North Carolina Newspapers

Tobacco Averages. $28.06 Wednesday, Highest Os The' Season HENDERSON I GATEWAY TO CENTRAL CAROLINA TWENTY-FOURTH YEAR leased wire service of _ THE ASSOCIATED PRESS. tOOO CASUALTIES IN BOMBHSS BT JAPS Prices Os Tobacco Continue To Climb OnHendcrsonMart Season Figures Here So Far Believed Highest for Belt or Elsewhere In State HEAVY SALES SEEN FOR COMING WEEK First Full Week of Season Has Poundage of 1,269,412, With $335,505.62 Paid for $26.43 Average; Growers Are Pleased With Prices Paid Tobacco prices hit a new high for the season on the Henderson tobacco market Wednesday when an average of $28.06 was made for the day’s sale. Offerings were light, with only 168,- 130 pounds sold, but total receipts amounted to $47,178.06, according to official figures announced by R. W. (McFarland, sales supervisor. Mr. McFarland said that during the first week farmers from seventeen counties have, sold tobacco on the Henderson market, some of this being from Virginia “and maybe a few loads from South Carolina.” And, he added, practically every man who has sold so far in Henderson, left the market with his face wreathed in smiles. Since the market opened on Thurs day of last week, Wednesday marked the end of the first full week of the season, and during that time total sales aggregated 1,269,412 pounds, with $335,505.62 paid for the leaf handled, and an average of $26.43 per hundred pounds. Season figures here are believed to be perhaps the highest for the season not only of any market in the Middle Belt, but anywhere else in the State. Sales were moderately large in vol ume on opening day and again on last Monday, but most farmers are still either stripping their leaf or finishing up the odds and ends of curing, or do ing other urgent work about their farms, and have not been able as yet to get to markec with large quan (Continued on Page Eight.) Money For Test Farm Al located Raleigh, Sept. 23 (AP)-The budget bureau approved expenditure by ® Department of Agriculture tdoay of up to $20,000 for acquiring a peanut fd>rm W. Kerr Scott, agriculture commis sioner, said the board held options on the 250-acre Edwards farm ad joining the upper coastal plane test farm in Edgecombe county, and the land will be purchased. The board will also lease land ‘ far ther over” in the commercial peanut section for peanut test purchases, Scott said. The tobacco station at Oxford was allocated $5,000, contingent upon se curing an SBO,OOO Federal appropria tion recommended for tobacco re search there. Authorization was given the coastal plain farm at Willard to purchase 129 acres for $6,500 to be used for dairy experimental purposes, and S4OO was made available for repair of chicken houses there. Roosevelt Sees Many Os Leaders Aboard Roosevelt Train, EnJoute to Seattle, Wash., Sept. 23. President Roosevelt, during has first day out ort the west coast trip, con ferred more than an hour todaj 7 wi Illinois and Nebraska party le f d ® l ** as his special train was switched through Chicago. . Governors Henry Horner of Illinois and R. L. Cochrane of Nebraska *mre among officials who boarded the tram at the Root street yards, where a small crowd had gathered. Mr. Roos'e (Continued' 1 on Page Four.) •Hrnftrrsntt oathi iltspatrir Missing Yacht Is Seen Near Azores New York, Sent. 23—(AP)—Coast Guard officials here today were ad vised by Douglass Williams of the London Dally Telegraph that the racing yacht Endeavor had been located 200 miles southwest of the Azores. The craft, T. O. M. Sopwith, 1934 challenger, broke away from its towing boat during a storm near Newport September 13. No Ballyhoo InPromotion For Market McFiarland Says Prices Exceed Ex pectations; 17 Coun ties Have Sold Here by b, w. McFarland, Henderson Sales Supervisor. The Henderson tobacco market commenced its selling season for the 1937 crop last Thursday morning, September 16. The opening was void of the “ballyhoo” so prevalent in re cent years on many markets, telling the farmers of what they expected to do and were doing, which said “bally hoo” did not materialize when the true averages .were published. On the other hand, the officials of the Henderson market on the opening day gave to the press an “estimated” aver age of $25.50 and the official average when it was ascertained was $25.70. At no time since the opening of the market have our estimated averages varied as much as 50 cents per hun dred pounds from the official average. Up to the time of the writing of this article (Tuesday night) during the four days of the Henderson market’s operation for this season, the ware houses have sold 1,102,302 pounds of tobacco for $288,327.46, which is an average for the whole of $26.16. We (Continued on Page Three.) DR. FRANCIS SALLEY AUTO CRASH VICTIM Lancaster Physician Killed Four Days After Announcement of En gagement To Marry 1 Lancaster, S. C., Sept. 23. —(AP) Dr. Francis E. Salley, 28-year-old Lan caster physician, died early today the victim of an automobile accident, just four days after his engagement to marry was announced. Injured when his car left the high way on a curve near here about mid night, Dr. Salley was rushed to a Charlotte hospital, but liv<?d only a short time. He had suffered a blow over the left eye and severe chest hurts.. At the time of the accident he was riding alone. Last Sunday’s papers announced the engagement of the physician to Miss Adelaide Brown, of Spartanburg. The wedding had been set for October 23. No inquest will .be held. Farm Diversification Is Urged By Gov . Hoey In Plymouth Address Columbia, Sept. 23.—(AD—Gover nor Hoey urged greater diversification of agriculture in North Carolina and cooperative efforts by farmers to 30lve their economic problems as he dedicated the new Tyrrell county ag ricultural building here today. H S. Swain, president of the Tyr rell County Farm Bureau, welcomed Hoey and visitors, and J. C. Meekins introduced the governor. “There is no panacea for the trou bles of agriculture t ” said the gover ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA AND VIRGINIA. Route of President Roosevelt’s trip to Seattle, Wash., to visit his daughter, Mrs.' John Boettiger, and return, is shown above. Except for an address at Bonneville dam on the Columbia river on Sept. 28, no “formal speeches” were scheduled for the president. On his return trip, en route to Washington, the president will dedicate the new Outer Drive bridge in Chicago on the morning of October 5. He is due in Washington on the morning of October 6. New Legion Head > X; v: : -' >:• , nSKI m ' ” <Daniel J. Doherty J Woburn, Ma§s. School Cost $21,343,361 1936-7 Year e Teachers Received $17,799,600 of Total; Vance, Henderson Costs Given Raleigh, Sept. 23.—CAP) —North Carolina’s State-supported school term cost $21,343,361.02 for 1936-37. Lloyd Griffin, secretary of the State Sdhool released today the complete audit for the 1936-37 ses sion, prepared by the commission’s auditor, J. G. Vann. The schools last year cost 5.89 per cent more than the $20,155,735.69 spent in ’35-’35. None of the figures included local supplements. Teachers got 83.65 per cent of the 1936-37 expenditures. Their salary item totalled $17,977,600.75, up 7.25 percent from 1935-36. For instruction al service, a total of $17,852,730.90 was spent last year. The commission had available for expenditure in 1936-37 an appropria tion of $20,900,000 and other funds a (Continaed on Page Eight.) nor. “Wise legislation and governmen tal assistance will help. The farmer is entitled to all the benfit possible to be derived from this source, but the individual farmer will need to map out a long time program for him self and his own farm, and his ulti mate success will depend in a large measure upon his own wisdom and judgment in managing his own af f&irs/’ Hoey left early to speak at an In stitute of Government meeting in Tax boro in the late afternoon. HENDERSON, N. C., THURSDAY AFTERNOO N, SEPTEMBER 23, 1937 Route of President Roosevelt’s Tour to the Northwest -4 . '4. / • . 41 y •'T-VHW.O , 4 .../LrpdiSf; vs. .1 lg§P : -\4 NCU.SSNIAH.f . aod aNva-j ■ . ~ ; s ... - :w ms; WBM i • Legion Wants Biggest Navy In World And Greater Army Votes for Continued C. M. i T. C. and R. O. T. C. Units Continued by U. S. Government ALSO ASKsIbOOSTS IN NATIONAL GUARD Opposes Selling Any Helium Gas Abroad and Demands Larger National Air Force and Naval Auxiliary of Merchant Ships for United States New York, Sept. 23. — (AP) Daniel J. Doherty, 43-year-old Woburn, Mass., lawyer, who serv ed 17 months in the American navy during the World War, was elected national commander of the American Legion today. His selection by the 1,339 dele gates to the 1937 annual conven tion was unanimous. Doherty had been regarded as a favorite, but a tough fight had been expected with the delegation in favor of Raymond Kelly, De troit corporation counsel. Besides Kelly’s name, the names of Milo Warner, of Toledo, Ohio, and Stephen Chadwick, of the State of Washington, were put in nomination. > New York, Sept. 23.—(AP)— The American Legion’s national defense program report, calling for the big gest navy in the world and big in creases in the standing army, was adopted amid woofs and shouts today at the final session of the nineteenth annual convention. The report was submitted by Rob ert. Shaw, chairman of the Sigourney, lowa, as the delegates met in the Metropolitan Opera House. It recommended continuation of the C. M, T. C. camps and the R. O. T. C. camps, recommended a navy second to none in the world and in creases in the standing army to bring its strength to 180,000 at once. The report also recommended an additional National Guard of 210,000, (Continued on Page Eight.) Mrs . Douglas Elected Head Os Auxiliary New York, Sept. 23.—(AF) — Mrs. Malcolm Douglas, of Seattle, Wash., was elected today president of the American Legion Auxiliary. Mrs. A. H. Hoffman of Des Moines, lowa, her opponent for the post, withdrew. Mrs. Douglas succeeds Mrs. Oscar Hahn, of Wayne, Neb., who was not eligible for re-election as president under the bylaws of the Auxiliary. The new national president is the wife of Judge Malcolm Douglas, of the Washington Superior Court, and has three children. She ran for the presidency of the Auxiliary three years ago in Miami, Fla., hut with drew in favor of Mrs! Alvin Carlson, Minnesota, in order, she said, “to pro mote harmony in the organization.” WEATHER FOR NORTH CAROLINA. Fair tonight and Friday. Britain To Call Hand Os Japs Under Treaty United * States Signed Gener*, Sept. 23.—(AP)—Great • “ Britain was understood today to be planning to-invoke the Wash ington pact guaranteeing China’s territorial integrity as a last re sort to bring Japan to an inter national conference to stop the Sino-Japanese war. Such a move would have the additional advantage of bringing the United States into full coop- • eration on measures to halt the Far Eastern step con sidered essential if the peace ef forts are to meet with success. Geneva circles considered a ROOSEVELTPLANS^ Washington Thinks Consti tution Speech Proof That He Will Fight By CHARLES P. STEWART Central Press Columnist Washington, Sept. 23.—After taking a few days to digest President Roose velt’s Constitution Day speech, poli ticians of both parties appear to be arriving quite generally at the con clusion that the White House tenant has no thought of attempting any compromise with the Democratic ele ment which opposed certain of his po licies at the last session of Congress. It is agreed that he expressed him self with a minimum of bitterness but with no hint of a disposition to modify his position an inch. He may not continue to insist upon adoption of his Supreme Court pro gram but he made it clear that he still thinks it is a plan Which ought to be adopted. The anti-court plan folk have no fault to find with the presidential ar (Continued on Page Three.) FURTHER DECLINES SHOWN FOR COTTON Easier Cables, Hedge Selling And Liquidation Depress Market at The Start New York, Sept. 23. —(AP)— futures opened barely steady, three to six points lower on easier Liver pool cables and under hedge selling and liquidation. December sold off from 8.56 to 8.53, and shortly after the first half hour was quoted at 8.54, when the list showed net losses of five to eight points December held at 8.54, the list showing net losses of at five to seven points at midday. The close was barely steady, 14 to 19 points lower. Spot quiet, middling 8.74. Open Close October 8.65 8.54 December 8.56 8.45 January 8.00 8.49 March • 8.69 8.57 May 8.80 8.67 July 8.91 8.77 pdbl ™^’cS?Bun"?™ oo " five cents copy Japan,, while ignoring League of Nations initiatives, would scarce ly refuse a nine-power consulta tion under the treaty she signed in Washington in 1922 with China, the United States, Great Britain, France, Italy, the Netherlands, Portugal and Belgium. The signatories agreed to re spect the sovereignty, independ ence and territorial and adminis trative integrity of China. These things China has charged before the League of Nations Japan is violating by an undeclared war of aggression. LEHERS THREATEN DENHARDTLAWYER Attorney for Slain Kentuck ian Warned Not To At tend Hearing k Bowling Green, Ky., Sept 23.—(AP) —Disclosure that an attorney for Brigsdiei-General Henrv Denhardt, vict*m of one of Kentucky's most s*r national slayings, had receive 1 three threatening letters heightened n*erest in the case to’.ay. The disclosure came as this city prepared to' pay final roepect to a hometown boy who became one of the blue grass state’s outstanding po litical and military figures, only to die in a hail of bullets fired by the (Continued on Page Four.) T :rs Nobody Really Thinks He Will Oppose Bob Rey nolds Next Year . Dally Dispatch Barean. In The Sir Walter Hotel. Raleigh, Sept. 23.—Little more than smiling incredulity has been found as Raleigh’s reaction to recently written stories to the effect that tobacco chewing Cameron Morrison is likely to oppose actress-kissing Robert R. Reynolds for the Senate next year. This correspondent has been unable to find even one political wiseacre who puts any credence in the reports, the general opinion being that it was an interesting yarn written by an en terprising newsman on' a day when news was scarce and something had to be done about the matter of fill ing two or three sheets of copy paper. In effect, the consensus seems to be that if Mr. Morrison really believes he has a chance to defeat Reynolds in 1938, the former governor and sen (Continued on Page Three.) 19 Page* YL Today TWO SECTIONS. FEAR OF WORLD’S HOSTILITY DELAYS NANKING ATTACKS Raids on Canton Leave Weeping Women and Wailing Children Roaming Streets COASTAL PROVINCES TARGETS OF PLANES United States Embassy Re news Pleas to Americans To Evacuate - Shantung Port; War Planes and War ships Join in Attacks On Canton Shanghai, Sept. 23. (AP) —Two thousand Chinese, most of them re fugees, are estimated to have been killed or injured in a two days’ Jap anese aerial bombardment of Canton, south China city. The raids, today and yesterday, left weeping women and wailing children searching the ruins of densely-packed dwelling areas of the poorer classes. Thousands roam the streets be wildered and almost deranged with anguish and terror. The Japanese bombing of non-com batants throughout the nation’s sea board provinces and northern areas extended to Tsinanfu, capital of Shan tung province, when a lone invader flew over a suburb and loosed one . bomb, wounding nine civilians. The United States Embassy reiterat ed its urging that Americans eva cuate to Tsingtao, Shantung port, and thence to Manila. Germans were urg ed to hoist their' national flags prom inently on all their property. Thirty Japanese bombers raided the (Continued on Page Three.) Insurgents Open Drive Upon Gijon Hendaye, Franco-Spanish Frontier, Sept. 23.—*(AP)—.Spanish insurgents were reported today to have opened a concerted offensive by land, sea and air to smash the Asturian “iron ring” defense of Gijon. Advices reaching the French bor der said the “big push” was centered on government positions near the mouth of the Sella river, about 30 air miles east of Gijon. General Francisco Franco’s bomb ing planes swept A Biscayan .fishing port at the riVer mouth in a fierce assault yesterday and also dropped bombs -on nearby Asturian, or govern ment, fortifications. « While the insurgents waged this campaign to dislodge the government completely from northwestern Spain, government forces were said to have pushed into enemy territory on the southern front and to have exceuted a victorious surprise attack on the upper Aragon front, within a few miles of the French frontier. The upper Arago/i onslaught, the government said, had brought a large gain of government territory. U. S.-Britain Act To Curb “Hot” Money Restraints Planned for Floating Capi tal; Hughes Meets With Justices . Washington, Sept. v 23 (AP)—A hint of possible mutual action by the Unit ed States and Great Britain to curb international “hot money” movements through taxation came today from Secretary Morgenthau. The problem of international capi tal movements and their effects on domestic economy has been under study by the Treasury, Federal Re serve Board and Securities Commis sion for more than a year. - President Roosevelt has expressed .(Continued on Page Three.)