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HENDERSON GATEWAY TO CENTRAL CAROLINA TWENTY-THIRD YEAR IRON BURNS AS REBELS OCCUPY BEHOBIA Lone Woman Flier Starts West Swing Over The Atlantic Mrs. Beryl Markham Leaves England in Hope of Be ing First Woman to Cross West SHE IS MOTHER OF SMALL BOY AGED 7 Only Few Friends at Royal Air Force Field To Bid Farewell as She Lifts Her Plane from the Ground; Weather Conditions Are None Too Good Abinddon, England, Sept. 4. —(AP) Mrs. Beryl Markham, blonde Eng lish society woman, took off today on nn attempted non-stop flight to New York. Flying alone, the 33-year-old matron lifted her green monoplane, “The Messenger,” in the air at 6:50 p. m., Rritish summertime (12:50 p. m., eastern standard time). Only a few friends saw Mrs. Mark ham, who is the mother of a seven year-old boy, take off from the Royal Air Force field here. .She seeks to be the first woman to make the westward Atlantic cross ing alone. Mrs. Markham who has an aerial background of adventurous exploits in Africa, will have the advantage of a full moon on her lone flight across the ocean. But the weather reports otherwise were none too favorable. The air min istry reported she faced 40-mile head winds in some places at a height of 1,500 feet. Low clouds, and rain belts also spot ted her course most of the way across Ireland and the Atlantic. ABORTION CASE AT GREENVILLE ENDED Jury Gets Charges Against Don( Evans for Death of Girl Stu dent from Monroe Greenville, N. C., Sept. 4 (AP)-A Superior court jury received at noon today the case of Don Evans, on trial on charges of aiding and advising Miss /Lucille Huntley Belk, 10, of Monroe, in an illegal operation. The girl, a studgnt,*t Eastern Caro lina Teachers College here, died early last month. Accidents Befall Two InAirßace Kansas City, Sept. 4 —(AP) —Drama in\olved two contestants in the trans continental Bendix air speed race to day as they shot westeward from New York toward Los Angeles. Joe Jackson, 31, Kansas City, para chuted to safety when his plane ex ploded near Stafford, Kans., after he had flown from New York to Kansas City at a speed exceeding 195 miles an hour. Amelia Earhart Putman, famed trans-oceanic woman flier, battled a flapping emergency door on her west ward flight to Kansas City with a loss of time she estimated at 40 minutes or more. Three of the seven contestants land Continued on Page Five.) Mother, Two Daughters Asphyxiated By Fumes Os Rotting Cattlefeed Poplar Springs, Md., Sept. 4.—(AP) -Swift acting ensilage gas—almost pure carbon dioxide, given off by fer menting cattle feed —left a mother, hor nine-year-old daughter and her foster daughter dead today. Two men narrowly escaped asphy xiation while attempting to rescue them. Anna Richards, 9, playing with two small boys, fell eight feet into an old underground ice house, converted re cently into a silo. Screams of her play mates brought IMirs. Ella >Malinda Richards, 37, her mother, to the pit. Mrs. Richards jumped into the pit, sought to lift the child and was over •HcrtiU'rsmt Batht Dtswafrli LEASED WIRE SERVICE OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS. Saved From Chair L \ Mrs. Dorothy Sherwood In the shadow of the electric chair for a y:;ar, Mrs. Dorothy Sherwood has pleaded guilty at Newburgh. N. Y., to a charge of manslaughter in the death of her infant son and now faces one to 20 years in prison. Mrs. Sherwood, a widow, was convicted and sentenced to death in Sing Sing for drowning her son Jimmy because she had lost her job and had no money for food. She stayed in the death house for nine months before a new trial wa.s granted her. She had been scheduled to go on trial again for first degree murder but the plea to the lesser charge was accepted. She will he sentenced Sept. 16. UTsTFliers" End Journey At Croydon Record Ocean Hop, Cut Short in Wales By Gas Shortage, Is Finished Croydon Airdrome, England, Sept. 4.—(AP) —Formally completing the eastward lap of their proposed round trip trans-Atlantic sky holiday, the Americans, Harry Richman and Dick Merrill, landed at. Croydon at 2:57 p. m. today (8:57 eastern standard time.) They flew from South Wales, where their fastest ocean crossing paused in a cow pasture yesterday byway of Bristol. Less than 200 persons, most of them members of the airport staff, witness ed the completion of the flight in a pouring rain. This contrasted sharply to the ten- Continued on Page Two.) come by fumes from the rotting corn husks. Mary Sine, 19, Anna’s foster, sister, lowered a ladder into the pit, descended to the level of the husks and dragged Anna’s body across the ladder’s lower rung before she, too, collapsed. A passing motorist, unidentified, and an employee of a nearby garage Norman Bercraft, succeeded in bring ing Anna’s body to the surface, but they were nearly overcome by the deadly fumes. Hooks and ropes finally were used to bring the bodies of Mrs. Richards and Miss Sine to the surface. At tempts at artificial respiration were unsuccessful. ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA AND VIRGINIA Roosevelt Again Asks Cooperation Hannibal, Mo., Sept. 4 (AD President Roosevelt stood on a speaker’s platform at the west ap proach of the million dollar Mark I’wain Memorial Bridge across the Mississippi river here today and dedicated It as r- monument to cooperation c.f local governments with the Federal.” Stressing the same theme he un derlined in 17 speeches in eight drought states, “cooperation be tween Federal, State ami munici pal governments,” Mr. Roosevelt asserted: “Working together in the days to come, they will greatly further the prosperity and convenience of the people of the United States.” ROOSEVELT, LANDON GO SEPARATE WAYS AS MEETING ENDS Nation, Meanwhile, Studies Reports of Epochal Meeting of National Candidates WAS “GREAT DAY,” PRESIDENT SAYS Landon Declares Roosevelt “Very Fine, Charming Gentleman”; Says Drought Conference Proves Produc tive; President Enters Missouri Des Moines, lowa, Sept. 4 (AD —President Roosevelt, heading for Springfield, 111., and a con tinuance of his midwest drought conferences, today was understood to have assured seven governors at a conference here yesterday that all in need would be cared for until spring. At separate conferences with each governor, the President discussed ways of meeting immediate needs of farmers and their families through, the coming winter and a general out line of a long-time program. As for the long-time program, the chief executive was said to have stressed the need so rdam construc tion, water conservation and more scientific use of land, including trans formation of thousands of acres of crop land into pastures and trees. Governor Alf M. Landon, of Kan sas, Republican presidential nomi nee, left a recommendation with the president which, in some respects, re sembled the proposals of the Presi dent’s drought committee. Des Moines, lowa, Sept. 4.—(AP) — President Roosevelt and Governor Al fred M. Landon went their separate ways today while the nation studied reports of the “epochal meeting” of the opposing presidential candidates for possible political effects. The chief executive headed for Han nibal, Mo., on his special train, and Governor Landon motored toward the Kansas capital at Topeka after they spent a good part of yesterday after noon and evening in each other’s company. They came together with a hearty handclasp in the offices of Governor Clyde Herring of lowa, in the lowa State House. They chatted amiably about fishing at a chicken luncheon. They conferred for 40 minutes about the problems raised by the drought. They engaged in more conversation at a dinner aboard the President’s train. But the Democratic and Republican Continued on Page Five.) To Probe Politics In Michigan Washington, Sept. 4. —(AP)—A com plete investigation of a?i State and national political activities in Mich igan was ordered today by the Sen ate campaign expenditures commit tee. The Michigan investigation was or dered by the committee after it had received charges that approximately $3,000,000 in contributions had been accumulated by “political parties and candidates” for use in the campaign for major offices this year. Last week the committee directed that a similar investigation be made (ifri Pennsylvania, where complaints were made that steel company em ployees were being intimidated in connection with the presidential election. HENDERSON, N. C., FRIDAY AFTERNOON, SEPTEMBER 4, 1936 YOUNGSTERS COUNTED AMONG U.S. REFUGEES IN SPAIN M H R > MMjßSPjjro “Oakie,” mascot of the U. S. S. Oklahoma, Inspects new arrivals Three young children are counted among the U. S. refugees evacuated from war-torn Spain by the U. S. S. Oklahoma. They are seen here being given Best Fall Since Crash Is Predicted By Babson Rush Finishing Touches on Business Campaign Plans and Be Ready To Reap First Real Harvest in Six Long, Lean Years, Noted Economist Advises BY ROGER W. BABSON, Copyright 1936, Publishers Financial Bureau, nc. Babson Park, Mass., Sept. 4. —Or- dinarily Labor Day is chiefly cele brated as marking the Business New Year. But this year it is unusually significant: It will usher in the most active autumn since the crash. Sep tember business has already started off at the highest level since ’29. Hence, my advice is to put the finish ing touches on fall business cam paigns now and be ready to reap the first real harvest in six long, lean years. Before the curtain falls on 1936, I predict that we will have crossed the normal line on the Bab sonchart and be heading into a new era of prosperity. im p I no cnpprppnn If 11111 I ii til II ill! iitillfi Hoey May or May Not Be Consulted; Ehringhaus May Act Boldly Unity DUpntrh Ilnremi, In The Sir Walter Motel, nr j. r. baskf.rvill Raleigh, Sept. 4. —A new assistant commissioner of revenue will be ap pointed in the near future to succeed Dr. M. C. S. Noble, Jr., who has re signed as of September 15, it was learned from an authoritative source today, thus setting at rest the spe culation as to whether the vacancy caused by the resignation of Dr. Noble would be filled at all or wheth er it would be left open until Clyde R. Hoey become governor in January. Indications here today are that both Commissioner of Revenue A. J. Max well and Governor J. C. B. Ehring haus agree that the vacancy should be filled very soon and that the ap pointment of a successor to Dr. Nable will be named on or before his re signation becomes effective Septem ber 15. It is understood that Commis sioner Maxwell is now heartily in fa vor of having an assistant commis sioner who will be in charge of per sonnel and the coordination of the Various division in the department (Continued on Page Six.) OUnVWMTHtP^j fob NORTH CAROLINA. Generally fair tonight and Sat urday; slightly cooler in central and southeast portions tonight. • the once over by the ship’s mascot, “Oakie”. The U. S. government is withdrawing warships from the danger zone, to avoid possible incidents. —Central Press M*y optimism on fall business is based on an analysis of leading in dustrial barometers. The following five representative industries are set ting the pace in the current march to ward prosperity: 1. AUTOMOBILES: 1936 has been the best motor year since 1929. Output is estimated at 4,606,600 cars and trucks for the twelve months. Tem porarily, production has dipped, but plants are operating well above last year’s rate. Sales are holding up sur prisingly well. As soon as retooling for new models is completed, produc tion will start climbing toward the levels of the past year. High activity in this pivotal industry will be re- Continued on Page Two.) MERCHANT MARI SUFFERS GREATLY Two Reasons Given for Backwardness of Ameri can Maritime Power By CHARLES P. STEWART Central Press Staff Writer Washington, Sept. 4.—The Ameri can mercantile marine has suffered from two influences. In the first place, since the early clipper ship days, when Yankee craft were foremost on the oceans, inland development has offered larger re wards than foreign trade. Consequent ly national enterprise has turned in ward rather than outward. Secondly, America’s system of high protective tariffs has made shipbuild ing in the United States about 50 per cent more costly than abroad. Amer ican repairs have been corresponding ly more expensive. And American sailors have been unavailable except (Continued on Page Eight.) CCC Truck Wrecks With One Dead On The Dixie Highway Greenwood, S. C., Sept. 4 (AP) One person was killed and five others injured early today when their truck collided with a cattle truck seven miles south of Green wood on the Dixie highway. All were enrollees of a CCC camp at Ravensford, N. C., and were enroute to their Georgia homes for the week-end. Thomas Hughes, of Sopertown, Ga», died almost instantly. A coroner’s jury returned a ver dict that Hughes came to his death from a head wound receiv ed in a wreck due to the criminal carelessness of R. Q. Haralson, owner, and T. J. Wharton, Negro driver, of the truck. PUBLISHED EVERY AFTERNOON EXCEPT SUNDAY. WHITE MAN, NEGRO ARE ELECTROCUTED Double Execution Leaves Only One Electrocution Prospect Now BOTH WERE SLAYERS White Man, Buck Carden, of Dur ham, Killed His Wife, and Cha pel Negro Had Killed His Sweetheart Raleigh, Sept. 4. (AP) —J. B. (Buck) Carden, of Durham, and George Alston,, Chapel Hill Negro,' died by electrocution at State’s Pri son today for having committed mur ders. Their execution left only one man under sentence of electrocution in the State, John Pressley, of Gaston coun ty, as lethal gas was substituted for electrocution by the 1935 legislature for all persons convicted of capital crimes committed after July 1, 1935. Pressley had been scheduled to die today, but secured a reprieve. Alston, 24-year-old former house boy for a University of North Carolina professor, was executed first, after making a statement he had killed his sweetheart, Helen Massey. The Negro entered the death cham ber at 16:34 a. m., and was given a shock of electricity at 10:37. A Bccond shock was needed before he was pro nounced dead at 10:45. Carden, 42, convicted of killing his wife, Vera, entered the chamber at 10:52, and was given only one shock of two minutes and 20 seconds. He was pronounced dead at 10:59 a. m. Carden died without making any statement, prison officials said. In his fight twice through the State courts and an effort to carry the case to the United States Supreme Court, the man’s counsel contended he shot his wife by accident. PRICES GO HIGHER ON EASTERN MARTS Rocky Mount Reports 750,000 Pounds Offered, and Greenville Average Is $22.54 Rocky Mount, Sept. 4. —(AP) — Prices were reported apparently stronger on the Rocky Mount tobac co market today when sales began for the third day of the current mar keting season. Approximately 750,000 pounds were offered. GREENVILLE AVERAGE FOR THREE DAYS PUT AT $22.54 Greenville, N. C., Sept. 4.—(AP)— Tobacco sold on the Greenville mar ket through Thursday of this week averaged $22.54 per hundred, as com pared with $17.93 for the correspond ing period last year. Official figures announced today showed 1,499,306 pounds sold on the first three days of the season, against 3,212,658 for the like period of 1935. Farmers received $337,944.81 this year; last year the amount was $576.- 030.25. Sales today were about in line with the average for the three days, with offerings about the same as yester day, when 364.392 pounds sold for an average of $22.27 per hundred. O PAGES O today FIVE CENTS COPY REBELS SWEEP ON AFTER CAPTURE OF TOWNS ON BORDER Spanish Government Mili tiamen, in Desperate Sur prise Attack, Retake Bridgehead SOCIALIST FORCES FAR OUTNUMBERED Monks at Monastery Are Shot by Defenders of Irun; Britain! and France Press Feverishly for Extension of Non-Intervention Pact In Europe Madrid, Spain, Sept. 4 (AP) —Premier Jose Giral Tereira, resigned today and a new gov ernment was announced for war torn Spain. The Socialist extremist lead er Francisco Large Caballero was named prime minister and minister of war. Hendaye, France, Sept. 4.—(AP) — Raging fires engulfled almost the whole city of Irun today as victor ious Fascist rebels advanced through the fallen city. Flames shot high into the sky and Clauds of smoke rolled across the border into France. Behobia, across the border in Spain, was completely occupied toy the rebei forces. Spanish government militiamen, in a desperate surprise attack, recap tured control of the international bridgehead after the Fascist rebels had raged through Irun and surged on to assault San Sebastian. They seized the bridgehead shortly before 1 p. m., after scores of their comrades had been shot down as de fenders or prisoners in the blood spattered streets of Irun. It appeared, however, they could not hold their position for superior forces of rebels immediately renewed the attack. Fierce fighting continued in the western half of Irun as protesting (Continued on Page Six.> Warning Is Given Japs By Russia Moscow, Sept. 4. (AP) Soviet Russia sharply warned Japan today it considers continuation of the pre sent situation on the Soviet-Man chukuoan border “intolerable” and “dangerous” to the cause of peace. The Soviet Union proposed imme diate establishment of a mixed Soviet.- Japanese - Manchukuoan commission, to inquire into the many incidents on the desolate frontier. At the same time Moscow pointed out that the Japanese government had consented officially to establish ment of such a commission last Feb ruary 14, and contended delay in its creation was “entirely” the fault of Tokyo. The protest alleged “ceaseless fab rication” by Jap-Manchukuoan mili tarists of false reports of firing from the Soviet side of the border, and charged attempts had been made to place upon Russia the responsibility for possible aggravation of the sit uation. Black Legion Jury Not Yet Fully Seated Detroit, Mich., Sept. 4.—(AP)—Dif ficulty of finding prospective jurors unprejudiced by terrorist activity of the Black Legion spurred Circuit Judge Joseph A. (Mbynihan today to decree night sessions, if necessary, to obtain a jury to try ten men foi murder. The ten defendants and two others who have waived jury trial wag charg ed with “executing” Charles A. Poole, youthful W]PA worker, on a lonely road last May 12. Os 92 members of the first venire, only seven were accepted tentatively before the trial adjourned Wednesday until this morning. Judge Moynihan told attorneys 100 new veniremen would be questioned (Continued on Page Four.)
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