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HENDERSON GATEWAY TO CENTRAL CAROLINA TWENTY-FIRST YEAR City To Get More Street Paving ******xat-«„„ <> „ M „ „ .... Border Tobacco Near Double 1933 FIRST ,100 PILES OVER 25 CENTS ON LUMBERTON MART Early Sales at Timmonsville Average $24.86 Per Hun dred at The Opening CHADBOURN PRICES DOUBLE LAST YEAR AU Figures Are Estimates There; 12 to 37 Cents Range at Darlington; De cline Is Registered on Some Markets in Georgia Belt Wednesday (By the Associated Press) Jubilant farmers saw prices for to bacco meat, their highest expectations as sales were begun today on the South Carolina and border belt mar kets. < Early sales indicated the average price paid for the weed would be wel above 20 cents a pound and nearly twice what was received on opening day last year. The 'break—amount offered for sale -was light on most of the markets as the crop is short is maturing some what later than usual and rains yes terday interferred with its movement to the market. There were no reports of farmers turning tickets the gesture of refus ing the bid for their tobacco, from the early sales on any of the markets. At Lumberton, one of the largest markets on the North Carolina border belt, the first 100 piles of tobacco sold brought an average of $25.81 per hun dred pounds, as compared with an av erage price on opening day last year of $13.89 per hundred. Four hundred thousand pounds went on sale there and t«e range of prices during early sales was from eight cents a pound for poorer grads to 50 cents for finer quality tonacco. Timmonsville had a break of 350,000 (Continued on Page Five) WS HANDS ARE TIED OVER LIQUOR Can’t Interfere With Inter state Shipments Passing Through Dlanittch flareaa. In the Sir Walter Hotel, BY .1 C. DAHKERVILL. Raleigh, Aug. 9.—The failure of the State to convict the owner andd river of a truck stopped here several days ago loaded with 116 cases of 'bonded liquor is regarded as indicating the difficulty all State officers are going to have in securing conviction for vio laton of the State prohibition law in volving alleged inter-state shipments of bottled-in-bond liquor on which the Federal tax has been paid. For the driver of the truck and his two com panions maintained they were hauling the load of liquor from Baltimore to a small town in Louisiana, though they at first lacked a bill of lading. (Continued on Page Five) Nationalization Os Silver Ordered Washington, Aug. 9. (TP) —iTesident Roosevelt today issued an executive order providing for the nationalization of silver at 50.01 cents per ounce, ac cording to the provisions of the silver purchase act of 1934. The President’s proclamation, made public today by Secretary Morgenthau. said the mints would be directed to receive any and all silver in the United States. The mints will deduct as aeignorrage 61 8-25 per cent of the silver so received and will return to the depositor silver certificates or other coin or currency in amount equal to the monetary value of the remainder. < This means the mints will return tor each fin e troy ounce of silver so received an amount equal to 50.01 cents a fine troy, ounce. Iwnitersmt Batin Bfenafrh Haiti’s Future in Doubt as Marines Leave A I k ■ ‘ . vj- I L. X TL I *► S'E&S fll 11111 •“Xr SI fIH t It f jMi- JmMOU jwSwwk J. ’9 ■ Ssi ■■l Win T |M ’ "j* r 111 ttg r;■r f/ - Withdrawal of U. S. Marine force from Haiti, after 19 years of occupation, leaves economic future of island republic in doubt. Marines were landed in July, 1915, to end state of anarchy and prevent possible establishment of a base there by a European belligerent. The millions subsequently spent in road-building, sanitation and other public improvements, and the leathernecks’ payrolls have been principal sources of the republic’s prosperity. Photos show the national guard, trained by Marines, which now takes over polic ing of republic; docks erected under Marine corps supervision at Port au Prince, and native color guard prepared to hoist Haiti’s three-barred flag in place of Stars and Stripes. (Central Presa) Ocean Plane Forced Down Near London “Trail of the Cari bou” Descends Only Only Half Way To ' Goal Set as Bagdad London, Aug. 9. (/P) —“The ‘Trail of the Caribou” landed here today after a flight of 30 hours and 43 minutes from Wasaga Beach, Ontario. Th- fliers, James Ayling and Leon ard Reid, had set out to establish a new long distance record, with Bag dad, raq, as their goal. Their landing means that they cov ered only a little more than half of the 6.300 miles they had set as their objective. The Canadian airmen set their black biplane down on Huston airfield aft er covering approximately 3,700 miles. They were sighted at 4:55 p. m., Greenwich meridian time, or 11:55 a. m., eastern standard time, over Shag Lane airdrome. They hopped off from Canada at 5:12 a. m., eastern stand ard time yesterday. Their rapidly diminishing supply nt gasoline forced the fliers to change their plans and decide to lan din Eng land, Reid said. > WEATHER FOR NORTH CAROLINA Fair tonight; Friday partly cloudy; scattered thundershowers in extreme west portion. The order does not affect domestic silver mined since December 21, 1933 which may still b e delivered to the mints under the Presidential procla mation of that date. All other silver situated in the United States on August l 9 (today) must be delivered to the mints within 90 days. Certain classes of silver ar e exempt ed. Provision is made for license covering silver needed for comjnercial and industrial uses and to fulfill out standing contracts! to deliver the metal. Also exempted are all United States silver coins,, foreign coins, silver ore, silver owned by foreign governments and foreign central banks and silver in fabricated articles. ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA AND L m~» ED WIRB service OF the ASSOCIATED PRESS v HENDERSON N. C. THURSDAY AFTERNOON, AUGUST 9, 1934 ROOSEVELT ANSWERS “NEW DEAL” CRITICS In Stirring Speech In Wis consin, President Out lines Further Steps Coming SPEAKS GOOD WORD FOR MR. LaFOLLETTE Refers to Senator, Seeking Re-Election This Year, and Senator Duffy |as “Both Old Friends of Mime’*; Speaks of “New Deal” As Nation’s ‘'Square Deal” Green Bay, Wis., Aug. 9 (AP)— President Roosevelt departed on a Special train at 10:45 a, m., central standard time, today on the last leg of his lengthy inspection tour of the nation. Green Bay, Wis., Aug. 9. (/P) —Pres- ident Roosevelt today sounded the call for further action by the “New Deal” on a non-artisan road in a mili tant seech in old Wisconsin. In his principal speech of this con gressional campaign year, Mr. Roose velt, at the Wisconsin state tercenten ary. declared: “In the great national movement that culminated in 1932, people joined with enthusiasm. They lent hands and (Continued on Page Six) PaymentsTo Tobacco Men 85,056,016 Rental and Benefit Distribution Is $67,- 876.24 for Vance County Alone College Station, Raleigh, Aug. 9. Rental and benefit payments to North Carolina tobacco growers for -co-op erating in the AAA crop control pro gram amounted to $5,056,016.45 up to July 1. E. Y. Floyd of State College announced today. In the United States, the total pay ments to growers of flue-cured 'hurley (Continued on Page Six) Jury Is Obtained In Childress Case Wilkesboro, Aug. 9 (AP)—A jjury composed mostly of farmers was completed toda yto try a mountain family of five for murder in the strange death of Loeta Childress, 20-year-old adopted member of the household. The jury box was filled with 12 men and an alternate after thre days of examination of 248 venire men from the adjoining county of Yadkin. Eleven of the jujrors are farmers. One is a carpenter and another is convict guard. WAKESHOWSWAY IN TAX VALUATIONS Hires Man To Get Personal Property on Books at Fair Values Dally Dispatch Hnreni, In the Sir Walter Hotel, BI J. C. B4SKERVILL. Raleigh, Aug. 9.—The Wake county commissioners, who have just em ployed Fred R. Young, Charlotte tax accountant, to investigate valuations placed on their property in Wak' - county by corporations and individ uals, may be showing the way to other counties as to how they can in crease their property listings and hence their revenue, it is pointed out here today by officials in the Local Government Commission. There is hardly a county in the State, accord ing to irector of Local Government Charles M. Johnson, that could not increase the amount of property list ing on the tax boons by several mil lion dollars if it really went at the job of checking up on every piece of real and personal property listed to see if it was listed at anything like its real value. Much more could also be found if the tax authorities would likewise make an effort to see that the prop erty now unlisted is properly listed. This is the job which Young has been employed to do here in Wake county. And if he w able to do any thing like as well here as he did in Mecklenburg county, where he suc ceeded in getting som e $11,000,000 of additional property on the tax books, which brought $172,000 of additional revenue into the coffers of the county, (Continued on Page Three) Luke Lea Is Back In State’s Prison Raleigh, Aug. 9. (AP)— Luke Lea, of Nashville, Term., today quietly re-entered the North Carolina State Prison here at 11:13 a. m. to re sume service of his six to ten year sentence after attending the fun eral of his son, Percy Lea, who was killed in an automobile acci dent last month. Lea. former fi nancial and political wizard ol Tennessee, was granted a tempor ary parofe by Governor Ehring haus, which would have expired at noon today. Acting Warden Bowen Dorsey said Lea’s bond had been discharged and the prisoner again dons the “B” grade stripes of the prison. cltrOest is - PROMISED RELIEF FROMHEAT WAVE Cool Wave from Alaska and Northwest Canada On Way To Halt Bak ing Weather DEATHS'RESULT IN HARD HIT SECTIONS All Known Heat Records Smashed in lowa, With Rea'ding of 115 Degrees at Ottumwa;; Illinois, and Ohio Report Deaths From Heat (By the Associated Press) The central west, heart of the drought and heat-ridden section of the nation, counted on a cool wave from Alaska and northwestern Canada to day to break the present hot spell. Warmer however, was forecast for the middl e Atlantic and south portion of the North Atlantic states. Temperatures soared yesterday to new! record-breaking heights in the central west. In owa all known heat records wer e smashed when the mer cury sky-rocketed to 115 degrees at Ottumwa. Central Illinois was also hard hit with an all-time record of 107.5 at Springfield. Several deaths in Illi nois were reported. Tana. 111., had two. with a mercu-y reading of 106. Quincy, 111., had one and four prostrations when the tem perature jumped to 110, a new all time record for August. One heat death and three drownings were reported in Ohio. Another heat victim died in Indiana. The heat was so intense at Rochester, Minn., where President Roosevelt stopped on .his tour yesterday, that governor A. G. Schmedman, of Wisconsin, was forced to leave the official platform and re turn to his hotel. Heat victims were also reported in lowa. HEREWLE OF FEDERAL SPENDING Building Cost $3,000,000 During War; Annex Now $10,000,000 By CHARLES P. STEWART (Central Press Staff Writer) Washington, Aug. 9.—No longer ago than Dr. Ray Lyman Wilbur’s regime as head of the interior department that particular department was re garded as a dying sub-division of the executive branch of Federal govern ment. ' Secretary Wilbur himself officially stated that it was a department which appeared to him to hav e had its day. It includes under its jurisdiction the Indian bureau and the Indians are rapidly being assimilated into the rest of the country’s population; the re clamation bureau and the present complaint is that national reclamation already has beerj vastly overdone; the general land office, and the public domain had almost disappeared in Dr. Wilbur’s day; also it exercised Uncle Sam’s authority over territorial af fairs, and only two territories remain (Continued on Page Three) PUBLISHED EVERY AFTERNOON EXCEPT SUNDAY. GARNETT STREET TO BE COMPLETED AND CURVES ELIMINATED Derides F. D. R. felw i JU Gen. S. Tanaka I The former Japanese military at=' tache at Washington, Gen. S. Ta= naka, is quoted as terming Presi dent Roosevelt’s speech on U. S. naval efficiency at Hawaii as “insolent.” (Central Press) mussdlTneisnexT PRDBLEMIN EUROPE He Really Put Fascists, Headed by Dollfuss, in Power In Austria ADVOCATE OF FORCE Austrian Tyrol Citizen Writes to America to Know if No One Cares for His Nation; Fear ful of Mussolini By LESLIE EICHEL (Central Press Staff Writer) New York, Aug. 9. The next big problem will be Mussolini. In reality, his fascism has overspread the world to a far reater extent that Nazi-ism. In America, fascism has een secret ly organizing for years. In Argentina, workers threaten, to strike unless the government uproots fascism. But it is in Europe whera the danger appears. Mussolini, aided by France, gained fascist control of Austria. Dollfuss simply was a Mussolini tool. It will be recalled that Dollfuss, by a coup, dislodged rightfully elected of fice holders of Austria, particularly in municipalities, and either jailed or hanged them. They were Socialists or Social Democrats, similar to Amer ican Democrats. The mayor of Vienna (Continued on Page Three) VIRGINIA GOVERNOR AT MANTEO EVENTS Richmond, Va., Aug. 9 (AP) —Gov- ernor Peery today announced he had accepted an invitation to attend cele brations at Roanoke Island, N. C,, commemoratin gthe landing of Sir Walter Raleigh, and the birth of Vir ginia Dare, The celebation is to be held in the North Carolina coast community Aug ust 17 and 18 and the Virginia gover nor will attend on the 18th. Injunction Against Huey Long Granted New Orleans, La., Aug. 9 (AP) Rul ing for the city and against the State District Judge Nat W. Bond today is sued an injunction to Mayor T. Sem mes Walmsley preventing a proposed new police board from taking the po lice power out of his hands. Judge Bond held unconstitutional the legislative act creating the new 8 PAGES TODAY FIVE CENTS COPY Three Projects Here To Be Included in Year’s List For U. S.-Financed Jobs TO STRAIGHTEN OUT NATIONAL HIGHWAY Curve at North Henderson Bend To Be Remedied To Lessen Traffic Hazard; Date for Start of Work Uncertain, As Is Also Amount of Money Involved Raleigh, Aug. 9. (TP)—-The State Highway and Public Works Commis sion today was selecting a tentative ;ist of projects to be constructed with Federal aid money during the current fiscal year but no details were ready for announcement. This morning the commission told a delegation of Henderson citizens that three street projects in that city would be included In the years list, and that surveys would be made look ing toward straightening th e national highway for a mile north of the place. ADVICES FROM RALEIGH LITTLE MORE DEFINITE Private advices from Raleigh this afternoons to the ally Dispatch were a little more specific than The Associat ed Press story relating to the decision of the State Highway and Public Works Commission in the additional paving projects authorized here. Mayor Irvine B. Wiatkins and City Attorney Jere P. Zollicoffer were in Raleigh and apeared before the high way group in the Interest of the further projects here. It was understood that the remaind er of North Garnett street inside the city limits northward from Andrews avenue would be included in th© new paving program, and that a large sunl had been allotted, around $30,000, for the straightening out of the national highway at the point where it passes through North Henderson. This was in addition to the remainder of the street inside the city limits. The re-paving project which has just been completed carried the work from Granite street, at tne southern city (Continued on Page Three) PresGfaham Talks About Farm Needs Value of Research in Farming Stated At Test Farm Rally At Rocky Mount Rocky Mount, Aug. 9 (AP) — The practical value of pure scholarly rei search in all departments of life—ag ricultural, industrial, medical, social and political—were stressed by Presi dent Frank Graham of the University of North Carolina, in an address be fore hundreds of farmers and business men assembled for the tenth annual field day of the Upper Coastal Plains test farm near this society today. "One bit of research,” President Gr«r ham said, “In th enature of butter fat, carried on In a laboratory in the (Continued on Page Three) board, which Senator Huey P. Long, political adversary of the Walmsley forces, caused to be passed through the recent State Assembly. The police board issue was one of several issues between the Walmsley and Long factions, which have resulted in both sides arraying armed camps of opposing policemen and National Guardsmen in the city.
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