HENDERSON
GATEWAY TO
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TWENTY-FIRST YEAR
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Clean Sweep For Statewide Offices By North Carolina Democrats
TAR HEELS WRITE
0. K. ON NEW DEAL
IN TUESDAY VOTE
Democrats Carry All Eleven
Congress Seats at Issue in
the Off-Year Election.
LIGHT VOTE POLLED
THROUGHOUT STATE
Returns Very Incomplete,
Due to Lack of Interest in
Balloting and Absence of
Local Contests in Many
Places; Leaders Had Urg
ed Big Vote.
Charlotte. Nov. 7 (AF) politically
migmatic North Carolina, normally
democratic .state which bolted the
Democratic party in 1928, and the first
.ate decisively to reject the 21st fre-
P at) amendment, today apparently
v iitten its "okay" on tne ‘New Deal.
Incomplete returns from yesterday’s
general election indicate'*, the Demo
cratic candidates made a clean sweep
o r rll Statewide offices at issue, and
i i.lined their eleven seats in Con-
Mi s. and if Republicans made any
-ains at all they were in contests for
State legislative and county offices.
The “New Deal" was the predomi
nant issue among the campaigners,
ji- tty stalwarts urging the Democrats
in go to the polls in large numbers
1o register their approval of the’ na
-1 ini.;t 1. Mate and local administrations
and th” Republicans attacking the
administration from every angle.
Returns from about one-third of the i
State’s 1832 precincts gave the Demo
cratic State candidates, in round
numbers, a vote of 117,000. and the
Republicans. 10.000. In the 1932 elec
tion the Democrats had a margin of
285.000 of the 711.000 votes cast. Yes
1f i day’s ballot was reported as light,
due to rclativelv little interest in the
off-year contests.
A. & P. LOCKOUT IS
INACE TO CHAINS
Cleveland Episode May
Start Nationwide Re
vulsion Against Them.
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<< eiitfiil Pres* Staff llrlter)
\\’;i liingioi). Nov. 7. President
•h'lin Hartford of the A. and P. gro
■iv chain is spoken of in Washing
- "n as having broadcast an urgent
‘•"'it ; ition to lightning to strike Airier
" i whole system of chain retailing.
' i- the unmistakable consensus in
ih‘ capita, that it was an invitation
"'liich will be enthusiastically ac
f'l'tcd
" nail tliundci heads of hostility tow
'd chain store systems liave been
bn-ming. from time. to time, and then
di ipating themselves. for several
1 ' - past. Apparently the essential
ding .aeking to lead to the develop
<" nt of one of these incipient man
if"'t-'itions into something really foi
hiidahlc has been just the stimulation
furnished by President Hartford,
' A ’h"ii In- ordered liis company’s busi
m Cleveland completely suspend
d in retaliation for labor’s attitude
u 'omicction with its policies.
A. and P. Fortunes
The C.eveland rumpus, while a siz
:‘hie affair in itself, ha,s -been of lit
d" consequence in comparison with
I hi it nation which threatens to grow
out >r it.
The Hartford family, virtually soie
""’iv i s of the A. and P. chain, can,
horn all accounts, shut up shop en
fhi',y, and retire to Europe or else
’vhcic. on an accumulation of $75,-
(|1 »*o() t 0 $100,000,000. or it can close
’"'-half 0 f |f >s stores in the United
,: 'lc; and make money on the rest.
Comparatively it seems to have paid
0s workers pretty well. too.
* Jut all this is precisely what makes
the representatives of certain other
'diaint so furious with President
Hartford.
Tin: A. and P., if it. can’t win, can
Mii it on favorab’.e termst to its owner
ship.
Hut. by that time, the fight, started
hy A. and P„ probably will have I
■spread to the other chains, some of
"hose owners have been by no means
so liberal with their workers, and few
of whom, cun “cash in” and retire to
lives of opulent leisure, like the Hart
fords.
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HOW THEY STACK UP
SENATE
(By Tlie Associated |Te*s-
Assoeiyled Press on 1h« 35
■seats in the United .States Senate
compiled to 10:15 a. ni., E. S. T.,
shows:
Democrats elected 23.
Hold-overs 13.
Total 66.
ivcpublieails elected -l.
ilold-overs 18.
Total 32.
Farmer-Labor it cs elected 1.
Hold-overs 0.
ToTSI 1.
Progressives elected 1.
To'a I 1.
Holdover 0.
Seats still in doubt 6.
Necessary foi major.ty 19.
Man Held In
Kidnaping
June Robles
*
Tucson, Ariz., Man
Charged Also With
Mailing Extortion
Letters.
Washington, Nov. 7 (AP)— I The De
partment of Justice today announced
that its agents have taken into cus
tody Oscar H. Robson (Buster) upon
authorization of the United States at
torney of Phoeuix, Ariz., as the kid
naper of six year-old June Robles.
The department said that a Federal
complaint is being filed charging Rob
son with the sending of extortion let
ters through the United States mails.
Robson, a 31-year-old resident of
Tucson, Ariz., was identified by the
various handwriting experts who de
clared that the handwriting in the ex
tortion letters which called for pay
ment of $15,000 was’ his.
For several years he has been con
nected with a dance hall in Tiiscoh.
ONLY DAILY
SOME OF THE WINNERS TUESDAY
Joseph F. Guffey
Ifemocrat, LI S Senate, Pennsylvania
t Philip La Follette
Progressive, Governor, VViseonsln
HOUSE
(By The Associated J'ress-
Associalcd Press returns on the 135
•scats in the new House of Represen
tatives, compiled at 10:15 a. m., E. S. ;
T., shows:
Democrats elerted 234.
Present Congress 309.
Vac nicies 5. ]
Rcpublienns elected 70.
Present Congress 11-1.
Vacancies 2.
Farmer t.aborites electee 1.
Present Congress 5.
Progressives elected 3.
Present Congress 0.
Democratic gains, 14.
Republican gains 11.
Seats still in doubt 127.
Necessary for a majority 218.
Roosevelt
Happy Over
The Result
But (Turns Full At
tention to Public
Affairs Without
Commenting.
Hyde Park, N. Y., Nov. 7 (AP) —
President Roosevelt, happy at the
mandate of the people to carry on
his “New Deal," turned his full atten
tion today to public affairs.
The President made no comment on
the returns from the general election,
but Postmaster General James A.
Farley, who talked to him by tele
phone from New York City, said he
was “overjoyed with the returns
throughout the nation.”
There was no doubt about the en
thusiasm over the result, but Mr.
Roosevelt was thinking about the
White House and the nation’s prob
lems. He will go to Washington by
special train tonight and will be at
his desk tomorrow.
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HENDERSON, N. C. WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON, NOVEMBER 7, 1934
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Robert M. La FolUtt*. Jr.-
Progressive, Wisconsin
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Rush D. Holt
Democrat, C S Senate,
West Virginia
HIGHWAY SURPLUS
IS NOE A SURPLUS
It Is Merely Unexpended
Maintenance Funds
Needed on Roads.
CONDITIONS ARE BAD
Highways Rapidly Depreciating Be
cause of Inattention and Up
keep While This Surplus
lias Been Piled Up
Hnjly TVi.spotcl* Iturean,
In I lie Sir Waller Holrl,
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Raleigh, Nov. 7 It is difficult for
a lot of people to understand why the
highways in the State are not being
maintained any better than they are,
when there is a big surplus in the
State highway fund, according to W.
Vance Baise, acting chief highway
engineer of the State Highway and
Public Works Commission. But the
reason for this is that the 1933 Gen
eral Assembly appropriated only $6.-
000,000 a year for the maintenance
of all the highways, county as well as
State, and also decreed that the cost
of operating the State prison system,
which last year was approximately
$1,400,000, should also be taken from
this $6,000,000 maintenance fund while
in previous vears the highway com
mission had been allotted at least
$10,000,000 a year for maintaining
loads.
Thus the surplus in the highway
fund, which is expected to amount to
about $6,000,000 by January 1 and
$8,000,000 by next July 1, represents
only the difference between what the
commission has usually spent in
maintaining the highways and what
it was permitted to spend by the leg
islature last year and this year, Baise
pointed out.
“If it required $10,000,000 a year to
maintain the State and county high
ways in 1931-32 and 1932-33, it stands
to reason that just as much should
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" WEATHER
FOB NORTH CAROLINA
Fair tonight and Thursday;
slightly warmer tonight.; so mo
what colder Thursday.
OVER THE NATION
Poll Os States Reveals
Immensity Os Democrat
Victory In The Country
Republican Governor Mer
riam Wins Over Upton
Sinclair, Radical, in
California.
PENNSYLVANIA HAS
DEMOCRAT SENATOR
Guffey Beats Veteran David
David A. Reed; LaFol
lettes Win Senate and Gov
ernor in Winsconsin; Kan
sas Retains Its Dry Law;
Other Results Given.
(By Tile Associated Press)
Election results by States:
Alabama —Bi.bb Graves, Democrat,
was e.ected governor, and the usual
solid Democratic delegation of nine
was sent to the House.
Arizona—Henry F. Ashurst was re
elected senator and D. D. Moeur,
Democrat, was re-elected governoi.
Rerpersentative Isabela Greenway
Democrat, was re-elected.
Arkansas —J. Marion Futrcll, Demo
crat, was re-elected governor, and
seven Democrats were sent to the
House.
California—Frank F. Merriam, act
ing governor, Republican, born on an
lowa farm, defeated Upton Sinclair,
Democrat, whose plan to 'End Pov
erty in California’’ was a campaign
sensation. Senator Hiram W. John
son. having botli Republican and
Democratic nominations, among
others, was return.
Colorado Edward C. Jahnosn,
Democrat, was re-elected governor
and four Democrats were sent to the
House.
Connecticut—Francis T. Maloney,
Democrat, was promoted from the
House to the Senate, defeating Sena
tor F. W. Walcott, Republican. Gov
ernor Wilbur L. Cross, Democrat, 72,
was given a third term. Four Demo
crats and two Republicans were sent
to the House.
Delaware —John J. Townsend, Re
publican, was re-elected senator. A
Republican was sent to the House.
Florida—Senator Park Trammell,
Democrat, was returned. Five Demo
crats were sent to the House. The
State voted to permit the sale oi
liquor and exempt movie studios from
taxation for 15 years, this being de
signed to lure busineess from Cali
fornia.
Georgia—Eugene Talmadge was re
elected governor and ten Democrats
were sent to the House.
Idaho —C. Ben Ross, Democrat, was
re-elected governor. Two Democrats
were sent to the House. Despite cam
paigning by Senator William E. Borah,
Republican, every Republican candi
date for national or state office was
defeated.
Indiana —Sherman Minton, World
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Nine Killed
In Election
Outbreaks
Various Sections of
Country Have Fa
tal Shootings o r
| Stabbings.
(By The Associated Press)
Nine persons were killed in poli
! tical conflicts accompanying the gen
i eral election.
Five died after a general ambuscade
at Kelavse. Pa., where they marched
in a Democratic election-eve parade
before the home of the Republican
town leader.
Gunmen seking to keep Negroes
from the polls killed one white per
son and wounded two others at Hol
land, Mo. The terrorists escaped.
One man was shot to death in an
election quarrel at Cedar Hill, Ohio;
another was killed at Grenuck, Ky., as
he wrestled with his brother for a
gun with which a third man was
wounded in an election argument.
The ninth man was stabbed to death
in a fight at a polling place at
Weeksbury, Ky.
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RUSSIA BELIEVES
Soviets Fear Germany and
Japan Have Combined
Against Them.
By LESLIE EICJIEL
(Central Press Staff Writer)
New York, Nov. 7.—No- government
in Europe is safe, ’ except that of
Soviet Russia.
And Soviet Russia bedeves it is
threatened by a war.
A Soviet government document, just
received in the United States, allebes
that Germany and Japan have form
ed; an alliance to “drive Russia out of
Europe and to cut it off in the
Orient”.
No one ever has accomplished that
task. No one probably ever will.
Many have tried.
Germany, so the allegations go,
wou,d try to sweep into Russia from
the west, winning Poland over by
promising her a large slice. Japan
would attend to the Far East.
But, as a former European corre
spondent pointed out to me today, the
peoples, of all countries yearn for
peace. Even with the virus of na
tionalism and hatred and emotional
ism being poured into them now by
militaristic governments the people
still yearn for peace.
Wherever there is fighting it is be
cause people are trying to throw off
oppressive governments.
Cry for Liberty
And Japan will hardly fight—un
less the government sees in a “patri
otic” war the only means of preserv
ing itself. The Japanese people, be
set by faminine and financial troubles,
are in no mood to listen to further
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DEMOCRATS HAVE
FOR U. S. SENATE
For First Time Since Before
Civil War, Republicans
Have Less Than
Third There.
EIGHT DEMOCRATS
GET G. O. P. SEATS
Latest Compilation Gives
Democrats 234 and Repub
licans 70 Seats in House as
Definitely Sure; Six States
Vote for Repeal, One Stays
Dry.
(By The Associated. I’ress-
For the first time since the Repub
| ,ican Party was organized just before
j the Civil War, the Democrats today
I obtained mor e than a two-thirds ma
jority of the United States elenate.
Selection of Democrats in Wyoming
and Nebraska in yesterday's election
gave the party 66—two more than
the two-thirds. In addition Joseph F.
Guffey, Democratic candidate for the
Senate from Pennsylvania against the
Republican stalwarts, David A. Reed,
gained a lead of more than 100,000.
Democrats claim he is “In”.
Only four Republicans had been
definitely elected to the Senate in the
Democratic landslide. They were in
California, {Delaware, Vermont and
Michigan. Maine elected a Repub.i
can in September. That gives the G.
O. P. 27 Senate seats.
Twenty-three Democratic senators
were chosen, eight of them capturing
Republican seats. Republicans who
fell) (before thq onslaught were in
Connecticut, Indiana, Maryland, Mis
souri, New Jersey, Ohio, Rhode
Island aiitLJWest Virginia.
Both Robert M. LaFollette, Progres
sive candidate for re-election to the
Senate, and his brother, Phil, running
on the same ticket for governor, were
victorious.
In the contest for representatives,
the Democrats this morning had elect
ed 234 and the Republicans 70, a ma
jority of 218.
West Virginia and Florida voted loi
prohibition repeal by big majorities,
while Kansas voted to I’etain her
dry law. Repealists led in Idaho, Ne
braska, South Dakota and Wyoming.
GOVERNOR DELAYS
NAMING CHAIRMAN
Still Hoping Jeffress May
Improve Enough To Re
sume His Duties.
Daily Dispntvh llureav,
In the Sir Walter Hotel,
Uy J. (J, Hawkervllle,
Raleigh, Nov. 7. —In spite of the agi
tation in some quarters favoring the
immediate appointment of, a new
chairman of the State Highway and
Public Works Commission, to replace
E. B. Jeffress, who is still seriously ill
at his home in Greensboro, Governor
J. C. B. Ehringhaus has no intention
of making any immediate move to
fi.l this post, it was learned from an
authoritative source here today. It
is understood that Governor Ehring
haus takes the position that Mr.
Jeffress is still chairman and that hu
will not consider any plan to put
some on e else in a,s chairman until it
becomes much more certain that Mr.
Jeffress will not again be able to re
sume his duties.
During the past few days reporte
from Greensboro as to tile condition
of Mr. Jeffress, who has been serious
ly ill for more than two months, hav*
not been so encouraging. But it is
known that Governor Ehringhaus and
other friends of Mr. Jeffress are still
hoping that his condition will improve
so that there will be a possibility of
highway commission. A good many,
nis again taking up his work with the
however, seriously doubt if Mr. Jef
fress will never be able to recover suf
ficiently to return to his duties her*.
There is a growing sentiment, how
ever, that the governor and members
or the highway commission should
ueslgnate a permanent chief engineet
as soon as possible in order that he
may take active charge of the en
gineering division and begin making
preparations for the legislature,
which meets now in less than 0 days.
If there were a permanent chief en
gineer, the highway commissioners
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