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HENDERSON gateway TO CENTRAL CAROLINA TWENTY-FOURTH YEAR CHINESE STOP JAP SHANGHAI OFFENSIVE ** ******** ********** ********** ***** labor Conference Makes Little Headway At First Session Held FIRST OBSTACLE IS ON REPRESENTATION AT THE GATHERING Plan of Procedure Occupies Much of Time of AFL and CIO Men Dur ing Forenoon C IO HOLDS OUT FOR LARGER DELEGATION Sends Ten Men to Confer ence as Against Only Three by AFL, Which Wants Number Restricted So More Can Be Accomplished; Murray Slaps at Green Washington, Oct. 25 (AP) The fiist st*#ion of the American Federation of Labor-CIO peace conference recessed today with preliminaries still being discussed. . George Harrison, chairman of the F. of L. committee, said the com mittee had “spent the morning talk ing about the procedure to be follow t?d in the conference* Philip Murray, chairman of the CIO committee, stood at Harrison’s side while he talked to reporters and nod ded assent. The size of the conference was un derstood to be the first obstacle in the way of peace between the warring la bor factions.. The A. F. of L. sent a three-man committee; the CIO sent ten. The CIO insisted the committee be en larged. The A. F. of L. contended the conference could accomplish more with a fewer number around the table. Arriving at the conference room with his committee, Harrison said, "We are going to meet them with an open mind to see what we can do. We hope to settle it.” Asked about the statement of Wil liam Green, A. F. of L. president, ex pressing hope that the conference would be successful, Murray said “Green gets voluble as usual.” EARLYSHARP LOSS IN COTTON FADES At Midday Market Is Three Points Down to Two Up in New York Exchange Trading New York, Oct. 25 (AP)—Cotton futures opened barely steady, down 6 to 1 points on lower cables and under foreign selling and liquidation. Short ly after the first half hour, prices were 12 to 14 points net lower. March declined from 8.04 to 7.96. A late morn ing rally caused prices to sell up about 17 points from the early lows and to set advances to four to five Points. March recovered to 8.13, but by midday trading had quieted, and that delivery was 8.07, with the list three points net lower to two higher. Scottsboro Negro Loses Upon Appeal Must Serve 75-Year 1 errn, Supreme Court Holds; Black Omits Voting Oct. 25.—(AP)—Hay- f a t*orson, one of the nine Ne ■ous involved in the famous Scotts " o case j } n tjjg Supreme Court in an effort to escape a 75- ■ ' u i ,r ison sentence imposed by Ala i' Un '' oourts for an alleged attack on d white woman. tu ti-ibunal twice had saved ' Negro from the death penalty, , announcing deniial of Patter -0,1 ••> petition, the court said “Jus lce Black took no part in the con eiation and’, decision of this ap u ic.ttion.” That removed any possi- J1 ay of a challenge of Black’s posi lfj.i on the bench on the ground that was a former member of the Ku Kl 'ix Klan. before adjourning for two weeks, } ( *u° Urt a K rf; f <l to review an appeal the Duke Power Company attack- V constitutionality of Public Work 3 - ministration loans and grants for pu,> icly-owned hydro-electric projects iguments on this case were set for ecember 6, along with debate on v (Continued on Page Three.), Hrttitrrsnn Slatly iltspafrh only DAILY NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA AND VIRGINIA. LEASED WIRE SERVICE OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS. War in 1940? H. G. Wells War in 1940! That is the predic tion of H. G. Wells, British author and historian, as he visits in Washington at the beginning of an American lecture tour. —Central Cress PLANS FOR PRISON CLAIMAITENTION That and Bar Meeting Top Week’s Events in the State Capital DECISION CRITICIZED Pay Cuts Rumored To Care for Army of Political Appointees Put on Payroll Without Pay for Them Dally Dispatch Bnrean. In the Sir Walter Hotel. Raleigh, Oct. 25.—Action of the Highway Commission on the prison industry and woman’s prison prob lems was by far the most important development last week in the State capital, though for color and general interest, it could not compare with the political talk and maneuvers accom •panying the State Bar’s meeting' and the visit of Congressman Frank Han cock. Decision of the commission to con fine improvement of 'the woman s prison to erection of a new building or so at the Wake county Polk farm has come in for a great deal of very severe criticism, though the critics have been unwilling to come out m the open under their names. The prime objection to the commis-, sion’s decision seems to lie in its fail ure to adopt the “cottage plan of caring for women prisoners a plan advocated fry Mrs. Clyde R. Hoey, wife of the governor. . There has been more or less cntici sism too, of the industry decision, particularly that portion of itdeat 4^^- and unskillfully done that n will” cause marked e»^ c a c c o t,on ma a ; mong the .toi, bo* tho” wh“ know human nature reak ize that more trouble ° over as- Sr-s 3 neSS ' ray cuts Rumored After the commission meeting After tne that a committee more were heard £ study the ques r„ or ho work in There was n . highWa y commis rumors, hu*t Dun sion, u newspaper men heie lap, is kjmwn tonewsp P« capital t<> aS T in a the matter of getting any crack in th w hat’s going on rd°soTe n S p«u.ation eontinues lust ‘VeTumors bers of the wages> as posed necessity memibers have, for serting that the ....„ al purposes, put purely personal P°l ltx Ly roll that so many people on the p y (Continued on Page Three.) HENDERSON, N. C., MONDAY AFTERNOON, OCTOBER 25 1937 Cotton Ginnings Well Above 1936 Washington, Oct. 25.—(AP)—The Census Bureau reported today that cotton of this year’s growth ginned prior to October 18 totalled 11,068,- 31.9 running bales, compared with 8,569,476 to that date last year, and 6,590,402 in 1935. Round bales counted as half tales included totaled 186,174, com pared with 148,827 for 1936. Ginnings by October 18 by states with comparative figures for a year ago, included North Carolina, 375,926 and 214,107. ROOSEVELT FORCES HOPE TO RESTRICT SPECIAL SESSION Would Limit Its Work To President’s Five-Point Program as Outlin ed by Him WOULD CLEAR DECK FOR JANUARY MEET Controversial Anti-Lynch ing Bill Would Have To Be Sidetracked and New Tax Legislation Would Have To Be Postponed, Observ ers Predict Washington, Oct. 25 (AP) —Admin- istration leaders may propose limiting legislation in the special session of Congress to President Roosevelt’s five point program, informed persons said today. This would require adoption of a re solution by the House and Senate. Whether the leaders decide to go ahead with it may depend on senti ment of the rank and file of the mem bers. The idea behind the proposal is that enactment of the administration’s program might be completed in the session beginning November 15 if all other subjects were held over to the regular session in January. The principal effect of limiting the session to the administration program would be displacement of the contro versial anti-lynching bill from second place on the Senate calendar. It prob ably also would postpone enactment of new taxes to pay for crop control program. HANCOMLLBE CALLED EASTERNER West Will Use That Against Him; East May Support Him for That Dally Dispatch Bureau, In the Sir Walter Hotel. Raleigh, Oct. 25. Congressman Frank Hancock is going to ;fce at tacked with a two-edged sword in his campaign against Robert R. Reynolds for the United States Senate, by rea son of the fact that the fifth district man lives east of that imaginary line which for years has been the subject of a political gentleman’s agreement, though there are those who contend there are no “gentlemen” in politics to agree. In the west, Reynolds supporters will argue that their section is en titled to the Senate seat by reason of the fact that the other senator, Josiah W. Bailey, is an easterner. In the east, backers of “Our Bob” will assert that it would be nothing short of political suicide for the east to break the long-standing covenant. They will point to facts and figures proving that the great hulk of Dem ocratic voters live in the West, and will draw therefrom the quite logical conclusion that once the east-west is tossed into the ash can the East can never again expect to produce the holder of a major office. That these two arguments will be advanced with fervor and frequency has (been made abundantly clear thus early in the game. Os course, the Hancock henchmen will slyly point out to the western ers that it might Ibe a fine thing to get rid of an agreement which works to their disadvantage. And down east they can, with more than a modicum of persuaviseness, call on the rank and file to rally to the cause of one from their own bailiwick. And so the Hancock forces will have a double-headed defense to a double-fisted attack, It will be fun to watch, anyway. Outlook Gloomy For Accord To Rid Spain Os Foreigners Two New Mysterious Inci dents in Mediterranean Occur To Make Going Difficult FRANCE AND ITALY REMAIN FAR APART Both Committed to Policies That May Prevent Their Assent to Any Sort of Agreement; Italy Admits 40,000 Soldiers With the Insurgents London, Oct. 25.—(AP) British Foreign Secretary Anthony sought a compromise formula today to save European non-intervention in Spain from collapse, but the outlook was gloomy. Amid efforts to sering the bicker ing powers into harmony, two mys terious incidents in the Mediterran ean created what some quarters re garded as the gravest situation since the Nyon accord established the anti piracy patrol. One incident was the .bombing of a French freighter. The master of a British liner report ed by radio from off the north Afri can coast that a seaplane was seen “dropping two heavy bombs from which columns of water shot up at a great height” at a submarine which “apparently submerged.” The British Admiralty, after say ing for several hours that it was with out information, first announced that a British flying boat was observed dropping bombs to discover “direc tion of the wind,” later reiterating denials that a submarine was involv ed. The Admiralty said the seaplane was engaged in bombing practice later. France and Italy, long at logger heads in the non-intervention com mittee, were committed to policies that may keep them apart in nego tiations over the withdrawal of fore ign fighters from Spain. The official news agency disclosed that Italy’s ambassadors to Great Bri tain and France have been instructed to inform those governments that 40,,900 Italians are fighting in the Spanish civil war. MONTAGUE’S MOTHER TESTIFIES FOR HIM Says Son Was at Home Night Holly wood Star Reputedly Robbed New York Roadhouse Elizabethtown, N. Y„ Oct. 25.—KAP) The elderly, white-haired mother of Hollywood’s John Montague told a jury today that her son was at home in Syracuse, N. Y., the night he is accused of robbing a road house of S7OO in 1930. “He came in at midnight on Au gust 4 and went to bed,” Mrs. Mary Moore testified, glancing at her son, known seven years ago as Laverne Moore. Kin Hanna’s roadhouse was held up by four men at about 2 p. m. the night of August 4, according to previous testimony. Laverne left home the fol lowing morning, his mother said. “He told he was going to play golf or baseball, kissed me goodbye and went out,” she said. That was the last she saw of him, the mother testified, until he was arrested and returned several months ago from Hollywood, where for the last several years he had been an in timate friend of motion picture cele brities. Plane Again Bombs Fren ch Navy Vessel Paris, Oct. 25.—(AP) —A seaplane of unidentified nationality today bombed a French submarine chaser off the Spanish island of Minorca in the Mediterranean, setting the vessel Orfirc. The craft also was machine-gunned. Officials of Air France, commercial aviation company, which had use of the boat, said it hastened at once to its regular station, permitting the crew to land. The fire, they reported, was uncontrollable. The attacking plane, Air France of (Continued on Page Three.) WEATHER FOR NORTH CAROLINA. Generally fair and slightly war mer tonight; Tuesday partly cloudy and warmer. WHAT DID HULL SAY TO PREMIER! ill - : :iaiii Sr ilaiiSiil Tm Cordell Hull and Mackenzie King Secretary of State Cordell Hull, paying a “purely social visit” to Ottawa, Canada, is seen with Premier Mackenzie King. Prior to his return to Washington, Hull was to be awarded an honorary degree of doctor of laws from the University of Toronto. Observers see in the visit a closer co-operation between Canada and the United States on international affairs. —Central Press Franco Preparing Mighty Drive Upon 9 Loyalists In East Hendaye, Franco-Spanish Frontier, Oct. 25.—(AP) —Insurgent General Francisco Franco today began mass ing troops at Zaragoza for an offen sive to cut Catalonia from the par! of Spain still hold by the government. Frontier reports said heavy forces of Italian soldiers from Morocco were moving into Zaragoza. The Italian “black arrow” division also was re ported moving to that sector. Insurgent headquarters at Salaman ca published a telegram from Premier Mussolini to Franco expressing “per sonal felicitations” for the conquest of northern Spain. forces yielded grounG on the Aragon front in northeast Spain to what of- Mysterious Plane Sinks French Ship * Parpignan, France, Oct. 22 (AP) — French authorities, seeking to deter mine the nationality of the seaplane which yesterday attacked and sank thq French freighter Oued Mellah in the Mediterranean, v/ere told today by the ship’s captain that the plane was marked with a black cross. The government immediately start ed an investigation to find out what nation uses such insignia on its planes, stating it would “act” when the na tionality ot the plane is learned. The captain of the Oued Mellah said two seaplanes flew high over the ship, one dropping down to do the bombing. He said the freighter was clearly marked, with French colon* painted on the hatch covers. French warships keeping watch on the Oued Mullah reported the ship disappeared in a rough sea during the night. The ship, which had been abandon ed and was drifting in the Mediterran ean shipping lane east of Barcelona, Spain, was believed to have sunk. Two French destroyers arrived at Port Denderes this morning with the ship’s crew. Naval officials who questioned members of the crew, said they were unable to tell the national ity of the attacking plane. PUBLISHED IVBRI AFTBKNOOM EXCEPT SUNDAY. ficers called “superior numbers” of insurgents. f Insurgents also reported a victory at Pueblo de Alborton, where infan try was said to have seized “trenches abandoned by the enemy in which were found bodies, guns, supplies and clothing.” A government source said the in surgent charge there was defeated. Franco’s aides on the Biscayan front in northwest Spain, where the insurgents last week ended their cam paign with the capture of Gijon, said consolidation operations were being concluded rapidly. Train service al ready has !:.een re-established over principal Asturian lines, they report cd. ARKANSAS ELECT! HAS ’EM GUESSING Worries New Dealers, and “Anti’s” Would Like to Know Its Meaning By CHARLES P. STEWART Central Press Columnist 5 Washington, Oct. 25. —New Dealer dom would like' to have some one ex plain Representative John E. Miller’ 0 recent victory over Gov. Carl E. Bailey as Arkansas Democracy’s can didate for the United States Senate, succeeding the late Senator Joseph T. Robinson. Anti-New Dealerdom would like to have it explained, too. Not that either the “pros” or the “an'tis” had any particular preference between Bailey and Miller as per sonalities. Bailey, however prominent ihe may be in his home state, is not well known in Washington. And Mil ler has not been an especially con spicuous member of Congress. But Bailey campaigned as a 100 per cent New Dealer. Miller’s record is partly (not absolutely) the other way. “Anit” A Victor. In effect, it was a “pro” versus an “anti” New Deal contest, with the “anti” candidate as victor. (The Republicans do not count in Arkansas.) Moreover, Miller won sizahly and against a handicap; Bailey had the indorsement of his state committee. (Continued on Page Three.) 8 PAGES TODAY FIVE CENTS COl’Y JAPS THEMSELVES ADMIT SLOWING OF DETERMINED DRIVE Over 100,000 Men, Aided by Tanks, Planes and Heavy Bombardment Un availing CHINESE DESTROY ' POSITIONS OF JAPS British Order All Defense Posts To Fire Without Hes itation in Self-Defense Fol lowing Killing of English Soldier by Japanese War Plane > Shanghai, Oct. 25. —(AP)—General Chiang Kai-Shek’s Chinese armies stopped the Japanese offensive today after six days and night of heavy fighting on the Shanghai front. The Japanese army spokesman ad mitted that the general Japanese ad vance of more than 100,000 men, aid ed by tanks, planes and continued bombardment, was “slowed down.” Destruction of bridges, mining of highways and acres of bafbed wire entanglements ihattjed the Japanese r.ssault. * British authorities, as an aftermath of the slaying of a British soldier by a Japanese war plane yesterday, is j sued orders to all their defense posts to fire without hesitation in self-de fense against any airplanes. Simultaneously, British officials lodged two protests on the incident. Seven Americans and about a score of other foreigners were endangered yesterday when a Japanese plane sprayed machine gun bullets near the western edge of the international set tlement. Bitter fighting amid the ruins of Tazang, strategic communication point about five miles north of Shanghai, still was in progress. Jap anese asserted they had occupied vil lages west of Tazang. Foreign military experts said they (Continued on Page Three.) Jap Hints At Attack On Russia' Tokyo, Oct. 25. —(AP) —Baron General Ssalao Arald declared to day that “it probably is necessary to strike directly at Russia" to eliminate the communist influence which many Japan esc consider the root of the present turmoil in China. General Araki, who was Japan’s minister of war during the Man churian incident of 1952, recently emerged from retirement byway of Japan’s new brain trust. He advocated stern military measures and castigated Russian communism. There are two principal causes of the present Sino-Japanese con flict, the general said. “The first comes from Chinese violation of the agreement sign ed after the 1932 fighting, which provided a demilitarized zone about Shanghai,” he said. “As soon as possible the Chinese built permanent fortifications and mov ed garrisons into them. Beneath this tangible fact lips the in visible influence of communism.” Premier Os Belgium To Leave Post Brussels, Oct. 25. —(AP) — The government of Premier Paul Van Zeeland resigned tonight. The pre mier went directly to the palace to tender this resignation to King Leopold. The official announcement re - vealed that the ministers of the cabinet decided to show their con fidence in Van Zeeland’s integrity by resigning with him. They also drafted a letter expressing their confidence in their resigning chief, who apparently decided to turn back to the rose of private citizen (Continued on Page Three.)
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