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HENDERSON gateway TO CENTRAL CAROLINA TWENTY-FOURTH YEAR GREAT HEAT WAVE mmgm Least 114 Lives Snuffed Out as Result of Sea son’s Longest Hot Spell NO RELIEF AS YET PROMISED NATION Local Showers Give Tem porary Relief in Places, but Temperatures Soon Resume Upward Climb; New York City Sizzles for Third Day Chicago, July 10. — (AP) Heat waves billowed with unabated vigor over most of the nation again today. The season's most protracted hot spell showed no signs of ending an assault that has already taken at least 114 lives and caused hundreds of prostrations. •‘Generally fair and continued warm” was the Weather Bureau’s unwelcome forecast for virtually all of the heat-stricken states east of the Rockies. Local .showers afforded temporary relief to some sections, but tempera tures soon resumed their climb. Warmer weather was in store for the corn belt, where temperatures in the upper 90's have prevailed for five days. The highest temperature east of the Rockies yesterday was 102 at Phillipsburg, Kansas. Record-breaking heat gripped New York City for the third consecutive dav when thermometers registered % yesterday. The stiffling weather was' blamed for eight deaths in the metropolitan area. . 1 Thousands of WPA workers in New York City were sent home be cause of the heat. Some mills in Mas sachusetts closed. Shorter hours were ordered for some conservation work ers in Minnesota. Carolinas Swelter In Heat Also (By The Associated Press) The mercury flirted with the top of the tube today in the Carolinas as Old Sol sizzled with abandon from the top of the mountains to the sea. And the weather man said he probably would carry on tomorrow in the same old way, as forecasts for fair and warm was turned in. Rocky Mount, with 102 degrees in the shade, was top among cities reporting. Fayetteville had 98 to be runner-up in the North Caro lina brigade. Greensboro turned in 95 and Raleigh’s 93 was ex pected to reach 96. Charlotte had a sweltering 93. Labor Strife Over Much Os Country Middle West And Portions of South Share Spotlight With Washington (By The Associated Press) Labor at a glance: Washington— CIO calls national con vention in Chicago to build up indus trial-maritime association. Alcoa Tenn.—Aluminum workers head says he will ask Governor Brown * n S to close plant where two were kill ed in battle Wednesday; governor says a t Nashville he sees “no justification for meeting request. Detroit, Mich. — Witness collapses at hearing growing out of riot May 26 near Ford Motor Company plant\ in which unionists beaten; UAW wins selection at plant where first Ll®" hoit sitdown strike occurred. Du the steel front: Washington —House, warned by Rep resentative Cox, Democrat, Georgia, to guard against “labor despotism’’; John Lewis and American Newspaper Guild r eply to AFL head’s criticism of steel strike leadership. Pittsburgh —Mine union leader says strike affecting 10,000 in steel firm’s captive” mines will continue “indefi mtely.” Philip Murray SWOC chair man, also replies to Greene’s state ment. Johnstown, Pa.—Strike sympathiz ers and opponents prepare for battle m anticipation 0 f election in huge Steel Corporation’s Cam bria works. Cleveland —Minister draws fire of chureh leader for criticizing use of * ational Guardsmen in strike area. •.• t * Bntiirrsuu Hat hi Dispatch LEASED wire service op THE ASSOCIATED PRESS. President R eviews Boy Scouts in Washington Despite a broiling sun, more than 26,000 Boy Scouts assembled in Washington for their annual jamboree, stood in re view on Constitution avenue for President and Mrs. Roosevelt. This photo shows the president (arrow) waving to Scouts as his car passes. Mrs. Roosevelt is at the right in rear seat. The Scouts in background are Sea Scouts. 250 Insurgent Planes Head For Madrid For Mass Attack ™SoLDS Believed To Be Best Man in State To Take on Junior Senator CAN GIVE AND TAKE Is Sufficiently in Middle of Road To Draw Conservative Support And Likewise New Deal Adherents Dally Dispatch Bareaa. In the Sir Walter Hotel. By J. C. IIASKERVILL Raleigh, July 10.—R. Gregg Cherry the “iron major” from Gastonia who was speaker of the House during the 1937 General Assembly and who crack ed as stinging a verbal whip over the heads of House members as any speaker who can be remembered, is having a lot of ressure brought to , bear on him to become a candidate for the United States Senate against Senator Robert R. (Our Bob) Rey nolds next spring, according to re ports heard here. The boys who want to beat Bob are said to be convinced that hard-boiled Gregg is just about the only man who stands a chance of beating the “Bounding Basque” in the kind of rough-and-tumble cam paign which the roving Senator from Buncombe county always puts on. The trouble seems to be that they are having some difficulty in convincing Cherry that it would be worth his while to give up his law practice in Gastonia and North Carolina to be come a member of the very exclusive club in Washington, known as the Senate, at a salary of only SIO,OOO a year. Observers here are inclined to agree with those who are already en thusiastic in their advocacy of Cherry as an opponent of Bo.b Reynolds, that he would undoubtedly be a formidable candidate and would probably give Bob a harder fight than any one else who might get into the race for the Senate against him. They agree that Cherry has been a New Dealer, or at (Continued on Page Six.) SHARP DECLINE IN PRICES OF COTTON Liverpool Cables Disappointing and Foreign Selling and Liquida tion Aid \ New York, July 19.— (AP)—Cotton fntures opened steady, one to nine no<nts lower on disappointing Liver pool cables, liquidation and foreign selling- October eased from 12.50 to S JeShortly after the first half hour when prices generally were 7 to 11 P °Futures 10 c7os r ed steady,, Uto 17 points lower. Spot quidt, middling 12 - 90, \ Open Close ... 12.47 12.30 J 4 12.50 12.41 October 12 42 12 .33 December 40 12.33 January 1246 12.37 March **' 12.40 May ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA AND VIRGINIA. Handwriting on | Note Identified 1 ' “ Stony Brook, N. Y., July 10.— (AP) —District Attorney Barron Hill said today Albert Osborn, handwriting expert of the Lind bergh kidnap case, had identified the writing in the $25,000 ransom note found after Mrs. Alice Mc- Donnell Parsons, Long Island so ciety matron who vanished June 9. Hill said Osborn examined the note and various of writing gathered by Suffolk county authorities and submitted to him for comparison with the notes. Federal Bureau of Investigation officials said they had no comment on Hill’s statement. Hill said Osborn had concluded the writing in the note was not Mrs. Parsons’, and said his men were working on the theory that she was slain and her body hidden. He reiterated he expected a break of some kind in the case either over the week-end or early next week, but declined to elabor ate this. ™5« Pitts Expected To Stay, but Dr. Coleman Is To Go; Shift Warden Dally Dispatch Barca*., In the Sir Waller Hotel. By J. C. BASKERVII/L Raleigh, July 10.—Although action is ptill being deferred by the State Highway and Public Works Commis sion with regard to the prison division and the selection of a director, indi cations are that the commission is waiting only for its sub-committee to make a report of its findings and re commendations .before taking a de finite move. This committee is com posed of Chairman Frank 'L. Dunlap and Commissioners Robert Grady Johnson, of the third division, and T. Max Watson, of the ninth division. While this committee has not yet made its report as to personnel to the full commission, indications are that it will make its report in the near future. It is generally conceded that the commission handed this commit tee one of the hottest potatoes the entire commission has ever had to handle when it gave it the job of try ing to iron out the wrinkles that exist in the prison divison and of trying to bring about harmony in an organiza tion regarded as being shot through with political and personal jealousies. Present indications are that Oscar T. Pitts will eventually be appointed as full director of the prison division, that Dr. George S. Coleman will not be retained as physician at Central Prison, and that Warden H. H. Honey cutt will probably be moved to some other position. It is also regarded as possible that Disciplinarian L. G. Whitley may be shifted to some other (Continued on Page Six.)i HENDERSON, N. C., SATURDAY AFTERNOON, JULY 10,1937 Tons of Explosives and Ma chine Guns Aboard Huge Craft as They Set Out HEAVY GOVERNMENT LOSS NOW REPORTED Rebel Communique Says 3,- 000 Loyalist Troops Killed and 6,000 Wounded In Counter-Attack By Insur gents; Britain Works For Solution 1 (By The Associated Press.) A fleet of Spanish insurgent planes, 100 tri-motored bombers, carrying tons of explosives and 150 machine gun pursuit ships, roared across Spain toward Madrid today to pave the way for a big drive to smash the capital’s defenses. The planes attacked a tank-pro tected army of 30,009 Spanish gov ernment soldiers. Aides to Insurgent General Francisco Franco said gov ernment losses were heavy. An official communique said 3,000 government militiamen were killed and 6,000 wounded in a counter-at tack by insurgent troops in the (Continued on Page Five) STOLEN CAR FOUND IN THE MOUNTAINS Polk County Deputy Locates Machine Taken in Charlotte; Gets Faint Clue Columbus, N. C., July 10. —(AP) Deputy Sheriff B. F. Scoggin,s of Polk county, announced today a car belonging to C. H. Stroupe of Char lotte, whiqh was stolen by a gunman who shot Patrolman Frank Cowell near Lancaster, *S. C., Sunday, had been found near Coopers Gap, and that a farmer there had reported tak ing a man and wenr-an believed to have been the gunman and his com panion to Asheville Sunday night. Scoggins said Fred Ledbetter told him he had taken a heavystt man and a redheaded woman companion to Biltmore and left them at a case. The car, in good condition, he said, was found parked on the side of the road, locked. * m IP WEATHH? MAH FOB NORTH CAROLINA. Generally fair and continued warm tonight and Sunday. WEEKLY weather For Middle Atlantic States: Oc casion local showers Monday or Tuesday and on Wednesday; then generally fair; temperature above normal first half of week and about normal latter half. ■ » * Nevada Senator Challenges Party Leaders To Oust Him For Fight Upon Court Bill Strife Threatens In Holy Land £ • £§l JEWISH STATE § ■ SCARAB STATE : British troops and map of partition Great Britain’s plan to split Palestine into Jewish and Arab sovereign states in an effort to end 15 years of bloodshed throughout the country has drawn opposition from both sides. British troops and’ police marshaled forces to keep order. The inset, above shows the plan of division and the troops of the British Empire ready for any emergency. Japan Moves Big Army In Danger Zone Many Trainloads of Troops Leave Muk den for North China Strife Area Tokyo, July 11 (Sunday)—(AP) —War Minister Sugiyima sum moned a staff conference at 2 a. m. today. (12 noon eastern stand ard time), after advices that hosti lities between Chinese and Japa nese troops had been resumed in northern China. Members of the foreign office, cabinet ministers and naval offi cials also conferred through the night, with tension intensified by Japanese dispatches from China reporting Generalissimo Chiang Kai-Shek had ordered Chinese land and air forces into the North China area. Peiping, China, July 10.—(API- High Chinese officials declared to night Japan has begun moving part of her powerful Manchurian army to ward the North China trouble zone. (Continued on Page Six.) Amelia V Fate May Be Known i Honolulu, July 10. (AP)— Three naval planes were ordered catapulted over the major group of the Phoenix islands today in a search which naval officers said would probably reveal whether Amelia Earhart is (Still alive. The battleship Colorado’s searching planes, shooting into the air at 12:39 p. m., eastern standard time, were di rected to sweep over Enverbury, Phoenix, Birnie and Sydney islands. Shore patrols from the mine sweep er Swan were ordered to comb Can ton, largest of the Phoenix islands, while the planes scout other possible refugees of Miss Earhart and Fred efick Noonan, navigator of her round the-world plane, missing eight days. The two ships set a rendezeous 15 miles south of Canton at 4:30 p. m., eastern standard time to refuel the mine-sweeper. The Colorado’s planes may then survey Canton from the air. If these searches de not reveal traces of the missing aviators, naval officers said there was scant hope of their being found in the projected search by the 62 planes from the air craft carrier Lexington, now speed ing toward tropic waters from Hawaii PUBIJBHBD ■VERY AFTERNOON EXCEPT SUNDAY. Fear Slayer May Attempt Suicide Los Angeles, Cal., July 10. —(AP) —An attack of religious frenzy in which he sobbed over an open Bible, led county jail guards today to guard against a /suicide attempt by Albert Dyer, accused slayer of three Inglewood girls. FILM STAR WAITS 1 EXTRADITION John Montague Wanted In New York for Banditry In 1930 Hold-Up Los Angeles, Cal., July 10. —(AP) —* Filmland’s “phantom of the stair ways,” his mask pf mystery stripped away, ruefully pondered “one foolish mistake” today while he awaited in a jail cell for New York authorities to serve extradition papers to take him back east for trial as a bandit. District Attorney Thomas McDon ald, of Essex county, N. Y., announced there he would push proceedings to extradite John Montague, called the mystery man of golf, on charges that he took part in a roadhouse hold-up in 1930. Montague, as he is known here, broke the “mystery bubble,” sur rounding his name for the past three years, when he said: “I made one foolish mistake when I was just a kid. I got in a tough gang and went wrong. I’ve been try ing to live it down ever since.” George Clark, his personal friend, golf companion and attorney, inti mated an appeal would be made to Governor Merriaih. to refuse to sign extradition papers. Use of Lash For Prisons Assailed By Welfare Chief Raleigh, July 19 (AP)—Mrs. W. T. Bost, State welfare commissioner, said today the use of the lash to en force prison discipline has always been contrary to the policy of the State Board of Charities and Public Welfare. “The State board has not reversed that policy,” Mrs. Bost said. “The State board has always taken the pos ition that there were other methods of securing prison discipline which could be used more effectively.” She was commenting in response to questions on the State Highway and Public Works Commission’s recently passed rule authorizing the use of the whip on unruly prisoners. Frank Dunlap State highway chair man, has said the rule was passed only as an “informative” step, since use of the lash has riot been abandon ed and printed discipline rules con tain no authorization foi* application of the whip.” 8' PAGES TODAY FIVE CENTS COPY f ACE DEFEAT THi SUPPORT PROPOSAL l Warns Party Day May Come When Democrats Will Need Small Vote t ‘ . of His State BITTER IN ATTACK - ON FARLEY THREAT Group Opposing Court Com promise Gains Slight Mar gin in Publicly-Committed Senate Votes; Navy ,Jo Mount Big Guns on IJew Battleships Washington, July 19.—(AP)—-Sen ator McCarran, Democrat, Nevada, challenged the Democratic leadership today to throw him out of the party for opposing the Roosevelt court bill. Carrying on the opposition attacks against the compromise judicial reor ganization bill in Senate debate, the stolid Nevada senator said he did not believe such a step was the intent of those in charge of the administra tion measure, but if it was he “would rather go down than return to the Senate.” He warned his party “the day may come” when the three electoral votes from Nevada may be needed to “save the Democratic party.’’ McCarran opened the unusual Sat urday session of the Senate with a display of oratorical language deliver ed in a high pitched voice, but with few gestures. The opposition group for which he spoke held a slim margin in the neck and neck race for publicly committed Senate votes. Forty senators have an nounced they would fight the admin istration compromise; 39 have openly pledged support. McCarran spoke bitterly of a pub lished statement attributed to Post master General Farley to the effect (Cont»-ued on Pag* JTive) .' Violation Is* Charged For Mill Strike Reidsville, July 10 (AP)—The Eden Cotton Mill was closed today by the second walkout in two months. Spinners and doffers struck yester day and the mill will shut down, a statement from the management said after the strikers threw the switches in the other departmens. Between 400 and 500 workers were affected. Mill officials claimed, in striking, the spinners and doffers Vio lated a contract signed May, 19 with the TWOC after a short-lived strike. The mill statement said the spin ne'rs and doffers walked out when a demand a condition of work existing prior to the signing of the contract be changed immediately was refused. The {management, the statement said, had promised a conference grit* l a workers’ committee, but the walliput occurred before the conference <x>vld be held. There was no statement from strikers pending arrival here of a TWIOC field worker from Danville, va. ** 7 1 * jr* More Soviet Officials In East Jailed Agriculture Heads Alleged In Conspir acy To “Sabotage” Crops There Moscow, July 19.—(AP) —The ar rest of three heads of the agriculture department in the Far East area for alleged conspiracy to sabotage crops there as “aid to Japanese conquest of Russia” was announced by the Khabarovsk (Siberia) newspaper Pa cific Star, which reached Moscow to day. The newspaper disclosed a consid erable part of the 1936 grain crop of Continued on Page Five.) . n "
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