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HENDERSON GATEWAY TO CENTRAL CAROLINA TWENTY-FOURTH YEAR COUNTRY OBSERVES 150TH ANNIVERSARY U. S. CONSTITUTION Roosevelt Address Tonight To Be Chief Expression of Great Nation al Event expression WAITED FOR FUTURE COURSE Borah Lauds Great Docu ment in Address to Masonic Body; Battle To Oust Hugo Black from Supreme Court Goes On; New Tar Heel Post Offices Washington, Sept. 17.—(AP)— The nation celebrated today the 150th an niversary of the signing of the Fed eral Constitution amid controversy re miniscent of that which raged around the historic document at its birth. President Roosevelt, whose proposal for reorganizing the Supreme Court instigated the present-day constitu tional dispute, will be the chief spokes man at the nation’s official celebra tion tonight. His speech, scheduled for 9:30 p. m., eastern standard time, was awaited with widespread interest for a hint as to his future course on judiciary changes. Observance of the event was begun last night by Senator Borah, Repub lican, Idaho, who told a Masonic au dience: "Constitutional government is the only government which, in restoring the economic welfare of the people, at the same time preserves their rights and their liberties." Meantime, in Washington, Senator Burton K. Wheeler, Democrat, Mon tana, joined the critics of Justice Hugo Black’s alleged membership in the Ku Klux Klan, declaring Presi dent Roosevelt should appoint an im partial investigating board. “If the charges are true, the Presi dent should ask for Black’s resigna tion,- ’ said Wheeler, field marshal of the Senate’s opponents of the Roose velt court bill. Other developments: The Treasury launched its $70,000,- 000 three-year public (building con struction program by entering the market for building sites. The procurement division set dates on which those offering sites must submit proposals to be opened locally by postmasters or property custodians The communities in which sites are (Continued on Page Five.) Job Offices Are Told To Act Simply Unemployment Compensation Must Be Paid If Act Is Not To Be Repealed Raleigh, Sept. 17 (AP)—State and Federal administrators of the unem ployment compensation act in the fourth region heard warnings today that requirements should be kept as simple and uninvolved as possible to keep the people from turning agains social security legislation. John A. Marshall, of the District of Columbia, regional chairman, told the administrators the regional meeting was dedicated to preparation for pay ing unemployment compensation claims when they become due early next year. \ “We must stand or fall on the rec ord which we make in the of benefits,” Marshall counselled. “For that reason it is of vital importance that states having a large interchange (Continued on Page Three.) Constitution Best Surety Hoey Feels Charlotte, Sept. 17 (AP)—The Con stitution of the United States, through its hek on the majority, Governor Hoey told civic club members here to day, i s "the surest guaranty of tne perpetuation of democratic S m ent,” and “ought not to be hastily changed.” Throughout the State joint civic club luncheons were held today to o serve the 150th anniversary of the signing 0 f the Constitution: “The Constitution of the United States is the basis upon wljich demo cratic government rests,” said Gover nor Hoey. “When the different states Were molded into a more perfect union i&ttitersmt £3atly Brspatrij L TH S in E ?Mi? E SERVICE OF the associated press. KHm IN NEWYORK VOTE Tammany Crushed in Thurs day’s Election as Sena tor Copeland Is ? Snowed Under 50,000 DEMOCRATS FOR G. O. P, TICKET Jeremiah Mahoney, Choice of Jim Farley, Wins Over Copeland by 160,000 Mar gin; Mayor LaGuardia Grabs Republican Nomina tion- in Primaries New York, Sept. 17. —(AP)— The New Deal won a smashing double vic tory over Tammany in New York City’s mayoralty primaries yesterday. Tammany’s candidate, U. S. Senator Royal S. Copeland, New Deal foe, was defeated in both the Democratic and Republican primaries, today’s count of yesterday’s election showed. . Mayor Fiorello H. Laguardia, head of an anti-Tammany fusion move ment, and also a friend of the New Deal, wrested the Republican nomina tion from Tammany’s candidate by more than 30,000 votes. Jeremiah T. Mahoney, choice of James A. Farley, as candidate of an anti-Tammany New Deal coalition, de feated Copeland for the Democratic nomination by more than 160,000 votes. To add insult to injury, more than 50,000 registered- Democrats, without aiT Organized backing, voted the name on Page Eight.) SYPHILLIS IS MORE PREVALENTIN STATfe Noticeable Increase Last Week In Cases in State; Whooping Cough Inreasing Raleigh, Sept. 17. —(AP)-HSyphillis in North Carolina showed a notice able increase in North Carolina for the week ending September 11, as com pared with the previous week and the corresponding week last year. In its report, the division of epide miology said today 399 cases of syphillis were listed for the week end ing September 11, compared with 221 for the previous week and 107 for the week ending September 12, 1936. Whooping cough, which for the seven days ending Septemlber 11 has 85 cases, had 112 given for the pre vious week, but only 28 for the cor responding time last year. Diphtheria, totalling 36 for the pe riod ending September 11, was eight off from the previous week, and 29 less than for September 12, 1936. Pellagra, however, jumped from nine for the period ending Septem ber 4, 1937, to last week, while last September 12 it registered six. WELFARE CHIEF TO DO SPECIAL STUDY w. C. Ezzell Te Go To Pennsylvania, and Wallace Niguard To Sub stitute for Him Raleigh, Sept. 17.— (AP)—Mrs. W. T. Bost, State welfare commissioner, announced today Dr. Wallace Niguard would act as director of the division of institutions and corrections for nine months while W. C. Ezzell, the director, studied at the Pennsylvania school of social work. For five years, Dr. Niguard has been connected with the division of mental hygiene of the( State Wel fare Department at Chapel Hill. ft became necessary for the respective grants of power and limitations of au thority to be fully set forth, and clear ly outlined. The Constitution, with its several amendments, does just that. Five North Carolina delegates to the constitutional cbnventidn took a prom inent part in drafting the nations basic law, the governor said, and this State “was probably more responsibly than any other” in securing for each State equal representatio nin the Sen ate Other southern states voted against equal representation, but llorth Carolina supported the smaller states, Hoey said, "and this alone made possible the formation of the Constitution at this time.” ... ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA AND VIRGINIA. HENDERSON, N. C., FRIDAY AFTERNOON, SEPTEMBER 17,1937 AS LEWIS CALLED ON F. D. R. Ijjjj I v,"l „ shU John L. Lewis at White House Considerable mystery surrounded the visit of John L. Lewis, C. I. O. general issimo, to President Roosevelt at the White House in Washington. It is known that Lewis, seen entering the White House, asked for the engagement some time ego but postponed it when he went to Milwaukee to attend conven tion of the United Automobile Workers of America. Said Lewis, "We had a pleasant conference talking over matters of mutual interest.” Building Boom Faltering, Threatening Prosperity Mounting Wage Scales and Prices of Materials Killing Cock Robin, Babson Says; Government Blamed for Pegging Labor Market; Owned Homes Impossible BY ROGER W. BAB SON, Copyright 1937, Publishers Financial Bureau, Inc. Babson Park, Mass., Sept. 17. —Au- gust was the first month since May, 1934, that home building was lower than in the same month of the pre vious year. This is serious. Statisti cians had pinned their prosperity forecasts on a boom in building. A 16 per cent jump in construction costs during the past twelve months is the major reason why the boom is being, smothered. Rising wage scales and building material prices are killing “Cock Roibdn.” Unless these two groups watch their step, our period of prosperity may be nipped in the bud. No one knows exactly how many Farm Dollar About Up To 1929 Levelst In the Sir Waiter Hotel. Daily Diapatch Bureau. Raleigh, Sept 17—After floundering about in the sea of uncertainty brought on by the depression, the buy ing power of the farmer’s dollar has climbed virtually back to the 1929 level* Although farm income this year is somewhat below the pre-depression level, it was pointed out by the U. 3. Bureau of Agricultural Economics to Dean I*o. Schaub, of State College, that prices which growers have to pay. for their supplies also! are some- Continued. on Page Two.) FINAL DIVIDENDS ON RALEIGH BANK PAID $03,581 in Checks Mailed to 2,982 De positors- of Old Raleigh Bank ing & Trust Raleigh, Sept. 17. —(AP) —Checks for a final dividend of $53,581.75 were mailed today to 2,982 depositors of the defunct Raleigh Banking & Trust Company, which closed September 15, 1930, with listed assets of $2,045,038.62 Gurney p. Hood, bank commissioner said some depositors secured all of their money through offsets amount ing to $104,118.96, while others got 22 percent of their money back, a total of $164,920.40 in dividends. During liquidation, $1,614,853.18 was collected, including income, Hood said a total of 58 percent of the listed as f+t«. __ __ . unemployed there are in the United States. The Department of Labor es timates that the number of workers today is about 1,250,000 below that of 1929. Even at the top of the boom there were 2,500,000 jobless. These two figures add up to 3,700,000 unemploy ed. Add to this figure the new-com- have poured into the labor market in the past eight years at the rate of 500,000 annually. The final sum is 7,750,000 jobless tpday. This esi imate may be too high or it may be too low, but it is probably within 2,- 000,000 of the correct figure. Half Are Jobless. In so-called normal times statisti (Continued on Page Four.? SfEaver Wants To Drop Ways And Means Burden; Rumored as Anti-New Deal Daily Dispatch Bureau, In the Sir Walter Hotel. Raleigh, Sept. 17. —The importance ©f the post now held by Representa tive R. L. (Farmer Bob) Doughton has been cited time and again as one of the reasons he will not oppose Rob ert R. Reynolds for North Carolina’s junior seat in the United States Sen ate, but reports reaching this bureau by the grapevine route, and apparent ly from authentic sources, indicate that fact may (be the very reason Mr. Doughton will get into next year's race. According to these reports, whose authors would deny spreading them if their names were revealed, Farmer Bob is tired of the hurly burly of the House; he seeks rest from the ex-» tremely arduous duties of his post as chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee; and he wants to run out his long and laurelrrowned political career with a term in the upper house. As these people see it, what Mr. Doughton wants most is to get away from the top of the House list and go across the Capitol to a nice, com fortable seat in the Senate where he (Continued on Page Three.) LEATHER FOR NORTH CAROLINA. Fair tonight and Saturday; cooler tonight. China Protests Strongly To United States Against Bans On Arms Shipments To East Britain Throws Entire Quota Into Piracy War Withdro ws from Unsuccess ful Non-Intervention Pact As Relates to Spain’s Fight LOYALISTS DESTROY EVERYTHING BEHIND Wholesale Sabotage of Roads, Bridges, Railway Lines and Telegraph Lines, With Scores of Buildings Burned; Rebels Push Their Drive North London, Sept. 17.—(AP)—Britain to day ended the unsuccessful non-inter vention patrol of Spain to make avail able. her full quota of warships for the “more important task” of driving pir ate attackers from the Mediterranean. France joined in the decision. The irveign office announced the end of the patrol, formed by the 27-nation non-intervention committee in an ef fort to keep arms and men from either side in the Spanish civil war. The decision to end the patrol car ried on by French and British war ships after Germany and Italy with drew in anger because of attacks a gainst their ships last June, was con sidered a new rebuff to Premier Mus solini and Adolf Hitler.^ Italy and Germany already are openly resentful of the Nyon nine power agreement giving Britain and France major control of the pirate war in the Mediterranean. ~ • —U ■ : RETREATING LOYALISTS DESTROYING EVERYTHING Hendaye, Franco-Spanish Frontier, Sept. 17. —(AF) —The Asturian defend ers of Gijon, falling back: under the relentless thrusts of the Spanish of fensive, were ” reported today to be dynamiting the path of their foe. A radio broadcast from Salamanca, the insurgent general headquarters, pictured wholesale sabotage of roads, .bridges, railways, telegraph lines and the firing of scores of buildings on the Leon front, 50 miles south of Gijon. Fifty houses in Pola de Gordon were reported destroyed and a mining cen ter north of the field base of the in surgent column driving northward on the London highway was said to have been razed. SLIGHT DECLINE IN PRICES OF COTTON ■ ■' "T- Futures Close Four to Six Points Lower, Spot Steady anji Mid dling At 9.05 Ne Yrk, Sept l'.\— futures opened steady, one point high er to two lower. Higher Liverpool cables were offset by favorable weath er and southern selling, December sold off from 8.80 to 8.76, and shortly after the first half hour was 8.78, with the list -one to five points net lower. October continued to show indepen dent steadiness, and helped the under tone. December advanced to 8.85 and at midday was 8.81, when prices were one to four points net higher. Futures closed steady, 4 to 6 points lower. Spot steady, middling 9.05. Open Close October 8.90 8.85 December B*Bo 8.75 January ••. * • 8.84 8.79 March 8.91 8.89 Mav 9.02 8.98 July 909 9.07 Women Ask Jury Right In Courts —— Daily Dispatch Boren, In the Sir Walter Hotel. Raleigh, Sept* 17.—Attorney Gen eral A. A. F. Seawell is studying the “interesting question” whether women may be legal jurors and whether their names should be put in the box from which jurors are drawn. Declaiing.it “very iriteresting," the attorney general said it-had just come to his office and that he cannot now say when he will render an opinion. A ruling from him was sought by the Mecklenburg county attorney after a large delegation of women, fully qualified for jury duty other than by sex, appeared before the coun ty hoard there and demanded that their names and the names of all oth er qualified women be added to the jury lists compiled by the commission 6I*S« Despite the fact that the women of North Carolina have been legally Continued on *Page Five.) PUBLISHED HVMY AFTERNOON EXCEPT SUNDAY. “Black Not Member” ’v ' „ : si Jjjjj Dr. Hiram W. Evans The newly confirmed U. S. su preme court justice, Hugo L. Black of Alabama, is not now a member of the Ku Klux Klan and there is no such thing as a Klan “life membership” card—so says Dr. Hiram W. Evans of Atlanta, imperial wizard of the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, to charges made that Black is a life mem ber of the secret organization. —Central Press * - Nine Powers Sign Accord On “Piracy” Elaborate Lay - Out For Protection Os Merchant Ships In Mediterranean Geneva, Sept. 17 (AP)—The nine powers participating in war against piracy in the Mediterranean, led by France and Great Britain, signed to night, an elaborate accord providing for crusades against airplanes and warships as well as attacking subma rines. Three points were added to the ac cord signed at Nyon last week: British and French warships on patrol in the Mediterranean are em powered to attack surface warships or aircraft which make piratical attacks (Continued on’ Page Two) TYRRELL COUNTY TO VOTE UPON LIQUOR « 'Dare and Washington, on slither Side, Already Wet In Eastern North Carolina Columbia, Sept. 17 (AP)—Hemmed in between two wet counties, Tyrrell county tomorrow will ballot on wheth er or not i£, too, will establish ABC stores. Election officials said the polls would remain open from sunrise to sunseti, Both proponents and opponents of the liquor stores predicted a big vote tomorrow. Dare and Washington counties, Tyr rell’s neighbors, are already operating ABC stores. America Reunited Roosevelt States Antietam Battle Field, Md., Sept. 17. (AP) —President Roosevelt said to day the nation during the past four years has been “not only acting but also thinking in national terms” for the first time since the War Between the States. He spoke at exercises commemorat ing the 75th anniversary of the bloody conflict here in which Union soldiers turned back the southern forces. Deploring the “sectionalism” and “misunderstanding” engendered by O PAGES O TODAY FIVE CENTS COPY BiraeciN Certainly Not Impartiality, Is View Expressed By Foreign Office in Nanking MODERATE VIEW IS TAKEN BY JAPANESE America Merely Avoiding Foreign Entanglements, as Tokyo Expresses* It; More Japanese Reinforcements Landed Near Shanghai for New Battle * Washingtn, Sept. 17.— (AP) — Chinese Ambassador C. T. Wang protested formally to Secretary* Hull today against President Roosevelt’s partial embargo of armed ships to the Far Eastern war zone. The envoy expressed tp the secretary of state on behalf of his government its disappoint ment oipr action which Chinese claim Jheneliits Japan tndjrefctiy and inflicts damage on China. Nanking, Sept. If.— AP) —The Chi rese government v r J.s d.iclosed today ro have protested off cii’ -, v to the United States against the government embargo on arms to the Orient, charging it was unfair treatment of China. .. Dr. C. T. Wang, the Chinese ambas sador to Washington was said to have conveyed the biltor reaction of the Chinese government to the United "■States State Department. The Washington decision forbidding government- controlled merchantmen from transporting war supplies to either Japan or China was character ized by the foreign office spokesman as “certainly not impartiality.” JAPAN SEES U. S. MOVE AVOIDING ENTANGLEMENTS Tokyo, Sept. 17.—(AP)—The Japan ese government (broke its long official silence on the munitions embargo de clared by the United States today a gainst both Japan and China. The foreign office spokesman declared: “The Roosevelt munitions embargo is interpreted here as an effort by the United States government to avoid en tanglements in the Far Eastern situa tion, and it is generally supposed here (Continued on Page Six.) To Separate League And Peace Pact 4 Geneva, Sept. 17 (AP)—A commit tee of experts studying proposed sepa ration of the League of Nations con venant from World War peace trea ties was reported today virtually de cided on a re-draft which it was be lieved might bring Germany back in to the league. • The divorced project has long been a favorite among league universality enthusiasts as a device for smoothing the way for German re-entry to the fold. The committee’s method of meeting Germany’s and other long-standing covenant references to postwar set tlements included blue-penciling of all such phrases as “allied" and “asso ciated powers.” This phrase of reform was one of the planks of British policy outlined last September by Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden. His declaration was (Continued on Page Four.) the era of reconstruction following the war, and contrasting it with the national spirit of today, the President said: “Deeply we appreciate that the dis kless or uifficulty of any one part of the Union adversely affects each and every other pa-.t. We stand ready ir. all parts to lend a helping hand to thisfc American who need -’t mov fT* dismissed discussion of “the ijgh* and wrong” cf the co ltlict, idl ing the commemorative trrong “we can but wish that the v si had U*n.”
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