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HENDERSON GATEWAY TO CENTRAL CAROLINA TWENTY-THIRD YEAR SIX YEAR PROGRAM IN STATE STUDIED Cities and Counties Asked To List Their Needs In Roads, Streets, Courthouses MANY OTHER JOBS WOULD BE SET UP Out of Lists Will Be Com piled Projects Ready For Construction in 1937; Let ters Sent to Counties, Cities and Towns for Informa tion Dnlly OtMpntcta Rnrena, In nir Waller Itaief, ny J. C. RAIKERVILI. Raleigh, Aug. 31.—A six-year; pro gram for the building of worthwhile public works projects in North Caro lina will be mapped out by the State Planning Board as soon as it can get a report from the cities, towns, coun ties and townships as to their public works needs and desires for the next six years, Theodore S. Johnson, con sulting engineer for the board, an nounced today. When these reports are received from all of the govern mental units in the State, the infor mation contained in them will be compiled by the board with the close cooperation and assistance of the Public Works Administration, the Works Progress Administration and other Federal agencies, Johnson said. Forms Being Mailed. Forms have already been received from the printers and will be sent out within the next few days to every city, town, county, township and dis trict official in the State, also to State officials, upon which they will be asked to make detailed reports of their needs for the next six years for public works, such as street paving, sewer lines, school buildings, jails, roads, court houses and so forth, and return them to the State Planning Board which has its executive offices at State College, here in Raleigh. All of these reports will then be classi fied according to geographical loca (Continued on Page Three.) Go v, Latidon Attacked By New Dealers Albuquerque, N. M., Aug. 31. —(AP) —Joseph L. Dailey, assistant to Reset tlement Administrator Rexford Tug well, keynoting the New Mexico Dem ocratic nominating convention today charged the candidacy of Governor Alf M. Landon was sponsored by the “most unholy crew that ever attempt ed to hide its greed and selfishness behind the royal robes of American ism.” The former New Mexico district judge called on the Republican presi dential nominee to explain what is “un-American” in the New Deal prin ciple. He said the “ghost of Herbert Hoover still walks, clothed in the mouths of Alfred M. Landon and John D. M. Hamilton.” Characterizing Hamilton as a “self styled, hard-boiled politician,” Dailey assailed the Republican National Committee chairman. “Beware,” he said, “of a case-har dened politician from Kansas who comes into New Mexico and preys up on your fears while he works against your interest, heeding the master voice of William Randolph Hearst, holding Wall Street by one hand and waving the American flag in other.” Will Start On Trial In Floggings Whiteville. Aug 31 (AP) —Prepara- tions were made today for the trial of four women on immorality charges while a grand jury sought to unmask a band of hooded white-robed “night riders” that reputedly flogged them and shaved their heads. The grand jury resumed its secret questioning of more than 40 witness es who were summoned to tell what they know of the “white legion’s” de predations in the Clarendon com munity. Meanwhile, Solicitor John J. Bur ney said he would try a woman and three girls—four of the band's professed victims —on prostitution charges “early in the week.” The four defendants, held under SSOO bond each, are Mrs. Bertha Fow ler and her young daughter, Inez, and Grace and Glenn Fowler, daughters of Lihue Fowler, himself a victim of the band. Birney said of the grand jury in vestigation; i “We summoned over 40 witnesses. Every person who knew the slightest thing about the floggings will appear before the grand jury.” 'iirttiUH'smt Haiht Dispatch LEASED WIRE SERVICE OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS. Sportsmen Pilots Roar Off As Air Derby Starts —" “,■■■ : “ 3 Ini i-iiinnnnfiilfr 1 '-sttinnnnnr : x*x : : : . : : : : : x: x*. - -rtifobuodayhV iHQinKfilmiL" ’ : jM&k Taking off it Cleveland With Los Angeles as their goal, planes piloted by some of the nation’s leading sportsmen flyers, both men and women, are pictured on the starting line at the Cleveland airport as they rear off at one-minute intervals on the first leg of their zig- 1 ag race to the Pacific coast in the $5,000 Ruth Chatterton air derby. Several planes are shown above awaiting the starting signal as another ship, pictured in the background, leaves the ground on its sky jour ney. The race, designed to test the flying experience of contestants over a week’s period, ends at Los Angeles as part of th National Air Races. —Central Press. State To Keep Black Legion Members Off Its Trial Jury Deroit, Mich., Aug. 31.—(AP)—Un usual precautions were taken today to prevent any member of the Black Legion from being on the jury which will try eleven men charged with kid naping and killing Charles A. Poole, Membership of the order in Wayne county (Detroit) has been estimated as high as 10,000. Circuit Judge Joseph A. Moynihan, announcing that opening of the trial County Plan Os Handling Liquor Seen Commission Ap pears for It, With Control and Money Kept at Home Unity Disitiitch nnrenn. In The Sir Walter Hote.. Rr J. r BARKERVII,*, Raleigh, Aug. 31.—County liquor control and county liquor stores, with tht revenue remaining in the counties where the stores arc operated are here to stay f. r a long time, in the opinion of those who have been following the course of the hearings held last week before the State liquor fact-finding commission of which Victor S. Bryant, of Durham is chair man. For regardless of what the com mission may find out and recom mend to the 1337 General Assembly and in spite of Cale K. Burgess and the United D I orc-cs, it is already evident that the “prohibition myth” has at last been completely exploded here in North Carolina, except among the “blind diys" and that enough other comities in addition to the 18 now operating legal liquor stores, now want l’quor stores, with the result that the county liquor con- Continued on Page Five.) 1350MILESR0ADS HAVEBEEN FIXED Many Types of Work Done on Various Highways Over The State Dally Dispatch Barena, In The Sir Walter Hotel, By J C BASKEB.VI.JJU Raleigh, Aug. 31.—The maintenance department of the State Highway and Public Works Commission has already reconditioned for resurfacing, and has resurfaced or newly surfaced 1,351 miles of highways since it started its repair and reconditioning program in the spring, it was announced today by W. Vance Baise, chief highway engineer, based on figures compiled up to August 1. If the figures were completed to date, the total would un doubtedly be in excess of 1,500, Baise said. Os this total of 1,351 miles complet ed up to August 1, 364 miles were of (Continued on Page Three.) ' ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA AND VIRGINIA HENDERSON, N. C., MONDAY AFTERNOON, AUGUST 31,1936 would be postponed until Tuesday, said the prospective jurors will be asked a question never before asked of a panel. It is: “Are you now or have you ever been a member of the so-called Black Le gion, or any other organization with a ritual favoring violence or law violation?” To speed selection of the jury, Judge Moynihan said he would ask all - : ,290 Men Trapped In German Shaft Bochum, Westphalia, Germany, Aug. 31 (AP) —Rescuers tore frantically at debris under huge spotlights tonight to save 290 men caught in a mine explosion. Sixteen bodies had been recover ed by 7 p. m., and 13 other min ers were found badly injured. j The death list was mounting hourly. Os undetermined origin, the blast roared through the ninth pit of the United President Mine at midday. Bowie Will Likely Run For Senate Dally Dispatch Burma. In The Sir Walter Hotel, Pv .* O. BASJiERVILL Raleigh, Aug. 31.—Tam C. Bowie, the redoubtaale political warrior from Ashe county whose favorite drink is buttermilk, is already a potential candidate for the Democratic nomin ation for the United States Senate in 1938 against Senator Robert R. Rey nolds, of Asheville, according to re ports heard here from those who have recently been in Ashe —unless Con gressman “Farmer Bob” Doughton, of the neighboring county of Alleghany, should decide to try for the Senate instead of the house two years hence. It is understood that Bowie has in dicated to some of his close friends that he intends to oppose Reynolds for the Senate two years hence, pro vided Doughton does not enter the race. Being a great and good friend of the veteran congressman who is now chairman of the House Ways and Continued on Page Five.) Danish King Will Be Advised About Owen Retirement Washington, Aug. 31. —(AP) — For mal preparation was under way to day at the State Department to notify Christian X, king of Denmark and Iceland, that Mrs. Ruth Bryan Owen Rohde, had resigned as American minister at Copenhagen. Although America’s first woman diplomat had become a member of the Danish court by her marriage to Captain Boerge Rohde, of King Chris tian’s bodyguard, it was said that the Danish ruler would be informed of the resignation—not of Kammerjun kare Rohde, but of Madam Minister Owen. the question himself. Floyd M. Graham, one of the de fense attorneys, has submitted ques tions which include: “Have you any prejudice against any one who might be a member of the Black Legion.” The defendants are charged with executing Poole, a young WPA work er, last May 12, because he had been accused falsely of wife-beating. Ickes’ Son Is Suicide In Chicago Secretary’s Foster Son Dies From Bul let Authorities Say He Fired Chicago, Aug. 31.—(AP)—Wilmarth Ickes, 37, foster son of Secretary of the Interior Harold L. Ickes, was found shot to death today in his fos ter father’s home in suburban Win netka. Sergeant Harold Lewis, of the Win netka police, said “unquestionably it is suicide.” Erick Magnuson, care-taker in the employ of the Ickes family for 20 years, found the body at 8:10 a. m., eastern standard time. There was one) bullet wound through the head. Magnuson told the police a 38-cali bre pistol lay on the body which was on a bed in a room on the first floor. Half an hour later Ickes’ wife tele phoned to Magnuson from Chicago, where she and their three children had just arrived on a lake steamer from a trip to Mackinac Island, Mich. He told her of her husband’s death and she* left at once for the Win netka home. Winnetka police had reported to the Chicago coroner that there was a note written by Ickes, but Sergeant Lewis said he had not found any com munication. The sergeant said Ickes had been in ill health and was under a phy sician’s care. The body was removed to an un dertaking establishment in nearly Evanston, where an inquest was set for 9:30 a. m. tomorrow. SECREARY ICKES FLIES TO SCENE OF THE DEATH Wlashington, Aug. 31. —(AP)—ln- formed of the suicide of his foster son, Wilmarth Ickes, Secretary Ickes arranged today to fly to Winnetka, 111., on a plane scheduled to arrive in Chicago late this afternoon. OUR MfedTHEP MAN FOB NORTH CAROLINA. Generally ‘ fair tonight and Tuesday; somewhat warmer in in terior Tuesday. U.S. Warships To Fire Upon Spaniards If More Attacks Are Made, Washington Says Tobacco Opening In East Tomorrow Being Awaited High Prices Generally Expected as Eastern Carolina Belt Swings Into Action; 14 Markets To Start Auction Sales; Two Marke ts Have Grading Raleigh, Aug. 31.—(AP)—Giant to bacco warehouses in 14 Eastern North Carolina tobacco markets were jam med today on the eve of the open ing of auction sales for the 1936 sea son. Last year the Eastern Carolina, or “new bright,” belt sold 297,600,000 pounds at 20.09 cents a pound. Prices of better than 25 rents a pound on the earlier belts, however, gave rise to higher expectations this year. Dean I. O. Schaub, of N. C. State College, said that he expected an av erage price of between 25 and 29 cents. The markets in the new bright belt, the second North Carolina belt to Mechanical Cotton Picker May Destroy Small Farmer Government Experts Watch New Machine Work Is Mis sippi and With Misgivings For Future of South’s Ag riculture; Will Be Given Test For Season Stoneville, Miss., Aug. 31.—(AP) — Two farm experts who came here to day to view a demonstration of a me chanical cotton picker predicted that success of the machine would threat en the South’s agricultural balance, and “spell the end of the small far mer.” Oscar Johnston, government cotton specialist, forecast the doom of small scale operations. A. F. Tolar, his business associate on a 43,000-acre Mississippi planta tion, said; ’‘Cotton agriculture would be in a turmoil if mechanized picking sup plan red hand labor. Johnston came from Wlashington and joined State agriculture leaders, planters and cotton ginners to exam ine the picker, developed by John and Mack Rust, of Memphis, Tenn. Mussolini Arming Is Startling Avellino, Italy, Aug. 31.—(AP) — Premier Mussolini, with a claim to 8,000,000 soldiers, paced two other Eu ropean dictators in the world re-arma ment race today. “We always in the course of a few hours and after a simple order can mobilize 8,000,000 men,” he told cheer ing thousands who crowded the town’s square here yesterday. Diplomatic quarters interpreted his declaration to be aimed against two recent actions by Adolf Hitler in Germany and Josef Stalin, in Russia. The first, they declared, was the reichfuehrer’s extention of the mili tary training period in Germany from one to two years. The second was the Soviet docta tor’s statement that the Soviet ar mies must be prepared to march on a moment’s notice. Two additional interpretations were read into 11 Duce’s declaration by observers, who viewed the Italian po licy as possibly resulting from the growth of socialist and communistic influences in France and Spain. ISSIISED G. O. P. Chajnces of Success Much Better Now Than At Convention By CHARLES P. STEWART (Central Press Staff Writer) Washington, Aug. 31 —Plenty of po liticians venture the guess that Sen ator Arthur H. Vandenberg of Mich igan, had he been able to look a trifle less than three months into the fu ture at the time of the Republican convention in Cleveland, would have tried then considerable harder than he did to win the G. O. P. presiden (Continued on Page Six.) PUBLISHED EVERY AFTERNOON EXCEPT SUNDAY. open, are Washington, New Bern, Wal lace, Tarboro, Ahoskie, Smithfield, Kinston, Robersonville, Williamston, Rocky Moont, Farmville, Greenville, Goldsboro and Wilson. The other belts in the State will open later in the fall. At Goldsboro, warehousemen said they expected medium breaks on the opening day. The Goldsboro and Farmville mar kets are the only ones in the new bright belt having the free govern ment grading service authorized by the last Congress. Four graders were at the Golds boro market today preparing for the opening tomorrow. “If the machine is successful”, Johnston said, “the immediate result on southern agriculture would be too big a question to answer, for there would be no point to small-time farm ing. “The picker would be ideal for big planters but not for the small farmer who growers only four or five hales each season. He couldn’t afford it for his acreage is too small.” Johnston said it might be possible to coordinate the machine and hand labor on large scale operations. Whether the device is economical ly superior to hand labor was to he determined in prolonged operation this fall. The cotton picking ability of the machine, cost of operation and speed will be compared with that of hand pickers over an entire season. wm Germany’s East and West Neighbors Fear New Move in Roumania Paris, Aug. 31—(AP) Military leaders of Germany’s eastern and western neighbors—France and Po land—began conversations today di rected toward consolidating the mili tary and economic ties between their two countries. France, although jubilant over what it considers Poland’s shift from Germany to stronger French alliance nevertheless feared a sudden move in the opposite direction by Roumania. Disquietude over the ouster of Nicholas Titulescu, Roumanian fore ign minister, and “friend of France, was voiced in several quarters, and alarm expressed lest the move mark the beginning of a strong German era in Roumania. Campaign In Pennsylvania To Be Probed Washington, Aug. 31 (AP) An im mediate investigation of alleged ir regularities in campaign activities in Pennsylvana was ordered today by a special Senate elections committee. The committee appointed to invest igate campaign expenditures said the irregularities included charges that the Carnegie-Illinois and Jones & Loughlin steel companies were coer cing and intimidating employees po litically. Senator Lonergan, Democrat Con necticut. committee chairman, ord ered Louis R. Glavis, special invest igator, and a corps of assistants to leave immediately for Allegheny and Beaver counties to begin the inquiry. Lonergan said the full committee or a sub-committee might go to Pittsburgh and other points in Pennsylvania to conduct hearings within a week or two. 8 PAGES TODAY FIVE CENTS COPY STRONG PROTESTS SPEEDILY SENT TO WARRINGFACTIONS Navy Department Upholds Action of Commander of Destroyer Kane in Firing Back REBELS BOMBARD IRUN FROM SKIES Bombs Tear Two Women to Bits in Spanish City as It Is Being Evacuated; Govern ment Forces Claim Bloody Victories in Mountains To North (By The Associated Press.) Rebel bombs tore two women to bits in the northern Spanish city of Irun today, while the United States gov ernment, stunned by the bombing of an American destroyer, dispatched stiff protests to Madrid and to the Fascist insurgents alike. In a vicious attack on long-defend ed Irun, rebel planes blasted great holes in the streets as the,city was being evacuated enmassee. Before the attack had begun more than 4,000 in habitants had fled into France. On direct orders from President Roosevelt, now in the Middle West, the State Department demanded the fighting Spaniards keep their hands off United States ships. With the Vatican in an unofficial summary announcing 162 churches and other religious institutions had been burned in Spain, uncensored ad vices from Madrid itself disclosed a long list of prominent pc mages which the government cryptically re ported “dead.” It was assumed most of them died of firing squad bullets. Madrid, meantime, claimed impor tant, if bloody, victories in the Gua ■darrama mountains, north of the cap ital, and in central southern Spain. From Burgos, the rebels announced plans to continue bombardment of Madrid airport as a prelude to a final drive on the capital. FURTHER ATTACKS WILL DRAW FIRE BY AMERICANS Washington, Aug. 31. —(AP) —Naval officers, scanning reports of the at tempted bombing of the destroyer Kane, indicated a belief today that American war vessels in Spanish waters would answer with renewed gunfire any further attacks which might endanger them. Whether such action would be nec essary remained to be seen. The Am erican government, startled by yes terday’s attempt to sink the destroy er off the Spanish coast, already has made swift and emphatic protest to the Madrid regime and the rebels calling on them to prevent another such incident. Although manifestly hopeful that no new incident of that character will occur, Navy Department attaches said a commanding officer’s first consideration was the protection of his ship and crew, and that he had full discretion to proceed in any man- Continued on Page Five.) Put Rebels In Line Os Rebel Fire Irun, Spain, Aug. 31 (AP)*—The government defenders of Irun brought 300 rebel prisoners into the most dangerous point to in surgent air bombs. The prisoners were brought by truck from Fort Guadalupe after a dozen projectiles had burst in the city evacuated except for government fighters and their hostages. Two wo men were blown to bits. “All old women, old men and chil dren," of republican families were sent across the French frontier, gov ernment leaders announced, but fam ilies of suspected rightist sympathies were forced to remain. All “anti-republican” prisoners, they added, would be exposed to the bombardment when the rebels at tempt to carry out their threat to re duce Irun to ashes. Up to tonight, however, the insur gents had not carried out this threat, and the bombs which they dropped were said by the defenders to have caused no important material dam age. A combined land, sea and air bom bardment was believed imminent, however.
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