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uia'DKIvSON’S fopiruvnoN 13,873 YEAR Hatch Bill Signed By Roosevelt As 3,000 Pickets Battle Police In Fisher Strike A kt-r ard a strike-breaker engage in a rough-and-tumble individual duel as 3,000 pickets and strike sympathisers at the Fisher Body plant, Cleveland, 0., battle with 450 police. Flying rocks and tear gar re lied in injury to 26 before Police Chief George Matowitz requested a truce. Border Belt Markets Flooded On Eve Os Opening Tomorrow Report Clarence Poe Is To Enter Governor Race Daily Dispatch Bureau, In the Sir Walter Hotel. Raleigh. Aug. 2.—Nobody will ad mit responsibility for it nor confess much knowledge of it, but a quiet campaign is being waged to get Dr. Clarence Poe into the Tar Heel gu bernatorial picture as something of a "dark horse” candidate. The Progressive Farmer editor himself smilingly disclaims all know ledge of any such movement andi refuses completely to commit him self regarding iris intentions in the matter. "You can neither assume nor an nounce anything at all about it”, he told your correspondent, obviously j playing upon the recent “it may be, dehniteiy assumed” statement by j Revenue Commissioner Allen J.l Maxwell. I And so there’s just about the end | of the • utter as far as quotable state- 1 Public Angry j At Bungled Electrocution Bo ton Mass., Aug. 2.—(AP)—A d' u< electrocution, in which a mys-j t> ; )U executioner known only as Mr. X” required nearly 40 minutes* h'it two young hold-up slayers to d' i. ; was denounced as an “exam li!' <,t inhumanity” today, while State °Bie.::i explained that the substitute f “s’ -eer was not as “expert” as ttr I U ran Robert G. Elliott. •a* criticism came from Herbert B;.: < »,■ . president of the Massa *; 11 M 1 ouneil for the Abolition of ,l, ‘ ' ; ■ 1 n Penalty, after the early j ,r ' ag execution of Wallace Green, ‘-; 1 - Walter St. Sauveur, 19, for !’■' ' i h hold-up slaying of Wil- Phidip middle-aged Somer :-:i'ocer, on May 31, 1938. . ame of “Mr. X,” who was /;■; * t from “out-of-State” to sub • ior the ailing Ellliott, Massa alficial executioner, was cen t at hi;; own request. El '■ antinued on Page Two) F °« MER legislator named in warrant y’lbia, S. c., August 2.—(AP) ( j“ fanner state legislator was ' d in a warrant issued today . "Raining money from the State I V' y ‘inder false pretense. f : Tompkins, audit clerk in the v 1 'allcr general’s office, signed V " ;Jnt char § in g Q- E. Britt, of a'/ w *fb obtaining $450, the j, appropriated this year for indian agent, although, Comp- SrtTT' ener al A. J. Beattie said, ** 1 “ c °nimission expired June 30. Bntitrrsmt Dttiltr iltsiiittrh “ wm E SERVICE OP I HE ASSOCIATED PRESS. ments from anybody are concerned, but there isn’t the slightest doubt that Dr. Poe has been definitely so licited to project himself into the campaign. Your correspondent asked a rath er acute politicial observer, inter ested in a different candidate, “What elements of strength would Dr. Poe have if he did get into the race?” and received the rather surprising reply, “Too many, I'm afraid.” Viewed objectively, a Poe cam paign presents more than a few in teresting angles, indicating that the suggestion of his candidacy is much more than a pipe dream. To begin with, there probably isn’t a man in the State of North Carolina better known to the farmers — and aftei;all they form a tremendous pro portion of the Tar Heel population— (Continued on Page Two) Rhodes Sees Little Excuse In Low Price Daily Dispatch Bureau, In the sir Walter Hofei Raleigh, Aug. 2. Despite low prices on the Georgia mai ts and in the face of almost panicky precau tions many officials are seeking to take against poor prices in North Carolina, W. H. Rhodes, chief of the statistical division of the State De partment of Agriculture, can see no real justification for any excessive depression in this year s tobacco prices. . In an exhaustive analysis of crop prospects on the eve of the opening of the Border Belt markets, Rhodes ; today reached the conclusion that the greater crop production this year ! ought to be somewhat offset by smaller present stocks on hand and (Continued on Page Five) Man Who Assisted Wright Brothers Is Dead In Ohio Dayton, Ohio, Aug. 2. —(AP) Charles Webhcrt, 83, former landlord of Wilbur and Orville Wright, and one of the first men to believe that they might teach the world to fly, died yesterday. Webbcrt owned the building which housed the Wright broth ers’ famous bicycle shop, and sold it to* Henry Ford in 1937. Webbert also provided the Wrights with the water pump ' used on their first successful plane at Kitty Hawk, N. C., in 1903. W * ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OF NORTHCAROLINA AND VIRGINIiT HENDERSON, N. C., WEDNESDAY AFTERNO ON, AUGUST 2, 1939 Usual Spirit of Opti mism Prevails Among Growers and Ware housemen as to Price Prospects; Tar Heel Growers Meet on Fri day. Florence, S. C., Aug. 2.—(AP) — Thousands of farmers who brought huge loads of tobacco flooded the 16 Border Belt market towns today on the eve of the official opening of the 1939 auction seasons. The usual spirit of optimism pre vailed among growers, and ware housemen said offerings, which have been piling up since Monday, might cause blocked sales at several points. The farmers believed that their weed would bring higher prices than those in Georgia, where farmers have looked for private and publip aid to raise prices. “Fair prices” or “better prices than Georgia” was the general pre diction. Growers pointed to the fact that virtually all offerings would be graded and tied this year as a factor to produce better prices. Quality of the crop in the Border Belt is lair, but very light in weight, warehousemen said. Additional warehouses have been built throughout the belt, and all market belt centers were prepared for the heaviest sales in history. Border Belt market towns are Fairmont, Lumberton Whiteville, Chadbourn, Tabor City, Fair Bluff and Clarkton, in North Carolina. TOBACCO GROWERS URGED TO ATTEND RALEIGH MEET Raleigh, Aug. 2.—(AP) —Every to continued on Page Five) Hoey Won’t Save Life Os “Gray Mouse” Raleigh, August 2.—(AP)—Gov ernor Hoey said today he had de clined to intervene in behalf of Ar thur Morris, 24-year-old Negro sen tenced to die Friday for first degree burglary. Morris has a criminal record dating back to 1932, Hoey said, and was charged in more than 50 cases with burglary, including several involving entry at night into dwellings in which people were sleeping—first degree burglary. “Morris was sentenced to Dur ham to serve 50 to 80 years when convicted of twob urglary charges”, said Governor Hoey. “He escaped from the Perquimans prison camp and during the 14 days he was out he committed two,- three or four burglaries at night at Henderson. With a 50 to 80-year prison sen tence on him, he went right back to burglary.” Morris will be the second man in the last three years and the seventh since 1910 to be executed here for burglary. Alienists pronounced Morris “sane, smart and shrewd,” Hoey 'sai.l. ... Activity Os Government Workers Cut President Sends Con gress Message, How ever, Advising Ameri can People Will Not Stand for “Gag Act”; Exemptions S u g gested. Washington, August 2. (AP) President Roosevelt signed into law today the Hatch bill regulating the political activity of most federal em ployees, but told Congress emphatically the American people would not stand for its enforcement as a “gag act”. The chief executive said he was taking the unusual action of sending a message to Con gress explaining his position because there had been “so many misrepresentations” of his attitude, which he set out in these words: “It is because for so many years I have striyen in public life and in private life for decency in political campaigns, both on the part of gov ernment servants, of , candidates, of newspapers, of corporations and of individuals, that I regard this new legislation as at least a step in the right direction.” Mr. Roosevelt recommended that Congress study next session exten sion of the measure to cover state and local government employes who “participate actively in federal elec (Continued oft-'Page Five) New Time Os 230 Hours In Air Reached Springfield, 111., Aug. 2.—(AP) — Two young brothers, one a veteran flier and the other a fledgeling, ad ded additional hours today on their newly-won world’s endurance flight record for light planes. Hunter Moody, 25, and Humphrey, 20, of Decatur, 111., officially shat tered the old record of 218 hours, 43 minutes, of sustained flight when they surpassed that mark by one hour at 6:43 p. m\, central standard time, last night. “We’ll stay up here as long as the motor functions okay and neither of us gets sick,” they announced by radio. Previously they reported be ing divided in opinion over continu ance of the flight. The elder brother has been a pilot since he was 14, but Humphrey qualified for a private li cense only a few days before the take-off July 23. UJojcdhstfi FOR NORTH CAROLINA. Partly cloudy tonight and Thursday, scattered thunder showers Thursday. Foil, Train Bandits Earl Boothman An old-fashioned Wild West hold up of an Illinois Central train car rying a $65,615 U. S. Army payroll was thwarted near Anarga, 111., by the sharpshooting of Earl Booth man, railway clerk. 'He shot one of the gang of four in the chest and \a believed to have wounded one of the trio who escaped. New Protest By United States To Japan Over China Outrages Senate Passes Lending Bill wP§Bsv: , ‘’ > ' v ‘’ '< v. s!§■..£.• yy ***** ££& •xgt ffftk * M EHHHkg, Senate leaders celebrate as the chamber passes a greatly curtailed version of President Roosevelt’s spend-lend bill. Left to right, Senators Key Pittman of Nevada, president pro-tem; Alben W. Barkley of Kentucky, majority leader and sponsor of the bill; and Sherman Minton of Indiana., Democratic whip. Sen. Barkley seems to be explaining that, whila it wasn’t just what the President wanted, at least it passed. $l5O Million More Cut By House Economy Bloc 2 British Women Forced to Strip Peiping, Aug. 2.—(AP) —Two British women missionaries who arrived at Peiping today reported they were forced to strip in the presence of a man while being detained by Japanese soldiers at Kaifeng. The women came from the cap ital of Shensi province in China’s northwest with a man missionary. They said they were held at Kaifeng for two days and ques tioned four hours on July 24 and two hours July 25. The man in whose presence they were forced to strip, they as serted, was either a Japanese or a Korean. Air Corps Celebrates 30th Year Washington, Aug. 2. —(AP) — The Army Air Corps celebrated its thir tieth birthday anniversary today with mass flights throughout the United States and defense exercises over 1,- 500 miles of the west coast. Amid these evidences of aviation progress in one generation, the air corps announced its second world record this week—a flying fortress yesterday left Wright Field at Day ton, Ohio, and streaked 625 miles at 259.398 miles an hour, carrying a load of 11,023 pounds. Earlier a similar plane reached an altitude of 8,200 feet with a pay load of 15 1-2 tons. The record-breaking craft being developed in the $300,000,000 air corps expansion program bear little resemblance to the first American military airplane which a War De partment board accepted formally from Wilbur and Orville Wright 30 years ago. It had made a successful trial flight from Fort Myer, across the Potomac from Washington, to (Continued on Page Five) LONG-TERMER FROM CARTERET ESCAPES Raleigh, Aug. 2.—(AP)— Harry Pridgett, 40, serving 13 to 16 years for second degree murder imposed in Carteret county in March, 1934, escaped from Onslow county prison camp yesterday, Oscar Pitts, penal superintendent, said today. It was Pridgett’s third flight. Fleeing yesterday afternoon with Pridgett, Pitts said, was Emett Mc- Laughlin, 18-year-old convict sen tenced in January in Cumberland to seven to eight years for highway robbery. PUBLISHED EVERY AFTERNOON EXCEPT SUNDAY. Deficiency Bill Trim med Down to $53,- 190,056 as $800,000,- 000 Housing Bill Is Bogged in Jam; End Now Very Near. Washington, August 2. (AP) —Congress went under a virtual hour-to-hour work schedule today in a rush to ward adjournment. In the scramble, economy advocates in the House got in one more big lick by reporting out a much-shrunken deficiency ap propriation bill. This measure, third of its nature during this session, was trimmed more than $150,900,900 in the House Appripriations Committee, and, as presented Jor debate, contained $53,190,056. A catch-all bill de signed to make up for budget esti mates which went awry, it provides lor civilian pilot training, improving navy yards, and for many other projects. Speaker Bankhead, who yesterday saw House insurgents rise up sud denly to kill the President’s lend- bill, said at his press conference that he did not know what would come ,up tomorrow, and that no determination had been made as to whether the administration’s SBOO,- 000,000 housing bill, or wage-hour amendments, would be brought to the floor before Congress adjourns. Asked whether he expected to finish the session by Saturday, Bankhead, replied, “I hope very sincerely we’ll be able to do so.” The Senate Foreign Relations (Continued on Page Five) Better Diet Urged Upon Farm Group Raleigh, August 2.—(AP) —Dr. E. V. McCollum, of Johns Hopkins University, told delegates to the an nual farm and home week today to grow more gardens, oat more ‘pro tective foods” and “don’t depend on pills and other ‘drug store’ vita mins to supply your health needs.” Dr. McCollum is internationally recognized as an authority on vita mins, being a consulting nutrition ist for Russia and other nations. He is credited with discovery of Vita mins A and D. He also spoke yes terday at the week’s first formal session. The speaker listed, analyzed and fully explained vitamins and urged (Continued on Page Five) 8‘ PAGES TODAY FIVE CENTS COPY New British Protest Is Registered London Reportedly Threatened to Break Off Negotiations at Tokyo; Japan Ac cused o f Backing Action of Chinese. Tokyo, August 2. (AP)* — The United States was re ported today to have protested to the Japanese Foreign Of fice that the anti-British move ment in China evidently had broadened into general anti foreign agitation. U. S. Charge d’ Affairs Eu gene Dooman was said by re liable sources to have submitted a protest on seven recent as saults on Americans by Japan ese in China, and to have told the chief of the foreign office’s American section Yoshizg,wa, that it was a “reasonable as sumption” anti-British activi ties had been converted into general anti-foreignism. The seven assaults were said to have involved six missionaries and a navy warrant officer, R. A. Baker, who was manhandled at Hankow July 24. The British ambassador, Sir Rob ert Craigie, meanwhile, was said to (Continued on Page Five) North Carolina’s Crop Condition Is Still “Excellent” Raleigh, Aug. 2—(AP) —North Carolina’s crops “as a whole” continue to show excellent con dition, E. Y. Floyd, North Caro lina AAA executive officer, said today. Tar Heel farmers in many sections suffered from drought conditions during part of July, but as dry weather caused severe crop damage in many parts of the nation at the end of the month, North Carolina was having torrential rains. “The rains may have done some damage to some crops and flooded fields caused losses,” sa*l Floyd, “but the needed rains also did enough good to other crops and to dry areas to offset the damage, probably.” During the last part of July, many sections of the State had four or five inches of rain, some places having two or three inches in a day. Troops Keep Peace Over Strike Area Quiet Enforced b y Law in Wake o f Bloody Rioting in Cleveland, Detroit And Other Centers of Labor Disturbances. (By The Associated Press.) Strike sieges in four states con tinued under arms-enforced quiet today in the wake of bloody rioting and emergency police measures to combat violence. In Cleveland, Ohio, scene of a strike by the CIO-United Auto Workers Union at the huge Fisher Body plant, union spokesmen bitter ly protested the establishment of a 500-year “strike zone” around the plant. Strikers picketed in front of workers’ homes, but there was no re currence of the strife that sent 46 (Continued on Page Five); 0
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