HENDERSON
GATEWAY TO
CENTRAL
CAROLINA
TWENTY-FOURTH YEAR
BRITISH DESTROYER ATTACKED BT BOMBER
NEW JAP ATTACK IS
FURTHER MENACE TO
AMERICAN DEFENSES
Artillery Looses New Bom
bardment of Markham
Road Section of
Shanghai City
SHELLS CRASH IN
U. S. MARINE AREA
Jap Army Officer Says His
Forces Repulsed Chinese
Counter Attacks on 25-
Mile Front, With Heavy
Losses to Chinese; Japs «
Recapture One Town
Shanghai, l Sept. 19. —(AP)
(Sunday) —Artillery sre endan
gered Americans this morning
and one anti-aircraft shell plung
ed into the home of H. B. Leach,
American advisor to the Chinese
finance minister, as a day-long
Sino-Japanese battle continued
into the early morning hours.
The shell, presumably Japanese,
plunged through the roof of the
residence in the heart of the
Shanghai district, and landed in
the bath room. The shell, if it
were Japanese, had travelled three
miles from warships in the Whang
poo river. Neither Leach nor his
wife was injured.
• Shanghai,. Sept. 18. —(AP) —Japan- .
e?e artillery unleashed a. new bom
bardment of the Markham road sec
tion today, bringing fresh perils to
the American-defejnded sector of
Shanghai’s war-shocked international
settlement. '
Japanese shells crashed into the
area close by tb*i jpatrol assigned
United States Marines as~ Japaneses
naval planes, taking advantage of
clearing weather, resumed bombard- *
ment of Chinese positions on a wide
front.
At the same time a Japanese army
officer asserted Japan’s land forces
had repulsed Chinese counter attacks
or, a 25-mile front extending from
the north to Shanghai’s outskirts.
The Japanese were said to have ad
vanced to within a mile of Liuhong,
the powerful Wireless (transmitting
base to the north, where Chinese
forces were in strong position.
Heavy Chinese casualties were re
ported in the counter-attack, when
Japanese (allowed the advancing
troops to push within close range be
fore opening a withering machine
gun fire that halted the Chinese.
Chinese army authorities admitted
Japanese forces had reca P.Vf red -
Loiten, about 15 miles north of
Shanghai, and that Chinese troops
were retreating from position on tne
Lieuhong sector nearer the c y*
Lieuhong itself was said still to be
in Chinese hands, however.
As the fighting raged, China obser
ved a day of mourning to
ate the republic’s loss of Manchuria
in 1931.
Legion Body
Descends On
HugesGotham
From All Parts of
Country And
Abroad Convention
Groups Pouring in
New York, Sept. 18.—(AP)—Ameri
can Legionnaires, keyed in the ex
pectation of their greatest convention
jubilee, watched a vanguard
wards of 100,000 veterans converging
on New York City today to the a
companiment of rolling drums, S
and miniature cannon fire.
"Where’s EUner?” cried
early convention arrivals, thpr
at hotels, rooming houses and in
““ siosan originating several
years ago at another of th
assemblies, has stuck through U,e
years as enduring humor o
erans for whom fun in middle age
has replaced the seriousness
they knew as youths. and
By planes, train, motor
boats from tiny hamlets to . the
tan areas, and from lands ■ in
seas they arrived in for a reun
officials coufidentlypredict
ed more than 350,000 veterans and
their families would be h ® r ® tivi _
day for the four-day round of festivi
ties beginning Monday.
Contingents from Hawaii an
Puerto Rico were on- baud today.
IHimigrant Butty Utifatdi
OF
IMB ASSOCIATED PRESS.
Alive—Twice Dead!
Mrs. George Carlstrom and Ronald
Twice "dead”, Ronald Carlstrom
of Chicago is alive and apparently
on the road to good health. Phy
sicians injected powerful stimu
lants Into the 15-month-old boy’s
heart twice within an hour to
save him. Ronald is with his
mother, Mrs. George Carlstrom.
—Central Pres*
Roosevelt
To Go .West
....; ■y
To Get Aid
President Determin
ed To Renew Fight
on Courts To Gain
His Objectives
Washington, Sept. 18. —(AP) —Presi-
dent Roosevelt’s outspoken demand
for an interpretation of the Constitu
tion sufficiently broad to make dem
ocracy “work’’ turned political atten
tion today to his announcement of a
western tour beginning next week.
Within an hour he gave emphatic
notice last night of a continuing fight
for the objectives sought in his court
reorganization program and announc
ed a trip through Montana, Wyom
ing and other states represented by
some of the leading foes of his judi
ciary proposal.
A huge crowd estimated at more
than 50,000 persons and a nationwide
radio audience heard the President’s
outdoor address commemorating the
150th anniversary of the signing of
the Constitution.
In his speech, interrupted more fre
quently by responsive laughter than
by applause, the President said to
avoid a dictatorship the nation “must
meet the insistence of the great mass
f our people that economic aftd social
security and the standards of Ameri
can living be raised.”
“I believe,” he added, “that these
things can do done under the Con
stitution ithout the surrender of a
single one of the civil and religious
liberties it was intended to safe
guard.”
“And I am determined that under
the Constitution those things shall
be done.”
Only in that way, he said, “can
America dissipliate the illusion that
the necessary price of efficiency is
dictatorship.”
Negress Tells Governor
How Lawyer Treated Her
On Parole For Her Man 9
Dally DUpatch Bpreaif,
In the Sir Walter Hotel.
Raleigh,
Raleigh there’s f lawyer whose ears
should be burning, if there’s anything
to the old saying about that sort of
For the governor of North Carolina
knows that this so-called attorney has
been chiseling a large percentage of
the few dollars a hard-working Negro
woman has been making by the sweat
of her brow.
The governor knows because she
went to the Executive Mansion and
told him so. She didn’t go there for
that particular purpose, in fact She
didn’t then realize she was being, prey
ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA AND VIRGINIA.
HENDERSON, N. C., SATURDAY AFTERNOON, SEPTEMBER 18, 1937
SSK
Warnings Against Dictator
ship Voiced by Friend and
Foe of Roosevelt
Program
ONE-MAN RULE IS
BROADLY ASSAILED
Senator Clark Cites Huey
Long’s Action In Louisiana
as Example and Points to
Hitlerism in Germany; At
tack on Supreme Court To
Resume \ / •
(By The Associated Press.)
Pleas to keep a dictatorship from
supplanting the American democracy,
which has endured for 150 years, echo
ed today from the oratory of Con
stitution Day.
They sprang from the controversy
over President Roosevelt's proposal
to reorganize the Federal judiciary,
to obtain what he called last night a
layman’s interpretation of the Con
stitution, rather than a legalistic con
cept.
Wjhether the speakers were aligned
with Mr. Roosevelt or were opposed
to him, they declared powerful forces
were at work to make themselves the
nation’s masters.
Senator Wheeler, Democrat, Mon
tana, spearhead of the successful Sen
ate ihattle again§t the President on
the court issue, told a Chicago au
dience the United States needs to be
on guard against “one-man” govern
ment.
“We should not make our govern
ment subservient to one man, or set
iip a totalitarian state, because our
politicians have been unable to solve
the problems of over-production, un
der-consumption or unemployment, he
said.
An administration spokesman, Sec
retary Ickes. voiced the charge that
the Supreme Court has set itself up
as a super-legislature. Ickes, speak
ing at Pittsburgh, said Chief Justice
Hughes was active “in plotting to
checkmate” the President’s court bill.
Senator Clark, Democrat, Missouri,
warned at New York against any fun
damental change in the Constitution
as conceived on democratic prin
ciples.
“We have only to look at the career
of Huey Long in Louisiana and Hit
ler in Germany,” he said, “to under
stand how far-reaching may be the
disregard of simple Constitutional
sanctions in the setting up of dictator
ships.”
Lumberton
Mill Votes
ForTWOC
•Lumberton, Sept. 18 (AP)—W. M.
Aicher, of Baltimore, examiner for
the National Labor Relations Board,
announced today employees of the
Mannsfield cotton mills here had vot
ed 321 to 261 to designate the TWOC
as its official bargaining agency. The
workers ballotted this morning under
an agreement between the TWOC and
mill management.
Aicher said the election was quiet
and orderly. Another board manager,
Miss Muriel Ferris, aided in counting
votes.
Voting began this afternoon at the
Jennings mill on the identical issue,
with Regional Director Bennett Schaf
fler and Examiner W. G. Humphrey,
of the board, in charge.
ed upon by an unscrupulous member
of an honored profession. But Rebec
ca (that’s her name) wanted to see
him.
Rebecca, it seems, has a husband
who some time ago ran afoul of the
law by killing another of his race.
Trial resulted in a sentence of twenty
to twenty-five years. That was two
years ago.
Rebecca wanted him out. She need
ed her spouse. And so she went to see
the lawyer, who, she told the gover
nor, assured her, if she would pay him
a fee—to be paid in small install
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HOW U. S. LINER WAS DAMAGED BY CHINESE BOMBS
fjf ! j|
Closeup of holes caused by botnb fragments Wreckage of companionway
Damage to the Dollar Liner, President Hoover,
which was struck by Chinese bombs as it neared
Shanghai, Aug. 30, # is pictured. The steamer was
on a return voyage to evacuate Americans in the
war-tom city. At the left is the wreckage of the
companionway. At the right is a view of the holes
hi the ship’s side caused by bomb fragments. One
United States May
Join League Mo ves
In Sino-Jap Crisis
Subject Discussed at Con
ference of Secretary Hull
and President
Roosevelt
,LEAGUE INVITATION
EXTENDED AMERICA
President To Confer With
Southeastern Governors at
t Warm Springs Thanksgiv
ing; Other Nations Taking
American Cotton Trade
Throughout World
Washington, Sept. 18 (AP) —Secre-
tary Hull called on President Roose
velt today to discuss with him, it was
reported authoritatively, the question
of possible United States participation
in the League of Nations considera
tion of the Sino-Japanese crisis.
The League has reconstituted its
advisory group, established in 1933, to
deal with the Manchurian conflict.
The United States was represented
on the earlier committee, and Geneva
reports have said an invitation would
be sent this government to collaborate
again.
There has been no official announce
ment as yet that the invitation has
been actually received here. The fact
however, that Hull was accompanied
to his conference with the President
•by Hugh Wilson, assistant secretary
of State, and the State Department’s
League of Nations expert, indicated to
some the invitation was the subject of
the White House conference.
To See Governors
Meantime, L. W. Robert, secretary
of the National Democratic Commit
tee, said at the White House that the
President had accepted tentatively
an invitation to confer with members
of the newly created southeastern gov
ernors’ conference at Warm Springs,
Ga., about Thanksgiving Day.
Other developments:
'Fresh outbursts of criticism and
(Continued on Page Six.)
WEATHER
FOR NORTH CAROLINA.
Mostly cloudy, with rising tem
perature tonight and Sunday, fol
lowed by rain Sunday night and
in south portion Sunday after
noon.
WEEKLY weather.
South Atlantic States: Rain at
beginning of week and showers
Wednesday or Thursday; cool at
beginning of week; warmer about
Wednesday, cooler over north and
central portions of district at end
i of week. ... . ' _
ynan, a sailor, died from injuries and several others
were injured. Chinese representatives apologized
-for the accidental shelling, offering to make full
restitution for injuries and damages. The Hoover,
after the. bombing, changed its course to Hong
Kong instead of Shanghai, then narrowly escaped
a typhoon at Hong Kong.
Warning by Pope
To the Austrians
Castel, Gandolfo, Sept. 18 (AP)—
Pope Pius warned Austrian Catho
lics today that their religious rites,
as well as those of German Catho
lics, are endangered by Nazi "anti
church politics.” His warning came
in a general audience for Austrian,
British, French and German pil
grims, attended also by several
Americans, including Robert Aste
and Mrs. Aste, of New York, and
Sig Freiberg, of Cincinnati, Ohio.
"We specially welcome the Aus
trian faithful at this time, which
is so grave, even for Austria,” said
the pontiff. He expressed hope Aus
tria always would remain Catholic
and “representative of the faith in
Central Europe, where such an ex
ample is needed.”
i
Natives Resist This Deadly
Disease But Foreign- '
ers Can’t
By CHARLES P. STEWART
Centra] Press Columnist
Washington; Sept%- 18. —The United
States Public Health Service is de
cidedly on the alert against the dan
ger of cholera’s introduction into this
country, through our Pacific coast
ports, from dhina.
Luckily the cholera season, so far
as the continental U. S. A. is con
cerned, is passing. It is a warm weath
er disease. Still, we prefer to have not
even a few cases as autumn advances.
Besides, Hawaii’s climate is such that
an epidemic is a possibility there in
what is our mainland winter.
And the Japanese troops on Chinese
soil are reported already to he suf
fering seriously from the pest. If hos
tilities in the Orient continue over in
to next summer the threat may be
come really formidable.
Chinese Resist It.
Curiously enough, the more cholera
the better, from China’s standpoint. It
may prove to be, in the long run, the
Asiatic mainlanders’ most effective
weapon'against Nippon.
The Chinese are not very vulnerable
to it. They are not immune, but they
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LEJEUMH)^
Spanish Government Chief
Wants Two Nations
Forced to Withdraw
Aid to Rebels
INSURGENTS BLAST
PATHWAY TO GIJON
Crumbling Asturian Defense
Leaves Them in “Absolute
Control” of High Road To
Seaport,' Statement Says;
Government Troops De
clared Routed
Geneva, Sept. 18. —(AP) —Dr. Juan
Negrin, Spanish government premier,
demanded today the League of Na
tions name Germany and Italy aggres
sors in Spain and force an end to their
intervention on behalf of insurgents
in the Spanish civil war.
The Madrid-Valencia “win-the-war
premier” opened debate on foreign
intervention in the civil war before
the League of Nations Assembly with
the declaration that the conflict in
reality has become a “war of in
vasion” by Germany and Italy.
Their intervention on behalf of In
surgent General Francisco Franco,
Negrin ; asserted, is the result of
“nothing more than an occupational
pait.” ’ ' *
INSURGENTS OPEN WAY TO
GIJON, LAST STRONGHOLD
Hendaye, Franco-Spanish Frontier,
Sept. 18.— (AP)—Spanish insurgents,
hammering towasd. Gijon through the
mountains to its south, asserted to
day the crumbling Asturian defense
had left them in “absolute control” of
a high road into that government
seaport.
Attacking infantrymen, aided by
fighting and bombing planes, routed
the government troops from a stra
tegic position on Mount Pajares, on
the border of Leon and Oviedo pro
vinces, aboot 35 miles south of Gijon.
(Continued on Page Six.)
PRICE OF TOBACCO.
FIRM IN THE EAST
Results of Government Grading In
New Bright Belt Markets
Stated for Week
Raleigh, Sept. 18. —(AP)—Firmness
Os tobacco prices, generally speaking,
was noted this week on the markets
at Farmville, Goldsboro and Wendell,
the Bureau of Agricultural Economics
reported today. «•' .
Ap active demand for smoking leaf
and cutters was noted, with the ma
jority of offerings third to sixth qual
ity- leaf, and sales heavy.
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Attacking Plane Believed
One of Government Force
From Gijon, Last
Stronghold
DESTROYER ARMED
WITH HEAVY GUNS
No Information Whether It
Used Them; Attack Anoth
er of Almost Countless In*
cidents of Kind Since Civil
War In- Spain Began Last
Year
London, Sept. 18.—(AP)—The Bri
tish destroyer Fearless reported today
to London naval authorities It had
been attacked by a bombing plane off
Gijon, Spain.
Six heavy bombs fell close to the
Fearless, but the destroyer was not
struck.
Having completed the attack, the
plane flew toward Gijon, leading to
a belief in London the plane might
have been a Spanish government craft
Gijon is the government’s last Im
portant port on the Bay of Biscay.
There are nearby concentrations of
insurgent troops and planes.
The attack took place at noon yes
terday.
The Fearless carried the regulation
identification of a British War craft
and in addition the foregun turret was
painted red* white and blue.
The destroyer ha* heavy anti-air
craft armaihent, but it was not dis
closed whether she opened fire on her
attacker.
The attack was another of the al
most countless incidents that have oc
curred on the Bay of Biscay and the
Mediterranean since the Spanish civil
war broke out 14 months ago.
The attack, however, was not strict
ly of that kind of guerilla warfare
which Britain and the other* Nyon
powers are trying to stamp out in the
Mediterranean. The Nyon protocol
called for protection of commercial
ships, not war vessels. The Nyon pow
ers invited Italy finally today to ac
cept a minor role to help stamp out
the piratical attacks on shipping.
WILLIAM T. EATON
DIES AT WINSTON
Was Long-Time Official of Reynolds
Tobacco Company; Native of
Davie County
Winston-Salem, Sept. 18. —(AP) —
William Thomas Eaton, 73, prominent
retired business man here, died at his
home today after an illness of three
weeks.
A native of Davie county, N. C., he
was for 26 years chief field agent of
the purchasing department of the R.
J. Reynolds Tobacco Company.
He retired 15 years ago.
Survivors include his wife, a daugh
ter and four sons.
Yankees To
Have First
Title Game
World Series To
Open There Octob
er 6; No Day Lay-
Off Is Provided for
New York, Sept. 18
ing an American League pennant for
the New York Yankees, the 1987
World Series will open in the Yankee
Stadium, Wednesday, October 6.
Dates for the annual fall classic
were set today at a conference pre
sided over by Commissioner K. M.
Landis, and attended by representa
tives of the New York Giants, Chicago
Cubs and Detroit Tigers.
After playing.the first two games
on the American League grounds Oc
tober 6 and 7, play will shift either to
th? Polo Grounds, New York or to
Wrigley Field, Chicago, for the three
games of October 8, 9 and 10. The
last two games would be played off
< October 11 and 12 in the stadium.
There will be no day off for travel,
even if the, Cubs win the pennant.
All games will begin at 1:30 p. m.,
standard time, except that for a Sun
day game in New York on October 10
the starting time would be 2 p. m.