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HENDERSON’S POPULATION 13,873 TWENTY-FIFTH year British Cabinet May Be Ousted Senate Votes 53-22 Against Boosting s2soMillion Fund For Relief To S4OO Million BAILEY’S PROPOSAL WOULD HAVE CITIES CONTRIBUTE PART Democratic Leaders, How ever, Oppose Tar Heel’s Amendment to Pend ing Measure FAREWELL WORDS OF WASHINGTON GIVEN Both Houses Take Time Out for Reading of First Presi dent’s Last Message; House Passage of Tax Revision Bill by March 5 Is Goal Washington, Feb. 22. —(AF) — The Senate rejected 53 to 22 today an amendment to increase the emergency I relief appropriation from $250 000,000 to $400,000,000. Senator Bone. Democrat, Washing ton. proposed the amendment, con tending $2:1.000,000 was inadequate to finance relief for the rest of this fiscal year. Before the vote, Senator Byrnes. Democrat, South Carolina, asserted WPA officials had approved the ori gina! figure. Bone warned the Senate however, “we will not be able to an swer for the blunder we are making if the appropru(ion proves too small.” Another amendment before the Sen ate was one by Senator Bailey, North Carolina, to require cities to pay one fourth of the cost of relief projects. Under his proposal the President could •waive that contribution if ho found some communities could not ad vance it. The Senate, meanwhile, completed congressional action on the Frazier- Lemke farm debt moratorium act. Democratic leaders opposed the (Continued on Page Three.) U. S. Planes Start Home FromSouth Buenos Aires, Argentine, Feb. 22. — (AP; —Five United States Army bomb which flew from Miami, Fla., to the inauguration of President Ortis of Argentine, took off for home at 7:07 a. m., eastern standard time to day. The sixth of the bombers, the B-82, was unable to depart. The take-off ended a four-day visit in the Argentine capital, where the “goodwill mission” had been hailed enthusiastically. The officers and Continued on Pagq Five.) Gastonian Slain , Then Is Robbed Gastonia, Feb. 22 (AP)— Combined forces of the coroner’s, sheriff’s and police offices were at work today in an effort to solve the slaying and rob bery last night of Hoke Davis, Gas tonia business .man, whose body was f°und slumped in his car on a side ioad near here. The killing was done for purposes of '.robbery, officers said today. Davis’ pocketbook, believed to have contained about S2OO, was missing, al tw ugh $36 in loose currency was over looked in one pocket. So far, the f r ly clue was a cloth, apparently part of a woman’s dress, which was knot ted about the victim’s neck. Davis had been struck on the head ■with a heavy instrument. Forty-nine i'ears old, he collected rents for his brother, Walter C. Davis, owner of -'lO or more houses here, many Ox them in Negro sections. So far as couk] be learned, officers said, he hav. no difficulty whatever with any of the renters. Police revealed this afternoon they Wf; re questioning two Negroes in con nection with the case, but did not dis pose their identity. _ Hmtiirrsmt Da tin tltsuafrlt ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA AND VIRMNIA * wire service of THE ASSOCIATED PRESS. Americans Pay Tribute To Washington On 206th Anniversary His Birth Prague Nazi Head A F '- flr mm v. gBBgggSBK Konrad Henlein The Nazi* political machine with its adherents in many countries continues to rumble on in Europe. Latest Nazi news comes from Prague, Czechoslovakia, where followers of Konrad Henlein, above, leader of the Sudeten Czech Nazis, clashed with the Social Democrats in a hotel there. Twen ty persons were arrested follow ing the disturbance. Henlein’s followers seek a united German front on the German Nazi model in Czechoslovakia. The German Social Democratic party seeks cul tural autonomy for Germans but is opposed to Henlein’s group. Meanwhile European diplomats fear another Hitler coup in Czechoslovakia. P ?SiSeii But State Pays No Compen sation to Ammons Couple From Asheville Raleigh, Feb. 22.—(AP)—The State freed Jack and Marion Ammons to day after they had served five years in prison for a crime the State ad mits they did not commit, but they got only pardons and new suits—with no remuneration —to take back to Buncombe county. Warden H. H. Wilson, of Central Prison, told the men goodbye at 9 o’clock as they left in a prison di vision car for Asheville. Each man had a new suit. Before 1931 the State also gave each discharged prisoner a gum of money •without transportation home, but now it sends them home without funds. In 1932 the Ammons were convict ed of mutilating John Hart, The elder was sentenced to 30 to 40 years, the younger to 20 to 30 years. more candidates FILE FOR JUDGES A. Hall Johnston, of Asheville, in 19th, and Herbert Leary, Edenton, For First Raleigh, Feb. 22—(AF)—Judge Hall Johnston, of Asheville, serving as su perior court jurist in the nineteenth district by appointment of Governor Hoey, filed today with the State Board of Elections to seek the nom ination in the June primary. Herbert Leary, of Edenton, now so licitor of the first district, filed for judge to oppose Judge C. E. Thomp son, of Elizabeth City, who now holds office by appointment, but who is seeking the nomination. HENDERSON, N. C., TUESDAY AFTERNOON, FEBRUARY 22, 1938 Young and Old Orators Draw on His Career for Inspiration in Pres ent Time LEGAL HOLIDAY IN STATES OF NATION War Veterans Lay Wreaths at Washington Statute At Sub-Treasury in New York, Where First President Took Oath; Fredericks burg Celebrates (By The Associated Fress.) Americans paid their annual tnbut r to George Washington today on the 206th anniversary of his birth. Orators, young and old, lifted their voices in all parts of the country, drawing upon the first President fc inspiration to meet the proh'ems o r today. It was a legal holiday in every state and territory of the United States, and uncounted thousands of foreign-born citizens rubbed shoulders with sons and daughters of the Revolution as they turned out for parades, open air meetings, church services, dinners, dances and pilgrimages to hallowed ground. War veterans gathered in downtown New York for wreath-laying cere monies in front of the Sub-Treasury Building, where Washington took the oath of office as President of the United States. Naval Academy students, dressed their station ships with flags at An napolis and fired a 21-gfin salute. A high school program commemo rated the day at Fredericksburg, Va., Washington’s boyhood home. Two Greek restauranteurs hoisted flags ir. (Continued on Page Three.) COMMITTEE CANNOT FORCE ITS WITNESS Associate Justice Orders Freed Man at Charlestoni Held for Con tempt of Probers Columbia, S. C.. Feb. 22. —(AP) Associate Justice Gordon Baker ruled today a special legislative committee probing law enforcement could not force a witness to answer question? in an order granting a writ of habeas corpus to Richard Johnson, of Char leston. Johnson had refused to answer questions from the committee after the body had subpoenaed him on the grounds that his answers might tend to incriminate him, and he was or dered held for contempt. Baker formally ordered that “the writ petitioned for him be granted, and that Petitioner Richard Johnson be allowed to go hence without delay.” The probing group was set up by an act of the 1937 General Assembly and secret hearings were begun about the time the present legislative session began. Farm Vote Machinery Is Set Up College Station, Raleigh, Feb. 22. Farmer, in approximately 75 of North Carolina’s 100 counties will journey tc polling Places March 12 to cast their votes for or against marketing quotas on cotton and tobacco. E Y. Floyd, AAA executive officer at State College, declared today that machinery for conducting the ballot ing is being set up in affected coun ties and that everything will be ir readiness by the date of the referenda Should two-thirds or more of the growers favor the marketing quotas, the poundage restrictions set on the 1938 cotton and flue-cured tobacco crops by Secretary Wallace will be come effective. The balloting will be conducted un- Continued on Page Five.). As Adolf Hitler Defied the World < NS *.U s '< - - " The eyes and ears of the world were on Germany when Adolf Hitler, Fuehrer of the Third Reich, stood before the puppet Reichstag on the heels of the long-sought "anschluss” with Austria, and declaimed that nothing will stop his nation in its race for power and glory. He is shown below, at the height of his speech. Above him, on the rostrum of the President of the Reichstag, is Hermann Georing, No. 1 Nazi and Hitler’s » right hand man fC**UixU Preea GRANGE FAVORING TELEPHONE SURVEY I Extension of Service Into Rural Sections Urged by That Body Onlly Dlspnirh E<«rr;ia. "n Tin- S.i*- \Y;i I* "r llof.-l Raleigh, Fe»’:. 22. —Lack of any au thentic data on the number of rural telephones in North Carolina, num her of miles built or under construc tion, and other facts connected with operation of rural lines 'ndicates. there is much logic in the proposed rural telephone survey now being urg ed by the State Grange as a part of its legislative program. Trying to get at least a fair picture of the telephone situation in the coun try sections, your correspondent ran into a blank wall of complete lack of information, except by the painful and long-drawn out process of digging it out from the records of the two large and some 70-odd small telephone com panies operating in the State. At both the Utilities Commission and the State Rural Electrification Authority, agencies which are closest connected to the problem, it was stat ed that there are no collected statis tics. The utility department, of course, had certain data on rates, revenues (Continued on Page Four.) JAPANESE FLOTILLA DEFIES SHORE GUNS Runs Gauntlet of Chinese Machine Gun Batteries To Advance Up Yangtze River Shanghai, Feb. 22.—(Ar) —A Ja panese naval flotilla today ran a gauntlet of Chinese machine gun batteries along the middle Yang tze river and carried the spear head of Japan’s advance to with in 30 miles of Anking, capital of Anhwei province. This thrust carried Japanese naval forces some 65 miles up the river beyond Wuhu, captured by the Japanese army early in De cember. In the far-flung battle along the Yellow river, Japanese columns driving toward the vital Lunghai railway, “lifeline” of China’s mili tary position, reported important gains at both the eastern and western ends of the battiefront. WEATHER FOR NORTH CAROLINA. Mostly cloudy tonight and Wed nesday; probably some light rain; warmer tonight and in central portion Wednesday, Teruel Recaptured By Spanish Rebels Flight of Government Forces from Bitterly Contested Aragon Capital Is Claimed; Many Loyalist Troops Surrender, 1,000 Killed, Is Report Hendaye, France, Feb. 22.—(AP) — The Spanish insurgent command to day officially announced the recaptuie of Teruel and the flight of govern ment forces from the bitterly contest ed city. Insurgent officers, disputing govern ment reports the entire Teruel gar rison had fought its way to safety, declared numbers of republican troops surrendered, and more than 1,000 had been killed. Incomplete reports of the actual bat tle merely said the government army was falling back after the insurgents took possession of Teruel itself. 2,000 Workers Fight Arkansas Flood Tide Renewed Rainfall Adds To Problem of Saving Pine Bluff; Crevasse in Levee at Bend of River North of City Is Now Rea 1 Danger Point Pine Bluff, Ark., Feb. 22.—(AP> —. Nearly 2,000 workers fought today to save levees around this city from the pounding of the flood-swollen Arkan sas river. Renewed rainfall added to the pro blem confronting WFA workers rush ed to the endangered area. Principal danger point was at a bend in the river north of the Arkan sas city, where a crevasse in the levee threatened inundation of railroad shops. Emergency crews dumped tons of gravel and rock into the swollen stream just above the crevasse trying to deflect the current and relieve the pressure on the spot. The Arkansas was falling west of Little Rock, hut the crest of 32 feet was not expected here until tomorrow. What effect the recurring rains would have was a matter of conjecture, hut Weather Bu reau officials at Little Rock said “it will take a lot more rain than this” to have any effect on the falling stream. The American Red Cross was feed ing about 1,500 families. Albert Evans, disaster relief director, said the total probably would increase to 2,000 or PUBL.IBMBD BVIKT AFTBBNOOM EXCEPT SUNDAY. Earlier the government command had sent fresh troops and planes in to the area to relieve the besieged gar rison of the Aragon capital and check the insurgent drive eastward. The ancient city has been the focal point of the Spanish civil war for two months. Insurgents declared their in fantry had overcome machine gun fire, stormed the bull ring and pushed into the provincial capital. The Teruel evacuation followed new insurgent air raids on Barcelona, the first since more than 350 persons were killed and many others wounded in an aerial bombardment Janu£.ry 30. 2,500. About 150 refugees still were to be brought out of bottom lands near Newport, in north Arkansas, where two levee breaks inundated more than 25,000 acres. * BRITISH MINISTER KILLED IN RACING Hugh Lloyd Thomas, Steeplechase Rider, Once an Intimate of Duke of Windsor Darby, England, Feb. 22. —(AP) — Hugh Lloyd Thomas, 49, British min ister to Paris, was killed today when his horse fell in a steeplechase race. Thomas’ neck was broken. Thomas had been secretary for seven years to the Duke of Windsor when he was Prince of Wales, and held the rank of minister in Great Britain’s Paris embassy, second only to the ambassador, Sir Eric Phipps. Thomas, lithe and active, was rated a favorite in the grand national steeplechase March 25, in which h-i was to have ridden his Royal Mail. O PAGES O TODAY FIVE CENTS COPY PARLIAMENT SCENE OF FIERCE ASSAOLT UPON CHAMBERLAIN Government Policy of Cat ering to Europe’s Dicta tors Meets Stiff Opposition VOTE OF CENSURE IS BEING SOUGHT French Cabinet Approves Plans for $329,000,000 Armament Fund; Paris Moving for Friendship To ward Germany and Italy In New Crisis (By The Associated Press.) Prime Minister Chamberlain’s policy of making friends with Europe’s dic tators today became the target ip London for a full force assault of the opposition labor party, which demand ed in the House of Commons a vote of censure against the government. With war already rumbling in one corner, Europe had watched anxious-, ly, meanwhile, for the effect of Bri tish diplomacy’s turn from “idealism” to Hard “practicality.” France, facing Spanish civil war on her southern border and Germany’s spreading influence in central Europe near her eastern frontiers, looked to the strength of her defenses. The French cabinet anproved a plan for a new armaments fund, reported to total ten billion francs ($329,000,- 000). It sought quick parliamentary approval, so the money could become available within a week and the pro gram begin at once. ' In London also French Ambassador Corbin conferred with Viscount Hali fax, temporary British foreign secre tary, to learn Britain’s intention since the resignation of Foreign Secretary Eden. Sources close to the French foreign office in Paris said the French cabinet would propose a conference with Britain to draft common action for friendship with Germany and Italy. ’ Chamberlain’s policy, in the face of the Nazification of Austria, and fteic,h (Cent** <ed on Page Five) Japs Find They Cant Pass River Shanghai, Feb. 22.—(AP) — Van guards of Japanese armies, massing along a 120-mile front on the north bank of the Yellow river in central China, made exploratory attacks to day to test Chinese south bank de fenses. Chinese halted the first Japanese attempts to cross the stream and strike at the Lunghai railway, China’s main east-west line. The railway is the core of the corridor separating north and central China areas which Japanese have conquered in nearly eight months of warfare. Peiping reports said most Chinese (Continued on Page Three.) COOLEYAND FLOYD EXPLAIN FARM BILL Rocky Mount, Feb. 22.—(AP) — Congressman Harold Cooley, of Nash ville, and E. Y. Floyd, of State College will explain the new crop control law at a farmers’ meeting tonight in the Nash county court house at Nash ville. Farmers from a wide area of East ern Carolina are expected, W. F. Woodruff, president of the Nash Farm Bureau, said. ‘FDR’WeIENTS ■ Says Prices Ought to Come Down, Then That They . Ought to Go Up By CHARLES P. STEWART Central Press Columnist Washington, Feb. 22. —Not more than two or three months ago Presi dent Roosevelt gave it out at one of his press conferences that prices were too high. There ought, he said, to be quite a general reduction, to enable folk to do more buying, thus stimulating busi ness. He added, however, that wages, should not be cut, or price reductions (Continued on Page Three.: