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HENDERSON’S POPULATION 13,873 TWENTY-FIFTH YEAR HEW YORK SUBWAY CRASH FATAL FOR TWO Shanghai Is Threatened By Outbreak Chinese Guerrillas Battle Japanese Near International Settle ment Area Shanghai, Aug. 22.—(AP) —Fighting came ominously close to Shanghai again today when 1,000 Japanese sol dieis and bands of Chinese guerrillas came to gripso n the western border of the city. The battle, which began before dawn, and quick.y enveloped the western edge of an area where Shang hai's big airdrome is located, was the largest in the Shanghai area since the Japanese captured the city last November. Scores of foreign residents in that area were endangered, many rushing to the international settlement for safety. The guerrillas, believed, about 500, were apparently well armed with machine guns and rifles, and were maintaining constant fire. Dozens of Japanese trucks, loaded with rein forcements, raced westward through (he outer portion of the international settlement to take up the battle after the regular outposts were unable to cope with the attack. Shortly after the battle started.'. Japanese closed that area to civilians to entry or exit. Stock Trading Unusually Dull New York, Aug. 22. —(AP) —Rally- ing power faded from the stock mar ket today and dealings dwindled to the lowest total for a full session in more than two months. With the ticker tape at a dead stop for more than a minute at the time, transfers approximated only 350,000 shares, the smallest turn-over since June. Bonds v;ere mixed and major commodities on the whole were in arrears. , American Radiator 15 3-8 . American Telephone 142 5-8 American Tob B 87 1-2; Anaconda ... 34 Atlantic Coast Line 21 Atlantic Refining 23 1-4 Eendix Aviation 23 1-8 Bethlehem Steel 1... 58 1-2 Chrysler 72 1-2 Columbia Gas & Eiec 6 1-2 Continental Oil 9 1-2 Curtiss Wright 5 1-2 DuPont 130 1-4 Electric Pow & Light 10 3-8 General Electric 42 General Motors ! 47 1-4 Liggett & Myers B 100 Montgomery Ward & Co 46 1-2 Reynolds Tob B 42 Southern Railway 13 Standard Oil N J 54 1-2 U S Steel 58 3-4 99 Percent Os N. C. Farms Get Benefits Raleigh, Aug. 22.—Approximately 99 percent of North Carolina farm land is this year covered by work sheets of the federal soil conserva tion program, according to E. Y. Eloyd, of State College, head of the AAA set up in North Carolina. This is a distinct gain over last year, with 256,000 farms covered this year against 143,000 last, accord ing to Mr. Floyd. These work sheets qualified the farms for participation in the program and entitled the own-. er s to payments under the AAA soil conservation program. Last year farmers who cooperated earned about $9,350,000 in payments, Rloyd said. Through August 13 checks for $8,893,691.05 had been distributed to beneficiaries, and checks for the remaining $456,300 are in process of being distributed, batches being sent out by mail daily. In view of the greater number of farms covered by work sheets in 1938, Rloyd estimates, North Carolina far mers should be able to earn consid erably more this year than they did in 1937 if they carry out all the prac tices recommended. Payments are made on a basis of compliance with soil conserving rules and regulations laid down by the AAA. Under the program, farmers are of fered payment for regulating their acreage of soil-depleting * cash crops and for carrying out soil building practices like terracing, applying lime and phosphate, reseeding pas tures where needed, growing legumes, and turning under green manure crops. riENDERsoa itmtitersmt Hat hi Btstratch LEASED WIRE SERVICE OP THE ASSOCIATED PRESS. Crisis Quickly Met In French Cabinet After Resignations Reconciliation ? '' *' > M 9 | k .... . j ■■ p k jj.: Count and Countess Reventlow . . . together on another day Will- tiMy «rJke up 7 That ques tion is asked by friends of Count and Countess Kurt Haugwitz- Reventlow —she is the former Barbara Hutton, the Woolworth heiress —following the couple’s surprise meeting at Venice, Italy. The Woolworth heiress recently obtained a legal separation in the Danish courts. —Central Preu 1 - -i Fight Heads To High Court Over Congress Raleigh, Aug. 22.—(AP)— Counsel for W. O. Burgwin, of Lexington, charged in Wake Superior Court to day that “threatened action’’ of the State Board of Elections would makc- North Carolina Democratic primaries safe for Republicans.” All doubt that the elections dispute finally would be settled by the Su preme Court was dispelled when Judge W. C. Harris - overruled a de murrer, brought by the State board, which asked dismissal of Burgin’s complaint. The judge’s decision, attorneys said, was a move to expedite appeal to the Supreme Court. Attorney General Harry McMullan, representing the State Board, quickly noted an excep tion. Burgwin is seeking a mandamus to force the State board to certify him as the Democratic nominee for the United States House of Representa tives from the eighth congressional district. The board has maintained that C.*B. Deane, of Rockingham, led Burgin by 23 votes at the July second primary. Burgin’s attorneys stated their client won the nomination on the basis of returns originally certified by county boards of elections, and that the State board exceeded its rights in “demanding and coercing” county boards to change the original returns. J. C. B. Ehringhaus, attorney for Burgwin, said the State board was re quired to certify returns submitted (Oontinuec on Page Five.) SPRING HOPE MAN GETS FBI ADVANCE Dwight Brantley, Long in Service, Suc ceeds Reed Vetterli in New York Office New York, Aug. 22. —(AP) Reed Vetterli, special agent in charge of the New York office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, today resign ed his position to enter private busi ness. He was succeeded by Dwight Brantley, who until last Thursday was agent in charge of the Kansas City office of the FBI. Brantley, was born in Spring Hope, N. C., and has been with the FBI since November, 1924. He was agent in charge at Kansas City until February, 1937, coming east only last week. ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OF NORTH CAR OLINA AND VIRGINIA. HENDERSON, N. C., MONDAY AFTERNOON, AUGUST 22,1938 40 - Hour Week In French Industry An Issue in Retirement of Two Ministers; Means Trouble for Daladier When Parliament Comes Back Faris,-Aug. 22.—(AP) —Two of pre mier Daladier’s cabinet ministers re signed suddenly today, bringing on a crisis over the premier’s plant to abolish the 40-hour week in French in dustry. L. Frossard, ministry of pub lic works, and Paul Ramadier, min ister of labor, gave up their posts in a surprise move. The premier met the threat to his ministry’s life by patching up his cab inet within two hours, naming De puty Anatole de Monzie, his close friend, minister of public works, and Deputy Charles Pomaret minister of labor. Both new ministers belong to the same* party as those who resigned. The small socialist union group, more conservative than but closely allied with the larger socialist party, was chiefly responsible for enactment of the 40-hour law in 1936. Although the premier must face a determined assault from the extreme leftist party when Parliament con venes in November, his quick success in replacing the men seemed to re move any immediate danger of his fail. Presence in the cabinet of the new men, whose names Daladier submit ted to President Lebrun —a move equi valent to confirmation —assured the premier of the same delicate balance of parties which has held his minis try firm since it was formed. The resignations marked the first open rift in the “national defense” cabinet since they took power April 10. BUTCHER FREED OF BLAME IN KILLING Thomas Moore, of Washington, N. C„ Ban Down Isaiah Creel on Sunday Night Washington, N. C., Aug. 22. —(AP) — A coroner’s jury of six men took less than an hour today to exonerate Thomas Moore, butcher at Windley’s meat market here, and driver of the automobile which was said to have struck and killed Isaiah Creel, 25, Negro service station attendant, as he walked along highway 50, about two miles from this city, at 10:15 last night. The Negro, employee of a service was said by investigating Patrolman C. Williams Thompson to have suf fered a compound fracture of the skull and at least a triple fracture of the right arm, when he was struck down by the Moore machine and it took to the left side of the highway. The Negro died almost instantly. LENOIR MAN ADMITS SHOOTING OF WOMAN Kinston, Aug. 22. (AP) —State Highway Patrolman J. K. Clay said today Grover Wilkins, 40, had con fessed the shotgun slaying of Mrs. Willie Davis, 24, near Deep Run, Sat urday night. Mrs. Davis was fatally injured by a charge fired through the window of her home. FURTHER TESTIMONY IN NEW YORK RACKET New York, Aug. 22. —(AP)—Alexan- der Pompez, 41, once operator of an SB,OOO-a-day Harlem policy bank, tes tified in the conspiracy trial of Tam many Chieftain James J. Hines today that Dutch Schultz mobsters “took care” of policy arrests after organiz ing the racket in 1932. Sharp Decline In Cotton Mart New York, Aug. 22.—(AP)— Cotton futui es opened six to nine joints low er, with weakness abroad partly off sett by trade buying and absence of heavy selling. The market displayed a steady undertone and December re covered from 8.28 to 8.32 to leave prices at net losses of three to seven points shortly after the first half hour At midday December sold at 8.30, and the list was five t<3 eight net lower. Open Close October 822 821 December 8 - 29 827 January 828 8-27 March 889 8 - 28 May 8-29 8-27 July 8 - 27 8 ' 23 Tells of War Terror Abraham Sobel • • • on stand in Washington Two disillusioned young deserters from the Lincoln battalion, a bri gade of Americans fighting in the Spanish government army, take the stand in Washington to tell the house coinwilttee investigating “un-American” activities that hundreds .of their former com rades wanted desperately to come home but were being held “virtual prisoners”. One of the witnesses, Abraham Sobel, 23, of Boston, said the American fighters were being held by Communist leaders of the government forces, spied upon by a “Russian OGPU” (secret police), threatened with machine guns at any sign of mu tiny and constantly in danger of execution. British And Italian Pact Is Deferred New European Prob lem Created by Fran co’s Rejection of Brit ish Proposal ■* London, Aug. 22 (AP) —Insurgent General Franco’s rejection of the two basic points of the scheme to get for eign fighters out of Spain appeared today to have blocked operation of the British-Italian friendship treaty for an indefinite period. Franco’s rejection, although he ac cepted the principle of withdrawal, was in a lengthy note to the 26 na tions European non-intervention-in- Spain committee, author of the plan, which was British-inspired, and had been accepted by the Spanish Barce lona government. The immediate effect was that the committee was confronted with the difficult task of finding another pro posal, with the likelihood of finding another series of delays like those which have beset the group since its first meeting in Septmeber, 1936. Thiii, in turn meant another delay in enforcement of the British pact with Italy, signed April 16, unless Premier 'Chamberlain altered his position for withdrawal of Italian fighters from Spain at the end of the war or before. Chamberlain and Viscount Halifax hurried bac kfrom the country to con fer on the turn of events today There were some in diplomatic quarters here who felt the war would be ended before any new proposal could be agreed upon for withdrawal of foreign fighters, whose presence in Spain the non-intervention commit tee regards as a threat to world peace. Roosevelt’s Power Thrust Into Maryland Baltimore, Md., Aug. 22. —(AP) — President Roosevelt’s personal pres tige and power were thrust directly on the line today as stakes in the Democratic senatorial primary in Maryland. This was made clear in addresses broadcast by Senator Tyd ings, whose neck the New Deal has marked for the political noose, and Representative Lewis, whose pate the President verbally patted with a ges ture of approval. The addresses were made last night. These two men, Tydings seeking re election on a “vote-by-conscience,” re pudiated by the President, and Lewis, down-the-line New Dealer, will fight it out at the polls September 12, with a third candidate, Arthur Hunger ford, administration advocate. IVEATHER FOB NORTH CAROLINA. Partly cloudy tonight and Tues day. . _ Hopkins ‘Denounces’ Soliciting Os Funds F rom WP A Workers Against It, No Matter Who It May Be for or Against; New York Group Reported Rais ing $50,000 To Fight Renomination of O’Connor Hyde Park, N. Y., Aug. 22.—(AP) Harry Hopkins, WPA administrator, expressed sharp criticism today of a reported effort by the Workers Alli ance to raise campaign funds from New York relief workers. Hopkins discussed, with newsmen reports that the alliance was seeking to raise $50,- 000 with which to fight Representa tive O’Connor, a sharp administration critic, who is seeking renomination in New York. Hopkins spent the night with Pres ident Roosevelt at the summer Whi + e House. .He told reporters today that the Workers Alliance, an organization of WPA workers, “has a perfect legal right” to ask funds from WPA work ers. But, he added: “I just don’t like the idea; that’s al. I think it bad. I don’t care who the money is being raised for or against.” O’Connor recently was criticized by Mr. Roosevelt as being “one of the most effective obstructionists in the lower House.” He is being opposed for renomination by James Fay, a staunch administration supporter. Meantime, the AAA announced at Washington distribution of $127,000.- 000 in price adjustment payments on 1937 cotton would get under way in September. The subsidies will be paid on about 8,788,800 bales of cotton, or 60 percent of an eligible base of pro duction of 14,648,000 bales, to farmers complying with this year’s acreage al.otment program. Also at Washington, Dr. J. B. Mat thews told a House committee that one of the aims of the American League Against War and Fascism was to cripple American munitions indus tries and bring on mutiny in the army in case of war between the United States and Russia. Matthews, a writer and lecturer, was the first president of the leagudC State Senate Race May Be Inquired Into Daily Dispatch Bureau, In The Sir Walter Hotel. Raleigh, Aug. 22.—One of the most interesting, though unverified from any official source, reports reaching this bureau recently is to the gen eral tenor and effect that Senator Morris Sheppard’s campaign investi gating committee is sending an inves tigator into North Carolina to probe alleged “intimidation” of H. P. Brown Winston-Salem man who filed for the Forsyth seat in the State Senate and later withdrew. Back in April your correspondent wrote Mr. Brown asking his reasons for withdrawal. The communication has never been answered, and so far as has come to public attention the Winston-Salem man has made no pub lic claim that he was intimidated by any one or that his withdrawal was other than entirely voluntary. It was generally assumed that the Brown retirement was in order to keep his job with WPA, a job which would automatically have been lost had he become a candidate for public office. A day or so ago there appeared a dispatch from Washington that Chairman Sheppard had said an in vestigator has been sent into a n un named to inquire into election complaints which he said “may de velop into something.” On the heels of this dispatch there came to this bureau from a source that ought to know what it was talk ing about, a circumstantial tale that Brown’s withdrawal was charged to “intimidation from State higher-ups” (unnamed and unidentified except that they were connected with WPA.) It was also asserted that the state into which the Sheppard sleuth has been sent is North Carolina and that the charge he is probing is that Brown was forced out of the race by what amounted to virtual orders from superiors. How much truth Is in all this, your correspondent knows not. It is just one of those interesting, if true, poli tical yarns behind which there is sometimes plenty, sometimes nothing. PUBLISHED EVERY AFTERNOON EXCEPT SUNDAY George Aide Fired ■ A i Edgar B. Dunlap •.. his resignation requested Claims of Edgar B. Dunlap, Georgia counsel for the Recon struction Finance Corporation, that his resignation was demand ed by Washington officials because he is supporting Senator Walter F. George for re-election, will be investigated by the senate cam paign investigating committee. Dunlap’s resignation at counsel for the RFC at Atlanta was re quested by the RFC directors “be cause of his refusal to discontinue his political activities in the face of repeated requests made by the corporation in line with its policy to have its employes refrain from active participation in political campaigns.” Senator George, an anti-New Deal Democrat, is one of the men President Roosevelt urged be defeated. —Central Press Sumner Welles Handles Fight Upon Tidings By CHARLES P. STEWART Central Press Columnist Washington, Aug. 22. Assistant Secretary of State Sumner Welles is not much talked about in connection with the Maryland political fight. The fact is he is the Washington admin istration’s chief strategist in the Rooseveltian effort to nominate Re presentative J. Lewis over Senator Millard E. Tydings on the Demo cratic ticket. Os course, New and Old Deal Dem ocrats, as well as Republicans, are in terested likewise in the Maryland gov ernorship and in the filling of the commonwealth’s six seats in the House of Representatives. However, the contest centers around the Tydings-Lewis conflict —perhaps the fiercest in the country in this con gressional election year. Odd Tieup. Welles is a Marylander himself. Anti-New Dealers complain that the President cannot properly take sides in intra-state politics, except in his own state, but they can’t support that complaint against Welles in Mary land, his own home realm. He’s a peculiar individual to be boosting for “Davey” Lewis, the for mer mine boy and proletarian, a■ gainst Tydings, the aristocrat — for Welles, too, is of the Maryland aris tocracy. Nevertheless, he’s a New Deal of ficeholder, New Deal loyalty may dic tate his preference for Lewis. Or maybe he’s a hitherto unsuspected li beral under the skin. The “upper crust” occasionally generates one of these anomalies, heaven knows how Anyway, the administration appears to have wished off onto him the task of swinging the New Deal in Mary land, and he appears to be operating promisingly. Lewis Given Edge. I wouldn’t go so far as to predict that Lewis will lick Tydings. If he does, it will be a tight fit. However, earlier in the primary campaign one would have said that Lewis didn’t stand a chance. Today guessing is at the rate of about 51 in Lewis’ favor to 49 in Tydings’. Welles undoubtedly has readjusted the odds —not so much by the boost ing he has done for Lewis as by his crafty putting of the skids under Tydings—by good advice rather than by open activity. Welles is by profes sion a diplomat, not a ballyhoo-er. Sincere Dealer. Lewis is competent to furnish his own ballyhoo. He delivers a terrific attack. He’s 8 PAGES TODAY FIVE CENTS COPY 40 Reported Hurt As Two' Trains Meet Mayor LaGuardia Per sonally Assists in Giv ing Relief to Injured; Dozen Are Rushed To Harlem Hospital Aft er Being Taken from •Shaft New York, Aug. 22.—(AP) —At least two persons were , reported killed and two score others injured in a rear-, end collision between two Lexington Avenue subway trains today. Am bulances sent to the scene gave first aid treatment to passengers on the station platform, at Lexington avenue and 116th street, and then took them to nearby hospitals. An explosion which followed the crash sent great clouds of black smoke up through sidewalk air vents. The motorman of a southbound train, S. Cota, and an unidentified Negro passenger were trapped when the first car telescoped the rear of another southbound train standing at the plat form. An ambulance surgeon finally suc ceeded in freeing the trapped motor man, but after he had amputtated his leg, working by the light of touches, and with the aid of Mayor LaGuardia who arrived shortly after the crash. Twelve of the injured were taken to Harlem hospital. They included six women and a child, and one of them was in serious condition. Most of the seriously injured vic tims were passengers in the moving train. Defers Ruling On Penalty On Tobacco Sales Florence, S. C., Aug. 22. —(AP) — Circuit Judge L. D. Lide ruled here today that he did “not deem it pro per at this stage of the case to decide the question of law here involved” in a hearing on an order that warehouse men show cause why an injunction should not be issued enjoining them from collecting penalties for tobacco sold in excess of farm quotas. The hearing was set after 27 to bacco farmers filed suit to restrain warehousemen from collecting these penalities. The judge of the 12th judicial dis trict said the questions involved were “of such tremendous significance,” affecting directly or indirectly every person in the United States, that they demanded “careful examination and deliberate consideration not only in the court of the first instance, but by eminent courts of the last resort to which they ultimately must go.” Georgia Leaf Sales Total 93 Million Lbs. Atlanta, Ga. ( Aug. 22. —(AP) —Pay- ments in excess of $19,000,000 appear ed assured for tobacco growers of Georgia, Florida and Alabama today as State ar.d Federal agricultural ex perts tabulated final sales on 15 Geor gia markets. At the same time Georgia growers were cheered by announcement from J. B. Hutson, assistant administrator for the AAA, that further adjustments may. be made in tobacco marketing quotas. Hutson was uncertain how much the increase would total, but es timates were made the final figure would be from 5,000,000 to 8,000,000 pounds more than was authorized un der the original quota restrictions. The adjustments will mean consid erable addition revenue for the to bacco producers, since* under the farm control act growers were assessed fifty percent of the sale price on all tobacco sold in excess of the market ing figure. About 30 counties have asked for quota reviews. Hutson predicted the 1938 income to Georgia tojbacco growers woul l total $19,050,000 for 93,000,000 pound* of leaf. vastly better than the average Nevr Dealer, because he is absolutely sin cere, which some of them are not — but mere partisans. Neither is he a somewhat cuckoo ballyhoo-er, like Dr. Townsend, Eugene Talmadge or th i late Huey P. Long, “Davey”, in hi* line, is the goods. He’s a first-clas* (Continued on Page Five)
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