HENDERSON
gateway TO
CENTRAL
CAROLINA
TWENTY-SECOND YEAR SfiRyK&BTCSw
COTTON LOAN ROW IS DELATING CONGRESS
Eastern Carolina Tobacco Average May Be Under Twenty Cents
QUALITY OF LEAF
ON INITIAL SALES
UNDER LAST YEAR
Extra Heavy Breaks Mark
Opening in Virtually All
Markets of This
Large Belt
VARYING TREND FOR
DIFFERENT GRADES
Some Markets Report Poor
Graces Lower and Others
Think Higher Quality Leaf
Is Off from 1934 Start;
Border Markets Report
Prices Still High
(By the Associated Press.)
Prices paid for their tobacco on the
opening day of the New Bright Belt
auction markets today brought some
disappointment to growers, who said
all grades of the leaf were being bid
at lower prices than last year.
Early sales indicated the day’s aver
age for the belt as a whole would
hardly be higher than $lB or sl9 per
hundred. Graenville and Tarboro re
ported lower prices for the better
grades particularly, while Wilson re
ports said prices were off more for
the lower grades there.
All markets reported extraordinar
ily heavy breaks, but of poor quality
tobacco.
Unfavorable weather was blamed
for the generally poorer quality than
last year, when the opening day aver
age was above $25 per hundred
Receipts at Greenville were 2,000.000
pounds; at Wilson 1,750,000 pounds;
at Farmville, 600.000 pounds and at
Goldsboro 225 000 pounds.
$21.60 at Goldsboro.
The first row of tobacco sold an the
Goldsboro market opening day today
averaged $21.60 per hundred. Prices
paid for the 3,370 pounds ranged from
six to 86 cents. There were an esti
mated 225,000 in the warehouses. To
bacconists said the quality was fair
there were no cmoplaints about prices
in the first few sales. On the first
day of last season 190,948 pounds sold
for an average of $26.14 per hundred
at Goldsboro.
Warehousemen said the quality of
the first row was not as good as the
average quality on the floors.
Off at Tarboro.
At Tarboro farmers said prices on
the better grades of tobacco were off
three to six centfe from last year as
sales started on that auction market.
The first three rows sold averaged
about S2O per hundred Approximate
ly 200.000 pounds were on the floors.
At Washington early sales on the
market there were at an average a
round $lB per hundred, but cheaper
grades predominated in the 250,000
pounds receipts, and farmers appar
ently were satisfied. Prices ranged
from four to 35 cents a pound. Ware,
housemen did not expect more than
two-thirds of the receipts to be sold
today.
The Williamston tobacco market
had prospects of a light block today
with offerings of 200,000 pounds. Ear
]y sales averaged between 13 and 19
cents a pound.
Big Break at Wilson.
With fair quality sandlugs and first
primings predominating, the Wilson
market began sales today with ap
proximately 1,750,000 pounds in the
waiehouses. Prices for the early sales
Tanged from five to 50 cents a pound,
Continued on Page Three.)
LKIUOR LAW WOULD
REDUCE SALES TAX
Might Be Possible To Cut It
To Two Percent and Re
move Meals Tax
Dr.iiy piapntct flarrna,
In the Sjr Walter Hotel,
BY J. C LASKKItVILI,.
Raleigh, Aug. 26.—The sales tax
r ate could be reduced from three per
Cent to two per cent if a special ees
s* 0n of the General Assembly should
called and if this special session
would enact a Statewide liquor con
trol and liquor stores law, it is agreed
h f re today by a good manyh State
officials wo during the 1935 General
Assembly did not think this would be
Possible. But the unusually large a-
TT'ount of revenue which the 16 coun.
now operating some 50 liquor
v (Continued on Page Five.)
Hritiiprsmt Daily Dispatch
ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA AND VIRGINIA.
MOSCOW WITHHOLDS
ALL COMMENT UPON
AMERICAN PROTEST
"#25 for AH”
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William Aberhart
Social CredibLeague which promises
to banish poverty and unemploy
ment in Canada by paying every
body $25 a month state “dividend,”
was swept into office in Alberta
Province under leadership of Wil
liam Aberhart, evangelist who is de
scribed as “the Sinclair-Long-
Coughlin of Canada.”
(Central Press)
MUSSOLINI WANTS
LANDS OF OTHERS
To Demand Other Powers
Donate To Bribe Him
Out of Ethiopia
AWAITS LEAGUE MEET
London Hears Probable Proposal and
Speeds Concentration of Troops
In Mediterranean Sea
Territory
London Aug. 26. —(AP) —Certain
informed quarters said today that
Premier Mussolini might tell the Lea
gue of Nations that his price for call
ing off the threatened invasion of
Ethiopia would be a gift by other
powers of colonies in Africa.
.Meantime, the British government
speeded up the movement of troop
and naval force's toward strategic
points on the British route of the
empire.
Mussolini’s references to the col
(Continued on Page Two.)
Native Populace Starts
Evacuating Addis Ababa
Lose No Time In Carrying Out Emperor’s Orders To Flee
In Fear of Possible Italian Attack; Ethiopia Refuses
War Damage Blame; Money Tumbles
Addis Ababa, Aug. 26.—(AP)—
The Italian Legation today begn
the removal of its archives from
the Ethiopian capita! as thousand
of native men, women and chil
dren started to evaluate the city.
Addis Ababa, Aug. 26 (AP) The
native populace today started exca
vating the capital in accordance with
Emoeror Haile Selassie’s verbal ord
er—not waiting the seven days he
prescribed Saturday. Without panic,
thousands of men, women and chil
dren, believing war may come at any*
moment, departed for villages in the
HENDERSON, N. C. MONDAY AFTERNOON, AUGUST 26, 1935
Unconfirmed Rumors Say
Other Nations May Make
Complaint Like the
United States
SOVIETS WARNED OF
COMMUNISTIC ACTS
Flagrant Violation of Rus
sian Pledges Charged In
Note Sent to Moscow from
Washington; Plots Aimed
at Overthrow of Govern
ment Here Charged
Wash in c ton, Auer. 26 (API—
I.fttfmr the vigorous United States
protpst to the Soviet sneak for It
self. Secretary Hull would say to
day only that no indication of
the tlmf» or nature of the Mos
cow reply has been received.
An". 26 (API —The fu
ture of S r «vie f -Amor?''an relations was
thrown or* p n to Question in the minds
of observers todav as the Unit
ed States awaited a reply to its stern
note protecting what it termed “flag
rant violation’ of Russian pledges.
It was noted the protest warned of
“most serious consequences’’ if Rus
sia failed to prevent communistic or
ganization on its soil or under its con
trol from aiming to ovnrthrow the
government of the United States.
Some observers read into the docu
ment an emphatic warning that Ame
rican recognition of Russia, whiqh
has been a subiect of hot debate on
Canitol Hill and elsewhere, might be
withdrawn if the Russian government
does not do all in its power to halt
communistic activity in the United
States.
MOSCOW IS STT.ENT ABOUT
PROTEST FROM WASHINGTON
Moscow. Aug. 26 (AP)—A United
States prV'Tst against the ‘interfer
ence by foreign countries in their in
ternal affairs” was received in silence
today by Soviet officials and the So
viet press.
Official quarters had nothing to say
in answer to Questions regarding the
note delivered yesterday by Ambas
sador William C. Bullitt, of the Unit
ed States. These questions included
whether any other countries had tak
en action similar to that of the United
States.
Rumors that the American protest
would be followed by some such step
on the part of two or three other na
tions had not been confirmed this aft
ernoon.
Youth, 17, Admits
Incendiary Fires
All Over Denver
Denver, Colo.. Aug. 26 (AP) —
A 17-year-old youth was said today
by police to have admitted he was
the arsonist who set a series of
fires which struck terror to the
city’s business district.
“Sure, I set 17 of the fires, and
besides that I’m wanted all over
the country,” Detective Walter T.
Fox quoted the youth as saying.
interior.
The Ethiopian government today I
warned the United States and other'
legations that the inventories of pro
perty which the legations ordered
their nations to prepare—ostensibly
with a view to possible indemnifirp
tion by Italy or Ethiopia, in the event
of damaging by war, will not be re
cognized by Ethiopia.
The warning was issued as the Eth
iopian thaler fell sharply and Emper
or Haile Selassie and his empress be
gan a month of prayer and abstention
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Six Nations Attend U. S. Army’s War Show
All the nations with which U. S. might conceivably go to war some day, except Great Britain, have official
observers at maneuvers of First Army at Pine Camp, N. Y. With others, they are shown lined up at head
quarters with Mai. Gen. Dennis E. Nolan, First Army commander. L. to r.: Capt. Yasuto Nakayama,
Japan; Maj. Jose Vidal, Spain; Brig. Gen. Juan F. Azcarate, Mexico; Lieut. Gen. Friedrich von Boetti
cher, Germany; Gen. Vladimir Begunov. U. S. S. R.: Lieut. CoK Emmanuel Lombard, France.
(Central Press)
AAA Has Surplus
Despite Payments
Washington, Aug. 26 (AP) —The
AAA reported today that its expen
ditures totalled $807,686,134.47 dur
ing the fiscal year ended last June
30.
The administration also announc
ed that funds available were $960,-
334,220.63, leaving • a balance of
$152,466,08016, which was carried
over into the new fiscal year.
Administration Has Run In
to No End of Contro
versy About Money
G. O. P. SOFT-PEDALING
Wall Street Has Shared Too Much of
Capital Loans To Raise Rough
House About Money Being
Given Away
By LESLIE EICHEL
New York, Aug. 26.—Those four bil
lions for relief and public works are
not serving as a Democratic cam
paign fund.
They are turning out to be the con
trary-
They are nothing but trouble.
'Frightened by the oppositionists
attaews, the Roosevelt administration
evidently decided to pursue a com
plicated course.
The money must not be for pure
relief, except in cases of extreme
necessity.
It must be worked for—but at
wages so low that payrolls of private
industry would not be harmed.
It must not be used to build up
any enterprises that would endanger
the private profit system.
But it could be used on standard
government contract work, as some
thing established —such as warship
building, river and harbor improve
ments, etc.
The course became so complicated
that when the administration ordered
direct relief stopped there was no
public work to which the unfortun
nates could turn.
And, in the confusion (as always
when there is no order), the money
has gone to so many “legitimate” pur
poses that the men who were to be
saved are wandering in dangerous dis
order.
In addition, the administration got
into ad ispute with organized labor
over rates. And now not only has the
administration the regulation stand
pat opposition to face, but the discon
tented organized and unorganized, a
considerable multitudhe.
The four billions really have been
a campaign fund for the Republicans
PSH! PSH!
Republicans, anyway, have decided
to soft-pedal the cry of billions being
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VLVI HIP
FOR NORTH CAROLINA
Fair tonight and Tuesday; lit
tle change in temperature.
12,000 Persons Over 65
May Be Denied Pensions
State Will Be Deprived of
$2,000,000 Federal Funds
Unless It Matches
New Law
EXTRA SESSION OF
ASSEMBLY NEEDED
But Governor 1 Is Afraid If
He Calls It, Legislators
Will Tamper With Sales
Tax and Whole Revenue
Se|t-Up; iWollld 1 Restore
Ehringhaus Popularity
Dally Dispatch Bareaa,
In the Kir Walter Hotel,
BY £ C. 'IASKERVIIiIi.
Raleigh, Aug. 26.—More than 12,000
old men and women in North Caro
lina over 65 years of age, who now
have no means of support, will he
denied the benefit of the new Federal
old age pension law just enacted by
Congress and North Carolina will fail
to receive from $2,000,000 to $2,500,000
a year in old age pension grants from
the Federal government, until after
the 1937 General Assembly meets and
acts, unless a special session of the
1935 General . Assembly is called by
Governor J. C. B. Ehringhaus, it was
pointed out here today. Figures com
piled and made public today by Mrs.
W. T Bost, commissioner of public
welfare, showed that on the basis of
figures from 17 states which now
have old age pension laws, there are
approximately 12.000 persons in North
Carolina 65 years old or older, who
would be eligible to come within the
old age pension law.
Means $2,000,000 Annually.
These figures also showed that if
North Carolina should match the Fed
eral grant up to the full limit of sls
per month per person, so that the
(Continued on Page Five.)
MAYIfORMALL
OF PRISON GUARDS
State Authorities Consider
ing Semi-Military Garb
For Officers
Dnlly DiwpnfcH nurena.
In the Sir Winter Hotel.
BY C. BASKKUVIMi.
Raleigh. Aug. 26.—The uniforming
of all prison guards in semi-military
uniforms of either dark blue or olive
drab, is being considered by Acting
Director Oscar T. Pitts, of the prison
division of the State Highway and
Public Works Commission, he said
today. He has several sample unh
forms he has just received from the
Virginia State Prison, where all the
guards are required to wear uniforms
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PUBLISHED EVERY AFTERNOON*
EXCEPT BUNDAY
N. C. Farmers Get !
$22,747,000 Totals
Raleigh, Aug. 26 (AP) —North
Carolina cotton farmers received
a total of $14,732,147.51 in benefit
payments for ail crops in the fis
cal year ended July 1, Dean I. O.
Sehaub, of the N. C. State Col
lege Extension Service( announced
after receiving an official report
from Washington today.
Tobacco payments were $8,015,-
380.21.
PLANS SURVEY FOR
PENSIONELIGIBLES
Welfare Department To De
termine Beneficiaries
Throughout State
Dully Dlftt>nt<*h 11 nr **!«■,
In the Kir Wnlter Hotel,
nj j. u. ..
Raleigh, Aug. 26.—A survey to de
termine how many old people in the
State 65 years of age or older will
be eligible to receive pensions under
the Federal old age pensions was re
cently enacted by Congress, provided
the State enacts a cooperating law,
will be started immediately by the
State Board of Charities and Public
Welfare, Mrs. W. T. Bost, commis
sioner of public welfare, announced
today. While on the basis of popula
tion and experience in 17 states which
already have old age pension laws,
there would be approximately 12,000
old persons in North Carolina eligible
for pensions, these figures are mere
estimates, and Mrs. Bost wants to
know exactly, or as nearly as possi
ble, how many old people in this State
would be eligible for pensions.
This survey will be in charge of
William C. Ezell, of the division or
institutions and corrections of tne
State Board of Charities. Sources of
information which hew ill investigate
v/ill be the so-called “outside poor
list" in every county, the various
county homess the unemployables for
whom the counties have assumed re
sponsibility. those stin being cared for
by the FERA who have not yet been
turned back to the counties and the
report of the State Unemployment
Commission- County superintendents
of public welfare will also be called
upon to assist in this study, many of
whom are already familiar with the
aged, in their counties who would be
to receive pensions under this
new iaw.
More interest has been manifested
in the old age pensions phase of the
national security program than any
thting else. Mrs. Bost said, and many
applications have already been re
ceived and were received even before
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TODAY
FIVE CENTS COPY
ROOSEVELT STEPS
INTO BREACH WITH
COMPROMISE IDEA
v
House Leadership To Resist
All Efforts #To Enact 12
Cents Loan To
Cotton Growers
ADOPT RESOLUTION
FOR ADJOURNMENT
Calls for Sine Die Closing of
Session Tonight; United
States Protest to Russia
Claims Attention of Some
Members More Than Ses
sion End
Washington, Aug. 26—(AP)—'South
ern senators, whose demand for a 12-
cent loan on cotton has delayed ad
journment of Congress, arranged to*
talk the situation over with President
Roosevelt today amid predictions of a
quick settlment.
The Senate met and recessed im
mediately until 5 o’clock to permit
negotiations with the White Housa
and House leaders. Earlier, the House
leadership, after talking with Mr.
Roosevelt, had indicated it would re
sist all efforts to enact the 12 cents
a pound cotton loan, and the loan of
about 90 cents a bushel on wheat,
which the Senate Saturday placed in
an administration appropriation mea
sure-
Despite opposition by the farm bloc,
the House adopted a resolution call
ing for adjournment tonight. Repre
sentative Vinson, Democrat, Georgia,
a leader of members from the cotton
states tried to have the resolution
tabled, but was beaten 178 to 47.
Some members who deal with leg.
(Continued on Page Two.)
Ending Os-
Session By
Night Seen
Washington, Aug. 26 (AP) —Smash-
ing opposition of the farm bloc, the
House today adopted a resolution call
ing for a sine die adjournment of
Congress tonight.
President Rooseyelt was conferring
with cotton senators to work out a for
mula expected to end differences be
tween the two branches of the wheat
cotton loans inserted in the deficiency
bill.
The Senate itself recessed for five
hours, spending negotiations by
House leadership.
In the House the adjournment reso
lution was presneted by Representa
tive Taylor, of Colorado, acting Dem
ocratic leader.
Short T 936
Congress Is
Tli ('Aim Now
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Legislators, None too
Sure Os Their
Chances, Seek To
Avoid Controversy
By CHRUES P. STEWART
Washington, Aug. 26.—Congress ha«
been desperately anxious to guaran
tee itself as short and peaceful a ses
sion as possible next winter, for then
the national conventions will be close
ahead.
That is why, much against all Its
other inclinations, it hung on so long
this year, trying to leave itself noth
ing to get into a fight over in Jan
uary.
The session of 1927-’2B, it will bo
recalled, continued right on into the
midst of the convention season, which
not only was a great inconvenience
to senators and representatives, who
desired to attend their respective
party gatherings, but caused embar
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