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HENDERSON GATEWAY TO CENTRAL CAROLINA TWENTY-THIRD YEAR HOOSEVELT SEES REDUCED DEFICIT FOR FISCAL YEAR With Largest Peace-Time Revenue in History, Shortage Will Be About 2 Billions DROUGHT NEED MAY HIKE RELIEF TOTAL But Even That Won’t Be More Than $500,000,000, President’s Forecast States; Present Fiscal Year’s Re ceipts Estimated at $5,655,- 839,000 Sum ■ W Washington, Sept. 2. —(AP) —Pre- dicting a new peak in the govern ment's peace-time income, President Roosevelt’s revised budget summary today forecast a $2,097,000,000 deficit for the current fiscal year. This figure, fixed in a re-check of earlier budget estimates late yester day, compared with $4,764,000,000 last year; $3,575,000,000 in 1935 and $3,- 989,000.000 in 1934. The President’s relief estimates had both favorable and unfavorable as pects. Although saying that unem ployed are steadily being absorbed in to industry, he balanced this with assertions that "substantial” expen ditures would be necessary for drought relief and that it will be sev eral months before it can be deter mined whether work relief rolls can be cut sufficiently to bring them with in the limit of present available funds Even should additional appropria tions be found necessary, however, Mr. Roosevelt said, these would total less than $500,000,000. Estimating receipts at $5,655,839,000 for the year ending next June 30, the chief executive pointed out this was a net increase of $12,000,000 over his original budget estimates last Jan uary, despite $668,000,000 of unexpect ed losses in revenue through invalida tion of special taxes under the agri cultural adjustment act and other causts. SUPPORTASKED OF LOSIMDIDATES McDonald and Graham Managers Both Pledge Fight for Ticket Raleigh, Sept. 2 (AP) —State Demo cratic headquarters today requested all candidates who lost in the recent primaries to work for the election in November of the party’s nominees. J. Wallace Winborne, State chair man, said he expected Dr. Ralph W. McDonald, Sandy Graham and John A. Mcßae, defeated in the gubernato rial race, to fight side by side for the party with the nominee, Clyde R- Hoey. W. L. Lumpkin, manager of the McDonald campaign, and National Committeeman A. D. Folger, who managed the Graham fight, both vis ited Chairman Winborne this morn ing and tendered their services. INew Venire Needed For Legion Jury First Panel of 92 lo Be Exhausted Be fore Testimony Is Ready To Begin Detroit, Mich., Sept. 2. —(AP)— A second panel of 100 veniremen was summoned in circuit court today as selection of a jury to try ten men charged with the Black Legion execu tion of Charles A. Poole, went slowly forward. The niew panel was called when it appeared the first panel of 92 would be exhausted before a jury was ob tained. Administrative officials in adjoin ing Oakland county, where 86 public officials and employees were named by Circuit Judge George B. Hartrick as having joined the Black Legion, perused his grand jury report today to determine whether the cult mem bers should lose their positions. Governor Frank D. Fitzgerald said Jbe would recommend dismissal of any of the 35 State employees named in the report who were found to be active members of the secret order. Two more Detroiters of 21 indicted for arson by the grand jury in an alleged Black Legion plot to burn a Communist camp were arrested here. IHintiU'rsmt tlttiht Utsuafrh LEASED WIRE SERVICE OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS. East Carolina Tobacco Well Above 1935 In Price Ranges Sourdough or Sovereign? “Lucky” Blackiet (left), prospector who offered the latest clue as to the whereabouts of Judge Crater, is now the center of a mystery of his own, on the strength of his resemblance to Emperor Franz Joseph of Austro- Hungary (right). A deputy sheriff is convinced that Blackiet is the miss ing Archduke Johann of Tuscany, who disappeared years ago. The missing Crown Prince is the same age as in-s grizzled prospector. He became next in line for the Austrian throne when his brother, Rudolph, was found dead in a hunting lodge, f Central Press) Japan Surpasses U. S. And Great Britain In Submarine Strength London, Sept. 2 (AP) — Japan, in a formal note today, announced it intended to retain 15,598 tons of submarines in excess of the United States and Great Britain. That will make Japanese sub marine strength one-third super ior to that of the other two naval powers. The Japanese move was taken in reply to Great Britain’s recent invocation of the Escalator clause of the London naval treaty of 1930, under which the British an nounced their intention of keep REBUILD ROAD IN NANTAHALA GORGE Approval GiveUi to Project For Relocation of Scenic Route l»**ll* (llniiiiti'h Rnmia. In The Sir Hotel, •tv .1 «\ IHSKKRVIU, Raleigh, Sept. 2.—Plans for relocat ing and rebuilding a portion of High way No. 19, formerly No. 10, which now runs along the Nantahala river through the Nantahala Gorge, have been approved as a result of an ag reement reached with the Nantahala Power Company under which it will pay part of the cost of building the new strip of highway which will be about 10 miles in length, Chairman Capus M. Waynick of the State High way and Public Works Commission, said today. The relocation of the pre sent highway along a new route away from the gorge and river is being made necessary by the plans of the power company to build a large dam in this section which would back up the waters of the Nantahala river and cause it to submerge the present highway, it was explained. The new stretch of road which will replace the present road which fol (Continued on Page Four.) Ehringhaus Will Delay Naming Os Noble Successor Raleigh, Sept. 2.—(AP)—Gover nor Ehringhaus said today it would probably be some days be fore he would name a successor to Dr. M. C. S. Noble, Jr., who late yesterday resigned as assis tant revenue commissioner. Noble will move to Greenville, S. C., to become executive secre tary of a Greenville county proj ect in social science sponsored by the General Education Board. In his letter of resignation, Noble told the governor that re venue collections of the State last fiscal ypar totalled $55,540,000, as compared with only $3,742,000 dur ing 1933-34, though the percent age cost of collection in 1935-36 was only 1.35 for the general fund and 1.30 for the highway fund. He also reported delinquent accounts and bad checks practically eli minated. ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA AND VIRGINIA ing 40,000 tons of over-age destroy ers in excess of the 150,000 tons allowed by the treaty. Under the treaty, British, the United States and Japan are al lowed 52,700 tons of submarines each. Under the Escalator clause any signatory to the treaty, feeling its national security to be jeo pardized, may increase its naval strength In any classification by notification to the other signers, who in turn are allowed to make proportionate increases. P/SS Blue Ridge Highway In Mt. Mitchell Vicinity Getting Under Way Daily Dlniiatch Bureau, In The Sir Walter Hotel, By o f. BASKF.ItVI 1,1. Raleigh, Sept. 2.—The actual con struction of 17.6 miles of the Blue Ridge Parkway is now assured in the Mt. Michell section as a result of the action of the National Park Service in awarding the contract for a second sector of 7.2 miles from Big Laurel Gap to Balsam Gap and the announce ment that bids would soon be called for on a third link of seven miles ex tending from Balsam Gap to Bee Tree Gap, it was pointed out today by Chairman Capus M. Waynick of the State Highway and Public Works Commission, following word from Washington that the two additional links had been approved. The first link in this particular sector of the parkway of 3.4 miles from Buck Creek Gap to Big Laurel Gap is now under construction and construction work on the second link on which the con tract has just been approved, is ex pected to be started within the next week or two. This second link of the parkway from Big Laurel to Balsam Gap crosses the present toll road from Black Mountain to Camp Alice and the top of Mt. Mitchell only a few miles fr6m Camp Alice, while the (Continued on Page Four.) MISS JAMIESON TO REPRESENT STATE Oxford Tobacconist’s Daughter To Be “Princess North Carolina” at South Boston Raleigh, Sept. 2. — (AP)—Gover nor Ehringhaus designated Miss Margaret Jamieson, of Oxford, to day to be “Princess North Caro lina” at the National Tobacco Festival in South Boston, Va., on September 10-10. Governor Peery of Virginia re quested the governor to name a representative from the State, saying Kentucky, South Carolina* Tennessee and Virginia would al so be represented. Miss Jamieson was May Queen at St. Mary’s School here this £ear. Her father, Andrew Jamie son, is a tobacconist. HENDERSON, N. C., WEDNESDAY AFTERNO ON, SEPTEMBER 2, 1936 Greenville Sold 978,176 Pounds for $22.66, Com pared With $17.17 Last Year WILSON AVERAGE IS UP BY FOUR CENTS Robersonville Reports $25.93, Farmville $23*79, With Kinston Estimated at 22 to 25 Cents for First Day’s Sale; Heavy Offer ings Handled Raleigh, Sept. 2 (AP)—-The sec ond day of tobacco sales brought lighter offerings on some New Bright Belt market today after opening prices yesterday, high er than last year, pleased grow ers. Sales supervisors at Goldsboro paid 132.066 pounds were sold there yesterday at $22.87 per hun dred, compared with 186,542 pounds on the opening dav last year at $18.57. A “very light” sec ond day break of around 30,000 pounds was reported, with prices estimated to be about the same as yesterday’s. At Rocky Mount 791,120 pounds were sold yesterday at $24.10 p(fr hundred. Upwards of 500,000 pounds were on the warehouse floors today. Official tabulations on the Wilson market disclosed today 984,972 pounds were sold yesterday at an average price of $23.56, netting receipts of $232,076.64. All floors were cleared yesterday and prices were reported stronger near the closing hours. A “fair sized” break today was report ed with prices ranging, from two to 60 cents a pound. At Smithfield 75,126 pounds were sold this morning at an average of $25.16 per hundred, farmers getting $18,901.70. Raleigh, Sept. 2.—(AP)—Opening day prices several cents a pound higher than those prevailing last year cheered New Bright Belt tobacco growers today. Sales at all the 14 markets had not been tabulated today, but available figures from yesterday’s sales indi cated a price average well above 20 cents. George L. Wainwright, sales super visor at Wilson, estimated sales in the ten warehouses there at 1,000,000 (Continued on Page Three.) DEMImSTS FOR FALL BUYING Corporate Tax May Not Be Levied if Landon Wins; Rails Pick Up By LESLIE EICHEL Central Press Staff Writer RETAIL MEN, interviewed at their counters, say they seldom have seen such a persistent, and increasing de mand for goods. This autumn and winter promise to break all records —especially in luxury goods. “People already are buying for Christmas,” one man at a jewelry counter in the highest-priced store in a city said. “A few years ago they waited till the last minute —or did not buy at all. “Fear has disappeared.’’ NOT RELISHED Trials of Black Legionnaires, begin ning August 31, in Detroit, are not relished by some. The Black Legionnaires are sup posed to be ready to impart a great deal of information, * tying up with politicians and a few others in the public eye. There has been a rumor, for ex (Continued on Page Three.) Highway Patrol Head Says Statewide Radio Is Long Step Forward Dally Dispatch Bureau, In The Sir Walter Hotel, By J. C. BASK ERVILL Raleigh, Sept. 2.—North Carolina has taken the biggest forward step since it started building hard-surfaced roads in deciding to install a State wide radio communications system, not only for the highway patrol, but for all the law enforcent agencies in the State, Captain Charles D. Far mer commander of the State High way Patrol, said today. Incidentally, Captain Farmer’s face has been wreathed in smiles ever since the Ad visory Budget Commission finally ap proved the expenditure of $160,000 to set up the Statewide radio system and thus saw his brain child, which hei has nursed and petted for yeans, be come a reality. For while others scof fed and said it could never be ob tained, Captain Farmer kept plugging Lung Yields Tooth «Sflpr y yy.-y . .*• oMl»flaaajSS»Bß» L : ;.v -.s’*. Little Elizabeth James* 8 (above)* of Toronto, Canada, is recovering after the extraction of a tooth from h er l un S in Philadelphia. Physicians m Toronto tried unsuccessfully to remove it, but the Philadelphia bronchoscope took it out as easily as a dentist pulls one. (Central Press) ROOSEVELT, LANDON MEEI AT DROUGHT PARLEY TOMORROW President and His Rival for Office Next Four Years Face Each Other In lowa WATER CONSERVING IS LANDON’S PLAN Was Urged by Him in 1934 Drought; Memorable Con ference To Be In Des Moines With Half Dozen Other Governors in Attend ance on Gathering Washington, Sept. 2. —(AP) —Pre- cipitating a Roosevelt-Landon meet ing on ground termed non-political by both a search for answers to the “worst drought” in climatological his tory again will center national in terest tomorrow. The great dry spell of 1936, offi cailly labelled the “worst” by the Weather Bureau in August, but since alleviated in some sections by rain, will bring the President, the Republi can presidential nominee and six other governors to a Des Moines con ference table. A survey of the mag nitude of the present problem, for which they seek an answer, today showed: A total of 1,092 counties in 23 states) on the Federal emergency list. A sun-burned corn crop officially estimated at more than 800,000,000 bushels under that oi last year. An army of farmers, reported at more than 116,000 by WPA, working on emergency relief projects. An initial expenditure of around $15,000,000 by three drought relief agencies with tens of millions more in prospect. President Roosevelt, heading east ward from Salt Lake City for the parley, had with him the report of his special drought committee, drawn after a tour through the heart of the drought iand. The committee recommended, a mong other things, the construction of thousands of small dams, the re moval of sub-marginal lands from commercial production, soil conserv ing practices, such as re-grassing, flood irrigation, long-term credit for farmers and crop insurance. Governor Landon, preparing at Continued on Page Two.) along for the State radio system as a means of reducing highway accidents and crime in North Carolina. The 1935 General Assembly finally passed a bill authorizing the installation of the system if and when the funds be came available, provided the gover nor and Advisory Budget Commission approved the expenditure. The money has been available for a year and a; half, but the budget commission did not take final action until Monday of this Week. “The people of North Carolina do not yet realize what an important step has been taken in the authori zation of this State radio communica tions system,” Captain Farmer said today. “It is the most important thing the State has done since it started (Continued on Page Three.) PUBLISHED EVERY AFTERNOON EXCEPT SUNDAY REBELS’ ARTILLERY OPENS NEW ATTACK ON IRUN DEFENSES Second Ickes Tragedy Wilmarth Ickes Informed by a physician he waa suffering from tuberculosis, Wil marth Ickes, stepson of the inter ior secretary, shot and killed him self /n the secretary’s home at Winnetka, 111., a Chicago suburb. Wilmarth was the son of the late Mrs. Harold L. Ickes and Prof. James Westfall Thompson, now a professor at the University of California. Mrs. Ickes was killed last year in an automobile acci dent in New Mexico. —Central Press COUGHLIN TARGET FOR FDRATTACKS Criticism* However, Neither Official Nor Eveln Semi- Official, Prelates Assert DETROIT PRIEST IS FREE TO CONTINUE Denial Is Made That Pope Pius Approved Completely . Activities of Coughlin; But Paper’s Criticism Does Not Mean Vatican Wholly Dis approves Vatican City, Sept. 2 (AP) The Osservatore Romano, authoritative Vatican organ, today publicly criti cized Father Charles E. Coughlin’s recent speech assailing President Roosevelt as “a liar and a betrayer. Prdlates, however, said '.Father Coughlin was free to continue his po litical activities, provided he does not denounce public authority. The Osservatore Romano editorial ly, which prelates said was not to be considered official or semi-official, stated: “In some American newspapers it has been said that when Bishop Gal lagher (Bishop Michael J. Gallagher of Detroit) was in Rome he was giv en to understand the holy see approv ed completely the activities of Fath er Coughlin. “That is not true. Bishop Gallagh er knows very well what was said to him on that matter. “It is extremely notable that an orator offends when he inveighs against persons who represent sup reme social authority, with the evi dent danger of disturbing the respect due the authorities themselves by the people. “The inconvenience is greater as well as more evident, when the speak er is a priest.” In high Vatican circles it was stressed the Osservatore comment did not mean the Vatican whoi’v disap proves of the Detroit radio priest. OURMTATHEPMAN FOB NORTH CAROLINA. Mostly cloudy, showers in west portion tonight and in north and west portions Thursday. 8 PAGES TODAY FIVE CENTS COPY Heavy Guns Swung Into Ac tion by Both Sides in Continuing Battle in the North MADRID LOYALISTS DEFY AIR RAIDERS Socialist “Strong Man” De clares Fascist Rebels Have Lost Confidence and That “War Is Now Stationary”; Government Forces To At tack Oviedo (By The Associated Press.) Fascist rebels hurled artillery fire anew today against embattled de fenders of Irun, pushed to a last sin gle line of defense while 100,000 gov ernment militiamen shouted defiance at rebel air raiders from the streets of Madrid. The militiamen at Madrid marching through streets bombarded almost daily since last Friday night, raised clenched fists at the rebel salute in graphic defiance of the rebel threat: The battle for Irun renewed with lifting of a fog. Machine gunners loosed relentless fire. Heavy artillery was swung into play by both sides. Government militiamen, holding the Bay of Biscay city near the French ■border, were cheered by news that a new airdrome at nearby San Sebas tian was being rushed to completion as a base for Madrid’s war planes. Only the fog, government leaders said, frustrated a “final” assault on the long-besieged rebel city of Oviedo in the northern part of the country. In Madrid, where the government said anti-aircraft guns and plane de tectors had thus far balked impor tant success for rebel air raiders, of ficials announced victorious sorties by government planes on several in surgent strongholds. Indaletio Prieto, Socialist “strong man”, declared the Fascist rebels had lost confidence and “the war is now stationary.” 2Columbus Girls Given Farm Terms Whitsville, Sept. 2.—(AP)—Grace and Glenn Fowler, sisters in their teens, who were reported victims of a night riding band some months ago, pleaded guilty to charges of prostitu tion today and were sentenced to in determinate periods in the women’s farm colony near Kinston. Another sister, Karolyn, who also said she wag flogged, was ordered to appear in juevnile court on a si milar charge. She is under 16. The Columbus county grand jury examined two score witnesses last week in an investigation of the al leged actiaities of the night riding band, tut adjourned without return ing any indictments. Rebels Take IrunSuburbs In Mad Dash Diplomats Seek End Os Civil War To Avoid General Eu ropean Warfare (By The Associated Press) Determined waves of rebel troops stormed and captured gov ernment trenches outside of Irun today, gaining a clear path to the suburbs of that besieged north ern Spanish city. But at Madrid the Socialist gov ernment announced its fliers had found anil destroyed si secret air drome from which the Fascist rebels have been conducting ae rial raids on the capital. At Hendaye, France, Daniel Gar cia Msmsilla, the Argentine am bassador to the Spanish capital, said tonight foreign diplomats sic credited to Madrid will appeal for a cessation of hostilities in Spain. “To end the conflict in Spain is the only way to prevent si world war,” Garcia MansiUa declared. Behobia, suburb of Irun, was evacuated and the retreating de fender! blew up the road into the place with dynamite, and one re port said the rebels had reached the gates of Behobia.
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