HENDERSON
GATEWAY TO
central
CAROLINA
TWENTY-FOURTH YEAR
JAPS HAUL DOWN U. S. FUG AT SHANGHAI
SENATE WILL PASS
ON REORGANIZATION
AND FARM MATTERS
Barkley Outlines Task He
Thinks Will Be Complet
ed Before Extra
Session Ends
DECEMBER 22 DATE
FIXED TO ADJOURN
Says Tax Revision Cannot
Be Whipped Into Shape in
Time To Pass Before Holi
days; Washington Sees
Japan Closing Chinese
“Open Door”
Washington, Nov. 30.—(AP)—Ma
jority Loader Barkley said today he
expected the Senate to complete ac
tion on new farm legislation, the anti
lynching bill, government reorganiza
tion and housng legislation before
the special session ends.
Barkley outlined “this goal” after
a long conference with Democratic
senators on the steering committee.
He admitted his. program was “op
timistic", in view of plans to end the
special sesson “about December 22”
for the year-end holiday.
Barkley said Chairman Harrison,
Democrat, Mississippi, of the finance
committee, had discussed the demand
for tax revisions to aid business, but
added there was slight chance for
legislative action at the special ses
sion. Harrison, Barkley asserted, had
gone over the work being done in the
House, and by Treasury and legisla
tive experts in redrafting tax legisla
tion.
The majority leader said he hoped
the Senate would complete action on
the new farm legislation “within the
week." adding the anti-lynching meas
ure then would “automatically come
up” under its preferred s.tatus.
Meanwhile, the State Department
its consular representatives in
China for information on a report
that customs rates at Tientsin, North
China port, had been reduced on a
wide range of Japanese products.
If the report proves correct, inform
ed sources said, it will mean Japan
has already started closing the “open
door” of commercial equality in China
for all nations.
Livestock
Judging Is
A t Climax
Chicago, Nov. 30.—(AP) —Judging
reached a climatic stage in the In
ternational Livestock Exposition to
day with the two best known titles
of the show ready for bestowal.
Somewhere in the hundreds of stalls
stood a hefty steer which will become
the costliest beast in the world —the
king of cattle. In the scores of cases
that line the long halls of grain where
12 cars of corn that will make some
farmer the king of corn. Three days
of judging have narrowed both fields
to small blue ribbon groups.
Alexander Ritchie, manager of the
Royal Farms of King George VI at
Windsor, England, will give the ac
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Judge Illy
Fort Bragg
Case Halts
Fayetteville, Nov. 30.—(AP)— The
trial of four Ashehoro men on char
ges growing out of the fatal shooting
of Sergeant J. C. Mott on the Fort
Rragg reservation October 16 was re
cessed today until tomorrow, because
of the illness of Presiding Judge G.
V. Cowper.
Cowper was confined to his hotel
room, and his physician announced
he had suffered an attack of in
fluenza.
Many technicalities will face the
court on reconvening. One technical
ity, considered by the court a major
°ne, was eliminated yesterday when
Judge Cowper refused to let the pro
secution read a statement made bv
one of the defendants. The court held
that one of the defendants was not
present when the statement was
sworn to.
Rill Cross is charged with murder
and Harold Rush, Walt .Routh and
Jesse Crotts are charged with being
accessories before and after the fact.
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Walter Funk
Important post of finance minister
in Germany goes to Walter
Funk, under-secretary of the
propaganda ministry, on Jan. 15,
replacing General Hermann Goer
ing, who has temporarily taken
over the post of Reich minister of
economics vacated finally by Dr,
Hjalmar Schacht.
—Central Press
Deadlocked
Labor Plans
Considered
Five Main Issues
Blocking Reunion
of AFL and CIO
Factions at Present
Washington, Nov. 30.—(AP) — The
American Federation of Labor-Com
mittee for Industrial Organization
peace conference agreed today that
“five main issues” were blocking re
union of the two labor factions.
The issues, to be discussed at to
morrow’s meeting of the conferees,
are: .
1. What industries are adapted to
he industrial type of unionization.
2. What the status of the CIO would
be after the two factions reunited.
3. What constitutional amendment
the conference should recommend to
the next AFL convention.
4. What machinery should be cre
ated to make any lasting peace agree
ment effective.
5. How many delegates the CIO
unions could send to the AFL conven
tion that would ratify any agreement
reached by the conferees.
Philip Murray, chairman of the
CIO committee, said that even agree-
Continued on Page Two.)
HOEY iT MED
BY THE RECESSION
Says Letdown in Business
Largely Psychological;
Expects Upturn
Daily Dl*P«tch Bureiin.
It. The Sir Walter Hotel.
Raleigh, Nov. 30.—Governor Clyde
R. Hoey doesn’t say anything abou.
prosperity having gone hack “around
the corner,” but he does believe .that
the present slacking up of industry
is largely psychological.
“People just will not buy on a de
clining market,” he said, “but if any
single thing turns up to start the
market upward, buying will begin
again in brisk style.”
The governor was'talking about the
unemployment situation in North Car
olina and about the workings of the
unemployment compensation law
which will begin to take care of many
idle workers after the first of Jan-
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“WEATHER
FOR NORTH CAROLINA.
Generally fair tonight and
Wednesday, with little change in
temperature.
HENDERSON, N. C., TUESDAY AFTERNOON, NOVEMBER 30, 1937
Solon Named to Court
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Representative Fred M. Vinson
Representative Fred M. Vinson
47, of Kentucky, has been nomi
nated by President Roosevelt to
be associate justice of the U. S.
court of appeals for the District
of Columbia. Vinson, a tax ex
pert, now is presiding “over the
house ways and means sub-com
mittee which is studying revisions
k> business taxes.
—Central Press
PiLEYIs CLOSEF
BY BRITAIN, FRANCE
WITH FULL ACCORB
Two Nations Stand Togeth
er on Hitler and Musso
lini and Japanese
> Ambitions
NON-INTERVENTION
IN SPAIN APPROVED
Mussolini’s Strong Position
in Face of Insurgent Vic
tory In Spain Is Studied;
Members Dine With King
and Part With Optimism
Londbn, Nov. 30. —(AP) —The heads
of the British and French govern
ments completed today a two-day re
view of their problems and destinies
in world danger spots from Africa
and the Mediterranean to the China
Sea.
The conferees ended their talks at
noon and went to Buckingham Pa
lace to lunch with Xing George.
A communique was being drafted
to announce their solidarity on ques
tions ranging from Hitler’s demand
for colonies to Mussolini’s desires in
in the Mediterranean and Japan’s
action in China.
The conferees, the premiers and
foreign secretaries of the Faris and
London governments yesterday en
dorsed the policy of non-intervention
in the Spanish civil war. Today they
examined their separate relations
with Rome and considered the stra
tegic improvement of Italy’s position
in the event of insurgent victory in
Spain.
There was an air of optimism at
No. 10 Downing Street, British
Prime Minister Chamberlain’s official
residence, where the statesmen decid
ed yesterday they were not ready un
der the circumstances to grant any
of Germany’s political or territorial
demands.
Japan Seizing American
Properties In Shanghai
Doing Same to Other Foreigners; It Is Same as if Mik
ado Took Over Control of San Francisco; It Is Ame
rican Territory in Far Eastern Port
By CHARLES P. STEWART
Central Press Columnist
* Washington, Nov. 30. —.Each suc
ceeding dispatch from the Orient
brings worse news than the last one.
I mean worse news for Occidental
countries with interests there.
The news is bad for the Chinese,
too, but it has been bad for them all
along. Now it hints that the Japanese
are precipitating a situation which
will affect Occidental nations serious
ly-
Japan’s Next Step.
It is all very well for America’s
peace advocates, for example, to ar
gue that a war between two foreign
powers, or among several of them, is
none of Uncle Sam’s business; that
Uncle Samuel’s proper policy is to
remain neutral.
I myself feel that way about it. I
sympathize with China against the
mikado. I believe most of us do.
Nevertheless, I agree that it is not our
BE
AMERICAN CONSUL
Italian Authorities Also Pro
test Seizure of Two
Ships Flying Their
Flag
FRENCH ORPHANAGE
BOMBED, 86 KILLED
150 Refugees, Four French
Sisters and Five Chinese
Sisters at Institution Re
ported Missing; Incident
Occurred About Two
Weeks Ago
Washington, Nov. 30 (AP)
The State Department withheld
comment today on the reported
seizure of an American launch
by Japanese authorities at
Shanghai, pending receipt of a
full report of the incident from
American consular officials.
Shanghai, Nov. 30.—(AP)—Ameri
can Consul General Clarence Gauss
protested to the Japanese consulate
today after a Japanese naval crew
seized an American-owned steam
launch and lowered the craft’s Amer
ican flag.
The launch, owned by the China
Foreign Steamship Company an Amer
ican firm and agent of the Roosevelt
Line, was seized as it lay along the
French Bund.
It was understood Italian authori
ties also protested against seizure of
two vessels flying the Italian flag.
Earlier the French ambassador had
said Japanese air bombs had destroy
ed a Catholic orphanage at Hashing
and killed 86 Chinese children. He
also said 150 refugees, four French
sisters and five sisters, who
were at the orphanage. were*"missing
The report came as the Japanese
continued their advance on Nanking.
The Chinese defenders of the almost
deserted capital were reported falling
back to a line 4d to 60 miles, east and
southeast of the city, with Japanese
columns in pursuit.
The orphanage bombing took place
15 days ago, but was reported today
to Ambassador Emile Nagfiar by a
French and Italian father, who walk-
Continued on Page Two.)
Settlement
Claims Made
N-S Railroad
Norfolk, Va., Nov. 30 (AP)—Judge
Luther Way, of Federal district court,
signed an order today providing for a
final settlement of claims between the
Norfolk Southern railway and the At
lantic & North Carolina railroad grow
ing out of the lease of the latter road
by the Norfolk Southern railroad.
The Atlantic & North Carolina Rail
road was returned by the Norfolk Sou
thern to its owners in 1935. Most of
the stock of the A. & N. C. is. owned
by the State of North Carolina, and
the line extends from Goldsboro to
Morehead City, N. C.
One provision in the order provides
Continued on Page Two.)
fight—as between Tokyo and Nank
ing.
But I never heard a Yankee neu
trality enthusiast contend that we
should permit Japan to seize control,
say, of the San Francisco city govern
ment, and remain neutral. And Japan
is endeavoring to do what virtually
amounts to that in the Shanghai
foreign settlement.
American Territory.
Shanghai is a very tig city. Part of
its area is purely Chinese.
The Japanese, having conquered
that Chinese section, perhaps are en
titled to it.
However, the foreign settlement if
the essential part of the place. Anc’
the foreign settlement, by treaty
right, belongs to the Occidental na
tions. Uncle Sam has only a partner
ship right in it, but, as far as tha 4
right goes, foreign Shanghai is as
(Continued on Page Two).
Roosevelt Asks Big Slash
In Federal Highway Funds
Allocated For State Aid
Tiniest Ocean Travelers
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1
The world’s tiniest ocean travelers are Helen and Hertha Coelln, who,
with their sister, two-ycar-old Anna Margareta, sailed on the Europa
for Schlesswig-Holstein from New York. Their father, a resident
of Davenport, lowa, is sending them to relative?, in Germany. The
children’s mother died soon after the twins were born. The 4-moriths-old
twin* are ahows. JiJtowru.. «*r Sfcr ilner.
Olive Branch Extended
Government By Wall St.
President Gay Says, How
ever, Experimentation in
Management Would
Be Dangerous
\ ' -
PLAN TIGHTEN UP
ON GRAIN TRADING
Commodity Exchange Com
mission Writing New Chap
ter in Governmental Regu
lation of System; Corn
Deal of September Under
Investigation
New York, Nov. 30. —(AP) — The
New York Stock Exchange, answer
ing a recent warning to reform or
face governmental intervention, was
disclosed today to be considering the
transfer of greater administrative re
sponsibilities to executives acting un
der committee supervision.
In a statement regarded in inform
ed quarters in Wall Street as an ef
fort to extend the olive branch to
Washington, Exchange President
Charles Gay warned against exces
sive regulation and experimentation,
and promised “when improved meth
ods could be found by impartial
study, the exchange would adopt
them.”
“We do not feel justified in under
taking mere experimentations, be
cause we know that the general pub
lic would pay the price of mistakes
and the price must be high,” said
Gay last night in replying to the de-
Con tinned on Page Two.)
SEAMEN ACCUSED OF
ATTEMPTED REVOLT
Indictments Returned at Baltimore
Against 14 of Crew of U. S.
Freighter
Baltimore, Md., Nov. 30. —(AP) —
The Federal grand jury returned in
dictments today charging 14 seamen
with “unlawfully, feloniously endeav
oring to make a revolt” aboard the
government-owned freighter Algic.
A second count in the indictment
charges the seamen with “conspiracy
to make such a revolt.’’
The trouble occurred last September
10 in Montevideo, Uruguay, in con
nection with a sitdown strike. Sev
eral other such strikes had occurred
during the vessel’s round trip voyage
from Baltimore to South America.
Charges of mutiny were presented
against the seamen when the Algic
locked here several weeks ago. Three
others who had left ship in South
America were later arrested in New
York and another in Jacksonville,
Fla.
PUBLISHED DVHJtY AFTHKNOOM
EXCEPT SUNDAY.
NORTH CAROLINA IS
HAVING GOLD RUSH
Many Old Mines Reopened
and Yielding Consider
able Rich Ore
Daily Dispatch Rurean,
*>i the Sis- tValtcr Hotel.
Raleigh, Nov. 30. —Gold is on the
way back in North Carolina and not
since California in 1849 eclipsed this
State’s mines has there been so mucii
gold fever among landowners.
Until the sensational discoveries on
the West Coast, North Carolina wan
the nation’s greatest gold-producing
state, After almost a century of
quiescence, prospectors are once mon 1
probing Carolina creekfceds and drain
ing long-forgotten shafts. Today six
large gold mines in this State are pro
ducing around $200,000 worth of gold
annually. Several smaller mines are
expanding operations, and extensive
drilling is under way on other gold
bearing properties.
As a result of present prospecting,
additional mines are expected to be
opened in the spring of 1938, says H.
J. Bryson, State’ geologist and chief
of the mineral resources division of
the Department of Conservation and
Development.
The most recent gold mine to go
into full production is the Capps mine,
Mecklenburg county, owned by
Toronto, Canada, syndicate. This com
pany completed a new 100-ton cyanide
mill a few weeks ago and went into
production the last week in Novem-
Continued on Page Two.)
8 PAGES
TODAY
FIVE CENTS COPY
1214 MILLIONS IN
STATE AID TOTALS
TO BE WITHDRAWN
Would Also Spread Over
Two Years S2OO Million
Also Authorized
This Year
FUTURE ALLOTMENT
WILL BE LIMITED
President Points to Appro*
priations Over Three Bil
lion Dollars for Purpose
Since First Federal Money
Was Given More Than 20
Years Ago
Washington, Nov. 30.—(AP)—Presi
dent Roosevelt asked Congress today
to reduce greatly the immediate finan
cial outlay for aiding the states in
highway construction.
Asserting “definite steps” are nec
essary to balance the budget, Mr.
Roosevelt proposed in a special mes
sage:
1. Cancellation of a $214,000,000 ap
portionment for distribu
tion among t*ie states during the 1939
fiscal year. „
2. Spreading over the next two fis
cal years a $200,000,000 appropriation
balance authorized for the present
(1938) fiscal year.
3. A limit of $125,000,000 annually
on all public roads authorization for
and after the 1940 fiscal year (com
pared to a total of $238,000,000 each
for 1938 and 1939.
4. Revisions of the Federal-aid high
way law to eliminate a requirement
that the Fpdcral government appor
tion to the various states the annual
amount authorized for appropriations.
Mr. Roosevelt pointed out since en
actments of the first Federal aid
highway act in 1916 more than $3,-
100,000,000 of regular and emergency
appropriations have gone from the
Continued or' rage Two.)
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Greyhound
Ultimatum
To Drivers
•
Cleveland, Ohio, Nov. 30. —(AP) —
Remaining firm on their stand a
gains't a closed shop contract, Grey
bound Bus Line officials fixed noon
Wednesday as the deadline for strik
ing bus line drivers to return *to work
or be considered as having resigned
from the service.
Comparative quiet prevailed over
the extensile strike area as John
Conners, Federal labor conciliator, re
sumed efforts between com
pany and unign officials.
T. J. McGrath, brotherhood attor
ney, asserted brotherhood members
* Continued on Page Twb.)
farmersgeTown
FERTILIZER PLANT
Huge Enterprise at Norfolk
To Be Formally Opened
Week Hence
Raleigh, Nov. 30. —North Carolina
farmers, some 350 strong and from
all sections of the State, will go to
Norfolk, Va., oh December 8 for the
official opening of one of the largest
farmer-owned fertilizer plants in tha
world. M. G. Mann, general manager
of the Farmers Co-operative Ex
change, said here today.
The plant, which is owend by pa
trons of the Farmers Co-operative
Exchange and of the Southern States
Co-operative, and which will manufac
ture open-formula fertilizers accord
ing to college-approved formulas, dis
plays this sign prominently: “Farm
ers have brought and paid for many
fertilizer plants in the past, but thi9
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