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HENPERSON’S POPULATION 13,873 twenty-fifth year GREAT SAVES FROM gut Overflowing Yellow River Has Trapped 250,- 000 Chinese Beyond Hope of Rescue 700,00.0 REFUGEES IN flight to saety Japanese Say There Is No Sign of Angry Waters Abating Soon; Tens of Thousands Believed Caught by Eddying Cur rents and Rising Streams Shanghai. June 18 (AP) —China’s ovtuflwoing Yellow river, which has apparently saved Hankow, the pro vmcial capital, from danger of a northern attack for many months, was declared by Japanese today to have trapped 250.000 Chinese beyond all hope of rescue. The flood waters were declared by Japanese military authorities to have extended over an additional area of 600 square miles in the last 24 hours. The flood /one covered 1,600 square miles. Two thousand villages and hamlets in the rich agricultural pro vince of Honan were submerged, and 1,500 others invaded by the upsurging currents. With 700.000 refugees fleeing before the water as it reached out its long arms, perhaps to join China’s other great river, the Yangtze, also rising 300 miles to the south, Japanese re ports said there was no indication whatsoever of the floods abating. Japanese said they wvre carirnj for 200,000 of the refugees, but the plight of thousands, their homes and fields blanketed in mud and water, was ex treme. Thousands, they said, were eating the bark of trees in desperate efforts to survive. While the number of Chinese actu ally trapped in the flood waters was regarded by neutral observers was extremely difficult to ascertain, tens of thousands were believed to have been caught by eddying currents and i rapidly rising streams. COTTON IS~hIgHER AS SESSION ENDS Futures Up Seven to Nine Points at Close, With Spot Steady and Middling 8.51 New York, .Tune 18. —(AP)—Cotton futures opened unchanged to three points lower, with steady Liverpool cables offset by spot house selling’ and liquidation. October moved be-J tween 8.33 and 8.32, leaving prices one 1 to three points net lower shortly after the first half hour. Futures closed seven to nine points higher; spot steady, middling, 8.51. Open Close July 8.33 8.42 Oetober 8.33 8.42 December 8.37 8.48 January 8.38 8.48 March * .’ 8.42 8.52 May ~8.44 8.54 liSPiTESI TO CLEAN RECORDS Election Recount in John ston To Bring Complete Shake-Up There Dull? UlM,iat«'h linreim. In the Sir Walter Hotel. Raleigh, June 18 —J. R. (Bob) Young apparently has done E. J. W-ellons of Johnston county a great favor. He has also doomed the present election officials in Johnston and has laid the foundation for a complete new poll ing structure there. But for him self, it looks as though he has ac complished nothing, net, beyond ac *iuiring the undying hatred of a tre mendous majority of Johnston coun ty voters. The State Election Board hasn’t said that Mr. Young’s earnest protest of Solicitor C. C. Canady’s nomina tion is to be tossed in the waste-bas ket. On the contrary it has given Mr. Young and his energetic attor ney, Neill McK Salmon, some time in which to dig up the affidavits of Re publicans who voted in Johnston for Mr. Canaday. The task thus set, however, appears to be a tougher one than ever was laid down for Hercules, who is said to have been quite the berries in ac complishing great things. All Young has to do now is to get slightly few (i than 3,000 affidavits to the tenor <u ‘d effect that the affiants are Re publicans or Independents and fur tber, that they voted for Solicitor Canaday on June 4. One member of the election board, lr ‘ an off-the- record talk, laughed ° ul - loud when correspondent 9 "kod him if there is any likelihood Young will be able to get that many affidavits. Perhaps the query was a bit naive, at that. So it’s even better than dollars to uoughnuts that Bob Young will not overturn the June 4 result as far as m- own case is concerned, but he can g.ow with satisfaction (if he feels so flufegfijilF PERRY MEMORIAL Uillltflfc Hntftersmt ITatlti Uiamrtrfi LEASED WIRE SERVICE OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS. CHINA FLOOD THE CAPITAL JAPS’ ATTACK Back Into Action f! 11l mBSSssL. babu ruth .~~ m Ruth Signs To Be Coach Os Dodgers Greatest Baseball Figure of the Game Joins Brooklyn Na tionals Sunday New York, June 18.—(AP)— Babe Ruth will return to baseball as coach of the Brooklyn Dodgers, General Manager Larry McPhail announced today. In a brief statement, which he de clined to amplify, McPhail said Ruth had agreed to terms after a confer ence last night attended by Ruth, Mc- Phail, Burleigh Grimes manager of Dodgers, and Leo Durocher, shortstop and captain of the club. Ruth will be in unform for tomor row’s double-header -wiith tjhe Chi cago Cubs. The Babe, greatest home run hit ter in the history of baseball, was playing golf and could not be reach ed for comment. Officials of the Brooklyn club, who insisted that Ruth who signed a contract covering the rest of the season, would serve as coach, and that’s all. Grimes, they said would continue to hold his job as manager. “It was Grimes, as a matter of fact,” said one official, “who asked that we get Ruth.” One report, which could not im mediately be verified, said the Babe’s contract called for a $15,000 salary. JAMESN. LEAK DIES IN GREENSBORO HOME 82-Year-Old Business Mail Passes at ilome After Long and Very Active Career Greensboro, June 18.—(AF) —James N. Leak, 82, for more than two-score years actively identified with the business life of Greensboro, died this morning at his home here. While he ftad been in failing health some time, his last critical illness had been brief. Leak was a Forsyth county native, having been born near Kernersville. For many years he engaged in the manufacture of tobacco in Kerners ville, and later in Greensboro. He was a member of the class of 1876 of old Trinity College. Funeral arrangements have not been complet j cd. _____ inclined) at the thought that Mr. Wellons won the State Senate nomi nation as a result of the reecount. There is, of course, a chance, that Wellons might have gotten the re count on his own hook, but that’s a matter of guesswork. There will be a complete new deal in Johnston’s election set-up, how ever, though just which officials will get the axe cannot be officially de termined at this writing. First off, there's going to be a new board, there hasn’t been one since 1920, despite his entreaties on the subject. In this new registration, all Voters will be required to give their resi dences, their age and the name of the party with which they affiliate something which the law has called for, but something which the John ston officials have completely disre garded in many, if not most, cases. That will give the county a fresh start along legal lines, and it is no secret that the new registration will be entrusted to new hands and not. to the present staff of election offi ’cials. Members of the State Board of Elections are not saying a great deal for publication, but they are known to feel that the blow-off in Johnston may result in much good, if for no (Continued on Page Si*4 ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA AND VIRGINIA. COPELAND’S DEATH For First Time In History, Biggest State Must Elect Two Senators Next Fall GOVERNOR LEHMAN LIKELY CANDIDATE pr~ Already Mentioned; T o Swap Governorship to Wagner for Senatorship; Copeland Dies in Wash ington of Overwork Dur ing Long Session New York, June 18 (AP) —Double senatorial elections in New York, brought in prospect for the first time by the death of Senator Royal S. Copeland, turned this pivotal state today into a great waiting arena for the test of Roosevelt sentiment this fall. Conservative Democratic Senator Copeland, who would have held his seat until 1940, died suddenly last night in Washington, and thus was created an extraordinary situation under which not one but two men must be sent to the Senate from New York. The term of his strongly New Deal colleague, Senator Robert Wagner, author of the labor relations act, is ending. Even as the shock of Cope land’s sudden death ran through the State, where no senator previously has died in office, politicians were of necessity evaluating the new possi bilities of the situation. Already it had been complicated enough on the Democratic side, what with speculations that Governor Leh man and Wagner might seek to change places, the governor trying for the senatorial nomination and Wagner for the governorship. COPELAND’S DEATH DUE TO OVERWORK RECENTLY Washington, June 18 (AP) —'Sena- tor Royal S. Copeland, 69-year-old New York Democrat and physician legislator, died last night a victim of the overwork and congressional strain against which he often had cautioned his colleagues. Death came at 7:45 p. m. at his apartment here after a sudden gen eral circulatory collapse, which was complicated by a kidney ailment. His physician, Dr. Harry Kaufman, said the senator had “driven himself too hard” during the session of Con gress which ended Thursday night. His death was the second of a member of Congress since the session’s end. Representative A. H. Gasque, Democrat, South Carolina, (Continued on Page Six.) tradle very slow IN STOCK MARKET Selected Issues Edge Forward Slight ly But Numerous Issues In clined To Lag New York, June 18.—(AP) —Select- ed stocks, with coppers in the lead, edged forward today, but numerous market issues inclined to lag. Board rooms lacked their usual quota of customers, many absenting themsel ves for an extended week-end holdiay, and those who attended discovered lit tle in the overnight news to inspire them in any expansion of commit ments either way. Transactions ap proximated 110,000 shares. American Radiator. 10 12 American Telephone 129 1-2 American Tob B 24 Anaconda 24 Atlantic Refining 20 1-8 Bethlehem Steel 44 1-4 Chrysler 41 1-8 Columbia Gas & Elec Co .... 6 Commercial Solvents 7 7-8 Continental Oil Co 8 1-8 Curtiss Wright 4 1-2 DuPont 96 7-8 Electric Pow & Light 9 1-4 General Electric 33 1-4 General Motors 28 7-8 Liggett & Myers B 95 1-4 Montgomery Ward & Co 32 Reynolds Tob B 37 1-4 Southern Railway 6 3-4 Standard Oil N J 46 1-2 U S Steel ... 42 Berlin Police Resume Raids On Jewish Homes And Business Concerns Berlin, June 18 (AP)—Police raids on Jewish homes and Jewish places of business and amusements were described officially today as a drive toward “capturing antisocial and criminal elements.” The first official report issued to the German press since the start of the anti-Jewish manifestations nearly three weeks ago acknowledged two raids had be,en made in Berlin. In those raids, 460 Jews were arrest ed on the night of May 31, an<l on Thursday this week. The report said 76 of the prisoners were found to be “heavily incrimi HENDERSON, N. C., SATURDAY AFTERNOON, JUNE 18,1938 Passes Suddenly Kfiimir' inMiifflur jp Spf tator Royal S. Copeland^/- New York —Democrat' ANNE CLARK BRIDE OF JOHN ROOSEVELT President and First Lady Watch from Front Row as Last of Children Is Married BRILLIANT PAGEANT ATTENDS CEREMONY Little Nahant, Mass., Church by the Sea Thronged With Dignitaries and Social Reg isterites, While Thousands Mill Around Outside Edi fice Nahat, Mass., June 181 —(AP —In the simple but sonorous single-ring Episcopal ceremony, John Roosevelt and Anne Lindsay Clark were mar ried at noon, eastern daylight time, today in an ancient church close by the sea. » - * While the President and Mrs. Roosevelt watched from a front row. a few seats from the flower-covered white satin-covered altar, John and Anne took the vow that removed the last batchelor from the Roosevelt fa mily, and gave the Clark family its first married daughter. The two youngsters, both in a few months of their 22nd birthdays, were given the happy auguries of a warm sunny day. A throng of well wishers filled to the doors of the 107-year-old Union church, and thousands pressed against police lines outside. The bride, wearing a flowing white organdy gown, embroidered with 620 yards of satin ribbon, and a tulle veil and train that required ten yards of material, swept up the lefthand aisle of the tiny church on the arm of her uncle, Russell Sturgis. Before the strains of the Lohegrin wedding march had died, John joined her before the altar, stepping from the red carpeted robing room to the right of the chancel. Behind him, as supporter in the bridegroom’s tradi tional hour of discomfort, stood his brother and best man, Franklin D Roosevelt, Jr. The bridal couple marched within a foot of the chief executive and first lady and almost as near to Secretary Morgenthau, Postmaster General Far ley, Harry Hopkins, WPA adminis trator; Bernard Baruch, financier friend of the President, and scores of prominent people in New England society. WEATHER FOR NORTH CAROLINA. Partly cloudy, scattered thun dershowers Sunday and possibly in the interior early today. WEEKLY WEATHER. South Atlantic States: Partly cloudy and seasonably warm weather will prevail during the week, with occasional scattered afternoon thunder showers. nated.” Twenty-six of the prisoners were said to be “without nationality,” and 51 were foreigners without proper papers. “No political or other motives are behind these actions of the police which are conducted in the course of regular check-ups.” The report touched briefly on Ber lin’s increasing anti-Semitic disord’ ers, aside from police raids, which last night were characterized by the daubing of anti-Jewish slogans on scores of shop windows from the east end to the centor of the capital. RAIL PROBLEM HEADS A GENDA ALREAD Y SET FOR NEXT CONGRESS BILLS, BILLS—AS CONGRESS ENDS W . 1 f ilijggpf : -.ik ...... n§ ' - ■> -1 ,jg«4 Mr. and Mrs. William B. Bankhead Speaker William B. Bankhead of Alabama signs last-minute hilts while Mrs. Bankhead looks on as the 75th congress ends its sessions. —Central l’res* Campaigns For Senate Under Fire Committee Demands Facts on U. S. Offi cials’ Activity and Funds Spent Washington, June 18 —(AP) —Chair- man Sheppard, Democrat, Texas, an nounced today the Senate campaign expenditures committee would ask every candidate for the United States Senate whether any Federal govern ment officials are connected with their campaign. This information will be demanded along with a list of campaign con tributors and the amount they give, Sheppard said. A general question naire now is being framed by the committese. The Texan said the candidates also would be asked to give data on any violation or prospective violation of Federal or state corrupt practices act as a part of the committee’s plan to investigate “politics in relief”, and other charges that public money is being used to further the chances of candidates. Sl*eppard explained the United States Supreme Court has held the Federal government has no power to prosecute in primary elections. If violations of the corrupt practices act are found by the committee in such contests, information on them will be turned over to state authorities, he said. Meanwhile, the TWA made public a list of 49 proposed power projects which are being held up here tem porarily pending clarification of na tional power policy. Officials feel these propects might be in conflict with private utilities. TVA’s problem is to find a formula for offering the utilities a fair and reasonable price for the properties. The 49 projects, involving an esti mated outlay of $56,780,026 included: Fremont, N. C., $43,000. BRING "NEGRO BACK ON MURDER CHARGE Man Held in Philadelphia Wanted for Killing Another Negro at Spring Hope in 1935 Philadelphia, June 18. —(AP) — Fed eral Bureau of Investigation officials said today a Negro docketed as New som Robbins, 40, in Holmsburg pri son for ten months on an assault charge, was wanted in Spring Hope. N. C., on a murder charge. Police Chief Ollie Laughter, of Spring Hope, is enroute to Philadelphia to return Robbins for trial in the slaying of Louis Cooper, another Negro, Novem ber 29, 1935. * The Federal agents said if Rob bins refused to waive extradition, they would transport him to North Carolina under a statute giving them jurisdiction in cases of flight to es cape prosecution. PUBLISHED SyiJlY A FTEKNOGJN BXCEPT SUNDAY. B. P. W. Hears Plea For Real Service Goldsboro, June 18 (AP) —The national -executive secretary of Business and Professional Women’s Clubs said here today that the Uiujted States needs individuals and groups who will lay aside self interest “and work whole-hearted ly for the well-being of the nation as a whole.” The speaker was Miss Louise F. Bache, of New York, and her audi ence was composed of delegates to the nineteenth annual convention of the North Carolina branch of the federations Miss Bache cited the national program as a good example of team work. Election of officers was on the afternoon program. A banquet was set for tinight with a post convention breakfast tomorrow closing the meeting. TOHMRDJOB Plenty of Theorists Itching for It, But Practical Men Are Few By CHARLES P. “STEWART Central Press Columnist * Washington, June 18. —The admin istrator, under the wage-hour law, will have a job fit to turn one’s ffair gray. The various industrial boards (a board per industry) will do the initial fixing, hut the administrator will possess the veto power over their findings; consequently all the grief will be up to him in the long run. Naturally such regulation will be desperately ticklish business. Os course there will he clashes be tween industries, clashes between cap ital and labor, clashes between sec tions, clashes between producers and consumers, clashes between conflict ing labor groups, and, maybe, clashes between conflicting groups of em ployers. Moreover, the law is tremendously complicated. There will have to be no end of interpretations. Litigation will result. For a couple of years, at least, the whole thing will be a plexus of un certainties. McGrady? My own notion is that former As sistant Labor Secretary Edward F. McGrady (who is prominently men tioned) would be the ideal selection for the post. McGrady, as a mediator of disputes, while in the labor department, was a perfect wonder. Labor trusted him, as a loyal unionist. Employerdom trusted him, for he was fair with it. He has, in short, a trustworthy tem perament. He was, to be sure, long identified with the American Federation of La bor, with which John L. Lewis’ Com mittee on Industrial Organization now (Continued on Page Si? * 8 PAGES TODAY FIVE CENTS COPY EXTRA SESSION IN IAWLTO Railroads May Become So «. Desperate They Cannot Wait Until January for Relief UNEMPLOYMENT IS TO GET ATTENTION Crop Control Act Must Be Amended and /Tax Laws Revised Along “With Anti- Trust Statutes; Govern ment Reorganization To Be Pressed Further Washington, June 18. —(AP) —A big program already is laid out for the new Congress to be elected this fall. What the 75th Congress left undone, he 76th Congress is likely to find or its docket when it convenes next Jan’ uary—unless there is a special session n L he meantime. No. 1 on almost everybody’s list of problems for the next Congress is what to do about the railroads. Some congressmen have predicted a special session may be necessary to rescue the railroads from their desperate fin ancial plight. This group includes Chairman O’Connor, Democrat, New York, of the House Rules Committee. But Chairman Wheeler, Democrat, Montana, of the Senate Interstate Commerce Committee, did not agree. Mindful of the $3,750,000,000 approp riated in the spending-lending 'bill, Wheeler predicted a business upturn by fall. Among other legislation 'congress ional leaders said they believed Con gress necessarily would have to con sider were the following: 1. Relief and unemployment. 2. Amendments to the crop control act. 3'. Revision of the tax laws. 4. Revision of the anti-trust laws. 5. Governmental reorganization. 6. Regional planning'. Meantime, some of the sterner as pects of the Roosevelt-Hull foreign oolicy may come to light with increas ng frequency, now that Congress has packed up its sounding board Arid ontinued on Page Six.) PITTSBURGH PAPERS SUSPEND IN STRIKE » Business Office Joined by Mechani cal Workers To Stop Ail Publication 11 1 ■ • Pittsburgh Pa., June 18 (AP)—A strike of business office worker! brought to a half million subscribers in this district today the prospect of a week-end without Sunday editions of two Pittsburgh newspapers. The city’s afternoon newspapers, the Sun-Telegraph and the Press, publishers also of the city’s only Sun day editions, suspended publication yesterday after mechanical depart employees refused to pass through picket lines formed by the office work ers unions. The Post-Gazette, Pittsburgh’s only morning paper, was unaffected by thd strike. Czech Plane Stirs Fresh German Ire Berlin, June 18 (AP) —A Czechoslo vak airplane, apparently a military machine, which flew over German territory, provoked a new outburst in the Berlin morning press today. The Lokal Anzeiger said it was un derstood the German government would make a “new sharp protest” and commented: “Excuses are useless” A report from Lam, Bavarian vil lage about four miles from the border said the plane flew about for 30 minutes, its passengers apparently ob serving and photographing the roadd and buildings in the vicinity. (The incident came just as Czecho slovakia announced the class of 70,- 000 reserves called up May 21, when it was reported German troops were moving toward the border, was being discharged. (The government at Praha said, however, the army would be kept at its approximate strength of 500,000 by the calling of all conscripts due to begin their training this year.) Chancellor Hitler’s Voelkisher Boe bechter accused Parha of violating “the most primitive regulations of in ternational law,” and “of using bol shevistic methods, thereby playing dangerously with fire.”
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