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HENDERSON’S POPULATION 13,873 TWENTY-FIFTH YEAR JAPANESE ARMY IS WITHIN TEN MILES OF GREAT RAILWAY Advance Patrol Is on North Bank of Yellow River Opposite Lunghai Rail Point trying to SEVER great rail line Is Feeder Route for Chinese Army of 400,000 Resisting Advance of Japanese In vaders in Central China; Naval Planes Bombard Chengchow Shanghai. Feb. 15.—(AP)—The van guard of a Japanese army fighting its wav into central China was reported today to be only ten miles north o* China’s lifeline railway, the Lunghai. The advance patrol was said to be on the north bank of the Yellow river opposite Kaifeng, Lunghai railway point nearly 300 miles inland from China's eastern coast. Japanese columns from north and south have been fighting to cut the Lunghai and bottle up a Chinese army of 400,000 deployed along the Lung hai corridor, which separates Japan ese-conquered portions of north China and the Yangtze river valley. Capture of Kaifeng would choke off the railway and give Japanese a base for a drive southward 300 miles ti Hankow, temporary Chinese capital. The advance guard was part of a Ja panese army of 60,000 men which pushed across the plains of north China to reach Fengkiu just north of the Yellow river. Fifty miles to the west another Ja panese column threatened Smsiang, 45 miles north of Chengchow, impor tant junction of the Peiping-Hankow railway with the Lunghai. A Japanese naval spokesman an nounced that navy planes had born barded Chengchow, damaging the railway station, Chinese military headquarters and a number of freight cars. The Southern Baptist Mission received word that one of its hospitals was damaged in the oombardment. Ho Americans or other foreigners were reported injured. COTTON UP LITTLE UNDER FARM BILL Prices Four to Ten Points Higher at Midday, After Earlier Climbs Still More New York, Feb. 15.— (AP)—Cotton futures opened 8 to 11 points higher today on passage of the farm bill and government gold policy. The market shortly after the first half hour was holding net gains of five to nine points, with May selling at 8.9(5. To ward midday May had recovered from 8.91 to 8.96, leaving quotations gen erally four to ten points net higher. Says Income On Cotton To Be Curtailed Washington, Feb. 15.—(AF)—Pre diction that incomes of cotton farmers will be reduced this vear and Amer ican cotton exports endangered came today from Senator McAdoo Demo crat, California, in the wake of Sen ate approval of new crop control leg islation. McAdoo opposed cotton provisions of the new legislation during debat° yesterday, and today offered hi.-> “analysis” of the bill. He predicted that “severe restric tion of acreage” would “greo+.y re duce the amount of work available to 'Cor.Mnued on Page Six.) Commercial Banks Slump, Industrials Up For 1937 Hood Gives Exhibit on Status o fState Banks at End of Year; Resources Near All-Time High; Industrials Highest Since 1931, Statistics Show - N c. BANK RESOURCES AT END OF YEAR. i<-ar Commericial Industrial ■ 5327.662.875.76 $19,080,494.40 *" 29 •• 341,750,696.55 20,157,329.33 .. 263,623,287.66 20,764,852.02 ] 931 •• 222,818,940.82 19,599,072.13 1932 .. 212,156,020.75 14,726,937.89 1933 .. 203,295,400.56 11,176,416.67 .. 263,092,471.83 11,396,896.59 •• 305,051,061.88 13,267,784.05 1»36 .. 344,008,321.40 14,695,461.96 IJ ' j7 •• 336,892,322.12 17,289,358.22 Dallj Dispatch Bnrenn. p, . , 5a the Sir Walter Hotel. Kaleigh, Feb. 15.—Annual abstract 2* l t he condition of all North Carolina . ate ha nks, just released by Commis • >oner of Banks Gurney P. Hood, pre sents a mixed picture, with total re cur ces of the commercial banks MrttiU'rsnn Hailu BispafirM ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OF NOKJJI CAROLINA AND VIRtSiIA. * LEASED wire service of THE ASSOCIATED PRESS. Agriculture Heads Prepared To Speed Crop Control Plan Scolds G. O. P. . . .. x I || a ll||j|||ll| Gov. George D. Aiken, of Vermont, Is shown munching an apple just before addressing the National Re publican Club in New York. ■ He W asted the Republican party leader ship by telling them to “forget your hatred of the President—stop cry ing every time he makes a move.” His speech brought into the open for the first time the fear of a third party for the next election. (Central Press) Russia Seeks ToßeLeader InArmsßace Soviets Set Goal of Outstripping All Other Nations In Building Program Moscow, Feb. 15. — (AF) —Soviet j Russia has set herself the ambitious task of outstripping all other nations in the naval armament race. The announcement that bigger ships would be built as sor n as shipyards were equipped to turn Them out, tend ed to confirm reports abroad that Russia had been balked in her efforts to order battleships abroad, includ ing the United States, and was buying machinery to build her own battle snips. These reports spoke of possible 35.000-ton craft. Foreign experts agreed that Soviet Russia still had far to go to match the navies of the great powers It was indicated that the U. S. S R. was try ing to outstrip her potential enemies among the naval powers—Japan, Ger many and Italy. Russia’s present naval strength, like her planned strength, is a close ly-guarded secret. The Soviet naval needs are as com plex as those of almost any other country. Its fleet must be scattered in the Pacific ocean, the Black Sea, the Baltic and the Arctic, with great dis tances separating them. G. T. FULGHUMMADE WILSON POSTMASTER Washington, Feb. 15. —(AF) Post master General James A. Farley an nounced today appointment of G. T. Fulghum as acting postmaster at Wilson, N. C. ' slumping from their 1936 high, while industrial bank resources rose to the highest point they have touched since 1931. As of December 31, 1937, State com mercial banks showed total resources of $336,892,322.12, a decrease of $7,- 115,999.29 from the all-time high of $344,008,321.40 as of the end of 1936. Industrial banks, however, increased their resources to $17,289,358.22, a jump of $2,368,017.78 from the sl4,* 695,461.96 ast of December 31, 1936. It was noticeable, too, from details of the abstract that the commercial banks increased their resources not ably between June 30, 1937, and the close of the year. In the middle of the 12 months pe (Continued on Page Four.). HENDERSON, N. C., TUESDAY AFTERNOON, FEBRUARY 15, 1938 More Than 15,000 Persons Will Have Part in Ad ministering Restric tive Provisions STATE AND COUNTY COMMITTEES ACTIVE Barkley Says It Is Greatest Measure for Farmer’s Aid' Ever Enacted, While G. O. P. Senate Leader Says It Makes Every Farmer Vas sal of Wallace Washington, Feb. 15. —(AP) —Agri- culture Department officials, jubilant over congressional approval of the crop control bill, arranged today to begin the new half billion dollar pro gram the minute President Roosevelt signs it. More than 15,000 persons, they sail, will have a part in carrying out pro visions of the measure, which the Senate passed late yesterday and sen 4 ro the White House. These person? included more than 3,000 employees of the Agricultural Adjustment Admin istration and the members of some 2,950 state and county committees. Two Republican senators, Capper of Kansas and Frazier of North Da kota, joined with 53 Democrats and Senator Norris, Independent, Nebras ka. in approving the measure. “This is the best farm bill that haa ever been enacted by the Congress to deal with a great problem of Ameri can life,” said Democratic Leader Barkley. Republican Leader McNary, of Ore gon, however, commented: “This bill does only one new thing for farmers It puts new restrictions upon them and blankets them with compulsion It will make every farmer a vassal of the secretary of agriculture.” The measure, written by a Senate- House conference committee from separate tills passed in December by the two chambers, establishes a sys tem under which the agriculture sec retary, working with farmer commit tee-men, may prescribe limitations on the quantity of wheat, corn, cotton, rice and tobacco grown or marketed. PITT, EDGECOMBE TO GET FUNDS OF WPA $58,400 Allotted for Malaria Work In Two Eastern Counties; Robe son Gets $5,155 Raleigh, Feb. 15.-*(AP)—Pitt and Edgecombe counties got $58,400 from the WPA today for countywide pro jects providing the dredging of Crab tree creek. WPA officials said malaria control would be established through the eli mination of mosquito breeding swamps and ponds. Tarboro will be project headquarters. Among other projects approved was one providing $5,155 for the construc tion of water mains in Lumberton. SHte + 1,092 Members of County Committees Already Named by Chairmen Dally Dispatch Ilnrena. in the Sir Walter Hotel. Raleigh, Feb. 15. —A total of 1,092 North Carolinians are now officially engaged in the task of extending hospitality to visitors from othe states This group of nearly 1,100 persons are members of 62 county committees, according to T. E. Pickard, executive secretary of the Governor’s Hospita - ity Committee. Committees will soon be organized and will be u ” c *' l<^ l . ir yf in all coUtlties of the State, Mr. Pick ard believes. . Each of these committees is now busily at work formulating a program designed to secure greater co°Pera tion of the counties in the State ad vertising program and to on the people the value of. courtesj, and friendliness in their contacts with V1 Some" of the most’active county Hos pitality committees, at present, are those in Mecklenburg, New Hanover, Anson Rockingham, Chowan Greene Surry' Hyde, Cleveland, Caldwell Buncombe, and Forsyth, according to Mr. Pickard. The Caldwell county committee, of which Ed F. Allen is chairman, is rLrving on an educational campaign through the newspapers and among the civic clubs, is erecting attractive siens on all the main highways lead ing into the county, welcoming visi tors and Is publicizing the beautiful mimosa trees which abound there. The Rockingham county commit tee headed by E. S. Powell, has had guest cards printed for distribution to visitors from outside the county and State, allowing unlimited parking time and giving the speed laws of the (Continued on Page Five.! C. I. O. Storm Center r 4 ;,„ \ • r. > • 5 i • : :: HH : : iiiml Liiiffr JH' •; ■ -n* vyjji Harry Bridges • • * attacks on him draw fire Harry Bridges, C. I. O. west coast maritime leader, is the storm center of a political-labor controversy due to efforts to deport him to his native Australia. John Brophy director of the C. I. 0., has demanded that Bridg es be given opportunity to answer the “scandalous charges made against him by Senator Copeland.” ANTI-LYNCH BILL STOUTLY DEFENDED V Illinois Solon Says Nation Has Right To Enact Leg islation To Protect People he speaks Rafter THREAT BY GARNER Vice - President’s Ruling Comes While Senator El lender Has Floor, and Is Menaced by Loss of His Right Jo Continue Attack On Measure Washington, Feb. 15. —(AF) — The Senate heard the anti-lynching bill defended as constitutional by Senator Lewis, Democrat, Illinois today short ly after a ruling by Vice-Presiden + Garner threatened to keep proponents from speaking. The bewildered Illinois speaker ar gued that the proposed legislation was “within the right of a govern ment to protect its people” under au thority 'of the Constitution. Senator Ellender, Democrat, Louisi ana, opponent of the measure,, gave up the floor to Lewis under an agree ment to yield to supporters of the measure who desired to talk before the vote on a debate limitation mo tion at 1 p. m., eastern standard time, tomorrow. Earlier the Louisiana senator had refused to yield the floor when Vice- President Garner pronounced a un animous consent agreement to which Eilender objected. Angered, Garner ruled that if El lender yielded, except for a question, he would lose his right to continue speaking. When Garner left the chair, the «spnate agreed unanimously that El lender could follow Lewis. Treasury’s Gold Plans Help Banks Will Make More Money Available to Business and Check Huge Public Debt Washington, Feb. 15. —(AP) —Par- tial abandonment of the Treasury’s gold sterilization program, officials sa d today, in effect, will increase the total bank deposits and thus increase the amount of money which banks can lend to business men and others. Whether this step helps business will depend on whether the money is lent, which is a private affair. The lendable excess reserves of the na tion’s banks are now $1,400,000,000, compared with the $500,000,000 which the Federal Reserve Board thought Continued on Page Five.) VIATHIR FOB NORTH CAROLINA. Mostly cloudy, with probable rain beginning in west portion late tonight or Wednesday, and in northeast portion Wednesday, pro bably mixed with snow in moun tains; slightly colder in east and central portions. ttißw Gives John Morris Company Ten Days To Withdraw Their Machines from District ASSAILS CHILDLIKE PROHIBITIVE PLATE Order Against Successive Plays Called Absurd, and Declares Machines Would Be Stale and Flat If Gamb ling Inducements Were Removed r Elizabeth City, Feb. 15 (AP) —Judge I. M. Meekins today handed down a decision terming the “silent salesman” a “gambling machine” and dissolving his previous injunction against con fiscating the machines in Pasquotank county. The John Morris Confection Com pany is granted until February 25 as ten days “of grace” to “remove all his machines from the eastern district of North Carolina,” without threat of confiscation by officers of the law. Morris during these days of grace, however, must not “permit the mach ines (any one of them) to be operated between now and the 25th day of Feb ruary, 1938, other than to sell candy mints exclusive of and apart from the vending tokens redeemable in merchan dise or otherwise in connection with such sales.” Counsel for John Morris, pointed out Judge Meekins, “concede that if successive plays of the machine were not prohibited by the copyrighted plate attached thereon, the machine would be a gambling device. “To argue that the inherently evil character of the machine or device is cured by the instruction prohibiting successive plays is as childlike and bland as the smile of sin.” “Set up the silent salesman solely to vend candy mints, strip it of possibil ity to win tokens, and the result would be as stale, flat and unprofitable as fishing with a bear hook.” He further described the plate pro hibiting successive plays as an attempt to obscure the mischief, and “an ef fort to have the tail wag the dog.” Today’s opinion dissolves the order of November 16 prohibiting the con fiscation of the machines in Pasquo tank county. It grants the petition filed by Solicitor James Powers, pro secuting Attorney J. F. Wooten, She riff R. F. Churchill and Chief of Po lice J. I. Brown, all of Kinston. TOMMY “MAI” WAS SUNK I Brought on War With Spain and Made United States World Power By CHARLES P. STEWART Central Press Washington Writer Washington, Feb. 15. Remember the Maine? You don’t if you are a young fellow. You of course have heard of the war cry, “Remember the Maine!” But, if you are a bit youthful, you do not re member the incident of the American warship Maine’s sinking in Havana harbor —for that was 40 years ago today. You have to verge on the elderly to remember that far back with any dis tinctness, if at all. Now, I remember the Maine’s ac tual sinking. Cuba had been in a state of insur lection against Spanish rule for a long time then. Embarrassing. The fighting there, right in Uncle Sam’s dooryard, was a serious embar rassment to the United States. There had been considerable talk to the ef fect that we ought to put a stop to it, as an intolerable nuisance. I suppose we had “interests” on the island — “interests” which fomented this agi tation. But it was a genuine bother Jackson Again Denounces Concentration Os Wealth Washington, Feb. 15. —(AP) —Assis- tant Attorney General Robert F. Jack son told a Senate committee today that “whether 60 families or 160 fam ilies” controlled the economic life of the nation, he was against that kind of concentration. Jackson made the assertion while testifying before a Senate judiciary sub-committee considering his nomina tion to be solicitor general. “You. and Mr. Ickes started out to talk to the public about the relation of big business to the recession, did you not?” Senator Austin, Republi can, Vermont, asked. “Mr. Ickes made a speech and I made a speech,” Jackson replied. “I’d never discussed the matter with Mr. Ickes. We did not start out to do any TOBtMKjTO ■TOT N A£ramNoo« FIVE CENTS copy ASK QUICK APPROVAL $250 MILLION FUNDS FOR RELIEF PURPOSE • Dies At Capital Admiral Grayson admiraUgrayson DIES AT CAPITAL Was Head of Red Cross and Was Physician to Three Presidents Washington, Feb. 15. —(AP) —Rear Admiral Cary T. Grayson, renowned as head of the American Re ,: Cross and as physician-confidante of three Presidents, died early today. He was 59 years old. The retired naval officer had been in poor health almost from the time his close friend, President Roosevelt, persuaded him to accept one of the world’s foremost humanitarian job* in 1935. He contracted a cold during a south ern visit last month, and developed a bronchial infection after he ar rived here. Red Cross executives and high gov ernment officials joined in tributes to the character and ability of the Vir ginia-fcorn admiral, who first won na tional prominence as personal phy sician to Woodrow Wilson. anyway. We had filibusterers, running arms to the rebels and getting fired on. Sometimes the wrong American ships were shot at. There was the everlasting danger of complications. The situation was a pest, in short. I suppose Spanish rule was oppres sive. True, I myself was too young to have had much idea of> the true merits of the case. In any event, we had the instinct of liberty and inde pendence, here in the U. S. A., very strongly in those days. Liberty was what the Cubans said they were fight ing for, and we sympathized with them. Finally Spain sent. General Weyler to Cuba, to try to squelch the rebel lion. Weyler soon was referred to as the “butcher.” Weyler “atrocity stories” began to fill our newspapers. I am prepared to believe that Gen. Weyler was an iron-handed militarist. Nevertheless, visiting Spain a decade and a half later, I was astonished to learn that, at home, Weyler was class ed as an advanced political liberal. He was captain-gen aral of Catalonia at that juncture, and I had an inter view with him at Barcelona. Bar celon was a hotbed of radicalism, and Weyler told me that he regarded it, in principle, w(th a kindly eye— though he had to keep, order. The radicals themselves (anarchists and all sorts of “reds”) spoke rather well of him. But to return to Havana. Maine to Cuba. Fearful of disorders, which might jeopardize the lives and properties of lOint I*'’ied 1 *'’ied on Pae* Fiv*»i thing.” Austin asked if Jackson agreed with Ickes that the economic wealth of the country was concentrated in the hands of a few families and that management was even more concen trated. “Yes,” Jackson replied. “I never made any examination of that par ticular 60 families, but I consider the 60 families a mere symbol. It does not make any difference whether 60 or 160 families control industry; I am still against that kind of concentra tion.” It was announced at Secretary Ickes office that the secretary would de liver a revised version of his “Sixty Families” speech over a British broad- I casting network on February 22. House Appropriations Com mittee Reports Roosevelt Reques.t for Large New Sum SEES NO PROBABLY EARLY IMPROVEMENT New Money Would Sustain 2,00P V 000 Persons on Re lief Rolls Next Few Months; WPA Rosters In crease Over 500,000 In Last Four Months Time Washington, Feb. 15.—(AP)— The House Appropriations Committee ask ed the House today to approve im mediately a $250,000,000 emergency re lief appropriation for the next four months. It suggested quick action because of the “drastic change which has taken place in private employment" sinco last September, and indications that the situation will not improve im mediately. The appropriation, if approved, would te used to keep at least 2,000,- 000 persons on relief rolls the next few months. Without it, Works Pro gress Administration officials iS&id, about 500,000 persons would have to be denied help and 200,000 now on the rolls would be laid off. The committee said that WPA ros ters increased from 1,464,000 in Oc tober to 2,000,000 today. The entire $250,000,000 would be earmarked for WPA. LEADERS IN STOCKS DRIFT LISTLESSLY Profit Realizing Halts Earlier Ad vance as Buying Support Is Later Withdrawn . . . New York, Feb. 15 (AP) —Leading shares drifted listlessly to the minus side in today's stock market after pro fit realization halted an' early rally. Buying support, present in the open ing dealings, was withdrawn near the fourth Lour after gains of fractions so a point or more had been registered. Volume dwindled after the first spujrt of activity. Steels led the swings both up and down. Coppers, aircrafts and heavy industry shares failed- to hold advantages gained at the Opening. A break in grain prices in Chicago push ed farm implement issues lower. Com modities were mixed. Foreign -mar kets were irregular, with American security issues tending a little higher. Bonds improved a trifle, headed by U. S. Government obligations. American Radiator 13 1-8 American Telephone 135 1-8 American Tob B 85 3-4 Anaconda 31 1-2 Atlantic Coast Line 23 1-4 Bendix Aviation 12 1-4 Bethlehem Steel 56 Chrysler .." 55 Columbia Gas & Elec Co 7 1-8 Commercial 8 1-8 Continental Oil Co 9 8-8 Curtiss Wright .*.... 43-8 DuPont ... 116 1-2 Electric Pow & Light 9 1-8 General Electric 89 5-8 General Motors 34 1-8 Montgomery Ward & Co 33 3-4 Reynolds Tob B 30 3-8 Southern Railway 11 3-4 Standard Oil N J 49 U S Steel 53 3-4 Fred Beal Saves State Time,Money Raleigh, Feb. 15.—(AP)—Attorney general A. A. F. Seawell issued a statement today saying it “is. impos sible to tell how Fjrea much time and ex pense has been sav 3d” by the decision jf Fred ErWin Beal to return, to the State from Massa chusetts to start a 17 to 20 year prison erm without a pro tracted legal fight." the st a tement said that George Roewer, counsel for Beal, had expressed himself February 10 in Boston as “wishing to surrender Beal without the necessity of a pro longed hearing.” An extradition hear ing had been set for that day. but Sea well and Assistant Attorney General Harry McMullan agreed to a con tinuance until tomorrow. “We have never doubted that Beal would be returned by the Massachu setts authorities in due time,” Seawell said, “but, of course, after the rendi tion warrant by the governor it might have been protracted through the courts for a very long period of time.” PAGES TODAY
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