" HENDERSON
gateway to
CENTRAL
CAROLINA
TWENTY-THIRD YEAR
COMPROMISE REACHED OR NEW TAX SILL
Fractional Changes In Straw Vote Oh Governor
SOUTH CAROLINA’S
IOBACCO MEASURE
WILL MODIFIED
Decision of North Carolina
Supreme Court To Force
Changes in Scrap
Dealings
CONTAINED TIE-UP
WITH THIS STATE
Author of Bill Says Looks
Like Provision Is Invali
dated; to Cut Fine for Vio
lation from SI,OOO to SSOO
and Eliminate Tie - Up
Feature
Columbia, S. C., May 21. —(AP)
Sponsors of a bill to tax scrap tobac
,,, dealers announced today they
would ask an amendment to offset a
North Carolina Supreme Court de
cision rendering it inoperative in ef
fect as it now stands.
The South Carolina House of Re
presentatives passed the ’bill to levy a
SI,OOO fee per county to the Senate
this morning without a record vote.
It contained a clause providing that
it become effective only if a similar
law is enforced in North Carolina.
The North Carolina Supreme Court
held a similar 1935 act for that State
unconstitutional.
Representative A. G. Sloan, of
Marion, authoi of the pending bill,
commented:
•It looks like the North Carolina
decision invalidates my proposal as
things stand now,” he said.
He said he would ask senators to
amend the bill to permit it to take ef
fect without a similar law in North
(Continued oh Page Four.)
Britain Is
Not Ready
Vo Pay Up
London, May 21. —(AP) —Great Bri
tain still is not ready to initiate war
debt dincuasion.3 with the United
States.
Neville Chamberlin, chancellor of
'tie exchequer, answered a question in
the House of Commons by saying he
was unable lo add anything to Bri
l' ms last default note of December
id, which stated the time was not
'ip' to start talk, but which reiterat
’d n adiness “whenever the situation
v ’ rants the hope a satisfactory re
nd might be reached.”
BRITAIN TO RESIST
FOREIGN MEDDLING
London, May 21 (AP)—Prime
’.rn trr U 'ldwMi served a strong
warning in the House of Commons
today that Great Britain would
not tolerate foreign tampering
oh the affairs of Palestine and
Lgypt.
His statement was made in re
p y to a member’s request that
he make it clear that Britain
would not permit Italian inter
ferenee in those two countries.
Han Jobs
I n Merging
I ia.il Lines
Labor and Manage
ment Agreed To
Schedule To Pro
\ ide for Workers
Dropped
Washington, May 21.—(AP) — Suc
ecusful conclusion of negotiations to
an agreement for the protection of
' mployees thrown out of work in rail
load consolidation was announced by
representatives of rail labor and man
agement today after a conference
, (Continued on Page Five.)
iftrttiU'rsmt ilathi Dtswatrit
NEWSPAPER BALLOT
reveals McDonald
WITH NEARLY HALF
Professor’s Percentage in 1 5,190 Votes Is 47.8, but He
Has 49 Percent of Week’s Total of 3,391; Hoey
Slips Fractionally, Graham Remains Same
Copyright, 1936 by Henderson Dispatch and 24 Co-operating Newspapers
By C. A. PAUL.
Democratic voters of North Carolina, expressing them
selves through thei'medium of the state-wide straw vote being
conducted by a group of 25 leading newspapers, continued this
week to show a preference for Ralph W. McDonald, the Winston-
Salem entry in the gubernatorial contest.
More than 15,000 registered Democratic voters have spoken
in this poll, declaring their favorite in the race for the Demo
cratic nomination for governor.
This week McDonald polled more than 49 per cent of the vote
cast since the tabulation last Thursday. Clyde R. Hoey was sec
ond, getting 32.8 per cent of the new vote; Sandy Graham was
third with 16.4 per cent of the new vote and John A. Mcßae,
fourth, polling 1.8 per cent of the new vote.
The new votes, in actual numbers,
were cast as follows:
McDonald 1,663
Hoey 1,113
Graham 556
Mcßae 59
The 3,391 new votes brought, the
grand total of votes recorded to 15,190
making the standings of the candi
dates to dale:
McDonald 7,263
Hoey 5,229
Graham 2,430
Mcßae 268
Os the more than 15,000 votes cast,
Hoey nas received 34.4/per cefftT Gra
ham, 16 per cent;. McDonald 47.8 per
cent and Mcßae 1.8 per cent.
The total vote to date, both by ac
tual number of straw ballots and by
percentages, in each of the state’s
(Continued on Page Six.)
PROFESSOR’SCAMP
SL’APSAT GRAHAM
Amused at Latter’s Drag
ging University Merger
Into Campaign
llsiliy Ruirnn.
In Th<* Sir Wißller Hot*.
I’» .1 HASHISH* ll.|,
Raleigh, May 21.—Supporters of Dr.
Ralph W. McDonald for governor are
amused at Sandy Graham’s “recent
exhibition of political gymnastics” in
dragging the question of the consoli
dation of the University of North Car
-clina into the campaign, according to
Willie Lee Lumpkin, manager for
Dr. McDonald in his campaign for
(he Democratic nomination for gov
ernor.
“We arc greatly impressed with
Graham’s agility and his exhibition of
political gymnastic in the attempting
to hang on to the rapidly disintegrat
ing machine with one hand while he
grabs at straws with the other,”
Lumpkin said. “The latest display of
Graham’s versatility in particularly
entertaining. Like a small boy who
has stubbed his toe, he has gone run
ning to his alma mater for comfort,
Blinking certain voters will flock to
his banner because he has suddenly
,v ecome outspoken as an oppouent of
university consolidation.
“Sandy is setting a record for call
ing on his connections for succor. Al
though he was hanging on the run
ning board, the machine first turned
a deaf car to his pleas for help. Then
he called on the ex-service men to
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COURT RULING HAS
BEARING ON LIQUOR
Indirectly Sustains County Whisky
Act in Decision Appealed
from New Hanover
Raleigh, May 21.—(AP)—The State
Supreme Court ruled indirectly yes
terday on the constitutionality of the
controverted local liquor control laws
passed by the 1935 General Assembly.
In the appeal of Lacy Tate from a
sentence for possessing one and a half
gallons of liquor, the court held the
Turlington act was expressly render
ed inappliacble to that county by the
local liquor act.
Tate’s sentence, however, was up
held.
The decision was considered toy in
ference at least, to have upheld the
New Hanover county control act.
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HENDERSON, N. C., THURSDAY AFTERNOON, MAY 21, 1936
Money Now
Big Item Os
Candidates
Hoey Appears Well
Financed; Graham
and McDo na 1 d
Seem in Need of
Cash
Daily UlNpntt'h Ilnretm,
*K The Sir Walter Hotel,
Ry J. C. 11 ASKER VIM,
Raleigh, May 21. —With the date of
the primary now only a little more
than two weeks distant, more and
more talk is being heard about the
condition of the finances of the vari
ous candidates for the Democratic
nomination for governor and the a
mount of campaign funds still avail
able for the last days of the cam
paign. It is generally agreed among
all who know anything about prac
tical politics it is almost fatal for a
campaign organization to run out of
funds during the last week or two of
a campaign, since it requires money
to pay for the many automobiles,
workers and “watchers” at the polls
on the day of the primary. Most ex
perienced observers agree that the
candidate which has th« most effic
ient organization on election day,
(Continued on Page Four.)
Methodist Unity
Declared Biggest
Event for Decade
High Point, May 21 (AP) — Dr.* Jeff
Bader, of the Federal Council of
Churches of Christ, predicted in an
address to the Methodist Protestant
General Conference here today that
the proposed unification of the three
major branches if Methodism “will be
the greatest thing that has happened
in the last decade.”
The conference is scheduled to vote
on the matter tomorrow afternoon
after presentation of the report of
the commission on church union.
Church leaders forecast a majority for
the plan.
The Methodist Episcopal Church
adopted the proposal last week at Co
lumbus, Ohio. The Methodist Episco
pal Church, South, cannot act until
its next quadrennial conference in
1938.
WAGE HOUR SCALES
FOR HOSIERY LOSE
Only 66 Percent of Industry Agree
able to Little NR A and Ef
forts Are Dropped
Winston-Salem, May 21.—(AP)—Ef-
forts to set up voluntary wage and
hour standards in the seamless
hosiery trade has failed, it was stat
ed here today.
Only 66 percent would sign up for
a little NRA in the industry.
J. W. Weeks, of the Hanes Hosiery
Mill, a member of the “little NRA”
campaign committee, said no further
attempts would be made to get an
agreement through.
Three Pictures of a Living Success Story
Three excellent and hitherto unpublished pictures of Dr. Francis E. Townsend, founder of the S2OO-a
--month old age pension plan, who told a Congressional committee investigating old age pension schemes that
he had the world by the tail with a down-hill pull.” Dr. Townsend revealed that he intended to start a
third party, and actively enter the Congressional campaigns this summer to elect Congressmen and Sena
tors favorable to his plan- (Central Press)
Race Question And Foreign
Troops Problem For Italy
(By The Associated Press.)
The new empue that Fascism built
with bullets turnedFNis Tiand today to
two ticklish problems—the African
color line and the foreign troops who
still stand guard in Ethiopia.
II Messagero, influential Roman
newspaper, served notice there would
be no “empire of mulattos.”
While official France flatly refused
issfESs
Foreign Nations, and Cer
tainly United States, Not
Likely to Aid
TO EXPLOIT ETHIOPIA
Duce’s Success in Africa Believed To
Have Surprised Even Him;
Big Job There Yet Re
mains, However
By CHARLES P. STEWART
Central Press Staff Writer
Washington, May 21. —Commerce
Department officials hear that Pre
mier MusFolini already has agents
abroad seeking foreign loan to exploit
Ethiopia.
That he will be able to raise much
money is spoken of as extremely
doubtful. In the United States it is
downright illegal to make financial
advances to nations which are in de
fault on their obligations to Uncle
Sam, and Italy is one of them. The
British and French, slapped in the
face by the Italian defiance of their
objections to Fascist activities in east
Africa, arc deemed unlikely to favor
(Continued on Page Two.)
LEPERS MAKE GOOD
COMPLETE ESCAPE
Manila, P. 1., May 21 (AP)—New
tales of terror were awaited by au
thorities today as they gave up hope
of immediately recapturing six escap
ed lepers, Who killed seven Filipinos
on their flight from the world’s larg
est leper colony at Culion.
Constabulary men said the sextette
probably reached Borneo in a stolen
fishing craft, whose crew of four they
murdered.
Thjr weather man~
FOR NORTH CAROLINA.
Partly cloudy tonight and Fri
day, with scattered showers Fri
day on south coast.
an Italian request that 150 French
colonial troops withdraw from guard
ing railway shops m at. Brit
ahd French statesmen were reported
conferring over a Fascist “hint”
about legation guards in Addis Ababa
The Italians believe these guards,
who valorously protected foreign lives
during the rioting which preceded the
Italian occupation of Haile Selassie’s
one-time capital, now are unnecessary
Roosevelt Signs
Electricity Bill
Washington, May 21.—(AP) —
President Roosevelt today signed
the Norris bill authorizing expen
diture of $410,000,000 over the next
ten years for rural electrification.
cottonghopperT
STRIKEMHEC
Leaders Tell Workers To Go
to Jail and Let County
Feed Them
Memphis, Tenn., May 21.—(AP) —
Arkansas planters fought a cotton
hands strike with non-recognition to
day while union leaders called on
their followers “to fill up the jails and
let the county feed the strikers.”
Headquarters of the Southern Ten
ant Farmers Union here claimed 3,-
000 workmen had left the fields in
three eastern Arkansas counties in a
fight to raise wages from $1 to $1.50
daily. The union said work was at a
standstill at all save small farms
worked by owners.
Officers insisted, however, that the
large planters had plenty of labor
and wc#-k was unimpeded.
The Earle, Ark., local of the union
sponsored the plan for passive resis
tance in jail. The strikers were ad
vised to refuse to work, get themsel
ves jailed for vagrancy and continue
their refusal to labor on prison farms.
H. L. Mitchell, union secretary, was
cheered by a promise of aid yester
day from William Green, head of the
American Federation of Labor.
PRESBYTERIANS TO
TALK UNIFICATION
Proposals Show Strength at Diamond
Jubilee Meeting of Church
men at Augusta
Augusta, Ga., May 21.—(AP)—Pro
posals to unite the southern and
northern branches of the church
showed strength today among dele
gates here for the diamond jubilee of
the Presbyterian Church in the Unit
ed. States.
At least five Presbyteries have pe
titioned the General Assembly to take
imm.Mliate steps for the “formation so
a nationwide Presbyterian church.”
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EXCEPT SUNDAY.
However, the question of whether
such a withdrawal would amount to
tacit recognition qfc the pew Roman,
Empire entered into the 'case.
In Paris, Leon Blum, who will be
France’s new premier next month,
made it plain his leftist government
will press for settlement of the crisis
caused by the Ethiopian war and the
sanctions taken against the “aggres
sor."
Badoglio To
Get Triumph
Os Victory
Subjugator of Ethio
pia on Way to Rome
for Triumphant Re
ception There
Amara, Eritrea, May 21.—(AP)
'Marshal Piedro Badoglio, leaving his
responsibilities as viceroy of Ethiopia,
in the hands of General Rodolfo
Graziani, was on his way home today
for a conquering hero’s return to
Italy.
General Graziani, commander of the
southern campaign, arrived in Addis
Ababa yesterday and assumed the
power of governor in the name of
King-Emperor Victor Emmanuel just
before Marshal Badoglio took his
leave of the former Ethiopian capital.
The commander-in-chief was expect
ed to sail Monday for Italy.
There he is expected to lead a
triumphant procession June 7 when
Italy will celebrate simultaneously its
“constitution day” and its conquest
(Continued on Page Two.)
DEMOCRATS CAUCUS
ON LYNCHING BILLS
Party Meeting Forced by Petition
Signed by 27 Members of the
National House
Washington, May 21 (AP) —A Demo
cratic House/oaucus was called today
for tomorrow night to discuss anti
lynching legislation.
The party meeting was forced by a
petition signed by 27 members —two
more than necessary.
Several bills to p/ovide Federal pen
alties in connection with lynchings
are pending before the House Judi
ciary Committee. Representative
Ford, Democrat, California, who start
ed the caucus movement with Repre
sentative Cavaghan, Democrat, New
York, said the specific objective of
the meeting was “to try and in
fluence the committee to bring a bill
out. ”
» Representative Bankhead, Demo
crat, Alabama, and other House
leaders, have expressed doubt that any
further action would be taken at this
session on anti-lynching legislation.
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BOOST ON NORMAL
INCOME TAX RATES
DROPPED, HOWEVER
Calls for Flat Tax of 18 Per
cent on Corporation In
come as Accord
Is Reached
ALLOWS EXEMPTION
FOR SMALL FIRMS
Congress Begins To See
Nightmares of Working
Hot Summer Nights to Get
Through Job, With Only
Recess for Coming Na
tional Convention
Washington, May 21.—(AP)—Whip
ping all but one member into line, the
Senate Finance Committee today
reached agreement on a compromise
plan for increasing corporation taxe3
but scuttled a proposal at the loss of
considerable revenue, for boosting the
normal income tax rate.
Moving along swiftly after days of
delay, the committee thus reached ac
cord on the vital part of the revenue
bill.
The compromise would call for a
flat 18 percent tax on corporation in
come, a flat seven percent on income
withheld from distribution, exemption
of SI,OOO from taxation for corpora
tions making no more than $20,000 a
year, and retention of the present cap
ital stock and excess profit taxes.
Smiling broadly, Senator Harrison,
Democrat, Mississippi, chairman, said
the committee had made “very good
progress,” and he expected it to be
able' report out-rar-bitt- early next
week.
So greatly at odds was the commitr
(Continued on Page Four.)
FLIERS HOPING FOR
TITLE ON LONG HOP
Miami, Fla., May 21 (AP)—
Two Spartanburg, S. C. fliers hop
ed today to obtain official recog
nition for breaking the non-stop
light plane distance record.
R. F. Turner and Gordon Craig
flew from Raleigh, N. C., to Boca
Raton, Fla., a distance of 732
miles, in their small plane. They
planned ending the flight at Miami
but a fuel shortage brought them
down 36 miles short of their goal.
Improper
Use Mails
Is Denied
Washington, May 21 (AP) —An as
sertion immediately denied that the
Townsend old age pension organiza
tion used the mails to defraud was
made today before a House investi
gating committee.
James R. Sullivan, counsel for the
committee, declared that $11,490 was
raised for a “congressional fund” by
an appeal to Townsend clubs sent
through the mails in the form of
“Townsendgrams.”
Dr. F. E. Townsend, founder of the
movement, who was on the stand for
the third day, denied knowledge of
the appeal “until after it was out.”
He added that he did not believe the
mails “were used to defraud."
The committee turned to this line
of inquiry after an angry session yes
terday, in which Townsend cried that
many of the questions directed at him
were “nonsense.”
FRANITOOiCT
IN BEHALF PRIEST
Action of Italians Against
Workers in Ethiopia Is
Held Unjustified
Paris, May 21 (AP) —Joseph Paul-
Boncour, acting minister, de
clared tonight Italy’s expulsion of a
French priest from Ethiopia was “in
acceptable,” and an authoritative
source said France would protest vig
orously.
This sudden development in the
Fran co-Italian situation came short
ly after the French government re
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