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HENDERSON GATEWAY TO CENTRAL CAROLINA TWENTY-FOURTH YEAR SIGHTING OF EARHAKT PUNE IS ERROR Court Fight Begins In Senate On Substitute Bill WHEELER IS FIRM AS FOE IN SPUE ROOSEVELT’S PLEA Leaves Hour and Half Con ference at White House Saying He Stands His Ground ROBINSON ATTACKS ELDERLY JUSTICES Says They Are Not Mental ly or Physically Fit for Duty After 75; Democratic Leader Says He Will Use Available Means To Break Filibuster Washington, July 5. —(AF) —Demo- cratic Leader Rotinson, opening the fight for the administration’s judicial reorganization bill, told the Senate today judges more tnan 75 years of “usually are in a state of men tal and physical decline.” As he spoke, Senator Wheeler, Democrat, Montana, leader of the op position to judiciary reorganization, emerged from a long White House conference and said he was still op posed to any compromise which would add any justices to the Su preme Court. Wheeler and Senator Bone, Demo crat. Washington, talked with the / President an hour and a half after the latter returned from a five-day stay at Hyde Dark, N. Y. The Montanan declined to go into details, but did say the court bill was discussed. -He added, howeves. tbe parliamentary situation in the Senate would not be affected by the talk. Robinson began the Senate debate after that chamber had agreed with out a record vote to take the judiciary legislation up for consideration. \he Democratic leader next moved to substitute for the original bill sub mitted by President Roosevelt the compromise informally introduced last week. The substitute would pro vide for the appointment of new jus tices at the rate of one a year to sup plement those serving past 75 years of age. Representative Vinson, Democrat, Kentucky, introduced in the House a companion measure to Robinson s compromise bill. Before making the motion, the Ar kansan had served notice he would use every means available to break (Continued on Page Eight.) Mad Killer Gets Tenth Victim Now Cleveland, Ohio, July 6. —TAP) — The hf-adless body of a man described by Chief Detective Inspector Joseph Sweeny as Cleveland's tenth torso murder victim, was taken from the Cuyahoga river, near a railroad bridge, here today. The inspector said the torso was discovered by two National Guards men in Cleveland for strike duty at the Republic Steel Corporation plant. The detective inspector said the head of the victim had been severed cleanly as in all the previous killings. The appetirance of the body indicat ed to him, he said, the mad killer, who has been at work in Cleveland for more than two years, had taken another victim. Japs And Soviets In Fresh Clashes In Far East Area Hsiuking, Manchoukuo, July 6 AP>—The Japanese army declared |° da y it had defeated a sizeable de- a chmjßnt of Russian troops in a day on £ battle on the disputed eastern frontier of Manchoukuo and Siberia. Japanese inspired government o! Manchoukuo immediately made strong representations to Moscow over th e renewed outbreak of hostilities. Soviet troops, the .army charged, ‘aunched two attacks against com 'oned Japanese-Manchoukouan border guards Monday morning near the * \ . Hptfitersim Hatly Bispatrh ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA AND VIRGINIA. LE theassocFated^>ress P Huge Planes Cross Atlantic In Record Time BHFiBf. '.i ■■■ o. >•' Jivv' • ''' ' ' v. j: v. . vc'<* •.». .* • ’ .• E • <• __ _ ■ ,v '•■•••-■ •• • :•:•••:•/•.•.•.vv;-,-.-. 4 Transatlantic clipper plane and Capt. Harold Gray, Inset In this giant clipper plane, Captain Harold Gray and a crew of six crossed the Atlantic ocean be tween Botwood, Newfoundland, and Foynes, Ireland, last night in the record time of 12 hours as a British plane was passing it in a westerly direction between the two cities, blazing a trail for regular passenger and mail service between Europe and America. The clipper plane hop ped from Newfoundland after leaving Port Washington, N. Y. A British ship, the monoplane Cala donia, of the Imperial Airways, flew the westward route in 15 hours, the company cooperating with Pan-American Airways of the United States in inaugurating the new service. STEEL MILLS OPEN BE STATE TROOPS Republic Plants Resume Operation at Cleveland, With Most of Workers Back CIO STRIKE CHIEFS DENY CLAIMS MADE Say Many of Those Return ing Are Clerks or Office Workers; Charge That Workers Have Been Im ported from Outside, Far Away As Alabama Cleveland, Ohio, July 0. —(AP) Na tional Guard bayonets and machine guns protected the back-to-work move ment of an estimated 3,000 steel work ers at three plants of the Republic Steel Corporation here today. Company officials gave the follow ing figures for the returning day shift employees for the 7 a. m. zeio houi for the reopenings passed without a single reported case of violence: Corrigan - McKinney works, 1,500 men returned out of normal two-shift total of -3,700. Upson Nut & Bolt division, 850 men returned out of normal two-shift total of 1,700. . . Truscan Steel, 600 men returned out of normal two-shift total of 750. CEO strike leaders 1 dispu/ted the companv’s figures and asserted many of the men were office workers and clerks and not steel makers. They also charged the company was importing strike-breakers alleg ing some of them came from as far (■Continued on Page Three.) little frontier town of Chi®ns£*n army communique declared R “ sians opened fire and wounded one Japanese soldier before the assaults We Thro r ughout d 'the day, the army as serted the Soviet troops brought up heavy artillery, and in the « started a bombardment of the M choukuoan shore. . nnkes . At the same time, the army P man said an attack in force was made by a detachment of 150 Soviet soldiers. HENDERSON, N. 0„ TUESDAY AFTERNOON, JULY 6, 1937 Handwriting In Kidnap Matched Stony Brook, N. Y., July 6 (AP) —A representative of the district attorney’s office said today the handwriting of the $25,000 ransom note found after the mysterious disappearance of Mrs. Alice Mc- Donnell Parsons has been tenta tively identified as that of a per son known to the authorities. Albert Osborn, New York hand writing expert, reported the writ ing in a photostatic copy of the original note resembles that of samples he compared with it. SPECULATION OVER ROOSEVELT PLANS Even if He Cherishes Third Term, He Wants Congress Fearful Os Him By CHARLES P. STEWART Central Press Columnist Washington, July 6. President Roosevelt indulged in a neat bit of persiflage when asked point-blank, by a reporter at one of his recent press conferences, “Was he or wasn’t he to be considered a third term White House possibility?” He advised the inquisitive scribe to “put on a dunce cap and go stand in a corner.” Nevertheless, there is a general feeling in Washington newspaper cir cles that the presidential querist was not very enlighteningly answered. Did “F. D.” mean to imply that his questioner was a dunce in imagining that the President might accept a third nomination? Or was he a dunce in suggesting that maybe he wouldn’t? Why a Dunce? Or, perchance, was he a dunce for assuming that the President would re ply, “yes” or “no,” to such an inter (Continued on Page Four.) SOME IMPROVEMENT NOTED FOR COTTON Prices One Point Lower to 12 Higher At Close, With Spot Mid dling At 12.56 New York, July 6. —(AP)—Cotton futures opened steady, 10 lower to two points higher, with July under liqui dation and other months steady on trade buying and covering. tober rallied to 12.09, with prices gen erally showing net advances of about 5 to 10 points. October sold at 12.09 at midday, wherf prices were general ly 6 to 10 points net higher, except July, which was one point lower. Futures closed steady, one lower to 12 higher. Spot steady, middling 12.56. Open Close July 12.91 12.00 October 11.98 12.06 December 11.95 12.02 January 11.98 12.04 March 12.05 12.08 May 12.04 12.09 semmtK 125,000 Soldiers Demanded by Insurgent Chief, Gov ernment Statement Declares EDEN YET HOPING FOR A COMPROMISE Sees Chance Still for Italy and Germany To Be Brought Back to Neutrality Agreement; Full Session of Committee Is Scheduled for Friday (By The Associated Press.) The Spanish government news agency Agence Ispagne, declared to day insurgent General Francisco Franco had asked the Italian and German government for troops to aid in a new offensive against Madrid. A purported secret memorandum addressed to Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini of Italy was said also to have requested 500 airplanes, 50 ar tillery batteries and tanks. The agency did not say where it obtained the “memorandum”. An insurgent communique at Hen daye on the Franco-Spanish border reported a government battalion had (Continued on Page Eight.) WETS AND DRYS IN CHOWAN OPTIMISTIC County Is Voting on Liquor Stores Issue; Drys Wage Vigorous Campaign for Votes Edenton, July 6 KAP)—The wets and drys matched ballots today to de termine whether Chowan county is to have liquor stores. Spokesmen for each side claimed victory. Wets contented themselves with urg ing a big vote. The dry campaign was more vigorous. Preachers spoke from pulpits Sunday against liquor, and John D. Langston, prominent Goldsboro dry, spoke here Sunday. Chowan voted wet in the Statewide election for 1933. OUR WEATHER MAH FOB NORTH CAROLINA. Fartly cloudy local showers on the south coast tonight; Wednes day generally fair, Two Great Planes Pass In The Night * Over The Atlantic Ships Charting Path for Ocean Passenger Service Cross Over in 12 and 15 Hours american-Ibritish LINES COOPERATING Crossings Are Made Be tween Botwood, New foundland, and Foynes, Ireland; President of Ire land on Hand To Greet American Trail-Blazers (By The Associated Fress.) Two mighty flying “ships that pass in the night” successfully charted a route for regular commercial flights between North America and Europe today. The Pan-American Clipper 111 landed at Foynes, Ireland, after a 1,- 960-mile-survey hop from Botwood, Newfoundland, making the ocean jump in 12 hours and 40 minutes. The British Imperial Airways fly ing boat Calendonia completed the westward hop of 1,990 miles from Foynes to Botwood in 15 hours, nine minutes. Neither passengers nor mail was carried. The pioneering crafts passed each other in the thinning darkness over the North Atlantic. The Caledonia landed at Botwood at 5:06 a. m., east ern standard time. The Pan-American Clipper alighted majestically on the river Shannon at Foynes at 4:50 a. m., eastern standard time. A brisk tail wind speeded the Am erican plane, carrying Captain Harold Gray and a crew of seven on the in augural flight. A large crowd, headed by President Earnon de Valaero of the Irish Free State, greeted the Americans. Gray termed the flight a “pleasant enjoyable trip.” He added the worst part of the flight came when the plane encountered rain clouds upon approaching Ireland. The 19-ton, four-engined Caledonia completed her hop a head of schedule, in charge of Captain A. M. Wilcox and a crew of four. He had estimat ed the Caledonia would make the crossing in from 15 to 17 hours. CALL ISSUED FOR REPORT OF BANKS National and State Banks Ordered To Show Condition as of Wed nesday, June 30. —.V * 1 " Washington, July 6 (AP)—The comptroller of the currency issued a call today for the condition of all na tional banks at the close of business at the close of business Wednesday, June 30. Coincidental with the national bank call, officials said the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation and the Fede ral Reserve Board would issue calls. HOOD CALLS FOR REPORTS ON NORTH CAROLINA BANKS Raleigh, July 6 (AP)—Gurney P. Hood, bank commissioner issued a call today to all State banks in North Carolina for a report on their condi tion as of the close of business June 30. Scottsboro Case Trial Is Resumed Decatur, Ala., July 6.— (AP) —Trial of the first of eight defendants in Alabama’s internationally known “Scottsboro case” was set today for next Monday by Judge W. W. Cal lahan. A plea of innocence by Clarence Norris, the first of the eight to be arraigned on rape charges, definitely spiked rumors the Negroes would plead guilty in a compromise agree ment. The judge announced he would try two of the defendants each week “un til we finish them.” The court room here was almost empty as the arraignment began. De puties searched spectators as they en tered the room. Before Norn's’ arraignment, the judge returned confiscated cameras (Continued on Page Eight.) PUBLISHED EVERY AFTERNOON EXCEPT SUNDAY. Gets State Post JmW\ H George S. Messersmith George S. Messersmith of Delaware has been nominated by President Roosevelt to be an assistant secretary of state. Messersmith is the present minister to Austria. ToU Os 563 For Nation’s Celebration Believed Highest In History of Ameri can Independence Day Events (By The Associated Press) A total of 563 men, women and chil dren met violent deaths in the two day celebration of the nation’s I6lst birthday. The toll was believed the highest in the history of America’s observance of Independence Day. Only four deaths were attributed directly to fireworks. Traffic accidents constituted the big gest single cause. Three hundred ten persons were fat ally injured on streets and highways. There were 142 drownings Sunday and Monday. During the same period 107 persons died violently in other ways. The four fireworks deaths compar ed with eleven last year. This year's victims were three children and a man Geraldine Mulvey, 8, Woonsocket, R. 1., and Julia Friess, 9, Baltimore Md. suffered fatal burns when their dress es were ignited by sparklers. Eloise (Continued on Page Four.) Four More Deaths On State Highways Over The Holiday Wilmington, July 6. —(AP) —Two persons were killed and four injured on highways in this section during the night. James Dale, 28, of Tin City, was burned to death when an oil truck he was driving was involved in a col lision with another gasoline trans port at Wannanish early this morn ing. His vehicle crashed into the rear of a truck driven by G. A. Hendricks, of Wilmington, officers saiJd Hen dricks reported. Hendricks was un hurt, but fire destroyed Dale’s truck. John Lynch, of Goldsboro, was killed, and William F. Martin, of Richmond, Va„ and Edward Hemby, of Wilmington, were injured two and a half miles south of Wallace when a car Lynch was driving failed to take a curve and turned over. J. C. Rosier, of Acme, and J. N. Stewart, of Leland, were injured in an O PAGES O TODAY FIVE CENTS COPY HEAT FLASHES AT FIRST THOUGHT TO BE PLANE FLARES Hopes That Skyrocketed for Time in Early Morning Are Later Dashed to Pieces SCENE OF SEARCH LIKELY TO SHIFT Craft May Turn As Far South of Howland Island as They Have Been to North; Messages from Coast Guard Cutter Picked Up Here Reveal Error Honolulu, July 6 (AP) —Ves- sels from three nations pursued the widening mid-Pacific search today for Amelia Earhart after a meteor was mistaken for flares from her missing plane. ADD 10 LEAD The long searching coast guard cut ter Itascha, which encountered the lights that proved to be meteors, ad vised Washington at 12:54 eastern standard time that no new informa tion was available on the missing first lady of the air. Another radio amateur at Oakland, Calif, reported he picked up a mes sage from the aviatrix at 9:35 a. m., eastern standard time, despite author ities agreeing she could not broadcast had her plane alighted on the water, and further that the approximate pos ition indicated already had been searched unsuccessfully by the cutter Itascha. . The amateur, Charles Miguel, said the message read: “Two eighty one north Howland. Cannot hold out much longer. Drift ing lsc(uthwest. We above water. Motor sinking in water. Very wet.” Coast guard officials at San Fran cisco and George Palmer Putman, husband of Miss Earhart, began an investigation of Miguel’s report which was apparently not heard by other stations. Japanese and British vessels were to aid American ships in the widening search spurred after hope was buoyed by the report of the flares. Honolulu, July 6 (AP) —Hopes for the rescue of Amelia Earhart, sky rocketed today, then suddenly fizzled out when the coast guard cutter Itasca reported it apparently had mis taken a meteor for flares from the round-the-world fliers’ plane. Despite the severe disappointment, the search continued, with a prospect its center probably would shift from a point 281 miles north of Howland island to the Phoenix islands, and equal distance southward. Hope of immediate rescue of Miss Continued on Page Five.) BERLIN CRITICIZES BINGHAM'S ADDRESS Berlin, July 6.—(AP) The Deutsche Allgemeine Zeitung to night criticized a London Inde pendence Day speech by United States Ambassador Robert W. Bingham as “agitative” criticism of “other European peoples.” automobile crash at Bolton when a car driven by George P. Dixon, Ne gro, entered a highway from a side road and crashed into their machine. Dixon was arrested. MAN AND WOMAN KILLED IN CRASH AT LUMBKRTON Lumberton July ]6 (AP) —R. H. Bell, 39, of Lumberton, and Miss Louise Lennon, 18, of St. Paul’s, were injured fatally and Miss Katie Bell Guy also of St. Paul’s, received seri ous injuries when their car overturned on a curve near here last night. Miss Guy, in a hospital here today said Bell lost control of the machine which then struck a tree and over turned. Bell and Miss Lennon died at the hospital. Coroner D. W. Biggs said no inquest would be held.
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