HENDERSON
GATEWAY TO
CENTRAL
CAROLINA
TWENTY-FOURTH YEAR
Britain -Sends Strong Note
To Spanish Rebels Against
"Mystery*Attack On Tanker
INSURGENTS DRIVE
ON TERUEL FRONT
IS BOGGING DOWN
Government Forces Threat
en to Push Salient Back
in Its Very Tracks
There
NEWLY-WON AREA
BY REBELS FADES
Insurgent Officers Report
Anarchist Rebellion
Against Loyalist Govern
ment; British Protest Fol
lows Report From Its Con
sul At Algiers
London, Aug. 7.—(AP)—Great Brit
ain sent a strong note today to Span
ish insurgent authorities at Palma,
Mallorca, protesting yesterday’s “mys
tery” plane attacks on the tanker
British Corporal.
The protest followed a report from
the British consul general at Algiers
that the machine gun and bomb at
tacks “probably” were executed by
anti-government aircraft.
The monoplanes of unidentified na
tionalities dove at the British Cor
poral in the Mediterranean, 30 miles
northwest of Algiers, sprayed the
decks with machine gun fire and
dropped bombs close to the vessel.
FRANCO’S TERUEL. LINES
MIGHT BE PUSHED BACK
Hendaye, Franco-Spanish Frontier,
Aug. 7.— (AP) — Government forces in
eastern Spain threat faed today to
push General Francisco Franco’s
Teruel salient back in its tracks, Md
drid-Valencia commanders reported.
They said frontal and flank .at
tacks by infantry and artillery from
the south and west of one sector of
the Teruel front had gouged insur
gents out of newly-won territory
southwest of Teruel, Franco’s lower
Aragon base.
An insurgent communique said the
intelligence service had learned Gen
eral Jose Miaja, now commander of
the government’s Madrid defense,
junta, Madri central front, was to as
sume command of the loyalist army
on the Aragon front northeast of Ma
drid.
Meantime, Spanish insurgent army
officers at Irun declared they had re
bellion at Albacete and other impor
tant Spanish government centers.
The insurgents said Former Premier
Francisco Caballero, extreme socialist
leader, reportedly headed the anarch
ist movement.
COTTON DECLINE IS
EVIDENT ONCE MORE
Futures 3 to 13 Points Off at Close,
With Middling Quoted at
11.24 Cents
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New York, Aug. 7 (AP)—Cotton fu
tures opened barely steady five to 13
points lower on hedge selling and
pre-bureau liquidation. December
sold down to 10.70, and at the end of
the first hour, rallied to 10.74, with
the whole list 4 to 9 points net lower.
Futures closed steady, 3 to 13 points
lower. Spot steady, middling 11.24.
Open Close
October 10.85 10.85
December 10.72 .10.80
January ' 10.70 10.80
March 10.82 10.86
July 10.84 10.85
Convicted
Attacker Is
Found Dead
Bel Air, Md., Aug. 7. —(AP)—Dr.
•Armen Greenhut, convicted by a cir
cuit jury of criminal attacks on a 13-
year-old school girl patient, was found
dead this morning in his cell.
Sheriff Granville Boyle said,', “I
w uuld not term it suicide until the
coroner’s jury has completed its in
stigation.” He added he was not
abn* to give th«e cause of death!
I he sheriff , said he found Dr.
Dreenhut dead 'on the prisoner’s cot
w ben the officer went to call him for
breakfast this morning. He could
uot say sow long Greenhut had been
dead.
Magistrate Stanley Spencer, as act
lng coroner, summoned a jury to be
gin an investigation.
Dr. Greenhut was calm as he re
turned to his cell late yesterday after
being convicted in circuit court of a
charge of statutory rape. His attoiv
ucys were preparing a motion for a
new trial and to strike out the verdict,
°t which the maximum penalty was
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Hntiirrsnn Salftnaiamrfdi
ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA AND VIRGINIA.
Plans Fast Shaping Up
For Roosevelt Welcome
At Manteo On August 18
In Mayoralty Race
| ...
Jeremiah T. Mahoney
Jeremiah T. Mahoney, a former
New York state supreme court
justice and former president of
the Amateur Athletic Union, ha&
replaced Grover Whalen as anti-
Tammany candidate for the Dem
ocratic mayoralty nomination in
New York. Senator Royal S.
Copeland has been put forth by
Tammany for the nomination,
which is to be decided in Sep
tember primary.
—Central Press
ELECTRIC CONTRACT
LEGALLYCANCELLED
fCarmody’s Position Looked
Upon in Raleigh As Be
ing Ridiculous
Daily Dispatch Burean,
In The Sir Walter Hotel,
Raleigh, August 7—ls the contract
between the Johnston County Electric
Membership Corporation and the Fed
eral Rural Electrification Administra
tion has not been cancelled, lawyers
and officials of the North Carolina
Rural Electrification Authority do not
know what a cancelled contract is, it
was pointed out today. They are
unable to see any legal grounds for
the contention of Administrator John
M. Carmody, of the REA in Washing
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SLIGHT RALLY FOR
STOCKS AT OPENING
Steels, Minings and Specialties Lead
Market to Better Prices
During Brief Session
New York, Aug. 7 (AP V >—The stock
market joggled into a rally today be
hind steels, minings and specialties.
While the volume was nothing to ex
cite commission houses, gains of frac
tions to two or more points were wide
ly distributed at the close. Brokers
said there were some short traders
who wanted to get out of the maiket
over the week-end. A little investment
buying al3o appeared on the. theory
the list may have dragged bottom (lur
ing the past several days.
Bonds did better in spots and trans-
were around 350,000 shares.
American Radiator 22
American Telephone ... 170 3-8
American Tob B 88 3-4
Anaconda 88 l" 8
Atlantic Coast Line 50 1-2
Atlantic Refining *••• o a
Bendix Aviation 20 3-8
Bethlehem
Chrysler
Columbia Gas & Elec 13 3-4
Commercial
Continental Oil • • • 15 3-4
DuPont 16 2 I"?
Electric Pow & Light 22 1-8
General, Electric 57 5-8
General Motors ... .. 58
Montgomery Ward &Co ..... 63 3-8
Reynolds Tob B 52 3-4
Southern Railway ... ... ... 29 3-4
Standard Oil N J , 68 1-2
U Steel 118 3-4
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HENDERSON, N. C., SATURDAY AFTERNOON. AUGUST 7, 1937
Metts and Smith Visit Roan
oke Island With Secret
Service Man to Make
Arrangements
HIGHWAYPATROL TO
OFFER COOPERATION
Will Furnish Escort for
President and Handle
Highway Traffic; Hoey’s
Inaugural Marshal Will Be
Special Aide to President
on His Trip Here
Raleigh, Aug. 7.—(AP)—Governor
Hoey said today arrangements were
going forward for the reception of
President Roosevelt at Roanoke
Island August 18. Adjutant General
J. Van B. Metts and Assistant Adjut
ant Generail Gordon Snf'ith visited
Roanoke Island this week, the gover
nor said, along with Colonel E. W.
Starling, secret service man in charge
of presidential arrangements.
“Full details with reference.to the*
route of travel which the President
will make will be given after the mat
ter has been fully determined by
Washington,” Hoey said.
The highway patrol will cooperate
with General Metts in furnishing an
escort for the President and in aid
ing in handling traffic on the high
way.
Colonel Graham Hobbs, chief mar
shal at the inauguration of Governor
Hoey, will serve as a special aide to
the President under direction of Gen
eral Metts. The governor said he had
received a letter from Secretary o 5
State Hull saying the government of
Great Britain had been invited to
have a representative at Roanoke
Island when the President speaks,
and that the British Embassy in
Washington would indicate later
whether or not the government Would
have an official representative at the
celebration.
E. L. CORDRESIGNS
AS CONCERN’S HEAD
Rumor Relates to Reported Manipu
lation of Stock for Another
To Get Control
Chicago, Aug. 7 (AP) —E. L. Cord
resigned today as head of the corpor
ation bearing his name and was suc
ceeded by L. B. Manning, who has
been his first lieutenant in the direc
tion of the concern’s widespread inter
ests, an announcement by the com
pany said.
The announcement was made a
sfiort time after Federal Judge CHas.
W. Woodward issued an order re
straining Cord and Morris Markin,
president of the Checker Cab Com
pany, from alleged manipulation of se
curities on stock exchanges.
The company’s announcement of
Cord’s resignation said it followed an
exchange of stocks between Cord and
Manning, presumably giving Manning
a dominant position in Cord corpora
tion*.
PLYMOUTH COMPANY
STRIKE CONTINUES
Detroit, Aug. 7.—(AP)—Representa
tives of the Plymouth Motor Com
pany, of Chrysler Corporation, and of
the UAWA, returned today to a con
ference that in three days has pro
duced no indication of when the huge
Plymouth plant, which employs 11,000
normally, will reopen.
Lad Center
OfSquabble
Becomes 111
Chicago, Aug. 7. —(AP) —Little Don
ald Horst was ordered to his orphan
age bed with a fever today. County
Judge Edmund Jarecki said he would
grant temporary custody of the tot to
his foster parents should they file a
habeas corpus writ in their battle
over the boy with his natural parents.
Neither side had taken legal steps
to claim the boy, who was spirited
Tuesday night from the home of Dr.
and Mrs. Otto Horst by John Regan
and ILybia Nelson, who claim to be his
real parents. ~ • ‘ •
Donald, 31-months old, has been in
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Held in Hoax
[
Wilber Rothar, Bronx apartment
caretaker, has been jailed by fed
eral authorities who say he at
tempted to collect $2,000 from
George Palmer Putnam for “find
ing" his wife, Amelia Earhart, avi
atrix lost in the Pacific. Rothar
used an old scarf, which Miss Ear
hart lost several years ago, as proof
of his story.
(Central Press)
SCfllT TO CONFER"
WITH WALLACE AT
NATIONAL CAPITAL
Southern Agriculture Chiefs
Seeking Loans for Cot
ton Farmers on 1937
Crop
FEDERAL AID PLAN
TO BE DISCUSSED
Some Form of Control Is
Absolutely Essential, State
Commissioner Says; In
creasing Weevil Threat in
State Seen by State Offi
cial
Dntly Dispatch Bureau,
In The Sir Walter Hotel,
Raleigh, Aug. 7. —Kerr Scott, com
missioner of agriculture, will join with
representatives of other Southern
states in seeking to work out a plan
for Federal aid for cotton growers.
Mr. Scott, along with the secre
taries of agriculture for practically
every other cotton growing state, will
confer Monday with Secretary of
Agriculture Henry A. Wallace and
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Temporary Order, Asked
by Cheery, Favors State
in Tax Involved
Gastonia, Aug. 7.—(AF) —Six Gas
tonia taxicab operators had been tem
porarily restrained today by an order
signed by Judge Wilson Warlick from
running their taxis along the route of
the City Coach Company of Gastonia.
Gregg Cherry, counsel for the peti
tioners, all of them State officers,
said the order directed the taxicab
companies to show cause in superior
court at Charlotte on August 20 why
the order should not be made perma
nent- •;
Utilities Commissioner Stanley
Winborne, along with Attorney Gen
eral A. A. F. Seawell and his assist
ants, Harry McMujKan and TT W.
Bruton, are the petitioners Cherry
said.
The’bus company, Cherry said, op
erates a heavy schedule between Gas
tonia and Cramerton, and it is al
leged the taxicab firms have been in
vading the franchise privileges of the
firm. The State is interested, Cherry
said due to possible loss in its rev
enue from the six per cent tax on
gross receipts of the company.
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FOR NORTH CAROLINA
Partly cloudy tonight and Sunday,
scattered thundershowers thi3 after
noon.
WEEKLY WEATHER
South Atlantic States:: Partly
cloudy weather, with temperatures
near or somewhat above normal,, oc
casional scattered afternoon thunder-
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Japanese North China Army
Being Strongly Reinforced
To Assure Huge Land Grab
Compromise Court Bill,
Omitting All Reference
To Supreme Court, Voted
Senate Thus Ends Its Bitter
Six Months Battle Over
Epochal Issue
from FDR
RECORD" VOTE NOT
EVEN CALLED FOR
Only Two Voices in Opposi
tion Heard; Lewis of Illi
nois, Against It Because It
Deprives Lower Courts of
Too Much of Their Real
Authority
Washington, Aug. 7 (AF)—The
Senate ended its bitter six months
court controversy by passing a
compromise hill providing only for
procedural changes in lower Federal
tribunals. *
A substitute for the President’s ori
ginal bill, which included the enlarge
ment of the Supreme Court if justices
over 70 did not retire, the measure
approved did not even mention the
Supreme Court.
It was passed without a record vote
after a perfunctory debate.
Since the court measure was at
tached as an amendment to an unim
portant House Judiciary bill, it will
now go back to the House for its ap-»
proval. Littlej opposition was ex
pected .
Administration spokesmen had
agreed to the bill in principle, fol
lowing co.'lfepse of their Supreme
Court program.
Immediately after the bill’s passage,
Senator GufSOy, Democrat, Pensyl
vania, asked that his opposition be
recorded. Vice-President Garner per
mitted him to note his opposition in
the record.
The only opposition voiced on the
floor was by Senator Lewis, Demo
crat, Illinois. He contended the mea
sure was unconstitutional because it
would prevent a single Federal dis
trict judge from restraining enforce
ment of thei acts of Congress he
deems invalid.
It was virtually the last piece of
major legislation confronting the
Senate. Administration leaders con
fidently predicted adjournment with
in two weeks after the Seimte has
“marked, up a half dozen minor bills.”
Consideration had begun a half
year ago after Mr. Roosevelt’s request
for as many as six new high court
justices started an epochal legislative
upheaval.
Elsewhere in Washington, mean
while, Elliott Kaplan, secretary of the
National Civil Service Reform League,
said personnel provisions of the Rob
inson government reorganization were
“vague and contradictory.” Kaplan
testified at hearings on the bill by a
special Senate committee.
Capital Gossip
. BY HENRY AVERILL
Dally Dispatch Bureau,
In The Sir Walter Hotel,
Raleigh, Aug. 7. —Raleigh has had
almost a full week to ponder publica
tion of the fact that former Governor
J. C. B. Ehringhaus made a SIO,OOO
fee from the government for legal ser
vices, and the newest ex-chief execu
tive hasn’t yet been consigned to the
“economic royalist”' class which
speaks well for the popularity Mr.
Ehringhaus. r . * ( -
A..D. (Lon) Folger, Surry county
political czar and Nqrth Carolina’s
Democratic national committqeman,
is in Raleigh; but if he has anything
particular on his mind he hdsn’t di
vulged it yet. Just keeping tab on
doings in the capital and mixing wit
the political big wigs, it seems.
Many profess to see the fine hand
of a real publicity genius behind the
action of tha'Waketcounty liquor board
chairman in posting Anti-Saloon
Leagu6 signs in the Raleigh stores.
While some commentators and editors
have scored him for the action, there
are others who point out that he has
advertised his stores not ably in Ra
eigh and Wake county, but all over
the United States. Those who hold
the latter viewpoint contend, too, that
the signs will increase sales on the
'well known principle that folks will
usually want to do that which they
are forbidden or warned not to do.
One of the fishermen who came
here to complain about the co-opera
tive fisheries said just before entering
Governor . Hoey’s office, “J know he
can’t do anything about it, hut well
teffl him anyhow.'* Another chap,
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PPBIJfIHIDT) IVBRY AFTHKNOOM
EXCEPT SUNDAY.
His Limit Attacked
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Senator Harry S. Byrd
An amendment placing a limit of
$4,00S a family unit of each home
to be built under the Wagner
housing act, adopted following a
plea by Senator Harry S. Byrd of
Virginia is declared by advocates
of the act to “hamstring" it. The
amendment, adopted by the sen
ate 40 to 39, would withhold fed
eral loans or subsidies from proj
ects costing more than $4,000 a
family unit or SI,OOO a room.
—dmtral Urp.ss
Even Congressmen Don’t
Understand Them, Though
They Pass Them
By CHARLES P. STEWART
Central Press Columnist
Washington, Aug. 7—One complaint
against New Deal legislation is recog
nized even by many of the administra
tion’s friends in Congress as sound.
This complaint is that its bills, as
submitted to the lawmakers, are bad
ly, confusingly drafted; they seem to
have been thrown together by ama
teurs, and, at that, in a desperate
hurry.
So they were, in fact.
Framing a proposed new statute is
a job calling for considerable techni
cal training. A senator or representa
tive may be wholly in sympathy with
its purpose but condemn it in details,
as to its fashion of expressing itself.
Wrangle Over Phraseology
Now, the White House apparently
has been disinclined to leave this
preliminary' tinkering to experts.
Its policy has been to assign one or
another of its “white-haired boys” to
the task of preparing a desired enact
ment, and sending it, just as evolved
by him, to Capitol Hill, with the man
date, “Pass this.”
Thereupon congressmen, including
pro-administrationists, have given the
thing the “once over’ and then com
mented, “Perhaps it’s o. k., but we
don’t understand it.” After which a
long wrangle has started, not as to
what the administration was trying to
accomplish, but as to what its mixed
up phraseology meant.
Uncertainty
If specialists at lawmaking are in
such a state of uncertainty, what
must he the reaction of the average
individual, uneducated in fine-haired
legal distinctions?
What are the ultimate implications
of the Wagner act, for instance?
Or the wage-hour plan? Labor itself
is not agreed on that proposition.
Agriculture is not sure what the
farm program signifies.
Housing is a problem.
Workers do not like having a per
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ARE NEAR 45,000
Military Forces Steadily
Spreading Out to Occu
py Rich Region to
Be Seized
PEACE IMPOSSIBLE,
ATTACHE DECLARES
All Japanese Nationals Or
dered to Evacuate Hankow
Leaving Administration to
Chinese Authorities; Japs
Fear for Citizens in Cen
tral China
Peiping, China, Aug. 7. —(AP) —Ja-
pan’s North China war machine,
strengthened by 15,000 neW troops in
the Tientsin area, \va3 estimated to
day by informed Asiatic observers to
total 45,000 men, massed in the rich
region r y destined to con e
under full Japanese sway.
Reliable reports said the 15,000 neyir
troops arrived in Tientsin recently to,
reinforce the Japanese military forces
steadily spreading out northwest and
south through Hopeh province, center
of the vast area Japan intends to
dominate.
Army reinforcements came as Ja
pan disarmed the Chinese police of
Peiping and Japanese nationals were
allowed to leave their embassy com
pound where they sought sanctuary
when the Sino- Japanese trouble
arose.
An attache of the Japanese Embas
sy declared, however, Japanese would
be required to return to the compouhd
at night after transacting their cus
tomary affairs during the day.
The embassy attache told the Asso
ciated Press “peace is impossible in
the Peiping area while central (Nan
king) Chinese troops are operating in
the vicinity of Hankow Pass, near
the Great Wall, and maintain a chal
lenging attitude toward the Japanese
army.”
ALL JAPANESE ORDERED
TO LEAVE HANKOW CITY
Hankow, China, Aug. 8. —
Japanese naval and consular officials
today ordered complete evacuation of
all Japanese in this important com
mercial city, an international treaty
port at the confluence of the Yangtze
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DRIVERAS HELD IN
ABDUCTION OF BOY
Fred Ewart Tells Conflicting Stories
About Seizure of Horst Lad
In Chicago ___
Chicago, Aug. 7.—(AP) —'Fred Ew
art, 35, a former convict, was held by
the police fofr questioning today in the
abduction of Donald Horot, two.
Meanwhile* the child’3 natural and
foster parents studied maneu
vers to win custody of the boy.
Missing since Donald’s real parents
tore him from the arms of his foster
mother last Tuesday, Ewart was seiz
ed shortly after midnight at the home
of a brother. Police Sergeant Frank
Janousek said Ewart first told him
he had driven the car during the ab
duction “as a favor,” hut later said
he merely had borrowed it. Ewart
declined to make a formal statement.
“I won’t talk until I get a lawyer,”
the officer quoted him. * ~t
Applicants
ToßarFace
Long Wait
Raleigh* Aug. . Tj.—(AP)—ThU ’lB9
persons who took examinatihns hero
this week seeking admission to the
North Carolina Bar, must wait until
around August 29 to find if they get
licenses.
Henry London, secretary of the
board of examiners, said a recess un
til August 27, was taken by the exam
iners late yesterday when it wAa
found it would be impossible to finish
grading all the papers at this sitting,
on account of the large number of ap
plicants and the resulting increase la
the volume of papers.
Judge L. R. Varser, of Lumberton,
chairman of the board, announced,
however, “the board is sufficiently
advised to feel very much gratified
at the very fine character of the pa
pers generally, and it is likely that
the percentage of those passing will
exceed that of any previous examina
[ tion given by this board.” _