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Marshal Prince Kanin (above),
chief of the Japanese general staff,
has hastened back to Tokyo from a
vacation to plunge into a series of
emergency conferences in the wake
of the bloodiest battle yet waged in
the present Jap-Soviet crisis.
(Central Press)
Italy Bans Alien Jews
From Schools And Plans
Stronger Armed Forces
Hope For Clipper
All But Abandoned
Manila, P. L, Aug. 3.—(AP)-
C’haiices of finding the Hawaii Clip
per and the 15 men she carried
when she vanished last Friday ap
peared hopeless to most observers
today as a fleet of 13 naval ships
completed the fifth day of fruitless
search.
The aerial and sea patrol has ex
hausted practically every possible
search area where the plane might
have crashed or drifted in th<
Pacific ocean east of the Philip
pines or on the islands themselves
The army transport Meigs, which
discovered the only possible clue
uncovered as t« the Clipper's fate,
backtracked the distance from
Manila to Guam. The samples
taken from the oil slick found by
the transjiort were brought here
for anaysis.
Legislature
To Be Very
Perfunctory
Everything Will Be
Cut and Dried for
Rubber - Stamping by
the Extra Session
Daiy Dispatch Bureau,
In The Sir Walter Hotel.
Raleigh, August 3. —Those who want
jobs for ithe special session next week,
end those who are breathlessly ex
pecting fireworks and thrills from
the gathering of the lawmakers here
are doomed to sad disappointment
and complete disillusionment, ac
cording to all signs and portents.
If the session isn’t one of the most
perfunctory, cut and dried affairs on
record, there is going to be than
mild surprise in informed circles.
There will be very, very few jilums
for attaches. Secretary of State Thad
Eure says he isn’t even going to set
up an enrollment staff, because there
"will be so few bills passed he can take
care of them with his regular office
force with no trouble ait all.
As for excitement, there’ll be just
about none at all.
Workmen are busy repairing wiring
in *’hc Capitol and there may be some
liitlc trouble about lights in the
House and Senate chambers, but
they'll be abl € to get all they need
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Map of border clashes
• • • on Soviet-Manchukuoan
frontier
World diplomatic centers were
tense as new border clashes be
tween Japanese and Russians oc
curred at disputed borderline be
tween Manchukuo and Siberia.
Map shows region. Russia as
serts that Japanese militarists
have violated the Soviet frontier.
—Central Press
No Details Revealed
of Program for In
creasing Nation’s De
fenses, Decided on by
Mussolini.
Rome, Aug. 3. —(AP)—The govern
ment announced today all foreign
Jews would be barred from Italian
schools, beginning with the fall term.
A communique issued by the govern
ment said:
“Beginning with the scholastic year
1938-39, the admission of foreign
Hebrew students, including those re
siding in Italy, to all Italian schools
of all grades is prohibited.”
At the same time, it announced a
new program to increase the effi
ciency of the nation’s armed forces. A
communique said:
“At recent meetings held by II Duce
with the minister of finance and the
chief of the general staff of war and
air, a further program to increase the
efficiency of our armed forces was
concluded.”
It gave no further details
The ban on Jewish students pre
sumably does not apply to the 47,000
Jews who are Italian citizens.
The fascist race doctrine issued July
14 by a group of fascist professors
proclaimed Italians were an Aryan
race and denied Jews were members
of the Italian race.
Bethel Hill
Professor Is
Given Award
Raleigh, Aug. 3. —>(AP) —A. G. Bul
lard, vocational agricultural teacher
at the Bethel Hill high school in Per
son county, received today the cer
tificate awarded the man adjudged
annually to have been the outstand
ing such teacher in the State.
Roy Thomas, director of the work,
made the presentation at the joint
session of Farm and Home Week at
N. C. State College.
Dr. O. E. Baker, of the United
States Department of Agriculture, dis
cussed the problem he said had been
created by the “drain of $34,000,000,-
000 in wealth from farms to urban
communities during the decade be
fore the depression.
The agricultural economist offered
no solutions to the problem, but
pointed out that farm youth and farm
wealth had been drifting steadily to
the cities for 100 years until the de
pression. The depression, he said,
forced young people to stay on the
farm and the result was that produc
tion per person dropped after increas
ingly steadily f°r years, and natural
ly, therefore, the standard of living
on the farm was going downward.
The speaker warned that failure of
farm youth to find jobs or work in
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ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OF NORTHC AR OLINA AND VIRGInS.
HENDERSON, N. C., WEDNESDAY AFTERNO ON, AUGUST 3,1938
President’s
Foes On Top
In Virginia
Clark and Magill
Senate Victories Ex
pected; West Virgin
ia for Roosevelt
(By The Associated Press.)
Roosevelt backers and anti-admin
istration candidates divided the Dem
ocratic honors today in four primary
elections.
Senator Bennett Champ Clark, of
Missouri, foe of the court bill and
other White House measures, won a
landslide renomination. So did Sena
ator Magill, of Kansas, loyal follower
of the President. Their victories were
not unexpected, however, for both had
the active backing of their State party
organizations.
President Roosevelt had taken no
part in either race.
The same division extended to
nominations for House seats in two
other states. Three West Virginia re
presentatives who have supported the
President defeated their opponents,
but in Virginia two avowed New
Dealers lost out. Representative
Smith of Virginia, whose district in
cludes the “home town” of George
Washington and Thomas Jefferson,
won a three-to-one victory over Wil
liam Dodd, Jr., son of the former am
bassador to Germany. The vote, with
ten precincts missing, was: Smith,
19,601; Dodd, 6,530.
Smith, a rules committee member
fought the wage-hour bill, claimed the
right to vote as he thought best on
administration measures, while the
32-year-old Dodd had said “a vote for
me is a vote for Roosevelt.”
The only other Virginia House race
was much closer. Representative
Hamilton, calling himself pro-Roose
(Continucd on Page Eight)
Border Belt
Markets Open
On Tomorrow
Florence, S. C., August 3.—(AP)
—Mounting piles of tobacco flow
ed today into warehouses of 16
South Carolina and North Caro
lina market towns as optimistic
growers prepared expectantly for
tomorrow’s opening of the 1938
auction season.
The farmers found cheer in the
reports of prices paid on the
Georgia-Florida markets, which
opened July 28, and when an
average of’ around 25 cents a
pound has been established. Last
year’s opening prices in the nine
South Carolina markets and the
seven North Carolina border mar
kets approached 30 cents.
So far there have been no re
ports of organized opjiosition in
this territory to the Federal quo
tas, against which som e Georgia
and Florida growers have taken
legal action.
Muni League
To Advocate
Big Spending
Special Session To Be
Asked To Allow
Cities, Towns To
Grab PWA Funds
Daily Disi>ateh Bureau,
In The Sir Walter Hotel.
Raleigh, Aug. 3.—The North Caro
lina League of Municipalities will ask
next week’s special session of the
General Assembly to enact laws per
mitting local governmental units to
issue revenue bonds in order to par
ticipate in PWA grants for many and
varied purposes, Pat Healy, Jr., said
today.
He is hopeful the pl-oposed legisla
tion can be put in such form that it
will escape the bitter opposition of
power interests which killed similar
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WINNERS IN PR IMARY ELECTION S ON TUESDAY
I • - •
Senator Bennett Champ Clark
Senator Clark, of Missouri, New Deal opponent; Senator Magill, of Kansas, supporter of Roosevelt, and Rep
resentative Howard W. Smith, of Virginia, who has frequently voted against Root-eve.t measures, were winners in
Democratic primaries in theii states Tuesday. Clark and Magill were slated to win, hut there was uncertainty
about Smith, who was opposed by William E. Dodd, Jr., son of the former ambassador to Germany. Dodd ran as
a 100 percent New Dealer.
Legislature Next Week
May Be Asked For Money
For Broad Road Program
Raleigh, August 3,—(AP) —The spe
cial session of the legislature next
week may be asked to authorize a
highway improvement at State insti
tutions.
Governor Hoey said he had asked
the Advisory Budget Commission to
hear all requests for buildings for
institutions, and then hear Chairman
Frank Dunlap, of the highway and
public works commission, on plan*
to eliminate dangerous curves and
widen narrow highways. The money
for the highways, as well as from the
buildings, would have to come from
Capital, Labor
Find Interest
Very Similar
By CHARLES P. STEWART
Central Press Columnist
Washington, Aug. 3.—Government
testimony and labor’s testimony rela
tive to reported price fixing by the
country’s steel companies is rather
conflicting.
From official sources the complaint
has come repeatedly that the com
panies, whpn invited to submit bid£
on steel required for government pur
poses, pretty regularly submit iden
tical ones, which officialdom inter
prets as indicative of collusion among
them.
However, this rule is not invari
able. Occasionally a company under
bids its rivals and gets a big gov
ernment contract.
Chairman Philip Murray, of the
Steel Workers’ Organizing Commit
tee, explains how, according to his
account, the low-bidding companies
make their bargains profitable to
themselves. They do it, he says, by
underpaying their labor.
* Confusing?
The implication is that high steel
prices, with a minimum of compet
itive price-cutting, represents the
ideal situation from the organized
workers’ standpoint.
Nevertheless, it can’t but mean
price collusion among the better
wage-paying companies in short
monopoly. Which seems to place or
ganized labor on the monopolists’ side
Philip Murray does not express it
that way, but it sounds so.
It is confusing to be told first that
the steel companies keep prices high
by not competing and then to be told
that some of them do compete suc
cessfully with others at labor’s ex
pense. Still, that is what it amounts
to. At the same time, the companies
which pay the better wages are blam
ed as monopolistic, whereas the ones
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WEATHER
FOR NORTH CAROLINA.
Partly cloudy and somewhat un
settled tonight and Thursday; pos
sibly scattered showers in central
portion Thursday.'
Senator Magill, Kansas
a bond issue which could not exceed
$6,366,227, Governor Hoey said, but
that amount would represent only 55
percent of the possible building pro
gram if the PWA would match all
the funds.
Hoey said he emphasized to the
budget makers that they should recom
mend to the special session of the leg
islature only such buildings as it
was found were necessary. He said
no worthy cause should be denied
because the need was not immediate,
if there would be a real need in a
year or so.
A. C. L. Offers
New Appeals
About Trains
Raleigh, Aug. 3. —(AP) —The At
lantic Coast Line railroad continued
to present testimony today that op
eration of passenger trains on three
Eastern North Carolina branch lines
was a losing proposition.
The railroad has petitioned the
Utilities Commission to be allowed to
stop service between Kinston and
Weldon, Washington and Parmele
and between Tarboro and Plymouth.
C. M. Cobb, superintendent of the
Norfolk division, underwent a gruell
ing examination regarding sanitary
facilities afforded on the involved
trains. L. F. Ormond, assistant comp
troller, was recalled for more finan
cial testimony.
L. White, in charge of mail opera
tions for the railroad, testified he be
lieved proposed star mail routes would
give better service than the present
trains. He was examined as to income
from mail contracts. .
Auto Dealers
Talk Safety
Raleigh, August 3.—Automobile
dealers of North Carolina, at their
annual convention in Greensboro next
week, will be told that there is great
virtue in the slogan “More Safety,
More Sales” and will make safety on
the highways one of the main topics of
discussion.
The safety-sales tie-up will be given
the dealers by David Beecroft, a uni
form motor vehicle code consultant,
who will talk on the general subject
“Periodic Inspection of Motor Ve
hicles,” a euphonious method of ad
vocating compulsory inspection of
such vehicles.
Mr. Beecroft will be introduced by
Major Arthur Fulk, of the State High
way Patrol. His address will be made
at the Tuesday morning session of the
dealers at Sedgefield Manor.
On Monday, Commissioner of Reve
nue A. J. Maxwell will give his views
on safety, laying particular emphasis
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PUBLISHED EVERY AFTERNOON
EXCEPT SUNDAY
Rep. Smith, Virginia
Youth Names
Ex-Sheriff
As Murderer
Paul Dwyer, 18, Serv
ing Life Term for
Killing He Blames on
Maine Official.
South Paris, Maine, Aug. 3. —(AP) —
Paul Dwyer, 18-year-old convicted
slayer of a country doctor, today nam
ed former deputy sheriff Francis I.
Carroll as the man who committed
the murder for which Dwyer is now
serving life sentence.
Dwyer was called to the stand to
accuse Carroll, father of five children,
of the brutal murder of Dr. James
Littlefield, for which Dwyer was sen
tenced to life imprisonment eight
months ago.
Special Prosecutor R. M. Ingalls,
who painted Carroll, a World War
veteran, as a “vicious” killer, who had
threatened to shoot the boy if he told
the truth, had planned to place Dwyer
on the stand yesterday, but as his
name was called, the youth faltered —
stricken with indigestion brought on
from heat and nervousness.
Ingalls described to an all-male jury
yesterday the State’s version of the
Littlefield murder. He carefully es
chewed, however, mentioning how
Lydia Littlefield, the physician’s elder
ly spouse, whom Dwyer had confessed
garroting ,met her death.
Neither- Dwyer nor pretty 18-year
old Barbara Carroll, the defendant’s
daughter, and Dwyerls one-time
sweetheart, were in the court room
during the grim recital.
“Lame Ducks”
Will Be Back
Daily Dispatch Bureau,
In The Sir Walter Hotel.
Raleigh, Aug. 3. —The session of the
General Assembly next week will be
the first lame duck meeting of the
legislature of North Carolina, in
many, many years —so many in fact
that on short notice your correspon
dent has been unable to find any one
who knows when the last onr: was
held.
Next week, however, the eligible list
of senators will contain two who ran
for renomination and were defeated
in the primary voting. In addition
there will be one senator who tried
to get into the next House, but failed.
On the House side there will be no
less than 23 members who met defeat
in the primary or convention for re
nomination, and two who wanted to
go across the rotunda into the Sen
ate but couldn’t win their constituents
approval.
It is from these casualties of the
election wars that trouble might come
next week in confining the session
to the agenda laid before rt by the
govarnor and the budget authorities.
Consensus of observers is that there
will be no trouble, but ah agree that
the possibility of it lies in these legis
lators who have already lost out and
who may have some pot or personal
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Soviets See
Opportunity
To Get Japs
Each Side Accuses
Other and Sounds
Warning; Both Claim
Peaceful Motives
Tokyo. Aug. 3.—(AP)—The Japan
ese government directed it s second
protest in 24 hours to Soviet Russia
today in an effort by diplomacy to end
bitter fighting on the Russian-Siberia
Japanese-Manchoukuo frontier.
The fighting was still in progress
early today between large forces of
well equipped troops with airplanes
and tanks, and it was felt in authori
tative circles that the exchange in
gunfire marked the first round of the
Far East’s second unofficial war.
A later communique said the bat
tle ended at 10 a. m., and that the
Russian troops had retreated some 1,-
500 yards from Japanese positions.
A “general lull’’ prevailed along the
border following the battle, the com
munique said. A foreign office spokes
man said Japan hoped to localize the
trouble and settle it by the diplomatic
methods, but the presence of large
forces in the frontier area indicated
the battle, which began Sunday,
might be merely a prelude to major
operations.
Those who held that a second unde
clared war in the Orient had begun
argued that Russia believed Japan
was near financial exhaustion and a
“now or never moment” had arrived
to fight a preventive war to forestall
attack by Japan in the future.
RUSSIA BLAMES JAPAN AS
RESPONSIBLE FOR TROUBLE
Moscow, Aug. 3.—(AP)—Soviet Rus
sia threw on Jupan’s shoulders today
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Says Voting
Serious Blow
To New Deal
Washington, August 3. — (AP)
John Hamilton said today the New
Deal “suffered a crushing and humi
lating defeat” in yesterday’s Virginia
Democratic primary.
Referring to the victory of Repre
sentative Smith, over William Dodd,
Jr., the Republican national chairman
said the issue presented was “New
Deal vs. anti-New Deal.” H<j declared:
“Yet he (Dodd) was ignominously
beaten by a vote of better than three
to one, not even carrying a single
county in the district. This crushing
defeat of the White House candidate,
coming on the heels of the defeat of
Representative Maury Maverick,
Democrat, Texas, again indicates the
grass roots swing away from Roose
velt and the New Deal that is tak
ing place throughout the country.”
The Communications Commission
granted permission to W. C. Ewing
and Harry Layman (Cumberland
Broadcasting Company) to establish
a ne,w radio station at Fayetteville,
N. C., to operate on 1340 kilocycles,
with power of 250 watts, daytime.
132 Granted
New License
As Doctors
Warrenton and Smith
field Men Tie for Top
Place in State Exami
nations.
Raleigh, Aug. 3.—(AP) —The State
Board Examiners an
nounced today 85 persons who took
examinations in June, and 47 who ap
plied for licenses through reciprocity
had been granted licenses.
Dr. B. J. Lawrence, of Raleigh, re
tiring secretary, said Dr. Thomas
Holt, of Warrenton, and Dr. Will
Hardee Lassiter, Jr., of Smithfield.
tied for top honors at 9fi 2-7 points
each. Both were graduated from the
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