HENDERSON
GATEWAY TO
CENTRAL
CAROLINA
TWENTY-FOURTH YEAR
STRIKE PROBE ENDS; MORE WORKERS BACK
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Spanish Government Coast Again Heavily Shelled
ONE REPORT SAYS
GERMAN SHIPS IN
ATTACKING GROUP
Others Claim To Have Iden
tified Insurgent Cruiser
As Among Ships
In Number
SHORE BATTERIES
REPLY TO FIRING
Ships Come Within Mile of
Shore With All Lights Out
As Firing Is Opened on
Port of Sagunto; No Great
Amount of Damage Re
ported in Attack
Valencia, Spain, June 28.—(AP) —
The Spanish government coast be
tween 'Sagunto and Castellon was
heavily shelled today from the sea.
One report, which was not confirmed
said German ships participated.
Sagunto is about 25 miles north of
here.
The attack, intensive enough to be
heard in this temporary seat of the
Spanish central government, stretch
ed about 30 miles farther north to
Castellon.
Some observers identified the in
surgent cruiser Canarias as the sole
attacker, Others said there were two
or three ships firing.
Shore defense batteries thundered
in an effort to drive' off the attackers.
A government warship put to sea.
Coast batteries here shot flares to il-
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SEARCH BEGUN FOR
ESCAPED CONVICTS
Timely Appearance of Guard Prevents
66 Others Fleeing Barracks
Near Burgaw
Burgaw, June 28 (AP)—A search
was on today for eight Negro con
victs who dug a hole in the floor and
escaped from the State Prison camp
here last night. Superintendent Jesse
Hilliard said a guard’s timely discov
ery of the outbreak possibly prevent
ed 66 other convicts from escaping.
Hilliard said boards had been nail
ed over a rotten place in the floonng
and the prisoners pulled the nails out
ripped up the boards and knocked
out the brick under-flooring.
Italy And
Germany to
Hold Aloof
Rome, June 28 (AP)— Italy and
Germany will not accept a “complete
Franco-British international neutral
ity patrol of Spain, an authoritative
spokesman declared today.
The announcement came on the eve
of a non-intervention committee niee -
ing to consider steps for closing the
gap left in the patrol by withdrawal
of German and Italian warships.
Neither Rome-Berlin axis nor Eu
rope in -all its sane and vital parts
could accept the Franco-British ship
(Continued on Page Four.)
Germany Renews Demands
For Return Os Colonies
Reich Must and Will Make Itself Seif- s ustaining Goer
ing Shouts At Convention of International Chamber
of Commerce In Berl in; 1,500 Delegates
Berlin, June 28—(AP) Colonel
General Hermann Wilhelm Goering,
Adolf Hitler’s chief aide, renewed
Germany’s plea for return of her lost
colonies today with the declarat: lo
it was “intolerable” for the Reich to
be dependent economically on other
nations. , , _
The air minister sounded Ger
many’s determination to be se
ficient just 18 years to the day since
the formal signing of the treaty o
Versailles stripped a conquerd Ger
many of her colonial empire after
World War ODe ning session of
Goering told the opening o
the ninth convention of ® “vou
tional Chamber of Comme - J
may be sure Germany wi
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Irwin Denied Bail
As Sam 7 Leibowitz
Takes His Defense
On Economic Mission
MMEF3TI
Dr. H. H. Kung
A direct descendant of Confucius
(75th generation), Dr. H. H.
Kung, minister of finance in
China, is in the U. S. to study
economic and industrial develop
ments. He is seen in New York.
He can smile at Americans who
trace their ancestry back merely
to the Mayflower pioneers.
—Central Press
BYRDMSSIPED
AS 1940 NOMINEE
* .
Would Run as Mildly Con
servative Democrat for
the Presidency
EVENTUALITIES SEEN
If Most Anti-New Dealers Win Next
Year, It Will Mean Roosevelt
Is Losing; Or Vice Versa
And Vice Versa
By CHARLES P. STEWART
" Central Press Columnist
Washington, June 28.—There is a
good bit of talk in Washington of
Senator Harry F. Byrd of Virginia as
a conservative Democratic candidate
for president in 1940.
It is tentative talk, not to say pre
mtaure.
Who knows what element will con-*
trol the Democratic party in 1940?
The nominating primaries next
spring will begin to tell. If a prepon
derance of Congress’ present anti-New
Deal Democrats are renominated for
senatorial and representatorial seats
the inference will be that the paity
has swung away from Rooseveltian
ism. If, on the opposite hand, the no
minations go to new men the sugges
tion will be that the New Deal still is
in the saddle.
The ensuing election is a different
matter; I am speaking only of the
(Continued on Page Five)
bring up the colonial problem until
her urgent and legitimate desires re
garding colonies are fulfilled.
Some 1,500 delegates from almost
50 countries were present at the for
mal inauguration of the convention in
Berlin. , _
‘‘Furthermore,” warned Goering,
who as director of Germany’s self
sufficiency program, is virtual econo
mic dictator of the Reich, ‘ Germany
is working with all her energy on the
undertaking as the “four-year plan.”
“Just as Germany must be able fi
nally to rely on her own strength, and
on that alone, to defend her territory,
so must she be self-supporting econo
mically if she is to preserve her in
dependence, honor and international
prestige.”
HENDERSON, N. C., MONDAY
Lawyer Who Has Defended
123 Killers With None
Electrocuted Ac
cepts the Case
SCULPTOR-SLAYER
EXPECTS TO LIVE
Says He Will Be Saved from
Electric Chair Because He
Was Several Years In Asy
lum; Killed Three in New
York Last Easter_Morning,
March 28 ~
New York, June 28.—(AP)— Robert
Irwin, one-time divinity student turn
ed sculptor, was held without hail to
day in two brief court appearances
and hired a well known criminal law
yer to defend him against the triple
slaying on Beekman Hill Easter Sun
day.
Samuel Leibowitz, who has defend
ed 123 persons in first degree murder
trials, without a client going to th.i
electric chair, announced the young
man had retained him as counsel, and
immediately won a postponement of
arraignment until June 30.
Irwin, held for the “manual stran
gulation” of beautiful _ Veronica
Gedeon, artist model, and her mother,
and the ice-pick killing of a roome l '
in the Gedeon home, was before Mag
istrate Brough in homicide court
beiely half a minute.
A short while previously he had ap
pealed in police line-up for only a
minute.
The law acted s.vPtly. A minu'e
and a half and th; 29-year-cld artist
was rushed to Tombs In await the
scene in in--* drama Legv. when
he fell violently in love with the sister
c f ‘Lcr.nie.”
; was because o ? this love which
pi ; . • xically brought hate, Irwin said
■tit h was forced to kill "accidi n
tally” the two women and the man
that Sunday three months ago.
The young sculptor said he would
be saved from the electric, ehrr be
cause he had spent several years in
what he called “the nut house.”
While the indictment request was
to be presented at “the earliest pos
sible moment,” Irwin was watched in
a 24-hour guard by three policemen
to prevent any danger of his taking
his own life.
The confession, made to a Chicago
newspaper, apparertl/ was accepted
by the New York police.
FARM BUREAU BODY
DEMANDING CONTROL
Raleigh, June 28.—(AP)—The State
Farm Bureau has six county meetings
set for this week, Secretary E. E.
Arnold said today, to continue a cam
paign for the 1937 agricultural adjust
ment act now before Congress.
“Farmers are unanimously for the
bill," said Arnold.
This week’s gatherings will include
one in Duplin county. Arnold said he
thought Secretary of Agriculture
Henry Wallace likely would attend
the Pitt County Farm Bureau picnic
and rally Friday. J. B. Hutson, assis
tant to Wallace, has accepted an in
vitation. Members of the congression
al delegation have been invited, as
have the 17,000 members of the farm
•bureau in the State.
Eathart Is
Near Worst
OfHerTour
Port Darwin, Australia, June 28.
(AP) —Amelia Earhart made ready
today for the “worst section” of her
globe-girdling flight.
“It’s been a very interesting flight”
said the American flier after setting
her monoplane down in northern Aus
tralia, ending a hop from Koepang,
in the Dutch East Indies. “But for
slight mechanical trouble, which was
remedied at Bandoeng, Java, we have
experienced no hold-ups. We’ve been
sitting down waiting for Australia to
turn up and we’ll push on to Lae, New
Guinea, tomorrow morning," she ex
plained.
The 1,550-mile hop for Lae will
take the American flier across a vast
stretch of the southern Pacific, out
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AFTERNOON, JUNE 28 1937
7 %
SLAYER GIVES HIMSELF UP IN CHICAGO
& ■Bp n <a
m „
•• ■' Si?;'*'-
After months of hiding, Robert Irwin, sought since Easter Sunday for a triple murder in New York is shown
smiling as he poses for a picture in the office of the Chicago Herald and Examiner where he surrendered to the
Universal Service Saturday night, June 26.
BAILEY GAMBLING
ON WANING POWER
OF THEPRESIDENT
Believed Planning To Ride
Into Influence as Presi
dent’s Support
Leaves Him
SEEKING CANDIDATE
TO FIGHT REYNOLDS
Would Have Two Anti-New
Deal Senators In Washing
ton From State; But
Friends of Roosevelt Say
President Is As Popular As
Ever In State
Dnlly Dispatch Rarena,
In the Sir Waller Hotel.
By J- C. BASKEttVILL
Raleigh, June 28.—Senator Josiah
William Bailey, big business and the
other anti-Roosevelt and anti-New
Dealers in the State are making a de
termined, if not a frantic, effort to
find a candidate in North Carolina to
oppose Senator Robert R. Reynolds
in the Democratic primary next
spring who would stand at least a 50-
50 chance to beat him, according to
reports being heard here both from
Washington and from the larger in
dustrial and financial centers of the
State.
It is no secret that big business is
more soured on President Roosevelt
and the New Deal than ever before,
since the new social security program
and the taxes to support it went into
effect, that it has no love for Bob
Reynolds and the position he has
taken in support of the President and
his program. It is also generally ag-
Continued on Page Five.)
fHIR WEATHER MAN
d 4
,r _
FOR NORTH CAROLINA.
Partly cloudy tonight and Tues
day, preceded by showers on the
coast tonight.
Administration Economy
Program For Fiscal Year
Is Short $200,000,000
Year’s Spending Already $120,000,000 Above Revised
Estimate, and Total for F iscal Year Near $7,900,-
000,000; Receipts About 5 1-4 Billion
Washington, June 28. —(AP) —Trea-
sury figures indicated today that the
administration’s economy program
will fall about $200,000,000 short of
its goal.
When President Roosevelt instruct
ed all departments last April to cut
expenditures sharply, he revised his
budget to a figure $295,000,000 under
the January forecast.
Treasury reports showed, however,
that expenditures from last July 1
through June 24 were $7,883,000,000,
compared with a revised budget of
$7,781,000,000.
Thus the year’s spending already
IHUHO FARMERS $
Court Holds They Are Due
$3,500,000 In Coer
cive Cotton Taxes
Washington, June 28.—'(AP) —'The
United States Court of Appeals held
today that 100,000 cotton producers
were entitled to .more than $3,500,000
in refunds for cotton tax exemption
certificates they bought under the re
pealed Bankhead act.
The court said the cotton farmers
were coerced to buy the certificates
under threat of a confiscatory tax.
The Bankhead act was repealed
after the Supreme Court invalidated
its basic principles in holding the ag
ricultural adjustment act unconsti
tutional.
The court of appeals ruled on suits
brought by two Alabama and two Mis
sissippi cotton planters against Ernest
Peal, manager of the National Sur
plus Cotton Tax Exemption Certi
ficate Pool, Secretary of Apiculture
Wallace; W. A. Julian, treasurer of
the United States, and Comptroller cf
the Currency Payne and Administra
tor D ( avis, of the defunct AAA.
PUBLISHED BVBRY AFTERNOON
EXCEPT SUNDAY.
has gone $120,000,000 above the re
vised estimate. At the current rate, it
will increase another $100,000,000 or
more by Wednesday, the end of the
fiscal year.
While expenditures have not been
kept within the April figure, revenue
also has teen above estimates made
at that time.
Receipts were $5,213,0010,000 thro
ugh June 24, and are expected by
Treasury officials to reach about $5,-
280,000,000 by Wednesday, or $56,000,-
000 over the revised estimates.
This figure would he $550,000,000
under the January estimate.
IryMeiT
PROBATION COIEF
Asheville Attorney Gets $3,-
750 Job by Appointment
of Commission
Raleigh, June 28 (AP) —The proba
tion commission appointed J. Harry
Sample, Asheville attorney, director of
probation today and fixed his salary
at $3,750 a year.
The 1937 legislature authorized a
probation system to handle criminals
in the Stace to become effective Oc
tober 1.
The appointment said Paroles Com
missioner Edwin Gill, who has been
acting secretary of the body, has the
approval of Governor Hoey. Gill said
Sample, who will take office July 15,
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JONES COUNTY TO
VOTE UPON LIQUOR
Trenton, N. C., June 28 (AP) —Jones
county citizens ballot tomorrow in the
eleventh county election of the year
on the question of establishing county
liquor stores.
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COMMITTEE WONT
CALL UPON FARLEY
FOR EXPLANATIONS
Further Study of Strike Sit
uation To Be Left To
Senate Civil Liber
ties Group
15,500 MEN BACK IN
YOUNGSTOWN MILLS
Back-To-Work Movement
Launched All Along Ohio-
Pennsylvania Strike Fronts;
CIO Leaders Say Figures
Should Be Discounted by
50 Percent
Washington, June 28. —(AP) —The
Senate Post Office Committee voted
12 to one today to end its investiga
tion of the mid-western steel strikes
without further hearings or testimony
by Postmaster General Farley.
By a vote of 12 to 3, it rejected a
plea by Senator Bridges, New Hamp
shire Republican, that Farley be sum
moned for questioning about the al
leged interference with the mails by
pickets.
The Post Office Committee recom
mended that further study of the
strike situation be left to the Senate
Civil Liberties Committee, which
will begin an investigation Wednes
day of the Memoral Day clash be
tween strikers and Chicago police.
The Post Office Committee in
structed Chairman McKellar, Tennes
see. Democrat, to report that a "suf
ficient investigation’’ of interference
with the mails already had been made
and that the Senate should not au
thorize a special inquiry.
BACK-TO-WORK MOVEMENT
ALL ALONG STRIKE FRONT
Youngstown, Ohio, June 28. —(AP)
—Major General Gilson Light, of the
Ohio National Guard, said today ap
proximately 15,500 men were back at
work in the strike-sieged steel mills
in Youngstown.
As the strikes called against four
independent steel companies entered
its 33rd day, tack-to-work movements
were launched all along the Pennsyl
vania-Ohio front.
The Steel Workers’ Organizing Com
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Agreement
For Relief
Is Reached
Washington, June 28. —(AP) —Sen-
ate and House conferees reached a
speedy agreement today on the ad
ministration $1,500,000,000 relief bill
after they had trimmed $8,000,000
from the funds earmarked for the
Public Works Administration.
By eliminating an item for unspe
cified "miscellaneous projects,” the
conferees cut the PWA funds from
$367,000,000 to $3591,000,000.
Few other important changes were
Continued on Page Five.)
Dropping Os
Court Act Is
Now Talked
May Be Returned to
Committee for Fur- -
ther Study; Other
Court Bills Up
Washington, June 28 (AP) The
Senate Judiciary Committee agreed
today to consider on July 12 all pend
ing proposals for constitutional
amendments affecting the judiciary.
A 'score or more proposals affecting
the courts have been brought up in
the committee for many months be
hind the Roosevelt court bill provid
ing for enlargement of the Supreme
Court, unless older justices now on the
bench retire.
The various proposed constitutional
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