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Evening star., 1937-08-20
CHINESE LAUNCH
NORTHERN DRIVE
Armies Attack on 3 Fronts
to Wrest Area From
Japanese.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
PEIPING, August 20.-Chinese
armies we're reported to have launched
q general offensive on three fronts
today to wrest North China from its
Japanese conquerors.
Eleven full divisions of the Chinese
regular army were reported engaged
in the sweeping attack against the
japanese. While two parallel columns
struck northWard against Peiping and
Tientsin, third army was holding the
pass just north of Nankow.
Second Army Sweeps East.
Behind this northern army at Nam
koW, another was sweeping to the east
to cut off the japanese rear and iso-
late them IN the northeast section of
Hopeh Province, where they have con-
solldated their control
Between 100000 and 10000 Chinese
troops must be engaged in North
China-a force equal to. if not greater
than, the army Japan has poured into
the area since the first clash west of
Pelping July touched off the unde-
clared Sino-Japanese War.
Two Chinese divisions were said to
be advancing against Tientsin with
their vanguard already intrenched at
Tangliutslng, only 10 miles west of
headquarters Of the japanese Army
in North China.
Sixty miles to the west a parallel
column
strong japanese positions at Lianghsi-
ang, 20 miles southwest of Peiping
Three regular army divisions were
said to be in this column. The belief
IN Peiping was that major hostilities
were imminent.
ReinforcementS were being rushed
to the south and strong secondary
japanese position was being built up
at Changsintien, midway between
Pelplng and Lianghsiang. A hundred
Amerlcan-made motor trucks in the
service OF the japanese Army roared
through Peiping this morning in a
southWesterly direction.
Japanese Held at Nankow.
Three Chinese divisions were stub
oornly holdlng a major japanese force
heavily mechanical and supported by
artillery, before Nankow Pass. the
gateway to Mongolia. Chinese couriers
sald the japanese had taken the sec
ondary gates Of all the passes 80 miles
north OF here and had forced their
van about one-fourth or one-third of
the way into the l5-mile great Nankow
Pass.
Pressing eastward from Kalgan were
three Chinese divisions seeking to cut
on the japanese Army from its base in
Manchukuo. One division was reported
to be at Chihcheng and two at Tushih-
koW both of which are strategic. al
most due north of Peiping and inside
the northern loop of the Great Wall.
Evening star., 1937-08-20
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Evening star., 1937-08-20

tory belonging to the American Sher-
Win Williams Co.
Evening star., 1937-08-20

travel into the country except in ex-
traordlnary cases.
Legislators, who only a few months
ago were debating the neutrality bill
Watched Eastern developments with
intense interest. Current coneressiona'
action was limited to insertion in the
third deficiency appropriation bill of q
100000 fund for evacuations from
China.
Comment Is Widespread.
Comment on what the Government
should do in the situation was wide
spread
Chairman Pittman of the Senate
Foreign Relations Committee said the
Augusta incident was no reason" for
altering American policy.
we have to have warships there to
guard the evacuation of our nationals, "
he said. They have to take risks,
Just as does a policeman, that's what
we have a Navy for He asserted the
incident had no bearing on applica-
ton of the neutrality act to the con-
fiict.
Efforts to fix the blame for the
shelling should be made, he said, with
the usual procedure Of demanding
apologies, punishment for guilty per-
sons and punitive damages to be
turned over to the families of victims
Chairman McReynolds of the House
Foreign Affairs Committee described
the incident as unfortunate, but
said the President was right in not
having invoked the neutrality act yet
Mr.. Roosevelt in response to ques-
tions, said official Washington was
talking about the advisability of in
Voklng the neutrality act every day.
Informed that the japanese charge
oaffalres had left Tientsin, the Presi-
dent expressed doubt as to whether
that meant diplomatic relations had
formally been broken off.
Also informed about a statement by
the Council for Prevention of War
Yvorlng immediate proclamation of
neutrality, Mr.. Roosevelt said, without
derogation to that organization that
government officials had more infor-
nation than it had
Representative Ludlow, Republican
OF Indiana, author of a resolution To
give the people the right to vote be-
fore entering a foreign war, said he
believed the time has come to invoke
the neutrality act
Should Use Every Safeguard.
I'VE should shop the shipment OF
war materials into the war zone anc
use every safeguard to keep from be.
coming involved" he added.
Representative Ford, Democrat. Of
Mississippi, member of the House For.
eign Affairs Committee, remarked: III
hostllities continue in the Orient. ]
think the President should invoke the
neutrality act"
Representative Dondero, Democrat
OF Michigan, another committee mem.
Der, asserted: Il don't believe eithel
China or Japan would deliberately fire
on an American ship. I think WI
should move cautiously. I would bt
reluctant to advise the President tt
invoke the neutrality act YETI
Representative Voorhis, Democrat, O.
California, member of the House del
egation OF "a which yesterday signed {
statement urging the President to in
woke the neutrality law. said he did no
think I'VE should have any ship
there" Il think we should compe
Americans to leave the war zone i
they want protection" he explained.
Representative Martin, Republican
of Massachusetts, said: The inciden
shows the necessity Of getting Amer
leans out of the war zone as quickly a
possible, or we may be drawn into tn
fray"
Evening star., 1937-08-20
Honest Abe Crooked.

LOS ANGELES (P.-It was the
shifty look in the eye of Honest Abe
Secret Service agents didn't like. They
said they found dishonest looking"
Abraham Lincolns on IS bills found
in the possession Of Irwin Enslow and
James c. Hartwell.
Evening star., 1937-08-20
Soviet Boosts Wheat Crop.

Spring sowing in Russia this year
covered 226,432 500 acres, according
to Moscow reports, an increase OF
about 1000, 1000 over 1886.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1937-04-20
G-MEN REPLY TO
KANSAS CRITICISM
Defend Action in Topeka
Staying by Pleading
Need of Secrecy

Kansas City, April .-(AP)-Nec-
essity for secrecy was the answer to-
day of a Federal Bureau of Investiga-
ton official to criticisms growing out
of the Staying of a Federal agent in
a gun battle Friday at the crowded
Topeka, Kans., post office.
Two New York gunner, Alfred
Power and Robert Suhay, escaped the
trap set for them there, but later were
captured in Nebraska and are held
here on charge of numbering the
agent, w. w. Baker.
Topeka's chief of police, Frank
Stone, ST., declared Federal officers
should have "taken us into their con
fidcnce," pointing out had his men
been present the gunner wanted fol-
bank robbery wouldn't have known
to have fired upon"
Taking cognizance Of similar cri
ticism in Topeka newspaper, w. H
Lester, administrative assistant to
Edgar Hoover, said last night at Win
field, Kans.:
"The National Guard might have
been helpful, too, but such a plan
would not have been conducive to
secrecy" Then he added, "We couldn't
get to first base without the help OF
local officers
Henderson daily dispatch., 1937-04-20
CONGRESS TO STAY
UNTIL THE AUTUMN
Next Years Budget Is Inn
mediate Pressing Prob
lem That Awaits
THEN LABOR PROBLEM
Supreme Court Issue Must Also Be
Threshed Out; Legislation for
Agriculture Also To Be
Acted Upon
BY CHARLES p. STEWART
Central Press COlumnist

Washington, April 2O.-It is hard
to see how Congress can get through
with it's work without a session run
ming all summer and maybe well on
into the autumn.
In fact, the lawmakers might toll
the year through, and still have
plenty of problems confronting them,
to be puzzled over in 1888.
FINANCES PRESSING
The legislators simply will have to
decide on some sort of financial pro-
gram before July L. for, on June 80,
the current fiscal year ends; and the
government cannot go on into the
next fiscal year under no financial
system at all.
From now until the end of June is
none too long for Capitol Hill to wres-
tie with that issue, disregarding every
thing else. That comes first.
While the fight is pending there
will be considerable chatter on other
subjects, but no action; all real at
tention will be concentrated upon the
budget--and it will need to be.
REDUCTION-OR TAXES
One of the chief financial spokes-
men for the administration is Sen
ator Pat Harrison of Mississippi.
Pat forecasts no tax increase, but
there has got to be one if the govern
ment is to live within it's income, I'M
Continued on Page Sky
Henderson daily dispatch., 1937-04-20
Whether 1t Is to Become
Political Tool or Be
Real Business Is
Great Issue
SOUND LEADERS ARE
FOR WAYNICK AGAIN
But Western Carolina Fac
ton, Old State Prison
Group and Contractors and
Material Men Are Fight
ing Retention of Waynick
in Office
Daily Dispatch Bureau,
I'm the Sir Walter Hotel.
M r - mask ND VIII

Raleigh, April 2O.-Much more is
involved in the contest for the chair
manship of the State Highway and
Public Works Commission than the
public generally realizes, since the
basic factor involved is whether the
Craftsmanship shall henceforth be
made a political football, and depend
upon which way the chairman uses
his political influence in campaigns,
or whether the highway department
shall fundamentally remain a road
building organization rather than a
political machine, those who have
been studying the situation closely
are convinced. The cost item is also
involved, since it is conservatively
estimated that it costs the State at
least $1,0OO,000 every time there is a
change in the craftsmanship of the
State Highway Commission, due to
the inexperience and lack of road
building knowledge by any new chair
man.
The reappointment of Chairman
Capus M. Waynick of the present com
mission is being urged by the people
of the State who do not want to see
any more politics enter into the ad-
ministration of the highway depart
ment and by those who want eff
cheney, economy and ability to be held
above purely political considerations
It is known that the reappointment
of Waynick is being urged by the
only two living former chairmen-E
H. Jeffress, of Greensboro, and Rufus
l.. Doughton, of Sparta-also by such
well-known former members of the
commission as Charles A. Cannon, OF
Concord; John Sprunt Hill, of Dur
ham: Luther Hodges, of Leaksvllle'
Sprav-men who are also outstanding
business men in the State who have
also stood for the business admins
| tration of highway affairs. They are
maintaining, it is understood Way
nick is giving the State highway de-
nartment a sound and efficient bust
ness administration, that he has
sound and solid background of exper'
fence and that there is hence no rea'
con for Governor Clyde r. Hoey te
make a change at this time. In ad
dition to these men, all of whom have
had experience in former highway
administrations, it is known that nun
dreds of the substantial business mer
Of the State are backing Waynick.
The opposition to the reappolnt
ment of Waynick, however, is regard
ed as being almost entirely on poll
Continued on Page Two)
Henderson daily dispatch., 1937-04-20
Deficit at End of Present
Fiscal Year Will Be Over
$2,5OO,OOO, 900,
He Says
ANOTHER BIG LOSS
u NEXT YEAR LIKELY
Borah Drops Opposition to
Neutrality Bill; Capital
Labor Meeting Begun;
More Criticism of Roose-
welt Court Plan, Given To
Committee

Washington, April 20-(AP)-Pre-
sident Roosevelt recommended today
Congress appropriate $1,5OO, OOO,0 for
work relief for the fiscal year 1888.
File asked the money be made avail
able early in June so it's use may be
planned before the start of the fiscal
year July 1.
In special relief message to Con-
gress, Mr.. Roosevelt reviewed the ma
tional budget situation in the light of
lower returns from income taxes than
were expected when the last previous
budget estimates were made in Jan
uary
He figured the deficit at the end of
this fiscal year would be $2,557, 900,
600, an increase of 5000, 100000 over
the January forecast.
He estimated also at the end OF
the 1888 fiscal year there would be a
net deficit of $418, 600, 900. His state
ment aroused talk as to whether ad-
ditional taxes might be called for at
the next session of Congress. Admin
istration leaders generally look for no
new taxes at this session.
While principle interest in Con
gress was on the Presidents message
this was a busy day generally both
on Capitol Hill and downtown.
Senator Borah, Republican, Idaho
announced a group Of his colleagues
had withdrawn insistence on a man
datory "cash and carry" policy in the
proposed permanent neutrality bill
thus leaving the way open for assign
ment of discretionary authority to
the President.
In an effort to clarity the rela--
tionship between capital and labor
81 representatives of workers and en-
ployers met with Secretary Perkins
who personally appealed for agree
ment on a national policy to reduce
strikes and lockouts.
The Senate civil liberties commit
tee resumed it's investigation Of con
ditions in Harlan county, Kentucky
with testimony by mountain preach
err, who said deputy sheriffs had once
driven striking miners back to work
at gunpoint.
William Eddy, president of Hobart
College, and Colonel Frederick Allen,
of Charleston, S. c., director of the
Constitutional Democracy Association
criticized the Roosevelt court bill at
Senate hearings.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1937-04-20
State Has Large
y. S. Balance Yet

Washington, April 2O.-(AP)-
The National Emergency Council
submitted to Congress today
Treasury department report show
ing North Carolina had an mob-
ligated balance of $4,446,OOO out of
the $81,3G5,OGO aIlOcated to the
State from 1885 and 1886 relief APP
preparation.
An additional $4,000, 900 had been
obligated but not spent, making a
total unexpended balance of $13,-
$4,000. The report covered ac-
lief activities through March 81.
The greatest unObligated balance
was $3,242,OOO credited to the Ag-
ricuIture Department.. Of this a.
mount, 100000 represented un-
obligated funds allOcated for rural
rehabilitation and $772,OOO unOb-
ligated funds for public roads, in
Guiding grade crossings.
The total unexpended balance for
the Agriculture Department was
$9,608,OOO, which included 5000, 900
of road funds; $9,428,OOO of rural
rehabilitation funds, and $1,439, 900
of rural resettlement ALLEGATION.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1937-04-20
CLARK GABLE HAS
STAND AS WITNESS
Calm and Silent, Actor Is In Court
On Charges of Being Father
of Young Girl

Los Angeles, CAL, April 20.-(AP)
Clark Gable, calm and silent, came
into Federal court today to tell jury
he is not the father of 13-year-old
Gwendoline Norton.
The film stars appearance at the
Federal building precipitated an. in
vasion of wome" and deputy mar
shals prepared idle full house.
.'This will bt g first time I've
ever been on Tie witness stand"
Gable said.
Gable is chief government witness
in the trial of Mrs. Violet Norton,
charged with trying to extort money
from him to care for her daughter,
Gwendoline.
Prosecutor Jack Powell disclosed
Mae West would not be put on the
stand, as she was in San Francisco.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1937-04-20
HORNE IS ELECTED
DIRECTOR FOR A. P.
Rocky Mount Publisher At
tains High Post in News
Association

New York, April 2O.-(AP)+The
smalltown newspaper with it's year
oy year fundamental content of births
marriages and deaths was translated
into personality today as small town
publishers met in convention.
The smaller daily was listed as
modern town crier as the problems
it presented were laid for study be
fore q part of the annual convention
Of the American Newspaper Publish
ers Association.
New directors elected by the mem
bership Of The Associated Press at
the annual meeting yesterday are:
Clark Howell, Jr., of the Atlanta,
Ca. Constitution; William Pape, Of
the Waterbury, Conn, Republican;
Houston Harte, of the San Angelo,
Texas, Standard, and ]. L. Horne, of
the Rocky Mount, N. G. Telegram.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1937-04-20
MUSICIAN ARRAIGNED
IN HAMMER Staying
Rosenbaum Gray and Unshaven as He
Appears in Magistrates
Hearing in New York

New York, April 2O.-(AP)-Trem-
Bling and close to collapse, Misha
Rosenbaum, 30, musician and Broad
way booking agent, accused of the
hammer Staying of Julia Nissenbaum,
rs, night club violinist and dancer,
was arraigned in homicide court to-
day.
His face was gray and unshaven as
he faced Magistrate Alexander
Brough. He wore shoes a policeman
had let him have and clothes other
policemen had handed him when his
own, stained with blood, were turned
over to the city police laboratory for
analysis.
Rosenbaum was arrested in Noun
taindale. N. Y, yesterday and police
said he confessed he attacked Miss
Nissenbaum after a quarrel.
Samuel Leibowitz, his attorney, de-
MED such a confession was made.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1937-04-20
ROOseveltTO
Talk Aug.l8
Near Manteo
President Is To Par
ticipate in Virginia
Dare Celebration
on Island

Washington, April 20 (AP)-
Representative Lindsay Warren,
of Washington, N. c., said today
President Roosevelt had agreed to
make an address August Is on
Roanoke Island, N. c., commence
rating the 25Oth anniversary of the
birth of the first child of English
parentage on the American CONT
nent, Virginia Dare.
The celebration to run about
two months, from July 1, also will
mark the 35Oth anniversary of the
disappearance of Sir Walter
Raleigh's Lost Colony.
Warren said the President had
also approved a special stamp for
the occasion.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1937-04-20
MODERNIZATION OF
PLANTS QUESTIONED
ANPA Head Says Press Criticism 40
From Those Who Would
Ban Free Discussion

New York, April 20 (AP)-Jerome
D. Barnum, publisher of the Syracuse
N. Y, Post-Standard, told The Amerl-
can Newspaper Publishers Assocla-
ton today criticism of the press ire
quently comes from sources that 90
not want full and free discussion"
Talbot Patrick, of Goldsboro, N. Z.
News-Argus, and A. L. Glassmann,
the Ogden, Utah, notwithstanding
led discussion on the question: In
the face of increasing taxes and IN
certainty of the future, is it advls-
able to modernize newspaper plants?.
Patrick suggested publishers woulo
be wise to study the possibilities OF
new equipment, machinery and meth
DDS of production being developed be-
fore undertaking any revision or mod
ernization.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1937-04-20
Weed Act
Might Be
Voluntary

Washington, April 20 (AP)-Amend-
ment of the Federal tobacco grading
act to make it's provisions voluntary
instead of compulsory appeared like
ly today.
Publication of House Appropriations
Committee hearings on the 1888 Ag-
riculture Department supply bill show
ed M. G. White, Agriculture Depart
ment solicitor, already has given an
opinion that the service could be
made voluntary under the 1885 in
spection act.
The act as now enforced requires
compulsory government grading on
tobacco markets where two-thirds of
the growers vote in favor of it. Be
cause of this feature, the constitution
atty of the act is being contested in
the courts of North and South Caro-
lima, where growers on a number of
markets voted for government grad
ing.
Representative William B. Umstead
of Durham, N. c., the committee
hearings disclosed, suggested the pos
sibility of voluntary grading.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1937-04-20
LARGE FRACTIONAL
GAINS FOR STOCKS
Buyers Lift Bids and Selected Issues
Hit Rallying Trail for
Higher Levels

New York, April 20 (AP)-Stock
buyers lifted their bids in today's mar
ket and selected issues hit the rally
ing trail for gains of fractions to two
or more points. While there were a
few active flurries on the upside,
dealings on the whole were quiet.
There was an assortment of lowers
near the fourth hour, but favored
steels, rails, farm implements and
others were near their best levels of
the day. United States government
securities slipped. Other bonds were
uneven. Commodities were mixed.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1937-04-20
(By The Associated Press.)

(By The Associated PreSS.)
Representatives of capital and la
Dor sat down with government Of
ficials in Washington today in an I'M
precedented conference that was con-
sidered possible forerunner to for
mutation Of national policy on
strikes and lockouts.
At the same time two rival labor
groups met in the capital to study
unionization campaigns which have
been intensified since Supreme Court
valuation of the Wagner labor rela-
tiOnS act.
Informed observers predicted one
of the groups, the American Fedora
ton of Labor executive council, would
consider expulsion of ten unions al
ready under suspension for support
ing the John Lewis G. /. o.
The second group, the executive
committee of the u. A. w. A., weigh
ed a demand from striking General
Motors employees of Oshawa, Ontario,
for a sympathy strike in the corpora
tons United States plants.
The u A. w. A. committee was
expected also to consider it's campaign
to organize workers of the Ford
Motor Company. Homer Martin, presi-
dent of the union, said formal charges
Of discrimination and intimidation
would be filed soon with the National
Labor Relations Board.
Imposition of greater legal respon-
sibility upon labor organizations in
view of the concessions gained by the
Wagner act was believed one objec-
tive Of some industrialists at the con-
ference called by SECRETARY Perkins.
The General Motors Canadian
strike persisted as the major active
i,,drctr;o1 dicp11to
Henderson daily dispatch., 1937-04-20
OPERATING INCOME
OF A. c. L. UP HIGH
IL Percent Increase in 1886 Over 1885,
Stockholders Are Told at
Meeting

Richmond, Va, April 2O.-(AP)-
The net operating income of the At
lantic Coast Line railroad increased
IL percent in 1896 over the preceding
year, the board of directors of the
road reported to the annual meeting
of stockholders here today.
From an operating deficit of 3d.
529, 1885 in 1885, the roads net in
come rose to $1,915, 1896 above total
expenses in 1886. The directors re-
port attributed the increase to i'm
proved economic conditions in the
southeastern states.
Officers were reelected, including
Director F. K Borden, Goldsboro.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1937-04-20
International Patrol of
SPANS Coastal Waters
At Last Put Into
Operation
INSURGENT FIRE ON
MADRID CONTINUES
100 Killed in City in Inten-
sive Smelling by Rebels;
Ships of Neutrals Are Halt
ed as New Complications
Arise in Civil Warfare
Campaign
nv The Associated Press.)

British frelghter today ran the
SDanish insurgent attempted block
AIDE and carried a weeks food supply
TO the inhabitants of insurgent-be-
seged Bilbao, capital of northern
SPANS Basque provinces.
The International patrol of SPANS
coastal waters and boundaries went
into effect last midnight, but it was
designed only to keep volunteers and
munitions from Spain.
In addition, the British ship, the
Seven Seas Spray, left st. Jean de
Luz. France, an hour before the con-
troll scheme went into operation. The
vessels owner reported she had reach
ed Bilbao safely despite the British
governments refusal to protect Brit
ish craft going all the way into the
port The British officials have con-
tended the harbor was dangerously
mined.
For the ninth consecutive day,
Madrid felt the force of steady insur-
gent shelling, which government au-
thorities said took many victims"
Proiectiles smashed into buildings
along principal thoroughfare and
scattered masonry and glass along the
streets. Before today's Smelling, 100
had been killed in the city in eight
days of bombardment.
At Hendaye, France, insurgent
sources reported an insurgent war
ship had seized merchant vessel
trying to take airplanes and war ma
terials to Bilbao and Santander on
the Spanish coast. The vessel came
from a Mexican port, it was said, but
Continued on Page Two.)
Henderson daily dispatch., 1937-04-20
CHARLOTTE MAN is
CROSSING VICTIM

Beaufort, S. c., April 2O.-(AP)-
Floyd McCulloch, of Charlotte, N. c.,
was killed and his brother, Kermit,
seriously injured in a grade crossing
wreck near here early today.
Kermit was taken to a WATERFORD
hospital and was identified after COM
munication with relatives in Charlotte
Floyd had been identified by his
drivers license.