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'iTenT’E rsoN ’ s POPULATION 13.873 TWENTY-FIFTH YEAR JAPANESE FINANCES IN DESPERATE PLIGHT CZECHOSLOVAK ARMY FORMING AT BORDER, SAYS BERLIN STORY Movements Reported Ob served On 65-Mile Front Next to German Siles ian Frontier CZECH AUTHORITIES MAKE FULL DENIAL Legation In London Says There Is “Nothing Unusual To Report;” Natural De fenses of Republic Weak est on Silesian Border, In volved In Rumors Berlin. July 16. —(AP)—G. N. B. (German News Agency) reported from Waldenburg, in Silesia, today that new Czechoslovak mobilization movements were observed across the tortler along a 65-mile front from Troppau to Trautenau. The agency said artillery and mac hine guns could be seen in position bv observers with field glasses. The roads again were occupied with military barricades erected at the frontiers. tin London the Czechoslovak lega tion categorically denied German re ports that the Czechoslovak army was mobilizing. (A spokesman at the legation said Jan Masaryk, the minister to Lon don. was informed there was “noth ing unusually to report.”) Troppau and Trautenau are located near the northern boundary of Czechoslovakia, facing German Silesia where natural defenses of the republic are weakest. SLIGHT DECLINES IN COTTON MARKET Liverpool Cables Lower and Foreign Selling Is Feature of Day’s Short Session New York, July 16. —(AP) — Cotton futures opened seven to nine points off on lower Liverpool cables and un der foreign selling. December recover ed from 8.63 to 8.67, leaving quota tions four to five points net lower shortly after the first half hour. Futures closed four to five points lower; spot quiet, middling 8.64. Open Close October 8.55 8.59 December 8.63 8.68 January 8.63 8.68 March “ 8.68 8.73 May 8.73 8.76 Government Spain Gets New Pledge Political Parties and' Workers Renew Allegiance; Rebels Press Drive Hendaye, France, July 16.—(AP)— Abe Spanish insurgent troops attack ed vigorously on the eastern Mediter ranean flank today, advancing slowly down the Teruel-Segunto highway. One column moved forward south the highway and another north of W using Sarrion as a base. Their ob jective was to pinch off the govern ruent-controlled sector around Mora do Rubiclos, northeast of Sarrion. pispatches from insurgent territory " a id scores of bombers were blasting government lines in the Sarrion sec °'. and that government troops were ln retreat. Advices from Zaragoza Fa 'd a point four miles south ol Sar -110.1 had been captured. Insurgents said they had spreed a c, ossing of the Paraisos river, both t,lc “ highway and to the south/ 1 orth of the highway, they declared, ln 'portant Mora de Rubielos was ' :,l| ight in a pincer movement and a government army of 50,000 men was 1.1 danger of encirclement. government spain given PLEDGES OF ITS PEOPLE Barcelona, July 16.— (AP)—Political Duties and workers unions of gov vilament Spain today pledged con 111'led support of Premier Negrin’s _* Rime in a flood of messages mark lnß the second anniversary of the “V 0 "’ 8 civil war - Ending of the sec ’ ( , yoar of * he war finds the Span fV-ht'' 01 nment in for a * on £ against the insurgents headed 1 General Franco. • > Hnu'tM'Quii Haifa Bianatrii LEASED WIRE SERVICE OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS. Oklahoma Choice Leon C. Phillips . . . wins Oklahoma nomination Victor in the Oklahoma primary for the Democratic gubernatorial nomination, Leon C. Phillips, above, a state legislator, beat out former Gov. William H. (Alfalfa Bill) Murray and W. S. Key, for mer state WPA administrator. President Roosevelt, passing through Oklahoma City the day prior to the primary, referred to Alfalfa Bill Murray as a “nation ally known Republican running on a Democratic ticket.” —Central Press Birth Rate Is Dropping Over State Daily Dispatch Bureau, In the Sir Walter Hotel. Raleigh, July 16.—Release of sta tistics showing that births in North Carolina in June have dropped from the corresponding month of 1937, for the fourth consecutive month, also indicates that the Grim Reaper is gaining slightly on the stork in this State. The long-legged bringer of babies, however, is still far in front of the old man with the scythe, the same statistics from the Vital Statistics di vision of the State Board of Health indicate. In June, total births in North Car olina reached 6,910, as against 7,197 for June, 1937; which made the total births for the first six months of this year 39,659 as compared with 39,919 through June 1937; a decrease for the current half-year of 320. On the other side of the ledger deaths in North Carolina last month touched 3,099, the highest monthly total this year, as compared with 2,- 858 for June, 1937. For the first six months of this year deaths totalled 17,541, while in the corresponding pe riod of 1937 there were 17,598 deaths; leaving this year with 57 fewer deaths than last. Net population gain for the state in the first six months this year, therefore was 22,118, while in the same period of 1937 .births topped deaths by 22,381; leaving the almost negligible difference of 263 in the (Continued on Page Five) Howard Hughes Is In Seclusion From Trip and Welcome New York, July 16 "(AP) -Howard Hughes, fatigued by a rounud-the world flight and a round of recep tions, got away from it all today and left no forwarding address. Checking out of the hotel Drake by phone shortly before midnight, Hughes was variously reported to have gone to Rye, N. Y., and Saybrook, Conn., for the week-end. It is at Saybrook that Katherine .Hepburn, the movie actress, has a summer home. The modern Magellan and his four associates, Lieutenant Thomas Fur low, Edward Lund, Harry Connor and Richard Stoddard, "have had little rest since landing at Floyd Bennett fund Thursday. . , . Yesterday, New York s traditional welcome, a parade up Fifth Avenue, kept the flying quintet busy. At the world’s fair, under whose banner Hughes flew his 14,000-rmle odyssey, it was reported they would have no further information as to his whereabouts, as Hughes' job with that venture was finished. Hughes four companions also were in seclusion.^ ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OF NORTHCAROLINA AND VIRGINIA I Utlity King Dead w iH SAMUEL INSULL j Reforms For State Labor Now Sought Wage - Hour Law, Arbitration, Higher Pay Urged by Com missioner Fletcher Blowing Rock, July 16 (AP) —La- bor Commissioner A. L. Fletcher pro posed here today widespread reform in North Carolina’s treatment of la bor. The suggestions included extension of the unemployment compensation act, higher wages, an apprentice train ing system, a wage payment and col lection law, arbitration and concilia tion provisions, and a wage and hour law to supplement the federal act. Major Fletcher included the propo sals in an address prepared for deliv ery before the North Carolina Press Association. He declared that though the “reces sion” had “all the ear-marks of a panic,” there had not been “a tenth of the suffering and unrest that marked the situation back in 1932 and 1933.” He credited the $5,000,000 paid out by the unemployment compensation commission this year with having greatly helped. “ . . . These payments, coming week by week,” he said, “have kept the wolf from the door, have kept the grocer, the butcher, and business gen erally in hopeful frame of mind and are responsible for the signs of re covery that we see around us today.” The commissioner attacked the at titude that in any federal wages hours law, southern employers should be “favored” with a differential. “It is argued that in this blessed South of ours,” he said. “Living costs are not so high as in the frozejj and ill-favored North and there are sav ings in clothing, heating and food.” “Statistics show,” however, he de clared that “there is very little dif ference between the cost of a decent (Continued on .page Four.) Auto Deaths! j Up Slightly j Past Month Raleigh, July 16. —Deaths from au tomobile accidents in June increased | in North Carolina by four over the same month last year, with 66 to 62; according to figures of the Vital Sta tistics Bureau of the State Board of Health. The auto accident toll constituted more than half the total of deaths from preventable accidents in the State last month, as there were 119 victims in all. By a somewhat unusual coincidence the total of preventable accident fa talities last month was exactly the same as in June of 1937; though no two single causes claimed the same number of victims. In addition to the 66 who died a;; the result of automobile accidents last month, 16 North Carolinians died in railroad accidents of one sort or an other (against 10 for June, 1937); ten perished in conflagrations or from ac cidental burns (eight in June, 1937) 21 were victims of accidental drown ings ' (32 last June) ; and six were slain by the accidental discharge of firearms (seven last June). For the first six months of this year the Board of Health’s figures on au tomobile accident deaths show a re markable decrease, with 356 dying so \ f ar this year as a result of primary automobile accodents, against the 4J4 similarly killed during the first half of 1937. In eac h case there were 17 | victims of auto-train collisions, bring (Continued on Page Five), HENDERSON, N. C„ SATURDAY AFTERNOON, JULY 16, 1938 SiisK MED BY DEATH Collapses From Heart At tack In ;~xjway Train In Paris, Officials There Say REACHED PAlilS ON MONDAY THIS WEEK Once Powerful Ruler of Four Billion Dollar Utility Empire at Chicago Dead On Reaching Hospital; Not Killed By Auto As First Reported Paris, July 16.—(AP)—Samuel In sull, 78, fallen $4,000,000,000 ruler of the Midwest Utilities empire,' died suddenly early this afternoon. Offi cials said he collapsed from a heart, attack in a subway train. Insull was taken by subway em ployees to the nearby Paul Marmotan emergency hospital. Mrs. Insull, in a state of collapse when she reached the hospital, said when she left their hotel apartment, at noon, the aging magnate told her he was going to write a few letters and then go to lunch. “I had told him never to take a sub way because it was bad for his heart,” she said weeping. First reports when the former fin voßv wnc? b-oiigM '*' r ' 1-" pital said he had been killed in the street by a hit-and-run driver. Police, however, said a heart ailment, from which he had suffered for several years, had proved fatal. Aft'"' collapsing when she saw the (Continued on Page Five) WARSAWMAN SHOT BY DENTIST THERE R. N. Lominaek in Goldsboro Hos pital Critically Wounded; Dr. F. G. Smith Is Held Goldsboro, July 6. —(AP) —R. N. Lominaek, 36, Warsaw automobile salesman, was being treated in a Goldsboro hospital today for gunshot wounds he suffered at Warsaw yes terday. Deputy Sheriff Joe Wallace, of Kenansville, said Dr. F. G. Smith, a Warsaw dentist, was under arrest in Kenansville, on charges of shoot ing Lominaek. The salesman’s injuries were de scribed by hospital attaches as seri ous but not critical. What precipitat ed the shooting was not announced by the officers. Says Labor Board Creating Trouble When None Exists Blue Ridge, July 6.—(AP)—Edward S. Cowdrick, New York industrial re lations expert, criticized the national labor relations act today, saying it had “increased friction, and broken down friendly relations within indus try.” “The last five years progress toward cooperation between management and worker has been slowed down and all too often halted or even reversed by policies of government,” Cowdrick said in the closing session of the 19t.h annual convention of the Southern Conference on Human Relations in Industry. He added: “One is tempted to suspect that in some official circles the belief is held that if conflicts do not exist it is de sirable to create them, certainly in some decisions of the NLRB friendly relations between workers and bosses have been objects of suspicions and criticism.” Concluding, he said: “One thing is certain —business will continue, ex cept in the wholly unlikely event of communist revolution, business will remain under private ownership and will be operated by about the same people who are responsible for it to day.” Harry Clark, Cleveland consultant in industrial relations, said industry’s greatest need was more intelligent leadership in management, labor and government. He predicted a consider able turn-over in personnel of present management of industry as this need is realized. Clark .read to the conference the conclusions of yesterday’s discussion group. WEATHER FOR NORTH CAROLINA. Fair tonight, Sunday partly cloudy. WEEKLY WEATHER. For South Atlantic States: Scat tered afternoon thundershowers south portion of district entire week; shower period over north portion at beginning and again toward end of week; temperatures near or slightly above normal, ex cept cooler over north portion of district Tuesday and Wednesday. ( Convicted Bund Officials Appeal HjC. .. Ijp |jfe ■ • nHnh. iivtt-cv ;',Sj Jl m m ML I MBi H —X J f - Jjj Henry Hauck and Ernest Mueller, convicted, but appeal'’ Convicted at Riverhead, N. Y., of violation of state civil rights law and given fines and jail sentences, six officials of the German-Ameri can Settlement League, Inc., announced they would appeal. Two of the six, Henry Hauck, left, manager of Camp Siegfried at Yaphank, N. Y., and Ernest Mueller, president of the league, are shown above. Mueller was sentenced to serve one year in the county jail and was .lned SI,OOO. The others were fined SSOO each and sentenced to one year in jail, but the sentences were suspended during good behavior. The league was fined SIO,OOO. New Office Building Is To Be Erected By State Ficklen Appeals Tobacco Decision Greenville, July 16 (AP) —J. Con Lanier, attorney tor the E. B. Fick len Tobacco Company, said today an appeal would be taken from Judge J. Paul Frizzelle’s decision) upholding the validity of the 1937 law which imposes a SI,OOO charge for the privilege of dealing in scrap tobacco. The judge handed down his rul ing at Snow Hill yesterday in a suit brought by the Ficklen com pany to recover the SI,OOO it paid under the act. REFUGEE PROBLEM AN URGENT RIDDLE Democracies Can’t Take Them All; Can’t Stand Torrid Climates By CHARLES P. STEWART Central Press Columnist Washington, July 16.—The Interna tional Refugee organization, scheduled to start functioning in London late in July or early in August, to furnish new homes in the world’s democratic countries to persecuted minorities in undemocratic lands, faces a difficult, problem. Delegates at the preliminary con ference at Evian, France, did not agree overly well. America’s representatives were of the opinion that refuge should be of fered to persecuted folk regardless of their various nationalities. Britain and France believed in heeding the pleas only of the persecuted in Great er Germany. This dispute finally was passed along, to be settled by the per manent organization. A Postponement. This means, however, only a post ponement of agreement on a final settlement. Nazi persecution of Greater Ger many’s Jews is outstanding. Still Ger man Catholic also are persecuted, and even German Lutherans. Italy has not been so barbarous as Germany in its-treatment of the Jews. Nevertheless, fascism’s atttitude to ward them is becoming increasingly hostile. Any anti-Soviet group surely is en titled to consider itself in danger in Russia. There appears likely to be persecu tion in Spain, one way or the other, as soon as outright warfare there ends. _ x It threatens in the Near East and the Far East, too. Too Many To Care For? It seems inconsistent, to say the (Continued on Page Eight. PUBLISHED EVERY AFTERNOON EXCEPT SUNDAY Takes Option On Fayette ville Street Corner Op posite Supreme Court Building GENERAL ASSEMBLY TO PROVIDE MONEY Purchase Pirce of Lot Is Fixed at $175,000; Su preme Court and Proposed New Department of Jus tice Would Occupy Struc ture When Completed Raleigh, Jul* 16.—(AF)—The State is planning to erect another office building, it was learned today when an option on valuable property just south of the Capitol was filed with the Wake county register of deeds by Attorney General Harry McMullen. The property is situated just op posite the Supreme Court building, and abuts on Fayetteville, Morgan and Wilmington streets. A price of $175,000 was stipulated in the option, which runs to April 1, 1939. It was learned authoritatively a building probably will be erected on the site to house the Supreme Court and the State Department of Justice. The option, it was stated, is made up on the assurance that the governor and the Council of State of North Carolina have adopted a resolution at a meeting held July 5, 1938, endorsing the purchase of the property.” It was stated that “further assur ance” had teen given that Governor Hoey and the Council would recom mend to the 1939 General As*mbly the purchase of the property for $175,000. TAI ROT PATRICK IS STATE PRESS HEAD Blowing Rock, July 16 (AP)— Tal bot Patrick, publisher of the Golds boro News-Argus, was elected presi dent of the North Carolina Press As sociation today at the closing session of the annual convention here. He succeeds W. C. Russ of Waynesvi'.le. Mrs. E. F. McCullough, of the Blad en County Journal, published at Eliza bethtown, was elected vice-president, and Misfc Beatrice Cobb, of Morgan ton, published of the News-Herald, was re-elected secretary-treasurer. B. Arp Lowrance, publisher of the Mecklenburg Times, of Charlotte, wa-, re-elected historian. A memorial service was held for members of the association who died within the past year, including R. H. Lewis, of Whiteville. The convention adopted a resolu tion urging the legislature to set Tuesday as th e day for holding pri maries, instead of Saturday, and to provide so rclosing of the polls at 6 p. m., instead of 7 p. m. Major A. F. Fletcher, State commis sioner of labor, discussed “The Press and Labor Legislation,” in an address. o PAGES O TODAY FIVE CENTS COPY ii GOLD RESERVE AND SPECIE TO BE USED TO BUY MATERIALS Cost of War In China, In Progress One Year, Proves Terrific Strain for Nation RAW COTTON SEEN AS LIKELY IMPORT Desperate Effort Probable To Regain Export Mar kets; Floods Again Threat ening Campaign In China; Victories Over Invaders Claimed By Chinese Tokyo, July 16 (AT) —A resolu tion urging the Japanese govern ment to use gold and speeie re serves to purchase raw materials was adopted today by the central price policy commission. Foreign observers called it prob ably the most ominous sign of fi nancial distress since the conflict in China started a year ago. If the government commanders the specie reserve, it is expected he money will hvj used largely to import raw cotton. Finance Minister Ikeda, who with other cabinet members Is sued a drastic retrenchment program, ! including curtailment of imports, ex i cept war materials, on June 23, re cently licensed three large purchases of raw cotton designed to carry tex (Continued on Page Eight. American Jews In Palestine Asking More Protection Jerusalem, July 16 (AP) —Ameri- can-Jewish homesteaders at Ain Hasophet appealed for help today, re porting they still weie in a perilous position after twice repulaing armed Arab attacks. Ain Hashophet, settled mostly by American emigres, is in an isolated section of the northern Esdraelon plain near Haifa, a center of turmoil in the Holy Land. The settlers said they had only 37 rifles and seven sujernumerary constables to guard their settlement and had the government repeatedly for increased protection without result. Twice they repulsed heavy attaQk** by khaki-uni formed Arab bands. Militray patrols tightened their watchful grip on the excited Haifa area as the aftermath of the second pitched battle at Ain Hashophet. Authorities armed residents of the Jewish village and erected a machine gun emplacement at the entrance to Jerusalem old city, meanwhile, in the latest British move to end 12 days of bloody racial terrorism. FDR Pleads Re-Election For McAdoo President Speaks To A n Enthusiastic •Throng at Los Angeles Stop Los Angeles, Cal., July 16. —(AP)— President Roosevelt told a cheering crowd at the Los Angeles central sta tion today that he hoped Senator Mc- Adoo, of California, would be re-elect ed. The President, with McAdoo and J. F. T. O’Connor, candidate for the Democratic gubernatorial nomination, spoke briefly from the rear platform of the special train just before de parting by motor for San Diego. The special arrived here at 9 a. m., Pacific standard time, from El Portal, Cal. Mr. Roosevelt asserted that last March there was some question about McAdoo seeking a new term. “I wrote and told him,” the President said, “that I hoped very definitely he would run for the Senate, and by that I hop ed he would get elected, too.” Mr. Roosevelt shook hands with about 50 of a committee of more than 1,000 appointed by McAdoo and Mayor Frank Shaw to greet the chief execu tive. C. L. Olson, like O’Connor a can didate for the Democratic nomination for governor, was among those who passed single-file through the Presi dent’s private car for a handshake be fore he detrained. Representative Bockweiler, Demo crat, California, and Mrs. Harold Lloyd, wife of the slim comedian, I were among the greeters.
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