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HENDERSON GATEWAY TO CENTRAL CAROLINA TWENTY-THIRD YEAR GENERAL RELIEF FROM HEAT MOW FORECAST Plea Os Guilty Is Entered By Karpis On Kidnap Charge Dethroned King of Gang land Admits SIOO,OOO Snatching of Wealthy St. Paul Brewer SENTENCE DELAYED UNTIL TRIAL ENDS Other Defendants Also Ac cused, Including Former Postmaster at Illinois Town; Karpis Plea Is Third Submission; Two Already Serving Prison Terms Ft. Paul, Minn., July 14.—(AP) — Alvin Karpis, dethroned king of gang land. pleaded guilty to conspiracy in the SIOO,OOO ransom kidnaping of William Hamm, Jr., St. Paul brewer, a? his ease was called for trial in Federal court today. Federal Judge M. iM. Joyce deferred sentence until the conclusion of the trial of Edmund C. Bartholmey, for mer i " t master of Bensenville, 111., and John P. (Jack) Pcifer, St. Paul nihgt club owner, whose trial on simi lar charges opened this morning. Thoma J. Newman, attorney for Karpis, told the court his client, one of the actual kidnapers of Hamm, de sired to plead guilty. Karpis’ plea was the third submis sion in the kidnaping. Previously Byron Bolton, alleged machine gun (Continued on I age Three.) RINGLING CIRCUS IS NAMED IN TAX CASE New York, July 14 (Al’) —Six persons were named defendants today in ten indictments return ed by the Federal Grand Jury charging conspiracy to defraud the Federal government of $3,- 359,016.48 oil income tax returns of (lie Ringling Brothers, Barnum and Bailey shows from 1918 to 1932, inclusive. Labor Body Prepares To Oust Rebels Council of Parent Or ganization Takes Position It Can Do Nothing Else Washington, July 14.—(AP) — Tho American Federation of Labor’s' exe cutive council was reported today in usually well informed quarters to be ready to oust the United Mine Work ers and eleven other rebel unions. With a vote slated for today or to morrow, a substantial majority of tho 17 council members was represented as feeling that suspension of the 12 unions affiliated with the committee (Continued on Page Five.) Property Owners Name Indemityln Underpass Project City Committee in Turn Ma kes Offers, at Least One of Which Is Rejected; Not All of Property Owners Rep resented at Meeting o f Council Committee Prices demanded for their lands to be taken in the construction of the Ch;u les-Church street underpass were laid before the City Council’s under pass committee at a meeting this aft ernoon at 3 o’clock by some of the property owners, and committee in turn made counter-offers, at least one of which was promptly rejected. The committee gave 24 hours in which the property owners might ac cept or reject the offers, and in cases where the city’s offers are refused, it is planned to start condemnation pro-- ceedings. Until munt Daily ©fairairfi LEASED WIRE SERVICE OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS. Late Bowman Gray Estate Pays N. C. About s'l ,000,000 Raleigh, July 14.—(AP)—The es tate of the late Bowman Gray, of Winston-Salem, has paid the State of North Carolina, an inheritance tax indicated at about one million dollars. The Associated Press learned today. Collect ion records of the Depart ment of Revenue showed that $3,- 047,888.80 was received in inherit ance tax payments between July 1 and 8. Included in the total was the $2,015,000 from the estate of the late Zachary Smith Reynolds, of Winston-Salem, and, though it is against the law to reveal individ ual payments, it was learned the Gray estate payment was very close to one million dollars. NI’BONALD FORCES OBTAIN TOE-HOLD Want Lieutenant Governor ship as. Means of Boring -jfroro* Within In Legislature ASSEMBLY IS SAFE FOR CONSERVATIVES Liberals Lost Even More Heavily There Than They Did on Major State Of fices; Taxation Going To Be Tremendous Issue In Forthcoming Session Dully Dispatch llurcan. In The Sir Walter Hotel, Raleigh, July 14—Sitting all day yesterday and hearing protests over the July -fourth primary, the State Board of Elections came to wonder, as did the visitors, why there was such a fuss made over the lieuten ant governorship which seldom is important unless the governor is sick. And in this instance, the governor is going to be mighty well. Clyde Hoey came through the campaign iwithout (an l ache and Republican nominee Gilliam Grissom’s stock for mula is “I feel like a race horse.” Mr. Grissom has one other political prin cipal which is quite as deeply in grained into his character as his dis like of Democrats. He thinks it a sin to be sick . That being true, the intensity of the campaign to reverse the lieuten ant governorship vote is hard to un derstand since there is such unlikeli hood of a lieutenant’s accession. All the candidates for this office were present yesterday—eliminated aspir ant George McNeill, of Cumberland, (Continued on Page Five) The committee, named by the City Council several months ago, consists of Aldermen F. B. Hight, T. W. Ellis and D. C. Loughlin. J. P. Zollicoffer, city attorney, presided at the meeting, which was also attended iby SMiayor Irvine B. Watkins. J. A. Cooper, representing the Alex Cooper estate, owning the filling sta tion site on Garnett street, much of which will be taken by the spread of the underpass approach, asked $12,100 for that site, the committee (Continued on Page Three.) ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA AND VIRGINIA Party Heads Hurl Charge Propaganda Earley Says Opposi tion Press Coloring Reports on Presi dent Washington, July 14. —(AP)—Char- ges of propaganda hurled from both the Democratic and Republican camps today added warmth to the presiden tial campaign wars. John D. M. Hamilton, chairman of the Republican National Committee, said at a press conference in New York yesterday that Democrats were injecting racial and religious ques tions into the campaign. At another conference, Democratic Ch a Inman James A. Farley said the anti-Roosevelt, newspapers were color ing their reports to give the impres sion that Roosevelt was losing popular support. Farley also criticized a statement by Paul Block, publisher, who was quot ed as saying that the Democrats per suaded Governor Herbert Lehman, of New York, to run again in order to swing the Jewish vote behind Presi dent Roosevelt. Hamilton, who held his press con ference earlier than Farley, asserted the Democrats were spreading pro paganda in the East that Governor Alf M. Landon and himself were anti- Jewish, and spreading reports in the Middle West that Landon’s middle name, Mossman, was Jewish. He de clared that Landon always advocated religious and racial tolerance. WEST HAS ALWAYS HAD SOU WORRIES 40 Years Ago Drouth Con ditions Were Problem in Plain States By CHARLES I*. STEWART Central Press Staff Writer Washington, July 14. —About 410 years ago an old chap of the name of Campbell ran in Sioux City (Iowa) a weekly publication called ‘‘Soil Cul ture.” It was devoted to the development of what was known as ‘‘dry farming.” That is to say, it explained how crops could be produced in territory where the normal rainfall was scanty 1 . It advocated very deep plowing and then the systematic scratching of the plowed-up surface into what was de scribed as a ‘‘dust mulch” about an inch deep, to retain whatever moisture did fall, like a saturated blanket. Professor Campbell was regarded then as a great scientist—he was go continued on Page Three.) HENDERSON, N. C., TUESDAY AFTERNOON, JULY 14 1936 7 « •* Giant Triboro Span Dedicated by President Roosevelt The huge $63,000,000 Triboro bridge (left), which connects three of New I York’s boroughs with its webbing of steel and concrete, was visited by a stream of autos following President Roosevelt’s dedicatory address. The I mmm Newspapers of State Spon soring Campaign: for Election on Tuesday WOULD SPEED RESULT Would Also Avoid Sunday Silence and Its Attendant Opportun ity for Fraud in Count ing of Votes Dnlly Olspnlrh Itnreim, In The Sir Wnlfer Hotel Raleigh, July 14.—Politicians visit ing Raleigh since Saturday of lasit week do not react unfavorably to the suggestion of the North Carolina Press Association that primary elec tions be changed from Saturday to Tuesday and that the hours for the summer polls be changed to conform to the regular election days. The newspapers have advocated mildly this change, but made no fight for it. And there is a deep-seated ob jection to t.he change among some of the present day editors. However, the increasing number of accusations a (Continued on Page Three.) Girl Sticks To Her Story Os Branding Washington, July 14. —(AP) —An- grily stamping her foot, the 23-year old Jean Bell sat in a circle of skep tical detectives today and denied after hours of questioning that her story of being branded by a vice ring “killer” was a hoax. “Isn’t it all a hoax?” one of the short-sleeved policemen shot at her. “No, it most certainly is not,” she answered. After 16 hours of continuous ques tioning by seven detectives, the girl still stuck to her account and the questioning was recessed shortly be fore 7 a. m. until later in the day. “She has made within the last few hours several conflicting statements,” said Chief of Detectives Bernard Thompson. Although still checking all the leads (Continued on Page Three.) "our weather maw FOR NORTH CAROLINA. Partly cloudy tonight and Wed nesday; scattered showers Wed nesday. I President is shown left below as he spoke and above with Gov. Herbert Lehman (left) and Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia who are chiefly responsible for the successful completion of the giant structure. (Central Prvu) Another High Navy Man Accused Os Giving Naval Secrets To The Japanese John S. Farnsworth, Former Lieutenant Commander, Arrested by G-Men After Being Shadowed Long While; Enters Plea of Innocence When Taken Washington, July 14. —(AP) —John S. Farnsworth, former lieutenant commander in the United States Navy, pleaded innocent today to a charge of communicating confidential naval information to a Japanese agent. Farnsworth’s arrest was announced last night by J. Edgar Hoover, chief of Justice Depaartment agents. The arrest, which followed months of under-cover activity, was made' 'here last night with the utmost se crecy. Naval officials said Farnsworth had RELIEF RIOTS ARE Government Fears That Much More Than Any Likely Labor Troubles By LESLIE EICHEL Central Press Staff Writer LABOR CLASHES are not the chief worry of the government as to futurei months —but relief riots. Legislatures in several important states —notably Republican-dominated states —have shut down on relief. The situation i s especially precar ious in New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Ohio (where anti-New Deal Demo crats control). NEW JERSEY State aid to communities stopped April 15 in New Jersey. The American Association of Social Workers has issued a special report on the New Jersey situation. Prior to the slash the allowance for a family of four was $9.70 a week. Eight out of 41 communities con tinued to maintain that scale. The other communities cut the Continued on Page Three.) LIGHTNING DOES NO DAMAGE AT JACKSON Camp Jackson, Columbia, S. C., July 14 (AP) —A number of Na tional Guard soldiers, here on their annual summer encamp ment, were stunned into uncon sciousness when lightning struck near them during a severe elec tric storm yesterday afternoon. None of the men were seriously injured. All were from Georgia. PUBLISHED EVERY AFTERNOON EXCEPT SUNDAY. been discharged from the navy nine years ago on charges of conduct pre judicial to the naval service. Agents of the navy and Hoover’s G-Men, who were said to have shad owed Farnsworth on journeys into several parts of the country, made the arrest shortly before midnight. The seizure followed by only ten days the unprecedented case of an other navy man, Harry Thomas Thompson, who was sentenced to serve 15 years on July 3 after convic tion in Los Angeles of selling con fidential fleet data to a Japanese secret agent. i!“ Reporting Service Says Yields Close to 1935 on Acreage Basis Raleigh, July 14 (AP)—Cotton, to bacco and corn showed decided im provement in North Carolina during June, the crop reporting service an nounced today. As of July 1, the summary said, the acreage of 1936 crops is expected to exceed last year’s cidtibated land, by about one percent, despite wet conditions in March and a drought in Ajpril and May. Tobacco acreage was listed at 98 percent of last year’s (Continued on Page Three.) Joe Louis’ Sister SaysHe Was Doped Chicago, July 14 (AP) —T’he Chi cago Evening American, in a copy righted story today, quoted Ulalia Barron Caines, of Detroit, sister of Joe Louis, as saying the fighter was “given a shot of dope” the day he was knocked out by Max Schmeling. A sworn affidavit containing the charge as set forth by Lewis’ sister was mailed from Chicago today to John J. Thelan, chairman of the New York State Athletic Commission, the American says. 8 PAGES TODAY FIVE CENTS COPY TOTAL OF DEATHS ' LISTED OVER 2,000 IN ENM NATION Cooling Air Masses Moving Eastward from Rainy Area in Dakotas and Minnesota POSITIVE EVIDENCE OF BREAK IS SEEN Thunderstorms Fairly Gene ral in Carolinas Bring Re lief Here; Wallace Prom ises Government Aid for Stricken Farmers, Says They Will Need It Chicago, July 14.—-(AP) —Pelting rain in three northwest states brought hope of general relief today from the lethal heat wave, which gripped the nation for eleven days, causing up ward of 2,000 deaths. Cool air masses moving eastward from the rainy area in the Dakotas and Minnesota bore promise of show ers and cooler temperature in the hard hit north central and upper Great Lakes region. Relief was promised by forecasters tomorrow in Illinois, contributor of almost 300 to the nationwide heat death total, and Michigan, where more than 400 have died. Forecaster J. R. Lloyd at Chicago said the break in the Northwest wa3 positive evidence that the cool front was (breaking its way through what he described as a virtual wall of hot on Page Three.) MAKING TESTS FOR TOBACCO DISEASES Experiment Station at Oxford Co operating With U. S. Depart ment of Agriculture Washington, July 14 (AP) —Six hundred samples of seed collected from what the. Agriculture Depart ment believes to be the “native homes of tobacco” have been planted at the department’s Arlington farms here and on experiment station farms in tobacco states. Dr. E. E. Clayton, tobacco disease specialist in the department, is seek ing tobaccos resistant to disease. He has collected the seed from Mexico, Central America and northern South America, and hopes from them he may find the tobaccos which will re sist wildfire, blackfire, mosaic mill dew (blue mold), wilt, stem rot, black shank, root knot and black rootknot. stations cooperating with Arlington farms include those at Raleigh, N. C., and Oxford, N. C. Floggings On Border Uncovered Possible Connection In South Carolina and Columbus County Outrages Conway, S. C., July 14. (AP) Sheriff W. E. Sessons investigated to day the flogging of an Horry county farmer by a masked band, which ap parently operated on both side® of the Carolinas boundary, and singled out two more South Carolinians as vic tims. The Horry county sheriff announc ed he planned a “thorough investiga (Continued on Page Five.) The document, which was request ed by Theian, and put the commis sion into the position of having to force showdown on the charges, was signed by Sheridan Brousseaux, head of a private detective agency. His affidavit states that the charge that Lewis was “needled” on the day of the fight in the Yankee Sta dium June 20, which Louis lost by a knockout in the twelfth round, was made by Louis’ sister on the might of July 2 in a hotel in Chicago.
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