HENDERSON
GATEWAY to
CENTRAL
CAROLINA
TWENTY-FOURTH YEAR
WAR AND FIRE 80 UNCHECKED M SHANGHAI
ADMINISTRATION IS
DEFIED BY SENATORS
IN ELECTION THREAT
Wheeler and O’Mahoney
Welcome Dare of Guffey
To Fight Them for
Re-Election
HOT DEBATE HEARD
ON SENATE’S FLOOR
Congress, Meantime, Shuff
les Along Toward Sine Die
Adjournment by Night,
With Little Major Legisla
tion Left To Be Transact
ed First
Washington, Aug. 21 (AP) — A
weary Congress neared adjourn
ment today, but with so much of
its program postponed that mem
bers half expected Presidenet
Roosevelt to call them back in
two months.
Washington, Aug. 21 (AP)—The
House, moving rapidly toward ad
journment. -quickly approved today
a compromise form of the Wagner
housing bill, placing it just one short
pace from President Roosevelt’s desk.
Senate must agree to the comprom
ise before messengers take the bill to
the White House.
With the housing measure and a
compromise on the $150,000,000 defi
ciency appropriation bill still in the
offering, the Senate paused in the
adjournment drive to hear Senators
Wheelejr, Democrat, Montana, and
O’ilahoney, Democrat, Wyoming,
shout defiance at election difffculties
predicted for them by Senator Guffey,
Democrat, Pennsylvania.
Guffey called for the defeat of
O'Mahoney and Senator Burke, Demo
crat, Nebraska, and forecast Wheeler
would have explanations to make to
his Montana electors.
So little business was left for the
two houses to transact, House Major
ity Leader Rayburn predicted ad
journment by nightfall. The House
awaited formulation of a compromise
on the deficiency bill, the last major
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AQUEDUCT GUARDED
ON PACIFIC COAST
Sheriff’s Deputies in California on
Duty Following Disorders
from Strike
Banning, Cal., Aug. 21 (AP) —Squads
of sheriff’s deputies and special offi
cers guarded the Banning camp of
the Metropolitan water district’s Col
orado river aqueduct today as ill-feel
ing mounted over the wounding last
night of five CIO pickets.
Union leaders asserted officers used
buckshot in the disturbance. Sheriff
Carl Rayburn, of Riverside county, de
nied the assertion. »
“Tear gas bombs were used by the
highway patrol officers, but clubs
were the only weapons used,” Ray
burn said.
The injured men were part of a
crowd assembled near the camp, which
has been picketed for the past week
by members of the mine, mill and
smelter workers union, a CIO affili
ate.
Rayburn said violence became ne
cessary when the pickets threw rocks
highway patrol cars which were
following a bus taking workers into
the camp.
Big Nudist
Body Opens
Convention
Sunshine Park, N. J., Aug. 21 (AP)
"The aroma of boiling coffee and
broiling bacon mingled with the
scent of the tall pines at dawn today
as nude housewives cooked breakfast
tor their hungry children and men
folk on the banks of the Great Egg
Harbor river at the opening of the
sixth annual convention of the Na
tional Sun Bathers Association. More
than 300 Nudists from , the east, south
and middle west were expected to ar
livn at tliis nudist colony before the
Hev. llsley Boone offered the prayers
this afternoon.
•As the women went ahead with their
chores, the men tidied up the 2,000-acre
tract.
Throughout the past week, the new
community, whose membership has
grown from 50 to 850 in less than two
f ars - busily put its house in order,
he men chopped down pines and
»uilt a “convention hall” from the
|^ r s. Four policemen stood at the
Carn P’s single entrance gate to ex
credentials of those who tried
HENDERSON, N. Q.
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Dr. Arthur Vos
In an almost unprecedented
move, Albert Levitt, former as
sistant to Attorney General
Homer S. Cummings, has filed a
petition in the supreme court de
manding that Senator Hugo L.
Black “show cause” that he is
eligible to become an associate
justice of the high court. Levitt,
who resigned his official position
recently, filed the petition as a
private practicing attorney. Sen
ators said the court "undoubted
ly” would dismiss the petition.
—Central Press
Barrow Now
Center For
Air Search
Fliers of Three Na
tions Hunt Arctic
for Russian Plane
Lost Eight Days
Fairbanks, Alaska, Aug. 21. —(AP)
—Noted fliers of three nations, led
by Jimmy Mattern, converged on the
Arctic today for an effort to rescue
six Russian trans-polar airmen, miss
in eight days on the bleak roof of the
world.
American, Canadian and Russian
aviators gathered on Point Barrow,
in an effort to pierce the fog-shroud
ed mystery of what happened to Pilot
Levaneffsky and his five companions.
The Soviet “Lindbergh” and crew
left Moscow a week ago Thursday en
route to Oakland, Cal., with a re-fuell
ing stop at Fairbanks. They crossed
the pole on their 4,000-mile hop the
next day and vanished.
Eager to repay Levaneffsky for
(rescuing him in Siberia four years
ago with an identical heroic act, Mat
tern flew through fog from Fair
banks to Point Barrow, Alaska’s
northernmost tip, yesterday.
Mattern radioed he was forced to
fly by instrument over the bleak
northern wastes. Word of his arrival
eased tension felt here for his safety.
Also at Barrow, waiting for a
break in the weather, were Bob Ran
dall, experienced North Canadian
aviator, and the Soviet flier Zadkoff
one of the ace pilots of Siberia. A
Russian ice-breaker lay off Barrow
with four planes ready to be hurled
into the hunt.
Sir Hubert Wilkins planned to hop
from Fort Smith, Northwest Territory
with his party of four for Aklavik.
STUDENT NURSE IN
CHICAGO MURDERED
Mystery Surrounds Ravishing and
Slaying of Woman In Her
Apartment
Chicago, Aug. 21 (AP) Miss Anna
Kuchta, 18, a student nurse at the
Chicago hospital, on the southside,
was raped and slain, Police Captain
John K. Prendergast said, by a man
who crushed her skull with a brick
early today.
Detectives said the slaying was sim
ilar to those of other women in Chi
cago in the last two years. The killer,
police said, fled through a fire es
cape window when Miss Florence
Palmowski, 19, another nause open
ed the door of the room to call Miss
Kuchta after a rest period.
Miss Palmowski found the body on
the floor near a cot. It was clad
only with stockings and white shoes
Detectives said the (killer had stuffed
Dart of a pillow down the girl s throat.
A bureau had been ransacked and a
part o i a drawer was missing.
ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA AND VIRGINIA.
THEIR JOB IS TO “CL^^UP^FCC
T. A. M. Craven Frank R. McNlnch
For the job of overhauling the federal communications commission,
President Roosevelt has named Frank R. McNinch of North Caro
lina and T. A. M. Craven, left, FCC chief engineer, as members of the
commission. McNinch will be chairman. McNinch has been chair
man of the federal power commission, where the president believes
he has done a thorough job. The FCC is under heavy fire from
Capitol hill; a resolution for sweeping inquiry of its work already
is on the calendar.
Spanish Rebels Expect
To Enter Santander By
Middle Os Coining Week
Last Government Stronghold on Bay of Biscay To Fall
Before Next Saturday Is VGeneral Belief Now;
Hand-to-Hand Fighting in Dripping Fog
With Insurgents on the Santander
Front, Aug. 21.—(AP) —Weather per
mitting, General Francisco Franco
expects his army to reach Santander
possibly in the early part of next
week, and that Spanish town may be
his before another Saturday.
Today his two strong southern col
umns hammered with almost mono
tonous success at dwindling govern
ment defenses, with but 25 miles of
roadway to cover before they can
knife into Santander, the govern
ment’s last port of importance on the
Bay of Biscay.
In the mountains, on Santander’s
southwest, with one of these columns,
there was witnessed a battle as fan
tastic as anything in Spain’s fantas
tic civil war. It was a battle of ghosts
CONGRESS FEARFUL
OF ROOSEVELT YET
Many Members Afraid To
Go Home and Leave Him
To His Tactics
By CHARLES P. STEWART
Central Press Columnist
Congress, as we all know, has been
desperately wishful, for weeks, at
least, to adjourn and go home.
Yet it has been afraid to do so,
leaving President Roosevelt to his
own devices.
That is to say, those lawmakers
who have opposed New Deal policies
are fearful that, in their absence from
Washington, - the President will take
advantage of the lull to do what Pres
ident Woodrow Wilson called “going
to the country.”
Will This Occur?
In other words:
May he not avail himself of the in
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Coal Prices Will
Rise Fifty Cents
In Coming Winter
Knoxville, Tenn., Aug. 21 (AP)
—L. C. Gunter, executive vice-pres
ident of the Southern Coal Opera
tors Association, predicted today a
25 to 50 cents increase in the
price of coal this fall. He said
the National Coal Board in Wash
ington had fixed a base whole
sale price of $2.22 for run-of-mine
coal, the highest f«r this section
since the World War.
The district board at Cincinnati
Gunter said, would use that base
price for finding the rate on oth
er grades of coaL
HENDERSON, N. C., SATURDAY AFTERNOON. AUGUST 21, 1937
—mud and blood-smeared ghosts
struggling hand to hand in a dripping
fog.
For six days, Franco’s airmen, ar
tillery and infantry had blasted at the
ever-receding government line, most
of the time under the broiling rays
of an uncurtained sun.
Then came the fog, shrouding the
mountain top, soaking every one in
mists and hiding attacker and attack
er alike.
Yesterday the Burgos road column
of shock troops thrust through the
fog at a point about 12 miles south
of Torre Lavega.
Six battalions of Asturians were
waiting on the mountainside protect
ed by the ft>g from Franco’s artil
lery and planes.
BORDERCOUNTB
Vance and Warren Only
Ones To Vote ABC Stores
In State So Far
Daily Dispatch Bureau,
In the Sir Walter Hotel.
Raleigh, Aug. 21.—North Carolina’s
border counties do not want liquor
stores, results of local option elections
prove.
To date the people of ten border
counties have voted. Eight of them
have voted against stores, two have
favored them. The drys have won
Alleghany, Stokes, Rockingham, Per
son, Granville and Currituck, all on
the Virginia line; Columlfcius and
Mecklenburg, touching South Caro
lina. The wets have carried only
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OUR WEATHER MAW
1 --
FOR NORTH CAROLINA.
Partly cloudy, probably scatter
ed showers in north portion Sun
day and in extreme north central
portion tonight.
WEEKLY WEATHER.
South Atlantic States: Partly
cloudy weather and near normal
temperatures during week, with
occasional scattered thundershow
ers.
Bingham Comingto
Tell Roosevelt of
Britain’s Attitude
President Wants To Know
How Far England Will
Go In Sino-Jap
War Moves
COOPERATION WITH
U. S. MUCH SOUGHT
Ambassador’s Hurry To Get
To United States Kept Sec
ret Until His Sailing; Move
in Far East Speculated As
Result of Coming Confer
ences
London, Aug. 21.—(AP) Robert
W. Bingham, ambassador to London,
sailed unexpectedly today to confer
with Fresidcnt Roosevelt on the in
ternational situation.
One report, which was not con
firmed, said Mr. Roosevelt had sum
med the ambassador for urgent dis
cussions on how far Great Britain is
willing to go with the United States
in efforts to halt the Sino-Japanese
hostilities.
Bingham departed from Southamp
ton aboard the Empress of Britain.
News of his going, a spokesman said,
had been concealed carefully at his
instructions.
While it is known Bingham will
discuss international affairs with the
President, their exact nature was not
revealed. The spokesman declined to
comment when asked whether the
hasty trip was connected with the
Sino-Japanese crisis.
“Mr. Bingham will be tack within
a month,” a spokesman said, deny
ing rumors current in London some
time ago that the ambassador plan
ned to resign.
EXCHANGE CLUBS IN
STATE END MEETING
Brodie Hood, of Burlington, Elected
President for Coming Year;
Others Named
Raßigh, Aug. —(AP)—Represen
tatives ot State exchange clubs named
Brodie Hood, of Bud: gun. president
otday and selected Ashes ;lle for their
l't3B convention.
Other officers included Harvey
Jones, of Raleigh, vice-president; E.
E. Moring, of Raleigh, secretary; and
John Spillman, Jr„ of Wilmington,
treasurer.
The two-day convention Will end
here tonight with i banquet at which
National Vice-President L W. Spra
gue, of Memphis Tenn., will speak.
Retiring officers aie John Cassey,
Greensboro, president; Jennings
Biyan, Burlington, vice-president;
Wilbur Jones, Wilmington, treasurer;
and Frank Slater, Wilmington, secre
tary.
promTnent jurist
INJURED IN WRECK
One Negro Killed in Smash-Up Near
Warrenton, Va., and One Is
Held in Jail
Warrenton, Aug. 21.—(AP) —
John Kenna, president of the Su
preme Court of Appeals of Charleston,
W. Va., was serionsly injured today
in an automobile collision.
Dr. George Davis, county coroner,
said Kenna was still unconscious
when admitted to the hospital. He
suffered head injuries.
Theodore Ray, Negro, of 158
Brvant street, Washington, was kill
ed and his wife suffered severe
shocks. Sheriff S. W. Wolfe, said
Lewis Harris, 24, was lodged in the
Warrenton jail on a charge of reck
less driving.
Roberts Would Have Visi
tors Who Come and Make
Tour Over the State
Dally Dispatch Bureau,
In The Sir Walter Hotel,
Aug. 21. — Success of ths
Manteo “Lost Colony”- celebration and
of such promotional ventures as the
1935 Travel-Promotion Tour of the
Carolina Motor Club has brought sug
gestion of an expanded travel promo
tion from Coleman W. Roberts, Presi
dent of the Motor Club.
“May I repeat the suggestion made
in 1935 —that we hold a Carolinas
Scenic and Historic Exposition—not
an exposition of buildings and stone
and machinery as will be found in
New York and San Francisco, but let
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PUBLISHED EVERT AFTERNOON
* EXCEPT SUNDAY.
Gel* Ann* Credit
Ilk
slippy
ill > apjjilll
Dr. H. H. Kune
Through its finance minister, Dr.
H. H. Kung, the Chinese Na
tionalist government has been
obtaining credit for the purchase
of arms in Europe. It was he who
contracted for a $50,000,000 arm
aments credit with the Czecho
slovakian Skoda Munitions
Works for China.
—Central Press
Manila Now
Refuge City
In Far East
Many Citizens Sleep
In Parks Result of
Quakes; Shanghai
Group There
Manila, P. 1., Aug. 21.—(AP) —War
in China and earthquake here made
Manila a city of refugees today as
authorities cleared away the debris of
nature’s destruction and prepared for
more unfortunates from battle-torn
Shanghai.
Thousands of Manila’s nearly 400,-
000 residents spent last night in parks
after two severe earthquakes rocked
the city, toppled masonry, cracked
buildings and plunged the metropolis
into darkness.
For 376 American refugees who
had just arrived from Shanghai, the
quakes, 24 minutes apart late last
night, were an added terror to the
shot and shell from which they fled.
Sixty-two persons were known to
have been injured in Manila alone
and scores of others were reported
hurt in Tayabas province. No deaths
from injuries were reported.
ERWIN YOUTH HELD
IN AUTO FATALITY
Erwin, Aug. 21. —(AP) —A coroner’s
jury today recommended Eldridge
Sessom's, Erwin youth, be held with
out bond in the death of John Arnold,
60-vear-old Negro, who was fatally in
juied when he was run over by a car
near here last nr*ht.
Police Chief H. 11 Avery said he
arrested Sessoms h->ro two Lours after
the av.cldent.
GROCER IN RALEIGH
TAKES HIS OWN LIFE
Leaves Note To Police Telling Them
He Alone Is Responsible for
His Death
Raleigh, Aug. 21.—(AP)—“Police
department: Do not touch any man.
I did this all for myself.’’
After writing such a note this
morning, Coroner L. M. Waring said,
Gus Corfios, 50, a grocer, ended hi 3
life by shooting himself in the head.
Corfios’ body was discovered on
a cot near the rear of the store by
a clerk at the grocery.
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11 SQUARE MILES
OF GREAT SEAPORT
REDUQEDTO ASHES
Only International Settle
ment French Concession
and Other Small
Areas Intact
AMERICAN DEAD IS
MOVED OFF CRUISER
Mighty Flagship Augusta
Still Lies at Anchor in
Wangpoo River After Be
ing Struck by Shell; Shang
hai Hostilities Enter Their
Second Week
Shanghai, Aug. 21 —(AP) —War and
fire continued to lay waste in Shang
hai today with foreign police esti
mates that about eleven square miles
of the world’s sixth largest port had
been destroyed.
Fire levelled most of Chinese
Chapei, Japanese Hongkow, Yangtzee
poo, industrial Pootung across the
Whangpoo river, and Kiangwan.
Only the international settlement,
the French concession and parts of
the Soochow creek area remained in
tact.
In the absence of firemen, who al
ready had evacuated the burning
areas, the flames continued to spread
unchecked in all directions.
• Stifling smoke and fierce heat
were driving away many Chinese bel
ligerents from the Hongkew battle
area.
Three Chinese war planes droned
over the smoking ruins in renewal of
warfare today, aiming their bombs at
the Japanese consulate. The pro
jectiles fell wide of the mark, but
killed one Chinese and one Japanese
and wounded 13 others, all believed to
be Japanese.
From the United States cruiser
Augusta, grim-faced bluejackets car
ried the shell-ripped body of a 21-
year-old Louisiana boy, one of the
crew, and the fourth American killed
since the hostilities started.
The mighty Augusta still lay re
solutelly at anchor on a curve of the
Whangpoo, near the heart of the in
ternational settlement, to protect
American lives, while Investigators
tried to learn the origin of the anti
aircraft shell that killed the seaman,
Freddie Falgtmt, of Raceland, La.
A routine navy inquiry board,
headed by Commander E. H. Kincaid,
of the Augusta, heard testimony of
persons who witnessed the shelling.
As the Shanghai hostilities entered
the second week, foreign authorities
estimated Chinese casualties to be
about 5,000 as against 600 Japanese.
HUGH WILSON MAY
BE PRISON WARDEN
John B. Bray, District Prison Super
visor, To Be Deputy Warden
At Penitentiary
Raleigh, Aug. 21 (AP) The
Times said today Hugh H. Wilson,
of the industrial division of the State
Highway Commission, is slated to suc
ceed H. H. Honeycutt as warden of
State Prison. Honeycutt will probably
become State disciplinary officer and
John B. Bray, a district prison su
pervisor, will be made deputy war
den, the newspaper said.
Governor Hoey told The Associat
ed Press the appointments had been
considered by the State Highway and
Public Works Commission.
“I do not know whether action ha 9
been taken or will be taken however,”
he said.
Frank Dunlap, chairman of the
commission, declined either to con
firm or deny the reports.
Weed Crop
In Georgia
15 Million
Atlanta, Ga., Aug. 21 (AP)—The
State Bureau of Markets said today’s
Georgia’s 1937 tobacco sales already
have passed the $15,000,000 mark.
While the bulk of the crop has been
sold, several markets will remain open
a week or more. Twenty-six of the
State’s 53 warehouses had not re
sales listed for the first four weeks
ported on fourth week sales today,
were 74,042,224 pounds at an average
of $20.74 per hundred pounds. Re
ceipts for the season totalled $15,357,-
075.95, a third highest in the Georgia
market’s history. In 1929 receipts to
talled $16,768,000; in 1936 the total was
$18,145,557.25.