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The Washington times., 1937-01-20
SEN. SHEPPARD
COUNTSGAINS
IN 36 YEARS
BY WILLIAM X. HUTCHINSON
(copyright, 1897. by International
News Service)

BY WILLIAM X. HUTCHINSON
(copyright, 1897. by International
News service)
America stands at the dawn of
a new epoch, with government
about to remedy the plight of the
ullderprivileged at the expense OF
entrenched power.
This was forecast by Senator
Morris Sheppard Cd, of Texas
now in his thirty-Sixth year OF
continuous service on Capitol
Hill. It was given as he prepared
to witness his ninth Inauguration,
as President Roosevelt takes the
oath.
Great Changes Cited
Dean of Congress-, by having
served longer than any other sit
ting Member, Sheppard believes
the decentralization of cities and
Capitalization of government have
been the greatest changes over
that period. He said:
First, there is the increase
in activities. This includes the
intenSificatiOn Of economic con-
sideratiOns over sectiOnalism-
the shift from SectiOnalism to
economic issues. The American
people have become one eco
nOmic unit although still di-
vided geographically into 4S
States.
Second, the great increase
In population and wealth has
made issues Of more Importance
and significance than in the
past.
third, the average age Of
Representatives and Senators
is growing younger. When 1
first came here, the two Houses
looked like snOwdriftS - there
were SO many white.haired men
in the chambers. Now q white
haired legislator attracts at
tentiOn."
NEW EPOCH HERE
OF the future, he said:
This session Of Congress is
the dividing ridge between
epOchS of American history.
We are leaving behind the
tendency to strengthen en-
trenched power at the expense
Of the newcomer and now we
are trying to help the under
privileged at the expense Of
entrenched power"
Sheppard noted all the spectacu
lar changes that have come about
since he first entered Congress
He listed the passing of the horse
the rise, of the motor car, radio
airplanes, and the mechanical age
Sheppard'S first bill was for 9
$4,000 appropriation to extermi
nate the boil worm. His latest
was a bill to mobilize all men and
industry in time of war to take
the profit out of war. Another
was his introduction in 1910 o1
the first bill for air mail. He pro
posed a small appropriation to con
duct experiments between Balti
more and washington. It was ridi
Culed to defeat.
Sees Dry Law Again
His most momentous measure
was the Eighteenth Amendment
that gave prohibition to the nation
Have you any regrets over
the repeal Of prOhibitiOn?"
"NO, have reintrOduced it
and will introduce it again this
session. / think the universal
use of machinery and the spread
of the liquor habit to women
make the return of national pro-
hibitiOn inevitable"
The Washington times., 1937-01-20
Fidelity Fund Net
Rises During 1886

Fidelity Fund, Incorporated, re-
ports for the year ended Decem-
Der 81, 1886 net asset value of
$28.61 per share. Compared with
$24.43 per share as of December
81, 1885 and is after the payment
of $3.50 per share in dividends
during the year, giving effect in
both cases to the 100 per cent
stock dividend paid in February,
1886.
On December 81, 1885 securities
with a book value of $3.000,812
had a market value of $3,910,150,
giving an unrealized appreciation
of $909,338. Cash and accrued
items receivable totaled $631, ,702
at the year-end.
The Washington times., 1937-01-20
Goes to Horses

NORTH ANDOVER, Mass.
QNSl.-No horses are ever seen
at the 160-year-old blacksmith
shop of Samuel Lawes, yet he
shoes horses and his smithy con-
tinues to survive in this gasoline
age. Instead of having the horses
come to the smithy, the smith
goes to the horses. After meas
uring Dobbin for a pair of shoes
in Dobbin's own barn, LaweS re-
turns to his smithy to make up
the iron footwear.
The Washington times., 1937-01-20
The Weather

District of Columbia-Rain, with
temperature slightly above freez-
ing today; tomorrow rain and
warmer; moderate northeast or
east winds today, becoming south
erly and increasing tomorrow.
Maryland and Virginia - Rain
today and Tomorrow; warmer to-
morrow.
TEMPERATURE
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1937-09-01
Big Offensive Against All
of China Is Launched by
Invading Nipponese
Forces
Fl JAP WARSHIPS
BOMBARDING CITY
War Planes Also Rain Chi
nese Positions and Woo
sung Already Has Fallen;
Anglo British N a va |
Forces May Combine in
Harbor

Shanghai, Sept. 1.-(AP)-A ter
rifying series of great new fires roar
ed in Shanghai tonight, kindled by
the opening naval guns and aerial
bombs of Japan's big offensive a
gainst all of China.
One of the blazes flared in the Soo-
chow Creek area, facing the American
defended sector of the international
settlement.
21 Japanese Warships.
Twenty-one Japanese destroyers
and cruisers pumped shells into the
Chapel and Kiangwan sector of Shang
hats north end. Japanese war planes
rained bombs on Chinese positions.
Woosung already was in Japanese
hands. But the hard-pressed Chinese
were fighting on with unmatched
courage, holding firmly to many i'm
portant positions.
AngIO-American Navy Accord.
The Shanghai curtain-raiser to the
Japanese offensive which is to ex-
tend all over China, found American
and British naval commanders con-
sidering the possibility of uniting
their protective strength to force 4
That consideration was the result
of Japanese naval warnings to steer
clear of Japanese warship concentra-
tons examining the Whangpoo and
the Yangtze rivers.
The Anglo-British naval authorities
discussed a convey plan to force an
open and safe path down the Yang
TIE and Whangpoo after Japan had
warned all foreign shipping to steer
clear there An open route to the sea
is vital to the safety Of Americans
and other foreigners in Shanghai be-
cause the Yangtze and the Whangpoo
are their only means of escape.
Ban on Shipping Lifted.
CAS- the United States Dollar Liner
President Hoover SCARED by Chi
nese aerial attack at sea, reached
Kobe with a seaman killed and pas
sengers and sailors wounded, high Of
ficials at Washington intimated a
naval order closing the port of Shang-
ghai to American merchantmen would
be lifted.)
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1937-09-01
LOBBY PROBE WILL
LIKELY Be PUSHED
Filling of Vacancy Caused
by Black Going to Court
Significant
BY CHARLES p. STEWART
Central Press COlumniSt

Washington, Sept. Another con-
gressional lobbyist hunt is just ahead
in Washington.
Otherwise there would have been
no necessity for filling up the Senate
lobby investigating committees ranks
which was one Of the ,ast things at
tended to just before the lawmakers
scattered following their recent adj
journmnt.
The chairman of this committee
was Hugo L. Black of Alabama, now
boosted from the upper Legislative
chamber to a seat on the supreme
bench.
That left a committee vacancy
which there would have been no nee
essity for refilling if it were consid-
cred that this particular group of in
quisitors had finished its task; the
quiz simply would have been permit
ted to lapse.
Minton Ambitious.
Black being out, Senator Sherman
Minton of Indiana gravitates into the
committees craftsmanship.
Minton, a much younger senator
Gin point of service) than Black, has
vet to establish a reputation as for
midable as Blacks as a ferocious
cross-examiner of witnesses. However
he gives plenty of promise, is am
bilious and undoubtedly will do his
utmost to improve even on his pre-
decessor.
His fellow committee members are
Senators Lewis B. Schwellenbach
Lynn j. Frazier and Ernest w. Glib
son, respectively of Washington
North Dakota and Vermont That
leaves vacancy (Black's). To fill it
Senator Theodore F. Green of Rhode
Island has been chosen.
To Resume Warfare.
The committee would not have
been filled up if it had been intended
to let it die.
Clearly the idea as t. have it re-
sumo the warpath.
It is Iledominantly pro-New Deal
Continued on Page Three.)
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1937-09-01
Man Freed
Staying
Young Girl

Hendersonville, Sept. 1.--(AP)-T.
D. (Tex) Hardwood, former Butler
University athlete, was free today of
statutory rape and murder charges
preferred against him after the death
August II of his 12-year-old STEP
daughter, Gloria Hauser, whose body
was found in a ravine near here.
Solicitor G. 0. Riding announced
he had decided to nolle prose the
charges and Hardwood was released
at once. The solicitor made his state
ment after Coroner Bruce Cox had
re-convened a jury for an inquest orr
ginally organized last Saturday, when
postponement was taken until today
Cox then announced the jury
would be adjourned and the case
would be left open. No testimony was
taken.
A packed court room broke into
applause after Riding completed his
statement. Many rushed UP to con-
graduate the smiling Hazelwood. The
solicitor said he had reached his de-
cision after comforting with Hender-
son county officers and comforting
with Hazelwood's attorneys.
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1937-09-01
Those Already There Will
Re Relied on To Eva
cuate u. S. Nation
ais Remaining
BINGHAM LUNCHES
WITH ROOSEVELT
Ambassador to Britain Sees
President at Hyde Park;
More Bills Passed by Con-
vress Are Vetoed; Low
Price of Cotton May In
crease Exports

HYDE park. N. Y, Sept 1.-(AP)--
Gunner White House officials said
.odov ibe United States government
would rely on existing naval vessels
in the sar East to evac'iate >>ne'-
;cans still ir danger zones.
The announcement was made after
conference between President Rcose
,olt and Admiral William I.eahy,
chief of naval operations, at the
Roosevelt.
officials said the President and
the high naval official went over The
@vhole problem" IN the Sino-Japaness
situation. They added there was no
mood for additional naval vessels at
shanghai and vicinity.
Since the closing Of the port OF
Shanghai O American merchant ships
following the bomoil:y of the DC.'ar
lner President Hoover, conSidera-
finn had been givel to augmenting
tbe naval flotilla there to take the
several thousand refugees still in the
area.
The Roosevelt-Leahy conference
nreceded a long luncheon pariey be-
tween the President and Robert w.
Bingham, American ambassador to
London.
President Roosevelt vetoed during
the dav six minor bills passed by the
last Congress. His action, announced
at Washington by the White House,
brought to SO the number of vetoes
This wear. and to 259 the number since
he became President.
Two bills vetoed were for payment
If claims brought against the gov
eminent by individuals.
Meantime, at the national capital,
AAA officials said they hoped the
innocent per pound loan on this
years cotton crop was low enough
to encourage the free flow of cotton
in trade channels.
Since prices are lower than recent
years and large supplies are indlcat-
ed export volume of American cotton
NAV increase in international trade,
they said @.
Loans of this type are a success,
said ]. B. Hutson, assistant AAA ad-
ministrator, IF they remain below
market price levels and do not cause
an accumulation of stocks in govern
ment hands"
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1937-09-01
NEW JUDGES END
INITIAL STRINGS
Barnhill and Winborne Use
Most of Time in Listen
ing and Learning
Daily Dispatch Bureau.

Raleigh, Sept. 1-Justices M. V.
Barnhill and Wallace Winborne are
today completing their first sitting
with five veteran members of the Su-
preme Court of North Carolina.
During argument of the 81 cases
on the docket yesterday and today,
both the new members took an inter-
ested part in the proceedings, though
neither, during the first cases parti-
cularly joined in interrogating coun-
sci as much as did the members Of
longer service.
Two capital cases, involving three
defendants, were argued, one muir
der conviction from Beaufort county,
the other first degree burglary con-
viction from Surry.
In the first "Pete" Bell and Sam
Rodman, Jr., Negroes, sought reversal
of the death sentence imposed for
the killing of another black. Heiber
Robertson, cut to death during an ar
gunent which arose during gam
bling session. Denfense counsel Sam
Blount, Beaufort representative in the
legislature, and Leroy Scott, Wash
ington, contended that the State Of
fered no evidence of premeditation
<%-4:ruaS IN paCo Thraol
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1937-09-01
Britain Is
Huntingdon
Submarines
Flotilla of Eight De-
stroyers Near Gil
braltar. S e e king
Torpedo Ship

Gibraltar, Sept. lap Great
Britain's Admiralty concentrated a
flotilla of eight destroyers today in
a Mediterranean area off the Spanish
east coast to hring to strict account
a submarine which fired torpedo at
H. M. S. Havock.
Other warships were nearby await
ing orders The entire Mediterranean
fleet now engaged in maneuvers off
Italian and Dalamatian coasts and
in the lower Mediterranean was avail
able for instant duty. The Havock
it was disclosed, set off a depth
charge after the torpedo had missed
it's mark. The results of the charge
were not known.
Other destroyers searching day and
night for the mysterious submarine
were equipped with other depth
charges capable of blowing up the
submarine if heavy guns were unable
to find it on the surface.
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1937-09-01
Electric Wire Is
Given as Cause of
Air Crash Tragedy

Washington, Sept. 1.-(AP)- The
Commerce Department said today
that failure to give notice of erection
of an electric light pole was the "pro-
bable cause" of the recent airplane
crash at Daytona Beach, Fla. -Four
persons were killed and five injured
in the crash.
The plane, operated by Eastern. Air
Lines, of New York City, on regular
run between Chicago and Miami
crashed into the pole August 10 about
4:40 a. m.
The departments fir iings said that
the pole, together with others newly
erected, had beer installed between
the hours of $3.50 p. M, August 9, and
2 a. M, August 10.
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1937-09-01
8OOCOnvicts
OF State Are
Idle All Day
How To Find Work
For Them Is Prob
lem Of Prison Heads
johnson Says

Raleigh, Sept. (AP)-Robert
Grady johnson, new director of the
State penal division, said today "the
most important thing facing the pri-
son committee now is putting 600 to
500 idle prisoners to work"
He said the prison committee was
working on plans to utilize all pri-
son labor.
"There is no use letting able-bodied
men sit around and do nothing" said
Johnson. Fright now we have more
men than we have jobs"
Oscar Pitts, new superintendent of
prisons, said there are around 5000
men in the prisons over the State now.
About 5000 are working on roads
and go to IS in prison industries. A
number of others do camp work. He
said 600 to 300 idle prisoners was a
conservative estimate.
No further major personnel changes
are in prospect until the commission
meets September 16, Johnson said,
and maybe no more until even later.
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1937-09-01
Man Known as Father of
State-Supported Schools"
In State Found
Dead in Room
HAD HELD TWO BIG
NEW DEAL PLACES
Was Assistant Solicitor Cen
eral and Assistant Attor-
ney General Until Recent
Resignation To Practice
Law in Raleigh; Funeral at
Old Home

Raleigh, Sept 1. (AP)- Angus
Dhu MacLean, 6O-year-old former as
sistant solicitor general and former
assistant attorney general of the Unit
ed States, died during the night al
his home here.
The body was found on the floor at
the bedside by daughter, Mrs
Martha Duff, late this morning. Mrs
MacLean and another daughter, Miss
jamie MacLean, were in Washington
D. c., having gone there yesterday.
Funeral in Washington, N. G.
Funeral plans were not completed
Immediately, but it was announced
services would be held in Washing
ton, N. c., former home of the Mac
Leans.
DR.. Robert MCGEE, after an exam
nation, said MacLean had been dead
of heart trouble several hours when
his body was found.
Lsat night MacLean retired about
10 o'clock after spending the day al
his law offices here and having
friends out for an evening chat. He
said he was tired after trip to Ashe
Vile on business Monday, associate!
said and spoke of pain in the chest
He had not been known to be subject
| to heart trouble.
Passed State School Law.
MacLean was called the father O.
State-supported schools" in NORTH
Carolina as the result of the passage
bv the 1881 legislature of the Mac
Lean law" which required the State
to provide complete support Tor
Statewide uniform six months public
school term.
That law was the highest spot O.
MacI ,ean's legislative career, Whlci
- Dooo EiOl1f
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1937-09-01


Pittsburgh, Sept. 1-(AP)-A strike
VI elevator operators, cooks and other
service employees marooned 1,4OO
Suests in two of Pittburgh's largest
hotels today.
:, members of two AF'L unions re-
' ~ management offers of a closed
+h and threw picket lines around
o aiie +6O-room William Penn, the
Wy largest hostelry, and the 8OO-
looin Fort Pitt. Both hotels are owned
W the Pittsburgh Hotels Corporation.
i. Many of the 900 guests at the Will
ia Penn and 500 at the Fort Pitt
,aiso in the Hobbies until late last
lsnt hoping for a settlement before
'4ey tried to climb to their rooms,
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1937-09-01
Morning Hold-Up
At Goldsboro By
Unidentified Man

Goldsboro Sept 1.-(AFD-Bobby
Carr, filling station attendant, and
Albert Broughton, a farmer, reported
to officers today man had kidnap-
ed them and forced them at pistol
points to drive him out of the city
after robting the stations cash regis
ter of $40. Police said they found the
car with the license plates missing
in the northwestern part of the coun-
ty several hours later.
Carr and Broughton, the latter q
customer at the station said the rob-
berry was perpetrated about a. m.
and they gave police a description of
the robber.
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1937-09-01
100 Planes
Hunt Lost:
N. G.. Filler

Grapeland, Texas, Sept. 1 CAP)-
More than 100 army airplanes crisis
crossed east and central Texas To-Day
in the States greatest aerial search.
They sought Cadet Guy Edgerton, OF
Kenly N. c., who BECAME lost MOI
day night while flying with IL otner
planes from Shreveport, La, to San
Antonio. u
Yesterday Y planes scanned hun
dreds of miles without finding a trace
Of the missing flier. Land parties IN
Guided 300 CCC enrolles and they trudg
ed through forests and over rough ter
rain without results.
Army officials discounted reports
OF dropping flares leading to the miss
ing cadet, since reports from Banks
uale field, at San Antonio, indicated
hdgerton's plane carried none.
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1937-09-01
Government
Forces Give
New Ground
Struggling Loyalists
Retreat in Spain;
Insurgents Crac k
Siege Ring

Irun Spain, Sept. 1.-(AP)--Gov-
eminent SPANS struggling army of
the northwest abandoned the last bar
rier between insurgent troops and the
province of Asturias today.
The insurgents advancing west
ward from conquered Santander,
found hardy Asturian militiamen had
retreated from the mountains and
across the border into their home pro-
vince.
Presumably, they filtered then into
Continued on Page Five.)
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1937-09-01
Too Large Hotels
In Pittsburgh Are
In Grip OF Strike

some To the 18th floor. One guest com
planned: -,
al can't even get ice water.
Harried telephone operators repeat
ed endlessly: w.
4Sorry but there's strike. we
can't serve anything. No, not even
liquids" nao,s
&c +ba william Penn refused to walk
down for meals. Messenger boys
trudged up the stairs with boxes o.
food. ,;o,
on the roof garden groaned as they
clamored up the II flights. Only.
few came up to the dance and scne'
duled broadcast was cancelled.
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1937-09-01
HOEY. HOLDS ALOOF
FROM YOUTHS ROW
Will Let Young Democrats
Fight 1t Themselves
For Presidency
Daily Dispatch. Bureau,
In the Sir Walter Hotel.

Raleigh, Sept Published reports
that Governor Clyde r. Hoey or the
so-called "Hoey Machine" is backing
Arch Allen for presidency of the
Young Democratic Club of North
Carolina, today brought the smiling
comment from the governor that I'm
going to let the Young Democrats
settle that matter"
IT never take the time or trouble
to- deny political rumors," he continu-
ed, "but if I want to support any one
for any position 7 do it openly and
without reservation"
From Guitar Moore, now liquor
Continued on Page Five.l
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1937-09-01

gest customer for manufactured to-
bacco. It's purchases are exceeded on
ly by those of Great Britain.
Hill said the trade had looked forA
ward to unusually good" business
with China this year. Exports of
nearly 32,OOO,O0O pounds to the Far
East republic for the first six months
of this year, he said compared with
exports to China of only 16,5OO,OOO
pounds for the same period in 1896.
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1937-09-01
War. In China Has
Checked American
Tobacco Shipments

Washington, Sept. 1-(AP)-The
undeclared war in China has put
crimp in Americas export tobacco
trade. Benjamin Hill, chief of the to-
baccO division of the Bureau of Fore
ign and Domestic Commerce, said to-
day "it is obvious that the Shanghai
situation is interfering with our to-
bacco exports to China"
China is this country's second lar
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1937-09-01
SEES TROUBLE ON
COTTON SUBSIDIES
Soil Benefits and Cotton
Loans May Conflict,
Governor Fears
Daily Dispatch Bureau.

Raleigh, Sept. 1.-Governor Clyde
r. Hoey sees grave difficulty in de-
termining which farmers shall be
eligible for the three cents per pound
cotton subsidy proposed for growers
who have cooperated in the Federal
soil conservation program.
The governor indicated his APP
proval of the innocent loans just au-
thoriZed.
Il am wondering how they are go
Continued on Page Five.)
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La gaceta., 1937-09-20
pRACTICAS DE LU
xEADOREs QUE COM
RAN Ell Ola e

Po4yton Lakes, New Jer!
sey, SIP. 20.-Pedr&M onta-
nez y Marcel Thil contindad
preparandose para ell gran
programa del dfa %, prepare
do por Mike Jacobs, Ell nuevo
"emperador' de los empresa-
rios de boxeo.:
Thil hizo guantes con Ros-
cvoe Manning, alardeando de
su habilidad a larga distancia,
ademas de hacer varios "asal-
tos" de boxeo de sombra ' pc
garle a los sacos. q
k@ Montahez Sc ejercit6 con Pa
ris Apiece y Julio Gonzalez.
que lie servia de socio de prac-
ticas a Ceferino Garcia. Mon
tanez esta en- perfectas condi-
clones e impresion6 favorable
mente a todos los que lie vieron
en- acci6n.
Ered Apostoli, que Sc halla
en- Summit, New Jersey, pare
&c encontrarse va en- forma i'm
Ipecable para su match con ell
frances Marcel Thil. Apostolic
practice con Tony Fisher y
Young Terry, en- cinco asaltos.
Castigo duramente a Fisher y
10 mismo hizo despues con
Terry.
Apostoli viene concentran :
dose en- los golpes por ell cuer-
pc, indicando que este sera su
| plan de batalla contra ell eu-
ropeo. Sus ganchos izquierdos
cortos al cuerpo son formida :
bles.
Mike Jacobs hizo algunoS
cambios en- la estructuraci6n
del programa del pr6ximo jue
yes. Marcel Thil, de Francia,
saldra en- primer lugar a ba-
tirse con Apostoli.
Este Sc hace para que los pc
ri6dicos de Francia puedan re
cibir a tempo la noticia.
Ell segundo encuentro 10 sos
tendran Barney Ross, ell cam
pe6n del peso weller, con Ce-