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HENDERSON gateway to CENTRAL CAROLINA TWENTY-FIRST YEAR MATE SALES TAX NOWASSUDfOR ANOTHER BIENNIUM Democratic Convention’s Blanket Endorsement of Ehringhaus Means Just That SCHOOL PROGRAM IS VIGOROUSLY BACKED Reorganization of State Govern, men tand Other Ad ministration Acts Support , ed in Platform of Party; People Don’t Want, Old Systems Back Dnlly Dltpntph Rnrrna In Iht* Sir Wnlfrr Hotfl. BY .?. r U ASKF.It VILI.. Raleigh, June 22.—While the sales tax was not mentioned by name either by former Governor-Senator Cameroft Morrison in his able key-note speech or in the platform adopted by the State Democratic Convention here yester day. *he sales tax, the eight-months State-supported school term, the re organization of the State government Rr.,l the various other factors in the administration of Governor J. C. B. Ehringhaus were enthusiastically en dorsed and approved in the blanket endorsement contained in the plat form. The section of the platform having tod o with the present State administration is as follows: We endorse .the faithful and effi cient administration of all departments cf the State government by the various Democratic State officials. We espe cially endorse and commend the ad ministration of Governor J. C. B. Ehr t Cor tinned nit Paa* Five.) Speaker Gibson, of South Carolina- Is Apoplexy V ictim # ” Dillon, S. 0.. June 22 ( AP)—-Speaker James B. Gibson, of the South Caro lina House of Representatives, died of apoplexy shortly after 10 a. m. today at his home here. In good health to the time he was suddenly stricken, Speaker Gibson was (54 years of age. H eleaves a widow and two children, James B. Gibson, Jr., Columbia Uni versity. and Miss Argent Gibson, a Winthrop College student. Upon adjournment of the legisla ture. Speaker Gibson announced he was withdrawing from politics. He consented, however, to serve as presi dent of the 1934 State Democratic Convention in his last public appear ence. In addition to presiding over the House in the 1933-34 session, he was known as a lawyer and breeder of fine horses. Cut Coming In The Price Os Building Downward Revision l nder NRA Codes Is To Reinforce Roosevelt Program Washington, June 22. (AP) —Down- ward revision of building prices under she NRA codes, to reinforce the ad ministration home building and repair program, was said today by an au thority in the construction industry to he planned within the next fortnight. Not even awaiting President Roose velt's signature of the housing bill, s he industry was depicted contemplat ing cuts of from 10 to 15 per cent in its charges The spokesman, who did notw ant his name used, was in posi tion to know the facts While components of the industry have insisted that present cost-protec tion prices have been the minimum at (Continued on Pace Three.! CONVENTION SIDELIGHTS Dally Dispatch Dnreaa, In the Sir Walter lintel. BY .1 C BABKEUVILL. Raleigh, June 22.—Former Governor Cameron Morrison made an excellent impression at the State f ,p rnocratic Convention here yesterday v.'ith his key-note speecn. Hfe showhd his old time vigor and fire both in Jiis praise of the Roosevelt adminis * ration and of the administration of Governor Ehringhaus. One of the big- H*'st hursts of applause he brought 'orth was when he first mentioned Governor Ehringhaus and what he ITieufr ersmt Q atlu H tsuatHi Believe It or Not, They’re Listed as "Reds” ■ ___ ■'■ - ----- _ - - n la the Rev. Father J R Cnr * coincidence that there’s a There must he a mistalr* m bnrgh, phoning Moscow? ? ow in Sen. W. E. Borah’, home Roosevelt, for lS like a FaJSS mPII mm IBrtif |Hp ~ A , >^Opt ''’v *i ' ' s -«~ '' j! jp Jhßhh t\ . IJL § s t| v Im ix m—. MJjail £ v| \ IW I ' / P^ : . .... l|| ..m ‘SAAABm.. :y> Prot-lrving Fish- Newton D. Baker. Bishop F. J. Mrs. Albert W Yale ' Cleveland “agita- O'Connell, M. E. Dillin| modem Joan' , t . tor- . Church. 0 f Arc. Mrs Alb^,° t w r n'l!’H^ P *5 t S !i I J di “ 1 ; V,f Iwted.to “The, Red Network,” an astounding expose compiled by A Vn i ' Dlllln * of Kenilworth, 111., who is described by her associates as the modern Joan of Arc. • rork gswapaper charges the pohce department with using the volume as the basis of its cam- FflSkt f?nwcl 7T U M t?r ce xr in - Y , ork - T £ >“*» Secretary of Agriculture Wallace, Novelist p«kw & H n ’ o e °«P W N l orri ®i Father John A. Ryan of the National Catholic Welfare Confer ence, Rabbi Stephen S. Wise, Packer Harold Swift and Socialite Mrs. J. Borden Harriman among the 1.500 who came within Mr*. Dilling’* definition of “dangerous Radicals.” (Central Frets) Democratic Convention, Devoid Os Controversy, Turned Into Love Feast Roosevelt Drops Old Wage Scales Washington, June 22. (AP)— President Roosevelt has issued a proclamation suspending provisions of the Davis-Bacon Act of Marcn 3, 1931, which provided that all laborers or mechanics employed in the construction of public buildings in the United States be paid the prevailing rate of wages for work of a similar nature in that city or area. BARNHILL TALKED FOB BAILEY SEA! Rocky Mount Judge Boosted By His Section Tor Sen ate Race Dnllr Diapntoli Onrfiia, In thp Sir Walter Hotel. BY J. C. BASKF.RVIIxI,. Raleigh, June 22—There is a grow ing sentiment in some sections for Superior Court Judge M. V. Barnhill, of Rocky Mount, to become a candi date for the Democratic nomination for the United States Senate In 1936 in opposition to Senator J. W. Bailey, according to talk heard here yester (Continued on Page Three.) had accomplished in the State. His praise of the President, the Bankhead cotton bill, the eKrr tobacco control bill and of the “brain trust”, although he did not mention Tugwell, brought forth much applause, despite the fact that Senator Josiah W. Bailey was sitting on the platform within a few feet of Morrison. While Governor J. C. B. Ehringhaus did not set the woods on fire, he re (Continued on Page Two.) ONLY DAILY tS^c^ re service of the associated press., NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA AND VIITOINIA. HENDERSON, N. C. FRIDAY AFTERNOON, JUNE 22, 1934 Neither Liquor Question Nor Sales Tax Mentioned by Name During the Meeting PRAISE LEADERS OF PAST AND PRESENT First District Convention Favors Relaxing Bone Dry Liquor Law; First Time In Nearly 25 Years Party Did Not Go On Record For Prohibition Raleigh, June 22 (AP) —The Demo crats of North Carolina today had a platform to guide them for the next two years without mentioh of either the liquor question or the sales tax. Neither of these controversial is sues came to the fore during the party’s biennial convention here yes terday, which was conspiciously de void of discordant notes. The convention turned in to a love feast as the party stalwarts lauded the leaders of the past and the pres , (Continued on Page Four.) iSnceSs Unemployment Safeguard Also Endorsed alnd Re. publicans Welcomed Dolly Dispatch Bnreaii. In the Sir Walter Hotel. BY J. C B ASKER VILI. Raleigh, June 22—Attention was given to recommendations contained in the new party platform adopted by the State Democratic Convention here yesterday that careful study be given to the question of unemployment and old age insurance and the section which extends greeting and good will to members of the Republican party t' (Continued on Pase Three.) Yale Wins First Os Regatta Races New London, Conn., June 22 (AP) —Yale’s smooth rowing fresh men and junior varsity eight made a clean sweep of the two morning races of the classic Yale-Harvard regatta on the Thames river today. President Roosevelt occupied a place of honor aboard the referee’s boat for both races, and saw his six-foot, four-inch son, Franklin, row on the Harvard crew. voeMaiF" R. A. Rosseau, of North Wilkesboro, Declared Nominee for Judge Wilkesboro, June 22. (AP) —Recount of the Wilkes vote in the race for judge of the seventeenth district was completed this morning «nd resulted in 30 absentee votes being thrown out because, officials said, of minor tech nicalities”. Twenty-seven of them were for R. A. Rosseau, of North Wilkesboro, and three for J. H. Burke, of Taylorsville. Over 600 votes had previously been taken away from Burke in Alexander county. The corrected returns for warded to the State Board of Elections today showed: Rosseau, 3,155; Burke, 813; Ragland, 29. Steel Leader Kills Wife, Himself, Shoots Two More Middletown, Ohio, June 22. (AP) — Sidney R. Rectanus, 46, former vice president of the American Rolling Mills Company,, today beat and shot and killed his wife, Alma, 42; shot and wounded two other members of his family and then killed himself. Wounded were his mother-in-law, Mrs. Elesa Rotherman, 76, shot in the neck, condition said to be serious; and a daughter, Shirley, 12, wounded on the right side, condition iair. Two other children said they were Roosevelt Names McNinch Power Commission Chairman Despite Bailey Opposition Few Appeals Looked For From 1934 Cotton Quota Figures Promulgated by Sec retary Wallace for 10,. 469,251 Bales For Whole Nation ALLOTMENTS UNDER THE BANKHEAD ACT Slate Boards Will Allot Imdi vidual Planters Quotas; Application Blanks Soon Appeals Must Be Based on Evidence That Convinces Washington, June 22. (AP)The AAA, which has just told 1,000 counties in 19 Southern and Western states just how much cotton they may grow for cotton-exempt sale, expects few ap peals. The quotas, promulgates yesterday by Secretary Wallace, limits total pro duction to 10,469,251 bales under the terms of the sweeping Bankhead con trol pact. The quotas were based on past production. “No appeal will be entertained except upon a showing by sworn statements accompanied by evidences and refer ences to published records, so con vincing as to lead to but one conclu sion, that a serious injustice has been done,” Cully A. Cobb, chief of the cot ton section, said. State boards) will allot individual planters quotas. County committees will make quota application blanks available to growers within a few days. The State board’s decision will be final unless proof of unfair discrimina tion bas6d on records of past crops is (Continued on Page Three.) CHARLOTTE MAN* IS GIVEN CODE OFFICE Washington, June 22 (AP)—P. M. Barnhardt, Jr., of Charlotte, N. C. has been approved by Administrator Hugh S. Johnson as a member of the code authority for the batting and padding industry. Commons Has Plea For Debt London, June 22. (AP) —New de mands that Great Britain pay her war debt to the United tSa*»ar were made on the floor of the House of Commons today. , Members of the Labor party and the Conservative party joined in an at tack on the delay in settling the prob lem, which some members said was harming Anglo-American relations Colonel Josiah Wedgewood, Laborite, took advantage of a debate on the fi nance hill to declare: “I want from the chancellor a def inite assurance that, be the difficulties what they may, England is going to meet her bonds in the »ong run and pay her debt to America” Captain Victor A. Cazalet, Conserva tive, suggested that the government consider a lump sum payment offer, stating that some quarters had men tioned payment of $1,000,000,000, which would give Great Britain terms virtually the same as those the United States granted Italy. struck by their father in his rampage and fled in terror from the Bouse. The daughter Shirley, despite her wounds, was making her way to the garden of the home when police reached the scene. Rectanus has been a member of the engineering staff of the American Rolling Mills Company since 1900. He resigned a» vice presi dent in charge of operations in 1932, but still retained his vice presidency. Coroner Cook ascribed the act to temporary unsanity from some un known cause. PUBLISHED EVERT AFTERNOON EXCEPT SUNDAY« House Collapses, Buries 5 Children Chicago, June 22. (AP)—At least fiveo hlldren were bmfed, two of them seriously Injured, when an unoccupied farm honve In which they were playing collapsed today. Five fire department squads Tush* to to the rescue and dug into the snarl of debris in search of the I victims. | Organization by A. F. of L. Will Not be Easy as Lead ers Hope CITY IS ‘OPEN SHOP” Not Only Manufacturers But Merch ants and Public and the Press Resent Outside Inter- ! ' ference in Factories By CHARLES P. STEWART (Central Press Staff Writer) Detroit, Mich., June 22. —William Collins in local charge of the American Federation* 1 of Labor’s campaign to unionize Detroit, gives itas his opinion that the Michigan metropolis has re mained open shop as long as it has largely by reason of Henry Ford’s tre mendous influence here. “The Ford management's early in ti tntimied ou Pag* Six) Girl Keeps Tryst With Death After Mother Is Suicide Des Moines,lowa,June 22 (AP) —The girl who tried to die with her mother only to wash ashore from Lake Mich igan tied to her mother’s lifeless body, has completed her part of the suicide pact. A pistol which she found hidden in a sack was the means used by 22-year old Margaret Bott. Even with that, she faced the possi bility of a second failure. She fired a , bullet into her storpach Wednesday, and told a doctor: * r “I thought I could find my heart, but I guess I didn’t.” The end came yesterday. Not un till then did news of the shooting 'be come public. bSSu Missing Lawyer, Linked With Poderjay, Reported In Boston in June Boston, June 22. (AP) —The Boston American says it has unearthed a clue which indicates that Miss Agnes Tufverson, missing New York lawyer sought by police, who Believe she might have been slain, is alive and was in Boston as late as this month. The American says miss Ruth Hal len Wynn, of Melrose, employed in a Boston cleaning establishment, iden tified a photograph of Mrs. Tufverson, published in a recent edition of The American, as that of a woman who had visited her place of employment twice. The first visit, the American said, was made on May 15, and the second be tween June 1 and 10. On both occasions, the American (Continued on Page Three.) WEATHER FOR NORTH CAROLINA Generally fair tonight and Sat urday, except scattered afternoon, showers in northwest portion. FOR HENDERSON For 24-hour period ended at 3 p. m. today: Highest temperature, 96; lowest, 90; no rain; southwest wind; clear. 8 PAGES TODAY FIVE CENTS COPY. NMNWILL Bailey, In Raleigh, Say* IJe Has Filed His Protest and That Protest Still Stands EHRINGHAUS WON’T 1 talk appointment ■- % » Reynolds Can’t Be Reached For Statement; State Coir vention in Raleigh Thurs* day Ignored Resolution posing McNinch; Old Tertis Expires T anight Washington, June 22. (AP)—Presi dent Roosevelt today re-appointqd Frank R. M,pNinch, of North Caroling as chairman of the Federal Power Commission for five years. The appointment, announced by tlii White House, was made despite object tion from Senator Bailey, Democrat North Carolina. Bailey will have an opportunity td oppose the nomination when Congress, meets again next January. He plans to fight the nomination. Bailey is now in North Carolina, at tending the State Democratic Conven tion, which yesterday ignored a reso lution urging opposition to McNinc^. Bailey’s position dates back to the 1928 presidential campaign in which McNinch was the anti-Smtth leader In North Carolina, and referred to ‘bp “loyal” Democrats” as a “Hoaver crat”. MeNinch’s appointment in 1930 by former President Hoover as a demo cratic member of the power coifemte sion caused a stir among some jKoifch . - •* 4 (Continued on Page Five.) t New Defy By Power Company Washington, June 22. (AP)—la new challenge to the government, the Appalachian Elecric Power Company Commission today it was going ahs|iS’ served notice on the Federal Powf t with the construction of a dam on New river in Virginia in defiance of. the commission’s order compelling it to seek a permit. The company’s movew as made de spite the loss of its suit in the Federal courts to test the power commlßsioh’a authority. In this case Huston Thompson rep resented the government as spe&ad counsel, with Newton D. Baker ap pearing for the power corpbfation., A new test of the constitutionality of the Federal water power act wha foreshadowed by the company’s deci sion to go ahead with the dam in vio lation of the commission’s border. The famous test case was instituted several years ago when the poWlflf commission issued an order prohibit ing construction of the dam without a permit under the water power act. Joe Dalton Is Executed ■’ t For Murder - - —— Hendersonville Mid dle - Aged White Man Killed His Wife In May Last Year Raleigh, June 22 (AP)— Joe Dalton, middle-aged white man of Henderson ville, was electrocuted at State’s Pri son today for the murder on March 28 1933, of his wife, Zula. Dalton died without making ady statement, other than “Lord, I’m oik my way.’” • The man never denied shooting hia (Continued on Page Five.)
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