HENDERSON
GATEWAY TO
CENTRAL
CAROLINA
TWENTY-FOURTH YEAR
JAPS BOMB NANKING; 200 KILLED OR HURT
ROOSEVELT LEAVES
FOR WESTERN TOUR
TO TALK TO PEOPLE
President Wants To Find
Out How They Think on
His Administration’s
Program
TEN-CAR TRAIN TO
MAKE MANY STOPS
Due Back in Washington or
Hyde Park October 6 After
Sounding Out Public Senti
ment; Mrs. Roosevelt, Sec
retaries and Newsmen Go
Along
Hyde Park, N. Y., Sept. 22. —(AP) —
President Roosevelt ordered his warm
clothes packed today for a trip to
Seattle and back to find out, among
other what t!he country is
thinking about administration affairs.
His ten-car train was ordered to be
ready to depart about 4 p. m., eastern
standard time. It is equipped with
public address apparatus.
Mrs. Roosevelt, a staff of White
House secretarial aides and a score of
newspaper men were to accompany
him on the trip, v;nich will end either
in Washington or Hyde Park Oc
tober 6, after appearances and infor
mal talks in eight western, northwest
ern and midwestern states.
The journey will also include an in
spection of many Federal projects and
a good neighbor excursion to British
Columbia cy destroyer.
Traveling the central route, the
train tonight will pass through Buf
falo. Cleveland and northern Indiana,
and through Chicago and southern
lowa. No appearances will be made
until the train reaches Cheyenne,
Wyoming, Friday morning.
The President scheduled a pre-de
parture conference with John Big
gers, of Toledo, recently appointed to
direct the jobless census, and officials
said it was likely plans for the un
employment count would be announc
ed after this meeting. Biggers was due
before luncheon.
Another forenoon caller was John
Montgomery, minister to Hungary.
Merchants
Distribute
For Needy
Raleigh, Sept/ 22.—(AP)— Twenty
six retail merchants in five North
Carolina counties have . agreed to
make a test and handle distribution
of supplies to the needy for the com
modißy distribution division of the
State welfare board.
A. E. Langston, director of distri
bution, said three merchants each
in Hertford and Northampton coun
ties, nine in Robeson, four in Ala
mance and seven in Transylvania
would give the idea a trial.
"It would appear that in every coun
ty and in nearly every locality,” Lang
ston said, “there are a number of pub
lic-spirited retail merchants who, in
order to assist their unfortunate
neighbors, are willing to tender their
services without charge to assist in
distributing surplus commodities to
needy persons residing in the neig
borhood of their respective stores.
Hoey Backs
State’s Air
Mail Week
Raleigh, Sept. 22.—(AP)-<Jovernor
Hoey issued his first formal proclam
ation today, urging observance of air
mail week from October 11 to 16, in
clusive.
The governor had previously asked
in statements since he took office in
January that citizens take note of
special events. ...
His first proclamation, he said, will
be reproduced and posted in each post
office in the State, and Paul Younts,
Charlotte postmaster, was rushed the
original so the copies could 1?e made.
Noting North Carolina is the birth
place of aviation, and has “always
manifested a lively interest in develop
ing our air mail service,” Hoey pr°--
claimed the air mail week for all
North Carolina. _ ;
Imtiterarm iJatht Htsmtfrh
SERVICE OF
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS.
Six Convicts In
Break at Prison
Reldsville, Ga., Sept. 22.—(AP)—
Six convicts escaped last night
from Georgia’s glistening new
PattnaTl prison, but were recap
tured early today.
State officials hastened to ex
plain the $1,500,000 structure huilt
by the Public Works Administra
tion and dubbed by inmates as “the
Alcatraz of the Piney Woods” was
not in full operation and that
guard personnel had not been com
. plet'd. The prison was regarded
as “virtually escape proof.”
Among those trying tr> flee wns
S. J. Scarborough, one of Georgia’s
most notorious chaingang break
ers. The others were all short-term
ers, officials said.
roosevEtokays -
PLANS FOR COUNT
OF JOBLESS ONES
John Biggers, Newly-Ap
pointed Administrator,
Given $5,000,000 to
Spend on Work
POST OFFICEWILL ~
DO PRELIMINARIES
Enrollment of Unemployed
Will Be Voluntary With
Them; North Carolina’s
Exports in First Seven
Months More Than Double
Last Year
Hyde Park, N. Y., Sept. 22.—(AP)—
John Biggers, administrator of the
unemployment census, announced aft
er a White House conference today
Fresident Roosevelt had approved
final plans for the voluntary enumer
ation. He added he expected the count
to be completed before December 1.
Biggers said the President had
given him “adequate authority” and
approved an expenditure up to $5,-
000,000.
“We intend to keep well within that
figure without slighting thorough
ness,” he added.
He said the Post Office Depart
ment would handle the distributiop.
collection and preliminary checks of
registration cards which would be
sent 31,000,000 homes in the nation,
carrying a brief message over the
President’s signature.
Exports in State Larger.
Meantime, Washington advices said
the value of exports shipped from
North Carolina ports more than dou
bled in the first seven months of this
year compared to the corresponding
(Continued on Page Six.)
PATROLMAN INJURED
IN WILSON ACCIDENT
Raleigh, Sept. 22 (AlP)— State High
way Patrol headquarters received
word this morning Patrolman R. H.
Sutton, of Wilson, was injured while
enroute this morning by motorcycle
from Wilson to Smithfield. Stitton
was taken to a Wilson hospital and
was not believed seriously hurt, Lieu
tenant Lamber said.^
Try To' End
Charlotte's
Mill Strike
Charlotte, Sept 28.—(AP)—More
than 750 strikers at the Highland
Park mill No. 3 turned their atten
tion today to one of the mill offices,
scene of a scheduled conference be
tween mill management and TWOL
representatives. The meeting was set
for mid-afternoon.
Strikers continued on their picket
lines around the mill, where they
have worked in six-hour shifts around
the clock since the walk-out a little
more than a week ago. There have
been no disorders. .
The employees struck in protest a
gainst what they said was an effort
to institute a stretch-out.
ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA AND VIRGINIA.
Legion, 250,000 Strong, Marches Do wn Fifth Ave.
PP .4 f gif*
m Wk 111.
View of Mammoth American Legion Parade in New YOrk City
Looking down on a few of the hundreds of contingents in the mammoth American Legion parade in New York
City. More than 250,000 Legionnaires paraded down Fifth Avenue, as 1,000,000 looked on.
Two Miles Os Route One
Will Be Rebuilt At Once
About One Mile Each Near Manson and Ridgeway To
Be New Pavement; Baise Says Whole Road Is
Wearing Out and Shortl y Will Have to Be Rebuilt
Dnlly Dispatch Burvaa,
• n the Sic Walter Hotel.
Raleigh, Sept. 22.—Two miles of U.
S. highway No. 1, in Warren county,
will soon be completely rebuilt by the
State Highway Commission in an ef
fort to put this heavy-traffic through
road in good condition for tourist and
other traffic this winter, W. Vance
Baise, chief engineer for the commis
sion, said today.
In addition, practically the entire
length of the route north of Hender
son will be “flush coated,” a major
maintenance operation, iMr. Baise said
He could give no definite idea of
the date for rebuilding the one-mile
KEVELTSTRIf"
WILLBEEPOCHAL
Fighting for People Not For
Foreign Alliance As Was
Wilson
By LESLIE EICHEL
Central Press Columnist
President Roosevelt has taken the
offensive not only in the politico-eco
nomic fight at home, but for the dem
ocratic nations as against the fascist
concepts abroad. That was the sig
nificant fact of his speech the night
of Constitution Day at Washington.
Thus his projected trip across the
northwest part of the United States
to Seattle becomes one of world-wide
significance. Even his informal talks
will receive wprld-interpretations.
High Drama.
The Fresident is playing high
dratna. Many writers have tried to
cohlpare his trip west “over the Su
preme Court fight” to President Wil
son’s fatal trip west over the League
of Nations.
Any one going among the people
will see that the circumstances are
entirely different. President Roosevelt
is making a fight, in his opinion and
in the opinion of millions, for the eco
nomic betterment of homefolk. Presi
dent Wilson was trying to have the
Americans enter into an alliance with
European nations “to preserve the
peace.” ,
President Roosevelt asserts, in ef
fect, that we challenge the world with
our democracy. We must keep up with
progress, we must show the world
(Continued on Page Six.)
HENDERSON, N. C., WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON, SEPTEMBER 22, 1937
stretches for which contracts will
soon be let, but he added that work
on the maintenance project will be
gin within a “week or two.”
The two links which will be com
pletely rebuilt are just north of the
Vance-Warren line, he said, the first
about half a mile from the line and
near Manson; the other about three
miles farther north and in the vicinity
of Ridgeway. Each itfuilding project
will involve about one mile, he said.
These two stretches are in worse
shape than any others along the route
(Continued on Page Six.)
Ik oe black
FDR« ERROR
Comes on Top of 111-Fated
Court Packing Plan;
Stigma on Black
By CHARLES P. STEWART
Central Press Columnist
Washington, Sept. 22. —President
Roosevelt’s appointment of Hugo L.
Black to the United States Supreme
Court generally is regarded in Wash
ington now as having been the worst
mistake of the present White House
tenant’s career.
His campaign for increase in the
court personnel is widely .spoken of
as having been a had mistake, too.
However, many of those who object
ed to court change agree With the
President that the high tribunal has
been a very reactionary body through
out its whole history. They did not
like “packing,” but they favored limi
tation of the august bench’s authority
by constitutional amendment It was
not the presidential objective, it was
(Continued on Page Six.)
KILLED”IN PLUNGE
AT BLOWING ROCK
(Jranite Falls, Sept. 22. —(AP)—John
Gay Killian, 22, of Granite Falls, was
fatally injured early this morning
when the motorcycle he was riding
on Federal highway No. 321, two
miles south of Blowing Rock, plunged
into a side ditch and skidded into
the highway. Killian suffered a crush
ed skull and was lulled Instantly.
CIO Leader
At Memphis
Is Whipped
Violent Note Injected
Into City’s Labor
War in Attack on
Organizer
Memphis, Tenn., Sept.* 22 (AP) —The
beating of Norman Smith, 42-year-old
CIO organizer, injected a violent note
into Memphis’ labor controversy to
day.
A group of unidentified men attack
ed the 230-pound St. Louis man out
side a tavern last night, inflicting four
gashes in his scalp and spraining his
left arm.
“They can’t run me out of town,”
Smith said when he was taken to po
lice headquarters with his head in
bandages. “I’ve been in worse fights
than this.”
Police Commissioner Davis promis
ed a full and thorough investigation,
and said he was holding Smith along
with two other men he did not name.
Nat Fowler, CIO attorney, said he
would seek Smith’s release on a hab
eas corpus writ today unless specific
charges are filed. Davis said Sunday
he was “one hundred percent behind
.Mayor Watkins Overton’s recent dic
tum “imported CIO agitators, com
munists and highly paid organizers
are not wanted in Memphis.”
TYRRELL COUNTY TO
SEE HOEY TOMORROW
Governor To Speak at Agricultural
Building; Also Speaks Later
In Tarboro
Columbia, Sept. 22 (AP)—Columbia
and Tyrrell county expect a big day
tomorrow when Governor Hoey speaks
at the dedication of the new county
agricultural building. The Tyrrell
county Farm Bureau is in charge of
the exercises, which start at 11
o’clock. H. W. Swain, county farm bu
reau president, will welcome the visi
tors, and J. C. Meekins will introduce
Governor Hoey.
A picnic dinner will be served and
Governor Hoey will hurry to Tarboro
to speak in the late afternoon to a
meeting of city and county officers
called by the Institute of Government.
At an afternoon business meeting
of the Tyrrell Farm Bureau, F. H.
Jeter, agricultural editor oT State Col
lege, and E. F. Arnold, executive sec
retary at Raleigh for the State Farm
Bureau Federation, will speak s
WEATHER.
FOR fcORTH CAROLINA.
| Fair tonight and Thursday.
PUBLISHED HVHKY APTUINOOM
EXCEPT SUNDAY.
Over Fifty Planes
In Two Raids Rain
Death "On Capital
Protests Made By
Americans, British
Toky\ Sept. 22.—(AP) —The for
i' v n c r fice announced today that
Joseph Grew, the United States
-mhrssndor and Sir Robert Craigie
—e Bullish ambassador, had con
ferred. with Foreign Minister Koki
’I rota on the Japanese threat to
-vas'fctc the Chinese capital of
ar.kintf with aerial bombardment.
The foreign office denied the am
sredors had protested against
he bombing or reserved the right
to indemnification to loss of for
eign lives and property.
L LOSANGELES F FOR
1938 CONVENTION
Tolerance, Neutrality, Pro
gress and Democratic
Ideals Urged in
Many Speeches
GREEN IS GRATEFUL
FOR LEGION COURSE
Thanks It for Neutrality In
Labor Disputes; Neutrality
of Individuals Urged by
War Secretary Woodring;
Child Welfare Will Be
Extended
New York, Sept. 22 (AP)—The- 1,-
339 delegates to the American Le
gion’s nineteenth annual convention
met for four hours today in the Met
ropolitan Opera House, picked Los
Angeles for next . year’s convention
city, and listened to speeches plead
ing for tolerance, .neutrality, progress
and the preservation of democratic
ideals.
William Green, president of the
American Federation of Labor, urged
closer cooperation between his organ
(Continued on Page Six.)
GUILTY PLEA MADE
BY WPA DIRECTOR
Washington, N. C., Man Not Sentenc
ed, However, in Judge Meek
ins’ Federal Court
Fayetteville, Sept. 22 (AP)—Federal
Judge I. M. Meekins withheld judg
ment temporarily today on Clifford E.
Smith*, of Washington, N. C., who
pleaded guilty to a charge of abstract
ing and forging a Federal check.
Smith formerly was director of a WPA
project.
Officers apprehended him recently
in Greenville, S. C., where they said
he was working under an assumed
name. >
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STORMS IN MUST
Month Unusually Wet and
Warm in State, Weather
Bureau Reports
Raleigh, Sept. 22.—(AP)—August
was an unusually wet and warm
month for North Carolina, the Weath
er Bureau reported today, and hail
storms on August 2 did $595,000 dam
age in 15 counties.
Eighty-six stations reported a rain
fall of 7.40 inches for August, 1.86
inches above the 50-year average, with
Rock House,, in Macon county, hav
ing 15.32 inches as the wettest spot,
and Belhaven, being the driest with
only 2.05 inches.
“There was too much rain for cot
ton,” the summary said. “Cotton is
still good as a whole, though. Pro
gress of corn was good to excellent
and tobacco, peanuts and other crops
improved, though there was too much
rain in the latter part of the month
and some damage by flooding.”
The hail storm did worse damage
in Guilford, Caswell, Person, Gran
ville and Edgsecom.be counties, but al
so hit Iredell, Vance, Franklin, Wake,
Greene, Pitt and other areas.
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American and British Pro
tests Against Devastation
of Great City Are
Ignored
INCENDIARY BOMBS
SET HOMES AFIRE
Most Densely Populated
Section of City Attacked,
and Casualties Are Mostly
Among Those Too Feeble
or Helpless To Flee To
Safety Areas
Nanking, Sept. 22. (AP) -t- Less
than 48 hours after British and Amer
ican protests to the Japanese govern
ment against unrestricted bombard
ment of this capital, more than 50
Japanese airplanes twice rained death
and destruction from the skies today,
killing, wounding or burning to death
more than 200 non-combatant Chinese
refugees.
Killed or injured were mostly those
who had been too feeble or helpless
to join the exodus ihto the safety of
the surrounding countryside.
Dozens of incendiary bombs and
high' explosives fell into their wretch
ed straw huts in the slum district be
tween the walled section and of the
city and the Yangtze river. The huts
burned like match boxes.
The lives of 20 Americans, includ
ing seven women, were endangered
by the bombardments and the screen
of fire raised by* Chinese anti-aircraft
batteries against the raiders. .
Despite the American and
protests against bombardment of
civilian populations and private pro
perty, the most densely populated sec
tion of the city was attacked, includ
ing the new residential district where
the American, Italian, German and
Netherlands embassies or legations
are situated.
SUPREME COURT TO
DIVULGE OPINIONS
First Batches of Fall Term Ready
Late in Day; 27 Cases on
Appeal Next Week
Raleigh, Sept. 22.—(AP) —The Su
preme Court prepared today to hand
down its first opinions of the fall term
late in the afternoon.
Oral arguments were not complet
ed in cases appealed from the third
and eighteenth districts.
Twenty-seven cases are docketed on
appeal next week hut in two petitions
for certiorari to set arguments later
will be filed. One is the Johnston
county rural electrification suit, and
the other the appeal of William Perry
sentenced to death after conviction
for murder in Chatham county.
The court yesterday ordered argu
ments during the week of November
2 in the case of Milford Exum, sen
tenced in Wayne to die after his con
viction for murder.
Japan Sorry
For Injuries
Given Briton
London Is Satisfied
With Apology For
Machine - Gunning
of Ambassador
Tokyo, Sept 22.—(AP)—Japan to
day expressed her regret for the
wounding of the British ambassador
inXhina in an aerial attack outside
Shanghai, and British quarters said
the note met demands for apology and
assurance that such incidents would
not again occur.
The British demands for punish
ment of the aviators who machine
gunned the ambassador, Sir Hughe
Knattchbull-Hugessen, on August 26
was, however, answered ambiguously,
it was said.
The note on this point observed:
“It is needless to say that the Jap
apese government will take suitable
steps whenever it is established that
Japanese aviators killed or wounded
intentionally, or through negligence,
the national belonging to a third
country.”
The note was handed to the Brit-
I ish ambassador to Tokyo, Sir Robert
Craigie, by Foreign Minister Hirota.