seriously hurt. Fifteen of the 40 entries had dropped out. _ PUBLISHED EVERY A ETBRNOON EXCEPT SUNDAY. Washington, poses lor the careers with his assistant, W. C. Cox. The picture was made as the 350 vet erans passed through southern Ohio. "BUSINESS” WANTS CONGRESS TO QUIT “Wave* ’ of Letters And Telegrams To That Ef fect Reach Capital RECOVERY IS DELAYED Domnnd Is That Oongresa Balance the Budget and Go Home, and Many Would Like It To Stay There Long While By CHARLES P. STFWART Central Pre«h Staff Writer Washington, May 30. Few things are clearer than that ‘‘business’’ de si rea Congress to balance the budget, and go to the conventions or the bp.ll game o ranywhere else, away from the Capitol buildings, and stay away until December 5. when It Is due to meet again under the constitution although the impression I get. is that ’’business’’ would be glad If hn amend ment could be put through in the meantime, staving off Another ses (Continued on Page Tvs) LINOBFRuHSIVE TO MORROW DOUSE Leave Sourland Home For Summer And Will Be In Maine For While Hopewell. N. J., May 30. -(AP) Except for the household staff. Colo nel Charles A, Lindbergh's Sourland Mountain home was without occu pant* today. The Lindberghs are staying in En glewood. N. J., with Mrs. Lindbergh's mother. Mrs. Dwight W. Morrow. They will divide their time thissum between Englewood and the Morrow country place at North Haven. Maine. State police telephone and tele type machines set up hurriedly on March 2. the day after the. kidnaping of Charles A. Lindbergh. Jr.. In the Lindbergh garage, have been removed to the police training school at Wil burtha, not far from Trenton. The investigation of the kidnaping and murder continued, although Colonel H. Norman Schwarzkopf, the officer in command, said there were no new developments, 6 PAGES TODAY FIVE CENTS COITI $75,000 IS ASKED FROM GOVERNMENT TO GARE FOR MEN Coiarado Senator Offers Bill For Federal Appropria tion To Feed March ers In Capital DISTRICT RELIEF FUND BBEING USED Hut Group Is Told It Must Leave In 48 Hours For Sum Will Be Exhausted; Others on the March from Louisiana To Join Com rades in Capital Washington. May 30 (AP) —A wea ponless aimy camped on Washington today determined to stay here until Congress eurrefidorx io fca uncom promising demands. The army was made up of men who fought in the World War. 1.300 or mopo of them, beseeching at this dtf- Ticuß pass In the nation’s phggtit the 7 their service bonus be paid in full immediately. •' ; Sixteen truckloads of them, gath ered from across fcho broad sweep of be country, entered the capital from Maryland yesterday, weary and stain ed with the grime of imp hazard l rax vel. Others already had filtered In. a few at the time, and more werw expected. They were fed and housed in a va cant buillriiiqg, /under arrwngemerrCa made personally by a former brigader generel of war days, police superin tendent Glassford. He told them 'hey would have to leave in 48 hours to save the local relief fund* for sucfT depßnion that Washington’s own de s'F.ute would be forced to go hungry. But the leader of the moot organis ed contingent 330 men from the Pe ri fie coast replied they would a till the bonus is paid. COLORADO SKNATOR ASKS ~I '* FUND TO FtCKD MARCHER}* Washington, May 30 <AP)~A $75.- 000 Federal appropriation io care far the war v»*t»-rane> who have converged on Washington to demand immedi ate payyment of the soldiers bonus was proposed in a bill introduced to day by Senator Comgan, Detnocn*,, Colorado. 900 MORE ON THE WAY ~ ’ FROM MIXHJISIANA TOWN Bay S<. Louis, Miss., May 30 (AP) —Ttiree hundred World War veteran* cn route from New- Orleans to Wash ington to ilMist on boniwi legislation' arrived here today wkh tired ami nohtng feat becau.**- of having walk eg 1 50 miles from Louisiana. They camped there yesterday hi await freight trains, but none paoseii so they continued »he Journey afoot. The brigade made camp in a parfit on the outskirts of Bay St Louis do "wait any mode of transportation of fering itself. Six Pilots Read y 11 To Start Balloon 1 Contest at Omaha Omaha. Nrh, May 30.—(APi Undaunted by unfavorable weath er. six veteran pilots inflated their balloons today for the national championship teats. A heavy rain caused officiate to debate the advisability of post poning the entire rlosing day's program, but whipping winds blew the rain away and Manager Phil Henderson announced tbe entire program would be run. | |mm