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HENDERSON’S POPULATION 13,873 Twenty-fifth year Corrigan Honored By Ireland People For Daring Flight Premier de Valera Congrat ulates Californian for His “Wrong Way” Trip to Dublin LACK OF PAPERS IS STRAIGHTENED OUT Government Removes Ob stacles From Path of Flier; New York Preparing a Warm and Profitable Wel come to Solo Airman; Has Made $2,000 Already Dublin, Ireland, July 19. —(AP) — prime Minister de Valera congratulat ed Douglas "Daredevil” Corrigan to day on his “wrong way” flight from New York to Dublin. The prime nirnister hurried - from a cabinet meeting to greet the 31-year old Californian and hear the details of the daring flight in the old S9OO plane which ,'orrigan insisted brought him to Ireland instead of to Cali fornia, because of a ‘‘little mistake” in directions. After thanking de Valera for Ire land? kindness to him, Corrigan, ap pearing as fresh as if he had just hopped across the Irish Sea, visited government buildings to straighten out difficulties arising out of his fail ure to have any of the papers a flier abroad is supposed to carry. Officials of Ireland’s department of external affairs told him they would place no difficulties in the way. Corrigan went out to Baldonnel air port to see his “old crate”, and dis closed he hoped to visit London to ex hibit the plane. There also was some talk that he might take the machine to the Glasgow exposition. Won’t Fly Back. “I am not going home without the plane, but I won’t fly it,” the Cali fornian explained. He said he would take it hack by steamer. He had lunch at the United States Legation, where messages from many parts of the world poured in with congratulations on his flight. One of them was said to have been from Henry Ford. Corrigan was $2,000 to the good al ready as a result of the little “mis take” in direction, having received (Continued on Page Four) Bomb Fires British Ship At Valencia Valencia, July 19.—(AP) —A 1,000- pound bomb hit the British merchant man Standland in Valencia harbor to day, setting her afire. Her crew and two non-intervention observers had close escape from death or injury. The fire confined to the vessel’s decks, soon was extinguished. It was the first bombing of a Bri tish ship in recent weeks, a lull in such attacks in Spanish waters hav ing followed vigorous British protests to General Franco, leader of insur gent Spain. The observers aboard the vessel were an Italian and a Nether lander. Five planes made the raid. Eight Spanish workers were killed as the heavy bombs plunged into the dock area. BURGIPROBfty WILL LOSE IN Ei Recount of Davidson Ab sentee Vote May Send Deane to Congress Daily Dispatch Bureau, In the Sir Walter Hotel. Raleigh, July 19. —There are strong indications that the apparent victory nf W. O. Burgin, of Davidson county, in the eighth congressional district be changed into a loss once the Board of Elections has had a shot at counting the absentee ballots ln Bur gin’s home county. Naturally and properly, no mem ber of the State board is committing himself openly in advance, but “off the record” statements tend to the conclusion that a recount of the 1,- absentee votes said to have been Cas t in Davidson will produce a chang ed result. At present Burgin’s face-of-the-re tuins majority over C. B. Deane, of Richmond county, is somewhere be tween 100 and 200, but if past per formances are any true yardstick this majority will quickly evaporate un der the absentee recount. Raymond C. Maxwell, secretary of the State hoard, declined to make an y statement whatever on the spe ‘ die subject of the Deane-Burgin con t'?t, but, in answer to a question by B;i.s correspondent, he said that or dinarily about 25 per cent of absentee -’allots are thrown out on a recount. That percentage held good in the (Continued on Page Four). Mrttitersntt tDatlit tHsitatrit Climbs On Hands ..... J Johnny Eck ... scales Washington monument Powerful arms and hands take the place of legs and feet when Johnny Eck of Baltimore decides “to go places and see things”. Here Johnny, who was bom with out lower limbs, points to the towering Washington monument in Washington prior to climbing up the 898 steps to the top of the 500-foot shaft in 30 minutes. Reforms hi N. C, Voting Seem Sure Daily Dispatch Bureau, In the Sir Walter Hotel. Raleigh, July 19. —This year’s series of election fraud rows are probably blessings in disguise, in that they will result in definite corrective ac tion by the next General Assembly, Raymond C. Maxwell, seevretary of the State Board of Elections, said to day. The blazing aftermaths of contest and controversy will, at least, center attention on the move obviously need ed reforms, he said, citing particular ly abuses of the aDsentee ballot and the terrible mess in which so many registration hooks have been found. “The whole series of controversies this year could have been avoided if the 1337 legislature had heeded the advice of Major L. P. McLendon, then chairman of the board,” said Mr. Maxwell. “He suggested more stringent re strictions around absentee voting. Adoption of these suggestions would have prevented any flagrant misuse of the absentee ballot this year. “He recommended a new registra tion for the entire State except in such counties as had new registration in 1936. This would have prevented Republicans from voting in this year’s primaries—a complaint which has been very frequent—as the party affiliations of voters would have been properly and recently recorded.” Mr. Maxwell reiterated the* inten tion of the State board to “clean house” in every county where it seems necessary. Every effort is being made to gath er all the facts in every case of con test or protest, and all the facts gath ered will be laid before the board at its next meeting here Friday, he ad ded. NEW HIGHS STRUCK IN STOCK TRADING Prices Zoom Toward Stratosphere, With Gains of One to More Than Four Points New York, July 19. —(AP) — Stocks zoomed toward the stratosphere in to day’s market, with gains of one to more than four points putting lead ers at new tops since last October. Profit-taking cut down top marks at tli last, but favorites were well in front at the sound of the final gong- The feverish run-up resulted in the largest volume for about nine months transfers approximating 2,900,000 shares. . p -a American Radiator “ £2 American Telephone American Tob B Anaconda Atlantic Coast Line * t . B-endix Aviation , Bethlehem Steel r> i-o Columbia Gas & Elec Co 38 Commercial Solvents Continental Oil Co Curtiss Wright ? DuPont General Electric ° General Motors 1- “ Liggett & Myers B ... I™ Montgomery Ward & Co 48 1 Reynolds Tob B Southern Railway " I Standard Oil N J - - 3 1 U S Steel ... A '* ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA AND VIRGINLY LEASED WIRE SERVICE OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS. HENDERSON, N. C., TUESDAY AFTERNOON, JULY 19,1938 SECOND SOLO HOP ACROSS ATLANTIC IN WEEK IS READY Captain Papana of Rouman ian Air Force Will At tempt Non-Stop Trip To Bucharest TO FOLLOWROUTE OF CORRIGAN HOP New Type Transport Plane To Be Used and 4,712-Mile Flight Is Expected To Be Made In About 31 Hours; Papana Raised His Own Money for Venture New York, July 19.—(AP) —The sec ond solo flight across the Atlantic ocean in less than a week will be at tempted Thursday by Captain Alex ander Papana, the “Lindbergh of Roumania,” who hopes to become the first to fly the 4,712 miles from New York to Bucharest non-stop. The captain, famous in European sports circles, and recognized as an outstanding aerobatic performer, holds the Roumanian altitude record of 41,700 feet. For the ocean part of the route, he will follow the trail of Douglas Cor rigan, who conquered the ocean stretch, the eighth person to do it solo, yesterday, in a surprise hop to Ireland. Papana will use a new type trans port plane, and expects to complete the trip in 31 hours. The twin-motor ed craft, relatively small, has a wing span of 50 feet, nine inches, and a length of 35 feet, eight inches. It will have a gross weight of 7,950 pounds. The Roumanian air force officer’s projected flight to his homeland was announced officially almost a year ago. Later, the captain announced a $50,000 specially built tri-motored speed plane, bought with the contri butions of friends and the Roumanian public, had proved unsatisfactory for his purpose. Papana decided to raise money alone for another plane, and stunted at air shows at Cleveland, St. Louis, Miami, Oakland and other points. By late spring he had earned enough. Guard Is Stabbed And Convict Shot In Oho Outbreak Columbus, Ohio, July 19. —(AP) —An Ohio penitentiary guard was stabbed today in a frustrated pri son break. One convict was shot and another badly beaten. The prisoners tried a daring es cape by kidnaping a deputy war den and a guaru within the prison walls. Stabbed in the prison, was Guard Raymond Thornton. Clyde Stoup, 28, convicted rob ber, was shot in the groin and side. Charles Menges, 28, sen tenced to life for murder of a de puty sheriff,* was badly fieaten and at first pretended he was shot. Guard Elmer Callahan fired six shots as the two convicts ap proached the prison gates, menac ing with knives Deputy Warden William Walker and two guards. Other guards came rushing out of the guard room, swinging clubs, and thwarted escape. Split Among Democrats Not Sufficient To Lose Forthcoming Elections v By CHARLES P. STEWART Central Press Columnist Washington, July 19.—The current political campaign thus.far has been a decidedly more vicious one between Democrats and Democrats than be tween Democrats and Republicans. When the nominating primaries are over and the contest simmers down to a fight for election day majorities doubtless the conflict will assume more the complexion of an intei-paity struggle. All the same, plenty of erstwhile Democratic votes are pretty certain to be cast for Republican can didates and a good many formerly Republican votes probably will be cast for Democrats. To be sure, the Democrats are worse split than the Republicans. Traditional. Traditionally the Democrats have been at odds with one another and the Republicans have been very well unified. I once asked the late Democratic Speaker “Joe” Byrns why this was. “Well,” he said, “we Democrats have principles but different groups of us have different sets of principles and we quarrel over them. “The Republicans haven’t any. All they want is to win. They don’t care how they do it. Having won, they may quarrel, too, over a division of the plunder, but they can agree on any thing to beat us initially.” 6 In 1932- In 1932, however, the Republicans were worse split than the Democrats. A HUEY LONG? (r.: VS*' m >m W. Lee O’Daniel • • . jazzes Texas primary One of 14 candidates for the Democratic nomination in Texas (tantamount to election) in the July 23 primary, W. Lee O’Daniel, Ohio-born Irish flour salesman, is showing unusual strength. He is campaigning with a hillbilly band. Political observers describe him as “a Huey Long plus horse sense”, This is a new Dhoto of him. toStSSo SALES IN TEN DAYS Buyers Moving Into Belt for Beginning of First Auc tion Season for the Weed PRICES PAID WILL BE FUTURE FACTOR Expected To Influence Con trol Program for Cotton, Corn and Wheat; Quotas Are Established Upon Vote of Growers; 1939 Election By December 15 Moultrie, Ga., July 19.—(AP) —To- bacco buyers moved into this section of the southern belt today to arrange for first sales under Federal-controll ed marketing quotas. AAA officials said prices paid at the Georgia-Florida auctions, start ing July 28, are expected to influence the fate of the future control pro gram for such crops as cotton, corn and wheat. Quotas are established upon a two thirds vote of approval by the grow ers, and an election for 1939 is re quired by December 15 under the ad just act. The national quota for to bacco has been fixed at 733,000,000 pounds, of which Georgia and Flor ida will supply an estimated 90,000,- 000. Farmers may sell tobacco produced in excess of individual allotments up on payment of a penalty tax of 50 percent of the market price at the time the leaf is sold. Last year the sale of tobacco turned loose more than $15,000,000 in cash in Georgia alone. The Democrats also were split, as usual, between the Rooseveltians and the A1 Smithites. But the Republicans were split all to pieces, due to the “Hoover depressionf’. Even the A1 Smith Democrats preferred Roosevelt to Hoover, and whole shoals prefer red anybody to the latter. Between 1932 and 1£»36 nothing oc curred to set the Democrats to pull ing intra-party hair, times appear ed to be reasonably good and the Re publican presidential candidate de cidedly lacked popular appeal. Con sequently the Democrats stuck to gether and hung onto most of their normally Republican supporters. Split Wide Now. But since 1936 conflicting Demo cratic principles (referred to by “Joe” Byrns) have been getting in their work again. Supreme Court reorganization! Gov ernmental reorganization! Anti-lynch ing! Wage-hour legislation! Continued deficits! The recession! Multiplying patronage jealousies! Now attempt ed purges of anti-New Dealers! Any one who can say that the Dem ocratic party isn’t split at present assuredly is a Democratic optimist. Meanwhile Republicanism (what there is left of it) has remained fair ly cohesive. There are, indeed, Repub lican rifts likewise. Such a G. O. P. stand-by as Representative Hamilton Fish, Jr., for example, asserts that his party is hopelessly back-number ed. Nevertheless, no one has heard (Continued on Page Two.), British Rulers In Trip To France As First In Decade State Visit of King George and Queen Elizabeth First of Kind In a Quarter Century NAVAL PAGEANT ON ARRIVAL AT PORT Ships’ Bands Play British National Anthem and Guns Fire Salute s; Flowers Are Presented to Queen, Wears Black On Her Arrival Ashore Paris, July 19. —(AP) —A booming salute of 101 guns welcomed King George and Queen Elizabeth of Eng land today on their arrival for a visit of state to France. TRIP ACROSS CHANNEL IS ON BOARD ROYAL YACHT Boulogne, France, July 19. —(AF) —King George and Queen Elizabeth of Great Britain came to France to day aboard the royal yacht Enchant ress for the first visit of state of Bri tish monarchs to France in a quarter of a century. French naval ships, ranged before the port of Boulogne, boomed a 21- gun salute and hoisted the British flag as the Enchantress entered at 12:30 p. m. (3:30 a. m., eastern stand ard time). A battleship, five cruisers and six destroyers foriped* a double line out side the port, and through this line the Enchantress, met in mid-channel by seven other French destroyers, passed. Two more destroyers and two sub marines, which were at anchor in the harbor, joined in the salute' to the British monarch, who came to re affirm the common front of Britain and France, probably stronger than at any time since the World War. Crews of all ships lined the decks and cheered, while ships’ bands broke into “God Save the King.” As soon as the Enchantress docked, France’s Foreign Minister George Bonnet went aboard to greet the king and queen. To Queen Elizabeth, wearing black, with a knot of white flowers on her left shoulder, he presented a bouquet of French roses. A huge crowd cheer ed and waved banners. Fletcher Bases Opinion On ]> Old NRA Scale; Silent On Wage Cuts Daily Dispatch Bureau, In the Sir Waller Hotel. Raleigh, July 19.—Major A. L. Fletcher, North Carolina’s commis sioner of labor, sees the minimum wage in the textile industry as likely to be set at approximately 30 cents per hour, rather than at the 25 cent hourly minimum permissible under the recently enacted Federal wage hour bill. In the event the figure is 30 cents, the result will be a necessity of rais ing minimum wage rates in the “ma jority of the textile industry”, both Major Fletcher and his chief aids, Forrest Shuford, believe. Neither would express an opinion that the majority of textile mills in North Carolina are paying minimum wages of less than 30 cents, hut they did think it true of a majority of the industry throughout the country. Major Fletcher pointed out that un der NRA the textile wage minimum was set at 30 cents by the industry itself —a fact which backs his view that this figures will be decided on by the new wage-hour administrator. Incidentally, the commissioner said he is well acquainted with the newly appointed federal administrator, El mer F. Andrews of New York. “He’s a splendid man with a long experience which fits him for the place,” said Major Fletcher. Mr. Andrews, in accepting the fed eral post, is voluntarily taking a ic duction of $2,000 in his annual salary, according to Major Fletcher, who said the New Yorker has been receiving $12,000 a year as New York’s indus trial commissioner, while the new place pays only SIO,OOO. “And besides that, he sure is going to be in a hot spot,” added the North Carolina commissioner. Major Fletcher declined to express any definite opinion, for publication, whether textile mills are engaging in a systematic reduction of wages in order to influence decision on mini mum wages rather than because they sincerely believe economic conditions make wage cuts imperative at this time. MlAllllli FOR NORTH CAROLINA. Cloudy tonight and Wednesday, with occasional showers. PUBLISHED EVERY AFTERNOON EXCEPT SUNDAY [aidsrefugeesJ \ * v: -1 IHKI msS* - - - Hu J y Hl Mh. M George Rublee (above), prominent Washington, D. C., attorney, who has been asked by President Roose velt to serve as American director of the permanent refugee organization to be established in London as a re sult of the Evian conferences, j (Central Press) j Japs Bomb Campus Os U. S. School 20 Chinese Killed at Spot; 600 Are Dead In Four Days of Shanghai Fighting Hankow, China, July 19. —(AP) — Four Japanese bombs fell on the American church mission’s Boone University campus during a raid on Hankow, Wuchang and Hanyang to day, killing 20 Chinese seeking shel ter under an old wall. The University is in Wuchang across the Yangtze river from Han kow, provisional capital of China. Other missiles hit within a few yards of the convent of the American Catho lic Sisters of Notre Dame. One struck in the yard of a German civilian resi dent. A check-up in the tri-city area placed the civilian casualty total at about 150 killed and wounded. 600 DEAD IN FOUR DAYS OF BATTLE AT SHANGHAI Shanghai, July 19.—(AP)—Sharp artillery fighting across the Whang poo river from Shanghai has cost perhaps 600 dead in the past four days. The Pootung area had not been the scene of major fighting since the Ja panese offensive to capture Shanghai last August and September. Chinese, who finally withdrew, listed 200 Ja panese casualties, 100 dead, among the attacking irregulars, and 300 peasants killed accidentally or by Ja* (Continued on page six) Pickets At Chicago Are Beaten Off North Chicago, 111., July 19 (AP)— A force of policemen and deputies sheriff, flailing clubs and firing tear gas bombs, drove a crowd of pickets from the strike-bound Chicago Hard ware Foundry Company plant today. The officers, numbering about 50, and recruited from North Shore towns moved to a swift attack after a gath ering of between 400 and 500 demon strators and spectators ignored their order to disperse. A half dozen women pickets were knocked to the ground. A number of other participants in the battle were struck by stones and bottles, but none were injured seriously. The demonstrators, enjoined from interfering with non-striking work ers in a recent court order, retreated tc a point three blocks from the plant. They remained there while 20 fore men and employees entered the foun dry. The officers placed a tight guard about the plant—closed for six weeks because of a strike called by the Amalgamated Association of Iron. Steel and Tin Workers, a CIO affili ate. Officers carried guns, but did not use them. They fired tear gas from pistols and threw gas bombs. About 50 gas missiles burst within a few minutes. _ 8 PAGES TODAY FIVE CENTS COPY INTANGIBLES TAX O'cSoilTES $434,224 Returns as Local Government Shares of Levies Collected by State CHARLOTTE LEADER IN FUND RECEIPTS Gets $28,347 and Mecklen burg County $20,091; Hen derson Gets $1,708 and Vance County $2,289; Counties and Cities Get Half of Total Fund Raleigh, July 19.—(AP) —The State Board of Assessments distributed $434,224 to counties and municipalities today as their share of the new State intangibles . receipts. Payments ranged from $28,437.86 to Charlotte, and $20,091.33 to Mecklen burg county, down to 44 cents to Or rum, in Robeson county. The board noted in its report the law became effective July 1, 1937, but returns were not required until March 15, 1938. As a result, collections in the first six months of the last fiscal year were only $140.19, while they were $2,550 in the first ten days of July this year. The counties and cities get half the total collections after deduction of administration expenses, and the State keeps half. Some of the sums paid the coun ties and municipalities in them by counties: Beaufort county, $2,243.17; Aurora, SJ2; Bclhaven, $113.72; Washington, $488.29. Craven county, $1,718.12; Dover, sl,- 84; New Bern, $558.36; Vanceboro, $22.32. Durham county, $7,554.21; Durham city, $14,795.52. Edgecombe county, $3,237.41; Bat tleboro, $24.60; Maccleefield, $21.05; Pinctops, $57.06; Rocky Mount, in (Continued on Page Four) Convictions In Oil Plot Are Upheld Madison, Wis., July 19 (AP) Fed eral Judge Patrick Stone sustained today the conviction of 17 to 46 de fendants found guilty last January of a conspiracy to raise and fix mid western gasoline prices in 1935 and 1936. He fined these defendants—l 2 companies and five executives —a to tal of $65,000. The judge dismissed the charges as to ten other executives and one cor poration, and found that, the remain ing defendants were entitled to a new trial because they had been linked to the alleged conspiracy only by cir cumstantial evidence. In a 16-page decision, Judge Stone treated all defendants in three cate gories: 1. Those whom he held were shown to have combined through gaso line purchasing agreements ot peg the mid-western market; 2, thos® whose connection with the conspiracy was subject to doubt, and 3, those who shown to be innocent. Milk Driver Tells About 1935 Strike Says Steel Company Guards Clubbed and Gassed Canton, Ohio, Strikers Washington, July 19. —(AP) -- A milk truck driver told the Senate Civil Liberties Committee today that steel company guards clubbed and gassed a crowd of 200 persons in the Berger Manufacturing Company strike at Canton, Ohio, May 27, 1935. D. Smith, the witness, testified the attack was unprovoked. About 30 guards, he said, hemmed in union pickets and onlookers, flooded them with tear gas from the rooftops, and closed in with iron clubs. His description of the street fight ing drew a quick protest from T. F. Patton, attorney for officials of the Republic Steel Corporation, which controls the Berger company. “This man is doing a beautiful job,” Patton broke in on Smith’s graphio narration, “but I request that he stick to the evidence.” Other developments: A pledge of loyalty to President Roosevelt’s objectives apparently re moved any administration oposition to renomination of Senator Loner gan, Democrat, Connecticut, a foe of (Continued on Page Five)