VOLUME 22-NUMBER 176. GREENWOOD, LEFLORE COUNTY, MISSISSIPPI, FRIDAY AFTERNOON, MARCH 25, 1938. FIVE CENTS U.S. OFFERS ASYLUM TO OPPRESSED PEOPLES SENATE MAKES READY FOR ADJOURNMENT Covering Of Clock Starts With Recess Over Present Week- End. JACKSON, Miss., Mar. 25 (AP) -The senate today showed its eagerness to adjourn sine die March 31 by voting to "recess" instead of adjourn until Monday. This was an effort to circum-1 vent procedure providing appr.priations and revenue measures must be disposed of at least five legislative days preceding adjournment. By "recessing" today| next week's proceedings will show in the journal as of Mar. 25. But unless reconsidered this afternoon, adoption by the house of : a week-end adjournment motion automatically prevents final adjournment March 31. It was understood an effort would be made for the house to "recess" too. "Covering the clock" is an old! legislative custom whereby one legislative day actually covers any number of calendar days coward the end of the session In order to allow sine die adjournment any time legislators choose. FOLO SENATE MAKES REDY; JACKSON, Miss., Mar. 25 (P) -Adjournment of the legislature next week hung by a thin thread today as negotiations were red;ened between the house and senate over a land office reorganization deadlock which threatens to result in impeachment charges! against State Land Commissioner R. D. Moore. As the house set up a committee to draft the articles of impeachment against Commissioner Moore, charged with high crime and misdemeanors in office, the senate made another effort to settle the disputed matter. A resolution to instruct senate members of a conference committee to partly accede to the house bill "legislating"' the Commission-| er from office was approved by the narrow margin of two votes | -21 to 19. The resolution read: "It will meet with the approval of the senate for conferees to accept the house bill with such changes as will meet the approval of the house and senate conferees, provided that the following amendment is attached to Section ROBERTS TRIES SETTLE LAND OFFICE TROUBLE Senator's Resolution Would Permit Moore To Draw Salary To End Of Term. JACKSON, Miss., Mar. 25 (AP) -Negotiations were reopened in tle the land office controversy the senate today designed to set-| without an impeachment trial. After the house last night vot-| led to draft articles of impeach-| ment against State Land Commissioner R. D. Moore, charged with high crimes and misdemeanors, another compromise move was initiated in the senate this morning. Senator W. B. Roberts introduced a resolution asking that a conference committee- either the present one or one to be appointed--be instructed accept provisions of the house bill legislating Commissioner Moore from office. A similar resolution was defeated, 28 to 13, yesterday, and | the house answered by almost unanimously voting to draft arti-| cles of impeachment against the 77-year-old official. The new resolution introduced | today would amend the house bill by permitting Commissioner Moore to draw his salary for the remainder of his term, but he would have no voice, except advisory, in the affairs of the land office. Passage of the resolution, if acceptable to the house, would forestall impeachment and enable the legislature to adjourn next week. Voting of impeachment charges by the house would pre-| vent early adjournment and force: the senate to sit as an impeachment court. The house showed no signs of backing down on the impeachment move today. Speaker Fielding Wright appointed Rep. Walter Sillers, Jr., Bolivar County, Rep. John Armstrong, Copiah; Rep. Gerald Chatham, DeSoto; Rep. Guy Mitchell, Tupelo; and Rep. Sam | Lumpkin, Tupelo, as a committee to draft the articles of impeach-| ment. Senators were gathered in little groups about the chamber and anterooms this morning discussing the house action and the movement to accept major features of the house land office reorganization bill was gaining JAPANESE WILL FAIL SAYS CHINESE GENERAL Leader Says Further Japs Penetrate The Nearer They Are To Failure WITH THE CHINESE RED ARMY IN NORTH CHINA, March 25 (AP). General Yu Cheng Tsao, commander of central Hopeh province Chinese communist forces, has this to say of the final outcome in China's war with Japan: "The farther inland the Japan-| ese come the surer will become their ultimate failure in China". As he spoke, 20,000 farmer militiamen passed in review before him, chanting anti-Japanese songs. Their flintlock rifles, spears and broadswords flashed in the north China sun. The nearest Japanese garrison was ten miles away. "This is only one of the many people's armies we are organizing to harass the Japanese," general Yu said proudly. "Except for brief sallies, the Japanese are restricted to the railway lines. When they get away from them, we strike. With our guerilla tactics, we frequently surround them and wipe them out." This miniature Red China in central first province invaded Japanese when the war Hopeh, the started last July 7-is only one of five small red states in the northern provinces. It is 200 miles behind Japanese lines, and between the Japanese - conquered PeipingHankow and Tientsin-Pukow railways. A drum and bugle corps followed the troops. Behind it marched 2,- 400 school children. They cheered like Americans going to a football game and waved anti - Japanese banners. A uniformed women's propaganda corps, equiped with revolvers, harangued gaping peasants. Over and over they repeated what they said were reasons why Chinese must mobilize the wealth and skill of the masses for the fight against Japan. After the parade and speeches came five hours of dramatics. A huge open-air crowd saw enactment of alleged cruelties of Japanese soldiers and the "Chinese siavery that will come" if Japan is not defeated., General Yu spoke glowingly of the growth of anti Japanism JAPANESE WOULD BUY CRUDE OIL IN MEXICO Contract Is Sought For Half Million Barrels Of Crude Oil Annually TOKYO, March 25 (P) -Through private companies Japan is preparing to offer Mexico a contact for the purchase of nearly 500,000 barrel of crude oil annually, it was learned today. The contract would provide for Japanese technical assistance in construction of pipelines and improvement of harbors on Mexico's Pacific coast. Official quarters were silent on the proposal, but it was authoritatively, learned the same companies had approached the Mexican government a month before the outbreak of hostilities in China last year. The deal was not completed. The pipelines would cross .the Isthmus of Tehuantepec, with Salina Cruz as the probable point of loading. The oil would have to be piped about 150 miles downgrade. Since the outbreak of Chinese hostilities, Japan has ceased publication of oil import statistics, but official figures show she brought in about 24,600,000 barrels of crude oil in 1936. MEXICO CITY, March 25 (AP)- A domestic bond issue to help pay for the $400,000,000 expropriated American and British oil proper-, ties was proposed today by finance minister Edouardo Suarez. Governors of 24 states at a conference at which Suarez made the proposal pledged financial aid for the same purpose. They promised a contribution of 5 per cent of their yearly state budgets to wipe out the petroleum "debt." RESERVE OFFICERS MEET AT VICKSBURG Friday and Saturday, May 6-7. the State Convention of the Reserve Officers Association will be held at Vicksburg. These two days will be devoted to business of the organization and to a contact camp, in which the more important features of the siege of Vicksburg will be studied in detail by the ofcers. HARRISON COMMITTEE WORKING ON TAX BILL Members of Senate Finance Committee Say Their Measure Will Raise More Revenue WASHINGTON, March 21 (AP) Members of the senate finance| committee, which rebuffed the administration on two vital tax issues, declared today their new business tax program would raise more revenue than that passed by the house. Chairman Harrison (D - Miss) said the committee-approved flat tax on corporation income would bring in $97,000,00 more than the | undistributed profits levy, which it would replace in the tax revision bill. "This does not take into account any improvement in busi-| ness," he said. "If business improves, then our plan would bring more revenue to the government." Treasury estimates, Harrison added, showed the committee's version of the capital gains levy would raise close to $42,000,000- the amount anticipated from the | house provision. The committee's action in re-| writing those controversial levies presaged a fight over the tax bill when it reaches the senate floor, probably early next week. Administration leaders have been reported as favoring the | principle of the undistributed prof-! its tax, and government fiscal ex-| perts have approved the capital: gains provisions of the house bill Senator . Barkley, Democratic| leader, voted against eliminating the profits tax and was expected to lead a floor battle for its restoration. Senator Harrison termed the committee action a long step toward helping business. He said modification of the house capital gains tax should "release frozen capital | and bring business improvement." The soft-spoken Mississippian said disposition of the undistributed profits and capital gains provisions had solved the outstanding problems before the committee but that numerous other proposals would be taken up. Among these were two business-| approved suggestions- reduction of the surtax rates on upper bracket individual incomes and a broadening of the income tax base through a reduction in existing exemptions. WANT HOUSE TO SHARE IN TVA INVESTIGATION Administration Leaders Appeal To Senate To Include House Members On Committee WASHINGTON, March 25 (P) -Administration leaders appealed | to the senate today to include | house members in any committee investigating the Tennessee Valley Authority. They predicted overwhelming approval for a carefully worded res- : olution in which Democratic Leader Barkley of Kentucky proposed that five members of each chamber be appointed to hold public hearings on the policies which split the TVA directorate. Before the vote on Barkley's resolution, the other three senators who has proposed TVA in-| quiries conferred with him in an attempt to agree on just what the investigation should cover. They 1 "were Senator Norris (Ind-Neb), who first asked for an inquiry by the Federal Trade Commission, and Senators Bridges (R NH) and | King (D-Utah), opponents of TVA who wanted to include in the resolution a long list of accusations against the board members. Norris, who watches TVA as a proud parent, insisted the inquiry should include private power companies which have opposed the ad. ministration power "yardstick." Barkley's lengthy resolution in-: cluded Norris' requests and also covered the recent ouster by President Roosevelt of Arthur E. Morgan from the chairmanship of the agency's battling directors. Norris, clinging to his demand for a senate investigation, said he opposed Barkley's proposal on the grounds that inclusion of the house in the inquiry would make it "more costly and unwieldly." Bridges declared the Barkley proposal was not acceptable because it included everything asked by Norris and none of the Bridges-King charges. As author of the substitute resolution, Barkley, under senate custom, could control appointment of the investigators. This was regarded as likely to eliminate Bridges and King from committee membership. MRS. JOHN B. HUDSON ROOSEVELT STUDIES FOREIGN SITUATION President Turns Attention At his Mountain Cottage To Foreign Affairs WARM SPRINGS, Ga., March | 25 (A)-President Roosevelt turned | his attention to foreign affairs at his mountain cottage today, with Europe looming large in his studies. He had no immediate comment : on Secretary Hull's proposal for joint European-American action 1 in removing political refugees from German and Austria, but he sched| uled a conference with William C. Bullitt, American ambasasdor to Paris, to go over the general situation abroad. Home on leave, the young diplomat was due at the President's vacation retreat during the day. Except for a press conference in front 1 of one of the two cottages quarter| ing newspapermen, the chief executive had no other engagements for the second day of his ten-day | vacation. Hull's refugee relief proposal to nine European governments, in| cluding Italy, and to all the American republics, came as somewhat of a surprise to many in the White House entourage. But, as in all state department's moves, officials of course had not the slightest doubt of President consultation on it beforehand. The he only question here was how long it had been under consideration. Reporters seeking coment were referred to the state department. The President spent his first day here driving his own new five| passenger car, with "F. D. R." plates, around the foundation grounds. Bare-headed, he stopped in the middle of a dirt road in front of the office of Henry J. Toombs, architect for the infantile paralysis treatment center, and went over plans for a new 35-bed hospital to relieve congestion in the foundation's infirmary. Then, with Basil O'Connor, a former law partner and head of the new national foundation to combat the crippling diseases, and his personal secretary, Miss Marguerite Lehand, he drove several miles for a glimpse of his 1,000- acre farm. SECRETARY HULL WOULD AID. NAZI. REFUGEES Secretary of State Hull Would Facilitate Emigration Of Persecuted Peoples From Nazi Countries. WARM SPRINGS, Ga., March 25 (A) - President Roosevelt said today the American proposal to give asylum to political refugees in Germany and Austria applied also to oppressed minorities in Russia, Spain and Italy and any other country abroad. He added that it was designed to help all groups seeking to get out of troubled lands - Jews, Catholics and protestants, that no legislation was required to accomplish the purpose, and that it was in line with domestic policy that goes back to 1789 when the United States held it elf out as an asylum for political refugees. The President talked of foreign and domestic questions to reporters as he sat in an open car in front of a press cottage. With him were William C. Bullitt, American ambassador to France and Basil O'Connor, his former law partner. He said he had talked with Bullitt about how to rid the government's career services of men who remain in them although incompetent, The President nodded in agreement when a reporter asked whether the refugee proposal aplied to Italy, Russia and Spain or any other country. As to Hull's proposal inviting nine European and all the American nations to set up a committee to study the present day problem, he said it was designed to get private money to help oppressed peoples move to other lands. He said requests for asylum had come not only from Jews but from protestants and Catholics and that no more than the present immigration laws of the respective assisting countries allowed would be permitted to enter. As for Austrian and Greman minorities, he sad the American law provides that when two countries merge, their quotas are merged into one. As far as America is concerned this would permit about 26,000 to come from the enlarged Germanic nation.
