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HENDERSON GATEWAY TO CENTRAL CAROLINA TWENTY-THIRD YEAR NO RELIEF SEEN AS HEAT DEAD REACHES 303 LEWIS UNION MAY IAKE FIGHT WITH GREEN TO COURTS “Rebel” Group To Resist Being Thrown Out of A. F. of L. By Execu tive Council showdownls DUE ON NEXT TUESDAY At That Time, Council Will Decide Definitely Wheth er To Oust Recalcitrants; Almost Certain To Do That Unless There Is Last-Min ute Change Washington, July 10.—(AD—Prom inent members of the John L. Lewis band of “rebels” within the Amer ican Federation of Labor were under load today to be considering a court ti ;ht to prevent the A. F. of L. exe cutive committee from tossing them emt of the federation. This was the newest development in a far-reaching labor dispute mov ie- .-lowly toward a showdown which is expected to occur next Tuesday. On that date the council plans to decide definitely whether to suspend unions representing one-third of its membership on the ground that they are working at cross purposes with the A. F. of L. Lairing a last minute change of heart, most labor circles expect the council to vote to oust the rebel un ions which are now aiding the com mittee for industrial organization in the drive to draw 500,000 steel work ers into one big industrial uniop, regardless of the craft they worx at. When and if the suspension is vo v ed, the leaders in the industrial or ganization are expected to decide quickly whether they are to conduct a court fight challenging the validity of the court order or to go their own way, perhaps seeking to set up a rival organization, with a membership of 1.250.000, which they claim. Support for the theory that they might possii ly go to court was seen in a remark made by Philip Murray, field chairman of the unionization drive. He said at Pittsburgh that he had studied the A. F. of L. constitd tion rarcfhlly, and had found no pro vision for such a suspension order. If DONALD TO GET IDE ONNEWSPAPER Raleigh Hears He Will Go With Daniels Backers at Early Date llutl? l)lK|inl<>h lliirt'itn. In Tin* Sir. \V:ill*t IliilPl, llv .1 C. RAUKKIIVII.I. Raleigh, July 10—In answer to the question which many have been ask ing since the primary last Saturday ■a s In what Dr. Ralph W. McDonald is going to do, since he lost his fight for the Democratic nomination for governor, the report is current here today that he has been offered a po sition on the staff of The News and Observer here as a special writer to turn out special feature articles on politic and government in North Car olina and perhaps assist Jonathan Daniels in writing editorials. It is pointed out that (his would give Dr. McDonald and The News and Obser ver an opportunity to continue their joint fight against the “machine” and that it would also give McDonald an (Continued on Pace Five) New Dionne Infant Uses Fine Linens Callander, Ontario, July 10. —(AP) —Ha by Dionne, blonde brother of the quintuplets, ruled a luxurious nursery world today, thanks to the fame of his sister's. The eight-pound baby, born early yesterday, lay in a crib swathed in fine linens which the quintuplets out grew. His clothes and cradle con trasted sharply with the cotton sheet ing and laundry basket which were the first possessions of the five sis ters. The twelfth child and third son of Oliva and Elzire Dionne received more and (better attention at birth than his four sisters and one brother in the northern Ontario farm home, and his five sisters nearby in a gov ernment-constructed hospital. •HcniU'rsnu Daily Bfajjafclj ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA AND VIRGINIA LEASED WIRE SERVICE OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS. Electrocution Delayed Two Hours After Negro Attempts His Own Life Executed In Utah By Firing Squad DELBERT GREEN GREEN EXECUTED BY FIRING SQUAD Prisoners In Utah State Pri son Demonstrate When Shots Ring Out Salt Lake City, Utah, July 10 (AP> Delbert Green, 28-year-old slayer o? three, was shot to death at dawn, to day by a firing squad concealed be hind a canvass screen at the Union State Penitentiary. Strapped into a crude frame chair .with his back against the prison wall, the murderer was executed at 5:10 a. m. (7:10 a. m., eastern stand ard time. ) Five riflemen fired from some 20 paces away. One of the wea pons was loaded with a blank cart ridge. The othdr prisoners demonstrat ed. as Warden R. E. Davis expect ed they would, when the gunfire echoed inside the prison walls. Green swore to the last they would be executing him for a crime he could not remember—the domes tic row-murder of his 18-year-old wife, her mother and foster father January 4. 1930. Green’s spiritual advisor, Philo T. Farnsworth, be fore helping to lead Green out to face the firing squad, cried to news men : “They’re going to kill a mental ten-year-old ” This was the theme of the most ex tended murder case in Utah’s history a case which found the killer re sentenced five times and reprieved twice on the very eve of scheduled executions. . _ . . As Lewis’ Drive in Steel Threatens Union Split • i v ■• -t J§|§ _ • * ■ Future of labor in the steel industry of the U. S. hangs in the balance pending the outcome of the unionization drive led by John L. Lewis (inset), president of the United Mine Workers of America. Steel opera HENDERSON, N. C., FRIDAY AFTERNOON, JULY 10, 1936 Henry Greer, Forsyth Wo man Slayer, Hur{s Him self 20 Feet Upon Concrete Floor SERIOUSLY INJURED IN SUICIDE EFFORT Rushed to State Prison Hos pital; Breaks Away from Guard and Negro Trusty After Telling Death Row Companions Goodbye, as Is Usual Raleigh, July 10— (AP) Henry Grier, 43-ycar-old Winston-Salem Ne gro, who attempted suicide this morn ing, was electrocuted this afternoon at State’s Prison here. Grier was carried into the death chamber by five men at 12:36 o’clock. His lips were taped. His arms were in splints. His eyes were closed except once when It appeared that he might have been looking around. As the g’vitch was thrown to send the current through his body at 12:40, blood dripped down outside the mask over his face from his lips. The current was administered in one shock for two minutes and 54 seconds. Dr. G. S. Coleman, prison physician, pronounced Grier dead at 12:46. Dr. Paul Neal, Raleigh physician, joined Dr. Coleman in an examination (Continued on Page Eight. Roosevelt Will Guide Own Battle President Cites Re vered Jefferson for Analogy to His Own Struggle By LESLIE EICHEL Central Press Staff Writer President Roosevelt is setting the tenor of his campaign. He will try to prove by the past that the real guard ian of the people’s rights is one who breaks the bonds of tradition and en larges the scope of administrative ac tion. That is in answer to the Republi cans and their states’ rights’ cam paign . In his speech on Thomas Jeffer son at Monticello, President Roose velt sprung his keynote, to-wit: “He was a great gentleman. He (Continued on Page Two.) tors contend that vertical unionization will close many plants now oper ating at capacity. Lewis is going ahead with the drive in the face of opposition by A. F. of L. leaders, who favor craft unions. (Central Press) Soil Bans Lifted Upon Feed Crops Washington, July: 10.—(AI*) — Three notifications of the soil con servation program to increase sup* plies of feed crops in the north central region were approved today by the AAA. Claude Wiekard, acting director of the north central region, said the modifications were designed to preserve ail available forage for livestock feeds, to encourage farm ers to increase their forage crops for fall and winter feeding and to provide as large acreage as poss ible for 1937. ■ ■■■■ ■— -- . m ■ ■ ■ " ■■■■ * Labor Issue Is Puzzling All Around Split of Union Move ment Vexes Politi cians; Labor Stu dies Parties By CHARLES P. STEWART Central Press Staff Writer Washington, July 10 —Labor is as bewildered as anyone by the mixup of alignments of the two major political parties. The managements of the major political parties are equally be wildered by the mixup of labor align ments. Progressive Republicans are flock ing over to the Roosevelt group. Conservative Democrats are en listing under the Landon banner. The Republican elephant and the Democratic donkey don’t know which is which. Neither does lahor. But politicians also are at a loss how to choose between labor fac tions. THE LEWIS MOVEMENT The prospects of a finish fight be tween employers in the steel indus try and the forces behind President John L. Lewis of the United Mine Workers, which are trying to organ ize the steel, automotive, rubber and other big trades on the industrial or “vertical” plan, is had enough from th politicians’ standpoint. Still, that is the old conflict be tween capital and labor; the parties have had much experience in strad dling it more or less deftly. The split between the industrial unionists and the old-time craft or “horizontal” unionists, under the lead ership of President William Green of the A. F. of L., is not so simple a question to deal with. PARTIES PUZZLED What shall a political party do? (Continued on Page Eight. OUR WEATHER MAH FOB NORTH CAROLINA. Fair tonight and Saturday. PWA PROGRAM FOR 150,000,000 GIVEN TO THE PRESIDENT Held Up, However, To De termine How Many Work ers Can Be Taken off Relief Rolls TO BE BIG FACTOR TOWARD APPROVAL Move Being Made, Presi dent Says, To Stretch New Billion and Quarter Fund Through Fiscal Year; Great Many Small Projects Included in Program Washington, July 10 (AP) —A $50,- 000,000 public works program has been submitted to President Roose velt by the Public Works Adminis tration, but the chief executive said today it had been held up to deter mine how many workers could be taken off relief rolls. He said that would be one of the factors in mak ing the allocations. The chief executive told his press conference that the Public Works (Continued on Page Six.) Lead For Horton Is Up Higher Raleigh, July 10. —(AP)—A check of official returns from 96 of the State’s 100 counties showed today W. P. Hor ton, of Pittsboro, received 200,150 votes, as compared with 192,664 for Paul D. Grady, of Kenly, in their run off contest for lieutenant governor last Saturday. The unofficial returns from the (Continued on Page Five.) July Business The Best Since 1929, Babson Says Nation Standing at Thresho Id of Prosperity First Time In Seven Years; Tremendous Markets Await Com ing American Boom; Spiritual Boom Needed BY ROGER W. BABSON, Copyright 1936, Publishers Financial Bureau, Inc. Babson Park, Mass., July 10.—Today I am able to give readers the most spectacular report since the boom. Business this month opens at the highest level for any July since 1929. Activity is only five per cent under normal. We are standing on the threshold of prosperity for the first time in seven years. Furthermore, the immediate outlook is the brightest in years, barring those suffer PUBLISHED EVERY AFTERNOON EXCEPT SUNDAY. Crop Havoc Grows With Temperatures At All-Time Highs Wins in Oklahoma hi ■ ■■ ■ ■ « Josh Lee Josh Lee, above, representative from Oklahoma’s Fifth district ftnd a Roosevelt supporter, is top man in Oklahoma’s semi-final pri mary for the U. S. senate seat held by blind, anti-New Deal Sen ator Thomas P. Gore. Others in the race were Gomer Smith, Townsend candidate, and New Deal Gov. E. W. Marland. The latter was believed slightly ahead of Smith for the runner-up posi tion. Lee and the second man will meet in a run-off primary, July 28. —Central Press 75,000 Jobs For Drought Area Ready 16,500 Already At Work, Roosevelt Announces; North Carolina Shares Washington, July 10.—(AP) —Presi- dent Roosevelt announced today that 75,000 WPA jobs had been authoriz ed in the drought area and that 16,- 500 were already at work. The chief executive, reviewing the drought problem, said at his press conference that 277 counties had been designated as parts of the drought area, Jing more than 570,000 farms. He said 55,000 WPA jobs had ibeen authorized for the five northwestern states of Minnesota, Montana, Wyom ing and the Dakotas. In addition, 20,- 000 jobs had been authorized, the chief executive said, in the south and southwest. The President said he believed these jobs were distributed in portions of North and South Carolina, north ern Tennessee, fcouthern Kentucky, eastern Oklahoma and Arkansas. in,g from crop disaster. Above Normal This Fall. From March, 1933, to date, wc have covered 90 per cent of the distance between the pit of the depression and normal. The quarter just closed prod uced the best business for any simi lar period since early 1930. Earnings are roughly 35 per cent above a year ago. Employment is substantially high er. Stock prices have quadrupled over their lowest level. Gilt-edge bonds are (Continued on Page Two), 8 PAGES TODAY FIVE CENTS COPY At Least Two More Days of Sizzling Weather Fore cast by Nation’s Weather Man GOVERNMENT FEEDS 204,000 OF FAMILIES Estimated Five Million Fam ilies Affected by Drought, With Crop Loss Put at Over $300,000,000; Meanwhile, Menace of Fire Spreads Over the Nation Chicago, July 10 (AP) Temperatures traveled toward new high marks today as terri fic heat broiled most of the na tion and no relief was sighted. By mid-morning, the death list reached 303 and crop losses, whieh no one has been able accurately to estimate, continued to mount toward possibly a fabulous sum. “Some possibility of light, scatter ed showers by Sunday was seen for the Dakotas and part of Minnesota and Nebraska, but weather observers said that if the possibility material ized it would serve only to lower temperatures in those states. (Reports 'from across more than half the nation indicated tempera tures would soar beyond yesterday’s blistering marks, which hung up all time maximum records in many places. Chicago, July 10. —(AP) —The bulk of the nation’s population was con demned today to at least two more days of death-dealing heat. No relief was sighted. The roster of fatalities lengthened to 269. Crop havoc spread. A blanket of intense temperatures —shattering records at many points, and ranging up to yesterday’s peak of 115 at Aberdeen, S. D., —stretched south from the western provinces of Canada to northern Kansas and east to Virginia and the New England line. Heat victims during the torrid siege —in its eighth consecutive day in the midwest—numbered 209. Sixty drown ed while seeking relief in rivers, lakes and the ocean. Readings of 104 at Toronto, Ontario and Ithaca, N. Y.; 102.2 at New York, and 102 at Scranton, Pa., established new all-time highs. Meteorologists warned they could foresee no ibreak in the hot wave or no general rain to halt the drought that has already resulted in crop losses estimated at more than $300,- 000,000, affected between three million and five million farm families, and (Continued on Page Six.) MrsfOvven Will Be Married Tomorrow To Danish Officer Washington, July 10.—(AP) — The marriage of Minister Ruth Bryan Owen to Kammerjunker Kaptain Borge Rohde, of the Danish king’s life guards, will take place at 5 p. m. tomorrow at the Hyde Park Episcopal church, attended by President Roose velt. Both the President and Mrs. Roose velt will attend the ceremony and will entertain for iMirs. Owen at a wedding supper which will follow immediately Miss Fannie Hurst, the novelist, will attend Mrs. Owen, and Robert Leh man, the minister’s son-in-law, will be best man. Duce Forms Partnership With Hitler Paris, July 10. —(AP) —Premier Mus solini and Chancellor Hitler hava formed a diplomatic partnership, in formed sources said today, in the face of British and French efforts to re turn Italy to the Locarno treaty The dictators of Italy and Germany already have agreed on the fate of Austria, diplomats declared, and pro bably have reached an understanding on the Locarno pact. France had attempted to gain Fas cist friendship by denouncing her part of the Mediterranean mutual assis tance agreement, authoritative sour ces indicated, while Great Britain ex tended an offer of diplomatic peace through her announced intention of reducing her naval strength in the vicinity of North Africa.
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