Newspapers / Henderson daily dispatch. / Sept. 7, 1937, edition 1 / Page 1
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GATEWAY to CENTRAL CAROLINA twenty-fourth YEAR BRITAIN, FRANCE TO FIGHT U-BOATS ALONE South China U. S. Consulates Ordered Closed As Speedily As Americans Can Be Moved 1 CHS NAMED ALREADY SHELLED BY JAP AIRPLANES Consulates May Stay Open if Situation Changes for Better, Ambassador Advises McGRADY QUITS AS TROUBLE SHOOTER Resigns Government Job To Go With Radio Corpora tion; Oxford Delegation Protests Removal of CCC Camp, Which \ Has Been Aiding Farmers Washington, Sept. 7. —(AP) — The American government today ordered its consuls at Amoy and Foochow, in south China, to close their offices and proceed to places of safety as soon as they have done all possible to evacuate Americans in their dis tricts. Amoy and Foochow have been bombed by Japanese airmen several times, State Department officials said-.- - Ambassador Nelson Johnson advis ed the department he issued instruc tions to the consuls as a matter of precaution. The order was qualified to the ex tent the consulates were not to be closed if the situation changes de finitely for the better before Ameri can citizens are withdrawn. McGrady Resigns. Meantime the resignation of Ed ward F. McGrady, assistant secretary of labor was announced at the sum mer White House at Hyde Park, N. Y. It is understood McGrady would be come director of la:or relations foi the Radio Corporation of America. In his letter of resignation Mc- Grady said his new employer, whom he did not name, had “cordially agreed that whenever you feel need (Continued od Page Eight.) Japs Seize Mission Os U.S. Church Shanghai, Sept. 8 (Wednesday)— (AP)—The Japanese Army today seized the huge American Seventh Day Advent n*ission property in the Yangtze Poo district, north of Shanghai, for military purposes. The property was confiscated, de spite the protests of its owners and the fact that the mission flew many United States flags to iden tify it as American property. Japanese warships wore scat term down the Whangpoo all the way from Shanghai down to Woo sung, about ten miles north of the city. They renewed their heavy bombardment of Chapei, Kiang wan and other Chinese concentra tions in an effort to crack Chi nese resistance and pave the way tor a Japanese offensive inland. MIENDONTOTELL OF JUSTICE PUNS Municipal League To Hear Discussion on Proposed New Department Daily Dispatch Dnrean, In The Sir Walter Hotel Raleigh, Sept. 7.—Major L. F. Mc- Rondon, Greensboro, will explain to Municipal officials from North Caro lina cities data which has been gath r ed by the commission to study the feasibility of setting up a State De partment of Justice. tbe Guilford lawyer, chairman of y l6 group named by Governor Clyde R- Hoey, has accepted the invitatioi w, (Continued on Page Six) Hcrtiiprsnn tYailir'HfeiJafrit L th S e of ihe ASSOCIATED PRESS. — 1 * Jap Drive Brought To Dead Standstill > By Chinese Forces Lion’s Man in China n,., JR. G. Howe, British statesman, is shown leaving England by flying boat for Shanghai to take over the post of Ambassador from Great Britain in China, replacing Sir Hughe Knatchbull-Huggessen, seri ously wounded by machine gun bul lets. (Central Prqss ) Enfield Man Is Robbed By 3 Gangsters Cash Register With $125, All Cigarettes and Tankful of Gas Taken Enfield, Sept.' 7. —(AP)—A service station employee said three unmask ed men walked into his station in the heart of town early today, held him up at pistol points and walked away with the cash register and a quantity of cigarettes after filling their car with gasoline. Jack Hearn, employee, said the trio made him and an uniden tified Marine who was waiting in the station to catch a ride, lie down on the floor, while another occupant, Paul Condrey, was hit on the head with a gun when he failed to lie down immediately as ordered. Hearn said the men then emptied his cigarette case, picked up the cash (Continued on Page Eight.) Accused Negro Rapist Slugged Over Head A t MeDowellCountyTrial Marion, Sepjt. 7 (AP)—A white man 3 rept up behind Mann Smith, Negro youth, in superior court and struck him on the head with an iron pipe 'oday while a jury was being selected cor Smith’s trial on a charge of crim inally assaulting a 12-year-old white gl The man, who Sheriff Grady Nich ols said was Frank Anderson, a Ma rion plumber, was taken into custody hv deputies and jailed. Judge Felix Alley, commenting on he outbreak, said he would gee the Negro got “a fair trial” if “it requires , all the troops of North Carolina.” ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN THIB SECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA AND VIIUJINIA. Fierce Nipponese Effort To Batter Down Natives* Res istance Is Fail ure So Far AMERICANS CABLE HOT NOTE TO HULL Vigorous Protest Against Roosevelt Warning That United States Nationals Remain in China at Own Risk; U. S. Transport Nearing Shanghai Shanghai, Sept. 7.—(AF)—Roaring flames across all northwestern Shang hai lighted the path tonight of a fierce Japanese effort to batter down •the Cthilicsc stance that has brought their Shanghai offensive to a standstill. Naval and heavy artillery guns roared in the Yangtze, Poo, Chapei, Kiangwan and North Statfbn districts, laying down blankets of shell-fire in an advance of tremendous sunset at tacks on the Chinese front lines. Fires spread across the whole area. The Commercial Press Building, ~e built after the 1932 Sino-Japanese hos tilities, was reduced to ashes again after it was struck by three Japenes bombs. With the peril to American and oth er foreign residents drawing closer to the fighting ringing the interna tional settlement, the American Cham ber of Commerce of Shanghai pro tested against President Roosevelt’s warning that United States citizens remain in China at their own risk. The note, addressed to Secretary of State Hull, expressed “resentment of American missionaries and business men, and urged greater protection of them and their interests.” It was disclosed, meanwhile, the (Continued on Page Eight.) CHILDRIIIGHT DEAD ARE LOCATED - , r Found Safely After Man Confesses He Killed Philadelphia Babies Philadelphia, Pa., Sept. 7 (AP)— After a man had told police that he caused their deaths, Helen Whebley, 6, and her brother, Frank, Jr., 3, miss ing more than 24 hours, were found alive today near their home by their uncle, William Dillon. The children appeared unharmed. Dr. John Turner, police surgeon, ex amined them and said they had been attacked. They told police they had stayed with a woman who said she needed children. They spent the night in her (Continued on Page Eight.) The incident occurred during exam ination of talesmen for the seventh juror. The man was seen to walk down the aisle and lean over the bar, but spec tators, apparently were unaware of his intentions until Smith had been struck. The court room was thrown into disorder. The jurors and veniremen were withdrawn from the room. Judge Alley remanded Smith to jail, dismiss ed the special venire and ordered a new trial. He then recessed court until 2 p. m. Physicians attended the Negro and said later he was not seriously hurt. HENDERSON, N, C., TUESDAY AFTERNOON, SEPTEMBER 7, 1937 British, French, Russians Search for Sub Below, map indicates where recent raids by submarines have taken place and dates and distances, to Indicate one sub could not have done all the attacking; top, the Spanish ship Armuru, carrying food, la beached near the Dardanelles after being torpedoed by a submarine. Angered by attacks on their shipping in areas indi cated on the above map, GreaJ Britain, France, Russia sent warships to sink offending submarines without a trace—so that their nationality would not become known and cause international com plications and a possible war. Spokesmen for the nations said that Gen. Francisco Franco, Spanish Fascist leader, had only one submarine and that it was imDossible for it to cover such a wide area. DECLINING TRADE BALANCENOT BAD Won’t Hurt United States To Be on Import Side Now and Then By CHARLES P. STEWART Central Press Columnist Washington, Sept. 7.—Because it ap pears on paper that the United States of late, has been importing more goods than it exports, a deal of wor rying is being 'done throughout the land We always have considered ours an exporting country. Our theory has been that we were getting the better of the remainder of the world, by selling abroad more than we t ought from there. We called this a balance of trade in our favor. The nations that it was against did not seem to mind it, but it pleased us. Now that the tide appears to have turned the other way we are greatly upset. The popular .inclination evi dently is to blame Secretary of State Cordell Hull’s reciprocal customs treaties with an increasingly leng thened list of other powers. Must Balance. As a matter of fact, international trade always balances. Manifestly, it must. It consists sim ply in a swapping of goods or their equivalent (or their equivalent; don’t forget that) between countries. If one country persistently has the advantage over another country it is obvious that the latter country ulti mately will be completely cleaned out, and no longer worth while for the former country to continue trad ing with. Os course no two countries swap exactly 50-50. But triangularly, or poly-angularly, the swapping levels out. Readjustment Now. Trade balances generally are reck (Continued on Page Eigfit) SALE AT FAIRMONT Sr AT ALL-TIME HIGH Fairmont, Sept. 7. —(AP) —Sales on the tobacco market here broke all records yesterday when 1,600,042 pounds sold for an average es $25.05. Basket after basket of wrappers brought as high as ssl, Supervisor C. B. Stafford reported. "Weather for NORTH CAROLINA. Mostly cloudy tonight and Wed nesday* with occasional showers. Italy, In the meantime, indignabtljr ddWed impli cations that the submarines were hers. The photo at the top shows the Spanish ship Armuru, carry ing food to the Loyalist forces, beached on Ten edos Island, near the Dardanelles, in a sinking con dition, after being torpedoed by a mysterious sub marine. More than 20 ships have been attacked, chiefly in the Mediterranean. Russian ships have been the chief victims. Germany Is Ready To Help Italy And Japan, Hitler Says Prepared To Unite “Against Communist Confusion” In East and West, i Fuehrer Says TALKS AT MEETING OF NAZI CONGRESS Japanese and Italian Am bassadors and One from China Present for Address, Heard by 46,000 Nazis at Nurnberg; Demands Re turn of Colonies Nurnburg, Germany, Sept. 7. (AP) Adolf Hitler stressed Nazi German solidarity with both Japan and Italy today “against communist confusion” in east and west. His annual proclamation, read to the Nazi congress by Adolf Wagner, Bavarian Nazi leader, al so made an emphatic reiteration of Germany’s demand for return of her war-lost colonies, and call ed the attitude of other powers toward this demand “incompre hensible.” Both the Japanese and Italian am bassadors were in the crowd of 46,- 000 which heard Hitler’s statement that Germany “would stand by both Japan and Italy in a defensive fight against communism.” It was as if they were hearing Der Fuehrer’s own voice, because Wag ner, who read the proclamation, often is called Hitler’s “vocal double.” The Chinese ambassador, also pre sent, in red and gold-draped clothing, was Luitpold Hall. Der Fuehrer listened to his own (Con'mued on Page Eight.) OXFORD FARM AGENT TO STATE COLLEGE Oxford, Sept. 7.—(AP)—Dan M. Paul resigned as Granville county farm agent today to become director of State College agricultural courses. PUBLISHED EVERY AFTERNOON EXCEPT BUNDAY. Negroes for Jury On Trial Marion, sept. 7 —(AP) —A special venire of 100 > rti’en reported in su perior court today as attorneys prepared to draw a jury for trial of Mann Smith, Negro youth charged with criminal assault on a 12-year old Marion school girl. Smith was arrested last March 31, the day of the. attack. His trial was continued from the Jupe term to permit county com missioners to include names of Negro tax-payers in the jury box. Judge Felix Alley yesterday order ed the summoning of the special venire after denying defense mo tions for further postponement. Three Held For Hiding Bill Payne Asheville, Sept. 7 (AP)—Three per sons named in a complaint before U. S. Commissioner Eugene Taylor were ordered held under $5,000 bond each today for Federal court on charges of harboring William Payne and Jack Borden, alias Wash Turner, wanted in connection with the fatal shooting of State Highway Patrolman George Penn here several weeks ago. The three were named as Dan Cox, his wife, Betty Jane Cox, and Flossie Rice. All were placed in jail in default of bone. A complaint filed by R. L. Morgan, special agent of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, * before Commissioner Taylor charged that the three violat ed the Federal law in harboring and conspiring to harbor Jack Borden and Bill Payne, against whom Federal warrants were outstanding. 8 PAGES TODAY FIVE CENTS COPY RUSSIA AWAITING CONFERENCE MOVE IN ITALIAN CRISIS Moscow Says Italy Has Be gun Game in Mediterran ean Holding “Ter rible” Fate RUSSIAN DEMANDS SNUBBED IN ROME Moscow Accuses Italy of Sinking Two Soviet Ships in Mediterranean; Britain and France To Use Own Navies To Protect Ship ping Lanes / ■ > 11 Rome, Sept. 7 (AP) — Italy, ac cused by Soviet Russia of Medi terranean piracy, may attend a conference on the question in Switzerland Friday, “rather than satisfy Russia” by staying away. Political and diplomatic sources said tonight this course might be followed because Fascists believed the Soviet accusation and protest— angrily rejected by Rome—was a maneuver to get Italy in bad with Great Britain, France and other powers which are to be represent ed Friday. London, Sept. 7.—(AP) —Great Bri tain and France decided today their navies were “strong enough to stop Mediterranean piracy” without any help and determined to go ahead with the conference on the matter with or without Italy’s participation. The decision was disclosed authori tatively, after Soviet Russia had pro tested to Italy and had been angrily rebuffed on charges that Italian “pirate” submarines were responsible for the sinking of t-wo Sowiet freight ers in the sea lanes off Spain. Informed British sources made it plain the Italian-Soviet trouble "does not change the situation at all.” This view apparently was communicated quickly to Italy. The feeling here was Italy, despite (Coniinued on Page Six.) BANK COMMISSION GROUP TAKES OATH Three New Members To Sit With Board After Being Sworn in Before iloey Tomorrow Raleigh ,Sept. 7. —(AF) —Gurney Hood, State bank commissioner, said today three new members of the State Advisory Bank Commission would take their oaths of office tomorrow in the office of Governor Hoey. R. E. Kerr, of Charlotte; H. D. Bateman, of Wilson, and Gordon Gray of Winston-Salem, are the new mem bers, to serve with State Treasurer Charles Johnson and Attorney Gen eral A. A. F. Seawell. The commission then, Hood said, will hold its quarterly meeting and act on proposed changes in rules and regulations recently recommended by bankers of the State. Government Troops Make Big Advance City Captured from Rebels and Smash Goes on; Rebels Win Elsewhere Henaye, Franco-Spanish Border, Sept. 7. —(AP) —One column of the Spanish government army which cap tured Belchite in fierce fighting on the Aragon front, was reported today to have advanced 12 miles beyond the devastated town. This column was trying to cut com munications between the insurgent stronghold of Zaragoza, in northeast Spain, and its southern-most outpost of Tcruel. Other government troops proceed ed to consolidate gains around the town. Belchite was in ruins from 32 con secutive bombardments before its in surgent defenders lost it. The govern ment said 80 wounded insurgents found in the town’s hospital were given the same treatment as govern ment soldiers and were evacuated to the rear. On the northwest an insurgent coastal force was within 20 miles of Gijon, Biscayan seaport, and the last important stronghold that govern ment forces still retain in Ovideo province. _ _
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