Henderson Marketing Season Off To Fast Start
guaranteed
CIRCULATION
6,000
twenty-third year
RIVER DAM LOOSED ON SPANISH IKSwGEhT^
MARKET ONE AMONG
LEADERS IN PRICES
FOR TOBACCO SALES
Also One of Top Leaders in
Pounds Sold as Season
Here Is Gotten Un
der Way
COTTON COMING IN
TO LOCAL GINS, TOO
Large Quantity Expected To
Be Sold Here This Year;
Gins Already in Operation;
Growers Well Pleased With
Prices Paid for Their
Crops So Far
Achieving a place of leadership
both as to prices and volume of sales,
the Henderson tobacco market got
away to a fast start this season.
Scales on the opening day last Tues
day saw an average scarcely with an
equal in the belt or anywhere else :'n
flue-cured markets this year, and on
ly one other Middle Belt market
nosed ahead in poundage sold.
Cotton is also coming into the local
market for sale, and is being taken
by the local gins, which have already
started operations for the season.
Most of the staple sold is in the seed.
Prices Hold Firm.
After opening Tuesday with 496,154
pounds sold for $130,857.57 at an aver
age of $26.37, the market on Wednes
day sold off a block of close to 200,-
000 pounds opening day, together
with new offerings, all aggregating
226,23(4 pounds for $55,180.72 at an
average a shade under 25 cents, or
$24.39 per hundred.
On opening day last year the mar
ket sold 487,892 pounds for $85,965.64
at an average of $17.62 per hundred.
Farmers who have sold here thus
far have been highly pleased with
prices paid them for their leaf, and
indications are that they will come
back again and again during the sea
ron to dispose of the remainder of
their crop. There was every indica
tion that the well-known Henderson
popularity as a jales center increased
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TEAR GAS MEN TO
OFFER TESTIMONY
LaFollette Committee In
vestigating Labor Acti
vities Calls Them
Washington, Sept. 24.—(AP)—Offi
cers of firms which manufacture tear
gas and other munitions were called
to testify today before a Senate com
mittee named to investigate alleged
violations of civil liberties in labor
disnutes.
Strike-breakers and other witnesses
previously had given the committee
information indicating widespread
sales of tear gas and machine guns
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Says Legion
Body Howled
For Killing
Witness Says 1 hey
Demanded “Execu
tion” of Poole Be
fore He Was Slain
Detroit Mich., Sept. 24 (AP) Emer
son Becker testified today at the
trial of 12 men charged with the
Black Legion killing of Charles A.
Poole that members of the secret so
ciety, meeting a few hours before the
“execution,” had howled for Poole’s
death.
Becker’s testimony corroborated
Dayton Dean's version of events pre
ceding the crime, and disputed the
stories of Harvey Davis and Ervin D.
Lee, two of the defendants, that Dean
was solely responsible for the death
plot.
The witness said he attended the
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IHi'uiU'rsnn tkriht ©tspafrh
LEASED WIRE SERVICE OF
the associated press.
New Legion Head
* HARRY W. COLMERY
of Topeka, Kas.
Colmery Is
Commander
For Legion
Resolution Demands
Building of New
Dirigible; Other
Matters Tabled
Cleveland, Sept. 24 (AP) —The
American Legion’s 18th conven
tion elected Harry W. Colmery,
of Topeka, Kansas, national com
mander today with a roaring un
animous vote, adopted resolutions
demanding the country steer a
course of strict neutrality in in
ternational affairs, and then ad
journed to meet in New York next
year.
The election came after the Legion
affirmed its belief in the Monroe Doc
trine as a measure of peace, and op
posed entry of the United States in
to the League of Nations by a thund
ering unanimous vote.
Another resolution urged the Unit
ed States government to maintain a
strict policy of neutrality, and remain
"free of any alliance which might
draw the country into war.”
Cleveland, Sept. 24 (AP) —The noisy
ragtime tempo of the eighteenth an
nual American Legion convention
slowed down to a lackadaisical walk
today as delegates met to elect Harry
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Two Views
On Bankers
Are Given
San Francisco, Cal., Sept. 24 (AP)
—Frank views of two surveys—one on
what 7,400 bankers think of the pub
lic; the other on what 50,000 sample
citizens think of the bankers were
made public today at the American
Bankers Association convention.
Clarence Francis, of New York,
president of General Foods Corpora
tion, conducted the surveys in pre
paring for his address, in which he
asserted banks are failing to assume
their full place as economic and moral
leadership.
He suggested they finance the re
building of the country and lead the
way to a higher living standard.
The 7,400 bankers— “from the corn
fields to the metropolis” —viewed thus:
Fifty-eight out of a hundred thought
the public friendly to them; a fourth
thought the public indifferent, and 11
percent “not friendly.”
Some reasons —losses in closed
banks, adverse propaganda and hunt
ing a “goat” and “dislike of people
you owe.” _ - ~
ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA AND VIRGINIA
Twelve Hours to Pass aGiven Point —In Biggest Parade
Scene during American Legion parade in Cleveland, “longest parade in histor y”, lasting 12 hours, observed by more than a million persons. -C.P.)
GENERAL JOHNSON
ANSWERS CHARGES
OF m_ GEORGE
Johnson Says U. S. Mobili
zation Swiftest and
Greatest of any Na
tion During War
WELSHMAN ACCUSED
GENERAL PERSHING
Says Latter’s Insistence On
American Army Under
American Flag Endanger
ed Allied Cause; Johnson
Says Pershing Had Every
Right To Quiver
New York, Sept. 24.—(AP)—A caus
tic criticism by David Lloyd George
that American participation in the
World War was “a. fussy muddle”
drew a sharp challenge today from
General Hugh Johnson, who directed
the American army’s supply and traf
fic organization.
“It is one of the most inexpliacble
paradoxes of history.” the wartime
premier wrote in the fifth volume
of his memoirs, published in London
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New Bankers’ Head
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HB. f
BWrffn y-zsMd
. c.. . . ' raigQfi&l
lifer • -
Tom K. Smith
Tom K. Smith, president of the Boat
men’s National bank, St. Louis, was
elected president of the American
Bankers’ association at their conven
tion in San Francisco.
HENDERSON, N. C., THURSDAY
AFTERNOON, SEPTEMBER 24, 1936
London Talks In Northwest
... ...... - |
As Roosevelt Sees Leaders
(By The Associated Press.)
The political battle was marked to
day by a council of war on the Dem
ocratic side and the reading of a new
attack toy the Republican candidate.
Governor Alfred M. Landon, the Re
publican nominee, travelled toward
Minneapolis to deliver hie second at
tack on the administration’s program
as it affects farming. Reciprocal
trade agreements with foreign na
tions will be the target of tonight’s
speech.
To his summer White House at
Hyde Park, N. Y., President Roose-
DEMOCRAT CHIEFS
TAKE NO CHANCES
Washington Job-Holders
Told To Work Back
Home To Safe
guard Jobs
By CHARLES P. STEWART
Central Press Staff Writer
Washington, Sept. 24.—New Deal
leaders are sincere in their predic
tions that their side will win in No
vember.
Nevertheless, the Democratic man
agement is omitting no precautions
to improve Rooseveltian chances all
it can. The imiression it gives is that
it is not as confident of an over
whelming victory as it was at Repub
lican convention time a dozen weeks
ago. Then the White House evident
ly felt that it scarcely would need
to make an effort to Insure a success
ful campaign.
Meanwhile, G. O. P. prospects ap
pear materially to have improved.
The Republicans knew, from the
first, that they would have to fight
like sixty to stand the slightest show.
So that is how they began to fight.
It was natural. But the Democrats
were rather indifferent at the outset,
being so sure of themselves. At pre
sent they are fighting tooth-and-toe
nail, toeing a little less cocksure.
NEW DEMOCRATIC POLICY
Democratic peturbation, if any, is
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FOB NORTH CAROLINA.
Showers, cooler in interior to
night; Friday fair and cooler.
velt called 15 men high in Democratic
councils to discuss his drive for re
election. Vice-President Garner, three
cabinet officers, four senators, two
congressmen and five Democratic
committee leaders were in the group
infited to the conference.
The two canddiates joined yester
day in upholding the right of free
dom of the press in messages to the
New York Herald-Tribune’s Forum
on current problems. President Roose
velt, speaking by radio from Hyde
Park, also called for “clearing think
ing” about the future of the nation.
Train Kills Pair
Ft. Bragg Soldiers
Fayetteville, Sept. 24 (AP) —An
Atlantic Coast Line freight train
struck and fatally injured two
Fort Bragg soldiers late last
night.
They were Private Allan W. Hol
liday, of Manning, S. and
Joseph E. Bell, of Jacksonville,
Fia.
The soldiers were sitting on the
track near Pope Field. The train
which passed about II p. m. was
believed to have struck them.
ASK CERTIFICATES
ON EMC LINES
Two Local Units Seek Per
mits from State Utilities
Commission
Daily Dispatch Bureau,
In the Sir Walter Hotel.
By J. C. BASKERVILL
Raleigh, Sept. 24.—Two local rural
electrification cooperative corpora
tions have applied to the State Utili
ties Commission for certificates of
convenience and necessity as a result
of the recent ruling by the State
Rural Efyctriflicatiion Authority re
quiring all such cooperative corpora
tions to secure such certificates be
fore obtaining permission to build any
transmission lines, it was learned
here today. The two corporations
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GIANTS MAKE SURE
NATIONAL PENNANT
Boston, Mass., Sept. 24 (AP) —
The New York Giants clinched the
National League pennant today by
defeating the Boston Bees two to
one in the ten-inning opener of a
double-header.
PUBLISHED EVERY AFTERNOON
EXCEPT SUNDAY.
Governor Landon’s statement, read by
Representative Martin, Republican,
Massachusetts, attacked “waste and
1 extravagance” of the New Deal.
John D. Rockefeller, Jr., responded
to Democratic criticism of his con
tributions to the Republican cam
paign fund in Maine with a state
ment that he believes “not only that
it is our right as citizens to make
"uch <-ontribrdio T, « r <■-—»»,-»»
logiUi.ua*.« expensc-s of the poiii
'j ical party in whose principles and
leadership we have faith, but also
I that it is our clear duty to do so.”
Italy Will
Quit League
Is Believed
Rome, Sept. 24 (AP) —Seats for
Ethiopia in the League of Nations
Assembly means Italy’s absence
around European council tables, well
informed sources declared today.
Premier Mussolini, whose attempt
to have Emperor Haile Selassie’s rep
resentatives barred from Geneva fail
ed yesterday, was reported consid
ering a vigorous statement of his fu
ture policy.
Today 11 Duce conferred at length
with the representative of a non
league power, the German minister
without portfolio Hans Frank.
(The League Assembly yesterday
voted 39 to 4 to seat the Ethiopian
diplomats and rejected a proposal of
the credentials committee to ask the
World Court of Justice to define the
legal status of the Negus’ member
ship.)
t AlllTO BE
PRINCIPAL CLERK
\ ~
Assistant To Thad Eure
Most Likely To Succeed
Chief in House
Daily Dispatch Bureau.
In the Sir Walter Hotel.
By J. C. BASKERVILL
Raleigh, Sept. 24.—W. A. Baker, of
Raleigh, for three years chief assis
tant to Principal Clerk Thad Eure in
the House of Representatives of the
North Carolina General Assembly, is
regarded by most observers here as
likely to be elected Principal Clerk of
the house when the 1937 session of
the General Assembly convenes in
January. So far Baker is the only
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1 a Pages
10 Today
TWO SECTIONS.
FIVE CENTS COPY
DESPERATE STEPS
BY GOVERNMENT TO
SA VE THE CAPITAL
Town of San Martin De
stroyed as Point of Con
vergence of Fast
Marching Rebels
TOLEDO’S CAPTURE
APPEARS IMMINENT
Insurgent Lines Are Split by
Loyalist Attack Behind
Talavera; Fascists Again
Blasting at Madrid From
Guadarrama Mountains
Region in North
(By The Associated Press.)
Madrid’s defenders, desperately try
ing every measure to hold off mani
fold insurgent advances on the capi
tal, loosed the waters of the Alberche
river dam today over the town of
San Martin de Valedeiglesias, 36 miles
to the west.
The town, intended point of con
vergence, for Fascist northern and
southern columns, was reported de
stroyed, and with it much insurgent
equipment.
Both government and direct insur
gent dispatches agreed the Fascist
armies advancing on Toledo had
reached a point 12 or 13 miles from
that city.
The government announced a des
perate “pinching movement” by its
armies had boxed in Fascist armies
pressing on the capital.
Stubborn defense near Santa Cruz
del Retamar was combined with an
assault which split insurgent lines
behind Talavera de la Reina, the gov
ernment declared.
Fascist communications in the Tala
vera sector were wrecked by aerial
attacks, the announcement continued.
If the government’s claims were
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Huge Ship
Suh? ■i/JM Tq
FDR Plan
Washington, Sept. 24 (AP) —Admin-
istrative machinery was in the mak
ing today for a long range multi-mil
lion dollar ship subsidy program as
President Roosevelt gave the ‘‘go
ahead” 3ign by appointing three of
the new martime commission’s five
members.
The program enacted by the last
Congress v.’ith the declared aim of
enabling American ships to sail the
seas on even terms with those of for
eign countries provides for direct con
struction and operating subsidies in
place of existing mail contracts.
Under the law activities under the
new legislation can be launched at
once by the three commission mem
bers named by Mr. Roosevelt at Hyde
Park last night.
Japs Spurn
Protests Os
The Chinese
Shanghai Authori
tes Object To In
vasion But Japs
Curtly Reject It
Shanghai, China, Sept. 24 (Fri
day)—Residents of Shanghai’s Ja
panese community, part of the in
ternational settlement area under
the military control of Japanese
Marines early today asked Tokyo
“immediately to dispatch to China
land and sea forces sufficient to
accord full protection of Japanese
lives and property.”
The petition was sent in an atmos
phere slightly eased by the absence of
further incidents, following Wednes
day night’s shooting of three Japa
nese Marines, one of whom died.
Marines continued a vigilant pa
trol of the Hongkew area.
The Japanese residents of the sec
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