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HENDERSON’S POPULATION 13,873 twenty-fifth year SMnN WINS; ITADOO IS BEHIND IN WEST British Envoy Takes Solemn Warning To Hitler £ For the first time since the World War, guns of this size were used in the Nazi war games, held at Cross-Born. The giant howitzers were used in the current maneuvers, for which Hitler called more than a million men to the colors. (Central Press) TVA Inquiry Nearing End In Knoxville - * ( - - • • Committee’s Huge Probe Fund About Gone; To Resume In Washington Later Knoxville, Tenn., Aug. 31. —(AP) — Harassed by “grave doubts” us to whether its funds would hold out to permit completion of its probe, the congressional TVA probing commit tee prepared today to close its ses sions in the Tennessee Valley with two more days of hearings. .after recessing next Friday, the committee will be subject to a call by its chairman, Senator Dohaney, Demo crat, Ohio, probably in Washington, in October or November, When factual results of its study by special engi neers and auditors will be disclosed, 2nd some of TVA’s sharpest critics, the heads of two principal utility hold ing companies operating in thvj valley area, are expected to be heard. In view of the fact that Congress appropriated only $30,000 for its study—an additional $50,000 having failed of approval in the rush of the closing days of the last congressional session—the investigators are (doubt ful that they can complete their en tire schedule, but are hopeful of cov ering the major aspects. About half of the seven weeks of hearings now being concluded on the scene of the vast economic and socia logical experiment, which has already cost $200,000,000 and is expected to cost at least twice that, has been devoted to the feud between the Au thority’s ousted chairman, Dr. Arthur Morgan, and the two remaining direc tors, David Lilienthal and Dr. Har court Morgan. Burgin Might Quit Race If Deane Agrees Daily Dispatch Ilureau, In the Sir Walter Hotel. Raleigh, Aug. 31 —'Based on the knowledge that W. O. Burgin, con testing candidate for Congress in the eighth district, once offered to with draw if his opponent, C. B. Deane, would do likewise, political guessers are indulging the prophecy that if Rurgin wins a reversal of the State Board of Elections ruling against him. he will decline to run. The whole speculation rests on the widespread feeling in the district. Burgin and Deane polled nearly 40,- votes and the difference between them never got beyond 150 votes. Eventually the reputed Burgin ma jority of about 150 shrank and Deane £°t the State Board of Election’3 cer tificate by 23 votes which Burgin now protests. But before there was any court procedure, Burgin offered to withdraw. His belief is that the party ticket would be jeopardized with so (Continued on Page Eight. U£ PERRY MEMQwii i Hwi&mwm tlatht BtsmtTrfi wmß SERVICE OF THEU ASSOCIATED TRESS. Tokyo Rejects All Os U. S. Protest On Air Liner Attack State Tax Income Higher In August Rakvghj, Aug. 31.— (AP) —8.''at© tax collections during August total ed $6,010,243.10, an increase of 14.95 percent over August, 1937, Revenue Commissioner A. J. Maxwell report ed today. General fund receipts were about $3,530,000, compared with about $2,- 940,000 in the month of last year. Highway collections were about $2,480,000, as against about $2,290,- 000. For the first two months of the 1938-39 fiscal year, however, tax collections were slightly below the same period in 1937-38. Maxwell’s figures showed re ceipts of $10,724,489.63 in July and August of this year, compared with $10,9394)31.15 In the months! last year. C 1' ■' T ) bales lax s Foe? Find Courts Hard Paul Leonard and His Supporters May Find Even Legislature Some Easier Dally Dispatch Bnreau, In the Sir Walter Hotel. Raleigh, Aug. 31.—Monday’s hearing before Revenue Commissioner Allen J. Maxwell, in which was the prelim inary move to blast the sales tax from the books, turned out to be a legal sparring match which fails to give anti-sales taxers much hope. J. Paul Leonard, executive secre tary of the North Carolina Merchants Association, and likewise of the Fair Tax Association, despairing of ever getting action that would take off the tax, opened a store in. Winston-Salem, and in making his sales declined to pay the sales tax or to exact it of his buyers. This was widely advertised, the storekeeper’s refusal to tax the tax was known everyhere, but the State would not indict him under the 1935 and 1937 acts. Finally the puta tive merchant paid $3 under protest, and brought his appeM to the com missioner, who ruled against him. Mr. Leonard found several situations in his one. For one thing, it developed that a merchant may absorb the sales tax if he gets philanthropically inclined, but he may not advertise the fact that (Continued on page six) ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA AND VIRGINIA. > Appeal Turned Down Because Japanese In formation Differs from U. S. Claims Tokyo, Aug. 31.—(AP) —The Japan ese government tonight rejected on all counts the protest of the United States against the destruction of a Chincse-American air liner near Can ton, south China, by Japanese war planes on August 24. The Japanese reply to the protest, delivered August 26 by Ambassador Joseph Grew, admitted, however, that the attack of Japanese planes con tinued after the air liner had alight ed on a small river between Canton and Macao. Fourteen persons aboard the plane, all Chinese, were killed, either by Ja panese bullets or by drowning. The only American aboard, Pilot H. L. Woods, of Winfield, Kas., escaped in jury v and two Chinese survived, one wounded. (The American note registered “em phatic protest” against “the jeopard izing in this way of the lives of Am ericans, as well as toher non-com batant occupants of unarmed civilian planes,” and also pointed out that the destroyed air liner was the pro perty of the China National Aviation Corporation, in v/hich “Pan-American Airways has a very substantial in terest.”) The foreign office spokesman said Japan was compelled to reject the protest because Tokyo’s information (Continued or { age six) New Jobs For Compensation Agency Given Raleigh, Aug. 31.—(AP)— Appoint ment of four field supervisors for the Unemployment Compensation Com mission was announced today by Charles G. Powell, State Unemploy ment Compensation Commission chair man. All of the supervisors, Powell said, were promoted from the ranks of the U. C. C. They follow: R. Justice, of Winston-Salem, for merly district deputy, who will be stationed at Asheville and have charge of the Asheville and Hickory districts. Judge W. H. Williams, of Charlotte, former district deputy, who will be stationed at Charlotte and have charge of the Charlotte and Winston- Salem districts. R. A. Wadsworth, so Raleigh, for mer supervisor of field deputies, who will be stationed at Raleigh, and have charge of the Wilmington, Rocky Mount, Edenton and Raleigh districts. John W. Hester, of Oxford and Dur ham, former district deputy, will be (Continued on Page Eight) HENDERSON, N. C., WEDNESDAY iFETRNO ON, AUGUST 31, 1938 London Acts Desperately To Halt War t ——— Note to Berlin Says France Evade Aid to Czechs an i Britain Will Not Let France Be Beaten; Secret British Observ ers In Bohemia —rfr London, Aug. 31.— 1 (AP) —Britain’s ambassador to Germany left by piano for Berlin today, armed with what informed persons said was authority to warn Germany anew in vigorous terms that Britain might not be able to remain neutral if war came in cen tral Europe. The envoy, Sir Neville Henderson looked grave as he boarded his plane at 1:15 p. m. Henderson was expected to arrive in Berlin shortly after 6 p m., and to see Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop soon there after. Diplomatic quarters there believed he was bringing a personal message for Reichfuehrer Hitler from Prims Minister Chamberlain. Persons close to the British government said Hen derson was authorized to reiterate pri vately to Hitler, if necessary, the warning voiced at Lanark Saturday by Sir John Simon, chancellor of the exchequer—in substance, that Britain might not be able to remain aloof if the German-Czechoslovak crisis over the Sudeten Ge#tminavled. to -open con flict. Henderson, who attended a meeting of the British cabinet yesterday, was said to be empowered to say to Ger (Continued on Page Five) French- Labor Refuses Any Longer Work Paris, Aug. 31. —(AP) —The chief labor organization of the Paris re gion declared today that Germany “is menacing the peace of the world,” but called upon its members to refuse to accept the cabinet’s decree to increase working hours in the interest so na tional defense. This action came as the powerful French army commission was called to meet with Premier Daladier to weigh the possible effects of Ger many’s army mobilization program. The organization—the union of work ers sydicates—declared the cabinet’s decree adopted yesterday was “illegal” and called for a public protest meet ing to bg held in Paris Friday. “The union calls on the workers of the Paris region to refuse to accept this illegality and defend with al! their strength the 40-hour work week which they (the cabinet) wish to tor pedo,” the announcement said. Bailey And Reynolds To Work Together In Future Both Likely To Oppose Hancock for Any Major Political Job, Since Oxford Congressman Rasped Them Both; Enmities of Senators Seen Waning Daily Dispatch Bureau, In The Sir Walter Hotel. Raleigh, Aug. 31. —North Carolina senators will harmonize in the next congress in patronage dispensation, Washington writers think, and there is a story afloat that should Frank W. Hancock, - retiring representative from the fifth district receive appoint ment to some important place undar the administration both senators might object to him. It so happens that Senators Bailey and Reynolds could have a communi ty of interests in opposing Hancock. The Granville congressman was equal ly disdainful of his uppers in the Con gress. In arraying the great men of the Senate, Hancock always scrupul ously included Cameron Morrison and just as conscientiously avoided men tioning Senator Bailey. Moreover, Sen ator Simmons, whom Mr. Bailey suc ceeded, always got a cum laude when Wins His Fight Mr -': ■ ■ • r \ •: U. S. SENATOR E. D. SMITH, of South Carolina FDRGuessed Smith’s Win Near 40,000 Roper Says It’s Not New Deal Rebuke; To bacco Wage Schedules Talked Washington, Aug. 31. —(AP) —White House aides said today President Roosevelt predicted yesterday Sena tor E. D. Smith, of South Carolina, would win the Democratic senatorial nomination by 40,000 votes. Mr. Roosevelt had this comment to make on Smith’s success: “It is often true that it takes a long, long time to bring the past up to the present.” The brief quotation was relayed to reporters through Stephen Early, pre sidential secretary. Early said that when he and Marvin Mclntyre, an other secretary, had consulted the President this morning, the executive, with a smile, had reached into a draw er of a side table and pulled out an envelope with his prediction of the outcome of the South Carolina race. Secretary of Commerce Roper, him self a South Carolinian, asserted that the renomination of Senator Smith was not a rebuke to the New Deal. Senator Logan, Democrat, Ken tucky, said he believed that if Sena tor McAdoo, Democrat, California, administration supporter, is defeated for the Democratic nomination in California by Sheridan Downey, pen sion plan advocate, that there will be (Continued on Page Five) Hancock mentioned him. The con gressman, therefore is in the position of having run down one senator and trying to run over the other. A position carrying the compensa tion fit for a congressman generally has to be filled by a man acceptable to United States senators from the State in which the appointee lives. In the Hancock campaign against Rey nolds many accusations were made when Senator Reynolds will not for get easily. They touched almost all phases of the senator’s life phases of the senator’s life and some of them had stings to them. There was no re ply, but it is evident there will be one if Hancock decides to go after ope of the biggest available positions. And having offended Reynolds by di rect and Bailey by indirect attack, Hancock is in no position to buck (Continued on Page Six.) PUBLISHED EVERY AFTERNOON EXCEPT SUNDAY Roosevelt Rebuffed In Primary Results Given In Two States McAdoo Far Behind wQtNvjwYj— —— * -fiji || Senator Wm. Gibbs McAdoo Sheridan Downey U. S. Senator W. G. McAdoo, with the thrice-spoken approval of Presi dent Roosevelt, was trailing far be hind Sheridan Downey, S3O-a-week pension advocate, in the" California Democratic pripiary* for the Senate, when half the State’s precincts had reported. Prisoii Head Names Guard In Roasting Mills Says James Hart Had No Authority Or Permission To Steam Cells Philadelphia, Aug. 31.—(AP)—Super intendent William Mills today named Guard Sergeant James Hart as the man “responsible” for turning on the heat that blasted the lives of four con victs in punishment cells at the Phil adelphia county prison. Mills, testifying at a coroner’s in quest into the deaths,, said Hart gave an “unauthorized” Order to an assis tant engineer to turn steam into a battery of radiators in the prison “klondike” —a boxlike isolation build ing, where 25 hunger-striking con victs were confined. “There should have been no heat turned in the building in August weq/her,” the superintendent said. He said Hart did not have authority or his permission to have the heat turned on. • The “blue ribbon” jury of six busi ness men and club women was asked today to fix blame for what Coroner (Continued on Page Five) Q PAGES O TODAY FIVE CENTS COPY Smith’s Majority in South Carolina is 30 # - 00 0; S3O - Weekly Pension Champion Is Leading California Senate Race; Half of Precincts Reported i Columbia, S. C., Aug. 31.—(AP)— Senator E. D. Smith and Mayor Burnette Mayhank, of Charleston continued today to pull ahead of their opponents on the face of re turns in the Democratic senatorial and gubernatorial primaries. F«r the U. S. Senate, 1,437 out of 1,507 precincts: Smith, 172.098. Johnston, 138,467. Gubernatorial, 1,433 precincts: Mayhank, 106,873. Manning, 68,742. CALIFORNIA VOTE. San Francisco, Cal., Aug. 31. (AP) —Rid urns from 6,938 complete and inemopiete precinct out of 12,438 in the State in the Democrat ic primary race for United States Senator gave: Downey, 184,043. McAdoo, 150,061. (I)y The Associated Press.) South Carolina’s voters, renominat ing Senator E. D. Smith for a sixth term by,-a 30>000 majority,-rebuffed President Roosevelt today in his first attempt to unseat a Democratic mem ber of Congress. California’s Democratic primary held the possibility of a second ad ministration defeat. Senator William G. McAdoo, thrice-praised by ths chief executive, was trailing Sheridan Downey/ S3O-a-week pension cham pion, in returns from nearly half the State. Senator Smith, who long ago ,won tho nickname “Cotton Ed”, won over Governor Olin Johnston, self-sfyled “100 percent New Dealer,” alth°pgh Mr. Roosevelt did not mention names during their furious primary cam paign. He referred to Smith as "one who thinks in terms of the past.” The vote, with only 144 precincts missing: Smith, 158,896. Johnston, 128,055. Senator Smith, chairman of the im portant agriculture committee of the Senate, donned a red shirt in honor of his victory last night, and told well-wishers in his home town of (Continued on page six) DIES OF HURTS In" WAYNE JAIL FIGHT Goldsboro, Aug. 31.—(AP)—A man docketed as Ed Wiggs, 40- year-old farmer, died in a local hospital today of head injuries which Coroner T. R. Robinson said were inflicted during a fight in the Goldsboro lock-up Sunday afternoon. Robinson said Louis Ezzell was being held in the county jail in connection with the affair pend ing an inquest. The coroner said both men had been arrested on a charge of drunkenness before be ing placed in the city jail. Tydings And George Happy About Smith Baltimore, Md., Aug. 31. —(AP)— Senator Millard E. Tydings, Demo crat, Maryland, said today he was “greatly pleased” that his colleague, Senator Smith, of South Carolina, also opposed by President Roosevelt, had won renomination in the Demo cratic primary. “I am greatly pleased to know that Senator Smith has won in South Carolina,” said Tydings in a formal statement. “He is a real Democrat. South Carolina is the rock-ribbed (Continued on Page Eight WEATHER FOR NORTH CAROLINA. Partly cloudy, Scattered thun dershowers Thursday and in north central portion tonight; slightly warmer in southeast portion to night.
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