HENDERSON
gaT EWAY TO
CENTRAL
CAROLINA
Twenty-fourth year
JAPS LAUNCH GREAT DRIVE UPON SHANGHAI
MEMBERS OF HOUSE
FEAR WORSE BREAK
AT EXTRA SESSION
Will Advise Roosevelt Not
To Call Congressmen
Back Before Regu
lar Session
more time NEEDED
TO COOL TEMPERS
President Would Risk Re
opening Old Sores if Mem
bers Are Brought Back Be
fore Christmas; Hull
Pleads for Sino-Japanese
Peace in East
Washington, Aug. 24.—(AP) —
President Itoosevelt called in his
leaders in Congress for luncheon
today for what officials said was
a conference on calling a special
autumn session of Congress.
Senator Barkley, Democrat,
Kentucky, and Representative
Rayburn, Democrat, Texas, Sen
ate ami House Democratic leaders
were invited to the White House
midday meal.
Another presidential engage
ment during the day, prodmbly
connected with the proposed ex
traordinary meeting of Congress,
was with Chairman Jones, Dem
ocrat, Texas, of the House Agri
culture Committee. Farm control
legislation is the first order of
business at the next session, spe
cial or regular.
Washington, Aug. 24.—(AP) — A
group of influential House Democrats
expressed strong opposition today to
a special congressional session in the
fall on the grounds it might increase
party dissension.
One leader, who preferred not to
be mentioned by name, said:
“No practical good, and maybe
some harm, probably would come
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FREE TWO SUSPECTS
IN ATTEMPTED RAPE
Charlotte Police Unable To Hold
Negroes for Entering Room
of Woman Monday
Charlotte, Aug. 24. —(AP) —Meck-
lenburg county police said today they
had picked up two Negroes and had
questioned them about alleged at
tempts to rape a white woman here
but had released them.
The Negroes, a police report said,
were taken off freight trains. One
was taken before the woman, Mrs.
Jerry Bell, occupant of an automo
bile trailer. The report said Mrs. Bell
asserted he was not the man who en
tered the trailer in mid-afternoon yes
terday. The other Negro, officers said,
did not fit the description of Mrs,
Bell’s assailant.
State, county and city pcflice, mean
while, continued to comb a wooded
■ stretch into which Mrs. Bell said the
Negroes fled after her screams at
tracted residents of the vicinity.
GREENVILLE’S JOB
SUPERVISOR NAMED
Raleigh, Aug. 24. (AP) —'Robert
B. Cobb, of Nash county, was named
manager of the Greenville branch of
fice of the North Carolina State Em
ployment. Service, Mayne Albright, di
rector of the service said today.
Auto Total
Last Month
Set Record
Kaleigh, Aug. 24.—(AP)— Auto
mobiles took a toU of 96 lives in
North Carolina during July to set
"hat highway patrol officers said
they believed was a new record,
number of persons killed dur
jriS the month was an increase of
2b over June fatalities and of 21
wver deaths from automobiles
during July, 1936.
, . he previous high for any month
thls year was 87 in May. Although
complete figures were not available.
e highway patrol said the 558 per-
Sons killed through July 31 of this
J? ar also was apparently a new high.
n ly 514 fatalities were reported for
the first seven months of 1936.
Figures for July collected by the
? atr °i, showed 724 persons were in
jured in wrecks, compared with 681 in
Jul y, 1936.
The increased number of automo
-Ics on the road was given as the
, ain reason for the increased death
toll.
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THE ASSOCIATED PRESS.
Liquor Stores In
Protest to State
Raleigh, Aug. 24.—(AP)—Repre
sentatives of wet counties protest
ed to the State Liquor Commis
sion today against a system of au
diting prescribed by the commis
sion.
A committee of the State asso
ciation of ABC hoards, composed
of Fred Poisson, of Wilmingtor
S. P. Sitterson, of Uenior, and E.
H. Ricks, of Halifax, called first
on Cutlar Moore, chairman of the
commission, and then on R. G.
Devton, assistant budget director.
The protest was taken under ad
visement.
W orkers At
Badin Plant
Lo se Lives
Two Dead, Nine
Hurt, Seven Seri
ously, by Electricity
At Aluminum Plant
Badin, Aug. 24.—(AP) —An electric
spark, striking soon after the mem*
ing shift began work today,' bridged
two tension wires in the TJarolina
Aluminum Company’s plant here,
Chief Clerk B. E. Book said, killing
two workers and injuring nine others,
seven seriously.
H. B. Rhea, 48, and R. A. Cranford,
23, were burned to death.
The men were engaged in repair
ing a transformer when the flash
came, injuring every member of the
crew.
Ambulances were rushed here from
Albemarle.
Rhea and Cranford died soon after
admission to a hospital.
Several of the workers were burned
beyond recognition. The tragedy oc
curred in the rotary station of the
plant.
Seriously hurt were Grover West,
Don Littleton, G. N. Traxler, C. C.
Beeker, Ernest Noose, L. R. Rutledge
and Harley Everhart.
A. W. Love and L. W. Owings were
less seriously injured.
Book said the men were between
the wires. The building was not burn
ed.
FOUR OAKS SEEKS
OWN LIQUOR STORE
That Johnston County Town Voted
Dry in Election, But Element
Wants ABC Shop
Raeligh, Aug. 24 (AP) —The State
Liquor Commission will hold a second
hearing tomorrow on an application
to establish an ABC store in Four
Oaks. At a previous hearing, the ap
plication was denied.
Cutlar Moore, ABC chairman, said
today Four Oaks voted dry in the re
cent Johnston county election. It has
been the policy of the commisison, he
said, not to establish stores in com
munities that voted overwhelmingly
dry.
Santander
Battle Is
About Over
Hendaye, Franco-Spanish Frontier,
Aug. 24. —(AP) —Continued advances
by five converging columns of insur
gent troops today “made it apparent,”
said General Francisco Franco, “fight
ing in Santander province is virtually
ended.”
The insurgent chieftain’s Salanan
ca headquarters predicted the rate of
his army’s advance would permit cap
ture of the provincial capital, San
tander, before the end of the week.
The government, admitting in part
the insurgent claims, reported fierce
infantry attacks, supported by tanks
and large masses of artillery and air
nlanes, centered on the Spanish gov
ment’s last important Biscayan sea.-
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ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA AND VIRGINIA.
Six Men Die As Huge Plane
Os Navy Falls At San Diego
San Diego, Cal., Aug. 24. —(AP) —
Disaster struck the navy’s armada of
giant flying .boats for the first time
last flight, killing s of eight men
aboard a new $150,000 craft as it
crashed into San Diego bay.
Two crew members escaped with
minor injuries, but three officers were
killed and the plane almost demolish
ed by the impact. Four bodies had not
been recovered' early today.
Its hull submerged, the wreck was*
EURE 10 GO AFTER
BIG CORPORATIONS
Will Start “Crack-Down” on
Those Not Domesticat
ing In State
Dally Dispatch Bureau,
In the Sir Walter Hotel.
Raleigh, Aug. 24—A real “crack
down” on foreign corporations which
have not yet domesticated to do busi
ness in North Carolina will be started
‘almost immediately” by Secretary of
State Thad Eure.
The plans calls for a thorough check
and recheck on all corporations doing
business in this State with a view to
collecting all lawful taxes from them
and also with a view to protecting
North Carolinians doing business with
these concerns, Mr. Eure said.
Department of Revenue books will
be inspected to learn what foreign
corporations have paid franchise taxes
to do business in North Carolina, and
these lists will be compared with rec
ords in the secretary of state’s office
showing which have domesticated and
paid the required fees therefor. Any
on one list and not on the other will
immediately be required to do plenty
of explaining.
Not only will this close inspection
enable the State to collect additional
revenue, Mr. Eure said, but it will en
sure the fact that corporations doing
business with residents of this State
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COTTON UNCHANGED
AT END OF SESSION
Recovery Sets in After Opening and
Extends to Net Gains, Partly
Lost Later
New York, Aug. 24. —(AP) —Cotton
futures opened barely steady, 4 to
9 points lower because of easier Liver
pool cables and foreign and southern
selling. The recovery extended to net
gains of 6 to 10 points late in the
morning. Ey midday December was
quoted at 9.69, with the general list
3 to 7 points net higher.
Futures closed steady, unchanged
to 2 points lower. Spot steady, mid
dling 9.8£.
Open Close
October 9.53 9.60
December 9.58 9.64
January 9.62 9.68
March *
May 9.83 9.88
July 9.88 9.96
HENDERSON, N. C., TUESDAY AFTERNOON, AUGUST 24, 1937
Three Hotels Destroyed in Asbury Park Fire
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Illuminating the skies for miles a spectacular fire swept Asbury Park, N. J., famed ocean resort, and
destroyed three hotels. This picture, taken at the height of the blaze, shows the flames roaring through the
new, 200-room New Monmouth Hotel. Firemen, policemen, marines and soldiers worked feverishly to rescue
the occupants as the blaze attacked the Park Lane and Sterling hotels. Other hostelries in the danger zone
were vacated and hundreds of panic-stricken guests fled to the street. Thousands of holiday-seekers wit
nessed the conflagration. (Central Press)
quickly surrounded by navy and pri
vate ships as giant searchlights il
luminated the bay.
The ill-starred plane, PBY-1, whose
sister flying boats have flown in mass
formation to Honolulu and the Canal
Zone within the last two years, was
undergoing a “routine night practice
flight” for a forthcoming hop to
Panama in September.
As it swooped down for a landing
after being in the air for several
hours, the seaplane struck the Nor
whal, an abandoned whaling ship once
Georgia Tobacco
Nearly All Sold
Atlanta, Ga., Aug. 24 —(AP) —The
State Bureau of Markets said to
day bright leaf tobacco sales dur
ing the first four weeks of Geor
gia’s 1937 market totalled 82,312,-
677 pounds. The Georgia season is
near its close.
An average price of 19.76 cents a
pound brought in $16,236,964.29,
the third highest receipts in the
Georgia market’s history.
Fourth week sales totalled 12,
298,727 pounds for an average of
SIO.BB per hundred pounds.
iljTiT
JOIN TOET LINE
Union Leaders Express Fear
of Renewal of Riots;
13 Were Hurt
Pittsburgh, Fa., Aug. 24. —(AP)
Women and children joined the men
folks on the strikebound Heppen
stall Steel Company today as union
leaders expressed fear of a renewal of
yesterday’s riots in which 13 were
hurt.
William Hart, head of the SWOC
local, massed 700 pickets at the plant,
asserting he had received a “tip” non
strikers would again rush the gates
padlocked by striker s .
About 50 pickets were on duty yes
terday as four carloads of non-strik
ers, led by C. W. Heppenstall, Jr.,
company vice-president tried to break
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PUP WEATHER MAW
.»*
FOR NORTH CAROLINA .
Partly cloudy with scattered
showers Wednesday and in north
portion tonight.
used in filming “Moby Dick.”
The hull of the flying boat nosed
over in the bay mud, crushing its
metal framework like^paper.
Only the bottom of the fuselage
and two wing pontoons showed above
water.
In desperate haste to extricate the
victims, three of a cerw of 175 navy
men were imperilled by a sudden fire,
started when sparks ignited spilled
gasoline.
The trio jumped into the bay but
were rescued.
EVA IN NO HURRY
IN WEST CAROLINA
Willing To Consider Any
Local Projects But These
Will Be Slow
Daily Dispatch Barean.
In the Sir Walter Hotel.
Raleigh, au g. 24. —The Tennessee
Valley Authority plans no immediate
electrification projects in Western
North Carolina, though it is willing
to consider and cooperate in any
feasible project which may be locally
initiated, J. M. Grainger, engineer of
the State Rural Electrification Au
thority, said on his return from a
trip to Knoxville, where he confer
red with TV A officials.
With D. W. Weaver, secretary of
the State REA, Mr. Grainger con
ferred at length with Dr. Martin G.
Gleaser, head of a newly created de
partment of power planning of the
Tt?A, and with George W. Kable, once
rural electrification chief of the big
Federal project, and now chief of
section of the Department of .Agri
cultural Industries.
The TVA apparently has no de
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EX-MRS. GIFFORD
DEAD AFTER FALL
Former Wife of Telephone Head
Found at Hotel; Had Mar
ried After Divorce
New York, Aug. 24 (AP)—Mrs.
Florence Temple, former wife of
Walter Gifford, president of the Ame
rican Telephone & Telegraph Com
pany, was killed today in a fall from
her eleventh floor apartment in a
West 57th Street hotel. Her marriage
to Gifford’ended in divorce at Reno
in 1929. , _ tv,
Mrs. Temple later married John
Temple, an electrical engineer. She
was 45. ...
For some time she had been in in
health and had been treated at vari
ous sanitariums for a nervous disord
er, according to her father, Walter
Pittman, a Jersey City, N. J. manu
facturer, and his attorney, Ernest
Wheeler.
Recently she had been living in a
two-room suite at the hotel.
This morning George Olsen, manag
er of the hotel, glanced from a win
dow and saw a body on the second
story extension in the rear. It was
Mrs. Temple’s.
PUBLISHED EVERY AFTERNOON
EXCEPT SUNDAY.
Battle Developing
With 250,000 Men
On 150-Mile Front
Cruiser Bomb Victim
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Frederick W. Andrews, 21, of
Revere, Mass., is pictured above. He
was injured recently aboard the
U. S. S. Augusta, flagship of the
United States Asiatic fleet, when a
shell fired in the Sino-Jap battle at
Shanghai burst, killing one Ameri
can sailor and injuring nearly a
score.’
/ Central Press )
Caledonia’s
Desperadoes
Are Hunted
Bill Payne and Jack
Borden Wanted for
Slaying of Asheville
Patrolman
Asheville, Aug. 24 (AP) —Sheriff
Laurence Brown announced this aft
ernoon that territory far and wide
was being searched for William (Bill)
Payne and Jack Borden, alias Wash
Turner, two escaped convicts, in con
nection with the shotgun slaying last
Sunday of George Penn, 22-year-old
State Highway patrolman.
BUNCOMBE SHERIFF OPENS
INTENSE DRIVE FOR PAIR
Asheville, Aug. 24 (AP) —Laurence
Brown, Buncombe county’s sheriff,
said today he had instructed his depu
ties to hunt up a pair of escaped
convicts in seeking to run down the
killers of George Penn, 22, State high
way patrolman, who” was shot down
Sunday night by unidentified men in
an automobile.
Brown declined to name the su
spects he said he believed fired three
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QUIETSTOCK RALLY
IS LED BY STEELS
Gains of Fractions to Around Two
Points Predominate; Some
Issues Are Sluggish
New York, Aug. 24.—(AP)—Steels
led a quiet rally in today’s stock mar
ket after a further mild retreat at
the opening. Gains of fractions to
around two points predominated near
the fourth hour. An assortment of
issues failed to follow the sedate come
back. From a speculative standpoint,
brokers said, the news provided no
special buying stimulus. Bonds were
uneven.
Transfers were around 550,000
shares.
American Radiator 21 1-8
American Telephone 168 1-2
American Tob B 78 3-4
Anaconda 58 1-2
Atlantic Coast Line 49 3-4
Atlantic Refining ... 28
Bendix Aviation 19 1-2
Bethlehem Steel 97 1-4
Chrysler -Aj 2 "
Columbia Gas & Elec 12 1-4
Commercial 13 j)'®
Continental Oil Co " 7-8
DuPont 159 1-2
Electric Pow & Light 21
General Electric 55 1-2
General Motors 57 1-4
Liggett & Myers B 99 3-4
Montgomery Ward & Co 61 5-8
Reynolds Tob B 51 3-4
Southern Railway 25 7-8
Standard Oil N J 67 1-2
U S Steel 114 1-2
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China’s Modernized Army
Attacking From Four
Directions To Drive
The Japs Out
AIRPLANE CARRIERS
CATAPULT BIG CRAFT
Sent Inland To Bomb Chi
nese Machine Gun Posi
tions, As Thousands of
Nippon Reinforcements
Are Landed; “Suicide De
tachments” Lead
Shanghai, Aug. 25 (Wednes
day) (AP) Chinese air
planes swept over international
Shanghai this morning on awe
inspiring reconnaissance flights,
while Japanese naval guns crash
ed in prolonged bombardment of
Woosung and Shanghai’s Yang
tze river outlet to the sea to
cover the landing of fresh Japa
nese troops.
The Chinese air force, following the
example of their Japanese enemies,
scouted the heart of the city after
midnight. The planes dropped no
bombs, but the roar of their engines
threw Shanghai into a new state of
fearful tension.
Japanese anti-aircraft guns barked
out at them.
Opposing land forces hemming the
international areas were content to
hold their lines while Japan’s big guns,
planes and landing parties roared to
the north about Woosung at the con
fluence of the Whangpoo, Shanghai’s
harbor and the Yangzte river.
Shanghai. Aug. 24 (AP)
Japanese naval planes, naval
guns and landing parties smash
ed at Shanghai today in a pro
mised “big offensive” against
stubborn Chinese resistance.
An Associate Press reporter
said he saw two Japanese air
plane farriers, anchored near
Saddle island, at the mouth of
the Yangtze., catapult plane af
ter plane into the air to bomb
Chinese machine gun positions
near the Woosung shore.*
In the midst of exploding bombs
and artillery shells, 212 Americans
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REVENUE AGENTS
GETTING RESULTS
Taxes Income «f State Increased By
Field Men Working on Dodg
ers Over State
Daily Dispatch Bnrean,
In the Sir Walter Hotel.
Raleigh, Aug. 24.—The State De
partment of Revenue has 40 reasons
why it expects increased tax revenue
this fiscai year. Each reason is an
auditor in the field checking up on
delinquents. Last year there were but
25 auditors engaged in this kind of
work.
During the fiscal year ended June
30, 1937, there were delinquent tax
collelctions of approximately $1,000,-•
000 turned ir> by the 25 auditors, who
wgre able to “hit only the high spots,”
revenue officials say. This year the
40 auditors are expected to turn up
delinquent taxes to the extent of sl,-
800,000.
No figures are yet available, but
rough estimates are that collection of
delinquent taxes has increased just
about in that proportion during the
month of August.
CHINMEKNOWN
FOR THEIR HONESTY
Correspondent Relates Ex
perience He Had With
Shanghai Merchant
By CHARLES P. STEWART
Central Press Columnist
Washington, Aug. 24.—Apropos the
Jap-Chinese conflict —
The Chinese have a reputation for
honesty. I think they deserve it.
To illustrate:
One evening, when I was living in
Shanghai, a wretched-looking Chinese
stopped me, as I was turning into the
recently-bombed Palace hotel, where
I was a guest.
His name was 800 Yung Hoy, he
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