HENDERSON’S
POPULATION
13,873
twenty-fifth year
ROOSEVELT DEMANDS CONTROL
HULL SENDS JAPAN
SHARP PROTEST ON
AMERICANS’ RIGHTS
Views “With Increasing
Concern” Japanese Re
fusal To Return Pro
perties in China
NO SEEN
FOR JAP POLICIES
Invaders Declare Chinese
Resistance Along Lunghai
Railway Gradually Giving
Way Under Air Bombard
ments; Fresh Captures Are
Now Claimed
Washington, June 1. —(AP)— The
United States sharply expressed its
“increasng concern" tody over Japan’s
refusal to permit American citizens
in China to return to properties from
which they were forced by the Sino
jap conflict.
The American view was set out in
a note presented by Ambassador
Joseph Grew to Japanese Foreign Min
ister b'gaki on instructions from Sec
retary of State Hull. The note said
that “the problem of enabling Amer
ican citizens in China to re-enter and
re-possess their properties, from which
tiny had been excluded by the Ja
panese military, and of which the Ja
panese military have been, and in
some cases still are, in occupation, is
giving the government of the United
States increasing concern.”
"It is difficult,” Japan was told, ‘‘to
perceive any warrant for the con
tinued placing by the Japanese au
thorities of obstacles in the way of
return by Americans, who have legiti
mate reason for proceeding to the
areas in question.”
JAPANESE SAY CHINESE
DEFENSE IS CRUMBLING
Shanghai, June 1. —(AP) —Japanese
said today General Chiang Kai-Shek’s
latest defense line» along the cross
country Lunghai railway were giving
way gradually under aerial bombard
ment.
Japanese bombed Chiang’s troops
near Liangfeng, although the army
of Nippon still appeared to be balked
in its efforts to reach Kaifeng and
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Spaniards
Battle In
Mountains
Hendaye, France, June 1 (AP) —In-
surgents scaled precipitous mountains
on the front east of Teru-el today,
fighting hand to hand with govern
ment militiamen in a general offen
sive aimed at the capture of Valencia.
On land and in the air the fighting
in this new drive by General Francis
co P'Tanco’s army assumed propor
tions equal in severity to any in the
nearly-two-year-old civil war.
His war planes pounded cities and
concentrations on the eastern coast,
while the full power of his infantry,
cavalry and artillery slowly dislodged
government troops from their brist
ling positions north of the highway
that reaches from Teruel to Sa
gunto and Valencia.
Reports reaching the frontier said
the death toll from yesterday’s in
surgent bombing of Granollers, 16
nnles north of Barcelona, would reach
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State’s Revenue Still
Holding Strong, Without
Much Sign Os Recession
nallj IMapafcta Dnrcaa.
In The Sir Walter Hotel,
Raleigh, June I.—North Carolina’s
Mf, y lax revenues continued to hold
ap extremely well —in fact they show
f,(l a 1.29 per cent increase over May
() f 1937 when all items are consider
ed—and there were only scattering
indications here and there that the
no-called recession is doing any dirty
Work at Tar Heel crossroads.
•n the revenue division, sales tax
receipts were off about $75,000 from
- ay, 193.7, but any true comparison
here is unreliable because in 1937
e,e wore no basic food exemptions
°nd no building material excise taxes.
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THE ASSOCIATED PRESS.
South Told
By Hopkins
To Step Up
Must Lift Living
Standard To Take
Its Rightful Place,
WPA Head Says
Columbia, S. C., June I—(AP)
Harry Hopkins, WPA administrator,
said today “if the South is to achieve
its rightful place in our economy,” its
plans of living must i c raised to a
level more nearly comparable with
mass standards of health and com
fort in other rections.”
Hopkins’ views v/ere expressed in an
address he prepared for delivery at
commencement exercises for ‘154 grad
uates of the University of South Car
olina. Because of illness, he was un
able to come to Columbia and his ad
dress was read by Professor Josiah
W. Morse, of the University facurty.
“What is ahead for the South?” was
tiie subject of the WPA administra
tor’:! address, and he said: v
“This contention, as regards public
health, will not be contested, even by
the most conservative people. Not
many of them will question the
merits of general education. But on
the question of equalizing income op
portunities, you begin to get argu
ments from the sort of people who
are always saying that what was
good enough for their fathers is good
enough for them.
“It may be useless to protest to
them that the opportunities today,
in spite of all our scientific advance,
are not as widely distributed as the
opportunities which were open to
them and to their fathers. But I am
sure the members of this graduating
class understand all too clearly what
I am talking about.
“I am sure that you know that to
improve these living conditions will
take more than mere preaching the
gospel of hard work, frugality and
rugged individualism.”
/Big Season Looked for In
Western North Carolina
During Summer
Dnllv Ptßpntrh Hnreiin.
In the Sir Walter Hotel
lialeigh, June 1. —At least a million
people are expected to visit the Gr?at
Smokies this summer, according to
Department of Conservation and De
velopment estimates, but these vener
able peaks are probably not getting
jii the least excited about it.
Certainly they are old enough to
maintain perfect sang froid about the
whole affair, as geologists say they
are among the oldest mountains in
♦he world—much older in fact than
the Alps or the Pyrenees. By com
parison, the Rockies are mere babes
in-arms.
They arc being made more and
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For the 11 months of the current
fiscal year total sales tax receipts for
the first time dipped under corres
ponding figures for the previous year.
This May's sales tax revenue was
$890,324.15, last May’s was $965,271.01.
The eleventh months’ figures were
$10,323,353.28 against $10,348,997.88 last
year.
It was also significant that May,
1938, sales tax receipts were above
those for the preceding month by
about $22,000, while in 1937 April col
lections were nearly $58,000 above
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ONLY DAILY NEWSPAP ER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OF NOKTH CAROLINA AND VIRGINIA.
WHERE LEVIN E BOY’S TORSO WAS FOUND
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General view of seawall and estate of Mrs. Louis Iselin, on Davenport Neck, Long Island Sound,
showing group at left inspecting spot where Peter Levine, long missing kidnap victim, was found.
His decapitated body was found after it was washed ashore.
Uncle of Infant Gives Up
All Hope of Ever Re
covering Him Alive
from Abductors
SIO,OOO RANSOM WAS
PAID OVER TUESDAY
Man Seized by G-Men in
Posse of 400 Persons Wait
ing in Front of Cash Home
Ready To Start Search for
Snatchers Near Small Flor
ida Town
Princeton, Fla., June 1. —(AP) —
Agents of the Federal Bureau of In
vestigation emerged from the home
of James Cash, Jr., today, seized a
spectator standing in a crowd 100
yards away and rushed him off in
an automobile. The car headed to
ward Miami before the crowd, num
bering about 400, realized what was
taking place.
.Five minutes later, Sheriff D. C.
Coleman and several deputies who ar
rived here this morning to start an
intensive search of the neighborhood
for five-year-old James! Cash, Jr., kid
naped Saturday night, sped off in the
opposite direction toward Homesteads
a village a few miles south.
The throng from which the man
was taken had been waiting in a
school yard for Sheriff Coleman to
instruct them in carrying out the
hunt by posses.
Hope apparently had been aban
doned that the boy, held for SIO,OOO
ransom, would be returned alive.
“I talked with the family and noth
ing whatever happened last night,”
said W. P. Cash, the boy’s uncle. “The
case is exactly where it was yester
day, only it is one day worse.
“I’ve given up all hope the boy will
be found alive. I didn’t have much
hope from the start, but I feel that
last night was the last chance for him
to return alive.”
The overalled Cash, who runs a fill
ing station next door to James Cash
Sr., indicated his brother now was
willing for the possees to take to the
field, since 24 hours had elapsed after
he paid the ransom, with no word
from the abductors.
ABORTION CHARGES
AT MANTEO DROPPED
Manteo, June 1, (A'P)—The Dare
county grand jury returned a “not
true bill” last night, clearing J. La
mar Rhyne, of Brevard, of charges
of prescribing for an abortion.
"WEATHER
FOR NORTH CAROLINA.
' Partly cloudy tonight and
Thursday; slightly warmer to
night and in north central and
northeast portions Thursday.
HENDERSON, N. C„ WEDNESDAY AFTERNO ON, JUNE 1,1938
Ehringhaus Endorsement
Os Hancock Is Surprise
To Political Observers
Former Governor Says He Has Right as Private Citizen
To Support Candidate of His Choice; Message
Read at Hancock Rail y in Old Home Town
Raleigh, June 1. —(AP)—Political
followers watched today for possible
effects on Saturday’s Democratic pri
mary vote of the endorsement given
Representative Frank Hancock, Jr.,
last night by former Governor J. C.
B. Ehringhaus.
Hancock, opposing Senator Robert
Reynolds, spoke in Elizabeth City,
’hometown of the former governor
when he was elected.
A telegram was read the audience
from Ehringhaus, which said:
“My best wishes are with you as
you speak tonight in my home town.
You will be speaking to some of the
finest folks in the world, and they will
oS|S”
More of Them Named Ori
ginally by Governors
Than by the People
Dally Dispatch Bureau,
In the Sir Walter Hotel,
Raleigh, June I.—The keeness of
judicial races in many districts this
year has centered interest upon se
lection of Superior and Supreme
Court judges, but an examination of
the records of the twenty-eight jurists
now occupying either supreme or
superior court benches shows that
“popular” selection is more a mat
ter of theory than of practice. in
North Carolina-
Going ovei records of the judges, it
is revealed that only one of the
seven Supreme Court justices was ori
ginally put on that bench by vote of
the people—and even that one was
appointed to the chief justice’s post he
now holds. The other six were appoint
ed to the court —one by Governor
Morrison two iby Governor J. C. B.
Khringhaus and three by present Gov
ernor Clyde R. Hoey.
The percentage of superior court
judges originally appointed isn’t any
thing like as high but even so. more
than half of the twenty-one incum
bents gained their present positions
originally by the appointment route.
The figures show twelve appointed
and nine elected for their first terms
With no less than four Hoey ap
pointees facing the keenest sort of op
position in the present primary, there
is at least an even chgnce that there
will have to be a revision of these
figures on and after January 1, in so
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know ho\y to appreciate your own
fine qualities.”
Asked ff the telegram was a flat
endorsement of Hancock’s candidacy,
Ehringhaus replied: “I will have to
speak for myself., I think that as a
private citizen I have the right to
favor a -candidate.” • '
Hancock forecast he would carry
69 counties and charged that Repub
licans were aiding the Reynolds cam
paign. *
Senator Reynolds made his second
formal campaign speech at almost the
same hour in Winston-Salem, and said
he would win by a tremendous ma
jority. He did not mention Hancock
by name.”
Thrust Loot
Brings Six
Indictments
New York, June 1 (AP) —District
Attorney Thomas Dewey announced
today six persons have been indicted
on charges that they looted seven in
vestment trusts with combined assets
of more than $16,000,000 in the past
year. The announcement came short
ly after Dewey’s men arrested V. E.
Ferretti, a lawyer.
Dewey said with a total investment
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SHARP ADVANCE IN
PRICES OF COTTON
Trade and Foreign Buying Bullish
Features; Futures Up 16 to
20 Points at Close
New York, June I.—(AD) —Cotton
futures opened today two points lower
to two points higher. Lower Liver
pool cables were partly offset by an
advance at Bombay and trade and
foreign buying. October rallied from
7.76 to 7.87, or to net advances of 12
to 14 points shortly after the first
half hour. By midday October, which
had reacted from 7.89 to 7.86, rallied
to 7.90 to carry prices up to net gains
of 10 to 15 points.
Futures closed 16 to 20 points high
er. Spot steady, middling 7.89.
Open Clos3
July 7.69 7.89
October 7.76 7.95
December 7.81 7.98
January '7.79 7.97
March 7.83 8.01
May 7.87’ 8.05
PUBLISHED EVEKT AFTEEMOOE
EXCEPT SUNDAY.
OVER HINDS
President Claims
He Needs Powers
To Handle Crisis
rss
DECISION OF COURT
Refuse To Stand by Su
preme Court Ruling on
Issue Involving Labor
Board Status
IT’S NOT SITDOWN
STRIKE, THEY SAY
Satisfied. With Employer
and Plan To Fight To
Hold Jobs, Leader Says;
Reinstatement of Strikers
Is Issue Involved in Court’s
Decision
Syracuse, N. Y., June I—(AP1 —(AP) —
Joseph Murray, chairman of the joint
council of Remington Rand Em
ployees Association, announced today
6,000 workers in the Remington Rand
plant at Syracuse, Ilion, Elmire and
Middletown, Conn., had “stopped
work” in protest of a Supreme Court
decision refusing to review a National
Labor Relations Board striker rein
statement order.
“It is not a sitdown strike,” Mur
ray said, “but merely a cessation of
work. We refuse to stand for the
Supreme Court decLsion. They have
never heard our side of it.”
He declared that the cessation
“might last ten minutes and might
last ten weeks.”
The Supreme Court yesterday refus
ed to review a National Labor Rela
tions Board order directing the com
pany to reinstate 4,000 workers on
strike for more than two years.
Murray said 700 employees were af
fected at the Syracuse plant, 3,0i00 at
Ilion, 1,500 at Elmire, and 800 at Mid
dletown, Conn.
“They’re all down,” he declared.
Joseph Straub, manager at the
Syracuse plant, however, declared
that he “hadn’t heard of it yet.”
"We are satisfied with our employ
er, Mr. Rand,” Murray said, “and wc
plan to fight to hold our jobs.”
powerTolkssee
ROOSEVELT AS FOE
Many Public Men Long
Have Felt Government
Should Own Monopolies
By CHARLES P. STEWART
Central Press Columnist
Washington, June I.—A high-up re
presentative of the private power in
terests drifted the other day into the
National Press club, of which he is
an associate member, and was intro
duced by a fellow member to a third
member with whom the power repre
sentative did not happen to have been
previously acquainted.
“This chap,” remarked the mutual
friend, in jocular identification of the
power man, “is with the power trust.
That is to say, he is against the gov
ernment.”
“You put it,” rejoined the powerite,
“the wrong way around. The govern
ment is against us.”
They’re Sincere.
My opinion is that the private pow
er and utility folk sincerely believe
this.
That they do (if they do) .believe it.
their belief proves nothing much as
to the merits of the controversy. Pub
lic power-ites have long contended
that private power has far over
charged its customers for years. Ad
mitting (merely for the sake of ar
gument) that they have been doing
so, maybe the government is right in
being against them.
Any stick-up man is justified in
thinking that the government is
against him.
Not On a Par?
Practically speaking, the big oower
interests and retail stick-up men are
net on a par.
Fewee'stick-up men can be sup
pressed with no damage to national
business.
The private power spokesmen point
out that they cannot get capital to
invest itself in their companies while
they are under fire. Consequently they
cannot expand and improve, as they
say they would like to do—and as I
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TODAY
FIVE CENTS COPY
Tells Senate Flexible Relief
Program Essential As
Unemployment Con
tinues Rise
LEADERS CLAIMING
ACTION AIDS THEM
Tends To Beat Down. De
mand In Senate for Ear-
Marking Lending-Spend
ing Billions; New St. Law
rence Waterway Treaty Is
Now in, The Making
Washington, June I. ;AP) —Presi-
dent Roosevelt personally intervened
t day in the fight over e ir-marking
1-icposed new Federal public work 4
funds with a warning that unemploy
ment has grown more acute in recent
weeks, and that a flexible relief pro
gram is essential to check it.
The chief executive expressed his
views in a letter to Senator Adams.
Democrat, Colorado, floor manager for
the administration’s $3,247,000,000
spending-lending bill now being de
bated.
His action was quickly interpreted
i v y administration senators as greatly
strengthening their stand against de
mands of Republicans and conserva
tive Democrats that the funds be ear
marked by assngning them for use
on specified projects.
Mr. Roosevelt wrote Adams that
unemployment has “grown worse”
since he sent his relief message to
Congress six weeks ago.
“Emergency employment, therefore,
should come right away instead of
being deferred,” the President said.
The President nominated Carlisle
W. Higgins for another term as Unit
ed States attorney for, the middle dis
trict of North Carolina.
Other developments:
A new American proposal for de
veloping the St. Lawrence waterway
encountered opposition from many pf
the senators who blocked the $500,000,-
000 project four years ago.
Secretary Hull submitted to Can
ada last night a revised treaty by
which the two nations would con
struct a huge hydro-eledtric
project and a 27-foot channel to l«j f
seagoing vessels reach the Great
Lakes basin.
- i
lowa Fight
For Senatel
White Hot
-it
Des Moines, lowa, June 1. —(AP) —
lowa State Treasurer L. .1. Wegman
touched off a State House battle here
today by releasing what he said was
the “substance” of a telegram to Har
ry L. Hopkins, commending the WPA
chief for endorsing O. D. Wearin, in
the lowa Democratic senatorial pri
mary conflict.
“Stand by your guns and more pow
er to you,” the telegram said. It was
dated last Thursday, May 26, the day
after Governor N. G. Kraschel had ex
pressed in a telegram his resentment
at Hopkins’ statement favoring
Wearin.
The dispute in the State official
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FDR Signs
Changes In
Crop Total
Slightly Increased
Acreage Provided
To Meet Tobacco
Men’s Complaints
Washington, June 1. —(AP)—Presi-
dent Roosevelt signed amendments to
the new crop control law today in
creasing this year’s national tobacco
marketing quotas two percent and
providing for re-distribution of un
used cotton acreage allotments.
The amendments have the effect,
Agriculture Department officials said,
of increasing the national marketing
quota for flue-cured tobacco from 719,-
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