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11. S. LINER HOOVER IS BOMBED RV CHINESE
Strong Protest On
Bombing Os Liner
Is Made To China
American Merchant Vessels
Are To Cease Their Calls
and Shanghai For
Present
WILL USEWARSHIPS
TO MOVE CITIZENS
Liner President Hoover Ord
ered to Kobe, Japan; Ad
miral Yarnell of U. S. Fleet,
Reports 25 Pieces of Shrap
nel Strike Big Ship Just Off
Shanghai
Washington, Aug. 30.—(AP)—Sec
retary Hull said today'he had instruct
ed Ambassador Nelson Johnson at
Nanking to make a strong protest to
the Chinese government on the bomb
ing of the liner President Hoover.
The secretary said he was under
the impression that merchant vessels
of the United States would not call
at Shanghai.
Regarding American vessel calls at
Shanghai. Hull said Admiral Harry
yarnell. Asiatic fleet commander, had
directed the President Hoover to go
to Ko e, Japan, hut that no definite
instructions had been given that oth
er Dollar Line ships avoid the war
torn port. . . ..
His expressed impression that the
port would be avoided, however, was
taken to mean that Dollar liners, as
well as the vessels of any other line,
probably would cease to call there.
This raised the question of how
Americans remaining in the city
would be evacuated. The secretary
said it was possible navy vessels
would be made available for that pur
pose. He added that no decision had
been reached.
Between 200 and 300 Americans are
ready to leave the city, the secretary
said. ..
Admiral Yarnell reported to the
Navy Department 25 pieces of shrap
nel from an unidentified source
struck the liner Hoover, at anchor
two miles from the Yangtze river
lightship. He reported seven of the
liner's crew were severely injured, and
two passengers were severely stun
ned.
Tobacco Is
Selling At
About 23c
Tarboro, Aug. 30 (AP) —Tobacco
market officials estimated today s o -
ferings on local floors at 60,000 pounds
and said the price was approximately
322.50 per hundred. The quality rang
ed from very poor to good.
million pounds offered
AT KINSTON AROUND $22.50
Kinston, Aug. 30 (AP)—An estimat
ed 1,000,000 pounds of tobacco, much
of it classed as low quality, were of
fered on the Kinston market today.
Officials said the price average was
about $22.50 per hundred pounds.
ROCKY MOUNT’S AVERAGE
IS ESTIMATED NEAR $23
Rocky Mount, Aug. 30 (AP) —Offer-
ings on the tobacco market here today
were reported at 400,000 pounds, and
the price average was estimated at $23
Per hundred.
Auto Sales
Proof New
Prosperity
Dnlly DlHpntch Bnrenn,
In The Sir Wnlter Hotel.
Raleigh, Aug. 30. —Automobile sales
lri North Carolina this year confirm
indications that prosperity has re
turned.
Although sales of new cars have
r ‘°t not quite kept pace with the in-
£ r ease in total automobile registra
nt of 1937, figures in the Depart
[hnnt of Revenue show a very sub
stantial increase, in which practically
tveiy type and make of car has shar
• Registrations so far this year al
j/ o arJ y exceed that for the whole of
have not yet attained such
pr °portions.
According to figures in the office
'* R. McLaughlin, head of the
10 or vehicle division of the Depart
ent ( ,f Revenue, 34,164 new passen
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Sir Robert Clive, may be recalled
until satisfactory explanations are
given for the serious wounding
of Sir Hughe Knatchbull-Huges
sen, British envoy to China, ac
cording to reports in London.
HARMONY RETURNS
TO GRID AT STATE
“Doc” Newton, New Coach,
Faces Bright Prospect of
Removing Friction
Daily Dispatch Bureau.
In The Sir Walter Hotel,
Raleigh, Aug. 30—It’s a known fact
around the campus at State College
here that prospects for a winning foot
ball team this fall are extremely bleak
but there is a feeling that there will
be close harmony in a heretofore up
set football camp—a kind of harmony
which may aid Coach William (Doc)
Newton in winning some games.
Newton is to start his first year at
State on Wednesday and 18 days later
he will send his first pack of Wolves
against the Davidson AVildcats, a band
which “Doc” himself coached last sea
son.
Few coaches ever faced a tougher
assignment. There has been more
internecine warfare in State football
circles than there has been in the en
tire Spanish Civil War. “Doc” is tak
ing up a task which has been too
much for some of the best coaches in
the business. He feels, however, that
he faces the firing line with the best
wishes of State alumni, faculty, stu
dents and football players.
Exemplifying this spirit is the re
mark of one of the athletes who com-
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The American Constitution
Questions and Answers Pertaining to the Constitution from “The Story of
the Constitution” by the U. S. Sesquicentennial Commission,
Representative Sol Bloom of New York, Director General
QUESTIONS
1. What part of the world was first
called America?
2 When did the phrase, “The Unit
ed States of America,” originate?
answers
1 The name “America” was first
applied to central Brazil, in honor of
Amerigo Vespucci, who claimed its
discovery. It was first applied to the
whole known western world by Mer-
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BOTH SIDES CLAIM
VICTORY IN SPAIN
IN BITTER BATTLE
Fierce Engagement Fought
20 Miles South of Zara
goza, Insurgent
Stronghold
FIGHTING ON LAND
AND ALSO IN AIR
Each Side Loses Single
Plane in Aerial Struggle;
Rebels Attack Government
Munitions and Supply De
posits; Mopping Up
Around Santander
Hendaye, Franco-Spanish Frontier,
Aug. 30.—(AP) —Both insurgent and
government: forces, battling on the
northeast Spanish front, claimed vic
tory today in a severe land and air
battle near Delchite, 20 miles south
of Zaragoza.
Insurgent dispatches declared the
government offensive had been smash
ed by a thundering aerial attack of
150 planes, including 40 huge bomb
ers, which took off from the insur
gent stronghold at Zaragoza.
The government reported, however,
that Delchite was completely sur
rounded, and that insurgent control
of Zaragoza was further menaced by
government advances along the Ara
gon front.
A Valencia defense ministry an
nouncement said that each side lost
only one plane in the air i'.attle.
Delchite was apparently the im
mediate government objective in an
effort to score important gains be
fore General Francisco Franco could
rush reinforcements from the Bis
cayan front near Santander to bol
ster his insurgent units, which have
defended Zaragoza since the civil war
began.
Franco’s troops were said to be
raking the government forces with
deadly machine gun fire, and an in
surgent radio report placed govern
ment losses at 30,000 for the past week
The insurgent air fleet, sweeping
into the engagement, was said to have
cleared the sector of government
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LOUWARR FIGHT
Skies Overcast But Bout Is
Likely; British Sense
“Phoney” Turn
New York, Aug. 30.—(AP) —Joe
Louis scaled 197 pounds today for
his delayed 15-round heavyweight
championship match with Tommy
Farr in the Yankee Stadium to
night. Farr scaled 204 1-2 pounds.
Both fighters were lighter to
day than they were last Thurs
day, when they went through
weighing-in ceremonies only to
have a steady rain force a post
ponement until tonight. At that
time I/Ouis weighed 198 pounds
and Farr 207.
Although the weather was
cloudy and threatening today,
Promoter Mike Jacobs said he
would make no decision on a post
ponement until late this after
noon.
If postponed again, the bout
will be staged tomorrow night.
Jacobs, however, was confident
the fight would be held, and a
Weather Bureau forecast upheld
his guess that there would be no
rain.
LONDON FEARS BOUT IS
NOT A “STRAIGHT FIGHT”
London, Aug. 30. —(AP)—Char-
ges that the battle between Joe
Louis and Tommy Farr “isn’t a
straight fight” appeared in the
British press as England prepar
ed to spend a sleepless night at
radio parties listening to the
hroacast from Yankee Stadium
tonight.
cator, the geographer, in 1538.
2. First known use of the formal
term “United States of America” was
in the Declaration of Independence.
Thomas Paine, in February, 1776, had
written of “Free and Independent
States of America.” The terms “Unit
ed Colonies”, “United Colonies of
America,” “United Colonies of North
America,” and also “States,” were used
in 1775 and 1776.
HENDERSON, N. C., MONDAY AFTERNOON, AUGUST 30,1937
Chinese Students Demonstrate Against Invaders
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Top, China’s air power; below, Chinese students demonstrating in Nanking
Nanking, capital of China, almost daily Is a scene i
of student demonstrations against the invading
Nipponese. The four letters above the crossed j
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Motor Union
Will Launch
Ford Drive
“Progressive” Fac
tion Headed Up By
Homer Martin
Gains Full Control
Milwaukee, Wis., Aug. 30 (AP) —
United Automobile Workers of Ame
rica, with President Homer Martin en
trenched in control after a bitter fic
tional struggle, set the course today
toward organizing Ford Motor Com
pany workers.
Climaxing the bitterest progressive
unity rivalry in a convention week of
caucusing, parliamentary battles and
demonstrations, the progressive forces
were conceded the balance of power
on the important executive board.
As more than 1,000 weary delegates
headed homeward, the executive board
was manned by 15 reported progres
sive adherents and eight unity men
with the last seats still in doubt.
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NEW DAIRY RULES
BOOST ELECTRICITY
Requirements for New
Equipment Convert Dairy
men to Power
Daily Dispatch Bureau,
In the Sir Walter Hotel.
Raleigh, Aug. 30—Tightening by the
State Board of Health of regulations
surrounding dairies and their opera
tions has been a decided boost for ru
ral electrification in North Carolina,
in the opinion of J. M. Grainger, engi
neer of the State Rural Electrification
Authority.
Mr. Grainger believes that these
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«1R WEATHER MAH
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FOR NORTH CAROLINA.
Mostly cloudy tonight and Tueh
day, probably occasional showers.
11 Meet Violent Deaths
In State This Week-End
North Carolina Highways
Are Death Trap For
Motorists in Many
Localities
BODIES MANGLED IN
SEVERAL INSTANCES
Collisions Responsible For
Some of Fatalities; Two
Negroes Meet Death Near
Warrenton When Their Car
Crashes Into Bridge There
Charlotte, Aug. 30 (AP) —At least
eleven persons were killed on North
Carolina highways over the week-end,
a check-up showed today.
At Charlotte, Neal Clarke was hit by
an automobile and killed.
A car driven by Gurdie Etchison, 35
crashed into a parked automobile near
Mooresville and he was killed.
A collision at Statesville took the
life of Mrs. Ola Griffin, 40.
Two cars crashed on the Reidsville-
Danville, Va., highway and Joe Mud
diman, of Manassas, Va., was fatally
injured.
Two Negroes were killed near War
renton when their automobile crashed
into a bridge.
A truck and a car collided near Cary
and two Negro youths, Rudolph Jack
son, of Columbia, S. C., and John
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Wages-Hours
Rulings Soon
For Textiles
Washington, Aug. 30. —(AP) —Rep-
resentatives of American cotton tex
tile manufacturers today said more
than one-third of the industry would
be affected by wage and hour scales
to he set in the near future by the
Labor Department for manufacturers
fulfilling government contracts.
The Walsh-Healey public contracts
act authorizes the department to de
termine fair minimum wages and
maximum hours for labor employed
on government contracts.
A spokesman for the Cotton Tex
tile Institute said cotton production
for the nine months since the became
effective totalled $36,714,990,000, of
which $12,852,000 was purchased by
the government.
About 21 percent of total govern
ment purchases were from the textile
industry, he added.
tion.” At .top, a scene at the Nanchan airport,
showing some of the hundreds of Chinese fighting
airplanes, which have been inflicting severe dam
age on the Japanese. —Central Prp.ua
AFL Declines To
Oust CIO Fully
Atlantic City, Aug. 30 (AP) —
American Federation of Labor lead
ers /aave decided informally to
leave the door open for a reunion
with John L. Lewis’ CIO. This
was learned today in well-inform
ed quarters while the federation’s
executive council started the sec
ond week of its seashore meeting.
Council members decided inform
ally not to expel the ten CIO un
ions they suspended last Septem
ber 5, in answer to a demand from
a new union that they sever the
last bond between Lewis and the
AFL. Three counsel members, it
was learned, felt there was no use
locking the door as long as there
was any chance for a reunion.
Some of them felt the Lewis revolt
was only a phase in the develop
ment of the American labor move
ment, and that the movement would
be reunited.
CIO STRIKE MAY
HALT WAR VESSEL
U. S. Ship Enroute To China
With Bombing Planes
and Barbed Wire
Washington, Aug. 30 (AP) —A CIO
threat of a strike to prevent an Ame
rican ship from carrying war supplies
to China added a new problem today
to the difficulties raised for Federal
officials by the Sino-Japanese hostili
ties.
Ralph Emerson, legislative represen
tative for the National Maritime
Union, predicted a sitdown strike by
union seamen would provent the gov
ernment-owned freighter Wichita from
reaching China with a carga of bbrnb
ing planes and barbed wire.
“It will never get past Manila,”
Emerson said. The National Mari
time Union is an affiliate of John L.
Lewis’ Committee for Industrial Or
ganization .
Emerson also expressed the opinion
the maritime commission, .finding it
self in a delicate position by virtue of
its ownership of the freighter, would
take steps to end the Wichita’s voy
age. The Wichita sailed from Balti
more Friday just before Secretary
Hull received Japan’s official notifi
cation of a blockade of Chinese ports.
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EXPLOSIVES AIMED
AT JAPANESE SHIP
CARRYING TROOPS
Seven Members of Crew
Wounded, Two Serious
ly, and Three Pas
sengers Struck
LINER IS ATTACKED
TWENTY MILES OUT
Japanese Mass Army And
Navy Forces for General
Assault on Estimated Half
Million Soldiers of Chiang
Kai-Shek’s Mighty Chinese
Army
Nanking, China, Aug. 30 (AP) —
Chinese authorities admitted tonight
that “one” of their planes, aiming at
a Japanese troop ship, accidentally hit
the American Dollar liner President
Hoover off the Woosung lightship to
day.
Independent reports said the bomib
ing was done by four planes. Seven
members of the Hoover’s crew were
wounded and three passengers suf
fered shellshock. Two of the seamen
were gravely hurt.
The bomb tore gaps in the Hoover’s
hull at several points above the water
line, but she came about and proceed
ed toward Kobe, Japan, under her
own power.
Two American destroyers steamed
at forced draft to the scene in re
sponse to the liner’s call for aid, but
already the British warship Cumber
land was at her side.
The liner, one of the mercy fleet
which has been evacuating hundreds
of Americans from Shanghai,’ was at
tacked 20 miles from the coast, or
about 50 miles from Woosung.
Calls for medical assistance indi
cated an undetermined number of per
sons aboard the Hoover were wound
ed.
Japan, meanwhile, massed army
and navy forces for a general on
slaught against the estimated half mil
lion Chinese of General Chaing Kai-
Shek’s warriors, who are about Shang-
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Hurricane
Hits Coast
Os Florida
Daytona Beach, Fla., Aug. 30.
(AP) —Top winds of 50 miles an hour
whipped the Florida coast between
here and St. Augustine today as a
small tropical storm moved inland
from the Atlantic ocean, where it had
kicked up heavy squalls for a week.
The Weather Bureau at Jackson
ville said the storm center crossed
the coast line about 10 a. m. between
Ormond Beach and Flagler Beach.
The forecaster predicted the distur
bance would blow itself out in rain
squalls over northeastern Florida this
afternoon.
There were no reports of personal
injury in this area. Only minor pro
perty damage was done, Trees were
toppled and streets littered with small
debris. A 40-foot temporary tower us
ed iby the State Firemen’s Associa
tion for instruction purposes was
blown down here.
British-Jap
Tension Will
Likely Ease
London Expects Jap
Answer to Firm
Note To End Am
bassador Affair
London, Aug. 30.—'(AP) —British
diplomats were confident today that
Japan would apologize fully for the
machine-gun attack on Sir Hughe
Montgomery Knatchbull- Hughessen,
Britain’s ambassador to China, and
thus dissolve the Anglo-Japanese dip
lomatic tension.
Although the text of the British
protest disclosed last night after its
delivery in Tokyo, was firmly word
ed, it was regarded here as moderate.
There were strong indications the
situation would blow over unless
Japan adopts the most provocative
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