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HENDERSON’S POPULATION 13,873 TWENTY-FIFTH YEAR HOUSE APPROVES BOND BILL BY 98-0 VOTE 4> % jl m x m’ Soviets Rushing Reinforcements To Border Frontier Japs Assert Readiness To Meet Attack Tokyo Reports Rus s i a n s Constructing New Defense and Battle Increases Yuki. Korea, Aug. 9. —(AP)—Jap- anese officers reported today fresh Soviet Russian reinforcements were being brought into the border battle zone after heavy shelling of the Shachofeng sector, northeast of Changkufeng. They said they expected the Rus sians soon to take “still more vigorous measures” in the conflict over the bor der hills which Russian soldiers be gan fortifying July 11, and which Jap anese forces captured July 31. Severe shelling of the Shachofeng sector began at dawn today and con tinued throughout the day. The officers said the Japanese army had made the fullest preparations to repulse any new attacks on its posi tions. Soviet war plane activity was re stricted today because of low clouds. RUSSIANS ARE BUILDING NEW DEFENSES, JAPS SAY Tokyo, Aug. 9.—(AP) —The Japanese •war office declared today that Soviet Russian forces were constructing new defenses on the southwest shore of Possiet bay, and were concentrat ing cavalry, artillery and tanks there. Possiet Bay is several miles east of of the disputed Siberian-Korean bor der zone, where Russian-Japanese in cidents which have led to ing have been going on since Jwy 11, and is said to be one of the Soviet’s strategic naval and airplane bases. An army communique said two bat talions of Soviet infantry attacked a hill six miles north of Shachofeng, which the Russians occupied July 29, and lost again July 31. This was the first time the fighting extended that far. MAXWELL TALKS ON LONG SHERIFF TERM Winston-Salem, Aug. 9. —(AP) —The people of North Carolina should con sider whether the efficiency of sher iffs may not be approved by adopt ing the proposed constitutional amend ments calling for four-year terms, Re venue Commissioner A. J. Maxwell said today. He addressed the North Carolina Sheriffs Association here. Sheriffs now serve two-year terms. Maxwell spoke of the high place the sheriff occupied in the early days of the English government. He said “he is today a more efficient public of ficial because he is responsive to no appointive power.” Well-To-Do Pair Perish In Home Fire Tuxedo Park, N. Y., Aug. 9. —(AP) Mr. and Mrs. William T. Adee, prom inent in eastern society, were burned to death early today in a fire which destroyed their big, rambling home A 21-months-old son, George Adee, their only heir, was saved by the heroism of a young nursemaid and a volunteer fireman with a broken arm. The fireman, Anthony Ress, handi rnan on a neighboring estate, was awakened by smoke, and found the north end of the mansion, where Mr. and Mrs. Adee slept, enveloped in emoke and flame. He heard a wo man screaming and in the nursery window, 37 feet above the ground, on the south end of the house, saw the maid, Lillian Henion, 19-years old with a baby in her arms. Ress, who had broken his right arm several days ago, and was carry ing it in a sling, shouted. “Jump.” ‘Miss Henior jumped, holding the baby tightly. Ress broke their fall by catching th € weight on his left side. l 1 Both the man and the girl were stunned by the impact. The baby was unhurt. Meanwhile, new arrivals tried to get a ladder up to the Adees’ bed room, where Mrs. Adee could be seen pounding frantically on a tightly shut window. F.ames blocked them. Suddenly Mrs. Adee toppled back ward from window. The floor g ; 've way beneath her and they saw ber body drop into the room below. When the wreckage cooled, firemen found Adee’s body where it had fall en in the wreckage of the basement. mtiwttson HatUt Uisrratrh LEASED WIRE SERVICE OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS. Boys Help Catch Bank Robber When James McKinnis, 36, an ex-convict, ran out of the First National Bank of Crawfordsville, Ind., these four lads ran after him and pelted him with stones until McKinnis was captured. The boys are (left to right): Edward Johnson, 11; Donald Campbell, 11; Virgil Kidd, 10, and Francis Johnson. 8. McKinnis fled when a derk called for help. (Central Press) Three States Voting On Pro-Roosevelt Senators Georgia Tobacco Average $24.69 Atlanta, Ga., Aug. 9.—(Al’) — Georgia’s bright leaf t«bacco plant ers sold 49,192,256 pounds of loaf * for an average price of $24.69 per hundred pounds for the first two weeks of auctions ending last Fri day. This compared with a total for the first seven days last year of 44,012,539 pounds, sold for an average of $24.24 per hundred. Sales f«r the second week were 34,705,922 pounds for an average of $23.81 per hundred. Chicago Has 7th Gangster Death Listed Chicago, Aug. 9.—(AP) —Daylight today uncovered the seventh gang ster-style slaying in Chicago in seven weeks and the second within 24 hours. Huddled near a wall of the Chicago White Sox baseball field, the body of Sam (Frog Legs) Picciotto, 23, was found by passersby shortly after day break. The park is less than a mile from where James G. Duncan, busi ness agent of a painters’ union, was slain last night. Police said Picciotto was shot twice at close range. Tireskid tracks in dicated, officers said, the body was thrown from an automobile. Picciotto, who detectives said had a minor police record, lived less than a block from the home of Nick Chiaramonte, a fruit dealer, whose gang-type slaying July 24 is still un solved. Picciotto’s pockets were turned in side out. But several coins lay near the body, and detectives surmised that robbery was only the simulated motive. An investigation was begun to determine if the slaying was con nected with the ambush of Duncan. CHARLOTTE MAN IS Declared suicide Charlotte, Aug. 9.—(AP)—J. Rich ard Graham, 39, member of a promi nent Charlotte family, was found dead in a garage early today. Dr. Fred. Austin, Mecklenburg county cor oner, said he committed suicide by hanging himself with a clothes wire. TWO CHARGED WITH SLAYING IN PERSON Roxboro, Aug. 9 —(AP) —Robert and Paul Cothran, charged with slaying Lee Laws, were docketed for trial to day in superior court here. Laws body was found weighted down in a mill pond last May. WEATHER FOR NORTH CAROLINA. Partly cloudy, scattered thunr dershowers this afternoon or to night and possibly in south por tion Wednesday. ONLY DAILY NEWSPAP ER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA AND VIRGINIA Bulkley in Ohio, Mrs. Caraway in Arkansas *and Pope in Idaho At Polls Washington, Aug. 9.—(AP) — The popular strength of three pro-Roose velt senators was being determined today in primary elections in Ohio, Arkansas and Idaho. Only the Idaho contest, however, was conceded by both sides to be a direct test of New Deal appeal. It was between Senator James Pope, co-au thor of the 1938 crop control act and Representative Worth Clark, foe of the government reorganization bill. Senators Robert Bulkley, of Ohio, and Hattie Caraway, of Arkansas, who, like Pope, have gone down the line for the administration, also had opposition. But their challengers joined them in proclaiming loyalty to the President’s principles. Mrs. Caraway’s major rival was Re presentative John McClellan, who de clared Mr. Roosevelt’s reference to the only woman senator as a “very old friend” did not constitute an en dorsement. A third candidate, Rosser Venable, did not take part in the ar gument. In Ohio, the Democratic contest be tween Senator Bulkley and former Governor George White was less sen sational than two other primary races in the State. Bulkley was the appar ent choice of Mr. Roosevelt, who spoke highly of him in a speech last month. As in Ohio, voters in Arkansas, Idaho and Nebraska were choosing nominees for governor and national representatives today. The Demo cratic governors of the three states, like Governor Martin Davey, of Ohio, were candidates for another' term. State A. F. L. Speaker Hard On CIO Union Wilmington, Aug. 9.—(AP)—Declar ing the National Labor Relations Board “has done everything buL com mit murder to aid the CIO,” L. T. Hines, director of organization for American Federation of Labor at Washington, demanded of the State Federation of Labor, assembled in an nual convention here today, that it pass a resolution asking change of the NLRB personnel. Making a bitter attack on the John L. Lewis organization, Hines said the group was made up of the “CCC, CIO, communists and crackpots”. There was a time, he said, “when 80 percent of the masses were either sympathetic or apathetic to the CIO, but that day has passed, for now there is evidence there is widespread dissension in the organization of Mr. Lewis.” “For a long time now we have taken some rotten deals from the National Labor Relations Board,” Hines said, “but the time has come when the American Federation of Labor will not stand for the NLRB making rules favoring the CIO." J HENDERSON, N. C., TUESDAY, AFTERNOON , AUGUST 9,1938 Roosevelt Is At Pensacola On Way To Georgia Speeches PWA Approves 127 Building Projects _ , i : Washington, Aug. 9.—(Al») —The PWA approved today 127 addition al noii-Fe<leral projects, bringing total construction costs to date to $L143J)69,319. Today’s list curried PWA grants of $9,310,433 and loans of $53,000. The allotments included (grants unless otherwise specified): Wash ington, N. C., power, $84,272. 102 Dead In Jap Bombing Upon Canton 159 Maimed and Un counted Scores Are Buried: Major War Began One Year Ago Canton, China, Aug. 9. —(AP) —Jap- anese war planes, which dropped leaf lets promising ter consecutive days of bombardments, unleashed ex plosives today that killed at least 102 persons, maimed 159, and buried un counted scores. The first of the raids yesterday left 121 dead and missing and 180 in jured. Today’s attacks lasted three hours, and were part of widespread bombings throughout Kwangtung pro vince, in which many centers and rail ways suffered severely. Officials of this often-bombarded south Chinese port expected an in tensification of the raids the rest of the week by the fifth Japanese naval squadron. MAJOR WAR IN CHINA IS AT FIRST ANNIVERSARY Shanghai, Aug. 9. —(AP) —One year ago today a fight in Shanghai trans formed the north China conflict with Japan into a major war. The spark was struck when a Jap anese naval sub-lieutenant and his chauffeur engaged in a gun battle with Chinese airdrome guards while motoring along the west borders of the city. The two Japanese and the two Chi nese were shot dead and central China was thereby doomed to the fates of war. After the initial clash of troops one month earlier at Peiping, there had been hope the fighting would be limit ed to the northern provinces, but four days after the air field incident both Chinese and Japanese rushed armed forces into Shanghai. Martin Fight Ends Absent Vote Reforms Daiy Dispatch Bureau, In The Sir Walter Hotel. Raleigh, Aug. 9. —His efforts were for the moment vain, but it seems safe to say that the bitter attack made by Senator L. A. Martin, of Davidson, on the absentee ballot left a lasting impression on the minds of many who heard him at Monday’s opening session of the General As sembly. The Davidson legislator was speak ing in opposition to a resolution of Senator H. P. Taylor, of Anson, un der terms of which the extra session would be limited to the agenda laid down in Governor Clyde R. Hoey’s ad dress. Senator W. C. Ewing, of Cumber land, had let it be known that he wanted to introduce a bill which would yank out of North Carolina law root and branch, all authority for ab sentee voting, either in primaries or general elections. It was a noticeable fact that while Senator Martin couldn’t even get a roll call vote on his oposition to the Taylor resolution, not one senator spoke a single word in favor of the absentee law; though this was prob ably because its friends knew they were on the winning side in the in (Continued on Page Five) Will Speak Couple Times In Hot Fight May Express Perfer ence for Camp, Op ponent of George, Roosevelt Foe Pensacola, Fla., Aug. 9.—(AP)—Pre sident Roosevelt cruised through the Gulf to Pensacola today, preparing two addresses, which may indicate his wishes in the Georgia senatorial cam paign. The President was scheduled to ar rive here aboard the destroyer Mc- Dougal late in the afternoon. He ar ranged to hoard the destroyer from the cruiser Houston at sea in order to speed docking at the naval air station. After an inspection of the air sta tion, Fort Barrancas and Corry air field here, Mr. Roosevelt is scheduled to talk from the rear platform of his (rain before it pulled out for Warm Springs, Ga. Leaving for Warm Springs early to night, the Prosldent will find in Geor gia, one of the hottest senatorial con tests of his month-long trip. In the Georgia primary, set for Sep tember 14, Senator Walter George is seeking renomination against Law rence Camp, United States district attorney at Atlanta; Former Governor Eugene Talmadge and W. G. Mcßae, Atlanta attorney. Besides speaking at Barnesville, Ga., (Continued on Page Eight. Denounces Berry Marble Land Prices Knoxville. Tenn., Aug. 9. —(AP) — Senator George Berry, Democrat, Ten nessee, and his associates paid $1 each for most of their 241 mineral and mar ble leases in the Norris dam area, later valued at $4,000,000, a witness told a congressional investigation committee today. E. Dunn, assistant TVA general counsel, who directed last winter the Authority’s successful suit to con demn the Berry holdings, was the first witness as the committee delved into the celebrated “Berry marble case.” He testified in January, 1935, the Authority received a letter from Fred Manley, Knoxville engineer, represent ing the Berry interests, asking the Authority “to look into” the matter. Among the spectators were Leslie Morris, of Frankfort, Ky., counsel for Berry and associates, and Dr. Arthur Morgan, deposed TVA chairman, who has charged there was “intent to de fraud the government” in the Berry case. Charitable, Correctional Institutions Get Most Os Building Program Funds Daily Dispatch Bureau, In The Sir Walter Hotel. Raleigh, Aug. 9.—ln making its re commendations for expenditure of State and PWA funds for a building program, the Budget Bureau appar ently had a soft spot in its heart for the unfortunates of North Carolina — the inmates of correctional and charit able institutions. At all events, those institutions got the lion’s share in the bureau’s re commendations to the extra session of the General Assembly—recommen dations which became known even in “advance” releases to the press a scant hour before the legislature con vened Monday. To the “c and c” institutions a total of $3,968,305 was allotted in the item ized bill which became House Bill No. 2 upon its introduction by Represen tatives Victor Bryant and Libby Ward PUBLISHED EVERY AFTERNOON EXCEPT SUNDAY Victim of Malady I' w fM k v I ,r" : “ Richard Bennett, 9, of Owosso, Mich., is pictured above. He is stricken with a rare malady which took the lives of his two brothers and two sisters. His mother is also suffering from the disease, a rare form of dysentery. (Central Pres») Defer Probe Os Poisoning Os Chandler Louisville, Ky., Aug. 9. —(AP) —Gov- ernor A. B. Chandler said today he would leave within a few days for a northern fishing trip, postponing in definitely a grand jury investigation of his “poisoning” during the gover nor’s unsuccessful campaign against Senator Alben Barkley for the Demo cratic senatorial nomination. On the basis of unofficial returns, the senator’s majority was above 65,- 000, with only a few precincts un counted. Informed of the governor’s plans to leave the State, Commonwealth At torney M. O’Neal said: “As far as I am concerned, that ends the matter.” During the campaign, the gover nor, State Finance Commissioner Dan Talbott and State Patrolman Jesse Wyatt were stricken after drinking water from a pitcher in a hotel here. Their doctor reported they had been “poisoned,” and yesterday a special grand jury was called for Monday to investigate thQ charges. Talbott said he did not know “where I’ll be Monday” when told of the in vestigation . Judge L. Mix, who ordered the in vestigation, said he would postpone the inquiry to a date to suit their convenience. With only 99 of the State’s 4,313 precincts uncounted, Barkley had 285,712 votes to 219,189 for Chandler. All precincts missing are in Jefferson (Louisville) county. Breathitt coun ty, where tabulation was delayed be cause of a killing involving election officials, finished today. chairmen of finance and appropria tions, respectively, (and incidentally, two of the three leading rivals for speaker of the 1939 assembly). These figures, as all other totals, include both the State’s 45 per cent and the expected 45 per cent PWA grants. Educational institutions were given a total of $3,144,385, about a million and a half less than President Frank P. Graham of the University of North Carolina had told the Budget Bureau would be needed for the three bran ches of the University alone. As a matter of fact the Chapel Hill unit, State College here, and women’s division at Greensboro, will get alto gether a total of $1,138,000 with the Hill division claiming $427,000 of it. The very lowest slice of the build ing “melon” will go to the State Hos (Continued on Page Three.) 8 PAGES TODAY FIVE CENTS COPY $75,000 For World’s Fair Appropriated Senate Waits House Completion of Bond Bills Before It Can Take Action Raleigh, Aug. 9.—(AP)—The House gave overwhelming endorsement to day on second reading to bills to per mit state and local units participation in PWA funds for permanent im provements. Governor Hoey called the legisla ture int<> extraordinary session to en act the measures. The vote was 98 to 0 on the meas- • ure to permit the State to issue $4,- 620,000 in bonds to get money to fi nance a building program to be aid ed in most instances by 45 percent grants if they can be secured from the PWA. Then, by a vote of 90 to 1, with * presentative Sam Blount, of Beaufort, casting the only negative vote, the bill to permit counties and municipal ities to issue revenue-producing bonds to match PWA funds was approved; Both measures must come up in the House for third reading tomorrow, then must pass three readings on three separate days in the Senate.; ADD EARLY t State officials, pointing out some of the money to be made available for permanent improvements undpr the State bond issue bill would be spent for sites for proposed struc tures, figured a program of $8,240,- 510 would be financed by the meas ure, including $45,000 already avail able'-for one building aJt North Caro lina State College. The PWA will not provide 45 per cent of the funds for all proposed projects, they said, nor for the pur chase of sites. On second reading, the House pass ed the bill of Representative Sheeley, of Carteret, to permit refunding of the debt of Carteret county, and the bill of Representative Hobbs, of New Hanover, to permit municipalities to issue bonds, if approved by vote of the citizens, for beach erosion work! APPROPRIATION FOR FAIR ' FINALLY MADE INTO LAW Raleigh, Aug. 9.—(AP)—The Gen eral Assembly enacted into law today a measure to appropriate $75,000 for the State’s participation in the 1939 New York World’s Fair, and pushed rapidly ahead on its other business of the special session, enactment of bills to provide funds for PWA pro grams. The House and Senate suspended their rules to receive and approve the fair bill. It was introduced by Re presentatives Fenner, of Nash, and Cassey, of Guilford. House members overwhelmingly endorsed on second reading the bills to permit issuance of State and local unit bonds to get funds to match grants and loans. /■' The Senate put off further consid eration of the bond bills until the House finishes with them. City, County PWA Lendings To Be Passed Daily Dispatch Bureau, In The Sir Walter Hotel. Raleigh, Aug. 9. —Smooth sailing for the "Revenue Bond Act of 1938" thro ugh the extra session of the legisla ture appeared certain today after lead ing opponents of the so-called “Ickes bills” of the 1937 regular session said their principal objections have been met in the draft introduced at yes terday’s opening session. Senator H. P. Taylor, of Anson, who amended the Ickes bills to the point where their sponsors turned against them, said the present revenue bill seems to be a “splendid measure.” Senator W. B. Rodman, Jr., who joined with Senator Taylor in successful fight in 1937 said the new bill apparently is well-drawn and should be enacted. Senator T. J: Gold, who fought spe cessfully for High Point’s power' .ex pansion bill in 1937, said he was satis fied with the present measure once he had made certain that it includ ed "sanitary districts” in the defini tion of municipalities which may take advantage of the revenue bond* issuing privilege. What the bill does is to empower municipalities to acquire and operate “undertakings” wholly within or whpl (Continued on Page Three.)
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