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HENDERSON’S POPULATION J 3,873 twenty-fifth year Farley In Alaska BF BpSB 0 mm X " Postmaster General James A. Farley is pictured as he addressed one oi the laigest audiences Ketchikan, Alaska, has ever seen, on the occasion oi the dedication of Ketchikan’s new federal building and postoffice. Property Os Americans Damaged By Jap Shells Foreign Embassies Move 500 Miles Inland as Invaders Press on Hankow Shanghai, July 27.—(/P)— Japanese naval units pressed relentlessly up the Yangtze river today after helping powerfully in the occupation of Kiu kiang gateway to Hankow. Officers said “many ships’’ had progressed beyond Kiukiang, just 135 miles below the Chinese provinsional capital. All efforts were concentrated on opening the river channel as quick ly as possible, and no efforts were made to land troops. Chinese troops retreating yesterday were said to be retreating still, with out attempting a stand. Japanese be lieved the Chinese would flee as far as Nanchng, Chinese air base 90 miles south of Kiukiang, before turning westward. These sources added a further check-up of foreign properties in Kiu kiang revealed far greater damage than had been indicated. They said American and British oil installations suffered greatly in the Japanese shell ing, because the Chinese had convert ed the properties into fortified posi tions from which they had to be ex pelled. A previous report was that all for eign property was looted, except th (Continued on Page Eight. Republicans Are Blamed by Wallace For Huge Spending Des Moines, la., July 27—(A 5 ) —Sec- retary of Agriculture Henry Wallace today blamed Republican policies of the 20’s for the “unusual increase in Federal debt in the last nine years.” Carrying the debt issue into his na tive state in a speech prepared for delivery before the lowa Democratic Convention, the cabinet official said: “In the Democratic 30’s we have been like sailors sobering up the morn ing after, with the Federal govern ment playing the part of nurse.” The secretary said the Federal debt of the “Democratic 30’s is being car ried with ease by a country restored to health.” He took his audience through a set of figures which he said showed “total debts in the United States today” to be $6,000,000,000 less than in 1930. Private debts, for in stance, he said, are $12,000,000,000 un der the 1932 total, and $28,000,000,000 less than in 1930.” Republican Dean Os Next State Senate Daily Dispatch Bureau, In The Sir Walter Hotel. By lIENRY A V KRILL. Raleigh, July 27. —A veteran Repub ie an will top all members of the 1939 f" ,rt h Carolina State Senate in legis dtive experience, unless the Demo- C! ;'ts succeed in working a political biuacle and succeed in carrying the twenty-fourth district composed of the overwhelmingly G. O. P. counties 01 Rilkes, Yadkin and Davie. he venerable Hamiltonian, who oubtless knows all the legislative M eks but will find scant opportunity I'hiy them, is Charles Cowles, of -North Wilkesboro. It will be his very I,st term in the State Senate, but he (Continued on Page Two.), Urniirrsmt Hat fa Hianatrh LEASED WIRE SERVICE OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS. Czech Mediator Viscount Runciman , . . to mediate Czech trouble? For many years a cabinet ministsr as chairman of the British board of trade, Viscount Runciman has been made mediator of the Czech-Sudeten German controversy. Great Britain is especially desirous of having the Sudeten question threshed out quiet ly prior to the submission by the Czechs of the new Czech minorities statute to the Prague parliament Sudeten Leader Konrad Henlein vig orously opposes the measure. Lord Runciman is one of the wealthiest of British industrialists with world-wide interests. LaFollette's Stock Boosted From Inquiry By CHARLES P. STEWART, Central Press Columnist. Washington, July 27. —Senator Rob ert M. (Young Bob) La Follette was an outstanding law-maker long be fore he launched his still-pending civil liberties investigation in Washington. Nevertheless that quiz, as he is con ducting it, certainly is enhancing his reputation as a competent public man. Os course it is an inquiry which con servatives emphatically dislike, but I surmise that many more folk approve of it than there are of those in the contrary class. For thoroughness it would be hard to beat, anyway. In Another Day. About a decade ago the late Senator Thomas J. Walsh proposed a congres sional investigation of the country’s utilities, which, up to that time, had bad things pretty much all their own way. 1 The utilities realized that they could not prevent the investigation, but they did object strenuously to a congres sional one, feeling sure that Senator Walsh would dominate it, causing them unlimited grief. Therefore, they suggested turning the thing over to the Federal Trade Commission, reck oning that they had that body under their thumb. Senator Walsh thought so, too, and fought the scheme “all over the lot.” But the utilities beat him. The FTC got the investigation. La Follette’s Objective. It was a case of ‘out of the frying pan into tht fire.” The job of bossing the inquiry was assigned to Commissioner Edgar A. (Continued on Page Five). ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER Pressure By Britain Is Responsible London Hails Move That May Avert War; Berlin Claims Ger man Triumph Praha, Czechoslovakia, July 27. — (AP)—The Czechoslovakia govern ment offered a plan today looking to ward peace with its 3,500,000 Sudeten German minority population, but did not deal with the paramount question of autonomous government. The government’s proposals, in a new minority statute published sud denly last night, at the apparently increased prodding of Britain and France, would grant new concessions in school administration, government jobs and the use of languages, all within the framework of the Czech oslovak government. Local self-government and the de gree of its autonomy was to be dealt with later in another statute, and un til that time it appeared here that a definite settlement was unlikely. Premier Hodza said the newly-pub lished statues were intended to he the basis for dealings with other minori ties, including Hungarian, Polish and I Slovak as well as German. MOVE MAY AVERT WAR OF GREAT POWERS OF EUROPE London, July 27.—(AP)—Britain mediation in the Czechoslovak dis pute over treatment of minorities brought praise today from govern ment supporters and critics alike as a bold stroke to prevent war which might involve England. But in opposition quarters skepti cism was voiced, linked with warn ings that the move should not em body any coercion on the Czechoslo vak government to sacrifice its own (Continued on Page Five) Corrigan Inspects Airplane Flown By Wrights in 1903 •. .London, July 27. —(AP) —Douglas Corrigan prowled among the relics in the historic British Museum of Science today on his last day in London. T?ie American aviator’s major interest was in the plane which carried Orville and Wilbur Wright in the first sustained flight at Kitty Hawk, N. C., in 1903. “I don’t see how they ever flew that thing,” Corrigan said. “It amazes me that it ever got into the air at all. That hand-contcolled elevator plane in front looks funny. It is hard to believe they warped the wings with a pull wire. “I don’t understand how those thin skids ever held up on landing.” Corrigan planned to return by com mercial plane tonight to Dublin, where he landed July 18, on a flight from New York. Delay Close Os Inquiries Into Voting Raleigh, July 28.—(/P) —Chairman W. A. Lucas, chairman of the State Board of Elections, said today it now ap pears }t will be Saturday before find ings are released on the board’s in vestigations into recent primaries. “We cannot finish the study of affi davits on absentee votes from David son county and other eighth district counties today,” said Lucas. “We may be able to release conclusions Satur day.” Newsmen were allov/ed to attend the board’s executive session under the understanding that no details of the proceedings would be revealed The board apparently was about through with the solioitonal contents in the fourth and six + h judicial dis- | tricts. ] Rivers Johnson, of Warsaw, who i trailed J. Abner Barker, of Roseboro, , In the second contest in the sixth, \ alleged that 1300 Republicans and - others besides Democrats, voted in ] Sampson county. , J. R. Young, of Dunn ,who ran be hind Solicitor C. C. Canaday, of Ben- ( son, in the fourth, charged that “dead ] men” and Republicans voted in Johns- ] ton county in the Democratic primary, ? Newspaper speculation that the < board would declare Canaday and Barker the nominees led Chairman < Lucas to comment: “That is purely guess work on the part of reporters.” HENDERSON, N. C., WEDNESDAY lAFTERNO ON, JULY 27, 1938 ofBY GROWERS RESIST TOBACCO ACT ********** * * » « „ Czech Mid-Europe Peace Plan Given PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OF NORTH CAR OLINA AND VIRGINIA. Hopkins Is j Absolved Os Every Blame WPA Chief’s State ment Dismissed by Senate Probers; Hard House Fights Washington, July 27 (AP) —The Senate campaign expenditures com mittee dismissed today a recent state ment by WPA Administrator Hop kins that 90 percent of WPA work ers would vote for President Roose velt. The committee issued a statement in which it said such comments “are to be distinguished from those that are in the nature of political advice to, or that indicate an intention to ex ert, political pressure upon workers (Continued on Page Four) Negro Accused of Slaying Taxi Man Taken to Raleigh Laurinburg, July 27—(AP) — Deputy Sheriff Frank Todd said today he and State Highway Pa trolman W. W. Carraway last night transferred George Ford, 23-year-old Negro held on a charge of slaying and robbing Eunice Mann, Hamlett taxi driv er, to the State Prison in Ra leigh. Todd said officers had decid ed it best to remove Ford from the Scotland county jail after there had been rumors of pos sible mob violence. Sheriff W. D. Reynolds said he thought violence unlikely, but had acted in order not to risk the county’s record of never having a lynehihg. Party Chiefs Silent About Vote Frauds Daily Dispatch Bureau, In the Sir Walter Hotel. Raleigh, July 27—Gregg Cherry, State chairman, and Libby Ward, sec retary of the Democratic Executive Committee, were in Ral'/igh Tuesday, a coincidence which made it appear that the Democratic State machinery was considering something or other — perhaps the election fraud hearing and repercussions. Chairman Cherry, however, hasten ed to tell this correspondent “I’m here for an Industrial Commission hearing for a client at a franchise violation hearing before the Utility Commission. The “iron major” from Gaston smil ed, but at the same time seemed a bit (Continued on Page Eight. Where Bomb Killed 38 in Palestine * * * The building at the right is the vegetable market at Haifa, Palestine, where thirty-nine Arabs were killed when, during the height of the shopping hour, a bomb exploded. Forty others were injured and the death toll is expected to increase. Following the bombing, maddened Arab mobs sacked and burned Jewish stores. Police, unable to handle the situation, were forced to call on British troops and marines. (Central Press) Another British Vessel Is Sunk By Rebel Plane Called by Death I.T" t A| ; V' ■ ' ■*' • ACM I NBWS SKRVICM 08. CHARLES H. lIEBTY Dr.C.H.Herty, Paper Pioneer, Passes At 71 Savannah, Ga., July 27.—(/P) —Dr. Charles H. Herty, 71-year-old chem ist, who pioneered in the develop ment of paper pulp from southern pine trees, died today. Success of the slight soft-spoken scientist in the making of newsprint from slash pine was widely heralded. Dr. Herty reported that “even with the vast investment of capital re quired for manufacturing plants, newsprint could be produced from southern forests much cheaper than the imported paper. Born at Milledgeville, Ga., Decem ber 4, 1867, Dr. Herty was graduated from the University of Georgia in 1886. He received his Ph. D. degree at Johns Hopkins in 1890. He later taught chemistry at the University of North Carolina, and then for five years was editor of the Journal of Industrial and Engineering Chemistry. His wife died in 1929. They had four children, two sons, Charles Holmes and Frank Bernard, and two daughters, Sophie and Dorothea. DR. HERTY GOT HIS START AS CHEMIST INi RALEIGH Raleigh, July 27.—(/P)—Dr. Charles Herty, famed for his work in produc ing work from pine trees, held his first jo bhere in 1888 as assistant State chemist, it was recalled upon his death today. Last month Dr. Herty called upon Governor Hoey and presented - (Continued on Page Five) WEATHER ! FOR NORTH CAROLINA Fair tonight and Thursday. PUBLISHED EVERY AFTERNOON EXCEPT SUNDAY Big Freighter Goes Down in Port of Gandia; Government Gains Claimed Man rid, July 27.—(#>) —The British cargo ship Delwyn was sunk today in the port of Gandia by a seaplane which attacked at dawn. It was the second attack on the 1,451-ton ship in three days. Two bombs were dropped near her on Monday, but they did not explode. London reported, meanwhile, an of ficial of Angel & Sons Company, of Cardiff, owners of the Delwyn, said today the freighter was discharging a cargo of coal in the British-owned port of Gandia and conforming to all regulations of the international non intervention in Spain scheme. Henrlaye, France, reports said gov ernment troops were reported to have driven within three miles of insur gent headquarters at Gandesa in a suddenly developing offensive on the Ebro river front in eastern Spain. Dispatches from insurgent general headquarters insisted only a few op posing troops had managed to cross the broad Ebro in Monday morning’s surprise attack, and that those were annihiliated. Advices from govern ment lines said, however, that gov ernment militiamen had made a 12- mile advance in two days and firmly established themselves in positions dominating Gandisa. So firmly were. the government troops established, Barcelona bulletins said, that heavy artillery could be brought across the Ebro and installed in the mountains. Village after village in insurgent hands for more than three months was listed as captured. Taking Os Testimony In Tharrington Case Starts Smith field, July 27.—/(TP)—Wal ton Parker, Selma traveling sales man,? testilffed today James E. Tharrington, former bank cashier, shot John McMillan, Selma oil dealer, three times without speak ing a word after McMillan and Mrs. Rosalie Hales King had driv en up to Mrs. King’s apartment. Tharrington is charged with mur der in the death of McMillan, who was shot March 31, and died April 9. Tharrington’s pretijy blond<e wife sat beside him as the State started its testimony. The 13-man jury was competed this morning. Attorneys for Tharrington said they would prove that' McMillan was hit ting the former banker With his fisst when the shots were fired. McMillan, Mrs. King and Parker, the salesman testified, had been to a nearby tav ern the night of the shooting. Parker said he drove Mrs. King and McMillan to her apartment. Mrs. King, he said, hurried into the house. McMillan fol lowed her, then turned back toward the car, then turned again and walked toward Tharrington. Neither man spoke, Parker said. 8 PAGES TODAY FIVE CENTS COPY Injunctions Obtained In Two States Constitutionality o f Penalty Tax Challeng ed in Georgia And Florida Valdosta, Ga„ July 27.—(/P)—Tobac co growers in Georgia and Florida, challenging constitutionality of AAA marketing quotas, obtained court or ders today restraining collection of penalty taxes at auctions opening to morrow. The action apparently headed the government’s second attempt at con trol of the tobacco growing industry toward the Supreme Court. The first tobacco control program, under the Kerr-Smith act, was ruled invalid. Circuit Judge Harold Adams an nounced at Lake City, Fla., he had granted a temporary restraining order against the AAA to prevent collection of the tax, imposed on all tobacco marketed in excess of quotas. Dr. R. B. Harkness, of Lake City, headed a group of several hundred growers in taking the question to court. Date for a Florida hearing on a permanent order was not set. George growers filed a suit at Val dosta. Superior Court Judge W. E. Thomas directed his order to Val dosta warehouse operators, charged with responsibility for collecting the tax. A hearing was set for August 6. The suit challenged the 1938 act under which quotas were fixed for other national crops, such as corn, cotton and wheat, on the ground that “Congress assumes authorities not di rectly granted by the Constitution.” Penalty taxes collected under law would be impounded until the case is settled. They are fixed at 50 per cent of the market price, or three cents a pound if the tobacco sold in excess of quotas brings less than six cents. MARKETS ARE FILLING FOR OPENING TOMORROW Atlanta, Ga., July 27.—(AP)— Growers were filling warehouses ia (Continued on Page Eight) Manhattan’s Suicide Lies Quietly Now New York, July 27.—(/P) —Alone jn death, the body of 26-year-old John Ward, who thrilled tens of thousands of spectators nearly 11 hours yester day, before he leaped to his death from the 17th floor of the Gotham hotel, lay in an east side funeral par lor today. While morbid throngs still gaped at the 18-inch perch where Ward stood throughout yesterday afternoon and evening or pointed to the crim son point on the pavement where his body struck, officials at the funeral parlor said no one had called to look (Continued on Page Eight. Then, he related, Tharrington shot McMillan. The witness testified that Tharring ton came to the tavern while his party was there. He said there was no exchange of conversation between any of them and Tharrington. Defense attorneys sought to get an admission from Parker that he could not plainly see the porch at the apartment of Mrs. King, but he in sisted he could. Parker also insisted, under cross-examination, that it was not obvious that Tharrington had been drinking. Two witnesses, William Ragsdale, Jr., a civil engineer, and Norman Bar ber, a photographer testified as to the scene of the shooting. Judge Hubert Olive, presiding, said he would hold night sessions of the court to speed the trial. Smithfield, July 27. —(yP) —The State had seven witnesses sworn this morn ing as it opened presentation of evi dence against James E. Tharrington, former banker and hotel man charged (Continued on Page Eight.
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