HENDERSON’S
POPULATION
13,873
TWENTY-FIFTH YEAR
Convicts At
Philadelphia
Suffocated
Driven “Stark Mad”
by Steam Heat in “Air
Tight Cell Blocks,”
Probers Say
Philadelphia. Aug. 24.—(AP) — A
picture of death among convicts
driven ‘‘stark mad” by steam heat in
an “air tight cell block” was drawn
today by two officials investigating
the deaths so four hunger-striking in
mates of the Philadelphia county
prison.
Coroner Charles Hersch said au
topsies disclosed that the four de
sciibed bv Warden William Mills as
“agitators” in a strike of 600 prison
ers, died of suffocation in punishment
cells where • their nude, battered
bodies were found early Monday.
The coroner said the four and some
20 other prisoners were placed in the
ceils Sunday night. The windows were
closed and steam was turned on in
the radiators by a guard. He said he
•would continue his investigation until
he learned whether the heat was turn
ed on intentionally or if it might
have been an act of carelessness, and
added: “We know the guard who
turned on the heat; what we want to
establish now is who gave him the
order.”
Similar versions of how they said
the deaths occurred were given by
Hersch and Assistant District Attor
ney John Boyll, who said that inter
rogation of witnesses revealed “con
ditions much more like the Black
Hole in Calcutta, rather than a mod
ern prison.” Boyle declared that no
body went rear the place (punishment
cell) all night.
UNDERPASS SITE IN
APEX IS PROTESTED
Raleigh, Aug. 24. —(AP) —The High
way and Public Works Commission
considered routine business at a brief
meeting here today. A protest on the
location of an underpass on Route 55
in Apex was received from residents
of that town, and a hearing on the
matter was set for September 9 in
Apex. The hearing will be conducted
by Chairman Frank Dunlap and two
commissioners.
Formal approval was given to a re
cently-awarded contract for paving a
section of Route 59 between the Wake
county line and Louisburg.
High British
Official Shot
In Palestine
Jerusalem, Aug. 24. —(AP) —Gunmen
invaded British district administra
tive headquarters at Jenin today and
seriously wounded J. S. Moffatt, Bri
tish assistant district commissioner.
The attackers fired five shots point
blank at Moffatt. They were reported
to be Arabs.
He was the second British official
of the same rank to be shot during
the past year as a result of the strife
between Jews and Arabs in the Holy
Land. The other was L. Y. Andrews,
who was slain at Nazareth in Sep
tember, 1937.
Moffatt wa3 rushed to Haifa for a
blood transfusion, but little hope was
held for his recovery. He is a bachelor
in the late 30’s, and had been in
Palestine since 1925. *
Before the incident at Jenin, eight
gunmen raided the police station at
Lydda and stole a quantity of rifles
and ammunition after over-powering
policemen on duty. Airplanes and
troops with bloodhounds hunted the
raiders.
Farmers Say Crop Control
To Be Permanent Agency
Daily Dispatch Bureau,
In The Sir Walter Hotel.
Raleigh, Aug. 24.—Despite the ve
hement post-election campaign car
ried on by the opposition to such re
gulation, tobacco farmers who have
cut and cured their crop tell the
newspaper men that there will be
even less difficulty attending the
election next year.
Ry the terms of the federal act
there can be an election called by the
growers, who in this instance hap
pen to be cotton and tobacco farm
ers. There may and there may not be
su ch election next year, as the basis
of it will be the November 15 report,
which will show whether there is
rnore than five per cent of the nor
mal supply on hand. If so, the secre
tary of agriculture makes his call
and there is another vote.
The summer and fall developments
have been quite .contrary to the ear
lier Predictions. It was said that the
t ig fellow gets all the breaks and the
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Strapped to a stretcher, one of the victims of the subway crash at the
116th Street station of the Lexington Avenue subway line in New York
City is shown being rushed to hospital. A local train crashed into another,
stalled in the station. Two Were killed, forty injured.
Frank Hawks
Meets Death
In His Plane
Friend in Plane With
Him on Test Flight
Also Dies at Buffalo,
New York
Buffalo, N. Y., Aug. 24.—(AP) —
Death came last night to Lieutenant-
Commander Frank Hawks, world fa
mous speed flyer, as he had predict
ed —in an airplane. The 41-year-old
aviator, who had turned a year ago
from speed flying to tWe aviation
iness, struck some wires and crashed
in flames on a polo field near Buffalo.
Hawks, who told a friend some
years ago, “I expect to die in an air
plane,” and J. H. Campbell, up-State
socialite and sportsman, who had ac
cepted an invitation for a trial spin
in a small plane Hawks’ company
sells, were fatally injured.
Horrified friends, who had watched
the take-off from the small field,
heard the plane crash behind a clump
of trees. They saw a flash as flames
shot high in the air. They pulled
Hawks from the controls of the blaz
ing ship and dragged Campbell from
beneath a crumpled wing. The injur
ed men were taken to a Buffalo hos
pital in ambulances. Neither regained
consciousness.
Hawks was flying a plane designed
for private flying. He carried a four
leaf clover a friend had given him for
“a good luck” a few minutes before
the take-off.
COMMISSIONERS OF
PITT ARE SUSTAINED
Greenville, Aug. 24.—(AP) — Judge
Paul Frizzelle today sustained a de
murrer motion of the Pitt county
commissioners in an action brought
by a group of tax-payers seeking to
recover county funds alleged to have
been paid to A. S. Batson and, or, the
National Bureau of Investigation.
little fellow gets all the losses. Fall
surveys show that the fai mers now
vocative against the control act are
found among the time merchants and j
the absentee growers. This was not
expected. There were manifest hard
ships upon the small growers. But
after the first year under control he
seems to be less dissatisfied than he
was at the beginning.
The seasons worked well with the
controllers who found evidences a”
over the world of a stimulated to
bacco growth. The weather mowed
down many a stalk and reduced the
poundage on many an acre. Notwith
standing which, the growers count
their crop pretty good and the pros
pect for good money far better than
it was three months ago.
Agricultural leaders in eastern
North Carolina declare that there
isn’t the slightest chance of repeal
ing the control feature for this half
of the State. They are convinced that
it is a necessity. _
ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA AND VIRGINIA.
HENDERSON, N. C., WEDNESDAY AFTERNO ON, AUGUST 24,1938
Transport Liner
Falls; Four Hurt
Alhuequerque, N. M., Aug. 24. —
(AP) —Eleven persons escaped se
rious injury early today when for
ced landing badly damaged a
Transcontinental & Western Air
transport lineT'four miles north of
Albuquerque airport.
Officials of the line said they
were not immediately able to as
sign the cause of the accident.
Mr. and Mrs. Q. J. Smith, of Bell
Bel Air. Cal., and their two sons,
aged nine and three, were taken to
an Albuquerque hospital for obser
vation, but attendants said they ap
peared to he suffering only minor
cuts and bruises:
Four other passengers, the pilot,
co-pilot and stewardess, went to a 1
hotel. A TWA spokesman said they '
were not injured.
Primary Fight
To Give Court
Plenty To Do
Daily Dispatch Bureau,
In The Sir Walter Hotel.
Raleigh, Aug. 24. —Judge W. C.
Harris listens half the day and
meditates the other half as the Bur
gin-Deane contest unfolds before his
honor, who finds the situation so new
to him that he must take it in small
installments.
Argument and presentation of af
fidavits make up the morning session
and afternoon with the books is the
judicial program. So far as is known,
there has been nothing even akin to
the present case and Judge Harris
has to feel his way along.
Both sides are getting help. In his
present mood the jurist inclines a
gainst the challenge to the State
Board of Elections’ authority. Habi
tuated to review of his own courts,
the judge leans strongly toward ac
ceptance of the State board as the
final arbiter. But he leaves a wide
open door to the plaintiff, who is al
leging that arbitrary action by the
board in throwing out certain bal
lots in'the congressional primary of
July 2, was improper in that it ignor
ed the plaintiff’s rights. If it should
turn out that the State board acted
upon insufficient law or evidence, it
seems now that Judge Harris has the
contest where it was before there was
a judgment.
For instance, in one county cer
tain ballots were counted by the coun
ty board. They were disallowed by
the State board. The authority of the
State board to throw out those bal
lots is based on something besides its
standing as a State agency. If the
State board threw the count impro
perly, they may be counted again.
And there the case in its incomplete
developments was standing this morn
ing.
There is, however, a political aspect
which has had no treatment at all.
Rumors get out that the board was
badly divided in its decision. Whether
the old distrust perseveres or not,
there is a feeling that the perpetual
war of the Republican party on the
State’s election laws has been car
ried into the board by the minority.
In the Deane-Burgin contest it is al
leged by the Burgin members of the
legal household that Republicans vot
ed in the primary for Deane and did
so without challenge; that they went
into the Democratic primary without
giving notice of their change in poli
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Japs Attack
Plane With
17 On Board
12 Passengers Killed
or Wounded; Some
Missing; American
Aboard as Pilot
Hong Kong, Aug. 24.—(AP) — The
American pilot of a Chinese air liner
reported today that Japanese war
planes had forced him to set his plane
down near Canton and then machifte
gunned it, killing or wounding at least
14 of the 17 persons aboard.
H. L. Woods, of Hays, Kans., the
pilot, reached Macao unhurt. All oth
ers on the plane were Chinese. The
forced landing was made on a small
river between Canton and Macao, Por
tuguese colony 50 miles to the south.
The pilot sent this message to the
China National Aviation Corporation,
owners of the plane: “Landed on
river O. K. Japanese machine-gunned
us, killing or wounding 12 passengers,
also co-pilot and stewardess. Radio
operator L<>h, one passenger and my
self survive. Other fourteen unac
counted for. Ship, sunk in river.”
A United States gunboat left Hong
Kong for Macao to aid survivors after
hurriedly recalling to duty officers
and men ashore here.
Forty-five percent of the China Na
tional Aviation Corporation’s capital
is held by American interests, the
rest by the Chinese government.
Reports from Macao later than
Wood’s message said C. N. Lou, the
passenger who reached that port with
the pilot, had a bullet wound and was
taken to a hospital for an. operation.
Still later, two other passengers
were reported admitted to a hospital
near the scene of the shooting in
grave condition.
The air liner encountered the Jap
anese plane southwest of Canton
while it was flying from Hong Kong
to Wuchow.
Magill Quits
His Position
In Treasury
Hyde Park, N. Y., Aug. 24.—(AP) —
President Roosevelt accepted today,
the resignation of Roswell Magill, his
under secretary of the treasury, with
an expression of ‘‘genuine regret”.
Magill, who has been the Treasury’s
top tax expert for a year and a half
recalled in a letter •to the President
that he had accepted his appointment
in January, 1937, with the understand
ing that he would return to his pro
fessorship in ihe Columbia University
Law School this September.
He tendered his resignation as of
September 15.
Meantime, the President, condem
ning reported Republican interven
tion in Democratic primaries, cleared
the way for administration support of
an independent senatorial campaign
in Idaho. The President said yester
day that decent political morality de
manded that members of one party
stay out of the primary elections of
another party. His statement was pre
cipitated by questions about the poli
tical situation in Idaho, where Sena
tor Fope, a down-the-line administra
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Seeking Truce?
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Shown entering his Paris hotel dur
ing a brief stay on his trip to Lon
don, is the Emir Ibn Saoud, King of
Arabia. It is reported he wHI con
fer with British authorities with a
view to ending the conflict between
, Arabs and Jews in Palestine.
(Central Press)
“weather”
FOR NORTH- CAROLINA.
Partly cloudy, with scattered
thundershowers this afternoon or
tonight in north portion and pos
sibly near coast tonight or Thurs
day; slightly cooler in north cen
, tral portion tonight, and in north
and central portions Thursday.
East Carolina Leaf Markets
Expect Average Os Over $25
As Season Begins Tomorrow
U. S. New Undersea Guardian
Gaily bedecked with flags and bunting, the Saury, newest member of
Uncle Sam’s undersea fleet, is pictured from an unusual angle a few
moments after the launching ceremony at New London, Conn. The craft,
of a new type, is 299 feet long with a beam of 26 feet and a displacement
of 1,435 tons. (Central Press)
Dewey Casts
James Hines
As Boniface
Operated His Rackets
While Giving Free
Turkeys and Food to
Poor Families
New York, Aug. 24.—(AP) — Dis
trict Attorney Thomas Dewey and De
fense Counsel Lloyd Stryker crossed
verbal swords today in an “off-stage”
hearing before Supreme Court Justice
Ferdinand Pecora, delaying the re
sumption of the conspiracy trial of
Tammany district leader James J.
Hines.
The youthful racket-busting prose
cutor, taking up the thread of yester
day’s sensational testimony by George
Weinberg, an ex-convict and once top
aide of the late gang overlord Dutch
Schultz, sought the admission of tes
timony portraying Hines as a political
baniface distributing free turkey and
food baskets to the poor families of
his West Side district.
Stryker entered vigorous objection,
asserting he was all too clearly aware
of the “joker” in Dewey’s offer to
characterize his client as one who
kindly gave.
It was not immediatel y apparent
why Dewey placed such heavy em
phasis on the free turkey angle, since
he had scored far heavier hits thro
ugh the testimony of Weinberg that
Hines was paid SSOO a week to “fix”
New York City magistrates on policy
raid arrests, and to ‘‘break” too per
sistent police officers.
Roosevelt Is
Trying System
England Uses
By CHARLES F. STEWART
Central Press Columnist
Washington, Aug. 24. —(Continued):
We were discussing the English na
tional electoral system, as compared
with ours.
It is agreed, I take it, that an Eng
lish administration is entitled to try
to influence an election —not crook
edly hut by argument, both offensive
and defensive. I don’t assert that an
American administration is unentitled
to do so, but it’s disputed, as in the
case of President Roosevelt’s present
activities.
Our Plan May Deadlock.
What ensues when an English
ministry (administration) calls an
election, as we’re having one in the
U S. A.?
Why, if that ministry’s side wins,
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EXCEPT SUNDAY
Robber Killed by
Pembroke Officer
Pembroke, Aug. 24. (AP) —A
man identified by Coroner D. W.
Biggs as “Red” Jacobs, of Hamlet,
was killed instantly in a pressing
club here today in a burst of gun
fire that sprawled his body face
downward »n an open Bible in a
display window.
The Robeson county coroner said
Jacobs was killed by Night Police
man Ed Martin, who reported that
he was fired upon by two men out
side the building while on his tour
of duty. Martin, he said, ducked
into a boiler shelter and then was
shot at by Jacobs from inside the
building. Martin, the coroner said,
returned the fire, felling Jacobs as
the two other men motored away,
and left behind m suits of clothing
which he said Jjad been removed
from the establishment.
New Bridge
Scenic W onder
In The State
Edenton, Aug. 24.—(AP)—Thous
ands of persons are expected here to
morrow for the dedication of the new
Albemarle Sound bridge, the largest
and most expensive span in North
Carolina. Speeches, a parade of floats
and a beauty contest are on the pro
gram.
Former Governor J. C. B. Ehring
haus, of Elizabeth City and Raleigh,
will make the principal address. As
governor, Ehringhaus backed legisla
tion to remove tolls from bridges in
the northeast section of the State.
Chowan, Perquimans, Pasquotank.
Washington, Tyrrell, Hyde and Dare
counties will be represented in a pa
rade of floats which will leave here
late tomorrow morning.
Frank Dunlap, chairman of the
State Highway and Public Works
Commission, will present the bridge
to the people of the Albemarle sec
tion. Governor Hoey will make the
address of welcome, and Colonel E.
E. Holland, of Suffolk, Va., a membei
of the staff of Governor James Price
of Virginia, will respond.
The bridge was opened to vehicle
traffic August 14. It runs from Leon
ard’s Foint in Washington county,, to
Sandy Point, in Chowan, a distance
of about three and a half miles, and
cuts 30 to 60 miles from the highway
distance between the counties.
Daily Dispatch Bureau,
In The Sir Walter Hotel.
Raleigh, Aug. 24. —Upstaters are as
much interested in the Albemarle
bridge, which is to open formally to
morrow, .as anybody; for they see
daily streamers on Virginia and North
Carolina cars, the exact size of “The
Lost Colony” strips and these pro
claiming the James River Bridge.
The advertising of the Virginia
crossway omits the small fortune
which the traveler must pay to get
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Huge Breaks
Already Laid
Upon Floors
Governor To Attend
Opening in at Least
One Market; Quotas
Are Pleasing
Raleigh, Aug. 24. —(AP) —Prices of
better than $25 per hundred pounds
were expected tomorrow when the
singsong chant of the tobacco auc
tioneer sounds the opening of 14 New
Blight Belt markets in Eastern North
Carolina.
By truck, trailer and wagon thous
ands of pounds of the golden weed,
North Carolina’s principal money
crop, were brought to the market
towns today.
Experts said the tobacco was of ex
cellent cigarette quality, and predict
ed the price would be somewhat high
er than the 25-cent average marked
up by the Border Belt markets, which
opened several weeks ago. East year
the Bright Belt average was $25.43 per
hundred pounds.
Governor Hoey will be on hand for
the belt’s opening, making an address
at Wendell early tomorrow morning.
Sales Supervisor George Hall said
heavy offerings were expected at
Wendell. Smithfield warehousemen
also said they were looking for heavy
offerings. Sales Supervisoi George Ar
rington said about 750,000 pounds
were on the floors of the warehouses
at Rocky Mount by noon, and predict
ed opening day offerings would ag
gregate at least 1,000,000 pounds. He
said offerings mostly were primings
of good color.
Opening day sales on the Greenville
market were expected to exceed one
million pounds. Twelve warehouses
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DURHAM MAN JAILED
FOR MURDER TRIAL
Eugene Evanis’ Car Caused Three
Deaths and Four Injuries
There Week
Durham, Aug. 24.—(AP) —Counsel
for Eugene Evans waived prelimi
nary hearing today when the 45-year
old city mail carrier was arraigned
in recorder’s court in connection with
a highway tragedy here August 17,
in which three persons were killed
and four injured.
Judge William Murdock ordered
Evans jailed without privilege of bond
pending trial of the case at the Sep
tember term of superior court, which
convenes on September 5.
Evans, who allegedly drove his car
into two separate groups of persons
on the Durham-Raleigh highway,
near here, is charged with man
slaughter.
Says State
Board Within
Its Rights.
Attorney General De
fends Elections Body
in Certifying Deane
for Congress
Raleigh, Aug. 24.—(AP)—Attorney
General Harry McMullan asserted in
Wake Superior Court today that the
State Board of Elections was within
its legal right in refusing to certify
Democratic primary election returns
“which it knew to be fraudulent.”
Without that legal right, McMu lan
said, the board would be “like a pup
pet emperor of Manchoukuo with no
tower to do anything but sign, sign
and sign.”
Attorneys for W. O. Burgin, of Lex
ington, who is seeking to force the
State board to declare hi mthe Demo
cratic nominee for the United States
House of Representatives in the
eighth congressional district, categori
cally denied McMullan’s statement.
The State board, they said, had no
authority to throw out votes cast in
the July 2 election after the returns
had been certified by county ballots.
After an investigation by the State
board, C. B. Deane, of Rockingham,
had a 23-vote majority.
The election hearing, which began
Monday, reached its final statements
with arguments of attorneys today
The case is being heard before Judge
W. C. Harris, of Raleigh.