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HENDERSON GATEWAY TO CENTRAL CAROLINA TWENTY-THIRD YEAR DECLARES NATION ‘HONEYCOMBED’ BY SPIES UPON NAVY Farnsworth, Newest Suspect Arrested, To Be Brought To Trial Speedily As Possible WHOLESALE ARRESTS HINTED AS PROBABLE All Possible Steps To Be Taken To Protect U. S. Fleet Secrets as Plans For Strengthening This First Arm of Defense Are Car ried Forward Washington, July 15 (AP) — Moving swiftly to bring for mer Lieutenant Commander John S. Farnsworth to trial on spy charges, high officials hinted today that his arrest was only the beginning of a wholesale round-up of persons suspected of supplying navy secrets to foreign powers. After Farnsworth was lodged in jail under SIO,OOO bail on a charge of purveying confidential data to an agent of the Imperial Japanese Navy, navy officers said the United States is “honeycombed*’ with spying ac tivities. The determination was expressed to take all possible steps to protect the fleet's secrets as the United States goes ahead with its program to strengthen the navy. J. Edgar Hoover’s Justice Depart ment agents have not been withdrawn from the investigation with the arrest of Farnsworth, it was learned. They will continue to work with naval intelligence men with other sus pects on the navy’s list. There was no definite information today as to whether the State Depart ment would seek action against the (Continued on Page Three > 7TH GRANDCHILD OF PRESIDENT IS BORN Fort Worth, Texas, July 15. (AP) —The seventh grandchild of President Roosevelt, a l»oy weigh ing six pounds and 13 ounces, took hi* first look at the world today from a hospital here. Earlier the father, young El liott Roosevelt, took a look at his son, assured himself Mrs. Roose velt was resting well and then went home. Another Os Ividnapßand Takes Guilt f ormer Illinois Post master Submits W i t h Karpis in Hamm Case St. Paul, Minn., July 15.— (AP) — Edmund C. Bartholmey, former Ben fienville, 111., postmaster, pleaded guilty in Federal court today to con spiracy charges in connection with the SIOO,OOO ransom kidnaping of Wil liam Hamm. Jr., St. Paul brewer. Alvin Karpis, one-time Public Enemy No. 1, took similar action yes terday at the opening of the trial. The pleas left a single defendant, John (Jack) Peifcr, St. Paul night club owner, indicted as “finger man.” A jury to hear the case was com pleted yesterday. More New Deal Foes May Join In Revolt Os Col Breckinridge Washington, July 15. —(AP) — The Landon-Knox forces received the aid of an ally from the ranks of the Dem ocrats today while New Dealers press ed ori with their attack on the Re publican presidential nominee. Henry Breckeri ridge, Democrat, whose antipathy to the New Deal, led him to oppose President Roosevelt in several presidential primaries, an nounced he would vote Republican in the fall elections. The New York lawyer made his de claration of support for Governor Alf M. Landon, of Kansas, and his run ning mate, Colonel Frank Knox, Chi cago publisher, after a conference with the governor at Topeka. Observers recalling Alfred E. Smith’s threat to “take a walk’’ in UntiU'rsmt DatUj tUauafrb ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA AND VIRGINIA Labor Defers Ouster Vote Until Rebels Can Be Tried Washington, July 15 (AP) —-Ameri- can Federation of Labor peace-mak ers were reported today to have won a round in their battle to prevent the ousting of John L. Lewis’ United Mine Workers and eleven other in surgent unions. Usually well informed labor men heard that the federation’s executive council had decided to postpone a vote originally scheduled for today •f-n a pr**sm£al J.o suspend the Lewis group. Instead, the council was reported to have agreed to bring the twelve unions to formal trials on charges of seeking to organize the workers by methods which violate A. F. of L. laws. These trials, it was said, would start within two weeks. The peace-makers, battling for a HIGHWAY MEMBERS CARRIED COUNTIES Only Will Woodard of Nash Failed to Disconcert Mc- Donald Charges l);illf llureon. In Thi- Sir \V:ill»*r llolrl. Raleigh, July 15.—One of the rare humors of (he governorship campaign developed with the announcement of the official vote Monday when it was learned that every commissioner in cluding the chairman of the State Highway and Public Works Commis sion carried his own county for Clyde Hooy. The commission constituted quite an issue in that race. Candidate Ralph W. McDonald in assailing Chairman Capus M. Waynick took occasion to compliment Mr. Waynick’s assistants with the statement that not one of them could carry his own county in a personal poll. So set was Dr. McDon ald on ousting the old body and re turning to tlie original district plan of road construction and maintenance that, each member of the commission had to regard himself an issue in his own bailiwick. Chairman Waynick lived to see his (Continued on Page Five) opposition to the administration, ex pressed by Smith, former Governor Joseph B. Ely, of Massachusetts, Bain bridge. Colby, former secretary of state, and James A. Reed, former Mis souri senator, pondered what effect the Breckinridge move will have in Ihe ranks of other anti-New Deal Democrats. While Republicans moved ahead with their campaign plans, W. W. Howes, Democratic national commit teeman and assistant postmaster gen eral, criticized the Republicans. In a keynote address before the Democratic State Convention at Pierre, S. D., Howes declared Dandon was selected by the American Liberty League and described him as the type of candidate that can get lost in a crowd of three. leased wire service of TliE ASSOCIATED PRESS. A Million Humans Blot Out Sands of Coney Island tA; : - $ Each of the little specks which almost cover the beach in this aerial view of Coney Island represent one of the 1,000,000 me.%, woma* and children HENDERSON, N. C., WEDNESDAY AFTERNO ON, JULY 15,1936 delay in the suspension, that a ma jority of the council favors, were elat ed. They intend to use the two weeks for attempts to arrange a com pron(ise between the federation’s craft union faction and the Lewis group. The first of these conferences broke up at midnight last night with “no progress” reported. MINE WORKERS SAY LABOR AIDING STEEL COMPANIES Washington, July 15. —(AP) — The United Mine Workers accused the American Federation of Labor’s exe cutive council today with joining hands with “the great steel com panies” to prevent the organization of steel workers. With the council considering what Gov . Nice In Ships ’ Crash; 250 Aboard Baltimore, Md., July 15 (AP) —Gov-, ernor Harry W. Nice and 250 passeng ers of a passenger vessel which col lided violently with a freighter off Seven-Foot Knoll landed safely here today, bringing accounts of a harrow ing night on the Chesapeake Bay. Scores were jolted up, some bruis ed slightly in the terrific impact of the vessels, the hay passenger boat, State of Virginia and the freighter Golden Harvest in the darkness be tween 10:30 and 10:15 p. m. last night. None was believed to be seriously injured. A floor show was in full blast and merriment reigned at the time of the crash aboard the State of Virginia, which was bringing a Baltimore as sociation of automobile dealers into port from a two-day seagoing con vention. Blasts of the ship whistles cut short the fun-making. STATEGIPNOT 10 COURT NEGROES Will Let Democrats Carry Colored Vote and Sup port, Is Word Heard Unfix UlN|i:itfh Tlnrenia, In The .Sir Walter Hotel. Raleigh, July 15.—Despite the 50,000 supposed Negro voters in North Car olina available for the 1936 presiden tial election, news come s to Raleigh that the Republicans are not going to make any effort to get those votes for State or national tickets. Gilliam Grissom, Republican candi date for governor, offended some of the Negro leaders last week when he said the Negroes vote the Democratic ticket as a matter of safety, that they find an easy literacy test if they vote Democratic .and tough going if they don’t. State Chairman William C. iMieekins of the Republican executive committee is said to be totally indif ferent to this vote and Republicans generally believe that they can profit i by having the Democrats carry the brothers in black a season. This attitude does not fit well into the national scheme, it is learned in Raleigh, the Republicans greatly need (Continued on Page Five.) I of New York who descended on their favorite beach as an oasis, away | from the steaming sidewalks and dwellings of the heat-scorched city. (Central Press) action to take against the mine work ers and eleven other unions, affiliated in a campaign to organize labor by industry instead of by craft, the Min ers Journal said editorially that it had “served notice that it will not aid in any way to bring the steel workers into the ranks of organized labor.” Os the council’s attitude toward the industrial organization drive, the min ers’ publication said: “Were it. no{*'*s» serious a matter, this childish position would be hu morous for it is on a par with the petulence of a peevish little boy who refuses to play with his playmates un less they play his way.” “The executive council of the Am erican Federation of Labor has joined hands with the great steel companies to prevent the organization of the workers in the steel industry.” HAMILTON MIGHT TALK TOO FREELY Republican Chiefs Fear That, But Democrats Hope He Will Do It By CHARLES P. STEWART Central Press Staff Writer Washington, July 15.—John D. M. Hamilton, new chairman of the Re publican national committee and man ager of the Landon campaign, worries some of his associates by talking so mv"h. Their theory is that no politician can express himself as freely aa Hamilton has done without, sooner or later, .saying the wrong thing. Democrats, contrariwise, are hope ful that that is just what he’ll do. Hamilton has not, as a matter of (Continued on Page Five.) 5 Markets In Carolina Get Grading Washington, July 15—(AP) — The Department of Agriculture designated today five tobacco mar kets in the Carolinas where in spection service will be inauguat ed at the opening of the next mar keting season. Lake City, Darlington and Pam plica were designated in the (Continued on Page Three.) ~OUR WEATHER MAM FOB NORTH CAROLINA. Partly cloudy tonight and Thursday, scattered showers pro- I bable; not quite so warm in north I portion Thursday. GRADY CONSIDERED FDR GOVERNORSHIP Beaten Lieutenant Gover nor Candidate May Carry on McDonald Fight In 1940 J. M. BROUGHTON IS TALKED AS HIS FOE He Would Represent Con tinuation of More Conser vative Element; Such a Match Would Array East Against West in Worst Style in Recept Years Dally Dispatch Rnreat, In The Sip Wnlter Hotel. Raleigh, July 15. —The inconclusive session of the State Board of Elec tions Monday left no doubt that Sen ator Paul D. Grady, defeated candi date for lieutenant governor, is in the running four years hence for gover nor. Mr. Grady did not make a definite commitment, but he commented on the fact that lieutenant governors sel dom go up in North Carolina and he appeared to be somewhat unconcern ed about losing out. He told the board) that he would be seeing it again. The promise sounded somewhat like a pro clamation, in fact, the whole proce dure appeared to have the taint of campaign strategy. The board, refusing to close the door on investigations that might need to be made, barred the entrance so far as certifying nominees was con cerned. It developed at this hearing what Dr. Ralph W. McDonald meant when he said at the close of both pri maries in which he was short, “we have just begun to fight.” This is the classic outgiving of distressed com batants. Paul Jones d addled it, ac cording to history, but Max Gardner used it in his second and unsuccess ful race for the governorship in 1920. Dr. McDonald, who made his fights on Gardner, could not get away from the Gardner slogans. But it is manifest that the Grady candidacy is going to be predicated on the alleged loosenesses of the North Carolina election laws, im-> moralities which Dr. McDonald could (Continued on Page Five.) TDWINDGIIP ID DECIDE COURSE Old Age Pension Members To Have Preferred List of Congressmen Cleveland, Ohio, July 15. —CAP) — Some 15,000 members of the “Town send family” held a reunion today at their second national old age pension organization convention and consider ed which way to throw their vote next November. The Townsend goal of S2OO monthly pensions for the aged and resultant prosperity for everybody, which Dr. Francis E. Townsend, founder of the movement, contends is bound to fol low, was uppermost in the minds of most delegates, both “voting” and “visiting.” Dr. Townsend, who skyrocketed al (Continued on Page Five^r PUBLISHED EVERY AFTERNOON EXCEPT SUNDAY. HE A T DEA THS EXCEED 3,400; RELIEF NEARS All Mixed Up • " 1. t f "%I | . \J; %>*-<*£* / I Lamar Jess Warnick Little Lamar Jess Warnick of Salt Lake City didn’t win first prize in Utah’s baby show but he did win considerable attention when judges found that his heart Is on the right side and his liver and other internal organs on the opposite side of his body. But Lamar evidently doesn’t seem to mind, from the looks of the meal he’s consuming. —Central Prest Ten Drought States Given Food Supply 844 Carloads Given and Shipped by Government; Grain Beyond Help Washington, July 15.—(AP) —Coin- cident with a Federal report that crop prospects has been declining daily during the drought, the AAA revealed today that 844 carloads of food and feed have been shipped into ten drought states by the government for relief distribution. Officials said the food and feed, either already delivered or now en route, had been purchased by the Fed eral Surplus Commodities Corporation It is being turned over without charge to State relief agencies. States to which the shipments were consigned: Georgia, Kentucky, Mon tana, North Dakota, Oklahoma, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Virginia and Wyoming. \ In addition, the AAA said food and feed already were being distributed in Arkansas, Colorado, North Carolina and Texas. Earlier today the Federal Crop Re porting Board estimated that supplies of feed grain this season would be much lighter than in any recent year except 1934. Coincidentally, the Weather Bureau reported that “more or less irrepar able damage” has been done by the drought, but that the bulk of the com crop would recover if rain and cooler weather came soon. In its weekly weather and crop bul letin, the Weather Bureau reported that the greatest permanent harm so far to the corn crop had occurred in Missouri, Kansas and Oklahoma. “In Minnesota all grains are now (Continued on Page Three.) Old Age Group For State Starts Drive Raleigh, July 15. —(AP) —Members of the State Old Age Penson Associa tion adopted resolutions here today calling for an intensive six months campaign in the interest of securing old age pension legislation by the 1937 General Assembly. Some 25 representatives of local clubs voted unanimously to appoint a )legislative committee consisting of the presidents of the 15 local associa tions now operating to meet here X) PAGES ©TODAY FIVE CENTS COPY Illinois Last of Four Worst- Hit States To Experience Lifting of 12-Day Siege SCATTERED STORMS HELP IN MICHIGAN Cool Breezes Slow Slaught er in Wisconsin; Midwest and Some Southern States Due for Rain Tonight; Holocaust Resembles World War Flue Rage Chicago, July 15 (AP)—Rain and cool air hovered today near the last strongholds of a record-breaking 12- day heat wave which took more than 3,000 lives. An early morning downpour at Springfield, in central Illinois, and breezes which dropped the mercury into the high 70’s in the Chicago area signalized a break in the wave in the last of the hardest hit states to be relieved. Already scattered storms yesterday had driven the temperature down in Michigan, where more than 540 had died, and in Minnesota, where the toll was at least 560. Cool breezes slowed the slaughter in Wisconsin, scene o“ more than 363 deaths. These states, with Illinois, where there were some 350 deaths attributable to heat, had furnished more than half the nationwide total. Relief in the form of showers re sulting from the movement of cold air masses out of the Northwest and the Pacific coast was forecast today in Missouri, Kentucky, Ohio, Okla homa, Indiana, Arkansas, Nebraska, and West Virginia. (Showers were expected to complete the rout of the death-dealing heat in Wisconsin. More rain was in pro spect in Michigan and Minnesota. As •4<at relief impended or arrived last night, the nation counted a stag gering total of more than 1,000 fata lities directly or indirectly attribut able to high tempertures in a single day. For a time yesterday, before rain drove down the mercury, harassed police and medical authorities were forced to handle heat death cases at the rate of three every minute, com parable to conditions in the influenza epidemic of World War days. Heat Wave Not Ended, Is Warning Chicago, July 15 (APl—nScattered thundershowers scored local triumphs in the central part of the middle west and a mass of cool air enveloped 'the states from the Great Lakes east ward today. But weather Forecast er J. R. Lloyd said the victory over the 12-day-old heat wave was far from complete. Added deaths in the heat area sent the list over the 3,400 mark. In the Northwest states of Mon tana, Wyoming, Nebraska, and the Dakotas visited early this week by rains, temperatures again soared with no indication of additional showers. This, together with failure of the drought relief generally to material ize brought new outbursts of buying in the grain pits of the Chicago Board of Trade. Corn jumped up more than thre cents a bushel at times, and wheat as much as 4 1-4 cents a bushel and the limit of five cents in Kansas City. Local storms drove down the tem | perature in four states where the loss of life wa sheaviest, but a tabu lation in these states showed the ' following deaths: Minnesota, 707; Michigan, 508; Il linois 401; and Wisconsin, 363. within the next few days to discusa plans for the campaign. The resolution empowered the com mittee to get in touch with ‘‘all repre sentative members” of the next legis lature, and invite them to the Statd meeting, and to “use any means neces sary” to reach sympathizers of the old age pension movement. “This being a strictly non-partisan organization,” the resolution said, “it is understood this action has no bear ing on partisan politics.”
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