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HENDERSON’S POPULATION 13,873 TWENTY-FIFTH YEAR TV* CHAIRMAN BLUNTLY DEFIES ROOSEVELT BITTER FIGHTING I PROGRESS FOR SUCHOWJUNCTION Lines of Chinese and Japa nese Only 50 Yards Apart in Places on Battle front heavy artillery USED BY JAPANESE Believed Preface To Assault on Chinese Positions; Chi nese Launching Desperate Counter-Attacks in Many Parts of War Zone To Re sist Invader Shanghai, March 22. —(AP) —Fight- ip., i; .ged today across a bloody Grana Canal as Chinese and Japanese, their lines hut 50 yards apart in some places battled for possession of Suchow, vitai junction point of the Lunghai and Tientsin-Pukow railways. Gunfire was audible in Suchow, 22 miles from the battlefield as Japanese ranged their heavy artillery along the north shore of the canal and opened bombardment of the Chinese lines. The barrage was believed to be pro liminary to an assault of Chinese po-* -itions reaching from the swamps of Lake Weishan to Likuoyith, on the north-south Tientsin-Pukow line, where the bitterest fighting was tak ing place. However, the Japanese were in a position for an eastward flanking movement. At Suchow they would cut the east-west Lunghai line, connect ing their north and central China conquests, and move into position for an easy advance by railway to Han kow. temporary central Chinese gov t Continued on Page Three.) 2 Sisters, Nurses, Beaten Unconscious; One of Them Dies Montgomery, Ala., March 22. (AP)— Brutally beaten in a thicket near here, Miss Eunice Ward, 48, former nresident of the Alabama Nurses Association, died today. Her sister, Lillian, 52, a retired navy nurse, also attacked, was re covering from a terrific beating she said was administered by a Negro who robbed the sisters as they were picking wild flowers. Police held three Negroes for questioning in the bludgeoning of the women, who were beaten un conscious in a thicket Saturday afternoon and lay in the under brush during two rainstorms un til Sunday morning. Insurgents Report New Successes Hendaye, France, March 22. —(AP) —Spanish insurgents today reported they had driven government troops from five barricaded trench lines at Void oleorfo in fierce hand-to-hand conflicts. Resuming their drive toward Cata lonia arid the Mediterranean coast, the insurgents launched an attack in the sector ten miles southeast of Alcaniz and about 35 miles from the sea. Government troops suffered 2,000 (Continued on Page Three.) POLICEMANWiDQW FREED OF KILLING Patricia Ryan Acquitted of Murder of Husband She Slew ’ii w York, M'irc.i 22. —(AP)— hey half carried hysterical Patricia Byan into a Bronx county court room earl> today to hear the verdict in her trial for the slaying of her patrolman hus band, Michael. A few minutes later the black clad -1 year-old widow walked unas*ioted out of a rear entrance of the court house, free for the first time in nearly five months to return to her children, Mickey, two and a half, and Patricia months old. Nine men and three women juiora (Continued on Page Three.) Hcttitersnn Satin iltenatrh LEASED WIRE SERVICE OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS. NAZI DEMANDS ARE REFUSED BY BRAZIL FOR A SECOND TIME Held in Kidnaping J 1 m JPr;; ft ;Stanley Jasosky (above), 19-year old Newark, N. J., lad, is under arrest, held by G-men in connection with the kidnaping of 12-year-old Peter Levine, of New Rochelle, N. Y. Jasosky is said to have ad mitted writing six ransom notes to the Levine boy’s father. (Central Press) Man Hanged Second Time And Is Dead Accident on Gallows Prematurely Drops One of Three Exe cuted Kidnapers Moundsville, W. Va., March 22. (AP)—Arville Adkins was gone today to tne “glory” ne envisioned as he dropped the second time through thj gallows death trap in West Virginia’s first triple execution for kidnaping. While guards adjusted straps on the 25-year-old Huntington man’s arms and legs and a crowd of 74 men and one woman watched in the tiny witness room last night something went wrong. There was a report like a pistol shot and Adkins fell from behind the cur tained platform through the trap door to the concrete nine and a half feet below. Guards quickly placed the dazed man on a stretcher and handed him back through the trap, blood trickling from a cut near the ear. Seven minutes later, Adkins, sup ported by a guard, firmly told the spectators, “I wish to see you all in heaven some day. I’m going to glory. Goodbye.” There was another sharp report at 9:02 1-2 p. m., and Adkins dropped simultaneously with a companion, John Travis, 25, to death. The two were followed 34 minutes later by A. A. Booth, 46, confessed leader of the crime which led to the hanging. The three, all from Hunting ton, W. Va., were executed for kid naping Dr. James Seder, 78-year-old dry leader, who was held captive in a mine eleven days last November. Dr. Seder died as a result of pneu monia four days after he escaped. GOOD PROFIT SHOWN BY BELL TELEPHONE Earnings of $1,127,059 Made in North Carolina in 1937; Expanses Mount Considerably Raleigh, March 22. —(AP) — The Southern Bell Telephone & Telegraph Company reported to the Utilities Commission today that it ir.ad£ a pro fit of $1,127,059.43 on its 1937 North Carolina operations, compared with $903,181.82 in 1936. The company added a statement to its report, however, that the outlook now “is such that earnings for 1938 will nowhere near approximate those indicated in the report for 1937.” The company listed gross income for 1937 of $5,946,724.55, compared with $5,305,679.30 in 1936, and expens es of $4,819,665.12, compared with $4,462,497.48. Taxes last year took $931,549.20, compared with $789,381.69 in 1936, the company said. It was reported 99,051 telephones in use in 1937, and 90,773 the year before. ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA AND VIRGINIA. Efforts of Germans To Gain Free Cultural Activity Again Run Into Blind Alley STRONG LANGUAGE NETTLES OFFICIALS German Ambassador! Ritter at Rio Has Conferred Seve ral Days With High Brazil ian Officials In Effort To Get Foothold in South America , Mexico City, March 22 (AP) — L. la. Anderson, general manager of the Hausteca Oil Company, said he learned today another American oil man, Ed Borrego, had been held a “virtual pris oner” at Tampico until he n»id a sum of money to oil workers. Andersont, in a signed state ment, said he talked by tele phone with Borrego, superintend ent of the Tampico refinery of Standard Oil of New Jersey, of which Huasteco is a subsidiary. Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, March 22.—• (AP) —Efforts by the German govern ment to regain free Nazi cultural ac tivity for Germans in Brazil ran into a blind alley today. It was ascertained at the foreign office that Minister O. Aranha has re jected flatly the latest series of re presentations against Brazil’s ban on Nazi activities, Carl Ritter, the German ambassador acted for his government. It was said reliably that the foreign minister con sidered a note submitted tty Ritter to he couched in such strong language that he rejected it without further consideration. Ritter has been conferring with Brazilian officials several days. H talked yesterday with Francisco Campos, minister of justice and of the interior, but nothing resulted to in dicate any change in the situation. President Vargas abolished all poli tical parties when he set up his regime November 10. He reiterated last week his deter mination not to permit Nazi activitv among the 155,000 Germans in Brazil The German Foreign Office news paper yesterday termed the Brazilian ban an action “against Germandom. SHRINE GATHERING HELD IN CHARLOTTE Elaborate Entertainment Planned for Nationwide Group Hold ing Convention: There Charlotte, March 22.—(AP)—Char lotte dressed up today for the open ing tonight of the twentieth annual convention of the Shrine Directors Association of Noi th America. Officials said several visi tors from every state in the Union. Alaska, Mexico, Panama, Canad i and several other countries wouM 1 e heie luring the four iavs session. Registration licado”.al:eis did a land office business this mo'T.ing as hundreds of dele.; a.s made their pre sence officially known. The associa tion’s board o* governors will be en tertained at a banquet tonight h> Oasis temple, and afterwards tnere will be a party. ALLOTINTSSMALL ,F 0 N Some 25,000 to 30,000 Ex pected To Ask Quotas for First Time College Station, Raleigh March 22- Some 25,000 to 30,000 “new grower, in the flue-cured tobacco belt are ex pected to ask for acreage allotments number of requests for new acreage will mean that only small allotments can be given these farm= which have not produced any .tobacco in the past four years, said E. Y. Flovd of State College. UA authorities in Washington have announced that the allotments for each new grower will have to be limited to 65 per cent of the amoun. which had originally been planned. The original plan for determining (Continued on Page Four.) WEATHER FOR NORTH CAROLINA. Partly cloudy tonight and Wed nesday, followed by showers in west and central portions Wed nesday. HENDERSON, N. C., TUESDAY AFTERNOON, MARCH 22 1938 I Prexy McCormack? __ , John McCormack . . . may run in Ireland Speaking over a national radio network from Hollywood, above, John McCormack, famous Irish tenor, announced that h§ might run for president of Ireland if drafted and if he were not barred because of his naturalization as an Amor - ' i; zen in 1919. MEXICAN BUIES GIVEN ASSURANCES BY THE PRESIDENT No Seizures of Property Like Foreign Oil Expro priation Planned by Government WILL PROTECT AND ENCOURAGE NATIVES Enterprises at Home for Economical Development; of Nation To Be Given Every Assistance Cardenas Asserts; Oil Companies To Be Paid 1 off Mexico City, March 22.—(AP) —Pre- sident Cardenas assured Mexican in dustry today that expropriation of foreign oil companies was “exception al” and no similar measure was in prospect against other business. As the treasury department took the first steps toward fixing the sums to be paid the 17 British and American oil companies for loss of their $400.- 000,000 properties, President Cardenas gave his assurances to industry in general in a statement that “no other measures which might affect the con fidence of the country will be taken against other business, properties, hank deposits, values and other invest ments, which the government is ready to protect in accordance with the law.” The president said his government would take necessary steps to protect and encourage investments and busi ness enterprises which might aid the commercial development of the coun try and bring benefits of social char acter. Secretary of the Treasury Suarez invited representatives of the 17 ex propriated oil companies to confer with him on indemnity for their pro perty and the terms of payment. 80 Candidates Are Filed For State Offices So Far With Five Days To Go, Many Known Aspirants Have Not Paid Fees; Nearly $6, 000 Sent In To Elections Board As Entrance Q ualifications In Races Daily Dispatch Rnreim, In the Sir Wsiltec Hotel. Raleigh, March 22.—With five days left in which to qualify, eighty can didates had paid $5,470 into the State Board of Elecions oday and had made themselves places on the pri mary ballot for Statewide offices. There were, Monday afternoon, 28 duly qualified candidates for solicitor ships, 25 aspirants for the robes of su perior cour judges, 20 would be representatives in the Federal Con gress, three who would like to be jus tices of North Carolina’s Supreme Court, three who seek membership in the United States Senate and one whose ambition is to continue as utility commissioner. In the entire list there were but three Republicans, members of the minority party evidently preferring to hang onto their entry fees as long as possible. Besides, there was no point in their qualifying sooner, as in prac tically no case is there likely to be any O. P. battles for nomination. Places for which no one has yet fil Administration Men Three Times Defeat Reorganizing Blows Amendments to Executive Departments Measure Are Voted Down, Two by Tie Votes ROOSEVELT LEAVES ~ FOR WARM SPRINGS President Signs Legislation Giving Trade Commission Authority Over Fraudulent Advertising; Cherry Blos soms Steal March and Bloom Early Washington, March 22.—(AP) — A.l - supnorters beat off three efforts to restrict the government re organization bill today, although op ponents of the measure mustered un availing tie votes on two of them. The Senate rejected, 50 to 33, a pro posal by Senator Pittman, Democrat. Nevada, to exempt the Forest Service from provisions of the bill giving the President broad powers to re-shuffle Federal agencies. Senator Clark, Democrat, Missouri then offered an amendment which would have prevented the President from making any changes in the pro sent set-up of the Veterans Bureau. When this was defeated by a tie vote, 11 to 41, Clark re-phrased the amend ment and then offered it again. This time the vote was 38 to 38 and the second amendment was lost. One administration supporter, Sena tor Hatch, Democrat, New Mexico, joined the opposition for the first time in advocating the Pittman amend ment. Other developments: President Roosevelt will leave by special train tonight for a ten-day visit to Warm Springs, Ga. The nomination of Ernest Draper to be a member of the board of gov ernors of the Federal Reserve System won approval of the Senate Banking Committee. The capital’s famous cherry blos soms stole a march today on National Park Service prophets. They burst in to bloom ten days ahead of schedule. The President signed legislation giv ing the Federal Trade Commission jurisdiction over the control of false advertising of food, drugs, cosmetic 3 and devices. MORE CANDIDATES FILE FOR PRIMARY Congressman Bayard Clark, of Fay etteville, Pays Fee to StjUte Flection Board Raleigh, March 22.—*(AP)—Repre sentative Bayard Clark, of Fayette ville, filed today with the elections board to seek renomination in thi seventh congressional district in the June Democratic primary. Also paying to enter the lists for the primary and general elections were Solicitor Don Gilliam, -of Tarboro. seeking renomination from seconJ judicial district Democrats and So licitor John R. Jones, of North Wil kesboro, the Republican congressional nominee in the eighth district. None of the three has announced opposition in the primary. ed, announced but not-yet-qualified candidacies and the well-establisherr fact that Republicans will make nom inations for at least seven congres sional seats and a dozen solicitorships make it .a practical certainty that bv six o’clock Saturday afternoon, the absolute and unbending deadline for qualifying, there will be 125 candidates who will contribute close to $10,090 to ward defraying election expenses of the State—primary and general elec tion. Notable vacancies in the filed list include the congressional sent from the seventh, where incumbent J. Bay ard Clark is sure to run again, and solicitorships of the second and seven the judicials, where Don Gilliam, of Tarboro, and Wm. Y. Bickett, of Ra leigh, are sure to be candidates for re-election. A complete list of those who have filed follows: For the United States Senate: Rob (Continued on Pace Three.) PUBIaIBZTRD IVHT AFTDKNOOH EXCEPT SUNDAY. Jimmy Urged to Run rfflf ****> . J m 1 dm m Wmm jp'*'! JH t IIP jr? I & mm - Charles Maliotis . . . wants James to run James Roosevelt, 30-year-old son of the president, was urged to run for the Democratic nomination as lieutenant governor of Massachu setts by a group of Bay state poli ticians headed by Charles Mali otis, above, when they called at the White House with petitions backing his candidacy. hugeaungsuT SOUGHT BY FRANCE, FEARING GERMANY $152,500,000 Advance from Bank of France Called for By Cabinet Im mediately wartimiTfooting IS BEING DEBATED Chamber Told Germany Plans To Use Men and Wo men in Swift Blow With out War Declaration; Blum To Explain Bank Advance In Testimony Later Paris, March 22.—(AP) —The cab inet today called for an advance of 5,000,000,000 francs ($152,500,000) from the Bank of France for armament pu poses, while the Chamber of Deputies debated what a member called “swift., impacable war” waged by Germany. The ministers approved the pro posal of Premier Leon Blum for thi bank advance, which Blum will ex plain tomorrow before the Chamber’s Finance Committee. In the chamber a finance bill pro viding for a wartime regime for the nation was under discussion. Deputy Meillet, radical socialist chairman of the chamber army com mittee, declared: “German plans provide for the use (Continued, on Page Four.) SECSeeks Long Delay On Whitney Washington, March 22.—(AP)--The Securities Commission today request ed New York legal a tt .critics Ic post pone for two sentence on Rich ard Whitney, bankrupt former New York Exchange president. Chairman William Douglass sent a message to Ambrose McCall, assistant attorney general of New York State, and Thomas Dewey, district attorney for New York county, asking post ponement to give *ke commission time to complete its own investigation of the Whitney failure. Up to now the commission has. re mained in the (background, announc ing merely that it was conducting its own investigation. , Whitney faces sentence on pleas of guilty to two grand larceny indict (Continued on Page Three.) 8 PAGES TODAY FIVE CENTS COPY PRESIDENT MIGHT ORDER SUSPENSION OF ARTHUR MORGAN Roosevelt Almost Certainly Will Move To Oust Head of Tennessee Valley Project morganTtatement NOT ELABORATED ON Refuses To Amplify Flat Re fusal To Give President Data Asked for; Pays Visit To Home In Ohio After Conference . With Roose velt Monday Washington, March 22 AP) —'Presi- dential removal, or suspension of Ar thur Morgan as chairman of the Ten nessee Valley Authority became a vital certainty today despite the vete ran engineer's challenge of the legal ity of such actions. Mr. Roosevelt gave no advance in dication of how he would proceed against Morgan. There was specula tion on Capitol Hill that he might is sue an executive order removing the chairman and then nominate his suc cessor at once. Yellow Springs, Ohio, March 1 22 (AP) —Arthur Morgan announced to day his flat refusal to meet President Roosevelt’s request that he give any reason why he should not be remov ed as chairman of the^TVA. “I have no further statement to make, other than what I told the President yesterday,” Morgan said, following his return to his Yellow Springs home. President Roosevelt had given Mor gan until 2:30 p. m. today to provide “any reason.” There were indications in Wash ington if the President did not hear from Morgan he might issue an exe cutive order to remove the chair man. Morgan declined comment on what steps he would take in such an event. He said he plann/& to go to Chi cago tomorrow, and that his other plans were uncertain. The chairman came here to obtain some old records apparently for use in his controversy with his co-direc tors, David Lilienthal and H. A. Morgan. Revenue Os State Near 1937 Peaks Raleigh, March 22 (AP) —Reve- nue Commissioner A. J. Maxwell, elated sift reports that Income tax receipts through Saturday aggre gated .$9,928,738.31, to exceed col lections to the same date a year ago, said today the outlook was “favorable” now for a new rec ord for the levy. , Previously Maxwell had fore cast the receipts would drop per haps ten percent under the sll,- 015,000 collected last fiscal year. “It is obviously too early to pre dict with certainty,” said the com missioner, “but the outlook is fav orable for the receipts to exceed those of last year. Probably at least another million) dollars will come in.” A year ago on Saturday the in come levy had yielded $9,770,429. HUMMED AS INTERNATIONALIST Recent Speech Contained Little of Comfort for Isolationists By CHARLES P. STEWART Central Press Columnist Washington, March 22. —Secretary of State Cordell Hull’s speech before the National Press Club dealing with the American attitude toward world conditions of today is Ifceing comment ed on throughout Washington and un doubtedly in all capitals abroad as an administration utterance of major im portance. Perhaps the unofficial of its delivery added to its impressiveness. It, of course, was recognized that it had White House sanction. It also was obvious from the fact of its broadcast over the whole globe that foreign governments were intend ed to accept it as a declaration of in ternational policy of the United States (Continued on Page Three.)
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