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HENDERSON’S POPULATION 13,873 twenty-fifth year 11. S. PROTESTS - "' ft Our Future Generals Prepare for Graduation racing a week s program of activities that mark commencement at the | Umted States Military Academy, West Point, N. Y., the cadets are shown at attention during the last dress parade before the start of the most | Japanese Continue Bombing Os Chinese City Os Canton Eruption Os Aolcano Yet Terrifying Filipinos Refuse To Be Calmed in Face of Mayon’s Violent Explosions Manila, P. 1., June B.— (AP) Au thorities tried vainly today to calm thousands of terrified natives within siffht of belching: Mayon volcano whose periodic eruptions frightened one man to death and drove another insane. People in the region near the south ern tip of Luzon island became more excited hourly as the volcano rum bl'd almost continuously and erupt ed at intervals of about three hours. Panic spread when the volcano hi'w off this afternoon, throwing up a great pillar of smoke and vapor and vast quantities of incando rcent rock into the sky. The crajcr top was hidden i v y the smoke cloud thtough which the sun peered like a blood red eye. Pear of disease in epidemic propor tion : in the refugee camps at Nuyda add'd to the worries of authorities. Doer ol reported drinking water there was unsafe. A director of the govern ment weather bureau in Manila said no amount of assurance would make the people stay in their homes, even when their houses were in no danger. McMULLAN REFUSES TO DEMAND RUN-OFF Tarty Harmony and Expense of An other Election Giver,' as Rea sons for Decision L'.iZ ibeth City, .Tune B.—(AP —John T McMullan, of Elizabeth City, run i" i -iin in the four-cornered conte ~.t f v ♦he solicitorship of the first congres sional listiict, announced today he would iot ask for a eun-off primary, ’it would concede the nomination to Che ter Morris, of Currituck, high man in the first primary. McMullan, in a statement announc hig his decision, and expressing aj> f'i'nation for the support given him, ottributes his decision to “reluctance *o put the district to the expense of ! » eeond primary, when there are f?w 'entity contests, to a desire to promote baity harmony and to a feeling that my present disadvantage is too great to warrant my requiring this expen diture on the part of the several coun ties involved.” Charge Over School Fund Is Quashed Wilson, June 8 (AP) —Commission- eis ’ inquiry into the alleged unac '"unting of $7(1,000 of county school hauls was quashed today after sous hoars of testimony. 1 tie swift action followed the mo mo of Commissioner Thomas H. VVoodard to end the proceedings and a 'ijourn the meeting. Mot*, than 300 spectators had <-• owdod into the court room to hear 1 m testimony before the Wilson ■ - (Continued on Page Five.^ Bntiirrsmt Datht tHspatrli LEASED wire service of THE ASSOCIATED PRESS. Siler City Fire Hits Rose Store Siler City, June B.—(AP)—Fire caused several thousand dollars worth of damage to a building in the business section here today. The Haze, believed to have caught in the stock room, burned the five and ten cent store, grocery and shoo shop. The loss was covered by insurance. One fireman received minor in juries when a ladded fell and an ot her when his leg crashed through the floor of the building. ROSE STORE DAMAGED. The store referred to in the Siler City dispatch was that of the Rose 5-10-25 c Stores Company of Hen derson. It is in charge of one of the only two women managers In the company’s chain of 103 stores in five stutes, Miss Ruth White serving in that capacity. T. B. Rose Jr., vice-president and secretary of the company, said today the loss had not been determined, hut was covered by insurance. R. W. Bruin, of the executive staff, went to Siler City today to inspect the damage. moTecisiT BUDGETS INSISTED Johnson Warns Cities and Counties To Make Al lowance for Funds Dally Dispatch Ifnrean. In the Sir Walter Hotel. Raleigh, June 8. —State Treasurer Charles M. Johnson, in his capacity as director of local government and chairman of the Local Government Commission, is issuing a stern warn ing to all local governmental units that they must include WPA projects to be undertaken in the coming fiscal year in their regular budgets. The warning is in the form of a circular “Memorandum to county commissioners and governing boards of cities and towns regarding expen diture of public money” and is being given, Mr. Johnson said, as the result of last year’s experience. In many instances, he pointed out. units prepared their budgets without WPA projects in mind, then when op portunity to take advantage of Fed eral funds came later, they accepte i the propositions, spent funds for pro jects not authorized or contemplated in their regular budgets. The treasurer points out that “you have no legal or moral right under any circumstances to deliberately draw on your treasury for purposes (Continued oc Page Three.) GOLDSBORO MAN IS DECLARED SUICIDE Jesse James Gray, 41, Left Note As cribing His Act to Domestic Difficulties Goldsboro, June 8 (AP)—Th-e body of Jesse James Gray, 41-ycar-old farm er, was found behind his barn today with a pistol wound in the heart. Coroner T. R. Robinson, Sr., ruled it suicide, and said no inquest wouid be held. Robinson said Gray left a letter asoribing his action to domestic trouble. Gray lived in Saulston town- Sh Deputy Roy Percife said Mrs. Gray brought non-support charges againo her husband several weeks ago an last week joined relatives in Wil mington. ONLY DAILY NEWSPAP ER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA AND VIRGINIA. important week in their lives. The ceremonies will end when the fourth 2EJP ! eave * he with their diplomas and commissions as second lieutenants. (Central Press) 3,000 Killed, 5,100 Wound ed in 12 Days of Air At tacks on South ern City CHINESE LOSS PUT ABOVE MILLION MEN Japanese Set at 300,000, All in Recent Central China Fighting; Estimates Made by Foreign Military Ob servers; Half Canton Pop ulace Flees Canton, China, June B.—(AP) —Two new bombardments today raised civil ian casualties in this crippled city to at least 3,000 killed and 5,000 wound ed in 12 successive days of Japanese air raids. Two American-owned properties, the Lingman University and oil tanks of the Standard Oil Company, were struck by Japanese bombs today. The oil tanks burst into flame, spread ing a conflagration that burned the terminal of the Canton-Hankow rail road, and a 16-car train that had just arrived from Hankow. At least 300 new civilian casualties were inflicted on Honan island, an in dustrial district. Several Japanese bombs apparently aimed at the river bridge exploded in Honan’s congested area, demolishing about 100 houses. It was estimated fully 500,000 in habitants of this war-crowded city o* about 1,000,000 had fled. About a third of its residences have been vacated. MILLION CASUALTIES ARE REPORTED BY CHINESE Shanghai, June 8. —(AF) —Casualties (Continued on Page Eight.) In Kidnap Quiz t v : . - ' » « iill® Betty Howard, 24-year-old waitress pf Miami, Fla., is pictured above. A friend of Willard Campbell, road house proprietor who _ was ques tioned in connection with the kid naping of James Bailey Cash, Jr., she was taken from her job by G-Men who questioned her for more than a half hour. (Central Press) HENDERSON, N. C., WEDNESDAY AFTERNO ON, JUNE 8, 1938 JAP BOMBINGS IB CANTON Sm Another English Vessel Struck by Insurgent Bombs at Town on Mediterranean Sea BORDER TOWN ALSO IS FURTHER BOMBED Many Seriously Wounded, and City Officials Ask French Community Nearby to Help in Caring for Seri ously Wouinded Citizens Who Are Hurt London, June B. (AP) —Viscount Halifax, British foreign secretary, to day sought an effective way to end repeated air bombardments of British shipping in government Spain’s waters. liOrd Halifax’s unexpected return to the foreign office during a recess of Parliament coincided with the bomb ing of Gandia, a British-operated Spanish port 36 miles south of Valen cia early today. This attack by Spanish insurgent planes raised to 12 the number of foreign ships sunk or damaged by in surgent air bombs in Spanish harbors in the past two weeks. A British dred ger wag hit and disabled at Gandia. British protests to insurgent Gen eral Franco have not diminished the bombardment. Informed sources said the United States was seeking more information before replying finally to Britain’s in vitation to join a neutral commission to investigate the bombings in Spain, to determine whether they are direct ed solely at military objectives. SPANISH TOWN AT BORDER IS BOMBED BY INSURGENTS Perpignan, France, June B.—(AF) A squadron of Spanish insurgent bombing planes today bombed Fig (Con'niued on Page Eight.) Wt All ICR FOR NORTH CAROLINA. Cloudy local thundershowers in earft and south portions this aft ernoon and tonight; slightly cool er In northeast portion and near the coast tonight; Thursday partly cloudy. Future Electrification Plans In State Studied All Major Feeder Lines Provided, But Scores of Thou sands of Rural Homes Still Have No Electric Facili ties; State Ranks Highest In South Daily Dlanatrli Bureau, In the Sir Walter Hotel. Raleigh, June 8. —Director Dudley Bagley and other officials of the State Rural Electrification Authority are scratching their heads hard in an ef fort to map out a compi-ehensive plan for continuation of the program to light up the homes of Tar Heel folks who live in the State’s nearly 300,000 farm dwellings. In view of the fact that $2,000,000 in Federal funds will be available for use in the next fiscal year (begin ning July 1), and of the further fact that practically all the private power companies of the -State have cooperat ed well in REA’s projects and are willing to go along still further, the problem might not seem such a tough one. On the contrary, however, any To Provide $50,000 For Cash Kidnaping Inquiry On President’s Request Chairman Adams, of Senate Money Group, Predicts Availability of Morey Quickly INVESTIGATION MAY BE VERY EXPENSIVE Five-Year-Old Cash • Bay Was Abducted from Home at Princeton, Fla., Ten Days Ago and SIO,OOO Ransom Paid, But Boy Has Never Been Returned Washington, June 8. —(AP) —Chair- man Adams, Democrat, Colorado, ot a Senate appropriations sub-commit tee, predicted today that $50,000 would be appropriated “as a matter of course” for hunting the kidnapers of little James Bailey Cash. President Roosevelt, writing to Vice-President Garner yesterday, at tached a report from the budget bu reau saying the Federal Bureau of In vestigation had asked the $50,000 “on account of the expenses it is anti cipated will be incurred in the inves tigation of the Cash kidnaping case.” Mr. Roosevelt said he concurred in the request. The President suggested in the let ter that the fund be inserted in the deficiency appropriation bill, which the Senate will consider iatc this week. The five-year-old Cash boy was ab ducted from his Princeton, Fla., home May 28. His father paid SIO,OOO ran rom, but the child was not returned. MEASLES EPIDEMIC IN STATE SUBSIDES Raleigh, June 8 (AP) —Dr. J. C. Knox, State epidemiologist, reported today that the meaS es epidemic which has raged in the State, is subsiding, with only 948 cases listed last week, after 1,402 the week before. MARYLANDQONTEST ONE DFJMRASTS Tydings and Opponent Dave Lewis Extremely Op posite Type Men By CHARLES P. STEWART Central Press Columnist Washington, June B.—Representa tive David J. Lewis’ announcement of bis candidacy for the Democratic nomination as one of Maryland’s sen ators, in opposition to Senator Millard E. Tydings’ campaign for renomina tion, has created a colorful situation. Senator Tydings is so old-line a Democrat as to amount, practically, to a seceder from his present-day party —on the assumption that the New Deal is Democratic. He is an aris tocratic Democrat, of the pre-Civil war type. If the New Deal really is Democracy. Tydings certainly is not a current Democrat. Indeed, Maryland Republicans talk of indorsing him as their senatorial choice. David J. Lewis’ democracy (with a little “d”) is of the proletarian sort David J. was fighting for New Deal (Continued on Page Five.) study of the situation which goes deeper than scratching the surface indicates there is real grounds for looking before leaping pell-mell into the business of electrifying the nearly 90 per cent of farm dwellings still without the juice Ben Franklin dis covered and Edison made famous. An official of the Federal REA was here recently on what he called a “planning tour.” He came with the glad tidings that there will be $2,000,- 000 to allocate in the State next fiscal year. He thought there should be no trouble at all in finding where to spend that amount. He looked over the complete and detailed information available at the (Continued on Page Eight) PUBLIftHBID IVIKY AVTUHOei EXCEPT SUNDAY. Planes Invade France •Toiitouse. F K N C E . I® s p Ay N j France soil violated ... by Insurgent planes France has protested a bombing raid of nine Spanish planes on French soil across the Pyrenees frontier. Map shows scene of bombing. One blast destroyed electric power lines from the power plant at Orlu, less -chan three miles southeast of Ax-les- Thermes, and another exploded near the track of the main trans- Pyrenees railroad from Toulouse to Barcelona. Premier Edouard Daladier ordered French planes to pursue and force down any planfea that threatened French territory. —Central PreaM CottonCo-Op Cleared From AJI Charges Senate Committee Votes Eleven to Two for Corpora tion After Inquiry Washington, June 8. —(AF^) — The Senate Agrrcuiiure Committee voted eleven to two to clear the American Cotton Cooperative Association of all charges raised against it during an investigaton started more than a year ago. The committee adopted a report prepared by Senators Bankhead, Dem ocrat, Alabama, and Ellender, Dcmo ocrat, Louisiana, which gave the co operative a clean bill of health or. each of the specifications raised by Lawrence Westbrook and the special staff named to probe the association. At the same time the committee ac cepted a suggestion of Chairman Smith, Democrat, South Carolina, that (Continued on Page Five) PROBE CREAP LABOR IN POTATO SECTION Raleigh, June 8 (AP) —A. L. Flet cher, State labor commissioner, said today his department was investigat ing rumors that cheap labor had been brought in from other states to work in the North Carolina commercial Irish potato section. Election Probe Set Saturday High Point, June B.—(AP) —A pub lic hearing on “election fraud’’ char ges brought >y J. O. Atkinson, Jr., of Greensboro, unsuccessful candidate for the Democratic nomination for Congress in the sixth district, against election officials in High Point, will be held in High Point Saturday, Ed win W. Pierce, of Greensboro, chair man of the county bo o'd of elections, said today. Pierce said today subpoenas being issued for all election officials in eleven of High Point’s 12 precincts, precinct No. 4 being excluded from the charges. More than 40 witnesses, whose names were furnished by At kins, are also being summoned, Pierce said. The board today was checking the congressional ballots cast Saturday in High Point township. 8 PAGES TODAY FIVE CENTS COPY COMPROMISE MADE BY CONFEREES UPON WAGES, HOURS 'BILE Universal Wage of 40 Cents in All Interstate Indus tries at End of Seven Years 25c MINIMUM WAGE IS SCALE AT START Boards Appointed by Cen tral Administrator Would Determine Local Differen tials; American Protest at Canton Concerns Lingman University Property Washington, June 8. —JAP)— The American government protested to the Japanese consul general at Hong Kong today against the bombing bv Japanese airplanes of the campus of the American-endowed Lingman Uni versity at Canton. The State Department said this country’s protest was delivered to the Japanese official by A. E. Southard, United States consul general at Hong Kong. The department said Southard cabled that three Japanese bombs fell on the western end of the campus at the edge of »the athlc/tic field, 200 yards from houses occupied by Amer icans. No buildings were struck. In protesting to the Japanese con sulate general, Southard pointed out, the department said, that the property was partly owned by Americans, as well as the direct American parti cipation in the institution’s financial support and administration. Meantime, a joint congressional committee compromised wage-hour hour legislation by agreeing to impo sition of a universal wage of 40 cents an hour in all interstate industries at the end of seven years, except where such wage should cause unemploy ment. The compromise, adopted with the approval of 12 of the 14 conferees, would provide for a minimum wage of 25 cents an hour, with no excep tions. for the first year. This would be advanced to 30 cents the follow ing year. After this, hoards appointed by a central administrator would be empowered to examine conditions In individual industries to determine the minimum wage to be paid by these industries. The boards, made up of re presentatives of the employees, em ployers and the public, would be charg ed with the duty of increasing the minimum as rapidly as possible. Also, President Roosevelt sent the following- postmaster nominations to the Senate today: North Carolina, Broadway, Preston Morris, and Mount Olive, Jack Barfield. HOEY NOT TO SAVE NEGRO FROM CHAIR Raleigh, June 8 (AP)—Governor Hoey announced he would not interfere in behalf of Empie Baldwin sentenced to be executed Friday for rape in Columbus county, but a 30- day reprieve was given Ben Sims, Ne gro, convicted of murder in Guilford county. Baldwin, a Negro, was convicted in January of attacking Miss Kathleen Policy. Johnston Inquiry Is Now Asked June 8. fAP) —The Johnston County Board of Elections has ordered a hearing Friday at It o'clock on request of J. R. Yodng, of Lillington, for a recount of this county’s vote in the fourth district so licitorial primary, in which Young lost to C. C. Canaday, of Benson, the in cumbent. Walter Siler of Pittsboro, presentcrl the board a petition yesterday for Young, alleging that irregularities, he said had been informed, occurred at the two Smithfield precincts, the Selma, Banner and Meadow precincts, and “other precincts.” The petitioner alleged votes were suppressed and there were irregular ities in all precincts. Canaday, who got 7,683 votes in this his home county, to 2,005 for Young, told the board he would welcome a recount if the board thought it ad visable. Siler said he would present affidavits Friday to sustain his charges. The elections board declared all oth er results. J. D. Benton, of Benson, was officially announced as State Sen ate nominee by 23 votes over Elmer Wellons. Lawrence Wallace, of Smith field, and R. P. Fulghum, an incum i bent, won the House nominations.
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