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HENDERSON GATEWAY TO CENTRAL CAROLINA TWENTY-THIRD YEAR movement started FOR CREATION SOON OF NEW COAL CODE New Deal Officials Meet With Coal Operators and Mine Union Leaders To Find Plan COURT SILENT OVER PRICE-FIXING PHASE Decision Raises Speculation, However, as to Fate of Other Legislation, Includ ing Wagner Labor Rela tions Act; Resettlement’s Fate Is Also Debated Washington, May 19.—(AP)—Post mortems on t.he old Guffey coal con trol act and moves to create a new one occupied the Capital today amid the din of clashing statements on yesterday’s court, decisions. New Deal officials gathered with some coal operators and mine union leaders to draft a substitute 'bill. Observers understood it would con tain some price regulation clauses. The Supreme Court, in its opinion demolishing the old act, did not com mit itself on any attitude toward price-fixing if enacted separately from wage, hour and other labor re gulations. The labor clauses were de finitely outlawed. The decision raised speculation as to the fate of other legislation, not ably the Wagner labor relations act regulating employee-employer rela tions in many industries. Disputes continued as to a District of Columbia court decision bearing on the Resettlement Administration. At torney General Cummings said the only feature held invalid were cer tain model housing projects. Oposing attorneys argued the whole $275,00,- 000 Resettlement Administration came within the scope of the invalida tion. Resettlement officials, however, in dicated that, most of the agency’s manifold activities, including the transfer of farm families to better land, would be continued. It was made plain that WPA and other re lief activities, financed like the Re settlement Administration from the $1,880,000,000 relief appropriation of 1935, would go on. INJUNCTION DENIED TO COTTON CHOPPERS Strike in East Arkansas Field Con tinues Despite Efforts of Tenants’ Union Memphis, Tenn., May 19. —(AP) —' Union leaders were, denied an injunc-; tion today to prevent police from stopping picketing on the Tennessee-j Arkansas bridge in connection with a strike of cotton choppers in three* east Arkansas counties. The Southern Tenant Farmers Union application for the injunction was filed yesterday after five sym pathizers were arrested and accused of efforts to stop laborers crossing the bridge into Arkansas to replace strikers. H S!viCIiY Chatham Aspirant for Lieu tenant Governor Thinks Issue Decided llnlly Bnrenn. In T>»* Sir Walter Hotel. Hr J. r. BAWBRVIM* Raleigh. May 19. —Senator W. P. Horton, of Pittsboro, Chatham coun ty, one of the three candidates for the Democratic nomination for lieute nant governor, is confident he will lead the field and win the nomination in the first primary, he said here Monday while returning from three weeks of intensive campaigning in the eastern part of the State, where he has been perfecting his organiza tion. “1 am more than pleased at the re act ion to my candidacy and the sup port 1 am receiving throughout the eastern counties and am confident I ! 'ha)l v e nominated in the first pri mary," Senator Horton said. “I have h°en both surprised and gratified at the response to my campaign every where I have gone. For while it is *cuo that the campaign for the nomi nation for governor is attracting more attention than anything else, the peo ple generally are giving more thought nnd attention to the campaign for lieutenant governor than appears on s he surface. The more thoughtful and cb,servant people realize that in many ways the lieutenant governor has nine actual authority and more op portunity to influence legislation than floes the governor. They are also real izing that it is very necessary to have ;' n experienced and dependable man b> the Senate as lieutenant governor appoint the many important com mitt.cn,s and to guide the legislation that originates in the Senate or which cfur.es over from the House.” Senator Horton has already been in i (Continued on Page Five.) Bnuirrsmi ilatht Utsmtfrh Herriot Says Way Is Open on Debts Paris, May 19 (AP)—Former Premier Edouard Herriot declared today that “the way is open” to the settlement of the war debt “misunderstanding” between the United States and France through the new trade treaty. Writing in “information,” he ap plauded the recent speech of Pre mier-Designate Leon Blum before the American club. Blum is still endeavoring to get Herriot into his cabinet as foreign minister, although it was said-he was not likely to accept. Herriot indicated in his article tli at the settlement of the war debt controversy was designed to get the aid of the United States in the troubled situation with Germany. stateunSty GETS IN POLITICS Graham’s Declaration for Abandoning Whole Mer ger System Wins Some Support MANY HAVE NEVER FANCIED THE IDEA Prefer Separate and Indi vidual Units at Chapel Hill Raleigh and Greensboro, Each With Own Trustees, Football Teams and No “Graham Plans” Dally Dispatch llnrenn. In The Sir Walter Hotel, llv J. C. DA SKKIIVII,I, Raleigh, May 19. —The question of the consolidation of the University of North Carolina a.nd of the controversy over the School of Engineering as to whether it shall be established at the State College unit in Raleigh or re moved to the Chapel Hill unit, has now become one of the issues in the Democratic campaign for the nomin ation for governor as the result of the declaration by Lieutenant Gover nor A. 11. (Sandy) Graham, an alumnus of the Chapel Hill unit, that he is opposed to consolidation, ac cording to the prevailing belief in po litical circles here today. This declar ation in favor of abolishing the con solidation effort which have been un der way for five years and to return (Continued on Page Three.) NEW MEN AND DOGS SENT INTO MANHUNT Claude Beavers, Leader of Oklahoma Dash for Liberty, Suddenly Appears for Food McAleder, Okla., iMay 19. —(AP) — Fresh officers and bloodhounds rush ed into the brush-covered mountains near Clayton today after another ap pearance of Claude Beavers, the elusive leader of the Oklahoma peni tentiary break. Possemen expressed belief it would be only a matter of hours before they captured the convict, who said he would rather be shot than surrender. Beavers is one of three felons still at large after last week’s break in which a brickyard foreman was kill ed and a guard wounded. There was no clue as to the whereabouts of the others. Three roadmen were held up and abducted by Beavers yesterday near the village of Narrow Mountain. After forcing them to drive him for nine miles, he hurriedly ate their lunches and dashed away into the underbrush •at the approach of a motor oar. Drought Damaging Crops Over State Raleigh, May 19. (AP) Frank Parker, Federal-State crop reporter, said today “very dry” conditions in Piedmont and Eastern North Carolina •counties were damaging truck crops and seriously affecting tobacco, cot ton and potatoes. Lee A. Denson, in charge of the Weather Bureau here, said Raleigh's rainfall in three showers since April 12 was only .63 of an inch, though some other parts of the State have had more. “In the east, truck, cotton and to bacco crops are suffering,” Parker ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA AND VIRGINIA LEASED WIRE SERVICE OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS. HENDERSON, N. C., TUESDAY AFTERNOON, MAY 19,1936 Seven Wedding Guests Were Killed in This Car r mm Hip >.■ mu This is all that remains of the car in which seven merry-making wedding guests were killed at a grade crossing in Youngstown, 0. Five of the victims were young men, two were boys. They were on their way to the wedding of Marjorie Carrozino and Augustine Patrous when the train struck them. (Central Press) Diplomatic Shake-Up In Europe Seen Dum - Dum Bullet Controversy Shake England, But Italy Is Unconvinced London, May 19. —(AP) —ltaly may be invited to make changes in the staff of its London Embassy, inform ed sources said today, in the Italo- Ethiopia-British dum-dum bullet scan dal. Certain members of the Parliament were understood to intend to ques tion Anthony Eden concerning the position of the Italian military at tache after the foreign secretary told the House of Commons yesterday an attempt had been made to “fabricate evidence” that British interests sup plied illegal ammunition to Ethiopia. EDEN’S EXPLANATION NOT CONVINCING TO MUSSOLINI Rome, May 19. —(AP) —Fascist au thorities said today they found the dum-dum bullets explanation of An thony Eden, British foreign secretary, unconvincing. REYNOLDS; NEUTRAL IN GOVERNOR FIGHT Washington, .May 19.—(AP) — A policy of neutrality in the North Car olina gubernatorial primary was an nounced today by Senator Robert R. Reynolds, Democrat, North Caroline. “I am absolutely neutral,” Rey nolds said, “and will remain so ” l u • senator said ■ e h • /**■« t avoid any indication that he might ee might be leaning toward any one rt the four candidates in the raca. JONES SPEAKER AT RALEIGH THURSDAY Raleigh, May 19.—(AP)—Represen tative Marvin Jones, of Texas, chair man of the House Committee on Ag riculture, will be the principal speak er here Thursday night at the Ra leigh Chamber of Commerce annual “Farm Night.” Congressman Jones will be intro duced by Representative Harold D. Cooley of this district. new Mexico votes FOR THE PRESIDENT Socorro, N. M., May 19.—(AP) — New Mexico’s six votes in the Demo cratic National Convention were in the bag for P esident Roosevelt today. In choosing twelve delegates for half a vote each the pro-Roosevelt forces of Governor Tingley had full control of the State convention yes terday. said. “The indications are that the tobacco and potato crops will be de finitely affected for the summer, though how much it is hard to say yet. Cotton in many instances has been planted, but the seed has not germinated properly, and that may come through alright.” “In the Piedmont small grains are maturing and the dry spell is having its material effect. How badly it will affect other crops there cannot yet be figured. Denson held out hope for scattered showers in many sections of the State today and tonight. Prohibitive Tax On Scrap In S . Carolina Columbia, S. C., May 19. —(AP) —The South Carolina House of Representatives gave second read ing to n bill to place a prohibitive tax on dealers in scrap tobacco. i The bill was avowedly intend ed to outlaw scrap tobacco deal ers. The representatives have before them a Senate bill for a uniform tobacco crop limitation agree ment in the southeast, but did not get to act on it. The bill Would tax scrap to bacco dealers SI,OOO for each county in which they operate. DlHflE Denies Utility Contention PWA Seeking Illegal Control of Output Washington, May 19 (AP) —Secre- tary Ickes hinted in the District of Columbia Supreme Court today that “clever sabotage” in the Public Works Administration may have been re sponsible for delaying power project allotments. As a result of this delay, Ickes told the court he set up a division to expe dite consideration of loans and grants for municipal electric plants. He testified in defense of the consti tutionality of the $200,000,000 power program, which has been challenged by four utility firms. “Whether or not there had been some clever sabotaging in my own or ganization,” Ickes said, “I felt that the power applications had not been getting an even break. They had been retarded in one way or another.” Washington, .May 19/ —(AP) —Secre- tary Ickes took the witness stand in M|he District of Oollumbia Supreme Court today to defend the Public Works Ad mi lustration’>? $200,000,000 municipal power program. He denied the contention of four (Continued on Page Two.) ROTARIANS TO VOTE FOR NEW OFFICERS Edmund Harding and W. A. Graham Are Candidates for District Governor at Winston Winston-Salem, May 19. —(AP) — Fifty-seventh district Rotarians open ed their convention,here this morning, with three addresses, a message from District Governor Cleveland Thayer, and nominations for new district gov ern cr. Chase Idol, High Point banker, was re-elected treasurer. Balloting for governor will he held this afternoon. Nominees are Edmund H. Harding, of Washington, and Major W. A. Graham, of Kinston. OUR WEATHER MAN FOR NORTH CAROLINA. Partly cloudy, somewhat cool er in east and central portions tonight, preceded by local thun der showers late this afternoon or early tonight on coast; Wed nesday generally fair, cooler in east portion. RooseveltTo Cut Bureaus Coming Year Emergency Set-Ups to Be Greatly Re duced After Elec tion; Howl Begun By CHARLES P. STEWART Central Press Staff Writer Washington, May 19. —If President Roosevelt is re-elected he will com pletely eliminate or radically curtail emergency set-ups created earlier in his present term to deal with depres sion conditions, according to talk in Washington. For that matter, the job will await his successor, even if today’s White House incumbent is defeated. It is a prospect to make any presi dential aspirant shudder. THOUSANDS TO GO The very suggestion that Secretary of the Interior Harold L. Ickes plans a 25 per cent reduction in his PWA staff has created a motion that stirs the entire capital. Ickes is not actually reducing im mediately. He merely prepared a list of those who will go because the ad ministration and congress favorgrant ing new relief millions to Harry L. Hopkins, head of WPA. But PWA workers are scared a plenty at the mere thought that their positions are endangered. They sim ply are inundating their senators and representatives with appeals and de mands for protection. And there are, throughout the country or here in Washington, 9,000 of them. Only 2,250 (Continued on Page Five.) JURY CALLED FOR TITTERTON TRIAL New York, May 19. —(AP) —A blue ribbon panel of 150 prospective jurors was called today for the trial of John Fiorenza, 24-year-old upholsterer’s 'helper charged with murdering Mrs. Nancy Evans Titterton, 34, writer and wife of a National Broadcasting Com pany executive. BORAH AND LANDON FIGHT FOR JERSEY But 32 Democratic Delegates in Pri mary Are Already in the Bag for Roosevelt Newark, N. J., May 19. —(AP) —The New Jersey primaries today brought Governor Alf M. Landon of Kansas opposite Senator William E. Borah of Idaho in their first Statewide contest for republican presidential prefer ence. Landon was supported by the State Republican organization. President Roosevelt was assured 1 all 32 convention votes in the Democra tic primary (because the State organi zation’s slate was unopposed. Great Rail Strike In Mexico Crushed Mexico City, May 19. —(AP)— A strike of 48,000 employees of the Great Mexican National Railways collapsed today under resolute coun ter-action from President Lazaro Car denas’ administration. Leaders of the strikers, who walked out yesterday demanding higher wages, ordered the workers back to their posts at noon, today after the government declared the strike “un justified, non-existent.” A personal appeal by the President, PUBLISHED EVERY AFTERNOON EXCEPT SUNDAY. ADMINISTRATION IS FIGHTING HIS PLAN, DR. TOWNSEND SAYS Zeppelin Dodges Atlantic Storms Aboard the Zeppelin Hindenburg, En Route to America, May 19. (AP)—Swinging south of a storm area over the Atlantic, the big Zeppelin Hindenburg picked up speed today with a possibility of reaching New York late tonight on its second flight from Germany. Except for one sudden squall yesterday, which tilted the air ship’s nose, broke dishes and frightened some passengers, the voyage proceeded with smooth monotony. Captain Ernst Lehmann, in com mand of the craft, told the pas sengers at dinner the unusual weather conditions being encoun tered on the flight involved no danger. Mackay Radio reported the Hindenburg’s position at 4 a. m., eastern standard time, as about 970 miles straight east from New York. Founder of Old Age Bene fit Program Is Witness at House Investi gating Hearing LINE OF QUIZZING UPHELD AT OUTSET Townsend Letter to Robert Clements, Former Secre tary, Is Read, Declaring “You and I Have World by Tail on This Thing if We Work It Right” Washington, May 19. —(AP) — As sertions the Townsend old age pen sion movement was started solely to obtain “cold cash” and to make “a hatful of money” were denied by Dr. F. E. Townsend today before a House investigating committee. A crowded committee room listened intently as James R. Sullivan, com mittee counsel, examined the elderly retired California physician, who in four years has become a national fig ure through his plan to pay S2OO a month pensions to all over 60. At the outset Representative Tolan, Democrat, California, a Townsendite committee member, protested the line of questioning, but he was overruled by Chairman Bell, Democrat, Mis souri. “Did you not say, ‘this old sister has done her part,’ when you received a $5 bill from a woman member?” Sullivan asked the witness. “Absolutely not,” Dr. Townsend re plied. Sullivan read into the record a let (Continued on Page Five.) MAY 31 DEADLINE ON SEED LOAN REQUEST Credits Being Extended Only to Farmers Unable To Get Fi nancing Elsewhere Washington, May 19. —(AP) — The Farm Credit Administration today set May] 31 as the date for receiving emergency crop loan ap plications in most of the south ern and southeastern states and June 19 for all other states. The FAC said 1936 loans were being made only to farmers un able tol obtain credit elsewhere. While loans were less numerous than last year, they numbered more than 150,000 at the close of business May 15. who cited “unmistakable proof of my intention to fight for the better ment of the working classes,” was believed to have gone a long way to ward ending swiftly the short-lived movement. The government’s conciliation and arbitration board warned the work ers if they failed to return in 24 hours they would lose all rights under pre sent collective labor contracts, and the railway management would be free to hire new workers. 8 PAGES TODAY FIVE CENTS COPY Tells House Investigating Committee That Is “Hos tile Force” Behind the Inquiry THINKS COMMITTEE IS UNFRIENDLY, TOO Predicts Formation of Third Party in American Politi cal Life; Explains Recent Appeal for Defense Fund; Says Millions of Dollars Is Needed Washington, May 19 (AP) —'The pre sent administration was described to day by Dr. F. E. Townsend as “the hostile force” behind the House com mittee investigating his old age pen sion movement. Before a packed committee room, the retired California physician em phasized the “unfriendly attitude” of the committee and denied assertions that he started the Townsend move ment “to make a hatful of money" or for the sole purpose of obtaining “cold cash.” (His statement that his followers “feel like I do about the two old part ies,” and that a third party would be organized “as soon as the opportunity presents itself,” was applauded by Townsendites in the audience. In naming the administration as the “hostile force” behind the investi gation, Dr. Townsend said that situa tion made necessary a recent appeal for a "defense fund” to be spent at his discretion. “We need millions to carry on a movement like this, and we are going to get them” the witness said. LANDLESS PEOPLE MENACE TO SOUTH Resettlement Chief Sounds Warning to Southern Publishers at Asheville Meeting I Asheville, May 19. —(AP) —Dr. W. W. Alexander, assistant administrator of the Federal Resettlement Admin istration, told members of the South ern Newspaper Publishers Association (here today that “the condition of landless population makes the South a seedbed for social unrest.” “Huey Long is dead,” he said, “but conditions that produced him remain. His strength was in his appeal to this group, and on their ifcacks he rode to power. There will be other Huey Longs tomorrow and in the years to come. “This tenant class —white and black —are the kind of people to whom ex treme radicals appeal, and unless something can be done to stabilize this condition somewhere in the fu ture they will turn to violence.” Dr. Alexander spoke at the morning session of the convention, j The problem of farm tenancy, he said, has become so serious in the last generation, “that intelligent citi zens cannot afford to let it develop | further.” DEMOCRATSAFTHt Hope for Strong Cleveland Platform to Drive Pro gressives Over By LESLIE EICHEL Central Press Staff Writer THE DEMOCRATIC high com mand hopes for a strong Old Guard platform at the Republican conven tion in Cleveland. With that end in view, a stronger drive than ever is under way to line up Republican Pro gressives for President Roosevelt. The plan of the New Dealers to pick Senator James Couzens of Mich igan as a Democrat is part of that strategy. Old Guarders in Michigan have refused to reaccept Senator Couzens. They charge him with be ing a New Dealer in principle. That delights the New Dealers. Senator Couzens, running for re-election as an Independent Republican, can be annexed as a Democrat—'and (accord ing to New Deal hopes) this combi nation of Independent Republicans and New Deal Democrats will carry Michigan for Roosevelt. BORAH TOO? The New Dealers would like to an nex Senator William E. Borah and ihis following, too. Borah now realize.* ihe has no chance in the Cleveland convention. He has been hinting a bolt since his “massacre” in Ohio. Borah, however, has hinted bolts in previous years. Gov. C. Ben Ross of Idaho believes he could beat Borah for senator, when re-elected as governor in 1932 for his second term, Ross carried evrey county in the state. He now ia in his third term. The New Dealers may hint that Senator Borah should be unopposed in Idaho. But it is ques tionable whether Ross could be in duced to step out of the race, except (Continued on Page Five.)
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