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HENDERSON’S POPULATION 13,873 TWENTY-FIFTH YEAR SOVIETS BEAT JAPS IN'KEW BORDER CLASH Piloted Pick-A-Back Over Ocean | |v; ®j V. •; | I . ' Ijj j’ * i The Mercury I 'llßllßl 1 - ~—ysß^ssSßßas»»iiaßK^a^BW^»v~‘2*g m ■ ||||jl ff V B MB 9 m I WMWSm WSMtmi ?111otS |MB ft rIBf ■■ 'sSaHSf B 'SySssstßSs m M M wh HH IK MM 5iK il ini IJIIII 1— mm M m & Jgsm ''■■■{ ? y ■: ' * £• ; : .. • • Capt. C. T. Bennett •. piloting plane East Still Drenched In Heavy Rains (By The Associated Press.) Torrential rains still drenched the eastern seaboard today from Maine to Virginia, menacing highway travel, causing thousands of dollars of crop damage and putting an effective dam per on outdoor amusements and sports in the area. New York's great beaches, general ly jammed at this season with thous ands of persons, were sodden and gloomy today after seven days of cloudy weather and rain. An overflow of 218,000,000 gallons of water in the last 24 hours was re ported at Croton Lake, one of the city's water reservoirs, and motorists had the rare summertime sight of (Continued on Page Five) Friends Os Road Funds Push Drive Daily Dispatch Bureau, In the Sir Walter Hotel. Raleigh, July 23.—Opponents of the diversion of highway funds to other ■Purposes are pressing their campaign several fronts, with the hope of idling through the 1939 General As sembly a constitutional amendment forever banning the practice in North Carolina. Oratorical guns of the anti-diver- Ri °nists will boom on at least two fronts in tire next couple of weeks as barrage of information and persua ■inn is laid down; in addition, plans fl "' being laid to bring the question ,( 'f ore one of the State’s most influen c'd groups, the North Carolina Lea gue of Municipalities, at its Asheville sessions, August 5 and 6. Orators who will talk against di - (Continued on Page Five), Hrttftecsmt HafUt Btsmrtrft LEASED WIRE SERVICE OP THE ASSOCIATED PRESS. jd£k 1 I > wk-4 $ >yj - l- J I a jijjm i A. J. Coster t«• radio man aboard Here are the men who piloted the British pick-a-back plane, the Mercury, over the Atlantic from Foynes, Ireland, to Montreal prior to going on to New York. They are Pilot Capt. C. T. Bennett and Radio Man A. J. Coster.' The Mercury took off from the back ot its parent ship Maia 1,000 feet above the River Shannon in Foynes, continuing on across the ocean. It was the first test for the pick-a-back plane, pictured above. Texas Votes In Strangest Campaign Yet Austin, Texas, July 23. —(AP) — A million citizens stepped into balloting booths today for a showdown on the most unpredictable issue in Texas’ political history—the potency of moun tain music. Not since the incredible race “Black smith Bob” Williams made in 1908 without ever leaving his forge, or perhaps the darkhorse run of Far mer Jim Ferguson in 1914, has the electorate been so excited by a guber natorial scramble. A new personality, W L. O’Daniel, converted the campaign into a travel ing circus. The Fort Worth flour broker campaigned on top of a sound truck with a blaring hillbilly band and a promise of S3O monthly pen sions for the aged, whether they be millionaire or indigent. Never has the Democratic primary (Continued on Page Five) Arguments Held Back TVA Activity Knoxville, Tenn., July 23 (API- Sharp conflict between TVA engi neers and advisory committees, com posed chiefly of university professors was a major cause of delay in deter mining TVA cost allocations, Direc tor David Lilienthal testified today. Appearing for the second day be fore a congressional investigating committee, Lillienthal said differences between the engineers under Dr. Arth ur E. Morgan, deposed chairman, and the advisory committees reached the point where two of the committee members were ready to resign. His testimony was a discussion of delay by the TVA in reporting to th« President the Authority’s allocation of costs in building Norris, Wheeler and Wilson dams. Lilienthal said a valuation ConfcfcA (Continued oa JPagp Eight. -ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA AND VIRGINIA HENDERSON, N. €., SATURDAY AFTERNOON, JULY 23, 1938 Washington Thinks Roosevelt Will Run Third Term In 1940 If He Runs He Will Win; if He Sees He Can’t Win, He Won’t Run Again By CIIARLBS P. STEWART Central Press Columnist Washington, July 23. —Political ob servers in Washington unquestionably are more and more inclined to be ieve that President Roosevelt’s think ng seriously of run- ning for the White House again in 1940. They do not assert that he seems de finitely to have aiade up his mind n favor of a third campaign, but the great majority of them certainly are of the opinion that his apparent atti ude hints at a will ngness to be draft ed if the demand for his candidacy once more is strong enough. He assuredly had an excellent oppor funity to say “Noth ing doing” when a group of his ad- mirers appealed to him on his re cent trip through the west, to give them another chance to vote for him two years hence. Inasmuch as he said no such thing, the analysts’ conclu sion is that the suggestion was not unwelcome to him. On the contrary, some surmise that this western ap peal was stage managed, as a feeler, and that there will be further appeals of a similar sort, if sgns indicate that the initial one “took” at all satisfac torily. Popular View? And, in fact, third term talk has not thus far developed any violent manifestation of popular opposition. Not but that there are folk who express themselves negatively, and probably their number will be in (Continuec on Page Five.) Harlan Jury Gets Protection While In Deliberations London, Ky„ July 23 (AP)— Deputy United States marshals roped off a no-man’s-land about the rooming house quarters of the Harlan anti labor conspiracy trial jury today. Marshal John Moore said he order ed'the action after one of his depu ties reported yesterday three men from adjacent Clay county “paraded past the house for an hour with one of the defendants. The ropes block ed off the sidewalk at either side of the house, and extended the “no tres passing” area several feet out into the street. A long conference in chambers at the opening of court today was fol lowed by separate huddles of defense and government lawyers. The absence of the jury indicated a discussion of yesterday’s “parade” incident, which ended with an admonition to the Clay countians to “go home and stay there” was being continuued . Federal Judge H. C. Ford took cog nizance of the “parade” after the trio admitted accompanying M. Mid dleton, defendant, and former Harlan county peace officer, in walks pasi. the jury quarters. - Clashing Evidence Is Offered State Board In Election Row Inquiries Daily Di»iuiteh Bureaw, In the Sir Walter Hotel. Raleigh, July 23—No board in the world was ever faced with more con tradictory evidence than was the State Board of Elections when it be gan to ponder the weight and credi bility of several score affidavits sub mitted by opposing counsel for J. R. (Bob) Young, contestant, and Claude C. Canaday, contestee, in the fourth judicial district solicitor’s race here yesterday. . Attorneys for Young, a Harett coun ty man who lost the primary battle to Canaday (on the face of the re turns) by some 3,000 votes, presented affidavits designed to show that 2,- 627 unregistered voters cast ballots in Canaday’s home county, Johnston, and 1539 known Republicans also voted. In addition, it was contended that many voters whose names had been stricken from the registration books as “dead”, “gone” or “paoved” Three Dead When Airplane Crashes Woodbridge, Conn., July 23 (AP) —An airplane crashed during a driving rainstorm here today, killing the pilot and at least two and possibly three passengers. B. S. Budget, of Woodbridge, who arrived at the seene a few minu tes after the crash, said the plane apparently was an army ship. He said that all its occupants had been instantly killde. “I counter az least, three bodies strewn outside the ship,” Budget said, “and there might have been a fourth.” He said the airplane crashed nose downward at terrific speed at 1 p. in., eastern standard time into the back yard of the home of Charles H. Carpenter. The pilot he said, evidently had vainly given the ship the gun at the last min ute. Three Women Are Located At Ice Cave Grants, N. M., July 23.—(API- Three Kentucky women tourists, missing since Tuesday In the rug ged lava badlands southwest of Grants, were found alive and ap parently well shortly before noon today. State Policeman K. P. McCul lough telephoned from the. tiny lumber; camp of Paxton Springs that the three were found about three miles west of the Perpetual Ice Cave, where their automobile was abandoned Tuesday. The women are Miss Irene Picdalue, of Clark county, Ky.; her sister, Miss Laura Piedaluc, New York, and Miss Marie Antoinette de Lafforest, French instructor of the University of Ken tucky. They had wandered into the de solate lava country surrounding the caves and become lost. McCullough said the fact that they travelled only three miles in four days indicated they had kept their heads and had not exhausted themselves by fruit less struggling through the needle sharp lava formations. Grants, N. M., July 23. —(AP) • Posses of State police and sheriff’s (Continued on Page Five) Fayetteville Pair Held for Killing Os Youth by Auto Fayetteville, July 23. —(AP) —L. C. Grant, of Richmond, Va., and Anne Smith, of Fayetteville, were ordered held by the Cumberland county grand jury today under bonds in the sum of $1,500 each by Coroner W. C. Davis. Earlier a jury heard evidence the woman was steering and the man was shifting gears on the car that failed to negotiate an attempt to turn it around in the yard of a filling station near here and fatally injured Jack Byrd, 14, July 21. President Roosevelt voted; while poll books were cited as showing that in some instances theic had been “double” voting by the same person. The Canaday counsel, on the other hand, sybmittea just about as many affidavits vouching for the fact that practically all the 2,627 alleged un registered voters were, in fact, on the books—in many instances under names differing from those under which they were listed on the poll books. E. E. Levinson, the Canaday attor ney, declared that “at most there were not more than 27 unregistered persons who voted. In other words the affidavits are almost flatly contradictory and the election board is going to have to rule on who’s telling the truth. Young charges that Republicans vot ed for Canaday in the primary, but (Continued on Page Five). A NAZI BLOW AT CHINA jjpp ■» -m-... t 3jl ' X Gen. Alexander von Falkenhausen •. . recalled from China, bids goodby Gen. Alexander von Falkenhausen, chief German military adviser to the Chinese Nationalist government, reluctantly bids goodby to Chinese friends as he prepares to board a train at Wuchang, across the river from Hankow. The German military mission of 26 experts was recalled by the Hitler government following protests by Japan. The German officers had trained the Chinese army for years. Interviewed at Singapore, on the way home, General von Falken hausen predicted that China would outlast Japan in current struggle, . Central Prest Long-Waited Jap Battle For Kiukiang Is Started Assault Begun on Key Point of Push For Hankow; Jap Planes Bomb Canton Shanghai, July 23. —(AP) —Japanese naval and land forces began a long awaited assault today Kiukiang key point in their push toward Hankow. A Japanese naval communique an nounced landings were effected at several points on the southern shores of the Yangtze river, bringing the in vaders within ten miles of Kiukiang, 135 miles down the Yangtze from the Chinese provisional capital. These developments followed by a few minutes a Japanese success in crossing the narrow entrance to a lake ten miles eact of Kiukiang, after three weeks of terrific bombardment. The Japanese thus gained a favored position for a drive against the Nan chang air base. The communique said Japanese aviators intensively bombed Chinese troops manning defenses on the Yang tze south bank, while other fliers ma chine-gunned Chinese forces attempt ing to halt the Japanese infantry. Kiukiang’s defenses had been badly shattered bv repeated raids and the Chinese “scorched earth policy” of (Continued on Page Five) Ehringhaus And M’Lendon Renew Vows Raleigh, July 23. —(AP) —L. P. Mc- Lendon, of counsel for C. B. Deane in his contest of the apparent nomina tion of W. O. Burgin in the second Democratic primary in the eighth congressional district, gave the State Board of Elections affidavits toda> contending, he said, that “dead men” voted in Davidson county. Before McLendon started reading “lepresenitative affidavits” /from a mong some 297 he had to present to the board, J. C. B. Ehringhaus, of Burgin’s counsel, told the board “we will show by answer that these al legations of dead men voting, names forged, and so forth, arose only from confusion of names and identity.” McLendon outlined the affidavits he had as "36 from persons who said their names were forged if they ap peared on absentee ballots; 34 from persons who said they were not sick on primary day; 94 who said they did (Continued on Page Eight. WEATHER FOR NORTH CAROLINA. , Mostly cloudy tonight and Sun day, with occasional showers. WEEKLY WEATHER. For South Atlantic States: Scat tered showers in Florida entire week; showers elsewhere at be ginning of week; generally fair Wednesday and Thursday, follow ed by shower period toward end of week; temperatures near nor mal south portion of district, mostly moderate over north por tion first part of week; warmer about Thursday. PUBLISHED EVERY AFTERNOON EXCEPT SUNDAY 1 ECONOMIST 1 Willard Long Thorp (above); 89, regarded as one of the world's rank ing economists, has accepted the job of directing the investigation* which the department of commerce will conduct as part of the New Deal current study of the national economy. (Central Pr ese) Germany And Britain Swap Assurances London, July 23—IAP>—Prime Min ister Chamberlain was declared au thoritatively today to have given the German ambassador “certain assur ances” of continued British efforts in Czehoslovakla for solution of the Sudeten German minority dispute. A semi-official account of yesterr- A semi-official account of yester and Ambassador Dr. Herbert von Dirk sen before the latter left for Ger many, said, however, “no concrete pro (Continued on Page Five) Cropsey’s Death Recalls Famous Murder Years Ago Elizabeth City, July 23.—(AP —Wil- liam Hardy Cropsey, father of beauti ful Nellie Cropsey, whose brutal mur der in November, 1901, still remains an unsolved mystery, died at his resi dence late yesterday at the age of 89, after an illness of 19 months. Cropsey is a former resident of Brooklyn, but more recently of Eliza beth City. Funeral services will be 8 PAGES TODAY FIVE CENTS COPY Moscow Sees No Prospect Os Warfare Russian View Is “Jap anese Militarists Have Their Mouths Full of China” Moscow, Juiy 23. (AlM—Despite news of another bor ter clash in which Soviet Russian troops repulsed a Japanese attempt to occupy an is land in the Us3u:i river. Moscow cir cles viewed the Far East ; n -ilca’Kn * tn ealn. confide i< r. toiiv The danger of a real conflict with Japan was regarded as diminishing rather than increasing. As express ed by the government’s organ, Jzves tia: “The Japanese militarists have their mouths full of China.” Dispatches from a Siberian city near the Manchuokuo border said two Japanese-Manchuokuo border boats violated the Soviet frontier near the settlement of Vidnoye Thursday and landed a military detachment on an island in the Ussuri river. The report said a Soviet cutter was fired upon soon after the occupation and in the brisk exchange two Jap anese - Manchoukuo soldiers were wounded, and a machine gun and five Japanese rifles captured, along with a supply of ammunition. Late Buying Lifts Stocks New York, July 23 (AP) —A last minute buying rush, centering in mot ors, pushed stock market leaders up fractions to more than two points to day and lifted The Associated Press average to a new peak since last Oc tober. Short covering and purchasing by speculative and investment froces that had “missed the boat” on the Junc-July rally, brokers said, ac counted partly for the sharp spurt in the final 15 minutes of dealings when the ticker tape, for an interval, was behind. Transfers approximated 700,000 shares. Bonds were better in spots. American Radiator 16 1-4 American Telephone 140 1-2 American Tobacco B 86 1-4 Anaconda .. 37 1-2 Atlantic Coast Line 24 3-4 Atlantic Refining 26 7-3 Bendix Aviation 18 7-8 Bethlehem Steel 62 1-8 Chrysler 73 1-4 Columbia Gas & Elec Co .... 8 Commercial Solvents 9 3^B Continental Oil Co 10 5-8 Curtiss Wright • • 5 7-8 DuPont 130 Electric Power Light 12 7-8 General Electric 43 General Motors 43 1-2 Liggett & Myers B 103 Montgomery W.'ird & Co 48 1-2 Reynolds Tobacco B 44 1-4 Southern Railway 14 7-8 Standard Oil Co N. J. 58 1-4 U. S. Steel 62 3-8 Charges WPA Intimidation In N. Dakota Washington, July 23. —(AP) —Gov- ernor William Longer, of North Da kota, who was defeated by Senator Nye, Republican, North Dakota, in the recent Republican senatorial pri mary in that State, complained to the Senate campaign investigating committee today that relief workers were intimidated. Chairman Sheppard, Democrat, Texas, announced he would call a committee meeting next week to con sider the Langer complaint, another complaint by Senator George, Demo crat, Georgia, and recent political statements of Harry Hopkins, Works Progress administrator. George complained to the commit tee that the Georgia director of the National Emergency Council had been (Continued on Page Eight. held late today with Rev. H. K. King, pastor of the First Methodist church, officiating. Burial will be in Hollywood cemetery. He is survived by his widow, five daughters, one son, three granddaughters, four grand sons and two sisters. On the night of November 20, 1901, Nellie Cropsey disappeared from her (Continued on Page Five.)
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