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HENDERSON’S POPULATION 13,873 TWENTY-FIFTH YEAR COLDER WEATHER IS FORECAST TONIGHT IN MOST OF STATE Lowest Last Night Was Four Below Zero on Mt. Mit chell, Highest Above Freezing NINE DEATHS FROM WEATHER IN WEST Only New England, Florida and Far West Escape Icy Blast; No Crop Damage Reported so Far in South; Ice Jam Threatens Niagara Bridge Raleigh, Jan. 26 (AP)—Tempera tures over North Carolina ranged from four degrees below zero up to above freezing today as a cold wave gripped most of Tar Heelia. P Hundreds of citizens in nearly all parts of the State talked about the display in the northern skies last night by the aurora borealis. The northern lights were reported seen in Charlotte, Raleigh, New Bern and Beaufort. The last recorded display seen from here was on March 22, 1920. Raleigh had a temperature of 30 de grees this morning, compared with 50 yesterday, and Asheville had a 16-de gree reading. On Mount Mitchell the mercury marked off a four-degree be low zero temperature. Wilmington listed ?2 and Hatteras 36 degrees, while a low of 22 to 24 was forecast here tonight. A gusty wind, which rbached a velo city of 35 to 40 miles an hour here yesterday, had abated somewhat, though 25-mile-an-hour gusts were re corded at intervals. NINE DEATHS ATTRIBUTED TO FLOODS AND THE COLD (By The Associated Press) Deaths attributed to flood waters and a severe cold wave mounted to nine today while the Middle West dug out of the winter's worst storm. Only New England, Florida and the Far West escaped sub-free’zing weath er. Snow blocked highways, stalled trains and disrupted power service in many areas. Wisconsin, Minnesota, lowa, upper Michigan and the Da kotas bore the brunt of the storm. Some relief was offered when flood waters receded in Illinois, Wisconsin and Arkansas. Continued freezing temperatures • on hnui THREE ACCUSED OF KILLING TAR HEEL Murder of Willie Oxendine, of Robe son County, Charged In War rant at Dillon, S. C. Dillon, S. C„ Jan. 26.—(AP)— Three men, James Daniels, Will Rowell and Will Wright, were charged in a war rant today with murder in the death of Willie Oxendine, of Robeson coun ty. North Carolina, whose mangled body was found on a railroad near here about a week ago. Witnesses at the inquest said Rowell, Daniels and Wright engaged in an altercation with Oxendine short ly before his body was found. The three were ordered held yesterday by a coroner’s jury. SCOTT PLEADS FOR LIVESTOCK SAFETY Agriculture Commissioner Tells Vete rinarians of Losses Annually By Disease Raleigh, Jan. 26 (AP)—'“Disease control work in livestock,” Agriculture Commissioner Kerr Scott said today, “is one of the most important prob lems facing .the farmers of North Carolina today.” Scott urged the State Veterinarian Association in session here to “render the State a great service in fighting disease in livestock and poultry.” “The veterinarians,” Scott said, “are health guardians of a $100,000,000 live stock industry in this State and your services were never more needed than they are today.” SCOIIIIiCES BOILEAU.PROVISION Wisconsin Dairy Amend ment to Farm Bill Blow to North Carolina Dally Dlapatrh Bnrenn. *«i the Sir Walter Hotel. Raleigh, Jan. 26. —Commissioner of Agriculture W. Kerr Scott today enned the Boileau amendment to the national farm bill “a distinct enemy to agricultural progress in North Caro lina.” The amendment, now a part of tha congressional agricultural bill, would Prohibit participants under the soil conservation program from feeding any of their soil conserving crops to livestock for marketing. North Carolina’s dairy industry is (Continued on Page Four.) _ I | ***“ PERRY MEMORIAL USBSei tI&MQERSON, N.C; - iirtttUTsmt Batin Btsuafrh ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA AND VIRdSIA. * " ssaad cußiLvioossv hhi ■io aoiAHas aaiAi aasvai Mexican Peacemaker Dr. Lazaro Cardenas ••. calms rioting workers Personal intervention by Presi dent Lazaro, Cardenas of Mexico nas become a “magic” formula in Mexican affairs. President Car denas ( “japped his most recent peace-making activities by calm ing 10,000 rioting laborers when he spoke to them from the city hall in the town of Orizaba. Open warfare had broken out between rival labor unions and resulted in seven deaths and 25 injuries be fore police and Cardenas stopped the fight and prevailed upon the two sides to arbitrate. Cardenas is shown speaking to the rioting workers. BealHearing Is Postponed Three Weeks Meantime, Radical Groups in New York Collect Funds for His Defense Lawrence, Mass., Jan. 26.—(AF) — Judge F. N. Chandler today continued until February 16 the case of Fred Bsal, labor organizer, charged with being a fugitive from justice in con nection with an alleged conspiracy to murder a police chief in Gastonia, N. C., during a strike there in 1929. The continuance was granted after Beal’s counsel informed the court the attorney general’s office would hold an extradition hearing February 15, Beal remained free in bail of $5,000. The labor organizer, convicted with six others of conspiracy to murder Police Chief O. F. Aderholt, of Gas tonia, fled after being sentenced to from 17 to 20 years. . * NIEW YORK GROUP SEEKS BIG FUND FOR DEFENSE New York, Jan. 26.—(AP)—A non partisan committee for the defense of Fred Beal fugitive from North Car olina, has been formed here today. Louis Waldman, labor attorney and j member of the State executive com-j mittee of the American Labor Party,! will represent the committee at the] extradition hearing for Beal at Bos-1 ton, Mass. Rails Over-Capitalized But Covemmeht Purchase Not Solution, Chief Says Cleveland, Ohio, Jan. 26.—(AP) — George Tomlinson, president of the Van Sweringen railroad empire key corporation, declared on his 72nd birthday today that capitalization of many railroads is “excessive” but government ownership “isn’t the way out” of harassing financial problems. With about one-third the nation’s railroad mileage in reorganization, un der Federal court control, the plain spoken rail official and Great Lakes shipper said: “The capital structure of many rail roads is excessive. Through the pre sent reorganizations, some of that ex cessive capitalization will be elimi HENDERSON, N. C., WEDNESDAY tAFTERNO ON, JANUARY 26, 1938 Mad Man’s Plot? ' •■" •' 7* *‘*~* 1 *- 'JIP '§§§ •... v . . Rolfe M. Forsyth .. .“died trying to bomb ship" Unrequited love is blamed for Rolfe M. Forsyth’s mad and fatal attempt to blow up the Japanese motorship Hiye Maru at her moorings in Seattle harbor. -Inti mates of the former student and faculty member at the University of British Columbia, at Vancouver, B. C., declared he had developed a decidedly erratic streak since breaking of his engagement to a socially-prominent Vancouver girl. They were unanimous in their be lief that he concocted his scheme of a “one-man” war against Ja pan in the hope of amassing riches that would enable him to return to the station of life he once en joyed. Forsyth was drowned while trviner to blow ud the liner. OFPAYME’sSis RELATED IN COURT « Weighing Station Attendant Tells of Slain Highway Patrolman at His Post OTHERS DESCRIBE FINDING OF BODY Coroner Tells of Many Bruises “All Over Body” of Slain Officer; Mother Os Dead Patrolman Leaves Court Room as Session of Trial Resumes Asheville, Jan. 26. —(AP) —Five of the prosecution’s 38 witnesses in the trial of Bill Fayne and Wash Turner, escaped convicts, on charges of mur der in the slaying of State Highway Patrolman George Penn, described today the officers’ pursuit of a flee ing blue sedan shortly before he was shot down on a dead-end road. The last two witnesses to take the stand before the luncheon recess were Miss Mary Shuford, deputy clerk of court, and Clarence Capps, fruit stand employee, who told of seeing the chase. The latter said he was talking to Penn just before the of ficers began the pursuit. The first witness, Dr. George Baier, Jr., Buncombe county coroner, testi u ontinued on Page Six.) TRADING QUIET AS COTTON DECLINES Weakness of Stock Market Influences Commodity Price, With Mod erate Selling New York, Jan. 26. —(AP) —Cotton futures opened two to four points low er on easier Liverpool cables and un der liquidation and moderate hedge selling. Weakness of the stock mar ket and discouragement over the con tinuing differences between the ad ministration and business affected sentiment adversely. Trading was quiet. May sagged from 8.53 to 8.50. Shortly after the first half hour, the list was five to seven points net low er. May was quoted at 8.49 around midday, when the list was six to nine points net lower. nated. That may be the way out.” Three weeks ago, Tomlinson was named president of Alleghany Cor poration, top holding company of the eight Van Sweringen lines now con trolled by Robert R. Young and as sociates. Tomlinson and George A. Ball, Muncie, Ind., industralist, formerly owned controlling securities in the empire. “I saw a great deal of politics brought into railroad opertions when for three years I represented the' in land waterways on the Railroad Ad ministration Board during the World War,” Tomlinson said. Anti-Lynch Bill Filibuster Faces Cloture From Senate George Says There Are Oth er Ways To Fight Bill Besides Speaking Against It PROTESTS EFFORTS TOWARD GAG RULE - Doughton Exp e c t s An nouncement About Vete rans’ Hospital in Eastern North Carolina To Cost sl,- 500,000; Dunlap Wants Road Money Washington, Jan. 2fi.—*-(AP)—~South •'-n .senators, facing the threat cf a , i»”!i*aJ , nn on debate, resumed tb«ir "ieht today on +he anti-lynching HP. n«anv/h : lo receiving assurances t’'V here would bo. no Senate session this • vening. Majority Leader Barkley, Democrat "-ntnckv, announced that, in view ' ike vote at 1 p. m., eost -n r“ time, tomorrow on do o'e limitations, Ibe Senate would re today at the usual 5 o’clock hou" •onday and Tuesday it was in sos ion until about 10 pv m. Senator Geo-go, Democrat, Georgia ’rsumed the southerners’ filibuster fter two senators tried unsuccmsfn 1 - y to add their names to the petition vhich forces tomorrow’s vote on tJv elclom-used cloture rule, limiting de Pete. George, protesting against effort? “to impose a gag rule,” sa’d ther r vere other ways to fight a bill besides •peaking against it. f Representative Doughton. Demo crat, North Carolina, meantime, said he expected an early announcement •y the Veterans Administration about i. proposed new veterans’ hospital in Eastern North Carolina. He indicated he announcement would relate to the nitial allocation to be made for the nstitution from the proposed $4,000,- nap appropriation for new veterans’ facilities. ihe House has approved the appro priation and it is now before the Sen ate. The 300-bed North Carolina hospital has been estimated to cost $1,500,000. Other developments: The White House arranged a con ference between President Roosevelt and Senator O’Mahoney, Democrat, Wyoming, on the latter’s bill to curb monopolies. Representatives of State highway departments objected at House Roads Committee hearings to reductions in Federal aid highway appropriations, as recommended by President Roose velt. The committee is considering a bill by its chairman, Representa tive Cartwright, Democrat, Oklahoma to authorize a $238,000,000 appropria tion for each of the fiscal years 1940 and 1941. Frank Dunlap, chairman of the North Carolina Highway Commission said reduction in Federal aid “would affect North Carolina seriously.” He referred to “dangerous conditions” arising from worn highways in his State. , Dunlap added the need for road and bridge construction was greater than for grade crossing elimination in North Carolina. TWO TAR HEEL MEN PERISH IN WRECK Car Crashes into Abutment at Creek on Highway Between Ports mouth, Suffolk Norfolk, Va., Jan. 26.—(AP)— Two North Carolinians were killed when a car crashed into a concrete abutment over a creek one mile east of Bowers Hill on the Portsmouth-Suffolk high way today. Dr. L. C. Ferefcee, Nor folk county coroner,, identified the dead as Rigdon Hardison, 20, of Arapahoe, N. C.; and Clayton Bank?, Arapahoe. Norfolk county police said they found a peddlers’ license on Hard ison’s body made out to N. W. Hard ison. SEAWELLTOMAKE^ State Attorney General Merely Waiting Hear- * ing Before Meekins Daily Dispatch Enrean. xbe Sir Walter Hotel Raleigh, Jan. 26.—When Federal Judge Isaac M. Meekins is asked to rescind or modify his injunction pro tecting “silent salesmen” slot ma chines, Attorney General A. A. F- Seawell will press an offensive against the “one armed bandits” on every front. • , . , The attorney general said today that he will present every phase of the matter to the Federal judge, argu ing that Judge Meekins’ sweeping or fCcftinued on Page Five) MIVI 1111 FOR north CAROLINA. Fair tonight and Thursday; slightly colder in east and central portions tonight. Idol Laughs at Bombs •*. i ' : ?'SB| All that remains of the Chinese temple that stood on this spot near the Kiangwan Racecourse in Shanghai is this stone idol, which surveys with imperturbable dignity the manifestations of man’s inhumanity to man. ihe idol, miraculously unbroken, survived bomb and shell which took appalling toll of human life. League Splits On Issue Os Enforcing Sanctions Noe Improvement Continues Slowly Memphis, Tenn., Jan. 2f —(AP) — Reports from the hospital room of Rev. Israel Harding Noe indicated teday the 47-yemr-oM clergyman, whose 22-day fast was broken Sun day night, is responding to medical aid. . His physician reported his gen eral condition is “much improved.” GOVERNMENT W Whole Federal System Has Gone Cuckoo, Many Con gressmen Think By CHARLES P. STEWART Central Press Columnist Washington, Jan. 26. —Is the gov ernment. doing too much secret work within itself? —at cross purposes?— more or less as a matter of inter-de partmental and even individual offi cial jealousies? —with disorganizing consequences all around? To these questions many affirmative answers are to be heard from legis lators on Capitol Hill, in both houses of Congress. The subject is a live one by reason of the Senate Public Lands Commit tee’s inquiry into the qualifications of the Administrative Assistant Ebert K. Burlew of the Interior Department to succeed the late Theodore A. Wal ters as first assistant to Interior Sec retary Harold L. Ickes. It is an inquiry which has develop ed the story that Burlew was spied on by the Interior Department’s in vestigatorial corps, then headed by Louis R. Glavis, a veteran under cover man in various federal capaci ties. Testimony has hinted at wire tapping, among other things—even the tapping of Secretary Ickes’ own wire by his own secret service opera tives; in fact, at the tapping of White House wires. Such charges have not been very (Continued on Page Five.) Powell Warns Os Lax Tax Payment on Compensation Raleigh, Jan. 26. — (AP) —Char- les Powell, chairman of the Un employment Compensation Com mission, warned today that em ployers coming under the unem ployment act must complete their 1937 payments, of contributions by February 1 or face a heavy penalty. All payments made before Jan uary 25 were at the rate of 1.8 percent for each month of 1937. Those between now and January 31 will have a small interest charge added. After January 31, though, Powell said, the Federal govern ment will collect two percent on 1937 payrolls and the State will also require the same amount as before. / „ “xc£S??Jn^y"* no °" five cents copy Big Nations Want To Keep Them and Little Ones Want To “Junk” Regulations COMPROMISE SEEN AS LIKELY OUTCOME Opponents Have Claimed Sanctions Work Hardships on Nations Applying Them; Powers Would Be Left Free To Act But Leave Act in Covenant Geneva, Jan. 26 (AP) —The big and small nations of the League split to day over whether to keep sanctions provisions in the covenant. The smaller nations favored junk ing the “punitive” Article XVI as the League’s Council began its lOOth ses sion. The article provides for econo mic sanctions against nations com miting “an act of war” and for pos sible military action by League pow ers. The larger powers wanted to keep sanctions as part of the League’s framework, and Foreign Ministers Anthony Eden, of Great Britain, and Yvon Delibos, of France, were report ed determined to uphold them in Council debate. There was some indication of com promise with the anti-sanctions na tions, who in the past have contended that sanctions worked economic hard ships against the nations applying tnem, as well as the aggressor to be punished. The compromise would be an unof ficial understanding freeing League nations from any obligation to apply sanctions, but leaving provision for it within the League covenant. Today’s council session was private and in ensuing public sessions most of the attending foreign ministers were expected to make statements renew- I ing pledges of faith in League princi- | pals—these in answer to Germany, j Italy and Japan, who have left the League. TWO ARMY MEN DIE IN CRASHING PLANE One am Inspector at Plant Making Planes for Navy; Tragedy at Belleville, 111. Belleville, 111., Jan. 26 (AP)—Two men identified as Lieutenant-Com mander Emile Chourre, U. S. Navy, of San Diego, Cal., and Aviation Cadet Ilichael Ola were killed today when their plane struck a mooring mast at Scott Field, near here. Identification of the fliers was es tablished by papers found in their possession. Ola was about 25. Chourre, about 45, was said to have been manufacturing planes for the navy. BOARD OF AWARDS ALLOTS CONTRACTS Raleigh, Jan. 26.—(AP)—The State Board of Awards announced today it had given contracts for supplying State needs as given to firms, includ ing: Road machine blades, Tarboro, Am erican Hardware & Equipment Com pany, of Charlotte. Drag blades, Tarboro, Good Road? I Machinery Company, of Kennett Square, Pa. o PAGES O today UNCLE SAM SEEKS GREATER DEFENSE IN STORMY WORLD More Men, More Guns, Greater Protection in Air, At Sea and On Land Are Planned SPANISH WAR NOW A TESTING GROUND For 18 Months It Has Kept Europe in Jitters; Fighting Scattered Through Much of China, With Toll Among Populate as Well; Japs Stalled (By The Associated Press.) Uncln Sam cast, about today for ways to bolster American defenses before a turbulent, quarreling World. More men, more guns, added streng th in the air and at sea, stronger de- on land—these are the needs advanced by protagonists of arma ments increase. They find their reasons in the Span ish civil war, which for a year and a half has fed Europe’s war jitters; the Sino-Japanese war, with its freauent incidents involving foreign nations; armaments building by other nations. The civil war in Spain has become a testing ground for the armaments of all nations, thrown in to aid one side or the other. It is possible that that test one dav may determine whether one nation or the other shall find it expedient to challenge another to conflict, which could embroil all Europe. In China, the rumbling of Shang hai’s seven charity morgue wagons daily emphasize war’s toll Is not alone from the battlefront, but also is taken behind the lines by disease and star vation. Fifty-one thousand Chinese refugees and poor have died in Shang hai since the warfare began there last August, benevolet burial officials say. Fighting is scattered through much of China, with Japanese in control of the major cities —Shanghai, Nanking, Peiping and others. The Japanese (Continued on Page SixJ Ten Killed In Blast In Paris ‘Lab * Paris, Jan. 26.—(AF)—Ten , men were killed today, police said, by two explosions in the municipal protech nic laboratory at suburban Villejuif. The men were packing grenades seized from the French secret society, Csar, for shipment to an artillery park in Versailles when the blast occurred. Police said there were no wounded. The explosions were audible thro ugh most »f Paris, and windows and houses about the buildings were shat tered. „ . .. An infantry battalion guarded the laboratory while search was continued through the wreckage. Two police photograuhers and two chemists in the building about the time of the blast were missing. Police believe the explosions were accidental. The roofs of three houses outside a wall surrounding the labora tory grounds were splintered. WooLGroup Leader Hits FDR’s Plaits Warns of Too Low Tariff and of Execu tive Powers in Re organization Bill ■ - —*- Salt Lake City, Utah, Jan, 26 (AP) The president of the National Wool Association voiced criticism today of two Roosevelt administration po icies. R. C. Rioh, of Burley, Idaho, in a speech prepared for the opening ses sion of the 73rd national convention, cited aspects of the proposed recipro cal trade agreement With Great Bri tain and the pendin ggovernment re organization bill, which he termed “detrimental” to his Industry. Os the trade treaty, he declared “we must see to it- that no stone is left unturned in the effort to keep Ame rican markets fully protected for the American farmer.” He termed the reorganization bill to give President Roosevelt power to transfer the forestry service from the Agriculture Department to the De partment of the Interior “not in the interest of livestock grower’s gener ally.” Rich said the wool industry: faceii the same policy that caused forma tion of the association in Syracuse, N. Y., in 1866— -“ that of seeing to it that we have fair and reasonable tar iff protection for our products.”