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HENDERSON GATEWAY TO CENTRAL CAROLINA TWENTY-THIRD YEAR NO CANDIDATE WILL HAVE ENDORSEMENT OF TOWNSEND BODY Action Relates to Any As pirant for President or Vice-President On Tickets HARMONY IS AGAIN RESTORED AT MEET Peace Among Warring Leaders Apparently Secure at Least Until Convention Ends Sunday; Speakers Will Not Be Censured By Townsend or His Board Cleveland, July 18 (AP) —The Town send national convention adopted a resolution today declaring that the old age pension organization snail not at any time during this campaign endorse any presidential or vice pres idential candidate. This was the answer of the Town send convention to the oft-asked question of which way the “Town send family” would throw its vote in Novemlber. There wrVe some few delegates who said they wanted to endorse specific presidential candi dates. The obviously were much in the minority, however, as there were only a few scattered “Noes” as the resolu tion was adopted. A s‘2oo monthly pension for the aged was uppermost in the hearts and minds of the delegates. Political ramifications of the convention, for the most part, failed to stir their interest. The second Townsend national con vention swung into its fourth day with peace among its warring lead ers seemingly secure until at least after adjournment Sunday. A threat by Dr. F. E. Townsend, the movement’s founder, that he would not sit with the board of directors until the ouster of Gomer Smith, of Oklahoma, a board member and na tional vice-president, drew the fol lowing statement from the board early today: - - “No action will be taken by Dr. Townsend or the national board bo censure any of the speakers that have appeared.” The elderly pension chief then is sued a statement, which read: “In view of the stress of other bus iness of the convention, no further ac tion will be taken regarding Mr. Go mer Smith remaining upon the board of directors until after the conven tion.” SPANISH MOROCCO REBELLION HALTED Madrid Government Denies at Same Time Trouble Exists at Home Madrid, Spain, July 18 (AP)— The government announced to night that a fleet of warships was enroute to Spanish Morocco to crush the wide-spread army revolt that broke out there to day. Airplanes had been called into ac tion to blast the rebels with bombs, and in Spain a number of generals and officers had been arrested as leaders of the uprising. Throughout the evening the gov ernment maintained that the revolt “had been broken,” and asserted, de spite rumors to the contrary, that the mainland had not been affected. Nevertheless, a communique ac knowledged that it had been forced take radical measures in the in terior. Reports reaching French border points, hut not confirmed from any official source, said there was fight ing at a number of Spanish cities, in cluding Cadiz, Seville and Barcelona. .Direct advices from Barcelona, how ever, said that city was calm. Madrid, Spain, July 18 (AP)—A re bellion broke out today amongst 'Spanish armed forces in northern Morocco, but shortly after noon the government announced that it had been quelled completely. Previously there had been reports that the revolt had spread to Spain itself, but these were not confirm ed and were denied by authorities. Madrid was quiet. In an official communique the gov ernment said: “A new criminal attack on the gov ernment has been frustrated. The government did not wish to address the country until it had learned ex actly what had happened and put in to effect urgent inexorable measures to combat it. "Part of the army representing ■Spain in Morocco has risen in arms against the republic, revolting against its own country and performing a shameful criminal act of rebellion against the legitimately constituted powers. “The government of the republic dominates the situation, and declar es it will not be long in anouncing to public opinion the re-establish ment of normality.” lintiirrsmt Daily Dtsnafdi ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA AND VIRGINIA LEASED WIRE SERVICE OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS. Townsend Chairman j Frank A, Arbuckle Elected permanent chairman ol the Townsend convention by ac clamation, State Senator Frank A. Arbuckle of California Is pic tured speaking to the delegates from the rostrum In Cleveland's Public halL - —Central Presa IN ew Higher Levels Made In Business For Seventh Conse cutive Week Trend Definitely Upward New York, July 18. —(AP) —Rising another notch, industrial activity to day registered its seventh consecutive thrust into higher ground for the re covery movement. Measured by The Associated Press index, activity stepped up to 93.1 of the 1929-30 average, compared with 92.6 last week and 71.7 a year ago. Total carloadings rose sharply to the best levgl of the year, with mer chandise and grain shipments forcing the index to a five-year peak. Residential building also made a new top. Contracts for new homes con tinue to be let in greater numbers, though the seasonal peak has passed. ■Steel 'operations rebounded from last wek’s drastic decline, with orders holding up well. Automobile output slipped less than was expected, be cause large retail sales have been steadily cutting into stocks. Electric power output rose normally from the holiday low. Cotton manu facturing was down slightly. Mr. Grissom Shows How HeWillWin Dally ntMpntvh flnrena. In The Sir Walter Hotel, Raleigh, July 18.—Forty-nine thous- voters who did not participate in the late primary will elect him governor of North Caro lina, Gilliam Grissom, Republican can didate, is saying in thousands* of sheets going out to the voters of North Carolina. Mr. Grissom starts with the 3,417,- 000 population with a potential voting strength of 1,139,000. He cites the 810,000 top registration. He lists the 710,000 vote of 1932, the highest ever scored. He adverts to the 497,000 Dem ocrats of 1932, the biggest showing. The poorest for the Democrats in modern years was 294,000. The largest Republican vote in this 1928-1934 pe riod was 349,000. The smallest Repub lican for that period was 213,000. Then he analyzes the late primary. Continued on ’ Page Five.) HENDERSON, N. C., SATURDAY AFTERNOON. JULY 18,1936 AS TRIUMVIRATE ANNOUNCED POLITICAL MERGER jjj A. I l; ; | &’■ : V / ' 11 BbS BHF : Tfe. Tggg Dr. Townsend The Rev. Smith Father Coughlin Upon posing for this picture In Cleveland, Dr. Francis E. Townsend, the Rev. Gerald L. K. Smith and the Rev. Charles E. Coughlin announced a political alliance. Surprising the delegates at the Townsend convention and over the objection of Immediate Arrest Expected In Asheville Hotel Slaying Asheville, July 18.—(AP)—Po lice Chief William J. Everett an nounced this afternoon that Joe Urey, 27-year-old Negro bellhop at fashionable Battery Park hotel, had been absolved of any connection with the mysterious slaying of 19- year-old Helen Clevenger of New York. “I have checked over the where abouts of Urey at the time we believe the crime to have been committed,” Everett said, “and he seems to have an airtight alibi.” Chief Everett said there might be other arrests shortly, but declined to go into details. He would not go as far as Detective Chief Fred Jones ear lier. Jones predicted arrest of a white OLD DEMOCRATS TO FORM ORGANIZATION Don’t Like Lot of Things Youth Group and New Deal Are Doing Dally Dispatch Bnreaa, In The Sir Wnlter Hote. Raleigh, July 18. —.Rumors of an Old Democratic Voters’ organization to buck the Young Democrats, are heard in Raleigh, but whether they are going to organize as the young, deponents do not say. It was thought that during the ses sions of the Young Democrats (n Greensboro the Old Democrats might manifest themselves. One of thq stories comes to the Raleigh news paper men is that the Old Democrats dislike very much a great deal of New Deal legislation in Washington and that the Young Democrats literally eat that up. Certainly there are many Demo crats who are opposed to what goes on in Washington, but inducing these Democrats to array themselves on the side of age is something else. There are the old age pensioners. They are Continued on Page Five.) NO ANSWER FOUND TO SOLVE DROUTH Frantic Efforts Made by Government in Grim Battle With Nature This is the second of three ar ticles by Charles P. Stewart, on the U. S. government’s efforts to combat the drouth. By CHARLES P. STEWART Central Press Staff Writer Washington, July 18.—Several gov ernment bureaus and agencies have been mobilized to meet the national drouth emergency. Probably the most active is the WPA. President Roosevelt has authorized 75,000 jobs to be handled by this setup. Roughly, the work will consist of water conservation, with an eye to the Continued on Page Two.) suspect “immediately." Asheville, July 18 (AP) —Chief of Detectives Fred Jones announced to day he expected the immediate arrest of a white suspect in the mysterious assault-killing of blonde Helen Clev enger of New York. He declined, to discuss the forecast further, pending developments. The announcement came after au thorities had questioned a Negro bell boy, who Sheriff Lawrence E. Brown said fitted the description of a man seen in the doorway of the dark ened hotel room of the pretty New York University honor student seve ral hours before her body was found. The Negro, 27-year-old Joe Eury, Glass Makes Fiery Attack On New Deal Government’s Nose Is In All Sorts of Business Today, Senator Declares Ashland, Va., July 18.—4AP) —In a fiery speech, bristling with pointed phrases, Carter Glass, Virginia’s 78- year-old Democratic senator, brought ■the Patrick Henry bi-centennial cele bration here to a climax last night with a declaration that were Henry living today he would never sanction, any legislation “that might reason ably be thought to ,be in contraven tion of the Constitution." Speaking extemporaneously and leaping into his subject with vigor, which caught his hearers by surprise, the veteran legislator, who has often opposed legislation sanctioned by the “New Deal,” described the present ad ministration as a government of pri vilege and discrimination.” Speaking at a gathering on the campus of Randolph-Macon college ihere, Senator Glass said the present government is such a government as Henry denounced in Virginia’s House of Burgesses. Henry, he said, held it to be “im proper to take money of tax-payers of Virginia and appropriate it to pay off mortgages that had been made by thriftless and unwise individuals.” “That is just what we are doing in this country today," Glass said, “whether it be due to the mismanage (Continued on Page Four.) "our weather man for NORTH CAROLINA. Partly cloudy tonight and Sun day;. scattered thundershowers Sunday afternoon in mountains. southern members, Dr. Townsend invited the radio priest to come to Cleveland to address the gather ing. The alliance would join politically the Town sendltes, the Share-the-Wealthers and the National Union for Social Justice, sponsoring Union party. —Central Presa who went off duity at fashionable Battery Park hotel just before the time investigators believed the girl was shot and stabbed by an attempt ed ravisher, was lodged in jail by police last night with no charges preferred. Sheriff Brown said the crime ap peared of local spontaneous origin, but that he wished to get all possible information from the girl’s father as to connections of the petite co-ed which might have played a part in her death. The body of the 19-year-old girl, whose assailant gashed her face be fore killing her with a pistol, was lyepared for burial and will leave tonight for Piqua, Ohio. commEaction Governor Wants Oglesby Successor To Be Pleas ing To Voters Unllr Dispatch Bureau, In The Sir Walter Hotel, Raleigh, July 18—Governor Ehring haus has asked the fifteenth judicial district committee to meet and pro pose names from which may be made the successor to the late Judge John M. Oglesby. The committee members from Alex Randolph and Montgomery counties, a reto meet. They probably will sug gest a first, second and even third choice. The recent primary makes impossible a direct vote on this ques tion. The committee choice could be the governor’s and there would be no opposition except in the general elec tion. The executive committee will have to do the nominating. J. H. Burke, of Alexander, Van Buren Jurney, of the Industrial Com mission in Raleigh, is the Iredell sug gestion; Hayden Clement, Pritchard S. Carlton, Charles L. Coggin, Charles Price, and Stahle Linn are the Ro wanites most mentioned; the Luther Continued on Page Five.) MICHIGAN WOMAN IS DEMOCRAT SPEAKER Greensboro, July 18 (AP) —'Mrs. Thomas F. McAllister, of Grand Rap ids, Mich., national comimitteewoman of the Michigan Young Democrats, in an address today at the convention of North Carolina Young Democrats, said “for the first time in our his tory it is recognized by our party government has an obligation to the youth of the country, and to our aged, to the laborer, to the consumer and to the children.” Delivering the main address of the occasion, the Grand Rapids woman declared that the Democratic party re cognizes jhe obligations of the gov ernment to abolish “the misery of the sweat shop, to clear away the slums of the great cities and to relieve the farm wife of her enslaving toil and drudgery.” Clyde R. Hoey, of Shelby, Demo (|iatic gubernatorial nominee, who had been scheduled to speak at the morning session, was made the prin cipal speaker at the luncheon session when Senator J. W. Bailey could not attends • • • < published EVERY afternoon EXCEPT SUNDAY. NINE PERSONS DEAD IN CROSSING CRASH AT MICHIGAN TOWN Woman, 60, Slays Husband, Aged 65 Newberry, S. C., July 18 (AP)—• A coroner’s jury charged Mrs. Leola Lively, 60, with killing her 65-year-old husband, Lawrence, at their home in the St. Phillips com munity today. Evidence at the inquest was that the aged couple quarreled at breakfast with Lively slapping her face. A few minutes later, their son said, she went to the porch with a pistol and fired five bul lets into her husband. She was lodged in jail to await grand jury action. Ehringhaus Names Two Commissions Victor Bryant, Oscar Barker, Both of Dur ham, Head Liquor- Gas Groups Raleigh, July 18. —(AP) —Governor Ehringhaus this afternoon appointed Victor Bryant, of Durham, chairman of a commission authorized iby the last legislature to study the question of control of alcoholic beverages in North Carolina. To serve with Bryant will be: L. Ri Varser, of Lumberton; John Robin son, of Charlotte; Lee Gravely, of Rocky iMlount; Thomas W. Raoul, of Asheville; R. F. Beasley, of MonrQe, and Charles Hines, of Greensboro. The act providing for the commis sion was ratified by the General As sembly of 1935 the same day. it ratified the New Hanover county liquor law under which county stores are operat ed there. Later the Pasquotank act authorizing stores in other eastern* counties was passed. The commission shall make a thor ough investigation of conditions in, the State, the resolution provided; shall study control laws of pther gov ernmental divisions, shall bold hear ings, and will make public its report, recommendations and findings which must be presented to the 1937 legisla ture. BARKER HEADS INQUIRY OF STATE GASOLINE TERMINAL Raleigh, July 18. —(AP) —Governor Ehringhaus this afternoon appointed Representative Oscar Barker, of Dur ham, chairman of a State commission. Continued on Page Two.) Births And Deaths Off For State Daily Dispatch Bureau. In The Sir Walter Hotel. Raleigh, July 18—June deaths fell from 2,963 to 2,920 for the sixth month of 1935 and 1936, but the births dropped in the same period from 6,828 to 6,340, the death rate falling two tenths of one per cent and the birth rate dropping one and nine tenths per cent. Always the papers account it news when something happens to multipa rous motherhood in North Carolina. There were 488 fewer babies born in June, 1936, than in June, 1935. The infant mortality rate fell from 83.2 to 62.5 over the same route, but the maternal mortality rate rose from 5.8 to 7.4 per cent. The infant deaths in June last were 368; for the preceding June 568. The greatest killer was pneumonia, which took 208 lives, 31 more than in June 1935. Influenza rose from 20 to 43, but whooping cough came down from 48 to 3. Cancer dropped even 20, from the 166 in June, 1935. Suicide stood off at 22 each and homicides went from 27 to 32. '“flPrimajHy automobiles accidents” which stood at 76 in June a year ago moved up to 83. Preventable acci dents as a whole increased from 128 to 141. There are no epidemic kill ers reported. There were six deaths from measles June 1935 but none in June 1936. Smallpox and undulant fever were without fatalities in June of either year. Pulmonary tubercu losis went from 153 to 158. Cerebro spinal meningitis which killed one a year ago, took six in the June re ports. Pellagara, an ineradicable disease, it seems, fell from 41 to 38, but is considered high mortality still for a sickness which has been diagnosed . over such a. Long period. 8 PAGES TODAY FIVE CENTS COPY Car Is Struck by Passenger Train and Hurled Into Racine River Near Dundee VICTIMS ALL FROM PENNSYLVANIA CITY Harry Schuster, His Wife and Three Children and Four Others from Farrell, Pa., Meet Instant Death; Big Sedan Dragged 75 Feet, Hurled Into River Dundee, Mich., July 18 (AP)—Nine persons were killed when the auto mobile in which they were enroute to their homes in Pennsylvania after a visit here was struck by an Arbor railroad passenger train locomotive and hurled into the Racine river this morning. The victims were identified as Mr. and Mrs. Harry Schuster, of Far rell Pa. and their three daughters and four members of another Farrell fam ily whose names were not learned at once. The car, a large four-door sedan, was struck at the crossing and drag ged about 75 feet to a narrow trestle, where it smashed into a girder and fell into the river. The bodies of the nine victims fell 30 feet from the bridge into the shal low water of the stream. Says Chief Slated For Kidnap Cut _ St. Paul, Minn., July 18.—(AP)—A confessed kidnap’s declaration that former Police Chief Thomas Brown was figured by gangsters for a $25,- 000 “cut” in the proceeds of the SIOO,- 000 William Hamm kidnaping wag met with silence by the accused man today as Safety Commissioner Gug Barfuss announced he would follow Brown’s suspension from the depart ment with a full investigation. “I have nothing to say,” waa Brown’s reply to the accusation made yesterday by Byron Bolton, govern ment witness in the trial of John Peifer, former St. Paul night club owner, charged with participating in the kidnaping. Said Barfuss: “When the trial is concluded, Brown will be given an opportunity to explain. If further investigation shows he had any association with the kidnapers or kidnaping not pro per for a police officer, he will be dis charged, and all information which we gather and which the Federal govern ment has obtained will be used in prosecution.” Half an hour after Bolton’s witness stand declaration, Barfuss suspended Brown from his post as head of the police automobile theft department “without prejudice” pending further study. “I received $7,800,” Bolton testified. “Each of the others who took part in the kidnaping itself got $7,288. Twen ty-five thousand dollars was set aside for Tom Brown and SIO,OOO for Peifer.” Drought Yet Unbroken In Large Areas Scattered Rains Along Fringes Os Belt Have Only Temporary Effect Chicago, July 18.—/AP) —Scattered rains along the northern fringe of the drought-baked belt today served only to emphasize the sun’s efforts else where in the iMliddle West, where scant hope for relief was in sight. A half dozen northern lowa cities and others in southeastern Minnesota that got precipitation last night bore out meteorologists’ predictions of showers and cooler weather in the north central states. Heat inroads on human life were lessened, but the nation’s total deaths attributedable to the weather erceeded 4,400. Further relief was predicted for the same areas and generally in the northern plains region over the week end, but in sweltering Nebraska, Mis souri, South Dakota, Ohio, Kansas, Oklahoma, Illinois, most of Michigan, Indiana, Wisconsin and Minnesota nq allevitation was sighted.
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