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HENDERSON 4 GATEWAY TO CENTRAL CAROLINA TWENTY-SECOND YEAR lbashd wirb servicei o * THE A.3BOCIATBD PRESS. TOBACCO GROWERS DEMAND PRICE BOOSTS LEAGUE PEACE PLAN IS NOT ACCEPTABLE TO MUSSOLINI GROUP Not Even Basis for Negotia tions, Delegation State, ment at League Meet ing Asserts . MUSSOLINI CALLS LEADERS TO ROME Cabinet Will Meet Saturday To Discuss League’s Pro posal “For Assistance To Ethiopia;’’ Italy Seeks Money; Britain Speeds Fleet Assemblage (By The Associated Press.) The Italian cabinet passed sweep ing provisions to raise funds for tne defense of the East African colonies and the British Admiralty indefinite lv postponed the regular autumn maneuvers of the British fleet. These developments were announc ed today shortly after the Italo-Ethio pian committee of the League of Na tions evolved a plan “for the assis. tance" of Ethiopia. However, hopes that Italy might agree to it, thereby averting a war in East Africa, were discounted by the immediate Italian reaction in Geneva. Absolutely inacceptable as a basis for negotiations," was the comment of the Rome delegation, which Tues (Continued on Page Three.) Dorothy Browning Has To Get Along On SBOO A Month New York, Sept. 18.TAP)—Dorothy Browning Hood will get SBOO a month to allow her tp live in “a part of the manner in which I have heretofore teen accustomed," Surrogate James Delhanty decided today. Delhanty approved an order allow ing the adopted daughter of the late Edward W. Browning, wealthy real estate operator, to withdraw SIO,OOO from her share of her father’s $5,. 000.000 estate and to receive SBOO a month for maintenance. In her petition, Mrs. Hood said she was without funds, and her husband, Clarence B. Hood, who formerly work ed for his mother in a Dunn, N. C., laundry, is now unemployed. Court Will Deliberate Liquor Law Raleigh, sept. 18.—(AP) The question of constitutionality of two liquor laws passed by the 1935 legis lature, under which 17 of the State’s 100 counties have county controlled liquor stores in operation, was taken under advisement today by the Su preme Court. If the legislature has the power to prohibit, does it also have power to regulate?" E. H. Malone, of Louis burg, asked the court in regard to the cases as he argued the laws are constitutional. That's your case?” Chief Justice W. P. Stacy commented. “If the leg islature has the power to prohibit, (Continued on Page Two.) HueyLongMa ch in e Facing Disruption New Orleans, La., Sept. 18 (AP) ■ I ' political machine left by Senator Huey P. Long stands in danger of exploding from spontaneous combus ' ."ii unless the row between the lieu tenants is quelled. Governor O. K. Allen, who became field captain of *he forces with the passing of Long from a pistol bullet, was having a hard time in keeping his ambitious lieutenants in line. Too many of them want to be the captain. The govti nor came to town yester day and called in his leaders from the country parishtc: and started to tell them what he wanted done, as he had seen his chieftain. Long, do. But Tli'niU'rsmt Dailu Htsnatch ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OF CAROLINA AND VIRGINIA. Long Foe Welcomed r llsfl BShhH : | T. Semmes Walmsley, mayor of New Orleans and bitter foe of Huey Long and his “heirs,” was given wel come in Washington when he ap peared to request 60 million federal relief appropriation. He’s shown on . arrival there. (Central Press) mmm Can’t See How He Can Go On, but May Be Over thrown If He Doesn’t BRITAIN HOLDS POWER Can Bottle Up Mussolini if Desired; 3lussolini-llitler Pact for New World War Is Rumored In Washington By CHARLES P. STEWART Washington, Sept. 18. —While they speak only in whispers, State Depart ment officials do express, very sotto, voice, a strong suspicion that Premier Mussolini of Italy is hopelessly “out on a limb.” They don’t see how he can g» ahead with his Ethiopian venture and they greatly doubt that he can safely abandon it. Their opinion is that he hit on the Ethiopian plan as a means of off-set ting economic discontent at home, by giving Italians something else to (Continued on Page Three.) the country boys began to ask ques tions and talk back. He was pouring oil on the waters and things appeared to be taking a peaceful turn when up jumped the oratorical Rev. Gerald L. K. Smith, “Share-the-Wealth” organizer, with a threat to take his followers, which he estimated at 300,000, off to another camp if his group was not consulted in framing of a slate of candidates for the January election. Until that happened it appeared that a selection might have been made be tween Allen J. Ellender, speaker of (Continued on Page Four,). / HENDERSON, N. C. WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON, SEPTEMBER 18, 1935 IS IT A STABILIZING JOURNEY? viiVirWflv Secretary of Treasury Morgenthau and wife In sailing “for a vacation” in Spain and Portugal, Secretary of the Treasury Henry Morgenthau, Jr., aroused stabilization rumors. Business throughout the world has been urging an end to currency uncertainty. But much depends on world political problems. Mrs. Morgenthau is shown sailing with the secretary, who denies knowl edge of any conference abroad on stabilization. Another Tobacco Holiday In State Is Being Urged ■■■ 1 —• Mass Meetings In Oxford and Henderson Demand Ac tion To Raise Tobacco Prices; Governor Called On to Take Lead; He Thinks Allotment Too High Raleigh, Sept. 18. —(AP) —Agitation for another “tobacco holiday" move ment was under way in North Caro lina today among growers who ex pressed dissatisfaction over prices re ceived for their product on the auc tion market. A mass meeting of the farmers at Oxford, a Middle Belt market which opened for the season yesterday, adopted a resolution urging Governor Ehringhaus, who initiated the “to bacco holiday" two years ago to close the warehouses until prices are ad justed. Another group of growers at Hen Defaulting Towns Again Paying Debt Daily Dispatch Barrat, In the Sir Walter Hotel. B 1 J. O. nASKEII^IIii'.. Raleigh, Sept. 18.—The 12 counties and 19 cities and towns which have pulled out of default during the past 14 months, as indicated in the report made Tuesday to the Local Govern, ment Commission, deserve a great deal of credit, according to Charles M. Johnson, who is director of Local Government as well as State treasur er, and who assisted these units in getting their financial affairs untan gled. Material assistance was .given to these untis by the refinancing di vision of the Local Government Com mission, which has acted as an inter (Continued on Page Four.) British Air Strength Is Being Called London, Sept. 18. —(AP) —Authori- tative sources indicated today an of ficial announcement by the air minis try of a recent concentration of Brit ish avialtion reinforcements in the Mediterranean area was expected Boon. The exact nature of the air minis, try’s communique was not predicted, but authorities in a position t 0 know said they expected it to confirm re cent reports that royal air forces squadrons har been concentrated in Malta, Egypt and elsewhere in the Mediterranean sector, derson took similar action and called a mass meeting for today to register a protest. The Oxford planters called on other growers to join in a State wide meeting at Raleigh tomorrow, to which Secretary of Agricudlture Wal lace and J. B. Hutson, AAA tobacco expert, were invited. The Henderson and Oxford protest, coming on the opening day of Middle Belt sales, followed a protest meeting by Wendell farmers at Raleigh last week. The Wendell growers decided to withhold further action until after the (Continued on Page Two.) BELIEVE KOENECKE PLANNED SU C Clubbed to Death In Air plane At Night And Two Pilots Are Jailed Toronto, Canada, Sept. 18.—<(AP) — The attorney for two Detroit airmen seeking freedom from manslaughter charges after their death struggle in mid-air with Len Koenecke, of the Brooklyn Dodgers, expressed the be lief today that the big league base ball player had attempted suicide. “Koenecke was deliberately at tempting to commit suicide and try ing to do it in one grand and glorious finish,” said the attorney, E. J. Mur phy. He announced he would subpoena Casey Stengel, manager of the Dod gers, to testify at the coroner’s in. quest tomorrow night as to Koene cke’s mental condition and would “call any one else that is necessary to prove that my clients fought in self defense.’’ Pilot William Joseph Mulqueeney, and Erwin Davis, parachute jumper, spent last night in jail. Koenecke was clubbed to death with a fire extin guisher in the cabin of their ship yes terday morning as they flew from Detroit toward Buffalo. ~Ot)R WEATHER MAN I i.. ill umt/lit ... Jii ii r,i. probably light showers in south portion; slightly warmer in north west portion, _ Warehouse Closing And Slash In 1936 Talked At Meeting 30 Percent Reduction In Next Year’s Crop and Stronger Contracts Are Discussed WOULD STOP BUYING ALLOTMENT RIGHTS Every Man Sell His Own Crop and No More, Is Pro posed ; Committee Named To Draw Resolutions and Delegates To Raleigh Meeting Are Selected Higher prices were demanded and methods of obtaining them discussed by tobacco growers of Vance county at a mass meeting in the court house here this aft ernoon, held following opening of the 1935 auction selling season here yesterday, with an average below eighteen cents per pound. Several proposals were brought out in discussions at the mass meeting and an executive commit tee was appointed to frame pro posals embracing the views ex pressed and then to go to Raleigh tomorrow for a meeting with Governor Ehringhaus and grow ers from other markets and de cide upon a definite course ot action. Proposals put forward for forcing higher prices included an order toy Governor Ehringhaus closing all to bacco warehouses in the State until an agreement could be reached with manufacturers, an immediate sign-up of growers on a four-year contract, cutting next year’s crop by not less than thirty percent and enforcement of stronger contracts among the grow ers. Barring of scrap tobacco from warehouse sales when it is bid in for less than six cents per pound, and discontinuonce of the purchase of ex. cess tobacco allotment certificates by growers whose crop was less than his own allotment, and a government bonus for growers here similar to that paid in Georgia in 1933 were oth er suggestions put forth. The committee that was named to frame resolutions was instructed to include such of these suggestions as it considered worthy, and to take them to Raleigh and present them to the governor’s conference tomorrow. The meeting was so largely attend ed that standing room in the court room was at a premium. J. C. Kit trell served as chairman and H. E. White was made secretary. A reso lution was offered by O. S. Falkner, Vance representative in the State House of Representatives, suggesting a definite outline of procedure, but it never came to a vote, and was turn ed over to the committee for consid eration. It was opposed by S. P. Brummitt. Likewise, no action was taken on a resolution adopted by Warren growers at a mass meeting (Continued on Page Two.) Three Killed As Old Theatre Wall In Boston Falls Boston, Mass., Sept. 18. —(AP)— Police reported three men killed and a dozen others trapped today as the roof of the old Hollis the atre collapsed during process of demolition. Traffic on busy Tremont street snarled into a serious tie-up as ambulances rushed to the scene. Negro Man Being Tried Is Lynched Oxford, Miss.. Sept. 18. —(AP) —El- wood Higginbotham, Negro defend ant in a murder trial here, was taken from the Lafayette county jail last night by a mob and lynched. Higgenbotham was seized and hang ed while the jury was deliberating his case. He was on trial for the slay ing of Lyn Roberts, a white man, last May. The members of the mob who broke into the jail and overwhelmed tne sheriff and three deputies and took possession of the prisoner. They car ried Higgintootham into the country about two and a half miles from town and hanged him. PDBLIBQBD HSVBR* AFTBRNOOM IXCBPT HONDA y. Called Plotter « .viv; : » •' •> \ . •* John F. Odom ' Charging District Attorney John F. Odom of Baton Rouge, with being “a co-plotter in the assassination of Huey Long,” the Rev. Gerald L. K. Smith refused to testify at inquest conducted by Odom. Latter branded minister's charge “a malicious and ie’ihsrete lie." (Central Press) textbookrentals WILL SAVE LITTLE FOR FIRST TERM Cost of Supplemental Books Not Rented, Will Offset Saving on Rental Texts MOST OF SCHOOLS TAKING SYSTEM ON Others Don’t Want Make shift Arrangement, Set Up in Hurry This Year and Very Incomplete; Costs of Books for Various Grades Are Given in Table Dally Dispatch Bnreaa, In (He Walter Hotel, BY J. C. DASKERVILL. Raleigh, Sept. 18. —Children in schools having the new State text, book rental system will still have to pay about twice as much in buying supplementary books as the cost of the rental on the few books which they will be able to rent, it was ad mitted today at the offices of the State Textbook Rental and Purchase Commission here. It was also estimat ed that between 18 and 20 per cent of the city and county school systems arq refusing to put the more or less makeshift State rental system into ef fect .'because the superintedents in these 'Systems are convinced that it will causa nibte'dissatisfaction among parents and children tbap l,h« direct purchase system. “Until the State can put in a rental (Continued on Page Two.) Middle Belt Price Range Is Variable Oxford, Sept. 18.—(AP) —Official figures revealed today that Tuesday s figures on the tobacco market here were 491,162 pounds at an average of $16.66 per hundred. Offerings today were estimated at 500,000 pounds. Early sales today averaged $16.75 a hundred. 160,000 POUNDS AT $lB IS THE FIGURE FOR SANFORD Sanford, Sept. 18.—(AP)—Approxi mately 160,000 pounds of tobacco were BHPAGES , TODAY FIVE CENTS COPY TUESDAY’S PRICE WAS AT $17.62 Total Actual Sales for Open ing Day Were 487,892 Pounds for the Sum of $85,965.64 PRICE IS REPORTED AS SOME STRONGER Entire Day Required To Sell Off Block of Tuesday; Fresh Offerings for Wed nesday Are Scant; Crowd Not So Large As On Open ing Day Tobacco sold on the Henderson market Tuesday at the opening of the 1935 selling season brought an aver age of $17.62 per hundred pounds, ac cording to official figures announced today. Total sales amounted to 487,- 892 pounds, which brought $85,965.64. Sales were blocked for the day in offerings brought by farmers estL mated at close to one million pounds, and J. R. McDuffie, sales supervisor, said today that probably all of today would be required to sell off the block. Very little new tobacco was brought in for today's sale, but there were several thousand pounds scattered in the various warehouses. Mr. McDuffie said today that prices were reported a trifle stronger for to day, the second selling day of the season. Today’s crowd on the warehouse floors and in the city was not so large as for the opening day, but great numbers of farmers were still on hand and following the sales, many of them with tobacco on the floors ready for the buyers. The two warehouses that drew first sales yesterday were completed late (Continued on Page Five.) Storm Warning Up Along Coast North Far As New Bern Jacksonville, Fla., Sept. 18 (AP)—* Small craft warnings were order ed up along the Atlantic coast be tween Savannah, Ga., and New Bern, N. C., today as the Weather Bureau placed the center of a slight disturbance about 100 miles east of Jacksonville and moving in a northwesterly direction. “It is not a tropical disturbance and cannot really be classified as a storm,” Weather Bureau reports said. J EHRINGHAUSTALKEO FOR SENATE AGAIN His Activities for Tobacco Growers Certainly Mak ing Him Solid Dully Dispatch n area a, la the Sir Walter Hotel. BY J. C. DASKERVILL. Raleigh, Sept. 18. —The unusual in terest which Governor J. C. B. Eh ringhaus is taking in the tobacco far mers and the tobacco price situation again, to the extent of spending tie entire day yesterday in visiting va rious tobacco markets which open 3d Tuesday, is causing a good many hero to wonder if this is not an indicati )n that the senatorial bee is still buz zing in his bonnet and that he is si ill considering becoming a candidate lor (Continued on Page Four.) ofefred on the market here today and was selling an an estimated average of $lB er hundred. DURHAM SELLS 658,000 LBS. AT LITTLE OVER 18 CENrS Durham, Sept. 18. —(AP) —Offic al figures on Durham’s tobacco Ba es opening showed today that 658, 56 pounds were sold on the local marl et yesterday for $120,082.49, an avenge (Continued on Page Four.). j
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