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HENDERSON GATEWAY to CENTRAL CAROLINA TWENTY-FOURTH YEAR SOUTHERN SENATORS REBEL ON WAGE BILL japan tightens up STRANGLE GRIP ON NORTH CHINA AREA Invading Armies Virtually Surround Ancient Chi nese City Os Peiping TIENTSIN SHELLED BY THE ARTILLERY Trying To Drive Chinese Defenders from That City; Residents Panic-Stricken; Some Concern Felt For Safety of Americans In Tungchow Area (By The Associated Press.) japan tightened her grip on the North China province of Hopeh today bv virtually surrounding the ancient capital of Peiping and driving toward complete control of Tientsin, commer cial gateway. Japanese artillery boomed continu ously in Tientsin in an attempt to drive from the central railway station ~r e? and the Chinese citv g-oups of die-hard Chinese macni nt-gurners Heavy weather kept Japanese planes from resuming their Iwo day bombardment of scattered Chinese positions, but artillery systematically blasted at surviving Chinese opposi tion. The heavy shelling increased panic among Chinese residents. Thousands of them tried to enter foreign con cessions. Northwest of Peiping, at Hsiyuan, 2000 Japanese troons battled the J7tli divsion of the 29th Chi lose army. The only possible gap m tr.e ring around the city came at Tungchow, 2o mile cast. Fate of the Tungchow Japanese: garrison was in doubt, but reports in dicated Japanese pianos and machine guns routed Chinese gendarmes who attacked the post Thursday. Some concern was felt for the safety of two Ame- icons and in the Tungchow region—Hi"V S. Martin, of Boston, and James A. Hunter, of* Peoria. 111. At Tokyo, General Sugiyama, min ister of war, declared Japan must be ready to settle the crisis by direct military action. At the same time Foreign Minister Horita told Parlia ment the United States apparently did not intend to apply the neutrality law banning sales of munitions to warring nations. Violence In Belfast Has Fresh Flare Belfast, Ireland, July 31 (AP) —Ter- rorists awakened Belfast with dyna mite today in a fresh outbreak of the violence which greeted King George on his visit to northern Ireland three days ago. Explosion of a land mine 50 yards from a police barracks in the west end and beating of a man by assail ants wro termed him “a spy and a police tout.” sent officers on a house to-house search for political extre mists. Both the city and the Ulster-Free (Cent I’' 1 ’' ued on Page Five) Storms Due On Carolina Coast Areas Forecast to Hit Cape Hatteras and Swirl Mightily About Virginia Capes Washington, July 31 (AP)—The Weather Bureau today issued the fol owing storm warnings: ‘‘Advisory 10:30 a. m.: Northeast S 01111 warnings ordered north of Vir 81ma capes to Sandy Hook, N. J., ex- u Pf>er Chesapeake Bay. Gulf ■Aurhance that crossed Florida pen nsu!a Thursday night centered 7:30 • un. short distance south of Cape utleras, moving north-northeastward least 20 miles an hour. Highest s/ tu rei)orte d 32 miles an hour from utheast at Hatteras. Disturbance (Continued on Page Four.) Uirnfrcrsmt iDatln tHsaafrh Defends Mrs. F. D. R M B ■jU i. ' \\ {ml Robert H. Jackson Radio income of Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt is not taxable, the treasury ruled, because Mrs. Roosevelt “received no income for herself and was no richer directly or indirectly for her labors,” Robert H. Jackson, above, assist ant U. S. attorney general, told a joint congressional tax commit tee. A Philadelphia charity re ceives the entire amount directly • from the broadcasting company after each broadcast. —Central Cress Teachers To Receive All Os Increase Provision Made for 10 Percent Pay Boost and Incre ment Rights as Well Daily Dispatch Bureau, In The Sir Walter Hotel, Raleigh, July 30—The more than 23,000 school teachers in North Caro lina are going to get the full 10 per cent increase in salaries given them by the 1937 General Assembly, in ad dition to the increases or “incre ments” earned as a result of increased experience and better certification, it was learned today following a meeting of the salary schedule committee here Friday, although members of the committee declined to discuss what had been done or make any state ments for publication. It was also learned that while the salary schedule for teachers will prob ably remain unchanged except for the addition of the 10 per cent increase provided by the General Assembly, that the schedule for principals and superintendents will probably be re vised somewhat to remove inequalities which have existed in the past and tend to provide more adequate salaries for the superintendents in the smaller counties and principals in the smaller schools. But this is not expeoted materially to increase the total amount needed for teachers’ salaries, but rather merely to correct inequal ties. The factor which has been holding matters up and clogging the salary machinery so that for a while there was some doubt as to whether it would be possible to grant the school teach ers the full 10 per cent increase in salaries, beginning this fall, was the item of $150,000 which was “loaned” to the school commission by Governor Clyde R. Hoey and the Council of (Continued on Page Three.) YOUNG EHRINGHAUS IN SEA WELL OFFICE Son of Former Governor Joins Re search Department of Attor ney General’s Work Raleigh, July 31 Lap) -Attorney General A. A. F. Seawell announced today appointment ot J. C. B. M ringhaus, Jr., son ot the former gov ernor, to the research, department-of “He comes to the office with fme recommendations as to his ability. He is an alumnus of the University of North Carolina.” Seawell expressed a high admira tion for Ehringhaus and said he would be a ‘very desirable member of the research department. ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA AND VIRGINIA LEASED WIRE SERVICE OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS HENDERSON, N. C., SATURDAY AFTERNOON, JULY 31, 1937 Photos of Sino-Japanese Struggl ein Peiping ’ .gßgggj§tra| j ■ NyRB B|pc&; • 1 p| , m -*- w: ( \ Top, cremation of Japanese dead; below, Peiping gate These photos, first to reach the United States from I Peiping, China, focal point in the new Sino-Jap- j anese conflict, show Japanese soldiers cremating | 20Prct. Os Georgia Tobacco Sold In Two Days; Price 25c Valdosta, Ga., July 31 (AP) —Tobac- co growers of the Georgia-Florida bright leaf belt sold about one-fifth of the predicted 1937 yield at opening auctions that established an average price of 25 to 26 cents a pound on Thursday and Friday of this week. The market closed firm for the More Jobs Being Made Over State Daily Dispatch Bureau, In The Sir Walter Hotel, Raleigh, July 31. —Better employ ment conditions in industry and com merce a> e be shown almesc. daily :n 1. e request r< * •; h\v»- s in North CV lina for M-nttemii blar.** f>«r making their reports on the payments to individual employees during the first and second quaiterr of 1937, as compared with 1936, it was indicated today by Chairman Charles G. Powell, of the Unemployment Compensation Commission. The division usually sends out ■banks for these quai:e:’y reports to the number reported by the employ ers f,or 1936, with addiU ms for a mod erate increase in tne number of em ployees. In many instance the em ployers ask for addition'll blanks, in dicating that they have had a mere than moderate increase in the num ber of employees. This seems to re flect considerable improvement in business and industry in the recent months, Chairman Powell pointed out. In this connection, Mr. Powell finds that occasionally an employer who had eight, nine or ten employees in 1936 and was thus brought under the Unemployment Compensation Act, has reduced his force to six or seven and thus thinks that he is no longer under (Continued on Page Three.) NORFOLK SOUTHERN TO REDUCE SERVICE Belhaven, July 31 (AP) —Officials of the Norfolk Southern Railway an nounced today the branch line from Mackey’s to Bishop’s Cross would be discontinued under authority of an Interstate Commerce Commission or der. week ytsterday after two days of brisk sales. Unofficial total poundage was reported at about 7,000,000 pounds o day. The Agricultural Economics bureau at Washington said opening prices “were about as expected,” and report ed main offerings consisted of good Afternoon Dailies Replace Man Who Has Served Them 11 Years Dully Dispatch Bureau, In the Sir Walter Hotel. Raleigh, July 31—As a result of the resignation of J. C. Backervill as manager of the Raleigh bureau bf the North Carolina Association of After noon Dailies, which post he has held for more than eleven years, and which he is now relinquishing to take up other work, Henry Averill, of Wil mington, has ibeen selected to suc ceed him as manager of the Raleigh bureau. He will start his new duties Monday, August 2. Mr. Baskervill has consented to remain on during next week to assist Mr. Averill in learning (Continued on Page Three.) OUR WEATHER MAN V FOR NORTH CAROLINA. Partly cloudy tonight and Sun day, with scattered showers in treme south portion Sunday. WEEKLY WEATHER. South Atlantic States: Fair lo partly cloudy, with occasional local showers over south and cen tral portions of district entire week, and ever extreme north por tion middle and latter part of week. Temperatures mostly war or somewhat >l>elow normal, their battle dead at Fengtai headquarters near Peiping and a main’ gate to Peipihg, barred and candbagged by Chinese, as & second-line defense. to choice quality primings and low to fair quality cutters. “Prices ap peared to be satisfactory to growers and there were but few rejections,” the bureau announced. The opening compared in prices with last year’s first week figure of slightly over 25 cents a poend. Fair Price On Tobacco Predicted College Station, Raleigh, July 31 — North Carolina tobacco growers may expect to receive a “moderately fav orable” price for their offerings this fall, according to a report received by E. Y. Floyd of State College from the U. S. Bureau of Agricultural Econo mics. The outlook for flue-cured weed is almost as favorable as that of last year, the report went on. The aver age price for this type of leaf in North Caroling last year was 22.4 cents a pound. Though supplies of this country are expected to be larger than last year, increased domestic consumption is probable. Larger exports are also an ticipated. The report pointed out that an in creased acreage of flue-cured tobacco in the Orient may decrease exports to those countries. However, porspects are good for increased shipments to European countries, especially to the (Continued on Page Three.) CUMBERLAND’S ABC PERSONNEL CHOSEN Liquor Stores in Fayetteville Elsewhere in County To Open September 1 Fayetteville, July 31. —(AP) —E. H. Foley, banker; Warren Tate, whole sale grocer, and W. Warren Horne, druggist, this morning were elected members of the Cumberland county ABC board to serve on a per diem basis, with Foley as chairman. They are to appoint a full-time manager for the county stores and expect to have the ABC, stores open by September 1. PUBLISHED IVBKY AFTHKNOOM EXCEPT SUNDAY. Harrison, Connally Lead Bitter Fight On Roosevelt Bill SENATOR LEWIS IN WARNING AGAINST NEUTRALITY PLAN Says if Measure Complied With In Immediate En forcement, War Would Be Quick SAYS DEMANDS ARE BY IGNORANT ONES Probe of Cotton Co-Ops Ar ranged; Governor Murphy F ad e s As Prospective Choice to Supreme Court; Arkansas Politics in Argu ment Washington, July 31.---'AF'» -Sen ator Lewis, Democrat Illinois, said today the United States could be at war with China or Julian, or both, “within an hour” .f it complied with demands for immcJu'e enforcement ox the neutrality lav/ “Tscussing the hdm min ration s po licy about the Asiatic crisis, Lewis told the Senate:. “Those who are demanding that the United States enforce its neu trality law at once, fail io see that the amount we announce either one of the nations as the aggressor and declare both as being at war. our ships of trade delivering American goods in the Orient would be at once seized by China or Japan, or both, as bring ing supplies to the enemy.” Meantime, at the Capitol a Senate inquiry committee appointed Colonel Lawrence Westbrook, former assis tant war administrator, as special in vestigator for its inquiry into activi ties of the American Cotton Coopera tive Association. Elsewhere in thei capital predic tions that a Federal judge would be promoted to fill the Supreme Court (Continued on Page Four.) CIRCUS ARTIST IS VICTIM OF WOUNDS Mrs. Vera Bruce Codona, Trapeze Artist, Victim of Bullets from Divorced Husband Long Beach, Cal., July 31. —(AP) — Mrs. Vera Bruce Codona, 32, famed circus trapeze artist who was wound ed in a double shooting here late yes terday, died today, after operations and blood transfusions in the Seaside hospital here in an effort to save her life after she was shot three times, police said, by Alfredo Codona, her recently divorced husband and inter nationally known aerialist. She 'never regained consciousness. Codona, the first circus star ever to do the triple somersault consistent ly, met Mrs. Codona’ and her mother in a lawyer’s office yesterday to dis cuss division of their property. The lawyer had stepped outside at Codona’s request. barkTeyreMts ROOSEVELT’S MOVE Doesn’t Like to Be Dictated to by La Follettes, As FDR Seems \ By CHARLES P. STEWART ' Central Press Columnist Washington, July 31.—President Roosevelt’s Democratic following in the Senate begins to show signs of a good bit of jealousy of the La Fol lettes of Wisconsin —not only of “young Senator Bob,” but “young Gov ernor Phil,” too. It will be recalled that the Presi dent recently took both “young Bob” and “young Phil” on one of his week end cruises down the Potomac. To be sure, Senator Alben W. Barkley of Kentucky, new administration leader in the upper congressional chamber, also was a member of the party. However, it doesn’t necessarily fol low that the confab was altogether harmonious. Subsequent developments have led many politicians to surmise otherwise. Barkley’s Pronouncement. Back from the cruise, “young Bob” (Continued on Page Four.) 8 PAGES TODAY FIVE CENTS COPY. Administration Leaders Say, However, Measure Will Pass on Vote This Afternoon DEMOCRATIC SPJ,IT SEEN AS UNHEALED Did Not Mend After Court Battle; Wage-Hour Bill Most Controversial Re maining as Bar to Adjourn - ment of Current Session of the Congress Washington, July 31 (AP) —The National Grange, a leading farm organization, joined some labor representatives today in seeking recommittal of the administra tion’s wage-hour hill. Senators said Fred Brenckman, legislative representative of the Grange nad been urging them to day to send the bill hack to com mittee because of broad powers it would confer on a board to fix minimum wages and maximum hours. By agreement the Senate was to vote at 3 p. in., eastern standard time, today, and the Grange’s in fluence was swung at the eleventh hour against passage. Although William Green, AF of L president, had come out for ap proval of the bill, some of the la bor organization’s representatives were still urging senators to side track it. Washington, July 31. —(AP)—Sena- tors Harrison, Mississippi, and Con nally, Texas, led a band of Southern Democrats today in an eleventh hour revolt against a major Roosevelt ob jective—wage and hour standards. They were trying to sidetrack the issue for this session by sending the Black-Connery wage and hour bill back to the labor committee. Administration leaders, however, predicted the measure would pass by (Continued on Page Four.) Sabotage Is Theory Over Burned Ship Baltimore, Md., July 31. —(AP) — Caiptain Charles Brooks, master of the ill-fated liner City of Baltimore, reiterated to a Federal inquiry here today his belief the disastrous fire which destroyed the liner and cost two lives was started deliberately. The captain blamed sabotage, he said, because he could not otherwise understand how the fire spread so quickly. “Do you think any member of your crew would be guilty of sabotage?” J. F. Staley, Department of Justice attorney, and member of the inquiry board, asked. “No, sir,” the officer replied. “I can only state, however, that it is mysterious that a vessel the size of (Continued on Page Four.) Revolt With Rebel Armies Is Reported Spanish Government Sources Tell of Con ditions Ex i s t i n g With Insurgents Hendaye, Franco-Spanish Frontier, July 31 (AP)—Spanish government sources asserted today revolt was spreading through the insurgent rear guard. They declared discontent had mush roomed into open fighting with Gene ral Francisco Franco’s forces on the southern coast. i The outbreaks were said to be sim ilar to one the government previously reported within ancient Granada, an other southern Spanish city, site of the famed Moorish Alhambra. The Fabra (Spanish) News Agency, (Continued on Page Four.)
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