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Vol LXIV GRAHAM, N. C., THURSDAY, AUGUST 11, 1938 No. 27
? Weekly News Review
Big Asia May Be Too Small
For Stubborn Russia, Japan
by Edward W. Pickard
Foreign
Joseph Stalin, once said Russia
wanted "not one inch" of foreign
soil. Last week Japan decided Dic
tator Stalin had either changed hiz
mind or was at last throwing open
support to beleaguered China. But
be^t explanation of all was that big
Asia is still not big enough to hold
two stubborn powers.
Since 1931, when Japan marched
into Manchuria, American newspa
per readers have heard periodical
ly that Tokyo and Moscow were "on
the brink of war." Only Russia's
autonomous Siberian army kept
land-hungry Japan from moving
into Soviet territory. But even that
was not enough to prevent periodic
japan s kazushige ugaki
He minted leu Imcletsneu.
oftbin-!^nai0n? L thousand miles
?u 2 border- where last
SeSt in^.eti?Ve"year "secret war"
crept into the open.
. 8c.p'.m'* one night last week
eight Soviet tanks stormed over a
l^difln^^ang^ufeng at ^e rough
ly-defined junction of Manchukuo
mTImmX1* and Japane? KoI
m. W( e"? ta. a paU of sm<*e
came Soviet infantry, while over
head soared planes that severed rail
fata d Cfn be!Teen Manchukuo's
inland Kinn and coastal Yuki. At
casualties" M?ky? boaJted 800 Russ
casualties. Moscow admitted 68.
jay' while eastern Japan
I emergency regulations,
? 11 ^ f'arted again. By night
fall the third day, Russia claimed
undisputed capture of Changkufeng
but it appeared the fun was just
and SfL Toky? rushed 35,000 men
wMeTWtF P'reS t0 4 frontier
ms?J?? S?V16t pomted war trains
raS * lU Trans-Siherian
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to ha M?Sent ,reih instructions
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manding that Russia prevent "re
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knife of White Hv! g?!?s under the
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Politics
thority J""**? Valley Au
ne?*e'? sln., OTl^hold term, Ten
Sen-tor George U Berry
bought a large block of land in his
home state. When TVA'i expansion
required the land, Senator Berry
tried to sell out for $9,000,000, finally
heard a court decide the property
was worthless. The stunt placed
him in Franklin Roosevelt's dis
favor.
Last week George Berry fell in
his own state's disfavor,' From
Memphis the powerful Crump- po
litical machine swept over Tennes
see, nominated one Thomas Stewart
for senator in the Democratic pri
maries. Also defeated was Gov.
Gordon Browning by a political am
ateur, Prentice Cooper. Republicans,
still hopeless in the South, held no
primary.
Franklin Roosevelt had kept his
hands out of the Tennessee family
squabble. But as America went to
the polls last week in other states,
first returns to reach New Deal head
quarters showed the score tied 2-2:
? In Virginia, Sen. Harry Flood
Byrd's machine defeated two "100
per cent New Deal" congressional
aspirants, William E. Dodd Jr., and
R. Bruce Shafer. Winners, who will
probably be elected next November,
were Rep. Howard W. Smith and ex
Rep. Colgate W. Darden, who beat
both Shafer and the incumbent Nor
man R. Hamilton.
? In Missouri, Sen. Bennett Champ
Clark was renominated after help
ing scuttle the Roosevelt judiciary
and reorganization bills. Most im
portant result, though, was Gov.
Lloyd C. Stark's successful chal
lenge of the Pendergast machine's
supremacy. Stark's candidate for
the state Supreme court, Judge
James M. Douglas, easily floored
the Pendergast nominee.
? In Kansas, New Dealer George
McGill won renomination to the sen
ate. But chief interest centered in
Former Gov. Clyde M. Reed's suc
cessful G. O. P. senatorial fight
against Radio Evangelist Gerald B.
Winrod.
? In West Virginia, New Dealers
Jennings Randolph, John Kee and
Joe Smith won congressional renom
ination hands down.
Crime
When youthful Thomas E. Dewey
became New York's district attor
ney, Manhattan expected fireworks.
Many a bombshell has fallen in pre
trial accusations against Tam
many's James J. Hines, one-time
New Deal patronage distributor and
alleged political fixer for the late
Dutch Schultz's policy ring. Last
week came two more bombshells.
First was an agreement that J.
Richard (Dixie) Davis, disbarred at
torney and alleged mouthpiece for
the Schultz gang, would turn state's
evidence and testify against Hines.
Second was a bill of particulars
in which Tom Dewey's predeces
sor, William C. Dodge, felt once
more the lash of New York's am
bitious crime buster. Not waiting
until August 15 for the opening of
Hines' trial, Dewey presented his
particulars last week before famed
Justice Ferdinand Pecora. One par
ticular: That ex-District Attorney
Dodge was among public officials
"influenced, intimidated or bribed"
by Jimmy Hines.
Tom Dewey's mistake apparently
lay in insufficient particulars. Be
cause the bill admitted there were
other alleged intimidation victims
WILLIAM C. DODGE
For lk? moment, unintimidaled.
"not at present known," becausa
Dodge and two New York magis
trates were not specifically charged
with a crime. Justice Pecora next
day directed the district attorney
to show cause why it should not be
barred.
Unintimidated for the moment,
William Dodge thundered: "This out
rageous and malicious assault upon
my character is unjustified!"
Miscellany
Dead two hours after smothering
under blankets in his parents' carT
three-month-old Robert Didier - of
Chicago responded to adrenalin in
jected by a surgeon at Wheeling
hospital. Next day Robert was
home, chortling happily in his crib.
? Meeting at San Francisco last
week. Women's Christian Temper
ance Unionists held daily "fruit
juice hours" as a challenge for so
ciety to forsake its cocktail hours.
Business
Last week as Russia and Japan
moved to war, American dollars
and gold moved over the Atlantic.
When nervous European capital
scurried for cover, gold soared from
$34.77 to $34.94 an ounce, a new 16
month high. In two days, continent
al hoarders absorbed $26,715,000 in
yellow metal.
Sports
Several months ago fabulous By
ron (Whizzer) White turned down a
$15,000 offer to play professional
football with the Pittsburgh Pirates
next autumn. Reason: Whizzer's
combined scholastic-athletic accom
plishments at the University of Col
orado had won him a Rhodes schol
arship. He would accept it immedi
ately.
But last week after careful delib
eration Whizzer White found a way
to have his cake and eat it. Re
hearsing for a radio program at
Denver, he took time off to an
nounce acceptance of the Pirate
contract and postponement of the
Rhodes scholarship until next Janu
ary.
Elated, Manager Art Rooney fore
cast a National league champion
ship for his Pirates. From Wash
ington, where the Redskins had just
signed Sammy Baugh to a three
year contract at the biggest salary
in professional football's history,
Owner George Marshall wired Roo
ney that it might be wise to hire the
Pitt stadium for the Pirate-Redskin
game October 2.
People
Back to her Parisian home last
week via the Normandie went pe
tite Simone Simon, her one-year
contract with a Hollywood producer
at an end. While ship'i photograph
SIMONE SIMON
She may never come back.
ers snapped, Simone Simon pointed
ly announced she may never com*
back to the United States.
One reason was that United State*
cinema audiences have not been en
thusiastic, but a more important
reason was her clash with the in
ternal revenue bureau. To her suite
on the Normandie went a tax col
lector to be certain Simone Simon
had paid $4,000 due on last year's
earnings. Kneeling on her bed the
homing actress crooned: "I have
paid my tax and I wouldn't get you
in trouble for the world."
Almost unnoticed on the sam*
boat was blonde Ariane Borg, also
bound for France with the story
that an American producer had
spent $70,000 "grooming" her for
pictures that were never made.
Having learned to speak English,
ride, fence, walk and dance, twenty
two-year-old Miss Borg wondered
what she would do with her skill.
? One-time cinema actress Pearl
White thrilled an earlier generation
by jumping from trains, changing
airplanes in midair, bouncing from
madly running horses. Her most
noted serial: "The Perils of Paul
ine." Last Week at American hos
pital in Paris, Pearl White, 49, died.
0 At Richmond, V*., tobacco beir
J. Louis Reynolds won court cus
tody of his year-old son from Helen
Fortescae Reynolds, sister of Thalia
Forte sene M??tie, who one* figured
In ? Hawaiian murder case.
LONDON OVERNIGHT!
? Doesn't Sound Strange
After This Year's
Ocean Plights
By JOSEPH W. LaBINE
In New York a hard-boiled
prize fight announcer led his
audience in prayer. Throughout
America one hundred million
minds were focused on some
vague spot over the briny At
lantic where Charles A. Lind
bergh was piloting his "Spirit
of St. Louis" to Paris and fame.
That was in 1927, only 11
years ago.
A few days ago another trans
atlantic flight ended and only a
few hundred people bothered to
read about it. Of more than 50
such trips being planned this
summer, only two are attract
ing much attention, those of
Howard Hughes and Douglas
Corrigan, the "mistake" flier.
The ocean flight that made
people hold their breath a
decade ago has now become
commonplace, and rightly so.
This does not dim the ac
complishment of Lindbergh;
it merely means that trans
oceanic aviation has grown up, that
science has begun to capitalize on
its carefully planned program of
conquering the Atlantic.
The Hughes trip was but a fore
runner of this summer's transatlan
tic travel, a back-and-forth series of
journeys that will keep the waves
humming for weeks to come. The
airships of four nations are flying
from Europe to New York over dif
ferent routes in a series of "survey"
Sights. Great Britain started things
off a few weeks ago when the Mer
cury, unique pick-a-back plane,
soared away from the mother ship,
Maia, over Foynes, Ireland. The
Mercury landed at Montreal 22 V4
hours later.
Takeoff Load Problem.
This "mother-and-papoose-on-her
back" composite ship has attracted
more attention than any aviation de
velopment in recent years. British
engineers worked on the well-found
ed theory that a ship can fly easily
carrying excess weight but it can't
take off with much extra load. Espe
cially is this true of seaplanes,
which are held down by suction of
the water on their pontoons. So the
Maia and the Mercury, locked to
gether, rise from the airport as a
single unit and separate in mid-air.
The Maia is a land ship, the Mer
cury a seaplane.
Flying a different route ? from the
Azores to New York? the Germans
are working with three seaplanes,
Nordwind, Nordmeer and Nord
stern. The ships belong to Deutsche
Lufthansa and are making 14 round
trips this year preparatory to start
ing regular transatlantic mail serv
ice. Germany's answer to the take
off problem is the catapult. The
three seaplanes are shot off steam
ships at New York and the Azores,
London newspapers, one day old, were sold by this newsie In Times
Square, New York City, a couple of weeks ago. The papers were carried
across the Atlantic by England's pick-a-back plane, Mercury.
thereby permitting extra loads.
France is experimenting this sum
mer with the Lieut, de Vaisseau
Paris, one of the largest flying boats
in the world.
Stunt Flying Banned.
There is more to this story of
aerial navigation than meets the
eye. Transoceanic flying hasn't
been merely a matter of building
one ship larger than the last and
seeing how far it would go without
refueling. Since Charles Lindbergh
first dreamed about it during his
New York-Paris hop, the best minds
of aviation have been working to de
velop fool-proof ships that will run
mechanically.
Until such ships could be per
fected, the United States was justi
fied in frowning on stunt Atlantic
ships. That's why Doug Corrigan's
request for a permit last year was
denied; it's why Corrigan had to
depend on a wayward compass to
fly his ship to Ireland a few weeks
ago.
Outside of the weight problem
mentioned above, engineers have
found most of their difficulty in con
quering the weather. Unlike the Pa
ciflc, which U usually calm, the At
lantic is beset with atmospheric dis
turbances. Especially is this true
on the east-west hop, where until
last year there were relatively few
successful flights.
Until a few weeks ago the ceiling
for commercial planes was 20,000
feet. Since engineers have long
known that Atlantic weather dis
turbances could be overcome by
high altitudes, they have been seek
ing some means of reaching these
heights under practical conditions.
Although oxygen equipment has
been available to facilitate great
elevations, it weighs so much that
pay loads would be cut too low.
But from Sweden has come word
of a new airplane motor capable of
sustained performance at altitudes
up to 59,000 feet. If it lives up to
its claims, the motor will facilitate
flights through the stratosphere
where weather is always calm.
U. S. Service Ready.
Whatever may have happened to
her supremacy on the high seas,
America need take no back seat in
transoceanic service. While France,
England and Germany are busy
with their "survey" flights, Pan
American is preparing to inaugurate
regularly scheduled service from
New York to London in her mam
moth Boeing "clipper" ships. Just
LEFT? Douglas Corrlgaa, whose
"mistake" flight from New York to
Dublin recently was frowned open
with good reason by C. 8. depart
ment of commerce oflleials. BE
LOW? Here's Pan-American's new
Boeing Atlantic clipper which will
carry 40 passengers across the At
lantic In luxurious comfort.
how soon the service will start, no
body knows.
It's just possible that in a few
weeks you may be able to slide
about $450 across the counter at
New York and buy an air ticket for
London, arriving there less than 24
hours out of Port Washington, Long
Island. Similar accommodations on
the liner Queen Mary would be $316,
plus tips, plus several days extra.
Passengers, mail and express will
be shuttled between the two conti
nents In the new 83,000-pound flying
boats (P. A. A. has ordered six of
them) that offer everything from a
dining lounge to a bridal suite.
The new "clippers" are twice as
large as those now making regu
lar, uneventful trips across the Pa
cific, being far and away the most
luxurious aircraft ever built. The
first of them was launched last April
and is now undergoing test flights on
the Pacific coast. It is larger than
the Santa Maria in which Columbus
crossed the ocean, and three times
the size of the average commercial
air transport. It has a wingspread
? and hold your breath on this one
? just half a city block long, or 152
feet!
Two Deck Airliner.
From stem to stern, the new boat
has been built to parallel an ocean
vessel. It even has two decks, a
top one for navigation and lower
one for passengers. Up on the flight
deck a large crew will be on duty.
Ahead, in the cockpit, the smallest
part of the deck, are the pilot and
co-pilot whose work is largely left to
robot instruments. Behind them in
the navigation room are the radio
man and the navigator, the former
in touch with land at all times.
Back of the navigator is the engi
neer, possibly the busiest man on
the ship. He handles throttles,
checks engine performance and goes
out in the wing to repair an ailing
motor if it needs treatment. The
pilot is the engineer's eyes; the en
gineer is the pilot's hands.
And supervising all these men is
the flight master, corresponding to
the captain on an ocean liner. He
is an administrator, pilot, engineer,
navigator, radio operator and sea
man rolled into one. In the entire
Pan-American organization there
are only 11 masters.
Luxury Over the Waves.
Down in the passenger deck mod
ern voyager* enjoy all the com
forts of home, and more. Except
for a alight vibration and the muf
fled hum of four powerful engines,
there is no perceptible sign of flight.
Eight rooms are at the public's dis
posal; one of them seats more than
a dozen persons comfortably and
the others, though somewhat small
er, have big seats against the wall.
Thus far it looks like they'll have
to omit only one gadget; nobody
can figure out where to put the
swimming pool!
C Wertem Newspaper Union.
Dentist Put* Hand
Into Wrong Mouth
OAKLAND, CALIF.? Dr. r. T.
Barron, dentist, learned some
thing new about teeth when his
hand accidentally slipped into
the mouth of a young alligator
pet. The attending physician re
ported he would not lose his fin
gers but that he had lost all
confidence in 'gators.
CREW TELLS STORY
OF HAUNTED SHIP
Vessel Breaks Down 14 Times
During Voyage.
SYDNEY. ? A strange story of a
"hoodoo" voyage in a supposedly
haunted ship was told by the crew
of the British tramp steamer Stone
pool on her arrival here from Car
diff, Wales.
Several years ago a seaman
hanged himself in one of the cabins
of the Stonepool and members of the
present crew blamed the tragedy
for some of the evil things that
happened to them on the recent voy
age. One seaman told of seeing
ghastly eyes peering out of the dark,
another of having his hands plucked
away from the rigging, causing him
to fall to the deck and injure him
self.
Two of Crew Injured.
Two of the Stonepool's crew, both
in a critical condition, were taken
to hospital as soon as the vessel
reached here. One, a Maltese fire
man, underwent an operation for
appendicitis. When he was taken
ill three weeks before, there was no
ice aboard to make packs to re
lieve his pain and he suffered se
verely until /the Stonepool reached
here. V
The other hospital case was an
engineer, who was temporarily
blind, deaf and speechless. His con
dition, it was said, was due to long
hours of work in remedying engine
: room faults, which brought on nenr
ous prostration.
Ship Broke Down Often.
The Stonepool broke down 14
times during the voyage and on two
occasions the danger lights were
hoisted while the vessel floundered
helplessly in heavy seas. One night
the entire crew worked for many
hours flooding No. 4 hold to keep
the stern under water in rough
seas. The Stonepool was in ballast,
with her propellers racing out of the
water.
"The cockroaches were so bad
that we had to paint our quarters,"
one seaman said. "For five weeks
we lived on tinned meats, tinned
pears and beans. We thought we'd
never reach the end of the world."
Faithful Terrier Guards
Tipsy Owner Even in Cell
DES MOINES, IOWA.? With his
little fox terrier, John Dorrain of
Des Moines, Iowa, boarded a street
car. A few minutes later Dorrain
went to sleep in a rear seat, the
dog curled in his lap. With white
fangs and neck bristles on end ha
held off passengers and the motor
man who tried to arouse the sleep
ing man.
At the end of the line the motor
man telephoned police -to meet the
car on the return trip. Patrolmen
John Baldwin and Harry Chambers,
hands protected with gloves, seized
the snarling dog and transferred
Dorrain to a squad car. The man
was taken to the police station and
booked for intoxication.
The dog repeatedly refused to
leave his master. Just as the jail
door was being shut he scrambled
between the jailer's legs and
jumped on the steel-slatted bed oa
which Dorrain was lying. Soon both
were sleeping soundly.
Bull Enters China Shop
And Looks Over Wares
SPRINGFIELD, MO. ? A bull
walked into a china shop and noth
ing happen.ed.
A. T. Sechler was taking the bull
to market when it jumped from a
truck and walked into a five and
ten cent store. As customers joined
clerks in scurrying under counters
the bull walked down an aisle until
it came to the china and glassware
counter.
It looked the display over, turned
and headed back for the front door.
Sechler grabbed its halter and the
trip to the stockyards was resumed.
Runaway Milk Wagon Nag
Pulls Up at Red Light
MILWAUKEE.? During 15 years
of drawing a milk wagon over Mil
waukee streets, Frank a 11-year
old horse driven by Henry F. Vota
pek, has learned the spectrum of
traffic signals so well that it even
halted in the midst of a runaway
when a red light flashed at an inter
section.
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