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i HENDERSON’S POPULATION I 13,873 TWENTY-FIFTH YEAR 0. S. FURS RESULT ANGLO-UEXICAH BREAK 400,000 Chinese Trapped, Jap Spokesman Claims ONLY ALTERNATIVE HOW IS SURRENDER OR BE ANNIHILATED Goal of Five Months Achiev ed by Japs in Cutting Vital Lunghai Rail Artery SOLDIERS~LANDED FOR NEW ATTACKS Troops Put Ashore Near Southern Port of Foochow Aim at Another Important Railroad; China’s Huge Central Army In Precari ous Position Shanghai, May 14. —(AP) —A Ja panese army communique said the vital Lunghai railway—aim of the Japanese central China campaign, had been cut cast of Tanhan. Mobile troops reaching the line immediately blew up a bridge. Passage over the railway runs east and west through the heart of Central China’s rich agricultural area, had been blocked shortly before by aerial bom.ardment, disrupting transpor tation of war supplies to China’s huge army defending the region. In reaching the railway, the Japan ese achieved a goal for which they have battled for five months. Japanese army spokesman declared 400,000 Chinese troops were trapped in the Suchow area with no choice other than to surrender or face annihila tion. Suchow was violently, bombed and 100 civilians killed. While the Japanese were furiously pressing their advantage in Central China., warships landed troops near the south China port of Foochow—de finitely for an attack on the Canton- Hangkow railway. Japanese planes warmed overhead, protecting the ground troops. Government Planes Hit Insurgents Hendaye, France, May 14. —(AP) — A surprise attack by 50 new govern ment war planes injected a new factor into operations on the eastern Span ish front today as the insurgent drive against Valencia gained headway. The insurgent air force, long dom inant in eastern Spain, hurriedly call ed for plane reinforcements. The government mass attack over a point 40 miles northeast of Teruel, came in the wake of reports that 300 new government planes had been un loaded at Barcelona. Eighteen insurgent ships engaged in the fight and reported shooting down seven government planes with out losing any themselves. Insurgent bombers raided Barcelona twice early today and twice yesterday, killing and wounding about 200 per sons, according to dispatches from the government seaport. On the ground, the insurgent offensive gained speed after breaking through government defenses northeast of Teruel. Two Youths Are Held In Girl’s Death Officers Investigat in g Mysterious Natality in Home at Rocky Mount Hocky Mount, May 14.—(AP)—Two '»eal youths were jailed here today while police investigated a mysterious shooting here late last night which Claimed the life of a 16-year-old girl. 1(1 girl, Ethel Davis, died in an am atlance enroute to a hospital shortly j 1 , r Police had been summoned to .home of her aunt, Mrs. Pearlie Hvj s. where the shooting occurred, continuing until Tuesday a hearing r " ( cd last night, Nash County oioner M. C. Gulley announced that (Continued on Page Five.) Hcnfrcrsmt Dailu Dispatch WTTUT (S FRVTPF' ott THE ASSOCIATED PRESS. Mussolini Voices Defiance Against American Policies In Fiery Address At Genoa "Presents” for the "Enemy” A <8888: y '&'■ Ift * - am,-• f ® j§\ WSk St :■& S' - <? SSU# Ssms“ yffigv l«g>: a • IJK M jpiWg ysxjil The crew of a big U. S. Army bomber is shown at Mitchell Field, N. Y., loading a deadly cargo of bombs in the “bomb bay” just before the take off in the great Eastern air maneuvers. Bombers of this type flew 400 miles out to sea to theoretically destroy “enemy” aircraft carriers. (Central Presei Austrian Tobacco To Cut U. S. Sales Washington, May 14 (Al*) —The Department of Agriculture receiv ed word from representatives in Berlin today that Germany plans to reduce imports of American to bacco by encouraging Austrian farmers to grow the product. Heretofore, there has been no com mercial production of tobacco in Austria. “The new plan to grow tobacco domestically is intended to reduce foreign exchange, to increase self sufficiency and to provide increas ed employment and income for the small farmers, especially in the vineyard regions, where it is claim ed that both climate and soil are satisfactory for production of me in ium quality leaf,” the department said. Foreign trade experts said It was possible Austrian production would take away the market for nearly 1,000,000 pounds of American) to bacco annually. l (IlSlOOPEN Dignity of Such Contests Being Thrown Somewhat to Wind in Cases Dally Dispatch Bufean. In the Sir Walter Hotel. Raleigh, May 14 Underneath the surface there are probably no more bitterly fought political battles in progress than those involving more than half a score posts on North Carolina’s court benches; but out wardly there is a certain amount of dignity which pievents these contests from flaring openly in the daily prints. Only in the first district, where Solicitor Herbert Leary is attempting to unseat Governor Hoey-appointed Judge C. E. Everett has the fighting broken over into the front pages of the press and into the advertising columns as well. There Mr. Leary has been making a house to housi canvas in real candi datorial fashion. As the campaign opened he was generally conceded the edge over Judge Thompson, hut latest reports indicate that the Leary claims he was “slighted” in thfc appointment of Judge Thompson have been more than rebutted by his opposition’s showing that Leary has been on the public payroll for a dozen years and Continued «a Page Five.). ONLY DAILY NEWSPAP ER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA AND VIRGINIA. Baptists To Give Aid To Temperance Convention in Rich mond Sees “Rising Tide” of Prohibition Growing I . Richmond, Va., May 14.—(AP) —By an overwhelming voice vote, the Southern Baptist Convention today rejected resolutions for study of the “fellowship of chur ches” suggested at the inter-de norninational gathering at Utrecht, Holland. Richmond, Va., May 14. —(AP) — A report urging Southern Baptists to “give their full moral support to the prohibition cause” was prepared for presentation to the 1938 convention today. The report drafted by the church’s Social Service Commission, headed by Arthur Barton, of Wilmington, N. C., expressed great pleasure in what ap peared to be the rising tide of pro hibition sentiment as indicated in the statewide dry issues in Alabama, Georgia, and Tennessee, and a great number of dry victories in local elec tions. A Georgia member of the commisr sion, Willie Upshaw, who was pro hibition candidate for president in 1932, said he would ask support from the messengers (delegates) from 18 states and District of Columbia, for a “stop-drunk” amendment which he said Representative Smith, of Okla homa has proposed in Congress. He said the amendment “incor <Cnnt*~ ued on Page Five* NEGROES, INDIANS TO BE SEPARATED State Llighway and Public Works Commission Meets Complaints from Robeson County Raleigh, May 14.—(AP)—A com plaint that Negroes and Indians were being quartered together at the Robe son county prison camp has been amicably settled, Frank Dunlap, chair man of the State Highway & Public Works Commission, said today. Dunlap said a delegation of Rofceson county Indians had visited him to lodge the complaint. In the future, he said, Indians and Negroes will be quartered separately. HENDERSON, N. C., SATURDAY AFTERNOON, MAY 14, 1938 DICIMMi IONS Will March Together to the End, 11 Duce Says In Answering Recent Speeches PREPAREDNESS URGED Declares Totalitarian States Must Forever Be Ready For Emer gency; Refers to Speeches “Across Ocean” Genoa, May 14 (AP) —President Benito Mussolini, hitting back at what Italy regarded as anti-Fascist bias in the U. S., pledged the totalita rian states would “become a bloc and march together to the end” in connec tion with a doctrinal war by the so called democracy.” Mussolini’s thinly veiled but un mistakably thrust at “speeches across the oceari,” “and “reflected the Italian government’s growing irritations over remarks made recently by Secretary Harry Woodring of the United States and various other Americans. Woodring, in a speech May 5, warned dictators of control nations that democratic countries might get enough of their provocations and re sort to war. Other things regarded as entering into the Italian attitude were state ment by Secretary Harold Ickes, a congressional move to have Italy named among the violated Kellogg- Briand pact, and the state depart ment’s failure to recognize sovereign ity of Ethiopia. The Ethiopia matter has for sev eral months blocked several commer cial agreements between U. S. and Italy. II Duce, who arrived here this morn ing, aboard a battleship, said in a speech devoted to international af fairs, Italy wants peace. “But”, he asserted “we must he ready with all our forces to defend it, especially when we hear speeches —e. en from across the ocean —on which we must reflect.” “It, perhaps, is to be excluded (from consideration) at the socalled great democracies are really prepar ing for a doctrinal war. However, its well to know that totalitarian states would become a bloc and march to gether to the end.” ilsili Attempts Begun To Solve Nation’s Budgetary and Finance Trouble Brussels, May 14 (AP) —Moderate Socialist Paul Spaak, quickly formed a new government and assigned the key ministerial post of financial and economics to a specialist outside par liament to solve the kingdom’s grave budgetary difficulty. Spaak, formerly a radical, announc ed that King Leopold had concurred in his cabinet choice to replace Paul Janson’s government which quit yes terday over parliament objections to its financial program. “A solution must be reached today” said the 39-year-old Spaak, who had been Janson’s foreign minister. He is the youngest premier in Belgium’s hitory. 'Spaak did not announce the names of his budget specialist or other min isters, indicating that the cabinet had not been perfected, hut his statement implied that it would be complete by tonight, and that he would face par liament Tuesday with a new finan cial program. WEATHER FOR NORTH CAROLINA. Cloudy, slightly warmer in In terior of 'east potritifon tonight; Sunday generally fair. * - WEEKLY WEATHER South Atlantic States: Few widely scattered showers in south and central Florida entire week; remainder of district shower per iod middle of week, otherwise gen emally fair; j temperature near! normal. To Be Contact Man? i \ • ‘ ?;<• v John T. Hanes . . . Wall Street liberal Behind the Roosevelt administra tion’s efforts to persuade John T. Hanes, Wall Street liberal, to move from the Securities and Ex change commission to an assist ant secretaryship of the treasury, is seen a move to make Hanes the outstanding contact maij, between the administration and business. Hanes was responsible for the re cent statement signed by 16 busi nessmen, industrialists and bank ers offering a pledge of continuous consultation and co-operation with the government to overcome nroblems of the business world. —Central Press 5 Si Six German Citizens Held In Abortive Uprising Wednesday Merely As Individuals vigorousTnswer IS GIVEN BY RIO # Vargas Government Replies They Are Not Charged With Being Foreign Agents; Vargas Had Said They Had “Foreign Help” In Plots, However Rio de Janeiro, May 14.—(AP) — The German government protested today to Brazil against the arrest o? six German citizens as suspects in the abortive fascist uprising Wednesday against President Vargas. The Brazilian government, however, assured th6 German Embassy the six were arrested as individuals, and that was no indication they were agents of any foreign power or organization. The assurance was given despite the fact President Vargas flatly accused the fascist greenshirts of having “for eign help” in their short-lived upris ing against his regime. He did not name the foreign source of their aid. The protest was lodged by Ambas sador Ritter in an interview with Foreign Minister Aranha. Officials disclosed 800 persons had been arrested in a huge round-up of those under suspicion of taking part in the revolt. The newspaper O Globo Continued on Page Five.) New Arrest Made From Mail Theft Asheville, May 14.—(AP)—Federal officers announced here today that Rufus Costner, of Knoxville, Tenn., had been arrested and brought to Asheville to face indictments charg ing him with concealing a part of the $105,000 stolen from a mail truck in Charlotte late in 1933 by members of the Chicago Touhy gang. Marshal Charles Price said Costner was a brother of Isaac Costner, one of three men now serving long terms in Alcatraz for the robbery. The others are Basil Banghart and Ludwig Schmidt. A fourth accused of participating in the daring hold-up, Charles Conners, was found shot to Continued on Page Two.) PUBLISH wn WRIT AFTHKNOOM EXCEPT SUNDAY. Embarrassment To This Country Seen In Mexican Action Blocks Helium Bid Secretary Harold L. Ickes . . . bars deal with Germany Germany apparently loses out in her bid for American helium as Secretary of the Interior Harold L. Ickes, critic of Naziism and Fascism, sticks to his refusal to permit exports of the gas and President Roosevelt assumes a hands-off attitude. Ickes is shown leaving the White House follow ing a conference on the question. —Central Press ANTi-NEW DEALERSt More Worried Than They Were Over Coming Con gressional Primaries By CHARLES P. STEWART Central Press Columnist Washington, May 14. Anti-New Dealers (Democrats and Republicans both) are considerably more worried than they were concerning comrng congressional primaries, not to men tion next November’s elections. Before the primary contests began anti-New Dealerism was confident of its ability to renominate and re-elect nearly all “antis” now on Capitol Hil! and to beat, for renomination or re election, a considerable number of Rooseveltian legislators. They scarce ly expected to win a clean-cut vic tory but they did count on material gains for their side. Since the 100 per cent New Dealer, Senator Claude Pepper, was so over whelmingly renominated in Florida, however, the “antis” contingent has been far less cocky than it was. Florida “Explained.” To be sure, the “antis” explain the Florida result in various ways, in tended to imply that it was not as significant as it seemed. They also mention that South Da kota’s primary outcome can be anti- New Dealerishly interpreted. So it can hut it cannot be so interpreted nearly as emphatically as the Pepper triumph obviously was “pro”. The triumph of another Roosevel tian, Senator Lister Hill of Alabama, also is too recent not to be weighed as a current indication. Antis Baffled. It is in these southern states, like Florida and Alabama, that the anti- New Dealers have most depended (Continued on Page Five.) 8 PAGES TODAY FIVE CENTS COPY May 'Delay Settlement of American Claims for Ex propriation of Oil Properties STRONG ECONOMIC MOVE BY BRITAIN Mexican Legation* In Lon don Is Closed and British Offices in Mexico to Close Soon; Britain Says Mexico Has Been Partial In Pay ing u. s. Washington, May 14 (AP) —Inform- er! persons represented State Depart ment officials today as disturbed by Mexico’s break diplomatic % relations Great Britain and concerned lest it cause this country embarrass* ment. The possibility of any such step as a British naval demonstration in Mex ican waters was remote, but persona close to the department expressed the opinion jt would make more difficult and possibly delay American claims for expropriated oil properties. MEXICAN LEGATION CLOSED BY MINISTER AT LONDON London, May 14 (AP) —Mexico form ally severed diplomatic relations with Great Britain today in protest against Britain’s brusk demands for payment of past civil war damage claims.: The Mexican Minister Primo Michel called at the foreign office for half an hour to communicate Mexico’s deci sion to withdraw her diplomatic en voy from London. A British note demanding payment on an installment of an old payment, on Patre Five.) Officers Os StateT.RA. Are Chosen Hickory, May 14.—(AP)—Fayette ville was chosen as the meeting place for 1939 and R. B. Davis of Pilot Mountain, was unaimously elected president of the North Carolina di vision, Travelers’ Protective Associa tion, at the closing session of its an nual convention here today. Next year’s meeting will be sometime in May, but the definite date was not fifxed. GreenWboro, Wilmington and Wilson were other cities bidding for the convention Other officers elected were O. E. Wilson, of High Point, first vice-pre sident; J. M. Baity, of Henderson, sec ond vice-president; W. E. Beck, of Durham, third vice-president; J. M. Fitzgerald, Wilson, fourth vice-presi dent, and J. E. Gilliard, of Wilming ton, fifth vice-president. Five directors were named for two years. Five directors had been elect ed last year to serve two years. Group Will Fight Large Works Fund Republicans and Conservative Dem ocrats Will Not Ob ject to Relief Washington, May 14 (AP) —A group of Republicans and conservative Democrats in the senate said today they would try to eleminate all funds from public works for the $3,154,000,- 000 spending-lending program recom mended by President Roosevelt. This would reduce it by about one-half. Members of the group, led by Sen ator Byrd, Democrat, Virginia said they would support appropriation for the WPA and other direct relief agen cies, but would oppose any “pump (Continued on Page Five.)
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