HENDERSON’S
POPULATION
13,873
twenty-fifth year
EUROPEM WAR THREAT WORST SINCE 1914
Smith And Johnston Backers
Claim South Carolina Margin
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Pictured in hospital in Reno, Nev., is Edward Collins, 27, ex-convict who
wanted to go straight. Two ex-pals tried to lure him back into stealing,
and when he refused, nailed him to a crude wooden cross, left him to die in
screaming agony. Nails were driven through his insteps and palms of
his hands. (Central Press)
Reynolds Is
After Bank
Job Vacancy
May Ask Post for
Frank Hancock; Ra
leigh Officials En
dorse Oxford Man
Washington, Aug. 30. —(AP) —Sen-
ator Robert R. Reynolds set out today
to learn whether his State is entitled
to till a vacancy on the Home Loan
Bank Board. If so, he may have a
recommendation to make, but whether
his choice will be Representative
Frank Hancock, of North Carolina,
who unsuccessfully opposed him in
June for the State’s senatorial nomi
nation, Reynolds hasn’t said.
Reynolds said he would confer with
Chairman John Fahey, of thg board,
in regard 'to the vacancy.
Meanwhile, at Raleigh, six State of
ficials. including Governor Hoey,
have written President Roosevelt urg
ing him to name Congressman Frank
W. Hancock, Jr., of Oxford, to the
Federal Home Loan Bank board. The
Raleigh Times said there.
Other officials endorsing the Ox
ford man, the paper said, were State
Auditor George Ross Pou, Secretary
of State Thad Eure, Attorney General
Harry McMullan, State Treasurer
Charles Johnson, and Insurance Com
missioner Dan Boney.
Hancock retires from his fifth dis
trict seat in January.
Two Gunmen
Are Victims
Os Deputies
Indianapolis, Ind., Aug. 30. —(AP) —
Two gunmen were shot to death in
a wild exchange of gunfire with three
deputy sheriffs in southeastern In
dianapolis today.
Without warning, the gunmen open
ed fire on the deputies, who had halt
ed for an investigation of a taxicab
■n which the men rode. The officers
proved better marksmen. None of
the deputies were- struck.
Deputy Robert Harrick said iden
tity of gunmen had not been es
tablished positively, but they regis-
m ‘d at a hotel yesterday as Earl
Lindsay and William Davis, both of
-ouncil Bluffs, lowa.
in th e gunmen’s automobile, park
'd in the hotel garage, were a rifle,
w o sets of Arkansas license plates,
am a police dog. The car bore lowa
license plates.
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Farmers In Wayne
To Protest Quota
Goldsboro, Aug. 30.— (AP) —Two
protest meetings against alleged
inequalities in tobacco quotas were
arranged today for Wayne counity
farmers.
For those living in the northern
part of the county a meeting will
be held tomorrow night at Pike
viile. County Agent C. S. Mintz
said E. Y. Floyd, State AAA ad
ministrator, was expected to ex
plain the quotas in a speech.
A mass meeting for all. the coun
ty is to be held in the court house
here Friday night with S. H.
Hobbs, Sr., of Clinton ,as chief
speaker, Frank Hicks, a member
of the executive committee of the
North Carolina Anti-Compulsiory
Crop Control Association, annunc
ed.
Dr. Linville,
Head Insane
Asylum, Dies
Goldsboro, Aug. 30. —(AP) —Dr. W.
C. Linville, superintendent of the
State Hospital for the Colored Insane
here for the past 12 years, died at his
home early today. Dr. Linville. who
had been in ill health for more than
a year, becam e seriously sick after
an attack of peritonitis more than
a month ago. He underwent an ope
ration last Friday.
Dr. Linville had been connected
with the hospital for 24 years. He
was born in Forsyth county in 1879
Upon the death of th € first superin
tendent of the institution, Dr. W •
W. Faison, in 1926, Dr. Linville was
named to the post.
Funeral services will be held from
the home at the hospital at 9:30
o’clock tomorrow morning, and the
body will be taken to Kernersville,
where a second service will he held
and burial made in the family plor
there.
GOVERNOR HOEY REGRETS
DEATH OF DR. LINVILLE
Raleigh, Aug. 30. —(AP) —Governor
Hoey expressed regret today when in
formed of the death of Dr. W. C, Lin
ville, superintendent of the State
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FLETCHER IS YET
UNDECIDED ON JOB
Raleigh, Aug. 30.—(AP) —A. L. Flet
cher, commissioner of labor, remain
ed in Western North Carolina today,
and clerks in the office here said
they had received no indication of
whether he would accept an appoint
ment as compliance officer of the
Federal wage-hour administration.
Fletcher is expected to return here
Thursday. ...
ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA AND VIRGINIA.
Governor’s Secretary
Predicts 40,000 Ma
jority Over Smith;
Spokesman for Latter
Savs “Good Reports”
Coming from All Parts
of the State
Columbia, S. C., Aug. 30. —(AP)
Headquarters spokesmen for both
Senator E. D. Smith and Governor
Olin D. Johnston, rivals for the for
mer’s seat in the United States Sen
ate, asserted this afternoon they were
receiving optimistic reports as ballot
ing went forward in today’s Demo
cratic primary.
Roy Powell, secretary to the gover
nor, said a Johnston majority of at
least 40,000 votes- was expected. A
worker in Smith’s office here told
newsmen “good reports” were being
received from throughout the State.
Available information indicated
that the balloting went forward
quietly.
At Orangeburg, Thomas Smith, dele
gate to the National Democratic Con
vention, who joined Smith in walking
out when a Negro was called upon
to pray, announced that “red shirts”
had been seen in increasing numbers
around the polls. He said a “red
shirt” parade might be organized
here, and proceed to Columbia after
the closing of the polls.
CORRIGAN DEPARTS
FROM GREENSBORO
Greensbro, Aug. 30.—(AP) —
Douglas Corrigan, the wrong-way
traius-Atlantic flier, took off from
the Greensboro-High Point airport
for Norfolk, Va., at 12:40 p. m.
today.
Greensboro had welcomed Cor
rigan with a parade, banquet and
all the trimmings.
The flier had landed his S9OO
“crate” here late yesterday aft
ernoon after flying from Atlanta.
DRASTIC ACTION IN
PRISONERS’ DEATH
%
Philadelphia, Aug. 30.—(AP)—Gov
ernor George Earle announced today
that Coroner Charles Hurst would
“take most drastic action” at an in
quest tomorrow to fix the blame for
the “baking to death” of four hunger
striking convicts in the Philadelphia
county prison.
Earle did not indicate what the
“drastic action” would be, but said
the guilty would be punished. At the
same time, Earle issued orders to pre
vent recurrence anywhere in the State
of prison conditions that he said were
“worse than the Black Hole of Cal
cutta.”
RETIRED MINISTER
IS ROBBED BY TRIO
Youths Take Almost S7O From Rev.
C. H. Caviness and Make
Getaway
Siler City, Aug. 30 —Rev. C. H.
Caviness, superannuated minister of
the North Carolina Methodist confer
ence, was held up and robbed of
money estimated at from $65 to S7O
at a filling station and poultry farm
he operates four miles from Bennett,
Chatham county, yesterday afternoon.
Deputy Sheriff T. T. Elkins said
the minister told him and Sheriff
George Andrews that three young
white men in a gray automobile held
him up at the point of a pistol, taking
part of th e money from hidden places
in the station and the remainder off
his person, and then leaving in the di
rection of Bonlee. Officers trailed
the car to Bonlee.
American Tourists Switch
Their Trips From Europe
To Latin-America Nations
By CHARLES P. STEWART
Central Press Columnist
Washington, Aug. 36. —’Tis an ill
wind, as the old saying is, that blwos
nobody any good.
Comparatively few Americans have
been spending vacations in Europe
this summer, very much to the dis
advantage of such European business
as depends largely for prosperity up
on Yankee tourist trade.
Latin America, however, has been
catching visitors from our side of the
equator as never before.
Passport records at the State De
partment prove this conclusively.
For July alone the number of these
European traveling permits was more
than 30,000 fewer than for the corres
ponding month a year ago. Latin
American countries showed nothing
like an offsetting gain; it will take
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Pearle Badder, 20, of Germantown,
Pa., is pictured above, sound and
well. She has recovered from a rare
heart operation, during which her
heart was taken out of the chest
cavity and a coating of calcium
which encased the organ was re
moved. The rare disease is known as
calcifying pericarditis.
(Central Press)
McAdooFate
At Stake In
California
Senator One of 800
Candidates Expected
To Draw 3,000,000
Voters to Polls
San Francisco, Cal., Aug. 30.—(AP)
—California’s voters took over today
the job of settling issues in a bitter
primary campaign involving more
than 800 candidates and the political
fate of Senator William G. McAdoo,
President Roosevelt’s choice for re
election.
Secretary of State Frank Jordan,
himself a candidate for re-election,
predicted 70 percent of the State’s
3,454,058 registered voters would cast
ballots because of the issues and can
didates involved. Os the total, about
2,000,000 are Democrats and 1,250,000
Republicans.
Besides the four-way race for the
Democratic senatorial nomination,
eight Democratic sought the guber
natorial nomination in ;|nother heat
ed fight, and five .candidates battled
for the Repbblican gubernatorial
nomination. Seventeen incumbent con
gressmen sought renomination, there
were candidates for 80 State Assem
bly seats, and 20 in the State Senate
and various other State and county
offices.
An initiative proposal to pay all un
employed persons over 50 a S3O week
ly scrip pension enlivened the sena
torial and gubernatorial races after
President Roosevelt and McAdoo cen
sured the plan as unsound and
Utopian.
An attempt was being made to rule
the proposal off the ballot in Novem
ber. It is not being voted on today.
Sheridan Downey, San Francisco at
torney, who is generally regarded as
McAdoo’s foremost opponent, staunch
ly backed the pension plan.
WAYNE MAN FOUND
DEAD AS SUICIDE
jGoldsboro, Aug. 36.—(AP) —Ray
Barwick, 30, was found shot to death
at his farm home in New Hope town
ship today. Coroner T. R. Robinson,
of Wayne county, termed the death
as suicide.
time to educate our tourists up to a
rush in a southerly direction. Still, our
Latin republics have done better this
year than ever before. The trend to
ward their hemisphere promises to
increase, too, at Europe’s expense —at
least if Europe continues on the verge
of such a turmoil as threatens now.
In War Days.
What befell American visitors in
Europe when the World War broke
out has not been forgotten. Travelers’
checks were no good. Tourists were
stranded, no matter what their essen
tial resources were; they were depen
dent upon all sorts of expedients to
get them home. Naturally no one
wants to risk being caught in a simi
lar jam today.
Besides, Europe is unpleasant .under
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Washington Thinks
Europe Is Gripped
In Serious Crisis
Roosevelt Calls I n
Hull for Conference on
Situation; U. S. Navy
To Ask Congress for
$200,000,000 More for
Expansion at Coming
Winter Session
Washington, Aug. 30. —(AP) —Presi
dent Roosevelt and Secretary of State
Hull conferred this morning on the
crisis in Europe. Hull, before going to
the White House, talked over with
idvisors in the European division of
the State Department latest dis
patches received from European
capitals.
The consensus at the department
was that Europe is passing through
a real crisis, which may come to a
head about the time of the German
Nazi party meeting at Nuremberg
within a fortnight.
American diplomats in the various
capitals affected by the German-
Czechoslovakian tension have been
keeping the Sia:e Department minute
ly informed of developments.
Hull has resisted the efforts of his
assistants to get him to take a short
vacation, and is continuing at his
desk.
The President, who returned to the
capital this morning, was expected
also to discuss the Mexican situation
with the secretary.
After conferring with Hull, the
President arranged a long list of ap
pointments, which would give him an
opportunity to discuzs international
and domestic problems with other
government officials.
Other developments:
Admiral William Leahy said after
conferring wfth the President the
Navy expected to ask Congress for a
$200,000,000 increase in funds. This
year’s regular naval appropriation
was about $546,000,000, exclusive of a
$16,000,000 deficiency appropriation,
and about $50,000,000 of public works
funds used for shore construction.
The $200,000,000 presumably would be
in addition to the regular appropria
tion, not the special items.
The increase, Leahy said, was due
almost entirely to the added cost of
carrying forward the billion - dollar
fleet expansion program.
BOND SALES GIVEN
COMMISSION OKAY
Local Government Body at Raleigh
Approves Number of Finan
cial Adventures
Raleigh, Aug. 30. —(AP) —The Local
Government Commission today au
thorized sale of $11,275 funding and
$65,000 refunding bonds to be issued
by Pinetops.
The Clayton sinking fund bought
$6,000 worth of bond anticipation
notes from the town of Clayton at
two percent. The Branch Bank &
Trust Company of Fremont purchased
$4,000 of revenue anticipation notes
from Fremont at six percent.
Issuance of $61,000 water and sewer
bonds by the town of Kenly also was
approved. Voters of the town pre
viously had authorized the bonds.
Approved subject to a vote of the
people was $18,700 sewer system bonds
for Pineville.
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Wallace Robinson
, , , whisker printing
Something new in the way of ad
vertising was devised by Wallace
Robinson of Woodward, Okla., a
printer at heart but a rodeo fan
on the surface. Advertising the
annual rodeo held at Woodward,
Robinson had a job of “whisker
printing” done by the barber who
wielded his razor like a sign
painter would his brush.
—Central Press
PUBLISHED EVERY AFTERNOON
EXCEPT SUNDAY
Ousted by Nazis
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Captf Thomas Kendrick, for thir
teen years chief British passport
control officer in Vienna, is pictured
above. He was arrested by the Nazis,
held for some time as a “spy” before
he was released on insistence of
his home government. The arrest
caused a grave incident in Nazi-
British diplomacy.
(Central Press)
So. Carolina
Hard Hit By
Cotton Loan
Crop Control Proving
Disastrous to Big Land
Owners and Thous
ands of Helpers
By W. B. RAGSDAYE
St. Matthews, S. C., Aug. 30—(AP)
—Farmers throughout this rich area
of broad cotton plantations figured
today that the new cotton loan rates
would cost them money, and that
many of them were already having a
hard time taking care of farm hands
that acreage reduction had left with
nothing to do.
They took the view that the 8.30
cents a pound basic loan rate and
the other loans surrounding that
scale would become the price a*,
which cotton would he pegged for the
season. They said this was a price
at which they would lose money.
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TYRRELL MAN DIES
AS AUTO CRASHES
Columbia, N. C., Au'g. 30. —(AP) —
Johnnie Pledger, prominent 67-year
old Alligator section farmer, wa?
found dead at 9 o’clock this morning
in his automobile which had crashed
into a ditch on the Columbia-Fort
Landing road near here.
Coroner J. C. McClees and Sheriff
R. L. Swain,.after investigating, said
that Pledger died of injuries received
when his car whirled off the high
way and smashed into the ditch. No
inquest was deemed necessary.
WEATHER
FOR NORTH CAROLINA.
Partly cloudy tonight and Wed
nesday.
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Britain And
France Seek
Peace Plans
Take Emergency
Measures, However,
To Meet Conflict, if It
Comes; Will Demand
Hitler Cease Cam
paign of Hate Against
Czechs; Far East
Menacing
(By The Associated Press.)
Great Britain and France took
emergency action today to prevent
war in Europe and at the same time
to meet the conflict if it comes.
Meanwhile, Germany’s rebuilt navy
is holding maneuvers in the North
Sea, it was disclosed, while prelimin
ary army maneuvers continued in
various parts of the country and
Chancellor Adolf Hitler inspected
fortifications along the French and'
Swiss borders.
The maneuvers began last Friday
and may last until the middle of Sep
tember, the navy ministry said. They
were described as “routine,” having
no connection with the central Eu
ropean crisis.
The cabinets of Britain and France,
meeting simultaneously in the midst
of the heaviest war clouds since 1914,
gave unanimous approval to steps al-'
ready taken by their foreign minis
ters and the Czechoslovak crisis, and
agreed on policies to be followed in
the future. These policies were not
disclosed, but it was believed the Bri
tish ministers decided to make a calm
but firm final demand that Germany
halt the campaign of hate against
Czechoslovakia and cooperate in ef
forts to settle the Czechoslovak
minority problem.
The French cabinet voted to leng*
then working hours in national de
fense industries, public service, and
“public safety” industries, and at the
same time gave itself virtual power
to mobilize all French industry if
necessary. The fact that the French
ministers also approved “instructions”
to French envoys abroad indicated
the probability of a strong coordinat
ed diplomatic action by Britain and
France.
Tension between Germany and
Czechoslovakia, meanwhile, was in
creased by a second German protest
against insults to the imperial Ger
man army by a Czechoslovak news
paper. Germany previously had pro
tested Saturday and demanded that
immediate action be taken to prevent
further “aldner”.
Uneasiness also was felt in the Fir
East as a result of a statement by
Lieutenant General Itagaki, Japanese
war minister, that more clashes be
tween Japanese and Soviet Russian
forces on the Siberian frontier were
“likely to occur.”
Storm Kills
Many People
At Monterey
400 Families Home
less Besides Nine
Dead in One Town;
Others Worse Hit
Monterey, Mexico, Aug. 30. —(AP)—-
Nine persons were known dead ah i
more than 400 families were homeleai
in this northeastern Mexico industrial
center today as an aftermath of a hu *
ricane that swept inland from th i
Gulf of Mexico.
The gale brought torrential raini
to this area —nine inches in 36 hour»
and sent creeks and rivers on sud
den rises. Eight of the listed, deal
were motorists caught in the floode l
streams.
The toll in life and property los)
is expected to be multiplied seven l
times when reports are received froi i
Ciudad Victoria, 100 miles southea; t
which still is isolated. .
J. C. Plowell, city editor of tb a
Monterey newspaper, said it was b> -
lieved that the storm here was “mil l
compared with the havoc wrought 1 1
Ciudad Victoria,” more directly i i
the path of the hurricane.
Military and municipal authoritk i
concentrated on providing shelter fr ?
the homeless, many of whom were ii -
jured or ill. Public buildings offere i
temporary haven.
The city editor said no deaths hs l
been reported among tourists, “b- t
there were apparently many touris s
caught in the storm on the road l->
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