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HENDERSON GATEWAY to CENTRAL CAROLINA Twenty-fourth year FEAR 19 DUD ID WYOMING PUNE CRASH 4,000 Are Killed In Sino-Jap Fight In Shanghai Area Heaviest Single Encounter in That Sector Since War Began During Past Summer CHINESE FIGHT TO THE LAST SOLDIER Growing Demand Among Foreigners in Shanghai for Some Sort of Remedial Ac tion for Protection Against Both Sides; Japs Unable to Break Through Shanghai, Oct. 18.—(AP)— Chinese authorities said today that a death battalion of 1.400 Chinese troops and more than 3,000 Japanese attackers were killed in a battle for possession of Tazang, about five miles north west of Shanghai. They described the engagement, in which Chinese fought to protect sup ply bases, as the heaviest single en counter in the Shanghai area since hostilities began. Colonel Ching Wu, commander of the Chinese force at Tazang, had de clared they would fight to the last man. After 30 hours of continuous battle against Japanese infantry, sup ported by planes and naval guns, Col. Ching was killed and his force wiped cut. Chinese and Japanese air raids and anti-aircraft shelling caused increas ing fears in the international settle ment that Shanghai may suffer a re petition of the “bloody Saturday” ca tastrophe of August 14. There was a growing demand a mong foreign residents for some sort of remedial action. It was learned that American and other foreign consuls are asking their home governments to protest to both China and Japan a gainst war planes flying over the foreign area. Japanese, failing to break Chinese resistance in the Chapei sector of Shanghai, in 57 days of continuous as sault. resorted to air bombardment of all Chinese communication lines and supply bases behind the lines. ■ The Japanese bombardment follow ed a Chinese raid which ended at dawn. Chinese planes made six forays over the international settlement and French concession to drop bombs along Whangpoo river front and in Japanese sections of the international settlement. The bombardments were said to have forced the Japanese to abandon their land field and transfer equipment to Woosung, 12 miles down stream. COTTON IS CHANGED ONLY VERY LITTLE Prices Up to Early Afternoon One Lower to Two Higher on Ac tive Positions New York, Oct. 18.— (AP)—Cotton futures opened steady, down one to eight points on lower Liverpool and Bombay cables and under liquidation and southern selling. March sold up from 8.22 to 8.28 shortly after the first half hour, when the list wase one to four points net lower. March, which had sold up to 8.31, was 8.29 around midday, when prices generally were one point net lower to tw obigher. Companions Accuse Man Os Slaying Bill Cross, 45, Said To Have Slain Fort Bragg Ranger Last Saturday Raeford, Oct. 18 (AP)—Sheriff D. H. Hodgin, of Hoke county, said here today that Bill Cross, 45-year-old Ashe ooro hunter, had been accused by thne companions of killing Sergeant J b Mott, of the Fort Bragg reserva tion, early Saturday. Hodgin made his announcement shortly before a coroner’s jury was re assembled to resume an inquest start ea 4i*Jurday. Cross, the officers said rs u ‘ soc * to make any statement. The inquest was set for 1 p. m., but de • tifci until later in the day. loss and his three alleged com panions on the deer hunting trip that nr ed in death for the army ranger, ere keld in jail awaiting the outcome i (Continued on Page Three.), Hrttitersrm Satin Htspafrh LEASED WIRE SERVICE OR* THE ASSOCIATED PRESS. 40,000 Troops In Spain, Rome Says Rome, Oct. 18 (AP) —The num ber of Italian volunteers in Spain was put at about 40,000, including both combatants and non-combat ants today by the semi-official “Diplomatic Information,” edited by the official agency. A spe cial bulletin was issued to combat what were called “fantastic figures” published abroad. Os the 40,000, it said, “this is the truth which fears no denial from any source, verified or verifiable,” adding that “Valen cia’s volunteers are much more numerous.” The announcement attacks Lloyd George for allegedly exaggerating the number of Italian volunteers with insurgents, declaring “it is se rious and scandalous that a for mer British premier like Lloyd George, who is old enough to know better than to give his hearers fan tastic figures on volunteers in Spain.” HANCOCKCANDIDACY BIG RALEIGH THEME Shared Spotlight Last Week With Fair and New State Building GOSSIP TONGUES WAG Observers Speculating What Groups Are Backing Hancock Against * Reynolds; He May Be Free Lance Daily Dispatch Bureau. In the Sir Walter Hotel. Raleigh, Oct. 18. —State Fair, poli tical gossip resulting from Frank Hancock’s announcement of his sen atorial candidacy and letting of the contract for construction of a new State office building were the three major items of interest in this capital city last week. Os the trio the fair was doubtless of more interest to more people than either of the other's, but in political circles the Hancock bombshell is still the talk of the town. The contract let ting, though possibly of more real im portance than either of the other events, attracted less widespread at tention or comment than any. Believe Fair in Black. Getting off to a fine start in the Palmist sort of fall weather, the fail set new attendance records on its first two days, Tuesday and Wednes day. A driving, chilling sprinkle cut deeply into Big Thursday, the day us ually bringing in the most money of the week. A return to fine weather on Friday and Saturday brought more thousands to the grounds, and when the last tent was struck it seemed certain that Commissioner of Agri culture W. Kerr Scott had been vin dicated in his reiterated contention that it is possible to break better than even under State operation. Hancock Throws Bombshell. As for the Hancock ai. nouncement, FContinued on Page Three.) senate racFseen AS 193 G ALL OVER One Raleigh Tale Is Morri son Is Really In Earnest For Campaign Daily- Dispatch Bureau. In The Sir Walter H**tel. Raleigh, Oct. 18.—If you are inter ested only in provable facts, you might just as well skip this, as it is purely a yarn spun for this corres pondent by a fellow who sometimes knows what he is talking about when he discusses the ins and out of North Carolina’s politics. According to this chap, who talked on iv under promise of anonymity if not immunity, the so-called “Gardner Machine” has visions of mampulting the coming senatorial race to the point where it will be a repetition of the Hoey-Oraham-McDonald guber natorial primary of 1936 . He sees Reynolds in the roje of Mc- Donald; Hancock as Cam Morrison or some other darkhorse ultra-conservative not yet unblanketed said the communicant, (Continued on Page Three.) , ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA AND VIRGINIA. I’aul Dwyer and Assistant District Attorney Carella A schoolboy who allegedly killed a doctor and his wife in Maine and then leisurely toured through several states with the bodies, then was apprehended in New Jersey, faces the death penalty. Paul Dwyer, 18, of South Paris, Me., had stopped his car with its gruesome cargo at North Arlington, N. J., near Newark, to get some sleep. Two patrolmen, becoming suspicious, awakened him and took him to headquarters for routine questioning concerning money in his possession. Another officer, searching the car, found the body of a woman. When confronted with this, at headquarters, the youth told police to look into the trunk of the car for a man’s body. According to SEC Upheld By Decision High Court Three Florida Com panies Denied Re view in Subpoena of Some Telegrams Washington, Oct. 18. —(AP)) —Three Florida companies lost in the Supreme Court today in an attack on a Se curities Commission attempt to sub poena their telegrams. The tribunal refused to review a decision against the! companies by the fifth circuit court of appeals. The latter sustained the subpoena as well as the 1933 “trust and securities” act under which the subpoenas were is sued. Justice Black was assumed to have participated in the action, announced today on approximately 30 contro versies appealed from lower courts. No announcement was made that he had not participated. An announce ment ordinarily is made when jus tices disqualify themselves for any reason from passing on litigation. Refusal of the high court to re view the attacks on the Securities Commission produced renewed spe culation as to whether Black’s sup posed participation would give the companies grounds to challenge. the court’s ruling. YANKEESIORANT OF SOUTH AMERICA Coming Series of 26 Radio Broadcasts Important to Americans By CHARLES P. TSEWART Central Press Columnist Washington, Oct. 18.—We Yankees need to be made acquainted with the Latin Americans a great deal more than the Latin Americans need to be made acquainted with us. The average Latin American has a fairly good idea of conditions in the United States. His newspapers print full reports of happenings here. He is almost as familiar with the names and personalities of our outstanding men, both in politics and in other fields of activity, as we are. He knows something of all our big cities. If he rates as reasonably wel educated, he generally has at least a fair smatter ing of our language. Now, how many North Americans can call the roll of Latin American presidents? How many can list the capitals of all Latin American coun tries? How many know the where abouts of Sao Paulo, a city nearly as large as Chicago? How does the Rio (Continued on Page Three.). HENDERSON, N. C., MONDAY AFTERNOON, OCTOBER 18,1936 Youth Held so r Fantastic Slaying o f Doctor, Wife .. Franco Might Refuse To Release. Foreign Troops Strikes Called In 3 Shuford Plants Hickory, Oct. 18 (AP) —Strikers were called today in three mills of the Shumord chain, two at Granite Falls and one at Longview, in pro test against what workers’ leaders termed a ’’stretchout.” Two Shu ford plants in Hickory were not af fected. Labor leaders said 400 workers were out at Granite Falls. The plants involved there were the Granite Falls Cordage Company the Granite Falls Manufacturing Company. At Longview, a Hickory suburb, the workers’ spokesman said 150 employees had walked out. Mill of ficials said the plant was continu ing to operate. Employees of the affected plants are members of the ClO’s textile wooers organizing committee. Roy Lawrence, State director, was here today. INSURGENTS MAKE ADVANCER! NORTH Further Gains Against Gov ernment Traoops Report ed From Hendaye Hendaye, Franco-Spanish Border, Oct. 18 (AP)— Insurgents, shifting their attacks on the Biscayan fron of northwest Spain from mountainous territory to the coastal plain, drove today past Collunga, an Asturian fish ing port about 11 miles west of Villa Viciosa. Except for accounts of scattered engagements south of the French bor der, in northeast- Spain, both sides were silent on progress in the Ara gon fighting. A mass attack of government troops, tanks and air bombers in the Zaragoba sector launched one of the most bit terest battles of the Spanish war. The government offensive was head ed toward the insurgent stronghold of Zaragoza, about 170 miles northeast of Madrid, and apparently was designed also to relieve the pressure on govern ment forces opposing the insurgent drive in the northwest. Government troops advanced {Continued on Pace Three.) WEATHER FOR NORTH CAROLINA. Cloudy tonight and Tuesday, with occasional showers; slightly wanner tonight. Death Car and Woman’s Body in it police, he then confessed that he choked the man, Dr. John G. Littlefield, 67, to death when the physician had called to examine him in his home because the <joctor “made a crack about my girl,” and then he had induced Mrs. Littlefield to gather all the money she had and to drive with him to Boston. The youth told her that the doctor had fled there “after killing two people,” police say he confessed. After two days of fruitless search, Mrs. Littlefield, 6-1, became suspicious and wanted to call police—whereupon she V/as choked and killed with the same hammer as was her husband. Mussolini and Hitler Could Agree and Insurgent General Still Keep His Men DICTATORS MIGHT GAIN NEW VICTORY May Be Able To Prolong Discussion and Evade Blame in Event Non-Inter vention Machinery Col lapses; Franco Has Acted With Reservations London, Oct. 18.—(AP)— Italy and Germany today held an ace which in formed sources said may enable them to gain another diplomatic victory in the Spanish civil war non-intervention crisis. Observers said Premier Benito Mus solini, of Italy, and Chancellor Adolf Hitler, of Germany, can agree to the Anglo-French plan for withdrawal of foreign volunteers from Spanish armies and then let Insurgent General Francisco Franco scrap the plan by refusing to call off his foreign fight crs. Thus, they said, Germany and Italy were in a position which might per mit them to prolong discussion over the problem and evade blame in the event that non-intervention machinery collapses. The non-intervention sub (Continued on Page Three.) SPAIN’S WAR HALTS TOBACCO SHIPMENTS That Country Was Second Largest Market for American Fire- Cured Leaf Exported Washington, Oct. 18 (AP) —The Spanish civil war has closed to the United States its second largest mar ket for fire-cured tobacco, the Bu reau of Agricultural Economics re ported today. “Since the beginning of the con flict, Spain has imported practically no American cotton and no dark fire cured tobacco, commodities which al ways have represented the bulk of our agricultural exports to Spain, the bu reau said. . . Dark fire-cured tobacco exports to Snain averaged almost 9,000,000 pounds a year before the civil For the six-year period of 1930-31 to 1935-36, these exports to Spam were 13.5 percent of the total to all coun tries, the report said. Exports to France made up the largest share. _ The bureau said Spam probably has not” increased its imports of leaf tobacco from other sources. Survey figures showed the United States exported 2,011,000 pounds of dark fire-cured tobacco to Spain in 1931. The figure rose to 15,854,000 in 1933 and dropped to 7,844,000 pounds in 1936. 1- PUBLISHED BVHKY AFTEHNOOM EXCEPT SUNDAY. Missing Liner Is Sigh ted By Plan es Joining In Search Five Men Killed In Jersey Crash Trcn'on, N. J., Oct. 18—(AI») Five men were killed and two in jure!, perhaps fatally, when two utemwhiles' crashed head-on today *n Pennington road, in nearby j P.newell township. State police from West Trenton 'ratified three of the victims as L- ’.ii3 Monte. Joseph Mahan and Joseph Mclntyre, all of Trenton. -he other dea l were Negroes be /ievei Montclair residents. Two olber Trenton men were critically injured. Stale police sa'd the cat carry ing the five Trenton men caught fire. The two Negroes were the only passengers in the other ma chine. FARMERS MEETING SHOUTS APPROVAL OF CROPCONTROL Winston-Salem Senate Com mittee Hearing Is Told Compulsory Action Is Wanted DEMONSTRATION IS GIVEN SMITH BODY South Carolina Senator Asks What They Want and Chorus Responds; Smith Pledges Support To Put Agriculture on Footing Where It Belongs Winston-Salem, Oct. 18. —(AP) —A farmers meeting here today shouted approval of compulsory crop control as a remedy for the ills of agricul ture. The demonstration came when Sen ator E. D. Smith, Democrat, South Carolina, opened a hearing by a com mittee of senators appointed to sound out farm sentiment upon agricultural legislation, and asked, “Do you want compulsory control?” “Yes, yes,” came cries from the 500 farmers, representatives of farm or ganizations and agricultural officials. “Do you want voluntary control?” Smith asked. “Noes” filled the room. At the outset, Smith pledged his (Continued on Page Three.) STOCKS FADE AWAY TO LOWER GROUND Buying rower Generally Is Lacking, With Selling in Major Steels And Motors New York, Oct. 18. —(AP) — With buying power generally lacking stocks drifted lower in today’s mar ket. Selling in major steels and motors was an unsettling influence following a fair-sized rally at the start. While volume was comparative ly small near the fourth hour, de clines of one to two or more points were widely distributed. Although for eign markets displayed selective im provement, they were none too con fident. Movement of bonds and com modities was uneven. Wheat and cot ton futures skidded. There was a bit more optimism in evidence regarding business, but this was suf ficient to spur speculative forces. Li quidation of impaired margin ac counts continued as a recovery break. American Radiator American Telephone American Tob B . - Anaconda ' Atlantic Coast Line ~ w Atlantic Refining 20 Bendix Aviation Bethlehem Steel 50 Chrysler 6 J Columbia Gas & Elec Co 7 3-4 Commercial ° *~ 2 Continental Oil Co ® DuPont 122 Electric Pow & Light 8 3-8 General Electric 38 General Motors 3 ? *-* Liggett & Myers B 88 1-2 Montgomery Ward & Co 37 Reynolds Tob B 45 1-8 Southern Railway 10 5 ~ 8 Standard Oil Co N J 49 U S Steel 63 8' PAGES TODAY FIVE CENTS COPY Crafl Was One of Modern Aviation’s Most Up-to- Date Transports In Service 15 PASSENGERS AND FOUR IN THE CREW Pilots from Denver, Chey enne and Salt Lake City Join in Hunt; Plane Last Reported While Flying Through Clouds, But Had Enough Fuel Salt Lake City, Utah, Oct. 18— (AP) —A giant “main liner” of the United Air Lines, lost 14 hours with 19 pas sons, was sighted in rugged south western Wyoming today with first indications it either had been wreck ed or burned. Whether any one had escaped could not be determined until ground searchers reached the scene, which was expected to require several hours. Arthur Willoughby, postal inspector, said he “understood” the plane was “burned or badly cracked up." The plane was located by air search ers a relatively short distance from an emergency landing field on its re gular westbound route from Cheyen ne, Wyo., to Salt Lake City. R. W. Schroeder, vice-president of United, announced the mighty trans continental transport was sighted by Bob Bergenscn, pilot, and Observer Bill Williams, who then radioed they would land at the Knight, Wyo., field near the Utah border. In rough, broken country, the scene of the apparent crash can be reached only by a difficult wagon road, Schrotider said. Rain and snow may make access even more difficult. Sheriff Frank Narramore, of Evans ton, Wyo., estimated a circuitous ten-i mile trip on foot or possibly more would be required from the nearest point where a horse or wagon could approach the plane. The sheriff said “there is sufficient evidence to believe the plane was badly damaged and one report said wreckage could be seen for some distance from the air.” The plane, w:th 15 passengers and a crew of four, was last heard over Rock Springs at 8:19 p. m., mountain standard time, last night, when Pilot E. D. Wooderd radioed “slightly rough; all OK.” Salt Lake City, Utah, Oct. 18.—(AP) —The missing United Air Lines plane, with 19 persons aboard, was sighted from the air today 12 miles southwest of Evanston, Wyo. The huge trans-continental trans port was discovered by Bob Bergen sen, United Air Line pilot, and Bill Williams, observer, but they could not determine if it was badly damag ed or if any of its occupants were still alive. One of aviation’s most modern transports, carrying 19 persons, was missing early today in the moun tainous wilderness between here and Rock Springs, Wyo., 170 miles to tha east. At dawn a fleet of planes soared (Continued on Page Six.) United Labor Is Hoped For From Meeting Leaders on Both Sides Optimistic Over Conferences Set for Next Week Washington, Oct. 18. —(AP) —Some leaders in each faction expressed high hopes today that next week’s peace conferences of American Federation of Labor and CIO ranks will lead to a new unified labor movement. Each side will go into the confer ence here October 25 without any commitments. Neither has admitted any willingness to yield. Nevertheless, members of each group said privately they believed something could be worked out t> unite the 7,000,000 members of tha two organizations into one force. A possible solution advanced by labor observers was acceptance by tha American Federation of Labor of tha CIO as an autonomous department An arbitration board will decida which group should organize “bor der line” industries not falling clearl/ into the craft or industrial classifica tions.
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