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HENDERSON GATEWAY to CENTRAL CAROLINA TWENTY-FOURTH year ROOSEVELT SILENT ON WAR-HOUR DEFEAT Second Note Is Sent Japan About Gunboat MACHINE-GUNNING. OF NAVAL VESSEL BEING PROTESTED Nature of New Representa tions by United States Is Not Definitely Announced NAVAL COMMANDER OFFERS TO RESIGN Offer Reputedly Refused, Hov/ever, Though He May Be Given New Assign ment; Reported Invasion of Gunboat by Japs Believ ed Protested Tokyo, Doc. 18.—(AP) —The Japan ese Foreign Office disclosed today that the United States Ambassador Joseph Grew had delivered a second American note in connection with the sinking of the gunboat Panay. The nature of the new representa tions had not' been made known, but they were reliably understood to con cern reports that the Yangtze river patrol ship had been machine-gunned by Japanese launches before it sank under the pounding of aerial bombs Sunday. The note also was .believed to have carried a strong protest against the leported boarding of the Fana> by Japanese officers ibefore it went down about 20 miles up-river from Nanking. (State Department officials in Washington said th e representations made by Grew were based on details of the bombing as received from naval and diplomatic sources in China and relayed to him. The material sup plemented the formal note sent by the State Department to the Japanese (Continued on Page Five.) 36 Miners Guilty Os Conspiracy To Bomb Coal Trains Springfield, 111., Dec. 18 (AP)— Thirty-six defendants, most of them affiliated with the Progres sive Miners of America union, were convicted today by a Federal court jury of conspiracy to bdmb Illinois coal field trains. All were found guilty on three counts after the largest mass trial in the history of this Federal court district. The verdict was reached 14 1-2 hours after the jury received the case. The trial lasted five weeks. Several Progressive officials were among the miners convicted of con spiracy to dynamite trains, obstruct ing the mails and interfering with commerce. Sheriff Earl Evans and the other defendants were charged with dyna miting trains hayiling coal from mines operated by members of the rival union, the United Mine Workers of America, in an effort to force em ployment of Progressives. The defendants took the verdict quietly,-but wives of some of them sobbed. Gangster Slain Near To Belmont Belmont, Dec. 18.—(AP)—A gun latUe with officers today had ended ihe criminal career of Clyde Cunning ham, former South Carolina convict, a t first tentatively identified as Bill Bayne, North Carolina desperado. Failing to stop at a weighing sta tion near here last night, Cunning ham aroused officers’ suspicions, and a chase started that resulted in the fugitive’s car being crowded off the highway. Cunningham fired as he got out of his car and a bullet hit Police Chief J- A. Burns, of Kings Mountain, in the hand. Then an officer shot back, wounding Cunningham in the neck. “Don’t shoot; you have already shot uue in the neck,” cried Cunningham, dropping his gun and at the same time pulling another pistol out of his belt. As he drew the second gun several officers opened fire and Cunningham fell in his tracks. v _ Hn til wa rm tlatUt tHspafrb L}^ IRE 1RE SERVICE OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS. When Labor Rift Widened x i| | 'i , JM- I J|||||||& Philip Murray (left), chairman of the Steel Workers Organization Com mittee is shown at Pittsburgh, shaking hands with Lieutenant Governor Kennedy, of Pennsylvania,-a former labor leader and appointee of Gov, Earle. The picture was taken at the S. W. O. C. convention in which both w Kennedy and Murray attacked William Green and blamed the A. F. of L. for the division in organized labor’s ranks. Railroads Given Furtlier Increase Washington, Dec. 18 (AP) —The Interstate Commerce Commission approved today freight rate in creases estimated to return $15,000,- 000 to $20,000,000 annually to rail roads. The increases, effective Monday, were allowed by approving tariffs proposed by the railroads on speci fic commodities after the I. C. C. granted October 19 increases esti mated to bring in $47,500,000 an nual revenue. While approving most of the proposed tariffs, the commission suspended the new rate schedule ion five commodities!, .specifying these become effective July 20 in stead of Monday. A hearing will be held in the meantime to deter mine the fairness of these proposed rates. ORDER IS RESTORED ABOUT FORD PLANT » Hostilities Between Police and Pickets at Kansas City Quieted Kansas City, Dec. 18 (AP)—Police picket hostilities reached a truce at the Ford assembly plant here today after five men were wounded by gun fire, a dozen beaten and two gassed in clashes yesterday. Police said they would not patrol the plant during its usual week-end shutdown. Two of the men wounded in yester day’s disorders were constables. A Ford maintenance employe was over come by tear gas and a policeman blinded by the gas was sent to the hos pital. Fifteen members of the UAWA and other CIO unions and four non-union Ford workers were held for investiga tion. Police released 104 strike sym pathizers arrested in the disorders. The United Automobile Workers Union, alleging discrimination in re hiring after a seasonal lay-off called (Continued on Page Five.) "WEATHER FOB NORTH CAROLINA ' Mostly cloudy tonight, with pos sibly light rain in east portion and mist or snow flurries in mountains colder except on north coast to night; Sunday partly cloudy, un- on the coast, slightly cold er in central and east portions. \ • ' WEEKLY WEATHER For week beginning Monday: Generally fair and cooler begin ning of week except unsettled over north portion Mondajfc rising tem peratures middle and rain period i. in latter half, followed by colder. ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OP NORTH CAROLINA AND VIRGINIA. INSURGENT POINT ALIOSTCIRCLED Teruel Hard Pressed by Loyalist Troops in Drive Against Franco Madrid, Dec. 18. — (AP) —Teruel, southern spearhead of General Fran cisco Franco’s Aragon line, was ring ed today by besieging government forces, a war communication an nounced, and a battle was raging with in the city. All of Teruel’s communications had been cut off by the government’s slashing three-day surprise offensive. An insurgent communication reach ing the French frontier denied the government claims of success. It in sisted “we are pursuing the enemy with success.” Government reports said the repub lic’s Teruel army had captured 15 po sitions surrounding the city and some within the city itself. In bitter cold and through drift ing snow, the attackers stormed in surgent entrenchments in the muni cipal cemetery, driving them out from the protection of tombstones. The insurgents failed in a counter attack yesterday to smash througl the tightening ring. Teruel’s plight was unquestionably a heavy blow to Franco’s armies, which had been expected to take the offensive themselves in an attempt to drive eastward through govern ment territory to the sea. Hoey Warns Car Owners To Get 1938 Auto Tags Now And Avoid Trouble Daily Dispatch Bureau. In the Sir Walter Hotel. Raleigh, Dec. 18.—Approximately half a million automobile owners must obtain their license tags within the next two weeks or face arrest if they attempt to operate their cars, Gover nor Clyde R. Hoey said today as he urged car owners to get their tags without further delay. “I wish to call the attention of the public to the fact that only a few days remain to purchase new auto mobile plates befor e the first of Jan uary”, the Governor said. “Under the law automobiles cannot be operated upon the highway after December 31 unless the new license plates have placed on the cars. There is no pro vision in the law for extending the time and this cannot legally be done. “The automobile department placed on sale in all the offices through out the State the new plates on De cember 1, so as to afford the public a full opportunity to purchase these HENDERSON, N. C., SATURDAY AFTERNOO N, DECEMBER 18,1937 Happy in Victory Gen. Iwane Matsui, commander-in ehief of the Japanese forces in the Shanghai area, is pictured at a con ference with the Japanese press after his soldiers had triumphed in the taking of the Chinese city. (Central Press) IPEROR OF JAPAN MAY TAKE HAND IN THE PANAY AFFAIR *• Detailed Report of Sinking of American Gunboat Given Him by Pre mierKonoye SOME STATEMENT MAY FOLLOW SOON Army and Navy Insisting That Offers to United States Already Made Are Enough; Foreign Minister Hirota Waging Losing Battle for Concessions Tokyo, Dec. 18.—(AP) —Em peror Hirohito tonight received a detailed report on the sinking of the United States gunboat Panay from Premier Prince Fumimaro Konoye. News of the premier’s action, an unusual step in the Japanese system, lent weight to reports that some expression concerning the Panay affair might come from the emperor. The army and navy were said to lie insisting that the formal apology, offer of indemnities and recall of Rear Admiral Teizo Mis tunanii, chief of the naval air force in Shanghai, were sufficient to satisfy the United States. Foreign Minister Koki Hirota was said to be waging a battle with little support to obtain fur ther concessions. plates prior to expiration date of De cember 31. This gave a full month to buy these plates, and I wish to call attention of all automobile owners to the necessity of buying the plates now, because there will be a tremen dous rush for the last tlvo or three days of the month and owners of cars will be deprived of the privilege of operating them unless they secure their plates now. “As some indication of the neces sity of acting about this matter, I need only mention that for the year there were sold 586,535 license plates, whereas until December 15, the first half of the month, only 86,102 plates have been sold. You can see from this that there ar e practically 500,000 still to be purchased and if car owners do not take advantage of the time now to purchase a license they will have only themselves to blame when they are deprived of the use of their cars after January 1* 0. S. NAVALGOURT OPENS INQUIRY ON YANGTZE ATTACKS Speedy Conclusion of In (Vestigaiion into Japa nese Conduct Likely In Shanghai japs alscTpr OBING GUNBOAT'S SINGING Whether the Japanese Ma chine-Gunned Pauay's Sur vivors Is Disputed Ques tion Whose Solution Is Sought; Japan's Future Moves In Doubt # Shanghai, Dec. 18. —(AP) —An offi cial United States naval court of in quiry rushed a factual investigation today of Sunday’s Japanese airplane attacks on American shipping in the Yangtze river. The naval court hoped to complete its investigation before United States eruiser Angara, flagship of Admiral Harry Yarnrll, commander of the United States fleet, in Chinese waters, ails for Manila tomorrow. Japanese, at the same time, an nounced they were undertaking an other through inves f igation of the dis aster in which the United States gun boat Panay was sunk, three Standard Oil vessels were destroyed and four lives were lost. Both boards of inquiry attempted to settle a disputed question in which the United States took a serious view: D'd Japanese deliberately ma chine-gun the Panay’s survivors? The direction of Japan’s next offen sive in China, meanwhile, was cloud ed in doubt. All that was known was the declamation of Vice-Admiral Kiyohi Hasegawa, commander of Ja panese naval forces in Chinese waters, that “the Japanese government is not satisfied with the success of its arms with the capture of Nanking. The sit uation is far from settled.” Japanese already had spread north, west and southwest of Nanking, con quered capital of Republican China., and were believed threatening to dom inate other Chinese cities. Urgent appeals to Shanghai for doc tors and medical supplies came from 14 American missionaries who remain ed in the abandoned capital through out the attack, and still were attempt ing to alleviate the suffering of the inhabitants. VETERANS GETPAY AFTER 1 DECADES Service Compensation Ob tained for Tar Heel Ex- Soldiers Now 111 Dull} Dispatch Bureau. ; u the Sir Walter Hotel. Raleigh, Dec. 18—Seven North Carolina veterans of the World War have just been awarded compensation for “service-connected disabilities” twenty years after they suffered them, Jack Lang, State service officer said today. The seven were among the 32 new cases handled by Mr. Lang, whose of fice is in Charlotte, during November. None of themha d ever made applica tion for compensation before, he said. Mr. Lang commented on the diffi culty of convening Veterans adminis tration officials at this late date that existing disabilities are in fact due to service in 1917 or 1918. He said that the evidence in the seven cases ap proved in November was overwhelm ing; but that the veterans had not before filed because of their desire not to take compensation from the govern ment until it was absolutely necessary. The State service officer was here to confer with Major A. L. Fletcher, commissioner of labor. He is con- Continued on Page Five.) ml 1 SHOP EARLY PUBLISHED SVHKY AFTBJtNOOM EXCEPT SUNDAY. Reversal In House Is Blow To Program Os Special Session Defies NLRB Again ttmmmmmm' 1 mm listed TR | 4SP 1 * Jp George Ketchum . . . defies NLRB For the second time, George Ketchum, president of a Pitts burgh advertising firm, has de fied the National Labor Relations Board. He failed to appear, as a witness at Steubenville, 0., where . . the NLRB is investigating charges of coercion by the Weirton Steel company against union employes. A copy of the subpena served on Ketchum was ordered sent to Washington for any action deemed appropriate. —Central Press TAMIL PASSES 10 CONFERENCE AS SENATEAPPROVES Small Group of Legislators Will Now Tackle Prob lem Congress Could Not Solve HOUSE AND SENATE ARE WIDELY APART Efforts Will Be Made To Harmonize Two Measures; Price-Fixing Proposals Are Rejected by Senate, Which Almost Kills Farm Meas ure Itself Washington, Dec. 18. —(AP) —Senate passage of the “ever normal granary” hill shunted to a small group of legis lators today the problem that Con gress has been unable to solve in four weeks of debate: how best to help the farmer. A joint committee of senators and representatives faces the task of re conciling major differences between the Senate measure and a crop con trol bill previously passed by the House. Leaders have abandoned hope that the committee man agree on many de tails before the special session ad journs next Wednesday. Minor enact ment -of farm legislation, listed first on President Roosevelt’s program for the extra session, thus will be delayed until Congress convenes again in Jan uary. The Senate approved the farm bill last night, 59 to 29. The measure narrowly escaped the ash heap, however, when proponents (Continued on Page Five.) SLIGHT ADVANCES IN COTTON MARKET Renewed Realizing and Hedge Selling Retard Rise, However; Vol ume Is L united New York, Dec. 18— (AP)—Early advances in cotton today brought out renewed realizing and hedge selling, but volume was limited. March eased from 8.27 to 8.21, and closed at 8.22, with final prices one point net lower to five higher. , „ Futures closed one lower to five higher. Spot steady, middling 8.32. Open Close January 8.16 8.12 March 8.26 8.22 May 8.32 2.27 July 8.38 8.34 October 8.43 8.43 December 8.45 8.45 8 PAGES TODAY FIVE CENTS COPY Speaker Bankhead Says Special Congress Has Made As Much Head way as Expected HOUSINcfiILL MAY PASS BEFORE NIGHT House Late Friday Sent Wage-Hour Bill Back To Committee Despite Leader Rayburn’s Plea It Means Death of That Type of Legislation Washington, Doc. 18. —(AP)— No comment was forthcoming from the White House today on the defeat of the wage-hour hour bill. It was said that President Roosevelt had not had time to discuss the situation with his congressional leaders. This may be one phase of the gen eral legislative program which he will l ake up at a Monday conference with his leaders. Speaker Bankhead said the special Tossion had accomplished effective “spade work” which would mean Con gress could adjourn next year’s re gular session ty April 15. He added he was not disappointed with the progress made on the spe cial session program the President outlined. ‘‘We have made as much headway as could be expected,” he said. ‘‘Some of these measures could not be hand led overnight.” The speaker said he believed the House would pass the administration’s housing bill by tonight and Congress would adjourn by Wednesday. He said h e thought many membeto would start home for the holidays by Mon day night. ADMINISTRATION PROGRAM IS HALTED BY THE REVOLT Washington, Dec. 18. (AP) — A climatic House rebellion shel ved the wage-hour bill check-mated administration leaders today in their efforts to push through much of the Roosevelt program before adjourn ment next week. In a tense overtime session, the House sent the battered measure tack to th e labor committee last night, de spite an appeal from Majority Leader Rayburn, Democrat, Texas, that such Continued on Page Fiv*.» Bill To Buy Six Million Bales Ready Washington, Dec. 18.—-(AP) — The Senate Agriculture Committee sent to the floor today for con sideration a bill by Chairman Smith, Democrat, South Carolina, to require the government to buy up 6,000,000 bales of cotton. Under the measure, cotton would be purchased until cotton reached 12 cents a pound, or the 6,000,000-bale limit was reached! Purchases would be carried out through the Commodity Credit Smith failed in an effort to amend the farm bill to provide for the purchases. Northern and west ern senators voted Spain st the southern bloc. November’s Road Deaths 112 In State Total for Eleven Months 999, or 95 More Than Same Period Last Year Raleigh, Dec. 18 (AP) —R. R. Mc- Laughlin, motor vehicle bureau direc tor, announced today that 112 persons died in automobile accidents in North Carolina during November to push the year’s toll ter 999, or 95 more than in eleven months of 1936. There were 841 accidents, in which 844 persons suffered non-fatal injuries during November. For eleven months (Contfrued on Page Five)
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