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HENDERSON gateway TO CENTRAL CAROLINA twenty-third YEAR PUN PROCESSING TAX ON FARM PRODUCTS PEACE PROGRAM IS FACING FAILURE ON ANSWER OF HITLER If German Counter Propo sals Are Considered, France Will Decline To Participate EDEN MANEUVERED IN AWKWARD SPOT Mussolini Is Delaying His Acceptance of Four-Power Accord, and That Is Also Causing Concern; Duce j May State Minimum Terms In African War London, March 24 (AP)—A breach appeared to threaten the Anglo-French sector of the Lo carno front today as Joachim von Ribbentrop v> as expected back from Berlin bringing Adolf Hitler’s reply to the four power proposals for a Rhine-: land settlement. Paris advices that Foreign Minist- | er Pierre Etienne-Flandin would re fu?' 1 to return to London if German j counter proposals were considered, in- j formed sources said, placed british Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden in an awkward position. More Anxiety Anxiety also arose in the British, French and Belgian delegations over Premier Mussolini's delay in ratifying ihe four-power accord, although it was initialed by Dino Grandi, Italian ambassador to London and delegate to the conferences. Hitler’s answer to the Locarno pro posal was associated closely by League sources with an anticipated message from Mussolini setting forth his min imum terms for halting the Fascist warfare in Ethiopia. Der Fuehrer’s reply was expected to be a rejection of the Locarno pro gram, framed to leave a means for new negotiations after Sunday’s P.eichstag elections, called by Hitler to approve his foreign policy. NVESIIIfM 1 Senator Black in Years to Come May Be Looked Upon! Differently By CHARLES P. STEWART , Central Press Staff Writer Washington, March 24. Investiga tors never are popular with the folk they are engaged in investigating. Senator Hugo L. Black of Alabama now to be even more unpopular than the average, but probably that is because he is of the present. His pre decessors’ respective unpopularities are more or less forgotten. In post-war years the first of the really great investigators was the late Senator Thomas J. Walsh of Montana. Walsh’s masterpiece was the Teapot Home inquiry. Teapot Dome, as a matter of fact, was only one detail of the affair, but the “Teapot Dome probe'’ was the name it generally was known by. Walsh was a fearfully harsh inves tigator hut, legally, extremely punc tilious. He had a high respect for the 'Continued on Page Rebuilding Tasks Started As Flood In Ohio Passes On <By The Associated Press.) residents of a vast flood belt ex truding from Maine to Ohio and Ken tucky, in which 168 lives were lost during a terrifying week, scraped m uck and debris from their silt-laden cities and towns today, while residents °t Cincinnati watched the crest of the swollen Ohio river sweep onward to now territory. Between 20,000 and 25,000 persons IP-d from their homes in Cincinnati a, id the nearby area in advance of the m »<3dy tide that had brought catas trophe to Johnstown, Pittsburgh, Wheeling and other communities in Pennsylvania and West Virginia. Retter in New England. In New England, where scores of streams overflowed their banks and H. LESLIE PERttLty I EMORIAI Umtftprsmt Batlu Btsmtfrh LEASED WIRE SERVICE CAT the associated press Americans Win in Irish Sweepstake Dublin, Irish Free State, March 24 (AP)—American ticket holders in the Irish Free State hospitals sweepstakes had drawn 45 percent of the chances on horses running in the Grand National March 27, when the draw in the town hall was adjourned for lunch today. Every one of these tiskets held by Americans was certain to pay at least $3,600, for that is the prize to be given to each ticket drawn against a horse regardless of whe ther the horse runs. Holders of tickets drawn on the horse that wins will get about $150,000. MEEKINS ISGfVEN PRESIDENT VOTE BY THE STATE G. 0. P. Action Taken by State Con vention Over Protest, but Binds Only jDele gates-at-Large STEIWER ATTACKS DEMOCRATIC ACTS Whether New Deal Is Good for America or Not Is Paramount Issue, Oregon Senator, Keyntoter, De clares; Criticizes Failure of Democratic Farm Pro gram Raleigh, March 24.—(AP)—The State Republican convention this afternoon adopted a resolution en dorsing Federal Judge I. M. Meek ins, of Elizabeth City, and Ra leigh, for the Republican presiden tial nomination. It was explained the action bound only the electors at large, elected by the State Convention, to vote for Meekins for President. Opposition Develops. Opposition developed to the action, Harry Williams, of Charlotte, saying it was known “Isaac Meekins cannot C'c the next President,” even though “we know he is honest and sincere in his life.” The motion to endorse Meekins car ried over a scattering of “Nos” from the convention. Previously, the convention was urg ed by 'Senator Frederick Steiwer, Re publican, Oregon, to fight for a G. O. P. victory this year “to save America from the New Deal,” as he flayed the record of the Democratic national ad ministration. More than 1,000 party members from every county in the State vigor ously applauded the senator’s attack on Democratic policies as he sounded the keynote. Paramount Issue. “The paramount issue may be stat ed in one question,” Steiwer said, “is (Continued on Page Six.) wrought havoc second in severity only to the sweep of the Ohio river, con ditions were definitely on the mend. In almost every stricken area, anx ious eyes were cast toward the Fed eral government in hope additional financial aid would be forthcoming for the work of rehabilitation. | The American Red Cross long since I had thrown its entire force into the • f i e i d to relieve suffering and ward off P6 New England, with damage estimat ed at more than $270,000,000, and with approximately 80,000 refugees prevent ed from returning to their homes be- I fore sanitation measures were taken, concentrated on preventing spread of disease and lawlessness as it pushed 1 the herculean task of rebuilding. ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA AND VIRGINIA TUCKER EXPECTED TO BE NOMINATED FOR REPUBLICANS Indications Are He Will Get On Ticket for Governor Instead of Gilliam Grissom J. J. BRITT SLATED FOR SENATE TOGA Charles A. Jonas Not Ex pected to Meet With Op position for Republican National Committee Of fice; Bonedry Prohibition Expected to Be Endorsed Dally DUpntcfc Rureaw. In The Sir Walter Hotel, By J. C. BASKEHVILL Raleigh, March 24—Several buckets of dope are expected to be upset be fore the State Republican Conven tion, in session here today, adjourns this afternoon or tonight. Indica tions at noon today were that the skids have been greased and placed under Gilliam Grissom, of Raleigh, former United States Collector of In ternal Revenue in North Carolina, and for the past three years an active candidate for the Republican nomina tion for governor in 1936, and that Irvin B. Tucker, of Whiteville, for mer United States ditsrict attorney, will be selected as the party’s nomi- i nee. The opinion in most circles last | night and this morning was that Grissom had virtually been eliminat ed and that Tucker would be given the nomination. In fact, it was cur rently reported around the lobbies here this morning that Grissom had about given up all hope of getting the nomination. Tucker is chairman of the powerful platform committee. May Be Dark Horse If some of the cogs in the Repub lican convention machine should slip or get stuck and a hitch develop in the nominating of Tucker as its can didate for governor, John L. More head is regarded as a possible "dark horse,” and a quiet, but none-the-less vigorous campaign was being con ducted in his behalf here last night and this morning, in spite of the in dications that Tucker will eventually get the nomination. Morehead, from Charlotte, is a Republican stalwart in the tenth congressional district and has been active in the affairs of (Continued on t age Three.) MOUNTAIRYLABOR HOAX INVESTIGATED Anonymous Post Cards Mailed About “Cheap Labor” Conditions There Daily Dispatch Bureau. In The Sir Walter Hotel, Rt j. c. baskervili, Raleigh, March 24.—An investiga tion is now being conducted by Com missioner of Labor A. L. Fletcher in an effort to discover the origin of the flood of postal cards, anonymous and unsigned, broadcast over the country calling attention to the “cheap lalbor” in Mt. Airy, N. C. Though telling “Mount Airy, N. C., has a very low there, these cards were mailed from Greensboro, Commissioner Fletcher has already determined, and were sent very largely to members of Congress rather than to employers and indus trialists. The fact that the typewriter or mimeograph on which they were addressed is very similar to the type (Continued on Page Three.) New Funds by Congress for Rehabilitation in Strick en Area Talked Washington, March 24.—(AP)—Sec retary Ickes today ordered Public Works directors in 20 states to sur vey flood damage to PWA projects and other public property. The PWA administrator explianed at a press conference that PWA had practically no money for additional allotments, but said he had “taked with two representatives who planned to introduce a bill appropriating funds.” „ , Asked whether he would favor such legislation, Ickes said if Congress de cided to give PWA the money, I will very cheerfully administer this fund. “I certainly think,” Ickes added, “we ought to make it possible—if we can—to complete projects under way.” HENDERSON, N. C., TUESDAY AFTERNOON, MARCH 24, 1936 Only Church Steeples Above Water in Hartford, Conn. Churches in this section of Hartford Conn., were “drowned”, but the steeples escaped. Note mass of debris caught in triangle of buildings in foreground. With Virginia Out, Voluntary Tobacco Sign-Up May Fail Columbia, S. C., March 24 (AP) —Following complicated parlia mentary procedure, the South Carolina Senate today recalled a tobacco crop control bill from its agriculture committee, gave it second reading approval, with no tice of. general amendments, and sent it back to the committee for a hearing of growers tomorrow. Raleigh, March 24.—(AP) —Gov- ernor Ehringhaus said today he had not heard from Governor George Peery of Virginia relative ot a decision there on a proposed voluntary tobacco sign-up cam paign to reduce acreage planted in the leaf by 30 percent this season. “Bone Dry” Plank Gets G. O. P. Nod Raleigh, March 24.—(AP)—The Re publican party today wrote a bonedry prohibition plank in its 1936 State platform, demanded removal of the public educational system “absolutely” from politics, expressed opposition to “use of the public highways for "ex cessive loads of commercial products transported x x x x to the profit of private individuals,” and called for a State old age pension law. Reduction of governmental ex penses, both State and Federal, was called for in the hope the sales tax might be abolished through savings. A reduction in State automobile li cense costs to a maximum of $4 year ly for light cars was called for, and a State civil service system was (Continued on Page Three.) OUR WEATHER MAN FOB NORTH CAROLINA. Partly cloudy, showers tonight and on coast Wednesday morn ing; somewhat colder in west and central poritons Wednesday and in extreme southwest portion to night. The governor said he would not comment “until I have heard from Governor Peery officially.” The Virginia executive said yes terday “there is no pronounced sentiment” for his State entering a voluntary crop control plan, and this was taken to mean abandon ment there of plans for such a move. The contracts North Carolina farmers are being asked to sign are contingent upon signatures of 80 percent of the growers or of growers owning 80 percent of the acreage, in Virginia, South Caro lina and Georgia, and failure of Virginia to participate probably may nullify action here, leaders said. FEW DRIVERS ART WITHOUTLICENSE Patrolmen Finding Cooper ation! From Public in Enforcing New Law Daily Dispatch Bureau, In The Sir Walter Hotel, By J. C. BASKEBVIM, Raleigh, March 24.—0n1y about one half of one per cent of the automo bile drivers being stopped by the State highway patrolmen in their check-up on drivers’ license, do not have their driving permits, Captain Charles D. Farmer, of the State Highway Patrol said today. The drivers are showing the finest kind of cooperation and are taking the check-up with the best of good nature, Farmer also said. Fine Spirit by Drivers. "The drivers who are being stopped by patrolmen in order to permit them to inspect their driving permits, are Showing a fine spirt of cooperaton and actually seem to be enjoyng the experience,” Captain Farmer said. “We are finding only about one driver out of 200 who does not have a driving permit, and in many cases these driv ers have them hut do not have them with them. In several cases, the driv ers nave gone to their homes, obtain ed their licenses and brought them to us. Not a single patrolmen has re ported having any difficulty whatever with drivers. We are getting the best cooperation we have ever had.” About the only persons found who have not yet obtained the required driving permits or even applied for them, are those who have just moved into tne State from other states or those who live far hack in the rural sections and who rarely drive an au (Continued on Page Five) PUBLISHED EVERY AFTERNOON EXCEPT SUNDAY. ‘DocCondon Will Talk To Qov.Hoff mar Lindbergh Interme diary, However, Gives Consent but Reluctantly Trenton, N. J., March 24.—(AP) — Dr. John F. Condon, the Lindbergh ransom intermediary, agreed today to talk to Governor Harold G. Hoffman at his Bronx home, but questioned the executive’s “sincerity, good taste and impartiality.” A long telegram to the governor after receipt of the executive’s request for an interview, Dr. Condon, silent since he returned Tuesday from Panama, said he would see the gov ernor and Attorney General David T. Wilentz “at such time as may suit your joint convenience.” Defending his activities in the Lind bergh case, Condon referred to “state ments derogatory to me, allegedly given out through your press repre sentatives, or by your agents,” ques tioned the governor’s legal authority for his present activities, and said: To “Permit You.” “Although you have apparently usurped the functions of the court and the duly constituted investigating of ficials and despite your unfairness, I have decided to permit you to confer with me at my home.” As another condition of the confer ence, Dr. Condon suggested “in the (Continued on Page Six.) Roosevelt At Sea On Fishing Cruise; To Restore Hagood Miami, Fla. March 24 (AP)—Aboard one of Uncle Sam’s new destroyers, the U. S. S. Monaghan, President Roosevelt cut across the Gulf Stream today bound for the far eastern side of the Bahama Islands to begin a two weeks fishing cruise. ; The trappy, sea-going President shoved off last evening from Port Everglades after taking action in the unhappy incident of the disciplining of Major General Johnson Hagood. The veteran army officer, who was relieved of command of the eighth corps area by his superiors for refer ring to WPA funds as “stage money,” left silent from a two-hour interview with the commander-in-chief. 8 PAGES TODAY FIVE CENTS COPY COMMITTEE GIVES LEVY BIG PLACE IN PROPOSED NEW ACT Asked Why That Was In cluded, Chairman Hill Says Plainly “We Wa;n!ted Money” MEMBERS ANXIOUS TO AVOID THAT TAX Afraid of[ It in Election Year, and Its Inclusion In New Measure Will Depend on How Much Money Ca'ri) Be Obtained from Other Sources To Be Tapped Washington, March 24 (AP) —A House Ways and Means sub-committee decided today to include processing taxes on agricultural and competing pro ducts in a report to the full committee, which will form the basis for the start of open hear ings Monday on the $792,000,- 000 tax program. Merely For Consideration Chairman Samuel B. Hill, Demo crat, Washington, declined to say pro cessing taxes would be recommended, explaining to reporters that they would be included merely for consid eration during the hearings. '‘The sub-committee decided,” he said, ‘‘to include in its report as a basis for hearings, the so-called pro cessing taxes submitted by the Dey partment of Agriculture.” These contemplate a yield of about $221,000,060, and cover more than 30 products or classes of products. The sub-committee agreed to elimi nate from the list of products all starches except corn and rice, which Hill said would have produced $840,- 000 in taxes. ‘‘That would have been an imports duty really,” the chairman explained. Wants Some Money Asked why the sub-committee had agreed to inclusion of the processing levies, Hill replied: “We wanted some money.” Many sub-committee men have been seeking to avoid processing tax es, a ticklish item in an election year, in the projected revenue bill.” Hill said their final inclusion in the bill would depend on what the full committee agreed could be obtained in (Federal income from other ‘tax qourpoc That Economic Scarcity Idea Is All Wrong Coming To Be Believed By LESLIE EICHEL Central Press Staff Writer Suppose there is a drouth this year? Yes, in spite of the floods east of the Mississippi river. The midwest breadbowl is not cer tain that sufficient moisture will oc cur between now and harvest time. There is a considerable deficiency in some regions so far. If American crops are short this year, the general result will be had, no matter how much money the far mer may obtain. Indeed, a crop shortage this year might send the economic theories of the New Deal crashing—with world (Continued on Page Three.) Hagood Gets Leave Marvin Mclntyre, a secretary to Mr. Roosevelt, then issued the follow ing statement: "The President and General Hagood talked on the train this afternoon. General Hagood will take a three months leave of absence and his fu ture assignment to duty will be de termined in the meantime.” Late today or early tomorrow the destroyer carrying the presidential party will meet the new presidential ship, the U. S. S. Potomac, and Mr. Roosevelt and his five fishing com panions will board this somewhat smaller vessel for the remainder of the cruise. 1
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