HENDERSON
GATEWAY TO
CENTRAL
CAROLINA
TWENTY-THIRD YEAR
MANY POLITICIANS
DISCOUNT POLL AS
BEING INACCURATE
Sonic of Raleigh Observers
Think Hoey Will Run
First, Even With
Graham Second
BASE FORECAST ON
CLAIM OF CHANGES
Shifts of Sentiment Not
Reflected in Straw Votes
Cast Weeks Ago, They
Say: Hoey and Graham
Both Have Strong Organ
izations Over the State
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Raleigh. June s.—Though Dr. Ralph
\V. McDonald should be high man in
(hr primary tomorrow and get not less
than 160,000 votes, if the election fol
lows the trend of the newspaper poll
which was just completed yesterday,
and which indicated a vote of as
much as 200,000 for McDonald, op
inion among most of the older and
more experienced politicians here is
that Clyde R. Hoey will run in first
place with about 150,000 votes, that
Sandy Graham will be in second place
with about 140.000 votes and McDon
ald in third place with about 130,-
000 votes. John A. Mcßae, of Char
lotte. the “lone wolf” candidate of the
campaign, is expected to run fourth
with not more than 10.000 votes.
Those who make these estimates
admit that in the face of the figures
shown by the newspaper poll, in
which McDonald is shown with an
estimated vote of 211,000, Hoey with
a vote of 151,000, and Graham with a
vote of only 67,000 and Mcßae with
only about 9,000 votes, agree that their
claims sound extreme and fantastic,
if not actually '.ratty. They maintain,
however, that when their reasoning
is analyzed, these claims are not as
extreme and impossible as they seem
to be at first. The reasoning used in
arriving at these estimates is as fol
lows:
1 The total of 211,000 votes credited
to McDonald by the newspaper poll
is based on votes the greater number
of which were cast from two to six
weeks ago and hence do not take in
to consideration any shifting of sen
timent during the past week or ten
days.
2. They generally conceded gains
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BRITISH CABINET
Former Foreign Secretary
Has Been Made First
Lord of Admiralty
London, June 5. —(AP) —Prime Min
ister Baldwin today brought Sir
Samuel Hoare, foreign secretary who
resigned in disfavor over the Italo-
Ethiopian war, back into the British
cabinet-
Sir Samuel was appointed First
Lord of Admiralty, succeeding Lord
Monsell, who resigned.
Sir Samuel’s return to the cabinet,
although long predicted, may raise a
new public outcry, observers said,
since he was forced out of the cabinet
last December because of his agree
ment with Pierre Laval, then France’s
foreign minister, on a plan for com
promise with Italy in its campaign
against Ethiopia.
Chinese Are
Mobilizing
Against Japs
I roops In South
China Gathered for
Expedition Into the
North
Canton, China., June 5. —(AP)—The
southwestern political council tonight
ordered combined provincial armies
South China to mobilize an anti-
Japanese expedition into the north.
t he council’s mandate decreed that
the troops of two provinces be merged
for the expedition.
A,* Hongkong, it was reported, an
independent declaration of war was
issued by the Canton (South) Chinese
government.
Kuominkang (Nationalist party)
southwest executive committee and
southwest political council ordered
troops to march northward “resist
Japanese aggression,” the report said.
Chinese reports from Honan pro
vinee said seven Chinese spies in the
pay of Japan had been caught and
iommarjly executed.
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Map of President Roosevelt’s June itinerary
At precisely the same time that Republicans are
meeting in Cleveland to select their national ticket
for 1936, President Roosevelt will be speeding
across the country on a tour that will take him to )
Kentucky, Arkansas, Texas and Indiana. As this j
map shows, the president departs from Washington |
June 8. the day preceding the opening of the G. |
O. P. convention. Scheduled stops on the chief {
executive’s itinerary include: June 9,
Ky., birthplace of Abraham Lincoln; June
Arkansas centennial celebration at Little Rockff
June 11, Houston, Austin and San Antonio, Texas; |
June 12, Dallas and Fort Worth, Texas; June j
Landon’s Leader Says
Administration Is Useing
Relief Money For Gain
Cleveland, June 5. —(AP) —John M.
Hamilton, leader of the Landon forces
said today he had no fault to find
with Republicans who, during the
first two years of the New Deal, sup
ported out of patriotic considerations
efforts to care for the needy. Hamil
ton was replying to a statement from
Senator Borah’s camp last night
which said that up until a few months
ago Governor Landon had been an
avowed supporter of the New Deal.
“During the first two years of the
Roosevelt administration," Hamilton
SUPREME COURT IS
NO! 10 BE ISSUE
New iDeal Wants to Wait
Until After Election to
Press Fight
By CHARLES P. STEWART
Central Press Staff Writer
Washington, June s—The5 —The question
whether or not the Federal Supreme
Court’s power . should be curtailed
clearly will not be fought over during
the national campaign just beginning.
The Republicans would like to have
the issue raised, with their party on
the negative side of it, because their
managerial group believes that a ma
jority of Americans are opposed to a
stricter limitation of judicial author
ity. However, they can’t make it an
issue, with themselves on the nega
tive side, unless the Democrats come
out affirmatively. And the Democrats
are too crafty to commit themselves.
President Ro6sevelt evidently agrees
with the Republicans that a proposal
to hamstring the “nine old men”
would be unpopular. Consequently,
much to the (£. O. P.’s annoyance, he
discreetly refrains from declaring for
such a policy.
DELAY SOUGHT
It would seem as if the New Deal
ers Must want the Supreme Court’s
power further restricted.
The court has knocked their legis
lative program into ptetty much of a
cocked hat, by holding so many of its
essential features unconstitutional.
Yet it is understandable that the ad
ministration may prefer to wait until
it is safely in office again, for anoth
er four years, before precipitating a
doubtful struggle.
There are even radicals, like Sena
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CONGRESS”TO TAKE
ONE WEEK'S RECESS
Washington, June 5 (AP) —The
Senate agreed to a House resolution
for recess of Congress from Monday
June 8 to Monday June 15.
HENDERSON, N. C., FRIDAY AFTERNOON, JUNE 5, 1936
Dennison, Texas; June 14, Vincennes, Ind. Follow
ing a few days in Washington, the president will
depart again June 19 to attend the Yale-Harvard
boat races at New London, Conn. On June 26 he
will be in Philadelphia to go through the formality
of accepting the renomination at the Democratic
national convention prior to going on a sailing
cruise with his sohs and family up the New England
•oast to his summer camp at Campo Bello, N. B.
The tour is not a campaign trip and was not
designed to distract attention from the Republican
convention, the president says. He is leaving the
radio free for the convention.
told his press conference, “there was
a period of self abbnegation by Re
publicans, both in Congress and oiit.
This was partly due to the period of
distress, partly out of patriotic con
siderations.”
“I don’t know of anyone who did
not want the Roosevelt program of
caring for the needy to succeed. And
that was the feeling as long as it
siayed on that ifciasis. But when it
came to the point where it was being
used for partisan and political pur
poses that is different.”
G. 0. P. PLATFORM
SOURCE OF WORY
Leaders Know Party Pro
nouncement Will Be Un
usually Important
By LESLIE EICHEL
Central Press Staff Writer
Cleveland, June s—lt has been said
that nobody reads party platforms.
The Republicans this year wish that
were quite true. They have difficul
ty over a platform.
Some months ago the Republicans
were denouncing President Roosevelt
for departing from the Democratic
platform. They probably regret now
that they have made a sacred insti
tution of party platforms.
The Republican party—traditional
ly the party of business —must appeal
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CAUSE SmSS
Reports From Rome Indi
cate Event Will Be Far
Ahead of Schedule
Geneva, June s.—(AP):—Reports
from Rome that Italy will hold its
army maneuvers soon—far in advance
of the customary dates for autumn
maneuvers caused uneasiness in
Geneva today.
Some sources interpreted the in
creased military activity in laly as a
new warning by Premier Mussolini
that further delay in listing League
of Nations sanctions will not be
tolerated.
It was pointed out that II Duce al
ready has 48 divisions under arms in
Africa and Europe—only three leas
than during the World War.
HOT FIGHT ON FOR
THREE MINOR JOBS
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Auditor,. Secretary of State
and Agriculture Post
Are Contested
PREDICTIONS BY POU
Claims Victory Over Durham for
State Auditor; Kerr Scott Giving
Hot Fight for Agricul
ture Office
Dally Dispatch Barean,
In The Sir Walter Hotel.
By J. C. BASKERVILI.
Raleigh, June 5.—A hot fight has
developed for the nomination for
three State offices, in addition to the
contest for lieutenant governor, name
ly for State auditor, secretary of
state and commissioner of agricul
ture, according to most observers here
Until the last ten days or so, little in
terest was being shown in the contest
for any of the State offices. But with
in the last week the prevailing belief
here is that spirited campaigns are
in progress for these three offices.
In the four-cornered contest for the
Democratic nomination for State au
ditor between Baxter Durham, the in
cumbent, George Ross Pou and Wil
lard L. Dowell, of Raleigh, and Char
les W. Mailer, of Asheville, the gen
eral belief is that the main race is be
tween Durham and Pou, though with-
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Discuss Italy’s Position In
Event She Resigns From
League of Nations
Venice, July S.— (AP) Premier
Mussolini of Italy and Chancellor
Kurt Schuschnigg, of Austria, were
reported today to have discussed
Italy’s position in Europe in case she
resigns from the League of Nations.
A reliable source indicated that if
Italy is forced to leave the League
because of the continuance of sanc
tions, Premier Mussolini would seek
a new lineup of European alliances,
principally one with Germany.
OUR WEATHER MAN
FOR NORTH CAROLINA.
Fair to partly cloudy tonight
and Saturday, except unsettled
near the coast; moderate tempera
ture.
Wallace Seeking Way To Aid
Farmers In Dry And Parched
Southeastern Section Os U. S.
Nation Honors Byrns
As Body Lies In State
In The National House
Sankhead, Newly Elected
Speaker, Tells of Byrns*
Deeds and Sudden
Death
HIGH OFFICIALS AT
LAST CAPITAL RITES ,
Republican Leader Bertrand
Snell Pays Tribute, Saying
“He Died as He Lived, A
Real Man, Loved, Honor
ed and Respected; His
Task Hasten Death
Washington, June s.—(AP) —Lying
in state before the rostrum from
which he guided the House of Rep
resentatives through history making
times, Joseph Wellington Byrns today
was honored by President Roosevelt
and the nation.
High officials of the United States
and foreign pwers bowed their heads
with Byrns colleagues in Congress as
the capital paid its last respect to the
dead speaker.
Sadly the new Speaker William B.
Bankhead, of Alabama, spoke to the
mourning throng of Byrns’ deeds and
his sudden death early yesterday of
a heart attack and cerebral hemorr
hage.
Himself, recovered only recently
from a long illness and visibly worn
by the ordeal of the last few days,
Bankhead had to pause often during
his eulogy.
Representative Bertrand Snell, of
New York, the Republican leader,
spoke of the dead leader of the House
Democrats as “my personal friend
and colleague, Joe Byrns.”
“He. died as he lived,” Snell said,
“a real man, loved, honored, and re
spected by his colleagues, and a dis
tinguished speaker of the House of
Representatives.”
Bankhead declared there was “no
question ibut that the arduous and ex
hausting duties of the Speaker of the
House must have contributed very
largely to his untimely end.”
COURT SUSM
District of Columbia Judge
Discusses Injunctions of
Power Groups
Washington, June 5. —(AP)— Chief
Justice Alfred A. Wheat, of the Dis
trict of Columbia Supreme Court, to
day upheld the constitutionality of
the Public Works Administration's
$209,000,000 power project and dismiss
ed in junctions against ten municipal
electric projects in four states.
Wheat ruled on three major legal
questions in his lengthy opinion.
He held that the plaintiff, three
power companies, had right to bring
suit to question the validity of the
power project.
He ruled, however, that the new
statute under which the projects are
being carried out, the National Indus
trial Recovery Act and the Emer
gency Relief Act of 1935 are constitu
tional.
He also held that the power proj
ects were authorized iby the terms of
'I these two statutes.
Dispatch Will Announce
Returns From Election
Returns from the county and
State primary elections will be an
nounced by the Daily Dispatch to
moirow night from its office on
Young street. The public is invited
to be guests of the Dispatch on
that occasion. Amplifiers will be
erected for use in announcing bul
letins.
A wire connecting with The As
sociated Press offices in Raleigh
will be set up for use throughout
the evening, and over this will
come returns from the guberna
torial contest throughout the
State, as well as returns on other
State contests. . , '
AND NOW, PLEASE. It is
clearly evident, that with the bt;
vote anticipated, it will be impos- i
PUBLISHED EVERY AFTERNOON
EXCEPT SUNDAY.
Blum Pleads
Against Any
Disorders
Food Stores and
Meat Plants Closed
In France As Strike
Spreads
Paris, June s.—(AP) —'The Socialist
Leon Blum, new premier, broadcast
an appeal to France’s workers, 500,-
000 of whom are on strike, to avoid
disorder, promising them he would
try to pass a 40-hour week law.
In addition to the 40-hour week, he
promised to ask parliament to vote
authorization of collective contracts,
and paid vacations —the three mak
ing up the principal reforms “de
manded by the labor world.”
While Blum was • speaking, large
food . stores and meat packing estab
lishments were closed by strikers.
Speedy settlement of disputes be
tween employees and operators sent
some workers back to their jobs, but
they were reported outnumbered by
new strike recruits and other indus
tries.
Fears of Paris residents of a food
shortage decreased as demands of
food workers unions were accepted by
employers.
LU SS
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Manager Says McDonald
Has Kept Gubernatorial
Campaign Clean
Dally Dispatch Bnreaa,
In The Sir Walter Hote.,
Pr J C. BASKERVILL .
Raleigh, June 5. —The opponents of
Dr. Ralph W. McDonald in the cam
paign for the Democratic nomination
for govrenor were raked over the
coals for slinging mud, dirt, and what
have you in a statement issued today
iby W. L. Lumpkin, State campaign
manager for Dr. McDonald, who main
tained that Dr. McDonald has fbeen
subjected to almost every form of
"malicious political persecution” in
the course of the campaign.
“Since the beginning of this cam
paign, Dr. McDonald and his support
ers have been reviled, abused and
made the butt of ridicule at the hands
of the machine candidates for gover
nor,” Lumpkin said. “Throughout the
campaign, Dr. McDonald has consis
tently turned a deaf ear to this ma
licious form of political persecution.
He preferred to let his opponents
scoop the gutters for false and scur
rilous propaganda while he pursued
his policy of fighting upon the issues
and of leaving the mudslinging to
those who oppose him and his move
ment to put justice into our State gov
ernment.
“Not satisfied with daily personal
attacks of a most vicious nature, the
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sibie for the staff in the building
to function properly unless allow
ed free reign to work. The public
is, therefore, asked, urged and
begged not to try to force a. way
Into the office. It only creates
confusion and delays tabulations
anu announcements. It is earnest
ly requested that only those enter
the office who are actually work
ing or who have in their hands
official returns for tabulation.
This request has been made on
other occasions and flagrantly
ignored by many people. It is hop
ed there will be greater consider
ation this time for those who will
be working feverishly inside to
try to serve those waiting on the
outside for the news.
Thank you.
12 St
Today
FIVE CENTS COPY
DELEGATION CALLS
AND TELLS PLIGHT
Os FARMERS THERE
Secretary “Highly Sympa
thetic” With Efforts To
Aid Stricken Farm
Section
PREDICT HALF CROP
FOR NORTH CAROLINA
Dean Schaub Says State
Crop Would Be Cujt ’ln
Half Unless Substantial
Rains Fall; Congressmen
Talk Liberalization of Soil
Act As Means of Aid
Washington, June s.—(AP)—Secre
tary Wallace put agriculture depart
ment experts to work today on a plan
to bring relief to farmers in drought
stricken southeastern states.
His action followed a visit by a con
gressional delegation from Virginia,
South Carolina, and Georgia, who de-
I scribed conditions in those states and
in Florida, Alabama and North Car
olina. 1
Quoting the secretary as being
“highly sympathetic" with .their ef
forts, members of the delegation said
they were ready to put through any
additional legislation that might be
necessary at this session of Congress.
They discussed various means of
providing relief, including liberaliza
tion of soil conservation rules to in
crease acreage which may be with
drawn from cultivation of tobacco
and cotton—the crops worse affected
—and other soil depleting fcrops. Such
a policy would increase farmers iben
efits.
Representative Hampden Fulmer,
joined other representatives in pre
dicting the department would pro
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HOT (MINIS
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McDonald’s Opposition To
Sales Tax Enliven Four
Cornered Race
Raleigh, June 5. —(AP) —North Car
olina's gubernatorial campaign, en
-1 liven by a 33-year-old ex-professor’s
■ platform for repeal of the $10,000,000
a year sales tax, ended today.
\ Tomorrow, the Democratic voters
. will chose among the four candidates.
The anti-sales tax candidate is Dr.
i Ralph W. McDonald, who quit his
i college professorship three years ago
• to run for the legislature and to lead
1 an unsuccessful fight for repeal of
t the levy at the 1935 session.
The others in the field are Clyde
. R. Hoey, a party campaigner for
■ many years, Lleut.-Gov. A. H. Gra
[ ham, a legislative veteran, and John
i A. Mcßae, a Charlotte lawyer.
Hoey and Graham look with dis
i favor upon the sales levy but contend
■ it cannot be completely repealed with
• out resorting to a property tax or
ruin business and Industry with other
i levies. Mcßae proposed a referendum
• on the issue.
Black Legion
Probe Nets
29 More Men
Sinister Trail Os Gian
Leads Into City and
County Govern
ments
Detroit, Mich., June 5.—(AP)—
Michigan held 29 men on charges
ranging from flogging to murder to
day as the black legion’s sinister trail
led into high offices of several cities
and county governments.
Six men were seized last night in
connection with the flogging of Rob
ert Penlan, Ecorse steel worker, for
non-attendance at black legion meet
ings. The arrest of three other men.
yesterday brought that act of the
night riding tend to light.
Before Circuit Judge James E.
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