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HENDERSON GATEWAY TO CENTRAL CAROLINA twenty-fourth year WAGE-HOUR DEADLOCK IN HOUSE BROKEN GERMANY DECLARED ASSUMING ROLE OF FAR EAST MEDIATOR Nazi Ambassador To China Would Be Medium of Hitler’s Arbitra tion Efforts WOULD MAKE CHINA CUT RUSSIAN PACT Japan Would Withdraw Troops from China and Give Assurances Against Territorial Aims in North China; Chinese Planes Raid Japanese GERMANY DECLARED . . cmf Hankow. China, Dec. 2.—(AP) —lt wa> authoritatively reported today Germany had offered to negotiate Ja panese-Chinese peace through Oskar Trautmann, her ambassador to China. Trautmann was in Nanking confer ring with General Chiang Kai-Shek head of the central Chinese govern ment. The terms of the German offer, it was said, included China’s participa tion in the Gorman-Italian-Japanese anti-communism pact, withdrawal of Japanese troops from China, and as surance bv Japan that she does not seek territory in North China, but on ly economic cooperation. (Early in November a trustworthy source close to the Berlin chancellory report’d Adolf Hitler expected to mediate the Far Eastern conflict after unofficial feelers had been put forth by Japanese and Chinese.) CHINESE RAID JAPANESE N POSITIONS AT SHANGHAI Shanghai, Dec. 2. (AP) —Two Chi nese airplanes raided Japanese posi tions in Shanghai today in the first aerial attack in more than a month. One bomb dropped near the former anchorage of the Japanese flagship Idzumo, near the Japanese consulate, but did not damage. Japanese said the Chinese planes op erated at a height of 10,000 feet, suc cessflully evading pursuit craft. They declared, however, in an air battle near or over Nanking, six Ja panese planes shot down 13 of China’s new Soviet-manufactured planes. China was said to be massing a fleet of 300 Russian-built war planes for a renewal of aerial attacks on Japan’s advancing armies. Dr. R. E. Brown, of Ann Arbor, Mich., forwarded to Japanese authori ties the appeal of 24 Americans and several other foreigners that a neu tral zone be established at Wuhu. As in the case of similar appeals by Nanking and Hangchow residents, there was no answer. GREYHOUND STRIKE DEFINITELY ENDED Men Get Monthly Wage Increases but Give Up Idea of Closed Shop Demands Cleveland, Ohio, Ddc. 1 (AP) Nine Greyhound bus lings resumed normal operations in 16 states today, a com promise agreement negotiated by a Federal labor conciliator ending a strike of drivers called by the Broth erhood of Railroad Trainmen. John Conners, the Federal labor conciliator, who flew here, said the settlement reached last night was “sat isfactory to both parties.” Under the terms of the agreement, the companies granted wage increases but refused B. R. T. demands for a closed shop. LEGALSKIRMISHES WITH FORD STRIKE Company and UAWA To Go Into Courts in Dispute at St. Louis St. Louts, Mo., Dec. 2.—(A-P)—The Ford Motor Company, and the ClO’i UAWA prepared today for legal skir mishes as the UAWA strike called at (he St. Louis assembly plant entered its second week. The company amended its original suit asking for an injunction to pre vent picketing at its plant, naming 92 additional defendants late yesterday, i ho new defendants, with the 29 nam- Ps i in the first petition, were ordered by Judge Robert Kirkwood to show cause in circuit court tomorrow why an order should not be issued. The suit filed by Ford attorneys No vember 24 charges the pickets have tried to damage the company’s busi ness by interfering with operation of the plant through intimidation of em ployee.-. Damages also are requested in the suit. _ A - MENDERS' llmtiteraim BatUt Bispatrh WIRE SERVICE OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Canning Champion Mary Frances Thompson Meet the new national canning champion—Mary Frances 'Thomp son of Durham, N. C.—selected by the 4-H club congress held in connection with the International Livestock exposition in Chicago. HENDERSON SALES ALREADY ARE NEAR 1936 FINAL TOTAL Tobacco Market Now Lacks Only 1,447,162 Pounds of Exceeding En tire Season MONEY WELL ABOVE LAST YEAR’S TOTAL $26.85 Average Likewise Better Than 1936 Figures; Much “Storm-Tossed” Leaf Now Being Offered; Holi days Begin Wednesday, December 15 BY R. W. McFARLANLD, Henderson Sales Supervisor. Official figures through last night reveal the fact that the Henderson market lacks only 1,447,162 pounds of selling as much tobacco as it sold the whole season, of 1936, which ended the latter part of last January, and up to last night the market has paid out around SIOO,OOO more money than it paid out for the entire marketing season of 1936. Official figures are as follows: Tonnage to date, 19,635,846 pounds; money, $5,271,375.40, making an aver age for the whole of $26.85 per hun dred pounds. As in every other section of the to bacco belt, sales have been light since Thanksgiving. As was expected, Hen derson is now selling a great deal of storm-tossed tobacco, and this na turally pulls down the general average for the season, but certain grades of this storm-tossed tobacco are selling better than it did before Thanksgiv ing. The better grades of tobacco are selling now being sold are selling at about the same price that they sold before the closing down for the holi days. From information available from the markets reporting for their daily papers, it appears that Hender - « (Continued on Page Four.) ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA AND VIRGINIA. FARM WORK WINS THEM AWARDS 4 ..pal\ Clifford Breeden and Helen Michael, top; Bob Morford and Viola Niedfeldt, below National 4-H club champions selected at the International Livestock show in Chicago are pictured above. At the top are Clifford Breeden, 18, of Lafayette, Ind., and Helen Michael, 16, of Eugene, Ore., holding trophies as winners of the 4-H club leadership con gest. Below are Bob Morford, 18, of Amorita, Okla., and Viola Nied feldt, 17, of Bangor, Wis., winners of the Roosevelt award for out standing Accomplishments In farm work. ' - T r ‘ Treasury Financing For December To Be Limited To Refunding Operation Nef Issue of $450,000,000 T o Be Offered on Monday; Holders of Certain Outst anding Bills Will Have Option of Taking Part of This Washington, Dec. 2.—(AP) —Secre- tary Morgenthau announced today the Treasury will confine its December financing into amounts necessary for refunding maturing securities. He said a new issue of $450,000,000 of govern ment securities would be offered the public Monday. The type and inter est rate of the securities have not been determined. Holders of $277,000,000 of 2 5-8 per cent Treasury notes falling due Feb ruary 1 will be permitted, if they de sire, to exchange their securities for a part of this'issue. Funds raised from this sale will also help to pay off U. S. ROAD SLASH ” HAS ITS BENEFITS Some State Officials In wardly Losing No Sleep Over FDR Cuts Daily Dispatch Bnrean, In the Sir Waller Hotel. Raleigh, Dec. 2. —They cannot be enticed into allowing their names to be used with quotation marks, hut more than one prominent State offi cial views threats of Federal road ex penditure curtailment as a cloud with a distinct silver lining. So far, Senator Josiah W. Bailey is the lone prominent Tar Heel who has publicly acclaimed President Roose velt’s announced intention to cut something like $100,000,000 from the nation’s annual road building bilj. Re ports from Washington are that other members of the congressional delega tion received the proposal coldly.” Here in Raleigh Capus Waynick, soon to retire as head of the division of purchase and contract, has taken a verbal crack at the FDR plan, hut there are others, even higher in the State’s official family, who are secret ly applauding, though they don’t wish to offend Federal officials or displease constituents by publicizing their (Continued on Pag9 Four.), HENDERSON, N. C., THURSDAY AFTERNOO N. DECEMBER 2, 1937 $450,000,000 of short-term Treasury 'bills maturing this month. Morgenthau said starting Decem ber 20 for an indefinite period, the Treasury will seek $50,000,000 of 90- day Treasury bills weekly. Although $165,000,000 of interest payments on the public debt fall due fin December, the# Treasury secre tary said he believed the proposed financing would' be adequate to meet government needs. Current expenses will be met dur ing this period, he said, from the es timated $500,000,000 of income tax pay ments anticipated on the December 15 quarterly payments date. Hunt Plane In Waters Va. Beach Norfolk, Va., Dec. 2.—(AF)-pNavy airmen scanning the shore line at Virginia Beach, where a plane which had carried two men plunged into the Atlantic last night, reported today they sighted a parachute a mile in land from where the plane fell. Its discovery on a pond edge fol lowed a Virginia Beach resident’s re port to the Norfolk naval base he saw rocket flares near that place just be fore dawn today. A searching party started to the spot. Coast Guardsmen and men from the naval base worked off-shore during the night in vain efforts to locate the plane wreckage. Discovery of the parachute inten sified hope that Aviation Cadet J. J. Jones, of Washington, the pilot, and (Continued on Page Four.) WEATHER FOR NORTH CAROLINA Snow in the interior and rain on the coast this afternoon and possibly tonight; slightly colder tonight; Friday partly cloudy, con tinued cold. i LEWIS, GREEN MEET IN CONFERENCES ON ACCORD FOR LABOR Forenoon Discussions Re cess for Luncheon Until Meeting in Late Afternoon COMMENT REFUSED BY BOTH LEADERS Each Accompanied to Con ference by Chief Negotia tor; Organized Labor Stakes Hopes for Unity on Outcome of Discussions by Two Chieftains \ Washington, Dec. 2.—(AP) — John Lewis and William Green recessed thrir dramtic peace conference this afternoon until 4 p. m., eastern stand ard time, without arriving at any con clusions. “We have taken a recess until 4 o’clock,” Lewis shouted to newsmen nfter his two and a half hour confer ence with Green. “All we had was general conversations; no conclusions reached.” Green, who followed Lewis out of the conference room, said: “We had dn interesting discussion, ' of. we have nothing more to say now.” The recess was for lunch. Before the conference began, neith er Lewis, head of the CIO, nor Green, president of the American Federation of Labor, would talk to reporters. Green, who arrived first with his chief negotiator, George Harrison, ran through a battery of cameramen and movie men, waving interviewers aside. Lewis, accompanied by Philip Mur ray, stopped outside the conference building, took off his hat and posed for the cameraman, but refused to talk. Organized labor staked its hopes for peace and unity on the confer ence between Lewis and Green, one time coal miners who now divide the leadership of some seven million union men. Neither would disclose what de mands and concessions they carried to the conversations. novalcotia head ON VISIT IN STATE Angus MacDonald Guest at Flora MacDonald College After Charleston Trip Charleston, S. C., Dec. 2. —(AP) — Premier and Mrs. Angus L. Macdon ald, of Nova Scotia, accompaned by Dr. Charles Vardell, president emeri tus of Flora MacDonald College at Red Springs, N. C., left here early to day for Florence. The premier will speak to the Flor ence Kiwanis club at luncheon and will spend tonight at Flora Mac- Donald. He will leave Fayetteville, N. C., tomorrow for New York and Nova Scotia. BIG HIGH SCHOOL IN CONCORD BURNS SIOO,OOO Blaze Discovered Before Mid night by Passerby; Call Char lotte Firemen Concord, Dec. 2. —(AP) —Char- red walls were all that was left today of Concord’s SIOO,OOO high school building. Fire destroyed the brick edifice late last night. A passerby noticed flames leaping from the audi torium at 10 p. m., and reported the blaze. Firemen from Charlotte aided Concord firemen in fighting the flames for hours. The school has an enrollment of 600. NEWIEEDHOES ARE DM SHOWN Real Money-Maker Foster ed by Agriculture Depart ment; From Denmark Chicago, Dec. 2 (AP)—The swine producer’s idea of a real money-mak ing hog was shown today at the Inter national Livestock Exposition. Two Landrace barrows, a breed which promises to become the “ideal type” for American stockmen, were the center of attraction. They are cap able of producing heavier hams, bet ter quality bacon and 25 percent more loin—the “money” portion of a hog— than breeds common in the United States. Shown by the swine research de partment of the United States Depart (Continued on Page Four.) five cents copy Protests for U. S. m • mL /■ j ;avv.v.v.v. • . .;?WWwWOTCj. . pppa yy jHHH| Clarence E. Gauss U. S. consul general at Shanghai Seizure by Japanese naval officers of an American-owned steam launch at Shanghai and the hurl ing of its American flag into the Whangpoo river has drawn a vig orous protestaEronHffie S. een sul general in Shanghai, Clarence E. Gauss, above. The incident provoked astonishment in the United States. Two Italian craft also were seized. —Central Press Henderson’s Snowßiggest In The State Flurries ,Elsewhere Melt Fast as Fall; None in Piedmont and in West *By The Associated Press) A heavy snow fell today in Hender son, while flurries were reported from various other Eastern North Carolina points. In the Piedmont the outlook for snow was regarded as favorable. At Henderson four inches had fall en and the fall continued this morn ing to register the heaviest early snow fall of recent years. The temperature was 30 degrees. A sleet starting early this morning turned to snow at Raleigh, and by 10:30 a. m. more than two inches had fallen. Lee Denson, government me teorologist, said the snow would prob (Continued on Page Four.) High School Boy - Given Life Term In Dual Slaying South Paris, Maine, Dec. 2 (AP) —Paul Dwyer, 18- year-old high school youth, reversed his inno cence plea today to the slaying of Mrs. James Littlefield and plead ed guilty. He was sentenced immediately to life imprisonment. The plea came shortly after the Oxford Superior Court reopened for the third day of his trial. Dwyer, also accused of the strang ling of Dr. Littlefield’s wife and transporting the bodies of both on a six-state “death tour” to North Arlington, N. J. ’ehtered his plea % before Judge George Emery as he stood erect between his counsel, Walker Abbott and Peter Mc- Donald. He will serve his sentence in the State Prison at Thomaston. It was not until the youth had been returned to a cell in the Oxford coun ty jail that his composure broke. Un emotional and at times sullen, since his arrest in New Jersey, he entered the cell and wept profusely several minutes. Recovering, he reached for a magazine and turned to a story therein, .. .iSJIiJI 8 1 PAGES TODAY SIGNATURES GIVEN TO BRING MEASURE OUT OF COMMITTEE Texas Member in Wheel Chair Affixes Final Sig nature Necessary for Action PASSAGE APPEARS AS CERTAINTY NOW Effort Made in Senate To Send Farm Bill Back to Committee; Wage - Hour Backers “Swapped Every thing but Capitol,” Repre sentative Fish Asserts Washington, Dec. 2.—(AP)— The House leadership broke the prolonged deadlock over wages and hours legis lation today when the 218th member signed a petition to force a Vote on the measure by mid-December. Representative Mansfield, Demo crat, Texas, rolled lip on his wheel chair to be the final signer, amid a roar of cheers. Just before Mansfield put down his name, Representative Smith, Demo crat, West Virginia, had jotted down his signature—No. 217. Before the 218th signature went on the petition, the House heard a Re publican demand today for investiga tion of statements that backers of the administration’s wages and hours bill “swapped everything but the Capi tol” to insure a vote on the measure . (Continued on Page Four.) Erwin Mill Strike Ends Aft Durham * i Durham, Dec. 2 (AP) —Wheels whirl ed again at the No. 4 plant of the Erwin Cotton Mills today and 500 tex tile workers of the day shift returned to their tasks. It is expected the sec ond shift, another 500 employees, will return to the machines at the regu lar hour, 4:40 o’clock this afternoon. While apparently not entirely satis fied, the 50 bobbin men of. the battery; crews seemed to view the readjust ment in the battery department a lit tle differently after explanation of the plan at a conference yesterday, mill officials said today, and at a second conference this morning proposed that operation be resumed at' once. Presi dent K. P. Lewis, of the mills, said th® management heartily acquiesced and the power was turned on. The use of larger bobbins introduc ed at the No. 4 plant will be continued as at the No. 1 mill. The larger bob bin, running longer, it w k as explained, makes fewer bobbin changes necessary and hence enables each bobbin chang er to care for more looms. APPEAL OF WOMAN IN SUPREME COURT Raleigh, Dec. 2.—(AP) —-The State Supreme Court took under advise ment today the appeal of Rosa Lee Barnes from a six-months term im posed in Wilson recorder’s court for violation of the liquor laws which questions the legality of the lawer court. Luke Lamb and H. G. Connor ar gued for the woman, and Attorney General A. A. F. Seawell presented the State’s contentions that the court was constitutional. JOB PLACEMENTS 1,071 LAST WEEK 23 Percent Less Than 1,395 Previous Week; 75,143 Listed for Work Raleigh, Dec. 2.—(AP) —Placements in jobs last week by the State Em ployment Service totalled 1,071, down 23.2 percent from the 1,395- in the pre ceding week, but 74.1 per cent of the placements last week were in private industry. Mayne Albright, director of the Ser vice, announced the figures today and said registratiohs totalled' 2,047 and pushed to 74,143 the persons listed as wanting work. During October, h® reported, "all but eight states showed a decline in the number of private jobs filled, as compared with the rec ord for September. Reviewing four years of work, Al bright said the employment service had registered 689,730 job seekers and placed 469,619 of them in work. ill
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