HENDERSON’S
POPULATION
13,873
TWENTY-FIFTH YEAR
BUDGET BOOSTS PUBLIC DEBT TO NEW PEAK
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Justice Sutherland Resings From Supreme Court
Roosevelt Given
Chance To Select
Another Justice
Sutherland Advises Presi
dent He Wishes To Relin
quish Duties as of
January 18
HE SERVED FIFTEEN
years upon bench
Takes Advantage of Retire
ment Act of Last Year, Al
lowing Him Full Pay of
$20,000 Annually; Vacancy
Must Be Filled by Presi
dent Shortly
Washington, Jan. S.—(AP) —Just:cc
George Sutherland of the Supreme
Court today notified President Roose
velt he would retire from active ser
vice on that bench on January 18.
In his letter to the President, which
was sent to the White House this
morning, the justice said:
“My dear Mr. President:
‘•Having reached the age of more
than 75 years, and having held my
commission as associate justice of the
Supreme Court of the United States,
and served in that court for fifteen
years, and thus being eligible for re
tirement under the Sumners act of
March 1, 1937, entitled, ‘An act to pro
vide for the retirement of justices of
the Supreme Court,’ I desire to avail
myself of the rights, privileges and
judicial service specified in that
arnfto that end I hereby retire from
regular, active service on the bench,
this retirement to be effective on and
after Tuesday, the 18th day of Jan
uary, 1938.”
DR. DORTON AGAIN
STATE FAIR HEAD
Shelby Man Shows Neat Profit for
State on Operation of Ex
position in 1937
Raleigh, Jan. S.—(AP) —The State
Board of Agriculture unanimous
re-elected Dr. J. S. Dorton, of Shelby,
as director of the State Fair today
after being told that the 1937 exposi
tion cleared $15,158.43, or $8,048.43 as
cash balance and $7,500 spent on per
manent improvements.
Total receipts, Auditor George Ross
Pou. reported, were $66,822. Last year
the State got $9,983.46 as its share of
the profits from the fair, then operat
ed under lease.
The board members discussed need
of more veterinarians in the State
need for a poultry marketing expert,
and need for two additional chemists
in the chemistry division, but had not
acted on any of these this afternoon.
WILSON MAN TAKES
APPEAL U. S. COURT
l’aul Horne Convicted in Liquor Case
and Given Prison Term and
Fine of S2OO
Charlotte, Jan. 5 fourth
United States Circuit Court of Appeals
had docketed for hearing today an
appeal of Paul Horne from convic
tion at Wilson of “removing and con
cealing” 105 gallons of non-tax-paid
liquor and a sentence of three years,
fine of S2OO and an order of payment
of $420 tax.
In the Wilson case, counsel for
Horne contended evidence procured
against their clients was by “illegal
and unreasonable search and seizure,
and without probable cause in viola
tion of the rights guaranteed the de
wendant under the fourth and fifth
amendments of the Federal Constitu
tion”.
To Try Payne And Turner
For Murder In Buncombe;
Date Is Set For January 24
Greensboro, Jan. 5 (AP) —William
■Bill) Payne and Wash Turner, alias
Jack Borden, arrested Monday night
hy Federal officers in Sanford, were
scheduled to stand trial in Buncombe
Superior Court January 24 for first
degree murder in connection with the
shooting of George Penn, State high
way patrolman, on August 22, last.
Judge Johnson J. Hayes, of the mid
dle district of Federal court, toddy
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JUSTICE SUTHERLAND
DEATH SENTENCES”
FOR FOUR UPHELD
BY STAE S COURT
Three of Them Scheduled
To Be Gassed to Death
Jan. 21 Unless Hoey
Interferes
TECHNICALITY MAY
STAY ONE VICTIM
Record Sent Back to Lower
Court for Correction of
Wording; Validity of New
Wilson Recorder’s Court
Upheld in Another Ruling
by Tribunal
Raleigh, Jan? 5.-<AP)-The Su
preme Court upheld death sentences
imposed on four men, though one case
was sent back to superior court for
a correction in the record, as it de
cided 24 cases today.
The four losing capital appeals were
all from Forsyth county.
No error was found by the court in
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signed an order directing that the men
be delivered to the State authorities
for trial on the capital charge.
PAYNE AND TURNER ADMIT
ROBBING OF MANY BANKS
Charlotte, Jan. 5 (AP) —Edward
Scheldt, head of the Federal Bureau of
Investigation office here, said today
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HENDERSON, N. C., WEDNESDAY AFTERNO ON, JANUARY 5, 1938
As President Spoke at Congress Opening
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gress. On the rostrum behind the President are Vice President John N. Garner (left) and speaker
William B. Bankhead, of the House of Representatives. The President urged that business clean its own
house and advocated a stronger national defense (Central Press)
Rebels Push
Entire Mile
Into Teruel
Drive Through
Heavy Snowdrifts
Designed to Cap
ture City in 3 Days
Hendaye, Franco-Spanish Frontier,
Jan. 5. —(AP) —The insurgent high
command announced today its heavily
reinforced army had smashed forward
more than a mile through heavy
snowdrifts in a new drive “designed
to capture Teruel within throe days.”
The main advance, in freezing cold,
was along the Cerda highway, north
west of Teruel. Further south, the
insurgents also reported important
gains in a sector where two impor
tant positions wer e seized during , the
night.
At dawn the attack —new phase in
the insurgent counter offensive which
began eight days ago—was pressed
with renewed fury. Insurgent heavy
artillery, manned by shivering gun
ners, opened a heavy barrage along
the 12-mile front which is the field
of the civil war’s greatest battle.
A Barcelona communique noted a
series of attacks in the north, but said
they were all repulsed. Snow was
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ALLEGED RAPIST TO
BE TRIED IN STATE
Charlotte, Jan. 5 (AP)— Edward
Scheldt, agent in charge of the Fede
ral Bureau of Investigation’s head
quarters here, said today William Play
er, 30, would be returned to Columbus,
Ga., to face a rape charge in Rocky,
Mount, N. C., Player was arrested un
der a Federal statute prohibiting un
lawful flight. The alleged criminal
attadk occurred in October, 1936.
Visa Photo
Identified
In Moscow
Moscow, Jan. 5.—(AP)—An Amer
ican today identified a passport photo
graph of Ruth Marie Rubens, of New
York, as that of the woman who gave
her name as “Mrs. Donald L. Robin
son” before disappearing in Moscow
early last month.
The person making the identifica
tion interviewed the woman at her
Moscow hotel before she vanished De
cember 9. “Mrs. Robinson” is report
ed under arrest.
The identification was telegraphed
to the State Department in Wlash-
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Japs Take Control
Os Foreign Area In
Captured Shanghai
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Final Step For Japanese Dominance of Captured Metro
polis Is Full Censorship of News and Cable Services;
Invaders Control Tcmb of Confucius
Shanghai, Jan. 5. —(AP) —Japanese
authorities announced today they had
taken over all Chinese government
functions in the international city of
Shanghai and other territory occupied
by the Japanese armies.
A final step in Japan’s drive for
dominance was projected censorship
of news dispatches. Japanese officials
were said to have notified cable com
panies that Japanese censo’s were
moving in to prevent leakage of mili
tary information to Chinese.
For more than a month, dispatches
had been free from interference. Chi
nese had maintained some censorship
until the fall of Shanghai.
The disclosure that censorship
would be imposed came shortly after
Japanese officials raised what fore
ign authorities termed a “grave issue”
by threatening action in the interna
DAIRY FARMING BAN
WOULD HURT, STATE
Provision of Group Control
Bill Commented on by
State College
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In the Sir Walter Hotel.
Raleigh, Jan. 5. —A crop control bill
which would prevent Southern farm
ers from devoting land taken out of
other crops to dairy farming would
te distinctly a blow to North Caro
lina farmers, figures compiled by
State College agricultural experts
show.
These figures, based on records of
801 demonstration farms in 145 west
ern North Carolina counties, lying
largely in the Tennessee Valley area,
show that dairy farms produce a
much higher average “labor income”
than do farms of almost any other
class.
The average labor income from the
dairy farms on which statistics were
gathered reached $9595.73 per year, a
figure exceeded only by poultry farms,
which produced an average labor in
come of $1,020,30. Tobacco farms re
ported an average labor income of
$820.12; truck and fruit farms $645.
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WEATHER
FOB NORTH CAROLINA.
Generally fu(ir tonight and
Thursday.
tional settlement itself to halt “anti-
Japanese outrages.”
It coincided aiso with new advances
by Japanese armies bent on consolidat
ing control of five rich North China
provinces and the lower Yangtze river
valley.
The Rising Sun flag was raised at
Chefu, birthplace of China’s great
sage, Confucius, by detachments ad
vancing southward through Shantung
province. Chinese were withdrawing
toward Suchow, vital railway junction
180 miles north of Nanking.
Chinese, however, kept up the
swift-raiding tactics, which Genera?
Chiang Kai-Shek has declared wert
the mainsoring of resistance.
Chinese from Shersri pro
vince said repeat'jil detachments of
the scattered former communist army
had forced Japanese to bolster the
garrison along the two main railways.
TRADE BANS CAUSE
OF PRESENT SLUMP
Hull Knows It And Is Try
ing To Remedy It; Ad
ministration; Differs
By CHARLES P. STEWART
Central Press Columnist
Washington, Jan. 5. —Secretary of
State Cordell Hull knows what caused
the recession.
He does not tell what caused it. He
cannot do so, for his diagnosis differs
from his administration’s diagnosis.
His departmental policy proves that
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BANK REPORTS ARE
BEING CALLED FOR
State and National Institutions Asked
,For Their Statements as of
December 31
Washington, Jan. 5 (AP)—The comp
troller of the currency issued a call
today for the condition of all national
banks at the close of business Friday,
December 31.
HOOD ISSUES CALL TO ALL
STATE BANKS FOR REPORT
Raleigh, Jan. 5 (AP) —Gurney P.
Hood, State bank commissioner, is
sued a call today for all State banks
to report on their condition as of the
close qf business# December 31;.
PUBLIBHBID IVBKY AFTERNOON
HXCHJPT SUNDAY.
$38,528,200,0001s
Debt Top Fixed In
Next Fiscal Year
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Lister Hill, above member of Con
gress from Alabama forth epast 15
years, was on Tuesday nominated to
the United States Senate to fill the
term of Justice Hugo Black, of the
United States Supreme Court. Black's
office has been filled since he retired
last August by Mrs. Dixie Graves, ap
pointed by her husband, Governor
Bibb Graves. She now resigns to
make way for Hill, who defeated for
mer Senator Thomas Heflin and
Charles W- Wiliianjs, who called him
self a “dint - farmer ’. Hill will serve
until the election, April 20. He is, of
course, a Democrat, and is chairman
of the House Military Affairs Commit
tee.
ROOSEVELT READY
FOR GREEN SIGNAL
IN NAVY BUILDING
Word To Go Ahead in Vast
Construction Program
Expected Soon from
White House
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PLANS WITH CHIEF
Naval Men and Congress
Leaders Confer at White
House; Employment
Reached Peak in Novem
ber, Senate..., Committee Is
Told; Won’t Cut Cotton
Too Much
Washington, Jam 5. —(AP) —White
House officials indicated today Presi
dent Roosevelt was a’cout ready to
give the “go ahead” signal on the ex
panded navy construction program.
They said the President had called
to the White House to discuss a pro
gram to supplement that providing
for eighteen new ships in the regular
budget for next year, Charles Edison,
assistant secretary of the navy; Ad
miral William Leahy, chief of nava'
operations, and congressional leaders.
Edison and Leahy met briefly with
the President alone and then remain
ed for the conference with the con-
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Hill Wins
InAlabama
Senate Job
Birmingham, Ala., Jan. 5 (AP)
Swept into office by a margin which
mounted with increasing returns, Rep
resentative Lister Hill today credited
President Roosevelt and the Democra
tic platform for his victory over two
opponents for the Senate seat vacated
by Hugo Black’s elevation to the Su
preme Court.
Thomas Heflin, whose frock coat
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O TODAY
FIVE CENTS COPY
Budget Message of Presi
dent Sent to Congress
Calling for Huge
Federal Outlays
CUT IN SPENDING IS
UNAVAILING AS YET
Net Shortage for Current
Fiscal Year $1,088,129,600
and $539,000,000 for 1939
Year; Attributed To Sharp
Drop in Revenue in’Re
cession
Washington, Jan. s.—(AP)—Presi
dent Roosevelt sent Congress a bud
get message today which projected
new billion-dollar . Treasury deficits
'and a new public debt peak, despite
estimates of lesser spending.
His forecast for the 1939 fiscal
year contemplated a $539,000,000 cut
in government outlays, “the most im
portant fact of this budget,” Mr.
Roosevelt said, but conditioned the
reduction on an upturn in business
and national defense requirements.
The President’s big volume of bud
get figures estimated a net deficit of
$1,088,129,600 for the current fiscal
year, and $949,606,000 for the next
twelve months, which he noted would
be “successive declines.” The public
debt, he said, would reach a $38,528,-
200,000 high on June 30, 1939.
In addition, Mr. Roosevelt left the
Treasury’s doors ajar to the possi
bility of more spending for human
relief and for armaments, “due to
world conditions oyer which this na
tion has no control.”
The continued deficit was attribut
ed to a sharp drop in expected rev
enue because of the business recession.
The President acknowledged, for the
first time since he became chief exe
cutive, h c faced less, rather than
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Gossips On
Sutherland
Successor
Washington, Jan. S.—(AP) —Numer-
ous names were mentioned today as
official Washington speculated over
a possible successor to Justice Georga
Sutherland of the Supreme Court
Among them were Solicitor General
Stanley Reed, of Kentucky, and Sen
ator Sherman Minton, Democrat, In
diana. Some reports current at the
time of Justice Black’s appointment
had listed them as the last two ex
cluded from consideration before Pre
sident Roosevelt made his decision.
Whether they have a top rank at
the present time for possible appoint
ment was undetermined, however.
Some in government legal circles
said the President might name a wo
man or an economist who is not a law-
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Hospital In
Carolina Is
Looked For
Tar Heels Hope for
Eastern Project in
$4,500,000 Veterans
Bureau Item
Washington, Jan. 5 (AP) —Inclusion
of a $4,500,000 item in President Roose
velt’s budget for construction of new
veterans hospital facilities added im
petus today to a campaign by the
North Carolina congressional delega*
tion for allotment of funds for a hos
pital in their state.
The independent offices appropria
tions bill, expected to be introduced
tomorrow, probably will include speci-
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