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370 JAPANESE HELD II REVOLUTION PLOT
RIVAL GROUPS PLAN
TO RENEW FIGHT IN
LABOR’S CIVIL WAR
‘‘Divide and Conquer” Cam
paign Plotted by Ameri
can Federation of
Labor Body
NEW CAMPAIGNS BY
CIO ALSO FORMING
AFL Seeks Return of Gar
ment Workers from Lewis
Organization; May Expel
United Mine Workers In
Support of New Progres
sive Miners Union
Washington, Dec. 22. —(AP) —Amer-
ican Federation of Labor leaders talk
ed today of starting a “divide and
conquer” campaign against the CIO,
now that peace negotiations in or
ganized labor’s factional war have col
lapsed.
John Lewis’ CIO organization pre
pared. at the same time, to enroll
more recruits and consolidate its
ranks.
The federation’s first step, informed
persons said, might be an attempt to
<*et the International Ladies’ Garment
Workers to leave the CIO and re-join
the federation.
Then, the federation may expel the
United Mine Workers and the Amal
gamated Clothing Workers at the ex
ecutive council’s Miami meeting next
month and start a membership bat
tle in the coal fields and clothing fac
tories.
United Garment Workers and the
Progressive Miners of America would
lead the fight, officials said, but the
federation would back those unions
with funds and organizers'
At the federation’s Denver conven
tion last fall. President William Green
appealed to the rank and file of the
CIO union s 3 in both coal fields and
clothing mills to overthrow their lead
ers ana return to the AFL fold.
Bill Payne
Pal Seized
In Indiana
Anderson, Ind., Dec. 22.—(AP) —A
man police said gave his name as
Charles Frederick Yeager, 23, alias
Charles Frederick Howenstan, of Nor
folk, Va., was arrested here today at
a relief mission when a pistol fell
from his pocket.
YEAGER TO BE RETURNED
TO TH.IS STATE AT ONCE
Raleigh, Dec. 22.—(AP)— Oscar
Pitts, superintendent of prisons, said
today immediate steps would be taken
to return Charles Frederick Yeager,
who police reported under arrest in
Anderson, Ind., to complete a prison
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ciated.
Rural South Is Not All
Rosy Despite Big Crops
And Healthier Income
Atlanta, Ga., Dec. 22.—(AP)—De
spite bumper crops and increase farm
income for 1937, agricultural leaders
reported today a year-end business
ifccesssion in some rural areas of the
South.
Recent price declines, a cotton sur
plus boosted ,fcy the season’s record
yield of an estimated 18,746,000 bales,
and uncertaintly over the administra
tion’s farm aid program were describ
ed as major points in the outlook for
1938.
Findley Weaver, director of the bu
reau of business research of the Uni
versity of Oklahoma, expressed the
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Federal Judge Ferdinand A. Geiger,
of Milwaukee, against whom charges
of being “arbitrary, unjust and un
fair” were made by Attorney Gen
eral Homer S. Cummings, is pic
tured above. Geiger’s dismissal of
a Grand Jury which had voted but
not returned indictments against
three automobile manufacturers
under the anti-trust laws, caused
Cummings’ ire.
nGENTS ADMIT
LOYALIST CAPTURE
OF TERUEL CENTER
Only Isolated Bands of Re
bel Garrison Still Re
sisting, Franco State
ment Says
CASUALTIES HEAVY
IN TERRIFIC FIGHT
Government Crack Brigade
Reported Wiped Out; City
Known as Franco’s Spear
head on Lower Aragon
Line Considered by Rebels
as Lost
Hendaye, Franco-Spanish Frontier,
Dec. 22.—(AP) —Government forces
have captured Teruel, insurgent of
ficers said they were advised today
by General Francisco Franco’s head
quarters. : 1
Official government dispatches—
following an earlier premature an
nouncement that the strategic provin
cial capital had been occupied—indi
cated part of the. old quarter known
as the “city of Roack” remained in
insurgent hands. Only isolated bands
of the insurgent garrison still were
resisting, Franco’s officers acknow
ledged. They said Salamanca head
quarters considered the city, which
had been the spearhead of Franco’s
lower Aragon line, as lost.
Military dispatches to Irun said the
insurgents recaptured a fortified po
sition just west of Teruel, inflicting
heavy loses on government troops.
A government crack brigade was
“wiped out” in the fighting around
Teruel, the insurgent report said.
The insurgents announced the Fran-
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opinion that effects of the farm eco
nomic situation “will be increasingly
pronounced.”
John Goodman, Tennessee commis
sioner of agriculture, reported Ten
nessee farmers were buying probably
twenty percent less of non-agriculture
products than they did in 1936.
On the other hand, Florida, Arkan
sas and Virginia reports were gen
erally optimistic.
Prices of potatoes and peanuts, as
well as cotton, declined in Virginia,
and Commissioner George Coiner said
the 1938 pripspects were good, depend
ing on spring weather.
ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OF NuKTH CAROLINA AND VIRGINIA.
Japanese Bombers Roar Over
3 U. S. Warships At Tsingtao
London, Dec. 22. —(AF) —The war
office announced today the British
garrison at Hong Kong would be
strengthened as th e government sent
the sixteenth protest it has made to
Japan since the outbreak of the Far
Eastern conflict.
Sir Robert Craigie, British ambas
sador to Tokyo, was instructed to pro
test a Japanese attack on and seizure
of a Chinese customs vessel in ter
ritorial waters off the British colony
of Hong Kong December 11.
The double action followed a two
and a half hour review of the Orien
tal situation by the cabinet this morn
ing.
HIGH PATHOL IS
HAVINGHARD TIE
Series of Recent Incidents
Draws Fire of Public in
Localities
Hally Dispatch Bureau,
In the Sir Walter Hotel.
Raleigh, Dec. 22—Major Arthur Fulk
is sitting tight and saying nothing as
the State Highway Patrol, of which
he is commander, continues to get in
to hot water in several sections of the
State and for several different rea
sons. .
“Hot spots” for the patrolmen and
their commander in recent weeks
have been Wilmington, Raleigh and
Charlotte. In each city the patrol
has come in for some vigorous and
unwelcome verbal castigation. In the
Wilmington incident the city’s Mayor
Thomas E. Cooper was the castigater.
It came about when veritable
swarms of patrolmen, to hear Mayor
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HITLER MARCHES IN
' LUDENDORFF RITES
Brilliant Military Pageant Is Given
for Great German World
War Chieftain
Munich, Germany, Dec. 22 (AP)—
Chancellor Adolf Hitler himself laid
a wreath today at the bier in the bril
liant military funeral for World War
General Eric von Ludendorff. No
one of military, political or economic
rank in Nazi Germany was missing at
the ceremonies before Field Marshals’
hall for the general who had been
Field Marshal Paul von Hindenburg’s
chief of staff in the World War.
1 The rites were the most impressive
since the burial in 1934 of von Hind
enburg, who had become Germany’s
president. Ludendorff* died Monday
at the age of 72.
Hitler walked directly behind the
coffin in the procession from Victory
Arch to the hall where State obse
quies were held. Four generals flank
ed the gun carriage bearing the gen
eral’s body.
WEATHER
FOR NORTH CAROLINA.
Increasing cloudiness, followed
by rain in interior tonight and
Thursday; warmer tonight.
HENDERSON, N. C., WEDNESDAY AFTERNO ON, DECEMBER 22, 1937
NEW TROUBLE ZONES IN CHINA AS JAPANESE MOVE ON SOUTHERN CITIES
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Places shown on map are men- View of Canton, southern Chinese metropolis, where Great Britain
tioned in latest dispatches has large interests
New trouble zones on the Sino-Japanese war front are shown here.
While it was believed Japan planned a major offensive on the south
ern metropolis of Canton, shown above, where there are large Brit
ish interests, U. S. warships reached Tsingtao, 300 miles from
Shanghai, to help evacuate Americans in a new trouble zone there.
A Japanese naval attack was feared at Tsingtao as a result of
JAPANESE BOMBERS ROAR
OVER AMERICAN WARSHIPS
Shanghai, Dec. 22.—(AP) —Japanese
bombers roared today over the* indus
trial seaport of Tsingtao, where three
United States warships stood by to
evacuate the 300 Americans there, if
necessary.
United States consular authorities
advised Americans to leave as fears
increased that Japanese would attack
the city in retaliation for destruction
of Japanese cotton mills by Chinese
troops. The United States cruiser Mar
blehead, the destroyer Pope and the
gunboat Sacramento were in the har
bor of the city 390 miles north of
Shanghai.
Toronto's
Baby Derby
Will Valid
Ottawa, Ontario, Dec. 22. —(AP)
—(Canadian Press) —The Supreme
Court of Canada today upheld the
eccentric will of Charles Vance
Miller, instigator of Toronto’s uni
que “stork derby.”
Miller’s will provided his estate,
estimated in excess of $500,000,
should go to the mother or moth
ers giving birth to the most chil
dren in Toronto between October
31, 1926, and October 31, 1936.
The Supreme Court left to On
tario courts the task of determin
ing the mother or mothers en
titled to the money, for which a
dozen or more women have filed
claims. Validity of the will was
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Roosevelt
Lauds Work
Os Kellogg
Washington, Dec. 22 (AP)—Presi
dent Roosevelt today praised the late
Frank B. Kellogg as an “indefatig
able worker in behalf of world peace.”
The chief executive issued this state
ment on the death of the former sec
retary of state:
“An outstanding and sincere figure
in our national life and in world af
fairs has gone in the passing of Frank
B. Kellogg. An indefatiable worker in
behalf of world peace, he never lost
faith in the superiority of the arbi
trament'of reason to physical force
in the «government of man.”
MINNESOTA AND NATION
MOURN KELLOGG PASSING
St. Paul, Minn., Dec. 22 (AP)—Min
nesota and the nation mourned today
the death of Frank B. Kellogg, son of
pioneer parents, who raised himself to
the heights of world statesmanship.
The former secretary of state, diplo
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destruction of rich Japanese cotton properties there by Chinese
troops. At the same time it was believed the Japanese army would
begin large-scale landing operations on the Kwangtung coast north
of British Hongkong for a drive to bring the southern coastal prov
inces under Japanese sway. (Map above shows various places
mentioned.) — Central Press
Reports that 30,000 Japanese troops
had left Shanghai for an unknown
destination and that 80 transports
were ready for additional troops gave
impetus to fears that Tsingtao, as
well as others of China’s coastal cities
would be attacked.
The Japanese planes, apparently
making a. reconnoitering flight, dis
appeared shortly. Tension caused by
their appearance, however, remained
high.
United States authorities at Shang
hai and Tokyo notified Japanese that
a flag-decorated train carrying 300
foreign refugees, some of whom were
Americans, would leave Hankow for
Canton tomorrow.
AffWSAPPEtt
Message to Mikado, How
ever Puts Japanese Em
peror “on the Spot”
By CHARLES P. STEWART
Central Press Columnist
Washington, Dec. 22.—Chinese dip
lomats in Washington smiled when
President Roosevelt called on the Em
peror of Japan to apologize for the
sinking of the United States gunboat
Panay and to pledge himself personal
ly against another such incident.
It was much as if Japan had no
tified some Occidental country that
Tokyo blamed that nation’s god for an
outrage committed by his worshippers
and had required him to express deep
regret, make reparations and promise
that nothing of the sort ever would
occur again. It was a case, in short,
of informing the Japanese god that
“F. D.” no longer had any confidence
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PLYMOUTH TO GET
NEW PAPER PLANT
Plymouth, Dec. 22 (AP) —The Union
Bag & Timber Company leased from
the receivers of the Norfolk Southern
Railroad Company today 40,000 acres
of the John L. Roper Lumber Com
pany holdings, and announced plans
to construct a pulp and papep mill
with a 150-ton capacity.
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PUBLIBHSD IVUY AFTERNOON
EXCEPT SUNDAY.
EXTRA SESSION IS
ENDED WITH NONE
OF TASK FISHED
Members of Congress Leave
Administration Program
Up In Air As They
Go Home
SOME PRELIMINARY
GROUNDWORK READY
Barkley Says Session Has
Clipped Six Weeks from
Regular Session; G. O. P.
Senate Leader Sees End
in May if FDR Will Hold
New Bills Off
Washington, Dec. 22. —(AP) —Mem-
bers of Congress left the administra
tion special session up in the air to
day and began a twelve-day Christ
mas vacation that deferred enactment
of major legislation until the new
year.
The sudden adjournment at dusk
yesterday, after the Senate passed the
Housing .till 66 to 4, found none of
President Roosevelt’s recommenda
tions actually written into law. Ad
ministration leaders, however, con
tended the session had served a val
uable purpose in finishing preliminary
work on farm, housing and other ad
ministration measures. Final approv
al of these will be sought at the re
gular session convening January 3.
Democratic Leader Barkley, Ken
tucky, asserted the session had clip
ped from six to two months off the
regular 1938 session. Republican Lead
er McNary, of Oregon, predicted the
regular session would end in May “if
the President doesn’t keep sending re
commendations to Congress.”
“POPEYE” CREATOR
IS CRITICALLY ILL
Santa Monica, Cal., Dec. 22 (AP) —
E. C. Segar, cartoonist creator of
“Popeye the Sailor,” is in a critical
condition at Santa Monica hospital,
Dr. Raymond Sands said today.
Bailey Predicts Workable
Farm Bill Next Two Years
i
Senator Explains His Opposition to Present Measure,
Which He Says Is Unconstitutional; Outlines Plan
That Would Realty Help the Farmer
Senator Josiah W. Bailey has sent
to the Daily Dispatch a letter address
ed to the "farmers of North Caro
lina,” in which he explains his vote
against the hneasure just passed in
the Senate, declares it unconstitu
tional, and outline a new farm plan
which he says would really benefit
the farmer on a permanent basis, and
which he predicts will pass in the
next two years. The senator writes
as follows:
Tb the Farmers of North Carolina:
The Farm Bill which passed the
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POLICE ANNOUNCE
RAIDS CARRIED OUT
OVER A WEEK AGO
Member of Parliament and
Several College Profes
sors Are Held Under
Suspicion
REVOLT BASED ON
COMMUNIST IDEALS
Have Been Spreading Anti-
War Propaganda Ever
Since Outbreak in China;
Many Citizens Stunned by
Developments; Three Or
ganizations Named
Tokyo, Dec. 22.—(AP) —*Folic fi de
clared today their secret arrest of
370 suspected agitators had bared ac
tivities for a “general revolution bas
ed on communism.”
A member of Parliament and sev
eral former university professors were
held on suspicion of inspiring com
munist and pacifist movements. They
were rounded up in a nationwide
series of raids at dawn last Wednes
day.
“The main point of their movement
apparently was to lead a general re
volution based on communism, ’’ the
Metropolitan Police Board said.
"Since the outbreak of the Chinese
incident, they have used every oppor
tunity to spread anti-war propaganda
throughout the nation.
“Therefore, the authorities have
been forced to arrest those who violat
ed the peace preservation law, disput
ed the private property system and
sought to change the state structure.”
Many citizens appeared stunned by
the arrests, and there was a wide
spread belief they were made to de
flect the nation’s attention from the
strained international relation. Op
dinarily, tney said, such a campaign
would have .been kept secret for
months.
Police declared three organizations,
the Labor-Farmer party, the Prb
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ORDER DIVIDENDS
Charlotte, Dec. 22 (AP) —C. A. Line
berger, president of the Lineberger in
terests at Belmont, announced today
directors of five of a chain of mills the
company operates had ordered semi
annual dividends of three to five per
cent. In addition, he said, directors of
the Acme Spinning Company would
order an annual dividend of 10 or 12
percent tomorrow. Disbursements to
stockholders were estimated to num
ber more than $200,000.
Many Road
Contracts
Held Back
Raleigh, Dec. 22.—(AP)—The State
Highway & Public Works Commission
met in executive session here today.
Chairman Frank Dunlap could not be
reached during the morning.
Robert Johnson, director of the pri
son division, was in the commission
room twice for conference. After his
first visit he said he knew of no men
tion being made of the prison surgical
consultant’s post.
Yesterday and last night Dunlap
and Johnson conferred with Dr. Ben
Lawrence, of Raleigh, a surgeon. Dun
lap recently notified the firm of Neal,
Thompson & Neal, Raleigh doctors,
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Senate will not become a law. The
House passed a different Bill. When
the Senate passes one Bill and the
House passes another, both bills are
referred to a Conference Committee
made up of Senate and House mem
bers, and they work over .both bills
with a view to reporting a comprom
ise measure.
We may look tor the compromise
measure in the session in January.
Meantime, there is little to be said.
I voted against the measure in the
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