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TAKING TESTIMONY
IN TOBACCO CASE
Prominent Warren County
Man on Trial; One of
Negroes Guilty
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Taking: of testimony in the case of
A. T. Stewart, prominent Warren
county young man, aud two Negroes,
Willie Lee Durham and Robert Lee
Currin, charged with stealing a quan
tity of tobacco from two Henderson
warehouses during November, was be
gun following the noon recess of
Vance Superior Court before Judge
Henry A. Grady, presiding.
Reginald Young entered a plea of
guilty to the charge, and was the
first witness offered by the State.
A jury took the case of Junius
Brown and Boots Hunt, Negroes,
charged with taking money from G.
R. Brame, a Negro, store keeper in
Williamsboro township, this morning
at 11:30 o’clock, and had it under ad
visement in the early afternoon.
James Anderson, Negro, was given
eight months on the roads for break
ing into the house of O. C. Sadler and
taking his property.
Curtis Funderburk, was charged
with abandonment and non-support,
was guilty of non-support, and was
ordered to support his family and
show good behavior for the next five
years.
Add Harris, who had pleaded guilty
to a charge of disorderly house yes
terday afternoon, was given eighteen
months on the roads, committment
not to issue if he pays the costs and
shows good behavior.
LAMES®
FOB,OWEN EVANS
Services Conducted This
Morning at First Baptist
Church With Inter
ment in Elmwood
Last rites for Owen D. Evans, 34,
were held this morning from the First
Baptist church, with interment in
Elmwood cemetery. Rev. Albert S.
Hale, pastor of the church, officiated, j
and was assisted by Rev. J. Everette
Neese, pastor of the Congregational-
Christian church.
Mr. Evans died suddenly of a heart
ailment in Rock Hill, S. C., where he
was connected with the Post Office
department.
A large concourse of friends attend
ed the services, and the floral offer
ings were numerous.
The pallbearers were selected from
among the brothers and brothers-in
law of the deceased. They were: T. J.
Evans, M. J. Woodlief, and Mir. Moore,
of this city. Ashby Evans, of Tarboro,
C. C. Evans, of Washington, N. C., and
Durwood Evans, of Danville.
POWEMPANn
WGKINJURED
Car of Massachusetts Man
Sideswipes Truck; Held
Under SSOO Bond
Charles A. Crane, of Newton, Mass.,
is being held under a sr>oo bond to
answer a charge of reckless and care
less driving and hit and run, the
charge growing out of a collision to
the north of the city between an au
tomobile which Crane was said to
have been driving, sideswiped a truck
of the Carolina Power and Light Co.
Officials who investigated the acci
dent said Crane way attempting to
pass the truck, and met another auto
mobile. The right side of Crane’s car
struck the front wheel of the truck,
causing it to swerve off the road,
slightly injuring workers on the truck
Crane was said to have continued on
his way, being stopped about five
miles South of the city, and returned
here by Chief of Police J. H. Lang
ston.
France Ponders Mobilizing
Army on Spanish Frontier
(Continued from Page One.)
charged Adolf Hitler was ready for
open military action in Spain.
Gibraltar —An armed insiip'gent
trawler halted the Russian merchant
man Belmorcanal and escorted her to
Spanish Morocco.
Paris—France is reported ready to
start mass troop movement to the
Spanish border to guard against the
threat of Nazi volunteers in Spain.
London—Great Britain demands a
‘‘showdown’ ’answer from Italy and
Germany on their intention to aid
Spanish insurgents.
Berlin—Germany orders Palos inci
dent closed Friday, no matter what
answer Spain's government makes to
ultimatum.
Bayonne —Three-day truce prevails
between German and Basque war
fleets in Bay of Biscay, pending expi
ration of Nazi ultimatum.
GOVERNMENT FORCES RUSH
TO NORTHERN DEFENSE LINE
Madrid, Jan. 6 (AP) —Government
forces were rushed today to a sector
ten mile; northwest of here to bolster
defense of the vital El Escorial high
way.
Fascists were known to have gained
a foothold on the important communi
cations line to the Guadarramas, in
what military commanders believe a
new attempt to drive a wedge through
the besieged capital’s western defense.
Militiamen and international volun
teers were heavily reinforced for a
‘-> drive the Fascist back and
jc, {no iink with the mountain
guard intact.
Ehringhaus Helps
Agriculture Work
(Continued from Page One.)
brought under the crop control move
ment in 1033, and that tobacco prices
would again have been disastrously
low. But as a result of the fight made
by Governor Ehringhaus that year,
prices rose to an average of 21 cents
that fall and the farmers received the
best prices they had gotten for years.
It is also now generally admitted that
if experts in Washington had listen
ed more to Governor Ehringhaus jn
the successive crop years, including
1936, instead of the “big crop" advo
cates, that the tobacco crops would
have remained smaller and prices
higher than has been the case. Most
of the farmers also now agree that
Governor Ehringhaus was eternally
right and again on their side when
he refused to call a special session
of the General Assembly last spring
to enact a toioacco compacts law, since
it has now become apparent that such
a law would have not only been use
less but actually dangerous.
Prison Reform.
Another high spot in the adminis
tration of Governor Ehringhaus is
what he has accomplished along the
lines of prison reform and in the de
velopment of a modern and equitable
parole system. Most of the prisoners
are now housed in modern prison
camps, most of them fireproof, are
well fed and treated humanely. De
spite the fact that the population of
the State Prison system is in excess
of 10,000 a month and through which
approximately 17,500 prisoners pass
each year, there was a decrease of
52.3 per cent in the number of escapes
this past year. Part of this has been
due to better guards and guarding,
but much of it has been the result of
better morale among the prisoners re
sulting from better treatment, better
food, better housing and a better pa
role system which assures every pri
soner of a review of his case at least
once a year as soon as he becomes
eligible for parole. All of these im
provements have been made at the in
stigation and insistence of Governor
Ehringhaus.
Prison Fireproofed.
Still other improvements in the pri
son system during the governor's ad
ministration have been the fireproof
ing of the 72-year-old Central Prison
here, which has been a veritable fire
trap; the transformation of one wing
of the prison into a modern and fire
proof hospital; the authorization for
the building of a new and separate
prison for women, not yet construct
ed, also authorization for rhe con
struction of a prison Industries build
ing to house additional and enlarged
prison industries.
Launches Rural Electricity.
Governor Ehringhaus also took the
lead in rural electrification in North
Carolina and to date two-thirds of all
the rural electric lines which have
been built in the entire United States,
have been built in North Carolina—
and most of this without any Federal
aid. At the present time, some 4,000
miles of rural electric lines have been
built or authorized in this State since
Governor Ehringhaus first appointed
a commission to look into the rural
electrification problem, and later ap
pointed Dudley Bagley, of Currituck
county, as chairman of the North Car
olina Rural Electrification Authority
to supervise the promotion of rural
electric lines in the State. The total
of rural electric lines constructed or
authorized in the entire nation in
cluding the 4,000 miles in North Car
olina, is only about 6,G00 miles. The
only cost to the taxpayers of the State
for this progress in rural electrifica
tion has been the SIO,COO a year ap
propriated for the maintenance of the
State authority.
Fathered Rate Cuts.
The efforts of Governor Ehringhaus
were not limited, however, to the ex
tension of electric lines. He also in
stigated the movement for a reduction
of rates charged by the various utility
companies in the State and directed
the Utilities Commission to make the
various investigations which resulted
in rate reductions which have aggre
gated a savnjr of almost $30,000 dur
ing. the past four years, according to
estimates made by the utilities com
mission. The power companies doing
business in the State have made from
three to four reductions in rates since
January 1, 1933, while substantial re
ductions have also been obtained from
the telephone, gas and railroad com
panies.
Local Units Cut Debts.
The counties, cities and towns in
the State have also benefited greatly
both from the legislation sponsored
by the administration resulting i n the
creation of the Local Government !
Commission as wel] as through other
legislation, such as the school legisla
tion, Which sided them indirectly*.
With the assistance of the Local Gov
ernment Commission and the lessened
tax burden on property, the counties,
cities and towns have not only been
able to collect enough taxes for run
ning expenses during the past four
years, but have paid off approximate
ly $36,000,000 worth of debts.
Big Road Allotments.
Governor Ehringhaus has also tak
en much interest in the development
of the State’s highway system and
during the past two years has allot
ted almost SIO.OO'O.OQO to the highway
department for additional mainten
ance work and betterments and of the
surplus which accrued from 1933 ‘to
1935, in addition to the regular a
mount appropriated for maintenance.
As a result, the State highway sys
tem as a whole i, s regarded as being
>n better condition than it has in four
years, especially the county roads,
nince most of this $10,000,000 has been
spent on the county system.
Revenue Reorganization.
The reorganization of the State De
partment of Revenue, so that it is
now regarded as one of the most ef
ficient revenue collecting agencies in
the United States, is also regarded as
one of the outstanding achievements
of the Ehringhaus administration,
or while Governor Ehringhaus was
severely criticized when he mamer’
i. M. C. s. Noble, Jr., as Assistant
ommissioner of Revenue in charge
o reorganization and office holders
here howled loudly when Dr. Noble
started cleaning house, the 1935 Gen
eral Assembly gave both the gover
n°r and Dr. Noble high commenda
tion for what they had done and laud
ed the increased efficiency of the de
partment It has collected millions
j more in back and current taxes than
J ever before.
Bitter Under-Cover Fights
For Agriculture Positions
(Continued trpm Page One.)
ler tobacco farmers feel that it hurts
rather than helps them and gives .the
big tobacco growers a tremendous ad
vantage, especially if the Federal gov
ernment does not enact a law pro
hibiting the transportation and sale
of tobacco across State lines. For
without this law, the smaller farmer
maintain that the big farmers can
haul their excess crop into another
State and sell it, so that these who
violate the compacts law the most
will gain the most and those who con
form will be penalized. It is also
agreed that most of the tobacco ware
housemen are opposed to the crop
compact plan, in the belief that it
will hurt the warehousemen and the
small farmers and tend to help the
big growers. As a result, most of the
warehousemen are expected to line up
with the smaller growers in opposi
tion to the compact law unless Fed
eral prohibition of the inter-state
shipment and sale is guaranteed. It
is also believed that the tobacco
manufacturers are opposed to any
form of compact or tobacco control
legislation. There are also some 40
counties which do not gfow to'cacco
which are not interested one way or
the other.
Four House Candidates.
There are four active candidates for
the chairmanship of the House Agri
culture Committee, as follows W. W.
Eagles, of Edgecombe, a farmer, who
was chairman of the committee dur
ing the 1935 session; William Wiley
Andrews, of Wayne, also a farmer,
who was vice-chairman of the com
mittee during the 1935 session and
presided over many of the hearings,
due to the injuries sustained by
Eagles in two automobile accidents;
W. E. Fenner of Nash county, a
Rocky Mount tobacco warehouseman
and business man, and Claude C.
Abernethy, of Spring Hope, Nash
county, a lawyer.
Three Senate Aspirants.
In the Senate the three men being
most prominently mentioned as un
der consideration for chairman of the
agriculture committee are W. G. (Un
cle Willie) Clark, of Tarboro; Ernest
V. Webb, of Kinston, and L. L. Grave
ly, of Rocky YUount. Clark is a mer
chant and farm owner, while Webb
is a tobacco warehouseman and Grave
ly another tobacco man.
It is known that the State Grange
has already sent a committee to call
on Speaker R. Gregg Cherry, of Gas
tonia, asking him to name Eagles
chairman of the House committee. It
is also understood that W. Kerr Scott
new commissioner of agriculture, and
former master of the Grange, was
named a member of this committee,
but did not serve, also that he is per
sonally backing Fenner for the chair
manship. Yesterday the directors of
the North Carolina Farm Bureau
Federation met here and named a se
cret committee to call on Speaker
Cherry and Lieut. Governor W. P.
Horton to urge the appointment of a
“dirt farmer” as chairman —that is,
either Eagles or Andrews and neither
Fenner nor Auernethy. This also
means that this Farm Bureau com
mittee urged the appointment of
Clark as chairman of the Senate Ag
riculture Committee rather than
Webb or Gravely. It is also believed
that the Grange will urge the selec
tion of Senator Clark as chairman of
the Senate committee rather than
either Webb or Gravelv.
Fenner May Win.
The belief in most circles here to
day, however, is that Eagles will not
be re named chairman of the House
Agriculture Committee, since he head
ed it two years ago, also that the
chances look better for Fenner than
any one else.
Scott Gets in Bad.
Newly elected Commissioner of
Agriculture W. Kerr Scott, of Haw
River, former master of the State
Grange, is temporarily in disfavor
with a good many members of the
Grange because he is backing a rival
candidate for chairman of the House
Committee on Agriculture, according
to the story going the rounds here
today. While the Grange as an or-,
ganization, is backing Representative
W. W. Eagles, of Edgecombe county,
for chairman of this committee, Com
missioner Scott is supporting W. E.
Fenner, of Rocky Mount. Nash coun
ty, for chairman, according to this
story.
According to the story as heard
here today, Scott wag named a mem
ber of the committee appointed by the
Grange to call on Speaker Cherry
some days ago in Gastonia, to urge
the appointment of Eagles as chair
man of the House Agriculture Com
mittee. BUt when the committee went
to see Speaker Cherry, Commissioner
Scqtt was not able to go.
After listening to the committee
make its indorsement of Representa
tive Eagles, Speaker Cherry is under
stood to have informed the commit
tee that he was somewhat surprised
at the request, since Scott, former
master of the Grange, had been to set;
him and had urged the appointment
of Fenner as chairman of the House
Agriculture Committee.
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DEAR. NOAH ■'IF SPEEDERS
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.PUNISHMENT ?
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TB-gNTON, KY
POBTCArtP YOUR. NUAAB IDELHS
to noah-owStEp THIS
HENDERSON, (N. C.) DAILY DISPATCH, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 6, 1937<
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Richard, a forsaken orphan
You’d cry, too, if you were as young as Richard and didn’t have a
mother. Richard, not quite a year old, is an orphan, one of many
at St. Vincent’s Orphanage, Chicago.
A Future Champion
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This little mountaineer may be said almost to have cut her teeth on a
pair of skis. She is shown in Switzerland’s Bernese Oberland, where
mere infants are adept at the hazardous winter pastime.
Air Hero and "A Good Friend’
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Dick Merrill, who saved the lives of nine of the passengers and crew of
the Eastern airliner he was piloting when he pancaked into a mountain,
is shown in St. Francis’ Hospital, Port Jervis, N. Y. His lovely visitor is
Bernice Claire, who insists that “Dick and I are just very good friends.”
Broadway says they’re more than that. (Central Press)
Find Clothing in Mattson Case
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Washington police are shown examining the clothing which was found
in an abandoned shack near Olympia, Wash. Residents of the neighbor
hood report seeing a man and a boy near the spot after the kidnaping of
Charles Blattson. 10. son of a wealthy Tacoma physician.
Plan for the New Congress
Vice President John N. Garner supplies the match for Speaker William
B. Bankhead’s cigarette as the two presiding officers of Congress got
together at Washington to discuss matters concerning the first session
of the 75th Congress, which convenes January 5.
EARLE SEEKS “BOOTLEG” ANSWER
Gov. George Earle, center
Clad in overalls and wearing the illuminated cap of a coal miner,
Gov. George Earle of Pennsylvania is seen, center, at the bottom of
a shaft in a colliery at Minersville, Pa. The governor made this
trip into the pit while on a tour of the bootleg mining area in an
effort to find a solution to the problem.
Triumvirate Rules Cuba
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dent of the island General Montalvo, probable next presl
following the Federico Bru, who is ruling
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shown at a New year celebration In Havana. -