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HENDERSON’S I POPULATION 13,873 | TWENTY-FIFTH YEAR k J S ßtc r ail& r p£ms of SALARY PUBLICITY VOTED DOWN BY BOUSE FOUR ARE KILLED IN RAIDS IN CUBA ON CONSPIRATORS Soldiers, Sailors and Civil ians Involved In Plottings Discovered in Deep Cave SCHEMES AGAINST BATISTA RUMORED Army Headquarters Profess es Knowledge for Some Weeks of Devices of Con spirators; Important Poli tical Leaders Are Declared To Be Involved Havana, Cuba, March 8. —(AP)— Four persons were killed in a nigh* army raid on a political assembly in i. secret cave near here, and today there was speculation whether a plot * had been discovered against the life of Cuba’s strong man, Colonel Ful gencio Batista. One army sergeant was wounded in the bitter gun battle when troops sur prised the cave conference, which gov ernment officials said included sol diers. sailors and civilians plotting a gainst government and its military leaders. The dead were two civilians and two non-commissioned navy of ficers. The cave in which the meeting was held is a small port town about ten miles east of Havana and near Cabana fortress. Army headquarters said they ha l known for some weens of activity by the asserted conspirators, but details of the plotting were not made known. Colonel Batista, head of the army and Cuban police, who fought his way to power in the 1933 revolt, had no di rect comment today, but he announced an army intelligence secret report would “show the activities of impor tant political leaders and the charges against them.” Spokesmen at army headquarters re called that Batista on a recent trio, with 200 school children as an honor ary escort, ordered a part of the chil dren to make the trip 24 hours % after him. This led to speculation on the possibly an attempt had been made against the life of Batista. New Storm Rages Over West Coast Los Angeles, Cal., March 8. (AP) Hail and lightening ushered in a new storm today a s rain-plagued southern California struggled to bring order cut of the last week’s flood chaos. Lightning fired a Pasadena home during the night and extinguished the lights in an Altadena residence. Dam age was slight. , _ . Heavy hail struck Redondo Beach after an electrical display. Ram was reported from Santa Barbara to New port Beach. , . The Weather Bureau forecast of lo cal showers indicated rain oay would be of short duration, howevei, (Continued on Page Six.) State Urged To Support Safety Drive This Week Every Citizen Asked To Cooperate To Reduce Highway Accidents Dull* lilsp«*ch porenn. the Sir Walter •*«»*«*'• Raleigh, March B—Ronald assistant director of the State Hig-» way Safety Division, today urgea every citizen to join in an effor make the highways of the State safe . He pointed out that Governor C y Hoey has declared this as Sa e y Week,” and asked everybody to tatce a part in the program. “Last year on our highways there were 1,123 people killed and 7,990 Tn jured in automobile accidents •said. “The governor is asking that we reduce this appalling number, and we can reduce it if every citizen wii (Continued on Page Six.) HENDERSON DOLLAR DAYS MARCH HrnlU'rsmt tlatltt iltsmtfrh jgggljp.' * Sggglpls' -IgR fp|| :> llljllll A college drinking party was blam ed for the death of Philip Edgar Win slow, (left), 21-year-old North Carolina State College sophomore, whose body burned and partly unclothed, was found at the foot of a high tension telegraph pole near Raleigo, N. C. Coroner L. M. Waring said he was told Winslow, after a drinking party with some companions climbed the nole +o watch a train disappear down a track. It was from the wires on top of thi., high tension telegraph pole near Ra leigh, that Winslow, met his death by electrocution. Coroner L. M. Waring of Wake county (left) and Raleigh patrolman H. C. Benton are shown at the death scene. The accident occur red after a drinking party, and might, it was suggested, have been the re sult of an old prank of running a boy up a pole without his pants and over coat, and then, after tying the clothes around the pole, commanding him to get down without disarranging them. If this was the case, it is possible Winslow came in contact with thj wire while trying to jump off. The boy’s body was found partly uncloth ed, and draped around the pole were his pants and overcoat. Seaweil To Investigate Boy’s Death Attorney General To Seek Electrocution Facts Relating To State College _ 1 Raleigh, March 8 (AP) —Attorney General A. A. F. Seaweil said this afternoon he would make an investi gation into the death of Philip Edgar Winslow, 21-year-old Greenville stu dent at N. C. State College, who was electrocuted Saturday night. Seaweil said he had been request ed by Dean J. W. Harrelson, of the college, to make the inquiry in the capacity of legal counsel for the in stitution. , “This investigation,” said SeaweH, “is not intended to anticipate or take the place of inquiries by law enforce ment officers, but is for the purpose of learning the facts in connection (Conrinued nn Pa?p Six.> ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA AND VIRGINIA. RONALD HOCUTT Scene of Electrocution of Student if Wjmfl *- j§ wLJjjm |l ML life 1 %■ mt Another Os Defendants At Soviet Death Trials Repudiates Confessions Yagoda Testifies from Pri son Box Where He Had Put Many Others Before Him ADMITS PLOTS WITH AID OF PHYSICIANS Some of Most Famous Doc tors Performed at His Ord ers, With Medical Science As Their Tools; Refuses to Answer Some of Questions Put to Him Moscow, March 8. —(AP)—Genrika Yagoda, once the most dreaded chief of the Soviet secret police has known, today stood in the prisoner’s box where he had put so many others, and retracted part of his pre-trial confes sion of treason and murder. One of 21 facing probable death in Moscow’s greatest blood purge trial, Yagoda admitted he ordered the deaths of Maxim Gorky the writer, and V. Kuibisheff, chief of the first five-year plan, with some of Russia’s most imminent doctors following his instructions. But he denied he had ordered the medical murders of Gorky’s son, and his own predecessor as chief of the secret police. Before the trial he had confessed guilt in these deaths also. Previously, all four deaths had been considered due to natural causes. Asked why he confessed ordering the deaths of his son and his predeces sor, if that were untrue, Yagoda would only reply: “Allow me, please, not to answer that question.” Testimony in today’s session the sixth —of the trial, traced a fantastic story of murder in which some of Russia’s most eminent physicians be came the villians and science provided the instruments. Moore To Refuse Mail Shipment of Liquor In State Raleieh. March B.—(AP)—Cutlar Moore, chairman of the State A l . • coholic Beverage Control Commission said today he had ruled against a plan for mail order liquor sales m Norrh Carolina. Moore said the idea wis by O. C. West, o * Richmond Va., of the Railway Jlx.n'tss Company, and C. W. Johnson, Ralegh mar.agei for the express company, w*>o explained a plan used in Virgin'* lor handling of liquor. “And,” said Moore, with an air of finality, “the answer was ‘No’.” “I told them,” Moore said, “we are not opening up a mail order house. I don’t think it is the right thing to do, and I don’t think it was the inten tion of those who framed the law.” Twenty-seven of the State’s 100 ' counties have liquor stores. HENDERSON, N. C., TUESDAY AFTERNOON, MARCH 8,1938 Soviet Prosecutor Andrey Y. Vishinsky ... seeks death for 21 The trial of 21 former high So viet leaders in Moscow on charges ranging from sabotage to high treason and conspiracy to overthrow the government, has been marked by the relentless questioning of the prosecutor, Andrey Y. Vishinsky, above. —Central Press KERR SCOT! URGES VOTE FOR CONTROL State Agriculture Commis sioner Says It Will Avert Price Crash T):il1v IJiNositrh Tliirenn, In The Sir Wiiltrr lintel. Raleigh, March B—W. Kerr Scott, commissioner of agriculture, formally plunged into the crop control cam paign with a speech at Garner last night in which he urged farmers to vote for the cotton and tobacco acre age limitations of the new agricul tural act. He also announced that a meeting of the State Board of Agriculture has been called for Thursday to act on the control question. He did not say so, but there is no question in the mind of observers that the board will come out openly for the control act, thus putting the weight of prac tically every organization squarely 'Continued on Page Six.t WEATHER" FOR NiORTH CAROLINA. Fair tonight and Wednesday; scattered frost tonight. Open Highway Bids For Completion Os Townsville Project Georgia Concern Offers To Finish Surfacing of High way for Price $35,628.25 GRADING, STRUCTURE, SURFACING PUT IN Distance of 6.19 Miles In volved from End of Pres ent Paving to Townsville; Bids Opened by State Highway Commission on Eleven Projects Raleigh, March B.—(AF) —The State Highway & Public Works Commis sion opened bids today on eleven road construction projects estimated to cost *825,000. Tomorrow commission members will canvass the bids, dispose of routine business and decide on rules for allo cation and charging of penal division workers to highway districts. Low bidders on the projects in eluded: Project 4693, Vance county grad ing, structures and surfacing 6.19 miles from the end of Project 4690 through Townsville, W. L. Cobb Con struction Company. $35,628.25. Project 1083, Bertie county, 7.91 miles of surface treatment on Route 308, from Kelford toward Windsor, W. L. Cobb Construction Company, of De catur, Ga„ $29,515.80. * Project 1293, Edgecombe and Hali fax counties, 5.81 miles of grading with structures on Route 122, from near Route 258 to Route 125: C. A. Ragland, of Louisburg, $19,112.20. Project 1398, Oalifax, 7.67 miles of surface treatment on Route 561 from east of Brinkleyville to Route 301; J. M. Gregory, of Raleigh, $25,000. DEAN NOE RAPIDLY REGAINING WEIGHT Baltimore, Md., March 8. —(AP) —Ref. Israel Harding Noe, former dean of St. Mary’s Protestant Episcopal church in Memphis, Tenn., whose 22-day fast attract ed national attention, is rapidly gaining weight at the Johns Hop kins hospital here. He weighed 139 pounds when he entered the hospital February 17, and now weighs 155 pounds. STEAMSHIP LINE'S STRIKE COLLAPSE Norfolk, Baltimore & Carolina Com pany Resumes Sailings Out of Norfolk, Va. Norfolk, Va., March 8 (AP) —The Norfolk, Baltimore & Carolina Steam ship Line resumed regular operations today with the collapse of a strike by some crew members who demanded restoration of a 20 percent pay cut made in January. Pickets were with drawn from the company offices here. The “Farrington” sailed last night for Washington, N. C., and the “Emib lane” will start there tonight. RETIRED TEXTILE MAN HELD SUICIDE Edwin M. Hendley, 59, Long With Erwin Mills, Shoots Himself At Linden Home Fayetteville, March 8— (AP)— Edwin M. Hendley, 59, retired cotton mill su perintendent and merchant, was found shot to death early this morning near his Linden home. Coroner W. C. Davis said it was suicide, and planned no inquest Hend ley was a native of Durham, and was associated with the Erwin Cotton Mill interests there and in Erwin for 30 years. Recently his health had been failing. He leaves a wife and seven chil dren. OFFICE WORKER AT WINSTON SUICIDES Leo Conrad, 28, Slashes Throat With Safety Razor Blade in His Y. M. C. A. Room Winston-Salem, March B.—(AP) — Slashing his throat with a safety razor blade, Leo Conrad, 28, mill office em ployee, committed suicide in his Y. M. C. A. room here this morning. Con rad’s body was found by a Negro maid. Coroner W. N. Dalton, after an in spection, signed a certificate of suicide No motive was ascertained, he sail. PUBLISH!!: HVUY AFTERNOON EXCEPT SUNDAY. Warns Germany Bbik. **&&&* Jill ijMSk “ ■''s& j t iff . .. Premier Milan Hodza (above) of Czechoslovakia, recently hurled de fiance at Germany in a statement of his country’s foreign policy. He told cheering members of the House of Deputies at Prague that Czechoslo vakia will defend herself to the end. (Central Press} GUERRILLA MIDS AND HEAVY SNOWS i HALT IAP DRIVES Strong Attacks on All Fronts Reported To Have Check ed Nippon Plots In China COMMUNICATIONS IN INTERIOR MENACED Barbed Wire Barricades Erected by Japs in Defense Against Guerrillas; Chi nese Destroying Rail Lines and Property as Enemy Gains Shanghai, March 8. —(AP) —Heavy snow throughout central China and increasingly strong guerrilla attacks on all fronts have checked the Japan ese advance in its self-designated task of bringing about a pro-Japanese re gime in China. The growing intensity of the guer rilla attacks today threatened to dis rupt communications facilities be tween the far-flung lines of the armies of Nippon. Japanese erected barbed wire bar ricades around Hangchow, northwest of Shanghai, to combat raids in that area. Daily reports from Hangchow area tell of Japanese outposts attacks, train service disrupted and telephone and telegraph lines cut. Chinese reported that Shansi rail way employees, despite a swift Japan ese drive along the rail line, succeed ed in dynamiting 80 locomotives and (Continued on Page Six ) Stock Exchange Suspends Former President’s Firm New York, March 8. —(AP) — The New York Stock Exchange announced today the euspension of Richard Whit ney & Company from membership for failure to meet its obligations. Richard Whitney, the senior partne of the firm, was for several years president of the exchange until near ly two years ago. A statement by the Exchange said “ln the course of an examination of the affairs of Richard Whitney & Company, the committee on business conduct discovered on March 1, 1938, evidence of conduct apparently con trary to just and equitable principles of trade and on Monday, March 7, at 1:30 p. m., presented to a special meet 8 PAGES TODAY FIVE CENTS COPY CREDIT IS DENIED IN PAYMENTS MADE ON COMPANY DEBT Republican Author of Pro posal Says It Wokld Lift Curse From Ob ligations APPROVAL LIKELY ON SURTAX ITEMS Close Vote Expected By Speaker Bankhead, How ever, on Heavy Levy on Closely - Held Corpora tions; Norris Talks Some More About His Pet TVA Washington, March 8 (AP) —The House tentatively refused today to in sert in the tax bill a provision for publicity for all corporate salaries in excess of $15,000 a year. The stand ing vote was 85 to 48, and a teller vote was 118 to 60 against the provi sion. President Roosevelt recently told his press conference he was in favor of such salary publicity. Previously the House turned down an amendment to the tax bill design ed to give a tax deduction for money used by corporations to pay debts. The amendment was offered by representative Wadsworth, Republi can, New York, who said its pur pose was to “lift from the payment of debt the curse that is now placed upon it.” Earlier Speaker Bankhead said he thought the House would approve a proposed surtax on olosely-held cor porations, although "it may be a close vote.” “It sounds like a fair and equit able proposition to me,” he added at his press conference. With the bill out of the way, the House would be ready to take up the administration billion-dollar naval ex pansion program. Meanwhile, Senator Norris told the (Continued on Page Sl* ' r » Echoes Os Lindbergh Case Rise New York, March B.—(AP) —A Fed eral grand jury today indicted Ellis H. Parker, Sr., Burlington county, N. J., chief of detectives; his son, Ellis, Jr., and three others, as kidnapers un der the Lindbergh law. The indictment concerned the al leged kidnaping of Paul H. Wendel, former Trenton, N. J., resident, from New York to the Parkers’ home in Mounty Holly, N. J., February 24, 1936. Then, the Parkers issued a “con fession” signed by Wendel that he kid naped Charles Lindbergh, Jr., tho crime for which Bruno Richard Haupt mann was then under the death sen tence. The faked confession, allegedly obtained by torture, delayed Haupt mann’s execution three days. The three indicted with the Park ers were Murray Bleefeld. Harry Weiss and Martin Schlossman. all of • New York. They have been character ized by state and federal prosecutors in previous legal ■ actions as the tools of the Parkers. Today’s indictment, under Federal law, opened the way to bring the Parkers from New Jersey to trial in Tew York. ing of the governing committee charges and specifications. “Hearing on the charges was set for March 17. “This morning the firm of Richard Whitney & Company advised the Ex change that it was unable to meet its obligations and suspension for insol vency was announced from the ros trum of the exchange shortly after 10 a. m.” Whitney, the most prominent mem ber of the exchange to be suspended in many years, is a brother of George Whitney, partner in the banking house of J. P. Morgan & Company. The suspension came as a complete I surprise to the financial district.
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