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HENDERSON gateway TO ‘central CAROLINA TWENTY-FOURTH year JAPANESE TROOPS POURING INTO NANKING (ft SERVICE EOR FARM BILL REFUSED BY VOIEOF HOUSE Republicans Warn Against Soliciting $25 Roosevelt Donations From Career Men JONES PLEADS FOR ACTION UPON BILL Tells Members To Vote for or Against, But Not To Re- Ccmmit It; Compulsory Control for Wheat Insert ed in Farm Bill After Re jection Washington. Dec. 10 (AP) —The House rejected a Republican proposal today to compel use of civil service employees in administering the pend ing farm program. The proposal came from Represen tative Treadway, Republican, Massa chusetts. a word of caution to Demo crats not to send requests for $25 con tributions “to further the administra tion of the Roosevelt administration” to civil service employees. Luce's was one of several minor amendments the House swept aside in the push toward a final vote. Chairman Jones, Democrat, Texas, pleaded during the debate for mem bers to vote for or against the bill, but not to send it back to committee. The House, reversing itself, decid ed by a 219 to 175 vote • today to re store compulsory control for wheat in the administration farm bill. 2 Negroes Gassed At State Pen Raleigh. Dec. 10.—(AP)— Walter ‘ Preacher’ - Caldwell went to his death on his 37th birthday today for crim inal assault, and William Terry, 18, died for murder in a double gassing at Central Prison. Both men were Negroes. It took 13 minutes and 22 seconds after the gas was turned on before Caldwell was * pronounced dead. The chamber was then cleared of gas, Perry was brought in, and in eleven minutes find 40 seconds was dead. Caldwell was sentenced in Iredell county for criminal attack. Ferry died for the slaying in Chatham county of Mrs. W. T. Hamlet. Caldwell entered the gas chamber at 10:33 a. m., the eleventh man to be executed this year. The gas was started two minutes idter, Caldwell appeared to pray before losing con sciousness. Perry walked into the chamber at 11:14 a. m., and again ; i two minutes the gas started for the tst execution of 1937. Perry turned ftis eyes to ward the ceiling and prayed, then lowered his glance and smiled at the witnesses. His lips showed lie was saying “Goodbye” and attempting to wave his hands. Both men had confessed tneir guilt and expressed a willingness to die, said Chaplain E. C. Cooper, of the prison. j Hangman Is Cheated By Tacoma Man Boise, Idaho, Dec. 10 (AP)—A sen sational suicide plunged before the ■eyes of his sorrowing parents cheated the hangman of triple-slayer Douglas Van Vlack’s life fifteen minutes after bis scheduled execution today. Van Vlack, convicted of killing his w ife, was to have been hanged at 12:10 a m., fountain standard time. Four hours before, his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Carl Van Vlack, of Tacoma, Wash., came to bid him goodbye. Van Vlack kissed his mother, broke from the guards, climbed to the top of a 30-foot cell block and dived off. His b f -ad and shoulder crashed against the concrete floor. ihe 33-year-old University cf Wash ington graduate's trail to the house started in Tacoma November 23 V'3s. He kidnaped his secretly-wed ildred, who had obtained a di- v °rce decree. He fled eastward into Idaho. Van Vlack shot two Idaho State po licemen who tried to stop him, then nan his car into a ditch and dragged nis wife into a culvert. He forced her o stay there overnight and then shot IHettiteramt Hatlu HfsMttrh kIjjASTED WIRE SERVICE OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS. JAPANESE AT GATES OF NANKING to have A©VANfcic> - ; 3&ar ' " -,SS I HEgg Ijjfipll OUTLINED ARROWS /"» SHOVs/ JAPANESE j \ JAPANESE | ported thrown W® 1 §iii. [BACK "Os "so 1 OP. ISCy^ How Japanese Advanced on Nanking This self-explanatory map shows Japan’s drive on Nanking, China’s capital. The city became a “deserted shell” as the Chinese removed valuables. In the north, however, the Chinese were reported to have advanced 50 miles near Tsinan—a setback for the Japanese. It is believed that, once the Japanese possess Nanking, they will set up a puppet government for China that wM ‘•co-operate” with the Jaoanese. Landon Will NotAgainße A Candidate 1936 G.O. P. Chief Won’t Accept If Named; Jonas At tacks Committee Washington, Dec. 10. —(AP) — Former Governor Alf M. Landon. of Kansas, said today he would not be a candidate for the Repub lican presidential nomination in 1940, and would not accept the nomination should it be offered to him. The 1938 nominee made the an nouncement to newspaper men up on arrival here for the Gridiron Club Dinner. Landon emphasized, however, that War statement did not mean he ‘was withdrawing from poli tics./“I am taking this step so I can be more active in Republican party affairs,” he said. JONAS BRINGS CHARGES ON NATIONAL COMMITTEE Lincoln ton. Dec. 10.—(AP) —Char- /es A. Jonas, Republican national committeeman of North Carolina charged today that the party s na tional leadership had “sacrificed party growth in the South in exchange for (Continued on Page Four.) FORMER GOLDSBORO DIES ACROSS LINE Kingstree, S. C., Dec. 10 (AP) Frank Watts, 64, a native of Golds boro, N. C., died suddenly last night at his home* here. The funeral wil be held here tomorrow. Watts had been proprietor of a jewelry store here for the past 26 years. mgrgp SHOP EARLY ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA AND VIRGINIA. Philippine Army Trio Found Safe Manila, P. L, Dec. 10 (AP)—Three Philippine army officers, one an Ame rican, werte rescued today from a small tropical island, where their typhoon battered’ airplane was forced down four days ago with only enough gaso line for ten minutes flight. The trio reached here in a rescue plane amid jubilant scenes. Fishermen on the Isle of Bugitay, far off the fliers’ course, fed and housed the men, Major General Pau lino Santos, chief of staff of the Phil ippine army; Colonel Sidell Segundo, chief of the intelligence corps, and Lieutenant William Lee, U. S. A., chief of the commonwealth’s air corps. Lieutenant Alfred Maxwell, U. S. A. sighted them from one of many search ing planes. The officials were return (Contlnued on Page Four.) Texas Leads All States in Money from Government Washington, Dec. 10 (AP) —The Bureau of Agricultural Economics reported today that Texas led all states in the amount of govern ment benefit, payments to farmers during the first ten months this year. The amount was $35,585,000, com pared with $23,734,000 for the same period last year.. Payments to all farmers totalled $355,000,000, com pared with $232,000,000 for the same period last year. Amounts paid to farmers in oth er states for the ten months per iod this year and last, respective ly, included: North Carolina, $12,- 099,000 and $3,100,000. RUCKERPREDIGTS REYNOLDS VICTORY * \ Greensboro Supporter of Senator Has Little Fear of Hancock Doily Dispatch Rnrenn, In the Sir Walter Hotel. Raleigh, Dec. 10.—United States Senator Robert R. Reynolds will be re-elected next June by an overwhelm ing majority, if the opinion of Pierce C. Rucker, Greensboro warehouseman and staunch supporter of the junior senator, is based on solid fact. Os course, Mr. Rucker took off his coat in 1932 and worked like a Tro jan for “Our Bob.” Today he admits the same overwhelming loyalty. Per (Continued on Page Four.). HENDERSON, N. C., FRIDAY AFTERNOON, DECEMBER 10, 1937 ONE OE LARGEST GATES OF CAPITAL IS TAKEN BY JAPS i Invaders Strike from All Sides at Ancient City, Crashing Walls At Places COMPLETE CAPTURE APPEARS IMMINENT Attack Begins When Chi nese Refuse To Heed Ja panese Ultimatum To Sur render; Uncertainty Pre vails as to Fate of Few Re maining Americans Shanghai, Dec. 19. —(AP)—The Ja panese command.- announced today that the principal southeastern gate at the Nanking walls had been cap tured by a detachment of Japan’s ninth division. Japan’s Rising Sun banner was raised over the gate as soon as it was taßten Friday. Nipponese infantry sur ged through this breach in the de- j senses of China’s erstwhile capital and I occupied adjoining sections of tho; walls. ' Seizure of the gates came as the climax of a battle which began with a Japanese general assault on Nank ing early in the afternoon. AIR ATTACKS CENTERED UPON CITY’S MAIN GATES Tokyo, Dec. 10.—(AF) —Domei (Ja panese) News Agency’s correspondent sent word from the Nanking front to night that Japanese troops had cap tured the city’s southeastern gates and were entering the city. Squadrons of Japanese planes were said to be concentrating their bomb attacks on Nanking’s 18 gates to blast open a p&tlj,.JftLjJjApa n ’s armies.* JAP FORCES STRIKE FROM ALL SIDES UPON NANKING Shanghai, Dec. 10.—(AP) —Japanese forces struck from all sides of Nank ing in a general attack today, which the Japanese spokesman declared to night had put the Chinese capital “in the process of falling.” The attack was launched when the (Continued on Pa.ee Three.) CIO LEADERS DEFY AFL AT PORTLAND Lewis Labor Units Win Bargaining Election in Northwestern Lumber Industry Portland, Oregon, Dec. 10. —(AP) CIO leaders, triumphant in a bar gaining election called by Governor Charles Martin to break a four months lumber industry, voiced de fiance today to a threat of AFL union chiefs to continue boycotting ClO produced lumber. “The boycott could not stop enough lumber to build a smokehouse,” said George Brown, a CIO official. Under armed guards, employees of the Inman-Poulson Lumber Company, voted 376 to 138 to designate the CIO its bargaining agency. Plant officials said they would reopen Monday with a crew of 300 men. Governor Martin called the election after the National Labor Relations iWrd refused to do so. The board previously had designated the CIO a3 the employees’ representatives. SEEKS GOLDSBORO PERMIT ON RADIO Washington, Dec. 10 (AP)—Jonas Weiland applied to the Communica tions Commission today for authority to construct a new radio station at Goldsboro, N .C., to operate on 1,500 kilocycles, 100 watts daytime. POWELL PREPARES' EOR JOBLESS PAY Those Without Work Who Qualify To Get Checks # in Late January Dull* Dispatch Bureau. ; la the. Sir Walter Hotel. Raleigh, Dec. 10.—Preparations for paying unemployment benefits to eli gible unemployed vyorkers after Jan uary i— the first checks will probably be actually delivered on January 28- are being made in the office of the North Carolina Unemployment Com pensation Commission, Chairman Charles G. Powell said today. In a few days employers in the State will receive blanks which they are asked to fill out and return to the nearest State employment office, showing what workers are dropped from their payrolls and the date. (Continued Qn Page Three.) 15 Prct. Freight Rate Hike Denied Nation’s Railroads By Federal Commerce Body Offers 3,000,000 Job Plan IjjjßPHfjW jjfeflf • l||Bp jjfl HV mm JHH Lammont duPont (left), president of the DuPont industrial empire, is pictured with Lewis H. Brown, head of the Johns-Manville Corporation, after he outlined a project for the creation of 3,000,000 jobs at the confer ence of the National Association of Manufacturers in New York City. He predicted “if government clears the way for industry, a $25,000,- 000,000 expansion program would smash unemployment.” (Central Pres*) Murder King Taken After His Escape Man Believed To Control German Killer in Paris Gives Himself Up Paris, Dec. 10. — (AF) Roger “Scarfaoe” Million and Jean “the Lit tle One” Leßlanc, sought by police as accomplices in the slaying-kidnap ing gang which numbered among its victims Jean DeKoven, Brooklyn dan cer, surrendered to police today. Million, Paris police said, gave him self un in Paris, Leßlanc surrender ed at Versailles. They had been sought by police throughout southeastern France after a sudden departure last night from a hotel at Nantua. With them them then was said to have ben a blonde French woman identified by police as Million’s mistress. Faris, Dec. 10. —(AP) —The asserted scar-faced chief of an abduction death syndicate, whose “expert in murder” killed Jean DeKoven, Brooklyn dan cer, escaped a police net and was sought today by patrols albng the highways of southeastern France. With him, police said, were his mis tress and a third suspect. Judiciary police said that the three fled their hotel at Nantua last night. Authorities identified the alleged leader of the band, that sought to build an efficient, profitable business (Continued on Page Twoi. Roosevelt Names John W. Hanes on Securities Body Washington, Dec. 10 (AP) — President Roosevelt nominated John W. Hanes, formerly of Wins ton-Salem, N. C., and Jerome Frank, of New York, today to be members of the Securities Com mission. Hanes will succeed J. D. Ross of Seattle, who resigned when ap pointed administrator of the Boone villedam. Hanes is senior part ner in the New York Stock Ex change firm of Charles D. Barney & Company. He has been with the concern 20 years and is a former governor of the New York Stock Exchange. He is a director of several corporations. Before join ing the Barney company, he was with the American Tobacco Com pany. WEATHER FOR NORTH CAROLINA. Generally fair tonight and Sat urday; continued cold. PUBLISHED EVSEY AFTERNOON • y EXCEPT SUNDAY- BAILEY RENEWING FIGHT ON TOBAGGO i / - t < Beaten Thursday, Tar Heel Has New Proposition for Small Grower Washington, Dec. 10. —(AP)—Sena- tor Bailey, Democrat, North. Caro lina, renewed todav his effort to limit production curtailment that could be imposed on small tobacco growers un der the Senate farm bill. Bailey, defeated 36 to 34 yesterday in his first • attempt, has • another amendment pending to limit to ten percent the reduction of a grower whose average production is 12,000 pounds or less,' and to five percent that of a grower whose production is less than 10,000 pounds. His original amendment would have extended the limitation to a produce! whose average was 15,000 pounds or less. Bailey said he had assurance of four additional votes in favor of his proposal. MODERATE LOSSES IN COTTON MARKET ■ • d ? i New York, Dec. 10.— futures opened steady, one to four points lower, under near-month li quidation and hedge selling, which offset trade and foreign buying. March sold off from 8.11 to 8.08, leav ing quotations two to five points net lower after the first half hour. March at midday was selling at 3.09, when prices ranged from one to four points net lower. Business Laying Basis For 1938 Upward Swing Raw Materials Are a “Buy” Now, Babson Advises; Says Present Recession Is Not Another 1929-1932 Debacle; “Freezing” Prices Bad Business BY ROGER W. BABSON, Copyright 1937, Publishers Financial Bureau, Inc. Babson Park, Massy, Dec. 10. —Busi- ness is now laying the base for a new upward push in ,I§2S. The readjust ments in ’stock ‘'and commodity prices, in inventories, and in industrial pro duction are going on with tremendous rapidity. A quick s arp recession is n uch more desirable than a long dragged-out period cf correction. The ttoapness of the present break con \inres me that the jp*urn will come sooner than most people-believe, as suming that Congress cooperates. Every new phase of the business cycle brings its opportunities. Hun dreds of fortunes were built, for in stance, by those who had the courage 8 PAGES TODAY FIVE CENTS COPY RULING BY I. C. C. IN WAKE OF PLEA FROM ROOSEVELT President Had Said at Press Conference Something Had To Be Done for kines WOULD KEEF THEM IN OWNERS’ HANDS President Says Administra tion Has No Definite Plan To Help Roads Out of Dif ficult Financial Situation and To Maintain Solvency Washington, Dec. 10.—(AF) — The Inte» state Commerce Commission over ruled a petition today by the nation’s railroads for an immediate fifteen percent increase in freight rates. ( The action was announced by Com missioner Clyde Aitchison at the out set of this afternoon’s hearing on the carriers’ request for a permanent rate increase in that amount. The announcement came shortly after President Roosevelt said tfie commission should seek to preserve the solvency of the nation’s railroads with a view to retaining them under r and private ownership. , Discussing the financial situation bf the carriers at a press conference, the President said the quicker a final determination was reached on the roads’ application for higher freight rates, the better it would be all a round. Disappointed hailroad leaders ex pressed belief that the commission's (Con inuod on Page Eight.) Death Plot Upon Delbos Discovered Valencinnes, France, Dec. 10 (AP) — A plot to assassinate French Foreign Minister Yvon Delbos was discovered here today by police, who seized a coded letter giving details of the plan. The letter, police said, was address ed to a Hungarian terrorist now in jail here. He is Koloman Budai, ar rested here November 8 charged with firing shots through the windows of the League of Nations building at Geneva in 1935. The letter revealed, police said, the Budai had given information to a band of terrorists to facilitate an at tempt on Delbos’ life while he was at Praha on his present trip through cen tral and eastern Europe. The letter’s contents were deciphered by police here, who relayed information to Czechoslovakian police. An arrest was made there Wednesday, police said.. and vision to buy stocks and bonds in 1932 and 1933. Today, I believe that we have another golden opportunity. It is in the commodity markets. But the majority of businessmen are :iow too frightened to move. Their vision is clouded; their courage has vanish ed. Os course, we will continue to have ups-and-downs In business and prices over the next few years. This is not another 1929-32 debacle. I be lieve that sometime before business does go through another major de pression we are going to have the big gest boom in all history. Feelings Stronger Than Figures. Several weeks agd I gave readers some of the basic causes of this cur- CContinued oc Page Three.)
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