HENDERSON’S
POPULATION
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TWENTY-FIFTH YEAR
GOVERNOR OF
FARMER BLAMES ‘WITCH ROOT’ FOR SLAYING
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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
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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
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LEASED WIRE SERVICE OF
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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
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ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OFNORTHCAROLINA AND VIRGINIA
Tells on Nazis
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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
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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
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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
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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
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