HENDERSON
gA TEWAY TO
CENTRAL
CAROLINA
twenty-fourth YEAR
« MORE DEED IN CHINESE FOREIGN ERE*
ROOSEVELT FACING
MOMENTOUS CHOICE
WITHIN FEW WEEKS
Must Make Peace With Re
bels at Great Cost, or
Drive Forward and
Split Party
RECENT SPEECHES
“TRIAL BALLOONS”
Farley and Guffey Declara
tions Believed Tests of
Public Opinion; LaFollette
5 a y s Administration
Courts Disaster If Farm
Play Is Delayed
Washington. Aug. ?3.—(AP)—Dem
ocratic leaders, worried by the strife
within their party, predicted today
that before Congress reconvenes, Pre
sident Roosevelt must choose one of
these far-reaching courses of strategy:
1 Reconciliation at the cost of
abandoning some of his most cherish
ed objectives, with the party factions
which have refused to support all of
his program.
2 A new campaign to rally public
support and hammer through his con
troversial issues, risking disruption of
the party beyond all repair.
One of the New Deal’s most trust
ed strategists said privately today Mr.
Roosevelt would base his decision on
the trend of public opinion in the
next few weeks. '
Hhe described as “trial balloons”
two contradictory speeches made al
most simultaneously last week by
men often regarded as White House
spokesmen. Postmaster General Far
ley and Senator Guffey, Democrat,
Pennsylvania.
Meantime a few of Congress key
men remaining at the capital despite
adjournment are quieitly preparing
for a special session they said they
believed inevitable about November.
They described much of the unfinish
ed business left by their homeward
bound colleagues as too urgent to
await the regular sessions next Jan
uarv.
Senator La Follette, progressive,
Wisconsin, one of the President’s
most intimate congressional advisors,
frankly asserted the administration
would court disaster if it delayed its
permanent farm program until next
year.
Slayers Os
Patrolman
Are Hunted
Asheville, Aug. 23. —(AP) —George
Garrison, of the identification bureau
of the sheriff’s office, studied a col
lection of fingerprints today as of
ficers intensively sought the slayers
of State Highway Patrolman George
Penn.
The prints were on the .bullet-rid
dled sedan discovered early in the
day in the heart of thef city behind a
fashionable hotel. Police have iden
tified the car as that used by the
killers of the 22-year-old officer yes-
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Goldsboro Is
LikelyToGet
Vet Hospital
Barden Says It Has
Been Recommend
ed; Project Would
Cost $2,000,000
Washington, Aug. 23 (AP) —Repre-
sentative Graham Barden, New Bern,
C„ said today he would do “every-
I can ”to have a proposed vet
erans’ hospital for Eastern North
Carolina, located at Goldsboro, N. C.
harden said he understood the Vet
erans Hospitalization Board had re
commended to President Roosevelt
an d the budget bureau the establish
ment of such a savility.
“So fa.r, the North Carolina dele
gation has devoted its attention to
he allocation of a hospital for East
ern North Carolina,” he ' said. “At
s °°n as this goal is accomplished, the
question of location will be up for
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Representative Rankin
Wage-and-hour legislaton is
killed for this session of congress
because a sitdown of a Demo
cratic minority in the house pre
vented a Democratic caucus from
ordering the bill out of the rules
committee, where it has been
snagged. Representative John E.
Rankin, of Mississippi, foe of
wage-and-hour legislation, scut
tled the caucus by forcing no
quorum calls. Democratic leader
ship, however, pledged action for
next session. They said if the bill
ever could be gotten out of com
mittee and upon the floor of the
house it would be passed with as
large a majority as the senate
had passed it.
—Central Press
12 Dead In
Forest Fire
In Wyoming
Grimy Rescue Work
ers Hunt Wounded;
Two Score Persons.
Are Injured
Cody, Wyo., Aug. 23.—-(AP)—Grimy
rescue workers poked through smoul
dering ruins of a mountain forest to
day seeking additional victims of a
gale-driven fire which burned 12 of
their companions to death.
Two score others were injured, 25
'so seriously they required hospital
treatment. All the victims, many of
them CCC enrollers, were trapped
while battling the blaze in Shoshoni
National Forest in northwest Wyom
ing.
The blaze broke out Friday from
an undetermined cause about 35 miles
northwest of here and about the same
distance east of the Yellowstone park.
It blackened 1,500 to 2,000 acres of
dense timbers in the Abaroka moun
tains.
The searchers edged forward as the
flames subsided slightly under a driz
zling rain.
TWO GOLDSBORO MEN
FACE MURDER COUNT
White Defendants To Go On Trial for
Killing Aged Negro Basket-
Maker There
Goldsboro, Aug. 23. (AP)— Arraign
ment on charges of murder of Earl
Sasser, 35-year-old farmer, and Mil
ford Exurn, 41, storekeeper, was set
for 2:30 o’clock this afternoon, when
a special venire was expected to be
drawn for their trial in superior
court, probably Wednesday or Thurs-
are charged with shooting to
death Jim Williams, 60-year-old Ne
gro basket-maker.
Judge Paul Grady heard this morn
ing the request of Paul Edmundson,
Paul Grady and Hugh Dortch, attor
neys for the defendants, to delay start
)f the trial until Wednesday or Thurs
day as that time was needed, they
said, to assemble witnesses.
HENDERSON, N. C., MONDAY AFTERNOON, AUGUST 23, 1937
JAPANESE BATTLE FOR VITAL PASS
B' ~ .#5 MANCHUKUO 8 H
Veiping
Nankow Pass in Great Wall; map showing location
Japanese forces have been waging a tremendous battle, ever since
the capture of Peiping, to gain an entrance through vital Nankow
Pass in order to reach the north. Chinese forces have been holding
the pass against all the modern implements of war.
Five Insurgent Columns
Drive Toward Santander
Spanish Rebels Hammer at
Government’s Iron Ring
Around Last Big
Coast City
twenty Tillages
CLAIMED OCCUPIED
Insurgents Overcome
Thunderous Counter - At
tacks by Government
Forces in Bay of Biscay Re
gion; Gains Made on As
turian Front in Civil War
Hendaye, Franco-Spanish Border,
Aug. ,23. —(AP) —Hammering at the
government’s iron ring around San
tander, five insurgent columns drove
forward today to gain control of the
Spanish Biscayan coast.
The high command of the insur
gents claimed they occupied 20 vil
lages between Valmaseda and Villas
ana de Mena as General Francisco
Franco’s troops (pushed toward San
tander from five sections.
The Franco coastal brigade oper
ates from Castro-Urdiales.
Villa Carrideo fell into insurgent
hands after the capture of prominet
neighboring positions and an inten
sive bombardment. Earlier insurgents
captured a place half a mile to the
south and sent swelling waves of in
fantry, machine gunners and tanks
sweeping across fertile wheat fields
and through ripening orchards.
Overcoming thunderous counter at
tacks, insurgents moved on the town
of Ontaneda, six miles to the south
west, but despite terrific bombard
ments from the land and air, govern
ment troops continued to hold the
town. Insurgents reported their ad
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COTTON IS UNABLE
TO HOLD ITS GAIN
July Joins AH Other Active Deliveries
in Nine-Cent Column at
9.97 Figure
New York, Aiig. 23. —(AP) —Cotton
futures opened steady, unchanged to
threfe points lower, with further rain
in the western belt partly offset by
trade buying and covering. July con
tracts joined all other active deliver
ies in the nine-cent column when it
declined to 9.97. December sold off
from 9.78 to 9.70, and was at the low
slightly after the first half hour, when
the list was about 5 to 8 points net
lower. December eased to 9.64, sell
ing at the low at midday and was 8
to 14 points net lower.
Futures closed' 1 steady, 7 to 14
points lower. Spot quiet, middling
9.8*.
Open Close
October 9.71 9.61
December 9.74 9.63
January 9.76 9.70
March 9.88 9.78
May 9.99 9.89
July 10.00 9.96
.Shanghai Victim^
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Frederick J. Falgout
Frederick John Falgout of Race
land, La., was the sailor killed when
a shell hit the deck of the U. S.
cruiser Augusta off Shanghai, China.
He would have been 21 the following
day.
Steamship
Bombed By
TwoPlanes
Marseilles, France, Aug. 23. —(AP)
•—The British steam Noemijulia wire
lessed today she was being bombed
by two airplanes off Ajaccio, the
capital of Corsica, in the western
Mediterranean.
The ship, listed as being 2,499 tons,
is owned by the Noemijulia Steamship
Company of London. It was sailing in
the waters near civil war-torn Spain,
where several bombings and torpedo
ings of vessels have occurred lately.
The Noemijulia’s message, picked
up by a Marseilles radio station, read:
“We are being bombarded. Posi
tion 42 degrees, seven minutes, north;
five degrees, 32 minute east; signs
two planes Nos. 528 and 529, black
circle with white cross two black
bars.”
HELEN WILLS MOODY
SEEKS HER DIVORCE
Reno, Nev., Aug. 23.—(AP)—Helen
Wills Moody will go* into court at
Carson City, at 1:30 p. m. today* to ask
a divorce from Frederick Moody, Jr.,
her attorney, Robert Price, announc
ed today.
The case, behind closed doors, will
he heard by Judge Clark Guild. Price
said Mrs. Moody will charge mental
cruelty.
Artillery Shells
Crash In Crowded
Shopping Section
Three Americans Among
1,000 Estimated Wound
ed in International
Settlement
SHELL MIGHT HAVE
BEEN JAP WARSHIP
May Have Been Fired from
Vessel in River Firing To
Cover Landing of Japanese
Reinforcements; Large
Business Buildings In Area
of Shelling
Shanghai, Aug. 23.—(AP) —An es
timated 400 persons were killed and
perhaps 1,000 wounded, including
three Americans, by a heavy artillery
shell that smashed into a crowded de
nartment store section of the interna
tional settlement today.
Scores of Americans marvelously
escaped death when a second projec
tive pierced the six-story United
States naval warehouse and crashed
through to the bottom, but failed to
ox^i^de.
The wounded American were An
thony Billingham, New York Times
staff correspondent; Hallett Abend,
chief of staff for the New York Times
in China, and Blanche Tenney, Shang
hai-born American.
Other Americans may have been
killed or wounded. Police said they
could not estimate accurately the
total of injured and killed, but an
Associated press reporter counted 200
bodies and said he knew there must
have been as many more.
Origin of the department store shell
was unknown. Some military experts
said it may have been a 180-pound
eight-inch shell which Japanese war
ships off Woosung were firing to pro
tect landing of reinforcements.
The shell struck Nanking Road at.
the busiest corner of Shanghai. On
one side of the intersection the huge
seven-story building of the Sincere
Company, Ltd., department store, was
crowded with shoppers. Across the
street the newly-opened 16 story build
ing of the Wing & Company was
equally jammed. The two stores are
Chinese-owned.
ROCKY MOUNT MAN
HELD FOR CRIME
J. M. Marks Alleged To Have Attempt
ed Rape on 12-Year-Old Girl,
His Own Cousin
Rocky Mount, Aug. 23. —(AP)
Solicitor Linwood Elmore announced
today a local 60-year-old man had
been arrested and charged with at
tempted rape of a 12-year-old girl, his
cousin.
The accused J. M. Marks, meat
market emple . denied the charge,
the solicitor sai and the child, iden
tified as Kather e House, was to be
questioned and examined by police
and physicians.
Police Chief O. P. Hedgepeth said
the time the alleged assault occurred
was Saturday night in Marks’ bed
room in a house where both Marks
and the House family live.
Georgia’s
Weed Price
19.83 Cents
Atlanta, Ga., Aug. 23 (AP)—The
State Bureau of Markets announced
today the Georgia tobacco markets
during the past four weeks had sold
at least 81,761,213 pounds of tobacco
Three warehouses had not reported
on fourth week sales today.
An average price of $19.83 per hun
dred pounds for the four weeks
brought $16,213,111.26.
The Georgia markets in the entire
1936 season sold 86,365,298 pounds for
$18,145,557.25, an average of $20.96 per
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Admiral Harry E. Yarnell
Admiral Harry E. Yarnell, as
commander of the U. S. Asiatic
fleet, with headquarters on the
cruiser Augusta, which was
bombed, is in charge of the evac
uation of Americans.
—Central Press
Faint Signal
Might Be Os
Lost Fliers
Russians Broadcast
to Arctic Plane To
Keep Up Courage
of Grounded Men
Barrow, Alaska, Aug. 23.—(AP) —
Reports that radio signals had been
heard on the wave length of Sigis
mund Levaneffsky’ls missing trans
polar plane spurred rescue fliers to
new efforts today in their search for
the six lost adventurers.
The signals heard at Moscow yes
terday was unintelligible, but Soviet
officials asked northern Russian sta
tions to broadcast rescue plans to en
courage the fliers if they are stranded
at some isolated Arctic point.
In this far northern outpost belief
began to grow today the missing ship
would be found “somewhere in
Alaska.” Pilot Bill Knocks, of Pacific
Airways, said Alaska fliers firmly be
lieve the plane landed on Alaskan soil.
It dis appeared a week ago Friday on
a 4,000-mile flight here from Moscow.
Jimmy Mattern, ace American flier,
Bob Randall, Canadian, and Pilot
Zedkoff, Russian flier, watched
weather reports impatient to take to
the air again. Fog grounded them
yesterday.
Reinforcements for the rescue
squadron were on the way.
An amphibian piloted by King
Baird and chartered by the Russian
government was en route from Seat
tle with additional radio equipment.
HOEY CONFERS WITH
CHIEFS OF HIGHWAY,
No Announcement Made, But Grady
Johnson To Make Tour of
State Prison Camps
Raleigh, Aug. 23 (AP)— Governor
Hoey conferred today with Frank
Dunlap, chairman of the highway and
public works commission, and Robert
Grady Johnson, recently appointed
head of the penal division, but made
no announcement on a reported shake
up in prison personnel.
Johnson will leave here tomorrow
on a tour of prisons, returning to Ra
leigh to take over his new duties
September 1.
THREE WOMEN ARE
ASSAULT VICTIMS
Chicago Police Hunt Sex Criminals
in One Slaying and Two As- _
saults in Week-End
Chicago, Aug. 23. —(AP)—The slay
ing of a pretty nurse and assault up
on two other women, all in a 48-hour
period, sent police on a round-up to
day of “every man with a record for
any sex offense.”
The latest assault victim was Mrs.
Anna Hollander, 50, who was beaten
and knocked unconscious by a Negro
in a Southside prairie last night.
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DEATH TOLL HEAVY
UPON HIGHWAYS OE
EASTERNCAROLINA
Craven Farmer Is Held for
Deaths of Two Pedes
trians Killed On
Sunday Night
ENFIELD WOMAN IS
FATALLY INJURED
Stedman Man Dies in Fay
etteville Hospital; Person
County Boy Killed and
Two Other Boys Injured
When Train Hits Car They
Are Riding In
Fayetteville, Aug. 23. —(AP) — J.
Marvin Bunce, 30, of Stedman, N. C.,
died in a local hospital this morn
ing at one o'clock of injuries sustain
ed Saturday night when a car in
which he was a passenger was struck
and overturned by a car which did
not stop. Howard Bunco, a cousin,
was injured.
La CROSSE MAN INJURED
NEAR ROANOKE RAPIDS
Roanoke Rapids, Aug. 23.—(AP) —
Bernard Parrish, of LaCrosse, Va., re
ceived serious injuries today when his
car and a machine driven by R. H.
Griffith, of Washington, D. C., col
lided at a crossroads near here.
Hospital attendants said he had
several ribs broken and a bad hip in
jury. Griffith escaped with minor
hurts.
TWO PEDESTItAINS KILLED
BY AUTO NiEAR NEW BERN
New Bern, Aug. 23.; —(AP) —Paul
Register, 24, Craven county farmer,
is under 1,900 bond pending a coron
er’s inquest here Tuesday morning in
to the death of Ed Koonce and Zennie
Heath, who were instantly killed Sun
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ONLY FEW STOCKS
RETAIN ADVANCES
Early Improvement of Fractions To
Point Lost in Most Instances
During Day
New York, Aug. 23 (AP)—Efforts
to give the stock market another rally
ing shove today were only partially
successful. A few favored issues re
tained modest gains, but early im
provement of fractions to a point or
more was lost in many instances.
Dealings were exceptionally light, near
the fourth hour. Secondary rail loans
showed rising tendencies in the bond
market, and United States govern
ment securities pointed moderately
upward. .
Transfers were in the neighborhood
of 559,000 shares.
American Radiator 21 1-4
American Telephone 168 1-2
American Tob B 78 1-2
Anaconda • V 8
Atlantic Coast Line 50
Atlantic Refining 27 7-8
Bendix Aviation ’• 19 l' 4
Bethlehem Steel 06 1-8
Chrysler m
Columbia Gas & Elec Co 12 1-2
Commercial 13 5-8
Continental Oil 14 7-8
DuPont 160 1-4
Electric Pow & Light ......... 20 3-4
General Electric 55
General Motors 56 1-4
Montgomery Ward & Co 60 3-4
Reynolds Tob B 51 8-4
Southern Railway 28 7-8
Standard Oil N J 67
U S Steel 113 1-4
Workers To
Protest Cut
ByTheWPA
Nearly 2,000 March
ers in Washington
To Parade on Penn
sylvania Avenue
Washington, Aug. 23. —(AP) —New
arrivals swelled to nearly 2,000 today
the ranks of the Workers Alliance
job marchers, camped in Potomac
Park.
A group of about 800 from New
York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania
arrived Sunday, and Dg,vid Lasser,
president of the alliance, said 700
more were expected from the west to
day.
Leaders said the job marchers
would parade through downtown
Washington Tuesday in a demonstra-
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