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Initial Gas Chamber
Execution At Raleigh
Is Unpleasant Drama
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Mule Kick I* Fatal
Kinston, Jan. 25.—Harvey Loftin,
negro farm youth, was dead today
from the kick of a mule. He was
kicked in the abdomen. He appeared
to be recovering when his condition
suddenly changed for the worse.
Fatally Injured in Accident
New Bern, Jan. 25.—Linwood B.
Shaw, 36, died in a local hospital
today of injuries sustained about 1
o'clock this morning in an automobile
accident at Vanceboro, near here. Mr.
Shaw was returning to his home here
from a business trip to Washington.
He was alone in his car when it
rkidded while taking a curve, strik
ing a telephone pole.
Sentenced to Death
Reidsville, Jan. 26.—0de1l Oakley,
25, negro, today was sentenced to die
in the lethal gas chamber by Judge
J. H. Sinclair. The date for execu
tion was set for March 25.
Oakley wag charged with entering
and robbing the home of B. F. Sprin
kle here during the Christmas holi
days, and it is believed that this will
be the fifth execution on a similar
charge in the history *d«Nort*> £•">-
lina should the sentence be carried
out. Prison terms have been usual
on such charges.
DEMOCRATS SQUARE
DEBT WITH RASKOB
Washington, Jan. 22,-Squaring of
the party’s long-standing $120,000
debt to John J. Raskob was announc
ed last night by the Democratic na
tional committee.
The debt, incurred in the 1928
presidential campaign when Raskob
was national chairman, was wiped
out last Monday with a final pay
ment of $25,000 from funds raised
at the recent Jackson day dinners
and those contributed by Philadelphia
for the next convention.
Raskob, long since split with the
present command, and along with
his friend, Alfred E. Smith, is now
an active member of the American
Liberty League, which has been as
sailing the administration.
Observers noted that the commit
tee’s final payment followed by only
a single day Raskob’s accusation
that “high administration officials"
were gulty of “tyranny and cheap
politics’’ in connection with income
tax litigation, involving him and
Pierre S. du Pont, of Delaware.
The committee’s announcement al
so disclosed that since January 2 it
had cut great slices in the party s
campaign deficit which on that date
amounted to $401,000. The commit
tee said it would be “out of the red
in the near future."
The Democratic party, under the
leadership of Raskob, incurred a debt
of more than $400,000 in seeking to
elect its candidate, “Al” Smith, over
Herbert Hoover.
21 Awaiting Death
In State Prison
Raleigh, Jan. 25.— Twenty-one men,
six short of the all-time record, arc
on death row at central prison under
sentence to die for capital crimes.
Warden H. H. Honeycutt said one
other man removed from death row
recently by court order still is under
sentence to die, making 22.
Os the 21 men actually at central
prison, 16 are to die of lethal gas,
while seven or to be electrocuted.
Willie Lee Gallman and William
Abraham Hodgin, negroes convieted
of murder last week in Forsyth
county, are the latest-arrivals. Gall
man, the warden stated, has appealed
to the Supreme epurt. Both are to
dio by sa».
THE LINCOLN TIMES
Prison Officials and Spectators
Express Disapproval of New
Mode of Capital Punishment
Raleigh, Jan. 24. Allen Foster, lit
tle Birmingham, Ala., negro, dressed
a? an amateur boxer bound for a I
golden gloves tournament, fought |
hydrocyanic gas 11 minutes this
morning at the state’s prison and the 1
commonwealth counted him out.
Though his crime was the nameless
wrong to a white woman the specta
tors jammed in the glass cage to see
him die by poison as two dogs but
* few weeks ago died, felt that he
got more than was coming to him.
The spectacle horrified the execution
er, appalled the warden, made pallid
the author of the act, sickened the
coroner, baffled the doctors and
made human the reporters who
turned aside, as Moses, to see this
great sight.
They grot all the ghastly drama
that they were looking for and more.
Fenced in this little space where 1
eyes could hardly be lifted from the 1
gasping devil, they saw the whole;
thing through. They saw the little
black freeze into the chamber un
clad but for his cotton trunks, saw
him shiver, not from fright, but from j
frigidity, watched the slow rigging,
up to the death chair, and heard his'
inarticulate lips. He was moving his'
fists as notice to the newspaper boys
that he remembered his boyhood bout
with Joe Louis, heard him say as his
preacher said before his something
about God and Jesus, remarked hi*
smile, and wondered if there isirt
yet in a civilized state some way to
use courage like that. Then with
body bound and head over the pellets
of poison, he sat. There was a mo
tion from Executioner Bridgers. Up
came a little whitish smoke. It went
up as a sort of incense from the
sanctified state. He opened his
mouth. This concentrated hell went
in, his nostrils were distended, he
exhaled, then inhaled, then panted |
“goodbye” and merciful minded i
watchers thought he was gene. i
Details of Execution
He hadn’t started. The bout with
death a minute old, and all the
“experts” had said the method of
killing is instantaneous. The head
dropped, the eyes bulged, there was
a convulsion, again an effort at
speech, a cough, a sputtering, a rope
of smoke came from his lungs; there
was a motion as of approaching
sleep, then of new torture. Three
minuts went by before anybody felt ,
certain that insensibility had reached
the dying devil’s brain.
Through a tube connected with the
stethoscope plastered to his left side
the doctors listened to his heart. The
organ pumped away. There was deep
breathing, then shallow, the head
wobbled, it dropped, the mouth
opened in nature’s involuntary mo
tion to fight off death. Ten minutes
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Catawba Cotton Suits
Settled By Consent
Newton, Jan. 25.—Three civil suits
of major importance on the Catawba
Superior court calendar for the Jan
uury term were disposed of this i
week by a consent judgment. The;
suits were instituted by 15 farmers'
of the Catawba station vicinity ver
sus James Sherrill, administrator of!
Oscar Sherrill, deceased, C. A. Lit- j
tie, Catawba merchant, and J. Mackie, ■
Balls Creek cotton ginner, for the |
collectfen of monies due on cotton
left stored at the Catawba gin,!
which was operated by the above
defendants.
Cotton left in trust—at the gin
by the farmers after being ginned,
was disposed of by the gin man- j
agement, the farmers alleged, and I
when the farmers went to sell their
product the cotton was gone, but
could not be accounted for by the
management, according to the alle
gations in the suit.
Settlement was reached when C.
A. Little agreed to pay the farmers
five cents per pound for the cotton
alleged to halt--been left in trust
lat the gin. Judgment in the case
was signed Tuesday by Judge Wil-!
ton Warlick. 1
Published On Monday and Thursday
LINCOLNTON, N. C. MONDAY, JAN. 27, 1936
| Mrs. Schall in Race
WASHINGTON . . . Mrs. Thomas
P. Schall, widow of the late blind
Senator from Minnesota, announces
that she will be a candidate for the
j U. S. Senate seat vacated through
| the death of her husband, and for
i which Gov. Olson has also announced
] himself a candidate.
FIVE PEOPLE ARE
INJURED IN AUTO
WRECKSATURDAY
R. T. McClellan, Local Poultry
Dealer Suffers Broken Leg
And Other Injuries
Five persons, injured in an auto
mobile collision early Saturday mom
| ing near here, are receiving treat
ment in local hospitals. The injured
are R. T. McClellan, poultry dealer
of this city, his brother-in-law, L. E.
Monroe, of South Carolina, and Mrs.
H. W. Lail, and James and William
Walker of Norfolk, Va.
McClellan and Monroe, who are at
the Reeves hospital, each suffered a
broken leg, severe face lacerations
and the former a bad scalp wound.
Both are expected to recover. Mrs.
Lail and the Walker brothers were
severely bruised and cut up and while
their injuries are necessarily painful,
they are not considered to be of a
serious nature. They are at the Lin
coln hospital.
The accident occurred about six
o’clock Saturday morning on High
way No. 150, about two miles this
side of Killian’s Store in East Lin
coln. McClellan and Monroe driving
a light pick up truck were enroute
to Waxhaw, and the Norfolk party
in a Ford V-8 was coming toward
I-incolnton. Just what caused the
wreck has not been determined but
the two machines collided in the
middle of the highway, according to
reports. So terrific was the impact
that suit cases stored in the back of
the Ford car were broken open. Both
machines were almost completely de
molished.
The Walker brothers were sons of
C. M. Walker, of Ellenboro and were
on their way to visit their father
when the wreck occurred.
Triumvirate to Attempt to
Carry On Huey Long’s Place
Tuesday’s Democratic Primary
Upholds Policies of Late
King Fish
New Orleans, Jan. 25.—Tuesday’s
Democratic primary has placed the
politics of Louisiana in the hands of
a triumvirate who will strive to car
ry on where Huey P. Long left off
when he was assassinated.
These three men, Oscar K. Allen,
present governor and United States
senator-elect for Long’s unexpired
term; Richard W. Leche, judge and
governor-elect; and Allen Ellender,
speaker of the house and United
States senator-elect for the regular
term beginning in January, 1937,
bear no likeness to Huey Long ex
cept in political opinion.
Where Huey was vigorous, loud
voiced and blustery, his three politi
cal heirs are by nature mild-manner
ed, quiet-voiced and behind the scene
strategists. Huey would march out
! into the open with his saber flying
| and lead a pell-mell charge while his
, successors prefer arbitration and ne
gotiations.
Leache Is Independent
Leache, Louisiana’s governor be
ginning next May, is a large jovial
person in his late thirties, who re
ceived his political baptism as Gov
, ernor Allen’s secretary,
j He has a mind of his own and
publicly announced that he would
j not permit “any back seat driving”
while he Is governor. Some of the
ROOSEVELT BALL
TO BE HELD HERE
THURSDAY NIGHT
Negro Band Has Been Engag
ed to Furnish Music For
The Occasion
Jas. A. Abemethy, Jr., local chair
man, announced today that plans are
completed for the Lincoln County
Roosevelt Ball to be held at Lincoln
Lithia Inn Thursday evening at 9
o’clock. Jimmy Gunn anti his Dixie
Serenaders, well known southern
colored band, has been engaged to
furnish music for the occasion.
The American Legion Auxiliary is
in charge of the sale of tickets, or
they may be secured from the Lin
coln Drug store.
On Thursday night, the President’s
54th birthday, more than five thous
and cities and towns over the Unit
ed States will unite in making this
third annual celebration a success.
The purpose of the balls is to estab
lish an endowment fund for the ]
Georgia Warm Spring Foundation
and other agencies engaged in the
fight against infantile paralysis.
Seventy per cent of the proceeds
from the local ball will be kept in
Lincolnton to carry on the work and
thirty per cent will be forwarded to
the Warm Springs Foundation.
Infantile paralysis, it is said, ac
counts for 27.26 per cent of the crip
ples among children. Every year
some 10,000 youngsters are struck
down and in epidemic years the toll
of the disease increases to 40,000,
It was the first President Roose
velt who first stirred public interest
in cripples by inviting to the White
House in 1909 the social workers'
conference on dependent children.
And now another President Roose
velt is taking the lead in the fight
against the scourage that can in a
few days, sweep up a child in the
full bloom of health and cast him
into a pit of terror and pain.
In 1925 President Roosevelt, him
self a victim of infantile paralysis,
discovered that bathing in the water
of Warm Springs was particularly
efficacious in helping infantile para
lysis victims. He was so impressed
with his own improvement and that
of others that he decided in 1926 to '
conduct some experimental work.
Twenty three patients were placed
under observation and at the end of
their treatment detailed reports
were made to three prominent ortho
tpoedic surgeons, each of whom ex
pressed approval of the establishment
of a hydro-therapeutic center at
Warm Spring and on July 28, 1927
the Warm Springs Foundation was
incorporated.
political leaders fear that his inde-;
pendence might upset the apple cart
of the administration organization, j
Allen, who was Huey’s right hand
man in building up his powerful
state machine, will succeed Long in'
the senate after his term of governor
expires in May. He has announced
that he will pick up the cudgels ‘
where Huey laid them down but he '
will be much more tame in the sen-!
ate than Long. A large middlelaged'
man of considerable wealth, Allen is
whitehaired and has a ruddy com
plexion.
No True Successor to Huey
Ellender had hoped to run for gov
ernor but took the senatorship as j
second choice. He is a thin, wiry
man of French descent with an abun-j
dance of energy and has plenty of ;
fire and fight. He also has said he |
would follow in the footsteps of Long l
in the senate.
The victory by Long’s political
heirs in the primary is tantamount
to election as Louisiana is overwhel
mingly Democrat.
There is no true successor wjfluey
Long in Louisiana. His organisation
probably will be led by a group of
men. One of them probably will be
Earl Long, Huey’s brother who was
elected lieutenant governor, but who
bears no resemblance to Huey either
in appearance or action.
This leadership of the state ma
chine represents more danger to its
futurs than outside opposition. If
the leaders fall out, the rank and
file might split.
Allred E. Smith Denies
Seeking Nomination;
Flays Administration
Lashes Roosevelt “New Deal”
ALFRED E. SMITH
Process Tax Reiand
Creaks Huge Legal
Tangles For Nation
MRS. DELLINGER
DIES OF STROKE,
FUNERAL TODAY
End Came Saturday Night
After Only a Few Hours
Os Illness
Mrs. Laura Bynum Dellinger, wife
of David W. Dellinger, died Satur
day night at 10:20 o’clock at her
home at the Inverness Hotel. She was
ill only a few hours, having suffered
a stroke of paralysis shortly after
six o’clock. She was 53 years old.
Laura Bynum w r as born October
25, 1882, the daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. Winslow Bynum. She was mar
ried to Mr. Dellinger on February 3,
1903. Five children born to this un
ion survive, as follows, Steve Del
, linger, of Charlotte, Lewis Dellinger,
Misses Agnes, Ilene and Dorothy
Dellinger, of this city. Lewis Del
j linger, who had been on a trip to
California, arrived home Sunday
morning at 2 o’clock.
Mrs. Dellinger was the eldest of a
large family of children and her
death is the first to occur in the
| femily. In addition to her aged par
ents she leaves the following broth
| ers and sisters, Ed Bynum, Iron
; Station; Mi's. C. A. Shaw, Maiden;
| Mrs. J. E. Whisnant, Iron Station;
1 Mrs. John N. Dorsey, Shelby; Mrs.
Orien L. Goodsen, Goodsonville; tUby
Bynum, Iron Station; Marvin Bynum,
Iron Station; Mrs. Jack Goodson,
Mrs. Harvey Goodson, and Mrs.
George Goodson, all of Iron Station.
One grandchild, Lillian Dellinger,
also survives.
Mrs. Dellinger had made her home
in Lincolnton for several years and
during her residence here had made
many devoted friends who will grieve
at her passing.
Funeral services were conducted
this afternoon at 3 o’clock from the
First Methodist church by the pas
-1 toT, Dr. A. L. Stanford and inter
ment followed in Hollybrook ceme
tery. Pall bearers were B. P. Costner,
Corporations, Their Stock
holders, Merchants and Con
sumers All Have Part
New York, Jan. 25.—One of the
most complex legal tangles on record
was foreseen in legal circles today
as a result of the Supreme court’s
order for return of $200,000,000 in
impounded AAA processing taxes.
Reimbursements of the funds, it
was stated, promises to touch off a
barrage of lawsuits because of the
conflict of interests involved.
Since the United States Supreme
court ordered the AAA to return
processing taxes to manufacturers,
federal courts have set in motion dis
bursement of the impounded funds.
Processors of cotton, wheat, corn
end meat constitute the principal
focal points on which the legal bat
tles will be fought.
What to Do With Money
As explained in legal quarters, the
issue is what is to be done with the
money returned as well as to whom
it shall be returned.
Conflicting interests are the cor
porations receiving the funds, the
corporations’ customers (most of
them retail dealers), the stockhold
ers and the ultimate consumers.
The position of the consumers, It
is stressed, presents a paradox ia
asmuch as in most instances they
were believed to have borne the cost
of the processing taxes in terms of
higher prices paid for bread, meat,
overalls and such staples.
Legal experts agree, nevertheless,
that an equitable reimbursement to
the consumer is hedged with insur
mountable practical difficulties.
This leaves the corporation, the re
tail distributors and the corpora
tion’s shareholders as the remaining
practical contestants.
On this score the skein of litiga
tion involves the question of wlmt
disposition shall be made of the
funds. Shall the corporation use it!
for plant improvement, retirement of!
bonds, to pay dividends, for- wage in
creases or research?
J F. Armstrong, L. C. Rovls, J. W.
Daniels, Dr. I. R. Self and J. T. Per
kins.
| LOCAL MARKET
! COTTON 12c pound
| WHEAT $1.15 bushel
CORN 60c bushel
EGGS 30c & 32c dozen
PRICE: FIVE CENTO
PLATFORM RETURN
ASKED; WARNS OF
OF WAR
Happy Warrior Professes to
Speak For Beat Initerest of
American People
Washington, Jan. 26.—Declaring
he was not “a candidate for any
nomination by any party,” Alfred E.
Smith tonight insisted the Roose
velt New Deal had violpted tha
Democratic platform of 1932. He
called upon the party "to re-estab
lish the principles” it embraced.
He reviewed the platform planks,
citing chapter and verse in his con
tention that the intended purpose
bad not been realized.
"How can you balance the budg
et,” he asked about the economy
pledge made at Chicago, “if you
insist on spending more money
than you take in.
“We have reached a new peak of
governmental indebtedness for all
time.”
The Roosevelt spending policy
baa not paid dividends., he grid,
unemployment and the farm problem
are just where they were.
The Democratic platform, he av'
except for regulation of the stock
exchange and -repeal, of pruhibi’.wu.
has been “thrown in the waste bas
ket.”
He charged before his cheering
audience at the Amercian Liberty
league dinner that the adminis
tration was substituting socialism
for democracy.
"That is why,” he said, “tha
Supreme Court is throwing out
recent laws three letters at a
time.”
Text of Smith’s Address
The official stenographic text of
Alfred E. Smith’s address before the
American Liberty league tonight
follows:
Mr. Chairman, members and guests
of the American Liberty league:
At the outset of my remarks let
me make one thing perfectly clear.
I am not a candidate for any
nomination by any party at any
time, and, what is more, I do not
intend even to lift my right hand
to secure any nomination from any
party at any time.
Further than that I have no axe
to grind. There is nothing personal
in this whole performance insofar as
I am concerned. I have no feeling
against any man, woman or child in
the United States.
I am in possession of supreme
happiness and comfort. I represent
no group, no man, and I speak for
r.o man or no group, but I do speak
for what I believe to be the best
interest of the great rank and file
of the Ameriean people in which
class I belong.
Now 1 am here tonight, also, be
cause I have a great love for the
United States of America. I love
it for what I know it has meant to
mankind since the day of its inatu
tution.
I love it because I feel it has
grown to be the great stabilising
force in world civilization. I love
it above everything else for the op
portunity that it offers to every
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JOE GISH SAYS—
A woman is getting old
when she attempts to keep
her knees covered.