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 -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.”