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HENDERSON’S POPULATION i 3,873 TWENTY-SIXTH year SENATE SLASHES LENHNfi BILL FURTHER 34 Are Hurt In Riots At Auto Plants CIO Workers Est i mater Over 5,000 Mass at Gates of Cleveland Plant To Stop Work There; Serious Figh ti n g Breaks Out. Cleveland, Ohio, July 31.—(AP) — A club-wielding, brick-tossing and tear gas bombing riot at the strike bound Fisher Body plant of General Motors Corporation today injured 34 persons, none seriously. A crowd of CIO United Automobile Workers. ‘estimated by police at 5,000 to 6.000, massed at the gates to “stop the plant.” Police Captain Michael Blackwell said the fighting started after a brick was thrown through the window of an automobile carrying several non-strikers into the plant. At least 300 tear gas shells and bombs were thrown in the rioting that ensused. Blackwell said. From a third floor window of the factory, a policeman mounted a long-range tear gas gun which sent gas shells 300 yards into the crowd of demon strators. Blackwell said the strikers re plied with tear gas shells and gre nades. Twelve persons were arrest ed and released later on waivers. Three admitted operating a sound truck without permits and nine ad mitted creating a disturbance. A short time later, a truce was ef fected by police Chief George M atowitz. Company officials said the plant was operating as it has been through out the strike, which was called three weeks ago by skilled tool and die workers to press demands for a supplemental agreement. The com pany said 463 persons, including of tice employees, entered the plant to day. About 700 normally are employ ed at this season. Union represent atives made no estimate of the num ber who entered the plant. CLEMENCY SOUGHT FOR LONG-TERMER Raleigh, July 31.—(AP)—Pa roles Commissioner Edwin Gill took under advisement this afternoon a plea for executive clemency for C. A. Terrell, serving 15 years in prison for attempted criminal as sault in Pitt county. Mrs. A. B. Terrell, mother of the prisoner, and other members of his family at- R aed the clemency hearing. )e 3ta. Jch Ky. Man Is Held In Police Death Lexington, Ky., July 31.—(AP) — Charles Allen, fugitive wealthy far mer of Cynthiana, Ky., was brought to the city jail today by a party of deputies and placed in custody with out charge for temporary safe-keep ing. j; Sought since Saturday night as the . -ayer of George Dickey, 77-year old police chief at Cynthiana, Allen telephoned Harrison County Sheriff Victor Ross from the home of a brother, Alvin Allen, Jacksonville, (Continued on Page Four) Charlotte Auto Deaths Highest; Five In Vance Daily Dispatch Bureau, In the Sir Walter Hotel. Raleigh, July 31.—Charlotte, with 13 killed, easily gained the unenvi able distinction of having more traf fic accident fatalities of any North ■'amlina city during the first six inonths of 1939, according to records el the Highway Safety Division. On a basis of population, however, the palm goes to Fayetteville, rather ham to the State’s largest city, as eight fatalities were recorded in the Cumberland county capital through ■bine. Raleigh, also with eight deaths, ■vould rank above Charlotte on the unsafe list on a per capita basis; while Greensboro with eight and Durham with seven have nothing to hnig about in the matter of safety records. Winston-Salem, second largest city of Tar Heeha, had only two traffit * _ __ UiSUE PERR* iiiutiirrsmt Dmlit tHsSatrh SERVICE OF •LHE ASbOUIATED PRESS. Dewey Outlines War on Gangs '; j . WB&L* ■ * A one-man “war of extermination" which in six months sent five men to their graves and another to the hospital, was bared to reporters’by District Attorney Thomas E. Dewey, in demanding price of $30,000 — dead or alive—on head of Louis (Lepke) Buchalter, “the most dangerous industrial racketeer in the United States.” The New York District Attorney cut short his vacation to personally direct the investigation inspired by the murder-by-mistake of Irving Penn, music publisher, British-French Military Missions Go To Moscow Chamberlain Advises Commons of Plans in Connection With Negotiations Over Pact; Sidesteps Com mitment on Japanese Issue. London, July 31. —(AP) Prime Minister Chamberlain acknowledged before the House of Commons today that defini tion of the term “indirect ag gression” was the major snag holding up conclusion of the pro posed British-French - Russian mutual assistance pact. He made this disclosure in a foreign af fairs debate a short time after he had announced Britain and France would send military mis sions to Moscow, probably this week, for staff talks. London, July 31.—(AP) —Prime Minister Chamberlain told the House of Commons today that Brit ish and French military missions would be sent to Moscow lor staff talks, probably this week. He added that political discussions of the British - French - Soviet Russian muutal assistance pact would pro ceed side by side with the military conversations. The prime minister’s statement was made at the beginning of Par liament’s last week of sessions be fore recessing until autumn. “The Soviet government has pro posed that at the present state of negotiations it would be an ad vantage to begin military conver sations forthwith”, he said. “His Majesty’s government and the French government have conferred and arrangements are being made to send British and French represen tatives to Moscow as soon as pos sible. Chamberlain sidestepped ques (Continued on Page Three) deaths, which probably entitles the Camel city to distinction among the group of really sizable cities; though such cities as Kinston, Hickory, Wil son Tarboro and the worlds laigest “unincorporated” city, Kannapolis, showed no deaths at all. Officials in the safety division pointed out that in the matter of in juries wide differences in figures in dicate that there is a wide variance in the matter of reporting from the various cities. Although the law i en quires that all accidents be repoi ted to the division by all peace officers of the State, it is a fact that some cities report regularly and faithfully, others intermittently and with small regard to minor injuries. For the first six months of the year, however, here’s how various municipalities of the State stood in (Continued on Page Four) ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA AND VIRGINIA^ HENDERSON, N. C., MONDAY AFTERNOON, JULY 31, 1939 Ex-Gov. Explains Richard Leche Ex-Governor of Louisiana Richard W. Leche, runs through his brief preceding r appearance before the Federal Grand Jury at New Orleans investigating the Louisiana politi cal graft scandal. Leche was gov ernor during time Dr. James Mon roe Smith is charged with having misappropriated huge sums of money from Louisiana State U. LJ. S. Woman Claimed Held By Germans Paris, July 31.—(AP)—The Unit ed States Embassy here disclosed to day it had asked the embassy in Ber lin to investigate reports that a young American woman had been interned in a Nazi concentration camp at Dechau, Germany. The Paris Em bassy based its inquiry on the story of a German, Franz Lem, who said he had escaped from Dechau, leav ing behind his American wife, who, he said, was the former Lili Harrison, born at New Orleans, La., April 4, 1914. Embassy officials said Lem had no papers to prove even his own identity or his wife’s American citizenship, but that his story was being passed on to the Berlin embassy for inquiry. An inquiry also was sent to the State Department at Washington for a check on the wife’s passports, which Lem said were issued in New York. He said he and his wife ar rived at Hamburg from New York last May 3, and shortly afterward both were arrested and interned on charges of carrying on anti-Nazi propaganda. He said he escaped July 1, and made his way to the frontier crossing into France under fire of German border guards. AAA Offers Tobacco Growers All Possible Aid For Prices Conference Held in Washington as Geor gia Growers Back Eight-Point Program At Meeting With Gov ernor Rivers. Washington, July 31. (AP) —Representatives of southern tobacco growers sought means to bolster prices for their crop in a conference today with Agriculture , Adjustment Ad ministration officials. After several hours of dis cussion of the situation in a closed meeting no definite pro gram for assistance had been inaugurated. AAA officials said various possibilities were discussed, including the closing of markets and government loans and subsidies. They explained, however, that the average price, now between sl4 to $lB per hundred pounds, would have to drop to ai*>ut $13.50 before a loan program could be put into effect under the farm act. The law authorized loans only when the average price of the commodity drops below 75 percent of “parity”, or “fair level” price. Parity for flue-cured tobacco grown in the southern states is $lB per hundred pounds. House-approved amendments to the tobacco marketing quota pro visions of the 1938 farm act also were discussed. These would authorize an immediate election on sales restrictions for next year’s crop, instead of waiting until November, as now required. Proponents have expressed be lief favorableai ion on quotas lor 1940 would have a beneficial effect on 1939 sales. Flue-cured growers rejected quotas for this year’s crop, the biggest on record. AAA officials, headed by J. B. Hutson, assistant administrator, and J. E. Thigpen, assistant director of the tobacco division ,assured grow ers all possible means of help. About 20 representatives of flue cured growers in Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina and Geor gia discussed the situation at the conference today. The Georgia (Continued on Page Three) Japs Accuse Britain Os Bad Faith Tokyo, July 31. —(AP) —Fifteen thousand Japanese gathered in front of the British Embassy today after two mass meetings in which speak ers accused Great Britain of refusing to live up to the spirit of her agree ment on Japanese right of way in occupied portions of China. The demonstration, similar to that put on by a much larger crowd July 14, on the eve of the British-Japa nese conference to settle the Tientsin dispute, indicated the negotiations of that dispute were deadlocked anew. (Informed quarters in London ex pressed fears the talks, in which (Continued on Page Three) Roosevelt-Farley Split Is Purely Speculation By CHARLES P. STEWART Central Press Columnist j Washington, July 31.—Politicians and the newspaper boys know just as little now concerning relations be tween President Roosevelt and James A. Farley as they did before the post master gen eral’s Hyde Park confab with his “boss” just before leaving on his vacation trip to Europe. The honest fact is that stories of a coolne s s between this pair have been very largely pure guesswork. More over the guessing has been done mostly by guessers who devoutly hope yy ■■ j James Farley that the two really are at outs —giv- ing rise ,to the suspicion that their For Service to His Country g|:. •• •' • •• y II • President Roosevelt pins the Distinguished Service Medal on Admiral William D. Leahy, former Chief of Naval Operations, in Washington. Leahy is next Governor of Puerto Rico Cotton Loan Plan Will Await Trend Os Prices No Loans Will Be Made Growers a s Long as Level Is as Far Above Parity as Now; Government Already Loaded With Cotton. Washington, July 31. —(AP)—Fed- eral farm officials indicated today that the Federal government would withhold announcement of a loan program for 1939 cotton as long as domestic prices remain at or near current levels. Quotations on the domestic spot markets averaged 9.25 cents a pound last week-end, or almost a cent a pound above the rate at which loans were made on last year’s crop. Loans will be held in reserve, of ficials said, as a price-bolstering measure should quotations begin to drop to near last year’s loan rate. The government desires to avoid ad ding more cotton to loan stocks, now totaling about 11,000,000 bales, and representing an investment of about $55,000,000. The 1938 crop control law requires the government to make loans when prices fall below 52 percent of the so-called “parity”, or “equitable” price for cotton, or when crop pros pects point to a production in excess (Continued on Page Three) narratives are based rather on wish ful thinking than on any actual in formation. They’ve given plenty of reasons why the p. m. g. ought to be sore, but they’ve furnished precious little tangible evidence that he is. On his recent trip through the country he contacted hundreds (perhaps thousands) of Democratic leaders in as many different bailiwicks. If he genuinely has a grouch on the ad ministration it seems odd that he didn’t at least hint at it to a few of these local managers. Had he done so, surely there would have been a leak here and there. Yet no com mentator has mentioned a definite authority for his accounts of the much-talked-of Roosevelt-Farley rift The dope is all to the effect that there’s a rift, but nobody attempts to prove it. One suggestion is that Farley re sents the presidential appointment of Paul V. McNutt to a high federal (Continued on Page Four) PUBLISHED EVERY AFTERNOON EXCEPT SUNDAY. Georgia Average Last Week 14 3-4 Atlanta, Ga., July 31.—(AP) — Tobacco sales totaled $3,985,575.62 at Georgia’s 15 market centers last week, averaging $14.75 for 27,027,- 786 pounds. The official figures on 64 ware houses in the State, compiled by the State Department of Agricul ture, covered four days of the 1939 auction season. They com pared with the two days of sales in the first week last year, when 14,697,350 pounds sold for $3,771,- 482.55, at an average of 26.75 cents. Front Porch Campaign Is Garner Plan Washington, July 31.—(AP) Vice-President Garner was re ported authoritatively today to be planning a “front porch” cam paign for the Democratic presi dential nomination in 1940. Garner’s close friends said he had no thought of making any public appearances before the party’s national convention early next summer. They added that he already has turned down numerous invitations to speak and to attend public functions. Neither is he expected to issue any political statements during the months before the conven tion. He was described by asso ciates as believing there should be no elaboration of published reports that he would seek the presidential nomination, even if President Roosevelt should try for a third term. ROCKY MOUNT MAN TO OPPOSE COOLEY Rocky Mount, July 31.—(AP) —Ira Baker, local carpenter who com peted unsuccessfully on the Republi can ticket against J. Q. Robinson, Democrat, in the contest for mayor here in May, said today he would file for Congress against Harold D. Cooley in the fourth congressional district. Baker, the first Republican ever to run for mayor in Rocky Mount, was defeated overwhelmingly by Mayor Robinson, 8 PAGES TODAY FIVE CENTS COPY $25 Million More Cut By 44-35 Vote Newest Pruning Is at Expense of Export- Import Bank; Senate Leaders Hopeful of Vote by Night on sl,- 615,000,000 Bill. Washington, July 31. (AP) —The Senate bi-partisan econ omy bloc forced an additional $25,000,000 reduction in the administration lending bill to day. The chamber accepted, 44 to 35, a proposal by Majority Leader Barkley, Democrat, Kentucky, to cut from SIOO,- 000,000 to $75,000,000 a pro posed new lending authoriza tion for the export-import bank. Barkley offered the amendment as a compromise after Senator Taft, Re publican, Ohio, had demanded that the authorization be reduced to $25,- 000,000. Action on the Barkley amendment brought the total of the bill down to $1,615,000,000 compared with a total of $2,800,000,000 when the measure originally was introduced. Barkley’s amendment also con tained a provision requiring that borrowers from the export-import bank spend the money in the United States. " Senate leaders were hopeful that final action on the lending bill would be taken today. The House has not yet considered the measure. With the adjournment-bent Sen ate moving slowly toward a final vote on the measure, Senator Taft offered his amendment to cut the bank’s authorization. He quoted Jesse H. Jones, the Federal loan adminis trator, as saying that the bank would not need more than $125,000,000 in order to make all desirable loans. The (Continued on Page Three) State WPA Halts Firing Os Workers Raleigh, July 31.—(AP)—The WPA in North Carolina, as well as in other states, has, at least tem porarily, halted the dismissal of workers who have been on relief rolls for 18 continuous months or longer, State Administrator C. C. McGinnis said today. McGinnis explained that the Sen ate had modified the requirement that workers with 18 months of employment be fired and that the dismissals had been suspended to await house action on this change. Under the Senate amendment, he said, no long time WPA worker would be dismissed if he could not find another job, if the project on which he worked would be im paired, or if he would suffer per sonal hardships through dismissal. In North Carolina, about 6,200 of the 8,500 immediately affected by the order had been dismissed, and others were to have been let out on successive pay days as they passed the 18-month period of em ployment. Governorship Gossip Rife At Raleigh Daily Dispatch Bureau, In the Sir Walter Hotel. By HENRY AVERILL Raleigh, July 31.—For the tidbits of political gossip listed hereinafter in this column there is absolutely no guarantee of truth or veracity beyond the fact that they are being talked around in circles which more often that not know what they’re talking about. Some of the seem to come from obviously “inspired” sources; probably inspired by a de sire to head off some candidate or to boost some other. Other items were just picked up almost at ran (Continued on Page Three) (OshihsA Fair tonight and Tuesday.
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