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HENDERSON’S POPULATION -13,873 TWENTY-FIFTH YEAR GOVERNOR OF FARMER BLAMES ‘WITCH ROOT’ FOR SLAYING ' <w! 3P William Baxter Parnell 32-year-old tenant farmer is held without bond at Concord, N. C., in connection with the fatal icepick stabbing of his sister-in-law, Martha Jane Fink, 19, as she knelt in prayer in a hog lot. Witnesses at the inquest quoted Parnell as saying he slew the young woman while under the influence of a root he chewed after it was obtained from a Negro woman “witch doctor’’ “Aunt Jenny” Morris. This picture, made at the in quest, shows Parnell (left, in overalls) and “Aunt Jenny” (extreme right) and several spectators.. Japan Again Asks Moving Os Foreign War Vessels 30 Bootleggers In Edgecombe Taken, Tarboro, July 9.—(AP) —Armed with lot) warrants, furnished by representatives from a private de tective agency hired by county ABC authorities, Sheriff W. E. Bardin and his deputies today embarked upon a sweeping campaign aimed at rounding up illicit liquor dealers in Edgecombe county. Fifty-five persons were named in warrants, the sheriff said. He ad ded ten women were included. Around 150 persons had been ar rested at noon. They w’ere to be tried in county recorder's court court here Monday. The warrants were sworn out by th*- detectives last night and given to the sheriff's office early this morning. [LECH FRAUDS WORRY DEMOCRATS One Proposal Is To Abolish Absentee Ballot; Other Suggestions Daily Dispatch Bureau, In the Sir Walter Hotel. Raleigh, July 9—North Carolina’s political doctors —maybe they should be called physicians-politicians —seem to be of many minds about the epi demic of election fraud canceVs which have been discovered on the State’s body politic this hot summer. Certainly they express almost dia metrically opposite views on the best remedies and preventives. Certainly it is obvious to all con cerned that something should be done about conditions which give rise to the almost innumerable cries of thievery and skullduggery which have arisen in all quarters after both on Pag\j Four.) ABERDEEN MAN IS KILLED BY TRAIN \ Aberdeen, July 9. —(AP) —Jack Kill's, about 40, former railroad employee, was killed instantly to day when struck by a Norfolk Southern railroad freight train entering Aberdeen from the direc tion of I’inehurst. He is survived by three children. WEATHER FOR NORTH CAROLINA. Partly cloudy, scattered showers •n central and extreme northeast portions Sunday. WEEKLY WEATHER. South Atlantic States: Scatter ed afternoon thundershowers most of week, especially in Florida and interior of Carolinas and Georgia; temperature near or somewhat above qermaL HftSteuamt Utttltt fßtsmrfrfi LEASED WIRE SERVICE OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS. Japan Again Asks Moving Os Foreign War Vessels New Note Sent United States and Other Nations Urging Removal of Citizens Also WILL BE REJECTED IS GENERAL BELIEF American and British Gun boats Expected To Remain In Upper Reaches of Yangtze River, Despite Japanese Push in Direction of Hankow Capital Shanghai, July 9.—(AP) —The Ja panese, pushing 20,000 fresh troops up the Yangtze river for an intensified drive on Hankow, sent a new note to the United States and other foreign powers today urging removal of all foreign vessels and citizens from the danger zone. . The note stressed “desirability of voluntary evacuation” along the river between Nanking and Wanghsikong, half way to Hankow, and cautioned particularly against remaining in the 80-mile stretch above Kiukiang, 130 downstream from the provisional capital. A similar note to the foreign pow ers on June il was rejected. Foreign authorities had not yet had time to answer the new communication, but, in view of their past stand, it was considered likely it also would be re jected with American and British gun boats at Kiukiang remaining there. Kiukiang, next major objective in the drive, and Kuling, a hitherto un touched mountain resort, were q num ber of Americans and other foreign ers have sought safety, were mention ed in the memorandum as danger “’’Questioned as to‘ how foreign ves sels coud evacuate Kiaukiang with a boom blocking the river 30 mites above the city, a Japanese official said he understood there was a chan nel through the boom and mine fields. Routh Says Cross Slew Sergt. Mott Fayetteville, July 9 (AP)— Walter C. Routh, one of three men indicted with Bill Cross, Asheboro painter in the slaying last fall of £ F Mott at Fort Bragg, took the wit ness stand today and declared that Bill Cross shot the army ranger with his (Mott’s) shotgun. Cross took the stand in a night ses sion of superior court yeterday and testified for an hour and 40 i rr ‘ declaring that he had not killed Mott, but that a blast of gunfire came over his head .and hit the ranger in the face while the two were struggling for possession of Cross’ r^e * , Upon cross-examination by State s l attorneys this morning, Cross declar (Continued on Page Six.), ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OFNORTHCAROLINA AND VIRGINIA Tells on Nazis l: »: | r ill wSm 1 |HUnH Willy Brandt, former Storm Troop er in Germany, created a sensation at the trial of six members of the German-American Bund at River head, L. 1., when he testified that he had to take an oath of allegiance to “Adolf Hitler, our leader,” and that he was urged to lie when taking the oath as a United States citizen. (Central Press) Attorney General Makes Rulings on Absentee Ballots. Raleigh, July 9 (AP)— Attorney General Harry McMullan today made rulings on questions raised by a check of absentee ballots cast in Richmond county in the eighth dis trict second primary congressional race. He held that: A United States commissioner can not administer oaths on absentee bal lots. A voter must apply in person, by mail, or through another person through a written order before he can cast an absentee ballot. However, an absentee certificate is invalid when no precinct is designat ed. The Richmond Board of Elections met here last night with Chairmman W. A. Lucas, of the State Board of Elections, and Secretary Maxwell to discuss questions arising in the check of absentee ballots. RUDOLPH JOHNSTON AUTO CRASH VICTIM Brain Specialist Flies From Duke Hospital to Spartanburg, But Is Helpless Gastonia, July 9—(AP)—Rudolph G. Johnston, 35, prominent Spartan burg, S. C., mill executive, died late last night in a Gaffney hospital of injuries sustained Thursday night when his car was wrecked on a down hill curve near Blacksburg. A Duke University brain specialist flew from Durham in a chartered plane last night but found the injury too severe to be relieved by an opera tion. Death was caused by a fractur ed skull. Johnston, superintendent of the Spartan mills at Spartanburg and of mills at Tacapau and Gaffney, and was a son of Gordon A. Johnston, prominent Gastonia textile executive. HENDERSON, N. C„ SATURDAY AFTERNOON, JULY ,9, 1938 . KENTUCKY ACCUSED PARAGUAY, BOLIVIA t OVER BORDER ROW Accord cn Century - Old Gran Chaco Land, Virtu ally Worthless, Is Sealed With Kiss UNITED STATES IS PARTY TO EFFORTS Six Nations Sponsor Agree ment, and Final Treaty Is To Be Signed in Five or Six Days; Boundaries To Be Determined Through Arbitration Plan Buenos Aires, Argentine, July 9. (AP) —Foreign Ministers of Para guay and Bolivia adopted and sealed with a kiss today a preliminary ac cord to end the century-old territorial fight over the almost worthless Gran Chaco border area. The agreement must now be sub mitted to the two governments for final approval where after mediators of six countries who have tried since 1935 to keep Bolivia and Paraguay from warring again over the ‘‘Green hell” hope a final treaty can be sign ed in five or six days. The accord is to determine the Bolivia-Faraguay boundaries through arbitration. The precise formula of the agree ment was withheld pending formal approval by the two governments, but information from reliable sources in dicated its main part was that Bolivia and Paraguay agreed a zone varying from 12 to 50 miles through the Gran Chaco was subject to arbitration. After the initiating ceremony, which followed a three and a half hour ses sion of the Chaco peace conference (Continued on Page Six.) B. H, Perry Speaks At Bar Meet Rocky Mount, July 9 (AP)—Speak ing before lawyers of the second dis trict judicial district in session here today, two State-prominent leaders of the bar described publicity and stream lining court procedure as two badly needed remedies. Frank Winslow, of Rocky Mount, recently retired president of the North Carolina Bar Association, ex plained the new rules of procedure in Federal court, and suggested that to reform the procedure in North Carolina courts, the rule-making au thority should be transferred from the State legislature to the State Supreme Court. Bennett H. Perry, of Henderson, member of both the council and the public relations committee of the North Carolina Bar Association, de clared that bar associations ought to indulge in advertising for the sake of lawyers as a matter of “public welfare.” Advertising, now prohibit' ed on pain of disbarment, would have the effect, Perry said, of removing popular misconceptions about legal practice and would enable competent lawyers to meet the competition of individuals and corporations “of no training and no ethics.” Officers were to be elected later in the day. Was Gettysburg Battle Turning Point Os W ar? Historians Argue Point By CHARLES P. STEWART Central Press Columnist Washington, July 9. —The welkin is still echoing and re-echoing to sounds of the last reunion of the Blue and the Gray at Gettysburg, Pa. All right. It was a very inspiring, pathetic, patriotic, historic occasion. Nevertheless, military men, some what sub rosa (for none of them wished to be suspected of an inclina tion to throw cold water on the af fair), persistently have asked all along: “Why Gettysburg in particular?” Real Turning Point. It is agreed that Gettysburg was a big, bloody, dreadful battle, but so, professional soldiers remark, was Antietam. Ttte former, War Department stra tegists argue, was no more a turn ing point than the latter in the con flict between the states. The real turning point, according to experts was Grant’s success at Vicksburg. Vicksburg, however, is comparatively little advertised. Why Gettysburg for so great a Issi RELIEF “Paper Bags Donated by Friend of Senator Bark ley” Figure in Hot Primary War PRESIDENT WADES IN UP TO HIS NECK Leaves No Doubt of Kind of Clearcut Political Division of Liberals and Conserva tives as He Defines Them; Wants Bulkley And Barkley Washington, .July 9.—(AP)—Presi dent Roosevelt, has accused Governor Chandler of Kentucky of placing him in a “disagreeable situation” by pro posing that away be cleared for Chandler to run for the Senate. The governor, Mr. Roosevelt said in a lettci to Senator Logan, Democrat. Kentucky, wanted him to “traffic in judicial appointments,” a proposal which he said put him, Logan and Senate Majority Leader Barkley of Kentucky into a most disagreeable situation, and wholly without any cause therefor.” The letter, given out by Logan’s as sociates here today, was dated Feb ruary 1. It was written shortly after Logan had announced he would not resign from the Senate to accept a judicial appointment. His resignation would have opened the way for Governor Chandler to run for his Senate seat. When Logan did not step out, Chandler announced in opposition to Barkley. Yesterday the President, in a speech at Coving (Continued on Page Six.) Hoey Asks Return Os 3 Robbers Raleigh, July 9—(AP)—Governor Hoey has signed extradition papers asking return from Savannah, Ga., of three men wanted on charges of secret assault with intent to kill, breaking and entering and safe blow ing at Red Springs June 25, h? gov ernor’s office said today. The papers list the men as Joseph N. Gupton, Franklinton native; Har lon Massey, of Texas, and Clint White, of Indiana. W. P. Whitley, of the Raleigh-Wake county bureau of identification, said he understood Savannah authorities had agreed to their return to Red Springs. All three, he said, escaped from a Texas prison May 25, with two other prisoners. He said Red Springs Chief of Police M. N. Mcßainey was in Atlanta get ting the papers honored. The trio has confessed taking part in the Red Springs and Franklinton robberies, totalling several hundred dollars in cash and checks, Whitley said. Red Springs night policeman F. A. Brcden remains in a Lumberton hos pital with shotgun wounds he suf fered during the night of the recent robbery there. splurge, rather than Vicksburg or even Antietam? Gettysburg Fame. The answer is easy enough. What publicized Gettysburg was Lincoln’s speech there —a speech that was unrecognized at the time. Nobody ever made a speech of any conse quence at Vicksburg or Antietam. And no northerner, anyway, ever thought of making a speech at Bull Run. Paul Revere’s Ride. It is something like Paul Revere’s ride. Paul’s ride had precious little to do with the outcome of the American Revolution, but it has gone done in history as about that era’s most im portant event, because of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s poetical re cord of it. For that matter, the battle of Bunker Hill was not fought on Bun ker Hill; it was fought on Breed’s hill —nearby, but not on Bunker. Jour nalism of the time erred by a sub stantial fraction of a mile. Records (Continued on Page Eight. PUBLISHED EVERY AFTERNOON EXCEPT SUNDAY U. S. Silver in New Home Nellie Tayloe Ross, director of the mint, and E. R. Lynch, assistant superintendent of the United States assay office, are shown inspecting a stack of silver bars in the new federal silver vault at West Point, N. Y. The vault will hold 70.000 tons of the metal. (Central Press) Three American Nations Ready To Take Refugees Absent Votes In Davidson Checked Lexington, July 9 (AP) —Re- checking of the absentee ballots of Davidson county in the run-off Democratic primary of July 2 in th« eighth district congressional con test got under way here toay. Two an a half hours later only one designated as voting had been definitely thrown out. This was because of a defect in the accom panying certificate. Several others that were passed were challenged. Counsel for C. B. Deane, of Rock ingham, who trailed W. O. Burgin. of Lexington, on the face of the re turns alleged there were a number of irregularities in the voting and protested. The re-checking re sulted. Roosevelt Pleads For Lady Solon Platform Speech In Arkansas for Mrs. Carraway; Backs Oklahoma Thomas Aboard Roosevelt Train, Enroute to Oklahoma City, July 9.—(AF)—Presi dent Roosevelt told a crowd about the rear platform of his train at Boone ville, Ark., today that he had been talking during the morning to “a very old friend of mine and a friend of yours, Mrs. Carraway.” Senator Hattie W. Carraway, seek ing renomination at the August 9 Democratic primary, introduced the President to the crowd of about 3.500. Mr. Roosevelt asserted he had known Mrs. Carraway and her late husband, Senator Thaddeus H. Car raway, for many years. Representative John McClellan is (Continued on Pag>e Four.) Autopsy Ordered In Slaying Negro In Concord Plant Concord, July 9 (AP)—Coroner N. J. Mitchell, of Cabarrus county, said today he had ordered an autopsy on the body of Robert Suther to deter mine whether either Patrolman W. D. Ballard or Ellis Powell, whom Ballard had deputized, shot the 18- year-old Negro to death. Ballard said he shot at Suther and another Negro when he found them in the Cabarrus creamery early today, but was “sure” he missed them. While Powell went for other officers, the coroner said, Ballard shot. Later Suther was found fatally wounded. FIVE CENTS COPY BY FDR Mexico, Peru and Dominican Republic Would Accept German and Aus trian Exiles MEXICO OFFERS TO PROVIDE THEM WORK Peru Will Place Restric tions on Lawvers, Doctors and Other Professional Immigrants: Selected Groups .Will Help, Con ference Is Advised Evian-les-Ba:ns, France, July 9. — (AP) —Three Latin-American nations offered today to open their doors to German and Austrian refugees after other countries had told the Evian conference they could not permit mass immigration. Mexico pledged “asylum to foreign ers who arc afraid for their lives” and promised opportunities for them io work. The Dominican Republic promptly followed suit, as did Peru, the latter making an exception, however, of re fugee intellectuals. V. T. Molina, Dominican delegate, (Continued on Page Eight. New Troops On Duty At j erusalem Famed King’s Irish Guards Sent Into, Holy City; Armor ed Force Sent In « Jerusalem, July 9. —(AF) —Famed Irish guards who provide some of the sentries for King George Vi’s Lon don palace, tramped into apprehensive Jerusalem today to help thousands of other soldiers and police quell bloody Arab-Jewish violence. The slaying of two Christians and one Moslem in an Arab village in the Holy Nazareth district brought the number of deaths in three days of racial killings to 61. At least 150 were wounded. Arab strikes spread through the Holy Land. Most Arab shops in Jerusalem re mained closed. Few persons dared venture into streets of the city, tensed with fear. Strict curfew laws were enforced in the largest cities. Tour ists, among them 35 Americans, could travel only with heavy police escorts. Two steel-helmeted policemen, one British, and one native, sat with load ed rifles atop every' bus operating in Jerusalem. Buses throughout Pales tine repeatedly have teen targets for bombs, rifles and machine guns. Four Arabs were killed arid 36 injured when a bomb shattered a bus here yester day. Arabs charged that a 12-year-old (Continued on Page Si*.) . 8 PAGES TODAY
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