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HENDERSON GATEWAY TO CENTRAL CAROLINA TWENTY-SECOND YEAR TOBACCO ABOVE PARITY ROW. HUTSON SATS Legion PASS RESOLUTIONS CHARGING SOVIETS IGNORED PROMISES Concentration of National Defense Methods Also Demanded at St. Louis Meeting NAVY ON PAR WITH ANY IS CALLED FOR Standing Army of 165,000 Men and 14,000 Officers and 15,000 Officers and 92,000 Men in Navy Urged; Would Stop All Immigra tion Ten Years Municipal Auditorium. St.. Louis. Sept. 25 (AP) —The American Le gion today asked the United States tc withdraw its recognition of Soviet ■Russia. Delegates cheered as .T. J. Twomey of Massachusetts, chairman of the committee on Americanism, offered the resolution. After commenting on legislation for national defense passed by the last Congress, the national Legion con vention adopted a report calling for a concentration of national defense methods. The resolution urged a standing army of 165,000 enlisted men, with 14,- 000 officers, augmented by 207.000 Na tional Guardsmen and continuation of officers ’training camps the C. M. T. C„ and R. O. T. C. in schools. A treaty navy on a parity with any navy in the world, manned by 92,- 000 enlisted men and 15,000 officers and new naval training ships, also was recommended. The veterans then went on record opposing the ponsolidation of army, navy and marine flying corps and asked increased provision for coast defenses. They commended the pro gram of civil air reserve training corps. The Soviet resolution, one of 21 submitted and approved, • charged the Soviet government with, continuing “inimical and subversive agitation” which it had promised would cease upon its recognition by this country. Active opposition to “Naziism, Fas cism, communism and other isms con trary to the principles enunciated in the Constitution” was voted in anoth er resolution. As a matter to be considered in its legislative program, the Legionnaires voted demand for closing of all immi gration for ten years, deportation of undesirable and destitute aliens and fingerprinting of all persons. Grange May Back Sales Tax Battle Want Foods Exempt ed Again; Year’s Achievements Re viewed At State Meet North Wilkesboro, Sept. 25.—(AP) —A recommendation that the North Carolina State Grange inaugurate a movement to restore exempt articles to the sales tax was made here today by State Master E F. Vanatta, of Wadesboro, as the group’s seventh an nual session opened with approximate ly 300 delegates and officers attend ing. Vanatta said the exemptions of va rious articles of food were removed during the last legislative session over the Grange’s protest. A report outlined accomplishments of the State Grange in the past year as: Organization of the Grange fire surance association, with $277,148 in paid insurance; establishment of a Grange mutual liability company, sur vey n f 5,000 miles of rural electric lines extension of the farmers co operat, exchange, which during the first yeai did more than $1,000,000 at 4.7 percent operating cost; coopera tion in soil erosion wor k- . . The report favorable legisla (Continued on Faje Six.). _ Hmtrtvrsmt HaiUi Hispatrlj ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA AND VIRGINIA. LBASHD Wlltß SB3RTICB THU Ma-JCI.TBS f.REa.! Demands Break With Russia SEEK SETTLEMENT OF STRIKE OF 450,000 MINERS —■ • Y X-X&; v • •- "“T.'.' 11 —. . s . ✓ Edward F. McGrady Following a nation-wide strike of 450,000 soft coal miners, union leaders and mine owners continued their battle over a new wage contract with Edward F. McGrady, right, assistant secretary of labor and the nation’s ace labor conciliator, sitting in with the committee of 18 parleyists. John L. Lewis, center, president of the United Mine Work ers, charged that four large companies—two of Italy Pledges Not To Take Ethiopian War Into Europe (By The Associated Press) Two striking developments in the Italo-Ethiopian dispute originated to day in Rome and Addis Ababa, the capital of the opposing nations. The Italian government announced officially that Italy would never be the first to transfer the conflict to Europe. Almost simultaneously, Emperor Haile Selassie asked the League of Nations to send a neutral commis sion to Ethiopia to determine who* Festival On Tobacco For South Boston South Boston, Va., Sept. 25—(AP) Lady Nicotine was queen in South Boston today as thousands of her devotees converged on this Southside Virginia town to pay her homage by means of the National Tobacco Fes tival. . . . . , The festive occasion, beginning to day and continuing through Friday, will include such features as a typi cal auction sale, a 'beauty contest with prizes for costumes made of tobacco, addresses by a sponsor and an ad ministrator of the AAA tobacco con trol act .coronation of Miss Westwood Byrd, daughter of Senator Harry F. Byrd, as queen of the festival by Gov ernor Peery; the queen’s parade of 50 decorated floats and three presen tations of an elaborate pageant de picting the progress of tobacco thro ugh history. OUR MATHER MAN FOB NOBTH CAROLINA. Fair, slightly warmer in west and north central portions tonight and Thursday; Friday probably showers. HENDERSON, N. C. WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON, SEPTEMBER 25, 1935 might be the aggressor in the event of hostilities. The Italian announcement includ ed a communication from Sir Sam uel Hoare, British foreign minister, in which he said he was “particularly desirous o eliminating all useless mis understandings” between Great Bri tain and Italy. New pessimism was projected into Geneva by the publication of Italian official observations, which included the charge that the League of Na tions, in attempting to avert war, had TWO OLD PARTIES CHANGE POSITIONS Democratic Conservatives Practically In Republi can Party Now By CHARLES P. STEWART Washington, Sept. 25.—The activi ties of organiztions like Jouett Shouse American Liberty League and John Henry Kirby’s Constitutional League, give the impression that the Demo cratic and Republican parties have swapped positions permanently. In the old-fashioned sense of what is Democratic, the two leagues, both predominantly are Democratic. That is to say, they are laissez faire, states’ rights outfits. These used to be Democratic prin ciples Toda the are the principles of the regular (not the insurgent) Repub licans. Regular Republicanism has flopped, in short, from the devotion to a centralized to a decentralized form of national government. REFUSE TO FLOP However, there are many old-time Democrats who refuse to flop. Really the old.time Democrats now (Continued on Page Six.) MANAGEMENT CLOSES BLACKSBURG MILLS Blacksburg, S. C., Sept. 25. —(AP) — The Broad River Mills here did not operate today following presentation of a list of “grievances” to the man. agement yesterday by the shop com mittee, John L. Lewis them known as interests of the Mellon family of Pittsburgh—were largely responsible for the en suing deadlock. The miners seek lO cents increase in tonnage rates, 50 cents increase in day rates and 15 per cent on yardage and dead work. Charles O’Neill, central Pennsylvania producer, speaking for the operators, said the increase the miners de mand would cost $200,000,000 a year in all. failed to take into consideration Italy’s case against Ethiopia. With Ethiopia’s festival of Mascal — the end of the rainy season—close at hand, the situation grew tense on the border between the black empire and the Italian colonies of Somaliland and Eritrea. For many months, Italian sources have indicated that hostilities between the two countries might begin with the ending of the rain, whch hamp ers every type of ground transporta tion in Ethiopia. Joe Louis Is Heading For Ring Height Detroit Negro Boxer Topples Max Baer in Sorry Heavy weight Spectacle New York. Sept. 25 (AP) —Joe Lewis, the battling bridegroom, agreed today to plan for a for eign tour, including fights in South America and European cap itals, under the promotion of Mike Jacobs. Jacobs who staged the fight last night, announced his intention of taking Louis abroad after pit ting the Negro against the best available opponents in a charity match at the Coliseum, Bronx in door arena, late this November. New York, Sept. 25 (AP) —It looks Pke a non-stop flight to the top of the pugilistic heap for the brown bomber. There remained today not the slight est doubt of the two-fisted greatness of Joe Louis, least of all in the minds of upwards of 90,000 onlookers who saw the 21-year-old Detroit-Negro on his bridal evening mow down the once magnificent Max Baer with a 1 (Continued on Page Four.). Fist Fights, Parades And Demonstrations Occurred Tuesday Afternoon and Night PEACE RESTORED AS PATROLMEN ARRIVE 37 State Police Sent To Scene; Strike Called Mon day on Grounds of Alleged Discrimination Against Union Men; Work Shifts Cut to Only One Mooresville, Sept. 25 (AP) —Peace enforced by two score highway patrol men and deputies ruled the strike disrupted Mooresville cotton mill area here today after an afternoon and night of fist fights, demonstra tions and parades that landed four textile workers in jail on charges of affrays, Thirty-seven patrolmen were rush ed here during the night to augment deputies already stationed about the mills after nearly 600 men, women and children staged a demonstration and parade late yesterday, and after a number of fist fights broke out be tween active workers and strikers or sympathizers. The mill, running with a shift con solidated from night and day forces, continued operations today on the same schedule it had maintained since the strike, was called Monday. No one was seriously hurt in tihe affray, police said. The men arrested now are free on bond. The strike was called Monday by union leaders, who alleged discrimi nation against union men. On full-time the mill employs be_ (Continued on Page Three.) Brothers Get Life Terms In Murder Affair ,Kayesvillf r \Sept. 25 (AP) —Oscar Shelton and Everett Shelton, broth ers, charged with slaying their grand father, George W. Shelton, last June 14, pleaded guilty to second degree murder in Clay County Superior Court today and were sentenced to life imprisonment. The brothers, both in their early 20’s are sons of Thomas Shelton, of the Tusquittee section. The State contended they robbed their grandfather of SI,OOO, killed him and hid his body in Tusquitte creek, where it was found last summer. ITALYIISVAST ETHIOPIAN WEALTH Resources and Raw Mate rials, Valued at Millions, Never Developed Leslie Eichel, writer of the World at a Glance column, today substitutes for own column extracts from an article on Ethi opia by William Horen, Jr., of the Foreign Policy association. By WILLIAM HOREN, JR. In “Foreign Policy Reports” Now York, Sept. 25.—Ethiopia, also called Abyssinia or “land of mixed peoples,” covers an area of 350,000 square miles in northeast Africa which is entirely surrounded by the colonial possessions of Great Britain, France and Italy The Ethiopian plateau, with a tem_ perate climate ideal for Europeans, is a rich agricultural country: It yields two and sometimes three, crops a year to i>ie primitive methods of the natives, who raise barley, millet, wheat and coffee; and provides ex cellent grazing for cattle, sheep and goats. Other natural resources remain largely unexploited. These include (Continued, on Page Six,) PUBLISHHD BVBJKY AFTBRNOOi BXCHPT SUNDAY- AAA TOBACCO CHIEF READY TO CONSIDER LIFTING OF PRICES Thwarts Lynch Mob ■Unas* y ffBjB§gSBB» Sheriff J. P. WHlliams, Jr., (above) of Eufaula, Ala., succeeded in foiling attempt of mob to lynch Nathan Beaucamp, by snatching the already bullet-ridden (negro from would_be lynchers and rushing him to Mont gomery. Beaucamp, expected to die, was accused of shooting a filling sta tion operator. ASTORESULTS ON TOBACCOJEETING Governor Doubts If Hutson Has Experienced Much Change of Heart Since Saturday HIGHER PRICE MAY BE HANDICAP NOW Conference Between Farm ers, Warehousemen, Manu facturers Holds Little En couragement; AAA Crowd Thinks Farmers Getting Fairly Good Price Now Dally Smpntck Bareaa, , In the Sir Walter Morel. Raleigh, Sept. 25.—Observers here were not overly optimistic as to the results of he pilgrimage made yt> Washington today by Governor J. C. B. Ehringhaus, Senator Josiah W. Bailey, several congressmen and nu merous tobacco farmers, in an effort to secure better tobacco prices. They doubted very much if officials of the United States Department of Agricul ture or of the AAA have undergone any material change of heart since the mass meeting of tobacco farmers (Continued on Page Four.) EXPECT COUfTO^ Four to One Decision On County Stores Being Pre dicted In Raleigh Dally Uitpatck Barrai, In the Sir Walter Hotel. Raleigh, Sept. 25.—The present county liquor control laws, under which some 50 liquor stores are now operating in 17 counties, offer the on ly means whereby counties may be assured of local self government and thu* retain the right to say whether liquor shall or shall not be sold, it is being pointed out here. As a result, the belief is growing stronger day by day that the State Supreme Court will (Continued on Page Six.) 8 PAGES TODAY FIVE CENTS COPY But Assures Tar Heels Price Has Not Been Below Parity Any Week This Season EHRINGHAUS TALKS RIGHT BACK AT HIM Governor Asks If That Means There Is Nothing AAA Can Do; Poe Asks for Explanation ofj Discrepan cies and Illogical Phases of Situation Washington, Sept. 25—(AP) —A com ference of North Carolina flue.cured tobacco growers was told today by J. B. Hutson, farm administration to bacco chief, that the AAA "was will ing to consider” means of increasing this year’s price. Already Over Parity. Hutson explained, however, the farm administration would enter such, negotiations with the understanding that he contended flue-cured tobacco already was selling at a parity price as provided in the farm act. "There never has been a week this season that prices have been below parity,” the tobacco chief told the conference after explaining how the parity figure was computed. He said parity for August was slightly more than 15 cents a pound for flue-cured, and slightly in excess of 16 cents a pound in September. Asserting tobacco prices normally In creased after October 1. Hutson said the parity for 1935 would not be de termined before August 1, 1936, and that it may range anywhere from 18.7 cents a pound to 19.7 cents. Put on Spot by Governor. Hutson was asked by Governor Eh ringhaus of North Carolina whether the department’s contention regard ing parity meant there was nothing the Farm Administration could od. Hutson’s reply was: "We are willing to consider if there is anything we can do, but first I wanted to make it clear that we say tobacco is selling above parity. We want to see what we can do in that situation." The conference was called as a re sult of a mass meeting of growers 'held at Raleigh last Saturday to pro test prevailing flue.cured prices, which are considerably lower than 1934 averages. Delegation Barge One. A score of growers’ representatives came to Washington with Governor Ehringhaus, Senator Josiah W. Bailey and Representative Harold D. Cooley, Frank W. Hancock, John H. Kerr, J. Bayard Clark and Graham A. Barden. Wl. E. McDonald, secretary to Senar (Continued on Paere Five.) FDR Asking Clergy For Advice Now Wants Preachers To Tell Him How Gov ernment Can 'Serve The People Better Washington, 3ept. 25 (AP) — : P T’s ident Roosevelt has asked clergyr en for "counsel and advice” on how h© government “can better serve <>ur people.” Throughout the nation identic- lly phrased letters from the President to clergymen were made public. "Because of the grave respone bi lities of my office, I am turning to representative clergymen for com sel and advice, feeling confident that no group can give more accurate or in biased views,” the letter said. Expressing particular hope that he new social security law and the wc ks program shall be carried out eff ct ively, the letter adds that the Pr si dent will “deem it a favor if you • rill write me about conditions in y >ur community.” It also explained that Mr. Ro' se velt shortly will start a few we k 3 vacation, "probably tomorrow,” >ut hopes the replies wil be sent in. At the White House, Stephen T. Early, one of the President’s se re taries, declined to discuss the j >ll - significance, if any, of the P es ident’s actions. ,
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