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HENDERSON gateway TO CENTRAL CAROLINA TWENTY-FOURTH YEAh 3 AMERICANS DEAD IN SHADRHAI BATHE BLACK’S OPPONENTS GET MANY PROTESTS OVER CONFIRMATION But Judiciary Committee Wiii Recommend Sena tor for Supreme Court By Big Vote STRONG OBJECTION by NEW YORK BAR Hearings Sought as to Ala baman’s Qualifications for Court Post; Wage-Hour Bill Will Likely Go Over Until Next Session, Bank head Feels Washington, Aug. 14.—(AP)—Sena te opposed to confirmation of Sena tor Black. Democrat, Alabama, as a Supreme Court justice reported to dav receipt of many letters and tele .jrami, urging delay in action on the nomination. They said scores of telegrams and letters from individuals and organiza tions asked full hearings to be held to determine the qualifications and lesal eligibility of the Alabaman. Statements from members of the judiciary committee indicated, how ever, the protests would have little effect. They showed a comfortable majority of the committee ready to approve the senator’s nomination. Senator Austin, Republican, Ver mont, leader of the move to delay judiciary committee action, showed to newspaper men a stack of telegrams endorsing his stand. On top was one from Alfred Cook, chairman of the committee on the judiciary of the As sociation of the Bar of the City of Jfew York. '"The members of the legal profes sion, irrespective of party or any dis- viewpoint on national policy, always unite in the conclusion that any one selected to sit in the United States Supreme Court must be judi cially qualified,” Cook wired. Judiciary committee members as serted they would vote to confir the liberal Alabaman, co-sponsor of the administration wage-hour bill. Wage-Hour Bill “Out. Speaker Bankhead, in the first de finite expression from the House lead (Continued on Page, Six.) Talk Extra Session In Late Fall Washington, Aug. 14 (AP) A re calcitrant Congress has deferred so much of the administration program talk revived today of a special autumn session to enact crop control and wage and hour legislation. President Roosevelt and the Senate exchanged a pledge late yesterday whereby a farm price stabilization measure wil be passed at the next ses sion in return for immediate cotton loans. The chief executive gave no indica tion on whether he would let the farm bill await the regular session in January or wil lcall Congress to gether in October or November. Legislators discussing the latter pos sibility noted Secretary Wallace re cently commented a special session would be fine for the farmers.” Hold Fiesta In Spite Os Objections Mrs. Roosevelt, Mrs. O’Day and Others Project Benefit for Spanish Kiddies - L T ew York, Aug. 14.—(AP)— Mrs. ranktin Roosevelt, Mrs. Caroline Lav, representative at large, and fading members of Rockland coun artist colony prepared for a c /'rity fiesta today for the benefit of children of Spanish government re -u Sees, acting over the protests of some prominent Catholic laymen. In going ahead with plans for the 'osta this afternoon on the estate Continued on Page Five.), mpttiteratm Qstiiit Stsuafch LEASED wire service of THE ASSOCIATED PRESS. Congress Backing Hatteras Resort Washington, Aug. 14.—(AP) — The Senate passed and sent to the White House today a bill providing for the establishment of the Cape Hatteras National Seashore in North Carolina. It calls for preser vation as a primitive wilderness an area to be designated by the In terior Department on five islands on the Forth Carolina coast, in cluding Roanoke, the site of an English colony established in 1587 by Sir Walter Raleigh. Averages Os Near 25 Cts. For T obaeco Growers Reported Well Satisfied At Sales First Week on Border Belt (By The Associated Press.) The 1.6 tobacco markets of the Car olinas’ border belt were closed today and officials were busy compiling sales and price averages for the week. Reports from most of the market centers indicated prices ranged a round 25 cents a pound, and growers were reported well satisfied and re jected few bids on the auction floors. Supervisor J. F. Hawkins reported today 2,000,000 pounds had been sold during the week on the Timmonsville market for an average of $23.21. The greater part of the offerings, he said, were medium and low grades. Offerings at Kingstree, mostly prim ings and much low grades aggregated 750.000 pounds, and averaged $24. At Fairmont 611,826 pounds were Continued on Page Five.) MISS GARRETT WILL BE ‘MISS CAROLINA’ Raleigh, Aug. 14. —(AP) —Governor Hoey announced today he had ap pointed Miss Jean Garrett, of Green vill, as “Miss North Carolina” to re present this State at the National To bacco Festival at South Boston, Va., September 2-3. The choice was made at the request of Governor George Perry, of Virginia. Hoey said he would be unable to attend. Miss Garrett is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. R. M. Garrett, of Green ville. CROP LOAN OUTLOOK BOOST FOR COTTON Cables Also Higher To Help Strength en List, Which Closes Little Changed New York, Aug. 14. —(AP)Cotton futures opened steady, up 11 to 20 points of higher cables and prospects of a crop loan. At the end of Jhe J*™} hour December was selling a.t 10.54, with the entire list 10 to 14 points net higher. Futures closed barely steady, three points lower to six higher. Spots steady, middling 10.69. October 1055 10 ' 46 "er X 2 MarSI y i » 5z juTy I°- 76 1063 - FOR NORTH CAROLINA. Partly cloudy tonight and Sun day; somewhat unsettled in south portion. WEEKLY WEATHER For South Atlantic States; Occa sional scattered afternoon thund ershowers most of week, and in other sections middle and latter plrt of week; temperatures near 1 normal. ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OF AND VIRGINIA. Virginia Dare’s Birth Celebrated / jHU| ill uvSb ji JHh w HID I,™ - —* Hjlflr# f Jyr 4 w Wgpj j fHHHp HaMMi SSssmik IIH f I RHI MHBI mm 11 Ik sk - mm Wk. Sal U Msmm Rjjfl |H m J| I mMm 3m rm ryß| jgg|| Bia Hfnpfl B I Bjc ' H ;^| Pgr Wm Mfwxk.3Sßk WfJMWh IHHKfi •' m <■ Emm mm nr mmmm mtk; b •• >-•»'. . . . .. . The 350th anniversary of the birth of Virginia Dare, first English white child born in North America', is being cele brated at Roanoke Island, N. C, Part of the program is p resentation of Paul Green’s “The Lost Colony.” Above, Governor Clyde Hoey of Nerth Carolina talks with Lillian Ashton (seated) and Katherine Cale, who take the parts of Queen Elizabeth and Eleanor White Dare; lower left, Charles DuMont as Wanchese, friendly Indian chief; lower center, Earl Mayo as “Old Tom, keeper of 60 souls”; lower right, Charles Overman as Manteo, another Indian chief friendly to the settlers. o' BIG SOVIET PLANE SILENT FOR HOURS^ Northland Aviators at Fair banks, Alaska, Mean while, Prepare to Start on Search MOTOR FAILURE ON PLANE IS REPORTED One of Four Engines Stops, Pilot Advises in Radio To Moscow, Starting Point of Trans-Polar Hop to Oak land, Cal., in Pioneering Flight Fairhanks; Alaska, Aug. 14>— (AP) —Three airplanes carrying Russian North Pole flight repre sentatives dashed from Fairbanks today in search of the six Soviet fliers who were believed lost but safe somewhere in the vast unex plored Arctic wastes. Fairbanks, Alaska, Aug. 14.—(AP) —Northland aviators, alarmed at news from six Russian aviators that one motor of their four-motored monoplane had failed, stood by their planes today ready to take out over the bleak Arctic snowfields where they fear the Russians may have been forced down. Sigismund Levaneffsky, pilot of the plane with which Russia was pioneering a proposed trans-polar Moscow-to-United States air line, radioed Moscow the motor had failed. More than three hours later, at 9:53 a. m., Friday (eastern standard time) Continued on Page Five.) GOLDSBORO WATER TEAM IS LEADING Charlotte, Aug. 14.—(AP)— The •Goldsboro aquatic team held a com manding lead of 98 points in the eleventh annual midr-Atlantic water carnival today. Other scores included that of Tarboro, which had 39 points. HENDERSON, N. C., SATURDAY AFTERNOON, Where President Will Speak I i Wm' l m ''''' I"" •' :4.' ■ . .iii-lv.v*'" ' From the stage <?f the Waterside Theatre President Roosevelt will speak August 18 at the Roanoke Island, N. C., Virginia Dare celebration. In this picture the rear of the theatre is shown at the right, while at the left mem bers of the cast of ‘“The Lost Colony” are bathing in the sound. SALTS TAX INCOME MAY BE INCREASE Exemptions Won’t Cut Sharply Into Receipts, Maxwell Thinks Daily Dispatch Bureau,- In the Sir Walter Hotel. Raleigh, Aug. 14— Exemption of basic foods from sales tax is unlikely to cause any very sharp drop in total sales tax receipts for the month of July, in the opinion of Department of Revenue officials. If the “excise tax : of three per cent on building materials, a new tax levied by the 1937 Legislature, is considered in connection with the usual sales tax receipts, the total for July is likely to go for higher than in the correspond ing month of 1936, they believe. Neither Commissioner A. J. Maxwell nor Sales Tax Division Head F. B. Drake could give even a vague esti mate of collections made in July, be cause payments have just begun to dribble in and the great bulk of col lections will not be received before next Tuesday, August 17, Mr. Drake said. Through yesterday approximately 8,000 concerns had sent in their July Continued on Page Five.) FARLEY NOT KIND TO BE PRESIDENT But They’re Talking Him and He May Be Behind Some of the Talk By CHARLES P. STEWART Central Press Columnist Washington, Aug. 14.—Postmaster General James A. Farley had hardly finished choosing Senator Arthur H. Vandenberg for the next Republican presidential nomination before he himself was suggested for the next presidential nomination on the Dem ocratic ticket. Raymond. Clapper, a Washington columnist of note, was the “pmg’s” (Continued on Page Five) FARMER IS KILLED BY P. & N. FREIGHT Greer, S. C., Aug. 14.—(AP)— J. R. Hawkins, retired farmer, Was struck and killed at 9:08 a. m. today by a Piedmont & Northern freight train near his home here. Local morticians said Hawkins, sit ting on a crosstie, apparqb£ly failed to hear the train’s warhhig whistle. No inquest has been set* PUBLISHED HVHKY AFTERNOON EXCEPT SUNDAY. Chinese Dead From Air Attack Placed At Estimated 500 Other Americans Feared Among Dead, and Number Are Wounded; Bombs Reigned on City by Chinese and Japanese Planes in Worst Attack of War Shanghai, Aug. 14 (AP) —At least three prominent Ameri can residents of Shanghai were killed and two other Americans wounded today in Chinese-Japanese aerial warfare that hurled death into crowded partwof the international settlement. LOYALIST HOPS ON MADRID FRONT Insurgents at Same Time Hammer Out Fresh Gains On Teruel Line 100 Miles East INSURGENTS CLOSE WESTERN FRONTIER Government Charges Move Is To Hide Grave Internal Disorders There, and Re bels Say It Is To Shield Their Moves; Rebel Dis turbances Reported Hendaye, Franco-Spanish Frontier, thrust forward a mile in a surprise at tack on the Brunete front outside Madrid today as the insurgents ham mered out new gains on the long Teruel spearhead 100 miles east of Spain’s main city. Opponents, locked in the 13-months old civil war, concentrated their bat tle efforts on separate central Span ish war fronts and each chalked up victories. Government sources declared Gen eral Jose Miaja’s government troops had forced their way into entrench ments near Brunete, the war-shatter ed village now held by the insurgents after having changed hands four times during the civil war. Insurgents closed the western part of the Franco-Spanish frontier. The government, in an official communi que, asserted the closing was because of grave internal disorders in San (Continued on Page Five) WILSON COUNTYTO HAVE NEW SHERIFF Deputy J. C. Fulghum Succeeds Re signed Sheriff Weathersby, Accused as Drunk Wiilson, Aug. 14.—(AP) —Deputy J. C. Fulghum prepared today to take the oath of office as sheriff of Wil son county. He was elected by the county com missioners last night to succeed W. A. Weathersby, his former superior officer, who resigned after State Patrolman F. B. Fleagle and City De tective F. R. Hartis had brought charges of drunken driving against him. Solicitor Silas Lucas, who announc ed Weathersby’s resignation, said the charges had been nolle prosed with leave. — Push Probe Murders In Cincinnati Cincinnati, Ohio, Aug. 14. —(AP) — Prosecutor Millard Outcalt turned to day to new leads in what he termed “one of the biggest mass murders in this country.” Blonde Mrs. Anna Hahn faced arraignment on a murder charge in one of the five listed deaths Asserting “we are investigating three more deaths,” Outcalt declined to be specific, but intimated a larger figure than the apparent total and said the deaths covered a period of eight years. “It’s hard to tell where this thing will stop,” he declared. Mrs. Hahn, 31-year-old former school teacher, of Munich, Germany, is charged with the poison death of George Gsellman, 67, a divorced re cluse. Gsellman was found dead in ted July 6. Outcalt said a woman Identified as Mrs. Hahn was seen in his company the night -‘fore. 8 FACES TODAY FIVE CENTS COPY Dr. Frank Rawlinson one of the outstanding missionaries in China, and H. S. Koenigsberg, wealthy motor car dealer, met death as Chinese bombing planes, supposedly aiming at Japanese concentrations, dumped their missiles into crowded downtown areas, killing hundreds. Dr. Robert Reischauer, identified by the United States consulate as a professor of internatlonaV relations at Frinceton, was hit by a bomb in the lobby of the Palace hotel, on the Nanking road, and died a few hours later in a hospital. His leg was blown off. Other Americans Feared bead. It was feared other Americans were among those killed, estimated by po lice at 500. These people died horribly in two terrific bombings, one near the Cathay hotel at the intersection of Nanking road and the Bund, part of the international settlement, the other at the junction of Avenue Edward VII and Thibet road, in the French concession. Americans known wounded were J. M. Kerbey, employe of Haskins & Sells, New York accountants, and R. Rt Rouse, of Staco, Montana. 16 War Planes Attack. Sixteen Chinese war planes roar ed over the city, striking at Japanese warships and troop concentrations, but apparently wrecking the greatest havoc on the foreign-controlled sec tions of the city. Besides the Americans, several oth er parties wsre reported killed. . „ Dr. Rawlinson and Koenigsberg died in the bombing of Avenue Ed- Continued on Page Five.) > Greensboro’s Strikers May Return Soon Greensboro, Aug. 14.—(AP)—Strik ers of the Greensboro Manufacturing Company’s pajama plant, withdrawn from their picket lines for the day, were encouraged today over the out look for reopening the plant within the next two weeks, following a meet ing this morning. Victor Levy, plant manager,- appear ed here before the strikers, more than 200 in number, at their meeting, and pledged his cooperation with them in case of need, and pointed out he hop ed the situation would be cleared in a short time. In the meantime, however, the striking workers, after being caution ed against violence or damage to pro perty, were asked to report back to the plant lines at 7 o’clock Monday morhing. Levy, in behalf of the non-union workers, who did not strike, and Ber nard Weinstein, counsel fbr the union group, are leaving the city tonight and will be away next week. The next conference between company repre sentatives and those of the union Will be held Monday, August 23. Request For Safety Sent Combatants Hull Asks China and Japan To Move Zone of Fighting From Shanghai Washington, Aug. 14.—'(AP) —Sec- retary Hull said today this govern ment has made “most earnest repre sentations to the Japanese and Chi nese governments not to use Shanghai as a theatre of operations. The secretary of state said the United States Asiatic fleet was pre pared on short notice to remove about 3,000 American nationals from the trouble zone, if necessary. His statement was made to a press I Continued on Page Five.)
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