HENDERSON
GATEWAY TO
CENTRAL
CAROLINA
TWENTY-THIRD YEAR
HOEY LEADS M'DONALD BY AROUND
Government Steps
Into Steel Fight
To Assist Unions
Labor Relations Board Re
news Court Fight To
Force Acceptance by
Steel Firms
FEDERAL COURT IS
ASKED TO REVERSE
New Orleans District body
Had Previously Declined
To Enforce Labor Relations
Act on Constitutional
Grounds; Industrial War
fare Is Threatened
Washington. July 6.—(AP)—Warn
ing that industrial warfare threatens,
the government stepped into the steel
picture today as the struggle over
unionization in the five billion dollar
industry headed rapidly into its first
crucial phases.
With John L. Lewis spurring the
drive to organize all 500,000 steel work
< i into one big union, in defiance of
the bitter opposition of employers,
th-' National Labor Relations Board
reopened a fight in the courts to force
steel ( inpanies the to accept the Na
tional Labor Relations Act as a means
of keeping peace.
The boatd announced it was peti
tioning the Federal District Court of
Appeal at New Orleans today in a
new effort to enforce the act against
the big Jones and Laughlin Steel Cor
poration.
The petition said “the need for re
medial legislation such as this act is
now being amply illustrated by the
threatened strike in the steel indus
try, which will, by its nature, directly
burden x x x x interstate commerce.”
The act guarantees the right of
collective bargaining, seeks to outlaw
employer-dominated unions, and lists
“unfair practices” for which employ
ers could be penalized. It is now the
subject of court l attles, in which its
constitutionality is being challenged
and defended.
The labor board sometime ago is
sued an order directing Jones &
Loughlin to cease alleged interfer
ence with its employees’ attempts at
self-organization and to take back
ten discharged employees.
The board asked the court at New
Orleans to enforce this order. The
court refused, declaring that the steel
laborers were engaged in manufac
ture and not interstate commerce,
and that the Constitution gives the
Federal government no power to re
gulate labor relations in manufactur
ing.
Minister Is
I *roud Over
Accusation
Clarendon Preacher
“Glories” in Impli
cation Rid
er Gang
Whiteville, July 6.— (AP)—While a
committee of Clarendon citizens
pledged their support to rid their
community of white-robed night rid
ers, a rustic Baptist preacher gloried
today in what he said was an im
plication he was the leader of the
nocturnal hand.
The minister, Rev. George R. Hunt,
denied he was connected with the ter
rorists, but said in his Sunday sermon
that the accusation was “the most
honorable thing that has ever been
bestowed on me.” Amid many
“amens”, he exhorted his hearers to
cleanse the community of “undesir
ables.”
Prior to Hunt’s sermon, Grover C.
Hinson, a well-to-do- farmer, reported
to authorities that a group of a hun
dred “leading citizens” of Clarendon
held a mass meeting and pledged sup
port to the forces of law and order.
Solicitor John J. Burney, of Wil
mington, and Sheriff John W. Hall
prepared to continue their quiet in
vestigation into the activities of the
terrorists accused of flogging four
women and two men because they
were “undesirables.”
Hinson told authorities that if the
matter is cleared up he Ibelieved it
would he found two factions were op
erating against each other, and that
none of the best citizens of Clarendon
were members of the Vigilante band.
Mr. Hunt told his congregation yes
terday, “1 don’t believe any law is
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iintftrrsmi Dmlu Htspafrlt
ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA AND VIRGINIA
Probes Floggings
Hackett Applewhite
As foreman of the Columbus
county, North Carolina, grand
jury investigating floggings of
women and men, Hackett Apple
white, above, is a key figure in the
investigation. A fanatical swamp
country preacher is reputed to
head the vigilantes who have
Hogged and shaved the heads of
their victims, including seven
women.
—Central Press
RELIEF PROM
Neither Republicans Nor
Democrats Offered Plan
in Platforms
ALTERNATIVES TALKED
Printing Press Money Will So De
base Values as to Offset Any
Savings in Payments
of Interest
By LESLIE EICHEL
Central Press Staff Writer
NEITHER REPUBLICANS nor
Democrats mot the relief problem
squarely in their respective conven
tions. They skirted all around the
basic issues of the unemployment
question.
In spite of the best business condi
tions in six years—and in some indus
tries the best business on record—
unemployment remains at high level.
Worse, states and municipalities
and counties are failing to meet their
relief responsibilities.
Relief may be a local issue, as
critics of the New Deal assert, but
persons dependent on relief do not
believe so.
WHAT WAY.
The noisy conventions in Cleveland
and Philadelphia, of course, purpose
ly avoided the Ibasic unemployment
issue. It is a scare goblin—just ar
round the corner —for both parties.
The Republicans condemned, and
much of what they said was true, yet
offered merely the alternative that
had failed —leave it all to unhamper
ed business to find the way.
The Democrats would go on paying
endlessly.
The Coughlin-Lemke party would
iput the making of money into the
hands of the people.
How any of these hopes would
eventuate into jobs for all is not ex
plained logically.
The Socialists demand a planned
economy, and every man to share in
the resources and the earnings of in
dustry and land according to his
labor.
Some plan is essential, economists
say. Otherwise, business itself will
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PEACETIME SPY IS
SENT UP 15 YEARS
Los Angelos, Cal., July 6. —(AP)
—America’s first peacetime spy,
Harry Thomas Thompson, former
United States Navy yoeman, was
sentenced by 1 Federal Judge I .eon
Yankwich today to 15 years in
Federal prison.
LEASED WIRE SERVICE OF
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS.
HENDERSON, N. C., MONDAY AFTERNOON, JULY 6, 1936
Japanese Rebels
Given Sentences
Tokyo, July 17 (Tuesday) (AP) —
A special court martial early to
day sentenced 17 leaders of the
February 2Ci rebellion to death and
five others to life imprisonment.
Tile courtmartial also convicted
44 non-commissioned officers and
eight civilians, ordering them im
prisoned for terms ranging from
18 months to 15 years.
The charges against them in
cluded murder, rcl>ellioii and dis
obedience to the commands of the
emperor liimself.
It was ui this rebellion that the
premier, Admiral Keisuke Okada,
narrowly escaped assassination.
Three other statesmen were killed.
HOEy VOTE SLAP AT
MINALD-DANIELS
Meant Shifting of Tax Load
From Eastern Counties
to Piedmont and the
West
THAT SECTION IS
STILL IN CONTROL
Belief Is Had McDonlad
Won, Machine Would
Have Sprung Up Far More
Vicious and Domineering
Than One McDonald Rav
ed So Much Against
Dally Dispatch lliircan.
In The Sir Walter Dutei,
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Raleigh, July 6 —The nomination of
Clyde R. Hoey as the Democratic
candidate for governor in the second
primary Saturday in a majority of
more than 53,000 over Dr. Ralph W.
McDonald is more than the mere win
ning of another primary contest. It
demonstrates that the Democrats in
the Piedmont and western counties
are still in control in North Carolina
and hence are really the Democratic
party in the State, and that no can
didate can hope to win the Democra
tic nomination for governor on an
anti-administration and anti-party re
cord platform unless he can convert
the Piedmont and west as well as the
east, most observers here today agree.
The results of Saturday’s primary
also show that the Piedmont and
western Democrats again ran true to
form in voting their preference for a
Democrat of the old tried and true
sort rather than for a new style,
1936 model Democrat who assailed the
record of the party in the State more
bitterly and viciously than any Re
publican candidate for governor ever
has, observers also agree.
Slap at Daniels Family
The decisive victory of Hoey over
McDonald is also regarded as being a
resounding slap at the Daniels fam
ily and The News and Observer and
at what many consider to have been
an attempt by the Daniels clan and
their newspaper to overthrow the ma
jority faction in the Democratic
party and put in a new faction, head
ed by Dr. McDonald, which would be
more friendly towards the Daniels
ideas and objectives and give this
family more consideration and recog
nition than it has so far received
from the older and still dominant fac
tion. Some believe the evident pre
ference of the Daniels family and
newspaper for Dr. McDonald and his
faction grew out of either the hope
or belief that he and his administra
tion could be dominated or dictated
to by the present ambassador to
Mexico, his son Jonathan, the pres
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League Is To Lift
Sanctions July 15
Geneva, July 6 (AP) —The League
of Nations coordinating committee
adopted a resolution today fixing
July 15 as the date on which to su
spend economic and financial sanc
tions against Italy.
The vote on the motion was un
animous.
The recommendation will be plac
ed before the League Assembly for
final action.
Augusto Basconcelios, of Portugal,
president of the committee, opened
the session to raise the penalties from
the Fascist nation with a lengthy re
view of the League’s first attempt to
appty fpuni'tiveV measures against
an aggressor.
He said it was obvious from the
outset sanctions “could not be com
plete” because important countries
July 4 Death Toll Now 441;
Thirteen In North Carolina
Nation Has Largest Inde
pendence Day Fatality
List Since 1931, Fig
ures Reveal
ONLY THREE AUTO
DEATHS IN STATE
Variety of Causes of Fata
lities Here; Exploding
Firecracker Sets off Blaze
In Remsen, lowa, That
Does $500,000 Damage in
Loss of Property
(By The Associated l’ress.)
The nation today summed up
ils cost, in life of celebrating the
double holiday of the Fourth of
July and fouid the staggering
total of 441 persons had met viol
ent deaths over the week-end.
In the motor vehicle fatalities
the number was 254, fireworks
seven.
(By The Associated Press.)
The nation today listed its total vic
tims at 389 in the week-end celebra
tion of Independence Day.
It was the largest Fourth of July
fatality list, since 1931, when 493 died,
and the second largest in the last nine
years.
Fireworks resulted in six deaths,
one less than last year.
Motor vehicle fatalities numbered
230 as unprecedented numbers took
to the highways for the double holi
day. Deaths (by drowning were listed
at 99. Others lost their lives in tavern
brawls, airplane crashes, wild shoot
ing and railroad and other accidents.
Fires and lightning claimed other vic
tims.
National Guardsmen occupied Rem
sen. lowa. A fire cracker there started
a blaze that resulted in a loss esti
mated at $500,000. Four blocks of bus
iness buildings were razed. Fifteen fa
milies were homeless.
Deaths by States include: North
Carolina, three highway accidents,
one drowning, none from fireworks,
and nine from other causes, a total
of 13.
ONLY THREE AUTO DEATHS
OF NORTH CAROLINA’S 13
Charlotte, July 6.—(AP) North
Carolina today took stock of the 13
violent deaths that occurred in the
State over the week-end. Motor acci
dents claimed only three of the vic
tims.
In the worst tragedy of the week
end three fliers were killed when
their plane crashed Sunday morning
on the coast near Manteo. Garnett H.
Tompkin, 36-year-old Norfolk busi
ness man, the pilot, died instantly. His
two companions, Melvin D. Sawyer,
23, of East Lake, and Albert Gard, 25,
of Mann’s Harbor, died while they
were being rushed to a Norfolk hos
pital.
Albert Taylor, 51, died under the
wheels of a train at Wilson early
Sunday while sitting on the crossties,
and Early Lucas, 38, of Lucama, met
death near there Saturday night when
a bus struck his bicycle.
George Dennis, 43, was killed in an
automobile accident near Albemarle,
and Herbert Saunders, 18, succumbed
at Lcnior from burns he suffered a
few days ago in a furniture factory
explosion.
Alvin Whitaker, 30, of Biltmore, was
drowned Saturday afternoon in a lake
near Morganton, and Henry Reeves,
32-year-old Harnett county farmer,
was found shot to death in his home
near Dunn Saturday afternoon.
A i.ree bent over by the weight of
another tree that had fallen on it,
sprang back and killed Gilmer John
son, 16-year-old Mount Airy boy, and
a pitchfork accidentally stuck into
his skull while he played on a wheat
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are still outside the League.
However, fighting extensive trade
losses and decrease of Italian gold re
serves, the committee asserted, “re
sults from this first attempt to ap
ply sanctions are by no means neg
ligible.”
Members of the committee met to
consider details for the formality of
dropping the economic and financial
penalties voted almost nine months
ago.
As they deliberated, Emperor Haile
Selassie sped toward London, heavy
hearted and empty-handed.
League delegates, freed of the em
barassing presence of the Negus,
looked toward fresh discussions of
what they considered a more vital
subject—reform of the League sys
tem of collective security.
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CLYDE R. HOEY
Bids Received on
Warrenton’s P. O.
Washington, July 6.—(AP) —The
Upchurch Construction Company,
of Montgomery, Ala., submitted a
low hid of $50,813 today to the
Treasury for construction of a new
post office at Warrenton, N. C. W.
F. Martens, Newport News, Va.,
the only other bidder, made an es
timate of $58,000.
MIS
Retiring Comptroller Gen
eral Severely Spanks
New Deal Policy
By CHARLES F. STEWART
Central Press Staff Writer
Washington, July 6.—John Ray
mond McCarl, retiring as comptroller
general of the United States, landed
about as severe a spank on the New
Deal as well could have been imagin
ed with his denunciation of the ex
travagance of its emergency setups.
For one thing, McCarl spoke as a
high authority.
He has been administering govern
ment expenditures for 15 years with
presidents of both parties in the
White House He has handled his job
honestly and competently. He has
been called tight-fisted but never a
breath of scandal has been suggested
in connection with his running of one
of the least popular of federal of
fices, for its principal function has
been the paring down of expense ac
counts.
KEPT OUT OF POLITICS
Secondly, the comptroller general
has kept scrupulously out of politics.
He expresses himself with no tinge
of partisanship.
For a decade and a half he has not
said a word except through his offi
cial opinions. Republicans and Dem
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FOB NORTH CARO TIN A.
Partly cloudy tonight and
Tuesday; scattered showers.
PUBLISHED EVERY AFTERNOON
EXCEPT SUNDAY.
n °W MUCH DOPE
Defeat of Wade Seen As
Result of Soime Sharp
Trading Done by Eure
Dully Dispatch Rntena,
111 The Sir Walter Hote>,
Pr J C. HASKKRVILL
Raleigh, July 6.—Much pre-election
dope was spilled as a result of the
nomination of W. P. Horton as lieute
nant governor over Paul D. Grady,
who had led him by 23,000 votes in
the first primary, and by the nomina
tion of Thad Eure for secretary of
state over Stacey W. Wade, who had
led Eure by 43,000 votes in the first
primary. For while the nomination of
Horton was being freely predicted in
many circles here during the last
week preceding the second primary,
opinion in most quarters was that
Wade would win over Eure despite
the fact that Eure was believed to
have the sympathy and backing of
the present administration.
Ever since the first primary, the
Hoey forces have maintained that
Grady was the McDonald candidate
for lieutenant governor, both because
Grady ran on an anti-sales tax ticket
and because the report got out that
the McDonald managers sent the
word out to their county managers
and workers for them to “go down the
line” for Grady in the first primary.
This Relief was further strengthened
when a comparison of the vote for
governor and lieutenant governor in
many counties showed that Grady and
McDonald carried many of the same
counties by very similar votes. In the
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FREED, WANTED IN
SLAYING, GIVES UP
Chicago Man Refuses, However, To
Answer Questions About
I‘laygiri’s Murder
Chicago, July 6 (AP)—Edward
Freed, believed to be the “Eddie” for
whose love murdered playgirl Audrey
Vallette sighed and stormed in her
diary, surrendered to police today,
but refused to answer key questions
asked in an effort to solve the mys
tery.
His wife. Ruth Carmelia Freed, who
police believe fled from the North
LaSalle street apartment building last
Thursday after Miss Vallette had
screamed, “Stop that woman, I’ve
been shot.” did not surrender, and
the authorities apparently had no
knowledge of her whereabouts.
Freed, 32, manager of the “Nut
House.” North Clark street night
club, said he last saw his wife at
4 a. m. Thursday. He refused to dis
cuss her further,- and refused to say
anything about his relations about
the murdered party girl.
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50,000
Pittsboro Man Nominated
for Lieutenant Governor
In Run-Off Over
Paul Grady
WADE IS DEFEATED
BY EURE, RUNNER-UP
Straggling Unofficial Re
turns Fail To Change Early
Margin of Victory Rolled
Up by Clyde R. Hoey in
Governorship Contest in
Run-Off Election
Charlotte, July 6. (AP) Re
turns from 1,765 precincts of 1,-
858 in Saturday’s Democratic pri
mary give lloey 261,970, McDon
ald 208,788; while 1,723 precincts
gave Grady 198,558 and Horton
206,875, and 1,723 precincts give
Wade 183,663, and Eure 222,006.
Charlotte, July 6.—(AP)—A pic
turesque figure on the stump, with
flowing gray locks and a cutaway
coat, Clyde R. Hoey was nominated
governor in Saturday’s run-off Demo
cratic primary in North Carolina.
Straggling unofficial returns failed
to change his 50,000 lead over 33-year
old Dr. Ralph W. iMlcDonald, militant
sales tax repealist, today.
Reports from 1,756 out of 1,858 pre
cincts give Hoey 261,453 votes and Mc-
Donald 208,617.
Paul Grady, of Kenly, Johnston
county, president protem of the Sen
ate, trailed his fellow senator, W. P.
Horton, of Pittsboro, by around 8,000
votes with 1,M595 precincts unofficial
ly tabulated in the race for lieutenant
governor. The vote was: Horton, 206,-
875, Grady, 198,555.
With 1,699 precincts reported, Thad
Eure, principal clerk of the State
House, of representatives, led the in-*
cumbcnt, Stacey W. Wade, for secre
tary of state, bya wide margin. The
vote was, Eure 222,395, Wade 183.483 j
Several Are Hurt
In Rear Collision
On Big Four Road
Cleveland, July 6 (AP) —Two sec
tions of Big Four train No. 40, the
Missourian, en route from St. Louis
to New York, were wrecked in a rear
end collision near North Eaton, south
west of Cleveland today.
Reports to Big Four offices nere
said that no one was killed. Those
injured, whose names were not learn
ed, were brought to a Cleveland hos
pital. The hospital said they were
not in a serious condition.
Grissom And
HoeyNowTo
Stage Fight
Two Veteran Cam
paigners To Battle
for North Carolina
Governorship
Raleigh, July 6 (AP) —Two veterans
at the game of politics began today
to lay plans for an intensive fight
this fall for the governorship of North
Carolina, but the Democrat, Clyde R.
Hoey, of Shelby, held the advantage.
Gilliam Grissom, of Raleigh, the
Republican nominee, at his State
headquarters here, smilingly declined
to comment on the nomination of
Hoey, except to say, “I had expected
it, based on past votes."
"We will make our campaign just
as intensive as we can,” Grissom said.
“Our State chairman, W. S. Meekins,
of Hendersonville, and our 100 county
chairmen are my managers, which
makes 101 managers and gives me an
organization in each county.”
Grissom said Meekins plans to call
a meeting of the organization within
the next week or ten days to map
campagn plans.
Hoey, chosen in Saturday’s primary
by some 50,000 majority, was at hi*
home in Shelby. His campaign plans
will take shape shortly when he se
lects the man he wants to be State
Democratic chairman.
J. W. Winborne, of Marion, is chair
man now. the choice of Governor
Ehringhaus