HENDERSON
GATEWAY TO
CENTRAL
CAROLINA
TWENTY-FOURTH YEAR
CHIMG SHSII. $. PLEDGED TO DID CHINA
Roosevelt To Act
In Second Term As
In First, He Says
“Most Good for Greatest
Number” Is Aim, He
Tells Crowd at Chey
enne, .Wyoming
SENATOR O’MAHONEY
GREETS PRESIDENT
Court Foe Not Invited on
Private Car But Goes On
Anyhow; Few Words Pass
Between Him and Roose
velt; Tells People He’s
Sounding Out
Cheyenne, Wyo. ,Sept. 24. —(AP)
President Roosevelt told a crowd of
thousands here today he was going
to continue in his second term the
way he had in his first, trying to do
the* “most good for the greatest num
ber.”
/ fter being welcomed by a group
including Senator O’Mahoney, Demo
crat, Wyoming, foe of the Roosevelt
Supreme Court the Presi
dent declared he had told a friend
recently who advtsed him to “coast”
from now on, that he would not take
such advice.
“I don’t want to coast and the na
tion doesn’t want me to coast with
my seat up on the front wheels.”
People are thinking in national
terms, he said, adding the adminis
tration projects up to date had had
the national point of view in mind.
“Don’t let anybody deceive you: the
government of the United States, is
not going broke,” he said.
Senator O’Mahoney was in the wel
coming committee with Governor Les
lie Miller, Senator H. H. Schwartz, a
court bill proponent, and Representa
tive Paul Greever, all Wyoming Dem
ocrats.
O'Mahoney, although he was not for
mally invited to board the President’s
special, boarded the chief executive s
private car as the train pulled out.
During the President’s talk he had
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Legion Head
Promises No
Money Raids
New York, Sept. 24.— (AP)—Daniel
Doherty, stocky Woburn, Mass., attor
ney and veteran of the navy, took
command of the American Legion to
day with a promise there would “be
no raids, on the national Treasury dur
ing the next year.”
Speaking just before he sailed for
France at midnight to take part in
the veterans’ pilgrimage to World
War battlefields, the newly-elected na
tional comflaander likewise counselled
Legionnaires to take their stands on
labor controversies “as private cit
izens, not as 'Legionnaires.”
The American Legion and each in
dividual Legionnaire must preserve
law and order when called upon by
the legal authorities, Doherty said.
He specified, however, no individual
post or department has the right to
decide who is right or wrong in such
disputes.”
The new commander said the Le
gion’s policies would be carried. out
by the national executive committee
according to the dictates of the con
vention, !but added:
“First of all, the promotion of
Americanism will be my objective.
Secondly, will come placing the wives
of veterans on the same level as the
wives of veterans of previous. wars
in receiving pensions. There will be,
however, no ‘raids on the national
treasury’ for further pensions.’
Drys Win Two-To-One
In Liquor Referendum
Voting In Tennessee
Nashville, Tenn., Sept. 24.—(AP)—
Tennessee drys acclaimed today their
two-to-one victory in yesterdays pro
hibition referendum and planned an
attack on legalized beer, while wets in
listed the advisory balloting was a
“meaningless farce.” u .
Prohibitionists saw a great moral
victory” in the results and announcea
they would move shortly for repeal o
a statute that permits five percent
beer. The state is one of five whose
anti-whisky laws have survived rea
peal of national prohibition.
Wets noted, however, the total vote
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Waits Mate’s Release
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Mrs. Harold Dahl
Mrs. Harold Dahl, wife of a
Champaign, HI., aviator captured
by the insurgents in Spain while
flying for the Loyalists, hopefully,
waited at Cannes, France, for re
lease of her husband in Spain.
Incidentally this is the picture
which was reported to have been
sent to Francisco Franco, insur
gent general, and which was said
to have influenced his guarantee
of releasing Dahl. It later was
denied, however, that the picturs
had influenced him.
REBELS WILL 11
KILL Ul AIRMAN
Pretty Champaign, 111., Wife
Assured by Franco Hus
band To Be Free
Salamanca, Spain, Sept. 24 (AP) —
Only the red tape of arranging for
an exchange of prisoners keeps Har
old Dahl, the Champaign, HI., aviator
in jail here while his beautiful wife
waits for him in Cannes, France, ft
was learned today.
An aide of General Francisco Franco
the insurgent chieftain, said there was
no possibility the 28-year-old flier
would go before the firing squad.
Dahl was captured July 12 on the
Madrid front when he bailed out of
the gun-riddled fighting plane he was
flying for the Spanish government.
Franco’s aide, a cousin also named
Francisco Franco (and apparently
the author of a re-assuring letter re
ceived yesterday by Mrs. Dahl) re
ported by telephone to the insurgent
leader on reports abroad that Dahl
was about to be executed.
Cousin Francisco fairly shouted his
protestation when he left the tele
phone: “Everybody knows the gener
alissimo always keeps his word!
There is absolutely no truth in the
story Dahl is to be executed.
WARDEN AT FOLSOM
DIES FROM STABS
Satcramento, Cal., Sept. 24. —(AP) —
Warden C. A Larking, 46, of Folsom
prison, died today at Sutter hospital
of infection from stab wounds he re
ceived in last Sunday’s riot at the
penitentiary. He was exit? fourth vic
tim of the riot, for which five sur
viving convicts are under indictment
for murder. Two convicts and a guard
were killed in the futile escape at
tempt.
apparently would be nearly IOOjOOQ.
below that cast in 1933, when the
State ratified national repeal and
claimed the issue ultimately would
have to be settled on a local option
base.
With 1,723 precincts reported, out of
2,160 in the State, the count stood:
For repeal, 38,022. . _
Against repeal, 99,735.
The dry majority was 61,713. About
500,000 were qualified to vote.
In the 1933 election, Tennessee vot
ed 126,942 to 120,10 t for repeal of the
eighteenth amendment. _ •_ '
ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA AND VIRGINIA.
TROOPS TO SPAIN
Mussolini Surprises Europe
by Pledge to Britain and
France and Join
ing Patrol
MIGHT BEPLAYING
, HAND WITH HITLER
Dictator on Way for Con
ference With German
Reichfuehrer May Be Seek
ing To Pave Way for Driv
ing Hard Bargain In Ber
lin Parleys
T.ondon, Sept. 24.—(AP)—Authori
tative source asserted today Premier
Mussolini had promised Britain and
France he would send no more “volun
teers” to Spain, making possible Ital
ian entrance in the Anglo-French dip
lomatic front and a new balance of
power for Europe.
While Britain and France were
keenly anxious to accept Italy’s ad
vances at face value, they could not
help but look for a possible snag. A
definite feeling of optimism prevail
ed in foreign office circles, but it was
tempered by a slight suspicion of II
Duce’s motives in presenting such a
startling assurance about Spain.
His sudden willingness to promise
no further troops should be sent to
aid the Spanish insurgents, coming
on the eve of his departure for an
important conference with Chancel
lor Hitler of Germany, caused many
observers to wonder whether Italy
was preparing some new and surpris
ing move.
Some British observers—and Rome
dispatches here bore this out were
frankly considering Mussolini’s ges
tures of cooperation with France and
England as a method of strengthen
ing his position to drive a harder bar
gain with Hitler.
This authoritative source said Italy
had given France and Britain a de
finite promise no more Italian troops
would go to Spain if the three powers
could agree, among other things, on
Italian demands for parity with Brit
tain and France in the Mediterrean
anti-piracy accord.
M. P. MINISTER AT
CHARLOTTE OUSTED
Church Court Convicts Him of “De
stroying” Charlotte Church
and Being Unfaithful
Concord, Sept. 24 (AP) R ev \
Hendry, of Charlotte, was adjudged
guilty of “destroying the First Meth
odist Protestant church at Charlotte,
and' “of being unfaithful as a pastor
and, guilty of mal-administration at a
hearing here today before a court of
the church.
The committee which served as a
jury recommended that Mr. Hendrey
be suspended from all official rela
tionships with the Methodist Protest
ant Conference.”
Under church rules, officials said,
Mr. Hendrey may appeal within 20
days.
The verdict was announced by Rev.
Clay Madison, pastor of the First
Methodist Protestant church of High
Point, who served as clerk. Rev. R.
M. Andrews, of High Point, president
of the North Carolina Conference of
the church, declined to discuss the
proceedings before or after the hear
ing. The names of the ministers serv
ing as jurors were not disclosed.
Mr. Hendrey, now pastor of the
Community Church, Inc., of Charlotte
went there as pastor of the First
Methodist Protestant church.
Denhardt’s
Slaying Is
Void Court
Shelhyville, Ky., Sept. 24. (AP)
Rodes Myers, before a court room
jammed With spectators today, describ
ed the slaying of Brigadier-General
Henry Denhardt here Monday night,
on the eve of his second trial charged
with the murder of Mrs. Verna Tay
lor.
Myers, attorney who had helped de
fend the ex-lieutenant governor and
ex-adjhtant-general at his first trial,
which ended in a hung jury, was call
ed as the first witness in the exam
ining trial of Mra Taylor’s three
brothers, Roy, Jack, and Dr. E. S.
Garr, charged in a warrant with mur
der of Denhardt.
Myers came in County Judge H. F.
Walters’ court guarded by two State
police, whom Cololnel E. O. Huey,
head of the State police said the at
torney had requested after receipts of
letters threatening him if he retura
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HENDERSON, N. C., FRIDAY AFTERNOON, SEPTEMBER 24, 1937
Canton, South China Metropolis, Japanese Target
Great Britain and the United States were further
alarmed over the Chinese situation when the Jap
anese planes began bombing Canton, metropolis of
South China, as well as Nanking. Canton, with a
population of a million, is the center of large Brit
Higher Prices Checking
Trade Volume In Nation
■| . # . y
Consumer-Consciousness Is Growing, Babson Says, and
Buyers’ Strike Is Halting* Sales Volume; Trade Be
low 1936; Price-Fixing Is Called Unsound ;
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BY ROGER W. BABSON,
Copyright 1037, Publishers
Financial ‘Bureau. Inc.
New York City, Sept. 24.—Labor is
not the most powerful group in the
United States. There are about 14 mil
lion “laborers” in this country; while
there are 125 million consumers. This
year we have seen less than a million
workers raise havoc by their strikes.
Think what would happen if 125 mil
lion consumers should go on strike!
Some day this great mass of consum
ers may awaken with the wrath and
power of a sleeping monster. Already
there are signs that consumer-con
sciousness is growing. Resistance to
the rising cost of living becomes more
evident as each day passes.
Since 1933 living costs have increas
ed 19 per cent. Housing led the ad-
FEDERAL REA IS^E
No Allotments Whatever
Made This Fiscal Year;
Few Last Year
Daily Dispatch Bnrean,
In the Sir Walter Hotel.
Raleigh, Sept. 24.—(AP)—The Fed
eral Rural Electrification Administra
tion has ignored North Carolina dur
ing the present fiscal year, so far as
alloting any money for construction
of electric lines is concerned, accord
ing to records of the State Rural
Eletrification Authority.
Congress appropriated $30,000,000 to
he allotted by the REA during the
1937-8 fiscal year, but so far not one
cent has been alloted to North Car
olina. Last year this State’s allocation
amounted to $1,218,787 but less than
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GENERALS OF DEAD
CZAR ARE MISSING
Paris Police Join Search for Men Who
Mysteriously Disappeared in
Capital City
Paris, Sept. 24. —'(AP) —Agents of
the Suprete Nationals, hunting clues
as to the whereabouts of two vanish
ed generals of the dead Czar Nicholas
scattered army took the wife of one
of them to headquarters for question
ing today.
The authorities had been unable to
find the woman, Madam Skobline,
since before noon yesterday when she
had reported her husband, General
Nicholas Skobline, mysteriously miss
ing. Skobline was an aide ’and agent
of the aged and mustachio Eugene
Miller, leader of the thousands of
emigres who once were part of Rus
sia’s imperial “white"’ army. Miller
vanished Wednesday.
"WEATHER
FOR NORTH CAROLINA.
Fair tonight and Saturday.-
m, in South' China
Air view of Cantoi
vance with a gain of 37 per cent; food
is second with an increase -of 29 per
cent; and-’Clothing—up 14 per cent- —
is third. The first indication of or
ganized resistance by . consumers has
been in rents. Readers will recall that
in Ohio and Michigan renters went
on strike last Spring at the height of
the CIO fracas. They refused to pay
rent until landlords met their de
mands. Although this first . strike
made little headway, it was "a straw
in the wind.. High buildings costs and
rising rents have caught the house
holder in a “cross-ruff’—and he does
not like it. - •
Steak Like Caviar.
Most food items have had a good
mark-up since 1933; but meats have
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LAGUARDIA TALKED
FOR PRESIDENT NOW
But White House Won’t
Warm to Him, Because It
Can’t Control Him
By CHARLES P. STEWART
Central Press Columnist
Washington, Sept. 24.—Fiorello H.
Guardia’s formidable showing in
the recent New York City mayoralty
primaries is making him increasingly
talked about presidentially.
Os course it remains for him to be
re-elected as well as renominated, but
the general expectation among poli
ticians is that his re-election will be
by a liberal margin, too. That cer
tainly like a fair conclusion to
draw from the strength of his pri
mary demonstration.
Not that he hasn’t been presiden
tially mentioned before, but only ten
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SHARP DECLINE IN
PRICES OF COTTON
Futures* Crash 21 to 25 Points at
Close, With Spot Middling
Selling at &5S
New York, Sept. 24.—(AP)—Cotton
futures opened barely steady, down 4
to 6 points on lower Liverpool cables,
favorable weather and under active
hedge selling from the South. Decem
ber eased from 8.40 to 8.35, and short
ly after the first half hour was 8.38,
when prices generally were 5 to 8
points not lower. By midday Decem
ber was selling at 8.35 and the list was
6 to 11 points lower. The market re
acted further under renewed liquida
tion and hedge closed bare
ly steady, 21 to 25 lower.
Spots quiet, middling 8.53,
Open Close
October 8.50 8133
December 3.40 8.22
January .. 8.44 8.24
March 8.53 8.33
May 8.44
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ish interests. Both the United States and Great
Britain vigorously protested to the Japanese gov
ernment over the attempt to destroy these large
non-combatant cities, teaming with population and
with many foreign residents. —Central Press
Cholera Is
Killing Out
Jap Troops
Worst Epidemic In
. Shanghai’s History
Reaches Invader;
: Jap Claims'.
.1 I;; • - \
Shanghai, Sept. 24. (AP) —The worst
cholera epidemic in Shanghai’s his
tory, was reported today to have
struck the Japanese army advancing
against the Chinese defense lines
northwest of here.
Some 200 Japanese troops were said
to have died of the dread plague in a
sector 20 miles northwest of Shang
hai.
JAPANESE CLAIM STRONG
CHINESE BASE COVERED
Peiping, Sept. 24.—(AP) —The Jap
anese army compleltely surrounded
the strategic Chinese base of Pacting
fu, 80 miles south of here, today and
issued an ultimatum to the Chinese
army to surrender or be annihlliated.
The Japanese high command report
ed the 50-foot high walls of the an-
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BUILDING IN STATE
WAY UP IN AUGUST
Huge Apartment House in Durham
Among Biggest Items in 21
Cities Reporting
Raleigh, Sept. 24 (AP) —Building
construction in 21 North Carolina
cities increased 32 percent in August
over August, 1936 and ran 0.8 per
cent ahead of July. The State Labor
Department said permits were issued
on 537 buildings in August in the 21
cities, with costs estimated at $1,782,-
556, as compared with permits cover
ing 775 buildings in August, 1936, to
cost $1,349,951. In July permits cov
ered 609 structures to cost $1,476,363.
The permits covering new buildings,
additions, alternations and repairs,
and Durham led all cities in August
with permits for $672,251 worth of
work. Included in the Durham per
mits was the “largest apartment
house ever to be built in North Caro
lina”
Toledo, Ohio, Sept. 24 (AP)—Police
saw today in the shooting of Miss
June Mapes, 59, Arlington school
principal by Robert ( Snyder, 12-year
old pupil, the picture of a boy tem
porarily deranged by hallucinations
of “toughness as a gangster.”
“I feel sorry for the boy and his
parents,” the principal, lying in Tol
edo hospital with a bullet wound
through her groin, told Police Serge
ant A. W. Bernhagen. “I would rather
that nothing more wene said about
it. Her condition was reported as
favorable.”
* The boy was in a serious (Condition
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Chinese Government Appre
ciates What Uncle Sam
Has Done and Hopes
for Better
U. S. FLEET WILL
REMAIN IN CHINA
Will Stay There As Long As
Present Conflict Exists,
Even After Americans
Have Been Warned To
Leave and Have Oppor
tunity To Do So
Nanking, Sept. 24.—(AP) —General
Chiang Kai-Shek, premier of China,
and commander-in-chief of the army,
declared today the United States Wa3
obligated by her treaties “to support
China’s struggle against Japanese ag
gression.’’
Shortly before, the official Chinese
Central News Agency had expressed
on behalf of the government appre
ciation for the American protests a
gainst Japanese bombardments of
Nanking, adding “but we hope more
positive measures will be adopted $-
gainst the slaughter of innocent non
combatants.” .
NAVY WILL STAY UNTIL
WAR IN CHINA IS ENDED
Washington, Sept. 24.—tAP)— The
United States Navy served formal
notice today its Asiatic fleet would
remain in Chinese waters “as long as
the present controversy between
China and Japan exists.”
This statement was issued t by the
Navy Department as a formal an
nouncement of Admiral Harry Yar
nell, commander-chief- of the Asiatic
squadron.
It was made public after a meeting
of the naval general board, the high
est policy-making body of the Navy
Department. The admirals announce
ment said the navy’s policy of main
taining warships at ports where need
ed for the protection of American na
tionals “will continue in full force,
even after our nationals have been
warned to leave China and after an
opportunity to leave has been given.”
Jim Farley
Delays His
Resignation
New York, Sept. 24 (AP) -James A.
Farley’s resignation As postmaster gen
eral and his acceptance of the Pierce-
Arrow Motor Corporation, presidency,
it was understood in informal circles
today, has been delayed by the cur
rent decline in securities and the pre
paration of sA Securities Exchange
Commission registration statement for
a new issue of Pierce-Arrow Stock.
After considering numerous other
offers of executive positions, Farley
agreed several weeks ago to become
head of the reorganized Pierce-Arrow
Company.
Following his acceptance of this of
fer, the company’s stock-holders ap
proved plans for a new issue of stock
aggregating $10,700,000, which will be
used mainly to place a low-priced car
on the market in competition with the
cheaper priced Packard and Cadillac
cars. Production of the highest-priced
Pierce-Arrow also will continue.
Besides his salary, which has not
been disclosed, but which is believed
to be above $50,000 a year, the post
master general will receive 5,000
shares of the new stock outright and
5,000 more during the first year.
The decline in stock market prices
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in Mercy hospital with a bullet wound
through his head, which Bernhagen
said was self-inflicted.
Detective Lieutenant Ralph Mur
phy, head of the homicide squad, said
he was told by James Froltz, 12, close
friend of the Snyder boy, that Robert
recently had been listening to radio
programs based on crime and read
ing bandit stories.
Murphy said his investigation led
him to believe the boy, armed with
his father’s automatic pistol, wanted
to show his “toughness” in the face
of authority to his pretty little class
mate, Gloria MoOre, 12.