HENDERSON’S
POPULATION
13,873
TWENTY-FIFTH YEAR
HOUSE TO PMOE ALIEN PROPAGANDA HERE
China Again Asks League’s Help Against japan
COM! PERMITS
HELP, DR. KOO SAYS
IN GENEVA APPEAL
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With One Exception No
League Member Has
Given Assistance,
Council Informed
SEES END OF WAR
WITH ENOUGH AID
Delegate Declares China
Expects To Receive Mate
rials and Effective Coope
ration from Other Powers;
British Envoy Announces
Accord With Italy
Tioneva. May 10.—(AP) —Dr. Well
ington Koo, Chinese delegate to the
League of Nations, asked the League
Council today to apply provisions of
the covenant in giving China aid a
gainst Japan.
He cited two resolutions, one by
the League Assembly last October,
and another by the Council in Feb
ruary, which recommended that Lea
gue members consider individual aid
to China.
“With one exception,” he said, none
of the League members had come to
China’s aid. He did not name the
country which had supplied the help,
hut it was believed he referred to
Soviet Russia.
"China expects to receive from
other members of the League material
aid and effective cooperation in re
straining the forces of aggression.”
he declared. “Such aid and coopera
tion is more urgent 'because it will
hasten the termination of hostilities,
and insure the defeat of the forces of
disorder and violence.
“In the name of my government, 1
ask the Council to apply provisions
of the covenant and supplement the
resolutions of the Assembly and Coun
cil with conceret measures.
“By such action Japanese aggres
sion, with all its horrors and cruelty,
may effectively be brought to an ear
ly end and the principles of the Lea
gue may be fully vindicated.”
Earlier British Foreign Secretary
Viscount Halifax told the League of
Nations Council that the recent Anglo
ltalian agreement was a contribution
toward world peace.
BUSINESS MEETINGS
HELD BY RED MEN
Rocky Mount Convention Also Goes
In For Social Program at
State Convention
Rocky Mount, May 10 (AP) —Bus-
iness meetings of the Great Council
of Red Men of North Carolina and
the Great Council Degree of Poca
hontas were held here this morning
as the annual State convention enter
ed its second day.
The councils adjourned at noon for
a joint luncheon and continued ses
sions this afternoon. A banquet and
dance were on tonight’s program.
A “new day in Red Manship” was
foreseen by Bryant Hurd, of Gastonia
past great sachem of the Great Coun
cil of North Carolina, in an address
last night.
The convention will be brought to
a close with a joint meeting on Wed
nesday morning. Elections were ex
pected during the day.
Hoey Lauds
Cooperation
By Farmers
Raleigh, May 10. —JAP)—Coopera-
tive mar keting of farm products and
Purchasing of farm needs, and a pro
gram for the production at home of
;| H possible needs, hold the solution
,r) most of the farmer’s problems,
several thousand North Carolinians
we> (; told here today at the annual
Co-Op Day.”
P- Sanders, cooperative hank com
missioner of the Farm Credit Admin
ration in Washington, along with
governor Hoey and M. G. Mann, gen
•J'a] manager of the North Carolina
-utton Association and Farmers Co
upfratiVe Exchangte, talked of the
Val “es of cooperation.
Governor Hoey pointed out sir years
a Con dition °f prostration exist
ff everywhere, “due to ruinous prices
whlch then obtained.” Now, he said,
!" w new enterprises, pew
are going up> and on the farm 3
( w ,)arns, new fences and new homes
" ( ‘t a general air of “improvement
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HURLS CHARGES OF INTIMIDATION
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Dr. Glenn Frank and Senator E. W. Gibson •
Dr. Glenn Frank, left, chairman of the G. O. P. program committoo,
who is shown talking to reporters and Senator E. W. Gibson of Ver
mont in Washington, charges that the senate lobby investigating
committee has instituted a policy of intimidation by calling him as
editor of the magazine Rural Progress and . laurice V. Reynolds,
publisher of Chicago. Only Reynolds testified . fore the committee.
The magazine is distributed free in seven midwe. states. Dr. Frank
asserted that the lobby committee refused him permission to answer
charges that the magazine was a propaganda medium financed by
“creat capitalists”.
Japan’s Navy
Starts Drive
On Seacoast
Expedition Launch
ed Against Amoy;
Foreigners Warn
ed; Force is Landed
Shanghai, May 10.—(AP)—The Ja
panese navy today launched an ex
pedition against Amoy, chief port of
the southern coastal province of
Fukien.
Foreign dispatches' said a Japanese
naval force landed after heavy bom
bardment by 12 warships offshore and
relays of bombing planes. The invad
ers came to grips at once with the
Chinese garrison.
Japanese planes dropped leaflets on
an island which is Amoy’s foreign
settlement, urging foreign residents
and foreign vessels to leave the port,
and announcing Japan’s intention to
occupy the city.
(The normal population of that is
land is about 250. Amoy, 250,000 popu
lation, 620 miles down the coast from
Shanghai, is the chief gateway to
Fukien, population of 12,000,000.)
The leaflets promised that rights
and interests of neutral powers would
fee safeguarded.
Aerial bombing lasted throughout
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Hitler Sends
Appreciation
To All Italy
Brenner Pass, May 10.—(AP)—
Fuehrer Hitler’s special train, carry
ing him homeward from a nine-day
trip to visit Premier Mussolini in
Italy, ’ crossed into Germany at 8:25
a. m. today.
The Austrian governor general, Ar
thur Seysz-Inquart, welcomed the
fuehrer at the frontier.
On reaching German soil, the
fuehrer telegraphed his thanks to
King Emanuel and Queen Elena for
their hospitality.
“Ever memorable will be the hearty
reception accorded me by the fascist
people and the demonstration of Ital
ian military forces, which are above
all praise,” he said. “My sojourn at
places of an all-inspiring past and of
a proud, self-conscious present will
rank among the most valuable remem
brances in my life.”
He sent similar messages to Pre
mier Mussolini and Crown Prince Um
berto, assuring II Duce that tha
“ideologies of the Fascist and Na
tional Socialist movements are guar
antees that the true comradeship con
necting us will be forever carried into
our nation.” -
ONLY DAILY NEWSPAP ER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA AND VIRGINIA.
Nearly $3,000,000
For Compensation
Raleigh, May 10.—Probahly more
than 130,000 claimants for benefits
under the State unemployment
compensation act had received
checks through last week, a large
number of partial work claims hav
ing been paid in the last two weeks
based on the ledger sheets on file
in the central office in Raleigh.
Through last week $2,714,007.74
had heen paid since benefits started
the latter part of January, em
braced in 356,392 checks. The
checks continue to go out of the
office at the rate of about 6,000
or more each day, ranging in a
mounts from $35,000 to $50,000 daily
The State fund has dropped some
below $10,000,000, but will pick up
again when employers pay their
April contributions, around May 25.
BRAZIL’S DICTATOR
FIXES WAGES, HOURS
Scales Differ With Varying
Climate and! Indus
trial Set-Up
By CHARLES P. STEWART
Central Press Columnist
Washington, May 10.—Brazil operat
ing at present under a dictatorship,
indulges in no long-drawn-out legisla
tive controversy over such an issue as
the establishment of a fair wage-and
hour system.
President (or Dictator) Getulio
Vargas simply signs a decree and that
settles the matter in jig time, at least,
until the next revolution.
He has just signed one intended to
solve this particular problem, of wages
and hours.
It may not prove to be a satisfac
tory solution. The plan may not he as
fair as Varga,s says it is, and perhaps
means it to he.
Nevertheless, the ukase is interest
ing, considering our own wage-hour
rumpus. Even a Latin American auto
crat may hit on a bright idea.
Anyway, some of our wage-hour dis
putants are studying it.
Thumbs Down Here.
Yankee labor turns thumbs down
on it instantly.
Northern North American indus
trialism disapproves of it.
Yet it embodies certain principles
that our Dixie-land lawmakers have
(Continued on Pago Four.)
INSURGENTS PRESS
DRIVE UPON COAST
Hendaye, France, May 10.—(AP)
•Spanish insurgents concentrated the
main force of their attack today to
the main approaches to Castellon de la
Plana and Valencia.
The fighting on the eastern front
centered at a point about 30 miles
north of Castellon, and the insurgents
tried to regain an area they lost yes
terday.
HENDERSON, N. C., TUESDAY AFTERNOON, MAY 10,1938
$3,054,425,000 Bill Report
ed to House by Commit
tee, Which Asks
Quick Passage
SPEEDY EMPLOYMENT
IS AIM OF MEASURE
No Portion of Amount Ear
’ marked for Particular
Cause, as That Would Bog
Down Program, Commit
tee Says In Report to
House on the Bill
Washington. May 10. —(AP) The
r rl minis f r !,f io T i’ r- $3,54,425.000 spending
lending bill will provide jobs for 4.-
'35,000 persons, the House Appropria
ions Committee estimated today.
The committee included that figure
n a report recommending enactment
of the ' ill, submitted shortly before
the House began debate on the
measure.
The primary purpose of the legusla
.ion, the report said, is to furnish
speedily “direct employment on the
site and indirect employment away
from the site of the work for some
of the many millions who are unem
ployed and destitute or harassed by
‘he spectres that haunt the doorsteps
of that too large, unfortunate group.”
The committee conceded there
night be disappointments because of
Its failure to set aside specific sums
for particular projects or types of
work in definite areas.
It said, however, that it felt th**
‘earmarking of the funds with refer
;nce to individual projects, localities,
groups or otherwise would hog down
'he program, and defeat the primary
urgent end and aim of the entire pro
posal.”
House passage of the big lending
and spending measure became the im
mediate goal of administration lead
ers, intent on adjournment by mid-
June.
Meantime, Captain Royall E. Inger
soll, chief of the navy’s war plans di
vision. who worked with British naval
authorities in evolving a program for
bigger battleships, was promoted to
the rank of rear admiral. President
Roosevelt sent his name to the Sen
ate for confirmation, and when the
Senate approves his new rank Inger
soll will be sent to San Pedro, Cal,,
to command the sixth cruiser division,
consisting of four heavy cruisers.
rieveTagain head
OF HOSIERY UNION
Charlotte, May 10 (AP)—The Ame
rican Federation of Hosiery Workers
re-elected E. Rieve, of Philadelphia,
president for another two-year term
today as the convention worked to
ward adjournment, expected tomor
row.
Utilities To
Go Along By
Government
Pledge Cooperation
In Letter From
Group of Big Busi
ness Leaders
New York, May 10 (AP)—Coopera
tion between big business in the uti
lity field and the government was an
nounced today by executives of four
teen of the country’s largest public
utility holding companies.
A letter to W. O. Douglas, chair
man of the Securities Exchange Com
mission, indicating their intention to
cooperate, was made public here to
day. The 14 companies have created
a committee of five to sit down ami
cably with the commission in Wash
ington to work out programs for com
pliance with the “death sentence”
clause of the public utility act of
1935.
Sub-section B of this clause provides
on Page Four.)
WEATHER
FOR NORTH CAROLINA.
Fair tonight and. Wednesday,
i with moderate temperature.
Blindness Wins Over Death For Baby
__ _ ;
Baby Helaine Judith Colan and attendants
After making a decision to permit their five-week-old daughter to die rather
than permit removal of eyes and a life of blindness, due to a tumor, Dr. and
Mrs. Herman Colan of Chicago wavei»ad. Dr. Colan, 30, a dentist, and his
wife, Estelle, 23, were confronted with the tragic decision by surgeons. An
operation was performed Monday, however, with removal of one eye.
72 British Miners Dead
In Derbyshire Explosion
Pleads for Helium
Dr. Hugo Eckener
• • . on Nazi mission
Dr. Hugo Eckener, world-famous
dirigible commander, poses for
photographers on arrival in New
York from Germany prior to go
ing to Washington to plead with
U. S. government officials who
are withholding permission to
supply non-inflammable helium
gas for use in Nazi Germany’s
lighter-than-air craft. U. S. of
ficials want an iron-bound agree
ment that the gas will not be
used for military purposes.
—Central Presa
T “ YET
Dry Weather Has Not Hurt
Early Plantings, Accord
ing To Expert *
College Station, Raleigh, May 10. —
Dry weather, broken here and there
by local showers, has not yet damag
ed North Carolina's tobacco crop,
Lloyd T. Weeks, of State College, de
clared today.
Strong healthy plants, the result of
arl early spring, are largely respon
sible for the successful season thus
far. Had the quality of this year’s
plants been as low as the disease-and
insect-ridden plants of last year, the
lack of rain may have proved disas
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PUBLISH®D lyiKT AJTTHKNOOM
HXCHPTSUNDAY.
49 Known To Injured,
and Number of Others
.Entombed in Work
ings Far Down
TERRIFIC BLASTS
TRAP WHOLE SHIFT
Grievous Scenes Follow
Tragedy and Little Chil
dren Go Bravely to School;
Parliament Considers Mine
Safety as Explosion Is Re
ported
Duckmanton, Derbyshire, England,
May 10.—(AP) —Seventy-two miners
were killed, 49 were known to be in
jured and a number of others were
entombed in the wrecked workings
today after two violent gas explosions
in the Markham coal mine.
While the rescue squads searched
underground for trapped victims, Cap
tain Crookshank, minister for mines,
informed the House of Commons of
the disaster. Through grim coincid
ence the question of danger from ex
plosions in mines was up before Com
mons, Ellis Smith, laborite, asking
what was being done to prevent re
petition of such blasts as the one last
July, when 27 miners lost their lives.
Sobbing women gathered around the
pithead as the dead and injured were
brought to the surface. Scenes were
particularly grievous in the little mor
tuary, where wives and relatives tried
to identify the bodies.
One woman found four members of
her family were still in the blasted
workings, their fate undetermined.
The two terrific explosions, trap
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COTTON QUOTATIONS
MIXED AT CLOSING
Futures Four Points Lower to Three
Higher, With Spot Steady and
Middling 8.67
New York, May 10.—(AP) —Cotton
futures opened four to six points ad
vance on higher Liverpool caf.les and
in the absence of pressure from
abroad. July sold up from 8.71 to 8.76,
and shortly after the first half hour
was 8.74, with the list six to nine
points net higher. By midday the mar
ket was two to six points net higher,
with July 8.72.
Futures closed four points lower to
three higher. Spot steady., middling
8.67.
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July 8.71 8.67
October «... 8.74 8.70
December 8.76 8.75
January 8.77 8.75
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ACTION IS URGENT
TO PREVENT RIOTS
Legionnaires Plan To Resist
Nazi Parade Opening
Long Island Camp
Next Week
CANT GOOSE-STEP
HERE, THEY ASSERT
“Heil Hitler” Salute Will
Not Be Tolerated in Ame
rica, Service Men Say;
War Materials Shipments
to China and Japan Worth
$10,000,000
Washington, May 10.—(AP) — Th-»
House Rules Committee approved a
resolution by Representative Die
Democrat, Texas, today for a con
gressional investigation of "un-Amc
ican propaganda activities in the Unit
ed States.”
Chairman Dickstein, Democrat, New
York, of the immigration committee,
said the inquiry, which would be con
ducted by seven House members, was
necessary to prevent “riots and blood
fshed.”
“There is going to be another riot
next week,” he said. “They are going
to hajre a parade of 100,000 Nazis open
ing up Camp Sicgried, Long Island.
A group of Legionnaires came to mo
yesterday and said they were ready to
take the law in their own hands, be
cause they sav these Nazis can’t goose
step and ‘heil Hitler* and carry on
with swastikas.”
American shipments of war ma
terials to China and Japan exceeded
$10,000,000 in the five months ended
April 30, Slate Department records
showed, meanwhile. The rate was far
in excess of last year’s.
The new figures began with Decem
ber 1, the start of the fiscal year
adopted by the National Munitions
Control Board, which licenses muni
tions shipments. During the five
months shipments to China totajel
$5,296,442, and to Japan, $4,756,483.
Other developments:
The joint congressional committee
to investigate the TV A will hold its
first open meeting tomorrow, Chair
man Donahey, Democrat, Ohio, said.
Testimony
Repudiated
By Witness
Says Evidence He
Gave Against Pitt
Sheriff Was All A
“Pack of Lies”
Greenville, May 10.—(AP) —Charges
and counter charges of tampering
with witnesses flew thick and fast
here today in the ouster proceedings
in superior court of the Pitt Board
of County Commissioners against
Sheriff S. A. Whitehurst.
The charges were touched off by
the testimony on cross-examination
by Earl D. Smith, to the effect that
his previous testimony to the grand
jury and an affidavit by him now
in the hands of prosecution counsel
was all a “pack of lies.”
The witness testified he was paid
sos his appearance before the grand
jury, and Thomas E. Beaman, named
by him as one of the investigators,
had promised him additional money
and a “good job” if he would testify
against the sheriff, who is charged
with accepting bribes.
Nine witnesses had taken the stand
since the trial began yesterday, when
the court recessed until 2 o’clock this
afternoon.
All the testimony offered so far in
volves only the charges of accepting
bribes.
The proceedings began yesterday
w‘th the reading of the ouster petition
and the answer by defense counsel,
The petition charged bribery, extor
tion, misconduct and maladmistration
Sheriff Whitehurst, through coun
sel, denied ali charges and branded
them as malaciously false.
Five kinsmen of the late Jesse
Smith, whose place near here 1 was
raided by Federal officers, testified
yesterday to Judge G. V. Cowper, who
is hearing the case, that the sheriff
frequently visited Smith before Fed
eral officers came raiding.