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HENDERSON gateway to CENTRAL! CAROLINA Twenty-fourth year Japan Asks Chiang ToSu rren derCa use And Restore Peace „J* Message Dropped to Chinese Generalissimo by Japa nese Planes Over Nanking CRAFT ATTACKED BY CHINESE AIRPLANES Invaders Taken by Surprise As Planes Resembling Japs for First Time Make Their Appearance; Chiang Is Asked To Give Himself Up Shanghai. Nov. 22.— (AP) — Japan urged General Chiang Kai-Shek today surrender. A message was dropped to him rv Japanese airmen making their first flight over Nanking sine? the government announced its trans fer from the capital to Chungking, about 1.000 miles farther inland. No bombs were dropped —only the mes sage urging cessation of hostilities. It 'was released from a plane flown by one of Japan’s ace pilots. Chinese pursuit planes attacked the Japanese fliers, nevertheless, engag ing them in spectacular dog fights over Nanking. One Chinese plane crashed. The Japanese airmen, apparently t r ving to determine the strength of the remaining Chinese air forces, were taken by surprise. The aerial de fenses. however, included little anti airciaft fire, which was interpreted as a possible indication some batteries had been shifted to Chungkiang and Hankow to protect the new govern ment headquarters in those cities. The new Chinese fighting craft re sembled their Japanese foe more than the types of Chinese planes seen un til now. The mysterious message ‘advised Chiang to end China’s resistance and surrender himself to the Japanese. A Japanese spokesman acknowledged a "personal message” had been dropped at Nanking, but would not disclose its text. Searchers For Payne Surprised Columbia, S. C-, Nov. 23 W. H. Rawlinson, of the Columbia city police, told today how he and other officers fell yesterday into a trap he said Augusta police had laid for Bill Payne, notorious escaped North Caro lina convict. Rawlinson, Lieutenant Leo Jenkins, of the State Highway Patrol; Captain Farmer and Lieutenant Young of the North Carolina Highway Patrol, and Columbia Detectives Bob Eleazer and Molly Westcott drove up to a farm house near North Augusta at 2 a. m. Augusta police swarmed out, two of them covering the ears with machine guns, and the others ready with pis tols, Rawlinson related. The situation was quickly cleared, however, wie chief admitted “it wasn't much fun at first. They had those machine guns ready, all right.” He said the two parties of officers had met while working on the same clues* wajsready— almost—toget Sitdowners Leave Plant In Michigan Horner Martin Suc ceeds in Evacuating Fisher Body Fac tory at Pontiac Pontiac, Mich., Nov. 22.—-(AP) — Sitdowners who had held the General Motors Fisher Body plant here since Wednesday evening marched out at 11 30 a. m. today, led by Homer Mar m, international president. Martin, who entered the plant at o. m., said when he emerg'ed the s rikers had voted unanimously to ev «cuate the plane. H e said the company would h e mjtjfied at once the men had left and r - w °uld try to open negotiations on 10 grievances which caused tl*e strike. Martin announced this afternoon :11a rd Hotchkiss, of Chicago, for !*! r L P res >dent of the Armour Institute a h'bicago, would come to Pontiac to morrow to arbitrate the issues. The TJ 1 , ’ which began without warning ednesday when a few hundred mem °f the night shift refused to or * because the company insisted r _ (C °n'iuued on Page Eight.) _ HENDERSON. N.® Hvttiiprsmt Batin Btsmtfrir ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA AND VIRGINIA. LEASED W IR E 3 SERVICE OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS. Nobel Peace Winner jtt jjiaajSk ggUgg >-■ • - n Viscount C ~eil . . . Nobel winner New portrait of Viscount Cecil of Chelwood, leading British protag onist of the League of Nations, who has been named winner of the 1937 Nobel peace prize. Lord Cecil, now in the United States, has been joint president of the League of Nations union since 1919. He resigned from the Brit ish cabinet in 1927 to devote more time to his league work. —Central Press BULLITT TO PILOT WINDSORS' IN U. S. Ambassador to France Thoroughly Capable of Doing Good Job of It By CHARLES P. STEWART Central Press Columnist Washington, Nov. 22.—When I refer to William C. Bullitt, our ambassador in France, as ‘’Bill”, I am not disre spectful. My acquaintance with Bill Bullitt dates back to 1915 (22 years ago), when he and I were fellow tourists on Henry Ford’s peace trip to “get the boys out of the trenches by Christ mas.” Bill, at that time, was a cubbish reporter, whereas I v/as an experienc ed newspaperman. He did not then resent having me address him as “Bill”. I doubt that he would do so now. Anyway, it is as “Bill” that I always think of him, and to speak of him as “Ambassador Bullitt” gives me a pain. Ironic! By the way: Isn’t it ironic that the Peace Ship, the Danish-American liner Oscar 11, is being broken up today to be trans ferred into raw material for war purposes? But to get back to Bill. Bill To Pilot Windsors? Judging from Paris dispatches, my impression is that Bill Bullitt has I taken over the job of arranging an I American tour for the Windsors. Just before the Windsor couple’s ori ginally-planned visit was called off, due to American labor’s disapproval of their then sponsor, Charles E. Be daux, Bill dinned the pair at his Paris embassy. At that point the whole thing blew up; at least it was postponed. But subsequently Bill has entertain ed the two Windsors again, and yet again. , , .. And it begins to be talked that they Continued on Page Five.) GET NEGRO WANTED IN WAYNE SLAYING Leslie Cox Jumps Off " rlds;e After Escape from Officers In Virginia Fairfax, Va., Nov. 22. -(AP) --Leslie Cox, Negro prisoner ch * rg ?l !, t killing a State highway patrolman at Goldsboro, N. C., was captured near here today. Cox was captured by State Policeman Robertson, w found him suffering from a £™ken leg received when he leaped fro ™ 75-foot bridge over Occoquan creek last night. The Negro jumped to the creek bed when he found a car he had stopped to ask for a fide contained officers seeking him. He escaped Fri dav ni-ht from New York officers taking him from Brooklyn to Golds b°rnv suffering from exposure in the wis brought here for treatment before being taken Goldsboro. ___ Shopping Days O *7 Until £ | Christmas HENDERSON, N. C., MONDAY AFTERNOON, NOVEMBER 22, 1987 Hying Fortresses Over Gotham ' • • • • • • i This spectacular picture, made by United States Army Air Corps photog raphers, shows a squadron of “flying fortresses,” the army’s newest and deadliest bombing planes, over New York’s financial district. The planes are pictured in step-up echelon formation. (Central Press) Congress Almost Ready To Start Crop Control Debate In Both Houses Ever-Normal Granary Plan Incorporated in House Bill, While Senate Measure H as No Revenue Provisions; Roosevelt Cancels His Trip South i Washington Nov. 22 (AP) —Con- gress was ready—almost—to get down to work today on crop control legisla tion. Both Senate and House continued the same sort of wordy debate that produced no action during the first week of the special congressional ses sion, but the Senate had a farm bill to start on tomorrow. A weary House sub-committee also wound up its discussions over an agri cultural bill to,establish an ever-nor mal granary and stabilize farm prices. Majority Leader Rayburn, Demo crat, Texas, said word from the. com mittee was the legislation would be ready for the House by tonight, “cer tainly by tomorrow.” He predicted debate would begin by the end of the week. The measure drafted by the Senate agriculture Committee had no reve nue-raising provisions, but committee members said it complied with Presi dent Roosevelt’s word not to increase spending without compensating taxes. HOEY STATEMENTS AGAINSTAND OUT Mrs. Spillman Makes Glar ing Mistake in Trial Bal loon for Governor Dally Dispatch Rnrean, In the Sir Walter Hotel. Raleigh, Nov. 22. —The really out standing piece of news in this capital last week didn’t happen last week. In fact, it has been slowly happening for a number of years, but attention was centered on it the end of last week. Reference is made to Governor Hoey’s statement that North Carolina and its subdivisions have reduced their total indebtedness by the more than impressive total of some fifty million dollars in the last five years. All of which speaks well for the finan cial of affairs of the Old North State and its county and municipal governments. In addition to letting the public in on a little known or advertised ac complishment of North Carolina, Gov ernor Hoey, as usual, made news by making speeches or statements along other lines. In Washington Thursday night he told the North Carolina So ciety, composed of Tar Heels in the nation’s capital, that this State is “on its way.” He crowded into nine min utes “all the time he had left when preliminaries of his Dixiewide broads cast were completed) quite a resume of forward steps taken in recent years. Ha spoke without manscript and in his usual flowing vein, much to the astonishment of radio attaches who were strangers to his oratorical pow ers. During the week, too, the governor came out in a ringing defense of the State’s parole system, simultaneously with the publication through this bu reau of figures showing that the num <Cont» r ued on Page Five)/; Senator Pope, Democrat, Idaho, said the final draft could hold costs \yith in $500,000,000 already bracketed to the farm program. Some other mem bers disputed this. Vice-President Garner, Speaker Bankhead and Majority Leader Bark ley, Democrat, Kentucky, and Ray burn, of the Senate and House, mean time, conferred with the President on speeding up legislative action. Other developments: The President, on advice of physi cian and dentist, cancelled his Thanks giving trip to Warm Springs, Ga., but made plans to go there and to the Florida coast on a fishing trip when he regained his strength. The labor relations board won a Su preme Court review in its efforts to enforce an order directing the Pacific Grayhound Lines, Inc., to withdraw all recognition from a labor organiza tion it allegedly formed and dominat ed. No written opinions were delivered at today's brief session before the court adjourned until December 6. North And East Feel Cold Snap By The Associated Press) Snow and freezing temperature gave New England and parts of the Middle Atlantic States their first chilling taste of winter today. Eight persons died in New Eng land over the week-end in motor accidents attributed to ice-coated roads. Eight inches of snow fell in the Berkshire Hils in western Massachusetts and between four and five inches covered northern Vermont and Maine. Shipping schedules in Boston were slightly upset by the weather. Many minor traffic accidents in northern New York were caused by the weather. Western, central and nortehern parts of the state had a ten-inch snowfall, with the temperature far below freezing. New York City’s weather was clear and cold. FURTHER GAIN FOR COTTON REGISTERED Higher Cables and Trade and Foreign Buying Boost Market Dur ing Forenoon New York, Nov. 22. —(AP)—Cotton futures opened steady, up three to five points on higher cables, trade and foreign buying. Thfe March position moved up from 7.88 to 7.92, and short ly after the first half hour was 7.91 with the list four to six points net higher. By midday, March was sell ing at 7.88, and the list was two to four points net higher. Grange Announces 12-Point Program For 1938 Farming On Record Against Legisla tion Regimenting Farmer As to His Planting Liberty FOR CONTINUATION OF SOIL PROGRAM Family-Sized Farm Should Be Protected in Benefits, Report Holds; Platform Based on Conclusions Reached at Recent 71st Convention Harrisonburg, Pa., Nov. 22. —(AF) The National Grange announced to day its 1938 platform for agriculture —l2 planks based on conclusions reached at the organization’s recent 71st annual meeting. The platform: 1. The American farmer i 3 entitled to equality of opportunity and to a fair share of the national income. 2. There must be no legislation en acted which would result in either immediate of eventual regimentation of the American farmer. 3. The A.-io lean market should be restored to the American farmer to ihe limit of his ability to produce ef ficiently; there should be no curtail ment of crop production that would place him at a disadvantage and im ports should be limited to those things which he cannot supply; agriculture should be given equal protection with labor and industry under the tariff, and those reciprocal trade treaties which are harmful to the farmer should be repealed. 4. The soil conservation service should be continued to help the far mer to improve his land and diversify his crops, but it must not be used as "a means to production control. 5. For those crops of which there are exportable surpluses, and for which marketing agreements are un dertaken, the program should be adopted only after a vote of farmers affected and complete control should remain in their hands* Reasonable commodity loans should be made available to assist orderly marketing. 6. The family-sized farm should be protected in soil conservation benefits and taxation on the same principle that provides basic exemptions for small incomes and bases taxation up on ability to pay. 7. Cooperation should be fostered among farmers and farm organiza tions as a means of solving their pro blems; cooperation to be successful should be based on sound business principles, one-membdr-one-vote con trol by farmers themselves, and ef ficient management. 8. Make the extension service more helpful to agriculture. 9. Make the Farm Credit Adminis tration of continuing benefit to farm ers. 10. Balance the budget; insist on economy and efficiency in local dis trict ana federal governments; eli minate and avoid duplication of pub lic services; protect the tax-payer and keep in mind that for everything asked of government the tax-payers must pay the bill. 11. Foster cooperation and good will between government, labor, in dustry and agriculture; create con fidence so recovery may go forward, the wheels of business may turn fas ter, more people may be employed and more consuming power created. 12. Encourage world peace. DEAffIFIN IS NOTJJNRAVELED Georgia Coroner’* Jury Finds Capitalist Died of “Unknown” Cause Sea Island, Ga., Nov. 22.—(AP) — A coroner’s jury found today Howard Earle Coffin, industrial leader, was killed yesterday by a gunshot wound, “the cause of the discharge of the gun being unknown to the jury.” After a three-hour investigation, the jury returned this verdict: “We the jury, after hearing evid ence and physical evidence, find that Howard Earle Coffin came to his death from a gunshot wound in the head, the cause of the discharge of the gun being unknown to the jury.” Coffin, a founder and former vice president of the Hudson Motor Com pany, and later chairman oi the board of Southeastern Cottons, Inc., was found shot to death on the floor of a bedroom in his winter home. J. D. Compton, who discovered the body lying beside one of Coffin’3 hunting rifles, was one of the wit nesses heard by the jury. Compton is general manager of the Sea Islanc Company, of which Coffin was board chairman. Compton had gone to Cof fin’s home to discuss with him a hunt ing trip planned for today. Coffin apparently had been killed instantly by a single rife bullet thro ugh the head, and Compton expressed belief yesterday the death was due to an accident which occurred while Coffin was cleaning or examiningthe gun. IkMEMMI PUBLISHED WH*Y ▲FTBUtNOOM EXCEPT SUNDAY Greeting Gandhi r » ■■ I , , , '■.;»> SggSgk? rasßs§pßj& gfe» Mohandas" K. Gandhi, 68-year-old Indian Nationalist leader, is shown on his arrival in Calcutta recently, while en route to Barackpore for a conference with Sir John Anderson, Governor of Bengal, regarding the release of political prisoners. f Central Press) U.S. AMBASSADOR WORKS ON REPORT TO CLOSE MEETING Assisted by British Delegate at Brussels Conference In Winding Up Affairs FINAL SESSION IS FURTHER DELAYED Document Being Prepared Must Meet Approval of French Delegation, Which Is Late ini Returning; Meet ing Admits Inability To Stop War Brussels, Nov. 2”.—(AP) —United States Ambassador-at-Large, Norman Davis and British Delegate Viscount Cranborne worked today on the draft of a new statement on the Chinese- Japanese conflict which may bring the Brussels conference to a close. The document under discussion still must gain approval from French de legates, who originally planned to re turn to Brussels Saturday, but put off their arrival until noon today. In these circumstances, postponement of this afternoon’s meeting remained a possibility up to the last moment. A protracted delay was regarded as un likely, however, since Davis was un derstood to be anxious to sail for the United States Thursday, and British (Continued on Fage Eight) SaFIFIEIS PLEA FOR WOMAN i Mrs. Godwin Tells Harnett Jury of Third Husband s Death Billington, Nov. 22—(AP)—Mrs. Sina Fope Godwin told a Harnett county jury today she shot and killed Fur man Godwin, her third husband, in self-defense. After selection of a jury, Solicitor Claude Cannady told the court Mrs. Godwin had decided to submit to a t®irge of killing her husband with a deadly weapon but claimed self-de fense. The comely, 37-year-old widow, who was once sentenced to serve from ten to fifteen years, but who won a new trial from the Supreme Court, was the first witness. She said her husband was a narcotic addict and she was forced to kill him when he attacked her. He was killed in July, 1936. The jury was drawn from a special venire of 100 Wayne county citizens. 8 PAGES TODAY FIVE CENTS COPY FRENCH PRETENDER SAYS HE WILL GET HIS THRONE BACK Duke’s Son, Count of Paris, Is Quick To Deny His Father Is Serious , About It IS NOT CONNECTED WITH REVOLT PLOT * Count’s Paris Newspaper Says He Had No Military Action in Mind, But Mere ly Meant To Rally Follow ers; Royalists Estimated at 50,000 Paris, Nov. 2?. —(AP) —ln the midst of police efforts to crush an armed revolutionary organization, the Duke Gins, pretender to the throne of France, issued a manifesto today an nouncing he had decided to “recapture the throne of my fathers.” The Du':e’s son, the Count of Paris, immediately denied his father’s acts had any connection whir the Cagoul ards,. or “hooded ones.” He insisted it was a mere coincidence the manifesto was issued while the secret organiza tion was being investigated. Swiss police, however, thought dif ferently. The Count had been expect ed to issue his father’s statement last night at a meeting of royalists at his villa in Versoix, Switzerland, but Swiss police banned the meeting, and “invited” him to leave the country. (A Geneva dispatch reported the count had returned there unexpect edly today. Previously it had been re ported he had left his villa presumably to quit the country.) Spokesmen for the county’s Paris newspaper, the Courier Royal, insisted the duke’s use of the word “recon quer” meant only he planned to rally Frenchmen to his program and had In mind no military action. Political observers viewed the duke’s chances of changing France into a monarchy as “practically zero.” The royalists throughout France were believed to number less than 50,000. The Surete Nationale, secret police, who already had arrested several royalists for participation in the na tional revolution committee, had no comment on the manifesto. HIGH POINT WOMAN IS FATALLY INJURED Car Overturns on Highway at Night; Daughter and Two Others Along; One Held High Point, Nov. 23 (A'P)—Mrs. George Allen, of this city, was fatally injured and three other persons were hurt when the car in which they were riding overturned on Highway No. 10 early this morning. Those injured were: Juanita Allen, 16, daughter of Mrs. George Allen; George Estes, 17 4 and Walter Hancock, all of this city. Police preferred a manslaughter charge against Hancock, who they said was the driver of the cat*. * Compulsory Tobacco Bill Is Presented Contains Quotas and Penalty Provisions, With Referendum Provided Washington, Nov. 22. —(AP)—A to bacco control provision identical to the plan drafted by tobacco-state re presentatives in Congress went before the Senate today as a part of its agri culture committee’s new farm bill. Incorporated in the bill by Sena tor Ellender, Democrat, Louisiana, it proposed regulation through market ing quotas in years the agriculture secretary determines a surplus exists. It would be applicable to flue-cured, fire-cured, air-cured, burley, Mary land, cigar-filler and cigar-binder types of tobacco. Control would be compulsory in the event two-thirds of the growers ap proved quotas in a referendum. A fifty percent penalty would be im posed on tobacco sold in excess of quotas. The agriculture secretary would de termine on each November 15 whether a surplus existed. On types where there were surpluses a national mar keting quota would be ordered for the following year, contingent upon the results of the referendum which would be conducted 30 days later. The secretary would be authorized to de termine next January 15 whether a surplus existed. WEATHER FOB NORTH CAROLINA. Fair tonight; Tuesday increas ing cloudiness and warmer.