niENDERSON’S
POPULATION
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TWENTY-FIFTH
25 DEAD,I3 HURT IN ATLANTA HOTEL HUE
Labor Board AgainJJpheld In Court Ruling
Former Kaiser Gives His Blessings
Attired in the glittering panoply of his days as Kaiser Wilhelm 11, the former ruler of the German Empire is
pictured with his grandson, Prince Louis Ferdinand, and the latter’s bride, Grand Duchess Kyra of Russia,
after their third wedding, which took place at the ex-Kaiser’s sanctuary in Doom, Holland. Before the
World War it was the great dream of the former warlord to unite these once mighty houses.
(Central Press)
HEAVY VOTES FOR
CONTROL REPORTED
IN POTATO BALLOT
Two-Thirds Favorable Ma
jority Assured, State Col
lege Extension Of
ficials Claim
GROWERS CAST VOTE
ON INDIVIDUAL PLAN
Nearly Complete Returns
from 30 Counties in Friday-
Saturday Referendum
Show 1,129 for Control,
581 Against; Two-Way
Approval Seen
Raleigh, May 16 (AP)—lrish potato
growers in Currituck, Washington
and Edgecombe counties reported
heavy for a proposed control
program today, and N. C. State Col
lege Extension officials said a two
thirds favorable majority was assur
ed.
Nearly complete returns from 30
North Carolina counties which took
part in the referendum Friday and
Saturday showed 1,129 votes for con
trol and 581 against, a favorable per
centage of 66.02.
Similar votes were taken in 13
counties.
The growers balloting their opin
ion on control individually, but also
had to list their poundage. The con
trol program may be made effective
if approved by either two-thirds of
the growers or growers representing
two-thirds of production. The pound
age vote in the State had not been
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Heavy Rain
Slows Down
Rebel Drive
Insurgents Make Im
portant Captures on
Spanish F r o n t,
However
Hendaye, France, May 16.—(AP) —
Hcnyy rains lashed the coastal Sierras
slowing the insurgent eastern Spanish
offensive after it had made steady
h’ains in the rugged mountain ter
rair> east of Teruel.
Insurgent troops have captured
San Cristobal in the Sierra de
•'idar range, advancing into position
'a an attack on the town of Mora
Jerublelos, 20 miles east of Teruel.
ibis town dominates the Teruel-
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YEAR 1 THB^AS^or ,TtK SBRVT CE OF
Clash Occurs In Mexico
As Situation Threatens
Franco and Pope
Exchange Envoys
Castcl Gandalfo, Italy, May 16. —
(AP) —The Vatican news service
tnnounced today that the Holy See
md the Spanish insurgent govern- !
nent had arranged to exchange
ilenipotentiary diplomatic repre
entatives, completing formal re
cognition by the Vatican of Gen
ralissiino Franco’s regime.
The Spanish insurgents named as
imihassador to the Holy See Don
Jose Maria de Yankuas y Messia.
Diplomatic contacts between the
Holy See and the insurgent regime
have been maintained for the last
several months. There have been
'io diplomatic relations between the
Vatican and the Barcelona govern
ment for more than a year.
1 ! TcAPITAL EVENT
Hoey Names Feimster, Life
long Dry, to ABC Va
cancy for State
Dully Dispatch Bnrean.
In the Sir Walter Hotel.
Raleigh, May 16. —Governor Clyde
R. Hoey climaxed a more or less
routine week at the State capital last
Friday by appointing W. C. Feimster,
Newton lawyer to the State liquor
feoard for a term of three years, suc
ceeding T. J. Murphy, of Greensboro,
who was not renamed because of jll
health.
The appointment was a major one
and upon the work of Mr. Feimster
on the board depends largely the suc
cess or failure of the county option
plan of liquor control. The new ap
pointee is a life-long dry from the
western part of the State and advo
cates of control are somewhat fearful
of any dry on the hoard.
The governor, too, is thought to
have played more than a quiet part
in selection during the week by At
torney General Harry McMullan of
Lee Overman Gregory, of Salisbury,
as an assistant attorney genera!.
Wade Bruton, one of the staff of as
sistants for some time, was moved up
to principal aide to McMullan.
At Racford, dedicating an armory
Wednesday, Governor Hoey departed
from his usual pacific role and stout
ly called for a naval and military es
tablishment strong enough to keep
this "have” nation safe fiom the ag
gressions of the ,‘have nots,” whom
he did not name.
Fletcher Counts TenrMajor A. L.
Fletcher commissioner of labor, was
riled no’end by a decision of the Ra
leigh city court judge, Wiley Barnes,
that a child labor law violation which
was largely responsible for the city’s
first auto death of the year was
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ONLY DAILY NEWSPAP ER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OF NOkTH CAROLINA AND VIRGINIA.
Students and. Several Hun
dred Persons in “Social
ist Youth” Group
in Fight
UNIVERSITY TAKEN
BY YOUTH FORCES
Efforts of Police and Fire
men To Reject Them Prove
Futile; Students Desist and
Rely on Hunger To Force
Invaders To Yield Struc
tures
Mexico City, May 16 (AP) —Several
persons were wounded today in a
clash between students and several
hundred persons of an organization
known As “Socialist Youth,” who had
occupied buildings of the University
of Mexico.
The “Socialist Youth” force, armed
with pistols and knives, seized build
ings of the university and its prepa
ratory school this morning, and re
sisted efforts of police and firemen
to eject them.
The students desisted after Rector
Chico Georne counselled calm, as
serting hunger would compel the in
vaders to yield.
The clash was the newest manifes
tation of internal undest following the
March 18 expropriation of 17 British
and American oil companies.
Associates of the agrarian leader
General Santurnino Cedillo charged
that President Cardenas was trying
to “drive him to rebellion” to distract
the public from the administration’s
troubles.
Farley Says
Pennsy Vote
Threatening
New York, May 16 (AP) —Postmast-
er General James A. Farley said to
day that he felt the political situation
in Pennsylvania “Imperils the suc
cess of the Democratic party in the
November election,.” He spoke as
chairman of the Democratic National
Committee.
Farley said that “in my judgment,
the only way to protect the interests
of the people of that State (Pennsyl
vania) would he to nominate Tom
Kennedy for governor and Georg*a
Earle for the Senate in tomorrow’s
primaries. This will not be a com
plete victory for either faction, yet I
am convinced that it is the only solu
tion of the present situation.
In Philadelphia, Governor Earle,
saying “the Democrats of Pennsyl
vania will not turn their party over
to John L. Lewis, assailed Farley’s
naming of Earle and CIO-backed Ken
nedy as a team Pennsylvania Demo
crats should support.
HENDERSON, N. C., MONDAY AFTERNOON, MAY 16, 1938
BMEoSSI
Such Strikers Remain Em
ployees Under Act and
as Such Are Entitled
to Protection
JUSTICE ROBERTS
OFFERS DECISION
Announced No Dissension, I
But Cordozo and Reed Do
Not Participate; Court
Agrees To Review Power
Companies’ Complaint
TVA Is Unconstitutional
Washington, May 16.—(AF) — The
Supreme Court ruled today that work
ing men who strike a s a result of an
unfair labor practice by their em
ployer are entitled to protection of
the national lafeor relations act.
This decision was given in uphold
ing an order by the National Labor
Relations Board directing the Mackay
Radio & Telegraph Company to re
instate five employees who had gone
on strike in San Francisco.
Justice Roberts, who delivered the
decision, asserted that the strikers re
mained employees under the labor act
“and were protected against the un
fair labor practices denounced by it.”
Roberts announced no dissent. Jus
tices Cardozo and Reed did not par
ticipate.
The court agreed to review litiga
tion brought by eighteen private
utilities challenging constitutionality
of the government’s Tennessee Valley
Authority power program. In an or
der, the tribunal consented to pass
on a decision by a three-judge Fed
eral district court in eastern Tennes
see that the companies “have no im
munity from lawful competition, even
if their business be curtailed or de
stroyed.”
Justice Reed did not participate.
At tile request of the government,
the court ordered the third circuit
court of appeals at Philadelphia to
show cause why it should not permit
the National Labor Relations Board
to recall its order against the Re
public Steel Corporation directing the
corporation to reinstate 5,090 workers
who struck last summer.
Suchow Is
Surrounded
With Japs
Shanghai, May 16.—(AP)—Japanese
dispatches declared today that Su
chow had teen completely surround
ed and Japanese troops were closing
in from all sides on thousands of Chi
nese trapped in the area around the
vital China rail junction.
The Japanese asserted it would be
only a matter of hours before they
actually assault the strategic city for
which they have been fighting for
months.
Encirclement of Suchow was accom
plished, the Japanese said, by clos
ing the last gap to the west just be
low the Lunghai railway near Tang
shan. This railroad town is about 50
miles west of Suchow.
Troops fighting toward the rail
way from the north and south con
verged near Tangshan, the Japanese
reported, and then fought their way
eastward along the railway to Hang
kow, only 30 miles from Suchow.
The Japanese said troops which yes
terday cut the Lunghai line were
pushing rapidly westward.
SAYSIfijJUNLOAD
Charlotte’s Blanken
ship Sees Textile Shut
downs Every Winter
Daily Dispatch Bureau,
In the Sir Walter Hotel.
Raleigh, May 16.—1 n Raleigh the
latter part of last week on legal bus
iness, Mercer J. Blankenship, candi
date for the State Senate from Meck
lenburg, added something to the
scramble to take the Unemployment
Compensation Commission out of Ra
leigh and install Charlie Powell and
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Gov. Johnston To
Oppose Ed Smith
Wah'ngton, M:iy 16. —(AP)—
Governor Olin D. .Johnston, of
South Carolina, sa?d after a con
ference sod ’y viih President Boose
velt he would formahy announce
his candidacy for the Democratic
nomination for senator upon his re
turn to Columbia.
he governor would oppose Sen
ator E. D. Saiilh, v.';o has an
nounced he would ask the party
nomination fer another terra.
Jchnsion said in a prepared state
ment hr.ndied to newspaper men as
he left the President’s office: “I
have just had a very pleasant con
ference with President It 'oseve’t,
on whose invitation I came to
Washington, during which we dis
cussed the poetical situation in
| South Carolina.”
ROOSEVELT TALKS
No Decision Reached, How
ever, as To Seeking New
Vote on Reorganiza
tion Proposal
GENERAL STATUS OF
CONGRESS TALKED
No Definite program for
Remainder of Session,
Barkley Says, Asserting
Legislators Are Working
on Day-to-Day Basis; No
Polls in Senate
Washington, May 16. —(AP)—.Presi-
dent Roosevelt discussed with con
gressional leaders today the possibility
of reviving his once-defeated govern
ment reorganization bill, hut there
was no indication definite decision
was reached.
“We discussed reorganization but
there was no ‘must’ put on it”, Repre
sentative Rayourn, Democrat, Texas,
House majority leader, said on leav
ing the White House.
Other conferees reported there was
a general discussion of the congres
sional situation, and that some be
lieved the legislature should he able
to quit early next month.
Asked about the remainder of the
program, Senator Barkley, Democrat,
Kentucky, the Senate majority leader,
said “there is no definite program
for the remainder of the session. We
•are on a day-to-day schedule.”
While polls are understood to have
been started in the House to ascertain
sentiment on revival of the reorganiz
ation bill, Senator Barkley said he
knew of no such tabulation being
made in the Senate. Indications of in
creased willingness in Congress to fol
low the President’s leadership on most
issues have encouraged administra
tion leaders to believe the bill might
he pushed through at this session.
Congress Races Warm Up
Despite Senate Contest
Kerr, Barden, Folger and W eaver Given Advantage at
Present; Barker Out To ward Front in Sixth; Bur
gin in Eighth Given Odds In That District
Dnilv Dispatch Bnrenn.
In the Sir Walter Hotel.
Raleigh, May 16. —In at least four
of the seven congressional districts
having contest for the Democratic
House nomination enough political
dust is feeing kicked up to obscure the
United States Senate race and many
of the local battles.
In the second, sixth, eighth and
tenth the hoys are at it tooth and
nail, with resultant publicity in the
local prints and equally resultant en
thusiasm and bickering among par
tisans of the various contestants.
It’s easy to be misled when this far
away from the center of activity, but
reports reaching this bureau indicate
that there is little doubt of the out
come in the third, fifth and eleventh
where Congressman Graham Barden,
National Committeeman Lon Folger
and Incumbent Zebuloh Weaver are
said to be far in the lead of their re
spective opponents.
Word from the second, too is that
Wilson’s Troy Barnes is not making
the progress he was expected to make
in his campaign against Judge John
Kerr, but this may be taken with a
1 IVMT AFTMHOea
:CBPT SUNDAY.
Exiled as ‘Witch’
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Mrs. Irene Ray
... “hexed” neighbors
Shades of the Middle Ages!
When several residents of Roches
ter, Ind., alleged that Mrs.
Irene Ray, 60-year-old Indian
wife of a white farmer, hexed
them, she was ordered out of
town. Authorities were urged to
file witchcraft charges against
Mrs. Ray, but there is no law un
der which she could be “punished”.
Arrested, charged with vagrancy,
she seemed bewildered—as were
people elsewhere. They rubbed
their eyes, wondering whether
they were in the 20th century.
• —Central Press
One Convict
Slain Trying
To Get Away
Daring Break for
Freedom at Rocky
Mount Prison Camp
Is Fatal
Rocky Mount, May 16.—.(AP) —One
convict was captured today, while a
posse with bloodhounds hunted an
other who escaped the Nash county
prison farm last night in a daring
break that left one prisoner dead and
another wounded.
Prison Superintendent H S. Wellons
said Earl Watkins was fatally wound
ed and Marshall Joyner wounded
when Guard C. C. Lamb fired at four
convicts attempting to scale a wa’l.
Roosevelt Clark and DeWitt Williams
escaped, and Williams was recaptured
at Nashville this morning. All the es
capees were Negroes.
Williams was taken while driving
through Nashville in a stolen car. Fred
Wood, night policeman at Nashville,
said he and other officers gave chase
while checking upon suspicious cars
when Williams drove jjpy about 3
o’clock this morning. The Negro fail
ed to stop when haled, Wood said,
but was run down a short distance
from the Nash county seat.
grain of salt.
In the sixth, hardboiled professional
prognosticators see Oscar Barker, of
Durham, and Lewis Teague, of High
Point, as likely participants in a run
off primary after the field of eight
has been pruned by the first primary
voting on June 4. Here, however, there
are any number of factors to be con
sidered, and one man’s guess seems
about as good as another’s.
If there is an upset of the dope, it
is most likely to he overturned by
Major Edney Ridge, of Greensboro,
who is campaigning vigorously and
vociferously on a “100 Per Cent for
Roosevelt and the New Deal” plat
form.
In the eighth, William O. Burgin, of
Lexington, is generally conceded a
place in a run-off, principally because
he is the only candidate from the up
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WEATHER
FOR NORTH CAROLINA.
Fair tonight and Tuesday; mod
erate temperature.
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TODAY
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TERMINAL TRAGEDY
Flames Originate in Base
ment Following Explo
sion As Yet Not
Fully Explained
10 TO 15 MORE MAY
BE IN THE DEBRIS
Speed of Blaze Amazes
Witnesses; People on Up
per tplodrs Heard Cryfing
and Praying; Fire Declar
ed Deadliest in Atlanta’s
Whole History
Atlanta, Ga., May 16. (AP)
Flames which started in a basement
kitchen killed 25 persons at the Ter
minal hotel early today, left 13 injur
ed, and others missing.
More than a dozen persons were re
scued or leaped to safety
The number of victims unaccounted
for was a matter of conjecture. Re
ports tofi remen and police indicated
toat from 50 to 65 persons were re
gistered in the 62-room five-story
brick and frame building.
City sanitary crews were set to
■'’.crk in mid-morning removing the
debris. Engineers estimated two days
would be required to clear the wreck
age.
Many of the dead were found in
charred timbers and steel which drop
ped from the roof, carrying away the
burning floors.
Police Chief M. A. Hornsby express
ed belief ten or fifteen more bodies
would be found in the mass of debris
•piled upon the street level.
Speed with which the flames gain
ed headway amazed witnesses. A
police lieutenant said he was five
blocks away in a patrol car when he
saw the fire shoot up and that by
the time he arrived smoke veiled all
ihe building.
“I could not see them,” he said,
“but I could hear people on the up
per floors crying out and prayiftg.”
Mayor W. B. Hartsfield said the
hotel was of a construction type no
longer permitted under the city build
ing code, but had been remodeled
somewhat from its original status.
The fire was described by Fire Chief
O. J. Parker as “the deadliest in the
history of Atlanta.” •
Among the injured was W. M.
Clapp, from Round Mountain, N. C.,
and among the known dead was Wil
liam Howard Snyder, 33, of High
Point, N. C.
Hotel attaches said “at least fifty”
were registered when the flames
broke out with an explosion in the
basement kitchen shortly after 3 a
m., eastern standard time.
New Angles
In Rocky Mt.
Girl's Death
Rocky Mount,- May .16. —<(AP) —
Coroner M. C. Gulley said today he
would hold an inquest tomorrow into
the fatal shooting of Ethel Davis, .16,
found shot to death at the home of
an aunt here Friday night.
The coroner quoted Charles Inscoe,
Jr., 14, as admitting under question
ing that he accidentally fired the shot
that killed the girl. Gulley added,
however, that the investigation was
not complete.
Robey Lamb, 17, who went to the
girl’s home with Inscoe, was detained
also. The coronei quoted him as say
ing Inscoe told him he shot the girl,
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FdIECTLL
TELL AAA RESULT
Plantings of 1938 Crops
Will Be Virtually Com
pleted by Then
Washington, May 16.—(AP) — The
nfcxt three or four weeks will deter
mine the extent to which the Agri
cultural Adjustment Administrf|tion
has been able to win farmer coopera
tion with the new crop control pro
gram.
By the end of that period, the 1938
cotton, tobacco, corn and other spring
crops will have been planted.
Because the nation's cotton and to
bacco warehouses and corn cribs are
bulging as the result of last year’s pro
ductions, the AAA officials insist
much smaller crops must be grown
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