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HENDERSON GATEWAY to CENTRAL CAROLINA TWENTY-FOURTH year LABOR ASKS CHANGES IN WAGE-HOUR BOX INSURGENTS SEIZE IMPORTANT- FRONT OF LOYALTROOPS Government Forces Driven from Mountain Fortifi cation on Teruel Battle Front COMMUNICATIONS TO OUTSIDE ALSO CUT Government Field Head quarters and Huge Stocks of Ammunition and Sup plies Are Taken; At Least 100 Government Dead Left After Battle Hendaye, Franco-Spanish Frontier, . 3_(AF)— Two insurgent bri bes ’were reported today to have driven Madrid-Valencia troops from their main mountain fortification on the Teruel front, near Bezas, and to have cut their main communications artery. An official insurgent communique recounted in detail the twin opera tions, the latest developments in Gen eral Francisco Franco’s effort to ham mer a wedge into government terri tory in eastern Spain, and split the liaison between inland Madrid and coastal Valencia, temporary seat of the republican government. The thrust brought capture of the government field headquarters at the summit of a 4,000-foot mountain and huge stocks of munitions and sup (Continued on Page Three.) SOME IMPROVEMENT SHOWN FOR COTTON Favorable Weather Conditions Partly Offset by Trade Buying In Market New York, Aug. 3 (AP) —Cotton fu tures opened steady, three points higher to one point lower, with favor able weather partly offset by trade buying. An improved demand from the trade, as well as active New Or leans buying, sent buying up for net gains of 8 to 15 points after the open ing, with contracts comparatively scarce. December advanced to 10.79 and at midday was quoted at 10.78, when prices generally were 16 to 18 points net higher. Toward the close the market reacted partially under hedge selling. Prices ended steady, 5 to 8 points higher. Spot steady, middling 11.04. Open Close October 10.58 10.65 December 10.51 10.58 January 10.55 10.61 March 10.66 10.72 May 10.70 10.78 Juiy 10.73 10.79 CIO Drive Will Start In Carolina Charlotte, Aug. 3.—(AP) —Roy Lawrence, Carolinas director, an nounced today the beginning of a funeral CIO organization drive in the two states. Twelve new organizers have been sent into the field, making a corps of nearly 50 workers in the two states. ‘‘T his,” declared the ousted head on Page Four.) $12,486,486 Paid State For 1936 Soil Program 100,167 Applications for Payment Received Under Year’s Program, E. Y. Floyd Announces, Covering 5,360,000 Acres of C rop Land Over State ollege Station, Raleigh, Aug. 3. — ... f;n payments are completed, Cai*,lina will have recover! for articipating in the ' a KiScultural consiervatilon pro 7., i am ’ E - Y - Floyd, of State College, announcc-d today. Through June 30, he added, the wyrnents had amounted to $12,244- A leaving $241,941.79 to be paid. Dr r - arrners who cooperated in the thpk ram have received practically all am m ° ney ’ Floy d continued. A small D ° Unt ’ varying from three to five \ V (.,, Cen * in the different counties, 11 lo pay local administrative ex- PCl !! e h s of the program, cludf \ admin * s traitiye expenses in (a sums paid farmers who served mrnxhvvßim <3atly SltspafrTf ■ ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA AND VIRGINIA. H#givJip |||| jv / \|||| Mass meeting and parade in Bagdad In protest to the proposal of the British Royal Palestine commission recommending the partition of the Holy Land into three sections, Arabs in Bagdad stage a huge mass meeting and parade. The Arab protest is based upon the charge that the richest section of Palestine would be awarded to the Jews. But the Jews in turn protest because they would be restricted to a small area. ' —Central Press Big Airship Wrecked In Canal Zone Fear 14 Dead In Ruins of Pan-Amer ican - Grace Liner Down in the Ocean Balboa, Canal Zone, Aug. 3 (AP) The United States destroyers Babbitt and Taylor steamed at top speed to day toward a point 20 miles off Colon breakwater where, airplane observers reported, the submerged luxury amphi bian Santa Maria was seen in the sea. A Pan-American-Grace Air Line spokesman said there was no indica tions as to whether any of the eleven passengers or three crew men had sur vived. (Reports to the War Department from a searching air armada of 65 army and navy planes described the sighting of the plop’s “wreckage 20 miles due west of Colon in the Mos quito Gulf of the Atlantic and said there was no sign of life.) The destroyers, in canal transit at the time the report was received, hur ried at forced draft toward the spot. On board the plane were two Depart ment of Commerce officials, a woman ard two children and other United States citizens. Scores of planes, na val surface vessels and submarines had entered the search throughout the day on both sides of the isthmus. The Santa Maria, en route from Guayaquil, with transfer passengers from Lima, Peru, seemingly overshot its Cristobal port in a cloudy sky at dusk last night. men, he pointed out. Floyd also stated that 109,167 ap plications for payment were received under the 1936 program. These ap plication Sy some of whidh covered more than one farming unit, covered 5 360,000 acres of crop land. ’ In complying wjith the program, farmers of the State diverted 611,100 acres of land from soil-depleting ~o conserving crops, and carri^,.°^ t () soil-building practices on 1,045,200 aCr |?oyd added that 147,1000 work sheets have been signed by farmers interested in the benefits offered in thl 1937 program, fc<ut the total acre age which may be brought und ® r PV visions of the program is not knowp at this time. LEASED wire service of THE ASSOCIATED PRESS. ARABS PROTEST HOLY LAND SPLIT HENDERSON, N. C., TUESDAY AFTERNOON, AUGUST 3, 1937 Heavy Sales, Good Prices in Georgia Atlanta, Ga., Aug. 3 (AF)—The State Bureau of Markets reported today opening week sales in 51 of the State’s 59 tobacco warehouses totalled 13,010,160 pounds at an average price of 35.38 cents a pound. Receipts from sales totalled $3,- 035,920.05. The bureau said three of the 59 warehouses reported they had no sales opening week (Thursday and Friday) and five w r ere still to be heard from. Sales during the 1936 opening week (four days) totalled 25,318,196 pounds at an average price of 25.11 cents. Total receipts were $6,357,- 896. iiraF PROVEJNADEQUATE Secondary Roads Need Far More Than $2,000,000 Hoey Allotted Daily Dispatch Bnrcan, In. the Sir Walter Hotel. Raleigh, Aug. 3. —The highway de partment’s official family is not hav ing to stay awake nights in order to find something to do with the $2,000,- 000 allocated it by Governor Clyde Hoey for use on the secondary roads of North Carolina. “We could use $20,000,000 instead of $2,000,000 and still not be able to do all we’d like to do,” Vance Baise, department engineer, said this morn ing in discussing the allocation and plans for its use. The department plans to spend the entire allocation ,in repairing and building weak spots in the secondary roads over which school buses run and which last winter became im passable in many sections. Mr. Baise estimated that the repair of weak spots will cost on an average about S3OO per mile. “You can see from this figure,” he added, “that two million dollars will not repair any great proportion of the 35,000 miles of secondary roads over which our school buses run. We plan to spread the money out so that it will do as much good as can be possibly accomplished, nut it’s easy to see that we can spend it all wisely and still in a year it will be almost impossible to tell that anything hcs been accomplished.” Allocation of the $2,039,900 was made possible by increased revenues from practically every source. The highway department had estimated that its 1936-37 receipts would !un approximately $25,600,000. Actual re ceipts reached $29,503,000, aproximate ly, an increase over expectation of more than $3,500,G09. Highway officials are optimistic that receipts in the coming year will keep up to the pace set in the past twelve months, a pace which enabled the allocation of the extra $2.000 000 for the secondary roads. If their esti (Continued on Page Four.). Fresh Sino-Japanese Clash- Looms As Armies Draw Near Japanese War Planes Bomb Vanguard of Advancing Chinese Armies Head ing North CHINESE COLUMN TO BOLSTER 29TH ARMY Soviet Newspaper at Mos cow Charges Japan With Trying to Provoke War With Russia, and Lodges Complaint Against Tient sin Raid Recently (By The Associated Press) Japanese infantry, pressing south ward from Tientsin, came close to day to the line df northward-moving central Chinese government troops. At Tehchow, on the border of Hopeh and Shantung provinces, to the south, Japanese war planes bombed a van guard of the advancing Chinese arm ies. The Japanese march, however, was almost unresisted. It followed the Tientsin-Pukow rail road about 15 miles south of Tientsin, the same route the central Chinese government forces were said to be taking north. The head of the Chi nese column was reported to have reached southern Hopeh province. Its first function would be to bolster reorganization of the Chinese 29th army, now only a few miles from the Japanese western flank in Hopeh pro vince, where the Japanese claim a special sphere of influence. Chinese reported another Japanese column marching behind a screen of aerial bombardment toward Paotingfu Hopeh province capital, southwest of Pieping. • The newspaper Izvestia, official Moscow organ of the Soviet govern ment, charged Japan was trying "to provoke a conflict with the U. S. S. R. by any means.” It denounced % White Russian raid yesterday on the Soviet consulate gen eral at Tientsin and expressed sym pathy for China. In Tokyo the Soviet government lod ged a complaint against the Tientsin raid, charging it was inspired and protected by Japanese. Japanese foreign office officials de nied Japan was in any way implicated. SAYSITSIEDS IMPORISJE SUGAR Views of Experts on Con ditions Given As Debate Nears in Congress By CHARLES P. STEWART Central Press Columnist Washington.—Referring to the su gar controversy which has raged in congress off and on during the whole of the national lawmakers’ current session, I had occasion to remark in a recent article that, according to my best information, the continental United States cannot, in any event, produce nearly as much sweetening for its coffee and miscellaneous other purposes as we need, but absolutely must import a large share of it in or der to go around. It was a casual remark, not in tended to start an argument, but it did start one. Not a few readers have written, to tell me that I am altogether wrong; that “if we desire to do so, plus a re lease from the Cuban sugar pressure,” as one writer expresses it, “the United States literally could wallow in Amer ican grown and American refined sugar.” Checks On Self This set me to digging into the subject somewhat more intensively, to determine whether or not I was so far wrong. I never grew or refined a single teaspoon of sugar and have only an academic interest in the industry. All I think I know is what is told to me by those engaged in it. But I am bound to say, after ques .tioilihg a considerable number of folk who generally are recognized as experts on the subject, that it still seems to me I was approximately right. That is to say, I think so if the (Continued on Page Three.) IRWEATHEP MAX FOR NORTH CAROLINA. * Partly cloudy tonight and Wed nesday; possibly showers taear south coast. , . Protecting Americans in Peiping BSajjk, v :• Hr- : ' Sat <**£>**o#BP®* w This squad of American Marines is shown in the U. S. legation at Peiping where hundreds of American citizens |ound safety during the serious lighting between Chinese and Japanese soldiers. One American, a Marine, was injured by a stray bullet. (Central Press) IREDELL NEGRO IS FRIEDAS RAPIST Arraigned in Forenoon At Statesville for Assault ing Farm Woman Statesville, Aug. 3 (AP) —Walter Negro, was arraigned in superior court here this morning on charges of criminally assaulting a farmer’s wife and his trial was set for 2 o’clock this afternoon. Fifteen State highway patrolmen, commanded by Lieutenant L. R. F.sh er, of the Asheville office, and Major Charles D. Farmer, of Raleigh, head of the patrol, were here to aid offic ers in protecting the Negro, if neces sary. Their presence had been requested by Sheriff John Moore after a mob he estimated at 125 men had sur rounded the jail early yesterday and demanded the prisoner, who had, how ever been removed to another jail. There was no indication of excite ment among spectators who gathered around the court house this morning. Caldwell was accused of assaulting Mrs. Maggie Smith, 28, wife of George Smith, a well known farmer of the southern part of the county. The at tack was alleged to have been made last Saturday. PRICES CONFLICT IN STOCK MARKET Copper, Rubber, Specialties Push to Fore; Steels and Motors Show Weakness New York, Aug. 3.—(AP)—Contra dictory price trends spotted today’s stock market, with coppers, rubbers and specialties pushing to the fore, while yesterday’s climbing steels and motors retreated. Near the fourth hour, favored issues .were up frac tions or two or more points and those on the selling side were down as much. Bonds were inclined to edge for ward. Transfers approximated 950,- 000 shares. American Radiator ~ American Telephone 172 American Tob B Anaconda ® 9 1 9 Atlantic Coast Line 49 1-2 Atlantic Refining 2» l-z Bendix Aviation ™ I_z Bethlehem Steel Chrysler •• " Columbia Gas & Elec Co 13 3-4 Commercial .. Continental Oil Co DuPont y * "s*l Electric Pow and Light “ General Motors . .i. i o Liggett and Myers B "JjJ 1-2 Montgomery Ward & Co 62 1-2 Reynolds Tob B » 1-8 Southern Railway Standard Oil Co N J x ' 2 U S Steel PUBLISHED EVERY AFTERNOON EXCEPT SUNDAY. HATTERAS MAY BE RECREATION SITE Warren Gets Bill Through House for Project on Carolina Coast Washington, Aug. 2 (AP) —The House has passed and sent to. the Sen ate a bill by Representative Lindsay Warren, of the first North Carolina district, to authorize the Cape Hatte ras National Seashore Recreational Project. The Seashore, Representative War ren said, would be the only one of its kind in the United States. It would be on the Chicamacomico, Roanoke, (Continued on Page Four.) NEGRO’S SENTENCE CUT TO LIFE TERM Governor Spares Winston Man From Gas Chamber, Waiting for Him Friday Raleigh, Aug. 3.—(AP) —Governor Hoey commuted to life imprisonment today the death sentence imposed or. William Jackson, a Negro, in For syth, tJounty following his conviction on charges of criminal assault. Jack son was to have been executed Fri day. Two other men are scheduled to die this week, both for murder. Jackson, the statement said, was convicted of ravishing a nine-year old girl who had made convicting statements about the defendant. The solicitor, trial judge and fore man of the jury which tried Jackson recommended commutation, the state ment added. Cotton Road To Mark Start Os New Era For South, Gov. Hoey Says Clinton, Aug. 3.—(AP)—“This dedi- 1 cation not only marks a new era in | road building but it opens a new rich market for cotton,” Governor Hoey told hundreds of North Carolinians today as they celebrated the opening of the cotton road from Clinton to Faison. Earlier at Goldsboro, where a mo torcade formed for the trip down the new highway, the governor had told 700 or more people he felt the cotton road “holds great significance for the farmer.” He said he was glad “North Caro lina is now taking time to let the world know about the State after be ing so busy developing and building Q PAGES O TODAY FIVE CENTS COPY ROOSEVELT GIVES CONSENT 10 PLAN SOUGHT BY GREEN Measure Already Passed by Senate Is Now Being Heard by House Labor Committee PROPOSED CHANGES BEING CONSIDERED Senators Press Fight Against Roosevelt Naming Supreme Court Justice During Re cess of Congress; Roose velt Writes of Monetary Policies Washington, Aug. 3.—(AP)—Major ity Leader Barkley, Democrat, Ken tucky, said today he believed Congress would be able to agree on an adjourn ment date somewhere between Aug ust 15 and August 25. Meantime, William Green, Ameri can Federation of Labor president, said after a White House conference. President Roosevelt had agreed in principle to three amendments sug gested by the federation to the wage and hour bill. Topping the list of unfinished busi ness was this bill, passed by the Sen ate last week and now before the House labor committee. The House’s labor group had de layed action today, apparently to give organized labor time to draw up pro posed changes in the measure. Chairman Norton, Democrat, New Jersey, of the labor committee, said new amendments to the bill would be offered tomorrow. Senators, meanwhile, resumed dis cussion of the President’s attitude to ward placing on the Supreme Court a successor to Associate Justice Van Devanter, retired. The President may wait until Con gress has adjourned. Since this would mean the Senate could not re ject or confirm his selection until (Continued on Page Four.) Ehringhaus Draws Down F ederal Fee Ex - Governor Gets SIO,OOO as Special Attorney; A. D. Mc- Lean, $6,000 Washington, Aug. 3 (AP)—-A state ment by Attorney General Cummings disclosed today former Governor J. C. B. Ehringhaus of North Carolina re ceived SIO,OOO compensation from Jan uary 1 to June 30, as a special assist ant attorney for the Justice Depart ment. Ehringhaus handled govern ment cases involving alleged viola tions of a 1934 act banning munitions shipments to belligerents in South America’s Chaco war. Cummings’ statements were insert ed in the Congressional Record by Chairman Glass, Democrat, Virginia, of the Senate Appropriations Commit tee. The statements were made in compliance with the act appropriating funds to defray the expenses t)f spe cial assistant attorneys. The report also said Angus Mac Lean of Raleigh, N. C., a former assistant solicitor general, received $6,000 as a special assistant attorney in Cherokee Indian cases in North Carolina. that it has not told of what is going on here.” At Mount Olive, State Treasurer Charles Johnson and Secretary of State Thad Eure spoke. At Faison the speakers were Henry Stevens, for mer American Legion national com mander, and Kerr Scott, agriculture commissioner, and here Governor Hoey and Albert von Dohlen, repre sentative of Charleston, S. C., head lined the program. “Today we cojne to dedicate a cot ton road.f ,se|J Hoey. “At oither places in the State small stretches of roads have been built with th'e use of (Continued on Page Four.)
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