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HENDERSON gateway TO CENTRAL CAROLINA TWENTY-THIRD YEAR FLOODS THREATENING FAMINE. PESTILENCE * * * * * * *********** League Condemns Germany As Treaty Violator SSSEy ON HITLER’S MOVES League Delegates in Lon don Declare Locarno and Versailles Pacts Violated hitler envoy says ACTION WAS FORCED France’s Pact With Soviet Russia, Aimed Directly at Germany, Necessitated Oc cupation of Rhineland Area; Heated Reply Is Made by Flandin London. March 19 (AP) The Council of the League of Nations condemned Germany under Reichfuehrer Hitler as a treaty breaker today. The vote of the assembled powers was unanimous. The League members decided that Germany had violated both the Ver sailles and Locarno treaties when she moved troops into the Rhineland, which had been ordered demilitarized at the end of the World War. Claim Defensive Move. The condemnation came in a few hours after Joachim von Ribbentrop, special ambassador of Hitler, had stood before the members and argued that the German course of action in the Rhineland had been justified by France’s military assistance pact with Soviet Russia. It was the first time in more than two years that a representative of Germany had spoken in the League of Nations. There was one vote cast opposed to the condemnation, but that was by Germany and consequently was not counted in the unaimous verdict. Neither were the votes by Belgium and France, the other two parties to the dispute considered. The ballot was taken on a resolu tion proposed by France and Belgium. Hitler Envoy. Replies. Immediately after the vote was taken. Von Ribbentrop arose in his place at the council table and in the name of the German people and the German government declared: "This resolution will not be main tained in the judgment of history. If the honorable members had had more time to consider my statement this (Continued on Page Eight. Investigate Race Wires Os A.T.&T. Commission Asks Justice Department Action on Data lurned Up at Probe Washington, March 19. —(AP) —The Communications Commission today called upon the Justice Department investigate the activities of the American Telephone & Telegraph Company in providing wire facilities for the transmission of racing news. Testimony Basis for Action. Commissioner Paul A. Walker, di if'eting a $750,000 FCC investigation into the mammoth utility, said he had communicated with an assistant to J Bdgar Hoover, head of the Bureau °f Investigation. Walker said he called attention to testimony at an FCC hearing yester f’aY regarding the use of A. T. &T. wire- for sending sporting news. Samuel B. Becker, special counsel f° r the commission, charged that rn ° l 't of the subscribers to racing n, ws services were “gamblers” or Peoi room operators.” Recovered Equipment. Ge introduced correspondence be- A. T. & T. officials which he sa ‘d showed the company had in one case “reached an understanding with Massachusetts State police for the re covery of teletypewriter equipment seized in raids on gambling houses. Other correspondence indicating ‘' l- :t a company had paid a $25 fee for 'egal service” to James Hughes, ■Jamestown, N. Y., city attorney, after a teletype machine had been return e(l to the company after a gamihling laid. HcititerßfiOT Joathi Btsimfrh L (?hi! E a D ««^ re service of tHL ASSOCIATED PRESS. "JMsie” Back, May Face Quiz HrHI flPlf Ob-: J,; V ■lk K m * m tc IBP!!: : jiiiiffli jl' v ... SB Dr. J. F. “Jafsie” Condon, famous intermediary in the Lindbergh baby kidnaping, is snapped as he was questioned by reporters on his return to New York from an extended vacation in the Panama Canal Zone. Governor Hoffman, of New Jersey, has indicated he may question Con don again before the execution of Bruno Richard Hauptmann, who was identified by Condon as the kidnaper. (Central Press) Test Legality Os Tobacco Compacts For Senate Order Washington, March 19 (AP) — Legislation to approve interstate compacts tor tobacco control was referred to Senate committee law yers today for a ruling on its con stitutionality. Chairman Smith, Democrat, South Carolina, said'a majori+v. .of the Sen ate Agriculture Committee approved the measure. mgr Convicted of Assault On Elderly School Teacher; Another Tomorrow Raleigh, March 19.—(AP) — Jake Johnson, 36-year-old Negro convicted of criminal assault in Rockingham county, was electrocuted today at State’s Prison. Johnson was the 163rd victim of the electric chair, but only the third man to die in it in this State on a day other than Friday. Preparations were started imme diately for the execution tomorrow of Ed Hester, young Gaston county white man convicted of killing a fel low prisoner, who is due to be electro cuted to make it the first time the chair has been used on successive days. Reprieve for Negro. Parole Commissioner Edwin Gill an nounced a reprieve would be granted John Pressley, Gaston county Negro, who was alsos entenced to die tomor row for murder. Father McMillan of the Catholic apostolate here, entered the death chamber with Johnson at 10:27. The Negro was given a shock of two min utes a»d 33 seconds, starting at 10:31. A second shock of a minute and a half and a third of 50 seconds were required before he was prounced dead at 10:42. Attacked Teacher. Johnson was charged with attack ing an elderly white Rockingham county school teacher on February 1, 1935. He was caught in West Virginia several months later under the name of George France, and was convicted in August. ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA AND VIRGMIA Under the compacts plan, tobacco growing states would enact similar to bacco legislation to regulate tobacco growing with Congress passage a rat ifying act. The Virginia legislature already has passed the State compact bill, and it is now under considera tion by the South Carolina Assembly. Smith said he wanted to be sure of the constitutionality of the bill be fore reporting it to the Senate. UMI Evidence Deduced in Cobi gressional Probe May Affect N. C. Orders Dnlly Dispatch Bureau, In The Sir Walter Hotel, By J- C. BASKEBVILL Raleigh, March 18.—Some of the facts brought out concerning the Am erican Telephone and Telegraph Com pany in the investigation of that con cern by the Federal Communications Commission in Washington, have a very direct and pertinent bearing on the efforts which have been made to reduce the rates charged by the South ern Bell Telephone and Telegraph Company here in North Carolina, and the long-drawn out court case in which the Bell company has fought the reductions ordered by the State Utilities Commission, it was pointed out today by Utilities Commissioner Stanley Winborne. More than a year ago the Utilities Commission found the Bell telephone rates being charged in North Caro lina excessive and ordered a reduction of about 15 per cent, which would have saved its telephone users at least $300,000 a year in charges. The Bell company appealed from the or der, and a long trial has just been completed, although no decision has as yet been rendered. In this trial, the Southern Bell Company sought to prove its charges for equipment and materials were not excessive by com paring them with the prices charged by The Graybar Electric Company, portrayed as an independent company manufacturing telephone equipment to independent telephone companies. All Controlled by A. T. & T. “But in the investigation now in progress in Washington, it has been (Continued on Page Two.) HENDERSON, N. C., THURSDAY AFTERNOON, MARCH 19, 1936 Investigation of WPA Is Approved Washington, March 19.—(AP)— The Senate Expenditures Commit tee today approved a resolution for an investigation of the Works Pro gress Administration after Senator Davis, Republican, Pennsylvania, had charged Democratic officials were “making a political football” out of relief. Chairman Lewis, Democrat, Illi nois, moved adoption of the Davis resolution, and Senator Van Nuys, Democrat, Indiana, seconded with suggestion that hte inquiry, if ap proved by the Senate, start with complaints about administration of relief in Pennsylvania. EHKHAUS MOVE GETTING RESULTS At Least Demand for $50,- 000,000 Soil Benefit Al lotment Is Made to Wallace GOVERNOR GAINING FARMERS’ SUPPORT Growers Beginning to Feel Again) Ehringhaus Knows What He Is Doing; Three- Fold Program Is Under Way for Controlling 1936 Tobacco Production Daily Dispatch Bureau. In The Sir Walter Hotel, Rv J. C. HASKERVILL Raleigh, March 19.—The powers that-be in Washington are already sit ting up and taking notice of the to bacco farmers and the tobaico crop control problem, largely as a result of what Governor J. C. B. Ehringhaus has done during the past week in car rying his appeal for the tobacco far mers over the heads of the State’s de legation in Congress direct to Presi dent Roosevelt, it was generally ag reed here today, even in circles us ually critical of and unfriendly to Governor Ehringhaus. For, while Gov ernor Ehringhaus has undoubtedly in curred the jealously, if not the enmity, of some members of the North Caro lina delegation in Congress as the re sult of his appeal to the President and promulgation of a new plan of at tack on the tobacco crop control pro blem, he is already beginning to get results, according to opinion here. Agree Sign-Up Necessary. In the first place, a majority of the tobacco leaders now agree that an im mediate, though voluntary, sign-up campaign to restrict the 1936 crop to (Continued on Page Three.) Greene County School Man Opposing State Head First Time Ever Dally Dispatch Bureau, In The Sir Walter Hotel. By J. C. BASKEBVILL Raleigh, March 19.—Superintendent A. B. Alderman, of the Green county schools, handed over his S6O fee and officially filed as a candidate for the Democratic nomination for State Su perintendent of Public Instruction with R. C. Maxwell, executive secre tary of the State Board of Elections, here Wednesday. Superintendent Al derman is here attending the annual I Continued on Page Three.) OUR WEATHER MAN FOB NORTH CAROLINA. Generally fair, sligirHy warmer in extreme southwest and frost in centra] and southeast portions to night; Friday cloudy and warmer, possibly light scattered showers in afternoon in west and central portions. Western Carolina' Children Trapped By Snow Are Safe 100 or More Trapped in School House at New lands by Blizzards of Last Tuesday SECTION IS SLOWLY DIGGING WAY OUT Highway Chairman Way nick Says Every Effort Is Being Made To Have Main Roads Open by Night; Rivers in Eastern Carolina Near Flood Newlands, March 19.—(AP)— Sheriff W. H. Hughes estimated today that there was plenty of fuel and food In Newlands to last the community until roads block ed by Tuesday’s blizzard could be cleared. “I don’t think there is any real dan ger of a shortage,” he said. The sheriff said reports of several hundred school children snowbound in the Avery consolidated school were exaggerated. He estimated that about 100 children from rural homes stayed in Newlands Tuesday and Wednesday night because school 'buses could not get over the roads. Os these, 36 were quartered at the school house and the others in private homes, he said. “Most of them will get to their homes today,” he said. “Parents of some have already come for them. They will walk home.” HOPE TO HAVE HIGHWAYS OPEN BY LATE EVENING Raleigh, March 19.—(AP)—Capus M. Waynick, State highway chairman, said today every effort was being made to open main roads in Western North Carolina which are blocked by snow, marooning school children at Banner Elk, Newland and other places. More Labor Sought. “We are using all the hand labor and machine labor we can in the New land vicinity, where drifts are 15 feet or more deep,” Waynick said. “And the Asheville division has been direct (Continued on Page Two.) Wheeling Is Hard Hit By Great Flood Wheeling, W. Va., March 19 (AP)— Torrents of the angry Ohio River engulfed Wheeling’s downtown area with seven feet of water, swiftly claimed 13 lives and surged down on a |dozjen other West Virginia and Ohio cities today. Two others were drowned at Wells burg, upstream from Wheeling, and panicky survivors, stranded high in their homes, screamed for help throughout the night. Hundreds Marooned Hundreds were marooned on Wheel ing homes and business places as the flood waters, their devsatating invas ion of the iPttsburgh area accom plished, moved in. The flood struck hardest at Wheel ing Island, in the middle of the Ohio river, and police and voluntary res cuers rode a fleet of some 50 boats to help the stranded inhabitants to high lands. Roosevelt Pleads For $3,000,000As Flood Relief Sum Washington, March 19 (AP)— President Roosevelt issued a pro clamation today appealing for contributions of $3,000,000 to the American Red Cross for flood re lief. It was issued as the Federal Emer gency Flood Relief Committee gath ered at the President’s desk to map steps to combat suffering, deatruo' tion of property and loss of life. Delays Southern Trip Mr. Roosevelt delayed his south PUBLISHED EVERY AFTERNOON EXCEPT SUNDAY. Education Heads Bja MRS. T. W. GUTHRIE BEgy v&sp • lUMB ,; v ' •::.v.| JULE B. WARREN Mrs. Guthrie, first grade teacher in the Kinston public schools, is presi dent and will preside over the session of the North Carolina Education As sociation at its three-day convention opening in Raleigh tonight. Mr. War ren is the full-time secretary of the State association, with headquarters in Raleigh, and will be active in the convention, the fifty-second annual gathering of hte association. ”Sh Fireworks Possible in Nomi nation of Officers Set for Tonight Dally Dispatch Bureau, In The Sir Walter Hotel, By J. C. B4.SKERVILL Raleigh, March 19 —From 3,000 to 5,000 school teachers from every sec tion of North Carolina are expected here tonight, tomorrow and Saturday for the annual convention of the Nokth Carolina Education Associa tion. Hundreds of teachers were ar riving throughout the afternoon, al (Continued on Page Two.) ern fishing trip for at least 24 hours because of the flood crisis. The magnitude of the disaster was emphasized by a Red Cross announ cement that 150,000 victims already were dependent on it for aid. The Proclamation The President’s proclamation said: “To the People of the United States: “Flood waters raging throughout eleven sattes have driven 200,000 peo (Continued on Page Two.) 8' PAGES , TODAY FIVE CENTS COPY SSsrara Property Damage Mounts Into Tens of Millions of Dollars in Eastern America PENNSYLVANIA NOW GREATEST SUFFERER Pittsburgh Area and Johns town! Face Possible Food Shortages as Water Re cedes; Dams Are Broken and Bridges Washed Away in Many Places (By The Associated Press.) The toll of deaths pushed to ward 100 today in the most dis astrous flood devastation in the history of the eastern states. The latest list of dead by states placed the toll at 76, but fears were held for dozens more. These fears were intensified throughout the forenoon by families in Johns town and other areas who report ed relatives missing. The dead J»y states yesterday and today were: Pennsylvania, 48; West Virginia, 15; Virginia, Vermont, 4; North Carolina, 2; Georgia, 2; Maryland, 1; Mas sachusetts, 3; New Hampshire, 1; New York, 1. ' Flood and (explosions claimed IS lives in Wheeling, W- V., alone. (By The Associated Press) The worst floods in Eastern United States history moved menacingly down into West Virginia and Ohio today, claim ing a reported death toll of at least 71. Pestilence and shortages of food and water intensified the terror, de stitution and misery. Uncounted thousands were homeless. The pro perty damage mounted into tens of millions of dollars. Water Sweep Downstream After paralyzing Pittsburgh at its source —where the Monongahelia and Allegheny rivers slowly receded aft er a night of terror, with the steel metropolis in darkness, inundated and isolated from the outside Ohio river swirled down its broad valley, sweeping widespread death and destruction along with it. With terrifying swiftness, the river swept over Wellsburg, W. Va., then plunged on down to Wheeling, where its devastating force wrought great est fury. Early in the day a toll of nine lives from drowning in Wheeling had been counted. Four more persons (Continued on Page Two.) Cotton Pool Certificates Not Traded Senator Smith Issues Denial of Assertions in Defending His Measure Washington, March 19 (AP) —Chair- man Smith, Democrat, South Caro lina, of the Senate Agriculture Com mittee, in a formal statement today, denied that supporters of his govern ment cotton dispocal bill were active ly trading in pool certificates. Smith said members of his commit tee had inquired about reports that such activity was going on. One Firm Traded The chairman declared all cotton firms supporting his bill, which would dispose! of approximately 5,000,000 bales of government cotton holdings under weekly sales quotas, with the exception of one, reported to him they have never bought or sold any of the certificates. “This one firm,” Smith said, “ad vised they have been actively trading in these certificates the same as cot ton for every month of the past year and a half”. “It is also reported that most of the recent trading in certificates has been among the cotton firms, with very little selling of certificates by the farmers, who are holding 85 per cent of them,” Smith concluded.
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