HENDERSON
GATEWAY TO
CENTRAL
CAROLINA
TWENTY-SECOND YEAR
LEAGUE WARNS BOTH ITALY AND ETHIOPIA
Slower Marketing And Withholding Os Scrap Urged On Growers
M PROMISES BUI
LITTLE RELIEF FOR
TOBACCOFARMERS
Much of Discussion at Wash
ington Conference Turns
on Question of Par
ity Basis
TAX RETALIATION IS
DENIED BY WILLIAMS
Reynolds Chairman Tells
Governor Ehringhaus Fail
ure to Remove Processing
Levy May Be Factor in
Lower Prices, However;
Growers Are Displeased
Washington, Sept. 27. —(AP) Farm
Administration offices, where halle
luiahs from flue-cured tobacco grow
ers echoed last year, today heard
cries of dissatisfaction from the same
source.
A drop of from seven to ten cents
a pound for tobacco aroused the ire
of the growers, but the Farm Admin
istration says there is little it can do
to boost prices.
Last year, AAA officials contend,
flue-cured tobacco brought about
eight cents above parity, while this
year the weed that goes to make cig
arettes is selling at around pari;y.
Under the agricultural adjustment
act. J. B. Hutson, the administration’s
tobacco chief, told a delegation of
North Carolina dissenters yesterday,
it is the department's obligation to
maintain prices at parity.
Objections were heard against the
determination qf parity, which is bas
ed upon a ten-year average price of
commodities brought by farmers.
The North Carolina delegation,
which included Governor J. C. B. Eh.
ringhaus and Senator Josiah W.
Bailey, suggested that parity was too
low.
One grower said the cost of operat
ing tractors wds figured in its com
putation, while only mulfes can be us
ed in the harvesting* of tobacco.
The suggestion was made that the
bases for figuring parity be regional
ized; that is, the average price of
farm commodities within a certain
region be used instead of the national
average.
The effect of the processing tax was
injected into the conference by S.
Clay Williams, of Winston-Salen, N.
C . board chairman of the R. J. Rey
nolds Tobacco Company.
He said the administration’s de
cision to reduce the levy from 4.2 to
1.9 cents a pound, instead of remov
ing it entirely, might be a factor in
lower prices, since the levy decreases
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Seeley Will
Ren\ain With
Utility Body
Raleigh, Sept. 26.—CAP) —Governor
Ehringhaus announced this afternoon
that Fred L. Seeley, of Asheville, an
associate utilities commissioner will
remain as a member of the body.
"Mr. Seeley,” said the governor, “on
account of press of business matters,
had expressed a desire to resign, but
upon the earnest plea of the governor
that he remain upon the commission,
he agreed over the telephone this
morning to do so.”
Reports that Mr. Seeley had resign.,
ed were published today.
Morehead’s
Port Money
Now Ready
Washington, Sept. 26. —'(AP) Sena
tor Bailey, of North Carolina, said to
day that release within a few days of
approximately $2,000,000 in pu ic
works funds allocated last year for
development of a port terminal at
Morehead City, N. C., apparently was
asst ’’ed. , ..
In i. statement, the senator said it
was hit information from official
sources tint the f<armal ■ transber of
$455,000 to the Morehead City p °
Commission for buHding terminals
and of $1,500,000 to the War Depart
ment for deepening the channel, wil
take place next Tuesday;.
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Seeking to enjoy as long a rest as possible at sea, President Roosevelt
plans a hurried trip across the continent to board the cruiser Houston
at San Diego. En route he will stop at Boulder dam. Then prior to
returning to Washington byway of the Panama canal, the president
plans to do some deep sea fishing at the Pearl islands, off Panama,
and also to visit an island “on which, no white man has as yet set
loot". In all the chief executive plans to spend about 20 days at sea.
BALANCED BUDGET
IS DIFFICULT TASK
Roosevelt Would Like To
Let Business Alone, But
Seemingly Can’t
By LESLIE EICHEL
New York, Sept. 26.—Lewis W.
Douglas, former director of the bud.
get, Democrat who resigned because
he was not in sympathy with Presi
dent Roosevelt’s fiscal policies, has
written what may be the Republican
campaign document.
Writing in the Atlantic Monthly,
under the caption: "Can Government
Spending Cure Unemployment?”
Douglas says:
“Billions have been spent and not
even one unemployed person out of
ten has been given a temporary job
through the present policy of gov
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DEFEATIIi
SIGNIFICANT MOVE
Ashe County Upset May
Mean End of Huey Long
ism In N. C. Politics
Doll? DispntPh Boreao,
Dally Dispatch Unreal,
BY J. C, BASKIinVILL.
Raleigh, Sept. 26.—September was
an unlucky month for Tam C. Bowie,
the Huey Long of Ashe county, as
well as for Huey Long, observers heie
agree, since many see in the over
whelming defeat of Bowie’s forces in
the recent county convention in Ashe
county the death knell to Huey Long
ism in county politics in North Caro
lina. Not that Bowie’s power has been
completely broken in Ashe county, or
that there are not other counties
which have county political dictators
almost as powerful as Bowie and his
organization in Ashe county. But the
revolt of the people in Ashe county
against Bowie and his efforts to draw
his political domination of the county
tighter and tighter is regarded by
many here a most healthful sign a
as proving the old saying to the ef
fort that “You can fool the people
some of the time, and you can fool
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HENDERSON, N. C. THURSDAY AFTERNOON, SEPTEMBER 26, 1935 .
NO SETTLEMENT OF
SOFT COAL STRIKE
Negotiations Continue, How
ever, and Little Disorder
Has Occurred
Washington, Sept. 26 (AP) —
Philip Murray, vice-president of
the United Mine Workers, today
predicted “either a make or a
break” before nightfall in nego
tiations to end the soft coal strike.”
“The negotiations have reach- v
ed such a stage that I think
there will be something definite
before nightfall,” Murray told re
porters when a committee of two
miners and two Appalachian pro
ducers res nied work on a new
Appalachian wage and hour
agreement.
Washington, Sept. 26—(AP) —There
was no sign today of a break in the
soft coal deadlock. Indications were
that the strike of the miners might
last for several days at least before a
settlement is reached.
Disputes over wage differentials
and working conditions cropped up
yesterday to add to the difficulties
in reaching an agreement and ending
the strike, which was called last Sun
day at midnight.
Thus far little or no disorders have
been reported from the field.
Reynolds'
Tour Gets
Criticisms
Dally Dispatch Unreal,
An the Sir Walter Hotel.
BY J G. BASKERVHiL,
Raleigh, Sept. 26—Senator Robert
R. Reynolds, of Asheville, is being
much criticized here by both friends
and opponents for his “galavanting”
tour around the country—supposedly
on only SIOO a person—while there is
serious business to be attended to
here at home. There is no doubt
that he rates little better than zero
with the tobacco farmers here in the
east because he has been “too busy”
clowning arouind the country to do
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BONUS IS
DEMANDED
BY LEGION
Three-Paragraph Resolution
Adopted Scorns Vetoed
Patman Inflationary
Measure
WANT CONGRESS TO
DECIDE ON METHOD
,Wright Patman, Inflationary
Bonus Advocate, Booed on
Floor of Convention at St.
Louis; Loud But Brief Dis
cussions Precede Vote on
the Bonus
Convention HaTT, St. Louis, Mo.,
) —Shouting approval,
the convention of the American Le
gion today renewed its demand for
cash payment of the soldier bonus.
Delegates and visiting Legionnaires
who taxed the convention hall roared
the unanimous vote in favor of a
three.paragraph resolution that scorn
ed the vetoed Patman inflation bill
Loud but brief discussions preceded
the action, featured by prolonged boos
directed against Representative Pat
man, of Texas, author of the bonus
inflation bill vetoed by President
Roosevelt at the last session of Con
gress.
Patman, an ardent advocate of in
flation as a means of payment, final
ly won cheers when he concluded a
five-minute argument with a State
ment that the method of payment was
secondary to the main issue.
Dwight Sullivan, of New York, leg
islative chairman of the State de
partment, arguing for the resolution,
declared a campaign of villification
had been carried on in Congress a
gainst Frank N. Belgrano, Jr., na_
tional commander, in the fight &-
gainst the bonus.
Representative W. B. McFarland,
of Texas, obtained, the fl°°L but also
was booed as he recommended that
the method of financing the payment
be left to Congress.
“You have booed my comrade and
,your comrade, Wright Patman.
IWhere were you back in 1928 when
he was using his own money in an
effort to get the bonus payment?” he
shouted. McFarland said the second
section of the adopted resolution pio
vided only for a bond issue “that
would give the bankers of this coun
try more than $2,000,000,000.”
“Don’t tie inflation around the neck
of the bonus,” shouted Charles Hal
lock, of Indiana. “Take the road that
will get you there. The bonus is pop
ular with all the people. Inflation is
not.”
Licenses To
Drivers Go
Out Shortly
ballr Dispatch Barca*,
In the Sir Walter Hotel.
BY J. C. BASKERVILIi.
Raleigh, Sept. 26.—With more than
300,000 applications for drivers’ li
censes already received, the Depart
ment of Revenue will start photo
graphing these applications and is
suing the actual licenses within the
next day or two, according to George
G. Scott, who is in charge of the drrv.
ers’ license work. The two photo
graphic machines, which will make
photostatic copies of the top portion
of each license application, which will
become the drivers’ licenses isgued to
the applicants, have already been in
stalled and are ready to go to worn.
They will probably be tested oht to-,
day and put into full operation by
Monday at the latest.
“These photographic machines will
be able to turn out from 1,000 to 2,-
000 photographic copies of the li-
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FOB NORTH CAROLINA.
Increasing cloudiness tonight,
followed by showers Friday and
probably in extreme west portions
late tonight and Friday; warmer
in west portion tonight; cooler in
west and interior of north portion
Friday; much cooler Friday night.
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This map explains the price demanded by Mussolini of the League
of Nations for abandoning the Italian campaign against Ethiopia:
Eritrea and Italian Somaliland must be connected territorially by
cession to Italy of a large section of eastern Ethiopia; if Ethiopia
is to have an outlet to the sea, it must be through an Italian port of
Eritrea, and a considerable part of Ethiopia’s Army must be de
mobilized and disarmed and the remainder placed under control of
Italian commanders. The league’s council rejected the demands.
19 AWAIT TRIAL IN
MOORESVILLE AREA
Meantime, Mills Where
Strike Is In Progress
Continue To Run
Mooresville, Sept. 26. —(AP)—Nine-
teen persons awaited trial as the re
sult of disorders in' connection with
the strike at the Mooresville Cotton
Mills, where operations continued to
day behind a cordon of State High
way Patrol, police and special de
puties.
Charges ranged from simple assault
and carrying a concealed weapon to
operation of a strike propaganda
sound truck with improper license.
Police headquarters reported an in
creased working force in the mill to
today, and this was met with a coun
ter claim by strike leaders that their
lines were holding firm. Approximate
ly 600 workers, members of the Unit
ed Textile Workers Union, went on
strike Monday morning, charging the
mill management with discrimination
against union members. The mill nor.
mally employs between 1,600 and 1,800
workers.
One Escape
From Prison
Is Captured
Gatesville, 'Sept. 26 (AP)—Harry
Ross, one of the four Negro prison
ers who escaped from the Woodville
State camp Monday morning
was captured about three miles south
of Sunbury in Gates county this morn
ing. He was captured in a corn field
where he was found lying flat down
by Sheriff Winslow, of Perquimans
county, and Tempey Parker, of Eden
ton, a prison guard. He was unarm
ed and offered no resistance. Ross
§aid two of the other escaped convicts
were with him until the car which
they had stolen had run out of gas.
All then went in different directions,
he said. The fourth convict is be
lieved to have gone by himself right
after the escape. Guards and offi
cials believe that they will capture
two of the others shortly. Blood
hounds were sent for.
Ross, who had escaped five times
before, was serving 25 years from
Mecklenburg county on various charg
es of burglary, larceny, breaking and
entering.
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ftXCBPT SUNDAY.
S aidSldrds
But Professors Condemn
Cotton Tenancy System
As “Humiliation”
Atlanta, Ga., Sept. 26.—(AP)— The
agricultural adjustment program was
seen as an “aid to landlords, while
the tenant is left open to risk on
every side,” in a publication just is
sued, “The Collapse of Cotton Ten
ancy.”
The authors are Dr. W. W. Alexan
der, chairman of the commission on
interracial relations; Edwin R. Rem
by, president of the Rosenwald fund,
and Charles S. Johnson, of Fiske
University. After two years intensive
study in the South, they concluded
that the cotton tenancy system is
“our greatest humiliation.”
They found that the question is be
coming more and more a white pro
blem. The number of tenant farmers
in the cotton belt was placed at 1,-
790,783, of which 1,091,944 are white
and 698,839 Negroes. This gave a
total number of approximately 5,500,-
000 white individuals and slightly over
3,000,000 Negroes in the tenant class.
BIG iRPROBABLY
WOULD ENGULF U. S
Once It Gets Beyond Italy
and Ethiopia, Whole
World May Flare
By CHARLES P. STEWART
Washington, Sept. 26. —Despite the
American neutrality law, there is an
obvious feeling in Washington that It
will be exceedingly difficult for the
United States to keep clear of a large
scale conflict, if it breaks out on the
other side of the Atlantic.
The law, it is to he remembered,
is good only until next March 1.
Then, unless it is re-enacted or a
substitute for it is adopted, American
munition makers will be hack on
their old free-for-all basis.
Not alone will big manufacturers
see a chance for huge prpfits.
Unemployed workers will recognize
an opportunity to be reabsorbed into
industry. Employed workers will be
counting on higher wages. Farmers
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TODAY
FIVE CENTS COPY
HOSTILITIES PRIOR
TO DECEMBER 4 TO
BE AN ACT OF WAR
League Council Says Ag
gressor In East Africa
Would Be So Regard
ed At Geneva
STILL WORKING TO
SAFEGUARD PEACE
Britain Determined To
Stand by Its Policy and
Other Nations Support That
Position; Englishmen At
Home To Be Taught How
To Act If Bombed
Paris, Sept. 26 (AP)—French
officials said today that sanctions
against Italy could not be avoid,
ed if Premier Mussolini’s forces
ever attacked Ethiopia.
These officials predicted that
the League* of Nations Council
would make the aggressor nation
in the impending conflict indefi
nitely liable to sanctions.
(By the Associated Press.)
The League of Nations Council act
ed rapidly today to warn Italy and
Ethiopia that any hostilities before
December 4 will put the aggressor
nation automatically in the status of
committing an act of war against all
members of the League.
The Council decided to draft a re
port and recommendation for peace in
East Africa.
After the Italian delegation left the
League secretariat building, the Coun
cil adopted a recommendation to pro
ceed under Article XV of the cove
nainty The Ethiopian representative
accepted an invitation to attend the
sessions.
Recommendations thus drawn, if
adopted unanimously, would mark as
an act of war against all League
members any violation leading to
sanctions.
Council members decided also to
ask their five power committee to
continue to take advantage of any
opportunity for conciliation, not pass,
ing judgment on the failure report
of the committee of five.
The Council president, Enrique
Ruiz Guynazu, of Argeninte, proposed
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VANCE MAN~~GIVEN
PAROLE FROM ROAD
ißaleigh, Sept. 26 (AP) —'Five pris
oners were granted paroles today by
Governor Ehringhaus. Those paroled
included General Baskerville, con
victed in March of involuntary man
slaughter in Vance and sentenced to
two years. •
VANATTA AGAIN TO
HEAD STATE GRANGE
North Wilkesboro, Sept. 26 (AP)
E. S. Vanatta, of Wadesboro, today
wias re-elected master of the NorJh.
Carolina State Grange at its annual
convention here.
CARDINAL-CUB GAME
PREVENTED BY RAiN
St. Louis, Mo., Sept. 26 (AP)—•
Rain today forced a postpone
ment of the Cardinal-Cub series
to determine definitely if the
world champion St. Louis club
can halt the rampaging and pen
nant-bound men of Grimm.
FDRJs~' To
Start West
By Evening
Washington, Sept. 26.—(AP) —Pre li
dent Roosevelt had his favorite fb h
ing reeLs and rods packed up tod iy
for a belated vacation trip to the Pa
cific coast.
Before heading across the count -y
tonight, on a direct route to the Cf 11-
fornia International Exposition at
San Diego, and to she Pacific oce? n,
Mr. Roosevelt arranged last mini te
talks with government officials.
The bituminous coal strike was be
lieved to be due for primary con .d
--eration today.
The White House announced that
the President would make ft ur
speeches on his trip across the cot a
try, the first a brief farm talk at
Fremont, Neb., Saturday afternoon. j