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'JJenderson’s POPULATION 13,873 TWENTY-FIFTH YEAR ROOSEVELT WILL TALK ON EXTRA SESSION JAPANESE SOLDIERS ARE PUT ASHORE ON SOUTHERN MAINLAND Land Under Heavy Protec tive Barrage, While Planes Again Bomb Part of Swatow JAPS NOT CERTAIN AMERICAN SLAPPED Claim Nc Proof Has Been Found That Missionary Was Insulted by Sentry; Jap Advance Up Yangtze Is Slowed to Snail’s Pace by Floods Hour Kong, June 24. —(AP)—Japa- npse troops landed on the south China mainland today under a heavy protective barrage, while Japanese planes extensively bombed Swatow, south China treaty port The landing was made from Namoi island, 20 miles east of Swatow. Chinese, after retreating inland, counter-attacked and held their ground against the Japanese near Chihlin. JAI’S CLAIM NiO EVIDENCE OF SLAPPING AMERICAN Shanghai, June 24.—(AP) —A Japa nese embassy spokesman declared to day a Japanese military investigation at Nanking had found no proof that a Japanese sentry had slapped Dr. J. W. Thompson, of New Brunswick, N. ,T. The doctor's complaint he was struck ty a sentry caused Unitea States Consul John Allison to pro test Wednesday to Japanese authori ties. The Japanese Embassy official said no Chinese passerby saw the slapping. < ... Under questioning, he was unable to advance any reason why Dr. Thompson said he was slapped if he was not, and promised to produce more detailed information of the Jap anese version of the incident. Later, the spokesman said an in*i vestigation showed the sentry only searched Thompson “in a quiet, rou tine manner.” Meantime, the Japanese advance up the Yangtze river toward Hankow slowed to a snail’s pace, as a result of severe fighting and the overflow ing river. Forces on the north bank of the Yangtze, fighting to attack, ob- Continued on Page Two.) Nash Infant Found After iNight Hunt Fayetteville Man Missing Since Tues day Also Found Alive in Woods ..Rocky Mount, June 24. —(AP) — After an all-night search, in which Nash county officers, Boy Scouts and neighbors combed the countryside, « Negro farmer found two-year-old Jimmy Dozier this morning asleep in ar > old abandoned house, his head pil lowed on a small non-descript dog from his father’s farm. Little Jimmy’s father, James Doz-| >er, said the child had disappeared from their farm home late yesterday. Jn the search that was begun, as many as 150 persons scoured the woods all night long, and at dawn were expressing mounting fear the child had been kidnaped. An electrical storm early last night slowed down the search only tem porarily. Nash county Deputy Sheriff J R. Tanner indicated officers be hoved the boy had wandered away from the home and during the storm bad gone into the building for shel ter. He said as far as the officers were concerned the case was ended with the finding of the boy. Peering into the old house shortly after 5 o’clock this morning, as near ly 100 men were still searching through the surrounding woods, the Negro tenant heard the dog growl and saw the child. He told the other searchers who came up at his shout that the dog would not permit him to get the child. MISSING FAYETTEVILLE MAN IS FOUND ALIVE IN WOODS Fayetteville, June 24.—(AP)—C. B. Tillinghast, prominent Fayetteville Vi'ocer and Boy Scout pioneer, who disappeared mysterionslv Tuesday morning while en route to work, was found alive this morning by a search (Coatinued on Page Three.). iTmtiirrsmt Datht Bisiratrb ‘'raS'AsJSSLKJ&V' Threatened *y ' _ *#• vjyL r : -v,l! Zu v # j | 1 s Jl wk £-:> x tea m Jr w' - ' X;: HffiV X. a ; IHp f ' .iifjlf MM hb SHH m H j||H SB IMI HndHH L • m -.V y This photograph, made last winter,! shows Lance Haugwitz-Reventiow, son of Curt von Haugwitz-Revent-j low and the former Barbara Hut ton. The child is heavily guarded by Scotland Yard and London po lice after the five and ten cent heiress reported that she had re ceived kidnap threats. (Central Press) Minor MIGHT BE DIVIDED Countess Believed To Be Considering Some New Disposal of Wealth * London, June 21.—(AP) —A banker and a lawyer beat an early morning patch to the guarded home ot blonde Countess Barbara Hutton Haugwitz Reventlow today. With a British magistrate’s order standing between the American-born heiress and the noble Dane she mar ried, the countess received Sir John Milbanke, head of the trust which controls part of her fortune. The weary solicitor, William Mit chell, also arrived at the house on the heels of the milkman at 8 a. m. Sir John’s Visit caused watchers to won der if the countess were not consid ering some new disposal of part of her five and ten-cent store milliojis. At the same time Prince Frederrck of Hohenzollern, a grandson of the lormer kaiser of Germany, told the Associated Press a “crank” lettei which he received about the time the Countess Haugwitz - Reventlow took precautions to protect herself (Continued on Page Four.) “Gray Mouse” NaLbed By Police This Afternoon Arthur Morris, Negro, Wh o Escaped State Prison June 10, Taken By Chie t Langston and f. C. Harris at Negro Hotel. A Negro, picked up here this after- i noon by Chief of Police J. H. Lang-1 ston and Sergeant C. C. Harris at People’s Hotel, Negro hotel on Wind er street, admitted about 3:45 o’clock to officers that he is Arthur Morris, 24, alias “Gray Mouse,” who escaped State Prison, Raleigh June 10, this year .while serving from 50 to 80 year sentence from Durham county for burglary. The Negro was grilled at the city lock-up by Chief Langston, Sergeant J. E. Parks, Sergeant C. C. Harris, and Fred B. Hight who assisted in the questioning. The Negro admitted his identity shortly after the officers be gan questioning him. Three homes have been entered here within the past several days, and the work of the prowler was very similar to that of the “gray mouse” according to officers. Morris denied that he entered any of the homes here. ONLY DAILY NEWSPAP ER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA AND VIRGINIA. SWISS NEUTRALITY MB BY ITALY, Both Also Congratulate Lit tle Republic On Its Ex emption from League Sanctions NATION’S'POSITION SURETY OF PEACE Both of Fascist Powers Take Same View Toward Central European Coun try; Assurances Occasion ed by Letter of Swiss Min ister at Rome Rome, June 24 (AP) —Italy and Germany, fascist partners, and Eu rope’s major non-League powers, to day announced that they had assured Switzerland they will respect her neu trality. Both also announced they had congratulated the little repubUc on obtaining her freedom from tak ing part in any future league sanc tions, a freedom acknowledged by the Council May 14. “The Italian government is con vinced that the unconditional main tenance of th s integral and perpe tual neutrality of Switzerland con stitutes an important factor for peace in Europe,” wrote Count Galeazzo Ciano, Italy’s foreign minister. German Foreign Minister von Rib bentrop wrote in similar vein. Ciano further wrote: “The Swiss government may be certain that the (Continued on Page Four.) Swollen Kidney Is Ailment Developed By Max Schmeling New York. (Tune !2«i—AF) —ln r statement indicating a slight swell ing of the kHney, Dr. Robert Brennan, chief surgeon of the Poly clinic hospital, today clarified the ex tent of the back injuries suffered by Max Schmeling in his one-round knockout by heavyweight champion Joe Louis. The doctor’s statement, with the release of an X-ray picture, showing a bone fracture, was issued after Schmeling spent a restful night. Minuy .any complications. The statement fol lows: “X-ray examinations of the lower dorsal and lumbar spine and also the lower three pairs of ribs reveals evidence of a slitting fissure typo fracture of left lateral transverse process of the lumbar vertebrae. The fracture line extends horizontal ly through the process from tip to base. The fragments, however, show no growth displacements.” OIL BLAST FATAL TO EIGHT PROBED Hobbs, N. M., June 24. —(AP) — Public and private investigators opened inquiries today into the mysterious premature explosion of an oil well time bomb which dealt . horrible death to eight persons, one a prominent New Mexico fi nancier, and injured four others. The blast snuffed out the lives of George Kaseman, est-year-old Albuquerque, Ni M., banker, and seven oil workers whom he was watching as they were preparing to “shoojF*' a well in the r!|* Monument field, about 20 miles southwest of Hobbs. He told Chief Langston that he went to Rocky Mount when he escap ed, leaving there for Nashville, where he stayed for a while. He then visited Warrenton, coming here from the lat ter town Wednesday a week ago. Numerous robberies in Durham and Raleigh have been attributed to the Negro, and he was taken in Durham by officers, the crime for which he was serving a long sentence. Miss Edith Rideout Chief Langston said identified a sweater found in the Negro’s room at the hotel as being hers, and was missing from her home after it had been entered Tuesday night. The home of J. W.. Jenkins was entered Wednesday a week ago, and J. G. Tolson’s home was entered last night. Officers questioned Morris at length as to these robberies, but he denied (Continued on Page Four.], HENDERSON, N. C., FRIDAY j AFTERNOON, JUNE 24, 1938 ‘ Want a |^? iS Reservc Board vaCanCy ’ Attorney o 'General in jj Vls-year term • eharge of customs vacancy, $9,000. j j|| y Comptroller of the Currency, Bituminous Coal^®JJJJ lssion va ” Ijg : Hilll! Comptroller General, Aeronautics Authority, at $12,000. I|| SIO,OOO Q ne executive director of the Civil I Interstate Commerce Commission Aeronautic Authority, $12,000. I|| Want a job? Uncle Sam has 60 of them, high paying positions with terms running from two years to life. They aren't so easy to get, however, Soviet Envoy Sails fjj| jjjjf' mb Alexander Troyanovsky, Soviet am bassador to the United States, is pic tured on board ship in New York as he sailed for Moscow. The Soviet en voy was silent on his reasons for the trip, but it is reported that Russia is deeply interested in the United States attitude towards Japan in the Slno- Jap conflict’s latest crisis, the bomb ing of open cities. STATE’S IVENUES TOTAL $10,000,000 income To Be $1,500,000 Ahead of Last Year; Governor Pleased Dally Dispatch Bureau, In the Sir Walter Hotel. Raleigh, June 24.—North Carolina s revenue for the current for the cur rent fiscal year will be at least sl,- 500,000 greater than last, and may for the first time in history approach a grand total of $70,000,000, Governo l ' Clyde R. Hoey said today while ex pressing satisfaction with the finan cial condition of the State. “But if you boys can find any $15,- 000,000 surplus, you can have half of it,” he laughingly told newspaper men who asked him about a resolution of the North Carolina Merchants Asso ciation which recited that there is a “surplus” of more tnan that amount. Through the first 20 days of June, the governor pointed out, revenue di vision collections had reached a total of $37,055,919.08 against $36,619,053.22 for the fiscal year which ended June 30, 1937—an. increase of $436,865.86 with ten days’ receipts still to come. On the highway side of the pic ture, collections through June 20 to taled $30,408,909 against $29,603,973.03 for the fiscal year 1936-37 —an in crease of $804,935.08. Which gives a total increase, through June 20, of $1,241,801.78 with ten days yet to be added. Total reve nue collections so far this year have totaled With the close of the year so close at’ hand, it seems impossible that revenues will go to $70,000,000, but they certainly will get within reaching distance. The governor pointed out that the (Continued on Page Four.) WEATHER FOR NORTH CAROLINA. Partly cloudy tonight and Sat urday; somewhat unsettled Sat urday. . . I for they are on the presidential appointee list and there are scores of men mentioned for eacn post. The life jobs..are federal judgeships. Roosevelt Desires Much Larger Funds To Run Down Spies Says Patriotism and Ethics Involved* in Publication on New York In vestigation HINTS WAGNER WILL KEEP SENATE SEAT Senate Secretly Deprived of Its Power To Confirm or Reject State WPA Admin istrator Nominations; List of Job-Seekers Reaches High Peak Washington, June 24 (AP) —Presi- dent Roosevelt said today he thought the army and navy should have more funds for running down spies in this country. The President’s comment, made in response to press conference ques tions, came after he had said that the question of publishing a serie of newspaper articles on New York spy investigations involved both patrio tism and ethics. The articles, prepared by Leon Tur rou, a former Justice Department agent, have not been published pend ing the outcome of a suit brought by the government to prevent their pub lication. A press conference statement of the President also gave a broad hint that Senator Wagner, Democrat, New York, would seek to retain his Sen ate seat this fall rather than run for the New York governorship. (Continued on Page Four.) Medill McCormick, Scion of Wealthy Families, Missing Albuquerque, N. M.. June 24. —(AP) —Medill McCormick, 21-year-old scion of a family famous in American pub lishing and statesmanship, was miss ing today, feared lost in the rugged Sandia mountainsl ten miles east of. Albuquerque. The son of Mrs. Ruth Hanna Mc- Cormick Simms and the late United States Senator Medill McCormick, ot Chicago, left home Wednesday morn ing with a companion ona hiking trif, and has not returned, his mother said early today. Posses of CCC enrollees, headed by State police and sheriff’s deputies, spreajd into the mountains in tnr, search for yo’>**S McCormick and his friend, Richard Whitmer, son of the late- T. E. Whitmer, Albuquerque lumberman. “Naturally, we are getting a little restless,” said Mrs. Simms, keeping vigil late into the night at her coun try estate. Both Mrs, Simms and hei husband, Albert Simms, Albuquerque attorney, expressed belief the youth might have been caught in heavy rains which swept the mountains late Wednesday, and made camp in a shel tered canyon. They were at a loss, however, to explain why they did not return when the storm cleared yes terday. PUBLUSKBD IVIBT AFTERNOON EXCEPT SUNDAY. Girl, 15, Suicides Near High Point High Point. June Mary Elizabeth Nelson. 15-year-old daughter of Mrs. B. A. Nelson, was found shot to death at the'Tlome of her mother, seven miles south east of here on highway 61. Coroner J. M. Simpson said the girl used a shotgun to end her life. He said no inquost would be held. The coroner said a note ad dressed to her sister was left, say ing that disappointment was fell that her mother had failed to pur chase her a pair of s>hoes, and the mother postponed buying them un til Saturday. UNWARD SWING OF STOCKS CONTINUES Fifth Consecutive Rallying Session of Exchange Sees Prices Leap Skyward New York, June 24.—(AP) —Stocks leaped upward one to more than four points today in the fifth consecut rallying session, but profit-selling be came more insistent and cut down top marks in many cases at the close Buying orders from all parts of the country flooded the board rooms at the start, and the ticker tape during almost the entire first hour was be hind as much as four minutes. Vol ume dwindled as offerings appeared at reduced quotations. At that, trans fers approximated 1*300,000 shares, the best, with the exception of yes terday, sine laset December. American Radiator > 13 1-4 American Telephone -4 American Tob B 79 1-2 Anaconda 29 1-4 Bendix Aviation 12 14 Bethlehem Steel 54 3-8 Chrysler 54 1-8 Columbia Gas & Elec Co ..... 7 1-8 Commercial Solvents 8 1-4 Continental Oil Co 9 1-2 Curtiss Wright 5 DuPont 113 1-2 Ellectric Pow and Light 10 5-8 General Electric 39 1-4 General Motors t 35 3-8 Liggett & Myers B 100 3-4 Montgomery Ward & Co ... 38 3-34 Reynolds Tob B 40 3-4 Southern Railway ... 9 1-2 Standard Oil N J 51 1-8 U S Steel 52 1-2 MONTANA^FARMERS MENACED BY FLOOD Havre, Mont., June 24 (AP) —Home- less farmers, beleaguered by flood waters in the flats of the Milk river, in north central Montana, braced to day against the onrushing tide that has taken nine lives, left one missing and damaged thousands of dollars worth of*property. The flood waters were rushing to ward Malta, east of Habre, on the swollen Milk river, where flood stage is expected today. Farmers gave up their homes yesterday in the valley flats as the cloudburst-widened river struck at Harlan, 60 miles above Malta. - j . a«,R 8 PAGES TODAY FIVE CENTS COPY RADIO SPEECH 10 REVEAL INTENTION OF THE PRESIDENT Tells Newsmen His Position Will Be Clarified in “Fireside” Address This Evening BIG MONEY HURLED TO RIGHT AND LEFT Over $175,000,000 Allotted to 1,432 Projects in Three Days; Tar Htfel Cities and Towns Share Govern ment’s Generosity; “Poli tics” Under Probe Washington, June 24. —'(AP) —Presi- dent Roosevelt’s “fireside chat” to night will give the country a report on whether a special session of Con gress is likely. The President, asked at his press conference whether a special session was probable, told reporters they * would gt the answer from his address to the nation this evening. He had already arranged a busy day of conferences with administra tion officials, and also was expected to devote a considerable part of the day to completing his radio address, to be broadcast at 9:30 p. m., eastern standard time. 1 * Meanwhile, the PWiA, rushing to round out 1,750 non-Federal allot ments by nightfall, alloted $36,037,2G7 of loans and grants for 286 projects This brought the total since Wednes day to 1,432 projects having a total estimated construction cost of $352,- 188,120. Allotments to date include $17,862,- 500 in loans and $157,332,741 in grants. Applicants will provide the addition 3Pmoney to round out the construc tion total. The allotments included (grants un f Con tin tied on Page Four.) Circus Told By Scranton To Move On Scranton, Pa., June * 24.—(AP) —The mayor ordered out of town today the Ringling Brothers-Barnum & Bailey circus, which has been stalled here two days because of a strike. Circu3 executives arranged to discuss the ultimatum with city officials later. Threatening to attach the property of the big show, Mayor Fred Huster declared conditions on the grounds had become unsanitary since circus workers quit Tuesday night. Perform ers have agreed to a 25 per cent wage cut. “Roustabouts,” canvass men and other employees refqsed. John R. North, head of the circus, said the wage reduction was necessary for the show to continue. a newspaper photog-i rapher was killed and another hurt • today in an airplane crash on the grounds where the circus is tied up by the strike. Bob Raine, 25, of the Scranton Trib une staff, lost his life and Arthur Young, 30, pilot and cameraman for the same paper, was hurt critically. Stay Given 30 Minutes From Chair Michigan City, Ind., June 24 (AP) —• A heavily barred death row cell in Indiana State Prison held today Rob ert Shaw, 27, the man w|Lo skipped a date with death in the electric chair because of a legal technicality which brought a reprieve from Governor Townsend just 30 minutes before tho scheduled execution last midnight. Shaw, sentenced to die for the mur der of a deputy sheriff, had eaten his “last meal” and was talking with th* prison chaplain whefi informed his execution had been stayed by the governor uptil after midnight Mon day, June 27, to “give us,” the execu tive said, “an opportunity to clear up the situation,” a technicality in Shaw’s commitment papers. The condemned man, who had de clared “I am not afraid to die,” was speechless when Deputy Warden Schmuhl told him he had at least fivd more days to live. The governor had refused previous ly to intervene in Shaw’s behalf un til last night when Warden Aldred Down discovered the man had" been sentenced to death by Judge Clyde Carolin, of LaGrange county, after he had pleaded guilty to first degreo murder in connection with the slay ing of Deputy Sheriff Harry Spice. There had been no jury in the case.
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