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HENDERSON GATEWAY TO CENTRAL CAROLINA TWENTY-SECOND YEAR WOMAN OFFICIAL IS OUSTED TO OOELL ROW WHEN IS ASKING $125,00010 PROBE MIDDLEMEN PROFIT I Tar Heel Congressman- Wants Handling of Agri cultural Products Inquired Into FAVORABLE REPORT IN THE COMMITTEE Would Determine Whether Monopolistic, Oppressive and Unfair Methods and Practices Are Used by Warehousemen, Processors and Manufacturers Washington. July 24.—(AP) —Rep_ resentative Warren. Democrat. North Carolina, said today he would seek immediate House consideration hh resolution to authorize expenditure of 5125,000 for investigation by the Fed eral Trade Commission of profits by middlemen handling agricultural pro ducts The resolution has been voted a fa vorable report by the House Inter state and Foreign Commerce Com mittee. The proposed investigation would be for the purpose ofd etermining whether “monopolistic, oppressive and unfair methods and pra tices’’ were used by warehousemen, processors, manufacturers and packers and other handlers of farm products.’' Warren pointed out that 22 large corporations reported making more than 45 percent of the gross sales of ail processors of food products in 1931. and that 102 corporations report ed more than 60 percent of the sales. The trade ommission also would be empowered to determine whether there have been violations of the anti trust laws by processsors. REYNOLDS 10 HAVE STOUT OPPOSITION Paul Younts and Tam Bowie Loom As Prospective Sen ate Foes in 1936 nfiliy 5» l snntrli Barena, In the Sir Walter Hotel. BY J. C EASKERVILLi. Raleigh, July 24—Although Senator Robert R. Reynolds, of Asheville, does not come up for renomination arid re-election until 1936, at least two potential candidates are already level ling their puns at his senatorial toga, according to reports heard here today. One of these is Major Paul Younts, present postmaster in Charlotte and formerly a strong supporter of ex-Gov ernor-Senator Cameron Morrison. In fact, Younts was a member of the (Continued on Page Eight) AMERICANS DEFEAT GERMANS IN TENNIS Wimbledon, England, July 24. (A P>—A straight set victory by Wil der Allison, of Austin, Texas, over Heir.er Henkel, of Germany, enabled the United States to eliminate Ger many today' from the Davis cup ten n:s competition and qualified Amen ica to meet Great Britain in the chal lenge round finals Saturday. Italian Boys Soldiers On Becoming 18 Mussolini’s Decree Creates Further Huge Reserve For M ar on Ethiopia Rcnrie. July 24.—(API —The war ristry proclaimed today that every Joung Fascist graduating from the falian youths movement at the age rjf becomes a “soldier.” From hat. day he assumes obliga tlons of military service which we vv!l ‘ satisfy according to the scope ° r urbanization of the regime and un. • (CuuUuued on Page Three) Unthrramt Bailit Hfgmitrh ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OP NORTH CAROLINA AND VIRGINIA. * WIR® SERVICE OF THB ASSOCIATED PRESS. 30,000 Bodies Os Flood Victims Are Located In China Aiding Reich Jews i ;xaM pp - >'• a W Felix Warburg (above), New York banker, is president of Refugee Economic Corp., organized with $10,000,000 capital to help settle Jewish refugees from Germany on self-supporting basis. fCentral Press] 20 Pc. Raise To T eachers Is Probable School Commission to Invite Its Critics for the Benefit of Their Advice In the Sir Walter Hotel. Hally Dispatch Biireas, AY J. C. MASKHJRVIIiL. Raleigh, July 24—The salary sche dule committee of the State School Commission and of the State Board of Education is in session here today continuing its efforts to work out a salary schedule for teachersf that will preserve the sliding scale of increases for experience and training and still give every teacher a 20 per cent in crease over what he or she got last year. Dr. B. B. Daugherty, of Boone, president of the Western Carolina Teachers College, and a mem ber of the school commission, is chair man of the committee. Indications this afternoon were that the committee was still making very slow progress in its efforts to stretch some $16,500,000 available out of the entire appropriation of $20,031,000 for teachers salaries, when a minimum of $16,750,000 is needed if every teach (Continued on Page Eight) Textbooks Needed To Be Double Holly Dmimtck Bareaa, In the Sir Walter Hotel. BY J. C. BASKERVILL, Raleigh, July 24—The new rental textbook system now in process of be ing installed over the State will not only save parents hundreds of thou sands of dollars, but will be of tre mendous value to the children by in suring an adequate supply of books, which in turn will result in better in struction and better grades, State Sup erintendent of Public Instruction Claude A. Erwin said today. And of these benefits, he is inclined to be lieve that the most important is the supplying of books to children who heretofore have not had textbooks. The replies received to questionnaires which 6 have been sent out by Robert M Peeler, secretary of the Rental Textbook Commission, indicate that • (Continued on Page Five) HENDERSON, N. C. WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON, JULY 24, 1935 Dead Are Piling Up By Tens of Thousands Along Rivers as Flood Waters Recede YELLOW RIVER YET IN FLOOD STAGES Crashes Barrier After Bar rier To Swallow Immense New Areas of Farm Lands; Frantic Calls for Help Come for 5,000,000 Per sons Now Homeless Shanghai, July 24. (AP) The Hankow Red Cross Society announced today it had picked up 30,000 bodies of persons drowned in the present floods along the Han and Yangtze rivers near Hankow alone, and re ports from other points indicated a far greater loss of life. While central China turned to the gruesome business of counting its dead, which were piling up by the tens of thousands along the banks ot rivers from which flood waters were receding, the northern province con tinued to battle the floods of the Yellow river. The Yellow river, crashing barrier after harrier to swallow immense new areas of farm lands, has; already blanketed more than 2.000 square miles of Shantung countryside. Governor Han Chu, of Shantung, sent an urgent telegram to Nanking reporting nearly 5,000,000 of his peo ple homeless. Terre Haute Strike Ends; Workers Back j Terre Street car| and buses rolled through Terre Hau'te’s business section today carrying factory workers and others to work as usual. A two-day general strike was ter minated yesterday. Unexpectedly last night, T. N. Tay lor. former State Federation of Labor president, announced that officials of (Continued on Page Eight) Violence In Ship Yards Strike Seen Camden, N. J., July 24.—(AP) —An employee attempting to return, to work at the New York Shipbuilding Company yard was beaten twice by strikers today in his attempt to break through picket lines. Police finally freed him and helped him through the gates. No arrests were made. It was the first outbreak of violence since the company opened its plant yesterday. Strike Jeaders, who claimed fewer men entered the plant than yesterday provided a sensation in the picket lines today by refusing service of copies of a court order calling on them to show cause why an injunc (Continued on Page Five.) First State Pay Day With Salary Hikes Daily Dispatch Bureau, In the Sir Walter Hotel, BY J, C. BASKERVILL. Raleigh, July 24—Some 3,000 State employes here and in State institutions elsewhere, as well as some 6,000 em ployes of the State Highway and Pub lic Works Commission, are all a-quiver here today because tomorrow is pay day, and because they will get their first salary increase in two years. But many of these employes are somewhat (Continued on Page Eight) German Vets Wait .. ______ . •. r Captain Seldte Action by the Nazi government ordering dissolution of several groups of the Steel Helmets, Ger many’s “American Legion", re sulted in conferences between Reichsfuehrer Adolf Hitler and Capt. Franz Seldte, above, one armed machine gunner and the Steel Helmet representative with in the government. A Steel Hel met leader in Holstein was re ported arrested for “anti-govern ment activities." Capt. Seldte’* position was regarded as especial ly difficult. He was expected to resign his cabinet post. BRITAIN IS READY 10 JOIN WITH U. S. IN PEACEEFFORTS Foreign Secretary Replies in House of Commons To Questioners on Af rican Crisis RECOGNIZES DUTY BY KELLOGG PACT Thinks All Signatories Ob ligated To Use Influence To preserve Peace; Particu lar Reference To Italy and* Ethiopia; Commends Hall's Statement London, July 24. —(AP) —Sir Samuel Hoare, British foreign secretary, told the House of Commons today: “His Majesty’s government will al ways be ready to cooperate with the United States government in seeking to preserve peace.” This statement was made in reply to questions by members concerning Great Britain's relations to the con flict between Italy and Ethiopia. iSaid Sir Samuel: “I have already expressed to the American ambassador the satisfaction of His Majesty’s government with the recent utterances of the United States secretary of state concerning the ob ligations devolving on all signatories of the Kellogg pact.” Strike Front At Durham Is Still Quiet Durham, July 24.—(AP)—All was quiet on the Durham Hosiery Mill strike front this morning, the two af fected seamless hosiery plants opera,t_ ing as usual. The non-strikers walk ed through the picket lines unhinder ed. Union leaders protested police pro tection afforded this morning and as serted police had cleared away picket (Continued on Page Two.) HTII HER FOR NORTH CAROLINA. Fair tonight and Thursday, ex cept scattered thunder showers Thursday afternoon in west and Nnorth portions- 1936 Cotton Crop Os 7,500,0008a1es Seen By Bankhead Senator Says There Is No Justification for Textile Buyers Longer Holding Off NONE NEED EXPECT COTTON TO DECLINE Alabama Senator Says Buy ers Should Expect Prices Are Now at Their Lowest; Options on Cotton Govern ment is Holding May Re place 1936 Quotas Washington, July 24 (AP)—Fore seeing possibility of a 7,500,000-bale cotton crop in 1936, Senator Bank head, Democrat, Alabama said today there was no justification for cotton textile buyers longer staying out of the market in an expectation of a break in prices. “No one need expect cheaper cot ton, not cheaper cotton goods this sea son,” he said. “But, on the contrary textile buyers should recognize that the price is now probably at its lowest point. ” The prediction of a small crop next year was based on a plan to support the Bankhead production allotment program by giving growers, in lieu of baleage quotas, option on cotton now held by the government under the price peg loans. Bankhead intimated the President soon will announce a loan for the 1935 cotton crop. TAR HEEL TANNERS PROTEST ON SHOES Washington, July \ (AP)—A de legation representing North Caro lina tanneries came to Washington today to protest against the us© of composition instead of leather by the ivil Conservation orps. New Highway Patrol Begins Around Aug. 1 In tie Sir Walter Hotel. Dally Dispatch Bareaa, BY J. C. BASKERVILL, Raleigh, July 24.—The enlarged State Highway Patrol of 121 officers and patrolmen, will be put to work patrolling the highway as soon after August 1 as possible, Captain Charles D. Farmer, commander of the patrol said today. The training school for new patrolmen) will be completed about August 1 and the new men will be sent out just as soon as their new uniforms and equipment arrive. The uniforms for the 64 new patrolmen to be selected from the 100 men in the training school cannot be order ed until these men have been select, ed. But Captain Farmer indicated tjfrat they would be chosen this week or next, so that the new uniforms could be ordered as soon a6 possible. “With the number of automobile accidents and the number of persons killed or injured increasing each month, we want to get the enlarged patrol on the highways just as soon as possible,” Captain Farmer said. (Continued on Page Two) ROOSEVELT TO GET WELCOMEIN WEST Will Talk in Various Places About Things Gripping Those Areas By LESLIE EICHEL Central Press Staff Writer New York, July 24.—When Presi dent Roosevelt travels across the United States following the adjourn ment of Congress, on what will he sp6ftk ? The chances are that he will make only “informal talks” and the chan ces are that he will discuss matters which the majority of his audiences will desire to hear. The larger part of his route will be through farm and ranch and water power country Any reader can guess. (Continued on Page Two) PUBLISHED EVERY AFTBRNOOM EXCEPT SUNDAY. Oil Suit Prosecutor • *’'*>*• ' J jbS v Justice Preston Named by President Roosevelt to prosecute $25,000,000 to SSO, 000,000 oil tecovery suits to be filed on behalf of the government against - Standard Oil, Associate Justice John M. Preston of the California supreme court is pic tured above. Besides the money, the suits were to ask restoration of valuable oil lands. More Youth Groups Are Disbanded Political Catholicism In Germany Re - ceives Further Blow From Hitler Karlsruhe. Germany. July 24. —(AP) —The so-called “political Cathoolism” received a further blow today with dissolution of the Catholic youth or ganization Deutsche Jugendkraft in the province of Baden, and confisca tion of its property. Catholic circles said they believed the action against this youth society foreshadowed an end to the entire Catholic youth movement. The minister of the interior had restricted carefully the work of con fessional youth organizations, but had refrained from orders of dissolution and confiscation. The scope of activity of all non- Nazi youth organizations was restrict ed even further by bans against theli engaging in any indoor sports, the restriction of thejr organization work to “purel yreligious, cultural and charity tasks.” LOBBY PROBES IN OPPOSITE TRENDS House Seems Trying to Con vict White House, Sen ate the “Interests’' By CHARLES P. STEWART Central Press Staff Writer Washington, July 24. —One can only guess at the motives of Chairman John J. O’Connor, of the House of Representatives’ Rules Committee, for the fashion in which he is direct ing his committee’s investigation of lobibyng in Congress. I Politicians do guess, however; not a few of them guess that O’Connor is trying to convict the White House, (Continued on Page Eight) 8 PAGES TODAY FIVE CENTS C@PY DR. AMY STANNARD SET ASIDE TO GET POST FOR LAWYER Judge T. Webber Wilson, of Mississippi, Shifted There From Virgin Islands Position GOV. PEARSON GETS JOB WITH THE PWA Roosevelt Opposes Clark Amendment To Social Se curity Bill To Exempt Pri vate Company Insurance Systems; Wants More Laws from Congress Washington, July 24.—(AP) —A wo man member of the United States Board of Paroles was disclosed today to have resigned to smooth the way for a Virgin Islands shake-up which has brought a lull in the Senate in. vestigation of affairs there. Dr. Amy Stannard, member of the board since 1930, resigned at the re quest of Attorney General Cummings, to “create a vacancy.” Her place went to Judge T. Webber Wilson, of Mis sissippi. who was shifted from a judi cial post in the Virgin Islands yester day after a long controversy, in which some of his actions had been criticized by Secretary Ickes- l In the wake of Wilson’s transfer, the shifting of Governor Paul M. Pearson, of the islanSs, to a PWA post, and the appointment of Law rence W. Cramer to succeed him, the Senate committee, which has been in vestigating Pearson's administration, (Continued on Pajco Two.) Michigan Loafers To Be Dropped by Michigan Relief Lansing, Mich,, July 24 (AP) — Thousands of men and nearly 260 projects will be cut from “Work relief” rolls Thursday in Michi gan. Following closely, a Washington announcement that “persons on. relief who refuse jobs will be cut off immediately.” William Haber, State relief administrator, ordered scores of rural county projects abandoned. He declared farmers have ben complaining that persons on relief have been turning down , jobs. LARGE PARIS BANK IS IN BANKRUPTCY Agents in This Country Face Charges Brought by French Government Paris, Jul* 24.— (AP)—Neidecker and Cie, the legal name of the Travel ers Bank, was declared bankrupt to day by the Tribunal of Commerce. The decree was a matter of routine, because the bank was closed and fail, ed to meet payments. (B. Coles Neidecker, the president of the company, was arrested in New (Continued on Page Two) President Is Against Cuts For Charity Would Not Allow De ductions to Corpor ations for Gifts As Good Will Fund Washington, July 24. —(AP) — Op. position to allowing deductions on the payments due to contributions by cor porations to charitable institutions was expressed today by President Roosevelt. Recalling at hiss press conference that he had vetoed a similar bill al lowing such deductions by utility com panies in New York State when he (Continued on Page Two)
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