HENDERSON
GATEWAY TO
CENTRAL
CAROLINA
twenty-fourth year
HARLAN DEATHS PARADED FDR COMMITTEE
First Refugees In
Bilbao A re Ready
To Leave Tonight
Fleet of Passenger Liners
Race to Northern Span
ish City To Take
Helpless Away
ten thousand are
TO MOVE SPEEDILY
Some Will Go to France and
Others to England as In
surgents Approach Ever
Nearer to Basque Capital
and Are About Ready for
Bombardment
From St. Jean de Luz, France,
4 —(AP) —Refuge for about 10.-
000 women and children from siege
or bomba: ment in Bilbao was virtual
ly assured today as a fleet of pas
senger liners raced to evacuate as
many nr possible before insurgent
guns closed the port.
Bilbao’s Basque defenders fought
a last ditch fight, but insurgent dis
patches said General Mola’s troops
were swarming into the mountainous
region north of Bilbao, and their ar
tillery already commanded a river
serving as Bilbao’s outlet to the Bay
of Biscay
More than 4,000 refugees, many
children among them, were listed to
sail tonight aboard the 10,000-ton
Spanish liner Habana, the first mass
migration from the harassed city.
Arrangements were made to char
ter another large ship to remove 4,-
1,90 more children tc England. ' r he
ship's identity was kept a closely
guarded secret, lest it become a prey
of insurgent v.?r vessels patroling the
Bay of Biscay.
Bordeaux, France, advices said
several French steamers with a total
capacity of 2,000 refugee passengers
being coaled and provisioned for
a dash to Bilbao.
Basque commanders reported gov
ernment soldiers were holding their
ground west of Bermeo, a fishing
town only about eight miles west of
Bilbao.
Mississippi" area
BEING EVACUATED
Flood Waters Moving Slowly Down
stream and Rising in New
Madrid District
Charleston, Mo., May 4. —(AP) —
Stoically accepting the age-old man
date of the Mississippi, share croppers
began evacuation of the southern half
of the Bird’s Point-New Madrid flood
way, threatened with inundation for
the second time in five months.
There were some, new to the winter
or with the lessons of last winter’s
floods still fresh in memory, who load
ed their few belongings high on
wagons and made for the protection
of the Setback levee. But the majority
flood-born and inured to the ravages
of the river, tied skiffs to port rail
ings, corralled livestock and waited.
The general opinion expressed by
land-owners and tenants was that “if
another flood comes it will have to
come.’’
The order for immediate evacua
tion was issued by the flood commit
tee yesterday
INOTfESIES
AT KIDNAP HEARING
Victim of Parkers Seated
Over Objections of De
fense Counsel
Newark, N J., May 4—(AP)—Faul
Wend el took the witness stand oven
defense objections in the Federal
com* conspiracy triad of Ellis Park-j
er and son, Ellis, Jr., today to tell his
fdory of being abducted and forced
?° c °nfess falsely to the Lindbergh
kidnaping.
Counsel for the Parkers had chal
enged his qualifications by offering a
Tecoi 'd of his conviction several years
for perjury, affirmance of the
Cr »nviction by the court of errors and
and a pardon from the State
Court of Pardons.
federal Judge William Clark ruled*
"■ pardon removed any disqualifica-
Wendel was sworn.
, beginning the story of his
i Us, '° n the Lindbergh kidnap-
S, which delayed for three days the
ff ’meution of Bruno Richard
auptmann for the crime, said he had
j ln °' Vn elder Parker chief of Bur
£y)n c °unty detectives, many years,
kin ’ fils * discussed the Lindbergh
said M;,rch 12, 1932, Wendel
Wn, ' n Parker expressed a wish
u-r> , il ,l \ art some one in the under
let about the case.
UeniteirßOTt TElatly Bispatrh
Proclaims Republic
t,.-,. • v, a
cV' . 4 • ;
■Peg j-i-vN vNojjHB
Eamon P® Valera
A new constitution declaring all
Ireland “a sovereign, independent
democratic state” has been pub
lished by President Eamon De
Valera of the Irish Free State and
now awaits ratification at the gen
eral elections and a plebiscite in
June. The document declares the
“inalienable” right of the Irish
people to choose their own form
of government, provides for elec
tion of a president by direct vote,
Irish as the national language and
Eirre as official name.
—Central Press
Governor Having Some Dif
ficulty Finding Right
Man for Place
Dally Dispatch Bureau,
In the Sir Walter Hotel.
Br J. C. BA.SKERVILL
Raleigh, May 4.—The job as direc
tor of public assistance, expected to
pay a salary of not less than $5,000 a
yeas, is not proving as attractive as
some of the other State jobs already
filled and indications are that Gover
nor Clyde R. Hoey is having some
trouble in finding just the type of
man he want 9 for this post. Current
reports are that it has already been,
offered to J. Dewey Dorsett, chair
man of the Industrial Commission,
that Dorsett can still have it if he
wants it. It is now no secret that the
job was previously offered to Capus
M. Waynick at a salary of $6,000 a
year, but that Waynick turned it
down like a cold potato. It may have
been offered to one or two others, al-
Guntinued on Page Two.)
RIVERS* OF STATE
REPORTED FALLING
Raleigh, May 4 (AP) Eastern
North Carolina rivers were reported
falling today. Weather Bureau Chief
Lee Denson said the Roanoke and Tar
Rivers were dowp half a foot each.
The Neuse at Goldsboro, he said, was
falling, down to 18.2 feet already,
while it neared its crest at Kinston.
SLIGHT GAINS FOR
COTTON ARE SHOWN
Futures Close Steady With Middling
At 13.55; Foreign Buying
Is More Brisk
New York, May 4.—(AP) —Cotton
futures opened steady two points low
er to five higher on trade and for
eign biiying and more favorable re
ports on the foreign monetary situa
tion j ul* r sold up from 13.02 to 13.06
and shortly after the first half hour
was selling at 13.05, When prices gen
erally showed net advances of 4 to 7
points. . , .
' July sold up to 13.13 and later was
13.11, with prices at midday generally
10 to 15 points net higher.
Futures closed steady, 5 to 11 points
higher. Spots steady, middling 13^
JSf 13.03 13.0 s
i ul , y , X 2.81 12.84
2 Ctob *L; .' 12 80 12.8!
December 12 .83
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HENDERSON, N. C., TUESDAY AFTERNOON, MAY 4, 1937
Heads U. S. Chamber
George EL Davis
George H. Davis, new president of
the U. S. Chamber of Commerce,
is a Kansas City banker, farmer
and merchant. He is known in
the business world as a successful
wheat dealer and perhaps the
largest individual land owner in
Kansas.
—Central Press
VIOLENCE APPEARS
IN MOVIE STRIKES
ABOUMLYIOD
Pickets Pace Before Great
Walled Film Studios of
Billion Dollar
Film Empire
FEDERATION WILL
FILM OPPOSITION
William Green Appealed to
by A. F. L. Adherents Who
Protest Sign-Up Efforts of
Opposing Units;'Luxurious
Beauty Salon Splashed
With Black
Hollywood, Cal., May 4. —(AP) —
Friction and a flare of violence ap
peared as pickets paced before the
gates of the walled film studios of
Hollywood today.
The friction was between the strik
ing Federated Motion Picture Crafts
and the International Association of
Theatrical Stage Employees, which
previously had reached an agreement
with the producers:.
Federation spokesmen said camera
squads would be posted at the studio
gates to take pictures of members of
the other American Federation of La
bor affiliate passing through the F.
M. P. C. picket lines.
Strikers telegraphed William Green
A. F. of L. president, protesting that
the I. A. T. S. E. was trying to sign
them as members. Charles Lessing,
federated crafts head, said he was
asking the Los Angeles Central Labor
Council to condemn it “as a company
union because of its anti-strike at
titude.”
One of Hollywood’s most luxurious
beauty salons was splashed with two
gallons of creosote last night by three
vandals
BIG PROFIT SHOWN
FOR WILSON’S ABC
Wilson, May 4 (AP)—Officials of
the Wilson ABC Board today reported
profits for the first nine months of
the year aggregated $80,279.78 pn .Sflles
totaling $381,196.25. The profits since
the stores were opened in July, 1935,
totalled $180,325.67, it was stated.
DR. W. B. MURPHY, OF
SNOW HILL, PASSES
Husband of Woman Democratic State
Vice Chairman Succumbs in
Duke Hospital
Durham, May 4 (AP)—Dr. W. B.
Murphy, of Snow Hill, one of the
State’s outstanding citizens, died at
Duke hospital today after an illness
of two weeks. Death was attributed
to acute leukemia.
Funeral services will be held Wed
nesday afternoon at 4 o’clock at Snow
Hill Presbyterian church. Masonic
rites will be observed at the graveside.
Dr. Murphy was for years associat
ed with the North Carolina Medical
Society, and served as its' vice presi
dent. His widow is also widely known
being vice chairman of the State Dem
ocratic Executive Committee.
Sreienton
OLD AGEPENSIONS
Constitutionality of That
and Insurance Section of
Social Security
at Issue
MAY BE RULED ON
BY MONDAY, MAY 18
Government Claims Title to
$8,000,000 of Property In
This Country Turned Over
by Soviet Government
When Red Russia Was Re
cognized Here
Washington, May 4 (AP) —The Su
preme Court will hear arguments to
morrow on the old age section of the
social security act. Lawyers said a
final decision on the act’s constitution
ality covering both the pensions and
insurance sections might bs given
,May< IT. Arguments already have
been heard on the insurance aspect of
the iav.|.
Solicitor General Stanley Reed said
a. decision handed down by the court
yesterday might establish the gov
ernment’s right to $8,000,000 worth of
property in this country given to it by
Soviet Russia.
The court upheld the government’s
right to sue for $25,438 which the Pet
rograd Metal Works had on deposit
with Augusta Belmont & Company,
New York bankers, at the time the
Soviet regime took over certain pri
vate corporations.
When the United States recognized
Russia in 1933, the U. S. S. R. as
signed to this government the metal
works assets in this country and oth
er property.
ZARAHOFF AGENT IS
ACCUSED OF MURDER
Reuben Schenzvit, Who Operated In
South America, Held in So
viet Man’s Death
Jappa, Palestine, May 4.—(AP) —■
Reuben Schefizvit, .jonce the South
American agent for the late Sir Basel
Zarahoff, Europe’s munitions mer
chant, was hurried into court today to
face charges of slaying a former
Soviet official in what British intel
ligence officers say is a fantastic
mystery.
Fearing hostile demonstrations, of
ficials brought Schenzvit from a soli
tary jail cell today to appear at a pre
liminary investigation into the club
bing of Jacob Zwanger, former Soviet
vice commissar of harbors, March 10,
Schenzvit denied the charges.
Investigation of the slaying disclos
ed an arms smuggling ring, a secret
radio station, and alleged spy ac
tivities, said intelligence officers of
the British royal air force.
Zwanger’s widow broke down at
the hearing and wept when the vic
tim’s blood-stained clothing found on
his body in a shallow grave on March
12 was offered as evidence.
TWO CANDIDATES AT
BRIDGETON TIED UP
Bridgeton, May 4. —(AP)—Selec-
tion of a police chief here rested
with the board of aldermen today
after an election in which Leo
Reel, the incumbent, and W. R.
Hopewell received 126 votes each.
I. H. Brite was elected mayor.
Hears Parkers 9 Case
Judge William Clark
Judge William Clark is presiding
at the trial of the Ellis Parkers,
senior and junior, in federal court
in Newark, N. J. The Parkers
_ are accused of abducting Paul
Wendel and forcing him to “con
fess” complicity in the Lindbergh
baby kidnap-murder.
—Central Pres*
EDWARD AND WALLY
FONDLY EMBRACE AT
CASTLE’S ENTRANCE
Duke Leaps from Car and
Dashes for Threshold of
Chateau To Greet
His Beloved
WALLY WORRIED BY
DELAY OF EDWARD
Was Hour Overdue at Cas
tle de Cande; Grasps Wide-
Eyed Wallis Tenderly in
His Arms as They Enter
Castle Together Arm in
Arm, Near Noon
Monts, France, May 4. —(AP) —Ed-
ward, Duke of Windsor, was reunited
in the moss-covered Castle de Cande
today with the woman for whom he
renounced an empire, Wallis Warfield
Simpson.
Five months and one day of enforc
ed loneliness for the former King Ed
ward VIII and “the woman I love”
ended t 1:45 p. m. (7:45 a. m. eastern,
standard time) when the gay duke
reached the ancient chateau.
He came from St. Wolfgang, Aus
tria, by train and by motor. His be
trothed was free to marry him and
that was what was foremost in their
hearts. He had not seen her since the
dark night of December 3, when she
fled to France from the abdication
crisis that changed crowns for a quar
ter of the world.
Breathless and radiant, Wallis
Simpson met her beloved at the door
of the cheateau.
Edward was an hour overdue and
his fiance’s excitement had mounted
by the minute. From Vemeuil, from
where the duke left the Arlberg ex
press, the motor trip consumed four
long hours.
The duke leaped from the car. He
dashed to the threshold.
There he took the wide-eyed Wallis
tenderly in his arms. They went in
side the castle arm in arm.
LIQUOR ELECTION IN
COLUMBUS IS HELD
Wfhiteville, May 4.
bus county voters went to the polls
today in a local option election to de
cide whether to legalize the sale of
liquor.
The county has been consistently
dry heretofore and the dry forces
have waged a vigorous campaign dur
ing recent weeks. The election is be
ing held under the local option act
passed by the last legislature.
DOCTORS OF STATE
MEET AT WINSTON
Strosnider Warns of Social
izing Medicine; Women
Elect Leaders
Winston-Salem, May 4 (AP)
With 550 doctors and their wives al
ready registered and still others com
ing, the North Carolina Medical So
ciety opened its annual convention
here today with prospects for a rec
ord attendance.
Dr. C. F. Strasnider, of Goldsboro,
president, called the first general ses
sion to order and delivered the an
nual president’s message. While hail
ing the advent of more medical at
tention for the masses, Dr. Strosnider
warned against immature socialized
medicine.
MRS. W. T. RAINEY NAMED
PRESIDENT OF AUXILIARY
Winston-Salem, May 4-—(AP) —Mrs.
W. T. Rainey, was installed as presi
dent of the Women’s Auxiliary of the
North Carolina Medical Society at the
annual convention here this morning.
She succeeds Mrs. J. R. Terry, of Lex
ington.
Other officers are Mrs. Terry, of
Lexington, vice-president, and Mrs.
George K. Mitchell, of Wilson, record
ing secretary.
FOR NORTH CAROLINA.
Partly cloudy, scattered showers
in central portion Wednesday;
somewhat warmer in southewtf
portion tonight. ! ’
PUBLISHED EVERY AFTERNOON
EXCEPT SUNDAY.
Who Said Pacific?
III;:;:,.,* ; v|
r o | :pi i
Hh IINMI
The Pacific Ocean is anything but
pacific (which means calm, peace
ful) as the MacDonough, one of
Uncle Sam’s newest type destroyers
rides high on a big wave during the
1 naval maneuvers near Hawaii.
(Central Pres*)
HARLAN PUBLICITY
MAY NOTBE GOOD
Effect Back in Kentucky
Hills Will Be Watch
ed at Capital
By CHARLES P. STEWART
Central Press Columnist
Washington, May 4.—lt will be, in
teresting to observe whether or not
the civilizations (or lack of them) of,
such odd, out-of-date communities as
that of Harlan county, Kentucky, can
be speedily modernized by such pub
licity as has been given to them by
investigation like the La Follette sen
atorial quiz into civil liberty viola
tions.
It may seem as if the ruling class
in Harlan county, for example, must
have been brought to i realization
of the fact that its methods are re
(Continued on Page Three.)
SCANT ADVANCE IS
MADE FORSTOCKS
Late Flurry in Rails Inspires Support
Elsewhere; Turn-Over Is
850,000 Shares
New York, May 4 (AP) —Without
excitement or other feverish symp
toms, stock market leaders trudged
into h giber territory today for gains
of fractions to three or more points.
Trading volume was only slightly
larger than yesterday’s restricted ag
gregate and the ticker tape dozed
frequently. A little profit selling was
in evidence now and then and most
top marks were trimmed down near
the fourth hour.
Bonds and commodities were quiet.
There was a late flurry in the rails,
which inspired support elsewhere.
Transfers were around 850,000 shares.
American Radiator 22 1-8
American Telephone 169 3-4
American Tobacco B 32
Anaconda ® 3 1-8
Atlantic Coast Line 48 4-4
Atlantic Refining 31 3-8
Bendix Aviation 21 1-2
Bethlehem Steel 87 J -8
Chrysler
Columbia Gas and Elec Co ... 14
Commercial 1®
Continental Oil Co 16 1-8
DuPont 7-8
Elec Power & Light 20 3-8
General Electric 54 I**
General Motors 59 3-4
Liggett & Myers B 98 7-8
Montgomery Ward & Co ..... 54 1-2
Reynolds Tob B 51 1-4
Southern Railway 38 1-2
Standard Oil Co NJ 68 3-8
U- S- Steel 10 4
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Brother Tells How He Was
Clubbed and Left by
Roadside by Body
of Slain Man
LAW IS SOUGHT TO
REGISTER FIREARMS
Bailey in Statement Says No
City, County or State
Should Be Given Dollar of
Federal Relief Unless It
Was Helpless Itself To
Meet Needs
Washington, May 4 (AP) —(Members
of the family of a recently slain Ken
tucky mine union organizer came be
fore the Senate civil liberties com
mittee today to relate their experi
ences with sudden death in the Har
lan county hills.
The organizer, Lloyd Clouse,
shot to death ten days ago at Verda,
Harlan county. His brother, Jasper,
was one of those to take the stand.
Jasper said the fatal shots were fired
by Bill Lew and Melvin Moore, two
deputy sheriffs in the pay of a coal
company.
The shooting occurred after the
Clouse brothers had walked out of a
liquor dispensary. Jasper, thin-lip
ped and taciturn, said he was beaten
and left lying in the road behide his
dead brother.
While the Senate committee con
cerned itself with that story of lead
en death, Attorney General Cummings
urged congressional leaders to enact
a law requiring registration with the
Internal Revenue Bureau of every
rifle, shotgun, revolver or pistol.
Meanwhile, Senator Bailey, Demo
crat, North said in a state
ment “no city, county or state ought tp
draw a dollar from the Federal Treas
ury unless it is actually unable to
provide funds for unemployment re
lief.”
“The Federal administration,” B&i
--ley.said, “ought to proceed with the
objective of localizing the problem and
to reverse its present program of mak
ing it a permanent Federal activity.
“The problem is local and becomes
general only when the local unit !•
(Continued on Page Two)
WAKE WILL VOTE ON
LIQUOR NEXT MONTH
County Commissioners Request Board
of Elections To Order Re
ferendum on ABC
Raleigh, May 4.—.(AP)—The Wake
county commissioners voted unani
mously today to request the Wake
County Board of Elections to order a
referendum on establishment of liquor
stores in the county under the 1917
local option law.
Election board members indioated
they would set June 22 for the vote.
Durham recently voted in favor of
liquor stores and in Dare county,
where drys apparently won by a nar
row majority, a hearing is scheduled
for tomorrow.
RASKOB AND DUPONT
INTIMATE FRIENDS
Status of Their Relationships Told at
Tax Hearing In New York
Federal Court
New York, May 4 (AP)—-The okrte
business and personal relationship#
existing between Pierre DuPont and
John J. Raskob was described today
in the hearing of the government caee
to collect about $1,800,000 taxes on the
1929 incomes of the two financiers and
industrialists.
Nathan Leming, chief counsel for
the Internal Revenue Bureau, brought
out the details of its Relationship in
questioning Harold Speer, office man
ager and statiistician for Raskob.
DEIIfSITE
NOW NEARING JOKY
Deliberations To Be Begun
Late Today or Tomorrow
in Murder Case
Newcastle, Ky., May 4.—(AP)—To
the steady patter of rain on an old tin
roof, lawyers hammered away today
at she evidence that by tonight or
tomorrow may acquit or convict
Brigadie: General Henry Denhardt of
the murder of his fiance.
Wirt Turner, of prosecution coun
sel, opened with a defense of Sergeant
John Messmer, Louisville police crim
inologist, who was attacked yester
day by Defense Counsel Rhodes
Continued 00 Page Two.)