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HENDERSON GATEWAY TO CENTRAL CAROLINA twenty-fourth year Japanese Dispute American Version Os Panay Sinking Virtually Every Statement By Naval Officers and Survivors Is Denied In Report SAYS ARMY BOATS MADE NO ATTACKS Further Asserts Gunboat Was Moving at Time of In cident; Tokyo Reverses Previous Statement That Denied River Craft Fired On Vessel Shanghai, Doc. 20.—(AP) —The Ja panese military attache issued today a report on the sinking- of the United States gunboat Panay which contra dicted virtually every statement pre viously made by American naval of ficers and British, Italian and Amer ican survivors. The report by Major General Kuma klchi Harada purported to be “the sruxn total of staff officers’ investiga tion" of the bombing of the Panay and three Standard Oil Company ves sels December 12. In conflict with the stories of sur vivors. Harada’s statement denied that Japanese army boats had fired on the Panay as it was sinking and asserted the gunboat was moving at the time of the incident, when offi cially it had been reported anchored for more than two hours in the Yang tze river, 27 miles above Nanking. In Tokyo the Japanese Foreign Of fice spokesman reversed a previous statement in which he had denied United States charges that the Panay was fired on by Japanese river ves sels. He indicated that Japan would plead self-defense for the river boa* attacks on the American boat as it was sinking under bombardment by. Japanese planes and would claim the Panay had changed positions on the Yangtze without sufficients notice to the Japanese. A foreign office official said yester day that Japan would reply to a sec ond American communication giving details of the attack before drafting an answer to original American de* mands for amends. Insurgents Surrounded ButHoldOn Madrid, Dec. 20.—(AP) —An entire ly surrounded and greatly outnum bered Spanish insurgent garrison held the city of Teruel today in the face of the heaviest government attacks on the central front since the drive on Brunette last July. Last insurgent defenses outside the city, which had been the tip of a spearhead thrusting at government, communication lines between Madrid and Valencia were destroyed in three days of attacks. Teruel was cut off from the rest of insurgent Spain. Government forces thwarted repeated insurgent attempts to break through and relieve the gar rison. Dispatches to Hendaye, on the Franco-Spanish frontier, said the city's inhabitants took refuge in miles of tunnels under the streets. Battles raged in the streets, planes fought overhead and government shells smashed at its walls. Government troops stormed Teruel itself shortly after nightfall Sunday. Several hours later they penetrated its outskirts and occupied several buildings in the city which had been held by the insurgents since the civil war began. stacyselecTion WAS CHIEF EVENT But Hoey Last Week Warn ed Motorists; Mayor Cooper Breaks Again Dally Dispatch Bnreaa, In the Sir Walter Hotel. Raleigh, Dec. 20. —A major change in official personnel marked last week in Raleigh as State Senator J. Ben ton Stacy, of Rockingham county, stepped into the directorship of the division of purchase and contract as Capus Waynick, of High Point, retir ed to return to the newspaper busi ness as editor of the High Point En terprise. Governor Clyde R. Hoey kept the identity of his appointee secret right up to the last minute, naming Senator Stacy late in the afternoon of Decem ber 14. He took office the following day. Comment on the appointment was altogether favorable, as the new pur chaser of State supplies was hailed on all sides as exceptionally well qualified 4 Jr'Vt. wmm i, (Continued on PnfiQ Two). HrnJicrsmt tlaUri tltsmtfrh wIKE SERVICE OF J THE ASSOCIATED PRESS. Spurs Seal Drive BHig; 'ji Windows Lighted as Cross .. . spurs seal drive A double-barred cross of light 24 stories high, symbolizing the world-wide campaign against tu berculosis made possible through the sale of Christmas seals, shines down on Michigan boulevard from the Palmolive building in Chicago. The cross, 300 feet high and 120 feet wide, Is formed by lighting certain windows from the twelfth to the thirty-sixth floors. Press Comb East In Hunt To Get Payne - * Public Enemy No 1 of State and Com panion Reported Definitely Seen Myrtle Beach, S. C., Dec. 20 (AP) —State, county and Federal offic ers said today they believed Bill Payne and Wash Turner, fugitive North Carolina desperadoes, were hiding in a forest near here. Two men believed to be Payne and Turner were chased into this resort town last night. Fifty offi cers took part in the pursuit. Highways leading out were heav ily guarded. Police Chief A. F. Hamilton, of Myrtle Beach, said the two men passed within eight feet of him shortly after midnight, but he did not recognize them at the tiiiie. Harry Wright told officers he sold some gas at 1 a. m. to two men who he said resembled pic tures of Payne and Turner. The men, he reported, appeared highly nervous. Raleigh, Dec’. ' 20. —(AP)—Highway patrolmen combed the eastern part of the Carolinas today in search of two wild-driving desperadoes identified by (Continued on Page Two) COTTON IS HIGHER AT MIDDAY PERIOD New York, Dec. 20. —(AP) —Cl'ton futures opened two to nine points up on higher cables and foreign buying. March was 8.26 shortly after the first half hour, when prices were 3 to 5 points net higher. March advanced to 8.32 and at midday was 8.30, when prices generally were seven to eight points net higher. 16,811,681 Bales of Cotton Ginned of 1937 Crop so Far Washington, Dec, 20. —(AP) The Census Bureau reported today that cotton of this year’s growth ginned prior to December 13 totalled 16,811,681 running bales, including 297,891 bales of round bales counted as half bales, and 8,555 bales of American Egyptian Ginntngs to that date last year were 11,699,116 running bales. • This year’s total cotton crop was estimated by the Agriculture Department recently at 18,746,000 bales of 500 pounds gross weight. Ginnings to December 13 this year included: North Carolina, 738,776 bales, compared with 522,- 795 by the same time last year. WEATHER FOR NORTH CAROLINA. Fair to partly cloudy tonight and Tuesday; slightly colder in central and extreme southeast portions tonight. ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA AND VIRGINIA. Ambassador Dies Bp:' Judge Bingham Judge Robert W. Bingham, of Louis ville, Ky., American ambassador to Britain, died Saturday night in a Baltimore hospital after a brief ill ness. He was owner of the two large Louisville newspapers and had been envoy to the Court of St. James in London since President Roosevelt as sumed office in 1933. He was a native of Orange county, North Carolina. READKFIM DRIVE INTO CHINA Offensive Imminent Into Rich Chekiang and An whei Sections Soon Is To Begin PRESSURE FELT ON ALL COASTAL CHINA Three U. S. Warships Stand by at Tsingtao, Important Northern Seaport, To Eva** cuate 300 Americans, If Necessary; All Quiet Last Night Shanghai, Dec. 20.—(AP) —An im minent Japanese offensive in Chek iang and Anwhei, rich central Chinese province, was disclosed today by Gen eral Iwane Matsui, Japanese comman der. The pressure of Japan’s campaign, however, was felt the whole length of coastal China from Tsingtao, impor tant northern seaport, to Canton, metropolis of the south. Three United States warships stood by at Tsingtao to evacuate about 300 Americans if necessary. A Japanese naval attack on the port, highly de veloped by Japanese industry, was feared because of the destruction of rich Japanese properties by Chinese troops there . Samuel Sokobin, United States con sul at Tsingtao, said “all was quiet last night.” A Japanese spokesman said he was informed Chinese had destroyed all Japanese cotton mills in Tsingta.o. Since all Japanese had evacuated the port at the outbreak of the war, Chi nese had held the property as hostage against attacks. Its value was estimat ed at more than $87,000,000. Ludendorff, Idol Os War, Passes Away Munich, Germany, Dec. 20.—(AP)— General Eric von Ludendorff, 72-year old idol of the German army, died to day. The German World War comman der apparently was recovering from an operation on an infected bladder, but last night his heart failed. Throughout his illness of more than three weeks, the aged warrior showed Soviets Claim America Is Overrun With Spies < Os Japan; Admit Purges Moscow, Dec. 20. —(AP) —A high Soviet official said today that Amer ica “is overrun with Japanese spies,” and Japan, “in its turn, seems to be an arena for American intelligence services.” This declaration was made by M. P. Frinovsky, vice-commissar of internal affairs, or vice-chief of the Soviet Secret Political Police, in an article in Ptavda, official communist ilews paper. H,e discussed th e execution of eight HENDERSON, N. C., MONDAY AFTERNOON, DECEMBER 20, 1937 Mill CHINA Secretary of State Answers New Jersey Senator Who Urges Quick With drawal HAD LONG PLANNED WITHDRAWAL THERE Hull Declares Many Diffi culties Presented by De . gree of Protection Govern ment Should Provide for Its Citizens; Cannot Sud denly Quit Washington, Dec. 20.—(AF)—Secre tary Hull said today that the govern ment had long expected to withdraw American ships and citizens from the Far East “when their appropriate function is no longer called for,” but the present “does not seem an ap portune moment.” In a letter to Senator Smathers, Democrat, New Jersey, the secretary of state outlined the administration's view of maintaining military forces in the Far East. Smathers had written favoring the withdrawal of American ships and cit izens from the danger zone. Hull said the . degree of protection this govern ment should afford to citizens abroad presented “many difficulties” and re sulted in many conflicts of opinion. He added that in the Far East, dur ing more than a century, certain rights, interests, obligations and prac tices had developed under which all major powers have employed, with the authorization of the Chinese gov ernment, methods of safeguarding the lives and interests of their nationals.” “In a situation such as now pre vails,” Hull continued, “many of our nationals cannot suddenly disavow or cut themselves off from the past, nor can the American government sud denly disavow its obligations and re sponsibilities. Connery Wants License of Radio Station Withdrawn; Slaps McNinch Washington, Dec. 20.—(AP)—Repre sentative Connery, Democrat, Massa chusetts, demanded today that the Communications Commission revoke the license of the radio station from which an Adam and Eve broadcast featuring Mae West was originated Icist week. Connery declared the program “was indecent.” The Communications Commission already has ordered the National Broadcasting Company to submit a copy of the broadcast, as well as copies of the cdhtract between the sponsor, Chase & Sonborn, and NBC, and names of stations which repro duced the program. Connery, in a letter to Frank R. McNinch, commission chairman, said the commission was “derelict in en forcing the communications at, and that he had received a “volume of complaints” against the program, which he termed “so in decent it violated the sensibidlities of even those who are familiar with the bur lesquing of the historical event. He announced he would demand a congressional investigation of the com mission at the next session of Con gress. the same Spartan self-discipline that had made him a symbol to Germany s army when he was chief of staff un der Field Marshal Paul von Hinden burg during the World Wiar. By a strange coincident, the arch enemy of Catholicism and militant apostle of a new Aryan anti-Christian religion, spent the final days of his life attended by nuns in a Catholic hospital. Reichfuehrer Adolf Hitler and Field Marshal Werner von Blomberg were informed immed tely. Hitler sent condolences to the widow. once-high ranking communists for selling Soviet secrets to “Fascist” spies. The announcement of the eight exe cutions, which came as the Soviet cele brated the 20th anniversary of the Russian secret police force, said all eight had pleaded guilty to “treason to the fatherland, terroristic activity, and systematic espionage” in behalf of a foreign country. They were given secret trials before the military, collegium supreme court. New Farm Program Menaced By Conferees And Threats Voiced By Wage-Hour Bloc Wire-Tapping Evidence Is Declared Illegal In Supreme Court Opinion High Tribunal Decides Is sue by Seven to Two Rul ing Handed Down * at Capital 5-TO-4 RULING IN 1928 IS REVERSED Sutherland and Mcßey nolds Dissent from Major ity Views; Case Arises Out of Alcohol Smuggling in New York, Where U. S. Used Tapping Evidence Washington, Dec. 20. —(AP) — The Supreme Court held today that evi dence obtained by wire-tapping can not he used in Federal criminal pro ceedings. This seven-to-two decision, in ef fect, reversed a 1928 five-to-four rul ing that such evidence could be used in bootlegging prosecutions. In today’s opinion, the court ma jority, through Justice Roberts, as serted that the 1934 communications act barred use of wire-taping evi dence. “Congress,” Roberts said, “may have thought it less important that some offenders should go unwhipped of justice than that officers should resort to methods deemed inconsis tent with ethical standards and de structive of personal liberty.” Justice Sutherland, speaking for himself and Justice McßeynoldS, in a dissenting opinion, said to put the sworn officer of the law, engaged, in combatting organized gangs of crim inals, in the same classification with others, “is to lose all sense of pro portion.” The decision reversed a ruling by the second circuit court of appeals upholding the government’s use of such evidence in obtaining conviction of four men on a charge of smuggling alcohol into New York. Honor Paid Bing ham At Home City Louisville, Ky., Dec. 20 (AP)—Final honors were paid today to Robert Worth Bingham by his State and na tion and the British Empire, to whicn he was accredited as ambassador. The body of the North Carolinian, who adopted Louisville, as his home 40 years ago, was brought back today from Baltimore, where death claimed him Saturday night, accompanied by representatives of President Roosevelt the State Department and Great Bri* tain. • j A detachment of the Fifth and Thirteenth U. S. Cavalry from FSrt Knox, Ky., escorted the funeral party from the train to Calvary Episcopal church, where hundreds paid their last respects prior to the funeral services at noon, and burial in Cave Hill ceme tery here. Governor A. B. Chandler ordered the flag over the State Capi tal flown at half mast. Operations of the 66-year-old pub lisher’s two newspapers, the Louisville Courier-Journal and the Louisville Times, were so arranged that employ ees could meet the train or view the body at the church. Aboard the special car with the body along with members of the ambassa dor’s family, who were with him when he died, were representatives of th United States and Great Britain. SHOP EARLY PUBLISHED EVERY AFTERNOON EXCEPT SUNDAY. Critically 111 Pwfc * / ' 'S Jhbßi - i St. Paul, Minn., Dec. 20 (AP) —Dr. J. A. Lepak said Frank B. Kellogg, co author of the Kellogg-Briand peace pact, critically ill of pneumonia at his home, had rallied today. The physi cian said spread of the congestion had been halted, and that the patient’s heart action was better. Housings Bill Is Rushed To Senate Vote Congressional Lead ers Anxious To Pass One Measure In Ex tra Session Washington, Dec. 20.—JAP)—Con gressional leaders rushed the housing bill to the Senate today in an attempt to enact one major measure before adjournment of the special session. A sub-committee voted unanimously yesterday to recommend to the Senate legislation differing in only a few de tails from a bill passed Saturday by the House. The full committee was called together today to add its ap proval. Major Leader Barkley, Democrat, Kentucky, said he expected the final Senate vote to be as one-sided as the 325 to 23 roll call in the House. The bill designed to stimulate the residen tial construction industry by making it easier for persons to finance small homes. The Senate and House measure were so similar, leaders said, that compromising differences should take virtually no time. Thus they hope to send the legislation to the White House before adjournment Wednesday or Thursday. Ten Ki\led In Week-End On Highways Charlotte, Dec. Qo.—(AP) —Traffic accidents killed ten and injured a number of others during the week end in North Carolina. A car-truck collision near Chapel Hill Saturday night claimed five vic tims .all residents of the Bynum com munity in Orange county. The others received fatal injuries singly over a wide territory. Bobby Morgan, fivecyear-old Ra leigh boy, was struck by a car and fatally injured. Mrs. Aggie Cobbler, of Winston-Salem, died of injuries received when struck by a car. Connie Baber, Yadkin county far mer, was killed when struck by an automobile near Booneville. Redden Harris, 44, World War vet eran, died Saturday of hurts in an automobile accident two weeks ago. Injuries in a wreck two days ago were fatal yesterday to Zebulon Howell Long, Edgecombe county coroner. At Zebulon four persons were in jured, two seriously, in a collision yes terday. 8' PAGES ■ TODAY FIVE CENTS COPY CONFEREES DEFER TO JAN. 3 EFFORTS TO REACH ACCORD Will Make No Move Until Then To Reconcile Diver gent Senate and House Bills marketincTquotas WANTED BY SENATE Senate Penalties for Fail ure To Cooperate Much Heavier Than House; Crop Surplus Feature Contained in Measure Lately Passed In House Washington, Dec. 20. —(AP) —Two .unforeseen developments cast a shad ow today over administration hopes for quick enactment of a long-range farm program. A joint Senate-House committee de cided to delay until January 3 the start of its meetings to reconcile dif ferences between the divergent crop control bills approved by the two chambers. There was talk that proponents of the side-tracked wage-hour bill might attempt to block approval of the com mittee’s farm .till compromise when it is submitted to the House. The committee will be concerned primarily with these differences be tween the bills: I 1. The Senate authorized Secretary Wallace to impose compulsory mar keting quotas for wheat, cotton, corn, rice and tobacco at much lower levtels than the House provided. 2. The Senate penalties for failure to cooperate in the new program are much heavier than in the House ver sion. • * 3. The House authorized Wlallace to set up to about $100,000,000 a year to dispose of crop surpluses and to find new markets and uses for the fivp basic commodities. The Senate bill does not contain such provisions. comp Taint against WISCONSIN JURIST Attorney General Accuses Federal Judge of Unfairness and Un just Conduct Washington, Dec. 20 (AP) —The House Judiciary Committee received from the Justice Department today a coftiplaint accusing Federal Judge Ferdinand Geiger, of Wisconsin, of repeated instances of "arbitrary, un just and unfair conduct.” Attorney General Cummings called particular attention to Geiger's dis missal of a Milwaukee grand jury which had voted, but not formally re turned, indictments of three motor car manufacturers under anti-trust laws. He added: “The net results of Judge Geiger’s unwarranted interference with this de partment and the grand jury have been: “First, to free the companies from any present necessity for correcting the objectionable practices; second, to save them from indictment for past violations of the anti-trust laws; and third, to discredit the effort of the government to correct abuses in the industry.”. The government had presented to the grand jury evidence which its at torneys said showed the Ford, Chrys ler and General Motors companies were compelling dealers to do their sales financing through companies af filiated with the manufacturers. FREIGITIIEASE DAMAGE TO STATE Horizontal 15 Percent Boost Will Mean Further Discrimination Dally Dispatch Bnrena, In the Sir Wnlter Hotel. Raleigh, Dec. 20.—The horizontal fifteen per cent freight rate increase sought by the railroads of the United States would still further increase the rate differential already existing a gainst North Carolina and the South. Stanley WSnborne, utility commission er, said today. For that reason, he said, the State of North Carolina will vigorously op pose the horizontal increase. “If ther e must be an increase,” said Mr. Win,borne, “it certainly should not be a horizontal percentage increase in class rates. The South is already la boring under an adverse differential of between 39 and 40 per cent and the horizontal hike would increase Continued on Page Two.).
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