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HENDERSON CATEWAY TO CENTRAL CAROLINA TWENTY-FOURTH YEAR leaf Legislation Seems Probable As Group Talks Plan Cooley Says Another Meet ing Will Be Held Tues day to Further Work Started TECHNICAL DETAILS discussed yesterday Referendum Would Be Called Before Planting Season and Not at Market ing Time; Members of To bacco States Group Want Separate Bill Washington, July 23.—(AP>—Con gressional proponents of tobacco cop tro 1 legislation expressed hope today they could reach an agreement on a workable program. They reported little headway was made yesterday whan members of Con "less from Kentucky, Virginia, N o r th Carolina, South Carolina and Georgia met to discuss a program, but expressed a determination to continue. Representative Harold Cooley, of Nashville, N. C., chairman of an un official tobacco committee, said an other meeting will be held next Tues d&He reported agreements that any referendum be provided would be held prior to the planting season, instead of just before the marketing season. The tobacco group proposes not to include tobacco in a general farm bill if one gets before Congress. Other wise. they want a separate bill. Technical details of proposed legis lation were discussed yesterday, Cooley said. BLADENBORO BANK ROBBED BY NEGRO Unmasked Bandit Takes About S6OO at Pistol Point from Cashier Bladenboro, July 23 (AP) —An un masked Negro walked into the Bank of Bladenboro at noon today, and Cashier L. C. Grigger said took “some thing over” S6OO at the point of an au tomatic pistol. Grigger said he was alone at the time of the robbery, just before clos ing time at lunch. The Negro, Grigger, said called for him to ‘‘stick ’em up and turn over all the money in the cash drawer, ’ The cashier said the Negro, who he described as about 30 years old and about five feet, 10 inches tall, then made him walk to the door where an other negro waited in a car. After the holdup, the pair sped in the direction of Fayetteville. Grigger reported. Police throughout the section were notified and a searching part of of ficers formed immediately. Grigger. Chief State Bank Examiner John Allen of Raleigh, said he told him he gave the robbers some loose change and a SSOO package of $5 bills, but was certain the total was less than S7OO. Highway patrol officers in Raleigh received word at 1:30 and patrolmen wp re instructed to look for the rob bers. Alaskans Are Jaunty After Quake Greatest Earthquake disturbance There ho e s Estimated Damage of $5,000 PairhatiKs, Alaska. July ’if.— fAP) Ala leans displayed jaunty indif .u<\ yto the greatest earth qu„k» Jis ’i.' nn :e ever recorded in the territory. sl_k' (I1 n ' n n hours yesterday, many 10 ks, four of them were severe, oc iU,l‘fl ~Vfr the interior from Fair .' n 300 miles to the south, to An chorage. ,1 Cities companies, banks and bus ", bouses carried on business as Only the lmuor store failed to operate. sh m f < shock toppled bottles off lit, S :in( * broke them. Telephone w, , ” r °h G during the first shock, oi e easily repaired. Total damage Oofi at a maximum of $5,- .mostly to the liquor stores, hoi 1 - COnf * rme< * rc P° r t s said several J r ' Se ' - Woie dem obshed and one per ln-|ured when a giant earth slide c Pt across the Richardson highway. HENDERSON. Hcrturremt Haim Btsuafrh WIR E SERVICE op THE ASSOCIATED PRESS. INSURGENTS SHELL MADRID, KILLING 15, SCOIIL INJURED Two Weeks of Compara tive Calm Shattered in Capital by Bom bardments EIGHT KILLED BY FALLING PROJECTILE Madrid Jolted Back To Realization That Besieging Army Is Still At Its Gates; Great Splashes of Blood Littered Sidewalks Madrid, July 23. (AP) Twice shelled within 2-1 hours and with at least 15 killed and a score hurt by the insurgents’ big guns, Madrid, was abruptly thrown back to grimness of bitter siege. After two weeks of comparative calm while a tornado of offensives and counter-offensives raged over the hills and plains some 15 miles to the west, Madrid was jtlted to the sharp realization that a besieging army was still at its gates. After a long artillery duel last night, confined to the outskirts of the capital, shells started di opping in Al cala and Cibeles square. One pro jectile killed eight.» Great splashes of still visible on the pave ment n^'u 1 the old irenVry of war be fore workmen sta. uec crvbbiug the sidewalk and eles-iug away the debris. Spotted all over Mid-.J were fresh stones and bricks, and holrs gapped in what »v.*re sol’i wails the day be fore. TRUCK DRIVERS IN PHILADELPHIA QUIT Philadelphia, July 23 (AP)—A strike of truck drivers employed in hauling of goods for the Great Atlantic and Pacific Tea company slightly affect ed produce delivery to a large num ber of stores in this area today. The strike was not directed against the company, but against a group of firms under contract with the A. & P. to haul produce from railroad termi nals. COTTON OPENS EASY WITH MARKET OFF New York, July 23 (AP)—Cotton futures opened easy, down six to thir teen point son lower cables, favorable weather and under foreign selling and liquidation. Shortly after the first half hour, the market was at five to ten points. By midday December was selling at 11.05 with prices generally 11 to 16 points net lower. Futures closed easy 31 to 36 lower spot quiet middling 11.80. May 11-62 11.40 July 11-62 11-41 October 11.55 11.31 December 11.51 11.29 January 11.51 11.29 March 11.60 11.36 2 Negroes Executed In Gas Cell Raleigh, July 23.—(AP)—Two Ne groes, convicted of wife murder, Hun ter Winchester from Guilford county, and Fred Grey, from Onslow, died by gas at State’s Prison today. Winchester died nine minutes 36 seconds after the gas machinery was started at 10:35, the shortest gas exe cution on record here. He entered the death chamber at 10:30 a. m. and was dead at 10:45 a. m. It took 12 minutes and 55 seconds of gas administration before Dr. G. S. Coleman prison medical director pro nounced Grey dead at 11:38. He entered the gas chamber at 11‘23 a. m. nodded to witnesses he re cognized and two minutes later the lethal machinery was started. Winchester, 24, was born at Reids ville, his death certificate said, and his body was claimed by relatives there Grey, 26, was born at Verona, Onslow county, and his body was taken there. , Warden Honeycutt said each man confessed his guilt. .. ~ Winchester killed his wife, Mable Winchester, and Grey’s wife was Let tuce Grey. ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA AND VIRGINIA. Figures in Capture of Southwest’s No. 1 Badman, PeteTraxler j|p Pete Traxler, badly wounded, in hospital Figures in the sensational capture of Roy (Pete) Traxler, the southwest’s No. 1 desperado, and the slaying of his pal, Fred Tindol, are pictured. Tindol was shot to death and Traxler badly wounded by two cool-headed farmers who had been seized as hos tages-ty the desperadoes in their at tempt to escape a state-wide police net. The shooting occurred near Bos well, Okla., near the Texas line. Both Frank Trimmer, shown above, and tomurSory Nick Zuravio Tells Court He Saw Cremation of “Old Pete” Krochmalny Burgaw, July 23 —(AP) Nick Zuravio, who testified yesterday at the murder trial of Pete and Paul Krochmalny and Ervin Williams, said he saw them burn the body of “Old Paul” Krochmalny, stuck to this story today through an intense cross ex amination. The 67-year-old Russian farmer, speaking through an interpreter, said he saw the Krochmalny’s burn the body in a dary sterilizer in a dary furnace, while Williams stood guard with a rifle. When the trial was resumed today, Zuravio denied a defense question as to whether he had ever been indicted for assault on a female, and on re direct examination said some charges were brought against him tut they were either nol prosed with leave, suspended or he was acquitted. His wife, Annastasia, corroborated his story of seeing the burning body. She told the court Nick came home late on the night of April 4, 1936, pale, gasping and shaking and told her of seeing the cremation. She also said she smelled a “horrible ordor” that night. Mrs. Zuravio testified she had used her influence to keep her husband from telling authorities the story for fear of being killed. Best Fall In Ninfe Years Just Ahead, Babson Feels Cites Ten Reasons for Autumn Pick-Up In Business, and Advises Adequate P reparations; Crop Prospects Declared To Be Exceptionally Good BY ROGER W. BABSON, Copyright 1937,. Publishers Financial Bureau, Inc. Babson Park, Mass., 'July 23. —Sen- timent has improved noticeably in the past fortnight. The gloom of early July is gradually lifting and confid ence is slowly healing. Doubts are still expressed about Fall business, how ever. Many feel that when the cur rent backlog of orders, built up dur ing the Winter and Spring, finally runs out, business*will suffer a sharp dip. As a matter of fact, we are hav ing a gentle let-down which is more than seasonal. The Babsonchart read ing today is five per cent above nor mal, compared with 10 percent above normal in May. TEN FACTORS POINTING TOWARD PROSPERITY. 1. Crop prospects best in ten years. 2. Purchasing power highest since 1929. 3. Labor troubles on wane for 1937. 4. Congress nearer to adjourn ment. 5. Building costs easing off. 6. Inventories of goods not bur densome 7. New industries forging ahead. 8. Foreign trade making great progress. 9. French crisis apparently passed. 10. Basic trend of business still upward. HENDERSON, N. C., FRIDAY AFTERNOON, JULY 23, 1937 James Denton, shot Tindol and Den ton shot Traxler, who was removed to a Hugo, Okla., hospital in a serious condition. Meanwhile, Mrs. Traxler was in Durant, Okla., jail after bein captured when possemen closed in on the desperado and his wife, whom he had daringly picked up at her home in Verden. Traxler, hunted for 12 days, was expected to be charged with armed robbery and kidnaping if he jived. TsinSdrs Mrs. Roosevelt’s Expressed Position Regarded as Significant By CHARLES P. STEWART Central Press Columnist Washington, July 23. —Mrs. Roose velt, in one of her recent “columns,” takes sides against the frequently urged merger of Uncle Sam’s detec tive organizations, on the ground that a highly centralized set-up of this sort, is calculated to become a threat a (Continued on Page Four.) SINO-JAPANESE DISPUTE- AT GLANCE (By The Associated Press.) Diametrically opposite reports from Chinese and Japanese threw the cur rent North China crisis in new con fusion just as the two weeks of ten sion were thought to have been ended. In Tokyo, the government reports of troops withdrawal from Peiping lead informed observers to consider the immediate danger of war as past. Japan said she was ready to ap proach settlement of the fundamental issues in turn with China. But in Peiping, Chinese expressed fear of new military activities-and ex pressed fear it foregathered a major Japanese drive to consolwidate the en hanced influence gained because of past incidents. Nevertheless, there are so many en couraging signs in the outlook that I cannot help being optimistic on Fall trade prospects. To back up my bul lishness, I am discussing ten reasons why business should press further to ward prosperity after Labor Day: CROP PROSPECTS are exception ally good. Big harvests of grains, fruits, vegetables, cotton, tobacco; high egg and milk yields; good feed conditions for livestock; these all point to the best year on the Amer ican farm since 1929. Activity is al ready picking up where the harvest is under way. More traffic for rail roads; a step-up for farm and rail equipment; brisker retail trade; in creased business for farm products handlers of all kinds will be the re sult.. PURCHASING POWER should be highest since 1929. The income of twenty-four million farm families should be at the rate of $12,000,000 per week higher than last year. Wage workers are receiving a combined in crease of $70,000,000 more weekly than last July. Investors’ dividend checks are more than $10,000,000 higher every seven days than a year ago while va cationists’ spending is up another $20,- 000,000 per week. This tremendous gain in consumers’ income will, of course, pour into retail trade, and from there back to factories, jobs, and wages. LABOR TROUBLES are apparent ly on the wane for 1937. CIO has shot its bolt for this year. Snow squalls Continued on Page Two.) i:- |||hlL& < Mm!* Frank Trimmer p n * v t;4 Mrs. Traxler in jail LABOR EXAMINER BACK TOGAPITAL Griffin Takes Evidence Os Morehead Shirt Dispute To Full Board Morehead City, July 23.—(AP)— William Griffin, examiner for the NLRB returned to Washington today to study evidence given here on charges that the Regal Shirt Com pany had violated the Wagner labor law and to make his report to the full board. The hearing was adjourned about midnight, after a late session at which J. W. Jackson, manager of the plant and citizens of the city denied allega tions brought by a representative of the Amalgamated Clothing- Workers, a CIO affiliate. Jackson testified he was not instru mental in the organization of the Regal Employees Association, which was alleged to be a company union in violation of the Federal law. Stanley Woodland, who said he had no connection with the shirt company and acted purely in a personal cap acity, assumed fulll responsibility for the formation of the association. Asked his motive, he replied a ma jority of Regal employees were his friends and said “he hated organized labor in general and CIO particular ly.” ' JAPAN RETURNING TO NORMALCY NOW Tokyo, July 23. (AP) Japan rapidly returned to normal today, and a general belief grew that war with China had been settled and a lasting settlement of a long existing differ ences between the two countries. A foreign office spokesman said Japan was ready to consider any pro posal from the Chinese government for the settlement of the fundamental differences of Sino-Japanese issue and would respond with any change in the foreign policy. fH IP WEATHERMAN FOR NORTH CAROLINA. Generally fair tonight and Sat urday, slightly warmer tonight. PUBLISHED EVERY AFTERNOON EXCEPT SUNDAY. Roosevelt Feels Some Aims Court Bill Are Achieved FEDERAL REA BODY WANTSTO PUTHOEY IN JOHNSTON FIGHT Administrator Carmody Calls Mass Meeting Wednesday to Decide. On Action FIGHT SEEN BETWEEN REA, POWER GROUP Carolina Company Could String Wires and Have Electricity to Farm Homes Immediately; Hoey Invited To Mass Meeting; Farm ers Tired of Waiting For “Juice” Daily Di»pat«*h Ilnrenn, In the Sir Walter Hotel. Raleigh, July 23.—Yelping like a kicked dog as a result of the decision by the Johnston County Electric Co operative directors to reject its prof fered loan and to let the Carolina Power and Light Company build its rural electric lines, the Federal Rural Electrrification Administration appar ently has lost all interest in bringing electric service to the farmers of the State and is now intent only on fight ing the power companies and if pos sible, in getting Governor Clyde R. Hoey on a hot spot, observers here to day are convinced after reading the snarling letter written to Governor Hoey by REA Administrtor J. M. Car mody and made public in Washing ton. In his letter to Governor Hoey, Ad ministrator Carmody revealed that a mass meeting has been called in Johnston county for Wednesday, July 28 as a protest against the action of the Johnston county cooperative* in refusing the REA loan and that he would attend this meeting himself. He also invited Governor Hoey to at tend it. The purpose of this meeting will be to determine “whether a far mers’ electric cooperative can exist in your State if the power companies object,” Carmody states in his letter. If the REA finally retires from John ston county it will only be “because of the expressed will of the farmers of that county and not because a power company has spent or stands to spend a million dollars or any other sum. Nor will it be because of any mistaken notion that the Caro lina Power and Light Company is bigger than the state or Federal gov ernment.” The implications in Carmody’s let ter are clearly to the effect that the North Carolina State government and Governor Hoey are dominated by the power companies, observers here agree. It is also generally agreed that the calling of the mass meeting is a move to save the face of the Fed eral REA and that the invitation to Governor Hoey is extended in the hope that he will accept it so that the Federal REA can put him “on the spot.” and compel him to take a position either in favor of the Federal REA or against it, in which case the rHA will then brand him as a power company man. Those who recall the fight over the Fenner bill in the 1937 general assem bly, which yould have required elec tric membership cooperatives to ob tain certificates of convenience and necessity before they could build lines (Continued on Page Three). PROFIT SELLING OF STOCKS HALTS GAIN New York, July 23 A ’ opening on the upside on today s stock market quickly turned into a profit selling crawl and initial gains of fra tions to two points were pared or can celled* j While Wall Street seemed cheered by the shelving of the administra tion’s court bill and prospects of a nearby adjournment of Congress, brokers thought this turn of events may have been discounted to a cer tain extent. Bonds were uneven and transfers wefe around 900,000 shares. American Radiator 21 5-8 American Telephone 172 American Tob B Atlatic Coast Line Bendix Aviation 20 1-2 Bethlehem Steel J* J - ! Chrysler 1~“ 1-y Columbia Gas & Elec 14 Commercial z": Continental Oil 15 ‘-8 DuPont oo K e Electric Pow & Light 22 5-» General Electric 58 5-8 General Motors 56 1-8 Liggett & Myers B > 161 Montgomery Ward & Co 64 Reynolds Tob B 51 5-8 Southern Railway i. 34 3-4 Standard Oil N J 71 3-4 U S Steel 116 3-8 8 PAGES TODAY FIVE CENTS COPY Certain Changes in Proce dure Agreed On By Op- , ponents for Lower Courts FARM TENANT BILL SIGNED BY PRESIDENT Bill Authorizes Agriculture Department to Make Loans to Thrifty Farmers for Pur chases of Farms; Simmons Attends Press Conference Washington, July 23 (AP) —A high administration official said todajr that despite the Senate's rejection of Su preme Court enlargement, President Roosevelt felt some of his original aims for court reorganization had been achieveed. This was coupled with a hint that the chief executive believed a more complete and permanent attainment of his goal would require court legisla tion beyond that which Senators, who virtually killed his court bill, had been willing to accept. The court bill opponents, forcing the measure to be sent back to the Sen ate Judiciary Committee yesterday, agreed to certain procedural changes in the lowtr courts. At his regular press conference, the president declined to comment on the Senate’s action yesterday. He parried a question as to whether he contem plated campaigning for his court pro gram by saying he had not done any campaigning. Meantime, Mr. Roosevelt signed leg islation authorizing the Federal gov ernment to embark on a program to aid tenants and share croppers to ob tain farms. Former Senator Furnifold Simmons, of North Carolina, was a White House caller and was introduced by the president at his press conference. The bill which followed general re commendations of the chief execu tive early in the session, authorizing the Agriculture Department to make liberal loans to thrifty tenants to pur chase farms. It was allowed $10,000,- 000, $25,000,000 in the 1939 and $50,000,- 000 thereafter. PR :ri Chairman Communications Commission Passes At Maine Summer Home Boothbay Harbor, Me., July 23. (AP) —Manning S. Prall, general com munication commission chairman, died at his home here today. Physicians said Prall succumbed to a heart attack. Prall was stricken more than a week ago with an illness, the nature of which was not disclosed. He was a resident of West Brough ton, Staten Island, N. Y., Prall, 66, was formerly a Democratic congress man from New York. He was educat ed in the New York public schools, and later rose to the post of presi dent of New York City Board of Edu cation. He was appointed commissioner of taxes and assessments of New York City in 1932. Then he was elected to Congress and served from the 68th to the 72nd congress from the 11th New York district. Six Die In Flaming Auto In Maryland Truck Driver, Blind ed By Lights, Smashes Into Park ed Vehicle Priest Bridge, Md., July 23. —(AP) —Six persons died in a flaming auto mobile here early today after a truck struck their parked car and turned it over. The seventh died later of in juries. The truck driver rescued a seven year old boy by pulling him through a window. All members of one family were tangled in the back of the machine and did not free them selves. Bernard Lammer, 21, driver; his sisters* Mildred, 19, Anna May, 13, and Pauline, 29; and cousins, Frances Haker, 17, Frances Baldwin, 14 and David Manning, 7. All lived in Laurel, Maryland. The driver of the truck was B. M. King, of Muddy Point, Va. He said he was blinded by the lights of an ap< proaching car and struck the rear of Lammer’s car parked beside the road.
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