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HENDERSON’S POPULATION 13,873 twenty-fifth year v Death Hits Air Fleet To Toll Os 5 Navy’s War Planes at San Diego Meet Dual Disaster Only Few Hours Apart San Diego, Cal., Aug. 16.—(AP)— Disaster struck twice among the n avv's war planes in “routine” maneu vers. leaving five fliers dead and four jnjmed today. Attempting a landing after dark last night, a PBY patrol bomber smashed iu'se first into San Diego bay, carrying two of a crew of six to their deaths. The four survivors, all injured, were pulled from the water as the wreckage sank. Ten hours earlier, a speedy tor pedo plane plunged earthward from an altitude of 3,000 feet over Camp Carney Mesa. Its three crewmen per ished in the crash. Death, however, spared six men in another patrol bomber, which was damaged in a forced landing on the bay last night. The fliers emerged un hurt. To Set Date For Sale Os State Bonds Raleigh, Aug. 16. —(AP)—The Coun cil of State met this afternoon and Governor Hoey said before the ses sion he expected a date would be fixed for sale of $4,620,000 permanent im provement bonds authorized by the special legislative session last week. The bonds will be sold to get funds to match PWA grants which would enable a building program of $8,240,-; 510 if the State gets all the funds re-1 quested. TENNESSEE TOBACCO - MAY ROT IN BARNS Nashville, Tenn., Aug. 16. (AP) — Tobacco experts reported today that tobacco growers in many Tennessee ‘counties faced the prospect of seeing much of their leal rot in their barns. It was said the problem was caused by recent excessive moisture. He said many growers were experiment ing with artificial heat in their barns, even though hurley is cur ed by air and not by smoking, as 1 is dark-fired. It was said that, despite the rot, it was anticipated the crop of bur ley would be larger than last year, the largest crop ever harvested, but that quality would be consid erably lower. Maneuvers On Big Scale For Belgium London, Aug. 16.— (AP)—Little Bel gium today opened her biggest scale war maneuvers since 1913, while her massive eastern neighbor throbbed to the drum beats of Adolf Hitler’s simi lar maneuvers, closely watched around th e world. Eastern districts of Belgium, which felt the first blow of German invas ion 24 years ago, had much the same appearance as in 1914, but the nation’s official attitude was one of utter de tachment from the German war games. To complete the contrast with tense flays when the World War was start ing, France’s air chief, General Vui.le niin, reached Berlin for a friendly tour of German aerial garrisons and aircraft plants. Viscount Runciman, Britain’s un official referee in the Czechoslovak quarrel with her Nazi-supported Ger manic minority, was busy hearing the German side of the disagreement 1 Continued on vPage Five.) All But Two Nominees In %jr'■ • • $ vt Primaries Are Certified Raleigh, Aug. fl>.—(AP)— Raymond c - Maxwell, secre 'ary of the State R°ard of Elections, said today the hoard had sent certificates of nomi nation to all winners' in the June -1 and July 2 primaries except those in ♦he eighth congressional and fourth -elicitorial Democratic contests. The board ruled C. B. Deane, of Rockingham, was the congressional nominee m the eighth after a long in vestigation of alleged irregular ab sentee voting, and W. O. Burgin, who Uettiteramt Daily Dtsnatrh LEASED WIRE SERVICE OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS. jflifP zMmm/ WMM W&fr •> .'SBBps :#> * : : - : : H ’B.HRfW''' \ * . . .vt • n \ :: y SB • " ::>• •' V,, • ..••••* -&> , :> warn Ellison D. Smith » » • South Carolina senator In addition to l-JJjnator Walter F, George of Georgia, President Roosevelt has three other well-known anti-New Deal Democrats orAhis primary purge list. The three are Senator Ellison D. (Cotton Ed) Smith /of South Carolina, chairman of the < iculture committee, who growls and mutters at New Deal policies; Senator Mi.lard E. Tydings of Maryland, foe at many administration measures, and Representative John J. O’Connor, Tarnmahyite of New York, chairman of the l’ic;ise Rules Committee, who last session led the powerful committee on a sit-qbwn strike against New Deal legislation. K Spanish War Centering On Air Battles Government Air Forces Re j u venated; Conflicting Reports on Both Sides Hendaye, France, Aug. 16. — (AP) — Spanish government and insurgent war planes battled viciously today so the upper hand in the ten-day battle in the blistering Ebro valley of south ern Catalonia. Three apparently reorganized gov ernment air squadrons not only met insurgent planes on equal terms, but adopted the insurgent tactics of bomb ing and machine gunning troops on the ground. In two days of battle with an insurgent fleet of 42 German and Italian-made craft, at least 34 planes on both sides were reported shot down. Official dispatches from each fac tion reported the other had lost many planes, while minimizing its own losses. In one battle, in which the government maintained 21 insurgent machines were downed and none of its own wrecked, the insurgents said 13 government planes were lost a gainst two of theirs. It was notable, however, the gov ernment reports were the first claims of aerial victory to be made by the government in many weeks. Dodge Widow To Share In Big Estate Detroit, Mich., Aug. 16 (AP). —An officer of the Detroit Trust Company said today that the young widow of Daniel G. Dodge, who drowned yes terday in Ontario, would share in an estate of about $9,000,000 left by her husband. Charles Spicer, executive vice-presi dent of the trust company, said that Daniel Dodge’s estate consisted of ac cumulated income from a trust fund in which he was given a life inter est following the death of his father, John F. Dodge, motor magnate. That I income, accumulating for fifteen j years, amounted to $9,331,600 at the last accounting in July. Spicer said it had increased since then. had led on first returns has entered court action for a writ °f mandamus to force the board to give him the nomination. J. R. Young, of Dunn, who trailed! Solicitor C. C. Canaday for solicitor in the fourth judicial district, has filed a court action contesting the declaration Canaday was the nominee. The court actioAs are set for hearing here August 22, and Maxwell said the answer of the elections board to the complaints was being prepared for early filing in Wake Superior Court. ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OF NORTH CAR OLINA AND VIRGINIA’. Roosevelt T argets in Three Stat e Primaries HENDERSON, N. C., TUESDAY AFTERNOON, AUGUST 16, 1938 ' ' ' - r ' .w John J. O’Connor . . . New York congressman Chiang Has Million Men Massed to Defend Hankow 100 Chinese Drown As Steamer Sinks Shanghai, Aug. 16.—(AP) —More than 100 Chinese passengers drown ed today when the small Chinese eoastal steamer Ilansa sank after a collision with a British steamer off Woosung. The British steamer, the Tmigwo, reported she picked up only 13 Chinese survivors. Coast Line’s Attitude Gets Road In Bad Daily Dispatch Bureau, In The Sir Walter Hotel. Raleigh, Aug. 16.—Present plight of railroads in North Carolina, particu larly that of the Atlantic Coast Line, was laid to a refusal to cooperate with the civic leaders and to a “pub lic be damned” attitude on the part of the roads in statements both on and off the record at Monday’s hear ing before the Utility Commission on abandonment of passenger service by the Coast Line on three of its branch lines. The charge was made by Mayor D. F. Wooten, of Kinston, J. H. Cana day, Kinston business man, and » number of others in the large delega tion which appeared to oppose the A. C L.’s plea that it be permitted to abandon its Weldon-Kinston, Wash ,dng)ton-Parir(fele and Plymouth-Tar boro passenger service. The severe indictment of the road followed a remark by Murray Allen, Coast Line counsel, while Mr. Cana day was on the stand. , The Kinston man had made a strong statement in which he urged the railroads to cooperate with busi ness men and civic leaders in work ing up more business. He had ex pressed -the belief that the Coast Line was in effect “giving up its business to the enemy” and conceding that it is unable to meet competition. “Wouldn’t it be better if these gen tlemen,” he said, pointing to the group of A C. L. officials and counsel, “had come to us and asked us to help work out plans for getting more busi ness for the road. Instead, they have come in and confessed th-ey can’t meet competition.” Whereupon Mr. Allen remarked. “Dr. Canaday did you ever hear the story of the beggar who asked for a dollar and was told by his ‘prospect that his technique was wrong? ‘You should ask for a smaller sum and you might get something.’ To which the beggar replied: ‘You can give me what you damn please, but don t try to tell me how to run my business’.” Mr. Canaday said nothing in ’direct reply while on £he stand, but a few moments later, when one of the rad ioed lawyers, declining to cross-ex aminfe him, said, “We ought to hire hini’’ the Kinston man obviously boiled over: “You can’t hire me,” he said tense ly, fighting hard to keep from giving way entirely to his rage. “I’m not for sale Commissioner Stanley Winborne, presiding, smoothed over th € situa tion by suavely saying that Mr. Can aday had misunderstood the lawyer’s meaning. When the hearing was recessed for lunch, however, there was little hesi tation in expression of opinion by. (Continued on Page Eight. -J } * 111 | Rob ••• ;• •^ , *£S3B\§Bifif6te> ' - JbF raSgggg§g§| * Millard E. Tydings , ( Maryland senator Mobile Army of Addi tional 120,000 Men Also Moving Into Bat tle Territory Shanghai, Aug. 16. —(AP) —Chinese General Chiang Kai-Shek was reported today to have massed 1,000,000 men around Hankow, his provisional cap ital, toward which Japanese have ad vanced slowly since occupying Kiu kiang July 26. The outer fringers of the Hankow defenses were challenged today by Japanese units on exploratory drives up both banks of the Yangtze river. Because the defenders expect the most serious Japanese threat to be along the south Yangtze river against the Hankow-Canton railway line, ten divisions placed between the Nan chang railway and Hankow railway were reinforced by three divisions of Cantonese troops. Besides these large scale prepara tions, a mobile army of 120,000 Chi nese is moving into the south bank sector, causing optimism among the defenders that the lines there will withstand the Japanese thrust. See saw battles raged on both sides of the Yangtze in the Kiukiang area without major changes in positions as the war entered its 405th day. Regulation Likely From Vote Frauds By CHARLES P. STEWART Central Press Columnist Washington, Aug. 16.—Election ir regularities are an old story. They date back to the days when all nominations were made in party con ventions, usually preceded by secret conferences of a few bosses in the well-known “smoke-filled rooms”. The nominations doubtless were framed in advance, but that was sup posed to be all right. It was not con sidered strictly according to Hoyle for a candidate to overspend himself against his election day opponent. It occasionally caused him trouble to be caught at it, anyway. But the regular ity of his nomination never was dis puted. Two' Questions — These times two questions arise. It still is asked, “Was the election o. k.?” Back of that, however, is the query, ‘Was the winning party can didate fairly nominated?” There are two elections, in short, and recent charges and counter charges hint that the first one (the primary) is liable to be characterized by as much queer business as the sec ond one, in November. Maybe more. Rival party candidates watch one an other’s campaigns pretty closely. If one of them suspects any crookedness in his opponent’s methods he is not a bit hesitant to say so vehemently. In an intra-party primary the tendency is to hush scandals up, in the inter est of party harmony. primary Worse. That is to say, an election day can didate is forced to be reasonably dis creet, because he knows that, if he wins and the loser believes he can make out a good case, the latter’s (Continued on Page Five) WtVIiICR FOR NORTH CAROLINA. Partly cloudy tonight and Wed nesday; somewhat unsettled Wed nesday*. Believes CIO To Expel All Communists A. F. of L. Leader Tells House Commit tee Reds Must Go; Machinery Being Set Up for Enforcement of Wage-Hour Meas ure Soon Washington, Aug. 16, —tAP) —John Frey, American Federation of Lrbo itauer, predicted today that the CIO soon wou d puige itself of communis tic elements, rrey told the Hous’- ecmm.uee studying un American ac tivities trial the lauor organization o. John Lewis already had started a campaign to rid itself of communis.. members in four west coast unions, and tire United Automobile Workers. “i ve Leaeved, ’ he said, “that a great majority of members of the CIO are as much opposed to communists who have obtained positions in their organization as the A. F. of L. “I’ve believed that if sufficient evi dence was presented to the member ship, the CIO would take upon itself the task of ridding the organization of the communists who have gained control.” Frey said communism had made little progress in American labor up to the time Lewis took ten A. F. of L. unions into a new organization three years ago. Otiier deve opments: Elmer Andrews, Federal wage-hour administrator, said he was concentrat ing on the textile, tobacco and cotton . garment’ industries first in setting up machinery for operating the new la bor standards law. Andrews discuss ed plans for handling his new job immediately after' he was sworn in. Meeting reporters a few minutes later, he said he expected to announce a labor standards committee for the textile industry within a week. Senator Murray, Democrat, Mon tana, pledged his support to Presi dent Roosevelt if the latter seeks a third term, but two other Democratic senators, McKe.lar, of Tennessee, and Minton, of IncTfana, expressed Joubl that the chief executive would run again. The PWA gave Rocky Mount N, C., $39,262 for for construction at the Eastern Carolina Industrial School in Edgecombe county. The work, with a total estimated cost of $87,250, will include a three-story brick build ing of six class rooms .locker roQms, (Continued on Page Five) Workers At Chicago Hit From Strike Waukcepgan, 111., Aug. 16. —(AP) — Twenty thousand commuters, depriv ed of customary transportation to Chi cago by an electric railroad strike, scurried for other passenger service today." A drizzling rain added to incon ience of these residents of a dozen suburbs along the Lake Michigan shore, who ordinarily use the Chicago North Shore and Milwaukee railroad. Its service was suspended after union employees voted to cease work in protest against a 15 percent wage cut order. The Chicago & Northwestern and the Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul & Pacific steam roads suddenly acquir ed a large share of the North Shore line passengers. Greyhound Bus lines also prepared to establish extra ser vice to handle North Shore line cus tomers. All street car and bus service in W'aukeegan and street cars in North Chicago, operated by the North Shore line, were at a standstill. Waukeegan is of 35,000 population, and North Chi cago 11,000. Officials estimated the electric lino carries 24,000 passengers daily, and that about 20,000 are regular com muters to Chicago. Blind Youth Gains Cheer From Bride He Hasn’t Seen; Dead Woman’s Eye Aids Many San Francisco, Cal., Aug. 16.—(AP) —A blind youth whom surgery failed to aid materially found new courage today in his battle for sight from the bride he never has seen, while a mid dle-aged minister his vision partially restored, longed for the first clear look at his wife and daughter. The blind bridegroom, undaunted by an unsuccessful operation, was John Terry O’Connell, 21, honeymooning with the former Betty Scotchler 19/™They fell, in love three years ago when she wasa reader for the sight less in a Berkley school. O’Connell, tall handsome University of California student, said he hoped some day to see his wife, who guided his hand as PUBLISHED EVERY AFTERNOON EXCEPT SUNDAY Nation Feels Grip Os Heat Wave, With Record Tops Likely Flings "Red” Charge mBShE? • ..yX . V B -11 HH IBM Hw 1, | jiiifL * fH F * Si ill, bL •• '|HB • *;J • v a John P. Frey, A. F. of L. leader, is pictured as he appeared before the Dies House Committee investigat ing un-American activities, in Wash ington. Frey charged the C. I. O. is supported by Communists, declared more than 600 members of the Party hold key positions. tCentral Press) Two Confess Kidnapings In Minnesota One Suspect Critical ly Shot by Officers In Effort to M,ake Good His Escape St. Paul., Minn., Aug. 16.—(AP)— The Federal Bureau of Investigation announced today the arrest of Otis Jones Meredith and John Couch near Effie, Minn., for the kidnaping of Miss Peggy Gross and Daniel Cox Fahey, Jr., of St. Louis. The two were located last night by special agents of the FBI at a farm home nine miles east of Effie. . Police Chief Miller at Big Fork, Minn., said he and a deputy sheriff went to the farm home of Meredith’s father-in-law, Roots, with two Federal men las& night and surprised Meredith and Couch in the yard. Meredith ran toward the woods, Mil ler said, and was shot twice in the back. At the Itasca coynty hospital at tendants said Meredith was in a criti cal condition. Fathey’s automobile, stolen by the pair after they dumped Miss Gross, 23, St. Louis socialite, and Fahey, Na tional Park Servifcp architect, tout near Minneapolis, was recovered at the Roots farm, the Federal agents said. They were identified as the kid napers, Robert Hendon, chief of the St. Paul office of the FBI said, from photographs. Identification was made by Miss Gross and Fahey. Both men readily admitted kidnap ing Miss Gross and Fahey, Hendon said. He also said they admitted a number of other crimes in the mid west and southwest. he slipped a wedding ring on her finger in Berkley yesterday. He will take further treatment for an eye aiiment that has blinded him since childhood. Rev. U. E. Harding, Nazarene min ister of Portland, Oregon, was one step closer today to his first clear vision of his wife and 27-year-old daughter, Evelyn. Mr. Harding has been blind 43 of his 53 years. Yesterday he left the hospital where on August 3 the clear cornea from an elderly dead woman’s eye re placed the diseased “wendo” in his own eye in a rare and delicate opera tion. He already can distinguish ob jects. Q PAGES O TODAY FIVE CENTS COPY Increasing Humidity Makes Mounting Heat More Oppressive; Floods Plague Some Sections To Add To Discomforts Resulting (By The Associated Press) Virtually the entire country swelt ered today in a heat wave with a re cord high temperature for the year threatened in parts of the east. Increasing humidity made the mounting heat more oppressive. In the east a little relief was in sight, with a forecast of scattered thunder showers. The mercury soared in the north and middle Atlantic states, the middle sections of the Gulf states, on the • north Pacific slope and in Montana. Weather a little coo er prevailed in the Great Lakes region, the Ohio Val ley, Kansas, Oklahoma and lowa, with heavy rains dispelling the heat in some sections. In Illinois, the Galena river, swoll en near flood proportions, started to tecede. Water stood two feet deep in the business section of Galena after yesterday’s rainfall. Rivers still were rising in southern Wisconsin. Discouraged New Yorkers went to work with the mercury outclimbing yesterday’s hour by hour. Yesterday’s high, 93.4 in Manhattan, set a record for the year, and broke the August 15 record. ■ Rackets Jury In New York Nearly Filled New York, Aug. 16 (AP)—-With swiftness that astonished spectators defense and prosecution accepted four more jurors in an hour’s time today in the trial of James J. Hines, power ful Tammany district leader, on charges of conspiracy in the $100,000,- 000-a-year policy racket. With six seated yesterday, this left only two additional jurors and two alternates to be selected, and it ap peared that the “blue ribbon’’ jury—* which it had been expected would taka as long as a week to choose —would be completed this afternoon. Working under a speed-up system, Supreme Court Justice Ferdinand Pe cora had the veniremen questioned in groups of 12 instead of individually. Hines, accused by District Attorney Thomas Dewey, of politically seaiing the gigantic policy expire operated by the late gang lord Dutch Schultz, ar rived in court in cheerful mood. On the alert for prejudice against Tam many hall among the 300 talesmen, Hines’ chief of counsel, Lloyd Stryker, was quick to challenge any prospec tive juror who indicated bias in favor of Dewey, youthful racket-busting Republican prosecutor. Stryker cautioned prospective jur ors that the ' 13-count indictment, which might send Hines to prison for the remainder of his- days, was only an accusation, and must be supported by the testimony of witnesses they could believe. In his turn, Dewey asked the veniremen if they would ac cept the credible testimony of some of his witnesses, men who have pleaded guilty to the same charge made against Hines. " Sees Building Boom In State Just Starting Daily Dispatch Bureau, In The Sir Walter Hotel. Raleigh, Aug. 16— North Carolina is in for a big boom as the result of the building program given so much im petus by last week’s extra session of the General Assembly, in the opinion of State officials and building and material men. “We’re going to see the State right square in the middle of a $25,000,000 building program wilhin the next three months”, said Thad Eure, sec retary of state, whose office force has been working overtime since Satur day morning’s adjournment of the legislature. “If that won’t make for prosperity, I don’t know what will.” The Eure office (“your office” as he explains to every citizen of North Carolina with whom he talks) has en rolled all the bills enacted last week and the secretary of state «aid Mon day about noon that certified copies of all the acts “is already on the desk” of the PWA administration in Washington, the regional director in Atlanta, and all others interested in the new laws. “That will not finish our work, though,” said Eure, “before long we’ll be rushed by bond attorneys wanting certified copies of Journal en (Continued ou Page Five)
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