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HENDERSON GATEWAY to CENTRAL! CAROLINA TWENTY-FOURTH YEAR SEDATE SIDETRACKS ROOSEVELT PROGRAM SHARP REPLY GIVEN BY JAPS TO RECENT BRUSSELS CRITICISM Particular Objection Ex pressed to Participation of Russia as Non- * Signatory debt defaulters bitterly strafed Reference Made to Nations “Which Repudiate Pay ment of Their War Debts to U. S.”; Four of 19 Partici pating Governments May Withdraw Brussels, Nov. 16 (AP)—- Japanese officials here today is sued a sharp counter-blast to the Brussels conference declara tion criticizing Japan for her action in China. A statement from the Japanese Em bassy attacked Russia as a non-sig natory of the nine-power treaty, but a participant in the conference, and referred to the part played in fram ing the declaration by nations which ‘•repudiate payment of their war debts to the United States,” and “vote things to which they do not adhere.” Conference delegates, in recess un til next Monday,. sought counsel of their governments on how far they could go in trying to halt the hostili ties!. Italy To Withdraw The conference was threatened by disaffection of four of the 19 partici pating governments, mainly Italy, and it was expected Italy would bolt the conversations Monday when the ques tion of positive help for China and pressure on Japan will come up. Await U. S. Action The initiative for the next and per haps most critical stage of the confer ence appeared to lie with Norman Davis, the United States’ chief dele gate, who remained in Brussels while (Continued on Page Three.) Two Marine Fliers Dead At Quantico * Fredericksburg, Va., Nov. 16 (AP) — Two Marine officers stationed at Quantico, Va., were killed instantly in the crash of a plane near here today. The two killed were Staff Sergeant Herman L. Williams, £O, of Greenville, S. C.. who was piloting the plane, and Sergeant Celo S. Bowers, 23, of Corn ing, Ark. Both were married. Cause of the crash was not learned immediately. The tv/o men were en gaged in a routine flight, Major L. G. Merritt, operations officer, said. The plane fell in a thickly wooded section about six miles from the base at Biown Field, near Quantico. The plane did not burn. The bodies were taken to the hospital at Quantico. Major Merritt said witnesses de scribed the plane as flying “quite high" when it nosed down and dived into the woods. The actual crash was not observed. An investigation was ordered by Marine authorities. Officers For 1938 Chosen For Pastors C. N. High i’oint, Made Presi dent; Mr. Teague Leads Discussion Wdminglflh, Nov. 16.—(AP)—Elec oti of officers this morning marked rf>r,f C ° S * n *’ Sfi ssion of the pastors’ i ‘‘" nee, a preliminary to the open „ aft emoon of the 107th an- Fir * ' aptis * st ate Convention in the P ® a Ptist church here. na ‘ ’ Royal . of High Point, was All. president, succeeding Clifton loft I’v, °‘ Tnorly of Waynesville, who Ton. ° ’ latc to take a pastorate in Wilkr vf 60 ' Eu S Rne Olive, of North and j *2 Was ° lected vice-president rp h ’ garter was named secretary. made P t!i/ S discus sed at length and -<>lf a dozen changes in the 1 (Continued on Page Three.). *» «,«SUK PSRRY MEMORIAL iirrturrsmt stlatln Btanafrlt [.RASED WIRE SERVICE OP THE ASSOCIATED PRESS. \ Ryan Triangle WM: ... j|k J»Hh| •■•&8888888Rg: : :-:v.. ..w.Vv., . ' K'V.:: ? |l| 11 • ■ ''v-xS'. |S& lowt*- :|||? ||p|-K : - 0 At top is Basil A. Ryan, scion of the Thomas Fortune Ryan family, who has just been discharged from a hospital at Morganton, where he was treated for alcoholic poisoning. In the center is Margaret Barkley Ryan, who two months ago became a mother and seven weeks after that became the bride of Ryan. Below is Ned A. Parks, of Morganton, object of a police search, and who was reported by a Washington, D.- C., newspaper as being employed at a soda shop there. Warrants charging the abandon of his “son,” the baby born to the new Mrs. Ryan, are outstanding against him. SITDOWNERSQUiT PONTIAC FACTORY Fisher Body Workers On Strike Because Number of Men Laid Off Pontiac, Mich., Nov. 16. —-(AP) —Sit- down strikers who had occupied the Fisher Body Corporation plant here for nearly 12 hours left at 8:25 a. m. today and the management took pos session of the factory. Dorr Mitchell, president of the UAWA local here, said union offi cials ordered the men to evacuate the fContinued on Page Six.) Three Desperadoes Held For Kidnaping Escape N. Y. Prison Syracuse, N. Y., Nov. 16. —(AP) — Three of eight men convicted of the 1933 kidnaping of John O’Connell, Jr., of Albany, escaped from the Onon daga county penitentiary early today after tieing up the jail’s guard staff of six in a carefully timed bold de livery plot. The three were Percy Geary, 34, and John Oley, 36, of Albany, sen tenced to 77 years, and Harold Crow ley, 35, of New York City, sentenced to 28 years. __ tt The plot was led by Geary, H. H. ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA AND VIRGINIA. Pleads for China met ■> JfiWMI |||| Dr. Wellington Koo, Chinese dele gate to the Nine-Power Conference on the Far Eastern situation, is shown addressing the conference in the palace of the Belgian Academy at Brussels. (Central Press) KOFBELir ON LONDON VISIT TO KING GEORGE Leopold Received in All Pageantry British Royal Family Is Able To Accord SALUTE AND PARADE IN CITY ARE STAGED Brothers of English Mon arch Join in Welcome, With Prime Minister Chamberlain as Viscount Halifax Leaves for Import ant Talks With Hitler London, Nov. 16—(AP)—Leopold, king of the Belgians, arrived at flag draped Victoria Station today on a state visit to England. King George, resplendent in the crimson tunic of a field marshal, snapped to a salute and shook hands with Leopold as the young visiting monarch stepped from his train to a platform carpeted with scarlet plush. Prime Minister Neville Chamber lain and the Duke of Kent were in troduced to the Belgian king, who was dressed in a khaki service uniform with cap tilted back. Fie wore the Continued on Page Two.) GREENVILLE MAN IS HELD AFTER WRECK Columbia, S. C., Dentist Dies Allegedly of Injuries Suffered in Collision There Columbia, S. C., Nov. 16 (API- Frank Highfield, of Greenville, N. C., was held today afjer a coroner’s jury found criminal liability in the death of Dr. John Bumgardner, 32-year-old Columbia dentist. Bumgardner was injured fatally -when his car and a truck collided near Columbia last Friday. The jury held Highfield was driving under the in fluence of whisky in a reckless man ner and at a high rate of speed. Paddock, superintendent of the peni tentiary, said, “with apparent outside help of some sort.” The three kidnaped Edward Hayes, a guard, and made their escape in Hayes’ car, which they drove five miles from the penitentiary at James ville, south of the city, to downtown Syracuse, where they left it to speed off in another automobile. An eight-state alarm was imme diately .broadcast and New York State (Continued on Six.) HENDERSON, N. C., TUESDAY AFTERNOON, NOVEMBER 16, 1937 Chinese Government Leaving Nanking >4s Japs Draw Near Transferring to Hankow, 300 Miles West of Yang tze River for Great er Safety CIVILIANS FLEEING FROM GREAT CITIES Populace Leaving Soochow. Tsinanfu and Nanking as Invaders Bomb Those Places and Advance Tcp ward Interior; U. S. Mis sionaries Remain Nanking, Nw 3*'—(AP) i.* £f>\ ernmsnt decided tonight to rmr'e t Hankow, on the Yangtz:, nearly 30 mites to the we£t, because of tli' ‘threat to the capital by Japancs armies advancing from Shanghai The ministry ;of communication took the lead tbday by evacuatin' staffs and records to a Hamvok-boun> steamer, and League of Nations tech nical experts were to leave tomorrow For greater security and frcedoi: from Japanese attaekv, three or foil cities in all will be used to harbo various civil departments. Hankow, as the maj_>r haven, pro bably will house the ministries o. foreign affairs and finance. THOUSANDS OF NATIVES FLEE FROM BIG CITIES Shanghai, Nov. 16. —(AP) —Thous ands of panic-stricken Chinese flee from three of China’s great cities to continued on Page Six.) MIAMI CLUB RAIDED BY KU KLUX GROUP —j Proprietor Says Men and Women Ran sack Place, Assault Enter tainer# mid Steal Miami, Fla., Nov. 16.—(AP) —Au- thorities investigated today a raid by men and women in Ku Klux Klan regalia on the La Paloma night club. The proprietor said the place was ran sacked, entertainers assaulted and a sum of money stolen. A1 Youst, operator of the resort, on the outskirts of town, reported to the sheriff’s office the hooded raiders de scended last night after the public initiation of 150 new klansmen at a city playground, ordered his patrons to leave and forced the club to close. He charged $367 in cash and a S7O watch were stolen from him during the raid and the club was badly dam aged. Some one kicked a hole in a $125 bass drum. Virginia Daw, an entertainer, re ported she was choked unconscious and $lO taken from her. The klan initiation was held at city owned Moore Park, by the light of three fiery crosses. HURRICANE SEASON IS OFFICIALLY OVER Passes Without Serious Disturbance on Continental United States Anywhere Jacksonville, Nov. 16.—(AP) — The Weather Bureau bade adieu to the hurricane season last mid night without being forced to is sue a major hurricane warning. It was the first time in six years that no part of the United States was threatened by one of the great storms. HOEYIIirO FDR IS INFORMAL Southern Governors To See President at Warm Springs Nov. 26 Hally Dispatch Bnrenß, In the Sir Walter Hotel. Raleigh, Nov. 16.—Conference of governors’ of nine Southeastern states with President Franklin D. Roosevelt at Warm Springs, Georgia, the day after Thanksgiving will be more of an informal “courtesy” conference than a gathering from which impor tant decisions may be expected to SP TTmt at least, is the opinion of Gov ernor Clyde R. Hoey, who will attend along with eight others from the south eastern section. Governor Hoey said he did not (Continued on Page Twol. A£% Shopping Day* J / Until M Christmas Back on the Job hIJI HHHp iff 11 '.i,v Vice-President John N. Garner is shown with Mrs. Garner at Washing ton, as he arrived from Texas for the special session of Congress. Shortly after this picture was made Garner called on the President. Eleven Perish As Plane Falls Near Belgian City Five Members of Former Royal House of Hesse In cluded in Victims at Ostend ONE WAS ON WAY TO HIS MARRIAGE Ludwig Was To Have Been Married Saturday at Lon don to Margaret Geddes, Daughter of Sir Auckland Geddes; Three of Crew Are Killed Ostend, Belgium, Nov. 16 (API- Eleven persons, including five members of the former royal fam ily of Hesse, died today in the flam ing wreckage* of a Belgian air lin er, which crashed hear here while trying to land at Steene airport during a fog. The dead included the Grand Duke George von Hesse Bei and Rhine and wife, formerly Princess Cecile of Greece and Denmark; their children, Ludwig and Alsenbach, and the grand duke’s mother, the Dowager Grand Duchess von Hesse Bei Rhein. Two other Germans were in the party en route to the wedding of Prince Ludwig von Hesse, social at tache to the German Embassy in Lon (Continued on Page Three.) hughesTnfantat NEW BERN IS DEAD Younger Child of Late 94-Year-Old Citizen There Succumbs to Pneumonia i Attack . New Bern, Nov. 16.—(AP) — Mary Gertrude Hughes, 17-months -old daughter of the late George Isaac Hughes, and his' second wife, Libby Hughes, died at the, Hughes home here today after a brief illness with pneu monia. Funeral services will be held from the home Wednesday afternoon at 2 o’clock. Mary was born here June 3, 1936, the second of two children born to Hughes and his second wife after the former had passed his 94th -birthday. The first was a son, Franklin Roose velt Hughes, now about three years old. Paternity at this ripe old age drew national publicity to Hughes. WEATHER FOR NORTH CAROLINA. Rain tonight, slightly colder in extreme west portion; Wednesday mostly cloudy and colder, preced ed by rain in extreme east portion. PUHLISHBD BVBKX AFTBLRNOOM EXCEPT SUNDAY. Winter Conies In North and West Chicago, Nov. 16.—(AP) —Wintry weather, with snow, spread over the Great Lakes region and the Missouri valley today, accompanied by a forecast of colder tonight. Heavy snow fall in some parts of southeastern Kansas, southwestern Missouri and northern Oklahoma. Chicago had snow flurries, an 8 a. m. temperature of 32, and pros pects of a minimum tonight of about 25. Temperatures were con siderably below normal from the Rocky Mountain divide to east ol the Mississippi river. There were rains in the north Pacific states, New York and New England. MERCHANT MARINE TROUBLES MULTIPLY United States Has Never Made Success of Subsi dizing Shipping By CHARLES P. STEWART Central Press Columnist Washington, Nov. 16.—N0 wonder Uncle Sara is having plenty of trou ble in the effort to get his merchant fleet satisfactorily re-established in ternationally. It is a fleet that must live down a poor record —a poor record, at least, since America’s old clipper ship days. The Yankee maritime tradition was (Continued on Page Two) SCOTTISH RITE MEN MEET AT NEW BERN New Bern, Nov. 16. —(AP) —The Scottish Rite reunion in the valley of New Bern, orient of North Caro lina, opened here today. It will con tinue through Thursday. JAP ArT RECOGNIZES FRANCO ON NOV. 25 Iran, Spain, Nov. 16.—(AP) — Insurgent general headquarters at Salamanca announced today Jap an would recognize General Fran cisco Franco’s government No vember 25, the anniversary of the signing of the German-Japanese pact against communism. 8 PAGES TODAY FIVE CENTS COPY SSr. ANTI-LYNCH BILL Immediate Signs 'Appear of Filibuster by Southern ers Against Lynch Measure SENATE TO PRESS OWN FARM PROJECT Senator Smith, South Caro lina, Says Measure Will Be on Lines of “Ever Normal Granary”; Roosevelt and Garner Suffer With Tooth Ailments Washington, Nov. 16 (AP) —The Sen ate sidetracked the administration program today as it prepared to take up the controversial anti-lynching bill. Senator Byrnes, Democrat, South Carolina, announced on the floor a mo tion would be made for consideration of the controversial lynching measure. He said' leaders had decided not to permit him to move for immediate consideration of the government re organization bill, the only one of Pres ident Roosevelt’s measures ready for consideration. There were immediate signs of a fili buster to block action on the anti-lyn ching measure. There was a sharp, short explosion on the part of the southern senators who have been op posing it. The House, meanwhile, was in a tangle over adjourning for the day. Byrnes’ disclosure in the Senate fol lowed conferences of Democratic Lead er Barkley with other administration leaders. The action today left the reorgani zation bill remaining on the calendar to be considered later in the session. Other developments in Washington included: Chairman Smith, Democrat, South Carolina, announced the Senate Agri culture Committee would press ahead with its own farm program, pattern ed along lines of the “ever normal granary,” without waiting for House action on new far mlegislation. Smith said the committee had voted to start separate action with the Pope- MoGuill bill as a basis. This meas ure follows administration farm plans. Smith said separate programs would be worked out for cotton, corn, wheat, (Continued oc Page Three.) j Jesse rson Held Up As Court Hater Charlottesville, Va., Nov. 15.—(AP) —Agriculture Secretary Henry Wal lace described Thomas Jefferson in a speech today as a “greater hater of the Supreme Court than any Presi dent before or since.” Speaking at the University of Vir ginia, founded by Jefferson, Wallace said: “One of the first moves of the Jeffersonian when coming into power was to unpack the Federal court, which had been packed by Adams with* aristocratic Federalists just be fore Jefferson came into power.” “As a result of the unpacking ef fort,” Wallace continued, “Jefferson (Continued on Page Three.) Control For Cotton Upon Free Basis Voluntary * Plan I s Agreed Upon By House Committee With Some Benefits Washington, Nov. 16. —(AP) —House agriculture sub-committee agreed to day to write a voluntary cotton con trol program into the new adminis tration farm itill. Chairman Jones, Democrat, Texas, of the committee, announced he had agreed with cot. ton states members on regulation of production through benefit payments under the present soil conservation act. The benefits will be based on a farmers percentage of tilled acreage planted to cotton and his average yield for five years. Representative Fulmer, Democrat, (Continued on Page Three.)
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