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jomSpfire
Legislature Tightens Up
Protection Afforded In
Forest Area
Dally Dispatch Bnreaa, v 1
In the Sit Walter, Hotel,
By J. C. BASKERVILI,
Raleigh, April 1. —A new law en
acted by .the General Assembly of
1937, requiring that permits be ob
tained before any fire is started dur
ing certain periods in woodland areas
having organized forest fire control
facilities, and which was put into ef
fect immediately after ratification, is
designed to save thousands of acres
of valuable North Carolina woodlands
from destruction or severe damage
from fire, W. C. McCormick, chief of
forest fire control for the Department
of Conservation and Development, an
nounced today.
Permits for burning, as a precau
tion against the outbreak of destruc
tive fires, will be required between the
first day of April and the fifteenth
day of June and the fifteenth day of
October and first day of December
each year. These are normally, Mr.
McCormick explained, the periods of
highest forest fire hazard in North
Carolina.
The main section of the statute,
as quoted by Mr. McCormick, reads:
"It shall be unlawful for any per
son, firm or corporation to start or
cause to start any fire or ignite any
smtaerial in any of the areas of wood
lands under the protection of the
State Forest Service or within five
hundred feet of any protected area,
itetween the first day of April and the
fifteenth day of June, inclusive, or
between the fifteenth day of June, in
clusive, or between the fifteenth day
of October and the first day of De
cember, inclusive, in any year, with
out first obtaining from the State
Forester or one of his duly authorized
agents a permit to set out fire or
ignite any material in such above
mentioned protected areas; that no
charge shall be made for the grant
ing of said permits.” Fires started
within five hundred feet of a dwelling
house are exempted from the permit
requirement.
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New York, April I—The drama sea
son is almost over and while it was
nothing, on the whole, to race the
pulse, it did produce at least one firsts
rate play, the Kaufman-Hart hilarity,
"You Can’t Take It With You.”
Os course, the New York Drama
Critic’s Circle has just handed down
its solemn opinion, accompanied by a
handsome plaque, that "High Tor”, a
piece of tony poetic whimsy by Max
well Anderson, was the best play of
the season. That’s not surprising. If
they had picked "You Can’t Take It
With You,” I’d have gone back for
another look to. see what was wrong
with the play which seemed so good
on first inspection.
The season gave birth to several
other excellent
these eyes. There was the Noel Cow
ard group of nine playlets: “Tonight
at 8:30;” there was "Stage Door”, an
other Kaufman confection; there was
"The Women,’-’ an exercise in femi
nine savagery; there was “Yes, My
Darling Daughter,” full of frothy non
-BUT^HIS PUftCH WAS FRONT MGFnJvS^
UWCOIW INW DISTOIMO C«., INfc “Tgar*
sense.
But the Coward one-acters and “You
Can’t Take It With You” were two
pieces of pure theatre in a single
season, and in the previous season
we had to do on even thinner .fare.
Maybe any year that brings to light
one continuously absorbing theatrical
evening is worthy of a bravo.
The problems which face film stars
abroad aTe much more complex than,
native-born American
mimes confront. Most of them,
■whether they rise first to prominence
in France, Germany, Czechoslovakia
or Italy, have a weather eye on Holly
wood, the world capital of flickerdom.
The big hurdle, of course, is langu
age. And it isn’t merely a matter of
learning English. For the kind of
fame that makes Hollywood producers
sit up and write cablegrams, it is ne
cessary to be featured in the films of
a number of Continental countries.
No one nation has the variety of out
put that gives a single player full op
portunity to register a gamut of emot
ing talents.
Germaine Aussey, for example—she
is one of the newest imports—is an
accomplished linguist. She played in
French, German and English films
across the water before Hollywood de
cided she was star material. Fern
and Gravet, who looks amazingly like
the Duke of Windsor in his first big
American film, “The King and the
Chorus Girl” —and looks nothing like
the Duke in real life if my memory
of a chat with him during a tea party
on the stage where “White Horse Inn”
was being played serves—is really a
Belgian. But he speaks English with
very little inflection, having
attended Oxford. He can also get on
satisfactorily in German.
You’re Telling Mel\
By WILLIAM HITT
Central Tress Writer
A new one you may wish to add
to your list of 1937 similes is: An un
important as the news to a sitdown
striker that the Normmandie again
holds the Atlantic speed record. Or is
it the Queen Mary?
The two tubs pass the “champion
ship” back and forth to each other
with all the cordiality of a couple of
beer-drinking city councilmen ex
changing handshakes and back-«.laps
at a political picnic.
However, the builders of the two
oversized sea-scows were figuring on,
American tourist dough to keep their
engines churning.
More News Items You’ll Never Bead
Tokyo, Japan—The Japanese Diet,
on advice from the nation’s military
and naval leaders, have decided to
cede Manchoukuo to Russia. “The
country falls naturally within Rus
sia’s sphere of influence,” said a
•Niijpponese spokesman:. “’Our glivling
up the territory we hope will assure
continued peace in the Pacific area,
which is our greatest wish.”
Mexico City, Mexico—Leon 1 Trot
sky, exiled Russian revolutionary, to
day accepted the invitation of Dic
tator Stalin to accompany him on a
threeweek shooting trip in Siberia.
Detaroit., Mich.—The Titanic Manu
facturing company today installed
10,000 easy chairs in its 50 plants in.
anticipation of a sitdown strike.
Los Angeles. C!al.—A terrific down
pour of rain was featured today in
headlines of local newspapers. One
eight-column headline read: “No Sun
shine in California for Last Three
Weeks.”
Miami, Fla.—Local newspapers to
day did not carry a single line about
the terrific rain storms in California
but featured the cold wave now sweep
ing'Florida coastal cities.
HENDERSON. (N. C.) DAILY DISPATCH, ' THURSDAY, APRIL l, 1937
praYEDSTO^
Both Irish and Sweet Potato
Productions Forecast
for Season
College Station, Raleigh, April 1 —
An increased production of Irish and
sweet potatoes, with lower prices, is
indicated for 1937 crop, Prof. M. E.
Gardner, of State College, said today.
Irish potato growers in nearly all
States producing early and interme
diate potatoes commercially are plan
ning to increase acreage and produc
tion this year, according to a report
professor Gardner received from the
Federal Bureau of Agricultural Eco
nomics.
In the early States, the report said,
a 32 per cent increase in acreage over
last year is expected, and in the inter
mediate States a 7 percent increase
is indicated. In 18 of the late States
an average increase of 6 per cent is
indicated.
For the entire nation, the increase
in acreage will probably be around 6
per cent, the report stated. Prices
will probably be lower than in 1936,
but higher than in other recent years,
it was estimated.
Although a larger acreage will be
planted, Professor Gardner continued,
this will be offset to some extent by
the fact that there is a smaller sup
ply of old potatoes remaining to be
marketed).
The sweet potato crop for 1937 will
probably run around 71,000,000 bush
els, assuming normal yields, the re
port said. This would be about 11 per
cent more than produced in 1936, and
about 7 percent above the 1928-’32 aver
age.
Prices to farmers over the country
averaged 93.9 cents a bushel on Feb
ruary 15, or 6 cents higher than on
January 15, and 24 cents higher than
on February 15, 1936. It was the
highest February price since 1930.
The expected increase in sweet p~
tato production this year will probab
ly result in slightly lower prices, the
report pointed out.
MADISON FARMERS
BOOSTING TOBACCO
Marshall, April 1. —Madison county
farmers are becoming “anxious”
about the hurley tobacco situation,
said George W. Miller, county farm
agent of the State College extension
service.
More beds are being planted to bur
ley than in previous years, Miller
stated, and leading farmers are afraid
that an increase in the crop will beat
prices down next fall.
A number of growers, he added,
have made up thir minds to try to
produce a higher quality leaf on a
limited acreage rather than try to ex
pland their plantings.
Miller pointed out that the pay
ments offered under the soil conserva
tion program for diverting tobacco
will in many cases be more than grow
ers will get for low quality leaf on a
glutted market.
Sparger May Get
New Judgeship Job
(Continued from Page One.)
observers here regard Senator J. Gil
mer Sparger, of Stokes county, as be
ing a strong contender for the ap
pointment as judge, along with Allen
H. Gwynn, at present solicitor in the
eleventh district, but who will no lon
ger be able to .be solicitor after July
I. It is being recalled here that Spar
ger was a strong supporter and wheel
horse of the administration in the re
cent legislative session and that as
chairman of the Senate Roads Com
mittee be went to bat for the gover
nor whenever called upon. Some think
that if Sparger is not named judge,
he may be appointed solicitor.
Other names mentioned in connec
tion with the judgeship are those of
John Folger, of Mt. Airy, also his son,
U. S. Senator Hitchcock
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See Your Nearest ROBERTSON Agent
Fred Folger. Others are mentioning
the name of National Committeeman
A. D. (Lon) Folger, who a few months
ago resigned as a special judge rather
than give up his post as national com
mitteeman. Some now think, however,
that Lon might he willing to resign as
national committeeman to become resi
dent superior court judge in his own
home district, since he would come
up for election after the original ap
pointment and not serve entirely at
the will of the governor. But there is
not much to indicates that Lon is un
der consideration for this appoint
ment right now..
Since Gwynn will automatically be
out as solicitor in the eleventh dis
trict, the governor will also have to
appoint a new solicitor in that district
which will consist of Allehany, Ashe
and Forsyth counties. But so far few
names have been heard with regard
to this appointment.