HENDERSON
GATEWAY TO
CENTRAL
CAROLINA
TWENTY-FOURTH YEAR
TROOPS GUARD AS REPUBLIC PURTS OPEN
VICIOUS ATTACK ON
COURT JUSTICES IS
OPENED BY GUFFEY
Pennsylvania Senator Con
tinues Debate on Admin
istration Side for
New Bill
CHARGES COURT IS
VERY MUCH BIASED
Nine Old Men Determined
To Block Roosevelt Re
form Program, He Charges
In Speech in Senate; Ac
cuses Hughes of Cam
paigning Against Bill .
Washington, July 7.—(AF) —Sena-
tor Guffey, Democrat, Pennsylvania,
carried on the administration’s battle
for its judicial r©organization pro
gram today by charging the Supreme
Court has been “partisan, prejudiced
and biased in denying working men
and farmers their fundamental legal
rights.”
~His bluntly worded speech opened
the second day’s debate on the com
promise court bill, calling for the ap
pointment of one new justice annually
to supplement those serving beyond
the age of 75.
Guffey said reorganization of the
Supreme Court was necessary “to out
law economic wrongs and injustices
that have been rankling and fester
ing for generations.”
“History shows conclusively,” he
asserted, “that throughout most of
its existence the Supreme Court has
been enmeshed in partisan party po
litics, that throughout most of its
history it has been openly hailed as
the last bulwark of reaction.”
He accused Chief Justice Hughes
of “campaigning politically a-gainst
the administration’s reorganization
program" and termed the chief jus
tice’s appointment “a juicy political
plum” awarded to “a Republican
party leader.”
Through earlier appointments by
President Harding, Guffey contended
the court was soundly and solidly
packed x x x x to such an extent that
•egislation to protect the farmer an 1
working man was doomed almost be
fore it was passed.”
“A majority of the a& c d justices
wno compose the couit were intent
upon thwarting the major purposes
of the Roosevelt administration,” he
contended. “As a result, the people,
the President and Congress were
powerless to act.”
Beaufort To
Operate Its
Railway Now
Raleigh, July 7.— (AP)—The Beau
fort & Morehead Railroad Company
got a charter today for the ’’specific
object" of acquiring and operating
3.17 miles of line between Beaufort
and Morehead City, which formerly
was operated by the Norfolk Southern
railroad company.
The organization of the new com
pany was taken here to end a fight of
several years’ standing by the citizens
of Beaufort to prevent abandonment
of the little section, though the Utili
ties Commission had no word on the
matter.
The sector was left isolated from
other Norfolk Southern lines when
the State ended its lease of the At
lantic & North Carolina Railroad
(Continued on Page Six.)
Americans
Lead Start
Star Gama
Griffith Stadium, Washington, July
7 lAP> —The Americans all-star ag
gregation, held scoreless until their
part of the third frame today counted
two runs, one a homer, to take a lead
the game with the Nationals nine
here. The Nationals club tallied pne
hi the firs 1 , of the fourth.
Play by play descriptive of the All-
Star major game:
FIRST INNING
Nationals —Paul Waner bounded out
Rf-d Rolfe to Gehrig. Billy Herman
fouled to Dickey, just behind the plate.
Archie Vaughan lined a single to
short center, but Joe Medwick bound
ed into a forced play, Cronin to Geh
t Continued on Page Six.)
Hmtitersmt Batin Bfeaafrii
‘Uncle Dan* Lights Up
••Uncle Dan” Beard
Most popular figure at the Wash
ington encampment of 25,000 Boy
Scouts, “Uncle Dan” Beard, aged
Scout commissioner of the U. S.,
is seen lighting a big camp fire to
, eet off a nocturnal ceremony.
—Central Press
Outbreak In
Palestine Is
Now Feared
British Troops Mass
ed in Jerusalem As
Plan of Division Is
Stated
Jerusalem, July 7 (AP) —All avail
able troops and police—about 11.200
men in all —were massed today to
meet any flare-up of smouldering
Arab-Jewish strife that might be
touched off by tonight’s publication
of the British Royal Commission’s
plan for the future of the Holy Band.
Seven British regiments, about 7,000
men and about 4,200 police, were held
in readiness as Bieutenants General
Sir Arthur Wauchope, British high
commissioner, prepared what was be
lieved would be an appeal for calm ac
ceptance of the report and avoidance
of racial conflict and bloodshed.
Sir Arthur announced he would
broadcast a message to both Arabs
and Jews tonight immediately before
publication of the report.
Pending disclosure of the Palestine
Commission’s , recommendations, it
was believed the proposals called for
divisions of the Holy Band into a
Jewish state and Arab state and a
territory under British mandate from
the Beague of Nations.
The coincidence of the Zionist Con
gress elections, falling on the same
day as publication of the report, rais
ed excitement to a high pitch among
the Jewish population. Arrangements
were made to suspend voting for 124
delegates to the Congress an hour be
fore the proposals were disclosed.
FEW ISSUES STILL
STRONG IN STOCKS
Tuesday’s Rallying Fever Cools Ap
preciably However, in Day’s
Trading
New York, July 7 —(AP) —Although
Tuesday’s rallying fever cooled appre
ciably in today’s stock market, select
ed rails, utilities and specialities con
tinued to show a mild buying flush.
Profit-selling appeared at the open
ing, when numerous blocks of sev
eral thousand shares changed hands
at moderate variations either way.
The pace slowed later, but advances
were in the majority near the fourth
hour. Bonds were higher and trans
fers approximated 1,400,000 shares.
American Radiator 1-2
American Telephone fj
American Tobacco B
Anaconda qi i r
Atlantic Refining "ft
Bendix Aviation
Bethlehem Steel ... ••• ...»
Columbia Gas & Elec Co .... M 7-8
Continental Oil Co 15g ± _ 2
DuPont ... * ecu
General Electric
General Motors ... g
. Liggett & Myers B •• 3 8
Reynolds Tob B
Southern Railway jjf £2
u S steel *
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THE ASSOCIATED PRESS.
HENDERSON, N. C., WEDNESDAY AFTERNO ON, JULY 7, 1937
NO TRUCE, PICKETING CONTINUES
Pickets, men, women and children, continued to picket the Youngs
town Sheet & Tube Co. plant in Chicago as the Inland opened.
Sheet & Tube officials also planned opening—but without benefit of
. truce agreement. —Central Press
Govemmen tTroops
Open Drive To End
Siege Upon Madrid
(By The Associated Press)
Spanish government armies pushed
a new offensive intended to break the
long siege of Madrid today, striking
heavily at the insurgent left flank
west of the capital.
Troops under General Jose Maija,
commander of Madrid’s government
defenders, reported seizure of a place
about three miles north of Brunette,
due west of Madrid.
Government observers informed
Valencia temporary seat of the repub
lican government, that, large forces of
insurgents and their Moorish allies
were passing on the Terrull front,
52CCC"CAMPilF
STATETHIS YEAR
Erosion Control, Forest Im
provement and Parkway
Work To Be Done
Raleigh July 7—The Civilian Con
servation Corps program for the first
quarter of the fiscal year, which be
gan on July 1, provides for the opera
tion of fifty-two camps in Caro
lina, it has been announced by T. B.
Grier, of Raleigh, Supervisor of CCC
selection for the State Board of Chari
ties and Public Welfare.
Os this number, eighteen camps have
been assigned to soil erosion control
projects; thirteen to the improvement
and development of national forests,
five to private forest areas; four each
to improvement and development of
national and state parks; two to work
under the supervision cf the Biologi
cal Survey; two under the Tenenssee
Valley Authority; three camps are at
work o nmilitary reservations, and
one on a state forest.
All of the 52 camps are to be oper
ated in North Carolina pnder the COC
threei-year extension (legislation ap
proved by Congress are in operation.
More than 5 000 CC workers in the
State are engaged on the projects,
which are scattered over a wide area.
Find Faint Clue
On Torso Slayer
In Cleveland, O.
Cleveland, June 7 —(AP) —Detective
Sergeant James Hogan, of the homi
cide squad, said today he had obtain
ed a description of a man seen throw
ing a large bundle from the railroad
bridge under which the dissected body
of the city’s tenth torso slaying vic
tim was found yesterday.
The witness, whose identity was
withheld, said he saw the man walk
to the bridge and throw the bundle
over the side Friday night. Coroner
S. R. Gerber said the portions of the
body recovered apparently had been
in the water 48 hours.
“He was a burley man,” the wit
ness told detectives. “He needed a
shave. He was about 40 years old,
five feet, six or seven inches tall, and
weighed perhaps 145 or 150 pounds.”
northwest of Valencia.
In northern Spain, insurgent lead
ers announced cessation of thed rive
on Santander, 45 miles west of Bil
bao, and the shifting of troops to the
southwest in -au attempt to cut off
government forces from Austrias pro
vince.
Separation of the Austuras and San
itfander provinces /would defer the
way for the insurgents to encircle San
tander and trap its defenders.
In Bondon, official spokesmen said
they attached no “undue importance”
to a demand from Insurgent General
Francisoo Franco that he be accorded
belligerent rights.
ROOSEVELT WILL ’
DROP OLD TIMERS
i
They Are Not Deserting
Him, But He Is Really
Unloading Them
By CHARLES P. STEWART
Central Press Columnist
Washington, July 7. —It frequently
is remarked that old-time Democrats
are deserting President Roosevelt.
The fact is that “F. D.” is unload
ing the old-timers out of the Demo
cratic party. Evidently he does not
want them in it, unless they come
over to his ways of thinking. Per
haps it is fair to say that the party
he is organizing (or reorganizing)
will not, when his job is completed,
be Democratic, in the old-time sense.
All the same, he has the label copy
(Continued on Page Six.)
SLIGHT GAINS IN
COTTON RECORDED
Improved Liverpool Cables and Trade
Buying Give Strength to
Market Prices
New York, July 7.— (AP)—Cotton
futures opened steady, up 6 to 9 points
on improved Liverpool cables and
trade buying. By midday October was
selling at 12.10 and prices generally
were 3 to 4 points net higher. Futures
closed steady, 3 to 6 higher. Spot
steady, middling 12.62.
Open Close
July 12.06 12.03
October 12.14 12.12
December 12.10 12.05
January 12.13 12.07
March 12.14 12.111
May 12.17 12.13
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FOR NORTH CAROLINA.
Generally fair tonight and
Thursdays
Earhart Search Is
Pressed Feverishly
But With No Avail
Navy Ships and Planes Cov
er Wide Sweep of Terri
tory Around How
land Island
NOTED AIR WOMAN
MAY BE MAROONED
Growing Belief And Some
Facts Indicate That; Ama
teur Radio Men Get Noth
iug From Lost Plane;
Search Is Switched To
South of Tiny Island
Honolulu, July 7.—(AP) — Navy
ships and plan*'*, coon On; 1“ ing ef
forts in the vast hunt for Amelia Ear
hart, aimed today at a new region in
the South Pacific wastes, where grow
ing belief and some facts indicated
the missing aviatrix may be maroon
ed.
The coast guard at San Francisco
said it had been checking with the
cutter Itasca throughout the day, but
had no news of the missing aviatrix
and her navigator.
Walter McMenamy and Carl Pier
son, Bos Angeles radio amateur op
erators, who have eight receiving sets
operating, said they had heard noth
ing on the Earhart wave length thro
ughout the night and doubted if other
amateurs had picked ujp anything,
because all operators had been asked
to notify them of any reception.
Five discouraging days of scan
ning the immense area north-north
east of bleak Howland island, which
the aviatrix missed last Friday, turn
ed the search to the corresponding
Continued on Page Two.)
Two Navy Planes
Crash In Air And
Burst Into Flame
Pensacola, Fla., July 7 (API-
Two navy planes collided in mid
air over the United States naval
air station here today, burst into
flames and crashed.
First reports did not say how
many airmen were in the planes or
whether any of them escaped alive
Ambulances and fire-fighting equip
ment rushed to the scene.
The station where the navy
trains its fliers is 10 to 15 miles
from here.
Electric Tower
Is Dynamited In
Aluminum Strike
Alcoa, Tenn., July 7 (AP)—Dyna
miting of an electric transmission
tower owned by tne Aluminum Com
pany of America was reported today
by A. D. Huddleston, plant manager
here as about 1,000 workers filed
through picket lines into the huge
mill closed by a strike May 18.
The official said the tower, located
between Alcoa and the company s
hydro-electric plant at Calderwood,
was dynamited about midnight. The
blast caused a short interruption in
service.
During the morning employees filed
through a jeering picket line while
the company planned to start pro
duction in the fabricating mill. A
number of pickets were armed with
clubs.
Slayer Os
Little Tots
Admits All
Bos Angeles, Cal., July 7 (AP)—
Small, swarthy Albert Dyer, accused
of murdering and ravishing three lit
tle school girls, was well launched to
day on the legal path the State de
clares will end at the gallows.
The county grand jury meeting in
special session last night, returned in
dictments charging the WPA school
crossing guard with first degree
murder. He is 32 years old.
Dyer is accused of having lured
Madeline Everett, 7, her sister, Melba,
9 and Jennette Stevens, 3 into the
Baldwin Hills, a few miles from their
Inglewood home June 26, strangling
them and violating their bodies.
The haggard tousle-headed prisoner
shouted as the indictments were being
read in court:
“I plead guilty!”
He was told the action was futile at
the time. —*—
PUBLISHED EVSEY AVUENOOM
EXCEPT SUNDAY./^,
Mountain Girl, 18,
Sees First Movie
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Because of the religious objections
of her father, Hazel Hensley, 18, never
had seen a moving picture until she
moved from her farm home near Er
win in the Tennessee mountains to
Asheville, N. C. Now that she has vis
ited a theatre at last, she is certain it
doesn’t “harm you any” and is look
ing forward to going again.
War Claims
In U. S. Are
Thrown Out
German - American
Mixed Claims Com
mission Dismisses
$22,000,000 Item
Washington, July 7. —(AP)— The
German-American Mixed Claims Com
mission, by unanimous agreement,
dismissed today a motion of the Unit
ed States for an award of $22,000,000
to claimants, who suffered losses in
wartime fires and explosions, includ
ing the disasters at Black Tom and
Kingsland, N. J.
The motion was made by Robert
Bonynge, the American agent. It was
opposed by Dr. Richard Paulig, third
secretary of the German Embassy,
and agent of the German government.
The American motion was based
upon an agreement entered into last
summer at Munich by agents of both
governments, including Bonynge, but
not Dr. Paulig.
The latter refused to sign the pact
for compromise of the $50,900,000 in
Claims. Today, he opposed granting
of the American motion on .the
grounds the agreement was not valid
without his signature.
After listening to arg nents, the
German and American commissioners
and Supreme* Court Justice Roberts,
the umpire, retired for half an hour
Continued on Page Two.)
parkwayroDTe is
ATTRACTING MANY
Blue Ridge Road Almost
Unexcelled For Beauty
of Real Scenery
Dally Dispatch Barena,
In the Slr Walter Hotel.
By J. C. ■BASKERVILL
Raleigh, July 7. —Although it is still
under construction, the Buck Creek
Gap-Big Baurel Mountain —Toe River
Gap section of the Blue Ridge Park
way has been completed to the point
where it is possible for several miles
westward from thetop of Big Baurel
Mountain towards Toe River Gap and
hundreds of venturesome motorists
with a love for the beautiful scenery
are already pushing their way out on
the new parkway as far as the con
struction work will permit.
It is nob possible to travel any
great distance on the sector of the
parkway starting at Buck Creek Gap
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OFIEWIS, MANAGER
OP PIANTASSERTS
Superintendent Declares
CIO Will “Never Get
These Men Out On
Strike Again”
CIO HEAD DECLARES
OPENING A FAILURE
Says Only Foremen and
Bosses Are In Plant; State
of “Brutal Terrorism” Pre
vails on Ohio Strike Front,
CIO Attorney Statement
Says
Cleveland Ohio, July 7 (AP) —Re-
public Steel Corporation plants hum
med today under the protection bf
gristling National Guard bayonets as
Bee Pressman, general counsel for
CIO steel strikers, charged a state of
“brutal terrorism” prevails on the
Ohio strike front.
“New steel by Friday” predicted Re
public plant officials.
Smoke streamed from towering
stacks of three Republic units after'
the last of a series of successful back
to-work thrusts in defiance of John
Bewis’ cohorts in the steel industry.
Republic claimed 3,087 out of 5,000
normally employed steel workers re
sponded yesterday at the reopening
of the Corrigan-McKinney plant, Up
son Nut & Bolt division and the Trus
can works. Republic Steel & Tube is
scheduled to re-open tomorrow.
Pickets were limited to 12 at each
plant gate. Nearly 1,000 troops were
here preserve order.
“This is the beginning of the end
of John B Bewis,” said H. G. Ellison
Upson superintendent. “They’ll never
get these men out on strike again.”
To which B. Dalmich, steel director
Continued on Page Two.)
Vance Must
Raise $575
For Blind
Raleigh, July 7.—(AP) —Dr. Roma
Cheek, executive secretary of trie
State Blind Commission, released es
timates today of the amount each
county in the Stale must contribute
to the social security aid to the blind
program this fiscal year.
The program, Dr. Cheek said,
would involve expenditure of about
$340,000, with the State putting up
$85,180, the counties the same amount
and the Federal government about
$170,000.
The latest estimates on amounts
counties must contribute to the blind
aid program include:
Beaufort, $820; Bertie, $450; Craven
$975; Edgecombe, $1,275* Franklin,
$585; Granville, $550; Greene, $325;
Halifax, $1,000; Johnston, $1,125;
Jones, $470; Martin, $750; Moore, sl,-
215; Nash, $1,500; Pitt, $950; Vance,
$575; Warren, $975; Washington, $400;
Wayne, $1,275; Wilson, $1,560.
HOEYPICKSNEW
RAIL DIRECTORS
North Carolina Railroad
Group To Meet In Greens
boro Tomorrow
Raleigh, July 7. —(AP) —’Mrs. R. R.
King, of Greensboro, tomorrow will
cast the State’s controlling votes to
elect officers of the North Carolina
Railroad Company as designated by
Governor Hoey.
The governor, from his home at
Shelby, announced selection of Mrs.
King as the State’s proxy, but said ho
would not announce his selections for
the railroad post until tomorrow. •
The selected persons, however,
have been notified to attend the an
nual meeting of the railroad in
Greensboro.
The railroad’s controlling stock is
owned by the State and the line is
leased to the Southern Railway sys
tem at a rental to pay $6,000 for ad
ministrative staffs and seven percent
interest on the State’s stock.
' The secretaryship pays $1,500 year
ly and Robert Peele, of Elizabeth City
now holds the post. Mrs. C. B. Aycock,
Sr., of Raleigh, is president now, get
ting SBOO a yean Other offices include
the attorney at SBOO a year, the ex
pert at S2OO annually, eight directors
elected upon designation of the gov
ernor and four selected by the own
ers of privately-Held stock.