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Help Your Community OKest By Giving As HENDERSON GATEWAY TO CENTRAL CAROLINA TWENTY-FOURTH YEAR VOTES ASSURED TO PASS SENATE FARM BILL y Object Os Lindberghs’ Return To The United States Is Mystery ■AN AND WIFE TO LEAVE SHORTLY AFTER CHRISTMAS Hero of American Aviation Slips into Country Sun day on Incoming Liner children LEFT AT ENGLISH ESTATES British Newspapers In Lon don Break Their Months of Silence To Comment on Se curity and Peace Couple Have Found There and not Here Englewood. N. J., Dec. 6. —(API— Colonel and Mrs. Charles A. Lind bergh are home from two-year exile abroad, but the guarded acres of the Monow estate near the Hudson river hold the seciet of why they have come and how long they will stay. The hero of American aviation and his wife slipped into New York yes terday morning aboard the United States liner President Harding. They had sailed from Southampton on No vember 27 under the incognito of “Mn and Mrs. Gregory” for their first trip to their native land since they went to England in desperate search for the seclusion they felt they could not find here. A ship’s officer said “their visit will be brief. They plan to return abroad immediately after Christmas.” In London, British newspapers broke their months of comparative silence on the doing of Colonel and Mrs. Lindbergh in New York dis patches announcing their arrival in America. Some of the newspapers ex pressed pride that the Lindberghs had found in England the peace and se clusion they had been unable to find in America. They were confident in predictions that the couple would return shortly to the country which has been their host for nearly two years. The fact that their two sons were left behinc was taken as an indication that the visit to their homeland would be brief. Baby Body Offered In Malady War Chicago, Dec. 6.—(AP)—'The youth ful parents of 12-day-old Daniel En nesser. eleventh victim of a myster ious malady in St. Elizabeth hospital offered the body of their firstborn today that medical science might seek the cause of the intestinal disease. John Ennesser, the father, said he and his wife “thought it would help the other little babies” if doctors per formed an autopsy on their child. Dr. Herman Bundesen, president of the Board of Health, said the autopsy would be performed. The Ennesser baby died last night as medical science marshaled its forces to save seven other children stricken with epidemic diarrhea. Nineteen babies have been stricken with the disease. Prohibitive Jute Tariff Is Proposed Opposition to Pro duct Imported from India Rising Again in Congress Washington, Dec. 6.—(AP)—lOppo-i'ion 1 Oppo -i'ion to the use of jute bagging for covering America’s cotton crop is aris again in Congress. With both houses considering legis lation to reduce cotton production, ar guments are again heard that jute im-. Ported from India is still being used ■where Cotton could be substituted. ‘ Here we are about to pass a bill cut down our cotton production n d using jute from India not only for bagging to cover our. cotton, bul (Continued on Page Five.) Hxmiirrsmt Datlu Stspairh 'WIRK SERVICE OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS WHERE MALADY STRIKES BABIES View of St. Elizabeth’s hospital in Chicago At St. Elizabeth’s hospital in Chicago, shown above, a dread, mys terious malady has taken the lives of 10 babies, ranging in age, from nine to 24 days, in the last 11 days. The deaths spurred physicians to save the lives of eight others suffering from the mysterious mal ady, described as a "very acute, virulent inflammation of the intes tinal tract with intense toxemia (poisoning)”. The hospital has volun tarily closed the nursery and the 20 babies who had occupied it have been moved to isolated rooms or taken home. —Central Press Government Wins Ruling From Court X _ Anti-Trust Proceed ings To Be Continu ed Against Alumi num Company Washington, Dec. 6 (AP) —The gov ernment won in the Supreme Court today in its efforts to continue with anti-trust proceedings in the southern New York Federal District Court, seeking dissolution of the Aluminum Company of America. A decision by a three-judge circuit court at Philadelphia, permitting the Department of Justice to go ahead with the litigation, was affirmed in an opinion delivered by Justice Mcßey nolds. Chief Justice Hughes and Jus tice Stone did not participate. In filing the suit, the government charged the Aluminum Company arid 62 other" defendants with monopoly and conspiracy to monopolize trade in aluminum and related articles. It said many of the other defendants were af filiated or subsidiaries of the Alumi num Company. The court held, five to four, that a state may impose a gross income tax on money received by a contractor for building locks and dams for the Fed eral government within a state. The court held constitutional a Georgia law requiring male voters to pay all accumulated poll taxes due be fore they can vote. Justice Butler delivered the unanimous decision which affirmed a ruling by the Geor gia Supreme Court, dismissing the at tacks on the poll tax and sustaining the legislation. Eden Says Japan Had A Warning London, Dec. 6. —(AP) —Foreign Secretary Anthroy Eden told the House of Commons today that Great Britain had warned Japan that last Friday’s “victory march” through Shanghai’s international settlement was “provocative and uncalled for. He said the British ambassador in Tokyo had been instructed to make clear British opinion that Japan “would have to take responsibility for the trouble which subsequently (A Chinese student threw a hand Continued on Page Five.) ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA AND VIRGINIA. Recover Body Os Airman at Beach Norfolk, Va., Dec. 6 (AP)—The body of Aviation Cadet John J. Jones, still trapped in the wreck age of a navy bombing plane, was recovered from the sea at Virginia Beach today. The Washington, D. C., flier plunged to hi,s death with Machin ist’s Mate Troy Blanton Wednesday night. Blanton’s body was wash ed ashore Sunday. Coast Guards men said Jones apparently met in stant death. 1100,000 RAMSOM ASKED AT GOTHAM Arthur Fried, Sand and Gravel Executive, Miss ing Since Saturday White Plains, N. Y., Dec. 6.—(AP)— Arthur Fried, 32, wealthy sand and gravel company executive, was mys teriously missing today as police and Federal agents carried on an inten sive investigation of reports he had v--een abducted and was being held for SIOO,OOO ransom. From his family, his mother, his wife and five brothers, came denial>> of a kidnaping, but Reed Vetterli, head of the New York City office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, was reported to have been called up on for aid. His office in New York would say only that he was out. Westchester county police said Fried had been called as a witness in a quiet inestigation of the sand and gravel business ty Thomas Dewey, special rackets prosecutor and dis trict attorney-elect of New York county. District Attorney Ferris, of West- Continued on Page Five.) i - ■ - HENDERSON, N. C., MONDAY AFTERNOON, DECEMBER 6, 1937 .CITY OF NANKING —4 Country Home of General Chiang Kai-Shek Near Capital Is Reported Occupied FIGHTING IN CITY EXPECTED TUESDAY Jap Planes ( Making Heavy Attacks on Retreating Chi nese Armies Fleeing Nan king and Wuhu; British Protest oh Bombing of Warship Is( Noted Shanghai, Defc. 6. —(AF) —Japanese said today the vanguard of their’ forces was within sight of the an cient walls of. Nanking and had oc cupied the country ohrae of General Chiang Kai-Shek in the hills outside the capital. They also announced the capture of e village two and a half miles south east of Nanking, toward which they were driving on a wide front. A Japanese spokesman said there probably would be fighting within the city tomorrow. The force, he said, carried Japan’s Rising Sun banner to within three miles of Nanking. He said the unit was advancing from Tanyang, on the grand canal about 45 miles east of Nanking. He announced also that Japanese had advanced toward Wuhu, Yantze river port about 60 miles south-south west of Nanking^ Japanese planes, meanwhile, were reported making heavy attacks on an allegedly fcewildered Chinese retreat both from Nanking and Wuhu. A Japanese Embassy spokesman ae knowledged that British consular au thorities had made a report of the bombing of a British warship and two British merchantmen yesterday at Wuhu. He said, however, no question of a British protest or demand for compensation had arisen. The commander of the British gun boat Ladybird and two other Britons were injured when Japanese planes raided the Wuhu waterfront yester day. Two British river steamers were hit and another was set aflame and was believed to be a total loss. SLIGHT DECLINES IN COTTON TRADE Increased Private Crop Estimates and Lower Cables Depressing To Early Prices # New York, Dec. 6 fu tures opened steady, one to four points lower, in response to lower Liverpool cables and increased private crop esti mates. March moved between 7.88 and 7.90, with prices shortly after the first half hour one to four points net lower. March recovered from 7.85 to 7.95, and at midday was selling at 7.92 with the list one point net higher to three lower. Cold Wave Spreading Into South t (By The Associated Press.) Sub - freezing temperatures spread over the southeast today, accompanied by brisk winds in many sections and scattered snow flurries in Tennessee, Georgia and Virginia. Thermometers varied as much as 25 degrees from Sunday readings. Nashville, Tenn., had an early morning reading of 15, only two degrees warmer than Chicago. Snow fell in Nashville and Chat tanooga and flurries were noted in Atlanta. ’ Snow fell on southwest Virginia and ice made highways slippery, The Clinch valley reported a fall of from four to five inches. The tempeiraTture was 20 degrees at Bluefteld, Va., at 8:30 a. m. Four inches of snow lay on the ground at Hillsville, Va., and there was an inch at Wytheville. WEATHER FOB NORTH CAROLINA. Partly cloudy and colder; mod erate cold wave in east portion; free on the coast tonight; Tues day fair. < FREE WAGE BILL FROM RULES BODY • sS I i flHl Hp imtm nl|f| Ilk Representative Mansfield signs petition Proponents of the administration’s wage-hour bill win a long fight to get it before the house by receiving eight additional signatures on a petition to discharge the rules committee from further considera tion of the measure. The rules committee has blocked it since last summer. This photo shows Representative Joseph J. Mansfield of Texas signing the petition for the 218th and last necessary signa ture. Others in the photo, left to right, are Representative Mary Norton of Massachusetts, chairman of the house labor committee; Speaker William B. Bankhead and Representative Pat Boland of Pennsylvania. SSO Millions For Farmers Approved Washington, Dec. 6 (AP) —$50,- 000,000 fund for loans to farmers in 1938 for seed and crop production won approval today of the Senate Agriculture Committee. Meanwhile, Senator Bailey, Demo crat, North Carolina, summed up the prospects for farm legislation: “The Senate will pass a bill and the House will pass a bill. The House won’t like the Senate bill ami the Senate won’t like the House bill. Then we will all just wait and hope that a conference between representatives of the two chamb ers will be able to work out some thing satisfactory. moiraT IN LOCAL TAXATION \ AFL President Points To Realty Burdens on Citi zens Everywhere By CHARLES P. STEWART Central Press Columnist Washington, Dec. 6. —President Wil liam Green of the American Federa tion of Labor suggests v/ith much co gency that reduction in local taxation rates might go a long way toward stimulating home tuilding throughout the nation. Federal taxation is very burden some unquestionably, but, to the aver age individual, it is nothing to com pare with his state, county and city levies. Communities do rage against their respective local loads, but they do it Continued mi Page Five.) Typhoon Isolates Large Portion of The Philippines Manila. P. 1., Dec. 6.—(AP(—A new typhoon isolated a huge area in the northern Bisayan islands of the Philippine group today, while reports reached Manila of a serious dysentery epidemic in Sor goson province as the aftermath of another typhoon on Armistice Day. The current disturbance, third in two weeks, to sweep the archipelago, was reported almost stationary over southern Mindoro island. Weather Bureau forecast ers believed the storm was lessen ing in fury and might pass into the China Sea before morning. Leyte province, hard hit by the Armistice Day typhoon, had been unheard from for 36 hours. Rom blom island, directly in the path of the high winds and torrential rain fall, v was isolated by prostrated communications. , PUBLISHED KVBXY AFTJOKNOOM EXUKI’T SUNDAY Revolt Upon President Is Not Evident But Roosevelt Re turns To Find His ' Legislative Pro gram Slowed Down Washington, Dec. 6.—(AP) — Al though President Roosevelt will dis cover on his return from Florida to night that his legislative program has made little progress, congressional chieftains will report to him that sev eral widely rumored revolts have not materialized. When Congress assembled three weeks ago, there was much specula tion over the possibility that it would sidetrack the President’s recommen dations and substitute a business aid program of its own. Instead the two houses have devoted themselves ex clusively to administration proposals, except for a week of debate in the Senate on the anti-lynching bill, which had a preferred legislative status. Many observers commented that Mr. Roosevelt, in calling the extra session, was inviting congressional backfires on the nomination of Su preme Court Justice Black and on his foreign policies, particularly his fail ure to invoke the neutrality act in the Sino-Japanese war. Mr. Roosevelt, besides surveying the congressional situation, soon will complete next year’s budget estimates and will continue his studies of th.. business situation. He plans to hold further conferences with utilities ex ecutives about a possible reconcilia tion of policies which might increase construction by power companies.. President’s Health Good Doctor Says Aboard Roosevelt Train, Eurout 0 to Washington, Dec. 6. —(AP) —Presi- dent Roosevelt, returning from a shortened vacation for possible sur gical treatment of an infected tooth pocket, traveled across the and Virginia today on a scheduled ar ranged to place him at the White House about 4:30 p. m. Captain Ross Mclntire, his phy sician, told reporters the President’s general physical condition was “ex cellent,” and the week of fishing and sunshine “has benefited him greatly.” Replying to questions, President Roosevelt said he would have no more (Continued on Page Three.) 8 PAGES TODAY FIVE CENTS COPY AGRICULTURE BILL MAY PASS DESPITE HEAVY OPPOSITION Vote by Wednesday Hoped for in Both Houses, When Battle in Earnest Will Begin CONFEREES THEN TO START BATTLE Measures In Two Houses So Different Great Difficulty Is Looked For; Final Adop tion Not Likely This Ses-, sion; Wallace Is Dissatis fied Washington, Dec. 6:—(AP) —A sur vey has disclosed enough votes to pass the Senate control bill, Senator Pope, Democrat, Idaho, said today, despite the widespread criticism of many of its provisions. Some legislators, however, expressed doubt that any farm legislation would ■reach President Roosevelt during the special session. Leaders in both Senate and House hope to get a vote by Wednesday, but the two measures are so different that it is a foregone conclusion a confer ence committee would have to find some middle ground. Some members said that composing these differences might delay final enactment of a bill until the regular session beginning in January. Secretary Wallace was reported dis satisfied with both Senate and House tills. One official close to him said Wallace might urge President Roose velt to veto any bill finally enacted which approximated either the Sen ate or House measures. The House continued today the con sideration of amendments to its farm bill. The Senat% in an effort to speed the debate on its measure, agreed un animously to limit the speaking time of each senator to fifteen minutes on amendments and to thirty minutes on the bill itself. Committee Might Ask Tax Repeal Washington, Dec. 6 (AP) —Modifica- tion of the capital gains and indis tributed profits levies may be the prin cipal recommendation of a House tax sub-committee which is working daily on a comprehensive overhauling of the entire tax structure. Business men and legislators, parti cularly since the recent stock market slump and business recession, have de clared the two levies discouraged bus iness and investment in productive enterprise. Yet the sub-committee,' besides fav oring changes in those taxes, has dis cussed and agreed on revision of oth er laws thht may be equally far-reach ing to the particular group of individ (Continued on Page Six.) Neutrality Bloc Might Ask Action Senators To Ask Roosevelt Why He Has Not Moved in Far East Warfare Washington, Dec. 6. —(AP) —Mem- bers of the “neutrality bloc” talked today of raising in the Senate the question of invoking the neutrality act in the Sino-Japanese hostilities unless President Roosevelt convinced them there were good reasons not to apply the law. Senator Nye, Republican, North Da kota, said he and several others in tended to call on the President this week to ask why the act had not been invoked. He indicated the other call ers might include Senators Clark, Continued on Page Five.)
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