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HENDERSON GATEWAY to CENTRAL CAROLINA twenty-fourth YEAR ROOSEVELT AT MAHTEO RENEWS ATTACKS ** ******** *************** ****** * * * * Japs Give Way In Face Os Dogged Ch inese Attacks CHiNESE SOLDIERS OUTNUMBER ENEMY NEAR FOUR TO ONE Japarese Warships Shell Chinese Positions In Shanghai To Aid Land Forces NEAR PANIC AMONG THE U. S. REFUGEES Japanese Bombing Planes Appear Over City in Bright Moonlight as Americans Aboard Tender Flee City to Safety on Dollar Liner Mc- Kinley Shanghai. Aug. 18. — (AF) —Japa nese war planes crashed bombs into Chinese positions in a moonlight at tack tonight against the Chinese hordes that are pushing Japanese land forces toward the sea. While Japanese warships shelled Chinese positions north and east of here, eight high flying bombers pass ed westward over the foreign areas to drop explosives in the direction of the Chinese airdrome. The planes appeared as a full moon illuminated the cloudless sky. They flew o' ; er both the French concession and the international settlement, bringing thousands of foreigners to jooftops to watch the raid. On land, Japanese were outnumbered almost lour to one and were reportedly giv ing way slowly in the northeastern uctor of the international settlement. Japan threw its combined first and third fleets into the battle to keep land forces from being hemmed in completely. Chinese snipers’ bullets, meanwhile, three times imperiled Americans while the Dollar liner McKinley eva (Continued on Page Six.) 4 Men Die In Blast On Destroyer Philadelphia, Pa., Aug. 18 (AP) —Four men were killed and ten injured by a steam explosion aboard the United States destroyer Cassin at the Philadelphia navy yard today, the commandant’s of fice announced. The (lead were civilian workers in the navy yard. One of those hurt was Lieutenant Henry Marshall, engineering officer of the vessel. Six other injured were navy enlisted men, and three were civilian employees. Their identities were not immediately available. The Casoin, one of the navy’s new est destroyers, was in drydock at the navy yard for repairs when an ex ploding steam pipe showered a crew (Continued on Page Six.) Clue Found On Soviets * Lost Plane Fairbanks, Alaska, Aug. 18.—(AP) . v ’kimos who reported hearing en- KWe.', along the. northern Alaskan coa.-j “four or five days ago” furnish- C>'st definite . clues today in , ’ fur the missing Soviet trans polar plane. Natives gathered at the Barter Is and to trade told Pilot Bob Randall fxterday they heard the roar of en- J nf ' s ’ :1 when they could sight no ° at decided it must have been an ail Plane. Border Island is on the 144th meri ai1 ’ miles east of Barrow. The da^ U ) Vas Baited from here yester ■’ by stormy weather. The spot is a s east of the 148th meridian, t/'n w * uc h the six airmen planned J >y enroute here on a 4,000-mile °P across the North Pole from Mos cow. Bandall reported from Barrow the l ! * e Beard by the Eskimos “might boor, the Russian ‘plane.” one of the natives told of seeing lhe Plane. I Soviet plane was last heard portly after it crossed the pole earJ y Friday. ■ .CX»<-cw»U£ PERRY M£MCRi.'.UE- ; ' HENDERSON. G* 4* W mttwttßtm &mlxs Utapatrh New Justice U. S. Supreme Court ;g: : ::: ; ;• y d R y --ysg&mg3& HUGO BLACK Washington, Aug. 18.—(AP) —Hugo L. Black, who came out of the deep South as a liberal senator ten years ago, will put on the robes of a Su preme Court" justice next October. SCHOOL BUS NEEDS ARE PROVIDED FOR Nearly $1,000,000 for Trans portation Facilities in Few Months Dsiiiy Dispatch Burean, In The Sir Walter lintel, Raleigh, Aug. 18—'When the coming school year opens, the school bus sit uation will be “well in hand” accord ing to Lloyd Griffin, executive secre tary of the State School Commission. Final delivery of buses, scheduled to be completed before September 1, will give every county an adequate number of buses in good operating condition, he said. How long the condition will con tinue satisfactory will depend largely upon the “kind of winter the weather man gives us,” Mr. Griffin added. Since the opening of the fiscal year the commission has ordered 700 buses, Mr. Griffin said, many of which have already been delivered and have been allocated to various counties. In ad dition, there were some 50 delivered between the passage of an emergency appropriations measure by the 1937 legislature and the end of June. A total of $750,000 has been spent on these buses, Mr. Griffin said. Still to be delivered to the commis sion and still to be allocated to the counties are 50 all-steel buses which will come from an Indiana plant. All bodies for the other buses are manu factured in the State at Wilson, High Point and Conover. There are already a dozen all-steel buses in operation, not more than one in any county. Os the new buses no more than one will be allocated to any county, with the possible exception of two counties which may get two bus es each, Mr. Griffin said. They will be allocated, he said, to those counties in which the bus routes are most traveled. The school commission secretary said, however, that the other buses have proved en tirely satisfactory and that they have shown great strength in “crack-up” tests. ALAMANCE, STOKES COUNTIES GO DRY Heavy Majorities Against Liquor Con trol Stores Returned in Tuesday Elections Raleigh, Aug. 18.—(AP)— Two more North Carolinian counties apparently were in the dry col umn today, after elections yester day. Stokes and Alamance counties voted 2,566 to 1,914, and 4,086 to 3 083, respectively, to prohibit the institution of alcoholic boards of control stores. Two precincts re main to be heard from in each county, but election officials said final returns could not change the results. ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA AND VIRGINIA. WIRE SERVICE OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS. HENDERSON, N. C., WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON, AUGUST 18, 1937 The outspoken Alabaman, con firmed by his colleagues in the Sen ate late yesterday by a 63 to 16 vote, is the first Roosevelt appointee to the high tribunal. ITALIANS, GERMANS LEAD REBEL DRIVE Push for Santander May Be Crucial Campaign of Spain’s Civil War Hendaye, Franco-Spanish Frontier, Aug. 18. —(AP) —An insurgent army, described by the Spanish government as built around the Italian “black arrow” bridgade, and bolstered by 200 German planes, battered toward San tander today in what may prove the crucial campaign of Spain’s civil war. Columns operating on parallel high ways into Santander, the govern ment’s last Biscayan seaport-strong !hold, were reported within 25 miles of Santander’s outskirts. That was the distance in straight line northeast, but each unit faced the task of covering some 35 or 40 miles of curving highway flanked by the barked wire and concrete forti fications of Santander’s defenders. The fourth day of General Fran cisco Franco’s big push through the mountain lands brought into play yesterday large numbers of tanks, field guns and planes. The Valencia government seemed to regard the Santander offensive as the pivotal action of the 13-months old conflict. STEEL AND COPPER LEADERS IN STOCKS These and Specialties Trafficked In to Virtual Exclusion of Other Issues STEEL AND .. .. ocC cmfwyp shr New York, Aug. 18.—(AP) —Share market traders liked steels, coppers and specialties today, but showed lit tle warmth for other sections. Gains of fractions to a point or so among favorite issues contrasted with losses of about as much in other shares. From the start, dealings were thin. Bonds were uneven. Transfers approximated 650,000 shares. American Radiator 21 5-8 American Telephone 169 3^l American Tobacco B 80 1-2 Anaconda 60 Atlantic Coast Line . 51 3-4 Atlantic Refining 29 Bendix Aviation 20 5-8 Bethlehem Steel 100 3-8 Chrysler 115 3-4 Columbia Gas and Elec 13 Commercial 13 7-8 Continental Oil 15 1-2 DuPont 162 Electric Pow & Light 22 General Electric 56 5-8 General Motors 58 1-4 Liggett & Myers B • 52 Southern Railway 29 1-4 Standard Oil N J 68 1-4 U S Steel 118 TrnSs ALABAMASENATOR Executive Would Elevate Mrs. Graves to Black’s Senate Post Tem porarily SEEK TO PREVENT BLACK’S SERVICE Alabaman Wants Court To Order Him To Show Why He Should Be Allowed To Serve on High Court; House and Senate Rush T o ward Ad j ournment Washington, Aug. 18.—(AP) —The possibility developed today that ap pointment of Senator Hugo Black, of Alabama, to the Supreme Court may result in another woman becoming a member of the Senate. Alabama congressmen said they understood Governor Bibb Graves, of Alabama, had decided to appoint his wife, Mrs. Dixie Graves, as a tem porary successor to Black. There was some belief this might be delayed because of a legal move by Albert Levitt, former Federal judge in the Virgin Islands, to pre vent the senator from taking his seat on the bench. Levitt asked the Supreme Court for permission to file a petition re questing Black to show why he should be permitted to serve as an associate justice. It was understood Mrs. Graves might be here tomorrow to be sworn into the Senate. She yould be one of only two women in the Senate. The (Continued on Page Six.) Two Airmen Lose Lives With Plane Maidens, Va., Aug. 18 (AP) —Two airmen believed to be army fliers were killed when their disabled plane crash ed and exploded into flames within the grounds of the Virginia Indus trial School for Boys near here today. Gordon Rudd, acting assistant su perintendent of the school, said the low-winged monoplane smashed to the ground when the pilot tried to avoid a deep ditch in the school’s dairy pasture. “It literally explodded into flames as it struck within 100 yards of the dairy barn, where several boys were at work,” he said. Rudd ordered the charred bodies in the wreckage of the airship be left untouched while he called officers at Langley Field. Officers at Langley Field, after a on Page Five) Grand Jury Investigates Lynch Affair Covington, Tenn., Aug. 18. —(AP) — A grand jury of farmers and mer chants. undertook today to learn the identifies of the “to hell with the law” lynchers of a smalltown Negro. Sheriff W. J. Vaughan offered to testify “to clear the matter up pro perly,” but the jury’s task appeared difficult in the face of the earlier statement he could not identity any of the six masked men who snatched (Continued on Page Six.) OUR WEATHEi? MAH FOR NORTH CAROLINA. Partly cloudy, scattered thund afternoon or tonight and possibly ershowers in north portion tins in central portion Thursday. f ' Guest of North C arolina at Manteo President Franklin O. Roosevelt U. S. BUNGLED OVER WARSHIPLEASINGS Deal With Brazil May Upset South American Good will To Us By CHARLES P. STEWART Central Press Columnist Washington, Aug. 18. —President Roosevelt and Secretary of State Hull surely should have had better judg ment than to imagine that unpleasant repercussions would not result from their plan to lease certain obsolete war vessels to Brazil. Any one with even a primary knowledge of South American inter national relationships should have been aware that the Argentine Re public is intensely jealous of Brazil. Yet apparently the Argentine reac tion to Uncle Sam’s program of war ship leasing to the Brazilians has taken Washington quite by surprise. It is not an official reaction thus far, but it is more than sufficiently ob vious in the Argentine press evident ly to have nonplused the State De partment. That the scheme would out rage Argentine public opinion was as (Continued on Page Six.) COTTON AGAIN HAS SHARP PRICE DROP Prices Ease on Hedging To Close 15 to 16 Points Lower at End of Day’s Trading New York, Aug. 18. —(AP) —Cotton futures opened quiet, up two to five points on steadier Liverpool cables, with traders generally awaiting loan developments. Shortly after the first half hour, December sold at 10:30, with the list about three to five points net higher. There was some hedging and December eased to 10.22 by mid day, when the market generally was one to three points net lower. Futures closed steady, 15 to 16 points lower. Spot quiet, middling 10.40. Open Close October 10.36 10.15 December 10.29 10.19 January 10.33 *1.0.15 March 10.42 10.23 May 10.46 10.30 (July ...... 10.51 10133 RECOVER BODY OF MAN OUT OF SOUND Plymouth, Aug. 18.—(AP) The body of Will Nixon, Winfall man, who slipped overboard Thursday between Reid’s Point, and Laurel Point, was found Tuesday afternoon in Albe marle Sound just below the new bridge site by B. S. Twiddy, of Pea Ridge. PUBLISHED EVERT AFTERNOON EXCEPT SUNDAY. Manteo Has Biggest Day In All Time Greatest Crowd Ever on Roanoke Island Greets Roosevelt at His Speech Manteo, Aug. 18.—(AP) —A holiday spirit prevailed today among Roanoke Islanders, State officials and thous ands of visitors here to welcome pres ident Roosevelt at ceremonies com memorating the 350th anniversary of the birth of Virginia Dare, first Eng lish native American. The crowd termed by islanders the largest ever gathered here, swarmed through gaily decorated streets and virtually filled nearby Fort Raleigh, site of Sir Walter Raleigh’s Lost Colony, where the Presirdent will speak at 3:30 p. m. Two hundred troops from Fort Bragg at Fayetteville, 60 State high way patrolmen and a squad of secret service men were on hand. The President arrived by special train at Elizabeth City early today and boarded a coast guard cutter. Mr. Roosevelt will leave the cruiser and drive to Fort Raleigh, where he will speak from a specially built plat form within a star-shaped enclosure. Representative Lindsay Warren, Dem ocrat, North Carolina, will preside, and Governor Clyde Hoey, of North Carolina, will introduce the Presi dent. Bishop Thomas Darrt, of Wil mington, bishop of the East Carolina Diocese of the Episcopal Church, will ask the invocation. Immediately after his address, the President will drive past a memorial (Continued on Page Six.) ROOSEVELT’S SON~ DENIES AN INSULT Honeymooning John in Paris Says He Didn’t Squirt Champagne at Mayor of Cannes Paris, Aug. 18—(AP) —John Roose velt, youngest son of President Roose velt, told The Associated Press to night he did not squirt champagne at the mayor of Cannes or hit him with a bouquet of flowers at a fes tival Sunday. The mayor’s aides had said the President’s son was the pferson who thus greeted him during Cannes’ bat tle of flowers. “The first inkling I had of the whole situation was when a London newspaper called me here in Paris early today,” young Roosevelt said. 8 PAGES TODAY FIVE CENTS COPY “MORE DEMOCRACY” AN® TO CRITICS OF NEWDEAL PLAN President Declares He Seeks No Change in Form of the United States Government BIG CROWD GREETS CHIEF EXECUTIVE Throngs Cheer Him at Eliza beth City Where He Leavee Train To Take Coast Gubrd Cutter for Island;. Intro duced by Governor Clyde R. Hoey Manteo, Roanoke Island, Aug. 18 (AP) —President Roosevelt declared today “democracy— and more democracy” is the ans wer to Tory insistence that “sal vation lies in the vesting of power in the hands of a select class.’’ “I seek no change in the form of American government,” he said. “Majority rule must be preserved as the safeguard of both libertv and civilization.” The President, renewing his cri ticism of the Liberty League and oth ers who he said “thunder todgy," spoke at a celebration marking the 350th anniversary of the founding of “the Lost Colony.” He based much of his address, broadcast nationally, on a letter, which Lord MacAuiey, English his torian, sent in 1857 to an American friend, Sam Randall, a New York writer. MacAuiey wrote “democracy would not succeed in the United States,” ad ding. “Either some Caesar or Napolfton will seize the reins of government with a strong hand or ypur republic will be laid waste by barbarians in the twentieth century.” Mr. Roosevelt dubbed “American Lord Macauleys” persons who “tell (Continued on Page Olx.) New Stamp Is Having■ Fast Sale Manteo, Aug. 18.—(AP)—The tiny post office here was doing a bumper business today as persons high and low cla4*>red for the five-cent stamps commemorating the birth of Virginia Dare. “We were sent three quarters of a million of them,” said Postmaster C. R. Evans, of this village of less than. 1,000 year-round residents, “and at the rate they are going they will all be sold out today.” History says Virginia Dare was born 350 years ago today at the site of nearby Fort Raleigh, where Sir Walter Raleigh’s “Lost Colony”* was established. The blue stamp shows the infant and her parents, Eleanor and Ananias Bare, against a background of a log cabin at the fort. Mrs. Lindsay Warren, of Washing (Continued on Page Six.) Clipper Is At Azores On Flight Port Washington, Aug. 18.— (AP)—The 22-ton Pan-American Clipper HI landed at Horta, in the Azores, at 5:45 a. m. (eastern standard time) today after a 2,- 067-mile flight from Bermuda, Pan-America Airways officials re ported. The giant seaplane, making a survey flight over the Atlantic, completed the hop in 14 hours, 24 minutes, flying at an average speed of 145 miles most of the way. Clipper will leave Horta Au gust 21 for Lisbon, Portugal, and fly from there to Southamitton, England. *