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Although their political principles differ, Postmaster General James A.
Parley (left) chairman of the Democratic national committee, and John
p. M. Hamilton, chairman of the Republican national committee, shake
hands as both sail on the Manhattan from New York for Europe—
vacation-bound, with no comment.
Ban On Pressure Groups
Would Lift Confidence
Every One Agrees That Is Greatest Need, But
Few Agree On How To Do It; Congress Pulled
And Hauled in Every Direction.
BY ROGER W. BABSON,
Copyright 1939, Publishers
Financial Bureau, Inc.
Gloucester, Mass., July 28.—Our
decade-old business depression has,
for the first time in 160 years, caus
ed our standard of living to decline.
At IcaA, that is what Howard Coon
ley. president of the National Asso
ciation of Manufacturers, said a few
nights ago. He insists that “only
through restoration of confidence in
the American system can this coun
try resume progress”. In general,
everyone agrees with Mr. Coonley.
Naturally, we all want confidence.
AI all know that when we are con
tinent. things go along much better;
veork harder, more people have
Reaction Is
That Maxwell
Pulled Boner
Raleigh, July 28.—First reaction,
though not by any means unanimous
Ir! ontirnent, to the already-famous
A m -ton-Salem interview which has
fnad“ A. j. Maxwell a “definitely
a. ured” candidate for governor, is
that the able and politically-experi
enced commissioner of revenue pull
<-•: omething of a boner.
there are those, of course, who lay
tblame primarily on the news*
pape ; man who translated the “as
u> ption” into an “announcement,”
h ’’ there seems general agreement
t.’i;/ ail the stories and headlines
kling the story were fully justi
ll( d and warranted by the facts re
‘ t- 1 in the body of the article —
1 " 1: for which Mr. Maxwell was
(Continued on Page Four)
57 Are Hurt When
i rain Is Derailed
At Grand Canyon
Grand Canyon, Ariz., July 28.
7~C\I») —The list of injured in
die derailment of a Grand Can
>!>n special train last night
'hmbed to 57 today, Santa Fe
! »Hicials disclosing that 37 had
Cron hospitalized and 20 more
given first aid treatment at the
seeiic six miles south.
Curlier reports had listed only
Jimp injured.
Only five remained in the hos
pital today. None was considered
111 u critical condition.
Hie two locomotives and four
Caches of the train, carrying 190
‘■tnvon visitors from all parts of
toe world jumped the rails while
Proceeding through a deep cut
blasted out of almost solid rock.
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jobs, and we spend money more
freely.
On the other hand, there is tre
mendous disagreement as to what is
meant by “confidence”. Different
groups of people, different sections
of the country, and different politi
cal leaders have entirely opposite
views as to what will restore confi
dence. Both Howard Coonley and
Norman Thomas would state that the
greatest need of the world is “con
fidence”. Yet, they would absolutely
disagree as to what will bring about
that confidence.
No One Agrees On Anything.
Some people, for instance, want
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Buncombe’s
Vote Starts
Two Drives
Daily Dispatch Rurean.
In the Sir Walter Hotel.
Raleigh, July 28—Overwhelming
refusal of Buncombe’s electorate to
approve establishment of liquor
stores within the county’s borders
would seem to offer • absolutely no
crumb of comfort to those fav&ring
ABC stores .and controlled legal sales;
but it is already apparent that the
vote has actually stimulated two
wholly opposite movements, one
sponsored and supported by control
lers, the other by the most arid and
ardent drys.
Movement number one results
from the fact that the city of Ashe
ville stood out as a moist oasis in
the vast desert of Buncombe’s bone
dryness. Similar oases were discov
ered in the Mecklenburg and Cataw
ba elections, ' among others, with
Charlotte at obvious odds with the
prohibitionists of rural Mecklenburg
and Hickory plumping for stores on
ly to find itself overruled by the
crushing dry majority among the
rustics of the county.
And so the bright boys among the
controllers are mulling over the idea
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British Minister
Os Air on Missing
Plane In England
London, July 28.—(AP)—An air
plane carrying Sir Kingsley Wood,
British air minister, was unreported
today an hour and a half after it
was expected to land at Belfast. Later
it was learned that, because of rain
and poor visibility, his plane and one'
other turned back and crossed the
English coast ndar Barrow-in-Fur
ness. l
ONLY DAILY
NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA AND VIRGINIA.
HENDERSON, N. C., FRIDAY AFTERNOON, JULY 28, 1939
Lewis Blast
Upon Garner
Is Damaging
Some Think Wage-
Hour Revision This
Session Now Certain;
Roosevelt Won’t Com
ment; Farm Interest
Limited T o Three
Percent.
Washington, July 28.—(AP) —The
Senate wrote into the $2,490,000,000
lending bill today a provision for
government re-financing of farm
mortgages. The amendment was fos
tered by Senators Wheeler, Demo
crat, Montana, and LaFollette, Pro
gressive, Wisconsin, who told the
chamber it would enable many hard
pressed farmers to retain their homes
and reduce their annual principal
and interest payments.
The interest rate would be limited
to three percent and loans would be
made under the terms specified by
the Bankhead-Jones farm tenancy
act.
Also, Wheeler, who is chairman of
the Senate Interstate Commerce Com
mittee, disclosed he intended to seek
elimination from the lending bill of
a provision for railroad equipment
loans.
Shortly after the Senate resumed
debate on the measure, which Dem
ocratic leaders hoped to pass before
midnight, Wheeler urged approval of
the proposal by himself and LaFol
lette for re-financing the mortgages.
Lewis Blast Hurts Him.
John L. Lewis’ denunciation of
Vice-President Garner stirred up
such a congressional tempest that
some legislators said it had improved
chances for revision c/! the wage
hour law at this session. Lewis was
demanding that Congress make no
change in the law when he told the
House Labor Committee yesterday
(Continued on Page Five)
Durham Girl Will
Head 4-H Clubs Os
State Coming Year
Raleigh, July 28. (AP)
Four-H clubs of North Carolina
today elected Margaret Ellis, of
Durham, as their president for
the next year, with Eugene
Berryhill, of Mecklenburg coun
ty as vice-president.
The last business session of
the 25th annual club short
course was held this morning.
New officers will be installed
tonight at a candle-light cere
mony.
Charles Cone, of Nash coun
ty, was elected secretary.
The achievement day pro
gram preceded the elections,
with four delegates to the Nat
ional 4-H Club camp reporting
their experiences, and John Mc-
Dowell and Eugene Berryhill,
both of Mecklenburg, ’ repeating
their dairy team demonstration,
which won them the State
championship and a trip to the
National Dairy Show.
Slaying Os
Son Denied
By Holland
Kenansville, July 28.—(AP); —
Sheprose K. Holland, 44-year-old
grist mill operator on trial here on
a charge of murder in connection
with the death of his three-year-old
stepson, took the stand today to
deny that he had drowned the lad.
Holland testified that he leit the
boy, Ray James Goodman, with his
mother, and returned a short time
later to find the child’s body in the
millpond. The State charges Holland
killed the boy to collect a SI,OOO
insurance policy.
The Durham Life Insurance Com
pany filed suit in the same court
today asking cancellation of the
policy on the grounds that Holland
“took it out with the express pur
pose of murdering the boy”, and
that he represented himself as
being the child’s father.
The complaint stated the com
pany had tried on several occasions
to return to Holland the premiums
he had paid on the policy, but that
the latter had refused to accept the
money, _ .
Trying to Adjust Wage-Hour Differences
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In an effort to forestall long fight on proposed amendments to the Wage-Hour law, Chairman Adolph
Sabath (right), of the House Rules Committee, summoned friends and foes of the proposed amendment
before his committee to adjust differences. Among those who appeared were, left to right: Wage-Hour
Administrator Andrews; Rep. Mary Norton, of New Jersey*chairman of labor committee, and Rep. Graham
Barden, of North Carolina, who would exclude workers in agriculture and allied industries, and white
collar workers from provisions of the act. (Central Press)
Succeeds McNutt
HIl fji
- Francis B. Sayre
Francis B. Sayre, present assistant 1
of state, was nominated by Presi
dent Roosevelt to be U. S. High
Commissioner to the Philippines to
succeed Paul V. McNutt. Sayre, a
resident of Massachusetts, is son-in
law of the late President Wilson.
Gov. Rivers
Will Confer
On Tobacco
Atlanta, Ga., July 28.—(AP) —
Governor Rivers arranged a Sunday
night conference with Georgia to
bacco men seeking relief from com
paratively low prices for their 1939
crop, while buyers in 15 auction cen
ters continued to bid today in the
bulk of the leaf at 15, 16 and 17 cents
a pound.
Growers criticized these prices as
too severe a drop from last season’s
opening range of 25 to 30 cents a
pound.
Governor Rivers said he had been
deluged by telegrams protesting the
low prices, but that many growers
also objected to a suggested holiday
on the market, enforced by executive
order, as likely to be “disastrous” to
the Georgia farmers.
He said it appeared imperative
that “some action be taken,” and dis
cussed probability of a public hear
ing in the belt on the best procedure.
FARMERS PLAN MEETINGS
TO VOICE THEIR PROTEST
Douglas, Ga., July 28.—(AP) —
Bright leaf tobacco farmers, facing
what some characterized as a “cur
rent crisis” in the Georgia market
arranged meetings . today in the
State’s 15 marketing centers to dis
cuss means of bolstering sagging
prices.
One group suggested relief from
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FOR NORTH CAROLINA.
Partly cloudy, scattered show
ers Saturday and in east portion
tonight.
Roosevelt In Favor
Os Political Bans,
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But Delays Signing
President Finds Much
In Hatch Bill He Dis
likes And May Not
Sign It; Would Bar
“Pernicious” Political
Activities.
. Washington, July 28. (AP) —
President Roosevelt declared him
self today to be absolutely in favor
of the objectives of the Hatch bill
to prohibit “pernicious” political ac
tivities. He added at a press confer
ence. however, that there was a real
problem involved in the measure,
which is at the White House await
ing presidential action. That problem,
the President said, is, what can peo
ple legitimately do under very, very
broad language.
He said that, for instance, it might
be interpreted to forbid a person to
attend a political rally or voluntarily
contribute to the campaign expenses
of a friend. Mr. Roosevelt said he
would take with him on a week-end
fishing cruise a lot of documentary
evidence on the bill. He has not had
a report on it yet from Attorney Gen
eral Murphy, he said.
Asked v/hat phases of the legisla
tion he had talked over yesterday
with Senator Hatch, Democrat, New
(Continued on Page Four)
Smokes, Chews
Gum While In
Death Chair
Columbia, S. C., July 28.—(AP)
Otis McGill, 35-year-old Greenville
county mountaineer, died in the elec
tric chair early today for the mur
der of A. P. Southcrlin, who was
beaten to death in upper Greenville
county in 1938.
McGill,' a tall thin man, walked
nonchalantly into the death cham
ber, smoking a cigarette and chew
ing gum.
“Good morning, good morning.
How’s everybody?” he said, waving
cheerfully to the 25 or 30 witnesses
gathered about the room. He calmly
took his place in the chair and dis
played a cool interest as he was
strapped in by guards.
Asked if he had any oral state
ment to make, he said, “No,” but
Rev. S. K. Phillips, prison chaplain,
stepped forward and read a written
statement by McGill, in which the
la’tter said he had “killed two men
in self defense.”
McGill, who never went past the
first grade in school, said in his state
ment that “I have been a meen man,
but nots us bad as peple sas ”
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Famed Surgeon Dies
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DR. WILLIAM J. MAYO
Dr. W. J. Mayo,
Os Rochester
Clinic, Dies
Rochester, Minn., July 28.—(AP)
—Dr. William James Mayo, world
renowned surgeon and last of Ro
chester’s two famous brothers, died
at 4 a. m. today from a rerious
stomach ailment for which he un
derwent an operation April 22. He
was 78 years old.
Son of a country doctor, who
trained him to become one of medi
cal history’s greatest surgeons, “Dr.
Will”, as he was known to thousands
of patients, died in his sleep. At the
bedside were Mrs. Mayo, two
daughters and their husbands, Doc
tors D. C. Balfour and Waltman
(Continued on Page Five)
Bids Submitted On
Low-Cost Housing
Work for Raleigh
Raleigh, July 28.—(AP) —T. A.
Loving & Company, of Goldsboro,
submitted a low base bid of $729,-
700 today for construction of Ra
leigh’s federally-aided low-cost
housing project to be known as
Halifax court, to house 231 families.
No award was made immediately. A
technical protest against all bids
was lodged by the State Associa
tion of Plumbers and Heaters.
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Chances For
New Treaty
Fading Here
Japan Warned United
States Will Not Re
treat in Its Demands
In China; War Sup
plies May Be Banned;
Threat To U. S. in
Tokyo.
Tokyo, July 28.—(AP)—Abroga
tion of the nine power treaty “with
out further ado” was suggested to
day by the newspaper Kokumin, con
sidered the organ of the army and
ultra nationalist element, in an an
gry editorial on United States’ de
nunciation of the Japanese trade
treaty.
“Such a reckless act of hostility to
ward Japan by the United States has
aroused sharp resentment,” said the
newspaper. “Opinion is rising in
favor of abrogation of the nine power
treaty without further ado. In that
case, the United States should be
prepared to face a situation where
in her rights and interests in China
can no longer be tenable.”
Signed in Washington February
6, 1922, by the United States, China,
Japan, Britain and five other pow
ers, the nine power treaty pledges
its signatories to respect China’s in
tegrity and to “promote intercourse
between China and the other pow
ers upon the basis of equality of op
portunity.”
Reliable sources said Japan would
refuse to take the initiative in draft
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Wallace Says
Lower Class
Must Spend
Cleveland, Ohio, July 28.—(AP)
—Secretary of Agriculture Wallace
told the World Poultry Congress to
*day that “the only way to make
consumption keep step with produc
tion is to increase the consumption
of the lower income groups.”
“No other general solution of the
problem is conceivable,” he de
clared in a prepared address.
“Here and there single nations
may find outlets for their excess
production in exports,” he said.
“But the poultrymen of most na
tions will have to depend largely on
domestic balance between con
sumption and production for en
larging the market.
“We might as well begin along
the right line now, and figure on
the absolute necessity of raising the
consumption of the low income
groups. Poultrymen especially stand
to gain.”
Armaments
Costs 1939
S2O Billions
*
Over Eight Times Ex
penditures On Eve Os
World War in 1914;
Germany Started
Race Back in 1933,
Quadrupled Since
Then.
Washington, July 28.—(AP) —
The cost of the world’s feverish ef
forts to reinforce armaments may
reach a new peak of $20,000,000,-
000 this year, figures from govern
ment and other sources indicated
today.
On the ev*> of the World War in
1914, the se r en largest were spend
ing annually only $2,400,000,000 for
arms. Mounting defense expendi
tures by England and France large
ly account for an indicated two bil
lion dollars boost in arms- outlay
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