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HENDERSON GATEWAY TO CENTRAL CAROLINA TWENTY-FOURTH YEAR BORDER TOBACCO HIGHER AS SEASON OPENS ROOSEVELT DIRECTS LEGISLATIVE CLOSE AS END DRAWS NEAR President Starts Round Os Pre-Adjournment Con ferences on Return from Hyde Park farm LEGISLATION GIVEN ATTENTION Controversy Over Sugar Bill Discussed With Harrison; Senate Committee Votes for Ten-Cent Cotton Loan To Peg Price of Southern Staple Washington, Aug. 10.—(AP)—Presi dent Roosevelt returned from his Hyde Park estate to the capital today and immediately began a round of pre-adjournment conferences with con eressional leaders. One of the first was with Chair man Jones. Democrat, Texas, of the House Agriculture Committee, a key figure in the movement to put gen eral farm legislation over until early next year, so it will cause neither a delay in adjourning this session nor the calling of a special session. Harrison Has Lunch. Another White House caller was Chairman Harrison, Democrat, Miss issippi. of the Senate Finance Com mittee. who was invited to lunch with the President and discuss the con troversy over the sugar bill, which Mr. Roosevelt has threatened to veto be cause of restrictions on refined sugar shipments from Hawaii and Puerto Rico. „ ... Shortly after his conference with Jor.es, the President saw Secretary Wallace. Jones would say only that he had gone over the general legisla tive situation, including farm pro blems. Wallace said he had discussed the sugar bill “only in pssing. The Senate Agriculture Commitee voted for a ten-cent cotton loan to (Continued on Page Two> DEPARTMENT - 4IRES EXPERT ON TOBACCO W. r. Hedrick, of Taylorsville, Has Specialized in Weed Control in Hard Study Raldgh, Aug. 30.—(AP) —Agricul- ture Commissioner Kerr Scott an nounced appointment veday of W. P Hedrick, of rayl-usville, as the agri culture department's first tobaoc' specialist. ... Hedrick, an Alexander county na: tive. won a degree at the University of Nanking in Nanking, China, in tobacco diseases, and also at the Uni versity of Costa Rica, after which he took special work in tobacco at N. C. State College. His job will bo to furnish “any in formation looking towaid establish ment of better prices, ’ Scott said. CIO BOLSTERSfUP ITS SILK STRIKE Passaic Valley Walkout So Near Com plete Pennsylvania Area I* Concentrated on Paterson, N. J., Aug. 10 (AP) —The CIO worked swiftly to plug the holes in its silk workers’ strike today as spokesmen for both employees and operators in New Jersey and scattered Pennsylvania cities began talk of peace negotiations in the union’s drive for improved wage and work ing conditions. With leaders of both sides agreeing the local Passaic Valley walkout was all but complete, the union shifted its main attack to Pennsylvania areas, where plants tried to continue opera tions. Strike zone reports showed ma ny shops shut down in the face of concentrated picketing at their doors. GREENSBOROPLANT HAS PICKET LINES Most of 280 Workers at Pa jama Plant Strike for Pay Increase Greensboro, Aug. 10 (AP)—Picket n-es were formed at the Greensboro manufacturing Company’s pajama Pant early this morning as union orkers of the company started a ike for higher wages, mtor Levy, manager of the com ,ny’ Parted early tihis afternoon eh o ft n boUt 40 WOrkers of the estimat- J , em Pt°yed were on the job, but ere- t ; n i ? ed ' this number would be in -d»ecl to about 100 by Wednesday - on Page Three.). Itettiterßatt iJatltt Btsmtfrit LEASED WIRE SERVICE OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS. Roosevelt Signs Bill Reluctantly Washington, Aug. 10.—(Al*) — President Roosevelt announced to day he had signed “with much re luctance” the $132,732,000 Interior Department supply bill. The President criticized as ex cessive the appropriation of $14,- 483,000 for vocational education, but said Congress, having approp riated $10,000,000 more than was re commended, he would carry out the obvious intent of Congress and spend during the current fiscal ypar only so much as could “nro pcrly and usefully be utilized.” secondbiepusT TO SEIZE MADRID BEGUN BY REBELS Effort Made To Hammer Out Wedge Driven Into Insurgent Rear Guard By Loyalists REBELS HOPING TO WIN LOST GROUND Onslaught Lacks Intensity of Former Counter-Offensive Few Weeks Ago; Govern ment Command Claims Repulse of First Drive By Insurgents Madrid, Aug. 10.— (AP)—Madrid’s western front rumbled into new Jife today in what appeared to be the start of a second big insurgent push to hammer a government wedge out of nsurgent rear guard territory. General Francisco Franco’s infan rymen, based in shell-ripped villages ind on the sun-boiled plains west of here, renewed their attack on Vil 'aneuva de la Canada, the point of General Jose Miaja’s spearhead. Although th# onslaught lacked the intensity of the former counter-offen sive, it seems to be the first move in tn attempt to regain all the towns vhich Miaja’s sweating militianos seized during the first two weeks of July. In that drive, the government ac tually reached and for several days held Brunette, about 15 miles west o? here, but were driven out of the town and forced to backtrack about four miles north to Villaneuva de la Canada under fierce land and air assaults. The government command asserted the Madrid troops repulsed today’s onslaught. A tremendous explosion could be heard above the confused under-tone of rife and machine gun fire when an insurgent munitions de :,v.L not far from the government trenches was blown up. Many insur gents were believed killed or wound ed by the splintering shells. Two Mergers State Batiks About Ready Winston-Salem, Aug. 10 (AP)—The Sentinel said today in a copyrighted story it had learned from an unim peachable source that “consolidation of State banks in six western and four northeastern counties would be com pleted soon by the North Carolina State Banking Commission. According to the story, the mergers are part of a Statewide consolidation of banks in trade areas. Counties figuring in the western merger, which will consolidate under the Smoky Mountain Bank, include Jackson, Swain, Graham, Cherokee and Clay. The eastern merger, which has been under consideration for months, the Sentinel said, will embrace Gates, Bertie, Hertford and Northampton counties. Resources of the northeastern bank in the consolidation would be close to $3,000,000, according to the Sentinel. ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA AND VIRGINIA. As King Visited North Ireland , > , , —s HW&y' ||m fir s Top, railway bridge bombed; center, armored cars lead procession; below, king and queen being welcomed in Belfast. Recent visit of King George VI and Queen Elizabeth of Great Britain to North Ireland (Ulster) creates international interest for the visit was marred by a series of outrages including a number of bombing*. The outrages were believed to have been the work of Republican extremists. At the top, a railway bridge near Dundalk wrecked by bomb the night before the royal couple arrived in Ireland. Center photo shows the precautions taken in Belfast, capital of North Ire land, to insure safety of the visitors —armored cars leading the pa rade of king and queen. Below, King George and his queen step from a car in Belfast to be welcomed by the lord mayor. Announce Bumper Corn, Wheat Crops Washington, Aug. 10.—(AP) — The Agriculture Department esti mated this year’s corn crop today at 2,658,748,000 bushels and the wheat crop at 890,419,000 bushels. WAGES, HOUR BILL CDULD PLAY HAVOC Depends on Whims and Fancies of Board That Administers It Dully Dispatch Bureau.- In the Sir Walter Hotel. Raleigh, Aug. 10.—Effect of a Fed eral wage and hour law upon North Carolina will depend almost entirely upon the personnel of the labor stand ards board to be set up under it, in the opinion of Major A. L. Fletcher, State commissioner of labor. Major Fletcher said he felt pas sage of the 40-40 wage-hour measure recently jammed through the Senate is certain. “Its effect on North Carolina’s in dustries and labor will depend almost entirely upon what the five members of the contemplated labor standards boards do,” he said. "Under provisions of the bill they will be able to do almost anything they want to. In the language of to day ‘they’re the stuff’.” The board Will have power to fix minimum wages up to 40 cents per hour and to limit hours of weekly la bor with a 40-hour minimum as their lowest figure. It will likewise have discretionary powers to vary the maximum wage and minimum hour provisions depend ing on the cost of living and other factors in the various sections, Major Continued on Page Two.). HENDERSON, N. C., TUESDAY . AFTERNOON, AUGUST 10, 1937 HOEY WON’T HALT FRIDAY EXECUTION Electric Chair Being Set Up Again To Take Life of Negro Slayer Raleigh, Aug. 10.—(AP)—Governor Hoey said today he had decided he could not intervene in the case of James McNeill, Harnett county Ne gro, and if the electric chair has been rebuilt at State’s Prison by Friday, the man wilpbe electrocuted for mur der. A 60-day reprieve was granted Al fred Puckett, convicted of murder in Richmond county, and due to be gass ed Friday. The electric chair was dismantled after John Pressley, Gaston Negro, was electrocuted as its 170th victim on Friday, November 13, 1936, and this Friday will be another 13th day of the month. A 1935 law provided all persons con vited of capital crimes after July 1 of that year should be executed by gas. McNeill was convicted in Septem ber 1935, of the murder earlier that year of Sudie Eason, his sweetheart. He was sentenced to die by gas, but the Supreme Court ruled, as his crime Continued on Page Two.) nun WEATHERMAN — FOB NORTH CAROLINA. Partly cloudy, probably) scat tered thundershowers in the in terior tonight and Wednesday and near the coast Wednesday. Chinese Defenders Os Great Wall Are Blocking Japanese Making’ Desperate Attempt To Stem Tide of Invaders Rolling In On Provinces TENSION RELIEVED IN SHANGHAI AREA Japanese Naval Officer and Seaman Killed There Mon day; Will Resort to Diplo macy; Japan Is Tightening Her Hold on Tientsin Sec* tor (By The Associated Press.) Chinese defenders of the Great Wall of China took a stand today at Nankow Pass, 30 miles northwest of Peiping, in a desperate attempt to stem the tide of Japanese troops roll ing toward the yet unconquered pro vinces of Chahar and Suiyuan. Chinese sources reported a Japa nese detachment had been wiped out. A force of 5,000 Japanese troops was reported moving against the pass, gateway to Kalgan, capital of Cha har, and the table lands westward to Mongolia. Tension eased in Shanghai, far to the south, where the killing of a Jap anese naval officer and seaman had brought grave apprehension fpr the preservation of peace. Officials agreed to settle the in cident by diplomatic means. The Jap anese and a Chinese gendarme were shot down in a clash yesterday at the airdrome west of Shanghai. Chinese and Japanese versions of the incident differed as to Which side opened fire first. No explanation was offered by Japan as to why,the Jap anese officer was in a restricted Chi nese military zone. A thousand new Japanese blue jackets came to Shanghai., ‘ Dispatches to Nanking indicated Japan was tightening her hold on Ountlnued on Page Two.) STOCKS FALTER AND RIGHT THEMSELVES Early Losses of a Point Or so in Steel Cut Down But Leaders Hold Own New York, Aug. 10.—(AP)—Stocks stumbled and -righted themselves at intervals in today’s market. Grain fu tures rallied on Canadian crop reports Cotton again tilted downward. Bonds /were narrow. Early losses running to a point in steels were reduced later, but the leaders had difficulty in holding their own. Transfers were around 700,000 shares. American Radiator 22 1-2 American Telephone 170 American Tob B 82 Anaconda 62 1-8 Atlantic Coast Line 50 3-4 Atlantic Refining •••• 29 Bendix Aviation .. 20 Bethlehem Steel 100 Chrysler , .....114 3-4 Columbia Gas & Elec ........ 13 3-4 Commercial ... 14 1-4 Continental Oil ... 15 3-4 DuPont ... 160 Electric Pow & Light 22 1-4 General Electric 5& 5-8 General Motors 58 3-4 Liggett & Myers B 100 1-4 Montgomery Ward & Co 64 1-4 Reynolds Tob B 52 1-4 Southern Railway 29 1-8 Standard Oil N J 67 7-8 U S Steel 118 5-8 Babson “Tells The Truth" About Church Membership BY ROGER W. BABSON*, Copyright 1937, Publishers Financial Bureau, Inc. Babson Park, Mass., Aug. 10.—Dur ing recent weeks I have read several editorials congratulating our churches on their progress during these peril ous times. I am loath to discourage those who have accepted these Polly- Anna reports; but I do believe many of my regular readers will be inter ested in my conclusions: 1. The so-called “church member ship” figures published annually by the Christian-Herald and broadcasted by the press, associations are incor rect. They contain not onljr the names of millions who have repudiated the church which they joined in their youth—-but also millions Who are dead and buried physically. 2 Protestant Church attendance has been falling off for many years. This may not show by recent statis tics on church attendance at the Sun day morning service; but in many churches attendance at this Sunday PUBLISHED EVERY AFTERNOON EXCEPT SUNDAY. A Guinea Pig? i||||». IB IBS ■ Miss Ethelyn Chrane of New York City,, shown with the sign , she car ried on the steps of the capital at Washington, charges that while she was a stenographer for the Public Health Service in New York a phy sician experimented with her arm, and infection set in. She seeks fed eral relief. (Central Press) Eastern Air Liner Falls, With 4 Dead Tangles With Power Line at Daytona Beach; Line’s First Fatal Wreck Daytona Beach, Fla., Aug. 10. — (AP) —A 14-passenger Eastern Air Lines plane crashed into a newlyi construeted power line near the airport early today, fluttered help lessly into a thicket, and wrecked, killing four persons. Pete Dygert, airport manager, said the power line was strung at 11 p.m. last night and he had not been notified. It was not there last night when another Eastern Air Line plane took off for Miami at 10:20 p. m., eastern standard time, Dygert said. Killed in the crash were: Captain Stuart Dietz, of Baltimore, chief pilot; Robert Reed, co-pilot; J. F. Philpots, (Continued on Page Eight.) service has been kept only by omit ting the mid-week and evening ser vices, and by closing down in summer time. A record of the number of Pro testants entering the churches during a year shows a constant falling off. This decline is taking place despite the fact that our Protestant popula tion is increasing each year. 3. Sunday school attendance is also falling off. The Congregational Chris tian churches, of which I am modera tor, have had a net loss of over 150,- 000 Sunday school scholars since 1925. At first I assumed this to be due to a serious drop in the birth rate among us indifferent Protestants; but study shows that the decline is primarily among those of high school age and adults. The young children are still being sent to Sunday school to give fathers a chance to read the Sunday paper. Reasons For The Decline. I have attempted to ascertain the (Goatinued on Page Six.) 8' PAGES TODAY FIVE CENTS COPY FARMERS PLEASED ON MOST MARKETS Sales Managers and Ware housemen Predict Day's Average at 25 Cents or Better OFFERINGS MOSTLY PRIMINGS QUALITY Mullins Reports Prices $3 to $4 Above Last Year; Low Grades at $8 to $17.50, Medium Types sl9 to $25; Better Grades Quoted High as $43 (By The Associated Press.) First sales on the 16 South Carolina and North Carolina border belt tobac co markets today led sales managers< and warehousemen to predict a price average of $25 per hundred or better for the day. Dispatches from the vari ious markets sa.'d farmers appeared satisfied. At Whiteville, where Governor Hoey was scheduled to take part, in, exercises this afternoon, the first 16 piles sold in one warehouse brought an average of $27.66, and it was pre dicted the day’s average would be around $25. Most of the offerings were primings. Mullins, South Carolina’s biggest market, reported a million and a half pounds on the floor, with prices esti mated at $3 to $4 better than on the 1936 opening day. A huge crowd was on hand despite a heavy rain. At Dillon, S. C., better grades brought up to $39.75, with the range for lower grades reported at $8 to iConiiniiorj on Page Three.) HoeyLauds Tobacco At Whiteville Whiteville, Aug. 10.—(AP)—Gover nor Hoey outlined the importance of tobacco to North Carolina here today and said “the outlook is promising for fair prices,” as he urged diver sification of crops and home and farm ownership, While attending the to bacco market opening. “This is a signiticant occasion,” Hoey told a crowd here after watch ing sales at Lumberton and speaking briefly. “Tobacco is North Carolina’s great (Continued on Page Three.) SELLING CARRIES COTTON DOWNWARD i&idday Rally Not Sustained and Mar ket Closes at Elight Net Losses for Day New York, Aug. 10. —(AP) —Cotton futures opened barely steady seven to 12 points lower on easier Liverpool cables and under foreign and south ern selling December rallied from an early low of 10.29 to 10.37,, and at the end of the first hour the list was 5 to 11 points net lower. Futures closed steady, 3 to 6 points lower. Spots quiet, middling 16.79. Open Close October 10.30 10.40 December 10.27 10.32 January 10.30 10.35 March 10.41 10.44 May 10.40 10.47 July 10.50 10.50 TOBAIOPRISON BORDER ARE EYED Friend and Foe of Crop Con trol Wait Result of Aver ages There Dally Dispatch Bureau. In the Sir Walter Hotel. Raleigh, Aug. 10.—Both friend and foe of crop control are watching to day’s opening of the border belt to bacco markets with peculiar interest. Os course, the first day’s prices will give no certain index to what will happen before the last auctioneer has sung his swan “sing song” on this year’s tobacco crop, but there is a certainty that a trend will develop within a few days. It will be the first market for an unrestricted crop since 1933. Experts have termed this year’s crop one of the biggest and finest in many years. All economists and politicians, as well (Continued on Page Two), ,
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