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HENDERSON GATEWAY TO CENTRAL CAROLINA TWENTY-FOURTH YEAR BIRMINGHAM COAL MINE BLAST KILLS 30 * * * * * ********** ******** *** Italy Willing To Recall Part Os Her Troops In Spain OTHER SIDE MUST TAKE OUT SIMILAR NUMBER SOLDIERS Ambassador Grandi Tells London Conference This Would Be “Substan tial” Beginning expresses DESIRE FOR COOPERATION Says Mussolini’s Govern ment “Loyal and Firm” in Wish; Conference Hears Statements from All Sides and Adjourns Until Next Week London. Oct. 16.—(AP) —Count Dino Grandi Italy’s delegate, told the non intervention sub-committee today that It a iv “accepts the proposal for par ti?/withdrawal of a certain number cf volunteers” from the Spanish civil war. The nine-power sub-committee ad journed until early next week after hearing statements by the British, French, Italian and German members. The nine diplomats, meeting in a tense atmosphere created by British Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden’s de mand for prompt action, heard the Italian delegate promise his country’s “loyal and firm desire to cooperate.” The main question before the meet ing was that of withdrawing foreign volunteers, especially Italian, from the Spanish civil war to remove the main source of danger that a general Eu ropean conflict would emanate from Spain. The adjournment, to. consult the governments represented, came after the Earl of Plymouth and Ambas sador Charles Corbin hed presented the British and French proposals for getting foreign warriors out of Spain. In offering cooperation, Count Grandi. however, specified withdrawal must he “in equal quantities from both sides.” This, he said, was to be re garded as a “substantial beginning cf the application” of the British plan for evacuation of foreign volunteers from Spain. Dr. Tucker Episcopal Chieftain Cincinnati, Oct. 16 (AP) —'The Rt. Henry St. George Tucker, of Rich mond, Va., bishop of Virginia, was elected presiding bishop of the Pro testant Episcopal Church today. Bishop Tucker, 63, is eligible to serve six years before reaching the newly-established retirement age.. He succeeds the Rt. Rev. James De Wolf Perry, of Providence, bishop of Rhode Island, who has served as presiding bishop for the last seven years. Bishop Tucker was elected co-ad juster bishop of Virginia in 1926, and (Continued on Page Three.) Mussolini’s Paper Hurls P.S. Charge Says American Mun itions Going to Spanish Loyalists by Way of Russia Milan, Italy, Oct. 16.—(AP))—Pre- Mussolini’s newspaper referring o President Roosevelt’s arraignment 0 a S£i'essor nations as his “Chicago” pointed today to United arms shipments which it said Cached Spain through Russia. the paper reproduced the Presi d'd s m °re striking condemnatory re niarks in an article entitled “Amer uan Flowerettes,” then referred to assertion that the peace, liberty anu security of 90 percent of the (Continued on Page Six.) Hpnitersmt -Daily Dt sirafdt ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA AND VIRGINIA. LEASED WIRE SERVICE OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS? Red "Robin Hood” Once hunted as a bandit and a Com munist by Gen. Chiang Kai-shek, Gen. Ho Lung (above), commander of one of China’s Communistic arm ies, is today one of the stumbling blocks in the path of the Japanese invaders. This picture is the first ana evex taken of Ho by a foreigner. (Central Prett) KENNEDY ADVISES AMENDMENTS FOR NEW MTS TO High Roosevelt Chieftain Disagrees With Admin istration on Corpor ation Levies MODIFICATION NOW IS GREATLY NEEDED Ramspeck Wants To Trim Wages-Hours Bill To Ap ply Only to “Chislers; Lindbergh Accepts Renew al of Commission in U. S. Air Reserves Hyde Park, N. Y., Oct. 16 (AP) T One of President Roosevelt’s princi pal financial consultants was on rec ord anew today for adjustment of the Federal capital gains and undistribut ed corporation profits taxes. Joseph Kennedy, Maritime Commis sion chairman, and former Securities and Exchange Commisison head, told newspaper men late yesterday he still disagreed with the administration on these levies, and expressed the belief they could be changed so as to pro duce about the same revenue as now and encourage business to expand. Supreme Court Justices met, niean time, at Washington to decide wheth er to pass on litigation involving th3 right of the Securities Commission to subpoena telegrams. This case pro duced speculation over whether Just ice Black would participate, and, if (Continued on Page Three.) COTTON IS HIGHER AT SHORT SESSION Liverpool, Trade and Foreign Buying Boost Prices During Day’s Activities New York, Oct. 16.—(AP) —Cotton futures opened steady, up 8 to 14 points on higher Liverpool cables, trade and foreign buying. March sold off from 8.34 to 8.28, leaving quota tions generally about 7 to 9 points closed steady, 4 to 9 poinU higher. Spot steady, «*““*,*£ 8.33 8.33 December g 35 8.32 January g 35 8.30 March 8.35 8.31 Ma y 8.36 8.30 ■* ul y 8.52 8.40 October HENDERSON, N. C., SATURDAY AFTERNOON, OCTOBER 16, 1937 China’s Leader, Men Who Bring You War News Knickerbocker, Durdin, McDonald, Powell, Keen and Morris with the Kai-Sheks in foreground Generalissimo Chiang Kai-Shek, China’s man-of the-hour, and his American-educated wife, pose for a new picture in Nanking with U. S. newsmen who bring you the stories of the Sino-Japanese conflict. The war correspondents, left to right, are H. R. U. S. Accepts Far East Role; Japs Allege Poison Gas Use' Washington, Oct. 16. —(AP) — The United States formally accepted today an invitation to participate in the nine-power treaty conference over the Far Eastern crisis at Brussels Oc tober 30 and named Norman Davis to head this government’s delegation. Secretary Hull, in announcing the acceptance a few minutes after the Belgian ambassador had delivered the formal invitation, told his press con ference the delegation probably would sail the middle of next week. Other members of the American de legation were announced by Hull as follows: Dr. Stanley Hornbeck, special poli tical advisor to the secretary of state on Far Eastern affairs. Pierrepont Moffett, chief of the State Department’s European division; MORRISON CHANCES WOULDBENOTHING Ex-Governor-Senator Would Get Nowhere Opposing Senator Reynolds Dolly Dispatch Bureau, In The Sir Walter Hotel. Raleigh, Oct. I^.— Presented with the first real chance he has had to break peramently into the news since his rather humiliating defeat by Bob Reynolds in 1932, canny Cameron Morrison, the so-called Sage of Sharon is making real publicity hay, and basking contentedly in the politica spotlight. Canny Cam insists that, despite the announcement of Frank Hancock for the Reynolds senatorial seat, he hasn’t yet determined whether or not he will cast his expensive chapeau in to the ring, a bit of casting which would make it a triangular campaign. Official Raleigh was vastly and genuinely surprised by the Hancock announcement, at least by its timing, but* that surprise is as nothing com pared with the astonishment and amazement which would greet a for mal Morrison plunge into the sena torial swimming pool. His wooing of the Senate siren is thought even less serious than the honey words poured by the most gift (Continued on Page Three.) THREE FIREMEN IN FRESNA, CAL., HURT Fresno, Cal., Oct. 16. —(AP) — A wind-whipped fire that broke out in a building 150 feet from the city hall injured three firemen and caused damage estimated at SIOO,OOO early to day. Eight buildings were destroyed before 100 gas-masked fire-fighters ex tinguished the flames. Robert Pell, an attache of the Euro pean division, and Charles Bohlen, attached to the European division. JAPANESE SAY CHINESE ARE USING PHOSGENE Shanghai, Oct. 16.—(AP) —Japanese authorities staged a dramatic demon stration today of alleged Chinese use of poison gas. Fifty foreign correspondence were assembled in the office of the Japan ese consulate general to receive an announcement which they had been told would be so momentous it had to be made on Japanese territory. They were shown a shell which emitted evil smelling fumes which the Japanese asserted was phosgene smoke. Lieutenant Colonel Tani, of the Japanese chemical corps, declared the shell contained sufficient poisonous gas to kill the entire roomful. Three Dead In Crashes At Durham Durham, Oct. 36—(AP)—Highway accidents exacted three lives in Dur ham county Friday. Harvey Moore, 15, of Timberlake, and Brodie Duke, 38, of near Rouge mont, both Person county residents, were fatally injured when a crowded truck bound for the State Fair at Ra leigh collided with a coal truck near Bahama, in northern Durham county. George Hudgins, 41, of Farrington, in Chatham county, was killed on the Durham-Chapel Hill highway last night when struck by a car officers said was driven by Everett Boone, of East Durham. Fred Day, 15, another member of the Rougemont party, was described as in a critical condition. His condi tion was described by hospital autho rities as being “very poor.” A number of others were shaken up and injured but not requiring hospital treatment. Eugene Knott, of Rougemont, driv er of the outing truck, and B. C. Vaughan, of Rougemont, driver of the coal truck, are at liberty under SI,OOO bond each, pending official investiga tion . Sheriff E. G. Belvin, of Durham (Continued on Page Three.) WEATHER FOR NORTH CAROLINA. Partly cloudy and not quite so cool tonight; Sunday cloudy, fol lowed by rain by night and possi bly in south and central portions in afternoon; slightly warmer in north portion and near the coast. WEEKLY WEATHER For South Atlantic States: Rain first of week and probably again I toward close; mild temperatures. Knickerbocker, Pulitzer prize winner and ace re porter of International News Service; Tillman Dur din, New York Times; Yates McDonald, Associated Press; J. B. Powell, Chicago Tribune; Victor Keen, New York Herald-Tribune; John Morris. U. P. Chinese reiterated their denial they were using poison gas. They declared a demonstration such as the Japanese gave would .be possible in any high school chemical laboratory. (The Japanese Foreign Office in Tokyo earlier had declared it had “in disputable proof” the Chinese were using phosgene gas). - • An official spokesman in Shanghai declared six shells with unusual red marketings were seized October 14 when a Japanese patrol surprised the crew of a Chinese crench mortar on a sector north of Shanghai. A Chinese spokesman declared re newed attempts by the Japanese army today to smash Chinese lines at Tazang, ten miles north of Shanghai, were repulsed. Chinese troops, he saicr. machine-gunned a Japanese force try ing a flanking movement to cut off Chinese forces in the Chapei sector. FULL PROGRAM FOR^ Will Have- Busy Time in Greensboro Area On Trip October 27 College Station, Raleigh, Oct. 16— On the day that Secretary of Agricul ture Henry A. Wallace is to inspect the Reedy Fork and Deep River soil conservation projects, the public will be welcomed, too, it was announced here today. The secretary is scheduled to arrive in Greensboro the morning of October 27, where he will be welcomed by a delegation from the Chamber of Com merce, said E. B. Garrett, State co ordinator of the Soil Conservation Service. After a trip to the A. & T. College for Negroes at Greensboro, the secre tary will be taken to the Dee)? River project near Greensboro and the Reedy Fork project near High Point, where Garrett and others will conduct him on a tour to inspect the work be ing done. At noon the secretary will be tend ed a luncheon in High Point, at which time Governor Clyde R. Hoey will speak briefly. Then Secretary Wallace will go to the High Point municipal lake, where he is scheduled to address a gathering of farmers at 2 p. m. Congressman (Continued on Page SixJ RAEFORD FARMER IS DEAD FROM INJURIES Fayetteville, Oct. 16 (AIP) Will Davis, middle-aged farmer of near Raeford ,died in a hospital here today of injuries he suffered in an automo- ( bile wreck October 10. His brother, J. A. McMillan, of Shannon, was killed in the same Accident, which occurred in Robeson county. PUBLISHED KVHKY AFTHKNOOM EXCEPT SUNDAY. COAL GAS BLAMED FOR EXPLOSION AT DEEP MULGA MINE Hoey Will Speak At Five Meetings Raleigh, Oct. 16 (AP) —Governor I3oey said today he would go to Fayetteville Tuesday to speak at ((10 dc ucation of the new Cape Fear bridge to World War vete rans. Thursday afternoon Hoey is on the program at the Bladen county fair, and will talk that evening to the Biatlenboro Rotary club. He will go to Ahoskie Friday morning for the opening of the Ahoskie colcrain road, and will speak at the Gates county fair that after noon. 8,000 SOUTHEAST DOCK WORKERS GO OUT UPON STRIKE 400 of Number Reported Idle at Wilmington, Many Others In Larger Port Cities HIGHER PAY GOAL, WITH EIGHT HOURS Strike Declared Sanctioned by International Union of Longshoremen; Clerks and Checkers Also Affected by Strike Order in Coast Cities Jacksonville, Fla., Oct. 16 (AP) —A strike of longshoremen intended to paralyze waterfronts of coastal cities between Wilmington, N. C., and Tam pa, Fla. became effective today. International Longshoremen's offi cials said about 8,000 men, mostly Ne gro workers, had voted to quit their jobs to force demands for higher pay, an eight hour day and time and a half overtime. Clerks and checkers also are effect ed by the strike order. The associa tion is an American Federation of La bor affiliate. About 1,200 workers struck yester day in Tampa. As midnight approach ed, stevedores in other cities left their jobs. Early today union sources report ed 700 out at Miami, 1,500 in Jackson ville, 2,600 in Charleston, S. C., and about 400 in Wilmington, N. C. In each instance these numbers were said to represent nearly all the avail able dock workers. It could not be determined how many ships were af fected. V. E. Townsend, ILA representative in Jacksonville, said cities affected also include Savannah, Ga., Bruns wick, Ga., and Fort Pierce, and Port Everglades, Fla. The strike, he said, is sanctioned by the international. RangerFor Fort Bragg Found Shot Raeford, Oct. 16 (AP)— Hoke coun ty authorities sent out an alarm for three deer hunters today shortly after the body of Sergeant J. S. Mott, Fort Bragg reservation ranger, was found near the reservation with a load of buckshot in his face. D. L. Guin, foreman of the farm adjoining the reservation, told Coro ner George Brown he met three men carrying a deer toward a car as he went to investigate the sound of shoot ing and came on Mott’s body nearby. Guin said he got the license number of the car and gave it to Sheriff D. H Hodgins. The three men, he said, told him they lived in High Point, Ashe boro and Randleman. The foreman said he heard a shot about 7 a. m„ and, suspecting poach ers were busy on his farm, started to (Continued on Page Six.) O PAGES O TODAY FIVE CENTS COPY Virtually Entire Shift on Duty in Shaft Is Wiped Out By Major Disaster ONLY ONE SURVIVOR FROM THE TRAGEDY Bodies Located Four Miles From Mouth of Shaft and Are Trundled to Surface; Only One Wing of Mine Damaged; 500 Men Nor mal Force Birmingham, Ala., Oct. 16.—(AP) — A shattering- explosion deep in a shaft of the Mulga coal mine, ten miles west of here, killed 30 or more men— virtually the entire shift at work— early today. The 'blast, blamed by Fire Marshal Sam Williams on coal gas, tore an elbow in the Woodward Iron Works about 2 a. m., when a shift of 32 men duty in the affected section. Fallen rock debris hampered rescue workers. A single victim, Ivan Fox, who was working near the elbow crumbled by the explosion, was brought out alive. Fox was in a critical condition at a Bessemer, Ala., hospital and could not be questioned about the explosion. R. M. Marshall, Woodward vice-pre sident, said bodies of the victims were located about four riilles from the shaft mouth by the rescue crews, which sent back word many were buried in fallen rock and coal. The victims were about equally divided be tween Negroes and whites, he said. The mine, he added, normally em ploys about 500 men. Only one wing was damaged. This was near the shaft’s deepest extremity, a fact which kept the death list from mounting to staggering proportions, it was said. First of the bodies were trundled out of the shaft on coal cars about five hours after the explosioh. More than 500 persons, friends and rela (Con'iaued on Page Fight.) Rivals For Labor Will Hold Meet Denver, Cel., Oct. 16.—-(AP) The American Federation of La bor today accepted the ClO’s pro posal for a peace conference Oc tober 25 in Washington, D. C. The federation’s executive coun cil addressed the following tele gram to Philip Murray, chairman of the CIO peace committee. “The committee of the American Federation of Labor, composed of Vice-Presidents Harrison, Woll and Bugniazet, will meet your committee Willard hotel, Wash ington, D. C., October 25, 1# a. m.” William Green, A. F. of L. pre (Continued on Page Three.) Boy Admits Slaying Os Doctor, Wife Picked Up In Jersey With Two Bodies After Driving From South Paris, Me. North Arlington, N. J., Oct: 16. (AP) —The bodies of an elderly phy sician and his wife, beaten to death with a hammer in Maine days ago. and then driven leeisurely through the New England States to New Jer sey by a young high school boy, Pro secutor John Breslin said, were found today in a parked automobile. The high school boy, Paul Dwyer, 'Continued on Page Six.) .
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