HENDERSON
GATEWAY TO
CENTRAL
CAROLINA
TWENTY-FOURTH YEAR
HOUSE DEUTS WAGE-HOUR BILL FOR WEEK
INSURGENT MOORS
NEAR ANNIHILATED
BY LOYAL TROOPS
Desperate Hand - to - Hand
Combat Leaves Many
Tribesmen Dead on
Teruel Front
BLOODY WARRIORS
ARE PUT TO ROUT
Field Guns Dragged Into
Place After Battle and In
surgent Positions Shelled
by Government Forces;
Small Trawler Sunk by
Rebels in Bay
Hendavo. Franco-Spanish Frontier,
Au{ ,_ S._L(AP)—An insurgent force,
mostlv white-turtaned Moors, was re
ported today to have been shattered
in hand-to-hand combat on the Teruel
front.
In another theatre of the Spanish
war. the Bay of Biscay on the north,
the insurgent ship Dato was reported
to have sunk a small trawler of un
identified nationality. Insurgent ad
vices said the boat tried to run the
blockade of the government port San
tander.
The Teruel battlefield, about ten
miles southwest of General Francisco
Franco's lower Aragon base at Teruel,
was strewn with the bodies of Moors,
a government communique declared.
After the government troops swept
their foe from the heights in this
combat yesterday, field guns were
dragged into place and heavy fire was
turned on the insurgent position near
a small stream winding through that
part of the eastern “bad lands”.
The Moors, still in their native
headdress, wore the khaki uniforms
of Franco’s legions. They are per
haps the fiercest warriors under the
insurgent banner.
A. & nTc" BOARD TO
DEFER ELECTIONS
Governor Hoey Makes Request of
Meeting in Morehead, But
Gives No Explanation
Raleigh, Aug. s.—(AF)—Governor
Hoey revealed today he had asked
the board of directors of the Atlantic
and North Carolina Railroad to defer
election of officers and directors until
another meeting in September.
The governor sent R. O. Self, clerk
of the Utilities commission, as the
States proxy to vote its controlling
stock at the annual directors’ meet
ing at Morehead City today.
“In a personal letter I asked the
board at this time to defer election of
officers and directors,” the governor
said. “I presume it will transact cur
rent business. I suggested it meet
again in September to consider elec
tions.”
Hoey would not reveal his reasons
for asking the delay.
Charlotte
Folks Die
In Wreck
Hartsville, S. C., Aug. 5. —(AP). —-Dr.
J. P. Matheson, 59, Charlotte, N. C.,
physician, was killed instantly and a
woman companion died a short time
later as the result of an automobile
wreck near here early this afternoon.
Highway Patrolman Paul McClel
land said the woman victim had been
identified as Mrs. J. T. Sowell, also of
Charlotte.
Julius Calock, 63, chauffeur, was
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Grading Os
Tobacco To
Be Offered
Goldsboro, Aug. 5 (AP)--Charles
Gage, of Washington, D. C., specialist
ln charge of the tobacco inspection
p C, i°u of the Bureau of Agriculture
conomies, announced here today that
'ce tobacco government grading on
lhe Goldsboro, Farmville and Oxford
aiarkeLs would be continued this year.
IVe inspectors, he said, would be
7'-° the market here.
, iccrs fw a permanent news bu
du and headquarters for training to
d(co inspectors have been leased in
•Raleigh, he said.
referendum on the establishment
tahi W ‘ rv - 0e Wendell will be es
tablished this month. . “ '
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only DAILY NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA AND VIRGINIA.
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The Pan-American-Grace Airways airliner which was found submerged 30 miles from Port Cristobal, was
a twin-motored Sikorsky such as is shown above. The sunken plane carried 11'.passengers and a crew of
three. The airliner was enroute from Lima, Peru, to Cristobal when the last report from it’s radio said
they were turning out for bad clouds ahead* (Central Press)
Rocky Mount Girl Badly
Stabbed By Durham Man
Lucile Bell, 19, Attacked, With Apparent Robbery
Motive, By Paul Edward Laugban, Who Is Jailed;
Girl and Small Sister Fight Assailant
Rocky Mount," Aug. 5 (A?) —A
young telephone operator lay' in a
hospital gravely wounded here today
and a 29-year-old Durham county man
was being held in the Nash county
jail at Nashville on charges of rob
bing the girl and stabbing her in the
back near her home late last night.
A man booked by officers as Paul
Edward Laughan, who gave his ad
dress as Durham, Route 1, was spirit
ed away to the jail about midnight
after a youth, Russell Lane, had heard
the girl scream, held him at point of
a shotgun until officers arrived.
Later in the day the prisoner told
Chief Hedgepeth and Solicitor Lin
Threats Os Rail Strike
Vanish With Agreement
Wage Raise of Five
Cents an Hour Is
Granted to O v.e r
Million Employees
Cleveland, Ohio, Aug. 5. —(AP) —
Threats of a strike of more than 1,-
900,000 railroad employees diminished
today.
A five cents an hour wage increase
announced in Washington brought
peace between the nation’s carriers
and non-operating employees,
since ratification was held only a
formality.
Still confronting the railroads, how
ever, was the vote of 350,000 members
pf five operating brotherhoods author
izing a strike to enforce demands for
20 per cent raises.
Settlement of the dispute with non
operating hrotherhbods, such as
clerks and shopmen, was announced
by the National Mediation Board last
nighti These 14 crafts authorized
early this week a strike if Jheir de
mands were rejected.
Otto Beyer, of the board, said the
raise represented an increase of be
tween 8 1-2 and 8 3-4 per cent. The
non-operating employees, like the
operating employees, had demanded a
20 per cent increase.
GUILFORD COLLEGE
OFFICIALS CHOSEN
Dr. Milner, President, Presents Re
ports of Successful Operation
of Institution
Guilford College* Aug. 5 (AP)—Dr.
Clyde Milner, president, and D. D.
Carroll, of Chapel Hill, chairman of
the board of trustees, presented re
ports of fine progress of Guilford Col
lege before a general session of the
annual meeting of the North Caro
lina Society of Friends this morning.
For the first time in history, a wo
man was elected to the board of trus
tees. Mary Petty, of Greensboro and
j. Milton Edgerton, of Goldsboro,
whose terms expired this year, were
re-elected by unanimous vote for
terms of five years. _ - .
LEASED WIRE SERVICE OF
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS.
HENDERSON, N. C., THURSDAY AFTERNOO N, AUGUST.S, 1937
wood Elmore he was William "F. Shu
maker and he lived between Durham
and Hillsboro. The authorities imme
diately contacted Durham officers in
an effort to verify the statement.
Charged With Robbery
He was charged with highway rob
bery and assault on a female in
flicting serious bodily injury.
The girl, Miss Lucile Bell, 19, mem
ber of a respectable family, was said
by hospital attaches to have received
a puncture in one of her lungs, from
three jknife .stabs, which Chief of
Police O. P. Hedgepeth said were in
(Con'iuued on Page Eight.)
U. S. Yacht Makes
Clean Sweep Race
Aboard Coast Guard Cutter Ar
go, Off Newport, R. 1., Aug. 5.
(AP) —Gaining her lead on a rec
ord ten-mile windward leg and
holding it safe over the rest of the
30-mile triangular course, Harold
Vanderbilt’s sleek snub-nosed Ran
ger today, led T. O. M. Sopwith’s
Endeavour 11, the British challen
ger, across the finish line by
about half a mile to score her
fourth and deciding victory in de
fense of the America’s Cup.
Chryslers
Plant Shut
After Riot
Detroit, Mich, Aug. 5 (AP) —The
Chrysler Motor Corporation’s plant
remained closed today after a riot
yesterday in which ten men were in
jured. Only a few men appeared for
work today. The gates were not open
ed, and from a United Automobile
Workers sound truck came instruc
tions for the men to return to their
homes.
Conferences were resumed today.
The UAWA demanded reinstatement
of four men discharged for alleged
participation in an attack yesterday
noon on two officials of the Inde
pendent Association of Chrysler Em
ployees, whose claims of 26,000 mem
bers are disputed by the United Auto
mobile Workers.
Richard Frankensteen, organization
al director for the UAWA, said “there
probably will be no work today.”
The big plant, which employs 11,000
men remained closed throughout the
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WAGE-HOURS BILL
OVER WHIP
Purelv Struggle of North
ern Industralists to Curb
Growing Southern
Industry
IS LITTLE BENEFIT
OR NEED SOCIALLY
Opinion Given by Utilities
Chairman Winborne,’ Who
Says Rate Differential
Must Be Removed If South
Is to Survive Under New
Regulations
Daily Dispatch Bureau,
In The Sir Walter Hotel.
Raleigh, Aug. 5. —Enactment of a
wage and hour bill by Congress will
make absolutely imperative the re
moval of railroad rate differential's
against the South, if industrial pros
perity is to continue in Dixie, Stanley
Winborne, State Utilities Commission
head, believes.
Action of the Interstate Commerce
Commission in making- an investiga
tion of these differentials upon their
own motion is a very hopeful sign,
Mr. Winborne said today in discussing
the rail rate situation. Originally a
combination of southern states filed a
formal complaint with the commis
sion, but also requested the I.C.C. to
investigate the situation upon its own
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JAPANISII
FAST ORIOSE ALL
China Would Probably Be
Victor If Contest Were
Long Drawn Out
By CHARLES P. STEWART
Central Press Columnist
Washington. —If China and Japan
actually go to the mat, military men,
to judge from comment by those in
our own war and navy departments
and by attaches at the various foreign
embassies in Washington, are in gen
eneral agreement that Nippon must
win in jig time or it cannot win at all.
It is not disputed that, in training
and equipment, the mikado’s forces
greatly outclass China’s.
Japan, however, all accounts indi
cate, has not the resources to wage a
long war. As its supplies play out, it
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~r>UR WEATHEP MAH
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fob NORTH CAROLINA
Partly cloudy; showers in east por
tion tonight and possibly near the
coast Friday.
TO FIGHT TO DEATH
AGAINST JAP ENEMY,
GEN. CHIANG STATES
Meanwhile, American Con
sular Agents Plan Evacua
tion of All Ameri
cans In China
JAPANESE TROOPS
MOVE ON CHINESE
Motorized Force Rolls North
To Halt Advance from Be
hind Great Wall; Ameri
can Missionaries Fear Loss
of Vast Investments and
Years of Labor
Nanking, China, Aug. 6 (Friday)
—(AP) —Official foreign circles in
the central Chinese capital heard
today the Japanese army had in
formed diplomats at Tientsin that
Sino-Japancse hostilities would be
pushed to the banks of the Yel
low river.
(North of the Yellow river lies
the five-province territory in
which Japan desires a dominant
economic influence—Hopeh, Cha
har, Shansi, most of Suy-Yuan,
and the northern third of Shan
tung. Most of the Chinese central
government’s troops presumably
are still south of the river. Most
of the fighting so far has been in
Hopeh.)
Shanghai, China. Aug. s. —(Ap)
United States consular officials in all
China organized the whole American
population tonight to guard their
lives and get them out of possible
danger zones, if necessary, while
China’s General Chiang Kai- Shek
suddenly proclaimed:
“We will fight to the death.”
By nightfall, the month-old unde
clared war brought thejie develop
ments:
1. Columns of motorized Japanese
troops rolled north to halt a Chinese
advance from behind China’s Great
Wall.
2. Chiang Kai-Shek, leader of the
(Conf'ued on Page Five)
WINDSOR LADY DIES
OF SPOTTED FEVER
Windsor, Aug. 5 (AP) —Mrs. Le-
Boy Harris, 25, of the Askewville
section of Windsor, Route 3, died
yesterday afternoon in the Wind
sor hospital of what attending
physicians said was fever,
supposedly caused front the bite of
a wood tick. Before being admit
ted to the hospital last week, Mrs.
Harris pulled one of the supposed
ly deadly ticks out of her scalp,
where it had imbedded itself.
TRUCKS RUN AGAIN
OVER PHILADELPHIA
Near Normal Service Restored After
End of Strike; Night Flare-*
Up Subsides
Philadelphia, Aug. 5. (AP)
Trucks began to move normally
throughout Philadelphia today. The
flare-up last night a few hours after
the city-wide sf.rike had been an
nounced ended, except in the case of
companies under contract .to haul
goods for the Great Atlantic & Pacific
Tea Company, subsided.
Mayor Davis Wilson, who proclaim
ed a state of emergency yesterday,
said the proclamation would remain
in effect until he was reasonably cer
tain all danger had been passed.
Police convoys escorted A. P.
trucks today, giving them safe con
duct throughout the city.
Tobacco Tax
10 Prcnt. Os
U. 5. Revenue
Washington, Aug. 5. —(AP) —Inter-
nal revenuestatistics disclosed today
tobacco tax collections of $552,254,145
for the fiscal year ended June 30, rep
resented more than ten per cent of all
Federal - tax receipts for the year.
The tobacco collections were more
than double the $265,755,938 paid in
social security taxes, although the*
failed to exceed the $595,301,432 paid
in liquor revenue.
Total internal revenue taxes for
‘ 1936-37 were with in
come levfips accounting for nearly
half that amount. Corporation in
come taxes totalled $1,054,888,799
while individual income taxes totalled
$1,094,492,370.
Tobacco tax collections represented
a gain of more than $20,000,000 over
1935-36 receipts from the golden weed.
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EXCEPT SUNDAY. J? IV Hi LIIIJN I b LUr X
Lost On Plane
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Rex Martin of the Department of
Commerce was among the 14 persons
believed carried to their deaths in the
Pan-American-Grace Airways airliner
which was found sunk 30 miles off
Port Cristobal, Canal Zone.
■
G. Q. Caldwell (above) of the U. S.
Department of Commerce, was one of
the 11 passengers aboard the Fan
An)erican-Grace Airways airliner
found submerged in the sea thirty
mikjs northeast of Cristobal. The
Sikorsky amphibian was enroute to
Cristobal from Lima, Peru, when it
crashed.
TIMBER SHORTAGE
CAN BE AVERTED
Right Forestry Methods Is
Remedy, Farm-Home
Week Group Is Told
Raleigh, Aug. 5. —(AP) —The United
States need not fear a timber shortage
if approved forestry rftethods arc
practiced on farms,, speakers tofld
North Carolina farmers here today,
while farm women at Farm and Home
Week held their annual business ses
sion and luncheon. \
Ferkins Coville, of the United
States Forestry Service; James Mc-
Clure, president of the North Caro
lina Forestry Association; R. W.
Graeber, extension specialist in for
estry N. T. Barron, a forester in
Washington county, and P. R. Camp,
of the Camp Manufacturing company
at Frankjin, Va., discussed timber
problems. ,
Tonight the delegates will hear
Governor Hoey and Harry Brown,
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ATLANTIC STORM TO
STRIKE N. C. COAST
' 9
Capes Warned of Approaching Dis
turbance, Which Will Not Be
Violent in Nature
Jacksonville, Fla., Aug. 5. (AP)
The Weather Bureau said today a
slight Atlantic disturbance “probably
would pass over or near” the Nbrth
Carolina capes this afternoon or early
tonight, “without damaging winds.”
Observers said the storm area,
which never has developed* into a full
tropical disturbance, continued to be
a hazard for small boats. They there
fore 'warnerJ smajl craft near the
North Carolina coast to use caution
today and tonight.
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HOUSING BILL AND
SUGARLffiISLATION
Final Vote on Sugar Meas
ure Anticipated in Lower
Branch Probably
Tomorrow
ADJUSTMENT FOR
AUG. 21 IS SOUGHT
Chief Threat to Sine Die
Close Is Growing Demand
for Farm Act; That May
Be Dropped Now To Be
Taken Up in Extra Session
In Fall
Washington, Aug, 5 (AP) —Speaker
Bankhead announced today the House
would take up the administration’s
wage and hour bill late next week —
possibly Thursday. The rules com
mittee will not consider the legisla
tion before Wednesday, he said, add
ing housing legislation probably would
occupy the House the first part of the
week.
A Saturday session will be held, he
said, if the new sugar control bill
should not be disposed of tomorrow.
The House began consideration of
this legislation today, with a final
vote possibly tomorrow.
The speaker said he was “still hope
ful” Congress would be able to ad
journ by August 21.
The chief threat to adjournment in
two or three weeks appeared to be a
growing demand for general farm
legislation. >
Senator Black, Democrat, Alabama,
submitted a petition signed by almost
half the Senate during the day urg
ing a special session of tJongress in
the fall to enact such farm legisla
tion.
The petition was signed mainly by
Democrats and independents.
It said the signers felt it would be
“unwise” to wait until January to en
act farm legislation, because farmers
making preparations for their crops
should know what laws would be on
the-books ahead of that time.
Black presented his petition to the
Senate shortly after a group of sou
thern Democrats said, after a White
House conference, President Roose
velt had reiterated his stand that
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JEFF HARRIS~SLAIN
BY FEDERAL AGENTS 1
Victim of G-Men's Bullets Sought for
Violation of Motor Vehicle
Theft Act
Washington, Aug. 5.—-(AP)—J. Ed
gar Hoover said today Federal agents
shot and killed Jeff Harris, 34, at Tus
cumbia, Ala., early today. Hoover said
Harris was resisting arrest.
Hoover, Federal Bureau of Investi
gation director, said the shooting oc
curred wherf the Federal agents, ac
companied by the sheriff of Colbert
countty, and deputy sheriffs,
tried to arrest Harris at the residence
of Arlin Harris in Tuscumbia.
Jeff Harris was being sought, Hoo
ver said, on charges of violating the
Federal motor vehicle theft act.
Justice Department records showed
Jeff Harris entered Kilby prison,
Montgomery, Ala., February 15, 1935,
on a charge of second degree murder,
for which he received a 20-year sen
tence. He was paroled later, but the
governor of Alabama revoked the pa
role last February 24, Hoover assert
ed.
Capital Gossip
BY HENRY AVERILL
Dally DlMpatch Btirenu,
In the Sir Walter Hotel.
Raleigh. Aug. 5. —For the first few
days of this week Raleigh was very
much, a deserted village, so far as
State officials and politicians were
concerned. They were all planning
to go, attending or returning from
the “Cotton Road” celebration in
Clinton.
Visitors to the headquarters of Cut
lar Moore, chairman of the State Liq
uor Control Board, are greeted with
this very discouraging sign promi
nently displayed where all can read:
“No samples allowed in this office.”
No story out of Raleigh in many
moons has had the same general
reader appeal as that telling of the
death of “Portland Ned,”’ one-time
safe cracker who was reformed by his
love of flowers.
One thing generally overlooked in
these stories was the fact that during
his last years, Ned, once known for
his disrespect for the valuables of
others, was often left as guardian of
thousands of dollars of silver
and jewelry, when the governor’s
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