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HENDERSON GATEWAY TO central CAROLINA twenty-fourth year JAPAN MAY FOREGO DIRECT ANSWER FOR AMERICAN PROTESTS Tokyo Takes Position Apol ogies Were Made in Ad vance of Receipt of Recent Nqte STATE DEPARTMENT WILL NOT COMMENT Foreign Office Spokesman at Tokyo Flatly Denies Water Craft Machine- Gunned Gunboat Panay Before It Sank; New Note May Be Sent on That Tokyo, Doc. 17. —(AP) —Japan may refrain from a direct reply to the United States’ protest in the Panay incident, the foreign office spokesman indicated today, on the ground that the government had apologized before the American note was delivered. He question was still being weighed, but pointed out: ‘The Japanese note of apology was given (to United States Ambassador Joseph Grew) before the United States note was handed to Foreign Minister Koki Hirota. Therefore, whether some other note must be given has not yet been decided.” (In formed of the spokesman’s dis closure, State Department officials in Washington declined to comment. In formed observers, however, expressed belief that a direct reply to th e Am erican protest would be forthcoming.) The foreign office spokesman flat (Continued on Page Five.) Bill Payne Seen Near Columbia, Is Officers’ Belief Columbia, S. C., Dec. 17. —(AP) —Chief of Police W. H. Rawlin son said at 2:15 p. m. today that Columbia police, county officers and highway patrolmen were in pursuit of a man he believed was Bill Payne, notorious North Car olina fugitive. The man Rawlinson said offi cers thought was Payne, held up Police Chief William Rickard, of Cayce, Columbia suburb, in Lex ington county, took his pistol and escaped in the officer’s ear. After this escapade, Rawlinson said, the man held up a roadhouse on the old Camden road, near Camp Jackson. Rawlinson ordered out addi tional city officers, and highway patrolmen were dispatched to cover every' highway leading out of the city. Chief Rickard said he was al most positive the man who held him up was Payne. “He resem bled the pictures that I have seen of Payne,” he said. Loyalists Spaniards Push Gains Madrid,' Dec. 17.—(AP)—Spanisl government forces slashing at Gen eral Francisco Franco’s lower Ara gon salient opened the third day of the attack on Teruel with their push apparently still unchecked today. The hard-pressed insurgents hastily attempted to bring reinforcements in to the Teruel sectors, but were im peded by aerial attacks and the fact (Continued on Page Six.) Japan Might Campaign In South China Invaders Not Yet Sat isfied; Great City of Canton May Be Next Victim Shanghai, Dec. 17.— (AP)—Chinese- Japanese warfare threatened today to spread to the South China coast in far-flung attacks of Japanese forces “not satisfied with the capture of Nanking.” The Japanese communique proclaim ing the formal triumphal entry into the fallen Chinese capital, declared the “armed forces of the empire are determined in their endeavor to car ry on to a conclusion the purposes of the present expedition—establishment (Continued on Pkge Six.) Hmtiteramt tUttht tHsunfrh hNASEP WtRE SERVICE OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS. Heads Puppet State KJ Tung Kang ... puppet for Japan? Japanese authorities have pro claimed a “Provisional Govern ment of the Republic of China”, with headquarters in China”, now renamed Peking, in opposi tion to the Chinese central gov ernment. The “government” at the present is being operated by councils for the executive, legis lative and judicial branches of the regime. One of the three heads of the new provisional govern ment is Tung Kang, a Chinese who favors Japan, shown above —Central l’iess Japs Angry At Arrests By Soviets “Responsible” Ans wer to Note De manded; Russia Fortifies Vladivos tok Tokyo, Dec. 17. —(AP) —The Japan ese Foreign Office today formally 'harged the Soviet Union with “acting in a manner utterly unthinkable in any civilized country’’ in connection with the arrests of Japanese in Rus sia. The foreign office protested to the Soviet Embassy, citing what Japan called numerous cases in which Soviet authorities had arrested Ja panese and held them without trial. A memorandum accompanying the protest said Japan wished a “respon sible” answer. Almost concurrently, the Tokyo newspaper Yomiuri charged that Rus sia was continuing to strengthen her military forces at Vladivostok, Rus sia’s Far Eastern seaport. Chinese press reports received at Shanghai said Russia had completed (Continued on Page Five.) Living Standards Wane For Lack Os New Trade -- • Moreover, Reciprocal Tariffs Essential to World Peace, Meaning More World Commerce, Babson Declares; Holds That Foreig n Trade Is Vital BY ROGER W. BABSON, Copyright 1937, Publishers Financial Bureau, Inc. # Babson Park, Mass., Dec. 17.—The best protection for the American standard of living is to stimulate world commerce. Tariffs, quotas, and other trade barriers must be lowered if the world is to escape a complete economic and moral breakdown. Hence, I believe that Secretary of State Hull’s reciprocal trade policy is the most encouraging development m world affairs today. The only way that trade barriers can he eliminated is by mutually lowering them over a period of time. Furthermore, such a program means sacrifice and un selfishness on the part of many groups for the benefit of all. No nation can ever get a monopoly ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER*PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA AND VIRGINIA. HENDERSON, N. C„ FRIDAY AFTERNOON, DECEMBER 17, 1937; NO TRACES FOUND OF CRIMINALS WHO ESCAPEALCATRAZ Heavy Shore Patrol and Federal and Police Boats Search Waters For Pair BODIES EXPECTED TO BE FOUND SOON Only One Chance in Thou sand, Authorities for Fugitive Pair To Make Good in Break from “Es capeJProof” * Prison in Rocky San Francisco Bay No Traces Found of Crimin als Who Escape Alcatraz San Francisco, Cal., Dec. 17.—(AP) —Heavy shore patrols and Federal and police boats searched the waters of San Francisco bay today for two desperate criminals who escaped from Alcatraz island’s “escape-proof” Fed eral penitentiary under cover of a dense fog. Officials expected to .find their bodies. There was only one chance in a thousand, authorities agreed, that Ralph Roe, tank robber from Dun can, Okla., and Theodore Cole, kid naper from Stroud, Okla., sfill lived. During a half hour between regular counting of prisoners yesterday aft ernoon, the pair broke two panes of glass in a window and escaped from the machine shop where they worked. Hidden from tower guards by the dense fogs, they reached the outside wire fence where they jimmied a gate. After reaching rocks at the base of the cliff, officials said, the pair hid in caves on the island, plunged into a powerful ebb tide in an attempt to swim the mile and a quarter to San Francisco, or slid into the water to make a rendezvous with a confederate boat screened from th e 12-acre rock by the fog. The entire island, haze and all, was searched repeatedly without reveal ing further trace of the men. Four Steel . I Men Held In Pittsburgh Pittsburgh, Pa., Dec. 17 (AP) —Four delegates to this week’s convention of the Steel Workers’ ’Organi'zign Com mittee were held on technical charges of murder today while police investi gated the death of 30-year-old Rose Ault, whose nude body was found in their hotel room. Inspector of Detectives Walter Mon aghan said Jacob Zelkind and Morris Engaold, both of Brooklyn, were being detained here and that New York po lice had taken Louis Green, of Brook lyn, and Fred Odenwalk, of Ozone Park, L. 1., into custody on murder charges pending an inquest. Monaghan said the four men came to iPttsburgh to attend the steel workers convention. Coroner W. J. McGregor said he had not decided on a time for the inquest. In New York, Green and Odenwalk voluntarily went to Brooklyn police headquarters today. The men told Deputy Inspector! John Gallagher they knew nothing of Miss Ault’s death. When they and two other Brooklyn men, Zelkind and Engaold, arrived in Pittsburgh Tuesday, they said, all four were assigned to the same hotel room. Miss Ault later came to their room they said. Green said he and Oden walk were too busy with the conven tion work to pay much attention to her. She was still in the room, Green said, when he and Odenwalk left for home yesterday. on prosperity. Good times and hard times cannot the staked off by political boundaries. The modern world is a single economic unit. Foreign trade is its life-blood. We have prosperity when the ocean lanes are covered with heavily-laden cargo carriers. We have depressions when the world ship yards are crowded with empty freigh ters. Foreign trade is more vital to prosperity in the United States than any single industry. Without it, we cannot have active trade, good jobs, or higher wages. Foreign Trade Vital. Our overseas commerce equal only 10 per cent of our total trade in nor mal years. That 10 per cent, how ever, represents the difference be (Continued on Page Four.). GLENN FRANK MAY ""T . - Former Wisconsin Univer sity President Agreed Upon at St. Louis G. O. P. Conference CHAIRMAN HAMILTON TO TALK TO FRANK Leaves St. Louis Meeting for Chicago, Where Dr. Frank Says He Has Had No Con tacts With Committee; Hamilton Slips Away from Hotel f St. Louis, Mo., Dec. 7.7. —(AP) —Thr Repu.’ lican National Executive Com mittee, in a four-d.y caucus here, agreed upon Dr. Glenn Frank, for mer president of th e University o' Wisconsin, to head its policy-formu lating committee. The action, verified by at least three members of the committee, however, still was without official confirmation today. Dr. Frank, in Chicago, assert ed he had not been invited to head the group and “had no contacts with any one at. the St. Louis meeting.” Chairman John D. M. Hamilton left by train for Chicago, presumably to confer with Er. Frank, although his hurried departure was not explain ed. Several members of the executive committee, with whom he had been conferring since Monday, were not aware that he bad left his hotel. Hamilton previously had made pub lic a partial list of the program or steering committee, which he said when completed will total “between 135 and 140 persons.” Lawyer And Wife Slain In Georgia ■*.? - -ir ■*&<., Quitman, Ga., Dec. 17.—(AP) —Lee W. Branch, former president of the Georgia Bar Association, and one of the State’s outstanding attorneys, and his wife were shot to death in their home today. Patrolman Grady Marable said the two were killed ity Livingston Snow, Mrs. Branch’s brother. Marable said he was called to the home by neigh bors and captured Snow in th e din ing room after a brief struggle. Marable said the Branches were killed instantly, each with a pistol bullet through the head. “Livingston Snow was raving,” the policeman said. “I understand he was mentally ill, and that plans were be (Continued on Page Six.) KENNEDYISTALKED AS 1940 CANDIDATE Roosevelt Likes New Am bassador to London, But He Has Drawbacks ■ — ll V By CHARLES P. STEWART Central Press Columnist Washington, Dec. 17.— Reports that Joseph P. Kennedy is slated to suc ceed Robert W. Bingham as Uncle Sam’s ambassador in London are plausible enough. Reports, however, that Brother Ken nedy is President Roosevelt’s choice to succeed Mr. Roosevelt as the Demo cratic party’s standard bearer in 1940 may safely be accepted with a barrel ful of salt or two. Bingham, his health being poor, is about to retire from the diplomatic service. A vacancy being created, Kennedy comes into line for the ambassador ship. Wealth Necessary. The ambassador to Great Britain must be a very rich man. His ambas sadorial salary does not pay his house (Continued on Page Four.) SHOP EARLY SHO Roosevelt Is Opposed To War Referendum Those Mysterious Robinsons Shown above with his wife, the mysterious Donald L. Robinson, self* styled writer, disappeared in Soviet Russia and opens a vista of intrigue which rivals fiction. It was found that the couple were using fraudulent American passports, issued in the names of children who died decades ago, Soviet officials have given no indication of the couple’s whereabouts. (Central Press) Federal Licensing For Corporations Probable Under New Senate Bill O’Mahoney and Borah Sponsor Anti-Monopoly Bill Designed To ward That Purpose REYNOLDS BOBS UP IN SENATE DEBATE —■ . Junior Tar Heel Solon Says Business Hates Govern ment and Proposes Inves tigation of Recession; Ac cuses Wealthy Industrial ists of Nation Washington, Dec. 17. —(AP) —A pro mise by Attorney General Cummings to study an anti-monopoly bill pend ing in the Senate brought hop e to its sponsors today that the administra tion would support the measure. The measure was sponsored by Sen ators O’Mahoney, Democrat, Wyom ing, and Borah, Republican, Idaho, after the administration made no spe cific recommendations at the special session. The provisions of the hill include Federal licensing of corporations en gaging in interstate commerce. Other developments: Chairman Jones, of the Reconstruc tion Finance Corporation, announced that the RFC would help tide over railroads that are hard pressed finan cially. He said just a few railroads needed help at this time, hut that the list would grow if revenues were not increased. Senator Reynolds, Democrat, North Carolina, charged that “.’business hates the president,” and said he was considering asking a Senate investiga tion of whether wealthy industrialists plotted the recent business recession.” Panay Attack Is Described By Survivors Shanghai, Dec. 17 (AP) —'How Jap anese war planes machine-gunned the small boats carrying wounded men ashore from the bombed United States Gunboat Panay, causing more wounds, was told in detail today by survivors of the disastrous attack. They confirmed earlier reports, de nied by the Japanese, that such ma chine gun fire harassed survivors, many already suffering from sferious wounds incurred aboard the as they tried to reach safety ashore last Sunday. . In addition, survivors, reaching here said. Japanese army detachments in launches on the Yangtze river ahd along the river bank fired machine gun bursts at the Panay before she The river party also boarded the Panay after her crew and civilian passengers abandoned ship for a hur ried inspection just before she went under. The United States gunboat Cahu, her flags fluttering at half mast steam ed into Shanghai tonight, bearing the dead, wounded and rescued survivor* of the Panay. Two Japanese destroy ers and the British gunboat Lady Byrd convoyed the United States ves (Continued on’ Page Five.) PUBLISHED EVERY AFTERNOON EXCEPT SUNDAY. Rome Is Menaced By Father Tiber Rome, Bee. 17.—(AP) Troops were called out today to reinforce thousands of men in the struggle to keep .the rampaging river Tiber from innundating central Rome. The river swept through the city at its highest level in 67 years. Highways to Pisa and Naples were cut off. Authorities feared the Milvio bridge, dating hack to 109 B. C., would collapse under the tor rent. Some of the patients of a hos pital on Tiber Island were ferried to safety, while others were taken to upper floors when the flood crept into the first floor of the building. Firemen reported two persons were drowned during the night, bringing the toll of life to four. VANDENBERG SIT G. 0. P.’S BIG HOPE * / i Boomlets Started, However, * for All Little Fellows Who Speak Out By CHARLES P. STEWART Central Press Columnist Washington, Dec. 17. —The G. O. F. is so hard up for leadership that any Republican of noticeable proportions, who says somethin? *he least bit sen sible, immediately proves to have sug gested himself as a 1940 presidential possibility. Gov. George A. Aiken of Vermont is being talked of now. So is Gov. Francis P. Murphy of NeV Hampshire, but Governor Aiken spoke first. I still think that present indications point rather toward Senator Arthur H. Vandenberg of Michigan as his party’s next White House nominee. Still, the two New England governors are developing their respective little boomlets. As Stewart Sees It. Only a very venturesome prophet (Continued on Page Six.) RECESSION TREND IN COTTON MARKET List Three to Five Points Lower at Midday, Despite Trade and Foreign Buying New York, Dec. 17.—(AP) —Cotton futures opened one to four points higher. Indifferent Liverpool cables were offset by trade and foreign buy ing. March sold off from 8.30 to 8.27. leaving quotations generally unchang ed to five points net lower after the first half hour. March reacted to 8.21 by midday, when the list was three to five points net lower. WEATHER FOR NORTH CAROLINA. Rain tonight and probably Sat urday; slightly warmer in north east portion tonight; slightly cold er Saturday night and in west and central portions in afternoon. 8 PAGES TODAY FIVE CENTS COPY PRESIDENT WON'T COMMENT ON EOSS OF GUNBOAT CANAY Executive Declares RFC Will Continue To Make Loans To Distressed Railroads NEW FARM MEASURE DEBATED BY SENATE Proposal by McAdoo Would Provide for Price-Fixing, Which Is Opposed by Wal lace); Farm Bill Vote By Night Hoped for by Lead ers There Washington, Dec. 17.—(AP)—Presi dent Roosevelt told a press confer ence today he did not believe a re ferendum on war was consistent with a representative form of government. Asked if he thought a referendum requiring a public vote before the na tion could go to war was consistent with the United States form of gov ernment, the President said the easi est way to answer that was just to say no and stop right there. A petition circulated Dy Representative Ludlow, Democrat, Indiana, proposing submis sion of a constitutional amendment for a war referendum, was signed by 218 House members, forcing the House to order a vote on the proposal. The Presfdent had no comment on the Japanese bombing of the Ameri can gunboat Panay, referring ques tioners to the State Department. The President said the Reconstruc tion Finance Corporation would con tinue to make *oans to railroads in emergencies. He said a statement by Chairman Jesse Jones that the cor poration would make loans to needy carriers was not a revocation of ad ministration policy. He added that stoppage of such loans in the last few months was only a general rule and that exceptions were to .be expected. He said, however, there would be no exceptions to the decision terminat ing further allocations of emergency public works funds. NEW FARM MEASURE BY McADOO BEFORE SENATE Washington, Dec. 17. —(AP) — The Senate, after four weeks of talk on th e ever normal granary farm bill, Continued on Page Five.) Steel Union Studies Its New Policies Pittsburgh, Pa., Dec. 17 (AP) —The Steel Workers Organizing Committee, ending its first National congress in this steel capital, gave its officers in structions today to temper the poli cies they will pursue in forthcoming contract negotiations with 466 com panies. The convention, called by its lead ers as an historic meeting in the an nals of organized labor, adopted the report of its wage scale and policy committee, which declared: “We have enough information to know that the current depression prob ably will last longer than most people suspect. The major outlets of steel are closed for at least the next six to eight months.” The report, asserting that “labor suf -11 1 i (Continued on Page Eight.) * G. O. P. Plan For Repeal Is Defeated Sub - Committee of House Rejects Pro fits Tax Move As Cutting Revenue Washington, Dec. 17.—(AP) —Repub lican substitute for the undistributed corporate profits tax was defeated to day in a House sub-committee. Chairman Vinson, Democrat, Ken tucky, announced the vote, 6 to 3, was along partisan lines. The plan defeated was submitted by Representative Crowther, Republican, New York. Vinson said it would have decreased Federal revenues $416,000,- (Continued on Page Six.)
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