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HENDERSON'^ pOPULATJ^^ 13,&ET twenty-fifth year o. 5. REJECTS GERMAN PROTEST OR ICKES He Smacked the Mayor Bruised, James F. Hagan, unemployed, is pictured after his attack on Mayor LaGuardia on the steps of New York’s City Hall. LaGuardia was returning from a ceremony when the assailant leaped on his back and began pummelling him. The mayor promptly swung back. The attacker was knocked unconscious by John Walsh, LaGuardia’s secretary. (Central Press) Eight Resolutions For Business Given For 1939 By Babson Wagner Act Must Be Made Fair to Business, Taxes Reduced, Social Security Put on “Pay as-Ycu-Go” Basis; Thinks Greater Defenses Necessary ROGER BABSON’S EIGHT RESOLUTIONS FOR 1939 1. LABOR: Resolved, that the Wagner act be amended to give employer and worker equal protection. 2. TAXES: Resolved, that the tax laws be changed to encourage initiative and to penalize “riskless” investing. 3. SOCIAL SECURITY: Resolved, that the social security act be put on a pay-as-you-go basis. 1. RAILROADS: Resolved, that the railroads be given a free hand to get back on their own feet. 5. UTILITIES: 'Resolved, that the TV A play fair and deal justly in its great undertaking. fi. CONGRESS: Resolved, that “reform legislation” be shelved for 1938 at least. 7. DEFENSE: Resolved, that armaments be expanded without forgetting that ppace comes only as the causes of war are eliminated. 8. RELIGION: Resolved, that the Christmas spirit be extended and applied throughout 1939. BY ROGER W. BARSON, Copyright 1938, Publishers Financial Bureau. Inc. Brunswick, Georgia, Dec. 22. —Few people this week-end are thinking about their jobs, professions, or busi n' For two or three brief days the thoughts and cares of this troubled world arc being forgotten. I have no intention of breaking into these hallowed hours by emphasizing the problems facing our country today. Rather, let me give readers two cheer ful facts about current business as an introduction to eight resolutions for Girl’s Slayer Is Hunted In Pennyslvania Tunkhannock, Pa., Dec. 22. —(AP) Half a hundred state troopers were nailed into a search of this isolated now-covered countryside today for ,l i< slayer who strangled attractive year-old Margaret Martin and at tempted to conceal her nude, battered body in a creek. investigators expressed belief the slayer was either a sex maniac, with fl cruel, distorted mind, or a round up man for a white slave ring. Slash "l and mutilated, the body of the brown-haired business school grad uate was found yesterday in a bur b<p bag, partially submerged in three *"'■* of water under an abandoned bridge. A naked hand protruding from the crudely sewn sack caught the atten tion of a young trapper as he wan- O' Md along the stream setting traps. Ibe discovery ended a search that bad been made through all north eastern states since the girl left her borne in Kingston last Saturday to b' ep a daylight street-corner appoint ment with a man who telephoned her an offer of a job. , Coroner Ray Greenwood said Miss Martin “definitely was murdered.” 0m t tlatht Btsuafrh J™l^SAT S E E D RV P , g| s g F the coming year. The two cheerful facts concern the activity and trend of business at this Christmas Season: 1. ACTIVITY. General business is today 18 per cent better than it was last Christmas. Early reports show that holiday trade has practically equalled last season’s big retail vol ume. Nearly every manufacturing in dustry is now busier than it was a year ago. 2. TREND: Last year, general busi (Continued on Page Three.) Suicide Note Os Musica Made Public New York, Dec. 22. —(AP) —F. Don ald Coster, born Philip Musica, said in a suicide note made public today that “bankers, lawyers, auditors, ap praisers and incompetent high sal aried executives have bled McKes son &. Robbins whits. The amazing swindler, who shot himself to death in his Connecticut home when his -activities were dis continued on Page Three ) JONATHAN DANIELS TO GET TV A OFFICE Knoxville, Tcnn., Dec. 22. (AI ) \ News-Sentinel dispatch from Washington today said President liooseveltw as considering the ap pointment of Jonathan Daniel, of Raleigh, N. C., to the board of directors of the Tennessee Valley Authority. The paper said if the young southern author and news paper editor were named he would fill the vacancy created by the President’s ousting of Chairman E. A. Morgan last March for ‘ con tumacy.” ONLY DAILY Champerlain Foe Beaten In Voting Crieff, Scotland, Dec. 22.—(AP) —The Duchess of Athol, who re helied against Prime Minister Chamberlain’s foreign policy, was l.eiuen by 1,313 votes in the par liamentary by-election she forced to >~st he issuo, complete returns showed today. The “rod duchess”, so-calle 1 be cause of her support of the Span ish government cause, in yester day's voting receive 1 10,495 votes to 11,898 for William M. Snadden her cense?votive opponent, who camps? gned ;y; a hardy supporter cf Cbnm'-erlairi’s policy of ap peasement. r ihe wealthy (Inches ran as an mdependent after resigning her eeat :n the lira's:' of. Commons, in vU "oh she had • represent? 1 a di vision for 15 years. Pier conserva tive highland constituents turned against her after she ha-1 broken formally *vifh the prime minister’s policy after his Munich aeonr 1 with (he dehifors for the partition so Czechoslovakia. Defense Os Americas In The Balance Argentine Stands Firm Against “Mili tary” Alliance, While Hull and Others Seek Way To Achieve Pan- American Unity at Lima Conference Lima, Peru, Dec. 22. —(AP) —The is sue of cooperative defense for the Americas hung in the balance today between a defiant Argentine dec.uia.- tion thrown dramatically before the Pan-American Conference, and a sec ond declaration to which the United States and most of the other coun tries agreed. U. S. Secretary of State Cordell Hull arrived early at the conference hall and conferred with Dr. Carlos Concha, of Peru, conference chair man, and A. M. Franco. Brazilian delegation chief, in an endeavor to ureaK the deadlock. Dr. I. N. Moreno, chairman of the Argentine delegation, and the three other leaders demanded official and exact information about the Argen tine position in the light of a tele gram he received yesterday from Buenos Ayres. The new impasse developed when the Argentine delegation withdrew unofficial endorsement of the major ity declaration and presented its own resolution upon instructions from its government. The Argentines held the majority draft to be, in effect, a mil (Continued on Page Five* Two Army Fliers Burn To Death In Plane At Norfolk Norfolk, Va., Dec. 22.— (API- Two army fliers were instantly killed today when their pursuit plane crashed and burned near here. The two, Lieutenant Gale Ellis, of Beaver Falls, Pa., pilm, and Private Charles S. Downer, of Tarentiim, Pa., were engaged in routine training flight. Jeff J. Bean, an eye witness, said the plane dived straight in to the earth from a height of about 00 feet. The motor appa rently had cut off, he said, and the fliers made no attempt to get out in their parachutes. The plane immediately burst into flames after the crash. Bean attempted to pull one of the fliers out of the wreckage, Imt was forced away by the flames. The bodies were remov ed later from the smoking wreck age by navy officials and taken to the naval hospital in Ports mouth. iHi NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA AND VIRGINIA. HENDERSON, N. C., THURSDAY AFTERNOO N, DECEMBER 22, 1938 Japan To Back China In Plan To Ban Foreign Concessions Premier Konoye Says Abolition o f Extra Rights is “Necessary” for Full Independence o f China, Meaning Puppet Government Instigated by Tokyo Tokyo, Dec. 22.--(AP) —Premier Mince Konoye declared todiy that a pan was prepared to help China holish the foreign concessions and xlra-tcrritoriality, the . system of pccial privileges enjoyed by some oreigners in China for nearly a cen ury. In a formal statement on the future >f Japan ese-Chinese relations, the premier concluded: “Japan not only respects the sov ereignty of China, but is prepared to ive positive consideration to the question of the abolition of extra-ter ritoriality of concessions and settle ments, matters which are necessary or the full independence of China.” Fy China, the premier manifestly eferred to the state Japan already s announced she expects to emerge rem her current conquests, linked n a strong political, economic and rultural bloc with Japan and her pro tectorate, Manchoukuo. Such a state, under Japanese direction, is ex pected by Japanese leaders to replace the Chinese government of General Chiang Kai-Shek, which now has its capital at Chungkiang. Konoye’s statement was believed to embody decisions reached in No vember by the imperial conference, super-government organ for prose cution of the China war. (The United States has no conces sions in China, but American citizens participate in administration of the international settlement of Shang hai, and Americans enjoy extra-terri toriality, the right to be tried in their own courts if they run afoul of Chi nese law.) Repeal For Absent Vote To Be Asked Raleigh Hears State Elections Board To Make That Recom mendation, Together With New Registration Request, and More Precincts in State Daily Dispatch Bureau, In the Sir Walter Hotel. Raleigh, Dec. 22.—Final draft of recommendations to the 1939 General Assembly was whipped into shape by the State Board of Elections at a lengthy meeting here yesterday; but just what shape the report has taken was not announced. There was nothing to indicate, how ever, that the recommendations will not include the three main points an ticipated by informed observers: (1) Repeal of the present absentee bal lot law and substitution therefor of an entirely new law which will cen tralize responsibility for absentees in county election board chairmen; (2) a complete new registration for all coun ties of the State which have not had new recordings within two or three years; and (3) increase in the num ber of precincts, so that no more than ,500 votes will regularly be cast at any one polling place. There probably will be other minor | recommendations, but the outstand ing one will be the call for a clean 'Continued on Page Five.) Expedition Safe In Indian Ocean Faris, Dec. 22.— (AF) —Messages from a lobster fishing expedition, which had been reported in dis tress because of storms and a coal shortage in the south Indian Ocean, disclosed today that all was well with the colony of 48 per sons at isolated St. Faul’s Island. The messages were relayed through Madagascar, 1,700 miles from St. Paul, from Captain H. de Boers, and showed that he remain ed in command of the expedition, which began last May when 33 persons set out from St. Malo, France, on a 580-ton trawler. Germany Protests iekes Speech About Dictators Berlin, Doc. 22 —(AP) —A strong German protest over a speech toy Secre a:y of the Interior lekes at tack.ng dictators was submit, ed to the ae.ing sec.et ry of state today toy j the Ce.. san charge d’affaires in Wash ngi.cn, it was learned today in foreign office circles. These quart ers said Germany regarded lekes’ st tement as “impudent and insult ing.” Propaganda Minister Paul Gcebtoels’ newspaper yesterday accused Mr. lekes of seeking war, and said: ‘ I..stead of keeping order in his own land, he conduces anti-German agitation, which is -aimed at nothing else than v;p.r. Dkes is frankly the evil spirit presented in American pol icy. If if is now represented in Wash inpion that lekes spoke as a private person, we must ask, ‘What shall we think of a democracy in which a min ister never is in agreement with the chief of state’?” The paper continued the attacks to day, this time in connection with a Bare Majority Os Seven Given Daladier On Test Lands High Post Hksk»lp* &'■ + .-‘: FRANK W. HANCOCK, JR. Washington, Dec. 22. —(AP)—Presi- dent Roosevelt announced today the appointment of Representative Frank Hancock, of North Carolina to the Federal Home Loan Bank Board. Hancock, a Democrat, was defeated this year by Senator Reynolds in the North Carolina primary senatorial race. As a member of the House Banking Committee, he has been ac tive in handling housing legislation at the capital. LaFollette’s Progressivism Gone For Good By CHARLES P. STEWART Central Press Columnist Washington, Dec. 22.—Politicians, getting back to Washington for the coming congressional session, seem to be in pretty gen- eral agreement that LaFoilette Progres sivism is done for. Phil LaFoilette, of course, will be out of office as gover nor of Wisconsin at the year’s end. Dis patches from Madi son quote him as ex pressing confidence nf staging a come back at the next election but most of he guessing is con trariwise. Sen ator Phil LaFoilette Bob holds on until the beginning of 1941. Can he win another term then? Plenty of authorities- express skep 'Continued on Page Three.) WEATHER FOB NORTH CTROBINA Generally fair and continued cool tonight; Friday increasing cloudiness, slightly warmer in the interior. PUBLISHED EVERY AFTERNOON EXCEPT SUNDAY re ;uest, attributed here to lekes, that no American nvai.s be shipped aboard German ships. Under Headline, “lekes Shoots V, ch Ma.l B gs,” the newspaper said: “This barking man will shoot v.einst Germany with mail bags! We a.e trembling! By the way, travelers fiom the United States gladly take Go man beats because of their clean liness and -reliability “For both these facts, Herr lekes apparently has little understand ng— but this is "lready known from the (drug company) scan dal.” Secretary lekes, speaking Sunday bc'O e the Zion’st Society in Cleve land, said anti-Jewish violence in Germany took Germany back to the period of history “when m-'n was un lettered, benighted and bestial.” He criticized Americans, particularly Colonel Charles Lindbergh and Henry- Ford, for accepting German decora tionfl. French Premier Just Makes Grade on De mand for Parliamen tary Approval of His Sweeping Decree Pro posals Under Three- Year Economic Plan Paris, Dec. 22.—(AP) Premier Daladier’s plan to reorganize French finances by decree received approval for the second time today by the slim majority of seven votes in the Cham ber of Deputies. The Chamber ratified, by a vote of 291 to 284, the inclusion in the 1939 appropriation bill of a section carry ing- implied approval of all the de cree laws issued under the new three year economic plan. • Daladier, who staked the life of his government on the vote, made lit tle attempt to hide his opinion that the cabinet had barely squeezed out of a tight place. He declared, how ever, that he was optimistic over the formation of a “faithful majority” upon which he could depend. As he left the Chamber, he told the deputies flatly that “if I had been overthrown, I would have demanded immediate dissolution” of Parliament. The new test of Daladier’s strength, the second since Parliament convened earlier this month, came unexpectedly when the premier demanded that the 1939 appropriation bill be passed un changed. The opposition sought to cancel one of the government’s decree laws in cluded in the bill, imposing a two 'percent general tax on all incomes over 6 000 francs ($156) a year. Tar Heel Seamen Put On Lists For Navy Promotions Washington, Dec. 22.—(AP)—Secre tary Swanson has approved a naval examining board’s report, placing 239 enlisted men on the eligible list for promotion to warrant officers grades. They included: Qualified for boatswain and plac ed on appointment list. Luther L. Tyndall, rating signalman first class, Kinston, N. C. Qualified for carpenter and placed on appointment list, William E. Ste wart, U. S. S. Whipple, rating ship sitter, first class, New Bern, N. C. Qualified for appointment as phar macist and placed on appointment list, Frank J. Mitchell, U. S. S. Tucker, chief pharmacist’s mate, Goldsboro, N. C. YOUNG DEMOCRATIC OFFICIALS CHOSEN Winston-Salem, Dec. 22.—(AP) Five North Carolina Your.g Demo crats today were named the State organization’s 1939 finance committee by President Gordon Gray. Chairman of the group will be J. Archie Cannon, Jr., of Greensboro. Other members include Herbert W. Taylor, Jr., of Tarboro. O PAGES O TODAY FIVE CENTS COPY Language To Dictator Is Very Strong Welles Tells Envoy It 111 Becomes Germany T o Protest Attack Here When German Press and Officials Have Assailed U. S.. Officials Washington, Dec. 22.—(AF)—Sum ner Welles, acting secretary of state, disclosed today the United States had rejected Germany’s demand for an official apology for Secretary Ickes’ speech in Cleveland last Sunday at tacking dictatorships. Welles told Dr. Hans Thomsen, the German charge d’affaires, that the request came with singularly ill grace and impropriety from a government which had so persistently permitted its controlled press and officials to attack American leaders, including (Presidents Wilson and Roosevelt and present members of the cabinet. The meting seerr-arv of Ltate ad j vised Thomsen that Ickes’ remarks represented the feeling of an over whelming majority of the American people, who had been profoundly shocked by recent events in Germany. Welles statement to the German en voy was couched in strong and un compromising terms, which the Unit (Continued on Page Three.) Fremont Man Is Held Guilty Os Attempted Rape Smithfield, Dec. 22.—(AP)—Lynn iPeacock, 40-year-old Fremont man, was convicted in Johnston Superior court today of an assault on a female with intent to commit rape and was sentenced to 12 to 15 years in prison. The man originally was charged with the crime of rape, but the jury re turned the verdict of attempt to com mit rape. An eleven-year-old girl was the prosecuting witness. True bills have been returned against Johnnie Bas, about 25, of Fremont, and Emma Jones, about 30, of Selma, charging them with aid ing and abetting and accessory before the fact in the Peacock case. Italy Ready To Use Force Upon France Rome, Dec. 22.—(AP)—Italy wait ed today for France tq offer con cessions after giving notice that the fascist government considers invalid the 1935 Mussolini-Laval convention concerning Tunisia. The authoritative Fascist editor, Virginio Gayda, warned the French that Rome would “meet with equal arguments and equal force” France’s “insidious fury” if France wanted to fight. The firm Italian stand consider ably impressed diplomatic quarters, where it was felt Premier Mussolini (Continued on Page Three.) Spy Hunt In Spain Nets A Thousand ; ______ ' - y Espionage Case May Affect Course of Span ish Civil War, Is Be lief in London London, Dec. 22.—(AP)—Official reports reaching London today assert ed that “approximately one thou sand” arrests had occurred in insur gent Spain in a great spy hunt, which authoritative persons here suggested might affect the entire course of the Spanish civil war. The arrests wqre the sequel of what the London in formant called the “case of the dirty shirt.” The shirt in question was found in the baggage of Harold Goodman, British vice consul at Sin Sebastian, (Continued on Page Five)
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