HENDERSON’S
POPULATION
13,873
TWENTY-FIFTH YEAR
Hit ASKS NORTH DAKOTA ELECTION PROBE
FRANCO IS ADVISED
BY ITALY TO CHECK
ATTACK ON BRITISH
Mussolini Drops Words of
Caution* to Spanish In
surgent General on
Air Raids
RESPONSIBILITY IS
DENIED BY NATION
But Approves Bombing of
Contraband Vessels; Brit
ish Ambassador to Rome
Told by Foreign Minister
Ciano Restraining Meas
ures Already Taken
Home. June 29. (AP)—A spokes
man for the Fascist regime declared
today that Italy had advised General
Francisco Franco, the Spanish insur
gent leader, to “use moderation” in
his efforts to prevent British and
other foreign ships from bringing sup
plies to government Spain.
The spokesman, the editor Virginio
Gayda, said, however, that Italy ap
proved of the bombing of vessels car
rying contiaband, hut disclaimed
Italian responsibility therefor.
He disclosed that Foreign Minister
Count Galeazzo Ciano had told the
Earl of Perth, British ambassador,
that Franco already had taken a
series of measures to give the British
government satisfaction with regard
to the long list of bombings of Bri
tish ships, against which London had
protested vigorously.
These measures, Gayda said, were:
1. Franco had given orders that
British ships should not he attacked
while navigating.
2. He had ordered that the British'
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TWO SPY WITNESSES
ARE GIVEN LIBERTY
But Suspects in New York Probe
Closely Watched; U. S. At
torney Sails for Europe
New York, June 29 (AP) —Two of
the government’s most important wit
nesses i n the international spy ring
probe. Kate Moog Busch and Senta
de Wanger, were released today from
the tower cell block in the Federal
building. However, their freedom
was constricted by a heavy guard of
G-Men, who maintained a strict watch
on their homes.
The woman had been in “protective”
custody for a month. Federal offi
cials refused to explain he a; release.
Both testified before the special grand
jury which indicted 18 individuals,
including high German war ministry
officials on June 20.
United States Attorney Lamar
Hardy sailed on the Normandie today
to discuss the spy question with Eu
ropean authorities.
Holt Fears'
Corruption
U. S. Funds
Washington, June 29 (AP) —Senator
Holt, Democrat, West Virginia ,ex
pressed the hope today the adminis
tration would not use the new lending
spending program to return “favors”
to corporations which bought cam
paign books in 1936 and 1937.
The West Virginian filed in the
Congressional Record a list of cor
porations and corporate officials he
said had purchased the books. Re
ceipts, he said, totaled $849,812.
Terming the sale a “very question
able method of obtaining campaign
contributions,” Holt asserted that
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British Destroyers Are
Ordered To Italian Port
Upon Island of Mallorca
London, June 29. —(AP) —Two Bri
tish destroyers, the Imogene and the
Isis, were ordered suddenly to Mal
lorca today from Gibraltar.
The Admiralty described the move
ment as “routine” in connection with
the Nyon anti-piracy patrol. The
lt.'dian-operatcd airplane base at
Palma, Mallorca, is the source of
many of the insurgent air raids'on
the coast of government Spain, and
Hritish shipping in Spanish waters,
Mallorca is 150 miles east of Spain.
Observers connected the movement
of the destroyers with reports from
Rome that Premier Mussolini had in
terceded with Insurgent General
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L £4i* E SERVICE OF
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS.
.Bailey Will Rest
At Duke Hospital
Charlotte, June 29.—(AP)—Sen
ator Bailey, Democrat, North Car
olina, informed friends here today
that he was entering Duke hos
pital at Durham for a period of
rest.
YANGTZE DEFENSE
fifIUEH BY
Important Matowcben Boom
Barrier to Japanese
Drive Up River, Ob
structs Japanese
CRUCIAL BATTLE IS
BELIEVED IMMINENT
Botb Sides Cautious in War
Bulletins as Fierce Figh
ting Continues; Conflicting
Reports Given of Air
Clashes; Hankow Is Stake
In Great Move
Shanghai, June 29. —(AP) —Chinese
declared today they still held the im
portant Matowchen boom, barrier to
Japan’s drive up the Yangtze river,
against Hankow. But the trend of
what may be a crucial battle in de
fense of the provisional capital, 170
miles up-river from the boom, was
obscured behind cautious communica
tions from both sides.
Chinese, who earlier had acknowl
edged loss of one of several fort 3
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Prison Planning
Triple Execution
Friday Forenoon
Raleigh, June 29.—(AP)—Pre
parations went forward at State
Prison today for the electrocution
Friday of Wiley Briee, a 'Negro,
and the execution by gas of Bill
Payne and Wash Turner, desper
adoes, all convicted of murder.
Paroles Commissioner Edwin
Gill indicated that pleas lodged
this week for Payne and Turner
. would not gain them a respite.
Warden 11. H. Wilson said Brice
w’ould die first at about 10 o'clock.
The Negro was convicted of a
slaying in 1926, in Alamance
county. Under State law, he must
be electrocuted, as that method
of execution was in use when the
crime was committed.
Payne and Turner were sentenc
ed for the slaying of George Penn,
a highway patrolman, and will be
given gas under a 1935 law.
No passes to witnesses for the
execution of Payne and Turner
will be granted the general pub
lic, Wilson said. Some 1,500 re
quests were received, but the en
tire allocation, ten in all, went
to the highway patrol. Wilson said
he sent five to each division, east
and west, and did not know who
would get them.
Franco in an effort to halt attacks
on British vessels.
Both Mussolini’s action and the Ad
miralty’s were believed to be results
of increasing pressure on Prime Min
ister Neville Chamberlain at home
to do something to stop the attacks.
While warships are privileged to
call at Mallorca at any time, it was
believed the present movement was
in the nature of a “gesture” to com
mand the insurgents’ attention and at
the same time quiet opposition in Par
liament.
Opposition members of Parliament
have been getting more and more
sarcastic in asking where the Bri
tish navy was while ships flying the
Union Jack were being sunk.
ONLY DAILY NEWSPAP ER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA AND VIRGINIA
Death For
Spies Set
In France
Paris, June 29.—(AP)—The French
government today issued a decree es
tablishing the death penalty in peace
time for certain forms of espionage.
The law was designed to halt the
growing number of spy cases in
France in recent years.
Sentences of penal servitude for
life, hitherto reserved for war-time
espionage offenses, also were made
applicable to peace-time convictions
in a new drive which authorities said
emulated Germany’s recent counter
espionage activities.
There has been a feeling in govern
ment quarters for some time that
the existing penalties needed stiffen
ing. There has been a huge increase
in espionage arrests in France in re
cent years. In the Strasbourg area
alone, near the German border, there
were 150 convictions of espionage
charges in 1937.
Spaniards '
Stalemate
Continuing
Hendaye.- France, June 29. —(AP)
The battle for Valencia today swung
on both flanks of a 50-mile front in
eastern Spain with neither the gov
ernment nor the insurgents able to
gain a decisive advantage.
General Frahco’s forces held the
upper hand in the coastal sector
where they attempted to break thro
ugh strong government defenses
guarding the important Mediterran
ean port.
Indan , where another insurgent
column was pushing east, General
Jose Miaja’s defense troops were
more than holding their own.
The insurgent coastal forces were
advancing slowly but steadily toward
Nules, about- 25 miles north of
Valencia.
Fresh troops and heavy artillery
enabled the insurgents to push back
weary government militiamen to the
line of fortifications protecting Nules
and the highway to the west. Artana,
only 28 miles from Valencia, is the
point of the insurgent arrowhead.
WEATHER
FOR NORTH CAROLINA.
Generally fair tonight and
Thursday, continued rather cool.
HENDERSON, N. C., WEDNESDAY AFTERNO ON, JUNE 29, 1938
Last Survivors of Civil War Who Can Make It
Head for Blue and Gray Reunion at Gettysburg
President Roosevelt to Address 4,000 Union and Confederate Veterans
Who Encamp June 29-July 6 on Famous Battlefield
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Drive Upon Depression
To Attain Stride by July 1
Britain Stirred by Storm
Over National Secret Act
London, June 29.—(AP)—Britain’s
political storm over the official secret
act was intensified today when Dun
can Sandys, central figure in the tur
moil, told a turbulent House of Com
mons he had been ordered to appear
before a military court.
Sandys, conservative member of the
House and son-in-law of Winston
Churchill, declared this was “a gross
breach of the privileges of this
house.”
It was Sandys’ charge in the House
Monday that the attorney general had
threatened him with invocation of the
secret act usually used against spies,
unless he divulged the source of cer-
FACES™
Judge Frizzelle at Snow Hill
To Hear Arguments
Over Complaints
Daily Dispatch Bureau,
In the Sir Walter Hotel.
Raleigh, June 29.—North Carolina’s
1937 scrap tobacco act will get a
searching test Saturday at Snow Hill
when constitutionality of the meas
ure will be argued before Superior
Court Judge J. Paul Frizzelle.
Attorney General Harry McMullan
for the State, and J. Con Lanier, of
Greenville, for the J. B. Ficklen To
bacco Company, agreed on the date
for a hearing, which will be a com
plaint of the company charging that
the SI,OOO license fee levied ip the act
(and which it paid under protest) is
unconstitutional. To Wade Bruton, as
sistant attorney general, will likely
make the appearance for the State.
The suit is nominally against A. J.
Maxwell, commissioner of revenue, to
whom the license was paid.
The State’s 1935 act was held void
for lack of clarity and because it did
not specifically state that a viola
tion thereof was a misdemeanor. That
case (State vs Morrison) originated
in Robeson county and was fought
all the way from recorder’s to Su
preme Court, with the State losing
every round.
Justice Heriot Clarkson wrote the
Supreme Court opinion in the matter
pointing out that the statute failed
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tain information that brought the
controversy into the open and arous
ed criticism weakening the position
of the government.
On the basis of this information,
Sandys had framed a question to b?
asked in Commons coneerning alleged
deficiency in Britain’s defense against
aircraft. The military court was in
stituted yesterday to inquire into this
leakage.
Sandys told the House he was or
dered to appear before the court in
uniform in his capacity as an officer
of the territorial army tomorrow
morning “for the purpose of giving
evidence.”
mfisSS
O’Mahoney Says It Is Hon
est Search for Means To
Save America
By CHARLES P. STEWART
Central Press Columnist
Washington, June 29. Senator
Joseph C. O’Mahoney of Wyoming
talks, in general, like a fairly ad
vanced liberal. Nevertheless, he was
prominent in the successful congress
ional fight against President/ Roose
velt's plan to • reorganize (or, as some
folk put it, to “pack”) the Federal
Supreme Court. This aroused the ire
of most New Dealers, who have had
a spell of referring to O’Mahoney as
at least a very conservative Demo
crat, if not an outright reactionary.
Now, however, he is leader of what
commonly is described as the “mono
poly investigation”, to proceed dur
ing Congress’ adjournment period,
until next January or until an extra
session is called, if one is called, ear
lier than that.
And the quite popular supposition
is that this will be a decidedly radical
quiz.
So what is the senator:
A rightist or a leftist?
As Stewart Classes Him.
From the Wyoming solon’s fashion
of expressing himself, I would class
him as a liberal, but decidedly a con
structive one.
He denies that his investigation pro
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PUBLISHED IVVIT AFTERNOON
EXCEPT SUNDAY.
Full Momentum To Be
Reached Quickly, Roose
velt Assures Nation
In Statement
STUDYING SWEDISH
LIQUIDATION PLANS
United States Still Hunting
Solution to Unemployment
Problem Without Such
Huge Expenditures, Presi
dent Says; Various Spend
ing Agencies Moving
Hyde Park, N. Y., June 29. —(AP) —
President Roosevelt gave the nation
assurance today that the big Fed
eral drive on the depression would
reach full momentum fcy July 1. At
the same time, the President said, this
country, is still searching for a solu
tion for the unemployment problem, a
solution that would not involve large
expenditures of money.
Mr. Roosevelt said one matter un
der study was how Sweden was able
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Hoover and
London Fate
Is Shaping
Washington, June 29 . (AP) —The
congressional election campaign may
determine wnether Alf M. Landon or
Herbert Hoover will be recogni. ed as
the titular leader of the Republican
party.
Frinds of the two men consider
both have a claim to the leadership,
Landon as the party’s last standard
bearer, and Hoover as its last Pres
ident.-
Prominent Republicans in Wash
ington said today that campaign acti
vities of the pair should give the rank
and file an effective yardstick for
measuring the relative effectiveness
of their leadership.
In some, cases, one or th e other may
have his way about the nomination of
Republican candidates, and in others
state and county leaders may have
an opportunity to observe which one
demonstrates the more vote getting
power for party nominees.
Both Hoover and Landon are ex
pected to make a series of addresses
during the campaign. Comprehen
sive arrangements have not been
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SHEPPARDASSERTS
Investigating Chairman
Holds President’s Pleas
for Candidates Are
Not Liable
NYE’S PLEA AIMED
AT CLEAN ELECTION
Wants To Know How Ex
tensively Absentee Ballots
Are Being Used in Senate
Primary of G. O. P., Won
by Nye; Williams Speech
Is Studied
Washington, July 29. —(AP) —Chair-
man Sheppard, Democrat, Texas, an
nounced today the Senate campaign
committee would poll
all county auditors in North Dakota
at once to determine the extent to
which absentee ballots were used in
yesterday’s primary elections.
At the same time, Sheppard told
reporters that he did not believe
speeches by President Roosevelt in
behalf of candidates in primary elec
tions would fall within jurisdiction
of the investigating committee.
The committee’s action on the
North Dakota situation, he said, was
in response to a request from Sena
tor Nye, Republican, North Dakota,
that the survey be made in the cause
of clean elections.
Nye was leading Governor William
Danger for the Republican senatorial
nomination by about 16,000 votes
when a third of the precincts had re
ported.
Sheppard told reporters that, al
though Nye did not clearly indicate
what use could be made of the in
formation, he assumed the North
Datkota senator wished to compare
the number of absentee ballots with
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Crop Loss
For State
12 Million
Raleigh, June 29 (AP)—N. C. State
College agricultural experts said to
day that rain, hail and wind had caus
ed heavy damage to crops in many
counties of the State in recent weeks
but that “good crops are still to be
found in North Carolina.’’
Damage running into the millions
of dollars has been done to tobacco
arid cotton by rain and hail,’’ John
Goodman, assistant director of exten
sion, said. Another survey has plac-.
ed the loss at $12,000,000 or more, with
Johnston, Nash, Beaufort, Halifax
and Franklin counties suffering most.
Goodman said the best crops could
be found where farmers used soil
building crops last year and had made
provisions for drainage either by ter
racing or installing drainagd systems.
Pastures lespedeza and legumes have
thrived during the wet weather, aid
E. C. Blair, extension agronomist.
Goodman commented that excessive
wet weather was not only hurting
field crops, but was reducing honey
flow, with indications being that bee*
could not produce a normal crop*
FDR Signs
Flood Bill
Grudgingly
Say s $386,500,000
Measure Not What
He Wants for Na
tional Planning
Hyde park, N. Y„ June 29.—(AP)—
President Roosevelt announced today
that he had signed the $386,500,090
omnibus flood control bill “with some
reluctance.”
Asserting that it “is unnecessary for
me to emphasize the importance of
carrying on a large and continuing
program to eliminate floods, lessen
soil erosion, continue reclamation, en
courage reforestation and improve
navigation”, the President declared
the bill he signed “is not a step in
the right direction in the set-up pro
vided for general government plan
ning.”
“I am in doubt,” President Roose
velt said, “as to the value of some
of the projects provided for, and it
I is unwise to place recommendations
| to the Congress solely in the hands
j of the engineer corps of the army in
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