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HENDERSON gateway TO CENTRAL CAROLINA TWENTY-THIRD RECORD VOTE SORE FOR TUESDAY ELECTION 167 Killed In Rebel Air Raids On Madrid Area AIR RAID SIRENES SHRIEK WARNINGS 10 CAPITAL FOLKS Horns Heard on Phone From Madrid to London In Associated Press Message There REBEL WARSHIP IS DRIVEN OUT TO SEA Was Attempting To Land Troops Near Barcelona and Government Sends j Thousands of Troops | North to Meet Threat; | French Regime Divided Oct. 31.—(AP)—The shriek j of air raid sirenes sent terrified Mad- J rid street crowds running pellmell for « shelter early this afternoon as death's j from yesterday's insurgent air raid j passed the 165 mark. However, no planes appeared immediately. (Two hours later, at 3 p. m., an other air raid warning cut off an As sociated Press telephone call between Madrid and London. The sound of Irenes could be heard over the tele phone, but there were no accompany- I ing explosions before the communica tion was cut.) Official reports following a check of Madrid wards disclosed 125 dead from yesterday’s raid, including 80 women and 20 chilren and 260 wound ed. Semi-official reports from subur ban Getafe indicated 42 others had perished, with more than 150 injured. SHORE BATTERIES DRIVE REBEL WARSHIPS TO SEA (By The Associated Pre6s.) Spanish shore batteries on the Bay of Roasas drove an insurgent de- Continued on Page Five.) ITALY PLANS FOR DOUBLING OF NAVY Personnel To Be Hiked to Near 100,- U</d io Any British Threat In Mediterranean Rome, Oct. 31.—(AP) —Italy in tends to double its naval person nel, authoritative sources said to day, preparing to meet any threat from England in the Mediterran ean. Naval sources also disclosed plans for development and expan sion of the Italian war fleet. Doubling of the navy personnel, just increased from 50,600 to 60,- 00 men, would raise it to at least 130,000. The purpose cf the movement, it was said, was to match Bri tain’s naval re-armament in order to maintain the ratio of Italian naval strength to the British fleet. Unions Offer To Negotiate Over Strike Secretary Perkins Is Seeking Peace In Marine Labor War; Strike Spreading ’ Washington, Oct. 31. —(AP) —Secre- tory Perkins disclosed today that re presentatives of all striking maritime ’inions on the west coast had agreed to resume negotiations for settlement of their strike. The la’; or secretary made this known in making public telegrams re ceived from the unions before leaving for New York to attempt to avert a spread of the Pacific strike to east Cf >ast ports. s, HPS HEADING INTO PORT FACE TIE-UP ON ARRIVAL Han Francisco, Cal., Oct. 31.—(AP) " A spreading martime strike held nearly 150 vessels in coast ports today paralyzed cargo movement at a peak s, ' a »on and threatened to add more 'han 20,000 new workers to the idle headed by 37,600 marine em ployees. Ships heading for ports from San Dkgo to Seattle faced tie-up on ar rival. Atlantic and Gulf marine com (Continued on Page Four ) lintDnrsmt Batin Btanafrb YEAR ddased wire service of the, associated press. The Little Red Schoolhouse in Old Mexico i This picture was made in Mexico City during a convention of proletarian children and shows one of th« speakers, who addressed the “Lenin Group” of the youth revolutionary vanguard. The picture in the back ground makes burlesque of religion. At the top is the hammer and sickle of Communism. (Central Preuai State’s Revenues Gain 28 Percent In 4 Months Os Its New Fiscal Year Total Receipts for Period A re $23,245,172.11; Over $3,- 500,000 Is Inheritance Tax, However; Sales Tax Up $45,000 in October Over October, 1935 Raleigh, Oct. 31. —(AP) —The rev- ( enue department reported, today total' receipts ox $23,245,172.11 for the four months ending today for a gain of 28.18 percent over the similar period of the last fiscal year. October receipts aggregated $4,447,- 231.15, up $443,988.11, or 11.09 percent gain over those of $4,033,342.04 in Oc- I ;ober, 1935. The totals for the four months in cluded several unusually large checks for inheritance tax payments, making receipts in' that class $,503,005.78, as mm FORECAST » I Several in Previous Years Have Been Smeared and More Bitter Bv CHARLES P. STEWART Central Press Staff Writer Washington, Oct. 31. —James A. Farley's prophecy that the 1936 presi dential campaign would be “the bit terest and certainly the dirtest poli tical struggle that any of us can re member,” has not, it seems to me, been fulfilled. It has been hard-fought. There has been unprecedented interest in it, as witness the huge registration of voters. But bitter? Certainly it has not been as bitter as the 1928 Hoover- Smith campaign, in which religion and prohibition were outstanding is sues. The 1932 Hoover-Roosevelt cam paign, a “hate Hoover” affair, was pretty bitter, too. There was an at tempt to make this year’s event a Continued on Page Two.) DR. JOITsEVIER IS KIWANIS GOVERNOR Hendersonville Man Elected At Caro linas District Meeting End ing In Greensboro • Greensboro, Oct. 31.—(AP)—Dr. Joe Sevier, of Hendersonville, was elected governor of the Carolinas district of Kiwanis International this morning at the closing session of the 16th annual convention held here. Charlotte wa 3 chosen as the 1937 convention city The lieutenant governor selected for division five was J. L. Morehead, of Durham. ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA AND VIRGINIA compared with $171,018.07 last year. In October the sales tax brought in $922,694.27, compared with $877,415.95 in the same month last year. This month’s gasoline tax receipts aggregated $1,938,550.72, compared with $1,365,163.03 in October, 1935, and for the fiscal year thus far receipts were $7,548,358.92, compared with $6,- 614,920.28. Total general fund revenue in Oc tober was $2,303,264.36, and for the four months it was $14,691,722. High way fund receipts for the month were $2,143,936.79. AMENDMENTS HANG BN HOMESTEAD TAX That One May Kill or Pull Through All Others to Be Voted Upon Daily Dispatch Bureau. In the Sir Walter Hotel. By *' Raleigh, Oct. 31. —The proposed new amendment to grant property owners an exemption of SI,OOO on all homes occupied by the owners, generally known as the “homestead exemption amendment,’’ is going to either bring about the defeat of all or most of the five amendments which will be voted on in the general election Tuesday or else help carry the other four, accord ing to many observers hei’e. Those Continued on Page Two.) APPEAL ISSUED FOR FOUR AMENDMENTS Poe and Caldwell Say Victory Is Won Unless County Office Hold ers Beat Them Raleigh, Oct. 31—Chairman Clar ence Poe and ' Secretary B. B. Cald well, of the sponsoring organization, today issued their final appeal to ad vocates of the four constitutional amendments, requiring limitation on State, county and city debt, permit ting higher income taxes, permitting property classification and permitting a tax exemption on homesteads not to exceed SI,OOO. Asked as to the outlook vi- 1 Chairman Poe and Secretary Cald well answered: “The general vertex of politicians and political writers all over North Carolina is that we have won our fight unless we are defeated by. county and city office holders.” HENDERSON, N. C., SATURDAY AFTERNOON, OCTOBER 31, 1936 Winborne Is Full Os Optimism »>ni!y Dispatch Bureau. In the Sir Walter Hotel. By J. C. B ASKERVILT. Raleigh, Oct. 31.—Forecasting the forecast which State Democratic Chairman J. Wallace Winborne will rake tonight or tomorrow, it’s a safe bet that he will i redict a Democratic majority of more Man 250,000 and a /cry good l» t that the returns Tues ’ay will prove that J. Wallace is etlll the careful conservative in the matter jf estimates. Many observers will not be at all urprised if the Democratic majority i North Carolina tuns as high as he 287,000, high mark of 1932. If it oes, the reason will lie the most com pete, precinct-by-precinct organiza (Continued on Page Four.) Republicans Spend Total $7,488,718 Does Not Include Individual Candi date Outlay; Dem ocrats $3,430,115 Washington, Oct. 31 (AP)—The Re publican National Committee report ed today it had spent $1,302,086 in the .en days ended October 28. Filing its last pre-election report with the clerk of the House, the com mittee 'revealed (that its total dis bursements since January 1 amount ed to $6,988,663. Expenditures by Republican sena torial and congressional committees brought the party’s total outlay to $7,488,718. This figure did not include spend ing by individual candidates or local party organisations. A similar report filed yesterday by the Democratic National Committee (Continued on Page Four.) FOB NORTH CAROLINA. Partly cloudy, with slowly ris ing temperatures tonight and Sun day possibly! (showers in mounr tains Sunday- ROOSEVELT VISITS HEADQUARTERSAND EXPRESSES!® Tells Workers At Biltmore Hotel Victory Is Assured for New Deal on Tuesday SAYS PEOPLE ARE STUDYING ISSUES More They Do That, Larger Democratic Margin Will Be t He Asserts; Pays High Tribute to Farley’s Work; Din of Applause on Way to Hotel New York, Oct. 31.—(AP)—Presi dent Roosevelt paid a visit to Dem cratic national headquarters today and in a speech of thanks to party workers declared the increased in terest the voters were taking in na tional affairs indicated victory for the New Deal next Tuesday. Speaking from a balcony looking down on a 20th floor ballroom of the Biltmore hotel, the chief executive said the most important impressions he had obtained from the campaign was that people were taking a “more intelligent interest” and becoming “forum-minded” on national affairs. “I may be frankly a little pre judiced at the present time, but I be lieve the more people that go to those forums the bigger our majority is going to be next Tuesday," he said. The President also paid a warm tri bute to National Chairman James A. Farley for having kept the campaign on a “pretty high level,” and said he had come to the definite conclusion that national headquarters had what “we call in the navy a happy ship— no crossed wires, everything clicking, j and the result is going to bear that I out next Tuesday.” En route to headquarters, scattered groups cheered him on Park Avenue. The greeting reached its top pitch at the hotel, where a heavy paper storm rained down on his party. The President will deliver his last major speech of the campaign tonight in Madison Square Garden. He brings the campaign to a close Monday night with a 15-minute radio talk from his home in Hyde Park. ADVISORY COUNCIL FOR SECURITY ACT Three Dissent as to Form and Me thod Used, Though Aprove Proosal in Princile New York, Oct. 31. —(AP) —Eleven members of the National Advisory Council lined up today in support of the Federal social security act which they helped to frame, while three col leagues approved the principle of the law, but recommended improvements. The three council members who is sued statements supplementary to the main declaration yesterday were Gerald Swope, president of the Gen eral Electric Company; Walter C. Teagle, president of the Standard Oil Company of New Jersey, and Samuel A. Lewisohn, president of the Miami Copper Company. The eleven members joining in the statement of support expressed the belief that unemployment insurance is a matter for Federal consideration in preference to State action, and held that workers’ contributions are nec essary to make an old-age pension fund effective. Three Die Returning From Game Charleston, S. C., Oct. 31. —(AP) — Two Citadel cadets and a taxi driver died today of injuries received in an automobile wreck while they were en route from the Citadel-South Carolina football game at Orangeburg yester day afternoon. Three other cadets were injured. Those killed were Cadets O. N. Har ris, of Wilmington, and F. H. Laney, of Bishopville, S. C., and Harold Mil ligan, 29, Charleston taxi driver. Harris, before losing consciousness, told motorists who brought the in jured to the city that the driver lost control while passing another car on a curve at about 70 miles an hour. He said the car slipped on the road shoulders and turned over twice. PUBLISHED EVERY AFTERNOON EXCEPT SUNDAY Lemke’s Bonnet It may look like a plebeian can to you, but that bit of headgear Rep resentative William Lemke is wear-* ing is as much his election war bon net as A1 Smith’s famous brown derby. The picture was taken in Pittsburgh, where Lemke spoke. (Central Press) STATE IS LIBERAL IN ITS GIFTS FOR DEMOCRAT CAUSE Donations to National Cam paign Around $65,000, Winston Men Giving $44,100 $15,000 CONTRIBUTED BY S. CLAY WILLIAMS Finance Chairman Folger Praises Business People and Individuals for Sup port Accorded State and National Tickets and Pre dicts Record Vote. Dally Dispatch Bureau. In ihc Sir W'lter Hotel. .? c. n \xi< "«vii i Raleigh, Oct. 31.—8 y contributing from S6O 090 to $65,000 to the national Democratic campaign, which is from $15,000 to $20,000 in exce~s of the quota assigned North Carolina, the people of the State have made a very commendable and substantial contri bution towards the reelection of Presi dent Franklin D. Roosevelt, National Committeeman A. D. Folger, who has also been director of finance in the State for the National Democratic Committee, said today. The quota as signed North Carolina and which Mr. Folger set out to raise, was $45,700 and many people thought that amount could never be raised, Folger admit ted today. And while the exact a mount contributed by North Carolina Democrats to the national campaign will not be definitely known for sev eral days, Folger said that the quota had been exceeded by some $15,000 to $20,000. In l’evealing the approximate total of the contributions received so far from Democrats in North Carolina, Folger pointed out that this was pro bably the first time the history of (Continued on Page Four.) Parties Build Up More Pressure As Fight Nears Finis Raleigh, Oct 31 (AP)—The fight will be all over Tuesday night, but Democrats and Republicans put on more pressure today in North Caro lina as the biennial general election crept steadily nearer. More thgn 800.000 voters, a record number, are expected to vote Tuesday in 1,855 precincts, where legal voting will start at sunrise and end ten hours and 37 minutes later at sunset. Leaders of both parties claim vic tory. This year only Democratic and republican candidates are listed on the ballots, though the Socialists were list ed four years ago. Though the offices to be filled O PAGES O TODAY FIVE CENTS COPY PRESIDENT CLAIMS NEW DEAL BROUGHT HffIERJERICA Says Foes of Social Security Program Are “Driven by Sinister Forces” In U. S. ENDS HIS CAMPAIGN IN GARDEN TONIGHT Brief Radio Appeal Set for Monday Night; Landon Speaks Tonight In St Louis and Then Heads for Kansas Home To Await Returns from Voting (By The Associated Press) The hurly-burley of the 1938 cam paign roared on today toward a con clusion. As President Roosevelt, Governor Landon and hundreds of others pre pared to speak their major pieces to night, all sides agreed that the clash ing arguments of the past several months probably would lead next Tuesday to an outpouring of ballots shattering ail records. An advance analysis of registration figures have indicated a possible vote of well over 45,000,000, exceeding by more than 5,000,000 the total cast in 1932. Before a Brooklyn crowd that howl ed with glee at his thrust, Pxesident Roosevelt denounced the Republican leadership last night, saying it is “driven by sinister forces” which have opposed social legislation for genera tions. He x-ecited New Deal acts and said they had made a "better, hap pier, America.” Tonight Mr. Roosevelt planned to bring his campaign to its finale with a speech in Madison Square Garden, his last pre-election pronouncement except a brief radio appeal from Hyde Park Monday night. Governor Landon, who had chal lenged Mr. Roosevelt to "tell where you stand” Thursday night, was home ward bound today, stressing what he termed the New Deal’s waste and ex travagance on an unparalleled scale. Tonight Mr. Landon planned to speak in St. Louis before going on to Kansas to await the election returns. tobacco Exports SHOW LARGE GAIN Leaf Shipments Abroad in First Nine Months of 1936 More Than Last Season. Washington, Oct. 31 (AP)—An increase in exports of leaf tobacco for the first nine months of this year, compared to a similar per iod of 1935 was reported today by the Commerce Department. Exports through September to talled 268,114,000 pounds, valued at $76 PW'/YO 1 . compared) with 2£V -989,000 pounds valued at $78,515,- 000 for the same period a year year ago. A slight decline was reported, however, for September, as com pared with the same month a year ago. Leaf exports last month were 48,167,000 pounds, valued at $18,800,000, compared with 52,671,- 000 pounds, va’ued at $22,389,090 in September, 1935. ranged down from President to town ship constable and magistrates in many counties, there are thousands of names included on the ballots the voter will get. The presidential and vice-presiden tial candidates are listed on one ballot "State and congressional candidates on another, county and township officers on a third, and five proposed amend ments to the State Constitution on a fourth. State Chairman J. Wallace Win borne set the Democratic majority at a «*i2imum of 285.000, while Gi’liam Grissom, the Republican gubernator ial candidate, claimed he would win by 25,000 or more votes.
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