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HENDERSON’S POPULATION 13,873 TWENTY-FIFTH YEAR Jap Attacks Upon 2 British Officers % Cause Os Protest Major - General Command ing at Shanghai Warns Invaders of ness of Act CABLE LINES ARE WATCHED BY JAPS Communications Services at Shanghai Censored by In vaders; Japanese Planes Make Raids on Chinese Airport; Chinese Retalia tion Is Failure Shanghai, Jan. 8. —(Saturday)— Shigeru Kawagoe, Japanese am bassador to China, declared today peace negotiations were “out of the question for the present.” He said Japan should “repudi ate” the Nanking government as the central government for China. • A new regime is needed,” Kawagoe declared. “It must be one relying absolutely on the support and guidance of Japan.” Shanghai, Jan. 7 (AP)—Major Gen eral A. P. D. Kelfer-Smollett, com manding British troops at Shanghai, protested today an attack by Japanese soldiers on two British officers of the Shanghai municipal police. The general accused Japanese army forces of invading the British defense j zone in the international settlement, and was reported to have warned the Japanese military that repetition , "might result in the gravest conse quences.” A Japanese Embassy spokesman, questioned about the attack, said: “We. have no information.” Inspector F. G. West, one of the of ficers, said he and Sergeant A. R. Turner, were watching Japanese sol diers search Chinese peddlers near the line between the British defense zone and the Japanese-occupied area, and remarked that the peddlers were re ceiving unnecessarily rorugh treatment. Twenty Japanese cenjjprs and com m in Continued on Page Two.) Eight Safe When Large Air Liner Falls at Newark Newark, N. J., Jan. 7. —(AP) — A transport air liner carrying five men passengers and a crew of three squash ed down in the mud and water of a treacherous swamp today when i:s pilot undershot Newark airport dur ing the storm-swept early morning hours. The plane came down shortly after 3 a. m., eastern standard time. Until dawn the passengers stayed into the protecting cabin waiting for help. Pilot Usher Rousch, of Chicago, plow ed through the marsh to the airport three miles away and led a party back tc return the passengers to safety. Rousch suffered a cut over the left eye in the hump landing but none of the others, the airline said was hurt. Insurgents Have Edge In Struggle Hendaye, Franco-Spanish Frontier, Jan. 7 (AP)—The Spanish govern ment appeared today to have gained a winning margin in the most inten sive fighting of the 17-day Teruel cam paign . The battle centered about Concud to Continued on Page Two.) Chemical Industry Picked As The “Industry Os 1938” Chemicals Mean Diversification, Every Industry Is Cus tomer, Labor-Proof and P olitics-Proof, and Hedge Against Inflation- War, Babson Says BY ROGER W. BABSON, Copyright 1938, Publishers Financial Bureau, Inc. Babson Park, Fla., Jan. 7. —The chemical business is my nomination for the ’’lndustry of 1938”. Each Jan uary first I like to select an industry "which will tea leader during the new year. In 1936, Building had my vote. Last year I picked Aviation. Now, for the year 1938 my choice is Chemicals. Its research progress, its all-inclusive diversification, its conservative man agement, and its protection against "war, inflation, politics and labor qual ify it for such a nomination. The making of this selection is not based primarily on the market perfor mance of stocks representing com JUntiicrsmt Daily tlraajafrli ' ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OF MuRTH CAROLINA AND ' LEASED WIRE SERVICE OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS. G-MAN HEAD TELLS ABOUT CONFESSION BY PAYNE, TURNER Bank Robberies Admitted In State Netted Two Desperadoes $12,000 sto $14,000 DEAD PATROLMAN'S PISTOL TURNED UP Turner Leads Officers to Lonely Riltmore Forest Where They Find Weapon of State Officer Payne and Turner Are Accused of Slaying Washington, Jan. 7 (AP) —J. Edgar Hoover said today William Payne and John Washington Turner, North Caro lina desperadoes, captured last Mon day, had confessed to robbing several banks, burglarizing a steam laundry at Florence, S. C., committing a hold up and several safe burglaries, and to stealing between 20 and 25 automo biles. Federal charges against Payne and Turner would be held in abeyance, however, the director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation said, pending outcome of trial of the pair at Ashe ville, N. C., on State murder charges. Payne told Federal agents, Hoover said, that he, Turner and Robert Smith, who is now serving a life sent ence for the slaying of a South Caro lina policeman, obtained between $12,- and $14,000 between February 15, when they escaped from the Cale doina Prison Farm near Halifax, N. C., and' January 3, when they were captured at Sanford, N. C. At the time of their capture, how ever, Payne had only S4O and Turner $53. Payne confessed to participating in tContinued on Paare Two) GERTRUDE BENNETT AND ‘HUBBY’ FOUND. Daughter of Ford Personnel Chief and Schoolboy Husband Located In Tampa Tampa, Fla., Jan. 7. —(AP) —Police Chief C. J. Woodruff said 17-year-old Gertrude Bennett Hughes, missing daughter of Harry Bennett, Ford Motor Company personnel director, and her college boy husband, were lo cated here today, honeymoqning in a modest apartment. Location of the eloping couple end ed a four-day search that began Tues day when Bennett reported his daugh ter had been missing 12 hours from the Bennett home near Ypsilanti, Mich., where Miss Bennett was a stu dent in Michigan Normal College. TRIO NEGROES HELD IN SUNDAY HOLD-UP Aged Couple Beaten and Robbed of $27 at Filling Station Near Town of Laurinburg Laurintourg, Jan. 7 (AP) —Three Ne groes were held in jail here . today charged with robbing and beating an aged couple who run a filling station in western Scotland county. The men, arrested yesterday, were booked as Elliot H. Hoston, 21; Fred Douglas, 17, and Boyd MoLaurin. They were arrested in South Carolina, near the State line. Four men held uip the filling station of D. L. Broome Sunday, beat Broome and his wife, and escaped with $27. panies in the industry. My choice is based on much more fundamental rea sons. Moreover, the nomination of the chemical industry is not any sudden discovery by me of the tremendous part it is playing in our modern age. It is simply recognition of the fact that in a year of irregular business, the short-term stability and the long term growth of the chemical business should make it an outstanding indus try. Chemicals Mean Diversification. Our current civilization can truly be called a “chemical age”. Every large industry is a growing customer of the chemical makers. Their sales Continued on Page Two.) HENDERSON, N. C., FRIDAY AFTERNOON, JANUARY 7, 1938 House and Senate Farm Leaders Confer mmmmmL s .Jig . ..... f BP-WUawEfSl fe ilk ji 111 lap \ HiL w *« Members of the House and Senate Agricultural Committees are shown in conference on the administra tion s farm bill with a view to achieving a long-range farm program from the measures approved in the special session of Congress. Left to right, Senator James P. Pope, Idaho; Representative Marvin Jones, lexas, chairman of the House Agricultural Committee; Senator John H. Bankhead, Alabama, and Senator Ellison D. Smith, South Carolina, chairman of the Senate Agricultural Committee. (Central Press) Vast Naval Arming Program Announced By Italian Chief Mussolini Determined To Have Topnotch Navy Among Continental European Powers CONSTRUCTION WILL BE BEGUN AT ONCE Two Giant Dreadnaughts In cluded, With 12 Destroy ers and Number of Subma rines; Roosevelt's Arming Program Referred To; Peace Is Talked Also (By The Associated Press.) Italy today announced enlargement of her ambitious naval re-armament program\ to a world plagued by war fare on two continents and arming for possibly more to come. In the announcement, Italy disclos ed a determination to have continental Europe’s topnotch fleet. This construction program, to be started immediately, was announced in Rome: Two 35,0C r ‘J'.on battJeships to be named Roma and Imperial, giving Premier Mussolini four first class fighting vessels of the same tonnage; 12 destroyers, making a destroyer fleet of 56 in all; an “important” number of submarines, the specific number undisclosed. But a plan for economic peace was calling for Europe’s attention. Paul Van Zeeland, former Belgian premier, was in London consulting Primfe Minister Chamberlain on a scheme to stimulate world trade. Some sources said the Belgian eco nomist had proposed a pact to bring (Continued on Page Six.) ALEX S. WATKINS IS BUILDERS’ OFFICIAL Elected Second Vice-President of Carolinas Association in Co lumbia, S. C. . Columbia, S. C., Jan. 7.—(AP)—The annual convention of the Carolina* Retail Lumber and Supply Builders Association gathered up odds and ends of its business here today after electing new officers for the year. Robin S. Kirby, of Charlotte, was elected president, and among the oth er officers was Alex S. Watkins, of Henderson, N. C., second vice-presi dent. oistricThoMal HOMES ARE TALKED Mrs. Bost Offers Plan As Solution for Caring for State's Insane Dally Dlapatch Bnreaii. In the Sir Walter Hotel. Raleigh, Jan. 7—A system of district “hospital homes” is seen by Mrs. W. T. Bost, commissioner of public wel fare and charities, as the longrange solution of the chronic problem of car ing for North Carolina’s feeble-mind ed and insane. Such a system, she believes, can be worked out as the result of the Fed eral and State Social Security pro gram, which provides funds for the care Os aged people, dependent chil dren and the blind. It would, in time, do away with all county homes and substitute for them the district hos pital homes. Mrs. Bost discussed the problem in connection with the current acute cri sis presented by disclosure of the “ter rible” condition under which insane Continued on Page Two.} “Spend Billion —Beat Slump” X-. ill Marriner S. Eccles, governor of the Federal Reserve Board, is shown as he appeared before the special Sen ate committee investigating unemploy ment. Hes aid that restoration of the consumers’ buying power is vitally important if the current recession is to be curbed, and urged expenditure of a billion dollars as the necessary stimulus. fomuM” Motor Magnate To Defy Unions and Government Alike in His Fight By CHARLES P. STEWART Central Press Columnist Washington, Jan. 7. —Labor-ites (C. I O.’s and A. F. of L.’s alike) seem unalble to believe that Henry Fori will have the nerve to defy federal law, economic trends, the pressure of public opinion and everything els e in his policy of resistance to the inde pendent unionization of his plants. Evidently they do not know Henry Ford. He may not succeed in preventing his outfit’s unization, but he has the nerve to try it. He not only has nerve he also has what he calls “faith”. Stewart’s Contact. As I have recounted heretofore, I once spent a couple of weeks in close contact with Ford, as a correspon dent, on board his celebrated peace ship, the Oscar II (recently broken up to provide scrap metal, for today’s military purposes.) I became quite well acquainted with him, too, until finally he scratched me off his list, because my pacifists “faith” was not as implicit as his own But I am speaking of the initial 10 days of the cruise, while he still con sidered me friendly to the expedition which I was, on the theory (con cerning which I was? very skeptical) that it could do any good. To Neutral Lands. Anyway, those peace crusaders set (Continued on Page Six.} 3 Children Victims In Dynamiting Mother Also Badly Injured When Home Is Blasted In Eliza bethtown, Tenn. Elizabethtown, Tenn., Jan. 7.—(AF) —Three children were killed and their mother seriously injured early today when dynamite wrecked their home near here. Deputy Sheriff Roy Asher said of ficers were working on the theory the blast was the outgrowth of a slay ing in 1936. A woman and three men were held for investigation. The dead: Sonia Gouge, 9; Luena Gouge, 7; and Roma Jean Gouge, 5. Mrs. Harmon Gouge, 34, was injur ed. Asher said Sonia and Roma Jean wer e killed instantly, and that Luena died enroute to the hospital. Harmon Gouge, 35, father and hus band of the victims, was at Johnston City at the time of the blast. “There must have been a case of dynamite in the basement of the house just below the bedroom where tke mother and children were sleep ing,” Asher said. “The explosion shat tered the house and caved in the foundations.” Officers found a burned fuse stret ching from the house 30 feet across a road. “The fuse had been set on the road across from the house,” the deputy said; “th e children and mother ap parently all were asleep.” SLIGHT GAINS FOR COTTON AT MIDDAY Higher Liverpool Cables Partly Offset by Hedge Selling and Liqui dation Here New York, Jan. 7. —(AP) —Cotton futures opened me to three points up. High Liverpool’ cables were partly offset by hedge selling and liquida tion. March reacted from 8.52 to 8.49 leaving quotations net unchanged to on e point higher at the end of the first hour. By midday Mflrch recover ed from 8.47 to 8.50, leaving prices to three points net higher. NEW LEGISLATION AFFECTING CITIES Healey Shows Results Os Laws Enacted by 1937 General Assembly Dally Dispatch Bureau. In The Sir Walter Hotel, Raleigh, Jan. 7.—Th e course of mu nicipal affairs in North Carolina dur ing 1937 was greatly affected by legis lation passed by the 1937 General As sembly, Patrick Healey, Jr., executive secretary of the North Carolina Lea gue of Municipalities, points out in on Page Three.) WEATHER FOR NORTH CAROLINA. Partly cloudy and much colder tonight; cold wave in interior; Saturday fair and colder. PUBLICISED IfUT AFTERNOON BXCEPTVSUNDAY. ROOSEVELT TO TALK TO BUSINESS MEN ON PRODUCTION EXCESS TAR HEEL RIVERS, HARBORS AWARDED WORK Money Included in Appro priation Bill for Water ways Improvements In State MAINTENANCE AND NEW WORK PUT IN Inland Waterway from Nor folk to Beaufort Gets Ma jor Portion*, With $436,- 000; Other Projects In clude Harbors, Rivers and Creeks in Area Washington, Jan. 7.—(AP) — The chief of the army engineers recom mended to Congress today expenditure of nearly $2,50 •A 1)0 on rivers and harbors projects in North Carolina for maintenance and new work dur ing the 1939 fiscal year. Largest single undertaking recom mended was use of an unexpended balance of $436,000 and an additional appropriation of $221,000 for main tenance and new work on the inland waterway from Norfolk, Va., to Beau fort Inlet, N. C. Other expenditures recommended included: Cashie river, $7,500 for maintence and dredging and $27,000 for a turn ing basin at Windsor, and three cut off channels below Windsor. Roanoke river, $7,500 for mainten ance and dredging and $15,000 for new work on the river between its mouth and Palmyra. Waterway connecting Swan Quar ter bay with Deep river, $3,000 for maintenance. Belhaven Harbor, $15,000 for main tenance. Pamlico and Tar rivers, $17,000 for maintenance and operation of govern ment derrick boat Contentnea. Silver Lake harbor, $2,000 for dredg ing. Contentnea creek, SI,OOO for main tenance and SI,OOO for new work be tween its mouth and Snow Hill. I Tar river flood control recommend ed allotment of $90,000 made in Au gust, 1937, b e applied to completion of project calling for clearing the natural channel between Tarboro and Rocky Mount of obstructions to re duce flood heights. Neuse river, $12,500 for maintenance and $12,500 for maintaining channel at and below New Bern. Beaufort harbor, $20,000 for main tenance and $17,500 for new work. Waterway connecting Pam lico Sound and Beaufort harbor, $11,900 for maintenance and SII,OOO for new work. ‘ Morehead City harbor, $28,900 for maintenance and SBO,OOO for new dredging. MEASLES LEADS IN STATE CONTAGIONS 538 Cases Reported Last Week; Chickenpox and Whooping Cough Also Run High Raleigh, Jan. 7.—(AP) —Measles shot up in frequency of occurrence in North Carolina as 1937 ended, the board of Health reported today as 538 cases were reported for the week ended January 1, as compared with 243 the week before. The board also reported increased incidence was shown last week by chickenpox, with 190 cases; diphtheria with 35; and pellagra, with 14; scar let fever, with 53; syphilis with 109 typhoid fever, with 8; and whooping cough, with 192. Sampson county reported 224 of the measles cases. 300 Planes, 24 Warships Search West Coast Seas For Missing Big Bomber San Pedro, Cal., Jan. 7 (AP)—Three hundred navy planes and 24 warships searched the seas between Santa Bar bara and *San Diego today for a giant service paitrol bomber, missing since Wednesday with seven men aboard. Meantime, naval officials disclosed Seth Hawkins, cadet attached to the cruiser Chicago, fell from the rear cockpit seat of a light plane yester day and disappeared into the Pacific 100 miles off shore. The plane was engaged in a “routine flight. 8 PAGES TODAY FIVE CENTS COPY Elimination of “High Pres sure Salesmanship” One Method of Approach Planned LABOR CHIEF GIVES 7-POINT PROGRAM Green Declared Economic Situation ‘‘Gloomy,” But Mail Order Head Professes Optimism; Kennedy Nom inated as Ambassador to Great Britain Washington, Jan. 7. —(AP)—Presi- dent Roosevelt disclosed today, while a congressional committee wrestled with causes and cures of the present slump, that he proposed a series of conferences with business leaders on how to eliminate over-production and glutted markets. The main point of discussion in the talks, the President revealed at his press conference, will be attacking the market's over-prodfuotion problem through ridding business of what ad ministration spokeslnrutfi call! "evil” practices, such as high pressure sales manship. Mr. Roosevelt talked with William Knudsen, president of General Motors, yesterday after Knudsen had told the Senate unemployment Committee a sudden drop in sales in November and December had caused his company to lay off 30,000 men January 1. The unemployment committee re ceived from William Green, president of the American Federation of Labor, suggestions for seven moves to end the depression. Green found the eco nomic situation "gloomy”, but Robert E. Wood, president of Sears, Roebuck & Company, saw cause for optimism in declining inventories. Meantime, the President acted to switch one of his closest economic ad visors, Joseph Kennedy, from the domestic to the international field. He nominated Kennedy to be ambas sador to Great Britain. Kennedy is chairman of the Maritime Commis sion. Other diplomatic moves he announc ed today included the transfer of Joseph Davies from Moscow to be am bassador to Belgium. He sent to the Senate the nomination of Hugh Wil son, assistant secretary of state, to be ambassador to Germany, replacing William E. Dodd, resigned. The WPA came forward with its Continued on Page Two.) GERMAN SHIPPING MAGNATE IN JAIL Hamburg, Germany, Jan. 7. —(AP) — Arnold Bernstein, Jewish head of the Red Star and Arnold Bernstein Ship ping Lines who had been in jail eleven months, was sentenced today to eleven months in prison and a fine of 1,000,- 00 marks ($400,000) on charges of violating Germany’s rigid forbign ex chaneg laws. U. 5. Asking Rubens Data Os Soviets Moscow, Jan. 7 (AP) —The United States Embassy today presented a formal note to the Soviet foreign of fice asking whether Ruth Marie Ru bens of New York, was under arrest in Russia, and if so on what charges. The note, delivered on instructions from Washington, demanded full in formation about the disappearance from a Moscow hotel December 9, of Mrs. Rubens, who had been known here as “Mrs. Donald L. Robinson. She had arrived in Moscow Novem ber 6, with "Donald L. Robinson," who disappeared December Z. The request for information was bag Continued on Page Two.' Confidence the missing paltrol bomb er would be found was expressed by Captain Alva Berhard, chief of staff, to Rear Admiral Ernest King, com mander of the aircraft scouting force. Aboard the 33,000-pound seaplane, of ficers said, were emergency rations and a small still for converting ocean water into drinking water. Fog hampered the search by battle ships, cruisers, destroyers and two Coast Guard cutters last night, and partly cloudy weather was forecast for today.
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