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HENDERSON GATEWAY TO CENTRAL CAROLINA TWENTY-THIRD YEAR Border Belt Tobacco Still Selling High As Sales Are Held Second Day Os Season OFFERINGS TAKEN AT RAPID CLIP AS ON THE FIRST DAY Average Reported Well In Advance of Opening Sales Last Year On Most Markets BELT AVERAGE PUT AROUND 25 CENTS Timmonsville Has Biggest Break in Its History for Opening, With Average $24.52; Price High As 85 Cents as Whiteville Gets Million Pounds Florence, S. C., Aug. 14—(AP)—To bacco sales continued at a rapid clip today in the 16 Carolinas “border beit ’ markets, with prices averaging as good or better than last year on some and general satisfaction prevailing. I. A. Barnes, supervisor of sales, said 824.290 pounds were sold on the Fairmont, N. C., market during yes terday’s opening auctions. It brought $177,083.46 for an average of $21.48. At Dillon auctioneers still were busy selling the opening day’s offerings as thousands of pounds more were brought to the warehouses. * Estimates said approximately half of the offerings thus far were com mon first pullings. The higher grades were selling up to $45 per hundred, with medium quality leaf bringing slightly higher prices than in 1935. Prices were estimated to average a round 25 cents a pound. Estimates from Conway said ap proximately 100,000 pounds there was being sold at about the same prices as were paid yesterday, Timmonsville reported the biggest opening day break since 1929, both in poundage and prices. A total of 352,- 456 pounds sold at an average of $24,- 52 per hundred. This was 4 1-2 cents a pound better than last year’s prices. Continued on Page Two.) 10,000 See Hanging In Owensboro Owensboro, Ky., Aug. 14 (AP) Souvenir hunters ripped the hang man’s hood from the face of Rainey Bethea immediately after the year-old Negro was hanged here to day before a huge throng for assault upon a 70-year-old white woman. Bethea still breathed when a few persons from the crowd rushed the four-foot wire enclosure about the scaffold and scrambled for fragments as mementoes of the spectacle. Ihe crowd, estimated at upwards of 10,000 was for the most partr orderly, except for a few hqpt.s during administra tion of the last rites by a priest. Mrs. Florence Thompson, sheriff, who directed preparations for the hanging, staged in a three-acre lot, left to Arthur Hash, former Louisville policeman, the throwing of the trig ger, which dropped the Negro to his death. She did not appear publicly. The hanging climaxed a night of excitement in Owensboro, whose nor mal 25,000 population was swelled by many thousands from Indiana, Illi nois and surrounding Kentucky coun ties, lured by the first public hanging ever held in this county. Stock Up On Goods Now, Is Advice From Babson Effect of Drought Sure To Bring Higher Food Prices, Which Will Force Other Necessities Up With Them; Plan Now To Build, Economist Advises BY KOGKR W. BABSON, Copyright 1936, Publishers Financial Bureau, Inc. Babson Park, Mass., Aug. 14.—Food prices this winter may knock budget estimates into a cocked-hat. The drought has really caught the United States short and we have little carry over from last year’s harvest to fall back on. Prospects of one of the smallest corn crops on record have already created a big stir in the Chi cago grain pit and the fun has just begun, for I believe that we may still be feeling the effects of this farm dis aster as late as 1938. The focal point, Gs course, will be rising living costs lirniicrsmi Daily IHspafdr ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA AND VIRGINIA LEASED WIRE SERVICE OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS. GRASSHOPPERS HAD MEAL HERE A field on a farm near Blackwell, Okla.—stripped by ’hoppers This is a corn field. Or rather, it was—before the grasshoppers cleaned it out. Scenes like this, taken on the J. O. Godwin farm in the Chikaskia river valley near Blackwel), Okla., are common in Oklahoma and Kansas. —Central Press Three Dead In Burning Army Plane Lone Survivor Bails Out But Is Too Frightened To Give Any Explanation New Kent Court House, Va., Aug. 14.—t-(AP) — : An army plane caught fire in flight and crashed on a farm near here last night and killed three of its crew of four. The fourth man jumped to safety with a parachute. A board of investigation composed of Langley Field officers was en route here • The cause of the fire and crash could not be learned immediately. The one survivor was “shaky” after his narrow escape and was not able to give many details. He said he landed with his parachute about 300 yards from the spot where the plane struck and clashed to the burning wreck. He said ihe heat was so intense, however, that he could not reach the crew. Trotzky Blamed In Anti-Soviet Plot Moscow, Aug. 14. AP) —Dis- covery of a plot directly attribut ed to the exiled Leon Trotzky and directed against 'leaders of the Soviet regime, was announced by the government today. Sixteen persons were arrested. The announcement said Trotzky sent agents into Russia from abroad to carry out terroristic ac tivities. They will go on trial August 19. in general and food bills in parti cular. Food At Six-Year Peak Back in the spring of 1933 the theoretical cost of running a home was only two-thirds of the boom-day level. The cost of living today, how ever, is variously estimated as high as 20 per cent above the pit of the de pression. These living costs include the most essential items in the family budget. They give proper weight to those which are most important. Ob viously, food is the biggest expense for the vast majority of the 35,000,-* Continued on Page Five.) HENDERSON, N. C., FRIDAY AFTERNOON, AUGUST 14, 1936 PHIILIPS TO LOBBY ON U.N.C. PROGRAM Belief Is That Will Be Part of His Job In New Cha pel Hill Post Dnllr Dliimtrh Rnre^n. In The Sir Walter Hotel, Pv J 3. BA3RERVILL Raleigh, Aug. 14.—The appointment of Guy B. Phillips, superintendent of the Greensboro city schools, to the faculty of‘ the school of education in the Chapel Hill unit of the University of North Carolina, as announced yes terday, is regarded here is being sig nificant and as an unusually good m oye on the part of the university. In his new post as public relations officer of the university, it is expect ed that Phillips will prove very valu able to the university and the school of education in maintaining contact both with high school students and teachers over the State as well as with the General Assembly. The re lief in many circles here is that Phil lips should be able to inject some much needed new vitality into the UNC School of Education, and help materially to bring it out of the com parative seclusion it has occupied for several years. While the formal announcement of Mr. Phillips’ appointment stressed the fact that he would spend much of his time contacting high school students and teachers, evidently in an effort, to get more of the students to attend the University and more of the teach ers to do work in the school of educa tion or in the summer school, those (Continued on Page Eight.) ht i tt nnnmtnmn HALF MICA TOTAL Output Here Equals That of All of the Other States Combined Dally DlMputfh Tinrena. In The Sir Walter Hote*. ' R, J. C. BASKF.HVIJLJ. Raleigh, Aug. 14.—Mica valued at $231,151, more than that of all other sta'tes combined, was produced in. North Carolina in 1935, according to figures received by State Geologist H. J. Bryson from the U. S. Bureau of Mines. Total production of all types of mica in the United States last year, the report reveals, amounted to $405,- 101 New Hampshire, the only other state for which the tabulation gives an individual report, showed an out put of ipica valued at only $19,062. North Carolina’s production of mica more than doubled in value in 1935 compared with the previous year when the total was only $98,170. In 1934 the total production in the Unit ed States was only $190,059, showing an increase of more than 100 per cent in an output of $405,101 in 1935. Scrap mica provided the greater (Continued on Page Three.) TfS years State Executive Committee To Meet In Raleigh To night To Make Its Selection HOEY’S PREFERENCE WILL BE RESPECTED Eastern Man Desired But None Found Suitable Who Could Sacrifice Time Ne cessary for Campaigns; Mrs. J. B. Spillman, Gran villle, to be Vice-Chairman Raleigh, Aug. 14.—(AP)—J. Wallce Winborne, of Marion, is slated to be re-elected State Democratic chairman and Mrs. J. B. Spillman, of Greenville, elected vice chairman when the State Democratic Executive Committee meets here tonight. Governor-Nominate Clyde R. Hoey announced from his home in Shelby that he desired Winborne to continue in office to direct the coming cam paign, and also announced he would ask for Mrs. Spillman’s election. DIFFICULT TO GET MAN FROM EASTERN CAROLINA iiiillv litviMiK'li Biirriiii In The Sir \V;iH«*r Hotel, 11, .1. C. lUSKERVIM. Raleigh, Aug. 14.—J. Wallace Win borne, of Marion, for the past four years chairman of the State Demo cratic Executive Committee, is the choice or Governor-Nominate Clyde R. Iloey for chairman of the committee for the coming four*years. According ly, Winborne will be re-elected chair man of the cojonjictec. for another four v n ar term when the committee meets here tonight at 8 o’clock to go through the formalities of electing a chairman. While-.'it elects its own chairman, the man nominated and elected as chairman is in reality ap pointed by the incoming governor, since custom and tradition decree that the committee elect whoever is de sired and designated by the Demo cratic nominee for governor. It is also expected that the commit tee will elect Mrs. J. Spillman, of Greenville, as vice chairman to suCP ceed Mrs. Charles W. Tillett, Jr., of Charlotte, who is now with the Na tional Democratic Committee in New York a s head of the women speakers bureau and one of the right-hand h elpers of Chairman Jim Farley. In. (Continued on Page Three.) Coughlin’s Convention Is Started U. S. Senator Holt, Democrat, West Va., Denounces U. S. Money System Cleveland, Ohio, Aug. 14 (AP)--The opening session of Rev. Charles E. Coughlin’s National Union for Social Justice convention cheered wildly to day an assertion by West Virginia’s Senator Bush D. Holt » youthful Senator Rush D. Holt that ' “the money changers have not been driven from the temple.” The 31-year-old senator, a Demo ; crat> making the keynote address of - the convention, brought delegates to their feet with this reference to the * sixth of Father Coughlin’s 16 points: (Continued on Page Eight.) Spanish Government Plans To Execute Rebels Blamed For Bombing Loyal Cities MAN AND BEAST VICTIMS OF FIRES Burned doe, top; Otto Kangas packs, below Forest fires, burning over parts of seven states in north central United States, have devastated wide areas, causing suffering to man and beast. At the top, a doe, burned to death, is seen lying in a woods near Brule, Wis. Below, Otto Kangas of Palo, Minn., piles his trailer with household belongings to flee a fire which a half hour later razed his house and barns and destroyed all his Livestock. New Compacts To Limit Poundages Raleigh, Aug. 14.—(AP) —E. F. Arnold, executive secretary of the North Carolina Farm Bureau Fed eration, said today proposed legis* lation for tobacco control under State compacts, now under consid eration, would include restriction of poundage and acreage, with a penalty imposed on excess pound age. and excess acreage which it is anticipated would make it unprofit able for any farmer to try to exceed either. C °mayseeSwar Heaven Help Winner In No vember, Is One View; Strategy of Anti’s By CHARLES P. STEWART Central Press Staff Writer Washington, Aug. 14—Disgruntled Democrats did, at their recent Detroit conference, exactly what long-head ed Republicans wanted them to do, in declaring their opposition to Pres ident Roosevelt hut refraining from an indorsement of Governor Dandon. It also was clever strategy on the disgruntled Democrats’ part, from their own standpoint. After all, they are experienced politicians. For one thing, the disgruntled folk would have split their own ranks if they had indorsed the Kansan. Sou thern anti-New Dealers, in particular objected (and they said so in Detroit) to proclaim themselves Republicans, even temporarily. It may be a mere fetish but they respect it. However, uncommitted by any formal resolu tion. one way or the other, they are at liberty to slide, individually, into a polling booth on Nov. 3 and cast a sec ret ballot apiece in accordance with their respective convictions. Another thing, the disgruntled ones propose, as they explained at their Continued on Page Two.) OUR VTATHEP MAN fob NORTH CAROLINA. Generally fair tonight; Saturday partly cloudy to unsettled. PUBLISHED EVERY AFTERNOON EXCEPT SUNDAY. 1,000 Die In Mass Killing By Fascists Rebels Execute Great Numbers, In cluding 100 Women; Cities Are in Flames Lisbon, Portugal, Aug. 14. (AP)—Miore than 1,000 govem me4.il militiamen, including 100 women died in a mass execution by rebel forces at \lmercralejo, a correspondent of the newspaper Diario Noticias reported today. Lisbon heard the city of Bada joz was in flames. The newspaper reports on the executions came from Rosai de la Frontiera. The town of Almercralejo is in Badejoze province, which is large ly in contrl of the rebels. The cap ital city itself is held by govern ment troops. W ES Other States Attracted by Armory and Agriculture Building Work . Dally Dispatch Bnream, In The Sir Walter Hotel, By J- C. BASKBRVIJL Raleigh, Aug. 14—North Carolina’s armory and agricultural building pro gram, as carried on through the Works Program Administration, is attracting notice among other states, according to communications received by State Administrator George W. Coan, Jr. The latest was from the Nevada WPA, which asked for a set of plans and specifications for arm ories and agricultural buildings such as are going up here. Approximately $425,000 will be spent when the 13 armories now un der construction in this State are completed, said Mr. Coan. This total includes funds put up by the respec tive cities as by the WPA. Durham which is contributing $20,000 to the cost of its $50,000 armory, will have the largest and most elaborate in the State, when it is completed. Other armories, which are being built at an average cost of about $31,- (Continued on Page Eight.) 8 PAGES TODAY FIVE CENTS COPY ss Meanwhile, Rebel Warship Lies Off-Shore in Bay of Biscay Ready To Open Fire MEN AND WOMEN IN GROUPS ARRESTED Two Hostages To Be Killed for Every One Wounded And Seven for Each Slain Person, One Government Authority Says; France Presses for Accord (By The Associated Press.) Hundreds of persona faced possible death before firing squads today in reprisal for rebel bombardment of government-held towns on the Spanish northern seaboard. Scores augmenting some 700 right ist hostages incarcerated in San Se bastian were seized by government militia in reply to a rebel threat to destroy San Sebastian and its neigh boring town of Irun. A rebel warship lay off-shore in the Bay of Biscay ready to open fire. San Sebastian armed itself against a re petition of of yesterday's rebel aerial bombardment, in which eight persons were reported killed. Both anen and women were arrest ed indiscriminately by the govern ment military. One government synq|pathizer an nounced “we will kill two hostages for each citizen wounded by rebel air at tacks and seven for each one killed. San Sebastian, bullet and shell-rid dled by almost four weeks of warfare between rebel Fascist® seeking to over throw Madrid’s socialist government, and troops loyal to the regime was hard-pressed for both food and water. The French government was un4«P --i Continued on Page Two.) Astor Case Is Declared Now Closed Los Angeles, Cal., Aug. 14.—>(AP) — Superior Judge Goodwin J. Knight formally declared the Mary Astor-Dr. Franklin Thorpe child custody case closed today. At the same time, Sheriff’s Deputy Ray Bogie announced he would search the home of Moss Hart, playwright, and collaborator with George S. Kauf man, in an effort to arrest Kaufman. Kaufman is sought on a bench war rant after hig failure to appear in court when subpoenaed by attorneys for Dr. Thorpe. Previously Joseph Anderson, Dr. Thorpe’s chief counsel, had said he would petition to reopen the case, in which a settlement was reached yes terday, giving custody of four-year-old Marylyn Thorpe to her actress mother for nine months of the year, and her father for th*ee months. Anderson was irked by a statement by Rowland Rich Woolley, attorney for Miss Astor, after the settlement was announced. “The court is powerless to prevent 111-advised and irresponsible state ments by litigants or their attorneys,” said Judge Knight. He said he would place Kaufman in jail if he can be found. Negro Held In Shooting Os Officer Halifax, Aug. 14.—(AP)—Deputy Sheriff J. Paul Speed said today a Negro he named as Peter Battle had been arrested in connection with the shooting of Deputy G. Frank Gray last night and had been hurried, to the State Prison at Raleigh for safe keeping. Speed said a son of Battle also had been arrested and placed in jail here. Physicians at Roanoke Rapidg said, meanwhile, Gray was resting com fortably, although his condition was critical. He was shot at close range with a shotgun when he went to serve a warrant. Speed said Battle lived on a farm near Weldon.
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