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JULY FOURTH GEORGE WASHINGTON HENDERSON GATEWAY TO CENTRAL CAROLINA TWENTY-FOURTH YEAR AMELIA SIGNALS HER PLANE IS SINKING GREAT FIGHT OVER SUPREME COURT TO ENTER LAST PHASE Roosevelt’s Bill Will Be Called Up In Senate To morrow by Senator Robinson BATTLE WILL START ON NEXT THURSDAY Wheeler, Leader of Opposi tion, Says He Will Let De bate Proceed Two Weeks Before Calling for Show down; Logan’s Substitute To Be Sought Washington, July 5 (AP) —The hot ly-contested battle over revamping the Supreme Court enters its decisive phase this week after exactly five months of preliminary skirmishing. Majority Leader Robinson, Arkan sas Democrat, probably will call up the President's judiciary bill for 'Sen ate consideration late tomorrow, and immediately ask adjournment until Thursday. The Senate will be in recess Wed nesday because of the all-star baseball game here. Administration leaders indicated their first maneuver on Thursday would be to ask consideration of the compromise introduced by Senator Logan, Kentucky Democrat, as a sub stitute for the President’s original pro posal. Logan's measure would authorize ap pointment of one additional justice each to supplement members of the court who fail to retire at 75. The original bill would have empow ered the President to appoint five Jnew justices immediately one for each incumbent over 70. Logan said he was certain of 51 votes, a majority of five, for the com promise. The same number, he added, can be counted on to vote against any effort to sidetrack or amend the new bill. Senator Wheeler, Democrat, Mon tana, veteran of a score of bitter par liamentary battles will lead the oppo sition. He insisted his supporters could defeat the President’s original proposal, and, if necessary, prevent indefinitely a vote on any compro mise. He announced he would not tight the substitution of Logan’s bill nor attempt to force a test of strength until debate” has been under way for at least two weeks. Policies Os School Body To Continue Conservatives Pleas ed With Slight Gain Made in New Ap pointments i Dally Dlmiatck B«rni«.. In the Sir Waller Hotel. By J. C. BASKKRVII.L Raleigh, July s.—While the State School Commission appointments hiade by Governor Clyde R. Hoey last we<ek are generally regarded as be ing much more of a victory for the school commission ra s her than for State Superintendent of Public In struction Clyde A. Erwin and his “die hard’’ faction, which for years has op posed! the school commission, the gen ial reaction to the appointments has been favorable, according to mo3t comment heard here While nine members of the old school forces are pleased at the ap pointment of Jule B. Warren, execu tive secretary of the North Carolina Education Association, as one of the two new members ar.d have no ob jection to Archie C. Gay, former State senator from Northampcon county, ■who is the new member of the com (Continued on Page Four.), Hrniirrsmt tJatly TEltspatrh ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA AND VIRGINIA. LEASML> WIRE SERVICE OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS. |Sife mrWMmmmm lH v- • \ l Ijpljg j& Ml Hi m 1 mH| | Fred Noonan navigator Amelia bids goodby to husband Death Toll For Holiday Reaches 314 Autos Account for 192; New York Leads With 28; North Carolina 9 Press) The lives lost during the nation’s celebration of its 161st independence anniversary stood at 314 today, with not a single death directly attributed to fireworks. Automobile accidents were respon sible for 192 of the deaths, drownings 70 and miscellaneous causes 48. The independence day casualty list, the third largest since 1930, was slight ly above the average for the past eight years but was below last year’s total of 346. ? Although the holiday passed with out a single fireworks death, an As sociated Press survey showed hun (Continued on Page Five) newlgulaTTons ON TRUCKS STRICT Stringent Safety Rules to Be Enforced Rigorous ly, Inspector Says Dully Dlepatcli Barena. In the Sir Walter Hotel By J. C. n.VSKEIiVII.I- Raleigh, July s—New and stringent safety regulations are now in effect with regard to the operation of a motor trucks and buses m North Carolina engaged in inter-state com merce it was pointed out here today bv H C. Mims, in charge of the North Carolina office of the Bureau of Motor Carriers of the Interstate Commerce Commission These new safety regulations went into effect July first and truck and bus opera tors or drivers who fail to observe these regulations are likely to lose their licenses and be permanently Continued on Page Five.) As World Awaited Word of Amelia Ear hart Putnam, Down in Pacific Ocean p™ Send HER EMPIRE LINE I Cabinet and Imperial Com mittee of Defense Called For Momentous Sessions Spanish Integrity IS TO BE ASSURED Some Authorities Still Hope Germany and Italy May Be Won Back Into Interna tional Patrol Scheme; Mer chantmen To Be Given Protection London, July 5. Min ister Neville Chamberlain called both the cabinet and the imperial commit tee of defense into session today to consider Britain’s future policy in the Spanish civil war and the threat to her Mediterranean communications growing out of it. Simultaneously the hoard of trade, a government department, warned British merchantmen that insurgent warships in the vicinity of Santander, on the northwest ledge of Spain, were trying to capture all shipping. The board said British warships would protect British merchantmen only out side the Spanish three-mile limit. Well-informed political circles be lieved the emergency secret session of the defense committee had placed the question of proteting Britain’s “life line of empire” first on its agenda. The committee includes the heads of the army, navy and air force. Later the cabinet will review a re port on the deadlock growing out of firm and German opposition to the Franco-British proposal to take over the patrol to isolate the civil war. These developments came as obser vers credited Britain with stiffening her attitude in the tense situation. Evidence of this was seen in Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden’s speech in which he outlined a two-fold policy for Britain: 1. Preservation of Spain for the Spaniards. 2. Maintenance of the empire’s ’’main arterial road” through the (Continued on Page Eight.) HENDERSON, N. C., MONDAY AFTERNOON, JULY 5, 1937 Howland inland—a barren spot in the south Pacific Fate of Amelia Earhart Putnam and her navigator, Fred Noonan, forced down in the Pacific ocean on the third last leg of their round-the-world flight, attracted world-wide att sntion, The ddring aviatrix was believed to have been forced down somewhere in the vicinity of Howland island, a speck in the ocean, her goal before attempting hops to Hawaii and Oakland CHI. At the left, Amelia is seen b idd'ng goodby to her husband George Palmer Putnam, when she took off from Miami, Fla. Inset is of Fred Noonan, navigator. Center, Howland island. CIO Re-Forms Battle Lines For Finish Fight In Plants Clevelnd, Ohio, July 5 (AP) —ClO’s strike legions pepped by Fourth of July oratorical fireworks that terrific rainstorms could not dismay, re-form ed their lines today on the last two remaining strike battlegrounds— Cleve land and Indiana Harbor, Ind. Troops were moved into Cleveland to preserve the peace when Republic Steel reopens its four large plants here tomorrow. There were no troops at Indiana Harbor, where the Youngstown Sheet and Tube Company is awaiting guar antees of safety for its men before re opening but there were pleas for Roosevelt Starts For Home Tonight Hyde Park, N. Y., July S.—(AP) —President Roosevelt, after re-af firming his faith in the Constitu tion to nieeft present-day needs turned from Hyde Park today to a 90-mile auto drive to help an up state country church celebrate with a money-raising drive. He planned to leave for Wash ington late tonight after attending a fair late in the day, given by the Little Dutch Reformed church at Mount i Marion, on the west shore of the Hudson. VAN ZEELAND ASKED U. S. WARJLLIANCE But Overawing of Germany by American Support of Allies Failed By CHARLES P. STEWART Central Press Columnist Washington, July 5. —English and French statesmen and statesmen of some of the smaller European coun tries cannot give up the idea that fi nally they will succeed in getting the United States to take their side a gainst Germany and Italy, thus inti midating Hitler and Musssolini into “piping down” in connection with the Old World war threat. For example, the American visit of Premier Van Zeeland of Belgium un (Contirued on Page Five) troops and a prediction that “there will be bloodshed if protection is not supplied immediately.” The union orators sought at Fourth of July rallies to put new iron in their men’s determination to fight it out. Philip Murray, strike chairman, said the fight would continue “a week, a month, a year, yes, ten years.” Pennsylvania’s ’“New Deal” Gover nor George Earle flew through a thunderstorm to reach a rain-soaked cheering strikers and sympathizers rally at Johnstown Pa., and tell the “you do not need acts of violence when you have Franklin Delano PIONEER PLANES TO FLYATLANTIC Clipper Craft On Both Sides of Ocean Poised To Start Long Jumps Botwood, Newfoundland, Jqly 5. — (AP)— -Ready for an experimental flight across the Atlantic, Captain Harold Gray, master of the Pan- American Clipper 111, said today he planned to start the big flying boat on its eastward crossing at 4 p. m. ; eastern standard time. “We will be flying on a weather map,” he said, ‘and the map at pre sent indicates very ideal conditions for observations, clear weather on both sides of the ocean, and every thing from sunshine to snow and fcg in between.” Gray and his six-man crew, which includes a steward, did not appear worried by the prospects of storm on (ConGuued on Page Eight.) fW IP WEATHER MAH FOR NORTH CAROLINA. Showers this afternoon and to night, probably ending by Tues day morning; moderate tempera ture. PUBLISHED EVERY AFTERNOON EXCEPT SUNDAY. Roosevelt in Washington, a liberal Congress and a governor like me.” Bethlehem Steel’s plant at Johns town was idle over the holiday week end. It reopens tomorrow and the management said the working forces is virtually normal. Few pickets are on the line there. A committee of six ministers of In diana Harbor telegraphed Governor Townsend of Indiana that they had conducted a secret poll of strike work ers in the Calumet area and that 86.8 percent of the workers favored “re turn to work with safety” and 13.2 percent wanted to remain on strike. Slayings In Los Angeles Cleared Up WPA Worker Admits Killing and Ravish ing of Three Little Girls There Los Angeles, Cal., July 5. —(API- Broken by eleven hours of constant grilling, a 32-year-old WPA worker paced a cell today after confessing, Detective Lieutenant Leroy Sander son said, the brutal attack-slaying of three little girls. v By his own words, Sanderson said, Albert Dyer, branded himself as the man who strangled Madeline Everett, 7, her sister, Melba, 8. and nine-year old Jeannette Stephens and ravished their bodies as they lay in a sandy ravine. “We shall, of course, ask for the death verdict,” said District Attorney Buron Fitts. He 3aid he was filing three murder charges against Dyer. Dyer, employed by the WPA to guard children at a stxeet crossing in suburban Inglewood, broke, San derson said, when police threatened to take him to Ing.ev.ood, where en raged citizens milled about the pohee station during questioning of other suspects last week. “Well, I did it,” he gasped, San derson related. “I had no other motive than sex. It was not revenge.” Dyer’s wife reached his side and Continued on Page Five.) 8 PAGES TODAY FIVE CENTS COPY PUNE’S LOCATION IN PACIFIC WASTES NOT YjHSSURED One Garbled Message Indi cates Globe-Fliers Over shot Mark of How land Island BEARINGS CONFLICT AS TO EXACT SPOT Weakness of Signals Makes Testings Difficult; Ship, Floating on Surface, May Be Miles from Land; Ceaseless Vigil of Radio Continued" Honolulu, July s.—(AP) —Navy of ficials said they received a garbled radio message early today purporting to have been sent by Amelia Earhart., which indicated her plane was sink ing. The message, received by three navy operators, was pieced together as follows: “281 north Howland, call KHAQQ. beyond north, don’t hold with us much longer above water, shut off.” The operators said keying of the message was poor and they were able only to pick up fragments of it. Officials took the message, if it was authentic, to mean the plane was about 281 miles north of How land island by Miss Earhart’s esti mate, and sinking slowly, forcing her to stop sending. Earlier this morning cross bearing taken on weak radio signals believed from Miss Earhart and her navigator, Frederick Noonan, further confused weary Pan-American operators at Howland and Wake islands. The radio men who have maintain ed a ceaseless vigil in an effort ta contact and locate the missing globe girding plane, said the bearings fixed the location of the mysterious trans mitter at roughly 400 miles northeast of Howland island. This location, they said, was miles from any land. A previous bearing taken by an American and coast guardsmen here placed the sender in the vicinity of Gardner and McKean islands in the Phoenix group, approximately 150 miles south of Howland. Officials said the later bearing® may be inaccurate because of the weakness of the signals. The British steamer Moorby, 240 miles north of Howland, reported it heard a strong continuous carrier wave frequency near midnight last night and for the last time an hour later. The coast guard cutter Itasca, whose radio was silent until messages, presumably from the Earhart plane, were intercepted by Baker island col onists, 40 miles southward, and by the portable station at Howland, be gan transmitting signals with the hope they would be received by the plane. Expecting Settlement Os Seizure % Paris, July S.—(AP)—A Frertch sloop returned today from a dash to the Spanish Biscayan shore line to investigate seizure of the French freighter Tregastel, and French offi cials expressed hope the incident would he settled speedily. The sloop Banquois put back alone into Bayonne. Authorties announced they had learned the Tregastel car ried neither cargo nor refugees when she was captured ty an insurgent cruiser Sunday. She was taken in charge within Spanish territorial waters while try ing to enter Santander to pick up re fugees and was escorted to insurgent held Bilbao. She had on board a neu tral observer of the European non intervention committee. Officials were unable to confirm i published report that the vessel’ was fired upon. _
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