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HENDERSON gateway TO CENTRAL CAROLINA TWENTY-FOURTH YEAR FISH ASKS PROBE ROOSEVELTS TAX RETURN NEW PROPOSAL 10 END SPANISH WAR Hiram FRANCE Would Ban Foreign Aid, Withdraw Foreign Sol diers and Start Mediation Moves GERMANY, ITALY MAY RETURN TO PATROL Mussolini and Hitler Ex pected To Agree to Eden’s Plan for Continued Neu tral Naval Guard of Span ish Coasts; Insurgents Re new Bilbao Attack (By The Associated Press.) A new effort to end the Spanish war was drafted officially today by Franco as non-intervention powers seemed on the verge of winning Ger many and Italy back into ttye neu trality naval patrol. France suggested the "hands-off-Spain” committee, as soon as Germany and Italy resume co operation with it, seek an end to the nearly year-long Spanish strife toy: 1. Reenforcing the control plan to bar foreign fighters and arms from Spain. 2. Withdrawal of all foreign sol diers now in Spain. 3. Mediation between the Spanish government and insurgents. In London, meanwhile, the return of Italy and Germany to the commit tee, necessary for an effective patrol, seemed assured. An official British spokesman predicted they would agree to Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden’s four-point plan today and said ‘no points of disagreement marked a conference Eden held with the Ger man, French and Italian ambas sadors." Clearing skies in northwest Spain signalled a new insurgent attack a gainst Bilbao, besieged Basque Capi tal. Aerial forces of General Davila dropped tons of explosives on the city's steel and reenforced concrete “last line" of defense. Lumberton’s Mills Opened To Workers But Strikers Offer Witnesses To Labor Boa rd, Alleging Discrimination Lumberton, June 11. —(AP) — The Mannsfield cotton mills reopened without incident today as the textile workers organizing committee mar shalled more witnesses before a Fed eral Labor Relations Board examiner in its attempt to show the mill man agement dismissed workers for union activity. The plant, scene of a weaveroom strike had suspended operations yes terday afternoon. Scores of pickets, many of them women, wi re at the mill entrance as the workers filed into the plant toe twern lines of highway patrolmen and sheriff’s deputies. A mill official, who declined to he quota d by name, said 132 workers, 35 or 40 less than normal, were at their on Page Two.) Labor Is At Crossroads And Storm Signal Flying Strong Leaders Needed and Labor Must Assume Re sponsibility as Well as Accept Benefits; 1929 Waterloo” Is Menacing, Babson bays P.v KOGEB W. BABSON, Copyright 1937, publishers Financial Bureau, Inc. babson Park, Mass., June 11. The phenomenal growth of the CIO hk d arr::i/.i'ri business and labor ai ‘kr . Even John L. Lewis, were he P* Hoetly candid, would concede that ''■ inrl no idea his Committee for i • rial Organization would extend so widely within less than a year’s <m-.\ j vs. campaign work. The fact is, tooay CIO unions include over two miiiion members and are treading fast on the heels of the AFofL. Mr. f.'Wi, won his first major victories w ' n < n he established labor “peace” with so per cent of the steel industry Hcttftersmt Hatlit Btspatdi LE t^?£ D a SERVICE of THE ASSOCIATED PRESS. Socialite Abducted From Long Island Home ’X ' ' , . - , : i vXc • i r * -MMEI i I ffi l t ■> «« ; / XRWvv? : .<r ,>w . -/&.y.xv<v:-:v:v:?wMgA f l * v > ••••• fcnfwi MfMUfl IMmil flllffn nnfll nll n 1 11 . m imi H r State and federal authorities united in a search today for Mrs. Alice Parsons, 38-year-old social registerite and wife of a wealthy stock farm owner who was seized and believed abducted from her home at North Shore, L. I. Police said a ransom note, demanding $25,000, had been left under the driver’s seat of the Parsons’ automobile, parked on the grounds of the home, Long Meadows farm. C. 1.0. Workers Abandon March On Monroe, Mich., But More Strikes Loom Newton Steel Plant Contin ues Operation Under Protection of Armed Citizens BETHLEHEM STEEL STRIKE IS CALLED Huge Cambria Plant at Johnstown, Pa., Object of C. I. O. Drive; Senate Com mittee Told Postal Autho rities Refuse Mail for Ohio Plant Workers Youngstown, Ohio, June 11.—(AP) —A mass movement on Monroe, Mich., by C. I. O. workers was called off today and the Newton Steel Com-, pany continued to operate under the protection of armed citizens. While troubled Monroe breathed easier, Governor Martin Davey, of Ohio, called principals in the wide steel strike to his office for peace con ferences at 2 p. m., eastern standard time, but more troubles loomed on the labor front. The steel workers organizing com mittee called a strike for 11 p. m., eastern standard time, in the huge Johnstown, Pa., Cambria mill of Beth lehem Steel to bolster a walkout. Homer Martin, national president of the C. I. O. United Automobile Workers, ended a motor caravan pro cession to Monroe from Pontiac, Mich., where automobile workers de clared an industrial holiday to protest routing of pickets last night from a Republic Steel Corporation subsidiary at Monroe. The vanguard of about 750 auto mobile workers turned ifcack from their rallying point ten miles north of Monroe after cars were halted at the city limits by sheriff’s deputies and special officers. They left 34 per (Continued on Page Six.) and the principal automobile com panies. with the exception of the Ford C ° mP Labor Struggles Inevitable. The Wagner act decision has prov ed a tremendously valuable ally to Mr Lewis. Under its outspread and protective wings, collective bargain is being fostered in v manner t ..it is "enough to build a strong Industrial iiho" party in this country. I was noc .ano p c* V /tlt growth of the cVoTuring tfe palt yea. My stud.ea Os the labor situation convinced me • 1932 that, as W 3 emerged from Ji depression, we would see an meres* (Cootinued on Page Six.) ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA AND VIRGINIA. Hitch-Hiker Robs Salesman of Car Greensboro, June 11. —(AP) —D. E. Cannaday, a traveling salesman of High Point, reported to the sheriff’s office there he was held up and robbed of his automobile and sll in cash by a hitch-hiker he had picked lip this morning. Cannaday said, according to of ficers, he picked up the man just north of the High Point city limits on the. Greensboro - High Point highway as he was traveling to ward Greensboro. A few miles further along the man produced a pistol, forced Mr. Cannaday to halt the car, surren der It and his money, and walk for some distance along the highway in front of the car. Hoey W on’t Drop Entire School Body Expected to Keep Majority, Thus Sav ing Griffin, Despite School Bloc Dally Dispatch Bnreaa, In the Sir Walter Hotel. By J. C. BASKERVILL Raleigh, June 11. — No clean sweep of the present personnel of the State School Commission is expected to be made by Governor Clyde It. Hoey, de spite the fact that strong pressure has been brought to bear ,ipo:i him by a certain faction of the school forces which would like to have an almost entirely new coHmS.-ion appointed, according to reliable information ob tained today. But Governor Hoey is understood to have indicated quite forcefully that he has no intention of (Continued on Page Three.) LIONS WILL DIVIDE IN TWO DISTRICTS Winston-Salem and Dunn Men Elect ed Presidents of New Groups Os This State Charlotte, June 11.—.(AP)—Dele- gates to the 31st district convention of Lions International voted to split the area and elected C. A. Walker of Winston-Salem, and Mack M. Jour negan, of Dunn, to head the new sec tors as district governors here today. The two district will continue to meet for an all-State convention and Wilmington was selected as the 1938 meeting place. The two-day meeting, which has been attended by 500 delegates, will end tonight with a banquet and dance HENDERSON, N. C., FRIDAY AFTERNOON, JUNE 11, 1937 FAMILY REQUESTS SECRECY IN HUNT FOR MRSLPARSONS Wealthy Husband of Long Island Woman Trying To Contact Wife’s Abductors G-MAN HOOVER IN COMMAND OF DRIVE /Coming from Washington to Direct Personally Efforts of Officers To Run Down Kidnapers of Society Wo man Missing from Home Since Wednesday Stony Brook, N. Y., June 11. —(AF) —ln an atmosphere of increasing ten sion, the husband and wealthy rela tives of Mrs. Alice McDonnell Par sons, socially prominent Long Island heiress, made a new plea today to be left alone in their effort to contact supposed kidnapers of the 38-year-old matron. The request was voiced by Roy Mc- Donnell, brother of the woman, miss ing since Wednesday afternoon. Rain drenched the North Shore countryside and there were few signs of activity around the house. Two miles away, in the Stony Brook village, Federal officers await ed word from J. Edgar Hoover, re ported en route from Washington to take personal command of the inves tigation. A coast guard seaplane came to an (Continued on Page Six.) New Treason Trials Begun With Soviets Moscow, June 11. (AP) — The Soviet Union, striking with dramatic suddenness, placed eight of its high est ranking war lords on trial for their lives today, charged with high treason and conspiring with a foreign power “unfriendly” to the govern ment. Among those summoned before the (Continued on Page Six.) m IP WEATHER MAN FOR NORTH CAROLINA. Generally fair tonight and Sat urday, preceded by thundershow ers in east portion this afternoon and possibly near the coast to night; slightly cooler in central and east portions tonight; slightly warmer in central portion Satur day. FIRST LADY AT STRAWBERRY FESTIVAL X ! : v’' ■ ■ ,% jHaBL * : / •■' . i J j>'V, j ffIHP" MRS. FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT Mrs. Roosevelt Is Guest At Strawberry Festival Breakfasts at Wallace on N orth Carolina Foods and Sees Penderlea Resettlement Projects; Governor Hoey Officially Greets First Lady Penderlea, June 11 (AP) —Mrs. Franklin Roosevelt ignored a blaz ing sun today and joined resi dents of this government-sponsor ed home-stead project in an im promptu squiire dance at the end of a pageant depicting the history of this country “From Settlement to Resettlement.” Wallace, June 11.—(AP)—Rep resentative Graham Barden, of the third congressional district, announced here today that Mrs. Franklin Roosevelt here on a visit to the strawberry f«#>tival, will make a rear platform address at Goldsboro on her way back to Washington. STRAWBERRY CENTER IIAS GREATEST CELEBRATION Wallace, June 11 (AP)—This center of commercial strawberry growing in GEORGIA ASKS FOR LIQUOR PROTECTION Wants Government to Stop Flow of Whisky Into Its Dry Domain Atlanta, Ga., June 11. —(AF) —Geor- gia. which last Tuesday voted to re main one of the nation’s “dry states, called upon the Federal government officially today to protect it from the flow of illegal liquor. State Revenue Commissioner Grady Head directed the request for action to W. S. Alexander, head of the Fed eral Alcohol Administration. “We feel that the Federal govern (Continued on Page Six.) CCC MAN DROWNED NEAR GOLDSBORO N. Lewis, 21, Goes Down Be fore Aid Can Beach Him in Little Biver Goldsboro, June 11. (AP)—• Herbert N. Lewis, 21, of the White Lake CCC camp, drowned late yesterday in Little Biver, . near here. . Lewis, on a visit to his mother here* was swimming with a party of friends, and sank before help could reach him. Deputy Sheriff Boy Pierce said the youth ap parently had been stricken with cramp, and that no inquest would be held. PUBLISHED HVBKY AFTBKNOOM EXCEPT SUNDAY. this part of the United States cele brated one of its best years today with Mrs. Franklin Delano Roosevelt, wife of the President, as its honor and 1 honored guest. From near and far came North Carolinians and others to see a big pageant ftt Ithe nearby Penderlea homesteads of the Resettlement Ad ministration and hear Mrs. Roosevelt speak over a National radio hook-up from the strawberry festival here. As Mrs. Roosevelt arrived this morn ing a guard of honor of hundreds of school children and Boy Scouts greet ed her. Greeted toy a United States Army band from Fort Bragg and three un identified airplanes flying low over a crowd of about 3,000 persons, the na tion’s first ilady went immediately from the train to the residence of Continued, on Pape Two.) EARHART LANDS IN HEART OF AFRICA Makes Successful 1,000-Mile Hop Toward Eastern British Sudan Fort Lamy, French West Africa, June 11 —(AP) —Amelia Earhart land ed here today to complete a 1,000-mile leg of her flight around the world. She set her twin-motored mono plane down at 7:55 a. m., eastern standard time, after flying from Gao over equatorial Africa. TAKE-OFF FEOM GAO IS MADE SOON AJTEB DAWN Gao, French West Africa, June 11. —(AP) —Amelia Earhart started to day on another leg of her round-the world flight, lifting her monoplane easily into the eastern sky and head ing for Fort Lamy, about 1,000 miles away in the Lake Chad country of French equatorial Africa. The blazing sun glinted on her plane as it took off at 6:15 a. m., Greenwich time (1:15 a. m. eastern standard time). Arrival at Fort Lamy would put the United States air woman back on her course she plotted over the wild, sparsely populated Sudan section of central Africa. Tempestuous weather had forced her to fly to Gao, slightly north of the dircet eastward route from Dakar French Senegal, to Khartoun\, Anglo- Egyptian Sudan, some 2,200 miles from here. \o pages |iO TODAY FIVE CENTS COPY LOSSES DEDUCTED BY PRESIDENT FOR “FARM”, IS CHARGE Senate Committee Votes In quiry Into Interference With Mails In Strike Zone BAILEY SUGGESTS INQUIRY INTO LABOR Wants Broad Investigation In General; Roosevelt Signs Bill for Inquiry Into Tax Dodging; Republicans Oppose Re-Enacting Nuis ance Taxes Washington, June 11. —-(AP) —Pres- ident Roosevelt signed a resolution authorizing a broad inquiry into tax dodging today. The investigation will he conduct ed by a .joint congressional committee of six senators and six representa tives, yet to be named. At about the same time the Presi dent signed the resolution, Represen tative Fish, Republican, New York, suggested on the House floor that the committee should look into the in come tax returns of president Roose velt. Fish said he had been “informed on, reliable authority” that Mr. Roose velt had deducted the losses on “his so-called farm at Hyde Park’ in my district, which is • not a farm but a palatial residence.” Fish said if the committee was “go ing to investigate any one, I suggest it investigate him.” Fish spoke during debate on a bill to extend “nuisance taxes’’ and the thrce-cent postage rate. He did not amplify his remarks to any extent. Meanwhile, the Senate Post Office Committee voted a broad preliminary inquiry of charges of interference with the mails in steel strikes and of (Continued on Page Six.) Dumber You Are Better Off You Are, Doctors Say Atlantic City, June 11. —(AP) — The dumber you are the better off you are, a group of nerve siiecialjsts told the American Medical Association today and cited eases to support their praise of stupidity. Specialists on nervous diseases of the body cited results of a group of operations on humans and the experiments on the high er apes in which large portions of the pre-frontal lobes of the brain, lying just back of the forehead, were removed. These lobes, they explained, are the centers of intelligence and reasoning, but are apparently also the areas where many nervous disorders run out of control. Mold Cuts Tobacco Up In Virginia Richmond, Va., June 11 /API- Blue mold damage in Virginia’s to bacco crop was estimated today from nine to 30 percent by county agents in tobacco counties in the tobacco belt. Damage in Lunenburg county was estimated at 25 to 30 percent by County Agent E. G. Stokes. A. C. Birdsall estimated the loss in Appammatox as nine percent, D. A. Jackson, of Lawrenceville (Continued on Page Three.) Slander Os Simpson Is Withdrawn London, June 11 (AP)—Mrs. Joan Sutherland apologized to Ernest Aid rich Simpson today after he took the witness stand in his slander action against her and stated under oath he never received any money or other consideration for not defending the divorce suit which gave Wallis War field her freedom to wed former King Edward VIII. Sir Patrick Hastings, Mrs. Suther land’s attorney, said she had “not the (Continued on Page Six.)
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