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HENDERSON’S POPULATION 13,873 TWENTY-FIFTH YEAR REORGANIZATION BILL Almost a Watery Grave for 325 T v v -\ - ggg ~ ; This remarkable aerial picture, made over New York Harbor, shows the famous excursion steamer Mandalay, foundered after she had collided with the Bermuda-bound liner Acadia, in a fog which blanketed lower New York. All 278 passengers and forty-seven members of the crew aboard the excursion boat were saved in one of the most remarkable fescues in the city’s history, (Central Press) Voters Prepare To Ballot In Elections Os Saturday Candidates for All Sorts of Offices Going Down Home Stretch in Bid for Support ; Congress and Judicial Scraps Furnishing Interest Dnllv ;;ini>nt<’h Rnreni, In the Sir Walter Hotel Raleigh, May 31. —Candidates for all sorts of offices in North Carolina move into the home stretch of the. campaign this week, with Mr. and Mrs. Sovereign Voter to make a de cision Saturday. As the end of several months of anticipation and activity draws nearer anrl nearer to an end, it seems more and more evident that the biggest thrills, the most excitement and the closest races will ibe in the field of local, rather than statewide politics. Holding the spotlight are a couple of congressional races, a scattering of superior court judgeship fights, and a battle or two for State Senate and district solicitor posts. Neither the campaign for the Unit- SIR® 11$ 111 GRADY ATM Utilities Commissioner Takes Gloves off in Ans wering Opponent Dull? lllMpnfoh Bnreni*. In The Sir Wllltcr Raleigh, May 31. —There have been plenty of hard knocks exchanged and haul words spoken during the pres •nt campaign in North Carolina, but ihis column hasn’t yet seen the equal of Stanley Winborne’s characteriza tion of the campaign of his opponent foi the Utility Commission, Paul D. r rißdy of Kenly. Winhorne certainly pulled no punches in his Charlotte peoch last night when he said, ac cording to full text of his address fur ni'-he-rl this bureau: The work of the Utilities Commis sion is largely technical and is not understood by the people generally who have not taken the time nor the trouble to investigate it. “Mv opponent, Mr. Grady, knows 'bis and he is seeking to take advan ce of the situation by conducting a cumpaign of misrepresentation and distortion of facts. ~ .There has never < n a campaign made by any can (|idatc for any office within the State in which there has been more wan- h ’ n a nd utter disregard for the facts and a more deliberate attempt to de ceivo the people... .The charitable conclusion to place upon the state jnents of Mr. Grady is that he is mere • the Charlie McCarthy, or mouth pu cc of some individual or group of people who wish to vent their spleen a-uuist me and reap a selfish in terest." • oi n thc °ther hand Mr. Grady him loosed a few really vitriolic re -1 (Continued on Page Three.) ilniTU'rsmt Datht tltsiiafrli leased wire service of THE ASSOCIATED PRESS. ed States Senate, nor for the utility commissionership—the only two* state wide contests—has warmed to the point where it can be classed as hot ter than tepid, though a thick bar rage of charges and counter charges has been laid down by the rivals in both these races within the last few days. The sixth and eighth Congressional districts are getting a lot of attention by reason of the large number of candidates in each. The second and third promise to produce reasonably close duels, and there are growing rumors that National Committeeman A. D. (Lon) Folgcr may not have quite as easy a time in the fifth as (Continued on Page Four.i ™w Only Two Counties Have Asked for Additional Ballots for That Dally Dispatch Bureau, In the Sir Walter Hotel. Raleigh, May 31—With the primary voting five days off, only two coun ties today had asked for an addi tional supply of absentee ballots to supplement the usual quota sent by the State Board of Elections. Bun combe and Polk have asked for the ballots. „ i, Monday afternoon, R. C. Maxwell, secretary of the board, was reported sick at his home, and there was no one in the election board office who could say just* what the regular quota of absentees to each county is- but it was said that request for additional ballots from only two coun ties is out of the ordinary. Lack of interest in obtaining huge supplies of absentee ballots indicat ed either that there is much less gen eral interest in this year s primary than is usually the case, or that the indiscriminate use of absentee bal lots has fallen into disrepute as a political practice. In the event that absentee voting drops off to a minimum this year, there is little likelihood that any thing drastic in the way of election law revision will he heard in the 1939 General Assembly. Two years ago, even this early and before the first primary there were loud out cries of fraud and attempted fraud in connection with absentee voting, and, after the first primary, support ers of Dr. McDonald for governor and Dick Fountain for senator com (Ccotinued on Page Six.) ONLY DAILY NEWSPAP ER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA AND VIRGINIA. JAPANESE PLANES BOMB HANKOW Ai LIKEWISE CANTON Air Forces of Invaders Strike Heavily at Two Centers Vital to Chi nese Defense FIRST BIGMRAID ON HANKOW IN MONTH Attacks Spread Over Wide Area Around Canton; Chi nese Claim Huge Force of Japs Trapped on Central Front; Tar Heel Mission aries Are Safe Shanghai, May 31.—(AP) — air forces struck heavily today a' two centers vital to Chinese resis tance. Hankow, provisional capital and Canton, southern metropolis and gateway for war supolies from abroad Thirtv pianos aPaeked Hankow an' 1 Jananese claimed they shot down eight Chinese planes in dog fight*- over the city. The Hankow air field was heavly bombed. Japanese admit ted one of their own planes was miss in v. It was the first big raid on Han kow since Emperor Hirohito’s birth day April 29, in which more than 50 Chinese and Japanese planes fough* a half hour’s indecisive battle. {Each side declared the other lost heavily in the April 29 fight.) Hong Kong dispatches said the Ja panese air forces spread their attacks over a wide area around Canton tor day, raiding many towns in central and northern Kwangtung province. Refugees, including some Americans and other foreign women and chil dren poured into British Hong Kong for safety. Meanwhile, Chinese said las-ge num bers of Japanese were trapped in a 21-mile square segment of the 250-mile central China front, from which the Japanese hope at a strategic moment to try a general offensive on Hankow. Hai?kow, China, sources said Amer ican and British missionaries escaped from Kweipeh just before an inten sive Japanese artillery bombardment Sunday, The United States and Bri tish consulates were informed. The at tack virtually levelled the city, the report said. Missionaries who left Kweipeh, in Honan province, for Kaifeng, further west along the Lunghai railroad, in cluded Rev. Phillip White, of the Southern Baptist Church, his wife and two children from Hertford, N. C. Goodyear Is Running And Plant Quiet Conflicting State ments from Com pany and Union as to “Concessions” Akron, Ohio, May 31. —(AP) —A peace clouded by conflicting state ments prevailed ;at Goodyear T!re and Rubber Company plants today as union employees returned to jobs they left to go on strike of four days duration. Goodyear local of the CIO-United Rubber Workers of America last night voted by a nine to one ratio, their leaders said, to end the strike, and accept certain concessions from the company. Union and non-union employees re turned to the plants to resume opera tions at 6 a. m., and only two city patrolmen were in evidence. One police cruiser occupied by three of ficers was parked opposite No. 1 plant. Returning workers did not form groups, filing quietly into Goodyear (Continued on Page Six.) CLINTON YOUTH IS KILLED BY AN AUTO Tommie Andrews, Jr., 18, Dies In stantly and Three Compan ions in Car Are Hurt Clinton, May 31. —(AP) —Tommie Andrews, Jr., 18, was killed instantly and three companions were injured when their automobile overturned on the Wallace-Clinton highway near here late last night. Gordon Melvin, 18, Garland Sutton, 20, and George Butler, 20, were in jured. Dr. Paul Crumpler, Sampson county coroner, said all the youths had fallen asleep at the time of the accident. No inquest will be held, he said. HENDERSON, N. C., TUESDAY AFTERNOON, MAY 31, 1938 For Their Babies, a Prize of $375,000 HPm Wm if jssm. Mr m - fl fjfr t . JHQIk ■P'J' 18m T| . jfl ik s Est ? \ ? Jjf fc ML * ill. MBS §& vm • «f v ? m m : |n.. * Msßk J§ 33pu , ‘ I'M <HH IbH IMIjmMHL.. ■ Three of the four Toronto women who are reported to nave won the widely-heralded Canadian babv Tnam the^Knnnnn i^h 6 Snfi °* 68 V , ance Millar, are pictured above. This trio, and a fourth, will share in the $500,000 left ]>y Millar to the mother giving birth to the largest number of babies in the past ten wears In the picture, left to right, are Mrs. Alfred Smith, Mrs. Arthur Hollis Timleck and Mrs John Nag"e S fourth mother to share in the prize is Mrs. John Mac Lean. (Central Pressi 430 Persons Killed As Insurgents Bomb Barcelona’s Suburb N. C. Army Officer Is Killed in Fall New York, May <U. —(AP) — Major Byron T. Ipock, 51, United States Army retired, fell to his death from the window of his sec ond story hotel room today. Ipock, a native of North Carolina, enlist ed as a private in the army in 1908, and won his first commission during the World War. He was re tired in 1935 for disability in the line of duty. -Attaches of the Globe hotel, where he had lived the last two months, said he formally made his home at the Ambassador Hotel In Washington. NEW DEAL WORKERS Speak as They Feel, Many in Opposition to Policies, But On Quiet By CHARLES P. STEWART Central Press Columnist Washington, May 31.—New Deal workers naturally are concentrated in Washington as, probably, in no other single spot in the United States. I personally know dozens of them, hnany quite intimately. My own observation is that few of them are particularly influenced poli tically by their jobs. Anti-New Dealers tell plenty of stories to the effect that the admin istration, through its key men, here in the capital, is bringing all sorts of pressure to bear upon its underlings and reliefees out in the sticks to in timade voters in next fall’s state and congressional elections. It may be that conditions out in the country are different from those in the District of Columbia. As to this area, however, my impression is that our New Deal office holders are a pretty independent lot. Puzzling? I am somewhat puzzled by their in (Continued on Page Four.) GRAND JURY FREES BARBER OF CHARGE Goldsboro, May 31 (AP) —The Wayne county grand jury reported a no true bill today against Ossie Mc- Cullen, Mount Oliver barber, who had been accused by a Negro woman of rape. “WEATHER FOR NORTH CAROLINA. Partly cloudy to cloudy; not so cool m central portion onight; Wednesday partly cloudy and somewhat warmer. SHELVED FOR TERM That Many Bodies Taken from Ruins and Fully 100 More Believed Still Buried MOST OF VICTIMS WOMEN, CHILDREN 40 Bombs Dropped by Five Tri-Motored Planes; Brit ish Freighter Sunk by Bombs in Harbor of Val encia; Spanish Ship Also Sunk; No Deaths Barcelona, May 31.—(AP) —At least 430 persons were killed today in an insurgent air raid on a town 16 miles north of Barcelona. That many bodies were taken from the ruins, and au thorities believed 100 more still were buried. Forty bombs were dropped by five tri-motored bombers, 12 of them plunging into the market square at its most crowded hour. Earlier reports indicated most of the victims were women and children Other bombs fell in the potato dis tribution district. BRITISH FREIGHTER AND SPANISH STEAMER SUNK Madrid, May 31.—(AP)—The British, freighter Fenthames was bombed and sunk inan air raid on Valencia har bor this morning. No lives were lost. A Spanish vessel also was sunk. Air raid alarms kept the harbor district in a state of tension from 11 p. m. last night until after daybreak. The British freighter was the third British ship sunk recently at Valen cia a Spanish government port on the Mediterranean.* A French sailor was killed yester day and several British seamen wounded in Valencia harbor raids. Levine Puts Kidnap Ca'se With Police New Rochelle, N. Y.j May 31.—(AP) —Murray Levine declared today he still had no idea of who kidnaped and killed his 12-year-old son, or why, and said the case henceforth was “entirely in the hands of the police.” Speaking in embittered tones, the moderately well-to-do New York law yer said ransom was the only motive he could advance for the abduction of his boy, whose mutilated body was washed ashore on Long Island Sound Sunday night after three months of mystery. Federal agents, who had remained on the side lines temporarily in de ference to Levine’s hope that he could ransom his son for $30,000, have un leashed the full power of their or ! (Continued on Page Four.) PUBLIBHBD IVIRT AFTHKMOGM EXCBJPT SUNDAY. Youth, 15, Admits Assault, Slaying Cincinnati, Ohio, May 31.—(AP) —Police Captain Patrick Hayes an nounced today that Lindberg Heist, 15, alias Lindherg Trent, had con fessed the rape-slaying of six-year old Shiri'ey Ann Woodburn. Im mediately Detective Walter Hart filed a murder charge against the former news vender, who previous had been identified by a five-year old playmate of the girl as the one who had lured Shirley Ann from his side. The confession was made, Hayes said, as the youth was led to the girl’s hier in an undertaking establishment. Police Major Lorenz said the girl had been criminally attacked. Shirley’s 'body, with 28 stab wounds, was found yesterday in a clump of weeds near a roadside. jenS Kurt i Supreme Court Replies To Criticism of Administra tration Oficials Washington, May 31. —(AP)— The Supreme Court replied to criticism by administration officials today by denying flatly that it had reversed itself in the celebrated Kansas City stockyards decision. Chief Justice Hughes read an op inion, to which Justice Black dissent ed, ; denying a government petition for reconsideration of the April 25 decision. The tribunal had condemned procedure followed by the secretary of agriculture in ordering a reduction of charges permitted commission men at the Kansas City stock yards. Hughes said assertions by Solicitor General Robert Jackson that the court had reversed itself were “un warranted.” Both Jackson and Secre tary Wallace have contended that the court, in its April 25 decision, had termed “fatally defective” procedure (Continued on Page Eight.) SIO,OOO Ransom Paid For Kidnaped Florida Infant And Father Is Confident Princeton, Fla., May 31. —(AP) —W. P. Cash said today the SIO,OOO ransom demanded by the kidnapers of his five-year-old nephew, James B. Cash, Jr., had been paid. The money was thrown from an automobile, he added, fc.y the lad’s father, who made two trips over routes outlined on a map provided by the kidnapers. Returning from the second drive, the father, wealthy merchant, report ed the contact and said he expected to be notified momentarily of the re lease of his son, taken from his bed Saturday night. W. F. Cash said his brother tossed out the bundle of currency in $5 and $lO denominations after blinking the lights of his automobile in accordance with instructions contained in notes from the kidnapers. 8 PAGES TODAY FIVE CENTS COPY ROOSEVELT AGREES WITH HIS LEADERS TO DEFER MEASURE Course Agreed Upon at Early Morning Strategy Conference Held At White House L OPPOSITION RISING TO SPENDING BILL Barkley So Informs Presi dent in Connection With Rumored Revival of Re organization Measure; Wheeler Attacks Treasury Stabilization Plans Washington, May 31.—(AP)—Presi dent Roosevelt and congressional leaders have shelved the government reorganization hill for this session, in formed members of goth the House and Senate reported today. They reported this course . was agreed upon at an early moi’ning strategy conference at the White House as a means of clearing the way for action on pending bills, including the spending-lending measure and speeding final adjournment. Formal disclosure of the plan was expected to be made in statements which Senate Majority Leader Bark ley said upon leaving the White House would be issued “in a day or two, probably tomorrow.’’ Barkley was said to have reported to President Roosevelt that there was “growing opposition” to the spending bill because of uncertainty over whether the reorganization contro versy would be revived. A definite statement that the legis lation would be discarded for the ses sion, Barkley reportedly advised the President, would break dilatory tactics in the Senate against the spending-lending measure. Meanwhile, Senator Wheeler, Demo crat, Montana, demanded that the Treasury give Congress an account ing of its use of the $2,000,000,000 stabilization fund designed to help maintain international monetary equilibrium. Taking the floor during debate on the $3,000,000,000 relief bill, Wheeler (Continued on Page Three.) West Coast HardHitßy, Earthquake Los Angeles, Cal., May 31.(AP) —A giant earth slippage jarred 1,000,000 southern California homes at 12:35 a. rn, Pacific standard time this morn ing, but spared the area of damage. The quake, one of the most severe since the disastrous one in 1933, was felt for 200 miles along the Pacific coast from Santa Barbara to San Diego and inland 150 miles to the Mojave desert and the Coachella val ley. Alarmed families were frightened out of sleep by thß rippling sidewise motion of the earth. Dishes rattled in cupboards; lights swayed; houses creaked. Long Beach, center of the 1933 dis turbance, quickly reported “all’s well,” and other cities, such as Santa Bar barba and San Jacinto, which were hard hit by past earthquakes, went through today’s without harm. The earth shocks, three in number, lasted several seconds. They were strongest on the Los Angeles ocean front, stirring up high waves. The father appeared jubilant and confident young Cash’s release was imminent. “Everything 1 is favorable,” Cash said. “I expect to have the boy back by 12 o’clock. It’s just a matter of waiting.” It was learned a map provided by the kidnapers showed two routes. Cash made a circuit of one route, the northern one, he said, and returned home in ten minutes. Then he drove away again, and upon return said the contact had been made. The money he presumably paid over was obtained from a Miami bank Sunday. Blonde, blue-eyed James B. Cash, .Tr., five and a half years old, was stolen from his bed while his mother went next door to help her husband close his grocery for the night, s,
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