HENDERSON (
GATEWAY TO
CENTRAL
CAROLINA
TWENTY-THIRD YEAR L^ S P2« W,RB service of
TH *i associated press.
Democratic
Democrats Greet New Deal
As Issue y Also Train Guns
Upon Republican Nominees
CONVENTION PAYS
RESPECTS ALSO TO
BOLTING AL SMITH
Salvos of Applause Approve
Blistering Attack on G.
O. P. Ticket by
Jim Farley
DELEGATES CHEER
ROOSEVELT’S NAME
Rise to Feet as Farley
Shouts Processes of Recov
ery as Initiated and Car
ried on by Roosevelt “Shall
No tße Interrupted’’ in
This Country
Philadelphia, June 23.—(AP)—Wel
coming the New Deal as the para
mount issue, the opening session of
the Democratic convention trained its
guns on Landon and Knox today and
paid its respects indirectly to Alfred
E. Smith.
Salvos of applause seconded a blis
tering attack on the Republican ticket
by Chairman James A. Farley, in
which he declared the opposition was
trying to face both light and left at
the same time, and was backed by
ihc “crew of the DuPont Liberty
League.”
Smith was not mentioned by name,
Pit his forays against the New Deal,
I his activities as an organizer of
League were much in the minds
vs the assembled thousands.
Shooting out his words from tight
fi' iwn lips. Farley roused the dele
gates to their feet. At the start, he
. ouled them cheering with this pro
nouncement:
The continuance of the New Deal
I.- the issue.”
Again and again cheers rocked the
- it convention hall as Farley lam
ha - - *-cl the enemies of the New Deal.
He was given a standing ovation at
the first mention of the President’s
name when he said:
"The processes of recovery initiated
and carried on by Franklin D. Roose
velt shall not 'be interrupted.”
GucirdDead
After Riot
A t Big Mill
Portsmouth, Ohio, June 23 (AP)
One company guard was slain and at
hast four other persons were wound
'd today by rifle bullets in an out
hi ak of rioting between pickets and
cuiids at the Portsmouth plant of
s Wheeling Steel Corporation. Two
of the wounded were company guards.
1 mupany officials identified the
d* id guard as George Myers. They
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McDonald Quintuplets Are
Attracting Attention Now
McCcgald, Simmons, Father and Son Daniels and John
Barleycorn All in Same Political Bed Together;
Daniels Not Protestin g McDonald’s Wetiness
Oiilly Ulminli-h linrena,
In The Sir Wulter Hotel,
My .1 V. UIMiKUUViU
RuP'igh, June 23.—“ The McDonald
Quintuplets” are attracting more and
f:i ' " attention here as the second pri
'aai . campaign for the Democratic
uriination for governor between Dr.
'•ph W. McDonald and Clyde R.
Huey advances, because they show
v , unusual bedfellows political
’"pains sometimes bring together.
• referred to as the “quintuplets”
■ the five personalities regarded as
t closely associated with Dr. Mc
’’tuild in his campaign and as now
1 ' ping in the same political bed.
1 hey are as follows:
1 ’t. Ralph W. McDonald,
i urnifold M. Simmons.
Josephus Daniels.
P'hanthan Daniels.
•John Barleycorn.
louring the first campaign there
UrniU'rsmt Datht IHsuafrh
Arrival at Philadelphia^
Miss Tania Lessova acts as a welcoming committee of one as the Demo
cratic donkey walks into the lobby of the Walton Hotel at Philadelphia
for the opening of the convention. (Central Pt 3C> )
McDonald’s
Charge May
Mean Libel
Accusation of Favor
itism May Be Heard
Fro m; Lumpkin
Defended Hood
Dnlly l)in|intrb Hnreiin,
In The Sir Wnlter Hotel,
nr J. r. h\ sk fir v i i,i,
Raleigh, June 23. —The political
music is going round and round here
as the result of the charges made by
Dr. Ralph W. McDonald against the
State Banking Commission to the ef
fect that it had shown favoritism to
certain persons. The music has not
come out anywhere yet, hut indica
tions are that there are going to be
some reverberations that will be heard
over the entire State when it does
come out. The statement was regard
ed as being so libelous and dangerous
by two well-known news services that
they refused to handle the statement
over their wires as news. But it was
printed by two newspapers in the
State.
The report now going the rounds is
that one or both of these newspapers
may be hailed into court to submit
proof of the statements made by Dr.
McDonald, which do not seem to have
been altogether accurate.
Commissioner of Banks Gurney P.
Hood declined to make any further
statement today with regard to Dr.
McDonald’s charges that it had
shown “scandalous favoritism” in the
liquidation of a bank in Asheville and
permitted a creditor to settle for a
fractional part of the indebtedness.
But Hood did say that in his opinion
the charges were so false that they
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were only four in the McDonald poli
tical bed, with one of the four re
maining rather inactive until the fi
nal weeks of the campaign. This one
was former Senator Simmons, the
papa of prohibition in North Carolina,
even though it is now generally re
garded as having been fathered for
political purposes. The “quads” did
not become “quints” until after the
first primary, when John Barleycorn
was born and placed in the same bed
with four “dry” quads which had been
in it all along, or rather which had
been regarded as being “dry”. Dr.
McDonald has now 'become wringing
“wet” and is openly advocating local
option, county liquor stores and coun
ty liquor control with the counties to
get the profits from the sale of li
suor. Many observers are wondering
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ONLY daily newspaper
Karpis Gang Has
Not Guilty Plea
St. Paul, Minn., June 23 (AP)—
Alvin Karpis and two other su
spects in the $200,000 kidnaping
of Edward G. Bremer, pleaded in
nocent when arraigned in Fede
ral court in St. Paul today.
St. Paul, Minn., June 23 (AP) —
‘'lvin Karpis formally decided to
day to fight Federal charges that
he helped kidnap William llamm,
Jr., for SIOO,OOO ransom by plead
ing innocent upon arraignment in
Federal court.
Over objections of defense coun
sel, the court promptly set trial
for July 14.
116,600,000 PAID
23,581 TEACHERS
More Than Anticipated,
Necessitated by Increase
in Teachers
Dully l)lN|»3it<*h niireon.
In The Sir Walter Hotel,
tlv J. O. DAKHKItViM,
Raleigh, June 23.—A total of $16,-
600,000 was paid out to 23,581 school
teachers and principals during this
past school year in salaries, Lloyd E.
Griffin, executive secretary of the
State School Commission, announced
today. This is some $41,000 more than
the school commission had estimated
would be expended for teachers’ sal
aries and was made necessary by the
employment of 59 more teachers than
the commission had allowed for.
There were 259 more teachers em
ployed this year than last year, when
the total amounted to 23,322.
The total of $16,600,000 paid out to
teachers and principals this past year
does not include the salaries paid to
superintendents, janitors, school bus
drivers or mechanics, Griffin pointed
out. The salaries paid to superinten
dents amount to approximately $400,-
000, to janitors a'bout $350,000, to bus
drivers $280,000 and the school bus
mechanics $172,000. When this is ad
ded to the amount paid the teachers
and principals, the total expenditure
for salaries alone is $17,802,000.
The cost of transporting some 200,-
000 children a day to and from school
in more than 4,000 school buses a
mounted to $1,896,000 this past year,
or fully SIOO,OOO more than had been
estimated. This was because of the
very sever winter in all sections of
the State which added greatly to the
cost of operating the school trans
portation system. The cost of operat
ing and heating the school buildings
over the State was also $38,000 more
than had been estimated, while the
commission also spent $40,000 more
for school buses than had been bud
geted for that purposes. So altogether,
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COMMISSION SELLS
HENDERSON BONDS
Raleigh, June 23 (Al*) —The Lo
cal Government Commission exe
cutive committee today sold City
of Henderson notes totalling $42,-
000 to the Security National Bank
at a premium of SSO, with interest
at two per cent.
HENDERSON, N. C., TUESDAY AFTERNOON, JUNE 23, 1936
PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA AND VIRGINIA
Convention Opens
Drought Aid On
Roosevelt’s Lap
Washiington, June 23 (AP) —A
congressional delegation from the
drought-stricken southeast placed
the problem of relief for farmers
today in the hands of President
Roosevelt.
As the conference with Mr.
Roosevelt ended, the representa
tives announced the President had
agreed to confer on the drought
situation with Secretary Wallace,
Resettlement Administrator Rex
ford G. Tugwell and Aubrey Wil
liams, assistant works progress
administrator.
The congressmen said they ask
ed the President to request the Re
settlement Administration to use
$85,500,000 allotted for farm relief
under the deficiency bill for aid
in the southeast.
FRANCE SUPPORTS
ASSISTANCE PACES
10 ASSURE PEACE
Blum , Government Pro
nouncement in Parlia
ment Reveals Purpose
to Hasten Action
“AGREEMENT” WITH
GERMANY DESIRED
In Matters of Foreign Pol
icy, France Relies on “Cor
dial Sentiments” of Ame
rica, Solons Are Told; At
Same Time German Fron
tier Is Strengthened'
Paris, Juno 23.- (AP) Premier
Leon Blum’s government announced
today it would attempt to hasten the
negotiation of three regional mutual
assistance pacts to safeguard Europe
against war.
One pact, based on the Locarno
treaty, would apply to western Eu
rope. The other two would embrace
the countries of the Danube basin and
the countries along the Mediterran
ean.
Premier Blum personally read to
the Senate a declaration in which was
explained France’s willingness to re
move sanctions against Italy.
Yvon Delbros, foreign minister,
read the same declaration to the
Chamber of Deputies.
Premier Blum expressed a sincere
desire to find a basis of “agreement”
with Germany on a new security plan.
The premier said that in matters of
foreign policy France relies “on the
cordial sentiments of American dem
ocracy, the natural friend of free peo
ples.”
He also said France counted on
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Wage Scale
Under WPA
To Continue
Hopkins Orders Ef
fective Provisions of
New Relief Act Os
Congress
Washington, June 23. —-(AP) —Harry
L. Hopkins, the works ' progress ad
ministrator, directed State WPA ad
ministrators today to continue the
present sl9 to $94 monthly “security
wages.”
Armed with most of the $1,425,000,-
000 relief appropriation made into
law by President Roosevelt yester
day, Hopkins ordered a number of
changes in works relief regulations.
Continued on Page Three.)
OUR WEATHERMAN
?&¥
FOR NORTH CAROLINA.
Cloudy, mist or light showers
this afternoon and possibly to
night; slightly cooler near cen
tral and south coast; Wednesday
partly cloudy, slightly warmer.
Sole Issue Os Campaign Is
Continuation Os New Deal,
Farley Declares In Speech
NOW LET CONVENTION BEGIN!
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—Central Press Convention Photo
James A. Farley, National Democratic Chairman, opens the
Big Show of the Democrats in Philadelphia.
Income Tax
Collections
Up 23 Prct.
Even Forecast Os
Roosevelt In H i s
Budget Message Is
Greatly Exceeded
Washington, June 23.—(AP)—Sec
retary Morgenthau reported today
that income tax collections in the first
20 days of June amounted to $298,-
505,823, a 23 percent increase over the
comparable period last year.
At the same time, the daily trea
sury statement indicated that income
tax collections for the fiscal year end
ing June 30 would exceed the $1,434,-
000,000 estimated by President Roose
velt in his revised budget message.
The statement said receipts for the
year had amounted to $1,405,000,000
through June 20.
Morgenthau’s report on the first 20
days of this month, covering second
installment payments on last year’s
incomes, showed collections in this
period were $55,817,047 in excess of
the $242,688,776 collected in a corres
ponding period last year.
THIRPaIIYIY
STRIKE ROOSEVELT
Might Take Enough in Vital
States to Cost Him
Those States
By LESLIE EICHEL
Central Press Staff Writer
HOW FAR can a Father Coughlin
third party get this year? That is the
question asked oftenest of this writer
in the last few days.
He in turn has been observing cer
tain political reactions. From the im
mediate reaction one would say that
a Father Coughlin third party would
get nowhere. But in certain states,
such as Ohio and Michigan, it might
detract enough votes from President
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PUBLISHED EVERY AFTERNOON
EXCEPT SUNDAY.
EAR HEELS FAVOR
RULE ABROGATION
Nine Against, But Unit Rule
Put into Effect To Bind
Entire Group
Philadelphia, June 2.—(AP)—North
Carolina’s delegation to the Democra
tic National Convention voted today
to cast its 26 votes for abrogation of
the rule requiring a two-thirds con
vention vote to nominate candidates.
Nine delegates voted against the
proposal and the delegation invoked
the unit rule and all the votes will be
cast for abrogation.
Representative Robert L. Doughton,
of Laurel Springs, made the motion
for abrogation. Julian Price, of
Greensboro, proxy for National Com
mitteeman C. L. Shuping, moved for
no change.
There was little discussion as Gov
ernor J. C. B. Ehringhaus, chairman
of the delegation, called for a vote on
the proposals.
Among those voting for abrogation
were Doughton, Ehringhaus, Lieute
nant Governor A. H. Graham and J.
W. Winborne, of Marion, chairman of
the State’s executive committee.
Senator Robert R. Reynolds voted
with Price against lifting the rule.
Luke Lamb, Wilson, delegate from
the second congressional district,
made the motion that the State cast
its vote as a unit at the convenion.
Roosevelt Signs
New Tax Measure
For 800 Millions
Washington, June 23. —(AP) —Presi
dent Roosevelt today signed the new
tax bill and the $100,090,000 Interior
Department appropriations bill.
iSigning of the long-controverted tax
measure, designed to raise $800,000,-
•000 through a sweeping revision of
corporate taxes and other levies,
cleared the President’s desk of majoi,
legislation passed by the Congress
just gone home.
Q PAGES
O TODAY
FIVE CENTS COPY
ROOSEVELTS IN
ARE IN COMPLETE
CONTROL AT MEET
Roosevelt and Garner Ex
pected To Be Re-Nomi
nated With Coimplete
Unanimity
FARM PLANK BEING
DEBATED IN SECRET
Wallace Demanding Crop
Insurance, but Roosevelt
Will Decide; Nobody
Takes Republican Platform
Seriously, Not Even G. O.
P. Itself, Farley Says
Convention Hall, Philadel
phia, June 23 (AP) —A Demo
cratic national convention more
firmly unified than any since
the days of Woodrow Wilson as
sembled today to answer mus
ter under the banners of Frank
lin D. Roosevelt.
The opening salute of the big rally,
resounding militantly through the vast
and colorful reaches of Philadelphia’s
great public auditorium, was a boom
ing New Deal speech by James A.
Farley, Democratic chairman, and
Roosevelt generalissimo.
Roosevelt men swarmed the speak
er’s stand. Other Roosevelt men,
headed by Senator Wagner, of New
York, worked elsewhere in seclusion
to perfect a platform satisfactory to
the White House. Still others pledged
to Roosevelt drafted the changes in
convention rules which he desires.
And on every hand the expectation
was universal that before the week
end Roosevelt and Vice-President
Garner would he renominated with
substantial, if not complete, un
animity.
Senator Wagner, refreshed from
conferences in Washington, was closet
ed with Secretary Wallace about the
farm plank, but it remained uncer
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Republican
Invitations
ToAlSmith
New York, June 23 (AP)—Chair
man John D. M. Hamilton, of the Re
publican National Committee, today
virtually invited former Governor
Alfred E. Smith to speak in the cam
paign in behalf of Governor Alis M.
Landon.
In response to the direct question
as to whether Smith would speak for
Landon, Hamilton replied:
“I think Governor Smith is one of
the finest Americans, and the people
of the country are entitled to hear his
views.”
Asked whether his statement did
(not contain an inference that he
wanted the former governor to “take
the stump in behalf of the Republi
can ticket,” Hamilton replied:
“It isn’t even an inference,” adding
that he would be tickled to death.
The tax act, a compromise between
the House and Senate, goes a long
way toward carrying out suggestions
by President Roosevelt for stiff levies
on corporation income withheld from
stockholders. Advocates of his sugges
tion contend it will force corporation
income into the hands of stockhold
ers, where it will be subject to in
dividual income taxes, while oppon
ents argue it will be harmful to cor
porations in need of surplus.