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SSSSSS? 13,873 TWENTY-FIFTH year TENNESSEE POLITICAL CAMPAIGN IS PROBED Hughes and His Companions Given Traditional Welcome New York Offers to Heroes HOW HUGHES BEATS POST’S MARK / 0° m sjKHABARjWIW / m ism / Yakutsk \ \mm lk\ [POST" Routes followed by Hughes and Post This map shows how Howard Hughes, millionaire Hollywood movie producer, and four companions surpass Wiley Post’s round-the-world record set in 1933. —Central Press U. S. Recovery May Avert A Worldwide Depression Ecnomic Situation May Co nspire To Make Germany Boss of Central Europe; Thinks Mussolini and Hitler Will Break as Germany Moves to East ' BY ROGER W. BABSON, Copyright 1938, Publishers Financial Bureau, Inc. St. Louis, Missouri, July 15.—1 t seems strange to be writing out here 6n European conditions, but I am moved to do so by the peculiar at titude of my friends in the Central West. There are facts about the fore ign situation which must be recogniz ed. We are now buying abroad only half the goods we were last year. In turn, foreign buying of our goods has dipped 20 per cent under the highs of six months ago. This means that the recession, at first confined to the United States, has been spreading over the world. The “turn” for the better in Amer ican business, however, has now come. With the United States such a powerful factor in world business, this means that there is a good chance of preventing another depres sion from sweeping the entire globe. A period of bad business in Europe at this time might easily touch off a new World War. Belgium is already recovering after her spectacular slump of last Summer; but France, The Netherlands, England, and Italy are suffering from dull business. Czechoslovakia and Poland are feel ing the European recession, while the break in commodity prices has been raising havoc with the more primi tive countries. Austria First Step. Germany, however, is apparently Leaf Scrap Tax Upheld In Decision Raleigh, July 15—(AP)—Attor ney General Harry MeMullan an nounced today the constitutional ly of the State law levying a license lax of SI,OOO on dealers in scrap tobacco had lieen sustained by Judge Paul Frizzelle. Judge Frizzelle signed a judg ment, MeMullan said, holding the law was valid in ruling against the E. 11. Ficklen Tobacco Com- I'aiiy, of Greenville, in its suit against Revenue Commissioner A. •I- Maxwell. At the hearing before Judge I'rizzelle it wr.s indicated an ap -1 •al to the Supreme Court would be taken, regard. l ess of his de cision in superior court. O 1 11 HI V kAT HER cmfwy , FOR NORTH CAROLINA. Generally fair tonight and Sat urday. Hetifremm Hatlii tlisimtrh LEASED WIRE SERVICE OP THE ASSOCIATED PRESS. holding her own. Austria, since her seizure by the Nazis, is rapidly throw ing off a severe business setback and solving unemployment. The annexa tion of Austria was a masterstroke for Hitler. Germany has strengthen ed her economic reserves, both of raw materials and foreign exchange. Moreover, I am convinced that the taking over of Austria was just the first step in Germany’s planned march toward the Black Sea. The factories of Bohemia, the grain fields of Hun gary, and the oil wells of Rumania beckon Hitler on to the East. The Kaiser’s old “Berlin to Bagdad” dream may yet matedialize under Nazi leadership. The principal weapons in this Ger man drive down the Danube will not be tanks, airplanes and bayonets. The campaigns will be won in the fields of commerce rather than on the. fields of tattle. Take Czechoslovakia, for instance, Her strength lies in the great factory section of Bohemia. Yet she is completely landlocked. Her chief outlets to the sea are through German or Polish ports. Germany can easily block the movement of Czech goods across German soil. She can ruin Czechoslovakia’s vital export business and force her into the Ger man sphere. She can do the same with all the small, backward countries of Inner Europe. As she penetrates east ward, she will weave into her own economy by improving (Continued on Page Six.) ALMIAII FOR SENATE POSE G. O. P. In New York Will ing To Endorse Him; • Would Worry FDR By CHARI.ES P. STEWART Central Press Columnist Washington, July 15. —A scheme of Representative Hamilton Fish, Jr., to have Al Smith run for the United States Senate in New York State as an independent Democrat, but with a Republican indorsement, doubtless is highly unlikely to be realized as a concrete political development. However, it certainly is a fascinat ing suggestion. Suppose Al actually were to make such a run and that the Republicans did indorse him. Would that not gum up' the Empire commonwealth’s cam paign in unprecedented fashion? In fact, it would have national reper cussions. Major ones, too. Indeed, major-issimo. Some More “Ifs”. And if Al were to be elected? If he declared his candidacy and _ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA AND VIRGINIA GUSTO MARY FETTLE FOR THE GREETING From Battery Through Sky scraper Canyons of Fi nancial District the Parade Moves PROCESSION GOES UP FIFTH AVENUE Hughes Brought His Mighty Monoplane Down on Floyd Bennett Field Thursday at 1:34 P. M., Same Spot Where He Started Around World Sunday New York, July 15 (AP) —How- ard Hughes and his four globe eiroling companions rode trium phantly up lower Broadway today from the Battery to City Hall, in the most tumultuous heroes’ pa rade New York has held in a de cade. It was like a throwback to the halcyon days when Jimmy Walk er was mayor, when Lindbergh first flew the Atlantic, Ederle con quered the English channel, Byrd flew across the North Pole, and the canyons cf the financial dis trict echoed with cries of greeting to the intrepid airmen. For 17 minutes, the time it took the procession of cars to reach City Hall downtown New York screamed its praise for the multi-millionaire Texas sportsman and his mates and shower 'ed the men with ticker tape, tore up and emptied from the windows of the world’s greatest skyscrapers tele phone books, old stationery, letters, newspapers. New York, July 15. —(AP) —Back from the greatest conquest of space ever made by man—around the world in less than four days—taciturn How ard Hughes felt the gathering fervor today of a thunderous, half-hysterical Broadway welcome. The official greeting was along the typical “welcome home” here line that New York has reserved as an accolade for the brave since the 1927 day when a blonde young man named Charles Lindbergh came back from Paris. The pattern prescribed a start from the Battery, on the southern tip of Manhattan island, with the fliers in open automobiles. They were routed through the sky-scrapered canyons of the financial district to City Hall, there to receive the official welcome of the city from Mayor LaGuardia. After the ceremonies there, the pa rade route lay up Fifth Avenue thro ugh showers of the traditional ticker tape and the shouts of the populace to the metropolitna club for luncheon. Hughes brought his monoplane, its mighty motors thundering over Floyd Bennett Field at 1:34 p. m., eastern standard time, yesterday, three days, 19 hours, eight minutes from the time he left that airport last Sunday even (Contiriued or. i age six) Storms Hit Mid-Atlantic States Hard New York, July 15. —(AP) —A lash ing rainstorm and gale-like winds left a trail of havoc along the middle At lantic seaboard today. Racing across southeastern Penn sylvania, New Jersey, Delaware and the eastern shore of Maryland, the storm, accompanied by lightnings, flooded scores of homes, scattered fishing boats helter-skelter, ripped off. roofs, felled trees and damaged corn fields and orchards. Within about an hour the storm cut a swath through Monmouth, N. J. Mayor Walter Sweeny, of Seabright, estimated the damage in his town, in cluding the clean-up cost, at SIOO,OOO. Trees in nearby Red Bank, N. J., were uprooted, blocking off nearly a score of streets. Train service on the Sandy Hook branch of the Central Railroad of New Jersey was inter rupted. In Delaware, the worst of the storm centered over the Milford-Houston , area in Sussex county. In Pennsylvania the storm blocked highways with fallen wires and branches, sent signs sailing and tore down hundreds of trees. HENDERSON, N. C„ FRIDAY! AFTERNOON, JULY 15, 1938 SEES RECORD GO ; l|g| i \ Jfjp So:®:" * » '' irlrs. Wiley Post • • . arranged to greet Hughes Widow of the late Wiley Post previous record holder in the round-the-world flights, Mrs. Wiley Post arranged to greet Howard Hughes at Fairbanks, Alaska. Mrs. Post was to con tinue on to Barrow, where she was to assist in dedicating a memorial to her husband and the humorist, Will Rogers, who was killed with Post in a crash in the Alaskan wastes three years ago. —Central Press GOVERNOR PLEDGES ENTIRE PROTECTION TO CONE WORKERS Tells Delegation State Will Assure Them Right To Return To Jobs If They Wish THOSE DESIRING TO STRIKE MAY DO SO Statement of Policy Applies to Whole. State, Hoey As sures Workers Who Call at His Office; No Plans Made To Send National Guard to Greensboro Raleigh, July 15 —< *VP' -Eighteen men who said they represented more 3,249 of the 4,591 or so regular em ployees of the closed Cone textile mills at Greensboro, received assur ances from Governor Hoey today that they would have the protection of the State if the local authorities failed to protect workers when the mills reopened. The mills closed Monday when workers protested against a wage cut. The governor said the men told him they had petitions signed by 3,- 249 of the regular employees of the four plants asking that the mills re open, and that two of the petitions had been in circulation only since late yesterday. He said the workers said they had been “well treated.” “I told them,” said the governor, “that In North Carolina every person has a right to strike or to quit work individually or collectively, but that those who wanted to work had a right to do that. If the majority want to go to work, the State of North (Continued on Page Six.) Absentee Ballot Figures In Practically All 1938 Election Fraud Charges Daily Dispatch Bureau, In the Sir Walter Hotel. Raleigh, July 15.—1 n the nearly score of primary contests in which many and various kinds of “frauds,” “mistakes” and “irregularities” have been charged, it is very noticeable that each and every complainant has been called attention to some assert ed misuse of the absentee ballot. In other words, the absentee ballot law seems to be at least, a contribut ing factor in all of them. Sometimes the petitioning candidate has alleged that votes were “mis counted.” In other cases, there have been charges that figures were deli berately changed to the benefit of some particular candidate. It has been quite usual for the defeated can didate to allege that Republicans were permitted to vote for his op ponent. The outstanding feature is that in every case it has been added “and there were great frauds in the use of the absentee ballot.” That there were cases in which the FORTUNE OF BATTLE APPARENTLY TURNING TO CHINESE FORCES Airmen Continually Raiding Japanese Military and Naval Groups Below Kiukiang JAPS ARE UNABLE TO CAPTURE CITY For Three Days They Have Made No Marked Advance and Chinese Insist Drive Has Been Brought to Halt; Japanese War Vessels Are Reported Sunk Shanghai, July 15. —(AP) —The tide of battle appeared to be turning to day to favor the Chinese along the upper Yangtze river after damaging attacks by Chinese war planes. Chinese announced their airmen continually were raiding Japanese forces, both military and naval, be low Kiukiang, which the Japanese have been unable to conquer in two weeks of bitter fighting. Kiukiang is 135 miles from Hankow, seat of Gen eral Chiang Kai-Shek’s government and the ultimate objective of the Ja panese offensive. For three days now, the Japanese have made no marked advance, and Chinese insist their drive has been brought to a halt. It is fairly well es (Continued on Page Six.) $ 1— Big Forest Fire , Rages Throughout Northwest Area Seattle, Wash., July 15.—CAP)— Flames leaping high in the air crack led through the forests on the Olympic peninsula today, routing vacationists from summer homes and threatening a valuable stand of timber. An area eight miles long and two or three miles wide, already lay in blackened ruins. Continued warm weather was a major handicap to the weary army of 200 men laboring to check the blaze. Much of the burned-over land was logged off but several patches of virgin timber were consumed. Fifty boys from prominent Seattle and Tacoma families were packed and ready to leave their picturesque summer camp on a moment’s notice. The flames had advanced within a quarter of a mile of the camp. “Nothing will save all this timber unless it is a miracle or a good stiff rain,” a grimy fire-fighter declared. BODY OF SALESMAN TAKEN FROM RIVER Hubert J. Latta, Fayetteville Auto Man, Fell From Boat 18 Miles Down the Stream Fayetteville, July 15.—(AP) — The body of Hubert J. Latta, local auto mobile salesman, who fell frorfl a boat into the Cape Fear river 18 miles below here last night, was found late this morning by a searching party which had spent all night dragging the river near the spot where Latta fell overboard. Latta was on a cruise with several employees of a local motor company at the time of the fall. privilege of absentee voting has been abused, if not made the vehicle for actually scandalous and criminal practices, has been abundantly proved For instance, the Richmond County Board of Elections canvassed 447 ab sentee ballots —it threw out no less than 114. In Davidson more than 750 voters were certified by physicians to be “sick” and unable to go to the polls— yet there was no epidemic there on July 2. In Durham, approximately 600 absentee ballots were cast in the run off primary, though there have be%n absolutely no charges that any of these were illegal. In the second gubernatorial pri mary of 1936, Governor Hoey received a total of 266,354 votes. It has been estimated, and undenied so far as this correspondent is aware, that ap proximately 80,000 of them were ab sentees. It is perhaps significant that there has not been a complaint this year from any county in which the use ot absentee ballots is barred. PUBLISHED EVERY AFTERNOON EXCEPT SUNDAY WILL RUN? nBxBBBBBL '• ioosSocoi ft jJlmn . ...........1.... ■ • ...fl Edward G. Dolan ... to oppose Lonergan T Edward G. Dolan of Connecticut, register of the U. S. treasury de partment in Washington, and an ardent New Dealer, says he will be a Democratic senatorial candi date against the incumbent, Sen ator Augustine Lonergan, who has opposed New Deal measures, if the rank and file of the Demo cratic party express such a de sire. Dolan said that his friends had been urging him to ma’.e such a statement. —Central Press 20 Die When Great Plane Falls In Sea Wreckage of Italian Liner from Sardinia to Rome Found by Searchers Home, July 15. —(AP) —Wreck- age of an Italian air liner which plunged into the sea 70 miles off Sardinia, carrying 20 persons to their deaths, was found today by searching planes. Victims of the biggest disaster in Italian civil aviation, included six women and a girl among the 16 passengers and four crew men. The plane “I-Volo” of the Ala Litorio Line, left Cagliara, Sar dinia, for Rome at 7:35 a. m. (1:35 a. m., eastern standard time) yesterday and its last radio signal (Continued on page six) BURST OF SPEED IN LATE STOCK MARKET First Four Hours of Day’s Session One of Slowest in Month, But Pick-Up Follows New York, July 15.—(AP)— After plodding through the slowest four hours in a month, the stock market put on a burst of speed in the closing lap of today’s session, and leaders shot up fractions to two points, with a few wider swings in evidence. The list advanced at <the start, but met sufficient profit-selling to cut top marks in half shortly after the open ing. Activity slowed from then on, with little pick-up in prices until the closing period, when buyers gave steels, motors and assorted favorites a fast whirl. Transactions failed to reach 1,000,- 000 shares. American Radiator 15 3-8 American Telephone 141 7-8 American Tob B 79 3-4 Anaconda 34 Atlantic Coast Line 21 3-4 Atlantic Refining 25 Bendix Aviation 17 3-8 Be.hlehem Steel 58 3-8 Chrysler 66 1-4 Columbia Gas & Elec 7 7-8 Commercial Solvents 9 1-8 Continental Oil Co 10_l-4 Curtiss Wright 5" 1-2 DuPont 121 Electric Pow & Light 11 7-8 General Electric 41 1-4 General Motors 39 1-2 Liggett & Myers B 100 3-8 Montgomery Ward & Co 44 1-4 Reynolds Tob B 41 1-2 Southern Railway 12 1-2 Standard Oil N J 55 U S Steel 58 8 PAGES TODAY FIVE CENTS COPY FIDS BlcEeD IN SENATE BATTLE Senate Investigating Com mittee Sends Official Into State To Learn True Facts HOPKINS BELIEVES RELIEF TO DECLINE Sees Signs of Falling Off In Employment in Nation; Justin Miller, Former Duke Law Dean, Considered for Supreme Court Cardozo Vacancy Washington, July 15. —(AP)—Chair- man Sheppard, Democrat, Texas, an nounced today the special Senate cam paign expenditures committee was in vestigating charges of political abuse in Tennessee. Sheppard told reporters after a two hour committee session this was the “undisclosed state” to which a spe cial committee investigator had been sent. The chairman, who previously had refused even to name the state, de clined to detail the causes of the Ten nessee investigation. Earlier he had said charges of misuses of public funds were involved. Senator Berry, Democrat, Tennes see, is opposed for renomination bv Tom Stewart, Winchester; J. R. Mit chell, Cookeville; J. R. Neal, Knox ville, and E. W. Carmack, Murfrees boro, according to the committee rec ords. The committee delayed final action on complaints from Maryland, Penn sylvania, California and North Da kota. Meanwhile, WPA Administrator Harry Hopkins is optimistic over the employment outlook, despite a year's peak of 2,53,35-1 persons on the re lief rolls. “I don’t want to be a Polly Anna, but there are signs that the relief rolls might come down,” Hop kins said at a press conference. Other developments: The names of a handful of law (Continued on Page Six.) Roosevelt; Lauds Navy In Defense Aboard President Roosevelt’s train, Enroute to Yosemite, July 15 (AP) The navy claimed wide attention as a powerful defense weapon today under a spotlight focused by President Roosevelt. Speaking at Treasure Island, in San Francisco Bay, yesterday after noon, the chief executive declared the fleet was “not merely assembled” but a “potent, ever-ready fact" In the defense set-up of this country. Then, a short time later, he sat on th<e forward se/jer-structure of the cruiser Houston while she steamed up and down a line of 60-odd men of war. Mr. Roosevelt made his declaration of the nation’s potency simultaneous ly with a hint of the United States' willingness to participate in arms re duction with world powers. Says Mills Over South Cutting Pay Rhode Island Tex tile Official Says Scales Being Pared to Legal Bottom Providence, R. 1., July 15.—(AP)— E. F. Walker, secretary-treasurer of the Rhode Island Textile Association, charged today that “widely scattered but important groups of southern cot ton mills” have initiated within the past two weeks “wage cuts averaging from 16 to 20 percent.” He said this apparently had been put into effect "for the purpose of reducing all wages to a point approaching the minimum of 25 cents per hour pro vided in the new wage-hour bill" be fore that act becomes effective. Walker said the Rhode Island Tex tile Association membership repre sents «0 percent of the textile business in the State. He made the charge in a prepared statement. Groups named by Walker included (Continued on Page Three.)
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