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I HENDERSON gateway to CENTRAL CAROLINA TWENTY-THIRD YEAR Endorsement For Roosevelt Given By Mine Workers Lewis Organization Also ! Votes To Contribute To Campaign Fund for President CALLS ON A. F. OF L. TO DO SAME THING Would No Longer Be Any Doubt of Outcome in No vember !if Labor Would Back Democratic Ticket, Lewis Says; Tells of Wall Street's Big Fund Washington, Feb. 1 (AF) flu' Fnited Mine \Yorkers form ally endorsed President Roose velt for re-election today and decided to contribute to the campaign fund. •It might be well for the American Federation of Labor to take cognl /ancc of what this convention has. don*'.” .-aid John L. Lewis, the min- j president, when the 1,700 'dele te? Ond unanimously adopted the Roosevelt resolution. • If the A. F. of L. would follow' suit, it should, then, for all practical purposes, the result of the next elec tion no longer would be in doubt.” “\V* art* not endorsing the Demo* ■THtic party as such.” Lewis added. "\y\. arc rising to meet a crisis in the . economic and political affairs of the • nation. “The union is allying itself with a , great statesman ... to protect the com : nion people.” ‘ Til- interests in downtown New ? York nr- boasting that they can raise j < uough money to elect a Chinaman i'j tin- White House. “H if time for the United Mint- Work <r- and all of the common peo ple -how these interests that there isn't enough money to buy the presi- j ckney Lt-wis for many years was a Repub- ; licnn. ' i — Industry Sags by Near Two Percent During Past Week New York, Feb. t <AP>—-The As-o- Sdted Press weekly index of indus trial activity, adjusted for seasonal variations, dropped 1.9 points this v * k to 82.2 but remained well above •lit- 7*3.1 recorded in the comparable week a year ago. With the exception of electric power oil'put and residential building, all ♦he componuents moved lower. Underlying the setback was a sharp decline in miscellaneous carloadings. circles fee! the recent curtail ment of shipments in this classifica tion is due. in large measure, to over locking of materials by trade and industry in the final quarter of 1935. The steady lowering of automobile produet ion schedules since the first of <h( year was held to indicate that manufacturers arc marking time un -'■) spring sales trends are-more defi-. mtdy indicated. Declines in steel mill activity and •ottou manufacturing were slight. Long Widow Will Assume Duties Soon Named to Unexpired Perm in Surprise Appointment B y Gov ernor Noe ” Orleans, La., Feb. L—<AP)— f| : Huey p. Long, widow of the late expected to take his vacant m the Senate immediately after ‘ urprise appointment to the post ! f night by Governor James A. Noe. ! "“ appointment was interpreted to <ntr the ueriod from now until the general election. April 21, but the Democratic Committee, believed "powered under the law to name a ; -‘"'i'd.-Ue to take the place of the Democratic governor, O. K. AI ,,J put Mrs. Long on ballot. 11 'ducted, she then would serve the 1:1 ""hr r of her husband’s unexpired whi.-h ends January 3, 1937. ■ •mnerous officials privately had x i"vr,-C(J confidence that Allen J. 351- "'N''. speaker of the State House " Representatives, who had bee» yminated for the full six-year Sen ’•'m. also would he named for un expired, term which ends in Hettfreramt Batin Btspafrlr ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA AND VIRGINIA LEASED WIRE SERVICE OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS. Goes To Senate N - "I'i 1 : ;. • ■ * ->> dm* ¥ » I • S * % - |3*. • •. MRS. HUEY P. LONG DR. GRAHAM GiVEN^; Hill Protest on Moving Os Engineering School To Raleigh Deferred NO FIREWORKS SEEN “Pure Athletics” Project of President of University Is Left To Him and Faculty of Larger Institution Unity Dispatch Bureau, In The Sir Walter Hotel, Hr J C. BASKEWVILL Raleigh, Feb. I. The fireworks which had been predicted in the meet ing of the full board of trustees of the University of North Carolina here Friday turned out to be nothing more than a slight fizzle as President Frank P. Graham was given a de cisive vote of confidence when the board voted 33 ito 19 to leave the “pure athletics” question entirely hi the hands of President Graham and the faculties of the various units of the university. The trustees did not act so decisive ly with regard to the objections of John Sprunt Hill and his group of followers who are still objecting to the removal of the schools of engi neering from the Chapel Hill unit to the State College unit. Instead of hearing Mr. Hill yesterday and dis posing of the engineering school con troversy once and for all, it decided to postpone the reviving of this issue until the June meeting of the (board, at which time It agreed to hear Mr. Hill and give this question first place on its program. The failure of the board to hear Mr. Hill and dispose of the engineering school controversy was disappointing (Continued on Page /Five.} SKng One of Only Two Survivors Praises Guards; 20 Negroes Died Scottslboro, Ala., Feb. 1. (AP)~~ Alabama today sought to learn why 20 Negro convicts were trapped in a flaming truck yesterday and burned to death while guards fought futilely to save them. Hanip Draper, head of the convict department, and Gaston Scott, chair man of the State Highway Commis sion, were en route here to conduct the inquiry ordered by Governor Bibb Groaves. Waiting the arrival of 20 prison made coffins were the charred bodies of the 20 Negroes who were trapped in the cage-like body of the truck when one of their number, seeking to warm numbing hands, lighted a piece of paper and Ignited the gasoline. Warden H. D. Hansard last night announced the death list, which in cluded onlv one prisoner serving as much as ten years. The rest ranged from a year and a day to ten years. Os the two surviving convicts, one, Paul Dawson, praised indirectly the work of the two guards, H. M. Middle brook, of Montgomery, and C. W. Wasson, of Danville, for their quick work in attempting to save the doom ed i . ; HENDERSON, N. C., SATURDAY AFTERNOON, FEBRUARY 1, 1936 First "Free Port” fr fsS (JPpEfi. BA y s■?£:&:■>s& (BROOKLYN:! KyNviiNN';; STAfE^^MiEA-& A' ISLAND/ % Map shows location at Stapleton, S. 1., where, for the first time in United States history, the Federal government has approved a “free port" Foreign goods will be pro cessed here and re-shipped without payment of duty. • - - (Central Press) BOSSES TO SELECT TICKETJtD. P. Hoover Will Have No Chance at Cleveland, Ac cording to Outlook . . ■.—— LANDON IS BEST BET Kansas Governor Seems In Lead; Hoover and Borah Supposed To Kill Each Other Off With The Delegates By LESLIE EICHEL Central Press Staff Writer Cleveland, Feb. I.—This is the city in which the Republican national con vention will be held, beginning June 9. The Socialist will hold a convention previously in the same huge audi torium, but ndbody seems much in terested in whom the Socialists will nominate. Maybe in 20 years from now the situation will be reversed, but for the present the Republicans are the news. The Republican arrangements com mittee already has been In Cleveland, to look,into the matter of hotels and meeting rooms —and back rooms. Back rooms will be important in this convention. The presidential nominee finally will be decided in a back room. Americans prate on dictatorships and kings, then permit a handful of politicians to choose their president and vice president. Direct voting for president and vice president also are forfbidden by the Constitution —unless we change the Constitution. NO ON HOOVER The sentiment among political writ ers indicates that Herbert Hoover will have no chance in the Cleveland convention, But he will engender a great deal of fear, for he will have an important say. He and Senator William E. Borah are supposed to kill each other off. This writer doesn’t know. He heard Hoover blessed in a Cleveland movie theater last night when Hoover, on the screen, attacked the New Deal. But Hoover will not be hissed in the Republican convention, to which the hoi polloi of Cleveland will not be invited. Even so, the bets are on Governor Alf Mi Landon of Kansas —or Senator (Continued on Page Five) STATE PLAYS TRUMP IN LIGGETT MURDER Minneapolis, Minn., Feb. 1 (AP) — The State’s two trump cards were on the table today as court stood su spended until Monday in the murder trial of Isadore (Kid Cann) Blumen feld, ex-bootlegger, charged with the machine gun slaying December 9 of Walter Liggett, crusading publisher of the weekly, “Mid-West American.” Careful Driving On Slick Pavements Cuts Accidents Dally Dispatch Boreas, In The Sir Walter Hotel, By J. C. BASKEUVIJjIj Raleigh, Feb. 1. —There have been very few serious automoibile accidents this week in spite of the snow and ice and bad weather conditions, ac cording to Captain Charles D. Far mer of the State highway patrol. The roads will have many slick and dan gerous spots and stretches, with the result that Captain Fanner urges drivers "of cars and trucks to continue to drive with the utmost care and caution. “The experience of the past week shows that when people know the roads are dangerous that they can drive carefully and thus avoid acci dents,” Capt. Farmer said. “The reo “Greatest Battle of War” on North Front Not Con firmed by Italians, However ROME HAS RUMORS OF PERILS OF WAR Mussolini Calls Fascist Grand Council and Issues Threat of “World’s Most Terrible Unjust War” if More Sanctions Are Ap plied Upon Italy (By The Associated Press.) The ‘•annihilation” of the Ital ian army under General Deamiti, which has been operating in northeastern Ethiopia* was claim ed by Ethiopian sources la a Reupter’s Nevte Agency dispatch; from Desaye, Ethiopia, today. The alleged battle was not confirm ed by Italian sources, the official daily" communique froni Rome saying only, “Marshal Pi-edro Badoglio tele graphs that on the Somaliland and Eritrean fronts there is nothing new.” The Ethiopian claim, however, was that the famous “28th of October” di vision of Italians was included in the casualties of what was described as the greatest battle of the war on the northern front. This report said the Ethiopians, cap lured hundreds of prisoners, and great numbers of machine guns, rifles and ammunition. - •; i ■ From various sources came the re port that Ras Desta Demtu had been deposed as commander of Emperor Haile Selassie’s armies in southern Ethiopia, being succeeded by General Balt oh a, veteran warrior. Officially, however, this report was denied in Addis Ababa. In Rome, Premier Mussolini called the Fascist grand council together as rumors were rampant that the peril of thq Ethiopian war was being in creasingly feared as a result of the Ethiopian hostilities. Mussolini’s newspaper, Popolo d’- Italia, charged that “if eductions were extended” add a political victory was won by the pressure of “imperialists and the bloodthristy,” Europe would enter the world’s most terrible unjust war.” Student Council Head at U. N, C. Is Caught In Probe Chapel Hill, Feb. 1 <AP)—A sweeping investigation of cheat' ing at the University of North Carolina reached a sensational climax today when Jack Poole, president of the Student Council, was suspended indefinitely after confesing he cheated while a freshman. The Council Is the students’dis ciplinary body, and before su spending Poole, a senior, had dis missed 33 others, all alleged to have had part in an organized racked of filching and selling copies of questions to be asked on examinations. The announcement of Poole’s suspension said he cast his own vote for his dismissal. OUR WEATHER MAN FOR NORTH CAROLINA. Mostly cloudy tonight and Sun day; possibly snow in west and central portions Sunday, and in extreme west portion late tonight; slowly rising temperature tonight and in east portion Sunday. ord of this week and of previous weeks when weather and) road condi tions were bad and highways dan gerous, goes to prove that most se rious accidents are due to careless ness and recklessness and that if peo ple would drive as carefully in good weather as they do when we have ice and snow, there would be very f*jw accidents. “There have been many minor ac cidents, mostly due to skidding on icy stretches of highway. But few of these have been serious, since most of the drivers were going at a slow rate of speed. If care and low speeds will reduce accidents when road con ditions are bad, they will reduce them, in good weather, too,/* Temperature Is Below Zero In Many Sections Os State As Henderson Dips Lowest Hanged—But Lived to Tell it *■ JSL <■ jffi Will Purvi* Back in 1896, CVill Purvis of Purvis, Miss., was “hanged" for murder bm the rope slipped and Will did not die. Later, the real murderer confessed, Here’s the man, who escaped the noose, alive and practicing before th« "mike" to tell Robert Ripley fans how it feels to "hang.” (Central Press) House Inflationary Bloc For Currency Expansion Two Score Representatives Vote for Printing Press Money To Pay Off the Bonus DEAD SET AGAINST ANY NEW TAX NOW Opposed to Letting 1 Bank ers Get Kafee-Off in Hand* ling Bond Issue Now; In flationary Senator Thomas Promises Like Movement In Senate Washington, Feb. L—(AP)— The House inflationary bloc adopted a resolution today for payment of the soldiers bonus in new currency. The resolution opposed any new taxes as "entirely unnecessary.” It was adopted as word of a $730,000,000 tax bill to meet bonus and farm re lief costs was passed in high admin istration quarters. There was no dissenting vote as Representative Patman, Democrat, Texas, leader of the group, put the question to approximately two score representatives present. “The understanding is, of course, that we are going to be faced with taxes some,” Patman told the group. “The question is, are we going to sit idly by and let the bankers get an other rake-off on the debt to the vet erans?” Representative Blanton, Democrat, Texas, asserted that the only reason financiers prefer the issuance of bonds to pay the bonus, rather than currency expansion, is because they get three percent interest on the bonds and a bonus out of manipula tion of bonds.” •The resolution adojpted was pro» posed by Representative Greenwood, Democrat, Indiana, who said: “Many of us—in fact, all of us— do not believe in wild inflation that would see government credit and pur chasing power imperilled. But we (Continued on Page Five) TSsdßous Order to Industrial Organi zation To Dissolve May Hasten Split By CHARLES P. STEWART Central Press Staff Writer Washington, Feb. I.—Signs are that the executive committee of the Amer ican Federation of Labor, recently in session at Miami, enticed the A. F. of L- dangerously “out on a limlb” when it ordered Chairman John L. Lewis’ committee for industrial or ganization to terminate its activities. The industrial organization com mittee deviously will not cjoit. soon as cLe n.o mx oc —. J £CciliSS'U3& ft- Fi~£3 Zp£ r zs2. PUBLISHED EVERY AFTERNOON EXCEPT SUNDAY. Hauptmann Probe , Formally Started Trenton, N. J., Feb. I.—*(AP) Colonel H. Norman Schwartzkopf, superintendent of State , police, launched a secret hew Investiga tion today into the Lindbergh kid naping, uiider ordera front Cover nor Harold G. ttodftttan lb “Com plete the job.” : - The governor had ud Bpbciffc suggestions for the course of the renewed Inquiry into the crimes for Which Bruno Richard Haupt mann Is tinder sentence to die, but promised to turn over to State po lice ‘things that come to my at tention, and any evidence of ac complices I may receive." “I feel they must follow the re gular procedure,” the govemoi said. “Having convicted Haupt maim, they have a starting point. It’s a police job to find If any oth ers were involved In the job.” ™Seiins Had Less Resistance Than Negro Week Before; Same Mixture Used Dolly Dispatch Bureau, In The Sir Walter Hotel, By J. C. BASKERVILL. Raleigh, Feb. I—The reason Ed Jen kins died so much more quickly in the lethal gas chamber here yesterday than Allen Foster did the week before was not because of any appreciable difference in the amount of gas used or any difference in the procedure fol lowed, but because Jenkins was big, fat, flaggy and anemic, while Foster was small, wiry, muscular and had an exceptionally strong heart, accord ing to medical authorities, chemists, prison officials and observers. Jenkins, about 35 years old, weighed at least 250 pounds and was fat, flab bv and anemic, with very little resist ence. He had also undergone an as sexualization operation some years ago. His respiration ceased nine sec onds after he started inhaling the gas while his heart stopped beating 60 seconds after he started breathing the gas the doctors officiating at the exe cution reported. He was pronounced dead about seven minutes after the gas started generating. Some thought he lost consciousness almost immedi ately, others that he may have re mained conscious for 30 seconds, but no longer. Foster, the 20-year-old Negro youth executed the week before, and the first prisoner executed in the gas death chamber, was tough, wiry, mus cular, without an ounce of fat on his body. He claimed he had once fought Joe Lewis in Birmingham. From- twe to three x&lmrtss elapsed before Fo v r List, consctoucricss asd eleven rLia/aCos before Le was pronounced ( b- P-23 L 8' PAGES TODAY FIVE CENTS COPY FRESH BLASTS OF IN CENTRAL WEST More Deaths, Threats of Coal and Milk Shortage and Choked High ways Reported COAL RATIONED OUT IN SOME SECTIONS Cincinnati Has Serious Railroad Collision, With Many Injured; Greensboro and Fayetteville Report Four Below Zero as Min imum for the Night Raleigh, Jan. 1 (AP)—-Tem perature readings at below zero marks were recorded at numer ous points in North Carolina early today, at some setting new all-time cold records. At Henderson it was six below, and at Greensboro and Fort Bragg four below. An unofficial reading of four below was reported from Franklin county. Henderson had a reading of seven below last Tuesday, but Greensboro’s reading was a new all-time low there. The previous minimum in the history of its weather bureau was three be low. Low temperature readings from other points included Goldsboro, five, Charlotte 11 and Raleigh 14. Lumbertori reported a low of four degrees above, which had been equal led only SO, 1917—‘In the past 30 years. At Winston-Salem the mercury fell to one degree belo < # Cero* COAfc PlLEOwttfDLlf A* • WINTER SIEGE LENGTHENS Chicago, Feb. 1 (AP)—Goal pile* dwindled dangerously low In many states today as a shivering nation Heaped extra fuel in furnaces against the lengthening siege of bitter cold. Mercury columns shrunk far below normal everywhere east of the Rocky Mountains except the gulf states, keep (Continued on Page Three.) Government To Dispose Os Cotton Southern Senators Propose Selling of 20,000 Bales Week ly of Surpluses Washington, Fefb. I.—(AP) —A plan to dispose of the government’s large cotton holdings through a designated sales agent, at a rate not to exceed 20,000 bales a week, was proposed to day by a group of southern senators. It will be Incorporated in a resolu tion to be introduced Monday by Chairman Smith, Democrat, South Carolina, of the Senate Agriculture Committee. Under the proposal, which Smith said had the unanimous endorsement of southern cotton senators, the sales agents would be appointed by the President subject to confirmation by the Senate. All government cotton holdings, in cluding the 4,500,900 bales on which li-cent loans were advanced, and lint held by the producers’ pool would (be placed under the jurisdiction of the E^6llto However, before transfer of cotton in the producers’ pool, the resolution provides for it to be taken over and paid for by the government on the same terms as cotton acquired under the 12-cent loan plan. At the beginning of each week the agent would be required to give pub lic notice of the number of bales to be sold, including futures, and the places where the sales are to be held. Proceeds derived from sales would go into the Treasury. Any profits de rived would fee distributed prorate, at the end of each fiscal year among the original owners. Smith eatc ho eKjposts to call the So Sli vce Committee into session Tuesday to consider the plan, and predicted it would bo. quickly a*- i i ~i -—, . .-j
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