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HENDERSON GATEWAY TO CENTRAL CAROLINA twenty-second year ITALY TO PROTEST BRITISH FLEET MOVES GROWERS WILL MEET TOMORROW, BENT ON HIGHER WEED PRICE All Tobacco Counties In State Expected To Be Represented at Ra leigh Assembly WALLACE PROMISES LITTLE ASSISTANCE Secretary of Agriculture Says Government Is Doing About All It Can; Sign-Up And Allotment Figure Right Now Is Urged by Governor Ehringhaus Dally Pi«pati'k Dnrrna, in fHe S'- Walter Hotel. BV J. C, fl tSKERVILL. Raleigh, Sept. 20. —Several thousand tobacco farmers from all of the to bacco counties in the State will hold a huge mass meeting here tomorrow morning in an attempt to decide whether they will declare another to bacco-selling “holiday,” and ask the governor to close all the warehouses until some plan can be worked out to strengthen tobacco prices, or whether some other course will be followed. Secretary of Agriculture Wallace and Chief Hutson, of the tobacco division of the AAA, have been invited to at tend this mass meeting. the mass meeting was called yes terday afternoon after the meeting here of several hundred tobacco far mers with Governor J. C. B. Ehring. haus and Senator Josiah W. Bailey, both of whom addressed the meeting and suggested possible courses of ac tion, and after receipt by the gover nor of a letter from Secretary Wal lace in which he gave very little en couragement for better tobacco prices The general tone of the letter from Secretary Wallace was to the effect that tobacco, prices were about as good as couki be expected and that the Department of Agriculture and the AAA were doing about all they could do to help tlie situation. Definite recommendations and re (Continued on Pace Three.) NEWSPAPER MAN IS FREED OF ROBBERY Walterboro, S. C., Sept. 20.—(AP) — J. B. Gramling, of Orangeburg, for mer newspaper correspondent, today stood absolved on any connection with the recent robbery of the Enter prise Bank at Smoak. A Colleton county jury returned a verdict late yesterday acquitting Gramling on a charge of conspiracy. Wallace Is Not Coming To Meeting Raleigh, Sept. 20.—(AP)—Zeb V. Williams, of Roiesvilte, chairman of the committee which called a State wide tobacco protest meeting here to morrow, said over long distance tele phone this afternoon that Secretary Henry Wallace had telegraphed him he could not accept an invitation to attend the meeting. Williams said the secretary of agri culture expressed regret “that pre vious engagements” could make it im possible for him to attend. No reply had been received from J. B. Hutson, AAA tobacco chief, who was also invited to attend. County Commissioners Os Rowan Condemn Wholesale A. rrests By Highway Cops (Salisbury, Sept. 20.—(AP) A re solution condemning the State High way Patrol for making arrests of motorists in this section for what were -flerrrted "unintentional, harnv less and trivial violation of the motor vehicle laws” wasf passed by the Rowan Board of Commissioners in a special session today. The commissioners stated that tney resented the action and believed such actions are “doing nothing to reduce reckless and hazaittous driving. The board recommenued to author-, Ar* A- »NOSa3aM3H vtetwueremt Uautt Suspafrlj ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA AND VIRGINIA. WIRH mjryich of THB ASSOCIATED PRBJBB W arehouse Men On Side Os Farmers Head Os Easterr Carolina Associa tion Thinks Rem edy Can Be Agreed Upon Rocky Mount, Sept. 20. —(AP) — H. P. Foxhall, president of the Eastern Carolina Warehouse Association, is sued a statement today saying it was supporting the crop production con trol program and in sympathy with the movement for better 1935 tobac co prices. His statement said: “The Eastern Carolina Warehouse Association is 100 percent behind the four-year crop production control fin ance plan and is in sympathy with and vitally interested in the fight for better prices for the 1935 crop. Wte think this can be attained by imme diate sign-up and a prompt statement from the tobacco section of the AAA of a drastic cut in 1936 acreage.” Hosiery Business Throughout South In Midst of Boon: Charlotte, Sept. 20.—(AP) —Taylor R. Durham, secretary of the South ern Hosiery Manufacturers Associa tion, said today the hosiery knitting industry in the South was experienc ing a boom and that some mills have ceased taking orders for delivery ear lier than January 1. “Something definitely resembling a boom lately has developed in the In dustry, especially in the silk knitting division, and buyers who a few weeks ago refused to place orders now are almost frantic in their efforts to ob tain knit goods,” he said. State Wins Tax Suit On N.&W. Road Dfctl 7 Plapntck flareaa, In the S|r Walter Hotel. BY J. C EABKERVILL. Raleigh, Sept. 20—A smile adorns the face of Commissioner of Revenue A. J. Maxwell as a result of the opinion handed down by the State Supreme Court upholding the State in its suit against the Norfolk and Western Railroad for back taxes. Not only does this opinion mean that the Department of Revenue will not have to refund some $75,000 in taxes Collected from the railroad under! protest, but that the State can now continue to collect an average of $20,- 000 a year from, this road without any fear of having to refund it. The case was very complicated and many fine points of law were involv ed, hinging upon Commissioner Max. (Continued on Page Three.) ities in charge that the patrolmen “be instructed to use some common sense in carrying out their duties and not waste time running after some poor fellow who has lost his registration card, or whose rear light perhaps came loose, and go after those who are cutting corners, running on the wrong side of the road, entering high ways without stoppinf and other major infractions of the law.” Solicitor W. V. Harris, of the coun ty court, stated that he will nolle prose ail trivial and meaningless cases brought by the highway patrol. HENDERSON, N. C. FRIDAY AFTERNOON, SEPTEMBER 20, 1935 AM 10 TAKE STAND FOR 1936PR0GRAM Would Be “Happiest Thing That Could Happen Un der Present Circum stances, M He Says SCHAUB SURPRISED AT PARITY COURSE Had Been Told by AAA Heads It Would Be 21 to 22 Cents This Year; Now Wal llace Says It Will Probably Be Under 20 Cents for 1935 Tobacco Crop Raleigh, Sept. 20—(AP) —Calls went out today to growers throughout Eastern North Carolina to attend a. mass meeting here tomorrow to pro test low tobacco prices and to deter mine some means of stabilizing tne depressed market. Decision to call the mass meeting was reached by representatives of the growers, who held a conference here yesterday and applauded suggestions that Governor Ehringhaus declare a tobacco holiday and close the auction warehouses. Governor Ehringhaus, who address ed the 400 farmers, assembled in the hall of the House of Representatives, said “the happiest thing that could happen under the present circum stances would be for the AAA to say what they are going t 0 do about next year’s crop and stop saying they may or may not do something.” The governor was cheered when he asserted “finding a needle in a hay stack would be Simple compared to finding out what the parity tobacco price is.” The governor made known receipt (Continued on Paee Five.) LONG LEGISLATIVE ACTS TONED DOWF Baton Rouge, La., Sept. 20 — (AP) —Attorney General Gaston L. Poterie today ruled that the act of the late Senator Huey P. Long’s legislative special session forbid ding “unconstitutional” Federal activities in Louisiana did not ap ply to the agricultural adjustment administration. Charge Four Men With Possession Os Burglar Tools Raleigh, Sept. 20.—(AP)—Raleigh police said today that four men ar rested here ten days ago as alleged members of a safe blowing gang would be charged with possession of burglary tools for the purpose of committing a felony, and that other charges had been lodged against them also. The four are C. C. Hamilton, Leroy Faison, Coley Cain and Ed Cobb, alias William Jones. Police said the four are also alleged to have broken into the store of L. S. Farmer, at Elm City, to have robbed a railroad station at Wilson, and stolen an automobile in Greensboro. Cain is alleged to have participted in store-breaking in Red Springs. The men are being held without bond and no date for a prelinminary hearing has been set. ™KFATJOB Wants To Be Prison Division Director; Strong With Administration , Daily DlMiinfch Bitrenw, In tke Sir Wnlter Hotel. BI J. U. nASKER^ILL. Raleigh, Sept. 20.—Robert Grady Johnson, of Burgaw, Pender county, speaker of the House in the 1935 Gen eral Assembly, is now a receptive, candidate for the appointment as di rector of the Prison Division of the State Highway and Public Works Commission, it was learned from an authoritative source here today. For several days the rumor has been cur rent that Johnson’s name was under consideration for the post and this was verified today. If the post of director of the prison division is to be filled on the basis of politics and if the job is to be given as a rewar for supporting tne administration in the past two ses~ (Continued on Page Five.) Mussolini Chooses Historic Setting for Caesar Role F r~ ~ ~ ■ ■■. ; j • > ' . . A,-' v Copyright, 1935, Pathe News. "One picture tells more than 10,000 words," runs the adage, and here is Benito Mussolini, the blacksmith's son, deliberately posing beside a 2,000-year-old statue of the first Caesar m Rome as he takes the salute of legions departing for Africa along a trail blazed by Caesar to conduct a new conquest. The photo was made less than two weeks ago. (Central Press) PILOTS FREED OE IDMING Coroner’s Jury Finds They Killed Ball Player In Self-Defense Toronto, Can. S,ept. 20.—'(AP) — Charges of manslaughter against Wil liam Joseph Mulqueeney and Erwin Davis in the death of Len Koenecke, Brooklyn ball player in an airplane above the Long Branch race track here Tuesday, were dismissed today by Magistrate Douglas Keith. A coroner’s jury earlier today ruled that the Detroit airmen acted in self defense when they fought the base ball player to death Tuesday. At the coroner’s jury inquiry evi dence that Koenecke attacked Mul queeney and his companion while fly ing from Detroit to Buffalo was pre sented. A chemical analyst of the Univer sity of Toronto gave evidence that Koenecke was intoxicated. VAN ZANDT AGAIN TO HEAD VETERANS New Orleans, La., Sept. 20 (AP) — James E. Van Zandt, of Altoona, Penn., will be head of the Foreign Wars of the United States as their commander-in-chief for his third con servative term. He was nominated in the annual convention here today without opposition for formal election late today. Woman Loses Life In Dynamite Blast In Tennessee Town LaFollette, Tenn., Sept. 20. —(AP) — A series of dynamite explosions shook LaFollette early today, partially wrecking a business building and kill ing Mrs. Pi’udie Rutherford, mother of several children. Tha- blast tore out concrete brick and timbers in a building near the' post office. Mrs. Rutherford, who lived in an apartment on the second floor, was killed as she attempted to save her children. The children escaped with only minor injuries. Sheriff R. B. Davis and deputies began an inves tigation. out WEATHER MAN FOB NORTH,CAROLINA. Generallyair tonight and Sat urday; little change in tempera. , ture, KENNEDY RESIGNS SECURITIES BOARD President Releases New Yorker at Latter’s Own Urgent Request Hyde Park, N. Y., Sept. 20.—(AP)— President Roosevelt announced today the resignation of Joseph P. Kennedy, chairman of the Securities and Ex change Commission. Kennedy is retiring on Monday and will return to private business after a vacation trip to Europe. Kennedy was named as the first chairman of the commission created under the New Deal to take over su pervision of the mammoth stock ex. change trading of the country. -Cotton Spinning Industry Running 76.4 Pet. Capacity Washington, Sept. 20.—CAP) — The cotton spinning industry was report ed today by the Census Bureau to have operated during August at 76.4 percent of capacity on a single shift ba=.is, compared with 73.5 percent in July this year, and 76.8 percent in August last year. Spinning spir dies in place August 31 totalled 30.014,994. Active spindle hours for August totaled 5,545,241,- 375, or an average of 185 hours per spindle in place. North Carolina reported 1,221,227,- 720 active spindle hours, and an aver age of. 199 per spindle in place., 15 StOCT. 3 Many (of Projects Involved Are Grade Crossing Eli mination Plans Dally Dlapntcli In the Sir Wnlter Hotel. BY J C. BASKERVII-L. Raleigh. Sept. 20.—A highway let ting, including 15 projects, many of them grade crossing projects, has been set for October 3, and bids on these projects will be received at that time, according to Chief Engineer W. Vance Baise, of the State Highway and Public Works Commission. The total cost of these projects is esti mated at 1,402,000. This batch in cludes several important grade cross ing elimination projects which have been included in the $4,500,000 Fed eral Aid program for eliminating dan gerous grade crossings over the State. The projects included in this letting are as follows: Cumberland and Robeson counties, (Continued on Page Six,). PUBLISHHD BJVBIKY AFTBRNOOM EXCEPT SUNDAY- B ovmsf ITALY IN ETHIOPIA c Mussolini’s Presumption Mediterranean Is His Sea Menaces England’s “Life Line” IL DUCE COUNTING ON HIS AIR POWER Germany, Austria and May be Hungary Might Join Italy on Land; British Em pire Could Quite Conceive ably Be Dismembered In Attack of Enemies By! LESLIE EICHEL New York, Sept. 20.—The British agitation over Italy’s threats to in vade Ethiopia is very real. The Blue Nile rises in Ethiopia—and to have the headwaters of a British-dominat ed stream controlled by somebody else brings cold chills. Egypt’s life depends on the waters of the Nile. Then, too, Italy’s presumption that /the Mediterranean is her sea has alarmed the British. The Mediter ranean is part of the British empire’s "life line.” And Italy’s massing of 50,000 men on the frontier of Libya and Egypt is disconcerting. Thus the British are invoking the league and talking of “collective se curity,” And secretly, they are as (Continued on Page Six.) ATTORNEY FLOYD, 41, DIES IN LUMBERTON Lumberton, Sept. 20. —(AP) —W. Y. Floyd, 41, attorney, died here today after a brief illness. He was a former local American Legion post comman. der and formerly FHA chairman tor Robeson county. Funeral services will be held tomorrow at 3 p. m. Italy More Kindly To Great Britain Rome, Sept. 20.—(AP) —A slightly more conciliatory attitude toward Great Britain was displayed tonight in government circles and the press, but a high authority disclosed that Premier Mussolini will protest to the League of Nations Council against the concentration of British naval forces in the Mediterranean. Most significant of the indications 8 PAGES TODAY FIVE'CENTS COPY CONCENTRATION IN MEDITERRANEAN IS a mm WAR London* Answers Warships Were Sent East Merely As Precaution In Ethiopian Crisis selassie”not~to BRIBE MUSSOLINI Ethiopian Ruler Says He Won't Buy Peace; Mean while, League Awaits Mus solini’s Answer to Peace Plan, Which Is Expected To Be Very Unfavorable (By The Associated Press.) Great Britain’s concentration of fighting ships in the Mediterranean, is to be met, according to a high of ficial in Rome, with a protest by Italy to the League of Nations Council. Italian sources, particularly the Italian press, said the British action constituted a threat of war. Official surprise was immediately expressed in London, where authori ties said that the British fleet maneu vers were purely precautionary in the light of the possibility of hostilities between Italy and Ethiopia along the route of the British Empire commun ications. There was no threat against Italy, they said. Meanwhile, speculation was aroused as to the whereabouts of Italian ships which had not reported in the Suez Canal, although they were due there a week ago. Emperor Haile Selassie told The Associated Press in Addis Ababa that Ethiopia could not give Italy “bribes to purchase immunity from attack.” He said: “Let no pretended leader of Christendom attempt to crucify an (Continued on Page Two.) SOLDIERS ON KEYS DAMAGED THEATRE Tavernier, Fla., Sept. 20. —(AP)— A military board of inquiry Investigat ing conduct of National Guardsmen in the keys after the Labor Day hur ricane today was told troops stationed at Tavernier did damage estimated at $25 to property of A. S. McKenzie, theatre proprietor and merchant. TRAIN KILLS MAN NEAR LEXINGTON Lexington, Sept. 20.—(AP) — The body of a man found on a railway trestle near here has been identified as J. F. Owen, 51-year-old Green ville, S. C., textile worker. Coroner J. F. Curry said the man’s death had been caused by a train. Probe Into Cotton Drop About Over Washington, Sept. 20.—(AP)—Chain man Smith, Democrat, South Caro lina, today expressed satisfaction over progress of the committee’s investi gation into the sudden drop last March in the price of cotton. Return ing from New York, where investiga tors have been quietly at work for several months, Smith said he found "everything in good shape.” “The investigation is now nearing completion, and I am having all the data digested and briefed so that tha committee will have this information at their disposal when they meet." Smith declined to disclose the na ture of the information gathered, or to say whether he will call the com mittee into special session to conslcer the report of the investigators. was the fact that war munition* shares fell heavily on the stock x change, although other shares h Jld firm or advanced. For example, the stock of the I!vai Company, which manufactures gin and war products, fell 7 1-2 poii ts, and the stock on the Fiat Compa ly, which includes machine guns tanks in its products fell 16 points.
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