HENDERSON
GATEWAY TO
CENTRAL
CAROLINA
TWENTY-THIRD YEAR
MuSSOUNI PREDICTS COMING OF NEW W»R
H°°d Waters Cover Smaller
owns In Kentucky And Ohio
PENNSYLVANIA AND
NEW ENGLAND FIND
WATERS SUBSIDING
Strict Discipline In
voked at Hartford,
Conn., to Prevent
Looting
FAMILIES IN OHIO
RUN TO THE HILLS
Physicians Declare Health
Conditions Good in Mud-
Caked Towns of East Aft
er Floods Pass; Relief
Agencies Are Taxed To
Their Capacity
(By The Associated Press)
Unchecked flood waters of
the Ohio river tore through a
score of small communities in
Kentucky and Ohio today, the
last menace of the 13-state dis
aster that took 181 lives and
made thousands homeless.
In New England and Pennsylvania
swollen waters gradually subsided,
leaving behind a tremendous job of
relief and rehabilitation.
While Cincinnati and Portsmouth,
Ohio, were battering down against
the imminent approach of the Ohio
flood crest, Hartford, Conn., went un
der strict military discipline to pre
vent looting of its water-torn homes
and stores.
Families in western Ohio, as their
eastern cousins have done, ran to the
hills as the flood approached. Villages
after village was submerged, although
the crest of about 57 feet was below
that of the 1933 Ohio flood.
The grip of the flood eased to a
greatei degree in Pennsylvania, where
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rooseveCtlauds^
Developing Natio'ral Un
derstanding, He Says at
Florida College
Rollins College, Winter Park, Fla.,
March 23 (AP) —A “good neighbor”
policy was credited today by Presi
dent Roosevelt as developing “nation
al understanding” among the people
in contrast to individual and group
domination in an address accepting
an honorary degree from Rollins Col
lege.
Arriving here early today en route
to his annual fishing cruise in south
ern waters, the President and (Mrs.
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Aid Rushed
Five Men On
Large Plane
U. S. and Cuba Move
by Land, Sea and
Air To Rescue Am
bit! ance Ship
Miami, Fla., March 23 (AP)
Mr. sea and land two governments
moved swiftly today to the rescue five
wen adrift off Point MaterniUos,
Cuba. in the United States Coast
o:i 't Guard ambulance plane Arcturus.
As the amphibian, unable to rise
horn the surface because of batter
iog waves, fought to keep clear of
Lnd. United States planes and a cut
- lor sped to her rescue and the Cuban
government mobilized shore forces.
Coast Guard offices here believed
plane and those aboard were in
Lo immediate danger as long as her
ruoiors kept the big ship in calm wat
ers.
1 he coast guard vessel Nemesis put
out from Key West, but the 320 miles
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When Admiral Richard E. Byrd arrived in Winston-Salem, N. C., on a lecture tour, the first in the welcoming party
to catch his eye was “Iceberg,” a Guernsey hull born in Little America during the second Byrd expedition to the
Antarctic. They are shown in the foreground with Thur mond Chatham, “Iceberg’s” owner. The bull’s mother, sent
by Chatham from his model farm near Eikin, N. C., to sup ply fresh milk for the expedition,, succumbed to the rigors
of the Antarctic, but “Iceberg” thrived and came back with the expedition. (Associated Press Photo).
New Deal Old Age Plan
Already Paying Pensions
Manage Campaign
of McDonald
• N * . • * ■
WILLIAM LEE LUMPKIN,
of Louisburg *
LIJ OEAL SURPRISE
Once Talked As McDonald
Manager, but Not Much
So in Recent Months
Daily Dispatch Bnre'in.
In The Sir Walter Hotel,
By J C. BASKEB VILL
Raleigh, March 23. —Representative
Willie Lee Lumpkin, of Louisburg,
Franklin county, will be campaign
manager for Dr. Ralph W. McDonald,
of Winston-Salem, in his race for the
Democratic nomination for governor,
Dr. McDonald announced today.
Lumpkin has served four terms in
th Q General Assembly from Franklin
county and in the 1935 was co-leader
with McDonald of- the anti-sales tax
group and of the school forces in the
House. He was one of the three can
didates for speaker of the 1935 House
and since the 1935 session had been
considered a strong potential candi
date for the Democratic nomination
for lieutenant governor until only re
cently.
Appointment Is Surprise.
Although Lumpkin has been men
tioned by a few as a possible choice
as McDonald’s campaign manager,
the opinion in most circles here re
cently had been that Philip Whitley,
of Raleigh and Wendell, would be
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ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA AND VIRGINIA
Federal Govetfnlment Is Al
ready Disbursing $2,-
000,000 Monthly to
the Needy
QUARTER MILLION
PEOPLE SHARE IT
$100,000,000 Annually Will
Be Paid Out When All
States Come in on Plan;
Over Million Perso'nis Will
Benefit; Will Lift Relief
Burden
Washington, March 23.—(AP)
Social security board figures
showed today the New Deal’s sys
tem of old-age pensions for the
needy was rapidly spreading thro
ugh the nation.
The Federal government is now
passing out about $2,000,000 a month
grants to almost a quarter of a mil
lion people in 21 states and the Dis
trict of Columbia.
To Extend Pensions.
Plans for extending the pensions to
an even larger number in eight addi
tional states are awaiting approval
by the hoard.
These figures indicate that as soon
as all states have come into the sys
tem the government will be approp
riating more than $100,000,000 annual
ly, matched by equal state funds, for
pensions to more than 1,000,000 peo
ple over 65 years of age. Federal of
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G. O.P. Will
Seek State
Dry Votes
Raleigh, March 23. — (AP) —The
platform committee headed by Irvine
B. Tucker of Fayetteville, former
United States district attorney, to
night will draft recommendations to
be laid before the Republican State
Convention here tomorrow.
Party leaders expressed the belief
that the platform would contain a
“bone dry” plank again and possibly
demand outright repeal or modifica
tion of the State’s three percent sales
tftX«
Senator Frederick E. Steiwer, Re
publican, Oregon, will make the key
note speech of the State meeting. A.
A. Whitener, of Hickory, one-time Re
publican senatorial candidate, has
been designated temporary chairman.
HENDERSON, N. C., MONDAY AFTERNOON, MARCH 23,1936
Senate Declines
Money for Canal
Washington, March 23.—(AP) —
By one vote the Senate refused to
day to reconsider its action of last
week In rejecting the Fletcher pro
posal to provide $12,000,000 to con
tine work on the Fcilrida ship
canal.
It defeated 36 to 35 a motion by
Senator Truman, Democrat, Mis
suri, to provide another test on the
army bill amendment of Senator
Fletcher, Democrat, Florida, pro
viding the fund.
The amendment lost 39 to 34 on
the first vote last week after Sen
ator Vandenberg, Republican,
Michigan, had conducted a vigor
ous drive against the project as
“economically unsound.”
Senator Fletcher replied that
fail to supply additional funds
meant a slap at President Roose
velt for “making a great mistake
in starting the project.”
M’DIALD GETTING
HOEY FOR THE TOP
!
Graham Put in Third Place
by Raleigh Observers,
With Mcßae Far Be
hind in Fourth
THE PROFESSOR HAS
A REAL FOLLOWING
Classroom Teachers for
Him, but Hoey Supporters
Say They’re Following
Wil-o-the-Wisp, for Mc-
Donald Can Never Deliver
on Promises Made
Daily Dispatch Bureau,
In The Sir Walter Hotel,
By J. C. BASKERVILB
Raleigh, March 23.—Dr. Ralph Wi
McDonald, of Winston-Salem, the
youthful ex-college professor who is
now a candidate for the Democratic
nomination for governor, is getting
stronger and is now pushing Clyde R.
Hoey, of Shelby, for first place in the
campaign for the nomination, an in
creasing numiber of observers from
various sections of the State believe.
Many of these also agree that Lieute
nant Governor A. H. Graham is mak
ing good progress and that in many
sections the campaign is now a neck
and neck race between Hoey, Graham
and McDonald. But over the State as
a whole, the belief in most circles is
that Hoey is now in the lead, with
McDonald in second place, Graham in
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Red Cross Aids Flood Victims
L . - v. -U
Red Cross lorries, in water up to hubcaps, in Wilkes-Barre, Pa.,
street, ready to aid flood victims.
Constitutionality
Tobacco Compacts
Being Questioned
Georgia and Kentucky Con gres&men Raise Issue In
House Agriculture Comm ittee Meeting; Claim State
Action Should Be trade pendent of the Congress
Washington, March 23. —(AP) —Con-
stitutionality of legislation to give
congressional consent to interstate
compacts for tobacco-growing states
was questioned today at a hearing be
fore the House Agriculture Commit
tee.
Representative Cio x, Democrat,
Georgia, said he was doubtful of the
constitutionality of a section in the
Kerr bill making it a Federal offense
to violate State compact provisions.
The measure would provide forfeiture
of tobacco shipped from non-compact
states to states joining in the com-
Britain and France May
Have Bought Mussolini
Away From Hitler
By CHARLES P. STEWART
Central Press Staff Writer
Washington, <M>arch 23.—The Rhine
land situation is spoken of by diplo
matic folk in Washington as having
spelled the finish of Haile Selassie
however it may develop outside Ethi
opia.
Representatives of powers like
France and Britain do not admit in
so many words that their govern
ments have had to buy Benito Mus
solini’s support against Germany by
abondoning their opposition to his
campaign in Africa, but what they
say connot be otherwise than so in
terpreted.
Until Herr Hitler took something
dangerously suggestive of the war
path the League countries were for
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OUR WEATHER MAN
FOR NORTH CAROLINA.
Cloudy, occasional showers
Tuesday and in west and central
portions tonight; sligntly warmer
tonight except in extreme south
west portion.
PUBLISHED EVERY AFTERNOON
EXCEPT SUNDAY.
“I do not believe Congress has the
power to make penal the violation of
a State law,” Cox said.
Representative Vinson, Democrat,
Kentucky, also uestioned the provis
ion in the bill affecting interstate
shipments of tobacco.
Cox said he did not believe consent
of Congress was necessary before
State action.
“State action should be indepen
dent of Congress,” he said.
The Georgia congressman said he
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Indeed Engineers Fear
Nothing Can Be Done in
Present Danger Zone
By LESLIE EICHEL
Floods at Johnstown, Pa., at Pitts
burg and elsewhere in the watersheds
of the Ohio river disclose that noth
ing has been accomplished in 30 years
in guarding aganist flood disaster in
“the most dangerous flood area in
America.”
It was in 1907—29 years ago —that
the “worst flood in history’’ swept
Pittsburgh and it was in 1913 that a
more devasting flood swept the lower
Ohio and its contributing valleys,
causing loss of life and heavy pro
perty damage. Downtown Pittsburgh
literally was covered in 1907. Ame
rica’s “greatest industrial center"
suffered from water as no other large
American city had previously.
Now, the same thing occurs.
It is true that flood waters from
mountain streams, and even larger
streams, such a3 the Monongahela
and Allegheny rivers, which meet at
Pittsburgh to form the Ohio, cannot
be controlled effectively. But it like
wise is true that soil protection, for
est planting, and readjustment of
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THOS. PARRAN NEW
SURGEON-GENERAL
Washington, March 23 (AP) —Pres-
ident Roosevelt today nominated
Thomas Parran, of New York, to be
surgeon-general of the United States
Public Health Service. The term
would be four years.
Parran was designated to succeed
Surgeon General Hugh S. Cummings,
resigned. _
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Large Industry Must Labor
Exclusively For Armed
Forces of Nation,
Duce Says
LEAGUE SENDS NEW
APPEAL FOR PEACE
Direct Pleas Sent Italy and
Ethiopia, and at Same
Time Transmits to Musso
lini Ethiopia’s Protest
Against Using Asphyxiat
ing Gas
Rome, March 23 (AP) —Pre-
mier Mussolini, predicting the
coming of a new war, abolished
the Chamber of Deputies and
all large private industries in
Italy today.
For the Chamber of Deputies he
substituted a council of guilds, known
as the “Chamber of Fascist and Cor
porations.”
II Duce left only medium and small
private industries intact, and said of
large private industries:
"We are going toward the period in
which these industries x x x will have
to labor exclusively or almost so for
the armed forces of the nation.”
In further explanation of his dras
tic move, the Italian premier declared
it was inconceivable that profits
should be made from the manufacture
of war materials.
Mussolini executed this broad
stroke on the seventeenth anniversary
of the founding of his Fascist party
after concluding conferences with the
government leaders of Austria and
Hungary and calling the grand assem
bly of corporations into session.
“When and how war will come one
does not know,” he told the national
council of the 22 guilds of the cor
porative state, “but the wheel of fate
turns fast.”
LEAGUE AGAIN APPEALS
FOR PEACE IN ETHIOPIA
London, March 23 (AP) —“Commit-
tee of 13 oi the League of Nations
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“Windfall”
TaxMayße
100 Million
Washington, March 23 (AP) —A
House Ways and Means sub-commit
tee today agreed to recommend to the
full Ajjnmittee a high “windfall” tax
to recapture perhaps $100,000,000 of
refunded or unpaid AAA processing
levies.
“It is safe to say we are going to
recommend the windfall tax,” Chair
man Samuel B. Hill, Democrat, Wash
ington, told reporters. He added that
the sub-committee was working on a
report now and expects to complete
it Thursday or Friday to permit the
fuli committee to start open hearings
next Monday on the President’s $750,-
000,000 tax program.
The sub-committee has worked out
major difficulties arising over the
corporate tax and is in tentative
agreement on a set of rates. Mem-*
bers are hoping, however, to avoid
processing taxes this year.
After consulting with Solicitor Gen
eral Stanley Reed in a sub-committee
morning session, Hill said he felt the
windfall tax would be legal.
Fighting In
Old Mexico
Fatal To 27
Discontent Flares in
Many Rural Dis
tricts Over Socialis
tic Policies
Mexico City, March 23. —(AP) — At
least 27 persons were killed and sev
eral scores wounded in various parts
of Mexico, reports from the provinces
said today, as discontent in rural dis
tricts flared over the week-end into
open fighting.
Federal reinforcements were rush
ed to the town of Canacatlan, in'the
northern central state of Durango,
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