HENDERSON’S
POPULATION
13,873
TWENTY-FIFTH YEAR
ROOSEVELT PREDICTS HIS PUCE IN HISTORY
U. S. JOINS BRITAIN
AND FRANCE TO LIFT
SIZES OF WARSHIPS
Limit of 45,000 Tons Agreed
Upon as Only Basis for
Accord Between
The Three
BRITAIN DESIRED
SMALLER MAXIMUM
Agreement Is Sequel to De
cision of Three Powers To
Abandon 36,00CT0n Limit
In Treaty of 1936 Signed at
London; In Keeping With
Old Pact
Washington, June 30.— (AP) —
Administration offieials said to
day four battleships of 35,009 tons
eaeh, in addition to two already
under construction, will be built
i»efore the United States avails tts
self of the new limit of 45,000
tons.
This was agreed on at a con
ference Iwtween President Roose
velt and Admiral William Leahy,
chief of noval operations, last
Friday.
London, June 30 (AP) —An agree
ment between the United States, Bri
tain and France, setting the limits on
battleships at 45,000 tons, with 16-inch
guns, was announced in the House of
Commons today.
The agreement, announced by Al
fred Cooper, first lord of the Admir
alty, was a sequel to the decision of
the three powers to abandon the 35,-
000-ton limit of the London naval
treaty of 1936.
This was made public March 31, in
accordance with the escalator clause
cf the treaty invoked by the signato
ries because of reports that Japan
was building mammoth men-o’war.
Cooper indicated the 45,000-ton lim-
i f was higher than Britain wanted to
build up to, “but that is the lowest
figure on which agreement could be
reached,” h« said.
Pope Asks
Japs Cease
Air Raiding
Castel-Gandolfo, Italy, June 30 —
•AP) —A Vatican news service said
today Pope Pius had appealed to the
Japanese government to “spare the
civil population, in so far as possible
in conducting aerial bombardments
in China.
Representations were made through
the apostolic delegate in Tokyo.
The news service said the Tokyo
government had acknowledged re
ceipt of the pope’s communication,
saying it would be treated “with con
sideration and deference.”
In recent weeks, the pope also ha?
appealed to General Franco, leader
of insurgent Spain, to modify the
character of his aerial bombardment.
SmEe
School Commission Sees All
Sorts of Involvements in
Present Row
In the Sir Walter Hotel.
Daily Dispatch Bureau,
Raleigh, June 30.—‘Some stir has
been caused in various circles by re
fusal of the State School Commission
to count the attendance of twelfth
grade pupils in making allotment of
teachers for next year; but officials
there offer the rebuttal that such a
course on their part is nothing more
than equitable compliance with the
State uniform eight-months State
supported school law.
Nobody wanted to be quoted direct
ly on the subject, as there was a
marked disinclination to enter into
any argument, but the point was
made that it would be just as logical
(or illogical) to pay for an extra
month of school in some localities out
of State funds as to pay for an ex
lia grade for which there is no pro
vision in existing law.
It must be conceded, of course, that
if the 1939 legislature acts to add a
twelfth grade to North Carolina’s
school system, then attendance of
twelfth graders would undoubtedly be
counted in allotment of teachers.
At present there are only a very
small number of school units with the
additional grade in operation—Dur
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Hrtthrrsmt tßatltt Bispatrh
ONLY DAILY NEWSPAP ER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA AND VIRGINIA.
service: of
the: associated press.
Wants-$15,000 Year
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Martha Barkley Ryan
. . . . seeks alimony
Asking a separation and $15,000
yearly alimony from Basil A.
(Pat) Ryan, grandson and heir of
the late traction magnate, Martha
Barkley Ryan, 22, goes to supreme
court in New York. She told the
court she lived with Ryan “only
one night” and that she knew the
Ryan scion only a few days. The
two were married last November
in North Carolina. Ryan assert
edly was intoxicated at the time.
—Central Press
Payne Sees
Mother For
Last Time
Condemned Slayer’s
Sisters Also Visit
Him; Three To Die
Tomorrow
Raleigh, June 30.—(AP) —Bill
Payne, facing execution at Cen
tral Prison tomorrow, along with
hif> companion iin cri|me, Wash
Turner was baptized this morning
in the presence of his weeping
mother, Mrs. Emma Payne, of
High Point.
Raleigh, June 30. (AP) —Bill P'ayne,
facing death at State Prison tomor
row with his companion in crime, was
visited by his mother and two sisters
this morning.
The two men were designated the
State’s No. 1 and No. 2 public enemies
last year when they were convicted
escapees.
Mrs. Emma Payne, of High Point,
Payne’s mother, pleaded Monday to
(Continued on Page Four.)
Aittomey General Spurred
In to Action Os His Own By
Senate’s Monopoly Inquiry
By CHARLES P. STEWART
Central Press Columnist
Washington, June 30. —The anti
monopoly investigation has put a
burr under the Justice Department’s
tail even before the quiz has begun.
The department, for a long time,
has had a lot of anti-trust cases un
der consideration without doing much
about any of them. Maybe it realized
that there was little it could accom
plish under the terms of the present
Sherman law or maybe it lacked suf
ficient evidence to act on. However,
it does not appear to have tried very
hard, perhaps, for no other reason
than pure official dilatoriness.
But it cannot afford to be caught
with a big batch of such neglected
business on hand now —not with that
investigation beginning.
No “Whitewash.”
Most of the inquisitors are admin
istrationists, and as the administra
tion is strongly anti-monopoly, un
doubtedly they will do their best to
do a thorough job. Their chairman,
Senator Joseph C. O’Mahoney, is au
thority for the assurance that the af
fair will not be a witch hunt, but it
will not be a whitewash, either.
On the opposite- hand, the adminis
trationistic investigators probably will
refrain, as far as possible, from creat
ing an embarrassing situation for one
of the administration’s own depart
HENDERSON, N. C., THURSDAY AFTERNOO N, JUNE 30,- 1398
ss
Campaign Apparently Stall
ed at Matowchen Boom,
Sunken Barricade
In Stream
CHINESE RECAPTURE
DEFENSE POSITIONS
Japs Completely Silent on
That, and Chinese Report
Sowing of New Mines as
Block to Invaders; Rains
Fail to Halt Air Raids of
Both
Shanghai, June 30. —(AP) New
rains swept the middle and lower
Yangtze river valley today, increas
ing flood danger in the path of a Ja
panese offensive against Hankow,
China’s provisional capital.
The campaign apparently was stall
ed at the Matowchen boom, a sun
ken barricade in the Yangtze about
175 miles downstream from Hankow.
Chinese reported today they had re
captured defense positions two milss
east of the boom with reinforcements
brought up to oppose Japanese efforts
to blast an opening for war vessels.
Jap'anese were completely silent on
their operations in that Sector.
Chinese reports also asserted new
mines had been sown in the Yangtze
between Matowchen and K;ukip.ng,
10 miles up-river.
Air forces of both nations continued
to operate despite rains and fog. Chi
nese reported a Japanese bomber shot
down in the Yangtze sector.
Chinese expressed belief Japanese
might attempt to strike south of the
river to cut the Canton-Hankow rail
road, a main avenue of imported war
supplies, at a point 250 miles south
west of Hankow.
45Killed
*
In Bombing
By Rebels
Badalona, Spain, June 30 (AP)—A
crushing insurgent air raid hurled
death and destruction today into this
workers’ town five miles north of
Barcelona, killing at least 15 persons.
For five minutes a fleet of ten
planes roared over Badalona, thund
ering their cargoes into the closely
packed houses.
It was the heaviest raid in the Bar
celona area since the three-day at
tack on the government capital in
March, and the severest since Britain
launched her plan for investigation
of bombings of civilian centers in the
Spanish war.
Four blocks of stone and stucco
houses were ruined. Their walls were
left standing, but their roofs were
shattered, and their interiors wreck
ed. Dust - covered workers dug
through the debris to bring out 45
bodies. Nearly 100 wounded were car
ried into Barcelona in a caravan of
ambulances.'
ments —the Justice Department.
The point is that not quite all of
the investigators are administration
ists.
Could Make It “Hot”.
Senator William E. Borah is not.
Oh, he is New Dealerish in many of
his ideas, but he is a good enough
Republican not to hesitate at making
a Democratic attorney general (and,
through him, a Democratic White
House incumbent) uncomfortable.
Senators Borah and O’Mahoney in
spired this investigation.
Perhaps Borah inspired it a bit
more than O’Mahoney did, although
O’Mahoney technically bulks in it
rather more largely than Borah, be
cause the former is of the now dom
inant political party.
Borah, The “Burr”.
O’Mahoney is middling independent.
Still, essentially he is after nothing
except facts. Even if those uncovered
should reveal conditions rather awk
ward for the Justice Department, I
can imagine that he might be satis
fied with the facts themselves, with
out rubbing them into Attorney Gen
eral Homer S. Cummings.
Not so Senator Borah.
A Mean Question.
Suppose the investigation develops
a big batch of evidence indicating per
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Keep Hands Off!
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•CHINA,/
vli'^it.
Island of Hainan
... new trouble zone?
Both Britain and France haTi
made known a warning to Japan
to keep hands off the strategie
Chinese island of Hainan, off the
South China coast, revealing a
pledge to act together to handle
any “complications”. Hainan,
shown on the map above, is di
rectly opposite northern French
Indo-China, and lies close to the
route between Hongkong and
Singapore, Britain’s Far Eastern
strongholds.
—Central Press
At Least 100 Persons Killed
and 200 More Missing
During Past Couple
Os Days
WEATHER STATIONS
SOUNDING WARNING
Most Liners and Freighters
Remain at Docks; Tokyo
and Yokohama Worst Hit
of Any Great Cities; 150,-
000 Homes Flooded in 12-
Inch Rain
Tokyo, June 30.—(AF)— A typhoon
howled toward Japan’s islands today
in the wake of two days of horror in
which at least 100 persons were killed
and 200 others were missing.
Tokyo was virtually isolated by the
heaviest deluge of rain in Japan’s rec
orded history, and by an earthquake
which levelled homes and disrupted
rail and wire communications.
The central meteorological instiute
warned all cities in southern Japan to
be prepared for the trppical hurricane
blowing northward across the China
Sea. It said the winds would strike
late this afternoon unless they were
deflected. Most liners and larger
freighters remained tied at their
docks in Yokohama.
Most of the deaths were in Tokyo
and Yokohama. In both sities land
slides crumpled homes. A railroad
tunnel collapsed near Tokyo and a
mainline roadbed was washed away.
Many rivers burst their banks, im
perilling other homes beneath under
mined cliffs.
More than 12 inches of rain fell,
flooding 150,000 homes in Tokyo alone
Snell to Retire
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Representative Bertrand Snell
. . • quits after 24 years
Recurring ill health and desire to
devote his attention to his per
sonal affairs are listed as-reasons
for the retirement of Representa
tive Bertrand Snell (R.) of New
- York, house minority leader.
Snell has served 24 years in the
house.
—Central Press
SAYS FUTURE WILL
AS BEING BALANCED
i
Survival of Value “For Our
Population and for Our
Way of Living” Is
Forecast
HE SPEAKS BEFORE
TEACHERS' MEETING
His Wife Introduces Him to
Education Assoc i a t i o n
Convention; Holds Up His
“Good Neighbor" Policy as
Model for Rest of the
World
New York, June 30.—(AP;—Presi
dent Roosevelt, gazing into the fu
ture. today predicted that history
would say his “long range budget”
had been balanced.
This calculation, the President de
clared, would be based on “survival
values for our population and for our
democratic way of living, balanced a
gainst what wc have paid for them,”
in addition to the usual items of gov
ernment income and outgo.
Addressing the teachers who com
prise the National Education Asso
ciation, Mr. Roosevelt also:
1. Spoke of countries where lib
raries have been burned, learned peo
ple exiled, universities dispersed and
news, art and literature censored as
having turned back the clock of
civilization.” He did so without nam
ing any country.
2. Admonished this country to keep
bright the fires of freedom and civil
liberties, to redouble efforts to main
tain a free press and to provide a safe
place for eternal truths.
3. Declared for state and local con
trol of schools and their curricula,
with the Federal government supple
menting only the resources of the
poorer communities.
4. predicted that “the ultimate vic
tory of tomorrow is with democracy,
and through democracy with educa
tion, for no people can be kept eter
nally ignorant or eternally enslaved.”
The President’s speech to the teach
ers was his second at the New York
World’s Fair grounds this afternoon.
In his first address, at the laying
of the cornerstone of the fair’s Fed
eral building, he held up the Western
Hemisphere’s “good neighbor” policy
as a model for the rest of the world.
After that, he drove across the
fair grounds to the education build
ing, where his wife, a one-time teach
er, introduced him.
The budget balancing remark was
prefaced with a declaration that “the
only real capital of a nation is its
natural resources and its human be
ings.”
“If we skimp on that capital, if we
exhaust our natural resources and
weaken the capacity of our human be
ings, then we shall go the way of all
weak nations,” said the President, ad
ding that, judged by history’s test, “I
venture to say that the long-range
budget of the present administration
of our government as being in the
black and not in- the red.”
(ANOTHER FAST DAY
FOR STOCK MARKET
Rise One of Fastest Flights in Years,
But Profit Selling Reverses
Upward Trend
New York, June 30.—(AP)—Stock
market leaders shot upward in one
of the fastest flights of the past sev
eral years during today’s early pro
ceedings, but subsequently suffered a
profit-taking nose-dive. Rails and
utilities were inclined to contest the
retreat. Brokerage offices were
swamped with overnight buying de
mand from all parts of the country
and abroad at the opening. Blocks of
1,000 to 15,000 shares changed hands
in the wild dash and the ticker tape
for more than an hour was as much
as ten minute behind. Numerous new
highs for the year or longer were post
ed before the relapse.
Dealings began to dwindle as quota
tions fell, and transfers amounted to
only 2,500,000 shares. Top marks of
fractions to three or more points were
converted into losses at the close.
American Radiator 14 3-4
American Telephone 141 1-2
American Tob B 77 3-4
Anaconda 31
Atlantic Coast Line 21 1-4
Atlantic Refining 24
Bendix Aviation 13 3-4
Bethlehem Steel 58 3-4
•Chrysler 59 3-8
Columbia Gas & Elec 7 3-8
Commercial Solvents 8
Continental Oil Co 9 s*B
Curtiss Wright 4 7-8
DuPont H 9 3-4
Electric Pow & Light 11 5-8
General Electric 40 1-8
General Motors 36 1-8
Liggett and Myers B 100 1-8
Montgomery Ward & Co ... 41 7-8
Reynolds Tob B 42
Southern Railway 10 1-2
Standard Oil N J 52 7-8
U 8 Steel 56 13-8
PUBLISHED iyUl AFTItNOOII
EXCEPT SUNDAY.
Use Market Cards
To Regulate Sales
1938 Cotton Crop
In House Spotlight
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Joseph W. Martin, Jr., Republican
Representative from Massachu
setts, is pictured above. He has
'been named as possible successor
to the post of House minority leader
to replace Representative Bertrand
W. Snell, of New York, who is re
tiring from politics.
(Central Press)
$249,289 Is
To Be Spent
On Syphilis
Reynolds Founda
tion Money To Be
Partly Matched By
Counties Sharing
Raleigh, June 30. —(AP) —Dr. Carl
Reynolds, State health officer, report
ed today $249,289 would be expended
in 18 Noi-th Carolina counties in
fighting syphilis in the fiscal year
starting tomorrow.
The funds set aside by the coun
ties and municipalties $127,705 will be
matched by $121,584 from the Zachary
Smith -Reynolds Foundation fund,
given by the State Board of Health
for anti-syphilis work.
In some instances the communities
have already had venereal disease
clinics in operation, and they will re
ceive credits for such funds set up
in the new year. In most places, new
funds are also being used to match
the Reynolds money.
Buncombe county and Asheville will
supply $15,620 and receive the ssme
amount of Reynolds money, Dr. Rey
nolds said. That will lead all coun
ties.
The Reynolds fund allocation and
total budget for other areas include:
Cumberland, $7,087 and $14,174;
Durham, $9,654 and $19,308; Edge
combe and Greene /counties, $4,900
and $9,800; Orange, Person and Chat
ham counties, $5,890 and $11,780;
Robeson, $6,715 and $13,430; Rocky
Mount, $2,903 and $5,807; Wayne, $5,-
300 and $10,600.
SLIGHT RECESSION
IN COTTON MARKET
New York, June 30. —(AP) —Cotton
futures opened six to nine points up
on higher cables, trade and foreign
buying. October sold up from 8.79 to
its previous high of 8.83, and was
holding at the best shortly after the
first half hour, when the list was five
to eleven points net higher. October
eosed from 8.83 to 8.70, and at mid
day was 8.72, with the list net un
changed to one point lower.
Futures closed three to five points
lower. Spot steady, middling 8.80.
Open Close
July * 8.81. 8.70
October 8.79 8.6 G
December 8.89 8.76
January 8.90 8.77
March 8.93 8.81
May 8.97 8.84
WEATHER
FOR NORTH CAROLINA.
Generally fair, slightly warmer
in extreme southeast portion to
! night; Friday partly cloudy.
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TODAY
FIVE CENTS COPY
Plan Will Be Followed Un
der Quota Provisions of
New Federal Crop
Gantro! Law
HOPKINS PUNISHES
WPA STRAW-BOSSES
Promises Swift Dealing
With Xny Proven Charge
of Political Coercion, and
Equally Prompt in Expos
ing Accusations from the
Opposition
Washington, June 30. —(AP) — Tha
AAA announced today it would use
marketing cards to regulate sale of
this year’s cotton crop under market
ing quota provisions of the new crop
control law.
Quotas were approved by more
than 92 percent of the cotton grow
ers voting in the referendum March
12. The new cotton marketing sea
son will open next month.
Under the control program, AAA
officials expect to hold production and
marketings of 1938-grown cotton be
low 13,000,000 bales, compared with
about 18,750,000 bales produced last
year. They estimated there is a sur
plus of about 13,000,000 bales of Am
erican cotton in domestic and world
markets.
The quota for a farm that has over
planted its acreage allotment will be
considered to be the normal produc
tion of the allotment until it is de
termined by the county AAA com
mittee from ginning reports and oth
er evidence that the actual produc
tion of the allotment is in excess of
normal, AAA said.
Meantime, Harry Hopkins announc
ed two WFA straw-bosses In Ken
tucky have been punished for playing
politics. The work relief administra
tor, replying to recent charges of poli
tical coercion in the Kentucky WPA
said in a statement:
“We will deal swiftly and sum
marily with any proven charge of po
litical coercion, but we will be equally
prompt in exposing any accustions
trumped up to serve the political end*
of those who are opposed to this ad
ministration.
The War Department said local in
terests would be heard soon on pro
posals for flood control or other work
on the Tar river, North Carolina. Lo
cal interests have proposed extending
an authorized navigation channel
from Hardee creek to Tarboro.
The PWA disclosed it was prepar
ed to advance funds for construction
of the $30,000,000 Santee-Cooper pow
er and navigation project in South
Carolina as fast as they are needed.
DIES OF INJURIES
INFLICTED BY CAR
Charlotte, June 30 (AP) —C. C. Gar
rison, 42-year-old Southern Railway
employee, died in a hospital here to
day of injuries he suffered when an
automobile struck him on a Charlotte
stieet Sunday.
martin”made head
OF STOCK EXCHANGE
New York, June 30 (AP) —William
Me. Martin, 31-year-old chairman of
the New York Stock Exchange, was
chosen today as its first salaried
president, the position which has
been referred to in brokerage circles
as “Wall Street’s czar.’
Schedules
On Tobacco
Being Made
White Sulphur Springs, W. Va.,
June SO (AP)—About 300 tobacco
men, heartened by excellent mar
ket prospects and good growing
conditions, went into committee
igessions today preparatory to
formal meeting at the annual
meeting of the Tobacco Associa
tion of the United States tomor
row.
President E. J. O’Brien, of Louis
ville, Ky., said the announcement
of dates for tobacco markets
would be made tonight or Friday
evening, since many members of
> the sales committee attended the
funeral of T. M. Anderson, of tfie
Export Leaf Tobacco Company,
at Richmond, Va.
The committee session is sche
duled for tonight.