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fuRNDERSON’S POPULATION 13,873 TWENTY-FIFTH YEAR JtPU FEARFUL OF NEW CHINESE MR RAIDS SENATE VOTES BACK HUGE SUM STRICKEN FROM LABOR BOARD $385,009 Deleted, Glass Says, Because Board Could Not Justify Larger Personnel TOWNSEND WILL NOT DO JAIL SENTENCE Old Age Pension Leader De cides To Fight to Supreme Court His Contempt Sen tence; AAA Announces Fund for Loans on Fire- Cured, Air-Cured Tobacco Washington. Feb. 24.—(AP)— The Senate restored today $385,000 cut from a 52.955.000 appropriations for the National Labor Relations Board in the independent offices bill. Chairman Glass, Democrat. Vir ginia, had told the Senate the ap propriations committee cut the board’s funds because it “had not been able to justify” the proposed employ ment of additional personnel. Chairman Thomas, Democrat, Utah, and Senators Neely, Democrat, West Virginia, and Wagner, Democrat New York, defended the increase, as serting that more attorneys and ex aminers were needed because of its expanding work. A demand for an increase in the NLRB's appropriation drew from Sen ator Burke, Democrat, Nebraska, a declaration the board’s admiinifetta tion of the labor act had been a “na tional disgrace.” The proposed labor board approp riation is one of the items in the sl,- 400.000,000 independent offices bill coming before the Senate for con sideration today. Another appropriation measure, the $250,000,000 emergency relief bill, was Continued on Page Fiva.) Hancock Is Caller Upon Gov’r Hoey Raleigh, Feb. 24.—(AP)—Congress man Frank W. Hancock, Jr., of Ox ford. seeking the Democratic nomina tion to the United States Senate, visit ed Governor Hoey today. “He was just in town and came by to pay his respects,” said Hoey after Hancock left. “I just talked to the best balanced governor of the best balanced state in the union about the befit balanced state and other things,” Hancock said when asked about the purpose of his visit. “I do want to say that if I were a farmer I would walk a country mile to support the farm surplus control program in the vote March 12. “Though it may not be perfect, it will certainly help stabilize farm prices at a profitable level and at the same time tend to insure protection to the consumer. “I am sick and tired of seeing our farmers make a little money one year and lose it all and perhaps some more the next.” Tomorrow night Hancock speaks hi Tarboro. Chautemps Not Allowed To Step Out French Political Par ties Reject Coali tion Plan; Pledge Given Premier Paris, Feb. 24.—(AP)—French poli tical parties today rejected a proposal that Premier Chautemps’ regime be replaced by a national union govern ment to cope with the nation’s serious internal and external problems. The radical socialist premier, who had offered to step down if he coull he assured of an all-party participa tion in a national union government, resolved at once to carry on with his present radical socialist cabinet. Socialist and communist leaders, aa ■well as chiefs of the extreme rignt (Continued on Page Six.) Hint&muin tJatly Utapafrftls ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA AND VIRGINIA. " LEASED wire service of THE ASSOCIATED PRESS. McNutt Rebuke? |||i||f :• & . .. sci: 9'; : vSSSSS Col. Davenport Johnson . . .transferred Has the early presidential boom and Philippine-to-Washington pa rade of Paul V. McNutt, high commissioner of the Philippines and former governor of Indiana irked the Roosevelt administra tion? Some saw in the transfer of Col. Davenport Johnson, above, who flew McNutt from San Fran cisco to Denver without war de partment authorization, a rebuke to McNutt. * Colonel Johnson is commandant of the army bomb ing base at San Francisco. The war department denied Colonel Johnson’s transfer to a secondary post at Rantoul, 111., was anything other than routine. Indiana Dem ocrats planned a royal reception for McNutt in Washington. —Central Press FULTON, ARK., PINS HOPES! LEVEES Few More Hours Will Seal Fate of City on Banks Os Red River Fulton, Ark., Feb. 24. —(AP) —Ful- ton’s fate rested today in the sturd iness of an eight-foot sandbag bar rier and the whims of the turbulent Red river, which registered an all time high stage of more than 36 feel Some 50 river miles downstream the restless torrent blew out a levee opposite Garland City to inundate 100,000 acres of rich farm land in habited by hundreds of families. Skiffs were sent across the stream to aid those in the immediate vicinity of the break. The sandbag dykes here, thrown up by volunteer and WPA workers, was patrolled by guards, who alternately watched the river guage and looked for weak spots. The bags took a ter rific beating from the angry stream, while stretched to a width of five miles in front of the town. Normally its width is 250 yards. Most long-time residents agreed if the river rose any higher, the com munity, which hasn’t been flooded in thirty years, would be inundated. The Shreveport weather bureau pre dicted a stage of 38 to 40 feet by to night, but Captain Gritfiths, of the United States Army engineers, said at Little Rock observations along the stream led him to believe the pre dicted stage would not be reached. Refugee congestion added to the tension. PERSHING FAMILY MORE ENCOURAGED General Expected To Recover from Heart Attack Unless Unfore seen Turn Comes. Tucson, Ariz., Feb.. 24. — (AP) —Re- latives and friends of General John J. Pershing were heartened today by physicians’ reports that the 77-year old campaigner would recover from his illness, barring some unforeseen setback. The general’s only son, War ren, arrived here by plane from Palm Beach, Fla., and went immediately to his father’s bedside. General Pershing was awake early and inquired about his son. They last saw each other at the Gridiron dinner in Washington more than two mont s ago. HENDERSON, N. C., THURSDAY AFTERNOO N, FEBRUARY 24, 1938 Just Before the Crisis m—g || fl| i ;IJ?4 <1 W MMi J Ip- jay Anthony Eden, who has resigned as Foreign Minister in England, is pic tured as he left Eustis for Birmingham, England, where he spoke before the Junior Imperial League. A few days later, on the heels of Hitler’s speech to the Reichstag, Eden quit. He is pictured hiding his face from the cameraman. (Central Press) Freedom Os Austria Is Invoked By Schuschnigg In Address To Country Chancellor Explains His Vis it With Hitler and Declares “Our Existence Is Involve d”; Supporters and Nazis Outside Parlia merit Parade Vienna, Feb. 24.—-(AP) —The Aus trian government “is directing all it 3 efforts toward Austria’s freedom and independence, Chancellor Kurt Schus chnigg declared tonight in a speech explaining the .republic’s new rela tions with the German Reich. “The question of our existence is involved, and we are banded together seeking' a solution of this special task," declared the scholarly chan cellor. “The constitution recognizes no parties. It is based on the profession and guild principle of the people. Therefore, there are no coalitions either in political life or in the ad ministration.” Schuschnigg began his tensely await Baby Kidnap Trio Alleged To Been Here Baltimore, Md., Feb. 24.—(AP) —Three persons named in a war rant charging them with kidnap ing 18-months-old Nelson Booth were scheduled to appear today before U. S. Commissioner James Cullen for a hearing. Cullen issued warrants charg ing Elizabeth Childress, Mrs. Clyde Childress and Henry C. Esteppe with kidnaping the child by transporting him from Paxton, Va., to Henderson, N. C., “for re ward or otherwise.” The three had been held since Monday at Rockville, where they gave the names of Elizabeth Esteppe, Harry Esteppe, her hus band, and Mrs. Mary Lee, the mother. They were picked up near Quince Orchard in a cabin in - which the baby was found. The elder woman said they had not kidnaped the child, but its mother, Mrs. Lorine Booth, gave her the baby “because she didn’t want it.” FARM BUREAU WILL MEET IN THE EAST Raleigh, Feb- 24. —(AP) —The State Farm Bureau Federation announced today that J. E. Winslow, of Green ville, State president, would discuss the Federal farm act at a farmers’ meeting in Washington Friday night. At Wilson Friday night farm Bu reau directors from the area will meet with E. F. Arnold, executive secre tray of the bureau. "WEATHER FOR NORTH CAROLINA. Partly cloudy, somewhat unset tled on the coast; colder in cen tral and east portions tonight; Friday generally fair. ed speech on his Berchtesgaden com pact with Germany’s Reichfuehrer Hitler, using Austria’s 59-memter Federal diet as a sounding board. The session took place in the huge hall of the Parliament building, pack ed by 1,200 members of the cabinet, officials, and members of the father land front. The chancellor entered the building shortly after 7 p. m. The speech was expected to be both a re ply to Hitler’s Reichstag speech of last Sunday and his version of the Berchtesgaden accord by which he was compelled to admit Nazis influ ence into the Austrian government. Outside Parliament, Schuschnigg’s supporters paraded, while Nazis pre pared counter demonstrations. Hitler Coup Displeasing To Italians Mussolini Exhaust ed, Hitler Fresh and Powerful, as Wash-| ington Sees It By CHARLES P. STEWART Central Press Columnist Washington, Feb. 24—Italy is not believed, by disinterested diplomatic folk in Washington, to he overly pleas ed by the extension of German in fluence into Austria. Upon second thought, it is not quite correct to speak of any diplomatic element as disinterested relative to latest developments in central Europe All are intensely interested, including our own State Department, but the interest of some diplomatic groups i 3 particularly immediate. Others look (Continued on Page Three.l COTTON IS LOWER IN MIDDAY PRICE Opening Is Lower, But Lower Cables Are Partly Offset by Some Trade Buying New York, Feb. 24.—(AP) — Cotton futures opened unchanged to four points off, with lower Liverpool cables partly offset fc.y absence of March notices and trade buying. Shortly after the first half hour, May, which had reacted to 9.22, recovered to 9.24 when the list was seven to nine points net lower. May eased to 9.21, and re covered to 9.23 by midday, when the list was 8 to 13 points lower. German Acceptance Os British Program Will Further Peace Both Germany and Italy May Withdraw Their Troops From Span ish Civil War Front CONCILIATION SEEMS TO BE NEARER NOW Soviet Russia Remains Sil ent on British Formula of Getting Out of Spain; Fur ther Negotiations By Ger many May Clarify Situa tion More r London, Fob. 24. —(AP)—Prime Min ister Chamberlain's “realYtic” pro gram for bargaining with the fascist cowers for the peace of Europe today " r as reported advanced by German ac ceptance of the British plan for with ’rov/al of foreign “volunteers” from ’•e Spanish war. Italy’s acceptance, in principle, al ”nady has ’-.ecn indicated, paving the vrv for I ahan-Anglo friondslva talks o epen shortly in Rome. D”. E. Woermann, German ct*a»ge d’affaires, visited the Earl of Fly mouth, British under secretary for ore'gn affairs, and informed sources said he would agree to the British “volunteers” proposals. This would indicate Reichfuehrer Hitler was only one step behind Prer mier Mussolini in conciliatory gestures toward the British government, from which Anthony Eden, whom both dis liked, has withdrawn as foreign sec retary. Further Anglo-German negotiations are expected when Joachim von Rib oentrop, Hitler’s new foreign minister, and retiring ambassador to London, returns here to take his format leave* es King George. Soviet Russia still has not approved the British formula on “volunteers” but it was confidently believed Ger many and Italy were falling in line. STOCKS LOSE PART OF PREVIOUS GAINS Profit Selling Appears, But Is Not Urgent; Volume Below That of Previous Session New York, Feb. 24. — (AP) —Stocks took time out for a breathing spell in today’s market, and leading issue? relinquished part of the ground gain ed Wednesday. Profit selling appear ed at the opening, but it vas not urgent in any department. Optimistic analysts stressed the fact volume was substantially below that of the pre ceding session. Declines running to a point or more were plentiful near the fourth hour. Bonds and commodi ties 'were uneven. American Radiator 13 3-i American Telephone 139 7-8 American Tobacco B 55 1-4 Anaconda .. .. • • 34341-8 Atlantic Coast Line 24 1-2 Atlantic Refining 23 1-4 Bendix Aviation 14 Bethlehem Steel 59 1-4 Chrysler 57 1-4 Columbia Gas & Elec. Co 7 7-8 Commercial 8 5-8 Continental Oil Co. 9 3-4 Curtis Wright 4 5-8 DuPont 12 J; J-* Electric Power Light 10 1- * General Electric 41 7 8 General Motors 36 1-2 Montgomery Ward & Co 36 5-8 Reynolds Tobacco B 40 Southern Railway 12 1-2 Standard Oil Co. N J 53 3-8 U. S. Steel 66 l" 8 Nazi Party Celebrates A Birthday an important one for the mi ions Adolf Hitler’s followers in Germany, Austria and Czechoslovakia It was on February 24, 1920, ,J Hitler, in the now-famed Hos Brau House in Munich, formally announce creation of the National Socialia German Workers Party, and proclaim ed to an audience of 2,000 the party program of 25 points. The first of those points was: “We demand union of all Germans in any great Germany on the basis of the right of self-determination of the peoples.” So it was with keen interest that Nazis of the three countries waited for tonight’s speech by the Austrian Chancellor Schuschnigg to hear his story of the Berchtesgaden meeting with Hitler, which gave the Nazis first important concessions in Austria. PUBLISHED EVBJtT AFTHKNOOB EXCEPT SUNDAY. Post in Danger? Bf jM Vvon Delbos ... may be forced out As France consulted her European friends on changes in diplomacy forced by the resignation of An thony Eden, Britain’s foreign sec retary, the position of France’s foreign minister, Yvon Delbos, friend of Eden, was in danger. Unless French diplomacy is re adjusted at once, it was said, Del tas would be forced out, too. —Central Press INSURGENTS SHE AT MOUNTAIN PASS Lay Siege to Strong Govern ment Barricades Barring Way To Sea Hendaye, France, Feb. 24.—(AP)— Spanish insurgents, fighting their way down a highway southeast of Teruel. today laid siege to the mountain pass of Escandon, where strong govern ment . barricades barred the route to the Mediterranean sea coast. The Iran insurgent command do clared Castralvo defenses were broken by the continuing t insurgent offen sive. A second column reported con solidating certain positions where ad vance units moved ahead a mile and a half. A headquarters bulletin said 16,290 Continued on Page Five.) HOEY SPARES LIFE CHARLOTTE NEGRO Commutes to Life Term Death Sent ence on Hudson Robinson, Convicted of Murder Raleigh, Feb. 24.—(AP) —Governor Hoey commuted to life imprisonment, today the death sentence imposed in Mecklenburg county on Hudson Rob inson, Negro convicted of the murder of Albert Dowling, another Negro. Robinson was to be executed to morrow. Hoey issued a lengthy statement discussing a careful study of “cet tain phases of the record and newly discovered evidence,” and noting “the evidence of the State and the defense was completely contradictory.” The State, Hoey said, contended the killing was without provocation, while the defense contended Dowling struck Robinson with a scantling and a gen eral fight ensued. Says 1939 House Already Lost By Liquor Advocates So-Called Dry Counties Expected To Send Enough New Strength to Legislature T o Carry Lower Body; Only Hope of Wets Said To Be In Senate Dali? Dispatch Bureau, Iu the Sir Walter Hotel. Raleigh, Feb. 24.—The North Car olina House of 1939 is already lost to the advocates of county liquor stores, and the only hope of continuing the present plan of ABC control lies :r. the Senate to ’ e elected this year, or.-; of the State’s best-knowr. lobbyists has told you” correspondent. This chap doesn’t lobby for or h gainst liquor—he's connected with an entirely different interest- and he is personally in favor of the prou-nt sys tem, His dut’'?s take him into every county of North Carolina and he is FIVE CENTS COPY as ieEs REPORTED COMING Eight Dead and 29 Injured Counted as Result of Raids on Formosa on Wednesday JAPS SEEK BASES OF RAIDING CRAFT Airdromes on Chinese Main land Attacked; Japanese Army Forces Drive South ward Toward Chinese De fenses on Lunghai Railroad Front Tokyo, Feb. 24. —(AP)—Ohe of Ja >an’s main islands was under air raid A r arnings for several hours today on reports that Chinese hombers were roaring over the China Sea to carry the Far East warfare to Japan. The warnings were sounded oh the island of Kyushu, southwesternmost main island, less than 24 hours after a Chinese squadron had bombarded the Japanese island of Formosa In the first air attack Japan 'ever has suffered. Domei (Japanese) News Agencv said defense headquarters on Kyushu gave word of the approach of the planes. The air raid warnings were lifted at 4:25 p. m. (2:25 a. m., eastern standard time.) A navy spokesman declared it was “within the realm of possibility’' that Chinese planes could bombard Kyushu. Formosa, counted eight dead and 29 injured as a result of yesterday’s at tacks. The whole island wa3 oh the alert for a possible second raid by Chinese bombers from somewhere on China’s east coast. Shanghai reports said, meanwhile, Japanese war planes raided Chinese airdromes on the southeast China coast in search for the basfe from which Chinese yesterday bombarded Formosa. The Japanese struck for the first time at the Chinese airfield at Foo chow, opposite the northern tip of Formosa. They also raided the air field at Lishui. » On the widespread central China war front northwest of Nanking, Ja panese columns drove to, the south against the Lunghai railway corridor. TO HEARPLEAFOR YOUNGEST CONVICT f McDowell Negro Sentenced to Die for Crime Done at Age of 15 Dnlly Dlni>nt«*h Burena. In 4h*“ Sl»* llolel. Raleigh, Feb. 24.—North Carolina's Supreme Court will next week hear the appeal of the youngest person ever sentenced to death in this State. The case of Mann (alias Hiawath) Smith, Negro youth who was 15 years and 30 days old at the time of the of fense for which he was condemned, is among a dozen set for oral argu ment next Tuesday. He was convicted in McDowell coun ty of raping a 13-year-old white girl, after a previous trial had been halted by an assault upon the defendant in open court ty a # relative of the pro secutrix. Counsel for the condemned boy con tend in their brief that the superior courts of North Carolina have no au thority to pass a sentence of death upon any person under 16 years old. They point to Section 7322 of the code which provides that judges of IContinued on Page Slx.> constantly on the gc. F*» obvious 'op sons, he insisted that his name be not used in connection with any story about liquor. Os course, his is just a personal op inion, but it is based on observation— the observation of a ‘rained, -eader of public thought, too. H's conclusion is that the drys have worked quiet!/, but very effectively, ever since their defeat in the 1937 legislature, and that they are sure to put on one of th j most sizzling battles ever staged In | (Continued on Page Six.) PAGES TODAY
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