HENDERSON
GATEWAY TO
CENTRAL',
CAROLINA
-I WENTY-FOURTH YEAR
JAPS OCCUPY SOOCfIOW WITHOUT i SHOT
Government Building Under
Heavy Guard In Paris After
Threat Os Revolution There
AHMED CONSPIRACY
AGAINST SECURITY
OF NATION FOUND
Bombs Seized Linked With
One Located Last Sep
tember, All Point
ing To Army
FOUR STRANGE MEN
FOUND WEDNESDAY
Surprised Inside Ministry of
War, Groun Escape Over
Wall; Only Officials or
Persons With Passes Al
lowed In Structures After
9 at Night
Paris, Nov. 20.—(AP)— Buildings
housing France’s ministers were care
fully guarded today as Premier Chau
temps and Minister of Interior Dor
moy broadened plans to crush a re
ported armed conspiracy “against the
security of the state.”
An inspector of the Surete Nation
ale linked two bombs seized in one
of a three weeks series of raids with
a bomb found September 27 in the
home of General Pretalat, a member
of France’s superior war council.
Explosive experts at the time de
clared the bomb was constructed of
materials regularly used by the
French army.
The Surete inspector said “I would
swear” the two bombs found in a
Paris apartment early this week were
“the same kind” as that discovered
in the general’s home. The inspector
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Trio Eastern
Marts Ending
Their Season
Raleigh, Nov. 20— (AP)—With three
Eastern Carolina Bright Belt tobacco
markets already closed for the season
and a fourth preparing to close, .av
erages on Farmvllie;, Wendell and
Goldsboro markets for the past week
showed a slight decline.
Taken as a whole, the Agricultural
Economics Bureau reported today, av
erage prices for the three markets
declined “principally in the lower
quality grades, with be.tter quality
about the same as the previous week.
With light offerings, leaf and lugs
predominated again.
Yesterday Goldsboro, Washington
and Tarboro markets completed their
year’s sales, selling, respectively,
about 11, pounds, 6,500,000
pounds and more than 5,000,000
pounds. Wendell will close November
23, the bureau said.
Official figures and averages were
not available for the three which
closed.
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German Foreign Minister
Invited Tp London as
Chief Achievement
Berlin, Nov. 20.—(AP) —An official
invitation to Baron von Neurath, Ger
many’s foreign minister, to visit Eng-
Innri was announced today. No date
was set.
This vis generally considered the
one concrete result of the “unofficial”
v isit to Germany of Viscount Halifax,
Britain’s lord president of the coun
oi!, who yesterday spent five hours
with Chancellor Adolf Hitler discuss
ing Anglo-German relations.
It was recalled von Neurath can
celled a scheduled visit to London last
June 21. Germany and Britain then
were at odds over the Spanish civil
War.
word Halifax, who returned to Ber
lin, spent the day as the guest of
C( lonel General Hermann Goering,
Reichminister of air, at a hunting
lodge. A hunting expedition was the
ostensible reason for the visit to Ger-
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Blocking the Anti-Lynch Bill
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Senator Tom Connaliy (right) of Texas, is pictured talking to Senatoi
Claude Pepper of Florida, after making an extensive speech in his fili
buster against the Federal anti-lynching bill. The Southern bloc in the
Senate is bent on talking the bill out of action.
(Central Press),
North Carolina Reducing
Debt $10,000,000 Yearly
Net Obligations Cut SSO Million Past Five Years, Gover
nor Ho£y Says; Taxes for Debt Service To Be Grad
ually Reduced Throughout State
Dully Dispatch Bnrean?
In the Sir Walter Hotel.
Raleigh, Nov. 20. —North Carolina,
including its subdivisions, is paying
its debts almost $10,000,000 a year
faster than it is contracting new ones
and has -paid off almost $50,000,000
worth of bonded debt during the five
years ending June 30, 1937, Governor
Clyde R. Hoey announced today, re
affirming his fiscal policy.
This means that if conditions dur
ing the next ten years remain any
where near on a par with the past five
years, the State and its subdivisions
will be able to retire another SIOO,-
000,000 worth of bonds and thus ma
terially reduce the taxes now being
levied to retire these bonds, Governor
Hoey said.
The State of North Carolina itself
levies no property taxes for any pur-^
Union Much
Worried By
Sit downers
Detroit, Nov. 20 (AP)-The high
command of the UAWA, concerned
over an unauthorized sitdown strike
in the Fisher Body plant at Pontiac,
issued a call today for an “urgent
meeting” of the international execu
tive board here at 10 a. m. today.
Union officials said the motors
board would discuss the “entire Gen
eral Motors situation,” including the
resumption of negotiations on a new
contract with the corporation.
General Motors Corporation officials
have demanded renewed assurances
against continued outlaw strikes as a
prerequisite to continue negotiations.
After issuing theconferenc e calls,
Homer Martin, UAWA president, left
for Flint to address a union meeting
this afternoon. He said he would stop
at Pontiac to address strikers in the
fisher plant on his return trip from
Flint to Detroit.
WAYNE FARMER IS
DECLARED SUICIDE
Goldsboro, Nov. 20 .-^(AP)—George
Holmes, 69-year-old farmer, was found
shot to death at his home in Indian
Springs township today. Coroner T.
R. Robinson said he committed suicide
Holmes had been ill of paralysis, his
family said. He leaves his widow and
four children .including Tr°Y H olmes,
of Charlotte, and Russell, of Rock
ingham.
HENDERSON, N. C., SATURDAY AFTERNOON, NOVEMBER 20, 1937
pose whatever, not even debt service
schools or roads. All of the revenue
for these purposes is derived from
indirect taxes. Counties cities and
towns aro the only units which levy
any taxes on property and from 50
to 75 per cent of these taxes are for
debt service. As the debt service re
quirements become less, the local pro
perty taxes will naturally decrease,
Governor Hoey believes.
“During the five-year period from
June 30, 1932, to June 30, 1937, the
counties, cities, and towns in North
Carolina paid off approximately SSO
- in bonded debt, not including
interest, and the State retired $32,-
128,000 of its bonds, making a total
of $82,491,936,” Governor Hoey said.
<Continued on Page Three.)
More Power
Is Assumed
By II Duce
Takes New Cabinet
Post, Six in All Now;
Names New Ethio
pian Ruler
Rome, Nov. 20 (AP)—Premier Mus
solini today announced a shake-up in
his cabinet and an important change
in colonial administration in which the
Duke of Aosta was named viceroy of
Ethiopia and II Duce himself assum
ed the African portfolio.
The 39-year-old Duke of Aosta, a
tall officer of the air corps who help
ed conquer Ethiopia, was appointed in
the place of the veteran colonial war
rior, Marshal Grai/iani. Aosta is a
first cousin, once removed, of King
Victor Emanuel.
In taking charge of the ministry for
Italian Africa, Mussolini replaced Al
essandro Lessona. II Duce honored
General Teruzzi, a veteran of the Span
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CAPTURE IS AMONG
MOST AMAZING FOR
ALL WARS ANNALS
Jaoanese Force, Expecting
Full Division, Finds Only
Handful of Dazed
Troops
CHINESE FLEE UPON
SEEING JAPS’ FLAG
Three Gaps In Defense Sys
tem Allow Japanese To
Surge on Toward Nanking;
Both Ends of “Hindenburg
Line” Turned Back by
Japanese Onslaught
Shanghai, Nov. 20.—(AP) —A
Japanese army spokesmen said to
day fifteen Japanese soldiers un
der a second lieutenant captured
Socchow, keystone of the Chinese
‘Hindenburg line” without firing
a single shot.
The spokesman added the fall
of Seochow, 50 miles west of
Shanghai, was “one of the most
amazing captures of an impor
tant city in all the annals of war.”
Government Leaves.
According to this account, there was
no real Chinese resistance at Soochow.
considered the gate to Nanking, the
Chinese capital, from which the gov
ernment formally withdrew today.
The main Japanese force, expecting
to be confronted by at least one Chi
nese division, was amazed to meet
only small, apparently dazed groups
of Chinese soldiers, lolling about Soo
chow as the Japanese marched in.
None of these even questioned the
presence of Japanese troops, the
spokesman said. He continued:
“Our men went directly to a big
pagdao overlooking the city where
they hoisted the Japanese flag. Seeing
this, the Chinese' troops fled.”
Three gaps in the Chinese defense
system allowed japan’s legions to
surge toward Nanking. While Soo
chow fell, both ends of the “Hinden
burg line” also had been turned by
the Japanese today. Hashing 25 miles
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Artillery Duels
Mark Conflict On
Spanish War Line
Hendaye, Franco-Spanish Frontier,
Nov. 20. —(AP) —Spanish government
and insurgent gunners duelled along
the Aragon front today—from near
the French frontier to Teruel, more
than 200 miles south—while bad
weather still prevented any important
movements.
A Barcelona communique said the
main attack by insurgent artillery was
in the Zuera sector north of Zara
goza. Catalan gunners broke up in
surgent. concentrations in one part of
the Sabinanigo sector, Barcelona re
ported.
A previous government dispatch
said field guns scored direct hits on
an insurgent staff headquarters.
A dispatch from Salamanoa, the in
surgent general headquarters, predict
ed “certain powers” in Europe and
the Americas soon would announce
recognition of General Francisco
Franco’s insurgent government. Only
Poland and Yugoslavia were named.
(Insurgents on the Madrid front, in
central Spain, taking advantage of
clearing weather yesterday, struck at
outlying government positions in one
sector about 15 miles west of Madrid,
forcing the to abandon
a small sector and positions recently
occupied at Quijorna.) .
One Killed,
2NearDead
In Collision
Dunn, Nov. 20—(AP)—One man
was killed and two others critically
injured in an automobile accident
early today near Micro, in Johnston
county.
Kenneth Lee Bain, 25, Erwin Cot
ton Mills employe, was instantly kill
ed when he was hurled through the
windshield of a car which was in col
lision with a large transfer truck.
Harvey Willis and Carson Johnson,
also Erwin mill employees, were taken
to a Smithfield hospital so severely
hurt, reports here said, they were not
expected to live.
Colon Surles, the fourth member
of the party, escaped with minor in
lurtec.
Bain leaves a widow and daughter.
Sheriff R. U. Barber, of Johnston
county, said no arrests had been made
in the accident. Coroner E. N. Book
er set an inquest for 2 o'clock.
First Week Congress Marked
By Uneasiness Over Decline'
For Business In The Nation
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Secretary Wallace listens to Senator Smith
After appearing before the senate agriculture committee on farm
legislation, Secretary of Agriculture Henry Wallace, left, is pictured
conversing with Senator Ellison D. Smith of South Carolina, chair
man of the committee. Senate and house agriculture committees still
were not ready with farm legislation. Secretary Wallace advised
the senate group to adopt a middle course between extreme com
pulsory control and voluntary control over farm production.
—Central Pres*
Soldiers Are Ready For
Action At Rubber Plant
Norfolk Western
Wreck Hurts Many
Bluefield, W. Va., Nov. 20.—(AP)
—A number of persons were report
ed injured today in the wreck of
Norfolk & Western passenger train
No. 24 about six miles west of here.
Earlier reports did not indicate any
one was killed. The cause of the
wreck was not determined imme
diately, but a number of cars were
said to have been derailed and two
were reported to have fallen into
the shallow Bluestone river.
The wreck occurred near the
West Virginia-Virginia line as the
train was traveling west from here.
Ink ROOSEVELT”
SPEEGHFELL FLAT
May Have Erred in Not
Reading It Himself; It
Straddled Fence
By CHARLES P. STEWART
Central Press Columnist
Washington, Nov. 20. President
Roosevelt seems to me to have made
a great mistake in not delivering, in
person, his message to Congress at
the opening of the lawmakers’ current
extra session.
It was read to the legislators by
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TEACHERS SELECT
YEAR’S OFFICERS
Meeting at Greenville Chooses Pitt
Superintendent Succeeding
Greenville Man
Greenville, Nov. 20. —(AP)— The
Northeastern District Teachers Asso
ciation elected D. H. Conley, super
intendent of Pitt county schools, as
president at the final session today
of the annual meeting. About 2,000
teachers from 22 counties attended.
Conley succeeds J. H. Rose, of
Greenville. Bessie Sherrod, of Cur
rituck, was named first vice-president,
succeeding John Booth, of Kinston,
and Agnes McDonald, Washington
high school, was elected secretary suc
ceeding Mrs. Ernest Ward, of Bethel.
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EXOKPT HITNIiA V
Goodyear Plants To Reopen
Monday and Union Will
Install Pickets at
Gates
SITDOWN STRIKERS
LEAVE THE PLANTS
All But Few Who Refuse To
Leave Come Out on Ord
ers of Union Chief; Union
Meeting Called for Sunday
To Decide Future Course of
Action
Akron, Ohio, Nov. 20.—(AP) —Ohk
National Guard units prepared today
for possible service at the Goodyear
Tire & Rubber Company, where a sit
lown strike is in progress, making
12,000 workers idle.
Company officials announced the
plants would reopen Monday, and
union officials immediately said picket
lines would be placed around the planl
covering hundreds of acres in the
heart of this rubber city.
Adjutant General Emil, Marx a 1
Columbus said while no National
Guard units had yet been sent here
troops were being prepared for a pos
sible mbbilization. Two National
Guard observers are on the scene
here.
Governor Davey, during the steel
strike last spring, sent troops to
plants where strikes were occurring
to “protect the right of men to work.”
Nearly all of the 300 to 600 sitdow-o
strikers left the plant this morning,
.(Continued on Page Three.)
FURTHER GAINS IN
COTTON ARE NOTED
Futures 5 to 10 Points Higher at Close,
With Spots 7.91 on Mid
dling Grade
]£ew York, Nov. 20.—(AP)—Cotton
futures opened steady, down two to
four, points on disappointing cables
and December liquidation. March re
covered frdm 7.74 to 7.90, leaving quo
tations unchanged to three points net
higher shortly after the first half
hour.
Futures closed steady, 5 to 10 points
higher. Spot steady, middling 7.91.
Open Close
December .7.67 7.77
January 7.69 7.81
March ’ 7.75 7.57
May ~ 7.81 7.93
July 7.85 7.95
October 7.95 6.03
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CONTROL OF CROPS
IS ENDANGERED BY
TALKINCONGRESS
Borah Opposes Restriction*
on Production When
“People Are Going
Hungry”
FIERY DEBATE ON
ISSUE IS WAITING
Administration Program Cut
Out for Special Session
Barely Inches Ahead In
First of Five Weeks of Sit
ting; Demands for Tax
Burden Relief
Washington, Nov. 20 (AP)—Wordy
manifestations of uneasiness over
business conditions exhausted today
the first week of the special congres
sional session, during which the Roose
velt legislative program barely inched
ahead.
Much talk and petty bickering furn
ished evidence what President Roose
velt’s opening message termed a
“nrhrked” industrial recession was for
many congressmen paramount to mat
ters for which they were summoned—
crop control, executive reorganization,
wage and hour regulation and region
al planting.
This sentiment centered in demands
for removal of tax burdens on business
especially modification of the undis
tributed profits and capita lgains tax
es now being studied by a House sub
committee. Ultimate revision of some
kind was a foregone conclusion after
Mr. Roosevelt advocated “lightning
inequisitable burdens” on small bus
iness enterprises.
The revisions appeared unlikely,
however, before the regular January
session.
Meantime, the administratios farm
program,whippe d into shape by com
mittee compromises, will encounter
fiery debate when it comes before the
Senate and House next week. Its
picemeal progress through the com
mittees plus comments from other leg
islators indicated the discussion would
embrace costs, marketing quotas, com
pulsory versus voluntary compliance
and the broad question of whether any
crop control measure is advisable.
Senator Borah, Republican, Idaho,
said yesterday he was opposed to any
restriction on production when “peo
ple are going hungry.”
Silver Gift
t
Is Presented
Bishop Kern
Alternates to Gen
eral Conference Are
Named by Metho
dist Conference
Raleigh, Nov. 20 (AP) —Bishop Paul
Kern, for four years president of the
North Carolina Methodist Conference,
South, today received from the con
ference a gift of silver. The gift was
presented by Dr. William P. Few, pres
ident of Duke University, during a
final conference business meeting this
morning.
It was announced Bishop John
Moore, of Houston, Texas, would be
unable to deliver the address tonight
on a program commemorating the an
niversary of the board of missions, or
the conference sermon tomorrow aft
(Continued on Page Three.)
WEATHER
FOR NORTH CAROLINA.
Fair, colder; cold wave east por
tion; killing frost, below freezing
to the coast tonight; Sunday fair,
continued cold.
WEEKLY WEATHER.
South Atlantic States: Fair
weather, slightly rising tempera
ture first of week; rain and cloudy
middle of week; fair and warmer
near end of week.