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HENDERSON’S POPULATION 13,873 TWENTY-FIFTH YEAR SHANGHAI TREMBLES IN TERRORISM FEAR FROM BANDIT FORCE War Tension Revived As Reports Spread That Guerrillas Have Sneaked into City japaneseTmaking MANY NEW ARRESTS One Report Is 5,000 Chinese Patriotis Have Slipped In to City To Harass Conquer ors, Jap Drive on Suchow and Lunghai Railway Has Been Blocked Shanghai, May 2. —>(AF) —The dan ger of widespread terrorism revived war tension in Shanghai today as re 'ports circulated -that thousands of Chinese guerrillas had slipped into the city to harass the Japanese. International settlement police dou bled their patrols and searched re fugee camps for guerrillas equipped with firearms and explosives. The arrest of two bomb throwers after an attempt to blast a truck load ed wth Japanese soldiers, * and infor mation that more than 2,000 terror ists had entered the city, aroused police apprehension. One report said 5,000 special agents of the National Salvation Association and other patriotic organizations were in Shanghai and the surrounding area under orders to conduct a terrorist campaign against the Japanese. Meanwhile, fierce fighting continued on the Shantung front, where Japan had been struggling to gain control of central China. Latest dispatches indicated the new Japanese offensive against Suchow, and the Lunghai railway has been ■blocked, but neither side claimed im portant successes. War Front Quiet Over East Spain Hendaye, France, May 2. —(AP) The Spanish civil war armies marked time today awaiting a let-up in rains which for more than a week have in terfered with operations on all; fronts. Except for insurgent troops slosh ing through the muddy sector north east of Aliega to consolidate their lines, no activity was reported in the eastern Spanish war zone. The Aliega movement tightened the insurgent line running to Molinos, and cut off varoug government units scat tered through the area southeast of Montalban. Despite the persistent rains, insur gents have been plugging away at this sector, pushing slowly southward in an effort to straighten the rambling line between Teruel and the Mediter ranean. raSßran ABC Czar, Peeved, May Vent Spleen on Certain Afternoon Newspapers Dally Dispatch Borens, In The Sir Walter Hotel Raleigh, May 2.—Mrs. Edna J Al mand, executive secretary of the State Alcoholic Control Board, indicated to this correspondent Saturday that Cui lar Moore, chairman of the board, intends to order distillers to boycott advertising in afternoon papers served by this correspondent, .because tho chairman does not like certain articles witten by the correspondent with re ference to the liquor board, its ac tivities and its head. The secretary’s .intimation of an impending boycott came when this correspondent called at the board’s office Saturday to get a statement which Moore said Friday afternoon he would prepare for us in member pai>ers. Moore was not in, but Mrs. Almand said he probably will have a statement later. “And he is also writing all distil lers who advertise in the afternoon papers you write for,” she added. Asked whether this meant that Moore planned to forbid distillers to advertise in these papers, she made «o direct reply, but reiterated that Moore i s highly dspleased because 1 ibis correspondent has written arti cles about the board and its chair man which he contends are not in accordance with the facts. On Friday afternoon, Moore called this bureau and asked the source of information recently carried in news articles from the bureau —specifically about one appearing last week in ■Much dissenson in the hoard, a Hit ler-like dictatorial attitude on the v. (Continued on Page Three.) 3B atilt iltsnafdt leased wire service of the associated press. Czech Nazis Now Demand Election l’raha, Czechoslovakia, May 2. lAl’) —The Nazi leader Kornad Ilenlein has demanded a plebiscite so that the 3,500,000 German resi dents of Czechoslovakia may deter mine the r wishes for Germany. Using May Day as a springboard, Henlein and his colleagues renew ed their demands for political con cessions in a burst of oratory in towns through the German sector of the nation. There was only one report of dis order, at Troptau, near the fron tier with Germany, where three men were injured in fighting. Al I’odmolky, another town near the German border, Major Josef Kes sler, a social democrat, asserted that German democrats in the bor der region will defend the state, to gether with the Czechs, with their blood.” Udismfaces MERGERISUFHELD Rumblings of Secessionist Church Heard if General Conference Vote Is Sustained AWAIT VERDICT OF JUDICIAL COUNCIL Legality of Vote Last Week Challenged ; Georgia Meth odist Group Prepares To Set Up Own Church; Con ference Turin s to Election of Seven New Bishops Birmingham, Ala., May 2. —(AF) — Rumblings of a “secessonist” church if south and north Methodism merge took more definite form today as the quadrennial conference of the Metho dist Episcopal Church, South, await ed a verdict from the judicial council on legality of its unification vote. Leaders of an anti-unificationist group at Stone Mountain, Ga., a small town near Atlanta, announced they were prepared to organize a new con gregation if union went t trough, but awaited decision of the councl before acting Judge James Davis, of the Stone Mountain Superior Court, chairman of the protest meeting, said the object of the Georgia dissrnier.3 was to or ganize a new religious unit “to per petuate the Methodist Episcopal Church, South.” Meanwhile, the conference here turned to election of bts 1, »».b. with the commission on epis?opa ?y expected t j n commend that sevsa new bishops be named. House Passes Bill To Prevent Export Os Tobacco Seeds Washington, May 2 (AP)—The House passed and sent to the Sen ate today a bill to prohibit expor tation of tobacco seed and plants exeept for experimental purposes. The House Agriculture Commit tee said foreign) nations had been obtaining seeds and plants in this country to grow their own flue cured tobacco, and that “one of the most important features” in America’s international trade was threatened. Italian Air Dead Os 19 Is Pro bed I i Rome, May 2.—(AP)— The worst ; disaster in the history of Italian avia ■■ ton, costing the lives of 14 Italian pas - sengers and five aviators-, was mves - tigated today by the Italian govem !Tl General Algo Telegrini, chief of L Italv’s commercial aviation, went to : Fornia to conduct the inquiry. . . s The air liner, of the Alla Litona. r on its way from Tirana, Albania, to i Rome, ran into dense cloud® Sat- I urday afternoon and hit a mountam i side near Fornia, 70 miles southeast (Continued o© Four.) ONLY DAILY NEWSPAP ER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA AND VIRGINIA. Hitler Leaves For Rome For Stay With Mussolini In Great Pomp And Show Berlin Press Calls It Histor y-Making Trip and Rome Plans Greatest Demonstration in Her History; Thou sands of Soldiers To G uard Against Incidents Berlin, May 2. —(AP) —Reichfuehrer Adolf Hitler and his retinue of Ger many’s leaders left today to visit Premier Mussolini. His special train pulled out for Rome at 4:45 p. m. (10:45 a. m., eastern standard time). The newspapers called it “a history making trips,” and Berlin’® crowds turned out to cheer and wave Italian and Nazi flags along Hitler’s route to the station. Meanwhile, troop trains rolled into Rome hour upon hour, bringing 100,- 000 soldiers to be on hand for Hitler’s Visit. There was everywhere the turmoil of last-minute preparation to make the welcome tomorrow night the But Court Justice Is Named and Rapists Get New Lease »n Life Dallr Dfopatrh Bnrenn, In the Sir Walter Hotel. Raleigh, May 2. —Purely local in cidents, such as approval of a 17-cent levy for a nine-month school term and a threatened “strike” of State Col lege students, took much of the front page space of Raleigh papers last week; though Governor Hoey’s ap pointment of A. A. F. Seawell as Su preme Court justice, and the state wide safety motorcade, in which nu merous State officials particY>ated, claimed their share of attention. Meanwhile, the governor pondered a State Liquor Board appointment; went into a huddle with the treasur er to consider Roosevelt proposals to tax State and local government bond issues; and prevented a quintuple exe cution’ at Central Prison. School Folks Celebrate: Advocates of better schools celebrated and made plans for the future after piling up a favorable majority at the polls Mon day on the proposal to levy a 17-cent ad valorem tax to give the capital city a nine-months school term. Only observed mourners were a few real estate owners and children who are constitutionally opposed to going to school at all —much less for nine months each year. Want to “Big Apple”; State College students, some 400 of them, burned effigies of faculty “meanies” who re cently announced there would be no campus dance following commence ment exercises June 6. They threaten ed a sltdown strike, but quieted down to await development when Colonel J. W. Harrelson promised to hear (Continued on Page Three.) HENDERSON, N. C., MONDAY AFTERNOON, MAY 2, 1938 IN BITTER FLORIDA CAMPAIGN Dave Sholtz, upper left; J. Mark Wilcox, lower left; Senator Pepper Florida’s Democratic senatorial primary campaign has been enlivened by charges that WPA has loaded its relief rolls with paid political workers for New Deal Senator Claude Pepper, seeking re-election. Former Gov. Dave Sholtz and Representative J. Mark Wilcox, two of Pepper’s four opponents for the nomination, made the charges. Senator Pepper is an ardent New Dealer, having supported Predi dent Roosevelt on all major issues. The election occurs May 3. —Central Pres* greatest pageant in Rome’s history. Parks were closed to the public and converted into military camps. Mer chants refused deliveries because their trucks could not move through down town streets, choked by soldiers, de tectives and tourists. Persons of questionable record were jailed or ordered from Rome, Flor ence and Naples during Hitler’s six day vsit, and unofficial estimates fix ed the number involved at between 6,000 and 7,000. Soldiers stopped automobiles enter ing or leaving Rome and checked identification papers. Police doubled their regular guard along’ the rail way from Brenner Pass to Rome, the route of the Hitler train. REVEMUEfiEFLECTS State’s Incomes In April Bring First Real Signs of This Slump Dully DlMnntoli Bureau, In the Sir Walter Hotel. Raleigh, May 2. —First real signs that the recession has finally struck North Carolina business are contained in the April report of collections by the Revenue Department, which shows substantial decreases in sales tax and income tax returns. On the other hand, the gasoline tax collections, continue to show increases over the corresponding month of 1937. while franchise tax collections were so muph higher this year than in April, 1937, that the total collections of the revenue division showed an in crease over last year. On the contrary, despite the gas tax increase, total motor vehicle bureau colleqtions were ■smaller (although by an almost in finitesimal percentage of .03, due to a marked falling off in license tax and title fee collections, indicating that the sale of cars, both new and old, was off from April, 1937. Figures under the intangible tax collections were not imposing, with only $39,624.07 to add to the sum al ready paid in—a sum which ran only about half the $2,000,000 it was esti mated this new form of State taxa tion would yield. Getting back to the sales tax col lections, last (month brought SB6B, -■ 182.54 into the State’s coffers a® com pared with the $1,023,178.35 yielded in April, 1937, a decrease of nearly 15 per cent. Total sales tax collections CContinued on Page Tbieeb WEATHER" FOR NORTH CAROLINA. Generally fair tonight and - T»e sda y- i •****. ISOW Roosevelt Again Urges Vote On Wage-Hour Bill By House Before Congress Goes Home l Permanent Committee On Recovery In Congress Is Suggested By LaGuardia Endorses Roosevelt Spend ing-Lending Program, But Wants All Sec tions To Benefit MAJOR COMMITTEES WOULD MAKE GROUP Senior Members Would Stay in Washington During Summer To Map Program for Recovery To Be Sub mitted to Extra Session in the Early Fall Washington, May 2.—(AP>—‘-Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia, of New York, pro posed today that Congress set up a “permanent recovery committee” and instruct it to work out a program for submission to a special session in the fall. LaGuardia appeared before a House appropriations sub-committee in hie capacity as president of the United States Conference of Mayors. He said he had endorsed the President’s spend ing-lending program, but urged that it be made sufficiently flexible so all parts of the country would benefit. He said he had been asked for sug gestions and had advanced the idea of a “permanent recovery committee, composed of senior members of major committees of the House.” “They could stay here this summer when Congress goes home and present the one bill, with all phases of re covery covered in it, in September or October at a special session,” he ex plained. William Green, president of the American Federation of Labor, en dorsed the spending-lending plan as a means of meeting conditions caused by an unemployment increase he said had totaled 3,700,000 since September. Green appeared at a closed session of the committee. Wlhen he left he told reporters he had “referred to the sriousness of the existing economic system,” and had “recommended that Congress approve the recommenda tions of the President.” WASHINGTON WON’T LOSE ITS CCC CAMP Congressman Warren Goes to Bat for Project In His Eastern Caro lina Home Town Washington, May 2. —(AP) — The municipality of Washington, N. €J., will not lose the Civilian Conservation Corps camp named after its leading citizen. Representative Warren, Democrat, North Carolina, was informed today that “Camp Warren”, in his horns town, would be retained after July 1 instead of closed, as previously planned. Anglo-Italy Peace Pact Is Attacked Chamberlain, How e v e r, Vigorously Defends Agree ment, Embracing Palestine London, May 2.—(AP) —An oral agreement between Britain and Italy over the delicate issue of Palestine was disclosed by Prime Ministet Chamberlain Tn the House of Com mons today, as tie faced an opposition onslaught on the Anglo-Italian pact signed at Rome April 16. The two powers had exchanged as surances that interests of the other in Palestine would be respected, Chamberlain announced. Vigorously defending his policy of realistic dealing with Europe’s dicta tors, the prime minister said the Rome agreement was the first great step toward a saner state in Europe. Chamberlain cited President Roose velt’s approval of the Anglo-Italian accord. "The Prseident of the United States signified his sympathetic in terest because he considers this af fords proof of the value of peaceful (Continued on Page Three.! PUBLISHED IVIKT AFTERNOON EXCEPT SUNDAY. Colombia Chooses Santos President Bogota, Colombia, May 2 —(AP) —The electiqn of Eduardo Santos, former foreign minister, to be pre sident of Colombia was believed assured today on the bas s of in complete returns from yesterday’s voting. Political observers predicted San tos’ majority would be half a mil lion votes. The election was order ly. Santos, foreign minister since 193 has been Col/onxYiai’s chi/ef delegate to the League of Nations since 1933. As president he will succeed Al fonso Lopez, whoso term expires August 7. FMKS COIF Company Wants To Know Who Was Consulted in Prior To Order Against Company corcoranTcohen in LIST OF PERSONNEL List of 57 Questions Sub mitted and Copies De manded of Recommenda tions or Communication! s Received by Board; Asks if Members Read Order Covington, Ky., May 2.—(AF) —The Ford Motor Company asked the Cir cuit court of appeals today for per mission to determine whether the Na tional Labor Relations Board, prior to its order against the company, con sulted any one not connected with the board,, including Thomas Corcoran. Benjamin Cohen, John L. Lewis or Homer Martin. Corcoran and Cohen, New Deal legal advisors, headed those mentioned by the company in its demand for infor mation. The company submitted a list of 57 questions and demanded copies of any recommendations or communications received by the board from any of the persons mentioned, and also mem orandums passed between board mem bers and board employees who helped prepare the findings of facts and con clusions of law. Others named were Lewis’ Commit tee for Industrial Organization Chief Martin, president of the United Auto mobile Workers of America; and any other officer or employee “of any other department of the government”, and “any officer, representative or at torney for the UAWA or of the CIO.” Other questions included: Whether the board or any member read all or any part of a stenographic (Continued on Page Four.) AUTOIsMNG^ Capital City Being Hashed Up and Deprived of Its Natural Beauty By CHARLES P. STEWART Central Press Columnist Washington, May 2.—ls the people of the United States realized how their capital city is being hashed up to make more room for automobiles to circulate there would be a revolution. No. At a second thought the hash ery probably would be only hastened, because so large a proportion of Am ericans are auto owners that an over whelming majority presumably would be sympathetic toward any program to facilitate operation of their Wash ington brethren’s flivvers. The sacrifice of the city’s beauty (Continued on Page Three.) 8 PAGES TODAY FIVE CENTS COPY HOUSEISENMED TO AN EXPRESSION Writes Chairman Norton, of Labor Committee, from Charleston Before Sailing ADMITS COMMITTEE WITHIN ITS RIGHTS But Says It Ought Not To Prevent House Considera tion of Measure So Im portant; Fairness of Legis lative Process Is Founda tion of Democracy Washington, May 2. —(AP) —Presi- dent Roosevelt expressed the hope to day that the House could vote on wage-hour legislation at this session, despite refusal of the rules commi' tee to give it priority. Chairman Norton, Democrat, New Jersey, of the House Labor Commit tee, made public a letter which Mr. Roosevelt sent iher Saturday from Charleston, S. C., suggesting the bill might, reach the floor either by a pe tition or by reconsideration of the rules committee’s action. Emphasizing that the committee was within its rights, and that he had no right to criticize House rules, this President said he had a “profound re spect for and devotion to the demo cratic legislative practice.” ‘ “The continuing fairness of that legislative process is the foundation of enduring democracy,” he said. “There are, however, certain type? of measures in each session which are of undoubted national importance ■because they relate to major policies of government and affect the lives of millions of people. It has always seemed to me that in the case of these measures, few in any one session, the whole membership of the legislative body should be given full and free opportunity to discuss them. Thi* dis-' cussion may end in drastic amend ment or in recommittal, or even in complete rejection.” SHARPDECLINE IN PRICES OF COTTON Futures Nine to Eleven Points Off At Close, With Spot Quiet and Mildling 8.67 New York, May 2. —(AP) — Cotton futures opened four to. nine points down on lower cables and under li quidation and foreign selling. July re acted from 8.72 to 8.70, and the mar ket shortly after first half hour was seven to nine points net lower. July bold off to 8.67, and by midday was 8.69, with the iist seven to ten points net lower. Futures closed nine to eleven points lower. Spot quiet, middling 8.67, Open Close May 8.67 8.66 July 8.71 8.67 October 8.77 8.75 December 8.80 8.77 January 8.83 8.78 March ..- 8.90 8.84 Seawell And McMullan Given Oaths Stacy Inducts New Justice, Who In Turns Swears i n Attorney General Raleigh, May 2.—(AP) —<A. A. F. Seawell became an associate justice of the State Supreme Court today and Harry McMullan became attorney general in a simple five-minute cere mony. Seawell, appointed by Governor Hoey to succeed the late Judge George W. Connor after serving as attorney general, was presented to the court by McMullan. Chief Justice W. P. Stacy administered the oath as the governor sac at the bench with the court members. Immediately, Senator W B. Rod man, of Washington, presented Mc- Mullan, advanced from the post of assistant attorney general, and Sea well gave the oath as his first of ficial act in his new job. The crowd overflowed the court room. Visitors from all parts of the State included Josephus Daniels, am bassador to Mexico.
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