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HENDERSON’S POPULATION 13,873 twenty-fifth year IMPERIAL MEETING TO SHAPE PROGRAM OF JAPS IN CHINA Emperor and War Lords To Direct “Unshakeable” Policy To Be Agreed on at Once TSINGTAO OCCUPIED WITHOUT STRUGGLE Not a Shot Fired in Capture of Rich Industrial Port of North China, Already Laid Waste by Chinese Before Leaving; Resistance ini Shantung Tokyo, Jan. 10.—(AP)—An imperial conference was summoned today to meet in ihe presence of Empero. Hirohito tomorrow to decide formally “Japan’s unshakeable policy toward Cb ; na." The conference was ordered after Premier Prince Fumimaro Konoyo placed before the emperor the gov ernment's decision on future policy in China. Details of the plan were kept a strict secret, pending a decision ty the imperial conference. Chiefs and vice chiefs of the army and navy general staff, the premier and the foreign, army, navy, home and finance ministers will attend the ses sion. Japanese press reports have said that the cabinet in two days of con ference with the imperial headquar ters was drafting a program to “de stroy the anti-Japanese administra tion in China.” The foreign office spokesman de clared Japan was prepared either for peace or for prolonged hostilities, and added that peace was impossible so long as China’s Generalissimo Chiang Kai-Shek maintained his anti-Japan ese attitude. RICH NORTH CHINA PORT TAKEN WITHOUT STRUGGLE Tsingtao, China, Jan. 10. —(AP) — The Japanese Navy tonight occupied this rich North China port without firing a shot. Landing parties of Japanese* ma rines marched in without meeting the slightest opposition. First of the forces of occupation to arrive was a contingent of 400 Ma rines, which landed 18 miles from here and marched in. Shortly afterward, Japanese troop ships entered the harbor and began disembarking additional marines. Five Japanese destroyers lay off-shore. I The Japanese posted patrols and be gan lowering the white flags which in accordance with previous Japanese (Continued od Page Three.) Women Will Go To Fron t For Chinese Hankow, China, Jan. 10.—(AP) China’s Amazon warriors took the field today against the Japanese in vaders. The Kwangsi women’s battalion, made up of 150 young women espe cially picked for their bravery, phy sical fitness, general intelligence and marksmanship, arrived here after a hard 600-mile march for service oa the northern front. I They represent the nucleus of China’s leaders intend to develop into a nationwide army of women to sup port the nation’s fighting men in their Juggle against Japan. These women will be used primarily to circulate through villages and towns, stirring up war consciousness and organizing national resistance to the invaders. Trained to shoot to kill, they were ready for trench service as Well. There was no trace of rouge or lip stick on the faces of the determined women, the youngest of them only 16. who marched into Hankow at the end of their long march. New Labor Mayo r For CIO Wage s Duquesne, Pa., Jan. 10. —(AP) —El* Maloy, new laborite mayor, put this city of 22,000 in the heart of th?v Pittsburgh steel district on what ho termed a “C. I. O. union basis” today. The 41-year-old C. I. O. organizer, elected on the Democratic ticket last November, and inaugurated last week, ordered a 40-hour-five-day week for All city employees, including 66 in the fire, street and police departments. Seventeen additional workers W’H be employed and the pay of laborers will be boosted from 62 1-2 cents to 75 cents an hour. Despite the reductions in hours and the hiring of more worker?, Maloy L .(Continued on Page Three.), Hmt&ursmt DatUt Stspatdi ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OFjnuKTH CAROLINA AND VIRGINIA. ' L ®ASE:D WIRE SERVICE OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS On Court List Frank R. McNinch .. . court possibility Another listeg as possibility for the supreme feourt vacancy is Frank R. McNinch, chairman of the Federal Communications Com mission and chief adviser to the president on power questions Mo* Ninch is 64. MAXWELL PLEADS FOR COOPERATION TO GET NEW LEVY Asks Merchants’ Secretaries at Pinehurst To Coope „ rate on Intangibles tax EXPECTS REVENUE WILL BE GREATER Terms New Act Important Change in Methods and Radical Change In Rates of Tax; That Class Property Won’t Be Listed for Local Taxes - Pinehurst, Jan. 10.—(AP)—Revenue Commissioner A. J. Maxwell present ed today to the secretaries of North Carolina merchants associations i “primer” on the State’s new intan gibles tax law, and concluded with an appeal for “whole-hearted support and cooperation” ih making a success of this extremely moderate tax law.” “It is expected,” Maxwell told the secretaries, “that the revenue at the greatly reduced dates will be greater than under the former much higher rates by. reason of a more general and complete disclosure of this class of pr6£erty.” He termed the new law “an impor tant change in methods and a radical change in rates of tax on “intangible personal property.” “No property of this class will here after be required to be listed with local list-takers And subjected to the tax rates applying on tangible prop erty,” he pointed out. “The new rates of tax represent an average of not more than ten or fifteen percent of the rates formerly applying to this class of property.” • The levy is due March 15 on prop erty held December 31. The revenue is to be divided equally between the State and the counties and cities. SHERIFF INVOLVED IN DYNAMITE CASE ! Tennessee Officer Accused as Acces sory in Blast That Killed Three Children Elizabethton, Tenn., Jan. 10.—JAP) Sheriff J. M. Moreland said today that Sheriff W. L. Wallin, of nearby Bledsoe county, had been charged with being an accessory after the fact in connection with the dynamite blast that killed three children near here Friday. The arraignment, scheduled today for eight other men and aVoman be ing held in connection with the dynamiting of the house in which the children died, was postponed pending further investigation. The sheriff said three men were charged with murder in connection with the blast. He named them a3 White and Crave Tollett and Lee Walker, all of Pikeville, Tenn. Victims of the blast, which wreck ed the home of Harmon Gouge, were his three children. Their mother was injured seriously. Gouge is at liberty under SIO,OOO bond pending trial next month for the slaying in 1936 of Arnold Tollett, brother of Crave and White Tollett, HENDERSON, N. C., MONDAY AFTERNOON, JANUARY 10, 1938 Ambassador Dodd Returns A ' ' y |jjjilE >: ■ • |||pi Sjjak William E. Dodd, retiring as United States ambassador to Nafci Germany, is pictured aboard the Washington, being interviewed by a reporter at New York. Dodd has been outspoken in his criticism of the Nazis, who for some time sought his retirement. (Central Press) DuPonts Expect Decline Os 23 Prct. In Business Senate Committee Given O pinion of Lamott DuPont for Slump, Listing Tax Uncertainty, Rising Public Debt and Money V alue Changes Washington, Jan. 10.—(AP) — Two business spokesmen denied before a Senate investigating committee today that industry was striking or threat ening to strike against administration policies. Both called for tax revisions to restore investment confidence. They were Lamott DuPont, j the manufacturer, aiicF TH-. 'Claudius T. Murchison, president of the Cotton Textile Institute Murchison told the committee his industry had “opposed with every power at its command the downward trend of business and resorted to pro duction curtailment only with the ut most reluctance.” Murchison added it could not be charged that the industry “has en gaged in any thought or action which might be interpreted as indifference to its social and economic respon sibility, or hostility to the general na tional interest, or what has been re ferred to as a strike against the ad ministration.” Washington, Jan. 10. —(F) —Lamott DuPont told the Senate unemploy- RATES AND ARE OUTSTANDING Court Candidates And Hoey Fight on Wage-Hour Bill Week’s Peaks Dali, Dispatch Bureau, tii the Sir Walter Hotel. Raleigh, Jan. 10. —Two North Car olina officials went into action last week in behalf of the State and the South, in the important matter of dis crimination in freight rates and wages. Two North Carolina jurists, one a member of the State’s Supreme Court, the other a Federal circuit court of appeals judge, took places in the pub lic eye as likely timber for the! United States Supreme Court. The pair who took up the cudgels for Dixie were Governor Clyde R. Hoey, who urged on President Roose velt the necessity of a wage differen tial if and when a wage and hour bill is passed, and Utility Commissioner Stanley Winborne who went to At lanta to look after the State’s inter ests at a hearing on the railroads re quest for a flat 15 per cent increase in freight rates. Nothing much was printed about Governor Hoey’s attitude at the South eastern Governor’s Conference with the President, but it is a practical certainty that he did present to F. D. R. the views he is known to hold on the wage-hour bill. . Commissioner Winborne reiterated to the I. C. C. examiners his previous contentions that a flat percentage in crease in freight rates would add to the heavy differential already in ef fect against the entire South. Chief Justice Walter P. Stacy and Judge Justin Miller of the circuit court of appeals for the District of (Continued on Page Three.) WEATHER. FOR NORTH CAROLINA. * Cloudy, probably rain in west portion tonight and Tuesday and in east portion Tuesday; slowly rising temperature. ment investigating committee today that E. I. DuPont de Nemours & Company expects a 23 percent drop in sales during the first half of 1938, compared with the first six months in 1937. “I hope that this forecast proves er roneous,” ' # he president of said com pany told the Senate | Siebfcfltoittee, “but on the basis of careful estimates I cannot be too hopeful of increased em ployment in our company during the first half of this year, for it is evi dent that we are in a pronounced re cession.” DuPont said he had no “panaceas” to improve business, but that “gov ernment and business should take counsel together in a spirit of for bearance and cooperation.” He asserted, however, that tax un certainty, the fear of higher prices, due to the rising public debt, uncer tainty as to the value of money, the number of strikes and “fear of chan ges in and the manipulation of the legal rules under which business must operate” had contributed to “the pre sent fog” of business. Power Loan Order Made Effective Washington, Jan. 10 (AP)—'The Su preme Court took action today which will permit four Alabama municipali ties to 'begin immediate construction of power iplants with loans and grants obtained from the Public Works Ad ministration. At the request of the government, Chief Justice Hughes ordered that the Supreme Court’s decision last Monday on PWA loans and grants he placed in effect immediately instead of waiting the customary 25 days to permit the losing litigants to file an appeal. The court last Monday held that private power companies had no legal right to challenge PWA loans and grants for publicly-owned power plants. Similar action was taken by the j court last week to permit immediate construction by Greenwood, county, S. C., of a power plant at Buzzar*d Roost. ROCKEFELLER SHAFT IN GREAT SMOKIES North Carolina and Tennessee Park Officials Plan for Memorial for ‘Donation Washington, Jan. 10.—(AP) —North Carolina and Tennessee park officials wetn ahead today with plans to erect a memorial to the late Laura Spell man Rockefeller, mother of John D Rockefeller, Jr., in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. a A. B. Cammerer, national park di rector, said F. L. Olmstead, of Brook line, Mass., probably would be engag ed to aid in choosing a location for the marker. His statement followed a confer ence with T. W. Raoul, of Asheville, acting treasurer of the North Carolina Park Commission, and Robert Liv ingston, of Nashville, acting Tennessee park director. London Advises Paris and Washington of Objec tions to Japanese Control There SOME INCREASE IN RULE ASSENTED TO Some Japanese Representa tion ot 1 International Set cement Police Force Con ceded; Distinction Be tween Temporary and Per manent Changes London, Jan. 10. —(AF) —The Bri tish government today declared oppo sition to any permanent administra tive changes in the international set tlement at Shanghai such as have been demanded by the Japanese con querors of the Shanghai area. England, however, was authority lively represented as ready to agree to some of the Japanese demands for in creased power in the ru’e of the Shanghai settlement. The Brit'sh po sition \Vas stated in communications to the United States, France and the British authorities at Shanghai. Officials would not indicate on what points the government was ready to meet Japanese demands, but it was intimated they included in creased Japanese representation on the settlement’s police force. Prime Minister Neville Chamber lain reviewed, the whole question of British interests in China, especially at Shanghai, with Sir Hughe Mont gomery Knatchbull-Hugessen, the re tiring British ambassador to China. (Sir Hughe returned to London to complete recovery from wounds in flicted by Japanese machine gun bul ’ets near Shanghai last August.) In its communications to Washing ton and Paris, Britain made a clear distinction between “temporary chan ges necessitated by abnormal condi tions and changes of a more general character which must be considered through normal procedure.” Government Will Help Finance Rew Merchant Marine Washington, Jan. 10.—(AP) —Sign- ing of subsidy agreements between the government and seven ship lines assured today the strengthening of the American merchant marine co incidental with proposed eypansions of the navy. The Maritime Commission, whose job is to put new life into merchant shipping, announced approval of the long-term contracts for construction by 1942 of 20 new ships for the fore ign trade. There was a possibility the number might reach 63. In addition, arrangements for another 25 ships had been made previously. TSms Says Democracies Afraid of Democracy in Emergency Situations By CHARLES P. STEWART Central Press Columnist Washington, Jan. 10. —One must ad mit that Benito Mussolini has plenty of justification for his attitude of hilarity toward the United States in connection with Congress’ predomin ant reaction to Representative Louis Ludlow’s proposed constitutional amendment calling for a popular vote in support of an American declara tion of war against any foreign power. At least, I suppose it was II Duce himself who gave us the ha-ha. The recent article, making fun of us, ap peared in his personal newspaper, the (Continued on Page Five.) Justice Cardozo Reported Better Os Heart Attack Washington, Jan. 10.—(AP) Physicians reported improvement . today in the condition of Associate Justice Benjamin N. Cardozo, who they said recently had suffer ed “alarming” heart attacks. They said, however, that the 67- year-old jurist, who has been ill for a month, would not be able to return to the Supreme Court bench for some time and must be kept “absolutely quiet.” Dr. J. P. Ernest, Cardozo’s per sonal physician, said consultations had been held almost daily with heart specialists. Justice Cardozo suffered simi lar heart trouble in June, 1935, hut fully recovered. He was appointed to the Supreme Court in 1932 by President Hoover, and has been one of the justices most sym pathetic to Roosevelt administra tion legislation. PUBLISHED lyill AFTEKNOGN EXCEPT SUNDAY. JVAR REFERENDUM IS SHELVED BY 209-188 VOTE IN THE HOUSE Follow Sutherland? Copyright, Harris & Ewing Justice James Clark Mcßeynolds . . . next to quit court? Will another supreme court jus tice quit the high bench before June, as reported? And will he be Justice James Clark Mcßey nolds? He will be 76 on Feb. 3. —Central Press lOcSiIES Some Expect President’s Opposition to Them; FDR Voted for G. O. P. Washington, Jan. 10. —(AP) —Presi- dent Roosevelt’s Jackson Day asser tion that the Democratic party “must slough off any remains of sectional ism and class consciousness,” drew be lated attention today from Democrats in Congress who have opposed admin istration measures. In some quarters the remarks was interpreted as a hint that administra tion support would not be extended in coming elections to anti-Roosevelt Democrats. Other party members, however, attached little significance to the President’s statements. Politicians who have speculated on a possible relignment of parties no ticed also that the President appealed for disregard of partisanship. He told of having voted for Theodore Roose velt when he was a Republican can didate for President. Secretary Wallace, speaking in Des Moines, invited small business and professional men to leavs the Repub lican party and join Democratic ranks James A. Farley, Democratic national chairman, said at New York that the Jackson Day receipts indicated a pro fit of more than $400,000. FREMIENIfD Battle for Teruel by No Means Ended; Govern ment Still Resisting Hendaye, Franco-Spanish Frontier, Jan. 10.—(AP)—Fresh insurgent vic tories indicated today the battle for possession of Teruel was far from over, despite the government’s suc cess in crushing all resistance with in the captured provincial capital. Dispatches said government com manders had decided on counter at tacks north and south of Teruel to offset insurgent victories. The cap ture of LeCoca, plus further gains by General Francisco Franco’s troops ih the Villastar sector, southwest of Teruel, threatened to cut the govern ment’s communications between its flank elements and their supply fcase, the dispatches said. , frr (J , Insurgent sources reported steady progress on the twp wings had en abled them to form an arc around Teruel while the government was con centrating on subjugating the insur gent garrison trapped within the city when government troops took it in a surprise attack more than two weeks ago. . . The surrender of this insurgent gar rison and civilian supporters number ing about 6,900 was completed Sat urday night, according to the govern ment. 8 PAGES TODAY FIVE CENTS COPY Speaker Bankhead Leaves Rostrum To Read Letter of Roosevelt Oppos ing Measure GRAVEST QUESTION IN TWENTY YEARS Calls Referendum on War Declaration as Radical and Revolutionary Attack on Basic Principles of Repre sentative Democracy, ini United States Washington, Jan. 10.—(AF) — Th? House shelved the proposed war re ferendum amendment to the Consti tution today, voting against floor con sideration of the proposal. Speaker Bankhead announced the vote against the referendum was 209 to 188. The motion went down to defeat shortly after the House had heard Speaker Bankhead read a letter from President Roosevelt condemning the amendment, offered by Representa tive Ludlow, Democrat, Indiana. The resolution would have authoriz ed a constitutional amendment, which three-fourths of the states would have to approve calling for approval by the people in a national election before the United States could declare war. The President warned that the pro posal would “cripple any President” in his conduct of America’s foreign relations. It also would encourage other nations, the President said, “to believe that they could violate Amer ican rights with impunity." Bankhead left his rostrum to read the letter and to speak against the referendum. It was one of the rare instances he had taken the floor to discuss pending legislation. Asserting he left his place as an impartial presiding officer with the deepest regret to speak against the legislation, the speaker said, “I meas ure my words when I say that in my opinion this is the gravest question that has teen submitted to the Con gress since I became„ a ruepimebr of the House 20 years ago.” He then described the referendum as a “radical and revolutionary at tack on the fundamental basic prin ciple of representative democracy.” ERWIN MILL UNION ASKS FOR ELECTION Labor Board Representative Hears Appeal by Workers at Hear ing in Durham i Durham, Jan. 10 (AP)~Formal re quest for an election during the week of January 24 to determine tlhe rights of collective bargaining for more than 4,000 employees of the Erwin Cotton Mills through the textile work ers organizing committee, a CIO af filiate, was filed with the National Labor Relations Board at a hearing here this morning. McClellan Butt, tylfetl IPcaminer of ,the NHRiR In Washington, presided. The evidence will be submitted to the National Labor Relations Board for study and decision. The hearing was conducted for the purpose of giving employees of the mills an opportunity to present their arguments. Several witnesses were placed on the stand by the union group, but counsel for the mills did not offer any testimony. Anti-Lynch Fight Taken By Harrison Mississippian Says Senate Bill Is Aimed at South and Its Program Washington, Jan. 10 (AP) —Senator Harrison, Democrat, Mississippi, took up the southern battle against the anti-lynching bill in the Senate today by reading to his colleagues a plea from Andrew Jackson for states’ rights. • Recalling how Democrats had gath ered all over the nation Saturday night to honor Jackson, Harrison read to them one of the former President’s utterances condemning encroachment by the Federal government on the pow ers of the states. He said he hoped “my Democratic colleagues who paid SIOO for duck dinners will think about these words before voting on this legislation be fore us.” - Harrison contended the anti-lynch ing bill would put fear "into the hearts of the womanhood of the South.” “It is an arrow pointed at the South,” he shouted. "It is an insult to the South and an insult to the pro gress the southern people have made in trying to have law enforcement and to do away with a condition.”
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