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.
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.”
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Warns Party Day May Come
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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
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