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Henderson daily dispatch., 1938-06-01
POPULAR ELECTION
OF JUDGES MYTH
More of Them Named ORR
ginally by Governors
Than by the People
Daily Dispatch Bureau,
In the Sir Walker Hotel.

Raleigh, June 1.-The keeness OF
judicial races in many districts this
year has centered interest upon Sc
lection of Superior and Supreme
Court judges, but an examination of
the records of the twenty-eight jurists
now occupying either supreme o,
superior court benches shows that
popular" selection is more a mat
ter of theory than of practice in
North Carolina.
Going over records of the judges, it
is revealed that only one of the
seven Supreme Court Justices was orr
ginalIy put on that bench by vote of
the people-and even that one was
appointed to the chief Justices post he
now holds. The other six were appoint
ed to the court-one by Governor
Morrison two by Governor J. G.. B.
Ehringhaus and three by present Gov
ernor Clyde r. Hoey.
The percentage of superior court
judges originally appointed isn't any
thing like as high but even so more
than half of the twenty-one incum
hents gained their present positions
originally by the appointment route
The figures show twelve appointed
and nine elected for their first terms
With no less than four Hoey ap
pointees facing the keenest sort of op
position in the present primary, there
is at least an even chance that there
will have to be revision of these
figures on and after January 1, in sc
Henderson daily dispatch., 1938-06-01
Refuse To Stand by SUI
preme Court Ruling on
Issue Involving Labor
Board Status
IT'S NOT SITDOWN
STRIKE, THEY SAY
Satisfied. With Employer
and Plan To Fight To
Hold Jobs, Leader Says;
Reinstatement of Strikers
Is Issue Involved in Court S
Decision

Syracuse, N. Y, June 1-(AP)--
Joseph Murray, chairman of the joint
council of Remington Rand EN-
ployees Association, announced today
5000 workers in the Remington Rand
plant at Syracuse, lion, Elmire and
Middletown, Conn, had stopped
work. in protest of Supreme Court
decision refusing to review a National
Labor Relations Board striker rein
statement order.
1T lis not a sitdown strike" Muir
ray said, "but merely a cessation of
work We refuse to stand for the
Supreme Court decision. They have
never heard our side of it."
He declared that the cessation
might last ten minutes and might
last ten weeks"
The Supreme Court yesterday refus-
ed to review a National Labor Rela-
tions Board order directing the COM
pany to reinstate 1000 workers on
strike for more than two years.
Murray said 700 employees were af-
fected at the Syracuse plant, 5000 at
lion, 1900 at Elmire, and 800 at Mid
dletown, Conn.
They're all down. he declared.
Joseph Straub, manager at the
Syracuse plant, however, declared
that he hadn't heard of it YETI
1--WE are satisfied with our employ
err. Mr.. Randi Murray said, land VIC
plan to fight to hold our jobs"
Henderson daily dispatch., 1938-06-01
Ehringhaus Endorsement
Of Hancock Is Surprise
To Political Observers
Former Governor Says He Has Right as Private Citizen
To Support Candidate of His Choice; Message
Read at Hancock Rail y in Old Home Town

Raleigh, June 1.-(AP)-Political
followers watched today for possible
effects on Saturdays Democratic pri-
mary vote of the endorsement given
Representative Frank Hancock, Jr.,
last night by former Governor J. c.
B. Ehringhaus.
Hancock, opposing Senator Robert
Reynolds, spoke in Elizabeth City,
hometown of the former governor
when he was elected.
A telegram was read the audience
from Ehringhaus, which said:
'My best wishes are with you as
you speak tonight in my home town.
You will 5e speaking to some of the
finest folks in the world, and they will
Henderson daily dispatch., 1938-06-01

know how to appreciate your own
fine qualities
Asked if. the telegram was flat
endorsement of Hancock's candidacy.
Ehringhaus replied: IT will have to
speak. for myself. I think that as a
private citizen I have the right to
favor a candidate"
Hancock forecast he would carry
SO counties and charged that Repub-
licans were aiding the Reynolds cam
paign.
Senator Reynolds made his second
formal campaign speech at almost the
same hour in Winston-Salem, and said
jority. He did not mention Hancock
by name"
Henderson daily dispatch., 1938-06-01
Uncle of Infant Gives Up
All Hope of Ever Re-
covering Him Alive
from Abductors
$4,000 RANSOM WAS
PAID OVER TUESDAY
Man Seized by G-Men in
Posse of 400 Persons Wait
ing in Front of Cash Home
Ready To Start Search for
Snatchers Near Small Flor
ida Town

Princeton, Fla, June 1.-(AP)-
Agents of the Federal Bureau of In
vestigation emerged from the home
spectator standing in a crowd 100
yards away and rushed him off in
an automobile. The car headed to-
ward Miami before the crowd, num-
bering about 400, realized what was
taking place.
Five minutes later, Sheriff D. G.
Coleman and several deputies who ar
rived here this morning to start an
intensive search of the neighborhOOd
for five-year-old James Cash, Jr., kid
mapped Saturday night, sped off in the
opposite direction toward Homesteads
a village a few miles south.
The throng from which the man
was taken had been waiting in a
school yard for Sheriff Coleman to
instruct them in carrying out the
hunt by posses.
Hope apparently had been aban-
doned that the boy, held for $4,000
ransom, would be returned alive.
81 talked with the family and moth
ing whatever happened last night
said w. P. Cash, the boys uncle. ''The
case is exactly where it was yester-
day, only it is one day worse.
give given up all hope the boy will
he found alive I didn't have much
hope from the start, but I feel that
last night was the last chance for him
to return alive"
The overalled Cash, who runs fill
ing station next door to James Cash.
ST., indicated his brother now was
willing for the possess to take to the
field, since "a hours had elapsed after
he paid the ransom, with no word
from the abductors.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1938-06-01
Sbaniards
Battle In
Mountains

Hendaye, France, June 1 (AP)-In-
surgents scaled precipitous mountains
on the front east of Teruel today,
fighting hand to hand with govern
ment militiamen in a general often
sive aimed at the capture of Valencia.
On land and in the air the fighting
in this new drive by General Francis
co Frances army assumed proper
tons equal in severity to any in the
nearly-two-year-old civil war.
His war planes pounded cities and
concentrations on the eastern coast,
while the full power of his infantry,
cavalry and artillery slowly dislodged
government troops from their brist-
ling positions north of the highway
that reaches from Teruel to Sa-
gunto and Valencia.
Reports reaching the frontier said
the death toll from yesterdays in
surgent bombing of Granollers, 16
miles north of Barcelona, would reach
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Henderson daily dispatch., 1938-06-01
States Revenue Still
Holding Strong, Without
Much Sign OF Recession

For the II months of the current
fiscal year total sales tax receipts for
the first time dipped under cores
ponding figures for the previous year.
This Mays sales tax revenue was
$500, 32415, last Mays was $965,271 oil.
The eleventh months figures were
$40, 323, 35328 against $1O,348,997.88 last
year.
1t was also significant that May
1888, sales tax receipts were above
those for the preceding month by
about $4,000, while in 1887 April col
lections were nearly $4,000 above
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Henderson daily dispatch., 1938-06-01
Daily Dispatch Bureau,
In The Sir Whittier Hotel

Raleigh, June 1.-North Cardinals
may tax revenues continued to hold
up extremely well-in fact they show
ca a l.29 per cent increase over May
VI 1897 when all items are consider
eo-and there were only scattering
indications here and there that the
so-called recession is doing any dirty
work at Tar Heel crossroads.
In the revenue division, sales tax
1,sceipts were off about $4,000 from
Way 1897, but any true comparison
mere Is unreliable because in 1897
mere were no basic food exemptions
ana no building material excise taxes,
Henderson daily dispatch., 1938-06-01
SHARP ADVANCE in
PRICES OF COTTON
Trade and Foreign Buying Bullish
Features; Futures Up 16 to
20 Points at Close

New York, June 1.-(AD)-Cotton
futures opened today two points lower
to two points higher Lower Liver
pool cables were partly offset by an
advance at Bombay and trade and
foreign buying. October rallied from
7.76 to 1877, or to net advances of II
to IA points shortly after the frs;
half hour. BY midday October, which
had reacted from 7.89 to 7.86, rallied
to 100 to carry prices up to net gains
of 10 to Is points.
Futures closed Is to 20 points high
er. Spot steady, middling 789
Henderson daily dispatch., 1938-06-01
Io7Cu Fight
For Senate
White Hot ]!

Des Moines, Iowa, June 1.-(AP)-
Iowa State Treasurer L. ]. Wegman
touched off a State House battle here
today by releasing what he said was
the substance" of a telegram to Har-
ry L. Hopkins, commencing the WPA
chief for endorsing O.. D. Wearin, in
the Iowa Democratic senatorial pri
mary conflict.
Stand by your guns and more pow
err to you," the telegram said. 1t was
dated last Thursday, May 26, the day
after Governor N. G. Kraschel had ex-
pressed in a telegram his resentment
at Hopkins statement fayoring
Wearin.
The dispute in the State official
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Henderson daily dispatch., 1938-06-01
MILLION VISITORS
LIKELY IN SMOKES
Big Season Looked for In
Western North Carolina
During Summer
Daily dispatch Bureau.

Raleigh, June AT least a million
people are expected to visit the Great
Smokes this summer, according t.
Department of Conservation and De
velopment estimates, but these vener.
able peaks are probably not getting
iii the least excited about it.
Certainly they are old enough tx
maintain perfect sang froid about the
whole affair, as biologists say they
are among the oldest mountains in
the world-much older in fact than
the Alps or the Pyrenees. BY com
parison, the Rockies are mere babes
in-arms.
They are being made more and
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Henderson daily dispatch., 1938-06-01
Trust Loot
Brings Six
Indictments

New York, June 1 (AP)-District
Attorney Thomas Dewey announced
today six persons have been indicted
on charges that they looted seven in
vestment trusts with combined assets
of more than $16,OO0,OOO in the past
year. The announcement came short
ly after Dewey's men arrested v. E.
Ferretti, a lawyer.
Dewey said with a total investment
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Henderson daily dispatch., 1938-06-01
FDR Signs
Changes In
Crop Total
Slightly Increased
Acreage Provided
To Meet Tobacco
Mems Complaints

Washington, June 1.-(AP)-Presi-
dent Roosevelt signed amendments to
the new crop control law today in
creasing this years national tobacco
marketing quotas two percent and
providing for redistribution of un-
used cotton acreage allotments
The amendments have the effect,
Agriculture Department officials said,
of increasing the national marketing
quota for flue-cured tobacco from 49,
Henderson daily dispatch., 1938-06-01
ABORTION CHARGES
AT MANTEO DROPPED

Manteo, June 1, (AP)-The Dare
county grand jury returned mot
true bir' last night, clearing J. La
mar Rhyme Of Brevard, of charges
of prescribing for an abortion.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1938-06-01
WEATHER

FOR NORTH CAROLINA.
Partly cloudy tonight and
Thursday; slightly warmer to-
night and in north central and
northeast portions Thursday.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1938-06-01
JAPANESE SAY CHINESE
DEFENSE is CRUMBLINC

Shanghai, June 1.-(AP)-Japanes
said today General Chang Kai-Shek's
latest defense lines along the cross
country Lunghai railway were giving
way gradually under aerial lombard
ment.
Japanese bombed Chiang's troops
near Liangfeng, although the army
of Nippon still appeared to be baked
in its efforts to reach Kaifeng and
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Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1938-06-08
WPAPROJECTS IN
BUDGETS INSISTED
Johnson Warns Cities and
Counties To Make AL
lowance for Funds
Daily Dispatch Bureau.
In the Sir Walter Hotel.

Raleigh, June 8.-State Treasurer
Charles M. Johnson, in his capacity as
director of local government and
chairman of the Local Government
Commission, is issuing a stern warn
ing to all local governmental units
that they must include WPA projects
to be undertaken in the coming fisca!
year in their regular budgets.
The warning is in the form of a
circular Memorandum to county
commissioners and governing boards
of cities and towns regarding expen-
diture of public money" and is being
given, Mr.. Johnson said, as the result
of last years experience.
In many instances, he pointed ont,
units prepared their budgets without
WPA projects in mind, then when OPP
portunity to take advantage of Fed
eral funds came later, they acceptei
the propositions, spent funds for pro
iects not authorized or contemplated
in their regular budgets.
The treasurer points out that you
have no legal or moral right under
anv circumstances to deliberately
draw on your treasury for purposes
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Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1938-06-08
Eruption OF
Volcano Yet
Terrifying
Filipinos Refuse To
Be Gained in Face
of Mayon's Violent
Explosions

Manila, f. l., June SLAP Au-
thorities tried vainly today to calm
thousands Of terrified natives within
sight of belching Mayor volcano
whose periodic eruptions frightened
one man to death and drove another
insane
People in the region near the south
ern tip of Luzon island became more
excited hourly as the volcano rum
bled almost continuously and erupt-
ed at intervals of about three hours.
Panic spread when the volcano
blew off this afternoon, throwing up
great pillar of smoke and vapor and
hurting vast quantities of incande-
scent rock into the sky. The crater
top was hidden ~ the smoke cloud
through which the sun peered like a
bloodred eye.
Fear of disease in epidemic proper
TONS in the refugee camps at Nuyda
added to the worries of authorities.
Doctors reported drinking water there
was unsafe. A director of the govern
ment weather bureau in Manila said
no amount of assurance would make
the people stay in their homes, even
when their houses were in no danger
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1938-06-08
Johnston
Inquiry Is
N0zVAsked

Smithfield. June 8. - (AP) The
Johnston County Board of Elections
has ordered a hearing Friday at II
o'clock on ting request of j. r. Young,
of Ellington, for a recount of this
countys vote in the fourth district So
EDITORIAL primary, in which Young lost
to c. G. Canaday, of Benson, the in
cumbent.
Walter Siler of Pittsboro, presented
the board a petition yesterday for
Young, alleging that irregularities, he
said had been informed, occurred az
the two Smithfield precincts, the
Selma Banner and Meadow precincts.
and "other precincts"
The petitioner alleged votes were
suppressed and there were irregular
tiles in all precincts.
Canaday, who got 1858 votes in this
his home county, to zoos for Young,
told the board he would welcome
recount if the board thought it adj
visable Siler said he would present
affidavits Friday to sustain his
charges.
The elections board declared all 9TH
er results. J. D. Benton, of Benson.
was officially announced as State SEN
ate nominee by % votes over Elmer
Wellons. Lawrence Wallace, of Smith
field, and r. P. Fulghum, an incum-
bent, won the House nominations.
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1938-06-08
COMPROMISE MADE
BY CONFEREES UPON
WAGES, HOURS BILL
Universal Wage of 40 Cents
in All Interstate Indus
tries at End of
Seven Years
Csc MINIMUM WAGE
is SCALE AT START
Boards Appointed by Cen
trail Administrator Would
Determine Local Differen-
tials; American Protest at
Canton Concerns Lingman
University Property
25c MINIMUM WAGE
is SCALE AT START

Washington, June 8.-(AP)- The
American government protested to
the Japanese consul general at Hong
Kong today against the bombing bv
Japanese airplanes of the campus of
the American-endowed Lingman Uni
versity at Canton.
The State Department said this
countrys protest was delivered to the
Japanese official by A. E. Southland,
United States consul general at Hong
Kong
The department said Southard
cabled that three Japanese bombs fell
on the western end of the campus at
the edge Of sthe athletic field 200
yards from houses occupied by Amer,
leans. No buildings were struck.
In protesting to the Japanese con-
sulate general, Southland pointed out,
the department said, that the property
was partly owned by Americans, as
well as the direct American parti-
cipation in the institutions financia;
support and administration.
Meantime, a joint congressional
committee compromised wage-hour
hour legislation by agreeing to- impo-
sition of a universal wage of 40 cents
an hour in all interstate industries at
the end of seven years, except where
such wage should cause unemploy-
inent.
The compromise, adopted with the
approval of IL of the IA conferees,
would provide for a minimum wage
of 25 cents an hour, with no excep-
tions. for the first year. This would
be advanced to 80 cents the follow
ing year. After this, boards appointed
by a central administrator would be
empowered to examine conditions In
individual industries to determine the
minimum wage to be paid by these
industries. The boards, made up of re-
representatives. of the employees, EN-.
ployers and the public, would be charg
ed with the duty of increasing the
minimum as rapidly as possible.
Also, President Roosevelt sent the
following postmaster nominations to
the Senate today: North Carolina,
Broadway, Preston Morris, and Mount
Olive Jack Barfield. ~.
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1938-06-08
MCMILLAN REFUSES
TODEMAND RUN-OFF
Party Harmony and Expense of An
other Election GiveT as Rea-
sons for Decision

E'z4beth City, June 8.-(AP-Jobn
J. MCMILLAN, of Elizabeth City, run
her-rn in the four-cornered cont'i. III
the relationship Of the first congress
slonal district, announced today ne
would not ask Gor u :'un-off primary,
ut would concede the nomination to
Chester Morris, of Currituck, high
man in the first primary
MCMILLAN, in a statement announc-
ing his decision, and expressing ap-
probation for the support given him,
attributes his decision to reluctance
TO put the district to the expense Ct
second primary, when there are few
county contests, to desire to promote
party harmony and to feeling that
my present disadvantage is too great
70 warrant my requiring this expen-
diture on the part of the several coun-
Ties involved"
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1938-06-08

Probe Set
Saturday

High Point, June S.-(AFD-A pub
lie hearing on election fraud char
ges brought ty j. o. Atkinson, Jr,
of Greensboro, unsuccessful candidate
for the Democratic nomination for
Congress in the sixth district, against
election officials in High Point, will
be held in High Point Saturday, Ed
win W. Pierce, of Greensboro, chair
man of the county be 4rd of elections,
said today.
Pierce said today subpoenas were
being issued for all election officials
in eleven of High Points IL precincts,
precinct No. 4 being excluded from
the charges. More than 40 witnesses,
whose names were, furnished by At
kins, are also being summoned, Pierce
said.
The board today was checking the
congressional ballots cast Saturday in
High Point township.
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1938-06-08
COttOnCO-Op
ClearedFrOn]
All Charges
S e n a tie Committee
Y OF e S Eleven to
Two for Corpora
ton After Inquiry

Washington, June 8.-(AFo- Tie
Senate Agriculture Committee voted
eleven to two to clear the American
Cotton Cooperative Association of all
charges raised against it during an
investigation started more than a year
ago.
The committee adopted a report
prepared by Senators Bankhead, DEM
ocrat, Alabama, and Ellender, Demo-
ocrat, Louisiana, which gave the CO.
operative a clean bill of health or
each of the specifications raised by
Lawrence Westbrook and the special
staff named to probe the association.
At the same time the committee &C
copied a suggestion of Chairman
Smith, Democrat, South Carolina, that
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Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1938-06-08
Chairman Adams, Of Senate
Money Group, Predicts
Availability of Money
Quickly
INVESTIGATION MAY
BE VERY EXPENSIVE
Five-Year-Old Cash Boy
Was Abducted from Home
at Princeton, Fla, Ten
Days Ago and $4,000
Ransom Paid, But Boy Has
Never Been Returned

Washington, June 8.-(AFD-Chair
man Adams, Democrat, Colorado, OF
Senate appropriations sub-commit-
tee, predicted today that $4,000 would
be appropriated "as a matter Of
course" for hunting the kidnapers Of
little James Bailey Cash.
President Roosevelt, writing to
Vice-President Garner yesterday, at
tached a report rom the budget Du-
reau saying the Federal Bureau Of In
vestigation had asked the $4,000 ION
account Of the expenses it is anti
cipated will be incurred in the inves-
tigation of the Cash kidnapping case"
Mr.. Roosevelt said he concurred in
the request.
The President suggested in the let
ter that the fund be inserted in Inc
deficiency appropriation bill, which
the Senate will consider late this
week.
The five-year-old Cash boy was ab-
Quoted from his Princeton, Fla, home
May %. His father paid $4,000 ran
rom, but the child was not returned.
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1938-06-08
5000 Killed, $500 Wound
ed in IL Days of Air At
tacks on South
ern City
CHINESE LOSS PUT
ABOVE MILLION MEN
japanese Set at 100000, All
in Recent Central China
Fighting; Estimates Made
by Foreign Military OBJ
servers; Half Canton Pop
ulace Flees

Canton, China, June 8.-(AP)-Two
new commandments today raised civil
ian casualties in this crippled city to
at least 5000 killed and 5000 wound
ed in II successive days of Japanese
air raids.
Two American-Owned properties, the
Lingman University and oil tanks Of
the Standard Oil Company, were
struck by Japanese bomts today. The
oil tanks burst into flame, spread
ing a conflagration that burned the
terminal of the Canton-Hankow rail
road, and a 16-car train that had Just
arrived from Hankow.
At least 300 new civilian casualties
were inflicted on Honan island, an in
dustrial district. Several Japanese
bombs apparently aimed at the river
bridge exploded in Honan's congested
area, demolishing about 100 houses.
1t was estimated fully 5O0,0 900 in
habitants of this war-crowded city o.
about 100000 had fled. About third
of it's residences have been vacated.
MILLION CASUALTIES ARE
REPORTED BY CHINESE
Shanghai, June 8.-(AP)-Casualtie
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Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1938-06-08


Raleigh, June 8.-Director Dudley
Bagley and other officials of the State
Rural Identification Authority arr
scratching their heads hard in an eff
fort to map out comprehensive plan
for continuation of the program to
light up the homes of Tar Heel folks
who live in the States nearly 100000
farm dwellings.
In view of the fact that $4,000, 900
in Federal funds will be available for
use in the next fiscal year (begin-
ming July -, and of the further fact
that practically all the private power
companies of the State have cooperat-
ed well in REA's projects and are
willing to go along still further, the
problem might not seem such a tough
one. On the contrary, however, any
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1938-06-08
Japanese Continue Bombing
OF Chinese City OF Canton:
Siler City Fire
Hits Rose Store

Silcr City, June S.-(AP)-F'ire
caused several thousand dollars
worth of damage to building in
the business section here today.
The tlaze, believed to have caught
in the stock room, burned the five
and ten cent store, grocery and
shoe shop. The loss was covered
by insurance.
One fireman received minor in
Juries when a ladded fell and an
other when his leg crashed through
the floor of the building.