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HENDERSON GATEWAY TO CENTRAL CAROLINA twenty-fourth year GREEN URGES THAT WAGE BILL BE SENT BACK TO COMMITTEE AFL President Sends Tele grams To All House Members Opposing Present Measure furious DEBATE RAGES IN HOUSE Issue Is Substituted That Would Declare Sub-Stand ard Labor Conditions Un fair Trade Practices; Doubtful if Wage or Farm Bills Near Law Washington, Dec. 16.—(AP)—Wil liam Green, adding to the general congressional 'confusion, the House today to send its wages and hours hill back to the committee. The president of the American Fed eration of Labor sent telegrams to all representatives saying the pending bill was “highly objectionable” to the membership of his organization. The House yesterday rejected a substitut ed bill supported by. the A. F. of L. by a 162 to 131 vote. Green’s message was sent whil e the House debated furiously a proposed substitute for the pending wages and hours measure. This proposal would authorize the Federal Trade Commis sion to hold that sub-standard labor conditions were unfair trade prac tices. Administration leaders tried hard to complete the writing of farm and wages and hours bills, but Speaker Bankhead said there was little chance either would reach the Wthite House before the special session ends next week. Spaniards Fighting In Bitter Cold Hendaye, Franco-Spanish Frontier. Dec. 16.—-fAP) —Far-flung warfare in which rival armies struggled with each other, and against cold and drifting snow, was reported today from northeastern Spain. Insurgent communications confirm ed previous reports of a strong gov ernment offensive against Peruel, ; southern end of the 200-mile Aragon front, but insurgent and government sources disagreed on its success. 1 ‘‘Brilliantly repulsed,” was the com ment from Salamanca, A Barcelona report asserted government troops , carried through various offensives to full success. 1 The readjustment in lines, if any, was not disclosed. One dispatch said General Francisco Franco launched , an attack in th e vicinity of Almeria, southereastern Mediterranean port , held by the government, and at the - same time ordered insurgent troops into action near Puebla de Alborton and Mediana, about 15 miles south of Zaragoza. Other engagements were reported along the upper Aragon line. 1938GT0.P. Committee 100 Chosen Contains Only Two State Chairmen, Hamilton Says at St. Louis Meet St. Ijouis, Mo., Dec. 16. —(AP) — Chairman John D. M. Hamilton, of the Republican National Committee, disclosed today the committee being selected here to draft a new declara tion of party principles will include only two Republican State chairmen. “And, in so far as I know, none of °nr county chairmen, nor any of the 106,000 precinct committeemen had been recommended or carried into the final list of the committee,” he said. This statement reflected the earlier “blanket embargo’’ placed on present office-holders elected or appointed as members of the steering committee. Hamilton said the work of selecting the policy group was “virtually com plete” as the party's executive com mittee re-convened today. The nation al chairman explained final agree ments on a few remaining names still were to be reached. Several members of the executive group expresses hope of adjourning late today. The conference openec Monday and has gone into extended sessions each night. , BniJirrsmt 3) at lit Htsuafrh SERVICE of THE ASSOCIATED PRESS. War His Ideal Lieut.-Col. Walter Jost, press chief of the German War Ministry, told students of the University of Ber lin that every step taken by the Nazi authorities since they came into power has been intended to prepare the nation for war “for de fense.” Hitler’s goal, he said, is “every citizen a soldier.” (Central Press) Cotton Plan In Farm Bill Is Defeated Wallace Attacked on Senate Floor B y Bailey and George During Debate Washington, Dec. 16. —(AP) —The Senate refused today to substitute a domestic allotment cotton program for the compulsory cotton section of the ever normal granary bill. It rejected a substitute offered by Lee, Democrat, Oklahoma, in a roll call vote, 56 to 26. Previously, statements credited to Secretary Wallace regarding farm bill proposals drew caustic comment on the Senate floor in continued debate on the ever normal granary bill. “I was amazed that the secretary of agriculture in this morning’s paper said a two-price system on farm crops would lead us into fascism,” said Sen ator Russell, Democrat, Georgia. Russell took the floor to support the substitute cotton plan introduced by Senator Lee. This measure, designed to pay the farmer a higher price for domestically-consumed cotton than that which moves into world trade, (Continued on Page Six.) SEEK U. S. AID TO N. C. SHAD INDUSTRY Etheridge in Washington for Confer ences With Federal Officials On Plans Raleigh, 'Dec. 16.—(AP)—R. Bruce Etheride, director of the Department of Conservation and Development, was in today to seek ex tension of the plans of the department and the U. S. Bureau of Fisheries for the rehabilitation of North Carolina’s shad industry. Department officials said Etheridge would take up with the itiureau plans for handling portable hatcheries to be used in propagating shad near their natural spawning grounds. SHOP EARLY ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA AND VIRGINIA. Stiffer British Policy In * Far East Is Being Urged Among House Os Commons London, Dec. 16 (AP) —A move ment to urge Britain to send more warships to Chinese waters in an attempt to “rehabilitate British prestige” was reported under way today in the House of Commons. The plea, it was expected, would be voiced in next Tuesday's for eign affairs debate unless the sit uation, meanwhile, had eased con siderably. Advocates of’ the measure, who were not grouped along party lines contended reinforcement would put a stop to attacks on British SUPPORT DEVELOPS LIBERAL SPENDING Difference o f Opinion Whether It Will Be Os The Old “Pump Prim ing” Character 10-POINT PROGRAM TO HALT RECESSION Revision of Business Taxes, Approach To Balanced Budget, ‘‘Just Relations Between Capital and La bor” Included; Bailey Linked With Idea Washington, Dec. 16 (AP) —Sen- ator Bailey, Democrat, North Caro lina, said today he was one of the authors and the final editor of the statement which has been circu lated in the Senate proposing a ten point recovery program. The North Carolina Senator, ac knowledging participation in draft ing the document, which was head ed “an address to the people of the United States,” said several other senators had joined him and had hoped it would be agreed to by senators ana the public generally as a program to restore Confi dence. Washington, Dec. 16.—(AP) —Strong support has developed in Congress a survey showed today, for resump tion of government spending on a modified scale in an attempt to spur business activity. Some anti-administration senators as well as some Roosevelt supporters, said they believed new spending must start in January or February, but there was a difference of opinion as to whether it should be of the “pump priming” type, i Several senators disclosed they had (Conti’iu® on Page Six.) Probe Reports Os Liner Hpover Crew Terrorising Women Dec. 16. —(AP) — The Senate joint maritime com mittee ordered today an investi gation of reports that the crew of the Dollar liner President Hoov er became drunk and terrorized women and ’’children passengers after the ship ran aground near Formosa last Friday. Chairman Copeland, Democrat, New York, said the American consul at Manila, where 134 of the rescued passengers landed, would be asked to transmit a report on the incident. He said the report would be made to the State Department, transmitted to the Maritime Com mission and then turned over to the committee for further inves tigation. GR rIS S byhoev Choice of Senator Stacy for Way nick’s Job Is Sur rising However Dolly Dispatch Bureau, In the Sir Walter Hotel. Raleigh, Dec. 16.—Sandy Graham supporters are pleased, though more than mildly surprised, at the appoint ment of State Senator J. Benton Stacy to ibe director of the division of pur chase and contract. ■» So many juicy political plums had fallen into the laps, mouths, or what ever portion of anatomy such plums fell into, of “original” Hoey men that the Grahamites had about given up hope of ever receiving even a nod-of recognition from Governor Clyde R. Hoey. Almost to a man they went to bat for Senator Stacy, but right up to the last minute they felt they were wast ing their efforts in a lost cause. They (Continued on Page Six.) HENDERSON, N. C., THURSDAY AFTERNOON, DECEMBER 16, 1937 vessels, .such as the Japanese at tacks Sunday on the Yangtze river gunboats Ladybird and Bee, and merchant craft. The cabinet considered the ques tion of strengthening the China squadron yesfferday, but appa rently decided to withhold deci sion pending developments. The government, after delivering a stiff protest to Tokyo against the bombardment, watched close ly the war scene in South China, where Hong Kong, the crown col ony, is .situated. Donations Sought j For N. C. Farmers Monroe, Doc. 16. —(AP) —Union county comm'ss|oners today dc signated December 20 and 21 as days on which contributions will he received for county farmers whose crops had been all or partly destroyed by drought or boll weevil during the growing season. County Farm Agent P. J. W. Wilson said farmers in several sec tions failed to make any crops this year, and that he and the commis sioners had appealed for a‘d for themG. Several farmers failed to make even a boll of cotton, Wilson said. Lewis Bold In Attacks Upoij Steel Calls Tom Girdler, of Republic Steel, “Murderer”; Gets Great Qviation Pittsburgh, Psufl£tec~l6 (AP)—John L. Lewis denounced operators of “lit- Me steel” today and told an uproar ing convention of steel workers that his dream of seeing the nation’s mill men “banded together” in unionism “has come true.” The founder of the CIO, welcomed, imid a wild demonstration, to the floor of the first national congress of SWOC, assailed Tom Girdler, president of the Republic Steel Corporation, de claring that the name of Girdler ‘should be synomymous with mur ler.” The labor leader took the platform only after a delay of twenty minutes by the ovation, and then declared “you have found out for the first time in your respective lives that you could organize if you wanted to organize.” Turning suddenly to speak of the (Continued on Page Five.). SUBSTANTIALGAIN SCORED BY COTTON New York, Dec. 16.—(AP) —Cotton futures o'pened unchanged to ten high er on higher cables, trade and foreign buying. March was 8.30, with the list 3 to 11 points net higher in the sec ond hour. At midday the list was ten -o thirteen points net higher. STATE CONTESTING TUCKERTOWN ORDER Joins Aluminum Company To Resist Clear Invasion Os State Rights tT Ml ■ . Dally Dispatch Bureau, In The Sir Walter Hotel. Raleigh, Dec. 16. —The Federal Pow ir Commission has received petitions from the Carolina Aluminum Com ■ pany and from the State of North Carolina asking for a rehearing in the iiow-famous Tuckertown cases. Notice of receipt of the State’s pe tition was sent the attorney general’s office here by the commission, which under the law has thirty days in which to act before the matter can be taken before a Federal court. North Carolina’s intervention in the case and its petition for a rehearing are based on the contention that the "arbitrary” findings of the Coipmis sion will deter th e company from pro ceeding with the Tuckertown project to the detriment of the State of North Carolina. The aluminum company’s and the State’s contentions have been fre quently stated in brief. North Caro (Continued on Page Six.) WEATHER FOB NORTH CAROLINA. Partly cloudy followed by light rain in mountains tonight and Fri day; slightly •. warmer Friday; slightly warmer in east and cen tral portions tonight. Japanese Admiral Relieved Because Os Panay Sinking; Japan Will Honor Victims F. D. R.’S STRONG PROTEST TO TOKIO ■- - ♦ ' THE HoUsiEp WASHINGTON ••v--' ••••• • "TV I -V-; '■] /• ' Memorandum handed to the Seeretsry of v at 12530 P* December 1937* y *’ .• . X •; .. * * n ► Fionas tell the Japanese Ambassador yon see him at one o ! clocks.... . A* That the President is deeply shocked ( mid concerned by tUe news, df India- d ] •<;!>'• criminate bobbing of American and ot&ar ! , non-Chinesa vessels on the and t hufi he that thfe Imperer ... be so advised. J.;v I 2. ' Tcmt all the facte ere bei n& aseeabled and will shortly be oreaenueu to tha Japanese Government#- 3* That in the meantime it la hoped th«l : llfl|. > Japanese Government <>ill be cnnalderiag definitely far. present* tion. to this Governments •.. . : • «uC Full exj-rcaalchs of re '&t*t nub nroifsr of i'dil against & -repetition of any-' similar In thej # ...• Photo facsimile of President Roosevelt’s memorandum This photo facsimile of President Roosevelt’s memorandum to Sec retary of State Cordell Hull on the Far Eastern crisis is an his*~ric document. For it is the president’s personal protest to the Jap anese government—and emperor—of the Japanese bombing of the U. S. gunboat Panay near Nanking. The demands herein stated by the president were presented to Japanese Ambassador Hirosi Saito when he visited Hull to offer apologies for the incident. . ’-Central Press Tobacco Market Closes For Holidays, Reporting 21,652,506 Pounds Sold Sales Already 569,498 Pounds More Than for Entire Season for 1936-37 Period AVERAGE TO DATE $26.09 PER HUNDRED Payments $5,650,891, Or Nearly Half Million Dol lars Ahead of Whole Sea ‘ son Last Year; Average Is $1.49 Per Hundred Pounds More Now (By R. W. McFARLAND) Henderson Sales Supervisor Closing its sales yesterday for the Christmas holidays with prices on every grade of tobacco offered high er than the prevailing prices for the past two or three weeks, argues aus piciously for tjie reopening of the market on January 11, 1938, and the sale of the remaining 2 1-2 or 3 mil lion pounds that is in this area, un sold. In our opinion as to yesterday’s market, we are not alone, for just be fore the closing for the noon hour, one of the most successful farmers in Vance county, and one of the best business men in Henderson, stated to us that his sale made yesterday was the highest that he has made, grade for grade, in two weeks. This was the general consensus of opinion of those who sold in Henderson yester day-. Official report of sales for the sea son reads: Tonnage, 21,652,506 pounds; money, $5,650,891.77; average for the whole, $26.09 per hundred pounds. From the above figures it is as certained that the market has already sold 569,498 pounds more than was (Continued on Page Five.) SPECIAL COURT IN WILSON ON FEB. 28 Raleigh, Dec. 16.—(AP)—Governoi Hoey ordered today that a special one week term of criminal court convene in Wilson county February 28 with Judge W. H. S. Burgwyn to preside. PUBLISHED IVIKT AFTSKNOOM EXCEPT SUNDAY. 'Robinsons ’ Face Arrest By Soviets Moscow, Dec. 16. —(AP) —Izves- tia, organ of the Soviet govern ment, said today that Soviet au thorities “have taken measures to seek out and arrest” the missing couple known as “Mr. and Mrs. Donald Robinson.” This was interpreted in foreign circles to mean that the couple, who professed to be Americans, have been under arrest since their strangle and unexplained disap pearance last week, although the newspaper refrained from any such statement. Izvestia said “according to in formation received by the editor, (Continued on Page Four.) WOOLWORTH STORE EMPLOYEES STRIKE Workers in Three New York Stores Demand s2l Week Minimum and 40 Hours Work New York, Dec. 16—(AP)—Em ployees of three Woolworth five and ten cent stores went on strike today following a breakdown of negotiations between union representatives and the company for higher wages and shorter hours. Miss Clarine Nichelson, organizer for the department stores employees union, said about 160 persons qui work. She said pickets had been plac ed in front of all other Woolworth stores in New York City. Union offi cials had hoped to confer with Coun tess Haugwitz-Reventlow the former Barbarar Hutton, regarding the strike but she was bound for Europe. Miss Nichelson said a general strike was not contemplated at this time. The Woolworth employees seek a s2l-a-week minimum weekly wage, a 40-hour week, a preferential shop and no more than eight consecutive hours of labor in on e day. 8 PAGES TODAY FIVE CENTS COPY TQKYOISANXIOUS TO MEET DEMANDS OF UNITED STATES Drive Inland Pushed Into Hitherto Peaceful Coun trysides of Chinese Provinces nankinglruTned, IS NEWSMAN’S REPORT Wounded Unattended Ex cept for Three U. S. Mis sionaries ; U nprecedented Tribute Planned by Japa nese for Dead Who Per ished Aboard Gunboat Shanghai, Dec. 16, —(AF) —Rear Ad miral Tizio Mitsunami, chief of Japan cse naval aerial operations, was re lieved of his post today as a resr.lt of the bombing of the United States gunboat Panay. Domei (Japanese) News Agency de clared the Japanese government was acting swiftly to carry out its pledge to America to punish officers respon sible for the attack. It was explained that Mitsunami was recalled because most bombardments in China had iteen carried out by naval planes. The rear admiral was ordered to go to Tokyo, but Japanese authorities her e did not know what other action he faced. During the day, Japanese army planes carried the warfare into the interior with a series of attacks. Three columns of Japanese shock troops advancing northward from a point between Shanghai and Nanking entered heretofore quiet countryside. One column, advancing along the ancient Grand Canal, threatened a number of rich, populous towns. Japanese officials announced that th e American Embassy’s building and other embassy and legation headquar ters at Nanking were not damaged in the attacks on the city. All Ameri cans and foreigners who remained (Continued on Page Four.) <lll * 11 '■ 1 ■— llll ■ Cite Bristol Man For Distribution Os Sulfanilamide I Cincinnati, Dec. 16. —(AP) —Dr. Samuel Evans Massengili, of the S. E. Massengili Company, Bristol, Tenn., has been cited to appear for a hearing befefe Federal food and drug administration officials here Monday in connection with the distribution of a sulfanilamide ‘ compound, which caused a num ber of deaths, principally in the South. F. A. Postelle, chief of the food and drug office, said the adminis tration had information concern ing inter-state shipments of the compound and that Dr. Massengili would be asked to show why the information should not be turned over to the Department of Jus tice. Dr. Massengili has also been cited to appear for a similar hear ing in Kansas City Monday. Japs Went •ir On Gunboat For Attack U. S. Colors Were Flying at Time; Nearby Jap Ships Machine-Gunned It Washington, Dec. 16.—(AP) Secretary ■ Hull announced today that official reports had confirm ed that Japanese surface vessels machine - gunned the American gunboat Panay after it had been bombed from the air by Japanese naval fliers. The secretary of state said this information had been transmitted to the American ambassador at Tqkyo for presentation to the Ja panese foreign office in the form of representations to supplement facts already set forth in this gov ernment’s formal note of protest on the bombing. 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