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DAB HgtxftgTsmt ifktlu sfettmfrh ssss TWENTY-FIFTH YEAR FIRM BILL FINDS NEW TROUBLE IN SENATE JAPAN WOULD FAVOR AGREEMENT LIMITING NUMBER BATTLESHIPS Idea With Quantitative Re strictions Uppermost Would Make Favor able Impression VIEWS STATED BY NAVAL SPOKESMAN Disagreement, in Principle, With Request of United States, Britain and France Explained; Quantitative Limit Would Restrict Size of Ships Tokyo, Feb. 10 (AP)-A Japanese naval spokesman indicated today Ja pan would endorse a world naval agreement limiting the number of warships of world powers. “If the powers would approach Ja pan with the idea of quantitative limi tations uppermost, it would make a favorable impression,” the spokesman said in a discussion of means to end the threat of a world naval building his personal view of Japan’s disagreement, in principle, with the request by the United States, Great Britain and France for Japanese nav al building information, the naval in formant said: “It would, in effect, bind our coun try with qualitative limitation, and if we refused, then the powers con cerned are going to make it a pretext for expansion on imaginary grounds that we also are expanding.” Qualitative limitation (limiting the size of warships) would be in con tradiction to Japan’s stand at the London naval conference, he said. WARS PIVOTING ON “LIFE LINE” FATES Spain’s Insurgent Armies Make Strate gic Gains; Other Strip Is In China War (By The Associated Press) The world’s two wars are pivoting on the fate of “life line” corridors. One such vital strip of territory, a narrow link between two segments of the government-held third of Spain, attained new strategic importance with insurgent armies in position to drive between Catalonia and Valencia to the sea. The other strip was in China. Spanish insurgent victors along the Alfambra river north of Teruel in a four-day offensive offered what in surgent military advices termed “ex cellent conditions” for a thurst some 60 miles to the Mediterranean to shear Catalonia off from the rest of the government Spain. The insurgents said 4,247 bodies of government soldiers were left on the battlefields of the Palomera moun tains and in the Alfambra river valley and that 9,300 soldiers were captured. Methodist Unification Is Opposed Atlanta, Ga., Feb. 10.—(AP)—Two bishops in the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, one retired, differed today in the interpretation of the vote neressary to bring aboht merger of the three branches of Methodism. C. J. Steward, Augusta, Ga., real estate man, and member of the exe cutive committee of a layman’s or ganization working against the pro posed merger, yesterday made public a letter Bishop Collins Denny (Continued on Page Six.'. WOULDOPENPARK IN COMING SEASON Etheridge Wants Great Smokies Formally Ope rated by Park Service Daily Dispatch Borens. Ip the Sir Walter Hotel. Raleigh, Feb. 10—Director R«. Bruce Etheridge, of the Department of Con servation and Development, is going t° make every effort' to persuade the Rational Park Service to formally open the Great Smoky Mountains Na tional Park this summer or fall, when he is in Washington Friday to confer L _ (Continued on Page Six.) WIRE SERVICE OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS. Seek His Slayer ! 5 < :: L, L-Lii The Rev. Charles H. Lee (above) was killed by a steel-jacketed bullet as he sat in the rectory of his church at St. Simon’s Island, Ga. Authori ties are hunting a “dude” killer. Footprints outside the rectory win dow, through which Dr. Lee was shot, indicate that the killer wore shoes with very pointed toes. (Central Press) Japs Begin Drive Upon China Lines Major Fighting in Opening Phases Os Big Push To Center Upon Railway Shanghai, Feb. 10 (AP)—Guns of Japan’s grand campaign to choke off China’s Lunghai railway artery and dominate 100,000 square miles of cen tral China thundered today on the northwestern edge of the Lunghai cor ridor. The major fighting of opening phases of the battle was expected to center along the Peiping-Hankow railway, w’hich cuts across the Lung hai 300 miles west of the Chinese east ern coast. Ninety miles north of this spot, Chengchow, an artillery duel was in progress between Chinese and one of the eight Japanese columns aimed at the Lunghai from the north and south. One hundred Japanese war planes bombarded widespread areas of cen tral China and strafed Chinese posi tions yesterday to soften the resist ance of the 400,000 Chinese troops de fending the Lunghai corridor. counTofTraffic NOW IN PROGRESS Highway Bureau Constructs Enormous Map for Its Greatest Survey Dally Dlspntel* Tltirenn, In Tin* sir Walt— Raleigh, Feb. 10. —On the wall of drafting room of the Statewide High way Planning Survey hangs the world’s biggest map of North Caro lina. It’s fourteen feet, six inches from “Manteo to Murphy” and five feet four inches at its greatest north south dimension. It’s as specked as the oilcloth on a country hotel dining room table in fly time, but the specks mean some thing beside the fact that there arj no screens on the doors and windows. Each speck is some sort of a pin or tack and each means that there the survey has made, or will make, a count of vehicular traffic. The survey offers unparalleled op portunities for sufferers from insom (Contiuued on Page Six.) HENDERSON, N. C„ AFTERNOON, FEBRUARY 10, 1938 The Hoover —Breaking Up InL An unusual picture, taken by a member of the crew, shows the luxury •iner President Hoover, hard aground on the reefs off the tiny island of Hoishoto in the Pacific, being broken up by huge waves. All five hundred nf the passengers aboard the Hoover were removed safely before the sea heiran to Dound her to pieces. (Central Press) Death And Destruction In Pacific Coast Storm Howling Gale on North Cali fornia Coast Kills. Five and Injures Scores of Others HIGHWAYS, RAILWAYS ARE LEFT BLOCKED Menace of Floods from Fresh Rains Feared; Ex tends Northward from Midway Point Between San Francisco and Los Angeles to Oregon Line San Francisco, Cal., Feb. 10.—(AP 1 * —A howling gale struck northern California, killed five persons, injur ed scores of others and caused pro perty damage estimated today at mil lions of dollars. The wind, which at several places along a 300-mile front reached almost tornadic force yesterday, came as a shrieking climax to 14 days of storms. It left in its wake broken communi cations systems, b?i*cke.dj highwHys and railroads and a menace of floods from additional rains, predicted for Continued on Page Two.) COUNTING VOTES IN ULSTER’S ELECTION Northern Ireland Deciding on Wheth er To Join U|»ion With New Irish Republic Belfast, Northern Ireland, Feb. 10. —(AP) —Vote-counting began today in Ulster’s general election with Frime Minister Lord Craigavon, confident the result would be a fresh mandate for his government to combat union with Ireland. Tabulations* were expected to be completed by 7 p. m. on the 31 House of Commons votes to which 64 can didates aspired. Twenty-one of the House’s 52 members previously were named by acclamation. The polling yesterday in. a specia.l election, called by Craigavon speci fically on the issue of the union of Ulster and Ireland, was accomplished with a minimum of disorder. A score of windows, chiefly those displaying pictures of nationalist (favoring a united Ireland) candidates were smashed here and five persons were hurt when police dispersed a large crowd outside a polling place. STATE WPA CHIEFS ASK LARGER FUNDS Sufficient Federal Financing To Add 1,000 to Relief Rolls Here Requested Raleigh, Feb. 10. —(AP) —North Car olina WPA officials said today they had requested fur.us to add at least 1,000 persons to the 25,09.) now on WPA relief jobs because of unemploy ment condition l State officials said the Federal bureau was furnishing a round $.'50,000 a r-onth to the Siate now, and that some $25,030 a month more would be asked. Ft. Bragg Captain Accident Victim Fort Bragg, Feb. 10 (AP) —Cap- tain Carl E. Berg, 40, member of the 36th Field Artillery, was shot and killed instantly on the Fort Bragg reservations by the appa rently discharge of his pistol as he was making a reeonnaisance for the location of gun positions be fore targe practice yesterday aft ernoon. There were no eye-witnesses. An official investigation is in progress. Captain Berg, a native of Eau clairc, Wis., served as an enlisted man in the artillery in the World •War, later attended West Point and was commissioned in 1920. hlitler May Hit Snag In Army Lines Berlin, Feb. 10.—(AP)—Adolf Hit ler, the ambitious ex-corporal who 19 years ago started out to Nazify the German army, is renewing the task. Some have posed the questioi whether he could do it this time. Nineteen years ago Hitler was a mere party leader trying to win ad herents within the army. This time he is head of the state with direct con trol of all its armed force, and it would be a tout private general in deed who defied him openly. Nevertheless, diplomatic quarters heard reports yesterday that three generals offered their resignations in I rotest. The repo.is raised the ques tions whether Hitler was stronger than thrse generals, whether there were many such discontented high er officers in the army and what (Continued on Page Six > SHARP REACTIONS IN COTTON PRICES Lower Cables and Liquidation Depress Market During Trading of Forenoon New York, Feb. 10.—(AP) —Cotton futures opened six to nine points off under lower Liverpool cables and li quidation, pending action in the Sen ate on the farm bill. May sold off 8.75. Shortly after the first half hour, the list was 10 to 12 points net lower. May reacted to 8.74, leaving quotations by midday at net losses of about 12 to 16 points. WEATHER FOR NORTH CAROLINA. Mostly cloudy, possibly occasion al light rain iff north central por tion tonight and Friday; slightly colder tonight and in south and east portions Friday. Soviet Officials Forbid Mrs. Rubens Telling Any Detail Os Imprisonment Her Every Answer Censored in Interview With U. S. Embassy Official as Moscow AMERICAN OFFICIAL WITHHOLDS DETAIL Visitors ’Gain: Impression She Will Be Incarcerated Long Time Yet; Small Party Present at Interview in Prison on Outskirts of Capital Moscow, Fob. 10 (AP)—'Mrs. Ruth Marie Rubens, of New York, pale from two months in prison, talked for an hour and fifteen minutes today with Loy Henderson, United States charge d’affaires, but apparently was able to impart little of her account of her arrest on suspicion of espionage. Soviet judicial authorities were pre sent to censor the interview. Mrs. Rubens was permitted to answer only questions approved by an examining judge of the Soviet military tribunal wearing the insignia of a brigade com mander. Henderson declined to tell what took place during his visit to the old But trka prison outside Moscow, until he had made his report to the State De partment.. He was accompanied by Angus Ward, United States consul, who went to interpret, if necessary. It was understood Mrs. Rubens had to keep silent about details of her ar rest. Her visitors gained the impres (Continued on Page Six.) EDWARD A. LUPTON DIES IN NEW YORK Goldsboro, Feb. 10. —(AP) —Reia tives here were informed today of thp death of Edward A. Lupton, 60, a re tired sea captiin, in Matine hospital at Staten Mnnd, N. Y.. yesterday Funeral services will be held at the Methodist church at Vandemere. bentonvTlle park PLANS ARE HALTED Lack of Funds Blocks Survey at Site of Civil War Battle Near Goldsboro Washington, Feb. 10. —(AP) — The National Park Service said today lack of funds had delayed completion of a boundary study in connection with designation of the Bentonville, N. C., battlefield as a national historical site Until the study is made, sponsors of the plan do not know what area should be acquired for donations to the Federal government, the park service explained. The advisory board of the park service, whose duty it is to investigate such proposals, already has approved the site, it was explained. The battle of Bentonville is regarded by some as the last major engagement of the Civil War. The United Daughters of the Con federacy and North Carolina congress man have been interested in the pro posal. Boomed in Ireland m Sm \Jm ||y tL *■ v ■ John McCormack . . . for president? An American citizen since 1919, John McCormack, the burly Irish singer, is being boomed*by friends for the presidency of Eire the for mer Irish Free State, against a Czecho-Slovakian count and a vet eran judge. McCormack, who sang his farewell to American concert audiences in March, 1937, is 53 and is a count of the Holy Roman empire. —Central Press PUBLISHED IVIKT AFTHANOOM EXCEPT SUNDAY. Steel Peacemaker H wn m 88l v * JH Kh& Ji SBm Thomas L. Moses • • • “Big Steel’s” representative Thomas L. Moses, U. S. Steel vice president was the mediator represent ing “big steel” in successful confer ences in New York between the C. I. O. and the company to renew con tracts for more than 500,000 men. Moses was largely responsible for bringing “big steel” and John L. Lewis together in their first agreement which expires Feb. 28. Hearing Os Beal’s Case Is Deferred Postponed Until Wednesday Under Procedure in Mas sachusetts Boston, Mass., Feb. 10.—'(AP)— Hearing was postponed today until February 16 on a request of North Carolina for a rendition of Fred Er win Beal, 41-year-old Lawrence, Mass., labor organizer, who has been hunted as a fugitive for eight years since he wa§ convicted of conspiracy to murder a Gastonia, N. C., police chief. On the morning of February 16, Beal faces a district court hearing in Lawrence, where he was arrested sev eral weeks ago as a fugitive. The rendition hearing will begin in the State House in Boston a few hours iater. Attorney General A. A. F. Seawell of North Carolina offered no objec tion when counsel for Beal requested the continuance from Assistant At. torncy General James Bacigalupo, of Massachusetts, presiding. Seawell later described the postponement ai “routine.” No evidence was presented at to day’s brief session, which was delay ed about an hour in starting. Beal was not present. The move of Carolina to have Beal returned opened a new chapte r in the career of the Lawrence-born prisoner, arrested January 19 when he visited the home of a brother In his native city. Beal was sentenced in 1929 to serve 17 to 20 years for conspiring with sir others to murder Chief O. F. Aderhoit slain during a strike riot. Freed in $5,000 bail, awaiting an ap peal to the North Carolina Supreme Court, Beal had fled the state and eventually arrived in Russia. PRICES OF LIQUOR WILL BE REDUCED Cuts Will Range as Much as 25 Per cent in Some Instances, Cut lar Moore Says Raleigh, .Fex 10.—< AIM - -Cu'.lor Moore, chairman of the State Liquor Commission, c.-.’u unccc today that prices of bon i-d liquors would be re duced as much as 25 percent in some instances on M ir *h L in county licucr stores, but co.nmec'od there wuul! hr no cut in “law-priced liquors.” The prices of somi brands will ad vance slightly, as the liquor is older, Moore said. _ FIVE CENTS COPY LIVESTOCK, DAIRY SENATORS. OBJECT TO RESTRICTIONS Westerners Fight for Protec tions to Industries Cen tering in Their States ANTI-LYNCH BILL PUT ASIDE WHILE —. ' ■ i-. Measure Reaches Senate Floor Amid Predictions of Passage by Nightfall; Roosevelt Asks $250,000,- 000 More for Relief In Four Months Washington, Feb. 10.—(AP)—Oppo 3ition of senators from livestock and dairy regions threatened administra tion plans today for speedy Senate approval of the compromise farm bill. Senator Schwellenbach, Democrat, Washington, usually an administra tion stalwart, said he would force a test vote on charges made by a joint, congressional committee in provisions intended to protect dairy and livestock regions. The westerner added he would try to send the entire bill back to the joint committee for restoration of this provision which was in separate House and Senate bills. The Senate took up the farm bill amid predictions of passage "before nightfall.” To give the right of way to ihe leg islation, it laid aside, for the time be ing at least, the anti-lynching meas ure, against which southern senators have been filibustering since the ses sion started in January. Debate was delayed at today’s con vening when Senator Johnson, Re publican, California, forced reading of the full report of a joint Senate- House Committee on revisions of the farm measure. The farm bill shared capital interest with President Roosevelt’s request for $250*000,00(1 additional for relief in the next four and a half months. “Funds available at this time," the President wrote Speaker Bankhead “will not only take care of the ad ditional burden caused by the recent (Continued on Page Six.) Goga Quits As Premier Ofßoumania Bucharest, Roumania, Feb. 10 (AP) —The anti-Semitic government of Premier. Octavian Goga resigned to day after six turbulent weeks in of fice. The resignation was handed to King Carol at 4:30 p. m. Former Premier George Nironescu was commissioned by the king to form a new cabinet. Dr. M. Cristea, patriarch of the Rou manian orthodox church, declined a suggestion by the king that he take over the regime. The cabinet’s fall was a climax of a day in which indications of Goga’s fall from favor mounted. Before the re signation, King Carol had summoned four former premiers, not including Nironescue, to the palace for individ ual audiences. “LinIEBUiESS” MEET NOT“FUNNY” New Dealers Not So Much Amused by Recent Ses sion As Appeared By CHARLES P. STEWART Central Press Columnist Washington, Feb. 10.—Little busi nessmen who attached the recent Washington conference of their com mercial, industrial and financial ilk, undoubtedly all have been back home for several days now, and each must have told his individual story of the affair to other business folk in his own community. There is no reason, therefore, for this column to try to go into details concerning it. Nearly 1,000 of these chaps were present at the proceedings, and thoso who participated in them assuredly have interpreted them more com petently, from the standpoint of their respective neighborhoods, than is pos sible for a central commentator to broadcast generally, from here in the capital. A Washington View. However, a Washington observer (Continued on Page Six.)
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