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HENDERSON CATEWAY TO CENTRAL CAROLINA twenty-fourth YEAR iff BOMBERS BARELY MISS B. S. MARINES ROOSEVELT TURNS TO FISHING AFTER CLEARING UPOESK Virtualiy All Bills Passed by Recent Congress Acted On Before His Recreation housing and sugar BILLS "BOTH SIGNED New Helium Act Gives Gov ernment Monopoly in That Highly Explosive Gas; Sen ator Holt Seeks Resolution Against Any Third Term Move Hyde Park, N. Y., Sept. 2.—(AP)— Prescient Roosevelt turned toward Long Island Sound for a fishing; vaca tion today (after virtually clearing jjj. of all remaining bills enacted bv Congress at its last session. Within a few hours he announced he had approved the sugar stabiliza tion ,biil, the $526,000,000 Whgner- Steagall low, -cost (housing bill, and the Senate measure authorizing a government helium monopoly. He announced he had approved the sugar production and control measure only after a “gentlemen’s agreement” to end what he called an “unholy al liance'’ between domestic growers and a Seaboard refining monopoly. No Mention of Extra Session. The President, announcing his de cision last night only a few hours be fore the expiration of the time left for him to act, made no mention of an extra session of Congress. Pre viously, officials had indicated ap proval of the sugar bill would lessen, but not necessarily eliminate, the (Continued on Page Three.) May Oliver Gets Job and Pulls Out of Y. D. Campaign Raleigh, Sept. 2 (AP)—J. Harry Sample, probation director, an nounced today Miss May Oliver, of Sanford, had been appointed sup ervisor of women prisoners on probation in Eastern North Caro lina. The Raleigh Times said Miss Oliver would withdraw from the race f or presidency of the North Carolina Young Democratic Clubs and would resign forthwith as vice-president of the organization. Her withdrawal would leave Archie Alien, of Raleigh, as the only announced candidate for the presidency. The Voting Democrats hold their annual convention in Wins ton-Salem next week. 300 Movies Closed By Paralysis Chicago, Sept. 2—(AP)—Represen tatives of 300 Chicago motion picture theatres agreed today to exclude chil dren under 16 from performances dur ing the prevalence of infantile par alysis. The agreement was reached at a conference with Dr. Herman Bunder sen, president of the Board of Health, w ho reported 12 new cases of the dis ease and two deaths overnight. The new cases, he said, brought the total here to about 135 since August 1. Indefinite postponement of reopen ing of public schools was ordered yes terday in an effort to check spread (Continued on Page Five.) Payne And Turner Are Hunted Over Pastern Carolina Raleigh, Sept. 2 (AP)—The search f °r Bill Payne and Wash Turner, es caped convicts charged with slaying * highway patrolman, was centered in Eastern North Carolina today after a deputy sheriff reported seeing the des peradoes on a highway six miles from here. The deputy, Louis Beal, of Nash county, told prison authorities h e s *ve the hunted men on United States highway No. 64 at 4 g. m. yesterday pHroimrson BaUu BHspltfeli LE T A H S | D Aa IiSF A #|«v.cg a o s r NEGRO’S CAR KILLS NASH MAN; ANOTHER ROBBED ON HIGHWAY Sees Auto Price Rise Alfred P. Sloan •> A Returning from an European va cation, Alfred P. Sloan, chairman of General Motors, said he looked for a further increase in automo bile prices. —Central Pres» Surrender Offered By Loyalßody Hendaye, Franco-Spanish Frontier, Sept. 2.—(AP) —Asturian government leaders were reported negotiating to day for the surrender of Gihon, and virtually all the rest of government held northwestern Spain, to advanc ing insurgent forces. Border advices said the commander of an insurgent brigade, marching westward toward the 'Biscayan port, had entered conversations with par liamentary deputies of the govern ment provinces. Other Cities Occupied. Franco’s drive to dominate the north coast started a year ago with the fall of Irun and San Sebastian. Pushing westward, his forces conquer ed Basque Bilbao on June 19. Santan (Continued on Page Three.) M’LEAN’S BODY TO WASHINGTON HOME Funeral Services To Be Held There Tomorrow From Bocal Pres byterian Church Raleigh, Sept. 2.—(AP)—The body of Angus Dhu Mac Lean, 60, a for mer assistant solicitor general and former assistant attorney general of the United States, was taken to Wash ington, N. C., today for burial tomor row. Governor Hoey said he planned to attend the services. Members of the family, and friends formed a procession behind the fun eral cortege which carried the body. Mac Lean, better known in his own' state as a legislator and the father of North Carolina’s school law, died of a heart attack early yesterday at his home here. The funeral will be held at the First Presbyterian church in Wash ington at 11 a. m. tomorrow by Rev. Miller, pastor of the First Pres i byterian church of Raleigh, and Rev. W. D. Mclnnis, of Washington. afternoon, but an all-night search o the area failed to turn up any other clues to the whereabouts of the noton °UDeputy V Beal reported the men he said he recognized as Payne and Tur ner were in a large black 1937 sedan with four other men traveling rapidly Rocky Mount. They flashed a gun at Mm, he said, and forced his car off the road, nearly wrecking an other machine, before roaring on east- ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA AND VIRGINIA. Forces Salesman from Rocky Mount To Drive Him Into Wilson About Noon Hour WAKE WOMAN RAPED BY MISSING NEGRO Alleged Assault Occurs Near Woman’s Home at Knight dale t in Eastern Wake; Bloodhounds Searching Area for Suspect Who Did Crime Rocky Mount, Sept. 2 —(AP)—Nash and Wilson county lav/ officers, en forcement officers were searching this afternoon for an unidentified Ne gro, hit and run driver, whose car hit and killed Frank Taylor, Nash white man, at Stanhope, about noon today, Desk Sergeant W. C. Walston, of the Rocky Mount police depart ment, said. After the accident, the Negro held up Will Sutton, of Rocky Mount, with a pistol, and, abandoning his own car, forced Sutton to drive him to Wilson, Walston Said. There he put Sutton out of the car and drove off. The Negro went from Stanhope to Strickland’s Cross Roads after his car bit the man, Walston said, and there held up Sutton with a pistol, took a small amount of money in • Sutton’s pocket and forced Sutton to drive to Wilson and left the car in the tobacco section. OFFICERS WITH DOGS PUSH SEARCH IN EASTERN WAKE Raleigh, iSept. 2.—(AP)—(Officers with bloodhounds scoured eastern (Continued on Page Three.) SUPREME COURT NOT TO HAVE DIVISIONS Finds It Unnecessary To Employ Au thority Conferred Upon It by 1936 Amendment Raleigh, Sept. 2. —(AP) —The State Supreme Court announced today at this time it does not find it necessary to sit in divisions and will continue to sit as a seven-miember body to hear appeals. Four justices shall constitute a quorum, the court ruled, now that it has seven members instead of five members. The constitutional amendment adopted last year increasing the court’s size, also authorized it to sit in divisions “when in its judgment this is necessary for the proper dis patch of business.” JUDGE A. M. STACK PASSES IN MONROE Distinguished Retired Superior Court Jurist Passes at 74 After Operation Monroe, Sept. 2.—.(AP) —Former Superior Court Judge A. M. Stack of Monroe, died today at a hospital here. He was 74. The former jurist had been in ill health for some time and yesterday underwent an emergency operation. The funeral will be held tomorrow at 4 p. m. here with Rev. W. R. Kelly, pastor of Central Methodist church of Monroe, officiating, and (interment will be in the Monroe cemetery. Judge Stack was a native of Union county, and a graduate of Trinity Col lege, Durham, now Duke University. After graduation, he founded the Winston Sentinel, a newspaper at Winston-Salem, but later disposed of it and began practice of law in Stokes county. While there he was elected to the State Senate. Tgomgins Greatest Convention 'Here tofore or Hereafter Is Anticipated New York, Sept. 2. —(AP) —The big town started getting bigger today as a vanguard of American World War veterans began a march back to New York. • They were the first delegates to the American Legion Convention .. the first of 500,000 men and women who are expected to attend the fes tivities starting officially September 20 and lasting five days. The visitors are, arriving now by automobile and trailer. Later on, there Continued on Page Five.i HENDERSON, N. C., THURSDAY AFTERNOON, SEPTEMBER 2, 1937 Latest Photos From Sino-Japanese War Zone < - *\ * i . ■ , , -N wr'** 1 X>: :'• •• • • -'life*.? iV: :.<v. ‘ y. V)'nnn'fl'n'n~n : n 111] ijnjlr' ) Top, Japanese fighting planes in formation; below, Japanese naval landing party arriving at Shanghai. These latest actual photos from the Sino-Japanese | war cone show top, Japanese fighting planes, many | MVETOCH AFL Would Welcome Back Ten Suspended Unions Who Strayed Off With John Lewis BELIEVES PROBLEMS COULD-BE ADJUSTED But Men in Both Camps Are Big Enough To Work Out Agreement If CIO Would Come Back, AFL Head Says; Frankly Admits He Is Not Hopeful Atlantic City, Sept. 2.—(AP)—Wil liam Green, president of the Ameri can Federation of Labor, said today the federation would welcome back the ten suspended CIO unions if they return without any conditions. Their return, he said, would be the first step toward reuniting the Amer ican labor movement, divided into two bitterly warring camps since John Lewis started the CIO, in November, 1935. If the CIO unions took this step, and Green frankly said he doubted they would, the next move toward final peace would be appointment of a joint committee of AFL and CIO leaders to work out a detailed settle ment. “I recognize that there would be many complicated problems to be solved,” Green said. “The hardest of these probably would result from the ClO’s recognition of dual unions in the radio and electrical and ship building industries. Those unions never belonged to the American Fed eration of Laitor. “The radio and electrical workers union (CIO) is trying to organize a territory that belongs to the Interna tional Brotherhood of Electrical Work (Continued on Page Four.) miR WEATHERMAN s FOB NORTH CAROLINA. Generally fair tonight and Fri day. Britain Plans Increase In Mediterranean Fleet Wooden Lung Has Saved This Child Denver, Col., Sept. 2. (AP) Death apparently was thwarted to day by a courageous girl of two and a half years in an internation race to deliver two respirators to a Denver hospital, where doctors had only one “iron lung” for a pair of infantile paralysis victims. Tiny Shirley Krause survived the night outside the mechanical lung, which had been her home since August 13. She gave up her “box” so Maybelle Outcalt, 15, might con tinue breathing despite her par alyzed chest muscles. A fire truck and its motorcycle police escort delivered a wooden respirator to the hospital early in the day after the breathing device had been transported here by plane from Toronto via Chicago and Buf falo. Crash Kills Two Drivers With Trucks Bound Brook, N. J., Sept. 2.—(AP) —Two truck drivers were killed early today when their heavy vehicles col lided on State highway Route 29 and burst into flames. Another driver at the scene iden tified one victim as Clarence Bailey, 28, of Reading, Pa. The other, driver (Continued on Page FouE) THOMAS HAMILTON DIES AT AUGUSTA Postmaster and Former Editor of Augusta Chronical Succumbs After Broadcast Augusta, Ga., Sept.. 2.—(AP) — Thomas Hamilton, widely known Au gusta postmaster and former editor of the Augusta Chronicle, died at his home here last night of a heart at tack. He was stricken shortly before 11 p. m. after he retired following his nightly broadcast from radio sta tion WRDW, of which he was recent ly named an official. Hamilton, long an important figure in the development of Augusta and surrounding territory, was Iborn in Grovertown, Ga., in 1885. of them American-built, in formation flying, and below, a Japanese naval landing party at Shanghai. —Central Preaa Reinforcements Ordered After Strange And Re peated Attacks By Submarines There TENSE SESSIONS OF CABINET ARE HELD British Merchant Ship Is Sunk After Attack on War ship Tuesday; Italy Is Su spected as Being Respon sible; Rome Offers Sug gested Remedy London, Sept. 2.—(AP) —Great Bri tain today ordered her fleet rein forced in the western Mediterranean to combat strange and repeated sub marine assaults on British flag ves sels, along her “empire life line.” The decision was announced after tense cabinet members at two ses sions tried to shape the empire’s naval policy against the threats to her ships of war and peace. Italy Is Suspected. The Spanish ambassador was sum moned to the foreign office shortly (Continued on Page Six.) Hong Kong, Sept. 2.—(AP)— Fire caused by a disastrous typhoon raged through Hong Kong today after a 125-mile-an-hour wind had taken hun dreds of lives ashore and at sea. The death toll, steadily rising, was be lieved to have passed 500. Officials expressed fear it would mount into thousands. A Wide area of this British crown colony was devastated and was waist deep in water. Ships Washed Ashore. Large and small ships were piled upon the sea wall and stream in the {submerged waterfront streets. Dis tress calls from foundering ships poured in from all sides. Shipping suffered particularly heavily in the PUBUBHID IVIKY AFTBKNOOM EXCEPT SUNDAY. HundredsA reDead In HongjKongFrom Typhoon And Fires 8 PAGES TODAY FIVE CENTS COPY FOREIGN QUARTER BORDERS ON AREA SHELLED FROM AIR Shrapnel Falls All About . Post, Directly In Range of Fire of Planes japaneseTclaiming SUCCESSES IN NORTH Terrific Naval and Air ißombs Hurled Against Chinese Settlements; Prod igal Use of Expensive Ex plosives by Japs Amazing to Americans BOMB JAP CITY! Shanghai, Sept. 3 (Friday)— (AP)—An unconfirmed report early today said Chinese military air planes had flown to Japan and had bombed Kagoshima, southern most port of importance in Japan proper. Kagoshima is in the south of Kyishu island, on the west coast, about 600 miles from Nanking, the Chinese capital. It has about 137,- 000 population. While the report went unconfirm ed for the time being, it is a fact the Chinese have threatened re peatedly to fly acros sthe eYllow Sea and carry the war into Japan proper. Shanghai, Sept. 2. —(AP) —Japanese air squadrons dumped bombs on the northern borders of the international settlement in a sunset air raid this evening, just missing the sandbagged sectors defended by American ma rines. The bombs played havoc with life and property, ibut apparently achieved no military objective. Marines in Danger. Shrapnel fell about United States Marine posts. The American lines were directly in the range of fire. The steel-helmeted Marines were in im minent danger of serious casualties in case Japanese air bombers or naval gunners overshot their marks. A dozen miles to the north the main fighting raged on, with Japanese asserting their troops were approach ing the walls of paoshan, and Chinese declaring their lines were holding firm. The Japanese admitted their Continued on Page Five.) Ship Sinks Off Florida; One Rescued , Panama City, Fla., Sept. 2 (AP)— A seaman swam ashore here today with news that the Gulf coast freight er Tarpon went down several miles off East Pass., Fla., at 8:45 a. m. yes terday. Baker said he knew one Negro sail or went down with the freighter, a coastwise ship which plied between Mobile and Carrabclla, Fla., for many years. The seaman said when he started swimming he saw Captain Barrow, of Pensacola, and “most of the crew” clinging to wreckage. Baker said the Tarpon met bad weather out of Pensacola Tuesday night, when a small tropical storm cut across north Florida and passed (Continued on Page Three.) gale, one of the worst in Hong Kong’s history, because the harbor is throng ed with refugee-laden ships from the Shanghai war zone and steamers that have taken haven from the Japanese coastal blockade. One of the foundered steamers was the liner Hunan, carrying 1,200 Chin ese refugees from the Shanghai sector Liner Total Loss. The Dutch liner Van Heutsz was a total loss. Two of the largest ships in the harbor, the Lloyd Trietino liner Conte Verde and a Japanese liner, were swept ashore. British police and revenue officers, heroically forming a human lifeline strung together with ropes, rescued the crews of many smaller ships and hundreds of Chinese refugees.
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