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HENDERSON’S POPULATION 13,873 TWENTY-FIFTH YEAR HOUSE PASSES NEW FARM BltL 263 T 0135 JAPAN’S ARMIES IN CHINA PLAN ATTACK ALONG SIX FRONTS Giant Campaign To Crush Chiang Kai-Shek’s Le gions Is Now Under Preparation JAPANESE SOLDIERS ANXIOUS TO START Chinese Cheered, However, by Success Thus Far in Holding Line, by Persistent Guerrilla Attacks and In flux of Huge Reinforce ments Supplies Shanghai, Feb. 9. (AP) —Japan ese armies were poised at six points on the Far East war map today for a giant campaign to crush Chiang Kai-Shek’s legions and swallow the fertile heart of eastern China. The magnitude of the campaign, which has been in the making since the first shot was fired seven month* ago, became apparent through new military movements. Japanese military headquarters dis closed the zero hour was approaching, in a communique, which said: ‘The troops, with re-arranged po sitions and with morale growing stronger, are impatient for further op erations.” The Japanese grand objective was to bottle up 100,000 Chinese troops along the Lunghai railway and conquer the corridor which has kept them from Continued on Page Flve.i FORMER MOORES VILLE MINISTER A SUICIDE Mooresville, Feb. 9. (AP) The body of Henry Cleveland Brackerte, former Methodist minister, now a tex tile employe here, was found behind his garage today, the throat cut. Coronet If. D. Tomlin said it was suicide and no inquest was planned. A razor was found near the body. Brackette, 51, had teen in ill health two years. The funeral will be held Friday. Swing Music At Execution Is Requested Ossining. N. Y., Feb. 9.—(AP) —In the death house at Sing Sing, Char les J. Brown, 30, of Ellenville, N. Y., wants to walk to the electric chair .o the hot throb of swing music. He may get his bizarre final re quests, Warden Lewis Lawes said to day although ordinarily the bleak cor ridors of “murderers’ row” are silent on the day of an execution. Lawes said Brown, whose execution is set for February 24, would spend his last 24 hours in a pre-execution cell entirely apart from the death house with its radio equipment. “However, if he wants some music we can give him a portable phono graph in his pre-execution room,” Lawes said. The condemned man, who has had no visitors in Sing Sing and does not. expect any, was convicted of robbing and murdering Isadore Handleman and his vrife in Ellenville and then setting their home afire. 193IM1RE ISSUES YET ALIVE Sales Tax and Wet-Dry Question and Home Ex emptions Loom Big Oally Dispatch Bsrea«. 'n The Si- Hotel. Raleigh, Feb. 9.—Sales tax and the wet-dry question are pot the only 19*37 legislative issues which will be very rnuch alive in the 1939 General As sembly, ft is shown by replies to a questionnaire recently sent out by the North Carolina State Grange. Homestead tax exemption, improve ment of secondary roads and school hus routes, and diversion of highway funds will be right up in the forefront according to Harry B. Caldwell, mas fee of the State Grange. Mr. Caldwell today told this bu reau's representative that replies to his questionnaire are coming in very rapidly and that local Granges over the entire State are virtually unani mous in insisting that the organiza tion make the fight in 1939 for the (Continued on Page Eight.) HrttiU'rsmt tlatlu Qtsmtfrh ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA AND Vlß®^^ 6P£RRY LEASED WIRE SERVICE OP THE ASSOCIATED PRESS. May Head New York Stock Exchange Former Governor O. Max Gardner, above, is slated to ibecome the first full-time paid “czar” of the New York Stock Exchange under reorganization plans now nearing completion, accord ing to news advices from Washington. Governor Gardner, whose four-year term as the State’s executive ended in 1933, has (been practicing law in Washington since that time. His sal ary as head of the stock exchange re putedly would he between $50,000 and $75,000 annually. Eight Dead, Six Hurt In Plane Crash Air France Flying Boat Snags Break water at Marseilles in Take-Off Marseilles, France, Fob. 9. —(AP) — Eight persons were killed and six in jured early this morning in he crash of an Air France flying boat against the Marseilles breakwater at the mo ment of take-off. The trans-Mediterranean air liner was starting her scheduled flight to Ajaccio, Corsica, on the Marseilles- Tunis run. She hurtled against the breakwater at 60-miles-an-hour speed and burst into flames. Air France announced the dead were five passengers and three of the crew. Four passengers and two of the crew were injured. All of the dead were French, including Chief Pilot Pierre Eurello, veteran flier, who was at the controls. The six injured were taken from the (Continued on Page Eight.) LUMBERTON YOUTH DIES OF SHOOTING Lumberton, Feb. 9.—(AP)—Bishop Davis, 18-year-old Indian of Rayn ham, in Robeson county, died today in a hospital here of a pistol wound in the abdomen inflicted January 30. Davis told officers he was shot while a crowd was assembled at the home of R. C. Seals, with whom he lived. Hoover Sails To Belgium To Receive Gratitude Os Those He Fed During War New York, Feb. 9.—(AP)—Bound on a “sentimental journey,” former Pre sident Herbert Hoover is sailing for Europe today to re-visit the scenes of his historic labors as director of the Food Administration in war-ravage J Belgium. Now 63 years old, he was invited by the Belgian government and various Belgian universities to make the voy age for a round of ceremonies cal culated to show the Belgian people’3 “unalterable attachment.” The program in Hoover’s honor will HENDERSON, N. C., WEDNESDAY AFTERNO ON, FEBRUARY 9, 1938 May Be Diplomat dm ip * fl J. WALTER LAMBETH Rumor spreading in connection with the voluntary retirement from Con gress of Representative J. Walter Lambeth, of Thomasville, of the sev enth North Carolina district, is that he may be appointed to some import ant diplomatic post abroad. He is wealthy and has a turn for the dip lomatic service, the stories say. The gossip is that he might serve abroad for .several years, then return to the State and run for governor. He faced no opposition for re-election to Con gress this year. WITH RUMOR ABOUT GARDNERS CHOICE No Definite Action Has, However, Been Taken on Making Tar Heel Ex change Governor GARDNER~PROFESSES IGNORANCE OF MOVE Says He Is Not And Has Not Been Candidate for Full- Time Paid Office in Re organization of Securities Market, Greatest In The Nation New York, Feb. 9 (AP)—The name of O. Max Gardner, former governor of North Carolina, and friend of Pres ident Roosevelt, was on Wall Street tongues today as the possible choice as the first paid president of the New York Stock Exchange. Gardner was reported to have strong backing among exchange mem bers who had (been influential in push ing a proposed reorganization of the administrative machinery of the na tion’s leading organized securities market. From the start of the campaign for administrative change, some of them have insisted the exchange, contrary to its traditions running back more (Contf-ued on Page Five) JOHN M. SHARP OUT FOR JUDGE IN 21 ST Reidsville Man To Oppose Solicitor Allen Gwyn for Superior Court Office Raleigh, Feb. 9.—(AP)—John M. Sharp, of Reidsville, paid the State Board of Elections $65 today to seek the Democratic nomination for su perior court judge of the twenty-first district. Allen Gwyn, now solicitdr of the twenty-first, has also filed for the judgeship. Eyes here were turned especially on possible candidates for Congress ii the sixth and seventh districts, with Representatives William B. Umstead. of Durham, and Walter Lambeth, of Thomasville, having announced the} would retire. signal the “twenty years after” grati tude of a nation which never has for gotten the dark days of the World Whr, when the Hoover commission fed millions of hungry inhabitants of the little nation. For five years until July, 1919, Hoover directed a “kitchen empire’ without parallel in history. Belgian’s 7,000,000 inhabitants and 3,000,000 persons in northern France, dazed and helpless in the shock o? tragedy, came to know the word “Hoover” and “food” as synonymous. Steel Renews CIO Contract % With Wages Remaining Same 1 Only Alteration Is Provision for Conference on Ten Days Notice or Any Changes 8-HOUR DAY, 40-HOUR WEEK PROVIDED FOR “Big Steer’ Announces Agreement on CIO Con tract Shortly After Some Independent Companies Publish Price Slashes; CIO Bargains Only for Mem bers New York, Fob. 9.—(AP)— The United States Steel Corporation today granted the CIO a new union contract replacing the current agreement ex piring February 28. Half a millior workers are affpeted. Wages were left at the existing level. The only substantial change made in the old contract, which now is re newed indefinitely, was e provision for conferences on ten days notice by either side for the purpose of negotial ing changes. If changes asked by either side are not agreed to within twenty days, said Lbe steel company, then all agree rnents shall be considered ended. The existing contract provides for an eight-hour day, a 40-hour week, and a $5-a-day basic rate for common iabor. U. S. Steel made the announcement again recognizing the CIO only a short time after some independent steel companies which the union has never been able to organize had made substantial price cuts in some cate gories. These cuts in price were thought by some o 'servers to indicate a possible price fight. One “big steel” affiliate followed with similar cuts. Under the renewed contract with CIO, the union, as before, will have the right to bargain only for its own members and, Stell announced the closed shop is specifically waived. * HOEY AT EVENT OF GOLDSBORO MUSIC Raleigh, Feb. 9 (AP) —Governor t Hoey will go to Goldsboro tonight to hear a concert -by the Westminster choir. METHODISTS PLAN ALDERSGATE MEET Students To Gather for Two Days ini Raleigh, Followed by One at Louisburg Raleigh, Feb. 9.—(AP)—An Alders gate Christian mission will be con ducted for Methodists students here February 23 and 24 and at Louisburg. February 25, with Rev. John R. Rus tin, of Washington, D. C., and Boyd M. McKeewn, of Nashville, Tenn. as leader-speakers. The missions, part of a south-wide series, will celebrate the bi-centenary of the evangelical conversion of John Wesley, founder of the Methodist church. Dr. Rustin is pastor of Mount Ver non Place Meredith church in Wash ington, and McKeewn is director of college promotion in the department of schools and colleges, Methodist Church Board of Christian Education. Attorney Os Preacher At Berlin Named Berlin, Feb. 9 (AP)—The Nazi state today named an attorney of its own choice to defend Rev. Martin Niemoel ler, militant Protestant leader, on trial charged with, inciting to disobedience and other offenses against the Nazi regime. The way was cleared for this turn of the trial of the arch foe of the Nazi church program when it deve loped Niemoeller himself had dismiss ed the three attorneys hitherto con ducting his defense and withdrawn their mandates. Secrecy surrounding the trial also cloaked the pastor’s motive, but it was understood the pastor, who had hop ed to defend himself in full publicity, was' gravely disappointed by failure to keep the chart room open to the public. Reportedly he told friends if he was to be judged in secret, he would act like Jesus before Pilate and make no reply to the accusations. WEATHER FOR NORTH CAROLINA. Partly cloudy tonight and Thursday; slightly warmer to night . F. D. R.’S SUPPORT GIVEN DUFFY |||j| _ /a-yljamas' Blllt■•4BB1I : Ws&SMaii&k ’ M, I llil v rah-. jgSßMggwPlg nrffll hßh&h&hbH WBtmlr $ m - > v - ■ ■ f \- r -- //'■: | Senator Aiben Barkley, Dr. S. E. Gavin and Senator F. Ryan Duffy Presidential support for Senator F. Ryan Duffy of Wisconsin in the Democratic primary seems assured following a testimonial dinner given Duffy at Fond Du Lac, Wis., above, attended by Senate Major ity Leader Aiben Barkley of Kentucky. Both President Roosevelt and Vice President Garner sent letters to support Duffy’s re-election candidacy, not officially announced as yet. The question of presiden tial approval was much discussed because of possibility that Gov. Philip La Follette might become the Farm-Labor candidate for th* senate. Four years ago, the president gave his favor to Senator Robert M. La Follette, Progressive. In the photo above, left to right, are Senator Barkley, Toastmaster Dr. S. E. Gavin and Senator Duffy at the Fond Du Lac dinner. —Central Press King George Will Visit France To Weld Accord Bandits Take Off $50,000 at Miami Miami, Fla., Feb. 9 —(AP) —Three bandits held up the Arena bar on Biscayne boulevard this morning, rifled a bank of private safety de posit boxes and escaped with cash and jewelry unofficially estimated at $50,000 to SIOO,OOO. The robbers, unmasked and brandishing pistols, walked in at 8 a. m., while the shifts were chang ing in the all-night resort, herded eight employees and one customer upstairs and made them lie fiat on the floor, where they covered them with coats and table cloths. With crowbars the men pried open some 20 safety deposit boxes where the owners and a number of friends and customers kept valu ables. ulnaWwalT TO BE COCKSURE Not Bragging About Match With Japs, but Not Fear ful of Nippon By CHARLES P. STEWART Central Press Columnist Washington, Feb. 9.—Admiral Wil liam D. Leahy, Uncle Sam’s chief of naval operations (which makes him top-ranking officer of our sea forces), resented it when Congressman Ralph Brewster of Maine, asked him, as a witness before the house of represen tatives naval affairs committee wheth er our navy folk “originated the idea that five Americans” (five American warships) “are needed to lick three Japanese.” The admiral, as we know, replies (Continued on Page Five.) MORE WITNESSES IN LUMBERTON HEARING Lumberton, Feb. 9. —(AP) — The State called more witnesses to the stand today in support of its charges that Furman (Footy) Lowry, an In dian, was guilty of murder in the fatal stabbing January 30 of Owen Smith, another Indian. Grover Oxendine told the court yes terday that he heard Lowry make a threat against Smith, that he saw Lowry and his brother, Fred, accom pany Smith into the darkness, where he said Smith was stabbed. PUBL.IBHKD KVBKT AFTIKMOOB UXCBJPT SUNDAY. State Journey to President Lebrun Monarch’s First Trip Since Coro nation TO OFFSET HITLER JOURNEY TO ITALY German: Dictator To Repay Call of II Duce to Berlin Last Fall; George Likely To Meet His Brother, Duke Os Windsor, First Since Abdication (London, Feb. 9. (AP) —King George’s State visit to France next June was considered here today to be a planned demonstration of the close political ties between Europe’s lead ing democracies. Political observers were quick to point out that the monarch’s first journey outside the realm since his coronation last May would serve to balance the German Hitler’s spring time visit to Fascist Rome. The London press generally hailed as politically significant the announce ment that King George and Queen (Continued on Page Five) Wide Gains In Spain By Insurgents Hendaye, France, on the Franco- Spanish Frontier, Feb. 9. —(AP) — Spanish insurgents completed the “first stage” of an attempted push to the sea through government-controll ed eastern Spain, and halted today to bury their dead and take inventory of captured prisoners and supplies. The Franco forces counted 240 square miles of territory gained in a four-day offensive north of Teruel. and an insurgent communique said thousands of prisoners, much muni tions and supplies were taken. The offensive was coupled with re sumption of insurgent aerial raids in the territory along the Mediterranean, the stronghold of government Spain Six Italian-type planes dropped 70 bombs on Sagunto yesterday. Casual ties were undetermined. Barcelona sirens sounded at dinner time and'the city was darkened last night, but bombers attacked a few miles to the south. _ 8 PAGES TODAY FIVE CENTS COPY CROP MEASURE IS AS DEBATE CLOSES '/Marketing Restrictions Pro vided in Addition To Continuing Soil Conservation ANTI-LYNCH FIGHT IN SENATE GOES ON Ellender, Louisiana, De * dares Problem Has Been Adequately Dealt With by South; Roosevelt Ready to Ask S2OO to S3OO Millions More for Relief Washington, Feb. 9. —(AP)— The House voted approval today of the revised crop control bill, speeding It along to final legislative action in the Senate. The roll call vote was 263 to 135. House action came at the end of four hours of debate under procedure which many Republicans described as a “gag” rule. No member was permit ted to change any section of the bill which a joint Senate-House commit tee drafted from separate measures the Senate and House passed at the end of the special session of Congress last December. The program will continue the soil conservation act and set up machinery by which Secretary Wallace, with the approval of farmers, could apply mar keting regulations to .wheat, corn, cot ton, tobacco and rice. In debate preceding the vote, Rep resentative Rees, Republican, Kansas, said the theory of crop regulation em bodied in the legislation would lead to more government control than one realizes today. He expressed approval of the present soil conservation act, and an “ever normal granary” pro gram, but “without hooking it up with crop control.” While the House acted on the farm bill, the Senate heard Ellender, Dem ocrat, Louisiana, say that the pro blem of lynching had teen dealt with “adequately” by the South. Resuming the southerners’ filibuster against the pending anti-lynching bill, Ellender (Continued on Page Five.) Defense To Battle For Fred Beal New York, Feb. 9 (AP)—A commit tee of progressive and liberal leaders announced today they would oppose extradition in Boston proceedings to morrow against Fred Beal, who was convinced of conspiracy to murder in the death of Police Chief O. F. Ader holt during a textile strike in Gas tonia, N. C., in 1929. Beal, pending appeal, went to Rus sia and forfeited his bail. He was re arrested in Lawrence, Mass., his home town, January 19, and faces a 17 to 20-year sentence, if extradited. “The non-partisan committee for the defense of Fred E. Beal,’ issued a statement declaring the Beal case “must not be allowed to become an other Mooney or Sacco and Vanzetti case to disgrace the judicial record of our country.” Capone May Be Sent To A Hospital Insane Chicago Gangster May Be Sent To Missouri from Alcatraz San Francisco, Cal., Feb. 9.—(AP) —Reports were current today that A1 Capone, under observation in the hos pital ward of Alcatraz prison might be transferred to the hospital for in sane criminals at Springfield. Mo. The rumor persisted that the Chi cago gangster, serving time for in come tax violation, was suffering from paresis, a condition which brings about destruction of the brain cells. Dr. Edwin Twitchell, consulting psychiatrist for Alcatraz, who admit ted yesterday he had visited Capone on a special call Sunday, observed: . “Whether Capone has paresis or Continued on Page Five.)
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