Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-06-27
ALWAYS FOR THE
COMMUNISTS
(Tex.ile Bulletin)

Frank P. Graham, president OF the
University of North Carolina, and
Paul Green, a man who lives at
Chapel Hill, N. c., and writes INFER
ior plays designed 10 reflect upon
citizens of North Carolina, have ap-
pealed to Gov Clyde HOey to pardon
a convict named Fred Erwin Beal.
There have been many convlcts IN
the penitentiary of North Carolina
but it is not on record that either
President Graham or Mr.. Green
have sought the pardon Of others
and there is no escaping the con-
clusion that their interest in saving
Fred Erwin Beal from further pun
ishment is that he is communist
and that they do not believe that
communists should be punished for
crimes.
One summer President Graham
sponsored a Summer School at the
University of Moscow and defended
his action upon the grounds that
academic freedom demanded that
young people be permitted to study
communism
However, he forgot academic free
dom the next summer when he sign
ed a protest against allowing Ame-
rican athletes to attend the Olympic
Games in Germany upon the
grounds that while there they might
learn something about the Nazi doc
trines. The Nazi had just stopped
the march of communism across
Europe and had incurred the hatred
of the communists.
President Graham assisted in Sc
curing aid in the United States for
the so-called loyalists in Spain and
joined in q demand that the arms
embargo be lifted SO that the loyal
lists might continue the fight against
General Franco. That was just be-
fore the exposure which showed that
the loyalists were about 80 per cent
communists and had been financed
by Russia
The above is interesting in view
of trial which is now in progress
at Barcelona, Spain.
Hundreds of witnesses have teSti-
fled that, in an attempt to wiring
from them evidence relative to the
military plans of General Franco,
the Loyalists imprisoned them in
decorated misshapen prison cells.
The walls of torture chambers"
were painted with weird, big and
little, black and white cubes and
multi-colored circles, which con-
stantly seemed to change shape be-
fore the eyes, and many prisoners
lost their minds.
The cells were described as hollow
cement blocks four feet high and
containing a cement chair and bed,
built in Slanting position so that it
was impossible for prisoner to sit
or lie down for more than a minute
at a time. Raised cement blocks
were arranged in a crazy-quilt fash
ion on the floor to prevent prisoners
from standing
1t has been testified that more
than 1000 men and women were
subject to these tortures by the COM
munists who had seized Spain and
called themselves Loyalists. but
President Graham is one of group
who helped organize aid for them
during the war and attempted to
have the arms embargo lifted so that
they could continue the war which,
according to evidence, also meant
the continuation of the tortures de-
scribed above
There is no escaping the conclu-
sion that President Frank Graham
is always for the communists and
his demand that Beal be freed is lust
another link in the chain.
Fred Erwin Beal was a racketeer
who came to Gastonia and in his ef-
fort to build dues paying organi-
cation caused great deal of trouble
The shots which killed Chief
Aderholt came from a miniature fort
which had been built by Beal There
were loopholes which had no other
purpose than to permit guns to be
!. stuck through them, and there were
pedestalS upon which men were to
stand while firing the guns. In the
hut, and being paid salaries by Beal
and his organization, were a num-
Der of professional gunner and
thugs who had been brought to
Gastonia from Northern points.
A man cuts loopholes for guns and
hires a lot of professional gunner to
handle the guns, and as the result of
that preparation Chief Aderholt of
the Gastonia police was killed while
standing upon the sidewalk and with
out having fired shot or threat
ened to fire one. Presumably be-