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HENDERSON gateway TO CENTRAL CAROLINA TWENTY-FOURTH YEAR FIR EAST CRISIS DISTURBS WASHINGTON Firms Employing Under Ten Persons Voted Exemptions In Federal Wage-Hour Bill amendment given BY 808 REYNOLDS IS QUICKLY ADOPTED Senator Harrison Delivers Bitter Attack on Meas ure as Worst of That Debate STRONG EFFORT IS MADE TO PASS IT Administration Gains Sup port in Effort; Green’s La bor Organization Wants Bill Returned to Commit tee To Bury It for Present Session Washington, July 30. —(AP) — The Senate voted today to eliminate all employers of ten persons or less from the administration’s wage-hour bill. The amendment eliminating all small firms was adopted without a record vote. It was offered by Senator Reynolds, Democrat, North Carolina. Senator Harrison, Democrat, Mis sissippi. who lost the Democratic leadership of the Senate last week by a single vote, had just ended the most severe attack yet made on the bill when the amendment came to a vote. Earlier in the day two determined groups had rallied around administra tion groups trying to push the wage hour legislation through Congress be fore the session ends. A non-partisan group of House members, headed by Representative Healey, Democrat, Massachusetts, or ganized to stave off adjournment un til the labor standards bill is passed. William Green, A. F. of L. presi dent, threw his influence against a move which gained headway in the Senate late yesterday, to return the bill from the Senate floor to the la bor committee. Green’s action was directly oppos ed to steps taken by John Frey, presi dent of the A. F. of L. metal trades department, who asked a number of senators to delay consideration of the wage-hour bill to next year. Sending it back to committee would mean such a delay. Meanwhile, the Senate-House tax committee, whose hearings drew na tionally-famous names into the news a few weeks ago, agreed on tax law loophole plugs it will recommend to Congress, but members declined to reval dtails. Weed Prices Officially Sharply Up Statistics on Actual Sales First Day Are Equally as Encour aging Douglas, Ga., July 30 (AP)—Buyers ~L n d sellers of tobacco met again to day in Georgia and Florida markets aPer brisk opening day business which saw hundreds of thousands of pounds sold at prices described as good.” Official tabulations of sales and Puces at nearly a score of southern oorgia and northern Florida mar- ot.-, 'were incomplete today, while t ? na of the golden weed remained on i„ V ° ors the sheds and more came ln hv the minute. . Dnofficial estimates placed yes ay/ p l ,en ing quotations at between n * nd 39 cents a pound, with the ki . er grades selling for less. The f Li Prise of da y was reported be t* 1 . ”azelhurst, where some of the -■y gtades brought 64 cents a pound, corrn ° n,y official venturing th P n ton price was , J - W. Sikes, of kets eorgia State Bureau of Mar e ’ and said the opening middle last :::, r W . Crc l “shglhtly higher than l aaritPt° rts from some of the larger follow *° n the openin £ day’s business on Page Two.) WENDER§q THrttiteraoxt Slatlxt tHsuafrlr Four Lost, 96 Saved When Big Liner Burns In Bay Baltimore, Md., July 30.—(AP) — Captain Charles Brooks, of the charred and smoking bay steamer City of Baltimore, suggested to day sabotage may have accounted for the “amazing” spread of the fire which left two dead and two missing of a complement of 96 aboard the ship. Baltimore, Md., July 30. —(AP) — Ail but four of the 96 passengers and crew driven by flames from the liner City of Baltimore in a night of horror on Chesapeake Bay reached land today with tales of amazing rescues. Os the four not counted among the survivors two were known dead and two unaccounted for. The dead: J. B. Polikoff, an Aiken, S. C., lawyer. An unidentified member of the Dual Highways Might Be State Policy Os Future Commission Admits Necessity for Wider Traffic Lanes In Congested Areas; Moves Toward Purchasing New Rights-of-W ay Out of Raleigh Daily Dispatch Bureau, In The Sir Waiter Hotel, Raleigh, Juiy 30 —Members of the State Highway and Public Works Commission are showing deep inter est in the dual highway type of road construction for congested traffic roads, and indications are that from now on most of the new heavy traf fic highways will be built on the dual road plan or so that an additional road may be built parallel to the pres ent road whenever traffic conditions may require it. This became appa rent during the meeting of the com mission here Thursday when a dele gation from the Charlotte Junior chamber of commerce asked the com mission to give serious consideration to the building of a dual road highway TOWNSVILLE ROAD WILL BESORFACED Letting Set For August 17 Includes Completion of Work Here Raleigh, July 30. (AP)*—Louis Payne, assistant highway engineer said today the Federal Roads Bureau had approved 18 more construction projects to make 24 for a letting now definitely set for August 17. The 24 projects include Bertie-Hert ford, 15.08 miles of surfacing on Routes 38 and 350 between Colerain and Ahoskia. Beaufort, 5.04 miles of grading and structures on Route 9 from Route 264 towards Route 97. Edgecombe-Pitt, 12.63 miles of con crete widening and structures on U. S. 64 between Princeville and Martin county line. Greene-Pitt, 9.76 miles of surfacing on Route 102 from Route 258 toward Ayden. Lenior-Wayne, 1.19 miles of sand asphalt paving on Route 55 near Seven Springs. Johnston, a concrete underpass at Smithfield. Harnett-Sampson - Johnston, 15.36 miles of surfacing on Route 55 be tween Dunn and Newton Grove. Vance, 6.74 miles of surfacing on Route 39 from Henderson toward Townsville. ’ CUMBERLAND GIRL IS 4-H PRESIDENT Boy From Iredell Vice-President As Result of Elections Near Close Os Meeting Raleigh, July 30.-(AP)-Elease Johnson, Cumberland county 4-H club girl, today was elected president of the State 4-H organization as the an nual short course here drew toward a close. Mavin Warren,' of Iredell coun ty was chosen vice-president; Car leton Mock, of Davidson, was named secretary, and Marguerite Ricks, of Johnston, was elected historian. ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA AND VIRGINIA. WIRE SERVICE OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS. HENDERSON, N. C., FRIDAY AFTERNOON, JULY 30, 1937[ crew. The missing: H. Paige, a passenger, address unknown. Cy llaynie, an oiler. The liner, sliding down the bay to Norfolk, burst into a floating furnace 14 miles below Baltimore. Flames, passengers said, roared from the lower holds and within three minutes after the first alarm had wrapped two-thirds of the boat in fire. The passengers, most of whom were at dinner, scurried to the rails, many still clutching their napkins. Others tumbled from state rooms. Two miles away resort residents rushed down to the water’s edge aghast at the horror before them. Boats put out from the beaches and fishing craft near the liner hurried toward her. from Charlotte towards Concord, rather than merely widen the present highway, as had been planned. May Buy Right-of-Way This interest in the dual roadway type of road, consisting of two paral lel roads with a space from eight to 16 feet between them, each road to be a one-way traffic road, only, was Bhown later when the commission ap pointed a special committee to study the advisability of purchasing addi tional right-of-way along the new high way from Raleigh to Durham byway of Leesville, so that in the future an other parallel highway could be built without having to purchase a new right-of-way. Commissioner T. Bod <o»nt, ~ ued on Page Five) CHERRY IS CHOICE OF THEDEMOCRATS Speaker of House Will Be Elected as State Chair man Tonight Daily Dispatch Bnreaa, In the Sir Walter Hotel. Raleigh, July 30. —The State Demo cratic Executive Committee will meet here tonight in the hall of the House to elect a new chairman to succeed former Chairman J. Wallace Win borne, now one of the two new asso ciate justices of the State Supreme Court. The meeting is expected to be al mest purely perfunctory and sparsely attended, with most of the votes sent in by proxies, since Governor Clyde R. Hoey has already indicated that he wants the committee to elect R. Gregg Cherry, of Gastonia, speaker of the House during the 1937 session of the General Assembly, as the new chairihan. Accordingly, the election of Cherry as chairman is expected to be unanimous and to require very little time. One of the principal reasons Gov ernor Hoey is believed to have select ed Cherry for the chairmanship of the executive committee is because he has long been impressed with Cherry’s organizing ability and with the dispatch and speed with which he gets things done. It is generally agreed that the 1937 session of the (Continued on Page Three.) PEANUT GROWERS TO SEEK CHARTER Raleigh, July 30.—(AP) —Represen- tatives of North Carolina peanut grow ers here today decided to apply for a charter for the Peanut Stabilization Cooperative to handle diversion of peanuts into oil in cooperation with Federal authorities. The meeting was held in the State 'Farm Buejau offices under bureau sponsorship. R. C. Holland, of Eden ton, was named chairman of the meet ing, with J. B. Fearing, of Windsor, acting as secretary. Sanctuary for 1,300 Americans in Peiping Marines at gate of U. S. legation in Peiping Col. John Marston With U. S. marines on guard at the gates, ap proximately 1,300 Americans in Peiping, China, where Japanese and Chinese are fighting, took refuge in the compound of the American legation. i s Two Men Die In Gas Room In State Pen Thomas Perry, 23, Negro, and A. W. Watson, 21, Execut ed for Capital Crime Raleigh, July 30 (AP)—Thomas Perry, 23-year-old Wake county Ne gro, and A. W. Watson, 21-year-old na tive of Athens, Ga., died by gas today at State’s prison in the two quickest asphyxiations on record here. Perry was convicted of ravishing a Negress at Wake Forest and prison officials said he was the first Negro to die for attacking a member of his own race since Walter Morrison, of Robeson county, died as the first victim of electrocution in 1910. Watson died for the robbery-murder of Thomas Holliday, a filling station attendant in Martin county, but con tended to the end, though he parti cipated in the crime, he did not do the killing. Gas was administered Perry for nine minutes, 29 seconds, and Watson for eight minutes, 58 1-2 seconds. Sheriff Collapses Sheriff Ray Hoover, of Cabarrus county, collapsed in the witness room (Continued on Page Four.) Resources Os State Banks $305,489,649 Raleigh, July 30 (AP)— Resources of commercial State banks totalled $305,- 489,649 as of June 30, Commissioner of Banks Gurney Hood announced to day, an increase of $2,288,469 over June 30, 1936. The resources, although lower than the $329,505,156 reported March 31, were the highest for the date since 1930, a quarterly statement showed. Resources of all commercial banks in North Carolina, including 43 na tional banks, totalled $415,032,649 June 30, this year, up $8,576,470 over a year ago. Loans and discounts, usually con meter increased from $81,115,702 last sidered fan accurate business baro year to $94,816,241 June 30, and indi cated a greater activity in business, Hood said. The commissioner said the 168 State commercial banks and 97 branches were being operated as against 176 banks and 87 branches a year ago. OUR WEATHER MAN FOR NiORTH CAROLINA. Partly cloudy, possibly occasion al showers on the coast tonight and Saturday. Commanding U. S. marines in the danger spot la Col. John Marston, also shown. As a precaution ary measure, marines erected sand barricades around the U. S. embassy grounds or compound. —Central Press Insurgents Condemn Two Frenchmen With Plot To Scatter Disease Germs Gov. Murphy Seen As Court Clioice Washington, July 30 (AP) — Frank Murphy’s week-end White House visit focused speculation to day on the red-haired youthful Michigan governor as a possible choice for the Supreme Court va cancy. White House officials were silent on the purpose of the visit. They denied, in response to reporters’ questions, President Roosevelt and his guest would undertake “to re write the Wagner labor relations act.” HAS IUONSPOT If We Say We Are Neutral, It Makes Liars of Pow ers Claiming Peace By CHARLES P. STEWART Central Press Columnist Washington, July 30. —The State Department is uncertain whether to worry more over the war in Spain or the Jap-Chinese situation. In away, the oriental threat a gainst world peace is an indirect de velopment of the European, distur bance. That is to say, diplomatic and military opinion is in general agree ment that the Japanese chose this particular time to attempt another grab of Chinese territory because Tokyo’s statesmanship believe occi dental countries to be too much pre occupied with the Spanish danger to give serious attention to Far Eastern happenings. It is an old trick of Nippon’s stra tegists to take prompt advantage of such opportunities. “Every One Knows —” Oh, yes, the United States proposes to keep entirely clear of any and all foreign disturbances, but, as Secre tary of State Cordell -Hull says, we cannot prevent them from affecting our interests. And we cannot, in fact, be neutral As to Spain. Every one knows that the Ger mans, Italians and Portuguese are warring on the English, French and Russians in the Iberian peninsula. Not officially at war, but actually so Continued on Page Two.) DEATH TOLL MOUNTS FROM PLANE WRECK i- Gilleneuve, St. Georges, France, July 30.—(AP)— The number of dead and injured mounted today as rescue workers labored to free passengers from the twisted wreckage of the crack Paris-St. Etinne express, which was derailed yesterday only a short distance from this sulhurban Paris station. PUBLISHED EVERT AFTERNOON EXCEPT SUNDAY. Franco Orders Executions Delayed, However Pend ing Complete vestigatio: MEN ARE ARRESTED IN NORTHERN SPAIN Member of French Chamber or Deputies With Similar Name, Denies Any Know ledge of Condemned; Mys tery Submarines Get Spanish Freighter Hendaye, Franco-Spanish Frontier, July 30.—(AP)—Spanish insurgent au thorities announced late today that a military court had quickly condemned to death two Frenchmen charged with plotting to spread disease ove: insur gent territory. However, General Fiancisco Fran co was reported to have ordered sen tence stayed until an international commission could review alleged evi dence of an international plot to loose typhoid and sleeping sickness germs behind insurgent lines. French ) . e.s:- ; ud h »-l re ceived no formal information on tli alleged plo”, althougn insurgents said all world capitalas well as the Lea gue of . would t f n Lfic l DISEASE GERMS SLIPPED ACROSS SP.WiSII BORDER (By The Associated Press.) Charges that international plotters sought to cause disease epidemics in insurgent Spain were put before Gen eral Francisco Franco'.: military couit today, with two Frenchmen on trial for their lives. The two Freucnmen, also charged (Con'iiiued on Page Eight.) Babson Urges Fair Play For Railroads Os Nation Labor, Taxes, Regulation and Traffic Peak Are Prob lems Facing Management; More Efficiency, How ever, Is Factor in Helping Roads Upward BY ROGER W. BABSON, Copyright 1937, Publishers Financial Bureau, Inc. Babson Park, Mass., July 30. —The railroads and # the utilities —the na tion’s two largest industries—are in the “doghouse”. Despite huge gains in their volume of business and the Senate’s Supreme Court action, rail stocks are no higher than a year ago, while utility equities are considerably cheaper. In one case business is above the 1931 level and in the other in stance it is at an all-time peak. Lower rates, higher taxes, heavier labor charges, and political badgering have offset much of the gain in volume and kept down the price of power and rail road securities. Several weeks ago I discussed util- 8 PAGES TODAY FIVE CENTS COPY AMERICANS SO FAR ARE SAFE IN ZONE OF MOST FIGHTING ! American President of Yen ching University Makes Way Safely Through To Peiping CHINESE RALLY TO RESIST JAPANESE Crack Soldiers of Nation Summoned To Drive In vader from North China; Battered Tientsin Again Raked by Japanese Artil lery And Planes Washington, July 30. —(AF) —Presi- dent Roosevelt said today the Far Eastern situation was very disturbing, and he would keep in r.’ose touch with the situation over the week-end. The President made this observa tion on the Far Eastern situation at his press conference today. Just across the stx’eet at the State Department, coded wireless messages flying half way around the world, brought latest repoits on the safety of Americans in China. CHINESE WILL ATTEMPT TO DRIVE JAPS OUT OF NORTH Peiping, July 30—(AP) Heavy ar tillery firing started suddenly this aft ernoon southwest of here at Yer.ch ing University, refuge of a group of Americans, as China was reported to have ordered her crack central army i: to action to dr]*/-? the Japanese a»my out of Norto China. The grave apprehension was felt for the safety of the Americans at the university. The group was be lieved to number five women and three men, including President J. L. Stuart, who had refused the warning of the American Embassy to leave. Fighting was general once again all about the ancient walls of the Manchu capital. The Japanese army was believed to be engaged in relent less “mopping up” operations against the remnants of the 29th Chinese army, the main body of which now holds positions across the Yungting river to the west. All communication was severed • with Yenching University as the fight ing there 'began. The university is (Continued on Page Four.) Asks Freedom For Five More In Rape Case New Yoik, July 30 (A-P)— Samuel Leibowitz, attorney for the “Scotts boro boys,” renewed appeals to Ala bama officials today to free five of nine Negro youths still held for an alleged mass rape of two white girls six and a half years ago. Leibowitz, Norman Thomas, Social ist leader, and Ruby Bates, one-time prosecuting witness, promised a “fight to the finish” at a mass meeting last night celebrating the liberation at four of the defendants. A long ovation greeted the four who were freed, Roy Wright, Olen Mont gomery, Willie Roberson and Eugene Williams. Leibowitz, saying officials admit ted the weakness of their case by freeing the four defendants, called upon Attorney General Albert Carmi (Conlinued on Page Eight.) ity stocks and advised holding them for higher prices. Today I want to analyze the position of the American railroads —the largest business enter prise in the entire world. Just as in the case of utilities, the rails’ are suf fering not from bad business but from bad sentiment. Railroad security own ers —even more than public utility the “forgotten” in vestors of today. The only difference is that while power stockholders are being squeezed by politicians, carrier investors are being milked by labor. Every One Has Stake. The railroad trouble has its roots, as the utility squabble has, in mis management in the past by bankers (Continued on Page Thre«.)
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