Florence Morning News from Florence, South Carolina • 1

WEATHER EOUTH CAROLINA: Partly cloudy with scattered showers Monday and in northwest por tion Sunday ESTABLISHED 1894 COVERS EASTERN SOUTH CAROLINA DAILY AND SUNDAY LORENCE SUNDAY MORNING SEPTEMBER 5 1937 DAILY AND SUNDAY READ THE MORNING NEWJ3 ADS AND PROIT PRICE IVE CENTS DID YOU Ever Stop ToTHINK rp HAT The Senatorial sit nation became further involved last night when it was suggested that Claud Sapp United States District Attorney was considering entering the race against Senator Smith Though Gov ernor Johnston has not said so in so many words it js regarded as certain that he will also be a candidate An other candidate may be Senator Edgar Brown of Barnwell although in the long run the Barnwell man may switch and become a candidate for governor tp HAT The suggestion that Sapp may run for Sena tor seat is indeed interesting Senator Smith at first refused to confirm Sapp's appointment as district attorney for the eastern dis trict of South Carolina but later these differences were ironed out according to the general report and the Sen ator acceded to his appoint ment and peace was declared HAT Social Security lies not in the hands of any one group but in the hearts of the employers Under Social Security everyemploy er has afforded him the op portunity of being a mission ary while engaged in the regular routine of his busi ness rpHAT Dependence be tween the employer and the employee is mutual So cial security for both is characterized as strength arising out of a mutual de pendence resulting in a mu tual helpfulness THAT Despite the efforts of the police department to make it easy for automobile drivers to become acquainted with the stop signs too many drivers refuse to believe that 'the stop signs mean actually to stop Howard Ambrose Of Conwav Is Dead A STAY A A from my door said Governor Rivers of Georgia as he paroled a Negro chaingang eonvict providing he go to live in Massachusetts Kay rancis Sues Warner Bros Tries To Break Contract Getting $500 A Day But Want It Like Roles HOLLYWOOD Sept (TP) Kay rancis is getting $500 a day but she want it Her position today was an un usual one She does not rare to work for the Warner Brothers any longer having said so yes terday in a suit to annul her con but she is obliged to work as long as her $300Q weekly agreement isIn force' The statuesque Kay was expect ed to report at the studio for wKdrobe fittings for a picture she is technically doing under protest Officially the studio had noth ing to say about Miss rancis' suit Unofficially one of its spokes men said that the wardrobe de partment said that an assistant director said "well Kay oughta be in today Thein costumes finished yet" Miss rancis' attorney said lie reach her by phone and that if she wasn't home she might be at the studio The studio said unofficially again that it didn't have Miss phone number "because she changes it every two weeks and she given us the new one" Miss rancis wants her con tract broken said her complaint because she has been given in ferior roles that reflected on her artistic ability and because she (Continued On Page Six) Japan Loses irst Major Encounter In New Attack On South Lose A Warship Two Big Japanese Bomb ers Also Shot Down In Shanghai Area BEG THEIR LEADERS OR MORE TROOPS Internationals Urge Both Japs and Chinese to Respect Neutral Ground SHANGHAI Sept 4 in bristling naval guns and bombing plants carried the bat tle for supremacy in China 600 miles into the southland and lost the first major encount er Three Japanese warships steam ed into the southern port of Amoy on riday above them several squardrons of warplanes and be gan firing on Chinese forts The defenders answered with artillery fire and battle roared throughout the day By nightfall Chinese reports said one Japanese warship was disabled and to be towed away by her two com panions the aerial bombardment caused no serious damage and only one wo Ain was irired A second aerial attack on Sat urday apparently was more suc cessful ifty bombs were dropped on Nlngpo south of Shanghai in Chekiang Province the United State consulate general here was advised Within Shanghai itself Satur day was conlined largely to re consolidation of forces along the front 12 to 20 miles north and east from Liuho to Woosung to the daily Japanese at rial bont Continued On ive! Chilly Reception or Idea arm Labor Party ulmer See Such A Union Under the CIO Banner WASHINGTON Sept 4 John plea for a union of labor and farmers met a chilly re ception today from some senators and congressmen remaining on Capitol HUI Senator Burke ID Neb) com mented that if the committee for industrial organization chieftain "tries to organize the farmer he will have one of the biggest dis appointments of his life" be Interested to hear the comments of the White House spokesman on some of Mr remarks" Burke added Rep ulmer (D SC) told re porters he believed farmers and "real wage earners "should" join their Interests in national but added certainly can't ad vocate such a union under the banner of John Iwls" Rep Mitchell (D Ill) negro member of the house commented that looks as though Txiwls wants to be a lo control the Presldrat" "He is bitter be (Continued On Page Six) HR However we sup pose that intersection horn get out of the way hogs will remain with us always until they get there just a second too late and then we will ah mourn their loss rp Many South Car olina and Georgia farm ers have already paid their production loans from the sale of their tobacco and thus have their cotton and other crops in the ciear Many North CaroliiMi farmers will do the same thing officials of the corporation rejxjrt A propaganda re port says that the real in come of the American public at the start uf August re mained 11 cents on the dollar higher than a year ago But it must be said that the real increase in income is consid erably off set by the increase in prices In other words the increase in the cost of liv ing has exceeded the average increase in income of the workers SCHOOL NOTICE All the cltv schooh will ooen tomorrow at 8:30 The rlrtnenlarv schools will dismiss for the dav at lo o'clock and the Junior high school and the Senior hirh school at 12 o'clock The schedule on Tuesday will be the same as that In force the post session The bus that serves the child ren on the second loop road will go out by way of Cole's Cross roads and return bv way of Palmetto street The bus that serves the children In the old Palmetto district will go 'bvqr the Sumter street extension and return bv way of the Darling ton highway Prominent nimunity Builder Succumbs to Heart Attack 'Special the Momlne News) CONWAY Sept How ard Wilson Ambrose sixty eight lumber manufacturer and com munity builder of Conway died suddenly nt his late residence in Conway this morning at 8:30 fol lowing a heart attack A native of Perquimans county North Caro lina he came to Conway 30 years ago and has been secretary treas urer and general manager of the Conwav Lumber company since He wns one of tlie promoters and builder of the Conway hospital hns served as chairman of the (Continued On Page Three) Nazi Protestant Pastors To Defy Hitler Dictates BERLIN Sept Rebell ious Protestant pastors will bold ly defy tlie nad government to morrow and charge the regime on the ova of the national social ist party congress with six glar ing offenses against church liber ty Unless they are silenced by the OestafO Relclisfuehrer Adolf Hit leri secret police the ministers will assert flatly before their con gregations that the church can not obey recent government re ligious dictates "If the church were to submit to this she would no longer be really a church" is the keynote of a statement to be read from confessional Protestant pul pl It cautions Protestants to re member that nazi leaders "hold office bv the grace of Ood' Tlie open challenge will demand tiill spiritual sway over the lives Of Protestants Tlie statement as drafted con cedes tbat the government Is en titled to full civil obedience However when the government intervene in church affairs and "expects us to conform to meas ures which re contrary to Our duty to tlie word of Ood we can not obey them the statement as serts It enumerated five recent gov ernment decrees as offenses which the church "being bound by tlie word of God can not oly" (Continued On Page ive) men Turn Heat On Pal Of Capone aces Long Term Wife Promptly Posts Cash Bond of $100000 Re arrested MAYOR LaGUARDIA HAS WARRANT TOO Notorious Gangster Nab bed As He Was Trying To Leave Country NEW YORK Sept Tlie TCvernment today the on Johnny Torrlo swarthy 'ormer partner of Al Capone in Shl ago gangdom bv a'tempting ne same strategy that sent Capone in for a long term in Alcatraz prison After deliberating for nearly three months over the testimony a hundred Jittery witnesses apecial federal grand Jury return ed two Indictments charging Tor rin with failure to pay and con spiracy to evade Income taxes be tween 1933 and 1935 Torrio New York's "public nerny number 2" and an active figure in the liquor business was rree under $100000 cash bail put up bv his wife after federal agents nabbed him In White Plains in April 1936 in connection with the inspected offenses Torrio was going into the White Pans post office for a passport preparatory to leaving the coun try when arrested Named in the indict ment with Torrio were his broth er in law William Slockbowcr and I cuis La Cava and John D'Agostino both reputed former Crncne associates Tlie nonpayment indictment against Torrio specified amounts for the years 1933 and 1935 totall (Contlnued On Page Three) German World war Genius Directing Chinese ighting Baron Von alkenhausen Trains Powerful Army or Chiang JAPAN MEETING WELL TRAINED OPPOSITION 100 German Officers Ap ply Lessons Gained 20 Years Ago NANKING Sept ore ign military observers today at tributed to a German military mission a major share of tlie credit for thus far firm resistance to Japan in the pres ent conflict Tlie mission consists of five generals headed by Baron Alex ander Von alkenhausen who helped Germany keep the allies at bay through much of tlie World War and a hundred other Ger man army officers ranging in rank from captain to colonel All are picked experts in their (respective military spheres Tlie Germans are applying to the present conflict all the les sons gained from tlie World War tlie Italo Ethioplan campaign and from the Spanish civil war Tills time tlie Chinese army is not the same band of mercen aries Japan fought in 1932 but for the most part a highly dis ciplined and well equipped army lecrulted from the nation's youth niecially selected for intelligence and aptitude Tlie German experts have several years in China as mili tary instructors and work hund in hand with Generalissimo Chiang Kai Shek of whom Von (alkenhausen is a close friend Significance is attached to the fact that Von lakenhauscn spent (Continued On Page Six) Scientist Alleges Man Has Brain Like A ish BLOND HORDES POURING INTO Nl'RNBEKG NURNBERG Germany Sept (AP) Hitler's blond nordic legions '600000 strong today were pouring in to Number? for the annual iiazi party congress which opens Monday The enthusiasm surrounding this unique demonstration was heightened by the an nouncement that the two great fascist leaders Hitler find Premier Benito Mussolini ol Italy are soon to meet McIver Lands New Job With WPA Economy Shake up An nounced lorence Gets Area Office COLUMBIA Sept () WPA Administrator Law rence Pinckney said today supervisors to be in charge of four area offices to be substituted Sept 16 for the present district headquarters probably be announced at a meeting here next Wednesday He announced the district of fices would be abolished under re organization orders for all states aimed at more economical ope ration of the WPA program A number of department heads and clerks he said will be re leased The area offices in charge of supervisions will be substitut ed for district offices at lorence Charleston Greenville and Colum bia our field representatives di rectly responsible to him the ad ministrator said will operate out of the area offices They are: McIver of lorence Grice Jr of Charleston A Rickman I of Greenville and I Swygcrt ot Columbia They nre former dis trict directors Pinckney said tho new siqier vlsors would be engineers LIGHTNING KILLS 4 WHILE PLAYING GOL PITTSBURGH Sept W) Lightning killed two golfers and two caddies late today on the third hole of the Longue Vus country club' golf course Three ether ivluding two caddies were injured The dead were A Little connected with a construction firm Tucks Jr of the Gulf Oil Corporation and caddies Don ald Wletmore and Michael Tuinlnella Caddies James Kelly and Rich ard Rcminy were taken to a hos pital where Kelly's condition' was termed serious SPOT COTTON NEW ORLEANS Sept The average price of middling cotton tadiy at ten southern spot mrekets wi 914 cents a pound average for the past thirty market day 1008 cent a pound Says Brilliant Humans Not ar Removed rom Distant But Authentic Cousins NOTTINGHAM Eng Sept 4 tP) Man conqueror of a world master of nature and inventor of a million cunning devices has a brain like a fish So says Professor James Gray reader of Zoology al Cambridge University He mounted the platform at Nottingham University today and suggested to some of the most intelligent men in the at tending the British association for the advancement ot science con ference that this might give them something to think about over the week end "Many of us have a natural but deep rooted feeling that man stands Professor Gray said (Continued On Page Three) Negro Bandit Kills CliarlottcMcrchant Believed Surrounded By Police Dragnet In North Section CHARLOTTE Sept (15 unidentified bandit shot and killed Henry Gurley 65 year old storekeeper tonight in a holdup that netted appioxlinatcly $100 A police dragnet was thrown immediately around North Char lotte md it was believed that the bandit described bv Mrs Gurley as a negro was surrounded Mr Gurley said she was the store when the negro entered She said lie flashed a revolver et her husband demanding his pocketbook She stated her hus band thought nt first tlie high wayman was ioking and demand ed to know if ho was fooling "I mean business" she quoted the bandit as saying She said she turn fled tlie store for help A shot sounded and she returnee! to find hci husband dying behind tlie coun ter Gurley was carried to a hospital but died almost Immediately SUPER HIGHWAY WILL BE EXTENDED OUT TO JUNCTION LORENCE CHARLESTON Sept State Highway Commissioner Heyward said the contract for extending Charleston's super highway from the North station st rlplit mile to ten mile would be let within a few days Approximately $200000 already has been approved for extension of the double trunk highway to fifteen mile near the junction of tlie Columbia and lorence roada Heyward said fund would be available in the next two years to carry the double trunk tystem to fifteen mile COLUMBIA 8 Sept 4 tfl The state quoted Claud Sapp of Columbia tonight as saying In an Interview he was entering tlie race for the United States senate in the democratic primaries next summer "I am considering entering the race" Sapp was quoted have come to no definite conclu sion I cannot say further than that I am considering the matter" Sapp Is United States attorney for tlie eastern district he is a former chairman of the state democratic executive committee Senator I) "CottVn Ed" Smith will be up for re election next year ABBEVILLE SHOOTING DUE WEST 8 Sept Prince 0 yeai old farm er was jail at Abbeville and his son in law Earl Magahan in an Anderson hospital tonight as the result of a shooting scrape on the streets here today Officers arid Maganan's condi tion was critical Three Roadhouses Raided Marion Co Gambling Devices and Whiskey Seized Eight Are Arrested (Sncclal to the Morning News) MARION Sept 4 Thrce roadhouses two on the highway between and Mullins and one on tlie eastern ride of Mul lins were raided late yesterday af ternoon by state and county offi cers "Glen Echo" operated by Rivers Rivers John Dahl and Andy Anderson was raided and officer confiscated one slot machine two vending machines one dice table and a chuck a luck A the Kitchen" operated bv Jamc Webb one riot machine two (Continued On Page Three) The Leading In Child Welfare Laws WASHINGTON Sept 4 The children's bureau in a sym posium of state laws said today tlie upward trend In state child labor standards begun under NRA continues "A survey of legislation affect ing child labor and compulsory school attendance enacted during 1837 up to the end of July indi cates that definite advance has been the report said North and South Carolina were cited tor the enactment of sev eral new laws of minimum stand ards for children "North Carolina entirely revis ed Its child labor law" the report said "adopting standards which place it among the stale with Die best child labor laws xxx "North and South Carolina adopted a minimum age for fac tory employment at any time and lor any work during school hours or employment In non factory and non mechanlcal work outside schools hours In North Carolina a minimum age of 14 Is fixed and employment certificates are re quired to 18 Instead of 16 years The South Carolina law set no minimum age for stoie or non factory and noil prohibited em ployment outside school hours xxx South Carolina amended it compulsory school attendance re quirements so as to accord with the 16 year minimum age estab (Contlnued On Page Three) Chinese Blamed or War Ignored Altruism Japan Desires Peace In Orient Hair HHK JS ROAD CLOSED was the figurative sign posted by Massa chusetts Governor Hurley whenGeorgia officials sought return of a chanigang fugitive armer Delegation or Early Opening Local Cotton Mart See Auction Plan In Act ual Operation On Busy Orangeburg Market ifteen jubilant cotton farmers returned to lorence county ri day night after visiting the of fices of the Orangeburg Cotton Marketing Association to report to the Board of Trade that they were entirely convinced that the cotton auction plan to be soon instituted in this city also was the best method yet devised to get the cotton grower the full value for his staple lengths and a better general price through the selling In even running lots According to Chairman Bill Rev 'el of the local marketing bureau Jeffords manager of the Orangeburg association was most cooperative in shewing the lor ence county farmers tlie auction plan in actual bperation and the city officials most cordial in their welcome arid treatment James Willoughby a member ot tlie board of directors of the re cently organized bureau stated that he had ample opportunities (Continued On Page Six) Sapp Tells State May Oppose Smith ormer Chairman Demo cratic Committee Like ly Candidate Emperor an4 War Minis ter Say Want to See China Happy HAD GREATTDEAS OR NORTH CHINA Will Spend Millions Now To orce Culture On The East SHANGHAI Sept (Sun (AP) Japamfee warplanes carried the unde clared war with Chinx into a crowded area of Shanghai today with a heavy bombard ment of the west station of the tShangjhai Hanchow rail road The station is near the British defended sector of the Intcrn'i'itional settlement Damage was heavy and cas ualties were believed to have been many TOKYO Sept purpose to compel China to submit to her will was made clear by ou'gn Minister Kok: Hlrota today in a statement ot policv to a "war session" of par liament He said Japan must make im possible of such calam itous hostilites as at present" and readjust relations with China so Japan could put into effect her policy of "cooperation" between Japan tier protectorate Manchou kuo and China Hirola blamed the Chinese es pecially the Nanking government lor the spread of warfare He avoided use of tlie word "war" but came close to a declaration when (Continued On Page Six) Insurgent Columns Pushing North Along Bay Biscay Meet Little Resistance As They Complete Conquest Northern Spain HENDAYE rinCo Spanish rontier September 4 W) Insurgent columns pushing west ward along the Bay of Biscay coast toward Gijon today en countered negligible resistance in their drive to wipe out rcmants of government forces in northern Spain But on the Aragon front where hard fighting has been going on for more than a week the gov ernment reported driving Insur gent defenders out of strategic Eelchlte and continuing to men ace the insurgent stronghold Of Saragoza 22 miles to the north Government troops were said to be advancing on this northeast Spanish city once the proud capi tal of old Aragon from the north east and south Madrid said the (Continued On Page Three) Riyal Labor Heads orget Civil War To Celebrate Day Green Says 1937 Hearten ing Year Achievement And Progress LEWIS TELLS I US Murray Says Steel In dustry Will Be 100 Percent Organized WASHINGTON Sept 4 Labor leaders turned from their year old civil war today to 'sum mon 7300000 organized workers lor Monday's celebration of labor day In a pre holiday message to 3 718000 workers enrolled in his young and militant committee lor industrial organization John Lewis promised to win millions of new members and make his union "impregnable against attack" be fore another labor day dawns His rival for supremacy in the American labor movement Wil liam Green president ot the halt century old American ederation of Labor said 1937 wm a ening" year of "achievement and progress" In his pre holiday message Green said three quarter ot a million new members had been added lo the federation rolls to swell tlie membership to 3600 000 The combined membership lists showing a new high figure tor or ganized labor were announced coincident with fighting speech riday night assailing aev iral political figures he said trad tailed to redeem their pledges to labor Lewis called for "peace with justice" in labor's stiugglcs with industry urged an alliance of larmers and industrial workers tor "mutual and desirable objec tives" and reiterated his support of the wage and profit system In a thinly veiled thrust at President Roosevelt's middle ground course during the steel strike Lewis warned that "it lii behooves one who has supped at labor's table and who has shelt ered in labor's house to curse with equal fervor and fine impartiality both labor its adversaries when they locked in deadly embrace" Lewis' organization backed the 1936' democratic campaign with $500000 in contributions but a few months after the election Washington thought it saw signs of a break between Lewlq and the White House During the steel strike the President cracked down on ex tremists on both sides with Shake speare's phrase "a plague on both (Continued On Page Three) lorence Tville Hi way Bids Soon Cheraw to Get New Steel And Concrete Bridge Over Big Pee Dee COLUMBIA Sept UP) and bridge projects for 16 counties and costing about $1 715066 Chief Highway Commis ricncr Ben Sawyer announced today will be advertised for bida thia week end The bids Will bo opened here Sept 21 lorence: Ihivlng and widening: of 57 miles on route 78 from ive Points west of lor ence to a point in the present road approximately two miles west of Middle Swamp Chesterfield: Bituminous sur facing of 48 mile on 8 route 52 from end ot concrete pave ment at city limit of Cheraw to a point about three miles north west of Cheraw and from a point about 69 mile northwest of Che raw tn the North Carolina line Marlboro Chesterfield: Construc tion of a 1800 foot reinforced concrete and structural steel bridge over the Big Pec Dee at Cheraw on route 1 lfl Big Percentage Peace Officers avor Pensions COLUMBIA Sept () Approximately 75 per cent of the cstlmtcd 1400 peace officer in South Carolina had today joined the new state police pension plan Hughey of Columbia sec retary treasurer of tlie pension Orgflnlzaton announced The plan wa authorized under a statute enacted five months ago The state I the onlv one with a statewide program ot Uris kind 'T don't believe It will bo long" Hughey averted "before we have practically 100 per cent member ship There still are wine peace ofilcrrs who do not realize jut what tlie Idea offers" Under the pian members con tribute 11 a month This I aug mented by 11 from every flue col 4 lected in courts.