Sales Will Be Resumed
Oil Next Monday Morning
On Tobacco Market Here
Henderson Expected Three to Four Million
Pounds More Bes on Ends, With Year's To
tai of 18 to 20 Million Pounds Looked For
Resumption of sales on the Hen
derson and Oxford tobacco markets,
following' the year-end Christmas and
New Year holidays, has been chang
ed from Tuesday, January 9, to Mon
day, January 8, and growers over the
territory are being urged to take
notice of the date change. At a meet
ing of the officials of the Render
-.on Tobacco Hoard of Trade Saturday
morning .it was decided to resume
selling tin* first instead of Ihe second
day of the week. Durham is expected
to reopen on the same day, although
definite word had not been received
from officials of that market.
The markets in these three cities,
as well as most of the others over
the State, closed on Friday, Decem
ber If), for the holidays. At that time
it was not definitely known which
day the markets would resume,
though it was thought likely the date
would be January 9.
opinion of tobacco men is that
about three-fourths of the 1933 crop
in me Middle Relt territory lias been
sold. In Eastern Carolina probably
more than that has been brought to
market already, while hardly more
than half has been sold in the Old
Belt, or at least not much more than
that.
Middle Belt markets usuuly close
their season around the end of Feb
mary or the first of March, and will
probably follow that course this year.
Up to the suspension for the holi
iu>ys the Henderson market had sold
nearly 16,000,000 pounds, or, to be
exact, 15.704”,756 pounds, for a -total
of $2,870,891.19, at an average of $lB.-
28 per hundred pounds. To the Christ
mas holidays in 1932 the local mar
ket had sold 11,874,758 pounds for sl,-
519,971.64, at an average of $12.71
per hundred pounds. In 1931 at the
close for Christmas, the market had
sold 17.129,980 pounds for $1,509,853.-
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More than 20 1-4 million pounds had
sold for an average of $14.84 at
Christmas in 1930, and a trifle more
than $3,000,000 had been paid for it.
Not since 1929 has the current year’s
record been equalled. To Christmas
that year Henderson had sold 18,-
706.680 pounds for $3,733,341.17 al aii
average of $19.98 per hundred. For
the entire season that year the mar
ket said slightly less than 24 million
pounds feu a reason average ot $19.12
per hundrea. It is estimated that
sales here this year from the 1933
crop will be between 18 and 20 mil
lion pounds, which means .that pro
bably three to four million pounds
more will be sold before the present
seasons ends.
Recorder
Tried 673
Last Year
Fines Were $1,354.75
and Costs $2,018.63
for Year, Total of
$3,373.37
A total of 673 jmests were made
by county and Township officersdur
ing 1933, as shown today by a com
pilation of the records of the record
er’s court. That is more than twice
the number shown for 1932. The
school fund benefited to the extent of
$1,354.75 in fines that were assessed
against violators of the law, and $2,-
018.62 was collected as fees and costs.
The court handled a total of $3,373.37
during the year.
In 1932 a total of 303 arrests were
shown in recorder’s court records,
and fines amounted to $1,017.65 and
costs $2,245.30, for a total of $3,262.95.
November was the biggest month
for 1933, with 89 arrests, but Feb
ruary, with 66 arrests yielded the
largest amount of money as fines,
that figure being $373.50. It was the
biggest month for fines since May,
1931, when the total was S3BO even.
The smallest month of 1933 for ar
rests was March with 28, with June
a c'ose second for the fewness of ar
rests, with just 31. Only $6 in fines
came from recorder’s court cases in
Muy r , 1933, although the records show
ed 61 defendants tried.
During December 71 defendants
were tried, with fines of $109.40, and
costs and fees of $157.57, a total of
$266.97. Ten of the defendants were
sent to the roads, 41 were taxed with
the costs, 15 were discharged, one
took an appeal and four were bound
over to superior court and will face
trial at the January term of criminal
court starting next Monday.
INSIDE OF HOLLYWOOD
Director Finds That Birds
Are Movie V Dumbest Actors
Mark Sand rich rehearses a rooster
(This is the first of a series of
articles portraying the inside of
the motion picture industry,)
By ANDREW R. BOONE
Hollywood, Cal., Jan. I—Twelve
chickens, sitting austerely in a min
iature jury box, nodded silently in
agreement when asked whether the
accused rooster was guilty. An os
trich opened its mouth as though
carrying on a conversation with a
white trader. A myna bird shouted,
"Hello, how are you?” to a fisherman.
A rooster dashed into a scene, stop
ped and crowded. A crow with split
tongue talked with apparent intelli
gence! for the sound camera.
Mark Sandrich, a Hollywood direc
tor who has put many birds through
their paces for the screen, has learn
ed that, birds are the dumbest actors
ever to show their faces to the cam
era! yet, because they lack intelli
gence, frequently they will perform
their bits better than the more in
telligent animal family, he declares.
Teaching Birds
“Direction of birds for the talkies
requires a combination of patience
and resourcefulness,” Sandrich ex
plained. “It involves a knowledge of
mechanics and animal 'psychology.
Some birds are directed by purely
mechanical means.
“The twelve chickens nodded when
two long wooden strips, on which
were tacked 12 grains of corn, sud
denly were turned over. The chick
ens pecked at the corn. Others are
cued by surprises. The rooster dash
ed across the scene, making for an
other game cock: but they were not
permitted to meet, and the first one
crowed because it found itself un
injured.
“The Austrian magpie,” said Sand
rich, “is the most intelligent bird with
which we work. Yet, its criminal
tendencies make it a difficult subject.
The magpie, like the myna bird and
the parrot, can be taught to repeat,
sounds; and as the parrot ‘talks’ with
no intelligent knowledge, soi with the
other ‘talking’ birds. •
“Recently we had a set wherein a
fisherman was shown in the middle
of a small stream. From a nearby
twig the myna bird shouted a greet
NR A Begins Task For Regi
menting Wages and Hours
(Continued from Page One.)
and that “gainful wages had been
raised and maxium hours reduced in
industries employing between 18' and
20 million people.
This, said NRA, the 182 blue eagle
codes thus far granted over the big
gest. part of the most important in
dustries, while the hundreds of codes
remaining to be prepared are centered
mainly upon less Important groups.
Ten of thousands of blue eagles
continued on display today despite<
the expiration yesterday of the ori
ginal president’s re-employment
agreement,, under which some 3,000,-
000 employees won the right to fly
the insignia.
Eight Inches Rain In Only
Few Hours and Still Falling
(Continued rrom r*age one.)
of the historic tournament of roses
and Rose Bowl football game between
Stanford and Columbia. Both events
were still on the schedule.
THICKLY INHABITED AREA
INUNDATED BY THE FLOOD
Los Angeles, Cal., Jan. I.—(AP;
A death toll that may reach 12 more
than a score injured and hundreds
homeless were counted in Southern
California today as the result of tor
rential rains, the heaviest of record.
Every river and creek bed in the
Los Angeles area was overflowing
inundating a large area thickly in
habited. A number of Southern Cali
fornia communities within 50 miles of
Los Angeles were isolated. Highways
electric lines and railroad tracks were
washed out in numerous places.
An undetermined number of young
persons were believed drown late
late night when the weight of their
two automobiles broke down a wood
en bridge over the swollen Los An
geles river.
The river, ordinarily a few feet in
with and depth, was a roaring tor
rent more than 25 feet deep and 175
feet wide.
Several hours after the accident
no accurate list of missing was avail
able*. _
HENDERSON (h C ) DAILY DISPATCH MONDAY, JANUARY 1, 1934
ing. It continued to annoy the fish
erman, whistling and repeating phas
es. It happened the bird had been
raised with a dog. It associated the
dog with its master’s whistle; so, we
brought the dog on the. set, and the
bird went through its master’s reper
toire of whistles
“We had difficulty in getting the
bird to laugh, until some of the
sound crew laughed—and the bird
accepted the cue and laughed fully
three minutes.”
Chickens, the director has learned,
can be made to pose until disturbed
by stroking the back of their heads.
Roosters enlivened scenes with plenty
of action. Ducks and geese are
“plain dumb,” And an ostrich pro
bided some of the funniest bird
scenes ever recorded.
Ingenuity
Sandrich wanted the ostrich to
swallow a tiny radio set, about the
size of an apple; but the set had to
lodge half-way down the bird’s neck.
Here’s how it was worked: The di
rector cut an orange square to repre
sent the radio, tied a thread around
the bird’s throat (about half-way
down and permitted the bird to reach
down with its beak and swallow what
appeared to be the radio set.
The orange stuck atv the prescribed
point. Now, the bird must open and
close its beak as though words flow
ing through the radio actually were
emitted by the bird itself. Blue,
stuck in the top of the bird’s bill,
failed when the otsrich wallowed it.
Spirit gum, with a strong ether taste,
(similarly failed 4 when fche ostrich
swallowed that. A rubber band around
the lower bill also went down the
throat. Then a wad of chewing gum
stuck inside the upper bill accomplish
ed the result, and the ostrich “talked”
during a long scene.
Sometimes the veteran fowls of the
screen lose their earlier pleasing ap
pearance. Recently a game cock,
having lost its comb, appeared with
prop tail feathers and a felt comb
glued tightly in place. With new plu
mage it strutted proudly—albeit,
dumbly—through several scenes, lur
ed by grain and an antagonist on the
other side of the stage.
(Another Article Tomorrow)
Sales Tax Rises
During December
(Continued from Page One.)
months of the present fiscal year, the
same as the last siv months of the
calendar year that ended at midnight,
December 31, amounted to $9,691,732.
For the corresponding six months in
1932, when no sales tax was in effect,
total collections amounted to only
$0,788,168.
The sales rax collections in Decem
ber, however, were on business done
in November, it was pointed out, and
hence do not represent the tax col
lections on the holiday trade done in
December. The tax collected on De
cember business does not become due
until January 15 and will not be
known until the books are balanced
January 31.
The collections in January are ex
pected to be larger than in any month
so far, and for Iwo reasons. First
they will reflect the tax collected on
the trade done preceding the Christ
mas holidays; second, they will in
clude collections from thousands of
small merchants who are not required
to make monthly returns but who
must make returns of all sales tax
collections on all business done up to
December 31, 1933.
Scramble On For
Veteran Loan Job
(Continued from Page One.)
reason Stedman is anxious to get this
appointment is that the Raleigh of
fice of the Regional Agricultural
Credit Corporation is likely to be dis
continued at any time and its func
tions transferred to the main office
in Columbia, S. C. Stedman, who was
appointed State treasurer by former
Governor O. Max Gardner to succeed
the late Captain Nathan O’Berry, and
who was then elected State treasurer
without opposition, resigned this of
fice to accept his post with the agri
cultural credit corporation.
Clark is also a Legionnaire and has
been active in the American Legion
for many years and is understood to
have a strong following, Grimes is
also a Legionnaire, it is understood,
although he has not been active in
Legion affairs for some time, It is
reported, however, that Grimes has
the support of State Commander Tom
CWA Gives
Middleburg
$3,379 Aid
Money Will Be Used
In Labor for Com
munity House
Building There
An allotment of $3,379 of Civil
Works Administration funds to aid in
the ereetion of a community house at
Middleburg was announced today bv
Mis. W. B. Waddell, administrator for
this county.
The fund is divided with $2,604 go
ing tor labor and $775 for materials
to be furnished by the CWA, and an
additional $1,54)0 to be given by Mid
dleburg citizens, mostly in materials.
The project will furnish work tor
one foreman and 28 laborers, most of
them skilled.
The work is to get under way in
the near future, and will furnish the
prosperous Middleburg community a
structure that can be used for com
munity purposes, including meetings
of the National Grange chapter there
There has been some planning for
a similar project at Townsville, but
no allotment made as ye*,
Daniels.
Although Frank Grist had a good
deal to do with getting the Veterans’
Loan Fund of $2,000,000 set up and
was a member of the commission as
lon gas he was commissioner of labor,
few here believe Grist now has a
chance to be appointed to succeed
Colonel Manning: Grist lost much
prestige here during the last few
years he was commissioner of labor,
and the 1931 General Assembly strip
ped him of virtually all the authority
that once belonged to the office, leav
ing him little more than his salary, a
desk and a stenographer. His unsuc
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cessful campaign for the Democratic
nomination for the United States
Senate against Senator Cameron Mor
rison also did not help him any. So
Grist is considered as being virtually
out of the picture.
There are also indications that
Stedman by no means has the ap
pointment “in the bag,” despfte the
strong forces backing him. For there
is a feeling among some members or
the loan fund commission the post of
commissioner should go to some one
who is willing to continue in the post
definitely ,and they fear that as soon
as Stedman could get another job
that would pay him a little more
money he would resign and they
would then have to go through the
process of getting another commis
sioner. For while it is agreed that
Stedman has the necessary ability
and background for the job .there is
a feeling that he might not stick to
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it.
While Hebei Clark admittedly does
not have as strong political backing
as some of tne others, there is a
feeling both in Legion and other cir
cles that he would make an able
commissioner and that his experience
in the State Auditor s ornce has given
him the necessary background so?
handling the job.
It is expected, however, that there
will be many more applications for
the job before the time comes to fill it
Men of imagination have and will
always suffer from serious neuras
thenic disturbances.
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