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Indications in recent months are
that friendly cooperation between
the South American republics and
the United States is rapidly welding
stronger the bonds of Western
Hemisphere solidarity. Five reso
lutions, quietly offered in the Sen
ate by Farmer-Laborite Senator
Ernest Lundeen of Minnesota, pro
pose power for the President to ne
Doctors Win Decision In Court
District Judge Holds
Anti-Trust Act Does
Not Apply To Prac
tice of Medicine; Gov
ernment, Heavy|
Loser, To Appeal.
Washington, July 26. — (AP) —The
American Medical Association won a
sweeping victory over the govern
ment today when a federal district
court held that the Sherman anti
trust act could not apply to the prac
tice of medicine.
Justice James M. Proctor, ruling
out an indictment in which the Jus
tice Department charged the Amer
ican Medical Association and fellow
defendants restrain the “trades” of
Group Health, Inc., a cooperative
health association in the District of
Columbia, said:
"Is medical practice a trade with
in the meaning of Section 3 of the
Sherman act? In my opinion, it is
not.”
Justice Department officials, while
not commenting at once, indicated
an appeal would be asked. The final
decision will be up to Solicitor Gen
eral Robert Jackson, now on vaca
tion.
Justice Proctor agreed with de
murrers filed by defense counsel,
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Maxwell All
But Admits
He’sßunning
Kevenue Commission
er Says “It May Be
Definitely Assumed”
He Will Be Candidate
For Governor Next
Year.
Raleigh, July 26. — (AP) —North
Carolina’s unofficial and informal
campaign for the Democratic guber
natorial campaign in 1940 goes on,
with five candidates doing all they
can to get support without any for
frml announcements of candidacy.
Kevenue Commissioner A. J. Max
v'r 'U issued a statement last night
f;;, ymg he had “no thought of mak
a definite announcement at this
hue as a candidate for governor, and
thought of beginning a campaign
■'" that purpose at this time.”
! ’he commissioner said an inter
view with him at Winston-Salem
yesterday quoted him correctly when
b" said “it may be definitely assum
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gotiate with five Latin-American
countries for purchase of some fifty
islands in and near the Caribbean
Sea. Backers of the resolutions
see the further acquisition by the
United States of foreign colonies in
Central and South America. British
Honduras (A), British, Dutch and
French Guiana (B) and the British
and French-owned islands in the
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Philippines Commissioner
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the U. S. S. Guam is reported to
have been seriously beaten by Japa
nese soldiers at Hankow after an
argument with Japanese sentry.
Roosevelt To
Dedicate Park
About Aug. 15
Daily Dispatch Bureau,
In the Sir Waiter Hotel.
Raleigh, July 26.—W. W. Neal, of
Marion, chairman of the Norm
Carolina Park Commission, said to
day that President Franklin D.
Roosevelt will dedicate the Great
Smoky Mountain National Park
about August 15.
Mr. Neal, who is cooperating in
arrangements for the dedication,
conferred here with representatives
of the Department of Conservation
and Development, while in Raieigh
on a recent trip from Washington,
where he had been attending con
gressional committee hearings on
the Weaver bill to obtain a right-of
way for the Blue Ridge Parkway
through the Cherokee Indian Reser
vation.
The President will dedicate the
park immediately after visiting
Asheville to see his Secretary Louis
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great half moon from the Florida
coast to the coastline of Venzuela
(C). Suggestion has been made thal
the islands be given the Unitec
States in payment of the much de
layed French and British war debts
The Galapagos Islands (D) in the
Pacific, belonging to Ecuador, woulc
be another purchase in this plan U
form a “Union of the Americas.”
HENDERSON, N. C., WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON, JULY 26, 1939
Son-in-Law of Late
President Wilson
Picked To Succeed
Paul McNutt; Bark
ley Argues in Senate
For Huge Lending
Program.
Washington, July 26.—(AP) —
President Roosevelt nominated As
sistant Secretary of State Francis
B. Sayre today to be United States
high commissioner to the Philippine
Islands. Mr. Rooseveit sent Sayre’s
nomination to the Senate. He
would replace Paul V. McNutt, who
resigned to become Federal security
administrator.
Sayre was appointed assistant
secretary of state by President
Roosevelt in November, 1933. He
has been in charge of Secretary
Hull’s trade agreement program.
In Philippine matters he came to
tRe fore when he was named chair
man of the inter-departmental com
mittee on Philippine affairs in 19-
35. Sayre married a daughter of the
late President Woodrow Wilson.
She is now dead.
Loan Program Urged.
The administration sought to
hammer home to a work-weary
Congress its widely disputed con
tention that the government would
lose no money under the proposed
$2,490,000,000 public works fi
nancing program.
Resuming debate on the measure
in the Senate, Majority Leader
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Electric Line
In Caldwell
Deep Into Red
Daily Dispatch Bureau,
In the Sir -Valter Hotel.
Raleigh, July 26.—Caldwell coun
ty’s REA-sponsored electrical co
operative is still operating “in the
red” despite a 75-cent monthly
amortization fee added recently to
the bills of its 954 customers, if
figures in a letter from its manager
to its customers are correct.
The project has been operating
without any minimum monthly
charge and as a result its receipts
have been so low as to make im
possible the repayment into the
United States Treasury of install
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Expansion Is
Directed At
Soviet Area
“Special Maneuvers”
In North. Off Russian
Coast, Announced As
Naval Manpower Is
Increased; New
Squadron Organized.
Tokyo, July 26.—(AP) —Confident
that the central Chinese government
would receive no more help from
Britain to oppose the “new order in
east Asia,” Japan stepped up her
naval manpower apparently with an
eye on Soviet Russia.
The Admiralty called naval reser
vists to active duty, while Admiral
Yonai, naval minister, disclosed the
organization of a new squadron
which soon will begin “special
maneuvers” with the combined im
perial fleet.
Neither the number of reservists
called up nor the number and type
of ships in the new squadron were
officially disclosed, but Japan has
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14 Suffer In
Blast Blamed
On Irish Army
London, July 26.—(AP)
Sixteen persons were hurt, one
fatally, when an explosion
blamed on the Irish Republican
Army, shattered the baggage
room of one of London’s most
crowded railroad stations today.
London, July 26. —(AP)—Fourteen
persons were injured today, several
seriously, when a terrific explosion,
ascribed by the police to the illegal
Irish Republican Army, occurred in
the baggage check room in one of
London’s most crowded railway sta
tions.
The blast, which followed by two
days Home Secretary Sir Samuel
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Pembroke Officer
Dies of Mystery
Gunshot Injuries
Lumberton, July 26.—(AP)
Edgar Martin, about 40, Indian
night policeman of nearby Pem
broke, died early today in a
hospital here of a bullet wound
which served an artery in the
left thigh.
Coroner D. W. Biggs em
panelled a jury to view the
body, but said an inquest would
not be held until further in
vestigation by Sheriff E. C.
Wade.
. The sheriff said Martin was
found lying on a Pembroke
street. On his person was a 45-
calibre automatic pistol that had
been shot, Wade said. He said
he recognized the weapon as the
one Martin was carrying last
night.
Seven Escape
Prison Bus
In Virginia
Richmond, Va., July 26. —(AP) —
State police broadcast an alarm for
seven prisoners who escaped from a
Department of Justice bus today
near Thornburg, 12 miles south of
Fredericksburg, on the Wasnington-
Richmond highway.
Major H. B. Nicholas, superinten
dent of State police, said the prison
ers commandeered an automobile
driven by a woman and headed
south toward Richmond, later put
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After two days of discussion, President Roosevelt and Jim Farley, post
master general, pose in friendly manner at Hyde Park, N. Y. Both men
insisted the meeting was merely for a friendly talk and refused to reveal
whether the third-term issue had been discussed.
Britain Hoping For
New Soviet Accord
Within Short Time
London, July 26.—(AP) —The
British government has sent new
instructions to its diplomats in
Moscow, Prime Minister Chamber
lain told the House of Commons
today. He added he expected to
make a statement early next week
on the Moscow negotiations for the
British-French-Russian mutual as
sistance pact.
This announcement, coupled
with optimistic reports in official
circles, led to the belief the govern
ment hoped to be able soon to an
nounce the conclusion of such a
pact. Chamberlain would neither
deny nor confirm reports from ie-
Baptists Are
Told About
Persecutions
Atlanta, Ga., July 26. —(AP)) —A
Philadelphia minister told the Bap
tist World Alliance today its church
work persisted in Russia, despite
“information that many (Baptist)
workers had been done away With,
some in the most cruel way. ’
Asserting mail censorship made
it. difficult to glean facts on the
Russian situation, Rev. I. V. Ne
prash said he had information aiso
that all men and some women
workers ’with wider influence, are
either in prison or exile.”
Neprash, representative 'of the
All-Russia Union of the denomina
tion, reported further that “prac
tically ail Baptist church buildings
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Value of Person
Given in 4-H Talk
By Mrs. McKimmon
Raleigh, July 26.—(AP)—A per
son’s value equals h s ability to do
something, minus his need for su
pervision, Dr. Jane McKimmon, as
sistant director of the extension ser
vice, told the 1,000 delegates to the
annual 4-H club short course today.
Mrs. McKimmon said that her de
finition of the value of an indivi
iual applies whether the boy or girl
strives for cultured rural life or a
job in commerce, industry and the
professions.”
“Good English, good manners, a
pleasant voice, good humor, the
ability to meet people and becoming
in appropriate dress are equally as
mportant,” said Mrs. McKimmon, as
training and experience to qualify
for any kind of work.
Archie Prevatte, of 4-H club, pres
ident, from Robeson county intro
iuced Mrs. McKimmon as “the moth
er of 4-H clubs in North Carolina.”
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EXCEPT SUNDAY.
liable sources that Britain and
France had agreed to begin staff
‘taiks with Russia without waiting
for the conclusion of the projected
pact.
These quarters said the British
and French missions -probably
would leave for Moscow in ten
days. The disclosure followed re
ports of rapid progress in the latest
conversations of British, French and
Russian diplomats looking toward
the three-power pact. It was under
stood the three governments had
agreed the negotiations had pro
gressed to such a stage that staff
talks could begin without waiting
for conclusion of the pact.
Dry Regions
Promised But
Little Relief
(By The Associated Press.)
Witn scant relief in signt, the
drought-stricken northeast faced
water shortages today in some com
munities, and an increased hazard of
forest fires in tinder-dry woodlands.
The damage to crops in ten states
stood in inu millions, in parts of
Pennsylvania a 50 percent crop fail
ure was predicted as a result of its
worst drought in nine years.
Scattered electrical storms- brought
a little rain to parts of New Eng
land. Hail stones resembling golf
bails leli last mgnt in parts oi Fram
ingham and Clinton, Mass., smashing
nearly 3,000 windowpanes and flat
tening parched crops.
Dwindling supplies of water for
drinking and power harassed parts
oi New York State. Residents of
Schenectady were advised to “go easy
on the water.” A temporary chlorinat
ing system and water pumped from
a nearby village relieved an acute
shortage at Nassau, where m residents
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Duplin Man Tried
For the Murdering
Os Small Stepson
Kenansville, July . 26.—(AP) —
Trial of Sheprose K. Holland, 44-
year-old grist mill operator, on a
murder charge in connection with
the death of his three-year-old step
son, Ray James Goodman, last June
7, began today in superior court
here with selection of a jury. Two
jurors had been chosen at noon.
The child’s body was found in a
mill stream! The State charges that
Holland killed the boy to collect an
insurance policy.
The grand jury returned a “no
true bill against Mrs. Holland.
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Drop From Last Year
Figured By Govern
ment.
Valdosta, Ga., . July 26.—(AP) —
Check of early second day sales in
the Georgia bright leaf tobacco mar
ket today showed prices continuing
mostly around a 16 to 18 cents a
pound range, sharply off from the
1938 opening of 25 to 30 cents.
Warehouses were crowded with
leaf and farmers waited for cleared
spaces in a number of the market
towns.
Vidalia, where 780,000 pounds sold
on opening day at a 15.50 average,
reported a second day range of five
to 17 cents, with most sales around
18 and 20 cents.
Valdosta started a new sale with
a four to 24 cents range in jammed
warehouses. The opening average
here was 15.24 cents.
Stronger bidding was noted at
Nashville, Ga., where 721,778 pounds
brought $16.09 yesterday. Adel
similarly reported a tendency toward
better prices.
The 16 to 18 cents average on the
opening day’s auctions in five Geor
gia sales centers and two in Florida
was seven to twelve cents under last
season’s initial sales average. Offer
ings generally were of an inferior
quality, warehousemen said.
Thousands of growers pocketed
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Danzig Bides
Time Waiting
German Union
Free City of Danzig, July 26.
(AP) —A spokesman lor the Nazi
dominated Danzig Senate declared
today that the free city, by its own
energies, nad :;o assured its power of
self-protection that it could “calm
ly await the day of union with Ger
many without fearing any surprise
action on ihe part of Poland.
Labor detachments still are busy
constructing numerous barracks and
improving roads. Danzig Nazis have
admitted the growth of their poli
tical police force to at least 4,000
men. Officials called attention to
statements of Albert Forster, Nazi
leader for Danzig, published in, a
Berlin newspaper yesterday, that
Danzig had taken defensive
measures without calling on the
German army, and that the free
city could not now be taken with
out a fight.
Some nervousness was apparent
among foreigners in the free city
today.
HOEY NAMES GROUP
FOR POULTRY MEET
Raleigh, July 26.—(AP)—Gover
nor Hoey designated six men today
as special representatives of the State
at the seventh world’s poultry Con
gress in Cleveland, Ohio, July 28 to
August 7, including James W. Spiers,
of Tarboro.
Goldner Tells
Os Effort To
Escape Arabs
Jerusalem, July 26.—(AP) —After
a fitful sleep, his first rest in a real
bed for a week, Rev. Gerald Gold
enr gave police today detailed de
scription of his Arab kidnapers
and told friends how he tried in
vain to escape. Dr. Jacob Goldner,
father of the young Ohio preacher,
obtained his son’s release yesterday
for somewnere between 200 and 500
pounds—between $1,300 and $2,300
—paid directly to the Arab band
and not through intermediaries.
“Throughout • the kidnaping I
made plans to escape from the
gangsters,” Goldner said. “One night
I concealed stones in a hat in bed
as a preparation for slipping away.”
The hat and the form of • the
stones under the covers of his make
shift bed were intended to deceive
the captors, permitting Goldner to
slip away. But the gang leader re
doubled the guard, he found.