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HENDERSON gateway TO central CAROLINA TWENTY-FOURTH year TAMMANY AND CIO DEFEATS ARE DECISIVE Nine-Power Parley Starts With Pleas To China, Japan To End Bloody War In East IMLY MAKES BOLD ID SAY THERE CAN BE NO SANCTIONS American, British and French Delegates Appeal For Peaceful Pro cesses in East ITALY IS AGAINST ANY “QUARANTINES” Mussolini’s Delegate Refers to Roosevelt Chicago Speech; Norman Davis Suggests Direct Negotia tions Between China and Japan at Once Brussels, Belgium, Nov. 3.—'(AP) A concerted appeal for direct negotia tions between China and Japan to end their .sanguinary conflict marked the opening session of the Brussels conference today, with Italy assert ing there can the no question of sanc tions. Delegates * of the United Stat.es Great Britain and France joined in an appeal for the Chinese and Japan ese to settle their conflict “by peace ful processes.” Count Aldrovandi-Mareschotti, Pre mier Mussolini’s representative, went funher. He said the conference could not speak of “quarantine” of one or the other of the fighting nations. This was seen as a .reference to President Roosevelt's Chicago speech. Norman Davis, United States dele gate, sounded the keynote of the con- on Page Four.) contestThDrsday FOR CORN HUSKING Marshall, Mo. ,All Set for Galqi Event; Roosevelt To Press Button Marshall, Mo., Nov. 3. —(AP) — Ap proach of the zero hour for the far mers “world series” —the national corn husking contest — (brought this central Missouri town more excite ment today than it has known since homefolks reduced their wildcat fire whistles to a pip squeak Armistice Day. A world series tomorrow, contest is, tor>. The President of the United States will signal the start. Crowds cram every available hotel space and spill over into private homes. Thous ands of inevitable hotdog stands spread indigestion Woes. And 20 young men from ten corn belt states are ready to go in and pitch. Explosion of a bomb at noon Thurs day on the Weber Brothers farm set 'Continued on Page Three.) Shanghai Warfare To Be Moved From Foreign Sections Shanghai, Nov. 3.—(AP)— Negotia tion.s were under way today to move Shanghai w, a; fails from fringes of V" French concession, where many 1 In ' Means make their homes. ' apancse sjioVvsman told of con ditions to niutrahze the Nantao n.' n ■' °f the concession. He cc.ared repr .sentatives of a neutral i'owo; had approached Japanese with -m designeo to avoid further en dining of foreign and Chinese hon-combatantj. Coincidentaliy. foreign military ob ; V :IS re Porcad Chinese lines ex from the international set . 'if 1 Wo ’"' (running and added thej wi’h',l ~n ot. rje * Mr l>ri.‘ ed if Chinese a f trom the area immediately ‘“ti Shang ai in t he net few days. Aft* A * HENDERSON, N. Q. lirnnrrson 33 at lit Uigpatrii United States Senator A. Harry Moore Tuesday defeated Rev. Lester H. Clee, Republican and Presbyterian minister for governor of New Jersey. It is the third term in that office by Moore. Insurgent Bombers Kill 150 Civilians In Spain Shattered Buildings In Ca talan City of Lerida Searched for More Bodies 50 CHILDREN DEAD IN SCHOOL BUILDING Insurgent Press Publishes Declaration pf Franco That “War Is Won”; Says Op position Will Collapse Sud denly and Probably Very Shortly Madrid, Nov. 3. —(AP) Rescue squads searched bomb-shattered build ings in the Catalan city Lerida for additional victims of an insurgent air raid already reported by the gov ernment to have taken 125 lives. Hos pitals were filled 'With injured men, women and children. More than 50 bodies of children had been removed from a primary school which was wrecked over their heads near closing time yesterday when nine tri-motored planes roared in from the west and dumped their explosives. . The government communique called the raid a “vicious and criminal at tack upon civilian population.” After the raiders dropped their bombs, the statement charged they flew low over the city, machine-gunning many panic (Continued on Page Four.) It was disclose :l the flan for neu tralization of Nantao, the Chjnese quarters which Japanese on seveia occasions had threatened to fcombaid was originate 1 by Father Jacquinct, the Catholic priest who heads the in ternational refugee committee. Under the proposed neutralization plan both Chines*, and Japanese would sign separate agteernen^wUn - ‘O avoid danger «. th— civilians flociun„ **u ° U The* ° n ego tiaao r . s, considered first definite move to push the war Jare away from Slm"ghau wouid piace the « * £'i. with Japanese and Chinese the interiors. ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA AND VIRGINIA. LEASED WIRE SERVICE OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS: Moore Elected Jersey Governor Rev. Lester H. Glee HENDERSON, N. C., WEDNESDAY AFTERNO ON, NOVEMBER 3, 1937 Senator Harry A. Moore Crazed Man Kills Two in His Family Chicago, Nov. 3.—(AP)—Alexan der and Nancy Economos, 14 and 15 years old respectively, were shot and killed, and Mary, 17, their sis ter, was critically wounded today, police said, by? a brother who went lierserk with a pistol in the fam ily home. Policeman Walter Tracy said Samuel Economos, 24, who fired the shots, told him he intended to kill two other brothers “in order to make it th© biggest funeral ever held here.” James Economos, 29, told police and his brother George, 28, were awakened by shots, and when they ran to the dining room they found Samuel standing over the bodies of his victims. “1 threw a chair at him and knocked him down,’ James said, “and then George disarmed him. We later found an empty liquor bottle.” MAJOR FARM CRON Average Level Lowest Since June, 1936; Valuation Drop Uncertain Chicago, Nov. 5. —-(AP) —Prices of eight principal major farm commodi ties from which the bulk of farm in come is derived have declined an av erage of 29 percent in Chicago mar kets since the recovery peaks were reached, a survey showed today. Their average level is the lowest since June, 1936. Six of the items, hogs, wheat, corn, oats, cotton and eggs, are selling well below what they were bringing a markets here a year ago. The prices of only two, butter and cattle, are higher. All, however, are weil above th-. low levels of 1932 and 1933. Cattle are \ more than triple their low of February 1933. Hogs and corn are triple their values of December, 1932. Wheat, cot ton, eggs and cats are practically dou ble the lows and butter is more than double. Market observers said the levels to which the drop in prices has lopped ! (Continued on Page Four.) van mi FOR NORTH CAROLINA* Fair tonight and Thursday; colder tonight; frost in east and central portions. TREASURY INCOME PASSES 2 BILLION BUT LAGS BEHIND Expenditures to November 1 Are $2,624,836,822 of $7,345,655,000 for Year POLITICAL TRENDS LACKING TUESDAY Democrats Continue T o Hold Much of Ground Gained Last Year; Frazier Charges Committee’s Crop Control Hearings Were “Packed” In Advance Hyde Park, N. Y., Nov. 3. —(AP) — Fresident Roosevelt, after the excite ment of a State and local election, set aside today for rest and relaxation at his country home. He arranged no appointments before his departure for Washington tomorrow, ending an eleven-day visit here. At Washington, meanwhile, the Treasury reported its income for the fiscal year, which ibegan July 1, pass ed the $2,000,000,000 mark November 1. On that day, $2,007,3931,652 of the $6,650,410,000 receipts estimated by President Roosevelt for the complete fiscal year had been collected. Expenditures by November 1 a mounted to $2,624,836,822 of the $7,- 345,655,000 estimated for the year by the President. Other capital developments: Observers looked in vain for any signs of a general political upheaval in the results of the off-year-elections in 15 states. Although evidences of party trends were rather scattered, they showed, with some exceptions, the Democrats «Continued on. Page Six.) 67 SULFANILAMIDE DEATHS REPORTED Chicago, Nov. 3.—(AP)—The na tional death toll attributed by the American Medical Association to use of an exilir of sulfanilamide, including diethylene glycol, leach ed 67 today. Five of the newly-verified deaths the association said, were in Ben tonia, Miss. One each was re ported from Ellenton, S. C.; Rocky Mount, N. C.; and Osage, Okla. Three of Catawba Deputies Injured In Crash of Auto Newton, Nov. 3.—(AP)—Three Catawba county deputy sheriffs were injured, two seriously, when Iheir ear plunged down a 20-foot embankment near Plateau, west of Newton, early today. Deputies J. A. Mcßee and Howard Willis were critically’injured, and Chief Deputy George Gilbert received less serious hurts. Boyd Caldwell, also in the party, received minor injuries. Officials at the sheriff’s office here said the deputies were search ing for a bootlegger. 3 Men Held In Columbia In Robberies Wanted"”for* 15 to 18 Safe-Cracking Jobs Highway Patrol Chief States Columbia, S. C., Nov. 3.—(AP) —Lie- utenant Leo Jenkins, identification of ficer of the State Highway Patrol, said three men captured here last night were wanted for from 15 to 18 safe cracking jobs. Jenkins said the men gave their names as J. E. Mersh, 54; Allen Hill, 68, and George Mandell, 32. He said he believed the names were aliases and he was taking steps to establish their real identity. Jenkins said the men, arrested in a local hotel, were unarmed and of fered no resistance, Three revolvers were found in their luggage, Jenkins said, and “complete safe cracking equipment” was found in their car. Jenkins said he had been advised by officers from without the state that “these men are wanted for from 15 to 18 jobs” and he was investigat ing the possibility that they were connected with the $5,500 robbery of the Bank of Sharon Monday night. Beats Tammany for Second Time APT Hk iiPl >:*■ gBBBBBBjWgfe3:<-:-'- 'sM? Jra , i ... Fiorello H. La Guardi* Mayor LaGuardia won by a smash ing majority over Jeremiah T. Ma honey, Tammany Democrat, in the New York City Mayoralty election Tuesday. Mahoney was backed by James A. Farley, but LaGuardia as well as he, is a staunch Roosevelt supporter. WHILE INMRICA See Industrial Towns in These States and Oth ers in the “Deep South” SPEND SOME TIME AROUND NEW YORK Will Then Go To Washing ton and Later Spend About Ten Days in South; Day to-Day Itinerary Not Yet Compiled, But Plans Are Taking Shape New York, Nov. 3.—(AP) — The Duke and Duchess of Windsor’s Am erican itinerary took more definite shape today as their American rep. e sentative announced they will “spend two or three days” in New York State’s Mohawk Vallejy, and about “ten days” in “the deep South” before proceeding westward. The: day-to-day itinerary has not yet been compiled, it was explained, but an effort has been made to chart the royal couple’s journey through the states. They will go to Washington and then continue into what the repre sentative termed “the deep South.” He said he was unable to state ex actly what states will be included in this region, although he did intimate the Windsors *vfll visit Richmond, Va., industrial towns in the Carolinas and Atlanta, Ga. HANCOCK CONTES! PLEASES “TORIES” They Believe They Can Trot Out Real Conservative And Win j* Daily DlMpntrh Bureau, In The Sir Walter *t«»t«‘l. Raleigh, Nov. 3. —North Carolina conservatives (economic “Tories,” if you will) chuckle to themselves every time they think of Frank Hancock’s candidacy for the United States Sen ate. Not that they are paxticularly fond of the Fifth District s capable con gressman who has goim after fciggtr game; for the fact is f ':at they don’t like him even a littie bit. What Ihey are chuckling about is the “Heads I win tails you lose” situation his ’candidacy has hi ought about. As the situation vnfo'ds itself to them there isn’t a thing under the sun they can lose, while they may be L winners if the cards fall just right, kt present there is a liberal NeW Deal er in the junior Senate seat, and .here is almost us pionounced a lib eral and Ne v dealer occupying the (Continued on Page Six.) 1 1 " * Shopping Days A Until jt Christmas PUBLISHED IVBKY AFTXMKNOOM EXCEPT SUNDAY. LAGUARDIA DEFEATS NEW YORK MACHINE BY GREAT MAJORITY Conservative Richard Rea ding, Backed by AFL, Wins Detroit Mayoralty Over Cl O; Senator Harry Moore Beats Republica nfor New Jersey Governor * (By The Associated Press) Mounting returns emphasized today the defeat absorbed by Tammany Hall and the CIO in two of yesterday’s principal elec tions. Old Tammany took its second successive beating from New York voters returning Mayor Fiorello H. LaGuardia, by a record breaking total and selected racket-smashing Thomas Dewey for district attorney of New York county. The CIO, in its first major bid for direct political power, lost the Detroit mayoralty to Richard Reading, an unaffiliated candi date with American ‘Federation of Labor support. Wins Over CIO Richard W. Reading Richard W. Reading, conservative and backed by the American Federa tion. of Labors defeated Patrick H. O’Brien, candidate of the CIO for mayor of Detroit in Tuesday’s elec tions. Democrats Hold Reins In Kentucky Stretch Lead Over Republicans as Bal lots Cast on Tues day Are Counted Louisville, Ky., Nov. 3. —(AP) —Ap- parently assured of control of the coming General Assembly, Democrats stretched their lead over ftepublican opponents today as counting of bal lots in yesterday’s general election continued. With National Guardsmen on duty tabulators started counting ballots in Harlan county today. The situation there was reported “quiet” after re lease on SIOO bond of High Sheriff T. R. Middleton, 13 of his deputies, and 27 elections officials this morning. The charges against the men varied from violation of the State election laws to carrying concealed deadly weapons. Attorney General Hubert Meredith, incumibent by appointment, added to (Continued on Page Three.) Shuford Strike At Hickory Is Closed Hickory, Nov. 3. —(AP) —'More than 600 employees of the Shuford mills re turned to their jobs today after set tlement of a strike called by the Tex tile Workers Organizing Committee. Mills affected by the strike, called October 18 in* protest to what the union termed the “stretchout” sys tem, were three units of the Granite Falls Manufacturing Company and the Granite Cordage Company at Granite Falls, and the Hickory Spin ning Company at Long View. Alex Shuford, president of the chain 8 PAGES TODAY FIVE CENTS COPY Because of the dominance of local issues, party leaders found few clues to national political trends in the scattered off-year elections. Late returns showed today: Senator A. Harry Moore, of New Jersey, won back for the Democrats the governorship he has twice held, leaving the Republicans with only si".,' governors out of 48. Bruce Barton, advertising executive and author, was elected to the House from New York’s “silk stocking” dis trict, replacing a Democrat and in creasing Republican strength in that branch of Congress. Three other con gressional elections to fill vacancies developed no party switches. James A. Price, Democrat, was easily elected governor of Virginia. Foremost in general interest was Laguardia’s striking victory in New York. He was the first “reform can didate ever to beat Tammany twice in a row. He received 1,344,016 votes, a margin of 454,425 over Jeremiah T. Mahoney, Democrat. EFFORT TO MURDER STALIN RECOUNTED 13 Prominent Politicians of Caucasian Republic Go On Trial at Moscow Moscow, Nov. 3. —(AP)— Two at tempts to assassinate Joseph Stalin in 1933 and 10(35, when he was vaca tioning at Sochi, on the Black Sea were recounted today at the trial of 13 prominent politicians of Abkhazian, Caucasian republic. A newspaper, “Dawn of the East,” reporting details of vhe attempts, said shots were fired in 1933 at a boat in which the general secretary of the communist party v/as cruising in the Pitsunda bay. The second plot failed when gunmen arrived too late at a place selected for an ambush. DEIfCIMPING FOR G. 0. P. REVIVAL Would Be Good for Demo crats To Have Cohesive Foes at Capital By CHARLES P. STEWART Central Press Columnist Washington, Nov. 3.—Not a few Democrats arc well disposed toward a Republican party revival. I do not mean to say that any Dem ocratic office holder is well disposed toward a Republican revival that will cost him his job. I don’t mean to say that any Democratic congress man, for example, wants to see his own state or district go Republican at the next or some subsequent elec tion. But a sizable number of Democrat ic old-timers would shed no tears if quite a bunch of Democratic new timers were to be beaten by Republi cans in the nearest possible future. They greatly prefer a Democratic majority on Capitol Hill; what they (Continued on Page Four.) said the agreement signed with the TWOC was for a year, subject to can cellation provided notice was given 30 days before November 1, 1938. Roy Lawrence, Carolinas director for the TWOC, said the agreement in cluded a 40-hour work week, recog nition of the TWOC as sole collective bargaining agency, time and a half for overtime,' a clause covering senior ity, a clause covering arbitration and all grievances, including work load, and a clause covering preferential shop. -
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