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HENDERSON GATEWAY TO CENTRAL CAROLINA J'WENTY-THIRD YEAR 20 Junto CONVICTS CREMATED IR CAGE ROOSEVELT ASSERTS TAX ACT NECESSARY BY THIS CONGRESS Farm Program and Bonus Must Be Met and More Revenue Is Essential, He Declares PLANS STUDIED FOR PAYMENT OF BONUS Senate Provides Money for Administrative Purposes; Glass, Asked if Taxes Were Discussed, Says No, and Won't Be Until After The Coming Election Washington, Jan. 31 (AP) Presi ,j„nt uosevelt said today a tax-raising measure will be necessary at this sea ion t .f Congress to meet the cost of th*’ farm program and study ot the jood.s of additional revenue for the tonus is still under way. p,.- new soil conservation subsidy farm plan has been estimated to cost ?440.WJ-000 a year. The bonus was estimated to cost $2,249,000,000. No figures on the amount that Con gress would bo asked to raise were mentioned by the President, however. Mr. Roosevelt said at his press con ference that the revenue for the farm program would simply be in the na ture of a substitute for the farm pro eessing taxes killed by the Supreme Court, and therefore would not amount to new taxation in the sense of additional taxation. As to meeting the $2,249,000,000 bonus cost, the President said this problem was still under study and no details had been decided upon. The Senate Appropriations Commit tee approved the deficiency appropria tion bill today after adding $12,278,- 1175 for administrative expenses in connection with paying tlie bonus. Th<> bill carries funds for the ad ministration’s social security program and. various other purjtoses. •Senator Byrnes announced he 'Hou tinned on Paee Four.) First White Man Dies In Lethal Cell Ed Jenkins, 49, Bes semer Citv 25 0 - * Pount| er, Died Painlessly, Is Claim Rob igh, Jan. 31 fAP) —Ed Jenkins, 49-year-old Bessemer City white man, died in the North Carolina’s lethal sas chamber today, the first white prisoner to be executed with hydrocy uiic gas east of the Mississippi river. Death, "to all Intents and purposes” •'arm; to Jenkins, a 259-pound man, nine seconds after he first inhaled ! hc deadly vapors,”. a signed state ment of three physicians who witness “d the execution, read. However, '-Ven and one half minutes lapsed honi the time the sodium cyannide pelhis were dropped Into the sul (UonUnued ou Page Four.) 3 Dead, 25 Hurt As Train Takes Dive -unbury. Pa., Jan. 31.—(AP)—La boring in five below zero cold, rescue Workers removed the last of the today from the Reading oin party's fast night express train, h plunged 30 feet from a Susquo- river bridge, killing at least Ijree persona uud injuring {between ;j - n d 35 others. Tiio company said a. fourth passen an unidentified Bucknell Univer hl,.Y student, was missing, but later accounted for. speeding through the night on its ‘ UII tr °m Williamsport to New York, fcx Preas, “Williamsporter,” hurtled 1 ,Jln the north end of the span last '“i'-lnight down to the bed of an aban doned canal not many feet from the ' u.. ‘{u eh an nah itself, t. 3-Wfe men were found dead in Hrntirrsmi tDatly Sfsiiatrft ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA AND VIRGINIA * LEASED WIRE SERVICE OP THE ASSOCIATED PRESS. New Deal Defender -»*<» s :^9Pn|'.r r. tlmF* * Democratic feud rages between New Dealers and Alfred E. Smith wing of party as capital weighs radio address of Senator Joseph Robinson, in which lie scored his running mate of 1928. The candid camera “caught” these views of the Senate majority leader in action as he spoke from Washington. (Central PressJ IsmwF Diplomatic Rupture Is Hint ed If Further Sanctions Are Imposed (By The Associated Press.) Informed sources at Rome predict i d today a program of retaliation in cluding possibly severance of diplo matic relations, may be Premier Mus solini's answer to further war sanc tions against Italy. As three new taxes became effec tive to bolster the nation’s economics polio;', the Italian premier prepared to advance his plan of opposition be fore the Fascist grand council to morrow night. On the war fronts, the Italian com mand reported continuation of sys tematizing activities with minor en gagements between Invaders and de fenders, “Reconnitering columns between Nekhelli and Do Dawa Parma cap tured scattered groups of the enemy,” (Continued on Page Four.) wreckage. A broken neck killed the engineer in a hospital a short time later. The injured were rushed to a hos pital in Sunbury, crowding that in stitution to such an extent that many of those hurt were laid in rows on the floors. The hospital said 33 vic tims were being treated there, but gave no indication of how many were seriously hurt. The locomotive plunged from tho track just as it reached the end of the bridge at Clement’s Station, di rectly across the river from Sunbury. Witnesses told of hearing a blast and of seeing a blinding flare as the train pulled onto the span, leading to reports the iboiler had exploded. No definite cause could be learned in the investigation,, however, _____ HENDERSON, N. C., FRIDAY AFTERNOON, JANUARY 31, 1936 OBJECT OF BATTLE IN U.N.C. TRUSTEES IS TO‘GET’GRAHAM; * . Industrialists, Manufactur ers and Big Business Men Don't Like His Liberalism OTHER TWO ISSUES ONLY SMOKE SCREEN However, Bunch of Profes sional Gamblers Want j Winning Football Team Paramounted at Univer sity; Moving of Engineer ing School Part of Plan Dally Dispatch IJureara, lu The Sir Walter Hotel, r lly J C. MASKEItVILL Raleigh, Jan. 31.—'The three-corner- 1 ed effort which has /been under way j fer a good many months to oust Dr. Frank P. Graham as president of the Greater University of North Carolina was epected to culminate in the meet ing of the board of trustees here to day, following the meeting of the ex ecutive committee of the board heve yesterday. What will be the outcome of this meeting, no one knows. But most observers are betting that Gra ham and the Graham force will come out, on top of the full meeting of the board, despite the viciousness of the effort of the three groups which are definitely out to "get” him. The three groups, composed of both alumni and outsiders, but for which alumni are acting as spokesmen, which have been fighting Graham and which are expected to muster their greatest strength in the meet ing of the board of trustees today in an effort to force his removal as pres ident of the Greater University, are as follows: 1. The group composed largely of industrialists, manufacturers and big business men. many of them not alumni of the University, who have Ibe.en and still are out of sympathy with Graham’s liberal social and eco nomic views, who dislike his inde pendence and intellectual honesty and are disgruntled because they cannot (Continued on Pace Five.) 9 Additional Students At Hill Ousted Chapel lliil, Jan. 31 (AT) —Nine students were suspended today, bringing to 20 the number dis missed from the University of North Carolina since an investi gation was launched into a re ported organized cheating racket. While the names of the stu dents dismissed and details of the charges have not been announced it was disclosed that a group had organized a racket, which includ ed filching copies of examination questions in advance of the test and selling them. The operators were also said to have prepared themes and term papers for stu dents for fees. Among those suspended were re ported to be two football players, several Phi Beta Kappa students and one member of the Golden Fleece, senior honor organization, The dismissals were by the Stu dent Council. President Graham said, however, the University ad ministration was solidly behind tiie cotwciL G 5eMW’ Purification of Athletics At University Is His Only Purpose Dally Dispatch Barcaa, In The Sir Walter Hotel, lly J. C. IDSKEH.VILL Raleigh, Jua. 31.—President Frank Graham of the University of North Carolina is being made the “goat” in, tiie present furore with regard to the hecommendationa for the “purifying” of university athletics, widely attri buted to President Graham, but ac tually emanating from an entire com mittee of University presidents of which Graham happened to be the chairman, it was pointed out here to day by several who seemed to know more about the situation than ha 3 been know heretofore. The recom , jgcatisufii aa Fags CAR SKIDS THROUGH HOUSE—NO ONE HURT iBS fjj j|| 111 11-“-^ ' ■. ■/ V ' ■ •:■>« . , V f:* •" ’ .> ' - ' • • , i. • • The door of Mrs. Maggie Deaton’s home at Mooresville, N C., wasn’t large enough for the automobile which skidded on an icy street and slid 75 feet into her living room. The glass in the front door was not broken, nor was the piano damaged as the automobile went through one wall, across the room, and stopped at the other wall. No one was hurt. The two young Mooresville men in the car apologized, backed their car out and drove it down the street with only a dented fender and a bent bumper. (Associated Press Photo). 13 Alumni Groups Oppose Graham’s Athletic Plan Powers To Swap ‘• Plans on Navies London, Jan. 31.—(AP)—A pro* posed agreement between the Unit* ed States, Great Britain, France and Italy for an annual exchange of naval construction information was submitted to the international naval conference today by the technical sub-committee. Authoritative sources forecast that the project would win quick approval from the four sea powers. Permits Impression That Liberty League Is ‘‘Get ting Its Goat.” By CHARLES P. STEWART Central Press Staff Writer Washington, Jan. 31.—The New Deal management is letting the im pression get abroad that the Ameri can Liberty League is “getting its goat,” which is very poor politics. The Roosevelt organization’s cor rect policy is to maintain an attitude of supreme, contemptuous indiffer ence toward the league. Instead, the signs of panic simply advertising the leaguers’ activities by the utterances it has permitted to be broadcast and some of tiie steps it has allowed to be taken. This perturbation was particularly noticeable juK before the league’s recent Washington banquet, with A1 (Smith as its star attraction, AN INCIDENT For example, the banquet’s eve was a politically most inopportune June* ture for the Treasury Department to attack the income tax records of Pierre du Pont and John J. Raskolb, two of the Liberty folk’s heavy fin ancial backers. It may have been only a coincid ence of course. Nevertheless it has been talked about that opponents of the adminis tration are rather overly subject to having their past income tax pay ments called in question. Moreover, in relating Hie news that the du Pont and Raskob cases were under review, (Continued on Page Two.) OUR WEATHER MAN FOR NORTH CAROLINA. Fair and continued cold to night; Saturday fair with rising temperatures;. U. N. C. President's Effort To “Purify” Sports Op posed by Many County Locals COMPLAINTS HEARD AT TRUSTEES' MEET Hill To Seek Rescinding of Order Transferring Engi neering School; Tuition for Outsiders Hiked Sharp ly; Modify Gambling and Drinking Rules Raleigh, Jan. 81.-~(AP)—The board of trustees of the University of North Carolina this afternoon had under consideration the so-called “Graham plan” for de-emphasizing athletic in the Southern Conference, and a re quest from various alumni groups that President Frank P. Graham be asked to “relegate for further study the entire matter.” Senator John Sprunt Hill, of Dur ham, a board member, also served notice he would later make a motion that the trustees rescind their action calling for transfer of the engineering school from Chapel Hill to Raleigh, and alumni petitions on the matter were presented. The board voted to amend the rules of the university so as to allow students convicted of hazing, gamb ling or drinking to (be either dismiss ed or disqualified. Present rules re quire dismissal in all such cases. Norman Boren, of Greensboro, an Alumnus, presented petitions on be half of county alumni groups oppos ing the “Graham plan,” and said they came from Guilford, Buncombe, Cum berland, Alamance, Davidson, Edge combe, Mecklenburg, Forsyth, Pitt, (Continued ou Paee Two.) GREEnilr General Kondylis Succumbs to Heart Attack; Was Foe of Venizelos - Athens, Greece, Jan. 81.—(AP) —■ General George Knodylis, 55-year-old former “strong man of Greece,” died suddenly today from a heart attack and the Athens garrison was ordered to stand by on guard against any eventualities. Authorities said no trouble threaten ed immediately, but they took the pre cautions in view of a recent state ment by Kondylis which caused con siderable apprehension that he had intended to use force, if necessary, to prevent the liberal Venizelists who won Sunday’s elections, from gaining control. The general, long a sufferer from asthma, died at noon after a heart at tack during the night. Reflecting the troubled political site PUBLISHED EVERY AFTERNOON EXCEPT SUNDAY. stfSere »*• ' i View There Is Constitution al Change Alone Can Su stain New Deal ‘ By LESLIE EICHEL Central Press Staff Writer - New York, Jan. 31.—Europe is tak ing an exceptional interest in the U. <S. Supreme Court’s nullification of New Deal laws. The belief seems to be that there willl be contest over the matter—dspite the now evident in tention of President Roosevelt not to make an issue, of it. The London Times seems to ex press the conservative London view: “Whatever immediate action Ml*. Roosevelt and his advisers may de cide to take to repair the breach made in their agricultural policy, this new judgment of the court /brings in to the forefront again the much wid er issue raided by the NRA decision last June. Six months ago, comment ing on the NRA judgment, Mr. Roose velt made it plain that, in his view, some way must be found to give the national government—that is to say, the President and Congress—power to handle the economic questions which, in these days, are of supreme national importance. “The only practical way would seem to be by an amendment of the Con stitution. It is hard to see how the ex tension of the authority of the fed eral government can be prevented from becoming the dominant issue in the coming election, or how, in the long run, the American people can refuse their government the powers necessary for the protection of the economic interests of the whole na tion.” LIBERAL BRITISH VIEW Then, the Manchester Guardian world-famous British paper, has this /to say: “The average American is educat ed to hold the court and the Consti- I’Oontlnued on Paee Two.) Babson Shows How Japan Undersells Whole World United States Has Underestimated Nipponese Ability; Capturing World Markets By Devalued Currency, Low Wages and Low Standards of Living BY ROGER W. BABSON, Copyright 1936, Publishers Financial Bureau, Inc. Babson Park, Fla., Jan. 31.—High in the list of great achievements of his tory stands the rise of Japan as a world power. Only eighty-two years ago Admiral Robert Perry sailed into Yokohama harbor, giving Japan her first real contact with the modern world. For some three centuries this is land empire had been completely iso lated. Her civilization was at least 500 years behind that of the Western World. Yet in the relatively short space of eighty years Japan has trans formed herself into one of the most advanced, progressive, and highly In dustrialized nations in the world. Capturing World Markets. Those who have watched Japan stea *2,0 fcj/aiga ciark©& .after oact&ss fca 8 PAGES TODAY FIVE CENTS COPY GAS TANK IGNITED FROM FIRE BUCKET EN ROUTE TO JOBS Two Others May Die and Two Guards Badly Burn ed In Scottsboro, Ala., Tragedy TRUCK OVERTURNS ON SLIPPERY ROAD Can Full of Fire For Heat ing Purposes Then Ignites Gasoline; Victims Unable To Escape and Bodies Are Burned To Crisp In Raging Inferno Scottsboro, Ala., Jan. 31.—(API- Twenty Negro convicts trapped In a transfer cage were burned to death and two others probably fatally burn ed near here today as a drum of gas oline In the truck caught fire. Two white guards on the truck named Middlebrook and Wasson were burned about the hands and face at tempting to drag the trapped and shrieking Negroes from the truck. Neither guard was believed seriously burned. The truck was reported to have overturned and a bucket of fire car ried to keep the Negroes warm set the gasoline afire. What caused the wreck was not immediately determin ed. Middlebrook said the convicts, known as “bad”, from Camp C, had been placed in the truck for transfer to a rock crusher on the Lee high way. Due to the severity of the weather, the Negroes were permitted to place a fire in a can inside the truck. A 30-gallon drum of gasoline also was on the inside. Middlebrook said, due to the snow and ice on the highway, the truck (Continued on Page Three.) Hauptmann Evidence Is Denounced No Fragments O f Anything New, Wi lentz Says, Attack ing Hoffman Trenton, N. J., Jan 31 (AP)—Attor ney General David T. Wilentz, com menting on Governor Harold G. Hoff mans order that State police reopen the investigation of the Lindbergh kidnap-murder case, said today the governors statements “contain no fragments of new evidence. The case stands as it is.” Wilentz issued the following state ment after a conference with Colonel H. Norman Schwartzkopf, head of the (State police: 1 “All the columns of Interviews, statements and published reports by persons interested in behalf of the (Continued on Page Two.) the last few yeans realize there must be a fascinating story behind her pro gress. Perhaps the world depression has brought the picture of Japan’s rise into sharper relief. But the facts are that exports from Nippon are to day at an all-time peak. The follow ing table tells the story: Value of Japanese Exports and In* ports, 1929-34 Value of Yen Year Exports Imports (New York) 1929 2,149,000 2,246,000 46.1e 1930 1,470.000 1,546,000 49.4 1931 1,147,000 1,236,000 48.® 1932 1,410,000 1,431,000 28.1. 1933 1,861,000 1,917,000 25.2 1934 2,172,000 2,280,000 29.® Lancashire Hard Hit The spectacular rise of the Japan ese textile industry has created wido> ■ j jjSkntJacsfl oca
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