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HENDERSON’S POPULATION 13,873 TWENTY-FIFTH YEAR Offensive By Japs TumsßackChinese On Shantung Front Optimism of Chinese Fol lowing Taierchwang Vic tory Appears Defi nitely Checked CAPTURE OF LINI CLAIMED BY JAPS Infantry Success Follows Two Days of Aerial Bomb ing and Artillery Shelling; Reorganized Drive Against Vital Lunghai Railroad Is Imminent Shanghai, April 20. —(AP) —A driv ing Japanese offensive today thrust back the central China army in two major battles along the 50-mile front in southern Shantung province. „The offensive checked optimism Chinese had shown with their victory at Taier chwang, and it appeared they were making a last stand in the province, more than three-fourths of its 56,000 square miles nominally under Japan ese control. The two battles were along the Lini front, and at Hanchwang, southwest tip of the front. Japanese said they captured Lini and Chinese admitted loss of Hanchwang. Japanese capture of Lini put them in position for a reorganized drive against the vital Lunghai railway, China’s cast-west trunk line. The intensity of the Japanese of fensive indicated Lini was subjected to two days of aerial bombing and constant artillery shelling before the final infantry assault. The Japanese said this incessant pounding shattered one corner of the walls, enabling troops to fight their way by hand to the top and pour a heavy fire on the Chinese defenders below. Chinese had reported a force of 60,- 000 marching for the attack on Lini, a short time before Japanese an nouncement of it scapture. —< ■ ■ ■ LITTLE CHANGE IN PRICES OF COTTON Market Eases After Slight Upturn) lu Forenoon Dealings and Trading Is Quiet New York, April 20 (AP)—Cotton futures opened today unchanged to two points higher. Steadier Liver pool cables were partly offset by liq uidation and hedge selling. Prices rallied about two points shortly after the first half hbur. • July recovered from 8.98 to 8.92, with prices gener ally two to four points net higher. Trading was quiet as July sold off to 887 and the list at midday was un changed to two points net lower. Four Hurt In Raleigh Smash-Up Raleigh, April 20. —(AP) —Four per sons were injured ,one seriously, to day in a collision here between an NYA bus and a motorcycle. Fifteen boys at a National Youth Administration camp here were en route to work, and two, Ralph Styron, of Davis, and Marion Tyndall, of Wil son, suffered slight lacerations. John Lane, Negro, riding in a side car at tached to a motorcycle, suffered in to na I injuries and a possible fractured skull. Raleigh has not had a traffic fa tality since January 1. No Drastic Steps Likely On Old A. & N. C. Railroad Line Unlikely Ever To Pay Until Morehead Port Is Develop ed; Commerce Through Port, Despite Develop ment, Practically Nil Unllr Dimintch rtiireim. In the Sir Walter Hotel. Raleigh, April 20. —No immediate or drastic steps are contemplated with a view to putting the State-owned At lantic and North Carolina railroad on a Paying basis or to get rid of it, Gov ernor Clyde R. Hoey told this bu reau’s representative today. The governor said he feels that the Plight of the little line, which runs from Goldsboro to Morehead City, is in line with that of all the rail r°ads of the country, and he predicted that the A. and N. C. will show a 'nsiness pick-up if and when the other rails begin to do better. Pressed for an opinion whether or r>ot the road can ever be made to pay, ln view of its almost abject depend ence on business through the port of ‘forehead, the governor had little to HwtitwpgSn 53atlit Htsuafrh L THg E A D aa^T^ R P v Sa OF Led March to Sea Spanish insurgents who reached the sea after a month of hard fighting, thus cutting Loyalist Spain in two, were led by Gen. Miguel Aranda. Insurgents Open Drive Into South Blocked for Time at T o r t o s o, They Switch Tactics; Supplies Taken Hendaye, France, at the Spanish Border, April 20.—(AP) —Unable to crack at once a well placed govern ment defense at Tortoso, Spanish- in surgents today drove southward along the Mediterranean coast toward Cas tellon and Valencia. General Aranda’s troops neared the outskirts of Alcala de Chivert, where a secbndary feeder road joins the coastal highway after advancing, 12 miles along an 18-mile front. ! The new offensive threatened the main coastal cities of southern gov ernment Spain. At Alcala de Chivert the insurgents had covered altaost half the 40 miles from Vinartfc' to Castellon. r, Field officers said’ they expected (Continued on Face Eight) raKSGAINS Minority Party Very Active In Western Part of State at Present Dnlly Dispatch Bureau. In the Sir Walter Hotel. Raleigh, April 20.—Hopeful that 1938 will bring them better luck than the last three or four elections years, Republicans throughout the western sector of North Carolina are prepar ing to make vigorous efforts to in crease their representation in the Gen eral Assembly and to gain control of local offices now held by Democrats in many traditionally G. O. P. units. There apparently is no real basis for • Continued on Paga- Three.). say. He indicated that Morehead’s volume of port traffic cannot be ex pected to gain unless and until it is made a regular “port of call” by one or more stpamship lines. Pursuing the matter further, he said he did not think this can come to pass as long as the present differentials in freight rates are still working con stantly against the South. The governor was drawn into a dis cussion of the Morehead matter thro ugh questions directed to the recent action of the A. and N. C. in forcing a “week without pay” furlough plan upon its employes for the month of Anril The governor said he has not seen the March report of the railroad, but added that he is advertent to the (Continued on Page Two). ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA AND VIRGINIA. nwi Closer Collaboration Be tween Paris, Washing ton and London Be lieved One of Goals AGREEMENT SOUGHT WITH ITALY FIRST United States Economic Aid for France Part of Foreign Policy of Daladier Govern ment; Officials Discreetly Silent About Details of Plans Paris, April 20.—(AP) Foreign Minister Bonnet presented to the cab inet today an outline of his plans for strengthening France’s international position, which authoritative quarters believe include an effort for closer colla’: oration between Faris, Wash ngton arid London. The cabinet, meeting with Presi dent Albert Lebrun, devoted most of its session to the Daladier govern ment’s revitalized foreign policy, chief 'y to the negotiations for a Franco- Italian friendship accord. Informed persons expressed belief cabinet gave Bonnet at least pre liminary approval of the conversations started by Jules Blondel, charge d’affaires in Rome, and Italy’s fore ign minister, Count Ciano. Bonnet’s policies were understood to include plans to seek United States economic aid for France. Officials were discreetly silent about their plan to draw Washington into the expanding circle of international cooperation talks—on the theory that the best way to succeed was not to talk about it. But the recent appointment of Jules Henry as chief of the foreign office staff was considered an indication of French hopes. Henry is well known in Washington, where he was former ly charge d’affaires and counsellor for the French Embassy. Alabamals Alarmedßy Mill Close Huntsville, Ala., April 20.—(AP) — Seeking a solution to labor differences which threaten its major industries, this Tennessee valley community of 27,000 closed its business enterprises today as a motor caravan sought the aid of Governor Graves at Mont gomery, 215 miles away. The immediate problem is the re opening of the Dallas textile mill, idle since last November. The mill em ploys 800 under normal proauction. Mayor A. W. McAllister and other city and county officials instituted a “Save Huntsville Day,” and called cit izens to join a volunteer motorcade to Montgomery for a conference with the governor. Meanwhile, in Raleigh, N. C., the annual meeting of the Fellowship of Southern Churchmen, in session there, telegraphed Governor Graves, of Ala bama, urging that he not use his pow er to open textile mills at Huntsville, except under terms of settlement “mu tually satisfactory to the union re presenting the workers and to the company.” Rev. T. B. Cowan, of Chattanooga, Tenn., president pf the fellowship, signed the telegram. Popping Up All Over State, With Many More Yet To Enter Lists Daily Dispatch Bnrenn. In the Sir Walter Hotel. Raleigh, April 20. —With only three days left in which to file, candidates for the General Assembly are popping up all over the State. Some of the recent announcements were: L. W. Ferguson, Forsyth, House; D. W. Arnold, a Disciple min ister, Beaufort, House; Ellis P. Lup ton, Eld Parker, Leslie Crawford, W. Frank Taylor, A. B. Culberson, all of Wayne and all for that county’s two seats. Neither Representative W. W. Andrews nor his 1937 colleague, W. H. Best, Jr., will run this time Daniel C. Carter has filed for the Re publican senatorial nomination in For syth. Which reminds that Gordon Gray, Winston-Salem publisher, was still without opposition when these lines were written Robert Dee Smith, long very active in D. A. V. circles, is out for the Buncombe State Senate seat Will Graham, one-time and longtime commissioner of agri ’ culture, wants the Lincoln Senate post. His only opponent up to Tues day was Judge Lawrence E. Rudasill. ..Will S. Long, Alamance House can (Continued on Page Two). HENDERSON, N. C., WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON, APRIL 20, 1938 Roosevelt Moves To Extend Funds To Private Utilities Ror Construction Programs President Qiscusses Financ ing Corporations With View To Providing More Jobs HOPKINS TELLS HOW MONEY TO BE SPENT In Four Years $19,300,000,- 000 Has Been Spent by Government for Relief; Senate Lobby Probers De nounced for Methods Em ployed in Their Inquiry Washington, April 20.—(AP)—Presi dent Roosevelt, expanding his re covery drive on still another front, d.scussed with fiscal advisors today how private Utillities could be helped to finance new construction and pro vide jobs. He took up the question at a White House conference. Just before he did so Harry Hopkins, Works Progress administrator, indicated in testimony at the Capitol that he was preparing to increase the relief load in the first seven months of the next fiscal year beginning July 1. Appearing before the House Appro priations Committee to tell how he proposed to use $1,250,000,000 of relief funds requested by the President, Hopkins said this sum would be suf ficient to care for 2,800,000 persons until February 1, 1939, or 200,000 more than are now on the rolls. Giving an idea of the extent of re lief expenditures, the Senate Unem ployment Committee reported today that from 1933 to 1937, $19,300,000,000 had been spent for this purpose. Other developments: Senator Nye, Republican, North Da kota, denounced the $1,156,546,000 naval expansion program as “em phatically” not “preparation to de fend ourselves,” but “to carry on ag gressively in warfare thousands of miles away from home.” He took the floor to oppose enactment of the ex pansion bill. The Senate Unemployment Commit tee reported enactment of corporation income and capital tax gains taxes would be “exfceedingly helpful” In making jobs for the nation’s 12,000,- 000 and more unemployed. These taxes, imposing flat rates on corporation income and capital gains, have been approved by busi ness and condemned by the adminis* tration. Sumner Gerard, of New York, ex changed fiety words with Senate lob by investigators, terming the conduct of their investigation “nothing short of disgraceful.” The treasurer of the National Com mittee To Uphold Constitutional Gov ernment leaped to his feet while tes tifying before the Senate committe, and asserted the investigators had tried to “besmirch” his organization. Senator Nosris, Independent, Ne braska, father of the TVA, expressed approval of the appointment of a joint congressional committee to investigate the agency. statelotshare OF FEDERAL FUNDS $261,843,179 North Caro lina’s Share From Uncle Sam’s Big Trough Dull} Dispatch II nr can. In The Sir Walter Hotel. Raleigh, April 20. —Speaking of fed eral spending, Senator Robert R. Rey nolds has just issued a press release in which he says that between March 4, 1933, and December 31, 1937, North Carolina received from the Federal agencies of various sorts at least its share of the same being passed out byway of grant, loan or insured loan. “Figures indicate that North Car olina has shared liberally in the Fed eral effort to stimulate our national economic structure,” he concludes. Nowhere does he say so, but it is a fair presumption that “Our Bob” would like the sovereign voters of North Carolina to draw the inference that he had something to do with the fact that the State has fared so well. “Expenditures from new and emer gency appropriations in North Caro lina during the period of March 3, 1933, through December 31, 1937, total ed $261,8+3,179,” says the Reynolds re lease. “The grand total of grants, loans and loans insured in North Carolina during this same period total of $428,- 653,199.” He breaks down the expenditures from new and emergency appropria tions as follows: Agricultural Adjust ment Administration $54,186,218; Civil Works Administration, $12,143,150; Farm Security Administration, $346,- 900; Federal Emergency Relief Ad ministration, $39,898,184; Civil Conser vation Corps, $47,672,346; Bureau of Public Roads, $34,629,558; Social Se curity, $2,404,004; Public Works Ad ministration, $25,736,399; Works Pro gress Administration, $31,640,977; re mainder of emergency relief apppro (Continued on Pago Pour.) In Aviation Spotlight GGH Here is the modest little postoffice at Kitty Hawk, N. C., which has jumped into prominence as a result of the issuance of new stamps com memorating the twentieth anniversary of air mail. In the inset is the equally modest postmistress, Mrs. E. W. Baum, who will have her hands full during Air Mail Week, May 15-22, when philatelists from all parts the world will send thousands of pieces of mail for the special cachet. (Central Press) Soviets Halt ‘Purge’Upon Farm Groups Moscow Fears Dam age to Their Cause by Forced Starva tion of Collectivists Moscow, April 20.(AP)—The Soviet purge of collective farmers was or dered stopped today. An order signed by Joseph Stalin as secretary of the central commit tee of the communist party, and V. V. Molotoff, chairman of the council of peoples commissars, declared much harm had been done by massed ex pulsion of peasants from farms for trivial reasons on the pretext of purg ing the farms of hostile elements. The communist leaders accused pro vincial officials of bureaucratic high handedness and warned them they would be tried as criminals unless un warranted expulsion stopped. Ousting of peasant® from collective farms means starvation, the order said, adding that such action only cre ated hostility to the Soviet regime. Two other orders, issued with the apparent intention of inspiring col lective farmers to try for bumper crops promised them better condi tions. Hunt Carnegie Kin Mystery veiled the fate of Andrew Carnegie Whitfield (above), 28- year-old society clubman and avia tor, who took off in his own plane from Roosevelt Field, L. 1., April 16, to visit a friend in near-by Smithtown, L. I. No trace of Whit field or his ship has been found. He was married less than a year ago. (Central Press) WEATHER FOR NORTH CAROLINA. Cloudy, with scattered showers this afternoon or tonight; slightly cocrier in north portion tonight; Thursday partly cloudy, slightly cooler In east and south central portions. . PUBLISHED IVIIT AFTHKNOOM EXCEPT SUNDAY. Levine Now Fears His 'Son Is Dead New York, April 23. —(AP)—Mur- ray Levine took formal cognizance of a possibility that his kidnaped son may be read today by offering $5,000 for “information which will lead to the recovery of his body.” Simultaneously, he clung to a hope that the missing hoy still may be alive by offering $25,000 for in formation which would lead to his recovery. .... fn a statement issued from his law office, Levine said: “Despite the cooperation of newspapers generally, radio broad casting stations and the news reel companies, we have received no word concerning our son, Peter Levine, since March 1.” CONGRESS DUBIOUS OF NEW STIMULANT Will Give Roosevelt What He Asks, But Fearful of Consequences By CHARLES P. STEWART Central Press Columnist Washington, April 20.—1 t undoubt edly is true, as President Roosevelt said in his last “bedtime talk”, that the recession of recent months, after all, has not returned the country to the “disasters of 1929”. It is iike this: A few years ago, afflicted with a bad tooth, I consulted a dentist. “What is it?” asked the doctor seeking to diagnose my case. “Is it a violent, agonizing pain. Or is it a dull ache?” Well, 1929 was a violent, agonizing pain. This has been a dull ache. A dull ache is scad enough. Get The Right Tooth’ As to my tooth, it did not much matter which was which. The remedy was to extreat the tusk. But this much did matter. It was essential for the dentist to Flint Labor Row Ended; New Trouble At Detroit Detroit, Mich., April 20.—(AP)—A labor dispute over a United Auto mobile Workers dues collecting drive at Flint seemed settled, at least tem porarily, today by the decision of UAW international officers to discon tinue morning picket lines, tut there was a flurry of violence in Detroit, where UAW strikes kept five fac tories closed. The Detroit skirmish was at the Michigan Steel Castings Company, where 16 policemen with flying night sticks broke up a 25-man picket line led by an unidentified man in foot ball headgear. Twenty-five workers entered the plant, and the manage ment announced operations were re sumed on a curtailed schedule after two days of idleness caused by a strike against a ten percent pay cut. In the Flint dispute, which has kept 5,250 Fisher and Buick Motor Com 8 PAGES TODAY FIVE CENTS COPY DEATHS BY AUTOS wEoSs Were 64 in March and Total of 179 for First Quarter of Current Year of 1938 OVER 1,80.0 CRASHES DURING THE PERIOD Nearly Third of March Fa talities Made Up of 20 Pedestrians Killed; Intoxi cated Drivers Figure in Five Fatal Accidents Dur ing Month of March Raleigh, April 20 (AP) —Automo- bile fatalities in North Carolina dur ing March dropped to 64, Major Arth ur Fulk, of the highway division, re ported today, and in three months the total 179 deaths ran 55 under the 1937 toll. In March, 1937, there were 73 killed and 595 injured in 515 accidents, while there were 544 injured besides those killed in 592 accidents last month. This year in three months 1,809 ac cidents resulted in 179 deaths and 1,- 747 persons injured, while last year in the period 1,551 accidents resulted In 234 deaths and 1,686 persons injured. Nearly one-third of the March fa talities were accounted for by 20 pedestrians killed, including six chil dren playing in the streets and six persons killed while walking on high ways. Intoxicated drivers figured in five fatal and 15 non-fatal accidents; speed ers caused 18 fatal and 15 non-fatal; reckless drivers eight fatal and 85 non-fatal, and persons driving on the wrdng side of the road caused five fatal, 26 non-fatal mishaps. Saturday was the worst day for ac cidents. Imports Os Low Cotton Cause Alarm Raleigh, April 20 (AP)—M. Q. Mann, manager, of the North Carolina Cot ton Growers Cooperative Association, said today he would urge a congres sional investigation of cotton imports from India. Mann said that he had learned that 12,000 bales of short staple Indian cot ton are in a Richmond, Va., warehouse awaiting shipment to a North Caro lina blanket mill. The cotton, Mann said, is of the 5-8 inch staple variety, the main type grown in North Caro lina and the South, and though it was grown, shipped 10,000 miles* un packed and fumigated, was reported “still as cheap as our own produce." “Frankly, I am alarmed at this re port," said Mann. identify and yank out the paritcular ly offending molar. He could have jerked every other one in my head, but that one, being overlooked, would have continued to hurt. I would have lost a lot of useful teeth, and still have suffered violent, agonizing pain or a dull ache. Congress Doubtful. , Congress, more than a little doubt ful of Dr. Roosevelt’s politically den tal skill, is quite skeptical that he has selected the right tooth. It is fearful of the national anguish of an extraction, with possibly more violent agony or dull aches to follow. My dentist got the right tooth, after which I was o. k. oHwever, if he had picked the wrong one, and I had continued to suffer, I might have been inclined to consult some differetn dentist next time. Is This The Case? Dr. Roosevelt did, indeed, succeed in putting a period to a spell of (Continued on Page Three.) pany employees idle for three days, Homer Martin, international presi dent of the UAW, yielded to an ul timatum of William Knudsen, Gen eral Motors president. Khudsen said Fisher body plant No. 1 would remain closed until the union desisted from its attempt to collect dues by picket lines. He described the picketing as an attempt to force a closed shop in violation of the UAW-G. M. agree ment. Martin said the picketing would be discontinued in order to give General Motors “no excuse to close plants and throw thousands out of work.” In Flint, however, Henry Wilson, presi dent of the UAW Fisher local, said that “membership checks” would be made as employees leave the plant, and indicated an effort might be made to keep non-union workers in the plant.
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