HENDERSON
GATEWAY TO
CENTRAL
CAROLINA
fWENTY-THIRD YEAR
Roosevelt Denies
Mew Deal Spreads
Class Distinction
Says Republican Leaders
Telling Political Bedtime
Stories in Fanning
That Fear
DOESN’T BELIEVE
PEOPLE ACCEPT IT
Speaks at Lawrence, Kans.,
Home-State of His Rival,
Governor Landon, and
Says Kansas Could Not
Have Weathered Depres
sion Without Federal Help
Wichita, Kans., Oct. 13. —(AP) —
president Roosevelt, bringing hi s re
action campaign to the heart of
Governor Alf M. Landon’s home state,
asserted today that Republican lead
crr W ore telling “political bedtime
in “spreading the gospel of
fear" about the New Deal setting one
class anainst another.
Speaking in the Lawrence, Kans.,
stadium from an open car, the chief
executive said he was certain the
American people would not be fright
enod by “fairy tales’’ in November,
and added “the people who talk about
class distinctions are the very ones
who are encouraging class antagon
ism, for they tell one story in the
east and another story in the west;
one story in the city and another
story on the farm. That is not my
way and never will be my way.’’
Mi Roosevelt did not mention his
Republican rival by name. He de
clared the “leaders” who were dis
seminating “this silly, false fear” are
the men “whose blindness to facts and
refusal to act caused the real fear and
the real danger of national disaster
in 1932.”
After outlining In detail the objec
tives and philosophy of his adminis
tration as having been based, general
ly speaking, on economic security,
freedom of religion and full oppor
tunity for education, he said:
••We are coming through a great
national crisis with flying colors.
•We have not lost our self-respect.
We have not changed our form of
government.”
The President said he did not be
lieve -Kansas would have pulled thro
ugh the difficult problems of the past
four years as splendidly as it has had
it not been for Federal cooperation
and Fedeial assistance in many fields
of our endeavor.”
LEGION DISTRICT
CHAIRMEN LISTED
Raieigh, Oct. 13 (API- I Thomas W.
Byrd, director of the veterans divi
sion of the State Democratic organi
zation, announced today he had ap
pointed eleven congressional district
chairmen to aid in getting out the
veteran vote.
The chairmen by districts
fourth L. Beddingfield, of
Raleigh.
Landon nays
Labor Lists
Laise Aides
These “Untrue
f riends” Have Al
ready Betrayed
Workers Abroad
Toledo, Ohio, Oct. 13. —(AP) —Gov-J
'■nior Alf M. Landon, addressing
tJt'io's labor vote in this railroad con
i' said today that “labor today has
its false friends” who in other na
tions "have already betrayed the men
aru| women who work.”
[’raising Samuel Clampers, organiz
" of the American Federation of
Tabor, for keeping “organized labor
from reing destroyed by its socialistic
' mies,’’ the Republican presidential
: minee said “his wisdom kept or
ganized labor from the great tempta
'i m to participate in pariy politics.”
The Republican candidate’s speech
if i p closed hi s personal campaign for
Ohio’s 26 electoral votes.
T am absolutely opposed to any in
fringement on the rights of labor to
1 anize, and any curtailment of the
ri.'-'ht of freedom of assembly,” the
governor said as he addressed a crowd
hi a local theatre.
Tt in the government’s duty to pro-
T'ct labor and the people in these
rights.”
Organized labor,” he said, “in the
s ( > years of its experience has made a
distinct contribution to our American
life. It has achieved progressive re
forms for the welfare of working
icon and women through evolutionary
rather than revolutionary, processes.”
Hroitersmt tUttht Dispatch
LEASED WIRE SERVICE OF
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS.
20,000 Homeless
As Storm Passes
Manila, I*. 1., Oct. 18.—(AP)
An official tabulation today placed
the known dead from Luzon is
land’s disastrous typhoon at 193,
with 654 missing. An estimated 20,-
00C natives were homeless in Neuya
Echija province alone.
The latest known victims were
swept to their deaths today when
a Pampagna river dyke broke. It
swept away 50 houses and drowned
ten people.
Municipal and provincial officials
predicted the death list would
steadily increase as recession of
flood waters brought by the ty
phoon’s torrential rains permits
re! ief workers to search disaster
swept towns.
Strategy Os
Republicans
Poor Indeed
Chasing Wil-o’-Wisp
if They Think They
Can Carry North
Carolina
Dally Dispatch lliirpnu.
In the Sir Walter Hotel.
I*y .1. <J. M \SKERVILIi
Raleigh, Oct. 13. —The Republican
“drive’’ to capture North Carolina for
Governor Alf Landon was in full
swing today. It was started here last
night when Thomas Dixon, formerly
a Democrat, but now campaigning
for the National Rt publican Commit
tee and Landon, spoke in the court
house here But the Slate Fair prov
ed mo.“t attractive t( most ; cople'
thm Dixon's speech, with the result
that the effect of the speech is being
rated at about zero by Democratic
leaders here tooay, who agree that if
they could have selected the date and
place they could not have done bet
ter to pick a time when it would go
virtually unnoted.
On the heels of l.oxon’s Republican
speech last night, Colonel Frank
Knox, the Republican candidate for
vice president, invaded the State this
morning for a speed at Chapel Hill,
and. is now en route to Asheville,
v/here he will speak at a Republican
rally tonight. The special train on
which Knox is travelling was sche
dule! to pause in Burlington, Greens
boro, Salisbury, Statesville, Hickory
and Marion long enough for the Chi
cago newspaper publisher to make
.fcrUrl speeches from the rear plat
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COL. FRANK KNOX
SPFAKS AT U. N. C.
Says American Social Order
Threatened; Asks Votes
For Landon
Chapel Hill Oct. 13— (AP)— Declar
ing that the American “order of so
ciety” is in danger, Colonel Frank
Knox, Republican vice-presidential
nominee, urged North Carolina voters
today to forget party labels in the
forthcoming election.
Opening a tour of the State in this
college town, home of the University
of North Carolina, Knox renewed the
assault on the Roosevelt administra
tion which he began last night in
Richmond, Va.
“Within the past four years the
course of government in this land of
ours has gone far to undermine this
American system,” Knox declared to
day.
“It has pursued that fatal policy
of government waste which leads to
destruction of orderly government. It
has pursued that policy of coercion of
the legislative branch of the govern
ment which foretells dictatorship. It
has pursued that policy of browbeat
ing of the courts which substitutes
the control of men for the control of
law.
“Above all, it has fanned the fires
of class hatred which must fee lit
before free government is destroyed.
“It is not a matter of political par
ties. It is a matter of protecting and
maintaining the American system of
life against the disintegration that
has come to so many countries. I
would ask all of you to forget party
labels and political affiliations.”
The vice-presidential candidate, en
route to Asheville, will stop for short
platform talks at Burlington, Greens
boro, Salisbury, Statesville, Hickory
and Marion. Tonight Knox will speak
in Asheville.
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HENDERSON, N. C., TUESDAY AFTERNOON, OCTOBER 13, 1936
Once a City, Now a Mass of Toppled Masonry
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Hearst Metrotone Newa Photos
Ruins in Toledo, Spain, after bombardments, artillery Are
Raked by artillery fire, sundered by continuous air
bombardment, the city of Toledo, Spain, now is a
mass of tooDled masonry. This sight of desolation
TOWNSVILLE SCHOOL
TO GETJIRD BUS
Additional Funds Also To
Be Made Available for
Upkeep of Others
COMMISSION IN DARK
State Authorities Say Situation Would
Have Been Remedied Sooner
Had They Been Told
About Conditions
Dally Dispatch Bureau.
In the Sir Walter Hotel.
By J. C. BASKERVILL
Raleigh, Oct. 13. —The Vance county
school bus rumpus has now been set
tled as far as the State School Com
mission is concerned, with the allot
ment of an additional school bus to
the Towhsville school, in the northern
part of the county some 18 miles from
Henders&ri and With the allotment of
additional funds to make any needed
repairs to other school buses, it was
learned 1 from the State School Com
mission today. It was also pointed
out that the additional bus could have
been allotted sooner and would have
been, had the Vance County
superintendent presented the facts to
the commission and made any effort
to get the extra bus, also that it was
the duty of the county superintendent
to see that all school buses are in
proper condition and that if he need
ed an extra allotment for repairs he
could also have had it without wait
ing for the grand jury to act.
There is no doubt that the Towns
ville school bus was overcrowded, due
to an unexpectedly large enrollment,
and that it needed an additional bus,
school commission officials here
agree. The school has an average
daily attendance of about 180 and two
buses were not sufficient, even mak
ing two trips each. Now two of the
buses are supposed to make two trips
each and the third bus one trip, so
that the average load per trip is now
about 30 children, it was pointed out.
But if the commission had been ad
vised of the large enrollment and the
need for an additional bus, it would
have allotted it at once, commission
officials said today. Nothing was
known of this crowded condition un
til an article appeared in the morn
ing newspaper here in Raleigh tell
ing of alleged conditions in the Towns
ville school and insisting that more
than 70 children were being hauled
at one time in a single bu 3.
Those here familiar with the school
situation in Vance county maintain
there has been a lot of politics in this
school bus squabble and that the
county superintendent in Vance de
liberately sought the adverse pub
licity concerning overcrowded school
buses in an effort to get another bus
for the county and to make it appear
that the State School Commission
rather than himself was to blame for
conditions. The understanding here
is that the superintendent is very
much opposed to the school commis
sion.
OUR WEATHER MAN
FOB NORTH CAROLINA.
Fair to partly cloudy tonight
and Wednesday, except somewhat
unsettled on coast; continued
rather cool.
is typical of many such in Spain as the Fascist
Rebels and the Popular Front government troops
continue their fight for victory.
New Kind Gold Standard
Expected To Help Trade
Back Nearer To Normal
Other Nations Invited To J oin U. S., Britain and France
in New “Gold Bloc” and Most of World Expected
To Be In It Soon; Rea 1 Stabilization Likely
Washington, Oct. 13.—(AP)—Declar
ing that its aim was more normal
trade relations, the United States gov
eernmnt put into effect today what
Secretary Morgenthau of the Teras
ury termed “a new kind of gold
standard.”
Great Britain and France took si
milar action as the result of a three
power agreement. * i ■
Other nations were invited to join
the new “gold bloc” and some govern
ment economists predicted it might
spread within a few weeks to a large
part of the world.
The understanding provided thait
the stabilization funds of the three
COHON PAYMENTS
mm total
Price Adjustment Checks
Aggregate Huge Sum for
Growers in State
College Station, Raleigh, Oct. 13 —
AAA cotton price adjustment pay
ments to North Carolina farmers
have amounted to $1,667,896.66, J. F.
Criswell, of State College, announced
today.
The payments were distributed to
farmers who sold their 1935 crop
when the average market price of
7-8 inch middling cotton was less than
12 cents a pound.
The rate of payment per pound
was the difference between that aver
age price and 12 cents on the day the
grower sold his cotton.
The payments so far cover 176,082-
459 pounds of lint at an average rate
of approximately one cent per pound,
Criswell stated.
Payments to a few other growers
have been delayed by technical irre
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governments would exchange gold
with each other, buying or selling as
the occasion arises. Gold can no long
er be exported from the United States
by individuals nor can it be purchas
ed by nations not a party to the
agreement.
While the Franco-British-American
accord did not establish fixed ratios
between the three currencies, Mor
genthau said he regarded it as a long
“second step” toward ultimate stabili
zation.
The first step was taken Septem
ber 25 when the same three nations
made a gentlemen’s agreement to co
operate in steadying the exchanges
while France devalued her currency.
SEEK MORE DELAY
IN COMIKES
Marine Unions and Ship
Operators Appealed To
by U. S. Commission
Washington, Oct. 13. —(AP) —Mov-
ing to avert a threatened Pacific coast
waterfront strike, the Maritime Com
mission today requested ship opera
tors and maritime unions to continue
operating under agreements now in
effect until the commission could com
plete an investigation.
At the same time the commission
announced Rear Admiral Hamlett
would proceed to San Francisco to
morrow “to carry on the investigation
on the ground.”
“In the meantime, and until such
determination,” the commission said,
“both the ship operators and the mari
time unions not only are requested,
but they are expected, to continue op
erating under agreements now in
force. They are reminded that the
first obligation of each of them in
this emergency is to the'public.”
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Government Forces
Hold Up Insurgent
Drive Upon Madrid
tksbels Near Madrid
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How Spanish rebels are tighten
ing lines around Madrid, where
Loyalists are preparing for a
strenuous defense, is shown on
the above map.
INSURGENTS WON’T
GRANT CONCESSIONS
TO GET SURRENDER
Madrid Must Give Up Com
pletely or Take Conse
quences, Rebel Chief
tains Assert
PUNISHMENT BASED
UPON RESISTANCE
Leaflets Dropped Upon
Spanish Capital from
Planes Appealing To Offi
cials and! Populace Not To
Resist But Give In; Fas
cists Are Confident
Burgos, Spain, Oct. 13. —(AP) —De-
claring ‘ several Madrid leaders” had
tried to gain concessions in return for
speedy surrender of the capital, in
surgent Spanish officers today an
nounced their flat refusal to deal with
government authorities.
The Salamanca headquarters of the
Fascist armies announced “several
Madrid chiefs” had “tried to obtain
certain concessions in return for rapid
surrender of the capital.”
This was followed by a statement
from insurgent general headquarters
here declaring “the situation of our
army is such that it is useless to dis
cuss the surrender of Madrid, which
must be total.”
It was announced Fascist planes
again had dropped proclamations on
the capital calling upon the popula
tion and the authorities for complete
capitulation to avoid useless spilling
of blood.”
The leaflets added:
“If the surrender is refused, the
strength of the punishment will de
pend upon the resistance opposed to
us.”
WASHINGTON MS
ABOUT COMMUNISM
Breakdown of Unemploy
ment Not Available; Two
New Practitioners
By CHARLES P. STEWART
Central Press Staff Writer
Washington, Sept. 13. —What is
communism?
We had a new definition in Wash
ington the other day.
The street railroad folk in the cap
ital have been wanting to extend their
one-man car system, abolishing con
ductors.
Patrons objected. Labor objected
especially. It is easy to see why.
Nevertheless the District of Colum
bia Public Utilities Commission o. k.’d
the readjustment.
Thereupon the local Central Labor
Federation held a meeting to protest
against the commission’s action and
to demand the commissioners’ re
moval from office.
A resolution to that effect was
adopted minus one vote. That one
vote was not negative. It simply was
not cast.
C. J. McLane of the American Fed
eration of Government Employers
balked.
“This resolution,” he said, “attacks
the utility’s constitutional right to
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Bombing Planes Rain Shells
On Fascist Concentra
tions, Killing Cavalry
Horses
STRONG ATTACK OF
REBELS DRIVEN OFF
Insurgents Claim, However,
They Have Cut Electric
Supply Lines to Madrid,
Shutting Off 80 Percent of
Capital’s Power; Attempt
Made on Schooner
(£y The Associated Press.)
Determined government resistance
today checked the insurgent advance
on Madrid.
At San Martin de Valdeglesias three
government bombing planes rained
shells on Fascist concentrations, in
juring some Moorish cavalry troops,
killing their mounts and wrecking
some buildings.
The Madrid war ministry asserted
its forces had repulsed a strong in
surgent attack, blocking the Fascist
drive toward El Escorial, a strategic
base for the attack on Madrid.
Communiques announced govern
ment troops also had resisted several
other Fascist attacks.
Asturian miners were reported to
have led government bomb squads in
a dynamite and artillery charge on
Oviedo, Asturian city in the far north.
The government claimed its forces
occupied four-fifth of the city.
Insurgent commanders declared
they had cut the electric supply lines
to Madrid at the Alberche river pow
er house, shutting off 30 percent of
the capital’s power.
Customs guards at Marseilles,
France, thwarted an attempt to blow
up the Spanish schooner Calapi at its
docks there. They discovered a burn
ing fuse attached to a basketful of
dynamite and other explosives on the
cridge.
A. W. GRAHAM, SR., 87,
PASSED AT OXFORD
Man Who Had Distinguished Public
Career Died at Home in
Neighboring City
Oxford, Oct. 13. —(AP) —Augustus
W. Graham, 87-year-old former su
perior court judge and speaker of the
State lipuse of Representatives in
1909, died at his home here last night.
Funeral services will be held here
Wednesday afternoon.
Born at Hillsboro on June 18, 1849,
a son of Governor and Mrs. William
A. Graham, Augustus W. Graham at
tended the University of North Caro
lina. For more than 27 years he ser
ved as trustee of the University.
While living in Orange county, in
1885, Graham represented the county
in the State Senate and then was
Granvilles representative in the leg
islature from 1901 through 1909. He
served as county Democratic chair
man in Orange county and as chair
man of the Granville County Board
of Education
In 1876 Graham married Miss Lucy
Horner. A son, Augustus W. Graham,
Jr., is clerk of superior court of
Granville county, and a nephew, Wil
liam A. Graham, is State commission
er of agriculture.
Protest To
Paris Made
By Germany
Communist “Insult”
To Hitler Claimed
in Campaign In Al
sace-Lorraine
Paris, Oct. 13.—(AP) —.The German
Embassy announced today an official
protest had been delivered to France
against a communist “insult” to
Reichfuehrer Adolf Hitler.
The German charge d’affaires made
an “oral” protest, the embassy de
clared, to a French fo»eign office of
ficial concerning alleged statements
made during a speech at Strasbourg
by Maurice Thorez, secretary general
of the French Communist party.
The French official was declared to
have promised to transmit the Nazi
objection to Premier Leon Blum and
Foreign Minister Yvon Delbose.
The German Embassy asserted it
expected an early response from the
French government.
A foreign office spokesman said the
German protest was considered in the
light of “calling attention of the
French government” to statements al
leged to have been made by Thorez
during party rallies in Alsace-!Lor
raine. He insisted the conversation
was “entirely friendly.’’
A spokesman for the German Em
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