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DEVOTED TO THE lleghany Times CIVIC, ECONOMIC SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT OF ALLEGHANY COUNTY b Series 1937, GALAX, VA. (Published for Sparta, N. C.) THURSDAY, DECEMBER 23, 1937. Number 51. Jap Army Attache Denies Panay Was Machine-Gunned Story Emanating From Foreign Office Differs From That Of Harada; Survivors Are Heard Shanghai, Dec. 20.—The Jap anese army today denied it had attacked the United States gun boat Panay, flatty contradicting official American reports Japan ese troops had machine-gunned the sinking warship after it had been bombed by naval planes. At almost the same time, Major General Kumakichi Harada issued the army statement in Shanghai, a foreign office spokesman in To kyo reversed the government’s previous stand and admitted Jap anese army craft on the Yangtze river had flred on the Panay. The report of Gen. Harada, Japanese military attache, denied virtually every statement previ ously made by American naval officers and British, American and Italian civilian survivors of the attack December 12. The army version not only was at variance with that of the sur vivors and the Tokyo foreign of fice, but contradicted itself. Harada was also scheduled to have reported his findings on the bombing of the British gunboat Ladybird, but after more than two hours of spirited debate with the openly skeptical correspond ents at the interview, Harada postponed that statement until to morrow. When Harada said at the out set of his statement that he left for Nanking at 4 a .m., December 13, to investigate the Panay’s sinking he was reminded the Jap anese army had declared it was at that time ignorant of the in cident. Quickly Harada said his re marks had been mistranslated and corrected his statement to say that he had gone to investigate the bombing of the Ladybird. His only explanation of why the Panay sinking was not re ported for more than a week by Japanese troops, who he admitted had learned the ship was Ameri can, was that communication was difficult. I - Choice Of Kennedy As Ambassador To Britain Expected Washington, Dec. 19.—Speedy senate approval of the expectec appointment of Joseph P. Ken' nedy as ambassador to London seemed. in prospect tonight, al though there were some senator who thought him more valuabh at home than abroad. Members of the foreign ne Lations committee, commendin) the choice, said the administra tion would lose a valuable bus! ness advisor, but took the viev that the question of where Ken nedy would be most effective wa one for him and the president t< decide. “Kennedy is an excellent mai anywhere you put him,” com mentftd Senator Pope (IX, Idaho) a committee member. “He ha been one of our best men oi financial problems, but I thin] (turn to page five, please) I Buncombe County Minister Says He Will Run For Senate Asheville, Dec. 19.—The Rev. A. A. Johnson, Baptist minister (and former Buncombe county | school teacher of Candler, Route j 1, formally announced today that | he will be a candidate next June , for the Democratic nomination for ■ the seat now held by U. S. Sena tor Robert R. Reynolds, of Ashe ville. “We have tried every kind of man except a preacher in the Senate, now let’s see what a preacher will do,” said) Mr. John son’s announcement. “If I am elected to the Senate, I shall ask the ministers to meet and pray for the proper guidance on any given issues, then I shall be guid ed by their recommendations.” Mr. Johnson is a natijve of the I Leicester section of Buncombe | county. I Coalition Paper | Read In 'Senate; Speeches Made Washington, Dec. 20.—The [“address to the American peo | pie,” drafted last week by a bi-partisan group of senators re ceived the acclaim of a half dozen members on the Senate floor today. While the Senate killed time waiting for its banking committee to complete action on the admin istration housing bill, Senator Burke, (D., Nebr.), injected the subject into debate. He was questioned immediately as to the author or authors of the docu ment, which urged thorough tax revision and other policies to hasten business recovery. Senator Bailey (D., N. C.), among others promptly claimed authorship and^ proceeded to read the statement. He added an argument that, unless prosperity were restored, the demand for a “collectivist’’ system would be come overwhelming. | an ^cuciai ib nac a making day at the capitol. Neith er branch of Congress had any specific business before it, so a dozen or more members seiized the opportunity to deliver ad dresses long clamoring for utter ance. Senator Vandenberg (R., Mich.), urged adoption of his childj labor amendment to the federal constitution. His pro posal is a modification of the amendment' long pending before the states, Vandenberg said it eliminated objectionable features of the iattter. Senator Truman (D., Mo.), made a speech on railroad financ ing, and Senator Connally (D., 1 Tex.), talked of the Sino-Japen ! ese hostilities. Over , Connally’s objections, ' Senator Barkley of Kentucky, the • Democratic leader, arranged to ' postpone debate on the anti 1 lynching bill until the regular session beginning in January. Connally, an inveterate foe of ' that measure, protested that 1 Barkley had not consulted him before reaching his decision. ■ PRACTICALLY ALL SPARTA - STORES TO BE CLOSED SAT. 1 As is the custom, practically c all the stores in Sparta will be closed Saturday (Christmas Day). The Children *s Day Nineteen hundred and thirty-seven years ago three Kings came out of the East, guided by a star, seeking the cradle of a new-born child. /They followed the star to Bethlehem, ai&^hiere, before the manger in a stable whpre lay the infant Jesus, they laid the precious gifts which their caravans had brtjught. Of all of the Biblical legends, this story of the Three Kings and their gifts on that first Christmas has the greatest appeal. It has been perpetuated through the ages in the custom of making the Christmas season a time for giving. Not all of the Christmas giving is done in conscious commemoration of jthe birth of Christ, but the custom does carry, even with the unthinking, some thing of the spirit of “Peace on Earth to Men of Good Will,” which is the essense of Christmastide. It is peculiarly meet and fitting that this should be, above everything else, the children’s especial holiday. What parent does not rejoice in the privilege, on this annual festival, the greatest of all Chris tian festivals, of laying gifts at the feet of the children, as the Kings of the East laid theirs at the feet of One whom they recognized as the King of Kings? The Child was King in Bethlehem. Now, for a season, the child is King again, and all the world lays treasure at'his feet. For the child of today will be the man or woman of tomorrow, and who can say which one of them may become a King among his kind ? This is the mystery of childhood, that we know the child will grow into something different but into what we cannot foresee. So let everyone pay homage and lay gifts at the feet of the children on Christmas day, as to new comers lately arrived from another world who may change o«r world all over, as He, whose birthday we celebrate, did.— Selected. State Officers Chase Payne And Turner In Columbus County Area Raleigh, Dec. 21.—Captain Charles Fanner, of the state highway patrol, said two men he was certain were Wash Turner, alias Jack Borden, and Bill Payne, North Carolina desperadoes, had abandoned a car in Columbus county Sunday after kidnaping a coast guardsman and were “some where in the woods.” Captain banner said the kidnaped man was Russell Marlow; who was forced by the fugitives I to drive them in his’ car toward the South Caro lina line. i Captain Farmer said Marlow was left, un injured, with the car when Payne and Turner took to the woods. The alleged kidnaping oc curred near Shallotte at about 10:80 Sunday night, Farmer said. Highway patrolmen and other law enforce ment officers, the patrol official said, were being concentrated in the area| near Hallsboro, to cor ner Payne and Turner. Captain Farmer could give no more infor mation, as he said he was leaving immediately for Columbus county. Payne and Turner and six other convicts escaped from Caledonia last February 15, kidpap ing two prison officials and commandeering a laundry truck. Later they stole another car, kidnaped its driver and eluded more than 200 officers. The hostages were released uninjured. Payne, wanted on charges of bank robbery, murder, kidnaping and highway robbery( has be come North Carolina’s No. 1 bad man. He and Turner are under indictment in Buncombe county for the slaying of George Penn, highway patrol I man, near Asheville. Boys Apprehended On Bicycle-Stealing Charge Recently Within two hours after officers here had received information that a bicycle had been stolen from a Gunter boy in Sparta, the two young men who liad taken it were apprehended and lodged in jaij. One was picked up as he was "thumbing a ride” to Noeth Wilkesboro, while his accomplice was arrested in North Wilkesboro with the stolen property in his possession. The boys are A. Tay lor and Andrew Wagoner, both from Wilkes county. Bailey Fears America Is Near To Collectivism Washington, Dec. 20.—The Sen ate was warned today by Senator Josiah W. Bailey of North Caro lina, that the nation stands at the cross road of continuing the American capitalistic system of free enterprise or turning to the old world collectivism -of Hitler, Mussolini and Stalin. The North Carolina senator said that only a congressional | policy to encourage confidence of [ the investing public, such as I enunciated in the recent heralded “address to the American peo ple,” would check the present “secondary depression.’’ Unless this is done, Senator Bailey told the Senate on the eve of the end of the special session, the people in desperation will demand a col lective form of government. Senator Bailey’s speech, which attracted wide attention at the Capitol, was unexpected and ex temporaneous. He was brought to his feet after several senators had sought to ascertain who wrote the “address to the Ameri can people’’ which last week re vised talked of a coalition be tween conservative Democratic senators and Republicans and which Senator Edmundj Burke (D., Neb.), sought to have print ed in the Congressional Record. Senator Sherman Minton, D., Ind.), was the first to question Burke as to the authorship and signers of the document and was followed by Democratic Floor Leader Barkley who pointed out it was rather unusual to print in | the Record an address to the I American people without any sig | natures. I “Great historical documents are I generally signed,’’ observed Sena Itor Clause Pepper (D._ Fla.), and Minton insisted on knowing “who i is the father of this address you propose to put in the Record.” Senator liurke would not di vulge any informttion but said he wished he could claim credit for having written it, and he would be glad to sign such a paper. But it was not until Senator Bailey took the floor to read the message into the body of the Record, instead) of having it print ed in the appendix as proposed by Burke, did the Senate lean that the document in the mail was the product of the Ndrtl Carolinian. Bailey stated that he was deep ly impressed with President Roose velt’s message to Congress call ing for a balanced budget and i reduction of expenditures and b set out to prepare a statement. U. S. Ambassador jTo England Dies In Baltimore i Funeral Services Held Mon. In Louisville, Ky.; Many Dignitaries Are Present For Rites Baltimore, Dec. 20.—-The vic tim of a rare and obscure disease diagnosed by an operation last ,weeki Robert Worth Bingham, United States ambassador to Great Britain, died here Satur day at the age of 66. The North Carolinian, who be came publisher of Louisville, Kentucky’s two newspapers—The Courier-Journal and The Louis ville Times—and one of the first new deal diplomatic appointees, died in Johns Hopkins hospital of “abdominal Hodgkins.” Death came at 7,:21 p. m. (est) after the diplomat had been un conscious for three days follow ing a diagnostic operation per formed by Dr. William F. Rien hoff, Jr., Tuesday. Louisville, Ky., Dec. 20.—Rob ert Worth Bingham, U. S. am b&Bfedor to Great Britain. was buried here today with Episcopal funeral and burial services of ritual simplicity. Members of the Bingham fam ily, close friends .of the ambassa dor and representatives of the Unite<$ States and British gov ernments — approximately 50 in all—witnessed the interment in Cave Hill Cemetery. Bingham was buried in the fam ily lot beside his first wife, Mrs Eleanor Miller Bingham, who died in 1913. There was no additional cere mony t military or otherwise, in the cemetery except the reading of the burial ritual by Bishop Ameritus Charles W. Woodcock, of the Episcopal diocese of KeTr tucky and the Rev. Dr. Frank W. Elliott Baker, rector of Cal vary Episcopal church where the funeral service was conducted at noon. Those attending the funeral and burial include^ Sir Ronald Lindsay, British ambassador to the United States, who represented his Iking and government; Marvin H. | McIntyre of the White House secretariat, representing President Roosevelt; Hugh R. Wilson. a» : sistant secretary of state, and i George T. Summerlin, chief of protocol of the state department. Sir Ronald delivered a message : of sympathy from the king and I queen of England to Mrs. Bing | ham. A. F. Of L Blamed jFor Defeat Of Wage, Hour BiD i _ Washington, Dec. 20.—The Committee for Industrial Organi sation tonight accused the Ameri can Federation of Labor of join ing with “sweat shop. employers and tory politicians’’ to defeat the administration’s j wages-and-hours bill which the House virtually kill ed last week. In a scatching editorial to be ‘ published tomorrow in the “C. MI. O. News*” weekly newspaper 1 (turn to page five, please)
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