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HENDERSON’S POPULATION 13,873 TWENTY-FIFTH YEAR SOVIETS WARN JAPS AGAINSTANINVASION New Dealers ReachingFor Voting Gains Concede Victory To Senator Clark, But Compensate With Magill’s Winning Washington, Aug. 2.»—(AP) — The Roosevelt administration hoped to day to balance the expected renomin ation of Senator Bennett Clark, of Mi ssouri, with an overwhelming pri mary victory for Senator George Magill. of Kansas. These were the only two Democratic senatorial contests in four statewide primary elections, which provided few* out-and-out tests of the President’s policies. Clark opposed the court bill and various other White House measures, but administration advisors took for granted his defeat of two New Deal supporters because he had the back ing of both Democratic factions in his State. Neither the President nor any of his lieutenants took any part in the Missouri campaign. Mr. Roosevelt did not even pass through the State on his western trip. One of the House contests in Vir ginia was fought principally on the Roosevelt issue. Representative How ard Smith, rules committee member who helped delay the wage-hour bill, was opposed by William E. Dodd, Jr., son of the former ambassador to Ger many. The PWA today rescinded a sl,- 125.000 grant approved for Boston as it began “weeding out” inactive ap plications. At the same time, it ap proved 175 additional non-Federal projects and brought total authoriz ed construction since June 22 to sl,-., 081,484,930. Grants approved today included Dunn, N. C., hospital, $54,000. The growing controversy over co operative medicine brought predic-, tions from Federal officials that a broad national health program would be included next winter in a new gov ernment reorganization bill. The pro gram. which would cost federal and State governments $850,000,000 a year, was suggested recently by a presi dential committee. Hoey Lauded By Maxwell For Decision Lexington, Aug. 2.—(AP) —Revenue Commissioner A. J. Maxwell praised Governor Hoey today for calling a special session of the General Assem bly for Monday, August 8. The governor, Maxwell told Lexing ton Rotarians, “is exercising the sound judgment with which he meets every situation as it arises.” The legislature will consider alloca tion of State funds for a proposed PWA improvement program at State institutions, involving possibly up to $11,000,000. Maxwell referred to the State con stitutional amendment making it “impossible” for State or local gov ernments to “plunge in creating debts.” He said the logic of the amend ment was that “there should be a re gular, consistent and moderate policy of capita] expenditures to meet the increasing needs of a growing state.” Legislature Session To Last 6 Days Daily Dispatch Bureau, In The Sir Walter Hotel. Raleigh, Aug. 2. —It appears to be the Raleigh consensus that the spe otel session of the General Assembly which will convene next week will last only the absolute minimum of six days; but with discussion of elec tion law reform so rampant, it’s dol lars to doughnuts that some legisla tor is going to introduce a bill abolishing the absentee ballot, in pri maries at least. the gesture will be absolutely mean ingless, in view of the fact that no action will be taken on it, but there aie enough publicity-seeking law makers to insure some one’s intro ducing an election law bill. Even when the regular session of (Continued on Page Four) ■HmtJivrsmt ilatht Dispatch LEASED WIRE SERVICE OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS. i -vx« •*.<• Senator Bennett Champ Clark Although nationally the race of Senator Bennett Champ Clark for re nomination in Missouri in today s primary is of chief-significance, in terest in the state itself is in the fight of Gov. Lloyd Crow Stark to unseat B°ss Thomas J. Pendergast by defeating his candidate for the State Supreme Court. Senator Clark is op posed by Joseph T. Davis, both of St. Louis, and Robert I. Young, of St. Joseph and Willis H. Meredith, Popular Bluff. Government Fights Growers In Opposing Tobacco Levies About Dozen Legislators Can’t Serve One Dead and Number of Others Named To Fat Jobs Since 1937 Session Daily Dispatch Bureau, In The Sir Walter Hotel. Raleigh, Aug. 2. —At least a dozen of the 170 legislators who comprised the 1937 regular session membership will be ineligible to serve in the spe cial session which convenes next week. One member of the House is dead, while others will be disqualified by the “double-office holding” pro visions of the State Constitution and the statutes for such cases made and provided. Furthermore, those who are on the borderline in this respect are liable to be mulcted for S2OO or more if they take a chance, serve in the session and are thereafter judicially deter mined to have been ineligible. Among the State senators who ■will be unable to serve, or about whose status there is doubt, are Benton Stacy, now director of purchase and contract; E. V. Webb, member of the State Highway and Public Wbrks Commission; Archie Gay, member of the State School Commission; A. Hall Johnston, now a superior court judge; and W. B. Rodman, Jr., of Washington, a member of the Unem ployment Compensation Commission s advisory commission. Stacy, Webb and Johnston are un doubtedly “out”; whether the others (Continued on Page Eight. WEATHER FOR NORTH CAROLINA Partly cloudy tonight and Wed nesday, with scattered thunder showers this afternoon or tonight. Wednesday partly cloudy, pos sibly showers in extreme south portion. ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OF NORTH CAR OLINA AND VIRGINLL Missouri’s Torrid Primary May Decide Whether Pendergast Is To Remain Boss HENDERSON, N. C., TUESDAY AFTERNOON, AUGUST 2, 1938 TOBggSsxgN -> ■ * V- £«§£§§ | |i|W' ; . f * Willis H. Meredith Joseph T. Davis Tobacco Men Still Hoping Some Relief Washington, Aug. 2.—(AP) — The administration hopes to bring suits attacking the constitutionality of to bacco marketing quotas invoked un der the new farm act, before the Su preme Court as early as possible. Attorneys representing the Agricul ture and Justice departments will confer tomorrow in Valdosta, Ga., with lawyers for plaintiffs who have filed actions in the State courts of Georgia and Florida, contesting the validity of the sales allotments. GEORGIA GROWERS DEMAND RELIEF FROM WASHINGTON Atlanta, x Ga., Aug. 2.—(AP)—Geor gia’s tobacco growers looked to Wash ington today for solution of the pro blem- of leaf quotas assigned by the AAA. Two official protests were be fore Secretary of Agriculture Wallace one from Governor Rivers and the other from United States Senator George. Both asked Wallace to suspend marketing restrictions for the cur rent year, and suggested that if such action were not forthcoming the (Continued on Page Three.) Former Officials Named In Bribery In New York City New York, August 2—(AP)—Dis trict Attorney Thomas Dewey today named Former District Attorney Wil liam C. Dodge, an active city magis trate and a former city magistrate as having been involved in bribes or inti midations in connection with the late Dutch Schultz, multi-million dollar policy racket. In addition to Dodge, Dewey named Magistrate Hulon Capshaw and the late Magistrate Francis Irwin. The naming of Dodge came as a sensation. Dodge, & former district attorney and magistrate, long has been a power in Tammany Hall. A special detail of police guarded the crowded court room as J. Richard “Dixie” Davis, former Schultz attor ney, appeared to enter his plea. mm \ Mviov:.' yyyyyy.;'- v V wjk im flfr M '■% jf|| Boss Thomas J. Pendergast SHWif' j BSkw" Wm. .v- . Wmm v" BBiSag-x X-: v.X;_;x • H& : £■# H i * fill A rs ' M Gov. Lloyd Crow Stark Chemical Element Expert Finds 93rd Paris, Aug. 2. —(AP) —The noted physicist, Jean Perrin, informed the French Academy of Science to day his collaborators had discover ed what was believed to be the 93rd chemical element, a substance heavier than uranium. - The 68-year-old presi dent of the academy, said the ele ment had" been found in stable form in minerals containing ur anium, notably pitch blende. By using a powerful spectroscope he said, the scientists had distin guished four new spectral lines which were believed to have been caused by the presence of trans- a nucleus whose atom would contain 93 positive charges. Repeal Folk Worried Over Dry Uptrend By CHARLES P. STEWART Central Press Columnist Washington, Aug. 2. —Repeal Asso ciates are worried by what they con sider a revival of national prohibition sentiment. Repeal Associates are (or is) an organization which, upon prohibition repeal’s enactment, was formed to succeed the prohibition days’ Asso ciation Against the Prohibition Amendment. It’s a kind of G. A. R. or American Legion of veterans of the fight against the dry regime, ended five years ago. Capt. W. H. Stayton of Baltimore was head of the AAPA and is prom inent, as executive director, in the RA, although Pierre S. duPont of Delaware is the latter’s chairman at present. What Could Occur. Repeal Associates apparently do not look for the re-enactment of con stitutional prohibition, but their quar terly Repeal Review, recently issued, makes the point that, through state laws, complicated with Federal Su preme Court injunctions, “prohibition (Continued on Page Three.) Japan Is In Danger Os Losing Portions Os Conquered China In Many Places Chi nese Have Already Re-Occupied Captur ed Sections Shanghai, August 2.—(AP) —The Japanese army is threatened with los ing effective control of areas captur ed since the war began July, 1937, a survey indicated today. Continued resistance by the Chi nese ambush and surprise offensives by Chinese communists and irregu lar armies, the Soviet Russian-Japa ncse border tension and the need for a 1 available forces in pressing the of tensive toward Hankow are the rea sons. Reports from widespread sources show the Chinese have already reoc ■cupicd many districts, sometimes without a fight after tactical with drawals by the Japanese and frequent ly after the captuie of small garri sons. The reoccupations are scattered, however, and the Chinese appear not yet to have taken full advantage of the situation. There is some doubt whether the Chinese can press the advantage, or whether they must be content merely to continue to harass the Japanese and interrupt supply communication lines. Starting with the initial Peiping clash, the Japanese during the last year drove Chinese armies out and nominal y occupied Hopeh, Shansi, Shantung, Kiangfu, Anhwei, north Honan and north Chekiang provinces. Actually, however, the Japanese oc cupied only major cities and towns controlling railways and highways. Stocks Show Slight Gains New York, Aug. 2.—(AP) — Motors and steels led the stock market on a rebound today that, while lacking real momentum, put leaders up frac tions to three points or more at the best. While the volume was larger than that of yesterday, transfers ap proximating 800,000 shares, the com parative meagreness of the turn-over in relation to the wide distribution of advances was a little discouraging to recovery proponents. American Radiator 15 1-2 Amercian Telephone 141 American Tob B 88 3-8 Anaconda 36 1-4 Atlantic Coast Line 23 1-4 Atlantic Refining 24 1-4 Bendix Aviation 20 7-8 Bethlehem Steel 58 3-4 Chrysler 71 1-2 Columbia Gas & Elec C 7 1-2 Commercial Solvents 11 3-4 Continental Oil Co 10 3-8 Curtiss Wright 5 3-8 DuPont 128 Electric Pow & Light 11 3-4 General Electric 41 5-8 General Motors 43 7-8 Liggett & Myers B 103 1-2 Montgomery Ward & Co 47 Reynolds Tob B 43 3-4 Standard Oil N J 57 1-2 U S Steel :. 60 Stopping Os A. C. L. Trains Being Fought Raleigh, August 2. —(AP) —Scores of Eastern Itforth Carolina citizens at tended a hearing here today to oppose petitions of the Atlantic Coast Line railroad company for permission to discontinue eight branch line pas senger trains. The morning testimony was given by L. F. Ormond, assitsant comptroll er of the railroad, on financial details involving the three branch lines in volved. The company contends that after adjustments, its deficits for the year ending April 30, 1938, were: For the Washington to Parmele branch, with four trains daily, $27,475; for the Tarboro-Plymouth branch, two trains, $107,761; and for the Weldon to Kins ton branch, two trains, $196,556. Murray Allen, of Raleigh, counsel for the railroad, examined Ormond for two hours, then Guy Elliott, of Kinston, representing the protesting communtiies, cross-examined him un til the luncheon recess. . Representative John Kerr, of War renton, member of Congress from the second district, asked Ormond ques tions as the luncheon recess was ord ered. Kerr asked about "big profits” the railroad made between 1900 and 1915; if the railroad had ever paid any “recapture taxes” to the Federal (Continued on Page Three.) PUBLISHED EVERY AFTERNOON EXCEPT SUNDAY End of Clipper? —** •** ■ - --*• .... --- A || i ffflf-i ?OUNp O/v Map of vicinity •. . where oil was found Discovery bby the U. S. transport Meigs of a large patch of oil on the surface of the Pacific about 525 miles southeast of Manila in the direction of Guam in the area fro m which the missing Hawaii Clipper last radioed led to belief the flying boat had dived into the ocean there. Analysis show ed traces of both oil and gasoline. Farmers Are Told Trade Pacts Help State Meeting at Ra leigh Shown How Tariffs Affect Prices Tobacco Brings Raleigh, Aug. 2 (AP)—Dr. Lynn Ramsay Edminster, of the United States Department of State, totd Ncrth Caro.ina farmers today that reciprocal trade agreements with for eign nations had resulted in doubling tobacco export ssince 1932. Dr. Edminster was the principal speaker at the first joint session of the annual farm and home week at N. C. State College. Last night wel coming exercises were held with an attendance of more than 1,000 report ed by officials. M. G. Mann, of Raleigh, general manager of the two largest farm co operatives in the State, spoke on the need of better purchasing and mar keting systems for farmers. He di rects the cotton cooperative and Farmers Cooperative Exchange. The object of reciprocal trade agree ments, Edminster said, is to expand trade with other nations. Surplus pro ducts, such as cotton and tobacco, must be sold in export trade, he said if the farmer is to get a good price. “High tariffs after the war, which reached the top in the Hawley-Smoot bill,” Edminster said, "caused a seri ous decline in foreign trade. “Our tariffs caused foreign nations not to be able to sell their products here, and as they could not sell, they could not continue indefinitely to buy. A nation has to sxjll products to get (Continued on Page Three.) Fascists Attempt To Gain Power In Switzerland City . Zurich, Switzerland, August 2. — !AP) —A dozen persons were injured today when police clashed with mem bers of the “fascist national front,” who defied an order forbidding them to demonstrate. Police charged the crowd with night sticks after the demonstrators refused to disperse. The frontists, many of them women, stood their ground, fighting back at the police. The fighting started be fore midnight and continued until early hours this morning. Thirty were arrested and the gov ernment immediately moved to pros ecute the leaders. Police charged that Deputy Wilhelm Tobler, chief of the “national front,’ called upon his fol lowers to “march against the pres ent political system.” 8 PAGES TODAY FIVE CENTS COPY Outlook For Peace Dims In Far East Moscow Advises Tokyo of “Terrible Consequence’’ of Vio lating Red Border Moscow, August 2. — (AP)—The So viet government instructed its charge d'affaiies to Tokyo today to warn Japan of “possible terribly conse quences” of an invasion into Russian territory, a consequence of the most serious frontier fighting since the be ginning in 1931 of a long series of boundary incidents. Foieign military observers had viewed the current border trouble’ as lilte.y to be only another of indecisive disputes when it started July 11, but the large-scale battle over the week end inspired a far more serious out look today. A Soviet communique said that more than 400 Japanese were killed or wounded and 13 Russian soldiers were killed and 55 wounded. (Japanese ver sions estimated Russian casualties at 600.) Tanks, airplanes und artillery were utilized (Tokyo dispatches said 50 Soviet planes bombed Japanese posi tions), and the fighting centered about Changkufeng hill, on the Sibe rian-Munchoukuo-Korean border area, roughly defined and poorly mapped. Roth Russia and Japan claim sov ereignty over the disputed territory. The Russian accounts charged the Japanese forces invaded Soviet ter ritory a distance of two and a half miles before being driven back, but that Soviet troops did not pursue them across the Manchoukuo border. The Russians captured fiv e artil lery pieces and 14 machine guns and lost a tank and a field piece. One Soviet plane was brought down, the communique admitted, and the pilot was. captured. (Japanese listed five planes shot down, four of them in Japanese Korea). Until the communique, there had been little public mention of the dis pute with Japan. Cotton Prices Change Little New York, Aug. 2. —(AP)— Cotton futures opened one to three points down, with lower Liverpool cables partly offset by further rains in the eastern belt. December recovered from 8.54 to 8.57, but late in the first hour was 8.55, when the list was three to four points net higher. Futures closed unchanged to two points lower; spot quiet; middling 8.59. • Open Close October 8.48 8.50 December 8.56 8.58 January 8.58 8.60 March 8.63 8.64 May 8.66 8.67 July 8.70 8.71 Say Clipper Might Have Reached Land Manila, P. 1., Aug. 2. —(AP) —In the faint hope that the Hawaii Clipper reached land with 4 he 15 men she carried when she disappeared last week, all telegraph and radio stations on the Pacific ooan side of eight Philippine islands were brought into the hunt for clues today. The Philippine post office depart ment, which controls the island tele graph and radio service, instructed the stations to “exert, ihe utmost ef forts to secure from ratable persons the identity of any plane that may have flown over their locality July 29, and wire us immediately ” The stations also were instructed to contact persons in the wild and remote areas along the island. These areas have been carefully searched by army and navy planes Four days of continuous scouting forced four big army bombers out of the vast search for the Hawaii Clip per today and army officials called a conference to determine future moves after another 24 hours of hunt ing in vain. The bombers returned to their base at Fort Stotsenburg to be serviced after long daily flights at sea. Army authorities did not indicate v. hat they expected to develop from the conference, or whether it wbuld result in their complete withdrawal from the search. ' t
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