HENDERSON’S
POPULATION
13,873
TWENTY-FIFTH YEAR
PWA APPROVES 527,972,314 HEW PROJECTS
Chandler’s
Poisoning
Suspicious
Barkley Foe In Ken
tucky Was Danger
ously 111 After Politi
cal Speech
Frankfort, Ivy., July 26. —(/p)—Ken-
tucky's highway patrol proceeded to
day in an investigation into the as
serted “poisoning” of Governor A. B.
(Happy) Chandler.
Major Joe Burman, chief of the
State Bureau of Identification, said
‘it was not the first time such a
thing has happened during the cam
paign'' Chandler is waging for the
Democratic senatorial nomination
against Senator Barkley, Senate ma
jority leader.
•We have our suspicions,” Major
Burman said in promising an inves
tigation “to determine who is respon
sible for the attempts on the gover
nor's life.”
Chandler, ill since Friday, when he
was stricken in a Louisville hotel, is
the victim of water “doctored with
poison,” Dr. J. W. Bryan, his Louis
ville physician, said in a statement.
Dr. Bryan said he did not know what
kind of poison it was, but added “if
consumed in sufficient quantities
would have caused death.”
Addressing a radio audience from
his bedside in the executive mansion
last night, Chandler said “in no cam
paign in recent years has a campaign
been so desperate.”
He recalled that he had just fin
ished a broadcast from his Louisville
hotel suite Friday when “two of my
associates and I were stricken with
intestinal poisoning.” Dr. Bryan had
said previously State Finance Com
missioner Dan Talbott and State High
way Patrol Wyatt “drank from the
same pitcher of water” as the gov
ernor, and became ill at the same
time, but not as seriously.
Lucas Master
Os Elections
Board Probe
Daily Dispatch Bureau,
In the Sir Walter Hotel.
Raleigh, July 26—Former Governor
J. C. B. Ehringhaus and Major L.
P. McLendon; Neil McK Salmon, Bob
Young’s lawyer, and L. L. Levinson,
counsel for Soliciior C C. Canaday;
and some other expert pleaders have
been much in the public print during
the many-sided probe of election
fraud charges; but the real ringmast
er. the man who is cracking the whip
end making ’em like it, is nobody but
modest, unassuming W. A. Lucas
chairman of the State Board of Elec
tions.
Lawyers have snarled at each other
in bitter exchanges—have clinched
their fists .waved their arms and
grown red in the face. But one and
all—big shots and little fellows —they
have sat down and behaved them
selves when the chairman has re
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Economic Debacle Is Seen
As An Early Possibility
In The Dictator Countries
By CHARLES P. STEWART,
Central Press Columnist
Washington, July 26 —Signs are that
the world’s democratic countries now
are about to have the economic laugh
u Pon the dictatorially ruled nations
which, for some time, have been en
joying the laugh on the democracies
and particularly upon the United
States.
Japan’s recent cancellation of its
undertaking to entertain the Occident
at the Olympic games, due to in
ability to foot the bill, was a plain
enough admission of the financial
pinch which Nippon feels.
The other day the German stock
niarket broke with a crash.
There are hints the Italian mon
etary inflation is approaching the
danger point.
But American business is picking
U P and Britain and France are in
the midst of no slump.
We’re “Free’
National economics,: especially in
the United States, never have been
v, u.v strictly regulated. They are sub
jected here to stricter regulation, now
an in the past. However, even yet
( uu- rules are loose in comparison with
x azi-istic Germany’s, Fascist Italy’s
anf t Japan’s.
be because of our lack of regi
HpttJtcrsnit BatfaNaisrmtrh
LEASED WIRE SERVICE OF
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS.
Bar Critical
Os SEC And
Hugo Black
r\ . _
%
Securities Board Ac
cused as Prejudiced;
SEC Commissioner Is
Resentful
Cleveland, 0., July 26. —(fl 5 ) —The
American Bar Association turned the
rostrum over to its multi-farious com
mittees today, leaving a controversy
with the Securities ar.d Exchange
Commission and a resolution on the
appointment of Supreme Court Jus
tice Hugo Black hanging fire.
No sessions of the association’s as
sembly or house of delegates were
scheduled. However, committees open
ed discussion on a variety of topics
ranging from a collection of dues to
“liability of owners, landlords and ten
ants to invitees, licensees and tres
passers.”
Commissioner Jerome Frank, of th’,
SEC, questioned the fairness of a re
port on administrative law by a com
mittee headed by Dean Emeritus Ros
coe Found, of Harvard Law School,
and asserted the committee had “de
famed” Commission Chairman Wil
liam Douglas.
The committee mentioned SEC in
a discussion* of a “tendency to make
decisions on the basis of pre-formed
opinions and prejudices,” and Frank
said, “quoted with approval an extra
from an article in a law review, which
criticied the report made by the SEC
with respect to protective and reor
ganiation committees.”
mentation it is true that we have been
afflicted by a stries of depressions al
ternating with periods of prosperity,
or out-and-out booms.
We have had one lately—our re
cession, so-called.
They Bragged
Hitler and Mussolini have bragged
loudly that Gtrmany and Italy were
as prosperous as ever, recessions else
where notwithstanding. They did seem
so, too. They had no unemployment
and looked to be doing fairly well.
Hitler’s and Mussolini’s version was
that they had solved the problem of
business cycles by the dictatorial
*i eth °d. , . . ,
Japan did no bragging, but she had
a war on her hands.
Dictation Fails
Now, the truth i s that governmental
dictation does appear to be efficacious
toward stalling off sudden economic
fluctuations.
But doesn’t it tend toward a gener
al, permanent decline in a country s
living standard? Germany has run
into a definite slump, from which it
may not recover at all. Italy has not
hit a conspicuous slump, but its liv
ing costs have been getting higher
and higher and wages have not m
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ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA AND%RGINIA.
What a Week of Rain Did in New York and New Jersey
This automobile was washed away by the floodwaters of the Willowemoc
River at Liberty, N. Y., as if it had been a soapbox. Throughout the New
England States the torrential rains of the last week have caused millions
of dollars in property damage. (Central Pres*)
HENDERSON, N. C., TUESDAY AFTERNOON, JULY 26, ,1938
Japs Take Kiukiang To Open
Way for Campaign On Hankow
Corrigan Is
To Take Job
Paying Most
London, July 26 (/P)— Douglas Cor
rigan apparently has changed his
mind about money-making offers
from the United States.
“When I get back,” the young
trans-Atlantic flier said today, “I am
going to take the best job offered —
movies, vaudeville, newspapers, any
thing.”
But he is planning a two weeks’
tour first.
“There will he a couple of days
in New York,” he said. “Two days
because the boys in Brooklyn seem
to want to have a parade, as well
as guys in New York; then Boston;
then down south to Baltimore, Phila
delphia and Washington.”
He plans also to visit Fort Worth,
Dallas, San Antonio (“where I was
.stationed six years”); Norfolk, Va.
(“if I can make it”); Galveston
(“where I was born”); then Los An
geles, San Francisco and St. Louis,
“where my plane was built.”
Corrigan said he would attend the
Cleveland air races, but not as a com
petitor. *
Tomorrow Corrigan will go to
Kensington Museum to see the plane
which the Wright brothers first flew
at Kitty Hawk, N. C.
69 Killed In
Race Clashes
In Palestine
Haifa, Palestine, July 26.— (IP)— Five
persons were killed today in the Holy
Land’s Arab-Jewish racial warfare,
which took 65 lives in Haifa yester
day.
Greater loss of life was averted
when police found in the crowded
Arab vegetable market of old Jeru
salem a heavily-charged bomb just 15
minutes before it was set to explode.
Police expressed the belief the bomb
was similar to the one which ex
ploded in the Haifa market yesterday.
Three members of a terrorist band
were slain in a battle with special
constables, whom they had attacked.
A Jewish father and his 14-year
old son were killed when they were
ambushed near a Jewish settlement on
the banks of the Jordan river.
Casualties were placed at 65 dead
and 107 wounded. Sixty-one of the
victims were Arabs and four were
Jews.
The Associated Press correspond
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LEATHER
FOB NORTH CAROLINA.
Generally fair tonight and Wed
nesday; slightly warmer in north
central and extreme northeast
portions Wednesday.
At Wallington, N. J., the steady fall of rain during the last week undermined Maine Avenue, washed away a
section of the road and exposed this water main. Many sections of the east, from Maine to Georgia, have
suffered from the almost unprecedented rainfall which not only ruined millions of vacations, but caused mil
lions of dollars in damage to property and took several lives. (Central Press)
Premier Declares
Britain Can Fight
London, July 26 —(AP) —Prime Min
ister Chamberlain declared in the
House of Commons today amid cheer,3
“let no one imagine that, though we
seek peace, we are willing to sacrifice
even for peace British honor and
British vital interests.”
The prime minister was defending
his foreign policy in the last debate
before a three months parliamentary
recess.
“Our aim is not the less peaceable
because no one can imagine we have
no reason to fear any foe.”
Chamberlain asserted the armei
strength of the country because more
formidable day by day, and went on:
“But while that tremendous power
remained as a guarantee that we
could defend ourselves if we were
attacked, we were not unmindful f
the fact that though it was good to
have a giant strength, it was tyran
ous to use it.”
Claim Votes
In Sampson
Are Illegal
Raleigh, July 26. —(#*) —Rivers D.
Johnson, of Warsaw, who apparently
lost the Democratic nomination for
solicitor in the sixth district to J.
Abner Barker, of Roseboro, argued
to the State Board of Elections to
day that 1,300 “illegal” votes had been
cast in Sampson county.
Johnson contended that the con
tested votes should be thrown out.
He said they were cast by Repub
licans and other not affiliated with
the Democratic primary.
Jeff D. Johnson, Jr., of counsel for
Barker, contended that Rivers John
son had failed to show how the con
tested votes were cast as between the
candidates, and that therefore he had
failed to show that their elimina
tion would change the results.
Chairman W. A. Lucas, of the elec
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Seven Jurors Are
Seated For Trial
Os Johnston Man
Smith field, July 26. —(/P)— Three
Johnston county farmers took their
places in the jury box today to make
a total of seven jurymen selected
to hear the case in which James E.
Tharrington, former bank cashier, is
charged with killing John McMillan,
a Selma oil dealer.
Herbert Cole, a 60-vear-old Negro
farmer, appeared this morning as a
member of a special venire of 150
men, and court attaches said he was
the first Negro called for jury duty
in the county since about 1900. Cole
was rejected on the grounds that he
is opposed to capital punishment. It
took examination of 30 men to get
three acceptable to both sides this
morning. „ _
Battleships
Go Slow In
Mine Fields
Shanghai, July 26.—(/P) —The Japa
nese command announced its army
had at last opened a path for a ma
jor offensive against Hankow today
by occupying Kiukiang, and thereby
breaking the main Chinese defend,
line in the Yangtze valley.
Kiukiang is 135 miles down the
Yangtze from Hankow, provisional
Chinese capital. The Japanese had
tried more than three weeks to force
entry into the city. The army of Nip
pon entered it this morning, the Jap
anese announced, after Chinese de
fense began to crumble late Monday
night.
Chinese claims to the contrary, the
Japanese said General Chiang Kai-
Shek’s troops were retreating to the
west and southwest, presumably hop
ing later to swing back north to form
new defenses for the capital.
While the Japanese army completed
its occupation of Kiukiang, the Japa
nese announcement related, Japanese
warships advanced slowly through
mind fields in the Yangte, and with
army and navy air forces joined in
shelling and bombing the rereating
Chinese.
The Japanese said the fall of
Kiukiang culminated a forceful offen
sive begun last Saturday, when troops
landed on the west bank of Lake
Poyang. Heavy rains hampered con
tinuance of the advance until yester
day. Despite the rains, however, the
communique said, the “army defeated
several Chinese divisions as it fought
its way to Kiukiang.”
Floyd Tells
Os Rules For
Selling Leaf
College Station, Raleigh, July 26.
North Carolina, the nation’s No. 1
producer of flue-cured tobacco, has
been allotted 485,j878,00Cl pounds of
the leaf under the 1938 program, E.
Y. Floyd, AAA executive officer at
State College, announced today.
Originally granted 46,9698,000 pounds
this State had its total boosted by
four per cent as a result of congres
sional amendments to the long-de
bated farm bill. The small increase
added 18,680,000 pounds.
As the act was set up, it did not
provide State quotas for new produc
ers, but authorized allotments to this
group without regard to state lines
New farms were defined as those on
which flue-cured tobacco is being
produced for the first time this year
since 1933.
North Carolina was granted 9,2".6 000
pounds for its new producers. TVs.
when added to the allotments for old
growers, represents 95.3 per cent of
the average marketings during the
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EXCEPT SUNDAY
Henderson
And Vance
Bonds Sold
Henderson $7,000 Un
derpass and County
$34,000 School Notes
Placed
Raleigh, July 26. —(_/P) —The Local
Government Commission sold $132,000
worth of bonds for five political sub
divisions today, and also sold six
notes and approved six bond issues.
Durham was authorized to issue
$155,000 in bonds.
Elizabeth City and Pasquotank
county were each authorized to issue
$25,000 in airport bonds to buy land
for a coast guard air station.
Subject to approval by a vote of
the citizens, the commission author
ized issuance of $38,000 in water and
sewer bonds by Rise Hill; $94,000
sewer, water and electric light bonds
by Farmville, and $40,000 court house
addition bonds by Northampton
county.
The bond sales included:
$7,000 Henderson underpass to Sea
songood & Mayer, of Cincinnati, 0.,
at a premium of $79.85, with inter
est at 4 1-4 per cent; Vance county,
$34,000 school building bonds, to R.
S. Dickson & Company, of Charlotte,
at a premium of $45, with the first
$16,000 of maturities being 3 1-2 per
cent interest, and the remainder 2 1-4
per cent; Greenville, $50,000 street im
provements, to Seasongood & Mayer al
a sls premium with the first $25,000
maturities having 3 1-2 per cent in
terest and the remainder 3 1-4 per
cent. ,
Revenue anticipation notes sold in
cluded: Elm City, $2,000 to the Con
cord National Bank at par with in
terest at four per cent. Clayton sold
$7,000 in bond notes to the Concord
National with a premium of $2, with
three per cent interest.
Farm Group
Will Demand.
New Statutes
College Station, Raleigh, July 26.
Proposed agricultural legislation to
benefit North Carolina farmers will
be discussed on the men’s program
Friday morning of Farm and Home
Week at State College, August 1-5.
Eleven agricultural organizations in
the State have accepted invitations
to send representatives to participate
in the discussions, said John A. Arey,
of State College, who is in charge
of the men’s program for the week.
The representatives will meet on
Thursday afternoon to go over the
legislative policies of their respective
organizations and to coordinate them
into a well planned program, Arey
pointed out.
With Dr. Clarence A. Poe, editor
of the Progressive Farmer, presiding,
the representatives will present their
program to the farmers Friday morn
ing. Men in the audience will be
asked to express their opinions about
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Capital Is
Looking To
New Voting
Primaries I n Eight
States Next Two
Weeks To Test Roose
velt Strength
Washington, July 26—(AP) —The
PWA approved $27,972,314 of non-
Federal projects today.
The list contained 161 projects in
29 states. The PWA will give muni
cipalities $12,000 000 in grants to help
finance their construction. The re
mainder must be put up by the muni
cipalities.
Allocations announced today (grants
only) included: Cumberland county,
North Carolina, schools, $37,287; Samp
son county, N. C., schools $35,145.
Meanwhile, E. S. Ballard, counsel
for the Inland Steel Company, Chi
cago, testified that high wages “can
not be maintained static in the face
of present economic conditions with
out injury to employees and employ
ers alike.”
Ballard gave his statement to the
Labor Department’s public contracts
board which is taking testimony to
determine the prevailing minimum
wage rate employers must pay while
performing government steel con
tracts. Ballard’s testimony was the
first indication the steel industry
might be considering the possibility
of wage readjustments in the wak9
of recent steel price reductions.
Other developments:
Democratic candidates in six states
launched into their final can\|)aign
ing this week before early August
primaries, testing President Roose
velt’s party leadership, as well as
their own vote-drawing power.
A week from today, August 2, pri
mary elections will take place in
Kansas, Missouri, Virginia and West
Virginia. Two days later, Tennessee
Democrats will pick their candidates,
and August 6 will come the bitterly
contested Kentucky primary.
Capital politicians wondered wheth
er Secretary Ickes was hinting at a
third term race for President Roose
velt when he said:
“If the reactionaries in the Demo
cratic party want a real test of
President Roosevelt’s strength with
the people, I suggest that they con
tinue to work for a situation that will
result in the people being given an
opportunity to vote directly on the
proposition of whether or not they aro
for President Roosevelt and his pli
cies." *
N. C. Rivers
Reach New
Flood Level
Raleigh, July 26 —(AP) —More heavy
rains sent Eastern North Carolina riv
ers toward new and higher flood lev
els today.
Crops in lowlands along the Roan
oke, Neuse, Tar and Cape FVear rivers
were covered by muddy waters. Small
bridges on a number of county roads
were washed out, and numerous dirt
roads were becoming impassable or
nearly so.
Weather Man Lee A. Denson said
today more than three and a half
inches of rain during the last 24 hours
at Rougemont, in Durham county,
was forming “a new very flood
In the upper Neuse."
A stage of 43 feet or above within
36 hours was forecast for the Roan
oke at Weldon as the result of a new
rainfall of nearly three inches at
Clarksville, Va. The stage at Weldon
was 41.4 feet today, eleven feet above
bank level.
The upper Tar was “considerably”
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State Seeks
$2,000,000
For Schools
Daily Dispatch Bureau,
In The Sir Waiter Hotel.
Raleigh, July 26.—Various counties
of North Carolina will seek a total
of about $2,000,000 in PWA grants
for the purpose of necessary school
building Superintendent of Public In
struction Clyde A. Erwin estimates.
“This will mean a program of about
$5,000,000 in absolutely necessary
school construction this fall and
winter,” he told your correspondent.
The school system head was not
able to give details as to which coun
ties and cities will build new schools
this fall, but he did cite Beaufort
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