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HENDERSON’S POPULATION 13,873 TWENTY-FIFTH YEAR FARM BILL TO PASS HOUSE BY WEDNESDAY Japs Adding Push To Drive To Weaken Desperate Stand Os China’s Principal Army unesthSned FOR 400,000 MEN Troops Fighting Savagely To Hold Japanese Back from Bases In Cen tral China terrific LOSS IN deaths is claimed 7,000 Slain in Last Week, Japanese Declare; Chiang Is at Front Directing Army In Effort To Stem Advance of Invaders; Battle on Yangtze Shanghai, Feb. 8 (AP)—Japanese columns thrust- into new battle area todav in apparently coordinated drives to render futile the desperate resist ance of China’s main armies along the vital Lunghai railroad. The new attack threatened main communications between some 400- 000 Chinese troops fighting savagely to hold the Japanese back from Su chow and their bases in the heart of China. They were aimed from southeast and northwest toward a spot 90 miles ww* Qf Suchow, and according to Japanese dispatches threatened to compel a general Chinese retreat west ward through the corridor still held by the Chinese along the Lunghai. Suchow is junction point of the Lunghai and the north-south Tient sin-Pukow railway. General Chiang Kai-Shek, according to Chinese reports was in personal command of the Chi nese armies holding long-prepared de fense lines protecting Suchow from the north and the south. Japanese reports said Chinese had lost more than 7,000 killed in fierce fighting of the last eight days along the Hwai river. General Chiang Kai-Shek was said to have arrived at the front north of Nanking to direct the army holding back the invaders south of Suchow and the troops facing Japanese in <C«nfir'iioH on Pasre Three.l Loyal Army In Spain Is In Retreat Hendaye, France, at the Spanish Frontier. Feb. B.—(AP) —Spanish in surgent officers sent word today that the fourth day of the insurgent mass offensive in the rugged districts north of Teruel had put government armies in headlong retreat. Official insurgent dispatches de scribed the fighting as “veritable but chery” of government troops. Govern ment advices said there was “great calm” in military circles and added (Continued on Page Six.) FSRESTIE’SSONS ACCOMPANY BODY Rubber Magnate’s Body Is Taken from Miami Back to Akron for Burial Miami Beach, Fla., Feb. 8 (AP) Three sons of Harvey Firestone were here today to accompany their fath er’s body to his Akron, Ohio home. Funeral services will be conducted Friday at the Akron residence of the 69-year-old resident, who died peace fully in his sleep at his home by the s ea early yesterday. Rev. Walter Turks, of St. Paul’s Episcopal church, Akron, will con duct the services in the home there. Burial will follow in the village ceme te,,y at Columbiana, Ohio, near the farm where Firestone was born De cember 20, 1868, Only one son, Russell, was with his (Continued on Page Six.) iintiUTsmt Uatltt iltswafrlr ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA AND VIRGINIA. * ' HSASF^jy lll ® SERVICE OP THE ASSOCIATED PRESS. Secret Economic Council Planned By Adolf Hitler In Preparation For War Two Ships for One HP# ? • ■ ’mß gHP' *** , mu. m Rear Admiral Yates Stirling, Jr., is pictured at the luncheon of the Foreign Policy Association in New York City, where in an address he demanded “an American navy at least twice the size of Japan’s.” He contended that the navy was “in capable of action west of Hawaii be cause of its weakness and lack of mobility.” (Central Press) ATHLETICS SET-UP FOR 0 State Education Department Reaches Out for More Local Control Daily Dispatch Bureau. In the Sir Walter Hotel Raleigh, Feb. B.—The only thing needed to complete an entire new set up for athletics in North Carolina’s high schools announcement of the identity of a director of physical edu cation who will he in complete charge of interscholastic athletics as well a3 the entire program of physical educa tion from the first grade up. This announcement will be made in a few days, Clyde Erwin, superinten dent of public instruction, said today. Mr. Erwin’s statement confirms in full a prediction made exclusively by this bureau some weeko ago. Completion of plans for the new set up, which will do away with the pres ent system of “conference competi tion among high schools, was held up • for some time while department of education and -budget bureau officials worked out ways and means to set aside the salary needed to secure a first class man for the post of “czar” of State school athletics. No hint of the physical department (Continued on Page Six.) Lou Gehrig Joins Yankee Hold-Outs; Rupert Unyielding New York, Feb. B.—(AP) —Larru ping Lou Gehring, iron man first base man of the New York Yankees, join ed the world champions’ fast growing hold'-out list today, rejecting Jake Rupert’s offer of $36,000 again this year, and demanding an increase of 15 percent, or, roughly $40,000. Colonel Rupert, a bit irritated, told baseball writers that he would stick by his offers of $36,000 to Gehrig and $25,000 to Joe Dimaggio, who is hold ing out for $40,090. “They won’t get a cent more, and that’s final,” said the colonel. “They can take it or leave it.” Rupert and Gehrig were closeted -for almost an hour. HENDERSON, N. C., TUESDAY' AFTERNOON, FEBRUARY 8, 1938 Germany Never Again Wants To Be Strong at Arms But Weak In Economic Way GOERING DIRECTS INTERNAL EFFORTS Field Marshal As No. 2 Nazi Chief Making Appoint ments Looking to Making Nation Safe for Whatever Emergency May Arise in Future Years Berlin, Feb. B.—(AP) —Sources pro fessing to know Reichfuehrer Adolf Hitler’s mind forecast today a secret. domestic policy council parallel to the foreign policy council he created m his shake-up of Reich leadership last. Friday. These sources said Germany wants never again to find herself strong at arms but weak economically as she was in 1914. Field Marshal Hermann Wilhelm Goering, No. 2 Nazi, and head of Ger many’s four-year plan for economic self-sufficiency, is charged with realiz ing that ambition. He is determined that Germany be prepared for all eventualities, not only during the four year economic plan, but also for all time thereafter. Informed quarters, therefore, be lieve a secret domestic policy council will be organized to bring internal planning into step with the objective of the foreign council. Wilhelm Frick, minister of interior, will be made president of the council, they predict, and will be succeeded in the interior ministry by Heirnricli Himmler, now head of all German po lice organizations. Inducting Walther Funck, the nn\ economics minister, into office yester day, Goering charged him with re sponsibility for seeing to fruition of the four-year economic plan. TOBACCO MEETINGS TO TALK CONTROLS Series of Meetings im Belt To Follow Farm Bureau Peanut Meeting at Jackson Jackson, Feb. 8 (AP)—Farm Bu reau leaders and farmers from eleven counties met here this afternoon to study the peanut control program for this year. E. F. Arnold, executive secretary of the Farm Bureau Federation, said farmers from 12 tobacco-growing coun ties would discuss the weed control program at Farmville tonight. Further tobacco meetings are sche duled at Greenville tomorrow night, Kinston Thursday night and Wilson Friday night. C jwers in the south east will rapp‘ ooon, Arnold said, and then gatherings will be held in tobac co counties west of Raleigh. Arnold said plans for conducting to bacco and cotton referenda will be dis cussed at each meeting. CROP (MOL BILL HITS SALES Farm Bureau Secretary Says Effective Ban Is Clamp ed on Grade Dnlly Dispatch Bnrenn. la the Sir Walter Hotel. Raleigh, Feb. 8. —Sale of “scrap to bacco,” against which a long and bit ter fight has been waged in Nortl. Carolina for years, will be practically impossible under terms of the current crop control bill which Congress is ex pected to enact into law before tho end of this week, according to E. F. Arnold, secretary of the North Caro lina Farm Bureau Federation. Mr. Arnold told this bureau that the bill, without naming scrap tobacco in any section, will strike an effective blow at its sale here or elsewhere. The club which is expected to pro duce the lethal effect is cleverly con- I (Continued on Page Six.) BOMBARDMENT, SQUADRON DEPARTS FOR HAWAII ___ I „ f . Scene In San Francisco as 200 airmen sail ' 'V' ffhelr planes ’dismantled and stowed In crates I (aboard the United States army transport, Republic, 800 airmen from Hamilton field, California, wave I farewell as they set sail for their new base at 1 2 Laundry Plants In Detroit Bombed Detroit laundry plants were bomb detroit laundry plants were bomb ed today and police guards were ordered at four other establish ments. Executives of the damaged laund ries said they had no labor disputes, had indulged in no price-cutting, and had not laid off any men. The blast at one plant knocked over a policeman a block away, set fire to the building, smashed doz ens of windows and threw people from their beds in the neighbor hood. The fire loss was small. Soviet Blimp InPolarHunt Fatal For 13 Dirigible Crashes Into Mountain In Snowstorm Search ing for Scientists Moscow, Feb. B.—. VI s ' The hope cf rescuing Russia’s four pola- scientists from their drifting ice floe cost 13 lives in the crash n? the Soviet dirig ible V-6, it was diJclc.-Gd today. The V-6 crashed into a a snow storm Sunday in the Kandalaksha re gion near the WhiV 1 Sea while on a trial I'lighit from Mosev.v to Mur mansw and return. The trip was preparatoiy to joining the rescue expeditions to aid the scientists whose imperilled floe now is (Continued on Page Three.) Trio of Colored Basketball Team Killed In Crash Morehead City, Feb. 8. —(AP)— Three Negro high school basket ball players were dead today after an automobile-fish truck crash near here on the New Bern high- < way late last night. State Highway Patrolman John Laws, stationed here, said the dead were James Green, 18; Mattie Green, 16, and Mabel Green, 15, all of Trenton. Four other Negroes were hurt, apparently none seri ously. Acting Coroner George Dill, in vestigating, said he found no evi dence of criminal negligence on the part of the truck driver, Euill Taylor, of Sea Level, N. C. VltTHtr FOB NORTH CAROLINA. Partly cloudy, with slowly ris ing temperature tonight and Wed nesday, becoming unsettled Wed nesday, _j_ ■ iVijUriiß Progress Is Made On Steel Contract Leaders of “Big Steel” and CIO Negotiators Optimis tic as Day’s Ses sion Ends BOTH SIDES AGREE AS TO STATEMENT Negotiations Began Monday for New Wage - Hour Agreement To Replace One Expiring February 28; Union Leaders Opposed to Any Wage Cuts at All New York, FOb. 8 (AP) —Progress toward a new working contract be tween the United States Steel Cor poration and the CIO was reported by leaders of the two organizations to day after a brief conference. Emerging from. the second of his preliminary talks with representatives of the Steel Workers Organizing Com mittee, second largest of the CIO groups, Benjamin Fairless, president of “big steel,” said: “I would say progress is being made.” _ Philip Murray, chairman of the SWIOC, nodded assent. “And not a fight yet,” Fairless add ed jovially. “No, not a fight yet,” Murray agreed. “The conference is continuing,” Murray added. “It is adjourned now < (\*n« <-*>, Three SELF WILL ADJUST SELMA BUS TROUBLE Raleigh, Feb. 8. —(AP) —R. O. Self, director of motor transportation for the Utilities Commission, will go to Selma this week to try to iron out difficulties which have arisen there over where inter-city buses should stop to take on and discharge passen gers. Tmrector Mystery Death of Georgia Clergyman Investigated by Coroner St. Simonds Island, Ga., Feb. 8 (AP) —Parishone'rs of old Christ church gathered today to bury vice-hating Dr. Charles Lee, as Coroner J. D. Baldwin promised to “get at the bottom” of the rector’s slaying, “if we have to call every man and woman on St. Simons.” In charge of services for the 71-year old Episcopal churchman, who was killed by a shot from the dark as he sat working over a sermon in the rec (Continued on Pace Three.) Hickman field, near Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. Thl aviators, 30 officers and 180 enlisted men, compris ing the 31st bombardment squadron, are under the command of Major James G. Taylor. —Central Press To Push Wage Bill f '*/■'• • /trill | ?,>•'•• , y < , •. jhlh Representative Norton . . . after seeing president Representative Mary T. Norton of New Jersey, seen leaving the White House, announces that the wage-hour bill will be pushed again, but that President Roosevelt desired certain parts of it re-written. The president told newsmen he wanted “a floor” be neath which wages could not go. HOUSING PfiOGRAF IS NOT ALL ROSES Small Home - Owner En counters Countless Odds and Ends of Costs By CHARLES P. STEWART Central Press Columnist Washington, Feb. B.—The new hous ing law may, as expected initiate a tremendous national building boom in the spring, as soon as the weather be gins to be mild enough to permit a start on that class of construction. If so, it will be fine for a while. The building industry is a big one. Its prosperity will react upon other in dustries, making them prosperous, too. The appeal to the average family to move into its own home, abandoning mere tenancy, also is likely to be popular. But in the long run? I wonder! How Law Works. The theory is that these new homes will be neat and comfortable, but rather modest little affairs. Each is to cost around $6,090. That is not the exact figure, but it is the one most frequently mentioned. Pre sumably the would-be home owner does not possess $6,000, but perhaps ho can scarce up S6OO. Probably, however, (Continued on Page Three.). PUBLISHED IV»Y AFTIXNOOM EXCEPT SUNDAY. 8 PAGES TODAY FIVE CENTS COPY DELAYING TACTICS REPUBLICAN GROUP Quorum Demanded by Mi nority Members in Fight Against What They Call “Gag” Rule GUFFEY PLEADS FOR LYNCH BILL VOTES Accuses Southern Filibuster Senators of Thwarting Will of American People; Hull Sends Letter to Senate Denying Agreement With Foreigners Washington, Feb. 8. —(AP)—.Admin- istration leaders bent on jamming the revised farm bill through the encountered delaying tactics tjday. Representative Lambertson, Repub lican, Kansas, forced a quorum call at the opening of the session when Speaker Bankhead counted less than’ two hundred present. Leaders anticipated other roll calls woud be demanded by those incensed at a proposed five-hour limitation on farm bill debate. Bankhead and Ma jority Leader Rayburn asserted, how ever, they expected final action late today or tomorrow, despite the cries —chiefly from Republicans—that a “gag” was being applied. In the Senate Guffey, Democrat, Pennsylvania, urged opponents of the anti-lynching bill to permit it to come to a vote so that the Supreme Court might pass on its constitutionality. Guffey contended southern senators “flatly refused to allow the America.! people, even though they be in the majority, to express their will on this all-absorbing subject of lynching." Before Guffey began his defense of the anti-lynching measure, Chairman Pittman, Democrat, Nevada, read to the Senate a letter from Secretary Hull denying the United States had any agreement with Great Britain “relating to war or the possibility of war.” Hull also asserted that this country was not bound by any agreement to any power in connection with naval operations. Other developmets: Postmaster General Farley an ♦ Contlmiorl on Page Tttree.) Lambeth Will Be Last Tar Heel To Quit In Congress Washington, Feb. 8 (AP) —A survey of the North Carolina House delegation indicated today that the decision of Representa tive Lambeth not to seek re-elec tion ends retirements among the eleven-man group, unless Repre sentative Doughton decides to quit. Lambeth’s derision brought to three the number of Tar Heel rep resentatives who will not seek re election to the House. The others are Representatives Umstead and Hancock. Hancock will oppose Senator Reynolds for the State Democratic senatorial nomina tion. Bids Opened By State On Large Annex Five-Story Addition To Be Made To Large Revenue Building in Raleigh Raleigh, Feb. 8. —(AP) —Fourteen building contractors submitted pro posals ranging from $51,972 to $66,575 today for construction of a five-story addition to the State Revenue build ing. H. L. Coble, of Greensboro, bid low on the general contract at $51,972. Eight bidders sought the heating job, Carolina Heating and Engineer ing Company of Durham bidding low at $3,125. Biemann & Rowell, of Raleigh, bid low at $1,787 for the plumbing work, against four other firms. The board of public buildings and grounds studied the proposals, saying it would take several days before a warding contracts or rejecting all bids. The appropriation for the work was $60,000. Other heating bids included W. M. Wiggins & Company, of Wilson, $3.- 797. Other plumbing bids included Wiggins, $2,397.
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