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HENDERSON GATEWAY TO CENTRAL CAROLINA TWENTY-FOURTH YEAR FIR EAST OUTLOOK WORRIES PRESIDENT FUNERAL TRAIN IS ALIVE WITH FIGHT FOR ROBINSON JOB Supporters of Harrison and Barkley Canvass Senate Group From Car To Car more than third OF SENATE ALONG Preliminary Canvass Indi cates Neither Candidate Can Be Sure of Majority in Caucus Wednesday; Foes of Court Bill Are Support ing Harrison Aboard Robinson Funeral Train, , 17 lAP)-This crowded special tram carrying the body of Senator Joseph T. Robinson, Democrat, Ark ansas. to his Little Rock home for burial, hummed today with a thinly veiled struggle for the Democratic leadership of the Senate, left vacant bv his death. Out of respect for their dead chief, the two main candidates for his post. Senator Alben Barkley, Democrat, Kentucky and Pat Harri son, Democrat, Mississippi, held them selves carefully aloof from the con test. Their supporters however, circulated quietly from car to car soliciting votes from the 38 senators who are accom panying the body to the State funeral in the Arkansas capital Sunday. Their preliminary caftvasses indi cated neither candidate could be con fident of victory Wednesday when Robinson's successor will be chosen in a secret party caucus at Washington. Opponents of the President’s court bill rallied almost solidly behind Har rison, in the belief he would find a way to bring the bitter fight over the measure to a speedy end. They claim ed they had about 30 votes already pledged for him. A few senators suggested if the leadership race proves a close and bit ter contest, the caucus might choose a temporary leader for the rest of this Thomas, Democrat, Utah, as a candi session. They mentioned Senator date who might be acceptable to both factions. He is a staunch administra tion supporter, but has not been very active in the court fight. Speedy End Over Truck Strike Seen Muskegon, Mich., July 17. —(AP) — Governor Frank Murphy predicted a “speedy settlement” and negotiators for both sides sought an end to the Statewide truck strike today amid conflicting reports of a truce already in effect. Both union leaders and operators agreed to send representatives to a noon conference here called by Gov ernor Murphy, while a company spokesman disputed a union announce went of a 30-day truce. The truce announcement was brand ed by J. L. Heath, chairman of the employees negotiating committee at Lansing, as “must be a face-saving gesture on the part of union or ganizers.” “The strike,” he said, “is ended — broken through the demand of our employees to return to their jobs. If the union wants to take up the matter of negotiations again, it will have to start all over.” Earlier R. J. Bennett, spokesman for the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, Chauffeurs, Stablemen and Helpers, which called an intra state truck strike at midnight Wed nesday, said operators have agreed to a truce. Increase In Tobacco In Orient May Reduce Demand For U. S. Leaf Washington, July 17 (AP)—The Ag riculture Department said today a sharp increase in the aggregate of lue-cured tobacco in the Orient may reduce imports of American tobacco uring the marketing season that be gms in October. The Shanghai office of the Bureau Agriculture Economics estimated o fh37 tobacco acreage in China, anchuria and Japan at 245,000 acres, compared with 211,000 acres harvest season and the 1931-35 average of I4 MbO( acres. \ average yields, the bureau , ,A Hrnilrrsmt Daily Dispatch LEASED wire service of THE ASSOCIATED PRESS. Senate Bows Its Head Before Its Dead Leader A general view of the scene in the United States Senate building yesterday during the services herd in tribute to the memory of Senator Joseph T. Rob inson of Arkansas, majority leader. Arrow at lower left indicates President Roosevelt. On the rostrum, left to right, are Senator William B. Bankhead, of Alabama; Senator Key Pittman, of Nevada, chairman pro tem, and senate chaplain Zebarney T. Phillips, officiating. At the olwer right are members of the cabinet and the family of Senator Robinson. Navy Ships Withdrawing After Hunt Will Quit Earhart Search in Pacific Tomorrow Unless Find Is Made Honolulu, July 17 (AP)— Tapering off the seemingly hopeless South Seas hunt for Amelia Earhart, the first two vessels in the search started homeward today. The aircraft car rier Lexington and three destroyers remained to comb the torrid areas where the aviatrix and her navigator vanished two weeks ago. The coast guard cutter Itasca and the mine sweeper Swan were ordered (Continued on Page Three.) BIG LOSS IN FIRE IN ATLANTIC CITY Explosions Wreck Pure Oil Tanks, With 30 Firemen in Hospi tals; 170 Injured Atlantic City, N. J., July 17 (API- Half a dozen rusty steel tanks, warp ed and split asunder by a series of explosions yesterday at the Pure Oi Company’s storage plant, yawned on Virginia avenue today as 30 scorched and bruised firemen lay bandaged in hospital beds. Seven policemen and an untold num ber of spectators N wore bandages. Miss Nellie McGurran, head of the city hospital, calculated more than 170 per sons were treated for injuries. Fire authorities estimated the property damage at from SBO,OOO to SIOO,OOO. said, the acreage this year could pro duce about 300,000,000 pounds of to bacco compared with 243,000,000 pounds last season and the average of 180,000,000 pounds. The increase was attributed to high prices for the 1936 crop in the Orient better return per acre for tobacco than, other crops and assistance from governmental and private agencies for tobacco producers. The department said American re ports of flue-cured tobacco for the 1936-37 season would amount to about 65,000,000 pounds. ' ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA AND VIRGINIA. Mysteriously Slain • r Dr. George W. Webster, youthful chief obstetrician of the Homeo pathic Hospital at Providence, wai mysteriously murdered by a man who fired three bullets into hia stomach as he answered the door bell of his fashionable home in Providence. He died before police eould get a description of his killer. (Central Prest) DEA stilljsEery Two Women Questioned In Providence Slaying, but Neither Accused providence, R- 1., July 17.—(AP) — Two comely women were the objects of interest today in the mysterious death of Dr. George Webster, fash ionable physician. The physician was shot fatally in the doorway of his home early yes terday. Questioned by police yesterday and released to appear when wanted, pretty Dorothea Gilligan, secretary for eight years of the slain 39-year-old homeopathic-obstetrician, in an inter view today said the “killing was hor rible.” She refused to discuss the case fur ther, saying police warned her not to. Elizabeth Prince, 25, roommate of Miss Gilligan, also was questioned. Neither woman has been charged with any crime, and Deputy Super intendent James Cusick, of the de tective division, would not indicate definitely the exact course of the in vestigation. Miss Prince was questioned yester day by police, who kept her identity secret. Released, she was taken into custody again last night and held in the lock-up. HENDERSON, N. C., SATURDAY AFTERNOO N, JULY 17, 1937 Tammany Is Divided Over New Dealers Will Run Senator Copeland for May or; Whalen Roose velt’s Candidate New York, July 17 (AP) —A seven year-old fight between Franklin D. Roosevelt and Tammany Hall cast its shadow across a muddled, jumbled political pu.zle in New York City to day. The result was a wide-open split in the ranks of the city’s Democratic party with the entrance of United States Senator Royal Copeland and Former Police Commissioner Grover Whalen into the September mayoralty primaries and the prospect the pri maries would prove one of the year’s major tests of the popularity of the New Deal. Copeland’s willingness to run was announced last night by Tammany Leader James Douling. The senator is a leading opponent of President Roose velt and the New Deal, and support ing his campaign probably will be former Governor Alfred E. Smith. Just two hours after Douling an nounced Copeland would run, the four other Democratic leaders of the city— there is one for each of the five boroughs—declared Whalen was in the race as their candidate. They repre sent the New Deal in New York. These leaders were trying to get a man to defeat Mayor Florella H. Da- Guardia, a New Dealer elected on a fusion ticket. Whalen is president of the 1939 World’s Fair. The Mayor may run this time on both the Republican and Democratic tickets, and Senator Copeland may al (Continued on Page Three.) Os IP WEATHERMAN FOR NORTH CAROLINA. Partly cloudy, local thunder showers Sunday and in north cen tral portion tonight; not quite so warm in north portion Sunday. WEEKLY weather. South Atlantic States: Fair to partly cloudy, with scattered aft ernoon thundershowers entire week; temperature above normal in Florida mostly above normal 1 elsewhere. Troops Sought at Pittsboro Hearing For Woman Killer Pittsboro, July 17.—(AP) —Sheriff George Andrews, said today he had requested the presence of “about a half a dozen” State highway patrol men here Monday when he will ask a Chatham county grand jury to indict William Perry, 18-ycar-old Negro for the murder of Mrs. W. T. Hamlett. However, the sheriff said he was look for no violence. “There is some feeling, but it is not at the point where we expect any trouble,’ he said. “My own men will be pretty well tied up in court, “and I just want the pa trolmen to be around in case of a wreck or something.” Ferry, who was an employee on the Hamlett farm, near here, was captur ed near Milton. He has been held in Central Prison in Raleigh since then. THIS STATE DOING BIGGEST ROAD JOB Yet People Want More Roads, Ward Says; Tells How They Can Be Had Daily Dispatch Bureau, In The Sir Waiter Hotel, Raleigh, July 17. —North Carolina is doing the biggest highway main tenance job in the entire United States, since it has more miles of highway under State maintenance than any other State, not even elud ing Texas, the largest of all the Sjtates, Highway Commissioner T. Boddie Ward, of the fourth division, (Continued on Page Three.) W ?NTROUN CHINA Would Hold Ports and Levy Export and Import Taxes On Interior By CHARLES P. STEWART Central Press Columnist Washington, July 17.—Rather cur iously, the Commerce Department, here in Washington, is better inform ed as to the Japanese-Chinese situa tion than is the State Department or any of our military or naval folk. The State Department sizes up in ternational political prospects in the Orient with all-sufficient accuracy. It understands perfectly how American interests may be involved in the con troversy between the islanders and the Asiatic mainland. It knows thai Britain is highly desirous of Uncle Continued on Page Five.) PUBLISHED UVHKY AFTERNOON EXCEPT SUNDAY. Japs Now Control Most Os Tientsin And Plan To Stay battleiSgents IN MADRID REGION Government Determined To Smash Franco’s Besieg ers of the Capital City ARMY OF ITALIAN VOLUNTEERS READY May Be Thrown Against Loyalists from Northwest; One Report Says First Year of Civil War Has Cost Fully One Million Lives in All Madrid, July 17 (AP) —The Spanish government army, grown to full sta ture in 365 days of civil warfare, knif ed fiercely today at the rear guard of Madrid’s insurgent besiegers. Determined to smash the far-flung positions which General Francisco Franco’s legions have held during most of the war, General Jose Miaja threw his men forward in the Brunete and Ciempozuleo sectors. Government sources said an insur gent radio station broadcast that from 15,000 to 25,000 Italian volunteers serv ing with Franco’s troops were 100 miles northwest of Madrid ready to proceed to the central front. It was believed the Italians eventu ally would see service near Madrid. Dispatches (from gov ernment-held city on the northern coast, reported increased government air activity. Two insurgent pursuit planes were shot down there yester day in an air raid, the report said. The insurgent warship Almirante Cervera was reported cruising outside Santander harbor seeking to prevent the entry of British and French ships. On the Madrid front, both government and insurgent commands brought (Continued on Page Three.) COTTON IS CHANGED ONLY VERRY LITTLE Influence of Higher Cables Offset by Liquidation and Some Bet ter Weather New York, July 17.—(AF) —Cotton futures opened steady, unchanged to two lower. Influence of higher cables was offset by renewed liquidation continued favorable weather and the unsettled foreign political situation. December recovered from 11.94 to 12 and shortly after the first half hour was selling at 11.98, with prices one to four points net higher. Futures closed steady, unchanged to two lower. Spot steady, middling 12.52. Open Close October 12.04 12.03 December 11-95 11.95 January 11.97 11.97 March 12.05 12.03 May 12 06 12.06 Four Perish In Collision Alt Quaiitica Quantico, Va., July 17.—(AP) — A collision of an automobile with an oil laden truck near here early today burned three men to death and fatally injured a woman. The truck driver, trapped in his cab with a helper, was burned beyond identification. His helper was iden tified through a metal tag as Reggie Gillespie, 23, Negro, of McColl, S. C. Private N. L. Goodwin, of the U. S. Marine Corps base here, driver of the coupe, was thrown under a flam ing truck trailer, where he was fatally burned. Miss Hectorine Marin, 30, of Waterbury, Conn., one of three pas sengers in Goodwins car, died several hours later in the Marine base hos pital. Private V. J. Platte, of the corps base, and Mrs. Alice Oulett, 24, of Waterbury, escaped serious injury. In vestigators were told the accident oc curred when Goodwin s car drove to the center of the road to pass another and struck its rear bumper, knocking the Goodwin car into the path of the truck and its oil-laden trailer. 8' PAGES , TODAY FIVE CENTS COPY Events in North China Mov ing Rapidly Toward Climax To Decide War Threat CRACK DIVISIONS OF CHINESE SENT Fighting Machine Built By Chiang Kai-Shek Hurried ly Sent Forward for Action In Trouble Zone; Battle Would Be Disastrous To Both Washington, July 17. —(AP) —(Pre- sident Roosevelt summoned Secretary Hull to a luncheon conference today to discuss the troubled Far Eastern situation with particular reference to the United States neutrality laws. The White House aide, who said neutrality would be an important phase of the President’s talk with his chief diplomatic advisors, added, however, that the United States gov ernment was called upon at the mo ment to take no direct action beyond exploring all angles of the situation. Hull went to the White House after urging in a general declaration of American foreign policy, “national and international self-restraint.” With out mentioning Japan or China, the secretary of state added American interests cannot but be affected by any conflagration in any part of the world. CHIANG’S CRACK TROOPS ARE READY FOR ACTION Tientsin, China, July 17.— (AP) — The Japanese military command took over the last of Tientsin’s three rail way stations today, staked out two airports and began installation of an army communication system. Barbed wire barricades were erect ed around Japanese mills and ware houses designated for military stores and for troop occupation. CHIANG’S CRACK TROOPS REACH HOPEH PROVINCE (By The Associated Press.) . The crisis in north China, drew to day toward the climax that may de termine whether there will be formal ly declared war between Japan and China. Troops of China’s national govern ment at Nanking, crack divisions of the fighting machine built by Pre mier-Generalissimo Chiang Kai-Shek, were reported reliably to have reach (Cont,r’Jed on Page Five) Barden Now Fuels Chances Good For Eastern Hospital Washington, July 17. —(AP) —Rep- resentative Graham Barden, New Bern, N. C., said today he was great ly encouraged over the prospects for establishment of a veterans hospital in Eastern North Carolina. Barden said Admiral P. S. Ros siter, chairman of a sub-committee named to study the need for the hos pital, had submitted the group’s re port to General Frank Hines, of the Veterans Administration. Barden said Rossiter, surgeon-gen eral of the navy, informed him that while no information would be given on the report, the North Carolina re presentative would probably be pleas ed with it. * 80 To 300 Train Dead AtCalcutta Papna, India, July 17. — (AP) —The death toll in India’s most disastrous railway wreck grew today as rescuers pulled scores of bodies from tangled debris of the Junjap-Calcutta Express The official government railway estimate was 80 3ead and 65 hurt, while an unofficial estimate was a bout. 300 dead and 250 injured. The exchange Telegraph (British) news, agency gave the unofficial esti mate. It previously had fixed the death toll at 281. Bodies could still be seen in. the coaches. The express was enroute to Cal cutta from Delhi when the engine de railed and toppled over an embank ment, dragging with it seven of the nine coaches. Natives were packed in the first seven coaches, 100 each in some of Continued on Page Five.)
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