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Henderson daily dispatch., 1937-07-13
Desperate
From State
In Custody

Conway, S. c., July 13.-(AP)-
Lieutenant Leo Jenkins, of the South
Carolina Highway Fatrol, announced
today a man he identified as Robert
S. Smith, escaped North Carolina con-
Wet, had been arrested in connection
with the Fourth of July Staying OF
Policeman Frank Sowell at Lancaster.
The prisoners fingerprints tailed
with those found on the stolen car IN
which Sowells slayer and red-head-
ed woman fled from theNcene OF the
shooting, reported Jenkins, who is
identification officer of the State
patrol
Although the pursuing officers
poured a fusillade of gunfire at the
fleeing automobile every time they
came within range, Smith escaped IN
jury. He suffered broken knee and
possible internal injuries when ne
wrecked his car in Georgetown, where
he was arrested.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1937-07-13
Insurgent Lines So Terribly
Harassed They Are I'm
able To Send
Reinforcements
GOVERNMENT POWER
MATCH FOR REBELS
Field Mechanical Force
Even Stronger Than Rebel
Equipment; Insurgents Are
Hard Pressed on Three
Separate Fronts as Civil
War Is Intensified

Madrid, July 13.-(AP)-Govern-
ment offensives, bolstered by air pow
er the Madrid forces never before
have shown, hammered insurgent
lines today on three separate fronts
Fighting is on a World War scale,
eve witnesses related.
1T is a completely new phase of
this war in size and intensity" one
visitor to the battelfields comment
ed. "The government has been able
to put into the field mechanical pow
er to match, perhaps more than
match the rebel GnsurgenD air
force"
Waves of government fighting
planes bombed insurgent batteries
and machine-gunned troops near Viii
laneuva del Pardill, making it vir-
tually impossible for them to send re-
Inducements to the front west of
Madrid
On the Basque front in northern
Spain, government airplanes flew low
over the insurgents zigzag lines from
Somorrostro, on the Santandor high
way.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1937-07-13
Grain CROP
Valued At
4 Billions

Chicago, July '13.-(AP)-Mar-
ket experts estimated today the
1887 harvest of principal grains,
including the nations first two
bilIiOn-dOIlar corn crop since 1929,
would be worth almost four bill
lion dollars.
Timely rains i'm the midst of the
heat wave have contributed to the
almost ideal growing condition OF
corn, the farmers greatest money
crop. The market valuation OF
corn and the other major grains,
wheat, oats and rye, was figured
at more than $3,5OOOOO,OO
The valuation was an eight-year
high and Is percent greater than
a year ago..
Henderson daily dispatch., 1937-07-13
CHARLOTTE MAN is
SPANISH WAR HEAD
j. M. Maberry UnOppOsed for State
Commander; Other Officers
Also Are Elected

Durham, July 15-(AFD-A per-
functory election today closed the an
nual convention of the North Caro-
lima Department of the United Span
ish War Veterans.
]. nj. Maberry, of Charlotte, was
unopposed for commander, and
George w. Hartley, of Fayetteville,
was unopposed for senior vice COM
:nander.
Albert Watson, of Boone; George
DeOrgange, of Warrington; Frank
Watson of Fremont and J. F. Strad-
ley, of Asheville, were nominated for
Iunior vice commander.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1937-07-13
Steel Mills
OpenAgain
In Midwest
Workers Return On
Same Conditions as
Before Strike; No
Disorders

East Chicago, Ind, July 13 (AP)-
Idle for As days, steel Workers march
ed peacefully through gates of the
Youngstown Sheet & Tube Company
plants here and at South Chicago to-
day to resume production at the last
of the strike-bound Calumet district
mills.
BY trains. city buses and cars they
came, reporting at gates marked with
large notices: "This plant is open for
work on the conditions which existed
when work was stopped on May 70"
The signs, bearing the name OF j.
E. Daily, manager of the Chicago dis
trict for Youngstown, added: 1--WE
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Henderson daily dispatch., 1937-07-13
ICE PLANT WORKER
AT WILSON KILLED

Wilson, July 10 (AP)-J. w. Smith,
IS, engineer at local ice plant, was
electrocuted early this afternoon dur
ing a severe electric storm when he
attempted to pull a switch at the
plant. It was believed a bolt of
lightning struck the wire as Smith
attempted to pull the switch.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1937-07-13
FEAR DYER WRONG
MAN FOR Staying
Persistent RumOrS in Los Angeles
That Another Killed Three
Little Girls

Los Angeles Cal. July Ii (AP)-
District Attorney investigators,
spurred by persistent rumors"
that the wrong man has been ar
rested in Connection with the STAY
ing of three young InglewOOd girls,
sought new evidence today to sup
port their contention that Albert
Dyer, 81, committed the crime. I
Although the former WPA street
crossing guard allegedly made
confession, he pleaded Innocent
when arraigned yesterday. His
trial was set for August 6.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1937-07-13
RALEIGH MAY HAVE
COUPLE CANDIDATES
Broughton and Smith May
Seek Governorship in
1910 Campaign
Daily Dispatch Bureau.

Raleigh, July 13.-Raleigh may
have two candidates for governor and
the plurality may hurt both, accord
ing to political gossips who are hear
ing again that Willis Smith, of Ra-
leigh, is about to dispute the territory
with j. Melville Broughton about
whose candidacy nobody seems to
have any doubt.
The Smith talk followed the late
Bermuda cruise in which the State
bar and the State Press Associations
were Joint sailors. Travellers said they
heard no politics during the visit, but
there was some when they got back.
1t was pretty widely talked the past
week that Smith will enter the race
for the nomination.
Smith probably would have run in
1882 had J. G. B. Ehringhaus, also of
Elizabeth City, not been in the race.
Smith went to Duke University, then
Henderson daily dispatch., 1937-07-13
Report, Not Confirmed, De-
layed by Intense Fight
ing During Day
at Nanyuan
JAPS DRIVEN BACK
BY CHINESE FORCE
Hand-to-Hand Fighting Oc-
ours in Blistering MONDAY
Sun; 100 Japanese War
Planes Reported Enroute
to Scene of Intense Con-
flict

Tientsin, China, July 13.-(AP)
Thirteen hundred Japanese
from the east HOpei and Fengtai
railway junction garrisOns began
today a concerted and direct at
tack on China's ancient and wall
ed city of Peiping.
without awaiting arrival of
further ManchOulxuOan reinforce
ments, the Japanese directed their
attack against the city from the
east and south.
Peiping, China, July 13.-(AP)-
Five japanese bombers, Chinese sour
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Henderson daily dispatch., 1937-07-13
JUDICIARY FIGHTS
LIKELY NEXT YEAR
Judgeship and Solicitor APP
pointments in State Late
ly Displease
Daily Dispatch Bureau.

Raleigh, July 13.-Three recently
appointed superior court judges and
one solicitor will probably have fights
on their hands in the 1895 primaries
and what the electorate will do to
them will be exceedingly interesting.
Judge Frank M. Armstrong, who
succeeded Judge John M. Oglesby,
was named by Governor ]. G. B. En-
ringhaus, but the appointment was
considered Governor Hoey's because
the DAYS of Governor Ehringhaus
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Henderson daily dispatch., 1937-07-13
STATE REA BEGINS
UPON THIRD YEAR
Two New Directors Assume
Duties; 6,842 Miles OF
Lines Voted

Raleigh. July 13.-(AP)-The State
Rural Identification Authority enter
ed a new year today with Ed r; AZ NJ
len. of Lenior, and D. E: Purcen, OF
Reidsville, as new members ana 9
record of having secured construc-
ton or authorization OF 6,S4z miles
If rural electric lines during Two
,,a.rs in which estimates of possible
construction totalled 1,5OO miles.
Associate Justice George Common, OF
<~4..,,a5 ~, Page Three)
Henderson daily dispatch., 1937-07-13
63ATplanes
BeginSearch
For Earhart
Aircraft Carrier Lex
lngton Late at Des-
tlnation d ue 10
Storm

Honolulu, July 13. = (APC -The
greatest war air force ever assem-
Died for a peace-time rnission-63
planes-was poised today ready to
skim along the mid-Pacific equator
IN the navy's last search for Amelia
harhart, missing for eleven days.
If weather conditions are favorable
'ne planes will zoom from the air
craft carrier Lexington to survey an
area of $4,000 square miles centering
Continued on Page Three.) :.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1937-07-13
DIES OF HURTS IN
FALL UNDER TRUCK

Goldsboro, July 13 (AP)-Claude G..
Townsend, Al, saw mill fireman, dled
late yesterday when the wheel OF
truck from which he fell crushed his
head.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1937-07-13
Polar
Flies South
From Arctic
Soviet Airmen Cross
Nortfr Pole in Gale
and Binding Snow
storm

San Francisco, July 13.-(AP)-
Safely through a North Pole snow
storm, three Russian filters soar
ed over northern British Column
bia today en- route from Moscow
to San Francisco. Their big plane
had covered about 1000 miles of
the 5000 mile journey, and army
officers calculated thsk aviatOrs
might arrive here at 3 a. m. to-
morrow, eastern standard time.
Army officers said the position
indicated the plane had reached
northern British Columbia be-
tween Fort Nelson and HudSOn'S
Hope.
This would place it apprOxim-
ately 1000 miles north of San
Francisco.
Seattle, Wash, July 13.-(AP)
U. S. Army Signal Corps reported the
Soviet trans-polar plane messaget
everything o. k.'' at 7:21 a. m, east
ern standard time, today to the Cana
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Henderson daily dispatch., 1937-07-13
EezVArenS
Get Relief
From Heat
(By The Associated Press)

Showers and clouded skies relieved
a large part of the nation today from
the scorching temperatures of week
long heat wave.
Meteorological J. r. Lloyd at Chicago
said more rain was expected today
but the plains states probably would
be dry and warm tomorrow.
New York and New England states
were cooler, but temperatures scared
again in South Atlantic States.
An Associated Press survey showed
at least $50 persons in 25 states died
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Henderson daily dispatch., 1937-07-13
LITTLE COMMUNISM
FOUND IN THE Clio
Was Just AS Unpopular Is
Years Ago to Be Socialist
AS "Red" Now
Bv CHARLES z. STEWART
Central Press COlumnist

Washington, July 13.|The theory
that there is any appreciable infusion
of communism in John l.. Lewis G. I.
q. movement seems to me supported
by very little evidence.
7 can remember when it was as
vituperative to refer to an opponent
Continued on Page Three.)
Henderson daily dispatch., 1937-07-13

FOR NORTH CAROLINA.
Partly cloudy tonight, preceded
by local thundershowers on the
coast this afternoon or early to-
night; Wednesday partly cloudy
with scattered thundershOwers in
afternoon in north portion.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1937-07-13

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Evening star., 1937-01-07
Neutrality Text
President Given Power
to Discontinue Arms
Embargo.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
The text Of the Spanish neutrality
resolution adopted yesterday by Con-
gress follows:
Resolved. that during the existence
OF the state of civil strife now OBJ
tanning in Spain it shall, from and
after the approval of this resolution.
be unlawful to export arms, ammuni-
tion or implements Of war from any
place In the United States. or posses
sions of the United States. to Spain
or to any other foreign country for
transshipment to Spain or for use Of
either Of the opposing forces in Spain.
Arms. ammunition or implements of
war. the expectation Of which Is pro-
hibited by this resolution, are those
enumerated in the Presidents proc
lamation No. 2163 Of April 10. 1885.
Licenses heretofore issued under
existing law for the expectation OF
arms. ammunition or implements OF
war to Spain shall, as to all exporta-
tions hereunder. ipso facto be deemed
to be Cancelled.
whoever in violation of any Of the
provisions of this resolution shall ex-
port. or attempt to export, or cause
to be exported. whether directly or
indirectly. arms. ammunition or inn
plements Of war from the United
States or any OF its possessions shall
be fined not more than $4,000 or
imprisoned not more than fve years,
or both.
When. in the Judgment Of the
President. the conditions described in
this resolution have ceased to exist.
he shall proclaim such fact, and the
PROVISIONS shall thereupon cease to
apply"
Evening star., 1937-01-07

from other unions for the idle en-
ployes of the Fisher and Chevrolet
plants at Norwood. Cincinnati suburb.
Grams Automotive Reporting Agency
said at Detroit that the Ford Motor
Co. has been forced to curtail produc-
tion because of a glass shortage Gre
ated by the strike of glass workers in
plants of the Pittsburgh Plate Glass
and the Libbey- -Owens-Ford Cos.
ChrysIer Shortage Seen.
Cram said also that the Chrysler
Corp. soon would feel the glass short
age. but that General Motors had
about an 18-day supply on hand.
County relief headquarters at Flint
began to notice the effects Of the
Fisher Body strikes and other lay
offs at Flint for the first time Victor
Woodward, administrator. said there
was a peroeptible increase in appli-
cations for relief and that he expected
these to increase until the labor diff
ferences are settled. Woodward said
he did not know how many of the new
applica tions we're from families of
strikers. but that one-fourth appar-
emily were due to the present situ-
alton.
Martin announced that Ed Hall. an
international vice president of the
union, will fly to California to attend
q meeting Of Chevrolet and Fisher
workers In Oakland Sunday.
Evening star., 1937-01-07
SHIP .DASHES TO SEA.
Cuse Wins Race With Congress on
Spanish Carge.

Cuse Wins Race With Congress ON
Spanish Cargo.
By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK. January IA squat
freishter carrying $2,7o0, 900 worth Of
planes and war materials to the
Spanish loyalist government headed
out to the open sea last night. An
obscure New Jersey arms broker.
Robert Cuse, owner Of the cargo, had
won q strange and dramatic race with
the Congress Of the United States.
It was, nevertheless, an anxious
afternoon Of backing and filling for
Capt. Jose Santa Maria and his Jealous
crew Of 40.
The Mar Cantabrico got clear Of
Sandy Hook once, only to be halted by
the Coast Guard and turned back-on
q libel action that turned out to have
been not against the ship itself, but
against the cargo. The Coast Guard.
learning Of the misunderstanding
about the nature Of the libel, then re-
leased her again-and for . second
time she passed Sandy Hook.
This time she made good. and at
AIS pm, q. 9. T.. she rode BY Ambrose
Light and out Of United States terri
torial waters.
"she Is now beyond the limit q ter
1lt9iA Wa*ers y0onentso6 n aueoguar
Evening star., 1937-01-07
VICTOR H. WALLACE
DIES HERE AT 6E
Descendant of John Washington
Was Prominent in Law
Circles of CAPITAL.

Victor Harris Wallace, IS, descend
ent of John washington. ancestor o
the first President. died last night Il
Garfield Hospital after an illness
several weeks. He lived at the Stone
leigh Court Apartments.
Mr.. Wallace was prominent here Il
law circles. He was a member Of tn
District. Georgia and Oklahoma bar.
After his graduation from ColumbiaI
College. now George Washington La,
School. Mr.. Wallace practiced her
until 1918, when he became directo
Of compensation for the Air Nitrate
Corp, working at Muscle Shoals. Ais
He held that position until 1920, an
resumed his law practice until 1872!
when he became an assistant solicito
in the Office Of the Secretary Of tn
Interior. He held that position unit
1888.
Mr.. Wallace, a native of Athen
Ga, moved to Washington with hi
mother at the age Of IL. He was edu
Gated in local public schools. bein
graduated from Central High Schoo
He was the great-great-grandson o
Dudley Cary, prominent Virginian. an
q relative Of Sampson Harris. 70
many years Representative from Ala
bama. Mr.. Wallace was a Maste
Mason Of the Washington Centennts
Lodge.
He Is survived by his widow, Mn
Katherine Bryant Wallace.
Masonic rites will be held at 2 pm
Saturday at Gawler's funeral parlor
Services and burial In Rock Cree
Cemetery will be private.
Evening star., 1937-01-07
Champion Misses
:Houyhnhnn,,' But
Wins on 'YirmiIik

Can you spell paillasse? Or franc
tireur? Or plemyrameter?
If so, you might have been In th
spelloh Of the Capital City spellin
Club at the Mount Pleasant Lbrar
last night.
Ora Z. Haines won, but only afh
a bitter struggle with the other final
st. Face to face with his opponen
Haines missed "houyhnhnm," bu
countered with ''yirmilik," who
proved too much for the other-a NJ
Smith.
Then the pair spelled the followin
correctly: Case, escholtzia. cruiv
franctireur, Pail, logsoedic, PyreneaI
paktong. erysipelatous, Henri Deu'
appendicectomy, plemyrameter. gravs
men. rasse, miniaceous, phthonian.
Evening star., 1937-01-07

reship to Spain any munitions sent
from the United States.
The embargo resolution As approved
provides . $4,000 fine and five years
Imprisonment for violations.
It is a mandatory ban. but the ad-
ministration did not object to this
feature. President Roosevelt. how
ever, Is seeking broad Discretionary
powers under the forthcoming general
neutrality bill.
In the brief Senate discussion Of
the presidentially requested embargo
Senator Nye. Republican, Of North
Dakota contended it should not be
passed in the name of neutrality. He
said it was beneficial to Spanish
Fascists.
Chairman Pittman Of the Foreign
Relations Committee replied that,
although the pending licenses were
for sales to the Madrid government,
another junk dealer" might contract
to sell munitions to the insurgents.
In the House, Representative Sau-
thoff, Progressive, Of Wisconsin de-
clared a "blunder" by the Foreign
Affairs Committee was responsible for
the emergency. He said the COM
mittee allowed no amendments to the
neutrality act passed last session.
which provides for embargoes against
arms shipments to warning nations.
but not to those suffering civil strife,
as ct present in Spain.
Chairman McReynolds Of the Foreign
Affairs Committee snapped back that
If Sauthof had offered his wisdom
to the committee when 1t was con.
sidering neutrality, no one knows 1t"
SHIP DASHES TO SEA.
Evening star., 1937-01-07

tional law" Coast Guard Comdr. John
Baylis said, in reluctant farewell.
The cargo included eight airplanes
one of them named the Lady Of
Peace, which Harry Richman and
Pilot Dick Merrill used In . recent
transatlantic flight to England.
Loyalist Aid Refused.
A band Of Spanish loyalist sym
pathizers wanted to help load the
cargo, but was turned away. Instead,
it was reliably reported that even the
crew turned to. So great was the
hurry that five minutes after the last
crate was aboard the ship was under
way.
Not one Of her eight planes was
dashed down. Foodstuns and medicine
were included In the hold cargo.
Not until the last moment did the
Government give up. Even after the
Mar Cantabrico had been given hsr
second permission to 80 ahead. the
Coast Guard cutter Icarus trailed
along until any other attempt to halt
the vessel was obviously out Of the
question.
The suit that brought the libel action
against the cargo was by two American
flyers, Bert AcostA and Gordon Berry
who claim they were not paid for thsii
recent flying services for the loyaliy,
government.
The Mar Cantabrico, once clear .!
long last, lost no time. She fairly
bucked down the bay and out toward
tho sea.
Meanwhile, in Wilmington, Del.
e. I. du Pont De Nemours d Co.. Inc.
announced no military rides "of any
kind whatsoever were produced OF
sold by the Remington Arms Co. dur
ing the year 1885," and that tht
company had manufactured and sold
only. $500 military rifles since thu
World War
Ammunition sales to foreign govern
ments during 1886 were said to hayl
been less than Ia per cent Of Reming'
toms total gales. and these sales. 1t w!
stated, were made with consent ol
the United States Government.
The statement added NO sales o'
military firearms or ammunition hat
been made by Remington TO spain To-
many ysasA
Evening star., 1937-01-07
POPE Plus BETTER,
ALLOWED TO WORK
1--WE Do Not Refuse Pain" "
!, He Is Quoted by Vatican
Newspaper.
~ the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
:. - VATICAN CITY, January Pope
Plus is improving progressively" an
afncial bulletin from the Vatican said
tonight.
= "This improvement permits him to
carry out his constant and ardent de-
sare for work which, with his admir-
able resistance. form two of his most
Beloved characteristics" the bulletin
declared.
* Osservatore Romano. ofhcial Vati-
can newspaper. quoted the 79-year-
old pontin as saying I'VE do not re-
fuse pain-we ask for it,"
- He referred to neuritic pains in his
legs arising from circulatory obstruc-
tons which, with arterio-sclerosis
Jhardening of the arteries) and a
weakened heart. have kept the holy
father in bed for more than month.
- Has Good Nights Sleep.
= q The Pope. refreshed by relatively
good nights sleep, eagerly inspected
today the specially constructed wheel
chair he expected to bring back
measure of his old activity.
!. Well-informed circles said the holy
father was eager to undertake all
work his doctor, Prof. Aminta Milani,
would allow.
The Pope received Cardinal Pacelli,
papal secretary of state. and read some
of his correspondence, debating replies
to secretaries seated beside his bed.
He also spent some time reading
biographical accounts of the lives of
former Popes.
2 AS an indication of his continued
interest. prelates said the pontiff was
carving on his fight against COM
F1nunism from his sickbed.
He was said to hope the Eucharistic
Congress in Manila in February would
help check communism's spread In
the Philippines.
Take Advantage of Typhoons.
q Vatican sources said red influence
was gaining ground in the islands
despite the efforts of authorities. Prel-
sates expressed belief Communist or
sganizers We're taking advantage of the
recent devastating floods and typhoons
to work on the emotions of the home
less, hungry and unemployed.
When the holy fathers new chair
was wheeled into his sick room this
morning. attendants described the
scene as like the presentation of a
gift
The chair will allow the Pope to
sit up. but will keep his afflicted legs
straight and immobile. It is light
and can easily be wheeled about the
papal apartments.
Sleep Less Troubled.
Although the Pope's sleep last night
was less troubled with pain than the
! night before, well-informed circles
! said concern was felt lest he attempt
(. more than his strength would allow
/ Reports from the sick room indi-
Gated the holy father had rallied from
! the prostration he suffered yesterday,
: but there was no really appreciate
change in his serious condition.
His doctors maintained constant
watch to prevent recurrence of sink
ing spells which carry the pontif to
/ the verge of unconsciousness.
Evening star., 1937-01-07

"Oh. wait a minute" said the
mother. Willie. put that pony over
there where I'll not have to face the
sun to get it in the camera"
"Yas'm." said Willie obediently, and
picked up the pony, the baby still
astride, and set them down safely in
the proper place. Then he folded his
arms and stood by to wait for the pic
ture taking.
TINES MARCH.
TO THE student of the Bible, the
food dates back to Noah's Ark,
while to a Mississippian it could mean
almost any month of the year. To
the mind Of Judge Isaac r. Hit Of
Police Court, THE Flood" was chron-
icled in the Bible.
He learned differently, however,
when 10-year-old girl took the stand
to testify in his court.
How long have you lived in WASH
ington?" the jurist asked.
Since the food" was the reply.
Further questioning by the court
brought out that the child's family
had lived in the District since her
parents home was washed away by
the Potomac flood last year.
4
OBLIGING SANTA.
60 FAR as we are concerned, this
kisses of the subject Of Christmas
until the season rolls around again in
1897. But we did hear just this day
of a youngster who was faced with .
serious problem at the last Yuletide.
Her house has two chimneys on 1t,
one that is real. the other a false
affair. built merely for the effect Of
Couple Of days before
Santa was due to come whipping
around the housetops, the little girl
decided it would be prudent to put up
, sign explaining the situation to
Santa, who otherwise might imagine
he'd fallen into q den Of practical
iOkers