HENDERSON
gateway TO
CENTRAL
CAROLINA
TWENTIETH YEAR
MORE
Roosevelt Pledges Aid For Higher Tobacco Prices
Keeping In Touch
With Problem, He
Wires Ehringhaus
Confidently Counting On
Support of Growers In
Making the New Plans
Effective
growers move for
CROP CURTAILMENT
Next Monday Date Set For
Start of Sign-Up Campaign
In Both Carolinas; Parity
Prices Promised Those
Growers Who Participate
In Campaign
Raleigh. Sept. 7.—(APl —Governor
Ehringhaus announced today he had
received a telegram from President
P.i orevp)-, pledging the aid of the ad
jr inistration in securing better prices
fc" fine-cured tobacco.
The tc’egram said:
"Regret exceedingly that because of
he’a’ed ft’val I did not see you yes
trday (Tuesday). I am in touch with
the tobacco problem through the sec
retary of agriculture, and wish to
a«ur« you and through you the grow
ers cf flue-cured tobcaco of our deep
tympathy with their situation.
‘ The Department, nf Agriculture, as
ycu know. Is moving promptly un
der the agricultural adjustment act
on.th«- program designed to correct
renditions, and we are confidently
counting cn your cooperation ahd that
-cf the growers in making it effective.”
GROWFRS MOVE SPEEDILY
TOWARD CROP REDUCTION
TRv the Associated Press.)
Tob’cco growers of the Carolinas
moved today toward crop reduction
campaigns designed to secure gov
ur.ment price lifting aid, not only
so- th’c year, but for the next two
years also.
At Columbia, Governor Ibra C.
R’ackwood declared next. Monday and
Tuesday ‘‘general holidays” in the
iobacco giowing counties of South
Carolina to allow the growers to par
ticipate in the reduction sign-up cam
paign.
His action followed closely on the
hr?ls of a mass meeting at Raleigh,
where North Carolina growers laid
plans for meetings in 57 counties at
which growers will be asked to sign a
blanket agreement pledging crop re
duction in 1934 and 1935 not to ex
ttM 30 percent of their average crops
for 1931, 1932. 1933.
Representatives of South Carolina
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Boycott Os
Ford Heard
At Winston
Consumer Signers of
NRA Vow Against
Buying Dearborn
Company’s Cars
Winston-Salem, Sept. 7. —(AP) —W.
I Ferrell, general chairman of the
recovery board here, today said can
'ysers had reported assertions by
•'RA signers that they would buy no
morr Ford automobiles, and he sent
’be following telegram to the Ford
--ctor Company at Dearborn.
Our canvassers, in securing sig
natures to the consumer’s pledge of
cooperation, have brought in many
reports from signers of these cards
lr -die tai ng positive conviction agaisgl
an V future purchases of Ford cars.
, ‘ ’ his attitude certainly places your
•'■'a’ dealers at a great disadvantage
nnd the sme Is probbly true through
-01, ‘ the country. Many of your deal
c’: have signed and are living up
o the code, and the buying public
H not be inclined to understand
b ’hejc dealers have no direct con
if "<n vv'Lh your matters of policy.
1 sin't-rr’y hoped that you will
' 'h<> necessary action to help clear
the aituatlon. so that loyal NRA
i'i dca’ers will not be penalized.”
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MmtJtersmt
Help Is Pledged
By Warehousemen
Greenville. N. C.» Sept. 7.—(AP)
—Tobacco warehousemen of East
ern North Carolina, meeting here
today, pledged their wholehearted
support for the government’s acre
age reduction campaign, and ten
dered their services. a’.ong with
those of all warehouse employees,
to aid in sign-up campaigns.
Meetings with county fare j
agents arc being arranged to lay
plans for the sign-ups to begin *
with mass meetings in various
counties Monday.
Last Detail
Os Tobacco
Plan Begun
Farm Administra
ti o n Completing
Scheme Looking
To Crop Control
Washington, Stpt. 7.—(AP)— The
Farm Administration today began
work on final details of its flue-cur
ed tobacco program after assurances
by the growers that they would sup
port a plan for production control.
Farmers are to begin on Monday
signing pledges to reduce their crop
for next year, and the following year,
If that is necessary.
J. B. Hutson, chief of the Farm
Administration tobacco section, said
the object of the program was to bring
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Etheridge Plans
No Early Changes
In His Policies
» V •
Daily Dispatch Bnrenw,
In the Sir Walter Hotel.
BY J. C ItASKimVII.T,
Raleigh, Sept. 7.—No changes in
the policies of the Department of
Conservation and Development are
contemplated, at least at present, R.
Bruce Etheridge, newly inducted di
rector. saul today in his first public
statement since taking office.
“It is nut my intention,” said Mr.
Etheridge, “to assume office with a
fanfare by saying a great deal about
what I intend to do. I realize that
the State's conservation program has
many angles and that it requires con
siderable thought and sudy itn get
ting adjusted.
“I expected to proceed cautiously
in taking hold of the worn and to
place efficiency in operation ahead of
other considerations. I realize the im
portance -of the conservation program
to the State and that proper acre of
our natural resources affects vtially
every phase of the life of the people
1 nless we make the best possible use
of our natural resources, we are wast
ing opportunities for future profits
and perpetuation of some of our most
important industries. To squander*the
gifts with which nature has endowed
us will impoverish future generations
and take away many of the pleasures
that have been enjoyed in the past.
“Shaply curtailed appropriations tn
the face of decreased revenues from
licenses and cooperative funds, make
our task more difficult; but we shall
carry on with a determination to give
the best service of which the Depart
ment is capable. We are determined
to surmount our obstacles and place
the conservation program back on a
plane which its importance demands.
A program as vital <s is the conser
vation of our natural resources to the
welfare of the people merits adequate
provisions, and the public will respond
to an increasing degree.
“President Roosevelt is emphasizing
various features of conservation to a
greater degree than a national admin
istration hs ever done before. We can
follow his leadership in this respect,
as we are doing in other features of
his recovery program, to our perma
nent profit and happiness.” _■
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WARSHIPS TO CUBA
HENDERSON, N. C„ THURSDAY AFTERNOON, SEPTEMBER 7, 1933
U. S. Warships Sent to Scene of New Cuban Revolt
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Here are the cruiser U. S. S. Richmond and two of the three destroyers
ordered to Havana, following the revolutionary coup against the gov
ernment of President de Cespedes by the Cuban Army, Navy and na
tional uolice. While the American warships have not received order* to
RAY OF TEACHERS
FINALLY APPROVED
? ' f
State Board of Education
Ratifies School Commis
sion’s Scales
$45 TO S9O PER MONTH
Brummitt Opposes Schedule and
Holds Out for 10 Percent High
er Pay; Governor Writes
Approval Resollution
Raleigh. Sept. 7.—(AP) —The State
Board of Education this afternoon
adopted the same teachers’ pay sche
dule that was approved by the State
School Commission, which makes sal
aries range from $45 to S9O monthly
for the next school year.
Some 23,000 teachers are affected by
the ruling. The board approved the
salary classifications after a two-hour
meeting by a vote of four to one, with
one member absent.
Attorney General Dennis G. Brum
mitt, who had proposed that all salary
brackets be increased by ten percent,
opposed the action. Auditor Baxter
Durham was absent.
Governor Ehringhaus drew the re
solution, which was adopted. Lieute
riai t Governor A. 11. Graham moved
the adoption and Treasurer Charles
M. Johnson made the second.
Voting affirmatively were Secre
tary of State Stacey W. Wade and Su
perintendent of Public Instruction A.
T. Allen. The governor said that
slightly more than $13,000,000 of the
$16,500,000 school appropriation w:ill
go for instructional service, and that
“every cent of the money available
was put in salaries after every other
item was cut to the limit.’’
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Defendant
Identified
As Robber
Witness At Taylors
ville Bank Hold-Up
Trial Tells Damag
ing Story
*’ —l—
Sept. 7. —(AP) —Mike
Stevenson,, former High Point city
employee, was named today as one of
four men who held up the Merchants
and Farmers Bank here July 29, and
fatally wounded the cashier, as the'
trial of Stevenson and R. E. Black
on murder charges got under way.
Two police officers told of confes
sions they said Black and Stevenson
made on their way here from Raleigh,
where they had been held for safe
keeping, and two other witnesses tes
tified. that Stevenson, was one of the j
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IBatht Dtswafrlr
IN THIS SECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA AND VIRGINIA.
Wilkes Farmer To
Be Electrocuted
Ra’eigh, Sent. 7—(AP)—Official
|not expected fp
behalf of Bryant .Stone, 45-jear
old Wilkes county farmer, schedul
ed to die in the electric chair to
morrow for killing h»s son-in-law,
Wayne Norman, 40.
Mrs. Vannie Stone, wife of the
doomed man, called on Edwin Gid,
parole commissioner, yesterday,
but was told there was no hope,
since Stone had confessed.
Later Governor Ehringhaus an
nounced he would not interfere
with the execution.
GOVERNOR REALIZED
CRISIS HAD ARISEN
Speed In Tobacco Situation
Was Motivated By De
sire To Help
Dally hlHpatch Rnrrna
in the Sir Wniter ITutel,
f»T J. C OiSKEnvil,!,.
Raleigh, Sept. 7.—The dominant
factor back of the decisive action
taken by Governor J. C. B. Ehring
haus last week in issuing a proclama
tion virtually ordering all the tobac
co warehouses in the State to close
was his conviction that a crisis was
at hand in the tobacco growing sec
tions and that it was his duty as gov
ernor of North Carolina to assist the
tobacco farmers in this crisis, accord
ing to prevailing opinion here. There
are still some few who maintain he
was actuated by political motives in
taking the action he did in an effort
to counteract the wave of criticism
that had swept the State following the
reorganization of the State Highway
and Public Works Commission a few
years ago, after which it was charged
that he was “politicalizing” the com
mission.
But those close to the governor, ex
pecially those who have been follow-
I ing his course during the past week,
are convinced that any ttempt to in
ject political considerations into* his
activities in connection with the to
bacco situation are doing him an in
justice. On the other hand, they are
sure that he was motivated only by
a sincere interest in the welfare of
the tobacco farmers, the conviction
that they were being discriminated
aga:inst in Washington, the conclus
ion that something definite had to be
done right away and that it was up
to him to take cahreg of the situation
in order to prevent possibly serious
consequences. The recent crtiicism
that had h r en heaped upon him to
the effect that he was lacking in de
cision and trying to dodge respon
sibility may have been rankling un
' der his skin aid hastened his de
[ cision to act decisively in this to
bacco crisis. But this factor was only
incidental, the basic reason being that
he was sure the tobacco farmers were
justified in Ihfir contentions and that
serious situations might result unless
definite steps were taken by the gov
ernment to help them and help them
| this year by increasing prices for to-
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land any men on Cuban soil, it is felt that their presence in Havana
qtliU L‘l’A haVe B ?t nefi ?u efl : ect on the tense situ »tion. The United
w W u S tak l n fo,low iug an interchange of opinions betweer
Ambassador Welles in Havana and Secretary of State Hull in Washington
Admiral Byrd To Start
Sept. 25 For South Pole
Leaves Boston on That Date
and This Time Will Take
Two Ships to Frozen
Region
SUPPLIES~ARE ALL
OBTAINED IN U. S.
35 Men on Each Ship To Be
Carried; Will Seek To
Learn Rest of Secrets of the
Antarctic; His Second Trip
There; Has Flown Over
Both Poles
Washington, Sept. 7 (AP)—Rear
Admiral! Ric'hard Evelyn Byrd and
ih is crew of scientific adventurers will
sail from Boston September 25 seek
ing to wrest the rema'itnilng secrets
from the last great home of mastery
—the enormous waste land of the
Antarctic. |
The noted explorer discllosed hts
departure date today in an interview
teliing the aims of the hazardous ex
pedition, which was interrupted a
fCa»tinu«d nn Page Five.)
Federal Red Tape
Delaying Highway
Work Over State
Daily Dispatch Rnrraa,
In the Sir Waller Hotel,
nv j. c. vimkervill.
Raleigh, Sept 7 —Althugh, the State
Highway and Public Works Com
irisslon. has reiadyl 32 coprsltruc|hon
project® involving the expenditure
of approximately $2,000,000 on whfleh
it is ready to call fr bids, it will not
be able to hold a letter on these pro
jects until after they have been, ap
proved by the U. S. Bureau of Pub
lic Roads in Washington, Chairman
E. B. Jeffrrss said today. Its ap
proval of projects is lexpecteld
anv time now, but there is no wav of
telling whether this approval will be
forthcoming w’jtbin a. day or a week.
“The government keeps saying it ife
anxius to put men to work as fast
as tt can, yet its entire highway
building program, lis .being delayed
by the red tape being insisted upon
in Washington,” Jeffress said. “For
even after these proeets are approved
the final bids must also go back to
WaShingtOfni for approval again, thus
reqquiring still more time. But that
is just part of the procedure and
there is nothing we can do but wait
and hope that these projects will be
approved as quickly as possible.”
Chairman Jeffress estimates that
construction on these various projects
could be gotten tinder way almost
30 days sooner if it were not for hav
ing to refer them to Washington Qo
xnany Unics.
PUBLISHED EVERY AFTERNOON
EXCEPT SUNDAY.
U. S. May Demand
Cespedes’ Return
Havana, Sept. 7—(AF)— Soldiers
set up machine guns in uptown
parks this afternoon as Havana
was stirred by many confusing ru
mors, including an insistent report
that the United States would ask
the two-day-old radical govern
ment to surrender power.
A widely circulated rumor was
that Washington would ask that
Carlos Manuel de Cespedes, who
was deposed from the presidency
by a radical coup d’etat, be placed
at the head of the government
again with a “new cabinet of
concentration.” Such a cabinet
would .include (representatives of
all regulatory groups.
Churchmen
Strong For
Whisky Ban
Presbyterian Synod
Refuses To Modify
Its Stand; Davidson
Is Discussed
Greensboro, Sept. 7. —(AP)—After a
vigorous debate, the Presbyterian Sy
nod of North Carolina today adopted
a resolution calling on Presbyterians
to cse “all legitimate means for ban
ishment” of traffic in intoxicating li
quors.
A group headed by the Rev. R.
Murphy Williams, of Greensboro, and
Rev. C. E. Raynal, of Statesville, ob
jected to-the resolution adopted, on
the grounds it tended to be a threat
to the members of the church.
Mr. Raynal described it as like “a
policeman holding a club over voters.”
Mr. Wilhams offered a counter re
solution which was not so strong in
its terms, but it failed of adoption by
a vote of 70 to 72. The resolution was
introduced by Rev. J. C. B. /fc-
Laughlin, of Laurel Hill, and received
a favorable vote of 94 to 65.
The Synod also took up the question
of military training at Davidson Col
lege. but took no action, deciding to
leave the matter entirely in the hands
of college authorities.
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WASHINGTONAJMSI
AT PROTECTION OF ‘
AMERICANS THERE
Sixteen More Ships Order
ed To Island as Precau.
tion Against Im
pending Trouble
MAKES 25 IN ALL
ORDERED TO SCENE
1,000 Marines Concentrated
at Quantico Ready and
Equipped for Foreign Ser
vice; About 5,000 Ameri
cans In Cuba; U. S. Invest,
ments One Billion
Washington, Sept. 7.— (AP)—Con-,
cent ration of naval power off the
shores of disturbed Cuba continued
today, with 16 destroyers ordered.
there in event they “be needed to pro
tect American lives.”’
Thus 23 combat vessels are now or
soon will be near Cuba, the latest unit
being of eight navy and eight ooist
guard destroyers. .4
As to the regular navy ships, Ad
miral. Wijliam IL Standley, ohief of
operations, instructed these, which
had bee j cruising with naval reser
vists, to disembark them immediately
and take on their full complements
of regular officers and men.
Simultaneously the coast gulrd
craft—former war vessels— were dis
patched from around New London
and New York undec orders to report
to the senior naval commander in
Cuba.
Meanwhile, more than 1,000 United
States Mt rmes were mobilized As the
seventh regiment at nearby QuantiCo,
Va. Equipped as an expeditidnary
force, they were prepared for imme
diate movement. The heavy cruiadr
Indianapolis, bearing Secretary Swan
son, is proceeding down the Atlantic
coast.
ABOUT 5,000 AMERICANS IN |
CUBA AS RESIDENTS NOW
Washington, Sept. 7.—(AP)—Amer
ican residents in Cuba numbered ap
proximately 6,000 at the beginning <52
this year, but State Department of
ficials today said the American pop
ulation had been reduced in recent
months, and it is not believed that
now it exceeds 5,000 regular residents.
Citizens of the United States have
invested approximately one billion
dollars in Cuba, but at present values
this sum has been greatly reduced.
Open Probe
Os Slaying
At Burgaw
Solicitor Kellum In
Charge of Inquiry
Into Killing of Ne
gro There
Wilmington, Sept. 7.—(AP)— Solici
tor Woodus Kellum announced today
that a hearing will be held in Burgaw
tomorrow in the death of Doc Rogers,
Negro, who was shot to death Au
gust 27 by a mob after he had wound
ed a deputy in a gun battle, which was
precipitated by the Negro’s wounding
of a white woman.
Kellum will conduct the hearing
and Judge E. H. Cramner, of Sodth
port, will sit as a committing magis
trate.
Fifty witnesses, the majority qf
whom live in the section where the
slaying took place, have been called.
The solicitor said no charges had
bten brought, but that if any one is
named tomorrow, Judge Cramrier will
Immediately issue warrant*. A. coron
er’s jury gave the verdict licit ‘ha
Negro came to his death at the liahds
t of parties unknown to the jury.