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HENDERSON’S POPULATION 13,873 TWENTY-FIFTH 300 BELIEVED DEAD IN MUNITIONS BLAST HUGE U. S. DEFENSE PROGRAM EXPECTED TO PASSJY FEB. 15 Hearings Will Begin ‘Mon day by House Naval Com mittee on Expan sion Proposals ROOSEVELT PLANS WILL BE ENACTED Favorable Committee Re port in Two or Three Days Predicted by Vinson; Mo nopoly Program May As sume Form of Inquiry Now, Not Legislation Washington, Jan. 29. —(AP) —Lead- ers said today they expected the House to pass President Roosevelt’s huge arrr.v and navy expansion pro gram by February 15. Chairman Vinson, Democrat, Geor gia. called the House Naval Affairs Committee to hearings Monday on a bill to authorize the $800,000,000 naval building program. He predict ed a favorable report would be forth coming after “two or three days.” The measure, carrying out Mr. Roosevelt’s request for a 20 percent increase in the navy’s building limita tions, would authorize 47 additional fighting ships, 22 auxiliaries _ and 1,- 000 airplanes. The Fresident suggest ed that of the total, two battleships and two cruisers be started this year. Chairman May, Democrat, Ken tucky, of the House Military Affairs Committee, said he would confer im mediately with War Department of ficials to get their views on how best to fulfill the President’s recommen dations for strengthening land forces. Members of a mid-western bloc in the House, however, indicated they would oppose the program outlined in the President’s special message yesterday. Both House and Senate were in re cess today, and southern senators held a caucus to review their fight against the anti-lynching bill. Meantime, some administration sup porters in Congress said the Presi (Continued on Page Four.) Scott Urges Less Control U. S. Crops Raleigh, Jan. 29 (AP)—Kerr Scott, commissioner of agriculture, today ad vocated more attention to distribution of crop surpluses and less to controll ing them. “It seems to me there is a need for more study of marketing channels to find ways oind means of getting our crop surplus to the one-third of our population that is ill-fed and ill-cloth ed”, Scott commented. “At present we spend millions to teach our farmers how to make two blades of grass grow where one grew before, then turn around and spend millions telling them not to grow theitt.” Meantime, the State's method of meeting “offsets” provided for agri cultural work through the Bankhead- Jones funds has been approved by Federal officials, F. E. Mill CL test farm director director of the State Department of Agriculture, said. This year, Miller said, the State will realize about $78,000 from the Federal fund by putting up a like amount for re search. He added the department ex pected no difficulty in offsetting the fund again next year. JAorst Winter Blast Os Season Losing Its Grip Moderating Weather Leaves Trail of Death and Destruc tion in Its Wake Over Large Portion of Country and Adjacent Secti ons of Nation (By The Associated Press.) Moderating temperatures and fall ing of Arkansas food crests marked the beginning today of the end for winter disturbances that claimed 12 and heavy property damage this week. High seas and strong winds, how ever, were r>p ;rted in he Caribbean, where the taiVvr Newsome grounded (, n one of the Courtown Cays, 15C miles east of Nicaragua. “bounding v«.iy heavy.” the mas ter radioed. The Unittd Fruit Line steamer Veragua stood by for rescue operations. More than bo) persons forced from lowland homes by rarn;,eging streams hi Arkansas iud east 1 »xas awajted PERRY MEMORIAL lAAM&fo HENDERSON, iiiuuiersmt lutuit tl t s pair It YEAR SERVICE OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON AWAITS JAP REPLY TO NOTE ON SENTRY’S INSULT Falls to Death •V* : :< tip :! V ft .s :p:j; Representative Edward A. Kenney, New Jersey Democrat, fell six floors to his death f om his hotel room in Washington. Kenney, 64, recently suffered heart attacks, and police believe he fell as he went to the window for air during the night. He was serving his third term as Representative from the Ninth New Jersey District. (Central Press) II 30,000,000 FOR COTTON PAYMENTS SPEEDS FARM BIEL •i Farmers Can’t Get It Until They Comply, and Can’t Comply Until Bill Is Passed pressure EXPECTED AGAINST CONFEREES Ever Normal Granary Farm Measure Damming Up Dis bursements in South of Huge Sum to Qualifying Cotton Growers; Action Next Week Forecast Washington, Jan. 29 (AP)—Pressure of $130,000,000 pending in bonus pay ments for cotton farmers is hastening agreement on the “ever normal gran ary” program, congressional leaders said today. Representatives Fulmer, Democrat, South Carolina, and Doxey, Democrat, Mississippi, said the $130,000,000 voted by Congress last summer as a bonus on the 1937 crop had caused a “good deal of give-and-take in the confer- Gn'Co. n “Cotton farmers can’t collect that until they have complied with this year’s farm program,” Doxey said, “and they can’t hope to comply unless VJ e get a bill out of here before long. (Continued on Page Four.) recession of the water.. Collapse of a pit tumbled 62,000 bar ids of petroleum into the flooded Sabine river n jh.’ Glade water, Texas, a $>35,000 loss, and ttp Mtwas watched as a possible f.re .ir/ard. High toll v/as levied by the cold v ave in the x.ugaj-a Great Lakes aiea. The International Railway Com r any said Honeymoon Bridge over ; tagara Falls, which collapsed Thurs day before ice flees, would he replaced In a Detroit hospital 15-year-old Joseph- Cummings received treatment for his hands a foot which were frozen on a freight car trip from Cin cinnati. South Floridians were among the last to feel the cold. ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OF NOKi’JI CAROLINA AND VIRGINIA. State Department Sends De mand to Tokyo To Know What Has Been Done About Affair DIPLOMAT SLAPPED BY GUARD SOLDIER Meantime, Japanese Restrict Shanghai Areas into Which | Foreigners May Go; Move Seen as Effort To Avoid New “Incidents”; Slow To Explain Acts Washington, Jan. 29'. —(AP) —State Department officials awaited with in tense interest today Japanese reaction to formal representations by this country against the slapping of an American Embassy secretary at Nanking. The department sent instructions last night to Ambassador Joseph Grew at Tokyo directing him to inquire ac to what the Japanese government had done about one of its soldiers slap ping the face of the John Allison, third secretary of the embassy. Allison himself has furnished an ac count of the incident, which was of ficially published by the State De partment. Flatly denying the official Japanese version that he had insulted a Nipponese officer, the diplomat as serted the attack was unprovoked. SHANGHAI AREAS LIMITED IN ADMITTING FOREIGNERS Shanghai, Jan. 29. —(AP)—Japanese today restricted the Shanghai areas into which foreigners may go, appar ently in an effort to avoid possible new “incidents.” A Japanese Embassy spokesman an nounced the regions prohibited to for eigners including, Kiangwan, Tazang and Liuhong, to the north of the city. Japanese a week ago announced foreigners would not yet be permitted to visit Nanking, although foreigners already there were allowed to stay. The embassy did not explain the new restrictions, tut they apparently resulted from a combination of cir cumstances: the wish to avoid possi ble “incidents”, military activity in the areas, and efforts by Chinese guerilla units To disrupt Japanese sup ply lines about Shanghai. A Japanese spokesman said there would be no further announcement on the slapping by a Japanese sentry of John Allison, third secretary of the United States Embassy, in charge of the embassy at Nanking. Greensboro Lawyer to Seek Utilities Job, Report in Raleigh Says Daily Dispatch Bureau, in the Sir Walter Hotel. Raleigh, Jan. 29—Herbert S. Falk, Greensboro lawyer and civic leader, will appose Utility Commissioner Stan ley A. Winborne in this spring’s pri mary, according to exceptionally re liable information reaching this bu reau. Falk’s backing will come largely from the retail merchants of the State, although it is unlikely that he will be officially sponsored by the North Caro lina Retail Merchants Association. If i the Guilford man enters the race as it now appears certain he will, his principal platform will be a sweeping demand for reduced electric and pow er rates in the State, particularly in commercial power rates. In June, 1932, Falk, then serving (Continued on Page Three.) SLIGHT DECLINES SHOWN BY COTTON Liquidation and Hedge Selling at Out set Absorbed by Trade Dur ing Session) New York, Jan 29.—(AP) —Cotton futures opened unchanged to two points lower. Liquidation and hedge selling were absorbed by the trade May moved over a one-point range and shortly after the first half hour was 8.42, with the list one net higher to one point lower. Futures closed unchanged to three points lower. Spot steady, middling 8.42. • Open Close March 8.34 8.34 May 8.41 8.40 July 8.47 8.46 October 8.57 8.56 December 8.62 8.64 January. , 8.66 HENDERSON, N. C., SATURDAY AFTERNOON, JANUARY 29, 1938 As Niagara Bridge Plunged In to Gorge!! . / VX- *’■ I f . . r ' . „ "W- fear Jagt* % -■o .<• i- •=•.& - \ v'v-.iy c * ■ &. l aWiHak::," x JsSlsfefc,-,. >> a -- : a Exact moment Falls View bridge toppled at Niagara Falls This remarkable photo, taken by Walter Bordas, star Central Press photographer, shows exact moment of collapse o's Falls View bridge into gorge at Niagara Falls.. Weakened by relentless pressure of the greatest ice jam in his tory of the Niagara river, the bridge buckled and crashed to the ice below. Alfred E. Reames Oregon’s Senator Salem, Ore., Jan. 29.—(AP) —Al- fred E. Reomses, Medford attorney, today was appointed by Governor Charles Martin, Democrat, to serve out the unexpired term of Fred erick Steiwer as United States sen ator from Oregon. Reames is a Democrat. Reames will be 68 years old Feb ruary 5. He is expected to go to Washington immediately to take the seat of Senator Steiwer, whose resignation is Monday, and whose term has eleven months to run. Steiwer resigned Thursday after eleven years in the upper house, to become a member of a Washington law firm. He was one of the staunchest Republican critics of the Roosevelt administration. Reames’ name was mentioned in Capitol gossip yesterday. He will be the first Democrat in many years to serve Oregon in the Senate. Oregon’s senior senator is Char les McNary, the Republican minor ity leader. Liquor And Sales Taxes Rising Again Merchants Group to Fight Sales Tax and West Liquor in 1938 Primaries Onllr Dispatch Bureau. ’n The Si- *V«lf»r Hotel. Raleigh, Jan. 29.—Personalities and new-fangled ideas will play their part in the coming North Carolina legisla tive primaries, but two hardy peren nials, sales tax and liquor, will figure heavily in determining who shall be the “gentleman from Dare” and the “senator from Cherokee” in the 1939 General Assembly, using these two geographical extremes as illustrative of all counties. Since Ralph W. McDonald and his forces went down with their “kill the sales tax” pennant flying defiantly fin Page Three.), Britain, France, Russia Agree To Help China In Her War Against Japan Economic and Financial Aid Will Be Extended, Pro vided United States Will Aid NO NOTION HERE OF ANY SUCH PROGRAM This Government Not So In clined, Hull Says; Has Re ceived No Communication From Either of Three Gov ernments on Decision at Geneva Geneva, Jan. 29.—(AP)—'Great Bri tain, France and Russia were report ed today to have agreed to extend economic and financial aid to China in her war with Japan, provided the United States would cooperate. Com petent League circles said the three major League powers had determin ed to follow such a course either with or without approval of the League Council. A Polish decision to block passage by the Council of a resolution of aid led the three powers to take the po sition that such a measure was unnec essary. The resolution passed by the League Assembly October 26, 1937, was deemed sufficient to justify the aid to China. . . The October resolution said, in part, that the assembly: “Expressed its moral support for China, and recommends that members of the League should refrain from taking any action which might have (Continued on Page Five) WEATHER FOR NORTH CAROLINA. Partly cloudy and warmer to night and Sunday. WEEKLY WEATHER. South Atlantic States: Rain first part of week, followed by fair and colder Tuesday and Wednes day; rising temperature latter part of week, followed by rain. PUBLISHED IVBRT A/TIKNOOI EXCEPT SUNDAY. ROOSEVELT AIMING AI BASIC ABUSES Trying to Rectify Big Busi ness Practices Ante-Dat ing His Birth By CHARLES P. STEWART Central Press Columnist Washington, Jan. 29.—Big business in the United States undoubtedly is a vast deal decenter today than it used to be. Time was, up to a couple of gener ations ago, when financial and indus trial buccaneering was pretty general in our country. We were young then —and did not realize how serious a national situation our economic mani pulators were running us into. In some few folk reached the conclusion that conditions were becoming intoler able right where they lived, they did not stop to fight it out in that locality they went west, pre-empted home steads and founded new communities, more to their own liking. Gradually civilized eastern greed followed them up and largely gobbled them, but it was a slowish process; the piorieers were unaware that it was proceeding —until it already was fairly well ef fected. Theodore Roosevelt was the first statesman to call attention to the fact that our frontier was gone; that there no longer was any place for individual enterprise to find refuge. “Dirty Work” Done. By that time big business had done its basic “dirty work”. It had its stocks" fundamentally watered, its valuations inflated to the bursting point. Railroads especially were over-capi talized, tut so was big business gen erally. Corporations were trying to made money at two or three times the rate that they ever had had cash invested (Continued on P£.ge Three.) 8 PAGES TODAY FIVE CENTS COPY EXPIOSIONS OCCUR IN GREAT ITALIAN PLANTiAR ROME All Blamed on Carelessness of Worker in Breaking One of Compressed Air Tubes TOWN OF SEGNI IS SCENE OF TRAGEDY Many Roofs Shaken Down and Nearly All Windows Blown Out; Mussolini To Take Personal Charge of Situation; 39 Squadrons of Firemen Are Sent ■ Segni, Italy, Jan. 29.—(AP)—From 300 to 400 persons were believed to have been killed and injured today in a series of explosions which blasted one of Italy’s greatest munitions fac tories. Frantically working rescue crews had been able to drag but 15 bodies from the wreckage. Firemen believed many more would be found when they were able to penetrate the smoulder ing ruins. The explosion was blamed officially on the carelessness of a worker who ' roke a compressed air tube. A com - munique announcing the disaster gave no definite casualty figures, but said there were “some dead and dozens injured.” Stores of wool used in making hign explosives were burning in the cellars and prevented further rescue work. Many persons were injured by fly ing splinters of glass and the tiles hurtled from the rooftops of neighbom !ng buildings ty the force of the blast. Two minor explosions occurred at 7:35 a. m., and 7:50 a. m. before the huge blast at 8:03 a. m., just as the day shift was relieving the night workers. Segni, a town of 10,000 people 30 miles southeast of Rome, suffered widespread damage. Many roofs were shaken down and virtually all win dows in the town were blown out. King Vittorio Emanuele and Queen Elena hurried from Rome to the scene of the tragedy, accompanied by the governor of Rome. Premier Benito Mussolini was expected to take per sonal charge of the rescue work. Thirty-nine squadrons of firemen were rushed from Rome and other sur funding towns to fight the blaze start ed by the blast, which destroyed three small concrete buildings. Payne-Tumer Case Will Go To Jury Soon Asheville, Jan. 29 (AP)—Trial of Bill Payne and Wash Turner, charged with murder in the slaying of High way Patrolman George Penn last August 22, neared the jury stage to day. . Arguments of counsel were resumed at the opening of court after a session last night to complete arguments of three lawyers. The State rested at 4:30 p. m. yesterday and the defense followed within a few minutes with an announcement it would offer no testimony. Cecil Jackson, of defense counsel, opened summations. Charles Ross, of Raleigh, attorney for the State High (Continued on Page Three.) Pogroms On Jews Banned In Roumania No Inhu m a n i t i e s Contemplated King Carol Tells Associ ated Press Writer Bucharest, Roumania, Jan. 29 (AP) —King Carol, monarch of 18,000,000 people, assured the world today It need fear no Jewish pogroms in Rou mania. Speaking quickly and softly in per fect English, the king in a half hour audience in his quiet study, a sunny room of the royal palace in the heart of' Bucharest, told an Associated Press writer: “A Jewish problem; yes, we have one, and we are wrestling with it. How (Contf r ’4ed on Pago Five) <
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