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.
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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. _ . _
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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.