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"Person GATEWAY to 0 CENTRAL CAROLINA TWENTY-SECOND yeah BRITISH FLEET’S MOVEMENTS WORRY ITALY byrns is leading attempt to force 12C COTTON LOANS South Carolina Senator and Others Much Displeased With 9c-Loan Plan Announced TO URGE FARMERS TO HOLD THE CROP Bankhead Says Movement Will Get Under Way At Once To H ave Them Keep Crop off Market for 12 Cents; Would Stop Effort To Move Stored Cotton Washington. Aug. 21 (AP>—King Colton became the renter of a n«"v struggle today as Senator Byrnes, Democrat. Smith Carolina, led a cam paign to force the administration to make a 12-ccnts-a-pound loan on th/ 1P3?,5 cotton crop. Byrnes and others were dissatisfied ■wYh the AAA’s announcement yes terday, saying that the loan would be nine cents this year, as against 12 last, but that the government would guarantee a total return of 12 cents to growers taking part in the govern ment's cotton control plan. The guarantee would be carried out through direct grants of government funds. FARMERS MILL BE URGED TO DEMAND TWELVE CENTS I Washington,. Aug. 23 (API —Sen- ator Bankhead. Democrat. Alabama, said today "an organized program will be started at once to induce the cotton farmers to hold their cotton for a price of 12 cents or better.” Taking cognizance of the announced government cotton loan and price po licy. the Alabaman stated: ‘The farmers would rather sell at fair prices than to accept a bounty from tht government, especially when they are in position to get the boun ty if needed to assure the price. By taking advantage of the nine-cent loan, they can hold their cotton un til January 1. and then collect from the government any difference that may exist between the market price and 12 cents. BYRNES TRYING TO PREVENT REMOVAL OF STORED COTTON Columbia, S. C.. Aug. 23 fAP) Unithed States Senator James F. Byrnes informed J. Roy Jones, State commissioner of Agriculture, today that he was urging government au thorities not to require cotton already stored in warehouses to be moved un dei a Federal concentration plan. Byrnes wrote Jones that he was ad vocating that the Commodity Credit Corporation’s program for requiring the storage of all cotton for loans at Greenville, Spartanburg and Colum bia should not apply to staple now in storage. Winant Is Picked For Social Job Washington, ATig, 23. (AP) — President Roosevelt today nam- John G. Winant, former gov ernor of New Hampshire, as chairman of the new social secur. by department. He is a Republi can He was called upon by Presi dent Roosevelt a year ago to head special committee investigating the textile strike. Ethiopia Hears Spies of Italy Thronging Country A/ldis Ababa, Aug. 23 (AP)—The Etniopian government today institut a Hose wateh over the Italian con sulate following complaints from Ethiopian quarters that Italian spies ’'“ rr over-running the country. Emperor Haile Selassie was report *o have offered to sell the pro vincn of Aussa, adjoining Eritrea, to *'* ri an effort to save Ethiopia from war. The emperor was reported as great p hf;irt(-ned by the statement of ’O,-yy MacDonald that Great Bri lr determined how to act in the i 1 " m ■ crisis. Hope grows in Eth lol''an circles that the powers were j” ( ‘l',u <>a *o impose sanctions at Ge -I,V;t ,i should attack. iicnitcramt £Uttly Dispatch ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OF NokTH CAROLINA AND VIRGINIA. * w»asb P wire service of THE ASSOCIATED PRESS. General Indicted ii MHmilfflHßfflPL. >— \ i|§pg CgJBPWaniJD. **’ OOTiiHHHliltHJtlßOMlDOODlllOlDLHHHdjy^aHnooogb^lk-.'^SXMwWI Henry H. Denhardt, adjutant-gen eral of Kentucky, is reported to have left state to avoid arrest following his indictment in Harlan county in election squabble. He refused to withdraw National Guardsmen guarding election booths when or dered to do so by county officials. (Central Press) BORAH IS FAR OUT ON G. 0. P. TICKET But Party Can’t Make Up Its Mind as to Just What Candidate They Really Wish DEMOCRiVTSANXIOUS THAT THEY DECIDE Roosevelt Strategy Will Be in Opposite Direction, Whether Republicans Go Left or Right; They Would Play Conservative if Borah Were Named By Leslie Eichel Press Staff Write- New York. Aug. 3.—Republican sleuths says that Senator William E. Borah is out in front for the G O. P. Renublican nomination. That puts financial New York into a peculiar position. Borah belives in “expanded and managed” cur rency. That, to financial New York, spell inflation. President Roosevelt, “with all his faults” doesn’t believe in inflation. (Continued on Page Five.) The governmental watch for spies was based on complaints that Italian secret agents were operating in the guise of consuls and merchants. The consulate, according to these Ethio- Dian charges, has neither sufficient Italian subjects nor Italian trade to justify their existence. Certain Ethiopian quarters alleged that Italians have been registering na tive former soldiers from the Italian colonies of Eritrea and Somaliland and offering them double pay if they joined the Italian forces against Eth iopia. - It is estimated that there are 23- 000 of these former soldiers in God jam province alone. HENDERSON, N. C. FRIDAY AFTERNOON, AUGUST 23, 1935 Showing How to Defend U. S. y \ A-J mi* 1 .■, fojvjpt*|i. ■( This is the procession surprised motorists between Fort Benning, Ga. and Pine Camp, N. Y., found themselves facing. These are tanks 01 Company F, 67th Infantry, on swift trek to maneuvers of First Army, which showed how quickly these formidable fighters can move around. Note that their “caterpillars” are off their wheels while on the smooth road, and that they have wireless aerials up for orders. (Central Press ) Denial Made About Party By Tydings Washington, Aug. 23 —(AP) —Brist- ling indignantly, Senator Tydings <3e denied to Senate lobby investigators today that he ever had accepted the lobbyist hospitality of Bernard B. Robinson. * '‘lfcrefatre when you use my name, be damned sure you are right!” he stormed at the nervous Associated Gas and Electric saboteur of utlity legislation, who yesterday had testi fied the Marylander was a guest at, his cocktail party. It seemed he may have attended the party and may not- If he did, he insisted it was at the invitation of Miss Evelyn Walker, named by Rob inson as having shared with him In giving the party. The tense brief scene contrasted with thestimony before and after by Howard C. Hopson on securlires deal ings by his Associated Gas interests. He denied improper price manipila tion was involved. Chairman Black asked caustically at one point: “You denied the practice when I stocks and bonds art to be purchased J • of attempting to bring the Pf> jV lower than the market price if tie/" market was left alone?” “Why, of course,” Hopson replied. The committee dismissed Hopson with instructions to leave his ad dress so he could be called later. ROGERS AND POST RESTING IN TOMB Nation Paid Last Final Tri bute As Bodies Are Placed In Crypts Los ngeles, Calif., Aug. 23 (AP)— The combre last curtain was drawn to for Will Rogers today. His sctocky body was sealed away in a crypt at orest Lawn Memorial park late yesterday after a brief ceremony at the Wlee Kirk O’the Heather. It will rest there for a while until Mrs. Rogers takes it back to Okla homa to be interred beside the re mains of his father and mother in the Baltsea cemetery. While the rites were being said, the life of the whole community stopped. WILEY POST LAID TO REST IN OKLAHOMA CITY CRYPT Oklthoma Aug. 23. (AP) —The body of Wiley Post, aerial globe circler and dauntless voyager of the upper air, rested in a crypt in Fair Lawn mausoleum here today. At almost the same hour yesterday (Continued on Page Eight.) Ginnings In 1935 Are 316,930 Bales Washington, Aug. 23. (AP) Cotton of this year’s crop ginned prior to August 15 was reported today by the Census Bureau to have totalled 316,930 running bales, counting 892 round bales as half bales, but excluding linters. AVERAGE 15525.50^ High Price at Dillon; Record At Lumberton; Fairmont Shows Gains Dillon, S. C„ Aug. 23 (AF)—Nearly 200.000 pounds of tobacco were on floors here today with the first sales averaging about $25.50. Many types brought S3O to S3B. Nearly 1,000 per sons w?-e on the floors. NEW RECORD SET IN SALE AT LUMBERTON THURSDAY \ Lumberton, Aug. 23 (AP) —Approx- l be-,,- i v 1,000,000 pounds of tobacco less tha,*£ered f*o sale here today as official records showed yestreday’s sale broke all previous records, 684,- 904 pounds for an average of $21.46. ' Good tobacco was higher, but com mon lugs and primings were off be cause of bad weather. GOOD TOBACCO IS HIGHER ON THE FAIRMONT MARKET Fairmont. Aug. 23 fAP)—Receipts were heavy on the Fairmont tobacco market today with upwards of 1,000,- 000 pounds on warehouse floors. Good | tobacco was higher, but little was of ! sered. the majority of the receipts be ing nondescript types. Official fig ures for Thursday’s sale w r ere 979,568 pounds at an average of $23.43 per hundred Davis Forecasts 1935 Cotton Crop Worth a Billion Washington, Aug. 23 (AP) — The first billion dollar cotton crop since 1929 was predicted by the AAA today as cotton prices on major markets dropped sharply in response to the loan and grant policy announced by the govern ment yesterday. Chester C. Davis, the AAA ad ministrator, vigorously defended the government’s plan to lend nine cents per pound on the 1935 crop and guarantee by direct grants a total return of 12 cents to producers taking part in the control program. weltheT FOR NORTH CAROLINA Partly cloudy tonight and Saturday; slightly cooler tonight. Bank Act Becomes Law As Congress Hurries To Close Senator Glass, Bitter Foe of Measure, on Hand As President Signs Dis puted Bill PRESS RESOLUTION FIXING NEUTRALITY House To Rush Measure Al ready Passed by Senate; Adjournment by Tomorrow Niorht Predicted to Roose velt; Agreement Reached on Guffey NR A Coal Bill ■Washington, Aug. 23 (AF) —'With nmiiT-aiitv legislation and the Guffey hill for a “little N'RA" in the coal in dustry head in p - in Con press swiftly to ward its death, President Roosevelt jt today of the long-debated banking act. Senator Glass, Democrat. Virginia, who foreoH marv chanrres in the ad ministration banking bill before pas sage. was on hand to see the Presi dent sign the modified measure. It gives a presidentially-appointed Fed eral Reserve Foard control over the nation’s credit resources. Congress e on tjnned to shape up last minute bills faster than the Presi dent could study and sign those al ready passed. A final agreement was reached by House and Senate committees ap pointed to reconcile differences on the Guffev bill. They left It in the Borah amendment banning suspension of the anti-trust laws for producers com plying with orders of a national soft coal commission. To Press Neutrality House leaders agreed to push through a neutrality resolution im posing a temporary embargo on ship ment of munitions to belligerent na tions under procedure forbidding amendment and sharply limiting de bate. A4journment by tomorrow night was predicted to the President by Senator Lewis, Democrat, Illinois, but the outlook was complicated by a drive for legislation requiring the gov ernment to lend 12 cents a pound on the 1935 cotton crop. Tydlngs Makes Denial Aii indignant denial by Senator Tyd ings, of Maryland, that he ever had been a guest of Bernard B. Robin son, utility lobbyist, enlivened the Capital today. In response to a request to submit application projects under the works relief program, the Federal Re serve Board began sounding out banks on the feasibility of a “purely scientific study’ of bank deposits dur ing the 1928-32 period to be conduct ed by unemployed bank clerks. Farm Mortgage Passed The Senate Frazier-Lehmke three year farm mortgage moratorium bill was amended and passed today by the House. (The bill would let farmers who claim bankruptcy go into Federal cre dit and get payment on their mort gages deferred for as long as three years). Representative Lemke, Republican, Indiana, described it as ’’simply de signed to give the farmer a breathing spell after he goes into bankruptcy”. One amendment of minor nature was adopted. WILLCHECKSTORY OF MASS KILLINGS California Officer# Skepti cal of Tale Told Them by Earl Kimball Auburn, Calif., Aug. 23 —(AP) Skeptical officers sought today to check the amazing story of an ad mitted slayer that the bodies of 25 additional victims lie in the hills near here. Sheriff Elmer H. Gum organized a party to search for two graves des. cribed by Earl (Bud) Kimball, alias Kramer, who has confessed he killed James B. Kennett, Sr., a retired Chic ago contractor, and a seven-year-old youth who was believed to be T- A. Mangdam, California CCC worker. Kimball told his gruesome story to a group of newsmen who had sought to question him about the disappear ance recently of a man known various ly as Fred Rcaling. or Grilling. (The slayingsi, Kimball asserted, took place during the two years the 21-year-old itinerant prospector has been in this vicinity. PUBLISHED EVERY AFTBRNOO* EXCEPT MONDAY. Says Britain Won’t :<v-: •: •’ • | ■■ I • Britain won’t try to block Musso lini’s African conquest by force of arms, despite present indications, H. R. Knickerbocker, famed foreign observer, predicted as he departed from New York for Ethiopia. Brit ish are trying to argue Italy out of undertaking military expedition that might weaken it sufficiently to embolden Nazis to carry out Aus trian coup d’etat, he explains. fCentred Press) STATEWIDE SET-OP OE LIQUOR STORES IS VERY UNLIKELY 16 Counties That Already Have Stores Will Never Agree to Give Up the Money MANY OTHERS WANT THEIR STORES ALSO They Would Certainly Not Agree To State-Owned System Without Getting 50 Percent or More of Reve nue; State Will Never Be Able To Get All of It Dally T&*pntc>li In the Sir Walter Hotel. 1 BY J. C. BASKKUVILIj, Raleigh, Aug. 23—The chances for the enactment of a State-wide liquor control law, setting up State liquor stores from which the State would get all the revenue, are gone for all time, even if the people should express their approval of such a plan in a referendum, according to most ob servers here. The reason for this is that the 16 counties which are now operating something like 50 county (Continued on Page Eight.) Babson Says Roosevelt Friendly to Railroads That Is Indicated In New Truck and Bus Bill; But Rail roads Will Never Again Have Monopoly They Once Had on Transportation In United States By ROGER W. BABSON, (Copyright 1935, by Publishers Financial Bureau.) Babson Park, Mass., Aug- 23. My mother used to say ‘Even the devil Is entitled to his due.” Now that it is so popular in certain investment cir cles to cuss President Roosevelt, It should be remembered that he wants to be friendly to the railroads. In his pre-campaign speeches he promised to do what he could to help railroad bondholders and stockholders. Last week he went a long way toward fulfilling his promise by signing the “truck and bus” bill. He also has taken a very constructive step In putting independent and courageous Joseph B. Eastmanin charge of this work. What New Bill Will Do This new legislation places inter state buses and trucks under federal 8' PAGES , TODAY FIVE CENTS COPY U.s. CAN’T REMAIN OUT. LABOR LEADER IN ENGLAND SAYS Empire’s Defenses on Lines of Communication Will Be Greatly Streng thened at Once ITALY FEARFUL LEST CANAL BE SHUT OFF Mussolini To Take Com mand Personally as Great War Maneuvers in North Italy Get Under Way; One Thought In Rome Is Eng land Seeks Way Around I/ondon. Aug. 3.—(AP)—lufromed quarters said today thaat the British cabinet committee for imperial de fense had approved plans for speed ing up the re-distribution and re-en. forcement of military forces at vital points along the British empire’s lines of communications. George Lansbury, leader of the Labor opposition in Parliament, said the United States “cannot possibly keep out of the next war.” The imperial defense committee met at 10 Downing Street, with Acting Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald presiding. At the same time, Sir Sam uel Hoare, foreign secretary, assum ed personal charge of a survey of all aspects of the Italo-Ethiopian situa tion, as the cabinet’s official “watch dog.” Lansbury made his assertion con cerning the United States as the British public with mingled feelings of relief and disappointment contem plated yesterday’s decision of an em (Continued on Page Five.) Roosevelt Lauded at Conference Milwaukee, Wis., Aug. 23—(AP) — Young Democrats gathered for tne opening for their second annual con vention today were urged to support President Roosevelt ana disregard the opposition shouts of “Constitu tion” “That is on:y a catch phrase,” Charles E. Broughton, Democratic mo tional committeeman from Wisconsin said of the cry against the President in an address of welcome prepared for delivery today. “It is a smoke screen,” he said, “to hide from the public that nothing was done to stave off the cdsis In 1932 and that nothing would have been done in 1933 and 1934 if we had not succeeded in electing Roosevelt. “You have witnessed the rehabili tation of a nation, strong in its fin ancial structure because of rerewed confidence on the part of the Amer ican people,” Broughton said. The national executive committee made up of one man and one woman from each state and the District of Columbia to nominate and elect new officers from the convention floor. Their choices may be confirmed bbjr the executive committee. control, somewhat the same as are the railroads. These motor carriers must immediately apply for rules and regulations. All those now in busi ness are granted the privilege of continuing so long as they comply with these rules snd regulations. New bus and truck lines from now on must, however, secure a “certificate cf convenience and necessity.” Many existing lines will be consolidated or bought up and thus improve the in vestment situation of present bus an 1 motor truck lines. It will be mors difficult to start new routes anl competition should be less severe la the future. The new rules will apply to rates, routes and safety equipment. I expect to see them also include hours ct labor and certain other feature*. (Continued on Page Three.)
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