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HENDERSON’S POPULATION 13,873 TWENTY-FIFTH YEAR THREE ESCAPE DEATH ROW” IN COLUMBIA Shake-Up Pressed In War Machinery Os Great Britain Lord Weir, Unofficial Ad visor of Government on Aircraft Expansion, Resigns follows action of VISCOUNT SWINTON Dual Retirements Fore shadow Stringent Steps Toward Coordination of Supples and Production; Labor Agreement for New Speed Is Sought London, May 17. —(AP) —The shake up of Britain’s war plane-making machine widened today with the re signation of Lord Weir, unofficial ad visor to the government on aircraft expansion since 1935. Lord Weir announced he was fol lowing the action of Viscount Swin ton. who resigned yesterday as air secretary, but declined further state ments. As ex-officio member of the air council, Lord Weir had worked in close collaboration with Viscount Swinton. who was president of the council. He was managing director of an en gineering firm and director of a chemical industry and International Nickel Company of Canada, and of two banks. He was air minister in 1918. The coupled resignations seemed to foreshadow stringent steps toward co ordination of supplies and production aimed at a goal of 3,500 firstline planes fcy 1940. Up to now, critics of the air pro gram have levelled much of their fire at alleged lack of coordination of "shadow factory” production. These factories are additions to existing plants, built at government expense to make various plane parts. At the same time, the union of en gineering and shipbuilding workers arranged to meet with employers May 25 to talk of ways of meeting labor demands for an arms speed-up. Testimony Favorable To Sheriff Greenville, May 17.—(AP) —Auditor L. R. Ausbon testified in the cross examination today in ouster proceed ings against Sheriff S. A. Whitehurst that errors had been found in the rec ords which would reduce the amount of the shortage charged against him. Ausbon also testified that the ac counts did not include certain items which attorneys for Whitehurst con-, tended would show that the officer had failed to collect full amounts due ■him for some prisoners. Only one other witness was examin ed after Ausbon had completed near- Contlnued on Page Five.) 7 LONDOMERSDEAD IN SUBWAY CRASH Scores of Others Injured In Wild Panic Underground After Wreck London, May 17. —(AP) —At least * s,; ven persons were killed and scores were injured today in a rear-end crash between two crowded subway trains in a wild panic in the underground funnel under Victoria embankment. The wreck was the worst in the his tf>ry of London subways, the “under ground.” Some of the victims were trapped for hours in the wreckage offer an eastbound train smashed into the rear of another between the busy Temple and Charing Cross stations. Forty firemen and policemen work 'd two and a half hours to extricate the passengers from the big red first ond third class coaches. Passengers told of the jarring im- T'oei. of the crash, followed by blinding showers of sparks in the pitch-black tunnel. Screaming women and blood spattered victims jostled in the dark )lpH.s in a mad fight to escape through •he splintered windows. Charing Cross station, in the heart of London, was turned into an emer *T'n°y hospital. The noted Norman Pukett, who was the then Wallis >ai field Simpson’s divorce lawyer, draggled out of one coach. Himi 10mm Hatht ©ism® WIRE SERVICE 09 the associated press. Conscience Makes Man Admit Crime I.umherton, May 17. (API- Rural Policeman D. M. Barker said today a man he picked up here foi investigation told him he was want ed in Pittsburgh, Pa., for the slay ing of George O’Brient there about five years ago. The man gave his name as Arthur Harris, 27, ol Montgomery county, North Caro lina, and his occupation as a saw mill worker, Barker said. The officer quoted his prisonei as saying also he participated with Bill Payne and others in the rols licry of the Bank cf Candor at Can dor last year. Payne and Wa ll Turner are now in State Prison at Raleigh under deatli sentences for killing a highway patrolman. Barker said Harris told him he killed O’Brient when the latter reached for a pistol after they hac quarrelled over some whisky. “It’s been worrying me. I’ve been seeing him 'every night when 1 go to bed,” the prisoner was quoted by the rural policeman. Harris said Barker related that a $650 reward was outstanding for the arrest of O’Brient’s slayer. ARTILLERY OF IIAPS i Central China Railway Junction Has Been Ob jective of Long Bloody Fighting INVADERS WITHIN FIRING DISTANCE Japs Claim Chinese Soldiers and Civilians in Wild Re treat; Chinese, However, Deny Enemy’s Claims and Foreigners Doubt Success of Move Shanghai, May 17j—(AP)—Japan ese artillery has begun 'bombardment of Suchow ,the central China railway junction that has been the objective m five months of bloody fighting, a Japanese communique said tonight. Big Japanese guns, brought up by a column approaching from the south west, began pounding the Suchow’s defenses from the mduntains a few miles away. Two other Japanese columns were reported within firing distance of Su chow, nerve center of China’s des perate defense of the Lunghai rail way corridor running east-west thro (Continued on Page Four.) More Dead Sought In Hotel Fire Atlanta, Ga., May 17. (AF) — Weary firemen searched charred ruins of the five-story Terminal hotel for additional dead here today while others sought the cause of the “dead liest fire” in Atlanta’s history. ' Twenty-seven were known dead, several still unidentified, while fire men removed, piece by piece, blacken ed wooden girders which crashed to the basement of the 30-year-old brick veneer, building shortly before 4:30 a. m. yesterday. Ambulances remained lined up in the plaza of Terminal Railway sta tion directly in front of the disaster. Special caution was necessary in removing the debris to prevent col lapse of the gaunt brick walls of the hotel which alone remain intact. The fire, described by Fire Chief q j Parker, as “the deadliest in the history of Atlanta,’* was' discovered shortly after 3 a. m. yesterday. With in half an hour the flames raged from top to bottom of the structure, and guests, estimated by hotel au thorities at from 60 to 75, had little chance to escape. The hotel register was burped. ONLY DAILY NEWSPAP ER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OF NORrH CAROLINA AND VIRGINIA. Three great streams of water are shown being poured into the Terminal Hotel in Atlanta Monday morning to extinguish the $1,000,000 Road Bids Opened Up Raleigh, May 17. —(AP) —Nello T. Teer, of Durham, apd Kiker & Yount of Reidsville, tid low at $215,356,.55 today for roadway work and struc tures on the new 16.28 mile stretch of highway from just north of Concord to near Charlotte. The Highway and Public Works Commission opened bids on 13 projects estimated to cost around $1,000,000. Tomorrow commission members will canvass the bids, and if low pro posals are approved will send them to Washington for Federal okay. Projects, locations, descriptions and low bidders, included: 1011, Beaufort county, grading and structures on 13.58 miles of Route 99 from Route 264 to 5.3 miles east of Route 97, roadway, Rodway S. Mc- Guire, Washington, $51,290.60; struc tures, O. L. Shackleford, of Kinston, $14,660.24. 1477, Hertford, overhead crossing just south of Ahoskie, Roadway Con struction Company, Florence, S. C., $27,491.40; structures, W. L. Cobb Construction Company, Decatur, Ga., $15,614.5Qi. Washington Expected It but Not so Soon After Var gas’ Coup By CHARLES P. STEWART Central Press Columnist Washington, May 17. President Getullio Vargas'of Brazil had an at tempted revolution on his hands soon er than even our state department’s Latin American experts had anticipat ed The government at Rio De Janeiro squelched the uprising. Nevertheless it appears to have been a formidable affair. It is described as having been of Fascist inspiration. Italian resi dents of the republic probably had. a good bit to do with it, hut it is not implied that overseas Italy was re sponsible for the outbreak. And em ployes of a German bank have been arrested. The Washington administration re gards such manifestations in the southern New World with consider able apprehension. Possible Complications. An “anti” versus a “pro” Fascist or Nazi struggle in this hemisphere, if at all prolonged, in itself would be a serious worry to Uncle Sam. Besides, the tendency would be for the Integraligts (as Latin American (Continued on Page Four.). HENDERSON, N. C., TUESDAY AFTERNOON, MAY 17, 1938 27 PERISH IN ifOTEL FI RE IN ATLANTA MONDAY H| m ; ■ :1 : agwl .. 3 ■ -. ■ : • '■ Vandenburg Offers Plan To Put Relief In Hand Os States Michigan Republican Senat or Wants Congress To Strike Out All “Pump-Priming” from Lending-Spending Bill; States Would Match 25 Percent Washington, May 17.—(AP)—Sena tor Vandenberg, Republican, Michigan proposed legislation today to return administration of all relief activities to the states under a system, of Fed eral grants-in-aid. The Michigan senator introduced his program as a substitute for the section of the administration's lending-spend ing bill which deals with direct ap propriations for work relief He said he would propose also that Congress strike all “pump-priming” from the bill. The result of his proposal, Van denberg said, would be to “take the Federal government out of the relief business, except on the basis of “grants-in-aid” and restore “home Maryland Firm Ships Liquor In Raleigh, May 17.—(AP)—Chairman Cutlar Moore, of the State liquor board, released a report today show ing that one Maryland concern ship ped 8,262 cases of whisky into dry j North Carolina counties during April after sending more than 6,000 cases into the area in March. The figures were supplied by Wil liam McMechen, investigator of the Federal Alcohol Administration. Yesterday the attorney general rul ed the State board had no authority to enforce prohibition laws in dry counties. Moore said he had turned over names and addresses given for the purchases of the whisky to law* enforcement officers of the several counties with the request that they do what they can. McMechen wrote Moore,that he had visited the sheriff of Cabarrus county at Concord, and the chief of police at Charlotte since the March report was released, and commented: “I be lieve you’ll get some action from, both.” WEATHER FOR NORTH CAROLINA. Mostly cloudy; Wednesday cloudy, occasional light rain in central portion^ j fire that brought death to at least 27. It was believed that more I bodies would be found when all the debris is removed. rule responsibility.” Under Vandenberg’s substitute, a “non-partisan” Federal board would would allocate government funds to state boards for expenditure under individual systems chosen by the states. The states would he required to match Federal funds by at least 25 percent. Instead of appropriating $1,250,- 000,000 for seven months operation of WPA, Vandenberg would provide $2,160,000,000 for allocation to the states over the entire fiscal year, starting July 1. Senate backers of the $3,000,000 re (Continued on Page Ftve.l LABI WILL SEEK CONVENTION PLANK State Federation Gets Set for Democratic Meeting Thursday Dallv dispatch Bureau. In the Sir Walter Hotel. Raleigh, May 17.—Labor, through the State organization of the Ameri can Federation of Labor, is going to ask insertion of a plank in the State Democratic Convention, though just what that plank will demand is the secret of C. A. Fink of Salisbury, pre sident of the State Federation. Decisoion to ask for a Labor plank was reached after consultation and conference between federation offi cials and friendly advisers in official circles. From this it can safely be in ferred that the plank to be offered will not be extreme op radical, but will be more of a “middle of the road” affair. At the last session of the General Assembly, labor sought ratification of the Child Labor amendment; a short er work week for all employes, and, in particular for women; and a sta tute with teeth raising the child labor age in the State. The Amendment was turned down and apparently has about faded from the picture at the present, time. The hour bill enacted was so shot full of (Continued on Page Four.) PUBLIfIHEn bvkpt 49TIRNOOI EXCEPT SUNDAY. Huge Plane Lost In Fog In Far West Los Angeles Air Of ficials Fear Crash of SBO,OOO Ship In Mountains Los Angeles, Cal., May 17. —(AP) Mercy planes mobilized jn a giant aerial search today for a new SBO,OOO Lockheed transport feared crashed with nine persons on a fog-shrouded peak of the Sierra Madre mountain range near Los Angeles. The transport, flying to St. Paul for delivery to Norwest Air Lines, took off from Union Air Terminal at 1:40 p. m., (4:40 p. m., eastern standard time) yesterday, and was last heard from a few minutes later above rug ged Mint Canyon. Among those aboard were Fred Whittemore, St. Paul, Northwest Air Lines vice-president and co-pilot; Henry Sayisbury, St. Paul, Northwest Air Lines official, his wife and two children. Nearly two dozen planes were mob ilized by the sheriffs areo squadron, and commercial air lines promised ad ditional aid for an intensive hunt. Weather reports of ceilings as low as 2,000 feet in the mountain area minimized hopes for early discovery 'Continued on Pagre Four.) Intolerance Spirit Os New Dealers Is AssailedßyLandon Chicago, May 17.—(AP)—Alf Lan-j don. Republican presidential candi date in 1936, asserted in a prepared speech today that “none of us of this generation has seen a group so in tolerant of the views and beliefs of others as are the so-called New Deal liberals.” x “Only a few weeks ago,” he told the Inland Daily Press Association, “Senator Minton, Democrat, Indiana, introduced a measure which is a dire threat to the press. Mr. Minton, it seems, would set up a censorship of newspapers and other publications. A great many people are apt to be mis led by the apparent fairness of the proposal. The senator has pointed his bill at those who knowingly publish 8 PAGES TODAY FIVE CENTS COPY TOW* FOR Were Part of Six Prisoners In Penitentiary Who Slew Attendant in December OFFICERS EXPECT RECAPTURE OF MEN Make Key With Spoon and Wrap It With Thread To Turn Lock and Gain Free dom from Richland Coun ty Jail; Tar Heel Patrol men on Lookout Columbia, S. C., May 17. —(AP)— Three of the six prisoners under death sentence for the fatal stabbing: of Olin Sanders, penitentiary guard captain on December 12, escaped from the Richland county jail early today. The escaped prisoners were: George Wingard, 22, of Columbia; Herbert Moorman, 41, of Detroit; and C. Crans, 28, of Rochester, N. Y. The other three prisoners are incarcerated at the penitentiary. Richland County Jailor H. W. Des port es said: “As near as I can figure, the escape occurred about 4:15 a. :n.” He explained the location of their cells and their escape as follows: The men were in the second story tier of cells and to escape they broke the locks of their individual cells and a heavy chain that reinforced the cell block, forced their way through a sec ond locked door that led into the block and bent the heavy metal bar that guarded a window. To get through the second door, the men fashioned a key from a spoon wrapped with heavy thread', ahd strips of zinc from a tooth pasta tube. The “key” was found in the opened door. The jailor said the break was the first in twenty years. Asked how it could have happened, he explained that the plumbing fixtures were con stantly turned on throughout the ioonfimiHrt on Page Four.) ' Constitution To Be Ignored Still Further as New Census Nears Tlnllr DNpntrh Biirrni*. In tbe Sir Walter Hotel, Raleigh, May 17. —Despite rum blings in Guilford county, one of the issues which has become a “hardy perennial” in North Carolina will not figure this year either in the legisla tive campaign or in the 1939 General Assembly. The old standby which has been rid den into office by many westerners and which has been viewed with alarm enoftgh in the east to start a worldwide panic several times over is reapportionment an issue which raised its head when the 1931 legisla ture tossed its constitutional obliga tions into the gutter like a very short cigarette butt, and declined to re allot legislative representation among the 100 counties' as the Constitution commanded it should. Since then each successive General Assembly has flouted the organic law '"'•nntlnimri on Page Five.) as fact anything which they know to be false. It would, nevertheless, pro vide* a censorship. “A press operating under such a law would cease to be free. Certainly, it could not fairly give both sides of the question if one side happened to represent the views of the Federal government or government officials.” “I cannot believe,” he averred, .‘‘that Congress will even take the Minton bill seriously. The dangerous thing about the measure is that it reflects an attitude now prevalent. Apparent ly it reflects the New Deal attitude toward the press of the country, and I am afraid it may reflect the Presi dent’s attitude. The President’s views have no doubt, encouraged Senator Minton and others.”
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