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HENDERSON’S I pOI’ULATION 13,873 1 TWENTY-FIFTH YEAR SENATE MAT REVOLT OR HOUSE TAX DILL JAPS CLAIM TAKING OF 20,000 CHINESE IN HONAN PROVINCE Wiping Out of 1,800 Others In Another Sector Also Claimed by The Invaders reinforcements to JAPANESE RECEIVED Believed To Indicate Japa nese Plans for Smashing Drive Westward Toward Hankow, One of Seats of Chinese Government; More Chinese Sent Up Shanghai, March 5. —(AP) —The Ja panese army claimed capture today of 20.090 Chinese troops in extreme northwest Honan province, far behind the line of Japanese lines pushing south toward the Yellow river. In neighboring Shansi province, where other Japanese columns are trying to outflank the Chinese defend ers on the central front, a Japanese army spokesman said 1,800 Chinese were wiped out in the hilly country between Fengyang and Tsingyuan. This also was far behind the Japanese lines. Long range Japanese operations aimed at Hankow, one of the tempor ary seats of the Chinese government, extended the pressure on Chinese troops defending two widely-separated battlefronts. While hard-pressed Chinese forces along the Yellow river fought to hold the Japanese north of that central China barrier, the Japanese field army along the Yangtze west of Wuhu was reinforced by at least a full division completely mechanized. Military observers believed this strong reinforcement meant the Ja panese intended to start a smashing iContinued on Page Three.) JUDGE KERR PAYS FEE FOR CONTEST Raleigh, March 5 (AP) —Congress- man John H. Kerr, of Warrenton, paid the State Board of Elections his SIOO filing fee today to seek to succeed himself in the second district congres sional seat. Troy Barnes, of Wilson, previously had filed for the post. Charles L. Coggin, of Salisbury, paid $45 to file as a candidate to succeed himself as 15th district solicitor. DEMOCRATSLOSE MADISON TAXWAR State Supreme Court Holds Control of G. O. P. Coun ty Not Lawful Dnllr Dhpiitrh Biircan. In The Sir Walter Hotel Raleigh, March s—Overlooked under the commonplace-enough title of Brig man vs Baley, there was handed down this week by the North Carolina Su preme Court a decision showing that the State’s Republican minority can depend upon the State’s judicial de partment to protect it against arbitr ary control by a Democratic legisla ture . The decision held, in effect, that the General Assembly exceeded its consti fContinuerl on Pa.e p Four.! California Flood Dead And Missing Above 200 Los Angeles, Cal., March 5. —(AP) —The toll of dead and missing in southern California’s most devastating flood soared over the 200 mark today a s rehabilitation work continued. The latest check showed 104 bodies* have been found, 77 of which have beer, identified. Authorities estimated that at least another 100 persons were wissing and would require days to check. The death toll is expected to be con sidered swelled. Surrounded by yellow flood waters are farm houses as inaccessible. Fate of the inhabitants is still a matter of guess work. Nor will the damage, caused which prolonged torrential rains cause HENDERSON DOLLAR DAYS MARCH 10-11-12 ftatikeraott ilatlii thsrmfdt California Flood Loss $50,000,000 Tos Angeles, Cal., March 5. — (AP) —Reports of a new low pres sure area forming off the Pacific coast cast the shadow of another storm throat on devastated south ern California t' day as it counted its deaths in the hundreds and its flood damage at more than $50,000,- 000. L. H. Daingerfield, government meteorologist, warned That the at mospheric condition might bring additional rain. “We will get fcy Sunday without any rain,” he said, “but beyond that our forecasts do not go. A s?M!ond ary low pressure area from the main storm area in the Aleutian is lands has swung as far south as the California coast. FARMERSURGED BY GOVERNOR HOEY TO VOTEONCONTROL Tells Them To Attend Meet ings and Learn All About Plan and Vote Own Judgment SAYS STATE SHOULD TRY PLAN FOR YEAR Can Well Afford To Make Experiment, Governor De clares in Statement; Says Farmer Is Confronted With Fact of Huge Cotton, To bacco Surpluses Raleigh, March 5 (AP)--Governor Hoey said today he was personally willing to go along with the farm leadership in North Carolina in sup porting the new farm act, and urged farmers to vote in the March 12 re ferendum on the measure. “My suggestion to the tobacco and cotton farmers of the State,” he said in a formal statement, “is that they study this measure for themselves, at tend the farm meetings, hear all the discussions and get all the informa tion possible and then vote their best judgment.” “It is of vital importance that the farmers shall vote.” He said North Carolina “could well afford to make the experiment for this year" if compulsory control car ries and reductions in cotton and to bacco acreages “result in the increas ed production of home supplies and fContinued on Page Five) GOLDSBORO WOMAN DECLARED SUICIDE Goldsboro, March 5 (AP) —Mrs. Moody Best, 38, was found shot to death in her home here today. Coro ner T. R. Robinson, of Wayne county, said she committed suicide and no in quest would he held. southern California’s customarily thin gentle rivers to swirl over their banks, be estimated for some time. Preliminary estimates of officials, however, indicated the havoc wrecked on public property will exceed $50,- 000,000 in Los Angeles, San Ber nardino, Riverside and Orange coun ties. No estimate has been hazarded as to the damage done to homes and crops. The worst damage and most fatalities were recorded along the Santa Ana river. Many thousands of persons were homeless in that region. Muddled flood waters still lay in wide stretches over the farm lands. ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA AND VIRGINIA. LE*WTRE SERVICE 07 THE ASSOCIATED PRESS. HENDERSON, N. C„ SATURDAY AFTERNOON, MARCH 5, 19S8 House Crushed by Landslide During Los Angeles Storm ; 4 * ' ~ v ■ mar Jmsfj ... One of the tragedies of the Southern California storm: When this house was crushed by a landslide a small boy was killed-. The house of the boy’s grandfather is seen resting on the edge of the hill at the left. Fear Levine Lad Has Now Been Killed Tense Silence Settles * Over Home of Kid nap Victim; Lake Is Drained New Rochelle, N. Y., March 5. (AP) —Tense silence settled over the home of 12-year-old Peter Levine, sus pected kidnap victim as New York City police began draining a Bronx lake today in search for his body. Three anonymous telephone mes sages from widely scattered points in Manhattan, Brooklyn and the Bronx sent police to Indian Lake in Crotona park, where, partly covered by snow on the bank, they found a note read ing: “Find Levine boy in middle of lake.” A crudely drawn arrow pointed to ward the indicated spot. Although acting Captain William Sullivan said it might be a “cruel hoax”, he decided to drain the lake after two emergency squads had prob ed the water with grappling hooks for three hours without results. Secluded in his suburban home here, the missing boy’s father, Murray Levine, anxiously awaited the outcome of the search. Nursing a hope that hi-3 (Continued on Page Five.) Rebels Lay Plans For Big Drive Hendaye, France, March 5.—(AP)— Seventeen persons were killed and many others wounded in a series of insurgent air raids on Barcelona last night and early today. More than 100 other persons have been killed recently in raids along the Mediterranean coast. Damage was ex tensive. The attacks on major centers of population apparently were intended to crack the morale of government Spain in preparation for an offensive the insurgents intend to start this spring. A fleet of 12 insurgent planes bomb ed Alcaniz, and according to reports, machine-gunned its civilian popula tion. Several deaths were also caused by another raid on Valencia and fur ther casualties resulted from repeated attacks on Barcelona. International Trickery Bared At Soviet Trial Accused Traitors Drag Skeletons from Closets in Testi mony of Doomed; Japan Wanted Excuse To Attack China; War Line-Up Told By Witness Moscow, March 5. —(AP) —Japanese told him, defendant and ex-Ambas sador Christian Rakovsky testified m Moscow’s greatest treason trial today, of Japan’s needs in 1934 for some in cident to serve as an excuse for at tacking China. Rakovsky, former Soviet ambas sador to France, who with his 20 col leagues pleaded guilty to conspiracy, asserted his information came from eminent Japanese at Tokyo in that year. The possibility of conflict between England and Japan over China dis turbed the conspirators, Rakovsky said, because they were playing both countries through contacts with their WAi-BRYANT FIGHT MAY GO, INTO 1940 Speakership Contest, and Even Senate Fight, May Shape Governorship Dili!} Dispatch Bureau, !u the Sir Walter Hotel. Raleigh, March s—The5 —The friendly con test between Craven’s Libby Ward and Durham’s Victor Bryant for speaker ship of the 1939 North Carolina House is likely to carry over into the gubernatorial campaign of 1940. And, strange as it might seem, the result of the current Reynolds vs. Hancock Senate sweepstakes is likely to get mixed up in the same cam paign. Neither Ward nor Bryant has indi cated by word of mouth that he is at all interested in the 1940 primaries as a candidate for governor, but there are better than clear indications that both would be receptive to the idea— as what ambitious and capable young er politician wouldn’t? It follows that the victor in the speakership contest will have gained more than a modicum of prestige and will be in better position to encourage a boom for himself as a gubernatorial aspirant two years from now. At least this is the sort of talk that is current among political wiseacres here in the State capital; though some go even further and aver that there is really an understanding that Bryant shall not be a too active as- Continued an Page Five.) intelligence services for aid in a plot to overthrow the Soviet regime. Rakovsky described followers of Leon Trotzky, exiled war lord. Rus sia charges inspired anti-Soviet in trigues, as “the advance guard of in ternational aggression” in trying tc provoke war against Russia, parti cularly by Japan. The Japanese ambassador to Mos cow, M. Shigemitsu, appeared for the first time during the trial and heard the startling testimony. Rakovsky said he had sent Japanese secret service operatives five anayses of Soviet internal conditions between 1933 and 1936, which “were painted in the blackest colors to whet the ap petites of the aggressors.” PRICE STATUS IS ROOSEVELT WORRY President First Wants Levels Higher, Then Lower, and Higher Again By CHARLES P. STEWART Central Press Columnist Washington, March s—When5 —When the Roosevelt administration came into power it adopted a policy tending to increase prices, evidently on the theory that the depression was due, at least in part, to the fact that they were too low for the common good at that juncture. Much more recently the White House announced that prices were too high again, resulting in the recession from the previous business recovery. This news scarcely was cold before (Continued on Page Four.) WEATHER FOR NORTH CAROLINA. Partly cloudy and warmer; Sun day cloudy, with occasional show ers. WEEKLY WEATHER. South Atlantic States: Showers ending at beginning of week; rain period Wednesday or Thursday, otherwise generally fair; colder first of week, warmer middle; colder over north and central por tions of district toward end of week. POBL M H*D o £VB«T N ATT.>U i OO« pjyg gQpy SUSPECT {HELD AT BURLINGTON AFTER MYSTERY SHOUTING Police Chief Says L. H. Haney t of Near Belmont, Wounded In Wild Auto Ride CAR RIDDLED WITH BULLETS WHEN SEEN Believed Man Chased by Of ficers at Shelby Last Night Following Robbery of Li quor Store in Blacksburg, S. C.; Officers Linking Up Incidents Burlington, March 5. —(AP) —A man with a gunshot wound in his shoulder lay under police guard in a hospital here today aft ,r what Police Chief Carl Stanford termed a wild ride in a bullet-riddled automobile. Stanford identified the man as L. H. Haney, of near Belmont, and said he was a former convict He said he was held as a suspect in the hold-up of a Blacksburg, S C., liquor store, and his wound was the result of a brush last night with Shelby police. Stanford said *> man who identfied himself as Tom Jackson v hitch-hike’ of “near Lexington,” gave him the tip (Continued on Page Four.) Bankhead Says Control To Lift South Into Own Charlotte, March 5. —(AP) —“Com- pulsory diversification” and other forms of assistance provided by Fed eral farm control legislation soon will bring about the live-at home objective of southern farmers. United States Senator John H. Bank head, Democrat, Alabama, predicted here today. “By properly using the acreage re leased from cotton production,” he said, “the farmers really can attain the live-at-home objective.” “And, with their bonuses and sub sidies from the Federal government the farmers will be able to convert the acreages thus released to produc tion of feedstuffs and other crops to meet their own requirements, so that they will not find it necessary to bi buying in tremendous quantities as in the past, the things they can produce 8 PAGES TODAY ToSSf Wisconsan Agrees With Roosevelt That Public Should Know Who Gets High Wages YALE PROFESSOR IS OFFERED POSITION Thurman Arnold Tendered Post of Assistant Attorney General to Succeed Robert Jackson, Who Is Sworn in as Federal Solicitor Gen eral Washington, March s.—(AP>—Rep resentative Boileau, Progressive, Wis consin, said today he might offer an imendment to the tax bill to continue -lubiicity for corporation salaries over '15,000 a year. n Boileau said he agreed entirely with President Roosevelt’s assertion at his cress conference yesterday that such cublicity was a matter of “simple morality." Fending legislation which revises the tax system does not in clude a provision for the publicity. As the House approached a vote on the tax measure, there were in creasing reports that the Senate might revolt against some parts of the House bill. House and Senate were in recess. Meantime, Attorney General Cum mings said he had offered the post of Assistant Attorney General to Pro fessor Thurman Arnold, of the Yale Law School. Arnold would succeed Robert Jackson, formerly in chargs Continued on Page Five.) FIVE FORT BRAGG RESIDENTS INJURED One Serious Injury When Car Strikes Bridge Rail and Goes Down Steep Embankment Shelby, March 5 (AP)—Five resi dents of Fort Bragg were injured, one seriously, near here early today when their automobile struck the ra|l of a bridge and plunged down a steep em bankment. Corporal Ray Nader wad reported in a serious condition at a hospital here. Sergeant C. D. Dyer, his wife and four-year-old son, and Mrs. Nader received emergency treatment. Tennessee’s Governorls In Control Nashville, Tenn., March 5 (AP) — The Tennessee Supreme Court upheld today a law that doubled the member ship of the State Board of, Elections, and- thereby gave control of the elec tion machinery to Governor Gordon Browning,-who seeks to succeed him self. Enacted last fall at an extra session of the legislature called by the gov ernor after his break with E. H. Crump, Memphis political leader, the statute provided for appointment of the three new board members. This gave him control of the bodrd by a (Conti'' ’Jed on Page at home,” he said. Bankhead left his train here to motor to Shelby, where he was to speak on the 1938 farm bill before a mass meeting of farmers. He was ac companied by Representative Harold Cooley, of Nashville. Recalling that he was the author of the original cotton control legis lation, and was co-author of the soil conservation law, under which the administration is working currently, the senator said: “It has been only a few years since this program was undertaken, but even now the South is a different country because of the benefits the farmers have received.” Bankhead expressed regret that more Federal funds were not made available for assistance to tenant far mers.
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