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'HENDERSON GATEWAY to CENTRAL CAROLINA Twenty-fourth year 11. S. MARINES MAT BATTLE JAP SQUNERS HECTOR BLACKWELL NEW COMMANDER OF LEGION FOR STATE Named Unanimously After Withdrawal of Arthur Corey, Candidate from Greenville DR. NEWELL NAMED TO U. S. GATHERING - % Winston-Salem Chosen As Place for 1938 Convention; Governor Hoey Asks For mer Soldiers for Same Loy alty and Devotion in Peace as During War Durham, July 27.—(Special)—• Mrs. Hodge A. Newell, of Hender son, was elected State president of the American legion Auxiliary at the closing session of the an nual convention here this after noon. She defeated Mrs. Herbert \y. White, of Fayetteville, and will succeed Mrs. C. P. Andrew, of Charlotie. The State headquarters will he moved to Henderson, and Miss Aurelia Adams, State secre tary, will move to Henderson to serve under Mrs. Newell as presi dent. Durham, July 27 (AP)-(Hector Blackwell, of Fayetteville, was unani mously named commander of the North Carolina Department of the American Legion here today, following the withdrawal of former State Sena tor Arthur B. Corey, of Greenville, from the lists. Also elected at the closing session of the annual State convention were: Vice-Commander, Miss Alice Gray, of Winston-Salem; Bob Stevens, of Golds-, boro, and Victor Johnson, of Pitts boro: chaplain, Rev. Arnold Thomp son. of Durham; Judge advocate, R. L. McMillan, of Raleigh and historian j A. R. Newsome, of Chapel Hill. Winston-Salem was selected as the 1938 convention city. Delegates at large to the national convention were chosen as follows: Chester Bell, of Raleigh; Claude Ramsey, of Asheville; Tom Devane, of Fayetteville; Josephus Daniels, Jr., of Raleigh; Guthrie Madry, of Rich Square; Cutlar Moore, of Lumberton; Jack Lang, of Charlotte; Wiley Pick ens of Lincolnton; J. M. Caldwell, of Lincolnton, and Commander Black well. Alternates selected are: J. D. Prid gen. Jr., Durham; Ben Price, Hender sonville; Banks Horton, Yanceyville; John Stevenson. Snow Hill; Bob Win gate, of Salisbury; Hubert Eason, Gatesville; Graham Barden, New Bern; Dr. D. A. Terry, Durham; and Continued on Page Two.) PEANUT MEETING IN RALEIGH DEFERRED Raleigh, July 27 (AP) —A meeting of representatives of peanut growers called for today at the North Caolina farm Bureau Federation offices to adopt a plan of peanut crop control and division was postponed until Fri day because of the absence of farm bureau officials, who are in Washing ton working on proposed Federal ag circluture legislation. Democratic Organization Faces Split Jealousy Brewing Over Distribution of Offices in State Young Group hally Dlspafch Bureau, . . 1,1 <he Sir Walter Hotel. fore- + lgb ’ July 27.—1 n spite of ef a * 0 keep it muffled, rumblings th v ng eart * hore of a split among wh : .k Un '’ democrats of the State ma y f) low the lid off when they bet f f ' n Winston-Salem in Septem rurrt r ' be ' r annu al convention. These th ’ , ln “ s ar e coming chiefly from the I(JC * mon t the present time, but m If; are indications that a good "Young Democrats from both, ir!in and the west are ready to th : brewin « revoit jne. , c h thin _g that seems to be irritat frmr n I>i,!dmon t Young Democrats u, ( ' ian anything else right now is tern-T- bjm ' hat has B Town U P of a l" v. a lr ‘S the presidency of the State l 8 Democratic Clubs each year 1 Continued on Page Three.) Hrtt&rrsmt D atlit Dtspafrlt State President of Legion Auxiliary ljlll ' ' 5 . ' gAIL, > k MRS. HODGE A. NEWELL Tax Cost Is SIOO Yearly Per Person Hidden Levy Terri fic To Support Bur den of Government, Leonard Asserts ' Salisbury, July 27 (AP)—Paul Leon ard, secretary of the North Carolina Fair Tax Association, told the State Federation of Labor today “hidden taxes, now directly traceable from pro duction through transportation and distribution to the ultimate consumer, show that the per capita, hidden tax load amounted to approximately SIOO a year to every man, woman and child in the United States.” “It is not so much the cost of ma terial, the cost of labor, nor the pro fit taken by capital,” Leonard said, “that contributes so much to the price of the necessities of life, but rather Continued on Page Two.) DENIES THAT DEAN OFTEN KISSED HER Pretty Stenographer at Boys School Says Defendant in Trial Was Not Intimate Greenfield. Mass., July 27. —(AP) — Red-haired Evelyn Dill, pretty steno grapher, formerly employed at Mount Hermon School for Boys, and men tioned in testimony as the recipient of kisses from Thomas Elder, former dean, denied today Elder ever kissed or embraced her or “chucked” her un der the chin. Allen Norton, on whose charges Elder is being tried for assault with attempt to kill, testified earlier in the trial he once fired upon Elder and saw him embrace Miss Dill. HOEYCDTSCLEAIf OF REA’S DISPUTE Governor Declines To, Be Drawn Into Johnston County Muddle Dally Dispatch Burenn. In The Sir Walter Hotel. Raleigh, July 27-The .action of Governor Clyde R. Hoey in politely informing John M. Carmody, of the Rural Electrification Administration in Washington, that he has no inten tion of attending the mass meeting to be held in Smithfield Wednesday night to protest the action of the Johnston county electric membership tion which recently told the REA that it does not want its proffered loan of $310,000, but will let the Caro lina Power and Light Company build its lines for it instead, came as no here immediately saw in (Continued on Page Three.), ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA AND VIRGINIA. LEASED WIRE SERVICE OR* THE ASSOCIATED PRESS. HENDERSON, N. C., .TUESDAY AFTERNOON, JULY 27, 1937 For U. S. War Dead War memorial at Montfaucon This war memorial, designed by John Russell Pope, New York architect, and built at Montfau . con, France, by the U. S. govern ment to the memory of America’s dead in the World war, will be dedicated Aug. 1 by General John J. Pershing. ■-Central Press LOYALISTS RETAIN ~ POSITIONS DESPITE INSURGENT BLASTS Heavy Casualties Result From Bitter Fighting 15 Miles West of Mad rid Capital TWO GOVERNMENT’S BRIGADES ARE LOST * —«*• Completely Destroyed, In surgents Claim, While Loy alists Say Rebels Have Lost 25,000 In Casualties in Six Days; Committee Is Stale mated (By The Associated Press.) Insurgent land and air forces pounded without decisive success to day at Villaneuva de la Canada, nerve center of General Jose Miaja’s offen sive sailent 15 miles west of Madrid in hitter fighting that exacted heavy casualties. Struggling to offset the loss of Brunette, southernmost tip of the gov ernment drive to lift the almost nine months siege of Madrid, government battalions stood in new positions north of Brunette and withstood ter rific aefial and artslM r y bombard ment farther north at Villaneuva de la Canada. " - Insurgent dispatches stated two government brigades were complete ly destroyed in yesterday’s action, and the government, admitting severe losses, estimated insurgent casualties at 25,000 for the last six days. In London the 27-nation committee trying to isolate the Spanish conflict, its efforts stalemated in arguments over procedure, asked each participat ing government to state whether Ob jections to the British compromise plan of July 14 were to its substance or to method. Italy and Germany, demanding bel ligerent rights be granted the com batants were the main objectors to the British plan to begin withdrawal of foreign volunteers and re-establish international control of Spanish ports. MIEiONFIRS NEW JUSTICE BODY Chairman of Investigating Body Talks With Gover nor of Plans Dally Dispatch BnrenH; In the Sir Walter Hotel. Raleigh, July 27.—Major L. P. Mc- Lendon, of Greensboro, chairman of the commission to investigate the feasibility of establishing a State de partment of justice under the attor ney general, came here Monday for a meeting of his commission. But no meeting wag held because of the fail ure of most of the other members to be present, although he conferred at some length with Governor Clyde R. Hoey and Attorney General A. A. F. Seawell. Since the commission has as yet held no formal meeting and has not actively started on its study of the ad visability of establishing a State De partment of Justice in North Caro lina, it is too early to predict what direction the study will take, Major (Continued on Page Three.)_ 400 Policemen Stand Guard After Cleveland’s Riotings Strike Area Sees One of Worst Nights of Viol ence in Entire His tory of City STEEL WORKERS IN FIGHT ON STRIKERS One Man Killed and Over 60 Persons Sent To Hos pitals and Doctors for Treatment of Injuries; CIO and AFL Unions Dispute Rights To Organize Cleveland, Ohio, July 27 (AP)—Four hundred policemen stood guard today in Cleveland’s strike area to bring peace—temporarily at least —after one of the worst nights of violence in the city’s history. Republic Steel Corporation workers clashed with strikers and sympathiz ers near Republic’s Corigan-McKinney plant, where one man was killed yes terday. Clubs, pick-axes, iron pipes and oth er weapons came crashing down on the heads of workers and pickets alike A union headquarters was wrecked. Glass crashed in dozens of motor cars. A wave of vandalism, spasmodic for several weeks, swelled over other sec tions of the city. Newly-painted hous es, finished without benefit of union approval, were sprayed with stain. Windows were smashed in homes of steel workers and operatives of knit mills, where CIO and AFL unions are engaged in a purisdictional fight. Police forced a crowd at the Corri gan-McKiriney steel mill back two blocks from one of its main entrances, (Continued on Page Two). CROSSING CRASH IS FATAL TO ONE MAN Charlotte, Jilly 27.—(AP)— An unidentified man about 55 years old was killed when his jirotluce- Inden automobile a*-d • SuuDarn !<• 7 v.&y passenger train c-iIILV-l • i it si burban grade crossing ear iy tedi-y. MINE BLAST NEAR ASHEVILLE FATAL Asheville, July 27.—(AP)—Dan Davis of Seviersville, Tenn., was killed and three other persons • were hurt in an explosion at a rock quarry at Mine Hole Gap east of here early today. Details were not available in first reports. The injured were D. J. Lambert, 25, Knoxville, Tenn.; Pat Kirkland 52, of Mills Spring, and Eldon Burnette, 22, of Canton. LITTLE INCLINATION TO BUY IN STOCKS Prices Generally Drift Lower and Bonds Jog Along Unevenly; Foreign Currencies Up New York, July 27. —(AP)—Little buying inspiration was present in to day’s stock market, and prices gen erally drifted lower. Bonds jogged along unevenly. Wheat futures improv ed on reports of heavier exports and cotton came back briskly. Foreign currencies were again up in terms of the dollar. Stock trading restraints were seen in a fresh outbreak of violence in the Republic Steel strike, and another and more serious Far Eastern war flare-up. Transfers approximated 750,000 shares. American Radiator ~ **“ American Telephone 1(2 American Tob B d-4 Anaconda j” t“t Atlantic Coast Line 52 1-4 Atlantic Refining 30 Bendix Aviation 21 1-4 Bethlehem Steel 04 1-2 Columbia Gas and Elec Chrysler ... * ••• ~ Continental Oil Co 1® DuPont I®2 Electric Pow & Light 22 5-8 General Electric 58 1"2 General Motors 56 1-4 Liggett & Myers B 101 Montgomery Ward & Co 63 3-4 Reynolds Tob B ... 52 Southern Railway 33 3-8 Standard Oil N J 71 7-8 U S Steel ... 116 7-8 OUR WEATHEP MAH ./ * i FOB NORTH CAROLINA. Partly cloudy tonight and Wed nesday; probably occasional show ers on coast. , _ _ Attorney Calls on Mrs. Crater SjiLs i afete. ■ Hp Simon H. Rifkind, law partner of Senator R. F. Wagner of New York and a former close friend of the missing Judge Joseph F. Crater, is shown conferring with Mrs. Crater at her Belgrade Lakes, Me., home. Rifkind ie reported to have carried on a secret search for Judge Crater when the jurist dropped from sight in 1930. Mrs. Crater is expected to ask the courts to declare her husband legally dead. (Central Press) Receivership Fee Bill Approved By Committee « r • Borah Measure Passed by S enate Judiciary Body, Which Is Near Completio n of Hearings on New Court Bill; Adjournment August 14 Talked Washington, 27.—(AP) —The Senate Judiciary Committee interrupt ed its consideration of a new court bill today to approve unanimously a bill by Senator Borah, Republican Idaho, to regulate receivership and bankruptcy fees. The Borah measure would prohibit interested parties in receivership, bankruptcy or reorganization proceed ings from agreeing upon fees and would forbid judges to approve fees resulting from such agreement. Violators would be subject to a fine of SIO,OOO or five years in jail, or both. Chairman Ashurst, Democrat, Ari zona, said the committee was mak garnerlrealtT CONGRESS MANAGER Moreover, He Has Shown He Can Win Out Even Over President By CHARLES P. STEWART Central Press Columnist Washington, July 27. —“At long last,” as the Duke of Windsor express ed himself, John N. Garner has prov ed that the vice president’s office is one in which its incumbent can exer cise plenty of real political influence. Hitherto the job notoriously has been considered not much more than ornamental except in cases in which Ountinued on Page Two.) U. S. TENNIS ROUT OF BRITAIN ENDED Davis Cup Is Returned Here for First Time Since 1927 in Triumph of Young Stars Wimbledon, England, July 27 (AP) Sorrell-topped Don Budge, undefeat ed this year, whipped Henry (Bunny) Austin today 8-6, 3-6, 6-4, 6-3, as the United States ended its rout of Great Britain’s Davis cup forces and regain ed the international tennis trophy for the first time since 1927. Budge’s victory came after 21-year old Frankie Parker, of Milwaukee, had clinched the cup with an aston ishing straight set triumph over Charles Hare, 6-2, 6-4, 6-2, thus yak ing the final scores our victories for the United States against one for Great Britain’s cupdefenders. Parker, the underdog, as a result of his sad showing against Austin last Saturday, played virtually flawless tennis to score the most important , triumph of his career, « PUBLISHED iivakY afthknoon EXCEPT SUNDAY. ing rapid progress with the new court bill and could complete approval of the measure late today. Talk of adjournment, meanwhile, increased. Few senators forecast an adjournment further away than Au gust 14, but Democratic Leader Bark ley said he was still not ready to talk definitely of the legislative program for closing weeks or of adjournment plans. Judiciary committeemen forecast quick passage of the measure, which would step up the machinery in low er Federal courts. Meanwhile, an Alabama senator, Continued on Page Two.) Third Man Seeks Post Ofßobinson Little Rock. Ark., July 27,—(AP)— A second independent candidate an nounced today he would oppose Gov ernor Carl Bailey, Democratic nom inee, for the Senate seat left vacant by the death of Senator Joseph T. Robinson. Rosser Venable, of Little Rock, 48 year-old World War veteran, said he would enter a special election this fall against Governor Bailey and Robert Continued on Page Two.) SHARP ADVANCE IN TRADING IN COTTON Cables Are Steady and Trade Buying and Covering Help Boost Prices in Futures New York, July 27. —(AP) —Cotton futures opened steady, up 7 to 11 points on steadier cables, trade buy ing and covering. Toward the end of the first half hiour, December ad vanced from 10.95 to 11.02 with the general list selling up to net gains of 8 to 14 points. At midday December was quoted at 11.05, when prices gen erally were off slightly from the best, but still at net advances of 13 to 19 points. Futures closed steady, 22 to 33 points higher. Spot quiet, middling 11.57. Open Close October • • UOO 11.19 December 10.98 11.17 January 11.00 112.0 March 11.08 11.27 May 11.11 11-31 July ll* l * 11.36 8 PAGES TODAY FIVE CENTS COPY JAP OLIIMAIUM IS. IGNORED BY CHINA AS TIME EXPIRES Zero Hour Passes in Atmos phere of Strict Japanese Military Secrecy at Peiping 800 CHINA SOLDIERS ARE “ANNIHILATED” Bombing Planes and Sol diers Hurled Against Chi nese Regments 12 Miles from Peiping; Nanking Massing Huge Troop Con centrations for War Peiping, China, July 27. —(AP) — United States Marines prepared sand bag fortifications for the legation quarter this afternoon after a Japan ese ultimatum for evacuation of Chi nese troops west of Peiping had ex pired in an atmosphere of strict Jap anese military secrecy. 800 CHINESE SOLDIERS AT PEIPING ARE “ANIHILATED” (By The Associated Press.) Virtual “annihiliation” of 800 Chi nese soldiers east of Feiping was re ported by Japanese sources today after Japan’s ultimatum demanding Chinese troop withdrawn from the tense zone west of the capital expir ed at noon without any definite in dication of China’s compliance. Bombing planes and Japanese troops hurled their force against a Chinese regiment 12 miles east of Peiping when the Chinese soldiery re fused to disarm, the dispatches said. The Japanese reports could not be confirmed, however, in Nanking or other Chinese quarters. A Chinese spokesman asserted the critical moment comes tomorrow noon whent a second Japanese ultimatum expired. It demands complete evacua tion of the 37th division of General Sung Cheh-Yuan’s 29th Chinese army from Peiping. Shanghai dispatches said the Nank ing government was massing big troop concentrations to face Japan’s demands in the Hopeh-Chahar region where Japanese and Chinese economic interests clash. Japan’s premier, Prince Konoye, in Tokyo disclaimed any territorial am bitions 'in North China, but said if China failed to fulfill her promises “decisive measures” would be taken by Japan. FORD’S ATTORNEY ACCUSES EXAMINER Colombo Tells Labor Board Chief He Was Treated Like Horse Thief Detroit, Mich., July 27.—(AP) — Louis Colombo, Sr. ( attorney for the Ford Motor Company, today accused Trial Examiner John Lindsay of the National Labor Relations Board, of “treating me like a horse thief on a hearing on a complaint charging the company with unfair labor practices. Colombo, shouting, asserted Lind say was “permitting Ford Company witnesses to be bulldozed and entrap ped” on cross-examination. The clash interrupted Dennis Mc- Minney, Ford plant foreman, who was Continued on Page Two.) Krochmalny Case Rested About Noon Defense Waits T o Show Its Hand at Afternoon Session In Burgaw Court Burgaw, July 27.—(AP)—The State rested shortly after noon today in the trial of Pete Krochmalny, his son, Paul, and his son-in-law, Irvin Wil liams, charged with murdering his brother, Paul Krochmalny, the elder, and burning his body in a dairy fur nace in April of last year.' Court recessed until this afternoon, when the defense was expected to in dicate the trend it would follow. De fense attorneys made no announce (Continued on Page Two)
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