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HENDERSON’S POPULATION 13,873 twenty-fifth year PRESIDENT TO FIGHT FOR HIS SUPPORTERS Italy and Germany Threaten Fight If Island Is Bombed Gambles With Death r fIT % Vr ’;• Afflicted with spontaneous paraly ais, a rare and deadly disease, 19-year-old Beatrice Garraway (above), beauty prize winner and star high school athlete of Patch ogue, L. 1., hardecided to risk a “do or-die’' operation. She is confident she will pull through. Her chances of surviving are 50-50, according to physicians. fC.fin.tfnl P™»« I Search For McCormick Is Pressed Companion of Weal thy Youth Found Dead in Mountains Near Albuquerque Alhuquerque, N. M., June 25.—(AP) —The bluff Sandia mountains, frown ing down on the Rio Grande valley, hirl today the fate of John Medill Mo- Cormick, feared the victim of a fall from one of their precipitous peaks. Searchers, who resumed their tragic task at dawn, expected only the worst —that they would find the mangled body of the Chicago publishing heir, such as they came last night upon the body of his climbing companion, 20* year-old Richard Whifmer, of Al buquerque. Personally commanding the search, Governor Clyde Tingley, expressed the thoughts of the army of men he led into the Sandias today: “That boy—his body—is in there somewhere, and we’ll find him —we’ll find him.” Wracked by anxiety, Mrs. Ruth Hanna McCormick Simms waited last night in a CCC camp at the base of the mountains, hoping to learn that her 20-year-old son still lives. She heard only that young Whitmer’s body, skull crushed, almost denuded, bad been found at the base of the “Shield,” sheer rock face of North Sandia peaks. Os John Medill McCormick there was no word. The plan of today’s search, Governor Tingley said, is to surround the base of the peak, in the hope of finding him or his body on a ledge near where that of his com panion came to rest. SURPLUS OF STATE TO BE SHORT-LIVED Governor Hoey Concerned Over Revenues During Year 1939 Raeligh, June 25—Governor _Clyde R. Hoey is of the opinion that what ever surplus the State has on July 1 is likely to be short-lived because of diminishing revenue collections in the next fiscal year. He pointed out to your correspond ent today that the decrease in in come taxes alone is likely to be suf ficient to wipe out a surplus of four to five million dollars —the estimated surplus which the State will have to start the next fiscal year. “This year’s income tax collections set a new high of about eleven mil lion dollars, he said. “That was be cause they are collected on the basis of the calendar year and 1937 i _ (Continued on Page Three.], Bintiiersmt tl mliidkltsiTafrit SERVICE OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS. Spanish Government Con siders Retaliation for Franco’s Attacks on Civilians TALK OF BOMBING BALLEARIC ISLAND Region Is Controlled by Italy and Threats Rouse Ire of Rc.me, Whose Spokesman Blusters Ans wer; One of War’s Blood iest Battles Is Raging Paris, June 25 (AP)—Far-flung aerial reprisals, including bombard ment of “Italian-dominated” towns in the Ballearic islands have beun threatened by the Spanish govern ment unless General Franco quits bombing civilian centers behind Spain’s battlfe lines. Despite urgent British and French admonitions against "rash” acts, the Spanish embassy in Paris insisted to day that retaliation would be taken into consideration untass the insurg ent chieftain abstains from that type of warfare. The embassy said since Franco’s raiders operate largely from the Span ish Ballearic Islands, the reprisal raids certainly would be directed there. The embassy itself did not elabo rate on or confirm a previous implica tion the government might carry ae rial warfare to German or Italian cities or other non-Spanish objectives. Sources closest to the French of fice, however, said the Barcelona government had threatened to bomb cities of “those foreign countries” which share responsibility for bomb ardment of Spanish civilian centers. Informed circles disclosed the Span ish ambassador to Paris had inform ed Foreign Minister George Bonnet several days ago Barcelonia’s patience with raids by Italian planes in the insurgent service had reached its limit. ITALY AND GERMANY WILL MAKE REPLY WITH CANNON Rome, June 25 (AP)—ltaly and Germany will reply “not with diplo matic notes of protest, but with can non,” said Fascist editor Virginio Gayda today, if the Barcelona Span ish government attacks citizens or shipping of these two countries. Gayda made the statement in an apparently inspired article in II Jiornale d’ltalia concerning Barce lona’s declared intention to consider reprisals against Italian-dominated towns in the Spanish Ballearic is lands, whence have come planes at tacking Spanish government territory. ONE OF BLOODIEST FIGHTS OF WAR NOW IN PROGRESS Hendaye, France, June 25 (AP) — More than 100,000 government and in surgent troops were fighting today one of the bloodiest battles of the al most two-year-old Spanish civil war. The battle for control of the Teruel Mediterranean highway extended along a 15-mile front, with its center 22 miles east of Teruel. It was in creasing in intensity hourly. Another (Con inued on Page Eight.) Italy Will Raze Spain If Bombed Paris, June 25 (AP)—ltaly to night notified France the Fascist air force would wipe Spanish gov ernment cities off the map if the Barcelona Spanish government should bomb Italian cities. The Italian charge d’affaires, Renato Prunas, conveyed a mes sage from Premier Mussolini in an audience at the foreign office with Foreign Minister Georges Bonnet. Prunas said the first Spanish government bomb dropped on Italy would signal' open war. He declared the Italian army and navy in such event would follow Fascist fighting planes into whole sale destruction on Spanish gov ernment territory. Bonnet replied that France to tally disapproved of the bombing threat attributed to the Spanish government and already had warn ed Barcelona authorities they stand alone to face consequences if any action against Italy or Germany. The foreign minister told the diplomat, however, he felt the wording of the Spanish threat was “very vague,” and that he did not believe Barcelona authorities in tended to carry it put* ONLY DAILY NEWSPAP ER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA AND VIRGINIA. Center of U. S. Industry Is Moving to the South Southern Newsprint Manufacture Is Now Reality, and Other Great Industries W ill Follow Here, Babson Declares; South An Empire in It«elf By ROGER W. BABSON, (Copyright, 1938, Publishers’ Finan cial Bureau, Inc.) Chicago, June 24. —A new industry is being born in the South. At Lufkin, Texas, next month the ground will be broken for a newsprint mill. This will be the first mill making news print from southern pine. Its effect will be far-reaching. It will be an other step in the industrialization of the New South. Low costs in the South will force northern newsprint makers to follow the trek of the tex tile mills toward the Gulf. Fast-grow ing southern pine will become a new major crop, possibly as important in the years to come as cotton is today. This is a significant event. The South’s great problem, even before the Civil War, was its one crop economy. Cotton was king. When cotton prices were high or crops good, the South prospered. When cotton prices were low or crops failed, there were hard times below the Mason- Dixon line. Southern editors and statesmen have patiently worked for decades teaching the lesson of farm diversification. Great progress has been made, particularly during the last fifteen years, in the rounding-out of southern agriculture. Here in the llffii $4,238,260 in Grants and $24,000 in Loans; Light houses Here Washington, June 25 (AP) —The Public Works Administration an nounced today allocation of $4,238,260 in grants and $24,000 in loans for 22 non-federal PWA projects in eleven states and Alaska. PWA officials estimated that the total construction cost would be $9,418,360. The allotments included $9,818 grant for a sewer system at Middlesex, N. C. The United States Lighthouse Ser- Vice received from the PWA for projects in 28 states. The projects and grants included North Carolina, replace and improve radio equipment at fifth lighthouse district; replace old wooden structures at various minor lights; electrify and improve sanitation at Cape Fear light station; repair and improve structures at North Carolina waters, replace radio equipment at sixth lighthouse depot, and move and es tablish aids at six lighthouse districts, $52,450. WEATHER FOR NORTH CAROLINA Partly cloudy, scattered thunder showers in north portion tonight or Sunday, and in southeast por tion Sunday. WEEKLY WEATHER South Atlantic States: Occasion al thundershowers in Florida all week; showers elsewhere first half and possibly again toward close. Temperature near normal except * cooler in notrh portion first half. HENDERSON, N. C., SATURDAY AFTERNOO N, JUNE 25,1938 To Be Prince’s Dinner Partner The committee arranging the welcome to Prince Bertil, son of the Swedish Crown Prince, at the Swedish tercentennary celebration next month, chose lovely Joanna W. Biddle (above), debutante daughter of Nicholas Biddle, of Philadelphia, to be his partner at a dinner to be given in Bertil’g honor in Philadelphia. (Central Press) Middle West, farm people are already alarmed by the inroads southern corn, beef, truck crops, and dairy products are making in their markets. Indn iries Trek Southward. Meanwhile, there haS beet* tre mendous progress. A big labor supply, the proximity to the cotton fields, good water-power, combined with union troubles in the North, long ago forced New England textile mills to move to the Piedmont section of the Carolinas and Georgia. In more re cent years, however, the migration of northern industries has broadened. From the northwestern and middle western states, other businesses have pulled up stakes and moved toward the Gulf. Today the South is not only the cotton-textile center of the coun try, but it has growing interests in iron and steel, in potery, in clothing, in chemicals, and in kraft paper. The discovery of the great oil fields of Texas, Oklahoma, and Louisiana gave the South another hypodermic With petroleum camp a myriad of by-product industries and service busi nesses. The fast-growing sections of the United States today are in the oil regions of the South apd Southwest. (Continued on Page Three.) SPEAKERSHIP FIGHT ________ _ i Part of Highway Commis sion Reputedly Active in Bryant’s Behalf Dally Dispatch Bnrean, . In the Sir Walter Hotel. Raleigh, June 25.—It’s still more than six months before opening of the 1989 General Assembly, but al ready th’e campaign for speakership of the next House has reached almost unprecedented heights of activity and intrigu.e More interest is being manifested than is usually the case in Novem ber or December preceding the ses sion, and already would be political king makers are taking a hand in the proceedings with a view to winning some sort of capital prize when the grab bag of committee chairmanships and appointments is opened. One of the most interesting stories current about the race is concerned with the early entry of the prison di vision of the highway commission in to the campaign, with Victor Bryant as beneficiary of these extra-curricu lum activities of the penal branch and its head, Robert Grady Johnson. It is nothing new in North Caro lina’s political history to have the highway commission and its sub-di visions linked with this sort of po litics; and it is probably true tha' other departments have from time to time been tarred with the same stick. None, however, has been put in the calcium light of publicity quite as much as the highway branch. According to the stories going the rounds —stories apparently based on authentic source^ —Johnson is busying himself in advancing the cause of Bryant, and has even let it be known to many of his subordinates that they would not be severely treated should they do a bit of canvassing for the (Continued on Page Four.). U. S. WON’T CONCEDE JAPAN RIGHTS OVER AMERICAN CITIZENS Washington Will Not Sub mit To Denial of Privi leges to Our Na tionals in China SLAPPING OF WIFE OF OFFICER OCCURS Sentry Wallops American Woman at Pier as She Re ■ turns from Visit to Hus band Aboard U. S. Gun boat; Couldn’t Answer In Japanese Language Washington, June 25 (AP) —State Department officials said today the United Stales wouid not conce*de Ja pan’s rights to deny extra-territorial privileges in Chinese territory occu pied by Japanese troops. Secretary Hull said he had not re ceived oflicial word that a Japanese embassy spokesman in Shanghai had asserted that “third power nationals residing in Japanese-occupied terri tory do not enjoy special status be cause of their extraterritiriality.” Press dispatchvs reported this state ment was made in connection with the spokesman’ denial of charge by Dr. J. C. Thompson, of New Brunswick, N J., that he had been slapped by a sentry at Nanking. *” VIGOROUS PROTEST LODGED WITH TOKYO GOVERNMENT Shanghai, June 25 (AP) —The sec ond diplomatic action within four days over the slapping of a United States citizen by a Japanese sentry was registered with representative of the Tokyo government today. Unit ed States Consul Louis Gourley at Tsingtao, Shantung province report ed to the State Department a sentry struck the wife of Lieutenant Thomas Massey, the naval officer who figur ed in the famous Honolulu Massey case in 1932. Mrs. Massey was returning to Tsing tao after having visited her husband aboard the United States gunboat vvfOutinueG from Fugc one.) Sixth Consecutive Day of Feverish Advances Ex perienced by Mart New York, June 25. —<(AF) — Stocks swung upward at high speed today after a slow profit-selling dip at the opening, and initial losses of fractions to a point were converted into first advances running to three or more. The swift right-about, bringing the sixth consecutive rallying session, came after a statement of the United States Steel Corporation asserting that no official of the company had given assurances that wage cuts would not follow yesterday’s drastic slash in prices posted by the principal subsidiaries of the corporation. The President’s fireside chat was the subject of much discussion in brokerage circles, and, while there was some disagreement as to its ulti mate market effect, most were of the opinion the address contained nothing especially bearish. While new purchases, long delayed because of the price situation, were expected to bolster steel mill activities soon, it was noted that operations next week in this field might be (Continued on Page Six.) Milwaukee Flier Again Has Wreck Miles City, Mont., June 25.—(AP)— H. J. McMahon, chief clerk of the Miles City division of the Milwaukee railroad, announced the road’s “Olym pian” crashed head-on with a special train carrying CCC boys near In gomer, Mont., early today. He said one boy was killed and an other injured. Little information was available, he said, because of the isolated section in which the acci dent occurred. Ingomer is about 75 miles west of Miles City. Another section of the “Olympian” crashed through a weakened trestle over flooded Custer creek near Miles City last Sunday, killing an estimat ed 47, FUBLIfIUD ■VBKY ▲FTfIKJNOQM EXCEPT SUNDAY. In New York Race I •$! 1111 l . j ■ a i Bteti.. % Jm Bk > digi fLjfi Gov. Lehman and John Bennett Political spotlight shifts to New York state following the an nouncement of Gov. Herbert H. Lehman he is a candidate for the Democratic nomination for the senate seat left vacant by the death of Senator Royal S. Cope land. At the same time State Attorney General John J. Bennett, Jr., right, announced he would be a candidate for the Democratic gubernatorial nomination. This new picture shows them together in Brooklyn. —Central i ress Ui. STEEmVES Makes No Pledge To Main tain Standards in Face of Price Cut for Its Products COMPANY PRAISED ‘ BY MR. ROOSEVELT Presence of Lewis and Mur ray in New York Past Few Days Gave Rise to Rumors Cuts Were Planned; Re public Steel Follows “Big Steel” Move New York, June 25 (AP) —The Unit ed States Steel Corporation, in a brief statement today, said none of its offi cials “has given any assurances that wage reductions will not follow steel price reductions announced yester dhy.” Late yesterday leading subsidiaries of the nation’s biggest steel maker announced price cuts in its products ranging from seven to 21 percent and reducing them to the lowest in slight ly more than ten years. Commenting on the price cut in his fireside chat in Washington last night, President Roosevelt said: “I was gratified to know what this re duction involved. Every encourage ment should be given to industry (Continued on Page Three.) EXTRA CONGRESS IN SEPTEMBER HINTED Roosevelt Would Like To Put His Foes On Spot \ Before Election By CHARLES P. STEWART Central Press Columnist Washington, June 25. —The betting is about 2-to-l on an extra session of Congress, beginning some time in September. The country undoubtedly thanked its stars when the law-makers ad journed. President Roosevelt undoubtedly thanks his, too. The last session was not an overly manageable one, from the executive mansion’s standpoirft. Republicans and anti-New Deal Demo crats, pombined, blocked a good bit of I legislation that the White House was I vitally interested in and passed a tax (Continued on Pa£9 Four.) 8 PAGES TODAY FIVE CENTS COPY ROOSEVELT TELLS HE HAS THE RIGHT Declares He Is Nat Acting as President but as Head of the Democratic Party 100,000 EMPLOYEES ON CIVIL SERVICE Announces Merit System for Many Government Workers; Plan Both De nounced and Defended In Congress; Many Support ed by Emergency Funds Washington, June 25 (AP) —Presi- dent RooseVelt, declaring a right to in tervene in Democratic primaries, gave virtual notice today he was prepared to fight personally for election of a> Congress favorable to his policies. In his 12th “fireside chat” by radio to the nation last night, the President made it plain he would not hesitate to speak out when he thought a contest between a liberal and a conservative warranted. “As President of the United States” I am not asking the toters of the country to vote for Democrats next November, as opposed to Republicans or members of any other party, “he said, “nor am I as President taking part in Democratic primaries. “As head of the Democratic party, I however, feel that I have every right to speak in those few instances where there may be a clear issue be tween candidates for a Democratic nomination involving these princi ples, or involving a clear issue of my own name.” Meanwhile, the President’s order extending civil service to more than 10Q|000 government employees met both praise' and criticism from con <Cozittniit«l on Page Six.; Congress Is Divided Over FDR Address Washington, June 25. —(AP)—Con- gressional views divided today over the political course President Roose velt charted last night in his address to the nation. Some senators and representatives upheld the chief executive’s rights to intervene in primaries and said his address would aid the country’s lib eral forces. Others contended inter vention would be “dangerous” to the Democratic party. Comment included: Senator Burke, Democrat, Nebras ka: “I think it is entirely ethical and proper for the chief executive as head of his party to take action in pri maries if he wants to. However, it isf a. dangerous thing to do. The coun try will resent it, and party members in the various states will want to make their own decisions. The Fresi (Contlnued on Page Thiee>. Red Springs Officer Shot In Ambush Bound and Gagged by Two Robbers at Night Before Store Safe Is Blown Red Springs, June 24 (AP) —A shot gun blast in the dark felled Policeman A. J. Breeden, 49T"in an uptown back lot early today, then two men bound and gagged him, threw him into a ditch, covered him with shingles, and robbed a drygoods store safe. Polife Chief M. N. Mcßainey told the story this morning while he sought clues to the identity of the two yeggmen, described by Breeden as “medium” height, middle-aged “white men.” Breeden’s face and neck were pep pered with small shot. He was hur ried to a Lumberton hospital. Mcßainey, who took the wounded officer to Lumberton, said he thought Breeden would “recover all rigHt,” barring complications. Breeden talked freely of the inci dent enroute, the chief said. The night officer was walking across the backlot about 3 a. m. when, without warning, he was shot at close range. He told Mcßainey two men pounced upon him and bound his. hands with adhesive tape. They on Page Six.) ?
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