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‘ ' /:• mu ?/ ■/.SVASX'^^BW . .■.vX-'-VXvrajlKpljPis Si •SSSS®;.:' •• ■ »~jfc • • 1 Hfe IfcAwL. -1 Henderson Tobacco Market Still Tops Others For Season HENDERSON GATEWAY TO CENTRAL* CAROLINA TWENTY-FOURTH YEAR leased wire service op jVVLUYA X ivuinii * THE ASSOCIATED PRESS. Insane Man Dashes At King George In Armistice Tribute Asylum Escapee Charges at British Monarch With Exclamation of “Hypocracy!” INTRUDER IGNORED BY ENGLISH RULER “All This Is Hypocracy, You’re 1 Deliberately Pre paring for War,” Man De clares ; Overcome and Taken to Hospital; Wife and Mother Look on London, Nov. 11 (AP)—An escaped asylum inmate broke through the king's guard today, and with the cry “Hypocracy!” shattered the two-min utes of silent Armistice Day tribute to Britain's war dead. King George, standing rigidly at at tention during the solemn service be fore the World War cenotaph, ignored the disturber, who shouted: "All this is hypocracy—you’re delib erately preparing for war!” Queen Mother Mary and Queen Eli zabeth. watching from a Home Office window, looked on aghast. Hand uplifted, unarmed, and clad in a raincoat, the middle-aged man daahed through the line of sailor guards a few feet to the right and to the rear of the monarch. Guards shuffled him quickly to the pavement and hands were clamped over his mouth. Apparently unconscious, he was car ried quickly out of the crowd and tak en to a hospital at Fulham for medi cal observation. He was identified as Stanley Storey, who escaped Septem ber 21 from an asylum. The incident recalled a similar dis order at a great state occasion when Edward, now Duke of Windsor, was king before his brother. Edward had been on the throne only six months when on July 16, 1936, a journalist, George Andrew Mahon, slithered a pistol across the pavement in the king's direction as he rode down Con stitution Hill after presenting the col ors to Guards Regiment at a huge re view' in Hyde Park. The incident took place almost as close to the monarch as it was pos sible for any one in the dense crowd to reach. Several subdued boos from the crowd added to the disturbance when the horse guard’s gun goomed (Continued on Page Seven.) FARM SECURITIES BOARD IS CHOSEN Nine Men Selected From Long List of Nomina tions Over State Raleigh, Nov. 11.—George S. Mit rhell, regional director of the Farm Security Administration, U. S. De partment of Agriculture, announced from his office here today names of the 9-membor State Farm Security Administration Adyisory Committee who have been appointed to assist in carrying out the tenant land purchase loan program of that agency in North Carolina, as authorized by the Bank head Jones Farm Tenant Act. Mitchell said he had received a tele gram from Secretary of Agriculture Wallace stating that the committee bad been officially appointed by him by letter to each appointee. The nine men selected from a longer 4 —-- ■ (Continued on Page Seven) <\ Shopping Days 00 Ch un t lil w Christmas ARMISTICE DAY Hcttilersmx Hailu Htspatrfr North Carolina’s War Toll Not Big Washington, Nbv. ll. —(AP) When the World War ended 19 years ago today with the signing of the armistice, 937 North Caro linians had died on the battlefields of France. ‘‘Killed in action” was written l>eside the names of 715. “Died of wounds” w'as written beside the names of 222 others. North Caro linians wounded in the war num bered 3,676. Total casualties for the State were 4,580. Tar Heels -in uniform in 1918 totalled 85,810. Os this number, 78,- 065 were in the army; 7,124 in the navy and 621 in the Marine Corps. SALES HERE AHI” OF LAST YEAR UP z __ \ Average Is $1.64 Above 1936 Period to This Date, Supervisor McFar land Says MARKET SUSPENDS AT ARMISTICE HOUR Rev. I. W. Hughes and Rev. R. E. Brown Speak in Two Warehouses as Pause Is Taken at 11 O’Clodk for World War Dead; Sales Totals to Date Given by r. w. McFarland, Sqles Supervisor. The Henderson tobacco market still “tops” every market in its season’s average, according to “Tobacco Reports” giving “sea son’s official figures.” These re ports are published every Monday morning in one of the State s widely read dailies. The last. re port appeared Monday morning, November 8, and, according to this official report, Henderson’s sea son’s average of $27.99 was the I highest of them all. As these reports are not paid ad vertisements from any market, they ■ do not have to be taken “cum grano sa li s# ” Fine warehousemen really interest (Continued on Page Seven.) - Explosions i Rock Dublin t s' 0 i Celebration i Dublin, Ireland, Nov. 11 terrific blast from behind the roy e coat of arms surmounting the post of l fice headquarters wrecked the front „ of this structure today, and gave Dub lin a violent Armistice Day celebra r tion. The royal arms were blown to pieces and windows were shattered. *22S& «n **- B Sfofolm 8 of the special branch of the detective dl A Sl similar explosion wrecked the royal naval recruiting office ini B fast last night. Belfast police believed the blast might have bene in reprisal of the jailing of four members of the £ l Irish republican army. riniiDg rr".l i—— wa y car * n which the Armistice ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA AND VIRGINIA. Morgenthau’s Tax Plan Arouses Opposition And Support In The Capital PERKINS OPPOSES WAGES, HOUR BILL Says Present Bill Should Fail; Wants More Flex ible Program Rochester, Nov. 11.—(AP)—Deter mined opposition to the Black-Con nery wage and hour bill in its present form, as passed by the Senate and awaiting House passage, was voiced today by Labor Secretary Frances Perkins. In Rochester to address the 23rd annual meeting of the Associated In dustries of New York, Miss Perkins said in an interview the 40-hour maxi mum week and the 40-cents-an-hour wage provisions of the bill are too in flexible. “I believe a top (in hours) and a bottom (in wages) are needed to put manufacturing in various parts of the country on a “relatively equal foot ing,” she declared. “But I think a more flexible approach is ibetter adapted to the needs. “In those particular industries where investigation has shown that wages are too low or working hours too high, there might be appointed a special board to fix wages and hours for that industry with such variations as may be necessary.” Maxwell Girl Loses Appeal In Big Court Richmond, Va., Nov. 11 (AP) —Edith Maxwell, Wise county school teacher, twice convicted of killing her father, lost her appeal for a third trial in the Virginia Supreme Court of Ap peals today. The State’s highest tribunal upheld the Wise Circuit Court in its sentence of 20 years in the penitentiary for the comely and youthful former in structor in the Pound school. Charles Smithm, of Alexandria, her attorney, i {Continued gn Page Seven.) HENDERSON, N. C., THURSDAY AFTERNOO N. NOVEMBER 11, 1937 Banzai of Victory Rings Over Shanghai I i I' < Jjj. . * f I j|JS : I lit/- «p, V ? IW| These Japanese troops, shouting “Banzai” from a Wrecked housetop in Shanghai, China, after a minor advance, epitomize the capture of the city by Nipponese forces. The flag of the Rising Sun is reported floating over all Shanghai as retreating Chinese forces evacuate the city and entrench themselves a few miles away. - (Central Praea) Republican Says It Won’t Mean Much Unless “Sense less Spending” Is Stopped doughton thinks IT RATHER WORTHY Merits “Serious Considera tion,” Tar Heel House Fi nance Head Says; Huge Crops To Make Farm Sta bilization Program More Difficult in 1938 Washington, Nov. 11. —(AP)—Repre- sentative Reed, Republican, New York said today Secretary MorgenWhau’s proposal for broadening the income tax base would be “utterly futile” as long as the administration continued its “senseless spending.” Morgenthau made the proposal in a New York speech last night. Chairman Doughton, Democrat, North Carolina, of the House Ways and Means Committee, said the sug gestion “merited very serious consid eration.” The chairman said the idea of increasing the number of indivi dual income tax payers had been in his mind a long time. Representative Vinson, Democrat, (Continued on Page Seven.) Apologies By Pastor Given Duke Paris, Nov. 11. —(AP) —An Anglican pastor apologized today to the Duke of Windsor for an “insult” to a “man who couldn’t defend himself,” but the duke, nevertheless, shunned an Armis tic Day service within St. Georges church here because his presence pre viously had been declared unwelcome. The pastor, Rev .J. L. C. Dart, ex plaining his expressed wish that the former British king and former head of the Church of England not attend (Continuedon Page Seven) ’ ♦ 1937 Weed Crop Nears Top Record Increased Stocks On Hand Are Also Re vealed in Agricul ture Report Washington, Dec. 11 (AP) —Increas- ed stocks on hand and estimated 1937 production near record proportions dominated the flue-cured tobacco sit uation today in reports of the Agricul ture Department. The department, in its November crop report, estimated flue-cured pro duction would total 835,713,000 pounds this year, compared with a record yield of this type of tobacco of 865,- 171,000 pounds in 1930. The 1937 estimate, compared with 682,850,000 pounds produced last year,' and a five-year (1928-32) average pro duction of 679,504,000 pounds. A 64,000,000-pound increase in flue cured stocks held by dealers and man ufacturers as of October 1, over the same date a year ago, was disclosed by the department’s quarterly tobac co stocks report. Flue-cured stocks at the beginning of this October were 914,502,000 (Continued 0 n Page Seven.) SrmSol Reduction of and Bounty on Coffee Proves Disas trous to Nation By CHARLES P. STEWART Central Press Columnist Washington, Nov. 11.—Just as Con gress starts in to agree on a crop con trol program, along comes news that Brazil has abandoned the crop con trol program which it has been trying to make effective for the last seven years. Brazil’s major crop has been cofr fee. The Brazilians are the biggest coffee producers in the world. In fact, they produced so much, that coffee prices, in world markets, were lower than Brazilian coffee planters liked them. Accordingly they hit on their recently-abandoned scheme to restrict their output. It did boost prices—for a while. But the price boost raised Cain (Continued on Page Seven.) IHI Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, Arlington National cemeterv Ixl PUBUSMD FIVE CENTS COPY FORMER AND FUTURE SOLDIERS CELEBRATE FOR ARMISTICE DAY Grange Will Take Bailey Into Fold k Raleigh, Nov. 11.—(AP)— Profes sor Wallace Giles, master of the State College Grange, said today United States Senator J. TV. Bailey would lie initiated as a member of the Grange here tomorrow night. Senator Bailey, Giles said, would be one of several new members to be taken into the Grange. Bailey is a lawyer and former editor of the Biblical Recorder. Last month the senator was one, of the ma'n speakers at the an nual meeting of the State Grange at Winston-Salem. JAPANESE SPREAD" THROUGH SHANGHAI Invaders Mop Up Last Chi nese Defending Fallen Metropolis Seaport City BRITISH NEWSMAN KILLED BY SHELLS Hail of Japanese Machine Gun Bullets Also Wounds Many Others; When Strong Defense Breaks, Chinese Wilt and Run for Foreign Quarters Shanghai, Nov. 11.—(AF) —Japanese forces spread fire and destruction along the southern border of the French concession today, moppifig up the last Chinese defending the Shang hai area from the Nantao quarter. Watching the spectacular battle from concession sidelines a few yard? away, Pembroke Stephens, corres pondent of the London Daily Tele grap, was by a hail of Japan ese machine gun bullets. Two French tramway employees, A L. Churvansky an P. Anelter, two French policemen and a number of Chinese were wounded by wild bul lets and shrapnel. Tonight blazing fires dotted Nan tao and Pootung; a boom of sunken boats across the Whangpoo river burned fiercely; scores of houses, shops and small factories in the na tive city were in ruins. A Japanese attack with tanks, ar tillery and shock troops broke Chi (Continued on Page Seven.) Grange To Keep Taber In Office Harrisburg, Pa., Nov. 11 (AP)—Op position to the expressed desire of Louis Taber, of Columbus, Ohio, to re sign as master of the National Grange gained momentum today among dele gates to the 71st annual convention. Taber, who desires to return to pri vate life after 14 years as national master, longer than anj* one else ever held the post, and 37 years as a char ter officer of the Grange was unde cided as to his final action. The 58-year-old Grange leader, who (Continued qu Page Seven.) El Roosevelt Lays Wreath On Unknown’s * Tomb and Stands Two Minutes * in Silence 1 PLEAS FOR PEACfe - MADE EVERYWHERE War Official Here Intimates Time May Come Whed America Will Again Be Forced To Defend Itself; State Legion Head Pleads For Peace 1 (By The Associated Press) ; Men who fought in the last wan and men who may fight in the next led the celebration of the nineteenth anni versary of the Armistice in many lands today. In Arlington National Cemetery in Washington President Roosevelt paid Tribute to the nation’s World Wat dead with a traditional observance of two minutes of silence before the tomb of the Unknown Soldier. He stood bareheaded before the white marble tomb while an aide placed p, wreath of white chrysanthemums anil a bugler sounded taps. The President himself made fnp speech, but Daniel Doherty, nation&l commander of the American Legion, said the memory of the nation’s Wdrl& War dead could best be served bjr ith» ‘enthronement of an enduring Assistant Secretary of War L<siub Johnson, citing the warlike atni©s|- phere of the world today, and oloody conflicts in Spain and asked: .■ m ‘‘Who can say in the midst of subh nternational chaos that we may nev er again be called upon to defend our selves?” In Paris the tramp of modern le gions .echoed around the Arc de Triom phe as France’s new armed forces joined with the survivors of the arm ies of twenty years ago in celebrating the last war’s end. Similarly in London and Brussels and other European capitals, the new armies and the remnants of the off! marched in ceremonious parade. In Brussels envoys of the United States, Britain, France and China to the conference on peace in the Far East had what was described as -a “useful exchange of views,” but deve (Gontinued 0 n Page Seven.) - - V- Dictator In ! i Firm Control Over Brazil President V argas As sumes Almost Ab solute Power in Government Coup Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Nov. 11.— (AP)—President Getulio Vargas ruled Brazil today under sweeping dic tatorial powers unequalled in the Western Hemisphere. Outwardly, this largest of South American nations seemed to have ac cepted calmly the political coup whibh abolished Brazil’s democratic form of government and set up in its place one modeled in many respects after the (Continued on Page Seven.) WEATHER FOB NORTH CAROLINA. Cloudy and threatening tonight and Friday, with occasional rain; somewhat colder in east and cen tral portions tonight. 19 Pages Today I’WO SKCTIOVS