'HENDERSON
gateway TO
CENTRAL
CAROLINA |
Twenty-second yeah
Credit To Be
TOBACCO IN STATE
NINE CENTS UNDER
FIGURES FOR 1934
Sales lo October 1 Are 209.-
620,000 Pouncb for
Average of $19.47
Per Hundred
HENDERSON SALES
SECOND FOR BELT
2 768874 Pounds at Aver
age of $lB.lB Per Hundred
for Two Weeks of Selling
Last Month; Condition Os
Flue-Cured Crop October
1 Given as 84 Percent
Raleich. Oct. 12.—(AP)—Tobacco
rowers of North Carolina received
an avence of 519.47 per hundred
pounds for 209,620,<X>0 pounds of weed
sold up to October 1, compared with
a season’s average last year of $28.44
per hundred pounds.
The Federal-State Crop Reporting
Service released its summary of Sep.
(ember sales today, giving the sea
son' totals to October 1 and showing
that September sales of 175,988.492
pounds brought SIB.BB per hundred
pounds, as compared with $26.91 per
hundred for the 168,774,802 pounds
sold in the similar period of 1934.
Henderson reported sales during
September of 2.768,874 pounds for an
average of $lB.lB, compared with an
average during the similar period in
1934 of $27.98. Oxford sales were 2,-
715,332 pounds for an average of $17.-
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Nurses of State
Talk of Change to
Tight-Hour Day
Charlotte Oct. It. —(AP)—The ques
tion of an eight hour day appeared to
day as one of the major problems
facing tho nursing profession in North
Ca rolina.
The issue was discussed at the clos.
ing session of the annual convention
of the North Carolina Nurses Asso
ciation here yesterday, but no de
cision was reached.
Proponents of the plan said an
right hour day instead of the present
12-hour day provides that nurses work
right hours for $4 instead of 12 hours,
for $6.
teach ers meet at
RALEIGH MARCH 19-21
RnMjsh; Oct. It (AP)—The
North Carolina Education Asso
ciation will hold its annual con
vention here March 19, 20 and 21.
A special committe. today an
nounced agrement on the selec
tor) of Raleigh. About 3,000
teachers are expected to attend.
Tobacco Is
3rd Biggest
In History
Other Crops Also
Are of High Qual
ity, Crop Report
ing Service Says
Raleigh, Oct. 12. (AP)—The third
"gest tobacco crop in North Caro
-1,1:1 •' history, one of the best corn
n Uls in years, and fine prospects for
''lk i crops were seen today in the
' decal -State Crop Reporting Service
'' it;; report on conditions as of Oc
tober l.
1 he corn yield promises to be one
!l " bc,t for many years,” the re
,"'l’ ; tid, with an estimated yield
of [8.320,000 bushels.
l\ | th conditions tending to produce
1, f ,? avy y‘ ,; Pl of a light, low grade
'L the indicated tobacco yield of
)u „ r ’ mjnds an acre “is one of the
t '." t on record, and the prospec
*>tal production of 538),369,000
>" s is the third largest crop ever
landi iced in North Carolina.”
i hay y i<;ld s are being re
td o'7 >:anu * P rodu ction is indicat
• ’hOO.-vAHj pounds, up four per.
w Continued on R w : Eight.).
itmuterson Hath* Htsmrfrh
WIRB SBRYICJ9 OF
*HK ABSOCIATBD PREBI.
Hauptmann’s Wife Today
m—m «
£■ irst photo to be made of Mrs. Bruno Hauptmann and her son, Mannfried,
Imopf t°fL h< l r hus^ and was . denied. She was saying, “Somehow they
[must find out that my husband is innocent. I’ll never give up ” as it was
snapped in the New York apartment in which they live alone.
fCentral Press)
Economic
Issue Only
One Likely
By LESLIE EICHEL
New York, Oct. 12.—Economists be
lieve there will be only one issue in
the 1936 election—economic.
Varied interests will try to base a
campaign cn other issues, but those
other issues will have no effect on
the people, because they are not basi
cally related to the desires of the
people, accordijy? to the economists.
President Roosevelt stands to yam
all along the line if present infla
tionary tendencies continue up to No
vember, 1936, say these economists.
It is an even guess whether there
will be a break prior to that time.
The best guess is that prices (and
government debt) will continue rising
to beyond November, 1936.
There may be obstructions. For ex
ample, the U. S. Supreme Court may
hold vital provisions of the AAA un
constitutional. But that would be look
ed upon as favoring President Roose
velt as against those who oppose arti
ficial prices. Indeed, an adverse de
cision on the AAA might hasten in.
(Continued on Page Five.)
School Teachers
Get Flat 20 Pet.
Raise This Year
Raleigh. Oct. 12 (AP)—North Caro
lina's school teachers will get a flat
20 per cent raise this year and will
come under the workmen’s compen
sation law, but they won’t get any sick
leave, as heretofore.
A statement issued here last night
by Lloyd Griffin, executive secretary
of the school commission said the
commission had decided to forego the
sick leave durin gthe current school
year.
DREDGES START iAT
ONCE ATMDREHEAD
Government May Make
Even Greater Improve
ments Than Thought
Dally Di.s|int<-b Rnrenn,
In the Sir Walter Hotel.
BY J. C. BASKERVILLE.
Raleigh, Oct. 12.—Dredging of the
channel at Mrehead City from the
ocean to the site of the new port ter
minal there will be resumed at once
as the result of the notification sent
to General M. Markham, chief of
engineers, U. S. Army, that he might
now proceed with dredging opera
tions. A copy of the letter sent to
General Markham by Colonel E. B.
Hackett, assistant PWA administra
tor in Washington, has just been re
ceived by Governor Ehringhaus. Ne
gotiations for the loan and grant to
the port terminal commission in
Morehead City have advanced to a
point that is so near to completion
(Continued on Page Five.)
ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA AND VIISiINIA.
New York Fascists
Clash With Anti’s
New York, Oct. 12 (AP)
Swinging night sticks, mounted po
pice prevented today a threatened
riot in Columbus Circle when 2,-
000 Fascist sympathizers and 2,000
anti-Faseists assembled for observ
ance of Columbus Day.
The action occurred shortly after
Governor Lehman and Mayor La-
Guardia left the Circle, where they
gave addresses.
GOVERNOR
UTILITY LITIGATION
Giving Commission Full
Support in Suit Against
Phone Company
Daily Dispatch Bureau,
In the Sir Walter Hotel.
BY J. C. BASKEM VILIE,
Raleigh, Oct. 12. —Governor J. C. B.
Ehringhaus is taking a great deal of
interest in the forthcoming court
fight between the State Utilities Com
mission and the Southern Bell Tele
phone and Telegraph Company sche
duled to open in superior court here
October 28, with Judge C. Vernon
Cowper, of Kinston, presiding But
for the interest which Governor Eh—
ringhaus has taken in this case, in
which the Utilities Commission will
seek to enforce its order to compel
the telephone company to reduce its
rates a total of $321,000 a year to its
North Carolina subscribers, the Utili
ties Commission would have been at
a decided disadvantage, all those here
who know the situation agree.
Realizing that the Commission
would be almost helpless if it did
not have the assistance of some rate
and appraisal experts, Governor Eh
ringhaus authorized the necessary
funds for the employment of two ex.
perts and additional counsel from the
emergency and contingency fund, and
has placed the full cooperation of his
office behind the Utilities Commis
sion, it was revealed today. As a re
sult, it is expected htat the Utilities
Commission will be able to present
just as able experts and legal talent
as the telephone company will have,
in spite of the millions of dollars
back of it.
If the commission wins its case, the
telephone company will be compelk i
to refund to its subscribers in North
(Continued on Page Two.)
Farmer Kills Baby
And Then Suicides
In Lenoir County
Kinsitoni, Oct. 12-.—(AP).—Har
vey Dail, 40, tenant farmer of
near Hookerton, killed his five
weeks-old son by catching the
child by the leg and swinging
its head against the hearth and
then committed suicide, police re
ported today.
Dail shot himself in the heart
and died a few minutes after the
baby.
Neighbors said a family quar
rel led to the double slaying.
Dail’s widow and two other
children survive*
HENDERSON, N. C. SATURDAY jAFTERNOO N, OCTOBER 12, 1935
ITALIAN MINISTER
FORTIFIES HIMSELF
IN LEGION HOUSE
Refuses To Leave Addis
Ababa, Despite Urgent
Request of Emperor
That He Go
SELASSIE EXTENDS
20 HOURS OF GRACE
Will Then Force Him Out If
He Declines To , Leave;
Barricades Himself With
His Military Attache; Staff
Voluntarily Leaves on Spe
cial Train
(By The Associated Press.)
The field of operations in the Plthi
>piAn war shifted suddenly today
'rom (he northern front to the capital
'f the empire, Addis Ababa, where the
Italian minister barricaded himself in
iis Legation after Emperor Haile
Selassie’s demand that he quit Ethi
opia immediately.
With comparative quiet reigning in
military zones, broken only by the de
sertion of two Ethiopian chieftains
snd their riflemen to the Italian high
command, the diplomatic tussle at
Addis Ababa took on a serious aspect.
Emperor Haile Selassie gave the
minister, Vinci Gigliucci, another 20
hours to get out or be put out.
Barricaded with him was his mili
tary attache, Colonel Carderini. Oth.
or Legation officials left by the spe
cial train supplied by t.se emperor for
Djibouti, French Somaliland.
Hundreds of the emperor’s picked
infantrymen and eight cavalrymen
mounted guards outside the Legation
walls awaited orders from the palace.
The Italian minister’s native staff
went voluntarily to the emperor and
offered to enroll in the Ethiopian
army immediately after the Italian
minister had refused to budge from
Addis Ababa. The emperor accepted
their services.
Haile Selassie had said Vinci-Gig
liucci’s presence was embarrassing,
since the League of Nations had nam
ed Italy the aggressor. The minister,
when asked to leave, retorted he must
wait for the arrival of Italian con
sular agents from Mogallo, due to
morrow.
Defections from the ranks of Em
peror Haile Selassie’s hordes were
reported from field headquarters of
(Continued on Page Five.)
Mart Shot In
Dock Strike
In Louisiana
New Orleans, La., Oct. 12 (AP) —
One man was shot in the face and
slightly wounded and six alleged at
tackers were arrested today in a pis
tol and brickbat battle between po
lice guarding working dock employees
and a crowd of men who tried to in
tercept them enroute to the docks in
the International Longshoremen’s As
sociation strike here.
The police reported that two auto
mobile loads of workers, each guard
ed by one officer, were en route to the
docks, at the time cf the disturbance.
As the first car guarded by Patrol
men William Hines, neared the docks
vicinity, the police reported, a crowd
of men on the sidewalk began ston
ing the car and several shots were
fired one striking the side of the car.
Hines fired a shot which glazed the
face of a man listed by officers as
Henry Hayay, 36.
Lee Birthplace Now
Is National Shrine
Stratford, Va., Oct. 12 (AP)—His
torians of North and South met here
at the birthplace of General Robert
E. Lee today to dedicate as a national
shrine the mansion and estate of the
Lee family.
Contributions totalling $500,000 se
cured the property, lying along the
banks of the Potomac river, in West
moreland county an d a memorial
foundation directed the work of re
storation and preservation.
Today, the place became a shrine
Denied Italv
Expelled
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• 'r'rff’rMfrbftfti ■ w rT y, "r , nrHTT7"il l Hill —Hi
Mrs. Carleton B. Nichols with her
son, Carleton, Jr., 8, who was ex
pelled from school in Lynn, Mass.,
for his refusal to pledge allegiance
to U. S. flag because of religious
beliefs of his parents. His father
also was fined.
(Central Press)
CALLS AAA SET-UP
“LANDLORD’S CODE”
ATCOTTMQUIRY
Witness at Memphis Hear
ing on Crop Control Pro
cedure Says Tenants
Not Helped
ABSENT OWNERSHIP
HELD AN OBSTACLE
Dallas Agricultural Editor
Says no Solution of Prob
lem Confronting Cotton
Section Will Be Possible
Until That Has Been Fully
Abolished
Memphis, Tenn., Oct. 12.—(AP) —
The Agricultural Adjustment Admin
istration’s program was described as
“the landlord’s code” by a witness at
ttte AAA hearing today on the eco
nomic aspects of the cotton proce
dure.
“The AAA program has increased
purchasing power,” said H. C. Mixon,
planter in Alabama, and professor of
political science at Tulane University,
New Orleans, "but it has not been dis.
tributed equally among tenants and
share-croppers.”
Another opponent of cotton tenancy,
T. C, Richardson, an agricultural
editor of Dallas, said no solution of
the problem confronting the cotton
section would be forthcoming until
absentee ownership of land was
abolished.
Walter Moskop, a member of the
executive committee of the Southern
Tenant Farmers’ Union, appealed for
“equal benefits” to the share cropper,
charging that he has been the “for
gotten man” of the AAA and the New
Deal.
These statements came after yes
terday’s enthusiastic endorsement of
the principles of production control by
farmers, farm association leaders and
others who said continuance of the
program was imperative for the cot
ton belt.
of North and South alike. It will
be maintained by the breeding of
thoroughbred horses, an industry fol
lowed at “Stratford” while the Lees
were its owners.
On the dedication program are
Douglas S. Freeman, Richmond edi
tor, author of a prize winning biogra
phy of the Confederate leader Gover
nor George C. Peery of Virginia and
others.
President Roosevelt has sent a mes
sage to be read at the dedication cere
monies. _
PUBLISHED BVBRV AFTBRNOOV
BXCBPT SUNDAY
Diplomatic Break
By League Powers
Is Now Discussed
Kicks Over Traces
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League of Nations was given a sur
prise when Baron Pflugl (above)
announced Austria’s refusal to join
other nations in imposing boycott
on Italy for flouting League’s stand
on Ethiopian invasion. Hungary
took similar action.
(Central Press)
NEUTRALITY MIGHT
BECOME UNTENABLE
Easy Now Since Italy’s
Trade With U. S. Is Vir
tually Negligible
COMPLICATIONS LOOM
If Britain Undertakes Sanctions
Against Italy, Regarded Worthy
Cause, and U. S. Ship Is
Sunk, Then What?
By CHARLES P. STEWART
Washington, Oct. 12.—Neutrality
manifestly is very popular through
out the United States at present.
Virtually all comment received in
Washington is highly commendatory
of Pisrdljdenlt RooseMelfl’s proclama.
tions banning shipments of war ma
terials to belligerent buyers and warn
ing Americans that, if they venture
into danger abroad, they do so at
their own peril.
As yet, however, Yankee neutrality
is not much more than theoretical.
Uncle Sam’s trade with Italy has not
been large; he has had almost no
trade relations with Ethiopia.
ONLY FEW AFFECTED
Consequently few and only small
American interests are affected by
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BRIDE OF2WEEKS
IS DEAD IN HOTEL
Culpepper, Va., Undertaker,
50, Lying by Her Side,
His Wrist Cut
Washington, Oct. 12 (AP)—rs.
Willie Mae Fletcher Wood, of Fair
fax, Va. a bride of two weeks, was
found dead in a hotel room here to
day lying in the arms of W. S. Rae
guer, 50, Culpepper, Va. undertaker
who had slashed his wrist.
Mrs. Wood’s head was nearly sev
ered from her body by a razor blade.
Raeguer was taken to a hospital and
held for the coroners jury.
Mrs. Wood was the wife of a Vir
ginia highway policeman. She mov
er? to Fairfav recently from Culpep
per where she had lived with her
mother and three sisters.
Raeuger celebrated his silver wed
ding anniversary recently and is the
father of two married daughters.
In the adjoining hotel room officers
found Annie O’Bannon, 17, of Culpep
per, cousin of Mrs. Wood who was
held as a witness.
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Suggestion Is Made By Brit
ish Delegate at Geneva
From Union of South
Africa
NO PROTEST MADE
ON ARMS EMBARGO
Italian Spokesman at Ge
neva Spikes Report Wide
ly Circulated; Italy To Be
Cut off from World’s Pay-
Roll; Program Forming To
Make Rule Effective
Geneva, Oct. 12.—(AP)—The finan
cial* sub-committee of the League of
Nations general staff for sanctions
today took the first definite step to
ward cutting Italy off the world’s
payroll.
It decided to recommend the im
mediate discontinuance of all loan
and bank credits to Mussolini’s gov
ernment. In addition, it appointed a.
sub-committee headed by Demetrios
Maxlmos, of Greece, to consider fur
ther steps in that direction.
In view of yesterday’s unanimity of
the arms embargo, it is regarded in
League circles as a foregone conclus
ion that the committee’s recommenda
tions will be adopted by the fully re
presented general staff committee,
probably later today.
The Italian delegation informed
The Associated Press that Italy had
sent no protest to the League of Na
tions against the arms embargo.
An Italian spokesman said that ha
was unable to account for a state
ment by some League officials that
such ap rotest had been received.
The Union of South Africa delegate
to the League was reported to hrfve
recommended the investigation of the
possibility of the League power*
breaking diplomatic /relations with
Italy.
Kidnaper Is
Shot Trying
For Escape
Basil Banghart,
Charlotte Mail Rob
ber, Recaptured at
Illinois Prison
Chester, 111., Oct. 12.—(AP)—Basil
Banghart, convicted kidnaper of John
(Jake the Barber) Factor, was shot
and recaptured today shortly after he
and three unidentified companions
commandeered a commissary truck,
hurtled it through prison gates and
escaped from Southern Illinois peni
tentiary.
Banghart, leader of the fleeing quar
tette, was shot in the left arm by
possemen as he deserted the truck
and fled through a heavily wooded
section about ten miles south Os the
prison. He was returned to the peni
tentiary, where it was said his condi..
tion was not serious.
Two of his companions were cap
tured as guards overtook the truck
and a search was under way for the
other.
Prison guards said it was Banghart
who led the attack on Edward Brat
ley, the truck driver, took him pri
soner, beat a guard, ran over a fel
low convict and rammed the speed
ing truck through the prison gates.
(Continued on Page Two.)
OUR WEATHER MAN
FOR NORTH CAROLINA.
Fair in interior, partly cloudy
on the coast- slightly cooler to
night; Sunday fair.