HENDERSON
GATEWAY to
CENTRAL
CAROLINA
TWENTY-FOURTH YEAR
higher tax levies
UNCERTAIN AS YET,
ROOSEVELT STATES
As Things Look Now, How
ever, Such Taxes Will
Not Be Necessary,
President Says
STUDY BEING MADE
OF PROFITS TAXES
Chairman Jones Not Opti
mistic That Farm Bill Will
Be Ready by Opening Os
Extra Session, But Says It
Will Be Enacted Before
Holidays
Washington. Oct. 22. —(AP)—Presi-
dent Roosevelt. answering a press con
ference question today, said it had
not been determined whether Con
gress would have to enact new taxes.
He added, however, as things look
no w such levies would not be neces
sarv.
The President remarked Treasury
studies were being made and he hop
ed they would be in shape for use by
congressional committees meeting in
November to consider tax revision.
*ln answer to other queries, Mr.
Roosevelt said the undistributed pro
fits tax and the capital gains tax
were being given attention by the
Treasury in this connection.
Meantime, the chief executive de
signated Frank Corrigan, American
minister, to Panama, to represent the
United States in efforts to mediate the
‘postage stamp'’ boundary dispute be
tween Honduras and Nicaragus.
Other developments:
Chairman Jones, Democrat. Texas,
of the House Agriculture Committee,
disclosed he was none too optimistic
over the chances of having a farm
bill ready for consideration when Con
gress convenes in special session No
vember 15. He predicted, however, the
House would approve a farm measure
during the special session, evegi tho
ugh the Senate might delay action
until the regular congressional term
in January.
has called his committee to
a meeting next Wednesday, to begin
consideration of a new farm program.
Meantime, the chief executive ar
ranged a series of conferences to de
termine what the government will do
about a proposed loan on corn.
The President told his press confer
ence he would see Daniel Bell, bud
get director, and Treasury Secretary
Morgenthau and Agriculture Secretary
Wallace today about moves to in
crease farmers’ return from their
corn crop.
1 PAINTS OF
DOME DEAD
Innocently Prescribed New
Elixir for Them; Others
Still Well
Mount Olive. Miss.. Oct. 22.—(AP) —
Dr. A. S. Calhoun, Covington countv
health officer, and veteran physician
of this rural community, and six pat
tients for whom he innocently pre
scribed a new elixir are dead, but six
others had shown no ill effects.
Dr. Calhoun reported the deaths last
night after his friend, Rev. J. E.
Byrd, of Mount Olive, died yesterday,
at Knoxville, Tenn.
The physician said the six living pa
tients have “shown no ill effects. But
they are like people facing death sen
tences. Nobody knows what tomorrow'
may bring.”
H" 1 said he began prescribing an
elixir of sulfaniamide for some pa
tients after “a representative of one
of the leading drug houses had in
terested me in the elixir preparation
of the drug.”
France, With Distrust Os
Her Leaders, Is Decaying
Germany and Italy, Her Neighbors, Know Where They
Are Going and Are on Their Way, Babson Writes;
England May Drop Her; Japan Is Scared
BY ROGEIt VV. BABSON,
Copyright 1937, Publishers
Financial Bureau, Inc.
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Mother jFrancis Xavier Cabriiii.
■who died in Chicago in 1917, anil
who is buried in New Ycik Citr
may eventually attain sainthood.
Pope Pius will take the first step ir.
the proceedings which are expected
to make the nun, founder of the
Missionary Sisters of the Sacred
llcArt of Jesus, a saint.
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HoeyPledges
Secondßoach
ForProgram
These Especially
Will Get Attention,
He Says at Ahoskie
Road Opening
Ahoskie, Oct. 22.—(AP) —Governor
Hoey asserted here today North Car
olina’s State road system, and espe
cially “secondary roads,” would re
ceive major attention during his ad
ministration.
The governor spoke at exercises
marketing the opfening of the Ahos
kie-Colerain road.
“Roads are the pathways of civiliza-
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CHICAGO GANG MAY
HAVE SEIZED ROSS
Discovery of Ransom Note Leads to
Theory and Intensifies Search
for Kidnapers
Chicago, Oct. 22 (AP) —Discovery of
a ransom note intensified the search
for Charles S. Ross and his abductors
today and led investigators to believe
the kidnaping was the work of a Chi
cago gang. , . .
Federal agents focused their search
on the Chicago area when Mrs. Clara
Ludwig 41, a railroad freight office
clerk, found she possessed a $lO bill
which was part of the $50,000 ransom.
It was believed the first tangible
evidence that the ransom woney was
in circulation.
Mrs. Ludwig reported she received
the bill from Florence Giaquinto, 20, a
roomer at her home. The latter said
she received it from William J. Wer
necke, an insurance collector. Yester
day, before a shopping trip, Mrs, Lud
wig checked the note against the ran
som list and found it was one of the
ransom bills.
stones are attacked; but forget that
they can save themselves only as they
save the other fellow. Then* greatest
wish is for security; but they fail to
Size that security can be reached
omy through the path to ea°r«.c°-
Does France N<eed a Dictator .
France is largely anagricultural na
tion She has few industries. Her
chief income is from the entertain
ment of tourists andthesaleoflux
uries. This income has greatly been
reduced. The World Fair of 1937 has
not been a success. Politics
settled and purposeless. Althoug
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ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA AND VIRGINIA.
Lawyers Hear Pleas For
Prestige Os Bar, Better
Court Work, Free Press
Lawyers From All Over State Attend One-Day Meeting
of North Carolina Bar, Inc., In Raleigh; Charles G.
Rose Slated To Be Elected As President
Raleigh, Oct. 22. —(AP) —North Car
olina lawyers heard admonitions here
today to protect the reputation of the
bar, work for improved court pro
cedure and strive to “preserve and
maintain the freedom of the press.”
Attorneys from all parts of the State
attended the annual one-day meeting
of the North Carolina State Bar, Inc.
At a late afternoon session, Char
les G. Rose, of Fayetteville, now vice
president, was expected to be elected j
president to succeed Julian C. Smith, j
cf Greensboro.
Arthur Vanderbilt, of Newark, N.
J., president of the American Bar
Association, spoke on “Whither the
Bar?” and Associate Justice William
A. Devin, of the State Supreme Court,
discussed the "Growth of the Law and
Some Suggested Changes.”
Ralph Hoyt, of Milwaukee, Wis.,
outlined plans for providing review
Wilmingtonl
Stevedores
Still Idle
Jacksonville, Fla., Oct. 22. —(AP) —
The majority of 8,000 waterfront work
ers who went on strike a week ago
were to return to their labors in five
southwestern ports today under a temj
porary truce with coastwise steamship
operators. Unloading operations began
yesterday in Tampa, Miami, and Jack
sonville, when the truce went into
effect. It was expected union men
would start unloading vessels in Char
leston and Savannah today.
Only Wilmington, N. C., faced the
prospect of iremaiining strikebound.
Alex Hoffman, spokesman for Wil-
Con tinned on Page Two.)
ONE OF DENHARDT
DEFENDANTS FREED
But Court Lets Jury Decide Case of
Boy Garr After Brother,
Jack, Is Discharged
Shelbyville, Ky., Oct. 22 (AP)—The
murder charge against Jack Garr was
dismissed today, but the fate of his
brother, Roy, who admitted shdoting
Brigadier-General Henry Denhart was
left to the jury.
After a private conference with Cir
cuit Judge Charles Marshall, coun
sel for both sides had said he had de
cided to dismiss the murder charge
against Jack and leave the jury to de
cide whether Roy was guilty. The de
fense made’the motion after conclud
ing the evidence and the judge retir
ed to his chambers, presumably to
write the order.
The defense in the murder trial clos
ed today after two more physicians
had told the jury they believed Roy
was temporarily insane when he shot
Denhardt.
Additional testimony that the 61-
* year-old ex-lieutenant governor and
ex-adjutant general was of a “violent”
nature also was given. Lieutenant J.
C. Wyatt, of the Kentucky State Po
lice, said Louis Hall, a Louisville po
lice detective, gave this as their opin
ion.
Dr. E. B. Smith, and Dr. W. H.
Nash, both of Shelbyville, concurred
in the “emotionally insane” opinion
expressed yesterday by three other
physicians.
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he sailed for Brussels as America’s representative in the Nine-Power
Conference is Norman H. Davis, United States Ambassador-at-Laige.
The parley will decide on the action signatory powers should take in
view of Japan’s violation of the pact. (Central Press)
of findings and determinations of ad
ministrative officers and commissions,
and Giles Patterson, of Jacksonville,
Fla., spoke on Freedom of the Press.”
“The Law,” said Judge Devin, “us
ing the word in its largest signifi
cance, embraces both legislative en
actments and judicial interpretation
and construction. It deals with the
duties and obligations of man to his
fellowman in the reciprical and com
plex relationships of social beings. It
involves consideration of conduct, of
motivation, of . the complicated pro
blem of cause and effect.
“And so the concept of law, grow
ing through the ages, had developed
with increased knowledge and great
er culture. The basic principles of law
have changed but little. The applica
tion of these principles to advancing
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LAWYERS TALKING
POLITICS MOSTLY
Raleigh Meeting Discusses
Reynolds-Hancock Con
test In 1938
Daily Dispatch Bureau.
In the Sir Walter Hotel.
Raleigh, Oct. 22.—Lawyers gather
ed here today from all sections of the
State for the current meeting of the
North Carolina State Bar are talk
ing more politics than law, though
at their formal sessions they have, of
course, been fed a dosage of welcom
ing speeches, official reports and ad
dresses of one sort or another.
But whenever two or three of them
are gathered together outside formal
session there is a buzz-buzz of poli
tical comment, most of it bearing on
the senatorial sweepstakes in which
current entries are the incumbent,
doughty campaigner Robert R. Rey
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MEETINGS ARRANGED
BY PEANUT FARMERS
Williamston, Oct. 22.—(AP) — A
series of gatherings for peanut grow
ers, starting tonight and continuing
until nearly the end of the month,
was announced here today through E.
F. Arnold, executive secretary of
State Farm Bureau Federation. The
meetings, Arnold said, are designed to
inform growers about the peanut sit
uation, to acquaint them as to the
grading and storage rooms and prices
to be paid.
ROOSEVELT SPEAKS
GAINESVILLE NOV. 24
Washington, Oct. 22 (AP) A Geor
gia delegation said after a White
House conference today President
Roosevelt would speak at Gainesville,
Ga., November 24. They said he ac
cepted the invitation to stop in the
Georgia city en route to Warm
Springs for a Thanksgiving holiday.
"WEATHER
FOB NORTH CAROLINA.
Cloudy with occasional rains
• this afternoon >and tonight; some
what colder tonight; Saturday
parttly cloudy and colder.
RUSSIA MAY BALK
SPANISH PACT BY
REFUSING TO ACT
Despite Threat, However,
Diplomats Are More Op
timistic Than Since
War Was Begun
LENIENCY IS ASKED
FOR LOYAL TROOPS
Britain and France Urge
Moderate Treatment of
Government Soldiers Who
Surrendered; Harmony Ex
pected on Basis of Three
New Proposals
London, Oct. 22.—(AP) —The Span
ish neutrality sub-committee, re-as
sembling to enact plans for ridding
warring Spain of foreign troops, was
confronted today by the strong pos
sibility that Soviet Russia would dis
agree and throw Europe into another
diplomatic stalemate.
Despite this threat, the weary dip
lomats stationed in London as repre
sentatives of the principal European
powers, headed for the day’s discus
sion in an atmosphere more optimistic
since the Spanish civil war broke out
more than 15 months ago.
Before the sub-committee met, un
der the chairmanship of Anthony
Eden, British foreign secretary, Great
Britain and France acted jointly thro
ugh their respective ambassadors to
urge the Spanish insurgents to he
lenient in treatment of government
troops captured in the fall of Gijon.
These captives have been estimated as
numerous as 40,000.
Regarding the withdrawal of volun
teers from Spain, three factors pre
saged .eventual harmony among the
nine powers represented—with the
possible exception of Russia.
1. British Prime Minister Neville
Chamberlain’s virtual assurance that
Britain was determined not to go to
war.
2. Chamberlain’s statement he had
received assurances that Italy had
no territorial designs on Spain, in
cluding the Balearic islands in the
western Mediterranean.
3. The fact of the Spanish insur
gents—aided by Italian and German
intervention had captured Gijon,
center of the Valencia republican gov
ernment’s last resistance in the Span
ish northwest. The fall of Gijon will
release thousands of insurgent troops
for possibly a cocnlusive drive against
the Valencia armies.
Americans
Take Half
Os Tickets
Dublin, Irish Free State, Oct. 22.
(AP) —American today won more than
half of the tickets drawn from the
Irish hospital sweepstakes whirling
drum of chance.
•Out of 600 tickets* drawn up to
luncheon recess, Americans won 392.
Other ticket holders thus far includ
ed 31 Canadians.'
Forty horses were drawn. There
were 54 more horses with 15 tickets
on each to be drawn this afternoon.
The first ticket drawn was that of
William B. Haggerty, of 18 Broad
Street, Tonawanda, N. Y. It was on
Miss Windsor in a race to be run next
Wednesday. The horse, was not a fa
vorite, however.
The total intake of the sweeps was
announced as 2,195,155 pounds, about
$13,610,000, of which 1,582.73 pounds,
about $8,700,000 made up the prize
fund to he distributed.
SENATEAUGiENT
BRINGS PARADOXES
Conservatives Flock to Rad
ical Ranks and Liberals
Vice Versa
By CHARLES P. STEWART
Central Press Columnist
Washington, Oct. 22. —One of the
peculiar by-products of the New Deal
is to be seen in the flop of outstand
ine conservatives into the ranks ot
the more-or-less radicals and the cor
responding flop of statesmen with
past radical records into the Conner
vatives’ ranks.
I am taking it for granted, of
course, that New Dealensm tends to
the radical; that anti-New Dealensm
tends to the conservative
This may be disputed but 1 thl ™
it is fair discrimination. Also the
verb “to flop” may be objected to aa
having an uncomplimentary conn
Sin I don’t intend so to employ it.
I recall the case of a distinguished
English public man, Sir William Tern
pie. He was called a “trimmer,
insisted that he never had
(or “flopped”) in his life; that his
associates had done all the flopping,
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PUBLISHED IVMIT AFTEKNOOM
EXCEPT SUNDAY.
DESPERATE BATTLE
ON SHANGHAI FRONT
IS YET IN DISPUTE
Pleased at Treaty?
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Dr. Milan Stojadinovic
With a pleased expression Dr.
Milan Stojadinovic, premier of
Yugoslavia, walks into the French
foreign office in Paris, where, a
few minutes later, he puts his sig
nature. to a treaty between his
country and France. The treaty
is assumed to strengthen the anti-
Fascist group in continental
Europe.
Rebels Hold
All Os Spain
In The North
Last Vestige of Gov
ernment Control
Vanishes; Civilians
Are Rejoicing
With Insurgents in Northern Spain.
Oct. 22. —(AP) —The last vestige of
government control in northern Spain
vanished today as General Francisco
Franco’s victorious armies swept As
turias from end to end.
Even more complete than the col
lapse of the defenses of Santander
August 25 was the crumpling of the
morale of the savage dynamite-sling
ing Asturian miners who formed the
republican government’s army in As
turias.
Once the fiercest of all the govern
ment forces, the Asturians today were
veritable tabby cats, falling over
themselves to surrender. Where two
days ago they had their backs to the
wall and were retreating slowly, burn
ing and blowing up villages behind
them, today they were dragging can
non, machine guns and rifles into the
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LITTLE CHANGE IN
PRICES OF COTTON
Midddy Quotations Unchanged to Two
Points Lower; Fluctuations
Are Slight
New York, Oct. 22 (AP) —Cotton fu
tures opened steady, unchanged to
three lower, with southern selling liq
uidation taken by the trade and for
eign biding. March moved between
8.25 and 8.24, and shortly after the
first half hour the list was one to
three points net lower. Moderate re
coveries occurred, but there was no
follow-up to the buying, and by mid
day prices had lost their gain and
were ruling unchanged to two points
lower. March declined from 8.29 to
8.25.
Hull Pleads For Peace In
Speech In Toronto, Canada
Summons “Outraged Conscience of Mankind” To Re
store World Accord; Given Degree by Toronto Uni
versity; Believes Right Will Prevail
Toronto, Canada, Oct. 22. —(AP) —
Cordell Hull, America’s secretary of
state, summoned the “outraged con
science of mankind” today to set in
motion forces designed to restore
world peace.
In an address prepared for de
livery at Toronto University, Hull in
veighed against “international lawless
ness” generally, but did not refer spe
cificially to the conflicts in China and
Spain, to which his remarks obvious
ly were intended to apply.
“There is a grim paradox,” he as
serted, “in the trends which are so
clearly discernible today. As civiliza
tion moves to higher and higher leveL,
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TODAY
FIVE CENTS COin
Conflicting Claims As To
Gains and Losses Made
by Chinese and Japa
nese There
SHELLING JOINED
BY JAP WARSHIPS
Artillery and Trench Mor
tars Boom Unceasingly;
Chinese Repeatedly Make
Raids by Air; Their Incen
diary Bombs Start Many
Damaging Fires
Shanghai, Oct. 22.—(AP) —Chinese
and Japanese troops were locked in a
heavy battle along the 25-mile Shang
hai front today, with both sides
claiming \gains.
In the confusion of attacks and
counter-attacks, it wta virtually im
possible for foreign observers to de
termine the exact situation.
The Japanese spokesman announced
at midday Japanese had pushed back
the Chinese a few hundred yards to
occupy an important Chinese defense
position. The Chinese spokesman de
clared Japanese were driven back at
the same point.
Shells from Chinese batteries in
Pootung, across the Whangpoo river
from Shanghai, fell in the Japanese
occupied Hongkew section of the in
ternational settlement.
Artillery and trench mortars boom
ed unceasingly. Japanese warships in
the Whangpoo joined in the barrages
laid down by Japanese field pieces.
Repeated Chinese air raids kept Jap
anese anti-aircraft guns in constant
action.
Chinese incendiary booms started a
heavy fire in the eastern Pootung sec
tion. Huge fires blazed in Chapei
north of the foreign area.
(In Tokyo a foreign office spokes
man indicated Japan would plead a
lack of time in which to make pre
parations and ask a postponement of
the nine-power conference on the Chi
nese situation, to be held at Brus
sels October 30.)
KINGGEORGEENDS
PARLIAMENT ME
♦ _________
Session Was Opened by Ab
dicated Edward VIII
Last Fall
London, Oct. 22 (AP)—King George
VI officially closed today an histori
cal parliamentary session which his
brother, now the Duke of Windsor,
had opened last Novembsr 3, with a
message reflecting “distress at air and
sea attacks on Chinese non-combat
ants.”
The king’s message proroguing Par
liament was read to assembled Com
mons and Lords by Lord chancellor
Hailshom. It detailed the govern
ment’s “persistence” in efforts to iso
late warring Spain, and noted “with
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COOLEY TO CONFER
WITH TOBACCO MEN
Conference With Growers Is Slated
for Monday Night in Nash
ville, Home Town
Williamston, Oct. 22. —(AP) —A .con
ference between tobacco growers and
Congressman Harold Cooley, of Nash
ville, will be held at the latter’s home
town Monday night, E. F. Arnold?
executive secretary of the State Farm
Bureau Federation, said today.
The purpose, Arnold said, is to ac
quaint growers with a tobacco bill
drawn up by congressmen from the
tobacco districts, and all farm bureau
presidents are invited, as well as
growers from all over the State.
as the march of progress opens wider
and wider horizons of material and
cultural advancement, war becomes
more relentlessly cruel, more thor
ough and effective in its unstrained
savagery.
“Yet in this very paradox, in this
soul-shattering conflict, there are
seeds of hope. No more than a com
munity or nation, can the world ol
today base its existence in part on
order and in part on chaos, in part on
law and in part on lawlessness.
“And, just as, sooner or later, the
outraged conscience of a community
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