HENDERSON
GATEWAY TO
CENTRAL,
CAROLINA
twenty-fourth year
JAPS APOLOGIZE FOR SINKING IL S. SHIP
Sectional Opposition May
Defeat Government Buying
Os 6 Million Bales Cotton
WHEAT SENATORS
PLAN FOR DEMAND
10 START BUYING
New England Group Like
wise Wants Government
to Purchase Entire
Potato Surplus
AMENDMENTS MIGHT
KILL COTTON PLAN
Supporters of Measure Be
lieve Series of “Horse
Trades” Will Be Sufficient
To Drive It Through Sen
ate When Vote Comes In
Few Days
Washington, Dec. 13.—(AF) —A pro
posal of southern senators that the
government buy up 6,000.000 bales of
cotton in an effort to raise the
to 12 cents a pound evoked today
sharp sectional opposition.
Chairman Smith. Democrat, South
Carolina, of the Senate Agriculture
Committee, offered the proposal as an
amendment to the pending farm bill.
He said it had the support of cotton
ielt senators and Jesse Jones, chair
man of the Reconstruction Finance
Corporation.
Senators from the wheat belt were
reported planning an amendment to
direct government purchase of 100,-
000,000 bushels of wheat.
New Englanders talked of directing
the government to buy the big potato
surplus.
These rhoves were seen as attempts
to beat the cotton purchase by
“amending it to death.”
Meanwhile, Senate floor managers
for the farm bill expressed confidence
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Farm Bill
Pay Above
S6OO Less
Washington, Dec. 13. —(AP) —Senate
leaders agreed today to accept an
amendment to the over normaj gran
ary bill which would scale down all
benefit payments above S6OO.
Senator Dee, Democrat, Oklahoma,
offered the proposal, which he said
would greatly reduce outlays to large
corporations and affect less than
three percent of all the farmers.
Senator Pope, of Idaho, Democrat,
co-author of the granary bill, inter
rupted Lee to say backers of the bill
were willing to accept the amendment
“because this law will have to be
worked out in conference.” Pope re
ferred to the fact that under the us
ual routine a joint House and Senate
committee would attempt to work
out grievances.
Storm Does
Big Damage
InNewYork
Worst Blizzard I n
Years; Western
States See Hopes of
Some Relief
(By The Associated Press.)
Ravages of the storm that inflicted
r mjlti-million-dollar flood damages in
California, paralyzed western New
York communities with the worst bliz
zard in years, laid siege to the far
S°uth, and set clean-up squads hard
at work today.
In the vicinity of Buffalo, N. Y.,
scene of a four-day blizzard that cost
si x lives, huge ibull-dozers flung aside
drifts piled up as high as 15 feet to
normalize traffic and transportation
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service of
THU ASSOCIATED PRESS.
SNOW MAROONS MANY MOTORISTS
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Top, automobile marooned at Niagara Falls; below, buses snow
bound in Buffalo.
Buffalo and the surrounding area, as well as the part of Ontario on
the other side of the Niagara river, are digging out of the worst bliz
zard in several years. Automobiles and buses were halted as drifts
reached seven feet. At Niagara Falls, Ontario, and at Welland,
Ontario, where snow fell unceasingly for 24 hours, many motorists,
such as the one shown here, were marooned.
Franco’s Big Push
Launched In Spain
Against Loyalists
Hendaye, Franco-Spanish Frontier, |
Dec. 13. —(AP), —Battles raged on I
three Spanish war fronts today as
Spanish Insurgent General Francisco
Franco’s long-waited general offensive
rumbled into action.
Governments reports said there was
a widespread movement of insurgent
troops from their concentration
points toward the fighting lines at
Toledo, Brunete and Teruel.
Insurgent censorship prevented in
formation on the progress of Fran
co’s triple-headed attack crossed the
closed Spanish frontier into France.
SENATE COMMITTEE
SUPPORTS THE CIO
Doing All It Can To Drive
Workers Into That
Organization
By CHARLES P. STEWART
Central Press Columnist
Washington, Dec. 13. —Not one of
the special investigating committees
set up by the seventy-fourth Congress
has stuck closer to its text than the
one of which Senator Robert M. La
Follette of Wisconsin is chairman
the civil liberties committee.
Furthermore, there is none which
has worked, and is working, harder
at its job, covering more ground or
adducing more evidence, under the
broad powers enjoyed by a congres
sional inquiry.
What will be the next move by Sen
ator Da FolMLte’fc committee?— op
erating as a sub-committee of the
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WEATHER.
FOR NORTH CAROLINA.
Cloudy, with occasional sleet or
rain in interior tonight and Tues
day and on coast Tuesday; slightly
warmer in east central portion
tonight.
ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA AND VIRGINIA.
Madrid and Valencia, former capitals,
were the objectives.
After the general offensive had been
launched, an insurgent communica
tion from Irun Franco forces
had struck “like a bolt of lightning”
and that “the reds (government for
ces) were unable to resist the at
tacks.”
An insurgent shelling of Madrid, in
which more than 500 projectives
pounded into the city in hardly half
an hour, was reported to have killed
12 persons and to have wounded more
than 50.
IyIuSELEF
PURCHASING AGENT
Successor to Waynick To Be
Named Today or To
morrow; Week Quiet
Hally Dispatch Bureau,
In. the Sir Walter Hotel.
Raleigh, Dec. 13.—While news men
complained practically all last week
that there was little or nothing hap
pening here, a review of the period
shows that almost every department
of government furnished an item or
two for public consumption, although
there was nothing of the sort cir
culated to make big headlines on the
front or any other page, for that mat
er.
Out at grim Central Prison the new
warden, Harry Wilson, officiated a'
his first executions at Walter
(Preacher) Caldwell and William
Perry, both negroes, paid for thei
crimes against white women by hav
ing their lives snuffed out with
cyanide gas. The Friday execution:
were the first held since about the
middle of August. Caldwell was con
victed of a rape in Iredell county
while Perry killed a Hamlet woman
Both confessed.
Governor Clyde R. Hoey made one
trip out of the capital city, going over
to Concord to review a “Century o
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HENDERSOtf, N. C., MONDAY AFTERNOON, DECEMBER 13, 1937
SITDOWN STRIKES
FURTHER IGNORED
IN SUPREME COURT
Test from Philadelphia Ord
ered Dismissed in Rul
ing by High Tribu
nal Members
GOVERNMENT WINS
ON GOLD DECISION
Ruling Holds Treasury Does
Not Have To Pay Interest
on Gold Bonds Called for
Redemption in Advance of
Maturity Date; Flag Case
Dropped
Washington, D?c. 13.—(AP)— The
Supreme Court ordered dismissal to
'Lov of litigation ’ involving constitu
tionality of sitdown strikes. It sent
the case back to the Federal district
court at Philadelphia, with instruc
tions to dismiss “upon the ground
that the case is moot”, since the strike
had been settled long ago.
This action had been requested by
the Apex Hosiery Company, of Fhil
ade’phia, the scene of a sitdown strike
last summer, conducted t y the Amer
ican Federation of Full-Fashioned
Hosiery Workers.
In answer to a Supreme Court or
der to show cause why the case
should not be dismissed, the labor or
ganization asserted an action against
it for damages for alleged violation
of the Sherman anti-trust act was
still pending.
The court also ruled that the Treas
ury does not have to continue to pay
interest on gold bonds it called for re
demption in advance of the maturity
date. Justice Cardozo wrote the ma
jority decision, which was read in his
absence oi) account of illness by Chief
Justice Hughes. *
The tribunal ffrsrrilss&d litigation
contesting constitutionality of a re
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Sixth Victim Now
Is Named in Paris
By French Killer
Paris, Dec. 13.— (AP) —Eugfpie
Weidmann, chief executioner for a
murder-for-profit syndicate, today
added the name of a sixth victim
to his list of confessed slayings.
He admitted, police aiinnounoedl,
killing the missing Janie Keller,
30-year-old Alsatian, in his St.
Cloud villa.
Weidmann previously had con
fessed to strangling Jean De-
Koven, young Brooklyn, dancer,
and to shooting four men, one of
them as associate, in the supposed
syndicate of kidnaping and death
for-money.
Passengers
On Stranded
Liner Saved
Manila, P. 1., Dec. 13. —(AP) —The
liner McKinley picked 453 passengers
from the stranded luxuary ship Presi
dent Hoover off two rocky inlets to
day and steamed towards Manila.
A radio message from the McKin
ley’s master said the passengers were
taken east of formosa, where the Dol
lar liner Hoover piled onto a, —reef
early Saturday. The message did not
say whether all refugees were aboard
the McKinley, also a Dollar liner.
An unconfirmed report here said a
third Dollar steamship, the President
Pierce, was speeding toward the
Hoover, and it was assumed her mis
sion was to make additional rescues.
Early reports placed the passenger
list at about 600.
LofEMLY
A Chinese Ruler?
Wang Keh-Min ... puppet ruler?
If and when Japan sets up an au
tonomous state in North China,
which recently fell under Japa
nese domination, Wang Keh-Min,
above, Chinese financier and
statesman, may be made ruler.
ioIUSPROEEST
AGAINST BOEINGS
PLANNED BY HULL
Secretary of State Confers
With Advisors and Also
Will Talk To
Roosevelt
INDEMITY ISSUE
NOT YET CERTAIN
Commander of British Gun
boat Close by Lost U. S.
Gunboat Rescues Some of
Survivors; Some Euro
peans Still Stranded After
Sinking
"* Washington, Dec. 13.—(AP) —
Secretary Hull prepared vigorous
representations today to be trans
mitted to the Japanese govern
ment on the bombing and sinking
of the American gunboat Panay
in China.
The secretary of state went into
conference with a group of his ad
visors on Far Eastern affairs pre
paratory to drafting his protest.
His aides indicated that as scon aa
complete information concerning the
incident was in hand here, a strong
note would be dispatched to Tokyo.
There was no indication, meanwhile,
as to whether this government’s re
presentations would include a demand
for indemnity covering the cost of the
Fanay and suitable compensation for
casualties involved.
Before . dispatching the note. Hull
was expected to confer with President
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COTTON HOLDS OWN
DESPITE WEAKNESS
Lower Cables Partly Offset by Trade
and Foreign Buying; Slight
Gains Noted
New York, Dec. 13.—(AP) —Cotton
futures opened quiet, one point lower
to two higher. Lower cables were part
ly offset by trade and foreign buying
March was 8.06 and the list was net
unchanged to three points lower
shortly after the first half hour.
March advanced to 8.10 and at midday
was 8.09, when prices generally were
four points higher to on e lower.
U. S. And Britain
Working Together
In Far East Move
London, Dec. 13 (AP)— Foreign
Secretary Anthony Eden today
told the House of Commons that
Great Britain and the United
States were “in consultation” re
garding Japanese attacks on their
Yangtze river gunboats.
The foreign secretary asked the
Commons to refrain from further
questioning, in view of “the grave
issues involved.”
“His Majesty’s ambassador in
Tokyo has made the strongest pro
test to the (Japanese) minister of
foreign affairs, who has promised
to make the fullest inquiry,” Eden
PUBLISHED IVIKT AFTHKNOOM
EXCEPT SUNDAY.
JAPS ACCEPT FULL
RESPONSIBILITY FOR
‘TERRIBLE MISTAKE'
“Prcfoundest Regret” Expressed, Claiming Airmen Did
Not Know Gunboat Was American; Only*One Life
Known Lost; 54 Survivors Are Accounted for Now
Shanghai, Dec. 13 (AP)—The British gunboat Bee reported early to
day she had rescued eight Americans, seven of them seamen, from the
United States gunboat Panay, sunk in the Yangtze river above Nanking
by Japanese war planes Sunday. -
The rescues brought to 61 the known survivors among 72 persons
believed to have been on the Panay when she was bombed. The report
from the Bee further said it was understood two more Americans not
included in the 61 were safe ashore.
One seaman died of wounds. Fifty-four were known to be ashore
about 35 miles up-river from Nanking, 15 of them wounded, some gravely.
Shanghai, Dec. 13—(AP) —The Japanese navy tonight ac
cepted full blame for the war plane bombardment and sinking of
the United States gunboat Ponay and two Standard Oil Company
ships, and expressed “profoundest regret” for the terrible mis
take.”
One American seaman died of injuries from the bombard
ment by Japanese war planes indiscriminately strafing all crafts
in the Yangtze river about 25 miles above Nanking.
Fillers’ Victims
May Be Doubled
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vmepd noiice Wirjy 'ho i s'
lie morp than
Thev made new efforts t*>
foT bodies in the St. C’mi'
where Eugene Weidmrnn. k1 ,,0 d at
lea&t two of victims,
‘nc’udlna De-
Koven, Brooklyn, Ni. Y.. dancer.
Investigators sail four nieces of
evidences found at the villa, cloth
ing, a trunk, a picture and a pass
port, definitely connected Mrs. Kel
ler with the ring. Mrs. Keller’s
estranged husband identified the
passport as his own, the clothing
and trunk as his wife’s, and the
photograph as a picture of her.
Mrs. Keller has not been seen
since October 2.
President Is
W orriedO vei
Loss Os Ship
Sends Message To
Japanese, Emperor;
U. S. Demands Full
Pay and Apology
Washington, Dec. 13 (AP) —
President Roosevelt today convey
ed to the emperor of Japan an ex
pression of his deep concern over
the bombing of the American gun
boat Panay.
Simultaneously, the United
States government transmitted to
the Japanese government a de
mand for full compensation and
apologies for the incident, and
guarantees against a repetition of
such an attack.
Hirosi Saito, the Japanese am
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said, referring to the shelling of
the British gunboat Lady Bird.
“The seriousness of these inci
dents needs no emphasis.”
A great cheer across from the
members when the foreign secre
tary said, “His Majesty’s ships
opened fire in return’ after they
had been bombed.
The admiralty received a mes
sage from the British gunboat Bee
saying the senior Japanese officer
at Wuhu had ordered all shipping
in the Yangtze river to remain
stationary or it ‘would be fired
on.” , ,
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TODAY
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I Fifteen of 5* su'-vivom aboard the
Panay were Seventeen at fint
were reported missing. but advices Fv
the British gunboat Bee said that 12
Furopeans bad been sighted on the
Yangtze river shore. They possibly
were survivors of the Panay, but de
i finite confirmation was not at once
| forthcoming.
The Japanese fliers who bombed
j the ships sain Rear Admiral Tadao
] Honda, Japanese naval attache in
| Ch’na, we v o ur*r.l« to see the foreign
I flags and believed the craft to be
j Chinese.
Three naval aircraft participated in
the attacks. Admiral Honda said. The
| Japanese now, he said, was prepar
! ing to punish those responsible for
j attacking the American craft “identity
of the fliers naturally being known.
Action will be taken after investiga
tion.”
Japanese, however, pleaded ignor
ance of most of the details of the at
tacks.
“The fliers did not notice what hap
pened after they observed their bombs
had found their objectives, ’’ it was ex
plained. Admiral Honda said that the
, fliers were aware American and other
foreign craft were “somewhere in the
* vicinity above Nanking,” but were not
aware of the specific location of the
Panay and the others.
“The attack occurred at 1:30 p. m.
Sunday (13:30 a. m. Saturday), the
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Farm Bureau Head
Attacks Farm Bill
The House Passed
Chicago, Dec. 13 (AP)—Edward
O’Neal, president of the American
Farm Bureau Federation, criticiz
ed today the farm bill passed by
the House last week, calling it a
“tragedy for agriculture,” an as
serted surplus control is essen
tial to maintain farm prices.
“The House Agriculture Com
mittee wrote a hill which leads the
farmer to think he might get par
ity prices,” said O’Neal in a speech
before the association’s annual con
vention, “but it offers no mechan
ism at all to give him parity.”
NankingNow
Is Possessed
By The Japs
Military Command
Officially Announ
ces Occupation of
Capital of China
Shanghai, Dec. 13.—(AP) —The Ja
panese military command tonight of
ficially announced occupation of
Nanking, China’s capital. The troops
completed the occupation at sunset,
the announcement said.
Bloody street fighting, with Chinese
contesting every foot of the Japanese
advance, marked the battle for the
city, Japanese said. Slowly, however,
| they reported, they took over govern
/ ment buildings which had/ housed
Chinese machine gun nests and
snipers.
Naval planes cooperated with the
army in th e day-long attack, and the
i .
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