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HENDERSON GATEWAY TO CENTRAL CAROLINA twenty-third year NEGRO CROPPER IN ‘FLOGGING KILLING” FOUND TO BE ALIVE Arkansas Governor Says Sheriff Has Located Frank Weems, Allegedly Fatally Beaten PR FAC HER DEMANDS QUICK PUNISHMENT Wants Prosecution of Group Who Attacked Him and Prominent Memphis Young Woman Near Earle, Ark., Monday Night; Won’t Re turn to Arkansas Little Rock, Ark., June 17. —<AP) t; oi nor Futrell said today Shreiff Howard Curlin, of Crittenden county, ! pi advised him he had found Frank Worms, Negro share-cropper, reported v Southern Tenant Farmer Union of firials to have died last week from a bating by men who broke up a union mooting. The governor said Curlin advised him Weems is alive and that neither ho nor his wife knew anything about ivports that the 40-year-old Negro had boon beaten fatally. That was a mock funeral deliber ately planned by H. L. Mitchell, South ern Tenant Farmers Union secretary, and his confederates as propaganda,” the governor said after a conference with Sheriff Curlin. PREACHER URGES ACTION AGAINST FLOGGING GANG Memphis. Tenn., June 17.—(AP) Rev. Claude Williams, Presbyterian minister from Little Rock, Ark., urg ed today the prosecution of six men he said flogged him and a young wo man near Earle, Ark., Monday night. The clergyman and the ther assert ed victim of the attack, Miss Willie Sue Blagdcn, decided against return ing to Earle to lodge formal com plaints at this time. Mr. Williams and Miss Blagden re ported they were abducted and beaten when they w r ent to Earle to inves tigate the rumored slaying of a Negro share-cropper in a fight growing out of a prolonged cotton workers’ strike. Counsel for the Southern Tenant Faimers Union, which is sponsoring tb -trike in three eastern Arkansas ( limes, advised the pair against re tun. ing to Earle pending a conference f attorneys Friday to decide on ac tion. The minister and the woman ex po.- -ed belief they could identify their a- ailants by appearance Ibut not by name. DIVORCE SOUGHT BY VANDERBILT HEIRESS Reno, Nevada, June 17 <AP) —Mrs. Muriel Vanderbilt Phelps, heiress to two of America’s largest fortunes, and a society leader on both sides of th< continent, filed suit here today to divorce Henry Phelps, of Newport, R. I She charged cruelty. Farm Plank Attacked By AAA Leader Chester Davis Finds Serious Fault With Republican Plat form Item Memphis, Tenn., June 17. —(AP) — Ch* ter C. Davis, retiring farm ad ministrator, attacked today two pro po-a]; in the farm plank of the Re publican platform. If enacted, he said, these two po le u: , relating to farm imports and urpluses, would “throttle interna tional trade between the United States and the rest of the world.” Addressing himself to cotton inter ' f of the South in a speech before 1 Chamber of Commerce, Davis call 'd attention to a platform pledge "to I’iotert t Up American farmer against th< importation of all livestock, dairy 'Oid agricultural products, substitutes then for and derivatives thereform, which win depress American farm prices." "Now, you know and I know,’’ Davis "id, "that, competitive agricultural pi' duet s can come into this country "hly if domestic prices are higher than world prices by more than the "mount of existing tariffs.” • hat isn't the trouble,” Davis con tinued. “The real menace to our in ternational trade, our cotton and oth *' exports is concealed behind that poiiey advocated ostensibly for agri 'nit nre. "The protected industrialists hope to see the farmers rally to that ban ‘ i , they are not mentioned, but, like 'he traveling salesman’s overcoat, (Continued on Page Two.) iintihn’snn lUttht Stswafrfi L Tur ;, LI'? E SERVICE OF I HE ASSOCIATED PRESS. 2nd Florida Senator Dies At Age Os 77 Duncan U. Fletcher Succumbs Suddenly at His Home In Na tional Capital Washington, June 17. —(AP)—(Sen- ator Duncan U. Fletcher, of Florida, died suddenly today at his home. lie was 77 years old and had served in the Senate since March 4, 1009. His office announced that the sen ator dropped dead at hi s home. No details were given immediately. Fletcher was chairman of the im llpr \v MBjf r <.*: Hu ■' Senator Duncan U. Fletcher poitant hanking and currency com mittee and a member of the commit tees on commerce, military affairs and printing. Senator Borah, of Idaho, is the old est member of the Senate in point of service, having started his career in 1907. Senator Smith, of South Carolina, came to the Senate with Fletcher. Tiiey outranked all other Democrats in point of service. It was Florida’s second loss in the Senate in little more than a month. Park Trammell died May 8 after a service since 1917. The senator awoke this morning apparently feeling fine. He enjoyed liis breakfast, but shortly before 10 o'clock complained of feeling ill, and called a physician. Fletcher was put to bed immediate ly and died about 10:30 a. m. t east ern standard time, of coronary threm' bosis, heart disease. McDonald talks in LOUISBURG TONIGHT Raleigh, June 17.—(AP) —Dr. Ralph W. McDonald, seeking the Democratic gubernatorial nomination, will launch the second primary nomination speak ing campaign tonight at Louisburg. His headquarters here said the talk would likely be “non-political” at a Legion exposition. RALEIGH SCHOOLS lo mmw City Board May Ask Prin cipal To Quit Same as Superintendent Dally UlNpntch Bnteai. In The Sir Walter H01e.., |*y J U. UANKKH.VILL Raleigh, June 17.—The resignation of Paul S. Daniel a s superintendent of the Raleigh schools which was sub mitted to the Raleigh township board of education Monday night at the re quest of the board, is not regarded by any means as ending the turmoil which has surrounded the school or ganization here ever since Superinten dent Daniel notified Principal C. E. Wessinger, of Hugh Morson high school, some weeks ago that he would not be re-elected for the coming school year. WJiile Wessinger has been temporarily reinstated, the be lief in most quarters here today is that Wessinger will also bo asked to resign and that the resignation of Su perintendent Daniel presages a gen eral house-cleaning in the Raleigh school system. In his letter to the board of educa tion submitting his resignation, Super continued on Page Four ) ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER Black Jack’s 50th Milestone JOT :5 General John J. Pershing, wartime commander of the American Exnedi tionaiy Force in France, celebrates his fiftieth anniversary as a soldier He was graduated from West Point in 1886. (Central Press) Talmadge Promises Full Support To Party Ticket Chosen At Philadelphia Arch Enemy of New Deal, Georgia Governor Hopes He Can Swallow Platform; Ohio Democrat Predicts Roosevelt Will Lose Tha t State In November Washington, June 17. —(AP)—Poli- tical developments bade both good and ill for the Democrats today while preparations for their convention to renominate President Roosevelt went forward apace. Long a campaigner against the New Deal, Democratic Governor Eugene Talmadge of Georgia, pledged his sup port for the party ticket. In the House, Representative Sweeney, Democrat, Ohio, attacked the administration and predicted that the President would lose in Ohio in the coming election by 100,000. He was assailing the Black-Smith anti-lobby tbill, saying the administra tion is not content with gagging mem- Lll bemfdr Came Out for Amendment Plank, as Roosevelt Was Expected To Do By CHARLES P. STEWART Central Press Staff Writer Washington, June 17.—With the nomination of Gov. Alf M. Landon of Kansas as the Republican presiden tial nominee as accomplished fact, voters find the two major political parties in a contradictory state. Complications began with the de cision of large eastern financial and industrial interests that Gov. Alf M. Landon of Kansas would make a good Republican candidate for president. They reckoned that he would have a strong appeal to the west. Their in tention was to enable him to carry the east, too, if they could but they did not wish him to appear too popu lar in their own section of the coun try, because it seemed to them that an eastern boom for him would hurt him with prairie state voters. They were for him because their judgment was that he would be man ageable, much as the McKinley ad ministration was amenalbic to Mark Hanna’s control. • POPULAR IN EAST To their embarrassment, he did prove to be overly popular in the east. At least his popularity with the rank and file of eastern Republicans was (Continued on Page Three.) Henry B. Walthall, Silent Screen Star, Dies In Hollywood Hollywood, Cal., June 17 (AP) — Henry B. Walthall, the “Little Col onel” of the silent screen classic, “Birth of a Nation,” died in a sanita rium today. He was 53. The gray-haired actor, native of Shelby City, Ala., entered the Pas teur sanitarium three weeks ago for treatment of a chronic ailment. He had collapsed after completing the role of an airplane inventor in the film, “China Clipper,” still unreleased. PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA AND VIRGINIA HENDERSON, N. C., WEDNESDAY AFTERNO ON, JUNE 17, 1936 bers of Congresi, hut is “now reach ing out to gag their constituents.” Senator LaFollette, Populist, Wis consin, announced a conference of “progressives” would meet after the Democratic platform is known to look over both party platforms and decide their course in the campaign. He has been among the President’s support ers from the start on most matters. Talk of a third party movement by Father Charles Coughlin, the Detroit radio priest, found no echo among leaders here. In a speech before the State Demr ocratic Executive Committee at At- on Page Three.) Prisoners Wont Cash Bonds Now Dally Dispatch Bureau, lu The Sir Walter Hotel, By J. C. BASKEIIVILL Raleigh, June 17. —Most of the war veterans in the State prison system are deciding to keep their bonus bonds instead of cashing them in, Os car T. Pitts, acting director of the prison division of the State Highway and Public Works Commission, said today. Out at Central Prison alone between $15,000 and $20,000 worth of bonus bonds have already been locked up in the vault in the warden’s office to (be kept for prisoners until they are released. “Several weeks ago the prisoners started asking me what they had bet ter do with their bonus bonds when they get them,” Director Pitts said. “I told them that they could either cash in the bonds right away for their cash value or could keep them, and explained that the longer they were held the more money they would be worth, since the bonds bear interest. Most of the prisoners indicated thta they preferred to hold the bonds un til they completed their prison terms. “When the bonus bonds started to arrive Monday and were delivered out at the Central Prison here, the boys out there immediately wanted td (Continued on Page Two.) OUR WEATHER MAN FOB NORTH CAROLINA. Generally fair, slightly warmer in extreme west and north cen tral portions tonight;/ Thursday partly cloudy, possibly scattered showers in the mountains and ex treme north portion. oveSSon’s TWO-THIRDS RULE Abrogation of Century-Old Nomination! Custom Ex pected To Come Up At Philadelphia southernTstates HAVE CLUNG TO IT Was Originally Adopted to Protect This Section, South Carolina Delegate Head Declares; But “Adminis tration Wants the Change” Clark Reminds Atlanta, Ga., June 17 (AP) —Sharp cleavage developed in the Solid South today over new proposals that the Democratic party abrogate its century old two-thirds nomination rule. A survey among party leaders show ed such division of opinion that it was impossible to determine how the hulk of t'he sector's 270-odd delegates will vote if and when the matter come 3 before the Philadelphia convention next week. None of those commiting made any direct reference to the recent claim of Senator Bennett Champ C'ark, iDemocrat, Missouri, that “the ad ministration wants the change.” Claude Sapp, of Columbia, chair man of the South Carolina delegates, summed up the opposition in a sent ence: “The two-thirds rule,” he said, “was adopted to protect the Southern States, so that as long as the Solid (South stood' together a nominee could not be run over them by a simple majority.” He added that he did not believe South /Carolina would approve a change. Carmack Cochran, secretary of the Tennessee Democratic Executive Committee, favored the majority rule as an aid to party harmony. Texas, Virginia, Florida delegates were recorded against abrogation of the rule. Arkansas and Oklahoma delegates seemed to favor the change. Louisiana, North Carolina and Mis sissippi party leaders withheld spe cific comment. < 700 MILES ROADS Baise Explains Highway Commission Is Moving As Rapidly As Possible Dally Dispatch Bureau, In The Sir Walter Hotel, By J. C. BASKERVIJiL Raleigh, June 17. —Approximately 700 miles of highways will have been given new surface treatment, while between 300 and 400 miles will have been reconditioned and prepared for surface treating with bituminous sur facing by July 1, W. Vance Baise, chief highway engineer of the State Highway and Public Works Commis sion, said today. The division engi neers in Division E and B have almost completed ther resurfacing and re conditioning programs already, while the others will complete them by July 1. But this does not mean that no more resurfacing or reconditioning work will be done after July 1, Baise said. “The resurfacing and recondition ing work now being completed is on ly that part which was included in the spring schedule to Ibe paid for out of the present year’s maintenance and betterment budget,” Baise said. “Start ing July 1, the new appropriation will be available and we can probably do just as much if not more work then we have been able to so far. This spring we had an allotment of $650,000 for resurfacing work in addition to our regular budget and had about $300,000 addition for reconditioning.” Many people are inclined to wonder why the highway department is being so slow in resurfacing certain sections of surface-treated roads that went to (Continued on Page Three.) Auto Dead Highest In May So Far Raleigh, June 17. —(AP) —Automo- bile accidents in North Carolina killed, more people last month than ever be fore in May, with a death list of 92. The heavy May toll, announced to day by the Motor Vehicle Bureau, fol lowed an April high record this year of 83, and Ibrought. to 367 the number of automobile fatalities in 1936, com pared with 397 in the similar period in 1935. Last month there were 530 accidents in which 807 drivers were involved and 639 persons were injured. In May, 1935, there were 75 killed and 495 in jured in 377 accidents. PUBLISHED EVERY AFTERNOON EXCEPT SUNDAY. AGREEMENT TONIGHT OVER NEW TAX BILL IS NOW HOPED FOR Writing Platform <■' afci •• .# Jggggj M Pfßf J ? • • ' " mmimM ! Senator Wagner These are busy days for Senator Robert F. Wagner of New York for the platform which the Demo crats are constructing for their national convention at Philadel phia is being written largely by him. Observers point out that thus the platform will be sharply pro labor and decidedly liberal. —Central Press Liquor Main Issue Now In Campaign McDonald Consider ed To Have Revers ed Himself from the First Primary Daily Dispatch Bureau, In The Sir Walter Hotel, By J. r. BASKERVILL Raleigh, June 17.—Liquor has for the time being become the big issue in the second primary campaign for the Democratic nomination for gov ernor between Clyde R. Hoey and Dr. Ralph W. McDonald. It is also agreed that McDonald is upholding his re putation as a political gymnast and the equal, if not the rival of the “young man on the flying trapeze” by the ease, agiliby and facility with which he has turned loose the anti sales tax trapeze in mid air and swung himself over onto the liquor trapeze but recently relinquished by Lieutenant Governor A. H. (Sandy) Graham. But whether the agile for mer college professer can swing over onto the Demdcratic nomination trapeze by means of his gyrations be tween the anti-sales tax and liquor is sues still remains to be seen. One of the reasons for Dr. McDon old’s sudden shift of position with re gard to both liquor and the sales tax, it is agreed, is due to the action of the State Democratic Convention here last week which adopted a platform indorsing Mr. Hoey’s stand on the sales tax and approving the position he has taken to the effect that the sales tax cannot be removed entirely at this time, Ibut that the tax on foods and meals can now be repealed. This action made it impossible for Dr. Mc- Donald to continue his campaign a gainst the sales tax and stand on the State Democratic platform. The con vention also failed to mention liquor or liquor control, which thus left the door open for Dr. McDonald to come out on any liquor plank he saw fit to devise, it is maintained. So he came out on a dripping wet, county control, county option and count ies-get-the profit plank, evidently in the belief that all the drys were already with (Continued on Paere Two.) Two Navy Airmen Burn to Death As Plane Collapses Norfolk, Va., June 17 (AP) — Lieutenant Charles E. Mallory, 27, of Bethesda, Md., and Radio Man C. W. Gray, of Wharton, Texas, were burned to death today when their plane crashed from 100 feet shortly after taking off from the naval air station. The men and the plane were attached to the heavy cruiser Indianapolis. O PAGES O TODAY FIVE CENTS COPY Meantime, House Conferees Insist on Favored Treat ment for Small Corporations CHANGE IN DETAILS OF PROPOSAL ASKED Doughton Is Hopeful of Agreement “in Day or Two;” Democratic Lead ers Still Working for Ad journment of Congress by Next Saturday Night Washington, June 17.—(AP) — De spite day and night labors, new tax legislation remained bogged in a Sen ate-House conference today, although some conferees saw possibility of an agreement by tonight. Some House Democrats taking part in the long series of conferences were known to be emphasizing what they called an urgent need for special treat ment for the ’’little fellow” corpora tions making SIO,OOO or less a year. There were indications in some quarters that many of the conferees might, be incined to agree in prin ciple with a compromise put forward yesterday by several Senate Demo crats, Ibut it was believed that some legislators wanted changes in details. After a three-hour session last night of the conferees, who are trying to compromise differences between Sen ate and House, Chairman Doughton, Democrat, North Carolina, of the House group, said: “I think we are going to reach an agreement. I don’t know how or when but I think we will do it in a day or two.” Democratic leaders still refused to despair of cleaning up the tax situa tion and adjourning Congress by Sat urday night. Other legislative busi ness was progressing comparatively fa c t. DEMOCK ATS ANSWER G. 0. P.’S PLATFORM Retorts Are Ready for Ac cusations of Waste and Other Charges By LESLIE EICHEL Central Press Staff Writer OF ALL the charges made against the New Deal in the Republican plat form, this one is likely to catch the most voters: “It has been guilty of frightful waste and extravagance, using funds for public partisan purposes.” The Democrats of course, will deny that. In their most innermost circles they believe that the doling out of relief funds is a handicap rather than an aid. They wish they were rid of it. There is no denial that there has been waste and extravagance but what machinery could be get up quick ly enough to cover such a vast area of misery that would be perfect? That is the response. The necessity, when the Roosevelt administration came into office, was to conquer the misery, to alleviate suffering—immediately. And—ask the (Continued on Page Four.) Agreement Reached On Relief Bill House Reserves Right of Decision, However, on Two Senate Amendment Washington, June 17 (AP) —Final agreement was reached by congres sional conferees today on the $2,370,- 000,000 deficiency bill, carrying next year’s relief appropriations, except on two items on which the House must vote. The bill now goes back to the House for ballots on these Senate amendments: Authorizing $300,000,000 for a pub lic works program, and another au theizing a new study of the Florida ship canal. The House was expected to agree to the public works fund, but prob able will demand another Senate vote on the ship canal. With the conference agreement, con gressional leaders were confident the relief hill would not delay adjourn ment of Congress. Hopes for quit ting this week hung entirely on the tax hill.
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