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JAPAN MEETS DEMANDS OF UNITED STATES
Market Limit Upon
Com And Wheat Is
Settled By Senate
Would Be Imposed by Sec
retary of Agriculture
Under Ever Normal
Granary Plan
sOME EXEMPTIONS
ARE PROVIDED FOR
Bailey Attacks Bill As Un
constitutional and Predicts
Its Upset, Delanng Men
Who Drew It Ignored
Every Opinion Given by
Supreme Court
W-ihir.zton. Per*. 14— ; AP'-- The
s.jna-.' _eM today to fix a lirr>it 0:1
• amoi it of cc "n and wheat encn
rarrr. car. mar:-t under marketing
ouetai to be impeded by the ‘ever nor
r.Tl cr.w.ary' till when supplies he
ir p: ision to orders the
secret v of agricuh ice, anting thro
ugh State, court/ and local farmer
committees. t.o -ix a quota "or every,
irrespective of whether the farmer
had signed a contra* t.
Producers of less than l' 1 ) bushel?
of wheat or 300 bushels or corn or
those who consume 75 percent of
rrecur : n an the farm, are exempted
from the quotas, if they wish.
Southern senators then engaged in
a dispute over the method f or deter
miniriu cotton acreage under the com
pulscry marketing quota-.
Ir. continuing attacks on the Senate
bill Senator Bail 3/. Democrat, North
Carolina. declare 1 it unconstitutional.
I i not think the bill is constitu
tional Bailey sho ir- d duriy? debate
or. the measure. ‘B it fam afraicT Ts
will stay in effect for a year. *
I •hink the numbers who drew
•his bill, with all due respect to them,
iisr-uarded every onto ion of the Su
prem? Court," Bailey said.
Bailey forecasts that the measure
eventually "will go the way of the
Bankhead bill." which imposed com
pulsory control, and was repealed
after the Supreme Court decision in
validating the agricultural adjustment
act
TOBACCO STATION
Monies
Mr. Moss Says Research
Work Showing Errors in
Weed Cultivation.
Dally Dispatch Barenn.
In the Sir Walter Hotel.
Raleigh. Dec. 14.—The Tcracco
Statun of the State Department of
Agriculture has carried through its
program with fair success, ac
cord: :z -o E. G. Moss, assistant di
rector in charge of the test farm at
Oxford.
M: Moss said, however, that it is
too early to make any definite state
ment e- to the results secured as all
the * bacco has not been graded and
=oid. Da'a on the various experimen
tal plats will be completed around the
first of the year, he said.
The department’s statistical division
reports that up to December 1 prod
ucer sales in North Carolina had
totalled approximately 529,500,000
Pounds against approximately 395.-
000,000 in 1936, with this year’s cash
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Search Is Pressed
For Payne’s Gang
Out Os Wilmington
Wilmington, D?c. 14.—(AP)—Fed
crg -State and local officers ranged
' Vf ' : a wide territory today seeking
a fugitive at first believed to be Bill
Payne, but with a growing- conviction
r at their quarry was not the much
wan ted escaped convict, but was his
sported righthand man, Wash Tur
ner - alias Jack Borden, also an es
caped convict.
_P- Orady Johnson, head of the
-'orth Carolina prison system, said
ffiany G s the more than three score
officers engaged in the search believ
ed that Turner was the man who es
raped iast night with his companion,
-ientified as Bowling Byrd, a former
convict, wrecked their automobile
eh ter being shot in the head.
Mtnuvt Staffxi Utaxrafirh
leased wire service of
THIS ASSOCIATED PRESS.
Refuses to Surrender
——————
'''o*' m
General Tang Sheng-Chi
. . . held out against' odds
In command of the Chinese de
fense forces of Nanking, General
Tang Sheng-Chi, above, refused
to surrender prior to battle when
x asked to do so by the Japanese
commander.
—Central Pres*
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Five Negroes
Die In Crash
With Truck
Car Plows Into Side
of Van Near Bur
lington; Both Ve
hicles Are Burned'
Burlington, Dec. 14 «AP> —Five Ne
groes lay 4 ea< * here today, burned al
most instantly to death when their
car plowed into the side of a trans
portation truck five miles west of
here on the ice-coated Greensboro
highway No. 10, and was showered
with flames from the exploding gas
tank of the truck.
The remaining three Negroes in the
crowded car when the collision occur
red were in the hospital here criti
cally injured. The truck driver, John
Maddox, of Blackstone, Va., suffered
a cut on his face. His clothing was
slightly burned.
Both vehicles were destroyed by
flames.
A witness of the accident, Kim Mick
ens, Negro truck driver of Charlotte,'
said that the instant of collision both
vehicles seemed to be enveloped in
flame, and that it appeared to him
only a miracle that any escaped alive.
The party of Negroes was on its
way to Chocowinity to attend a fun
eral.
WEATHER
FOR NORTH CAROLINA.
Cloudy, unsettled and continued
cold tonight and Wednesday with
occasional light sleet or mist in
west portion.
There was a possibility, however, he
said, that Payne was also in the
vicinity.
Since Payne and Turner escaped
last February' with five other prison
ers from the Caledonia prison farm,
they have been suspected in numer
ous bank robberies, hold-ups and kid
napings. Both were indicted for mur
der after State Highway Patrolman
George Penn was shot to death near
Asheville last August by two men who
fled in an automobile.
1 Squads of officers were sent today
to Sanford, Fayetteville, X.umberton
and St. Pauls, in North Carolina, and
to Conway and Myrtle Beach, in
South Carolina, and other points as
the manhunt was pushed. •
ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA AND VIRGINIA.
HEATED DEBATE ON
WAGES HOURS BILL
FLARESJN HOUSE
Opponents Attack It As Set
ting Up Dictator for In
dustry in United
States
INFLEXIBLE RANGE
IS ASKED BY SOME
Small Group of Northern
Democrats Join Southern
ers In Fighting Measure;
Printing Mix-Up Delays
House Action on Proposed
Amendments
Washington. Dec. 14 (AP) —A print
ing mix-up delayed House action today
on amendments to the wages and
hours bill and permitted more time for
heated general discussion of its pro
visions.
In that debate. Representative Lam
bertson, Republican, Kansas, said it
would set up a dictator for industry
and asked return of the measure to
committee for overhauling. Repre
sentative Mcßeynolds, Democrat, Ten
nessee, also attacked the measure and
said it would sacrifice industry and
the people of the South.
Representative Celler, Democrat,
New York, called Mcßeynolds a “hope
less reactionary.”
Through some slip, the revised
prints were not ready when the House
convened. They were awaited to eli
minate the necessity for passing indi
vidually on the 100 changed.
A small group of rebellious north
ern Democrats displaced southern col
leagues at the spearhead of House op
position to the wage-hour bill.
Four members from the north of
sered
would, impose mflexible wage-hour
standards on firms engaged in inter
state commerce.
MINERAL OUTPUT
OVER 111 MILLION
Big Increase in Production
This Year Over Last,
Geologist Reports.
Rail} Dispatch Burenn.
7a the Sir Walter Hotel.
Raleigh, Dec. 14. —The value of min
erals and mineral products now being
produced in North Carolina is in ex
cess of $11,000,000 annually, according
to estimates made by State Geologist
H. J. Bryson, head of the mineral re
sources division of the Department of
Conservation and Development.
Partial figures compiled for 1936
show that the minerals marketed that
year and composed only of a limited
list, brought in about $8,387,623, But
this list does not include clay or clay
products, olivine, kyanite, spodumene
or crushed stone produced by the
State Highway and Public Works
Commission. Nor does it include brick,
tile, sewer pipe or cement products.
As a result, Mr. Bryson estimated that
at least $3,000,000 should be added to
the value of the minerals already cal
culated, giving a total of more than
$11,000,000 for the year.
North Carolina has some of the lar
gest known deposits of minerals in the
world and has only scratched the sur
face in developing many of these, Mr.
Bryson said.
More than 10,000,000 tons of pro
phylote deposits have already (been lo
cated. with a potential value of SIOO.-
000.000, while deposits of at least $25,-
000,000 tons of kaolin clay, with a
value of approximately sls. a ton, have
also been located.
It is also estimated that there are
between 5,000,000 and 10,000,000 tons
of feldspar deposits in the state while
the supply of granite is so large as to
be almost inexhaustible.
HENDERSON, N. C., TUESDAY AFTERNOON, DECEMBER 14, 19371
Convicts Overcome After Attempted Break at Columbia
Completely overcome by tear gas, these convicts are shown piled in the center of a circle of officers after they
failed in an attempted prison break from the South Carolina Scate Penitentiary at Columbia, S. C. The prisoners
barricaded themselves inside an office and turned a deaf ear to Governor Olin Johnston who pleaded with them for
over two* hours to give themselves up. Finally the Governor ordered National Guardsmen to release tear gas bombs.
The prisoners were subdued, but not until after they had k illed their hostage, Capt. Olin Sanders, bv stabbing him.
Great Fires Raging In
Nanking As Jap Forces
Push On Into Interior
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Couple Fugitives
Cold and Give Up
Fayetteville, Dec. 14. —(AP) —Po-
lice Chief Barney Mcßride said two
men surrendered to him today and
told him they were Grady Carroll,
of High Point, and Jack Moore, of
Lumberton. who escaped Sandy
Ridge prison camp near High
Point last Friday. The chief quoted
the men as saying the weather was
too cold for them to rc».oain at j
large any longer.
CHAINGANGCRUELTY
ALLEGED BY NEGRO
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Young Fugitive Prefers
Death To Return to South
Carolina Prison
Paterson, N. J., Dec. 14. —(AP) —
Fighting return to a South Carolina
chaingang from whf.ch he escaped
four years ago, a 19-year-old Negro
was aided today by new found friends
who will ask Governor Harold G.
Hoffman to refuse to extradite him.
“bon’t send me back; put a bullet
through my head first,” sobbed Flem
ing Mix to Sheriff John Gavin. “Send
me back dead if you have to send me
back, but don’t send me back alive.”
The Negro’s boss hired lawyers for
him.
The arrest of Mix caused surprise
here, where he had made good on a
trucking company job, guarding silk
shipments worth up to SIOO,OOO.
Claiming he was sentenced at the
age of 15 without formal trial to a
chaingang for ten years for a crime
he did rot commit, an attack on a
small Negro girl, Mix said he escap
ed after several months.
“I was beaten terribly, beaten twice
and sometimes three times a week
until I could not stand,” he said.
“After seven months of those beat
ings, and that hell on earth, I decided
that death would not be as bad as ten
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MODERATE ADVANCE
SHOWN FOR COTTON
Prices Around Noon Five To Twelve
Points Higher in New York
Exchange Trade
New York, Dec. 14.—(AP) —Cotton
futures opened steady, one point low
er to seven higher. Higher cables
were partly offset by 23 December
notices. March rallied from 8:15 to
8.21, leaving quotations one point net
lower to ten higher shortly after the
first half hour. At midday, the list
showed net. advances of five to 12
points. ..
Actual Fighting Ends With
in Walls of Ancient Cap
ital, But Drive Is
Pressed
SLAUGHTER WITHIN
CITY IS TERRIFIC
Univerified Reports Say
Japanese Invaders Butcher
Chinese Soldiers by Whole
sale; New Government Is
Created for Conquered
Provinces
Shanghai, Dec. 14.—(AP) —Great
fires raged in fallen Nanking tonight
as the Japanese army, relentlessly
pursuing its punitive mission deep in
to China, rolled on past the conquer
ed capital.
Fragmentary reports indicated ac
tual fighting had ended within the
walls of Nanking, and the Japanese
troops, without slowing down their
offensive campaign, were carrying
their operations farther afield.
Unverified reports of the Japanese
virtually slaughtered the defeated
Chinese soldiers around Nanking cir
culated here, giving rise to grave
fears for the safety of Nanking resi
dents as well.
While tremendous clouds of smoke
shrouded the fallen city, a new pro
visional government for China 'was
formed at Peiping. The guiding prin
ciples of the new regime, reported
Domei (Japanese) News Agency,
were vigorous opposition to the gov
ernment of General Chiang Kai-Shek,
suppression of communism and coop
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STATES GREEDY IN
ASKING U. S. EUNDS
Want All Money Uncle
Sam Can Give Them, but
Keep Their Rights.
By CHARLES P. STEWART
Central Press Columnist
Washington, Dec. 14. American
statesmanship does some of its best
talking unofficially.
For example, Senator William H.
King of Utah recently called atten
tion to the fact that the constant
clamoring of the respective states for
federal financial aid tends strongly
toward an over-concentration of gov
ernment authority in Washington in
deed, that “there will be a dictatorship
if the states fail to maintain their
sovereign rights.”
It was not on Capitol Hill, however,
that the senator uttered this warning,
but in an informal speech before a
Continued on Page Two.)
PUBLISHED IY»I APTEENOOM
EXCEPT SUNDAY.
Hoey Will Select
Purchasing Agent
Raleigh, Dee. 14 (AP)—Governor
Hcey said today he expected to ap
point a new director of the State
Purchase and Contract Division
tonight. • - •
“I have not completed all de
tails in connection with the ap
pointment,” said the governor,
“but I expeef~torUb ready to an
nounce the man tonight.”
Capus Wayniek is leaving the
$6,600 job tomorrow to become exe
cutive editor of the High Point En
terprise.
KNOWN DEATHTOLL
FOUR FOR GUNBOAT
Badly Burned Body of Sea
man Is Found To In
crease Toll In China
Shanghai, Dec. 14. (AP) —The
known death toll from the bombing
of the United States gunboat Panav
and three other American steamers
increased to four today when the bad
ly burned :ody of an unidentified
seaman was found.
Three of the dead were American-:
and one an Italian newspaper man
who had taken refuge on the Panay.
The seaman’s body was found by
the United States gunboat Oahu, wait
ing in the Yangtze river to rescue
Panay refugees who were imperilled
again by a clash between Japanese
and Chinese troops.
It had been expected it would be
possible to begin taking the 52 sur
vivors aboard the United States gun
boat Oahu and the British gunj’coat
Bee late today, but the new outbreak
of fighting interrupted the plans.
The Oahu radioed tonight that the
body of Captain C.H. Carlson, skip
per of one of the Standard Oil Com
pany river vessels, bombed at the
same time as the Panay attack, had
been recovered. The Japanese were
preparing it for burial and it will be
sent to Shanghai.
Panay’s Survivors
Return To Yangtze
4.
After Jap Bom bing
Shanghai, Dec. 14. —(AP) —Fifty-two
survivors of the bombed United States
gunboat Panay made their way from
an island refuge back toward the
Yangtze river today, carrying their
two dead and eight seriously wound
ed.
The two known dead in the Japan
ese fcombardment Sunday of the
Panay and three other American ves
sels were Charles Ensminger, of
Ocean Beach, Cal., Panay store-keep
er, and Sandro Sandri, Italian news
paper man who had sought refuge
aboard the vessel.
Available information on the at-
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TOKYO ACTS EVEN
BEFORE ROOSEVELT
NOTE ISJECEVIED
Regret Expressed, Indemni
fication Promised, Pre
vention of Recur
rence Assured
FOREIGN INTERESTS
TO BE PROTECTED
Foreign Office Says “Birth
of New China” To Assure
Rights of Foreigners In Far
East; Nanking Govern
ment Is Reduced To Local
Regime
Tokyo, Dec. 14 (AP) —Japan
today met the major demands of
President Roosevelt on the sink
ing of the United States gunboat
Panay before they were present
ed formally.
A Japanese note expressed re
gret, promised indemnification
and stated measures already had
been taken to prevent recur
rence of the incident.
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f’on* Roo'*ovpH’<! m°rnorr>odUTvi da
"'■'pndinar foil '•Refaction forth« &*-
4 '>pk on Pnnav wai presented to
Emneror Hirohito, a high government
official disclosed.
The high government source said
the prompt delivery of the demands
to the eJUDero’- best illustrated the at
titude of the Japanese government re
garding the attack on the Panay.
Foreign Minister Koki Hirota sent
to United States Ambassador Joseph
Grew the note which expressed
apology and regrets, promised in
demnification and stated measures to
prevent a recurrence of the incident
already had been taken.
Premier Prince Fumimaro Tonoye
issued a document which declared
that “birth of a new China will serve
to safeguard foreign interests in the
Far East.”
It summarized Japan’s contention
that she had pursued a policy of "non
aggravation” and said the Nanking
government had been reduced to a
mere local government.
Find Body
6th Victim
Os Slayer
Paris, Dec. 14.—(AP) —Police to
day found the body of Janine Keller,
sixth known victim of the murder-for
profit syndicate “in brigands’ cavern”
in a corner of Fontainebleau forest.
The discovery came as a result of
information given- police by Eugene
Weidmann, confessed executioner for
the murder ring.
More than 250 persons milled a
round the entrance of the cave as po
lice found the ibody buried under a
thin layer of sand.
Weidmann, who admitted yesterday
that Mrs. Keller was the sixth person
he had killed to rob, told police he
used part of his loot to learn to tango
and waltz.
Despite his confession of the shoot
ing of Mrs. Keller, Weidmann, by his
own story, kept the number of his kill
ings at five. He changed his account
of the shooting of Roger Leblond to
accuse Roger Million, whom he de
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tack, which endangered 79 foreigners,
mostly Americans, was that eight
others were seriously wounded, two
slightly wounded, elefien foreigners
and 81 Chinese missing and probably
a total of 66 saved.
It was learned that the Japanese
planes made five separate attacks on
the Fanay and Standard Oil vessels.
The Panay did not sink for 90 min
utes, leaving the hope that all on
board l»d at least a chance to swim
ashore.
Negotiations were reported under
way between Japanese and British au
thorities to remove the possibility of
future attacks on British ships.