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.
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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
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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
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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-
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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
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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
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