HENDERSON,
GATEWAY TO
CENTRAL
CAROLINA.
TWENTIETH YEAR
MACHINERY READY
FOR CAMPAIGN ON
COTTON REDUCTION
Contracts Have Been Sent
To County Agents by
Dean Schaub, Direc
tor For State
EXPECTING TO KNOW
BY NEXT THURSDAY
Secretary Wallace Will
Likely Announce Quickly
Whether Farmers Have
Been Sufficiently Interest
ed To Sign Pledge To De
stroy Part of Their Crop
UhII? Iti.iiiiich nnrfim.
In tke Sir Wnltrr Hot.)
*T j v n*SKRII VIM,
Raleigh June 22—The machinery
is in readiness to start the canvass of
North Carolina's 90,000 cotton farm
ers Monday, June 26, to secure enough
of th»*s* farmers to agree to destroy
3€3.000 acres of their cotton crop new
growing Dean I. O Schaub said tot
day. Dean Schaub. head of the Ag
ricultural Extension Service at Sfc*t’
Colic?!?, was named by Secretary of
Agriculture Wallace as director of the
cotton -reduction campaign in North
CarolinaHe 'has been busy this
week perfecting an organization in
every cotton growing county in the
State.
Shipments of the cotton reduction
contracts were received from Wash
ington yesterday, and these are being
3«nt ou bto the farm agents and other
organizers and workers in every cot
ton county, so that all will i»e supplied
when the sigkVup lcamipaign starts
Monday morning. All other informa
•icn and materials needed will be
ready by Monday morning. Dean
Schwab said.
Whether or not the cotton redude
ticn plan will be put into effect uriil
depend upon whether enough farry
ers sign the contracts to assure the
destruction of a <>f 4 000,-
000 bales of the present crop. It is
expected it will be possible to deter
mine tha nnmlber of acres,-and hence
the number of bales, signed up bj
Thursday, June 29. a-t wh s ch time
Secretary* Walirt-e will announc
\Tsether the ijtfan twill, be carried
through. Present indications are
that most of the farmers are friendly
to the plan and that no difficulty
will be had in getting them to sign
up for the acreage reduction needed
The county and community work
ers who will call cn the coittori fahm
e j-. l' j fnningi Monday, will, offer
them two plans. The fret plan
known as the “Optional-Rental Plan/’
offers the farmer so much an acre
for hi sland, ranging from $6 to sl2
an acre, depending- upo n the yield,
together with an option on cotton al
ready ownde by the Government in
en amount equal to the cotton plow
ed up. Non« of ibis option cotton
can be sold for less than 9 1-2 cents
a pound before Decemb-r 1, unless
ihe Secretary of Agriculture directs
otherwise. Thus the farmer is guar
anteed a profit of at least 3 1-2 cents
a pound to begin with. Under the
second plan, the farmers are paid a
rental only. but at a higher rate,
w thout getting an,y option on any
cotton. He thus does not have a
chance to make more On his cotton
should the market advance. It is
b lieved that most of the farmers
will take the first plan, with the rent
and option both, since they have a
chance to make mluch more on that
plan.
In no case, however, will a farmer
b» permitted to plow up more than
10 per cent of his cotton crop, while
he must agree to destroy at least
25 per cent of his crop in order to
avail himself of the government’s of
f-r. All cotton acreage plowed up
trust first be viewed and approved
by the committee in charge of this
work in each county and community
and must then be inspected again by
the same committee after it has been
Pl r wed up, before the farmers can
collect from the. governmnt and
acreage rental to be paid. This re 1 -
(Continued on page. 81x.'
Young Democrats Will Be
Solid For Dry Law Repeal
Dnlfr IHspnleh BnrMi,
In the Sir Wwller Hotel,
liv J C. BASKKBVHX.
Paleigh. June 23. —The Young: Dem
rrtat :of North Carolina are going to,
f| ' pt a resolution endorsing repeal,
'’f he lighieenth amendment in their
convention at Wrightsvllle!
* >,( July 8, regardless of what Gov
>' J C. B. Enringhaus. State
, mman Wallace Winborne or any
' f 'ha other paity leaders think aboutj
’* according to present indications.
Ai.d a let of the older Democrats'
U&tUt sß i&putth
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Ce^ es London Economic Conclave
wnraf ■Sffir mti URMIA, dflPlk $ ' «Hvl :
enacted M the m scenes from rh» great drama
Downing St., residence of Kior M^nTo]/ 111^ 6 ' R '-?’ Bennett of Canada arrives at 10 j
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Commodity Prices Have
Already Far Surpassed
Decline Os The Dollar
Registration of
Autos Is Gaining
Raleigh, June 23.—(AP)—A. J.
Maxwell, commissioner of revenue,,
today said there was a continued
steady increase in automob le re
gistration in the State.
“Practically every day now’ for
more than 60 days the registration
has been higher than for the same
day last year,” Maxwell said.
“Total 1933 registrations are now
321,628, compared with 343,518 for
the same day in 1932 ,a drop of less
than 22,000. At one time the differ
ence was more than 40,000.
Reg strations yesterday were 34ft
compared to 109 the same day last
year.
BRITISH TREASURER
OBJECT OF TIRADE
Chamberlain Told People
Would Prefer Roose
velt for That Office
London, June 23. —(AP)—Josiah C.
Wedgewood a Labor member stirred
the House of Commissions today by
telling Neville Chamberlain to his
face that the “people of Britian would
rather have Franklin Roosevelt as
chancellor of the exchequer than
Neville Chamberlain.”
Cries of “No, no, no,” from the gov
ernment benches answered the Labor
member’s statement.
Robert Boothy, a Conservative,
joined in the criticism of Mr. Cham
berlain.
“When Mr. Roosevelt said he was
going to raise prices, the world be
lieved he would do it,” Mr. Boothy
said. “But when Mr. Chamberlain
said he hoped to raise prices, nobody
believed he would do so by his policy.”
The attack on Mr. Chamberlain oc
curred during the final stages of the
budget debate. Mr. Boothy declared
that unless Britain took steps to raise
commodity prices, the present budget
could not be balanced.
are in agreement with them and urg
ing them to take this stand. Reports
received here from over the State
show that delegation after delegation
of the Young Democrats Is being in
structed to vote solidly for any re
solution putting the Young demo
crats in favor of repeal of the eight
eenth amendment.
The Fayetteville club voted over
whelmingly the other night to in
(Cqn tlnued on Page Five.),
HENDERSON, N. C., FRIDAY AFTERNOON, JUNE 23. 2933
Pointing , for Roosevelt’s
Goal of High Enough
Level to Bring Some
Prosperity
FALL OF DOLLAR IS
SHOWN BY REPORTS
At End of May, Six Basic
Commodities Had Jumped
60 Percent Since February;
Still Long Way ,To Go and
Dollar Stabilization Is
i Therefore Delayed
Washington, June 23.—(AP)—Amer
ican commodity prices have outstrip
ped the fall of the dollar and are
pointing for President Roosevelt’s
goal of a level high enough to bring
the country some prosperity.
For the first time since the stock
market and the commodity indices
started their climb, an official analy
sis has not indicated the spread be
tween the true price rise and the dol
lar’s depreciation as a consequence
of gold stanaarcr abandonment. The
Federal Reserve Board's monthly re
view is out today with the statement
that by the end of May —just before
the last decline began—the dollar was
down 15 percent interms of French
francs, the leading gold standard cur
rency. The British pound had lost two
percent in the same time.
Six basic commodities, said the
board, had by the end of May jump
ed 60 percent since February. One
half of the rise corresponded to a
general world rise and the remaining
30 percent represented dollar depre
ciation, plus actual domestic rise. The
commodities discussed were cotton,
lard, silver, copper, tin. and rubber.
There is still a long way to go to
reach the 1926 average, which is re
garded as the Roosevelt goal, and
pending which the dollar stabilization
plans are being held off. The Depart
ment of Labor placed the June 17
index for all commodities at 64.5,
against 100 for 1926. The coarse was
charted steadily upward through the
past several weeks. May 20 it was
63.0; and the succeeding weeks 63.3,
63.8, 64.0 and now 64.5,
JUDGES REFUSE TO
APPROVE BEER ACT
Atlanta, Ga., June 23—(AP) —
A three-judge Federal court today
refused to restrain county offi
cers from interfering with 3.2
beer shipments through Georg'a.
A
WEATHER
FOR NORTH CAROLINA.
Partly cloudy, pnobabbly show*
ers tonight and Saturday; slight
ly cooler on the coast tonight, _
Cannon Suspect;
, Is Freed on Bail
’ij ;
Boynon, Va M June 23.—(AP)—
George Washington Cannon, also
known as John D. Cannon, who
•was held in connection w.th the
murder of four relatives at La-
Crcsse on March 31, was free to
day under SIO,OOO bond furnished
by his father and uncle, Walter
Morris, of LaCrosse
He is bailed for his appearance
here on August 21, when the Meck
lenburg county grand jury meets.
TySfloSo
Great Dikes Built Two Year s
Ago May Not Hold
Mighty River
Shanghai, June 23 (AP)
! China’s great riVer, the Yangtze,
is threatening to inundate num
«*rc ’r- cities towns and farm lands
with i< tost valley, comprising
the heart ci t*io nation.
The Yangtze, which has undergone
a phenomnal rise in the last fort
night, as the result of continuous
Tans at its headwaters, now laps
the top of dikes protecting the na
tions granary.
The stream threatens to repeat the
great flood of 1931, following which
7,000 miles of new dikes were built at
h height believed sufficient to re
move all likelihood of the danger
which now impends.
Levels reached two years ago were
surpassed today and the muddy river
still rose. So far, the new walls alone
(have prevented disaster.
Grave alarm is felt in the district
through which the * Yangtze flows.
Emergency measures are being put
[forth to raise and strengthen the
dikes. Numerous minor breaks have
occurred, however.
Says State
Cooperates
Over Cotton
Extension Service
Finds “Unanimous
Support” of Curtail
ment Movement
_____ 1
Raleigh, June 23 —(AP) —The North
Carolina State College Extension Di
vision reported today “unanimous sup
port and a splendid spirit of coop
eration” was shown yesterday at three
district meetings which launched the
local cptton reduction program, for the
•State. * „
More than 700 county agents;
.cational teachers, farmers, bankers
and others interested in agriculture
in the State’s 67 cottpn-growing coun
ties attended meetings at Charlote,
Rocky Mount and Fayetteville.
Detailed plans were outlined to con
tact the 90,000 cotton farmers in the
*Late and secure cotton redueffion,
contracts and retire 363,000 acres of
this year’s crop, ,
Economic Conference Will
Not Adjourn, But Continue,
Its Troubles Smoothed Out
World Supervision For
Armaments Now Gaining,
Envoy Davis Declares
U. S. Ambassador.at-Large
Home from Geneva Arms
Conference to Advise
Roosevelt
securitylpacts OF
NATION LOSING OUT
Sentiment Forming For
Unity of Effort, He De
clares; Says Peace Is Clod-
Blooded Proposition And
United States Is Not Cru
sading Its Policy
New York, June 23.—(AP)-Norman
H. Davis, United States ambassador
at-large hinted on his return from
Geneva today a belief that demands
for security pacts—stumbling blocks
in previous disarmament agreements
—are giving way to sentiment favor
ing international supervision of arms.
Davis and Mrs. Davis were aboard
•Lhe Bremen. He said" the purposes of
'his trip home were to “rest, confer
with the President and see my son
married. ”
He said he would return to Geneva
before the end of the disarment con
ference .
Sitting in his sat aboard the steam
er, and speaking very slowly, Davis
answered many questions about the
conference, but made no reference to
rumors that h intended to resign. He
called peace »a “cold-blooded proposi
tion,” and said that the United States
was approaching efforts toward it in
no crusading attitude.
liUSTICONIROL
TO BE FELT HERE
No Legislation Ever Passed
So Far-Reaching In State
Fletcher Says
Hally Dispatch Bureau,
In the Sir Walter Hotel.
HT .1 C. UASKERVILL,
Raleigh, June 23 —No act ever pass
ed either by Congress or by the State
General Assembly has a more far
reaching effect upon the industry of
North Carolina than the new indus
trial control act just passed by Con
gress, according to Commissioner of
Labor A. L. Fletcher, who is now
waiting word from Washington as to
whether his department will assist in
the administration of this act. It is
not known yet whether General Hugh
S. Johnson, administrator of the act,
will seek to work through State labor
departments or whether he will set
up Independent administrative ma
chinery in each State, under State
administrators. In any event, Com
missioner Fletcher expects to coop
erate in every way possible and to
place the facil.ties of his department
at the disposal of General Johnson
and his organization.
The particular portion of this act
that affects North Carolina industry
and especially the textile industry, the
most is the section that limits the
hours of employment in all industry
to not more than 40 hours a week
and fixing a minimum wage of $lO
a week for the lowest paid labor,
Commissioner Fletcher pointed out.
Two-thirds of the mill operators in
tihe textile industry have already
(agreed to accept these figures, which
means that all the others will also
have to agree to this code. The re
gulations provide that any mill op
erator or manufacturer who does not
conform to the regulations for a 40-
hour week with a minimum wage of
$lO a week, shall be liable to a fine
of not less than SSOO a day for the
period during which the agreement
has been or may be violated. The
industrial code also stipulates that
no mill may operate more than two
shifts of 40 hours a tveek, thus limit
ing the total activity of a mill to not
more than‘Bo hours a week with two
shifts :■
It 3 is.-not .-known yet when these re
gulations will go into effect, but it
believed that they will be made op -
erative by July 1 or very soon there
after, since General Johnson is de
termined to get action as quickly as
.possible. A hearing on the rules and
regulations that have already been
prepared in accordance with this act
w.ll be held in Washington Tuesday,
(Continued oa Page Two.^
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Stolen Sheriff Freed
Xw/.y' 1 .
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1. mmf
•\_jJ_L_r
Sheriff William “Jack” Killings
worth is recovering at his home in
Bolivar, Mo., from his experiences'
while the prisoner of a kidnap band
believed to have been headed by
“'Pretty Boy” Floyd, notorious out
law.
(Central Pres*)
24 Italian
Planes To
Start Hop
Great Armada To
Fly Northern Route
To Chicago For
World’s Fair Visit
Winnipeg, Manitaho June 23
(AP)—Hudson Bay Company of
ficials predietde tioday that the
flight of the Italian air armada
from Italy to Chicago would have
to be postponed because a supply
steamer is caught in the ice in
the Strait of Belie Isle.
The armada was scheduled to
leave Italy tomorrow.
Orbetello, Italy, June 23 (AP) —
After a final satisfactory takeoff drill
this morning, which lasted 35 minu
tes, War Minister Italio Balho pro
nounced his trans-Atlantic squadron
of 24 seaplanes ready to take off at
dawn tomorrow o n the first leg of a
6,100-mi.le flight byway of the sub
polar region to Chicago. j
Weather conditions over the Alps
now are reported good and growing
more favorable.
•High Fascist officials, including
General Emilio de.- Bono, former su
preme chief of the Fascist army, wit
nessed the final drill of the armada.
The air minister and 100 crack Fas
cist fliers composing the expedition
will spent the night at the High Seas
Aerial Navigation School here. They
will rise at about 4 a. m., prepared
to get away for Amsterdam with the
coming of daylight. 4
Although no stops are contemplat
ed on the 870 mile flight to Amster
dam, landing can be made if neces
sary almost anywhere along the route.
Says Merchants Planning
To Beat Sales Tax 1935
Winston-Salem, June 23—(AP)
—The Twin City Sentinel said to
day it had learned from authori
tative sources that a move to or
ganize the merchants of North
Carolina into a political unit to
fight the sales tax will be launch
ed at the State Merchants Asso
ciation convention here next
week.
“It was reliably reported,” the
paper said, “that a resolution be
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FIVE CENTS COPY
EIGHT COMMITTEES,
STRUGGLING ALONG
WITH GRAVE7ARKS
Principal Concern Is Effort
To Draw Up Permanent
Monetary Standard
for World
CONCENTRATE UPON
PROPOSALS BY U. S.
Gyrations of Dollar Still Se
rious Worry of British
Delegates; Frenchman De
nies Flatly That Gold
Countries Will Abandon
That Standard
London, June 23.—(AP) Prime
Minister Ramsay MacDonald, as pres
ident of the world economic confer
ence, declared in a statement to the
press this afternoon that the con
ference was not going to adjourn, but
was continuing its work.
“I am entering the third week with
a very bbuoyant and hopeful heart,”
he. added.
The prime minister, after contacts
"today with delegates to the confer
ence, was quoted as saying that the
previously disturbing situation had
distinctly improved and continued
progress seemed assured.
In the meantime, eight committees
were struggling with grave tasks, the
principal subject being an effort to
draw u pa permanent monetary stan
dard. Groups wrestling with this vital
problem concentrated wholly on Am
erican proposals.
High British quarters made no ef
fort to conceal their serious concern
over the continuped gyrations of the
dollar, but with America’s inability
to stabilize at this juncture made
clear, the British expressed sympathy
with the position of the United States
Secretary of State Cordell Hull and
James M. Cox held a prolonged dis
cussion during the morning. Mr. Hull
and the British prime minister put
their gray heads together over cups
(Continued On Page Four.)
Truce Upon
Quotas Now
French Aim
—— "*•
Move Seen as Count
er Stroke at Ameri
can effort for Their
Abolition
London, June 23.—(AP) —France
proposed a quota truce at the world
economic conference today which
would enable countries using nuoitas
as weapons against importations to
keep them indefinitely.
The resolution is considered as a
counter proposal to the intensive
drive by the United States >o the
complete abolition of all embargoes,
quotas and arbitrary restrictions. The
French suggestion calls upon the na
tions to undertake not to enact new
prohibitions or quotas but permit
them to maintain quotas presently
in force for an indefinite period.
Agricultural products, however, are
excluded from the proposed truce.
The resolution was debated in a
sub-committee considering commer
cial policies.
presented to the State association
asking for organization of a po
litical party of merchants embrac
ing the 4,000 members of the asso
ciation and the estimated 15,000
additional merchants not mem
bers. The purpose of the group
would b* to stage a Statewide bat
*'e for the defeat of the sales tax
at the next General Assembly and
to rigdly scrutinize candidates
wlfpn voting .time rolls pround
next Juno.