HENDERSON’S
POPULATION
13,873
TWENTY-FIFTH YEAR
HERMANS FLY HERE NON-STOP FROM BERLIN
Lie Detector Kayos Corrigan
I
After being wildly welcomed by Boston, Douglas C. (East is West) Cor
rigan, cheerfully submitted to a lie detector test. Dr. William Moulton
Marston, inventor of the lie machine, asked Corrigan if he really started
for California, and the gadget nearly jumped out of the window. In the
picture are Dr. Marston, Corrigan, and bending over the machine, Dr.
Harry C. Weaver. (Central Press)
Dark Tobacco Is
Heavily Damaged
Nashville, Term., Aug. 11.—(AP)
—Growers gs dark tobacco in mid
dle Tennessee and southern Ken
tucky faced the loss of millions of
dollars because of plant disease
brought on by excessive rains.
In a survey conducted by the
Tennesseean, estimates of the dam
age already incurred varied from
40 to 75 percent of a normal crop—
grown under favorable conditions.
Growers at Clarksville, Tenn., a
big dark tobacco center, said that,
while recent fair weather had <
checked the spread of black fire
and wild fire, damage running
from 40 to 50 percent had been
done in recent weeks.
At Hopkinsville, Ky., County
Agent Wiedeburg said he had re
commended that the weed be cut
while still green rather than have
it burn further by the disease.
Reforms For
N, C. Elections
To Be Sought
Daily Dispatch Bureau,
In The Sir Walter Hotel.
Raleigh, Aug. 11. —As usual, Chair
man W. A. Lucas and other members
of the State Board of Elections are
not breaking into the public prints
with loud assertions of what they are
or are not going to do, but it seems
reasonably certain that they have no
idea of presenting any specific recom
mendations regarding the State’s elec
tion laws, their reform or modifica
tion, at this time.
On the other hand, it is just as cer
tain that along about December the
hoard is going to report to the gover
nor and the 1939 General Assembly
just what it thinks should be done
about those laws.
Considering what the board has just
gone through and what it has learned
about operation of the absentee bal
lot law, it might seem sure that it will
recommend complete repeal of the
provisions permitting voters to get
their ballots counted without going in
person to the polls, but such an as
sumption would be premature and
perhaps incorrect.
The two Republican members might
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laurinburg man is
COLLISION VICTIM
Fayetteville, Aug. 11. —(AP)
George Arvamitis, 49, of Laurinburg,
°i*ad today in a Fayetteville hospital
W’hore he was being treated for an
aim injury he suffered late Tuesday
wlvon a truck and a bus on which he
■was traveling sideswiped each other
near here.
Arvamitis was said by officers to
have been riding with his arm hang
ing outside the bus at the time of the
accident. H<e was enroute to Peters
burg, Va., where he worked in a res
taurant.
L se < M.IE PERRY MEM<
Idrn&rrsmt tlatht Dispatch
LEASED WIRE SERVICE OF
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS.
Jap Bombers
Kill Many In
Hankowßaid
37 Enemy Planes
Take Part in Attacks
on Civilians at Tem
porary Capital
Hankow, China, Aug. 11. —(AP) —
Japanese air raiders killed an unde
termined number of Chinese today on
the campus of the American Church
(Episcopal) Mission’s Boone Univer
sity and St. Hilda’s girls’ school at
Wuchang.
Twenty-seven planes heavily bomb
ed Hanyang and Wuchang, across the
Yangtze river from Hankow, provi
sional Chinese capital, in the after
noon raids.
Preliminary estimates placed the
total casualties in the two cities at
more than 500, but it was feared the
toll would be much higher as rescue
squads dug desperately in the wrecks
of buildings.
Shanghai reported Japanese and
Chinese fought desperately southwest
of Kiukiang as the invaders tried to
renew their push toward Hankow
One Japanese force thrust westward
from Kiukiang, Japanese advance
base 135 miles down the Yangtze
river from Hankow, after claiming
occupation of Shahochen, and a close
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Puts Income
Os Son Jimmy
Near $170,000
Boston, Mass., Aug. 11.—(AP)—The
Evening American, in a copyrighted
story, declares James Roosevelt’s
total taxable income for the last five
years was $170,000.
“The income figures,” the article
said, “were revealed to The American
by a responsible authority in refuta
tion of the Saturday Evening Post
articel, ‘Jiftimy’s Got It,’ which con
tained an estimate °f the James
Roosevelt annual income as from
$200,000 to $2,000,000.”
The $170,000 figure, the paper as
serted, included the President’s son s
total income , from all sources except
his SIO,OOO Federal salary as secre
tary and aide to the President.
The story tabulated Jimmy’s earn
ings as follows:
1933 —$21,000, “including insurance
fees, radio and writings;” 1934 —$49,-
000, “largest to date,” and still con
siderably shy of the amounts mop
tioned in the Saturday Evening Post;
1934 —$33,000; 1936 44,000; 1937
$23,00.
ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA AND VIRGINLL
HENDERSON, N. C., THURSDAY AFTERNOO N, AUGUST 11,1938
Unsettled Points
May Cause Renewal
Russo-Jap Clashes
One Main Point Agreed On, However, To Stop
Fighting at Once; Commission To Undertake
To Mark Frontier in East; Troops To Remain
In Position
Kuki, Korea, Aug. 11.—(AP) —
Morning reports from the Soviet
Russian battle zone on the Sibe
ria n-Manchoukuocvii border said
the quiet of last night continued
today.
(’ibis dispatch was filed from
Yuki at 8:30 a. m., 6:30 p. m.,
eastern standard time, Wednes
day, three anil a half hours before
the armistice agreed upon at
Moseow went into effect.)
Meanwhile, Tokyo dispatches
said the Japanese war office an
nounced tonight complete quiet
revailed on the border as the arm
istice went into effect. A “cease
firing” order went out at noon' in
the disputed border zone, where
the Soviet and Japanese armies
have been fighting since July 29,
in accordance with the terms of
the armistice agreement.
Moscow, Aug. 11. —(AP) —'The vest
pocket war on the Siberian frontier,
which threatened to involve Russia
and Japan in a major conflict, ap
peared well on the way to peaceful
Roosevelt Renews Appeal
For Upbuilding Os South
Makes No Mention in Speech at Athens of Sen
atorial Contest, in Which He Endorsed Oppon
ent of Senator George in Warm Springs
Statement
Athens, Ga., Aug. 11. —(AP) —Presi-
dent Roosevelt re-asserted today his
desire to raise purchasing power in
the South.
Speaking at the University of Geor
gia stadium, he received an honorary
doctor of laws degree from Chancellor
Sanford of the University system of
Georgia.
The chief executive was introduced
by Governor Rivers, who with Law
rence Camp conferred with Mr.
Roosevelt at Warm Springs yester
day. Mr. Roosevelt, in a brief talk at
the Warm Springs Foundation, at
that time, gave Camp a straightout
endorsement in his race for the Dem
ocratic senatorial nomination.
Camp, Federal district attorney, is
among the opponents of Senator Wal
ter George, who is seeking renomina
tion. Mr. Roosevelt did not mention
Camp nor George in his talk today.
Power Vote
Heralds End
For Session
Daily Dispatch Bureau,
In The Sir Walter Hotel.
Raleigh, Aug. 11. —Adoption by the
House yesterday of the Bryant amend
ment to the revenue bond bill greas
ed the measure’s way through the
Senate today and made adjournment
of the extra session at the end of this
week all but mathecatical certainty.
As soon as the House agreed to let
the “convenience and necessity”
clause apply to all power projects to
be financed by the current revenue
bond act all prospects of a real knock
down and dragout fight on the peren
nial power issue collapsed like a
pricked balloon, as Senate leaders de
clared it made upper house passage
a matter only of formality.
On the question of “who won the
war” there are varying opinions. The
tangible effects of the Bryant amend
ment are to leave all municipal pow
er projects heretofore authorized un
der any general or special #ct in ex
actly their present status. Also muni
cipalities will in the future be free
to choose their own way without se
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"WEATHER
FOR NORTH CAROLINA.
Partly cloudy tonight and Fri
day, preceded by scattered thun
dershowers in extreme north por
tion this afternoon or tonight;
slightly cooler in north and cen
tral portions Friday and in ex
treme north portion tonight.
settlement today. Both sides agreed
to a truce after a peace parley be
tween Soviet Russian Foreign Minis
ter Maxim Litvinoff and Japanese
Ambassador M. Shigemitsu, and to or
der their forces to cease military op
erations at no«»n today, local time at
the scene of the hostilities.
Not all points of the dispute over
the frontier positions about Chiang
kufeng hill, center of trouble since
July 11, were cleared up by the agree
ment- the basis for re-defining the
border remained a thorny problem
which could start new quarrels. The
one main point was settled, however:
both sides agreed to stop fighting.
A communique announced Japan
and Russia had decided their respec
tive troops would remain in positions
they held at midnight August 10.
(Domei, Japanese News Agency, re
ported from Tokyo the same informa
tion, that a true was agreed upon.)
A commission of two Soviet repre
sentatives and two Manchoukuo-Jap
anese representatives was agreed up
on to deal with demarkation of the
frontier.
He gave a broad rd-outline of the ad
ministration’s asserted desire to lift
purchasing power and thereby create
wealth in the South. He asked for
“constant progressive action,” in gov
ernment.
The President spoke in the open air
under a broiling sun. He was sur
rounded by University officials. In
the stadium stands, an audience at
tired in light summer clothes ap
plauded enthusiastically.
Devoting much of his address to a
discussion of cduclationaV and eco
nomic conditions in the South, he did
not refer directly to the wage-hour
measure, enacted after a long fight
by the last Congress.
Discussing the duties of the Federal
government toward State and local
educational objectives, he called to
day for “constant progressive action
on both educational and economic
fronts.”
Two “Ifs” In
Dewey’s Way
For President
By CHARLES P. STEWART
Central Press Columnist
Washington, Aug. 11.—Republican
politicians are increasingly talking of
Thomas E. Dewey as G. O. P. presi
dential possibility in
1940.
The suggestion,
however, is qualified
by a conspicuous
“if.” Two “ifs,” in
fact.
If Dewey, as dis
trict attorney of
New York county,
succeeds in convict
ing James J. Hines,
promine n t Tam
manyite, of tamper
ing with New York
judges and other of
ficials, in an effort
to protect the late
“Dutch” S c h ultz’s
“policy racket,” it is
forecast that the
then victorious pro
secutor almost cer
tainly will be nam
ed by the Empire
JBbiv. • •
fhomas E. Dewey
State Republicans as their candidate
for the governorship. That is one “if”
—if Dewey convicts Hines.
If he convicts Hines and is nomi
nated for the governorship, he will
need to be elected in order to rate aT
presidential material. If he does con
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Mother, Father Die, Save Baby
■ipr m^
jjjfj
U. S. Policies
Deplored By
Tom Girdler
Republic Steel Head
Says Government
Raising Barriers in
Relationships
Vfashington, Aug. 11. —(AP) —-Tom
Girdler, telling Republic Steel Cor
poration’s version of last summer’s
steel strikes, bemoaned today what
he described as the legalization of
barriers between labor and manage
ment.
“Back in 1919” the corporation’s
chairman told the Senate Civil Lib
erties Committee, “you were com
mended if you had close relations
with your men, if you let them tell
you what they thought and told them
what you thought. Now, it’s an un
fair labor practice if you tell them
what you think.”
Gird.er carried to the stand with
him a long prepared statement in
which he demanded a Senate investi
gation of “violence and intimidation”
by the CIO, but Chairman LaFollette,
Progressive, Wisconsin, decided
against hearing it immediately. In
the statement the steel executive
blamed the strike on “arrogance” of
CIO leaders, and suggested investiga
tors look into the manner in which
the Steel Workers Organizing Com
mittee used a $1,500,000 fund at their
(Continued on Page Six.)
Upswing For
Business Seen
In More Jobs
Raleigh, Aug. 11.—-(AP)—The State
Employment Service reported today
that officers in tobacco centers had
been having “unusual placement ac
tivity”, and that elsewhere there were
general “evidences of improving bus
iness.”
The service said last week it refer
red 1,500 persons to leaf tobacco
houses at Winston-Salem for possible
employment. The term “referred”, it
was explained, means that employers
have asked to be supplied with a cer
tain number of persons from which
to select a number for employment.
Other places with long lists of re
ferred persons included Rocky Mount,
with 460 hand stemmers for tobac
co; Goldsboro, 800 to 900 tobacco
workers; Greenville, 1,000 tobacco
workers; and Durham, 200 cooper
shop laborers, and 25 to 30 machine
tobacco stemmers.
Rocky Mount actually placed 121
persons in private industry last week,
most of them in tobacco, and Kin
ston had 66 placements, 59 being to
bacco stemmers. At Wilson, 142 stem
mers were among the 180 placed in
private work.
PUBLISHED EVERY AFTERNOON
EXCEPT SUNDAY
Mrs. William Townsend Adee, the
former Sally Comly, is pictured with
her baby whose life she saved at the
cost of her own by throwing her to
firemen from the third story of the
Adee home at Tuxedo Park, N. Y., a
moment before the blazing roof fell
in and killed her and her husband.
Adee, rich and socially prominent,
was the grandson of Gen.* Louis
Fitzgerald, famous financier. About
40 years old, Adee was one of the
East’s best-known tennis players.
The mysterious blaze destroyed the
three-story mansion.
(Central Press)
Tells Masons U. S.
1
System Threatened
Mocksvilie, Aug. 11. (AP) —
Charles t Miias, Republican sena
torial nominee, charged today that
“we are developing an all-inclusive,
pernicious form of government, ir
responsible, Irresponsive and indif
ferent to the will of the people.”
In an address prepared for de
livery at the annual picnic of the
Mocksvilie Masonic lodge, Jonas
said: “We levy taxes not for re
venue hut for punitive purposes.
Whereas sovereignty once residec
in the people and in the states, il
now rests in an entrenched bureau
cracy at Washington,” he said.
“The road we are traveling leads
inevitably to the overthrow of oui
American system of representative
government of cheeks and balance
under our written Constitution,
and the establishment of a totali
tarian form of government that will
regiment and control. rather than
represent, the people.”
Eight Saved
In Erie Storm
As 14 Missing
Cleveland, Ohio, Aug. 11—(API-
Eight persons were rescued from their
crippled yacht on storm-tossed Lake
Erie today as United States Coast
Guardsmen launched a search for 14
others reported missing.
A rain and wind storm, described
as “terrific” by Coast Guard head
quarters, lashed the lake last night.
Six members of a Mansfield, Ohio,
fishing party, including three minis
ters of the United Lutheran Church
of America, were reported missing off
Sandusky, Ohio. Four young yachts
men were long overdue at Toledo
from the inter-lake regatta at Put-in-
Bay, Ohio.
Two young couples were missing in
an outboard motor boat, in which
they put out from the north shores,
Michigan.
Captain George Anderson of the
freighter J. F. Shocllkopf, Jr., wire
lessed that he had rescued eight per
sons from a yacht, its motors stalled,
between West Sister and Middle Sister
islands.
Low Bids For
Dormitories
Raleigh, Aug. 11. —(AP) —The Er
win-West Construction Company of
Statesville offered a low basic bid of
$190,500 today for construction of two
New PWA-aided dormitories at N. C.
State College. The second low basic
bid was by George W. Kane, of Dur
ham, at $190,999.
Awdrd of the contract was not made
immediately pending a check of all
proposals, including alternates for
different types of work. The build
ings are to provide living quarters for
360 students, and will cost about $323.-
000 in all, including $145,000 in PWA
funds.
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3,942-Mile
Hop Is Made
In 24 Hours
Take-Off from Ger
man Capital Wednes
day Evening Kept Sec
ret Until Later; Four-
Motored Land Plane
Sets Fast Pace Across
Atlantic
Boston, Aug. 11. —(AP ) —Nearins
the end of its projected non-stop
flight from Berlin to New York, the
German airplane Brandenburg import
ed her position to the Radio Marine
Corporation at 1 p. m. today as 30
miles northeast of Boston. This po
sition meant the plane had covered
about 3,700 miles <»f the 3,900-odd-mile
air distance from Berlin to New York.
Her last reported speed was about
155 miles an hour. If maintained, this
would bring her to New York about
2:30 a. m., eastern standard time.
LEFT BERLIN ABOUT 3 P. M.
EASTERN STANDARD TIME
Berlin, Aug. 11.—(AP) —The huge
German land plane Brandenburg near
ed the North American coast today
on a non-stop flight from Berlin to
New Y«»rk.
Nearly 16 hours after her sudden
take-off with a crew of four, she re
ported her position at 11:19 a. in. (5:19
a. m., eastern standard time) at 53.05
degrees north and 44.45 degrees west.
(This position is about 500 miles from
Newfoundalnd.) The four-motored
monoplane left here at 7:53 p. m. last
night. (The air line distance between
Berlin and New York is calculated to
be 3,9i12 miles.)
The 11:19 a. m. report said the plane
was flying at an altitutde of about 6,-
500 feet, and was experiencing fine
weather. An air ministry spokesman
said he expected the plane would land
between 5 and 6 p. m. (between 11 a.
m. to noon eastern standrd time) If
she reached New York non-stop.
When asked to name her specifio
destination, however, he replied:
“All we have done is to state that
the Brandenburg is going to North
America. Once the plane is over land
again, the pilots may decide for the
sake of absolute security, to make a
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HAL KEMP DIVORCED
WIFE TO WED AGAIN
Charlotte, Aug. 11. —(AP) —The
Charlotte News said today Mrs. Hal
Kemp will marry James Swanson in
Washington August 17 as soon as her
divorce from her orchestra-leader
husband becomes final. Swanson is A
nephew of Secretary Claude Swanson
of the Navy Department.
negroTfarmer is
VICTIM OF CRASH
Shelby, Aug. 11 (AP)—A Negro
farmer was killed and three men were
injured in an automobile wreck on
Highway 73 near the Cleveland-Burke
county line today. Arch Young, 30,
of Toßuca, was killed. J. Tom
Daves and Homer Daves, of Polkville,
and J. L. Hamrick, of Ellenboro.
were injured seriously.
Legislature
Ends 1 A. M.
On Saturday
Resolution Adopted
Setting Hour; Bond
Bills Pass First Read
ing in Senate
Raleigh, Aug.. 11. —(AP) —The Gen- s
eral Assembly, apparently certain the
PWA bond bills which it was called
into special session to enact would be
passed by the Senate without delay,
adopted a joint resolution today to
adjourn sine die at one o’clock Sat
urday morning.
Representative Bryant, of Durham,
offered the resolution. It would allow
the Senate one hour after midnight
Friday night in which to pass on final
third reading roll call the PWA bond
bills, which Governor Hoey gave the
legislators.
The House yesterday approved the
bills for a $4,620,000 State bond issue
and to permit municipalities, counties
and sanitary districts to issue revenue
bonds to get FWLA grants and loans,
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