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HENDERSON’S POPULATION 13,873 TWENTY-FIFTH YEAR SPENDING OR6Y SPEEDED; STATE SETS PART Two British Ships Bombed and Fired On Spanish Coast One Is In Harbor of Valen cia, Other In Alicante Port, With Heavy Casualties 50 BOMBS DROPPED AT VALENCIA PORT In London, Chamberlain’s Opponents Are Incensed By Attacks and Demand Arming of Merchantmen With Anti-Aircraft Guns, Which Is Turned Down i Valencia, Spain, June 27. —(AP) — Bombs from aerial raiders today smashed and set afire two more Bri tish ships in the ports of Valencia and Alicante. Several seamen were killed or wounded. The first victim of the attacks was the freighter Arlon, in the harbor at Valencia. She was set afire, and a Roumanian crewman was killed. A short time later a bomb crashed on the steamer in the port at Alicante, killing or wounding an un determined number. The Farnham was discharging foodstuffs when the attack occurred. The Arlon. was re por'ed sinking a mile from the port of Valencia. Three bombs from six junkers (German-made planes) set the Fran ham afire. The planes dropped 40 bombs on the port. Government pursuit planes gave chase and anti-aircraft guns replied to the raid with heavy fire. Five tri-motored planes dropped 50 bombs in the raid on the port of Valencia, in which the Arlon was hit. In London Prime Minister Cham berlain's opponents in the House of Commons, enraged by the attacks on (CuntVtued on Page Fight) Separation Planned By Hutton Girl London, June 27 (AP)—A judicia. separation for American-born Coun tess Barbara Hutton Haugwitz-Re ventlow and her Danish nobleman husband was believed near comple tion today. The Woolworth heiress spent a busy week-end discussing legal tech nicalities of the probable separation and possible divorce with her Danish and British lawyers. In Copenhagen, Bunch Jensen, rep resenting a legal firm handling the affairs of Count Haugwitz-Reventlow, disclosed that he had attempted un successfully to obtain withdrawal of a British restraining order against his client. Withdrawal of the order, ob tained in London by the countess to restrain the count fropi interfering with her and their two-year-old son, Jensen said, would have been a pre lude to divorce discussions. Legion Is Denounced As Fascist New York, June 27 (AP) —The Ame rican Legion was denounced as “fas cist” and “unpatriotic” today in a 280-page survey of the veterans or ganization, published by Teachers Col lege of Columbia University. The monograph, prepared by Prof. William Gillermann, of Northwestern University, was released as approxi mately 15,000 educators gathered for the annual convention of the National Education Association. Gellermann assailed the role played by the Legion in the educational, eco nomic and political life of the nation a nd called on school officials to cease “pandering” to it. Columbia Univer sity awarded the Northwestern facul ty member a doctor of philosophy de gree on the basis of his stury, and published the monograph as one of its “contributions to education” series, "The American Legion is not an ex pression of but rather an expression of entrenched business and military interests, which attempt to h'de their true purposes under demo cratic guise,” the survey said. Giller marin, a former Legionnaire, said the organization ' was dominated by a •small group of reactionary leaders too powerful to be unseated. “ft is encouraging to observe that ’he average ex-service man is not jmw and never has been a member of American Legion,” he said. Hritftersmt Dailu Htsrmtrh leased wire service ow THE ASSOCIATED PRESS. Heir Disappears iT i ||L | MBt |r -J| j lliig 1 • i Medill McCormick, 21-year-old scion of families famous in statesman ship and the publishing world, is pictured above. He is missing in the Sandia Mountains, near Albuquer que, N. M., after he had gone on a hiking expedition with Richard Whitmer, lumber heir. An inten sive hunt is under way for the two young men. (Central Press) Farm Cash Income Off 25 Percent Drop Under 1937 In, Prospect as 193 8 Marketing Season, Gets Under Way Washington, June 27—(AP)—Amer ican farmers opened their 1938 mar keting season for major crops this week with prospects of a cash income 25 percent below the goal set up by the new farm aQt. • The goal is an income of at least $10,000,000,000. On the basis of pre sent relationships between farm and industrial prices farmers would re quire that much money, Agriculture Department economists said today, to give them buying power equal to thae of urbanists. , As movement of the wheat crop got into full swing, these officials es timated the cash farm income, includ ing government benefit payments from January to June, would be at least $450,000,000 below that of the comparable period of 1937. The six months income for 1938 was estimat ed at $3,5050,000,000. Should commodity prices rerpain at about the present level, the income for the last six months of this year could not be expected to exceed $4,- 500,000,000 making a total or $7,500,- 000,000 for 1938. Only an upturn in prices and a ma terial improvement in domestic, as well as foreign, demand for American farm products could raise the income above the estimates, economists said. NEIL CAMPBELL, 18, CAR CRASH VICTIM Elizabethtown. June 27 (AP)—Neil Campbell, 18, died in a Lumberton hospital today as the result of injur ies 1 sustained last night at White Lake Y'hen a car he was driving overturn ed. He was a star player on last season’s Parkton high school basket ball team. Woodrow Parks, a com panion. was injured and was still in the hospital today. Walter Grims ley, Jr., another companion, escaped with no serious injuries. WEATHER FOR NORTH CAROLINA. Cloudy, with probably occasional showers tonight in east and cen tral portions Tuesday; cooler in central and northeast portions Tuesday. ONLY DAILY NEWSPAP ER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA AND VIRGINIA. Circus patrons getting their money back When 1,600 employes of Ringling Brothers and Baruum and Bailey circus walked out at Scranton, Pa., refusing to accept a 25 per cent wage Cut, the “greatest show on earth” had to call off its performances and scores rushed to the ticket windows for their money back. Police were called to preserve order, for many pat rons with general admission tickets were without stubs and were unable to get a refund. Photo shows patrons milling around the ticket windows. Britain and France Warn Japs To Keep Off Hainan Island London, June 27.—(AP) — Britain and France have warned Japan to stay off Hainan island, off the south China coast, and will act to support each other in case “complications” arise, the government informed the House of Commons today. Richard Austen Butler, under secre tary for foreign affairs, made the an nouncement. Hainan, Chinese territory, is sep arated by the 150-mile Gulf of Tonk ing from French Indo-China and com mands the eastern approaches to that colony. Butler said “His Majesty’s govern ment and the French government, through their ambassadors at Tokyo, have made clear to the Japanese for ces and government that they would regard any occupation of Hainan by Japanese forces as calculated to give rise to undesirable complications. Should any complications unfor tunately arise, His Majesty’s govern ment and the French government would no doubt afford each other H 596,533 GIVEN JOBLESS WORKERS 4 Unemployment Reserves Dip Then Climb Again as June Checks Come Raleigh, June 27—Rapidly approach ing the five million dollar mark in distribution of benefits to unemploy ed and partially Unemployed workers in North Carolina, the State Unem ployment Compensation Commission had distributed $4,596,533.92, embrac ed in 608,055 checks issued at the end of business last Friday, June 24, and since the first check was issued on January 29. Checks are continuing to go out from the office daily at a rate of 5.- 000 to 9,000, and for aggregate a mounts of $30,000 to $60,000. ' The State’s reserve fund dropped to $9,124,602.81 on June 22, then be gan to build up again as the May con tributions from employers, due June 25, began to come in. The balance at the end of business last Friday was $9,160,046.60. Payments of contribu tions by the end of this month will probably reach $60,000, and will be close to $750,000 when the entire month’s contributions are paid by em ployers. “We are now ‘current’ p,nd are is suing checks for delivery on the days they are due, except in rare cases, in which there is some mix-up or dis continued on Page Eighty HENDERSON, N. C., MONDAY AFTERNOON, JUNE >27,1938 WHEN CIRCUS WORKERS STRUCK— such support as appears warranted by the circumstances.” OPPOSING ARMIES ALONG ' YANGtZE ARE DEADLOCKED Shanghai, June 27. —(AP) — With Chinese and Japanese forces appar ently deadlocked in the Yangtze river valley below Hankow, Japanese bomb ing today carried out wide spread aerial operations over south China The forts *on Hainan island, just off the south China coast, were bomb ed, and the attackers reported Chi nese shore batteries there were silenced. - More than 500 miles to the north east of Hainan ,the Kwangtung pro vince city of Chaochow was bombard ed. The Japanese said that in this at tack railway buildings were destroy ed. (Many military observers expect that the seaport of Swatow may be come the point of entry for any Ja janese attempt to invade south China. MS OFFICIALS Raleigh Spends Time Dur ing Week Also Arguing State’s Surplus Daily Dispatch Bureau, In the Sir Walter Hotel. Raleigh, June 27. —Close of last week found Raleigh’s streets gaily decorated with bunting and flag ef fects for a coming convention of AHEPA, Greek organization. By contrast, it recalled that on June 14, our national Flag Day, dis plays of the national colors were as scarce as New Dealers among Wall Street brokers. Which gets around to the point that the brisk upturn in the Wall Street stock market last week brought in its wake an obviously more optim istic outlook among officials who have anything to do with the State’s finances. Surplus, Or No: Governor Hoey and other officials played at a new version of an old game last week. They called it “Surplus, Surplus. Who’s Got the Surplus?”, and wound up by offering to go halves with any one who will dig up the $15,000,900 one alleged by the State Merchants Association to exist. Seriously, the governor estimated that the State’s general fund will show a balance of between four and on Page Four, \ FUBociwm' INFO ALLOTMENTS BilJ for l Government Ope ration Coming Year Esti mated at $8,500,- v 000,000 Total BANK CREDITS ARE LOOSENED SHARPLY Long-Term Loans To Be Permitted Und>er Regula tions Allowed by Roose velt: Coast Guard Stations In North Carolina Share Generously in Funds Washington, June 27. —(AP) — The Treasury speeded up its spending ma chinery today to increase its output of cash from $20,820,000 to about $23,- 300,000. The 1939 fiscal year, beginning Fri day, will start officially the admin istration’s spending-lending program, and officials predicted the next twelve months would cost the government a round $8,500,000,000. The closing fis cal yfear cost about $7,600,000,000. To add further in increasing busi ness activity. President Roosevelt is sued new banking regulations intend ed to stimulate the flow into business chanenls of $3,000,000,000 estimated to be lying idle in the banks. He ratified an agreement of federal banking agencies on revised banking procedure, permitting tankers to make long-term loans over nine months if the loans otherwise are sound, and allowing them to invest ir. bonds of small local corporations, al though the securities are not quoted on stock exchanges. The Public Works Administration allotted $10,000,000 today for 178 pro jects to improve coast guard stations throughout the country. The allotment included in North Carolina: Ocracoke, $142,000; Fort Macon, $93,000; Bogue Inlet, $157,000; Oregon Inlet station, $50,000; Cape Hatteras station, $19,050; Oak Island station, Caffreys Inlet sta tion, $5,100; Kill Devil Hill station, $5,100; Nags Head station, $5,100; Pea Island station, $5,100; Chicamacomico station, $5,100; Little Ninnekeet sta tion, $5,100; Wash Woods station, $5,- 000; Hatteras Inlet station, $113,500; Cape Lookout station, $17,000; More head City rifle range, SI,OOO. The PWA also gave the Bureau of Fisheries $1,055,350 for 78 projects in 39 states. The allotments included in North Carolina: Beaufort, construc tion of sea wall and repairs to build ings and grounds, United States Fisheries Laboratory, $24,800; and Edenton, $5,000. North Carolina also got $15,000 for the Geological Survey. Big Corporations Should Be Broken, Conferees Agree Washington, June 27 (AP) —General agreement that many large corpora tions ought to be broken into small er ones, it was disclosed today, has developed in conversations between groups of big business men and ad minitration economists. Prince Coonley, who left a New York brokerage firm to arfange the informal meeting, said they had pro duced almost unanimous acceptance of these principles: 1. “Bigness is not always efficient and generally a consolidated business colossus does not earn as much money as its units earned separately. 2. Business must find methods of taking care of dismissed employees more adequately. 3. Cutting prices does not always increase the volume of'sales, because buyers wait in hope of further con cessions. Payne and Turner Refuse Statement As Plea Is Made Raleigh, June 27 (AP)—Bill Payne and Wash Turner turned aside ques tions today as they started what may be their last week alive, but Wiley Brice, Negro condemned to he execut ed Friday also for murder, talked freely to newsmen on Death Row. Payne and Turner are to die Friday for the murder of George Ppnn, a highway patrolman. Governor Hoey has declined to intervene for them, but Walter D. Siler, of Pittsboro, has asked for a new conference as their counsel. Both men, talked to separately, de clined to discuss any happenings be tween the time they kidnaped a pri son farm official at Caledonia and escaped, and the time G-men arrested them at Sanford. Brice, 35, convicted in the slaying in 1936 of Shelly Lea during a hold-up attempt, said he “fixed it with God,” and was ready to die. PUBLISHED WIKY A7TEBEOQE EXCEPT SUNDAY. Speaker at Legion Warns U.S. of Fate That Befell Rome Bund Chief Testifies ssj||Pr \flW’ / 9wiSs<, '* *~m!f' ' ,--j|^ Fritz Kuhn ••. “America’s Hitler" Head of the German-American Bund, Fritz Kuhn, called the “American Hitler”, is pictured testifying in New York at a joint New York state legislative com mittee inquiry into activities of the'Bund. Kuhn, on the stand, made several tirades against Jews. He told the investigators that the Bund maintains 22 camps in the United States. Crops Meet New Damage Over State Damp Weather and Scattered Showers Further Menace for the Farmers Raleigh, June 27 (AP) —Damp weath er with scattered showers over most of North Carolina yesterday and to day has hit crops already suffering from previous rain, agricultural ex perts at N. C. State College, reported< % However, E. Y. Floyd, extension to bacco specialist, said the few days of dry weather last week were a boon to tobacco growers, who plowed and “broke out their middles." J. O. Rodwell. extension entomolo gist, reported boll weevils were multi plying and cutting cotton badly over much of the State. The rains were said to be hurting corn by washings nitrogen out of the soil, and wheat and other small grains left in the fields are suffering from continued soakings. kKbam Companion Wounded In Gun Fight With Officers Near Joliet, 111. Joliet, HI., June 27 (AP)—Two outlaws who terrorized parts of Indiana and Illinois with gunfire and kidnaping reached,dead ends today in a Reslam, 111., farm yard one slain and the other wounded.' Approximately 100 peace offic ers of the two states were in on the MU, which climaxed a 20- minute flurry of sharp fighting. Joliet, 111., June 27.—(AP)— State Policeman Joseph Gromann reported today . one kidnap-gunman had been killed in a cornfield near Deslem and his companion wounded in a 20-min ute gun battle with officers. Grommann identified the dead man as Ray Leach, age and address not immediately learned, and the wound ed man as James Dickie, 24, of In dianapolis. Illinois and Indiana authorities had been searching for the desperadoes since Sunday night. In a few hours, the fugitive had critically wounded an Indiana State trooper, kidnaped two Indiana deputy sheriffs, engage' l in three gun fights with Illinois of ficers and abducted an Illinois far mer and his small son. Gromann said his squad sighted and pursued the fugitives’ car near Des j lem. The desperadoes’ car became 1 w _ Continued or Page Five,). 8‘ PAGES TODAY FIVE CENTS COPY Arguments Used to Ancient Republic 2,000 Years Ago Are Being Used Here Now BLACKWELL PLEADS PROBLEM OF YOUTH Says Legion of State Is Try ing To Help Solve That; Membership in North Carolina 14,153 at Present, Caldwell Reports to Con-* vention Winston-Salem, June 27 (AP) Comparing the ancient Roman re public with America of today, Leonard H. Nason, of Centerville, Mass., au thor of World War stories, told the twentieth annual convention of the North Carolina Department of the American Legion here today that the same arguments “used to the Romans 2,000 years ago are being used to us.” The ancient Roman Fmpire, he said disappeared from the face of the earth because it became too big to be administered as a republic. At present, Nason said, Americans hear “our country is too big for the farmer to grow what crops please him best; our country is too big for the business man to make what he wants and to sell it where and how he pleases.” “If we have not progressed in 2,- 000 years to the point where we can run our own affairs, then of what use is civilization?” he asked. Commander Hector Blackwell, of Fayetteville, said: “We of the American Legion are seeking definitely, but calmly and sincerely, to contribute something worthwhile to the solution of the youth problem in our State, and_when I say ‘youth problem’ I mean every difficulty and every barrier that stands between the youth of our state and the goal of good citizenship.” J. M. Caldwell, department adjutant and finance officer, reported 'a mem bership of 14,153, which, he said was greater than in 1936. ffioKScip Secretary of State Is Liberal Rationalist; Outstand ing Leader By CHARLES P. STEWART Central Press Columnist Washington, June 27—Admirers of Secretary of State Hull (and he has many of them) are developing quite a formidable Democratic 1940 presi dential boom in behalf of the cabinet premier. There is one and only one thing to be said to Cordell Hull’s disadvantage as a presidential nominee. On elec tion day in 1940 he will be hard upon 70. Unquestionably it is widely "Held that a man of his years has not suf ficient life expectancy ahead of him (Continued on Page Flve.> Wages, Hours Bill Is at Last Signed By the President Washington, June 27 (AP) —The wage hour bill, providing for national regulation of minimum wages and maximum hours in interstate indus try became law today with President Roosevelt’s signature. The White House announced the President had signed this measure along with 1,130 other bills passed by the last Congress. The wage-hour law fixes a mini mum wage of 25 cents an hour jind a maximum workweek to 44 hours, ef fective 120 days ffrom Saturday, the date of the President’s signature. Other features of the act go into ef fect- at once. Will Report Soon On Vets Hospital Site in the State Washington, June 27 (AP)— Colonel George Ijams, said today the Veterans Administration sub committee, of which he is chair man, might report soon upon its study of proposed locations in North Carolina for a $1,500,000 vet erans hospital, already authorized. Any committee recommendations he explained, must be approved I by Veterans Administrator Frank Hines and the final decision win be made by President Roosevelt.
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