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HENDERSON gateway TO CENTRAL CAROLINA TWENTY-THIRD YEAR TOBACCO SIGH-UP IS TO START (EXT WEEK REORGANIZATION of AAA PROCLAIMED BY SECRETARY WALLACE Five Regions Established for Administering New Soil Conservation Farm Program SENATE and house agree about funds $440,000,000 Added to $2,- 889,751,905 Independent Offices Bill for Cost of New Plan First Year; Hut son Director for Division Including This State Washington, March 17 (AP) —Secretary Wallace today an nounced the reorganization of the AAA and establishment of five regions for the administra tion of the new soil conserva tion farm program. His statement coincided with an agreement by Senate and House con ferees on the $2,889,751,905 independ ent offices supply bill to the Senate additions of $140,000,000 for the first year’s operations of the farm subsidy iaw and $1,730,000,000 for payment of the soldiers' bonus. There had been some concern at AAA lest operation of the conserva tion act be delayed by lack of funds. To Rush Bill Senator Byrnes, Democrat, South Carolina, one of the Senate conferees, said an effort would be made to get the bill to the White House before President Roosevelt starts his south ern cruise Thursday, the day when AAA officials planned to begin field operations. The Senate will act first on the conference report, probably to day. Districts Set Up The directors of the old AAA com modity sections were named as regi onal directors for the respective divi (CnpHniiert on 'Pqgrp T v ' r <><' ' Storm With Gale Winds Hits State Charlotte, March 17. —(AP) —A storm was moving up the eastern seaboard across the Carolinas to day, bringing high winds, heavy rains and lower temperatures. 'snow and sleet fell in the moun tains of Western North Carolina. Hendersonville reported a brisk snow there throughout the morn ing. High winds at Hendersonville cracked windows and blew down signboards and trees. Slrong shifting winds also ‘■wept the central part of North Carolina, and a warning issued by the United States Meteorologi cal Station at Fort Bragg said they possibly would reach hurri cane force during the afternoon. The forecast was for fair and colder weather tomorrow, and the United States Weather Bureau said the temperature possibly would drop to freezing. Talk Plans . Os Control Os Tobacco Reiter ates Readiness To Convene Legisla ture if it Will Help Raleigh, March 17. —(AP) —North Carolina farm leaders gathered here :0,1 «.v for a conference with Governor J ( '■ B. Ehringhaus, seeking a plan hi! tobacco control. T r )f. governor, in a radio address ; night, urged farmers to join a ig n-up campaign for voluntary acre induction, and invited representa tivc group leaders to today’s session ,f) discuss plans. He emphasized that ,h(1 proposal for State compacts had been abandoned, but said “there grave improbability of accomplish (Continued on Page Two.) perry memorial -W + g mvtwvt&tm Hatut fiat spat rlj ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA AND VIRGINIA leased wire service of the associated press. Defense Co-ordinator a« —i < Sir Thomas Inskip In a surprise move Premier Stanley Baldwin appointed Sir Thomas In skip to the new cabinet post of Min ister of Defense with power to co-ordinate the activities of all branches of Britain’s armed forces. (Central Press) C S FOR RIGHTS Teachers to Offer State Candidate in Opposition to Superintendents ‘DICTATION’ RESENTED Tired of Superintendents and Princi ples Lording It Over Instruct ors in State Education Association Dully Dispatch Ilurean, / ihe Sir Walter Hold, Uy j. c. iIASKICIt-ViLl. Raleigh, March 17 —The main item of interest in connection with the meeting of the North Carolina Educa tion Association here Thursday and Friday of this week is the expected contest for the control of the associa tion between the Classroom Teachers A a unit of the education association, and the group of superin tendents and principals which for yea.s is conceded to have managed the association almost to suit itself an*d used it to further its interests rather than those of the classroom teachers. So whilp the several thou sand teachers who will gather sihly to hear inspiritional speeches about education, the question they will he most interested in will bo the under-cover contest l’or control of the association between the classroom teacheis on the one hand and the superintendents and principals on the other, those in informed circles here admit. Presidents Alternate For the past several years, it has been the policy of the Education as fCor.Untied nn Pae° ’Three). ROADIIOfS STILL DECLINING 60 Killed, 462 Injured in, 444 Accidents in Month of February Daily Dispatch Bureau, In The Sir Walter Hotel, Ky J. C. B4SKERVILL Raleigh, March 17—Sixty persons were killed and 462 injured in 444 au tomobile accidents in North Carolina during February, according to the of- figures announced today by the motor vehicle bureau of the De partment of Revenue. In February, 1935, a total of 77 persons were kill ed and 483 injured in 375 accidents. The record for January was 61 per sons killed and 592 injured in 492 accidents. .... -a K Os the 60 persons killed in ben (Continued on Page Two.) HENDERSON, N. C., TUESDAY AFTERNOON, MARCH 17, 1936 The Genial Hoover 1 1111 . s' .. . life iV| %]p Herbert Hoover Either the food or the company must have been good judging from the genial mood in which the cameraman caught former Presi dent Herbert Hoover. He is seen at tending the golden jubilee of life in surance underwriters in New York where he was the guest speaker. (Central Press) HOEY UNO GRAHAM HEADQUARTERS ARE OPENAT RALEIGH McDonald Expected to Fol low With His Offices During the Next Week or Ten Days STRAW VOTES GET LITTLE ATTENTION Graham Crowd Not Worried By Street-Corner Tabula tions and Radio Jabber; Hoey Crowd Confident Their Man Is Ahead and Will Remain So. D.-tlly Uureiin, In The Sir Walter Hotel, Ity J. lUSKfiHVIU, Raleigh, March 17. —With the cam paign headquarters of two of the can didates for governor already open and a third expected to open in the next week or ten days, all in the Sir Walter hotel here, the political wheels are expected to turn faster and faster as the various candidates get up more steam. The campaign headquarters of Lieutenant Governor A. H. Graham on the tenth floor of the Sir Walter hotel opened late last week and Campaign Manager Lon Folger is being kept busy meeting the steady stream of callers and answering the hundreds of letters already pouring in. On the floor below, in Room 904, the head quarters of Clyde R. Hoey, is getting down to business with Campaign Manager Hubert Olive, of Lexington, on the job. The Hoey headquarters did not open until yesterday and Manager Olive and his assistant, Rob ert L. Thompson, formerly of The News and Observer, and now in charge of the Hoey publicity, have not yet got their headquarters com pletely organized and ready for busi ness. But they are expecting to have a full head of steam up soon. McDonald To Follow. Nor is Dr. Ralph W. McDonald to be outdone by Messers Graham and Hoey. The former college professor, who is now one of the three leading candidates for the Democratic nom ination for governor, is also going to (Continued on Page Three.) GOVEIMIISES ON LITHE FELLOW Recent Drive Against Small Tax-Payer Disappointing in Revenue By CHARLES P. STEWART Central Press Staff Writer Washington, March 17. —A couple of years ago the internal revenue bureau arrived at the conclusion that Uncle Sam could scoop in a snug sum of money by rounding up small evasions of income tax payments.. It was recogniztd that collections, on account of these supposed dere lictions, would amount to only a little in each individual case, hut it was cal culated that the total, the pewee pay ers being relatively so numerous, and presumably being as evasive, in pro (Continued on Page Four.) AND S BEFORE Pledges Growers To Limit 1936 Crop to 70 Percent of Base Acreage Un der Old AAA NEAR S4O AN ACRE RENTAL /PROMISED State College Extension Ser vice To Give Its Full Coop eration in Signinjg, With Virgini, South Carolina and Georgia Joining In; Courity Agents Lead Raleigh, March 17.—(AP)—Forty- six North Carolina farm leaders met with Governor Ehringhaus this after noon to lay plans to reduce the 1936 fluercured tobacco crop in the State. Governor Ehringhaus outlined the purpose of the gathering to discuss ways and means to control production and presented a tentative voluntary contract to be signed by growers to limit their crop to 70 percent of the base acreage determined by the AAA. Dean I. O, Schaub, of N. C. State College, outlined plans for a Statewide campaign to be started next week by county agents in behalf of the new Federal soil conservation program. County agents will meet here Tues day to study, the plan, and starting Thursday, seven teams will sweep the state to explain it to farmers. The proposal, Dean Schaub said, will be to pay from around five cents a pound, or from $35 to S4O an acre, as rental for land changed from to bacco production to soil impi’ovement crops. ; Complete cooperation of the exten sion service in the effort to control the acreage was assured by the dean. The contract Governor Ehringhaus presented contained a stipulation growers would not purposely increase the number of pounds grown per acre by close planting or excessive use of fertilized. ' Under the contract proposed by the (Continued on Page Three.) Coughlin Church Structure Burned In Morning Blaze Royal Oak, Mich., March 17. (AP) Fir© destroyed Father Charles E. Coughlin’s original Shrine of the Little Flower, a mod esfc frame structure, today. The imposing new half million dollar Catholic shrine as yet not com plete, was not damaged. Father Coughlin, at the fire him self, estimated the loss at $30,000. He and firemen were agreed that faulty wiring was the cause. Two Rolya! Oak fire companies, given assistance from neighboring Birmingham, brought the fire un der control, but not before 75- foot high flames had threatened to spread to the nearby shrine from which Father Coughlin makes his weekly radio broad casts. Heavy Gain In Incomes Collections Washington, March 17.—(AP) — Income tax collections of $2Bl, 758,032 for the first 17 days of March, representing a gain of 46.4 percent over the corresponding period last year, were reported to day by the Treasury. The receipts, which included first installments on 1935 incomes, boosted the total of income tax collections for the year to $361,- 428,990, or 45.6 percent greater than last year. Virtually all collection districts, in preliminary telegraphic reports to the Treasury, announced gains over last year. OUR WEATHER MAN FOR NORTH CAROLINA. Cloudy, snow or rain in west and rain in east portion this aft ernoon; much colder tonight; Wednesday fair. FRANCE TAKES APPEAL TO THE KING HIMSELF TO SA VE PEACE PACT FLAGPOLE FALLS 13 STORIES, 2 DIE The fallen flagpole and two of the injured (one of them dying later) ’A 100-foot flagpole, weighing more than a ton, toppled 18 stories from the roof of a bank building in Peoria, 111., killing one pedes trian, fatally injuring another and wounding three others on the sidewalk below. Parts of the flagpole (it crashed against the side of the building as it fell, breaking into several pieces) are shown top. with two of the injured, one of whom died later, below. Condon, Home From Visit To Panama, Ready To Talk With Gov. Harold Hoffman But Sees No Reason Why H e Should Go to New Jersey, Aged Educator Says of Hauptmann Case; Declines To Elaborate on His Plans at Last Minute New York, March 17 (AP) —Dr. John F. Condon, returning to New York from a Panama vacation, was quoted by a fellow passenger on the liner Santa Inez today as being “very” willing to discuss the Lindbergh case with Governor Harold G. Hoffman of New Jer sey at Dr. Condon’s own Bronx home. “Jafsie” himself declined any com ment whatever on the last month’s ef forts of Bruno Richard Hauptmann to escape execution for the kidnap-mur der of the Lindbergh baby. Glad to Greet Hoffman But the Rev. Henry Beets, director of the Presbyterian Mission in South America, quoted him as having said: “I will be very glad to receive Gov Begin Probe Os A. T. & T. Operations Walter Gifford, Pres ident Says He Gets Salary in Excess of $200,000 Washington, March 17. —(AP) —Tes- timony that the American Telephone & Tc-legraph Company is the world’s largest commercial enterprise, con trolling-85 percent of the nation’s tele phone business, and enjoying a “vir tual monopoly,” was given the Com munications Commission today by (Continued on Page Three.) PUBLISHED EVERY AFTERNOON EXCEPT SUNDAY. ernor Hoffman at my home in the Bronx, which should be a very lovely place, no wthat spring is here, and give him a good dinner and talk with him over the cigars as long as he pleases, but I don’t see any reason why I should go to New Jersey.” Won’t Amplify The gray-haired educator, closeted in his home, refused consistently to amplify his earliest statements of “no comment,” made when he and his daughter were met on the ship by newspaper men. “Will you confer with Governor Hoffman?” he was asked and “Will you accede to the request of Haupt mann for a death house interview?” He merely shook his head and re mained silent. HOOVER IS WITHOUT CONVENTION ROOMS Other Candidates, How ever, Have Reservations for Cleveland Meet By LESLIE EICHEL Central Press Staff Writer Cleveland, 0., March 17. —Former President Hoover has made no hotel reservations for attendance at the Re publican national convention. But Governor Landon of Kansa.s, Colonel Knox of Chicago and Senator Vanden berg of Michigan have. Undoubtedly Senator Borah of Idaho, will be hand. Mr. Hoover seemed to disappear as a potential nominee when Governor Merriam of his home state of Cali fornia declared for Governor Landon. Matters are moving slowly toward arrangements for the Cleveland con vention. Chairman Farley’s wheels (Continued on Page Four.) 8' PAGES TODAY FIVE CENTS COPY Little Hope of United Ac tion Expected in Inform ed Sources in Lon don, However HITLER PROPOSALS AGAIN ARE TALKED Grave Differences of Opin ion Exist Over Discussions of Reich’s Peace Offer; Adjournment Taken In Hope of Patching Up Dif ferences of Views London, March 17 (AP) French sources announced that Foreign Minister Pierre-Flan din, at an audience with King Edward VIII today, would make a “last appeal” to Britain to honor its Locarno obligations. Although the audience was describ ed officially as “a courtesy visit,” a French spokesman said “that does not prevent an important exchange of opinion from taking place.” May Propose Sanctions Flandin, it was understood might press for application of economic and financial sanctions against Germany for the Reich occupation of the Rhine land March 7 in violation of the Lo carno and Versailles treaties. Informed sources said, however, there was little hope of united action. British, French, Belgian and Italian representatives reassembled at the for eign office to continue their discus sions of the new security proposals Adolf Hitler extended simultaneously with his breaking of the old pacts and to study what should be done about his denunciation of the Locarno treaty. Grave Differences The representatives of the Locarno Continued on Page Three.) Litvinoff Bitter In Attacks Made Against Germans London, March 17 (AP) — For eign Commissar Maxim Litvinoff of Russia attacked Reichfuehrer Hitler violently in a speech in the League of Nations Council tonight. The Russian diplomat charged that Hitler was using his oft stated fear of Russia “merely as a smoke screen for the aggression which is being prepared against other states.” Hitler Will Send Envoy To Meeting Accepts Invitation for Germany T o Have Representa tive at London London, March 17 (AP) Reichfuehrer Hitler today ac cepted an invitation by the Lea gue of Nations Council to dis cuss the international crisis brought about by his placing an army back in the Rhineland. The League secretariat received a telegram from the German govern ment announcing that General Joac him von Ribbentrop, Hitler’s right hand diplomat, would represent Ger many at the council tables. Hitler’s answer to the League invi tation came in the midst of a critical day. Great Britain, which seeks to study Hitler’s proposals for peace, had been almost in a deadlock with France, (Continued on F«ge Three.)
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