HENDERSON’S
POPULATION
13,873
twenty-fifth year
Barkley To Move Next Week
To Shelve Anti-Lynch Bill
To Pass Other Legislation
MAJORITY LEADER
REVERSES HIMSELF
OH STAND FRIDAY
Voted Against Laying Aside
Bill When Southern Sen
ators Sought Show
down Then
FARM BILL AGAIN
STRIKES TROUBLE
Agriculture Officials Object
to Smith’s Cotton Amend
ment, and Long Floor Fight
Is Expected; Split Result
ing from Court Fight, Un
healed
Washington, Fob. 5. —'AP) —Major-
ity Loader Barkley of Kentucky in
dicated today he would move to lav
aside the anti-lynching bill next week
‘ I am unwilling that this whole ses
sion should be wasted or consumed in
futile discussion,” he said.
Barkley voted against shelving the
measure wh*m southerners failed by x
52 to 31 vote to pigeon-hole it yester
day.
Both Senate and House were in re
cess today. Southern senators arrang
ed a caucus to map next week’s stra
tegy against the anti-lynching bill.
Agriculture Department opposition
to last-minute changes in cotton pro
visions of the compromise farm bill
raised the possibility, meantime, of a
prolonged floor fight over the mea
sure. The controverted item was an
amendment inserted at the behest of
Senator Smith, Democrat, South Car
olina. to speed up payment of part of
the $130,090,000 bonus Congress has
voted for 1937 cotton growers who
complied with 1938 programs.
Departmental officials said Smith’s
proposal permitting borrowers to sur
render loan cotton to the Commodity
Credit Corporation and receive up to
two cents a pound in price adjustment
payments might lead to government
impounding of as much as 5,000,000
bales.
Other developments:
Leaders of the ‘‘little fellows” con
ference agrepd to try to set up a per
manent organization to keep the gov
ernment advised of the small business
man's needs.
A year ago today President Roose
velt proposed his court reorganiza
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Alf Landon
Appeals To
Christians
Chicago, Feb. 5. —(AP) —Alf M. Dan
don told the United Methodist Con
ference today that Christianity is
threatened by the theory of absolute
government abroad in the world.”
“Let us in America not make the
mistake of think we can escape all
contacts with what is happening in
the rest of the world,” the 1936 Re
publican presidential nominee said in
a prepared address to Methodist
clergymen and laymen attending a na
tional conference on faith and service.
He continued:
“The absolute- government that has
taken hold of a number of nations
would take away freedom of worship,
freedom of expression, and even fi ee
will. Where this absolute government
would not -absolutely destroy tire
church, it would undermine the ve"y
f uindation of the church
“Thus Christianity has a great stake
in the preservation of democracy.”
Smoak Claims Innocence
With Death Hour Nearing
Dolly Dinpalch Bnrean,
In ihe Sir Walter Hotel.
Raleigh, Feb. s—Edgar Leroy
Srnoak looked death in the face and
without blinking an eye or spilling
one tiny speck of tobacco from a cig
arette he was rolling asserted his in
nocence of poisoning his high school
student daughter, Annie Thelma
Smoak.
His counsel', William L. Farmer, had
just warned him in most solemn terms
that he had but two weeks to live
Your correspondent sat by .watching
the doomed man’s reactions.
“As certain as anything human is
certain, you’re going to walk into the
£ as chamber two weeks from today
g nd meet the Great Judge who can't,
he fooled by pretenses,” said Mr. Far-
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THE ASSOCIATED PRESS.
Talks to "Little Fellows”
i,,. .
Secretary of Commerce Daniel Roper is shown with Representative
Charles Kramer (left), of California, just before he read President
Roosevelt’s message to the eight hundred small businessmen in the
Commerce Department building auditorium at Washington. The opening
session was so noisy and riotous that Secretary Roper was forced to
suspend it after reading the message. (Central Press)
BOTH GOVERNMENT^
Government Less Efficient,
However, Than Business,
Observer Says
By CHARLES r. STEWART
Central Press Columnist
Washington, Feb. 5. —A reader
raises this point:
‘‘Do you really believe that business
is anv more efficient than the New
Deal?”
Yes, I do believe so.
But, if I believed the New Deal to
be more efficient than business, I still
do not think I would be paying much
of a compliment to the New Deal, for
business does not seem to be quite
efficient enough to be hard to beat,
by even a very small modicum of es-,
ficiency.
As Stewart Sees It.
Business, if efficient at all, certain
ly ought to be sufficiently so as to
keep a country’s economic status rea
sonably stable —to maintain tolerably
good times as a regular thing, and al
so to keep them improving gradually.
It hasn’t done it.
As far back as we can remember
we have had about three major de
pressions per century, with one or two
minor depressions per interval.
Where Business Fails.
We have had intervening booms,
too, but they have been as dangerous
as their succeeding slumps have been
painful.
Yet business has not been able to
recognize a boom as a boom while
said boom actually was booming. We
had a post-war boom. It lasted so
long that it puzzled me. My idea was
that we should have had a terrible,
prolonged depression after so teirific
a conflict.
I got an interview on the subject
with Herbert Hoover, then secietaiy
of commerce. I took him to be pre
eminently a business expert. He as
sured me that that thing was not a
boom- that we were living in a new
age of the world; that what I called
a boom was, in reality our modern
“normalcy”. We know what followed
before the end of his presidential
term.
Since then I never have had muen
Gontinued on Page Five.)
mer. “If you have anything to say,
you ought to say it now.”
Smoak looked at your correspondent
with keen grey eyes that never flick
ered and said evenly and earnestly:
“My heart is right with God. From
my heart I’m not guilty of murder,
and if I go into the gas chamber I
will go for the laws of North Caro
lina and not for any murder. I never
harmed anyone in my life.”
Previously the gaunt New Hanover
man had greeted his counsel: “Bill,
I’m sure glad to see you,” and had
added to your correspondent:
“From what the newspaper says,
I’m in a mess. Ain’t that the dang
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PERSON, N. C., SATURDAY AFTERNOO N, FEBRUARY 5, 1938 publish*^ FIVE CENTS COPY
2 Bandits Suspects
Slain by Officers
Columbus, Ohio, Feb. 5 (AP) —
Police recorded a $3,500 bank rob
bery as solved today with the
bloody mutation —“two bandit su
spects slain, five persons wound
ed, including three detectives.”
Vincent Grinkowicz, of Cleve
land, and a man known only as
“Mack” were killed. Police were
checking fingerprints with ,the
Federal Bureau of Investigation ini
an effort to identify Mack.
Two of the wounded hovered be
tween life and death, Detective
Robert Cline and Carl Boettcher,
24, of Cleveland, one of four men
who were targets for a hail of
police bullets in a two-story west
Side rooming house yesterday.
Boettcher’s lung was punctured,
while Cline and Detective William
Daniuer were shot in the abdomen.
NEW POLICIESFOr
PATROL ARE FIXED
State Police Required To
Spend More Time Out
on the Highways
Dally Dispatch Bureau.
*,i j'be si>- y.’iil7»r Hotel,
Raleigh, Feb. s—The State Highway
Patrol, under the supervision of Ma
jor Arthur Fulk, is inaugurating three
new policies, according to announce
ment of A. J. Maxwell, commissioner
of revenue.
The policies are listed by Mr. Max
well as:
1. Patrolmen are required to spend
the major part of their time on high
ways outside municipalities.
2. Patrolmen are required to ob
serve the same regulations i,n patrol
ing streets and roads they are expect
ed to impose on others.
3. Patrolmen are expected to prose
cute without fear or favor all reck
less drivers and all important viola
tions of traffic laws.
The commissioner announced these
policies in a signed article on “A
North Carolina Worst” in which he
pointed out that the State’s death
rate on the highways is more than
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MENTAL PATIENT, 50,
ASSAULTS INMATES
Medficld, Mass., State Hospital Scene
of Violence by One Thought
Not Dangerous
Medfield, Mass., Feb. 5. —(AP)—A
50-year-old mental patient at Medfield
State Hospital, where two men were
two men were battered to death two
weeks ago, became suddenly violent
today, ripped a metal guard from a
sink and attacked three other inmates
before being subdued by an attendant.
They were not seriously injured.
The patient, John Coti, not consid
ered “dangerous” when committed,
was immdeiately placed in an “ex
clusive room.”
The attack occurred in the same
ward where a patient wielding a shoe
box, battered two fellow inmates to
death two weeks ago.
EUROPE TREMBLES
OF HITLER’S COUP
Seizure of Full Control Os
Germain Army and Diplo
matic Service
Stuns West
mussolinThappy
OVER HITLER MOVE
Sends His Congratulations
and Foresees Closer Ac
cord Between Germany and
Italy; Hitler Move In Aus
tria Now Feared by Lon
don and Paris
London, Feb. 5. —(AP) —Britain’s
key cabinet ministers were sum
moned hurriedly to the foreign of
fice today to consider the rapidly
changing European situation caus
ed by Germany’s drastic govern
ment shake-up and the new out
break of Mediterranean piracy.
The German development was be
'ieverl to have been of chief concern
is Europe watched apprehensively to
to where the Nazification of the Ger
man army and diplomatic corps would
; cad Germany abroad.
Prime Mini'ter Neville Chamber
lain remained in close contact from
Birmingham, he made an ad
dress yesterday, but Sir Thomas In
■kip, minister for coordination of de
fense, in whom the empire’s re-arma
ment plans center, broke engage
ments to hurry tack to London.
Closeted also with Foreign Socre
tary Anthony Eden were Sir John
Simond, chancellor of the exchequer;
Viscount Hailsham, the lord chance'
lor; Alfred Duff Cooper, first lord of
the Admiralty; and Malcolm McDon
aid, secretary of the dominions.
London, Feb. S.—(AP) —An appre
hensive Europe watched today for
signs that sensational Nazification of
the German army and diplomatic
corps may lead Fuehrer Hitler to step
abroad.
Grave fears were expressed by dip
lomatic circles here that the strong
German military machine, driven by
Nazi impuise, might contemplate a
putsch in Austria—to further the
scope of national socialism.
Britain and France, pouring their
warships into the Mediterranean to
fight molestation of merchant ship
ping, also watched anxiously for any
indication the German army reorgani
zation, with Hitler in supreme direct
command, might involve Spanish af
fairs.
The two nations particularly were
alert for any signs that Hitler, with
Premier Mussolini of Italy, .might te
planning increased Spanish interven
tion to help Insurgent General Fran
cisco Franco, whose war machine
presently appears bogged down after
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FARM BUREAU HEAD
TO TALK NEW BILL
Winslow and O’Neal Will Confer In
Washington Tomorrow With
Senator Pope
Raleigh, Feb. 5. (AP)—Edward
O’Neal, American Farm Bureau presi
dent, and J. E. Winslow, of Greenville,
State Farm Bureau president, Will
confer with Senator Pope, Democra'
Idaho, at Washington tomorrow on
the farm conference bill, E. F. Arnold,
executive secretary of the State bu
reau said today.
Winslow, one of a committee of
eighteen appointed last fall to draft
farm legislation, will leave from
Rocky Mount late tonight.
Hoey Silent
On Bureaus
Os Justice
Raleigh, Feb. 5 (AP)—The study of
the proposed State department of just
ice by Professor Paul Sanders of Duke
University was in the hands of Gover
nor Hoey today, but he had no com
ment on it.
In a letter accompanying the re
port, Major L. P. McLendon of Greens
boro, chairman of the commission
studying the proposal, said:
“In transmitting the material to you
I do not wish it to be understood that
I am at this time endorsing the pro
posed department or any particular
method of establishing it. Primarily,
it js that I hope to give information
and evoke construction criticism.”
Hoey explained the report was not
official.
WEATHER
FOR NORTH CAROLINA.
Partly cloudy; Sunday mostly
cloudy, slightly warmer in north
central portion.
WEEKLY WEATHER.
South Atlantic States: Some
rain over north portion and at
beginning and rain period after
middle of week; somewhat colder
northern section about Tuesday;
colder latter part of week.
United States Warns Japan
Bigger Battleships Will Be
Built Here If Pact Ignored
11 Killed in Navy Air Crash
s iljf te
Ilffm i i A
• ■ .
W. McKa y (left), chief machinist’s mate, was one of the three men
who survived the air crash in which eleven officers and men of the.navy
were killed when two 11-P type naval bombers, one of which is pictured
below, collided in a rain squall during maneuvers 70 miles off San Diego,
Cal. M. W. Woodruff (right) was one of the eleven victims.
(Central Press)
Roosevelt
To Settle
Ickes Row
Washington, Feb. 5 (AP) —President
Roosevelt plans to settle the row be
tween Secretary Ickes and the latter’s
under secretary, Charles West, inform
ed officials said today, by transferring
West from the Interior Department.
Representing Mr. Roosevelt as sup
porting the cabinet member, these of
ficials predicted he would seek a new
post for West in another branch of
the government. Ickes last week
swooped down on West’s office in the
latter’s absence and virtually liqui
dated its personnel, removing James
A. Rohrer, West’s brother-in-law and
administrative assistant. West’s own
job was untouched, as he was a presi
dential appointee.
.Secretary Ickes called at the White
House today to discuss what he said
was a “lot of odds and ends.” He
added, however, West’s name was not
mentioned.
Warfare In
South Spain
Is Renewed
I-lendaye, France, at the Spanish
Frontier, Feb. 5. — (AP) Warfare
spread along the southern Spanish
front today as government and insur
gent troops took advantage of warmer
weather to fight for positions.
Opposing forces were still deadlock
ed in the. Aragon, while insurgent
warships tightened their blockade of
the Mediterranean coast. In eastern
Badajoz province, where lines have
been shifting without appreciable ad
vantage to either side, insurgents said
they had occupied a series of stra
tegic hill positions.
The government acknowledged los
ing ground in this sector, but report
ed it had launched a new drive in the
hitherto quiet sector of Grenada,
which resulted in occupation of two
positions. An insurgent counter at
tack was defeated.
FOURTH VICTIM OF
CRAZED MAN DIES
Three Killed Instantly in Massachu
setts Institution; Fifth Crit
ically 111
Tewsbury, Mass., Feb. 5. —(AP) —
Four deaths were charged today to
John Mack, 79, ex-lumtnerman, who
stalked through Tewsbury State In
firmary men’s ward at dawn yester
day, firing a mail-order pistol at i
low patients he said “whispered about
him.”
John Lewis, 76, Lowell, Mass., died
last night. The three other patients
had died early yesterday. A fifth vic
tim is in serious condition.
Mack, arrested in Lowell three
hours later, is held in jail without
bail on charges of murder.
Japs Claim
Advance sOn
China Front
Weather Cold In
Fighting Zone,
And Snowstorms
Hamper Operation
Shanghai, Feb. s.—(AP) —The Ja
panese force operating against the
Chinese left flank 15 miles east of
Pengpu today reported fighting its
way across the Hwai river and ad
vancing north toward Kuchen on the
Tientsin-Pukow railroad, leading to
Suchow.
Chinese troops defending a position
about ten miles west of Pengpu also
were driven back and the city oc
cupied, the Japanese said.
Dispatches from Suchow said Chi
nese troops holding the north bank
of the Hwai north of Pengpu along
the Tientsin-Puchow line, repulsed Ja
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SLIGHT GAIN MADE
IN COTTON MARKET
Prices Two to Five Points Higher at
Close, With Middling Quot
ed at 8.64
New York, Feb. 5. —(AP) —Cotton
futures opened three to five points
up on higher Liverpool cables, trade
and foreign buying. May sold off from
8.64 to 8.61, leaving quotations one to
three net higher shortly after the first
half hour.
Futures closed two to five points
higher. Spot steady; middling 8.64.
Open Close
March .' 8.54 8.54
May 8.63 8.64
July 8.72 8.72
October 8.85 8.84
December • 8.89 8.99
January 8.93 8.92
U. S. Envoy Is Permitted
To See Mrs. Ruth Rubens
Washington, Feb. 5 (AP) —The Sov
iet government acceded today to a re
quest that a United States official be
permitted to see Mrs. Ruth Marie
Rulbens, American citizen incarcerat
ed in Russia on suspicion of espionage.
Charge d’affaires Loy Henderson
cabled Secretary Hull that Moscow
had agreed to the long-standing Ame
rican demand. Henderson has asked
that he or Second Secretary Angus
Ward be allowed to visit Mrs. Rubens
this afternoon or tomorrow.
Soviet authorities (previously had
informed the United States they would
not permit an Arne-*' ~n diplomat to
see Mrs. Rubens after Russian
police had finished investigating her
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O TODAY
THIS COUNTRY IS
CURB ON WARSHIPS
I
London Naval Treaty, Sign
ed by Both Nations, Re
stricts Size to 35,-
000 Tons
UNITED STATES HAS
LIVED UP TO PACT
Britain and France Both
Have Been Consulted on
Query to Japan, Hull Says;
This Country, Meantime,
Reduces by Half Its Forces
In China
Washington, Feb. 5.—(AF) — The
United States asked Japan today
whether she is building, or intends to
build, battleships larger than 35,003
• ons.
If so, a note to the Tokyo govern
ment said, the United States will build
larger ships herself, but is willing to
discuss limitation of their size.
Secretary Hull, announcing this ac
tion, said it was taken after consulta
tion with Britain and France, t signa
'ories of the London naval treaty of
1936, who were taking similar steps.
The United States has built no bat
tleships in excess of 35,000 tons, in ac
cordance with the London treaty.
This country, meantime, took a
long step away from China by order
ing its armed forces there reduced by
more than half.
MAN IS HELD FOR
KILLING OF CHIEF
Bruce Shue Accused of Fatal Shooting
of Chief Kape of Hunters
ville January 1
Charlotte, Felb. 5 (AP)—Bruce Shue,
charged with fatally shooting Police
Chief J. A. Rape, of Huntersville, the
night of January 1, was ordered held
for superior court today at a preli
minary hearing in Mecklenburg coun
ty recorder’s court.
Shue was arrested in Edgefield, S.
C., a few days after the chief was slain
as he approached a stranger on his
beat.
Envoy From
Germany Is
For Peace
Philadelphia, Feb. 5.—(AP)— Dr.
Hans Dieckhoff, German ambassador
to the United States, in an address
prepared for delivery today, said the
foreign policy of the German govern
ment is for a "real peace,” but so long
as there is no "political appeasement”
there will be “no feeling of security.”
The ambassador was on the pro
gram at a luncheon of the Philadel
phia branch of the Foreign Policy As
sociation.
"In our opinion, the main thing is
to have a real peace,” he said. "In a
great speech made a few months ago
in this country, we find this sentence
‘ln moral consciousness of the world
must recognize the importance of re
moving injustices and well-founded
grievances.’ This is what we believe.”
While the ambassador did not name
him, the quotations toas from Presi
dent Roosevelt’s address in Chicago
last October 5.
“The sooner we come to a real peace
and I hope that we will-come to it,
the tetter,” the ambassador said.
“This real peace must be our great
goal.”
case. State Department officials said
today that the inference is they have
now completed their Investigation.
This was taken to mean Russia had
not accepted Hull’s principle of right
to visit “without delay,” a principle
on which he insisted soon after Mrs.
Rubens’ arrest became known. Hull
emphasi: ed the principle in his formal
note of January 25. It involved the
general right of American diplomatic
representatives to visit Americans
jailed in Soviet Russia.
Hull declined to comment today
when asked whether or not Russia’s
accession to the question at this time
meant, in effect, agreement with the
principle.