HENDERSON
GATEWAY TO
CENTRAL
CAROLINA
ENTY-THIRD YEAR
DEMOCRATS
CASH CROP INCOME
INCREASES 90 PRCT.
FOR 3-YEAR PERIOD
Lain Is 120 Percemt for
Crops Under Production
Control, AAA Of
ficial Declares
OTHERS RGSeTONLY
46 PERCENT IN ALL
Rental and Benefit Pay
ments Contribute About
?5 Percent of Cash In
crease; Value $4,377,000,-
COO in 1932 Rises to $6,-
900,000,000 for 1936
Washington, Juno 29.—(AP)—An in-
I'toaso of 90 percent between 1932 and
1935 in the total cash income from
cotton, corn, wheat, tobacco and hogs
was reported today Ly the AAA.
The report, prepared by Chester C.
Davis, former AAA administrator,
aid tiie income of the commodities
lose from $1,365,090,090 in 1932 to
$1,593,000,000 last year.
Ca li ine me from all farnr produc
tion increased from $1,377,000,000 to
$6,900,000,000 in the same period, the
report said. The five specified pro
ducts were the first ones for which
crop adjustment programs were put
into effect in 1933.
••The price recovery of farm pro
ducts for which production control
programs were in effect amounted to
120 percent, as against 16 percent for
prices of those commodities in which
there were no production control pro
grams," said the report.
The average price in all groups rose
66 percent during the three years,
moving from 65 percent to 108 percent
of the pre-war level, said Davis.
Rental and benefit payments, the
report added, contributed about 25 per
cent of the amount of the cash in
come increase during the period, when
-uch payments averaged $451,000,000
annually.
piedHlgTon
IS BATTLEGROUND
Hoey and McDonald 1 urn
ing There for Votes As
Campaign Closes
Dully f»nr«*-n.
In The Sir Walter Hotel,
Itv .1 V IIASKIOItVIM
Raleigh, June 29. —The Piedmont
will he the battleground for votes be
twi'cn Clyde R Hoey and Dr. Ralph
W. McDonald in this final week of the
campaign, as these two candidates for
the Democratic nomination for gov
ernor in the second primary Saturday
attempt to ‘‘get the votes where the
votes are.” The Iloey managers are
eonfident that the western counties,
which went almost solidly for Hoey
a the first primary on June 6, ate
i,w "safe for Democracy" and that
the county managers can he depended
upon to get the vote out Saturday.
The McDonald managers are equally
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Democratic Convention Was
Strung Out Much Too' Long
But Business Community H ad to Cet Its Money Back;
Youth Views Procedure i n Disgust and Sees Little
Democracy in It; Platforms Means Little
IJv CHARLES V. STEWART
Central Tress Staff Writer
Philadelphia, June 29.— The great
trouble with this year’s Democratic
National Convention was that it to
<><• strung out too long.
I* was unavoidable, in order to en
able the hotel and other business men
who [»ut up the cash to have the
: .''Miering held in Philadelphia, to get
h< ir full money’s worth out of the
visitors.
H' weve.r, everything it was neces
■iiv ft, do had been so completely sot
led in advance that the proceedings
1 > 1 1 y could have been pushed thro
u i in live or six hours. Prolonging
1 m into a couple of days, to allow
bn some more or less superfluous
hes, wouldn’t have been so bad,
but nearly a week of it has been tire
l (, l If.
•NEWSMEN AND RADIO
11'.-; been tiresome, anyway, to the
* w papermen, the photographers, the
'•'legraph folk and the broadcasting
terns’ staffs, who arrived in Philly
■biudy nearly prostrated by what
they had been through in Cleveland.
IHa'itiU'rsmt iUttUt Sit snatch
2IQNCHECK FOUND
HIDING AT OFFICE
ON CAPITOL HILL
Police Enter Office as Mad
cap Congressman Ap
pears at Door Fol
lowing Escape
FLEES SANITARIUM
NEAR THE CAPITAL
Wife Also Missing and
Hunted by Police After Es
capade from Hospital at
Towson, Md.; Zioncheck
Declared by Doctors Not
To Be Dangerous Menace
Washington, June 29 (AP)—Repre
sentative Marion A. Zioncheck, Dem
ocrat, Washington, who escaped from
a Towson, Md., sanitarium last night,
appeared at the door of his office on
Capitol Hill today after police had
entered the office.
During the forenoon a warrant for
the arrest of the representative was
issued by District Attorney Leslie
Garnett. The warrant was based on
the complaint of Mrs. Benjamin
Scott Young, who sub-let an apart
ment to Zioncheck.
She alleged she had been injured in
struggles with the Zionchecks at the
apartment. A similar warrant has
been issued for Mrs. Zioncheck.
A charwoman told Capitol police
a man she believed to be Zioncheck
came into the office which she was
cleaning about 4 a. m., ordered her
out and locked the door. From that
time on there was no response to
knocks or telephone calls until the
police entered the office.
BAFFLES PURSUERS EARLY
IN DAY AFTER HIS ESCAPE
Towson, Md., June 29 (AP) —
Marion A. Zioncheck, madcap con
gressman from Seattle, baffled his
pursuers earlier in the day in a
weird game of hide-and-seek that be
gan with his escape from a private
sanitarium here yesterday.
His whereabouts remained a my
stery 24 hours after he leaped a wire
fence and ducked into ttfe woods
surrounding the Sheppard & Enoch
Pratt hospital.
State police said they had broad
cast no general alarm, hut Baltimore
city police headquarters sent out to
all its officers a detailed descrip
tion of the 35-year-old congressman.
Far into the night hospital attach-
Dj reinforced by police officers,
combed the estate and searched else
where for their missing patient. Po
lice said one attendant told of Zion
check being seen on the grounds dur
ing the night, but no report of his
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A delegate has only his own party’s
convention to attend.
We non-partisan toilers have one
right on top of another —more than
that, some of us, wtio have to “cover”
the smallish affairs, like the Social
ists’ et cetera.
IT’S NO FUN
The actual work isn’t particularly
exhausting; we have to work anyway.
It’s the standing around in hotel
lobbies; all scats occupied. It’s the
traveling up and down steen flights
of stairs at a time; all elevators be
ing so overcrowded that they won t
stop for additional passengers. It’s in
being packed like sardines into the
press section of a convention half; if
• one lias an side seat he can’t get out,
, hut if he hay an aisle seat all hands
climb over him.
It’s an extraordinary thing that,
whenever a group of politicians
i choose to fall into a huddle in some
i hotel office or convention hall corri
; dor, they invariably select a doorway
or similar bottleneck, where it’s im
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HENDERSON, N. C., MONDAY AFTERNOON, JUNE 29, .1936
READY FOR ELECTION WARS
Presiden t and Garner Join H ands at Acceptance Program
Wyvfilr r , ■ M?* ’
This picture, made in Franklin field Philadelphia, Saturday
evening when President Roosevelt and Vice-President Garner de
livered speeches of acceptance of their renomination at the
hands of the Democratic party, is considered by experts as a
“wonderful shot.” President Roosevelt is shown holding up
See Simmons
As Working
In Revenge
His Stand Against
Hoey Fails to Cre
ate Ve r y Strong
Impression in State
Daily Dispatch llureim.
In The Sir Walter Hotel,
fly J. r. II ASK Kit VI LI.
Raleigh, June 29.—The statement
by former Senator F. M. Simmons
that he is opposing “Clyde Hoey for
governor of North Carolina for the
same reason that I opposed A1 Smith
for President of the United States in
1928’’ has drawn nothing but silence
from Mr. Hoey’s headquarters, but
North Carolinians who remember de
tails of the heated Hoover-Smith
campaign are unable to follow the
veteran New Bern man’s reasoning.
They recall too well that the then
senior senator from North Carolina
based his bolt from the Democratic
party on the “wetness of the brown
derby wearer from the sidewalks of
New York, and they are little more
than tolerantly amused by verbal ges
turings which put Mr. Hoey in the
same class. Some North Carolinians
may fear Mr. Hoey on the prohibition
issue, but none because he is “wet”
like A1 Smith, for none doubts the
sincerity of the Shelby man’s cam
paign statement that he is a dry 'both
in practice and in theory.
On the other hand there arc those
who carry Mr. Simmons’ analogy a
bit further and are inclined to agree
that there is striking similarity be
tween Herbert Hoover, the man he
supported in 1928, and Ralph McDon
ald, his present favorite for governor.
These unkind folks find a pointed
parallel between the “great engi
neer’s” promises of two chickens in
every pot and two cars in every gar
age and the many promises made by
Dr. McDonald during the course of
the gubernatorial campaign.
Difference of Opinion.
There is some difference of opinion
about the value of Mr. Simmons’ en
dorsement. McDonald men are con
fident that the former senator has re
tained much of his old-time vote get
ting ability, but Hoey supporters
point to his overwhelming defeat by
Senator Bailey in 1930. They recall the
old political truism that “you can run
over one or two big fellows and get
away with it, but you are sure to re
gret running over a lot of little fel
lows.”
And they add point to their remarks
by calling the roll of lesser office
holders who went down to defeat
along with Smith in 1928 and who are
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STATE’S REVENUES
SET NEW HIGH FOR
THIS FISCAL YEAR
Will End Year Tomorrow
With Good Balance In
General and Highway
Fund Coffers
ANNUAL RECORD IS
SET IN 11 MONTHS
At End of May Had Exceed
ed Anything for Any En
tire Year Before; June
Revenues Usually Ar eFar
Ahead of May Figures;
Will Be Known Tuesday
Raleigh, June 29. —(AP)—The State
of North Carolina set a record for
revenue receipts during the current
fiscal year which ends tomorrow, and
will end the period with a balance in
its general and highway fund ac
counts.
Though no figures on revenue re
ceipts for June will be announced un
til tomorrow, investigation by The
Associated Press today showed that
tax revenues for the year were $51,-
900,969.87 on June 1, almost a million
dollars more than the receipts from
all sources in 1934-35 of $50,976,741,
which set a record then.
June receipts usually exceed those
of May, due to the payment of Sche
dule B license fees, and last month
the receipts for the highway and gen
eral funds were 3,667,574.62, indicat
ing the fiscal year’s tax revenues will
exceed by uwards of $4,000,000 the
total revenues of the previous high
year.
- Fralnk Durijap, director
of the budget, said there was no
doubt the general fund would show
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OUR WEATHER MAN
FOB NORTH CAROLINA.
Generally fai|f tonight; Tues
day partly cloudy possibly scat
tered showers in mountains in
afternoon or night; slightly warm
er in north central portion.
Vice-President Garner’s hand in the manner of a victor to de
light the enormous crowd, estimated at around 100,000 persons,
gathered to do honor to the Democratic nominees. It was the last
event in connection with the close of the Democratic National
Convention.
Hail And Wind Do Heavy
Damage In Eastern Part
Os State Over Week-End
Negro Infant Killed as 70-Mile Wind Strikes Belhaven;
Crops Badly Damaged in Nash and Wilson Counties
by Wind and Hail; Farm Buildings Hit
Washington, N. C., June 29 (AF)—
A furious midnight storm killed a
Negro infant and did heavy damage
to the town of Belhaven, 30 miles
from here, according to reports to
day.
Mable Lee Burrus, 6, was killed
and her mother and a sister were in
jured when the wind levelled their
home in the western part of Bel
haven.
Several other houses in the Negro
quarters were wrecked, telephone
posts were felled, trees uprooted and
crops ruined by the wind which
swept by with an estimated velocity
of 70 miles an hour.
The damage was said to be in the
thousands of dollars.
NORTHERN FART OF WILSON
COUNTY SEVERELY DAMAGED
Wilson, June 29 (AP) —'Farmers of
MM
Brick Used To Bludgeon
Young Divorcee as Small
Son Looks On
Chicago, June 29 (AP)—Beaten to
death by blows on the head, Mrs.
Florence Castle, 25-year-old divorcee,
was found today in her room at a
hotel near the Gold Coast on Chi
cago’s near North Side.
Scrawled across the mirrow of her
dresser in what detectives said ap
peared to be either red crayon or
lipstick were the words:
“This is the black legion.”
On a bed near the body the police
found the two pieces of a paving
brick broken in half and bloodstain
ed, which was used to bludgeon the
victim, while James, her six-year-old
son looked on in horror.
James ran into the lobby of the
hotel and told the desk clerk:
“A man with a black mask hit
mama.”
Hotel employees said they believed
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PUBLISHED EVERY AFTERNOON
EXCEPT SUNDAY.
the northern part of Wilson county
today surveyed the results of a de
structive wind and hail storm which
did heavy damage to crops late yes
terday.
A path about half a mile wide and
12 to 15 miles long was spent by the
storm. Tobacco, cotton, corn and
other crops were reported ruined.
High winds uprooted many trees
and unroofed farm buildings in the
area.
County officials said the damage
would amount to thousands of dol
lars.
CROPS SEVERELY DAMAGED
IN PARTS OF NASH COUNTY
Rocky Mount, June 29 (AP) —Wind
rain and hail storms yesterday seve
rely damaged many acres of cotton,
tobacco and corn in two sections of
Nash county.
lITI
Had 43,717 Votes Lead on
Eure in First Primary
Vote June 6
Unity UlN|>nt«'li Rnrenn.
In The Sir Welter Hotel,
llr J. O. HASKKRVILL
Raleigh, June 29.—Stacey W. Wade,
present secretary of state, is still re
garded by most observers as being
well out in the lead for the nomina
tion for that office in the second
primary Saturday, July 4, although
very little interest is being shown in
the campaign. He is being opposed by
Thad Eure, of Winton and Raleigh,
who ran second in the first primary.
M. R. (Mike) Dunnagan, the third
candidate, was eliminated in the first
primary. Wade received 212,687 votes
in the first primary, Eure 168,790 and
Dunnagan only 55,192. Wade lacked
only about 10,000 votes of getting a
majority over both of his opponents
and led Eure by 43,717 votes.
The fact that Wade has this large
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KEYNOIf OF ™
IN COMM BATTLE
Roosevelt In His Acceptance
Speech Pledges To Do
Battle Against This
Tyranny
OVATION TUMULT IS
WITHOUT PRECEDENT
Lasts Until President Drives
From Franklin Field Sta
dium in Philadelphia After
Close of Democratic Con
vention; Makes No Men
tion of Landon
Philadelphia, June 29.—(AP)—De
mocratic leaders scattered to the four
corners of the country today to
preach economic freedom as the key
note of their campaign to re-elect
President Roosevelt.
They carried a pledge to battle
“economic tyranny” directly from the
President, who wound up the party’s
convention Saturday night by accept
ing his renomination before an en
thusiastic crowd of 100,000 in rain
soaked Franklin field.
Only those near the loud speakers
heard the last three sentences of the
President’s address:
“I accept,” started a tumultuous
ovation that all but drowned out
“ —the commission you have tendered
me. I join with you. I am enlisted for
the duration of the war.”
It lasted until Mr. Roosevelt drove
from the stadium.
Half way through his speech, the
President sounded his war cry:
“For too many of us the political
equality we once had won was mean
ingless in the face of economic in
equality. A small group had concen
trated into their own hands an almost
complete control over other people's
property, other people’s money, other
people’s labor, other peoples’ lives.
“For too many of us life was no
longer free, liberty no longer real;
men could no longer follow the pur
suit of happiness.”
“The economic royalists complain
that we seek to overthrow the insti
tutions of America. What they really
complain of is that we seek to take
away their power. Our allegiance to
American institutions require the over
throw of this kind of power.”
The President did not mention
either the Republican party or Gov
ernor Alf. M. Landon, the Republican
candidate. Nor did he mention the
Democrats. He bid for the support of
“small business men and merchants,"
“the worker and the farmer,” and
“the average man.”
Night Riding
Gang Hunted
In Columbus
r- - -
W o m ,e n Floggers
Probed by Grand
Jury Sitting At
Whiteville
Wilmington, June 29.—(AP)—Solici
tor John J. Burney announced a “war
to the death” today against Columbus
county night riding women floggers,
and in Whiteville a grand jury con
tinued a probe of the band, directed
last week by Judge R. Hunt Parker.
Burney said the secret band had
been operating for seven months, and
that their activities came to light only
Saturday.
“Every man responsible for this out
rage is going to be ferreted out and
'brought to trial,” he said. “I am con
vinced that not half of the depreda
tions committed have been brought to
light, and I am morally certain that
the gangsters have so intimidated the
countryside people have been afraid
to speak.”
Hackett Applewhite, directing the
grand jury investigation, said the
jury was in possession of the names
of some of the night riders and that
other names were expected to be re
vealed in a short time.
Burney said the names of six vic
tims so far had been revealed —four
women and two men. He said the wo
men were subjected to head shavings,
then beaten with straps upon their
bare flesh. One of the male victims
was partially paralyzed.
The district attorney said none of
the victims had revealed a motive for
the floggers.
The situation came to light during
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