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HENDERSON GATEWAY TO CENTRAL CAROLINA TWENTY-FOURTH YEAR RUSSIA THREATENS JAPAN WITH WAR IF TROOPS COME BACK Soviet Troops Have Firm Orders in No Case To Permit Crossing of Border JAPANESE ENVOY IN MOSCOW IS WARNED Violation of Agreement To Withdraw Is Charged Against Japs; Sporadic Fighting Between Chinese and Japanese Near Peiping Continues Moscow, July 9—(AP)—The Soviet government threatened Japan with open warfare today if Japanese troops do not keep out of Siberia. Maxim Litvinoff, Soviet commis sar of foreign affairs, warned Japa nese Ambassador Shigemitsu that R ussian troops along the Siberian- Manchoukuoan border had firm or ders “in no case to allow Japanese- Manchurian troops to cross Soviet frontiers.” .. . “All possible means, the foreign commissar told the Japanese repre sentative, would be used to drive any Japanese or Manchoukuoan troops that set foot on Russian territory. The dire Russian warning was link ed to a strong protest that Japan had violated the agreement to withdraw her armed forces from the disputed channel islands of the Amur river. A clash between Soviet troops and Japanese Manchoukuoan .border guards last week created a serious crisis in Far Eastern affairs. It was settled only by a mutual agreement between Japan and Russia to recall (Continued on Page Five) Britain To StudyLPlan For Accord London, July 9 (AP) —Great Britain was entrusted with finding a quick so lution of the present deadlock over the Spanish non-intervention scheme tonight after France had threatened to suspend frontier patrols Monday along the Pyrer.nes. France threatened thus to open the Spanish border to arms traffic on Monday unless the non-intervention equilibrium was restored. An afternoon session of the non intervention commsittee ended with the participating nations deadlocked and without any useful suggestions for compromise being advanced. Britain, whose proposal that she and France take over the entire interna tional patrol around Spain, was turn ed down by Germany and Italy, had looked to those nations for new pro posals on how a non-intervention pro (Continued on Page Six.) GREAT EXPLOSIONS SHAKE HELSINGFORS Helsingfors, Finland, July 9 (AP) —Ammunition stores explod ed near here today with a terrify ing roar which shook the whole city. Thirteen persons were injured, three critically but there were no deaths. The blast, in a castle just out side Helsingfors, was followed by fire that shot hundreds of feet into the air and burned for hours. W omanT ells « Os Handling At Ford Mill Relates To Labor Board Probe How She Was “Beaten And Kicked” There i Detroit, Mich., July 9— (AP)—Mrs. Catherine Gelljes, told a National La bor Relations Board trial examiner tof lay she was' knocked down, behten a nd kicked by*, three men during an kOempt to distribute union pamphlets kear the Ford Motor Company’s River Kou ge plant Ttay 26. Testifying at an NLRB hearing in ° a complain it charging the Ford ot°r Company with unfair labor Practices, MrsL Gelles said she had done nothing to provoke an attack on her. Mrs. Gelles s;iid she became involv (Continu*Bd on Page Six.) UCrnitprann Batin Btapairlf ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA AND VIRGINIA. LEASED WIRE SERVICE OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS. Rumor Discredited George Harrison Reports that have been circulat ing in Washington of an attempt to set up a united labor organiza tion, to absorb both the rival A. F. of L. and the C. I. 0., have not received much credence. The plan, it is said, calls for the set ting up of a new department, to be known as the “mass production, department” and to displace both William Green, president of the A. F. of L., and John L. Lewis, chairman of the C. L 0., with George Harrison, above, president of the Brotherhood of Railway Clerks. Lewis has become such a dominating figure it is question able whether he could be dis placed. NEW STRIKE CALL IN REPUBLIC MILL ENTIRELYIGNORED Not One Man Goes Out In Response to SWOC Ord er, Youngstown Of ficial Says RESERVES ON DUTY ARE 1 ALL DISMISSED 2,000 Gather at Gates Be fore Zero Hour But Are Kept Moving by Officers and Troops; Green Says Steel Strikes Have Already Failed Youngstown Ohio, July 9 (AP) A call for a new strike at the Republic Steel plants here by the SWOC appa rently was ignored by workers today as the deadline of 11:30 a. m., eastern standard time, passed with no work ers leaving the mills. Republic officials said, “Not a single man left the plant.” Republic officials said a few auto mobiles went in and out the gate, “but these were ordinary traffic.” The night relief of police, whom Chief Carl Olsen had held in reserve, was dismissed at noon. Half an hour before the time set for the walkout a crowd of strike sympathizers and curiosity seekers, estimated by Chief Olsen at 2000, ■ gathered at the gates, but National Guardsmen, special police and deputy (Continued on Page Six.) Utilities Being Choked By Excessive Taxation Babson Says Electric Comp any Investors Have Been Given Raw Deal; Cost of Current Not as High As Some Other Taxes Alone, He Finds BY ROGER W. BABSON, Copyright 1937, Publishers Financial Bureau, Inc. Babson Park, Mass., July 9.—No in dustry is giving investors more con cern than the utility group. Thurs dav was the fifth anniversary of the 1932 bear market low, but power stocks are up only SO per cent agamet nearly a 300 per cent gain for indus trial and railroad stocks. Politics and taxes have prevented utility inves tors from sharing equally in the huge recovery which has taken place Xher securities as well as m wages, farm prices, and real estate. Further more P there are still no signs of the ST'breaking through the clouds hanging over the utilities. HENDERSON, N. C., FRIDAY AFTERNOON, ULY 9 1937 AT NLRB HEARING OF UNION CHARGES AGAINST FORD scene at Detroit as labor board conducts Ford Co. hearing This is a general view of the scene in Detroit as the national labor relations board conducts hearihg of alleged violation of the Wagner labor act by the Ford Motor company as charged by the United Automobile Workers’ union. In the meantime Common Pleas Judge Ralph Liddy, sitting as a Rains Balk Plane Hunt For Amelia But Navy Craft Make Attempt to Press Search; Crucial Pe riod Arrives Honolulu, July 9. —(AP) —Equator- ial' rain squalls threatened to inter rupt the search for Amelia Earhart, which navy airmen considered was entering its most crucial phase today. Despite a forecast of rain and poor visibility, officers aboard the battle ship Colorado planned to catapult her three planes aloft again in expecta tion of completing an aerial search of the Phoenix islands tomorrow. Today and Saturday they said they felt was the most critical period since the coast guard cutter started the search a week ago. Airmen felt in flights yesterday and Wednesday they definitely eli minated the possibility she was in the area around Winslow reefs. By sea and air, search for the miss aviatrix and Navigator Frederick Noonan has encompassed about 136,- 000 square miles without even sight ing some of the shoals and sandpits supposed to exist in the vast area. COTTON IS STEADY AT HIGHER LEVELS Trade and Foreign Buying Boost To Prices and Quotations Make Good Gains New York, July 9. —(AP) —Cotton futures opened steady, seven to 10 points higher on trade and foreign buying. Offerings were light.. October advanced to 12.50, then eased to 12.45 leaving quotations generally 9 to 12 points higher shortly after the first half hour. October rallied from 12.39 to 12.53 around midday, with the gen eral market 11 to 18 points net higher. Futures closed very steady, 14 to 22 higher. Spot steady. Middling 13.05. Open Close July 12.34 12.48 October • • 12.42 12.57 December 12.36 12.48 January 12.39 12.49 March 12.44 12.52 May 12.46 12.55 Only the people who hold bank de posits and own insurance policies are larger in number than those who have invested money in the power and light business. Probably 8,000,000 peo ple have directly loaned their savings —and millions of other indirectly—to build America’s splendid 1,620 electric power companies. The railroad indus try alone represents a larger invest ment than the $13,000,000,000 which has been used to build the dams, pow er stations, and transmission lines honey-combing North America. Yet, history will probably show that no group of investors has ever been given such a “raw deal” as have in (Continued on Page Six.) In Church Fight ISh Rh&k. gjlllllll£;g. ; jiff iwBBMBwBHBHfc ggjgfosffi sgSflß' Dr. William H. Carter (above) of Dunn, N. C., recently was tried by the Free Will Baptist Church Board on charges of deserting his church and accepting the pastorate of the Full Gospel Tabernacle at Goldsboro, N. C., an independent religious organization. Carter’s followers have threatened to split the Cape Fear conference of the church which has more than 4,000 members and extends from Wilming-. ton N, C. into some of the South Carolina border counties. CAPITAL DEBATING VIEWS OF PEOPLE ) Revolt of CJongress k May Be Significant; Or Is FDR Guessing Right? By CHARLES P. STEWART Central Press Columnist Washington, July 9.—Who knows best what the home folk’s sentiment is concerning current New Deal po licies? President Roosevelt? Or the senators and representatives who, in Congress, are onposing all or some of his major plans?—such, not (Cont, *' , -ied on Page Five) S. G. MEWBORN DIES AT HOME IN WILSON Formerly Was President of Branch Bank and Was County Court Ex-Judge There Wilson, July 9.—(AP)—Judge S. G. Mewborn, former judge of Wilson county court, and one time president of the Branch Bank and Trust Com pany, died at his home here of a heart attack early today. Prominent in Masonic and Shrine circles, he also wag, an active church and civic leader. He leaves his widow and daughter, Mrs. B. F. D. Alburtom, Jr., of Hook erton. Funeral services will be held tomorrow afternoon at 3:30 o’clock. OUR WEATHER MAN FOR NORTH CAROLINA. Generally fair and continued warm tonight and Saturday. one-man grand jury to investigate a clash at the River Rouge plant May 26 in which X 5 U. A. W. A. organizers were injured, issued warrants charg ing assault against the Ford Motor company and nine of its service department employes. Everett Moore, head of the department, was one named. —Central Press Heat Deaths Stand At 53 Over Nation Little Prospect of Re lief Outside New York and New Eng land Regions Chicago, July 9 (AP) —The death toll from the season’s longest heat wave to date mounted today as the sun-baked states looked in vain for relief. At least 53 persons succumbed to the merciless temperatures that extended from the Atlantic coast to eastern Washington. There were hundreds of prostrations. There were many drown 7 ings. The stifling heat hitherto confin ed to the region east of the Rockies, pushed toward the Pacific coast. Walla Walla, Wash., sweltered in 96- Continued on Page Five.) WHITAKERS WRECK IS FATAL FOR MAN Odell Pittman, 22, Jacksonville, N. C. Killed When Truck Hits Parked Car Wilson, July 9.— (AP) —Odell Pittman, 22, of Jacksonville, N. C., was killed instantly near Whitakers last midnight when his truck struck a parked vehicle. The Negro driver of Pittman’s machine was in a Rocky Mount hospital today. Pittman is survived by his par ents, Mr. and Mrs. Jerry Pittman, four brothers and five sisters. Funeral services will be held to morrow afternoon. RAIN THREATENING BRITISH GOLF PLAY Carnoustie, Scotland, July 9. —(AP) —The possibility that rain might force the tournament committee to cancel the entire fourth round was all that kept Henry Cotton, 1934 title holder, from .being acclaimed ds the new British open golf champion here today. Arabs Might Rally Force In Palestine Four Kings Asked To Unite Against Brit ish Division; Latter Are Firm Jerusalem, July 9 (AP)—The Arab high command cabled to four Arab kings today a “plea in the name of God and religion” to intervene against the British plan to partition Pales tine. . . The rulers from whom assistance was sough', in the tense situation are Ibn Saud, Emir of the Arabian Sau dian kingdom; the Imam of Yemen, Emir Abdullah, of Transjordania; and the Ghazi of Iraq. The committee, in_ its hurried mes sage, protested the best part of the (Continued on Page Six.) PUBLISHED EVERY AFTERNOON EXCEPT SUNDAY. WHEELER OPENS FOR COURT PLAN’S FOES, ALLEGING PREJUDICE Aluminum Strike Deadlock Remains Alooa Tenn., July 9 (AP) —Strik- ers and management of the Alcoa plant of the Aluminum Company of America were deadlocked today in efforts to settle their differences after refusal of the company to ac cept arbitration of a wage dispute. Peaceful picketing of the plant continued while more than 200 State troopers patrolled the strike area where two men were fatally wounded and 28 others injured Wednesday in a clash between plant guards and pickets. A, D. Huddleston, regional man ager of the company, declined last night an offer by Governor Gordon Browning to arbitrate the dispute. The strikers are seeking an in crease In wages from 35 to 60 cents an hour to give them parity with rates in the company’s northern mills. MRS. ROOSEVELT IS NAMED LOR USING TAX DODGING PLAN Had Money Earned for Radio Talks Assigned To Agent Serving As Beneficiary FISH’S STATEMENT QUICKLY DISPUTED Vinson Tells Him He Is Re lating Only Re publicalm / Congressman Says, However, Others Close to President Should Be Investigated Washington, July 9.—(AP)—Repre sentative Fish, Republican, New York told a congressional committee today Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt had avail ed herself of a tax loophole’. He was told in return: “All your testimony is pure and unadulterated hearsay.’ Representative Vinson, Democrat, Kentucky, made that answer to Fish, who represents President Roosevelts home district, after subjecting the New Yorker to biting questioning. “What are you doing but smear ing?” Vinson asked. The New York congressman, who also suggested committee examination of tax returns of several members of Mr. Roosevelt’s personal and official family, answered he had been forbid den from submitting written evidence. Vinson obtained permission for him to submit proof of his charges and Fish agreed to do so; Fish, appearing before the joint congressional group on tax evasion, read what he said was a “photo static copy of a contract which Mrs. Roosevelt signed in 1905 for radio broadcasts. It stipulated, he said, that after each of ten programs the spon sor (the Shelby Arch Preserver Shoe Company) was to pay $3,000 to the American Friends Service Committee, Philadelphia. “If she can avail herself of a loop hole,” Fish said, "then anybody else (Continued on Page Six.) WPA MONEY GOES TO DEFENSE OF KILLER! Los Angeles, Cal., July 9 (AP)— Irony teamed with the Wl’A to day to contribute $27.50 to Albert Dyer’s defense fund. While alienists probed the mind of the confessed slayer of three little Inglewood girls a postman brought Dyer o check. Ironically the check was for his services in escorting school children across streets. Two Negroes Pay With Their Lives For Their Crimes Milledgeville, Ga., July 9.—(API— Mitchell Jackson, 26, Negro chauffeur died in the electric chair today for the torch murder of his employe:, Mrs. R. M. Fluker, Ailanta matron. Jackson admitted slugging Mrs. Fluker, stuffing her body into a pantry in her home in an Atlanta suburb, and setting fire to the house. He had argued with Mrs. Fluker over pay for a day’s work. ONE IN TEXAS. Huntsville, Texas, July 9.—(AP) — Ernest McCarthy, Negro, was elec trocuted at State Prison here early today, denying he was guilty of an assault on a white woman. hfrTOGES O TODAY FIVE CENTS COPY Never Before Has Such An Appeal to the People Been Made, Mon tanan Declares HARASSES SENATE WITH RETALIATION Makes Good on Threat To Bar All Other Business as Long As Gag Rule Is Ap plied on Court Debate; Wagner Housing Bill To Be Changed - » Washington, July 9. —(AP) —Sena- tor Wagner, Democrat, New York, predicted today there would be lit tle difficulty in obtaining a favorable committee report on his housing bill. “The attitude of the committee was very encouraging,” Wagner said after explaining to the committee amend ments he had drafted. The amendments were designed to meet Treasury objections to the. ori ginal .bill providing did for State and local housing authorities. Optional capital grants to state and local hous ing authorities, as well as the annual operating subsidy originally propos ed would be permitted by the amend ments. An appropriation of $10,000,- 000 for capital grants would be au thorized for the first year and a total of $40,000,000 more for the three years following. A billion dollars in bonds would be authorized for loans. Other develops of the day in the capital: President Roosevelt said his at tempt to balance the budget by June 30, 1938, by saving ten percent of total Appropriations on flexible items would involve no discharges or furloughing jf government employees. Manuel Fox, New York, economist, was nominated by the President to the tariff commission. Wheeler Opens on Court. Senator Wheeler, Democrat, Mon tana, opened his attack on the ad ministration’s court bill in the Senate with an assertion that never before had he seen “such an appeal to the prejudices of the people” as had been (Continued on Page Six.) ALLOTMENTS MADE OF SECURITY FUND Raleigh, July 9.—(AP)-r-N. H. Yel ton, director of public assistance, -tin nounced this afternoon only $4,867.69 had been allotted from the $200,000 social security equalization fund* to 31 counties ruled eligible to receive the funds, so as not to have an ex cessive tax rate increase for the pro gram. The amounts the counties will get this year from the fund included; Greene, $1,190.80; Jones, $1,200; Nash, $1,795.20; Warren, $1,093.33. Young Negro First Under Hoey To Die « . l Raleigh July 9 (AP)—Robert Glenn Brown, 19-year-old Pitt county Negro who killed and robbed a 75-year-old partially blind storekeeper, died 4 in the gas chamber at State's Prison here this morning. Brown walked into the chamber at 10:30 a. m., the first victim of lethal executions since December 11. Gas machinery was started at 10:36, and 13 minutes and 20 seconds later Brown was pronounced dead. The man was convicted in Craven county of the slaying of J. N. Peacock. He (Continued on Page Six.) Government Claims Gain At Madrid v Aerial Attack on In i’ surgents Carried Out by Loyalist Forces on North Madrid, July 9.—(AP)—The Mad rid-Valencia defense ministry claim ed widespread achievements in aerial warfare today while land forces ex erted a pincer-like pressure on in surgents along Madrid’s western front. General Jose Miaja, commander of government troops on the central gov- Continued on Page Five.)
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