HENDERSON GATEWAY TO CENTRAL CAROLINA TWENTY-FIRST YEAR Farm Bloc Uniting West And South In Congress Is Urged Would Demand Drastic, Fundamental and Reme dial Legislation for Agriculture EQUAL FOOTING WITH AGRICULTURE SOUGHT Oscar Johnston, of Missis sippi, Prominent AAA Of ficial, Advocates Pooling of Strength to That End; Says East Has Hitherto Dominated Congress Washington. Nov. 22. —(AP)— A Luge farm bloc, uniting tFie Middle and South to demand “drastic, f indamontal, remedial legislation for agriculture was advocated today l\v Oscar Johnson, prominent AAA offi • til. The stocky Mississippi cotton plant ■ . '.vho heads the Producers Cotton Option Pool within the AAA. and peaks eloquently at conferences, con- Msed he had been repressing his ' lews for some time. Now. he said emphatically, the time has arrived “when America must de •litely determine and publicly pro- Haim that industry ami agriculture hall be put upon an equal footing.” ■Since the Civil War control of government policy has been in the bands of the East, and unjust on. phasis has been placed on the. dc ' "lopment of the industry.” Ire said. • The result is, whether consciously <>: sub-consciously. the trend of our l'’'. r i.-.lr' ion and the building of out < ••• Hie rate prevailing in the com i' unities where the work is done. An order rescinding all rules and i gulations governing work relief v ages has be<‘ii sent to the State ad ministrators by Harry I*. Hopkins, ilo. Tt’cdera) administrator. Responsibility for determining wages in the future, it was said, has Iren placed with local communities i 'presenting local aaid other relief administrations. Officials said they expected the i ew order to result in an Increase in the number of presons on work re li-f. Vanderbilt Child Fight Continues Mother of Gloria Is Not Satisfied With Court Ruling About Her Child New York, Nov. 22.—(AP)- A new ual fight over ten-year-old Gloria Vanderbilt l«»omed today in the wake ‘ I a court order directing her moth ' rial h<-r aunt to share the child. Tlir order, handed down by Su- I’ eine Court Justice Johp F. Carew, makes the aunt, Mrs. Harry Payne Whitney, Gloria’s legal custorian. and gives lwi‘ the child five days a week. I'lie mother. Mrs. Gloria Morgan Van derbilt. will have her daughter on S:itin->. .AiMM E. R. Hill of Clifton Forge, Va., and two of his three surviving children attempting to console Mrs. Hill as bodies of their daughters. Alice, 13, and Ellen, 6, await burial, Vhinip Jones, negro, 25, who is being held in Richmond, Va., jail to protect him from possible violence, is declared by police to have confessed the murder of the girls. (Central Preu) Rains And Gales Strike In Six Southern States One Dead and Number Injured; Memphis Reports Over 10 Inch es of Rain; Lower Temperatures Predicted on Heels of Disturbances From Weather New Orleans, Ni.. n Nov. 22. (AP) Record-breaking rains and .severe gales that swept over six southern states Tuesday and Wednesday, leav ing one de id and numbers of others injuried, subsided today. Tlh> property damage ran to many thousands of dollars in the scattered ••i rea.. Louisiana. Arkansas, Texas, Ten nessee. Kentinky, and Mississippi fell Ihe fury of Ihe rain storm, and one Cooley Preparing For New Congress VVasJiiiigton, Nov. 22.—(AT) Rcpres<-i)|:il.ix«« llaruld D. Cooley, of the. fourth North (.’urolinn dis trict, today closed his office here which he opened shortly after !»«•- lug elected to fill the lUicxpired term of the latie Representative Pou. Cooley said the offie-c would re main closed until January, when he comes to Washington to begin the regular two-year term in the House, to wlliicb he was elc<-t.<‘.<] in the, November elections. The. new congressman and his wife have laeseil an apartment at Die Wardman Park hotel for their residence here during the session of Congress. MOLEY TRYING TO ADVISE CONGRESS And His Conservative Ad monition Believed To Reflect F. D. R. By LESLIE EICHEL Central Press Staff Writer New York, Nov 22. Raymond Moley. culled in oftenest as an ad viser to President Roosevelt, is hint ing to Congress how it should behave. Congress, however, i.s likely to con sider Moley too far to the right. Con gress has to appease voters. What i.s Moley recommending? Moley has his say in Today maga zine, of which he is editor. Says he: “The emergency before us requires quick expenditures, and in the selec tion of specific projects this must, be the guiding principle. The building of great wroks which wTl] be of per manent value to the nation is impor tant; but the putting of men to work, soon is more important.” That is O. K. with Congress, and Secretary of the Interior Harold- Ickes is doing a great job tn selecting the works. Moley continues: “Every friend of public works ex- (Cuutluued uh Page llitee) point, Memphis, Tenn., hac UIIUSUUI dtS t urbanccs. BOWIE WILL URGE SCALING OF DEBTS 11 J -Ll - Determined About “Settle ment” for Own County; Would Include State Daily Dispatch linn'll*, In the Sir Walter Hot«*l, By J, Hashervtlle. Raleigh, Nov. 22 Ashe county’s af fairs will have considerable legisla tion according to friends of Repre sentative T. C- Bowie .who means to make some adjustment of its finan cial affairs and if the plans commends itself generally it may be employed by other counties. Recently some citizens of Ashe were here, one of them a political op ponent of Mr. Bowie running as an independent Democrat in the gene ral election, and the other a county commissioner who did not get the nomination in the last convention, and they were attacking Mr. Bowie. They declared that he had made the ma county of defaulters. Friends of Mr. Bowie do not think they speak by book. It is said for Mr. Bowie and his legislation that he represents a peo ple wiht a bonded indebtedness of sl,- 250,000 or more. Ashe grows no cot ton or tobacco and there has been no way to make money. There are no in dustries up there. Mr. Bowie con tended tht the people could not pay (Continued on Page Two) v duys Till i' ir W ■ ll, I - .. STRIKE DUTY OF GUARDSMEN COST SWHIO4.OOO Council of State Votes That Amount from Emergency and Contingency Fund To Pay GOVERNMENT LOSES HEAVILY IN STRIKE Between $500,000 and Mil lion Dollars Less Process ing Taxes Collected In South Carolina Alone In Textile Industry In Sep tember, Collector Says Raleigh, Nov. 22.—(AP) —The Coun cil of State of North Carolina today approved the allotment of .SIOI,OOO to be taken from the emergency and contingency fund to meet the cost of using National Guardsmen on Guard duty during the textile strike in North Carolina. Adjutant General J. Van B. Metts, 'aid that “not quite” all of the .slOl,- 000 had been paid out so far, but he could not figure whether the amount would cover all bills, as “a number of vouchers still have to be taken out." HUGE GOVERNMENT LOSS FROM PROCESSING TAXES Columbia. S. C., Nov. 22.—(AP)—R. M. Cooper, collector of internal re venue for South Carolina estimated today that the general textile strike cost the Federal government between $500,000 and $1,000,000 in processing taxes in South Carolina alone. Cooper issued a statement showing that the tax, paid principally by tex tile mills in this State, dropped to $901,627 during the strike month of September, where it had averageo .$1,772,209 for the first five “normal operating” months of 1931. NRA Controversy Over Ford Trucks Is Sounded Again Washington, Nov. 22.(AP)—Echoes of one of the first controversies that stirred t.he NRA sounded again today when the Interior Depart numt award ed a contract for a Ford truck to the Northwest. Motor Company of Bethes da.. Mr., a Ford dealer. Interior Department oficials said the Bethesda, firm had submitted a certificate of compliance with the au toinobile code, along with a. bid to supply 15 trucks to the department. The certificate was said to be on the standard government form, “with no strings attached.’’ and Comptrol ler General McCarl was reported to have ruled that the award of tlir contract was legal. Churches In Demand For Peace Daily Dispatch Uureas, Im the Sir Walter Hotel, By J. C. Baskerville. Raleigh, Nov. 22.—Baptists in their State convention recently took the lead in the demand that war be re nounced as a means of settling inter national diputes; they assailed the modern movies, urged their preach ers and. religious teachers to inform themselves on the issues involved in the economic order, and renewed their demands that the dry laws re main impaired. This week the Methodists are in conference at Washington and what that denomination does, particularly with war, will ibe closely watched. The unmistakably dangerous tenden cies on the other side are giving alarm both to the pacifists anil to the bellicose. There is apparently a move (Continued on Page Six) Trade Commission Bares Utility Propaganda Plans Washington, Nov. 22.- < AP)— The Federal Trade Commission, making another report today on what it terms “publicity and propaganda” by power and gas utilities, said they have spent as high as $30,000,000 a year for advertising. Today’s report, one of a series the commission is making to the Senate on its six-year inquiry into utilities, dealth with the campaign conducted through the press. The next will sum marize the commission’s story of “pro paganda” through schools and edu cators. Roosevelt States Next Congress To Extend Job Relief Hawaii’s Delegate HHk. OHLd Samuel W. King This is Samuel W. King, elected delegate to congress from th* territory of Hawaii, who is on* of the comparatively few new Re publicans sent to Washington. Oddly enough he was elected to replace a veteran Democrat, Lin coln McCandless, while the rest of the United States was revers ing the procedure. GOVERNOR THINKS' STATE IMPROVING Going Into Winter In Much Better Position Than One Year Ago HIGHER PRICES HELP Improvement in State H«wenu«*> Seems To Guarantee Stat«’ Parti cipation in Winter Re lief Work I’mPj Ulwpnteft HBreae, in the Sir Mutter Hotel. Hr J. C. Baskerville. Raleigh, Nov. 22 ‘Governor Ehring haus. on his return from Washington brought good news to the eastern peo pie with whom he was horn and rear ed. for he infei'esfcd Washington in potatoes, a big coney crop when they sell an—President Roosevelt assured the mayors of ths nation's major cities today that re covery efforts have yielded substan tial results and informed them the next Congress would conider exten sions of the job-making relief pro jects. “Our efforts along the road of eco nomic recovery have been productive of substantial results,” the chief exe cutive stated in a letter to the an nual assembly of the United States Conference of Mayors. “It is undoubt edly true that the coming session of Congress wil] give further attention to proposals involving unemployment relief, public works, unemployment insurance, old age pensions and hous ing, all of which vitally affect tha city governments. “I cannot say what final action Congress wil) take with reference to these subjects, but I assure you thei Federal government is anxious to work effectively and cooperatively on all of these common probkuns. “It is through team work of all governmental units that victory may be attained.” Mr. Roosevelt also thanked all mayors for their support in the re covery drive. McNinch Sees Roosevelt on Power Policy Washington. Nov. 22. (AP) —Chair- man Ftank R. McNinch, of the Fed.-