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HENDERSON GATEWAY to CENTRAL CAROLINA TWENTY-THIRD YEAR TAX BILL PASSES New Dealers In Command As ational Convention Heads Prepare For Start Tuesday CONVENTION TO BE UNIT TO NAME FOR, FARLEY FORECASTS National Chairman Also De clares Two-Thirds Rule Will Be Abrogated This Time THIRD PARTY MOVE GRIPS ATTENTION Extent to Which Lemke’s Candidacy Will Influence Democratic Platform Spe culated on by Those Al ready ir, Philadelphia; To Pledge Farm Tenant Help Philadelphia, June 20 (AP) —The Democrats, noted for their scrap and noise at con vention time, started their pre rally week-end today with calm and quiet befitting the tradi tions of this Quaker city. The New Dealers appeared to be in complete command. In his most se rene manner, James A. Farley, na tional chairman, said the convention starting next Tuesday will cast all •f its 1.100 votes for President Roose wit's renomination. With equal calm he announced that the convention \wuid substitute majority rule for long-standing two-thirds require t for nomination. None of the handful of party lead •l- on hand arose to dispute him. Party clpeftains watched closely On other developments surrounding the formation of a third party to be hooded by Representative Lemke, Re publican, North Dakota, inflation cru sader, and its endorsement by Father Ch ti les E. Coughlin, head of the Na (Contlnued on Page Five » Seven Dead In Collapse Os Building New York, June 20.—(AP)— Four bodies were recovered today from the wreckage of a collapsed Bronx apart fn<'lit house as two others were dis covered in the ruins, bring to seven the known dead. Police and fire squads searched for five others believed buried in the d bris. Eleven workmen were in a hospital, one in a serious condition. The 'bodies of three workmen were unearthed this morning as another portion of the second floor collapsed. More than a score of men were working in the unfinished seven-story ruoture when the center wing fell in yesterday afternoon, piling wreck ■'•ge from the basement to the third floor. Walls of the building were pulled down to make it safer for the search ers to hunt for bodies. State Debts Cut Near $86,000,000 Since 1929 Peaks Dully DlN|»nt<*h Ilnreiin, In The .Sir Wnlter Hotel, Hr J. »\ HAMIiISItVILL. Raleigh, June 20.—'North Carolina far out in front of the other states hi the way it has been paying off its •ate and county indebtedness and he financial and bond centers are 11 ting ujt and taking notice. Gurney ' Hood, commissioner of banks, point ‘'l out today. For, in spite of the de pression, low prices, short crops and 'he assumption of additional func -1 tons by ihe State, such as the main b'nance of both the public schools and ■he county roads, North Carolina has paid off almost $86,000,000 of its State HntiUTsmt Daihi Uisrrafrti LEASED WIRE SERVICE ni? TH b! ASS, )C1 ATED PRKS& GENERALISSIMO OF CONVENTION ; JAMES A. FARLEY ■« \ - Chairman of.the national Democratic committee CASH BALANCE OF STATE 0)460,407 Revenue at Present Rate for Fiscal Year Exceeds Expenditures Raleigh, June 20.—(AP) —North Carolina had a cash balance of $20,460,107.42, including $209,883.12 on which warrants had been drawn and not cashed, on May 31, the auditor’s and treasurer’s monthly statement showed toda>. The general fund had a balance of $1,972,427.11, with May receipts of $2,062,448.48 and expenditures of $3,008,708.48. The fund started the fiscal year with an overdraft of $2,310,497.25. Receipts aggregat ed $36,995,763.26 for eleven months and expenditures were $32,712,838. 90. The highway fund had a bal ance of $14,623,835.27, with May re ceipts of $2,348,888-24, and expen ditures of $2,201,608.66. The fund had a balance of $9,651,517.25 to start the fiscal year. Receipts had totalled $29,151,966.74 and disburse ments $24,179,648.72. and local indebtedness since 1929, Hood said. The total reduction would have been about $96,000,000 Ibut for the fact that within the last year or so a good many counties and towns have issued about $10,000,000 in bonds to match PWA grants tor new school buildings and other needed public im provements. “While most of us here in North Carolina are still inclined to look at the unpaid portion of the State debt and subdivision debts and be blinded by these amounts, financial centers (Continued on Page Two.J> ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER Roosevelt Is Being Talked On 3rd Term Democrats as Shy at Present of 19 4 0 Timber as Republi cans Are Now By CHARLES P. STEWART Central Press Staff Writer Washington, June 20.—1 t is early to indulge in political speculation con cerning Yet politicians are doing it right at the beginning of the current cam paign. In fact, there is more looking ahead than, I imagine, ever character ized a past presidential contest. It already has been remarked that Governor Landon wanted to be nom inated this year even if Republican chances do look a trifle dulbious as to next November because, as his party's 1936 standard bearer, he will be in a position to claim renomination four years hence, when perhaps the G. O. P. prospect will seem brighter. Also it has been suggested that Senator Vandenberg, reasoning dif ferently from Landon, did not greatly care to be nominated at Cleveland be cause he believes that 1940 may be a more promising Republican year, and did not desire to smear his record with a defeat in the meantime. But Democrats, too, are peering in to the quadrennial future. So is the third party element. DEMOCRATS CONFIDENT As to the Democrats? They feel sure that they will win the coming election. They are not (bluffing when they say so. They may be mistaken but it’s their honest opinion. However, what they are wondering is: “With whom can we win four years from now?” With whom, indeed? Tugwell? 1-lop (Continued on Page Eight. DROWNING VICTIMS WILL BE INTERRED Lubec, Maine, June 20 (AP) —Be- wildered, grief-stricken parents ar ranged today to bury 12 Lubec school children drowned when a small boat upset in wind-swept Lake Gardiner, 20 miles from here. PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA AND VIRGINIA HENDERSON, N. C., SATURDAY AFTERNOON, JUNE 20. 1936 GOES TO WHITE HOUSE M’DONALD SPEECH AROUSED WORKERS Attack an Hoey, Gardner and Ehringhaus May React Strongly Against The Speaker FIRST TIME NAMED IN PUBLIC ADDRESS But There Is Nothing New in Them, in That Charges Had Been Passed by Word of Mouth by McDon ald Supporters Since Cam paign Started Diilly IMsintuh ftnrena. In The Sir Walter Hotel, IP J. r. IIASKERVILL Raleigh, June 20—Th e speech by Dr. Ralph W. McDonald, in v/hich he bitterly assailed Clyde R. Hoey, his opponent for the Democratic nomina tion for governor in the second pri mary, and charged that Mr. Hoey and his supporters “literally scooped the gutters for scurrilous propaganda which they spread over the State,” and that “no lie was too low or too utterly absurd for these henchmen of Mr. Hoey’s” to spread, has succeded in doing one thing, at least, it is agreed here. It has succeeded in get ting the Hoey supporters and work ers thoroughly mad and aroused. Many who before this speech were merely passive supporters of Mr. Hoey are now working for him openly and aggressively. There is also a differ ent atmosphere in the Hoey head quarters here. The Hoey managers are frank to say they think this speech by McDonald has done more to jerk the Hoey supporters out of the lethargy than they were in and get them thoroughly aroused than any thing that has happened so far in the second primary campaign. Resent Attacks “The people of North Carolina know Clyde Hoey too well to believe the charges made against his character by Dr. McDonald and they have been quick to resent these charges,” Hubert /Olive, campaign manager for Mr. Hoey, said today. “The straight thinking, upstanding people of North Carolina who have known Mr. Hoey for 40 years are being stirred with righteous indignation as never before. They will give their answer to Dr. McDonald at the ballot boxes on July 4 that will leave no doubt as to how they stand.” Boost for Hoey Friends of both former Governor O. Mav Gardner and Governor J. C. B. Ehringhaus, while indignant at the charges made, by Dr McDonald, are also convinced that this speech will react in favor of Mr. Hoey ratner (Continued on Page Five) KEEPSHORTWEEK Very Few Have Exceeded 40-Hour Work Period Since Lapse of NR A Dalp Dlapatrh Bntena, In The Sip Walter Hote». Pi J C. BASKERVILL Raleigh, June 20.—Most of the 1,- 358 industrial establishments in the State which the State Department of Labor has recently checked, are con tinuing to observfe the 40-hour week work schedule for their employes, just as they did when the NRA was in ef fect, Commissioner of Labor A. L. Fletcher pointed out today. Some manufacturing concerns have increas ed the weekly working hours, of course, but few of these exceed 55 hours a week, while most of them have not gone beyond 48 hours, fig ures obtained from ar eccnt survey show. A very few industries have re ported working hours in excess of 55 hours a week, but none of these em ploys women. The State law prohibits the working of women in any indus (Continued on Page Eight. OUR WEATHER MAN SiHiw • FOR NORTH CAROLINA. Partly cloudy and somewhat un settled tonight and Sunday; pos sibly scattered showers in extreme west and north central portions Sunday. Arguing the Big Tax Bill m lip SmSmM HfL ' ■ y£j* Jl ■P |j^i if " § Sr ? Representative Robert L. Doughton of North Carolina (left), chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, is discussing the important A administration tax bill with Senator William H. King. The picture was m taken just before the legislators joined the House and Senate conferees. Look at those figures on the blackboard! (Central Press) Cotton Spinning Above Last Year Washington, June 20 (AP) —The cotton spinning industry was re ported today by the Census Bu reau to have operated during May at 105.2 percent capacity on a single shift basis, compared with 110.9 percent during April this year, and 83.4 percent during May last year. OLD LINERS STUDY THIRD PARTY MOVE Lemke Backed by Father Coughlin in Extremely Liberal Program Washington, June 20.—(AP)—Con fronted at last with a third party pre sidential candidate in the person of Representative William Lemke, of North Dakota, major party leaders sought today to figure how many votes he will garner, and from what camp he will draw most support. Waving aloft the standard of a new group—the Union Party of the Unit ed States—the 57-year-old North Da kotan last night struck at Republi cans and Democrats like. He declared he had “accepted a challenge of the reactionary elements of both.” First to mount the 15-point plat form of Lemke was Father Charles' E. Coughlin Detroit radio priest. A few hours after the Lemke announce ment, Father Coughlin, in a New York broadcast, called upon his Na tional Union for Social Justice to fol low Lemke. The priest gave full ap proval to the platform of the new party. Declaring the issue to be “slavery— economic slavery,” Lemke outlined his platform. It set forth that Congress alone shall coin and issue the cur rency and regulate money values. Con gress also would refinance farm and home mortgages. Plans to assure living wages, “a reasonable and decent security for the aged,” “adequate and perfect defense” and smashing of “monopolies” also were included. Lemke announced Thomas C. O’Brien, Boston lawyer, as his run ning mate. Industry Gains New High Peak New York, June 20 (AP)—The march of industry toward normal ac tivity pushed into higher ground this week, reaching heights that were evacuated in the summer of 1930, and have remained untouched since that time. The Associated Press index of in dustrial activity today was 90.9 of the 1929-30 average, compared with 90.3 last week, and 73.6 in the same period a year ago. Electric power output for the week was the second largest ever report ed, surpassed only by last December’s record peak. Automobile production improved contra-seasonally. Cotton manufacturing moved up a notch, mills reporting good whole sale and retail demand. PUBLISHED EVERY AFTERNOON EXCEPT SUNDAY. Crops Fast Recovering After Rain Parker Says Esti mates of $50,000,000 Drought Damage In State Are Fading Raleigh, June 20. —(AP) — Frank Parker, Federal-State crop statistician said today rains general over most of central and eastern North Carolina since June 10 had caused “very fine recovery of crops, which had suffered seriously from drought.” After a trip into the Piedmont sec tion this week, and from reports on conditions in the east, Parker said he thought the drought had definite ly been broken, except in scattered areas. “Stands of some crops were weak, but re-planting of corn is under way,” Parker said. “Cotton and tobacco are coming out nicely. Late corn is do ing well. Pastures are recovering rapidly. Estimates of $50,000,000 drought damage in the State, in my opinion, are fading fast.” Lee A. Denson, in charge of the Weather Bureau here, said rain had relieved dry conditions throughout practically the entire eastern part of the State. Man and Wife Are Saved From Window Ledge And Flames Norton, Va., June 20 (AP) — Trapped on the sixth floor of the Norton hotel by a fire which gutted that floor, a married couple today hung by their fingers to window ledges until firemen reach ed up from fifth floor windows and pulled them to safety. Other occupants of the hotel escaped down stairways. A horrified crowd watched while the couple, Mr. and Mrs. Cascel Elliott, climbed out on a window ledge and hung down away from the flames in their room. Firemen raced up the stairways of the hotel to windows below the endangered pair and hauled them to safety. Roosevelt Signs Chain Store Bill To Aid Little Man Washington, June 20. —(AP)—Presi- dent Roosevelt dipped into a batch of 150 last-minute bills today and sign ed one intended to protect the in dependent merchant from price ad vantages allowed large competitors. The measure, known as the Rob inson-Patman chain store bill, would tighten the anti-trust laws to prevent unfair price discriminations through allowances of fake discounts and re bates for services not actually per formed. The Federal Trade Commission 8 PAGES TODAY FIVE CENTS COPY WAY IS PAVED FOR F 0 R THIS SESSION Senate Passes Revolutionary Tax Measure After Bit ter Attacks, By Vote 42 to 29 SHIP SUBSIDY BILL REMOVES A BARRIER House i Accepts Senate Amendment to End Senate Filibuster Against Treas ury - Post Office Supply Bill; House Passed Tax Bill at Night Session Washington, June 20 (AP) —Congress sent the controver sial tax bill to the White House today and pushed wearily but eagerly toward final adjourn ment tonight of the 74th Con gress. Senate approval of the compromise revenue measure revolutionizing the existing corporate tax structure, com pleted the administration’s legislative program. The vote was 42 to 29. Prior to the tax ballot, the other major barrier to adjournment had been swept away when the House agreed to tlie Senate’s ship subsidy bill. This broke the Senate filibuster against the Treasury-Post Office ap propriation bill, and that vital 'billion dollar supply measure was passed. A motion to take up the Guffey- Vinson price-fixing substitute for the outlawed Guffey control bill still was pending in the Senate, but leaders were prepared to let it die. Rarely has a congressional wind-up been so calm. The fireworks and the fast parliamentary maneuvering were last night. Congressmen today were anxious to go home, even at the cost of sacrificing pet legislation. Senator Byrd, Democrat, Virginia, led a bitter but futile last-minute as sault on the tax plan. He condemned it as a “mongrey’ hybrid comprom ise,” but many other senators appear ed only half listening. Administration senators hardly bothered to defend the measure. Democratic congressmen, anxious to away to Philadelphia for next week’s national convention, began the rush to the trains even before the fi nal adjournment was voted. HURRIEDLY DRAFTED RULES OF PROCEDURE GETS SPEED Washington, June 20.—(AP) — A hurriedly drafted special rule, design ed to secure House approval of the Continued on Page Three.) Subsidy Os U.S.Marine Is Enacted Washington, June 20 (AP) —Con- gressional action was completed to day on legislation to enlarge the American merchant marine through direct government subsidies. Senate acceptance of a minor House amendment sent the measure to the White House for President Roosevlt’3 signature. House approval of the outright ship construction and operation subsidies earlier in the day had removed the threat of a Senate filibuster to force such action. Along with the new ship subsidy (Continued on Page Two.) would be authorized to determine the point beyond which discounts for quantity purchases could not go. The commission would be directed to pro hibit discounts for purchases so large that competitors would (be unable to match them, thus tending to create monopoly. It embraces the Borah-Van Nuya amendment which would enable per sons who belie've they have been dis criminated against to seek action in Federal courts. Six other bills were approved by the President in the forenoon.
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