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HENDERSON GATEWAY TO CENTRAL CAROLINA TWENTY-FOURTH YEAR HUNDREDS PERISH IN NEW JAP AIR DAOS ROOSEVELT PLEDGES TO CHECK SPENDING BY THE GOVERNMENT Also Strikes at Those Who Give Only “Lip Service” To Government Objectives PRESIDENT 7 VFSITS YELLOWSTONE PARK Holds Conferences With Political Leaders in Mon tana Before Arriving At Great Resort Place; Daughter and Son-in-Law Join in Party Gardiner, Mont., Sept. 25. —(AP) — President and Mrs. Roosevelt left their special train today and motored thro ugh Gardiner to start an all-day tour of Yellowstone National Park. The President was greeted by a crowd of several hundred at the Gardiner depot. He then beaded for the Mammoth Hot Springs hotel, about, six miles away in the park from which he planned to start the tour. Acting Governor Hugh Adair and other State officials of Montana boarded the President’s train at Liv ingston, Mont., and rode to Gardiner where Senator James Murray and Re presentative James O’Connor .joined the party for the ride through Gar diner’s decorated streets. Murray and O’Connor conferred briefly with the President before he left on the tour. After meeting Mr. and Mrs. John Boettiger, of Seattle, son-in-law and daughter, and the latter’s two chil dren, Eleanor and Curtis Dali, the President and Mrs. Roosevelt planned to view the many natural formations at Mammoth. The President had begun his week end of sight-seeing after six rear plat form talks in Wyoming, where he promised less Federal spending and struck at those who give only “lip serviee” to government objectives. New Clues In Parsons Kidnaping New York, Sept. 25. (AP) New light on the unsolved kidnaping of Mrs. Alice McDonnell Parsons, Long Island heiress, who disappeared from her home last July 9 in company with a middle-aged man and woman, was shed today by Anna Kupryanova, the Russian "mystery woman’ in the case. For the first time the Russian wo man, daughter of an estate manager for the czar, and partner in the squab farm operated by the Parsons, gave a detailed description, the New York Post said, of the alleged kidnapers, whom she named as “Mary and Paul Jones.” A new note from the kidnapers, she said, has been received in the past three days, the eighth in a series since the first “Paul Jones” received by the husband, William Parsons, at Stony Brook last June 12, demanding $40,- 000 ransom. . "I know these letters are authentic, Mrs. Kuprayanova said, “because one of them enclosed a brooch which I know belonged to Alice, as she had it since she was a child.” Five Dead In Crashes Overstate \ RockinghAm. Sept. 25 (AP)—A 16- year-old college freshman fought gamely for 1 life today after seeing three of his University of South Caro lina companions die instantly ln automobile-tvsuck collision near here of Jacksonville, Fla. his life at orce time despaired by Dr. W. D. James, partly regained con sciousness early today after an ope ration to remove part of a. crus "®“ frontal bone tfrom the brain, doctor said th* youth “fought gam®” ly and we now hold out more hope for his recovery.” Hoskins and « five companions were en route to Chapel Hill for today game between the University of Sout Carolina and th-e of North Carolina when itheir car crashed ai , (Continued on Page Bight.). tt, fcgSUfc PERRY MEMORIAL ÜBM** - - Hmitefsim Batlti Biapafefa SERVICE of THB ASSOCIATED press? EUROPE AWAITING MEETING OUTCOME Two Dictators Face Each Other in Munich for Sec ond Time in Their Careers GREAT WELCOME TO IL DUCE EXTENDED _ g Troubled Mediterranean Sit uation and Vatican At tempts To Eird German Opposition to Catholicism May Be Touched Upon by Central Europe Leaders Munich, Germany, Sept. 25 (AP) — Benito Mussolini and Adolf Hitler met today for the second time In their spectacular careers and Europe awaited their rendezvous. The first few hours of the visit of the Italian premier to the German chancellor here, where Hitler started his rise to power, were taken up with a round of social activities in a flam boyant setting of bunting and ban ners, troops and bands, cheers and pa rades. The serious “brass tacks,” conversa tions of these two men who head the greatest Fascist states of Europe, either were sandwiched into the nine hour program in Munich, or were put off until later. Whenever they come, the results of these talks promise to be of deep concern to all of Europe, if not ac tually factors in shaping the future. For consideration there were the troubled Mediterranean situation, with France and Britain seeking Italian cooperation toward a control of pir acy stemming from Spain’s civil war; Italian and Germany intervention in that war, -whether it should be curb ed, continue or halted; rivalries in middle Europe; and Vatican attempts to end opposition to Catholicism in Germany. Conjecture on the . subject matter was as varied as on the possible re sult of the Hitler-Mussolini talks. Today’s welcome for II Duce was markedly different from that tender ed to Hitler in 1934, when he went to Venice. Then Hitler stopped like an ordinary tourist in a hotel. Today Mussolini stopped in a palace. Mun ich’s first “hiels” were for the visitors, whereas Venice had shouted her loud est “viva” not for Hitler but for Mus solini. TOBACCO PRICES IN EAST MOVE HIGHER Federal Market Report Given For Three Markets in New Bright Belt Region Raleigh, Sept. 25. —(AP) — Prices moved upward on the Farmville, Golds boro and Wendell tobacco markets this week, the Bureau of Agricultural Economics reported today. “Price increases were noted chiefly in second to fourth qualities of all groups,” the 'bureau said. “However, an active demand was shown for all grades. Salas were heavy Friday and Monday and fairly heavy the remain der of the week. The offerings con sisted mainly of third to sixth quality of leaf, with a good volume of lugs included.” / * MS J276,4ffi,802 State’s Entire Federal Reve nue Bill, However, Was $311,110,992 Washington, Sept 25—(AP)—To bacco tax collections accounted for $276,455,802 of North Carolina’s $311,- 110,992 Federal revenue bill in the. 1936-37 fiscal year. Commissioner Guy Helvering’s an-i nual report disclosed today North Carolina was far ahead of other states in tobacco tax collections, paying more than half the total of $552,254,145. Virginia followed North Carolina with $145,889303 and in third place was Kentucky with $41,217,256. Os (Continued on Page Six.) ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA AND VIRGINIA Politics Is Boiling On New Events Roosevelt Trip And Hugo Black -Ku K1 u x Klan Issue Heighten Interest Washington, Sept. 25 (AP)—Off-year political activity, strongly peppered with the Hugo Black Ku Klux Klan furore, increased this week because of President Roosevelt’s trans-continent al tour. The journey to the west coast was labelled ‘for purposes of inspection,” not politics, yet some observers noted a political flavor in the President’s first rear platform talk; the prosper ity theme of the 1536 campaign plank bobbed up again, coupled with the same avowed intention to push ahead and not “coast’ through his second term. Justice Black also travelled west — from England, still silent on allega tions he was a member of the klan, and on consequent demands from critics that he deny the charges or leave the bench. EX-RUSSIAN WOMAN HELD IN MYSTERY Husband and Aide, Former Czarist Generals in Old Country, Are Missing In Paris Paris, Sept. 25. —(AP) —Dark-haired Madam Madine Plevitskaia was ar rested today in connection with the mysterious disappearance of her hus band, General Nicholas Skobline and a second former Russian army chief, General Eugene de Miller. Agents of the Surete Nationale, searching for the two vanished White Russian leaders, placed the woman under arrest after two hours of ques tioning. The Surete also issued orders for the arrest of General Skobline in the baffling disappearance of de Mil ler, chief of Russian emigres who ser ved in the late Czar Nicholas’ armies. De Miller failed to return Wednes day night from an engagement he feared might be an ambush, is Haide, Skobline, reported the disappearance and then himself vanished the next morning. SLIGHT NET GAINS IN COTTON MARKET Futures Show Some Signs of Strength at Close After Early Weak ness in Prices New York, Sept. 25. —(AP) —Cotton futures opened steady, two to four points lower on easier Liverpool cables favorable weather and continued hedge selling from the South. Decem ber sold up from 8.17 to 8.26, and shortly after the first hour was 8.25, when the. list was two to four points net higher. Futures closed steady, unchanged to 6 higher. Spot steady, middling 8.59. Open Close October 8 29 8.39 December 8.19 8.26 January 8.20 8.26 March 8.31 8.35 May BL4O 8.44 July 8.50 8.54 HENDERSON, N. C., SATURDAY AFTERNOON, SEPTEMBER 25, 1937 F. D. R. Starts on His Tour of the West . >' v 'X'v V££B&«3BBawwtoMßißllßlgsgßigßgg&&a&&iiliaftißgißiHßßißi%fißsWßiiff%iililiSiaßMßß^ pip ipip 4 ami;. ■taffy y , ' ' | M■:•:tim llpPlflr ills i 3 IIP V Accompanied by his son, John; his future daughter-in-law, Anne Lindsay Clark, and by Mrs. Roosevelt, President Franklin D. Roosevelt is shown waving from the platform of the special train which will carry him on a 6,000-mile swing through the Northwest. This picture was taken as the train was about to pull out from the station near President Roosevelt’s Hyde Park. N. Y.. estate. (Central Press) Housing Chief? * . * • s- Nathan Straus Nathan Straus, New York phi lanthropist, and low cost housing authority, may be appointed ad ministrator of the Wagner $500,- 000,000 low cost housing act. Straus is backed by Senator Robert Wagner of New York, au thor of the act, the American Federation of Labor and Mayor > F. H. La Guardia of New York. —Central Pre&a PROPAGANDA IDEA IS CALLTBUNK” Correspondent Finds No Proof of Magazine Art icle’s Charges By CHARLES P. STEWART Central Press Columnist Washington, Sept. 25.—Under the caption “Dr. Roosevelt’s Propaganda Trust” the September number of The American Mercury publishes a hair raising “expose” of the current Wash ington administration’s supposed far flung organization to influence public opinion throughout the United States - —through the newspapers particular ly; incidentally through the radio, the “movies” and otherwise. This article asserts that the “high -powered” machine it describes “has never been equaled by any foreign dic tatorship.” It works, too, the story ! s author says. He states specifically that “the Ameirican citizen has fallen vic tim to” it. Discredited By Stewart As a newspaperman ‘of more than 45 years’ experience (about 15 years of it in Washington) I will say. that such talk is “bunk.” I spent a considerable part of my Continued on Page Five.) WEATHER FOR NORTH CAROLINA. . Increasing cloudiness tonight, followed by occasional rain in the interior Sunday; somewhat war mer in south portion tonight; cool er Sunday night and in central portion Sunday afternoon. WEEKLY WEATHER. Carolinas and Georgia: Clearing Monday, followed by fair weather until shower period toward end of week; temperature below normal first of week; warmer Wednesday day and Thursday; cooler at end of week. > Ethiopians In Massacre Os Italians / Recurring Unrest There Be At Bottom of Musso lini’s Weakening New York, Sept. 26.—(AP) — The HeraJd-Tribune, in a copyright dis patch from London, said today it was “learned from an unimpeachable source, that the garrison and entire Italian civil population of the north ern Ethiopian town of Makale has been massacreed by tribesmen.” Makale was the scene of heavy fight ing in the Ethiopian campaign and was captured by the Italians Novem ber 8, 1935. The Makale slaughter, the Herald-Tribune dispatch says, “may partly explain the strange step of Italy in offering the democratic pow ers something for nothing; that-is to say, the stoppage of Italian reinforce ments to Spain. The conciliatory tone of Rome at present suggests that above all the government wishes to gain recognition of its Ethiopian con quest, and that very soon, before things get any worse in Africa. No de tails of the Makale massacre are known. It is so recent that even the Ethiopian legation in London had not heard of it. The only advice is that the Italian garrison there has been annihiliated, along with all Italian civilians. DIPHTHERIA DELAYS SCHOOLS OF ROWAN 18 Cases Found in County and Four Deaths Have Resulted, Health Officer Advises Salisbury, Sept. 25.—(AP)—Opening of Rowan county schools, Superinten dent S. G. Hasty announced today, has been postponed because of an epidemic of diphtheria. The schools were scheduled to open Monday. Dr. C. W. Armstrong, health officer, reported 18 diphtheria cases had been noted in the county, and four deaths had resulted from the disease. Three Garr Slayers To Wait Trial Shelbyville, Ky., Sept. 25 (A|P)—Free on bond,, the three Garr ac cused of the slaying last Monday night of Brigadier General Henry Denhardt awaited today action of a Shelby county grand jury scheduled to meet October 4i. Their bonds, totaling $50,000, were quickly executed yesterday by an old family friend, William Belknap, La- Grange, Ky., after County Judge Har ris Walters bound them over to the Grand Jury. The brothers, Roy, Jack and Dr. E. S. Garr, are charged with murder in warrants sworn out Tues day, but can be prosecuted only on indictments. Dr. Garr and Roy returned to their homes' near LaGrange, in Oldham county. Jack Garr, 37-year-old, baby Continued on Page S'jve.) PUBXjISHBD IVHRT AFTHRNOOM HSTPIBPT HTTXm A V Devastation Left By Large Bombers Over Many Cities [REASON PLOT AI MADRID SENSATION IN THEM. WAR Wholesale Arrests Made In Unearthing of Scheme To Attack Loyalists At Home TERRIFIC~SHELLING OF OVJEDO STARTED Government Artillery Hurls Vicious Bombardment In to Insurgent Stronghold in Northern Spain; Rebel Column Reported Moving Upon City Madrid, Sept. 25 (AP)—Government officials, uprooting what was describ ed as a vast counter-revolutionary movement to overthrow the Madrid- Valencia regime, declared today its ramifications reached directly into the Chilean Embassy. They asserted the general staff headquarters for the civil and mili tary conspiracy was located there. A Chilean business man, identified as Manuel Zuria, and two men said to be employees of the Argentine Em bassy, were among the 200 persons already under arrest in this besieged metropolis. - Zuria, accused as the chief of one of four groups comprising the count er revolutionaries, was said to have 1,600 men at his command ready to strike at the rear of government troops defending Madrid upon a junc tion of the insurgent operations on the Madrid front. The sudden drawing of the govern ment net was reported to have brought Continued oa Page Five.) AVERAGE TOBACCO PRICE IS HIGHER New York, Sept. 25.—(AP)— The average weekly price of U. S. Type 12 grade B-4F flue-cured tobacco was 21.1 cents a pound in the week ended September 25, compeard with 20.0 cents in the preceding week, and 20.8 cents in the like week a year ago, H. A. Stich, tobacco economist, reported today. STORM WARNING UP ON NORTH ATLANTIC Territory from Block Island to East port, Maine, Warned of Com ing Stiff Blow Washington, 'Sept. 26. —(AP) —The Weather Bureau issued the following storm warning today: “Advisory 10:30 a. m. Atlantic storm centered about 37 degrees north latitude and 60 degrees west longitude. Apparently moving north northwest ward about 25 miles an hour, accom panied by winds and squalls over a large area and winds of hurricane force near center. Caution advised ves sels in path of this storm. Northeast storm warnings are displayed from Block Island, R. 1., to Eastport, Maine.” probotMem Sample Has At Last Been Given Office Space; Calls District Men Dully Dispatch Bureau, In the Sir Walter Hotel. Raleigh, Sept. 25—North Carolina’s new probation system will get off to a belated start and it will be some time after October 1, the earliest date permissible, before any offender against the laws of the State is given a chance to work out his future under the supervision of probation rather than of prison officials. Delay in getting the machine in operation has been due to a combina tion of causes —lack of office space, slowness in getting the budget approv ed and set up, necessity for building a complete organization from the very ground up, lack of experience on the 1 (Continued on Page Six.) o PAGES O TODAY FIVE CENTS COPY ■ Great Industrial Centers of Interior Visited As Well As Big Coastal Seaports THICKLY POPULATED *' SECTIONS ARE HIT Appalling Danutte Done in Ten-Minute Hall of Explo sives on Hankow, Wuchang and Hanyang; Chinese Pill boxes Bombqd But to No Real Benefit Shanghai, Sept. 25.—(-A-F)--*-Fteets of Japanese war planes- scattered new devastation and terror today in the most densely populated areas of cen tral and south China. - 1 Shanghai, Nanking, Canton and the Wuhan cities —Hankow, Wuchang and Hanyang—the great centers that Japan’s air raiders have punished most severely all were re-visited. Hun dreds of non-combatant Chinese died, The bombers left widespread devasr tation. A fleet of 36 Japanese bombers, ris ing from military airdromes here, in a bright dawn realized the fears of Nanking’s agonized populace after a rainy day’s absence from China's capital. In flying wedges of three, Japan’s bombers roared over Shanghai’s de fense lines, blasting concrete pillboxes and driving Chinese troops below, but without telling effect. Air raiders returned to the WHihan cities, central China’s commercial and industrial “Chicago,” 450 miles up the Cangtze from Shanghai, before day break. Chinese officials Raised yes terday’s estimates of non-combatant deaths between 200 and 500 to almost 1,000. Canton suffered several small air raids during the night and again in daylight today. Most of the bombs fell near the Hankow railroad station, terminus of a line uged by many for eign from the Wuhan cities. The night raid on the Wuhan citifes, centered mostly in Hankow, compress ed appalling devastation within a ten-* minute hail of explosives. Bombs wrecked the city’s power supply, compelling overworked doctors to operate in candlelight on unending streams of wounded. FARM DEBT BOARD CUTS OBLIGATIONS Adjustment Committee Believes Farmers’ Burdens; D. E. Hen- • derson New Chairman ; Raleigh, Sept. 25 (AP) —D. E. Hen derson, of Charlotte, was named chair man of the North Carolina Farm Defy Adjustment Committee today at It* first meeting since its re-appointment by Governor Hoey. Mrs. Chattes Doak, of Raleigh, was re-elected sec retary. The committee reported in two years it had adjusted 1,086 cases, re duced farm debts $794,325 through conferences with debtors and creditors and made possible the payment of $74,069 in taxes. Hoey complimented and thanked the committeemen for .their services. Other members include Leo Harvey, of Kinston; J. E. Winslow, of Green ville; Oliver Oafter, of Elizabethtown; Millard Jones, of Rocky Mount. Ambassador From China In Protests Wang “Cruel and Outrag eous” Military Ac tivities of Japs Washington, Sept. 25.—'(AP)—Chi nese Ambassador C. T. Wang, hj, p. formal-statement today, denounced Japan’s military activities in China as “so cruel and outrageous that his tory furnishes no parallel/’ The envoy said at a press-conference he intended to convey the statement to Secretary Hull for his information. He added, in response to questions, he had no instructions from his govern ment to solicit. United states aid in the Sino-Japanese crisis. Borrowing from phrases used by Secretary Hull in a sharp note sent (Continued on Page Five.)