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Tne Legion Invites You To Enjoy The Exposition
HENDERSON
GATEWAY TO
CENTRAL
CAROLINA
twenty-third year
Weather Does Not
Hart Attendance
At The Exposition
Mcßae, Gubernatorial Can
didate, Was Guest Speak
er for Event Last
Night
SANDY GRAHAM TO
BE PRESENT TONIGHT
Miss Frances Harrison Won
First Prize Amateur Con
test, John R. Baker, Ox
ford, Second; Last Night’s
Dance Was Best Had So
Far; Novelty Numbers
Given by Band
Rain and cold weather failed to
dampen or chill the festive spirit at
the American Legion Auto Show, Mer
chants Exposition and Indoor Circus
ilast night in the Big Henderson
warehouse as another large crowd
jammed the hall to take part and wit
ness the events transpiring.
Visiting speaker, the second of the
gubernatorial candidates to appear on
the program, John A. Mcßae, of Char
lotte. was one of the main attractions,
his talk coming just after the ama
teur hour.
Candidate Mcßae led his short talk
with humorous remarks and paid his
respects to the principles as set forth
by Thomas Jefferson and the Revolu
tionary fathers. The speaker stated
that th ideas that those men gave us
liberty today, and the right of each
individual to work out his own salva
tion and to his own happiness. They
founded the sound principles of gov
ernment that are most important to
people. Using these principals, peo
ple of the country could work out
their own salvation.
Amateur Winners;
Miss Frances Harrison, this city,
copped first honors in the nightly
amateur hour under the directiin of
Sam Alford. Her prize was sls- John
R. Baker, of Oxford, singer, won sec
ond prize, $5. Both of the winners
will compete on the Saturday night
program of winners.
Graham To Speak
The third of the candidates for the
Democratic nomination for Governor
of North Carolina. Lieut. Governor A.
H. Graham, of Hillsboro, will be pre
sent tonight for a short speech.
Graham was here recently at the
Lions '‘Ladies’ Night” event. Wheth
er the fourth candidate, 'Clyde R.
Hoey, of Shelby, can be here or not,
was not learned today, but D. C.
Loughlin manager of the exposition,
invited him to.
Dance. Enjoyable
Last night’s dance to the music of
Bubbles Keeker was most enjoyable
one of the series. Dancers called for
extension of dancing time, succeeding
in having it run until 1 o’clock in the
morning, one hour overtime.
Becker's orchestra gave several
novelty numbers during the event, all
of them very pleasing. His talented
Mnger, Miss Arlene Hilton, proved
very popular again with her rendition
of popular song hits of today.
One of the largest crowds of the
present show is expected to be present
tonight, and attendance will con
tinue to climb during the remainder
°f the show.
Merchants are adding a great deal
<jf interest by giving away attractive
I'fives, showing educational pictures
fl nd passing out souvenirs.
Italians Are
Forging On
In Ethiopia
(By The Associated Press.)
r,lf ‘ Italian army fought through
muddy, swollen Ethiopian rivers today
in its drive into the heart of the
•African empire, crossing a rough ter
rain ’ made even more difficult by ad
vance of tropical rain.
Ihe northern forces, under the Af
riean Commander-in-Chief Marshal
I’ierto Badoglio, were reported in
'" me to he high in the mountains of
bhea province, expecting momentarily
0 ace a desperate last stand by the
native Ethiopian defenders.
The southern army under General
'■edolfo Graziani has not been halted
h.v the heavy downpour, and the gen
mal himself flew over Ethiopian
Siound works south of Harar to make
a survey of the enemy position before
attacking.
The Emperess of Ethiopia made an
appeal through foreign newspapermen
to the world asking that the great
powers support her nation in its fight
against the Fascist invader.
Her son. Crown Prince Asfa Wesan,
was in control of the government at
Addis Ababa, as his father Emperor
Hailie Selassie led native warriors in
battle against Fascists aggressors
horth of the capitals
Irtmiirrsmt tkttht Htsnatdt
HERE TONIGHT
A. IL (SANDY) GRAHAM
Lieut. Governor of N. C.
FM.MTES
PWA Power Loan Program
Termed National Pro
gram to Reduce Rates
Washington, April 23 (AP) —Com-
munications between President Roose
velt and Secretary Ickes on national
power policies were brought into the
District of Columbia Supreme court
today on subpoenaes by private utili
ties counsel.
The documents, along with other
PWA files, were turned over to Je
rome Frank, PWA attorney, battling
private suits to block use of PWA
funds for municipal power plants con
struction.
One of the items was described as
a letter from Secretary Ickes dated
Sept. 8, 1934 to President Roosevelt
asking direction concerning PWA ac
tivities in the electric power field.
Another was a note, presumable in
reply, addressed to Ickes from Hyde
Park on Sept. 10, 1934, initialed
"FDR.”
Dean Achaeson, utilities counsel,
said he would try to get the mate
rial admitted as evidence in the suit
by the Alabama Power Company,
Texas Utilities, lowa City Power and
Light Company and the Oklahoma
Utilities Company.
The power companies seek to block
$2,908,000 in loans and grants for
construction of municipal owned
power plants.
Ochaeson said that subpoenaed ma
terial would disclose a well planned
and pursued national program to re
duce electric rates on a country-wide
ft ale. The administration, he said,
was performing an unconstitutional
act under the statue creating PWA.
Smirks fV
Country First Out of De
presion, Due to Large
Measure to Parliament
By CHARLES P. STEWART
Central Press Staff Writer
Washington, April 23. —Eric Bark, a
Swede, naturalized in the United
States, recently came .hack from his
home land, and tells me this story:
Everybody fat and prosperous. No
beggars. No unemployment. No il
literacy.
Sweden, first country to come out
of the depression, due in large meas
ure to a parliament that doesn’t at
tack capital unduly, but gives their
time to both labor and consumer. So
cialists in power. First country in the
world to be so ruled. The rule a sort
of middle of the way; government the
umpire.
ITS LIQUOR SYSTEM
Liquor legislation begun in 1905.
Now famous Bratt system. Everybody
entitled to four quarts monthly. Also
just enough with each meal. All spirits
controlled through a central organiza
tion. It is run and owned by private
capital, as are all underlying distribut
ing centers. Stockholders elect three
members of the board of directors.
The city where located elects three
more. The government appoints tne
chairman. Owners are allowed 7 per
cent profit. The remainder is turned
over to education. Works fine. No
bootleggers.
AGED ARE PROTECTED
Old age pension. Everybody from 16
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ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA AND VIRGINIA
LEASED WIRE SERVICE OF
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS.
HENDERSON, N. C., THURSDAY AFTERNOON, APRIL 23, 1936
HIGHWAY SURPLUS
OF $3,636,202 IS
EXPECTED JULY 1
Waynick Says Highway of
State Insolvent, Not
Having Spent What
Should Have
IF REVENUE DROPS
“SURPLUS” BE LESS
Diverting of Highway Funds
to General Fund Would
Further Cut Into Surplus;
Highway. Department
Should Have Reserve Fund
for Replacements
Dally Dispatch Bureau,
>n Tlie Sir Waiter Hotel,
By J. C. BASKERVILT.
Raleigh, April 23.—1 n spite of the
talk concerning the huge “surplus” in
the State highway fund at the present
time, the highways of the State are
now insolvent, since if the highway
department had expended what should
have been spent on maintenance dur
ing the past three years there would
now eb a deficit instead of a surplus
in its funds, Chairman Capus M. Way
nick of the State Highway and Pub
lic Works Commission said today. But
in spite of the lack of spending from
1933 to 1935, and in spite of the bal
ance in the highway fund of $13,720,-
880.57, as of April 1, indications are
tbnt the credit balance or “surplus”
will not amount to more than $3,636,-
202.69 on July 1, when the present
fiscal year ends, Waynick pointed out
in a detailed financial statement
which he made public today.
There is a possibility that this cre
dit balance or “surplus” may be re
duced by more than $1,000,000, how
ever, should the revenues of the gen
eral fund prove insufficient to meet
the budget, in which case another sl,-
019,540 would be diverted from the
highway fund to the general fund,
leaving a credit balance of only $2,-
616,785, Waynick pointed out. For the
1935 appropriations act provides that
this additional amount shall be divert
ed from the highway to the general
fund if the general fund revenues
prove inadequate. Present indications
are, however, that this additional di
version will not be necessary and that
the credit balance in the highway
fund on July 1 will amount to $3,636,-
202.
Going ahead to the second fiscal
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ALFORD IS NAMED
GRAHAM MANAGER
Raleigh, April 23.—(AP)—Political
fence building occupied three of the
four candidates for the Democratic
gubernatorial nominations today as
the fourth, Dr. Ralph W. McDonald,
spoke at Jacksonville.
A. H. (Sandy) Graham was here and
announced appointment of Sam Al
ford as his Vance county manager,
said he would meet with a group of
his supporters at Henderson late this
afternoon.
Tonight he was to speak at the ex
position there.
medatcKl
Washington Solon Created
Disturbance in Traffic
Court, Locked Up
Washington, April 23.—(AP) —Rep-
resentative Zioncheck, of Washington,
was forcibly removed from traffic
court today for creating a disturbance
in objecting to a court recess of 45
minutes during a hearing on a speed
ing charge against him.
He was locked up in a cell near the
court room.
The court room was in wild disorder
during the scuffle.
The representative had appeared in
court to face a 70-mile an hour speed
ing charge only after an earlier scuf
fle with a policeman at the Capitol.
He was acting as his own attorney
and argued the case, when Judge Wal
ter Casey announced that the court
would recess and started to retire
from the bench.
“Just a minute,” Zioncheck shout
ed,” “what about my case.”
“The court is recessing,” Judge
Casey told him.
“I’m taking a recess too,” Zoin
check replied in a loud voice.
The representative picked up his
hat and coat and started to walk out.
Several policemen and court bailiffs
grabbed him. There was a short scuf
fle. He was then led to the rear of the
court room, taken outside, and put in
the cell.
No formal charge was lodged, how
ever, for creating the disturbance in
the court.
The recess had been ordered by
Casey so he might examine the noti
fication given to Zioncheck to appear
in court. The representative had ob
jected to the form of the notification.
The case was scheduled to resume at
1:45 p. m. (E.S.T.) today.
KNOX, OTHER NEWSPAPER NOTABLES AT CONVENTION
' L % ——tar » - o ■ ik —
Co!. Frank Knox Edwin Jewell William Randolph Hearst, Jr.
Attending the annual convention of newspaper pub
lishers in New York, these three notables of the
fourth estate are snapped dining. Left to right,
00UGHT0N REPORTS
IX BILL BASED
ON ABILUYJO PAY
Chairman of Ways and
Means Committee Opens
16-Hour Debate
oni Measure
SENATE HINTS OF
PROCESSING TAXES
Would Bring Bill Up To Ex
pected Revenue of Presi
dent Roosevelt; Bill Term
ed “A Reform That Should
Have Been Adopted Long
Ago” by Doughton
Washington, April 23. —(AP) —Open-
ing battle for the administration’s
$803,000,000 tax bill, Representative
Doughton, Democrat, North Carolina,
told the House today its corporate tax
reform was “one of fundamental jus
tice.”
The veteran chairman of the Ways
and Means Committee was the first
speaker in the sixteen hours of debate
scheduled on the measure.
But even before he spoke, there was
talk in the Senate of boosting the
bill prospective revenue yield—possi
bly through processing taxes to
make up the full money total asked
by President Roosevelt.
After Secretary Morgenthau made a
brief appearance behind the locked
doors of the Senate Finance Commit
tee, Chairman Harrison, Democrat,
Mississippi, said the group, “probably
will decide to give some considera
tion to processing taxes which were
suggested by Mr. Roosevelt, but eli
minated by the house committee.”
The house committee suggestion
that gaps in revenue could be made
up in next session, Harrison replied
firmly. “We are not seriously consid
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Tobacco Bill
Sent FDR For
His Signature
Washington, April 23.—(AP) —A bill
permitting southern states to make
compacts for control of tobacco pro
duction was White House bound to
day.
The House late yesterday agreed to
minor Senate amendments and the
measure lacks only President Roose
velt’s signature for its enactment.
The bill authorizes production con
trol compacts among the states of
Kentucky, Tennessee, Virginia, North
Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia.
Virginia already has enacted legis
lation necessary to enter into compact
with other states.
~QIJR WEATHER MAN
FOB NORTH CAROLINA.
Mostly cloudy, somewhat unset
tled tonight; frost in west por
tion if clear; Friday partly cloudy;
slightly warmer in the interior.
they are Col. Frank Knox, Chicago publisher and a
G. O. P. presidential possibility; Edwin Jewell, and
William R. Hearst, Jr., of the New York American.
-Central Press
Bathtub Slayer?
‘; ••' ;■ *' ! s s:•' £-;«!!!
SI
John Fiorenza
Said by police to have confessed
to slaying Mrs. Nancy Evans Tit
terton, found strangled in a bath*
tub, John Fiorenza, above, 24-
year-old Brooklyn upholsterer,
was arrested and held in jail.
Fiorenza, together with an as
sociate, is the man who “found'*
the body several hours after the
woman writer had been slain, and
since had made fumbling attempts
«.t helping the police.
—Central Press
DAS HOOVER COME”
TO ENDOF ROAD?
His Many Speeches Intimate
He Hasn’t Changed;
Talked Too Much
B1 LESLIE EICHEL
Central Press Staff Writer
HAS HERGERT HOOVER come to
the end of the road? He will not even
be mentioned at the Republican con
vention, if certain leaders have their
way. Yet, Mr. Hoover intimates in his
many speeches, neither he nor the Re
publicans have changed. They simply
were not wrong when they were
thrown out of office. They, today, are
“vindicated.”
But “Back in 1928!” is a poor battle
cry. Besides, it leads up to 1932-’33.
Worse than that—the trials of 29
bankers in the Detroit bank failures
will begin in May and extend through
convention time. The Roosevelt ad
ministration is prosecuting those gank
ers. The implication is, of course, that
the Roosevelt administration came in
and cleaned up the bank mess.
Added to all this, Mr. Hoover is
deemed to have talked too much. He
has attacked so widely that he has
aroused labor and the farmers still
more And, all added together,
make “just too much,” in the minds
of the Republicans who will dominate
the Cleveland convention. They frank
ly hope Mr. Hoover will accept a few
handclaps and a few cheers —and call
it a career.
A LAW?
One need not be surprised if con
gress should consider extending the
corrupt practices law to cover the giv
ing of large sums for organizations
purporting to ibe one thing and turn
ing out to be another.
Testimony brought out by the sen
ate lobby investigating committee
shows how the duPonts and other
anti-NeW Deal industrialists gave
sums to organizations such as the
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PUBLISHED EVERY AFTERNOON
EXCEPT SUNDAY.
BPICOME TAX
Over $6,000,000 Collected
During Month of March
for State Gelneral
Fund
BONDED INDEBTEDNESS
STILL HIGH FIGURE
Has Beein Curtailed Some;
State’s Cash Balance Will
Show Decline During Re
maining Months of Fiscal
Year; Receipts Will Drop
Dally Dispatch Burean,
In The Sir Walter Hotel,
By J. r, B A SKERVILL
Raleigh, April 23. —Income tax col
lections of more than $6,000,000 dur
ing March enabled the general fund
of the treasury of the State of North
Carolina to end that month with a
balance of $4,429,684.29, as compared
with the insignificant sum of only $2,-
745.42 on February 29, according to
the joint statement of the State au
ditor and State treasurer, made public
today.
The actual collections of income
taxes from all sources—individual, dor
poration and otherwise—amounted to
$6,009,537.03. Attention was called to
the fact that no amount approaching
that sum could be expected during
any other month of the present fiscal
year, as the greater proportion of in
ecom taxes are paid during March.
The balance in the highway fund
was $13,444,994.70, almost a four-mil
lion dollar gain over the previous
month. Highway obligations of more
than $13,000,000 must be paid from
this fund between now and July 1.
The total cash balance reported, in
cluding all funds, amounted to $23,-
405,904.93. This was an increase of
$6,655,513.34, as compared with the re
port of February 29.
North Carolina’s bonded indebted
ness, although considerably reduced
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mlSsjoms
House Member Says Guber
natorial Candidate Made
Speech for Sales Tax
Dally Dispatch Bureau,
In The Sir Walter Hotel,
By J. C. BASKBRVILL
Raleigh, April 23—Dr. Ralph W.
McDonald, the anti-sales tax candi
date for the Democratic nomination
for Governor, is inconsistent in his
present opposition to the sales tax
since he voted for the amendment to
the revenue bill to impose the sales
tax on meals in cases, hotels, board
ing houses and lunch rooms, also to
impose on hotel charges for rooms,
although the senate later eliminated
the sales tax from hotel rooms, Rep
resentative Ernest Gardner, who was
a member of the 1935 house from
Cleveland county, pointed out here to
day. That Dr. McDonald voted for
this amendment is shown on page 800
of the house journal of the 1935 gen
eral assembly, Gardner said.
“If Dr. McDonald is as opposed to
the sales tax as he says he is, I can
not understand why he voted to apply
the sales tax to coffee and sandwich
es which those who work in stores,
offices, shops and other places must
buy during their lunch hour,” Gardner
said. “For the application of the sales
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ENTOMBED IN ARE
BROUGHT OUT OF
MINE EARLY TODAY
Dr. Robertson Crawls Part
of Way and Then Car
ried to Surface on
Stretcher
CROWD CHEERS SINGS
AT SIGHT OF VICTIMS
Men Found to Be in Good
Physical Condition at
Emergency Hospital;
Brought Out at 12 '44 AST;
Magill’s Body Recovered
Later
Moose River, N. S., April 23
—Mocking the death that
threatened them for ten days,
Dr. D. E. Robertson and
Charles Alfred Scadding were
rescued today from their living
tomb within the abandoned
Moose River gold mine.
The two men, sitting up and laugh
ing but keeping their eyes averted
from the body of their dead com
panion, Herman Magill, were released
from their trap iby a daring rescue
crew of miners, who tunneled through
200 feet of “live earth.”
The 62-year-old Dr. Robertson, not
ed Toronto physician, crawled with
his rescurers out of the crumbling 141-
foot level of the old mine, and most
of the way up the main operating
shaft.
Placed on a stretcher, he was car
ried the rest of the way to the sur
face and emerged at 12:44 a. m. At
lantic standard time, (11:44 p. m.
Wednesday eastern standard time), in
to the fresh air he had not breathed
since the mine caved in Easter Sun
day.
“Thank you boys," the doctor said,
waving to the cheering, surging, crowd
gathered at the mine head as he was
borne triumphantly to an emergency
hospital.
The 44-year-old Scadding,' more
weakened by the ordeal of long en
tombment, was carried all the way to
the surface on a stretcher, his rescue
being completed at 1 a. m.
Covered with a sheet and carried
on a stretcher, the body of Magill was
taken to the surface, after Dr. Robert
son, and Scadding were released safe
ly and provided with long needed
care.
The three physicians in charge of
the meical unit announced at 2:10 a.
m.:
“Dr. D. E. Robertson and Alfred
Scadding arrived at the improvised
hospital at 1:10 a. m. today. Dr. Rob
ertson’s physical and mental condition
is excellent. We feel that he will have
a rapid recovery.’’
“Alfred Scadding’s condition is sur
prisingly good.”
A coroner’s jury was called to de
termine the cause of the death of
Magill.
The inquest will be held here late
today.
Miss Eva Spruill
Fatally 'Wounds
Herself Today
Raleigh, April 23.—(AP) —Miss Eva
Spruill, 65, fatally wounded herself to
day in her room in St. Luke’s home
here, Coroner L. M. Waring said after
an investigation of her death.
A sister of C. P. Spruill here, Miss
Spruill formerly lived in Durham and
Henderson.
Miss Spruill formerly lived here, be
ing a seamstress. She was well known
and liked by all who knew her.
She has two brothers in the county,
S. O. Spruill, Rowland street, and F.
D. Spruill, of Cokesbury community.
Funeral services will be held tomor
row with interment at the old family
home three miles from Franklinton on
the Louisburg highway.
Fight Over
Tax Bill On
In Congress
Washington, April 23.—(AP) —After
week’s of skirmishing, opposing
forces moved into a major engage
ment today over the tax bill, designed
to raise some $800,000,000.
As the house gathered to begin de
bate on this measure, described by
Democratic proponents as a needed
reform and by Republican critics as a
threat to business, the Senate Finance
Committee also began consideration of
the bill.
Word went out that Secretary Mor
genthau would appear before the lat
ter body, a crucial testing ground for
all tax legislation.