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HENDERSON’S POPULATION 13,873 TWENTY-FIFTH YEAR SHOWMIN KILLED, WIFE HURT BY DRIVER * ************ **************** Showdown Believed Near On Anti-Lynching Bill FINDS AND FOES OF MEASURE ALIKE VOICE CONFIDENCE Connally Says There Are Enough Speakers Against It To Last Until It Is Shelved night sessions at EARLY TIME TALKED Friends of Bill Say That Will Cause Filibuster To Col lapse; Talk, too, of Limit ing Debate, but Opponents Say They Can Block That Proposal Washington, Jan. 17. —(AF) —Pre- diction of an imminent showdown in the Senate anti-lyching filitmster brought expressions of confidence to day from both supporters and foes of the controversial bill. Senator Connally, Democrat, Texas leader of the southern opponents, said there were enough speakers to con tinue talking against the measure un til the pressure of other legislation forces proponents to shelve it. “I think we have got it beaten,” said Senator Bailey, Democrat, North Car olina. “The longer it is debated, the more apparent it becomes that it should not pass.’’ Some administration senators, how ever, forecast that night sessions would be ordered soon, and that such a step would cause the filibuster to collapse. A few even talked of limit ing debate, although opponents de clared they could block that proposal Senator Barkley, of Kentucky, Dem ocratic leader, said he had not yet de cided when night sessions might fee held. * “So far,” he asserted, “the debate has kept fairly close to the bill under consideration.” He emphasized that “the administration is not taking sides” in the anti-lynching fight. Barkley and other administration leaders haye been hopeful some de cision could be reached soon, so that the government reorganization bill, next on the Senate calendar, can be taken up. Farm Bill Is Balked On Cotton Washington, Jan. 17.—(AP) —A joint committee seeking to compromise dif ferences between the Senate and House farm bills struck a snag to day after the new cotton program. One of the conferees who declined to be quoted by name, said an agreement might be delayed so long that the Agriculture Department would have to continue the 1937 program into the cotton planting season, which will be gin soon in some localities. He said the conferees disagreed on these points: Whether the program should appy marketing quotas would be imnosed to the 1938 crop; whether compulsory when a prospective crop reached 18,- 000,000 bales, or 21,000.000 bales, the (Continued on Page Three.) Chautempts Again Trying To Form French Cabinet President Lebrun Calls In Ousted Premier When Leon Blum Fails; Meantime, All France Wa.ts Solution of Political and Labor Problem Paris, Jan. 17—(AP)—Camille Chau temps struggled in an anxious atmos phere today to form a new people’s front ministry to end France’s four day crisis* precipitated when his own cabinet resigned Friday in the face of financial and labor troubles. President Albert Lebrun summoned the radical socialist former premier after Leon Blum, socialist leader, fail ed to gain support for a “national union’’ government. A strained calm pervaded the halls of the Chamber of Deputies and was evident throughout nation as France’s acute financial and labor BimiU'rsmt Daily tUsuaf dt ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA AND VIRGINIA * L the K asW se rvice of IHE ASSOCIATED PRESS. Doughboys Leave for War Games in Tropics Five hundred men of the First Division are shown ei Abarking at the Brooklyn, N. Y., army base, to take part in the combined army-navy defense maneuvers »a the Panama Canal Zone and the waters of the West Indies. They are pictured as they boarded the battleship Arkansas, en route to the capal. (Central Press) Chinese Claim Japs Are Being Pushed Back Upon Fronts In Three Areas Chiang Visits Front Lines and Orders His Men Not to Retreat Single Inch COMMUNIST ARMY HURLS JAPS BACK Inflicts Heavy Losses on In vaders ; ..Chinese Sources Claim Enemy Beaten Back on Yangtze River Also Op posite Shanghai; Soviet Planes Used Shanghai, Jan. 17.—(AP) —Chinese armies of the northern central and Yangtze valley fronts were reported today to have pushed back Japanese invaders in a series of counter a.- & Advices through Chinese channels said Generalissimo Chiang Kai-Shek, in a second visit to front lines, had ordered his troops “not to retreat a single inch.” Chinese reported that: 1. The Chinese eighth army, or ganized froux once outlawed commun ist units, inflicted heavy losses on Ja panese in central Shanghai province. 2 A Chinese force along the Yang tze" river above Nanking pushed back Japanese outposts, occupied two vil lages near Wuhu and prepared for an attempt to recapture Wuhu itself. 3. A Chinese guerilla unit captured iContinued on Page Six.) problems continued unsolved because of the failure to organize a ministry. The country’s restlessness was in creased by new discoveries of hidden arms in the Suret Nationale’s drive against leftist and rightist revolu tionary organizations. After his conference with Lebrun, Chautemps indicated he would at tempt to form a cabinet modeled sub stantially on his old people’s front government, retaining several of his previous ministers. It was reported in the Chamber of Deputies that Socialist opposition was developing to a new Chautemps cab inet. _ u __. HENDERSON, N. C., MONDAY AFTERNOON, JANUARY 17, 1938 No Turning Back, Dean Noe Asserts Memphis, Tenn., Jan. 17. —(AP) —Dean Israel Harding Noe assert ed with conviction today there would be no “turning back” in his search for spiritual perfection and immortality. “Njobody who has seen me can say I am taking food on the sly,” he said, “I look ghostly; you can see it. “Dr. Fishbein (of the American Medical Association Journal) is right. No man could live on oranges alone in the natural plane. The oranges only give me energy last year. I have displaced the need for oranges by building up within the spiritual strength and energy.” Dean Noe spoke on the sixteenth day of his fast without food or water. He gave up his last material food except lor the communion water and a sip of wine three times weekly on January 2. DEVALERA CHEERED ON TRIPTOILONDON Police Hold Back Crowds as Irish-English Peace Par ley Begins London, Jan. 17 (AP) —Special po lice details were stationed in Downing Street today to hold back hundreds of Irish men and women gathered here to cheer Eamon de Valera, as the prime minister of Ireland arrived for (Continued on Page Six.) LAGUARDLAWANTS MORE WPA MONEY New York Mayor Urges Further Federal Funds To Resist Recession Washington, Jan. 17.—(AP) —New York’s Mayor Laguardia advocated to day a new Federal public works lend ing program to meet the business re cession. He also urged business to keep prices down as a boon to private (Continued on Page Six.). Fines Unionists JmL i&fek. - tjg| ' . ■PEJIpi A •e Federal Judge Fred L. Wham, of East St. Louis, 111., is pictured above. He ruled that sixty-six mem bers of the Progressive Mine Work ers of America and seven locals of the union must pay $117,000 for damages caused by a long strike at a coal mine near Freeburg, 111. (Central Press) Japan Seeks New Regime For Chinese Sequel to Breaking Relations With Chiang; No Hope of Terms With Leader Tokyo, Jan. 17.—(AP)—Establish ment of a new central Chinese gov ernment centering on Shanghai was proposed today as sequel to Japanese v/ithdrawal of recognition of Chiang Kai-Shek’s nationalist regime. A statement attributed to Shigeru Kawagoe, Japanese ambassador to China, suggested the setting up of such a government as Japan’s next move toward “pacification” of east Asia. “It is imperative that Japan and a new Chinese regime able to work to gether cooperate to tide over the dif ficult situation,” Kagawoe was quoted in a Domei (Japanese) News agency dispatch, adding: “I believe the atmosphere is fast de veloping to favor establishment of a new regime in central China. In that event, it would not be difficult to ad just relations between the North China and Ceneral China regimes.” (A new Japanese-inspired govern ment of Peiping made up of Chinese (Continued on Page Three.) KALENIN HEAD OF SOVIET PRESIDIUM Moscow, Jan. 17 (AP) —Michael Kalenin was chosen chairman of the Presiduum of the Supreme Soviet to day, thus retaining under the new constitution the post of virtual presi dent of the Soviet Union he has held singe 1923. i CONGRESSMEN SPURN PROPOSAL OF BUYING TVA AREA UTILITIES Commonwealth & Southern President Puts Forth Of er After Roosevelt Suggestion FOES FEARFUL OF STATE SOCIALISM Norris, Father of TVA. Says Utilities Wsiut Too Much For Properties; Rankin, Mississippi, Favors Buying Except for High Prices Desired Washington, Jan. 17.—^AP)—A pro 'o nl that Ure government buy out the ’argost private utility groups in the Valley' received scant sup port today from the first members of Congress to discuss it. Wendell Wilkie had suggested that “as a last resort in a desperate situa tion” the government purchase power companies in that area which are sub sidiaries of the Commonwealth & Southern Corporation. Wilkie is presi dent of the latter company. Representative Rankin, Democrat, Mississippi, leader of the public power bloc in the House, was more favor ably inclined toward the idea than other legislators who commented. He expressed willingness for such a pur chase if the price was not based on “inflated values.” Chairman May, Democrat, Ken tucky, of the House Military Commit tee, however, opposed “purchase at any price,” as the beginning of State socialism. Senator King, Democrat, Utah, objected to the government’s buying any power plants. Senator Norris, Independent, No braska, father of the TVA, said the government should make purchases only to avoid duplicating transmis sion lines or other equipment of pri vate companies, but added “the utili ties have made this difficult by ask ing a price that nobody can afford to pay.” Willkie said his proposal was a re ply to President Roosevelt’s sugges tion that the utilities sell their dis tribution systems to cities in the area. DECLINES LISTED IN COTTON PRICES Disappointing'Cables, Liquidation and Hedge Selling Depress Trad ing Activity Now York, Jan. 17 (AP) —Cotton fu tures opened three to five points down, on disappointing cables and un der liquidation and hedge selling. May reacted from 8.98 to 8.95, and shortly after the first half hou* the market showed net losses of four to six points. May reached from 8.58 to 9.54, and around midday was selling at 8.55, with prices generally four to seven points nest lower. WEATHER FOR NORTH CAROLINA. . .Fartly cloudy tonight and Tues day; colder Tuesday and in west and’north portions tonight. New Dealers Are Grooming Roosevelt For Third Term Only He, They Reason, Can Court Killed, and It Can’t ing Three Years of By CHARLES P. STEWART Central Press Columnist Washington, Jan. 17. —Now that the United States Supreme Court is in process of being liberalized in the or dinary course of nature (not by en largement of its membership, but by appointments to fill normally-created vacancies on the bench) the question arises: How long will it take the New Deal forces to reverse the long series of de cisions rendered against their policies in the days when the tribunal was pre dominantly conservative? Apparently the task will require considerable time. Difficult To Repass. All dates have passed for the Jus tice Department to see rehearings of cases involving rulings by the Su PUBLISHED WHY AFTHNOOM SJXCH3PT SUNDAY. Lives on ‘‘Spiritual Food’* tip^ — . .... .v. This picture of the Very Rev. Israel Harding Noe, dean of St. Mary’s Epis copal Cathedral at Memphis, Tenn., was taken before he began a fast to prove that “man can live by spiritual food alone.” After two weeks without food he amazed his parishioners with his vitality. Expect No Opposition Upon Reed Senate Committee Meets Thursday to Start Hearings If Any Are Demanded Washington, Jan. 17 (AP) —A Sen ate Judiciary sub-committee called a hearing today for Thursday on the nomination of Stanley Reed to the Supreme Court. The sub-committee was formally set up by the full judiciary committee to consider the nomination. It is head ed by Senator Logan, Democrat, Ken tucky, who said the sub-comimittee would meet Thursday “to see whether any one wants to be heard.” Members of the Senate Judiciary (Continued on Page Three.) Revamp Reforms Supreme be Done During Remain- His Present Term preme Court justices (or a majority of them) against the constitutionality of New Dealersishly-inspired enact ments. Rehearings of judicial findings must be asked for speedily, or such findings become embalmed as perma nent precedents, and it is too late to revive what already is embalmed. No, a New Deal Congress (if Con gress stays adequately New Dcaler ish) will have to pass fresh legisla tion, substantially duplicating that which the Supreme Court previously has knocked out. This will involve a deal of congres sional re-drafting, tinkering, debate filibustering and what-not. Mean* while there will have been at least (Continued on Pag® Three.) Q PAGES O TODAY WE CENTS COPY FATAL FIGHT HERE SUNDAY EVENING US HER IS PARKED Clarence Fairbanks, About 20, Confesses Altercation Between Three At Truck ARGUMENT STARTED OVER SMALL BIRD Fairbanks Says Good Broke Axe-Hand\e Over His Head, He Then Grabbed Axe amd Attacked Show man and Wife; Booked for Program at High School Steve Good, about 45, showman, was hacked to death by an axe-slayer and his wife critically slashed in an al tercation at their parked truck-trail er here last night, and a man giving the name of Clarence Fairbanks, their driver, confessed to officers he attack ed the couple after Good had broken an axe-handle over his 1 head when they had an argument about a bird Fairbanks called a taxicab and dashed to the police station about 9 o’clock Sunday night, and in an excit ed manner demanded officers accom pany him. He carried them to the truck-trailer in a vacant lot adjacent to the High Price Warehouse, where the man and woman were found bleed ing profusely and in a critical condi tion. Good died at Maria Parham hos pital about 4 o’clock this morning, and this afternoon Mrs. Good was still in an unconscious condition there and little hope was held for her recovery. Had Bill at High School. The couple had an engagement to put on their performance during the recreation hour at Henderson high school at 10:30 a. m. today. Their show consisted of dog and monkey acts and performances by birds, all of which they had in their truck-trail er. They were to have given the same (Continued on Page Three.) Mayor Hague Turns Down Senate Seat Jersey City, N. J., Jan. 17.—(AP) — Governor-Elect Harry Moore offered his United States Senate seat to Mayor Frank Hague of Jersey City, as a “birthday present” today, but the mayor turned it down. Moore, a Democrat ancT close ally of Democratic State Leader Hague, will be inaugurated as New Jersey’s gov ernor tomorrow. He had said he would name his successor to the Senate Wed nesday. Hague, 62 years old today, declined the Senate seat, he said, “because it would look too much as if I were run ning away from a fight. He is en gaged in a bitter verbal battle with the Committee for Industrial Or ganization and Civil Liberties Union, having charged their leaders were communists. New Yorker Asks Repeal Profits Tax No Tax More Hated or Puts More Fear .In Business, Wit ness Declares Washington, Jan. 17. —(AP) —A re presentative of the New York Board of Trade urged the House Ways and Means Committee today to approve immediate appeal of the undistributed profits and capital gains taxes as a “stimulant” to business. M. L. Seidman, chairman of the board’s tax committee, said no tax was “more hated and discredited or puts such fear in business.” Seidman was the first private wit ness at hearings on tax revision re commendations of a ways and means (Continued on Pace Three.)
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