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HENDERSON’S POPULATION 13,873 twenty-fifth YEAR ‘i4SfS,!Bss, , Sssa,f' SENATE AGAIN DECUNES TO HALT DEBATE U. S. Marines Stop Armed Jap Patrol At Defense Lines American Troops for Fourth Time Turn Back Invad ers Seeking Settle ment Rule JAPS TO TAKEOVER POST OFFICE SOON Nippon Troops on Lunghai Battleront, Mean while, Seek To Establish Base for Fresh Thrust at Chinese Defenses; Would Cut Off Retreat Route Shanghai, Feb. 16 (AP) — Chi npst* resistance to Japanese smash ing onslaughts north of the Yel low river was reported crumbling tonight, permitting the Japanese war machine to roll on almost un resisted. Japanese vanguards were report ed almost in sight of the vital Lunghai railway and two strategic cities just south of the river. Japanese army communiques de clared the Japanese column driv ing down the Peiping-Hankow rail way toward its junction at Cheng chow with the Lunghai, had ad vanced 90 mile.s since its offensive was launched six days ago. Shanghai, Feb. 16.—(AP) —United States Marines turned back for the fourth time today an armed Japanese patrol of 13 men trying to enter the American defense sector of Shanghai’s international settlement. The incident came as marine of ficers and Japanese authorities con fered in an attempt to settle amicably the issue of authority in the settlement. The Americans maintained they were capable of patrolling the area without Japanese help. The Japanese (Continued on Page Three.) DEAN NOE LEAVES FOR JOHN HOPKINS Memphis, Term., Feb. 16. —(AP) —Rev. Israel Harding Noe left Memphis for Baltimore at 8:48 a. m., central standard tic. today. He will enter Johns Hopkins hos pital. The toriner dean cf St. Mary's Episcopal cathedral, ousted be cause of a 22-day fast, was aceom- j panied on the journey by Edwin j Smith, a nurse. Four Dead In Boiler Explosion Meeks, Ga., Feb. 16 (AP)—A man and three boys were killed today by the explosion of a sawmill boiler. The dead were Remus Hatcher, 50; A. J. Watkins, 14, and two young sons of Mrs. George Odum. Their first names were not ascertained immedi ately. Jonah Matthews was slightly hurt by falling debris, and Linton Hutchin son and Grover Watkins escaped" in jury, although they were near the boiler at. the time it burst. Hutchinson, owner of the mill and former county school superintendent, said he and Watkins were standing; nothin three feet of Hatcher when th£ latter was killed almost instantly and be could not explain how they escap ed. % Watkins’ torn body was hurled more than 40 feet into a wire fence, but he survived until he reached the Dublin hospital. IHUMUV BOOSTS CONFUSION i South Carolina Restriction Stresses Need for Uni form Rulings I)nil7 Ulmintrh Bureau. r , *« the Sir Walter Hotel. Kaleigh, Feb. 16.—Federal Supreme ourt. validation of South Carolina’s n -ht to limit size and load of trucks upon its highways will have a marked oacuon and effect upon many North arolina trucking concerns;, R. R. McLaughlin, director of the Motor 1 f bicle Division of the Department of (Continued on Page Pour.) HrnlU'rsmt lUriht Dispatch ONLY DAILY..NEWSPAP ER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OF NORra CAROLINA AND VIRGINIA. * L FRED.BEAL BEGINS LONG SENTENCE IN N. C. PENITENTIARY Fugitive from Gastonia Labor Riot Conviction in 1929 Protests Innocence SAYS HE WILL FACE THE ISSUES FIRMLY Wants To Erase Blot on Record of American Judi cial System; Accompanied to Raleigh by His Attorney and Members of His De fense Committee Fred Beal Party Spend Night Here Fred Erwin Beal and his attor ney, George E. Roewer, and the lat ter’s wife, spent last night at the Vance hotel here en route to Ra leigh, where this afternoon Beal entered State’s Prison. He surren dered to begin service of a 17 to 20 year sentence imposed for his conviction of conspiracy in the slaying at Gastonia in 1929 of Po lice Chief O. F. Aderholt there dur ing a textile mill strike riot. Beal registered as Fred Erwin. No other members of the party from Boston were identified from the _ hotel register today. Raleigh, Fdh. 16.—(AP)—Fred Erwin Beal, labor organizer who fled to Russia while under a 17 to 20-year prison sentence in this State, surrendered to Attorney General A. A. F. Seawell just be fore 2 o’clock this afternoon to begin his term. A short time later he had been taken to State’s Prison. NIGHT IN HENDERSON*. Beal walked into the official’s office at 1:50 p. m. He entered North Carolina yesterday for the first time since he skipped bail nine years ago and spent the night at Henderson. Attorney General Seaweir shook hands with the erst while fugitive, who wore a black overcoat, light brown suit, black shoes and a brown and white necktie. « Raleigh, Feb. 16.—(AP) —'Fred Beal, labor organizer, arrived in Raleigh to (Continued on Page Three.) FARMERS WILL HEAR NEW ACT EXPLAINED Senator Pope of Idaho and Hut son To Speak in Raleigh Fri day This Week Raleigh, Feb. 16. —(AP)—E- F. Arnold, secretary of the Farm Bureau Federation, said today he expected farmers from every section ot tne State, to hear Senator James Pope, Idaho Democrat, and J- B. Hutson assistant AAA administrator, here Friday Pope will explain the new farm act, Arnold said, and is regarded ‘ as th ® 1 man who probably knows most about the law.”. , , . Hutson will explain tobacco and ccrlton provisions at a morning meet ing and the peanut program at an afternoon session. j E. Winslow, of Greenville, will prekde, and Governor Hoey was to be asked to introduce Pope. Smoak Execution Appears Assured For Next Friday Raleigft, Feb. 16 (AP)—Gover nor Hoey said 1 today there had been ipothftng to cause a change in the execution Friday iof EL U Smoak of , .Now Hanover county, but that he .had not completed his study in the case of Milford Exum sentenced in Wayne to die this Smoak was convicted of the poi son murder of his daughter, An nie Thelma. Exum was sentencea for the slaying of a Negro, J Williams. Both mew lost appeals tQ the Supreme vCJourt, . , . i HENDERSON, N. C„ WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON, FEBRUARY 16, 1938 phbluimd FIVE CENTS'COPY Their First Sight of the "Promised Land” wtmzmm Lining the rail of the President Harding are members of a party of immigrants who crossed the Atlantic on the liner find are shown enjoying their first sight of the United States. The picture was made as the Hardina steamed ud the bay to New York City. {Central Press} New Regime Ruling Austria; Britain Will Not Interfere Vienna, Austria, Feb. 16. —(API- More than 2,000 amnestied Nazi con victs began leaving Austrian prisons and concentration camps today as a reorganized cabinet, with Nazi in fluence in a powerful role, assumed control of the republic’s destinies. Their release was one of the first re sults of the sweeping governmental changes wrought by Chancellor Schuschnigg at the behest of the leaders of Austria’s powerful north ern and southern neighbors, Reich fuehrer Hitler and Premier Mussolini. Some circles spoke of Austria as the puppet of the two leaders as the new cabinet, containing a close friend of Hitler, two men avowedly friendly to Germany and two nationalists came into power. goveMrTotF Convicted Gaston Slaying Conspirator Is Just Another Prisoner llally DispnlPh Bureau, In Ihe Sir Walter Hotel. Raleigh, Feb. 16. —Governor Clyde R. Hoey hasn’t the slightest inten tion of engaging in any “debate” with Fred Erwin Beal, the one-time labor leader convicted of conspiracy to mur der Gastonia’s Police Chief O. F. Aderholt several years ago. This was made plain today by Rob ert L. Thompson, private secretary to the governor, in commenting on news reports that Beal, who is due to surrender to North Carolina author ities today, would “read a statement to North Carolina’s governor at a con ference ‘which I believe was arrang ed before he left’.” “As far as the governor is concern ed, Fred Beal is just another prison er being returned to Nprth Carolina, ’ Thompson said. “If his counsel has anything to say, the governor will gladly hear it just like he would hea^ (Continued on Page Three.) GOVERNMENT’S ARMY LAUNCHES NEW PUSH Drive Against Insurgent Lines In East Spain Reported by Lat ter To Be Stopped Hendaye, France, at Spa ™ sh _ Frontier, Feb. 16.—'(AP)—Th< e Span ish government’s army took the of fensive anew in eastern ► pain o ay with a drive against insurgent line.-, midway between Teruel and Zaragoza. Government dispatches from the battleground, about 150 miles east of Madrid, said government troops ad vanced along a two and a half mile front juJt northwest of Montalban. They were reported to have occupied a hill position and encircled a small town and progressed around another position in a drive to outflank insur gents to the south. Insurgent advices reported the at tack was halted, and quoted prison ers as saying it was part of a plan ned general offensive held up because snow and cold prevented effective artillery and air operations. ’ The action north of Teruel, in th3 Alfambra sector, brought to its third phase the Aragon battle, which began with government capture of Teruel. and continued with insurgent conquest of Alfambra. The changes resulted from Satur day’s meeting of the German and Aus trian chancellors and the advice of the Italian premier. By these changes Austria was re presented as having bought “internal peace and amity abroad”—the ap proval and support of two powerful neighbors and promises of new guar antees of her independence. The five years of strife, terrorism propaganda and sabotage for which the amnestied Nazis had been sen tenced were considered at an end, which these offenses excused over night, and new peace between Aus trian factions in prospect. Most striking development was the admission into the cabinet of Hit ler’s personal friend, Arthur Seysz- State Asks Refusal Os Payne Plea Raleigh, Fob. 16.—(AP) —Mo- tions both to dismiss the appeal of Bill Payne and George Wash ington Turner from death sen tences for the slaying of High way Patrolman George Penn, and to order the trial records sent to the higher court under a writ of certiorari were lodged with the Supreme Court today. Attorney General A. A. F. Sea well, acting on request of Solicitor Zeb Nettles, lodged a motion to dismiss on grounds the case had not been docketed in the Supreme Court in compliance with its rules. Lyle Jones, of Asheville, one of the lawyers for the men during their trial in Buncombe county, filed the motion for certiorari. The court took the matter under advisement. MANY ARE HURT IN TIAJUANA RIOTINGS Machine Guns and Martial Law Rule After Sex-Slaying of Eight- Year-Old Child Tiajuana, Mexico, Feb. 16 (AP)— Machine guns and martial law ruled Tiajuana today after bloody rioting yesterday in which a mob of 800 men and women fought unsuccessfully to lynch the accused sex slayer of an eight-year-old Mexican girl. At least 12 persons were injured by bullets or trampled in the riot. Police headquarters and a temporary jail were burned by the mob. The Federal building was damaged. Unconfirmed reports said a child and two adults were killed in street fighting between the mob and soldiers, | who fired into the crowd before order could be restored. A young Tiajuana soldier, held as the the attack-slayer of Olga Coma cho, was the object of vengeance. Gen eral M. Contreas, commander of the military zone here, said the man had confessed and was held at a secret spot. , , The girl, daughter of a bar tender, disappeared Sunday night. "vIATHER jpQP, OKTH CA-ROUNA# Mostly cloudy and unsettled to night and Thursday; slightly cold er in central portion tonight. Inquart, pro-Nazi nationalist, as min ister of interior, with jurisdiction over the police. Regulations for more complete con trol of the press were promised. BRITAIN IS PLANNING NO INTERVENTION IN AUSTRIA London, Feb. 16 —(AP)—The British cabinet today considered Germany’s new thrust toward absorption of Aus tria, but there was no indication it was planning any steps to prevent such an outcome of the developments in Vienna. The foreign office was in frequent consultation with Paris, but the Lon don press, while reflecting British #CnnttniiPd on I-’hjtp Throw. Congress Professes to Want It, but Prefers Re-Elec tion More By CHARLES P. STEWART Central Press Columnist Washington, Feb. 16. President Roosevelt apparently really wants to economize governmentally. Congress professes to desire economy. In a theoretical way it probably is sincere, ’cut practically few of its members see how they can, for political reasons, afford to vote for any actual econo mies. On the contrary, the individual congressional urge is to work for in creased expenditures by Uncle Sam. That, more than any other one thing, doubtless accounts for antag onism between the White House and Capitol Hill. Free To Act. “F. D.,” like all presidents, is more independently situated than any sin gle senator or representative. He has been elected now about as often, in all likelihood, as„he expects to be. A possible third term is sug gested, but it is a possibility which (Continued on Page Three.) LUTHER M. CARLTON PAYS JUDGESHIP FEE Raleigh, Feb. 16.—(AP)— Luther Carlton, of Roxboro, paid the State Board of Elections $65 today to seek the Democratic nomination for su perior court judge of the tenth dis trict. Two years ago Carlton tried to fiio for the nomination, but his fee and blank arrived by mail after the deal line for entries. PRICES OF COTTON MIXED AT MIDDAY Trade and Commission House Buying and Liquidation All Appear In Trading New York, Feb. 16.— (AP)—Cotton futures opened three points lower to three points higher today. March con tract was down under liquidation, and later months steady on trade and com mission house buying. May moved be tween 8.88 and 8.91 during the first half hour. Shortly after that time prices were one point net lower to four higher. May was 8.87 at midday, and the list was two points net lower to three higher. Southerners Claim Second Victory Ip Lynch Bill Battle IST IS GRIPPED, Blf COLD WAVE AS. WINTER MOVES IN Death- Dealing Tempera tures Overspread Rockies and Snow Blankets Great Plains STREAMS AT FLOOD THROUGH OKLAHOMA 400 Residents of California Village Acute Food Short age; Horsemeat Resorted to in One Section; Gold and 1 Icy Roads Cause Deaths Denver, Col., Feb. 16—(AP)—Death dealing cold gripped the Rockies, snow and sleet lay over much of the Great Plains area, and Oklahoma streams ran at flood stage today as a long-delayed blast of winter whipped southward out of western Canada. Cut off by snowdrifts 20 feet high, 400 residents of the Lake Tahoe dis trict in California faced an acute food shortage. Carl Bechtold, proprietor of Tahoe Inn, appealed to the State for aid. He said an airplane “was about the only means of bringing food in.” Residents of Gleenbrook killed a horse to provide meat, Bechtold said. Montana and Nebraska reported deaths by freezing and icy highways were blamed for deaths in Colorado and Kansas. Two to six inches of snow covered Colorado and Wyoming. The abrupt change of weather reaching from the Mississippi river to Utah followed by a day the cessation of California’s 19-day siege of heavy rain. Anthony Fon, 64, was found frozen ‘to death yesterday in an empty ore car near Anaconda, Mont.., where the temperature dropped to ten below ::ero. Near Alliance, in western Nebraska. Willie Stanley, 40, Negro transient be lieved to be from Danville, 111., was found dead, a victim of liie cold. PENDERGAST GROUP OPPOSED IN KANSAS Kansas City, Feb. 16. (AP) —Cohfi mation of Maurice M. Milligan, 'milit ant United States district attorney who has convicted 50 election officials on vote fraud charges, for a second term spurred coalition forces today in their drive to oust the Pendergast Democratic organization from the city hall. INSPECT HOSPITAL SITES OVER STATE Administrator Hines Names Cities In North Carolina To Be Visit ed Shortly « Washington, Feb. 16 (AP)—Veterans Administrator Frank Hines said today an engineer would visit various North Carolina cities soon to inspect possi ble sites for a new veterans facility in the state. The project was approved by the President recently. Hines said he be lieved the facility should be establish ed near a city of at least 10,000 popu lation and within 125 miles of the cen ter of population of the area to be served. „ . Cities within the prescribed area which will be visited include Charlotte, Winston-Salem, Greensboro, Durham, Raleigh, High Point, Wilmington, Rocky MounV, Gastonia, Salisbury, Goldsboro, Fayetteville, Wilson, Kins ton, New Bern, Concord and States ville. Other sites, Hines said, would be in spected if it were deemed advisable. CONTRACTS AWARDED ON STATE BUILDING Five-Story Addition to Revenue Struc ture To Cost Slightly Under $57,000 Sum Raleigh, Feb. 16 (AP)—The Board of Public Buildings and Ground awarded contracts today for construc tion of a five-story addition to the State Revenue building to firms which submitted low bids last week. The successful firms were: General contract, H. L. Coble, of Greensboro, ssl 872; plumbing, Bieman & Howell, of Raleigh, $1,787; heating, Carolina Heating & Engineering Company of Durham, $3,125. 8 PAGES TODAY Vote Is 46 to 42 Against In voking Cloture To Forcer Vote on Bill South f Opposes ... C x WAGNER ACCUSED OF INTIMIDATION MOVE House Ready To Pass s2so><* 000,000 Emergency Reljef Measure on Theory It Is Needed Immediately; Qig Increase in Size of Army Is Favored Washington, Feb. 16. —(AP)— ’J’hß Senate rejected today, 46 to 42, a ipo tion for limiting debate on the anti lynching bill. • • \ \ Defeat of the motion left the status of the filibuster against the measure, now entering its twfenty eighth da.y i' Opponents of the bill, which provide for Federal prosecutioTty us State officials who wilfully fail to. pre vent lynchings, predicted it wouhs,,l»e shelved soon as the result of the .‘vote. Proponents said they would ? ppn tinue to seek a vote on the bill itself, but Democratic Leader Barkley of Kentucky indicated it might be laid aside Friday to take up the $250,Q00,- 000 emergency relief appropriation. . Senator Wagner, Democrat, New York, told the Senate shortly before the vote to restrict discussion of th bill that “a vote against cloture ,is bound to be regarded as a vote a gainst the bill.” : ■• • Supporters of the anti-lynching Pljl tried three weeks ago to invoke tye rule to break the filibuster. ' Replying to Wagner’s plea for a vorable cloture vote, Senator ConnaUy* (Continued on Page Four.) 6 Os Army Planes Set For Flight Miami, Fla., Feb. 16. — (AP)—"91)1 of the army’s mightiest war plupw giant four-motored “flying fortresses” —were upised today for a non stop flight of 3,132 miles to Lima, Peru The planes, enroute from Langley Field, Va., to Buenos Aires for in auguration Monday of President Roberto Ortix of Argentine, were sche duled to take off at mi lnight. From Lima, the huge bombers, car rying 50 officers and men, will start another flight, the remaining 2,532 miles to Buenos Aires. Lieutenant D. R. Gibbs said the planes would attempt to fly non-stop to Lima only if weather conditions were favorable. FOUR NORTH CAROLINA MEN WITH CREW OF SIX SHIPS Washington, Feb. 16. —(AP) Four North Carolina men participated in the flight of six army “flying fort resses" air planes from Langley Field Va., to Buenos Aires for the inaugura tion of President Roberto Ortiz of Argentine. First Lieutenant Edwin L. Tucker, Laurinburg, N. C., and -Private Archie R Jester, Winston-Salem, flew in plane No. 10, the flagship. Private Frederick Woitineck Reynolds, of North Carolina, flew in plane No. 52. and Major C. V. Haynes, Mount Airy, in plane No. 80. $145,000 Os fared fo* Project by Federal Agency Raises Questions I»i»llr DliftAtcfe Burrltir, In Tl»* lit \Vnl**»r' IlntH. Raleigh, Feb. 16.—Announcement *n Washington that $145,000 has beer made available by the Federal Rural Electrification Administration fdV con structing 142 miles of. a Sampson county cooperative project marks an other chapter in a tangled and -com plicated volume which might be’writ ten about the project. ■ It is a project Wlifreh has Wen burn ed down flatly at least twice; Which started with a 55-mile objective: which grew at one stage untUpcon struction of 175 miles was contem plated; and which veiled char- I (Continued on Page Three.)
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