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HENDERSON’S POPULATION 13,873 TWENTY-FIFTH YEAR HME COMPROMISES REORGANIZING BILL U. S.-MEXICO ACCORD TO BE FIRMER AFTER CONTROVERSY ON OIL Warm Exchange Between Hull and President Car denas Tends to Cement Friendship MEXICAN RIGHT OF SEIZURE CONCEDED Mexico Learns With Relief of Attitude of United States, but Managers of Oil Companies Are Any thing but Gratified at Price Washington Asks Washington, April 2. —(AP)—Per- sons close to the State Department expressed the opinion today that out of the oil controversy between the United States and Mexico would come a permanent better relationship be tween the two nations. The:!' statement followed publica tion of a warm exchange of friend’y sentiment between president Cardenas of Mexico and United States Secre tarr of State Hull. They said s he Unit ed States was proceeding toward Mex ico in the friendliest and most cau tious way, allowing President Car denas great leeway so as to avoid not only friction between the two coun tries, but also between Cardenas and his people. Two things were said to have done much to win Cardenas’ friendship in the present situation: First, Hull’s acknowledgment that the Mexican government had a legal right to ex propriate the American oil properties; second, the reported view of President Roosevelt that the valuation the Unit ed States had in mind for the oil pro perties was the money actually invest ed, less depreciation. MEXICO MUCH RELIEVED AT PROSPECT OF ACCORD Mexico City, April 2.—(AP) —Mexico learned with relief today that trou ble with the United States on oil ex propriation was on the way to settle ment. But managers of the oil compani >s nationalized were anything but grati fied. One charged bitterly that “Wash ington let uc down.” Another declar ed, “we might as well have thanked President Cardenas for expropriating our properties.” Mexicans, however, were generally “comforted” as one observer phrased it by United States recognition of Mexico’s right to expropriate foreign - owned property, and willingness to see the companies’ claims scaled down. LEWISTON MEN ARE HURT AT CROSSING Automobile Apparently Crashed into Freight Train Standing at Cross ing at Hobgood. Tarboro, April 2.— (AP)—Two men identified here as Percy Minton, 10, and Robert W. Bazemore, 28, both of Lewiston, were injured today in a grade crossing accident at ndarby Hobgood. They were Ibrought to a hospital here unconscious. Later both said they remembered nothing of the accident. Officers said the automobile ap parently had crashed into a car of an Atalantic Coast Line freight train at a crossing. Far Eastern Weed Crop Sets Record 1937 Harvest 290 Mil lion Pounds, Gov ernment Reports From Shanghai Washington, April 2.—(AP)— The Bureau of Agricultural Economics SJ dd today reports from a represen-, tative in Shanghai showed the 193” production of flue-cured tobacco in Far Eastern countries was the lar gest on record. i ) The harvest was estimated at 290. 000,000 pounds, divided as follows* China, 210,000,000 pounds; Japan, 76,- 000,000 pounds; and Manchuria, 4,- 000,000 pounds. “This large 1937 production ” the bureau said, “was in line with recent trends which are expected to continue with a temporary interruption in L Continued ml Page Five.) Hrtthcrsnu Hatht Htsnafrh kFASED WTRE SERVICE OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS. Leaps Into Primary # Mayor S. Davis Wilson ••. in Pennsylvania primary Announcement that Mayor 3. Davis Wilson of Philadelphia will oppose Gov. George H. Earle for the Democratic senatorial nomi nation in Pennsylvania constitutes a major addition to the compli cated May 17 primary lineup. Mayor Wilson will run with Lieut. Gov. Thomas Kennedy, seeking the gubernatorial nomination on the Guffey-C. LO. ticket. Gover nor Earle is paired with Charles Alvin Jones, gubernatorial candi date of the regular state Demo cratic organization. . —Central Press Six Utilities Taken Over By Workers Michigan CIO Units Seize Properties When Wage Nego tiations Break Up Jackson, Mich., April 2.—(AP) Electric and gas service continue.! without interruption today despite seizure of six, strategic plants of the Consumers Power Company in south ern Michigan by employees belonging to a CIO union. The employees, members of the utility workers organizing committee, peaceably took possession of the plants last night after negotiations with the management for renewal of their contract were ended. The company said the union de mands included upward of revision of wages; the union said it sought assurance there would he no reduc (Continued on Page Eight) New Deal Bank Program Is Salvation Os Banks Government Guarantee of Deposits Has Prevented Many Bank Runs and Broken Banks During Cur rent Recession, Commissioner Hood Says * . Dally Dispatch Bureau, !n the Sir Walter Hotel. Raleigh, April 2.—The New Deal’s banking program, particularly the Federal Deposit Insurance Corpora tion, has saved many a North Car olina bank and is responsible for a sense of security which has never be fore existed among depositors, Gurney P Hood, State commissioner of banks, today told this bureau's representa tive. “I believe that the banking program of President Roosevelt has removed any possibility of a mass fear or mob psychology which might result serious ly for the banks of North Carolina because of 'runs’ and systematic with drawal of funds,” the commissioner sai d. He pointed out that there hasn«, been even the suspicion of a mass movement to withdraw funds from any bank in the State since Uncle Sam became guarantor of accounts of ONLY DAILY NEWSPAP ER PUBT.TSHfi’.n FRESH MECHANIZED UNITS HURLED INTO CHINESE DEFENSES Stubborn Resistance Con tinues Despite Blasting of City by Japanese Artillery CLAIM OF CHINESE DISPUTED BY JAPS 6,000 Chinese Troops Re ported Killed in Mopping Up Operations by Invad ers in Area West of Shang hai; Chinese Still Holding Taierchwang City Shanghai, April 2. —(AP’) —'The Chi nese hurled new mechanized units, into the battle raging at Taierchwang, cn the south Shantung front, today This city, on the Grand Canal stands in the way of Japan’s offen sive against the Lunghai railway, l vital transportation artery of central China. The walls of Tarerchwang wer? blasted :nto ruins and mud hous is were reduced to dust, but the stub bornly resisting Chinese, who for 20 days have blocked all Japanese thrusts at the rail line, were still holding. Japanese planes swooped low over two points northwest of Taierchwang, dropping food by parachute. Japanese discounted Chinese claims of successes, asserting Japanese were completely in control of the area. The Japanese army announced mop ping up operations in an area west of Shanghai have been completed, and that more 6,000 Chinese troops had been killed. AL CAPONE AGAIN SEEKING FREEDOM Petition for Habeas Corpus Signed by Mother of Gangster Niow Servin ig Alcatraz. Chicago, April 2.—(AP) —A habeas corpus petition seeking the release of A1 Capone from Alcatraz prison was filed today in the United States Dis-J trict Court. Bearing the name of Mrs, Theresa Capone, Al’s mother, the document as serted the Federal prison sentence of the former public enemy No. 1 has already expired under the usual allow ance for good behavior. . Attorney A. Teitelbaum, who filed the petition, served notice he would appear Monday (before Federal Judge William Holly to press his action. Capone was sentenced in 1931 to serve eleven years, including one year in the Cook .county jail, on charges of income tax evasion. HIGHWAY ENGINEER PASSES IN KINSTON Raleigh, April 2. —(AP)—The State Highway and Public Works Commis sion reported today the death of their division engineer, S. M. Gibbs, 51, in Kinston, today. Funeral services will be held in Kinston tomorrow, and burial will be here. Gibbs had been with the highway commission since 1921. less than $5,000. He cited instances which in pre-New Deal days would have forced many a bank to the wall, but which have cre ated hardly a ripple of excitement un der existing conditions. Among these was the recent instance at Fremont, where an official of the bank, short in his accounts, committed suicide. “An event of that kind (before FDIC would have meant certain failure of the Fremoi\t bank,” he declared, “be cause depositors would have run to the bank for their money like scared rabbits. As it was, they knew their money was safe, and complete calm and confidence prevailed.” Mr. Hood explained that the FDIC measure was not a “banker’s bill”. In fact, he said, not less than 918 per cent of the bankers of North Carolina were bitterly opposed to its enactment. “But now, if there is a banker who (Contrued on Pago Fiveji HENDERSON, N. C„ SATURDAY AFTERNOON, APRIL 2, 1938 IN THIS SECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA AND VIRGINIA. In the Wreckage of Their Home ||J§|p: Jr Bhhk A man, his wife and their dog sit in numb terror on a bed in what was once their home at South Pekin, II!. It was demolished when a tornado struck the town in its death-dealing path through five states. The town was literally blown off the map, with only two out of 300 buildings left standing. (Central Press) Spanish Rebels Are Within 24 Miles Os Eastern Coast Zaragoza, Spain, April 2.—(AP) —ln surgent Navarrese forces under Gen eral Valino today occupied Gandesa, only 24 miles from the Spanish gov ernment’s eastern coa^t —the last ini portant stronghold in Tarragona pro vince barring the insurgent march to the Mediterranean. The insurgents reported capture of 2,00 prisoners in seizure of the city. Gandesa is at the apex of a trian gle of which Tortosa and the city of Tarragona, both on the coast south west of Barcelona, form the other points. A drive between the two coas tal cities would dismember goveru INTWLESLEVY All Other Estimates of State’s Revenue Uncan nily Correct So Far Daily Dispatch Bureau. In the Sir Walter Hotel. Raleigh, April 2. —Reports revenue collections for March left just one fly in the ointment for Commissioner of Revenue A. J. Maxwell, that is the fail ure pf returns that the new levy on intangibles to reach even the mil lion dollar mark. Elsewhere along the line Mr. Max well had good reason to break out in a rash of optimism. For instance, the combined items making up the “revenue division” finally attained a total higher than the same items for the corresponding nine months of the preceding fiscal year. Up to March this total had been running behind because of the huge deficit in inheritance tax collections. Continued on Page Five.) HIGHPOINT MAN - IS A SUICIDE AT HOME Samuel T. Bryan, Former Circulation Manager for Daily Paper, Shoots Self in Head. High Point, April 2.—(AP)—Samuel T. Bryan, formerly circulation mana ger for the High Point Enterprise, was found dead in the basement workshop of his home here this morning. Coron er J. M. Simpson, after investigating, said: “It was clearly a case of suicide and no inquest will be necessary.” Bryan was found slumped in a chair fully dressed, with a 32-calibre bullet wound above his right ear, by his wife this morning at about 7:30 o’clock. Friends and relatives said he had been despondent several Anonths. Funeral arrangements were incom plete. WEATHER FOB NORTH CAROLINA. Rain this afternoon and possibly in east and central portions early tonight; somewhat colder tonight; Sunday generally fair, colder on coast. WEEKLY WEATHER. South Atlantic States: Generally fair, except some likelihood of showers toward end of week; rather cool first of week and near normal temperatures thereafter. :nent Upain. Gandesa is the easternmost point to which insurgent forces have ad vanced in their northeastern Spanish offensive. The city is on the south'.rn flank of the line General Francisco Franco has been extending eastward. The insurgent offensive pressed the government at the equally vital sp >t of Lerida, ancient lor:,ess barring the way to Bar^elon,:. FRANCE PREPAR.'G FOR BARCEf.OiV V EVACUATIONS Paris, Apnl 2 • ? —The Frenon FARM LABORATORY TO BE FOUGHT FOR North Carolina In Earnest About Getting One of These Projects Dnllv LMapntch Bureau. In *he Sir Walter Hotel. Raleign, April 2. —Location of on a of the four United States Department of Agriculture experimental labora tories in North Carolina is “extreme ly important”, Governor Clyde R. Hoey said today. The brief, containing facts upon which this* State will base its claims for one of the laboratories will be sub mitted to the Department of Agri culture about the first of May, pos sibly a ffew days earlier, the gover nor said. t It will he presented by the entire North Caroline, delegation in Con gress, headed by Representative R. L. Doughton, chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, who was chosen for that purpose by the dele gation at a meeting Monday of this (Continued on Page Five) LONDON MAN HELD ON THREAT TO U. S. George Buchanan Had Said in Letter He, Would “Shoot an American Ambassador.” London, April 2. (AP) George Buchanan was .remanded to jail today after a police rburt hearing on a charge of writing a letter in which he threatened to “shoot an American ambassador.” A detective testified the letter was written to “The Mayor, Town Hall, Long Beach, N. J.,” and the writer demanded an “apology” for some griev ance of undisclosed nature. “I will shoot an American ambas sador for it, and I mean it," the writer continued. Asked if he had anything J;o say about the letter, Buchanan, a 42-year old cook, muttered something about “all the trouble started in Septem ber, 1931.” LONG BEACH MAYOR HAS HAS NOT HEARD OF THE MAN Long Beach, N. J., April 2.—(AP) — Mayor Howard Shifler, of this small ocean county township on the Atlantic seaboard, said today he had never heard of a George Buchanan jailed in London on a charge of writing a threatening letter to “The Mayor, Town Hall, Long Beach, N. J.” PUBIiIBHXirk IVIIT AFTUKNOOM EXCEPT SUNDAY. foreign office anno u>cc l today that preparations we’e being made for protection and pilot evacuation of French citizens m Barcelona if an emergency develops then*. The United Staro-j cruiser Raleigh, at Villefranche, co . ;1 d reach Barcelona in 12 hours if the United States should deem it advisable to send :i warship 'here. The perplexing prjhh.'n of what to do with thousands ol Spanisn govern ment militiamen interned at Bag neres de Luchon will be submitted to the French cabinet Monday, sour ces here said today. h™ Must Be Debated There As New Bill Because of Technical Move By CHARLES P. STEWART Central Press Columnist Washington, April I—Right after the government reorganization bill’s passage by the United States Senate, Senator James F. Byrnes of South Carolina had 'his photograph taken (it was reproduced all over the coun try) with a smile on about half a foot wide. The senator thought he had a good right to smile. As the administrations recognized spokesman, he was sponsor for the particular kind of reorganization that President Roosevelt wants. Every one has agreed, for years, that reorganization is greatly needed", but the administration-Byrnes plan has been bitterly attacked, on the ground that it takes too much authority from Congress, to give it to the White House. BYRNES’ SKILL But Byrnes was for it 200 per cent. He fought for that measure without Continued on Page Five.) COTTON IS HIGHER AT SHORT SESSION New York, April 2.—(AP) —Cotton futures opened two to six points high er. Lower cables were offset by trade and foreign buying. July advanced from 8.67 to 8.72, leaving the list six to nine points net higher shortly after the first half hour. Futures closed 9 to 11 points higher; spot steady, mid dling 8.72. Open Close May 8.59- 8.67 July 8.68 8.74 October 8.77 8.80 December 8.78 8.83 January 8.83 8.84 March 8.84 - 8.88 JAMES H. CARLTON HURT ON HIGHWAY Alexandria, Va., April 2.—(AP) — James Howard Carlton, 31, Raleigh, N. C. f was found unconscious last night on the Washington-Richmon I highway near Gum Springs, Va. Police said he had been struck by an automobile which failed to stop. Physicians at an Alexandria hospital said his skull was fractured. 8 PAGES TODAY FIVE CENTS COPY fIOOSEVELT AGREES DEPARTMENTS PLAN Lindsay Warren, in Charge of Measure in House, An nounces Acceptance of Amendment executive”OßDEßS COULD BE RECALLED Bare Majority Would Be Sufficient t o Prevent Transfers by President; Employment Loans to Railroads Discussed by Leaders as Rail Relief Washington, April 2.—(AF)— Ad ministration leaders agreed today to a compromise—reliably reported to have President Roosevelt’s approval— on the government reorganization bill. Representative Warren, Democrat, North Carolina, announced in the chamber that the special House re organization committee would accept an amendment permitting Congress to overrule presidential reorganization orders by a simple majority. As the bill now stands, a two-thirds majority of both houses would be, re quired to block transfer of bureaus ordered by the chief executive. Warren said the committee also would sponsor an amendment assur ing the office of education would re main in the Interior Department and not Ibe transferred to a proposed new department of welfare. Loud applause in which both Dem ocrats ai'-d Republicans joined, greet ed Warren’s announcement, which, it was learned, followed a telephone con versation between House leaders and the PresSden'tsi now vacuHr nfng in Warm Springs, Ga. Earlier administration leaders aban doned efforts, for the day at least, to impose restrictions on House discus sion of the bill. • Other developments: Administration leaders discussed a proposal to make “employment” loans to select railroads to spur industrial production and meet temporarily thi rail finance problem. Senator Schwellenbach, Democrat, (Continued on Page Eight.) Auto Crash AtDurham Kills Man Durham, April 2.—(AP) —An auto mobile driven by Kenney Crank, about 50, Durham, and formerly of Eliza beth City, crashed into the rear of a parked transfer truck here early this morning, instantly killing Crank and injuring two companions; Herman V. Johnson and Thomas Massey, both of Durham. The truck into which Crank’s car smashed belongs to the Billings Trans fer Company of Lexington. It was parked half on the pavement and half on the shoulder while a tire was be ing changed. William Webb, of Lex ington, Was the driver, and was ac companied by Clyde Musgrave, also of Lexington. Flares had been set up on the high way to warn approaching motorists and Webb was trying to flag down the Crank car with a flashlight when the automobile approached at a high rate of speed. It narrowly missed running over him, and he was forced to jump to save his life. Crank’s head was badly crushed. Sheriff E. G. Belvin said no charges would be preferred again the truck driver. 9th Victim Os Cancer Serum Dies Orlando, Fla., April 2.—(AP)—E. S. Bolt, 70, retired vice-president of the International Harvester Company, died early today, increasing to ten the number of deaths among a group of persons here given injections of a serum for treatment of cancer. Bolt, who came here from North Dakota, succumbed while investigr tors of various agencies worked in tensively to determine what caused the deaths. Eight of the previous vic tims were women. Dr. W. G. Workman, of the United States Public Health Service, indicat ed the results of autopsies and anay • Continued on Page Five.)
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