HENDERSON
gateway TO
CENTRALf
CAROLINA
Twenty-fourth year
FALL OF SHANGHAI SURPRISE TO JAPANESE
ROOSEVELT ISSUES
PROCLAMATION FOR
THANKSGIVING DAY
president Cites Wars and
Strife in World, With
America at Peace
Everywhere
ABUNDANT HARVEST
FOR UNITED STATES
Sends Message to Young
Democrats Declaring Their
Interest in Government
One of Hopeful . Signs of
Times; Aluminum Case in
Supreme Court
Washington, Nov. 9.—(AP)—Presi
dent Roosevelt called upon the coun
try today to give thanks on Novem
ber 25 for “abundant harvests and
the blessing of stable employment” to
many people.
In his Thanksgiving Day proclama
tion he called attention also to strife
and war threats in many parts of the
world, while the United States enjoys
peace and cherishes “no selfish de
signs against other nations.”
The President said in a message to
the Young Democratic Clubs of Am
erica, meanwhile, that the interest its
members are showing in government
“is one of the most hopeful signs of
the times.”
The message was sent in connection
with the series of “Roosevelt fifth an
niversary’’ dinners sponsored by the
Young Democrats in a membership
campaign.
Other developments:
Robert Jackson, assistant attorney
general, told the Supreme Court the
Aluminum Company of America had
contributed toward retarding business
recovery early this year. The com
pany, he said, had raised the price of
its products and thereby had “dis
couraged the building industry in so
far as aluminum was used in that
industry.”
Jackson, in charge of the Justice
Department’s anti-trust division, was
arguing in support of the govern
ment’s efforts to prosecute dissolu
tion proceedings against the company
(Continued on Page Three.)
Eure Lauds
Soldiers In
State Guard
Washington, N. C., Nov. 9 (AP)
Thad Eure, secretary of State, prais
ed the youths of North Carolina and
the State’s National Guard as he dedi
cated a WPA National Guard Armory
here this afternoon.
The armory, to house Battery C,
113th Field Artillery, was one of 21
armories in the WPA program, which
cost $890,476.47, including only $223-
190.58 from local sponsors, Eure said.
Before the WPA program was inau
gurated, there were only three publi
cly-owned armories in the State.
Eure praised the adjutant general’s
department, the officers and men of
local National Guard units and the
WPA for pushing the armory con
struction projects.
The construction work, he said, gave
employment to many unemployed in
each community in which an armory
was built and the buildings will be
monuments to the WPA, will provide
satisfactory housing for National
Guard equipment and will benefit the
youth of the State.
Labor Group
Agrees Upon
Union Types
Industrial Organiza
tion Accepted Over
Vertical Unions In
Instances
» lp y* sh i ington * Nov - 9.—(AP)—Peace
aS ? * r ‘ S of the AFL and the CIO
trial t t en t a ti-'vely today the indus
vaii • ° f or K an ization should pre
the ve r grovt ? of industries where
ec j frtlc al unions have predominat
retum d eri CU l Si ° ns of a settlement were
. however, leaders of both
. (Continued on Page Four.),
Hptwrsmt Haifa UtapaFrfil
Mansfield Mills
Admit New Order
Baltimore, Md., Nov. 9 (AP) —
Bennett Schauffler, regional direc
tor of the National Labor Relations
Board, announce d today “complete
settlement” of labor troubles at the
Mansfield mills, Luniberton, N. C.
Schauffler said the officials of
the mils notified him the manufac
turing concerns would “comply in
every respect” with a labor board
order issued October 30. The order,
Schauffler said, ordered the com
pany to “cease and desist” discrim
inating among employees and to
reinstate ten discharged workers.
SOUTHERNERS WILL
PILOT FARM BILLS
THROUGH CONGRESS
Marvin Jones, of Texas, in
House and E. D. Smith in
Senate, Will Be
in Charge
SOME HOPES LEFT
FOR EARLY SPEED
Jones Thinks There Is Still
Chance to Have Bill Ready
for Presentation Soon Aft
er Extra Session Opens
Monday; Confer With
O’Neal
Washington, Nov. 9 (AP) —A thin,
laconic Texas and a South Carolina
senator of the old school will share
the major responsibility for directing
farm legislation in the special ses
sion of Congress. They are Marvin
Jones, chairman of the House Agri
culture Committee, and Ellison D.
Smith, who holds the same position in
the Senate. Both, naturally, are
Democrats.
Jones said today he still was hope
ful a broad crop control bill could be
prepared in the early days of the ses
sion, which begins next Monday. His
committee voted yesterday to extend
the tentative coverage of crops to
such items as butter, cheese, powder
ed milk, flax, barley and rye, as well
as major crops. «
Some of Senator Smith's commit
teemen arranged, meanwhile, a con
ference with President Edward O’Neal
of the American Farm Bureau Fede
ration, to get his group’s reaction to
legislative needs.
2 Injured
By Blasts
At Church
Los Angeles, Cal., Nov. 9 (AP) r _P °‘
lice blamed pranksters today Jora
powder explosion atop Aimee Semp
McPherson’s Angelus Temple which
seriously maimed two Bible students
and terrified 500 others last g •
A sheet of blue flame en S ul a
temple dome. Windows were shatter
ed in an adjacent Bible college. Brok
en glass cut several co-eds in a fourth
floor room and three fa lP p . Hon
Detective Lieutenant D. R- Patton
placed responsibility for the bomb
scare” on four students working their
way through Bible college. Two of
the quartette were seriously injured.
Gordon Atwater, 16, of Albequerque,
N M., suffered the amputation of his
left hand, and Edwin Bond, 16, was so
severely burned he may lose his sig
Found hiding in a trapdoor on the
roof, Norman McGrew and Robert
Blanchfield, each 20, were charged
with feloniously setting off an explo
sion to frighten or intimidate an as
sembly. Similar charges will be filed
against Bond and Atwater, Patton
said.
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He Promised Them a "New Roman Empire*
Although some are more interested in the camera than in the great man, these Italian children dutifully
applauded 11 Duce (as per instructions) when Mussolini honored them with a visit at Rome, during which he
promised “You will live to see a new Roman Empire.” They are the children of workers engaged in construc
tion of the 1941 International Exposition at Rome. (Central Press)
Alliance Against Communism
Heightens World Rivalries
London, Nov. 9.—(AP) —The under
lying significance of the new “world
triangle” against communism heigh
tened national rivalries today all a
rund an already war-ridden world.
The week-end conclusion of the
superficially simple accord whereby
Fascist Italy joined her Nazi diplo
matic ally, Germany, and militarist
Japan, for joint action on “necessary
defense measures,” against interna
tional communism, brought an omi
nous series of repercussions.
Break With Russia Seen.
Perhaps chief among these was the
EXPECT 1,500 ON
PROBATION IN 1938
Harry Sample Thinks Sys
tem Is Working Smooth
ly in Brief Period
Daily Dispatch Bureau,
In the Sir Walter Hotel.
Raleigh, Nov. 9—North Carolina will
have between 1,500 and 2,000 persons
on probation within the next year, if
the rate set in the probation system’s
first week of operation is continued.
Reports to the office of J. Harry
Sample, probation director, show that
29 men and three women were given
probationary sentences in' the first
week of November. Two of the ten
districts showed no cases for the week
and no report was received from an
other .
Districts froijj which the probation
ers were drawn were:
First and fifth judicial, 3; second
and third 1; seventh and tenth 5;
twelfth and fifteenth 10; thirteenth
and fourteenth 2; sixteenth and sev
enteenth 1; eighteenth, nineteenth and
twentieth 7. The third women proba
tioners were reported by Mrs. Charles
(Continued on Page Four.)
STOCK'TgO HIGHER,
WITH LARGE GAINS
Favored Leaders Advance as Much as
Two Points; Dealings Later
), Turn Slow
New York, Nov. 9.—(AP) —Favored
stock market leaders advanced as
much as two points or so today. Deal
ings turned extremely slow after a
rather fast opening. Coppers, utilities,
motors and specialities led the 'up
ward reversal with several oils, rails
and aircrafts finding support. Sec
ondary bonds improved.
American Radiator 11 7-8
American Telephone 149 1-2
American Tob B 70 3-4
Anaconda 27 1-2
Atlantic Coast Line 25
Atlantic Refining 22 1-4
Bendix Aviation 13 1-4
Bethlehem Steel -48 5-8
Chrysler ... 69 7-8
Columbia Gas & Elec Co 9
Commercial 8
Continental Oil Co - 9 7-8
Curtiss Wright 3 3-4
DuPont 116 3-4
Electric Power & Light 12 5-8
General Electric 38 5-8
General Motors 40
Liggett & Myers B ~... 86 1-4
Montgomery Ward & Co 38 7-8
Reynolds Tob B 46
Southern Railway .• 13 1-2
Standard Oil N J 49 3-8
U S Steel 55 3-8
possibility the Soviet Union would
breach diplomatic relations with both
Tokyo and Rome.
The reactions wpre worldwide, and
the new anti-comifctern front quickly
became an important factor in the
foreign policies of countless nations.
In Brussels diplomats of the United
States, Great Britain and France were
expected to take advantage of tomor
row’s resumption of the Far Eastern
peace conference to discuss implica
tions of the “Rome-Berlin-Tokyo tri
angle.” -
Woman May
Enter Race
For Senate
Drys Might Back
Guilford Lady Who
Last Year Ran for
State Treasurer
Daily Dlapntch Bureau,
In the Sir Waiter Hotel.
Raleigh, Nov. 9 —Senator Josiah W.
Bailey’s jesting remark that a woman
ought to enter the United States Sen
ate race next year may result in one’s
doing just that.
The only woman ever to run for a
statewide office in North Carolina is
giving deep and serious thought to the
matter, and if she can get the back
ing of any sizeable organized group,
Mrs. Helen Robertson Wohl will un
doubtedly enter the primary, a field
now occupied exclusively by incum
bent Robert R. Reynolds and his only
avowed rival Congressman Frank
Hancock. •
Before any laughing is done at this
suggestion, take a look at the figures
from last June’s statewide primary
and you’ll find that this same Mrs.
Wohl polled more than 100,000 votes
for State treasurer and that’s a lot of
ballots in a state the size of North
(Continued on Page Four.)
ETERNAL TRIANGLE
CAUSES NEW DEATH
California Air Official Kills Wife and
Best Friend May Die ot
His Wounds
Glendale, Cal., Nov. 9.—(AP) —Paul
Wright, 38, president of the Union
Air Terminal, shot and killed his wife,
Evelyn, and then critically wounded
John Bryant Kimmel, airport traffic
manager, early today when, police
said he told them, he found his wife
and Kimmel in an embrace.
Police Chief E. B. Browne, said
Wright told him he shot his wife and
Kimmel, an old friend, in his palatial
Verduco Vista home.
The shooting occurred at 4:10 a.
m., shortly after Wright and Kimmdl.
close friends for years, returned from
Hollywood, where they participated
in an initiation ceremony of the O.
B. Club, an organization of aviators.
Kimmel was taken to a hospital for
an emergency operation, ‘bust phy
sicians said his chances for survival
were slim.
i Adolf Hitler, speaking last night at
Munich, in celebration of the anniver
sary of the Nazi’s “beer cellar putsch,”
proclaimed the power of the “great
world political triangle.”
France apparently was planning to
answer the new front by trying to
bring her two closest allies, Russia
and Britain, into closer harmony, and
to strengthen her ties with the Little
Eentente (Jugolavia, Czechoslovakia
and Roumania, and Poland) to com
bat German-Italian activity in that
sphere.
RULING REGARDED
EMPLOYER MUZZLE
<
Labor Board Considered
Going too Far in Control
of Industry
Daily Dispatch Bureau,
In The .Sir Walter lintel.
Raleigh, Nov. 9.—'Recent ruling of
the National Labor Relations Board
in the Mannsfield Mill, Inc., case has
aroused nationwide fear among em
ployers that the board is embarking
upon a venture in censorship.
The ruling ordered reinstatement of
discharged employees on the grounds
they had been dismissed by the Lum
berton concern because of union ac
tivities.
In the opinion of the United States
Chamber of Commerce the N. L. JR- B.
has asserted the right to pass upon
any comment on the labor relations
act circulated among employees by
employers and to hold the employer
guilty of violating the act if such com
ment is judged by the board biased
or prejudicial.
“The board’s decision,” says a bul
letin of the U. S. C. of C., “raises the
question as to whether an employer
may not run the risk of being held
guilty of committing an unfair labor
(Continued on Page Three.)
TWO MEN HELD IN
WILSON CAR DEATH
Wilson, Nov. 9 (AP)—Recorder
Charles McLean, at a preliminary
hearing today, ordered Roger Biggs,
of Wilson, and Melvin Denning, of
Benson, held under SSOO bond each to
face manslaughter charges in super
ior court. The charges resulted from
an automobile accident here last Fri
day night in which Felton Hudson, of
Benson, was fatally injured.
COTTON CONTINUES
ITS SLOW DECLINE
New York, Nov. 9.—(AP)—-Cotton
futures opened quiet, two to five
points lower, with steady cables offset
by moderate liquidation and a slow
demand. March moved up from 7.80
to 7.82 shortly after the first half
hour with prices generally three to
six points net lower.
WEATHER
FOB NORTH CAROLINA.
Cloudy, probably occasional rain
in north portion tonight and Wed
nesday and in southeast portion
Wednesday; somewhat colder in
north portion tonight and in north
east and north central portions
Wednesday. 1
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EXCEPT SUNDAY.
Chinese Retreat
Is Quiet, Orderly
During The Night
Five More Killed
In Holy Land War
Jerusalem, Nov. 9.—(AP) —Five
young Jews were shot to death to
day in a new outbreak of Arab-
Jev/ish violence.
'i hey were attacked by the Holy
Land’s hill terrorists near a quarry,
where four of the group worked.
The fifth was their armed guard.
Low skimming British military
planes and steel-helmeted police
with dogs immediately spread a
• ight net in the Judean hills for the
uspcctej Arab killers.
CHINA WILL STICK,
TO SOVIET RUSSIA,
DR. KOO DECLARES
Friendship Will Not Be Re
nounced for Sake of Any
Group of Powers
In Line-Up
ANSWER IS GIVEN
TO BERLIN APPEAL
German Sources Had Sug
gested More Satisfactory
Peace Would Be Possible
by China Joining With Fas
cist Powers; China Has
Pact With Russia
Brussels, Nov. 9. —(AP) —China will
preserve her friendship with Soviet
Russia, not renounce it to join any
group of powers dominated by a par
ticular philosophy, Dr. Wellington
Koo, China’s representative here, said
today.
Such was China’s answer to reports
from Berlin that a more satisfactory
peace between Japan and China might
be achieved if China were to adhere
to the German-Japanese-Italian anti
bolshevist pact.
(A source close to the German chan
cellory said yesterday in Berlin that
Joachim von Ritbentrop, Chancellor
Adolf Hitler’s ace diplomat, would be
entrusted with the task of persuading
other states, including China, to par
ticipate in the anti-comintern align
ment.)
China recently signed a non-aggres
sion pact with Russia. Koo said it
contained no secret China, he
added, wants to keep the friendship
of all nations, particularly her neigh
bors.
The afternoon session of the Brus
sels Far Eastern peace conference
was postponed until tomorrow, when
officials announced British Foreign
Secretary Anthony Eden would not
reach Brussels in time for the sche
duled meeting.
WILSON MAN DIES
OF AUTO INJURIES
Wilson, Nov. 9 (AP)—Fonnie King,
30-year-old Wilson farmer, died at a
hospital here today of injuries receiv
ed in an automobile-wagon collision
near here last night. King’s Mule was
killed and his wagon demolished.
Head G-Man
Defends His
Crime Plans
1 " •
Pittsburgh, Nov. 9.—-(AP) —Edgar
Hoover, director of the Federal Bu
reau of Investigation, replied to cri
tics of his anti-parole stand today with
the assertion he would rather be term
ed a member of the so-called “ma
chine gun school of criminology,” than
the “cream puff school of crimino
logy.”
In an address prepared for delivery
before the American Hotel Associa
tion of the United States and Canada,
Hoover referred to “numerous persons
who, either through inability proper
ly to assimilate the true crime picture
or through the deliberate and repre
hensible dissemination of misinforma
tion about the ’’status of crime, are
» daily .encouraging the depredation of
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City Sleeps and Is Unaware
of Its Fate and Japs Are
Ignorant Until
Morning
JAPAN PUTS RING
OF STEEL ON CITY
Railroads and Highways in
All Directions Cut or Block
ed by Invaders; CHiang
Kai-Shek Declares Shang
hai Operations Purely Lo
cal Nature
'Shanghai, Nov. 9 (AP) —Shanghai
fell into Japanese hands today with
the retreat of General Chiang Kai-
Shek’s Chinese warriors, who had held
out 88 days against combined Japa
nese army, navy and air forces.
The city was asleep and unaware of
its fate when shortly after midnight
Chinese forces began an orderly, quiet
retreat toward their “winter line" pro
tecting Nanking, the nation’s capital.
Japanese apparently did not learn
of the retreat until 8 a. m. (7 p. m.,
eastern standard time, Monday).
The withdrawal enabled Japan to
place a ring of steel around China’s
greatest port, cutting off the metro
polis from the rest of the nation and
bottling up 3,000,000 Chinese residents
one million refugees, and many thou
sands of Americans and other foreign
ers.
Railroads and highways in all direc
tions were cut or blocked by Japanese
leaving only a few foreign and Japa
nese vessels as the only connection
with the outside world.
American and foreign communities
breathed more easily as if a long siege
suddenly had been lifted.
Terrific Cost Counted
While the loss of Shanghai undoubt
edly will affect China's morale, at least
temporarily, Chiang declared today
Shanghai operations were purely local.
The warfare, the general said, will be
tranferred at present to the great del
ta lands of the lake region west of
Shanghai,
Although it was impossible to deter
mine precisely the financial loss and
casualties of the two belligerents, neu
(Continued on Page Three.)
Immigration
Board Bars
French Lad?
New York, Nov. 9.—(AP) —Magda
de Fontanges today was barred from
entering the United States by a board
of United States immigration com
missioners who heard her case at
Ellis Island. They refused her en
trance on grounds of “moral tur
pitude.”
The dark-eyed French girl, who shot
the former French ambassador to
Italy, Count Charles de Chambrunn
after she said he ended her love af
fair with Premier Mussolini, was re
fused the right to enter the United
States by a board of special inquiry.
4 (Continued on Page Three.)
Spaniards
Engaged In
Death Grip
But Conflict In Up
per Aragon Is In
conclusive; Battle in
South Also
Madrid, Nov.* 9.—(AP) Spanish
government and insurgent forces were
locked today in a deadly but as yet
inconclusive conflict along the b&nks
of the Gallego river in Upper Aragon.
Insurgent shock troops forded the
near freezing stream and captured two
strategic hills. They tried to take a
third hill, but were repulsed and a
government counter-attack drove
them from one of the captured peaks.
The fighting yesterday brought heavy
insurgent losses, a government com
munique said. Government patrols
crossed the river arid delivered a vital
blow on the insurgents by denomit
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