HENDERSON
GATEWAY TO
CENTRAL
CAROLINA
TWENTY-THIRD YEAR leased wire service of
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS.
CAROLINA COAST AWAITS STORM’S TOLL
Setting Off Os Ton Os TNT
Fails To Dislodge Fascists
In Spanish Alcazar Castle
SURVIVORS TRAIN
MACHINE GUNS ON
ADVANCING ENEMY
Syndicalists In Madrid De
mand Conscription Os
All Men To Stem
Rebel Tide
FIRST OF THREE
MINES EXPLODED
Government Troops Storm
Ruins and Hurl Hand Gre
nades Into Inland Pas
sages; Bloody Hand-to-
Hand Fighting Follows in
Desperate Struggle
Madrid, Sept. 18 (AP) —The
Fascists of Toledo’s Alcazar
withstood the tremendous ex
plosion of a ton of TNT today
and from the cellars of the ruin
ed castle manned machine guns
to hold off charging government
militiamen.
Even as the government carried out
the first part of its “terrible deci
sion” to blow up the Alcazar, power
ful syndicalists in Madrid, in an
eight point program, which they de
clared was the only effective means
of crushing Fascism, demanded con
scription of all able-bodied men and
sweeping administration reforms.
The first of three great mines laid
under the Toledo castle, where 1,700
men, women and children have with
stood shell fire for two months, ev
ploded with a terrific roar at 6:15 a.
m. today.
IGovernment troops stormed the
ruins and rained hand grenades at
the passages leading to the cellars.
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wTjSpain
Named For
Noble Job
Raleigh, Sept. 18 (AP) --Governor
Ehringhaus today appointed W. J.
Spain, head of the accounting divi
sion of the Department of Revenue,
to the post of assistant commissioner
of revenue.
Spain, who is 43 years old, came to
the Department from Charlotte.
A. J. Maxwell, commissioner of
revenue, said Spain would receive $4,-
250 a year salary.
Dr. M. C. S. Noble, Jr., who resign
ed Tuesday as assistant commission
er, received $5,250 a year for his ser
vices. Appointed by the governor in
1933. he acted as an “efficiency ex
pert” for the department besides per
forming the routine duties of his
post.
A State official, who asked not to
be quoted by name, said the po c t
would be returned to its former
status.
Business Crossing Into
Era Os Real Prosperity
Nation Has Passed Last Mi lestone in Recovery Trail
and Now Heading Onto Highway of Prosperity,
Babson Says; Business News Optimistic
BY ROGER W. BABSON,
Copyright 1936, Publisher*
Financial Buerau, Inc.
Babson Park, Mass., Sept. 18.—'To
day, for the first time in seven years,
business has reached the X-Y normal
line on the Babsonchart. Ever since
the summer of 1930 this country has
been wallowing in a period of depres
sion. This week, however, the Babson
chart index of business is crossing
the normal line. We are now entering
a period of prosperity for the first
time in fourteen years. Hence, we
have passed the last mile-stone on
the Recovery Trail and are now head
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ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA AND VIRGINIA
Freedom Os Human Mind
Urged By Roosevelt In
His Speech At Harvard
British “Referee”
•.1 ‘ *
Lieut. Gen. J. G. Dill
Lieut. Gen. J. G. Dill, former direc
tor of military operations and intel
ligence at the British war office has
been assigned the task of ironing out
long-standing difficulties between
Arabs and Jews in Palestine.
HIGHWAY
TO OPEN IN WES!
Mountain Counties Will
Offer Stiff Arguments
Before Commission
REBUTTAL IS STRONG
Attorney Ross for Highway Commis
sion Also Has Some Good Am
munition; West Will Claim
East Favored
Diill}' Misiintck Bureau,
In the Sir Walter Hotel.
j Raleigh, Sept. )$. —Briefs are in
mimegraph and counsel is in read
iness for the Western North Carolina
hearings in Asheville, beginning Wed
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ing onto the Highway of Prosperity.
Business News Optimistic
Optimistic news is pouring in from
every industry. Earnings’ reports of
leading companies for the first half
of the 1936 were the most cheerful
since 1930 and in many cases were the
best in history. Business profits show
a 50 per cent gain over a year ago.
(Industrial chieftains are signifying
their confidence in the future by ex
panding plants, building up sales or
ganizations, taking on new workers.
Estimates place the unemployed to
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HENDERSON, N. C., FRIDAY AFTERNOON, SEPTEMBER 18, 1936
Asks Reverence to the Past
But Recognition of the
Direction of the
Future
USE FOR HUMANITY
HIGHEST AMBITION
Fears of Those Who Dread
ed Democrat in White
House Have Not Material
ized, He Says; Speaks at
Celebration of Harvard’s
300th Anniversary
Cambridge, Mass., Sept. 18.—-(AP) —
President Roosevelt declared today
that “in this day of modern witch
burning, when freedom of thought
has been exiled from many lands,” it
is up to Harvard University and
America “to stand for the freedom of
the human mind.”
Speaking in the vast Harvard ter
centenary theatre, before assembled
sons of Harvard and visiting scholars,
Mr. Roosevelt asked his fellow alumni
gathered to honor their university at
its 300th birthday celebration, to de
dicate themselves to citizenship in the
“high American sense.”
He urged them:
“To pay ardent reverence to the
past, but to recognize no less the di
rection of the future: to understand
philosophies we do not accept and
hope we find it difficult to share, and
to count the service to mankind the
highest ambition a man can follow;
and to know that there is no calling
so humble that it cannot be instinct
with that ambition; never to be in
different to what may affect our
neighbors; always to put truth in the
first place and not in the second.”
Early in his speech, Mr. Roosevelt,
in bantering vein, reminded his hear
ers that in the past many Harvard
alumni were “sorely troubled” when
Democrats sat in the President’s
chair at the White House. Tren he
quoted Euripides to the effect that
the things feared have not come to
pass.
“In spite of fears, Harvard and the
nation of which it is a part have
marched steadily to new and success
ful achievements, changing their for
mations and their strategy to meet
new conditions, but marching always
under the old banner of freedom.”
GEN. McALEXANDER IS „
DEAD IN NORTHWEST
Portland, Oregon, Sept. 18. —(AP)
—Major General Ulysses Grant Mc-
Alexander, known as “the rock of the
Marne,” died here today.
Deaths Up,
Births Off
For August
Daily Dispatch Bureau.
In the Sir Walter Hotel.
Raleigh, Sept. 18.—August, 1936,
showed 2,591 deaths in North Carolina
against 2,364 for the same month in
1934 and births dropped from 6,849
in 1935 to 6,771 in 1936.
The death rate went up nearly one
per cent, from 8.5 to 9.3 and the birth
rate dropped from 24.6 to 24.2. Infant
deaths rose from 372 to 408 in the
twelve-month, and the mortality rate
increased from 54.3 to 60.3. There was
satisfaction in the drop in maternal
deaths, August, 1935, produced 53, but
the s&me month this year 39. The ma
ternal mortality rate dropped nearly
two per cent, from 7.7 to 5.8.
Typhoid fever stood still with 15
deaths each month, endemic typhus,
undulant fever and smallpox had no
victims, either month. Whooping
cough fell from 21 to 6, and dipth
theria stood still with four. Influenza
moved up from 7 to 18. Pulmonary
tuberculos-is slew 14$ each month.
Cancer moved up from 122 to 134.
Pellagra dropped from 41 to 34, pneu
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INSURANCE COMPANIES O. K., CHIEFS ASSURE F. D. R.
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Charles F. Williams
Denying their mission was “political” or designed
to refute recent charges by Col. Frank Knox, G.
O. P. vice presidential nominee, that no insurance
policy or bank account in the country was safe
because of New Deal policies, these insurance chiefs
were among those called to confer with Presi- I
dent Roosevelt. The executives asserted that all
companies are in splendid financial condition.
The president merely remarked that the facts speak I
League Will
Bar Envoys
Os Ethiopia
Will Receive Musso
lini Back Into As
sembly, But Not Re
cognize Conquest
Geneva, Sept. 18.—(AP)—Big Euro
pean powers, convening in Geneva
amid new war fears over Europe’s
"instability,” have found a formula to
bar vanquished Ethiopia from Mon
day’s Assembly meeting and to ob
tain renewed collaboration of Italy’s
Duce, League officials disclosed today.
The officials said they expected
Haile Selassie’s delegation of three,
due in Geneva Sunday, to be refused
seats at the Assembly table on the
grounds they do not represent an ef
fective government.
They added, however, that the Lea
gue is not prepared to recognize the
Italian conquest of Ethiopia, which
it tried so hard to stop, or declare
an independent Ethiopia non-existent
or even out of the League.
The officials expected Italian dele
gates would remain absent untii Pre
mier Benito Mussolini is satisfied
that minor powers will raise no ob
jections when the Italians come to
present their credentials on behalf of
the king and emperor.
thinKslosevelt
CAN’T BE STOPPED
Folger JSays Yankees Pro
mise East If He Will
Carry North Carolina
Daily Diniialch Bureau.
In the Sir Walter Hotel.
Raleigh, Sept. 18.—National Com
mitteeman A. D. Folger, back from a
visit to Washington, finds no gloom
amongst fellow cjommitteemen who
tell him that if he will carry North
Carolina they will take Rhode Island,
Massachusetts and Pennsylvania.
Mr. Folger says the Democrats in
those states do not believe this as
Republicans in North Carolina think
they believe that they will carry this
commonwealth. “They really believe
it,” he says. “Senator Guffey says
there is no sort of doubt that Presi
dent Roosevelt is more popular in
Pennsylvania than the senator is and
he carried Pennsylvania two years
Continued on Page Five.)
FOR NORTH CAROLINA.
Fair tonight and Saturday;
slightly cooler tonight
Frederick H. Ecker
Storm Enters Maryland
After Sweeping Across
Carolinas And Virginia
Fayetteville Girl
Missing 24 Hours
Fayetteville, Sept. 18 (AP)
More than 100 persons combed
swamp lands near Autreyville to
day in search of three-year-old
Maxline Faircloth, daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. D. H. Faircloth,
who disappeared from a field where
her mother was picking cotton
yesterday.
No trace of the child was found,
except her footprints in the dust
of a road she crossed about three
quarters of a mile from the point
where she disappeared.
An aid-night search of the
swamp yielded nothing.
The child was left asleep near
the field where her mother wah
working. A larger sister, sent a
short time later to see about her,
found the three-year-old gone.
Industry Is
Fast Taking
Jobless On
By CHAKLFS P. STEWART
Central Press Staff Writer
Washington, Sept. 18.—At last there
seem s to be an appreciable increase in
the demand for industrial workers
throughout the country.
Business obviously has been improv
ing for some time, but the complaint
repeatedly has been made that it was
not re-absorbing a very large propor
tion of the unemployed. Now evident
ly it is beginning to do so.
Government statistics do not reflect
the bulge at all clearly because of
the lack of any official machinery to
ascertain the exact number of the in
voluntarily idle. However, reports
from reliable personal informants in
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Vegetables!
Workers In
West Strike
Salinas, Cal., Sept. 18.—(AP)—
Scores of women lettuce workers,
jeering in spite of tear gas bombs and
officers’ riot sticks, came to the aid
of the men today in the tense strike
situation.
One woman striker, Rose Lloyd, re
ceived hospital treatment for bruises
she said had come from a riot stick
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PUBLISHED EVERY AFTERNOON
EXCEPT SUNDAY
for themselves. The conference, Incidentally, was
called prior to Colonel Knox’s charges, to see what
the government could do to further improvement.
Shown above, leaving the White House, are, left
to right, Charles F. Williams, president of Western
and Southern Life Insurance Co.; Frederick H.
Ecker, chairman of the Metropolitan Lif* Insur
ance Co., and Guy W. Cox, president of th« John
Hancock Mutual Life Insurance Co.
No, Loss of Life Reported
Anywhere, Though Pro
perty Damage Is Re
vorted Great
STORM WARNING UP
AS FAR AS MAINE
Center of Hurricane in
Early Forenoon Is South
east of Cape Henry; Ship
ping in Chesapeake Bay
Crippled; Ocean City, Md.,
Cut off From Mainland
Norfolk, Va., Sept. 18.—(AP)
The Atlantic hurricane, blowing
with thunderous fury northward
along the coast, smashed across
the shores of the Carolinas and
Virginia into Maryland today, cut
ting off Ocean City from the main
land, after having swept a tide
completely over Ocracoke island.
Coast Guardsmen said they under
stood the inhabitants of Ocracoke had
taken shelter in the Ocracoke light
house.
From elsewhere along the coast,
where communications were wrecked
and seaside communities flooded, the
same encouraging reports came in:
“No loss of life.”
Nevertheless, the fast-mobing hur
ricane center, with its attendant
winds of from 60 to 90 miles an hour,
was causing national and local of
ficials the utmost concern.
The Red Cross was standing ready
to hurry relief into stricken commun
ities, while National Guardsmen were
reported acting as rescue workers at
some points.
A United States lightship off
Chesapeake Bay was adrift, while one
Coast Guard cutter stood by in a bat
tle with the storm and asked for aid
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Hurricane Lashes
1,000-Mile Coast
■ ...r. ■ i,
Norfolk, Sep/t.
One thousand miles of the Atlantic
coast was slashed savagely today by
the winds of a hurricane whirling
along the shores of seven states.
Communications were wrecked on
the coast in North Carolina, and
there was no way to determine im
mediately how great the losses in life
and property might be.
Two men were listed dead in early
reports.
The area hit by the storm distur
bances included not only the Caro
linas, but Virginia, Maryland, Dela
ware, New Jersey and New York.
Full gale warnings were posted all
the way from here to Maine.
The first place hard hit in Mary
land was Ocean City, which waa cut
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FATE OF HUNDREDS
REMAINSUNKNOWN
No Loss of Life Reported
Anywhere in Path of
Hurricane, Which
Moves Northwest
OCRACOKE ISLAND
COVERED BY TIDES
Nine Feet of Water Swept
in From Sea To Inundate
Settlement; Heavy Dam
age Done at Hatteras;
Manteo, Roanoke Island
Are Still Isolated
Washington, N. C., Sept. 18.
(AP) —High seas and disrupt
ed communications shrouded
the fate of hundreds of resi
dents of the Carolina Sound
country today after a tropical
hurricane, which was reported
to have attained a force of 90
miles an hour at some points.
Telephone lines were down through
out a vast area and wind still whip
ped the waters of cne sounds to p:e
vent communication by boat. All
points with which contact could be
established, however, reported no loss
of life.
Fear for the lives of approximately
400 inhabitants of Ocracoke Island,
on the Atlantic banks, northeast of
Beaufort, was dissipated this morn
ing when the Coast Guard wireless
there, after being silent for hours, re
ported none was washed away by a
nine-foot tide, which completely in
undated the island during the n ght.
However, damage was reported
heavy.
The Morehead City Coast Guard
station also had reports of heavy dam
age, but no loss of life at Hatteras.
Manteo and the rest of Roanoke I»-
land remained isolated.
The fate of a score of mainland
communities, which usually feel the
full force bf such storms, was like
wise in doubt. All except the farth
est inland sections of ten counties
were cut off from outside communica
tions. There was no word from Swan
Quarter and other towns in the area.
Elizabeth City was isolated.
Currituck, Camden, Pasquotank,
Perquimans, Washington, Tyrrell,
Dare, Hyde and parts of Chowan and
Beaufort Counties were completely is
olated.
High Point
Rally Opens
1936 Drive
High Point, Sept. 18.—(AP)—Demo
crats from throughout North Carolina
assembled here this afternoon at High
Point city lake a s guests of the Dem
ocrats f the sixth cngressional dis
trict to launch officially their 1936
campaign.
The majority of North Carolina’s
officials, departmental heads, Demo
cratic nominees and statesmen were
present for the rally-barbecue, which
J. Wallace Winborne, State chairman
has designated as the formal opening
of the Statewide campaign.
The principal address is to be de
livered tonight by Clyde R. Hoey, of
Shelby, Democratic nominee for gov
ernor.
off from the mainland by repeated
walls of water.
With dozens of small communities
isolated, with communications sunder
ed, with great waves flooding across
coastal areas, no one could determine
accurately how great the loss in lives
and property might be.
The center of the great storm, with
whirling arms of 70, 80, 90 and 100
miles an hour winds, passed Norfolk
during the morning.
STORM MOVES NORTHWARD
WITH ITS FULL INTENSITY
New York, Sept. 18.—(AP) —Appar-
ently striking northward for an as
sault on New Jersey and New York,
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