TOUB TOWN last ? bit better than joa are willing to Help it BOOST YOUR TOWN The Franklin Times THE COUNTY . THE STATE - THE UNION YOUR LOCAL PAPER can't exist without your Paid (or Patronage In Subscription* and Advertising BOOST YOUR HOME PAPER VOLUMN LXVI. SUBSCRIPTION ?1.00 Per Year LOUISBURG, N. CAROLINA, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER SW>, 111:1.1 EIGHT PAGES) NUMBER 31 1935 TOBACCO SEASON OPENS Three Houses at Louisburg Have Big Sales Tuesday AROUND 190,000 POUNDS ON SALE Planters Has First Sale, Southside Second, Lea's Union Third ? Some Fair ly Good Individual Aver ages ? General Average Low The Louisburg Tobacco Market opened (or the sale ot the 1935 tobacco crop on Tuesdjay with around 190,000 pounds of tobac co which was sold at an average of almost 16 cents a pound. The first sale was had at the Planters Warehouse, the second at the Southside and the third at Lea's Union. Large crowds were present at each of the Warehouses thr oughout the sales but the usual enthusiasm was lacking on ac count ot the extreme low prices. While many fairly good individual averages were made, much disatis faction prevailed among the grow ers at the big difference between the 1934 and 1935 prices. The crop this season as indica tions point from that which was offered, is oft some in quality, being ot a thin, light texture, but contains a splendid color and ap pearance. It is also the opinion of many that by reason of the lightness of this crop there will not be as much produced as has been estimated. In this particular section the increased quantity just about offsets the decrease in weight. Sales Continued the remainder of the week with fairly good quantities at each of the houses with about the same price aver ages holding. There seerhs to be some feeling of hope for better conditions arising from tAe meet ing held in Raieigh Thursday. A comparison of the price aver ages for the year from 1929 to 1934 inclusive show the average still in the lead. Reports from all sections show that Louisburg is right at the top in comparision with other mar kets and all tobacco growers are invited to come here to sell with the assurance that they will find a sympathetic feeling and a de sire to do everything possible to get them higher prices. Recorder's Court Franklin Recorders Court held quite an interesting session on Tuesday with Mr. E. C. Bullock prosecutling the docket In the place of County Attorney Chas. P. Green, who was attending Supreme Court In Raleigh. Several cases were contested and one case demanded a Jury. The docket as disposed of was as follows: Jack Aycocke plead guilty to using profane language on high way, fined )5 and costs. Prayer for judgment was con tinued fn the' case of operating automobile intoxicated against A. D. Joyner. The case of fraud against W. A. Watklns was continued under former order. ' Willie Kearney was found guilty of assault with deadly wea pon and given S months on roads, to be suspended upon payment of costs and $3.00 to doctor. Clyde M. Dallor, violating fish ing law, remanded to Justice of Peace. ^ W. Jeff Warren, violating fish *lng law, resisting officer, reman ded to Justice of the Peace. The following cases were con tinued: Pete Spivey, assault with dead ly weapon. Claude Davis, peeping into room. Bud Davis, carrying concealed weapon, drunk and disorderly. C. E. Daniel, operating auto mobile intoxicated. Jury- request ed. Paul Horton .and Ed Denton, operating automobile intoxicated, drunk and disorderly, assault and nuisance. Gordon Mangum, "Violating pro hibition law. P. T. A. HONORS SUPT. W. 0. STROUD Oo' Sept. 26th at ' 8 : 00 p. m. the P. T. A. of Mill* High School trill honor Mr. 'W. C.1 Stroud with an Informal tea in the gymnasium of Mills Higtt 'Stjfcool. "All patrons and friends of sthe school are . urged 'to be present to meet our Jtftw Superintendent and welcome 'feln In oiif midst. ? Mussolini Ready To Reject Peace Proposals London, Sept. 19. ? The Lea gue's peace proposals are "not only unacceptable, but derisory," Premier Benito Mussolini assert ed in an interview with G. Ward Price published today in The Dally Mail. Mussolini said the League Com mittee of Fire's official offer hid not yet reached him, but that "if versions telegraphed by press agencies are correct, the propos als seem ironical." "The suggestion apparently Is made that Italy's need tor expan sion in East Africa should be met by cession to her of a couple of deserts, one of salt and the other of stone," II Duce contin ued. "They are the deserts of Danakll and Ogaden. "There Is a man in one of Mark Twain's books who was so fond of echoes that he bought two mountains with fine echoes and built a house between them. Collector of Desertx "It looks as if the League thinks I am a collector of des erts." The Italian dictator Continued in a cynical rein: "I got 110,000 square miles of Sahara desert from the French a little while ago. Do you know how many Inhabitants there are in that desolate area? Sixty-two. , "The' country of the Danakils, which the Committee of Five pro Doses should be offered to Italy , is the bed of a dried up sea which ties 800 feet below the present *ea level and is a waste of white lalt 200 miles long, practically uncrossable. Not a blade of grass 's growing there. Mot even an Abyssinian can find livelihood there. Desert of Stone "The desert of Ogaden is a des ert of stone. We have irrigated some of the Libyan desert and made It livable, but nothing can be made of a parched wilderness of huge rocks. "In the sheme for Internation al administration and gendarmer ie, It seems that Italy would not be represented. The suggestion apparently Is that 200,000 Italian troops should be brought home and told that they were sent there for an excursion. That certainly will not be done in any case. "It would have been far better if the committee had addressed itself to the central fact in the Ethiopian situation, which is: There is no such thing as an Ethiopian nation. What makes up the nation called Ethiopia is a dominant race of Amharas ruling over tribes which they conquered and reduced to slavery, almost exterminating them In the pro cess. "These depressed subject races of Ethiopia would be. far better off under Italian rule while the true Ethiopia could be -helped to rtfach a decent level of civiliza tion by means of a regime similar to that which first existed In Iraq or still applies in Morocco." With Cotton Association Mr. Phil. R. Inscoe, who has been with the tripple A for some months, and one of Franklin County's foremost and successful farmers, has taken a position with the Field 8ervlce Department of the N. C. Cotton Growers Coopera tive Association and has been stationed in Franklin County. Mr. Inscoe is well qualified for this work and will be of much service to the members as well as the {Association. Miss Beam To Converse Spartanburg, S. C., Sept. IS. ? Miss Mamie Beam of Louisburg, N. C. will be among the new students registering at Converse College this week. Freshmen are arranging their schedules on Tuesday and Wednesday, and u|| per-classmen will arrive In time for classes on Monday, Septem ber 23. Dr. Edward M. Gwathmey, pre sident of the College, has an nounced that the enrollment for thl? year la much larger than that of last year. The dormitories will be filled and an unusually large number of students from the city will ebter. phons iaa CQH FIRST OLAS*. PRINTING Huey Loog? Viaim of Enemy's Bullet BATON ROUGE, La. . . . Abore is one of the latest picture, of U. B. Senator Huey P. Long and family. It wa? taken in New York shortly before the Louisiana dictator was shot and seriously wounded in the ' corridor of the Louisiana Stats Capitol by a disgruntled political enemy, Dr. Carl A. Weils, Jr., who in turn was mowed down by maclHne guns * in the hands of Senator Long's body guards. In the photo are : ''Senator and Mrs. Long, daughter Boee and son, Palmer Seed Long. LIQUOR CASES ARE HEARD Yesterday's News-Observer car ried the following concerning the hearing ot the liquor cases by the Supreme Court: North Carolina's much-dlscuss 'ed local liquor legTSTMion lay yesterday, after three hours and 53 minutes of exhaustive and strenuous argument, before the State Supreme Court, which later will hand down decisions ruling on the validity of the two liquor i legalization laws passed by the General Assembly of 1935. Arguments in the case, begun Tuesday when nine attorneys at tacked and defended the laws for two hours, were continued yester day for slightly more than an hour and a half by two attorneys' for each side, j Fowler Case Out During the course of the argu-l ;ments, Chief JUBtlce Walter P.] Stacy madp the statement that the Fowler case, frequently quoted by Drys as governing the present ap j peals, is excluded from considera tion in the present situation. The Fowler case opinion denied to the Legislature the power to fix Tur lington Act penalties in a small group of counties at variance with [other counties in the State. The Chief Justice's announce-' ment, however, did not dim the enthusiasm with which W. H. Y*r I borough of Louisburg! "Wlio open ed for the Drys Tuesday and again yesterday, and former! iSupreme Court Associate Justice L. R. Varser of Lumberton, who, Iclosed for the Drys, attacked the' validity of the legislation. Walter G. Sheppard of Snow I Hill, who was interrupted by the : adjournment of the court Tuesday1 .at the beginning of his argument, did not continue yesterday. Julius Banzet of Warrenton, appeared jin his stead for the Wets and E. H. Malone of Louisburg, delivered | the closing argument. 'Hep* Stovall Dead Mr. H. M. Stovall, Jr., died at 5:30 o'clock In Pittsburg, Pa., ac cording to a telegram received by his parents Mr. and Mrs. H. M. Stovall early yesterday. No jdetalls were received. The re mains will be brought to Louis jburg tonight and Interment will follow. Funeral arrangements had not been made when the TIMES I closed its forms. Mr. Stovall was 27 years of iage and besides his parents leave three brothers James, Edward and William Stovall, all of Loulsburg. He was a capable and popular young man and was holding a position at the City in which he died. The breaved family has the sympathy of the community. New Collector Mr. Ernest F. Cashlon has been; sent to Loulsburg by the Farm Credit Administration to have charge of the Seed Loan Collec tions In Franklin County. He will attend each tobacco for the purpose of meeting and assisting the farmers with th?ir payment. After the sales and on Saturdays he will occupy offices under An-! drews Drug Store in one of ttaae County offices formerly used oy the Health Department. ** Mr. Caahion comes to Fran t lii well recommended as a most courtlous and capable gentleman, aad will, no deubt, be of much assistance to the many farmers patroniaitji tjjj^ department. Shirley Temple in "Curly Top" i Shirley Temple seems to have no limit to her resources (or win ning and holding audiences. In one picture she dances in another she sings; In some pictures she tugs at the heart strings of her audience, and in still others she Bends them home roaring at her comedy antics. But her newest ' starring pic ture, "Curly Top", which comes Friday and Saturday, September 27-28 to the Louisburg Theatre, combines all of Shirley Temples many talents and adds still an other. Shirley sings dances, laughs ?and plays Cupid In bringing sweetheartu together. Wins Mlllionj*lre'M h\iv