HENDERSON’S
POPULATION
13,873
twenty-fifth year
11. S. DENOUNCES BOMBINGS OF CIVILIANS
STATE’S DEMOCRATS
TO VOTE TOMORROW
FOR MANY OFFICERS
Only Two Statewide Places
at Stake, United States
Senator and Utili
ties Office
INTEREST SLIGHT
IN THE CAMPAIGN
Some Scant Administration
Support for Hancock Seen
Past Few Days; Winborne
Bitterly Attacked B y
Grady; Some Congress
men Are Unopposed
Ilnllr niireim.
In the Sir Wnlter Hotel.
Raleigh, June 3. —North Carolina
Democrats will go to the polls tomor
row to nominate their candidates for
a United States Senate seat, eleven
posts in the Federal House of Repre
sentatives, twenty-one district solici
tors, the State utility commissioner,
ton superior court judges, all mem
bers of the 1939 General Assembly
(House and Senate) and a large per--
centage of their county and township
officials.
Republicans will hold no statewide
primary and will vote in only a scat
tering of local contests. The minority
party has named its candidates for
State office in convention and all of
them are without intra-party opposi
tion.
Nomination by the Democrats will
' e equivalent to election In all state
wide races and most local contests, as
the Republicans have fallen to then
lowest estate in many decades —hold-
ing no statewide office, few county
posts and in the last General Assem
bly only eight of 120 House seats and
two of fifty in the Senate.
Nominations by Default.
In addition to the races in which
there are to be contests, the Demo
crats have already nominated (by de
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21 Contests
In Judiciary
Are At Issue
l)<tll> UlMiinteh Boren*,
In Th«« *i|r %VillM*r Mold.
Raleigh, June 3. —Tomorrow’s pri
tmrv will settle (or reduce to two
candidates in each race) twenty-one
contests either for a superior court
judge's robes or the prosecuting pow
ers of a district solicitor.
While there are 21 judicial districts,
thi does not mean there i« one fight
to the district, as some of then? have
bftl. judge and solicitor battles and
others have none at all. Ten of the
races are judicial, eleven ice solici
tor ial. Twenty of the twenty-one are
Democratic party fights—one is the
Republican scrap for solicitor in the
Mjventeenth, where J. F. Jordan and
Avalon E. Hall want the nomination
of ihc G. O. P.
Home of the judicial race;: are a
”'■>!,g the very hottest in the State,
notably those in the first, second and
twenty-first, where Hoey appointees
•he facing politically strong oppon
ent. Only in the second is the issue
tCon’inued on Page Eight.)
Babson Believes Upturn
Like 1933 Now Probable
Economist Says If Business Does Not Get Better of Its
Own Accord, Administration Will Be Forced To
Repent or Inflate; Nation Is Sound
BY ItOGEK W. BABSON,
Copyright 1938, Publishers
Financial Bureau, Inc.
New York City, June 3. —New York
still terribly blue. Friends here
!»■ >ot out that bus’ness is now at the
lowest le’ el for any June since IG3-'1 G 3-'
'“i-Ttover, with that exception, it *s
♦he worst since 1921. particularly £or
1f ': motors and r*>ils. I, however,
point out to my friends that this is a
coincidence and applres only to
Months of June. Taking the first six
’nonth.s of 1938 as a whole we find
l in m materially better than 1932, 1933,
01 In fact, if business had grad-
!* ‘ ll y risen from March, 1933, up to
II present level, we all would be hap
py It was the boom in 1936-7 and the
,:, pid drop of the past six months
iioh have discouraged every one.
i respects for the return of good
lmes hav ® long centered on the
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Big F lying Boat
Reaches Honolulu
Honolulu, June 3 (AP) —The fly
ing boat Guba, bearing six men for
.scientific research ;n wild New
Guinea, arrived here from San
Diego, Cal., at G:22 a. m., today.
The huge “flying laboratory,” built
for the American Museum of Nat
ural History, carried Richard Arch
ibald, young research scientist, and
a crew of five.
The flying time for the 2,621
miles from California was 18 hours,
nine minutes.
Awaiting the plane at Hoilandia,
New Guinea, Is a party of museum
scientists which will .seek rare
specimens of plant and amimal life
from the jungles surrounding Cake
Habbema, 12,500 above sea level.
For the next two years, the
plane will carry .supplies from llol
landia to the isolated camp in a
few minutes, compared to days on
treacherous jungle trails required
by more prosaic methods.
Winborne
And Grady
Claim Wins
Incumbent Predicts
150,000 Margin, Op
ponent Claims 60,-
000 Majority
Raleigh, June 3 (AP) —Stanley Win
borne claimed today he would win
Democratic renomination as utilities
commissioner tomorrow by a margin
of at least 150,000 votes, while his op
ponent, Paul Grady, of Kenly, con
tended he would whip Winborne by
60,000.
“Enthusiastic supporters of a, new
public utility order for North Caro
lina report to my headquarters,”
Grady said in a statement issued at
Smithfield, “that the Paul Grady
straight-from-the-shoulder attack on
the private power monopoly as de
fended by my opponent, will sweep
Mr. )Vinborne and his reactionary
power theory from office.”
“Reports from all over the State are
very satisfactory,” said Winborne in
a statement issued here. “I believe
the discussion of issues in'this cam
paign has clarified many things the
public has not heretofore understood,
and I believe the public has now been
convinced that utility rates in North
Carolina are reasonable and lower
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AGED CONFEDERATE
VETERAN PASSES ON
Charlotte, June 3.—(AP) —J. Z. Por
ter, 97-year-old Confederate veteran,
died early today at the home of a
son here after a stroke of paralysis
three weeks ago. He was a native of
Lancaster county, South Carolina.
mammoth building industry. Build
ing swings up and down in cycles
just as does business. But both cycles
do not always coincide. For instance,
home building hit its all-time top in
1926 and declined steadily from then
until 1934. In 1926, however, business
was only beginning its long climb to
the 1929 New Era peaks. Now the
tide of both is running in. The syn
chronizing of the building and busi
ness cycles for the first time in many
years may give us a prosperity peak
never seen before in America.
FHA Mortgages Bid Aid.
The immediate business outlook is
brightened by the fact that home
building has been able to buck the
trend of the recession. Not even un
reasonable labor costs, bad business,
and fear of the future have prevented
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HENDERSON, N. C., FRIDAY AFTERNOON, J UNE 3, 1938
They Advised President to Hold Revamp Bill Until 1939
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Representative Sam Rayburn, Senator AJben W. Barkley, Vice P resident John Nance Garner and Speaker William B. Bankhead
Hi a smiling mood, the Big Four of Democratic leaders in congress
leave the White House after convincing President Roosevelt that a
second attempt to pass his departmental reorganization bill be post
poned till the 1939 congress. The bill passed the senate in this con
IcSINGS
DEATHTO SCORES
Fifty Perish in Textile Fac
tory and Many Others
Die in Houseboats
on River
CHINESE ARMY IS
AGAIN WEAKENING
Japs Driving Toward Two
Cities Preparatory to Gi
gantic Offensive Against
Hankow, Provisional Cap
ital; Chinese Admit Situ
ation Is Serious
Hong Kong, China, June 3 (AP)-
Japanese bombing planes killed fifty
persons in a Canton textile factory
today and caused a great loss of life
among houseboat dwellers along the
Canton river.
The factory was crowded with work
ers when two bombs struck the
building. *
The attackers also bombed the vicin
ity of a railway station, where many
refugees were encamped.
The station was no thit, however,
and the raiders departed after 55 min
utes. The raid was another of the
series that began Saturday, in which
a total of 1,000 civilians were estimat
ed. to have been killed and 1,500 in
jured.
CHINESE ARMY APPEARS
TO BE WEAKENING AGAIN
Shanghai, June 3 (AP) —-Chinas
army appeared to be weakening again
today before continuous artillery and
aviation attacks on the central China
front, where Japanese are driving to
ward Kaifeng and Chengchow, pre
paratory to a gigantic offensive south
along the Peiping-Hankow railway
against Hankow, China’s provisional
capital.
Chinese reports from Hankow ad
mitted the situation was becoming
critical at Lanfeng, the station along
the Lunghai railway, and a kep city
in the Chengchow drive.
Foreign military observers reported
evidences the Chinese were running
short of heavy munitions.
NEWIIMURE
10 8E NOMINATED
/•
All Seats in Senate and
* House at Stake in Year’s
Contests
Daily Dispatch Bnrean,
In the Sir Walter Hotel.
Raleigh, June 3.—A1l members of
the 1939 legislature (except those
lucky enough to have escaped intra
party opposition) and most county
officers in Noith Carolina will be
nominated by Democrats and Repub
licans in' tomorrow’s primary.
In a few instances large fields will
be reduced to two for run-off races
in July.
In contrast to the situation which
existed two years ago, there are no
Statewide races or issues which are
lapping over into the legislative and
local field —on the contrary much of
the vote which is cast tomorrow will
be accounted for by the keenness of
these lesser contests. So, instead of
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Roosevelt Sends Board
To England For Studies
Os Trade Union Statute
North Carolina To Get $6,9 36,0.00 Federal Road Funds
in 1940-4.1 Fiscal Years; I jams Says No Decision!
Reached Yet on Vet erans Hospital Point
"Washington, Jitjie 3. —(AP) —Presi-
dent Roosevelt sagSrl today he was;
sending a commission to England this
summer to study the British trade
union act.
The President told his press con
ference the study would have no rela
tion at all to the Wagner labor rela
tions act in this country.
Declaring that the idea of the study
was his own, Mr. Roosevelt said its
real purpose would be to clear up a
great deal of misinformation in this
country regarding the British law.
He said he could not say who would
serve on the commission.
Meanwhile, North Carolina’s major
share of Federal road funds au
thorized by Congress to be expended
in the 1940 and 1941 fiscal years would
be $6,936,000. These figures were made
Ex-Senator
Butler Dies
At Capital
Washington, June 3 (AP) —Former
Senator Marion Butler, of North Caro
lina, died today in nearby Takoma
Park, Md. He was 76 years old.
Butler served three parties during
his political career. He was elected
to the North Carolina State Senate
as a Democrat in 1890, but two years
later left the party to help organize
the Peoples party. While national
chairman of th«e Popularists, he was
sent to the United States Senate in
1896. Later, he aligned with the Re
publicans, and attended six national
conventions as a delegate, the last in
1932.
Butler’s home was Elliott, N. C.
SEC CHIEF MEETS
WITH STOCK HEADS
First “Meeting of Minds” Between Ex
change President and Gov
ernment Officials
New York, June 3.—(AP) —William
O. Douglass, chairman of the Securi
ties & Exchange Commission, today
revealed a plan far-reaching in its
implication for “round table” coopera
tion between the commission and the
New York Stock Exchange.
Talking to reporters after the first
of what he indioated may be weekly
meetings between (commission offi
cials and those of the exchange, he
said of the joint SEC-stock exchange
problem, “We hope to solve them in
a round table manner.”
Douglas said specific solution for
various problems confronting the ex
change and the regulatory body were
mostly still in the conversational
stage.
“We have a general agenda of un
finished business,” he said, “but it is
not the method but the joint ap
proach which is the important thing.”
Douglas said he felt this was the
first real meeting of minds between
the president of the exchange and
federal officials.
gress but failed in the house by eight votes. Left to right are Rep
resentative Sam Rayburn of Texas, majority leader in the house;
Senator Alben W. Barkley of Kentucky, majority leader in the sen
ate: Vice President John N. Gamer; Speaker William B. Bankhead.
public by Senator Hayden, Democrat,
Arizona, co-author of the Haydcn-
Cartwright roads appropriation bill
which went to the White House June
1.
Hayden’s figures showed North Car
olina’s allocation for regular Federal
aid highways in North Carolina would
be $2,323,900; for secondary or feeder
roads, $349000, and for grade cross
ings $197,000.
For the 1941 fiscal year, the State
would receive $2,672,000 tor regular
Federal a:d highways,. $349,000 for
secondary roads and $746,000 for
gx-ade crossings.
Also, Colonel George Ijams, chair
man of a Veterans Administration
sub-committee considering a site for
Continued on Page Two.)
Faiiey t s7orW
OE NEW DEAL RASH
But Party Is Split Wide
Open; Party Regulars
Resent Dictation
By CHARLES P. STEWART
Central Press Columnist
Washington, June 3.—When Senator
Josiah W. of North Carolina
declared that “that crowd (meaning
President Roosevelt and his closest
group of New Deal advisers) cannot
run the Democratic party and win an
election” undoubtedly he made a rath
er rash prediction.
This year’s state and congressional
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GOVERNMENT LINES
REPORTED SEVERED
Spanish Insurgents Make Sharp Head
way in Their Drive on East
Coast Territory
Hendaye, France, June 3.—(AP)
Insurgents declared today they had
broken the government’s stubborn de
fense lines west of open
ing the way for attacks from three
directions on the coastal highway
reaching south to Valencia.
Despite tenacious government resis
tance, General Aranda’s Galicians cap
tured two mountain positions, estab
lishing a semi-circle of three miles
radius about Albocacer. Both posi
tion are west and south of the be
icagued town.
There was evidence again the gov
ernment was disputing insurgent mas
t«ry of the air. Insurgent claimed
4 5 and possibly six more go /eminent
planes were shot down uu.ing May,
but a communique from Barcelona
said insurgent planes Wire also shot
down from the air.
WEATHER
FOR NORTH CAROLINA.
Partly cloudy, preceded by rain
in east this afternoon and pos
sibly on the coast early tonight;
Saturday, generally fair and war
i mer.
PUBLISHED EVERY AFTBKNOOE
EXCEPT SUNDAY.
Cash Search
Extends Into
“Keys” Areas
Father of Kidnap In
fant Leaves Home
First Time Since
Paying Ransom
Princeton, Fla., June 3.—(AP)— A
fleet of boats extended the search for
kidnaped Jimmy Cash ( southward in
to the Florida keys today, while' J.
Edgar Hoover, director of the Fed
eral Bureau of Investigation augment
ed his staff by 14 G-men rushed here
by plane.
James B. Cash, Sr., left home for
the first time since he paid the $lO,-.
009 ransom Tuesday to investigate an
erroneous report that his five-year-old'
son’s body had been found. Mrs. Cash
was abed under a doctor’s care.
Hoover arrived at the FBI office
in Miami late in the morning, lead
ing to the supposition he and his men
had worked far into the night. With
him were Clyde Poison, his aide, and
E. J. Connelley, investigaitor from
Washington. All were uncommunica
tive.
Searching pai’ties took the field in
small number than those who save
beaten the bushes in the past few
days.
Working from boats, divers explor
ed the bottom of the sound.
WINDSORS OBSERVE
FIRST ANNIVERSARY
Duke and Duchess Forego Celebra
tion, However, To Condition /
Their New Residence
Antibes, France, June 3 —(APl—The
Duke and Duchess of Windsor cele
brated their first wedding anniversary
today working together on their first
real home. The ex-ruler of the Bri
tish empire and the American-born
woman were so engrossed in getting
the Chateau de la Croe ready to live
in that they planned no formal cele
bration.
They scheduled just another day
of supervising alterations inside and
outside * the comfortable chateau,
which they have leased for two years.
Ford Predicts Greatest
Orgy Os Prosperity Yet
And Hits Money Barons
Detroit, Mich., June 3 (AP>—ln his
first statement on public affairs since
he returned home from a recent east
ern trip that took him to Washington
as a White House visitor, Henry Ford
said in an interview today that noth
ing has happened in recent weeks to
change his conviction that “we are
going to have the greatest era of
prosperity and happiness we have
,ever known.”
Ford sat astride a bench in the
mess hall of a boys’ farm camp not
far from his home in Dearborn, and,
pointing toward the nearly 300 acres
under cultivation by the young farm
ers, said:
“And it will come through a back
to-the-land movement.”
Ford reiterated his criticism of cer
tain financial interests,” which he
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AMERICA’S VIEW ON
SPANISH WAR AND
JAPAN SE T FORTH
Under Secretary Welles Is
sues Stern Statement
After Conferring
With President
$300,000,000 MORE OF
SPENDING APPROVED
Amount Inserted in New Fi
nance Measure in Senate
by Wagner of New York;
President Divides Victories
And Defeats In Present
Congress
Washington, Juno 3. —(AP)— The
United States government expressed
today its “emphatic reprobation” of
bombings of civilian populations in
China and Spain.
Under Secretary of State Sumner
Weiles, after a conference with Presi
dent Roosevelt, issued a state
ment on behalf of the State Depart
ment. The statement said American
public opinion “regards such methods
as barbarous.”
It recalled that in recent days aerial
bombings have caused the deaths of
many hundreds of persons in Spain
and China. He mentioned the fact
that the United States government,
has, on numerous occasions, express
ed its disapproval of such actions, par
ticularly through statements by Sec
retary Hull September 28 and March
31.
Welles said today’s, statement' was
not taken in conjunction with Great
Britain, and was not being com
municated diplomatically to General
Franco or the Japanese government.
The Senate approved an additional
$300,000,000 for slum clearance, mean
while. The authorization was written
into the administration lending-spend
ing bill, raising the total to $3,722-
000,000. The action was taken on mo
tion of Senator Wagner, Democrat,
New York, author of much housing
(Continued on Page Six.)
Srandperu
Napo River Incident Ex
pected To Be Settled by
South Americans
Lima, Peru, June 3 (AP) —A high
government source declared today that
“there seems to be no serious danger
of an outbreak” between Ecuador
and Peru as a result of the Napo river
incident.
The Peruvian foreign office de
nied its ships or military forces had
attacked the inhabitants or garrison
of Rocafuerte, disputing Ecuadorean
versions of the border dispute.
ECUADOR’S ARMY READY
FOR ITS DEFENSE
Quito, Ecuador, June 3 (AP) —Ecua-
dor’s frontier army sharpened its de
fenses today in the wake of a new in
cident of violence in the nation’s
107-year-old dispute with Peru. Two
soldiers and a lieutenant were killed
yesterday in a clash with Peruvian
gunboats along a river in the north
eastern portion of a vast jungle claim
ed by both nations.
The ministry ordered troops to re
frain from retaliatory aggression,
but to defend themselves “with all
their characteristic valor.”
said would like to bring about anoth
er war. “Somebody once said that 60
families have directed the destinies of
the nation. It might well be said that
if somebody would focus the spot
light on 25 persons who handle the
nation’s finances the world’s real war
makers would be brought into bold
relief.”
The motor manufacturer said vete
rans of the World War would have an
increaisng part in shaping the future
of the nation’s affairs, charged once
more than some financial interests
£*eek to control food prices, and de
clined to discuss for publication his
call at the White House.
Ford said there was nothing about
his recent visit to Wall Street to see
J. P. Morgan that was inconsistent
[ with his opposition to “certain finan
; cial interests.”