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HENDERSON GATEWAY TO CENTRAL CAROLINA TWENTY-FOURTH year U. 5. TO JOIN SINO-JAP MEDIATION MOVE fierce Battle Rages On Shanghai War Front LEWIS IS PLANNING ANSWER TO GREEN’S OVERTURE OF PEACE CIO Leader Expected To “Pass Ball Right Back” to Chieftain of the A. F. of L. FEDERATION^BODY READY TO ADJOURN Delegates to Annual Con vention at Denver Already Leaving for Home; Green Is Re-Elected President for 13th Consecutive Term in Office Atlantic City, N. J., Oct. 15. (AP)—-The Committee for Indus trial Organization proposed to the American Federation of Labor to day that committees of both meet to consider further the possibili ties of peace conferences. The CIO in conference here ad vised ihe federation convention at Denver of its decision in a tele gram, \vhich suggested a prelim inary meeting be held in Wash ington the week of October 25. The telegram said, in part: ••Your telegram of October 14, in response to the telegram of the CIO, which had suggested that a conference he held to obtain a unified labor movement, has been received and presented to the conference of the Committee for Industrial Organiza tion now in session The CIO is prepared to meet in cons on the basis set forth in its telegram heretofore mentioned. The proposal of the CIO included a suggested committee of one hundred from each organization in order to meet the accepted practice of dem ocratic labor organization, and to af ford full representation for the unions involved. “However, the conference of the CIO has delegated a committee of t a n to meet with the committee of the American Federation of Labor to Continued on Page Two.) Very Cold Weather In South Area (By The Associated Fress.) Abnormally cool weather spread southward today in the vast area east of the Rockies, while communities of the mountain regions enjoyed higher temperatures. The Weather Bureau reported sub freezing temperatures were general north of the Mason-Dixon lines, light snow was falling in northwestern Mis souri and south central lowa, and cooler weather had penetrated south ward to northern Florida and the Gulf coast. Smooth seas and a light southeast wind settled over Lake Superior, which for 72 hours had been churned (Continued on Page Six.) Hearing On Crop Control Bill Begins Senator Smith Says I' armer Needs 12 M o nths Credit; Meet at Louisville Louisville, Ky., Oct. 15.—(AP)— A ' nr 'ta Agriculture Committee open ed tho first of a series of national re gional hearings today to discover what, the farmer wants in the way of national legislation. Some 300 Kentucky and southern ndiana farmers, including represen * ives of agricultural organizations, appeared before the committee, senator E. D. Smith, Democrat, Continued on Page Two.) Ttenitrrsmx ©atltt Unmalrfi LEASED WIRE SERVICE OB* THE ASSOCIATED PRESS. Last of Brady Gang L ' I “>• •1.'.-- ■ '*. : i| James Dalhover Believed to be the last member of the A1 Brady gang, widwest desperadoes wiped out by G-men in Bangor, Me., James Dalhover, above, faces possible death sen tence for participation in four murders Oafhover is said to have confessed the gang committed. Brady and another gunman were shot to death by federal agents in Bangor. —Central Frees SglupsarT AT ODDSON PLAN Farm Bureau Demands Compulsion, Grange Backs Soil Conservation Dally Dlapatch Bureau. In t£e Sir Walter Hotel. Raleigh, Oct. 15. —Running true to form displayed in every previous dis cussion or controversy over crop con trol or other vital farm measures, rival groups of farm representatives will Monday present clashing theories and plans to the United States Sen ate Agriculture Committee at Win ston-Salem. The Farm Bureau Federation will plead for enactment of legislation calling for compulsory control of sur pluses in order to keep farm products at parity prices. The State Grange will maintain that the present “conservation” program with minor modifications is what the farmer wants and needs. The State Department of Agricul ture and the State College Extension Division will endeavor to maintain a position of benevolent neutrality some where between the two groups, al though Commissioner W. Kerr Scott (Continued on Page Five) NEIMUTYIL TROUBLE CONGRESS Recent Act Did Not Cover “Undeclared” Wars, the Two Now Raging By CHARLES P. STEWART Central Press Columnist Washington, Oct. 15.—When Con gress meets the theory is that the law makers immediately will concentrate upon consideration of certain impor tant domestic questions. But crop control, wage and hour leg islation, governmental reorganization and the regional T. V. A. issue prob ably will be overshadowed by discus sion of the foreign situation. Our so-called neutrality law was a com promise and, like most compromises, it nroves to be unsatisfactory to an of The groups 'which reluctautly a greed to it. It is too elastic for rad Continued on Page SHve.) ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA AND VIRGINIA. dataSength OF JAPANESE ARMY Terrific Artillery and Infan try Attacks Carried Out On Chapei Front To West AMERICANS DECRY JAPS’ AGGRESSION United States Called on by Nationals in China To Use Every Peaceful Means To Withdraw Moral and Ma terial Support from The Japanese Shanghai, Oct. 15.—(AP) —An in tense battle raged today in the Chapei and Hongkew sectors, where the Chi nese armies were making a bitter counter-thrust to stave off the long expected Japanese general attack along the 25-mile battlefront north west of Shanghai. Three Japanese civilians were kill ed and three wounded, a Japanese spokesman said, during the Chinese shelling of Hongkew, the Japanese oc cupied section of the international settlement. One shell struck the famous Astor House hotel, now occupied by Japan ese refugees, and another hit the Seventh Day Adventist hospital, the spokesman said. There were no in juries and only minor damage to the two important structures. Terrific Chinese artillery and infan try attacks were carried out against the Japanese positions on the Chapei front, a Chinese spokesman declared, to determine the actual strength of the Japanese troops manning that sector. AMERICANS IN, CHINA PROTEST JAP INVASION Nanking, Oct. 15. —(AP) —United States Ambassador Nelson Johnson to day forv/arded to the State Depart ment at Washington q copy of the protest of the American community of Szechwan province against Japan ese aggression in China. The protest urged the United States to use “every peaceful means to withdraw moral and material support from Japan.” It declared American scrap iron becomes Japanese bombs, which kill civilians; American cotton makes Japanese ex plosives; American trucks transport Japanese troops, and American oil drives Japanese planes and tanks. “Let no specious neutrality repeat our World War profiteering,” the pro test said . Widow of Sheriff Os Burke County Will Succeed Him Morganton, Oct. 15. —(AP) — Mrs. Nina Corpening Ross was named sheriff of Burke county to day to serve out the unexpired term of her late husband, Sheriff- Fred Ross, who died near Char lotte last Friday. Under the appointment by the board of county commissioners, Mrs. Ross will hold office until December, 1938. She has been of fice deputy since the election of her husband in 1930. Mrs. Ross is the mother of two sons and is a Burke county native. U. S. Shipping Industry Is None Too Optimistic America’s Glorious Past on Seven Seas Seems To Have Vanished as People Lose Lure of Sea; High Cost of Operation Block ing Revival Now BY ROGER w. BABSON, Copyright 1937, Publishers Financial Bureau, Inc. Cherbourg, France, Oct. 15.—Most of my ancestors were in the shipping in dustry. They were captains of square rigged -ships which sailed from the Massachusetts ports of Boston, Salem, Gloucester, and Newburyport for the North of Europe and the Far East. In those days there were no pilots, radios, and few light-houses. Captains were not only good navigators, but they were also first-class traders and fighters. It was a great life to develop rugged independence, initiative, and courage. Hence, as I lazed across the Atlantic on the White Star S. S. Berengaria, the lives of my ancestors came fresh ly to my mind. I say this even though HENDERSON, N. C., FRIDAY AFTERNOON, O CTOBER 15, 1937 Bonneville Chief Pi i pi imfi inr m James' D. Ross Reputation gained by James D. Ross as manager of the Seattle, Wash., municipal power plant for 35 years brings him the important job of administrator of the huge Bonneville water powei, project on the Columbia river in Washing ton. He is resigning from his present job—a member of the Securities and Exchange Commis sion. x —rumtral Press Mother, 70, Backs Son In Defense Ranbury, Oct. 15 (AP) —A frail 70- year-old mountain woman, after giv ing an eye-witness account of the kill ing, faced a cross-examination today in the trial of her son, George C. Nel son, charged with killing his wife with a razor. “He just took his razor and made two licks and then kissed her and laid down behide her and cut his own throat,’ the mother, Mrs. Fannie Nel son, said. Nelson, his throat swathed in band ages, sat quietly through the testi mony. The alleged slaying occurred a week ago yesterday. CINCINNATI WOMAN ON TRIAL FOR LIFE Mrs. Anna Maria Hahn, Comely 31- Year-Old Blonde, Is Accused on. Murder Charge Cincinnati, Oct. 15. — (AP) The state opened its case today against Anna Maria Hahn, on trial on a first degree murder charge, with an as sertion by Prosecutor Dudley Outcalt that Jacob Wagner, 78, her alleged victim, died of the “administration of poison commonly used for rats.” Mrs. Hahn, comely 31-year-old blonde, sat impassive as Outcalt told the jury in his opening statement she “worked her way into his (Wagner’s) confidence, and had the audacity to call herself a niece,” designing “to enrich herself by exacting money from the aged man.” Judge Charles Bell ordered the jury of eleven women and one man clear ed from the room as defense counsel Joseph Hoodin entered an objection to Outcalt’s declaration “she became friendly with other older men.” Hoodin earlier withdrew a request that the jury be taken to visit Wag ner’s home. I am utterly ashamed of my luxuries on a modern ocean liner when I con sider the hardships that my ancestors endured on similar trips. For instance one of my great-uncles, Captain Gor ham P. Low, navigated one of the first sailing clippqrs to take passengers from Boston to Liverpool. In 1828, he made one of the fastest trips that had ever been made and it took him 23 days. Past Records. Our shipping reached its zenith be fore the Civil War. Up until then for eign trade and carrying of cargoes was a major business and provided much of the wealth which later went into our industries. When our country began to turn industrial after the (Continued on Page Four.) British Officers Die By Ambush In Holy Land Strife Terrorism Reaches Acute State in Palestine En mity Between Jews and Arabs CRISIS OVER SPAIN IS COMING TO HEAD 27-Nation Non-Intervention Powers To Hear Proposal For Taking All Foreign Soldiers Out of Civil War Zone; Britain and France Stiffening (By The Associated Press) Terrorism in the Holy Land, reach ing an acute stage with the ambush slaying of two British constables, centered diplomatic attention today on another of the world’s trouble spots. / Even as the British government was concentrating its efforts on prevent ing the Spanish civil war from spreading into a European conflagra tion, this latest manifestation of Arab unrest came Irom the Palestine terri tory, long the scene of Arab-Jewish conflict. Constables Norman Harrison and Austin Malia were added to the list of dead, which already included'four Arabs, in the city s present disorder. A dozen Jews have been wounded in the last two days In previous months the casualties mounted into the doz ens. In London the foreign office was making final preparations for the meeting tomorrow of the nine-nation sub-committee of the 27-power - non intervention committee This sub committee will try again to work out a plan for withdrawal of foreigners Con ticued on Page Two.) TOBACCO BLAZE AT WILSON IS COSTLY Wilson, Oct. 15 (AP) —Fire of un determined origin gutted the Export Leaf Tobacco Company plant here to day, destroying 8,000 pounds of weed, and badly damaging a $20,000 redry ing machine. DAVIDSON BOY IS KILLED BY CURRENT Davidson, Oct.' 15. —(AP) —James Jetton, 21, was killed instantly today when he touched a live electric wire while working at his home near here. Details of the accident were not known. Jetton leaves his mother, Mrs. F. P. Jetton and several brothers. Dock Hands Call Strike Over South Jacksonville, Fla., Oct. 15 (AP) V. E. Townsend, southern representative of the International Longshoremen's Association, said today “between 4,- 000 and 5,000” dock workers from Wilmington, N. C., south to Miami and up around the Gulf coast would go on strike at midnight. The longshoremen, he said, seek shorter hours, better pay, time and a half for overtime work, recognition of their union, and new working agree ments with shippers. The general strike in southern ports was authorized at a meeting here yes terday Tampa longshoremen decided to strike today, but those from other southern ports agreed to put their walkout into effect ait midnight. About 1,200 dock workers quit In Tampa. Townsend said the strike “has the full approval and support of the In ternational Longshoremen’s Associa tion.” The association is affiliated with the American Federation of La bor. There will be “peaceful picketing” in all ports, he added. WEATHER FOR NORTH CAROLINA. Generally fair, continued cold, light to heavy frost tonight; Sat urday, increasing cloudiness, slow ly rising temperature followed by rain Sunday. PUBLISHED HVHKY AFTHANOOM ISXCKPT SUNDAY. May Betray China General Yen Hsi-Shan Should General Yen Hsi-Shan, war lord of Shansi province, de liver his huge territory to Japan tide of war undoubtedly would turn out disastrously to China. General Hsi-Shan is reported wav ering in his loyalty to the Chi nese dictator, Generalissimo Chi ang Kai-Shek. —Central Press General Han Fu-Cha According to reports from Pei ping, China, General Han Fu-Chu, war lord of important Shantung province, is wavering in his loy alty to Generalissimo Chiang Kai- Shek and lending an ear to Jap anese wooing. —Central Press IRLDIHMI TO HANDLE JAPAN Europe Already Has Plenty Headaches Without Add ing Far East By CHARLES P. STEWART Central Press Columnist Washington, Oct. 15. —That Presi dent Roosevelt’s “quarantine speech” in Chicago recently was as much a jab at Italy and Germany as at Japan has not been much in Amer ican comment thus far. This was natural; the Oriental sit uation just now is rather more par ticularly in Uncle Sam’s dooryard than (Continued on Page Two). TWO WHITE MEN IN SCOTLAND WANTED Hunted for Attacking and Robbing Woman of S7O at Country Home Near Laurinburg Laurinburg, Oct. 15 (AP) —Officers scoured this section .today for two white men who they said made a get away last night after attacking and robbing Mrs. Irene Wright, 24, of Eastern Scotland county. Deputy Sheriff Frank Todd said the woman was robbed of S7O after the unidentified men stunned her by hit ting her on the head with a bottle. She vms not seriously injured. Isai** O PAGES , 0 TODAY FIVE CENTS COPY ROOSEVELT STATES PEACE ATTEMPT IS TO BE FIRST PLAN Brussels Conference of Nine- Power Pact To Move Determinedly for Mediation TO COMMEOTLATER ON STOCK DECLINE President Tells Correspond ents “To Wait and See His Messages to Legislature”; New York Bank Head Blames Federal Regulation for Slump Hyde Park, N Y., Oct. 15 (AP)— President Roosevelt said in substands today an attempt at Mediation of the Sino-Japanese conflict would be the first step considered by the confer ence at Brussels of the nine-power treaty signatories, including the Unit ed States. Asked at a press conference if med iation was a fair assumption to be drawn from his “fireside” radio speech last Tuesday night, the president re marked he had said that in so many words. While refusing comment on the stock market decline, he indicated he might have something to say on the subject in a general way in his mes sage to the special and regular ses sions of Congress. Asked if the mar ket developments were bothering him, he told his inquirer to wait and see his message to > the legislature. He would not comment on the speech yesterday of Winthrop Aid rich, president of the Chase National Bank, blaming the drop in securities value on Federal regulation and urg ing revision of the capital gains and income surtax rates. On the foreign situation, he said it was mere guesswork as to what the United States would do in the future. Asked what would follow if media-* tion efforts in the Sino-Japanese un declared war failed, he said that was an “if” question. Al Brady Is Buried As Pauper Bangor, Me., Oct. 15.—(AP)— Al Brady, Tndfcanan-horn gang leader, slain with a henchman here in a Columbus Day gun battle with Fed eral agents, was buried today—un claimed. Aside from lowering the cheap wooden box, which held the “half pint’' killer’s earthly remains, into the ground, there was “absolutely no ceremony,” said the officiating under taker. ... . , Brady was buried in an isolated part of Mount Hope cemetery, “city property,” containing other unknown, Continued on E J age Two.) % ; U.NiCGets $240,000 In PWA Grants Money Will Go For New Buildings At Chapel Hill and Woman’s College Raleigh, Oct 15 (AP)—The execu tive committee of the trustees of the University of North Carolina formally accepted grants from the Federal Pub lic Works Administration today for $240,000 for buildings at Chapel Hill and Greensboro. The PWA gave $61,363 of the $160,- 000 to be expended in reconditioning Spencer dormitory at the Woman’s College of the University at Greens boro. A grant of $18,905 from the PWA was secured for the new $410,000 med ical school building at Chapel Hill. President Frank Graham reported the enrollment of the greater univer sity had reached 7,194, a new record, and a gain of 433 students over the 1936-37 session. Enrollment has in creased 1,385 students since the 1934- 35 session, he said. At the Chapel Hill unit, there are 3,207 students this year, with 2,099 a. State College here, and 1,885 at the Woman’s College.
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