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Hinders ON g ateway to (ENTRAL CAROLINA rWENTY-THIRD YEAR STATE AGAIN IS BLANKETED WITH SNOW Three Executed By Electricity And Gas At State Prison IS MURDER CASES First Time Both Methods of Execution Used Same Day East of Missis sippi River NEGRO IS KILLED WITH ELECTRICITY Xwo From Durham Ashyx iated for Robbery And Murder of Taxi Driver; Gas Deaths Apparently Speedy, Victims Losing Consciousness in Few Sec onds. K.ilriul). Feb. 7 (AIM Two men Wr , asphyxiated ami one electrocut ,,,l today at State's Prison here for murder in the Inst such legal triple .■xeeution performed east of the Mis - -sippi river. Will Long. 19-year-old Alamance county Negro, was electrocuted. j x. Sanford, convicted in Durham for slaying a taxi driver, was asphy xiated, and plans were made immedi ately t<> Rid Thomas Watson, convict ,.j jointly witli Sanford, by gas. Long entered the death chamber at 10-"? a m. The Negro was convicted of the .'laying ar Mebane a little over a year :iu o of Sam Minor, aged night watch man. Late yesterday he, for the first rime, confessed his guilt to a news man. As Long’s crime was committed be fore July 1. 1935. he was electrocuted. It took two shocks of current, one of two and a half minutes, and The other of one and a half minutes, and h* was pronounced dead tit 1.0:37 a. m. •quickly pi* partitions were made; to ii.. the death-dealing hydrocyanic acid to snuff out the lives.of the two other men. Th. switch to start the gas genera te was thrown ut-11 o’clock anil phy ii'ianlistening by long distance ::i tiiu "ope. pronounced Stanford • U'ad JO ?-9 minutes, later. Witnesses . ixpier-'i th*- belief the. man appa rently lost consciousness about .20 see *" ends ,-ifter the gas started. He sCetn ■•d to groan or sigh after he was uit roiis-’ious. Stanford and Watson were convict ■l T killing Nathan Malone, Durham taxi driver. Sanford admitted he struck the K’oiilinued ou Page Five) Tar Heels In Defense Os Mr. Page # Washington, Feb. 7.—(AP) A ••harge by Representative Tinkham, lb-publican, Ma .ss ac husetts, that Wa-l ’“r Hines Page, wartime ambassador " On at Britain, “conducted himself ttaiton ij !y in discharge of his diplo matic duties,” today stirred resent ment among the North Carolina con ”ressional delegation. Lagc was a native of the State. Representative Walter Lambeth, ‘ noma: vitie, N. C., Democrat, an nounced he will take, the House floor r ‘Ud.i • to answer Tinkham’s charge, ‘k- ha obtained unanimous consent o peak for 30 minutes Lambeth is : member of the House Foreign As : ‘ ir Committee, of which Tinkham ;, lso is a member. November Elections May Turn On Weather In 1936 Size of Crops and What They Bring Will Be Big Factor Ij) Way Agricultural States Vote, and They May Hold Key to President Roosevelt’s Future ■*V ItOGF.K \v. K/UtSON, < j, y Publishers Financial Itureau, 111. ''■‘b-.jn Park, Fla., Feb. 7.—With 11 excitement over the AAA de '"n dying out., it is now possible to l ; iii ly idea of its effects ' i-'iness. in the early comments : 1 ruling, the constitutional an -1:1 'he decision were stressed. " however, people are begin -1,1 appreciate its economic and :i implications. The following on the subject are based on careful survey of all agri sections. IHiutfrrrsmt tUatlit tltsnafrlt ONLY daily NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA AND VIRGINIA Roosevelt States Half Billion Must Be Had For Farms G, B, Shaw, Tourist G«orge Bernard Shaw Touching long enough at Miami, I Fla., so that cameraman could get I his picture, George Bernard Shaw, turned tourist at 79, appears as , jocular as ever, lie sailed immedi ately for Guba, Panama and California. 'Central Prc t*) U. S Policy On Warships } Is Attacked Italian Delegation ! Backs French I n | Criticism at London I Naval Parley | London, Feb. 7 (AP) —The Italian i delegation to the international confer i rncc hacked up the French today in i an attack on the United States policy i of maintaining large battleships. The Franco-Italian attack was before the technical commit tee of the conference. The French delegates demanded , that the maximum sue of battleships ; be 27,500 tons. ■Representatives o r the United States, however, stood firm in their demand that the -maximum limit re main at 35.000 tons, contending that, the needs of the United States, with great areas of the world’s surface^ to be covered, made it necessary for American battleships to be sufficient ly large for long cruising radius. Each delegation set forth its views as to all types of ships and guns. The French demand for smaller capital ships presented a new crisis in the naval conference. Slate Professor Resigns. Raleigh. Feb. 7. —(AP) —Dr. W. Cruzc, instructor in psychology at State college, has resigned to accept a position on the Wilson Normal school faculty in Washington, D. C. prof. William McGee, of Peabody, will succeed Dr. Cruze. Farm Prosperity. One of the outstanding features of the business revival since 1933 has been the recovery on the American farm. Three years ago the rural sec tions of the nation were virtually m bankruptcy. Wheat was quoted at the lowest price in 350 years; it was cheap er to burn corn for fuel than coal; and dairymen were pouring milk on the ground rather than incur the loses of marketing it. Since then there has been a radical change in farm conditions. Rural in (Continued on Page Three.) LEASED WIRE SERVICE 01< THE ASSOCIATED PRESS. HENDERSON, N. C., FRIDAY AFTERNOON, FEBRUARY 7, 1936 President Confident His New Program Will Sur vive Any Debate Rag ing In Congress BONUS PLANS ARE KEPT SECRET YET V/hether New Taxes Will Be Resorted to for That Money Remains To Be Seen; Hoping Against New Tax for That Cause; W. P. A. Money Tangled Washington. Feb. 7. —(AP) —Seem- ingly confident his new farm program will survive any debate raging in Con- , gross, President Roosevelt reiterated today that $500,000,000 will have to be raised to finance it for one year. He kept details of his plans for tax legislation to himself, leaying with out final answer the question of whether new levies will be proposed to meet, bonus payment expenses. Relief persisted among congressional lead ers. however, that the administration will seek to pay the 'bonus without, ad ditional taxes, if possible. A hint that the government is find ing it necessary to spend more for labor and less for materials to make the $4,000,000,'000 work relief fund go around was given by the President at his press conference., He said some of the $4,000,000,000 would be trans ferred to the WPA from other agenics. Evidence Offered By the Defense in Liggett’s Slaying Minneapolis, Minn., Feb. 7. —(AP)— What the defense offered as a minor defense of Isa'dore (Kid Cann) Blumertfold’s movements the day Pub lisher Walter Liggett was slain took shape today in Blurrtenfeld’s murder trial. Meyer Sehulberg, head of the liquor firm which employed the defendant as a salesman, was called to the stand to complete alibi testimony he started yesterday. Kid Gann’s contention was that he was in a downtown barber shop when a machine gunner felled Liggett December 9. To support Gann’s story, the defense promised the jury three-score wit nesses. The defense during yesterday's ses sion continued its attack on the eye witness acoount of Wesley Andersch and Mrs. Edith Liggett, widow of the slain publisher, both of whom pointed out. the ex-boxer as the machine gun ner. Long Winter Is Boost For Retail Trade New York, Feb. 7—(AP)—Heavy buying of winter merchandise held re tail trade at a high level last week, Dun & Bradstrect reported today in their weekly summary of trade con ditions. Characterizing it as a period of “progressive trade movement,” the report noted, a moderate advance in industrial operations and generous mail re-orders in wholesale markets. A slight break in the cold wave, which permitted shopping activities to be pursued with more persistence exerted a restorative influence on re tail trade. “From the total, as measured from the comparative 1935 period, gains were general, the estimated average for the country being higher by six to eleven percent, with the largest in (Continued on Page Five.) OUR WEATHER MAN , ~ -L rillt NORTH CAROLINA. Cloudy tonight, colder in ex treme east-central portion; Satur day partly cloudy. THRILL” CLIMBER DIED IN TAKING THIS PICTURE Photo taken by Delmar Fadden before be died Delrnar Fadden, inset, Seattle, Wash., “thrill” • limber, died after taking this picture atop Mount Ranier. The photo evidently was taken as the youthful mountain climber paused at the 13.000- FAIN! POSSIBILITY OF FURTHER PEACE OVERTIE IS SEEN Italian Press, Controlled by - Government, Discusses Franco-British Proposals ACTUAL FIGHTING CUT TO MINIMUM Italian Airplanes Bomb Magalo, Ethiopians Re port; League Committee Thinks Oil Embargo on Italy Could Be Made Ef fective as Sanctions Plan (By The Associated Press.) A faint possibility of a new peace move was seen today in a renewal of discussions in the Italian press of the Franco-British plan for the settlement of the Italo-Ethiopiart dispute. Observers of the situation were in terested in this trend, for the press of Italy largely reflects government opinion, ajid they believed, therefore, that this discussion might indicate in terest in peace on the part of the gov ernment. As for actual fighting, there ap peared to be little, other than a hom ing of Magalo by Italian airplanes as reported by the Ethiopian govern ment. The League of Nations committee of oil experts, gauging the possibili ties of enforcing an oil embargo a gainst Italy, apparently agreed that such sanctions could !be effective over Italian use of oil substitutes. The question of practical enforce ment of an oil embargo, however, ap parently remained unsettled. With statistics before the commit tee indicating an increase in Ameri can oil sales to Italy, the experts also faced the problem of the United States attitude toward an embargo, HIGHWAY SURPLUS . NOT TO BE LARGE Governor Empowered To Release It For Mainten ance if Available Oully IHsmitt’f! liarene, in The Sir Walter Hotel. B> j. r. MASKERVII.L. Raleigh, Fe'b. 7.—Those who are worrying lest the highway fund is going to have another big surplus in jt again at the end of this and next year, while the highway department is not going to have enough funds to repair and maintain the roads from the present appropriation, are unduly aroused, it is being pointed out by of ficials of the State Highway and Pub lic Works Commission. For the 1935 General Assembly in the appropria tions act, made it possible for the gov ernor to increase the appropriation for highway maintenance if the rec (Contiiiued on Page Five.) foot level on his ascent of the peak—the first t« do it. Fadden met Jus death on the way ap parently falling and freezing to death, according to mountaineers who brought down his body. Hoey Outlines Platform With Plain Statements In His Initial Address Says He Is Neither Radical Nor Conservative, But Just Plain Democrat; Would Lift Sales Tax on Food, Allow Liquor Vote, Boost School Support Dali** JJuimteh Baieae. In The Sis- Walter Hole., By J. C BASKERVILL Raleigh, Feb. 7. —Clyde R. Hoey, of Shelby* not only made good his prom ise to outline fully and completely his position on all controversial questions within the State in the extended poli tical speech he made last night over a State-wide radio hook-up, but he went a good deal farther and said considerably more about a number of things than either his supporters or opponents had expected, according to most belief here today. Some of Mr. Hoey’s opponents maintain that he did some clever pussyfooting and fence straddling in some portions of his speech, especially those dealing with the liquor question and the sales tax. But many of those have who heard the speech were surprised at the frank and flat-footed position raSIRSE Loeb’s Slaying and Burning of 20 Negroes in South Incite Comment By LESLIE EICJHEL New York, Feb. 7—America’s prison problem is becoming steadily worse. There are more prisoners now than ever in the nation’s history—l93s having boosted the total by an alarm ing figure. Penologists say that Americans ap proach the problem with the wrong attitude. Instead of getting at the causes of crime, Americans raise a hysterical cry to convict people. And ■when the people arc convicted there is a sadistic tendency to force dire punishments on them. Thus, bitter ness against society rises, and crime increases. Devil’s islands, such as Alcatraz in San Francisco harbor, with their com plete isolation, simply enrage and craze men —us observe the recent up rising. The federal government sup pressed all the facts concerning that “strike,” but enough leaked out for one to envisage the futility that ex ists there, and the harsh measures that are used to put down the pro tests. Perhaps it would be better to execute men at once rather than to submit them to horrible punishments. OTHER MANIFESTATIONS It took the slaying of Richard Loeb in Illinois’ Statesville prison to disclose conations there. What is true of Statesville is true of many other prisons. The majority of prisoners are young men. Deprived of normal sexual as sociations, they sink to vile depths. Penologists close their eyes in hor 'Continued on Page Four.) PUELISHED EVERY AFTERNOON EXCEPT SUNDAY. which Hoey took, on most questions, and at the lack of fence-straddling. Most of those who listened to the speech, or who have read it, are in clined to agree that Hoey made his position unusually clear on almost every controversial question which has already developed or is likely to develop in the campaign for the Dem ocratic nomination for governor. The Hoey’s speech was voluminous and lasted for one hour. It was his first political speech since the an nouncement, of his candidacy for the Democrati nomination for governor. He offered no personal platform, de laring “I do not believe in personal platform.,. .1 stand on the Democra tic platform in State and nation.” Evidently taking indirect cogniz (Continued on Page Two.) ss Rev, George L. K. Smith To Launch “Share-Our- Wealth” Campaign By CHARLES P. STEWART Washington, Feb. 7—Political and journalistic observers, who attended the recent gathering of southern constitutional Democrats, as they call themselves, at Macon, (Ga.) are saying that the country will make a great mistake if it fails to reckon with the Rev. Gerald L. K. Smith as a national campaign factor of import ance. The Rev. Mr. Smith will be recalled as the Louisiana clergyman who left the pulpit to join in Senator Huey P. Long’s share-our-wealth crusade, who preached the “Kingfish’s” funeral ser mon, and who now claims by inherit ance, the leadership of the share-our wealth movement. Outside the Creole state, Americans have not had much chance hitherto to assess the southern cleric, but some excellent judges of an individual’s pos sibilitics of success in public life had an opportunity to see and hear him at Macon, and all of those with whom 1 talked, a considerable number, speak of him very respectfully. BETTER THAN LONG? When I say “respectfully”, I mean that they are respectful of what they conceive to be his potentialities as a political influence. As one o£ the returned members of the Macon delegation from Washing ton told me, “I believe that I have never listened to a person with so many of the earmarks of a success ful rabble-rouser.” I don’t like to quote the term “rab (ConUnued on Page Four,) 8' PAGES TODAY FIVE CENTS COPY SNOW IS SIXTH OF THIS WINTER OVER CAROLINA SECTION Heavy From Rocky Mount and Raleigh Westward, With Rains in Coastal Districts FRESH COLD WAVE GRIPS NORTHWEST New Flood Menace In South and Corn Beit States Have More Sub-Zero Tempera* hires; Coal Shortages Per sist and Many Railroads Are Snowbound (By The Associated Press) Inland sections of North Carolina experienced their sixth heavy snow of the season today, and sold rains swept the coastal areas. Four to seven inches of snow blanketed the State from Raleigh and Rocky Mount west. North Carolina school officials esti mated that half the State’s rural schools were closed in the face of ad verse weather, which has persisted for the better part of the last two months. In Charlotte the Weather Bureau reported a four-inch snow, topped off by an undetermined amount of sleet. Raleigh had seven inches of snow, as did Asheville in the west. Hender son had ten inches. Rocky Mount reported more than six inches of snow, while Elizabeth City had three inches, which was be ing washed away by rain. Wilmington had cold rains. A cold, 30-mile wind whipped the city. Greensboro reported eight inches of snow. The forecast was for a resumption of cloudy weather, with little change or a slight rise in temperature throughout the State. Wire communication waa disrupted or badly crippled in many coastal areas. The Wilson county area was swept by sleet, resulting in a general freeze, closing schools and making highway traffic perilous. WINTER RENEWS ATTACKS WITH ANOTHER COLD WAVE Chicago, Feb, 7 (AP)—Winter re newed its onslaughts today bringing a new cold wave with heavy snows to the Pacific Northwest, threats of a (Continued on Page Fivej Snow Is Cleared From Most Roads Throughout State Raleigh, Feb. 7.—(AP)—Snows which covered highways in most of tire State to a depth ranging from, two to fifteeu inches were being rapidly cleared today and all main routes opeu for travel. L. W. Payne, assistant engineer of the highway commission, said maintenance crews started their work last night and were still at it. Motorists were warned to be very careful, though, as in many places clearing of the snow left a thin coating of ice on roads. Control For Burley Weed Now Sought Compact for Grow ing States Would Regulate Acreage from Year to Year Washington, Feb. 7.— (AP) —Repre- sentative Virgil Chapman, Democrat, Kentucky, moved today to bring about burley tobacco acreage control through a compact between the pro duing states in event the new admin istration soil conservation measure, pending as a substitute to the AAA, should fail of enactment or Ibe held unconstitutional. Chapman introduced a bill to per mit Kentucky, Tennessee, Indiana, Ohio, West Virginia, North Carolina and Missouri to enter into a compact through legislative enactment to con trol acreage. A similar bill applying to states producing bright flue-cured tobacco has been introduced by Rep resentative John H, Kerr, Democrat* North Carolina. The proposed compact, Chapman said, would enable the tobacco pro ducers to continue to receive benefits similar to those under the AAA.
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