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GATEWAY TO
CENTRAL
CAROLINA
TWENTY-THIRD YEAR
NEW HEAT WAVES
BRING NEW HAVOC
10 CROPS IN WEST
Fears Temporarily Allayed
by Rains Mount With
Mercury in Drought
Belts There
RECORD HEAT FOR
NEBRASKA FRIDAY
Unseasonably Warm Wea
ther Predicted for Western
States; Scattered Showers
In South and Portions of
Eastern States; City Dwell
ers Are Worried
Chicago, July 4.—(AP) —Crop wilt
mu hoot spread new havoc across the
wt torn plains today.
I'. us temporarily allayed by actual
predicted rain for several days
mounted with the mercury in the
drought holt.
A hl r’ir g tun beat down on parch
ed p--dries a= the corn crop entered
a critieul three-week period. Extreme
ly high temperatures were registered
yesterday in the Missouri valley and
the central plains.
Norfolk. Neb., recorded 111. Omaha
had HO—the highest ever noted at
the weather station there in July.
Unseasonably warm weather, meteo
rologists warned, would blanket the
midwest.
There were scattered showers in
.out hern states and portions of New
York and New England. More preci
pitation was indicated for parts of
Wisconsin and North Dakota —one of
the most adversely affected states.
But there was no immediate hope
of a general saturating downpour to
halt crop losses that have already
been estimated at more than $250,009.-
»>OO for the nation's major agricultural
sections.
City dwellers , shared some of the
farmers’ concern after Agriculture
Department economists in Washing
ton said the weather's effect on corn
would determine the future price of
the meat they must buy for their
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HUNTING SLAYER OF
WOMAN IN CHICAGO
Chicago. July 1 (AP)—The search
for Mrs. Ruth Freed, sought as the
brunette woman who fled from the
apartment where blonde Autry Val
lett was slain, was spurred by fresh
information today.
Captain Andrew Barry said he had
been informed that about dawn on
the day of the crime, Mrs. Freed had
threatened “to get both of you," as
she dashed from a cabaret where
her husband. Edward, was manager,
and Miss Vallett was a guest.
The captain linked the story with
entries in the slain party girl’s diar
ies that told of her infatuation for
"Eddie" officially believed to be
Freed.
Mrs. McKinney, a salesman, made
the statement to Barry.
More Highs
In Industry
In The Week
Production Charges
Ahead Despite Cus
tomary Dips Com
mon for Summer
New York, July 4.—TAP) —No re
specter of seasons, industrial produc
tion continued to charge ahead into
now nigh territory this week, heed
less of the “summer dullness” that is
gen or* lly expected.
The Associated Press index of in
dustrial activity stepped up to 92.3,
the highest since May, 1930, against
91.3 a week ago, and 72 last year.
Only one component of the index
failed to establish or equal its peak
for the year, automobile output.
The spurt in steel mill activity is
still based on the new price schedule
with labor trouble possibilities caus
ing a small amount of stocking.
Cotton manufacturing speeded up
sharply as cotton and cotton cloth
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HcuiUTsmt Daily Utapatrij
only DAILY NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA AND VIRGINIA
An Epic Picture— Landing in a Fog!
Not so long ago a fog like this would have meant the cessation of all flying. It might have meant serious
danger to an airship the size of the Hindenburg. But thanks to development of scientific instruments the
huge airliner landed safely at Lakehurst, N. J. See how the top of the rudder is shrouded in the mist.
The ship is shown heading for her mooring mast at the Naval Air Station after a sensational record flight
to America. (Central Press)
Roosevelt Calls On Nation
To Renew Fight For Liberty
Acreage Os
Cotton Cut
Over South
Soil Program and
Nature Combine To
Cut Prospective
1936 Yield
New Orleans, La., July 4 (AP) —
Private acreage estimates indicated
today that the soil erosion program,
with an assisting nude from nature,
held cotton painting down nearly as
much as the late agricultural adjust
ment act.
First official figures on new cot
ton acreage will be heard Wednesday
when the government releases its es
timates.
Meanwhile, cotton firms, coopera
tives and other private agencies have
been making private checks, and it
appeared the trade was expecting
around 31,000,000 acres.
Last year the final cotton acreage
was 27,880,000 acres, a total of 31,-
000,000 acres this season would rep
resent an increase around 11 percent
but would still be far below the 40,-
000,000-acre average of the bumper
crop years.
The American Cotton Grower, of
ficial organ of the American Cotton
(Continued on Page Two.)
NOWOUTONALIMB
But Neither Landon Nor
Roosevelt As Leftist As
They Appear
By CHARLES V. STEWART
Central Press Staff Writer
Washington, July 4. —Ultra-conser-
vative folk find themselves with prac
tically no place to go as the presi
dential campaign opens up.
No party offers them wlurt would
have been considered a stand-pat pro
gram as recently as four years ago.
The extremely radical group, like the
Communists and the slightly milder
Socialists, of course, arc anathema to
them. The Lemke-ites don’t suit them
much bettor.
The Democrats arc much too far to
the leftward for them. And even the
Republicans show signs of liberality
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LEASED WIRE SERVICE OF
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS.
HENDERSON, N. C., SATURDAY 'AFTERNOON, JULY 4, 1936
Showers Spatter
States In Dixie
Nashville, Tenn., July 4. —(AP) —
Light showers spattered Dixie to
day, making this for millions of
drought suffereres a glorious, if
slightly wet, Fourth.
The day broke clear in some sec
tions and cloudy in others, but
temperatures were moderate fol
lowing heavy rains that poured up
on most of the South last night.
A tornado dipped in to the Red
Bluff community near Macon, Ga.,
last night, unroofed several houses
and injured two persons.
Generous downpours yesterday
fell on Georgia, Tennessee, North
and South Carolina, Kentucky, Mis
sissippi and Louisiana, while these
and other southern areas had re
trieved hard rains Thursday.
ZIONCHECK SLAPS
AT HISTNEMIES”
Says He Will Find Who Had
Him Committed to Wash
ington Hospital
Seattle, Wash., July 4 (AP)—A
“safe and sane Fourth” was on Ma
rion A. Zioncheck’s program today
after the rollicking congressman
had predicted there would be a “lot
of heads hammered down” before he
was through.
The 33-year-old congressman re
solved to spend a quiet holiday with
his bride and mother after his hec
tic experiences, which reached a cli
max last Sunday .when he jumped
over a fence and escaped a Mary
land institution for mental patients.
Such episodes, he declared, were
“water under the bridge.”
Zioncheck declared, “I am going
to the bottom of my commitment
to Gallinger and my kidnaping to
Sheppard Pratt hospital, and I think
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OUR WEATHERMAN
FOR NORTH CAROLINA.
Partly cloudy tonight and Sun
day; occasional local showers.
President Delivers His
Fourth of July Address
at Old Home of
Thomas Jefferson
MONTICELLO CHIEF
A GREAT COMMONER
Passages in Address Rem
iniscent of Recent Accept
ance Speech at Philadel
phia; Says Only Limita
tions on Capacity for Free
dom Is Nation’s Desire
Monticello, Va., July 4. — i(AP) —
Standing at the portico of Thomas
Jefferson’s mountain home, President
Roosevelt called on the nation today
to renew that founding father’s bat
tle for “true freedom.”
Mr. Roosevelt’s Fourth of July ad
dress rang with the praises of Jeffer
son as “a great gentleman,” and a
“great commoner,” who was not sat
isfied with “things as they were,” but
“concentrated on “things as they
ought to be.”
Passages in the address were remin
iscent of the President’s recent ac
ceptance speech, in which he argued
that while the Revolutionary heroes
overthrew political autocracy, the
modern task was to win freedom from
the “economic royalists” of big busi
ness.
“Was the spirit of such men as Jef
ferson the spirit of a golden age now
and never to be repeated in our his
tory?” the President asked. "Was the
feeling of fundamental freedom which
lighted the fire of their ability a mir
acle which we shall not see again?
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Nutbush, First
To Report, For
Clyde R. Hoey
Usually the first precinct in
North Carolina to report, Nutbush
finishing voting and officially
announced its vote around noon
today in the run-off primary.
Hoey carried the precinct three
to one for governor, which is a
switch from the McDonald ma
jority there in the June 6 election.
The vote follows:
For Governor—Hoey 23, Mc-
Donald 7.
For Lieutenant Governor—Hor
ton 24, Grady 6.
For Secretary of State—Wade
9, Eure 21.
For coroner of Vance County—
Paschall 29, Southerland 1.
A month ago the precinct voted
for governor: McDonald 15, Hoey
12, Graham 3.
The total vote was the same in
both elections—thirty.
SAFE, SANE FO URTH
SOUGHT BY NATION
FOR DUAL HOLIDAY
Officials Hope To Prevent
Repetition of 1931, When
Day Fell at Week-
End Also
GAY SPIRIT is"NOT
REDUCED, HOWEVER
Memorial Services Conduct
ed in Philadelphia Church
Where Worshiped Many
Who Framed Nation’s His
toric Declaration of Inde
pendence in 1776
(By the Associated Press)
Special precautions for a “safe
and sane Fourth” were made through
out the nation today as authorities
feared a heavier-than-usual list of
tragedies because the holiday fell
on a week-end.
They acted to prevent a repetition
of the 1931 accident record, when a
week-end Fourth brought the high
est holiday death toll in recent years.
Insurance experts (of Travelers
Insurance Company) forecast 450
deaths —300 in highway accidents and
150 by drowning.
But this grim prediction did noth
ing to diminish the gay spirit of the
holiday commemorating the decision
of 13 eastern seaboard states 160 years
ago “to dissolve the political bonds”
which tied them to Great Britain.
These 13 states were joined today
by 35 others in a patriotic medley of
'booming guns, ifireworks and ora
tory.
In Philadelphia, where the Declara
tion of Independence was signed on
July 4, 1776, memorial services were
conducted in the church in which
many of the framers worshiped.
President Roosevelt made an ad
dress at Monticello, Va., Thomas
Jefferson’s old colonial home.
Military posts from coast to coast
boomed out '4B-gun salutes known
as the “salute to the Union," and
fired only on July 4.
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TO LEFT OR RIGHT
Soviets Turning to Right;
Roosevelt Fears Intol
erance in U. S.
By LESLIE EICHEL '
Central Press Staff Writer
CAN ENGLAND escape the leftist
and rightist movements that have
swept the remainder of Europe?
Votes of confidence by a Tory par
liament in a Tory government do not
signify confidence of the people. Eng
land’s government is more uncertain
today than in years.
Movements do not stop at a nar
row body of water like the English
channel. iMbvements do not even stop
at oceans.
Which direction will England go?
WILL FASCISM DIE?
Observers believe fascism may
spread for a while yet. Then, they ex
pect to see it collapse of its own sins.
But man lives through a terror in
the meantime.
Democracy is expected to conquer.
Democracy moves more slowly, with
severe toil —and severe toll.
Once upon a thne, it leaped across
an ocean, from America to France,
to bring a revolution.
A few years later, American Tories
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Election
Returns
Returns on today’s run-off pri
mary election will be broadcast by
the Daily Dispatch by amplifiers
tonight from the office on Young
street, and the public is invited
to attend and hear the results. It
is expected that the returns will
he received more speedily than in
the June 6 election because of the
fact that there are fewer offices
at stake and fewer candidates.
An Associated Press wire will
furnish service on the voting in
Statewide contests throughout the
State. Returns on those contests
in this county will also be an
nounced as fast as received, to
gether with the voting on the only
local contest, that for coroner.
PUBLISHED EVERY AFTERNOON
EXCEPT SUNDAY.
HOEY, HORTON, WADE
“DOPED” AS WINNERS
IN RUN-OFF VOTING
Farley Successor?
j
: i«||l
W. W. Howes .
If Postmaster General Jam«« A.
Farley resigns from the cabinet,
as is expected, William W. Howes,
first assistant postmaster general,
will take over the acting duties.
Farley will devote his time then
to the presidential campaign as
national Democratic chairman.
—Central Press
“WHOSE
IS BIGGEST ISSUE
IN MOTION
Voters to Decide Whether
They Want Kind Already
in or One McDonald
Will Make
PROBABLE CHOICES
ARE SPECULATED ON
Promises Made Throughout
State in Return for Sup
port; Two Men Reported
Promised Same Jobs;
Lumpkin Slated for Gov
ernor in 1940 Election
Dally Dispatch Itareaa,
In The Sir Waller Hotel,
By J. C. BASKBRVILI,
Raleigh, July 4.—“ Whose machine”
rather than “The Machine” is the big
issue in the primary today to deter
mine the Democratic nominee for gov
ernor, political observers here agree.
While Dr. Ralph W. McDonald has
spent most of his campaign fighting
what he termed the “Gardner-Eh
ringhaus-Hoey Machine,” which he
maintained has dominated the Dem
ocratic party in the State for the past
eight years, this fight on “the ma
chine” has really been nothing more
than a smoke screen to prevent the
voters from thinking about what kind
of a “machine” he would assemble if
he became governor, many observers
are convinced.
That Dr. McDonald already has a
veiy powerful “machine” is generally
conceded, otherwise he would not
have been able to get some 186,000
votes in the. first primary. It is also
generally agreed that much of Dr.
McDonald’s following ha s been built
up by means of promises to various
supporters that they would 'be given
jobs in his “machine” if and when
he got to be governor. The report has
been current for months that the only
way he persuaded Willie Lee Lump
kin, his campaign manager to man
age his campaign for him instead of
running for lieutenant governor, was
by promising to appoint him commis
sioner of revenue if he won out for
governor, and that he would then
back him for governor in 1940—and
thus perpetuate the McDonald “ma
chine” in the same way he charges
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Few Accept Claims of Man
agers of Either Hoey
or McDonald About
Governorship
HORTON IS FAVORED
TO OVERCOME GRADY
Appears to Be More Doubt
About Secretary of State
Contest Than Any Other,
Though Belief Is Wade
Will Nose Out Thad Eure
by Safe Margin
Daily Dispatch Bureau,
In The Sir Walter Hotel,
By J. C. IIASKERVILIj
Raleigh, July 4 —When the ballots
are all counted tonight and the re
turns come in, they will show that
Clyde R. Hoey, of Shelby, will be the
the Democratic nominee for governor,
that W. P. Hoiton of Fittsboro will
have won out for lieutenant governor
and Stacey W. Wade will have won
the renomination for secretary of
State, according to the “dope" in po
litical circles here today.
Claims Distrusted
Few are willing to accept the claims
the managers of either Mr. Hoey or
Dr. McDonald at their face value,
however, since Hubert Olive, manag
er for M|\ Hoey, maintains that his
candidate will win by a majority of
at least 75,000 votes, while Willie Lee
Lumpkin!, MlcDonald’s manage|r,
maintains! that the Winston-Salem
college professor will carry every
county east of Forsyth and win by
a majority of at least 30,000. Most
of the more experienced political ob
servers here who have analyzed the
situation believe that Dr. McDonald
cannot carry more than 30 counties
and probably not more than 25, with
the result that Hoey is assured of
carrying from 70 to 75 counties.
Accordingly, most of the conserva
tive predictions are that Hoey should
win the nomination over McDonald
by a majority of from 30,000 to 50,000
unless* the total number of voltes
cast runs considerably in excess of
400,000. A total of 517,000 votes were
cast in the first primary on June 6.
Dope For Horton
Despite the fact that Paul D.
Grady, of Johnston county, was high
man in the first primary in the con
test for the nomination for lieuten
ant governor, when there were three
candidates, the opinion in most cir
cles today is that W. D. Horton, of
Chatham county, will win the nomi
nation. In the first primary Grady
got 162,000 votes, or 23,000 more than
Horton, who received 139,000, while
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League Now
Seeks Quick
Adjourning
To Drop Sanctions
and Refuse Recog
nition of Italy’s
Ethiopian Seizure
Geneva July 4.—(AP)—A lengthy
solution to wind up debate on the
Italo-Ethiopian war was submitted to
the League of Nations Assembly to
day by a steering committee.
Action on the motion was postpon
ed after several delegates niformed
Premier Paul Van Zeeland of Bel
gium, Assembly president, they wish
ed time to study the document.
The committee’s unanimous recom
mendation followed lengthy debate on
the language of the motion to suspend
Italian sanctions and pave the way
for prospective reform of the collec
tive security program.
Stefan Lux, Czechoslovakian, news
paper man, who startled the Assem
bly by shooting himself in the chest
yesterday, died in the hospital as the
committee tackled its complicated
task.
Informed sources predicted a three
pointed motion would emerge from
the committee room, including:
1. Suspension of economic and fin
ancial sanctions against Italy for her
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