North Carolina Newspapers

Henitersmt Baihj Hispatcb ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA AND VIRGINIA. ~ * » TT T A nv 1 Q 1 01A 1'UBU.SHKD KVKUV A KTICKNOON FIVE CENTS COPY i VoEVENTH YEAR lESrSP HENDERSON, N C, FRIDAY AFTERNOON, J ANUARY 19, 1940 except «;»»*». . japs Suffer Deieat Near (anion Chinese Officials De c-ave That Series of j-p-snese Defeats Has Resulted In Virtual rciement of Can ton. 19.- '• AP)—Chi vci today tluit a .ivler:< in Kwan»j - t'-uitt'd in virtual l . Ton. chief city «>t" :..t\ ancing Chinese .-svtcd tiiat Japan • ; :ig Canton were '.".at the Japanes? '< --^"jng one of their •- r>es of the whole •• su;ee the .fa • reat from Ying • ' ">'n on the Canton ;. the invaders had .• •►re than 50 miles. - - "'\"i by the Japanese campaign in Oc : .! ;nee then has been ' • . extensive opera Two Negroes Executed At S:ate Prison 19.—(AP)—The State .\v2:o ::.en convicted cf • ■i <y. setting a new record Taken to asphyxiate a man . .7 inutes belore Clar _ 2*. o; Durham, was pro .t GCUCL :iute.- earlier Glenn Max con', .t ted in Allegheny . • .e killing oi. Charlie Shep .-phyxluted in about the • ::.e or 13 1-2 minutes. . I'.gcjt previous administra j. - -tt central prison here was utes 20 seconds. to Milford Wayne county in February. •- c nvicted of the killing .... newsboy. He confessed. . cials sa d. that he par . the death row slaying • 28 of a death row guard. -*>ser. Shepherd, of Sparta, a • "re man Maxwell killed. • Shepherd of F irches. a haif . :tr.essed the execution. R. rti commented: : Maxwell got what he de . i Helsinki Fighls Off Planes N. C. Congressmen SeekingGovernment Aid In Weed Crisis Ccoley And Warren D i s c u s s Situation With Wallace And Hutson; Cooley Says "Economic Weapons" Could Be Used Against Britain. Washington, Jan. ly.— (AI *;—| Two Congressmen lru:n t.u- tobac- j co beiu sought assurances from Secretary Wallace today that Uw ; Agriculture Department v.m ia make every p->. sible effort t<- nold the United Kingdom as a market for American tooacco. Representatives Cool?y unci War ren, democrats 01 North Carolina told Wallace and .i. B. Hutson. *is sistant agricultural adjustment sd mmistrator, that they were con cerned over reports that the Brit ish government had placed an em bargo on imports of American tobacco and was turning to Turkey for supplies. Commenting upon the British ac tion with newsmen. Cooley sug gested the po-sible use <•: economic weapons to retain the murket. "The United States hi!> economic weaimp. it could use against the British", he said, "out i don't know if the State Department would want to use them." Cooley and Warren -aid they planned to di.-c^s tiie situation with Secretary Huh as soon as a con- i ference could be arranged. Great Britain normally is the lar- , , gest foreign market for American 1 tlue cured tobacco. Tiie Congressmen said that loss of the British market even for one i or two years would result in the accumulation of heavy surpluses: ar.d a possible collapse in price. In the conference with Wallace and Hutson the Congressmen sug gested that tiie government make an effort to get British buyers to take action on the 1940 crop to the , extent of their normal purchases. These buyers now have about 1"5. 000.000 pounds of 1939 grown tobac- | co stored in this country under j option and loan advanced by the j Commodity Credit Corporation. Over $16,000,000 Spent On Industrial Construction In State During 1939 I)ai!,v 1»tsoat«-n tiurf-a;:. In tl>e Sir *Valt«T Hutf' 19 —More than $16, <»n industrial con \'< Carolina in 1939 ! » nc. industrial plants <•<5 in »hc it was . * . «ay by Director R. ■'U.' "» the Department • •• and Development, gmficant thing with construction and ?M .trie- is that indus • .'it in North Carolina -■> or.vard with greal '• ot the war in Europe ,,f uncertainty c -ncf :n.-he quoH ci ■»m industrial engineer ' <■ i:gures tor the de • nlan* 9') were en " 129 were addition; •• ' - ' tnese figures show decr'.-i <• from the 121 p ants set up in 1938 'cid< •; increase over the 7< ' • ' r plants in 1938. et. .-a costs for the tv.r • • d by Mr. Ander ■' ' -me tigurc, but the ' and additions wil '.apayroll total bj $13,000,000 annuallj "■.a ■■>12,000.000 boos' • ' established in • via is .\orth aro ' have inci eased u Jetton Lower At Opening V i. Jan. 19.—(AP)—Cot - opened 10 to 12 point; ' ' market at mid-morning ">e> of six to nine points '• the list was off four tc March (old) 11.02: Maj • 'J December 9 »1. leas' $25.O0ft,Q<)0 <■) ycai by reason of I establishment of new industrial plants. The enn 'ruction iig'ire lor ]939 does rvt include operating capital, j cost of machinery or equipment, An derson said. Il is believed that it i these items had been included the resultant total would have gone far j beyond Sllj.000,000; but figures were ! not available. Hosiery mills, for the second straight year, led the list both in number of njw mills and in addi tions to existing plants. There were 25 new plant; and J9 additions. Five of the new mills represented an iri vesti'irnt SlOO.O'iu each. while the amount invested in additions to exist ing mills was also high, one addition alone representing an expenditure ot $300,000 while several others went beyond SI00.000. Xo industrial plant turning out pro duets valued at less than $5,000 an i nualiy was included in the tabulation of Mr. Anderson. ! Of the 9) new plants no less than 47 wtic in the textile classification, I with 25 hosi'vy. 10 cotton yarns and 1 goods, eight dyeing and finish plan.* and two knit good plants. Of the other 43 new plants, 12 were in the food processing field, ten in the mines, quarries and minerals cate :ry. and the others scattered thro ugh several classifications. Of the 129 j'daitions. 113 were in ihe textile iield (49 hosiery, 36 cot j ton yard and goods, 15 silk and rayon, I nine dyeing and finishing, four knot goods and f've miscellaneous). Of the other 11 additions, lour were in the i lood roduets class, two in furniture ' and other miscellaneous. '"While there were not quite as 1 many new industries locating in the state in 1939 as in 19'i8, tne differ ence in number oi new plants was more than offset by the large in i crease in number of new additions to existing plants. Additions reflect the confidence of a business man or a corporation in its already going , business and show confidence that | it is going to grow and prosper.'' In Spotlight Thomas H. Cullen Control of the powerful House Ways and Means committee will pass into the hands of Rep. Thomas H. Cullen, of Brooklyn, N. Y., if the Democrats retain their House ma jority next year. He would succeed Rep. Robert L. Doughton, 76, of North Carolina, who has announced be plans to retire at conclusion of the current session. (Central Press) Maxwell Urges Diversified Farming Fayetteviile. Jail. 19.—(APj—Rev enue Commissioner. A. J. Maxwell void the Fayetteviile Kiwanis club to day that the Britten embargo on American tobacco "increases the dif ficulties of the North Carolina far mer" and makes it more certain that more attention must be given to diversification of farm products. Maxwell is campaigning in an ef fort to move from his office in the revenue cuuding to the governor's de^k in the capitol. "One reason we have not made more progress with diversification," Maxwell told the Kiwanians, "is that we do not have primacy and depend able markets lor divcrsilied pro ducts." The Commissioner of Revenue sug gested this "possible resource for stimulating' markets lor farm pro duct.-: "Many years ago tiio slutc levied a tax ot cents per bale on cotton to provide funds lor building cotton storage warehouses. The tax was long ago repealed. We have all the warehouses lucre is d< maud for and there is a surplus of S700.000 in the fund. It can't, be returned to the far mers who paid it, for their identity is unknown. "The state owe.: the obligation t<> set that this lund is used for pur poses that best s» i ve the interests of the farmers who paid it. How could it be used to serve them better than in stimulate markets lor their diver sified products'/" Finnish Loan Is Expected Washington. .Jn. li».—(AP)— Senator Brown, Democrat, Michi gan, said today thai a modified plan for a loan to Finland was being worked out by experts of the Re Construction Finance Corporation. Although Brown declined to dis close details, he reported after a conference with Jesse Jones, feder al loan administrator, that a draft of a new bill would be completed by Monday. "I think we will work out some thing that will be satisfactory", he said. The Michigan senator spoke of a measure to grant a $50,000,000 un restricted loan to Finland. Indications were that the modified bill largely would follow the course outlined by the President to Vice-President. Garner and Speaker Bankhead last week when he suggested that Con gress increase the capitalization of the Export-Import Bank so that iunas to purchase non-militar;.- sup plies could be advanced to the Finns. Some senators predicted that a loan of not more than S30.000.000 would be requested in the new legislation. Air Raid On Nazi Bases Is Reported Reports From Den mark of Raids in North Sea Arc Not Confirmed; British Tanker Sunk By Sub marine; Crew Is Lost. London, Jan. 15).—(AIM— Advices !o the effect that the royal air force had struck again at German north sea bases reached London to day—2~) years to the day since the first German zeppelin droned in from the North sea to bomo Eng land in the World War. However, the air ministry "aid it had no information to confirm dis patches from 'fonder, Denmark, in dicating that raids were carried out last night against the German seaplane base, the island of Sylt and possibly the naval base of Hel goland. Unofficial but authoritative sources indicated that no royal air force planes were over Sylt yester day. Meanwhile in maritime warfare a German submarine was blamed for the loss of a British tanker In verdargle, 9.456 tons, which went down in flames off the soutTiwest English coast Tuesday. The entire crew ol' 45 or 46 was believed to have perished. (At least ,773 lives and 318 ships of an aggagate tonnage of 1,127.355 are known to have been lost by belligerants and neutrals in the war at sea.) Apparently linked with Britain's economic war efforts was a de cision announced last night to sus pend imports ol American surplus cotton under a cotton-rubber bartar deal. On the home front Scotland yard sabotage squads delved into the cause of explosions which took five lives and injured 30 persons yes terday at a London war plant. The suspension of cotton ship ments applies only to that cotton to be traded under the barter agree ment and does not affect regular commercial orders. Forest Program j Indorsed By F. R. Washington, Jan. 19.—(APj—De velopment o f community-owned forests was advocated today by President Roosevelt as a method of producing timber and fuel supplier, reducing local taxes and providing additional playgrounds. The chief executive's views were I expressed in a foreword to a forest service publication telling of progress in establishing the com , munity forest idea. "I am glad to indorse the forest service program to establish and maintain more community forests", wrote the president. "Community I forests are an old and popularly accepted part of forest conserva tinn. They have helped for many years to reduce local taxes by yield ing profitable timber crops. They have also provided other oenefits such as watershed protection, out door recreation, shelter for bird and • beast, and permanent jobs; through the sustained production of cord 1 wood, posts, telephone poles, rail j road ties, Christmas trees and logs 1 for timber." ; Browder Is Again Named By Witness • New York, -Ian. 19.—(AP)—For mer vice-president of the Inter national Workers Order, a commu nist organization, testified today at i the trial of Earlo Browdcr that af i tcr witnessing a passport applica tion for one "George Morris" he later "realized that Morris actually ' was Browder." The witness was George Powers, whose name appears on Morris* 1927 passport applications as the man who identified Morris. In preparing to close its case the government sought to link Browder through Powers' testimony to a sec ond allegedly fraudulent passport. The prosecution through the tes timony of Nicholar Dozenberg, erst while communist who pleaded guil ty to similar charges, sought to show yesterday that Browder obtained a r»•■>*•«:port in Dozenberg's name i02i;- ..JIOBS Where 2 Died in Jersey Blast Terrific explosion of three tons of nitroglycerin near Gibbstown, N. J., at duPont plant, caused the death of two men, and left this 18-foot crater. The building was completely blown to bits by the detonation heard almo .t 50 miles away. Note how widely buildings are separated in interest of safety. 'There Is Not A Chance", Senator Barkley Reports Af- \ ter Call On Wife Of Idaho Senator, Crit ically 111 Since Tues day. Washington, Jan. 19.—(AP) —Death seemed a question of "minutes and hours" today for Senator William E. Borah of Idaho. Senator Barkley of Kentucky sadly brought that word after a call on the wife of his Repub- , lican colleague. "THere is not a ehanee," said | Barkley. An hour before. Borah's of fice bad s^id he was "failing rapidly." Dean of the S^rat? Borah has been i'i virtually continuous crrna since a ccre j bral hemorrhage Tuesday. Quotas Urged '*->i'v [)''-nal"h Bureau. In the Sir W-sltcr Hold. Raleigh, Jan. 19. North Carolina farmers arc being urged by the Stat'' ; Department ol Agriculture to pi. nt 'heir lull cotf :i quota for t!• i.: s-'*;s , t. dr jjitf t r*r '.i'-iid of j; JI agri j cultural expei Is it) the .state to ad j vocate a switch from the so-called ! "cash" crops to a more diversified i program of agriculture. I). S. CoJtrane, assistant to the | commissioner, today pointed out that 1 there will be a bigger demand for quality cotton and a certain decrease j in tobacco acreage. "There wore about 200.000 acres j in cotton allotment ; that were not u.sed Ic/.st year according to the state AAA office," he commented. "Lrn j Her the AAA contract^, there were , some counties that lost as much as 1,000 acres in allotments and losses ! will continue in other counties if i growers fail to plant this season. "It has been demonstrated that , cotton can be grown economically in • North Carolina", he continued, cit j ng the fact that Cleveland, Lincoln ! and Hoke counties average more i thfi a bale to the acre. "Much of the success of cotton | giowing in the State depends upon [ the proper use of fertilizer, follow ing approved methods of boll weevil fContinued on Page Five) (jJoaih&ji FOR NORTH CAROLINA. Fair to partly cloudy preced ed by snow or freezing rain this afternoon. Much colder, below freezing to the coast. Cold wave in the east and central portions tonight; Saturday fair. No Relief From Cold Promised I (By The Associated P-rss.) ( nrelcnting Arctic blasts de creed another day of sub-zero chill for the middle we t today ar.d beat down the mercury everywhere cxcept the gulf states. The bitter cold which swept in from the Canadian northwest had advanced from the Rockies I to the Appalachian region. Little relief was forecast be fore next week. Grain dealers feared damage to winter wheal and rye. Livestock, fruit and vegetables w e r e periled by . snow, ice. and sub-freezing tem peratures. Transportation facilities in Chicago were strained as thous ands of motr.rists look to th»* buses ard 'rams. Nine persons were inj ir"d t'i«'ie last night whf.n tw> rl-va'.'d trains c'iMdcd. Thr biwc-t '^mporatures in ma iv years were predicted for m'ist of i'ic south {ani&ht. in Race For Governorship Daily I iir>|ia1« h ri«ir«*;*li, hi tin* ^ir VV'tilt**! IIr»li»l. l:.-i!'_*i«li, Jan. i!l. An.wer lo the I; iiure of thi:; ►.'ui *i natorial cam paign in North Carolina '■> crystallize lo the point v.ln !•• heads r an bo dis tinguished I nan tail lie in the uiin— pie l'act that lin• j-tate uii'iciais and, its a natural '"in '"juence, employees have not yet been able to identify any particular campaign vehicle as the real bandwagon they are lookir.*] ror. Once they have become oriented and can tell wireri one is being driven by ;• real "machine," there's going to be quite a .-amplification of the whole thing, and perhaps the ^vriters and political prophets will be able to come through with a few guaranJrd lips right straight from the feedbox. As things now -tand it would be, really sad, if it \v«.» not si; thoroughly ludicrous, to w; tch the frantic, al- i mo.st pathetic, efforts of the "boys'' lo find out what's going on. The man who made the crack was joking, because he's one of the few division herds who is art indepen dent as a hog on ice. but the whole viewpoint was summed up by the director who told your reporter "Hell, you just want to know who's i'oing to be governor, I've got to Itnow." If and when Governor Clyde Hoey Max Gardner and the rest of the 'machine" get round to passing out the word—be it ever so quietly hings will take an entirely different (Continued on Page Five) Reds Start Retreat In Salia Area Cold, Hunger And Finnish Skiers Harass Russian Forces Pro tecting Retreat of 40, 000 Men From Im portant Sector. Helsinki. Jan. 11). CM*) The Finns tonight reported rapture of "a few enemy positions northeast of Lake Lagoda and the wiping out of a Russian detachment of five officers and 50 men near Tlomantsi. The high command also announced that Swedish volunteer airmen had taken pa: t with the Finns during the past week. The a: my's announcement covering yesterday's events said that a battle had been raging around Markajarv? where Finn:; wore reported to have caught up with the 41).000 Russians in retreat above the Arctic circle. Helsinki, J;n. 19.- (Ai'j — Hel sinki:- population spent an hour in aii raid shelters this afternoon while anti-aircraft batteries fought off Soviet Russian bombing planes. Fragmentary reports indicated that the attackers failed to reach the city, but dropped Lombs out lying sec tions. Fires were visible in the dis tance. Stalked by knife-like cold, hunger and Finnish skis, Soviet Russia's Salla army—heretofore the most suc cessful of the war—was reported lighting a fierce battle today at Mar kajarvi to protect the retreat of 40, 000 men toward the Russian border, still 50 miles distant. Foreign military observers fore saw major developments in the bat tle in the immediate future. it was in this sector that the Rus sian:; drove deepest into Finland, reaching a point only 18 miles front the railroad of Kemijarvi, strategic northern center that was their im mediate objective. The sudden retreat apparetly caught the Finns flatfooted momen tarily. They had expressed belief that the Russians would at least dig in for Ihe winter and hold well fortifiecf lines in an effort to cut Finland thro ugh the middle. The withdrawal was well under way before the Finns set out in pur suit. Finnish ski patrols cutting off Rus sian supplies were credited with forc ing the retreat. Temper;-11'."OS of 50 degrees belov/ to wore common. A Finnish de tachment which reported occupation of a Russian camp in the Salla area •lioj'u'y aft' i the red army's depar ture • -ijr! fie- h has been sliced from dead horse:; apparently for food and the! hark bed been gnawed from trees by horses. Roosevelt Pleads For His Agencies V'.'.i M.u'.l'.n, Jan. 1!).- CAi'; Pres ident Pooevelt said today that Na tional lit" ources Board plans loi' ojx.ning the Columbia basin in Ihc north we 1 lor settlement in a fetf vcais would save millions of dollars in the future. At his press conference, Mr. Roose velt raid : uch planning could prevent <»verk.pping activities and bad economy. He used the Columbia basin as an example of what the Board is doing ;nd he expressed the hope that Con gress v.'ouid in some way make it possible for the board to continue 'j ne ilou e yesterday passed and sent to the Senate an independent ' ifice appropriation bill from which fund:: for the Planning Board, th? Office 01 Government Reports, arid Hie Committee on Personnel Manage ment had been eliminated on the ground that those agencies had no legal exi.-tenee. The President said he hoped that all would be taken care of since their total appropriation was very small. When the pumps at Grand Coulee dam begin operating, he said, it win mean that irrigated land will be come available for perhaps 80,000 families and that perhaps 20,000 ad ditional families will be needed to operate facilities for the 80,000. Mr. Roosevelt raised the question of whether there should be some or dered planning of the settlement or whethet a half million people should be allowed to go in and specialize m one crop.