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Fords Afoot in Scotland
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Seldom photographed, William Ford, grandson of the motor magnate, is
oictured with his father, Edsel, enjoying a holiday in Scotland. They are
shown on the golf course at the Gleneagles Hotel.
(Centred Press)
More ‘Finds’
In Cleveland
Torso Cases
Large Pile of Human
Bones Added to
Dbzen or So Broken
Bodies Found
Cleveland, Aug. 17. —(AP) —De-
tectives found arm, leg and hip
bones today <>n Cleveland’s lake
dump front. Coroner Samuel Ger
ber said they were parts of the
body of the twelfth victim of the
city’s mad killer. He said the
bones were those of a man.
Cleveland. Ohio, Aug. 17. —(AP)
Coroner Samuel Gerber said today he
believed various parts of human tor
sos found on the lake front were from
three persons, rather than two.
Meanwhile, detectives, searching the
spot where parts of bodies were found
yesterday, discovered another large
pile of human bones. The coroner said
he was unable to say immediately
whether these bones represented still
other victims.
The coroner said examination of the
two skulls, ribs and pelvic bones
found yesterday led him to believe
they were from- three bodies. Till*
would bring to 13 the total number
of murders.
The bones were found today and
yesterday in a dump on Cleveland’s
lake front near the site of last year’s
Great Lakes Exposition.
The coroner said the torso killer,
as usual, left his mark of surgical
skill on the remnants of the two or
three bodies.
The victims were unidentified, like
all but three of the four women and
six men who met a similar fate in
the last three years.
Crops Fine
For Western
Half State
Daily Dispatch Bureau,
In The Sir Walter Hotel.
Raleigh, Aug. 17. —North Carolina’s
crop prospects arc the “best ever” in
Piedmont and mountain sections
Prank Parker, United States Depart
ment of Agriculture crop statistician
~R duty with the State Department of
-Agriculture, said today upon his re
turn from a crop reporting and ob
serving tour which took him into
Practically half the State.
“The most properous and optimis
tic farmers in North Carolina are
those who live in the non-cash crop
areas’’, he added. “They have better
homes, better kept, and their farms
H, ° far more productive than those
,n the cash crop areas where cotton
tobacco are the principal, often the
on ly, crops.
Gash crops are a curse to the
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Lindberghs Land
In Soviet Capital
Moscow, Aug. 17.—(AP) —Colonel
and Mrs. Charles Lindbergh landed
here tonight after a flight by easy
stages from Warsaw. They arrived
at 8:35 p. m. (12:35 p. m., eastern
standard time)', having made two
stops enroute.
Before their arrival, their plans
had been kept secret by Soviet au
thorities.
In accordance with the American
flter’s wishes;. Soviet ’authorities
would not say exactly when they
were expected. The American Em
bassy officially was unaware of the
Lindberghs’ visit, but it was re
ported Lieutenant Colonel Philip
Traymonville, military attache,
would meet the visitors and intro
duce them to Soviet air officials.
Record Low
Interest For
State Bonds
Daily Dispatch Bureau,
In The Sir Walter Hotel.
Raleigh, Aug. 17—Th e State’s soon
to-be-sold $4,620,000 bond issue will
probably set a new record for low in
terest rates, Governor Clyde R. Hoey
said today.
“The bond market is extremely fav
orable just jjow, the State’s general
credit is as £ood as it has ever been,
perhaps even better, and though this
combination of circumstances there’s
a very good chance that we will be
able to sell these bonds at the most
favorable interest rate the State has
ever obtained,” he told this bureau’s
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New Yorkers
Ponder Power
Os Big River
BY ANDRUE BERDING.
Massena, N. Y., Aug. 17. —(AP)
This is a tale of two cities —the one
here today and the one there will be
if hydro-electric power pours in from
the proposed Great Lakes-St. Law
rence development.
The writer has encountered in north
western New York State considerable
enthusiasm for the deep waterways
project. Up the river, near the Thous
and Islands, President Roosevelt and
Canadian Premier Mackenzie King
will confer at a bridge dedication to
morrow. . ;
The people here are divided, how
ever, over the time factor. Some think
the development will come within a
few years. The majority say “it is
bound to come, hut I won’t live to see
it; you won’t live to see it; but our
children will.”
Massena is a city of 15,000 persons
Its veins and arteries are high trans
mission lines from hydro-electric pow
er. Because of this power, residents
said, it has become the world’s lar
gest producer of aluminum.
ONLY DAILY NEWSPAP ER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OFNORTHCAROLINA AND VIRGINIA.
Eight Government
Officials Named As
Partial Communists
Republican Member of House Investigating
Committee Says They Belong to Organization
Affiliated With Radicals; Denial Follows
Quickly
Washington, Aug. 17 (AP)—-Repre
sentative Mason, Repub.ican, Illinois,
a member of the House committee in
vestigating subversive activities,
named eight government officials to
day as “acknowledged members” of
thvj American League for Peace and
Democracy, which he said had con
nections with the communist party.
The officials named were Harry
Lamberton, assistant rural electrifi
cation administrator; Dallas Smyth,
of the central statistical board; Fred
Silcox, head of the forest -service;
Robert Marshall, an official of the
public lands service of the Agricul
ture Department; Oscar Chapman, as
sistant secretary of the interior;
John Carmody, rural electrification
administrator; Mary Anderson, direc
tor of the women’s bureau, and Alice
Barrows, in the office of education •
Mason made his charge during tes
Spanish Rebels Cast Lot
With Italy And Germany
Hopes of Britain and France for Withdrawal of
Foreign Soldiers in Civil War Appeal Dashed;
Insurgent Note Virtually Is Refusal of British
Plan.
Paris, Aug. 17. —(AP) —Spanish in
surgents were reported today de
finitely to have cast their lot with
Italy and Germany, perhaps thereby
ending hopes of Great Britain and
France to withdraw foreign volun
teers from the civil war.
While Insurgent General Franco’s
answer to the British plans for send
ing foreign fighters home from Spain
remained a secret, insurgent infor
mants in Paris predicted its terms
may mean the end of the cherished,
non-intervention scheme, designed to
halt “Europe’s little world war.”
The Spanish Barcelona government
Slight Abatement Near
From Stifling Heat-Wave
Many Deaths Have
Resulted; Scattered
Showers Forecast for
the East
(By The Associated Press.)
The heat wave that has taken a
heavy life toll and brought discom
fort to millions abated slightly today,
and the prospects of scattered show
ers augmented relief for part of the
sun-baked eastern seaboard.
In Pennsylvania nine deaths re
sulted from the weather in the last
three days.
Washington, D. C.„ had 18 hos
pitalized prostrations yesterday, and
dozens of others were given aid by
ambulance crews. Baltimore counted
six prostrations, but the sweltering
heat also had some whimsical aspects.
Weather Bureau employees in Wash
ington had a partial holiday yesterday
because of the heat —along with thous
ands of government clerks.
As the mercury soared to 94 in
Pittsburgh, the highest for August 16
since 1888, R. P. Middlebrook report
ed to police the theft of a fur-lined
jacket from his home.
The city water division of Newark
complained that 15,000 gallons of
water were being wasted daily by
boys who turn on hydrants to keep
cool. The drair., the division said, was
threatening water pressure.
WARRENTON NEGRO
HEAD OF FIREMEN
Wilson, Aug. 17.—Peter Collins was
re-elected secretary of the .North Car
olina Negro Firemen’s Association at
their annual convention here today.
C. R. Miller, of Fayetteville, was elect
ed president, and the convention vot
ed to meet next year at Elizabeth
City.
HENDERSON, N. C., WEDNESDAY lAFTERNO ON, AUGUST 17, 1938
timony by JJ. L. Chaillaux, American
Legion official, concerning commun
istic activities in the United States.
Smythv, who %>aid he was vice
president of the American League for
Democracy and Peace, was the first
ot eight named to comment on Chail
jaux’s statements.
“It is a matter of common know
ledge,” said Smythe,” that our organ
ization is not communistic, and our
records are always available for
proof.”
Meanwhile, addition of Senator Tyd
ings, Democrat, Maryland, and Rep
resentative O’Connor, Democrat, New
York, to President Roosevelt’s “per
sonal purge list” left capital politi
cians wondering whether he would
denounce other anti-administration
congressmen.
Speculation centered main y on
Senator Smith, Democrat, South Caro
lina. «| f
on July 23 accepted the plan which
provides for a census of the volun
teers, and then proportionate * with
drawals from each side.
Insurgent sources here expressed
the belief the insurgent note given to
Britain’s representative yesterday
would raise so many technical objec
tions to the London plan that the re
ply might as well be an out-and-out
“No.”
The Spanish government, mean
while, came out of a ministerial crisis
apparently stronger than before, with
Premier Negrin firmly in control of
all factors and pledged to fight the
conflict to the end.
T emperat ures
Go Higher In
No. Carolina
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(By The Associated Press)
Old Sol rode the Carolinas today
from the mountains to the sea as the
mercury flirted with the top of the
tube and people sweltered.
Nor was ther e much soxace in the
weather man’s charts. He saw pos
sible thundershowers late this after
noon and tomorrow, for the north
central section of North Carolina,
with the same reading for the South
Carolina coast, but he admitted they
would not stop Old Sol dead in his
tracks.
Charlotte, with 92 degrees at noon
today, and top tier humidity, was hot
on the heels of the 97 registered in
mid-afternoon yesterday.
A heavy shower joined a thunder
storm to cool things off at Wilming
ton last night, but the temperature
was 97 at noon today, against yes
terday’s 89.
The noon reading of 94 on the
Weather Bureau thermometers at Ra
leigh was one degree higher than at
that hour yesterday. A year’s high of
98 was set at Raleigh at 4 o’clock yes
terday.
Greensboro’s temperature was 90
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WEATHER.
FOR NORTH CAROLINA.
Partly cloudy, with a few scat
tered thundershowers this after
noon or tonight and in south por
tion Thursday; not quite so warm
in north portion.
GIRL AND ESCORT ABDUCTED
[ i in Jjg
r°ggy Gross and Daniel Cox Fahey, Jr.
Death penalty under the Lindbergh law hangs over the heads of two ab
ductors of a socially-prominent St. Louis girl, Peggy Gross', 23, and her escort,
Daniel Cox Fahey, Jr., 31, an architect. The two were seized as they sat in
their car on a St # Louis street. They were dumped from the car on a
highway near Minneapolis after a wild 36-hour ride. By taking Miss Gross
and Fahey across state lines the abductors violated the federal Lindbergh
law. The abducted pair is shown in Minneapolis po.ice headquarters.
Dewey Says
Hines In On
Schultz Cash
Defendant Charged
With “Political Pro
tection” of Big-Money
Rackets
New York, Aug. 17.—(AP)—District
Attorney Thomas Dewey today told a
“blue ribbon” jury that the notorious
Dutch Schultz mob advertised to the
underworld that James J. Hines, pow
erful Tammany district leader, was
political protector of the multi-million
dollar policy racket.
Dewey charged that Hines was pre
sent with Abraham (Bo) Weinberg, a
Schultz mobster, in 1932 at a meeting
in which the Schultz gang laid # plans
to “take over” the policy racket, then
unorganized.
The prosecutor said J. Richard
“Dixie” Davis known as the “kid
mouthpiece” of the Schultz gang, who
has pleaded guilty and turned State’s
evidence in the present trial, was also
present at the meeting.
“By the use of gunmen, beatings
and murder, Schultz took over con
trol of the business.” Dewey said. “Its
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O’Neal Asks
Huge Bounty
For Farmers
Greenville, N. C., Aug. 17 (AP)
Edward O’Neal, president of the Ame
rican Farm Bureau Federation, told
North Carolina farmers today that the
federal government should spend sl,-
500,000,000 annually to raise farm in
come.
O’Neal, in an address prepared for
delivery at the annual North Carolina
Farm Bureau meeting here, attended
by several thousand members and
visitors, attacked the protective sys
tem which allows manufacturers to
sell goods at American prices, but
makes farmers sell their produce at
world prices.
“If the actual cost of the American
protective system could be figured out,
it would run to about $3,000,000,000
annually, and the farmers pay the big
share of it” saiH O’Neal. “I believe the
only fair thing for the government
to do is to reimburse the farmers for
what an artificially maintained in'
dustrial price level costs them, I am
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EXCEPT SUNDAY
Georgia’s Season
Sales Set Record
Waycrosse, Ga., Aug. 17. —(AP) —
A number of south Georgia bright
leaf tobacco markets prepared to
end the 1938 auction season today,
but already the dollar value of the
crop had reached an all-time high,
with the official tabulation show
ing that $17,646,495.84 was paid
growers through the first twelve
days of sales.
The 15 auction centers handled
a total of 82,050,535 pounds of leal
during the 12 days but this volume
did not approach the 1930 record
of 103,305,159 pounds. The 1930 crop
sold for only $10,767,000, however, a
figure that the 1938 sales had ex
ceeded in the first seven days of
auctions.
George Given
Inside Track
For Georgia
By CHARLES I*. STEWART
Central Press Columnist
Washington, Aug. 17. —If President
Roosevelt succeeds in swinging Geor
gia's Democratic senatorial nomina
tion to Lawrence Camp, Sept. 14, poli
tical Washington’s consensus is that
he can consider himself as having the
party effectively by the scruff of the
neck—that it will be his kind of a
party on into the indefiinte future
whether he chooses to run again in
1940 or not.
It generally is agreed, however, that
heating Senator Walter F. George for
renomination will not be quite enough.
If Ex-Gov. Eugene Talmadge should
be the Georgia Democrats’ senatorial
choice it would be a defeat for George,
to be sure, but it' would not be a
triumph for the President either. For
“F. D.” to win, Camp must win.
George Has Edge.
In a clean-cut fight between George
and Talmadge I know of no Georgians
(and they have some highly intel
ligent newspaper correspondents here)
who question that George would be
victorious.
Probably, it is agreed, Camp would
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FARM SECURITY IN
PLANS FOR SEASON
Raleigh, Aug. 17.—(AP)— Countj
advisory committeemen and county
supervisors of the Farm Security Ad
ministration from nine counties met
here today with State and regional
officials to study plans for the farm
tenant program this fiscal year.
Granville, Vance, Warren, Wake,
Franklin, Nash, Durham. Orange and
Robeson counties were represented.
Similar two-day meetings will be
held at Kinston August 19-20.
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Britain And
France Look
For U. S. Aid
n
Secretary in Broad
cast Points to Danger
Sign in German Ambi
tions in Central Eu
rope ; Economic and
Moral Reconstruction
Urged ' r
Washington, Aug.. 17. —(AP)—Sec-
retary Hull’s appeal to the world to
turn the tide of lawlessness through
economic and moral reconstruction a
roused enthusiasm today among Bri
tish and French officials, worried
over recurring war threats.
A spokesman for the French Fore
ign Office said in Paris: “The speech
shows that the leaders of America’?
foreign policy are alive to the danger
in Europe.”
Britons welcomed the address,
broadcast internationally last night,
as raising a danger sign against Ger
man ambitions in central Europe.
Dispatches from Rome, on the oth
er hand, told of mounting fascist dis
pleasure on the speech, which was
not distributed to Italian papers by
the semi-official news agency, Stefani.
The State Department head warned
all governments to "he on guard a
gainst certain dangerous develop
ments which imperil them.”
ENGLAND AND FRANCE SEE
GREATER U. S. ASSISTANCE
London, Aug. 17.—(AF) —The press
of Europe’s democracies today saw
United States Secretary Hull’s appeal
for peace as a warning to dictator
ships as acknowledging that America
cannot hold herself aloof from world
happenings, and extending “moral au
thority*’ of his countrymen in a “war
of principles.’’
There generally was praise for the
secretary’s radio speech last night,
both in newspaper editorials and in
the private comment of officials.
NOTHING NiEW IN SPEECH
TOKYO SPOKESMAN STATES
Tokyo, Aug. 17.—(AP) —The Foreign
Office spokesman, in comment on
Secretary Hull’s peace speech, said to
day: "Mr. Hull is an idealist, and this
was a repetition of his idealistic dip
lomacy, which contains nothing not
included in recent pronouncements.”
WAYNE WOMAN SAYS
SHE SLEW HUSBAND
Goldsboro, Aug. 17. (AP)
Coroner T. R. Robinson ordered
today an inquest at 10 xi. m. to
morrow into the death of Charles
Daniels, 37-year-old New Hope
township farmer last night of a
gunshot wound. Sheriff Paul Gar
rison said Mrs. Daniels had admit
ted the shooting. He quoted her
as saying she fired the shotgun
at close range, “because 1 was
afraid of him.”
Garrison said Mrs. Daniels had
been released under her own re
cognizance pending her hearing.
Hoey Wires
Corrigan To
Visit State
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Wants “Wrong Way”
Flier To See Kill
Devil Hill and Lost
Colony Site
Raleigh, Aug. 17.—(AP)—Governor
Hoey telegraphed Douglas Corrigan
today, inviting the famous flier to
visit Kill Devil Hill, the birthplace o?
aviation, and the site of the first Eng
lish settlement in America, whose
leaders perhaps “had compass trouble”
which resulted in the disappearance
of the Lost Colony. The governor sent
the invitation to Corrigan at Buffalo,
N. Y.
“I extend most cordial invitation to
visit this State,” said Hoey, ‘‘espe
cially Kitty Hawk and Kill Devil Hill,
the birthplace of aviation in America,
where the Wright brothers made their
first right-way flight; also Roanoke
Island, where Sir Walter Raleigh’]
colony from England established first
settlement in North Carolina 351 years
ago. This colony later disappeared and
has gone down v in history as the ‘Lost
Colony.’ Perhaps its leaders had com
pass trouble similar to yours, and you
can help us find out where they went
on their ‘wrong tvay’ trip. You can be
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