HENDERSON
GATEWAY TO
CENTRAL
CAROLINA
TWENTY-THIRD YEAR
WARIIOUDSOVEREUROPE GROWING DARKER
Roosevelt Urges Strong, Lasting Democracy
LANOON PROFESSES
HD GOVERNMENT’
ISIIIS OBJECTIVE
Want Administration Con
cerned About Pocket
books of Everybody,
Nominee Asserts
ROOSEVELT AGAIN
TO SPEAK IN EAST
Will Swing Through New
York, Pennsylvania, New
Jersey and Delaware Next
Week; Tells Business Men
Politics Will Be Kept Out
and Gives Warning
(By The Associated Press). |
Proclaiming that his cam-j
paign is one for “good govern
ment,’’ Governor Alf M. Lan_ j
don sped into the Hoosier State I
today while President Roosevelt
after declaring that he aims at
strengthening the foundations
of a “lasting democracy” pre
pared for next week’s final pres
idential drive.
Going to Indianapolis to speak to
night, Landon issued a statement say
ing:
"We want a government that is con
cerned about the economic rights and
the opportunities of the average man.
We want a government that is also
concerned about the pocketbooks of
everybody.”
Last night he declared that an un
named member of President Roose
velt’s immediate family had made an
"utterly untrue” charge that 8.557
children in Kansas had been depriv
ed of common school education be
cause of the closing of schools. He
said this was “deceitful villification.”
(Continued on Page Eight.)
Democratic
Spending Is
Reported On
Washington, Oct, 24 (AP - )—The
Democratic National Committee
today campaign expenditures of
•51,324,416 between September l and
October 21, bringing its total dis
bursements since June 1 to $2,-
333,256.
Campaign contributions since
September 1 were set at $1,408,947.
Earlier donations raised the total
to $2,490,715.
The committee’s statement, filed
with the clerk of the House, show
ed a balance on hand of $84,531.
The Republican National Com
mittee’s report, filed yesterday, list
ed expenditures of $3,161,617 be
tween September 1 and October 18
for a total of $4,949,428 since June
1. The Republican receipts since
done 1 totalled $5,038,419, including
•$2,987,765 since September 1.
Ihe largest contribution to the
Democratic fund was SIOO,OOO biven
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State’s Farai Population
Exceeded By Texas Alone
1,600,000 Tar Heels Live O utside Cities and Towns;
Many on Good Farms But Thousands Live on Lands
Not Suited to Ag ricultural Purposes
College Station, Raleigh, Oct. 24
here are more than 1,600,000 people
on North Carolina farms, a
, lalp farm population exceeded only
by that of Texas.
Many of them are on good farms,
u ' thousands live on land that is
suited to agriculture, said Dr. R.
7 lr director of the N. C. Ag-
M tUral Ex P eri ment Station.
*: * ~r® * han half the farm popula
f?f North Carolina occupies land
':**y others - Many of these are
year y etn Ployed only part of the
tim lirgc P° rta °n of the farm popula-
J1 l established on small land
HenJicrsmt Batltt Btsuatrli
Methodists Seek
Quick Union V ote
Salisbury, Oct, 24 (AP) —The
Western I ( th Carolina Confer
ence of the Methodist Episcopal
church, South, adopted a resolu
tion asking the coliege of bishops
to urge al! conferences to vote by
19;'.7 on the proposal for union of
the northern and southern church
es aiul the Methodist Protestant
Church.
Bishop K ’win l l ’. Lee, of fiinga- I
pore, representing the Methodist
rJpiscopal (Northern) C’huroh, pre
side :1 at the session, and put the
notion for the resolution... He said
indications were the three church
es would vote overwhelmingly in
favor of the merger, which he sail
represented a fine spirit toward a
movement which would prove a
Jessing.
MAY DROP
OXFORD’S
GASJLINE
Henderson & Oxford Gas
Company Asks Utilities
Commission for
That Permission
BRANCH MENACING
HENDERSON WORKS
Petition Applies Only to
Oxford Plant; G. V. Jenk
ins, Vice-President, Avers
That Is “Seriously Menac
ing” Henderson Property;
SIOB,OOO Lost
Raleigh, Oct. 24.—(AP>—The Hen
derson & Oxford Gas Company, re
porting that it had lost money on its
operations for five years, petitioned
the State Utilities Commission today
for permission to discontinue service
in Oxford on November 30.
The company is the first gas firm
in North Carolina to seek to go out
of business, Utilities Commissioner
Starilcy Winborne said, and a hear
ing on the request will be set later,
a s the town of Oxford wishes to re
sist the request.
G. V. Jenkins, vice-president, said
the company lost $19,000 on its en
tire operations last year, and 108,-
000 over the past five years, and was
in arrears in tax payments.
He said the company was prepar
ed to supply “bottle gas” to Oxford
residents wanting to continue to use
the fuel.
Winborne said the company first
proposed dropping its Oxford opera
tions last year, and a reduction in
rates was made to try to get more
customers, but the attempt, to build
up the company was unsuccessful,
largely due to lower electric rates.
The petition, Winborne said, ap
plies only to the Oxford plant, which
the company contends “is seriously
affecting the soundness of our invest
ment in our Henderson plant and
property, and will not affect units of
the parent concern at Elizabeth City
and other places.”
holdings and supplement their income
when they can, by securing other
employment from time to time. But
local resources of many areas are de
pleted and supplementary employ
ment is not always available.
Durin gthc past five years, 50.2T77
persons previously employed in other
fields of work have returned to the
farm. A large group previously de
pendent upon farming and part time
outside labor are now dependent
upon farming and relief, Dr. Winters
continued.
These things do not develop good
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ONLY DAILY NEWSPAP ER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA AND VIRGINIA
North Carolina Backing
Roosevelt On Ground Os
Confidence In Abilities
Liberals Hope He Will Bee ome More Liberal and Con
servatives Hope He Will Trim His 'Sails in Next
Four Years; Business M en Confer With Lawrence
Dally Dispatch Bureau,
lu the Sir Walter Hotel.
By J. C. BARKEItVILL
Raleigh, Oct. 24. —North Carolina is
going to give President Roosevelt a
big majority in the forthcoming elec
tion because the Democrats of the
State have confidence in his leader
ship and ability, and because he has
definiteiiy bettqrd the condition of
the entire State and of the people in
it during his administration, a rep
resentative group of professional and
business men told David Lawrence,
JAPS CATERING Td~
PHILIPPINE NATION
Not Trying for “Grab” But
Seeking Friendship of
Islanders
By CHARLES P. STEWART
Washinyton, Oct. 24—The Japanese,
according to dispatches from Manilla,
seem to have launched a campaign to
win the Philippines, in anticipation of
the islands’ independence, not by a
grab, as on the Asiatic mainland, but
by gaining the Filipnos’ devoted
friendship. /
Representatives of the Japanese
government and of Japanese business
as described as continually active in
Manilla and elsewhere throughout the
archipelago, arranging for parties of
influential Filipinos to visit Nippon.
When these tourists arrive there
they are treated royally.
Filipino newspapermen are espe
(Continued on Page Eight.)
HENDERSON, N. C., ,SATURDAY AFTERNOO N, OCTOBER 24, 1936
Death In Spain! A Submarine Sinks Before Your Eyes
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This remarkable series of pictures, taken from the deck of the Spanish
Rebel warship. Valasco, shows the doomed Loyalist submarine B-6 sink
ing in the Sea of Ferrol. off Northern Spain. At top. the first shot has
registered and the sub settles by the stern, in the inset seamen on the fant
nationall known news writer and com
mentator, when he stopped here Fri
day in the course of his swing thro
ugh the country sounding out senti
ment with regard to the election.
Most of the group of some 25 or 30
men, composed of Republicans as well
as Democrats who were the guests of
John A. Park, publisher of The Ra
leigh Times, at a luncheon given for
Mr. Lawrence, assured the Washing-
Continued on Page Five.)
Workers Oh
WPA Demand
Higher Wage
Washington, Oct. 24 (AP) —Af-
ter a turbulent demonstration, dur
ing which three leaders were ar
rested, a delegation from the
Workers Alliance of America to
day was sucessful in arranging to
deposit at the White House a de
mand for higher wages for WPA
workers.
David Lasser, president of the
Alliance, who was arrested and
later released, along with two of
his companions, when police
sought to break up a parade in
front of WPA headquarters, fin
ally reached! fMarvin H. Mclnf
tyre at the White House.
The presidential secretary
agreed to receive a delegation
from the alliance. Backed by be
tween 300 and 400 representatives
a delegation earlier had been turn
(Cou iuued on Page Eight.).
siuking crail run to the bow. Below, with only a lew feet of the sub
marine’s prow visible, members of the crew are shown struggling in thfi
water. These pictures are the most sensational to come out of war
stricken Spain since the beginning of the revolt. (Central Press
EAST AND WES! 10
SHARE ROAD WORK
Highway Commission’s Pro
gram for Modernization
Embraces State
TO REQUIRE BIG SUM
Present Financing Inadequate and
Federal or State Funds in
Larger Quantities Will
Be Necessary
Dally Dispatch Bureau,
In the Sir Walter Hotel.
Ity J. C. UASKUttVJLiL.
Raleign, Oct. 24 —The highway
modernization program now being
worked out by the State Highway and
Public Works Commission, to be put
into effect as soon as the money to
do it with can be obtained from
either State or Federal sources —is
possible within the coming two years
—’includes extensive and important
projects in the eastern and western
portions of the State as well as in the
Piedmont, it was revealed today by
Chairman Capus M. Waynick, of the
highway commission. Engineers have*
been working on this program for
several months, so that it would be
ready if and when the funds to carry
out could be secured.
Probably the most needed highway
modernization and reconstruction
project in the eastern part of the
State is the rebuilding of Route 117
from Warsaw down to Wilmington,
while a much-needed western project
is the widening and straightening of
Route 70 from Old Fort through
Black Mountain to Swannanoa and
possibly on to Oteen, where the high
(Continued on Page Three.)
OUR VfeATHEP MAN
FOR NORTH CAROLINA.
Mostly cloudy, showers in east
portions; slightly cooler tonight;
Sunday partly cloudy, preceded by
showers on coast.
PUBLISHED EVERT AFTERNOON
EXCEPT SUNDAY.
STATE 10 RECEIVE
FREIGHT RATE CHI
Slash Averaging Seven Per
cent Granted After
Eight-Year Fight
Raleigh, Oct. 24.—(AP)—'Hundreds
of thousands of North Carolinians are
due to start benefiting Tuesday from
lower freight rates averaging about
seven percent, which the State first
started fighting for November 1, 1928.
New rates, lower for most of the
State but slightly higher for Char
lotte and some other points near the
South Carolina line, have been order
ed, effective November 27, by the In
terstate Commerce Commission to ap
ply to all class rate shipments to
and from “official” territory.
Utilities Commissioner Stanley Win
borne emphasized that the reduced
rates now are scheduled to become ef
fective next week, and pointed out
the effective date was only four days
less than eight years from the time
the old Corporation Commission start
ed the case bringing about the re
duction. Several postponements in the
(Continued on Page Three.)
Mussolini Rattles
Saber As He Shouts
Peace Declaration
Bologna, Italy, Oct. 24.—(AP)—Pre
mier Benito Mussolini “launched”
what he proclaimed a “message of
peace” from this city this afternoon.
He spoke not far from the spot
where almost exactly ten years ago
a young fanatic fired at him, split
ting the sash on hig breast.
This was his first visit since that
day, and he cried out to 100,000
Bolognese that, “although Italy can
count on 8,000,000 bayonets she in
tends to live at peace with the world.”
II Due definitely linked his "mes
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PORTUGAL BLAMED
FOR BROWNING OF
SPANISH SAILORS
i
Soviets Renew Demand for
Blockade of Portuguese
Ports To Stop Fas
cist Help
GERMANY RECOGNIZES
ETHIOPIAN CONQUEST
League Had Declared Mus
solini’s Seizure of African
Kingdom “Aggression;”
Madrid Charges German
Submarines Sending Sup
plies to Insurgents
(By The Associated Press)
A dark tempest of grave new
charges and ominous words,
with blood-spattered Spain at
the vortex, engulfed Europe to
day.
These cyclonic developments stood
out in relief from the background of
political storm:
1. Spain, its capital cringing be
neath the choking roar of Fascist
bombers, charged authoritarian Por
tugal with the death of 40 Spanish
government sailors in a naval battle
during which it charged a Portuguese
motor ship painted like a German
vessel sank the motorship Fernando
Po.
2. Soviet Russia, following up its
cryptic announcement it will not be
bound by the European “hands-off-
Spain” policy any more than any
other national, renewed its demand
(Continued on Page Eight.)
I
Science Is
Fearful Os
FDR Plans
Cambridge, Mass., Oct. 24 (AP)
Dr. Carl Compton, president of the
Massachusetts Institute of Techno
logy, asserted today in an open let
ter to President Roosevelt that science
fearful the government might mis
take relief and regulation for the
cure of social ills.
At the same time the Institute pres
ident said the Federal government
-'Continued on Page Three.)
Planes See
NoAircraft
At Madrid
Talavera de la Reina, Spain, Oct.
24 (AP)—More than 20 insurgent
bombing planes showered the forti
fied region around Madrid with high
explosives today, and the pilots re
turning said the Getafe and Cuatro
vientos airports, at the edge of the
capital, had been completel yaband
oned.
It also was reported the remaining
government planes were being used
to transport Madrid officials to Bar
celona.
The government has lost more than
30 planes in the last month over in
surgent lines, but insurgent officers
said that did not account for the dis
appearance of all planes from the
Madrid airport.
sage” with the six-year world econo
mic crisis, the consequences of which
he declared had been suffered since
1929 by “millions upon millions of wo
men and children.”
Now, he said, he wants the world
to “work in peace’’ and have “peace
in work.”
In an earlier speech at Corridonia
the premier, avoiding direct mention
of the Spanish civil war, had picked
out the troublesome word “interven
(Continued on Page Four.)