HENDERSON’S
POPULATION
13,873
twenty-sixth year
WPA STRIKERS RECEIVE
Navy Probes
Ranger Fire,
Explosion
Huge Aircraft Carrier
Hit by Blaze at Nor
folk Navy Yard;
Seven Men Injured,
Damage Put at $50,-
000
Norfoik, Va M July IS.—(AP)—
Naval officials sought today the
can so of an explosion and spectacular
fire which damaged the huge air
era ft carrier Ranger and injured
seven enlisted men.
A mull led roar came from the
water line a midship the 735 foot ves
sel. witnesses said, and flame swept
over the plane and flight decks for
a breadth of 200 feet. Firemen at the
Norfolk Navy yard, where the Ran
ger was docked for repairs, battled
the blaze for three hours before it
was brought under control late yes
terday.
Captain H. E. Keys, captain of the
yard, said: “We do not know what
was responsible for the explosions'
Other officers withheld any informa
tion in their possession pending in
vestigation by a board of inquiry.
Unofficial reports said, however,
that gasoline being loaded on the ship
probably was touched off in some
manner.
One officer at the yard estimate
the damage to the 530.000.000 craft
at $50,000, but said that if an inspec
tion today reveals that much of the
expensive machinery aboard had
been harmed, the damage figure
would be considerably higher.
Conditions of the injured men were
reported as satisfactory after treat
ment for exhaustion and shock.
Another Big Loan
Asked to Finance
Britain’s Arming
London, July 13.—(AP)—Sir
John Simon, Chancellor of the Ex
chequer. told Parliament tonight ;
that a new public loan of about 350,- j
000.000 pounds (about $1,638,000,- I
00,1 > probably would be necessary '
to meet Britain’s mounting arma- !
merit costs this year.
Sir John estimated that arma- |
merit for the current year would j
f t 730,000,000 pounds (about $3,-
4Hi.400.000), as a result of new in
creases in the 1939-40 budget for the
an force flight ministry", and the
navy.
Gill Declines To
Intervene for Man
Wanted In Texas
Raleigh, July 13. —(AP) —Paroles
Cm aiissioner Edwin Gill declined
5,1 'lay to recommend that Governor
Hoey intervene and refuse to permit i
extradition to Hidalgo county, Texas,
of Walter Blake, arrested in Golds
boro.
Feed Parker, counsel for Blake,
contended that the man’s return to
Lcxas was being sought so that a debt
could be collected. The warrant
charged Blake with disposing of a
mortgaged bread slicing machine.
Solicitor C. C. Canaday, Sheriff
Roi! C. Garrison, of Wayne county,!
cod twp Texas officers, Sheriff R. T.
Daniel and Deputy Truitt Jordan,
represented the states in the matter.
The party left for Sanford this aft
ernoon for a habeas corpus in a case
before Judge C. L. Williams.
Experiments
Aid In Farm
Prosperity
Daily Dispatch Bureau,
In the Sir Walter Hotel
Raleigh, July 13.—Speaking to sev
oral thousand farmers and farm wo
men at the fourteenth annual Field
Day of the Blackland Test Farm at
Wenona, Senator William B. Rod
man, Jr., today predicted that East
ern North Carol/na farmers would
be more prosperous as the result of
experiments and tests at the farm
were disseminated among them. The
senator declared that he had con
fidence that the cooperative experi
ments conducted by the State. De
partment of Agriculture, State .Col
lege and the United States Depart
ment of Agriculture would find the
answer to farm problems, but “an
answer not disseminated is not suf
ficient,” he said.
Senator Rodman’s comment is sig
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in air on Parachute Jump at World’s Fair. The ’chute caught at 11:30
at night, was released at 4:40 in the morning. Photo shows the mechanic
on top of the crazily-tilted bag working to release the marooned pair.
Hy de Woman Gets
Grant for Buses
Raleigh, July 13. (AP)
Utilities Commissioner Stanley
Winborne granted Mrs. S. M.
Gibbs, of Hyde county, a fran
chise to operate buses between
Engleliard and Columbia via
Fairfield.
There was no opposition at the
hearing ordered when Mrs.
Gibbs filed an application for her
Englehard-Washington bus com
pany. The new route will length
en her line which now operates
from Washington to Englchard.
Resolution Is
Aimed to Halt
Jap Materials
Washington, July 13. —(AP) —
Senator Laiollette (Progressive, Wis)
representing a strategy committee of
the Senate isolation bloc decided to
day to demand full discussion in the
foreign relations committee of a
resolution aimed at restiricting ex
ports of war materials to Japan.
Chairman Pittman (D., Nev.), au
thor of the measure, had expressed
hope that the committee would act
quickly on it at tomorrow’s meet
ing. But Lafollette said he thought
the 12 members who blocked con
sideration of neutrality legislation
last Tuesday would want to discuss
several points at length.
Senator Clark (D., Mo.) said it
was urged that either Secretary Hull
or some other representative give the
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15 ABOARD FISHING
BARGE ENDANGERED
San Diego, Cal., July 13. —(AP)
The 120 foot fishing barge, Glenn
Mayne, with about 15 persons aboard
was reported breaking up in the surf
about 35 miles north of here today
after going adrift from its nearby
anchorage.
Drop Monopoly Charges
Chicago Milk Industry
Chicago, July 13.—(AP)—Indict
ments accusing 43 individuals and 14
corporations and groups in the milk
industry of violating the anti-mono
poly law were dismissed today in
federal court.
Leo F. Tierney, special assistant
to the attorney general, announced
the government would appeal the
ruling directly to the U. S. Supreme
Court.
The dismissal was embodied in
ER PUBLISHED IN
Hoey Names
Early Head
N.C.RailCo.
•
Henry A. Dennis, of
Henderson, Is Named
Director of State Con
trolled Line That Is
Leased to Southern
Greensboro, July 13.—(AP)
Elvah Early, of Ahoskie and Win
ton, today" became president of the
State controlled N. C. Railroad Co.,
designated by Governor Hoey to suc
ceed D. W. Royster, of Shelby.
The governor has made it a’habit
to change officials of the railroad
yearly.
The jobs are regarded as among
the choicest of the “political plums”
in the State, as practically no work
is involved.
President Early, Clerk of Court of
Hertford county, can continue to
hold his clerkship, and will get S9OO
a year for his railroad post,
R. .E. Price, Rutherfordton news
paperman, got the SI2OO job as sec
retary-treasurer, succeeding R. F.
Beasley, of Monroe, and Paul Erwin,
of Charlotte, was named attorney at
pay of SIOOO yearly, in succession to
D. N. Farnell, of Greensboro
R. G. Self, chief clerk of the Utili
ties Commission, represented the
governor at the annual stockholders
meeting.
The directors elected for the State
included: Royster, Early, Henry
Dennis, of Henderson.
The railroad is leased to the Sou
thern Railway System and pay of all
the officials is provided in the lease.
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FOR NORTH CAROLINA.
Fair and slightly warmer to
night; Friday fair with high tem
perature.
Federal Judge Charles Woodward’s
sustaining of defendants’ demurrers
to the indictments.
Ninety-seven defendants, indivi
duals, corporations, and associations
in the milk and ice cream industry
were indicted November 1, 1938 after
a 16-week inquiry by Federal grand
jury. A year’s investigation by the
Department of Justice preceded the
grand jury action.
The ice cream indictment named
20 individuals and 20 corporations.
THIS SECTION OF NORTH CARONLY DAILY Nt, waPAPQLINA AND VIRGINIA.
HENDERSON, N. C„ THURSDAY AFTERNOON, JULY 13, 1939
ihuht fUtsrratrh
Sub Squalus
Lifted From
Ocean Floor
First Step Toward
Raising of Tomb of 26
Men Completed in
One of Toughest Salv
age Jobs in U. S. Navy
History
Portsmouth, N. H., July 13.
(AP) Apparently conquering
the tremendous weight of the
water-filled stern of the sunk
en submarine Squalus after a
fight lasting 4 hours, the navy
salvage crew lifted to the sur
face the two topmost pontoons
attached to the tail of the craft.
High navy officials immediate
ly reported this appeared to
mean the success of the first
step of the delicate salvage ope
ration, inasmuch as the bow
pontoon had been straining to
ward the surface since 10:05 a.
m.
Shortly before 2 p. m, the two
stern pontoons came up sudden
ly, rising with such force that
they shot clear out of the water.
TOUGHEST SALVAGE JOB
IN HISTORY OF U. S. NAVY
Portsmouth, N. H.. July 13.—(AP)
—The most difficult step in one of
the toughest salvage jobs in U. S.
Navy history was completed today
when the submarine Squalus and its
macabre cargo of 26 bodies were
lifted from the ocean floor in a
cradle of ponderous pontoons.
A burst of air bubbles showing that
the pontoons were rising were sight
ed along the salvage ship Falcon at
10:05 a. m.
The water was literally churned
as the bubbles broke first from above
the bow of the submarine and two
minutes later bubbles began to rise
from the stern.
The whole length was not pulled
free immediately, however, and the
pumping of high pressure air into
some of the pontoons was slowed un
til the craft could be leveled pff.
The full length of the bow first
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Cables Break
On French Sub
Saignor, French Indo China, July
13.—(AP) Salvage vessels have
failed in the first attempt to raise
the French submarine Phenix which
sank June 15 in the China Seas off
the Cam Ranh naval base with 77
men aboard.
Cables placed around the hull yes
terday snapped when the ships tried
to raise the Phenix through 300 feet
of water.
FDR Victory
In Money Bill
Not So Sweet
White House Won Its
Demands by Skimpy
Majority; Far From
Overwhelming
T riumph
By CHARLES P. STEWART
Central Press Columnist
Washington, July 13. Whether
President Roosevelt’s prestige was
added to or subtracted from by the
Senate’s final vote,
a few days ago, on
the de s p erately
fought money bill
is a disputed point
in Washington.
To be sure, the
White House won
what it was de
manding two
year extension of
the pres idential
“dollar devalua
tion power” and a
similar continua
tion of the treas-
N
President
RooseVelt
ury’s two-billion-dollar “stabilization
fund” for the regulation of interna
tional exchange, supposedly to Uncle
Sam’s advantage. But it was by only
a 43-39 margin. That wasn’t a very
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DISMISSAL NOTICES
Win Neutrality Bill Fight
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Senators Walter F. George (left), of Georgia, and Guy M. Gillette, of
lowa, leaders in the fight on the Sol Bloom Neutrality bill, are pictured at
Washington, jubilant over defeat, in committee, of the measure. Mem
bers of the Foreign Relations Committee voted 12 to 11 to postpone con
sideration of the Bloom bill until the next session of Congress in January.
(Central Press)
Britain Calls
ReservistsTo
Fleet Drills
12,000 Retired Offi
cers and Reservists to
Participate in Com
bined Naval and Air
Force Games
London, July 13. —(AP) — Prime
Minister Chamberlain announced to
day that 12,000 of the nation’s 70,-
000 naval reservists would be called
to the colors for fleet maneuvers—
port -of a program to make Britain
ready for any eventuality during the
summer period of August and Sep
tember.
Ho told the House of Commons
that 12,000 retired officers and other
reservists would report for duty July
31 and remain active until the end
of September, taking part in com
bined naval and air force war games.
Foreign quarters regarded it as
significant that the maneuvers would
be in progiess at the time of the Nazi
party congress which opens Septem
ber 2 at Nurenburg. Many European,
observers have picked that as a dan
ger period.
(In Berlin, the statement was made
in informed quarters that Britain’s
acts represented “nothing impressive
for Germany”. One German source
said, “We too are exercising,our re
servists.”)
Britain’s move marks the first
time since the Czechoslovakia crisis
of last September that naval reser
vists have been called up.
The reserve will take part in a vast
naval demonstration August 9. King
George VI will review the fleet at
Weymouth where about 130 ships of
all sizes v/ill be concentrated.
The naval move came as the war
ministry was engaged in a series of
mass bomber flights over Southern
France, designed to give royal air
force pilots practice in long range
flying, and at the same time to de
monstrate Britain’s air power. It also
concided with allocation of 40,000,-
000 pounds (abiYt $187,200,000) more
for the airports.
Harlan Rioting Miners
Are Under Heavy Bonds
Harlan, Ky., July 13.—(AP) —
Bonds totaling $235,000 were set to
day for 220 union miners, including
a $16,000 bond for the district sec
retary of the United Mine Workers
(CIO), arrested at a pitched battle
between pickets and national guards
men.
George Titler, the union secretary
was charged with sedition, forcible
rebellion, and armed attack on a na
tional guardsman, and banding and
confederating to intimidate —the lat
ter charge the same as that faced
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EXCEPT SUNDAY.
School Libraries
Held as Necessity
Raleigh, July 13.—(AF)—At
torney General Harry McMullen
ruled today that “school libraries
are as much a necessary school
expense as laboratory equipment
blackboards, and other capital
outlay items, and as such can be
maintained by appropriations
from the local boards of educa
tion.”
He issued his ruling, the fourth
recently concerning libraries
after conference with a Mecklen
burg county delegation.
Charlotte at an election in
June refused support for the
public library and it closed June
30.
! Lewis Seeks
Federal Action
In Harlan Area
Washington, July 13. —(AP) —
John L. Lewis appealed to Attorney
General Murphy today for federal
inspection in the Harlan county
(Ky.) mine dispute where union
miners and the Kentucky national
guard clashed yesterday in a bloody
gun battle.
Lewis, head of the C. I. O. and
president of the United Mine Work
ers, declared in a letter to Murphy
that Governor Chandler was “vio
lating his authority and prostitut
ing the power of the state,” by us
ing the national guard as he had.
Chandler was trying to “exact
vengeance” upon the United Mine
Union, Lewis asserted, because the
union opposed Chandler and sup
ported Senator Alben Barkley in a
contest for Barkley’s senate seat in
1938.
T.he 1938 Senatorial battle, Lewis
said, was one of the two reasons for
Chandler’s action in calling out the
guard.
The other reason, Lewis said, was
that Chandler wanted “to repay a po
litical debt to a criminal band of
coal operators whose previous crimes
are spread on the sworn public rec
ords of three authoritative govern
mental agencies.”
(The miners at Central Harlan
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by the others in custody. *
A miner was killed and six other
men including two troopers were
either shot of beaten in a clash at a
mine operated without a union con
tract.
Mrs. Titler, arrested with her hus
band, was released on SI,OOO bond,
provided by union attorneys. The
bonds for the others arrested was
set for SI,OOO each as they were ar
raigned in groups of 50. The trials
were set for Monday and Titler and
the others were returned to jail.
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Thousands
Dropped For
Ignoring Jobs
WPA GAm No Total*
of Those Dropped;
Large Stacks Dismiss
al Notices Are Mailed;
Violence Flares In
Minnesota
(By The Associated Press)
Washington headquarters of
- WPA reported today that
12,906 WPA strikers had been
dismissed but that despite this
disciplinary action, the total
number of work relief em
ployees absent from their jobs
had grown yesterday to 92,770.
Officials at Washington said
the total number absent compar
ed with 77,627 on Monday, but
that many away from work yes
terday were engaged in one day
protests and were expected back
on the job today.
Corrington Gill, acting WPA
commissioner, said that reports
showed project operations were
normal in 23 states.
(By The Associated Press)
While the A. F. of L. high
command speeded up its drive
today to restore the prevailing
wage rate to the new relief ac
tions, thousands of WPA strik
ers received dismissal notices
for ignoring their jobs for five
days.
William Green A. F. of L.
president, called a strategy
meeting in Washington to carry
out demands on Congress and
the. President sanctioned yes
terday by Federation unions.
No Totals Given
The WPA gave out no totals on
the number of workers dismissed but
a survey showed administrators in
several states had mailed large
stacks of the discharge notices.
The strikes protesting the new re
quirement that all WPA employees
work 130 hours a month were ig
nored by WPA commissioner F. C.
Harrington as he conferred in Chi
cago with State administrators on
other restorations of the new law.
Increase South’s Wages
Harrington said wages in the north
and west would be reduced Septem
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Corrigan Is
Overdue For
His Wedding
San Antonio, Texas, July 13.
(AP) —Douglas Corrigan, trans-At
lantic flyer, was reported overdue
here today on a flight from Califor
nia to marry Miss Elizabeth Marvin.
He left Dryden, Texas, at 7:10 a.
m.
Airports said his route was fleck
ed with rain squalls and bad weather
The only two airports between
Dryden and San Antonio, Del Rio
and Fort Clarke, had no reports on
Corrigan.
Georgia Court
Upholds Levy
On Cigarettes
Atlanta, July 13. — (AP) —The
State Supreme Court today upheld
constitutionality of the Georgia To
bacco Act which last year yielded
$2,501,908.19.
Constitutionality had been ques
tioned by the Cigarette Sales Co., of
Mercy, N. C., its petition for injunc
tion against the state revenue com
mission had been upheld in Dekalb
county superior court.
The Supreme Court overruled the
lower court’s dismissal of revenue
commissioner demurrers.
The North Carolina firm also
sought $25,000 damages, claiming it
had built up a mail cigarette sales
business in Georgia which had been
hurt by the commission’s action. <•
An attorney for the revenue de
partment said the decision that seiz
ure of unstamped cigarettes shipped
into Georgia now could proceed “full
tilt”.
The tobacco tax requires ship
ments of cigarettes into Georgia
within two hours after they “come
to rest”.