HENDERSON
gateway TO
CENTRAL
CAROLINA
Twenty-fourth year
SUPREME COURT SUSTAINS JUSTICE BLACK
BATTLE IS RESUMED
ON SHANGHAI FRONT
DISTANCE 25 MILES
Huge Wharf and Warehouse
Property Destroyed By
Jap Warships, Loss
$2,000,000
SHARP advance by
JAPANESE CLAIMED
Exodus from Capital of
Shantung Increases With
Renewal of Japanese
Threats to Province; Chi
nese Governor of Shantung
Backs Nanking War
Shanghai, Oct. 11 (AP)--Chinese
and Japanese troops crowled out of
♦heir muddy burrows along the 25-mile
front to the northwest and resumed
the almost two-months-old battle of
Shanghai. _ .
The smouldering ruins of the China
Merchants Navigation Company’s low
er wharf and warehouses were the
on lv results of the Japanese warships’
bombardment of the rich industrial
area.
A Japanese naval spokesman an
nounced the Chinese peppered the
Japanese warships with machine guns
from the wharf and the Japanese re
taliated with their big guns.
The property loss was estimates' at
$2,000,000. including considerable Ame
rican and other foreign cargo. The
bombardment of Pootung began in a
heavy rain during the final hours of
Sunday, upsetting an otherwise gen
eral quiet day.
Today the Japanese struggled
through the muck for a mile advance
straightening out their salient be
tween the stubbornly Chinese-shelled
Kiwangwan race course and Woosung
creek, north of the international set
tlement.
The exodus from Tsianfu, the capi
tal of Shantung, increased today as
the Japanese threats to the province
continued.
General Chang Fu-Chu, governor of
Shantung, which the Japanese claim
ed to have won over, came out flatly
today for the Nanking government.
He issued a proclamation urging all
government employees to vow resist
ance to the death against Japan.
ItHlfON
HOD AND T. B.
Drastic Reductions Made in
Death Rates, But Total
Still Too High
Dnlly Dispatch Bnrena,
the Sir Walter Hotel.
Raleigh, Oct. 11. —Despite drastic,
almost incredible, reductions in North
Carolina’s death rate from typhoid
and tuberculosis, health department
officials are still unsatisfied with re
sults and are planning even a stern
on battle than ever on these scourges.
There were only 2.1 deaths per 100,-
m f ‘om typhoid in 1936, but health
officials declare there should not be
an V from this disease, which is prac-
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Expect FDR
Will Reveal
Extra Call
Low Cotton Prices
Gig Factor in Plan
for Congress To
Enact Crop Control
Washington, Oct. 11.—(AP)—‘Fresi
“f 11 ,^ oosf; velt may disclose in his
er lr , s^e ®hat” tomorrow night wheth-
Co ■!'. Will call a s P ec i a l session of
mgr ess to enact farm control and
- an( f hour legislation,
ost observers have predicted such
Pi' f • S f 10n ’ n m id-November, but the
f-SKlent has withheld a decision until
git bleting a canvass of the farm
Th 10n Secret - ar y Wallace,
he principal doubt that Mr. Roose-
Sp -ould ask Congress to re-as
-1 ' before January disappeared
Wa -v/ iday ’ * n the opinion of many
-is lngtonians, when the Federal
,, p P le P°rt estimated the second big
b's Cot ton harvest in the nation’s his-
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Hcttiicrsmt Uailit Dispatch!
LEASED WIRE SERVICE nw
THE ASSOCIATED PRess! F
Potato Growers
Approve Control
Washington, Oct. 11. (AI»)
Farm Administration officials an
nounced today that commercial po
tato growers have approved limita
tion of acreage next year under the
present farm benefit program.
Preliminary results from a na
tionwide referendum showed 24,-
195 votes in favor of a stabilization
program, and 5,425 against.
As a result, the AM will split up
a national acreage limit, or goal,
of between 3,100,000 and 3,300,000
acres among the states, counties
and individual farmers. The aver
age potato harvest from 1928 to
1937 was 3,346,000 acres.
Farmers who stay within these
goals will receive a benefit.
The votes on the potato control
program included North Carolina,
2,676 for and 40 against.
WAGE-HOUR ACT IS
BOLDLY DENOUNCED
AT AFL CONVENTION
Never Again Will Labor
Submit To Such Bureau
cratic Designs, Mat
thew Woll Says
LEWIS CUTS TIES
WITH CIO ELEMENT
Radical Organization Con
vention In Atlantic City
Hears Leader’s Assertion
That It Hasn’t Even Tech
nical Connection With
Parent Body
Denver, Col., .Oct. 11. —(AP) —Mat-
thew Woll, vice-president of the Am
erican Federation of Labor, denounc
ed the Roosevelt wage-hour bill at
the A. F. of L. convention here today,
predicting that the federation:
Will never again voluntarily submit
itself or the workers in general to
the whims of a bureaucratic decision
and findings of any Federal board.
“The people have recourse to Con
gress, but practically none to a board
or bureau,” he said.
Emphasizing that “we do not ques
tion the intentions of the administra
tion to build toward a better social
,-jrder, Woll said of the wage-hour bill,
“we have found through bitter experi
ence that social and labor progress
do«s not result from placing power in
the .hands of appointive boards. Con
gress? can hear but it can not be sub
terranean.”
LEWIS BURNS BRIDGES IN
SIPLIT WITH PARENT BODY
Atlantic City, Oct. 11.—(AP)—John
L. Lewis, removed virtually all chances
of a reunion between his Committee
for Industrial Organization and the
American Federation of Labor today
as he started discussion of CIO ex
pansion with leaders of his 32 af
filiated unions.
The federation’s annual convention
in Danver, at the same time, moved
toward a final settlement of the es
trangement which hereto years
ago, but Lewis said the CIO does
not have even a technical connection
with its rival.”
Describing the federations suspen
sion of the original ten unions which
formed the committee as a frantic,
cowardly, contemptible act, ’ Lewis
said “our attitude is one of complete
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DECLINES CONTINUE
IN COTTON TRADING
Market Is Steady and With Some
Slight Gains at Outset of
the Day’s Session
Ne«w York, Oct. 11.—(AP)—Cotton
futures opened steady, two lower to
two -higher, with steady Liverpool
rabies partly offset by favorable weath
er southern selling. Decembe
Ls? from 7.90 to 7.82 and shortly
the first half hour, and was
7 85 with prices generaUy eleven
Plater 1 , 7-
movements narrow and the undertone
oiorv.it qtpaidy. December was selling
*t 785 ear)y in the afternoon, with
the general'list 2to 7 points net lower.
ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA AND VIRGINIA
Four Raleigh Persons
Killed In Collision In
Spring Hope In Morning
Mr. and Mrs. J. R. King, Former a Bakery Salesman,
and Miss Gladys Carroll Lose Lives When Car and
Tobacco Truck Collide; Two Others Are Hurt
Spring Hope, Oct. 11 (AP) —A truck
automobile collision here this morn
ing killed four Raleigh people and
painfully injured a fifth.
Mr. and Mrs. J. R. King and Miss
Gladys Carroll, all of Raleigh, died in
stantly. Mrs. Bertie Walker, also of
Raleigh, died early this afternoon in
a Raleigh hospital.
Miss Kathleen Branham was re
ported to be doing fairly well at the
hospital. She suffered painful injur
ies about the head.
State Highway Patrolman T. R.
Burdette, who investigated, said the
truck was driven by Charles Smith, of
Apex, and that it was meeting the
Madrid Is
Shelled By
Insurgents
Madrid, Oct. 11. —(AP) —One of the
heaviest artillery battles heard on the
Madrid front in months turned into
a shelling of Madrid itself today.
Shells dropped all over the central
section of the city, several hitting a
block from the building in which the
foreign correspondents work. The ar
tillery battle began about midnight,
with the government’s extension of
insurgent gun positions south of the
city.
The heaviest engagement appeared
almost directly south of Madrid, where
the roar of exploding shells and bombs
was continued throughout the night
and early morning. Yesterday there
was heavy fighting northwest of the
capital, where an insurgent offensive
against Madrid last March was turn
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WEATHER
FOR NORTH CAROLINA.
Generally fair to partly cloudy
tonight and Tuesday; not quite so
cool in extreme northwest por
tion and near the southeast coast
tonight.
HENDERSON, N. C., MONDAY AFTERNOON, OCTOBER 11, 1937
Vei-t0..... .. President Roosevelt j |
r —: —p — ————:
President Roosevelt will call a special session of r
congress between Nov. 8 and 16, it now is be- I
lieved. It is expected that these measures will I
ome up: hours and wages, government J
Raleigh car, driven by King, on the
curve near the intersection of the
Wake Forest road on Highway No. 64,
west of Spring Hope, when the crash
occurred.
The truck and trailer attached were
loaded with tobacco.
Patrolman Burdette quoted Smith,
who was reported only slightly injur
ed, as saying he dimmed his lights
when his truck and trailer approach
ed the Raleigh car. King was said to
have tried to dim his own lights, but
Smith said they went out just before
the two vehicles met.
Mrs. Walker was the wife of the
manager of the Williamston fair, it
was reported here.
MtaxratT
ROOSEVELT’S AIM
Overhauling of Federal Tax
Structure Means That,
Not Increase
By CHARLES P. STEWART
Central Press Columnist
Washington, Get. 11.—Many folk
evidently see inconsistency between
President Roosevelt’s recent sugges
tion that higher taxes are not on his
program for the early future and his
earlier announcement that he had
asked the Treasury Department to
make a study preparatory to an over
hauling of the entire Federal tax
structure.
It does not seem to me that such
an inconsistency is necessarily im
plied.
Those who believe that they discern
it evidently take it for granted that
a tax readjustment can be for no pur
pose other than an increase in rates.
Perhaps this conclusion is unjust
ified.
A taxation system may be bad, and
need to be overhauled, for other rea
sons than it doesn’t produce sufficient
funds to support the government.
In Pioneer Dayts.
Long, long hgo, when I was a lad,
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zation and establishment of eight regional plan
ning boards similar to the Tennessee Valley Au
thority. It is also possible approach will, be made
to the federal judiciary reorganization issue agair
OGDEN L. MILLS, 53,
FORMER TREASURY
SECRETARY, PASSES
Had Suffered Several Slight
Illnesses During Summer
and Sought Long
Rests
WAS ARDENT ENEMY
OF THE NEW DEAL
Rose to His Highest Prom
inence in Public, Life When
Hoover Named Him Treas
ury Chief in 1932 To Suc
ceed Andrew Mellon; Led
An Active Life
New York, Oct. 11 (AP)—Agden L.
Mills, former secretary of the Treas
ury, died at his home here today after
an illness of two waeks. He was 53
years old.
Mills had suffered several slight ill
nesses in the course of the summer.
He took a long cruise in 'the hot weath
er on his yacht from his hom<£ club,
the Cold Spring Harbor Beach Club,
ending at the New York Yacht Club
station at Newport.
Because of these recurring illnesses,
Mills had given up much of his acti
vities in the Republican party.
At the time of his death, Mills’ acti
vities were manifold. He was a di
rector of several large companies.
Mills rose to his highest promin
ence in the nation’s affairs under
President Hoover, who made nim sec
retary of the treasury in 1932, when
Andrew W. Mellon, whom he had serv
ed as under secretary of the treasury
retired.
Mills left public office when Presi
dent Roosevelt entered the White
House and always was a leading foe
of the New Deal.
14 ARE IMPRISONED
IN LONDON RIOTING
Leftists and Fascists Clash On Sun
day and Youth Injures Lead
er With Rock
Liverpool, England, Oct. 11 (AP)
George Melander, 19, accused as the
rock thrower who struck Sir Oswald
Mosley, British Fascist leader, with a
jagged stone, was remanded for a
week today on a charge of felonious
wounding. , , .
The Fascist leader was dangerously
but not critically wounded by the
stone thrown in a clash between the
leftists and Fascists yesterday. Eleven
men besides Melander and two wo
men were charged with lesser offen
ses in connection with the disturbance.
PUBLI&HBD EVERY AFTJBRNQOM
EXCEPT SUNDAY.
LEAVITT’S PETITION
AGAINST SELECTION
DENIED IN RULING
Important Man
Dr. Stanley K. Horn beck
One of the most important men
in America today is Dr. Stanley
K. Hornbeck, the U. S. state de
partment’s ace Far Eastern ex
pert and right-hand man to Sec
retary of State Cordell Hull Dr.
Hornbeck, who served as * Far
Eastern technical adviser to the
American Jeace commission in
1918, is helping Secretary Hull
and President Roosevelt to guide
the U. S. course in the Sino-Jap
anese conflict. Hull has named
him “political adviser” during the
international crisis. He has been
chief of the state department’s
Far Eastern division.
—Central Pres*
DoughtonTo
State Plans
Shortly Now
Will Soon Clear Up
Situation as to Op
position to Re y -
nolds in 1938
Washington, Oct. .11. —(AP) —Repre-
sentative Robert L. Doughton, of
Laurel Springs, N. C., said today there
probably will be an announcement
soon whether he will oppose Senator
Robert R. Reynolds, of North Caro
lina, in the State’s Democratic pri
mary next June. Doughton said he is
not yet prepared to make any an
nouncement as to his political future,
but added:
“I think there will be some an
nouncement soon as to who is going
to run and who is not going to run
for the Senate.”
Doughton said he came to Wash
ington for a series of conferences on
legislative and routine matters.
One of his first callers was former
Governor O. Max Gardner, of North
Carolina, who came to Washington on
the same train with Doughton, Gard
ner, now a practicing attorney, said
the two did not meet on the train.
He described his visit with Doughton
as of a personal nature.
Japanese Clamp On
Importsßan, Which
WillA idAmericans
Tokyo, Oct. 11.— (AP)—The Japan
ese government promulgated “ordin
ance 23” today, officially starting its
import restrictions program.
The emergency law will close the
doors of Japan to nearly 700 import
ed articles and place the nation on a
basis of stern Spartan frugality.
Starting immediately, Japan will be
a “nation without luxuries.”
This maneuver, which is one of the
most drastic in modern economic his
tory, is designed to cut to the bone
Japan’s enormous annual international
bills, in order to provide maximums
strength for the purchase of the
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Kelly’s Challenge Also Turn
ed Down on Same Grounds
as That of Former
Judge
FIGHT WILLGO ON,
LEAVITT DECLARES
Chief Justice Hughes An
nounces Conclusion of
Black’s Associates on High
Bench; Constitutionality of
Appointment Was Ques
tioned in Petition
Washington, Oct. 11.—(AP)— The
Supreme Court refused today to per
mit Albert Leavitt, former Federal
judge in the Virgin Islands, and Pat
rick Henry Kelly, Boston attorney, to
contest Justice Hugo.L. Black’s right
to a seat on the bench.
This action gave Black a clear title
to his judicial post, so far as present
challenges are concerned.
Leavitt has indicated, however, that
he might start other proceedings.
“This fight will not tfce over if my
petition is denied,” he asserted.
The court refused to permit Leavitt
to file his petition, which contended
Black was constitutionally ineligible
for the position. Leavitt claimed Black
was barred because he was a mem
ber of the Senate which voted to in
crease the “emoluments” of justices
by permitting tnem to retire at full
pay after reaching 70, and serving ten
years.
He added that the retirement of
Justice Van Devanter did not create
a vacancy on the court and hence
there was no place for Black to fill.
He contended that Van Devanter still
technically is a member of the tri
bunal.
Service by Black, the petition said,
“will interfere with and prevent the
due, proper and lawful administration
of justice in the Susjeme Court of
the United States.”
The action of Justice Black’s col
leagues was announced to a packed
court room by Chief Justice Hughes,
who said Leavitt did not have suf
ficient interest in the litigation to
justify him in proceeding with it.
The Kelly motion was denied on the
basis of the action on Leavitt’s pe
tition. Neither mentioned Ku Klux
Klan membership.
iekMeigh
RATHERQUIET ONE
School Bus Row, Gardner’s
Labor Citation and Fair
Get Attention
Daily Dl*|»atch Bureau,
In The Sir Walter Hotel.
Raleigh, Oct. 11—Forecasting the
Duke-Tennessee result and .panning
the Giants occupied Raleigh last week
almtst to the exclusion of real poli
tical or business activities, though
the football game in Durham Satur
day loaded the capital city’s hotels
from Friday over the week-end.
So far as current of governmental
affairs were concerned, there was
hardly a ripple except on the school
commission front, where a loud war
over where Garysburg children should
go to school was climaxed by a school
commission meeting Friday at which
rival delegations took turns at saying
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sinews of war. Unofficially, it has been
estimated that the warfare in China
is costing $5,000,000 a day.
Japan’s trade ledger for 1937 shows
$217,000,000 in red ink.
However, Japan remains one of the
United States’ best customers, con
tinuing heavy purchases of American
cotton, oil, steel and machinery, all of
which, as - urgent materials, are ex
empted from the present prohibition.
Actually, while the trade of others
with Japan will suffer, American trade
will be facilitated and stimulated. Tho
law furnishes more money for wa'
materials, which are the bulk of Jap
anese imports from America.