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HENDERSON gateway TO CENTRAL CAROLINA TWENTY-FOURTH YEAR FRESH CLASHES OF JAPS AND CHINESE OCCUR AT PEIPING Japanese Losses Increased to 20 Killed and 60 Wounded Since Fight ing Began REINFORCEMENTS TO both sides ready Chinese Accuse Japs of Try ing To Provoke Conflict as Pretext to Extending Their Territory There; Japs Throwing Up Strong Forti fications (By The Associated Press.) Japanese officials at Peiping re ported new clashes between Chinese and Japanese forces in North China today, increasing Japanese losses to 20 killed and 60 wounded. The said the Japanese army was compelled “to take adequate mea sures" because of the intermittent fighting for the past ten days. Both sides were reported moving heavy reinforcements toward the Peiping area of undeclared war. where the Chinese accuse Japan of attempting to provoke still wider con flict as a pretext of for extending her influence there. Japanese said 100 Chinese soldiers were disarmed 28 miles southeast of Peiping and other Chinese troops dis- after an exchange of fire. A Japanese official said two new Japanese deaths occurred yesterday m a clash between a Chinese force and Japanese troops at a station eight miles south of Fengtai on the Peiping- Tientsin railroad. Chinese reports said Japanese forti fications were being rushed in a semi circle to isolate Peiping from the rest of China. Japanese, Korean and wealthy Chinese residents began to flee. Posses On Trail For Fugitives Sapulpa. Okla., July 16. —(AP) — Possemen stood watch on blockaded highways today for Roy “Pete” Trax ler, the southwest’s No. 1 badman, be lieved fleeing northward after releas ing the kidnrjped son of a wealth New York oil man. The youth. 21-year-old Baird Mark ham. son of General Baird Markham, an official of the American Petroleum Institute was seized near Ada, Okla., Traxler, his left arm shattered by a bullet, and two companions, all es caped Texas convicts, took young Markham’s car and forced him to ac company them. Markham was releas ed near here after eight hours and 15 minutes during which time he said the men criss-crossed over the coun try trying to escape a posse. Markham, a Yale student, is work ing for an oil company during the summer. His family formerly lived in Oklahoma City. Young Markham said all three men admitted they were fugitives from the Texas Prison Farm at Huntsville. Beside Traxler, he iden tified a second man as Charles Chap man. Chapman was wounded in the shoulder, Markham said. The third man, Markham said, was referred to as “Fred.” Fred Tindol, of Jasper, Texas, was one of the nine men who with Traxler and Chapman escaped the farm amid gunfire July 8. OOVERNORBAGK IN MOUNTAIN SECTION Will Mix in Few Speeches With Stay at Blowing Rock and Boone Ibiiiy Disiuiteh Rnrean, In The Sir Walter Hotel, Raleigh, July 16. —Governor Clyde R Hoey is back in the mountains a £ain for a few days more of rest and speechmaking— for Governor Hoey’s jdea of a perfect vacation is to sprin •e a few speeches along through it, the rate of at least one speech J ver -V other day. He left late yes erday afternoon for Blov/ing Rock, \ ,f re he will spend today and to fc'ght, without making any speeches. Saturday Governor Hoey will go oVer to Roaring Gap, in Allehany county, to make a speech before the nual convention of the Southern Conference, at which most the southern states will be repre and at wnicn traffic problems ao freight rates and allied subjects, 1 he discussed Governor Hoey will d < ; lUr n to Blowing Rock over Sun- J! y - an d Monday will go to Boone, /■’ rc will make an address bs "e the summer school students at Ppalachian Teachers CoUege there. - (Continued on Page Six.) mpntorsmt Bmht Bmfejfch Held For Slaying mm A man identified by Lieut. Leo Jen kins of the South Carolina Highway Patrol as Robert S. Smith (above), es caped North Carolina convict, was ar rested at Georgetown, S. C., in con nection with the Fourth of July slay ing of Policeman B. Frank Sewell at Lancaster, S. C., after an automobile chase from Myrtle Beach. He was taken to the State penitentiary at Co lumbia for safe keeping. PREACHER ADMITS KILTING OFWOMAN Says She Was Leaving Her Home and Husband, and Wanted Him To Go Pittsfield, 111., July 16 (AP)—An eleven-page signed statement of a soft spoken pastor that he struck “his de voted friend,” Mrs. Dennis Kelly, with a hammer during a roadside quarrel after she deserted her husband, was claimed by authorities today. They said it solved the bizarre Mis sissippi river floating body mystery. Rev. C. E. Newton, 51, a married man, toiled in rolled shirt sleeves and stocking feet for six hours in, the jail here over his version of how his former Paris, Mo., parishioner Ynet violent death. State’s Attorney Merrill Johnston, of Pike county, 111., announced the statement. Johnston quoted Newton as saying Mrs. Kelly insisted he accompany her (Con'iaued on Page Eight.) EXPECT ARREST OF RED-HAIRED WOMAN South Carolina Officer Says Suspect May Be Taken Momentar ily Out of State Columbia, S. C-, July 16 (AP) —Ar- rest of the red-headed woman in the Sowell murder case at a point “out side the State” was expected momen tarily today by Lieut Leo Jenkins, State highway patrol identification officer, who has been in charge of the investigation since the Lancaster po liceman was shot July 4. “We’ve run down a good many red headed women since this case started” Jenkins said, “but I think we have something definite now. Every red headed woman in the South who has acted a little strangely has come un der some sort of suspicion from some body.” Jenkins would not reveal where the search for the woman was centered, but said he would likely have a story later in the day. Robert S. Smith, an escaped North Carolina convict, was held in the State pententiary for Sowell’s slay ing, and the red-haired woman want ed as his companion when the police man was killed. johnlnWnot WANT PRISON JOB Highway Commissioner Makes Denial, But Rum ors Are Persistent Dilily Dispatch Bureau. In the Sir Walter Hotel. Raleigh, July 16—Reports to the ef fect that the State Highway and Pub lic Works Commission is seeking some one other than Oscar Pitts to head the prison division and that Commission er Robert Grady Johnson, of Pender county, and.a member of the commis sion from the fourth division might he offered the job, with Pitts retained as assistant director, were spiked here today by Commissioner Johnson, who Continued on Page Two.) ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA AND VIRGINIA. LEASED WIRE SERVICE OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS. HENDERSON, N. C., FRIDAY AFTERNOON, JULY 16, 1937 Robinson Successor? ‘ ... fl ;*§§§££«h«m Gov. Carl Bailey Gov. Carl Bailey of Arkansas is among those ipentioned as likely suc cessors to the senate seat left vacant with the death of Senator Joseph T. Robinson of Arkansas. The other Arkansas senatorial post is held by Hattie Caraway. 2 Negroes Pay Penalty In Gas Room Confession Made Os Murder of Charlotte Taxi Driver; Delay Second Man Raleigh, July 16. (AP) Fred Steele and Samuel James Jones died in the lethal gas chamber today for the slaying of a Mecklenburg county taxicab operator. Steele went to his death first and Warden H. H. Honeycutt said he con fessed his guilt and implicated Jones. The executions started at 8:30 a. m., earliest on record here, and Jones was pronounced dead at 9:45 a. m. There was a delay between the exe cutions while Dr. G. S. Coleman, pri son physician, treated a prisoner rushed to the hospital with a severed artery received while working at nearby Polk prison farm. Steele, 24, native of Gaston county, walked into the death chamber at 8:40 a. m., after witnesses had watched the warden and prison attaches make last minute preparations. The gas was started at 8:42 a. m., and ten minutes and 57 seconds later Dr. Coleman pro nounced him dead. After the chamber had been clear ed of gas and the physician had re turned, Jones walked in at 9:41 a. m., and the gas was started at 9:43. He died in ten minutes, 43 seconds, but appeared to lose consciousness after less than half a minute. Steele, Warden Honeycutt said, ad mitted he fired two shots into the body of Thomas Clifford Fowler, Char lotte taxicab operator, and contended Jones shot the man once. Jones, 21, said he was with Steele, but walked off just before Fowler was shot, later rejoining Steele to go off and go to sleep. This morning, the warden and Rev. K. P. Battle said, Jones told them he guessed he was guilty under the, law, as he was with Steele, but he still contended he did not actually participate in the killing. Roosevelt Won’t Halter Business, Babson Thinks Can’t Afford to, for Democrats Can Hold Power Only So Long as Business Stays Good; Prosperity Need ed To Finance Govern ment; Buy Good Stocks BY ROGER W BABSON, Copyright 1937, Publishers Financial Bureau, Inc. Babson Park, Mass., July 16. — Bankers and (brokers doutblessly com mit many sins. We all do for that matter. It is not their fault, however, that people reach for stocks when the market is high and active, as in Sep tember, 1929, or July, 1933, and be cause people refuse to pick-up stocks when the market is low and dull, as during the past few weeks. The had fact is that the vast majority pf those who pudehase stocks use no sense or logic as to when to buy. They buy on ly when stocks are high and boiling. They should invest when stocks are low and listless. That means that now may be a good time to buy. Why I Am Bullish. For over thirty years I have studied ROOSEVELT LEADS E« S R Nation's Great Assemble In Senate Chamber for State Funeral for Great Leader AIR STRONGWITH FLORAL FRAGRANCE Special Seats Provided Next to Bier for Members of Family; Mrs. Hattie Cara way, Widow of Former Ar kansas Senator, Sits By Robinson’s Vacant Chair Washington, July 16 (AP) —The na tion’s great, led by President Roose velt, paid their last respects today to the late Joseph T. Robinson, in the Senate chamber. At the stroke of noon, the throng of frock-coated dignitaries headed in to the gold and marble Senate cham ber for a simple State funeral. The air was heavy with the fragrance of flowers. Linen-clad spectators crowded the galleries. The dead leader’s massive silvery casket, almost hidden by wreaths, occupied the center of the hall. An arm’s length away stood the empty chair Robinson had used dur ing the last of his 24 years in the Sen ate. Special seats flanking the bier were occupied by his immediate relatives, Mrs. Robinson, her brothers, Charles and Grady Miller and their families; Joseph Brewer and Joseph Robinson, Jr., nephews of the senator ,and their wives. Mrs. JHattie ;Caraway, Robinson’s colleague from Arkansas, sat next to his vacant chair in the front row. She was dressed in black. The widow wept as the Rev. Z. T. Phillips, Senate chaplain, intoned the centry-old Episcopal service. The grayehaired minister intoned a few verses from the gospel of St. John “ln my Father’s house are many mansions” —as the audience sat in reverent stillness. During the reading, President Roose veil sat with his hands clasped in his lap and his eyes downcast. Dr. James Shearer Montgomery, House chaplain, pronounced the benediction. FURTHER DECLINES IN COTTON MARKET Wall Street Liquidation on Favorable Crop Advices Depresses The Market New York, July 16.—(AP) —Cotton futures opened barely steady 6 to 18 points lower under Wall Street liqui dation, owing to favorable crop ad vices. October recovered from 11.96 to 12.05, leaving prices generally 5 to 11 points net lower, except July, which was 23 points lower. October advanced on moderate derrfand to 12.07 and prices generally were 2 to 6 points net lower at midday. Futures closed steady, 3 to 9 points lower. Spot quiet, middling 12.52. Open Close October 12.02 12.02 December 11.92 11.97 January 11.94 11.97 March 12.03 12.05 May 12.05 12.07 OUR WEATHER MAM FOB NORTH CAROLINA. Generally fair and continued warm tonight and Saturday. Above this normal line are blackink prosperity areas, sue i as existed from 191- to 1914, from 1916 to 1920. and fiom 1923 to 1929. Belov/ the normal line are red-io c depression a»eas, suet* a. c existed in.i I*ll to 916, from 3920 to 1923, and fro;u 1*.«29 to 1936. l»*..ring the past year the country ha 3 ciossed normal and is in the begin ning of another black mk prosperity «ir- a. It is true that ordinarily the stoca market reaches its peak in iLe early I art of a pros urea. No one however, read/ knows n) at this part” is until the entire area is r;u*i pleted! A.! depends upon the gth of the area. If the ne*v area is "o last some w-s/s tHini* have not reached the stock-selling (Continued on Page Two). Senators Are Still Hopeful Roosevelt Will Find Way To Avoid Court Fight Renewal MENTIONED FOR ROBINSON POST Senator Alben W. Barkley Senator Pat Harrison Among those mentioned as possible successors to the majority leader position in the senate left'vacant with the sudden death of Joseph T. Robinson are Senators Alban W. Barkley of Kentucky and Pat Harri son of Mississippi, chairman of the senate finance committee. Bark iey, assistant majority leader, is said to be favored by New Dealers. Anti-court Democrats are said to be for Harrison. —Central Press Peace Plan For Spanish ‘Acceptable’ Powers Unanimous On It As “Working Basis” for Limiting , Spanish War London, July 16. —(AP) —The Brit ish compromise plan for keeping Eu ropean hands off Spain was reported unanimously accepted as “a basis for discussion” today, an hour after the committee of 27 powers resumed aft ernoon deliberations. A sub-committee was expected to meet Tuesday to consider details of the agreement. A conference had teen recessed for several hours when Charles Corbin, French ambassador to London said he needed time to get further instruc tions. ~ A French cabinet meeting, it was learned, has instructed Corbin to ap prove the plan “in principle only. The ministers meeting with French President Albert Lebrun decided France would insist on “substantial progress” in establishing control of Spain’s ports and the withdrawal oi Continued on Page Five.) Probe Blast That Killed Score Minets Sullivan, Ind., July 16 (AP) State and Federal investigators groped to day through a fog of gloom envelop ing this community for an explanation of a sudden underground gas explo sion which cost the lives of 20 coal miners yesterday. Seared, mangled bodies of the vic tims, removed from the scene of the blast 212 feet below the surface of the Glendora Coal Company’s Baker mine, near here, were taken to Sulli van’s two mortuaries, where relatives sadly claimed thtem. Families of 1 the dead miners were still too grieved to talk about funeral plans. Friends said, however, tenta tive arrangements would call for se parate services and burials. Nine other miners were hurt, four seriously enough to remain in a hos pital here. Two of them may die. One hundred seventy-four miners escaped the force of the explosion yesterday. They organized rescue efforts and brought the injured to the surface, but fire and poison gases prevented them from reaching the dead. PUBLISHED EVERY AFTERNOON EXCEPT SUNDAY. Airmen Near End Os Earhart Hunt Honolulu, July 16. —(AP) —Navy airmen, plagued by scorching heat and blinding rain squalls, moved today toward the close of their ap parently hopeless South Seas hunt for Amelia Earhart and Frederick Noonan. Four massed flights over the vast equatorial area, where the pair vanished July 2, have netted not a clue to the fliers from the aircraft carrier Lexington. Somewhere in the waters sur rounding llowland island the avia trix and the navigator disappeared while attempting a 2,570-mile flight to the mile and a half long island from New Guinea. Aboard Coast Guard Cutter It asca, July 16.—(AP)—The Itasca, headed back toward Howland is land island today after searching the Giliiert islands group for three days without finding a trace of Amelia Earhart and Navigator Frederick Noonan who vanished July 2 while enroute from New Guinea to Howland Island on their globe-girdling flight. MIER MAY LEAR TIE INCOORT VOTE And Some Senators Are Calling Farley’s Bluff With Big Stick By CHARLES P. STEWART Central Press Columnist . Washington July 16.—Whatever dav in whatever month it may be else where it is July 6 in the Senate. It s whatever date it may really happen to be in the House, of Representa tives, however. That is to say, when the Senate gets so tired that it cannot stand it any longer, it does not adjourn until (Continued on Page Three.) ONSLOW MAN DIES OF SPIDER’S BITE Joseph Banks, 52, Lumberman of Richlands, Did not Know When He Was Actually Bitten New Bern, July 16 (AP)— Joseph Banks, 32, prominent lumberman of Richlands, died in a Kinston hospital Wednesday night and the death certificate said death was due to the bite of a poisonous spider. Funeral service was held at Richlands Thursday afternoon. Banks was quoted as stating be fore he died he did not know when he was bitten. He first felt pains Monday night. He was taken to a Kinston hospital Tuesday and died the following night. 8 PAGES TODAY FIVE CENTS COPY FDR NOW ACCUSED OF VIOLATIONS OF RESPECT TO DEAD McNary Says Only Confer ences After Robinson’s Death Were at the White House CALLER SURPRISED AT BARKLEY LETTER Gillette Talked With Presi dent Thursday; Petitions Circulated Asking for En actment of Farm Measure Embracing “Ever Normal C« 99 iranary Washington, July 16. —(AP)—Sena- tor Gillette, Democrat, lowa, express ed a hope today President Roosevelt would still “see fit to take some ac tion to forestall “resumption of hos tilities” over the court reform pro gram. Gillette was one of four Democra tic senators who urged the President yesterday to sidetrack the court leg islation. New echoes from the presidential letter asserting it was “the duty of Congress” to act on the judiciary re form legislation at this session were heard immediately after today’s State funeral for Senator Robinson. Senator Burke, Democrat, Nebras ka, a leading court bill foe, said: “Some one has lost his sense of pro portion.” Senator McNary, Republican leader commenting on the chief executive’s charge the period for mourning Rob inson’s death was being violated, de clared “it was only at the White House that conferences were held, and political activity was observable.” Gillette expressed frank surprise that the presidential communication (Continued on Page Eight.) Laborßody Accusation Hits Steel Washington, July 16 (AP) —The Na tional Labor Relations Board charg ed the Republic Steel Corporation to day with a long list of “unfair labor practices” before and during the re cent steel strike. The board ordered a hearing here ' Wednesday on its complaint, which covered only the company’s Ohio plants. First item on the board’s complaint list was Its allegation the company discharged 75 employees for joining the SWIOC, subsidiary of the. John Lewis CIO. Other workers were threatened with discharge, the board said. It added Mossillon, Ohio, and Can ton, Ohio employees were “locked out’” as the result of union activity. The comany also was charged with “maintenance of extensive arsenals” at the Youngstown, Niles, Warren, Canton and Cleveland lants “for thet purpose of interfering with, restrain ing and coercing its employees at said (Continued on Page Eight.) Oil Blast Threatens In Jersey Atlantic City, N. J., July 16 (AP)— A series of explosions at the Pure Oil Company storage plant, including two 10,000-gallon gasoline tanks, flooded a square city block with burning fluid and injured at least ten persons today. Beaten back by the heat of the flames and the possibility of more ex plosions, firemen dragged hose to the roof o fthe nearby editorial building of the Atlantic Press-Union newspap ers, and aimed streams of water onto the streets and in the direction of the neighboring A. & P. Coal Company yard, where gasoline and flames were seeping into the fuel. The injured, including three fire men, were taken to hospitals for first aid treatment. None was believed se riously hurt. Occupants of tenements and busi ness buildings evacuated as the fire men directed their efforts to confin ing the blaze to the immediate area.
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