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HENDERSON GATEWAY TO CENTRAL CAROLINA TWENTY-THIRD YEAR LOYALISTS START RETREAT BEFORE HANBO Estimate 400,000 Pounds Tobacco Already In Town SEASON 10 START TUESDAY MORNING ON DOUBLE SALES Warehouses Filling For Opening in Middle Belt Under Changed Sell ing System Here EXPECT BkTcROWD FOR INITIAL SALES For First Time In History Seven Warehouses Are Available for Service of Growers Patronizing Hen derson Market; All Is In Readiness An estimated 400,000 pounds of to bacco was on Henderson warehouse floors today for the start of the 1936- 37 selling season tomorrow morning in the Middle Belt area. Indications were that the market would be block ed for the opening day’s sale. Double sales will be inaugurated in Henderson with the first day’s sales and continue through the season. The two first sales will be at the Farmers and Planters warehouses. A limited time will be allotted for sales on the warehouse floors under a new system adopted for this season. In other words, a given warehouse will have only so much time for the service of the buyers in continuous straight selling. The usual big crowd of growers and business men will be on hand for the opening of the selling season tomor row, according to all indications. The houses with the first sales will get TContdnued on Paee Three). 9 Markets Os Belt To Begin Sale Raleigh, Sept. 21.—(AP)— Farmres over the North Carolina Middle Belt were happy today at prospects for good prices for their tobacco when sales start tomorrow. Warehouses at Durham, Louisburg, Oxford, Sanford, Aberdeen, Carthage, Henderson, Fuquay Springs and War renton were filling. From Oxford reports said growers were expected to offer more than 750, 000 pounds for opening sales. Offerings of good quality were fill ing the floors of Sanford warehouses, and reports said farmers in that area expected good prices. B. B. Saunders, warehouse manager of Aberdeen, estimated 200,000 pounds would be sold on the market there to morrow. Farmers in this, section de scribed their crop as the best in years. Prospects at Durham indicated more than 1,000,000 pounds would be on warehouse floors by the time sales begin tomorrow. The nine markets last year sold 107,985,000 pounds at an average price of 19.61 cents per pound. F ederal Aid To Croppers Is Proposed But Arkansas Gov ernor Says Com plete End of Ten ancy Is Dream Hot Springs, Ark., Sept. 21 (AP) Governor J. M. Futrelle proposed to day that the Federal government make it possible for the Souths share-croppers to purchase email farms of highly productive land. He told his farm tenancy commis sion that a “home-owning, home-liv ing people will give our country more real protection against foreign in vasion and conquest than the ex penditure of millions on our armies and navies.” The governor’s address, prepared (Continued on Page Three.) limitrrsmt Battu Btsptttrfr LEASEDWmR SERVICE OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS. Where TNT Is Blasting 1,700 Embattled Rebels The historic Alcazar, in Toledo, Spain, is shown above. Seventeen hundred determined rebel men, women and children for two months withstood shellfire and sniping in the ancient fortress. Loyalists made desperate efforts to bring out the women and children, but to no avail. Government forces finally mined the building, and even as the mines exploded the rebels manned machine guns to hold off charging government militiamen, (Central Press ) Ehringhaus, Bailey Going Places In This Campaign Roosevelt and Farley Have Greatest Confidence in Both and Will Use Them im Many States; Enmity at Home Is Strange Thing for Some Daily l)ift|iat<‘h Itiirenu, In the Sir Waiter Hotel. Raleigh, Sept. 21.—Governor Eh ringhaus and Senator Josiah William Bailey are going places this fall in the national campaign, according to Washington news, despite the repeat ed assaults on both. The individual acts of Senator Bailey in the Senate, some of which did not jibe with the presidential wishes, and the sundry mix-ups that Governor Ehringhau s had with Wash ington, nevertheless have turned neither against the success of the ticket. Senator Bailey thinks nothing could be more calamitous than the defeat of Roosevelt, and friends of Governor Ehringhaus declare that if Governor Landon is due the presi M’DONALD, LUMPKIN PARTNERSHIP SEEN Law and Politics Would Be Practiced; McDonald to Press Career Daily Dispatch Bureau, In the Sir Walter Hotel. the study of law will not interrupt Dr. Ralph W. McDonald’s political career, some of his friends are sur mising, and there are precedents for his procedure. Dr. McDonald is still handed 290,- 000 voters as though they were hi s by inheritance, and with that start old liners are warned not to get too gay. Thousands of those 212,000 McDonald votes undoubtedly were bandwagon fellows, in no sense crusaders. These will follow him if he appears in future •nsurgencies to be ahead. That seems to be the way of North Carolina po litics. , The impression about Raleigh is that Dr. McDonald and William Lee Lumpkin, of Franklinton, will be the pair of attorneys who will form a partnership both for practice and po litics. They should make a famous duo. They would be expected to have offices in Raleigh and in Louisburg and around this fourth district would be organized the State s politics. Senator Marion Butler was not a lawyer when he began disturbing the Democrats in 1892 and finished the job in 1894 by getting himself elected to the Senate in the legislature of 1895. During that six years in the United States Senate he studied law. He made a profound argument a gainst the Constitutional amendment (Continued on Page Four.) ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA AND VIRGINIA dency on his governorship of Kan sas, Governor Ehringhaus might be accorded it at least two successive terms on his record as North Caro lina’s executive. Senator Bailey once led North Car olina into prohibition. He helped to dry a double score of places by local option. When the State came to con sider Statewide prohibition he regard ed it a mistake to dry places by State action that did not desire to be dried. He would wait. But when the party and the State chose to go dry by State vote, he voted dry. He took the same position in the nation. When the State had to vote (Continued on Page Three.) ELECTION INMAINIT Democrats Expected State and G. O. P. Hoped for Larger Majority By CHARLES P. STEWART Central Press Staff Writer Washington, Sept. 21.—Although spokesmen for both major political parties continue to express great sat isfaction with the Maine election re sult, the fact is that neither party management was overly pleased by it. Discussing it confidentially, not as “spokesmen,” they tell why. The Republican majority was not large enough to realize G. O. P. (Continued on Page Four.) New Storm Due To Hit Carolinas Jacksonville, Fla., Sept. 21 (AF)— The Weather Bureau warned today that a tropical storm of "rather small diameter,” but about hurricane force” is moving northwestward through the Atlantic Ocean about 575 miles east of Florida. Meteorologists here said the new storm “is small compared to the one of last week,” but picked up near (Continued on Page Eight.) HENDERSON, N. C., MONDAY, AFTERNOO SEPTEMBER 21, 1936 toleagueSter But Assembly Will Probably Deny Seats to Ethiopian Delegates Geneva, Sept. 21. (AP) With Haile Selassie flying to Geneva in an attempt to protect the rights of his lost kingdom, a League of Nations credentials committee met today to decide whether Ethiopia is still en titled to sit on the Assembly. The Assembly itself adjourned to await the decision of the committee, which most of the members believed would be a majority vote against seating the Ethiopians, on the ground Selassie no longer i s a reigning ruler. The opening session of the 17th As sembly heard from Manuel Rivas Vicuna, of Chile, a feverent appeal to “avoid war at any cost.” He characterized this year as “cru cial beyond all others to the destinies of mankind.” Speed Plans For Insuring Farm Crops Longtime Program Resources of Great Plains Studied Washington, Sept. 21 (AP)—Acting under a mandate from President Roosevelt, officials speeded plans to day for an “ever normal granary” system of crop insurance, and a long time program designed to combat drought on the great plains. Before departing from Washing ton to attend his mother’s 82nd birth day party at Hyde Park, N. Y., the President announced the appointment of two committees to work out a “permanent drought and land use program” for submission to the next Congress, Secretary Wallace heads the new (Continued on Page Four.) FOB NORTH CAROLINA. Generally fair tonight and Tuesday. • All But 14 Government Classes Os Taxes Show Gains Past Two Months Aggregate of $75,000,000 Rise in Revenue Receipts for Current Fiscal Year CAPITAL STOCK TAX HAS BIGGEST GAINS But Liquor and Tobacco Ex cises Also Show Heavy In creases; Gains Shown De spite Elimination of Agri cultural Adjustment Taxes By Court Ruling Washington, Sept. 21 (AP) —In- creases in all but 14 of 68 classifica tions of Federal taxes were shown to day to have pushed internal revenue receipts for the first two months of this fiscal year $75,000,000 over the corresponding 1935 period. Receipts for July and August this year were set at $542,352,774.75, com pared with $466,600,853.28 for the pe riod a year ago. This increase occur red even though agricultural adjust ment taxes, which provided $28,000,- 000 in the two 1935 months were eli minated under a Supreme Court de cision last January. Largest receipts from a single levy were listed under the capital stock tax, with $109,428,128.44 for the 1936 period, compared with $85,380,056.30 in 1935. Liquor tax receipts increased sub stantially, being listed at $111,927,807,- 44 and $91,456,283.18 for the 1936 and 1935 periods, respectively. Aggregate tobacco tax receipts like wise pointed upward from $88,334,- 427.08 to $97,539,912.62. Mr. Hearst Defending His Stand New York, Sept. 21—(AP)—William Randolph Hearst, 73-year-old operator of 25 newspapers, published today "a reply to the President” in which he said he had shown Mr. Roosevelt re ceives “the support of enemies of the American system of government.” The thousand-word statement was cabled by the vacationing Hearst from Amsterdam a day after the White House, in a statement, said “a certain notorious newspaper pub lisher” was attempting to make it ap pear the President passively accepts the <sup<|oirt of alien organizations hostile to the American form of gov ernment.” The memorandum said “such ar ticles are conceived in malice and born of political spite.” Heart’s reply fallowed his news continued on Page Four.) LAWYERS 10 PRESS FOR MORE JUDGES Name Committee To Work for Proposed Supreme Court Amendment Dally Dispatrh Bureau, In the Sir Walter Hotel. Raleigh, Sept. 21.—Under the chair manship of Charles G. Rose, of Fay etteville, a bar committee has or ganized to push the constitutional amendment providing for an increase in memberships on the Supreme Court bench from five to seven. This change would have been In cluded in the new Constitution of 1933, which was doomed to a bitter beating, had the proposals gone to popular election. The profession was far from unity on the subject. Some members of the bench were opposed to the Constitution presented, though probably not more than one of them would have objected even to the form of the amendment providing the lar ger court. The committee is composed of Char les G. Rose, chairman; Charles H. Gover, of Charlotte; Fred S. Hutchins, of Winston-Salem; Kenneth C. Royall of Goldsboro and Raleigh; Thomas (Continued on Page Three.) PUBLISHED EVERY AFTERNOON EXCEPT SUNDAY. Fish Store to Opera? 'I , Hi Sj V Mrs. Mary Witte Hailed as a “natural genius” by a maestro who heard her singing as she worked in her husband’* fish market at Stroudsburg, Pa., Mrs. Mary Witte plans to seek a career in grand opera. Mrs. Witte announced she would take vocal lessons in Ne'w York follow ing a talk with Giacomo Bourg, who contends her ability “will make her one of the foremost singers of tragic roles.’* Legion Head Urges Peace As Big Goal Murphy Tells Le gion War May Be Ended Because No body Left T 0 Fight Cleveland, Sept. 21 ’) —National Commander Ray M ay voiced a plea for universal today as thousands of uniformed World War veterans cheered him at the opening session of the 18th national conven tion of the American Legion. “America will never start a war,” i Murphy said, “but America cannot disarm in the light of existing con ditions. “It is a tragic thought that the ‘war to end war,’ which we fought in 1917 and 1918, was in truth the aw ful beginning of a series of conflicts that may end wars only because there are no longer resources to car ry them on, no longer men to fight, no longer the will to live.” The military blare of trumpets and the lively beat of drums echoed through Cleveland’s public hall as the assembly gathered. Convention officials predicted a peak attendance of 200,000. SIX INDICTED FOR FAILING TO TESTIFY Officials of Railway Audit and In spection Service To Be Haled Before Court Washington, Sept. 21 (AP)—Six of ficials of the Railway Audit and In spection Service were indicted today for their refusal to testify August 21 before the La Follette senatorial committee investigating alleged civil liberties violations in labor disputes. Each official was separately charg ed with “contumacy” on two counts, under a law passed at the last ses sion oT Congress. They were accus ed of “wilfully, knowingly and un lawfully failing to appear at the com mittee’s hearing,” as secondly, of “failing to produce records subpoena ed by the investigators.” Those indicted were W. W. Groves, president of the industrial dective firm; W. Boone Groves, vice-presi ddnt; James E. Blair, secretary-treas urer, and J. C. Boyer, operative, all ,of Pittsburgh. , __ _ O PAGES O TODAY FIVE CENTS COPY byfeSupon ALCAZAR IMMINENT Government (Commanders Alarmed at Horrible Death Toll Among Their Own Soldiers FIVE GOVERNMENT SHIPS SURRENDER Run Up White Flag and Join Insurgents in Moroc co, Says Report; Moors Lead Assault on Govern ment Troops, and Latter’s Bombing Planes Are Futile (By The Associated Press.) Government militiamen retreated today before a relentless charge of Moorish legionnaires on Maqueda, highway junction 40 miles from Madrid. of other government sol diers, meanwhile, organized into bombing squads, surrounded the shell leveled Alcazar in Toledo for a de cisive assault on the insurgents be sieged in the ruins of the fortfied palace. The Moors drove forward near Ma queda, behind a shield of machine gun bullets, which left bodies of gov ernment troops in their path. Government bombing planes sought vainly to scatter the advancing Fas cists, and General Jose Asensio, com mander of all government troops in. central Spain, ordered hasty entrench ments dug for a pitched battle. A radio appeal summoned all govern ment reserves to their barracks to await orders. Insurgents in the Alcazar still sent a steady stream of machine gun bul lets and grenades from behind the dynamite-shattered walls. Govern ment commanders, alarmed at the increasing death toll in their own ranks, ordered a ‘‘no quarter” infan try charge. A dispatch to the newspaper Diario Noticias in Lisbon, Portugal, said the Spanish government cruiser Jaime I and three destroyers and a submarine had hoisted a white flag off Tangier and had proceeded to insurgent-held Ceuta, Spanish Morocco. Rebel Push Not Halted ByFederals Talavera de la Reina, Spain, Sept. i 2L —(AP) —(Delayed, by dourier to Franco-Spanish Border, Sept- 21. Massed forces of the Spanish govern ment failed today to halt the drive of General Francisco Franco’s insur gent army menacing Madrid along the main Maqueda highway. Split into four columns, the insur gents expected to seize Maqueda, key point on the highway, in a matter of days, and then match down the 45 miles of excellent roadway to Madrid. Government reinforcements con stantly were coming up, but the do (Continued on Page Three.) Landon Is For Crops Insurance Topeka, Kans., Sept. 21 (AP) —Gov- ernor Alf. M. Landon said today that the question of crop insurance should be given the “fullest attention.” The Republican presidential candi date took this position in a two para graph statement, which he said was an excerpt from tomorrow’s Des Moines farm speech. If was given to newsmen when they asked comment on President Roosevelt’s anounce ment of the appointment of commit tees to work out a crop insurance plan leading to “better, permanent protection against drought.” Landon said the speech excerpt w;ould remain in his address tomor row night. It follows: “I am going to mention a subject that is in neither platform—crop in surance. It is a question in Which (Continued on Page Eight.)
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