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HENDERSON’S POPULATION 13,873 TWENTY-FIFTH YEAR * FORD OBSERVES 75TH BIRTHDAY Here is an excellent new camera portrait of Henry Ford whose seventy* fifth birthday today was an occasion for civic celebration in Detroit. Denial From Mussolini Os Pope’s Claim II Duce Says Fascism Has Not Imitated Nazis or Any One Else on Race Issue Forli, Italy, July 30. —(/*P) —'Premier Mussolini rsplied personally today to Pope Pius’ assertion that the new fascist race policy was adopted in imitation of Nazi Germany. Addressng a group of fascist party officials in camp at Fori, Mussolini assorted: “You know and every one knows that also on the question of race we will shoot straight. “To so say that fascism has imi tated any one or anything is simply absurd.” I/Osservatore Romano, Vaitican newspaper, yesterday quoted the pope in discussing the race doctrine, as asking: “Why in the world Italy un fortunately felt the need to imitate Germany.” The pope was addressing mission arv students of 37 nationalities who visited him Thursday at hih summer residence. Mussolini, who left Rome yesterday for his summer palace at Rocca dela Caminat, arose early today to make his reply. The two sentences from his talk referring to imitation of Nazi Ger many were distributed by an official Italian news agency. No further quotes were made available. The pope, in his address, referred to the new fascist race doctrines which hold that Jews do not belong to the Italian race, but did not men tion Jews by name. Referring to the universality of the Catholic faith, he said: “Separation, do; we do not want to separate na tionalism as commonly spoken of, means barriers erected between men and other men; between folk and other folk.” Tobacco Men Turn Eyes On Border Marts Raleigh, July 30. —>(/P) —Eyes of thousands of North Carolina tobacco glowers will center Thursday on seven towns near the South Carolina line where the first auction sales of the 1038 crop in this State will get Under way. Merchants and business men also "'ill wait with interest to see how prices run, as tobacco is North Caro lina's biggest money crop. Sales of flue-cured togacco started in Georgia p nd Florida Thursday, and an aver -ogc of nearly $25 per 100 pounds was indicated. Last year the average price for 613,253,217 pounds sold in North Caro- Lna, of which about 577,000,000 pounds "’ere sold for growers was $24.07 per hundred. 3he tobacco auctioneers will start Ibejr chant at Chadbourn, Clarkton, * a ir Bluff, Fairmont, Lumberton, Ta *ol' City and Whiteville next week, nuth Carolina markets will open at the same time. in Eastern North Carolina h'arkets will start August 25. Middle fJ lt sales start September 13, and Old Best September 27. *k *-£SME PERRY MEMORIAL. U&WMAX iUrtttersmt SatUt Stsuafrh LEASED WIRE SERVICE OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS. Worst Os Floods In State Passing Raleigh* July 30.—(AP) —The Neuse river today reached the crest of its flood at Neuse station, eight feet out of its hanks, but was still rising at Goldsboro and Kins ton. Lee A. Denson, weather bureau director here, said the stream was two and a half feet over its banks at Goldsboro. Previously he had warned that residents of Happers- low-lying Kinslton suburb, might expect the flood waters to reach their yards by the middle of next week. However, Denson said that, unless further rains came, the flood in the Neuse would gradually decrease as it moves toward the coast. The Tar river had reached an 11-foot crest at Rocky Mount, two feet over its banks, and the Roan oke was falling at Weldon. The Neuse’fc 22-foot depth at Neuse station was the highest the stream had been there in nine years, Den son said. Henry Ford Anniversary In' Detroit Detroit, July 30 (AP)—Henry Ford, who believes that years, as measured by the calendar, “are a joke”, rolled back a large part of his own today to be the guest 75th birthday anniversary, of 8,030 children celebrating his The party was so big it had to be staged in the Coliseum building on the Michigan' State Fair grounds. Ford demonstrated that he could be “just as big a kid as any of them,” by driving an an cient T Ford automobile across the Coliseum floor. Fight thousand voices sang, “Happy Birthday to You,” and then a float entered bearing a mammoth birthday cake, which was presented to the guest of hon or by 75 girls. Spurpisimgly the cake opened, and out stepped a girl, little Fleanor Spencer, who placed a birthday bouquet 'of colonial de sign in Ford’s hands. Monopoly Investigators Honestly Trying To Find Plan For Readjustments By CHARLES P. STEWART, Central Press Columnist. Washington, July 30. —Senator Jos eph C. O’Mahoney’s monopoly inves tigation seems to differ from the gen erality of such inquiries in this re spect: The average investigation begins with a definitely pre-conceived notion on the investigators’ part as to what they presently will reveal; they think they know what is the matter and simply intend to uncover it. Their aim principally is to give publicity to evils which they believe to exist. Their investigations, but grills of sup posed culprits—or at least suspects. The O’Mahoney group is convinced, indeed, that something is the matter with our economics, but the senator himself and, I think, most of his fel low investigators, are not certain just what it is; their purpose is to find out, not to convict anyone in particu? ONLY DAILY NEWSPAP ER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OFNORTHCAR OLINA AND VIRGINM. Tharrington Is Sentenced To 25 Years Convicted of Second Degree Murder for Slaying John McMil lan of Selma Smithfield, July 30. — (/P) —James E. Tharrington, 33-year-old ex-banker, was convicted of second degree mur der today in the slaying of John Mc- Millan, Selma oil dealer. Judge Hu bert Olive sentenced Tharrington to 25 to 30 years in State’s prison. The Johnston county jury returned its verdict at 1:55 p. m., after deliber ating for two hours, 55 minutes. The State had asked a first degree murder verdict, contending Tharring ton slew McMillan because of jealousv over Mrs. Rosalie Hales King, a di vorcee. Tharrington testified he • shot the oil dealer in self-defense. Tharring ton’s face was blank as he heard the verdict, though he showed the strain of his week-long fight to escape death in the gas chamber. He gave notice of appeal. His wife who had sat with him throughout the trial, began sob bing quietly. Mrs. Hattie' McMillan and Clyde McMillan, mother and brother of the slain man, began talking with prose cution lawyers. The judge set appeal bond at SIO,OOO and defense attorneys began an at tempt to get the bail reduced. The ex-banker was a native of Franklin county. Mrsi. King and her sister, Mrs. Maude Moseley, both of whom testi fied for Tharrington, also wept when the verdict was announced. Judge Olive had instructed the jury it might return one of four verdicts, acquittal or guilty of first degree murder, second degree murder or manslaughter. McMillan died nine days after he had been shot by Tharrington at Mrs. (Continued on Page Five) Stocks Drop Early Gains New York, July 30.—(AP)—Steels and motors pointed the way for se lective stock market recovery today, and favored issues pushed up frac tions to a point or more at the best. The comeback was accomplished on a relatively small volume, however, even for a Saturday session. Trans fers were around shares. Profit-selling near the close clipped down best marks. Many traders ap parently felt the early pressure of dog-day apathy, and got a head start on their week-end holiday. American Radiator 15 3-8 American Telephone 142 American Tob B 87 1-4 Anaconda 35 1-4 Atlantic Coast Line 22 5-8 Atlantic Refining 24 5-8 Bendix Aviation 21 1-S Bethlehem Steel 58 5-8 Chrysler . ?6 I_21 _ 2 Columbia Gas & Elec Co 77 3-8 Commercial Solvents H 3-4 Continental Oil Co 10 1-4 Curtiss Wright 5 3-S DuPont 126 3-4 Electric Pow & Light H 4-4 General Electric 41 3-4 General Motors 43 1-2 Liggett & Myers B 102 1-2 Montgomery Ward & Co .... 46 3-8 Reynolds Tob B 102 1-2 Southern Railway 13 3-4 Standard Oil N J 57 U S Steel 59 1-4 lar of any specific offense or offenses. Not a Quiz. Parenthetically: Os course it is incorrect to speak of the “O’Mahoney commfittee.” Both houses of Congress and the executive branch of the government are repre sented in it. However, Senator O’Ma honey is chairman, and it is necessary to designate it somehow. It is not an “anti-monopoly” quiz, either, though frequently so called. The Wyoming senator, at any rate, has done his best to make it clear that he is not “anti” any especial in terest. Instead, his proposition is that basic economic conditions have changed, while our economic system has not been changed corresponding ly. His purpose is intelligent read justment. He wants no one’s “scalp.” What he is after is constructive sug ✓Continued on Page Five). HENDERSON, N. C., SATURDAY AFTERNOON, JULY 30, 1938 CUPPER LIKELY LOST AT SEE Type of Clipper Reported Missing With 15 T • ■■ ■■ • ■■ . ~ ~ ■ ‘ ■ 1— < - ...... 'yi#' |ljj^ Here is a recent picture of the China Clipper in flight. This plane is of the same type and construction as the Hawaii Clipper long overdue and unreported at Manila. The huge airliner carried six passengers and a crew of nine and is said to have run into rough weather in the hop from Guam to Manila. (Central Press) Pictures of plane’s skipper and one of passenger on page five. Japan Turns Down Soviet Protest On Border Skirmishes $58,000,000 Allotted For Big Highway PWA and RFC Joint ly Finance Pitts burgh- Harrisburg Model Road Project I Washlingtotn\| July 30 (AP) —The PWA and the RFC jointly approved today $98,000,000 on Federal loans and grants for use in construction of Pennsylvania’s new all-weather high way. Os the total, $32,000,000 will be financed by the RFC on a loan basis and $26,000,000 will be put up by the RFC as a grant. The highway, to run between Har risburg and Pittsburgh, is being de signed as a model of modern scienti fic road construction for high speed traffic movement. Construction of the project will be subject to joint supervision of the RE'C and the PWA. Allotments PWA announced today, all grants unless otherwise specified, included: Beaufort county, N. C., jail SB,IOO. Other developments: The Roosevelt administration stands to gain great political advant ages or lose considerable prestige in Democratic primary elections next week. Six of the 15 primaries sche duled during August will be held with in five days. Senate nominations are at stake in Kansas, Missouri, Tennes see and Kentucky, with primaries in Virginia and West Virginia involve only* representatives. The outcome of two senatorial con tests on Tuesday appears reasonably predictable. Capitol politicians be lieve Senator McGill, who has only nominal opposition, will win in Kan sas, and they expect the Missouri nom ination to go to Bennett Champ Clark, an anti-administration leader in the Senate, who has powerful State and city organization backing. Thus, in the first two major prima ries, the administration should break about even with the conservative Democratic forces. Administrations experts predicted that “better days” were ahead for the nation’s farmers as a year’s decline in agricultural prices came to a halt. At the lowest point in four years on June 15, the general level of agricul tural prices advanced three percent' by July 15, th e Bureau of Agricultur al Economics reported. WEATHER FOR NORTH CAROLINA Partly cloudy tonight and Sun day. WEEKLY WEATHER For South Atlantic States: Scat tered showers in Florida entire week; shower period elsewhere Monday and Tuesday and again toward end of week; tempera tures mostly near normal. Tokyo Holds Russians Were Aggressors In Brush Between Pa trols on Manchoukuo Frontiers; Moscow Demands Punishment 11 Tokio, July 30. —(yP) —Japan today rejected a protest by the Soviet gov ernment over a clash between Rus sia and Japanese border patrols on the frontier between Manchoukuo and Russian Siberia, on grounds that Rus sia was the aggressor. The vice minister of foreign affairs declared Soviet forces invaded Man choukuo territory. (The Soviet protest was over the fourth class on the disputed ill-de fined Siberian border this month. It occurred yesterday near a bay close to the borders of Siberia, Japanese Korea and Manchoukuo. Russia con tended Soviet guards “drove Japanese- Manchurian forces from Russian soil.) FULL RESPONSIBILITY IS TUT ON JAPAN BY MOSCOW Moscow, July 30. —(P) —A vigorous Soviet protest against new “provoca tions” by Japanese Manchurian mili tarists in the fourth Siberian border clash this month was before the Jap anese government today. The note demanded punishment of the guilty, and warned “that the Sov iet government places the entire re sponsibility for consequences of these actions on organs of the Japanese government in Manchuria. State Can Easily Raise Money For New Buildings Legislative Session to Approve Loans from PWA Now Regarded as Certain Raleigh, July 30—North Carolina will have no difficulty financing its share of a construction program for indispensable public buildings, the program to cost probably between five and ten million dollars and to be put through with PWA assistance, Gover nor Clyde R. Hoey and State Treas urer Charles M. Johnson agree. The governor said he will not hesi tate to call a special session of the legislature if he finds this must be done in order to take advantage of PWA grants. He made it clear that he has not the slightest intention to recommend a big building program just because there are Federal funds available in the form of grants; but he pointed out it would be foolish to fail to take advantage of the 45 per cent contribution of PWA in financ ing such buildings as would be pro vided for by th% next legislature re gardless of whether or not Federal help were available. Treasurer Johnson said the State can issue at least $5,000,000 —probably $6,000,000 or more—in bonds without violating the constitutional provision which prohibits issuance of bonds in any biennium exceeding two-thirds of the sum by which the outstanding (Continues oa Page Five.) PUBLISHED EVERY AFTERNOON EXCEPT SUNDAY Second Day Prices Gain For Tobacco 25 Cents Up Recorded in Official Figures for South Georgia Belt Sales Valdsta, Ga., July 30 (AP)—Second day prices in the South Georgia to bacco market generally pushed open ing day averages stil higher in the 25 to 30 cents brackets. Buyers reported o higher quality of leaf on hand, and prices moved correspondingly. Valdosta improved upon an open ing day average of 25.74 cents, when 620,558 pounds of tobacco went for an average of 26.60 rents. Moultrie listed an opening day price of 27.41 cents, with second-day sales of 686,634 pounds for an average of 27.48 cents. Adel also climbed, the Friday aver age being 27.97 cents fbr 343,886 pounds, compared with the Thursday average of 26.90. Other markets reporting today in cluded : Baxley, total sales for two days, 568,588 pounds for an average of about 27 cents. Thursday’ saverage was 27.03. Hahira, total sales 626,710 pounds for an average of 27.96 cents. Thurs day’s average was 28. Pelhant, Friday’s sales 344,598 pounds for an average of 27 cents; Thursday’s average, 27.06. Tifton, total for two days ,1,674,- 442 pounds for 28.24 cents average, Thursday average, 27.43 cents. Governor Is Advertiser On His Trip Daly Dispatch Bureau, In The Sir Walter Hotel. Raleigh, July 30.—Governor Clyd R. Hoey feels that he advertised North Carolina quite extensively while on his vacation trip, which took him into 14 northern and mid-western states for stops of long or short dura tion. “That crowd up there don’t know anything,” he said, “and so I just had to tell them all about North Carolina —how we run our government, that we have reduced our debts while tht rest of the country is borrowing money.” The governor said he found a “very hopeful” feeling everywhere he went, and added that he saw and heard many indications that business i 3 picking up generally. “Incidentally, I wasn’t using up any of the State’s $250,000 appropriated for the State’s advertising program. I paid my own way,” he said, “but everywhere I went I was advertising the State.” In making this comment, he referred to criticism of some, in continued on Page Five) Q PAGES O TODAY FIVE CENTS COPY Large Patch Os Oil Found On Surface Slimy Coating in Path of Luxury Plane Near Spot It Was Last Re ported San Francisco, Calif, July 30. (AT) —Fan-American Ajrways of ficials said today they considered the finding of an oil patch on the Guani-to-Manila course of the missing Hawaii Clipper “signifi cant” hut not coucllisi:v<vt The searcli will continue, the company said. Manila, I*. 1,., July 30.—(/P) The Army transport Meigs found a large patch of oil on the sur face of the Pacific ocean today, indicating the missing Hawaii Clipper may have plunged into the sea 500 miles from Manila. The transport made no mention of sighting any wreckage from the luxurious flying boat, which dis appeared with 15 men on a flight from Guam to Manila Friday (Thursday night, Pacific time.) Two life boats were put out by the transport to search the tell-tale oil slick, but were recalled at nightfall. The transport stood by where the slick was found, intending to resume search at dawn Sunday (Saturday afternoon in the United States.) Her searchlights played on the sur rounding sea, hut her captain said he did not expect anything to be accom plished before daylight. The transport said the coating of heavy oil Was about 1,500 feet in cir cumference, which experts said was “quite large” for a plane the size of the Clipper. But marine men were unable to suggest any other source ror the slick, an oil coating such as a plane leaves on the surface of the water when sinking. The slick was found directly on the course of the 26-ton flying boat. It was sighted about 50 miles west by southwest of the last position re ported by the Clipper at 8:09 p. m. Thursday, Pacific standard time. This would mean that, if the slick were caused by oil from the Hawaii Clip per, the flying boat remained in the air about 20 minutes after her last radio message. If the Clipper sank there, little hope was held of finding the wreck age. Buying Sends Cotton Higher New York, July 30. —(/P) —Cotton fu tures opened two to four points high er on trade and commission ho.use buying. Offers were small. December which had sold down to 8.63, advanced to 8.68, and late in the first hour the market showed net gains of four to points. Futures closed five to seven points higher; spot steady, middling 8.72. Open Close October 8.60 8.62 December 8.66 8.71 January 8.69 8.73 March 8.72 8.79 May 8.78 8.80 July 8.81 8.85 Desperate Slaughter In Chinese War Shanghai, July 30. —(AP) —Chi- nese and Japanese war dispatches agreed today that a fieree slaught er was in progress in the bitterly contested Yangtze valley below Hankow. Japanese maintained generally that their infantry and air forces were advancing full sliced west ward from Niukiang, a Yangtze river port they occujHed Tuesday, toward the provisional Chinese capital, 135 miles distant. Chinese asserted, however) their counter attacks were effective on the south hank of the stream and be hind Japanese linet#, impending the invaders. The defenders asserted the Jap anese had concentrated 10,000 men from Shantung and Anhwei provinces, near a point opposite Nanking, to reinforce the Yangtze troops. Reports from foreign gunboats above Kiukiang said Japanese na val activity in that area had les sened, apparently to await the advance of the Japanese infan try.
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