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V\ A r-i Hlf FF? ir T'"'"'*' riK,nb * TOBACCO PRICES RISE WITH HEAVY WEEK-END SALES HENDERSON GATEWAY TO CENTRAL CAROLINA TWENTY-SECOND YEAR (TUT POSTPONES WAR AGAINST ETHIOPIA HENDERSON MARKET SHOWS LARGE GAINS AS OFFERINGS RISE Friday’s Break Estimated at Around 400,000 Pounds, With Price Close to 19 Cents AVERAGE THURSDAY $18.28 PER 100 LBS. With Better Understanding Over Price Situation, Grow, ers Are Expected To Bring Their Weed to Floors at More Rapid Rate During Coming Week Heavy offerings were poured upon the floors of Henderson tobacco ware houses today as prices for the golden weed showed an increase at the week end. Indications were that approxi mately 400 000 pounds of tobacco was on sale, with the two sets of buyers occupied until late afternoon in dis posing of the offerings. Prices were estimated to be much stronger than on Thursday’s sale. The average on Thursday showed a rise of approximately one cent a pound over that for Wednesday, and went to $18.28 for 136,550 pounds dis posed of, buyers paying a total of $24,968.84 for the day’s biddings. For the first four days of the week, unofficial figures showed sales of 645,448 pounds for $119,150.49, for an average of $18.46 per hundred. This week’s four days of selling, added to I the four days of last week’s opener, I gives an unofficial total of 2,055,786 pounds, which sold for $350,161.65, tor an average of $17.03 for the season through Thursday of this week. On Monday dfi;tjhi3 week the mar ket sold 271.684 pounds for $52,045.24, at an average of $19.15. Tuesday’s sale was 145,286 pounds for $26,215.89, at an ayerage of $18.04 per hundred. On Wednesday the market sold 91,- 928 pounds for $15,920.52, at an aver, age of sl7 31. With a better understanding about the price situation, as the result of the conference in Washington last Wednesday between growers and State officials from North Carolina, cn the one hand and AAA officials on the other, it is expected there will be an improvement in conditions in tne next few days, especially with better grades coming on the market. And, in that understanding, growers are (Continued on Page Eight.) WILSON MAN KILLED BY RAILROAD TRAIN Wilson, Sept. 27.—(AP)—W. N. Carpenter, 38, under bond to ap pear in court here today to an swer gambling charges, was found mangled early today on the south bound track of the Atlantic Coast Line railroad two miles north of here. Officers believed Carpenter, sur vived by l his wife and seven chil dren, fell on the tracks and was run over by a train. Whalen Boy Kidnaped At Family Home Federal Agents Call ed Into Case of Ex- Police Commission er’s Young Son Dobbs Ferry, N. Y., Sept. 27. (AP) —Dobbs Ferry police said today the son of Grove A. Whalen, former New York City police commissioner, was missing and his father feared he has been kidnaped. department of Justice agents were repo, ted to have been called into the The boy, Grover A. Wjhalen, Jr., 14, was said u> have vanished while his bags were ked standing on front porch oi bic home. A car waiting to take him to the station to entrain for a private L -tooL tmtiterstfu Uatht Htgpatrfr L ®ASBD WIRE SERVICE OF thhj associated prisms. Protest by Italy On League Action Geneva, Sept. 27 (AP)— Baron Pompeo Aloisi, spokesman of the Italian delegation to the League of Nations, today protested the Lea gue’s plan merely to adjourn the Assembly’s steering committee. League officials who discussed this protest announced that, de spite it, the committee voted to re commend that the Assembly un dertake a simple adjournment— meaning it can be called together again at a moment’s notice. POESAYS GRIERS CAN PUSH TOBACCO j Suggests Turning Tags Freely When Average Does Not Reach Satis factory Figure SELL SLOWLyT THEN REMOVE THE SCRAP Dr. Poe Says Lot of This Talk About Over-Produc tion Is Bunk, and Predicts 1935 Yield Will Be Under 745 Million Pounds; Says AAA Growers’ Friend Dally Dispatch Bareaa, Dully Ul npntcF: Ttareaa, BY J. C. B.ISKERVILL. Raleigh, Sept. 27.—The tobacco far mers of the State will have the power to help themselves and thus increase prices if they will only stand together and cooperate, even if the Agricul. tural Adjustment Administration does not see how it can do anything more to help them, Dr. Clarence Poe, editor of The Progressive Farmer, and chairman of the committee named by the recent mass meeting of tobacco farmers to go to Washington to see what could be done to improve prices, said today following his return from the conference in Washington. For while prices are already improving, they will go still higher if the far mers will stand together and demand better prices, and turn their tags whenever a pile is bid in for less than they think it should bring, Dr. Poe said. “A lot of the tobacco farmers have become panicky and have apparently slumped into a ‘what’s the use’ at titude towards thep resent price situa tion, when they can really do a lot to help conditions merely by showing some ;back-bone and refusing to sell their tobacco until they get a better price,” Dr. Poe said. “I talked with several warehousemen in Washington Wednesday who told me that they had (Continued on Page Eight.) Agreement Reached Ending Coal Strike Washington, Sept. 27.—(AP)— A peace pact that spells the end of the nation’s soft coal strike in all but four producing districts was reached early today. The miners will go back to work next Tuesday after being out since Monday morning. Union leaders and operators agreed in the early morning hours to adopt a new wage contract giving the min ers increases in pay for virtually all types of work. The contract, replac ing one which originally expired last April 1, will extend until April 1, 1937 Representatives of operators in the Virginia and Hazard, Ky., districts refused to sign the new agreement until they received assurances that mine owners in the Tennessee and ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA AND VIRGINIA. New Legion Head •••••• ! m -pte.' ifc’ !||j§Spg J. Ray Murphv Murphy was elected national com mander of the American Legion for the coming year on the closing day Friday of the national convention in St. Louis, Mo. He won out over a large field of competitors. The new commanuer is from Ida Grove, lowa. STATE 10 RECEIVE” 16,000,000 SUM ON IIS PARK HIGHWAY And That Will Likely Be All and Rest of Route May Never Be Fully Completed POLITICS SMELLED IN RECENT EVENTS Odor Like Tennessee Do ings Indicated Move To Hold Back Work In North Carolina; Ehrin gha us, Bailey, Doughton Go Di rectly to the President Dally Dispatch Daren*, In the Sir Walter Motel. BY .1 C. EASKERVILL. ..Raleigh, Sept. 27.—North Carolina has been assured of getting at least $6,000,000 worth of the projected $16,- 000,000 park-to-park highway as the result of the order signed by Presi dent Roosevelt transferring that a mount back to the Public Works Ad ministration to be used for the park (Continued on Page Six.) Telephoneßate CaseComesUp AtSpecial Term Raleigh, Sept. 27.—'(AP) —Governor Ehringhaus this afternoon ordered a special three weeks term of Wake Superior Court to start here October 28 with Judge G. Vernon Cowper, of Kinston, to preside, for the trial of (Continued on Page Eight.) Harlan fields in Kentucky would sign. John Li. Lewis, president of the United Mine Workers, said the strike would ibe continued in these areas un til the contract was signed. After expressing satisfaction with the wage pact, Lewis criticized the stand of the dissenting producers, who have been at loggerheads over wage differentials for the competing fields. The new wage agreement, praised by President Roosevelt last night be fore he left for the west coast, pro vides for an increase of 50 cents a day for day laborers, nine cents a ton for miners who dig and load the coal, and a ten percent increase for yard age and dead work (cleaning out slate, etc.). , ; , HENDERSON, N. C. FRIDAY, AFTERNOON, SEPTEMBER 27, 1935 U. S. Asks Views Os Britain f About New Naval Conference LONDON'S PROGRAM FOR NEW WARSHIPS MAY BLOCK PARLEY I Understood, However, Bri tain’s Projected Construc tion May Be Held Within Treaty WIDE OPEN NAVAL RACE NOW FEARED Meeting of American Diplo mats and Foreign Office Officials Held In London/ To Determine If New Con ference of Powers Can Be Held Immediately London, Sept. 27. —(AP) —The Unit ed States today asked formally for clarification of British views on hold ing an international naval conference before the end of this year, as re quired under-*,the Washington naval treaty of 1922. A conference between American diplomats and foreign office officials on the subject of such a parley fol lowed close on the heels of British press reports that the British govern ment soon would advise the United States it was terminating the Wash ington treaty. This report, however, was emphatically denied in official quarters. An authoritative source today stat. ed the belief that Britain soon will (Continued on Page Six.) L. C. Arthur, 71, of Greenville, Killed By A Railroad Bus Greenville, N. C., Sept. 27. — (AP) —L. C. Arthur, 71, for years a member of the Pitt County Board of Education, and a native of Chesterfield county, Virginia, was killed here today when struck by the westbound Norfolk South ern mail bus. Arthur was walking along the track near his home after having purchased cigars at a nearby store when he was struck. Funeral arrangements were not immediately completed. His widow, two sons, of this city, and three daughters survive. NOIALfBOiESS SHARING IN UPTURN Unemployment Remains, Big Business Complains, Labor Is Hopeful By CHARLES P. STEWART Washington, Sept. 27—Although all statistics indicate a decided improve ment in business, big business seems not at all grateful to the Roosevelt administration. Small business may be grateful, but organizations like the United States Chamber of Com merce, the National Association of Manufacturers, Jouett Shouse’s Lib erty League and John Henry Kirby’s Constitutional League, which consists mostly of big business men, continue to be adversely critical. And in the face of the fact that bus iness seems to be improving, employ (Continued on Page Six.) ~OUR WEATHER MAN n. N'jßl.l —[IN, Occasional rain tonight and Sat urday; cooler Saturday. , Lindbergh’s New Interest Latest scientific endeavor of Charles A- Lindbergh is the development oi rocket-ships, and he (left) is aiding Dr. Robert H. Goddard (right) in tests at Roswell, N. Mex., of ships designed by Dr. Goddard to hurtle through skies at 700 miles an hour after being shot from tower shown «.t right. iCentral Press) Grange Wants SSA u tom obile State License North Wilkesboro Sept. 27 (AP)— The North Carolina State Grange ask ed for a $5 State automobile license in a resolution adopted as its annual meeting here drew to a close today. The resolution urged that the cost of license plates be reduced to a min imum of $5. Among other resolu tions presented by the committee was one calling for elimination of the primary system, but the convention declined to adopt it. A committee resolution opposing any increase in taxes was amended before Adoption to ask the legislature to use. the strictest economy in ad ministering the revenue available, and to increase taxes only when ne cessary to provide funds to match Fed eral appropriations for social security and education. Traditionally dry, the Grange went on record as opposing legalized sale of liquor in the State. Negro Escape of Woodville Prison Shot and May Die Elizabeth City, Sept. 27.—(AJP) —Marvin Parker, one of the quar. tette of Negro prisoners who es caped from Woodville prison camp, was in a hospital here to day not expected to live as the result of gunshot wounds receiv ed when he was captured late last night in a woods about 14 miles from Hertford. Captain J. M. Tolar, camp su perintendent, said early today he expected to capture the other two today. He expressed the opinion they were in the same woods in to which the three fled when they were fired upon by searchers. Only Parker was struck. One other convict, Harry Ross, was taken yesterday. The two still at large are Will Brown and James Howell. PUBLISHED EVERY AFTBRNOO* EXCEPT SUNDAY Tobacco Sign-Up May End Oct. 10 Raleigh, Sept. 27.—(AP)—E. Y. Floyd, in charge of the 1936 tobac co sign_up campaign in North Car olina, said today he expected the drive to be virtually completed by October 10. He said the campaign now is about 50 to 60 percent com plete. EUROPE NOW SEES NEW DEAL WING Government, Business, La bor Must Unite Jointly To Save America By LESLIE EICIIEL New York, Sept. 27—The war scare in Europe has diverted attention from what one journal of opinion terms “the final death rattle of the New Deal.” Wihen President Roosevelt decided to abandon the Public Works Admin istration in favor of the Works-Prog ress Administration, the program to “rebuild the United States” went out the window. There need be no mistake in that. The construction of swimming pools the laying out of golf courses and the raking of leaves —in order to give some of the 11 million unemployed temporary jobs—will not rebuild the United States, nor do anything much to settle the economic and unemploy (Continued on Page Three.) FIND THREE BODIES IN WRECKED PLANE Sheridan, Wyo., Sept. 27 (AP)— The wreckage of a red monoplane containing the charred and mang led bodies of two men and a wo. man was discovered 60 miles north of here today. The plane had crashed in the rugged Passaic badlands. Pages 10 Today TWO SECTIONS. FIVE CENTS COPY MUSSOLINI WON’T FOR TEN DAYS YET League Fixes Three Months As Time-Limit Against Hostilities In East Africa NEUTRAL OBSERVERS TO WATCH BORDERS Emperor Selassie’s Proposal To Determine Who Is Ag gressor If War Comes Is Accepted by League At Geneva; Pope Pleads For Peace In Africa (By The Associated Press.) Fears that the close of the rainy season, now ended according to the calendar, would bring an immediate commencement of hostilities between Italy and Ethiopia, were allayed to day by an Italian government spokes man, who said Italy would wait ten days or two weeks before taking action. A heavy downpour of rain today In terrupted the ceremonies of the fes tival of Maskal, which celebrates the end of the rainy season In Ethiopia. The League of Nations Council, which yesterday fixed a three months time limit against hostilities, decided, in principle, to accept Emperor Haile Selassie’s plea for a commission of neutral observers to watch over Ethi opia’s frontiers. The emperor suggested such a com mission would be able to determine impartially which nation was the ag gressor, promising it every coopera, tion. Vatican prelates interpreted Pope Pius’ address to the Eucharistic Con gress in Cleveland as a plea for peace (Continued on Page Six.) WOMEN PRISONERS, TO HAVE QUARTERS Raleigh, Sept. 27 (AP) —Capus M. Waynick, chairman of the State High way and Public Works Commission, said today new headquarters for women prisoners in North Carolina “will be built just as soon a3 possible.” Southern Coasts Os Cuba Already Feeling the Blow. Jacksonville, Fla., Sept. 27. (AP) —The southern codfct of Cuba early this afternoon had be gun to feel strong winds on the outer fringe of a tropical hurri cane in the western Caribbean Sea. A Weather Bureau report said the steal ler Gatun had experlenc ed full hurricane winds this morning as it proceeded cautious fy about; 75 miles south-boitth wes,, of the extreme western end of the island of Jamaica. A Pan-American Airways lane near Santa Cruz reported at 11 a. m. it was flying in a 35-mile northeast wind. FDR Cannot GetHarmonj In Kentucky Governor and De feated Candid ate Won’t Meet Presi dent and New Gov. Louisville, Ky., Sept. 27.—(AP) Thomas F. Rhea, defeated for tle Democratic nomination as govern ir of Kentucky, joined Governor Ru >y Laffoon today in refusing to take p t rt in a conference with President Roo: e velt aboard the President’s special train at Cincinnati this afternoon. Only Lieutenant Governor A. 3. (Happy) Chandler, victor in the bitt Jr Democratic gubernatorial prima* y, accepted the White House invitatlcn, (Continued on Page ThreeA
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