HENDERSON
GATEWAY TO
CENTRAL
CAROLINA
TWENTY-FOURTH YEAR
RUSSIA TO BLOCK! ITAUAO PIRACY PATROL
FARMERS REQUEST
SEPARATE FARM IN
PEANUTRESEARCH
Want Upper Coastal Plains
Station To Remain Where
It Is Near Rocky
Mount
big delegations
HEARD AT MEETING
State Agriculture Board Re
cesses for Lunch Without
Decision, However; Farm
ers Fear Kerr Scott Will
Upset Present Test Farm
Plan
Raleigh, Sept. 15.—(AP) —Farmers
at sued with the State Board of Agri
cultuve today that a separate test
farm should be created to deal with
peanuts and the present Upper
Coastal Plains test farm should re
main where it is in Edgecome county
The board recessed for lunch with
out reaching a decision. Nash and
Edgecombe ebunties sent Senator W.
G. Clark. Representative W. W.
Eagles, M. L Laughlin, R. V. Knight,
R. R. Gay, E. H. Austin and F. S.
Wilkerson, who spoke for retention
of the present farm, which Commis
sioner Kerr Scott has intimated may
be removed because of the condition
of the roads leading to it.
E. F. Arnold, secretary, headed a
delegation from the State Farm Bu
reau Federation asking for a separate
peanut test farm which he contend
ed was the intent of the 1937 legisla
ture.
“A separate experiment station is
necessary,” Arnold asserted after com
menting Farm Bureau members fear
ed Commissioner Scott intended to
place the peanut work at an existing
station.
Fou cannot find a better farm for
research work in cotton, tobacco, and,
I will say, peanuts,” Senator Clark
told the board as he assured the mem
bers roads to the test farm would be
improved.
FLIER’S BODY WILL
BE SENT BACK HERE
Crockett, Texas, Sept. 15 (AP) —The
body of Cadet Guy W. Edgerton, vic
tim of a plane crash two weeks ago,
was being prepared for return to the
flier s former home at Kenly, N., C.
today.
Kelly Field officials at San Antonio
said only a part of the cadet’s para
chute burned when fire suddenly
broke out in the wreckage several
hours after it was found Monday.
FURTHER ADVANCES
SCORED BY COTTON
Market 8 to 15 Points Higher in Fu
tures When Trading Ends
in Afternoon
New York, Sept. 15.—(AP) —Cotton
futures opened steady, 8 to 14 points
higher on improved Liverpool cavles
and active trades and foreign buy
ing. December advanced from 8.88 to
8-94 and was close to the best short
ly after the first half hour, when the
list was 8 to 15 points net higher. De
cember was 8.92 by midday when
prices showed net gains of 8 to 16
points.
Futures closed steady, 8 to 15 points
higher. Spot steady, middling 9.21.
Open Close
October 9.00 9.01
December 8.90 8.91
January . • • 8.97 8.96
March 9.06 9.06
May . 9.14 9.14
July . 9.23 9.21
PRISON INDUSTRY
REPORT PREPARED
Hut Full Set-Up May Not Be
Ready for Highway
Body Tomorrow
Raleigh, Sept. 15.—(AP)— J The pri
son committee of the highway and
public works commission met in exe
cutive session today attempting to
complete a report on prison industries
an <i general conditions.
The group has been at work since
June and one of its original members,
Robert Grady Johnson, in the mean
time, has become a prison director
a ml resigned his post.
Frank Dunlap, commission chair
man and a member of the committee,
said he doubted if the full report
"multi be ready for presentation when
the commission meets tomorrow. Dun
ia P said he planned to press with
the commission the need for more of
fice space for the highway, prison
a ud allied departments, including the
£ew probation commission.
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\ Abs °CIATED PRESS.
Tentative Crop Allotments
Made Under Proposed Plans
For 1938 Production Limits
"WE’LL STAY OUT OF WAR!”—F. D. R.
Norman H. Davis and President Roosevelt
•‘No war!” President Roosevelt’s pledge is repeated again as he
confers on foreign affairs with Norman H. Davis, ambassador-at
large to Europe, during a cruise down the Hudson. The president
planned to hasten back to Washington to consult with his entire cab
inet on the Sino-Japanese and Mediterranean situations. Abandon
ment of the president’s trip to Seattle, Wash., to visit his daughter
late in September was forecast. The president and Secretary of
State Hull are maintaining a neutral course in both the Mediter
ranean and Sino-Japanese situations.
John Lewis
Talks With
Roosevelt
Refuses. To Say
Whether His Re
cent Criticism Os
President Came Up
Washington, Sept. 15. —(AP) John
Lewis, CIO chairman, said after a
White House call today he had “a
very pleasant conference with the
President.”
“We talked over a number of mat
ters of mutual interest to the Presi
dent and myself,” the heavy-set labor
leader said.
Asked whether his recent speech,
interpreted by some as rebuking the
President, had .been mentioned, Lewis
said he had “no further comment.”
To a query as to whether Mr.
Roosevelt had called him, “John,”
during the conference, Lewis smiled
affably, and said, “What do you
think?”
In an address September 3, Lewis
said “it ill behooves one who has sup
ped at labor’s table and who has been
sheltered in labor’s house, to curse
with equal fervor and fine impar
tiality both labor and its adversaries
when they become locked in deadly
embrace.” ■
Franc Hits
Bottom For
Full Decade
Paris, Sept. 15.-(AP)-A heavy sell
ing wave today toppled the French
franc to its lowest depth in more than
a decade. The franc closed at 29.35 to
the dollar and 144.75 to the pound
sterling. In terms of the dollar that is
13.40* cents. The government cur
rency stabilization fund has abandon
ed attempts to bolster it for the time
being, and some believe it may go
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ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA AND VIRGINIA.
More Than Gallon
Violates the Law
SeptL 15 (AP) —Aitoi>
ney General A. A. F. Sea well said
today he thought “it is the better
opinion” that a driver of a car
carrying more than one gallon of
liquor in It would violate the 1937
liquor act.
The opinion was expressed in a
letter to Craig and Craig, Winston-
Salem law firm, and quoting pre
vious letters from the office of the
attorney general.
The 1937 liquor law says: “It shall
not be unlawful for any person to
transport x x x x not in excess of
one gallon from a county in North
Carolina coming under x x x this
act to or through another county
xxx not coming under it.”
BAILEY IN DENIAL
AS NEWDEAL FOE
Senator Enumerates Roose
velt Measures He Has
Given Support
Dally Dispatch Bureau,
In the Sir Walter Hotel.
Raleigh, Sept. 15. —Many papers and
a large part of the public may list
Senator Josiah W. Bailey on the ros
ter of New Deal opponents and as
sailants, but the senior senator from
North Carolina declines so to class
himself.
The senator makes this very clear
in a letter he has written the editor
of the Raleigh News and Observer
after that paper headlined his Win
ston-Salem address as an assault on
the New Deal, the story under this
headline declaring that Bailey “at
tacked the President’s program.”
In his letter the senator expresses
the opinion that President Roosevelt
does not favor “mass democracy.”
, “I hope and believe that he stands
for Constitutional Representative
Democracy, just as I do,” he wrote.
Senator Bailey listed 13 measures
for which he voted and which he call
ed part of the President’s program.
He mentioned three items on the
Roosevelt agenda which he opposed in
the last Congress.
Measures which Bailey said he sup
ported were Soil Conservation Act,
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HENDERSON, N. C., WEDNESDAY AFTERNO ON, SEPTEMBER 15, 1937 p
Biggest Slash Would Come
In Cotton, With 2 3-4,
Million Acre Cut
In Prospect
TOBACCO PUT DOWN
AT ABOUT THE SAME
Rice Would Be Reduced
Sharply, But All Other
Crops Would Remain At
About Same Acreage as
This Year; Tar Heel Club
To Elect Officers
Washington, Sept. 15. —(AP) —Farm
leaders took up today a tentative ad
ministration proposal to control 1938
crop production by an acreage-limita
tion program reaching into every
county.
Secretary Wallace presented the
suggestion to more than 100 State
AAA officials, agricultural committee
men and others summoned for a dis
cussion of general farm legislation.
Proposals made before the group
call for a reduction in the land plant
ed to cotton and rice, with corn, to
bacco, potatoes and peanuts to be kept
near their present level.
Cooperative farmers would receive
checks from the $500,000,000 fund au
thorized by Congress for annual pay
ments under the soil conservation
act. Each farm would have a limit
or goal. The suggested, “goals’’ were
not specific and other details were
not disclosed.
Following is a comparison between
acreage planted this year and the
highest suggested for next year:
Crops 1937 * 1938
Cotton 38,736,000 31,000,000
Corn 96,146,000 96,000,000
Tobacco 1,690,000 1,660,000
Potatoes 3,224,000 3,300,000
Peanuts ...... 1,666,000 1,600,000
Rice 1,003,000 875,000
H, R. Tolley, AAA administrator,
said the conference was not an at
tempt to agitate for a special con
gressional session this fall.
Meantime, the North Carolina Dem-
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Extradition Made
In Case of Theft
Os One Coon Dog
Raleigh, Sept. 15.—(AP)— A
South Carolina coon dog allegedly
valued at $l5O resulted in an ex
tradition today after a hearing
here before Parole Commissioner
Edwin Gill.
Governor Olin D. Johnston, of
South Carolina, sent the requisi
tion papers, which said Henry and
Suie Fields were in jail at Smith
field charged with the theft of
D. W. Anderson’s valuable hunt
ing dog in Horry coui ty. Ander
son attended the hearings.
Gill recommended the request
that the men be turned over to
Horry* county officers be honor
ed. W. I. Godwin, of field,
appeared as counsel for the de
fendants and J. C. B. Ehringhaus,
Jr., of the staff of the attorney
general, represented South Caro
lina through comity.
Death Rate
Declines In
This State
Raleigh, Sept. 15 (AP) —The death
rate in North Carolina dropped from
9.3 in 1936 to 9.2 per 100,000 popula
tion last month, the State Board of
Health reported today, and the ma
ternal death rate per 1,000 live births
showed an unusual decline from 5.8
to 3.6.
There were 2,578 deaths last month
and 2,591 in August, 1936, and there
were 6,747 births this August, com
pared with 6,771 a year ago, a rate of
24.1 this year, and 24.2 last.
Deaths from automobile accidents
showed a jump from 74 to 88, and
railroad accidents killed 12 last month
and ten a year ago. Accidental
drowning deaths last month were up
nine to 33; accidental deaths from
firearms were up three to seven, and
deaths from burns increased six to 16
last month.
WEATHER
FOR NORTH CAROLINA.
Fair, warmer in central portion
tonight; Thursday partly cloudy,
somewhat cooler in late afternoon
in extreme north portion.
“Pirate” Sub Here?
"X SUBMARINE. 1 I
m®- ] LOCATED MERE
“Pirate” sub reported here
This map shows where a damaged
“pirate” submarine, with its crew
alive but unable to bring the craft
to the surface, was reported to
have been found on the ocean
floor by Spanish government
divers off the Cartagena naval
base, on the southern Mediter
ranean coast of Spain.
—Central Press
FOREIGNERS URGE
THAI BOTH SIDES
SAVE ‘INNOCENTS’
American and Four Other
Nations’ Naval Com
manders Make Ap
peals at Shanghai
CHINESE PUT HALT
TO JAPANESE DRIVE
Far to North, However, Ja
pan Throws 125,000 Men
Into Battle Line in Area
Where Real Significance of
Undeclared War Lies as
Conflict Rages
Shanghai, Sept. 15.—(AF)—Naval
commanders of the United States and
four other western powers demanded
today that both Chinese and Japanese
anti-aircraft gunners take immediate
steps to spare the lives of “innocent
non-combatants.”
The urgent request of American Ad
miral Harry Yarnell and the other
neutral naval commanders went for
ward while Chinese, in the face of
wave after wave of Japanese attack
ers, stood fast on their new inland
line, stretching 20 miles north and
west of international Shanghai.
Far to the north the whole might
of 125,000 Japanese troops and their
modern equipment was thrown into
the long-bogged offensive against a
100-mile battle line. This campaign,
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TERRELL’S APPEAL
IS UP NEXT WEEK
Raleigh, Sept. 15 (AP)— Twenty
six cases are docketed for argu
ment before the Supreme Court
next week, appealed from the third
and eighteenth judicial district.
In one case, Ted Terrell is ap
pealing from a sentence of 20
years in prison imposed in War
ren county after his conviction of
second degree murder in connec
tion with the slaying of Andrew
Knight.
Liquor Head
Replies To
His Critics
Raleigh, Sept. 15 (AP)—Cutlar
Moore, chairman of the State Liquor
Commission, said today, “I am carry
ing out the intent of the 1937 control
law to the best of my ability, and I
expect criticism”, after reading re
marks of Mayor T. E. Cooper, of Wil
mington, about an order that liquor
advertising in newspapers be cen
sored.
Cooper said he, as a member of the
legislature, voted for the liquor bill,
but “never dreamed that I was sup
porting a measure that would create
a dictatorship in North Carolina to
interfere with free speech and free
Pl Moore said concerning the State
board regulations he was reminded of
the old saying attributed to the little
boy: “Sticks and stones may break
my back, but names will never hurt
me.” _ _
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JDXCEJPT SUNDAY. JIV Hi UJCiIN 10 GUX I
200 Warships Sent
Into Mediterranean
By Britain, France
Speaker Speaks
Speaker William B. Bankhead
Dedication of Wheeler dam, sec
ond huge unit of the Tennessee
Valley Authority, is the occasion
for a large celebration. William
B. Bankhead, speaker of the na
tional house of representatives, is
seen delivering the principal ad
dress. President Roosevelt sent a
message saying the development
“meets the popular desire ex
pressed through congressional
mandate for planned conservation
and utilization of the natural re
sources”.
—Central Press
Fresh Drive
LponMadrid
Is Launched
But Spanish Metro
polis and Former
Capital Pays But
Little Attention
Madrid, Sept. 15. —(AP) —The thun
der of a fresh insurgent attempt to
smash into Madrid, this time through
the southwestern suburbs, rolled over
this war-tired metropolis today.
Defense commanders shrugged and
commented, “No substantial gains.”
Children played at warfare of their
own on the heavy stone street bar
ricades erected for a grimmer pur
pose—played while men died scarcely
a mile away.
Mothers sat in the sun and nursed
infants born since November 6 when
the insurgents laid siege to the for
mer capital of republican Spain.
Civilian Madrid at large went about
its business scarcely noticing the com
bat. Shell-fire, the exploding land
mines and the clatter of machine guns
crescended today.
TWO INSURGENT COLUMNS
PRESS BATTLE WESTWARD
Hendaye, Franco-Sapnish Frontier,
Sept. 15. —(AP) —Two Spanish insur
gent columns battled westward today
a,gainst mountain fog, rain and snow
and slowly retreating bands of retreat
ing Asturian soldiers.
But Both Sides Putting Out
Propaganda Claiming
Facts With Them
By CHARLES P. STEWART
Central Press Columnist
Washington, Sept. 15.—Drys, un
doubtedly badly disorganized by pro
hibition repeal, are showing an in
clination to renew their activities.
Their new campaign, merely in its
incipiency as yet, thus far is only edu
cational rather than militant. That is,
its design seems to be to show that
repeal has vastly increased alcoholic
intemperance; not to urge a return to
a prohibitive system.
Probably very few of them hope to
restore national prohibition for a long
time to come.
Their plan evidently is to dry up
localities only—city wards, municipal
ities, counties, states even. And, of
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TODAY
Plans Laid To Shift Weight
of Patrol Quickly Wher
ever Trouble May
Develop
ITALY TO PROTEST
NAVAL ALLOTMENTS
Nine-Power “Piracy” Con
ference Gives Rome Only
Her Western Coast To
Watch; Soviets To Oppose
Firmly Any Enlargement
of Italy’s Share
London, Sept. 15.—(AP)— Russia
was reported to he reliably determin
ed today to block Italian demands for
parity in the international patrol of
the Mediterranean and to force vir
tual isolation of the nation she has
accused of piracy.
Italy’s protest that the patrol sys
tem “seems unacceptable” was based
on the immediate prospects of an
Anglo-French war fleet cruising the
length and breadth of a body of water
Italians call “our sea,” and the pro
posed relegation of Italy to the patrol
of a comparatively obscure oorner.
To meet the demand for parity, de
livered to the French and British em
bassies in Rome last night, the nine
European powers who mapped the
patrol would have to reopen negotia
tions almost before the ink had dried
on the Nyon protocol.
And even if they did, there would
stand the Soviet Union, Italy’s ac
cuser, almost certain to oppose any
enlargement of Italy’s patrol beyond
the Tyrrhenian Sea, off taly’s west
ern coast, as assigned to her yester
day at Nyon, Switzerland.
200 FRENCH AND BRITISH
WARSHIPS TO INLAND SEA
Paris, Sept. 15.—(AP) —France and
Great Britain have mobilized nearly
200 warships in the Mediterranean in
their hunt for marine marrauders.
Organized on a full wartime footing,
the combined fleet is to reach its max
imum strength in a week, when all ad
ditions ordered for patrol duty arrive.
Working in closest collaboration,
commanders of the British and
French warships have laid plans to
shift the patrol fleet’s weight quickly
to any section where trouble might
arise, thus backing with armed might
the nine-power anti-piracy agreement
reached at Nyon, Switzerland.
PARSONS BELIEVES
MISSING WIFE DEAD
But Long Island Man , Doubts Authen
ticity of Reports She Died
of Pneumonia
New York, Sept. 15. —(AP) —William
H. Parsons, the Stony Brook, L. 1.,
pigeon farmer, whose socially prom
inent wife, Alice McDonald Parsons,
disappeared mysteriously 14 weeks
ago, said today he believed she is dead
but doubts the authenticity of letters
reporting her death from pneumonia.
Federal agents investigating since
June 9 declined to say they believed
Mrs. Parsons is dead.
“I don’t know whether these letters
now in the hands of Federal agents
are authentic or not,’’ Parsons said.
“They may be the work of a crank. I
feel, however, that if Alice were alive,
she would have communicated with
me.”
Early Connelly, Department of Jus
tice agent in charge of the case, de
clined to say whether his men had
intercepted letters from supposed kid
napers saying Mrs. Parsons died of
pneumonia July 9, but Benjamin
Shives, attorney for Mrs. Anna Kup
riaova, who lived at the Parsons
home, as well as Parsons himself, con
firmed the report.
Japan Will
SpumMove
For Peace
Geneva, Sept. 15. —(AP) —Japan
will refuse and ignore even friend
ly mediation by the League of Na
tions in the Sino-Japanese con
flict, the Japanese minister to
Switzerland disclosed today.
The Japanese envoy, Eiji Amau,
told The Associated Press Japan
would brook no interference in
the Far Eastern crisis.
His statement came as the Lea
gue pondered what, if any, ac
tion to take on China’s blistering
indictment of “Japanese aggres
sion” and her demand for a Lea
gue denunciation of the Japanese
military campaign.