LABOR DAY
HENDERSON
GATEWAY TO
CENTRAL
CAROLINA
twenty-third year
Roosevelt Plan Is
To Drive Through
TheG reatSm okies
Will Make Motor Trip from
Knoxville to Asheville
Thursday, Under
Plans Approved
TALKS THURSDAY AJ
CHARLOTTE MEETING
May Motor from Asheville
To Charlotte Also; Starts
Work Tomorrow on Char
lotte Address, Returning
to Washington After That
Speech In Afternoon
Washington, Sept. 7 (AP) —Presi-
dent Roosevelt today approved final
plans for a motor trip through the
Great Smoky Mountains from Knox
ville, Tenn., to Asheville, N. C, and
then to Charlotte for a speech Thurs
day at a six-state “green pastures"
rally.
The President will leave Washing
ton tomorrow evening, arriving at
Knoxville around 10 a. m., central
standard time, Wednesday.
From there he plans to travel by
automobile to Asheville over 140
miles of mountain roads.
He made arrangements to stop for
lunch at Shenandoah and to spend
the night at Asheville, whether he will
go from Asheville to Charlotte by
motor has not been determined, but
aides said he probably would prefer
to make the trip by car rather than
train.
Presidential assistants said Mr.
Roosevelt would start work tomor
row on his Charlotte speech.
The chief executive is to speak
around 5 p. m. eastern standard time
at the Charlotte rally and plans to
immediately afterward by train
for Washington.
EUGENE BAGWELL, 50,
S. A. L. CHIEF, DEAD
Prominent Official Dies Suddenly
Following Heart Attack at
Southern Pines Hotel
Southern Jines, Sept. 7.—(AP) —Eu-
E'nc Cleveland Bagwell, 50, general
manager of the Seaboard Air Line
railway, died of a heart attack at a
hotel here late last night.
He was a native of Raleigh, N. C.,
and the funeral will be held there,
probably Tuesday.
MR BAGWELL WELL KNOWN
TO SEABOARD MEN HERE
Mr. Bagwell was well known to Sea
board Air Line railroad men in Hen
deriian and this section. He was
known as one of the most popular
officials in the system, and as a
“Folksy" sort of man who was easy
of approach and sympathetic in his
attitudes. He was a railroad man who
to :<• from the ranks and climbed to
high position with the company, and
bad the respect and confidence of the
highest officials with the company.
Big Spending
Is Justified
By President
Saved Business and
Will Save Drought
Area, He Tells Na
tion in Talk
Washington, Sept. 7. — (AP)—Weav
ing a defense of New Deal spending
into a two-fold address on re-employ
t» ent and the drought, President
Roosevelt was on record toady with
•be contention that government ex
pentitures saved business and will
save drought-fdricken farmers.
Denying charges of waste hurled at
him by campaign foes, the Presiden
'ook ‘o the radio last night in a com
bif.otinn Labor Day eve address and
report on his tour of the drought
area just ended.
“Re-employment in industry is pro
ceeding rapidly," he saidu .Govern
ment spending was in large part re
sponsible for keeping industry going
and putting it in position to make
this re-employment possible.
To speed re-employment, he said he
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Tlroiirrsnn lUtiht Utapatrh
LEASED WIRE SERVICE OF
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
On Health Mission
flHik ate
'jHKm
r. .
Sir George Chrystal, official secre
tary of the British Ministry of
Health, is shown as he arrived in
New York for a tour of American
cities,. 1 He will study our methods
of sanitation and public health
- . measures.
(Central Press)
INTERNAL WAR IS
THREAT TO LABOR
UPONJTSHOLIDAY
But It Joins With Rest Os
Nation in Celebrating
Annual Event With
Great Vim
LANDON CALLS FOR
UNITED LABOR BODY
Hopes Split Will Be Speed
ily Healed; Ten Unions
Under John L. Lewis’ Ban
ker Are Officially Ousted
from Federation by Events
of Last Saturday
Washington, Sept. 7 —(AP) —On this
day dedicated to the interests of the
American working man, organized la
bor faced the threat of a tremendous
internal war, but it joined the rest of
the nation in celebrating the holiday
with a vim.
Parades and speech-making mark
ed Labor Day the nation over. In
some of the addresses were referen
ces to the split in the American Fed
eration of Labor, which threatens a
long and bitter struggle.
Governor Alf M. Landon, in a
speech prepared for delivery at
Wichita, Kans, called for a “united"
organized iaobr “struggle for higher
living standards.” He expressed hope
the split will “be speedily healed."
President .Roosevelt, who did not
mention the schism, made a Labor
Day address, saying the day “sym
bolizes our determination to achieve
an economic freedom for the aver
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lOJMSES^
Total Held by Drivers Now
719,525; Revocations
5,194 to Date
Dully Dimiiitcb Bureau,
In The Sir Walter Hotel,
By J O. BASKEM VIXL
Raleigh, Sept. 7.—A total of 10,125
new drivers’ licenses were issued dur
ing the month of August, bringing
the total number of licenses issued
to date to 719,525, according to the
figures for the month of August
made public today by Ronald Hocutt,
Continued .on. Page.. Five.)
ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA AND VIRGINIA
Good Politics To Spend
Big State Road Surplus
Ehringhau.s and Waynick Doing 1937 Legislature Fav
or by Removing Bone of Contention; May Also
Spell Doom of Road Refunds to Counties V
Dally DtAi»it<-:. Rnieim,
In The Sir Walter Hole.
Hr J- C. DASKERVILL
Raleigh, Sept. 7.—Governor J. C. B.
Ehringhaus and Chairman Capus M.
Waynick of the State Highway and
Public Works Commission have not
only played good politics by their de
cision to spend $2,800,000 more of the
highway fund surplus and thereby
wipe out the so-called “surplus" which
has been a bone of contention among
politicians for the past two years,
but have done the 1937 General As
sembly a big favor by finally and ef
fectively removing this surplus from
the next legislative picture, accord-
Landon Asks
United Labor
Organization
G. 0. P. Nominee
Also Says Strong
Will for Peace Here
Is Best Safeguard
i Wichita, Kans., Sept. 7. —(AP)
Governor Alf M. Landon, in a speech
today, advocated a “united” organi
zed labor “struggle for higher living
standards."
Coincidentally in his address before
the State convention of the American
Legion, he named a “strong will for
peace” as the “nation’s main reliance
in staying out of war.”
Emphasizing three “present and fu
ture duties” of war veterans—toler
ance, citizenship and the preservation
of peace —the Republican nominee in
his address noted:
“Disquieting evidence of attempts to
stir up racial antagonism" which
“would be tragic if it should become
serious.”
Expressing hope that “the recent
split in the ranks of labor will be
speedily healed,’’ he said “those of us
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HENDERSON, N. C., MONDAY ! AFTERNOON, SEPTEMBER 7, 1936
PRESIDENT GREETS AN ADMIRER
President Roosevelt Betty June Berger
in Springfield, lIL, where he visited the tomb of Abraham Lincoln
and held a drouth conference with Gov. Henry Horner of Illinois,
President Roosevelt is snapped talking with little Betty June
Berger, of Rosiclare, 111. The little girl, crippled by infantile paraly
sis, came to the state capital to meet th« president at the governor’s
mansion.
ing senfimenf here today. They
have likewise done a real service to
the people of the State in’ that they
arc going to spend this money for
building roads, the purpose for which
it was collected and intended, before
(he biennial assemblage of politicians
designated as the General Assembly,
will have, a chance to divert it to
other uses, it is agreed.
May Bar All Refunds.
The action of the governor and Ad
visory Budget Commission in approv
ing the expenditure of this last lump
Continued on Page Five.)
■■■.■■! . ■ . . .4
New Auto Speed
Set on Salt Bed
BooneviUe, Salt Flats, Utah,
Sept. 7 (AP) —Ab Jenkins, driving
his ivory-hued “Mormon Meteor”
over this racing course at dazzling
speeds, snatched two records back
to America from England today
and roared on in conquest of more.
Jenkins established a new mark
for 500 kilometers at 164.47 miles
per hour—surpassing the old rec
ord of 153.30 set on this same
course by Captain George E. T.
Eyston, of London.
Then, he cracked Eyston’s 500-
mile record of 152.34 with a new
world record of 159.03.
DImUBLjITY
Advertising of Poverty by
Administration Grates
on Farmers
By CHARLES P. STEWART
Central Press Staff Writer
Washington, Sept. 7. —It is begin
ning to appear that the Washington
administration’s advertising of drouth
conditions on the Great Plains has
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COMMUNISTS DECLARE
FASCIST UPRISING IS
THREATENING FRANCE
Defending Troops
At San Sebastian
Fight Each Other
With Fascists At Gates Os
City, Anarchists and So-.
cialists Fight Be
tween Selves
ANARCHISTS TRYING
TO BURN THE CITY
Socialists Trying To Pre
vent Them; Madrid Jubi
lant Over Reports of Block
ing Fascist March on To
ledo, Declaring Rebels
There Are Desperate
(By The Associated Press.)
The anarchist and Socialist defend
ers of San Sebastian, with Fascist
rebel columns almost at the city’s
gates, fought in the streets today.
Armed with gasoline and torches,
the anarchistg sought to fire the city.
The Socialists struggled to stop them
With the neutrality situation in
nearby France made more grave by
Communist charges that a Fascist up
rising was imminent, insurgent troops
with field guns assaulted Fort Trin
cherpe, last government defense be
fore San Sebajstian, famous resort
city, on the Bay of Biscay.
Madrid, jubilant over victories
which high officers said had stopped
a march on Toledo and the capital
in the Talavera sector, announced
rebel resistance had “given away” at
Cordoba in the south, and said Fas
cists, besieged at Zaragoza in the
northeast, Were 4 ,‘desperate.”
Henderson
Man Is Held
In Robberies
Arlie B. Jackson, 19,
Implicated With
Two Others in Se
ries of Hold-Ups
Boydton, Va., Sept. 7. —(AP)—Vir-
ginia authorities today investigated
recent activities of three youths charg
ed with holding up a Chase City fill
nig station and suspected of a series
of robberies in this State and North
Carolina.
The trio was captured by Town
Sergeant C. L. Temple and three aides
in a wood at South Hill early Sun
day morning after Temple had punc
tured a tire in their automobile with
a pistol shot and forced them to aban
don the machine.
Temple fired three shots at the
speeding car a few minutes after
David Boushell, 17-year-old filling sta
tion attendant, had telephone that he
had been robbed of $37 and forced to
accompany the robbers in their ma
chine for three miles.
After questioning the prisoners,
Special Investigator W. Larkin Glaze
brook, of the State motor vehicle di
vision, and Sergeant Temple said
Arlie B. Jackson, 19, Henderson, N.
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FOB NORTH CAROLINA.
Generally fair tonight and Tues
day; not much, change in temper
ature.
PUBLISHED EVERY AFTERNOON
EXCEPT SUNDAY.
IMew Madrid Premier
K&x': ivi
jHHi ; ij|||HH
Francisco Largo Caballero'
Francisco Largo Caballero is the
new premier and minister of war
of the Loyalist government of
Spain. He formerly was premier
and minister of labor in the gov
ernment of Manuel Azana. The
cabinet of Jose Giral went out as
the rebels made further gains.
—Central Press
McDonald's
Vote Plea
Clarified
Raleigh, Sept. 7.—(AP)—Dr. Ralph
W. McDonald, who lost his fight for
the gubernatorial nomination in the
Democratic primaries, said today he
had not asked the State Board of
Elections to “reopen its primary in
vestigation,’’ but had asked it to “take
definite and understandable action” in
regard to irregularities disclosed by
investigations.
“The purpose of my letter, as clear
ly stated and developed, was to sug
gest for the consideration of the
board that, unless some definite and
understandable action is taken by the
board with respect to those frauds
and irregularities which have been
positively shown, the violation of elec
Continued on Page Two.)
GUT BRANCHES ,0F
New Service Will Be Entire
ly on Civil Service,
Washington Says
Dally Dispatch Bureau,
In The Sir Walter Hotel,
By J. C. BASKERVII,I-
Raleigh, Sept. 7.—A total of at
least eight and possibly ten offices
will eventually be opened in North
Carolina by the Social Security Board
in Washington, although there will
be only two main district offices, as
orginally planned, one of these being
here in Raleigh and the other in Sal
isbury, it was learned from an offi
cial source here today. Plans have al
ready been made to locate branch
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amn for help
One-Hour Strike of Metal
Workers i ! n Paris Called
To Protest Policy
Os France
WANT TO ABANDON
NON-INTERVENTION
Secret Meeting of Fascist
Group Allegedly Held
Sunday at Which “Shock
Troops” Are Said To Have
Been Planned, Along With
Civil War In Nation
Paris, Sept. 7 (AP) —A com
munist call to 300,000 workers
to strike today so rone hour to
compel France to support the
Spanish government in its civil
war shut down the principal air
plane and automobile factories
in the Paris area.
According to plan, metal
workers laid down their tools
for the hour demonstration.
Company officials in the affect
ed factories acknowledged vir
tually all union members a#*-
wered the summons.
Paris, Sept 7 (AP) —Com-
munists, seeking by strike
threats to force official assist
ance to Spanish Socialists,
charged today that a Fascist up
rising threatened France.
The communist newspaper, L’Hum
anite, laid the Fascist plot against
the French Socialist party, to politi
cal organizations headed by Colonel
Francois de la Racque, which arose
from the dissolved Croix de Feu Vet
erans League.
The charges followed Communist
instructions to 300,000 metal workers
in the Paris region to drop their
tools for a one-hour strike today in
protest against the French policy of
non-intervention in the Spanish civ
il war.
The communist newspaper assert
ed De La Racque, at a secret meet
ing of thirty regional chiefs yester
day, issued orders for the organiza
tion of "shock troops” and "outlined
a plan for civil war.”
The newspaper, regarded as an
official organ of the Communist par
ty, strengthened its attack on the
"blockade against the Spanish re
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Begin Probes
Os 10 Deaths
In Big Plane
Pittsburgh, Sept. 7.—(AP)—A triple
investigation began today into the
crash on a tri-motored sight-seeing
plane in which the pilot and nine pas
sengers died Saturday.
The lone survivor, Linda McDon
ald, 17-year-old Miami, Fla., girl, was
to be visited by Federal, State and
county authorities at the hospital
where she was reported recovering
from the shock.
The slender high school graduate
saw her “best beau,” John A. Powers
young University of Miami student,
and four friends enveloped by the
flames after she had fought her way
out of the ship.
The ship fell on an isolated farm
at 10:15 p. m., Saturday, a few min
utes after the pilot, Eric Beckley, 35,
had risen from the AUehhany airport
after promising the passengers "a
thrill or your money back.”
One of the many reports to be
studied was that the failure of a
motor caused the tragedy, that the
pilot had turned back toward the air
port, his ship tilted and motors run
ning full speed when it struck one
tree, then bounded to another.