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HENDERSON’S POPULATION 13,873 TWENTY-FIFTH YEAR JAP ARMY AND NAVY U. S. Liner Held at Shanghai by Japs f"' ~ “ .■ j* v iC' L sKa. Jfi? V’ A n - * ffl-* £< -n | w /.,< // ml --Mm| '.Ra- ■ X .. ;* 4 */f * vfc* it* * ( “ ' V*** •; Vm * > '.- ss?9& y . Here is the Dollar liner, President Coolidge, which, reported loaded with silver shipment of *4 500 000 was held at Shanghai by Japanese. The silver consignment consisted mostly of jewelry and tableware which Chinese patriots had contributed for “war chest” purposes. FDR Paring Spending To Aid Defense Budget Costs. To Be Cut for Bigger Arnrig ments; Broader Wage- Hour Authority Will Be Sought of Congress To Interpret Law For Business i : Washington, Oct. 25. —(AP) —Pjjesi dent Roosevelt took up today the pro blem of paring 1&39 departmental ex penditures to help make room for an anticipated increase in defense costs. The President, who returned last night from his home at Hyde Park, summoned Daniel Bell, acting budget director, to begin making budget es timates for submission to Congress in January. Much preliminary work has been done in a series of conferences during the past few weeks. Besides the departmental require ments, Mr. Roosevelt must take into consideration the probable effect of the business trend on anticipated rev enues, possible new sources of income and the extent of savings that might be effected in such items as relief. Actual relief estimates for the year beginning next July 1, and for the last four months of the current fiscal year will not be made until about Decem ber 15. Other developments: ;The wage-hour administration may ask Congress for broader authority in applying the new labor standards law to specific industries. This pre diction came from high ranking of ficials, who were swamped with in quiries from employers as to whether the statute regulates minimum wages and maximum hours for their parti cular businesses. Now that the wage hour program actually has gone into effect, Administrator Elmer Andrews and his staff are giving most of their attention to these appeals for assis tance'. "All Americans safe!” This dispatch was sent from burn ing Canton by I. N. Linnell, Amer ican consul-general, who received praise from State Department offi cials. Linnell arranged points of re fuge for Americans and also acted on behalf of a local committee to obtain safety zones for the Chinese popula tions. Jasper Hicks Given High Kiwanis Post Spartanburg, S. C., Oct. 25. — (Al’) — Richard Thigpen, of Char lotte, was eleetpd district gover nor of the Carolinas district Ki wanis club at the closing session of a three-day convention here today. He succeeds Ames Haltl wanger, of Columbia. Raleigh, N. C., was selected as the 1939 convention city. Division governors include: No. 4, T. B. Upchurch, Jr., of Raeford; five, Jasper B. Hicks, Henderson; sixth, W. G. Robbins, of Rocky Mount; seven, W. J. Bundy, of Greenville, N. C. Himih'rsmt Hafln tUsuafrlt LEASED WIRE SERVICE OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS. W. O. Burgin Winner Os Nomination For Congress In Bth ' Three - Man Referee Board Decides for r " Lexington Man o n Basis df Validity of Election Returns in Davidson Count y?\ Deane To Withdraw Raleigh, Oct. 25.-^(AP)—The re ferees in the eighth district congres- - sional dispute voted unanimously to day that W. O. Burgin, of Lexington, should be the Democratic nominee. The report of the referees was read at 12:35 p. m., in the presence of J. C. B. Ehringhaus, counsel for Burgin, and Assistant Attorney General Wade Bruton. The ruling, which both candidates in the four-months-old dispute had agreed to accept as final, eliminated C. B. Deane, of Rockingham. The Elections Board will meet here tomorrow to certify the nominee. Judge Harris immediately started work on his consent order to end the court litigation. Under the agreement between Deane and Burgin, the loser in the decision of the referees, must with draw his candidacy by a formal notice to the elections board. It was as sumed Deane’s notice would be here by tomorrow. The referees based their decisioii for Burgin on the merits of the whole case after considering two specific questions of law, as to validity of re turns made by two Davidson county election boards, one of which was re moved by the State Elections Board and succeeded by the other. Two Republicans on the five-man State Elections Board have been quoted as saying they would never cast a vote to certify Burgin as the nominee, but the three Democratic members, a majority, have made no public expression, so far as is known here. Election Row Personnel Is Non-Political In the Sir Walter Hotel. Dallj Dispatch Bureau. Raleigh, Oct. 25.—Personnel of the three-man arbitration committee to settle the eighth district congression al, row—a sort of super-Supreme court to determine what the highest regular tribunal in the State failed to accom plish in two tries —is completely non political. Os the thrpe members, Charles G. Rose, of Fayetteville, James G. Mer imon, of Asheville, and H. Gardher Hudson, of Wipston-Salem, only Mr. Rose has any political office-holding n his long record. The Fayetteville nan, when a comparative youngster )f 31, served in the 1911 House. There ire reports that Mr. Merrimon was .nee either judge of a city court, or ity attorney, or something of the cind in Asheville, but nobody seems Io know much about it. Senior member of the triumvirate (Continued on Page Eight ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION Air Crash Kills 18 In Australia^ Sydney, Australia, bet. 25.-‘-(AF) --Eighteen persons,\' including a < member of the Australian Parlia- 1 ment, were killed todiiy in the Dominion’s worst air liner crash on mist-shrouded Mt Dandenong, 40 miles southeast of Melbourne. Seven persons were thrown from the cabin. The others were trapped in the ship, which burned. ’ The machine, with a crew of four, In cluding a hostess, was bound from Adelaide to Melbourne. It was op erated by the Australian National Airways. A store-keeper at the town of Kiorama said he heard the plane roaring through the mists. “A few seconds later I heard an awful crash, and ran out of the store,” he related. “I could see the wreck not far away.” Passports To German Spies Were Sought New York, Oct. 25 spite of the uproar over the Robinson-Ru ben passport affair, G. G. Rumrich, German secret agent, was confident he could secure passport blanks for Nazi spies, he testified in Federal court today. Rumrich made the statement under cross-examination by counsel for Erich Glaser, one of the three de fendants on trial before Judge John Knox and a jury on espionage charges. An attempt last February to get the passport blanks by telephoning the State Department office here, request ing they be sent to a hotel, led to Rumrich’s arrest and the seizure later of Glaser, Johanna Hofmann and Otto Voss, co-defendants in the trial. The Robinson-Rubin passports con taining false information. ‘'Had you read the newspapers on the Rohinson-Ruhin passport story?” demanded Matthews. Rumrich said he had. "You knew, then, that there was nothing more dangerous than trying to get passport blanks?” Assistant United States Attorney Lester Dunnigan, objected to the “ap parent attempt to connect this case with that one. “I have no intention of doing so,' 1 Matthews retorted. Judge Knox intervened to ask: “Why did you go ahead in the face of all that publicity and try to get the passport blanks?” Rumrich replied he thought he could carry out the .plan. WEATHEIT FOR NORTH CAROLINA Fair, slightly cooler in central and southeast portions; light to heavy frost in interior tonight* Wednesday fair. HENDERSON, N. C., TUESDAY AFTERNOON, OCTOBER 25,1938 FORCES TAKE HANKOW Jap Regret Over Bombings -Voiced London, Oet. 25.—(AP) —An of ficial source said today that Jap an’s vice minister for foreign af fairs had express**? “deep regret” for the bombing gunboat Sqndpiper by Japanese war planes. The Japanese regrets were conveyed to Sir Leslie Craigie, British ambassador at Tokyo. The vipe minister promised a full inquiry into the affair. The- Sandpiper, bombed Sunday 1 at a point 200 miles southwest of Hankow, suffered' damage to her super-structure,' but there were no casualties. ' l France Will . 9 r >; Cut Foreign Industrials • • I 3 ■ i - i Daladier To Change to Conservative Cabi net With jVast New Authority V \_ Paris, Oct. 25.—(AP)—Conservative elements Qf the Chamber of Deputies today urged stringent restrictions upon foreign industry in France as the latest indication of an increas ing nationalist feeling exhibited in Sunday’s senatorial elections. The rightist deputies drafted a bill which would apply strict quotas to foreign business ip each seption of France, and would, in effect, place these establishments under the sup ervision of their PVench competitors Political sources predicted, mean .whilq>-Jfrafc,. Premigr jfralqdier would abandon his peopWf Tfoht support to form a rightist majority bloc,, which would give his goverdmint more, dic tatorial pbwer than evelr before ex tended to a French cabiri'et. ». > Sources close to the premier indi cated he would announce before the radical socialist party convention at Marseilles tomorrow .that he was forming a national front with his for mer conservative enemies, from which communists would be excluded, and socialists could join or not as they pleased. A rightist swing in the Sunday elec tions and socialist and communist re sentment at the Munich agreement to dismember Czechoslovakia were factors. Flowers Grow Larger With Magic Sprayf/i Chapel Hill, Oct 25. (AP) r — A magic new spray, which grows large** flowers was announced to the Na tional Academy of Science here today. The bigger flowers are only one of the spectacular results .<• of spraying this mixture on plants. It also makes possible new hybrids—that is, crosses in breeding plants—realizing a long sought goal of agricultural scientists. The spray is an emulsion of oil mix ed with colchicine, which has been a standard medical remedy for gout for nearly 2,000 years. One year ago, Dr. Albert Blakeslee, of the Carnegie Institution of Washington’s Station for experimental evolulion at Cold Springs, Harboro, N. Y. announced to the academy that colchicine would cause changes in plan's. It doubled their chromosomes and the substances that govern heredity. $4,000,000WP A Highway Offer Is To Be Accepted Daily Dispatch Bureau, In The Sir Walter HoteL Raleigh, Oct. 25,—The State High way and Public Works Commission is pretty well “ori i the spot” as t£e result of the State WPA Head Gaqrge W CMan’s announcement that JJap WPA ih making nearly $4,000,000 available for maintenance and construction of secondary roads in North Carolina. Reason is that the announcement has left the impression that four mil lion dollars is laying around just waiting to be put to work helping to get North Carolina’s backwoods out of the mud; when as a matter of fact nothing of the sort can be started un til the State is ready to allot nearly one of the four million. And, according to W. Vance Baise, engineer of the State Highway apd Public Works Commission, there OF NORTH CAROLINA AND VIRGINIA. Capital City Deserted By The Chinese C h i a n g Kai - Shek Leaves by Plane Dur ing Night as Defenders Desert Great Inland Center; Sixth Great Chinese City Taken by Invaders . __ ; i Shanghai, Oct. 25—(AP)—The Japa nose army and navy commands to night announced that their forces had entered Hankow, China’s provisions I capital abandoned by its defenders Although details were licking. Japa esu officers said units of both ser vices had participated in the capture of the great city on the middle Yang tze river, major goal of the Japanese conquest since Nanking fell nearly eleven months ago. The first detachment to enter ap parently was an infantry column, Which previously had captured, a point 20 miles to the north, and then driven rapidly down the Peiping- Hankow railway. General Chiang Kai-Shek, military and civil leader of the Chinese nation, was reported to have left Hankow by plane during the night, accompanied by his foremost aide, his American educated wife. Announcement of the Japanese en try into Hankow was made in a joint communique from China head quarters of the Japanese army and ravy. Naval officers said they be lieved Japanese warships had reached the great inland port, although exact positions of the vessels were not dis closed. Since Nanking’s fall the navy has cooperated with the army in blasting a pathway up the river. I The ktgf'stages of the jK&mese ad-, vance were made with such rapidity --overland frQm the northeast, along jbo.th hanks pf the Yangtze, and up ithei’river, itself —that large units of jChmese were cut off. The rapidly ? Mli ffiTO - (Continued on Page Four.) < — l ——■-—: Profit-Taking Checks Stocks New York, Oct. 25.—(AP)—Further profit-taking cooled some of the ad vancing tendencies in today’s stock market, but leaders, on the whole, of fered plenty of resistance to selling. Overnight buying orders taxed brok erage facilities before the opening, and the ticker tape, for a brief inter val after the start, fell behind. Gains ran to tyvo or more points in favored utilities, steels, motors, rails and ‘Specialties. Many new highs for more than a year were recorded. Sec ondary. rail bonds put on another se laßtJye rising performance. , American Radiator ....... 18 3-8 American Telephone 149 1-2 American Tob B 91 1-4 Anaconda ... .;. 40 3-8 Atlantic Coast Line 26 Atlantic Refining 23 3-4 Bendix AviatiPn 23 3-4 Chrysler ... 84 1-2 Columbia Gas & Elec 9 1-4 Commercial Solvents 11 1-2 Continental Oil Co 9 1-4 Curtiss Wright 7 DuPont 149 1-2 Electric Pow & Light 13 3-8 General Electric 46 3-4 General Motors 51 3-8 Liggett & Myers B 101 3-4 Montgomery Ward & Co 52 5-8 Reynolds Tob B 45 1-2 Southern Railway 18 1-4 Standard Oil N J 53 7-8 U S Steel 65 3-8 isn’t any such sum available for al location and, furthermore, there isn’t even a remote chance that so much money will be available unless and until it is finally learned that the WPA has definitely declined to match State funds in a $5,000,000 project for modernizing obsolete portions of North Carolina’s primary highway system. Definite decision on the PWA matter isn’t expected until “some time in November”, according tq. Mr. Baise. Neither Highway Chairman Frank Dunlap nor Governor Clyde R. Hoey will be in Raleigh the first part of this week and there is no way to find out whether either or both of these officials contemplate any action look ing toward matching the WPA money ' (Continued on page six) (PUBLISHED EVERY AFTERNOON EXCEPT SUNDAY Most Industries Os South Carrying On Under Wage Act Chooses Captivity 9 11 . PQHB§j9 • I \ m jsMA L *■ ' j&B jLgt ynwHV s >' According to a Japanese report, General Yu Han-Mou, above, mili tary governor of Kwarigtung, has surrendered to the Nipponese South China army and asked to be im prisoned because of the growing scandal caused by his retreat from Canton, and the city’s easy capture by the Japanese. Says Costs Ur stemming To Advance Hedrick Sees Risirfg Prices Whether Work Is by Hand or Done by Machine Raleigh, Oct. 25. — (AF) —Tobacco stemming costs will increase whether the work is done by hand or machine under the wages and hours law, to bacco marketing specialist W. P. Hedrick, of the State Department of Agriculture, said today. He said: "It is probable that the increased pro cessing costs will be taken from the farmers’ tobacco profits.” Hedrick explained the Federal law provides 25 cents an hour minimum wage, and said a hearing with wage hour authorities will determine wheth er thousands of stemmers will keep their jobs. The present law, he ad ded, makes it almost impossible to stem tobacco undei* the old system. Faced with the wage-hour law, lar ger tobacco processors are turning, he said, to the machine to reduce costs of stemming. Hedrick estimat ed there are about 20,000 to 30,000 stemmers working in this State, re ceiving about three cents a pound for stemming under a “piecemeal” basis. Monoply Quiz Not Aimed To Hurt Any One By CHARLES P. STEWART Central Press Columnist Washington, Oct. 25.—As chairman of the committee on investigation of monopolies, Senator Joseph C. * - O’Mahoney depre- cates references to the inquiry as an “anti - mono poly quiz.” The senator has insisted again and again that he. is not trying to con vict any one of any thing; he is after facts ’ which he in tends to use for the benefit of all con cerned, corporations included. He objects to the term “anti monopoly” as not only inaccurate but > * O’Mahoney as calculated to scare witnesses -he hopes to obtain valuable information from. Os course all congressional in vestigators profess an intention to be (Continued on Page Four.) 8 PAGES TODAY FIVE CENTS COPY Many Thousands of Workers, However, Laid Off Under New . Regulations, Mostly in Tobacco and Lumber Plants; Peanut Indus try Seems. Unaffected Atlanta, Ga., Oct. 25 (AP)— Em ployment, officials in southern stated began tabulation today of workers who have lost their jobs as the re sult of the new Federal wage-hour jaw. Preliminary reports after the first day’s operation of the act indicated most of the larger industries were carrying on as usual. Some small en terprises, however, notably tobacco processing factories in North Caro lina, modest saw mills in the rural areas of Georgia and Alabama, and pecan shelling plants, were said to have decided to shut down rather than attempt to pay 25 cents an hour for a 44-hour work week. Employees of stemming and re-dry ing plants in the North Carolina to bacco belt were affected by cessation of production. State employment of fices had reports of at least 5,70 d workers being laid off in seven com munities, and some unofficial esti mates ran as high as 30,000. In Washington, J. Seligman, of San Antonio, Texas, president of the Na tional Pecan Shelters of America, told Administrator Elmer Andrews every plant in his industry was closed, throwing approximately 50,000 persons out of employment. No accurate estimate was possible of the number affected by saw mill shutdowns, since most of the plants i arallocated in remote, rural areas. Four small mills In Alabama apd more than 20 in Georgia were report ed to have ceased operation. In, Nashville, Horace Hill, capitalist, disclosed he was disposing of all out of-state retail. grocery establishments* He added, however, the wage-hour law was only one of many reasons for the move. In the future, Hill said, his company chain store operations would be confined to Tennessee, where there are 125 units. The peanut industry in Georgia, Florida and Alabama appeared unaf fected. In Albany, Ga., J. B. Latimer, secretary of the Southeastern Peanut Association, predicted “almost 100 percent” compliance with the law, and added he knew of no peanut shelling plants planning .to- close because of the wage-hour act. Modern Education “Housing Venture”, Dr. Hutchins Says New York, Oct. 25. —(AP) —Dr. Rob ert M. Hutchins, president of the Uni versity of Chicago, today ‘criticized the modern education system as “a large-scale housing venture”, which fails to develop freedom of thought. To thi§ lack o* freedom he ascribed the major ills of the modern world. Dr. Hutchins’ address, “The Free Mind,” was delivered to the first ses sion of the New York Herald-Tri bune’s 1938 forum on current prob lems. The opening address was de livered by Mrs. Franklin D. Roose velt, who spoke to the forum by radio from Cincinnati on “Youth's Contri bution in Keeping the Mind of the Nation Young.” Additional 5 Prisoners At Camps Escape Raleigh, Oct. 25. —(AP)—The penal division reported escape of five pris oners from Pitt and Rutherford coun ty camps last night and this morning, making in all 21 still at large froth breaks over the week-end. Details were not immediately available, bul two escaped from the Pitt camp td day, three from Rutherford last night Ten of 13 prisoners are still free following a Person county camp break yesterday, eight from an Anson get away Sunday. Later information was that the Rutherford escapees were Charlie Tate given* 18 months in Rutherford for larceiiy; Garland Moody, serving two yeari for larceny in McDowell, and Earl Hardin, sentenced in Mc- Dowell to two years for assault on a female. Lumberton officers notified penal division officers during the day they bad caught Arnold McHorne, sentenc ed in Buncombe to seven to ten years (Continued on Page Six.)
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