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THE CHARLOTTE OBSERVER The Foremost Newspaper of The wo Carolina- SATURDAY MAY 1 1937 SECTION ONE TO REVIEW PHASES OF LINDBERGH KIDNAPING CASE CARO-GRAPHICS by Murray JornJR 100 Scientists See PAGE TWELVE 0 mu elescope Sky Cage DO YOU KNOW YOUR STATE? IN 1097 IT WAf HECE55ARY TO (Alt IN TO KEEP ORDER IN THE STATE lEfilflATORE THE ATDRE POllCfX J-V GEORGE ISAAC HUGHES llVES HERE HE IS THE OIDEfT'POPPA IN THE US PIDYOU XHOIYmt A5 EARLY AS 1003 WENT IfGblATURE PROPOEfPTHAT NATIONAL CCN6RI BE GIVEN POWER TO PR0- 1N 1769 THE OF ANSON 0RAN6E I ROWAN TCADE coi ASKED THAT AIL DEBTS ABOVE UNDER 0 BE 5ETTLEP BY A JURY WITHOUT 1AWYERS INVlTF YOU TO IN INTERESTING FACTS AGOUTYOUfl COMMUNITY 75-Ton Tube to House Giant Lense on Mount Palomar to Be 6 Stories High May Be Moved by Hand BY HOWARD BLAKESIEE Associated Press Science Editor PHILADELPHIA April Einstein and 100 other scientists today watched the last bolt placed in the tube which will carry the 200-inch telescope mirror and they learned that the great tube is going to be the first It will not only house the big-glass eye that will see a billion light years out into space but its crew of astronomers will do everything but sleep in the moving tube As the tube swings across the sky astronomers tiny as mannikins in comparative size will work in a cage in its upper end in a basket hanging beneath its bottom and in a big cylindrical room alongside its middle The telescope and ils problems are so vast that for the first time the astronomical observers cannot readily stand outside and look through SIX STORIES HIGH The telescope itself as outlined in today's ceremonies will be in some respect a more wonderful thing than any of the sights yet caught of stars and distant nebulae The tube completed today weighs about 75 tons is a steel framework the bulk of a six-room house and when its is bolted on will weigh 87 tons and be as tall as a six-story building Yet the pressure of a child's hand will be able to swing this giant structure to and fro on its axis when it is finally mounted Furthermore the entire tele' scope when completed one million pounds which will be the completed tube plus two other gigantic steel parts moving with it will be rotated by one-millionth of a volt of electricity The amperage needed to drive the motor that rotates the telescope synchronously with the turning of the earth about its axis will be too slight to even register on an ordinary ammeter LARGEST MACHINE The child's hand and the millionth of a volt illustrate the precision of this instrument which is not only the world's largest telescope but in some respects the largest machine ever made Completed and set up on Mount Palomar California the telescope alone will be a steel structure four and a half stories high its tube when turned upright capable of thrusting the astronomer riding its top seven to eight stories above the ground The astronomer riding the top will look directly at rays focussed from the 200-inrh mirror 55 feet below him in the bottom of the tube In the middle of the great mirror is a 40-inch-wide hole and beneath this will be swung a basket in which other astronomers can ride They will see the objects in the mirror after reflection back from near the top of the tube down through the hole in the mirror The third crew of astronomical riders will be half way down the tube off to one side where they can see reflections of stars brought from the big mirror by right-angled mirror arrangements New Teacher Arrives ASHEBORO April 30 Miss Alma Vickery commercial teacher from Glen Alpine arrived the later part of this week to take the place of Mrs Juanita Taylor Bishop who resigned from the local school faculty last week because of illness 10 HURT TWO MISSING IN BUILDING COLLAPSE MARTINSVILLE Va April M1) Ten persons wre hurt several seriously and two vere missing after the walls of a building undergoing reconstruction collapsed here this afternoon Fifteen men were at work on a facade of the Shultz-Shumate building when the wall suddenly folded up Some had been laying brick on the two-story front while others reinforced floors on the inside Police Chief Stultz who witnessed the crash said the cause was not immediately determined Delk and Younts Construction company of High Point were remodeling the building for the Eagle Stores BIG PRICE IS OBTAINED FOR STAMP RARITY NEW YORK ApriJ 30 iT) A rare postage stamp error found by Herman Herst Jr in the stock of a Portland Ore curio dealer was sold today1 to George Sloane stamp dealer acting for an unnamed client The price was not disclosed but Herst said it compared favorably with recent auction sales of similar stamps which have brought $3300 and $3600 The total cost of the stamp to Herst was $103 He bought it for $3 and after discovering it was a rarity paid the Portland dealer 100 for a bill of sale so as to establish clear title to it Washington Evening Star Announces Pay Sca'e For Its Employes WASHINGTON April 30 The Evening Star published today a statement of wages and h-urs policy for editorial employes announcing a $45 weekly minimum for those of three years standing and a 40-hour week for others than executives and a few in positions The statement said the management had not been approached on the subject save by individual employes but considered it advisable to set forth a policy "in recognition of current trends toward uniformity in such relationships" In addition to wages and hours the statement covered also vacations and dismissal and disability bone 'ts The wage policy provides for a minimum of $25 a week in the first year of employment $35 in the second year and $40 in the third for all photographers artists and news writers A minimum of $45 regardless of length of service is provided for copy readers Previous experience the statement said would be taken into account in fixing the initial pay of a new employe Those excepted from the 40-hour week included the editor the associate editors the literary editor the managing editor the assistant managing editor the news editor the city cdtior the assistant city editor the telegraph editor the State editor the Sunday editor the society editor and the sports editor SPERRY WILL ACQUIRE VICKERS INC DETROIT NEW YORK April 30 Thomas A Morgan president of Sperry corporation announced today the company has arranged to acquire Vickers Inc of Detroit from its present owners Fred Fisher and Harry Vickers through exchange of stock of the two companies The transaction will involve 66454 shares of Sperry worth roundly $1-200000 Vickers Inc makes and sells hydraulic pumps valves and transmissions used by automotive manufacturers Sperry's subsidiaries make aeroplane and steamship navigational equipment much of which is used by the army and navy The acquisition of Vickers gives Sperry a wider operation in the commercial field The new plant employing about 700 workers is located in Detroit OBTAINED HIS MEDICAL LICENSE THROUGH FRAUD ST LOUIS April (T) -A former bank cashier told today of delivering a "dozen or babies and performing minor surgical operations soon after receiving an Arkansas medical license without being examined by the Arkansas board or graduating from a medical school William Dews of Wood River 111 now a chiropractor testified before a jury in United States District Judge Charles court that he paid $590 to George Lindsay of Kansas City for the license and a fraudulent medical diolrma Lindsay and four co-dcfendants are on trial on a charge of using the mails to defraud through the operation of a medical and chro-practic diploma and license mill IGROCE STORETNO Commutation of Death Sentence of Convicted Slayer Will Be Asked of Allred DALLAS April Leo Dar-ley attorney for August Dwight Beard 27 sentenced to die in the electric chair June 4 is preparing a petition for commutation of the sentence Beard was taken to State prison at Huntsville yesterday to await the execution date confident Gov James Allred would commute his sentence He was convicted of the slaying of John Roberts former city detective December 23 1935 when Roberts sought to halt a holdup in a garage Sheriff Smoot Schmid in the party of officers who took Beard to death row said Beard suggested the installation of radios in the jail cell tiers here for use of prisoners The sheriff explained the sugges-j tion would not be carried out be cause the noise of radios woulU' keep jailers from hearing any saw" ing of cell bars which might undertaken Beard on a previous orcasion was sentenced to die and then obtained commutation to life imprisonment He escaped from a North Carolina prison PHILANTHROPISTS SEND BOYS TO FEED PIGEONS NEW YORK April Two New York bird-philanthropists have introduced a novel method of making sure that the pigeons in Manhattan's midtown parks don't go hungry Twice daily at 10 a and 4 the birds in Bryant park flutter into sudden action at the sight of a uniformed messenger boy who brings them a bag of grain Nikola Tesla the electrical inventor foots the bill Similarly another messenger boy feeds the pigeons in Central park actirg under the will of an attorney Walking mOU KMVm IN 1760 REflPfNtf OF PASQUOTANK PERQUIMANS COUNTIES WERT REQUIRED BY IAW TO KI1110 SQUIRREL PERYEARORPAVAFINEOF Washington By Charles Central Press Washington Bureau 602 Times-Herald Bldg WASHINGTON April Sometimes I wonder if the law of diminishing returns is understood as well as it ought to be considering how simple the proposition is To taxation experts it's as plain as print of course But for the benefit of others who may never have paid much attention to it a little consideration of the subject might be profitable HOW IT WORKS Let us suppose the case of an import tax on coffee for example Some of our tariff imposts are imposed with the deliberate purpose of keeping foreign stuff out of the United States that it may not compete with our domestic production Coffee however is a different thing We produce none No protective principle is involved For-eign-grown coffee is taxed upon its arrival here purely for the sake of the money that the tax yields to the government The government needs the money and that is one way of getting it possibly a poor way but it works-up to a certain point The government always wants more money the coffee tax is bringing it in quite generously so it is boosted All right there is an increase in collections Then there are further hosts to get more still RETURNS DIMINISH But ultimately there comes a time when coffee by reason of the fax becomes too expensive for any except the quite well-to-do to continue drinking it Consequently imports of it fall off The tax is higher but it is paid on so much less coffee that the higher tax yields less than the lower one did This is the operation of the law of diminishing returns MORE RETURN I do not know that this is particularly true of coffee but it is true of imports generally We have reached a stage where the tariff does not yield anything like the revenue that it would if it were lower By being excessive it has counteracted itself We get less in tax collections where we eypocted to get more ANOTHER EXAMPLE This rule holds good as to a lot of income taxation illustratively Heaven knows I hold no brief for the "malefactor of groat Nevertheless w'hen he gets up to a levy of about 80 per cent his inclination is to say "Oh well I won't make any more mone the government will take most of it away from me And he goes on a sit-down strike living on what he has got and not trying to make any more The law of diminishing returns in operation once more! Now as to big sources of revenue Uncle Sri has reached the limit of the law of diniminishing returns The more it assesses against big money the less it will get It is compelled to increase the levy on us little folk Income tax I have lived in Japan There is a class there of "jin-rickshaw These men are comparable to taxicab men except that they do not operate they pull little phaetons and run on foot between the shafts And they are subject to income tax As we pare down income tax exemptions we get toward that level endeavoring to get away from the law of diminishing returns Such a situation might be fore- or MFC no ranu cmmnr 2 PENCE FOR EACH 5QU1RRII THE EDITORS OF CARO-CRAPHICS Purposes Made Clear in Conspiracy Investigation With I Summoning of Witnesses NEWARK April 'An exhaustive review of some phases of the Lindbergh kidnaping case with emphasis on the dramatic final efforts to save Bruno Richard Hauptmann from the electric chair was disclosed today as part of the government's strategy in the Federal court conspiracy trial of Ellis Parker and four other men The Burlington county detective chief his son Ellis Parker Jr and three Brooklyn men are charged with conspiracy in the abduction of Paul Wendel whose eleventh-hour to the Lindbergh baby kidnaping saved Hauptmann's life for three days The allegedly obtained through torture was later repudiated and Wendel absolved The government's plans were revealed in its list of witnesses made public for the first time today Several high State officials many principals in the Haupmann trial and its aftermaths and several Federal agents who worked on the case were named Among them were State Attorney General David Wilentz chief prosecutor of Hauptmann and three of his aides: Chancellor Luther A Campbell the State's highest judicial officer and member of the court of pardons before which Wendd's "confession" was produced as it considered Hauptmann's clemency plea 13 months ago Col Mark Kimborling State prison warden when Hauptmann was executed now State police superintendent and William Lagay present prison warden and former secretary to Governor Harold Hoffman The Governor who also was active in the Hauptmann case was not listed All of these as well as the five defendants themselves were named in a supplemental list served on the defense today Informed sources said the additional witnesses were added to combat the reported plan of attempting to prove Wendel the real Lindbergh baby kidnaper Attorney John Quinn said only that "certain had made it necessary to add them Counsel for the Parkers labeled the new list a and fought its admission on the ground the trial had started and the government had not supplied the new witness list two days in advance of trial Judge William Clark recessed court until Monday to comply with the two-day rule but withheld a formal decision on admitting the additional witnesses until one of them is called GAIN IS SHOWN IN INCOME Report Reveals State Has Collected $59617248 in 10 Months of Fiscal Year RALEIGH April 30-()-Sky-rocketing revenue receipts during the 10 months ending today gave the State $50617248 30 inrome Revenue Commissioner A Maxwell announced which represented an increase of 2345 per cent or $11323 85305 over the similar period a year ago Only two tax classifications privilege and miscellaneous groups failed to show an lucre? 5e during the last 10 months over the similar months of 1935-38 Income taxes to today totalled $1040151411 up $316597689 from last year and inheritance taxes at $387221589 represented a gain of $342689475 In the highway fund gasoline taxes showed a gain of $2-27301190 with a total of $18074-994 47 The sales tax in 10 months re-1 turned $938367017 a gam of $908-153 over last year April receipts of $433479849 represented a 3470 per cent increase over $321821951 taken in April 1936 The sales tax brought in $1-02317935 compared with $84348960 a year ago and income taxes yielded $43298543 compared with $199-26730 SANFORD CLUB HEARS VOCATIONAL TEACHER SANFORD April 30 At this meeting of the Sanford Rotary club at the Wilrik hotel Vance Hulbert vocational teacher of the Sanford High school spoke on vocational training He asserted that from 30 to 40 per cent more than 40 million workers in United States are either dissatisfied with their work or are unsuited for their tasks He declared that vocational guidance is the remedy through which the boys and girls are helped in rhoosing jobs for which they are best fitted During the business session the following were elected directors for the coming year: Dr Knight Makepeace the Rev A Gibson Bracken Underwood Jr Bobbitt and A Mclver Toe new officers will be elected at the next meeting Plans were discussed for the 57th district convention at v'hich the local club will be host to be held at Pinehurst on May 9 and 10 Makepeace conference chairman and Rev A Gibson conference secretary were elected as official delegates from the club with Underwood and Undcrwod Jr alternates LANDOWNERS OF CATAWBA WILL CONVENE MONDAY NEWTON April 30 Announcement has been made that the regular meeting of the landowners of Catawba County Drainage District No 1 will be held Monday afternoon at 2 o'clock at the courthouse in Newtop New officers will be elected and routine business transacted Observer Want Ads put rash In hand by selling a hot dog stand ISCLPDTIS Presbyterians Also Elect Mrs A Henderson and Mrs Watt Adjourn The Woman's Auxiliary of Mecklenburg presbytery which has been in session since Thursday afternoon at the First Presbyterian church adjourned yesterday afternoon to meet next spring in Wadesboro in the First Prcsbyterain church there Mrs Potts of Charlotte was elected as president succeeding Mrs A Henderson of Monroe who was chosen as vice president Mrs Watt of Steel Creek church is the new recording secretary and Mrs Walker wife of Rev Walker of Steele Creek church was made secretary of foreign missions Mrs Bolt of Marshville was reelected secretary of Assembly's home missions and Mrs Spillman Charlotte was re-elected historian The terms of all other officers have not expired The following district chairmen made reports of their districts: Mrs Frank Fetzer of Wadesboro Mrs Meares of Charlotte district Mrs Neely of Mecklenburg county Mrs McKay of Marstnn Richmond county Mrs Keller of Badin Stanly county and Mrs A Biggers of Indian Trail Union county Mrs Stork chairman of Montgomery county district was reported sick in the hospital Mrs Reid of Lenoir visiting the auxiliary told of the work among negro women and said a conference for them would be held at Wincton-Salem 1 is summer REVIEWS WORK Miss Louise Clanton president of the synod's auxiliary made an address tracing the history of the women's work since its organization in 1912 Dr Huneycutt pastor at Indian Trail made an address on home mission work Dr Huneycutt spoke of the problems confronting the home missionary such as tenantry consolidated schools drawing people to centers and to towns the inadequate equipment of country churches limited finances and lack of leadership However he said home missions pay large dividends both financially and spiritually Rev Grier moderator of Mecklenburg presbytery brought greetings to the auxiliary and Rev Burney chairman of the presbytery's committee on women's work asked the womerr to take care of the distribution of funds and pointed out the percentage to be used for religious education in presbytery amounts to two per cent to be sent to Price the treasurer Two per cent he says goes to workers in State colleges M'GEACHY PREACHES Rev McGeachy Jr pastor at Monroe spoke on "The Way of and asked the members of the auxiliary to make the Christian life a practical daily matter Mrs A Young conducted a memorial service for 72 members of the loral auxiliaries that have deceased during the year Ladies of Central Steel Creek church prepared the lunch which was served in the basement of the church The presbytery's share of the cost of Mission Court at Richmond Va the home for foreign missionaries on furlough was reported as completely paid Rev Garth stated clerk of presbytery made a speech to the auxiliary in which he outlined plan for promotion of evangelism and religious education in all the churches of the presbytery The plan he said was to have a daily vacation bible school this summer for two weeks in every church and a simultaneous conference on church work and family religion and an evangelistic meeting conducted by one of the pastors of the presbytery FRAT AT LEES-McRAE INITIATES MEMBERS BANNER ELK April 30 Formal initiation of 12 new members was held by Beta Tau chapter of Phi Theta Kappa national honorary fraternity at Lees-McRae college here Students initiated were: Ragland Fletcher James Love of New-land Hugh Schoot of Covington Va Betty Gossard of Ivlorehead City Mary Hartsog of Husk Doro- I thy Church Mary Zclle and Lars Christensen of Banner Elk Sadie I Riddle of Fletcher Mary Ashe Lee of Ansonville Wade Gibs-m of Sandy Ridge Miriam Glovier 1 Valle Crucia At A Glance Stewart stalled by cutting governmental expenditures It is not being done on Capitol Hill The administration advocates it but does not tell how We ordinary folk however ae up against the law of diminishing returns It will get us if we don't look out COUNTY CLINICS SCHEDULE FIXED Health Officer to Give Inoculations Against Diphtheria and Typhoid Dr II Hand county health officer yesterday announced the operation of free clinics for the prevention of diphtheria and typhoid fever The clinics will be conducted by the county health department by the following schedule: May 10 17 24 31 Hickory Grove school 9-11 a Robinson church Wilgrove May 11 18 25 June 1 Oakhurst school 9-11 a Stewart service station Huntley and Godfrey service station May 12 19 26 and June 2 Kevins school 9-12 a iri Croft school May 13 20 27 June 3 Lng Creek school 9-12 a Gilead (C Stilwell service station) May 12 22 29 June 5 oty-county health department 9-12 a June 7 14 21 28 Matthews school 9-12 a Mint Hill school June 8 15 22 29 Dunn's store (Shufflctown) 9-12 a Kendall null June 9 16 23 30 Sharon (community house) 9-12 a Providence school June 12 19 28 and July 3 city-county health department 9-12 a RANDOLPH COUNTY P-T A TO HEAR WCUNC TUTORS Special to The Ob'ierver ASHEBORO April 30 Claude Teague member of the faculty at Greensboro will be the main speaker when the Randolph county council of Parent-Teacher associations meets Friday evening at 6:30 o'clock at Iho Trinity school The meeting will be in the form of a supper and Mrs Caveness of Franklinville president of the county P-T A will preside Charles Phillips another member of the Women's college faculty will also speak Mrs Colotrane president of the North West district organization of Greensboro will also make a short talk Every unit in the county is expected to be present BELMONT ANNOUNCES COMMENCEMENT PLANS Special to The BELMONT April 30 Belmont High school commencement program will include the annual senior play "Peg O' My at 8 Friday night May 7 the commencement sermon by Rev Charles Bowles Sunday May 9 at 8 Class day exercises Monday May 10 at 8 and on Tuesday night at 8 o'clock the commencement address by Dr Price Gwynn of the department of Education at Davidson college the exception of a small section the thickness of a pencil lead was entirely eaten away by radium poisoning underwent the treatment Eight weeks later Compton said the radium had been removed from her system and the bone restored to Its natural state Radium poisoning permeates the bone structure in much the same way as calcium Or Compton said The treatement removes radium in a manner to that in which calcium is removed from the system The first step is to cause the patient to become afflicted with rickets Calcium is eliminated from the diet The parathyroid hormone is removed and chemicals are administered internally When the treatment is no longer necessary a special diet is prescribed to return the patient to normal health TRADEfrMcDOWElL- 5OomTRY0N A TREADMILL? Swift's Brookfield SAUSAGE lb 29c Branded Western Steer Chuck Roast lb 19c Boned and Rolled lb 23c Small Feanut Fed HAMS lb 24c STRAWBERRIES Quart 14E2c GRAPEFRUIT Large Size 5 for 19c Does the daily routine of household tasks keep you busy from down to dusk? Do many of your working hours slip by in cleaning firing and tending an old-fashioned cook stove hours which you could use for your family and for the other things you would really like to do if you only hod the time? Would you be free from kitchen drudgery and free from most of the dirt and soot which ora a port of out-of-date cooking methods? If you would just ask your neighbor what a modern electric or gos range in HER kitchen means to her in time-saving in release from drudgery in greater happiness Whole Sweet Fickle No 2' Can PEACHES 19c $(g Gold Medal FLOUR 24-lh Bag LIBBY'S American Wisconsin CHEESE lb 19c Fresh Killed HENS lb 21c 35c FRYERS Dressed and Drawn lb Fresh Green PEAS lb 5c BANANAS 4 lbs 19c Salad DRESSING qi 19c Dr Fhillps JUICE 25c 3 No 7t Cans Libby's Tomato JUICE 4 Large Can 25c MILK 3 Tall Cans I9c Ivanhoe Potato SALAD 1 6c 3 cakes 17c Rickets Used To Fight Dread Radium Poisoning Pears or Apricots Tan can W2C Install A Modern Gas Or Electric Range Today POWER COMPANY 430 South Church Street BUFFALO April Scientists waited tonight for a medical announcement explaining how one human rickets can be used to fight another dreaded radium poisoning Details of the radium poisoning treatment which has effected cures will be announced before a medical society next week Dr Karl Taylor Compton president' of Massachusetts Institute of Technology said here Dr Compton did not say where or by whom the announcement would be made But pending the disclosure he told a meeting of I alumni here some of the facts abrut the treatment Over a five-year period during which it has been used extensively a number of permanent cures have been obtained he said A woman whose jaw bone with 1 Gilt Edge Creamery BUTTER 33c TOMATOES 4 No 2 Cans 25c 10c Fackage OXYDOL 5c CAMAY SOAP Bottle Gardenia Frrtump FRFE.

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