HENDERSON
GATEWAY TO
CENTRAL
CAROLINA
TWENTY-THIRD YEAR
Official Tobacco Average $26.3 7
MadridGovemmentßumored
Pondering Quick Surrender
To Advancing Fascist Army
FALL OF CAPITAL
AND ALSO TOLEDO
CLAIMEDIMINENT
Officers Say Government
Forces Hurled Back All
Along the Highway
To Madrid
CAPTURE BY STORM
IS PLAN OF FRANCO
Only Sporadic Government
Resistance Found In Some
Sections of Battlefront,
Rebel Chiefs Declare; Loy
alists To Stake All on
Final Stand
Fascist Headquarters, Taladera de
la Reina, Spain, Sept. 113. —AP) —The
fall of Madrid and Toledo was declar
ed imminent today by unsurgent lead
ers as the Fascists rapidly cut the
distance separating their armies from
both cities.
Officers said the government forces
were hurled back on both fronts after
suffering severe losses in battles at
Torrijos and along the Talai'era-
Madrid highway.
Reports were current the Madrid
government was debating the” advis
ability of surrender.
General Francisco Franco, insur
gent commander, however, prepared
to take Madrid by storm, probably
in a joint attack with forces of Gen
eral Emilia Mola, advancing out of
the Guadarramaj mountains north*
west of the capital.
A third insurgent column struck
out straight north of Maqueda, deter
mined to subdue the hostile regions
west of Madrid.
Only sporadic resistance, said Gen
eral Franco’s headquarters, had been
Continued on Page Five.)
MADISON’S DRIVERS
IN SCHOOLS STRIKE
Mon Who Pilot School Trucks for
Three County Schools De
mand Higher Salaries
Marshall, Sept. 23.—(AP)—Madison
County Superintendent of Schools J.
O. Wells disclosed today bus drivers
for three county schools had struck
for higher pay.
Wells said drivers of Mars Hill
high school walked out today, join
ing those of Marshall and Beach Glen
schools, who struck Monday.
He made the disclosure in announc
ing he would recommend to the
County Board of Commissioners at its
next meeting that pay of drivers be
increased from $9 to sl7 a month.
The drivers gave no indication they
would resume work until the pay in
crease is forthcoming.
Although the buses lay idle, the
schools continued to operate. Attend
ance at the Marshall school was re
ported as only about half normal.
The Marshall school employes seven
drivers, Beach Glen three and Mars
Hill four.
2 Brothers
HangedFor
One Killing
Dorchester, New Brunswick, Sept.
23.—'(AP) —Two brothers, Arthur Ban
nister, 19, and Daniel Bannister, 20,
were hanged together today for kill
ing a woodsman-squatter during the
kidnaping of his infant daughter for
their mother to use in the “baby
doll” extortion plot.
“It’s too tight; I can’t pray,” com
plained Daniel shortly before the
traps were sprung simultaneously
The brothers were convicted of
killing Philip Lake, 30-year-old woods
man. The crown charged the Bannis
ter brothers were responsible for
Lake's death during the abduction
of his four-months-old daughter last
January.
Mrs. May Bannister, their mother,
wanted the baby to aid in an alleged
extortion plot against two men who,
the crown charged, were under moral
obligation to her.
Hrttitersntt £latlii Disuatrlr
LEASED WIRE SERVICE OF
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS.
They Call Him a Simon Legree
Hr ■ .
The four Negro lads above charge Leroy Rogers (inset), Jasper County,
Miss., fanner, kidnaped them at gun’s point, forced them to pick cotton
on his plantation, and locked them into a corn crib at the end of their
* .r « -v— day’s work. Rogers is under arrest. ('Cwmtral Press)
Legion Will
Assemble In
N.Y.1n1937
League Committee
To Recommend
That; But Italy May
Leave as the Result
Cleveland, Sept. 23. —(AP) The
American Legion today selected New
York City for its 1937 convention city,
heard a plea for a veteran-labor al
liance against “foreign entangle
ments” with European “war activi
ties” and a warning to move cau
tiously in pressing for new benefits
for ex-service men.
Election of Harry W. Comery,
Topeka, Kansas, lawyer, as national
commander, was assured for tomor
row when his only remaining oppon
ent, Quimby Melton, Griffin, Ga.,
editor, conceded victory to the
Topekan.
Gotham’s spectacular bid for next
year’s meeting won a shouting ap
proval from the convention floor for
slagon “Up Fifth Avenue Again in
1937.”
William Green, president of the
American Federation of Labor, urged
Legionnaires to stand with organized
labor against American participation
in the “most perilous and distressing”
European cituation.
“We must not become involved in
a foreign war, in which we have ho
direct concern,” Green shouted to the
cheering delegates.
General Frank T. Hines, Veterans
Bureau administrator, warned Le
gionnaires against pressing imme
diately for further veterans benefits.
LANDONfWE IS
FREE AGRICULTURE
%
Cash Benefits and Conser
vation Payments Pro
mised lowa Growers
Des Moines, lowa, Sept. 23. (AP)
Governor Alf M. Landon stepped per
sonally into lowa Republican party
organization work today after a farm
address pledging “a free and indepen
dent agriculture.”
Cash benefits and conservation pay
ments were endorsed by the candidate
last night and the cheers of an au-
Continued on Page Five.)
ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA AND VIRGINIA
Ginnings Are Over
Last Year’s Total
Washington, Sept. 23 (AP) —Cot-
ton of this year’s growth ginned
prior to September 16 was re
ported by the Census Bureau to
day to have totalled 3,707,142 run
ning bales, counting 49,082 round
hales as half bales, and including
1,004 bales of American Egyptian.
Ginnings to that date last year
were 2,313,831 running bales.
Ginnings by states to September
16 included: North Carolina, 28,-
724.
COMMUTATION FOR
WALLACEB. DAVIS
Parole of Asheville Banker
Terminated By Full
Freedom Given
Daily Dispntch Bureau.
In the Sir Walter Hotel.
By .J. C. BASKERVIIjli
Raleigh, Sept. 23. The parole
granted to Wallace B. Davis, former
Asheville [banker convicted with
Colonel Luke Lea, of Nashville, Tenn.,
for violation of the State banking
laws in connection with the failure of
the Central Bank and Trust Com
pany, of Asheville, has been terminat
ed by Governor J. C. B. Ehringhaus
by commutation, it was learned here
today. The commutation terminating
the parole was issued August 29, by
Edwin Gill, commissioner of paroles,
but nothing was learned of the com
mutation until today.
This commutation officially ends
the parole and reduces Davis’ sen
tence to the time served, approximate
ly 2 1-2 years, instead of permitting
the original sentence of five to seven
years to stand. As long as the parole
was in effect, the governor at any
time could have revoked the parole
(Continued on Page Eight.)
OUR MATHER MAN
FOR NORTH CAROLINA.
Partly cloudy to fright i and
Thursday, followed by showers
Thursday night and in west por
tion Thursday afternoon; slight
ly warmer in extreme west por
tion tonight.
HENDERSON, N. C., WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON, SEPTEMBER 23, 1936 pdb “^c^SSn"™ b,,ooH
As Largest American Legion Convention Opened
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Ray Murphy, retiring commander, opens the 18th annual convention of the American Legion in Cleveland’s
Public Hall. Mayor Harold H. Burton of Cleveland, a war veteran, is at the right. The convention, with more
than 150,000 in attendance, is the largest in American hi story. --Central Press.
Japanese Naval Heads
Order Martial Law For
Part Os Shanghai City
Northern SejSStfan Interna
tional Settlement Under
Strict Control of
Invaders
THREE JAPANESE IN
REGION WERE SHOT
That Is Excuse for Landing
of Marines; International
Settlement Immediate 1 y
Calls 600 Russian Soldiers
To Duty Prepared for Any
Emergency
Shanghai, Sept. 24 —Thurs
day)— (AP) Japanese blue
coats, armed > for v/ar, held a
huge area of Shanghai’s inter
national settlement under mar
tial law early today in a grim
search for the gunmen who a
few hours before had shot three
Jajanese Marines, one of them
fatally.
Memories of Shanghai’s memorable
1932 siege came back vividly as the
reenforced Japanese Marines occu
pied the entire Hongkew area of the
settlement, where the shootings oc
curred, and spread their lines to the
creek, which cuts through the heart
of the foreign area.
(At Tokyo the naval minister, Ad
miral Osumi Nagano, assumed active
command of the fleet, upon receipt
of the news from Shanghai.)
Shanghai, China, Sept. 23.—(AP) —
Commanders of a Japanese naval
landing party declared martial law
tonight in a huge area of the northern
section of tht international settlement
Continued on Page Five.)
IWOBTG MINERAL
PROJECTS STARTED
Half Million Dollar Invest
ment Involved in Kaolin
Developments
Daily Dispatch Bureau,
In the Sir Walter Hotel.
By J. C. BASKERVILL
Raleigh, Sept. 23.—Two kaolin re
fining developments involving invest
ments totaling more than $500,000 are
underway in the Spruce Pine district
of North Carolina, in Mitchell and
Avery counties, State Geologist H. J.
Bryson announced today.
Construction has just been started,
the State Geologist said, on a plant
in Avery county on a mineral tract
of some 4,000 acres in that and Mit
chell county by Kaolin, Incorporated.
Principal officers of this concern are
Howard C. and Walter C. Maimon, of
(Continued on Page Four.)
Storms the Alcazar
iipii
Gen. Juan Ascensio (above) was a
colonel in the Spanish army before
the civil war. Now he is head of the
Loyalist forces besieging the rebels
entrenched in Toledo’s famous
Alcazar.
Ethiopians
May Remain
In Assembly
Harry W. Comery;
Topeka, Kans.,New
Commander; Warn
ed Aganst Demands
Geneva, Sept. 23.—(AP)—The cre
dentials committee of the League of
Nations decided tonight to recom
mend that delegates of Ethiopia con
tinue to sit in the Assembly, and re
versed a previous decision to submit
the question of Ethiopia’s sovereign
ty to the World Court.
The committee decided in favor of
[Ethiopian participation in the As
sembly because of existing doubt as
to the delegates’ credentials. The
Ethiopians, the committee held,
should be given the benefit of these
doubts.
Haile Selassie and h|s delegates
contend there still is an independent
government in Ethiopia despite the
annexation of the conquered king
dom by Fascist Italy. On the other
hand, the Italians have refused to
participate in the League’s proceed
ings until Ethiopia is erased from
membership.
League sources topenly expressed
fear that Italy not only will refuse
to return to the Assembly but may
even resign from the League.
STRIKE DISORDERS
WERE PRODUCED BY
GROUP FI MONEY
E. J. McDade, of Chicago,
Tdts taFoif&f# Senate
Inquirers of His
Activities ’?
CITES INSTANCES C*
-TROUBLE WORKED UP
Says Guards He Hired
Were Sworn in as Special
Deputies, and Two of Them
Were Killed; House Daub
ed With Red to Create En
mity to Strikers
Washington, Sept. 23. —(AP)—-E. J.
McDade, of Chicago, told a Senate
investigating committee today he had
been frequently employed by strike
breaking agencies to create disorders
for the purpose of discrediting union
strikers.
iMeDade testified before the La-
Follette committee investigating al
leged violations of workers’ civil li
berties that three men were killed In
a seven-hour battle at Lake Charles,
La., where he had brought 21 men
from New Orleans to 1 serve as guards
during a longshoremen’s strike.
The guards were sworn in as special
deputies, he said, and were armed
with machine guns and tear gas em
ployed by Federal Laboratories, Inc.,
of Pittsburgh. They were employed,
by the Railway Audit & Inspection
Company, an industrial detective
firm, he added.
Two of the guards were killed by
Pflcketeers, McDade testified, when,
they tried to bring a truck through
the strikers’ lines.
During the 1921 Cleveland milk
strike, McDade told the committee,
red paint was daubed on the house
of Frank Tabor, head of the Tabor
Ice Cream Company, in an attempt
(Continued on Page Four.)
High School Enrollment
In State Is Record High
About 175.000 Students Attending, School Commis
sion Announces; More Teachers Allotted for High
Schools; Decline in Elementary Grades Is Shown
Daily Dispatch Bureau,
In the Sir Walter Hotel.
By J. C. BASKEItVILIi
Raleigh, Sept. 23.—-More children
are attending high school this year
than ever before, although there is a
decrease in the enrollment in the ele
mentary grades, Lloyd Griff in, ■ execu
tive secretary of the State School
Commission, pointed out today. The
high school enrollment this year is
estimated at approximately 175,000,
the largest in the history of the
State's public school system, witji ap
proximately 725,000 in the elementary
grades, making a total of about 900,-
8 TODAY
FIVE CENTS COPV
496,154 LBS. SOLD
HERE OPENING DAY
FOR sllßs] SUM
Growers Highly Pleased
With Prices Paid for
Their Offerings as
Season Starts
SALES BLOCKED BY
VERY HEAVY BREAK
Floors Cleared Today, How
ever, With Increased Of
ferings Looked for Toward
End of Week; Prices Here
Among Best in Any Flue-
Cured Market
Official figures announced to
day by J. R. McDuffie, sales
supervisor, revealed that the
opening sale on the Henderson
tobacco market as the season
started Tuesday amounted to
496,154 pounds, which brought
$130,857.59 for an average of
$26.37 per hundred.
It was the highest opening day
average the Henderson market has
had since 1919,-with the exception of
1934, when the figure was about a
quarter of a cent per pound better
than that of Tuesday.
Growers were highly pleased with
the prices paid for their offerings,
and were optimistic over the outlook
foh (the season. The market was
blocked by an estimated 150,000 to
200,000 pounds left over, but which,
together with new offerings brought
in, was cleared in today’s sales.
Heavier offerings are looked for „
Thursday and Friday, and especial
ly Friday. Averages made here
Tuesday for the opening were among
th'fe"be3t for‘~hTTy flue-cured market*
in any belt already opened for this
season.
Warehousemen said the market
average would have been much high
er but for the fact that much east
ern tobacco was on sale. They saw
a marked difference in the quali’y of
the leaf grown in Vance and adjoin
ing counties and that from a dis
tance.
Heavy breaks Thursday and Fri
(Continued on Page Eight.)
Tobacco Is
Still Firm
Over Belt
Raleigh, Sept. 23.—(AP)—Tobacco
prices continued firm today on the
nine markets of the North Carolina
Middle Belt.
Early sales today at Fuquay
Springs, estimated at 500,0Q0 pounds,
brought from S2B to $29 per hundred.
Louisburg warehousemen estimated
early sales at 150,000, with an aver
age price of $27 predominating.
Reports from Oxford said prices
were holding to higher levels there,
with nearly 1,000,000 pounds on ware
house floors for the second day’s
sales. Opening day’s sales there a
mounted to 486,924 pounds for $116,-
946.87, an average of $24.02 per hun
dred.
Approximately 100,000 pounds were
taken to Sanford warehouses today
as sales continued at a lively clip.
Farmers all around the circuit were
reported highly pleased at opening
prices, which compared with an av
erage last year of only $19.61.
000 children enrolled in both the ele
mentary and high schools. The en
rollment in the entire system for the
school year 1934-35, the last school
year for which the complete figures
are available, was 892,000, so it is gen
erally conceded that the enrollment
this year is in excess of 900,000. The
high school enrollment in 1934-35 was
156,593 but this is now believed to be
at least 175,000.
Last year there was an increase of
6,000 in the high school attendance
Continued on Page Five.)