HENDERSON’S
POPULATION
13,873
TWENTY-FIFTH YEAR
WOMAN SENATOR LASHES LYNCHING SUL
Labor And Monetary Crisis
In France Now More Accute;
Problem Is Given Chamber
CABINET DOES NOT
INTEND 10 RESIGN
FROM OFFICE YET
Special Session of Ministers
Is Held, However, To
Determine on Course
To Take
CURRENCY YIELDS
TO HARD PRESSURE
Values Falling on Ex
changes and Strikes Con
tinue; French and British j
Stabilization Funds Re- |
portedly Being Used To
Halt Declines
Paris, Jan. 13.—(AP)— Premier
Camile Chautenips told the Cham
ber of Deputies tonight he was
confident that France’s grave la
bor and monetary problem could
be solved.
The premier asked the Chamber
for a vote of confidence on his
program for social peace, freedom
of the exchanges and budgetary
equilibrium.
He attributed the weakness of
the franc to strife between work
ers and employers, and declared it
had no justification in France’s
financial position.
Taris, Jan. 13.—(AP)— Members of
the cabinet announced today Premier
Camile Chautemps had decided to
take the government’s grave labor and
monetary problems before the Cham
ber of Deputies.
The announcement came after a
special cabinet session that lasted al-
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Mine Blast
Dead Total
Likely Ten
Pittsburgh, Pa., Jan. 13. —(AP)
Thrilling stories were related today
by 25 survivors of a mine blast 17
miles east of here in which eight were
known dead and two others missing
and believed to be dead.
Weary rescue crews with masks still
were working their way slowly along
the 3,600-foot passageway, which was
partially wrecked shortly before noon
yesterday, seeking the missmg two.
Three bodies were brought out ear
ly today and identified by mine of
ficials as John Kruszek, 21; Joseph
Lerch, 24, and Doss Nicholas, 41, all
of Harwick.
C. W. Gibbs, general manager of the
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HuIT Wants
Reply From
The Soviet
Calls in Russian Am
bassador To Ask
About Answer To
Rubens Inquiry
Washington, Jan. 13 (AP)—' Secre
tary Hull asked Soviet Ambassador
Alexander Troyanovsky today why _*•
Soviet government has not replied
an American note requesting
mation on the reported arrest in Mos
cow of Mrs. Ruth Alma. Rubens, an
American woman.
The secretary of state said he in
vited” Troyanovsky to the State De
partment to discuss the case, but de
clined to reveal any details of his
conversation with the Soviet envoy.
The American note was presented
to the Soviet Foreign Office January
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HENDERSON. N-C. J
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AHE ASSOCIATED PRESS.
Clipper And Crew Lost
In Fire And Explosion
In Goes His Hat
I
Ex-Gov. Gifford Pinchot, of Penn
sylvania, tosses his hat into the
gubernatorial ring again. He an
nounced his candidacy for the Re
publican nomination. Twice chief
executive of the state, Pinchot, 72,
csdled for support to “clean up the
mess at Harrisburg.”
(Central Press)
Edgecombe Farme
Shoots Wife, Self
Tarboro, Jan. 13.—(AP)—Walter
Barnes, 38, Edgecombe county far
mer, ran amuck at his farm on the
Bethel highway today. Critically in
juring his wife, thratening her sis
ter, and finally inflicting a fatal
shotgun wound on himself, Dr. J.
G. Raby, county coroner, reported
this afternoon.
Barnes called his wife, Lessie, in
to his house and as she approached,
he pulled a single barrelled twelve
guage shotgun and shot her in the
lower abdomen, with the words
“I’ll kill you.” Her sister, Miss
Mary Coley, also in the room, was
threatened with a gun, hut rushed
out as he yelled after her, “And I’ll
kill you, too.”
Neighbors stated that Barnes had
been nervous and suffering for
some time with mental disorders,
and did queer things.
WOMANMIGHTYET
JOIN SENATE RACE
Mrs. Wohl May Major on
“Peace Referendum” if
She Enters Contest
Dally Dispatch Bureau,
la the Sir Walter lintel.
Raleigh, Jan. 13.—Mrs. Helen Rob
ertson Wohl, only woman ever to run
for a Statewide office in North Car
olina, is a step nearer entry in the
United States Senate race as a result,
of defeat of the Ludlow “war referen
dum” amendment to the United States
Constitution.
Mrs. Wohl, ardent New Dealer in
politics, Quaker in religion and active
campaigner for the United Dry cause,
sees the “Keep America Out of War”
movement just beginning, and de
clares she is giving “grave” consider
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JUSTICE CARDOZO
IMPROVES SLOWLY
Washington, Jan. 13 (AP) —Dr.
Paul Earnest, Jr., said today there
had been “a slight improvement”
in the “general condition” of Asso
ciate Justice Benjamin Cardozo
of the Supreme Court.
Cardozo is seriously ill with a
complication of grippe, shingles
and heart disease.
HENDERSON, N. C., THURSDAYi AFTERNOON, JANUARY 13, 1938
Mine Sweeper Takes to Pago
P?go Clear Indications
of Tragedy of Air
Liner
INTERNAL BLAST IS
SEEN IN FRAGMENTS
Plane Caught Fire While
Dumping Excess Gasoline
Before Landing To Repair
Broken Oil Line After
Starting Flight To New
Zealand
Pago Paeo, Samoa, Jan. 13.—(AP) —
Clear indications that the gian*
Samoan Clipper and her crew of seven
were destroyed in a fire and explosion
was brought to Pago Pago today by
the mine sweeper Avocet.
The naval craft returned to port
with charred fragments of the flying
boat after an all-day search of the oil
slick 12 miles off Pago Fago, wher’J
the all-metal trans-Pacific plane t
crashed in flames Tuesday.
Every, item recovered showed signs
of an internal explosion. All were
charred, burned and covered with
aluminum powder.
Because of the condition of the frag
ments, no hope was held of recovering
the todies of Captain Edwin Musick,
Pan-American Airways ace, and his
crew of six from the shark-infested
waters. The Clipper carried no passen
gers.
The plane caught fire while dump
ing excess gasoline before landing at
Pago Pago to repair a broken oil line
after starting out on a flight for
Auckland, New Zealand.
TWO ROCKY MOUNT
INJURIES IN CRASH
Car and Train Collide at Crossing in
City; Man and Girl in Criti
cal Condition
Rocky Mount, Jan. 13.—(AP)—Two
local persons were in a critical con
dition this afternoon, physicians at
a local hospital said, as the result of
an automobile-train accident here
early today. R. H. Phelps, 67, receiv
ed a fractured skull, fractured ribs
and internal injuries when an At
lantic Coast Line railroad engine and
the car he said he was driving col
lided on a crossing in the city.
Miss Lillie Hawkins, 14, received a
fractured skull and three other per
sons who were also riding with Phelps
sustained minor injuries.
Rector On
Mysterious
Long Fast
Rev. Israel Harding
Noe Refuses to Eat,
May Collapse:
Beaufort Native
Memphis, Tenn., Jan. 13. '(AP)—-
Friends of the Very Rev. Israel Hard
ing Noe waited fearfully today, help
less to act, as the 46-year-old clergy
man neared the end of the second
week without food or water.
Although the dean of St. Mary s
fashionable Episcopal cathedral has
teen carrying on a full schedule of
work, including church school lessons,
funerals and sermons, physicians a
mong his friends’ have expressed be
lief his collapse may come at any
hour. He has told them what he is
doing is a spiritual demonstration be
yond ther comprehension.
Friends said Dean Noe perhaps sub
sisted all of last year on oranges
alone, starting from December 23,
1936. This January 2, the first Sun
day of 1938, he has taken only a tiny
wafer and sips of wine of the com
munion service he holds three times
weekly.
A man of unusually robust health
at the time he began his demonstra
tion, he is now only a shadow of the
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crash near Bozeman, Mont.
TOBACCO SALES IN
STATE TO JAN7I
ARE $136,634,000
Total of 554,727,722 Pounds
Disposed of from 1937
Crop, State Figures
Reveal
AVERAGE IS $24.81
PER HUNDRED LBS.
93 Percent of Crop Sold at
Year’s End, W. H. Rhodes,
Statistician, Reports; 24,-
098,973 Pounds Producers’
Tobacco Auctioned in De
cember
Raleigh, Jan. 13. —(AF)— Farmers’
tobacco sold in North Carolina ware
houses to January 1 brought $136,
634,000 as 554,727,722 pounds sold at
$24.81 per hundred pounds, the State
Department of Agriculture’s Decem
ber warehouse sales reports showed
today.
This average, the report said, was
SI.OB per hundred above the 1936 fig
ure for the corresponding time.
W. H. Rhodes, department statis
tic jam,, said With an “estimated crop
6rl^,tlS,i^^%Urid^ I J>l last
year," 93 percent of the 1937-38 crop
had been sold in the State by the end
of last month.
He said the Asheville market, open
ing last month, had sold 2,119,510
pounds for $24.25 per hundred, com
pared with $37.43 average for the open
ing month of the previous year.
Total producers’ tobacco auctioned
in December, the report showed, ag
gregated 24,098,973 pounds for $17.79,
compared with 27,458,988 pounds for
December, 1936, at $19.32.
PRICES OF COTTON
MIXED AT MIDDAY
Quotations Three Points Net Higher
To Four Lower at Noon
Hour of Trading
New York, Jan. 13.—(AP) —Cotton
futures opened today one point higher
to three lower in response to hedge
selling and trade buying. March eas
ed from 8.59 to 8.55, and then moved
up to 8.57, leaving quotations net un
unchanged to four points lower short
ly after the first half hour. March
sold up from 8.52 to 8.59, leaving quo
tations three points net higher to four
lower shortly after midday.
WEATHER
FOB NORTH CAROLINA.
Partly cloudy tonight and Fri
day; slightly warmer in east and
central portions Friday.
Chiang Flies To Suchow
To Lead Attack On Japs
ROOSEVELT TAKES
DIG AIM PRESS
But Does It By Inference
Rather Than By Direct
Attack Method
By CHARLES P. STEWART
Central Press Column's!
Washington, Jan. 13. President
Roosevelt has away of taking an oc
?asional dig at individuals, groups or
Institutions, against whom or which
he seems to harbor feelings of resent
ment, and yet doing it in such a fash
on as not to make him appear to be
iabbing at them, and consequently
without giving them much chance to
?ome back at him.
For example:
No one can say, definitely, tl»at, ir.
his recent Jackson Day address, he in
tended to “pan” those newspapers of
the present time that are critical of
his own New Deal policies.
Jeffferson Analogy.
Discussing President Jefferson’s
program, the President said:
“Against him (Jefferson) were al
most all the newspapers and maga
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MAJ. B. R. HUSKE, OF
FAYETTEVILLE, DIES
Fayetteville, Jan. 13.—(AP) —Major
Benjamin R. Huske, 76, founder of a
chain of hardware stores, Spanish-
American War officer and civic and
religious leader of this community,
died this morning at one o’clock. He
leaves his widow, four sons and a
daughter. Funeral services will be
conducted from St. John s Episcopal,
church tomorrow morning.
LIQUOR SALES HIT
NEW MONTHLY HIGH
$942,516 Worth of Alcoholic Beverages
Sold in December, Cutlar
Moore Reports
Raleigh, Jan.'l3. —(AP) —North Car
olina county liquor stores sold $942-
516.90 of alcoholic beverages in De
cember, State ABC Chairman Cutlar
Moore reported today as sales mount
ed $195,347.25 above November to a
new monthly high total.
Durham reported heaviest sales,
with $137,730.45, up $25,382.95 over No
vember, and Wake came next with
$110,813.13, up $26,400.50.
Pitt listed sales at $59,933.75; New
Hanover had $59,382.80, and Halifax
$59,042.80 to take the next three places
in amounts sold.
Tyrrell county had least sales, $3,-
009.15.
PUBLISHED BVBKY AFTBJXNOOM
EXCEPT SUNDAY.
Major Counter Offensive
300 Miles Northwest of
Shanghai Outlined
by War Chief
CHINESE MASSING
THERE FOR A WEEK
Native Army Suffers Furth
er Losses in: Places But
Claim Gains Elsewhere;
Friction With British and
Japs Again Reported At
Shanghai
Shanghai, Jan. 14 (AP) —Chi-
nese declared today 2,000 Japa
nese troops were killed and more
than that number wounded in des
perate fighting before rapturing
T.sining, Shantung province, Wed
nesday.
Japanese sources made no com
ment on the reported casualties,
but declared their columns were
pushi n g swiftly southward
through China’s sacred province.
They said Chinese forces were be
ing thrown into disorganized re
treat as the Japanese neared the
Anhewi province border and the
vital Lunghai railroad.
Shanghai, Jan. 13. —(AP) — General
Chiang Kai-Shek flew to Suchow to
day, Chinese sources said, to direct an
attack on Japanese invaders threaten
ing the Lunghai railway. China’s east
west life line.
With General Fu-Chu, command e v
of Shantung armies, Chiang was said
to have outlined a major counter of
fensive along the railway which meets
the Lunghai at Suchow, about 300
miles northwest of Shanhai.
For a week Chinese armies have
been massing in the area.
They stretch 150 miles along the
Tsinpu, still in Chinese hands. Suchow
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STATE RESTS WITH
AUTO KILLING CASE
Defense Lawyers for Frank C. Monag
han Confer in Wake; Car Kill
ed Tobacco Man
Raleigh, Jan. 13. —(AP) —Defense
lawyers conferred at length today be
fore starting their case after the Statr
completed its testimony against
Frank C. Monaghan, charged with
second degree murder in the auto
mobile death of Harry H. Davis, Win
ston-Salem and Lumberton tobacco
man.
The State presented eleven wit
nesses in all.
Mrs. Monaghan was wheeled into
the court room on a cot to be the first
defense witness, but had not taken the
stand this afternoon.
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TODAY
FIVE CENTS COPY
PROPOSAL CALLED
INSULT TD SOUTH
BY MMRAWAY
Arkansas Lady Says Bill In
Senate Unconstitutional
and Direct Blow
at South
COMMITTEE CUT IN
POST OFFICE BILL
Reduced $60,862,722 But
Deficiency Funds May Be
Necessary Later; O'Ma
honey, Wyoming Demo
cratic Senator, May Get
Supreme Court Position
Washington, Jan. 13. —(AP)-r- The
Senate’s only woman member, Mrs.
Hattie Carraway, Democrat, Arkan
ses, denounced the anti-lynching bill
today as a “gratuitous insult to the
South.”
Wearing, as usual, a simple tlack
dress and reading from a prepared
speech, Mrs. Caraway said she had
never “approved or condoned lynch
ings,” and she had “always been sick
at heart” on reading of executions
without trial.
She added, however, the bill was un
constitutional and designed to destroy
•outhern influence.
“I am a bit resentful and fearful
that bad feeling engendered by such
legislation as this may retard the
good work being done to help and up
lift a people who have my sympathy,"
she said.
The House Appropriations Commit
tee, meanwhile, approving budget cuts
and making some of its own, turned
out a Treasury-Post Office Depart
ments appropriations bill that was
$60,862,722 less than the previous one.
The committee said, however, “it
should be torne in mind” several de
ficiency appropriations might be nec
essary for the current fiscal year, and
it would correspondingly diminish the
saving.
The bill, carrying a total of $1,515,-
552,286 for the two departments dur
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Noyes Will
Leave Post
AsAPHead
New York, Jan. 13 (AP) —Frank B.
Noyes, of Washington, today an
nounced his retirement from the
presidency of The Associated Press
at the expiration of his present term.
He has held the position 38 years.
To the board of directors, in session
here, Mr. Noyes disclosed his decision
not to accept re-election at the expira
tion of his present annual term in
April. He will be 75 years old July
7, 1938.
The board unanimously expressed
regret at his withdrawal, which means
the end of one of the most notable
tenures in American journalism.
Mr. Noyes will continue as presi
dent of the Evening Star at Wash
ington. Asked today whether he
would permit himself to be consider
ed for continuing service on the board
of The Associated Press, he said he
would leave that to the membership
at. large, which will vote for directors
at the April meeting,.
Warfare On
N. C. Coasts
Is Recalled
Tales of German
World War Naval
Attacks Used in Ap
peal for Air Base
Washington, Jan. 13.—(AP)—-Con
gress received today a description of
World War “naval engagements” of?
the North Caroliha coast in support
of a plea for a new coast guard air
base at Elizabeth City, N. C.
The record of hearings made public
today disclosed Representative War
ren, Democrat, North Carolina, recall
ed the unfriendly visits of two Ger
man submarines to the coasts of his
State during the World War, while
urging a House appropriations sub
committee to approve $1,131,000 for the
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