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LONG ST ARTS FILIBUSTER AGAINST NRA BILL
Ch inese Crisis More Grave
As Nanking Re j ects Demand
()f Japan s Military Group
LEADER OF TROOPS
IN NORTH ORDERED
OnH*l Political Council of
Nationalist Government
Has Lengthy
Session
MAKE PREPARATION
FOR AN EMERGENCY
Army Is Told To Be Ready
for Action If Japs Carry
Out Threats To Invade
Peiping and Tientsin; Pre
mier Flying to the Troubled
Zone
Nanking, China, June 12.—TAP)—
Ihe Nationalist government’s Central
Political Council. China’s highest exe
cutive body, was reported today to
have rejected the Japanese military
authorities' demands affecting North
China.
Chinese officials close to the po
litical counsellors were the source of
information about the executive group
decision The Council met in "urgent
session," closed to the press and the
public.
The Chinese report of the meeting
said the council dispatched a telegram
to General Ho Ying-Ching in Peiping,
instructing him to "prepare for even
tualities should the Japanese.! carry
out threats to advance upon Peiping
and Tientsin "
I t.was reported that Premier Wang
f f r*n P«<r»
Delegations
Asking Road
Construction
la the SJr WnMer Hotel,
nalif Dlgnntrh Boreal,
BY J. C EASKEUVILL,
Raleigh June 12. —Numerous dele,
gallons are being heard by the State
Highway and Public Works Commis
sion in session here today. One of the
largest delegations is from Mecklen
burg Lincoln and Catawba counties,
which asked the commission to sur
face the route from Charlotte to New
ton v y way of Denver and which
would provide a shorter and more di
rect route than the present one thro
ugh Lincolnton.
Another larged elegation was from
Dare and Tyrrell counties, asking the
commission to build two new bridges,
ere across the Alligator river, from
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Suspect In
K idnap Hunt
Not Located
Some Think William
Mahan Has Escap
ed From Butte, But
Others Differ
Salt Take City, Utah, June 12 (AT*)
The air of expectancy around the
search for William Mahan, scarfaced
suspect in the George Weyerhaeuser
Kidnaping, subsided today but a heavy
force of officers remained at Butte,
-Montana, in the belief he still was In
s hat vicinity.
After Federal agencies had follow
ed up dozens of clues without success.
J ere Murphy, chief of police said he
believed the 32-year-old convict had
escaped through a tight net of police
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Weyerhaeuser Kidnap ers
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Harmon Waley
While police and federal agents
combed the vicinity of Butte,
Mont., for William Mahan, right,
ex-convict sought in the Weyer- !
haeuser kidnaping, preparations j
were being made by United States I
u-men to transport Harmon !
Prominent Citizens Ask
Pardon For Luke lea As
Judge Barnhill Opposes
Columbia To Get
New Roac! Office
Washington, June 12 AP) —Rep-
resentative Fulmer, of South Caro
lina, today said he had been in
formed the Federal Bureau of
Roads contemplated establishing a
district office at Columbia, S. C.,
on June 15, or shortly thereafter,
to serve the states of North Caro
lina, Virginia and West Virginia.
MORE OF CONVICTS
NOW RE CAPTURED
Only Two Still at Large of
Gang Who Escaped from
Caledonia Farm
Oally Dl«n»atc!i Sortae,
Sr the Str W:nt« Hotel..
BY J. C. BASKERVILL.
Raleigh, June 12.—Aided by four
bloodhounds from two prison camps
who had trailed them for almost 24
hours, three of the five long-term pri.
soners who escaped from the Cale
donia Prison Farm after slugging a
guard In the head, were captured late
Tuesday afternoon The hiding place
of the oth er two was believed known
last night, and their capture was ex
pected today, according to L. G. Whit
ley. assistant director of the prison
division of the State Highway and
Public Works Commission.
The three prisoners captured are
Brice Abernathy, serving three to five
years from Mecklenburg county: A.
W. Petit, serving 45 for bank
robbery and highway robbery in Dup
lin county, having been convicted for
robbing the Bank of Magnolia twice:
and' Creed Woody, serving from 20 to
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WEATHER
FOR NORTH CAROLINA.
Mostly cloudy, probably local
showers in extreme west portion
tonight and Thursday and In east
and cen tal jpestious J’muvlsy, __
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William Mahan
Waley, left, and his wife, Mar
garet, from Salt Lake City to Ta
coma to face their nine-year-old
victim, George Weyerhaeuser
Waley and his wife both confesseo
to the $200,000 kidnaping, fol
lowing arrest in Salt Lake City
F amous Prisoner’s Lawyer
Not Much inclined To Ac
cept Parole For His
Client
ASKS FULL PARDON
AND NOTHING ELSE
Thinks Lea Should Go Free
or Be Kept Behind Bars;
Pershing, Speaker Byrns,
Bailey, Reynolds and One
of Prosecutors Join Pard
on Appeal.
Raleigh, June 12. —(AP)—Oral ap
peals to Edwin Gill, State parole com
missioner, for a pardon for Luke Lea,
former United States senator from
Tennessee, and World War veteran,
were presented here today along with
opposition from the judge who presid
ed at Lea’s trial, and a recommenda.
tion for clemency from one of the
prosecutors.
Gill said it “would necessarily be
some time before he coula, lay his re
commendations in the wase before
Governor Ehringhaus, so the time for
announcement of executive action on
the plea was left indefinite.
Lea hajs been in North Carolina
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M TO START IYI
Military Discipline for Pro
spective Highway Police
Is Planned
In the Sir Walter Hotel,
Dally Dispatch Bareaa,
BY J. C. BASKERVILL.
Raleigh, June 12.—The training
school and camp for the candidates
for jobs on the enlarged State High
way Patrol will start July 1 and will
probably be held at the State Fair
Grounds, about five mile# out from
Raleigh, it was learned today at the
JCchtic.ue'i >urcoi, _
First Lady Flies
To Join Husband
Raleigh, June 12 (AP) —Mrs.
Franklin D. Roosevelt, the nation’s
first lady, wh<£ delivered the com
mencement address at the gradua
tion exercises of the University of
North Carolina at Chapel Hill last
night, left here this morning at. 5
o’clock for a 600-mile flight to West
Point, N. Y.
Mrs. Roosevelt left the airport on
a big coast guard amphibian, pilot
ed by Lieutenant Burke, after she
had spent the night at Wakestone.
home of Ambassador and Mrs
Josephus Daniels.
She expected to join her husband
at 10:30 o’clock this morning, when
the President presented diplomas
to the United States Military Acad
emy graduates,
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ANTI - SALES EWERS
TICKET IS TALKED
Only Thing That Is Holding
Them Back Is Lack of Suf
ficient Fund for
Campaign
COMBINATION WOULD
MAKE STRONG RUN
Present Democratic Leader
ship in State Far From Pop
ular in Many Sections;
Talked-of Ticket Would
Need $75,000 To Make
Their Campaign
Bally Dispatch Bareau,
In the SJr Walter Hotel.
BY Z. C. 3ASKERVILL.
Raleigh. June 12.—There is more
than hiere talk concerning the pos
sible; daindidacy of Dr. Ralph W. Mc-
Donald for governor and W. L. Lump
kin for lieutenant governor with both
of them running on an anti.sales tax
and “return the State government to
the people.” platform, in spite of the
efforts of the other candidates and
their supporters to pooh-hooh the re
ports that McDonald and Lumpkin
may become candidates, it is evident
here. The facts are that most of the
more astute political observers here
believe that McDonald and Lumpkin,
running together on an independent,
anti-sales tax, anti-corporation and
"big business’’ platform might not on
ly travel a long way towards winning
the nominations for governor; and
lieutenant governor next June, but
might actually win it.
“It i 3 true that to the average per
son in North Carolina it would not
seem very likely that McDonald and
Lumpkin could defeat su«n outstand
ing candidates as Clyde R. Hoey, of
Shelby, and Lieutenant Governor A.
H. Graham, of Hillsboro, for the
nomination for governor, but stranger
things have happened and might hap
pen here.” one commentator said to
day. “There is no doubt that there
are thousands upon thousands of vot
ers wh 0 are very dissatisfied with the
sales tax and with what this recent
General Assembly did and who would
support a McDonald.Lumpkin ticket,
or any other ticket pledged to the
removal of or reduction in the sales
tax. The old line Democrats said that
Talmadge could never be elected gov
ernor of Georgia, but he was and then
reelected again. They also predicted
that Huey Long could not be elected
Governor Louisiana, but he was and is
now stronger than ever. There is a
spirit of dissatisfaction abroad not
only in North Carolina, but in all the
other states as well, these days and
almost anything can happen.”
There are others here, some of them
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Crop Outlook Good
Throughout South
Atlanta, Ga., June 12 (AP)—Farm
ers over most of the South today read
predictions of better pocketbooks and
fuller food and feed bins into generally
favorable crop reports.
Rain and cool weather in many sec
tions have retarded growth and plant
ing, but Dixie’s agricultural picture,
for the most part, was regarded as
fairly bright.
North Carolina reported its tobacco
crop as “‘mighty good in sections, but
spotted in others.” A late cotton crop
whs hi prospect in that State and
ASSURED PEACE IS
WORLD’S BIG NEED,
PRESIDENT ASSERTS
Roosevelt Speaks To West
Point Graduates in De
livering Their
Diplomas
SAYS STRENGTH OF
ARMY TO BE MORE
He Thinks Nation Has Drift
ed Too Far for Its Own
Safety and Increased Ex
penditures Have Been Pro
vided To Restore Its Per
sonnel
West Point, N. Y., June 12.—(AP)—
The greatest current need) of the
world. President Roosevelt said to
day, “is the assurance of peace—an
assurance based on mutual under
standing, and mutual regard.”
Standing before the graduating
class of the United States 'Military
Academy, the chief esecutive said:
“If you strive at all times to prom
ise friendship and to discourage su»_
picion, to teach respect for the rights
of others and to decry aggression, to
oppose intolerance with a spirit of
mutual helpfulness, then rndeed your
services will be of full value to your
government and a source of satisfac
tion to yourselves.”
Mr. Roosevelt, commander-in-chief
of the country’s armed forces, ad
dressed the future! officers of the
army, surrounded by on« of the lar
gest groups of ramy chiefs assembled
in years, including Secretary of War
Dern General Douglass MacArthur,
chief of staff, and Major General Wil
liam D. Connor, superintendent of
the Academy.
"We maintain an army to promote
tranquility," the President said, "and
to secure us from aggression, but it
is so created and so modest in pro
portions as to furnish proof that no
threat? or menace to the rights of
others is even remotely intended."
Asserting his belief that the nation
had “drifted too far” toward a “level
unjustified by a due regard to our
own safety,” Mr Roosevelt announced
his approval of ongressional acts “to
accomplish a partial restoration of
the army’s enlisted strength.
Peace Pact
Signed In
So America
Buenos Ayres, Argentine, June 12. —
(AP) —Paraguay and Bolivia today
signed a peace protocol, putting an
end to the long and bitter war in the
Chaco-Boreal.
A neutral military commission is to
be organized at once to proceed by
airplane into the Chaco in order to
prepare a 12-day truce to take effect
Friday.
The military commission includes
the United States military attache,
Captain Frederick Sharp®.
Final acceptance 0 f the peace plan,
advanced by neutral mediators, was
announced early today.
Word that representatives of the
belligerents had agreed to the truce
came several hours after a last-min
ute hitch threatened to thwart the
pacification efforts of five neutral
American powers, including the Unit
ed States. >
Just before the accord was to have
been signed last night, Luis Riart,
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small grains were reported ir. good
shape, with fruit prospects ‘“very
good.”
In South Carolina Frank O. Black,
statistician for the United States De
partment of Agriculture, said wheat
production is expected to reach 979,-
000 bushels this year, as compared
with 765,000 in 1934,
Virginia likewise reported generally
more favorable crop prospects as of
June 1, although cool weather retard
ed the growth of corn cotton and pea
nut?
Didn’t Get Away
This 1,100 pound blue mako shark
is one of the largest game fish ever
taken on rod and reel. Francis H«
Low, Woodmere, L. 1., is the lucky
fisherman who landed the monster
off the Jersey coast.
(Central Press)
Reports 20
New Cases
Paralysis
State Board of Health
Indicates 92 Cur
rent Cases Through
out State
j -
Raleigh, June 12 (AP) —The State
Board of Health today received offi
cial report of 20 additional cases of
infantile paralysis in North Carolina,
but attention was called to the fact
that a number of jhem occurred In
May.
The Johnston county health depart
ment sent in reports of 15 cases,
eleven of which occurred prior to
June 8.
A total of 92 cases of infantile pa
ralysis has been reported officially in
the State since May 1. of which 47
were this month
Wilson county health officials said
there today they had received reports
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They Are Working Harder
For His Nomination
Than Republicans
By LESLIE EICHEL
Central Press Staff Writer
New York, June 12.—1 f Herbert
Hoover actually does capture the ma
jority of delegates to the Republican
national convention, thus insuring his
nomination, the Democrats are likely
to do their cheering in Hoover’s home
state. For it is believed that the
Democratic convention will be held in
San Francisco, next June, following
the Republican convention.
It is being hinted that the Rev.
Charles E. Coughlin will be one of the
Roosevelt cheer leaders at the Demo
cratic convention.
Democrats seem to be working
harder for Hoover’s nomination than
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NOT PASS IN TIME
Crowded Galleries Enjoy
Senators Debate As He
Resists Party j
Leaders ! / .
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HUGE TAX BILL TO
PASS IN THE HOUSE
$475,000,000 Measure. Will
Continue Nuisance Tatjraj
Two Years More; HojSie
Faces Long Debate •
Holding Companies Bill,
Passed by Senate
Washington, June 12.—(AP)— The
administration resolution to extend
NRA in abbreviated form ran into a
filibuster by Senator Long. Democrat,
Louisiana, today after Democratic
leaders had engineered a partial vic
tory in the tangled parliamentary sit
uation. ,
To the delight of crowded galleries,
Long launched into a long and ramb
ling discussion of NRA after he had
lost in an effort to tie onto the re
solution extending the recovery law
a “rider” requiring Senate confirma
tion of all Federal officials Rawing
$4,000 a year or more
Administration leaders rallied their
forces after their hurried recess ; last
night to win 44 to 36 a test vote look
ing toward reconsideration'!*ji>f ..the
rider. That was to come later-.'• T
Realizing that he no longer had the
votes for the amendment, which Was
adopted 43 to 38 yesterday, !Lfy»g
the floor and warned that the N-RjjL
resolution might not pasp b$ ■i&ndijr
night when the recovery law, expires.
The leaders were diacoqcert&d. Un
less the Senate acts this week, the old
NRA law expires Sunday, 'witth dot,
even a. revised set-up tg IhT
place of the (machinery dlsbifthUfid by
the recent Supreme Got|rt <reM#ron. '
A $475,000,000 .tax hill• If,
up for sassag(s-in it tyquid
continue for two yeafar,"ogiitf«*g
called nuisance'levies 1 ;
On the House schedule ' todajF •
minor naval bills. Befoit' lcwrtg..it
face what probably will’ pjAvfe a lohjf
drawn.out fight over the administra
tion's measure to abolish what are
deemed “unnecessary holding com
panies ” It was passed by the Senate
yesterday.
Right of way was granted by the
House Rules Committee today to an
administration “must” bill, necesitat
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Push Probe
Os Textiles
For Remedy
Though Handicap
ped by NRA Col
lapse, Roper Ex
pects Report in June
Washington. June 12.—(AP)—Seo
retary Roper said today a study of
the cotton t xtile industry entrusted
by the PresidentAo a special cabinet
committee was being pursued desplta
NRA’s collapse, i
Roper indicated a report on the sit
uation would be submitted to the
President late this month. He declined
to presage the nature of the findings.
The cabinet committee, including
Secretaries Roper, Hull, Wallace and
Perkins, has been engaged for sev
eral weeks in an analysis of problems
besetting the industry, which was first
to come into the late blue eagle’s fold*
While Roper would make no pre
diction as to the committee’s final
views, it was learned from members
of a sub-committee that the bluer
eagle’s death seriously handicapped!
the study. _ *
For instance, it was pointed out*
the government was left with no ma
chinery to maintain the present wage
differentials in the industry between!
North and South, to say nothing
about narrowing the spread as de
manded by New England ii2.il < im
munities. '
Also there was some q»: :iou. as
to the legality of pending action be
fore the tariff commissiux- t>y v/• icb.
the cotton textile inu .ir ' -pc it
would be able to ho.' -. ■ '*• . „ t a-*
'bargo or a qicti. in. i ‘i- <» 'a,,an-
GSG 111. A l Cfc/ Ot coi l ii- * • life t'C**
tion was launched under uie tariff
provision 'jt tht iiati.* .vy ,xt|