HENDERSON’S
POPULATION
13,873
TWENTY-FIFTH year
JAPAN REFUSES TO STATE NAVAL PROGRAM
tobacco crop for
1937BRINGSTOTAL
SUM $140,808,825
Sales Amounted to 575,472,-
031 Pounds and Average
Was $24.27 Per
Hundredweight
S4O MILLION MORE
THAN 1936 FIGURES
Poundage 137,919,303
Pounds More Than 1936
and Average About Cent
and Third Better; Flue-
Cured and Burley Crops
Were Both Larger
Raleigh. Feb. 12.— (AP)—North Car
olina farmers received $140,808,825 for
575 4 72.031 pounds of tobacco market
ed to February 1, an average of $24.27
per hundredweight, the Conperative
Crop Reporting Service said today.
This compared with a $22.92 average
to February 1 last season, the service
paid. It reported the money to date
was $40,676,019 more than was paid
for the entire 1936 crop, while pound
age so far was 137.919,303 pounds
more than for the 1936 season.
The 14 markets operating last
month sold 23,347,824 pounds at $15.09
per hundredweight, compared with
14.322,968 pounds at $18.65 average last
season for the month.
“The market during the past sea
son has been very favorable for flue
cured tobaccos,” the report said. “The
flue-cured and hurley crops were 24
and 68 percent, respectively, larger
than in 1936-37. The stocks of hurley
■were very low, however.
Commuting
Is Sought
For Exuni
Raleigh, Feb. 12 (AP>—Three attor
neys today asked Paroles Commission
er Edwin Gill for a commutation of
the death sentence of Milford Exum
Wayne county man scheduled to die
Friday for the murder of a Negro.
At a hearing attended by Exum’s
parents, his wife and a brother and
sister, the attorneys presented ballis
tics evidence which they said tended
to show the bullet which actually kill
ed the Negro, 60-year-old Jim Williams
was not fired from Exum’s gun.
Gill said he would take the case up
with Governor Hoey, probably next
(Con'.jijued on Page Eight.)
TWO WILSON YOUTHS
HURT IN COLLISION
W. I). Hackney and Jimmie C. Riser
In Rex Hospital After One
Sleeps at Wheel
Raleigh, Feb. 12 —W. D. Hackney !
and Jimmie C. Riser, both 19 year
old Wilson youths, were injured early
this morning when the driver of the
car in which they were riding fell
asieep and lost control of the machine
which crashed into a parked car at
2312 Hills/boro street, police reported.
Both men were taken to Rex hospital.
Both were reported resting well this
afternoon.
Investigating officers said that
Hackney, driving the car, went to
sleep at the wheel, and the eastbound
car swung across the street, crashing
into the parked car of George Teeler,
2308 Hillsboro street, then struck the
car of T. T. Swain, 2312 Hillsboro
street.
Traffic Sergeant Needham Bagwell
said a warrant charging Hackney with
reckless and careless driving would
ne taken out.
WIiONIST
iVE MOWING
Next Legislature Expected
to Stop Transfer of
Highway Funds
Pally Dlapatcb Burean,
In The Sir Waltor MtilH.
Raleigh, Feb. 12.—-A statewide cam
paign against diversion of highway
l *nds to other purposes appears to be
making great headway in the State,
m f l it now seems certain that anti
niversionists will be in position to
a ge an aggressive, and probably
successful, campaign in the 1939 Gen
“ral Assembly to submit a constitu
(Continued on Page Five.^
itiHtrtmmn Dnilu Htsmifrfira
ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OF NOkHI CAROLINA AND VIR(SIA. *
LEASED WIRE SERVICE OF
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS.
Meeting Os Hitler
And Austrian Head
May See New Move
He Got the Job
■ " Bf
Andrew J. Habinek
. . not “lazy, unreliable”
This advertisement appeared in the
situation wanted columns of a Cleve
land newspaper: “Man, young, unre
liable, dishonest, lazy, doesn’t want
position, but needs 1; asst, mgr., per
sonal consultant, etc.; short hours, big
pay. ME. 2830.” Andrew J. Habinek,
22, unemployed, inserted the ad be
cause he wanted to attract attention
and get a job, badly needed. It did
attract attention, so much so that 76
persons called him on the telephone,
offering jobs. Andrew is taking one
with an advertising agency.
Roumanians
Map Future
For Nation
Country Is Assured
of Justice and Peace
for All In 14-Point
Program
Bucharest, Roumania, SFeb. 12. —
(AP) —With military rule and censor
ship to silence opposition, the new
Roumanian government issued today
a 14-point program assuring the na
tion of justice and peace, and promis
ing a new era of prosperity by radical
economic social and constitutional re
forms, including organized emigration
of Jewish surplus population.
The program ussared foreign rela
tions would be continued with Rou
manian traditional friends, England
and France; affirmed adherence to
the League of Nations and appealed
for “Christian brotherhood” of all
Roumanians under the leadership of
Premier Dr. M. Cristea, patriarch of
the Roumanian orthodox church.
The manifesto outlined:
1. Constitutional reform of moral
and material benefits for the nation.
2. Rejuvenation of national pride,
Continued on Page Two.)
Insurgents Renew
Offensive, Making
Advance in Spain
Hendaye, France, at the Spanish
frontier, Feb. 12 (AP)—The insur
gents resumed their offensive in Bada
jov province today, fighting to cut the
Peraleda-Zalema highway.
Salamanca dispatches said General
Francisco Franco’s troops captured
six positions.
The government admitted the in
surgents were attacking this region
about 150 miles southwest of Madrid,
: t)ut asserted Franco's troops were
driven back to their positions.
On the Aragon front north of Te
ruel, where the insurgents advanced
east of the Alfamibra river in a pow
erful drive last week, Franco was con
solidating his gains in preparation for
another push to sever communications
between Valencia and Catalonia.
HENDERSON, N. C., SATURDAY j AFTERNOON, FEBRUARY 12,1938-
Dramatic Step To Bolster
Confidence in Nation’s
Armed Forces Is
Speculated
UNION LONG TALKED
BY TWO COUNTRIES
Move To Restore Respect
Abroad for German Army
Comes on Swelling Wave
of Resentment Over For
eign Rumors of Unrest In
Hitler’s Domain
Berlin, Feb. 12 (AP)—Reichfuehrer
Adolf Hitler conferred suddenly and
secretly today with Chancellor Kurt
von Schuschnigg of Austria as the be
lief grew Hitler might decide on a
dramatic step to bolster confidence in
Germany’s armed forces.
Hitler met the chancellor of Austria
at his mountain retreat in Bavaria
where he has been resting since his
drastic centralization of authority in
himself.
(Union with Austria —or at least a
recognized sphere of influence there —
has been one of the salient points of
Hitler’s Nazi party and some drama
tic move toward that end has often
been reported as Hitler’s next step
toward re-estalblishing Germany’s po
sition in Europe.)
The belief in a new move to restore
respect abroad for Germany’s army
came on a swelling wave of resent
ment over foreign rumors of unrest
in the army.
A “we will show them” spirit domi
nated editorial comment in the gov
ernment-controlled press.
Indignation increased hourly over
Continued on Page Two.)
SEES DISASTER FOR
SOUTH IN POLICIES
Hamilton Fish Says New Deal Pro
gram Is Losing World Cot
ton Markets for Farmer
Greensboro, FeD. 12 (AP) —Disaster
for the South if the present New Deal
policies are continued was predicted
here today by Representative Hamil
ton Fish, Jr., Republican, New York,
who tonight will address the Lincoln
Day gathering of North Carolina Re
publicans.
Fish gave an interview this morn
ing as some 200 Republicans got to
gether to hear reports of the year’s
work. This afternoon the younger
party members elected officers and
heard a keynote address by L L. Wall,
of Winston-Salem, a congressional
nominee two years ago. The party’s
State executive committee was to meet
this afternoon to consider plans to
hold the State convention in Char
lotte.
“The Southern cotton states,” Fish
said, “are headed for certain ruin
under the Roosevelt policies. They
are committing economic suicide for
temporary profit, and are losing-their
world cotton markets year by year
through the short-sighted policy of
temporary gain.”
Rufus Reynolds, Greensboro lawyer,
welcomed the younger party members
at their convention, and Benjamin
Hicks, of Henderson, responded. Pre
dicting the next President would he a
Republican. Hicks attacked the New
Deal policies as akin to Fascism.
Nears Men on Floe
~ •
Soviet icebreaker
# .in rescue of scientists
One of the oldest vessels in the
Arctic, the Soviet icebreaker,
Taimir, radioed it had reached
within airplane scouting distance
of the Russian scientists adrift on
an ice floe. The scientists already
had established communications
with the east eoast of Greenland.
—Gentral Press ■
Warns U. S. on Navy
V
lUfe,.
Jeanette Rankin
. . . attacks large navy program
Opposing President Roosevelt’s en
larged naval program, former Repre
sentative Jeanette Rankin of Mon
tana, first woman member of con
gress and now legislative secretary of
the National Council for Prevention
of War, warned the house naval af
fairs committee that a “wholly abnor
mal U. S. building program would
speed the world toward war.”
10 Highway
Officers At
Trial Asked
Negro Faces Court in
Sampson Next
Week for Assault on
Aged Woman
Raleigh, Feh. 12.—(AP) Sheriff
Carlisle Jackson, of Sampson county,
today asked Governor Hoey to fur
nish ten State highway patrolmen as
a “precautionary measure” for the
trial next Tuesday in Clinton of Wad
dell Hedley; Negro, on charges of
criminally assaulting a white woman.
In Clinton, the sheriff said, he ex
pected no mob violence, but that “we
thought we might prevent any troubl ?
by being prepared.”
Robert Thompson, Governor Hoey’s
secretary, told the sheriff to confer
with Major Arthur Fulk, highway pa
trol commander, and make arrange
ments “required for the safety of the
prisoner.”
Thompson acted on the authority
of the governor, who was out of town.
“The patrolmen sent will come to as
sist you and will in no way assume
responsibility which under the law is
yours,” Thompson wired the sheriff.
Hedley, who was kept here at Cen
tral Prison until last Sunday, is charg
ed with criminally assaulting Miss
Mittie Sessoms, 66, of near Roseboro,
and then wounding her with a pistol,
the sheriff said.
B jS 5m
McMullen Says Nobody in
North Is Opposing It
Except Radicals
Daily Utmiatch Burean.
Tn the Sir Walter «»*"I.
Raleigh, Feb. 12.—Harry McMullan
assistant attorney general, is certain
that we’ve really got something in the
South.
Back from Massachusetts where he
and Attorney General A. A. F. Sea
well got their pictures in the Boston
Globe, though they did not get Fred
Beal, Mr. McMullan told your corres
pondent that N6w England is entire
ly too drab and dreary in the winter.
“I often wonder why the Pilgrims
didn’t have sense enough to come fur
ther south down the coast,” he jested.
He said that the Massachusetts of
ficials were very cordial and coop
erative and that he does not anticipate
any trouble at all in the extradition
of the one-time Communist and con
victed slayer of Gastonia’s Police
Chief Aderholt.
He pointed out that there was no
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FOR NORTH CAROLINA.
Mostly cloudy tonight and Sun-:
day; somewhat warmer Sunday in
north central portion tonight.
weekly weather.
South Atlantic States: Rain over
northern portion first of week and
again in latter part, but little or
no rain in Florida; mild temper
atures over southern section and
frequent changes over northern
section.
Crop Program Will
Get Overwhelming
Vote From Senate
No Matter Who Speaks Nor
What He Says, Result
WiH Be Same, Bark
ley Declares
KING SEEKS ARMS
MEETING AT ONCE
Japanese Blunt Refusal To
United States Demands for
Size of Ships Finds Reac
tion in Senate; Hull Ex
plains Foreign Policy of
Nation
Washington, Feb. 12.—(AP)—Dem
ocratic leaders expressed confidence
today, the administration’s crop con
trol program would be approved by
an overwhelming majority when the
Senate votes Monday.
“We all know that no matter who
speaks no- what he says. the~e will
be no changes made in the final
I *' r ajori , v Leader Barkley, of
Kentucky, said. He asserted the bill
had passed its stiffest test when the
Senate voted to 31 yesterday a
galnst sending it hack to conference
with the House.
The Senate will vote Monday at
3:30 p. m., by agreement. Its approval
will send to the White House the com
p’icated measure for production and
marketing controls on cotton, wheat,
corn, tobacco and rice crops.
Barkley agreed late yesterday to
avoid a Saturday session after critics
of the bill had prolonged final Senate
action two days.
Meanwnlle, Senator King, Demo
crat, Utah, said he would introduce a
resolution Monday authorizing Presi
dent Roosevelt to call a disarmament
conference immediately. King said ha
feared Janan’s refusal so supply the
world powers with information about
her naval plans would encourage an
armaments race and place a “crush
ing burden” on tax-payers of all na
tions.
Authoritative sources said, mean
time, the United States, in conse
quence of Japan’s reply, would “re
sume full liberty of action.”
Other developments:
Secretary Hull declared the United
States foreign policy consists in avoid
ing “extreme internationalism, with
itg political entanglements,” dnd also
"extreme isolation, which makes other
nations believe this nation is more or
less afraid.”
Hull called the policy “a matter
of simple common sense."
Abraham Lincoln birthday speeches
will start the Republican party to
night on the 1938 political campaign
aimed primarily at increasing party’s
strength in Congress.
PROGRESS REPORTED
ON PENDERLEA FARM
Farm Security Administration Tells of
142 Houses Completed, More
In Prospect
Washington, Feb. 12.—.(AP) —Farn
Security Administration reports show
ed today 142 houses had been com
pleted and 125 families were living on
the Penderlea Homesteads project in
Pender county, N. C.
Construction of 50 more homes was
reported under way to complete tne
192-farmstead project. The community
also includes a school and community
building.
Pushes Navy Plans
Charles Edison
, 0 , studies battleship plan®
Assistant Secretary of the Navy
Charles Edison, son of the late
inventor, studies final report of
the special board on battleship
plans in his office in the navy de
partment in Washington,
PUBLISHED IVBRT AFTKKNOOM
BXCHSPT SUNDAY.
New Aide to Hull
*..A
Adolph A. Berle, Jr.
. . . Brain Truster returns
Adolph A. Berle, Jr., one of the
original Brain Trusters, returns to
Washington as assistant secretary
of state. He succeeds Hugh Wil
son, new envoy to Germany.
Berle, who went from Washington
to become city chamberlain of
New York under Mayor Fiorello
H. La Guardia and then urged the
abandonment of his office as a
useless one, was a friend of Ray
mond Moley, original Brain Trust
er, who now is a critic of the
New Deal. Berle leaves a $15,000
job as head of New York’s city
planning commission to take new
$9,000 job.
Vast Areas
Flooded In
California
1,700 Homeless In
One Town Alone
and Death Toll Is 17
On Coast
San Francisco, Cal., Feb. 12. —(AP)
—Flood-filled lowlands dotted wide
areas in central and northern Califor
nia today in the wake of a recorl
breaking rainfall that left 1,700
homeless in one town and accounted
for a death toll of 17.
Rain fell today for the seventeenth
consecutive day.
Rain crippled highway traffic by
flooding roads or blocking them with
snow and slides.
One thousand residents of a village
near Watsonville, in central Califor
nia waited for the overflowing Pajaro
river to recede and let them return
to their homes. The same river flood
ed many blocks on the lower end of
Watsonville in the heart of a rich ag
ricultural area.
A bridge spanning the Salenas river
on the coast highway was washed out
last night and fear was expressed at
least one car hurtled into the river
before warning signs could be put up.
The snow pack along the Sierra
mountains reached 206 inches at Soda
•Springs and Norden, with 18-foot
snowbanks along the Trucke highway.
N. C. LEADSNATifIN
GROWING TOBACCO:
Pitt County Greatest County
in Weed Culture; Vance
37th in U. S.
Dnllj Dhpatch Bnrenn.
In the Sir Waller
Raleigh, Feb. 12.—Pitt county leads
the United States in tobacco acreage.
W. H. Rhodes, chief of the North
Carolina Department of Agriculture’s
statistical division, announced today.
Basing his information on the lat
est United States census, the statis
tician said that of the 50 leading coun
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FIVE CENTS COPY
| UNITED STATES IS
j INFORMED BUILDING
PLANS ARE SECRET
Tokyo Unable To See Any
Logical Reason for Su
spicion of Exceed
ing Treaty
WANTS NO NAVY TO
MENACE FOREIGNERS
Note Given American Am
bassador Answers De
mands of Britain and
France Also; Japanese
Drive To Cut China Off
from Russia Is Suspected
Tokyo, Feb. 12.—(AP)—Japan re
fused formally tonight to divul|c se
crets of her naval construction in re
ply to demands for information by the
United States, France and Great Bri
tain.
Japan declared herself willing, how
ever, to discuss naval limitations on
a quantitative basis—restricting the
size of fleets rather than individual
rshins.
The formal note contended Japan
failed “to see any logical reason” for
assuming she was planning to build
warships beyond the limitations of the
1936 London naval treaty.
The government insisted, moreover
that Japan has “no intention what
ever of possessing an armament which
could menace other countries”
The declaration was contained in a
(Continued on Pace Pour.)
Wright Is
Saved From
Execution
Los Angeles, Cal., Feb. 12.—(AP)—
Paul Wright was convicted of man
slaughter today in his trial for killing
his wife and John Kimmel in the
Wright home November 9.
The case was given to the jury late
yesterday. The trial, lasting more than
three weeks, was marked by Wright’s
contention he shot Mrs. Wright and
Kimmel in a “white flame” of rage
when he found them in an abnormal
embrace on a piano bench in the
Wright residence.
Although the prosecution said in its
opening statement it would try to
prove the slayings were premeditated,
(Continued on Page Eight.)
ALUMINUM COMPANY
GOES INTO COURTS
Seeks Overruling of Power Commis
sion’s Ban on Tuckertown
Project in State
Richmond, Va., Feb. 12. —(AP)
The Carolina Aluminum Company of
North Carolina asked the fourth Unit
ed States Circuit Court of Appeals
today to review the Federal Power
Commission’s ruling that the Yadkin
river is navigable.
The commission’s ruling was ad
verse to the company’s plans for a
$6,000,000 hydro-elfectr’/: power pro
ject at Tuckertown, N. C.
W. M. Hendren, attorney of Win
ston-Salem, N. C., filed the petition
for review, and said he expected tin
court would hear arguments on it at
its April term.
The company last June filed its de
claration of intention to erect at
Tuckertown a power dam 1,320 feet
long and 93 feet high. The proposed
reservoir area was about 3,000 acres.
PARTIEICIING
VIEWS! ISSUES
Reciprocity, Anti-Lynching,
Short Selling Involved
in Questions
By CHARLES P. STEWART
Central Press Columnist
Washington, Feb. 12.—Secretary of
State Cordejl Hull made a radio broad
cast a few evenings ago in favor of his
policy of reciprocal trade agreements
between the United States and other
countries.
It was a good speech, too.
The secretary ably developed the
idea that it is difficult for a single
country to be prosperous, while oth
ers are economically depressed; that
true prosperity must be world pros
perity—and that world prosperity is
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