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HENDERSON’S POPULATION 13,873 TWENTY-FIFTH YEAR labor board asked TO COMPEL FORD TO DEAL WITH THE LAW Examiner Says Motor Com pany Should Be Forced Into Collective Bar gaining Pact WANTS MEN FIRED RETURNED TO JOBS Would Also Compel Dis banding of Employees’ Union in St. Louis Branch; Second Timfe in Eight Months Board’s Action Is Aimed at Ford Company Washington, July 7. —(AP) —An ex aminer for the Labor Relations Board told the board today it should order the Ford Motor Company to bargain collectively with the UAWA union (CIO) at its tst. Louis assembly plant. He also proposed an order to enforce re-employment of 192 workers dis charged or refused jobs because of their participation in union activities and in a strike last November. i The examiner was T. E. Dudley. His report, under board procedure, allows the company ten days in which to comply. In the event the company fails to comply, the next step would involve the issuance of a board order against the company. Such an order may he enforced, if necessary, thro ugh court procedure. Dudley recommended that the St. Louis branch of the Ford Company abolish the Liberty Legion of Amer ica. Inc., as a representative of its em ployees. He further recommended 96 of the workers, who complained of discrimination because of union ac tivities. be reinstated with back pay from the time of their discharge. The remaining 96, Dudley said, should be reinstated and given compensation from the time the company refused to re-employ them. It was the second time in eight months that a Labor Board action has been directed against Ford. Cotton Mills Are Slowly Returning Workers to Jobs Raleigh, July 7. — (AP) —Labor Commissioner A. L. Fletcher re ported today employment in more than 140 textile mills in all parts of North Carolina increased 3.59 pei cent in June. Fletcher said em ployment in the furniture indus try, however, shawe l a “seasonal” (inline of 5.43 percent. He said th a re was V. general pick-up" <n textile activity evi dent throughout the State. “At I.exington,” ho said, “tin* Frlanger n ills are heading toward capacity operations after a complete close down of two and throe months. •he company normally employs more than 609. It had cut tu about 000 on part time before it closed. It will take several weeks to get t ack to capacity and 600 work ing employees, but a start is be » iig made.” DR. R. E. BLACKWELL PASSES IN ATLANTA Randolph - Macon President and Methodist Unification Lead er Dies at Age of 84 Atlanta, Ga., July 7.—(AF)— Dr. R. E Blackwell, 84, president of Ran dolph Macon College, Ashland, Va., and a former president of the South ern Association of Colleges, died in a hospital here early today. Br. Blackwell was born at Warren ton, Va., November 14, 1854, and was one of (he oldest college presidents in the United States. He taught English to four generations at Randolph Macon, a school where he spent the greater part of his life, starting as a student at 13. He was elected vice-president in 1900, and in 1902 was chosen presi dent. Dr. Blackwell was a member of the joint commission on unification of the Methodist Episcopal Church, Bouth. Few Tar Heel Workers Aided By Wage Minimum But Hours To Cut Many Kalojgh, July 7. —Comparatively few r , Carolina’s wage earners will “'.affected by the 25-cent hourly pay provision of the Fed wage-hour bill, but more than 'O-OOri will likely work shorter hours J acfl week as a result of the measure’s 1 hour limitation, Major A. L. Flet c. r > State commissioner of labor, fc'Jid today. Jhe commissioner has consistently avoied the wage-hour act, and he 6, ’H believes it will be a step toward balling the South on an economic Quality with the rest of the country. He commented that President Poosevelt is right in his recent state- that the South is the nation's UntiWrsmt 53atUt iDisuatrlt SERVICE OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS. At the Capita) - A Hi: ::WH gg§|v. SwßGr I ulwH Iggfflp waw i m wHHI § ♦ ! > m 1 mSi .8 I > WMm 1* 8S0& *>§ Although Congress had gone home, there was plenty of fireworks in Washington on the Fourth of July. Here is an exceptionally pretty pic ture, made with the illumination of a rocket, showing the Washington Monument and the lighted windows of the White House. ... . (Central Press) British Send Warship Into Rioting Zone 131 Or Wounded In New Jewish - Arab Out break in Holy Land London, July 7.-( V*\ —Britain tonight ordered two battalions of troops rushed Tro a Egypt to Palestine to assist in quelling the deadly Jewish-Arab uprising. Three warships already had reach ed or were enroute to the Holy Land. The troops were ordered to leave at the earliest possible time. Already 8,500 British troops are in Palestine trying to end the bit terest strife the country has known since 1936. Jerusalem, July 7.—(AP) —The Bri tish government today ordered the 7,550-ton cruiser Emerald to Haifa, where 131 persons have been killed or wounded in two days of rioting. The blackest Holy Land situation since the bloody Arab general strike of 1936 caused the call for reirrforce ments. * " Official sources said 22 Arabs and six Jews had died, and 92 Arabs and 11 Jews have been wounded since a (Continued on Page Eight. economic sore spot. “We’ve got to get used to paying better wages,” he said. “Higher pay for the workers would profit every one, top and bottom, in the long lun. Our manufacturers are overlooking a mighty good bet. Higher wages for their employes would increase their market tremendously by the workers more purchasing power. The major pointed out that in the textile industries only a very few small mills are now paying less than the 25-cent hourly wage minimum, but he added that North Carolina s legal work limit of 48 hours is four (Continued on Pag® Six.) ONLY DAILY NEWSPAP ER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA AND VIRGINIA. jmS Foreign Troops, Including United States Marines, Protect International Section GUERRILLAS MARK WAR ANNIVERSARY Religious Rites Mingle With Harsh Wartime Practical ity in Tokyo as Second Year of Chinese Invasion Is Started; Moment of Sil ence at Noon Shanghai, July 7. —(AP) —Terrorists’ attacks against Japanese were resum ed in Shanghai today on the first an niversary of the China war. Foreign troops, including United States Marines and police reserves, intensified their patrol of sultry streets to guard the international set tlement and the French concession. Four were killed and five wounded by bombs, grenades and bullets. Two of the dead were Japanese, and two were Chinese. A British colonial sol dier was injured. There were flurries of machine gur. fire in outlying districts and reports of sporadic shooting in industrial Pootung, across the Wlhangpoo rivei from Shanghai proper, that may have meant a new series of attacks by Chi nese guerrilla units. There have been similar outbreaks since the Japanese established control of Shanghai, and drove the Chinese toward Nanking last November 9. The Chinese and Japanese armies now are in a near dealock along the Yangtze, about Hukow and Kiukiang, 150 miles from Hankow, and 450 miles from Shanghai. RELIGIOUS RITES MARK? ANNIVERSARY FOR JAPAN Tokyo, July 7. —(AP)—Japan obser ved the first anniversary of her un declared war on China today with a curious mingling of deep religious symbolism and harsh wartime prac ticality. A moment of silence was ob served at high noon.. Throughout the day thousands made solemn pilgrimages to military shrines where, according to the Shrinto be lief, still live the souls of men killed in battle. CABARRUS MAN IS HELD IN SLAYING His Confession To Stabbing Sister in-Law as She Prayed Given to Coroner’s Jury Concord, July 7 (AP)—A coroner’s jury ordered IVilliam B. Parnell held without bond after an inquest today at which witnesses testified the Ca barrus county farmer told them he stabbed Martha Jane Fink, his sister in-law, to death while under the in fluence of a root he had obtained from a Negro woman fortune teller. Rev. John Ricks, pastor of a rural Presbyterian church, and Deputy Sheriff B. S. Ball told the jury Par nell admitted driving an ice pick into the body of his 19-year-old sister-in law last Sunday night while sh e was kneeling in prayer. Parnell did not testify. His wife collapsed while on the witness stand. CRAMERTON MAN IS KILLED BY A TRAIN Fast Southern Railway Passenger Train Strikes Textile Work er .at Crossing Gastonia, July 7.—(AP)—A fast Southern passenger train struck and instantly killed Arch Laney, 49, Cramerton textile worker, at Cramer ton at midnight last night. Coroner Charlie Wallace sa : d there would be no inquest. John Sigmon, an eye wit ness, said Laney, walking across lbs tracks, apparently did not see the tiajn. Funeral and burial will take llace Friday in Oaiawbi county. La:.ey leaves his widow and five chil dren. of Cramerton. FreflcK Occupy This i Jtsk PARACEL C Jkw-« a ? m*ms li'i i'i'riiriiiiiiiiil il-•' ri¥i'n rfiTii'iiiiiSSM««M«»ii«n.»nnnWi»rtmini# Paracel islands on the mSg [This map shows the strategic sifc uation of the Paracel islands, oc icupied by France. The islands are near French Indo-China and the > Island of Hainan, which Japan 'threatens to occupy, despite warn ings from France and Britain. The occupation of the Paracels, hith erto ownerless, was carried out by a group of French customs offi cials and policemen. —Central Press HENDERSON. N. C., THURSDAY 1 AFTERNOON, JULY 7,1938 Calls on President ' •* i sjS§ g . i •* * * ; x The Sheik Hafiz Wahba, Arabian envoy to London, is pictured in his flowing robes as he called at the White House for a brief chat with President Roosevelt. A real sheik of Araby, he is dressed in the robes and golden-corded turban of his rank. ; ( Central Press ) Would Move 40,000 From Old Austria • Dr. Neumann, Vien na Specialist, Makes Plea to Internation al Refugee Body Evian-les-Bains, France, July 7 _(Ap)—Myron C. Taylor, the United States delegate, today was elected president of the imter-gov ernmental committee on refuges, meeting here as a result of Presi dent Roosevelt’s invitation to other nations to discuss the re fugee problem. Evian-les-Bains, July 7 (AP)—Dr. Heinrich Neumann, famed Vienna specialist, brought an informal mes sage from German authorities to the inter-governmental committee on re fugees today, asking the evacuation of 40,000 Austrian political victims by August 1. 'Professor Neumann, who was ar rested after Nazi Germany’s annexa tion of Austria March 13, and who gained prominence through his treat ments of the Duke of Windsor for an ear ailment, said he had no ‘ positive instructions, but intended merely to follow suggestions of the German of ficials with whom he conferred re cently in Vienna. Reasons for Dr. Neumann’s reluc tance to discuss the refugee question —the problem -before a conference here of representatives of 32 nations became apparent.when he said he had left his wife and children in Vienna and hoped to join them there short- appearance coincided with a meeting of leaders of refugee organizations scheduled to make tech nical (suggestions for solving the plight of German and Austrian un wanted Jews and other political fugi tives. Conference officials said there was some possibility of another public session in the next few days to allow additional statements on policy, parti cularly by members form South Ame rican nations. 10 Boys Die In Firemen’s Mock Drills Lisbon, Portugal, July 7 (AP)— Ten boys died today when fire men failed to rescue them from a four-story wooden structure set ablaze to permit an exhibition fire drill. Ten others were injured seri ously in the drill, at Coimbra, 100 miles north of Lisbon. The build ing was soaked with gasoline for the spectacle, with boys from 12 to 20 distributed through its rooms The boys, some sons of firemen, were to receive ten escudos (45 cents) for their help. The drill ing brigade went to headquarters 400 yards from the building to wait a pre-arranged alarm after the fire was started. "* The flames spread too quickly. Thousands of spectators watched in terror as the firemen fought through the crowds to effect the planned rescue. Two of the screaming boys died in the flames.. Eight were injured fatally in jumping from windows. Silii Mother of Jimmy Cash, Jr., Kidnaped and Killed, Refuses Mother of Condemned Man DECISION REACHED AT SHORT SESSION Mother of Criminal and Mother of Child Victim Meet at Pardon Board Con ference, and Mrs. Cash Talks Plainly and Firmly to Mrs. Lily McCall Tallahassee, Fla., July 7 (AP) —The Florida Pardon Board refused today ( to commute the death sentence jf Franklin P. McCall for the ransom kidnaping of James Bailey Cash, Jr., at Princeton, Fla., on May 29. Its decision was announced after a brief executive session, following pleas by McCall’s attorney for com mutation, and by his prosecutor that the death sentence be carried out. Earlier the Cash child’s mother had refused to join the mother of McCall in a p.ea for mercy for him. Mrs. Lily McCall, a widow, and the prisoner’s wife, came here from the larnily home at Jasper, Fla., in an at tempt to save him from electrocution. He is in the d>eath house of the State Prison. The mothers met as the Florida pardon board arranged to hear a plea from Mrs. McCall for commuta tion of the sentence. Mrs. McCall said she had asked Mrs. Cash to join in seeking to save her son’s life. She said Mrs. Cash told her: “Your son not only killed my son, but he has figuratively killed my hus band and me. No penalty can pay for the crime or relieve us of our misery.” EXPENSE REPORT IS SENT IN BY BLOUNT Raleigh, July 7. —(AP) —Sam Blount who was dfeated in his race for the Democratic solicitorial nomination in the first district in the June 1 pri mary, reported today he spent $730.35 campaigning. Blount listed $165.60 in his final statement, after reporting $(64.75 in his preliminary accounting ROUTE ONE AT LINE TO BE BUILT OVER Raleigh, July 7 (AP)—Vance Baise, chief highway engineer, said today plans had been sent to the Federal Roads Bureau for ap proval which would result in eli mination of several curves on a stretch ofUT S. No. 1 highway eight-tenths of a mile long at Smith’s Creek bridge, near the Virginia line. / EARLY ADVANCE IN COTTON WIPED OUT Futures Prices Close, 12 vo 13 Points Dowii After Strength at Outset of Trading New York, July 7 ~(AP)— Cotton futures opened one to three points higher on steady markets abroad and trade and commission house buying, which absorbed pre-bureau liquidation October sold off from 9.10 to 9.06. Oc tober, which had eased to 9.04, was 9.07 by midday, when the market was three points net lower to one higher Futures closed 12 to 13 points lower. Spot quiet, middling, 9.04. Open Close July 914 8-99 October 9.09 8.94 December 9.17 9.02 January 9.17 9.01 March 9.23 9.09 May 9.25 9.12 Heads World Youth Elizabeth Shields-ColUns , . . peace through education Elizabeth Shields-Collins, 23-year -1 old English girl, who heads the World Youth Congress, represent * ing 52 nations, is shown in New York telling reporters that “world peace can be achieved through ed ucation and tolerance.” I —Central Press PUBLISHED IVIKT AFTIUIOOI EXCEPT SUNDAY. ROOSEVELT ACCEPTS APPEAL FOR SPEECH IN GEORGIA AUG. 11 Peace in Indiana Frederick Van Nuys . . . back in the fold Democratic peace comes to Indi ana with the decision of the Mc- Nutt-Gov. Townsend organization to accept the renomination of Sen ator Frederick Van Nuys in the July 12 state convention rather than have him run as an independ ent and split the ticket. Senator Van Nuys had been put outside the pale when he opposed Presi dent Roosevelt’s court reorganiza tion bill, although he had support ed the president on other New Deal measures. Gov. M. Clifford Townsend, who virtually read the senator out of the party, sent a telegram to the senator’s vacation spot telling him all was forgiven. 9 Beaufort Men Held In Liquor Case Under Bond At Washington, N. C.; for Defrauding In Government Taxes Washington, July 7 (AP) —Nine resi dents of the Blount’s Creek section. 12 miles fropa here, were under bonds today awaiting Federal trial on charges of defrauding the United States government on liquor taxes, manufacture and transportation of illicit whisky and conspiracy to vio late the internal revenue laws. The defendants ordered held yes terday by Mrs. Hugh Paul, United States commissioner, are named in the indictment as W. H. (Bill) Robert R. Mills, Clifton Mills, Guy Lewis, Buy Mills, Jasper Mills, Jesse Cayton, Egbert Warren and Mark Shackleford. Evidence presented yesterday tend ed to show hundreds of thousands of gallons of bootleg whisky from the Blount’s Creek area were carried to Durham, Raleigh, Greensboro, Rocky Mount, Ch'apel Hill, Wilson, Roxboro Sanford, Burlington and other up state cities. Baptists Peculiar, Speaker Says, and Should Be Worthy Ridgecrest, July 7. —(AP) —Dr. G. S. Dobbins, a member of the faculty of the Baptist Seminary at Louisville, Ky., told the annual southwide Bap tist editorial conference here today that “Baptists are peculiar, but in stead of being proud of the fact they should spend their time in trying to be worthy of it.” Reviewing the history of the Sun day school movement in North Amer ica. Dr. Dobbin said Southern Bap tists were not directly affiliated with the International Council of Sunday Schools because they felt the council had lost its “essential democratic “Southern Baptists have felt they can do a large service by staying out of the council,” he said, “but let us not exalt this quality of peculiarity. And we should not be corrnlacement over the apparent superiority of the Baptist Sunday school history. Rath er we should remember that the tide that takes out on 9 ship will tkae out all ships, and just as the Sunday school movement is slipping in some sections, so it may do among South ern Baptists unless we continue our efforts with unabated zeal.” WEATHER FOR NORTH CAROLINA. Generally fair in east tonight; slightly warmer on extreme south east coast tonight. 8 PAGES TODAY FIVE CENTS COPY Lawrence Camp, New Deal er Opposing Senator George, in Delega tion Seeing FDR PRESIDENT TO AID FRIENDS IN RACES Starts Tonight on Cross- Country Jaunt To Bolster Support of New Dealers in Primaries; North Carolina Short of Quota of Jobs at Capital Washington, July 7. —(AP) —Presi- dent Roosevelt added another poli tically significant speaking engage ment to his cross-country tour today by accepting an invitation to Visit Barnesville, Ga., August 11. The invitation was extended by a delegation of Georgians, including Lawrence Camp, Federal district at torney at Atlanta, and candidate for the Democratic nomination for the • United States Senate seat now held by Senator George. George, who frequent ly has opposed the administration, was not in the delegation. The President’s long trip, taking on some of the aspects of a stumping trip for liberal candidates, v/ill bring him also in to three other states, Ken tucky, Oklahoma and California, where he is expected to make it clear that he would like to have New Deal supporters sent to the Senate. After leaving Washington at 10:30 p. m., eastern standard time, Mr. Roosevelt will first stop at Marietta, Ohio. There he will speak tomorrow i morning in connection with the 105 anniversary of the opening of the Northwest Territory. Other developments: North Carolina and South Carolina were among 37 states and territories which, the Civil Service Commission reported, on June 30 had fewer resi dents in civil service positions in Washington than they were entitled to under the apportionment law States which had not filled their juotas included North Carolina, with 1,181 positions, and 761 unoccupied. President Roosevelt has appointed Robert W. Bruere, of New York, to be chairman of the new maritime labor joard. He has named Floyd H. Rob erts, of Bristol, to be Federal judge of the western district of Virginia. Save Negro Os Franklin From Chair Raleigh, July 7 (AP)—Kenneth Tay or, Negro, who was to have died in Central Prison gas chamber tomor row for murder, today received a commutation of his sentence to life imprisonment. Governor Hoey, in announcing his decision, said he did not think the “prisoner went to the house of the de ceased for the purpose of committing murder. Taylor was convicted in Franklin county for the murder of Margaret Alston in July, 1937. “I incline to the opinion,” the gov ernor commented, “that after enter ing the house a quarrel ensued, and that the prisoner, upon the spur of the moment, committed a homicide for which there is no excuse. “I do not think that the prisoner killed in self-defense, but I do think he killed upon such impulse* rather than in cold blood. "Under the circumstances, and in view of the prisoner’s previous good character, I feel that this case is fit for the exercising of mercy, and I therefore commute the sentence to life imprisonment.” Among those recommending cle mency were Sheriff John Moore, of Franklin, two deputy sheriffs and eight members of the trial jury, Gov ernor Hoey said. SNELUND WATSON LAST OF THEIR TYPE Snell Quits , Voluntarily, Watson Denied “Come . back”; Out of Date By CHARLES P. STEWART Central Press Columnist Washington, July 7.—Even a New Deal sympathizer, if a veteran in Washington, is entitled to feel a cer tain sort of sentimental pang at Re presentative Bertrand H. Snell’s an nouncement of his retiremen* from Congress simultaneously with James E. Watson’s defeat for another nom ination as a senatorial candidate in Indiana. As Republican Old Guardsmen it is unimaginable that Capitol Hill ever again will see that pair’s equals. Each was a perfect specimen of the (.Continued on Page Five.)
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