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GATEWAY TO
CENTRAL
CAROLINA I
TWENTY-THIRD YEAR
NEW DEALERS MAPPING BROAD PROGRAM
Battle Os Madrid Carried
To Very Gates Os City With
Fresh Troops As Defenders
WDOIDING
BATTLE OVER CITY
Thousands of Citizens
Watch Fight 4,000 Feet
Above City and See
Invaders Lose
REBEL BATTERIES
READY FOR START
Prepared To Start Shelling
Capital in Earnest; Count
er Offensive Against Insur
gents Launched by Gov
ernment to Southwest of
Madrid
Madrid, Nov. 5 (AP)
Heavy aerial and artillery
bombardment shook the out
skirts of Madrid as Fascist in
surgents started the “decisive
battle” today for possession of
the Spanish capital.
Two insurgent fighting ships whLch
chased off a government bombing
plane were shot down during a spec
tacular skv over the eastern
section of the city.
For the third successive day the
wail of air raid sirenes in the capi
tal was almost ceaseless. '
Punctuated by the steady c’-a-'h of
artillery bombardment in suburban
districts southwest of the ci v. the
clamor sent residents scurrying to
protection. Houses shook with the re
verberating roar.
Squadrons of government bombing
planes released a prolonged rain of
explosive bombs over Alcorson
county west of Madrid.
Fleets of insurgent fighting ships
nipped low over highways on the cap-
Cortinued on Page Five.)
Jap Marines
Again Rushed
To Shanghai
Shanghai, China, Nov. 5. —(AP) —
Japanese Marines were rushed into
the Hongkew section of Shanghai to
day after a Jafpanese civilian had
been stabbed, but late tonight they
withdrew without finding the as
sailant.
The victim received a deep wound
i 'he neck as he was walking last
eight with his wife and child.
The attack added freah tension to
b'iiif Japanese relations which have
been improving since the killing Sep
-I'mber 23 of one Japanese Marine
and the wounding of two others in
:, ii attack which Japanese officials
aid was made by an unidentified
Court’s Rejection
Puts Martin Moore
Step Nearer Death
Knleigh, Nov. 6.—(AP)—The State
>i 'mo Court declined to hear oral
argument today in the case of
■l ; trtin Moore, Asheville Negro sen
'ice»l to die by ga« for the murder
•k’lon Clevenger, of Staten Island,
• 'v York, on the grounds the ap
’ d tuid not been properly perfected.
Justice W. P. Stacy, inter
"Ptcd Sanford W. Brown, of Ashe
nl‘ Moore’s counsel, as the attorney
■plained the background of the case.
“The case on appeal isn’t before us
'id we have no authority to take cog
iizancc of that,” Judge Stacy said.
have nothing before us in proper
"I'm • \cc-pt the record proper.”
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LANDON THANKS HIS SUPPORTERS
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Gov. Allred M. London
Gov. Alfred M. London in pictured before the microphone in th«
executive mansion in Topeka, thanking voters for their support.
Ehringhaus
Now Talked
For Cabinet
Governor Is Credit
ed With Much In
Swinging of Ohio
and Pennsylvania
Daily Dispatch Bureau.
In the Sir Walter HoteL
ll> .r. r. IIAHKKRVTLI.
Raleigh, Nov. s.—Governor J. C. B.
Ehringhaus is believed to be in line
for a high government post in Wash
ington, possibly a cabinet job, as a
result of the high regard in which he
is known to be held by the present
administration and because of the
large part he contributed towards car
rying both Ohio and Pennsylvania
for President Roosevelt, according to
comment going the rounds here to
day. It was regarded as extremely sig
nificant in political circles here when
National Chairman James M. Farley
selected Governor Ehringhaus as one
of the first string campaign orators
to go into Ohio and Pennsylvania to
Continued oa Page Five.)
Under rules of the court, it will
study the “record proper” and render
a written decision at a later date.
Usually such decisions briefly “dock
et and dismiss” the appeal or find
the “judgment of the lower court is
affirmed.”
Brown said he had no immediate
plans, but added that “if there is any
method by which I can secure a hear
ing, l will take the proper steps.”
The State moved to docket and dis
miss the appeal several weeks ago
after Brown had failed to file his
case within the resuired legal time,
but on Brown’s motion the court
granted an order setting the case for
argument this week.
ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA AND VIRGINIA
Roosevelt Dines
Envoy from Pope
Hyde Park, N. Y., Nov. 5
(AP) —President Roosevelt had as
luncheon guests at his Ditches
county home here today Eugenio
Cardinal Pacelli, secretary of state
at the Vatican, who Is visiting the
United States, two American bis
hops of the church and the car
dinal's secretary.
White House officials would not
comment when asked if the meet
ing might touch upon the political
speech-making Os Father Charles
E. Coughlin of Detroit.
Roosevelt Group May
Change Into Farmer-
Labor Party by Then
By LESLIE EICHEL
' Central Press Staff Writer
Democratic leaders have begun to
wonder about 1940. Some Old Line
Democrats believe that, the New Deal
will lead into an out-and-out Prog
ressive movement, that the Progres
sives may absorb the Democratic
party, and that the leading Progres
sive—whoever he will be—may be the
1940 nominee.
The Republican party is expected to
remain as It is.
Offshoots from both parties, such
as the Coughlinites—which the Pro
gressives term Fascists —are expected
to continue. Some other violent ex
horter, however, may succeed Cough
lin. The newcomer may be still more
• (Continued on Page Four.)
OURW^THCPMAN
Mostly cloudy tonight and Fri
day; possibly occasional rain on
south coast Friday; . somewhat
colder in east portion tonight;
scattered light frost in west por
tion tonight if sky is dear.
HENDERSON, N. C., THURSDAY AFTERNOO N, NOVEMBER 5, 1936
TOBACCO
AVERAGES
GO HIGHER
Wednesday’s Sale 173,888
Pounds for Price of
$25.23 Per Hundred
For Entire Day
NEARLY $44,000 IS
PAID TO GROWERS
Large Quantities of Cotton
Coming to Market, With
Picking in Full Swing Over
County and in Sections;
Merchants Wait Coming of
Cold Weather
Sales on the Henderson tobacco
market through this week will put
the season's total very, close to
and probably even above the 13,-
00D,000-pound mark for the season
according to indications today
after the announcement of official
statistics on Wednesday’s market
ing day.
The Wednesday figures showed 173,-
888 pounds disposed of at an average
of $25.23 per hundred pounds, with
a total of $43,870.53 paid to growers
for the day’s offeiings.
This put the week’s totals for three
days at approximately one million
pounds, with around 3250,000 paid for
the golden weed et an average of
around 26 cents a pound.
At the end of the week last Friday
the market has sold 11,504,188 pounds
for $3,032,786.43 for an average of
$26.36 per bundled pounds, and that
was more than a million pounds in
excess of the corresponding period
last season, and in round figures
SBOO,OOO more in money, with the
price average five cents a pound bet
ter.
Large quantities of cotton continue
to corn® onto the Henderson market,
with growers receiving the highest
market dollar for their seed cotton,
the form in which most of it is dis
posed of. Picking of cotton in the
fields is well under way, with stalks
brimming with open bolls and many
fields presenting a snowy-white ap
pearance. Thousands of bales of the
staple have already been disposed of
Continued on Page Two.)
MP . Vote On
Church Union
Is Tomorrow
Albemarle, Nov. 5. (AP) The
North Carolina Conference of Metho
dist Protestants decided today to take
a. formal vote tomorrow on the pro
posal for union of their church with
the Southern and Northern Methodist
Episcopal Churches.
After lengthy discussion today, the
conference voted to take a secret bal
lot on the overtures for unification
which will be presented by Dr. James
H. Starughn, of Baltimore, president
of the General Conference. He will
explain the details and purposes of
the merger proposal, which the Gen
eral Conference approved and sent
down for action by the State confer
ences after its meeting in High Point
last May. A majority of those vot
ing so far have approved the plan.
Pastoral reports and routine busi
ness occupied the remainder of this
morning’s session.
Here Is the Way
Five Amendments
Were Put Across
Dally Dispatch Bureau,
In the Sir Walter Hotel.
J. C. B4SKRRVII.L
Raleigh, Nov. 5 —A woman voter
in Williams ton, Martin county,
thought the ballot containing the
five constitutional amendments
was questionnaire, ajocording to
Judge Clayton Moore of William
ston. After voting she announced
she had “answered ‘yes’ to all
those questions on that other
sheet,” Moore said.
“I stopped to ask a lady if she
had voted right,” Judge Moore
said. “She replied that she had
done the best she could by vot
ing the straight Democratic ticket
a’l the way through and added ‘I
also answered ‘yes’ to all those
questions on the other piece of
paper.’ She evidently thought the
constitutional amendments ballot
was a questionnaire. But by an
swering all the questions ‘yes’ she
had voted for all the amend
ments.’* j._ -
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One of the earliest arrivals at the
polling booth in Highland Avenue,
Yonkers. N. Y., was Earl Browder
(above), Communist candidate for the
Presidency of the United States. He
predicted great gains for his party in
the election, but conceded his defeat
with a smile.
MARINEPARALYSIk
SPREADS AS COAST
STRIKE TIGHTENS
General Strike of East
Coast Seamen Is Now
Feared in New York
As Possibility
FOOD SHORTAGE IN
ALASKA IMMINENT
Threat to San Francisco’s
Food Supply Averted,
However, as Union Work
ers Agree To Move Perish
ables; “Sitdown” Strike
In East and Gulf Ports
San Francisco, Cal., Nov. 5.—(AP)—
The throttling of America’s maritime
trade increased throughout the na
tion’s ports today but an immediate
threat to San Francisco’s food supply
was averted.
Union warehouse workers agreed to
move perishables.
Even as the representatives of both
the warehousemen’s union and the
wholesale grocery industry voiced
hope the warehousemen’s strike here
would be settled before the week-end,
the threat of a general strike of east
coast seamen was Heard in New York.
Alaskan ports faced an imminent
food shortage. Authorities at Hono
lulu rushed preparations to cope with
any violence that might arise.
The warehousemen agreed after a
(Continued on Page Four.)
Democratic Superiority
Reason For Big Victory
Personalities of Programs and Better Program for Fu
ture Won People, Is. Explanation of Chairman Win
borne; V otes Swelled Totals
Daily Dispatch Bureau.
In the Sir Walter Hotel.
By J. C. BASKRRVILL
Raleigh, Nov. s.—The tremendous
Democratic victory both in North
Carolina and in the nation as a whole
was due primarily to the superior per
sonalities of the Democratic candidate
and to their superior programs, Chair
man J. Wallace Winborne, of State
Democratic Executive Committee,
said here today, in analyzing the re
sults of the election. Still another big
factor is the greater intelligence of
the masses and the fact -that the peo
ple are doing their own thinking and
arriving at their own conclusions as
never before, Winborne said.
“I am convinced that the two big
gest factors in the overwhelming Dem
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VAST HOUSING PLAN
AT LOW COST AMONG
PLANS NOW TALKED
Who’s His Choice?
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James A. Farley, Napoleon of the
Democratic board of strategy, is pic
tured as he oast his vote in New York
City, Chairman of the National Demo
cratic Committee and campaign man
ager for President Roosevelt, he pre
dicted the Roosevelt landslide.
System I jr
r i
Insuring Os
Crops Near
New Dealers Press
Program for Report
to President Some
time In December
Washington, Nov. 5. —(AP) —A sys
tem of all-riak- crop insurance advo
cated by spokesmen for both major
parties in the pre-election drive came
to the forefront today.
Secretary Wallace and other mem
iers of a special committee named by
the President to formulate a crop
insurance program for congressional
(Continued on Page Six.)
ocratic victory in the nation as a
whole were the confidence—inspiring
personality of President Roosevelt,
what he and his administration had
accomplished during the past four
years, and the fact that he had a real
and definite program for the future,”
Winborne said. “It was a case of the
New Deal under Roosevelt and of No
Deal under Landon —a contest be
tween action and reaction. The people
of the country realized that the Re*
publican campaign was nothing more
than a duPont product—a cellophane
campaign—so thin and transparent
that they saw through it.
“The same things are true of the
(Continued on Page Six.)
10 Pages
lL Today
TWO BECTTONB.
“Ever Normal Granary” for
Farm Lands, Crop In
surance, Farm Ten
ancy Included
WAGE REGULATION
SOUGHT BY LABOR
Also Control Over Hours Is
on A. F. of L. Program;
Roosevelt Silent on His
Program of Action; Vote
Majority Expected To Be
Right Around 10,000,000
(By The Associated Press.)
With President Roosevelt’s popular
majority snowballing 1 toward the
smashing figure of 10,000,000 as late
election returns rolled in, eager New
Dealers busied themselves today with
drafting suggestions for a broad pro
gram in the overwhelmingly Demo
cratic 75th Congress.
A vast low-cost housing plan, an
“ever normal granary” for farm
lands, crop insurance, a drive to con
vert farm tenants into farm owners
and A. F. of L. efforts 4o obtain new
regulation of wages and working
hours—all these bulked large in the
thoughts of powerful groups among
the President’s followers.
Mr. Roosevelt gave no intimation of
how he felt as to details of the vari
ous proposals.
Though millions of votes had not.
yet been tabulated, the President’s
popular plurality shot yr«U past the
9,000,000 mark today. It already had
set a new American record and was
still climbing, with indications it
would pass 10,000,000.
Total votes cast. also had set an
all-time record, reaching 40,897,173,
with 17,521 voting districts still to be
heard from. Os thS total F'wsevelt
(Continued op Page Six.’*
Smith Claims
Arrest Due To
Farley Venom
New Orleans, La., Nov. 5.—(AP) —
The Rev. Gerald L. K. Smith said to
day hig arrest on election eve was a
forerunner of the attitude the “Far
ley dictatorship” will take on those
who have been critical of it.
Smith, former organizer of share
-our-wealth clubs for the late Huey
Long was given a suspended sentence
of $lO or ten days when he was con
victed in night court early today on
charges of disturbing the peace, re
viling the police and using obscene
language. Four companions arrested
with him were similarly sentenced.
“This arrest and incarceration is
just a forerunner of the reprisals
which we may expect all over Amer
ica afl the Farley dictatorship seeks
revenge on those who have been cri
tical of its program,” he said.
Smith and his companions were
taken into custody at a hotel after he
returned from a mass meeting at
which he criticized the pgrty in State
and nation.
Farm Meet
Ordered In
Washington
Peanut and Tobacco
Compact Programs
To Be Subjects for
Discussions
Raleigh, Nov. 5 (AP)—Twenty-five
or more North Carolina peanut grow
ers are expected to attend a confer
ence in Washington tomorrow with
Federal officials concerning possible
renewal of the peanut diversion plan.
E. F. Arnold, executive secretary
of the State Farm Bureau Federation,
said the meeting had been arranged
by Edward O. O’Neal, National Farm
Bureau president, at the request of
(Continued on Page Four.)