The Charlotte Observer from Charlotte, North Carolina • 1

tmi liMtMtn liiiii i ii MirtriifUffli HidMIMII il MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS- -UNITED PRESS LEASED WIRE Washington and Raleigh Neics Bureau Hundreds of Special Correspondents Over North Carolina and South Carolina Circulation Yesterday City and Suburban 45939 Country 9419 TOTAL PAID 55358 First In America itiUL The Observer leads In circulation AfL news pa per a Morning and Evening In the atatea of North end feouth Carolina Ii It the large-t newspaper between Richmond and Atlanta and Washington and Birmingham The Ob-server occupies the unique position of being the onlv mo-nlng newspaper in AMERICA published a city of Jes than 1 00 OftQ pnpu ation havng a circulation nf fift t0(l dailv enl more than 57 000 Sunday The Observer leads all newspaper both Morning and Even'ng in the two state In volume of advertising car ried each veer It I Interfiling In note that of The fh err ri5 oi0 (MILT and more than 67 (too MAY citcuiatjon 4b ooo or moie man 81 i cirv and suburban circulation in Thar-lottea Immediate trading territory Ninety per rent of the other circulation 1 within convenient shopping radius of Charlotta The Foremost Newspaper of The Two Carolinas Circulation Books Open to FOUNDED 66TH YEAR NO 200 68 PAGES TODAY CHARLOTTE SUNDAY MORNING OCTOBER 21 1934 PRICE: FIVE CEN IS 1AIIY TEN CENTS SUNDAY tbaVy Per Capita WE BO OltR PART SAMUEL COOK TOPPLES OFF FISHING BOAT NEAR VERONA OH SERVICE LEADS LIST OF Chief Littlejohn To Remain As Head Of City Detectives Operation Is FatalToNC School Chief Flying Over Pacific To California In- Widely Known Here in surance Business WILL REMAIN OF FAUEAGUE To Lead Fight For Lower Gas and Auto Fees Prospective Government Offer Will Be Turned Down To Get Increase Here 5- Hold Rites For Poincare Oct 2 Him-niollll 10111 II I 4 VV 1 14 VII Doiimoigue called Imps llie greatest I'rciu Ii cilieii luce given France's farewell today in a double runcral eorcmonv of warlike splendor and religious solemnity Find Gangster Escape Car nifHMOM) 'a tut V) The first niiflionliealod clue to the direction taken Unbelt Mills and alter legena gangster-inue'lei ers In tlieir llighl alter hooting their way out of llie Jail here eaine to nrfieeiis toclav when the osinpe ear was loeateil In aroline (tin ii i 40 miles north or Ku COMPANIONS ESCAPE Public Safety Makes Next Ma jor Call on Treasury by: COSTS ARE DETAILED HEADQUARTERS IN CITY Maxwell and Floyd Hendrix This City Make Futile Effort to Save Him 9' Major Booth Gives Out Statement Outlining Stand New Financial Statement Reduces Public Charges to Per Capita Basis AM MM si i 'Sf Detective Chief Kiank Tattle-John is expected to lemain with the Chailotte police department Indefinitely rather than assume iim-templated duties with the United Slates government bv virtue of a substantial aalai tnciease planned by the utv council The Ooseivei was reliably infouned veslerday The toundl at 'Wednesday meeting is expected to vote the n-eiease fm- the dlreitoi of the detective biueatt as well as a taise for Acting Chief Alex AVest Although Chief Litllejohn has made no comment it Ih understood he will remain in Charlotte after the salat adjustment has bepn made Five membeis of the council Aliy or Arthur If AVeain Claude It Squires Claude Alhea John Bov and Alax I Kahn exptessed their vvlllinguess to vote the ialse So far ns could be learned the matter of letainlng Chief Kittlejolin has been under considei ation some time by the rdy officials and definite action Is contemplated in the immediate ftituie possibly A edn-dav afternoon Scveial months ago when It be- im Says Bonus Will Pass KANSAS (irV Ort 22 bT) A prediction the next session of congress will vote for immediate rash payment of the bonus "by such a margin 'hat a White House veto will he was made today by James Van Zandt eommander-in-ehiif of the Veterans of Foreign Wats in a statement released from national headquarters here Want Dry Spell MIXMI I la Oct Tlie bomefolks with one eye on the hellions and lingers i rosseil nre murmuring fenent Jiojies that rain clouds will sun far nwav for lrgloii week Octobers la Miami ns matter of reeoiil are wetter than any oilier month May Settle Child Fight Nhy 5 OKU bet 20 cTR Conferences looking to a hs-silile settlement of the under hill-Whitncy court battle over tlie custody of 7-jear-olcl florla Vanderbilt heiress In 1000-000 weie understood tonight to he in progress during the A ALLEN kv' Turn 1o IS Cob niri' jrmrjuir CH'UtrKS INGkKOltD-SMITH Effects of Major Operation Fatal to State Superintendent of Education Famous Flyer Lands at Suva After Battling Inclement Weather Education For New Era Urged By'FR President in Receiving Degree at William and Mary Says Youth Must Be Trained to Meet Future Changes WILLIAMSBURG Va Oct Three-centuries-old Williamsburg svelcomed the thirty-second Tresident today showed him six years of progress in its transformation to colonial originality and heard him urge upon rising generations the attainment of a liberal non-specialized to fit them for the and of present day America Coming here by epe(iil tiain fiom lioancke vihoie he dedicated Judge James Si Manning jf Raleigh prominent over he state for two decades is a political leader and lawyer ivill accept the presidency of tlie North Carolina Automobile Tax Reduction league and assume the leadership of that campaign to have the January session of the state legislature reduce the gasoline tax and automobile license fees Judge Manning continued the report that he will accept the leadeiihip of the ganlza' ion has its headquat tors jn Chailotte in a telephone conversation with The ihsei ver last ft uni his home In Raleigh The Raleigh lawyer is a native of PJttsboro and early in his optical caieec f-erv ed ns a member rf the house and the senate of the Voith Carolina General Assembly fiom his heme (nuntv 4fe wss a candidate for suppling eouit judge in 1 896 and in 1909 was appointed a justice of the Xorth Carolina supieme court Fiom 1917 to 1923 Judge Manning served as a 1 1 oi nev -general of North Carolina In late vpus he has been activp In the leade-ihip of the Democratic paitv ana in duel ting the pi imai campa gns of various leadeis iv Judge Alarming said last night that he is in heaity agreement with the aims of the league and that he will Issue a statemenf later about the plans for the futup Dr John Davidson of Chai lotte ill i etii as presi lent of the leigue to allow the ascendyncy of Judge Alanning Jn Davdson stated however that he will continue to actively work for die pi o-gram to Fenefit motoiists of the state being cairied on by the league The orgamatmn was fut formed in Chailotte and has its membership and auvUies thtoughoiit the entiie state It maintains an office in the Independence building Ala lor John I Booth executive A fishing trip that ended in tragedy at 3 yesterday afternoon claimed the life of Samuel Cook Charlotte insurance man for whose body Onslow county officers late last night were searching the waters of the New river near Verona In long distance telephone conversation with an Onsloiv tesi-dent The Observer learned Mr Cook was drowned as his two Charlotte companions tried fianti-caliv to save him The other two Charlotte mein bet a f'f the fishing party were Jus tin Maxwell son of State Rove nue Commissioner A Alaxwell and Floyd llendilx an an-ciate of Mr Maxwell Jn the Piedmont Feed Mills Inc Although vague and unconfirmed from official sources -reports of Air Cook's death induated a tragedy of an unusual nature With the other Chailottenns Mr Cook was returning to the party's base camp atter a fishing foiuy into deep water AVhen nearing shore the rrafr a small skiff of the speed-boat type common in this section was turned too abruptly causing Mr Cook to loe his balance and topple Into the water MW WEI A TIT ROW I Traveling at a fast pace the boat had progressed some little distanre away before the othes on board could attempt a right-about-fare Then as the skiff veered sharply a second time one of the other men was thrown into the water lie was rqpoited to be Air Alaxwell Alaxwell and Took Mrugglirg in the water managed to gta-p ruhl of the boats side but in doing so caused it to turn over throwing Air Hendrix Into the liver Jn the ensuing threshing about Air Cook became sepaiated from the other about 200 yards from shallow walei Jn dire aliaits he sought 1 elp The otheis tiled to reach him one righting the boat As they drew nearer Air Cook begin to sink When the rescueis were 50 varris awav Mr Cooks body sank from sight Piellminary di'ing tactics fulled to locate and surviving memheis of the party called in outside help and summoned Onsiovv office! SERCHIG FOR BODY Grappling hooks and other ver-ptobing devices weie brought into play hut at a late hour last night the quest lill was unsuccessful Mr Cook who resided heie at 502 Xorth College stieet had been In the employ of the Tiedmont Fire Insurance company for fever a I yea is He leaves his widow and a number of other relatives in this section a brother being Conk 317 AVest Tenth street Ife was horn In Caban us rounly He The per capita cost for maintaining the various divisions of the municipal government based on a population of 90000 is approximately $2295 according to a financial statement obtained yesterday by The Observer The per capita rost as figured hv municipal accountants is luirflv stunmaiized by departments as follows: general government 1 0150 finance ami accounts 7618 health and welfaie 5337 public safetv 4 6237 public set vice 3 9270 public utilities Including sewage disposal 3 0174 debt service 9 0546 Iedhetter city tteasurer said the lat census bureau estimate plac ed the population of Chat lotte at appi oxlnmtelv 88000 while a recent poMoffke tepoit gave the Mtv a population of about 92000 In preparing the per cap'ta cost sUtiment the accountants figured on a population of 90000 a fonservative figure The rost for the euiient fisial year beginning July 1 1914 Hnd ending Jure 1915 of the my government under the diiect supervision of the i it council pio-duces Its revenue from two soutces sperlal seivices and piiv-ilcges IS 66 and revenue fiom ad valotem tax $14 29 total $22 95 si Special services and pi doges arc made up of mji items as su-peivtMon chaiges water distribution special privilege (business) licenses inspection fees rents etc In obtaining the information The Observer requested to emphasize the fart -that the budget passed August 2i has meiely been con-vet ted to per capita basis with the exception that the items which are bookkeeping entiles and ate added to both the appropi latlon and requhenunt side of the budget liaxe been eliminated They are included In the budget only for the puiposo of act minting lor servlie rendered and nre shown in the schedule as enntia ihaiges Bookkeeping entiles follow: Equipment depot revenue $83-23550 chailty license $3340 ai-moiy rent donated for ehai lty aril adv ei Using Charlotte $3250 dimity cerneteiy lots and grave opening $1029 water wmks (lent paid to city of Charlotte) $6000 water woiks (collet lion expense paid to city) $2000 vvattet woiks a i counting expense) $4000 to-t 1 104 85 Ho BIN rib it As an illustiatlon it was pointed out that if thcie was no equipment depot the vnilous trucks and tais would he charged to vaiious divisions using them as well as the Terms Japs Chinese Enemy M'v OKI Oct Before Milling today for Haitin teneial hang at Kewl Chinese military leader here on a Mop In bin world tour deseiilied Jnpnn as enemy of the thlnro and declared that some day the province of Manehiikiio which Is now under Japanese control would lie relumed to China 6AKL0 KILLED Mail Ransom List SHIGTOV Oct 20 (A1) justice department today mailed to hanks and other money handling agencies throughout the country a revised hs of hank notes that made up the ransom money In the kidnaping or Mrs Berry Stoll SKVA Fur INLAND? Dct 51 (Sundav zp Tlie plane Ladv Southern Cross flown hv Sir Chailes Klngfoi d-Fmlth ind Capt Taylor armed heie today after an overseas flight of 1700 statute miles from Brisbane They are en route to Oak-lard Calif The live is thus completed the flist leg of a contemplated flight of 7360 miles to Oakland by way of Honolulu The flight its objective a tiny speck on the ocean map was accomplished in the face of difficulties which Included rain squalls anil a sputtering engine Atessagps from the plane a rdlo weie pic keel up at intervals telling a tei se iv Id tale of the battle with clouds rain squalls of eailv moinirg and an engine that mised for time There was coinage In every brief dispatch Rlngfot d-Viuth usually signing off with a "cheerio" even when thluSjs looked blackest and fatigue began to tell on him and his companion Theie note anxious moments for the lnuepid air men near the end RAI KICK Oi I'D Dr Auh Turner Allen 59 state ruperintendent of public insti upturn since 1 923 died late today at the Rev hospital hete Ho had been in ill health for some time and went to tlie hospital eatlv this week lie undeiwent a major npeitt on Wednesday and today his inndUion liiiame suddenly WOtsp Ktotn a pupil in a onp-teacher si liool Dr Allen i n-e to a position as one of the leading ecluci-lois of (h estate and strugelv nont1i in his later cats he Jed a campaign for the elimination of the smatlir countiy si hools in favor of consolid ited institutions Continuously fiom his giadu ition at the of Ninth I'aio-1 na in 1X97 he was mtively oon-nepted vvith the hools in tome input jtv and in 1917 ho joined the statu iHpaitment of edmuliioi Defnio Fotmcr lioveinor Cam-oron MoiiImui appointed linn to the state Mipei intendency in '1 2 21 and he was le-eleited to that post at tegular Intel vals afteiward lir I)S STT Dr Allen headed tlie slate (hoot system (lining the petiod of its greatest dt elopnienf Step by step he my the public liool appiopnatton giovv fiom the small hteiuy fund into the uiLirning mill oils of the state equalization fund that rouslU about the Mate wide six months teim and aid for extended eight month tei ms in special tax de-tints Two yens ago he witnessed the Inutigui ion of the state supported universal eight month rm I Allens will le in Roy Hilton of Belmont Fatally Injured in Accident on Wilkinson Boulevard Qualified Observer MMDFNIIUL A I lIDIiOMi: Englniiil Oil 20 Colonel 1a mix ina mice disap pointed in participtlion In the Loudon to Melbourne air race because of a (ethnical ruling limit the fuel load nf Ms plane took off for Croydon tonight with tlie inlenlloii of registering ns a qiinlilletl oh erver in the rai (Turn To P(ff 3 Columns 2 3 4 5 And A) a new hospital late e-teidav Roosevelt was saluted ani theeied ns he molded hv seotes of Rot kefeller-i e-ioi ed 17th and 18th centmv buildings and honoied as no other Democratic chief executive had been be-foie when he i penned tin honorary degife of dot tor of laws with Governor Groige l'eeiv of Virginia (torn the 24 Meet -old college of BUliam and Alaiy The Dresideot was thus honoied hv John Slevvait Hrvan Rithiiond publl-her who was tnaiigui ated tod 'iv as the mnteenth luesptent of the (ollege vvheie Thomas Jefferson studied law in 17 60 Accepting the degice Air Roosevelt dies-ed in college iap and gown praised the fouiuleis of the ms oml olde-t instituton of Darning in Ameiica for stalling tot rses in 1 ivx and the sciem of government and asserted while the gov-einmrnt and piuate entcipuse will continue to utilize the seivnes of specialists thcie was place In Aineiltan life an liupoitant place for lnoad Metal and non-speciallzed edutaton Rvetv tdm of co-opeiathc human he said "ups out for men and women who in their thinking pi e-ses will know something of the broader n-pocts of anv given piohlem iov ei nn ent is gieatlv usm men and women of this tvie -peotdn who have the non-spetiil-1 ed point of view and who at the same time have a geneial and e-ti aordinai ily coin iireltf nsiv knowledge not of the details hut of the pui poses which undethe the Turn to lngi Mollisons Are In India But Are Delayed urn to Piige 15 Col A mid 7 Rov Hilfon 30 of Belmont ft baker employed by the hakeiv heie was fatally lnluted I night about 10 10 o'clock on Mi'kiP-on boulevard when he diove his automobile into the rear of a car din an bv Chat lea Mon-tieth 516 West Main stieet Gas-tonta The accident happened between the Barbecue lodge and the Catawba liver Hilton died In ft Uovis ambulance on the way to a hospital heie Montieth It was repented was not Injuied The Hilton automobile turnPd ovet Sin Ivmg Mr Hilton aie his widow foimeilv Miss AnnHiDaugh-trv of Belmont whom he mauled leeently a daughter hv a foimer mntiiage Dons a brothei Geoige Illlton and three sisteis Airs Addle Turner Mrs Van Hewing and Mrs Luther Hucks Mr Hilton had lived in Chailotte until leeently and was a member of Statesville Avenue A It church Funeral plans had not been ai-langed last night Turn to Page la id 5 GEORGE A HELDE DIES AT HOME IN CITY George A Hoide 58 died yes-tprdav afternoon about 2 clock at the home of his daughter Mrs Hairy Juris 1 324 Maiding plat-p Jlis death was sudden The funeral will lie held at 3 o'clock Monday afternoon in Wil-mngton Surviving him are Ids widow two daughtois Alts Idteia and Mis A lilt hh mnlllpi also of Chat lotto and three skteis Mis It It Townsend Wilmington Mrs Kirby Kinsley (' and Mis Elizabeth Early Miami behaved splendidly and we are still quite hopeful of catching up with a i Turn to Page J5 Col 8 DAGHDAd! Inq Orf 21 (Stmdnv fP) Tho filing team of t'athcait Jones and Ken Waller which hnd Keen ume-pmtfd in the London to Meibom ne air dei hv ai lived heie at 3 12 a in AT JO JO SAYS If she answers no to his proposal then they live happily ever after LOOKS TMEM OVER AND WRITES A FEW OPEN LETTERS Turn to Dago 2 (id and 7 TWO HELD FOR INVESTIGATION ROBERT BAKER SAYS HE ESCAPED CHAINGANG 7NKWARK Oct Robeit II Baker 26 an emergency tellef employe was held for futthcr Investigation tonight after he hnd admitted polite said that he is a fugitive fiom a chum gang near Italelgh Baker was sentenced lev thiee to five years In the chain gang nn a chaige of receiving stolen goods police said he told them and stnte his escape he had been wandeiing bout in the notth arriving in Xewark lecentlv KARACHI India Oct 21 (Shin-dav) UP The filing Alollisone who had been leading the London to Melbourne air race snffeied a Hetbatk em ly today when they were obliged to leturn to the air-poit hece because of a defective landing gear lx foie plot ceding toward Allahabad They returned 10 minutes aHer taking off at 5:43 a (G At T) BAGHDAD Jiaq Oct 21 (Sunday) (TP) Rnscoe Turner and Clyde Ameticans in the London to Melbourne air tace arrived hete at fi a tu local time 2 rn ((! The Ameilcan pair paused here only 40 minutes Imfote heading Into the east In put suit of the pace setting Allllisors who weie six horns ahead of (hem The big Ameilcan tiananott plane neatly clashed on landing heie Turner wns at the controls and riulel the field set eraltime appealing unco tain of his hearings He cam" down with (he wind Instead of against 11 and Imelv cleaied imd embankment and missed a mi ties of telegraph when by inches liven alt port officials weie Lightened and the engines of several ambulant es weie slatted as a pt ecautlnn Tut nor appealed xciv- Hied when he got out of the ship "We weie delayed by bad weather over Km ope ami spght I ndstni hi aftei crossing the Inq frnntiei" he said Rhine To the North Carolina Division and District Highicai Engineers: Motoiists who travel conaidet ably over the toads of the piedmont section lepott to me that in a number of localities iccently they have noted that the while center lines In Ihe highways ate being lepalnted for instance between Chailotte and Concoid between High and Giecnshoio and on the toad leading out southea-twai from Chailotte That Is gratifying as the need for lepalntlng of these lines In many places had become obvious as noted recently In one of these l'eiaons who have noted the ilievv lines however tell me that they me being nbbievlatrd that Is the new lines do not tun along the full length of Ihe old lines at hills and cuives I fear this alibi ev latlon is an example in falm economy GENERAL MECKLENBURG Mollisons Pace Field Heading Toward India MILDKNHALL A I Ar England Oit (Sunday (P) The dating Mollisons Amy ami Jim weie streaking tovvaid India from Bagdad cai ly today with three mule teams close at their heels in the $50000 London-to-MeUiouino air i lassie Of the 19 entiles ten weie spending the night on the giound fiom Rome westward and four weie loughlv between Rome and Athens The Americans Col Rose op Turner and Clyde vine expected at Baghdad shoitly In second place ns the 2300-mile leg fiom Righdnd to Allah t-had was Vtarted tame A Scott and Campbell Black Brltlsh-ets They left Baghdad onlv 4 5 iiiinuteg behind the Mol isnn husband and wife combination jD PnrrnentiPr and XI oil of Holland tt ailed the pace seldeis by slightly mine than thiee boms Fouith in older and uppi oxniHte- Duke 20 Dnvldxnn 0 Carolina Kent in 0 Floi bin 14 State 0 AVnke Koi eat 14 Pi Chby tel Ian 6 Catawba 26 (in Ilford 0 Flop 32 Ilamlolph-Macon 0 Furman 9 Mercer 3 Woffoid 20 Ht-kine 6 Minnesota 13 7 Daitmouth 27 liglnla 0 14 Fold ham 9 N'avy 18: Columbia 7 Princeton 14 A 12 Army 20 Sevvnnee 0 37 Blown Alabama 11 Tennessee 6 Maryland 14 1 I 9 Richmond 7 I 0 Oglethoipe 13 KnUina 6 Vandeilult 7 Aiilmi 6 Tubine 7 Beoigla A Michigan 9: deoigla Tei 2 Notre Dump 13 ijainesle Tcc 0 Oiegon State 6 Southern California 6 (tie) Stanford 3 Pan I'm nr Woo 0 (Turn to eporta tinges foi full Jlccounta of games) Two vvliie youths giving their names ns Htcven-oq and (ieotge Jxiantz vine being held tor Investigation last nigh while cltv detectives cheiked their ac-tiv ltle They weie pi ked-up after they hid allegedly telephoned the Peoples Di tig company to send deck of (aids to nn nddicss on Hast Hill tieet and change for I The clrik at the stoic sent the enids and the change lull ip the meantime notlf ed detectives ho arrived h-lore the package One of the hoys had a gin in his possession and Helmin'" de-teitivec s'ld that he planned to hold-up the drllveiv hnv Hnd take the $16 The nriipess on lla-t Hill was a ctlous one it was stated Hast Sa'indav ulghl the -anie drug company was lobbed of $10 in a slniiUi manner Cloudy SEVERE TROPICAL STORM SWEEPS ACROSS CUBA XT I A GO Culm Oil (P) A severe tropical stoirn swung actoss the eastein end of Culm todav theie was ton-ldeiable damage hut the stoi did not reach huirkane Intensity Btreets in some sections of the cilv weie coveted with several feel of wntei Hon Ehriiighaus Governor of Ninth Carolina Aly Dear (lovcinot: it Is of'goneial irtognllton that Xoith Caiolina and South ('Minima cloudy and vv miner Suml iv Monday fair Turtlier Data Page IB the question of hat the state Turn to Page 4 'I in ii to Page ii (ol 1.