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Li nes Drawn As Congress Race Enters Home Stretch
ZOLUCOFFER HAS
HEAVY GAINS AND
FARCER RESERVES
Both Pou and Cooley Feel
Hi* Push and Fear Him
As Opponent in Run-
Off Primary
POU FOLKS THINK
COOLEY SLIPPING
They Say He Reached His
Peak Week Ago; Cooley
Backers, However, Say
Pou Is Already Eliminated;
Zollicoffer Prefers Second
Place in Run-Off
tiniir l*i«i»n»«'li narrua,
In tlie Sir Walter Hotel.
nv .1. C. BASKF.ItVILL.
Raleigh, May 19 The five candi
dates for the Democratic nomination
in the fourth congressional district
started clattering down the home
stretch today, with the date of the
primary only fourteen days off While
the frit] porters of the three major can
didates maintain that each is now in
fiist place and will be able to hold
the lead until the votes are cast June
2, most of the more conservative poli
tical observers here believe the five
candidates now stand about as follows
as they round the turn for the last
two weeks of intensive campaigning:
George Ross Pou slightly in the lead
but being pushed hard by both Harold
D Cooley, of Nashville, and Jere P.
Zollicoffer. of Henderson.
Harold D. Cooley in second place at
the turn, but wheezing hard and show
ing signs of slowing down.
Jere P. Zollicoffer neck and neck
with Cooley, but with no signs of be
ing winded and giving indications of
more speed in reserve
W. F. Evans and Palmer Bailey jog
gling along several lengths in the rear,
both trying to find Senator J. W, Bail
t.v in the race and wondering why he
is not running.
The Cooley forces, of course, main
tain that Pou has already been elimi
nated and that the main race now is
between Cooley and Zollicoffer. and
that Pou cannot do better than gain
third place. They claim that Fou will
probably not carry his home county
of Johnston nor his adopted county
of Wake. But these claims are strong
ly discounted by those who really
know conditions.
The Zollicoffer backers, while claim
ing that he still has a chance to be
first, confidentially do not expect nor
"-ant him to run more than eecond,
and concede that Pou will undoubtedly
high in the first primary. But
they are confident that if Zolllcnf/er
Sft oond, as they expect him to be.
f i at he will ge tmost of the Cooley
votes in the second primary and thus
a majority over Pou in the second
rr, ntest and win the nomination. Most
°f those in political circles here ad
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Zollicoffer
Getting All
The Breaks
on Telephone
Company 'and 1927
Strike Mediation
Are Helping Him
Dolly Dispatch Bnceav,
In the Sir Walter Hotel.
D , HY J. C. II ASK Kit V ILL.
Raleigh, Lay 19.—Supporters of the
'jther four candidates in the fourth
■strict congressional race are com
plaining that Jere P. Zollicoffer, of
Anderson, is getting all the breaks,
n?/ 1 ** as u P se * the predictions
at the fight was primarily (between
e °rge Ross Pou and Harold D. Coo
ley ,
"1 he most conspicuous break that
ollicoffer has received is the fact that
he State’s interest, due to recent ac
-IVlties of the new utilities commia
has been centered on the tele
phone companies, and Mr. Zollicoffer,
February, as attorn-y for the city
01 Henderson, was the State’s most
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Hwtiteramt Dmlu Btauatirh
STORY FOR HER GRANDCHILDREN
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Unharmed except for the scars
left by chains on her legs, and
burns on her head caused by con
tact with the sun-baked metal box
in which she was held captive,
June Robles, six-year-old daugh
Says Policy Os Britain
Exposes China To Japan
Chinese Official In London Sees Anglo-Japanese Alli
ance To Offset Russo-Ame rican Reapproachment; Says
China Hopes This Is Not The Case
(Copyright by the Associated Press)
London, May Is. (AP) —Sir John
Simond’s statement that Great Britain
is not pledged to preserve the inte
grity of China constitutes an open in
vitation to Japanese militarists to bite
off another chunk of China, a noffi
cial in high Chinese quarters charged
today.
Fully agreeing with Sir Stafford
Cripps’ assertion that “Japan ip con
verting Manchuria and Jehol into a
vast military base,” the official told
The Associated Press:
“China now is in the direst danger
Ten Indictments
In Dillinger Case
Madison, Wis, May 19 (AP)—A
Federal grand jury today returned
indictments against John Dillinger,
Indiana desperado and nine com
panions, four of whom are women,
dharging them with harboring and
concealing persons sought by the
Department of Justice.
Waynick Directs Local Of
fices To Do All Possible
For Them
Daily D* •'patch Rireni,
In the Sir Walter Hotel.
BY J. C BASKERVILL
Raleigh, May 19 —Hundreds of school
teachers are already registering with
the offices of the National Reemploy
ment Service over the State, seeking
employment during the four summer
months during which the yare with
out jobs and without pay, State Direc
tor Capus M. Waynick said here this
week. Quite a number have been to
see him in person and have told him
they did not see how they were going
to live for these four months if they
did not find some kind of work dur
ing the summer. He has instructed
the managers of the various regional
and county offices to do everything
possible to find jobs for the teachers
during the four months during which
they will otherwise be jobless and pay
less.
::While the state has undoubtedly
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HENDERSON, N. C. SATURDAY AFTERNOON, MAY 19 1934
June Robles
ter of Fernando Robles, Tucson,
. Ariz., merchant, is pictured at her
home after being rescued from
the desert “tomb” where she wai
imprisoned for 19 days by kid
napers.
as a result of Great Britain’s state
ment of policy” as enunciated by Sir
John, foreign secretary, before the
House of Commons.
“It looks,” the official said, “as
though Britain is moving in the di
rection of an ally of Japan to counter
balance the Russo-American rap
proachment. However, the Chinese
hope this really is not true, for Bri
tain should line up with the United
States and thus hold the balance of
power against Japan.
“Unless this is done, Japan will con
tinue her aggression.”
vdteSSd
Burlington and Charlotte
Reject Supplements lor .
Coming Year
Daily Dispatch Bareas,
In the Sir Walter Hotel.
BY J. C. B \ SKERVILL.
Raleigh, Mayj 19.—(Disappointment
is being expressed in school and edu
cational circles here over the failure
of the school supplement election in
Burlington on Tuesday of this week
and at the failure of the efforts to
hold such an election in Charlotte.
For all of the State officials here,
from Governor Ehringhaus on down
including all those in the Department
of Public Instruction and the State
School Commission, realize the need
for more adequate funds for schools,
especially in the larger cities and
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Medical Schools Don *t Want
Bodies Os Electrocuted Men
Dally Dispatch Bnrenp,
la the Sir Walter Hotel.
BY J. C. BASKKRVILL.
Raleigh. May 19, —Contrary to the
popular impression, the State’s medi
cal schools are not waiting anxiously
for the bodies of the 23 men on death
row, for whatever may be said about
electrocution socially, medically it is
a failure, because electrocutions tears
up a body too much for it to be of
much value to medical schools or their
students. )
Although neiher Duke University
nor the University of North Carolina
have entirely refused to take electro
PAPER PUBLISHED
IN THIS SECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA AND VIITOINIA.
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Former Prohibition Unit Of
ficial Says He Did Not
Try To Block T. E.
Patton
PATTON WAS NAMED
BY THE HIGHER-UPS
Hurley Says He Never Did
Personally Consent to Nam.
ing of Brevard Man on
Basis of Investigation, But
Was Ordered To Do It;
Bailey Is Absent
Washington, May 19. (AP —An as
sertion by Senator Reynolds, Demo
crat, North Carolina, that John S.
Hurley, former associate director of
thef prohibition uiiit, (attempted bo
block the appointment of T. E. Pat
ton, of Brevard, N. C., as heaed of
the Carolinas alcoholic oontrol unit
was denied by Hurley today at a
Senate patronage investigating com
mittee hearing.
Reynolds said Hurley promised him
and Senator Bailey, Deemocrat, North
Carolina, to recommend Baton’s ap
poinment tout Hurley contended he
qualified this promise by agreeieng to
make the appointment provided an
investigation of Patton was “satisfac
tory” .
“In this investigation,” Hurley said
‘(certain things were brought back in
a report that to my mind warranted
my not making the appointment”.
Patton was finally appoined, Hurley
said, after a second investigation haa
been mado by the Department of
Justice.
“You finally appointed Patton,
didn’t you?” Senator McKellar, Demo
crat, Tennessee, asked Hurley.
“I did,” Hurley replied.
“WJhy?” quqeried McKellar.
“Because I was ordered to do so by
the assistant attorney general (Wil
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Four Dead
In Powder
Explosion
Painesville, Ohio, May 19. (AP)—
Four persons were believed killed and
three others were seriously burned to
day when an eplosion of undetrmin
ed origin wrecked the plant of the
Bronze Powder Works one mile east
of here. f
The plant manufactured powder us
ed in painting that was stored with
explosixe chemicals, police said, which
prevented firemen from turning water
or any other liquid on the flames.
First reports to the police said only
sevene persons were in the building
at the time of the blast. Three who
were extricated were taken to a hos
pital in such serious condition from
their burns they were unable to de
scribe what happened.
Whether the workers trapped under
the wreckage wer aleive or dead the
police were unalhle to deetrmine de
finiely, but they expressed doubt that
the men could be alive.
"WIATHER
FOR NORTH CAROLINA
Fair tonight and Sunday; some
what warmer on the south coast
tonight.
cuted bodies whicti are no longer
wanted by the relatives of the dead
men they have no special desire for
them, since changes wrought In the
body make them of little use for medi
cal instruction.
Although there is little scientific
data on just how an electrocution
Should; be performed probably the
fault is not in the used by
the North Carolina penitentiary. If
the whole charge of electricity were
to be sent into the body at once it
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Military Dictatorship Is
Set Up In Bulgaria
Coup d Etat Believed To Have Sanction of King Boris in
Move Against Enemies; New Cabinet Is Quickly
Approved by Him; Provinces Join Move
Sofia, Bulgaria, May 19 (AP)—(A
coup d’etat today estabblished a mil
itary dictatorship or Bulgarians as a
climax to a cabinet crisis.
Shortly before dawn today troops
rushed the Sofia barracks, occupied
all the public buildings and took up
positions at all strategic points in: the
capital.
Simultaneously the troops in prov
incial cities executed similar maneuv
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Strong detachments of soldiers and
PRIMAVERTED
Negro Accused of Assault on
Greenville White Girl,
13, Removed
Greenville, S. C., May 19 (AiP) —The
timely removal of a young Negro ac
cused of attacking a 13-year-old white
girl to an unnamed prison today was
credited with having ai
charge upon the county jail here by a
mob which at one time numbered
around 1,000 persons
Apparently convinced of officers’
that the prisoner had been
whisked away some 12 htyya; before
the remnants of a mob which clam
ored for the Negro’s life during the
night finally dispersed shortly after
3a. m. today and Sheriff’s deputies
said they thought the “trouble is
over.”
The milling and armed crowd, how
ever, gave up its longi vigil only after
a group had dashed in automobiles to
Gaffney, a town 60 miles away, to
find that the Negro had not been
taken there. When they returned to
Greenville, a smaller crowd gathered
around the jail, but, apparently not
kknowing where to turn next, final
ly broke into groups and left.
The whereabouts of the Negro pris
oner was kept a secret. There was a
report that he had been taken to the
State penitentiary at Columbia, but
officials of the penitentiary said he
had not been received there. Green
ville officers insisted he had not been
kept in the jail there overnight.
PUBLISHED EVERY AFTERNOON
EXCEPT SUNDAY.,
PRESSED
police patrolled the streets and kept
the public indoors*
The members of the outgoing cab
inet were arrested and kept under a
heavy military and police guard.
Telephone and telegraph communi
cations were suspended temporarily
in the course of the coup d’etat.
King Boris issued a royal decree
dissolving parliament and approved
the nomination of Kiman Guerguieff
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Arms Ban
For Chaco
Is Sought
Geneva, May 19. (AP)—The Council
of the League of Nations today un
animously -adopted a resolution au
thorizing its Chaco committee to con
sult arms exporting nations for an
embargo on shipments of arms and
munitions to Bolivia and Paraguay.
Represenatives of the two warring
nations sat at the council table but
did no speak’
The resolution was adopted at a
public meeting’ It had been presented
only a few minutes previously.
League jurists will not draw up a
definite proposal to be cabled im
mediately o the various government*
whose cooperation is sought.
It urges Paraguay and Bolivia to
re-examine the solution proposed by a
League commission sent to the war
zone to investigate possibilities for
peace. Both countries have rejected
-the commission’s formula.
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HURT IN AUTO CRASH
Norfolk,. Vat, May 19. (AP)—
Three epersons were ekille and
five were injured early oday in
a head-on collission of wo auo
mobiles on he Suffolk-Porsmouth
boulevard near the Nansemond
county line.
The dead are W. B. Lohman,
managing editor of the Ports
mouth Star; Mrs. C. E. Barrick
low, of Suffolk; and Mrs. J. C.
Adams, Jr., of Suffolk.
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SALE OF ARMS TO
WOULD BE HALTED
Roosevelt Urges Senate Ac
tion To Prohibit Sale of
War Supplies to ;
Chaco Group
DAVIS VERY BITTER
ON MUNITIONS MEET
U. S. Ambassador-at-Large,
Returning to Geneva Arms
Conference, Denounces
Those Who Profit from
Traffic in Armaments;
Says Public Aroused
Washington, May 19 (AP) —A triple
play against war through curbing
and shipment of munitions began at
the Capitol Itoday 'with President
Roosevelt on the taking line.
The President urged speed Senate 1
action on:
1. A nine-year-old Geneva treaty to
limit international shipment of war
implements.
2. A special resolution to prohibit
the sale of arms in the United Stated
to the Gran Chaco belligerents.
3. A resolution authorizing $50,000
to fund the special Senate investiga
tion looking toward new legislation
to curb “abuses” in the
traffic.
Chairman Pittman, of the Senate
Foreign Relations Committee, report
ed he would press steadily for early
Senate ratification of the 1925 Geneva
arms treaty. ,
The President called yesterday for
this action to halt the “mad race in
armaments, which, if permitted to
continue, may well result in war.”
Early Senate approval was predict
ed also for the special resolution trans
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Congress Balking
This Session Over
New Housing Bill
Washington, May 19 (AiP)—lndica
tions of disinclination in pongress toi
enact the administration housing bill
before adjournment were combatted
today by ! spirited advocacy of that re
employment device.
Both branches were in recess and
numerous legislators were week-end
ing out o ftown. But that diminished
not a whit the fervor of Secretary
Perkins in testimony to a Senate com
mittee that the plan to encourage
home building and repair “is a most
essential feature of the recovery pro
gram.”
Joining her was Charles Edison, son>
of the late inventor, who is New Jer
sey member for the National Emer
gency Council. He spoke of Newark!
bread lines in emphasizing needs foe
fortifying the building trades.
The President sunned himself otf
the Potomac aboard the Sequoya. i
Truces Had
In Strikes
In Midwest
Truck Drivers And
Tugboat Men Re
turn to Jobs; Other,
Troubles Bob Up
(By the Associated Press)
Temporary truces relieved today
strain of strikes in several cities,' but
new labor troubles bobbed up in oth
ers.
Tentative agreements were reached
to end the strike of truck drivers in!
Minneapolis and St. Paul, where tha
movement of food, gasoline and other
necessities had been affected.
Mediation of the drivers’ demands!
for union recognition, closed shog. jtoft
wage adjustments was proposed after
a burst of violence, in which gasolinq
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