HENDERSON
GATEWAY TO
CENTRAL
CAROLINA
TWENTY-THIRD YEAR i.kaskd wire service of
L JjnU THE ASSOCIATED PRESS.
American Labor Federation
. 4
Considers Complete Ousting
Os Lewis, Threatening Split
WAR 10 THE KNIFE
FACES TWO GROUPS
WORKERS UNIONS
Angry Accusations from
Opposing Sides Indi
cate No Peace Is
Yet In Sight
LEWIS IS CHARGED
WITH FORCING RIFT
President Green, of A. F. of I
L. f Says His Action Will
Benefit Only Enemies of
Organized Labor; Lewis
Says Green Faction Is With
Employers
Wa-diingtnn, July B.—(AP)—Lead
n- of the American Federation of I
I/ibor feathered today to decide
whe her to wage war to the knife on
John L. Lewis and fellow insurgents
♦ n.: lut'd in the gigantic struggle to or
ganize 500,000 steel workers into a!
singh industrial union.
Amy iccusations from the oppos
ing camps of industrial and craft
u; i ni ;s indicated no peace was in
. . t and the quarrel threatened to
pin the A. F. of L. wide apart, with
profound consequences for the future
history of organized labor.
William Green, president of the A.
F. of L., and spokesman for its dom
inant faction of craft unionists, said
bitterly that Lewis’ “unwise policy”
had produced only “division, discord
and confusion” in laror ranks, and
would benefit “only the enemies of or
ganized labor.”
Lewis, United Mine Workers head,
and leader of the drive to organize
steel workers into a gnsile unit in
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WOOLARD NAMED AS
INGRAM SUCCESSOR
Raleigh, July 8 (AP) —Dr. M. C S.
Noble, Jr., assistant revenue commis
sioner, announced today the promo
tion of Highway Patrolman 3. L.
Woolard, at Winston-Salem, to the
position of corporal in the parole to
succeed C. H. Ingram, of Henderson,
who resigned recently.
Reprisals
Are Begun
By Italians
Rome, July 8 (AP)— ltalian mili
tary airplanes were reported today
sent out to make "mass reprisals'
against an Ethiopian district in
which at least three Italian fliers
were si i n June 26.
Among those killed was Major An
tonio Locatelli, famous pilot, and a
member of the Balbo mass flight to
the United States in 1933, and Gene
ral Vincenzo Magliocco, assistant
chief of aviation in East Africa dur
ing the war.
The victims occupying three air
planes, had been making an observa-
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Rockefeller
Reaches 97,
Hale, Hearty
One of World’s Rich
est Men, He Hopes
To Live To Be 100
Years Old
Lakewood, N. J-, July 8 (AP)
Ninety-seven candles shone today on
John D. Rockefeller’s birthday cake,
with one slice reserved for the aged
financier himself.
“Os course, he’ll eat some, said
a member of his household. “There s
no reason why he won’t eat cake,
because he eats everything he wants.
This declaration added emphatic,
though unofficial, support to a state
ment issued by the multi-millionaire
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Idyjfhrrsou Daily Itauafrlt
Not Only Drouth, But Grasshppers, Bare Farms
‘. • .
A corn field near Wichita, Kans,, st ripped of foliage by grasshoppers
Grasshoppers are an added scourge
to drouth-stricken farm lands in
states west of the Mississippi. Mil
lions of the hoppers, after eating all
the alfalfa in sight, attacked the
COTTON ACREAGES
ABOVE LAST YEAR
30,621,000 Acres as of July
1, Against 27,888,000
One Year Ago
Washington, July 8 (AP) —Cotton
in cultivation July 1 was estimated
today by the crop reporting board
at 30,621,000 acres, or 109.8 percent
of the 27,888.000 in cultivation a
year ago.
Acreage in cultivation July 1 and
the percentage of last year’s July 1
acreage 'by states includes: North
Carolina, 967,000 and 103 percent.
HOEY GOtIILEVEN
GRAHAM COUNTIES
Also Carried Anson, Lone County
That Voted for John Mcßae
in First Election
Charlotte. July B.—(AP)—Recapi
tulation of last Saturday’s vote in the
second primary for governor the
third gubernatorial run-off primary
in the State’s history—showed Clyde
R. Iloey, the nominee, picked up
eleven counties which had been car
ried by Sandy Graham in the June 6
vote.
In addition, Anson, the lone county
carried ry John Mcßae, of Charlotte,
in the first race, gave the Shelby ora
tor a good majority.
BARBAII SHOWN
AT BOYS’ SCHOOL
Conditions at Nashville Be
lieved to Exist in Other
Localities
By LESLIE EICHEL
Central Press Staff Writer
CONDITIONS DISCLOSED in the
Tennessee Agricultural and Training
[School for Boys near Nashville are
believed also to exist elsewhere in the
United States.
Sadistic, barbaric rule prevails in
more than one “reformatory. Just
what causes man to believe that by
sending youth to these horrible insti
tutions they will be reformed is a
mystery. Youth, once there, learns
merely of the cruelty of man, learns
of crime, learns of and
comes out either hardened criminals,
determined to revenge this unjust
world, or men broken and unfit for
the world.
Grand jury testimony in Nashville
was replete with descriptions of
drunken guards torturing helpless
boys.
Mrs. Mollie B. Stone, for 18 months
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ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA AND VIRGINIA
corn, ruining large fields which had
promised to give the largest yield-in
years. Photo shows part of a half
n>i;v long corn field owned by Virgil
Beaver, near Wichita, Kas., stripped
of all foliage.
Complete Returns
On Election Given
Charlotte, July 8 (AP)- I The
complete tabulation, official and
unofficial returns from last Sat-
primary in North Caro
lina give:
For governor—Hoey, 261,813;
McDonald, 212,879.
For lieutenant governor—Hor
ton, 217,652; Grady, 206.773.
For secretary of state—Eure,
233,751; Wade, 192,082.
DROUTHWILL HELP
ROOSEVELT CAUSE
Present Situation Bears Out
His Contention for Con
servation
By CHARLES P. STEWART
Central Press Staff Writer
Washington, July 8. —Generally a
crop failure is held, in the agricul
tural states, against the administra
tion in power in Washington at the
time it occurs. Os course the admin
istration isn’t to blame for the weath
er and the insects that destroy crops.
Nevertheless, it usually has been
blamed heretofore.
This year, however, the Democra
tic ticket seems likely to profit from
drouth, duststorms and grasshoppers
in the west.
Democrats think so and many Re
publicans are afraid of it.
GRATEFUL FARMERS
If the stricken areas were to be left
to their fate, as in the past, undoubt
edly they would be as resentful as
ever before.
But this time farm relief is to Ibo
dispensed liberally.
The afflicted farmers, then, pre
sumably will be grateful to the re
gime which has helped them—the
Roosevelt regime. The Bandonites
may rejoin that they would have
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B. S. JERMAN TO BE
INTERRED THURSDAY
Aged Raleigh Business Man, Native
of Ridgeway, Long Active in
Business World
Raleigh, July 8 (AP) —B. S. Jer
man, 74, former president of the Caro
lina Power and Light company, and
for years prominent in the business
and banking life of Raleigh, died
today after a long period of failing
health.
A native of Ridgeway, Warren
county, Jerman had lived here 54
years.
Married three times, he is surviv
ed by his widow and five children.
Funeral services will be held here
tomorrow morning at 10:30 o’clock.
HENDERSON, N. C., WEDNESDAY AFTEIINO ON, JULY 8, 1936
Guilty in Spy Plot
. J
Harry Thomas Thonapeoki
Convicted in five minutes in fed
eral court at Los Angeles of
ing confidential United States
fleet information to a Japanese
secret agent, Harry Thomas
Thompson, former navy yeoman,
faces sentence of 20 years in
prison, Thompson is shown in
court as he heard the guilty ver
dict. The case is unprecedented
in navy and war department
history.
—Central Press
BALLOT PROTESTS
TO PASS SHORTLY;
REBOUND POSSIBLE
McDonald Himself Is Re
fusing To Have Any Part
in Procedures Where
Launched
ABSENTEE'S SUE IS
MIGHTY HOT POTATO
Not All Lily-White, But Ir
regularities Charged by no
Means Always Merited;
McDonald Men Might Bet
ter Let Matters Stand As
They Are
Dnlly UUiMitrb Ttnrenii.
In The Sir Walter Hotel.
ny J. C. BASKRHVILI.
Raleigh, July B.—The various com
plaints which are being made by some
of the managers for Dr. Ralph W.
McDonald with regard to alleged
abuses of the absentee [ballot in Sat
urday’s primary are not expected to
get much farther than they now are
for the reason that any investigation
or prosecution might cut both ways
and show that the McDonald forces
made just as much use of the absen
tee ballot as did the Hoey forces, most
observers here agree. Another reason
for this belief is that so far formal
protests have been filed in only three
or four counties, although from what
had been said before the primary and
the precautions which the McDonald
forces announced they were going to
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Woman Held
For Burning
Her Brother
Wilson, July B.—(AP) —.Mrs. Sudie
Haynes, charged with the fatal burn
ing of her half-brother, Howard God
win, as he slept early yesterday in a
remote section of Wilson county, was
bound over to the September term of
superior court without ifcail following
a hearing held here this morning be
fore Magistrate A. J. Hines.
Nicie Sherrod, Negro woman and
principal witness for the State at the
hearing, testified that a quarrell had
taken place between Mrs. Haynes and
Godwin on Monday night and that
Mrs. Haynes had “poured something
out of a can on the house,” and had
“struck a match to it,’ 1 after which it
flared up. The officers found an
empty kerosene can nearby.
The Negress further testified that
“two or three people told me not to
tell nothing about what happened,”
but she declined to give their names
at the hearing.
OUR WEATHER MAN
FOR NORTH CAROLINA.
Fair tonight and Thursday;
slightly warmer tonight in east
and central portions.
List 53 Dead As Heat Wave
Continues Throughout West
And Government Rushes Aid
55,000 Destitute
Farmers Will Get
Jobs In The WPA
Nearly Half Are To Get
Work Within 24 Hours
In Drought Area of
the Northwest
THOUSANDS WILL BE
TAKEN ON EACH DAY
154,500 Families To Be
Taken Care of by WPA in
17 States, Including North
Carolina; ‘ Resettlement
Organization Has Already
Started Functioning
Washington, July B.—(AP)—Aubrey
Williams, deputy WPA administrator,
announced today that 55,000 destitute
farmers in five mid-western drought
stricken states would be employed by
the WPA “wihtin a week or ten days
at the most.”
Williams estimated that nearly half
this number would be employed with
in 24 hours.
He said the WPA would employ 20,-
000 in North Dakota at the rate of
2,000 a day.
In South Dakota, he said, 17,000
would be employed at an average of
2,800 a day. Jobs for 6,000 are called
for in Montana, he said, at the rate
of 400 a day.
In Wyoming 2,000 men are to be
employed at the rate of 700 a day, and
Minnesota’s schedule calls for the em
ployment of 7,500 at an average of
800 a day.
The Resettlement Administration,
which /already has a complete organ
ization in the field, has made allot
ments to six western states totalling
$393,000 to cover a short period, as a
major step in the program designed
to care for 154,500 families.
The 154,500 families to Ibe taken
care of by the administration are lo
cated in North Dakota, South Da
kota, Minnesota, Kansas, Nebraska,
.Montana, Wyoming, Oklahoma, Texas,
Missouri, Kentucky, North Carolina,
Tennessee, Virginia, Alabama, Geor
gia, and South Carolina.
The total monthly cost to relieve
suffering in the drought areas over
and above those families now receiv
ing cash grants from the Resettle
ment Administration will be $1,696,000,
officials estimated.
In addition, it was said loans a
mounting to $9,600,000 will be neces
sary for a feed program, and $9,000,-
000 for a crop program in addition to
the normal crop program.
Explosion Kills
Five Persons At
British Arsenal
London, July B.—(AP)—An ex
plosion in the royal arsenal in
Woolwich, killing five persons,
was announced today by Trie war
office.
The cause of the explosion and
•the extent of the damage was not
immediately disclosed. The an
nouncement said:
“The war office regrets to an
nounce that an explosion occurred
in the research department in the
royal arsenal at Woolwich this
afternoon, which caused the
deaths of five persons.”
DRIVING LICENSES
HELD OP 1 TRIAL
Arrested Persons Denied
Privilege While Hearing
Is Pending
Dnliy Dlftpntch Barena,
In The Sir Walter Hole.,
Hr J C. IIASKERVILI/
Raleigh, July B.—An increasing
number of drivers’ licenses are [being
suspended by the highway safety di
vision of the Department of Revenue
pending the trial of those arrested for
drunken driving, reckless driving and
other violations of the traffic laws,
Director Arthur Fulk of the division
said today. This is already having an
effort on reckless and careless driv
ing as well as on drunken driving,
since more and more drivers now
.realize that they are likely to have
their licenses suspended a s soon as
they are arrested, in addition to run
ning the risk of losing their licenses
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Orville C. Pratt, above, for 20
years superintendent of schools in
Spokane, Wash., is the new head
of the National Education asso
ciation. Pratt was elected presi
dent of the group at the seventy
fourth annual convention in Port
land, Ore.
—Central Press
Dardanelles
Conferences
Near Rocks
Russia Objects To
Passage of British
Warships; Wants
Right Herself
Montreaux, Switzerland, July B.
(AP) —The Soviet delegation an
nounced today that Foreign Commis
sar Maxim Litvinoff had been in
structed by Moscow to leave the pre
sent Dardanelles conference unless he
received considerable concessions
from the British.
The conferees, assembled to study
Turkey’s demands for the right to re
fortify the famous straits connecting
the Black Sea with the Mediterran
ean, recently has been close to a dead
lock over revival Russian and Brit
ish desires.
Great Britain demanded the rignt
of unrestricted passage through tne
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arrestedoMe
OF “COLORED” GAS
Wake County Man Tinted
It and Sold It for High
Test Motor Fuel
Dull)' UlMpateh flurena.
In The Sir Walter Hotel,
Rr J. a UAHKERVILIi
Raleigh, July 8. —A filling station
operator here in Wake county who
was found to be adding coloring mat
ter to low-test gasoline and then sell
ing it for “high test” gasoline at
premium prices, was found, arrested
and prosecuted here recently, C. D.
Baucom, director of the division of
weights and measures of the State
Department of Agriculture, said to
day.
“Not only was this filling station
operator adding coloring matter to
plain gas and selling it at three cents
a gallon more than the prevailing
price of regular gasoline, but analysis
of the gasoline showed that it was of
the lowest quality of the time sold
by the reular filling stations as “third
grade gas’ and sold at from one to two
cents a gallon less than the prevail
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20fX
TWO SECTIONS.
inswenS
WPA Organization Will See
170,000 Families Through
Crisis Due To
Drought
PRESIDENT PLANS
INSPECTION LATER
Will Visit “Dust Bowl”
Next Month To See Pro
gress Made in Helping
Distressed Growers; No
Relief in Sight from With
ering Sun im Territory
Chicago, July B.—(AP)—The natior
counted at lea.st 53 dead today as re
cord-shattering heat engulfed th
drought-damaged midwest for th'
sixth consecutive day.
Crop losses, already estimated a
approximately $300,000,000, mountec
rapidly under a withering sun tha
drove temperatures as high as 120 d<
grees.
No relief was sighted. Meteorolo
ists predicted, instead a continuatic
of the fair and torrid weather th;
has spread death, misery and destru
tion across the mid-continent.
But desperate western planters r
ceived some good news. Presidei
Roosevelt swung the government ini
action behind a program designed t
carry 170,000 farm families and the
harassed livestock through the cris
He announced at Washington la
yesterday they would receive aid thr
ugh WPA work and subsistence loai
and grants, while small cattle bree
ers would receive Federal loans
save their foundation herds.
The President estimated 204,0
farm families, the bulk of them in tl
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HOFFMAN PREVENTS
TRIAL OF PARKE)
Jersey Governor Refuses To Extr
dite Detective Who Got Wen
ders Confession
Trenton, N. J., July B.—(AP)—Pn
secution of Ellis Parker, Sr., rur
New Jersey detective chief, on chai
ges of kidnaping Paul H. Wendt,
was snagged today by the flat refuse
of Governor Harold G. Hoffman t
extradite the detective to New Yor
There is no appeal from the gove
nor’s decision, but in Brooklyn, N. 1
Wendel, disbarred Trenton attorne
whose statements delayed the exec
tion of Bruno Richard Hauptmar
three days, said he would ask tl
Federal government to arrest Park
under the Lindbergh anti-kidnapii
law. .
“In the interest of justice and
prevent others from being kidnap<
and tortured into confessing son:
thing of which they are entirely i
noceni,” he said, “I believe it is n
duty to continue fighting for law ai
order.”
The governor, who called Wendel
affidavits “manifestly false,” act'
upon New York’s request as the r
suit of an indictment which charg<
Parker, his son, Ellis, Jr., and thr
others wilth kidnaping Wendell
Manhattan.
Farley May
Not Return
ToP.O.JoI
Gets Leave of At
sence Aug. 1 To D
rect New Deal Rt
Election Drive
Washington, July 8. —(AP) —Jar
A. Farley today began winding
the affairs of his office as postnr
ter general preparatory to taking
three months leave of absence, d
ing which he will direct the N
Deal election campaign. Presid
Roosevelt announced late yester
that Farley, chairman of the De
cratic National Committee, would
linquish his cabinet post and pay,
tween August ,1 and election day
There was a difference of opi;
today as to whether Farley actu
ever would return to the cabi
Some officials believed he might
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