HENDERSON
GATEWAY TO
CENTRAL
CAROLINA
TWENTY-THIRD YEAR
SUPT. ERWIN SPEAKS
AT P.-T. A. MEETING
FOR THIS DISTRICT
Appears in “Model Pro
gram” Period at After
noon Session of North
Central Group
STATE’S PRESIDENT
URGES COOPERATION
Mrs. Sidbury Also Stresses
Safety Program Inaugurat
ed in Schools; National
Field Worker Speaks; Mrs.
Walker and Mrs. Wall Are
Elected Again
A rpeech by Superintendent of Pub
lic Instruction for North Carolina,
Clyde Erwin, this afternoon, who was
presented during a model Parent-
Teacher Association, and an hour of
open forum discussion and question
and answers conducted by Mrs. C. E.
Roe, national Field worker, of Wash
ington, D. C., featured that session of
the North Central District group of
the North Carolina Congress of Pa
tents and Teachers in the Henderson
hisih school auditorium.
The morning registration was plac
ed at 200, with more being added for
the afternoon session.
Mayor Irvine B. Watkins extended
the visitors a welcome to Henderson,
and the response was voiced by Mrs.
Eugene Lasater, of Lillington.^
During the morning session, Mrs.
N. L Walker, of Raleigh, was re
elected president of the district, and
Mrs. S. M. Breckenridge of Chapel
Hill, was named secretary. The offi
cers will serve with Mrs. Jennings,
of Conway, v-president, and Mrs. L. D.
Wall, treas., of this city. Mrs. Breck
enridge succeeds Mrs. Walter Seely.
County presidents gave their re
ports with group singing and recrea
tion being interspersed to make the
program very snappy and enthusias
tic.
Mrs. Sidbury, State P.-T. A., pres
ident. brought a message to the gath
ering on "Home and School Co-opera
tion" stressing cooperation of the un
it* with the national council, and the
pushing of the safety campaign that
has been launched in the schools. She
also urged better work in the sum
mer round-up of children, those en
tering school in the fall for the first
time, in ordei that diphtheria vacci
nations can he carried out to aid in
stamping out. the disease.
Mrs. Roe addressed the group on
‘Finding the Way Together,” stat
ing that teachers and parents should
cooperate on the same line of thought
reminding her hearers that although
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METHODIST GROUP
STRONG FOR UNION
J
Blue Ridge Conference Os
Northern Church Unani
mous at Asheville
Asheville, Oct. 9.—lAP)—The Blue
Ruigc Atlantic Conference of the
M< t hr»rlist Episcopal Church voted un
imoiis approval today of a proposal
r unification of the three branches
nf Methodism.
Ihe vote followed talks by repre
nentatives of the two other branches
the Methodist Episcopal Church,
and the iMethodist Protestant
Church, advocating the the consolida
tion.
Rishop Wallace E. Brown, of Chat
tanooga, Tenn., called for a standing
vote after the talk. Nearly every pas
tor present stood. None arose when
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Says Democratic Women
More Aroused Than Ever
Mrs. Spilman Says Issues A re of More Concern to Them
Than in Any Previous Campaign; Social Security
and Other New Deal Devices Have Appeal
Dully DiMi»at<‘h Bureau,
la the Sir Walter Hotel.
Hr J. V. BASKERVILI.
rtaleigh, Oct. 9.—'The Democratic
w, >rrw’n of North Carolina are taking
greater interest in the present cam
paign than nver before, because they
rnive confidence in the Democratic
i'''minces, and especially in President
Roosevelt and Clyde R. Hoey, the
democratic candidate for governor,
Mrs. J. B. Spillman, of Greenville,
vice chairman of the State Democrat
ic Executive Committee, said here
today. Accordingly, Mrs. Spillman is
confident that the Democratic women
°f the State are going to cast more
votes than ever before and help ma
terially to boost the size of the Dem
ocratic majority on November 3.
“The chief reason for the enthus
and interest being shown by the
ISntitersmt Bally Dispatch
LEASED WIRE SERVICE OF
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS.
Life T erms Wait
Seven In Legion
Detroit, Mich., Oct. 9 (AP)—
Seven Black Legion night riders
faced sentences of life imprison
ment today for their part in the
hooded band’s terrorism, which
ranged from floggings to murder.
The seven convicted of first de
gree murder, which carries a man
datory life sentence, were called
to appear before Circuit Judge A.
H. Moinyhan, who presided over
the recent trial.
Another Black Legion member,
Dayton Dean, self-styled “execu
tioner” of Charles A. Poole, receiv
ed a life term at hard labor in the
southern Michigan prison yester
day.
ROOSEVELT ISNT
WORRIED LONG AS
PEOPLE IN SADDLE
President Says Great Moral
Lesson Points Way Unit
ed States Should
Now Travel
SPEAKS ON TRAIN
AT DUBUQUE, IOWA
Quotes from Statements by
and! Eulogy to Late Sena
tor Murphy of lowa To
Bear Out His Own Conten
tions; Looking Over Needs
of Country, He Says
Dubuque, lowa, Oct. 9. —(AP)—
President Roosevelt opened his west
ern campaign here today with a de
claration that he was not “worried”
so long as the future conduct of the
nation remained in the hands of the
people.
Addressing a welcoming crowd of
lowang from the rear platform of his
campaign special, the chief executive
asserted there was a “great moral les
son pointing the direction on which
our country must needs go" in an
oration given by Father Sheehy at
funeral services several months ago
for Senator Murphy, of Dubuque,
lowa, who was killed in an auto
mobile accident.
He quoted at length from the tri-
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California
Voters For
Roosevelt
San Francisco, Cal., Oct. 9. —(AP)—
California has registered 57.4 Demo
cratic and 38.44 percent Republican
for the November general election in
which Roosevelt and Landon will bat
tle for the state’s 22 electoral votes.
Such was the showing in compila
tions today by The Associated Press
of county clerks’ registration figures
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women of the State is that never be
fore has there been candidates for
President and governor who have
stood for the things which are so dear
to the hearts of women,” Mrs. Spill
man said. “The women of the State
fully realize the many benefits which
have resulted from the ‘New Deal’
and I have found them especially ap
preciate of the work done through the
National Youth Administration, the
Civilian Conservation Corps and the
Home Owners Loan Corporation. For
the first two have helped them pro
vide more opportunities for their
children, while the latter has helped
thousands of them refinance old
mortgages and save their homes and
farms. They realize that President
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ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OP NORTH CAROLINA AND VIRGINIA
HENDERSON, N. C., FRIDAY AFTERNOON, OCTOBER 9, 1936
Death Unseats Stack Sitter
Pinky Frazier, middle-aged colored man, climbed to the top of this 102-
foot stack in Cartersville, Ga. He is shown on the stack where he resisted
all attempts to dislodge him, threatening to leap if anyone went after
him. After sitting on the stack from 5 in the morning, Frazier’s hold
weakened. At 11:23 u.m. he plunged to the ground and was instantly
killed. (Central Press)
Ruby Wilder Says Cruel
Treatment From Husband
Drove Her To Kill Him
Tells Court She Saw Him Reach to His Hip Pocket as
She Shot Him in North H enderson Case; State Seek
ing First Degree Verdict and Rests Case
Ruby Wilder Ellington, North Hen
derson woman on trial for first de
gree murder for the slaying of her
husband, Hartwell “Red” Ellington,
in George Rooker’s case one night
last summer, told a jury in Vance Su
perior Court this afternoon that her
husband’s cruelties drove her to the
crime, and said she thought he was
reaching for his hip pocket just be
fore she fired the fatal shots.
Mrs. Ellington took the stand after
the State had unexpectedly rested its
case shortly after 11 o’clock. She was
eld by questioning of defense attor
neys to tell the story of her married
life with Ellington and direct exami
Roosevelt Scours West
In His Quest For Votes
As Landon Vists Lakes
President Makes Major Ad dress in Omaha Tomorrow
Night, While Landon Delivers Big Address in Chi
cago Tonight; Catholic Prelate Denounces Coughlin
(By The Associated Press.)
While President Roosevelt and Gov
ernor Landon steamed along on their
campaign travels today, man-to-man
tussles broke out all over the map.
Heading for a major speech at
Omaha tomorrow night, President
Roosevelt travelled to lowa and Min
nesota for a series of motor parades,
Federal works inspections, rear plat
form talks and political and farm
conferences.
On a tour of four Great Lakes
COMMITTEE MERGER
WIDELY APPROVED
)
Horton Wants Finance and
Appropriations Groups
Made Into One
Dally Dispatch Bureau,
In the Sir Walter Hotel.
By J. C. BASKERVILL
Raleigh, Oct. 9.—Lieutenant Gov
ernor-nominate W. P. Horton, of
is more than ever con
vinced that the consolidation of the
Senate and House finance and ap
propriations committees into a single
committee, as he suggested some
months ago, would greatly help in
bringing about a balanced budget and
hence shorten the length of legisla
tive sessions, he said here today. His
suggestion has met with wide ap
proval over the State and he has re
ceived hundreds of letters commend
ing it, Horton said.
“The two biggest arguments in fa
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nation was completed as court re
cessed for lunch. The State grilled her
on cross-examination for an hour or
more this afternopn.
It is expected the trial will last well
into Saturday afternoon unless Judge
W. C. Harris, presiding, should order
a night session tonight to expedite
the testimony.
A 13-man jury i s sitting in the case,
the personnel consisting of the fol
lowing: G. A. Franklin, Russell Har
per, J. D. Yancey, J. L. Hedgepeth,
J. S. Norwood, J. M. Tucker, R. C.
Clark, G. W. Dunkley, C. B. Boyd,
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states, Governor Landon issued a
.statement saying that “the people, by
their ballots, are going to demand in
no uncertain way that their country
be given back to them.”
Landon will deliver a major address
at Chicago tonight.
Monsignor John A. Ryan, professor
of moral theology at Catholic Univer
sity, Washington, declared that Fath
er Charles E. Coughlin’s monetary
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PORTUGALMAYBE
LANDGRAB VICTIM
Germany and Italy Both
Want Her Colonies and
May Take Them
By CHABI.ES P. STEWART
Central Press Staff Writer
Washington, Oct. 9 —lt is a cold day
in midsumnVjr when some fresh war
hazard fails to be brought to the
State Department’s attention.
Portugal’s status as a colonial pow
er is involved in one of the latest of
these worries.
It may not seem as if the United
States can have much interest in
Portugal’s destinies. Indirectly such
an interest is a possibility, however.
Most folk probably think of the Port
uguese as a mere pewee of an unim
portant little people. The little na
tion is not, indeed, of much conse
quence considered only as a narrow
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MILLIONAIRES SEE
SIX STATES FROM
GERMAN DIRIGIBLE
American Business Leaders
Make 618-Mile Flight
Over Eastern Por
tion of Nation
CHINA CLIPPER ON
ITS SECOND JAUNT
Leaving Honolulu for 1,323-
Mile Hop to Midway on
Way to Philippines; Tele
gram Reporter Leading
Round-World Flight of
New York Newspaper
Workers
(By The Associated Press)
A mass flight of millionaires and
American business leaders, a journa
listic preview of the China Clipper’s
trans-Pacific course, and the ninth
day stage of the reporters’ round-the
world race contributed to aviation
history today.
The men of wealth and power—73
of them, including Nelson Rockefeller
and Winthrop W. Aldrich —were up
for a 618-mile cruise over six eastern
states in the German dirigible Hind
enburg.
Out of Honolulu the China Clipper’s
engines were warming up in prepa
ration for the second leg of the flight
westward to Manila. This is a hop
of 1,323 miles to Midway. The ship
carries five New York reporters, who
are getting a layman’s view of the
route regular passengers will shortly
be seeing.
In the other newspaper flight, the
globe circling race, H. R. Ekins, New
York World-Telegram and Scripps-
Hov/ard newspapers reporter, was
still far in the lead. He landed today
in Dutch Borneo after an 800-mile
flight from Batavia.
Several thousand miles behind were
his rivals, Dorothy Kilgallen, New
York Evening Journal and Interna
tional News Service representative,
and Leo Kieran, of the New York
Times, and the North American News
paper Alliance.
OXFORD GETS MONEY
FOR COURT HOUSE
$12,272 Listed in FWA Allotments
Announced by Secretary Ickes
With FDR Approval
Washington, Oct. 9. —(AP)—Sec-
retary Ickes announced today ap
proval by President Roosevelt of
public works allocations for 88
projects at an estimated construc
tion cost of $23,805,874.
The public worlds administra
tion’s share will consist of grants
of $10,697,410 and loans of $432,-
000.
The approved allocations grants
onjty unless \otherwise specified
included:
North Carolina: Oxford, court
house addition, $12,272.
Man Held
In Slaying
Os Woman
Weymouth, Mass., Oct. 9. —(AP) —•
Stirred by the identification of Mrs.
Grace Asquith, 41-year-old widow, as
the woman whose severed legs were
hauled from Boston harbor four days
ago, detectives today held one man
for questioning and sought a miss
ing World War aviator.
While police grappled in the har
bor for the head and torso of the
victim, a woman’s tip sent detectives
scurrying last night to a lonely cot
tage on the Weymouth shore, 12 miles
from Boston.
There Mrs. Isabel Murphy, of Bos
ton, told police her friend, Mrs. As
quith, who “disappeared” September
20, lived.
She said the widow resembled the
harbor victim as pictured by medical
examiner William J. Brickley.
Police found the cottage ransacked.
The walls of the living room were
sprinkled with blood, Deputy Super
intendent James R. Clafflin, of the
Boston police, said.
“Two blood-stained sheets and a
spread were found upstairs in the
bedroom.
“In the cellar we located a saw.
There are brown specks on the handle
We have sent the saw to our Boston
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FOR NORTH CAROLINA.
Qoudy, t probab’y showers to
night and Saturday; cooler in in
terior Saturday night. ,
PUBLISHED EVERY AFTERNOON
EXCEPT SUNDAY.
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TO STAVE OFF WAR
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According to reports in Nets
York, Col. Till L. Huston, above,
former part owner of the New
York Yankees, has purchased the
Brooklyn Dodger baseball club
and had chosen Babe Ruth aa
manager.
Communists
Defy French
Government
Civil War Threaten
ed in Border Pro
vince Continues
Paris, Oct. 9 (AP.)— French com
munists openly defied government
efforts to restrict their meetings in
historic Alsace-Lorraine today.
Amid threats of virtual civil war
in the border provinces, the commun
ist party declared it was proceeding
with plans to hold widespread de
monstrations there.
Fears of open strife immediately
were current.
A party communique flatly repudi
ated previous semi-official reports
to the effect only ten meetings would
be held in Alsace-Lorraine. It stated
the original number planned—l 27
had been reduced to 56 by regional or
ganisations, not by the central com
mittee.
Claiming 50,000 followers in the bor
der provinces, the party asserted it
refused to curtail its activities “be
cause such is the desire of Fascists
acting on orders from Berlin.”
The abrupt party statement block
ed the efforts of Roger Salengro, min
ister of the interior, to reduce poten
tial dangers of the week-end cam
paign.
CHINESE-JAPANESE
PEACE NOW DARKER
Tokyo, Oct. 9.—(AP) —Japanese
officials declared today that the
conference between Generalissimo
Shiang Kai-Shek, China’is dicta
tor, and Japanese Ambassador
Shigeru Kawagoe did not warrant
optimism for settlement of the
Sino-Japanese crisis.
Unemployment Story Is
“Cockeyed”, Babson Says
Always Great Number Without Jobs, But Even Women
in Homes and Boys in Schools Are Now So Listed;
Average Industrial Pr oduction Is Now Normal
BY ROGER W. BABSON,
Copyright, Publishers Financial
Bureau, Inc.
Babson Park, Mass., Oct. 9.—Se\*-
eral weeks ago I announced thfat bus
iness had reached “normal” accord
ing to my Babsonchart. Since then
many readers have written me ask
ing how I can consider business nor
mal with so much unemployment and
relief. These readers feel that Tye
cannot possibly have made such a
sharp comeback with 20,000,000 re
ceiving government aid and with 9,-
000,000 estimated jobless. Their point
is well taken and the situation needs
explanation.
Babsonchart An Average.
First, let me briefly explain the
Babsonchart. Periodically, my statis
ticians add together by means of a
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Britain Fights {Desperately
To Avoid Fascist and
Communist Rush in
Spanish War
THAT MIGHT MEAN
GENERAL OUTBREAK
Soviet Russia, Flatly Accus
es Germany, Italy and
Portugal, and Demands
Commission Enter Portu
gal for Investigation; Fas
cist Armies; Make Gains
(By The Associated Press.)
In the tenee atmosphere of contin
ental crisis, neutrality envoys of 27
nations met secretly at London’s for
eign office today to thresh out sharp
Russian and Spanish government
charges of fcioko pledges and Fascist
military aid to Spain’s insurgents.
The basic pron’em before the group
—and more particularly for England
in the role of peace-maker—was how
stop an open rush by Fascist and
communist nations to aid opposing
belligerents in Spain.
That might mean European war.
Soviet Russia, flatly accusing Ger
many, Italy and Portugal, wanted the
committee to send an investigating
committee to Portgual, alleged gate
way for arms shipments to Spanish
insurgents.
There were concrete evidences as
the gathering opened that Portugal
woruld not consent to an investigating
body.
On fche military front Fascists
smashed through rugged terrian west
of Madrid in three powerful colums
to capture three strategic cities. Mad
rid hailed the prospect of Russian
help and rejoiced at what appeared
to be almost complete victory for
loyal Asturian miners who long have
besieged the Fascist city of Oviedo in
the north.
WILSON SHERIFF IS
ORDERED REMOVED
Wilson, Oct. 9 (AP) —Superior
Court Judge Marshall Spears ord
ered Sheriff W. A. Weathersby, of
Wilson county, removed from of
fice today after studying testi
mony of witnesses that he was
drunk at an election poll in Black
Creek township July 4, the date
of the second North Carolina
Democratic primary.
Twenty-seven Black Creek town
ship residents testified at an oust
er hearing Wednesday the sheriff
was under the influence of liquor
at the pells and 48 defense wit
nesses said he was sober.
Defense attorneys filed excep
tions to the ouster ruling.
NEEDROADSMORE
THAN ANY REFUNDS
i
C. W. Tatem, 1935 Legisla
tor, Appears Before As
sembly’s Hearing
Raleigh, Oct. 9. —(AP) — C. W.
Tatem, of Tyrrell county, chairman
of the House Committee on Roads in
the 1935 legislature, told the special
commission investigating county road
claims today that “the primary need
of all North Carolina counties today
is further road building.”
Tatem contended that no equities
can be established between counties,
so far as roads are concerned, “as
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special formula, the physical number
(not the dollar value) of freight care
loaded, pairs of shoes made, automo
biles assembled, cattle slaughted,
pounds of copper mined, and the like
—in all ERS separate series of produc
tion figures. Dollars and cents do not
enter into this index. Hence, actual
output is comparable with that
of ten or twenty years ago, even
though prices have changed drasti
cally. “Normal” on the Babsonchart
is based on the production volume of
the years 1923-27 with proper allow
ance for the increase in population.
This index, therefore, shows the av
erage output of all industries and in
all sections of the country. When I
say we are at “normal” I do not mean
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