HENDERSON
GATEWAY TO
CENTRAL
CAROLINA
TWENTY-THIRD YEAR
TOWNSEND FORCES
SCORE VICTORY IN
WASHINGTON STATE
Win Four Congress Nomi
nations in Primary Elec
tions Held in State
on Tuesday
NATION WATCHING
GEORGIA ELECTION
Talmadge, Anti-New Deal,
Opposing Senator Russell,
Roosevelt Backer; Senator
Norris Is Entered in Ne
braska Primaries as Inde
pendent Candidate
(By The Associated Press.)
Townsend old age pension candi
dates appeared to have won nomina
tion in four Washington State con
gressional districts as the nation wat
ched returns from five State primar
ies yesterday, and today’s balloting
in Georgia.
Georgia's voting found Governor
Eugene Talmadge, a critic of the New
Deal, opposing Senator Richard B.
Russell, Jr., a Roosevelt supporter,
for the Democratic senatorial nom
ination.
Sharing interest with the primaries
was the filing of the candidacy of
Senator George W. Norris, veteran
..ebraskan legislator for re-election
as an independent. A supporter of
much of the New Deal legislation,
Norris had announced his intention to
retire, but friends filed hi s nominat
ing papers through a petition bear
ing more than 40,000 signatures.
In two of the Washington State dis
tricts, Townsendites were nominated
or leading on both Republican and
Democratic tickets. But in Vermont a
Townsend candidate lost in his race
for the Republican nomination to
Congress.
In Colorado Governor Ed C. John
son was leading former Governor Wil
liam E. Sweet two to one for th©
Democratic senatorial nomination.
Both professed support of the Roose
velt administration.
Fugitives’ Auto
Believed Located
In Wilson County
Wilson, Sept. 9 (AP)—Officers here
expressed the belief today they had
surrounded Dan Kolb in a dense wood
between Rocky Mount and Elm City.
Kolb has been identified as one of
two gunmen who fled a Florence, S.
C.. road house during a gun battle
with South Carolina State nighway
patrolmen.
His companion, Coley Cain, an es
caped convict from the North Caro
lina penitentiary, died yesterday of
w’ounds received in the fight at Flor
ence.
The officers here said a bullet-rid
dled car, believed to be the one in
which the pair rode from South Caro
lina, had been captured.
A posse of Nash and Wilson coun
ty officers and city police hurried to
the wooded spot immediately after
discovery of the car.
Reorganizing
Departments
Aim Os FDR
Sweeping Revision
May Unite War,
Navy and Air Serv
ice In One Unit
New York, Sept. 9 (AP) —The New
York Times said today in a dispatch
from Washington that President
Rosevelt is considering for submis
sion to Congress, in event of his re
election, a far-reaching plan of gov
ernmental reorganization.
This plan, possibly would involve,
The. Times stated, the consolidation
or abolition of some of the major de
partments and bureaus.
“Whatever the President finally
proposes,” the Times said, “one may
hear in informed quarters how that
the regular cabinet posts might be
deceased in such an extensive plan as
he has been considering.
A possibility, The Times stated,
would be consolidation of the Army,
Navy and Air Corps in a department
of national defense.
The President’s committee on ad
ministrative management, the dis
patch continued, is rushing an ex
haustive study of the Federal estab
lishment, but detailed recommenda
tions hardly will be ready before De
cember 1.
“The committee,” The Times said,
“already has evolved a sufficient
number of suggestions to allow the
prediction among Mr. Roosevelt’s
friends that he will deal with his re
organization plans in one or more
speeches toward the latter part of his
re-election campaign.”
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lirttilrrsmt Batlii tUsnatrit
'VIRE SERVICE OF
I HE ASSOCIATED PRESS.
ROOSEVELT CROSSES
THE GREAT SMOKIES
IN NORTH CAROLINA
Governor Ehringhaus and S enator Reynolds Meet Pres
ident on Arrival at Knox ville for Motor Trip to
Asheville for Might; Spea ks Charlotte Tomorrow
Knoxville, Term., Sept. 9.—,AP)—•
President Roosevelt arrived at Knox
ville at 9 a. m.. central standard time
today and shortly afterwards was on
his way on a 150-mile motor tour
through the Great Smoky Mountains.
He had breakfast on his private car
before detraining in the midst of a
large crowd of applauding Tennes
seeans.
Ho had worked late last night on
the 'speech he will deliver at Char
lotte, N. C., tomorrow at a southern
“Green Pastures” rally.
Democratic leaders were out in full
force here to greet the chief executive
and accompany him on his drive j
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Talmadge Trails
In Georgia Votes
Atlanta, Ga., Sept. 9 (Al»)— I T. T.
Thomason, newspaper editor, tele
phoned from Carrollton at 1 p. m.
today that a partial count of the
vote east in the city precinct in the
Democratic primary there showed:
For United States senator:
Richard B. Russell, Jr., 450.
Eugene Talmadge, 73.
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MAY GO TO G. 0. P.
Democrats Will Lose Them
If Absent Vote Is Kept,
McDonald Says
Hall v Dispatch Burma,
In The Sir Wiilpt lintel
Rr J C. H\skrii vii,»,
Raleigh, Sept. 9.—Many of the
counties in the western part of the
State which have been staying in the
Democratic column by narrow mar
gins for several years, will swing over
into the Republican column within
the next year or so unless the 1937
General Assembly repeals the absen
tee ballot and revises the State elec
tion laws, Dr. Ralph W. McDonald
said here before returning to Win
ston-Salem following the State con
vention of Liberal Democrats. These
counties will stay in the Democratic
fold this fall because a majority of
the voters in them are for the re-elec
tion of President Roosevelt and be
cause they realize that nothing can
he done about the present election
laws until the 1937 General Assembly
meets. Dr. McDonald said. But if the
next legislature does not repeal the
absentee ballot law and make some
of the changes being demanded in
the rip., .ion laws, it is going to be
almost impossible to hold many of
these close western counties in line
for another two years, Dr. McDonald
:na : ntained.
Will Stick This Time.
“There is no danger of any of these
counties going Republican in the elec
tion this fall, since those Democrats
who want the election laws changed
realize that nothing can be done until
the next General Assembly meets,”
Dr. McDonald said. “They also want
to see President. Roosevelt re-elected.
So they are going to stick by the
Democratic party this time and vote
the straight ticket, county, state and
national. For the Liberal Democrats
are essentially Democrats.
“But if the coming General Assem
bly disregards the wishes of the west
ern(| Democrats and of the eastern
Democrats who also want election law
reform, the outlook may considerably
be different two years hence, how
ever. From what I have been able to
gather, many of the western Demo
crats feel that if their viewg and
wishes are disregarded by another
general assembly, their only hope of
gaining these desired reforms is to
join with the Republicans in an ef
fort to get an administration that will
be interested in bringing about real
election laws revision.
Some Rebel Counties.
“It is entirely likely that if the elec
tion law changes now desired are not
made by the approaching General As
sembly that both Ashe and Alleghany
counties will go Republican and join
Wilkes and Avery counties, which are
already Republican, also that Cald
well, Burke and Catawba counties will
go over into the Republican list, as
well as several other far-western
counties.
“But if the Democratic western
counties will cooperate with the west
ern Democrats in bringing about the
abolition of the absentee ballot, of
election markers and make some of
the other changes desired, I am con
vinced that the Democratic party in
the west will be stronger than it has
been in years, which means that the
Democratic party in the entire State
will also be stronger. It is going to
get weaker instead of stronger, how
ever, as long a s it permits the pre
sent hodge poge of election laws
(Continued on Page Three.)
ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA AND VIRGINIA
through the scenic Smokies.
After parading through crowded
i’owntown straets, the
procession hit out for the Great
Smoky ridge that divides North Car
olina and Tennessee. The President’s
aideg arranged a picnic lunch around
Clingman’s Dome, over 6,000 feet
above sea level.
Mr. Roosevelt will arrive late today
a s Asheville, N. C., and spend the
night there.
Besides Tennessee political leaders,
President Roosevelt was met at the
railioad station by Governor J. C. B.
Ehringhaus and Senator Robert R.
Reynolds, of North Carolina.
Rally Gets
Officialdom
At Raleigh
Onlly Dliiiintrh Ruremi
In The Sir Wnlter Hotel.
R r j r. B4SKRII Vl|,|.
Raleigh, Sept. 9.—Political activity
here has gone into a nose dive and
the capital city has almost been re
duced to a deserted village as a re
sult of the big seven states “Green
Pastures” political rally in Charlotte
tomorrow which will be addressed by
President Roosevelt.
Most of the more prominent State
officials and political leaders have
already left for Charlotte or are de
parting this afternoon and almost the
only political talk heard is concerning
the Charlotte rally and the national
political situation, with State politics
being distinctly in the background for
the first time in many months.
State Democratic headquarters here
are deserted but for the stenograph
ers on duty, as Chairman J. Wallace
Winborne, Secretary “Libby” Ward
and Mrs. Spillman, vice chairman of
the State Democratic Executive Com
mittee, have all departed for Char
lotte. Congressman Lindsay C. War
ren, of the first district, passed thro
ugh here today on his way to Char
lotte, as did other members of Con
gress and politicians from eastern
counties.
Governor J. C. B. Ehringhaus left
yesterday morning for Knoxville to
Continued on Page Two.)
CLEVENGERSLAYER
MAY LOSE APPEAL
Supreme Court May Lock
Doors Against Escape
for Martin Moore
Raleigh, Sept. 9.—(AP)—The North
Carolina Supreme Court took under
advisement today the motion to
docket and dismiss the appeal of Mar
tin Moore, Asheville Negro, convict
ed of the murder of Helen Cleven
ger, of New York.
Attorney General A. A. F. Seawell
lodged the motion at the request of
Solicitor Zeb V. Nettles, of Asheville,
who prosceuted Moore.
The Negro was convicted August
22 and sentenced to die in the lethal
gas chamber, but notice was given of
intention to appeal.
The attorney general’s motion set
forth that appeal for Moore had not
been docketed properly under the
rules .of the court.
Seawell told the court that San
ford Brown, of Asheville, a member
of Moore's counsel, had requested by
telephone this morning that he post
pone making the motion and the at
torney general suggested that the
court' miht wish to hold his motion
in abeyance until tomorrow in the
event Brown should file some motion
at that time.
Granting the motion, Seawell said,
would probably end Moore’s chances
of getting a review by the Supreme
Court unless some new angle should
turn up in the case.
Henderson Given SI,OOO
For Street Maintenance
Raleigh, Sept. 9. —(AP) —Vance
Raise, (“Hief hftgjhway* engineer,
announced allocation today of
funds to various municipalties of
the State for maintenance of
State highways passing through
them, with Winston-Salem lead
ing the list with $22,800.
HENDERSON, N. C., WEDNESDAY AFTERNO ON, SEPTEMBER 9, 1936
EHRINGHAUS RIDES
ACKIiUNTAINS
Governor Meets President at
Knoxville and Will Be
With Him at Char
lotte Rally
WILL MOTOR OVER
TO CHARLOTTE, TOO
President’s View of Smoky
Mountains Park Hoped
For To Get Fresh Allot
ment of Funds for Con
struction of Parkway
Along Crest of Ridge
until OlMpatelt llnrrin.
In The Sir Walter Hotel,
t’v J O. UAShRUVtLL
Raleigh, Sept. 9—Governor J. C. B.
Ehringhaus is traveling with Presi
dent Franklin D. Roosevelt today
through the Great Smoky Mountains
National Park in Eastern Tennessee
and Western North Carolina, as the
guest of the President. He will spend
tonight in Asheville at Grove Park
Inn, where President Roosevelt will
also stay, and then proceed on to
Charlotte by motor with the Presi
dent Thursday morning. Governor
Ehringhaus will introduce the Presi
dent in Charlotte, where he will ad
dress the “Green Pastures” rally
Thursday afternoon*
At first Governor Ehringhaus had
expected to go to Asheville today
and then go on to Charlotte with
President Roosevelt tomorrow. But
Monday night the governor received
a personal invitation from the Presi
dent to join him in Knoxville Wed
nesday morning and be his guest on
his trip through the Great Smoky
Mountains National Park and on over
to Asheville, as well as from Ashe
ville to Charlotte. As a result, Gov
ernor Ehringhaus and his private
secretary, Charles Powell, left here
Tuesday (morning for Knoxville, o
they would be there when the Presi
dent’s special pulled in this morning.
According to information received
here this morning, Governor Ehring
haus was scheduled to ride in the
same car with President Roosevelt
on the drive from Knoxville into the
Great Smoky Mountains National
Park, through the park and on into
Asheville.
As a result of this visit to the na
tional park and drive through much
of the area scheduled to be traversed
by the Blue Ridge Parkway, many
here are hoping the President will
make an additional allotment for the
park and parkway so that construc-
Continued on Page Five.)
New Facts
Demanded
Os Spain
Washington, Sept. 9.—(AP)—Secre
tary Hull indicated today that new
representations probably would be
dispatched to both the Spanish gov
ernment and rebel commanders, in
sisting upon a satisfactory explana
tion of the identity and motive of
an unidentified six plane whch qjt- 1
tempted to bomb the Amercan de
stroyer Kane on Avgust 30.
Although represented as convinced
that Ihe attack on the destroyer was
a mistake, Hull plainly intimated at
hi s press conference today that this
government did not consider satis
factory the replies to its protest re
received from either Madrid or the
rebel General Franco.
Franco informed the American con
sulat at Seville yesterday there was a
possibility that the Kane’s aerial as
sailant was a rebel airplane, although
he had been unable to establish this
definitely. The Madrid ministry of
State, on the other hand, deneed that
any loyalist plane was involved.
Hull said ihe American govern
ment would continue to give close at
tention to the incident as long as the
plane’s identity and the real facts
concerning its motives were not sat
isfactorily revealed.
Responsible quarters said this gov
ernment’s attitude as outlined by the
secretary of state did not reflect any
official desire to inflict punishment
on those responsible for the attack,
because authorities here have no
doubt that it was an error without
ulterior motives.
The allocations used up ail but
$31,923 of the $500,000 legislative
appropriation, with the balance
being reserved for emergencies.
The funds were distributed on a
basis (of population, mileage of
highways in the limts and needs.
Other allotments included, Hen
derson, SI,OOO, and Tarboro $5,250.
Hitler’s New Proclamation
Demands Colonial Property
For Expansion Os Germany
SEEK SENATE SEAT IN GEORGIA
r ''
Gov. Eugene Talmadge Senator Richard B. Russell, Jr.
Gov. Eugene Talmadge, left, and Senator Richard B. Russell, Jr.,
are opponents for the U. S, senate seat in Georgia’s Democratic pri
mary, Sept. 9. Nomination is tantamount to election. Talmadge
is anti-New Deal. Russell is pro-New Deal.
—Central Press
Rebel Defenders Silent
As Loyalists Plan Drive
Government Troops At
Gates of Toledo for At
tack 1,700 Besieged
Fascists There
REFUGEES FLEEING
AT SAN SEBASTIAN
Anarchists Sent to Front
Lines To Prevent Burning
of City; Diplomats, Mean
while, Continue Pondering
Plan To Strengthen Non-
Intervention Pact.,
»•
(By The Associated Press.)
Unofficial reports reached Madrid
today declaring government militia
men had entered the Toledo Alcazar
preparatory to an attack on 1,790 Fas
cist rebels who have defied an eight
weeks siege of the ancient fortress.
The insurgent artillery and snipers
from wthin the crumbling walls were
mute last night for the first time
since July 20, and some reports, which
were not confirmed, said the rebel
defenders had surrendered.
Hundreds of fugitives from the im
pending bombardment of northern
cities arrived at Bayonne, France, as
diplomats of Europe, forced out of
Spain by civil war, sought today to
save beleaguered San Sebastian from
becoming a city of ruins.
Temporarily stationed at the French
(Continued on Page Four.)
MONEY FLOWS INTO
FARMERS’ POCKETS
Big Sales at High Prices Reported at
Wilson and Rocky Mount for
Single Day
Rocky Mount, Sept. 9 (AP) —Ap-
proximately 454,878 pounds of tobac
co were sold on the Rocky Mount
Market yesterday for $107,275.59, an
average of $23.58 per hundred. Up
wards of 400,000 were offered today.
PAYMENTS AT WILSON NOW
PAST ONE MILLION DOLLARS
Wilson, Sept. 9 (AP) —Receipts for
tobacco sold on the Wilson market
this season passed the $1,000,000 mark
today after the first half hour of
sales.
Sales yesterday amounted to 522,-
156 pounds for $126,259.94, an average
of $24.18 per hundred. The amount
brought the season’s sales in excess
of 4,000,000 pounds.
Approximately 650,000 pounds were
offered today. There was little
change in prices.
OUR VTATHIP MAN
FOB NOBTH CAROLINA.
Partly cloudy tonight and
Thursday; scattered thundershow
ers Thursday and in west and
north central portions.
PUBLISHED EVERY AFTERNOON
EXCEPT SUNDAY.
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Have Little Faith in Them,
But Know They Can In
fluence Votes
By CHARLES P. STEWART
Central Press Staff Writer
Washington, Sept. 9.—The candidate
who is in a straw vote minority na
turally always pooh poobs the sig
nificance of that kind of a vote.
Nevertheless, he and his managers
don’t like it.
They would prohibit such voting if
they could.
The candidate on the majority side
is pleased. It is not exactly that he
considers the vote a reliable indica
tor. It is not necessarily so, for or
ganizers of these tests unavoidably
get their ballots from a more or less
picked fraction of the electorate. For
example, one method is to choose
names from telephone directories.
Now folk who have telephones are in
a somewhat select class —not many of
them plutocrats, but in the main mod
erately well to do. On an average they
hardly can be reckoned as of quite
the same political sympathy with vot
ers who are on relief.
Some straw vote organizers have
adopted the method of sending out
agents to contact the telephoneless
masses personally, but that means
that the telephoneless ones are likely
to be overemphasized in proportion
to those with phones.
True, the Literary Digest’g polls in
the past have proved to !be propheti
cally pretty accurate. (The man for-
Continued on Page Five.)
Liberalization of Federal
Laws To Help Cities of
State Is Aim
Daily DlspatcSi Bate aa.
In The Sir Walter Hote*.
By J. C. BASKERVILL
Raleigh, Sept. 9 —Liberalization of
rules and regulations governing the
allotment of Federal funds to states
for use in providing more vacational
education in city schools, especially
mechanical and commercial training,
is being sought by Stat 3 Superintend
end of Public Instruction Clyde A. Er
win, he said today. He has recently
been appointed as a member of a
committee to study the new law en
acted by the last Congress greatly
increasing the amount of Federal aid
that will be provided for vocational
education and under which North
Carolina will be able to get as much
as $500,000 a year in addition to the
amounts already being received.
“The work of this committee is go
ing to be to study the new George-
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Plan Aimed at Goal of Mak
ing Germany Economic
ally Independent
of the World
SPEEDS PRODUCTION
OF NATION’S OUTPUT
Both Industry and Agricul
ture Hiked in Orders,
Which Include Increasing
German! Exports; Recur
ring Successes Make Plan
Possible, Fuehrer Says
Nurnberg, Germany, Sept. 9.—(AP)
—Reichs Chancellor Adolf Hitler to
day proclaimed a four-year program
embracing aggressive colonial de
mands, aimed at the goal of making
Germany economically Independent of
the rest of the world.
The proclamation, sounded sudden
ly before 800,000 Nazis assembled in
fourth annual convention, disclosed*
Der Fuehrer has signed decrees re
organizing the national economy and
hiking the planned production of all
industrial and agricultural products.
Their realiation, he declared, “is
only a question of our energy and
determination.’'
“Our colonial demands,” the pro
clamation went on, “are part and par
cel of this program.
“We must build up our raw ma
terial sources.”
The “raising by bootstraps” de
crees also contain schemes for in
creasing German exports, but the de
tails were not disclosed in the pro
clamation, which was read by Adolf
Wagner, the Bavarian Nai leader.
In the proclamation, Hitler declar
ed the directness of Nazi principles
had been demonstrated by “our con
stantly recurring successes” in the
midst of a troubled world.
Two Japan
Destroyers
Sent China
Tokyo, Sept. 9.—(AP —Two Japan
ese destroyers steamed at full speed
into southern Chinese waters today
as an official investigation of the re
ported killing of a Japanese at Tak
hoi was begun.
One destroyer was ordered to Tak
hoi with instructions to protect the
Japanese mission charged with in
vestigating the death of the Japanese
who died under mysterious circum
stances yesterday.
Members of the mission, who arriv
ed at Canton aboard a gunboat, halt
ed their journey to await the arrival
of the destroyer Sanaye. The Sanaye
was to take the investigators aboard
and continue the voyage to Takhoi.
The incident was characterized “a
gravely unfortunate affair for both
China and Japan” by a foreign office
spokesman in Tokyo.
He declared Japan would seek set
lement of the slaying on the same
basis Japan has demanded an ex
planation from China for the killing
Japs’ Naval
Act Ignores
London Pact
• ■ - . *
Unless 14-Inch Guns
Agreed to, Sky Will
Be Limit in New U.
S. Warships
Washington, Sept. 9. —(AP) —Secre-
tary Swanson asserted today that Jap
anese plans to retain 15,598 tone of
over-age submarines would involve a
“violation” of the London naval
treaty.
Swanson, who returned to his office
yesterday after a long illness, also
said that plans for two proposed new
battleships were ready and that con
• (Continued on Page Four.)