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The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1938-04-09

Mrs. Alice Roosevelt Longworth
entertained at luncheon on Thurs
day afternoon at the 1925 F Street
Club On Sunday, a champagne
lunch was brought forth at North
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1938-04-09
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Wedding Anniversaries To Be Marked Xxx U1nn41
BIZ Peter Carter

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cruisers in berth at the Navy Yard in Philadelphia prior to
aboard the Savannah last Thursday and
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Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1938-04-27
SEVEN INJURED IN
COAL MINE BLAST
Shaft Near Pottsville, Pa,
Scene of Explosion, With
Eleven Burned

Pottsville, Pa April 81 (AP)-Seven
men were reported killed and eleven
were burned in gas explosion
today in the st. Clair Coal Company
mine, three miles north of here.
The company telephone the Potts
vile hospital for reservations for
about 20 beds. Supplies to treat burns
also were asked for. and undertakers
were asked to send their vehicles to
the mine to help transfer the injured
to the hospital.
Water rushing into the workings
through seams opened by the blast,
hampered the work of rescue. A mine
official said the water might make it
impossible to get some of the men out
Immediately.
Ambulances and undertakers' hear
ses lined the highway at the entrance
to the mine at ST. Clair. The explosion
occurred in a section of the mine I'M
der the mining village of Mount Hope,
about two miles from ST. Clair.
The scene is in the heart of Penn
sylvania's great lower anthracite re-
gion, of which Pottsville is the virtual
center.
The NINE an independent opera
ton, has been employing about 1000
men. It was not expected that all the
injured could be reached before late
afternoon.
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1938-04-27
Governments Strongly Re-
inforced Defense Line
Holds Rebels at Bay
For Four Days
ALCALA is SCENE
OF BITTER FIGHT
Battle Surges Through Out
skirts of Town, With Pos
session Changing from
Time to Time; 1OO-Mile
Front in East Still Virtual
ly Unchanged

Hendaye, France April 27.-(AP)--
General Frances war fleet went to
the aid of his stalled land forces to-
day, and bombarded Spanish govern
ment positions on the heights above
Alcala de Chivert with it's big guns.
General Miaja's strongly reinforced
defense line from the Teruel sector 10
the Mediterranean held the insurgents
virtually motionless for the fourth
day.
Following the usual tactics of shift
ing attacks from flank to flank, the
insurgents directed their main often
sive along the coastal road, about AL
Gala de Chivert. This town has been
a battlefield for a week. The fighting
surged through the outskirts, the gov
eminent holding the western edge of
the town, insurgents the southeastern
corner
Offsetting the insurgent capture of
two key points, the government seized
a dominant peak which stands west
of the town like a sentinel over Tire
valley, down which extended the high
way and railway.
Although the general outline of the
1OO-mile front from Teruel to the
Mediterranean was little changed
since the insurgent surprise attack
Saturday caught the government
militia unawares north of Teruel mill
tiary observers considered the govern
ment success partly due to violent
transforms
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1938-04-27
NEW BATTLE AREA
IS NOT FAR FROM
MONGOLIA FRONT
Drive May Endanger Land
Routes Over Which War
Supplies Are Sent
Into China
LOSSES BY CHINESE.
REPORTED BY JAPS
$50 Dead and 500 Prisoners
Result of All-Day Battle at
Anpei, Statement Says;
Threatened British-Japa-
nese Clash at Shanghai
Averted

Shanghai, April 27.-(AP)- The ia
panese army has launched q vigorous
campaign in far northwestern China
"'n~~ toward spheres of Soviet
Russian influence.
Ane new battle area is within 100
~1''os of Outer Mongolia, under pro
lection of the Soviet Union, and neu-
trail authorities here believe the drive
may endanger the land routes Ky
which considerable Russian war sup
plies have reached the Chinese armies.
The Japanese today reported cap
ture of AnDei in Siyuan province.
western limit of their drive into the
northwest, before the bitter winter
of that region closed down.
After an allday battle at Anpe;, the
Japanese said, the Chinese left $50
dead and 500 prisoners.
The Shantung-Kiangsu border, Just
north of the Lunghai railway, con-
tinued the main battlefield, with the
Chinese admitting slow advances for
the enemy, backed by furnishing heavy
artillery fire.
Meantime, a threatened clash be-
tween British and Japanese in the
Shanghai area was averted tonight
when Japanese authorities promised
to release the British steamer TungWo
before morning.. Previously 1T was
understood a British gunboat was pre-
pared to effect the release by force,
if necessary.
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1938-04-27
LAFOLLETE CHARGE
: IS MILD SENSATION
Wisconsin Liberal Governor
Declares New Deal
Has Bungled Job
BY CHARLES +. STEWART
Central Press COIumnist

Washington, April Ex-Governor (of
Wisconsin, Philip F. LaFollette's re
cent reference to RoOseveltian meth
DDS as a policy Of "tinkering and pat
ching created a sensation in Wash
ington which shows no signs of sub
siding.
Flenty of other critics have said
substantially the same thing, to be
sure.
young Phil" created all the ensu-
ing excitement not so much because
of what he said as because Of the fact
that it was he who said tin radio
broadcast from Madison, the Badger
State capital And then he called a
conference of liberals to assemble in
Madison, April %, as a possible fore
runner of a new national third party
Not An Ex-PrOgressive.
Republicans generally and many
conservative Democrats have found
unlimited fault with New Deal &C
tivities without attracting much at
tention; it was taken for granted that
they would do so.
Some formally recognized liberals
even radicals-like Senators Hiram
w. johnson of California and Burton
X. Wheeler of Montana also have
been fault-finders, but New Dealer;
have taken the position that these
statesmen have turned reactionary
*they have referred to them as ex
liberals.
Governor La Toilette, however, can
not very convincingly- be termed ar
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1938-04-27
Two New Battleships and
Many Other War Vessels
Provided For In
Huge Sum
HENRY FORD PAYS
PRESIDENT VISIT
Motor Magnate Lunches
With Roosevelt at White
House; State Department
Reveals Mexico Will Low
er Tariff Barriers About
May First

Washington, April 27.-(APO-Presi-
dent Roosevelt approved a record
peace-time appropriation of $546, 1885,
494 today to finance the navy for the
next fiscal year.
The measure, distinct from the "tig
navy bill being debated by the Sen
ate, carried funds to start work on
'wo new battleships, two cruisers,
eight destroyers, six submarines, one
mine sweeper, one submarine tender,
one fleet tug and one oiler.
Ford Lunches With Roosevelt.
Henry Ford, 74-year-old motor mag
nate, sat down at luncheon with Pre-
sident Roosevelt, meantime, to talk
about business. The manufacturer,
who often has differed with admir-
istration policies, walked silently past
I group of news reporters and photo
graphers into the White House.
Several hundred persons who hal
gathered to see him arrive cheered.
Immediately after arrival of the
Ford party, Chairman Mariner &c
Giles. of the Federal Reserve Board,
entered Eccles was invited by Mr..
Roosevelt with Ford and his party.
Other developments:
Sumner Welles, under secretary Of
state, said Mexican Ambassador Ma
jera had assured him Mexican tariffs
would be materially reduced, probably
May 1.
Mexican tariffs were jumped in jan
uary, in some cases as much as 200
percent.
A possit ility developed that the
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1938-04-27
Daladier and Chamberlain
To Discuss Crisis at Con-
ferences Planned
Tomorrow
NAILS DEMANDING
ELECTION IN JUNE
Czech Memorandum to
Paris Rejects Request of
Nazi Leader for Revision
of Foreign Policy in Man
ner Favorable to the
Friends of Germany

London, April 27.-(AP)-The heads
of the French and British government
will take up the growing Nazi clamor
in Czechoslovakia and it's danger to
their plan for the European agree
ments at conferences tomorrow.
Two developments made the Czech
question paramount to Premiers
Daladier and Chamberlain. They
we're:
1. The prediction by Berlin Nazis
that the German Nazis of Czecho-
slovakia would demand early in June
an election on whether they desire
to remain under Czech supervision or
be joined to greater Germany.
g. A Czech memorandum to French
Premier Daladier rejecting as a
threat to Czech independence the de-
dependence the demands by the Nazi
Continued or Page Three)
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1938-04-27
To Inspect
Vet Hospital
Sites In N. c.

Washington, April 27.-(AFO-Col-
onel George Ijams, chairman of Fed
eral disqualification subcommittee
named to recommend a site for a new
81 100000 veterans hospital in North
Carolina, announced today the cities
the group will visit next month.
The subcommittee will leave Wash
ington May on a nine-day inspection
tour, beginning at Raleigh, and end
ing May II with visits at Winston
Salem, Greensboro, High Point ant
Burlington.
Ijams said if the committee arrived
in Raleigh early enough on May 2
an inspection will be made there that
afternoon. Otherwise, the itinerary
would be as follows
May g. Raleigh. Durham, Chape
Hill; May 4, Rocky Mount. Wilson
Greenville, Williamson; May 5, Wash
ington, New Bern; May 6, Kinston
Continued on Page Two.)
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1938-04-27
Court Refuses Petition
OF Pitts Commissioners
For Sheriff's Discharge
Judge Cowper Orders Full Hearing Against Sheriff
Whitehurst May s. and ecause of Seriousness of
Case, Will Not Or der Removal Now

Greenville, April 81 (AP)-Judge G.
V. Cowper, presiding in Pitt Superior
Court, this afternoon declined to grant
a petition by the board Of county COM
missioners for the temporary removal
of Sheriff S. A. Whitehurst from Of
flee pending hearing of the full issue,
but signed an order for a full hear
ing and action on the petition in ST.
perior court here May 9.
In declining to grant the temporary
removal, Judge Cowper declared that
the charges were so grave that, in
justice to all parties concerned, he
felt that no action should be taken
unt;' the full issue could be heard by
the court.
The petition, signed by the individ-
ual members of the board of commits
sioners, charged the sheriff with ex-
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1938-04-27
Rome Guarded With
War Day Vigilance
f or Hitler's Visit

Rome, April II (AP)-Rome swarm
ed with police today as wartime vigil
lance was exercises for Reichfuehrer
Hitlcr's visit May to May 10.
Detectives and secret agents from
all over Italy combed the city ana
watched for the slightest suspicion of
activity which might be directed
against the visiting chancellor.
Hitler is due to arrive at p. m.
Tuesday.
Railroad police, who ride all trains
IN Italy, were especially active in
questioning passengers and recording
their identifying documents. Hordes
OF agents operated in all the railway
stations.
All persons entering the capital, es-
peclally foreigners, were watched, and
many were asked to account for them
selves as they stepped from trains.
Among the travellers questioned
We're many Americans.
Every mile of the track which Hit
ierS train will travel from the Alps
% Naples was guarded carefully.
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1938-04-27
laps Won t
PYOSeCute
L. S. Filler

Yokohama, Japan, April 27-(AP)
The local prosecutor announced to.
night he had decided not to prosecute
Elwyn Gibbon, American aviator, fol-
lowing a conference with the chief
justice of the supreme court. How
ever. no announcement was made i'm
mediately of the time of the man s
release. He has been held in Jail hire
five days n suspicion of having par
ticipated in Chinese bombing attacks
on Japanese troops. He was taken off
the liner Empress of Asia while en-
route from China to the United States.
The decision not to prosecute was
based on the fact that Gibbon was a
native of a neutral country and had
already cease fighting for the enemy
Japanese police said Gibbon ha ]
signed paper prepared by the prose
cutor based on his alleged confession
of activities against Japanese in
China. Thus, they said, the case could
come within the purview of the Grim.
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Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1938-04-27
NEW YORK WOMAN is
DEAD FROM INJURY
Husband Still in Fayetteville Hospital
Seriously Hurt; Other Rela-
tiveS Injured

Fayetteville, April 81 (AP)-Mrs
Joseph Lehrer, ST. of Far Rockaway,
N. Y, died in a local hospital last
night as the result of injuries sustain
ed in an automobile wreck near Rae
ford yesterday afternoon. Her hus-
band was still in the hospital today
with injuries described by attaches
as serious. He said he was driving
the car at the time of the accident
and a blowout caused him to lose
control and run off an embankment.
Mr. and Mrs. Jack Levine, son-in-
law and daughter of Mr.. and Mrs
Lehrer, and their two children, Arlene
and Jack, were slightly injured in the
accident.
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1938-04-27

tortion, acceptance of brides, protec-
ton of violators of the liquor laws,
failure or refusal to perform the du-
ties of his office in turning over to
the county fees collected by his Of
flee, and with directly or indirectly
endeavoring to influence State wit
nesses to the end of procuring mot a
true bill'' on indictments against him
now being heard by the grand jury.
At the March term of superior court
a grand jury returned a true bill
against the sheriff charging him with
bribery, and an additional one charg-
ing mal-administration but when the
prosecution made a motion to set the
trial before a special venire defense
counsel countered with a motion to
Continued on Page Two)
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1938-04-27
ROOSEVELT SIGNS navy BILL
Japanese Launch Attack Near Soviet Border
WindstOrnns Kill
Six In The West


Denver, Col, April 27.-(AP)-
Tornadoes left six dead and more
than Il score injured today after an
onslaught of freakish weather in
five Rocky Mountain and plains
states.
Two girls were kiIlei by winds
which rivpel through an are1 near
Oshkosh, Neb. a third child diel
carly today.
Three others were dead and AZ
least five were injured. one cri-
ticalIy, when a twister laid waste
two scattered communities near
Draw, Texas.
High winds, rain, hail and dusts
were experienced in New Mexico,
Colorado, Kansas and Nebraska.
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1938-04-27
Road Fund
Ready

Raleigh, April .-(AP)-Mecklen-
burg county will get $54, 46O.50 as its
share of the special 100000 road
betterment fund made available by
Governor Hoey, topping all other couu
ties in the State.
Chief Engineer Vance Baise, of the
Highway and Public Works Commits
sion, released the ALLEGATIONS to each
county today, noting that $4,000 had
been set aside for use on bridge inn
DrOvementS
Other counties getting heavy shares
of the fund include: Wake, $48,818.75;
Robson, 36,153.26; Pitt, $37, 300, and
Johnston, $32, 266.
All other counties fell below $780,
900 in allotments, with the smallest
amount, $4,000, going to Pamlico.
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1938-04-27
German Threat To Czechs
Alarming France, Britain
Gen. Hugh johnson
To Talk to Rotary

Dunn, April 27.-(AP)-Shephcrd
Bryan. district governor, ANNOUNCE
ed plans today for the 188th dis
trict conference of Rotary Clubs at
Charlotte.
General Hugh Johnson, news
paper coiumnist and formerly NRA
administrator and Raymond KnOep
peIl, New York attorney, will be
among the speakers. DIR. Julian
Miller, editor of the Charlotte OBJ
server, will speak at the opening
luncheon.
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1938-04-27
; Steamers
In
Night Crash
North Atlantic Coast
Is Scene of Acct
dents Occurring In
FOgs in Darkness

New York, April 27-(AP)-Five
steamships were in trouble today with
one of them beached, as the result
oe three accidents off the North At
lantic coast in a dense fog last night
and early today.
The coast guard sent four cutters
and two patrol boats to the aid OF
three Of the vessels, but the other two,
after reporting collision, did not
ask for help.
In the most serious accident the
2,e86-ton Commercial Pioneer of New
York was in collision near the Della
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Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1938-04-27
FUQUAY MAN DEAD
OF AUTO INJURIES

Raleigh, April 81 (AP)-Willie Lee
Coley, %, of near Fuquay Springs, re-
ceived fatal injuries early today when
his automobile overturned seven miles
from here on Route 15-A. Coroner l..
M Waring said a tire blowout caus-
ed the accident.
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1938-04-27
HALIFAX MAN DIES
OF HURTS IN AUTO

Roanoke Rapids, April 81 (AP)-
James Simms, %, injured last aStur-
day in an automobile accident near
Weldon, in which Linwood Robinson
was killed, died today in a hospital
here.
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1938-04-27
SeaWell's
Choice Was
Wise Move
Governor At Least
Picked Man People
Voted in; Jealousies
Are AVerted
Daily Dispatch Bureau,
Tn the Sir Walter Hotel.

Raleigh, April 27.-Gnvernor Clyde
r: Ioey justified his reiutlt''n rs n
sn,,t political pick" when he MANI
ed A. A. r. Seawell '"r promotion
f,fm attorney general to Supreme
G ,.rt justice.
For one thing, it rave him two
plums to present at one and the same
tine, his advancement Of Harry NJ
MI, AN from assistant - tlll. ledEed
ATTIC, ney general co npleting the dls-
tY;bution of muchsouy' aiter fru |.
For another thinG, there VIII cer-
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Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1938-04-27
MURPHY TO LEAVE
STATE Abe BOARD
Governor Now Hunting
New Man, to Be Named
Before End of Week
Daily Dispatch Bureau,
In The Sir Walter ltUtri

Raleigh, April 27.-Somewhat over
looked in the mad scramble for the
Supreme Court place made vacant by
the death Of Justice George w. Con-
nor and filled by appointment of AT
torncy General A. A. f. Seawell is
the fact that Governor Clyde r. Hoey
will before the end of this week name
a member of the State Alcoholic
tContinued on Page Two).
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1938-04-27
WEATHER

FOR NORTH CAROLINA.
Generally fair tonight and
Thursday; no decided change in
temperature.
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Evening star., 1938-05-10
HELP MEN.
(Continued.)
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