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HENDERSON GATEWAY TO CENTRAL CAROLINA TWENTY-FOURTH YEAR JAPS FORCED BACK NEAR RIVER BANKS BY CHINESE DRIVE Masses of Native Infantry Strike Hard at Heart of Japanese Shore Positions SAVAGE SHELLING braved in attack Japanese Land Forces Will Be Extremely Precarious if China Succeed in Reaching Waterfront; New Troops From Japan To Go Into Action Shanghai, Aug. 19.—(AF)— Masses of Chinese infantry struck hard at the heart of Japanese shore positions n eastern Shanghai late today and forced the enemy lines back almost to the Whangpoo river. The Chinese drive came just as vanguards of the Japanese army from the homeland were reaching the Shanghai war zone. The advance of the Chinese repoit dlv reached the Ward Road jail and Yangtze Poo road, well within the eastern Japanese-held district of the international settlement. Most points are near the Whangpoo river front, where and supplies for Japanese forces ashore have been landed. The attacking Chinese came from an area on the northeast. Apparently thev were trying to isolate several thousand Japanese marines holding the Hogkew sector. The Chinese braved savage bom bardment from the air from Japanese warships on the river and batteries ashore as they drove their line for- Military experts said if the Chinese succeeded in reaching the waterfront and holding their new lines the posi tion of the Japanese between the IVhangpoo river and Soochow ci eek, hitherto the main Japanese land forces, would be precarious. Soochow creek forms the boundary between the Japanese section of the interna tional settlement and the- western districts guarded by American Ma rines and British infantry. The Japanese command, however, prepared to throw into the battle for Shanghai the new army arriving from Japan, greatly extend the field of op erations and compel the Chinese to Withdraw t;y flanking movements. STOCKS ARE HEAVY WITH SHARP LOSS Market Hits Back Trail, With Declines of Fractions to More Than Two Points Nek York, Aug. 19.—(AP)— Stocks ■hit the back trail in today's market, and many leaders yielded fractions to more than two points. Steels, rub bers, motors and oils led the down swing, and most other divisions fol lowed with more or less momentum. Bonds were again unsettled by a fur ther break in Japanese issues. Transactions approximated 800,000 shares. American Radiator 21 1-8 American Telephone 170 1-2 American Tob B 79 1-4 Anaconda 1"® Atlantic Coast Line 50 Atlantic Refining 28 5-8 Bendix jAviation 19 3-4 Bethlehem Steel 98 5-8 Chrysler ... 113 1-2 Columbia Gas & Elec .’. 12 3-4 Commercial 13 1-2 Continental Oil Co 15 1-4 DuPont 163 Electric Pow & Light 21 1-2 General Electric 55 5-8 General Motors 57 Montgomery Ward & Co 62 1-2 Reynolds Tob B 51 3-4 Southern Railway 28 1-2 Standard Oil N J 67 u S Steel . 115 3-8 Cincinnati's Slaying Has N.C.Angles Cincinnati, Aug. 19.— (AP)—A pos fl North Carolina angle develop e . today in police investigation of en deaths here, two of which Mrs. Illla Kahn, 31, is charged with com nming. Detective Lieutenant George j 1 ,H ftie, of the homicide squad, said received a letter bearing the of stina Cable, of Route 5, r^ bo >o, N. C., saying: loi almost sure the blonde lady, ' ’Hahn,” was the person she e * in a bus station here July 15, 1936, w!l ° bought drinks, sh / don t rem ember of noticing what r Hut into the drinks,” the officer I ‘"b d the letter as saying, “ although l 1 ’ 1 sun ' there was something. a North Carolinian, Seattle said, she arrived at Los Angles, at ,i’ luly 18* in a dazed condition r!r,i Was Heated at a hospital for poisoning. Hendptßim fUatlu Hiapafrfi c^ IRE SERVICE OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS. Swims to Record i InH ftl!!! Skew's Looking fresh after her great feat, Jenny Kammersgaard, 17, acknowl edges the plaudits of her admirers in Copenhagen. She swam across the Kattegat, from Jutland to Swe den, 65 miles, in 29% hours, then joined a dancing party. Her swim is believed to be the longest ever made non-stop. (Central Press) New Rescue Expedition Goes North Hope To Save Soviet North Pole Plane Crew Before Arctic Winter Begins New York, Aug. 19 (AP)—A new rescue expedition headed by Sir Hub ert Wilkes, veteran Arctic and Antarc tic explorer, prepared to wing north ward today in search of the six miss ing Soviet trans-polar fliers. Herbert Hollick-Kenyon, Canadian flier who accompanied Wilkins on the Lincoln Ellsworth Antarctic expedi tion, directed mechanics as they lab ored hurriedly to equip the 17-ton fly ing boat Guba for the first lap of its journey, an overland flight to Toronto Harbor, on Lake Ontario. Working swiftly in a race against arrival of the long Arctic winter, Wil kins and his men installed de-icers to free the flying boat from the danger of a crash from ice-weighted wings— gravest menace of northern flying. Wilkins said he had been hired by the Soviet government to direct the search. He declared flight opera tions would continue several months, if necessary, to locate Pilot Sigismund Levaneffsky, the ‘‘Lindbergh of Rus sia,” and his five comrades. The So viet fliers were last heard from Fri day shortly after passing the North Pole. Meanwhile, - airmen of three nations were poised on the rim of the Arctic circle waiting for a favorable turn in the weather that would allow them to launch their part of the search). ARMY Or WORKERS ON WAGE RECORDS State Unemployment Com mission Takes on Flock of Assistants Dally Dispatch Burenn, In the Sir Walter Hotel. Raleigh, Aug. 19—Thirty young North Carolinians, after several days of special training, have started to work in the N. C. Unemployment Oom mission offices, posting the wage rec ords of about 460,000 workers in the State who have social security ac count numbers, Chairman Charles G. Powell, announced today. These new employees will work in two shifts, one from 7 a m. to 3 p. m. and the other from 3 p. % m. to 11 p. m. Estimates are that it will take six weeks to get the wage record of work ers in the State posted for the first quarter of this year and another six weeks to get the second quarter re ports posted. Employers make these reports by quarters. Records are transferred to ledger sheets, the additions being made to bring the worker’s recording up to date each three months. When a worker becomes unemployed, and is Continued on Pago Two.). ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA AND VIRGINIA. Spanish Resistance Cracks As Insurgents Quicken Push Hendaye, Franco-Spanish Frontier, Aug. 19. —4AP) —The Spanish insur gent high command asserted today 'that Santander’s outlying defenses to the southwest of the Biscayan sea port had “melted away” while the in surgent attackers “plowed to within 20 miles of their goal.” The five-day push toward Santan der, the government’s last city strong hold on the Bay of Biscay, was esti To Examine Motor From Lost Plaiie Maidens, Va., Aug. 19. —(AP) —Cap- tain A. M. Turner, investiging army air corps officer from Bolling Field, today ordered the mptor of the low winged attack plane, in which two of ficers crashed to a flaming death near here yesterday, removed to the air base for an official mechanical exam ination. The officer said the fatal crash obviously was due to engine trouble which affected the ship while it was on a routine flight from Bolling Field to Atlanta. The plane cracked up, ex ploded and burned as the fliers tried to bring it to a deadstick landing in a pasture at /the Virgfiuiia :Indust riail School for Boys. Colonel William McChord, of Le banon, Ky., officer in charge of op erations in the office of the chief of the Army Air Corps, and Staff Ser geant Michael O’Connell, of Alexan dria, Va., were carried to their deaths in the monoplane shortly before noon yesterday. • COTTON FUTURES AT LOW UNDER 9 CENTS Cables Are Lower, With Foreign (Sell ing Brisk, and Bains in West ern Belt Heere New York, Aug. 19 (AP)—Cotton futures opened barely steady, down 6 to 9 points on lower Liverpool cables rains in the western belt and under foreign selling. December sold at 10.03 shortly after the first half hour, when the list was 6 to 8 points net lower. December sold off -to 9.96 and at mid day was at the low, with prices gener ally 12 to 16 points net lower. Futures closed barely steady, 15 to 23 points lower. Spot quiet, middling 10.17. Open Close October 10.05 9.92 December 10.04 9.92 January 10.06 9.96 March 10.15 \ 10.06 May 10.22 10.14 HEALY PREPARING MUNICIPAL SESSION State League To Hold Convention in Winston-Salem September 27-28, Under Plan Dally Dispatch Bnrcnn, In the Sir Walter Hotel. Raleigh, Aug. 19.—Patrick Healy, Jr., executive secretary of the North Carolina League of Municipalities, is today in Winston-Salem completing preparations for the league’s 27th an nual convention which will be held in the Twin Cities, September 27-28. Before leaving Raleigh Mr. Healy said he would confer with Major W. T. Wilson and Commissioner of Fi nance Ralph L. Dixon on details of the sessions. Mr. Dixon is directly in charge of arrangements in Winston- Salem. Among matters which will be con sidered at the convention are delin quent taxes, highway financing, bond ed debt, personnel training and cen tralized purchasing, Mr. Healy said. Membership of the league includes most of the municipalities of the Btat& HENDERSON, N. C., THURSDAY AFTERNOON, AUGUST 19, 1937 Famous Shanghai Street Menaced by Shellfire Nanking Road, one of the important arteries in the heart of the International Settlement in Shanghai, is pictured above. This street, and others in the Settlement, are threatened by destruction from shellfire of both Chinese and Japanese artillery and naval guns as the battle rages in the newest undeclared war , in the Orient. (Central Press) mated to have brought capture of 10,- 000 of the stubborn defenders. The government positions have •teen gobbled up by the relentless thrusts of General Francisco Franco’s infantry, artillery, tanks and planes.” The insurgent column on the Valencia road to Santander alone has taken 4,700 prisoners. Many of the captured warriors were placed in con centration camps south of Renosa. The advance, the headquarters re FOLK APPOINTMENT BLOW TO FARMER i May Not Have Been So In tended, But Farmer Is No Longer Head Dally Dispatch Bureau, In the Sir Walter Hotel. Raleigh, Aug. ' 19—Perhaps it was not intended to be so, but the appoint ment of Arthur Fulk, director of the highway safety division, as major commanding the highway patrol amounted to a direct slap at Captain Charles Farmer, commanding officer who must now change his gold leaves for t)|ro silver bars. Commenting on the new appoint ments, Commissioner of Revenue A. J. Maxwell said that Captain Farmer was not being demoted in rank or salary, but to the man who has com manded the highway patrol ever since its organization in 1929 it certainly could not seem other than a practical if not actual, demotion. The 1937 General Assembly provid ed that the patrol should consist of “one person to be designated as ma jor and such other additional sub ordinate officers” as the commission er should choose. After the law be came effective Captain Farmer, act ing under a legal opinion, assumed the rank of major and donned the gold shoulder leaves emblematic of that grade. Appointment of Lieutenant L. R; Fisher to the grade of captain and to command of the western department seals with official approval the fa mous liquor raids that officer conduct ed in Mecklenburg county early this year—raids which resulted in much discussion over whether or not they were authorized and directed by Cap tain Farmer and which likewise re sulted in a lot of trouble for Meck lenburg’s rural police chief, Vic Fes perman. Major Fulk has been head of the safety .division for the past two years and will continue in that capacity. His appointment as commander of the highway patrol simply brings that unit under his direct personal super vision. BUY LIQUOR STOCK FOR FAYETTEVILLE Raleigh, Aug. 19.—(AP)—Cutlar Moore, chairman of the State Liquor Commission, today was buying about 3,500 cases of assorted spirits for Cumberland county, which he said would open its first ABC store in Fay etteville about September 1. Purchase, •he said, would include whiskies, cor dials, wines and other types of al coholic drinks and cost about $40,000. OUR WEATHERMAN _»* FOR NORTH CAROLINA. Partly cloudy tonight and Fri day; somewhat unsettled Friday. port asserted, was more-like a maneu ver than a stiffy resisted offensive. “There is no more enemy to op pose our advance,” it was said. “The operations Wednesday could be call ed a practical march.” Franco’s field commanders install ed garrisons in the many mountain land villages caught in the broad sweep of his two pronged north ward drive and 7,eft clean-up opera tions to second line troops. New Durham Apartment To Cost $635,000 New York, Aug. 19. —(AP) — The New York Life Insurance Company announced today its representative at Durham, N. C., has made a $500,000 mortgage loan to the University Hous ing Corporation for building apart ments near Duke University. Charles Allen, president of the Durham Bond & Mortgage Company, the insurance company’s representa tive, said work on the project will start Monday. It will consist of a Kseridi of three-story semji-ifireproof apartments of 462 rooms, designed to accommodate 114 families. The rent, Allen said, would be about sl6 per room per month. A garage to accom modate 43 cars will (he built adjoining. The project wiLl be located on 4.2 acres on the north side of Duke Uni versity Road between Swan and Maplewood avenues in Durham. Chief sponsor of the project is H. A. Underwood, of Durham and Ra leigh. Total cost is estimated at $635,000. RAILROAD TRAINMEN MEET AT RICHMOND Virginia and North and South Caro lina Group Hold Annual Convention There Richmond, Va., Aug. 19 (AP) —Vir- ginia and North and South Carolina members of the Brotherhood of Rail road Trainmen and their ladies plan ned a boat trip today to Jamestown Island, combining business and pleas ure during the second day of the an nual tri-State meeting. A business session will be held aboard the boat. About 1,500 delegates attended ini tial sessions yesterday when Lieuten ant Governor James Price and Mayor Fulmer Bright joined in welcoming them to the Virginia capital. CHERRY TO ADDRESS N. C. AUTO DEALERS State Convention To Be Held Next Monday; Other Notables On Program Also Dally Dispatch Bureau, In The Sir Walter Hotel. Raleigh, Aug. 19. —Gregg Cherry, chairman of the State Democratic Executive Committee, will be the principal speaker at the annual ban quet of the North Carolina Automo bile Dealers Association, August 23rd, it was announced today by Mrs. Bes sie Phoenix, executive secretary of the group. In addition to being state chair man of his rarty, Mr. Cherry, the “Iron Major ’ is speaker of the North Carolina Hot sc Guests at ti e banquet will include both United tdates Senators from North Carcina. Josiah W. Bailey and Robert R Reynolds, 'Mrs. Phoenix ggjd. A number of state officials and members of the 1937 General Assem bly will likewise attend, she added. At the opening session on August 23rd, the t rin* .pal address will be made by Commissioner of Revenue A. J. Maxwell who will speak on the “Relation between the State and the Taxpayer.” i PUBLISHED BVBKY AFTHKNOON EXCEPT SUNDAY. STATE UNANIMOUS WITH APPROVAL OF CHILD LABOR BANS Roosevelt Liked His Manteo Visit Washington, Aug. 19.—(AP)— Representative Lindsay Warren, of Washington, N. C., upon his return today from the Virginia Dare cele bration at Roanoke Island, N. C., where President Roosevelt spoke yesterday, said he was “elated” over the success of the event. “The entire program went off without a hitch,” Warren said. ‘The President and his jwirty were enthusiastic over the Whole af fair.” Warren, who extended the in vitation to President Roosevelt to attend the celebration, was chair man of the committee in charge of yesterday’s program. PORTUGAL’S BREAK BY CZECHOSLOVAKIA Severing of Relations Be cause of Failure of Bus iness Deal Called U nprecedented PORTUGAL FORMALLY ANNOUNCES COURSE Lisbon Newspaper Says Czechs Taking Orders from “Eastern” Power, and Then Says Nation Is Russia’s Stronghold in Central Europe Area Lisbon, Portugal, Aug. 19. —(AF) The authoritarian Portuguese gov ernment announced formally today it bad severed diplomatic relations with the republic of Czechoslovakia over an unfilled order of machine guns. Simultaneously, Portugal accused Czechoslovakia of yielding to the “in fluences and pressure” of an uniden tified “third party” in blocking ful fillment of the arms order. One newspaper promptly declared interpretation of the move that Cze choslovakia had received “instruc tions from an eastern power not to supply arms to a country which was a sure guarantee against a commun ist Iberian peninsula.’’ In the same comment the news paper declared Czechoslovakia is the Russian stronghold in Central Eu rope and perhaps the Soviets’ largest air base. CZECH GOVERNMENT MUCH SURPRISED BY NEW MOVE Praha, Czechoslovakia, Aug. 19. — (AP), —The Czechoslovakian govern ment today voiced astonishment over (Continued on Page Two>. GOLDSBORO MEN TO FACE DEATH TRIAL Exum and Sasser, of Fremont, Accus ed in Connection With Slay ing Aged Negro Goldsboro, Aug. 19 (AP) —Milford Exum, 41, and Earl Sasser, 35, of Fremont, were docketed today for trial during a one-week term of su perior court opening here August 23 on charges of murder in the death of efcyear-old Jim Williams, a Negro basket-maker, on the night of April 2 X Exum and Sasser have been held in the Wayne county jail here without privilege of bond since they were ar rested April 17, the night Williams’ body was found. F °!(l CIASERIOIJS Tragedy Unintentional but Nevertheless Fatal to Its Victims By CHARLES P. STEWART Central Press Columnist Aug. 19.—When the Jap-dhi'nese conflict (whether one calls it war or not) involves the kill ing o fEuropeans resident in the in ternational portion of the city of Shanghai the situation begins to as sume a decidedly serious aspect. For example, news dispatches re cently mentioned the case of an Am erican (in the Far East all occiden tals, American as well as European, class as Europeans), who was killed Continued on Page Two.) 8 PAGES TODAY FIVE CENTS COPY Similar to Wage-Hour Bill That Passed Senate but Shelved In Lower Court CONFERENCE GROUP HAS HOUSING BILL Senate Moves Swiftly To- Ward Eliminating Barriers to Saturday Night Adjourn ment of Present Session; Tax Loophole Measure Is Speedily Enacted Washington, Aug. 19 (AP) —The Senate passed the Wheeler-Johnson child labor bill by unanimous consent today, and sent it to the House. The measure would prohibit interstate commerce in goods made by children under 16 years of age, and in the case of hazardous industries 18 years. The same language was incorporat ed in the wage and hour bill which passed the Senate, but the Senate passed the separate measure today, when Chairman Wheeler, Democrat, Montana, suggested action might re sult in approval of that part of the wage-hour mecasure at this seession of Congress. The wage-hour bill has been shelv eed for the session. Meantime, a committee of senators and representatives took over the job of eliminating House and Senate dif ferences over the administration’s low cost housing bill. Within half an hour after it met, the swiftly moving Senate rejected changes made in the measure as ap proved "by the House yesterday and Vice-President Garner appointed mem bers of a conference committeee. Even before that, the Senate had disposed of the bill to tighten income tax law 3. The tax measure, which Treasury experts say will add more than SIOO,- 000,000 a year to Federal revenues, went through without a record vote. Except to work out differences on the housing bill, the tax bill, in which minor changes were made by the Seen ate, and discover, if possible, away to unsnarl the tie-up over the sugar bill action on the third deficiency ap propriation was all that remained be tween Congress and Saturday night adjournment. Passed over to next session were such matters as a general farm bill, wage and hours control and govern ment reorganization. The $98,000,000 deficiency appropria tion bill is slated to reach the Senate floor Friday or Saturday. ROOSEVELT PASSES SCHOOL ALLOTMENT * - Washington, Aug. 19 (AP)—Rep resentative Lindsay Warren, of Washington, N. C., said today President Rooseveelt had approv ed the public works application of Beaufort county, N. C., for a grant of $56,250 for school buildings at Belhaven, Choeowinity and Pine town. Warren said presidential appro val also had been given a school construction grant of $31,500 to Chowan county. Low Bids On Road Work Are Passed Prices Are Held In Abeyance on Two Projects in Beaufort and Anson Raleigh, Aug. 19.—(AP) —The State Highway and Public Works Com mission today approved low bids on 26 highway projects totalling nearly $l,000,0(jp, but rejected all proposals for grading and structures on 5.04 miles of Route 99 in Beaufort county. The commission decided also to hold in abeyance also an concrete surfacing of .31 miles on United States Highway 52 in Wadesboro, leaving a final decision up to Frank Dunlap, chairman, and Chief High way Engineer Vance Baise. Dunlap salid tthe Beaufort work would be. done by the commission’s forces and not by a contractor. A. F. Powell, Jr., of Whiteville, was sworn in as a commissioner to suc ceed Robert Grady Johnson, of Bur gaw, who resigned from the commis sion today to become penal division director September 1. Chief Justice Walter P. Stacy administered the oath of office, and Powell attended his first meeting. High bidder on the Beaufort pro ject was C. A. Ragland, of Louiaturg, at $26,512.50, and Blythe Brothers Company, of Charlotte, made the low est proposal for the Wadesboro work, $11,278.25.
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