HENDERSON
GATEWAY TO
CENTRAL
CAROLINA
i WENTY-THIRD YEAR
GARNER
LEAGUE’S ASSEMBLY
IS HANDED TASK OF
REVISING COVENANT
Council Declines To Begin
Proposed Reform and
Prepares To Review
Ethiopia Row
OBJECT TO REFORM
TO INDUCE U. S. IN
So Many Member States
Have Rejected Sanctions
Against Italy That No De
bate Is Anticipated When
Meeting Opens Tuesday;
Selassie Sees Desertions
Geneva, June 27. — (Al*) — The
German problem was thrust
sharply into the foreground of dis
cussions auijpng League of Na
tions delegates today.
Anthony Kden, British foreign
secretary, conferred with Foreign
Commissar Maxim Litvinoff off
Russia, and it. was understood
they discussed Germany’s re-ar
manent.
Gieat Britain was said to he un
einsy over Reichsfuehrer Hitler’s
failure to reply to the question
naire asking his position on in
ternal ! onal relations.
Another element of anxiety was
provided bj the situation in the
free city of Danzig, where Albert
Forster local Nazi leader, issued a
statement attacking the League’s
high commissioner for Danzig.
Informed sources indicate a
fear Forster’s action was inspired
from Berlin as a prelude to the
open establishment of a Nazi dic
tatorship in Danzig.
Geneva, June 27 (AP) — Revision of
the League of Nations covenant was
handed to the Assembly today as
Council delegates declined to begin
the proposed reform.
The Council held to its original pur-
I>ose of reviewing the Italo-Ethiopian
situation with the list of anti-sanc
tionist nations growing steadily.
The republic of Nicaragua resigned
from the League as the second day’s
(Contlnund on Page Three.>
Candidates
Spent Sum
Os $59,770
Raleigh, June 27—(AP)—Candidates
for Statewide offices spent more than
-59,000 during the first Democratic
primary campaign, expense accounts
filed at the office of Secretary of
State Stacey W. Wade, show.
When the deadline for submitting
final first primary financial state
ments expired at midnight, 23 of the
25 aspirants for eight positions had
sent in reports.
They listed expenditures totaling
$59,770.15 and contributions of $23,-
780.86.
Two defeated candidates for the
United States Senate still have not
submitted reports. They are R. T.
Fountain and David L. Strain.
Clyde R. Hoey, gubernatorial can
didate, reported having spent the
most money, $11,696.36. Sandy Grahan
another gubernatorial aspirant spent
>11,534.01. Dr. Ralph iMkrDonald spent
$9,075 in the race. He led in contri
butions, with 10,009.25.
State WPA
To Receive
U 2,000,000
Dully liNpiiK-h ilnrenn.
In The .Sir Wiilter Hotel,
llr J. IIASttKnVII.Iv
Raleigh, June 27. —North Carolina
will gel an allotment of approximate
ly 12,000,000 for the continuation of
ilie Works Progress Administration
program in North Carolina for the
new 12 months period beginning July
I 1936, to June 31, 1937, George W.
Conn, Jr., State WPA Administrator,
aid here today. This means that the
WPA will have approximately $1,000,-
000 a month available for use in this
bate for the next year and that it
'■an carry on to completion numerous
projects which otherwise would have
bad to be discontinued.
Administrator Coan is leaving late
(Continued on Page Four.)
Uintilrrsmt SI ai lit Utstrafrli
I obacco Grading
Is Now Mandatory
Washington, June 27. —(AP) —
Secretary Wallace today ordered
mandatory tobacco inspection ser
vice at 13 auction tobacco markets
in Virginia, Kentucky and Tennes
see.
The action of the secretary in ex
tending tobacco inspection and to
bacco price reporting service re
sulted from referendums held a
mong growers supplying these mar
kets to determine whether they de
sired the service. Approximately 95
percent of the votes cast in these
referenlunis favored the service,
department officials said.
A similar referendum is in pro
gress in tobacco markets in Farm,
ville, Goldsboro and Smithfield, N.
CHECKS FOR AGED
RAILWAY WORKERS
HALTED BY RULING
Railroad Retirement Board
Ponders Effect of De
cision in U. S. Dis
trict Court
WILL TAKE APPEAL
TO SUPREME COURT
Engineers Brotherhood Is
Quick To Determine Its
Next Step; Court’s Decision
Halts First Payments Un
der Pension Act of 1935
Enacted by Congress
Washington, June 27 (AP) —Checks
addressed to approximately 1,000 aged
railway workers were held up today
as the Railroad Retirement Board
pondered the full effect of a decision
of the United States District Court
holding the pension act unconstitu
tional.
A spokesman for the board, which
went “i/. to emergency session, said an
immediate appeal would be carried
to the District of Columbia Court of
Appeals.
In Cleveland, delegates to the con
vention of the Brotherhood of Loco
motive Engineers voted last night to
appeal to the United States Supreme.
Court.
Justice Jennings Bailey ruled yes
terday that the retirement act and
its accompanying tax measure vio
lated the due process provisions of
the Constitution.
The decision, halted preparations of
the board for making its first pen
sion payments July 1 to railway em
(Continued on Page Flvr i
Both Hoey And McDonald
Groups Fear Small Vote
Lack of Interest in Gubernatorial Campaign Worrying
Both Sides; Generally Conceded 120,000 Fewer
Votes Will Be Cast T han in First Primary
Dully Dlspiitrh Barena,
In The Sir Walter Hotel,
By J. C. HASI4EIIVI.LL
Raleigh, June 27. —The lact of in
terest in the second primary cam
paign for the Democratic nomination
for governor between Clyde R. Hoey
and Dr. Ralph W. McDonald, has the
managers and workers for both can
didates worried, even though they will
not publicly admit it, according to be
lief here today. They do not know
whether this lack of interest and gen
eral apathy on the part of the public
indicates it has become tired and dis
gusted with the entire campaign, with
the result that hundreds of thousands
of voters will not even bother to go
to the polls in the primary next Sat
urday, or whether it merely means
that the voters have already made up
their minds and are merely not giv
ing ary external indication of how
they intend to vote.
The Hoey forces are not as much
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HENDERSON, N. C., SATURDAY AFTERNOON, JUNE 27, 1936
F ranklin Fie Id, Where President Makes Acceptance S peech Tonight
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At Franklin Field, Philadelphia, above, scene of many athletic events, President Franklin D. Roosevelt will make his acceptance speech
of the Democratic nomination for Dresident following the Democratic national convention. Inset is typical photo of president sneaking *
Baldwin is
Target For
Opposition
Position of British
Prime Minister’s Po
sition Is Still Fur
ther Weakened
London, June 27. —(AP) —Liberals
and Laborites talked today of a pos
sible split in Conservative ranks over
tne governmental methods of Prime
Minister Stanley Baldwin.
The ob’rct of a scathing public at
tack, the prime minister retired to his
country home after telling a school
boy audience. “I shall not be here
much longer.”
Baldwin was charged by a Laborite
member with “lying to the House of
Commons" on air defense matters.
This attack followed a statement by
the Earl of Londonderry, former air
minister, who denied he had misled
Baldwin on the progress of German
rearmament.
London newspapers showed grow
ing irritation at the prime minister’s
apparent lack of control over per
sonal statements by his ministers.
“All of them talk loudly at ran
dom,” one paper asserted, “while Bald
win pays no heed exiept to emerge
now and again from his lethargy to
assure the country something or other
was not really his fault."
worried over the apparent lack of in
terest in the second primary cam
paign, even though it is entering its
final week, as are the McDonald 'baek
ers, according to indications. The
Hoey managers tire convinced that
the lack of talk and noise merely in
dicates that a majority of the voters
have already made up their minds as
to how they are going to vote and
hence are not getting all worked up
over the charges and counter charges
being hurled by the, two candidates,
and especially by Dr. McDonald. As
a result, they are confident there will
be a good sized vote cast next Sat
urday and that Hoey will be nominat
ed by a large majority. But to guard
against any over-confidence on the
part of the Hoey forces, every precau
tion is being taken and every possible
plan being taken to pet out a big vote
(Continued on Page FlveJ
ER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA AND VIRGINIA
Roosevelt’s Renomination Is
By Acclaim; Accepts Tonight
Convention Hall, Philadelphia, June
27 (AP) —The Democrats nominated
Fresident Franklin D. Roosevelt in
the early hours today by acclamation
and they reassembled today to name
John N. Garner his running mate
again and then adjourn.
While leaders studied weather re
ports, fearful lest the extraordinary
acceptance ceremony planned tonight
would be rained out, the convention
had difficulty at the start mustering
a quorum for its final session.
Garner was holding himself ready
to be by the President’s side at the
Franklin Field fete, the first of its
ASCIPAIGNENOS
East Has Mind Made Up,
West Is Safe, Piedmont
Fertile, Is View
Dally DlNpatch Itnreaa.
In The Sir Walter Hotel,
By J. C. BASKERVIIX
Raleigh, June 27. Clyde R. Hoey
will concentrate his campaign efforts
in the Piedmont section during the
final week prior to the second pri
mary on Saturday, July 4, for the
Democratic nomination for governor,
it was learned from his headquarters
here today. This was regarded as an
indication by the Hoey managers that
they still regard the Piedmont as the
real battleground for votes in the run
off and that they will leave both the
eastern and western counties in the
hands of the local Hoey managers.
(Continued on Page Three.)
MYSTERY SHOOTING
IN WEST VIRGINIA
Beer Garden Tarty in Charleston
Scene of Fatality After Argu
ment Breaks Out
Charleston, W. V., June 27.—(AP)—
A sudden volley of shots during a beer
garden brawl ended the life today of
Leo Nizer, 23-year-old West Virginia
University football star, and wounded
five other persons, including a girl.
Two were clubbed in the head.
The disturbance happened so quick
ly in the downtown garden, Police
Chief W. A. Tally said:
“I don’t suppose we ever will know
exactly what did happen.”
He placed a charge of murder, how
ever, against Okey Deboard, a former
city patrolman, and “bouncer” at the
establishment.
Miss Opal Clark, one of those
wounded slightly, told Tully:
“It was about midnight. Two boys
were arguing in the entrance. De
board got in 'between them and some
one pushed or knocked him down. He
got up, firing his gun in one hand
and swinging a blackjack in the other.
I ran.”
kind in political history, this even
ing. His speech would be brief, he
insisted.
Formally joining the New Deal is
sue against Landon and Knox, the
Roosevelt address was scheduled for
10 p. m., daylight time. Behind him
to be one of the most Tharmonious
conventions in his party’s history.
Not a “No” rose in the vast au
ditorium when the presidential vote
was reached at 12:42 a. m., eastern
daylight time.
The convention quickly suspended
the rules to choose Mr. Roosevelt by
acclamation on motion of Governor
Tom Berry, of South Dakota. This
Roosevelt Might
‘Summer’ in West
Los Angeles, Cal., June 27.—(AP)
—The Examiner said today Santa
Barbara, Cat., may become the
campaign headquarters of Presi
dent P.oosevelt i?i September.
Santa Barbara, 90 miles north of
Los Angeles, is under discussion as
the location of the “summer White
House” the newspaper said.
Charles B. Hfntry manager of
the El Encanto hotel at Santa Bar
bara, was quoted bj the Examiner
as saying:
“I understand on good authority
that the President will remain in
Santa Batabar most of September,
taking the Carl Boldt estate.”
NINTH NFWTeAK
HIT BY INDUSTRY
All Divisions N Advance Ex
cept Automobile; Hous
ing Goes Forward
New York, June 27 (AP) —Tramp-
ing steadily upward, the Legions of
industry scored the ninth new peak
for the year in the last eleven weeks
today.
The Associated Press index of in
dustrial activity stood at 91.3 —the
highest sjince mid-1930 —against 90
last week and 72.9 in the same period
a year ago.
Only one component of the index
declined, automobile production, while
two, electric power output and resi
dential building, established new tops
for 1936.
Residential construction continued
to show strength, although the nor
mal peak was passe din April.
Total carloadings improved slightly.
Electric power production was at the
highest level ever recorded.
Steel mill activity was maintained
by the large orders placed against the
July 1 price advances. The output
of cotton goods was slightly better.
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EXCEPT SUNDAY.
marked the first time in 20 years that
no roll call ballot was required. It
was also the first time in 104 years
that a presidential nomination would
have been possible by a simple ma
jority rather than a two-thirds vote.
All sides expected the selection of
Garner to be unanimous also. A few
hints of rivalry had withered before
the derision of the veteran Texan’s
supporters.
Democratic leaders arranged to
make today’s comparatively
brief. They concentrated on making
tonight’s ceremonies the climax of the
whole week. One hundred thousand
persons are expected to witness them.
N. Carolina
Delegation
Is Leaving
But Some Will Stay
at Democratic Meet
for Roos eve 1 t’s
Speech Tonight
Philadelphia, June 27 (AP) —The
ranks of North Carolina’s delegation
to the Democratic National Conven
tion were thinned today as the con
clave prepared to nominate Vice-
President Garner by acclamation and
adjourn.
Governor J. C. B. Ehringhaus chair
man, left yesterday and other mem
bers departed at intervals during the
afternoon and night.
A number of the delegation, how
ever, will remain here for President
Roosevelt’s speech tonight accepting
his unanimous nomination.
Close of the convention formally
will install A. D. Folger, Mount Airy,
as national committeeman, succeed
ing C. L. Shuping, of Greensboro.
The State joined other delegations in
second President Roosevelt’s nomi
nation, with Senator Josiah W. Bailey
delivering the speech.
OUR WEATHER MAN~
dSfe
FOR NORTH CAROLINA.
Partly cloudy, possibly scatter
ed showers in extreme north por
tion tonight and Sunday and in
central portions Sunday; slightly
warmer in central and southeast
portions tonight.
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VICE PRESIDENT IS
SELECTED AGAIN BY
ACCLAMATION VOTE
Roosevelt Himself Renomi
nated by That Method
Shortly After Hour
of Midnight
BOTH WILL ACCEPT
AT RALLY TONIGHT
Mammoth Crowd To As
semble in Franklin Field
Stadium To Hear Epoch-
Making Address by Presi
dent; Garner Nominated
by Governor of Texas
Convention Hall, Philadel
phia, Pa., June 27 (AP) —Twice
unanimous, the Democratic con
vention renominated Roose
velt and Garner today for the
already accelerating presiden
tial campaign
Both the President and Vice-Pres
ident will accept the campaign man
date before a mammoth audience at
Franklin field this evening.
A din of “ayes” from the crowded
floor ratified Roosevelt for the lead
ing place on the ticket at 12:42 a. m.,
eastern daylight time.
After a rest, a subdued and smaller
assemblage of the delegates formally
designated his running mate at 1:52
p. m., just before adjournment of the
ninth and final session.
Chairman Joe T. Robinson, of Ar
kansas, banged the sine die adjourn
ment gavel with a smile of relief at
2:19 p. m., eastern daylight time.
Placed in nomination by Governor
James V. Allred, of Texas, Garner wa3
given his demonstration innings and
a march led by his fellow southwest
erners.
Their rebel yells were loud and fre
quiet, but the scene contrasted with
yesterday’s pandemonium for Roose
velt, as many of the weary delegates
contented themselves with looking on.
The Vice-President himself listened
in at his hotel. He preferred to “take
a walk,” he had joked with friends in
disdaining suggestions that he visit
the convention.
Amidst signs of impatience at the
continued oratory, Senator James
Byrnes, of South Carolina, got the
floor to move that the nomination be
by acclamation. Chairman Robin
son put the question quickly “Yes”,
was the answer and not a “no” was
heard.
Roosevelt
Preparing
For Fight
Washington, June 27.—(AP)—Re-
nominated by accalamation as the
New Deal’s standard bearer, President
Roosevelt today for the second time
moved toward the major campaign,
wars, and made ready to address his
acceptance to the assembled Demo
cratic National Convention.
White House activity was stepped
up to a high pace as the chief execu
tive sought to clear his desk of leg
islative matters before hastening off
to Philadelphia tonight to make his
brief speech at Franklin field.
Whether the chief executive remain
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OWMEAL
Philadelphia Convention
Far More Noisy Than
Republicans Were
By CHARLES P. STEWART
Central Press Staff Writer
Philadelphia, June 27. —For what
ever noise may be worth in politics,
the Democrats have had more of it at
their convention in Philadelphia than
the Republicans succeeded in creatine
at Cleveland.
For a national convention the Cleve
land affair was rather quiet. The Lan
don crowd stirred up a tremendous
hullabadoo at their hotel headquar
ters, but the only first-class outburst
in the big auditorium was the recep
tion given to ex-President Hoover, and
that was too obviously made to order
to be very inspiring.
The gathering got off to a bad start,
fer one thing.
The delegates seemed discouraged
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