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HENDERSON GATEWAY TO CENTRAL CAROLINA TWENTY-FOURTH YEAR SUPREME COURT WAR OUTSTANDING THEME OF LAWYER MEETING Two Noted Attorneys De clare Court Threatened With Impairment if Not Destruction ex-senator reed DENOUNCES FIGHT Says Framers of Constitu tion Knew “Honest Fana tic” Is “Dangerous Beast” Lulling Intended Victim Into Security by His Gentle Smiles Kansas City, Mo.. Sept. 27.—(AP)— The Supreme Court fight was swept to the fore today as the outstanding theme of the American Bar Associa tion convention, as two noted law yers declared the court is threatened ■with serious impairment, even destruc tion. James A. Reed, former United Stat e s senator from Missouri, greeted the delegates at th opening session as -protagonists of the Constitution.” and said destruction of it ucold mean “the death of constitutiona lliberty.” Reed said the framers of the Con stitution “knew that an honest fana tic, whether of church nr state, is the most dangerous beast ever turn ed loose to curse the earth, all the more dangerous if his cruel purposes are masked by gentle smiles and friendly protestations calculated to lull the intended victim into security.” KIDNAPED CHICAGO MAN FEARED DEAD Charles Boss, Retired Manufacturer, Suffered From High Blood Pressure and Heart Chicago, Sept 27 <AP)—Fear that Charles Ross had died in the hands of kidnapers increased today a§ hours passed without word from the retired manufacturer or his abduc tors. • - .. Captain Daniel Gilbert, of the State attorney’s police, theorized that the 72-year-old victim, suffering from high blood pressure and a heart ailment, might have died of shock since he was carried off Saturday night. His captors, it was said, might have hidden the body. , Gilbert said officers and peteo tive squads were stationed at strate gic points awaiting receipt of a ran som note or a telephone call on the alternate premise that Ross was still alive. His wife, distraught and ap prehensive, near a |tele phone. ‘ \ Ross was abducted on a road west of Chicago as he was driving in from Sycamore with Miss Florence Freihage, 45, office secretary of a greeting card company, which Koss had headed Until his retirement two years ago. LATHAN FUNERAL IS TO BE HAD TUESDAY Noted Asheville Editor Died Sunday Night; Had Won High Dis tinction in Work Asheville, Sept. 27. —(AP) Funeral services for Robert Lath an, 56, editor of The Asheville Citizen, and long a prominent civic leader, who died last night of a cerebral hemorrhage, will be held here tomorrow morning. Known widely as one of the South s outstanding editors, Lathan won the coveted Pulitzer prize for an editorial, “The Plight of the South Politically,” written in 1934, when he was editor of the Charleston, S. C., News and Courier. Before his connection with the News and Courier, Lathan served on the staff of The State at Columbia. For a short period he was a Federal court stenographer while studying law. Mussolini Acclaimed In Berlin Berlin, Sept 27 Mussolini of Italy arrived in the capital of Nazidom this afternoon t begin a procession through the streets to the cheers of great crowd . The guest of Reichfuehrer Adolf Hitler, II Duce, already had seen, the might of Germany in annual maneuvers and visited today th tories at Essen, from which come German armaments. , His tour through festive streets Berlin led to the presidential pa for nine years, the official home the late President von Hmdenburg, reserved as II Dujce’s residence .for the three days he will spend in Bcr lin. The entire sbq-mile stretch frcwn the station to the castle and to Brandenburg gate was’ throngej* with cheering men, women and chil dren behind lines of black uniform ed guards. . . ■ . memorial Hcttiirrsmt Hatlii Btstmtrh I^ff2Jgajßg3Sgr After 21 Year*! Nicholal Collins In 1916, Nicholas Collins, of Maysville, N. C., killed his neigh bor in the woods near his home. He fled from the section and re mained a fugitive until last July when a deputy sheriff located him at Dendron, Va. Collins had built up a good reputation and savings account as a carpenter and me chanic. Tried at Trenton, N. C. t on the charge, he pleaded guilty of second degree murder and was sentenced to 20 years in the state penitentiary at Raleigh. HOEY’S ACTIVITIES NIARKQUIET WEEK Last Week in Raleigh About As Quiet as G. O. P. .Joy in 1936 DISCUSSIONS ARE HAD A. & N. C. Railroad Settlement, Con ferences With State Officials and Many Speeches Were on Program Daily Dispatch Bureau, In The Sir Walter Hotel. Raleigh, Sept. 27.—Last week in Raleigh was about as quiet as a Re publican celebration of the 1936 elec tion, with Governor Clyde R. Hoey, as usual the most active figure in the capital city. On Monday the chief executive studied and eventually gave his ap jproval to the compromise scttleifient of the State’s controversy with the Norfolk Southern railroad over can cellation of the lease on the State owned Atlantic and North Carolina railroad. This compromise was adopt ed Tuesday when the A. and N. C. stockholders and directors meeting was held in Goldsboro. It will give the State about SIOO,OOO and relieve it of all claims by the N. S. on account of the lease. At the Goldsboro meeting, H. P. Crowell was renamed head of the “Mullet” road, Governor Hoey’s action in directing the State’s support for him assuring the result . Also on Tuesday, the governor “pro claimed” Air Mail Week, after saying on Monday that he was opposed to gubernatorial Wednesday, Governor Hoey confer red with several State officials on va rious matters, with no announcement of any specific action. On Thursday he spoke at the dedication of a farm (Continued on Page Three.) Farley Says Democrats Will Hold Their lines In The 1940 Elections Spartanburg, S. C., Sept. 27. (AP) . The Democratic party will hold its lines in the 1940 elections, and there is no possibility of a third party move ment of great strength, James A. Far ley, postmaster general and chair man of the Democratic National Committee, said here today. “The liberals and progressives who supported Roosevelt in 1932 and 1936 will find that the 1940 Democratic presidential nominee will run on a platform that will include their ob iectives, and, therefore, will.have the as the 19« and 1936 nr, 1 - .v * •. v* 1 • ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA AND VIRGINIA. Hw “Thrill” Over M Robert Bready His hoped-for “thrill” as a soldier In the Loyalist army in Spain over, Robert Bready, son of a Methodist minister of Bainbridge, 0., will re turn to his profession of account ing. Bready, who recently re turned from Spain, where, he was a member of the George Washing ton battalion, made up of volun teers from 52 nations, was unin jured in Spanish fighting. —Central Press flrwgrFfe 0 Leaders from All Parts Os State To Gather In Ra leigh Tomorrow to Map Plans WILL GIVE VIEWS AT WINSTON MEET Senate Body To Convene There Next Month To Glean Sentiment of Grow ers Preparatory To Writing ; New Federal Farm Control Legislation Raleigh, Sept. 27—(AP)—North Car olina agricultural leaders this week will lay plans for a proposed farm program to be suggested to the Unit ed States Senate Agriculture Commit tee at Winston-Salem October 18. W. Kerr Scott, commissioner of ag riculture, announced that farm leaders from all parts of the State would meet here tomorrow “to draft preliminary plans” for the committee hearings. Attending will be representatives of the State Farm Bureau, State Grange, Department of Agriculture, N. C. State College Extension Service and others. Wednesday the executive committee of the. F|.rm Bureau will hold a meet ing at N. C. State College to set up committees for the various, commodity groups and make arrangements for representation at the Winston-Salem meeting. \ Scajtt saic| persons attending his meeting tomorrow would be asked to suggest the names of representative farmers to voice their views and views of their sections before the WinstonnSalem meeting. Scott said U. &. Senator Ellison D. Smith, of South Carolina, chairman of the agriculture committee, had urged him to send wit (Continued on Page Three.) late cotton price AT SLIGHT DECLINE Opening Is at 9 to 14 Points Ad vance on Reports of Holding Move In South New York, Sept. 27.—(AP) —Cotton futures opened . steady, up 9 to 14 points on higher Liverpool cables and reports of a holding movement in the South. December reacted from 8.39 to 8.29 shortly after the first half hour, leaving prices at net gains of one to five points. By midday, De cember was selling at 8.24 and prices were not unchanged to seven points lower. tional Democratic platforms,” he said. “These liberals and progressives will find that their objectives can be achieved through Democratic chan nels.” Farley said that only President Roosevelt himself an answer the ques tion as to whether or not he will seek a third term in the White House, and added that he had not “discussed it with him.” The party leader declined to com ment on reports that he is soon to re sign to accept the presidency of the Pierce-Arrow Motor Company. HENDERSON, N. C., MONDAY AFTERNOON, SEPTEMBER 27, 1937 nwi Development Learned As Special Train Speeds from Yellowstone to Boise, Idaho IDAHO LEADERS ON TRAIN DO TALKING Democratic Congressman Tells Newsmen “Majority” of People Are With Presi dent on Court Issue; Says Klan Storm “Tempest In Teapot” Aboard Roosevelt Train, Enroute to Boise, Idaho, Sept. 27.—(A3 3 ) — President Roosevelt, it was learned authoritatively today on his special train, will refrain from discussing the controversial court issue on his west ern trip. This information was gatli ed as. the President sped toward Boise, Idaho capital, after a two-day sight seeing visit to Yellowstone National Fark, to continue his “trip of inspec tion” of the North west. During the. southwestward swing from West Yellowstone, Montana, the President discussed power and other questions familiar to the Far West. In addition, there was some prospect that silver would enter his discussion later today. ■ *. Among Idaho Democratic loaders who talked with the chief executive during his trip were Representatives Compton White and Worth Clark. Wlhite, in an interview with news men, said the “majority of the peo ple are with the President on his court program.” He described the charges of Ku Klux Klan affiliation against Asso ciate Justice Hpgo L. Black as a “tempest in a teapot.” League Damns Bomb Attacks By Japanese Geneva, Sept. 27 (AP)—The 23-nation League of Nations ad visory committee on the Far East tonight adopted a resolu tion condemning bombardment of Chinese towns by Japanese airplanes. x 1 *|J This came sifter Japan had been denounced before the com mittee by Great Britain, France, Sweden, Russia and China for bombardment es Chinese non combatants. Dr. Wellington Kocj, China’s leading statesman, had urged the League to point out Japan as the “wrong-doer” to the world and asked that the committee at least name Japan the aggressor if it cannot go further and “enforce international law and principles of the covenant.” Members of the committee ap plauded at the finish of Dr. Koo’s appeal. Endeavour Yacht Is Again Reported As Being Located London, Sept. 27. —(AP)— The master of the British steamer Cheyenne radioed the London of fice of the Associated Press today that he was in contact with the Endeavor I, long missing Amer ica's cup yacht, at noon, British summer time (6 a. m., eastern standard time). Captain Alcock, the Cheyenne’s master, reported his contact with the Endeavor I through the radio of the yacht, Valentia, from which the one-time cup challenger broke her tow off Nantucket two weeks ago.Y The Cheyenne is an Anglo-Am erican oil. company steamer en route to Manchester from a Mexi can gulf oil port. It was the second time in the past week that the Endeavor has been reported found. The first report, from Azores, far to the south, proved erroneous. TALMGII TO OPPOSE ROOSEVELT But Roosevelt Might Not Run in 1940 and Try To Push Mayor In By CHARLES P. STEWART Central Press Columnist Washington, Sept. 27. —Getting back to the subject of Fiorello H. La Guardia! We were discussing him the other day, when so rudely interrupted by developments other than the recent New York mayoralty primaries. We _ (Continued on Page Three.), Japs 'Set Up Customs Houses And Are Blocking U.S. Trade To Gain Their Own Fodthold BOTTOM “DROPS OUT” OF FARM 1111- . ■Hi I > I .... : Iff Br • .. '• /-■ * IBlllr ' JB *, <1 %lm ' V; - i t'i'X ** li* rwm View of Charles R. Joseph’s form near Potwin, Kas. When the bottom drops out of a farm, here’s what it looks like in the process. This picture was taken at night on the farm of Charles R. Joseph near Potwin, Kas., a few hours after the ground gave way. The hole "grew” to 250 feet long and 200 feet wide and tons of earth still fell away. Below the surface, at about 30 feet, is deep green water. A farm hand, drilling wheat with a tractor, narrowly escaped death in the deep. hole. This phenomenon, the second like this to Occur recently, is more than a thousand miles from the first occurrence—in Idaho. Stem Warning To Japan Is Sent By The Soviets “Lawless” Bombardment of Nanking Denounced Fol lowing Appeal by China for Aid JAPS ARE~DEFIED TO BOMB EMBASSY Tokyo Told Russian Offici als Instructed To Remain at Post and Any Damage Will Be Charged Directly to Japanese, “Determined” Note Says Moscow, Sept. 27.—(AF)—The Soviet government sharpened its tone toward Japan today with a stern warning a gainst “lawless” .bombardment of Nanking in what was believed to be a response to a Chinese appeal for aid against Japanese attacks. The official organ of the Soviet government,‘ Izvestia, published with out comment the Chinese iiote ask ing Russia “to take measures which would help end quickly such barbar ous and inhuman activities” as Jap anese bombardments. The Soviet note was considered by responsible circles to be a direct re sponse to China’s plea for assistance. The Soviet government defied Jap an to bomb its embassy in Nanking in the “determined protest’,’ which was presented officially to the Japan ese foreign minister in Tokyo by the Russian ambassador. The note declared officials of the Soviet embassy had been instructed to remain at their posts, and warned the Japanese government it would be held fully responsible for any d am_ age or injury from bombardment of the embassy in Nanking. PEANUT CO-OPS TO MEET AT JACKSON Raleigh, Sept. 27 (AP)-The North Carolina Peanut Stabilization Coop erative directors will hold a joint meeting with directors of the Vir ginia Peanut Cooperative at Jack son at 11 o’clock Thursday, A. M. Dixon, senior agricultural economist from the AAA in Washington, will meet with the directors after con ferences in Richmond, VA, Wednes day with the Commodity Credit Cor poration with regard to provisions to finance the marketing of the year’s crop of peanuts. WEATHER FOB NORTH CAROLINA, Occasional rain tonight and Tuesday; somewhat cooler in north central portion tonight, ■ ■ «. - . PUBLISHED KVBKY AITIXNOOH EXCEPT SUNDAY. Storm Headed For Carolina’s Coast Jacksonville, Fla., Sept. 27 (AP) —The Weather Bureau today issu ed a storm warning for the cen tral Atlantic seaboard from Cape ( Hatteras to Southport, N. C. Northeast storm warnings were ordered displayed at 10 a. m., east ern standard time, as the Weather Bureau’s warning system advised that a disturbance is developing in’ the Atlantic about 300 miles Qff the Florida Coast, attended at pre sent by 25 to 30-mile squalls.” The advisory said the storm will likely increase in intensity to gale forces and move slowly in a north ward direction in the next 24 hours. Meteorologists urged vessels, es pecially small craft, to use caution along'the Carolina coast. FRANCO'S TROOPS Gains Toward Last Northern Stronghold Claimed In New Advices Hendaye, Frontier, Sept. 27 (AiP) —Combined insurgent infantry and aerial attacks, General Franco’s commanders reported today, have wrested strategic Mount Ben tanella on the border of Leon and Ovedia provinces from the govern ment’s Biscayan army. Occupation of the government trenches on a rocky plateau about 5,- 000 feet high, they said, had brought nearer the junction of Franco’s sou thern and eastern columns covering on Dijon, last government-held port in the Spanish northwest. Bombing planes drove out the As turian defenders, inflicting heavy losses. The northern insurgent column ad vancing west along the Bay of Biscay coast, meanwhile, reached a point about three miles east of Aneuva- This force is divided into two lines, one heading southwest toward Cova donga, and the other toward Rivede sella, 32 miles east of Dijon. Government dispatches conceded the loss of some ground at Toledo, south of Madrid, after an insurgent attack which they described as the fiercest on the central Spanish front since the government’s Brunete campaign west of Madrid. Communists said their militiamen (Continued on Page Three.) 8 PAGES TODAY FIVE CENTS COPY SSL NORTHWEST FRONT Such a Condition Will Even tually Mean End of Many American-Owndd Businesses PUPPET REGIME IS FEARED FOR PORT Would Form Nucleus For Creation of Large Japa nese-Controlled Metropolis of Shanghai Waterfront; Chinese Rout Japanese Bombers Shanghai, Sept. 27.—(AP)—‘Ameri can business men declared today Jap an had established its own customs houses in the Shanghai area in what appeared to be an attempt to throt tle American and other foreign com merce in the international settlement and French concession. Japanese reinforcements were rush ed,, to the battlefield northwest of Shanghai to halt a determined Chin ese counter-attack as Japanese war planes bombed the crowded cities of the eastern coast. At Canton, on the south, the crowd ed terminus of the Canton to Hankow railroad was fired by the bombs of the air raiders, and there were heavy civilian casualties. The environs of Nanking, the capi tal, down the Yangtze river, were bombed, but Chinese pursuit planes turned back the attackers from the city proper. A series of heavy explosions rocked Shanghai as Japanese warships and land batteries opened a heavy fire on the north station area. Several shells struck near the British barricades on the north border of the international settlement. American business men asserted (Continued on Six.) Germany And Italy Called Big Monster Geneva, Sept. 27. —(AP) —Julio Al varez del Vayo, Spanish government delegate to the League of Nations, de manded today that the League “call the bluff” of Germany and Italy, ‘this two-headed monster which appears to want to declare war on all Europe.” The young former minister of for eign affairs created a tense atmos phere with his impassioned appeal and condemnation of German and Italian intervention in the Spanish civil war on the side of the insurgents Not a seat was vacant at the long tables of the committee on political questions. Every inch of press and spectator space was packed through out his hour-long indictment. Del Vayo demanded the adoption of five proposals presented by Juan Negrin, Spanish government premier, to the League Assembly. They are: 1. Recognition of Italian and Ger man aggression; 2, study of ways to restrain it; 3, granting of rights to the Spanish government to buy war materials frteely- 4, withdrawal of all non-Spanish combatants; 5, extension of the protection of the Nyon anti piracy patrol to the Valencia regime’s shipping on the Mediterranean. 300 Dead As “Sub” Sinks Fish Junks Jap Craft Rises Out of Water and De stroys 'Eleven Chi nese Vessels Hong Kong, China, Sept. 27.—(AP) —-Ten survivors declared today 300 men, women and children were killed whent a Japanese submarine sank a fleet of Chinese fishing Junks, off the South China coast. Some of the junks were understood to be sailing under British registry - (Continued 6* Page Six.)
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