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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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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.
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