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HENDERSON gateway TO CENTRAL CAROLINA TWENTY-FOURTH YEAR SENATE KILLS COURT BILL PROSPECT FOR PEACE FOR CHINA BRIGHTENS AS JAPS HALT MOVES SUSPEND DELIVERY OF WAR SUPPLIES ID NORTH CHINA Meaning of Action Not Im mediately Apparent, But Believed To Por tend Peace SECRET REPORT ON STATUS SENT TOKYO Japanese Army Officer At Same Time Warns His Country Will Not Settle Dispute on Local Basis but Only With Nanking Gov ernment Itself. Tokyo, July 22.—j(AP>— I The war of fice was reliably reported today to have issued orders indefinitely sus pending delivery of huge war supplies and halting the shipment of such equipment to North China. Although the meaning of this move in the tense Sino-Japanese situation was not immediately apparent, some observers interpreted it as an indica tion peace, rather than war, was visi ble on the horizon after two weeks clouded ty threats of open hostilities The order suspending delivery of war necessities was understoodto have been issued about mid-afternoon, and immediately was put .into effect by the firms which have been turn ing out quantities of supplies for the (Continued on Page Two). Associates Say Erwin Not Insane Cleveland, Ohio, July 22 (AP)— Robert Erwin confessed triple slay er, was described as apparently sane by associates during his 83-day stay in Cleveland, Detectives George Show ers and John Walsh said today. The detectives aided Assistant Dis trict Attorney Louis Capozzolli and Police Lieutenant John Moffitt, New York, in questioning persons who knew him as a hotel bar boy here. Statements will be used as a rebut tal against insanity pleas which Er win's counsel, Samuel Liebowitz,-is ex pected to make in the trial for the killing of Veronica Gedeon, her moth er, and a roomer in their New York apartment, police said. SCHOOL SALARIES BOARD'S PROBLEM State Commission Also Wrestling With Alloca tion of Teachers Raleigh, July 22 (AP)—The Btale School Commission author ed establishment of a high s, 'hool at Speed, in Edgecombe county, today, but the salary com mittee reported it had done a lot work on teachers’ pay schedules without finishing the job. “He have worked a lot and we will work right along until we fniisli.” said Dr. B. B. Dougherty chairman of the special salary committee. The legislature auth ori/ cd a ten percent increase in salary costs. Senator W. G. Clark, of Tarboro, caded the Speed delegation. Approval of teacher allotments ° r sub-standard high schools In ? parts of the State had nearly H ‘ n completed this afternoon. Hally Dispatch Bureau, p„, . In the Sir Walter Hotel. waieigh, July 22—The State School wumission, in session here today, • 1 probably not take up considera wh,V f salary schedule and rj n, ‘ r or not the schedule will be tr the next two years, due i ;iCt he s P ec ial committee to study the salary schedule Continued on Page Two.) 4 HENDERSON, M Utftutersmt Batin llts patch «^T TRE SERVTCR OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS. FORD COMPANY NOW OFFERING EVIDENCE TO DISPUTE CHARGE Charges Jap Assault: f, ' : %. uHSo I - • "w iMMi |gy|| £ lIF #Ji&g' * mIH »:•> wgSlffix -.a ;■ fi&jOKl Jg|| x .sip gL'' Miss Carol Lathrop (above), daugh ter of the late commander Patrick T. M. Lathrop, U. S. N., with Mrs. Helen R. Jones, of Detroit, com plained to the United States Em bassy in Peiping that they had been “badly attacked” by Japanese sol diers. A formal protest has been made to Tokio. Big Gasoline Firms After Board Place Naming of New State Commission Caus ing “Trust” No Lit tle Concern Daily Diapntrh Bureau, In The Sir Walter Hotel, Raleigh, July 22—The gasoline and oil “trust” is greatly concerned over the forthcoming appointment Os the new gasoline and oil inspection board created by the 1937 General Assembly and which Governor Clyde R. Hoey is expected to name within the near fu ture, it was reliably learned here to day. The big gasoline and oil com panies are understood to be making a very strong effort to see that at least one gasoline and oil man who will be friendly to them is named on this board and reports are to the effect that quiet but very persistent pres sure is being brought to bear upon Governor Hoey, insisting that one of (Continued on Page Six.) Hoey Silent Over Carmody’s Letter On Electric Line Raleigh, July 22. —(AP) —Gover- nor Hoey said today he had not had time to study a letter sent him by John Carmody, Federal REA administrator, concerning the agreement between the Caro lina Power & Light Company and the Johnston County Electric Mearibeiiship Corporation, for rural power lines. The governor said he did not know whether he could accept Carmody’s invitation to attend a mass meeting of Johnston county citiens Wednesday night about . the matter. ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA AND VIRGINIA. Overruled by National La bor Relations Board for Dismissal of Its Complaint ALIBI IS OFFERED BY PERSONNEL MAN Reporter Says He Was With Harry Bennett at Time of Rioting; Speech by Wil liam Cameron, of Ford Company, Placed in Rec ord by UAW Detroit, Mich., July 22.—(AP)—The Ford Motor Company, overruled in its motion to obtain dismissal of a Na tional Labor Relations Board com plaint charging unfair labor practices started its attempt to disprove .the allegations today. Its first witness before the NLRB trial examiner hearing the charges was Arthur Ogle, Detroit News re porter! who testified he was with Harry Bennett, Ford personnel direc tor. from 12:30 p. m. until 3 p. m. on May 26, the day United Automobile Workers organizers were beaten and chased away from Ford’s Dearborn plant. The NLRB complaint charges the Ford company instigated “brutal and malicious assaults” on the organizers, and yesterday John Godleski. a Ford employee, called by the board, testi fied he heard a man he identified as Bennett call “Good work, boy’s” to two participants in the fighting. He named the two participants as Ford employees. Godeski did not definitely state what time it was when he heard the remark. The disturbance at Gate No. 4 the huge River Rouge plant, which fol (Continued on Page Six.) JUDGE E. W. SHIPP, 76, DEAD AT FLORENCE Was Chapel Hill Native But Dean of Superior Court Judges In South Carolina Florence, S. C., July 22 (AP)—Judge E. W. Shipp, dean of South Carolina Circuit Court judges, died at a hospi tal here today. He was 76 years old. Judge Shipp was brought to the hospital last Friday from his summer home at Ocean Drive beach in a se rious condition after a heart attack. His condition was reported improved yesterday, but this morning he be came suddenly worse and died at 8:30 a. m. Funeral plans were not made immediately. The jurist had served on the bench since February 20, 1908. He had pre viously practiced law in Florence. He was born in 1860 at Chapel Hill, N. C., where his father, Rev. A. M. Shipp, D. D., was a fember of the University of North Carolina faculty. TWOIGROESWILL BE GASSED FRIDAY Third Escapes Execution by Commutation from Gov ernor Hoey Daily Dispatch Bureau, In The Sir Walter Hotel, Raleigh, July 22.—Two of the three Negroes scheduled to die in the lethal gas chamber in Central Prison Fri day will walk the “last mile” to the small, octagonal room from which none ever emerges alive, while the third will escape death as a result of a commutation 'to life imprisonment granted today by Governor Clyde R, Hoey, it was announced by Commis sioner of Paroles Edwin Gill. The Negro whose death sentence was commuted to life imprisonment is Albertus Sylvester Grier, 27 years old from Mecklepburg county, who was convicted of killing Waddell Mackie, another Negro, in a fight over a girl. Both Governor Hoey and l (Continued on Page Six.) HENDERSON, N. C., THURSDAY AFTERNOON, JULY 22, 1937 Protect Americans Imperiled in Peiping Nelson T. Johnson (right), American Ambassador to China, shoulders the responsibility of protecting American lives and property in Peiping in the event of war between China and Japan. U. S. Marines are concentrated in protected areas. Pictured with the Ambassador are General Chang Hsueh-Liang (left), remembered as the kidnaper of Generalissimo Chiang Kai-Shek, and Admiral Taylor, former commander of the Pacific Fleet at that time in Chinese waters. (Central Press J Would Give U.S. Mandate In Palestine Liberal in Parlia ment Wants Bri tain To Shake Its Near East Province London, July 22. —(AP)— Geoffrey Mander, Liberal member of Parlia ment, proposed today Great Britain hand over to the United States its Mandate over Palestine, Jewish home land. Mander gave written notice he would ask Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain Tuesday whether “in view of the British government’s un willingness to continue to administer its mandate tor Palestine,” the prime minister will “consider the advis ability of proposing to the League of Nations that it should be offered to the United States. The British plan to parcel Pales tine between Arabs and Jews was was sidetracked in the House of Com mons in a compromise move after long and bitter debate. A delay which would permit fur ther study of the plan before final parliamentary actio-, submitting it, meanwhile, to the League of Nations, was decided upon in a rising vote by the chamber. It drew general support of the House. The number of those in favor of the delay as so great no count was taken. 1 Large gallery crowds watched the crossfire of agrument. Some laborites asserted the partition would give Italy a foothold in the Holy Land. “The guns which have been sent to the Arabs by Mussolini to fight the Jews might be sent in the future to fight some one else,” declared La borite D. Frankel. FAINT TRAIL FOUND IN WEBSTER MURDER Motorman Tells of Picking Up Man Near Scene Shortly Afters Doctor Wqs Killed Providence, R. 1., July 22. —(AP) — Following a faint trail in the Web ster murder mystery, detectives today investigated the story of a street car motorman that he picked up a ruddy faced man a short time after Dr. George Webster was mortally wound ed in his home. The motorman, Pat Mills, said he picked up the man within walking distance of the Webster home and. near the spot where a boy found a box of cartridges for a gun of the same calibre as the weapon with which Webster was slain last Friday. The inquiry turned from Boston to Pawtucket as rhetropolitan police an nounced they quickly had abandoned the theory men sought for a jewel robbery had any connection with the Webster slaying. Police said the motorman told them his only passenger got off at the Pawtuckgt-Providence city line. OUT? WEATHEP MAH FOB NORTH CAROLINA. Fair and continued cool tonight; Friday fair* somewhat warmer in the interior. Insurgents Seeking Stranglehold Upon. Madrid’s Defenders Madrid, July 22 (AP) —General Francisco Franco’s warriors fought strenuously today for a strangle hold at the neck of the government’s sali ent into insurgent siege lines west Os Madrid. At the same time they hammered at the middle of the government spear head salient east of Villaneuva de la Canada in a furious struggle to hold tight the eight and a half months old siege of the capital. % In the Villaneuva de la Canada sec tor, some 15 miles west of the city, Franco’s men held dominant positions on Peak 660, which they swept clean of government troops for a third time last night. Tobacco Control Bill About Ready Washington, July 22 (AP) —The committee of tobacco state repre sentatives, in Congress called a meeting late today to receive a sug gested draft of tobacco control leg islation from AAA officials. AAA attorneys have been work ing for a week or more on the pro posed draft at the request of the tobacco states group. After its final form has been decided upon, the representatives expect to push for action on the bill before ad journment of Congress. Death Plea WaivedFor 2nd Negro 1 Decatur, Ala., July 22 (AP) —The death penalty demand was waived for a second “Scottsboro’ ’defendant to day when Charlie Weems went to trial on a charge of partipipating in a mass attack by nine Negroes on two white women. The State first waived capital pun ishment for Andy Wright last week. Imprisonment of 99 years was decreed late yesterday for Wright by the tense tribunal to return a guilty verdict in the six-year-old case. Samuel Leibowitz, chief of defense counsel, and members of the prosecu tion staff filed an agreement today to follow again the same trial proced ure as in the Wright case. Selection of a jury to try Weems began shortly after court convened. LABORBOARD OPENS MOREHEAD HEARING Morehead City, July 22 (AP) A Na tional Labor Relations Board hearing of charges against the Regal Company plant here opened today. The charges were filed by the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America, a CIO affiliate, a few months ago, and an investigation was made by Bennet Schauffler, of Baltimore, the Board’s regional director. Schauffler reported he found indi cations of an attempt by business men and Morehead City officials to promote an employees association which the union charged was com pany-dominated through the city of ficials. Schauffler charged the company caused the plant to be closed indefi nitely because a number of employees were union men, and the action, he alleged, was an attempt to discourage collective bargaining. The plant employs 200 to 300 work ers. . _ - - • - ----- FUBLISHEJD EVERY AFTERNOON EXCEPT SUNDAY. A few miles tsr'the north insurgent infantrymen drove hard against the government eastern and western flanks at the mouth of the “pocket” slashed southward into Franco’s rear guard positions more than two weeks ago. At the tip of the government salient, insurgent forces tried to level a path to Brunete to wipe out that govern ment outpost from which General Jose Miaja, central front commander, threatened to complete encirclement of siege forces entrenched on the out skirts of Madrid. . Miaja’s aides estimated insurgent losses, dead and wounded, in the re cent Madrid fighting, at 10,000. DEMOCRATIC PARff IS ALREADY SPLIT And New Dealers and Anti- New Dealers Will Fight It Out lit 1938 By CHARLES P. STEWART Central Press Columnist Washington, July 22.—1 t no longer is common talk among politicians that the Democratic party is in pro cess of splitting in two. The verdict is that it no longer is splitting; it is split. In its parliamentary way it re sembles the conflict in Spain—no su perficial amenities, no mercy, no pri soners (political prisoners) taker alive; just a mutual massacre. Rebels “Marked”? Non-belligerents will not be spared, either; it is just like Spain. At the moment the political blood shed is on Capitol Hill, here in Wash ington, but presently it is to be ex tended out into the sticks. That is to say, the New Deal loyal ists’ strategy is to beat all (or as many as possible) anti-New Deal rebels for renomination or re-election in their home constituencies next year. For example, the New Dealers al ready have announced that they have marked anti-New Deal Senator Fred erick Van Nuys for slaughter in In diana in 1938. Van Nuys, however, serves notice that he will resist being slain. Thus the battleground will be extended into the Hoosier state, even as the remote Basque area in Spain is all mussed up incidentally, although central Madrid is the nub Os Spanish hostilities. On The Other Hand. But Indiana will not be the only (Continued on Page Six.) Mystery Plane Is Heard Far at Sea and Seen By Ship New York, July 22. — (AP) —The mystery of a plane reported flying across the Atlantic to Europe be came deeper and darker today as American and Canadian radio men stood by for further word. A message picked up by the Radio Marine Corporation station at Chatham, Mass., said the plane had been seen and heard some 500 miles east of Cape Race, New foundland, at 8:04, eastern stand ard time, last night. Leading American fliers known to be planning trans-ocean flights in the near future, including Jim my Mattern, Dick Merrill and Tommy Hughes were all located aground. 8 PAGES TODAY FIVE CENTS COPY ROOSEVELT’S BILL ORDERED RETURNED TO JUDICIARY BODY Measure for Enlarging Su preme Court Is Dead for This Congressional Session ROOSEVELT’S VETO ALSO OVERRIDDEN Senate Passes Lower Inter est Rates on Farm Loans in Face of Disapproval by White House; Opposition In Complete Control Ini Committee . Washington,. July 22 (AP) — The Senate enacted over Presi dent Roosevelt’s veto today a measure to extend “emergency” interest rates on farm loans. Washington, July 2 (AP) The Senate virtually killed Pres ident Roosevelt’s Supreme Court enlargement program today for this congressional session. It voted to send the adminis tration court bill back to its ju diciary committee. The Senate Judiciary committee voted, in a dramatic session today, to ask the Senate to shelve the Roose velt court bill and order a new meas ure dealing only with the lower courts. The committee, with the opposition in complete control, turned down an administration proposal that the Roosevelt bill be laid aside temporar ily while an alternate was drafted. It decided, instead, to ask the Senate to send the pending bill back to it. There were only two or iftree dissenting voted. The action was taken, committee members* said, after Vice-President Garner had pleaded with tears In his eyes, for settlement of the bitter dis pute which threatened to split the Democratic party wide open. There was some disagreement among committee members as to whe ther tyhe administration spokesmen present had agreed to the plan. Some opponents of the bill said they had, others that they had not. It was generally conceded, even by friends of the measure, however, that the plan would prevail in the Seriate late today. - f Under the proposal agreed upon by the committee, the Senate would re- Continued on Page Two.) Gruesome Testimony OnKilling Burgaw, July 22.—(AP) — Adam Smith, Negro farmer, told a jury to day at the trial of Pete and Paul Krochmalny and Ervin Williams he saw “a bulk” which “looked like a man” wrapped in canvass being haul ed away on a wagon on the date the State alleges Paul Krochmalny, crip pled laborer, was murdered. Smith corroborated for the most part the testimony of his wife, Julia Smith, who preceded him to the stand, Julia said she saw Young Paul Wil liams and the elder Paul “boxing” or “tussling” April 4, 1936, and the three “went down to the ground, but only two arose.” She said later in the day, when work in the fields was finished, young Paul and Williams removed the farm tools and guano from a wagon and Continued on Page Two.) PROBIiSREOPENED ON MISSING JURIST Charges By Widow Spur Police After Mystery of Last Seven Years New York, July 22.—(AP)—-Seven years old, still as baffling as the day it happened and fast becoming an al most legendary mystery of New York police annals, the disappearance of Supreme Court Justice Joseph Crater was a live problem again today. Amidst a new outburst of theories that the justice disappeared volun tarily, was slain by robbers, was mur dered by politicians and committed suicide, New York police reopened their investigation of what happened Continued on Page Two.)
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