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HENDERSON
(HTFAVAY to
CENTRAL
CAROLINA
twenty-fourth year
THREE BRITISH SOLDIERS KILLED BT JAPS
House Committee Agrees On
Continuing Os Conservation
And On Ever Normal Granary
FARM BILL DRAFT
NOW EXPECTED TO
BE READYMONDAY
Question of Marketing
Quotas, Penalties and
Processing Taxes
Not Yet Reached
SUBSIDY PROPOSED
TO COTTON FARMER
Fulmer Also Wants Soil
Conservation Benefits for
Them and Benefits From
Some Small Processing
Tax: Agriculture Body
Studies Measure
Washington, Oct. 29.—(AP) —Chair-
man Jonqs. Democrat. Texas, said to
dav the House Agriculture Committee
had reached a “general accord” on
three major features of a farm con
trol bill.
It was generally understood, he told
reporters, that:
The present soil conservation pro
gram be continued, an “ever normal
granary" he established for those
crops to which it is most adaptable,
and any benefits paid farmers be on
a basis of tilled acreage rather than
production.
Jones added the committee was
making progress on getting together,
but it had not reached agreement on
any specific legislative language. He
said members would meet again Mon
day. when drafts of some of the gen
eral provisions might be ready for
consideration.
Tin (picstion of marketing quotas,
penalties and processing taxes have
not yet been covered, he added.
Chairman Fulmer, Democrat, South
Carolina, of a sub-committee in
charge of formulating provisions for
cotton, told reporters he would re-'
commend cotton farmers be given soil
conservation benefits, a subsidy of
three cents a pound, and perhaps ad
ditional benefits to be paid from pro
ceeds of a small processing tax.
Fixed Price
During War
Is Proposed
Montgomery, Ala., Oct. 29.—(AP) —
Louis Johnson, assistant secretary of
war, told National Guardsmen today
the nation needs a “law with teeth
in it ' to attack the evils of inflation
and excess profits in time of war.
‘‘To fight inflation, the President
should be authorized to fix prices in
time of war,” Johnson said in an ad
dress before the 1937 convention of
the National Guard Association.
“What I want to discuss with you
today,” Johnson said, “is a program
of preparedness which would prevent
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CoanMight
Enter Race
Any Time
Daily Dispatch Bureau*
p the Sir Walter Hotel.
rtaieigh, Oct. 29.— The announce
“pj of George W. Coan, Jr., State
or ts Progress administrator, for the
I,n, d States Senate seat already
sought by Incumbent Bob Reynolds
* nd Congressman Frank Hancock,
an )0 expected almost momentarily.
. inat > at least, is the impression
tamed by those who saw Mr. Coan at
u women’s Democratic rally here
iiirsday and who talked with him
■me his departure (in company with
‘nator j oS i a h W. Bailey) for Win
meeting 6111 the State Grange
J^ Uon ' holed by this correspondent
a e was actually on his way to get
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♦
BailyJUsrmtrh
ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA AND VIRGINIA.
LEASED WIRE SERVICE OF
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS!
President Relying Upon
Creation Os New Jobs To
Balance Federal Budget
Not Just a Stunt
Henry Brown
Bees, bees, bees all over Brown.
That’s Henry Brown of Cape
May, N. J., who put on his non
stinging act at the International
Beekeepers’ conference in Wash
ington. But it’s not just a stunt,
for according to medicos, bee
serum may be a cure for arthritis.
—Central Pres*
Grange Has
No Sides On
Compulsions
Harry Caldwell,
Greensboro, Takes
Office As Master of
State Group
Winston-Salem, Oct. 29. (AP)
The North Carolina State Grange in
stalled new officers in simple cere
monies today and then adjdurned.
Harry Caldwell, of Greensboro, took
office as the new State master. No
invitations were extended for the 193»
meeting place and officers said the
(Continued on Page Two)
CONTRASTSNOTED
IN WOMAN’S GROUP
Many Views and Shades At
Democratic Talkfest In
Raleigh
Bally Dispatch Bureau,
In The Sir Walter Hotel
■Raleigh Oct. 29. —Speakers at the
Kaieign, Thursday by and for
luncheon given Ihursaay y
the Democratic women here for the
“Reporter Plan” conference were
particularly (interesting bemusle of
Continued on Page Two.)
HENDERSON, N. C., FRIDAY AFTERNOON, O CTOBER 29, 1937
Increase in Income of 30 to
40 Million Persons Would
Do It, He Be
-1 lieves
NEW MEASURES ARE
HOPE TO THAT END
Roosevelt Refuses To Com
ment on Speculations That
Capital Gains and Undis
tributed Surplus Taxes
Will Be Revised; Has
Read Articles
Hyde Park, Oct. 29. —(AP) —Presi-
dent Roosevelt indicated today his
budget balancing studies are center
ed about his hope for increasing the
income of 30 to 40 million persons he
said have no purchasing pow’er now.
Shortly K'efore meeting Secretary
Morgenthau and Under Secretary Ma
gill on budget problems this even
ing, the President told his press con
ference the proposed wages and hours
arid surplus crop, control measures
were aimed at boosting the ability of
citizens to buy.
Mr. Roosevelt had no direct com
ment on speculations that the capi
tal gains and undistributed surplus
taxes would be revised, but said he
noted that newspaper stories from
Washington speculating on that
made no reference to that part of
the population which hqs very little
money to live on.
He said he was struck by the fact
all the speculation was from the point
of view of the people who have and
not from the people who are sub
standard as far as living goes.
SHUFORD MILLS PAY
COSTS INTO COURT
Hickory Municipal Judge Hears
Charges of Violations of Over
time Work Hours
Hickory, Oct. 29.—(AP)—Municipal
Judge Theodore Cummings assessed
the Shuford Mills the costs today of
two cases charging the mills with
violations of the State labor law.
Counsel for the defendants pleaded
nolo contendere for their clients to
charges brought by W. G. Watson, of
the State Labor Djtparbmenft, that
the Hickory Spinning Company at
Long View recently had worked some
employees longer than the limit set
iky the statutes. Watson testified the
defendant company had a ’‘clean rec
ord” and termed it “one of the best
in the State regarding labor.’ He said
the alleged violations were committed
after a strike went into effect at the
Long View plant, a unit of the Shu
ford chain.
Great Britain Waking Up
And Business Is Gaining
Babson Finds Strikes Almo st Unheard of In England;
People Have Confidence In Their. Courts and Gov
ernment; Roosevelt Peace Plan Popular
By ROGER W. BABSON,
Copyright 1937, Publishers
Financial Bureau, Inc.
Exeter, Eng., Oct. 29 —To get to
England from France seems like re
turning home! In fact, Great Britain
seems like home
every time that I
visit it. Thirty
years ago I first
came to England.
Then America was
progressive; while
England seemed to
be drowsy. We
used typewriters;
while the English
used quill pens. We
wore s e n s i b 1 e
clothes; while the
English wore silk
Hk - Jfl
hats and Prince Albert coats to busi
ness. Elevators, central heating, and
Younger Hands Take Over Reins in U. S. Steel
Jill
P' - flllllPl
Ben jamin F. Fairless
Becomes president
Vast United States Steel corporation announces
changes in executive personnel, elevating younger
hands to take over the work of administering the
$2,000,000,000 corporation. Myron C. Taylor, 63,
will retire as board chairman next April 3 to be
succeeded by Edward R. Stettinius, Jr., 38; who
now heads the finance committee. Benjamin F.
Fairless. 47. now head of the subsidiary, Carnegie-
NON-INTERVENTION
COMMITTEE TAW
Germany and Russia Take
Stand That Produces
New Deadlock on
Spanish Turmoil
GERMANY DEMANDS
BELLIGERENT RIGHT
Wants Both Sides in Spain
To Be Accorded That Sta
tus; Russia Refuses To
Agree To Getting All For
eign Fighters Out of Civil
War
London, Oct. 29. —JAP) —Germany
and Russia forced tlrj sub-committee
on the Spanish non-intervention sit
uation into a new and tighter dead
lock today.
Germany’s Joachim von Ribbentrop
again declared the granting of bel
ligerent rights is an essential prelim
inary condition for the withdrawal of
foreign volunteers from Spain. Von
Ribbentrop said Soviet Russia’s insis
tence on withdrawal of the bulk of
foreigners before such rights are
granted meant the committee could
not proceed further.
Ivan Maisky, Russian member of
the sub-committee, delivering new
Moscow instructions, declared the
Soviet could not accept present An
glo-French proposals for getting fight
(Continued on Page Six.)
private bath-roorris were then practi
cally unknown in England except in
the most exclusive hotels.
Today all this has changed. Eng
land has adopted all our worth-while
customers —except good coffee! (Some
American will make a fortune going
to England and selling good hot cof
fee). While we have been growing
softer and weaken since the World
War, the British Isles have been grow
ing brighter and stronger. While we
are increasing costs; England is low
ering them. While we are losing for
eign trade; England is gaining it. All
this progress, moreover, has been
against great odds.
Labor Unions In England
English labor leaders consist of two
distinctly different groups. Many are
“intellectuals” who look at the prob
(Continued on Page SixJ
M ■ 14, : 1[
IS
William A. Irvin
Succeeded by Fairless
Potomac Flood Receding
As Cold Wave Comes In
Residents Driven from
Homes at Cumberland,
Md., Move Back as
Waters Fall
PITTSBURGH RAINS
BROUGHT TO HALT
Crest of 27 Feet In Monon
gahela River There Passes;
Low-Lying Districts and
River-Front Homes Men
aced by High Waters in
Great City
Cumberland, Md., Oct. 29. —(AP) —
As the flooded Potomac river wearily
bore its weakening crest downstream
today, Cumberland and its river-bank
neighbors gazed with relief at evi
dences of inches-high waters in their
business and residential districts.
Assured finally that a repetition of
the disastrous floods of early this
year was not at hand, residents and
National Guardsmen began to carry
away sandbags and river barricades.
They had been thrown up hasatily
Continued on Page Two.)
STATE COLLEGE MAN
GIVEN HIGH HONOR
Raleigh, Oct. 29.—(AP)—North Car
olinas State College announced today
Dean Blake Van Leer, head of the
school of engineering had been ap
pointed chairman of the committee
on two-year terminal programs of
the National Society for the Promo
tion of Engineering Education.
The committee is composed of
•seven of the foremost leaders in en
gineering education in this country,
the announcement said.
rnmirn
BUT FOR HIS AGE
Most Highly Respected In
Cabinet; Stronger Than
Administration
#
By CHARLES P. STEWART
Central Press Columnist
Washington, Oct. 29.—For a long
time Secretary of State Cordell Hull
has been a Democratic presidential
possibility. The other day the Ten
nessee State Senate formally indorsed
him for the 1940 nomination.
He will not get it. He is a little too
old —will be in his last year, toward
70 by next presidential election day.
There is no other count against him.
To the contrary, I venture to say.
that he is the most generally and
highly respected member of today’s
cabinet
It is just too «bad that Father Time
(Continued on Page Four.)
Illinois Steel Co., will become president. William
A. Irvin, 63, now president, will become vice chair
man of the board, a new post. E. M. Voorhees,
vice chairman of the finance committee, will suc
ceed Stettinius. In announcing change in high per
sonnel, U. S. steel directors ordered a distribution
to common stockholders of $8,700,000, $1 a share,
first common dividend in five and one-half years.
—Central Press
Barograph’s
Record For
Plane Given
Inquiry At Salt Lake
City Learns Fatal
Liner Flew at High
Salt Lake City, Utah, Oct. 29 (AP) —
An unsworn witness gave unquestion
ed testimony today at the Federal in
vestigation into the cause of the Unit
ed Air Lines plane crash which killed
19 persons October 17. The witness
was the plane’s barograph cord. Its
(Continued on Page Six.)
Kiwanians
Warned Os
Communism
Charlotte, Oct. 29.— (AP)—President
W. P. Jacobs, of Presbyterian Col
lege at Clinton, S. C., called for a
united front against what he described
as the taetjes of communism in an
address here today to the annual con
vention of the Carolinas district Ki
wanians.
“The greatest fundamental in in
(Con'iuued on Page Eight.)
WEATHIPv
FOR NORTH CAROLINA.
Partly cloudy tonight and Sat
urday; slightly warmer Saturday.
PUBLISHED IVBKY AFTSMtNOOM
EXCEPT SUNDAY.
Edward R. Stettinius
Becomes chairman
Spanish Conflict
Halted by Floods
. 1 _
Zaragoza, Spain, Oct. 29 (AP) —
Insurgent and government armies
on the broad Aragon front quit
fighting each other today to com
bat a commo nenemy, a flood that
sheeted wide areas in the vajleys
of Ebro river and its tributaries.
The Gallego river, rushing down
from the French frontier to join
the Ebro at this insurgent base,
an old Aragon capital, was at its
highest level in 20 years, 21 feet
above normal. The Ebra was 22
feet above normal. Heavy rains
were responsible for the high wat
ers.
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AMERICANS, OTHERS
ABANDON HOMES IN
SHANGHAI SUBURBS
Three Ulster Riflemen Kill
ed and Several Wound
ed by Japanese
Shelling
AMERICAN MISSION
PROPERTY DAMAGED
Southern Methodist Schools
Suffer Greatly in Jap At
tack; Japanese Naval Ships
Withdraw In Face of Sen
try of British Soldiers In
Area
Berlin, Oet. 29.—(AI‘) —Ger
many formally notified Belgium
today she would not participate
in the nine-power pact conference
starting next Wednesday at Brus
sels.
The formal reason given was
Germany was neither a signatory
nor an adherent of the treaty
guaranteeing "China’s territorial
integrity.
Shanghai, Oct. 29 (AP) —Three Brit
ish Ulster riflemen were killed and
several wounded tonight during Jap
anese shelling of Hungjao, suburg to
the west of the international settle
ment and home of many Americans
and other foreigners, British military
headquarters announced.
Artillery shelling and aerial attacks
in the Chinese-Japanese war spread
damage among American missions and
other foreign property and during the
day British defense lines along the
'Continued on Page Six.) j
Transport Liner
Lands Safely As
Its Gears Stifck
New York, Oct. 29 (AP)—An
American Air Lines transport
plane successfully executed a belly
landing at Newark, N. J., airport
at 2 p. m. today after the retract
able landing gear had jammed,
the line’s official announced. No
trouble was encountered in land
ing the big ship, the company
said, though one of the big wheels
became stuck midway of its arc
when the pilot tried to lower it in
to position on his arrival from
Chicago.
The pilot cruised in, the motor
shut off and with one wing high
to place the strain on one side of
the under-carriage.
Minor damage was done to the
plane.
The ship had been cruising over
the airport for an hour at 1:45 p.
m., air line officials said, in an
effort to unlock the gear. One
side worked properly, they said,
but the other w r as jammed.
London Is
Indignant
At Killing
London, Oct. 29 (AP)—The greatest
indignation was manifest in British
circles today over the killing of three
royal Ulster riflemen in Shanghai—
the latest on the lengthening list of
British casualties attributed to Japa
nese gunfire.
The fact that killings occurred so
soon after a British sentry was ma
chine-gunned to death Sunday at a
British defense post in Shanghai, in
(Continued on Page Six.)
STATERESTSCASE
AGAINST MRS. HAHN
Murder-by-Poison Charges
Completed in Trial In
Cincinnati Court
i ~
Cincinnati, Oct. 29 (AP) —The State
rested today its murder-by-poison case
against Anna Marie Hahn, charged
with the death of 7&-year-old Jacob
Wagner.
Circumstances in the death of four
other elderly men were admitted by
Judge Charles Bell as “corollary evi
dence.” ,
Listed as the last in a parade of 95
Sta£e witnesses, Mrs. Katherine Keel
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