Henderson daily dispatch., May 25, 1935, Image 1

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HENDERSON
jATEWAY TO
CENTRAL
CAROLINA
TWENTY-SECOND YEAR
ROOSEVELT BONUS STAND MAY BLOCK HIS PROGRAM
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Kidnapers Demand $200,000 To Free Tacoma Boy
MILLIONAIRE’S SON
SEIZED ON HIS WAY
DOME FROM SCHOOL
City, Slate and Department
of Justice Agents Rush
To Scene and Start
Inquiry
family is rich in
LUMBERING INDUSTRY
Note to Parents Threatened
Death of Lad If Police or
the Press Were Notified;
State Authorities Accuse
Eastern Gangsters of The
Snatching
Tacoma, \Mash.. May 2. r >.- (AIM
Hrlirf that eastern gangsters kidnap
pi| (rpnrgp Weyerhaeuser, 9, son of
n wealthy lumber family, and de
manded $200,000 within five days for
safe ret urn, was expressed today as
the Department of Justice rushed
agents here to aid in the search.
Fifteen Department of Justice
cent.; anived here, and more were
report p<l on their way in efforts to
find the son of the rich timber fam
ily of Washington and Minnesota.
I'nlted States Marshal A. J. Chitty,
at Seattle said he believed eastern
zang.-ters had enginereed the kidnap
ing.
"Tidal mrks like a big league job,"
Chitty said, "There was valk at first
that it wis done locally, ibut we’ve
assumed now that ‘outsiders,’ some
’•»ig shot’ gangsters, from the east
maybe, are mixed up in it."
Tiie ransom note, it was learned,
apparently demanded an answer be
placed in the want ad column of a
Tacoma, newspaper and police officials
line prepared a reply. '
At the request of . Department of
Justice agents, the ad was not insert
ed . ; ;
Innumerable hide-outs were avail
able for tiie kidnapers among the
wooded and little populated islands of
Puget Sound, the wilds of the Olym.
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RIDING ACADEMY’S
MASTER ARRESTED
Jack Willard of Carolina
Pines, Raleigh, Held On
Charges of Arson
Raleigh, May 2. r >.--(AP)-Jack Wil
lard co-master of the Carolina Pines
hiding Academy, today was formally
• liHiged wit li arson and placed under
M.non b<n,d in connection with the
roysterioii; burning of the Zander
hill Riding Club, and seven saddle
huso- valued at about $3,000, early
h'idav morning.
The warrant against Willard, wtio
cpii held pending an investlga.
'ion .jitce shortly after the fire, was
worn rnjt hy Deputy Woody Maddry
define Cm oner 1,. M. Waring.
Heating was set for next Saturday.
Haines destroyed the stables of the
Zander /Hills club about 4 o'cock
Hiday morning, after Willard and a
K'H comvauion, Jeannette Bruton, ad
<<lont,ltilled on i , age Five)
Kinsey Acquitted
Upon Every Count
-'-''•W'l r \ Kinsey, former president
? ”'l mattauer of t.lie Peck Manufac
h,ri'ig Company, of Warrenton, a tex-
I concern, was acquitted in War.
rp !> Superior Court shortly before
"nee o'clock this afternoon on all
' ha.rges brought against him in his
II ! *l in connection with the failure
,Jf the mills several weeks ago.
before giving the case to the jury,
Jij'igr vv. A. De.vin, presiding, grant
f,|J H non-suit on two counts. On all
l,f other nine, the jury returned a
' erdict of not guilty and the defend
ailt was discharged.
Kinsey was charged with embez
/,,]|ig Warrenton ibonded warehouse
•ci tuicates, issuing warehouse re
iintitrrsmt DatLti Btsualrlt
ADMINISTRATION IS
FIGHTING WITH TIME
TO EXTEND THE NRA
“Insulted” Hitler
Robert Rohme
Robert Rohme, Austrian-born
Englishman, was recently sen
tenced to 18 months’ imprison
ment by a German court in Ber
lin for “making grossly insulting
remarks about Herr Hitler, the
German nation and German
women.” According to a letter
to his wife in London, however,
Rohme intimated he soon may be
reunited with his family.
Says People
Feel Liquor
Is Muddled
Cherry Kinds State
Kairly Well Pleased
Otherwise With the
I legislature
In the Sir W«!!sf Hotfl,
Dally Dispatch Boreas,
BV J. C. UASKERVILL.
Raleigh, May 28. —"Tiie people over
State seem to he pretty well sat
isfied with what this session of the
General Assembly did with the ex
ception of what it did with regard
to the liquor question,” Representa
tive R. Gregg Cherry, of Gastonia,
who was chairman of the House Fin
ance Committee and is now 'being
prominently spoken of as the leading
candidate for speaker or the House
in 1937. said while here on legal busi
ness Friday.
"There seems to be almost, com
plete agreement everywhere that the
legislature made a complete mess of
the liquor situation and that it would
have been much better if it. had en
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ceipts for cotton which did not exist
and appropriating to his own account,
the proceeds from cotton delievered
to the Peck Manufacturing Company.
The verdict of the jury came after
it had deliberated 50 minutes. W. H.
Yarborough, of Louisburg, closed the
defense agrument, and Solicitor W. H.
S. Burgwyn gave the final summary
for the prosecution. T. P. Gholson,
of Henderson, and John H. Kerr, Jr.,
of Warrenton, were the others of the
defense counsel. Julius Banzet, of
Warrenton, appeared for private pro
secution, representing directors of the
Peck Manufacturing Company.
Mr. Gholson, in advising the Daily
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ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA AND VIRGINIA.
L®ASH»D WIRJB SERVICE OF
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS.
HENDERSON, N. C. SATURDAY, AFTERNOON, MAY 25, 1935
Key Men In House Put
Heads Together Planning
To Jam Bill Through
Next Week
fierce struggle
LIKELY IN SENATE
President May Be Disposed
To Compromise Somewhat
In Effort To Get Measure
Through Before June 16,
Date of Expiration of Pre
sent Law
Washington. Mav 25.—(AF>—Rac
ing against time to prevent NRA from
passing out of legal existence three
weeks lienee, key men of the admin,
istration forces in (lie House put their
heads together today planning an ef
fort to jam an extension full through
that chamber next week.
Meanwhile, President Roosevelt
went on record as sympathizing witli
the principles of Jhe Wagner labor re
lations bills —a measure which back
ers are pushing as complementary to
NRA’s collective bargaining provi
sions.
Faced by senatorial threats of a
fierce struggle which might drag out.
beyond June 16 when the present
NRA act expires, the NRA supporters
realized they had no time to lose.
There were intimations that Presi
dent Roosevelt might “compromise”
a bit on the administration demand
for a two-year extension of the re
covery unit.
Authoritative sources said there was
a tacit and tentative understanding
in sofrie administration crcles* that
Mr. Roosevelt might accept, a 21 1-2
months extension if it coxdd be ob
tained, though the President himself
said he had not heard that particular
feature.
mENWIEIS
Lewis and Hargrove Con
victed of Killing Lino
type Operator There
Wilmington, May 2f> (AP) —James
B. Lewis and Luther Hargrove were
convicted of manslaughter here today
for the death of Cole G. Pridgen, and
Judge Paul Frizelle sentenced them
to from ten to 12 years in State Pri
son. The pair served notice of appeal
to tse Supreme court.
They were alleged to have thrown
Pridgen, a linotype operator, down a
flight of stairs during a brawl at a
speakeasy they are accused of ope
rating at the time last December 23.
Lewis and Hargrove were convicted
shortly before noon today after the
jury had deliverated since last night,.
Sentence was delayed while Judge
Frizelle heard arguments on a defense
motion that, the verdict he set aside,
which he denied.
Ingalls Is
Trying For
Air Record
Los Angeles, - lay 25.—(AFi—
T.aura Ingalls, noted women pilot,
hopped away from Union Air Ter
minal at Burbank early today on
her second attempt to shatter
Amelia Far hart’s trans-continen
tal speed record.
The tiny aviatrix was determin
ed to send her new black “mys
teryj ship” over the 2,447-mile
route front here to New York in
less than 17 hours, seven minutes
and 30 seconds—the time set by
Amelia Far hart in the summer of
1932.
She took off at 4:47 a. m. (7:47
eastern standard time), waved
goodbye to field attendants who
helped service her snip, putting
580 gallons of gasoline into its
tanks, -
Navy Probes Seaplane Crash in Which Six Died
k l,ieir death?. The plane • one of the 43 in recent
, ,mnr IPliii mass flight from Hawaii to Midway Island.
OF NEW PATROL MEN
Noble and Governor’s Sec
retary Closeted Going
Over the Lists,
PREPARING LICENSES
- ... . ..
Form of Statewide Drivers' Cards Be*
ing Studied in Revenue De
partment; Will Be On Sale
in Few Weeks
Dotty DiHtmkfe Boreas,
In the Sir Walter Hotel,
B V C.. OASftERVILL.
Raleigh, May 25.—Assistant. Com
missioner of Revenue M. C. S. Noble,
■Jr., and Charles Powell, private secre
tary to Governor J. C. B. Ehringhaus,
haxe been closeted together the past,
few days in No'ble’s office, checking
over the applications so tfar received
from those seeking jobs on the State
Highway Patrol.
"We are merely cheeking up on the
character and qualifications of some
of the applicants for jobs on the en
larged State highway patrol, as well
as of (some of the present highway
patrolmen,” Noble said as he ushered
this correspondent out of his office
while Powell was talking over long
distance telephone to some one, evi
dently concerning a patrolmen or an
applicant.
The stenographer in the outer office
had said that Dr. Noble was not in,
but when the door to his private of
fice was opened, both he and Powell
were busy poring over a stack of ap
plications.
Some here are wondering whether
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INFANT PARALYSIS
NOW IN GOLDSBORO
Goldsboro. May 25.—(AP) —The
first caisc of infantile paralysis
reported in Wayne county in some
time was listed today.
Dorothy Ann St. Sing, 5, of the
Borden apartments on Walnut
street, is the sufferer,
RELIEF WAGE PAY
PUTS PWA IN JAM
Entire Set=Up Being Viewed
With Alarm, Except
As to Ickes’ End,
By LESLIE EICHEL
Central Press Staff Writer
New York, May 25.—Relief work
ers are wondering who was behind
President Roosevelt’s public work re
lief schedule. They argee with critics
of the schedule that the rates set are
below subsistence.
The effect, the relief workers say.
will be tonu llify work relief.
But friends of the administration
are worried over a. stronger kickback
than that.
They fear that contractors who bid
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WEATHER
FUR NORTH CAROLINA.
Fair tonight and Sunday: slight
lj warmer Eouifht.
Germany Demands Right
To P ossess Colonies If
She Returns To League
11 Duce Abandons
Hope of Anns Cut
Rome, May 25. —(AP)—Premier
Mussolini told the Chamber of De
puties today it was useless to be.
lieve in the limitation of arma
ments or the elimination of cerr
tain deadly weapons such as gas
or heavy arms.
Switzerland Coin plains.
Berne, Switzerland, May 25.*
(AP) —Swiss customs authorities
complained today* that squadrons
of German airplanes violated the
frontier by making flights over
Swiss territory during the past few
days,
THAD EURE MIGHT
SEEK WADE’S JOB
Principal Clerk of House
Wants To Be Secretary
of State Next
Dally Dlsnntei! Bsrts-
In the SI- Walter Hotel,
ny J. C. BASRERVILL,
Raleigh. May 25. Tliaddeus A
Eure, of this city and Winton, prin
cipal clerk of the House in the last
three sessions of the General Assem.
bly and a member of the 1929 House,
is now regarded as a candidate for
the Democratic nomination for secre
tary of state in the primary next June
and as already actively running, de
spite his failure so far to make a for
mal announcement of his candidacy.
Eure, just back from several days in
Washington, D. C., where Senator
Josiah W- Bailey publicly offered him
the post of private secretary in his
office there a,nd which he declined,
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AAA FARM POLICY
AIDS SO. AMERICA
High Prices Here Permit
Latins to Undersell
American Products
By CHARLES P- STEWART
Central Press Staff Writer
Washington, May 25.—111 blows the
wind that profits nobody.
AAA policies appear to be bringing
recovery to agricultural Latin Amer
ica.
Restricted production in the United
States has increased Uncle Sam’s
farm prices generally, with the re-
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PUBLISHED EVERY AFTERNOON
EXCEPT MONDAY,
And That Right Must Be
Recognized In Tangible
Form, Great Britain
Is Informed
BRITAIN HOPING TO
SATISFY THE REICH
Also Asking for 35 Percent
of Strength of England's
Navy; German Foreign
Minister States Position In
Interview With British En
voy In Berlin
London. May 25 (AP)—Germany
has informed great Britain that her
right to hold colonies must be recog
nized in some tangible form by the
former Allies before she will return to
the League of Nations, well-informed
British quarters said today.
The German attitude toward colon
ial possessions and mandates was
clarified in an interview yesterday in
Berlin by Sir Eric Phipps. British am
bassador, with Konstantin von Neu
rath, German foreign minister.
It was officially disclosed here that
Sir Eric was ordered to contact von
Neurath to ask him questions regard
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LITTLE WINS GOLF
TITLE IN ENGLAND
St. Anne’s-on-the. Sea, England,
May 25.—(AP) —Standing off a
great closing challenge by his
British rival, William Lawson Lit
tle, Jr., of San Francisco, today
captured the British amateur golf
championship one up In the 36-
hole finals match from Dr. Wil
liam Twedell.
Little thus became the first
American and the third man to
win the title two straight years.
Paralysis Is Cause'
Os Alarm In State
R,aleigh, May 25 (AP) —Reports of
one new case of infantile paralysis to
day in Wayne county made a total of
19 cases officially reported to the
State Board of Health this month,
while four others have been listed in
Harnett and Johnston counties, ac
cording to information here.
The official total of 19 cases thus
far for May compares with a previ
ous all-time high of six for any May
in the State and an indication of the
seriousness of the situation when new
cases are being reported daily may be
seen in the fact that only 21 were re
ported in the entire United States the
week end May 4. This State contri
buted two of those.
Though State Board of Health of
ficials are hesitating about saying the
outbreak is an Dr. . C.
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TODAY
FIVE CENTS COPY
PRESIDENT STATED
HE WILL VETO ANY
BONUS RIDER BILL
Administration Leaders Are
Fearful Roosevelt Has
Invited I rouble for
His Program
WOULD REJECT EVENS
THE SECURITY BILL
Patman Bill Advocates Were
Already Eyeing That Mea
sure as Likely Vehicle for
Bill They Failed To Get
Through As Separate Leg
islation
Washington, May 25.—(AP)—Ad
ministration leaders were fearful to
day that President Roosevelt had in
vited trouble for his legislative pro
gram by saying he would veto any
message/ to which a cash bonus
“rider” is attached.
With this flat declaration from the
White House, the President’s advisors
were apprehensive that opponents; of
some of the administration bills would
join forces with the bonus blod to 4 at»
tach a cash payment rider.
The chief executive said he-„would
veto even the most vital administra.
tion bill if it were sent to hlipr sfath
a cash payment “rider.” His comment
came at a time when the bonus forces
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Bulwinkle Is HI ’
Os H cart Ailment;
In Navy Hospital
' 7 l _,
Washington, May 2g,.—i<,A4»)—. >
Representative Bulwinkle, Demo- ,
crat. North Carolina, today iuf«o,
sered ai heart attack alid waA juJk
mitted to the naval hospital for
treatment.
Dr. George W. Calver, House
physician, described his condition
as “very favorable,” nut added
that “he will need a. protracted
period of rest, before being able to
resume bis duties.”
WEEK-END LULL IN
NATIONAL CAPITAL
President and His Wife
Away, Going To Anna
polis for Boat Races
Washington, May 25.—'(AP)—Week
end lulls settled over Congress today,
but behind the scenes were many
signs of quiet maneuvering to round
out quickly the administration’s leg
islative program.
/Many left the city for a, short holi
day, including President and Mrs.
Roosevelt, With a party of friends
they motored to neartby Annapolis to
see their son, Franklin, Jr., row with
the Harvard crew.
Important in the minds of tha
(Continued on Page Two I
Knox, epidemiologist, said the cen
tralization of six cases in Wake Coun
ty and five in Pitt in the last ten
days presented "an ominous factor.’*
“The kinds of epidemics vary, in my
opinion,” said Dr. Knox. “In measles
it might take thousans of cases to
cause what we would consider an epi
demic. In another disease, suen as
infantil paralysis, the occurrence of
more cases in a month than v. e r.ave
ever had before might be c<_.
an epidemic.”
Dr. Knox pointed out that i e | m
cipal cause of worry ovei u t vi. -tl
ence of the dread t n. c. oh
numbers at this seasox us. i
ly the number of cases u > e< .:h
month during the at. j
off again, startir,* . ;>
1 tember..