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HENDERSON GATEWAY TO, CENTRAL CAROLINA TWENTY-FOURTH YEAR JAPAN MAT RESIST WORLD CONDEMNATION Over 500 Chinese Civilians Killed In Mass Bombings By Huge Fleet Os Jap Planes EIGHT OF RAIDERS ARE DESTROYED BY mums Many Towns in Rich Pro vince of Kwantung At tacked by Japanese Air Squadrons SHANGHAI AREA IS SHELLED FROM SEA Flagship Idzumo Fires Across International Set tlement to Scene of Des perate Battle Northwest of City; Chinese Planes Bat tle Enemy Shanghai, Oct. 7.—(AP)—More than 500 Chinese civilians were reported today to have been killed by mass bombing raids of Japanese war planes on the rich southern • province of Kwantung. The Chinese Central News Agency reported eight Japanese planes, in cluding two huge bombers, were shot down by a surprise Chinese defense on the strategic military railway linking' Canton on the south coast and the Yangtze river port of Hankow. The massed Japanese flights took to the air yesterday just as the League of Nations and the United States were condemning Japan for her violation of her treaty obligations by invasion of Chinese territory. A dozen railway centers were bomb ed along the route from Canton to Hankow, Chinese dispatches said, kill ing and wounding more than 300 non combatants in those towns alone. In northern Kwantung province the raiding planes were said to have caus ed several hundred more casualties. While the massed flights of 36 Jap anese planes followed the railroad to the north, dropping bombs on each village as they came to it, Chinese said a spirited attack by 70 Chinese planes kept the line from being more than slightly damaged. At Shanghai, vvnere a desperate bat tle was raging through the rice pad dies, northwest of the city, the Jap anese flagship Idzumo sent countless shells screaming over the internation al settlement in an effort to blast the Chinese out of stubbornly defended positions. HARRY L. HOPKINS’ WIFE PASSES AWAY Washington, Oct. 7. —(AP) — Mrs. Harry L. Hopkins wife of the Works Progress Administration head, died Oarfield hospital here early today. She had been ill several weeks. Mr. Hopkins was at her bedside when she died. Prisoners Sing Guard To Escape Joiiet, 111., Oct. 7.— (AP)—Three con- ! lct > slugged a guard into uncon sciousness and temporarily used an -0 lei or a hostage in making an es- Horn the Statesville prison honor farm early today. * e * ons > a H serving terms for obbery, waylaid J. W. Black during . " change of shifts and then forced rj, it L» ungen, another guard, to ac company them. he ungen, in whose car the convicts was dumped out of the car two 1 ,;S north of the prison unharmed, faison authorities said. The attack oc ’'ned in a dormitory in which 170 t unties were asleep. The three con- Th Black with a rock. f i Prisoners, whose escape was ied over police radios in Illinois . m nearby states, were not involved n hunger strike at the prison pro saki * S Wee k* Warden Joseph Ragen I iison rules and regulations were doned Sunday when 1,000 convicts <!nt on a hunger strike, which the union attributed to resentment a the State Board of Pardons and Paroles. ji. — r.- . • < iHvttiteraim Haihi Dispatch LEASED WIRE SERVICE OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS. Henderson Market’s Sales Total Is Now Near 6,000,000 Lbs. Government Claims Win Over Rebels Insurgents in Spain Push Forward, However, on Other Fronts of War Madrid, Oct. 7. —(AP) —A Spanish government communique said today three insurgent tanks were destroyed, 200 insurgents were killed and two companies of insurgents were sur rounded in fighting for possession of Hill 602, dominating the valley of Santriso in Asturias province. An insurgent attack on the hill was preceded by an aerial bombardment in which 3.5 planes took part, and an artillery bombardment, the communi que said. INSURGENT TROOPS PUSH FORWARD ON TARNA FRONT Hendaye, Franco-Spanish Frontier, Oct. 7. (AP) —Spanish insurgent troops pushed forward today in the Tarna sector on the border of Leon and Oviedo provinces, trying to tight en the southern line of their offensive on Gijon. ' Walking through rugged mountain country, under renewed rainfall, one column was reported by the daily in surgent communique to have taken control of roads around Tarna, while another occupied the mountain ridge Cierra de Tornas. Government (Asturian) militia put up a stubborn resistance on the line between insurgent bases in the Eu ropa mountains east of Gijon and some peaks to the south of the gov ernment’s Biscayan seaport. Both southern and eastern insur gent columns were about 30 air miles trom their objectives. HIGH POINT MAN IS KIDNAPED, ROBBED W. O. McCormick, 45, Tells Officers Two Men Burned His Car Near Lexington High Point Oct. 7. —(AP) —W. O. McCormick, 45, told police here to day that two men had kidnaped him late last night and driven him until early today wnen, hb »cuu, they burn ed his car at a point near Lexington. McCormick, a tormer taxi driver here, said the pair got into his car at a street intersection here shortly before 11 o’clock last night and blind folded him at the point of a pistol. The pair, McCormick said, released him, burned his machine and robbed him of about $lB early today. Mc- Cormick told police they stopped twice during the ride and the two men bought several cans of what he as sumed was gasoline. When they finally stopped, McCor mick said, the pair told him to get the cans from the back of the car, at the same time throwing a lighted match on the gasoline. Registration Os New Cars Strikes An All-Time High • Raleigh, Oct. 7. —(AP) —Regis- tration of motor vehicles in North Carolina sets a new high record daily now, and the Motor Vehicle Bureau reported today September sale of 5,486 new motor vehicles pushed to 55,851 the total for nine months. ~ Last year in nine months there were 47,744 motor vehicles sold. There were 566,641 cars licensed this year to October 4, compar ed with a record annual registra tion of 550,050 in 1936. ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA AND VIRGINIA. Ten Percent More Than Same Date Last Year,* With $300,000 More Paid Growers WEDNESDAY’S SALE IS MIDWEEK RECORD All Grades and Every Sale Included in Statistics; Many Kind Expressions Have Come from Farmers Who Have Sold on Hend erson Market So Far by r. w. McFarland, Henderson Sales Supervisor. By the time this paper goes to press the Henderson tobacco market will have sold, during its 16 selling days this season,, approximately 6,000,000 pounds of tobacco. This will be around 10 percent more than it sold last year for the same time, and the best part of it is that it has paid out to the farmers $300,000 more than it paid last season for the same time. During Henderson’s glorious history of nearly three score years as a to bacco market, yesterday’s sale of 549,- 512 pounds was greater than on any previous Wednesday of the past years. For farmers as a rule in every belt in the past seem to have brought more tobacco to the markets on Mondays and Fridays than on any other day. While the average cf yesterday, which was $27.13, was not as great as the average of Monday, which was $30.95, yet this average was due en tirely to quality, as grade by grade prices were just as high as on Mon day. Official sales for the season, as is sued last night by the statistician of the market, were 5,394,0Q8 pounds which sold for $1,524,530.03, making an average for the whole of $28.27. In the poundage constituting this average, no grade was eliminated. Henderson’s way of doing business, in justice to the farmers, is to count every leaf sold regardless of what it brought. Without throwing any re flection upon any other market, it is very questionable whether this rule is followed on all of them. From the farmers who have been selling on this outstanding market this season many kind expressions have come, not only as to the cour tesy and efficiency of the entire ware house and buying force, but the ef forts to serve them in a kind and businesslike manner by the banks and all of the merchants of Henderson. Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday’s sales were 1,385,342 pounds, sold for $400,410.17, an average for the whole of $29.12. . You are cordially invited to join the happy throng of sellers from more than 11 counties who are making Hen derson their makret. Nine warehouses to serve vou. All “seasoned buyers, no “student” buyers. Resources Os U.S. Banks At S7O Billions New Orleans, La., Oct. 7. — (AP) —The resources of the na tion’s banks were placed today at almost, $70,000,000,000. The figure was revealed in the annual report of R. N. Sims, sec retary-treasurer of the National Association of Supervisors of State Banks. He said as of June 30, 1937, State banks had total re sources of $38,644,777.25, and na tional banks $30,337,071, the com bined total being $1,676,256,808 above that of last year. There were 169 fewer state banks and 75 less national banks this year than last. mutiilr FOR NORTH CAROLINA. Partly cloudy and somewhat un settled tonight and Friday; cooler Friday and in north portion to night. HENDERSON, N. C., THURSDAY AFTERNOON, OCTOBER 7, 1937 Smith Blames Cotton Loan Program for Present Starvation Price of Cotton SAYS HeIpLEADED FOR 12-CENT LOAN Says He Lacked Power, Which Comes from “Hand ing Out Money and Jobs”; Byrnes Wants Subsidy To Continue on Cotton Stored to July 31 Iva, S. C., Oct.. 7. —(AP) —Senator E. D. Smith, of Soifth Carolina, chair man of the Senate Agriculture Com mittee, blamed the administration’s cotton loan program for the present price of cotton in a speech here today. Addressing students of the Iva and Antreville high schools, and a scat tering of adults, Smith declared: “I pleaded and begged for a ten cent loan and a subsidy of two cents” on this year’s crop, and he said it was left “up to the administration,” and added: “Look what we got! I don’t know what it is.” “You ought to read that mess” he said, in referring to the provisions of the loan program. Declaring that if the government loan had been placed at twelve cents the market would have held that figure, Smith said that if it had teen left to him he would have demanded a price of 15 cents for cot von. “But I didn’t have the power,” he said, adding “power” came from "hand ing out money and jobs.” Referring to recent talks with Sec retary of Agriculture Henry Wallace, and assistants, in the senator said he had requested a full explana tion of the cotton loan program, Smith pointed to the recent action of the Commodity Credit Corporation in mak ing eligible for* loans two more grades of cotton. The 7 3-4 loan rate for cotton 7-8 of an inch and above in staple and strict low middling of equifvalenit grades was increased under the new regula tions to 8 1-2 cents. BYRNES ASKS SUBSIDIES ON COTTON TO JULY 31, 1938 Spartanburg, S. C., Oct. 7. —(AP) Senator Byrnes, Democrat, South Car olina, tried today to impose subsidy payments on cotton stored by July 31, 1938, thus making the regulations this year the same as 1935. Byrnes placed the matter before President Roosevelt and Agriculture Secretary Wallace. He wired the Pre sident: “Department regulations this year limit subsidy to cotton which is sold, and as a result all cotton is being sold and the price depressed. Under the re gulations there is an inducement to sell and a penalty for holding.” Byrnes said he had discussed the proposal with Jesse H. Jones, Recon struction Finance Corporation chair man, and urged quick action, as cot ton is “being thrown on the market.” rs Will Always Be Cloud on His Career as Supreme Court Justice By CHARLES P. STEWART Central Press Columnist Washington, Oct. 7. If ever a man was sorry for having done a thing before he was mature enough to know better Justice Hugo L. Black of the Federal Supreme Court undoubt edly is entitled to consideration for the grand prize as that sort of an individual. He does not say he was sorry that he joined the Ku Klux Klan a decade and a half ago, when he was in his comparatively youthful mid-30s. But gosh! how sorry he must be! Expediency Then. Unquestionably it seemed to Black, back in the early 1920’5, as if it were a mere matter of local political ex pediency to become a Kluxer in a community where the Klan was over whelmingly strong, and where he pro bably thought that it always would he. He had not had much experience then and did not realize that surti movements are ephemeral. Anyway, how could he have fore seen, at that time, that his relatively juvenile Klan membership would be nationally remembered against him so many years later? Under Stress. The affair is no temporary incident, regardless of the fact that Black is practically sure to spend the remain continued on Page Seven.). ROOSEVELT SHAPING GOVERNMENT POLICY IN FAR EAST CRISIS Hull Says U. S. Determined To Have Hand In Nine- Power Conference If It Comes SEEK WHEREABOUTS OF JUSTICE BLACK Supreme Court Attaches Sil ent on Whether New Just ice Is Attending Court Con ferences; Roosevelt Back ers Plan To Rush Program Through Hyde Park, N. Y., Oct. 7.—(AP)— President Roosevelt was in frequent communication with the State Depart ment today, presumably ascertaining reaction to the government’s latest pronouncement denouncing Japan for her undeclared war on China. It was also disclosed by Secretary James Roosevelt that William Phil lips, ambassador to Rome, who has been vacationing in the Berkshires, was a caller at the summer White House yesterday afternoon. He said Phillips stopped only about five minutes for tea, but undoubtedly talked about the foreign situation. Saturday morning the President will attend the funeral of Mrs. Harry Hop kins, wife of the works progress ad ministrator. Meantime, at Washington, Secretary Hull indicated this government’s firm intention of participating in a nine power conference to consider the Far Eastern conflict. Hull said at his press conference no invitation to such a parley thus far has been received, but naturally, as one of the signatories to the nine power treaty guaranteeing China’s territorial sovereignty, that he “pre sumed” this government would accept if and when the bid is received. Other Washington developments: Supreme Court attaches are main taining strict secrecy about the where abouts of Hugo Black, the new jus tice. Officials would not say whether he attended today’s conference of jus tices to act on pending litigation. They would not even say whether he was in the Supreme Court building. Administration supporters in Con gress said they were prepared to push the President’s legislative program to quick enactment at either a special session or the regular session in Jan uary. Yanks Win Second Game By 8-1 Score Yankee Stadium, New York, Oct. 7 —The powerful Ruppert Rifles, bet ter known as the Yankees, added the second game of the World’s Series to their string, making the series count 2 to 0 in their favor as they met the New Yorjc Giants in the blue ribbon baseball event. .% The Yankees had little trouble in handing the Giants a defeat by a score of 8 to 1. The Giants drew first blood, the only blood they drew during the con test, in the first inning when Bartell doubled, and Ott singled him home. Cliff Melton had the Yanks in check until the fifth inning, when Hoag led off the scoring with a double to left, Selkirk singled to right, Lazzeri got a single, and Ruffing followed with a base blow. Rofl singled, but Ruff ing was caught off base. Dimaggio struck out to end the inning. The sixth was the big inning for the Yanks when they scored four tal lies. Then they added two more in the seventh for good measure to end their scoring for the day. The series moves tomorrow to the Polo Grounds the home of the Giants for three games, if it takes that many. Score by innings: R H E Giants 100 000 000—1 9 0 Yankees 000 024 20x—8 12 0 Giants: Melton, Gumbert and Man cuso. Yankees: Ruffing and Dickey. HOOD LAUDS BANKS IN NEW YORK STATE New York, Oct. 7.—CAP)—Gurney P. Hood, State hank commissioner of North Carolina, praised the super vision of State banks in New York today as he responded to addresses of welcome to the 37th annual meet ing of the Association of Supervisors of State Banks. Hood also praised Mayor Laguardia and emphasized he agreed with the mayor in supporting the objectives of the New Deal. __ _ PUBLISHED MVBKY AVTBKNOON EXCEPT SUNDAY. Labor Calls For Boycott On Japanese AFL Chiefs at Den ver Think Ameri cans Don’t Want To Furnish War Money Denver, Col., Oct. ,!.—(AP)— Amer ican Federation of Labor leaders call ed for a boycott on goods made in Japan. “I am confident the American peo ple will not want to assist Japan in directly in its campaign of violent aggression and exploitation of Chi nese resources by buying Japanese products in this country,” said Mat thew Woll, a federation vice-president “I’m-not only in favor of a boycott, but I’m for putting any one who buys Japanese goods in jail for 30 days,” said Charles Howard, president of the International Typographical Union and CIO secretary. I. M. Ornourn, secretary fed eration’s union label department, said, “We buy Japanese goods and it is our money that permits the war lords over there to wage war.” All three favored adoption of a boy cott resolution at the federation’s con vention, although Woll added a boy cott should be. handled carefully, “Al though we do not wish tdP'interefere with the State Departments efforts to bring to an end the unwarranted in vasion of the privileges, rights and property of the Chinese people,” Woll said. TWO BRITISH SHIPS CAPTURED BY REBELS London, Oct. 7. —(AI») Two British steamers were captured off the northern Spanish coast by a Spanish insurgent trawler, the Ad miralty said today. The vessels were the Yorkbrook and the Dovery Abbey. The Admiralty said “presum ably” the ships were within ter ritorial waters. It was pointed out such vessels had been warned re peatedly they enter territorial waters at their own risk. PURtLySICAL Layman, and Even Some Members of Commission, Know Little About It Daily Dispatch Bnrean, In the Sir Walter Hotel. Raleigh, Oct. 7.—The only thing made clear at Wednesday’s lengthy hearing before the' new gasoline in spection commission was that the commission is faced by a task which will tax its ability to the utmost. Practically everything else was so thoroughly hidden behind a cloud of technical discussion and abstruse cal culation that newsmen and lay spec tators went away wondering what it was all about, anyway, and there was more than a sneaking suspicion that at least some members of the com mission were in little better case. The heart of the matter lies in de termining just how gasoline shall be graded and how the various grades shall be made known to the buying public. This central fact was thorough ly shrouded by talk about ‘ octanes and other incomprehensible gadgets. When the hearing was over, the con sensus was that there weren’t three people in the hall of the House who knew anything at all about an oc tanes,”' fp characteristics, place of residence and previous condition of servitude, if any. Some contended oc tanes were animalculi, others were decidedly doubtful whether they should be classed as flora or fauna. From what representatives of num ous gasoline companies said, it seems that octanes have something to do with the power and pep of gasoline; but it also appeared that by adding an ounce —or maybe it was a quart of ethyl to otherwise sub-grade gas oline, enough octanes can be generat ed, or created, or whatever is done to bring ottanes into being, to make this sub-grade gasoline test as high in octanes as the finest “premium grades. _ . _ 8' PAGES , TODAY FIVE CENTS COPY JAPAN 10 REFUSE TO TAKE PART AT NINE-POWER MEET Tokyo Takes Position Unit ed States Acted Without Justification In Its Stand STATE DEPARTMENT ACTION SURPRISING Proposed Conference To Be Held in Washington, If Called; Immediate Reply to Washington Not Ex pected from Imperial Jap Government (By The Associated Press.) Tokyo statesmen assembled in an emergency session today to discuss United States condemnation of Jap an’s invasion of China, whiiie Bri tain and France began an exchange of views with Washington on convoca tion of a nine-power conference aim ed to curb hostilities in the Far Bast. Taken completely off guard, accord ing to the highest Japanese govern ment officials, the Tokyo statesmen were not expected, however, to reply immediately to the formal statement of the American State Department ac cusing Japan of violating the nine power act guaranteeing China’s ter ritorial integrity in the Kellogg pact outlawing war as an instrument of na tional policy. “The prevailing sentiment of the Japanese government is that there is no reason for the (United States) ac tion,” the high official said. “We com pletely fail to understand the Amer ican action, which is bound to make a very bad impression on the Japanese public.” In London the possibility was ad vanced that the nine-power conference would be held in Washington. Of ficials declined to say whether a flat request was made to hold the parley in the American capital, but they did point out its suitability since it was there the treaty was negotiated in 1922. The Domei (Japanese) News Agency quoted an un-namcd foreign office of ficial as saying: “Japan is confident she will prove equal to the contin gency,” even in the face of possible concrete measures the powers might take. This same source said Japan, a signatory of the nine-power treaty, would not participate in a nine-power conference if one were held. Three Draw Death Order For Assault Duplin Negroes Are Sentenced on Testi mony of 20-Year- Old Attack Victim Kenansville, Oct. 7.—(AP) —A su perior court jury convicted three Ne groes today of criminally Mrs. T. R. Coe, 20, of Madison, Fla.,' last August 18. The trio were sentenc ed to die in the gas chamber at Ra leigh next December 17. The Negroes are Apson Outlaw, 30; Lonnie Gardner, 25, and Sylvester Outlaw. The jury brought in its verdict after less than a half hour’s deliberations. Judge Henry Grady, of Clinton, pass ed sentence immediately. Mrs. Coe, mother of a small child, identified the defendants as the three men who she said forced her into their automobile on the night of Au gust 18 and attacked her near Pink Hill, in this county. Sheriff D. S. Williamson testified Apson Outlaw and Lonnie Gardner had confessed the attack when thdy were arrested. Mrs. Coe, a native of Goldsboro, who was visiting relatives in Duplin coun ty at the time of the act, apparently was on the verge of breaking down during the testimony. She said she had gone with a group of friends to a movie at Pink Hill, and was walk ing home with an escort, James Suggs, when the Negroes drove by and in vited them to ride. When Suggs de clined the offer, she said, the Ne groes threatened him with knives, forcing him to flee. The Negroes then forced her into their car, Mrs. Coe related and drove about eight miles away, stopped and each attacked her. Mrs. Coe said she was released about two miles farther down the road.
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