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American Marines Preparing
For Worst As Great Battle
Looms In Shanghai Environ
BE TORRENT OF
CHINESE SOLDIERS
FACE JAP TROOPS
Russian, French and British
Garrisons Join U. S. In
Preparing For
Defenses
PEACE CONFERENCE
MAKES NO HEADWAY
28 Foreign Warships Tied
Up Along Shanghai’s Wa
ter Front, and 21 of Them
Are Japanese; Only Two
Insignificant American
Ships There
Shanghai, Aug. 12. —(AP) —‘Ranks
of Japanese bluejackets moved into
battle positions in Shanghai to face
an unstemmed torrent of Chinese re
gulars tonight, and the garrisons of
the United States and three other na
tions mobilized “for the worst.”
A "peace” conference intended to
ease the crisis in the panic-stricken
city ended in failure.
Backed by 21 warships at Shang
hai's wharves, Japanese naval forces,
estimated to number between 5,000
and 8.000, moved into the same posi
tions they occupied during 1932’s Chi
nese-Japanese hostilities.
They deployed along the fringe of
the Japanese part of the international
settlement and roads extending north
ward.
Chinese central government troops,
streaming into the city, answered to
no authority tut the army. Civilian
authorities would not try to stop them
Each force indicated it was not
planning to attack. But the situation
needed only a spark to touch off an
explosion.
United States Marines, 1,050 strong,
mobilized along with Russian, French
and British garrisons. The Americans
were charged with the protection of
nearly 4,000 United States citizens in
Shanghai and environs, some of whom
Continued on Page Two.)
AMERICAN NOVELIST
PASSES IN FRANCE
Saint Brice, Sou Bois, France, Aug.
12 (AP)—Edith Wharton, the noted
American novelist, died yesterday at
her chauteau near here, it was learn
ed today.
High Officials Os
Iraq Assassinated,
Jerusalem Reports
Jerusalem, Palestine, Aug. 12—
(AP) —Reports from Bagdad said
today Major General Becker Pasha
Iraq minister of defense, and Col
onel Mohammed Jawad, chief of
Iraq's air force, had been assassi
nated.
The, report said a soldier shot
the two men at the Mosul airport
at sunset yesterday. Mosul is 220
miles northwest of Bagdad.
(The kingdom of Iraq, Mesopo
tamia, formerly was a part of Tur
hey, but now is an independent
state, it borders Syria on the
southeast, embracing an area of
116,000 square miles. King Ghazi
Is its ruler.)
Insurgent
Spaniards
Open Drive
Hendaye, Franco-Spanish Border,
u !v 12 (AP)—A border report from a
military source said insurgent forces
advanced in several sectors” today on
Santander front, apparently in a
of the northern offensive of
e Spanish civil war.
r -*eneral Francisco Franco’s daily
communique confirmed this activity
)y his command without giving speci
m details of operations.
border sources said the insurgent
omniander was massing his troops
01 a drive against Santander from
Continued on Page Five.)
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Map shows the immense area in North China that now is under the
Japanese military heel. Included in the area are the two important
Chinese cities of Peiping and Tientsin, which have been occupied by
the Japanese. Photo shows Japanese troops entering Peiping previ
ously to “protect the Japanese concession”.
When Japanese military leaders in North China gave warning that
the undeclared war between Japan and China would extend as far as
the Yellow river, observers believed that it became evident the Nip
ponese empire intended to cut off China at the Yellow river. All the
country to the north probably will be included in a puppet state,
similar to that of Manchukuo. Japan is seen welding an economic
bloc composed of Japan, Korea, Manchukuo and North China, under
a form of state capitalism, resembling Fascism. In the meantime,
the Japanese have evacuated their concession in Hankow in the mid
dle Yangtse valley. Americans in China believe this move a gesture
to enable the Nanking government to accept the loss of North China
without too much loss of prestige. The Japanese navy could control
the Yangtse valley easily, cutting China in two.
i —Central Pres*
LIQUOR SYSTEM IS
WORKINGSMOOTULY
Counties Cooperating With
State Board Without Use
of Coercion
Dally Dispatch Bureau,
In The Sir Walter Hotel,
Raleigh, Aug. 12-North Carolina’s
liquor control plan—county stores un
der general State supervision—is work
ing smoothly in the 27 counties in
which are located 82 liquor stores, Cu -
lar Moore, chairman of the State Li
quor Control Board, said today.
The county boards are’ working in
harmony with the State group, he
said,-and in general there has been
very little of the conflict that was
rather freely predicted during the leg
islative session /which (enacted tne
liquor plan. - .
Already 15 of the 27 counties have
adopted the uniform audit systern set
up by the budget bureau, and have
likewise adopted the uniform price list
set by the State board. The audit
system was made mandatory by law
and the Budget Bureau was charged
with its setting up, Mr. Moore said.
Under the statute and regulations
adopted by the board, all counties in
which liquor stores are located must
adopt the uniform audit system be
fore September 1, Mr. Moore pointed
out, and the State board will crack
down” on any which have jf ailed do
so by the appointed date, he added.
.Enforcement of the liquor laws is
1 Continued on Page Five.)
ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA AND VIRGINIA.
VANDENBERG ONLY
G. 0. PJJKELIHOOD
Even Jim Farley Thinks
Michigan Senator Their
Best Bet '
By CHARLES P. STEWART
Central Press Columnist
Washington, Aug. 12.—Unofficial
nominations to the presidency are
common enough. One politician or
another; everlastingly ,is suggesting
some one as his party’s best candidate
for the next campaign.
But. generally it is for his own
pdrty only that he undertakes to
speak.
It remained for Postmaster Gen
eral James A. Farley, as chairman of
the Democratic National Committee,
to give a word of advice to the Re
publicans.
Farley pointed to Senator Arthur
H. Vandenberg of Michigan as the
G. O. F.’s natural 1940 selection. He
did not express it, indeed, exactly as
a compliment to Vandenberg. What
he said was that the Republicans
haven’t any one else to nominate. It
wasn’t better than a qualified com
pliment, anyway.
A fighting Senator.
But what kind of a candidate
would Vandenberg make, at that?
He is an extremely high class sen
ator. 'Of the few ’Republicans in the
upper congressional chamibeir, since
the last two or three overwhelming
CContfc’ued on Page Five)
HENDERSON, N. C., THURSDAY AFTERNOON, AUGUST 12,1937
Dies in Crash
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Flight Captain Stewart Dietz, who
with Pilot Reed and two passengers
were killed when an Eastern Air
Lines transport plane struck a high
tension wire at Daytona Beach, Fla.,
is shown in a recent photo. The
ship, Miami-bound from Chicago,
crashed after it had taken off from
Municipal Airport at Daytona
Beach. Five persons were injured.
(Central Press)
ANTI-LYNCHBHI
TO NEXT SESSION
-it
Senate Leaders Act To
Break Current Legisla
tive Log-Jam Over
The Controversy
FILIBUSTER~FROM
SOUTH IS TALKED
Once Started, It Would
Have Meant Wrecking of
Measures Administration
Is Anxious To Have Put
Through This Session;
Farm Bill Next Session
Washington, Aug. 12 (AP) —Senate
leaders reported today they had ne
gotiated an agreement to consider
anti-lynching legislation next session,
in order to break the current legisla
tive log-jam over the controversial
issue.
Earlier organization of a southern
filibuster against the Wagner-Van
Nuys anti-lynching bill in the Senate
had led to suggestions from some ad
(Continued on Page Two).
Liner With
900A board
Sinks Ship
New York, Aug. 12.—(AP) — The
Radio Marine Corporation of Amer
ica reported today the Danish freigh
ter Maine sank at 9 49 a. m., eastern
daylight time, after the vessel had
been abandoned after a collision with
the Canadian Pacific steamer Duchess
of Atholl, which was standing by.
The Atholl had previously messag
ed the Radio Marine Corporation at
Chatham, Mass., she had taken 23 of
ficers and men off the freighter and
later took the Maine in tow in a fog
banked sea 180 miles east southeast
of Boston. The vessels collided early
today in fog and rain. The liner had
about 900 passengers aboard, none of
whom was hurt.
The Duchess of Atholl left New
York last Tuesday on a cruise for
Quebec and Montreal and was due in
Halifax this afternoon.
PUB WEATHER MAN
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FOB NORTH CAROLINA.
Partly eloudy, probably scatter
ed thundershowers Friday and in
north portion tonight.
NINETEEN DIE
IN COLLAPSE
OF TENEMENTS
Victims Crushed to Death in
Sleep as Buildings
Crumble in Violent
Rainstorm
STATEN ISLAND IS
SCENE OF TRAGEDY
Those Not Killed by Falling
Debris Drowned in Base
ment by Flood of Water as
if Levelled by Tornado;
Six Dead Women, Six
Children
New York Aug. 12 (AP)
At least 19 persons were crush
ed to death in their sleep early
today amid a smothering ava
lanche of bricks and debris,
when three Staten Island tene
ment buildings collapsed dur
ing a violent rainstorm.
Tons of water, roaring down from
an overflowing storm sewer about
midnight, struck the ancient brick
dwellings and ripped them asunder.
Rescue squads of police and fire
men pulled at the tangled wreckage
for additional victims.
The two water-soaked todies were
taken from the wreckage shortly after
7 a. m., and Police Commissioner
Lewis Valentine expressed the belief
three persons still were missing. Four
injured, - including ; a policeman-re
scurer, were in a hospital.'
Valentine called the disaster “the
worst in years.”
The trapped victims were crushed
and then buried beneath wreckage in
a 30-foot cellar filled with muddy
water. Those not killed by falling
debris were apparently drowned.
The buildings, struck by a foaming
torrent overflowing from a storm
sewer on a hill above them, were
levelled as if by a tornado.
The tenement collapsed at the
height of a storm which swept the
metropolitan area last night and kill
ed four other persons by lightning
and drowning.
All but one of the victims of the
building collapse, Adam Malicki,
perished in the crumbling ruins as
the floors caved beneath them with
out warning. Malicki, one of four cri
tically hurt, died a few hours later
in Staten Island hospital, where the
three survivors fought to keep life in
>odies broken and bruised by falling
timbers.
Six of the dead were women, six
children, the others men.
LIONEL WEIL ASKS
RESEARCH ON FARM
Science Can Solve More Agricultural
Problems Than All The
Economic Schemes
Rocky Mount, Aug. 12.—(AP) —
Lionel Weil of Goldsboro, State Board
of Agriculture member, told farm
men and women at the Upper Coastal
Plain test farm today “this is an era
of scientific research and discovery, ’
but that “funds spent for agricultural
research are pitiably low.” .
lie urged agriculture to welcome
and aid research, saying, “the meth
ods of sc.ence go to the roots of the
farm problem. One single basic scien
tific discovery can make all of the
economic solutions to the plight of
the faxmei unnecessary.”
Commissioner of Agriculture Kerr
Scott spoke briefly of the depart
ments efforts in resealch, saying the
test farms: are “the proving grounds
for agriculture researc. ”
A number of others spoke also.
A full program war arranged for
the annual test farm picnic and
thousands of farmers inspected the
work being done here.
SCHOOL COMMISSION
SALARIES NOT SET
Board Works on Minor Matters Pend
ing Committee’s Report, Not
Yet Completed
Raleigh, Aug. 12.—(AP)— The
State School Commission worked
on minor matters today after its
salary committee reported it had
not been able to complete new
teacher pay schedules.
“The committee said it had not
finished its work and dfd not say
when it thought it would be thro
ugh,” said Lloyd Griffin, secre
tary of the commission. “It is
working as hard as it can and the
schedules may be finished in a
few days.”
A number of delegations asked
for additional teachers for schools
Griffin said. Mars Hill, in Bertie
county, sent a group asking for
a high school.
PUBLISHED BVBKY AFTERNOON
EXCEPT SUNDAY.
To Supreme Court
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Senator Hugo Black
Alabama—Democrat
Prices Firm
For Tobacco
After Start
‘ 3
i ? .
Averages Reported
Holding to Levels
Established at Bor
der Openings
(By The Associated Press.)
Tobacco prices were reported today
to be holding up to the levels estab
lished on the first two days of trad
ing in the 16 market towns of the
North Carolina-South Carolina flue
cured belt.
At Lumberton R. C. Rankin, sales
supervisor, said there had been a
slight increase in prices. Offerings
were estimated at 700,000 pounds.
Prices remained steady at Darling
ton, with offerings of 225,000 pounds.
Some piles brought up to 41 cents
a pound at Dillon, where better grades
were reported predominating.
Around 800,000 pounds were offer
ed at Lake City. Sales for the first
two days were reported at 1,250,000
pounds at an average of $23.
TRANSIENT’S PART
IN KIDNAP DOUBTED
Man Held at Lemmon, S. D., Question
ed by Federal Agents in Matt
son Case, However
Lemmon, S. D., Aug. 12.—(AP) —
A transient, who Chief of Police Pat
Jones said had admitted participation
in the kidnaping and slaying of Char
les Mattson, faced questioning by Fed
eral investigators today.
Investigators were skeptical of the
story told by the man, who gave his
name as Floyd Hutchinson, of Al
liance, Neb.
Jones said Hutchinson, arrested
late yesterday on a vagrancy charge,
insisted he and a companion visited
Dr. W. W. Mattson, father of the
kidnaped boy, at his Tacoma, Wash.,
office last December to obtain nar
cotics and a few days later abducted
the boy.
BAGLEY SUMMONED
IN POWER HEARING
Injunction Proceedings Against Pow
er Company To Be Heard in
Clinton Monday
Raleigh, Aug. 12 (AP) —Dudley Bag
ley, State director of the REA, was
served notice today to appear in Clin
ton Monday at a hearing on a tempor
ary restraining order secured by three
Johnston county farmers to keep the
Carolina Power & Light Company
from building lines in territory of the
Johnston County (Electric Member
ship Corporation.
The plaintiffs, D. T. Bailey, Z. L.
Talton and J. E. Woodard, had Bagley
summoned. He was director to pro
duce all records of his office which
have any conection with the Johns
ton county matter.
* The plaintiffs are fighting a recent
compromise between directors of the
membership corporation and the pow
er company calling for construction
of 325 miles of power lines in Johns
ton county.
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CONFIRMATION OF
BALKED IN SENATE
Both Branches of Divided
Ranks of Labor Give Im
mediate Whole
hearted Approval
CONSTITUTIONALITY
QUESTION AROUSED
Alabaman May be Disquali
fied Because He Voted for
Retirement at Full Pay or
Because He Voted in Sen
ate on Issues Court May
Have To Interpret
Washinjirton, Aug. 12 (AP)
President Roosevelt named Sen
ator Hugo Black, of Alabama, to
the ISupreme Court today, but
his immediate confirmation
was blocked by Senator Burke,
Democrat. Nebraska, and John
son, Republican, California.
Made In Secrecy.
The nomination to the place for
merly occupied by Willis Van Devan
ter was sent to the Senate in a rou
tine list of other appointments.
The White House did not make it
public, leaving newsmen to learn of
the designation at the Senate.
Black has been a leader in advo
cating the administration’s wage and
hour legislation.
He was a World War captain. He
started law practice in Birmingham
immediately after graduation from
the University of Alabama in 1906.
He has served in the Senate since
1926, and is 51 years old.
Would Pass on Own Acts.
As a justice of the court, Black
will have an opportunity to pass on
constitutionality of Roosevelt admin
istration laws on which he voted in
the Senate. They include the metsures
regulating public utility holding com
panies, authorizing Federal loans and
grants for pubjicly-owned power
plants and fixing prices in the soft
coal industry.
Supreme Court experts said there
was no law or regulation to prevent
a senator from participating in de
cisions affecting legislation he aided
in having enacted. Whether justices
disqualify themselves from certain
litigation is up to the individual jurist
it was explained.
Black, if confirmed by his col
leagues, will become the fifth mem
ber of the United States Senate to
(Continued on Page Four.)
Moscow-New York
Flight Started By
Big Soviet Plane
Moscow’, Aug. 12. —(AP)—jSigis-
mund Levaneffsky, the Soviet
Union’s most famous flier, took
off today for a trans-polar flight
to New York.
Unlike two previous successful
Russian flights to North America
over the roof of the world, this
will not aim for the Pacific coast,
but will not be non-stop.
Levaneffsky and five members
of his crew took off at 6:13 p. m.
(10:13 a. m., eastern standard
time), with stops scheduled at
Fairbanks, Alaska; Edmunton, Al
berta, and possibly Chicago.
WILSON’SJMFF
IS ME ARRESTED
Drunkenness and Assault
With Deadly Weapon
Laid on Official
Wilson, Aug. 12.—(AP)—Sheriff W.
A. Weathersby, of Wilson county, was
arrested twice last night on charges
of drunken driving brought by State
Patrolmen F. B. Fleagle and Detective
P. R. Hartis, of the Wilson police
force.
Coroner V. C. Martin served the
warrant on the sheriff, but did not
lock him up.
Two years ago Weathersby was
charged by State Patrolman J. A.
Merritt with drunken driving, but was
acquitted in county court.
Later he was removed from office
by Judge Marshall Spears after a
hearing on allegations of Black Creek
citizens that he was drunk at the polls
the day of the second Democratic
primary.
He was a candidate for re-election
in the primary following and was
elected.
A charge of assault with a deadly
weapon on Fleagle, Hartis and Act
ing Chief C. P. Hocutt was later
sworn out against the sheriff.