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ffIENDEKSON Gateway to [central CAROLINA Twenty-fourth year GiiESE PARALYZE JAP DRIVE ON SHANGHAI Roosevelt Renews Demand For Court Reform president states determination on SIGiGJW BILL Measure Affecting Lower Courts Called Only “Moderate and Lim ited Advance” SPEAKS OF BURDEN ON SUPREME COURT That Is Not Relieved, Pres ident States, and Lists It as One of His Objectives; North Carolina Gets Big Share of New PWA Pro jects Approved Washington, Aug. 25 (AP) President Roosevelt served no tice today that some reorgani zation of the Supreme Court re mains an aim of his administra tion. He made his first public state ment on the court situation since Congress shelved his de mand to enlarge that high tri bunal by one new member for each present justice over 70 who did not retire. The statement came with a White House announcement Mr. Roosevelt had signed a measure providing for judicial procedure in the lower courts. Out of the long and bitter fight over the court rill these proposals alone were retained and enacted. The President said the lower court bill “registers a moderate and limit ed advance into a field which calls lor further and more complete ex ploration.” He listed as being “on the side of mission” the fact the bill “leaves en tirely untouched any method of re lieving the burden now imposed on the Supreme Court.’’ This he then included as one of the objectives which he said are “of a necessity a part of any complete and rounded plan for the reform of judi cial processes.” Meanwhile, Secretary Ickes an nounced President Roosevelt’s ap (Continued on Page Three.) \ Roosevelt Signs Crop Resolution Washington, Aug. 25.—(AP) —Presi- dent Roosevelt, the White House an nounced today, has signed the resolu tion under which Congress pledged itself to consider crop control legis lation at the outset of the next session The President had exacted this pledge in return for a promise to make Federal loans on the large 1937 crop, designed to stabilize the price. Continuation of loans on surplus crops, he said repeatedly, must go hand in hand with measures to con trol production. No decision has been made as to the amount of the new cotton loan. Secretary Wallace has urged a loan °f nine cents a pound, while cotton 'fates senators want it to be ten cents Eastern Carolina Opens Weed Markets Tomorrow; T obacco Now Pouring In Aug. 25 (AP) —Tobacco into the warehouses of the v> bright Belt today on the eve of opening of the 1937 sell t> season and warehousemen and Janets voiced optimism that prices ° u!, l equal, probably exceed, those 01 <he border belt. : >st exhibits disclosed a quality 1 Pa: with that which averaged b<m] t!lan cents on the Carolinas i £ Ic - Y. Floyd, of N. C. State College k Xension Service, said: “The leaf of X fc ca.itern counties is just as good, if Urttiipratm tJtttly tHsuafrlt ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA AND VIRGINIA. abased wire service OF* the associated press. Wilkins Off Upon Hunt for Soviets Fairbanks, Alaska, Aug. 25.(AP) —Sir Hubert Wilkins, noted Arctic explorer, sped toward the polar re gions today in a hunt for the six Soviet trans-polar airmen missing 13 days. His Soviet-owned flying boat left Copperminn, Northwest Territory, at 9:15 p. in. last night on a second attempt to locate the fliers, who vanished on a 4,000-mile flight from Moscow to Fairbanks and Oakland, Cal. conferenceover RAIL WAGE BOOST ENDSINDEADLOCK Brotherhoods Say Only Al ternative Is To Set Day and Hour for Strike To Begin CARRIERS PROTEST INABILITY TO PAY Say Their Income Will Not Permit 20 Percent Increase Demanded; Tremendous Losses Would Ensue; Sou thern Railroads Especially Affected Chicago, Aug. 25.—(AP)—The con ference between representatives of 350,000 railroad operating employees and their employers broke up today with refusal by 86 major railroads to accede to demands for a flat 20 per cent wage increase. A statement from the representa tives of the big five operating broth erhoods said the action “leaves no al ternative but to set the day and hour for the men to withdraw from service in accordance with the authority given in a strike ballot in which 97 percent of the workers represented by these organizations (the brother hoods) voted in favor of a strike un (Continued on Page Three.) FINES DOCTOR WHO WAS AT BABY BIRTH Chicago, Aug. 25. —(AP) —Dr. John Anthony Rose, who attended the birth of Donald Horst 31 months ago, plead ed guilty today to a charge of failing to report Donald was born to Mrs. Dydia Nelson Lavin, who took the child from its foster mother August 3. Chief Justice John Sonsteby fined the doctor $25 and costs. FOUR OAKS LIQUOR RULING POSTPONED State ABC Board Hears Appeals About Evenly Divided for and Against New Store Raleigh, Aug. 25. —(AP’) —The State liquor commission took under advise ment today the request for an ABC store at Four Oaks, Johnston county. About 15 persons appeared in favor of the store and about an equal num ber opposed it, Cutlar Moore, com mission chairman, said. * »We will not take any action until we hear from the Johnston County ABC Board,” Moore added. “As yet the board has not asked for a store. not better, than that being offered on the border belt markets.” Compulsory grading of the U. b. Department of Agriculture will be us ed for the first time this season at Wendell and for the second time at Goldsboro, Farmville and Oxford. A glimpse of the markets: At Tarboro said Sam McConkey, a warehouseman: “Priming looks good and the smoking quality of the tobac co points to the best year on this mar ket ” Said Lawrence House, another warehouseman: “The tobacco that has been cured is a good quality for smok ing tobacco.’ HENDERSON, N. C., THURSDAY AFTERNOON, AUGUST 25,1937 U. S. S. President Hoover, Which Evacuated 810 From Shanghai U. S. S. President Hoover off the Shanghai waterfront The Dollar Liner President Hoover, which evacuated 810 Ameri- l cans from war-torn Shanghai, is seen in a previous photo in the 1 Whangpoo river off Shanghai. Many of the structures in the back- | COURT JOB MIGHT TONE BLACK DOWN Already Assuming Unac customed Dignity; Many Justices Change By CHARLES P. STEWART Central Press Columnist Washington, Aug. 25. It would be queer if Hugo L-. Black turns out to be a conservative on the United States supreme bench. It will not be unprecedented, how ever, if, appointed as an ultra-liberal, he flops over to the conservative side. Justice James Clark Mcßeynolds was a celebrated “trust buster” in Presi dent Theodore Roosevelt’s day. Now he classes as one of the most reac tionary of the high court jurists. Jus tice George Sutherland also once was supposed to be a pretty good liberal That was the theory on which he was appointed. Since then his name has (Continued on Page Three.) CONCORD OFFICER FULLY EXONERATED Shot Fugitive Fleeing From Store That Had Been Robbed Dur ing Night Hours Concord, Aug. 25.—(AF)—A coron er’s jury exonerated Patrolman Derley Cook in the fatal shooting of Sandy Garrison, 21, here early today. Cook said he shot Garrison as he tried to flee from officers. Cook said Garrison and a man he identified as J. C. Mahan ran as of ficers approached a store that had been robbed. One of three shots fired by the officers struck Garrison, Ma han was caught later. Garrison died at a hospital. Mahan, officers said, denied any part int he robbery. Says Exum Confessed To Slaying Goldsboro, Aug. 25—(AP>—Sheriff Paul Garrison, of Wayne county, tes tified in superior court here today Milfqrd Exum, 41, who with Earl Sas ser, 35, is charged with the pistol slay ing .of Jim Williams, aged Negro, con fessed to him he fired the fatal shots. The sheriff’s testimony came just before the State rested its case at 11:41 a. m. Judge Henry Grady, of Clinton, presiding, then recessed court until 2 p. m. Deputy Sheriff H. B. Gardner and Lawyer Bradley, Johnston county Negro, also testified. Sheriff Garrison quoted Exum as saying he and Sasser went to Wil liams’ shack near Fremont last April (Continued on Page Three.). City Os Santander Is Surrendered To Rebel Commander Last Remaining Government Stronghold on Northern Spanish Coast Capitulates After Rioting Within City Itself; Franco’s Forces Move In Hendaye, Franco-Spanish Frontier, Aug! 25.—(AP) —Insurgent officials today announced the surrender of Santander, last remaining govern ment stronghold on the northwest Spanish coast. Advices from insurgent field head quarters said government authorities in the city officially handed over a notice of surrender. Then, insurgent motorized troops casually drove ahead to enter the outskirts, Late in the afternoon a strong detachment was only three miles from Santander proper. Fall of the city was hastened by street fighting. Santander’s civil guards, a part of the police, and some of the civilian population rushed gov- CITIES WANT BAN UPON LOCAL LAWS Convention In Winston Next Month To Start Move for Amendment Daily Dispatch Bureau. In the Sir Walter Hotel. Raleigh, Aug. 25.—The North Car olina League of Municipalities will inaugurate a campaign to establish a permanent ban on all “local” legisla tion by the General Assembly. Taking time well by the forelock the league will launch its effort at its convention to be held in Winston- Salem during the last week of Sep tember. This, of course, is well more than a year before the next meeting of the legislature, but municipal of ficials are of the opinion that a con stitutional amendment will be needed (Continued on Page Three.) rare WEATHEP MAN FOB NORTH CAROLINA. Partly cloudy tonight and Thursday; scattered showers in north portion. ground have been damaged by shellfire. The passenger vessels now take on refugees at the mouth of the Whangpoo. Lighters take the cowering passengers from Shanghai through furious gunfire. —Central Press ernment troops, demanding imme diate capitulation to insurgents. So swift was the insurgent advance that 5'7000 governm.oirii mililtiamen were believed caught in a pocket form ed southeast of the city by onrushing insurgent troops. With Insurgents Attacking Santan der, Aug . 25. —(AP) —One hundred thousand insurgent soldiers held San tander in a pincer-like trap today. The city’s defense forces, 50,000 or more Spanish government troops, were cut off from all retreat with their backs to the Bay of Biscay. Advance patrols of General Fran (Continued on Page Three.) ROW OVER LIQUOR" APPEARS BREWING State Board and County Units Clash in Matter of Management Daily Dispatch Bnrenn, In the Sir Waiter Hotel. Raleigh, Aug. 25.—Difetindt rum blings of an impending storm can be heard on the liquor control front even without putting an ear very close to the ground. Recently Cutlar Moore, State board chairman, issued a statement that everything is running smoothly, but there are plenty of indications that all is not sweetness and light. In fact there are many potents and omens pointing unerringly to trouble in the offing between State and county boards. It is impossible to get any one con nected either with the State board or the county .board to put into definite words the causes of the friction known to exist, impossible because of the unwillingness of any one to antagonize publicly an agency with which relations must be kept up. Yet it is plain that the counties— or many of them, at least —do not like the tight rein that is being kept on them by the State board, There have been protests against the State’s prices—counties contending that the central agency has not given them a high enough “mark up. There has been a very strong pro test against the audit system ordered (Continued on Page Three.) PUBLISHED IVBRY AFTEKNOOM EXCEPT SUNDAY. TRAGEDY AM * State Labor Department Sends Inspector; Seven Men Were Killed Badin, Aug. 25. —(AP) — The State Department of Laboi; launched an investigation today of an explosion which claimed seven lives and burned four men yesterday. L. P. Sorrell, inspector of the Greensboro district, sought to deter mine why an oil switch exploded in 'the Carolina Aluminum Company's plant, resulting in almost instant death of three men and subsequent deaths of four others. Chief Clerk P. E. Book said the men were repairing a transformer when the explosion occurred, injuring every member of the crew. Several were burned beyond recognition. The men were working between two high tension wires when sudden ly there was a terrific crash, Book said, and the workers toppled oven The building was not damaged. Doctors said C. C. Beeker, Harley Everhart, L. W. Owings and A. W. Love were expected to recover. GOLDSBORO WOMAN DIES OF CAR HURT Goldsboro, Aug. 25 (AP)—Mrs. H. W. Eason, 59, died at a hospital here today of injuries received in a car wreck near Smithfield several weeks ago. Funeral services will *be held at Princeton tomorrow afternoon. WAYNE FARMER DIES OF WAGON INJURIES Goldsboro, Aug. 25 (AP)—Arnold Sasser, 24, farmer, died at a hospital here today from injuries received Monday when his mule became fright ened and ran, crushing him beneath a , load of wood. Funeral services will be tomorrow. Landlord In Mississippi Is Charged With Peonage; Chained Negress To Bed Clarksdale, Miss., Aug. 25. —(AP) — A story that a Negro woman tenant farmer was chained to a bed in a Mississippi share-cropper cabin was related today by Sheriff H. H. Dogan. Federal authorities investigated peon age charges against the landlord. The landlord, S. J. Decker, 30, op erator of a 200-acre farm near Sun nier, Miss., was released on $1,500 bond yesterday by U. S. Commission er W. H. Fitzgerald, Jr., pending for 8 PAGES TODAY FIVE CENTS COPY LANDING OEM HALTED AND MANY DROWN IN RIVER Heavy Losses Inflicted on Japs and Landing of 42,000 Soldiers Is Stopped TWO JAP~WARSHIPS FOUNDER IN RIVER Distant Chinese Batteries Smash at Enemy Warships in Whangpoo and Yang tze; Casualties in Two Weeks of Fighting Esti mated at 100,000 Shanghai, Aug. 26 (AP) The explosions of hidden Chi nese mines and withering fire from secret machine gun nests riddled Japanese regular army landing parties today and pre vented at least temporarily, the debarkation of 42,000 Japanese troops of the Shanghai war. Heavy losses of Japanese advance forces slowed up or possibly halted altogether further troop landings. An official Chinese announcement said 500 Japanese soldiers out of 1,- 500 who tried to land at one point had drowned in the Wangpoo and the rest were driven back to their ships. This announcement also said two Jap anese warships had foundered off an island in the Yangtze. War maps found on a captured Japanese officer disclosed a Japanese plan to land troops along the entire Chinese coast and then advance on Shanghai for the final drive to wipe out Chinese forces* Apparently furious because of the setback, Japanese demolished Chinese villages along the Yangtze with a naval barrage and scores of aerial bombs. The villages were death traps. (Continued on Page Three.) MT. AIRY^ DISTRICT DAMAGED BY RAINS City’s Water Supply Threatened for Time; Farm Lands Big Los ers from Flooding Mt. Airy, Aug. 25 (AP)—Heavy rains in the mountains north of here washed out several dams and flooded lowlands today. Lowlands in the western section of the city were flooded and farm lands suffered heavy damages. The city’s reservoir was threatened but officials thought there was little danger to the water supply after walls were reinforced. The heavy rainfall continued to day in several sections. AfFLPlans Fight Upon CIO Drive Atlantic City, Aug. 25 (AP)—The organization of east coast waterfront union men still loyal to the A. F. of L. to combat the C. I. O. invasion was discussed behind the scenes today by American Federation of Labor lead ers here for the executive council meeting. Although these leaders so far have not formally approved any definite plan for reorganization, they said pri vately consolidation of “loyal ranks" would have to precede any anti-Lewis campaign. Some were of the opinion the Inter (Continued on Page Three.) mal arraignment next Monday. Assistant U. S. District Attorney Lester Sacks said Federal agents brought charges that Decker held the woman, Ethel Davis, and J. W. Wig gins, another Negro tenant, in a “forced condition of servitude” for pament of a $175 debt. Sheriff Dogan said Wiggins com plained to him two weeks ago his wife, Ethel Davis, was held in chains on the farm.
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