tIfcNQgRSQN, N. a
FIRST WEEK TOBACCO SALES NEARLY DOUBLE LAST YEAR
HENDERSON '
GATEWAY TO
CENTRAL
CAROLINA
TWENTY-SECOND YEAR
TOBACCO FIGHT TO SHUT TO WASHINGTON
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Italy Rejects League Plan , Biif Invites More Talk
HENDERSON TOBACCO
PRICES AMONG BEST
OVER MIDDLE BELT
Averages Are Low, But At
That Top Other Big Mar
kets Opening At
Same Time
MERCHANTS OFFER
BIG INDUCEMENTS
Will Undertake To Make
Fewer Dollars Go As Far
As Possible in Farm Pur
chases This Fall; Biggest
Opening Here Past Week
in Market’s History
Sales on the Henderson to
bacco market this past week,
the first of the 1935 season,
were approximately double
those for the first week last
year, official statistics announc
ed today by J. R. McDuffie,
sales supervisor, showed today
Total pounds handled amounted to
1.410.338, 'bringing $231,001.16. for an
average of $16.37 for the week, and
one of the highest weekly averages
in the Middle Belt. For the first week
last year the market sold 778.444
pounds, which brought $197,882.07,
with an average of $25.42 per hun
dred pounds.
Tuesday’s opening break here is
generally conceded to have been the
biggest day’s offerings ever poured
upon the Henderson market on any
one day in its histbry, amounting to
r
(Continued on Pggfe Four.)
Schedules
For Sales
Are Given
Schedules for sales on the Hender
son tobacco market for next week fol
low:
Monday.
First first sale, High Price; second
first sale, Coopers; first second sale,
Planters; second second sale, Farm
ers; third sale, Big Henderson.
Tuesday.
First first sale, Planters; second
first sale, Farmers; first second sale,
Big Henderson; second second sale,
High Price; third sale. Coopers.
Wednesday.
First first sale, Big Henderson;
second first sale, High Price; first
second sale, Coopers; second second
sale, Planters; third sale, Farmers.
Thursday.
First first sale, Coopers; second
first sale, Planters; first second sale,
Farmers; second second sale. Big
Henderson; third sale, High Price.
Friday.
First first sale, Farmers; second j
first sale, Big Henderson; first sec.
ond sale, High Price; second second
sale, Coopers; third sale, Planters.
Gains In Home Building
Reach High Proportions
These Are Kev To Coining American Boom, BabscWij
Thinks; Says Heavy Industries Are Getting Into Step
and Mortgage Money Is Becoming Plentiful
BY ROGER W. BABSON,
Copyright 1935, Publishers
Financial Bureau, Inc.
Babson Park, Mass., Sept. 20. Peo
ple are building homes again. This
means >nly one thing—public confid
ence is beginning to return and in.
dus try all over the nation is stepping
up. Building is usually the last in
dustry to revive in a period of re
covery. This has beex- true in every
depression. Hence, tho fact that res -
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Metz Is Invaded
By Hitler Youths
Metz, France, Sept. 21 (AP)—
Metz police reported tonight that
one girl had been stabbed when
, eight members of the Hitler Youth
Organization crossed the frontier
from Germany and attacked a
group of French children.
, Police said an investigation show
ed the Hitler youth members ap
proached the French children, who
were tending cows, and told them
that they “soon will be Germans
again.”
When the children protested they
wanted to remain French, the at
tack took place.
Ihe German boys quickly re
crossed the frontier into Germany.
Flier Begins
Ocean Hop
To Lithuania
Wisconsin Man
Leaves New York
on 4,500-Mile Flight
Over Ocean, Alone
New York, Sept. 21.—(AP)—Lieute
nant Felix Watkins, 28-year.old Koh
ler, Wis., flier took off of from Floyd
Bennett airport today on a solo non
stop flight to Kaunas, Lithuania, a
distance of about 4,500 miles.
The plane lifted from the field at
5:45 a. m., eastern time, and soared
into the air after a northeast run of
3,000 feet in a dead calm.
A “dolly,” a small four-wheel truck,
supported the plane’s tail as the run.
was made.
Two fire trucks, a police emergency
crew and an ambulance stood by. The
ambulance and emergency crew were
kept out of the fliers’ sight behind
a hangar. Two street flushing trucks
containing 2,000 gallons of water each
attended the fire truck.
Watkins kissed his wife, Martha,
goodbye shortly after 5 a. m., and
climbed into the cockpit. He posed
briefly for cameramen before warm
ing his motors.
OUR WEATHERMAN
I Generally fair tonight and Sun
day, except possibly light show
ers in north portion tonight.
dential building conrtacts are now
more than double those of a year ago
convinces me that we have come a
long way on the back-to-recovery
road.
Heavy Industries Getting Into Step.
In my New Year Outlook Letter, I
told readers that business in the early
part of 1935 would be about five per
cent above the same months of 1934.
(Continued on Page Four.),
HENDERSON, N. C. SATURDAY AFTERNOON, SEPTEMBER 21, 1935
ITALY’S INTEREST
NOT PROVIDED FOR,
MUSSOLINI’S VIEW
Next Step Will Be To Bring
Report of Five-Power
Committee Before
League Council
BRITAIN FEARFUL OF
IMMEDIATE OUTCOME
London Now Admits Con
centration of Warships In
Mediterranean Is For “De
fensive” Purposes; No
Ships Will Be Withdrawn
Until Danger Passes
Geneva, Sept 21 (AP) —An Ital
ian spokesman said today the ac
tion of Italy’s cabinet in reject
ing the League of Nations peace
plan implies that revised propos
als would receive the most friend
ly consideration by the Italian
government.
The spokesman also asserted the
cabinet communique constitutes
the first official recognition of the
League’s mediation.
Baron Pompeo Aloisi, head of
the Italian delegation, was said
by his countrymen to have been
instructed by Mussolini hsimself
to explain the communique in this
sense to the five-power commit
tee which formulated the pro- !
posals.
(By The Associated Press.)
Italy’s Dlfce-dominated cabinet to
day turned down the League of Na
tions peace plan—'but its rejection
was couched in language so friendly
that many believed the door was open
for further negotiations.
The rejection was made on the
grounds that the Geneva proposals
do not (fffer a minimum basis 'suffi
cient for a conclusive ratio which fin
ally and effectively would take into
account Italy’s rights and interests.
League officials said the next step
of the peace forces would be to bring
the report oT the five-power commit
tee, which made the suggestions, be.
fore the League Council. It would be
up to the Council then to make the
report its own or declare the con
ciliation phase ended and draw up a
new series of recommendations.
The new series, they said, could in
clude provisions for sanctions ancr
give Italy and Ethiopia a last chance
to accept or reject.
Before the Italian decision was an
nounced, officials throughout Europe
had predicted that, barring a sudden
reversal in Italian policy, hostilities
would break out in East Africa some
time the sip-t fortnight of October.
The Italian press, continuing its at
tacks on the British Empire, declared
Britain already had “adopted sanc
tions against Italy,” adding that be
ginning of Italian military operations
in Ethiopia might easily mean the be
gining of hostilities with Great Bri
tain.
Britain, frankly pessimistic that II
Duce would have a change of heart
on his announced program of “march
ing straight ahead,” continued its
own “marching ahead” with warships
into the Mediterranean.
An authoritative source in London
frankly described the concentration of
British warships in the Mediter
ranean and read these as “defensive.”
Hitherto, moves in those waters
have been described variously as
“routine,” “previously planned,” and
“precautionary.” •
The report that Great Britain and
Spain had come to a sec-et under,
standing was taken as ev.-i--r.ee tha f
the British Empire was preparing for
a possible conflict by every means.
These impressions were strengthen
ed by Spanish troop movements to
po/nts of strategic importance along
Spain’s. Mediterranean coast line.
European capitals had said that a
blunt "no,” from Mussolini t 0 the
League of Nations’ five-power com
mittee’s recommendations would call
forth “sanctions” at Geneva, a move
which diplomats feared might result
in a general European war.
Great Britain made it clear that no
ships will be withdrawn from the
Mediterranean until the East African
dispute is well on the way to a set
tlement. *
France, too, continued to reinforce
her troops in French Somaliland,
bordering both on Italian Somaliland
and Ethiopia.
The French cabinet was called to
(Continued on Page Four.),
British Key to Mediterranean
Considerable significance is attached to maneuvers of Italian warship*
near Gibraltar, the natural fortification that has given Britain command
of the Mediterranean for centuries. A retaliatory attempt to seize it might
follow closing of Suez Canal to Italian forces bound to Ethiopia. In this
new photo, the black spots indicate gun emplacements.
-y i- ■ /'Central Preat)
Too Early Yet To Learn
Results Os Mass Meeting
But if It Can Get Definite Commitment from Washing
; ton, It Will Not Have Bee nin Vain, Governor Says;
Thinks AAA Can Lift Prices if It Wishes
Dally Dlapntch Bareait,
In the Sir Walter Hotel,
BY J. C. BASKERVILL.
Raleigh, Sept. 21 —It is too early
to tell whether the mass meeting
of tobacco farmers held here this
morning in protest against the pres
ent low prices being paid for tobacco,
will accomplish anything. But all
these interested in the tobacco price
situation, from Governor Ehringhaus
on down, are hoping that it may suc
ceed at least in getting a definite
statement from Washington as to
what the Department of Agriculture
and the AAA plan to do next year,
especially with regard to acreage re
duction and parity prices.
“If the meeting succeeded in getting
Employment
Is Greater
For August
Gains in All Indus
tries Except Tobac
co and Hosiery, La
bor Announces
Dnlly Ulipnfcli Huron*,
In the Sir Walter Hotel.
BY J. O. nASKEn'flL'i.
Raleigh, Sept. 21. —Employment in
all but two industries in North Car
olina showed a decided gain in Au
gust as compared with six months
previous, according to figures releas
ed today by Commissioner of Labor
A. L. Fletcher, based on the inspec
tion of 884 firms and including more
than 69,000 employes. The only two
industries in which a decrease in em
ployment was evident were the to
bacco and hosiery industries with a
decrease of 11.3 per cent in tobacco
employment and a slump of 1.8 per
cent in hosiery.
The largest gain in employment dur
ing the past six months has been in
the lumber industry, with an increase
of 19.7 percent, the figures show. A
total of 843 persons were employed in
(Continued on Page Eight.).
a definite statement from Secretary
of Agriculture Wallace and From J.
B. Hutson, chief of the tobacco divi
sion of the AAA, as to definite percen
tage of acreage reduction they will
demand next year, the meeting will
have been worth while,” Governor'
Ehringhaus said this afternoon. “Or,
if it succeeds in getting a statement
from Washington as to what the par_
it.v price is this year and what it
will be next year, it will also be worth
while. The trouble is that the to
bacco farmers do not know where
they are now, and have no idea where
they will be this time next year.
“What all of us would like to see,
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STABLE CURRENCY
DEPENDS ON PEACE
I
May Come Quickly If War
Is Averted; Mussolini
May Force Moves
By LESLIE EICHEL
New York, Sept. 21.—Nations have
had a severe fright over the manner
in which currencies have declined a
gainst the dollar upon rumors of war.
World trade cannot stand much more
of that. If war can be headed off,
attempts at stabilization may come
sooner than expected.
SAMSON? i
Mussolini may be playing the part
of a Samson. Italy is in a bad way
for credit. By threatening to tear
down the pillars of the credit temple,
burying everybody beneath, he may
force economic concessions.
Hitler is in much the same position
in Germany. Suppose he uses the
same tactics?
Both Italy and Germany then may
gain the African footholds they de
sire for raw materials.
“Statesmen” still are governed by
economic desires and necessities.
WAR BUSINESS
t President Roosevelt soon may have 1
to decide whether the United States
shall handle any business coming
from countries preparing for war.
Will manufacturers and workmen
. (Continued on Page Four.)
PUBLISHHD EVERY AFTERNOON
EXCEPT SUNDAY
RALEIGH MEETING
SENDS COMMITTEE
TO HIGH OFFICIALS
Lindbergli Flies
To Richmond, Va.
Richmond, Va., Sept. 21.—(AP)
—Swooping into Byrd airport here
ait 8:15 a. m., todays Colonel Char
les Lindbergh picked up his friend,
Colonel Harry F. Guggenheim, for
mer ambassador to Cuba, and took
off again toward the North.
The famous flier did not even
get out of the cockpit of his plane.
oMsstrl”
HARD TO WARD OFF
SOFT COAL STRIKE
Negotiations Fail And Walk-
Out In Bituminous In
dustry Is Due Sun
day Midnight
ROOSEVELT IS TOLD
OF THE SITUATION
U. S. Chamber Sharply Crit
icizes Trend of New Deal
Legislation and Orders Re
ferendum of Its Members;
Johnson’s Hostility Is Spe
culated Upon
Washington, Sept. 21. —(AP) — Ad
ministration officials strove desper.
ately today to avert a threatened
strike in the soft coal industry Mon
day.
Negotiations between Appalachian
producers and the United Mine Work
ers for a new wage and hour agree
ment broke down last night for the
sixth time in six months. The present
extension expires Sunday midnight.
Edward F. McGrady, assistant sec
retary of labor, telegraphed President
Roosevelt last night and expected a
reply sometime today. The President
previously had succeeded in obtaining
several extensions of the existing con
tracts. However, it was understood an
other extension would not be satis
factory to the miners.
Directors of the Chamber of Com
merce of the United States announced
they had ordered a study of “the
' whole field of Federal taxation and
expenditures.” The announcement
was made after Fred H. Clausen,
* chairman of the chamber’s committee
on Federal finance, called parts of
the new $250,000,000 tax law “discrim
, inatory and inequitable.”
At their meeting yesterday, the di
rectors authorized a nationwide poll
(Continued on Page Eight.)
New Deal Laws Are Before
Supreme Court Next Month
AAA Processing Taxes, Bankhead Act, Holding Com
pany and TVA Measures Face Early Decisions;
Others To Crowd in Behind These for Solution
By CHARLES P. STEWART
Washington, Sept. 21.—When the
United States Supreme Court meets
in early October it will have before
it four important items of New Deal
legislation to rule on, as to their con
stitutionality:
1. Processing taxation under AAA
auspices.
2. Compulsory cotton control, pro
vided for by the Bankhead act.
3. Government slums clearance and
low-cost house building.
4. Governmental power-selling ■—
TVA power in particular, but the gov
ernment is likely to go into the bust.
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Immediate Contract Sign-Up
and Acreage Allotment
Adopted As Part
of Program
CONFERENCE ALSO
IS BEING SOUGHT
Would Have Growers And
Manufacturers Get Togeth
er for Cooperation; Want
Growers Informed What
Parity Is; Ehringhaus Is
Idol of the Farmers
Raleigh, Sept. 21.—(AP) —Tobacco
growers of Eastern North Carolina
this afternoon voted here to send a
committee of representatives to
Washington to seek some solution for
the situation brought about in tha
State by low prices.
Around 2,000 growers in (Memorial
Auditorium approevd a six-point pro
gram outlined by a sub-committee as
well as four auxiliary proposals.
The auxiliary points included asser
tions that, regardless of prices pre
viously paid, prices last week were
below parity; specific recommenda
tions to farmers not to sell tobacco
for less than six cents a pound; nam
ing of a committee to go to Washings
ton for conferences, and possible clos
ing of warehouses three to five days
for a whirlwind sign-up campaign of
contracts.
Six-Point Program.
The sub-committee letter, address
ed to Secretary of Agriculture Wal
lace and J. B. Hutson, AAA tobacco,
chief, was read and discussed before
being approved. It recommended
1. Immediate contract sign-up for
continued control.
2. Improve acreage allotment plan,
consider viewpoint of growers and
protect them against excesses due to
(Continued on Page Two.)
Winston Is
OpposedTo
Closing Up
Winston-Salem, Sept. 21 (AP) Ex
pressing sympathy with efforts of
planters to boost tobacco prices, bit
fearing the consequences of a ware
house holiday, the local Chamber of
Commerce and Merchants Associa
tion today sent telegrams of protest
to Governor Ehringhaus.
The telegrams said tht If a holiday
were called now, “millions of pounds
of tobacco belonging to North Caro
lina markets would be sold in Vir
ginia and South Carolina markets.”
The telegram made the point tha/t a
one-State holiday could not halt sales
and would cause loss of revenue to
scores of North Carolina communi
ties.
ness on a still larger scale if the su
preme bench upholds its TVA sales
rights.
OTHERS UNDER ATTACK
Other New Deal programs already;
are or are about to be under cone.i
tutional attack, including those pro
vided for under:
1. The social security act (old a?a
pensions, unemployment insurance,
etc.)
2. The utilities holding company act
3. The Wagner labor act.
4. The Guffey act (setting up a lit
(Continued on Page Five.)