HENDERSON
GATEWAY to
CENTRAL
CAROLINA
TWENTY-FOURTH YEAR LE THE ASSOCIATED^RIsg.’'
SENATE MAY VOTE TOMORROW OPOR COURT
biggest battle of
SPANISH WAR RAGES
TO WEST OF MADRID
Insurgents Launch Fierce
Counter-Attack To Re
gain Ground Lost
to Government
160 PLANES FIGHT
FOR AIR COMMAND
Smashing Bombardment of
Government Front Lines
and Communications Lines
Is Begun by Insurgents;
Government Seeming Has
Slight Advantage
Madrid, July 19.—(AF>— I The heav
iest battle of the Spanish civil war
far raged west of Madrid today
as insurgents launched a fierce drive
to hurl government troops back to the
capital.
Insurgent and government planes
and artillery crashed bombs and shells
into opposing lines near Brunette,
newly-won government position 12
miles west of Madrid.
In the air an estimated 160 planes
fought for supremacy with govern
ment forces gradually gaining a slight
advantage.
The insurgent air force renewed a
smashing hombardment of govern
ment front lines and communications
routes. A duel between big guns rang
ing in size from three to ten inches
echoed in the capital.
Besides the Brunette spearhead in
two insurgent lines, government for
ces kept chipping at insurgent posi
tions.
Government guns shelled a military
camp near Upper Carabanchel, out
side the southern limits of the city.
Government aircraft followed up with
a heavy bombardment of the camp,
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Release Os
Ship Asked
By British
London, July 19 (AP) —Foreign Sec
retary Anthony Eden disclosed to the
House of Commons today that Great
Britain had demanded that Spanish
insurgents release the captured Brit
ish merchantman Molton,
Eden said the demand was sent to
Insurgent General Francisco Franco
through Sir Herbert Chilton, British
ambassador to Spain, who is at Hen
daye, on the Frenaco-Spanish border.
The demand, he said, warned Gen
eral Franco that Britain would hold
him responsible for any damage to
the freighter. ,
Alfred Duff Cooper first lord of
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Commission
Will Fix Pay
Os Teachers
State School Body
This Week Tackles
Annual Salary Sch
edule Headache
Doily Disnatch Bureau,
In The Sir Walter Hotel,
Halejgh, July 19—The State School
c °mtnission will face its biggest bien
headache this week when it will
1 vs: up t ie salary schedule and be
acf(i with the task of trying to
* h t.ne appropriation intended to
tbve the teachers a 10 per cent salary
increase so that it will really pro
a 13 per cent increase. E**f while
Genera! Assembly thought it was
T, li, ' K aside enough money to give
...._ e school teachers alO per cent
-H,aiy i;iercase, present indications
that it failed to take into consid
ea a ion the additional amount needed
e ,y°ar for the salary increases
dr ned by teachers because of service
am classification, which
rf.nt Ur ‘ ts to an average of three per
M - n t a year.
irmnary estimates there is already
twee C ' nc ® ° f more than s 2so ’°°o be_
L n the appropriation for this com-
Continued on Page Five.), J
TUrnJigihsmt Batin Bisuatrlr
Flood Measure Is
Enacted by House
Washington, July 19 (Al»)—The
House passed and sent to the Sen
ate today a bill to authorize a $24,-
877,000 flood control program for
the lower Ohio river basin.
The bill also would authorize pre
liminary flood control examination
and surveys on more than 50
streams In a score of states.
It went through without a dis
senting vote.
During debate on the measure,
Representative Jenkins, Republican
Ohio, praised it, but said it ought
to contain “ten times more money.”
lie added that many communi
ties would be unable to meet re
quirements of the bill, which im
pose on them the responsibility of
supplying necessary land and pay
ing damage costs in connection
with construction of the projects.
ilLVHAirs'
HELD TO ALL WORLD
BY GREAT BRITAIN
Eden Says England Wants
Nothing Any One Else
Has But Will Pro
tect Its Own
NO AGGRESSION OR
REVENGE PLANNED
Wish To Live In Peace With
Neighbors in Mediterran
ean, But Will Protect Na
tion’s “Empire Line”;
Warns of Nearness of War
At Present
London, July 19. —(AP) — British
Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden held
out the hand of friendship today in
an important declaration of British
foreign policy.
“This country,” Eden declared in
House of Commons foreign affairs de
bate, “has no intention of pursuing
towards any country a policy either
of aggression or revenge.
“The word ‘bendetta’ has no Eng
lish equivalent. No apprehension on
that score should be allowed.
“We wish to live in peace and
friendship with our neighbors in the
Mediterranean, as elsewhere, for
while we defend our own, we covet
nothing of theirs.”
Eden declared this policy extended
also to the Red Sea, another link in
Britain’s “empire life line.”
Warning that Europe would “drift
perilously nearer” to war unless sin
cere cooperation solves the Spanish
neutrality deadlock, he declared that
non-intervention in Spain “stands or
falls” on tomorrow’s meeting of the
27 European non-interventionist pow
ers.
™essn
Attempt on Life of Adam
. Koc, Nationalist Chief,
Is Failure
Warsaw, Poland, July 19, (AP) —An
attempt to assassinate Colonel Adam
Koc, leader of the Polish Nationalist
movement, failed last night, it was
learned today, when the bomb explod
ed prematurely and tore the assassin
to pieces. .
The attempt on the Polish leaders
life was made shortly before midnight
at his villa in the little village of
Swidfy, not far from Warsaw.
The assassin was said to have made
his way into the garden of the villa
with a powerful explosive. It appar
ently exploded before the time for
which it was set.
The identity of the assassin was
unknown, as the explosion completely
destroyed his body.
Colonel Koc, former president of
the National Bank of Poland, started
organiation of his nationalist move
ment last February along fascist
lines A bomb exploded outside his
headquarters last May 1 during tur
bulent Polish May Day demonstra
tions.
ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA AND VIRGINIA.
Jap Airplanes Machine-Gun
Chinese Soldiers, Supplies
Chinese Government Vigor
ously Protests to Tokyo,
Which Does Not
Deny Atrocity
INCIDENT MAY BE
STARTING OF WAR
Major Conflict Might Be
Outcome of Wanton Attack
By Japanese, Despite Re
ports of Truce at Tientsin;
Japan Charges Gross Vio
lation
Tokyo, July 19 (AP)—The Chinese
government vigorously protested to
Japan today that Japanese scouting
planes had machine-gunned Chinese
troops and supply trains in Hopeh
Province, violating China’s territorial
sovereignty.
The Chinese counter-charge came
but a short time after the Japanes gov
ernment had officially accused China
of aggravating the tense North China
crisis by a direct aggression on Ja
panese interests.
Despite reports of a truce being
reached at Tientsin between local Chi
nese and Japanese military authori
ties, it was cpnsidered here that the
strafing of the Chinese military trains
might have been the first such action
of a major Sino-Japanese war.
Japanese admitted their planes had
fired on the trains at Yuanshih, 170
miles south of Peiping, on the Han
kow railroad, but declared the troops
aboard the trains had fired on the
Japanese war craft.
The Chinese declared their troops
had suffered many casualties in the
attack.
Japan, scouting reports that any
truce had been reached at the Tient
sin conference Sunday, charged heavy
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COTTON QUIET AT
SLIGHT DECLINES
Price Movements Are Narrow, But
Market Closes Steady, With
Spot at 12.61
New York, July 19.—(AP) —Cotton
futures opened quiet, down one to
four points on lower Liverpool cables
and favorable weather. Shortly after
the first half hour, December was
selling at 11.98, with prices generally
2 to 4 points net higher. Price move
ments were narrow, and by midday
the market was near .Saturday’s clos
ing levels.
Cotton futures closed steady, one
to three lower. Spot steady, middling
12.61.
Open Close
October 11.98 12.01
December 11.93 11.94
January 11.96 11.94
March 12.01 12.02
May 12.03 12.05
HENDERSON, N. C., MONDAY AFTERNOON, JULY 19, 1937
FOUR TO CARRY BRUNT OF F. D. R.’S COURT FIGHT •
Senator Lewis B. Schwellenbach
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Senator Key Pittman Senator Sherman Minton Senator Alben W. Barkley
Brunt of President Roosevelt’s fight for court re
organization now is taken up by four staunch New
Dealers: Senator Alben W. Barkley of Kentucky,
acting majority leader; Senator Key Pittman of
Nevada, president pro tem of the senate; Senator
Sherman Minton of Indiana, and Senator Lewis B.
Schwellenbach of Washington. These are the four
senators summoned to a White House conference
after President Roosevelt had issued a letter to
Senator Barkley in which he asserted that the
court reorganization fight would be carried on.
The addressing of the letter to Senator Barkley,
who has been assistant majority leader, indicated
that the president favored him to succeed the late
Senator Joseph T. Robinson. Senator Pat Harri
son of Mississippi has been favored by the anti
court reorganization Democrats. Barkley was tb*
keynoter of the 1936 Democratic convention.
ROOSWELT MIGHT
Guessing in Washington Is
White House Would Be
Glad To Retreat
By CHARLES P. STEWART
Central Press Columnist
Washington, July 19. —Senator Jose
ph T. Robinson’s sudden death is dis
cussed in political Washington almost
wholly in terms of its probable effect
upon the Supreme Court fight.
Capitol Hill’s consensus is the
abrupt demise of the leader of the
New Deal forces in the upper con
gressional chamber gives the admin
istration an excuse at least to post
pone a very doubtful decision for or
against itself without much if any loss
of prestige. Also it affords an oppr
tunity to delay, if not finally to avert
a dangerous Democratic party split.
President Roosevelt’s court reor
ganization program can, in the cir
cumstances, be shelved for the pre
sent congressional session without be
ing definitely beaten, which was
greatly threatened.
The administration need not now
risk being definitely voted down. It
can be explained with some plausi
bility, that the confused situation
makes it desirable to let the presiden
tial plan wait until next January, per
mitting the lawmakers to go home in
the meantime.
Whether or not it ever will he
taken up again is problematic. The
best guessing is that the White House
will be glad to have it forgotten.
Rebellion In House.
New Dealers all along have recog
nized that the court reorganization
bill could not be passed and that the
pending compromise proposition could
pass the Senate either not at all or by
only a vote or two; by too narrow a
margin to be counted on, anyway. But
it was thought that if it did win in
the Senate it would win rather liberal
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m IP WEATHEP MAN
—
FOR NORTH CAROLINA.
Mostly cloudy, probably show
ers in west and central portions
tonight and Tuesday, and in ex
treme east portion Tuesday.
Earhart Is
Given Up As
Really Lost
Navy Gives Up
Search After Scour
ing 250,000 Square
Miles of Ocean Area
Honolulu, July 19 —(AF) —The mys
tery of Amelia Earhart lay locked in
the silent, watery wastes of the vast
Pacific today. Four naval vessels and
the 1,500 weary men who sought her
and her navigator, Frederick Nonan,
for 16 days, gave them up for dead
and sailed for home.
More than 250,000 square miles of
equatorial ocean reefs and islands
were scoured by ship and plane in an
almost hopeless search for the aviat
rix and her navigator companion, who
dropped from sight July 2.
Somewhere near the dot which is
Howland island, Miss Earhart and
Noonan dropped from the skies in
their fuelless land plane on a 2,570-
mile flight from Lae, to the mid-Pa
cifice sandspit.
The 39-year-old woman flier, known
the world over for her aviation ex
polits, was circling the globe “just for
fun.”
BOOKSASKEDFOR
PRISONJJBRARIES
Prisoners Are Anxious for
Good Fictionfand Other
Literature
Daily Dispatch Bnrenn,
In the Sir Waiter Hotel.
Raleigh, July 19—More books for
prisoners, so that a prison circulating
library may he established and sent
from one prison camp to another, are
being sought by Acting Director Oscar
Pitts of the prison division. A letter
is being sent out by Pitts to all of the
Junior Chamber of Commerce in the
State, asking them if they will assist
the prison in getting more books for
the prison libraries and telling them
about what the Raleigh Junior Cham
ber of Commerce did a fe w months
ago, when it obtained some 2,500
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PUBLIBHIOD DVEJJtY AFTBKNOON
EXCEPT SUNDAY. •
OpponentsNowSay
They Have Support
To Re-Commit Bill
Jimmy Walker Is
Roosevelt Guest
Washington, July 19 (AP)
James J. Walker, former mayor of
New York, said here today he
would not run again for that office
this year.
lie made the statement as he
emerged trom the White House
alter his first chat with President
Roosevelt since 1932. The last time
they met was when Mr. Roosevelt
as governor of New York conduct
ing hearings on charges looking to
Walker’s removal from office.
In response to reporters’ ques
tions, the former mayor said he
was not committeed to any candi
date in this year's mayorality cam
paign.
Accompanied by his wife, the
former mayor spent nearly half an
hour with the President in discuss
ing a private bridge matter in New
York in which he is interested.
GOVERNOR LEHMAN
STOUTLY OPPOSED
10 MTJME
Roosevelt’s Understudy As
Governor of New York
Splits With Presi
dent Now
WRITES HIS VIEWS
TO SENATOR WAGNER
Has Supported Roosevelt In
Many of His Social Ven
tures, But Declares Court
Packing Measure Bodes No
Good for Citizens of Unit
ed States
Albany, N. Y., July 19.—(AP) —
Governor Herbert Lehman, in a
letter to United States Senator
Robert Wagner, New York Demo
crat, today asked him to voice
opposition to President Roose
velt’s Supreme Court reorganiza
tion bill.
Lehman, Democratic successor
to President Room welt as New
York’s governor, told Wagner that
“the President is already familiar
with my views with regard to the
bill.” !
. “Several months ago I wrote to him
that I believed its enactment would
not be in the test interest of the
country,” he asserted. “In the months
that have passed since then, my con
victions have become strengthened.
“Like many others, T have frequent
ly felt keen disappointment that im
portant measures have been uncon
stitutional by a slim and unconvincing
margin in the Supreme Court, an 1
yet I believe that the orderly and de
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‘Cremation *
Murder To
Be Started
Burgaw, July 19.—(AP)—Three St.
Helena farmers, Pete Krochmalany,
his son, Paul, and a relative by mar
riage, Ervin Williams, will go on trial
here tomorrow charged with the al
leged “cremation” murder of Pete’s
elder brother, also named Paul.
District Solicitor John Burney, of
Wilmington, said a special venire
would appear Tuesday and that testi
mony in the trial should start the
following day. The defendants were
bound over at a hearing here June 23.
The State charged that the three men
slew their kinsman to cover up the
theft of $1,160 in money orders they
had taken from him, and then cre
mated his body to hide any trace of
their crime.
The defendants did not testify at
the preliminary hearing.
The alleged murder victim sold his
farm near Toledo, Ohio, where he was
a machinist, last year, and returned
to visit his kinfolks here. The money
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TODAY
FIVE CENTS COPY
Comfortable Margin Claim
ed by Senator Burke,
One of Leaders of
the Opposition
PROPONENTS STILL
DISPUTES CLAIMS
Vote Within Few Hours
After Robinson Funeral
Train Arrives in Washing
ton Early Tomorrow Pre
dicted; Garner Is Along
but Won’t Join Fight
Aboard Special Congressional Train
July 19.—(AP) —Opponents of the
President’s court bill announced to
day they would seek a Senate vote
on that issue early this week.
Senator Burke, Democrat, Nebras
ka, a leader of the opposition, said
» motion to send the Supreme Court
reorganization measure back to com
mittee for further study would prob
ably be made tomorrow, and added,
“we are confident we can carry the
motion by a comfortable margin.”
His announcement was virtually
the first public statement on the court
controversy made by any member of
the congressional delegation which ac
companied the body of Senator Rob
inson, Arkansas Democrat, to his Lit
tle Rock home for burial.
Ending the political truce declared
immediately after the Democratic
leader’s death last Wednesday,
Burke’s statement indicated the five
months struggle over the judiciary
was nearing its end.
If the motion to re-oemmit the bill
is carried, it would effectually bury
the measure for the rest of this ses
sion. Its defeat, many senators
agreed, might bring a speedy collapse
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Innocence
Pleaded By
Negro Boy
Raleigh, July 19. (AP) —Major
Charles D. Farmer, of the State High
way Patrol, said this afternoon that
William Perry, 18-year-old Negro
charged with the murder of Mrs. W.
T. Hamlett, a Chatham farm woman,
pleaded innocent in superior court at
Pittsboro early this afternoon and
was returned to State Prison here
without trouble.
Major Farmer said Perry’s trial
was set for 2 o’clock tomorrow after
noon at’ Pittsboro.
Six members of the highway patrol
were in Pittsboro all morning on re
quest of Sheriff G. H. Andrews, and
four others accompanied Perry as
Chatham county officers on the trip
to and from Pittsboro, Farmer said.
“There was not the least bit of
trouble, and the preliminaries took
just a few minutes,” said Farmer^
FDRWaits
On Naming
New Judge
May Be Biding End
of Court Reform Bill
Before Appointing
Associate
Washington, July 19 (AP) —Some
legislators expressed the belief today
President Roosevelt wants to await
disposition of the court bill contro
versy before appointing a successor
to Supreme Court Justice Van Dev
anter •
If Congress should adjourn shortly
after the court fight ends or is put
aside, they pointed out, Senate con
firmation might be held up.
Not every confirmation is voted
quickly. President Wilson submitted
the name of Louis D. Brandeis on
January 28, 1916, but was not con
firmed until June 1.
A recess appointment after adjourn
ment of Congress is not without pre
cedent, but observers said it might be
embarrassing if the Senate later re
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