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HENDERSON GATEWAY TO CENTRAL CAROLINA TWENTY-FOURTH YEAR COURT BILL WILL PISS, ROOSEVELT STATES France Arms Her Stretch Os Spanish Border While Rebels Mourn Mola Death 60 IRE KILLED IN MADRID’S SHELLING BY INSURGENT GUNS Downtown Section of Capi tal Raked by Artillery of Insurgents From Distance FRENCH ARMING IS AGAINST AIR RAID Insurgent Spain Stunned by Mola’s Death in Crash of Fog -Bound Airplane; Franco Immediately Di vides His Northern Com mand to Two Heads Perpignan, Franco-Spanish Fron tier, June* ■*. —(AP) —(France armed her side of the Spanish border with anti-aircraft guns today to repel any air attacks by Spanish war planes. The step was taken after protests from another city when it was ma chine-gunned recently by Spanish in surgent attack planes in a raid on government-held border positions. 60 KILLED INt MADRID BY REBEL ARTILLERY SHELLS Madrid, June 4. — (AP) —A stiff in surgent artillery bombardment killed and wounded about 60 victims in downtown Madrid today. Crowded streets were quickly clear ed a£ shopping throngs dashed for cover in subways and basements. Am bulances and fire companies were called out in stricken neighborhoods. REBEL SPAIN IS STUNNED BY MOLA’S SUDDEN DEATH Vittoria, Spain, June 4 (API-Insur gent Spain was stunded today by the (Continued on Page Two). N. C. State Athletics Body Made Raleigh, June 4.— (AP)—The board of trustees of the Greater University of North Carolina approved a 15-mem ber athletic council for State College today in an effort, sponsors of the plan said, “to stop confusion and trouble in State’s athletic situation. The board met at N. C. State Col lege for the first time since the con solidation of State and N- C. • • with the Chapel Hill unit) into t e greater university, and approved all recommendations of the umlvelsi y executive committee. Cameron Morrison, of. Charlotte,, a 'Continued on Page Three.,) State Ready To Press Its Advertising $125,000 Annually to be Spent To Tell Nation About North Carolina Dally Dispatch Bareae, In the Sir Walter Hotel. By J. C. BASKERVILL Raleigh, June *4 —North Carolina, is now ready to start going places with its new $125,000 a year advertising campaign, as a result of the action by the State Board of Conservation and Development in awarding the con tract for the nationwide advertising drive tc Eastman, Scott & Company, of Atlanta, Ga., nationally known ad vertising agency. The final selection of this company both by the special committee of the board and by the entire board, was announced Thurs (Continued on Page Four.) Urttitersmt Shrill; SHsuatrlT ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA AND VIRGINIA. W IRE SERVICE OP THE ASSOCIATED PRESS. World Communists Attempt Union For Spanish Loyalists MOTHER, 20, VICTIM OF PYRE SLAYING $ N | Mrs. Mary E. Stamey (above), 20- year-old mother, was clubbed to death at her home near Morganton, N. C., and her body was left on a burning bed in a room with her eight-month old son and a four-year-old daughter. The children were rescued before the fire spread from the bed. Her hus band, Erwin A. Stamey, 22, unemploy ed, was jailed at Morganton pending the findings of the coroner’s inquest which will be held today. DUKE AND DUCHESS RIDE VENICE CANAL Stop Off In Italian City Be tween Trains En Route to Austria Venice, Italy, June 4. —(AP) —The Duke and Duchess of Windsor rode down the grand canal of this Italian honeymoon “Niagara” today to the cheers of romantic Venetians. The new family Windsor, speeding by train from their Chateau de Cande wedding to the “haunted” Austrian honeymoon castle of Wasserleonburg, alight from their special car and en tered a motor launch for the canal ride. They took the “between trains” ex cursion as the guests of British Con sul Allen Napier, who met them. They had three hours until the next train for Austria. The duke seemed comfortably domesticated. When the train pulled in he could be seen in the window in his blue and white striped shirt sleevs He put on a brown coat and straw hat before he alighted with the new duchess, who *had added a small white straw hat to her blue traveling en semble . Babson Gives Advice To Graduates Starting Out Greatest Opportunity Is In Pioneering in Some Field; Says Hard Work, Hones ty and Golden Rule Can not Fail To S ucceed Still by ROGER w. BABSON, Copyright 1937, Jhiblishers Financial Bureau, Inc. Babson Park, Mass., June 4—l have some good news for June graduates and their parents: Statistics show that this year’s seniors are in far greater demand than were last year s Iraduates. A survey of °'' cr flf ‘J\ C g‘ leces shows that fewer A. B. and B. S degree-holders will be forced to take ppst-graduate courses in C. C. C this year. Eighty per cent of the Placement directors report that there are Sony more jobs today than in HENDERSON, N. C„ FRIDAY 'AFTERNOON, JUNE 4, 1937 United Front Against Ger man and Italian Interven tion Proposed at Moscow WOULD ALSO GIVE MATERIAL SUPPORT “Must and Will Be Estab lished as Answer to Al meria,” Secretary of Inter nationale Says; Two Op posing Groups in Russia Bury the Hatchet Moscow, June 4 (AP) —The Komin tern, the third communist interna tionale, today ended its long-standing quarrel with its parent body, the sec ond socialist internationale, and pro posed a united front for “action again st German and' Italian intervention in Spain.” The startling move to bury the hat chet and unify the communists, social ists and international league of labor unions, George Dimintroff, secretary general of the Kimjntern, announced, was the direct result of the bombard ment of the Spanish city of Almeria by German warships. “A united workers front for mate rial, as well as moral, support for the Spanish workers must and will be es tablished as the answer to Almeria,” Dimintroff declared. Dimitroff, as spokesman for the Komintern, the international organi zation of communist parties of all na tions, proposed definitely the forma tion of a joint commission from his own group, the second internationale, and with the national league of labor unions. The proposal was prompted, he said Continued on Page Two.) PROBE DEATH BOY FOUND ON RAILROAD Goldsboro, June 4.—(AP) —Officers began an investigation into the death of Burke Newkirk, IT-yeiaiVold de livery boy, whose mangled body was found on the Atlantic Coast Dine rail road tracks in Fremont today. Deputy Sheriff Barnes Hooks said Newkirk was seen alive last on Thursday night after he left a party. JOHNSTON TO OPEN SIX LIQUOR STORES Three Members of ABC Board Named Thursday Confer With Cutlar Moore In Raleigh Raleigh, June 4 (AP)—Three mem bers of the Johnston County ABC board appointed yesterday conferred here with Cutlar Moore, State ABC chairman, and indicated they expect ed to open six sto*- s shortly. Holton Wallact, of Smithfield, is chairman of the board, and with him are Prim Parker, of near Smithfield, a former sheriff, and Lewis Keen, of Four Oaks. They said they expected to put stores at Smithfield, Clayton, Kenly, Benson, Princeton and Selma, 1936. The real news, however, is that this year not only the best students but also the lower-ranking cap-and gown wearers are being picked up by corporation scouts. More encouraging still is the fact thst starting salaries are reported from SIOO to S3OO higher than last year on an annual basis. Those in dustries showing the most activity at present are taking the largest per centage of the graduates. Technical school students are particularly want (Continued on Page Three.) RACE IS ON FOR JOE ROBINSON’S SENATE POST • Senator Barkley Senator Byrnes Senator Harrison In the belief that President Roosevelt intends to name Senator Joseph T. Robinson of Arkansas to the U. S. supreme court to succeed the retiring Justice Willis Van Devanter, a three-cornered race for the Democratic leadership of the senate is being Envoy Called Home ; j Enrique Carlos de la Casa A vigorous protest—but no demand for auction —was lodged with the Unit ed States by Spanish Ambassador En rique Carlos de la Casa over Ger- action in bombarding Almeria, Spain. He has been called home by his government for conferences. Jewish Boy, U. S. Citizen, Is Beheaded Protests of American Ambassador Futile For Man Who Threatened Hitler Berlin, June 4. —(AP? Helmuth Hirsch, 21-year-old Jewish citizen of the United States, who had never been in America, was executed by a mechanical guilltoine at dawn today for an alleged treasonable plot under the explosive law, presumably a plan to kill Adolf Hitler. Clemency apparently was refused by Hitler, the only one able to give it, because authorities believed Hirsch acted for Otto Strasser, Hitler’s bit ter enemy, now in exile in Praha, (Continued on Page Two) EARHART”HEADS TO THE TIP OF BRAZIL Paramaribo, Dutch Guiana, June 4.—— (A I’) —“Amelia Earhart took off on anatheir lap of her round-the-owrld tour at 5 a. m., eastern standard time, today, heading for Natal, Brazil, at the easternmost tip of the country. The weather was clear. nt IP WEATHERMAN m t 4 FOR NORTH CAROLINA. Scattered thundershowers this afternoon; partly cloudy tonight and Saturday, with scattered show ers in central portion Saturday. Perkins Wants Wage Set As Industry By Industry Under Wage, Hours Act Not at All Convinced of W isdom of Writing Fixed Min imum Wage Into New La wßy Congress; Balance Between Town and Country Should Be Reserved Washifigton, June 4 (AP)—Secre tary Perkins suggested today the ba sic wage scale under the proposed la bor standards act be set industry by industry. She told a congressional commit tee she was “not at all convinced” of the wisdom of writing a fixed mini mum wage into the measure, which would bar from interstate commerce goods produced “under oppressive” labor conditions. She expressed preference for leav ing the determination of tb»» milii At Wally’s Wedding p————————————— ij .y %Oifliji ££ Mbbbm "Aunt Bessie” Wallis Warfield’s “Aunt Bessie”, Mrs. D. Buchanan Merryman, who Journeyed all the way from her home in Washington to Monts, France, to attend the wedding of Wally and the Duke of Windsor, was the only relative of the Amer ican bride at the ceremony. —Central Preaa CAPITAL WONDERS IF FDRISSLIPPING Speculates on Whether Re volt in Congress Reflects Home View By CHARLES P. STEWART * Central Press Columnist Washington, June 4.—'Next year’s congressional elections are interesting to contemplate in advance. Will their result prove that Presi dent Roosevelt retains all the pop ularity he demonstrated in 1932, 1934 and 1936?—0r that he has suffered a disastrous slump? His party is split wide open on (Continued on Page Three.) staged under cover in Washington. The trio in tha race for the coveted senate post is Senator Alben Barkley of Kentucky, Senator James Byrnes of South Carolina and Senator Pat Harrison of Missis sippi, all close friends of the president. —Central Press mum wage in eaeh industry to man board, which first hold hearings. “The delicate task of preserving the proper economic balance between town and country,” she said in a pre pared statement, “should be perform ed administratively, I believe, rather than by the placing of specific fig ures respecting differentials in the bill.” The secretary said the question of wage differentials was “one of the most difficult questions involved in the bill.” One Dead In Clash About Lumber Mill Battle of Fists, Clubs, Brickbats Fought and Strikers Are Repulsed Newberry, Mich., June 4 (AP) —One man was reported dead and several hurt today after a battle of fists, clubs and brickbats in which employees of the Newberry Lumber & Chemical Company repulsed striking lumber men who marched on the plant from nearby Munsing. It was not determined immediately whether the dead man, an unidentified member of the group which came by truck and automobile from Munsing, died from wounds inflicted during the rioting, or whether he fell dead of a heart attack from excitement. Sheriff E. E. Shaw, enlisted 20 spe cial deputies in anticipation of the strikers’ advance on the plant, which came about 6 a. m. Several State po licemen also patrolled the area. Nine Passengers Burned to Death As Bus Overturns Redding, Cal., June 4 (API- Nine passengers * were burned to death early today when a Grey hound stage overturned at Shiloh Springs, 48 miles north of here. Flames burst from the big ma chine when it toppled over and trapped the victims in the wreck age. The fire attracted enroliees from nearby CCC camp, and they rush ed to the .scene and poured water on the bus. Coroner Roy Duggins telephon ed here he had found nine bodies and believed all persons aboard the machine had perished. PUBLISHED EVERY AFTERNOON EXCEPT SUNDAY. 8 PAGES TODAY FIVE CENTS COPY PRESIDENT AGAIN BURMTH IN Lambasts High Tribunal Be cause It Didn’t Pass on Some Things He Wanted Settled SAYS LEGISLATIVE REQUESTS ALL IN Last One Was Recommen dation Thursday for Net work of “Regional Author ities”; William Green En dorses Approval of Wage- Hour Control Plans Washington, June 4.—(AP)—Presi dent Roosevelt said today there was no question that the court reorgani zation bill would be passed at this session. He made the statement at his press conference, at the same time parrying a question about com promises. In forceful terms, President Roose velt said Congress would pass at this session his bill to reorganize the Fed eral court, system. He turned aside with a simile and a metaphor, however, press confer ence questions about whether he would compromise eventually on pro visions of the measure toward which, until last night, he always had been represented as taking a stern “no compromise” attitude. Says People Want It. The President said the people want od court reform and he criticized the supreme tribunal, which adjourned Tuesday for the summer, ending the term, without hearing and deciding half a dozen cases in which the ad ministration is interested, and on some of which appeals have been granted for hearings next fall. The President also told reporters he had completed his legislative re-* commendations for the present ses sion of Congress. Last of his mes sages advocating new legislation was that sent up yesterday in behalf of a system of “regional authorities” for the nation's principal river systems. Meanwhile, William Green en (Continued on Page Three.) Beard Killed In The Chair At Texas Pen Huntsville, Texas, June 4 (AP) — Twice sentenced to death, Augustus Dwight Beard died in the electric chair today, stoutly denying slaying for which he was convicted in North Carolina and Texas. The 27-year-old man, who had been a collegiate wrestler and Y. M. C. A. worker in North Carolina, was exe cuted at the State penitentiary for shooting a former Dallas detective who resisted a garage hold-up. A moment before he deliberately seated himself in the chair. Beard told Warden W. W. Waid and other witnesses: “I want to say that the crime I was convicted of in Dallas another man is guilty. He is in Arlington. The crime in North Carolina that I was accused of, another boy was guilty in that crime. I’m well prepared through Father Finnegan and the Catholic Church.” Arlington is between Dallas and Fort Worth. sitdownsreTurn TO AUTO INDUSTRY New Strikes Boost Nation’s Idle From That Cause To Near 100,000 (By The Associated Press.) Sitdowns returned to the automo bile industry today, boosting the na tion’s strike idle to near the iOO.QOO mark. Tentative peace moves in the steel walkout, with an estimated 73,000 out, proceeded, but sinkers and sym pathizers barricaded a freight train bound for a Republic Steel plant in Warren, Ohio, and hailed a postal rul ing there refusing delivery of car tons of food to men still working in the plants. Five factories in Michigan were closed, throwing 17,000 out of work. Companies affected were Chrysler, two units; Packard, DeSoto and Fisher Body. At Detroit, Personnel Director Continued on Page Two.)
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