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HENDERSON GATEWAY TO CENTRAL CAROLINA TWENTY-THIRD YEAR CABINET GROUP REPORTED FLEEING MADRID Yankees Even Series By Taking Second Game As Lefty Gomez Is Invincible Yankees Turn on Power To Slug Five Giant Pitch ers to All Corners of Lot 1 LAZZERI, DICKEY HIT TIMELY HOMERS Every Yankee/Got At Least One Hit and Scored One Run in Second Game; Bill Terry’s Boys Lose Game by 18 to 4 Score; Gomez Walked 7, Fanned 8 Polo Grounds, New York, Oct. ?.. — The New York Yankees turned on all their power here this afternoon to get an 18-14 victory over the New York Giants in the second game of the World Series before a throng of 50,000 and an even break in the games played. To Lefty Gomez goes much of the credit with his fine pitching perfor mance. The left hander was free with passes to the initial sack, allowing seven while he was striking out eight batters. Manager Bill Terry paraded five Giant hurlers to the mound in an effort to halt the big sticks of the American League pennant winners. Tony Lazzerri put things on ice for the Yankees in the third inning when he slammed out a long home run with to get an 18-4 victory over the New the bases full, scoring four runs. The Giants big inning came in the fourth frame when they pushed over three of their four runs. Another big inning was the ninth in which Bill Dickey slapped out a homer with two mates aboard, Gum bert being the victim at the time. Schumacher started on the mound, giving way to Smith, then Coffman, who passed out in favor of Gabler and then Gumbert took over things in the ninth when the fireworks started. Score by innings: R Yankees 207 001 206—18 Giants 010 300 000— 4 Gomez and Dickey, Schumacher,, Smith, Coffman, Gabler and Gumbert and Mancuso. Fall Trade Hits Stride For Season New York, Oct. 2.—>(AP)— Fall trade adopted its full stride this week after some interruption during Sep tember, Dun & Bradstreet said today in the weekly review of trade and business. “Favored by cool weather,” the agency said, “the covering of post poned needs provided an impelling im petus to retail sales. “As more orders accelerated whole sale activity, increasing attention was centered on overcoming future de livery de)hys. Ailthough automobile production dropped to the year’s law, the average rate of industrial opera tions was undiminished.” The average of retail volume for the country as a whole was estimat ed at 10 to 18 percent ahead of the same 1935 period, and from five to 15 percent greater than in the pre ceding week in some sections. Increases over 1935 in the major geographical regions included: South: 15 to 25 percent. Steel Activity Now Stands At Seven-Year High Levels Outlook for Industry Best I n Years for Workers, Cust omers, Stockholders Exce pt for Prospect of Labor War; Heavy Steels Due To Take Lead Now BY ROGER W. BABSON, Copyright 1936, Publishers Financial Bureau, Inc. Balbson Park, Mass., Oct. 2. —Steel operations this week are at the high est level for any corresponding pe riod since the fall of 1929. During each year of the recovery one major industry has been the “star” perfor mer. In 1933, textile activity was the bright spot; in 193 d, electrical ap pliances were the feature; last year automobiles were out front. So far in 1936, the most basic of our industries —steel—has stood out. Jobs are in creasing and orders are piling in. liimiirrsnn Hatlu Otsuafrlt SERVICE OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS. Most Wet Areas See Crime Grow Raleigh, Oct. ?■ (AI») —Oscar Pitts, acting director of the penal division, announced today a check of court convictions in the 18 count es which permit the legal sale of whisky showed eleven had had an increase from direct and indirect liquor charges last fiscal year, as compared with 1934-35. Six counties—Craven, Greene, Beaufort, Halifax, Moore and Ons low—had decreases, and Warren county showed 24 such convictions in each period. • Throughout the State there was a decline in total court convictions. A number of counties, however, not permitting the sale of liquor, also reported increases jn the num ber of convictions on the same charges considered for the wet counties. ROOSEVELT TALKS PUTfjl PEP INTO President Shooting Straight From Shoulder In Speci fic Manner, Win borne Says STATE CHAIRMAN IS VERY MUCH PLEASED Rallies Set for Three Con gressional Districts Next Week; With Election Four Weeks Away f More Inter est Than Ever Attaches to The Campaign Dully Dispatch Biirenii, In the Sir Walter Hotel. By J. C. BASKKRVTM, Raleigh, Oct. 2. —The Democratic campaign is gaining momentum daily in North Carolina, especially since the speeches by President Roosevelt in Albany Tuesday night and in Pitts burgh last night, Chairman J. Wal lace Winborne, of the Slate Demo cratic Executive Committee, said to day. The aggressive, fighting spirit shown by the President in his first campaign speeches is putting fresh vigor and enthusiasm into the Demo cratic workers here in North Caro lina and encouraging them to put even more drive into their efforts, Winborne said. “The manner in which President Roosevelt is carrying the fight to the enemy instead of waiting for the enemy to bring the fight to him, is already proving of great help to us and to the Democratic workers in every section of the country,” Chair man Winfcorne said. “This aggressive ness on the part of the president and the pep and enthusiasm he is putting into his speeches, together with the clarity and incisiveness with which he is outlining the record and accom plishments of his administration, is proving very effective. The manner in which he pointed out that he is still fighting for the same things for (Continued on Page Four.) Nearly every major company ie op erating in black ink and steel shares are selling at the best price since July, 1931. The recovery, however, has been painfully slow. Back in July of 1932 and again in March of 1933, steel op erations were less than 15 per cent of capacity. Only one blast furnace out of every seven was operating. Em ployment was at the lowest ebb in years. Big concerns such as United States Steel and Bethlehem Steel were losing millions of dollars each (Continued on Page Four.) ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA AND VIRGINIA At least 13 deaths and millions of dollars of property damage are reported by Denver and surrounding Rocky mountain park areas as the toll of the worst September snowstorm in history. With trees in full summer foliage, wet, heavy snow stuck to the leaves, destroying and damaging 30,000 trees France Now Faced With Communists Criminal Investiga tion of Social Party of Radicals Order ed by Government Paris, , Oct. 2. —(Ap)—-Devaluation of the franc accomplished, the French government turned today to active combat against Fascism and threat ened civil war. Criminal investigation of the French Socialist party was ordered by Minister of the Interior Roger Sa lengro after leftist charged the new political organization was merely a veil for activities of the dissolved na tionalist Croix de Feu League. The “crack down” orders of the government followed partial victories in the Senate, which approved reduc tion of the gold content of the franc but placed in the hands of the na tional economic council the power to prevent increases in living costs. The ministry of finance suspended its decrees issued last week to per mit stock, bond and foreign ex change markets to open today after cessation of dealings for six days. The government issued orders pro hibiting a mass meeting of members of the Social organization scheduled for tonight in Paris after protests from Communist, who declared the gathering had (been called “to mobilize troops.” The communists asserted if the meeting were held they would march on it. TOBACCO EXPORT TO CHINA IN BALANCE Depends on Availability and Price of 1936 Crop, Says Commerce Department Report Washington, Oct. 2.—(AP) The Commerce Department reported today that price and availability of the 1936 flue crop would be determining fac tors in the United States export leaf tobacco trade with China in the com ing season. “The question as to when and whether the United States may re gain any considerable portion of the former export trade in leaf tobacco with China depends upon the future expansion of cigarette consumption,” the department said in a report on foreign tobacco trade. “Despite a rapid increase in Chi nese production of the bright flue cured tofoacco grown from American seed, tobacco grown in the United States should continue to hold some share of the demand for consumption in medium and better classes of cig arettes. Pointing to the possibility of in creased consumption in China, the department said the per capita con sumption of cigarettes in China was now less than an eighth of that in the United States. HENDERSON, N. C., FRIDAY AFTERNOON, OCTOBER 2, 1936 AS WORST SEPTEMBER SNOW IN H IS.TORY HIT COLORADO CAPITAL An automobile tries to make he adway through Denver’s snow Roosevelt Silent Over AI Smith’s Attack Upon Administration Program President Tells Pittsburgh Audience Budget Will Be Balanced in Year or Two and Without Oppressive Taxation; Says Spending Program Is Investment (By The Associated Press.) After predicting that the Federal budget would be balanced in a year or two, President Roosevelt resumed his eastern campaign travels today, while Alfred E. Smith, now definitely a Landonite, planned more attacks on the New Deal. At Topeka, Governor Alf M. Lan don expressed appreciation for Smith’s support. There was no immediate comment from the President by this pronounce ment from his one-time ally. The chief executive, speaking be- Violence In Strikes Had In Sections Reading, Pa., Knit ting Mill Labor War Sees Several Hun dred Slightly Hurt (By The Associated Press). Two outbreaks of violence attend ed inland labor strikes today, in con trast with peaceful negotiations to ward settlement of once-threatening maritime disputes. Several hundred persons suffered minor injuries in a fight between pickets and workers at a Reading, Pa., knitting mill. Skull fractures were suffered by a State trooper and a striker. Thirty were hurt in clash es there yesterday. Bombing of a truck in the Califor nia lettuce-growing district led to ar- Continued on Page Five.) FOR NORTH CAROLINA. Generally fair in west; partly cloudy in east portion tonight and possibly Saturday; possibly mists and light rain on coash in Denver and an additional 60,000 in nearby mountain park areas. In the photo above, a motorist creeps along a Denver boulevard with snapping , branches and falling trees in his path. —Central Press. fore a Pittsburgh throng last night, discussed New Deal expenditures, call ing them an investment in the future of .America. He said he had increased the na tional debt by a net $8,000,000,000, and had much to show for the money. The Hoover administration, he added, in creased the debt by $3,000,000, and “had little to show.” The money owed, he said, will be repaid “not by oppressive taxation,” but oot of rising income, produced (Continued on Page Three.) $25,000,000 Ready For Rural Power Washington, Oct. 2 (AP) —Al- lotment of $25,000,000 for loans in states during the fiscal year to end next June 30 has been made by Morris L. Cooke, administrator of the Rural Electrification Ad ministration. The allotment is half of the to tal available for the year for ru ral power projects. At the same time, Cooke said there were 6,035,237 farms with out central station electric service The number of such farms and the allotment by states included 294,227 in North Carolina and sl,- 218,787. FRANCE FORCED 10 DEVALUECURRENCY Reducing Worth of Franc Will Help Her Tourist Trade from U. S. By CHARLES P. STEWART Central Press Staff Writer Washington, Oct. 2— Devaluation of the franc will be an immense help to ( one class of Americans, anyway —the class which* visits or lives in France ion money drawn from the United States. Those folk were hard hit when President Roosevelt devalued the dol lar, so long as the franc remained un devalued. A considerable number of Ameri can residents in Europe—in France and elsewhere —had to come home; Jtheir devalued incomes no longer Continued on Page Five.) PUBLISHED EVERY AFTERNOON EXCEPT SUNDAY. Roosevelt Assurances To Doctors Jersey City, N. J., Oct. 2.—(AP)- President Roosevelt declared here to day that the medical profession could “rest assured” that the Federal ad ministration contemplated no action detrmmental to their interests in car rying out the health provisions of the social security act. “The overwhelming majority of the doctors of the nation want medicine kept out of politics.” he asserted, in dedicating the new Medical Building, one of seven skyscraper-type (build ing's planned for this city financed in part with public works funds. On occasions in the past attempts have been made to put medicine into politics. Such attempts have always failed, and always will fail,” he said, adding that “government, national and state, will call on the doctors for their advice in the days to come.” TRAFFIC LEAGUE IS AGAINST RAIL RATE Steam Lines Ask Right To Continue Emergency Freight Rates in State Shipment Washington, Oct. 2.—(AP) The North Carolina Traffic League asked the Interstate Commerce Commission today to dismiss a petition of rail roads for authority to continue emer gency freight rates on intra-state shipments in that State. The carriers appealed to the com mission after the North Carolina Utilities Commission refused to au thorize an extension of emergency rates in the state after June 30, 1938, although the I. C. C. had authorized continuance of the emergency inter state rates. Tar Heels Last Year Spent Bv 2 Millions To Keep Clean , Pretty Dally Dispatch Bureau, In the Sir Walter Hotel. By J. C. BASKRRVILL Raleigh, Oct. 2.—More than $8,500,- 000 were spent by North Carolinians in 1935 “to keep clean and beautiful,” according to figures obtained today by the Department of Conservation and Development from the U. S. Bu reau of the Census. These services in cluded work done by barber shops, beauty parlors, cleaning and press ing, laundries (not including power laundries,) and shoe repair and shine parlors. According to the census report on service establishments, $8,558,000 was spent on maintaining and improving personal appearances last year can> 8 PAGES TODAY FIVE CENTS COPY INSURGENTS SEEK FALL OF CAPITAL WITHOUT A FIGHT General Franco Want* To Batter Down Resistance With Barrage of Fear In City ALARM MAY CAUSE EARLY SURRENDER Insurgent Armies From South Have Way Blasted For Them by Bombing Planes; Government Mili tiamen Put Under Martial Law To Bolster Morale Lisbon, PortugaJ, Oct. 2.—(AP)— Reports from the Spanish insurgent stronghold of Valladolid today said several Spanish oabinet ministers had left Madrid byway of Alicante, aboard an Argentine warship en route to Marseilles, France. (Informed sources at Buenos Aires last week said the wife of President Manuel Azana of Spain and the wives p- daughters of other cabinet min isters had been taken to Alicante un der the protection of the Argentine ambassador to be put aboard the Ar gentine cruiser.) aiso were reports in Buenos A’-es that President Azana himself (had asked asylum, but this was em pnauctmy denied from the Spanish oificial quarters.) “Work for all will be aDsolutely assured, and will not longer be sub ject to capitalism,” said a proclama tion from the dictator-designate, Gen eral Francisco Franco. INSURGENTS SEEK MADRID WITH A BARRAGE OF FEAR (By The Associated Press) Insurgent leaders schemed today to batter down Madrid’s resistance with a barrage of <flear. They disclosed General Francisco Franco, Fascist commander, who weeks ago declared he would starve the capital into submission, rather than batter its populace with artil lery, hopes to trick it into a quick, merciful surrender. They said he would substitute “fear for force.” His strategy, they said, would be to spread alarm through the capital with whispered rumors, “The Moors are coming,” and with a thunderous but not devastating ar tillery barrage. Accompanied by bombing planes, Continued on Page Two.) Two Chinese Sentenced In Jap Slaying Shanghai Natives Bitterly Disapprove Death Sentence Im posed by Court Shanghai, China, Oct. 2.—(AP)—A Chinese district court sentenced two Chinese to death today for the slay ing of Hideo Nakayama, Japanese naval warrant officer, long standing cause of Sino-Japanese friction, which brought thousands of Japanese Marines into the Hongkew area with bayonets fixed. Large crowds of Chinese, massed (Continued on Page Four.) pared with only $7,015,000 during 1933. This increase of approximately 20 per cent is taken as an indication of improving economic conditions. The largest single item of these personal services was accounted for by barber shop and (beauty shop op erations which collected $3,734,000 in 1935 compared with $3,177,000 in 1933. A total of 1,686 of these establish ments was reported in the State in 1935 and 1,626 in 1933. Beauty parlors claimed the second highest total of expenditures of the group, $1,811,000 being spent in thebe establishments last year compared Continued on Page Five.)
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