Henderson
gateway to
CENTRAL
CAROLINA
twenty-fourth YEAR
Americans being moved from shanghai
farm tenant plan
MAY BE POSTPONED
FUR ANOTHER YEAR
House Agriculture Commit
tee Finds No Emergency
Demanding Action
Immediately
appropriation is
not provided for
Agriculture Department
Plans for Administration
of Program Has Not “Ma
tured”, Committee Re
port Says; Was Major
Piece of Roosevelt Scheme
Washington, Aug. 16. —(AP) —The
The House Appropriations Committee
recommended today that the start of
the administration’s farm tenancy
pro” ram be postponed a year. The
Agriculture Department’s request for
jog 000.000 to inaugurate the program,
authorized earlier in the session, was
not written into the third deficiency
appropriation bill reported today.
Advanced as one of the major
nieces of farm legislation of the sec
ond Roosevelt term, the tenancy act
authorized $10,000,000 this year for
liberal loans to worthy tenants for
purchase of farms and $10,000,000 for
retirement of sub-marginal lands.
The committee, in a report accom
panying the bill, said:
•Cm the basis of the evidence pre
sented and a consideration of the en
tire problem involved in farm tenancy
there is no emergency presented for
the inclusion of the item at this time.
1 It said also plans of the Agriculture
Department for administration of the
program had not ‘ matured.
The tentative distribution of funds
included: North Carolina, $529,694;
South Carolina, $407,787.
Sheriffs Os
State Meet
Greensboro
Greensboro, Aug. 16. —(AP) —Sher-
iffs and deputies from many counties
of the State had gathered here today
for the opening of the two-day four
teenth annual convention o fthe sher
iffs of North Carolina.
Governor Clyde Hoey will address
the annual banquet this evening and
tomorrow morning the annual election
of officers will occur.
The names of several have been
mentioned as likely candidates to suc
ceed Sheriff S. A. Whitehurst, of Pitt,
the retiring head of the State asso
ciation, among them Sheriff Joe
Phipps, of Guilford; Sheriff N. H.
McGeachy, of Cumberland, and Sher
iff Clyde Robinson, of Gaston, who is
now a vice-president.
After the morning session tomor
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TO open” bids on
28 HIGHWAYJOBS
\ -
Raleigh, Aug. 16.—(AP)—The high
way department will open bids to
morrow on 28 road and grade cross
ing elimination pro ects, involving
expenditure of more than $1,000,000 in
State and Federal funds.
Contracts probably will be awarded
at a meeting of the State Highway
and Public Works Commission Thurs
day, Frank Dunlap, chairman, said.
Plaintiffs
Testify In
REA Case
Clinton, Aug. 16.—(AP)—Two or
i n r, e plaindiffs took the stand today
' n^Unc,! '* n proceedings brought to
f f 'nt the Carolina Power & Light
nipany fnom building power lines
‘H'Ugh JohiT.ston county.
fission had been given the com-
W !, y the Johnston County Rural
'.‘•''ification- Authority following
f; rentes between the Authority and
the State REA.
m( “; T - Bailey, and E. L. Talton, far-
Jug toHliliefl before Superior Court
a Henry Grady in an effort to get
tJ'? man ent injunction prohibiting
° G llne ’s construction.
the- hearing probably
Vc] Con trrme two days,
side/ 1 known lawyers represent both
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only DAILY NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA AND VIRGINIA.
Roosevelt Visit
Will Be Speeded
Washington, Aug. 16. (AP)
White House officials said today
that because of the Sino-Japanese
situation and the possibility of a
week-end adjournment of Congress,
President Roosevelt would return
direetly to Washington by train
Thursday after his trip to Roanoke
Island, N. C.
The President will leave here
late tomorrow night to speak on
the island at a celebration to com
memorate the 350t1i anniversary of
the establishment of the first Eng
lish colony in this section, and the
birth of Virginia Dare.
He had tentatively planned to
motor back to Norfolk after the
speech and hoard the yacht Poto
mac to cruise back to Washington.
Officials said today this plan had
been changed.
COMMITTEE VOTES
CONFIRMATION FOR
BLACK NOMINATION
Burke Demands Senator Be
Questioned About His
Qualifications For
High Court
ACTION BY SENATE
HOPED BY TUESDAY
Administration Leaders
Driving for Alabaman’s
Ratification for Supreme
Court Job; Housing Bill
Limit Lifted to $5,000 by
House Committee
Washington, Aug. 16. —(AP) —Dem-
ocratic leaders di’ove the protested Su
preme Court nomination of Senator
Black, Democrat, Alabama, nearer
confirmation today, winning approval
of the Senate Judiciary Committee.
Committee members debated the re
commended appointment of their col
league an hour and a half before vot
ing 13 to 4 for approval. The argu
ment reportedly centered around con
stitutional questions raised by oppon
ents of the nomination.
Senator Burke, Democrat, Nebras
ka, who had said he would demand
Black himself be questioned by the
committee about his qualifications for
the high bench, vainly sought to hold
up approval by moving for a delay
until the, committee could examine the
legal qualifications of the Alabaman.
The next move of the Senate lead-
Continued on Page Five.)
WOMAN’S ASSAILANT
SOUGHT IN SAMPSON
Aged Lady Identifies Negro She Says
Attacked and Shot Ser Sun
day Afternoon
Roseboro, Aug. 16.—(AP) —A posse
with bloodhounds combed a swamp
near here today on the Cumberland-
Sampson county line in search of a
Negro charged with criminally as
saulting and wounding an elderly
white woman.
Chief of Police Allen Jones said
Miss Mittie Sessoms, of Roseboro, re
ported she had been assaulted yester
day by a Negro she identified as
Odell Hadley and the Negro shot her
in the head as he fled. Jones said the
bullet did not pierce the skull and the
scalp wound was not serious.
Miss Sessoms, he said, reported she
was walking across a field near her
home when the Negro, whom she said
she recognized as a farm hand, accost
ed her as she fled, screaming, into
the woods.
GEORGIA HAS SOLD
69,000,000 LBS. WEED
Atlanta, Ga., Aug. 16 (AlD—The
State Department <>f Agriculture
today reported more than 69,000,-
000 pounds of tobacco had been
sold on the Georgia tobacco mar
ket this season.
An unofficial tabulation of re
ports from 56 of the 57 warehous
es showed 69,099,360 pounds sold
to the first three weeks for an
average of s2l-41 per hundred
pounds. . jaJLJUI-JlB
LE toI D acIIS E SERVICE of
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS.
HENDERSON, N. C., MONDAY AFTERNOON, AUGUST 16, 1937
Air View of Shanghai—Where Foreigners Are In Peril ■[]{
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■. Air. view of Shanghai, showing various points in (he international settlement
This excellent air view of Shanghai, China, new battleground in the Sino-Jap anese conflict, shows important buildings in the international settlement
Shanghai is a city of approximately 3,500,000 persons. , More than 4,000 Am ericans make their home here. —Central Press.
Big German
Seaplane Is
Here Safely
Reaches New York
on Pioneering Hop
To Prepare Trans-
Atlantic Line
Port Washington, N. Y., Aug. 16. —
CAP) —A German seaplane, which
flew from Europe on the southern
route, alighted here today as a huge
American flying boat was about to
take off on its first survey flight over
the same air lanes in the international
race to establish scheduled trans-At
lantic flying.
First to greet Captain Blankenburg,
of the German Nordmeer, was Cap
tain Harold Gray, of the Pan-Amer
ican Clipper 111, which was warming
up for a flight to Bermuda, Azores,
Lisbon and Southampton. . .
Blankenburg’s Nordmeer settled on
Manhasset Bay at 6:37 a. m. (eastern
standard time) after a 150-mile an
hour flight from the Azores, 2,392
miles away, where his plane was cata
pulted from the steamship Schweben
land. He said he flew much of the
way at 20 feet above the water to
avoid headwinds.
The seaplane also brought in his
co-pilot. Count Siegfried Schack,
Radio Operator Wilhelm Kueppers
and Mechanics Otto Gruschwitz.
PRICES ARE BETTER
IN FAIRMONT SALES
Fairmont, Aug. 16 (AP)—Supervisor
C. B. Stafford said today offerings on
the local tobacco market were bring
ing "much higher” prices than last
week, when 2,666,190 pounds sold for
an average of $25.22 per hundred
pounds.
POSTMASTERS WILL
HEAR FARLEY TALK
300 jTrom Two Carol inas Gather In
Annual Convention Starting
In Fayetteville
Fayetteville, Aug. 16 (AP) —More
than 300 postmasters of the Carolinas
met here today for a two-day conven
tion, the high light of which will be an
address tomorrow by Postmaster Gen
eral Farley.
The associations held business ses
sions this afternoon after their exe
cutive committees attended to rou
tine.
Three thousand seats are to be erect
ed at the high school, scene of Far
ley’s address, and officials said they
expected 500 postmasters to hear him.
Farley is scheduled to review troops
at Fort Bragg tomorrow morning,
and 700 C. M. T. C. cadets will take
part in the program,.
Agriculture Department
Ready To Make Loans As
Soon As Word Is Given
"Washington, Aug. 16.—(AP)—Gov
ernment machinery is ready to make
loans to farmers on cotton, corn,
wheat or any other crop, Agriculture
Department officials said today, as
soon as President Roosevelt or Sec
retary Wallace says “Go ahead.’
They said experiences gained in
three seasons of cotton loans and two
of corn loans would speed action when,
ever terms and conditions of the price
supporting- program are determined.
Simultaneously, they warned win
ter wheat growers to keep in mind
the crop control program which was
the other end of the bargain between
Mr. Roosevelt and farm state senators
SAYS WOMAN OUT ~
TO BECOME “BOSS”
Charge of Wilmington
“Young Democrat” Brews
Discord in Group
Dally Dispatch Burenn.-
In the Sir Walter Hotel.
Raleigh, Aug. 16.—The given name
of Raleigh’s prominent Young Dem
ocratic club leader, Mrs. Phoenix,
should be “Boss” and not “Bess,”
Clyde C. Carter, chairman of the
seventh congressional district sug
gests in a letter in which he declared
himself “neutral” in the club’s com
ing battle for its presidency.
But neutral or not, Mr. Carter
figuratively burned up the paper with
his comments on Mrs. Phoenix’s al
leged efforts to elect Arch Allen, “her
hand-picked candidate” over Miss Mae
Oliver, of Sanford.
“In all probability the seventh dis
trict will cast its block of 75 votes as
a unit in all contests for State of
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OUR WEATHER MAH
FOR NORTH CAROLINA.
Generally fair tonight and Tues
day.
The AAA said not more than 80 per
cent of the “base acreage” should he
planted for harvest in 1938. The ad
vice was given now, officials said, be
cause winter wheat will be in the
ground before Congress can enact
farm legislation. The President agreed
in a conference with southern sena
tors to make cotton loans, but exact
ed a promise general farm legislation
would be the first order of business
when Congress reconvenes.
The Senate promptly passed a re
solution binding itself to this pro
gram. Chairman Jones, Democrat,
Texas, of the House AgricUlure Com
mittee, predicted the House would ap
prove it by Tuesday or Wednesday.
DEATH WILL TAKE
HOLIDAY IN STATE
No More Executions at State
Prison Until Sept. 10,
May Not Then
Dally Dispatch Bureau,
In The Sir Walter Hotel,
Raleigh, Aug. 16.—As though sur
feited with slaughter, the State of
North Carolina will take no more lives
before September 10, and almost cer
tainly not before October 15.
Ten have died in State’s Prison
here since July 9, nine by lethal gas
and the other by jolting electicity.
The next victim slated to breathe
deadly cyanide fumes is Walter Cald
well, giant Iredell Negro who was re
cently convicted of rape upon a white
woman less than 72 hours after the
crime was committed. Counsel for the
condemned man served notice of ap
peal and his death date —September 10
will automatically be postponed if the
appeal is perfected.
Next on the list is Brady Laurence
likewise an Iredell Negro, who is sche
duled to forfeit his life on October 1,
but he, too, is likely to get a new
lease by the appeal route.
The next execution is listed for Oc
tober 15, but it is possible that before
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capt7birthright,
OF MARINES, DEAD
Woodside, Park, Md., Aug. 16.
CAP) Captain Samuel Birthright, U.
S Marine Corps, retired, died yester
day at the age of 69. He formerly re
sided in Lumberton, N. C.
PUBLISHED IVHRY AFTERNOON
EXCEPT SUNDAY.
Fresh Gains
Reported By
Insurgents
House - To - House
Battle Fought To
Gain Possession of
Northern City
Hen day e, Franco-Spanish Fron tier,
Aug. 16. —(AP) —General Francisco
Franco’s troops pushed into the north
ern manufacturing city of Reinosa to
day in a terrific battle with retreat
ing government troops, said insurgent
advices received here.
Franco’s men, heading for Santan
der, were said to have fought their
way into Reinosa only after fierce
house-to-house battling in the suburbs.
As the government soldiers retired
from the city, they pumped heavy ma
chine gun and rifle fire into the ad
vancing insurgents, an account for in
surgent sources in Irun, just across
the border, declared.
In their “victorious advance” to
ward Reinosa, the insurgents report
ed capture of an entire battalion, and
said five other government battalions
fled.
Some 40 miles north-northwest lies
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DROWNING VJCTIM
WILL BE INTERRED
Dunn, Aug. 16.—(AP)—The funeral
of Miss Alice Irene Johnson, 21, Er
win girl who drowned near Wilming
ton yesterday, will be held in John
ston county tomorrow. Miss Johnson
was a student nurse at Wilmington.
REWARDS OFFERED
FOR SIX FUGITIVES
Hoey Posts SIOO Sum for Capture of
Either of Men Who Broke
From Prison
Raleigh, Aug. 16. —(AP) —Governor
Hoey announced today the State
would pay rewards of SIOO each for
the recapture of six men who escaped
from Central Prison August 12 by tun
nelling under a wall. The convicts are
Rowland Allen, 25, serving a life sen
tence for first degree murder; Paul
Edwards, 28, twelve to 20 years for
robbery with firearms; James Everett,
21, ten years for assault with intent
to kill; John Henry Bowder, 29, five
to seven years for robbery with fire
arms; Worth Proctor, 29, eight years
for burglary and an aggregate of
about 30 years for other crimes; and
Eddie Cobb, 28, thirty years for pos
session of burglary tools and burglary
with explosives.
Two other prisoners who escaped
with the six were recaptured the fol
lowing da/ near here.
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U. S. TENDER TAKES
200 REFUGEES OUT
OF DANGER REGION
500 More Americans To Be
Evacuated Immediately
And Started To
the States
OTHER FOREIGNERS
ALSO BEING MOVED
Chinese War Planes Rain
Bombs on Japanese Areas
and Waterfront; Both
Sides Claim Heavy Losses
Inflicted on Other; Jap
Embassy Is Closed
IBy The Associated Press.)
The first American fugitives from
incessant aerial bombardment of
Shanghai fled today through a gaunt
let of bursting shrapnel.
Beginning a mass flight from the
undeclared war between China and
Japan, the group of 200, mostly wo
men and children, boarded the S. S.
President Taft after a perilous two
hour trip by tender.
United States sailors kept the
frightened passengers, some with in
fants in their arms, huddled below
while shell fragments splintered deck
floors and railings above.
In a matter of hours, it was expect
ed more than 500 American refugees
would be started for home and stlfety
aboard the liners President Taft and
President McKinley.
British and French made similar
evacuation arrangments. So did other
foreign nations.
Chinese war planes rained bombs
Continued on Page Five.)
MergerFor
RdilGroups
Disallowed
Baltimore, Aug. 16 (AP) —Chief Just
ice Samuel Dennis today forbade a
merger of the Alleghany and Chesa
peake Corporations, key holding com
panies of the vast Van Swergen rail
way systems. He said the merger
would be unfair to the holders of
Class A. preferred stock of the Alleg
hany corporation.
Dennis, sitting in a State court,
ruled that while the proposed merger
plan is not illegal or unfair, “the legal
and illegal features are so inextri
cably interwoven and related that the
plan must be dealt with as an en
tirety and not by piecemeal.”
He granted a permanent injunction
against the adoption of the plan by
the stockholders of the two holding
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WILSON NEGRO HELD
IN HOUSE-BREAKING
Wilson, Aug. 16 (AP)—A Negro po
lice booked as Jack King, 21, was
jailed today on charges of house
breaking and attempted criminal as
sault on a white farm woman, Mrs.
Larry Strickland.
The warrant on which King was ar
rested charges he went to the wo
man’s home when her husband was
away and tried to molest her.
Mattern To
Join Search
For Soviets
Hunt for Moscow-
Oakland Plane
Pressed in Frozen
Wastes of Arctic
Fairbanks, Alaska, Aug. 16. —(AP)
—Jimmy Mattern, noted American
aviator, prepared to leave today in
his speedy twin-motored monoplane
to search the Arctic wastes for six
missing Russian aviators.
Mattern arrived only last night
after a record-breaking non-stop
flight from Oakland, Cal., to join in
the search for Sigismund Levaneff
sky, Soviet ace pilot, and his five com
panions.
The American flier said he would
traverse the 148th meridian in quest
of a clue to the fate of the Russians,
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