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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
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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
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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.
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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.
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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)
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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
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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
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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.
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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-
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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
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