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HENDERSON GATEWAY TO CENTRAL CAROLINA TWENTY-FOURTH YEAR REPUBLIC RE-OPENS i LAST CLOSED PUNTS Colorado ’s Planes Soar In Search Os Missing Earhart No Trace Found of Plane or Missing Flyers After Searching Flight SEARCH SHIFTS TO REEFS AND INLETS U. S. Battleship Seeking Lost Flyers to South and East of Howland Island, Their Objective; Planes Were To Resume Hunt This Afternoon Pan Francisco, Cal., July 8. —(AP) —Navy planes were scheduled to fly from the battleship Colorado at 12:30 * m . (E. S. T.) today, to continue the search for Amelia Earhart, but no word had been received from the ship at 1:30 P- <E. S. T.). mightest peace time SEARCH IS UNiDERWAY Honolulu, July 8. (AP) The mightest peace time search of the United States Navy was launched to day for Amelia Earhart, missing round the world flier, who officials hope is awaiting rescue on a coral reef sand spits somewhere southeast of Howland island. The battleship Colorado cruising south and east of Howland catapult ed its three fighting planes last night to open the aerial survey in the hunt undertaken when Miss Earhart failed to arrive in Howland last Friday on a 2.570 mile flight from New Guiane. The aircrafts returned to the ship after a two hour and twenty minute flight to report that no trace had been sighted of the missing plane or Miss Earhart or Navigator Fred Noonan. The planes planned to resume their search today at dawn, (12:30 E. S. T.) cruising over Winslow reef, 120 miles below the equator and southeast of Howland. From the vicinity of Winslow reef, the Colorado can catapult her plane search of many inlets and reefs in the North Phoenix islands. TAKING OF PROFITS LOWERS THE MARKET Further profits selling lowered the stock market temperature a bit today but selective demand kept the list gen erally in a resistance area. Trends were somewhat indecisive near the fourth hour. Bonds, especially those in the rail section, displayed an improved tone, (Etnd transfers were about 1,000,000 shares. American Radiator • ••' 21 1-2 American Telephone 168 American Tob B Anaconda 56 I*2 Atlantic Coast Line 52 Atlantic Refining 30 3-4 Eendix Aviation 20 3-8 Bethlehem Steel 61 l -^ Chrysler 165 1-2 Columbia Gas & Elec 13 Commercial 14 1-2 Continental Oil 16 DuPont 158 Electric Pow & Light 16 General Electric 54 5-8 General Motors 54 Liggett & Myers B 98 5-8 Montgomery Ward & Co 16 5-8 Reynolds Tob B 50 1-8 Southern Railway 33 1-2 Standard Oil Co 68 5-8 U S Steel 109 1-2 Execution of R. G. Brown Set Friday Renovations on State Prison Death Row Not to Bother Execution Raleigh, July 8. —(AP) —Final pre parations were started at State Prison oday f or execution Friday in the t-thal gas chamber for Robert Glenn Drown, convicted in Craven county ? r m drder, in the first legal asphyia- Lon in sometime. “We are ready,” commented Wlar u H. h. Honeycutt. “The renovation 0n ‘Death Row” is in such shape that can carry out the execution.” “There is no reason to interfere,” said Parole Commissioner Edwin Gill. HENDERSON, i&vnuvt&tni ©Huy SHspafrh ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA AND VIRGINIA. *a SERVICE OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS. Leads Earhart Hunt Hi |i||i| V3HS&: : S ■ ilk g&SI&W % . MS- > *» MM Walter K. Thompson Leading the search for Amelia Earhart Putnam, aviatrix lost in the Pacific on a ’round-the-world flight, Commander Walter K. Thompson of the U. S. coast guard cutter Itasca, made desperate ef forts to reach her in time. —Central Press Chinese And Japs Battle At Peiping Japanese Seize Part of Railroad; Fight ing B r o k e Out About Midnight Peiping, China, July B.—(AP) Fighting raged in the western su burbs in this ancient dragon capitol between Japanese forces and Chinese General Sung Cheh-Yuan’s 29th army today, after a midnight clash between troops conducting a secret night maneuver Japanese sc*diers seized a part of the railroad from Peiping southward to Hankow and repeatedly attacked the city of Wanpinghsien. There was heavy fighting in the vicinity of the marble bridge of Marco Polo, 20 miles west of Peiping. The Chinese were reported to have established their position at Wan pinghsien in the face of an ultimatum from Japanese troops demanding their immediate surrender. Chinese army soldiers said the fighting broke out about midnight when maneuvering Japanese troops tried to capture the Yantze river bridge. 8001™ 4-0 SHORT COURSE Practcially Every County In State Be Represented At Raleigh Dull*' Dispatch Barcas, In the Sir Walter Hotel Br J. C. BANKERVILG Raleigh, July B.—Approximately 800 of North Carolina’s .most out standing farm boys and girls will at tend the annual 4-H Short Course at State College July 26-31, L. R. Har rill, State 4-H Club leader estimated today. , Coming from practically every county in the state, the delegates will take part in a well-rounded program of education and recreation. Agricul tural and educational leaders have been selected to speak at the con ference. t . ... . State College specialists will in struct the boys and girls during class room periods. Special courses in food conservation and marketing, handi crafts, home management, clothing, foods, and home beautification have been provided for the girls who at e, Boys will receive instruction in crops, livestock, poultry, conservation recreation, life saving, bees, and agri cultural engineering. Harrill pointed out that courses open' to both boys and girls (Continued on Page Five) HENDERSON, N. C., THURSDAY AFTERNOO N, JULY 8, 1937 PRISON POLITICS SEEN IN POSTING^ Whipping Law Has Been On Statue Books Since 1917 and Is Still In Effect WAYNICK ACCUSED BEING “TOO SOFT” Whitley Would Like To Have Oscar Pitts 1 Job and Wants Whip Used for Bet ter Prison Morale; No More Whippings Than Usual Since Notice Given Dally Dispatch (1 arena, In the Sir Walter Hotel. Ky j- C. It ASKER VI 1,1. Raleigh, July B.—The decision of Chairman Frank L. Dunlap and of the State Highway and Public Works Commission to post notices in all of the prisons and prison camps inform ing the prisoners that whipping of prisoners is still permitted by law and can be used as a method of punish ment in the prison system, was reach ed in the belief that this action would put the prisoners on notice, improve prison morale and thus make it un necessary to use the lash except in extreme cases, Chairman Dunlap said today. There are indications, however, that there is some back-tracking and something of locking the stable door after the horse has been stolen in this action, according to some very au thentic reports that have been current for some time. Some observers also believe that there are some very de finite traces of prison division poli tics involved in the whipping notices incident. Chairman Dunlap maintains that so far as he knows, there have been no more prisoners whipped within the last two months, since he has been chairman of the highway com mission, than before he took over that office, He also maintains that the only reason it was decided to publish the notice to prisoners of the adoption of a new prison rule permit ting the whipping of prisoners, was because in many prison camps and units the prisoners had gotten the idea that the law permitting the lash ing of prisoners had been repealed and that it was now against the law for any one to whip them. “The adoption of this rule permit ting whipping merely puts the pri soners on notice that the law adopted back in 1917 is still in effect and that prisoners can still be whipped when the offense seems to justify it,” Chair man Dunlap said. “According to this law which has been in effect all this time, and which has been envoked from time to time all along, a prison er may be whipped on order of the chairman of the highway commission or such a person as he may desig nate.” This same law also provides that 24 hours must elapse between the time a prisoner commits an offense and the administering of a whipping, that the whipping must be done, in the presence of the prison physician or chaplain and that it must be ad ministered by some one other than (Cont»- ued on Page Five) BITTERFITI IN THEiLY LAND British Attempts to Settle Dispute Between Jews And Arabs Jerusalem July 8 (AP)—Bitter op position among the rank and file of both Jews and Arabs toward Britain’s proposed “surgical operation” on Pal estine was considered in some Brit ish circles today as the forerunner of possible united front of Jews and Arabs. The British royal commission pro posed last night, the Holy Land be divided between soverign Jews and Arabian states with a few British Mandates over the holy cities of Jeru salem, Nazareth, and Bethlehem. Both Arabian and Jewish masses were astounded today at the radical solution of the British government of their problem. It was suggested that the age-old revivals would embark on an attempt to work out their prob lem around the council table. Among the stern-faced population of two races which heard last night’s report in Hebrew and Arabic, were many listening to a radio for the first time in their lives. It was generally thought that the commissions plan—subject to League of Nations approval—was something sensational in hitherto unheard of in the history of the strife torn country. While a strong undercurrent of op position formed, no disorders had been reported. ' Steelworkers Return Under Guard I iPliii' 1 M i 1 i 1 11 .... '' : : •• iSf Workers filing past guardsmen at a Republic plant in Cleveland Non-striking workers at the Upson Nut plant of Republic Steel corporation in Cleveland return to their jobs under protection of Ohio National Guard troops. Gov. Martin L. Davey •of Ohio ordered the guardsmen into Cleveland when Republic announced it would reopen three plants of its four plants there. The C. I. O. protested strongly agatnst the limitation of pickets at the plant gates and ermtd actions of governor, sheriff and mayor as efforts to break the strike. Sheriff Martin L. O’Donnell had reduced the pickets to 12 at each gate. TROOPS AT MADRID TAKE OFFENSIVE •* V-n- ■< * ' if- Small Villages In, Madrid Sector Fall Into Hands Os Government Madrid, July B.—-(AP)—Govern ment forces announced officially to day they had surrounded a village west of Madrid. Other villages in the sector were captured, the government said, and a number of deserters had given news of enemy movements intended to check our advance. (Correspondents with government forces were limited to censorship by government communique and barred from use of telephone). Government forces, in a new of fensive to smash insurgents seized positions on Madrid’s western front, were reported to have extended their curving 15-mile salient despite a counter attack at Brunete. A column of General Maija’s troops which pushed through the insurgent lines and captured Brunete Tuesday were said in an official communique to have thrown back an insurgent counter drive. “The enemy was unable to make them lose a single inch of ground.” The report said, “they continued to advance and crossing the Guadar rama river.” The communique recited claims of gains on other fronts. TIGOLDTEETH PUTS MAN IN JAIL Escaped Convict Identified Over Phone By Oscar Pitts Raleigh, July 8 (AP)—Two gold teeth put Fred Pugh in Central pri son today to finish a four to five year sentence for house breaking and larceny. Pugh escaped with six other con victs from a prison camp in Pender county June 27. He was arrested in Farmville on suspicion and gave an incorrect name. The Farmville Police Chief telephon ed Oscar Pitts, acting penal division directqr and as he reached the de scription of the gold teeth. Pitts iden tified Pugh and a personal check bore out the deduction. OUR WEATHERMAN fob NORTH CAROLINA. Generally fair tonight and Fri day. . Bar Probe Roosevelt’s Tax Return Committee Votes To Let Fish Present Evidence on Fam ily, However Washington, July B.—(AP) The Senate-House Committee on Tax Evasion, barred today an investiga tion of President Roosevelt’s tax re turn or tax practices. The committee agreed, however, to let Representative Fish, Republican, New York, present any evidence he might have in respect to other mem bers of the Roosevelt -family, Secre tary Morgenthau and the secretary’s father, Henry Morgenthau, Sr. Only after a long argument did the committee vote to let Fish appear at its session tomorrow. Chairman Doughton, Democrat, North Carolina, said members of the Republican minority favored Demo crats in deciding against leading the President into the investigation. Meanwhile on another front, hot tempered bickering over parliamen tary rules virtually blocked Senate debate on administration’s court bill. Both administration and opposi tion leaders took advantage of numer ous interruptions in the speech. by Senator Logan, Democrat, of Ken tucky to give notice they would take every possible technicality in their bid of intra-party fight. Among the first so to act was Ad ministration Leader Robinson, who said he would insist during the fight of the enforcement of a rule designed to resist filibustering. At the height of the controversy with the Senate as near to complete disorder as it has been in years, Sen ator Pittman, Democrat, Nevada, pre sident pro-tem rebuked Senator O’Ma honey, Democrat, Wyoming for speak ing out of order. CONNISSM Money Will Aid In Provid ing Old Age and Child Assistance Raleigh, July 8 (AP)—N. H. Yelton, director of public assistance announc ed today that the state’s 100 counties would be tlegible to take part in a $200,000 “equalization fund” to help them finance old age assistance and child aid social security program this fiscal year. The counties include Bertie, Craven, Green, Jones, Nash and Warren. The counties ruled eligible, Yelton said, were those whose combined levy for assistance under the two programs would exceed 10 cents on the SIOO val uation with the equalization fund to contribute 75 percent of the differ ence. . —- PUBLISHED EVERY AFTERNOON EXCEPT SUNDAY. FIND PLANE PITS Famed Australian Flier Lost on London-Sydney Flight In 1935 Los Angeles July 8 (AP) —A rub ber airplane tire and landing gear picked up in the Andaman sea off the coast of Burma furnished a new clue today to the fate of Sir Charles Kings ford-Smith, lost Australian flier. Carl Squier, Lockhead Aircraft vice president, said the gear had been pos itively identified “as belonging to the monoplane in which Kmgsford-Smith and Tom Pethybridde, disappeared Nov. 8, 1935 on a flight from London to Sydney. \ indicates Sir Charles landed on land”, said Squires. “For if he had landed on water, the wheels would have been folded into the wing the normal flying position.” The strut supporting the gear it self had one shift twisted. Lady Mary Kingsford-Smith has never given up hope her husband will be found alive. c ss Agricultural Department Report Shows Crop Be low 10 Year Average Washington, July B.|—(AP) —Agri- cultural Department estimated today cotton in cultivation on July 1, 34,- 192,000. The figure compared with 30,960,- 000 a year ago and a 1927 to 1936 av erage of 37,885,000. The average abandonment of acre age between July 1 and taking of the crop in the ten years 1927 to 1936 was 2.3 per cent. Last year’s ginning total ed • equivalent 500 pound bales, while the average ginning for the 10 years, 1927 to 1936, were 13,200,- 857 bales. The acreage in cultivation July 1, and its percentage of 1936 cultivation on that day, by states follows: Vir ginia 65,000 acres, or 120 per cent as compared with 1936, North Carolina 1,000,000 or 111 percent, South Caro lina 1,643,000 or 116 percent; Geor gia 2,644,000 or 115 per cent. COTTON IS STEADY IN DAY’S MARKETING Cotton futures opened barely steady three to six lower on the pre-bureau liquidation and foreign selling. Prices shortly after the first half hour were three points net lower to one higher. Futures closed steady 22 to 25 points higher; spot steady, middleing 12.85. Open Close July 12 12.25 October 12.08 12.36 December 12.01 12.30 January 12.02 12.32 March 12.07 12.36 May 12.06 12.38 (.lift PAGES TODAY FIVE CENTS COPY INDICTMENTS GIVEN AGAINST EIGHT IN STRIKE WINGS Gus Hall and Seven Others Indicted for Illegal Pos session of Ex plosives TWO AReTdEAD 28 INJURED AT ALCOA Complaint Filed With N. L. R. B. for Conduct of Youngstown Sheet and Tube and Police Officials; Troopers on Guard at Ten nessee Strike Scene Cleveland, Ohio, July B.—(AP)—Re public Steel Corporation reopened the last of its strike-closed plants, and the grand jury of Trumbull, county Ohio, (Warren) returned indictments charging eight men with illegal pos session of explosives in connection with strike violence. The grand jury’s action came in the wake of 157 indictments returned early this week by inquisitors in ad jacent Mahoning county, (Youngs town ). Today’s indictments were against Gus Hall, deposed CIO organizer, and six other men arrested as bombing suspects, and one whose name was not made public. On scattered fronts, the CWOC sought to bolster through suits and charges their fight for signed con tracts. Steel and Tube, Inc., employs nor mally about 560 men, and smallest of Republic’s four Cleveland units was opened to workers while police and Ohio National Guardsmen formed a protective circle at the mill. Lee Pressman, general coyncil for John L. Lewis’ CIO, came to Cleve land from Pittsburgh to confer on pending court proceedings. Before leaving Pittsburgh, he an nounced he had filed a complaint with the N. L. R. B. charging Youngs town Sheet and Tube Company had “acted in collusion” with city and county police officials and officers of the Ohio National Guard in an effort to defeat the strike. TWO DEAD IN STRIKE ALCOA, TENNESSEE k Alcoa, Tenn., July 8. —(AP) —Alcoa —owned by and named for the Alumi num Company of America —was tense hut quiet today under the guns of 300 soldiers called in after two men were killed and 28 hurt in a pitched battle between strikers and company guards. Henson Klick, 30, striker, died of bullet wounds after yesterday’s fight. A few hours later, W. M. Hunt, 42, a special officer, succombed to similar injuries. Hope for early settlement of dif ference between the company and strikers was expressed by Fred West more, president of the local Alumi num workers union, an A. F. of L, affiliate, and said he would appeal to Governor Gordon Browning today to name an arbitrary board “to try to (Continued on Page Three.) Officials Os IN.C.Railroad Been Named Guire Is President, Weathers, Sec.- Treas. and Dennis a Director Greensboro, July B. (AP) —Lee Weathers, Shelby newspaper pub lisher, became secretary-treasurer of the North Carolina Railroad Com pany, by designation of Governor Hoey and V. D. Guire, of Lenior, was named president, and E. B. Denny, of Gastonia, attorney. Mrs. R. R. King, of Greensboro, cast the State’s vote of controlling stock as proxy for the governor. Governor Hoey announced the se lections were made for one year, and salary changes had been made to give Weathers $1,200 instead of the $1,500, which the retiring secretary, Herbert Peele, publisher of the Elizabeth City Advance, received. As president, Guire will get S9OO, while retiring president, Mrs. Charles B. Aycock, of Raleigh, received SBOO. Denny’s pay of SI,OOO will compare with SBOO received by the retiring at torney, Henry Fisher, of Charlotte. Directors elected on the governor’s . recommendation include Henry A. Dennis, of Henderson.
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