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TWENTY-SECOND YEAR
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Fourteen Dead, Property Loss Os Millions In New York Floods
VIOLENT RAIN AND
ELECTRIC STORMS
HARDEST IN TEARS
Bridges and Raiiroad Tracks
Washed Out and High
ways flooded in
Many Sections
BUSES, AUTOMOBILES
UNABLE TO PROCEED
Gas and Electric Services
Suspended and Hundreds
Driven from Homes In Low
lands Area; State and Red
Cross Called on To Admin
ister Relief
Albany. N. Y.. July 8. —(API —Up-
State New York counted 14 known
dead, four missing and property dam
age in the millions of dollars in
the wake of the most violent rain
and elects ic storm in recent' years.
Bridges and railroad tracks were
washed o ll t. highways flooded, buses
and automobiles marooned, gas and
electric services suspended in Bath
and Hornell. Hundreds were driven
frcm their homes in lowlands.
The American Red Cross and Gov
ernor Herbert H. Lehman sought im
mediate reports of the damage as oi- j
ficial machinery was set in motion, to j
relieve suffering.
Mayor Leon F. Wheatley, of Hor- j
r.ell. appealed to the State temporary !
relief administration for funds to pro- j
vide food and clothing for persons |
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Cotton Crop
Second Least
For 30 Years
Washington, July 8- —(AP) —Esti.
mating that 29.166.000 acres of cotton
were in cultivation on July 1, the De
partment of Agriculture today said
that, with the exception of 1934, this
was the smallest July 1 acreage re
ported since 1905.
The current total was said to bn
an increase of 4.6 percent over July
1 1934, but 28.6 percent less than tha
average acreage for the five-year pe
riod 1929-33.
The department’s report showed in
creases for all major states except
Oklahoma, ranging frolfc four percent
in North Carolina to ten percent in
Louisiana. A decrease of seven per
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BE CONNOR’S AIDE
Washington, July 8 (AP)—Presi
dent Roosevelt today sent to the Sen
ate the nomination of Thaddeus S.
Page, of North Carolina, to be admin
istrative secretary to R. D. W. Con
nor, national archivist, who was form
erly a professor of history at the Uni
versity of North Carolina.
Rockefeller
Passes 96th
Anniversary
VY orld’s Richest Man
Still Has 19 Natural
Teeth and Is In
Good Health
Lakewood, N. J., July 8-—(AP) —
John D. Rockefeller, Sr., was four
score and sixteen today and enjoyed
the best of health in years.
Routine in “golf house” with its 25
servants remained unchanged, with
any birthday observance barred. The
nonagenarian’s son, John D. Rocke
feller, Jr., spent the day with him.
“He hasn’t felt better in many
years” the son said.
His dentist Dr. Max Goldstein, re
ported that the annual examination
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ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA AND VIRGINIA. *
\s Ethiopians Prepare for War
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Newest pictures from Abyssinia show soldiers of Emperor Haile Selassie,
eauipped with modern arms, training near Addis Abada for the threat*
ened war with Italy. Note the eoldiers are barefooted. The Italian
forces are said to be eauipped with • gaa to burn the feet of the defenders.
(Central Press)
Press Paralysis
Preventive Drive;
Peak Likely Near
Raleigh, July 8 (AP)—A three-way
preventive and treatment program
was under way in North Carolina to
day in the campaign medical science
in making against infantile paralysis
at the State's record-breaking flare of
the disease saw eight new cases listed
today to make 320 this year.
The new cases came, three from
Guilford county and one each from
Davidson, Duplin, Gaston. Vance and
Warren, as the disease continued to
center in the middle part of the State.
Figure* at the health office showed
there
63 the week before. 60 the week end
ing June 22. and 57 the week ending
June 15. making the incidence last
week the lowest in a month.
Dr. Carl V. Reynolds, State health
SacSy
Few Details Left Before
PWA Grant for Port Ter
minals Is Given
•Raleigh, July 8 (AP) —Governor Eh
ringhaus g£id today it would be “some
days yet” before the contract between
the Morehead City Port Commission
and the Federal Public Works Admin
istration will be signed so that a $297,-
500 PWA loan will be available for
port terminals at Morehead City.
“The port commission is the agency
which applied for the money, and the
loan will be made to it.” Governor Eh
ringhaus said. “The contract must be
signed by the officials of the Atlantic
and North Carolina railroad and the
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PIRATES MAKE HAUL
ON GAMBLING BARGE
Long Beach, Cal., July 8 (AP)—
Five pirates today boarded the lux
urious gambling barge, Monte
Carlo chained its crew and escap
ed with what Ed Turner, owner of
the boat, estimated was $32,000 in
cash and jewelry.
LEASED WIRE SERVICE OF
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS.
HENDERSON, N. C. MONDAY AFTERNOON, JULY 8,1935
officer, pointed out that a vaccine pre
ventive campaign is under way in
Greensboro and that studies bing car
ried on in connection with it by Dr.
Lloyd Aycock, of the Harvard Infan
tile Paralysis Commission, may make
“one of the greatest contributions yet
made in prevention of poliomolyetis.”
PARALYSIS MAY BE NEAR
PEAK; EXODUS CONTINUES
Dully Dispatch Bureau,
In the Sir Walter Hotel,
BY J, G. BASKERVILL,
Raleigh, July B.—ln spite of advice
from health authorities that there is
no need to become hysterical over the
over the infantile epidemic in North
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Real Reason for Motor Ve
hicle Head Resigning
Not As Yet Clear
Dally Dispatch Bureau,
In the Si- Walter Hotel,
BY J. C. BASKERVILL,
Raleigh, July 3.—Political circles
here are busy speculating as to who
will be appointed the new director ot
the motor vehicle division of the De
partment of Revenue, to succeed L.
S. (Pete) Harris, who recently resign
ed. There is also considerable specul
ation as to why Harris resigned, since
he had been with the Department of
Revenue for some 13 years, the last
four or five years as director of tho
motor vehicle and license division.
He has been regarded as one of the
most efficient division heads in the
department and was one of the few
division men who retained his posi
tion in the reorganization of the de
partment by Assistant Commissioner
of Revenue M- C. S. Noble, Jr., the
governor’s "trouble shooter,” in reor
ganizing the department a year or so
ago. It was commented on at the
time that fewer changes were made
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Six New Yorkers
Drown In Floods
Ithaca. N Y , July 8 (AP)—Six
persons drowned today in flood
swollen creeks In southern New
York, two when their car was swept
from a highway by high waters
and four others when a bridge on
which they were standing collapsed.
Arthur Brokaw and Miss Alice
Ferris, both of Interlaken, Seneca
county, drowned? when their car
was washed fromjthe Elmira-Ithaca
highway near Buttermilk Falls,
John Solomon and his three sons
all of Myers, Tompkins county,
were swept awa| r when a bridge
over swollen Salmon creek col
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PRACTICALLY DEAD
THROUGHOUT STATE
Decisive Wet Majorities in
Nine Counties Last Sat
urday May Prove
Body Blow
PROHIBITION LONG
MOCKERY IN STATE
Swing of Every Voting
County for Control Indi
cates Displeasure at Sham
of Enforcement; Bootlegg
ing Carried on Nearly
Everywhere i nState.
Dally Dispatch Biiteam,
Iw the S|r Walter Hotel,
BY J, C. 3ASKERVILL.
Raleigh, July 8. —The Turlington
Act, on its last legs for the past two
years, is now gasping for breath, al
most dead and ready to be carried
out by the undertaker. Badly buffet
ed in the 1935 General Assembly, the
State’s bone-dry prohibition law em
erged from the recent legislative ses
sion in a greatly emaciated condition
(CSontlnii*»«H on Papa P''lT)
Huey Long’s
Power Is Now
Made Perfect
Baton Rouge, La., July 8 (AP) —The
Louisiana legislature today wrote final
approval on 25 bills completing Sen
ator Huey P. Long’s State “dictator
ship” by destroying all local political
patronage and tinghtening his hold on
governmental functions and then ad
journed.
The special session, which ended
shortly after midnight with six others
held since last December, gave Sena
tor Long virtually every power pos
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Rookies In
New Patrol
Cut To 102
In the sir Welter Hotel,
Dally Dispatch Bareat,
AY J. C. BASKERVILL.
Raleigh, July 8. —Only 102 of the
145 or 150 highway patrol “rookies”
who reported to the special highway
patrol training school a week ago to
day were able to pass the stiff phy
sicial examinations given and the
more or lees strenuous physical ex
ercises given during the first week,
according to Assistant Commissioner
of Revenue M. C. S- Noble, Jr., who
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FOR NORTH CAROLINA.
Mostly cloudy tonight and Tues
day, with occasional showers in
east and central portions; slightly
cooler tonight in extreme south
west portion.
Duce’s Sons to Fly in Africa
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Bruno Mussolini Premier Mussolini Vittorio Mussolini
Setting an example for the country Premier Mussolini granted permisSio*
for his two aviator sons, Bruno and Vittorio, to join the Italian forces
preparing to invade Abyssinia. This is the most recent picture of
II Dues and his flying sons. (Central Press)
9 Other Counties
Voted Saturday To
Get Liquor Stores
Rocky Mount, July 8 (AP) —Mac-
clesfield, a small Edgecombe coun
ty vilage, was doing a thriving
business stoday as the second liquor
store in the county was opened this
morning.
The opening was uneventful with
a number of country folk on hand
to see the operation and a few of
them carrying away samples of the
first “store-bought” rum they had
ever seen.
Raleigh, July B.—(AP) —With liquor
control advocates having made vir
tually a clean sweep so far, the last
tw 0 counties of the 18 which were
authorized by the 1935 legislature to
hold referendums will vote tomorrow.
The counties which remain to vote
BOWMAN GUAY. BIG
TOBACCO MAN, DIES
Chairman of Board of Rey
nolds Company Passes on
Long Boat Trip
Winston-Salem, July 8 (AP) —A
wire received here today by James
A. Gray, brother of Bowman Gray,
who died at sea yesterday, said
that burial would be at sea tonight
at 7:40 o’clock, Winston-Salem
time. The sea burial was re
quested by the dying man. it was
said.
Aboard the S. S. July
B.—(AP)—-Bowman Gray, chairman of
the board of the R. J. Reynolds To
bacco Company ,died aboard ship yes
terday after a heart attack.
He was stricken Friday while on a
North Cape cruise.
Bowman Gray, of Winston-Salem,
N. C., was graduated from the Univer
sity of North Carolina in 1892. He
was married to the former Natalie F.
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George W. Hill, 51,
Tobacco Head, Weds
His Own Secretary
London, July B.—(AP) George
Washington Hill. 51, president of the
American Tobacco Company married
his 39-year-old secretary, Mary
Barnes, in the Caxton Hall register
office today.
The ceremony, which was witnessed
by nine persons, was performed 1?y
J. p. Bond, deputy register.
The wedding of the “million-dollar
a-year executive” and his secretary
cost in fees and licenses two pounds.
14 shillings and seven pence—about
$13.15. ' ,
Hill smiled to the right and left
as u e left the office, following the
ceremony, but the bridge looked
straight ahead.
PUBLISHED EVERY AFTERNOON
EXCEPT SUNDAY.
are Greene, in the eastern part of the
State, and Rockingham in the north
central part of the State, abutting
“wet” Virginia.
In Greene county, as in New Han
over county, which has already voted
wet, officials have been restrained by
a court order from opening liquor
dispensaries until the Supreme Court
passes on the constitutionality of the
liquor control act, probably late in
the fall.
Nine counties voted Saturday. All
favored the opening of liquor stores
by large majorities, except in Car
teret, where the result was still in
doubt Reports from 14 out of 26
precincts in Carteret gave the con.
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CONGRESS LOBBIES
ARE UNPRECEDENTED
I
But People Have Right to
Make Known Their Views
On Legislation
By CHARLES P. STEWART
Central Press Staff Writer
Washington, July B.—Lobbying, for
and against bills pending on Capitol 1
Hill, unquestionably has reached un.
precedented proportions at the cur
rent session of Congress.
President Roosevelt’s blast in op
position to the eveil (If it be an evil)
has served to concentrate especial at
tention on it, too.
Nevertheless, just why folk, whe
think that some proposed new law
would be a good or a bad thing,
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SCHOOL REPAIRING
State Does Not Now and
Never Has Furnished
Maintenance Money
Dally Dispute* Bnreaa,
, In the Sfr Waiter Hotel.
BY 3. C. BASKERVILL.
Raleigh, July 8. —If school buildings
need repairs or additional equipment,
the repairs and equipment must be
paid for from county or . city funds
set aside for maintenance of plant,
since the State school law never ha»
made any provision whereby State
funds may be used either for repair
ing school buildings or for the pur
chase of new equipment, it was stat
ed here today at the offices of the
State School Commission.
Consequently, the letter which So
licitor Zeb V. Nettles, of Ashevoille
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, TODAY
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MORGENTHAU SAYS
SUM COULD BE HAD
FROWI NEW LEVIES
Testifies Before House As
Hearing On New Propo
sal Are Begun
There
RECOMMENDATIONS
NOT BEING GIVEN
White House Says Treasury
Head LVterely Making Esti
mates on Schedules Sug
gested by Committee;
Roosevelt Wants Levies
Limited to Three-Point
Slate
Washington, July B.—(AP) The
opinion that wealth distribution taxes
could be levied to raise $118,000,000
to $901,500,000 annually was expressed
to the House Ways and Means Com
mittee today by Secretary Morgen
ihau.
While he was testifying, the White
House emphasized that the adminis
tration was making no specific re
commendations on tax rates and that
Morgenthau was simply presenting
estimates based on schedules suggest
ed by committee members.
A plain intimation was given at the
White House that President Roose.
velt expected the new tax bill to be
confined to the three points he sug
gested to Congress—levies on high in
heritances, on high incomes and a
graduated corporation tax to replace
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Claims House
Members Met
Power Lobby
Washington, July B.—(AP)—Repre
sentative Rankin, Democrat, Missis
sippi, said in a statement today he
was reliably informed that “certain
members” of the House Military Com
mittee “who are fighting the admin
istration on the TVA bill” met with
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Begin Picking of
Jury for Convict
Case in Charlotte
Charlotte. July 8 (AP) —'Selection of
a jury to try five former convict camp
officials charged with mistreating
.two young Negro prisoners so that
their feet had to be amputated was
begun in Mecklenburg Superior Court
shortly before noon today.
As examination of the regular ve
nire began, Judge Wilson Warlick ord
ered a special venire of 50 persons
drawn in order that there might be no
delay should the regular panel provide
insufficient.
Counsel on both sides indicated they
did not expect completion of the jury
before tomorrow.
Italy Speeds
Mobilization
Os Soldiers
War in Ethiopia Now
Considered Certain
Even Before Rainy
Season Ends
Rome. July B.—(AP) —Italy stepped
up concentration of troops for action
in East Africa today and some ob
servers predicted warfare between
Italy and Ethiopia before the rainy
season ends in September.
The black shirt divisions, it was
disclosed; have been increased In
strength from 12,000 to 15,000 men.
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