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SSS 13,873 twenty-fifth year l \KNOWN” JOINS GALAXY OFTRANSATLANTIC AIR HEROES w:* : VV I iiniiiitiiiiniifiißf'p-■■••• j ~~ ,- j _ mW^WfeWSsm, s *■ i'■- Hlf %k |::: v;: ;i 1m» I|| IP JHHE- I Douglas Corrigan, bis nine-year-old plane and his route compared with Hughes’ and Lindbergh’s Add to the galaxy of transatlantic heroes the name of Douglas Corrigan, 31- year-old mechanic-flyer, of Santa Monica, Cal., Corrigan amazed the aviation world by taking off quietly from New York and landing at Dublin, Ireland, 28 hours and 13 minutes later. Flying the same nine-year-old plane in which a week previously he had made a non-stop flight from Long Beach, Cal., to New York, Corrigan landed on the other side of the ocean unperturbed by the fact few would dare fly even for a short distance such an ancient plane. Corrigan Sees Irish President Dublin, Ireland, July 20. —(AP) Ireland's new president honored America’s new aviation hero today by receiving him in Dublin’s imposing presidential palace. Spick and span in new clothes Douglas Corrigan drove from the United States Legation to the palace. There the 78-year-old president, Doug las Hyde, and the young Californian discussed the latter’s amazing flight from New York to Dublin. Yesterday, New York-born Prime Minister de Valera congratulated Cor rigan on his exploits. Earlier in the day Corrigan cut loose in a big Dub lin clothing store. He bought two (Continued on Pag*i Four.) Cotton Price Turns Lower New York, July 20.—(AP)—- Cotton futures opened four to five points de cline, witih Liverpool /cables partly offset by further rains in the cotton belt. December, which had reacted from 8.75 to 8.70, was again 8.75 late in the first hour, when the market was three to four points net lower. December went from 8.76 to 8.70, and at midday was within a point of the low when the list was seven to eight points net lower. Futures closed five to seven points lower; spot quiet, middling 8.74. Open Close October 8.66 8.64 December 8.74 8.73 January 8.76 8.74 March ' 8.81 8.79 May 8.84 8.83 R. B. PAGE BUYS UP WILMINGTON PAPERS Columbus, Ga., July 20. —(AP) Purchase of the Wilmington, N. C., Star-News, morning and afternoon dailies, from the R. W. Page Cor poration, publishers of newspapers in three states, by R. B. Page, president of the Star-News, Inc., was announc ed simultaneously here today by Page and A. H. Chapman, president of the R. W. Page Corporation. The pur chase was effective as of July 18. BagleyWill Head State REA Again At Board Meeting Raleigh, July 20—(AF)—The State Rural Electrification Authority will meet here tomorrow, and is slated to re-elect. Dudley Bagley as director of rural electrification. Bagley said the authority would be called on to ap pr°ve a SIIO,OOO enlargement program 1!l the Edgecombe-Martin power pro- 3 p et already under way. The power Vvill r) e supplied from Tarboro, he Baid, Hmtitersmi HatUt Dtsmtirh Greece Struck By Quake Worst In Modern Times Athens, Greece, July 20. —(AP) —The strongest earthquake felt in this country in modern times scattered death and ruin today through ancient Greece. A tentative casualty 'list, based on fragmentary reports from the stricken areas, showed 20 persons killed and at least 100 injured. The island of Euboea, north of Athens, suffered most heavily. The quake centered there, and in at least two Villages nearly every house was shaken down. Reports said the shocks caused fissures into which small buildings toppled. The government hurried relief Dynamite Blast Kills 10 In Baltimore Water Main Baltimore, Md., July 20. —(AP) —-A premature explosion of 450 pounds of dynamite killed ten members of a crew of 18 workmen blasting a water tunnel through solid rock 200 feet below the surface near the city pump ing station today. Seven men were killed outright as the burst of rock rolled through the tunnel. Three of the eleven brought to the surface alive died in hospitals. Only four escaped injury. Officials of the construction com pany said the blast, which occurred Wheat Crop , Is Problem For World By CHARLES 1». STEWART Central Press Columnist Washington, July 20.—The problem faced by the world’s great wheat pro ducing countries just now goes to emphasize how economically sense less the whole earth is. The United States and Russia not ably grow much more wheat than either one needs at home. This year especially America will have an enor mous surplus. I suppose it is true of Russia, too. Anyway, it is true here. Naturally we want to sell our over supply abroad, to peoples who can t grow enough for their domestic re quirements. These other peoples, however, refuse to admit any local shortage. Anyone with half an eye knows that Italy, for example, is not a good wheat country. Nevertheless, Mussolini main tains that it can raise a great plenty. (Continued aa Fa£ e Five.), ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA AND VIRGINIA L^ ASED WI *E SERVICE OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS. HENDERSON, N. C., WEDNESDAY AFTERNO ON, JULY 20,1938 by motor truck and railway to the stricken communities. Officials said it was impossible to estimate the material damage. A succes sion of minor tremors kept the population in fear of further ser ious shocks. Although the quake was so severe in Athens that it put seismographs out of commission, the city retained its reputation of being virtually an earthquake proof city. The capital suffered no serious damage,, although many frightened inhabitants spent the rest of the early hours in the streets after the first heavy trem ble at 2:25 a. m. about 7 o’clock, must have been set off by accident while the men were tamping down the huge charge of ex plosives. The white members of the crew es caped with their lives. The dead were all Baltimore Negroes. It was the task of the mining crew working from midnight to 8 a. m. to blast away the rock for the day crew to remove. Disaster came when the final charge of the night exploded premately. None of the injured men was able to explain what had hap pened. Railroads Os South Assist Rate Appeal Daily Dispatch Bureau, In the Sir Walter Hotel. Raleigh, July 20.—Railroads operat ing in the South have for the very first time put themselves on record as being at least “benevolently neu tral” and probably “actively helpful” in Dixie’s fight for removal of freight rate differentials against this sec tion, utility Commissioner Stanley Winborne said today. This radical change in the attitude of the carriers was the outstanding feature of the hearing in Buffalo on the request of southeastern governors for reduction in the South-North rates on many commodities, WiViborne said. The commissioner pointed to the fact that in every previous hearing on rates differential removals, the Southern carriers have stood should (Continued on Four.}, Turmoil At TVA Hearing For Morgan Knoxville, Tenn., July 20 (AP) —Dr. Arthur E. Morgan threw the con gressional investigation of TVA into a turmoil today when he charged the committee counsel, Francis Biddle, had ordered him not to talk to TVA employees except in his presence. The statement brought shouted questions from the investigators. Representative Jenkins, Republi can, Ohio, told Biddle: “You’ll do this committee and the country a great favor by resigning.” Dr. Morgan, who was removed as chairman of TVA by presidential ord er, took the stand for tljje third con secutive day to pile up charges against his former associates in the TVA directorate. “I have been informed by counsel (Biddle) not to talk to employees of the TVA except in the presence of counsel,” he said. Jenkins aAked if Biddle was author ized to take such action. “I took upon myself the authoriza tion for Dr. Morgan to see any wit nesses that I thought wise to use my office,” Biddle s^id. Chairman Vic Donahey, Democrat, (Continued on Page Four) Stock Gains Are Checked New York, July 20.—(AP)— The broad upward sweep of the stock mar ket gave way today to shifting buy ing and selling tides, high-lighted by a sharp decline in movie shares im mediately following court action by the Federal government to divorce theatre ownership from film produc tion. From industrials, leadership on the upside was switched to rails and utilities, while scattered individual is sues in other groups were brought up from the rear to enjoy brief moments of popularity. Declines at the extreme ran to two or three points, offset by advances of as much in the carrier and power groups. Transactions approximated 2,500,- 000 shares. American Radiator 16 1-4 American Telephone 141 1-4 American Tob B 81 1-2 Anaconda ... 35 3-8 Atlantic Coast Line 24 Atlantic Refining 27 1-2 B*endix Aviation 17 5-S Bethlehem Steel 60 1-4 Chrysler 70 3-4 Columbia Gas & Elec 8 5-8 Commercial Solvents 9 1-8 Continental Oil Co 10 5-8 Curtiss Wright 5 3-4 DuPont 128 3-4 Electric Pow & Light 13 1-2 General Electric 42 1-2 General Motors 41 3-4 Liggett & Myers B 101 7-8 Montgomery Ward & Co ••• 47 3-8 Reynolds Tob B 43 1-4 Southern Railway 14 Standard Oil N J 56 3-4 U S Steel ... • « •••• ........ 60 3*4 Government Brings Suit For Dissolving Film Combines Under U. S. Anti-Trust Laws Witness In Steel Probe Threatened Washington, July 20.--(AP)—Ken neth J. Sodders, former under-cover worker for the Republic Steel Cor poration, testified before the Senate Civil Liberties Committee today that his life had been threatened after he was subpoenaed as a committee wit ness. The threat, he said, was first com municated to him at Cleveland last Sunday, when Mrs. Sodders informed him of a telephone call she said she received. The call, the witness said, purportedly came from Mrs. K. C. Hamman, wife of a Canton bus driver. Sodders said his wife inform ed him the caller had told her Sod ders’ life was in danger, and that she would give Sodders details if he would see her in person. Other developments: Development in the Tennessee val ley of a mass experiment in provid ing government medical care was sug gested to the National Health con ference. Dr. Hugh Cabot, consulting surgeon of the Mayo clinic, Rochester Minn., proposed that before the Fed eral government embarks upon a health program for the entire nation, it try out the system in the south ern region. Physicians caring for the people would be subsidized directly and their service would be supervised, he said, adding that a great lack of medical care exists in the Tennessee valley. The maritime commission planneo to bring Douglas Corrigan and his S9OO trans-Atlantic flying “crate” back home on one of its ships, all free. Monroe Johnson, acting secre tary of commerce, disclosed this to day. He said the steamship Lehigh, operated by the commission, would dock at Dublin and pick up Corrigan. President Roosevelt approved hous ing loan contracts totaling $43,458,000 for 13 cities. The contracts included Knoxville, Tenn., $2,504,000. TOBACCO MEN SEE DISEASES OF WEED Oxford, July 20. —(AP) —Delegates attending a conference of tobacco men went to neighboring fields today to inspect the weed’s diseases. They planned to visit other tobacco sta tions this afternoon and then attend a barbecue this evening. They plan to hold an executive ses sion tomorrow and discuss means of controlling tobacco diseases and in sects. About 100 .delegates attended yesterday’s opening meeting. WEATHER FOR NORTH CAROLINA. Mostly cloudy tonight and Thursday, with local showers. Intangible Tax Figures Show Very Little Money On Hand In This State Daily Dispatch Bureau, In the Sir Walter Hotel. Raleigh, July 20. One county (Mecklenburg) of North Carolina’s hundred contributed more than one ninth of the $904,633.33 in intangible taxes collected by the State during the fiscal year ended June 30. It paid $119,855.61. The other ninety and nine ranged from there down to Graham, which showed total intangible collections of all sorts of $61.07. The intangibles, a new set of taxes levied by the 1037 General Assembly, were collected by the State and will be divided with the counties on a basis of fifty-fifty, each unit getting back half the taxes collected within its borders. Method of Division Agreed. The division on a basis of “contri bution,” or taxes collected, was vigor ously fought by advocates of division among the local units on a basis of population. That there is a vast dif ference between the methods is shown by a casual glance at the figures. As it is, Forsyth will get back half of the $105,542.32 it contributed. On a population basis Forsyth would get approximately 112-3000 of the total of about $3,375, quite a far cry from the more than $50,000 actually to be paid back to the county. And so it would go, with the coun ties which have relatively large popu lations and pay small intangible levies getting the gravy at the expense of the richer units which pay the taxes into the State Department of Revenue Outside Stock Best. Biggest single item in a breakdown PUBLISHED EVERY AFTERNOON EXCEPT SUNDAY Wee British Plane Crossing Atlantic Foyncs, Ire'and, July 20. —(AP)— The Mereury, speedy upper unit oi Britain’s unique pick-a-back air plane, took off from the hack of her mother ship, the Maia, at 8 p. in. (2 n. in., eastern standard time) tonight for an attempt to fly the Atlantic. 20 Men Hurt In Clash In lowa Strike Newton, lowa, July 20.—(AP) — At least 20 men suffered injuries here today in street fights, which broke out in the immediate vicinity of the Maytag Washing Machine Company factory. One man was reported stabbed and a special deputy sheriff was reported badly beaten and his gun taken away. The outbreak was the most serious May 29, when CIO union employees of in the labor controversy that began the Maytag company walked out in protest to a ten percent wage cut. Women were among the crowd of about 450 persons who shouted, “Get that scab; get that scab!” as the fighting broke out. One armored Na tional Guard scout car drove through the crowd and the crowd scattered, but re-assembled quickly. Several times men singled out for attacks were grabbed and slugged and then pushed into the arms of police. A group of strikers threatened to “get” a Newton newspaper man on the roof of a lumber company near the plant, but police stopped the men as they attempted to enter the build ing. As officers halted them, one man at whom shouts of “scab” were direct ed was beaten and fell to the streets. (Continued on Page Five) 2,000 Chinese Are Reported Dead Or Injured In Flood Shanghai, July 20.—(AP) — A Kuo Min (Chinese) News Agency dispatch from Kweiyang, Kwei chow province, reported today that 2,000 persons had been killed or injured in floods following heavy rains in southeastern Kweichow. Ten counties have suffered, the dispatch said, with thousands of homes destroyed and large areas of farm lands inundated. Mean white, Ch3nese resistance stiffened along a narrow fight ing zone bordering the Yangtze river as temperatures soared be yond 100 degrees. of the intangible collections came from collections on shares of stock held by North Carolinians in concerns which do not pay franchise taxes in this State. From this source came $253,109.81 in all. Here Mecklenburg was the tjiggdst contributing unit, with $37,576.63, Forsyth falling to sec ond place with slightly over $25,000. In order, after the tax on shares, came as sources of intangible revenue money on deposit, with $238,015.75; notes, bonds and other evidences of debt, with $214,405.02; accounts re ceivable, with $159,348.42; deposits with in surance companies with $32,- 816.48, and money on hand with $6,- 040.32. From the tax collections ,it appears that there was very little money on hand in North Carolina —at least not in sums as large as S3OO, as all over this amount was by law required to be listed for taxation under the in tangible tax act. Counties Compared. If the returns are to be taken at face value, not one person in Tyrrell courty had money in excess of the the exempt amount on hand, while Hyde the total collections reached the puny figures of three cents. On the other hand, Polk (general ly regarded as no richer or more well to-do than either Tyrrell or Hyde) turned in a total of $260.85 in taxes on money on hand, a sum only about S2O less than the tax returns from the same source in Wake county and more than SIOO above collections, on “money on hand” in Durham county. Numerous other features of the re (Continued on Page Eight. 8 PAGES TODAY FIVE CENTS COPY Eight Major Com panies, 25 Subsid iaries And 132 In dividuals Named New York, July 20. —(AP) — The government today filed in Federal dis trict court a complaint under the Sherman anti-trust law demanding the dissolution of alleged illegal com binations in restraint of trade in the motion picture industry. It listed eight majoi companies, 25 subsidiary or assiciated concerns, and 132 in dividuals. » - k CONCERNS WOULD BE MADE TO SPLIT THEIR BUSINESS Washington, July 20. —(AF) —Attor- ney General Cummings charged eight major film companies today with vir tually monopolizing the motion pic ture industry. He filed civil suits in Federal dis- • trict court in New York, asking that the firms be required to divest them selves either of their ownership of theatres or of production and distri bution facilities. The case, among the most compre hensive brought in recent years under the anti-trust laws, was presented after a long investigation by the Jus tice Department. It was disclosed just, as a committee of congressmen and Federal administrative officials was starting a broad monopoly inquiry. The government’s bill of complaint charged the eight companies, 25 sub sidiary or affiliated corporations, and 132 individuals with controlling about 65 percent of the nation’s moving pic tures “from selection of the story to final showing at the theatre.” A statement issued at the Justice Department named as principal de fendants: Pa’amount Pictures, Inc.; Yoew’s, Inc.; the Irving Trust Company of New York as trustee in bankruptcy for Radio-Kcith-Orpheum Corpora tion; Warner Brothers Pictures, Inc.; 20th Century-Fox Film Corporation; Columbia Pictures Corporation; Uni versal Corporation and United Artists Corporation. Hitler Sends New Plan For Czech Peace Paris, July 20 (AP)—British and French statesmen took time out from the formal ceremonies of King George’s state visit today for diplo matic discussions said to include a plan by Chancellor Hitler for solution of the Czechoslovak problem. The statesmen, including Premier Daladier, French Foreign Minister Bonnet and British Foreign Secretary Halifax went into conference at the foreign office immediately after lunch eon . Hitler’s plan on the Czechoslovak minority problem was said by sburcea close to the government to have been brought to Paris by Halifax. King George and Queen Elizabeth, meanwhile, spent the day in a busy round of ceremonies, including a tri bute to France’s World War dead, a visit to the city hall and a luncheon in their honor at the British Em bassy. Prior to the luncheon, the sover eigns received members of the Brit ish colony in Paris at the Embassy, and the Icing reviewed the British Legion of Honor guard. Viscount Halifax presumably re ceived Hitler’s formula ftor ending strife between the Czechoslovak gov ernment and its Sudeten German mi nority population a few hours before he sailed with his sovereigns for France yesterday. Five Killed, One Injured In 3 Crashes Fort Plain, N. Y., July 20 (API- Two women and a man were killed today in the crash of a biplane in a field near Fort Plain. The victims: Everett Sanjcrs, 34, Fort Plain farm er and sportsman pilot, and owner of the plane; Mrs. Theresa Hendershot and Mrs. Allen Shelly, both in their early 20’s, and residents of Fort Plain. A neighbor said Sanders and the women took off at 3 a' m‘ from Sand ers’ private flying field for an early morning flight. He theorized the plane crashed because of a heavy fog. TWO KILLED IN CRASH AT ROOSEVELT FftSLD, N. V. Roosevelt Field, N. Y., July 20 (AP) Two persons were killed today when a plane in which they were taking off for Clifton Heights, Pa., crashed back onto the runway. The pilot was iden tified as Nicholas Nandzih, of Clifton (Continued on Page Eight.
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