HENDERSON’S
POPULATION
13,873
TWENTY-FIFTH YEAR
MIDWEST OIL FIRMS
CONVICTED IN CASE
ON ANTI-TRUST ACT
16 Major Companies Held
Guilty of Conspiring To
Raise Gas Prices
In Section
NINE COMPANIES’
PRESIDENTS NAMED
Defense Prepares Immedi
ately To File Motions for
Setting Aside Verdict; De
fendants Liable to Fines of
$5,000 in Each Instance
Madison. Wis., Jan. 22 (AP) —A
larse part of the oil industl 'y in the
middle west was convicted in Fede
ral court today in one of the biggest
case= ever brought by the government
under the Sherman anti-trust act.
A jury composed of middle aged
farmers and small town businessmen
brought in verdicts against 16 major
oil companies, 30 outstanding person
ages in the industry, who were charg
ed with conspiring to raise gas prices
in midwestern states in 1935 and 1936.
Among the defendants were presi
dents of nine companies, three of the
companies that had been acquitted—
Tidewater, Associated Oil companies,
and one man not connected with a
niajor oil company, A. D. Bourque, of
Tulsa. Oltla., secretary of Western
Petroleum Refining Association.
The defense prepared immediately
to file motions to set aside the ver
dict for a new trial. Federal Judge
Patrick Stone, said he needed a rest
badly, announced that he would set a
date later for hearing the motion, per
haps in two or three weeks and would
delay the question of sentencing until 1
hearing on the motion. All the co
operations and the officials are liable
to maximum fines of $5,000, and the
individuals face possible terms of
year in prison.
Chief Defense Counsel Donovan said
he had no statement to make, but
other defense staff members said it
would be carried to the Supreme
Court if necessary.
PRICES OF COTTON
GENERALLY LOWER
Selling by Bombay Interests Is Fac
tor in Early Declines; Fu
tures Close Firm
New York, Jan. 22 (AP)—Cotton fu
tures opened six to 12 points off on
lower Bom/bay cables and Bombay
selling. May recovered to 8.51 and
ended quotation 5 to 12 net lower.
Futures were five to 10 lower, spot
quiet middling 8.52.
Open Close
May 8.51 S 50
July 8.54 8.56
October 8.65 8.6 f
December 8.68 8.69
March 8.42 8.43
Noe Grows
Weaker On
His “Fast”
Memphis, Tenn., Jan. 22. —(A) —
Israel Noe, fasting Episcopal clergy
man, summoned what remained of
bis remaining strength for his weekly
radio Bible lesson tonight.
He was considerably weakened as
be entered his 21st day of his fast by
which he seeks immortality on earth.
His condition appeared to take a
turn for the worse after his removal
from St. Mary’s Cathedral, friends
said.
Jury Gets
Case Os Six
Prisoners
Columbia, S. C., Jan. 22.—(AP)—The
case of six penitentiary convicts
charged with murdering Captain Olin
Sanders of the prison guard, went to
a Richland county jury at 12:05 p.
m., today.
Circuit Judge C. C. Featherstone,
told the jury the case “was now in the
bands of 13 judges—every man on the
panel is a judge.”
He charged the jury “follow the
law,’’ which he said “all the wisdom
and all the fact, try the case by the
law and evidence.”
A. F. Spigner, in the course of an
argument said, “The State takes the
position that all six are guilty of cold
blooded premediated, unadulterated
murder.”
Spigner’s was the last argument.
The solicitor asked for the death
penalty for the defendants, said he
Oid not believe any of them insane
and told the jury “The defense’s at
torneys asked you to pass condemna
tion on your public officials.” _ #
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Rear Admiral Emory S. Land
. . . to succeed Kennedy?
Appointment of Rear Admiral
Emory S. Land, retired, to suc
ceed Joseph P. Kennedy as chair
man of the U. S. maritime com
mission was believed imminent as
a congressional “big navy” bloc
moved to bring the commission
and the navy into closer alliance.
Kennedy is the new U. S. ambas
sador to Great Britain.
—Central Press
Judge Grady
Will Quit As
Active Judge
To Retire Dec. 31 at
E n.d of Present
Term and Be Emer
gency Judge
Clinton, Jan. 22. —(AP) —Judge
Henry Grady, announced today that
he would retire from the North Car
olina Superior Court, December 31,
when his third term expires. He has
served 15 years.
In making his announcement, the
judge said the heavy duties of his of
fice, and his age, 65 years, had caused
him to decide to’ retire. Only two
weeks ago he had said he had expect
ed to be a candidate for re-election.
“I retire voluntarily,” he said, “with
deep affection for members of the
bar of this section who have at all
times shown me every consideration
and courtesy and with profound
gratitude to my many friends who
have reposed in me their confidence
and esteem.”
“I have reached the age where un
der the law I can retire and become
an emergency judge for life.”
“Such retirement will give me an
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Taxes Exempt On
Property Here Os
Outside Charity
Raleigh, Jan. 22.—(AP)—Attorney
General A. A. F. Seawell today ruled
that property owned in North Caro
lin by non-resident charitable, edu
cational and religious corporations is
now exempt from taxes.
Assistant Attorney General Harry
McMullan said such property was
subject to taxation in 1937. The rul
ing was made at the request of Hunt
ington College, Montgomery, Ala.
Georgia U. Students
Conclude “No-Sleep”
Gridiron Near Noon
Athens, Ga., Jan. 2.. —'(AP) —Six
yawning University of Georgia stu
dents completed 160 sleepless hours
today and smilingly insisted they felt
all right and planned various activi
ties for the night.
Four co-eds and two young men
ended their no-sleep grind at 11:30 a.
m., Eastern Standard Time, blinked
heavy eye-lids and expressed hope
their experiment had “done some
thing” to show the effects of sleep
iness on the mind and body. Dr. A. S.
Edwards, head of the psychology and
conductor of the test, said he was
pleased with the outcome of the ex
periment and hopes the test, would
further the test of psychology and
HENDERSON, N.C., SATURDAY,,AFTERNOON, JANUARY 22,1938
He Started It
JsaL' *#s&***<,
Mild-looking M. Revinoff, pictured
above, was the cause of the sit-down
strike which threatened to engulf
all France recently. An electrician
at the Goodrich Rubber Company
plant in Paris, he was dismissed
for allegedly failing to report an in- -
stance of wire-tapping in the plant.
Authorities ruled the dismissal
justified, but the workers struck.
(Central Press)
rolania leads
WORLD CAMPAIGNS
Anti - Semetic Congress
Called for in Project of
Aged Official of
Government
JEWS SEEK HAVEN
IN THE HOLY LAND
Minister Declares Jewish
Problem Becoming Acute;
Little Likelihood Migra
tion Will Solve Problem
for Jews, One of Their
Leaders States
Bucharest, Jan. 22. —(AP) — Profes
sor Alexander Chuza, 81-year-old min
ister without portfolio in the nation
alist government today started pre
paration for a world anti-semitic con
gress.
The energetic minister, who said he
had been “fighting Jews for more
than a half century” has been one of
the leading figures in the fight a
gainst Jews by Premier Goga.
As Chuza disclosed his plans, nearly
1,000 Jewish leaders from all parts of
Roumania gathered to debate an ap
peal for refuge in Palestine.
“A special hearty invitation to par
ticipate in such a congress, where ac
cording to my information the Jewish
problem is growing acute,” Chuza.
Police were ready to prevent disorder
in the capital, which has become a
hot bed of anti-semitic fervor at the
advent of the Nationalist Goga.
It was uncertain what would be the
exact program of the three day as
sembly of the Roumanian Union of
Zionists, but there was general belief
that it Y rould include a petition to the
British government for extraordinary
- Continued on Page Five.)
Hunt Plot Behind
Plot To Blow Up
Japanese Vessel
Seattle, Wash., Jan. 22.—(AP)—Po
lice looked for a “plot behind the
plot” today in the investigation of a
bizarre attempt to bomb the Japanese
liner Kiyo Maru.
Investigators said the death of R.
M. Forsyth, 28, Vancouver, B. C.,
school teacher, who drowned Thurs
day, after pushing a tomb laden raft
toward the liner, might have sealed
the secret of the fantastic plot.
But they continued to search
George H. Partridge, 22, also of
Vancouver, Forsyth’s admitted accom
plice.
produce practical results as well. He
announced do conclusions, pending
the studying of the data.
The subjects —all smiles—appeared
refreshed after a final psychological
quiz and stated, the desire to “do it
again sometime.”
The girls appeared as lively as the
men.
One of the co-eds planned to at
tend a sorority initiation this after
noon and follow it up with a bit of
banqueting tonight. One of the boys
said h ewould sleep this afternoon
and go to a dance tonight.
A second girl asserted that "she
felt better” after she grill than before
she started.
IRE MONEY AND
MEN ARENEEDED^
Parliament Told Chiang
Wouldn’t Make Peace
and New Government
Was Necessary
TO LINK CHINA AND
MANCHUKUO SOON
Will Become Part of Chain
in which Japan Is Center;
End to Undeclared War
Jr ar in Distance and Great
er Army Is Demanded of
The Country
Tokyo, Jan. 22 (AP)—Japanese gov
ernment admitted today a need for
more money and men to fight China,
acknowledged. the conflict would be a
long one, and laid down as one of its
basics aims as economically linked,
China, Japan and Manchukuo.
Premier Prince Konoye outlined
the economic objective of the Far
eastern war, and, with the foreign
minister, naval minister and war min
ister, presented to the Japanese par
liament a detailed account of the six
and one half months of conflict.
I here general conclusions were that
China’s General Chiang Kai Shek had
refuse d to make peace and therefore
a new and favorable China govern
ment- was necessary, that an end to
the undeclared war was still far dis
tant tnd that the army must greatly
be increased in strength in China.
ROoeiii¥r
His Failure To Stick to An
nounced Programs Adds
To Uncertainty
By CHARLES P. STEWART
Central Press Columnist
Washington, Jan. 22 —Even some of
President Roosevelt’s most devoted ad
herents confidentially admit that the
white House tenant seems to them
rather too kaleidoscopic for the coun
try’s economic welfare.
They express the utmost confidence
in his general objective, hut, in ap
proaching it, they confess that his
apparent zigs and zags follow one an
other so rapidly as to be confusing—•
confusing to his own supporters. And,
if confusing to them, how much more
confusing must they be to those who
are more or less doubtful of his whole
program?
Neither does he explain his changes
from zig to zag and vice versa. He
simply announces these changes, with
out accounting for them.
If all this is puzzling to politicians,
who are accustomed to partisan zig
ging and zagging, how much more
disorganizing must it be to non-parti
san (business, which, above every
thing, yearns for certainty.
ONE INSTANCE
Speaking only of lately:
We started in on a recession.
The administration gave evidences
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DARE PRISON CAMP
TO BE ABANDONED
Work on Roads There Not Sufficient
To Justify Operation As
Full-Time Project
Raleigh, Jan. 22 (AP)—R. G. John
son, state penal .director said today
J. C. Gardner, division one engineer,
would determine if the Dare county
prison camp be abandoned.
The engineer said it would be
cheaper to hire local labor to do the
same work the prisoners are doing,
because per capital cost runs up in a
small camp like that.
Gardner said the abandonment of
-the camp was being consideredf but
no action had been taken.
Camp population, if the camp were
abandoned, would be distributed a
the other camps in division one.
The building and equipment will
probably remain for future use, and
when work demands it in Dare coun
ty, the 'prisoners will be returned to
Dare county.
Southerners
ToContinue
Filibusters
Washington, Jan. 22.—(AP)—The
Southern senators decided today to
keep up their filibuster against the
anti-lynch bill indefinitely in an ef
fort to shelve the measure. Senator
Connally, Democrat, Texas, said after
a caucus that opposition would con
tinue “until we. demonstrate that this
bill can’t be passed.”
Both the senate and house were in
recss today, but several of the commit
tees were active.
U. S. Steel Plans To Spend
$80,000,000 Remodernizing
Its Plants During This Year
Lung Removed —She’ll Recover
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Madeline Martin, of Philadelphia, is shown in a hospital in that city after
operation for the removal of an entire lung in which three abscesses had
developed. She is well on the way to recovery, but is kept in an oxygen
tent, which was removed for a moment to permit the photographer to
take her picture. (Central Press)
TVA HFMN Tfl
BE TAKEN QUICKLY^
Government Agency To Co
operate With J 8 Private
Utilities That Lost
Decision
COMPLETE PROGRAM
UPHELD BY RULING
Attorneys for Company An
nounce Appeal Will Be
Taken; Security Owners
Are Depressed by Holding
of Three-Judge Federal
Court Friday
Washington, Jan. 22. —(AP) — The
decision of n three judge Federal
court at Chattanooga upholding the
TVA power program can be appealed
directly to the Supreme Court under
new legislation.
Chattanooga, Jan. 22.—(AP)—The
TVA victories over 18 private utilities
in a test of its constitutionality pro
mised Cooperation today in speeding
the case to United States Supreme
Court.
Every major activity of the govern
ments’ unified program (flood con
trol, navigation and power produc
tion) were held valid yesterday by a
three member Federal court.
Attorneys for the utilities announc
ed they would appeal. James Fly, TVA
chief counsel said the agency would
“assist in every way” to expedite a
final decision.
In New York, Wall Street reported
utility security owners were depress
ed, especially by the ruling that TVA
power competition was “lawful,” but
that privately owned power companies
“have no immunity from lawful com
petition even if their business be cur
tailed or destroyed.”
However the financial community
believed generally power securities
had already discounted a pro-TVA
decision, having been weak for some
illll6
In Washington, the reaction was
varied.
Stateßar Plans
Meeting May 5-7
To Be Pinehurst
Raleigh. Jan. 22~A.P)-™1 IMS
meeting of the North Carolina Bar
Association will be held at Pinehurst
May 5, through 7, the association ex
ecutive committee decided at its me
in-g here today.
Henry London, secretary, said he
and President F. E. Winslow, of
Rocky Mount, and executive Commi -
tee Chairman Fred Sutton, of Kin
ston, would arrange the program.
AheathiT
FOR NORTH CAROLINA.
Cloudy, occasional light rain in
north portion Sunday; no decided
change in temperature.
WEEKLY WEATHER
South Atlantic states: Rain in
the first period, fair and slightly
colder in the middle period, and
rain again in end of week.
UDD IVIXT ATTIKNOOV rnri? r , T?XT r TC! PHPV
EXCEPT SUNDAY. 21V Ji 1 D uUfl
M’LENDON SOUGHT.
AS HANCOCK PILOT
Oxford Senatorial Candi
date Wants Died-in-Wool
Regular To Aid
lintlr DlM|>ntch Ilnmin.
In The Sir Wnlter Hole!.
Raleigh, Jan. 22.—-Major L-. P. Mc-
Lendon, of Greensboro, is being im
portuned to manage the senatorial
campaign of Frank Hancock, accord
ing to gravepine reports reaching this
bureau.
The report is pure political rumor
so far, and your correspondent will
make neither oath nor affirmation of
its truth. None the less it came thro
ugh channels which are usually re
liable, though by no means infallible.
According to this source, “Friendly
Frank” is dead anxious to obtain a
dyed-in-the-wool down-the-line faith
ful-til-death regular of the Gardner-
on Page Five)
Japs Demoralize
Chinese Drive In
Center of Nation
Shanghai, Jan. 22. —(AP) —The
Japanese naval air force today re
sumed larger scale bombard
ments of Chinese troops and irre
gulars throughout central China.
Twenty tri-motored bombers
cast a shadow on a Chinese coun
ter-offensive on a front 125 miles
southwest of Shinghai, a Japanese
spokesman announced today.
The bombers bombarded Hang
chow-Nanchang railway end and
pouded the Chokiang province and
nearby Chiangsi province.
The spokesman said the raiders
destroyed* s hangars and equipment
on Chinese airfields at both places
without shelling from the ground.
GOLDMINE ISSUES
LEAD STOCK RALLY
r Many Leaders, However, Virtually at
i standstill; Little Effect of
. TVA Victory
New York, Jan. 22 (AP) Selected
3 gold mining issues put on a small rally
by themselves in today’s stock market,
but many leaders were virtually at a
standstill. .
The news which was expected to
make the list nose-dive after the gov
ernment TVA victory in Chattanooga
were agreeable surprised when it fai -
ed to give ground, except in minor
fractions.
Sales totaled 405,290. Bonds and
* commodities uneven.
American Radiator 13
- American Telephone 145 f 1-8
’ American Toib B *>9 1-2
' Anaconda • 33 1-4
Atlantic Coast Line 24
3 Atlantic Refining 20 1-2
E Bendix Aviation 13 7-8
' Bethlehem Steel 83 1-8
’ Chrysler 58 1-4
Columbia Gas & Elem Co 8
’ Commercial .a 3-4
Continental Oil Co 18
Curtiss Wright J
DuPont JJJ 1
Electric Pow & Light 113
General Electric 42 1-2
. General Motors 35 3-4
Liggett & Myers B 99 1-2
Montgomery Ward & Co ®4 8-8
Reynolds Tab B 42 5-8
Southern Railway 12 1-2
Standard Oil N J 49 3-4
U S Steel 58 5-8
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TODAY
BUSINESSWARRANTS
Southern Senators Continue
Filibuster Against Anti-
Lynchirg Bill In
Congress
LEGISLATION PILES
UP BEFORE SENATORS
Filibusters Hope That Ne
cessity of New Business
Will Cause Shelving of
Anti-Lynching Bill; Con
gress May Get President's
Naval Measure Monday
Washington, Jan. 22.—(AP)—Presi
dent Benjamin Fairless said today the
United States Steel Corporation plan
ned to spend $80,000,000 on plant
modernization in the next nine
months. “In addition," he said in a
statement to the Senate Unemploy
ment Committee, “If business condi
tions warrant, there will undoubtly be
other in consfdiorab’fc
amounts during 1938.
Fairless was prevented by illness
from appearing before the commit
tee in person. He had the statement
read.
Meantime, important legislation be
gan piling up on the Senate calendar,
increasing the urgent desire of admin
istration leaders to end the filibuster
ing of the anti-lynching bill.
Southern senators, who have -teen
talking for 14 days to prevent the
lynching bill from coming to a vote,
predicted the necessity of getting on
to other business would result In the
shelving of the bill next week.
They called a caucus to decide on
strategy to pigeon hole the measure.
House leaders said President Roose
velt would orpbably send to Congress
Monday his proposal measure, askijng
for authorization of. a larger navy.
Quick Trial
OfKidnapet
Is Planned
St. Paul, Jan. 22. —(AP) —A speedy
removal and a swift trial for the kid
nap-slaying for Charles Ross was the
program mapped out today for Peter
Anders, the onetime lumberjack who
hoped to execute the “perfect crime."
Anders was held under heavy guard
at the office of FBI, after an event
ful week in which he unfolded details
of kidnaping, slaying and bank rob
beries.
The slayers victims were Ross, a
Chicago manufacturer, James Gray,
an associate in crime. Federal agents
forged one of the important links in
the chain of evidence when bodies
were recovered from a cave in north
ern Wisconsin woods.
Edgar Hoover, FBI chief, charac
terized Anders as “The, most danger
ous man we ever met up with.” And
this, dispite a vain effort to lacet An
ders in the national police record.
Hoover disclosed Anders made a
futile effort to escape by striking the
agent to who he was chained.
News Photo
Urged Upon
Newspapers
Chapel Hill, Jan. 22 (AP)-Bdward
Stanley, executive editor of the As
sociated Press news photo service,
termed news photography the most
efficient implement editors have at
their command for conveying infor
mation swiftly and forcefully in an
address here today.
Stanley, Whose headquarters are in
New York, spoke at a round-table dis
cussion marking the close of the
.fourteenth annual' North Carolina
Newspaper Institute.
Other speakers were Charles Parker,
city editor of the Raleigh News and
Observer and Frank Jones, staff pho
tographer of the Winston Salem Jour
nal.
“The development of news photo
graphy is merely . underway and its
possibility is almost entirely unex
plored” said Stanley. “It is up to this
generation to search out and show the
text-side how to tell the news to the
world." ....