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Easter Monday Tourney Carded At West End Club
Golfers May Choose Own
Score, Play Against It;
Many Plan To Participate
Prizes Offered In
First Tournament
of Season Over West
End Golf Course
The first golf tournament of the
season for the West End Country
Club will be staged Easter Monday
over the club’s course, and practical
ly all of the members are expected
to take part in it.
A1 Johnson, pro at the club, stated
that the tourney would be rather
unique in .that all players will be per
mitted to choose their own score of
handicap, and the ones playing the
closest to that score will be the win
ner of valuable prizes being offered.
In explaining the workings of the
tournament, A1 Johnson said that
every player would have an equal
chance, regardless of his ability as
a gofler. He pointed out that a player
that shoots an 80 and believes that
he’s good for that Monday may choose
that as his score and play against it.
If one plays 110 or any other score,
he may choose that score at the be
ginning of the rounds and play a
gainst it. The player coming the
closest to the score he has chosen will
be the winner.
The greens committee, C. O. Seifert,
O. T. Kirkland, J. H. Brodie and E.
Shaw, expects the course to be in a
very good condition for the tourney
in spite of heavy rains for the past
week. A warm sun was shining today
and was expected to to tomorrow, dry
ing out the course.
Much interest is being shown in the
coming contest, and golfers are all
primed to walk off with some of the
prizes being offered.
Eighteen holes may be played any
time during the day, scores to be
turned in at the club house.
Four Deaths From
Floods Over South
(Continued trom rage One.)
Still holding there is no general
flood danger from the Mississippi
river from water in sight, Colonel
Eugene Reybold, district United
States engineer here, nevertheless,
has admitted “the outlook is slight
ly less cheerful.”
A majority of towns along the big
stream and its tributaries held no
fear of the flood at this time, al
though most of them reported their
towns were caring for lowland re
fugees.
Although no levees have broken, the
river has flooded more than 2,000,-
000 acres, and continues to spread out
ominously.
A 13-year-old boy, Vernon Harris,
was drowned while swimming in a
backwater of the flooded Okmulgee at
Macon, Ga.
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George Arliss, famed English act
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Kaye Don, English auto and power
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To Succeed Baldwin?
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Neville Chamberlain
Probable successor to Stanley
Baldwin, British prime minister,
if and when he resigns his post, as
reported, is Neville Chamberlain,
above, chancellor of the ex
chequer. Baldwin is reported to
have decided to resign as a pre
lude to the “complete reconstruc- !
tion of the government.”
3 Drown As Plane
Sinks Im Collision
(Continued from Page One.)
the partially submerged queen of the
South American skyways.
The big air liner overturned as
Pilot Wallace Culbertson, of Miami,
swerved in a vain attempt to avoid
striking the small launch directly in
the path during the dawn take-off.
The plane’s left pontoon struck the
lunch, plunging the Brazilian Clipper
over into the water. A “crash” boat
from the Pan-American seadrome im
mediately put out and picked up the
survivors.
Bells Ring Easter
For ‘Holy City*
(Continued from rage One.)
of their sombre black and purple
draperies.
In St. Peters, Cardinal Pacelli
struck sparks from flint to light the
“new fire,” suggesting the resurrec
tion. Then the papal secretary of state
blessed the pope’s paschal candle,
eight feet tall and three feet in dia
meter.
“MAGNIFICENT OBSESSION”—
WHAT IS IT?
What is “the magnificent obsession?
It refers to a magical pattern of
living which local theatre-goers will
have an opportunity to learn when
they see “Magnificent Obsession,”
Universal’s John M. Stahl production
which opens at the Stevenson Theatre
Sunday, Monday and Tuesday with
Irene Dunne and Robert Taylor in the
starring roles.
At the same time they wjll see wb.at
is regarded as a powerfully emotional
film drama, the crowning effort of a
master screen director. A stirring mo
tion picture, it promises to become
one of the screen’s most important
contributions for 1936.
1919—Communist government at
Munish, Germany, overthrown.
HENDERSON, (N. G.) DAILY DJSPAfGH, SATURDAY, APRIL 11, 1936, H
GHIBMMAr
Premier’s Retirement Would
Be Setback to Germany;
Liberal Trend
By LESLIE EICHEL
When Neville Chamberlain succeeds
Stanley Baldwin as British prime
minister (if that does occur) Europe
will interpret that as a setback to
Germany and as an aid to France.
For Chamberlain’s rise would be due
to British dissatisfaction with Bald
win’s “soft” policy. But it may be a
different France to which aid may be
given. For France goes to the polls
the first week in May—and the elec
torate is expected to swing sharply
to the left. Will an arch Tory like
Chamberlain be eager to walk hand
in hand with a Leftist government?
But will not England itself begin
to turn left—believing its election of
the Tories last year an abortion? The
Conservatives may change leaders’ in
midstream because the electorate, in
less than a year, has become demon
stratively dissatisfied.
The three chief Europeon democ
racies now seem sertain to remain de
mocracies and not swing to dictator
ship. England, France and Czecho
slovakia are counted upon as the bul
warks of democracy. And rumor has
it that the Soviet Union soon may de
mocratize communism. (Will the de
mocracies, in turn, communize demo
cracy?) Os course, there has been no
such thing yet as a pure democracy.
Even the fartherest left nations have
no such thing.
NOT CHEERING
This headline appearing over an ar
ticle by a special correspondent in
the St. Louis Post-Dispatch concern
ing the monarchial democracy of Bri
tain is not very cheering.
“Undernourishment in Great Brit
ain: Diet of half of population inad
equate for health; only 50 per cent of
people can afford proper food.”
LAUDATORY
Virtually all the possibilities for the
Republican presidential nomination
now are being “honored” with books
on their lives.
The books are highly laudatory.
Perhaps the delegates to the Cleve
land convention will vote for the can
didate whose book they liked best.
Believe McDonald
Is Losing Ground
(Continued irom x'age One.)
many are now convinced that he will
eventually slip back into second place
or even third place by June 6.
Graham Making Gains.
On the other hand, most of these
observers agree that both Clyde R.
Hoey, of Shelby, and A. H. (Sandy)
Graham, of Hillsboro, have made
some substantial gains during the
past ten days and that even John A.
Mcßae has made some very good pro*
gress, although he is still regarded as
in fourth place and likely to stay
there. A good many are also inclined
to the opinion that Graham has made
a bigger gain in strength than Hoey,
despite the fact that Hoey has been
waging a more active campaign, es
pecially against Dr. McDonald. The
reason for this opinion among many
observers is the belief that most of
those who are deserting the McDon
ald bandwagon are going to Graham
rather than Hoey, on the theory that
Graham’s more liberal position on
many questions and his definite anti
administration as far as
the present State Democratic admin
istration is concerned, makes him
much more acceptable to those who
have so far been inclined towards Dr.
McDonald, than Hoey. It is also main
tained tha.t a goodly number of those
who heretofore have been inclined to
support lioey have become so nervous
at the prospect of Dr. McDonald de
feating Hoey that they are now going
over to Graham in the belief that he
cou,ld make a stronger run against
McDonald in a second primary than
could Hoey.
Hoey Camp Confident.
There is no doubt that Hoey has
made some very substantial gains this
past week and that his fire-and-brim
stone speeches, in which he has been
pouring it into Dr. McDonald and
labelling him as a psuedo-Democrat
seeking the Democratic nomination
for governor on a Republican plat
form, have been winning him some
very strong support, observers agree.
The Hoey supporters are confident,
that by the time he has visited all of
the 100 counties and has carried his
vigorous speaking campaign into
every nook and corner of the State,
that he is only will have punctured
the McDonald balloon but have chang
ed the appearance of the dapper ex
college professor from the Wizard of
Oz into something more resembling
the Scarecrow. They are also convinc
ed that Hoey batters away at McDon
ald day after day and convinces the
people of the State that the youthful
trust-busting candidate is not the fis
cal magician his followers now be
lieve him to be, that Hoey will move
up the scale of Democratic popularity
as McDonald moves down it. Accord
ingly they are convinced that by June
6 will be in top position with either
McDonald of Graham in second place,
.though few are willing to concede that
Graham has any chance of pulling up
into second place.
Some of the reasons given in sup
port of the belief that McDonald has
been posing ground ever since his
Statewide radio speech, are as fol
lows :
1. His .attack on the record of the
party in the State, as well
as upon the past two administrations,
at the same time purporting to stand
on the national Democratic platform
with Roosevelt.
2. The reaction among many people
.that he is promising to do a great
deal more than he could do if he
should be elected governor.
3. His attack on a dead man (Bow-
SSS
A. D. McLean Says Legis
lature Saved Schools
From Closing Down
Dally Dispatch Bureau,
In The Sir Walter Hotel,
By J. C. lIASKERVIT.Ii
Raleigh, April 11. The public
schools of the State are rapidly be
coming a political football in the pre
sent campaign for the Democratic no
mination for governor and the real
facts concerning what the State has
done to keep the schools open and
operating throughout the depression
are becoming obscured in the charges
being made in some quarters that the
1933 legislature wrecked the schools
and imposed the sales tax in order to
reduce the taxes of the big corpora
tions, Angus Dhu Mac Lean, former
solicitor general of the United States,
and a leader of the schools forces in
the 1929, 1931 and 1933 general assem
blies, said Thursday night in a radio
speech dealing with the public schools
and taxation.
Reply to McDonald.
Mr. Mac Lean did not mention the
name of Dr. Ralph W. McDonald, of
Winston-Salem, one of the four can
didates for the Democratic nomina
tion for governor a single time in the
course of his speech. But the speech
is regarded here today as being the
most pertinent and forceful reply to
the charges which have been made by
Dr. McDonald for many months that
the 1933 legislature “wrecked the
schools” in order to give special bene
fits to the big corporations.
After showing that the 1933 General
Assembly actually saved the schools
from being forced to close and pre
vented 23,000 school teachers from be
ing without employment, Mac Lean al
so pointed out that it also greatly in
creased the taxes of the corporations,
although it drastically reduced the
property taxes of individual property
owners.
Keep the Record Straight.
“The injection of politics into any
consideration of the public schools is
easy, since schools and taxes are al
most inseperable,” Mac Lean said. “But
the fair minded men and women of
North Carolina will wish to keep the
record straight—hence this speech.”
The 1933 General Assembly was in
session during the darkest days of the
depression and dig not know which
way to go or which way to turn, and
the question of how to keep the
schools open was one of the biggest
problems faced by the legislature,
Mac Lean pointed. ou,t: One group fa
vored closing all schools in the
State for one year. ‘ Another favored
doing nothing to aiijl the schools, on
the grounds that there was nothing
that could be done, Which would have
meant that the Schools would have
stayed open two, ( three or four months
perhaps, or until the county funds
gave out. A third group insisted that
the State’s good name a,nd credit
should be upheld as any cost and that
the schools must v be kept ppen.
, Proud of Record.
“I shall always be "proud of the fact
that the views of this third group fi
nally prevailed and that it eventually
became the majority group,” Mac-
Lean said. He did not mention that
the views of this group prevailed only
after he led the fight for more than
five months and gradually succeeded
in winning a majority over to his
point of view that .the .S.t.ate co.uld and
must assume the support of the
schools —and for a .term of eight
months —without resort ,to any prop
erty taxes. From 1931 to 1933 the State
had been contributing $16,009,000 a
year to the support of the six months
months school term, but alpiost $4,-
000,000 a year of this amount was de
rived from —or supported to be de
rived from —a Statewide property tax
of 15 cents on the SIOO valuation. But
much of this tax could not be col
lected and still has not been collect-;
ed.
State Saved Schools.
“Finally, the 1933 legislature, with
160 of its 170 members Democrats, de
cided upon a mighty forward step—
that the State should assume the full
support of the eight months ' school
term without resort to a property tax,;
but leaving the right of supplement
to a vote of the people,” Mac Lean
said. “Now only three years have
passed, but there is a disposition in
some quarters to ignore the fact that
but for thiis State system of schools,
many counties in North Carolina
wpuld h p.ve had no schools worthy of ;
the name and thousands of teachers;
wouid have found themselves either;
without jobs or without salaries, as
was the case in several other states.”
While the 1933 legislature was deter-;
mined to keep the schools of the State j
open for eight pao,nths, it was also de-:
termi.ned to do this without a prop--
perty tax JbqtK because it had been de
monstrated that a property tax could
not .be depended upon and because
there was such a Strong demand for
a reduction in property taxes, Mac-
Lean continued, i’or while a few
wealthy counties could afford to sup
port the schpols with property taxes,
most of the counties could not afford
to do this, he said.
“I now pee signs that a few of these
wealthy counties may perfer to go
back to a property tap for supporting
man Gray of Winston-Salem) and his
incorrect statement to the .effect that
Gray had no property listed on the
Forsyth county tax books, when he
and his wife had .more than $500,600
worth of property 'lifted.
4. His charges that the 1933 General
Assembly had deliberately wrecked
the public schools of the State in or
der to reduce the property taxes of the
big corporations, which was answered
in a radio speech ,by A. D. Mac Lean
Thursday night.
5. The inability of many people to
figure opt hOW he is going to find
$25,000, 'poo in new taxes with which to
remove the sales .tax. .and dp all the
other things he is Promising jt.o do.
For Commissioner
of Agriculture
jjßßfijJfp
W. KERR SCOTT
kerrscotTms
Alamance M a in, Former
Grange Head, Announces
for Graham’s Job
Burlington, April 11 —W. Kerr Scott,
Alamance county former master of
the National Grange in North Caro
lina, a progressive dairy and general
farmer, will be a candidate in the
Democratic primary election in June
for State commissioner of agriculture,
according to formal announcement
today.
Mr. Scott will oppose the incumbent
Commissioner Wm. A. Graham, in
whose family the office has been for
thirty years —or two generationss—on
an avowed platform to “put a new
and vitalizing life into the depart
ment.”
Following his graduation from State
College in 1917, Mr. Scott bought a
farm in the Hawfields community of
his native Alamance, recognized to
day as one of the modern, progressive
farms of the State.
If the application of the AAA still
were in effect, there would not be
found one phase of the agricultural
specifications in the act not actually
applied and in daily practice on the
Scott farm. He is an ardent ‘New
Dealer.’
For ten and one half years, Mr.
Scott was a farm agent for the county
of Alamance. His work during this
period, in every phase of agricultural
science applied to the soil, stands to
day as an indelible stamp of progress
the schools under the pretext of es
caping the sales tax, or under the
guise of forcing the corporation to
support the schools,” Mac Lean said.
The sales tax was finally adopted in
1933 because it was found to be the
most equiable of “getting the money
where the money was,” Mac Lean said.
Thrill Team
111,
Ross Alexander and Patricia Ellis
show what love can do for a cabaret
singer and a fugitive from justice, in
Warner Bros, first drama of the
building of “Boulder Dam”, which
opens at the Moon Theatre on Sun
day and Monday.
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to Former Environment
In Law Practice
By CHARLES P. STEWART
Washington, April 11. —There is
nothing surprising in the fact that As
sociate Justices Louis D. Brandeis and
Benjamin N. Cardozo are on the lib
eral side of every split decision which
the United State Supreme Court renr
ders. They are liberals of long stand
ing.
But one scarcely would have
thought that Associate Justice Har
lan F. Stone would be so consistently
of their faction.
His law firm of Satterlee, Canfield
& Stone had a highly conservative
practice. Among its clients, for exam
ple, was the house of J. P. Morgan—
first the elder “J. P.”, then his estate
in the hands of the present magnate.
This was not what one would be likely
to .call a liberalizing professional con
nection.
COOLIDGE APPOINTEE
Stone was appointed, too, to the at
torney general’s office and later to the
supreme bench by President Coolidge,
who was not noted for picking very
liberal folk to fill important positions
within his gift.
What is more, his confirmation as
a Supreme Court justice was fought
in the United States Senate on the
ground that he was a reactionary.
Liberal solons quite generally ob-
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BELIEVER CONSERVATIVE
All this was of a nature to give Jus
tice Stone an extremely conservative
send-off.
As a Supreme Court justice, he is
as inaccessible as any hermit, but I
interviewed him as attorney general
I thought he was a moderate con
servative. Yet here he is lined up, re
gularly, with radical Justice Cardozo
and still more radical Justice Bran
deis!
Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes
has some liberal tradition.
Associate Justice Owen J. Roberts is
a little bit liberal.
Heaven forbid any liberality in As
sociate Justices Willis Van Devanter,
James C. Mcßeynolds, George Suther
land or Pierce Butler.
But one would not have expected to
find Justice Stone in the liberal
minority.
Moon Theatre
TODAY
Gene Autrey—in
“RED RIVER VALLEY”
Tarzan and Novelty
Sunday at 2-4-9 P. M.
And Monday
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