North Carolina Newspapers

HENDERSON gateway to CENTRAL CAROLINA TWENTY-THIRD YEAR each of managers PREDICT VICTORY FOR HIS CANDIDATE Lumpkin Repeats Offer to Let High Man Be De clared the Nomi nee Today OLIVE CLAIMS THAT HOEY TO GET 207,000 Lon Folger Comes in With Claim That Graham Will Be High Man With 170,- 000 Votes; Expect Between 400,000 and 425,000 Votes to Be Cast in Primary llnll? I)lN|ifitt‘h (Inresm, In 'l’lip Sip Wiillrr lintel, nr J c. BANKKrvim, Raleigh, June 6.—Each of the cam paign managers for the three leading candidates for governor predicted that his candidate would be victorious in the primary election being held today. Hubert E. Olive, State campaign manager for Clyde R. Hoey, predicted the nomination of Mr. Hoey by a vote of not less than 207,000 votes. Willie Lee Lumpkin, manager for Dr. Ralph \V. McDonald, declared that the Win ston-Salem candidate would get not less than 200,000 votes and probably more .while A. D. (Lon) Folger, cam paign manager for Sandy Graham, predicted that Graham would be high man with at least 170,000 votes. "Without any doubt, Clyde R. Hoey will be named the Democratic nomi nee for governor today,” Campaign Manager Olive said. ‘‘We feel certain that he is assured of receiving 207,- 000 votes, although the number of votes cast will of course depend some what upon the weather throughout the day. But if the day remains fair over most of the State, as is indicat ed, he will not only fee high man but probably get a majority. "In my opinion, there will be be tween 400,000 and 425,000 votes cast in today s election. The Democrats of the State for a while seemed to be misled by impossible promises but they now realize that the man who will provide a safe, sound, liberal and progressive administration for the State of North Carolina for the next four years is Clyde R. Hoey. I want to take this opportunity to thank all the supporters of Mr. Hoey who are going to the polls today and who will nominate Mr. Hoey and to congratu late the people of North Carolina for selecting Mr. Hoey as their next gov ernor.” Campaign Manager Lumpkin, for Dr. McDonald, could not be reached here for a formal statement today, but before leaving yesterday he pre dict e r ] that Dr. McDonald would be nominated in today’s primary and re ceive in excess of 200,000 votes. He al so repeated his offer to let the high man he declared the winner, if the candidate in the lead does not have a clear majority over the other two. "Several days ago I took cognizance of the claims of the Hoey and Gra ham managers that their candidates would lead in the first primary,” Lumpkin said. ‘‘At that time I asked them to prove their confidence by agreeing publicly to allow the leading candidate to be designated as the nominee for governor and thus ob viate the possibility of a second pri (Continued on Pago Two.) FEAR MANY DEAD IN BLASE IN IOWA Cleaning Plant Explodes, Wrecking Buildings and Injuring Many Tampa, lowa, June 6. —(AP)— A tf, trific explosion in a cleaning plant today wrecked two buildings and. injured at least 12 persons and did widespread damage in the business district. Firemen, who battled the flames which followed the blast ibelieved eev etal persons were killed. The blast shattered the shop and hardware store next door. Walls were cracked and windows blown out in other buildings in the area. As firemen fought back the flames, rescue workers started digging thro (lßh the debris for bodies. Predict Record Vote For The Primary Today Charlotte, June 6.—(AP) —A sizzling four-cornered race for governor with sales tax the dominant issue drew !), r nocrats to the polls today in what > '<:t ion officials predicted a record dumber. Senator J. W. Bailey and seven con gressmen faced opposition, but the governor’s race with a 33-year-old for "ler professor, advocating the out ri«ht repeal of the $10,000,000 sales '* x - held the spotlight. Election of tieials prepared for a turnout of up lirnitcrsmt Batin Btsmtfrh LEASED WIRE SERVICE OP THE ASSOCIATED PRESS. China’s Famous Route Army on Move Again • a. ■ ma C rch W°noi S fhwavd S in r°l l^ a<l PU u ° P SUCh a Uant bat . tle a^ainst the Japanese at Shanghai are reported DroDagaSda liTthA 1" S? 1 -" a -£ here rumors of impending civil war have been characterized as Japanese P ® Chiang Kai-shek, Chinese war lord, whose spokesman quashed the rumors. If war comes to China, it will not be civil war.” he said. (Central Press) Capitol Hill Has Jitters As Primary Voting Had Dnlijr Dlaiintch Bntena, In The Sir Walter Hole. I'r J .3. HASKEKVIL.I/ Raleigh, June 6. —There’s many a case of jitters on Capitol Hill here today as the primary voting goes on and as the partisans of the various candidates wait for the votes to be cast and counted. For while most peo ple are sure their candidate will win in their public expressions, privately they are all in doubt and exceedingly jittery. For even the veteran obser vers of primary elections concede that just as this campaign so far has violated all the laws and customs of primary campaigns in North Carliha, just so is the outcome exceedingly doubtful. most observers privately agree that the election to day is anybody’s race, that anything may happen and that nobody knows which of the three candidates for the nomination for governor will ibe in first or even in second place. Most of the State officials, both elective and appointive, are generally conceded to be largely for Clyde R. Hoey for governor, although a few are actively and openly for Sandy Graham. Not a single major State of fice holder is known to he for Dr. Ralph W. McDonald. Likewise, a ma jority of the State employes are re CONFEREES AGREE ON PRICE FIXING Long Debated Question Os Price Discrimination in Buying Agreed On Washington, June 6.—(AP)—Con gressional conferees today reached an. agreement on the long disputed anti price discrimination legislation de signed to protect independent mer chants from large scale competitions. The House and Senate conferees agreed to majoir provisions of the (Senate bill, including the Robinson hill and the Borah-Van Nye bill. The Robinson ibill would empower the Federal Trade Commission to li mit quantity discounts when mono poly was involved, and would prohibit false discounts for brokerage fees or other services. Under the Borah amendment, an entirely different method of prose cuting price discrimination, tending to create monopoly, would be set up. Competitors, who felt they were dis criminated against unfairly, could in stitute criminal proceedings ni Fed eral court directly instead of going to the Federal Trade Commission. Both the Robinson and the Borah- Van Nuys bills originally were intro duced to strengthen the Clayton anti trust law relating to price differential for quantity purchase or other rea sons. ■ to 450,000 voters, about 75,000 more than voted in the last primary. The anti-sales tax candidate is Dr. Ralph W. (McDonald, who also de . nounced what he termed as the "ma i chine rule” of the state in his cam paign. Clyde R. Hoey and Lieutenant Gov i era or A. H. Graham expressed dis • taste to the sales tax and advocated • lowering its rate but asserted it could i not be repealed entirely without a ■ property levy and ruining business > and industry. ONL\ DAILY NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN garded ns supporting either Hoey or Graham, with very few hacking Dr. McDonald, despite the fact that six or eight weeks auo a majority of the Slate employes in Raleigh were re garded as leaning towards McDonald. But as a result of his campaign prom ises to “clean house in Raleigh” and to turn out most of the present ap pointive State officials and State em ployes who are supporting the other candidates, most of the State em ployes are now regarded as definitely for one of the other two leading can didates, since most of them have ar rived at the conclusion that if their superiors are kicked out, they will in. all probability lose JhqjT jtoo, make-, room for JJiV. sup porters. > T / * So there is more thah the usual In terest in the primary among most of the State employes here, who run in to the hundreds. It .is a question of bread and butter With literally hun dreds of department and division heads and their employes, including the 300 or more girl stenographers and clerks who have been assured in no uncertain terms that they will lose their jobs 'by January 1 if Dr. Mc- Oontinued on Page Three.) Attacks on Patronage, How ever, Mostly Due to Its Misplacement By CHARLES P. STEWART Central Press Staff Writer Washington, June 6. Although young Senator Rush D. Holt of West Virginia is by far the noisest of Dem ocrats in accusing his own party’s ad ministration of playing politics with relief in his home state, he by no means is the only one to make the complaint. The others simply are more dis creet; they murmur instead of shout ing. Os course Republican charges of the kind are to be expected; that there are so many disgruntled Demo crats is more surprising. EXPLAINABLE Yet it is explainable. If politics had been played to the angry Democrats’ liking they would not have been angry. To the contrary they now would be denying that there has been any politics-playing. But such of it as may have been done has been done mainly at the dic tation of Democratic Chairman (and Postmaster General) James A. Farley. And Farley has dictated largely in what he evidently has conceived to be President Roosevelt’s re-election chances without much regard for the prospects of local candidates—•repre sentatives and even senators. DID FARLEY GO TOO FAR? Os course, there are a few moguls in both houses of Congress whose re commendations have had respectful consideration, but those of the rank and file of legislators have been rath er cavalierly treated. Naturally, the ones whom the ad ministration has pooh-poohed in the matter of appointments are mightly indignant. It is not altogether certain that Farley has not overdone his policy of subordinating local candidacies to the national administration’s supposed advantage. It may prove to have ibred a deal of influential Democratic dis affection, which will profit the G. O. P. on election day. If it was an error it is too late to (Continued on Page Three.) HENDERSON, N. C„ SATURDAY AFTERNOON, JUNE 6,1936 THIS SECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA AND VIRGINIA FREAKISH WEATHER IS CUTTING CROPS Drought in Southeastern U. S. and Frost in North ern U. S. and Canada PRICES ARE SOARING Food and Produce in Market Centers Rise in Price as Supply Dwind les; Prospective Loss of $100,000,000 (By The Associated Press) Freakish weather conditions —rare drqSlights in the southeastern United States and late frosts in the northern states and Canada —struck today at the pocketbook of millions of con sumers. Commodity prices soared as food and produce dealers in the large con suming centers, their stocks already running low, rushed orders to pro ducers in the agricultural sections. Three key crops of the southeast— cotton, tobacco and corn, were threat ened by drought. Farmers in northern Alabama and Georgia, eastern Tennessee, the Caro linas, Virginia and Maryland were faced with a prospective $100,000,00(1 crap loss as crop conditions grew more acute by the hour. Secretary Wallace assigned Department of Ag riculture workers to devise a Federal relief plan. Blum Takes Program to Parliament Paris, June 6.—(AP)—Students and police fought in the Latin quarters in an outburst of viol ence tonight after Socialist Pre mier Leon Blum had temporarily withdrawn from the Chamber of Deputies under a personal attack. The Rightest deputy had assail ed Blum as a Jew. The students demonstrated with shouts of “France for the French." Sergeant-at-arms surpressed the outburst, which approached phy sical violence, in the Chamber of Deputies. Gendarmes broke up the stu dents demonstration, making a dozen arrest. Paris, June 6.—(AP)—France’s So cialist premier, Leon Blum went be fore parliament today with a program intended to satisfy labor’s demands, revive business and relieve the far mer. Peace for all Europe through col lective seclurity was announced as •his foreign policy in the ministerial declaration to parliament. Simultaneously Blum took action to ibreak a nation-wide strike of nearly one million workers, to revise the (Continued on Pago Two.) OUR WEATHER MAM FOB NORTH CAKOIJNA. Fair to partly cloudy tonight and Sunday, unsettled in sofuth portion tonight. Reports to Headquarters of Gubernatorial Candi dates Point To Record ENCOURAGING REPORT SENT TO CANDIDATES McDonald Said to Be Much Stronger West of Charlotte Than First Thought; Gra ham Heavy in Four Coun ties; Hoey Is Receiving Heavy Support Raleigh, June 6. —(AP) —Headquar- ters here of three of the four Demo cratic gubernatorial candidates said they had received reports at midday of heavy voting in the primary thro ughout the state, and the weather bureau believed clear weather pre vailed everywhere in North Carolina. Voting in Raleigh and Wake coun ty was reported heavy. Sandy Graham headquarters said reports from Montgomery, Richmond Gates and Beaufort counties indicated Graham was running stronger there than it had been expected, and the voting was at a record breaking pace. Headqurters for Ralph W. McDonald said reports “from nearly every coun ty west of Charlotte say that McDon ald is showing unexpected and grati fying strength,” and in the east” Mc- Donald is running strong in very heavy voting.” Hubert E. Olive, state manager for Clyde R. Hoey, said one report from Lenior in Caldwell county said the voting was heavy with Hoey appar ently getting all of the first 100 bal lots cast there. In Cleveland county, Olive said, thq voting was so heavy people were lined up at the polling places “for blocks.” He said Randolph, Gaston and Hall- (Continued on f age Three.) B 0« But Other Demands of La bor May Make Snag for Both Conventions By LESLIE EICHEL Central Press Staff Writer Cleveland, June 6. —On one impor tant platform plank both Republicans and Democrats promise to agree— that the hours of labor must be shor tened in order, to relieve unemploy ment. But organized labor does not prom ise to ibe satisfied. It desires to know the answers to a few other questions, as for .example. 1. Will the parties agree that col lective bargaining and all its con conitant essentials be written deep in to fundamental law and upheld in practice? 2. Will the parties agree that Con gress “assume its perogative*’ and curb the Supreme Court’s “anti-labor” tendency (as labor sees it)? For ex ample, in the Guffey coal act decision the court upheld the right of the gov ernment to regulate the industry to maintain prices for owners hut de nied the government the privilege of (Continued on Page Two.) Byrns Taken To Nashville For Burial Trains Bearing Body And President Roosevelt Due At Mid-Afternoon Aboard the Roosevelt Train En route to Nashville, Tenn., June 6. (AP)- -Over a route he had traveled in his 27 years as national legislator, the body of Joseph W. Byrns moved today—back to his native Tennessee, for last services and iburial. The coffin bearing the late Speaker of the House of Representative was escorted by President Roosevelt, a host of colleagues and friends in Wash officialdom, who had attended the impressive state funeral in the house chamber yesterday. The funeral train, running in two sections with the chief executive, fol lowing behind the congressional party and members of the 66-year-old legis lator’s family, crossed the Virginia- Tennessee border long before day break. After speeding through the hills of eastern and north Tennessee, the trains were due in Nashville for a mid-afternoon funeral. PUBLISHED EVERY AFTERNOON I7'T\7"IP f' , l?\irPC! PfIPV except Sunday. rlvili OLJNid b LUri Landon Forces Claiming Enough Votes To Assure Kansan’s Nomination New Speaker I 1 &§sgsga mk j|| Rep. William B. Bankhead Representative William B. Bank head «f Alabama, above, is the new speaker of the house of rep resentatives. He was named in a conference of senior house mem bers to become permanent speak er to fill the place vacated upon the death of Speaker Joseph W. By ms of Tennessee. —Central Press Vandenburg Declines As A Candidate * > *) 4 M . i Says He Will Be Os Greater Service As Senator Than As Vice President Washington, June 6.—(AP)—Sena tor Vandenburg, of Michigan, an nounced today that he would not ac cept nomination as a Republican can didate for vice-president. In a formal statement, the senator said he thought he “could be of great er service in active labors on the Sen ate floor than on its silent rostrum.” Invites Labor Head to Re turn to Council Table of Mine Workers Washington, June 6 (AP) —John L. Lewis, denounced William Green to day for the “inemipitude” of his stand toward the industrial unions plan to organize a steel industry. Simultaneously, he invited the Ame rican Federation of Labor President to return to the council table of the United Mine Workers’ Dispatch Will Announce Returns From Election Returns from the county and State primary elections will be an nounced by the Daily Dispatch tonight from its office on Young street. The public is invited to be guests of the Dispatch on that occasion. Amplifiers will be erect ed for use in announcing bulletins. 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 big vote anticipated, it will be impos sible 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 away 8 PAGES TODAY Stop Landon Coalition Turns to Frank Lowden as Consolidation Candidate SHARP WORDS POUR UPON LANDONITES Supporters of Kansan Claim 400 Votes; Coalition Group Claims 543, Enough to Keep the Nomination from Landon; Prospective Plat form Gains Attention Cleveland, June 6 (AP)—The Cleve land News said today that a “Stop iLandon coalition/’ was turning to, former Governor Frank O. Lowden, of Illinois, in its search for a candi date upon whioh its varying groups could consolidate. The News said "old guard leaders of the Knox-Borah-Dickinson combi nation” were turning to the former Illinois governor in a hope to captur ing the nomination. The story came at a time when the forces of Governor Landon, of Kan sas, were claiming enough assured ballots to give their candidate an early nomination. The News said that if the Lowden candidacy failed an effort would be made to consolidate the anti-Landon forces behind Senator Vandenburg, of Michigan, or Glenn Frank, the lib eral president of the University of Wisconsin. The News said that their tabula tion showed that this combination totalled 543 votes, 43 more than en ough to withhold the nomination from tihe Kansan. G. O. P. RIVALRIES GROWING MORE TENSE Cleveland, June 6.—(AP)—Repub lican rivalries grew more tense today as a variety of opposition camps sought strenously to undermine the mounting claims of the supporters of Alf M. Landon. * Sharp words poured in upon the Landon ites, who overnight had boost* ed their ostihnatfe of‘tb® Kansas gov ernor’s first ballot strength in next week’s national convention to 400 votes. That would be but 102 short of enough to nominate. For the most part, the disposition of the Landon managers was to ac cept the attacks without retaliation. Talks of tryiing to force a first-bal lot choice quieted somewhat aa friends of the Kansan sought to calm the storm and to assure all rivals (Continued on Page Four.) ToS HIGH PEAK I, Increase Freight Car Load ings Bring Best Week Since June, 1930 New York, June 6 (AP)—lndustrial activity nosed into new high ground for the year today, the Associated Press Index advancing to .1 of a point over the former high to 89.4. This compared with 89 last week and 70.3 a year ago. The present level is the highest since the latter part of June 1930. Ac tivity has been compartivel ystable during the past month. Underlying this week’s upturn is a sharp rise in the freight car loading, and a new 1936 top in residential building. Automobile output registered only decline on a seasonally adjusted basis for the week. Although with cotton fmanufactucingi electric power pro duced and steel mill activity, how ever, it has been moving In a narrow range for several weeks. Into the office. It only creates confusion and delays tabulations ana 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. The returns will be broadcasted through the latest in amplifying systems, and will be through the courtesy of George Stevenson and the Stevenson theatre. The equip ment was set up during the morn ing and tested, and declared to be in the best shape to bring *he returns.