'HENDERSON
gateway to
CENTRAL
CAROLINA
TWENTY-THIRI) year
STATE CROP PLAN
if FORCE EXTRA
LEGISLATURE HERE
Would Have To Be Sum
moned To Approve Farm
Program If Made Ef
fective for 1936
UNIFORM LAW FOR
STATES JOINING IN
Virginia Legislators Confer
With Hutson About Pro
posed Program and Offi
cials of Tobacco States Will
Hold Conference at Early
Bate To Study It
\Y i-hiii&ton. Feb. 8 (AlM—Tin- pos_
v that Congress may provide
..,r sfatt' compacts to control tobacco
•t..dactio % wa s soon boro today as an
, - her issue likely to cause pressure for
H session of the North Caro
i:nn legislature.
1: Cn.-ress should approve the com
ppm, as embraced in proposals
clue-cured and hurley tobacco, a
i,-il session would he necessary
~,i condiseration of State control
Jii.->sures if the State intended to co
ate this ciop year.
Coder tlu: compact proposal, each
c*•>*j>-■: ding state would enact similar
1< gisiation, with the Federal govern
participating as an assisting
agency.
A delegation of Virginia legislators
ia the capital yesterday heard J. B.
•Hutson, agriculture department to
bai-eo chief, outline what should he
••entaiiied in State control bills.
Conferences of officials of tobacco
. •.>wii. . states are expecte dlo be call
'd o further advance the idea.
Representative -John H. Kerr, of
tv r; ! to:.. N. C.. is author of the com
I ■ r>:il sot the flue-cured states.
New Blasts
01 Sub-Zero
In The West
Brief Moderation on
Atlantic Coast Be
fore N e w Arctic
Chill Gets Here
r ai( ag ■. Feb. 8. —(AP) —Blizzards
blasted mor sub-zero cold eastward
from tie- Hookies today, piling north
western states deep in snow that
paralyzed rail and road traffic.
swirling along at 40 miles an hour,
1— coin wave sent temperature*
down as far as 52 below zero.
drifts reared nigh on highways,
ham Montana to lowa, and the mer
-1 j uy .|j,| as much as 5K points in 24
hours.
Hill City. s. 1).. reported 52 below
\ Cn-t“! ,*o below and Rapid City
•H “iow. a mark that tied all records.
a -aif from the north and north
w* - (>a< U Nebraska, bring that
Vs tin* worst blizzard in years, liail-
T'-Mh line were blocked except the
:on i’aejfic’s main route. Automo
-1 !;i a.I .* stalled and airplanes were
.-'oundfij. The State highway depart
rfle,)t aid it “knows of no roads
•*
H)f 'nniiit of the storm brought
■ einiug and Colorado the coldest
“hnia'y weather on record,
iin Wf.ith a Bureau said the east
i conlj expect a brief modera
n a hffnre the new chill jumps the
iV'nkmhians tomorrow. It was below
" in Virginia this morning, and
• H-ningt.on had only four above.
Electrocution Is Still
Regarded As Preferable
Quicker and Less Painful T han Lethal Gas, Newspaper
Men Agree After Seeing Both Methods Worked Fri
day; Gas Is Long, Drawn-Out Killing Affair
Uispalch Uuienu,
"• Ihe Hit: W aller Hole.,
UASKLIIVILL
, ; 111 ‘fell- Feb. B.—Electrocution is
11 • muded as better than lethal gas
11 execution of condemned men,
i 'jmen and witnesses who
f i" triple execution in Central
| 1 here yesterday still maintain,
j/'., 1 ' ,n f>le execution Friday, Wil-
Alamance county Negro
was electrocuted, and J. T.
'' ;(i and Thomas Watson, Dur
" h r °es, were executed with
' i( '“ 1 & as - The news men and wit-
w ho saw all three men die, and
> have seen the previous two exe-
Uirntteramt Batin Btsnatrh
only DAILY NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA AND VIRGINIA
BURSTING DAM SWEEPS MOTHER AN D SON TO DEATH NEAR MURPHY
B— - , , _ -
1 * .'liitel- ... flvi
Swollen by torrential rains. Midway lake near Murphy, N. C., burst its dam and swept Mrs. Blaylock Johnson and her son
Dewey, 28, to death after demolishing- their home. Hazel Hampton, (left), a niece of Mrs. Johnson, was one of three survivors.
She was washed far downstream but finally caught hold of driftwood and pulled herself to safety. On the right is the site of the
destroyed dam which was 100 feet long and 50 feet high.— (Associated Press Photos).
HOEY’S STAND ON
LIQUOR LAWS AND
SCHOOLS STUDIED
His Willingness for Refer
endum on Liquor Will
Likely Please the Wet
Element
UNIT CONTROL OF
SCHOOLS OPPOSED
Gubernatorial Candidate
May Have Made Serious
Error in Advocating That;
Would \ Lay Groundwork
for Tremendous Political
Organizatin.
I»«i!j i>ldi>ati a fi Bureai*.
lu The Sir Walter Hotel,
!!> J. C. BASKERVILL
Raleigh, Feb. B—ln addition to hold,
ing the support of all the “bone drys
in the State. Clyde R. Hoey. of Shelby,
will probably get. some very substan
tial support from the “wets/ at least
from the “wets” who want to continue
and enlarge the present system of
county liquor stores and who are op
posed to a Statewide liquor control
and liquor stores system, according
to comment heard here today follow
ing Mr. Hoey’s speech in Charlotte
Thursday night. In this speech Hoey
declared that he had not and would
not alter his personal views as a life
long dry and that he would “rather
accept defeat” than surrender his
convictions, but that as a Democrat,
h<‘ would not oppose the submission
of the liquor question to a vote of the
people.
While Hoey did not go into detail
concerning what he meant by a “vote
of the people - ’ it is generally believed
in political circles here that he meant
a Statewide vote in a special election
in which the people would decide on
whether the sale of liquor should be
legalized over the entire State under
a Statewide liquor control system,
such as was proposed in the 1935 Gen
eral Assembly, if is also generally
conceded here that iT the question of
a Statewide liquor stores and liquor
control system should be submitted
to a Statewide vote at this time it
would not carry—and probably would
not get as many votes as it would
have a year ago. For most observers
are convinced that a majority of the
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cutions by gas, agreed that the elec
tric chair is much easier and much
quicker for the man being exeuted, as
well as much less unpleasant to
watch.
Only two shocks of electricity were
required to bring death to Long,
whose heart action ceased after one
shock of 2 1-2 minutes and one of
1 1-2 minutes. He lost consciousness
immediately. Less than 15 minutes
elapsed from the time he entered the
death chamber until his body was re
moved. To all intents and purposes,
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LEASED WIRE SERVICE OF
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS,
HENDERSON, N. C., SATURDAY AFTEROON, FEBRUARY 8, 1936
Death Overtakes Party
Taking Food To Island
V
Desperate Battle To Penetrate Blinding Blizzard in
Chesapeake Bay Leaves One Man Dead and Five
Exhausted; Coast Gua rd Cutter Makes Rescues
Crisfield, Md., Feb. 8 (API— A des
perate battle to penetrate a blinding
blizzard and take food to marooned
Islanders over treacherous Chesa
peake Bay ice loft a State policeman
dead and five persons recovering to
day from exhaustion and exposure-
Tae jsix were members of a crew of
15 who .s*4 out yesterday from Cris
field, pushing a tou of food on sleds.
They braved a bitter gale, lashing
their faces with swirling snow flakes
in an attempt to re-stock the larders
of Tangier and Smith islands, isolat
ed ten miles out in the ice-choked bay.
The man who lost his life was Ser
geant William V. Hunter. He dropped
exhausted and died on an ice floe. His
body rested today aboard the Coast
Guard Cutter Travis, whose crew re
Engineer and Fireman Fat
ally Injured in Explosion
Near Columbia
Allendale, S. C.. Feb. 8 (AP)—The
engineer and fireman of Southern
Railway train No. 21 were fatally in
jured today when their locomotive,
carrying four cars with it, was derail
ed at 2:40 a. m. in the center of town.
Engineer Charles McNeill, of Co
lumbia, died in the wreckage of tho
engine, which crashed to earth with
an explosion of steam.
Fireman S. A. Orr, also of Columbia,
was taken in an ambulance to the Co
lumbia. hospital badly scalded. He
died there seven hours after the acci
dent .
Several passengers were reported to
have been shaken about but none
was seriously injured, so far as could
be learned.
Railway officials began an invest i_
gation to determine the cause of the
wreck, but reached no immediate con
clusion. The first four units of the
train, after the locomotive, were de
railed with it.
The train, a Jacksonville-Columbia
local, had left Jacksonville last night,
and was due to arrive at Columbia,
two hours and ten minutes after the
accident, but was totally disabled.
Closer Check on School
Expenditures Being Kept
by the State
Daily Dispatch Bureau.
In The Sir Walter Hotel,
ll.v J, C. BASKIISRVIL.Ii
Raleigh, Feb. 8. —Much school mon
ey is ibeing saved by the new auditing
system which has been in effect since
the first of this school year and by
the new regulations which require all
school superintendents to buy supplies
from firms holding state contracts or
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covered it, and rescued three of those
suffering from exposure in the dar_
ing relief mission.
One of those exhausted was Major
E. B. Gary, head of the Maryland
State Police, and leader of the relief
expedition. Gary, along with Rich
ard McCready. of Crisfield, and State
Policeman C. A. Disney were picked
up unconscious on the ice and rescued
by the Travis crew.
The first objective of the relief par
ty, propelling two sleds heavily load
ed with provisions, with the Travis
anchored in an open switch of winter
nearly midway to the island. The
cutter was to put them across on the
ice on the island side, they were to
press on afoot.
The food supplies had to be aband
oned on the ice as darkness set in.
HIGHWAYS CLEARED
OF SNOW ALREADY
State Crews Dig 7,700 Miles
of Pavement and Turn
to County Roads
Dully Dispatch Bureau.
!«« The Sir Walter Hotel,
11} J. C. IIASKERVILL
Raleigh, Feb. B—The 7,700 miles of
hard surfaced roads in the state high
way system were almost entirely clear
ed of snow yesterday afternoon and
the State maintenance crews started
working today on clearing the unpav
ed county highways, assistant Chief
Highway Engineer L. W. Payne said
this morning, unless more snow
should fall today. There are still
some slick places on the roads, where
the road machines were not able to
scrape all the ice and snow off, so
that motorists should continue to
drive carefully and cautiously, Payne
said. But all of the state highways
are open and passable.
Most of the 4,000 employes in the
maintenance division worked all night
Thursday night and all day Friday
removing the tons of snow from the
highways, Payne said. The crews
whfSSiK. finished clearing the paved
roads in their sections Friday after
noon started at once clearing tho
snow from the county roads, so that
many of them are open today.
Most of the maintenance crews
started working with their motor
graders and snow plows between 10
and 11 o’clock Thursday night, work-
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OUR WEATHER MAN
FOR NORTH CAROLINA.
Increasing cloudiness and slight
ly warmer tonight, followed by
snow in interior and rain on coast
beginning late tonight or Sunday:
colder in southwest and extreme
portions, but not quite so cold in
northeast portion Sunday.
SENTIMENT GROWS
FOR U. S.LOTTERY
Revenue Would Help Uncle
Sam Now and Would
Likely Prove Popular
MIGHT PAY Lh S. DEBT
Advocates Insist Public Lottery
Would Yield One and Half Bil
lion Annually if Tried
In This Country
By CHARLES P. STEWART
Washington, Feb. B—EveryB—Every time
that Uncle Sam simply has to have
more money than he has currently
available, and already has borrowed
pretty close to what he considers his
credit’s safety limit, someone arises
in Congres to urge the establishment
of a government lottery.
Such a situation exists at present
A sizable and growing block in the
House of Representatives favors the
lottery method of meeting two or
three billions in immediate Federal
requirements, and then paying off the
national debt in comparatively short
order.
Considering Uncle Samuel’s finan
cial straits of today, it wouldn’t as
tonish me to see the plan ultimately
adopted.
BIG REVENUE
Speaking on a low plane, it’s a
scheme which has its practical ad
vantages.
In the first place, a lottery unques
tionably is a big revenue producer.
(Cont'nned on Pmre Three).
Start Case
In Reynolds
Will Affair
Winston Tobacco
Fortune at Issue In
Hearing to be Held
In Baltimore
Baltimore, iMk*., Feb. B.—(AP) —Pre-
liminary arrangements for a hearing
to settle the two-year-old litigation
over the multi-million dollar estate of
the late R. J. Reynolds, North Caro
lina tobacco king, were under way to
day in circuit court.
judge Eli Frank signed an order ap
pointing Henry J. Rippenger, deputy
clerk of court, as guardian "ad litem”
for 44 minors and infant defendants
in the case.
Through its attorney general, A. A.
F. Seawell, the State of North Caro
lina, filed an answer claiming under
a decree of its own courts $2,000,000
in settlement of taxes.
Appointment of the acting guardian
was brought about by the Safe De
posit and Trust Company of Balti
more, plaintiff in the proceedings
against the 91. defendants seeking the
determination of their rights to the
estate the company holds in trust.
No answer has been filed in behalf
of Anne Cannon Smith and Libby
Holman Reynolds, first and second
wives of the late Smith Reynolds and
their children. Neither have answers
been filed for other defendants.
Rippenger filed an answer in behalf
of only 42 of the 44 minors for whom
he was named acting guardian. He
did not answer for Anne Cannon
Smith IT or Christopher Smith Rey
nolds. children of the late Smith Rey
nolds by his first arid second wives.
PUBLISHED EVERY AFTERNOON
EXCEPT SUNDAY.
New Farm Measure
Will Pass Senate
Early Next Week
Former Vice-Presi
dent Dies
CHARLES CURTIS.
Chas. Curtis
Is Dead At
W ashington
Former Senator and
Former Vice-Presi
dent Is Victim Os
Heart Attack
Washington, Feb. 8 (AP) —Charles
Curtis, former vice-president and long
time senator from Kansas, died today
at 76.
A heart attack was the cause of
Mr. Curtis’ death.
Dr. George Calver, physician at the
capital, announced:
"Honorable Charles Curtis, former
vice-president of the United States of
America, died of a heart attack at
10:25 a. m. this date."
Curtis was elected to the House in
1892 and served continuously until
1907. In that year he was appointed
to the Senate, and with the exception
of a period from 1912 to 1914 contimf
ed in the Senate until his election as
vice-president in 1928.
Since expiration of his term as vice
president, Curtis has practiced law
in the capital.
He made his home with his sister,
Mrs. Edward Everett Gann. He was
a widower.
Only recently Mr. Curtis was plan
ning to resume his political activi
ties in the interest of Governor Alf
M. Landon, of Kansas, for the Repub
lican presidential nomination.
Democrats and Republicans alike
mourned his passing. Leaders of his
party were counting on him in the
presidential campaign.
“I am deeply distressed to learn of
the sudden passing of my old friend,
Charles Curtis,” said President Roose
velt. “Whether they knew him as a
senator, as vice-president of the Unit
ed States or as the man he was in
his own right, his legion of friends
will remember him always affection
ately and will mourn his passing."
“He was a fine and good friend,"
said Vice-President Garner.
When he left office in 1933, Mr.
Curtis Ixad served in Congress longer
than any other man.
After conferring with Mrs, Gann,
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U. S. Ho lds
For Large
Warships
London, Fob. 8 (AP)--The United
States delegation to the international
naval conference, confronted by Brit
ish, French and Italian proposals to
the technical committee for smaller
vessels maintained today its stand for
35,000-ton battleships and 10,000-ton
cruisers.
Informed sources expressed doubt
that the differences in the viewpoint
of the powers could be compromised,
in view of past positions, and looked
for the question to be turned over to
the conference as a whole for a de
cision if the anticipated deadlock
could not be broken.
Admiral William H. Standley, Unit
ed States chief of naval operations,
who presented the American views to
the technical committee, insisted the
United States required bigger
sels than those proposed by the other
powers, .
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Stiff Fighting Expected,
However, Before Bill
Comes to Vote On
Monday or Tuesday
BORAH QUESTIONING
CONSTITUTIONALITY
Majority Leader Robinson
Says, However, It Will
Win by Two-to-One Vote;
Bounty Certificate Propos
ed in Amendment, Paying
Farmers for Surpluses
Washington, Feb. 8 (AP)—With
Democratic leaders defending the new
farm bill and Senator Borah, Republi
can, Idaho, questioning its constitu
tionality, the capital expects a stiff
fight before the measure comes to a
vote in the Senate next week.
Borah said yesterday to reporters:
“A casual survey shows there is se
rious constitutional question about
the bill.”
Senator Robinson, Democrat, Ark
ansas, majority leader, declared, how
ever, that the Senate would pass the
measure on Monday or Tuesday by a
two to one majority, while Senator
Pope, Democrat, Idaho, said there is
good reason to believe the bill con
forms to the Supromc Court’s AAA
ruling.
Senator Connally, Democrat, Texas,
introduced an amendment yesterday.
This'would pay to the surplus-produc
ing farmer a debenture certificate, or
bounty, equal to half the tariff on a
commodity similar to the one he ex
polls.
Redeemable to the Treasury for 98
cents on the dollar, the debenture cer
tificates could also be employed to
pay customs duties.
The subsidy would be set at: cotton
four cents a pound; corn, seven and
a. half cents a pound; tobacco, two
cents; wheat. 21 cents.
PUBLTsHER~PASsis
AT FAYETTEVILLE
‘ Fayefteville, Feb. B.—(AP) —Fred
W. Vaughan, about 60, editor and pub
lisher of the “Peoples Advocate,”
weekly newspaper, was found dead in
bed today by Mrs. Vaughan upon her
return from the deathbed of her
mother. Mrs. W. H. McKinnon, who
died yesterday in Red Springs.
Go v’r Olson
In Reply To
McCormack
Chicago Publisher
Called Fakir and
Charlatan; He Had
Attacked Olson
Rochester, Minn., Feb. B.—(AP)
Governor Floyd B. Olson, today char
acterized Colonel Robert McCormick.
Chicago Tribune publisher, as “a
fakir” and a "journalistic charlatan"
in a reply to McCormick’s assertion
at Columbus, Ohio, last night that the
Minnesota chief executive “lent aid
and assistance to gangland in its
campaign."
The publisher had said the machine
gun slaying of Walter Liggett, colorful
Minneapolis editor, was an instance
of “subverters and ultra-radicals en
deavoring to destroy the freedom of
the press, and to overthrow our form
of government."
“In Minneapolis,” he told the Ohio
Newspaper Association last night “you
find gangland murdering editors and
all who cross its path.
“You find an ultra-radical governor
lending aid and assistance to gang
land in its campaign.”
Governor Olson’s statement follows
“Colonel Bertie McCormick’s charge
against me is false and he knows it.
He makes the charge because he is a
czaristi-minded reactionary, and hates
me for what he calls ‘ultra-radicalism.*
“He is a fakir in his alleged war
on crime. The Chicago Tribune haa
warred on crime only when BertieSs
political opponents have been in pow
er, even though Chicago was the
world’s worest cesspool of corruption
and crime, Rertile was silent.
“With all his talk about murder, he
is himself morally responsible for the
deaths of many persons. On August
16, 1933, during the World’s Fair at
Chicago, the health department dis
covered that a great many employees
handling food in a Chicago hotel had
mobic dysentery, a deady disease. Mc-
Cormick had the report suppressed.
Later more cases were discovered.
McCormick again had the findings
suppressed, and also persuaded other
newspapers of Chicago to say noth
ing about it. It was not until the close
of the World’s Fair that any news
paper comment appeared. In the mean
time, many people had come to Chi-
I
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