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Henderson daily dispatch., 1936-05-16
FOURTH DESPERATE
TAKEN IN OKLAHOMA
Four of Eight Who Broke from Peni-
tertiary in Bloody Battle Still
At Large

Ant'ers, Okla, May 16-(AP)-The
wounded Jess Cunningham, one Of
eight desperate convicts who escaped
from McAlester penitentiary Wednes-
day, was captured today by officers
at a farm home one mile south of
here.
Previously young farmer living
three miles west of Clayton, Okla,
had been kidnapped by two of the
fugitive COnvicts and forced to &C.
company the desperadoes, who were
on foot, Hugh Askew, a posse leader,
reported to prison officials.
The trail of the convicts remained
hot after the capture late last night
of Claude Pugh, who came out of a.
small farm building near McAlester
begging for mercy. He was surround
ed by posse ordered to "shoot to
kill"
Pugh and Cunningham were the
third and fourth of the desperate
gang to be taken, and four remained
at large, believed to be hovering in
thicket hideaways in this rugged cor
ner of southeastern Oklahoma.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1936-05-16
.HOEY POINTS OUT
M'DONALD'S TAXES
Asks If People of State
Want Them; Says Pro-
posals Impossible
Daily Dispatch Bureqd.
I'm The Sir Walter Hotel
Nv Il G. ASK En- VIII.

Raleigh, May 16-The program
which DR.. Ralph w. Mcdonald is pro
posing for North Carolina, especially
his tax and spending program, calling
for the abolition of $1O,000,0OO of pre-
sent State revenue, but for an in
crease in expenditures of from $15,-
100000 to $2O,O0O,OOO more than the
State is now spending, should be care
fully considered by the people of the
State, Clyde r. Hoey, one of the can
didates for the Democratic nominal
ton for governor, said here today in
a special interview with this bureau.
"The program being advocated by
DR.. Mcdonald, which will require be-
tween $25,000,00O and $30,0OO,00O in
new taxes if the sales tax is removed,
as he promises it will be, should
cause the people of the State to stop
and ask if 1t can be done as DR.. Nc
Donald says it can. They have had
experience with taxes on land so high
that the farmers could not pay them,
so that the counties or mortgage hold
ers had to foreclose. They have seen
the State run behind and pile up a
huge debt. The people of North Car
DINA should give sober, second tho
ught before entering upon a wild ex-
pertinent It is impossible to repeal all
the taxes to which everybody objects
and at the same time provide appro-
priations which everybody wants
These two extremes can wreck the
State financially-and probably will
if attempted.
Some Alternatives.
CDR. Mcdonald of course, says that
those who are opposing his program
have adopted the philosophy of IT
can't he DONE, while the philosophy
of the young Winston-Salem philoso-
pher is that 1T can be done But in
order to do the things DR.. Mcdonald
is promising to do, I contend that he
will either have to go back to the tax
program he proposed in the 1885 Cen
eral Assembly and greatly augment
it. or do one or all of the following
things:
Il. Put heavy Statewide tax back
on land.
"2. Cripple the schools by giving
them less instead of more funds than
they are now getting.
IS. Create a vast deficit in the State
treasury.
a. End all possibility of old age
pensions and old age security.
LET us take a look at how DR.. Nc
Donald proposes to raise the addi-
tional revenue Of from $25,0OO,O to
$40, 900, 900 and see how inadequate il
is. He promised tax on the divid-
ends of domestic corporations in the
1885 General Assembly which he said
would yield 100000 year. But DR.
Hoeer, of the University of North Car
DINA, after studying the proposal, said
it would not yield more than $500 .OOC
a year, or only about one-sixth Of the
amount DR.. Mcdonald said it would
So this proposal falls short Inv 3d.
Continued ON Eaoa Four
Henderson daily dispatch., 1936-05-16
Cotton On
Loan BEING
Wthdru1Vn

Washington, May 16.-(AP)-The
Commodity Credit Corporation said
today farmers have applied for re-
lease of 724,107 bales of cotton which
had been held under 12-cent govern
ment loans since 1884.
The corporation began several
weeks ago to permit withdrawal and
sale by farmers of 100000 of the
total of 100000 bales of cotton held
under the loans.
The Senate this week adopted a re-
solution by Senator Smith, Democrat,
South Carolina, limiting the with
drawal of the loan cotton to 100000
bales, instead of 100000 as provided
by the Commodity Credit Corporation.
This resolution has been sent to the
House for action.
The Farm Administration said to-
day that stocks of the Cotton Pro-
ducers Pool as of yesterday totalled
212,315 bales of spot cotton, and ST.
500 bales Of futures contracts.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1936-05-16
ISSUES AVOIDED IN =.
BOTH PARTY CAMPS
Borah Denounces Old Guard
But Does Not Point the q.
Way Forward
BY LESLIE EICIIEL

1T WAS A REVEALING fight that
Senator William E. Borah put up in
Ohio: In this primary campaign for
presidential delegates, the entire I'M
escapable politico-economic issue was
uncovered-and both sides tried to
sidestep.
Here was Senator Borah defying
his own party, the Republican, as we'll
as the Democratic party, to tell the
truth. And here he was, too, faced
with his own beliefs and not being
able to satisfy them.
To those who followed this cam
paign, as did this writer, there SEEM
ed a new epoch dawning-but an
epoch which we, perhaps, will not en-
ter. An epoch reserved for the COM
ing generation. Not an easy epoch
rather, one of sharply contesting
forces.
Why does one write this? Well, to
those of us not past middle age the
arguments used in this bristling, bit
ter campaign seemed aged and tot
tering. The words might have been
uttered by gentlemen of the first
water-yet they failed to satisfy. We
observed that large part of the null
titude thought the words outworn
Nevertheless, more forceful words
were spoken than will be heard at
either major party convention Here
were issues debated with unreserl ed
fervor. It was a revealing pr .rnary
campaign to the student Of political
r'ctory.
Nc that it will go dovl into his
t.,y but it may be one of the las:
n estones of passing epoch.
TURNS ON HAMILTON
For Republican to turn on Alex
andcr Hamilton is sacrilege. Yet here
was Senator Borah asserting that
Hamilton could not understand a
democracy and had formulated all his
ideas SO that private interests would
rule. e
And they were ruling.
For, Senator Borah shouted, "the
oil companies, the utilities, the du-
Points, the Browns of Ohio, the Edges
of New Jersey, the FIilleses of New
York are defenders of the economic
system under which price fixing and
monopoly flourish"
Winding up his Ohio campaign with
Continued on Page Eour.)
Henderson daily dispatch., 1936-05-16
Paris Indicates First Move.
Toward Adjustment
Likely To Come
From London
WANT u. S. AID TO
PREVENT NEW WAR
Influential" Group of Poll
ticians in London Report:
ed Urging Resumption of
Negotiations With Anne
RIGA; Group May Enter A
New Cabinet

London, May 16 (AP)-The
long dormant war debt issue
came to life anew today with
reports that strong British
leaders sought a settlement with
the United States.
The question was revived here just
day after Leon Blum, Frances So
cialist leader and premier-to-be, an
nounced that he would like to see the
debt misunderstanding erased, with
Paris indicating the first move was
likely to come from London.
In the background of the renewed
consideration of the problem left by
THE World War, informed sources
said, rested possibility of gaining
American assistance in any general,
economic organization to help avert
danger of new war.
While government diplomats scott
ed ct reports that new move was
afoot for settlement. The Daily Her
aid said an influential group of
British politicians were urging re-
organization of negotiation with the
United States.
The Herald's report of a campaign
for debt settlement, without NAM
ing the personalities involved, said
they were conservatives, at present,
outside Prime Minister Stanley Bald
wins cabinet and were likely to be
included in the ministry.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1936-05-16
LAWYER ACCUSED BY
SMITH SURRENDERS
A. H. Ross Charged bv Son of Former
Governor With Extortion of
Huge Sums

New York, May 16.-(AP)-A. H
Ross, Brooklyn lawyer, jointly indict-
ed with M. d. Krone, private de-
tective, after Alfred E. Smith, Jr.,
signed a complaint charging extortion
surrendered today at the offise of AS
sstant District Attorney John T. Sui
Ivan.
Smith, son of the former governor,
said he was forced to pay out $4,000
after he had been threatened with ex-
posture because he accompanied a
young woman to a West 23rd street
hotel in 1888.
Both Smith and the young woman,
Katherine Paclick, testified before the
grand jury. Smith, a lawyer, has been
estranged from his wife since 1882.
Krone was placed in the lineup at
police headquarters this morning and
briefly questioned. Asked if the
charges of extortion were true, he re-
Piled:
The criminal allegations are not
true"
Henderson daily dispatch., 1936-05-16
ThreeDead
InCunfight
In Virginia
Sheriff Killed And
Negro He Tried To
Arrest and His Sis
ter Dead

Gordonsville, Va, May 16.-(AP)-
A savage gun battle that lasted far
into, the night left three persons dead
today one a white officer, the others
an aging Negro and his sister, who
toppled wounded or slain into the
funeral pyre of their burning cottage.
Five officers and possee members
were wounded, three of them so seri-
ously as to require hospital treatment,
before a possee member crept close
to the Negroes tenant home and set
it afire
The dead:
Sheriff William B. Young, of
Orange county
William Wells, the Negro.
Cora Wells, his sister
Sheriff Young was shot to death
by Wells during the afternoon as he
and a state patrolman tried to ar
rest the Negro on an accusation of
a wealthy white woman that he had
threatened her with a gun in a near
by cemetery.
Young was felled with a bullet in
the heart, and the patrolman was
wounded in the arm and leg.
Other officers in the party summon
ed State officers and a posse of cit
liens which swelled at the height Of
battle to nearly 300.
AS machine gun fire swelled, a
State officer crawled close to an out
house and flung his burning shirt,
which he had dipped into gasoline
into the building. The fire spread
rapidly to the cottage and a final
burst of shooting followed.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1936-05-16
Breaking Into Political Are
ma by Becoming Dele
gates in Both Durham
and Wake
YOUNGER NEGROES
ARE FOR NEW DEAL
Older Ones More Like Elder
Statesmen Among White
Democrats and Are Con-
sentative; Some Negro
Leaders in Durham Coun-
tv Are Pointed to
Daily Dispatch Bureau.
In The Sir Walter Hotel,
r., IL La EIR WILL.

Raleigh, MAY 16-The unusual in
terest which the Negroes in Raleigh
and Wake county are taking in Demo
cratic affairs and their activity in the
precinct meetings and expected activ-
ity in the county convention here to-
day, are causing both comment and
some concern in political circles
here. The Negro leaders frankly ad-
nit that their principal reason for
this interest and activity in Demo
cratic affairs is that they are con-
WINGED they have nothing to hope for
from the Republican party and that
the New Deal" in Washington, as
we'll as the New Deal' being promis-
ed by DR.. Ralph w. Mcdonald, one
of the four Democratic candidates for
the nomination for governor, looks
very attractive to them-rnOre attrac-
tive than anything the Republicans
have ever offered them.
Two Negro Delegates
At least two Negro delegates will
sit in the Wake county Democratic
convention here this afternoon, hav-
ing been elected as delegates in pre-
cinct meetings here last Saturday,
While an eIIOrC was W NC 11AduS w
the Rev. c.. A. Fisher, rector of st.
Ambrose Episcopal church (Negro)
to have additional Negro delegates
seated from another Negro precinct.
He told newspapermen here yesterday
that but for the fact that the precinct
meeting chairman set up his watch
last Saturday and held the precinct
meeting and adjourned it before the
Negro delegation arrived, they would
have elected several more Negro dele
gates to the county convention Fish
er also predicted that at least four
Negro delegates would be elected to
the State Democratic Convention to
be held here in June-two from Wake
county and at least two from Dur
ham county.
The two Negro delegates elected to
the Wake county Democratic conven-
ton are F. J. Carnage and DR.. L. T.
Delaney, Negro physician, whose
Continued on Page Eight.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1936-05-16
Georgia Votes 70
Be for Roosevelt

Atlanta, Ga, May 16.-(AP)-
Georgia Democrats will cast their
"a votes for President. Roosevelt
at the Philadelphia National con-
ventiOn June %.
President Roosevelt was the only
entry for the State presidential
preferential primary at the regis
tratiOn deadline at p. m. Central
daylight time) today.
Hence, the primary arranged for
June 3, will be called off.
The Presidents $4,000 entrance
fee will be returned to friends who
contributed it, and Roosevelt will
name the slate of delegates.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1936-05-16
Compromise on Tax Issue
Offers More Complica-
tons for Solons,
However
NORMAL TAX UPON
INCOMES TO CLIMB
Chairman Harrison Predicts
Committee Will Have Bill
Before Senate by Middle
of Next Week; May Use
Some of Old Sums Unex-
pended

Washington, May 16 (AP)-
Bent on adiourning Congress
in three weeks, New Deal Leg
islators sought today to smooth
the way for the 81, 900, 900
relief appropriations and to
compromise on the tax issue.
The latter was the more compli-
Gated problem. The Senate Finance
Committee was putting into shape to-
day a tentative compromise propos-
al including an increase from four to
five percent in the normal tax on all
individual incomes.
Some committeeman felt the pro-
posal in which President Roosevelt's
suggestion for tax undistributed pro-
fits would be comparatively minor
feature might be approved by the com
mttee today.
Awaiting Treasury estimates on a
proposed compromise, which would in
clude an increase in the tax rate on
individual incomes, the committee dis
cussed technical phases of the wind
fall' tax which President Roosevelt
suggested against firms which avoid
ed AAA processing taxes. Chairman
Harrison, Democrat, Mississippi, pre-
dicted the committee would have a
bill before the Senate by the middle
of next week.
A Senate appropriations sub-com-
mittee considering the LAPS, 100000 re
lief fund for next year studied a pro-
posal to make $3.50 1000, 900 of previous
ly appropriated money available to
Secretary Ickes to continue making
public works grants to states and
Municipalities.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1936-05-16
RECAPTURES BEING
MADE OF ESCAPES
Prison Department Bring
ing EN- Back Alive"
and Firing Guards
Daily Dispatch Bureau.
In The Sir Walter Hotel,


Raleigh, May 16-Even though the
season for prison escapes is here, and
some prisoners are escaping, the pri-
son department is making an envia-
BILE record for bringing 'em back
alive" and within very short time
after they escape, Acting Director o.
car Pitts, of the prison division of the
highway department, pointed out
here today. This fact is also greatly
reducing the number of escapes, Pitts
said.
"The two biggest factors in keeping
the number of escapes down to a
minimum this spring are, first, the
certainty of recapture because of the
reputation we are getting among the
Continued on Page Four.)
Henderson daily dispatch., 1936-05-16
HulPs Statement of Last De-
cember Cited as Giving
Attitude of United
States
DIPLOMATS PONDER
NEW DEVELOPMENTS
Group in Peiping Points To
Boxer Protocol Justifying
Any Foreign Country in
Bringing in Troops Only
To Protect Their Interests
In China

Washington, May 16 (AP)-
Renewed attention was called
today by William Phillips, un-
der secretary of State, to pre-
vious indirect American warn
ings against Japanese expan-
sionist activities in China.
Replying to press conference in
quiries as to whether Japanese
strengthening of military garrisons in
North China was being studied by the
government to determine whether a
possible violation of the Boxer proto-
col was involved, Phillips referred
newsmen to Secretary Hulls public
statement of December concerning
the penetration of Japanese influence
below the Gerat Wall of China.
He said that so far as this govern
ment was concerned that statement
still represented the attitude of the
United States.
Unusual developments in any part
of China, HUM said in the statement,
ARE rightfully and necessarily of con-
Germ not alone to the government and
people of China but to all of the
many powers which have interests in
China" /+r t- -..t.,N
Hull referred primarily to the nine
power. pact to which China, Japan
and the United States are signatories,
guaranteeing the political integrity
of China and the maintenance of the
open door" policy of equal CONNER
cial opportunity to all foreign nations
in China.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1936-05-16

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Henderson daily dispatch., 1936-05-16

DIPLOMATS PONDER TURN
IN JAPANESE MOVEMENTS
Peiping, May 16 (AP)-United
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Henderson daily dispatch., 1936-05-16

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The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-02-19

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The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-02-19
OLD-TIME ACTORS
 RECEIVE WORK
Antiquated ROutines to Be Left in MOthbalIs on
 Federal Project

Old-time vaudeville actors will be given all possible consideration for employment on the statewide fed- eral theater project. but antiquat- cd routines will have to be left in the mothbails, according to an an- nouncement made today by Miss Gertrude DonDero. state director of the project. Miss DonDero an- nounced that "outworn routine acts" will not be used by the unit being organized, "in view of the really fine vaudeville talent demonstrated in the additions recently"
 With this idea In mind. Miss Don- Derosie seeking . competent vaude- vile skit writer to prepare r0utines for acts which may be used in the unit.
 Tt Is important" the state di- rector said today. "that somewhere in Connecticut Q vaudeville skit writer with modern flair for dramatizing current events and inc cooperating them into song and dance acts be found. Playwrights and radio continuity writers with i030 ideas of Interpreting current events and the emotions Of the peo- pie today should get in touch with myj ofiice immediately"
 Miss DonDero can be reached at hea6quarters of the statewide the- ater project. i25 Munson street, New Maven. At present investigations are being made as to the relief sta. tus of various applicants Gr posi- tons isi view of the fact that fed- eral regulations are that 75 per cent of all attached to the theater pro- feet be eligible for relief.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-02-19

She held unshaken to her deters mination; and during tho month that followed, she persuaded Bob that they ought no longer to stay apart from the world. Bob was not reluctant aS she had expected no would be. They dined one night with Pat Norris and Felicia, and Priscilla was there, and half dos- on others; and once ct PriscillaS invitation they played bridge at her home on e Saturday evening. Bob had no card sense, no particular in. terest in tho game; but Kay did SO well that she acquired even in this single appearance Q certain reputa.. ton. Priscilla when they said good night, exclaimed:
 Bob, Rays regular card sharki You'll have to jack up your game to keep up with her."
 Bob grinned. He had taken . cocktail before dinner, Q highball afterward, "Can't keep up with Kay" he declared. "Never could. She always was too numerous for me-"
 A day or two later, Priscilla tele- phoned again, with another invita- ton, But Kay demurred. We want to have you here first," she said, "An old friend of yours is going to be in town," She explained. Dane Ripley! I was having Helen and Chick and two or three others; but # you want to stage the party ."
 "Of course," Kay assented. Lets make 1t Friday night. We'll have dinner here. I know Bob can ar- range to be free that evening. Shall we go somewhere and dance after ward?"
 "Dane,s c Contract hound" Pris- ella declared. He'd rather play cards ."
 Kay accepted the situation al- most with relish. She had not seen Dane since that night on the Grif- fin; and she confessed to Genevieve a certain curiosity. T want to see how he'll act" she said. Gene- vieve agreed to come; and Chick Rantoul and Helen. Dane and Pris- ella. Genevieve volunteered to pro- dfce another man.
 Bob, when Kay told him the plan, neither approved nor disapproved. well have to give them plenty of cocktails" he said. That crowd! I'll get some gin"
 Kay managed the dinner and the evening with Q calm efficiency. She seated Priscilla at Bobs right; kept Dane and Chick Rantoul at her own end of the table. And after ward she took Dane as a partner against Priscilla and Bob. leaving the others to arrange their own game as they chose.
 
 Dane at dinner had been faint ly Ill at ease; but Kay met him so
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-02-19
Illustrated by the celebrate
 Artist JAMES MONTGOMERY F l. A c c

1 He suggested: You've been very patient. Can't you walt . ittis ionger?"
 Her head lifted and for . nnona- ent her eyes were hot. T won't wait forever, even for Bob" sho said crisply.
 He nodded courteously, his head little bowed. Even my nascil~ line mind gathers some faint glinl~ mering of what you meaEi," he ad- mitted with Q smile. And he asked then: DO you want me to tell Bob you're going, or where you're go- ing? Or will you2"
 q can't" she confessed. I'd- make Q fool of myself! Just tell him thanks for being 50 patient, and that I won't oppose the--di- vorce. Don't tell him--how I feel. It would just make him unhappy; and don't want him to be-"
 "Is there anything you want mo to do2"
 "Just-dont think hardly of mel"
 He said, smiling: T can't unders take to think kindly of you Kay"
 She found strength. Thank you" she said, and extended her hand. He gripped 1t firmly.
 An Q moment later, with Q sense of escape, she reached the street outside.
 Copyright 1035 by Hen A. Williams Kay has made Q final decision about Bob. What will life mean to her without him? Can she forget him and live In Carvel contented- ly? Don't miss tOmorrow's absoFb- ing installment.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-02-19
The Story Thus Far

Kay Grammar, late of Wellesley, elopes with Bob Daln, medical doctor. He s drunk but sober again, Is mortified because of Priscilla, his flancec. Priscilla openly insults Kay SO Bob reluctantly consents to Kays plea that they wait until spring for divorce. AS the months pass Bob becomes engrosSed In his medical work and he and Kay achieve q sort of strained cOmpaniOnshlp Priscilla visits Kay one day and Bob drives her home. Hours later he returns from
 successful operation, highly jubilant The hospital had located him at Priscla's. But in the hours of waiting Kay has suffered She knows now that she loves Bob. She decides to throw Bob and Priscilla together and watch them. If they really love each other she will leave. t @tN
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-02-19

of him2"
 Kay tried to put her feeling into words. "Why - I've always been able to be calm with him, and sort of detached" Her lips twisted in Q rueful smile. "But now I'd spoil him terribly. And-just bee ing with him now would hurt me 50. I can't, Dr. Dakin."
 And she said: Bob has never
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-02-19
Chapter XVII

"Think?" Gepevieve exclaimed. "You're in no condition to think, Kay You're crazy about him, and that makes you crazy about everything connected with him!
 Kay smiled appealingly. "I have to choose the best way know, Genevieve,"'' she urged. "But wanted to talk to you. ...."
 Genevieve laughed "Talk Kay," she agreed. "Go ahead. Get it out of your system. Shoot the works and be done with it. I've one-way ears, you know"
 Kay stayed with her till 1t was time to go home, but her last word was: "Tll have to see for myself, Genevieve"