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HENDERSON GATEWAY TO CENTRAL CAROLINA TWENTY-THIRD YEAR McDonald demands IMMEDIATE INQUIRY OF JULY 4 VOTING Wants Nominees To Be De clared on Basis of ‘‘Le gal, Honest and Valid Votes Cast” READS STATEMENT BEFORE THE BOARD Charges Irregularities And Says He Is Protesting for “Welfare of State”; Grady Protests Lieutenant Gover nor Vote; Eure Certified as Nominee Raleigh, July 13 (AP)—The State Board of Elections today under consideration this afternoon to requests of Dr. Ralph W. McDonald and Paul D. Grady, de feated candidates in the July run off Democratic primary, for a “summary investigation” of the vote. Board members discussed the request at lunch and were to meet again later :u the afternoon. McDonald, W. L. Bumpkin and 1 T. Valentine, members of the McDonald forces, all urged the hoard to investigate the primary. I'o sustain allegations in his petition McDonald presented sev eral witnesses. Raleigh. July 13. —(AP) —Dr. Ralph W McDonald, who ran more than 50- 000 vote' behind Clyde R. Hoey, of Shelby, in the run-off Democratic gubernatorial primary of July 4, ask ed the Slate Board of Elections to day "immediately to direct and con duct a full investigation of the vot ing. to the end that the nominees of the Democratic party may be declar ed on the ,’tasis of the majority of legal, honest and valid votes cast.” The board certified the results of the contest for secretary of state, de claring Thad A. Eure, of Winton, the nominee, over the incumbent Stacey W. Wade. Paul D. Gfady, of Kcnly, who trail ed W. P. Horton, of Pittsboro, by some b.OOO votes in the contest, for lieutenant governor, objected to Im mediate certification of the nominee in that race, and .‘aid he “wished to make a statement” at the proper time. McDonald presented a 14-page pe tition alleging irregularities, reading it personally to the board. He pointed out the power of the board to make summary investigations of primaries and elections. Describing himself in the petition as “a Democrat, first, last, and always, whose interest in the party and in the State is founded upon the do'ire to serve and strengthen the party and the State, rather than upon reward or expectation of reward,” McDonald said the “irregularities, illegalities and violations of the election laws in con nection with the recent Democratic primary election,” were “so numerous, so widespread and so fundamental as to endanger both the intergrity of the Democratic party and the welfare of the State.” McDonald said the candidacies of Hoey and Horton “appear to have been the beneficiaries of the great majority” to the irregularities he cited Green Bitter In Attacking JohnL.Lewis A. F. ol L. Head Says Agreement Ma y Have Been Possible At Conference Washington, July 13.—(AP)—Wil liam Green, president of the Amer ican Federation of Labor, assailed John L. Lewis and other industrial union leaders today for failing to ap pear at the federation’s executive ocuncil meeting. Threatened with suspension from the A. F. of L. for alleged “dual un ionism,’’ the president of the United Mine Workers and seven other union chieftains affiliated with the commit tee for industrial organization igonr ed a summons to answer the charge. “We had hoped that out of our con ferences some settlement could be reached,” he said. Greeg) said that after the Amal gamated Clothing Workers failed to appear “that was their primary pur pose. Unfortunately, they refused to come. That makes it very difficult for the council.” Sidney Hillman, president of the Amalgamated, told the council by let ter hi? did not think it necessary for him to appear, and that the council well understood his views. BntiU'rsmx tkttht Hisuatrh ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA AND VIRGINIA LEASED WIRE SERVICE OP THE ASSOCIATED PRESS. Called By Death r’~ “ i * 1 Or. S. Parkes Cadman Brooklyn, N. Y., July 13 (AP) — The body of Dr. S. Parkes Cadman, who left the coal mines of his native Shropshire to become international ly famous as the “radio preacher,” was brought to Brooklyn today. The 71-iyear-old clergyman and world peace advocate, died of per itontis yesterday at the Champlain Valley hospital in Plattsburg, N. Y., just a week after he had entered the institution with a ruptured appendix. Bishop Francis J. McConnell, of the Methodist Church, will conduct the funeral Wednesday at the Brooklyn Central Congregational church, where Dr. Cadman became an outstanding religious leader. Burial will be in Kensicc cemetery in Westchester cou/ty, New York. 10 ASKSTATEFOR UPWARD OF $50,000 TO LURE TOURISTS Conservation Department Head Says Returns Would Be 100 to 1 in Business Here OTHER STATES ARE MAKING IT PAY BIG Continuation of $5,000 An nually for Historic Mark ers Also Sought; Director Cites Serious Condition of Shad Industry in Coast al Region By Staff Correspondent. Morehead City, July 13.—An appro priation of from $50,000 to SIOO,OOO a year wilh which better to advertise No*th Carolina to attract more tour ist f vr:vel and to seek new industries was recommended today by Director Bruce Etheridge, of the Department of Conservation and Development, in making his annual report to the Board of Conservation and Develop ment in its annual summer session heer today. He urged that the board adopt his recommendation and ask the 1937 General Assembly for an ap propriation of not less than $50,000 a year, and if possible of SIOO,OOO a year so that North Carolina may cash in to better advantage on the nation’s tourni-t crop. “Economic conditions in the nation as a whole and in this State are greatly improved over a few years ago and tourists by the millions are seeking vacation spots with definite natural attractions,” Etheridge said. “North Carolina is fortunate in hav ing the resources that appeal to most of these, if we can tell them about the state and its advantages. So far we have failed to ‘tell the world’ about North Carolina as it should be told with the result that other states, with large advertising appropriations that has enabled them to reach into every state in the union, has been ettging the cream of the tourist business while we have had to get along with the skim milk, so to speak. Rich Returns. “A relatively small appropriation from the General Assembly, however, will enable us to capture a very large portion of the tourist business which we are now missing, and. I firmly be lieve it would he one of the soundest investments we could make. The re turns on such an investment, I be lieve, would go considerably beyond 100 to 1. For example, if one new tour ist buys just one gallon of gasoline (Continued on Page Five.) HENDERSON, N. C., MONDAY AFTERNOON, JULY 13, 1936 foTSTjob IF HE Seems Fairly Certain Now Tar Heel Congressman May be Made Comp troller General JOB FOR 15 YEARS AT $15,000 SALARY Congressional Committee Would Select Nominee for Congress in First District If Warren Does Resign; Many Well Known Men There Are Receptive Dally' HlM|»at<’h Ttiirran, In The Sir Walter Motel, Br J. e BANiiKHVILI, Raleigh, July 13.—Who will succeed Representative Lindsay C. Warren in Congress from the first congressional district, if the post of comptroller gen eral of the United States is offered to Warren, as present reports indi cate, and if he accepts the appoint ment? This question is being heard here today more frequently than any other as political circles speculate on the most recent political development since the close of the gubernatorial campaign. The belief seems to be that Warren will be offered the post of comptroller general, as has been in dicated in recent dispatches from Washington; also that he will un doubtedly accept the appointment, which is for a term of 15 years and which carries with it a salary of $15,- 000 a year, amounting to a guaranteed income of $225,000 for the next 15 years. Warren’s many friends here be lieve he would be exceedingly unwise to refuse the offer, if it is made, both because of the salary attached to it and the tremendous importance oi the post. For the comptroller general is the only Federal official who can say “No” to the President of the United States, since he holds absolute power over the expenditure of all Federal money. Committee Would Select. Since the primary has already been held and since Warren has been re nominated for Congress without op position, the first district executive committee would select the nominee when and if Warren resigns from Con gress and it becomes necessary to have a new nominee in the first dis trict, it is pointed out. The law pro vides that where a vacancy occurs be tween a primary and the general elec tion, that the district executive com mittee shall select the nominee and that no special primary shall be call ed. But who will the executive commit tee select? And will it select a nom inee from Beaufort county or some other county south of the Chowan river, or will it select the new nom inee from some 6f the counties north of the river? It is pointed out that none of the counties north of the river has had a representative in Con gress for at least 40 years and that Beaufort county has had the repre sentative for most of that time. So many think the committee will prob ably go into some other county to find a candidate to succeed Warren, if and when he resigns to accept a (Continued on Page Two). Europe Now Faced With Sharp Split New System of Alli ances Likely as It aly and Germany Get Together (By the Associated Press.) A sharp division of opinion among European powers was the judgment levied today upon the Austro-German agreement announced Saturday in an effort to stabilize relations between the two nations. Within Austria the pact was approv ed by all .tut Hapsburg restoration ists, Jews and the Heimwehr (home guard), all of whom believed their in terests would be impaired. From. Germany Chancellor Adolf Hitler declared the new understand ing “would open the way for combined further efforts for the good of the two German states.” [1 Duce was credited in Italy with having a hand in negotiations and his own newspaper asserted the chief now may feel free to face Great Bri tain and France in the open, with Germany regarded as a friend, not a rival. France and Great Britain, however, wondered whether the efforts at Eu ropean security through the Locarr.a treaty might not break down even tually. French official quarters hint ed the outcome may he agreements between Britain and France and Bri tain and Belguim, an international alliance to face the eaetrsn European coalition. Rains That Broke Drought “Fizzle Out” With Torrid Conditions Again Forecast Farmers Kneel in Prayer, Pleading for Rain Praying for rain in a Held near Rockford, 111. Their supplications echoing the plea of thousands | of drouth-stricken farmers, this farm family kneels I Heavy Slash For Tobacco For Virginia Estimated at 90,363,- 000 Pounds, Com pared With 104,765,- 000 in 1935 Richmond, Va., July 13.—(AP) — Henry M. Taylor, Federal-State agri cultural statistician, estimated today that while the Virginia tobacco acre age has increased eight percent this year, as compared with 1935, produc tion would fall approximately 14,402,- 000 pounds under last year’s figure. The total Virginia tobacco produc tion this year, he said, was estimated at 90,363,000 pounds, compared with 104,765,000 pounds last year, when yields were “unusually heavy,” he said “The production this year may be larger or smaller than the present es timates, depending upon whether weather conditions are more or less favorable than usual.” SAYSPUBUCPAYS FOR FDRCAMP AIGN Government Officials Leave Business to Insubordi mates to Run By CHARLES P. STEWART Central Press Staff Writer Washington, July 13.—When Chair man Augustine Lonergan’s senatorial committee on investigation of cam paign methods gets into action, one of jthe [things wihlch Repultylicans arei sayiing ought to be inquired into is the Democratic system of recruiting ora tors on the administration’s side in the already incipient political fight. The speakers’ bureau of the Demo cratic notional committee boasts that it has 2,000 spellbinders enlisted to plead the New Deal’s cause. The G. O. P. argument is that the 2000 will be Democratic officeholders almost to a man—the President, the cabinet members, a battery of sena tors, a goodly force of representatives, a dozen or so of governors probably. Thus far, o. k.; all that is customary. But there are nothing like 2,000 of such moguls. G. O. P. PROTEST The Republicans surmise that the New Deal committee must have draft ed lesser lights wholesale to pad its list —assistant secretaries, under sec letaries, departmental attorneys, di visional chiefs and many other classi fications. The government, gay the G. O. P. critics, evidently is to be run until next November by a staff of petty clerks and office boys while upper official tours the country, salaried by the public, preaching New Dealism. This, assert the Republicans, is a prospective situation which the Loner gan committee ought to look into. The committee, however, seems in clined to concern itself only with ac (Continued on Page Two.) Roosevelt Ready For His Vacation Hyde Park, N. Y., July 13—(AP) —President Roosevelt agreed to day to receive a group of eastern states representatives to talk flood control before ordering his bags packed for a two weeks vacation and sailing cruise in North At lantic wafers. He will leave tonight by special train for Rockland, Maine, to board the 56-foot schooner Sewan na. With three of his sons, James, John and Franklin, Jr., he will sail up the Maine coast and into New Brunswick and Nova Scotian waters. . TORTURER HUNTED^ Girl Brings Charges of Bru tal Treatment in Sing Sing Plot Washington, July 13 (API- Capital police said today they hope to make two arrests shortly in connection with the mutilation of Jean Bell, 23, who testified re cently before a New York grand jury investigating charges against “Lucky”’ Luciano. Bernard Thompson, chief of detectives, said an arrest in Wash ington and another “capture some place outside” were contem plated. Washington, July 13—(AP)—Henna haired Jean Bell’s story that a “kill er” mutilated and left her to die after she “ran out” on a promise to help free Charles (Lucky) Lucia,na, vice overlord, from Sing Sing prison, re sulted today in a wide search in New York City for the man she named. Detectives said that a man answer ing the description of the torturer, who carved the cryptic numerals “3-12” and the initials “C. L.” on her body, and then tried to kill her by gas, had left Washington on a New York-bound plane at 4 a. m. Sunday. They expressed confidence that he, as well as a companion, whom the girl described as the possible “finger man” in the plot, would be picked up soon in New York. •) f«| The girl said that some weeks ago Luciana’s representatives approached her in New York. She said they want ed her to sign her name to an article intended for publication in a news paper picturing Luciano as a “pretty swell guy,” and intimating that he had been “framed” in the recent sen sational vice trial in New York. Luciano is seeking his freedom thro ugh an appeal. OUR WEATHER MAN FOB NORTH CAROLINA. Tartly cloudy, local thunder showers on coast this afternoon or early tonight and in extreme southwest portion Tuesday after noon. in prayer in a harvest field near Rockford. HI., as record temperatures continued. —Central Press Labor Chiefs VoteTuesday Upon Ouster Irreparable Loss To Labor Movement. Feared by Some In Banning Lewis Washington, July 1.5 (AP) —Organ- ized labor’s chieftains gathered for momentous conferences today on the eve of a vote to decide whether to oust John L. Lewis and his industrial organization cohorts from the Ame rican Federation of Labor. A high tide of activity was reach ed,. Hurried informal conferences were held as preparations were made for a ballot tomorrow in the federa ;tionls executive committee, which will determine whether or not the greet labor schism is to occur. The question facing the executive committee, overwhelmingly opposed to the Lewis plan for industrial or ganization of workers, was whether disciplinary steps against the Lewis committee for industrial organiza tions would react too harmfully against the federation. A minority faction argued that or ganized labor would suffer terribly if the committee for industrial organi zation and the "* 1,250,000 members claimed by its constituent unions, were to be lost by to the A. F. of L. The showdown comes in the early stages of Lewis’ drive to organize 500,000 steel workers into one large union. Several members, led by George M. Harrison, president of the railway clerks, were trying to win a stay of suspension, but this was bitterly op posed by others. LEWISOIEIS MANY OBSTACLES Rail Earnings Hit High; England Fears Spies; G. O. P. After Lehman By LESLIE EICHEL Central Tress Staff Writer JOHN L. LEWIS’ steel organizers face two major obstacles: 1. A summer slack-off in steel when the corporations will try to force the issue—finding a “legitimate” excuse to lay off union men. 2. Determination of veteran steel workers to stay out of the union, to protect their pensions. RAILS Railroads east of the Mississippi and southeastern “coalers” will have the largest gross earnings this month of any like period since 1930 —if car loadings may tbe taken as an indica tion. If traffic continues at this rate, con siderable renovation of plant is ex pected. Wlestern roads in drouth regions, however, have been hit a mighty blow. Some need plant renovation, long overdue, but whers will they get the money. NERVOUS JOHN BULL England seems to be as nervous (Continued on Page Five.) PUBLISHED EVERY AFTERNOON EXCEPT SUNDAY. 8 PAGES TODAY FIVE CENTS COPY HEAT DM NOW COUNTED AT 1,412 OVER THE NATION Only Temporary Relief Is Given by Rains and Showers in Large Portion of Belt HIGH TEMPERATURES IN WEST TO RETURN » 1— Wyoming, Dakotas and Montana Feel “Drought Is Broken,” but Central West Still Suffocates and Farm Lands Parch Under Wilt ing Rays of Sun Chicago, July 13 (AP)—Rains and showers which broke the drouth in portions of the northwest over the week-end have “fizzled out” and no new ones of consequence are in sight for that or any other heat-baked area of tihe country, Government Meteo rologist R. E. Lloyd said today. Generally fair weather with con tinued high temperatures was fore cast for today and tomorrow for drought areas in general, with cool er weather likely tomorrow in the eastern portion of the northwest. Fatalities from drought and high temperature were counted today at more than 1,412. Badly needed in such middle west ern states as Illinois, where 168 had died, and Michigan, where more than 230 deaths were attributed directly or indirectly to the wilting sun, were rain or showers, such as softened the effect of the drought yesterday in the x ßocky Mountains, eastern plains, southern and Middle Atlantic states. Precipitaton, which was torrential in some districts, turned the dusty potholes of the Wyoming, Montana and Dakotas dry belt into mud pud dle and residents looked for a quick restoration or parched cattle ranges. Showers gave temporary relief in New York State, New England, Ne braska, Georgia, Virginia, South Carolina and Connecticut. Rain drove temperatures down to the 60’s in a belt extending from Sher idan, Wyoming, to South Dakota and Montana. Ranchers who suffered from aridity in that area for five of the last six years declared looks like the drought is broken at last.” SCHOOLSALLOTEO Several Hundred Addition al to Be Employed Over State Coming Term Dully DiM|»nttfh Rnmia, In Tht> Sir Wilder Hotel, Hy J. CJ. IIASKWn.viI,!, Raleigh, July 13.—The same nom ber of teachers has already been al lotted to the public schools of the State for the 1936-37 school year be fore it has yet. started, as was allot ted to the schools last year, including some 250 additional teachers who were allotted after the school term (Continued on Page Five) Drought In South Holds After Rains Week - End Showers Do Little To Break Grip of Destructive Heat Wave New Orleans, La., July 13 (AP) — Week-end showers did little to break the heat wave’s grip on the sun-bak ed South. Extensive sectors received rainfall measuring in some places an inch, but the respite from the scorching tem peratures was short-lived. Crops generally were benefitted, however. Agricultural experts said it was just the “proper medicine” for young corn planted within the past few days to replace corn burned up by the drought. Truck crops were revived and the precipitation meant a helping hand to cotton. Some sections were visited by se vere thunder and electrical storms, which brought death to three persons in Georgia and Mississippi.
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