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HENDERSON’S POPULATION 13,873 TWENTY-FIFTH YEAR FARM BILL PASSES SENATE BY 56-31 VOTE EUROPE EXCITEDLY AWAITS STATEMENT : IF HIM SUNDAY Fuehrer Expected To Have Surprise for German Na tion in Reichstag Address COLONIES’ RETURN IS BEING HINTED Deal With Britain May Bring That Coveted Prize to Reich, and Britain May Also Recognize Mussolini’s Conquest of Ethiopia, Ru mors Have It Berlin Feb. 14.—(AP>— Jittery Eu rope is facing its third consecutive “Hitler week-end.” The German fuehrer, weighing events of a feverish fortnight, main tained strict secrecy today on the message he will have for the nation and the world in his speech to the Reichstag next Sunday. Speculation as to just what Hitler will say agitated diplomatic quarters, but secrecv, as usual, was his watch word. Official silence, likewise, sur rounded results of Hitler’s talk Sat urday with Austria’s Chancellor Schuschnigg at Hitler’s Bavarian re treat. ‘ , .. There were reports in diplomatic circles that his big surprise for the German people Sunday would be re turn of Germany’s lost war colonies. It was said Britain and Germany were negotiating on an important colonial concession for the Reich, but that cer tain conditions would be required. One of these conditions, it was said, would be a clarification of Germany’s relations with assuring a gainst any sudden aggression in that sector. Premier Mussolini of Italy, who wa3 said to have urged the Schuschnigg- Hitler meeting, was described as fa vorable to a settlement by which Hit ler would get colonies and Italy would get British recognition of the conquest of Ethiopia. Dean Noe Seeks New Treatment Memphis, Term., Feb. 14. —(AP) — Rev. Israel Harding Noe, the former fasting dean of St. Mary’s Episcopal cathedral, made ready to leave his hispital bed today. After a brief stay at his home, the deanery, he will leave for Johns Hopkins hospital in Baltimore for further treatment, with the consent and approval of the Rt. Rev. James Maxon, bishop of Tennes see. The 47-year-old clergyman had tried to prove the immortality of man with the help, of God. He entered the hospital January 22 in a’ near state of collapse after going 22 days with out food or water. His food, he said, was “creative strength,” transmuted “from the Father’s life.” He said he neither needed nor desired material food. Tho absolute fast was a program of progressive abstinence. He lived in 1936 on raw cashew nuts and oranges He lived all of 1937, he said, on oranges alone, giving up water in February of that year. no wolnlely IN 1939 ASSEMBLY Mrs. McKee Barred From Senate by Alternating of Office Elsewhere Dally Dispatch Bnrean. tn the Sir Walter Hotel. Rale|gh, Feto. 14—Unless a new ooiner turns up from somewhere, the State Senate will be without a R-dy from Anywhere.” Mrs. Gertrude Dills McKee, who was highly ornamental as well as useful m I he 1937 session, writes your cor respondent that a “gentleman’s agree ment gives her district’s senatorship to Haywood county this time; though h y s he should be bound by a pact between “gentlemen” only, we don’t know. Anyhow, the only feminine member of the 1937 group will stay home in ’ j - via or come to the legislature as a visitor only. Incidentally, Mrs. Charles Hutchins, ancey’s bid for beauty and legisla te fame, has not yet said whether Continued pa Page Five.). _ Bimiiprsmt Daily Dtsgrafrft * ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA AND VIRGINIA. LEASED WiRE SERVICE OP THE ASSOCIATED PRESS. DICTATOR-KING CAROL, PREMIER King Carol Miron Cristeau ... a dictator-king ... heads cabinet World attention now is focused on Rumania where King Carol 11 Bets himself up as dictator-king, declaring a state of siege and placing the country’s civil administration under the army. Carol’s action followed the resignation of Octavian Goga, anti-Semitic, Fas cist premier who had held office since December. King Carol “abol ished” parties and set up a new government under Patriarch Miron Cristeau, 68, president of the Holy Synod of the National Orthodox Church of Rumania. Carol is accounted as pro-Nazi, while the ma jority of Rumanians are believed to favor France and democracy. An election which was to occur and which King Carol now has avoided ’ was expected to overwhelm Goga and the Fascist groups. —Gevtral Press Sino-Japanese Struggle In Middle China One Os World’s Biggest Battles Battlefield Is Same Used by Genghis Khan’s Horse men Over 700 Years Long Gone JAPS HOLD LOWER RIVER DISTRICTS Advance Guard Now Re ported on Northern Banks of Stream, Which Divides North and South China; Resistance of 15,000 Chi nese Is Shattered . Shanghai, Feb. 14.—(AP)—Japan’s rising sun warroirs, following the trail blazed by the Mongol hordes of Genhis Khan 700 years ago, fought one of the world’s greatest battles to day in the cohquest of central China. The same battlefields in Honan pro vince, where the great Khan’s horse men struck terror into the heart of Asia, reverberated with the din of modern conflict as the Japanese in vaders drove desperately, fighting Chinese troops southward toward the Lunghai railroad. The Japanese already have captur ed the lower stretches of the Yellow river and have reached the middle section of that great waterway, the division of north and south Chipa. Swift drives southward put the Mikado’s armies astraddle the Ping- Continued on Page Five.) Bill Payne Refuses To See Press Raleigh, Feb. 14. —(AP) —Bill Payne under sentence to die March 4 for the killing of Highway Patrolman George Penn, has asked that newspaper men not be allowed to see him, Warden H. H. Wilson, of State Prison, said today. Yesterday Payne’s mother visited him. The warden said much mail wa3 coming to the prison for Payne, but most of it was from religious fana tics, and little of it was being given to the prisoner. Payne and Wash Turner were convicted together. Their lawyers gave notice they would ap peal the death sentences, byt Wilson said he had received no notice which would stay the execution. HENDERSON, N. C., MONDAY i AFTERNOON, FEBRUARY 14, 1938 Japan Wants To Be Begged Some More ; Tokyo, Feb. 14.—(AP) —The Ja panese Foreign Office spokesman intimated today Japan might be willing to provide naval construc tion information if the request were made unofficially. Expressing his personal opinion, the spokesman said: “It would be better if the powers would ap proach Japan unofficially.” “If they did so,” he added, “it is possible they might have better success with Japan.” DM IN lS YORK' Famous Columnist Who Pic tured Big City for News Readers Passes New York, Feb. 14— (AP)-—Oscar Odd Mclntyre, newspaper columnist to whom millions of Americans look ed for their impressions of New York City, died today in his Park Avenue apartment. One of the most famous newspaper men of the nation, he came to New York from a small Ohio town, and al ways boasted that he never lost the naive curiosity of the "hometown boy.’ For a quarter of a century his daily column, “New York Day by Day,” gained increasing popularity, and in recent years was published in Continued on Page Five.) OLDER MAN FATALLY SHOT BY BOY OF 16 Jack Ward Says Walter L. Jones, 41, Knocked Him Down; Argue Over Filling Station Goldsboro, Feb. 14.—(AP)—Waltei L Jones, 41, died in a hospital here today of a pistol wound said by De puty Sheriff Roy Pierce to have been inflicted by Jack Ward, 16, Saturday night The deputy quoted the boy as say ing he shot Jones because the latter struck his aunt, Miss Estelle Ward, in a dispute over a former filling station partnership. ' Ward said also, the deputy related, that Jones had knocked him down a few minutes before the shooting. MJEIITES Necessary To Assure Final Victory of Socialism, Soviet Dictator Declares LETTER, HOWEVER, IS NOT VERY SPECIFIC Reference to Communist Collaboration With For , eign Labor Parties and Non - Communists, Not Made Clear; Proletariat Aid Felt Essential -4 .. Moscow, Feb. 14.—(AP) —Joseph Gtalin, in a letter published today, called for strengthening the ties be tween Fiovict workers and the work ing classes of other countries in or der to assure the “final victory of so cialism” by guaranteeing the Soviet union against attack. Whether the secretary-general and leader of the communist party had in mind a collaboration with the foreign labor parties, non-communists as well as communists, was npt specified in the letter, published injPravda, the party organ. He failed to mention communism, however, or Sdvocate the overthrow of capitalism in other countries. He declared: “The aid of the international pro letariat appears to be a force without which the final victory of socialism in one country is not to be decided.” Such aid, Stalin wrote, “should be joined with our work of increasing Continued ua Page Five.) JOHNSTON MAN Tp FACE NEW HEARING Brantley Thornton, Middle-Aged Fill ing Stationi Man, Convicted of Manslaughter Smithfield, Feb. 14.—'(AP)—Brant ley Thornton, middle-aged farmer and filling station attendant, will go on trial here a second time this week probably Wednesday, charged with the slaying of John D. i Webb in Au gust, 1936. Solicitor C. C. Cannady said today he would seek a second conviction. 1 At his first trial Thornton was con } victed of manslaughter, and sentenced ' to ten to twelve years. An appeal to ' the Supreme Court gained him a new trial. COTTON HIGHER ON FARM BILL OUTLOOK Expectations of Passage of Crop Con trol Measure Influence Prices Upward New York, Feb. 14.—(AP) —Cotton futures opened two to eight points higher today on expectations the Sen ate will pass the farm bill, possibly to day. May reacted to 8.87 shortly after the first hour, when the list was six to eight points net higher. May at midday was 8.89, and the list was sever* 14 ' • nine points net higher. t yeai If the ve ’Senate Race Recloudedln Other Fights Congressional, Judi cial and Local Con tests to Sap the 1938 Spotlight Dally Dlapatfh Rnrentt. ' In Sir Walter Hotel. Raleigh, Feb. 14.—Nothing hap pened in Raleigh last week which in any degree modified the already pre vailing opinion that this springs Sen atorial primary will be completely overshadowed by congressional, judi cial and local contests. The Man from Mars would never know that “Friendly Frank” Han cock and “Our Bob” Reynolds are contesting for the high statewide honors by dropping in on any of the political palavera in this State capi tal city- but he would soon get quite (Contf" IJed on Page Five) "WfATHIR FOR NORTH CAROLINA. Mostly cloudy and colder to night and Tuesday, with scatter ed showers tonight, probably end ing in extreme south portion Tuesday morning. Europe’s Powder Barrel HOftTH , BFBI iu I^VARSAW- WswtCHES IX | BERL'N Warsaw wins papers I ® r s 5n£SS& • o * REPORT GRAVE K V POLISH BORDER v M, LITARY INCIDENTS \ REPORTED TOHAVE •I \ *r AU.ENSTEIN.EAST _ QUIT barracks b \ A PRUSSIA AMP STOLP O- Y 1 V IM POMERANIA ' i 7 HEAVY INFLUX OP *V VIENNA- O Sf* RHINELAND REFUGEES J DISPATCHES TODAY «« J INTO PRANCE. SITUATION RUMORED 20 FORMER ' 1 ~~1 TENSE. If v N/“ GERMAN ARMY OFFICERS _ I AUSTRIA HAl> CROSSED THE BORDER AT SALS BURG This map, showing the trouble spots on the European war horizon, is self explanatory. Rumors trickling through the chancellories indicate that war-scared countries bordering on Germany are tightening their frontiers. (Central Press) Flood Loss Grows OverTheWeek-End In Michigan Areas Detroit, Feb. 14.—(AP) —'New Mich igan floods over the week-end drove of families from their homes, blocked highways and caused damage far more serious than last week’s floods. The property loss at Mt. Clemmons alone was more than SIOO,OOO, Mayor Donald Westendorf said. The Clinton river at that point went on the worst rampage in 35 years, inundating more than 700 acres in the city. Grand Rapids, Lansing, Flint, Fon tiac, Utica, Rochester and lonia were suffering from overflowing streams, ■ ‘ f ■■ -- - BALAMCEOF POKER Soviets Likely Would Line Up With Democracies Against Despotisms By CHARLES P. STEWART Central Press Columnist Washington, Feb. 14. —Lined up threateningly against one another, we read every day or oftener, are the world’s big democracies versus the world’s big despotisms. - Democracies: The United Stages, Britain and France. Despotisms: Germany, Italy and Japan. Three-to-three —a Be! Os course, it is not really a tie, for the democratic group is tremendous ly more potential than despotism’s. Still, it is a numerical tie. Moreover, the despotic trio is equal to making a lot of trouble. Not Emphasized. All this is common newspaper talk. It is not so frequently emphasized, however, what a perfectly enormous casting vote is outstanding between democracy and depotism. Russia’s vote! On the face of everything, it should be a despotic vote. Paradoxically, it is democratic. Brought Out In Lecture. This peculiar contradiction recently was brought out by Professor Edwin Borchard of the Yale law school, in a “Bronson Cutting .Memorial- lecture” at Constitution hall, in Washington. It is, indeed, obvious that the Soviets must be on the present side of the democratic powers, because Japan and Germany, at least if not (Continued on Page Five.) JOHN BEASLEY QUITS CONGRESS CAMPAIGN Publisher of Moore County News Re tires in Favor of Roland Beasley, His Uncle Carthage, Felb. 14 (AP)—John Beas ley, publisher of the Moore County News here, withdrew today from the race for representative in Congress in. the eighth district in favor of his uncle, Roland F. Beasley, of Monroe. The Carthage publisher, who an nounced his candidacy last week after Representative Walter Lambeth had publicly said he would not seek re election, said his Monroe kinsman would make a better congressman any how.” At Monroe, Publisher Beasley, of the Monroe Journal, declined to make any statement. In 1914 he ran for Congress but was defeated by Robert N. Page. He later served as State commissioner of public welfare at Raleigh, and for several years was superintendent of Union county schools. PUBUSHKD aiVBKT AFTHJUtOOM HXCEJPT SUNDAY. but their conditions were not to be compared with the conditions prevail ing at Mt. Clemmons, where about 400 houses were sunounded by water and refugee stations had to be set up. A relentless February thaw and tor rents of rain caused the latest over flow of Michigan rivers. Much colder weather was forecast for today, and it appeared immediate relief might result. In the Grand Rapids area the tributaries of the swollen Grand' river began to recede early this morning, but it was feared the relief would be only temporary. ,, fc . Roumama Faces New Upset Now Bucharest, Roumania, Feb. 14. (AP)—The Roumanian government was reported tonight on the verge of another swift reorganization provid ing for a crown council, to outline broad national policies. Dr. M. Cristea, patriarch of the Roumanian orthodox church, and key man of the new government which evolved from last week’s shake-up would preside over this powerful crown council, according to unverified reports. Ex-Premier George Tatarescue was favored to replace Cristea in charge of details. As no change from the present course of Dr. Cristea was fore seen, the spreading reports of the im pending reorganization caused no nervousness. Meanwhile, Octavian Gog?, the anti- Semitic former premier, whose gov ernment was dissolved last week by King Carol to make way for the Cris tea regime, departed with his wife for Switzerland for treatment of heart and circulatory ailments. REV. A. A. BUTLER, 69, PASSES IN NORFOLK Had Been Baptist Pastor in Durham, Raleigh and Hertford; Was 111 Ten Days Norfolk, Va., Feb. 14.—(AP)—Rev A. A. Butler, 69, of Hertford, N. C., died today at Lee hospital here of double pneumonia. He had served Baptist churches in Durham, Raleigh and Hertford in North Carolina. Rev. Mr. Butler be came ill after preaching his fiftieth anniversary sermon at Temple Bap tist church at Durham, of which he was formerly pastor. He was brought here February 4. Funeral services will be held at Hertford Wednesday and burial will follow that afternoon at Durham. SAMPSON RAPE CASE HAS BEEN PUT OFF Illness of Judge Frazzelle’s Wife De lays Court in Clinton for Day at Least Clinton, Feb. 14.—(AP)—Because o' the’ illness of Judge J. Paul Frizzelle’s wife, there will he no session tomor row of superior court, which has been underway here since last Monday, it was announced today. Court attaches said Judge Frizzelle hoped to be able to resume his duties Wednesday. Waddell Hedley, a Negro, was sche duled to go on trial tomorrow on a charge of raping a white woman. 8 PAGES TODAY FIVE CENTS COPY BULKY MEASURE IS 1 SENT WHITE HOUSE FOR LAST; SIGNING Speedy Approval by Presi dent Foreseen To Put, Crop Control in Force At Once McADOO PREDICTS BILL WON’T LAST Says Dissatisfaction Will Be So Great Next Session of Congress Will Have To Re peal It; Fish Would Give Japan Naval Equality With U. S. Washington, Feb. 14 (AP) —The ad ministration’s new farm program re ceived Senate approval today after weeks of congressional controversy. The bulky measure now goes to the White House for President Roosevelt’s signature. The President’s approval will make effective the huge effort at production and marketing controls for five major crops on which Congress began work last fall. The bill, which sponsors predicted would be signed promptly by the Pres ident, provides for continuation of the present soil conservation program and for establishment of marketing quotas for wheat, corn, cotton, tobacco and rice, when supplies are heavy and growers approve in referenda. The Senate approved the measure by a 56 to 31 roll call vote. McAdoo Predicts Repeal Senator McAdoo, Democrat, Califor nia, describing the administration’s crop control bill as “revolutionary,” said today its enforcement would cre ate “such a hubbub” that the legisla tion would be repealed at the next congress session. McAdoo spoke as opponents of the (Continued on Pape Three.) PEANUT LAW URGED • FROM FARM BUREAU Arnold Says in Washington Meeting for Two States Set for Fri day in Raleigh Washington, Feb. 14.—(AP)—E. F. Arnold, president of the North Caro lina Farm Bureau Federation, today urged immediate enactment of peanut control legislation based on the prin ciple of marketing quotas. Arnold, here to confer with Assistant Farm Administrator J. B. Hutson, said North Carolina peanut growers fear ed over-production of that commodity when control programs for tobacco and cotton went into effect. He declared the peanut diversion program of the Agriculture Depart ment would not take care of the sit uation He said a conference of pea nut growers would be held Friday in Raleigh, N. C., with representatives from Virginia and North Carolina in attendance. New Storm For Pacific Coast Area San Francisco, Cal., Feib. 14 (AP) The Pacific coast wearied by a pro longed siege of rain, snow and high winds that have caused nearly a score of deaths, disrupted communications, and halted rail and highway traffic, had in prospect today more rain, snow and high winds. In northern California, where the storm entered its nineteenth day, floods threatened to spread. From Bridgeport, in eastern Cali -1 Continued on Page Fo>'jr.) Tart about lost Southern Growers Have Taught Farmers in North Country to Grow Weed Daily Dlapatcfc Diireaa, In The Sir Walter Hot*!. Raleigh, Feb. 14. —North Carolina growers “have virtually lost” Canada as an export market for flue-cured tobacco, W. P. Hedrick, tobacco mar keting specialist of the State Depart ment of Agriculture, said today. “During the past 10 years, Canadian growers have increased their tobacco production from six million to 53 mil lion pounds,” he said, adding that rCon tinned on Page Five)
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