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Roosevelt And Farley Rift Said Looming
POPE DECISION
ON CANDIDACY
HELD CRUCIAL
Farley Is Already Backing
Pope's Foe, No 'Rubber
Stamp Aspirant
SHEPPARD BACKS F.R.
ON 2-PARTY STAND
By CitKRY ROBICHAUU
United Press Staff Correspondent
WASHINGTON*. Auk. 2"». < L*l')
I'oNS ibilitv of a rift in the I>«*m
4>cratic hutachy, involving Presi
dent Koosi-Vtfll anil Postmastei
General Ja>. A. FarleV, today ap
peared to hinge on the decision
•• t Sen. Jas. P. Pope. I)., liia.. to i
run. or not to run, as an Indepen
dent candidate in the Novembe; .
elections.
The New I»eal senator, who was
defeated by Conservative Rep. I>
Worth Clark in the recent Idaho j
Democratic primary, apparently j
holds the i.ev to a ticklish situa j
tioii which may result in confirm- i
nig whether Mr. Ruoseve It and '
Farley really have broken or are
t.n the verge of a break.
Two important developments—
Mr. Roosevelt's blast against Re
publicans voting in Democratic!
primaries, and Farley's endorse
ment of Clark after the primary
—have rendered the Idaho mat
ter complex.
iii a press conference :n uie
Hyde Park, X. V., summer White
House Tuesday. the president at
tacked the political morality of
Republican intervention in Demo
cratic polls. He mentioned Pope's
defeat specifically, and his words
generally were interpreted as a
build-up for the senator's inde
pendent candidacy.
Pope, who has championed most
of the New Deal's farm legisla
tion, was defeated for retlouiina
lion bv a scant £58 votes. It was
charged that thousands of Repub
licans voted Democratic under
Idaho's unique ballot to torn the
tide in Clark's favor. Pope ran on
a 100 per cent New Deal platform
and received the endorsement of
Secretary of State Col dell Hull
and Farley.
However, as soon as the final
vote was tabulated. Farley, as
chairman of the Democratic Na
tional committee, wired his con
gratulations to Clark who had
promised voters he Would be no
administration "rubber stamp."
Should the senator, With the
tacit support of .Mr. Roosevelt,
seek re-election as an indepen
dent. as he has been urged to do
by his friends and fambers of the
Democratic Liberal wing, it is
agreed that it would be up to
Farley to withdraw his congratu
lations to Clark or to le them
>tand, with or without comment.
A switch in Farley's blessings,
however, it was pointed out,
would put to rest, for the time at
least, long-standing rumors that
(Continued on patfe four)
S.C. CAMPAIGN
ENDS TONIGHT
10-Week State ''Political
Circus" Precedes Vot
ing Tuesday
COLUMBIA, S. C., Aug. 25.
(UP)—Eight South Carolina can
didates for governor ended their
joint campaign tour here last
night at a political rally of 4.U0U
persons.
The candidates, in a long even
ing of oratory, discussed issues
ranging from local law enforce
ment right to sales taxes and ex
tra pay fur legislators.
Tonight, the ten-week state
"political circus" ends here when
the three candidates for the U. S.
senate end their speaking cam
paigns in a join appearance.
The campaign which has feat
ured the issue of "the New Deal
vs. Cotton Ed Smith" (Sen. Elli
son D. Smith) will reach a climax
at the polls next Tuesday.
The senate campaign has pit
ted Smith, marked for defeat by
the national administration against
Gov. Olrn D. Johnston and State
Senator Edgard A. Brown, both
New Deal advocates.
The gubernatorial candidates
are Mayor Burnett R. Maybank
of Charleston, Neville Bennett. D.
T. Blackmon, Wyndham H. Man
ning, John Hughes Cooper, F. M.
Eastterlin, Ben E. Adams, and
Cole L. Blease, former governor
and United States senator.
CONVICTS' DEATHS LAID TO SCALDING
Pennsylvania State authorities arc investigating the deaths of four
convicts who were fourul dead in two adjoining cells of the Phila
delphia county prison at Holmesburg, Pa., under circumstances
that led Coroner Charles M. Hersch to charge that they had been
scalded to death. The men had been paired off in disciplinary con
finement for bcini: leaders of the inmates in a riotous five-day
hunirer strike against prison food. Three of the dead men are
pictured above, left to right: James M. McQuade. Harry Osborne
and Kdward Hayes. The fourth man was Joseph Walter. At right
i> Prison Superintendent William P. .Mills, who suggested the pris
oners may have killed one another fighting.
9SCH00LS OF
COUNTY WILL
OPEN MONDAY
Principals Confer Friday,
4 P. M.; Teachers to
Meet Saturday
County School Superintendent
R. G. Anders today announced
that all the county schools except
ing Balfour and the colored
schools will be owned for the
1 term on Monday. Aug".
29.
Preparatory to the opening of
these nine schools, a meeting of
principals lias been called for Fri
day afternoon at 4 o'clock at the
courthouse and a meeting* of coun
ty school teachers will be held Sat
urday morning at In o'clock, also
at the courthouse.
Supt. Anders -<aid that the con
ference Friday afternoon will be
for the purpose of determining
details of operation for the year,
and at that time agreement would
be reached as to where the em
phasis on the year's school work i
will be laid.
The schools at Oana and Kto 1
wab have been ill operation for a
month. I
I'alfour school is operated con
currently with the city schools and
the colored schools in the county
will open on Sept. 5 in view of
the fact that tlie colored high
school pupils in the county are
transported to the colored high
school in the city for the year's
work.
l.ast year's county school enroll
ment was approximately 5.000 pu- i
pi;- and the number was expected
to be aiound that figure this year.
The county this year will have a
teaching force of 135 people.
CEMETERY CLEANING
SET FOR ST. PAULS
Announcement was made today
that a cemetery cleaning will be
held Monday itt St. Paul's in the
Pines, Edneyville. All residents
were asked by the sponsors to be
present and bring necessary tools.
Those wishing to spend the day
were asked to go provided with
their dinner.
SAY ROOSEVELT MAY INVADE
MARYLAND. MAKE PERSONAL
ATTACK AGAINST TYDINGS
.j>
West Likely to Take Stump
in Ohio, For Hard Press
ed New Dealers
HYDE PARK, Aug. L'5. (UP)
—President Roosevelt scheduled
a conference today with Postmas
ter General Jas. A. Farley which
was expected to include political
discussions involving states where
the New Deal faces primary tights.
It will he the president's second
political canvass in -4 hours and
results of the discussion, it was
said, mi^ht influence the presi
dent to ente! .Maryland for a per
sonal attaek on Senator Millard
Tydings, who is running against
Hep. David Lewis, staunch New
I >ealer.
President Roosevelt yesterday
for the second time this week, dis
cussed the critical Ohio political
situation with Chas. 0. West, his
former congressional contact man,
and it was indicated later that
West will invade the Buckeye
state to stump for hard-pressed
New Deal candidates.
One of Mr. Roosevelt's moat |
ardent supporters, Sen. Robert ,1.
(Continued on page three)
Masons From Two
States Will Gather
Here On Friday
Kedron lodge No. 3K7 A. F. and
A. M. will he host tomorrow to
one of the largest gatherings of
the Masonic order in the state.
Several hundred Masons are
expected here for the activities
which will open at 3:30 o'clock
at Kedron lodge. Following a
meeting there a picnic supper will
be held at the American Legion
home.
An open air gathering at the
rock quarry on the Haywood road
at 7:30 o'clock will he the prin
cipal meeting of the day.
Many Masons from North and
South Carolina, including several
high officials and past masters,
are expected to attend.
Rust Brothers Place Welfare Above
Gain; Would Share Cotton Pickers'
Profits With Employes And Croppers
MEMPHIS, Tenn., Aug. 25.—
(LP)—The Rust brothers, John
and Mack, inventors of a me
chanical cotton picker, today plac
ed human welfare and the eco
nomic stability of the southern
farmer over personal sain in an
nouncing a plan to share profits
of their invention with employes
and sharecroppers.
The brother inventors put u
ceiling on their own incomes from
the machine at 10 times that ol
their lowest paid employe by for
mation of the Kust Foundation,
Incorporated.
Objects of the foundation were,
"In general to promote the well
being of mankind, and in partic
ular to aid in rehabilitation of dis
employed sharecroppers and farm
laborers of the cotton growing
states . . *
The Rusts said their idea was
to make the invention a "blessing;
and not a curse" to the south.
"We hav..> never intended to
use our invention for making
money, but better the condi
tion of southern workers," they
said.
The foundation will receive1
only the Rust brothers' share,
above their income, from the
profit enterprise of the Rust Cot
ton Pickers company. The foun
dation will not affect the hold
ings or dividends of other stock
holders in the manufacturing
company.
In effect, the plan will mean
that the brothers can earn up to
$8,32U a year and still pay their
lowest-paid worker the 40 cents
an hour of the wages and hours
I (Continued on page four) 1
HEAVY STORM
STRIKES CITY
No Material Damage Here
But Houses Unroofed
in Charlotte
A heavy thunderstorm yestei
day afternoon ended 13 days of
drought for Henderson county
and brought relief in one of the
hottest spells «f the summer
The temperature reaolied ^
decrees yesterday and at » o clock
yesterday afternoon only a tew
minutes before the storm, was at
S<^lighle«in«ls, lightning ami thun
der did little damage in tbe c-ou -
ty. so far as could be ascertained
this morning. „.iu%»
The thermometer yestel y
showed a high of 93 degrees a
low of CO degrees and no piecip
itation up t«' the reading
o'clock. . , . i io
Rainfall to date m August i.
1 -47 inches; normal rami all
the month is ti.13 inches.
CHARLOTTE REPORTS
GALE OF 50 MILES
I'HARLOTTE. Aug. 25;*7l
was turned into night at 4:o0 p.
yesterday when high wind* and
driving rain roared down upon
Charlotte, smashed plate u • •
windows, unrooted a
iiijrs sent broken trees hulling
into the streets, and homes, and
disrupted light, telephone. and
telegraph service. ,
The wind, howling out of the
northwest and accompanied ^
vivid lightning and heavy thu
der. stepped up to a gale of 50
miles an hour. .
This fury lasted only one min
ute, but long enough to sinasn
trees and break windows.
During the squall theie
nearly three-quarters ot an im»
°f The' Southern Hell Telephone
company reported approximately
200 telephones were out ot
mission.
The Duke I'ower company ie
ported several fa'hMi power lines.
The c o m p any s dhydroelectri
plant at Mountain Island was ou
of commission. Duke Powei iep i
resentatives said their lines s
fered the worst storm damage in
yC AS portion of the roof
Peidmont building on South ny
on street was ripped off, and ra
poured into the Masonic o
rooms on the upper floGr. .
roof of the main building of the |
Southern Cotton Oil company at ,
101 West Tremont avenue was,
blown off. The damage was erti
mated at several hundred dollars. |
STORM THREATENING
CUBA AND YUCATAN
MIAMI, Fla., Aus. 25. (UP)—
A tropical hurricane, accompan
ied by winds of 75 miles an hour
or higher, roared through the I
northwestern Carribean sea last j
night, carrying a threat to ship
ping and residents in extreme
(Continued on page four)
APPLE MEN IN
ANNUAL TOUR
HEAREXPERTS
Many New Angles of Pro
duction, Marketing
Dared For Them
1 RENEWAL OF HOME
AGENT WORK URGED
The apple growers of Hender
son and I'oik counties observed
their annual tour and picnic in
the orchard of K. I.. Marshall at
Dana yesterday and received in
formation of a type that is not
ordinarily given on such occa
sions.
►Speakers were there from Ka
leigh, the Brushy Mountains ap
ple growing section, Virginia and
W est Virginia.
The unusual type of informa
tion given yesterday was the dem
onstration in apple packing, the
exhibition of various kinds of
boxes in use and the work of the
new experiment station or re- I
search department for the Brushy
j Mountain apple growers.
A tour of Mr. Marshall's orch
ard was made and Mr. Marshall
and H. K. Niswonger, state exten
I sion horticulturist, pointed out
check plots where certain experi
j ments were made with the view
j to more economical spraying.
Several holies attended. Their
program during the orchard tour
; centered around the visit of .Miss
Anne Kowe district home agent
for Western North Carolina. The
ladies prepared the picnic dinner
; and sal in on the afternoon pro
I gram.
The exhibition of several types
of apple boxes and a demonstra-1
tion of various apple packs was a
i feature which the local growers
had not enjoyed before. It was
iegaived as very instructive and
timely in view of the attention
the successful growers are giving
j to the thought of more attractive
packages and better prices.
Secretary Joe (iall of the;
I Southeastern Box and Shook .
Manufacturing association of
(harlotte exhibited several types
of boxes used on the Pacific
coast, in the mid-west. New Kng- :
land states, Virginia and West j
Virginia.
James I,. Manner, tieiii repre
sentative of tlit- National Wooden
Box association of Washington,
1'. an organization to promote
tlu- use of boxes in apple packing,
presented illustrated circulars
and information as to approved
apple boxes used in the eastern
states.
W. S. Canipfield, secretary of I
Hit- Virginia State Horticultural
society of Staunton, Va., who
has been associated with organiz- j
ed fruit growers for many years,
explained the merits of the boxes
on exhibit, as well as the trends i
of the apple trade in the way of
the different packs.
0, M. Lee, of Winchester, Va., |
who supervises the packing of,
Senator H. F. Byrd's apples from '
the extensive Byrd orchards, gave |
interesting demonstrations on ap- j
pie packing that proved very in
teresting: to the growers.
Farm Agent G. D. White, win,
working in conjunction with Mr.
Niswonger, planned the orchard
tour, presided at the noon and af
ternoon program. He began by ,
asking the Rev. L. H. Gardner to j
invoke the blessing at the picnic
dinner.
C. K. Miller, secretary-manager
of the Appalachian Apples, Inc., |
of Martinsburg, W. Va., an organ
ization that serves the growers of j
West Virginia, Virginia, Maryland |
and Pennsylvania, explained some
of tiie selling problems of the ap- I
pie industry and the method by
which his organization served to
widely advertise their product. i
Mr. Miller pointed out keen I
competition in the way of the in
creased demand for citrus fruits
and the tremendous growing use
of a larger number of vegetables,
both of which had caused a de
cline in the consumption of ap
ples. He said apple publicity in
various forms was needed to hold
the original place of apples in the '
minds of the consumers. He said
his organization was now in its
third year and was supported by
an advertising fund of one cent
a bushel by the members which it
served.
C. E. VanDeman, assistant
state horticulturist, who is in
charge of the new research and
experimental bureau in the
Brushy Mountain apple district,
told of the functions of his sta
tion and the seasonal activities of
orchard pests and of their control
by sprays. He recommended thor
(Continued on page five) .
BRITAIN PLANS
NEW MOVE TO
EASE TENSION
Re-definition of Policy Ex
pected to Strengthen
French War Ties
JAPS FLANK HANKOW;
DEADLOCK IN SPAIN
(By United Press)
Great Britain today prepared
for another firm move toward re
ducing Europe's war fever.
The indication was that Prime
Minister Chamberlain would meet
the demand for the re-definition
of Britain's position within a few
days and that England would give
renewed, if not firmer, assuranc
es of British support for France
in the event of war over Czecho
slovakia.
It was believed that by such a
move Chamberlain's government
would seek to regain ground re
cently lost in the struggle for
consolidation of Europe's peace.
Meantime, Germany paraded
01,000 soldiers and batteries of
artillery past Charlottenburg col
lege, where Fuehrer Hitler stood
as guest of honor.
111 Spain, the battle on the
Ebro river front continued dead
locked with an estimated 80.01)0
loyalists and (I0,00U.
In China, Japanese armies be
gan an extended enveloping
movementdesigned to cut off
Hankow from both tin* north and
south.
At Hong Kong, the British gun
boat Cicala radioed that she had
found the Chinese civil airplane
submerged at a spot near where
Japanese airplanes forced it
down yesterday and machine-gun
ned the men, women and children
aboard. The Cicala reported that
bodies could be seen in the plane.
MISTRIAL HELD
IN CIVIL CASE
Court Rules Developments
at Trial Alter Aspects
of the Issues
Judge (J. V. Cowper, presiding
over a special civil term of the
superior court, yesterday directed
a mistrial in the case of Jessica
Maloney Harvey vs. the American
Oil company, a corporation, and
S. J. Bryson.
The litigation was concerned
with the purchase of the filling
station property at Sixth avenue
and Main street by Mrs. Harvey
and the lease held by the defend
ants on the property.
An agreement between Mrs.
Harvey as purchaser and W. H.
Hodges who previously owned the
property was introduced by the
defense Tuesday afternoon which
altered the aspects of the case
considerably and Judpe Cowper
declared a mistrial.
CITRUS PLANTER DIES
WINTER HAVEN, Fla., Aug.
25. (UP) — Robt. E. Chambers,
prominent citrus grove owner and
for fifteen years secretary-treas
urer of the Florence-Villa Citrus
Growers association, died yester
day.
Model Husband
Slays His Rival
Her husband was "'the ideal
man" but she loved another,
Mrs. Margaret Sikora, 22, at
top, told Chicago police after
model husband Rudolph, lower
photo, pumped five bullets into
Edward Solomon, the other
man. "Rudy always gave me
his paycheck, but Eddy gave
me romance and love," ex
plained Mrs. Sikora.
1R. P. PLANS
LAYMEN'S DAY
Rev. Dr. Speer to Be Chief
Speaker at Bonclarken
Friday
Rev R E. Speer, D.D., of New
York, who will deliver the princi
pal address at the layman's day
program of the Christian Worker's
conference of the Associate Re
formed Presbyterian church now
being held at Bonclarken.
Dr. Speer will speak at 11:30
a. m. on Friday. Immediately
preceding his address, Dr. E. L.
Reid of Erskine college will speak
to the elders and Dr. Julian Miller
of Charlotte, editor of the Char
lotte Observer, will speak to the
deacons. Those will be at 10:20
a. in.
Vesper services will be con
ducted by Miss Minnie Alexander
of India, and the evening services
will be addressed by Dr. W. C.
Robinson of Columbia Theological
seminary at Decatur, Ga.
The conference will close on
Sunday.
U. S. Will Protest To Japanese
Censoring Of Atrocity In Deaths
Aboard Chinese Civilian Airship
1
SHANGHAI, Aug. 25. (UP) —
The U. S. consulate today will
protest against Japanese censor
ship of dispatches on the forcing
down and machine-gunning of a
Chinene National airliner by Jap
anese planes near Canton yester
day.
Censorship was lifted this morn
ing.
It was understood the British
consulate also will protest.
Earlier Japanese censors had
?aid the Japanese navy ordered
ill news of the incident sent here
from Hong Kong held up until it
;ould be checked. A spokesman
denied responsibility for inform
ing news agencies when incoming 1
dispatches were censored. How- j
?ver, the agencies usually are not- j
ified when outgoing messages are j
ielayed, . j
Most Hong Kong dispatches to
the United States are routed
through Shanghai.
HONG KONG, Aug. 25. (UP)
—The U. S. gunboat Mindanao |
arrived today with Hugh L. I
Wood of Winfield, Kan., pilot of
a Chinese airliner which was,
forced dowri by Japanese planes,
reportedly with loss of 13 lives. 1
Wood said that at least sevei'al :
of his 17 passengers were killed j
when the Japanese planes ma-1
chined-gunned them as they j
struggled to reach shore after the
airliner was forced down in the
Pearl River, near Canton.
It was announced officially that
13 of the 17 Chinese passengers
were dead or missing.
Wood was 'expected to report
(Continued on page four)
LABOR BOARD
AND LAW BAR
TO RECOVERY
Stand Taken After Presi
dent And Green Admit
Changes Needed
TO CONSULT"MANY
AS TO AMENDMENTS
WASHINGTON, Aug. 25. (UPf
President George Davis of the U
S. Chamber of Commerce t-jday
proposed broad changes in the
Wagner Labor Relations Act and
asserted that both it and its
administration exerted influence-,
working strongly against tlu- j>h
tion's economic recovery.
Davis urged congress to adopt
amendments:
1.—To make the closed s>hop
illegal ;
2.—Tu ban sympathetic strike-;
3.—To forbid strikes in viola
tion of any contract or law;
4.—To protect employes against
interference by labor unions in
right of self-organization;
5.—To do away with the exclu
sive bargaining rights graifted
unions representing a majority of
employers' workers.
Davis' proposals, he said, repre
sented the views of his organiza
tion which is convinced that "pro
ceedings of the labor board have
not been fair and impartial" an»1
that there "has been ample dem
i onstration of the fact that the
I legislation has not fulfilled it*
stated purpose of lessening indus
, trial disputes."
I The W'agner act changes desired
' by the chamber were made public
| only a few days after President
Roosevelt had confirmed that he
( and President William Green of
the American Federation of La
bor were in accord on the neces
sity of clarifying the statute. Mr.
Roosevelt indicated that eniploy
: ers, labor representatives and th<*
j National Labor Relations board
probably would be consulted about
! specific amendments before con
, gress reconvenes.
Committee for Industrial Or
I ganization Chairman John L.
Lewis and his organization art
pledged to oppose any modifica
tion of the law.
The chamber's last annual con
vention urged outright repeal oi
I the law. But Davis proposed four
' principles to which he said M
i should adhere "if the act w to b<
continued."
ALLIANCE TO RAISE
ELECTION FUNDS
WASHINGTON, Aug. 25. (UK
—David Lasser, president of the
Workers Alliance, today discussed
with Chairman Morris Sheppatd
of the senate campaign invest*
gating committee the propriety ol
campaign contributions by \\ FA.
workers.
Lasser said after the conference
that his organization would >;«>
ahead with plans to rai>e a $50,
000 campaign fund.
WPA Administrator Hopkins
had said previously that he be
lieved contributions bv WPA
workers were legal but neverthe
less inadvisable.
Set Registration
For Immaculata
School Sept. 1-2
Immaculata School on Oakland
street will have registration on
Thursday. Sept. 1, and Friday,
Sept. 2, from 9:30 a. m. to 6 p. in.
on both days. Anyone desiring in
formation before the above dates
may call at the school or tele*
phone 1064.
Former students as well as those
entering for the first time are re
quested to register.
Children are received from the
sub-primary age through the 8tli
grade.
Besides the regular grammar
school studies, French is taught
from the sub-primary through all
the grades. Needlework, arts and
crafts and music are also taught.
Special attention is given to char
acter training.
MT. HOME BAPTIST
SINGING SET SUNDAY
An all-day singing will be held
at Mt. Home Baptist church in
honor of "Uncle" Wade H.
Humphries, as that has been his
regular date to be with those
singers for several years.
Everybody is cordially invited
to attend, especially all singers.
Those interested are urged to at
tend and bring well-filled baskets.
MIAMI BOY DROWNS
MIAMI, Fla., Aug. 25. <UP) —
Richard Moorman, 14, of Miami,
was drowned yesterday while
swimmig in a lake at Greynolds
Park with several companions.