HENDERSON
gateway TO
CENTRAL
CAROLINA
TWENTY-SECOND YEAR
KANSAS PRISON MINE MUTINY IS QUELLED
Scores Dead In Floods And In Wind, Rain And Electric Storms
|ll[ MAN, NEGRO
KILLED IN STORMS
IN FENDER COUNTY
Trtto Falls on Cab of Truck,
Killing White Man and
Negro Is Struck by
Lightning
CROPS ARE BADLY
DAMAGED BY WIND
Unofficial Total of 175
Lives Counted in Various
Parts of Nation as Result of
Severe Storms; Floods
Take Toll of 106 in Ne
braska Alone
By the Associated Press>
Disastrous spring floods sped by
rainfall considerably higher than aver
age in most parts of the nation today
had ''taimed an unofficial total of
mere than 17.1 lives millions of dollars
of property damage and undetermin
ed losses to farmers in eleven mid
western states.
The greatest loss of life was in Ne
braska where the flood took 106 lives
in the past week. To date 67 bodies
were recovered, and 39 other persons
were listed as dead.
Colorado. Wyoming and Npw Mex
ico counted 29 dead; Texas and Okla
homa 18 each; one was drowned in
Illinois when an automobile struck a
culvert and overturned in a flooded
ditch Two of the dead in Texas were
struck by lightning and two South
Carolina youths were killed in the
same manner. One person was diown
ed during a storm in New England
and a small boat with two passeng
ers was missing.
Crop losses defied estimate. In the
mid-west .where a year ago farmers
prayed for rain to end one of the worst
droughts of history, the crying need
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15WCASESff
Newest Lists Swell Total for
Six Weeks to 168 for
State Record
Raleigh. June 19 (AP) —Fifteen ad
ditional cases of infantile paralysis,
reported officially today to the State
Board of Health, swelled to 168 he
record breaking prevalence of the dis
ease in North Carolina this year.
There have been 109 cases reported
in June, and the previous high month
ly toll of the dread malady since it
became reportable in 1917 was 44 cases
in May.
In. toe United States during the
ending June 8 there were only
51 cases, with North Carolina contri
buting 17 and California nine, while
in this State alone there were 57
cases during the week ending June 15.
Official reports of the disease by \
counties which came in today were:
Iv ake three cases; Vance and Bertie
two eato and one each from Pitt, Per
son, Lenoir Harnett. Franklin, Dur
ham Cumberland and Alamance.
Europe Navy
Accord Goal
Os Parleys
British Holds Upper
Hand by Reason Os
Recent Deal Made
With Germany
London, June 19.— (AP)—British of
ficials equipped with the bargaining
Power of the new naval agreement
w it.h Germany, prepared today to re*
ceive delegations of naval experts
from France, Italy and Russia, with
whom they expect to discuss the
f f rrns of a proposed multi-lateral
treaty for naval limitations.
Well informed British quarters stat
ed an invitation for the discussion of
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MITCHELL’S GRAFT
CHARGES PROBED BY
SENATE COMMITTEE
House Hale 8C Hearty
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Latest photo of Col. Edward Man
del! House, mystery man of the
Wilson administration, shows him
jat Beverly Farms, Mass., where he
How is in residence for the summer.
(Central Frees)
Japs Pleased
At Their Grab
From Chinese
Tientsin. June 19 (AF) —The Japa
nese military was reported today to
have apparently renounced any plan
for armed action in China as a result
of the Chinese government’s capitula
tion to far reaching North China de
mands.
Japanese spokesmen inferred that
China, by dismissing General Sung
Cheh-Yuan as goverhor of Chahar pro
vince and ordering the 132nd r*n -
division to evacuate the province, have
brought issues there “to the stage of
amicable settlement.,"
fThe correspondent of Re*o—~~~i
tish news agency leported that even
extremists among tv,* Japanese war
officers appeared satisfied, for the
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AGED GENERAL DIES
AFTER RETIREMENT
Richmond, Va., June 19.—(AP) —
Brigadier - General Louis Vasmer,
Caziarc, U. S. A , retired, of Charles
ton, iS* C., who spent approximately
40 years in the military service prior
to his retirement in 1906, died today
at the age of 91.
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Winston Anti-Sales-Taxer
To Refuse Big Offers
Somewhere Else
Dally Dispatch Bureau,
la the 8*- Walter Hotel.
BY J. C. BASKERVILL.
Raleigh, June 19.—The general as
sumption that the governorship race
in the Democratic primary in 1936 will
be entirely between Lieutenant Gov
ernor A. H. Graham and Clyde R.
Hoey, despite the announced candi
dacies of Colonel T. Leroy Kirkpat
trick and John A. Mcßae of Meck
lenburg, is further unjustified, accord
ing to stories which come to Raleigh.
There is one, for instance, which
ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA AND VIRGINIA.
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MB ASSOCIATHD PRESS.
HENDERSON, N. C. WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON, JUNE 19, 1935
Looks Also Into Allegations
That Treasury Was Plund
ered in Ship Subsidy
System
SOCIAL SECURITY
VOTE IS DEFERRED
But Senate Expects Action
By Night; House Invokes
Gag Rule To Force Vote
During Day on Wagner
Labor Disputes Bill; Hold
ing Bill Modified
v
Washington. June 19.—(AP)— The
Senate today investigated Ewing Y.
Mitchell’s charge that “graft" abound
ed in government departments and
that the Treasury was “plundered”
under the ship subsidy system.
The deposed assistant secretary of
commerce, the first witness called by
the Senate Commerce Committee,
testified tha the Roosevelt adminis
tration had made a “gift" of $1,720,000
to the United States Lines under a
contract for permanent retirement of
the liner Leviathan.
Put. behind schedule, in its consid
eration of the administration’s social
security bill iby extended debate over
the Clark amendment to exempt from
its provisions private companies
which already have as good or bet
ter old age retirement systems of
their own, the Senate expected to
reach a vote on the measure today
Limiting debate to three hours, the
House, meanwhile, sought to obtain
final action today on another admin
istration “must” measure—the con
troverted Wagner labor disputes bill.
President Roosevelt, at his regular
press conference, eriterated his ap
proval of the disputed section in the
utilities holding company bill provid
ing for everittial. abolition of "unnec
essary" holding edmpanies. Almost
Simultaneously/a iioctsb interstate
pommerce subcommittee reported a
bilK amending that provision drasti
cally. •’ . v ...
Wilson County’s
Sheriff Arrested
As Drunk Driver
Wilson. June 19 (API—W. A. Weath
ersby, sheriff of Wilson county, was
arrested last night by Coroner V. C.
Martin on a charge of driving an au
tomobile while under the influence of
whisky and was ordered to appear in
county court Friday morning for trial.
The charges were preferred by Cor
poral J. A. Merritt, State highway pa
trolman stationed at Goldsboro, who
said he stopped Weathersby on the
Wilson-Goldsboro road last Thursday,
relieved him of his gun and badge and
drove him to Wilson.
ETHIOPIA CAN GET
800,000 FOR BATTLE
Addis Ababai, Ethiopia, June 19.
—(AP) —Official Ethiopian quar
ters said today that this nation,
if forced to defend its indepen
dence” could place about 800,000
soldiers in the field.
MAY AM CHANGES
ON RELIEF FUNDS
/
Labor Content in Highway
Work May Seriously
Hamper This State
Dally Dispatch Bureau,
In the Sir Walter Hotel,
BY 3. C, HA SKERVILL.
Raleigh. June 19. Washington’s
program in the allotment of road
funds for recovery and relief does not
fit well into the North Carolina sit
uation. and when Chairman Capus
M. Waynick, of the State Highway
and Public Works Commission, gets
back to Raleigh he may nave to go
to Washington to seek a liberaliza
tion of the order.
Under the old Federal amotment for
relief through highway employment,
from 25 to 30 per cent of the fund
went into direct labor. Under the new
ruling, the labor content goes from
On Bridge as NRA Ship Puts to Sea Again
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MRS EMILY BLAIR CHARLES EDISON WILLIAM GREEN PHILIP MURRAY WALTON HAMILTON
New stop-gap setup in NRA puts these in key positions, James L. O’Neill, New York banker, will be
the chief administrator, with Leon C. Marshall as head of the division of review, and George L Ben-v
of printing pressmen’s union, as assistant administrator to represent labor. In Advisory council are Charles
Edison, son of the inventor; Philip Murray, mine workers’ union; William Green, president A F L
Mrs. Emily Newell Blair, and Walton H. Hamilton of Yale. (Central Preosi
Two Men Shot To Death At
Union, S. C., Textile Factory
IWjßEllf
Republican Guessing In
Washington Is That He
Wants Another Chance
MAY GIVE IT TO HIM
Few G. O. P. Leaders Think They Have
Ghost of Chance Against Roose
velt and Ready To Let
Hoover Take It
By CHARLES P. STEWART
Central Press Staff Writer
Washington. June 19.—Republican
guessing in Washington unmistakably
is gravitating to a consensus that
former President Herbert Hoover
wants to be renominated a year hence
Politicians believe that, as the G-
O. P.'s convention date approaches,
he will say so.
If he does, it quite generally is
agreed among them that the party
probably will name him. For one thing
they speak of him as “entitled" to
another chance if he asks for it. They
admit that what he is entitled to
wouldn’t count if he had a rival
whose hopes of election looked ma
terially brighter than the Califor
nian’s. However, “grass-root” gather
ings to the contrary notwithstanding,
few of them are optimistic to contend
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Woman Identfies
Sampson Negro as
Assailant Tuesday
Clinton, June 19 CAP) —Harvey
Owens, 20. Negro, was held here to
day on the charge of a criminal as
sault on a middle-aged woman who
was attacked late yesterday on her
farm home several miles from here.
The Negro was captured after a
lengthy search and taken before the
woman, who identified him as her as
sailant
The woman was reported by physi
cians to be in a serious condition from
shock.
WIATHEr
FOR NORTH CAROLINA.
Fair, slightly cooler in central
and east portions tonight; slow-
Ijl rising - r *
A. JrT- .... •
Occurs at Monarch
Mills Following Strike
That Began Last
J Night -
Governor to make
PERSONAL INQUIRY
Leaves for Scene of Trag
edy; Constable and Mill
Employe Are Killed Short
ly After Noon Hour; Em
ploye Had Gone To Work
In Mill In Morning
Union, S. C., June 19. —(AP) —Two
men were shot to death today in riot
ing at the Monarch plan? of the
Monarch Mills Company, where a part
of the 800 employees went on strike
last night.
Those killed were W. B. Franklin,
a magistrate’s constable, and A. L.
Stutz, an employe of the mill.
The outburst came at noon as work
ing shifts were changed. <
Confusion ensued and no one im
mediately after the trouble could give
a clear account of what happened.
Sheriff James G. Faucett, however,
said he was informed that Stutz was
killed by Franklin, and that George
Royster, a special policeman for the
mill, shot Franklin.
The sheriff and his entire force of
deputies were at the mill this after
noon investigating.
Stutz was one of those who went to
work in the plant this morning de
spite the walk-oau last night which
caused the mill to shut down until
this morning.
The plantw bistles blew as usual
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Nearly All
VewDealism
Faces Fire
By LESLIE EICHEL
Central Press Staff Writer
New York, June 19. —The Federal
government faces a blockade on near
ly every New Deal measure
Banker groups are openly talking
of refusing to go forward under the
terms of the new banking bill. They
can leave the federal reserve system.
And the constitutionality of ' irtaal-
PUBLISHHD BVBRV AFTBKNOO*
HXCHPT SUNDAY,
TsSi
Governor Cannot Be Enticed
To Speak His Mind About
Campaign
BAILEY VERY STRONG
One Prominent Democrat Predicts
Senator Will Have No Opposi
tion, and Says He Is Great
Gift To Nation
Dfiiir Dl«|»nteli Barca**.
In the Sjr Walter Hotel.
BY J. C. BASKERVILL.
Raleigh, June 19- Less than a year
off, the United States sentorial con
test for 1936 has to date only Josiah
William Bailey and Richard Tilman
Fountain, with the Governor of North
Carolina more inscrutable and less
inclined to talk about the senatorship
than ever.
There is no mistaking Governor
fountain’s movements amongst the
voters. He turns up at all the meet
ings and he talks to the boys. Over
in Chapel Hill Tuesday night of last
week one of the State’s newspaper
men heard him quoting Senator Bailey
to some of the fellows in an automo
bile. Mr. Fountain stuck his head in
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WESTERN UNION SUED
ON CHAIN TELEGRAMS
Trenton, N. J., June 19.—(AP) —
The Western Union Telegraph
Company) was sued today in Su
preme Court for $3,600,090 on the
ground It. violated gambling law's
by sending “chain” telegrams.
Confessed Hold-Up
Trio In Testimony
Involving Deputy
Lancaster, S. C., June 19.—(AP) —
Leroy Holladay and James Miller con
fessed participants in the SIB,OOO
I Springs mill payroll hold-up last win
ter, today added their testimony to
the evidence against T. S. Thurman,
former deputy sheriff, on trial for con
spiracy in the robbery.
The two youths told practically the
same story recounted by Manuel Mil
ler, brother of James, who previous
ly had testified that Thurman was a
_> to tlo fvr toe. robbers
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TODAY
FIVE GENTS COPY
300 PRISONERS IN
Guards 1 urn Clouds Os
3moke Intended for Them
Back Upon Mutin
ous Prisoners
CONVICTS SHORTLY
AFTER EVACUATED
T ermination of Day-and-
Nighl - Long Mutiny Ac
complished Without Injury
To Either Guards or Con
victs or 19 Frightened
Mules in the Mine
Lansing. Kans., June 19.—(AP) —A
score of officers and guards led by
Warden Lacy Simpson, subdued 300
rioting convicts early today in th*
inky darkness of the Kansas State *
Prison coal mine, and ended a destruc
tive 21-hour mutiny.
'Soon the first list load of mutineer's,
sheepish and ibedraggled. came to the
surface and they marched past a lin®
of heavily armed prison, and county
and State highway officers to their
cell block 60 feet away.
In 35 minutes, the evacuation of the
730-foot mine level, where the riot oc
curred, was complete.
Only a half dozen guards remained
below to check the damage in the
convicts’ raid. ,
Termination of the day and night
long mutiny was accomplished with
out injury to either guards or con
victs, and even the 19 frightened
mules kept below to haul coal cars
were reported unhurt.
“Wte had a hell of a time breaking
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Take Bodies
Man, Woman!
Ou t Os Rivet
Gastonia, June) 19. CAP) —The
bodies of Fred H. Turner, 33, of Char
lotte, and Miss Ruth Randall, of
Cramerton, were dragged from the
muddy waters of the South Fork
river near Cramerton early this morn
ing after the car in which they were
riding late last night crashed into a
bridge on the Belmont-Cramerton
road and plunged into the river.
On reports that another girl was in
the car a rescue party continued op
erations today.
The machine was dragged from 18
inonUniMd on Pat* Pnnr)
LIGHTNING DAMAGES
WPTF RADIO TOWER
Raleigh, June 19.—(AP)—Dur
ing a severe electrical storm here
this afternoon at one o’clock.
Radio Station WPTF was noti
fied that one of its 380-foot brotd
casting towers, elected about nine
miles from here a year ago, had
been struck by lightning and had
broken in half. The station wa*
attempting to continue Its pro
gram, using one tower.
Relief For
Textiles Is
Again Asked
Textile Institute At
tacks Processing
Tax, While House
Votes for the Levy
Washington, June 19.—(AP)— The
President’s personally appointed cab
inet committee to diagnose the ills of
the textile industry had before it to
day conflicting indications of the will
of the people
The Cotton Textile Institute, thro
ugh its president, G. H. Dorr, renew
ed demands either for repeal of the
cotton processing tax or a compen
sating tax on competing products. Co*
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