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HENDERSON GATEWAY TO CENTRAL CAROLINA TWENTY-FOURTH year jure CONTINUE DRIVE AGAINST NANKING Hasten Action On Boosting Freight Rates Railroads Commerce Commission Moves Final Hearing Forward Three Weeks to January 17 rails need more CASH THAN GETTING Rail Officials Intimate In crease, If Granted, May Come Too Late To Save Some Roads; R. F. C. May Advance Funds to Some of The Lines \Y - ~ gton, Doc. 11.—(AF )—-The T --e: -:v.e Commerce Commission evi denced today an intention to hasten action of the railroads patition for highest freight rates by moving: for ward three week the time for taking of closing testimony. The commission refused yesterdav to act immediately on a railway’s plea for a half million more annually in freight revenue. But today, it an nounced that closing arguments or. the ar plication would be started Jan uary 17. instead of February 7. Recurrent predictions from railroad executives said that their industry' would be in a precarious condition by next spring, focused attention on the possibility the government soon might reopen its pocket book to the carriers. President Roosevelt and Jesse H. Jones already had discussed granting of Reconstruction Finance Corpora tion loans to tide over two of these lines during the winter. Raii officials said, how'ever. that the requested increase on rates, if granted, may come too late for some lines. The rail situation overshadowed for the present other government at tempts to help business. Congress re ported, however, on tax ratification, housing legislature and anti-trust problems. Chairman Doughton, Democrat, North Carolina, of the House Ways and Means Committee, said he was confident that his committee would; bring out an equitable tax bill. _ 35 Dead In Rail Wreck In Britain Scottish Express Plows Into Stalled Train During Snow Storm Castlecary. Scotland, Dec. 11.—(AP) —Thirty-five persons were dead and 91 injured today after a Scottish ex press train, speeding through a blind ing snow storm, crashed into the rear end of a train stopped on the main Edir.burgh-Glascow line. The first, two coaches of the express were wrecked, and the locomotive plowed up a snow covered embank ment in Great Britain’s w’orst rail- Wa y disaster in 22 years. The death toll mounted to 35 when five more bodies were taken from the debris and one of the injured died m a hospital. The latest figure ac counted for, one of them a woman, w ere added to the row's of the dead in a wooded mortuary hid near the tracks. Os the 91 injured persons, 24 were still under hospital treatment. Five of recovered dead were women and one Wa 3 a child. Hrutiirrsmt TO at hi Btsrmfrir L Tn S J! , 'i< S ? IRE SERVICE OF IHE ASSOCIATED PRESS. Robbed by TVA? ■k ip m*jf : Senator George L. Berry >. . asserts he was robbed Senator George L. Berry or I'ennes ses accuses the Tennessee Valley Au thority of "robbing him of mineral leases in the Norris dam reservoi Berry's statements were made at a hearing in. Knoxville, Tenn., before a three-man commission appointed to determine the value of leases he>d by Berry and 29 others vho seek dam ages from the federal agency. Coun sel for Berry and his associates sail that witnesses would testify the mar ble alone under the .voters of Nc’riu lake was wortn more than §3,000,000. The TVA took a divergent view. Evans Dunn, counsel f r TVA, told the commissioners that ’these leases have no market value ’ and "are not worth the paper are written on.” He added that they had value “only in a condemnation case and “they ace unique in that respect.’ Senator Berry defended his purchase of the leases and denied h e bought them with a view of seeking damages from the government. LOW COSI DINNERS' FOR MORE HUMBLE Young Democrats Plan Later Feed for Those Who Can’t Pay $25 Dally Dispatch Barenn. In the Sir Walter Hotel. Raleigh, Dec. 11.—North Carolina’s Young Democratic Clubs plan to give members of the party who haven’t the $25 necessary to get in on the Jack son Day dinners of January a chance to do a bit of Jackson Day eating and orating at nominal cost sometime in March. At least prospects are extremely bright that the executive committee of the State Y. D. organization will so decide as its meeting in Winston- Salem this afternoon. The committee session has been called by State Pre sident Arch T. Allen, Jr., of Raleigh. The club’s finance committee, head ed by George Hundley, of Thomas ville, will meet jointly with the execu tive group, Mr. Allen said, as it will be called on to have charge of the Continued on Page Two.) State Faces Loss Around $9,000,000 On Its Road Funds Daily Dispatch Burean, In The Sir Walter Raleigh, Dec. 11. —North Carolina's highway fund will be short more than $9,000,000 in anticipated revenue for use next year, if President Roosevelt s plan to cut Federal highway expen ditures is adopted and if the State s financial bosses should decide that diversion authorized by the General Assembly is necessary. *. According to L. W. Payne, assis tant engineer of the Highway Com mission, North Carolina’s anticipat ed allocation for 1938 from Federal funds has been set at $4,800,000. Un der the Roosevelt plan, he said, North Carolina wouldn’t receive anything at all from the Federal government for next year. Diversion to the extent of three per cent on all gasoline sales in the state ONLY- DAILY NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA AND VIRGINIA, QUOTA FOR COTTON BOOSTED IN SENATE FOR NEXT SEASON Hayden Pushes Through Amendment to Provide About 400,000 More Bales DIVIDE QUOTA UPON BASIS PAST YEARS Barkley Declares Senate Would Approve A Farm Bill Different from House in Only Two Respects, Compulsion and Method of Aiding Farmers Financial ly Washington, Dec. 11.—(API—Sena tors from tha southwest and far wo A succeeded today in increasing the cot ton marketing quota for next year under the Senate farm bill. Senator Hayden, Democrat. Arizona, won approval of an amendment, which he sai-d raised the 1938 mar keting quota from a 10,900,009 bales previously provided in the bill to 10,- 18? 000 bales. The Arizonian said most of the in crease would go to states where 1537 production per acre was larger than elsewhere. The bill, he said, ordered the Secre tary of Agriculture to divide the cot ton marketing quota among states on the basis of the relations of the state production to national production dur ing the past five years. Adoption of Hayden’s amendment made North Carolina quota 505,000 bales. House passage of crop control legis lation gave administration forces their first effective lever for breaking up the legislative jam which has blocked President Roosevelt special session program. Senator Barkley, Continued on Page Two.) SPRUILLAODRESSES BANKERS SESSION Declares Business Recession Brought on to Modify New Deal Asheville, Dec. 11. —(AP) — Frank Spruill, of Rocky Mount, president of the North Carolina Bankers Associa tion said here today that the reces sion in business was the result of a “concerted effort on the part of busi ness interests and newspapers” to force modification of the New Deal. Spruill, president of the People’s Bank and Trust Company, at Rocky Mount, related what he said was the experience of a veneer plant in that neighborhood. The plant, he said, had orders on hand to keep it busy for several months, when, almost simul taneously from various parts of the country came instructions to hold up the orders. The orders were not can celled he added, but wer e subjected to delay. “Now why,” he asked, “these con cerns all over the country with con tracts calling for use of veneer, simul taneously could not use it?” The banker predicted that the re cession would “wear itself out.’’ There are now signs, he said, that the down ward trend is slowing up in North Carolina. was authorized by the General As sembly of 1937 though the legislators did throw a otecting clause around highway l-nus to the effect that there shall be no diversion at all so long as there is any money available from general fund sources. It has been estimated that this three per cent, subject to diversion, will amount to more than $4,000,000 for the biennium. Adding these two sums together makes it appear that the Highway Commission may not have something more than $9,000,000 which it has had reason to believe would be available. Diversion of highway funds to oth er purposes first showed in North Car olina when a total of $646,000, or $1.51 for each of the state’s 428,737 motor vehicles registered that year, was us ed for purposes other than highway. HENDERSON, N. C., SATURDAY AFTERNOON, DECEMBER 11, 1937 Envoy to Nazis? Hugh Wilson Hugh Wilson, above, an assistant secretary of state, is expected to be named U. S. ambassador to Germany to succeed William E. Dodd, who is said to have an nounced his resignation, effective in January. Wilson is former minister to Switzerland. —Central Press presidenThoover AGROUiON REEF All Passengers Rescued, But Liner Is Reported In Des perate Condition Manila, P. 1., Dec. 11.—(AP) Hounded by winds and reported leak ing badly, the trans-Pacific liner President Hoover was feared to be in a desperate condition today after sev eral hundred passengers had been re scued from the $8,000,000 vessel. Captain E. Stepbach, master of the German freighter, Treussen first ship to reach the Hoover after she went aground this morning on a reef of a small island near Formosa, mes saged that the Hoover was “bumping steadily,” and “leaking badly for ward.” Only a skelton crew remained aboard the liner, about 500 miles from Manila. The passengers said most of the crew had been removed to the island. Three United States destroyers, go ing northward from Manila, the liner Empress of Asia and two tugs, from Formosa, were expected to reach the grounded ship late tonight. Messages said the weather was’ calm, and Dollar Steamship Company officials stated they expected to re float the liner. CONGRESS FEARFUL OF FDR’S POLICIES Leftwingers Afraid He Will Quit Them; Rightists Won’t Trust Him By CHARLES P. STEWART Central Press Columnist Washington, Dec. 11.— President Roosevelt unquestionably did have a tooth pulled. The tooth has not been offered in evidence, but it is not even suspected that the operation never was performed at all. Plenty of suspicion is expressed, however, that he cut short his recent fishing trip and came back to Wash ington less because he still had an ache in the place of the tooth came from than because he considered his presence in the capital imperative to keep Congress in order —if possible. Generally Congress is a headache to the administration. This time it is a toothache. From Both Sides. “F. D.” is in the position, in his re lationship with the lawmakers, of the well-known individual who is “dammed if he does and dammed if he doesn’t.” Until quite lately he was regarded by many orthodox legislators as dan gerously to politico-economic left ward. Now the leftward folk accuse him of having veered so far to the right that they are horrified. In fact, he has more congressional opposition now than ever he had. The leftists are antagonized. The rightists are doubtful how long they (Continued on Page Two). Relief Estimate For Next Year Is Still Uncertain Business Recession Causes President Roosevelt to Withhold Estimate Until March RELIEF ROLLS NOW TEMPORARILY LARGER Broad Survey of Relief Sit uation Underway by Sen ate Ccir.mittee; M?y Aid in Metrurir-g Future March Will Disclose Presi dent’? Aim at Balanced Budget Washington. Dec. 11. —(AP) —Con- gressional leaders said today that re cessions created uncertainly would make it impossible for President Roosevelt to estimate next year’s re lief needs when he makes the annual budget forecast in January. They said the President would de lay estimating relief outlays to March in order to determine the ser iousness of the present business slump This would postpone until March any disclosure of Mr. Roosevelt’s aim ->f a balanced budget can be attained in the fiscal year beginn'ng July 1. Harry Flopkins, the WPA adminis trator. had announced that relief rolls would be increased temporarily by 350,000 persons. He said, however that this expanding program could be continued without exceeding the limit of the existing $1,500,000,000 re lief appropriation. The WPA has been spending an average of $100,000,000 a month to provide work for a vary ing number of clients. Present rolls number 1,575,000 and any increase would boost expenditures by $23,000,- 000. Informed persons on Capitol Hill said, soon a reduction in this year’s relief figure undoubtedly would be necessary to balance next year’s bud get. A broad survey of the entire relief situation is being studied by a Sen ate Committee, headed by Senator Byrns, Democrat, South Carolina, and this may aid congress in measur ing future needs. INSUIENTSCIAIM BIG AIR VIGTORY Insurgent Warships Shell Alicante, Killing Two and Wounding Forty (By The Associated Press) Hendaye-Franco, Spanish Border — Victories in air battle over the Aragon battle front were reported by both the Spanish insurgent and government fqrces. t Official dispatches from. General Francisco Franco’s headquarters said the insurgents won one of the great est air fights in the civil war on the Zaragoza sector when they brought 20 government planes. The insurgents say they lost but one ship. The government said six insurgent planes were shot down in a large shell encounter. The insurgent battle cruiser shelled the port of Alicante, on the southeast ern coast for a half an hour. Gov ernment reported damages as two kill ed and forty wounded. Shore batter ies blazed away at the insurgent war fContinued on Page Two) Thousands Need Charity Santa Claus This Year • New Bern Wants WPA Aid for Impersonator, but Many Families Are Worse Off Than That; Relief Rolls Increasing in Latest Reports Dally Dispatch Bnreaa, In the Sir Walter Hotel. Raleigh, D*c. 11.—An interesting item in the North Carolina State Em ployment Service publication relates that its New Bern office has been asked to locate the right person to play Santa Claus to New Bern chil dren. The incident is cited in Raleigh hu morous vein, as one of those unusual little bits of news which bob up every now and then. But there is little of the humorous in the fact, proved by every available bit of evidence, that there will be many thousand North Carolinians PUBLISHED KVBXI AFTBKNOON EXCEPT SUNDAY. New Ambassador f ' ' p. jjyr I fei rju Joseph P. Kennedy is shown in his latest picture, snapped at the Sen ate hearings for revision of the Merchant Marine Act of 1936. He has been named United States Am bassador to England, replacing Hubert W. Bingham. (Central Frees) TWOROX BOROMEIT IN GEORGIA CRIME C. O. Whitt Shoots Self As Officers Approach; Hub ert Davis Surrenders k Augusta, Ga., Dec. 11 (AP) —One of two men who held up a filling station at Wrens, Ga., killed himself when police cornered him after an automo bile wreck. The second man crawled from un der the car, hands over head, and sur rendered. Police Captain George Holds said the man arrested gave his name as Hubert Davis, of Roxboro, N. C., ad mitted a holdup, and said his compan ion was C. O. Whitt, of near Roxboro. C. H. Reeves said the two men drove into his place, held him up, lock ed him in a rest room, and took sl3 from the drawer. He kicked his way out and notified Charles Brown, of Wrenn, who in turn notified the Augusta, police. Lieut. Jesse Powell said when the automobile did not stop, he fired punct uring the gasoline tank and a tire. Police said the driver drew a gun, and shot himself through the head, after the automobile ran into a barri cade and was wrecked. His compan ion then surrendered. Holds was checking to determine whether these two were part of the Bill Payne gang in North Carolina, or of a gang, which recently escaped from Sanford, N. C. this year who will be absolutely un able to play Santa Claus to their own children unless - assisted by public charity. Here are a few of me salient bitr of evidence: (1) Approximately 12,000 workers (above 10 per cent of the total) have been laid off in the textile industry alone, it is reported at the state de partment of labor. Most of the re maining workers are on only about 60 per cent full time. (2) Workers certified to WPA by (Con: inued on Page Eight.) 8 PAGES TODAY FIVE CENTS COPY RIVER PORT FALLS INTO JAP HANDS; AMERICANS MISSING Capture of Important River Port Closes Retreat for Chinese Along Yangtse TWO MISSIONARIES - UNHEARD TWO WEEKS Defenders Offer Opposition to Front Tanks, But Japs Push Ahead; Cities in Vi cinity of Nanking in Jap Possession; Three Attacks On Capital Shanghai, Doc. 11—(AP)—While Japanese troops pounded Nanking’s walls and gates today, another Japan ese column captured the important, river port. Wuhu, 60 miles up the Yangtze from the capital. Japanese army commanders said occupation of Wuhu would make impossi’cle a Chi ness retreat from Nanking along the southern hank of the Yangtze. They said it also would put Japan’s forces in an advantageous position for a march on Hangkow whenever campaigns were ordered against the city further up the Yangtze, where Chinese have shifted their seat of gov ernment. Capture of Wuhu came while Ja panese infantry, charging behind a line of tanks, were storming Nanking in a general attack. In following re ports that Japanese had captured Chinkiang, 40 miles east of Nanking, and taking Chiping midway between the capital and Wuhu. With fighting reported on the north bank of the Yangtze, fear was felt for the safety of two American missionaries, B. F. Stamps, of Hunt ington, W. Va., and Richmond, Va . and Mary Hemerst, of Emmerson, N. J. They were at Yangchow and had not been heard from for two weeks. Japanese commanders admitted their front tanks were meeting stiff machine gun and rifle fire from Chi nese on the wall of Nanking. The simultaneous attack from three direc tions were pointed toward the center of Nanking. Japanese troops had yesterday (Continued on Page Three.) THREE ARE GIVEN PAROLES BY HOEY aleigh, Dec. 11.—(AP)—Herman Evans, convicted in January, 1935 in Pitt county of manslaughter and sen tenced to 12 to 17 years has been pa roled, Governor Hoey said today. The other three were E. A. Leonard, Jr., sentenced in November, 1936, in Nash county to two years for assault •on a female, and James Moses, given 12 months last September for larceny and receiving in Wilson county. Seek More Bodies At St. Cloud Police Order Half Acre of Ground Spaded for Victims Os Weidmann Paris, Dec. 11 (AP)—Police ordered today a half acre ground around the “death” cellar at St. Cloud spaded up in search for four more possible vic tims of Eugene Weidmann, confessed slayer of the American dancer, Jean DeKonen and four men. They expressed fear that a second American, an unidentified man, might have been led into the web of a mur der for profit syndicate of which Weidmann said he was the expert in killing. They also sought light on three women whose indentity and fate are a mystery. Workmen dug in the ground of the villa where Jean DeKonen’s body was found Thursday to determine wheth er the three women had been killed and buried there. WEATHER FOR NORTH CAROLINA Fair and continued cold tonight except unsettled on coast. Sunday partly cloudy, slowly rising tem peratures in the interior. FOR THE WEEK South Atlantic States: Rising temperatures with some rain the first of the week, and rain again within the latter half, followed by colder weather.
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