HENDERSON
gateway to
central
CAROLINA
twenty-third year
All Kinds Weather
Being Experienced
Except Heat Wave
- I
Wind Stormy on Lake and
Sea, Dust Storms in South- !
west; Snow, Hail,
Sleet Also
EPIDEMICS FOLLOW
IN SOME 'SECTIONS
Montana Has Moderate
Earthquake in Western
Part of State; Cold Winds
Drop Temperatures To
Zero in Dust Storm Areas
of Southwestern States
illy T!i<‘ Associated I're.ss)
Vi»t»i-tll v every form of atmosphe
re ;nnl climatic disturbance except a
wave plagued some part of the
Northern Hemisphere today.
The (lenient s dealt body blows with
wind storms on land and sea. dust
-i in ms in the southwest, snow, hail,
and rain storms in various
~f ihe United States, carth
,,s in Montana, and files fanned
L\ winds.
Epidemics followed in the wake of
.t,,rms. A Hollywood, Cal., movie
company was isolated high in the
Sierras and several members of the
troop, including Mary Astor, actress, i
• iU d Director Klliott Nugent, wore ill
with influenza.
An undetermined malady caused
illness of hundreds of Indian children
of Do- Nnvajos tribe lands near Gal
lup, N. M-
Montana reported a. “moderate” i
("irtluiuake in the western part of
the state.
Dust storms struck part of Okla
homa. Texas, New Mexico, Colorado
and Kansas. Cold winds dropped tem
peratures from AO degrees 1o zero.
Estimates of deaths for the last 48
hours neared 250, including at least
?>.') in the United States, 100 in Bul
garian blizzards. 10 in Italy, 28 in
Great Britain and an unestimated
number in coast storms in European j
waters
GRANDDAUGHTER TO
FORMER KING BORN j
Home. Feb. 11.—(AP) —The Infanta j
I’.eat l ice gave bir t h today to a girl, •
the first grandchild of former King j
Alfonso of Spain.
The spokesman for the former mon
arch said ' oth mother and daughter
were doing well.
Prince Alessandro Torloinia, the In
fanta’s husband, was at the hospital.
Former queen Victoria came to
I’uine recently to be near her daugh
ter. reviving old rumors of a recon
ciliation with Alfonso, which royalist
sources raid was being promoted, by
the Italian royal family, with whom
Victoria was staying.
MY IS. DAVIDSON j
HOUNDED ON WILLi
Attorneys Argue Before
Jury Gets Case of Big
Statler Fortune
——
< ’arllnjge, Feb. 11.—(AP) —Opposing
•■‘"in <■! con!ended Mrs. Elva. Statler
David,on was “bounded’’ in leaving
l"'r .pGU.OtX) estate to her husband, H.
P.radlev Davidson, Jr., and that there
"as no evidence any one influenced
ii'i as they offered summations to
day in the suit over her will.
Asserting the youthful Statler heir
' r w;i.,s forced to making the will in
favor of her husband of two months,
1 . 1,. Spence, attorney for the tubjec
aid VV. M. Barton Beach, her
financial advisor, “hounded the poor
iit down’’ until she made it.
I.' aeli is smart, all right,” he said
‘Cuuiiniind on Page Three.)
inflation Insurance” Is
U rge<l By Mr. Babson Now
Slock Market Activity Due to Sharp Rise in Business
But Also to Renewed Fea r of Wild Inflation in
United States; Best Kind of Safeguards Advised
**Y UOBFIt w. BABSON,
r, H».vright 1936, Publishers
Financial Bureau, Inc.
I’.;.b w ,n Park, Fla., Feb. 14.—Current
interest in security markets brings
memories of 1928. Volume of
'fading j. s highest in several years.
• hx it prices have advanced to a new
I'i'ak since 1931. Bond prices are at
ll ' f; ° , 'd highs. Interest in “cats and
is picking up. Tips are being
: 1 'Celv passed around. In fact the
wll °'e situation resembles the “good
"'tl days” even though basic condi
’ions are far sounder today than they
vv ere then.
Two Factors
is behind all this market ac-
HrttiU'rsmx Batin Bispatrfij
only DAILY NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OP NORTH CAROLINA AND VIRGINIA
I Judge in Will-Battle
N<; Mk Vj
m j
n
Judge Don Phillips is presiding over
court at Cartilage, N. C.. where
relatives of the late Elva Statler
Davidson are seeking to break the
hotel heiress’ will leaving bulk of
fortune to her husband, 11. Bradley
Davidson
(Central I‘ress)
FARMERS OF WEST
AND SOUTH INGE
POLITICAL EFFORTS
Thai. Is Interpretation Now
Being Laid on Campaign
of Farm Bureau
Federation
OLD DIFFERENCES
TO BE FORGOTTEN
West Has Been Republican
and South Democratic, but
Looking Out for No. 1 Is
Nearer Their Heart Than
Either Party; Might Wield
Balance of Power
Unity Dispatch Bntenw,
The Sir Walter Hole.
»ty J C UASKEIIVIIX
Raleigh, Feb. 14. —The decision of
| the American Farm Bureau Federa
j tion to come into North Carolina and
i start organizing farmers, and appar
| ently into other southern states, is re
garded as being of national as well as
..Statewide significance, according to
several observers here. This action
cun mean only one thing, according to
those familiar with the American
Farm Bureau and its plan of organ
ization, namely, that the farmers of
the Middle West and Far West, have
decided to seek the support and as
istance of the farmers in the South
and Southeast in order to exeicise
enough political pressure on Congress
and the Federal government to secure
a continuation of legislation favorable
to the farmers of the entire nation.
This was the proposal unfblushing
ly made to the 3,000 farmers of East
ern North Carolina by President Ed
ward A. O’Neal, of the American
Farm Bureau Federation, when he ad
dessed them in a mass meeting Mon
day of this week. And these farmers
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tivity. Basically, of course, the reason
is the sharp rise in Ibusiness. Activity,
according to the Babsonchart, is up
56 per cent over the 1933 depths and
15 per cent above the low level of
1935. Nearly every industry is enjoy
ing better sales; profits are rising and
dividends are being resumed. Return
ing industrial prosperity is attracting
funds into the market from every
source. iStocks are going into strong
hands, especially in view of the in
vestment money available due to the
numerous “called” bond issues. Spe
culation is increasing, but this is not
a “shoe-string” market; brokers’
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THE ASSOCIATED PRESS.
HENDERSON, N. C., FRIDAY AFTERNOON, FEBRUARY 14, 1936
Lakewood Hotel Ruins Where 15 Burned
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Early morning fire which gutted the Victoria hotel at La kewood, N. J., summer resort brought death to 15 guests
and injured 20 others. Intense cold hampered the efforts of firemen to control the blaze and these smoking ruins,
seen from the air, remainder to tell the story.
Committee Approves Measure
To Sell Government Cotton
Washington, Feb. 11 (AP) —Over
the opposition of government officials,
the Senate Agriculture Committee to
day approved the Smith bill, direct
ing the sale of approximately 5,000,-
000 bales of government-owned cotton
in weekly blocks of between 20,000 and
25,000 bales. The vote was 13 to 2.
The bill, introduced by Senator
Graham May
Be First To
Open Office
Belief In Raleigh
Still Is That John
Hinsdale Will Man
age His Campaign
Dal 1 3 Dispatch Uoreaa,
in The Sir Walter Hotel,
II 3 J V. DASKERVILL
Raleigh, Feb. 14.—Lieutenant Gov
ernor A. H. (Sandy) Graham is now
expected to be the first to announce
the selection of a campaign manager
or managers and the first to open
campaign headquarters here. Graham
is already credited with having done
more intensive organization work out
over the State than any of the other
three candidates for the Democratic
nomination for governor and if he be
comes the first to announce his cam
paign managers and to set up his
State headquarters here, he will un
doubtedly score another point against
his opponents, according to much op
inion here.
Hinsdale Is Talked.
The report persists in political cir
cles here that former State Senator
John Hinsdale, of Raleigh, and Wake
county, militant luxury tax advocate
and bitter opponent of the general
sales tax in the 1931 and 1933 General
Assemblies, will eventually consent to
manage Graham’s campaign, although
at the present time Hinsdale declines
to say whether he will or will not
manage it or whether he has even
been asked to take the job. The pre
vailing belief, however, is that Gra-
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Four Discharged
In Cheating Ring
In U. of So. Car.
Columbia, S. C., Feb. 14 (AP) Dis
charge of four students for running a
“cheating ring” was announced by
the Student Council of the University
of South Carolina at the climax of an
inquiry into another southern campus
cheating scandal.
The council issued a statement say
ing four students were dismissed “for
illegally procuring and selling exami
nations” during the mid-year tests
held January 24 through February 1.
It said charges were preferred
January 31. The council met repeat
edly since that time in secrecy, con
ducting an inquiry similar to that
held by the University of North Caro
lina Student Council in making 43
suspensions.
Smith, Democrat, South Carolina, com
mittec chairman, had been before the
committee nearly two weeks for sec
ret hearings.
It would set up a board of three to
sell the cottop. Smith contends the
large government holdings are a drag
on the market!, and disposing of them
in small weekly allotments would not
affect prices. He argues 25,000 bales
the maximum allowed to be sold at
Authority
For Court
Is Argued
Washington, Feb. 14 (AP) —Amid
sharp dispute over the wisdom of lim
iting the Supreme Court’s powers, the
new $500,000,000 farm bill moved to
day toward a final Senate vote, pre
dicted late today or tomorrow.
Senator Robinson, the Democratic
leader, contended the court had “im
peached” the value of its AAA deci
sion by holding agriculture was a lo
cal problem.
From the opposite side of the chain
her, Senator Dickinson, Republican,
lowa, declared the basic question is
“whether we are going to do away
with the old system o fgovernment by
majority.”
“It would be destroyed,” Dickinson
said, “if a law were passed barring
the court from declaring acts uncon
'Gontinned on Page Four.)
Liggett Slaying
Case To Be Given
Jury Next Monday
Minneapolis, Minn., Feb. 14.—(AP)
—The defense rested today in the
trial of Isadora (Kid Cann) Blumen*
feld, former (bootlegger charged wiim
first degree murder in the slaying of
Walter Liggett, newspaper publisher,
last December 9,
Thomas McMeekin, counsel for
Blumenfeld, before resting, asked the
court to permit the jury to view the
•scene of the slaying before it began
its deliberations.
When Prosecutor Fred Pike said
the state had no objection, Judge Ar
thur 'Selover said he would arrange
for the visit sometime tomorrow.
The State immediately called the
first of its rebuttal witnesses. The
case is expected to go to the jury
sometime Monday.
OUR WEATHER MAN
FOB NORTH CAROLINA.
C loudy, scattered showers to
night, changing to snow flurries
in the mountains; colder in west
portion tonight; Saturday partly
cloudy and colder.
one time, is less than ten percent of j
the world consumption of American
cotton in one week.
Oscar Johnston, manager of the
Cotton Producers Pool, and first vice
president of the Federal Commodity
|C redit Corporation, which controls
much of the cotton, described the bill
as “unsound,” in that it proposed "ar
bitrary withdrawal of the staple with
out regard to demand.”
Taber Urges
Growers To
Cooperation
Grange Head Says
Court Decision Did
Not Deprive Farm
ers of Their Rights
Greensboro, Feb. 14. —(AP) —“The
United States Supreme Court, in mak
ing the third most important decision
in its history, did not kill the farm
ers’ rights to equality,” declared L. J.
Taber, of Columbus, Ohio, master of
the National Grange, today when ask
ed for his opinion relative to the re
cent AAA ruling.
“The court only turned thumbs
down on the method then employed,”
said the Grange leader. “Our chal
lenge is immediately to find a pro
gram that will give to American agri
culture equality and justice. I have no
doubt that this can be done if the far
mers will organize and cooperate as
they should.”
National Master Taber arrived in
Greensboro this morning from Wash
ington, where yesterday he was in
conference with President Roosevelt
and congressional leaders relative to
the legislative program designed to
supplant AAA.
Royalists In
France May
Force Crisis
Organization Di s -
solved and Premier
Sarraut Takes
Hand in Situation
Paris, Feb. 14 (AjO—The outlawing
of France’s royalist brigade, the
“king’s henchmen,” provoked short
lived disorders and aroused apprehen
sion today over possible consequences
of the ban, virtually defied by the
most militant royalists.
Premier Sarraut, whose decree dis
solving all militant royalist organi
zations in France was signed by Pres
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HOUSE GROUP GIVES
OKAY TO EXTENSION
OF NEUTRALITY ACT
To Defend Bruns
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Samuel Liebowitz
Samuel Liebowitz, nationally-known
attorney and defender of the Scotts
boro boys, has joined Bruno Richard
Hauptmann’s defense in his “last
ditch” fight to escape the electric
chair.
S. C. HIGHWAY HEAD
ORDERED RESTORED
Circuit Judge Says Gover
nor Overstepped Au
thority in Ouster
LONG OPINION GIVEN
Governor Is Enjoined from Further
Action Toward Chief Highway
Commissioner in His
Long Controversy
Columbia, IS. C., Feb. 14. —(AP) —•
Circuit Judge G. Duncan Bellinger to
day reinstated Chief Highway Com
missioner Ben Sawyer and permanent
ly enjoined Governor Olin Johnston
from further removal proceedings
against (he official he had made the
central target of his long highway
fight.
Judge Bellinger handed down a 49-
page order granting all three requests
made in a petition by Sawyer last
Monday. The order declared John
ston’s suspension of Sawyer void, can
celled an executive rule for him to
show cause why he should not be per
manently removed from office, and
enjoined the governor from further
action.
Ther cicuit judge held that the
State Highway Commission, which
had elected Sawyer to serve until 1938
had the exclusive right, under State
law, to dismiss him.
Governor Johnston had ousted the
commission twice with the State mili
tia October 28 and by quasi-judicial
proceedings December 6, in a long
battle to displace it as “extravagant”
and “politically dictatorial.”
Cotton Consumed
Shows Increases
For Last Month
Washington, Feb. 14.—(AP) —Cotton
consumed during January, was re
ported by the Census Bureau today to
have totalled 591,309 (bales of lint, and
55,974 of linters, compared with 498,-
329 and 55,170 for December last, and
550,553 and 61,024 for January last
year.
Imports for January totalled 14,547
bales, compared with 12,738 for De
cember, last, arid 7,682 xor January
last year.
Exports for January Jled 525.-
636 bales of lint and 17 of linters,
compared with 877,480 cid 40,785 for
December last, and 465,711 and 12,-
573 for January last year.
SMITH, TALMADGE
WILL BE PROBLEM
l
Talmadge Likely to be Bar
red from Convention,
But Not A1 Smith
By CHARLES P. STEWART
Washington, Feb. 14—The Franklin
D. Roosevelt management does not
take at all seriously assertions by
such politicians as Governor Eugene
Talmadge of Georgia that the present
White House tenant will not even be
renominated at the Democratic con
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Adds Provisions Restricting
Loans and Credits To
Nations Warring
Each Other
AMERICAN NATIONS
PARTIALLY EXEMPT
Law Will Not Apply to
Them When Fighting Non-
American Nation; Monroe
Doctrine Fully Recogniz
ed in Act; Passage in
House Monday Predicted
'Washington, Feb. 14 (AP) —The
House Foreign Affairs Committee to
day unanimously approved a bill to
extend the present neutrality law un
til May 1, 1937, with additional pro
visions for restricting loans and cre
dits to belligerents and exempting
Latin-American nations at war with
non-American countries.
Virtually identical to a measure al
ready reported out of the Senate
(Foreign Relations Committee, the
measure is expected to be called up in
the House Monday.
That procedure will prevent amend
ments, limit debate to 40 minutes and
require a two-thirds vote on passage.
The bill would advance to May 1,
1937, the present February 29 expira
tion date of the existing neutrality
law, which directs the President to
place embargoes on shipments of
war implements! to belligerent na
tions. Loans and credits to warring
nations would be held down to short
term commercial amounts sufficient
for normal peacetime trade.
The amendment, to make the pro
posed law inapplicable to American
republics fighting non-American pow
ers was in recognition of principles
of the Monroe Doctrine.
Roosevelt Is Not
Endorsing Plan of
Low-Cost Housing
Washington, Feb. 14. —(AP) — The
White House emphasized today that
the “go-ahead” signal given Senator
Wagner, Democrat, New York, for the
drafting of housing legislation did no(
represent a presidential endorsement
for any specific plan.
Mr. Roosevelt, while interested in
the low-cost housing problem, de
scribed the proposal today as still very
much in the preliminary stage.
The President’s discussion yester
day with Wagner, Secretary Morgen
thau, and Peter Grimm, Morgenthau’s
housing advisor, covered slum clear
ance, low-cost housing loans and sub
sidies to local communities and an ex
tended authority to insure loans for
home modernization, and repair.
Wagner said he would draft a bill
along these lines and introduce it be
fore March 1 for action this session.
He put the Federal cost the first year
at between $300,090,000 and $490,000,*
000,
FLOODS IN PROSPECT
IN CAROLINA RIVERS
Raleigh, Feb. 14.—(AP) —Floods
were in prospect again today for
Eastern North Carolina streams.
The Weather Bureau here issu
ed “advisory warnings” that over
flows could he expected in the
Cape Fear, Tar, Neuse and Roa
noke rivers, due to rains and
melting sleet and snow but the
stages expected were not forecast.
Warning To
japan Given
By Soviets
Frightful Conse
quences Forecast if
Border Incidents
Are Continued
Moscow, Feb. 14 (AP) —Coincident
with publication of reports of a Japa
nese-Manchukuoan invasion of Soviet
advised Outer Mongolia, the authori
tative Soviet writer, Karl Radek, de
clared in Izvestia today that Japa
nese militarists ‘have lost their minds'
and warned them not to try the So
viet’s nerves.
“They will learn our nerves are in
complete order, and if necessary, our
hands, too,” Radek asserted.
Numerous clashes have occurred re
cently along the Manchukuoan-Outer
Mongolian border, the most serious a
clash between Japanese-Marichukuoan
troops and Outer Mongolian forces
Wednesday, in which Soviet dispat
ches said ten Japanese-Manchukuoans
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