HENDERSON TOBACCO PRICES HIT NEW SEASON HIGH
HENDERSON
GATEWAY TO
CENTRAL
CAROLINA I
TWENTY-FOURTH YEAR
ORDER 200,000 CHINESE TO BATTLE FRONT
WEEK’S AVERAGE ON
HENDERSON TOBACCO
AT HIGH Os $28.78
Sales Supervisor McFarland
Says He Does Not Be
lieve Any Other Mar
k ket Equals It
WAR IN CHINA IS
SEEMINGLY AIDING
Top Grades Sell Freely at
$55 and S6O and Taken by
Both Domestic and Foreign
Interests; Farmers From
Wide Area Like Hender
son Market
by r. w. McFarland,
Supervisor of Sales.
Many inquiries have been received
by us wanting to know what effect the
present Sino-Jap war will have upon
the prices of tobacco. From the sales
on this market, it appears to have
raised the prices, for at this writing,
as in the past, not only the domestic
companies, but the foreign companies,
have been buying freely, and every
day prices are stronger on the top
grades. As an illustration, the writer
at this hour, 10 a. m., has just re
turned from the warehouses and finds
the top grades selling freely from $55
to S6O, these grades being bought by
both the domestic and the foreign
companies.
While today’s average may not
reach the high average attained Mon
day. of $29.95, as on Mondays there
always seems to be mo«*-4©eal tot
bacco on the market than other days
of the week, and the tobacco raised
around in this section cannot be beat
for its high quality and sweetness, in
the sale today, as heretofore, there is
tobacco from a great many eastern
counties, yet the average for the
whole may almost reach Monday’s
high average.
Many farmers, not only from this
section but from a long distance, like
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MISSING PLANE IN
FAR WEST IS FOUND
Tri-Motored Plane Comes to Ground
Safely; It Was Manned by
California Party
Albuquerque, N. M., Sept. 30.—(AP)
—Transcontinental & Western Air of
ficers here reported today they had
been notified a private tri-motored
transport plane, unreported with three
passengers aboard since yesterday
morning, had landed at Kingman,
Ariz.
Aboard the ship, which left here
at 10:05 a. m., mountain standard
time, yesterday, for the easy two
hour hop, were Pilot Garland Lincoln,
Hollywood stunt flier; Earl Hobson,
of El Segundo, Cal., and H. B. Tay
lor, Las Vegas, N. M., mechanic.
Motor trouble twice had forced the
plane to land said Lincoln, who aid
ed Jimmy Mattern in his search for
the lost Russian trans-polar fliers, had
purchased it in Rovinson, Mo., for
Leonard Goldstein, Hollywood motion
picture producer.
Judge White
WasKlucker
Dixon Says
Author of “Clans
man” Gives Infor
mation About Late
Chief Justice
Raleigh, Sept. 30.—(AP)— The Ra
leigh Times, in a copyrighted stoiy
today, quotes L>r. Thomas Dixon, au
thor of ‘‘The Clansman,” as saying
today the late Chief Justice Edward
White, of the U.uited Supreme Court,
was a member of the ‘‘old ’ Ku K1
Dixon, now clerk of Federal djstnct
court here, discuiised Justice win e
membership in the klan when as e
for his views on the changes sso
ciate Justice Hugo °
bama had accepted a lifetime me -
bership in the K. -K. K. a ew y
if there haid been any
men on the Supreme C° ur
knowledge, the article quo
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Tmthcrsnn -Datiii Sisrtatrh
MJBased wire SERVICE OB*
the associated press.
Statistics Given
Ort Tobacco Sales
Wednesday’s sale on the Hender
son toljgeco market amounted to
214,520 poihids, selling for $61,201.62
at an average of $28.52. For the
first tliree days of this week, total
sales were 1,159,240 pounds at an
average of 28.78, with approximate
ly $235,009 paid out by buyers. For
the season through Wednesday of
this wefck sales have 'been 3,132,-
232 brought $864,432.-
88 at an afterage of $27.60 per hun
■ dred pounds.
The figures are official by R. W.
McFarland| sales supervisor for the
market. Ihf.said last Monday’s sales
of 644,092 pounds was the largest
for any one day in the liistory of
the at an average of $29.95
highest since 1934. Fanners from
22 counties sold in Henderson on
Monday, the supervisor said.
Judge Black
Will Answer
Allegations
New Supreme Court
Justice Will Speak
Over Radio on Fri
day Night
Washington, Sept. 30.—(AP)—Asso
ciate Justice Hugo Black, President
Roosevelt’s appointment to the Su
preme Court, will speak to the nation
over the radio tomorrow night, pre
sumably to reply to allegations he is
a member of the Ku Klux Klan.
National Broadcasting Company of
ficials here announced Black, who re
turned yesterday from a European
vacation, would make his address over
nationwide radio facilities from 9:30
to 10 p. m., eastern standard time. ,
Upon his arrival in Norfolk, Va,
yesterday, the justice told two score
newsmen that whenever he had any
statement to make on the klan char
ges he would ‘‘make it in away that
cannot be misquoted, and so the na
tion can heart it.”
Whether Black consulted with the
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PRICES OF COTTON
FLUCTUATE LITTLE
Opening Is Lower, but Followed by
Slight Rallies, With Prices
. Mixed At Midday
New York, Sept. 30.—(AP)—Cotton
futures opened steady, down three to
six points under lower Liverpool cab
les, favorable weather and hedge sell
ing. October recovered from 8.17 to
8.20 shortly after the first half hour,
when prices generally were one to
five points net lower December at
midday was 819, and the list was two
points net higher to five lower.
SCOTTMiRD
TASK FOR HEARING
Must Placate All Groups In
Preparing for Senate
Committee Meet
Dally Dispatch Bureau.
In The Sir Walter Hotel.
Raleigh, Sept. 30.—Few people envy
W. Kerr Scott, State commissioner of
agriculture, in the task he faces try
ing to satisfy everybody concerned
with the farm hearing in Winston-
Salem before a subcommittee from
the Scnat Agriculture committee,
headed by Ellison D. (Cotton Ed)
Smith.
The latest action of the committee —
adding East Tennessee and Virginia
to the region from which represen
tatives are to be heard —did nothing
to decrease Mr. Scott’s difficulties.
Now all he has to do is to arrange
it so that everybody who wants to be
heard can be heard in the short span
(Continued on Pago Two).
ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA AND VIRGINIA.
Reporters Besiege Black on His Return to U. S.
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Justice Black, center, with reporters after disembarking
An army of reporters—more than 100 greeted him surrounds Justice Hugo L. Black of the U. S. supreme court as
he returned to the U. S. at Norfolk, Va. The justice hinted he would make a statement over the radio concerning
allegations he once was made a ‘‘life member” of the J^on.
• : i ' .:•- 1 ' E. ■ 1
REJECTS INfIUIRY
OF JUSTICE BLACK
Orders Further Study, How
ever, of Proposed Con
demnation of Oath-
Bound Societies
BATTALION OF DEATH
ASKED BY SUMNERS
Texas Democrat, Chairman
of House Judiciary Com
mittee, Calls for Volunteers
in Fight To Save Constitu
tional Government In
United States
Kansas City, Sej<:. 30, —(AP) - The
.Airtrican Bar iti«m tndny kill
* c an investigation of the appointment
of Justice Black, but in heated debate
directed further study of a proposed
condemnation of membership in “se
cret oath-bound” organizations as in
compatable with the position of Su
preme Court justices.
The assembly of tie association, al
most evenly divided, instructed the
resolutions committee to make a joint
study of the secret order resolution
and of a suggestion mode by Less
ing Rosenthal, of Chicago, that the
bar association go o l record favoring
mandatory public Hearings in the
Senate on all OnM :r Supreme Couit
nominations.
Meanwhile, Representative Hath-n
Continued on Page Five.)
High Prices!,
For Opening
Os Old Belt
Winston-Salem, Sept. 30.—(AP)—
Opening sales on the Winston-Salem
bright leaf tobacco market today ap
proximated 1,000,000 pounds and the
price average was estimated at S3O
per hundred pounds.
J. T. Booth, market supervisor, said
“the price is the best for any open
ing day for any years in more than
ten.”
$25 AVERAGE ESTIMATED
AT OPENING IN ROXBORO
Roxboro, Sept. 30. —(AP) — With
some 200,000 pounds on the local ware
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HENDERSON, N. C., THURSDAY AFTERNOON, SEPTEMBER 30,1937
Mussolini May Be Told
To Leave Spain Or Take
Consequences To Ensue
Alternative Might Be Open ing of French Border for
Free Flow of Munitions and Supplies to Govern
ment Troops; Britain-France in Challenge
Geneva, Sept. 30.—(AP) —A League
of Nations sub-committee was under
stood today to have reached a fateful
decision to present Premier Mussolini
with the alternative of withdrawing
his Italian volunteers from the Span
ish civil war or seeing the French
frontier thrown open to arms and men
for the Spanish Valencia government.
A delegate who left the session of
the committee drafting a resolution
on the Spanish civil conflict said “this
agreement had been reached after a
heated three-hour argument.” He re
ported that the draft resolution does
not refer to the “foreign aggression”
which Spain had charged against Italy
but rather to “foreign intervention.”
CHALLENGE TO MUSSOLINI
GIVEN BY FRANCE. BRITAIN
London, Sept. 30.—(AP)—The deter
mined Anglo-French move to end in
tervention in Spain’s civil war ctyal
FOES OF REYNOLDS
FIND UM HOPE
New Deal Candidates Easy
Winners Everywhere
Tests Are Made
Daily Dispatch Bureau,
In the Sir Walter Hotel.
Raleigh, Sept. 30. —Those people, po
liticians and otherwise, who would
like to see Senator Robert R. Rey
nolds unseated next year have receiv
ed cold comfort from recent political
developments, particularly from the
count of votes in New York City and
a Massachusetts congressional by
election.
The anti-Reynoldssites had hoped
that all this recent agitation against
Supreme Court Justice Hugo Black
and against the President and the
New Deal was gathering momentum
and votes for their side. The over-
Continued on Page Two.)
'HEATHER
FOR NORTH CAROLINA.
Mostly cloudy tonight and Fri
day; probably occasional rains in
southeast portion Friday.
lenged Premier Mussolini today to
prove he meant what he said in his
loud peace offer during his visit to
Chancellor Hitler.
The Italian premier was expected ifcy
certain diplomatic quarters to counter
the invitation to tri-power talks aim
ed at withdrawal of Italian legisions
from Spain with a blunt request that
both ends of the Rome-Berlin axies
be represented.
Whether this would constitute an
insurmountable barrier for British
and French policy remained to be
seen.
Britain and France were reported
agreed on a pressure move to force
II Duce to call Italian “volunteers”
home from Spain, where they have
been fighting under the insurgent
banner. This would be reopening of
the Franco-Spanish frontier to a free
flow of munitions —a virtual end to
British and French non-intervention.
AUSTRALIA ARMING
IN FEAR ON JAPAN
British Dominion in Far
South Seas Plans Navy
For Its Defense
By CHARLES P. STEWART
Central Press Columnist
Washington, Sept. 30.—Australia has
developed the armament complex,
now. Dispatches are beginning to
speak of it Navy and State Depart
ment folk have been taking note of it
for some time.
The Australians have had a few
cruisers dating back for a consider
able number of years, but not a fight
ing fleet of much consequence.
Today it appears that they have de
cided they need a really formidable
naval estabisnment (as formidable,
anyway, as their rather skimpy popu
lation of about 7,000,000 is capable of
creating) and need it in a hurry, too.
Australia Fears Japan.
Japan, of course, is the power of
which the people of the island-con
tinent are suspicious.
Even in the pre-war era, when
Britain and Nippon were on very
Continued on Pa go Two.).
PUBLISHED EVERY AFTERNOON
EXCEPT SUNDAY.
Communists Trying
To Block
Advance
British May Ask
Boycott of Japs
London, Sept. 30.—(AD— The
British Labor party, avowedly in
dignant at Japanese aerial bom
bardment of Chinese cities, plan
ned today t.o demand an emer
gency session of Parliament as a
firrt step toward a world boycott
of .Japanese goods
l abor party leaders announced
the matter would ’be thoroughly
threshed out at a meeting tomor
row. Immedleittfy afterwards,
Major Clement Attlee, the parlia
mentary leader of the party, was
expected to go to No. 10 Downing
street and ask a special parliamen
tary session. The House of Com
mons is not expected to convene
from its summer vacation until'
October 26.
ROOSEVELT VISITS
BRITISHCM
President Sails"from Seattle
on Destroyer Phelps* for
Short Call At
Victoria
STORMY WEATHER IS
AHEAD ON JOURNEY
President To Return and
Spend Night in Wilderness
of Northern Peninsula
Country; Refreshed After
Stay at Home of His
Daughter
Seattle, Wash., Sept. 30.—(AP)—
President Roosevelt left American
shores today for a “goodwill” visit to
Victoria, B. C., sailing on the destroy
er Phelps in a pelting, gusty rain
storm. He will return to the United
States at Port Angelus, Wash., before
nightfall.
Stormy weather tonight and tomor
row was ahead over the Olympia pen
insula area, tihe planned itinerary.
Southeast storm warnings were or
dered raised at all weather stations on
the sound and along the coast'
The President was to spend the
night at Lake Crescent, in the wild
erness of the northern peninsula
country, and drive 200 miles tomorrow,
encircling the peninsula to Tacoma
before returning to his special train.
The| President, refreshed by two
nights and a day of rest after his
cross-country trip, breakfasted at the
home of Mr. and Mrs. John Boettiger,
his son-in-law and daughter.
On today’s trip the President left
American territory for the first time
since his inter-American peace con
ference visit to Buenos Aires last No
vember and December. It also was his
second goodwill trip to Canada in 14
months.
TAR HEEL STUDENT
ACCIDENTALLY SHOT
Found Bleeding Profusely in His
Room at Princeton Univer
sity; Leg Is Smeared
Princeton, N. J., Sept. 30. —(AP) —
It was no joke—as his collegemates
thought at first —when they heard a
noise in his room at a Princeton Uni
versity boarding house and found
freshman Henry Drinker Riley, of
Southern Pines, N. C., on the floor
with his leg smeared with red.
He was in Princeton hospital today
with a bullet wound in his leg and
his friends were convinced they hadn’t
seen red ink aiyl he wasn’t pulling a
gag.
As Riley told the story:
Starting last night to unpack a bag
he had brought home from Europe,
he pulled at a pair of pajamas and
a 32-calibre revolver entangled in
them discharged, wounding him in the
right leg.
• Doctors said the 20-year-old student,
who prepared at Pomfret School in
Connecticut, suffered only a flesh
wound, but bled badly. He was a can
didate for the freshman football team.
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TODAY
FIVE CENTS COPY
Japanese
In North
Former Enemies Unite In
Chinese Ranks To Stem
Invasion From
Island Empire
CHINESE SHANGHAI
TROOPS UNSHAKEN
Remain Firm Despite Jap
“Big Push,” In Which In
vaders Throw Everything
They Have Into Drive; Rus
sian General Reported
With Chinese
Shanghai, Sept. 30—(AP)—Two hun
dred thousand more Chinese com
munists were ordered to the North
China front today to stem the relent
less advance of the Japanese army,
as Chinese outside Shanghai continu
ed to hold their positions and showed
no signs of weakening.
Communist forces in pro
vince were mustered to join National
ist troops, their old enemies, as the
Japanese advanced through eastern
Hopeh, nearly to the border of Shang
tung province, which was felt only
light, infrequent attacks from) armies
from the land of the rising run.
With their offensive in central and
northern China being pushed vigor
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KANNAPOLIS WOMAN
DIES BY OWN HAND
Walks Into Grocery Store, Gets Gun
Behind Counter; Shot Is
Heard Later
Kanapolis, Sept. 30.—(AP) Mrs.
Arthur Spry, 32, wife of a textile work
er, died today of a pistol wound,
Coroner N. J. Mitchell said was self
inflicted. Mitchell said he was inform
ed Mrs. Spry walked into a grocery
store here, picked up a pistol from
behind a counter and went out. A shot
was heard later. Mrs. Spry died en
route to a hospital at Concord.
The coroner said the woman had
been in ill health for some time.
INSURGENTS BLAST
WAY OPEN TO SEA
Aranda’s Shock Troops Scale 5,000-
Foot Mountain Peak To Gain
Objectives
Hendaye, Franco-Spanish Frontier,
Sept. so.—(AP) —Spanish insurgents
were reported today to have stormed
mountain fortifications of the As
turian defenders of Gijon, ripping
open the path for advance down the
Nalon river to their seaport objec
tive. ... _
In the face of a persistent fire, Gen
eral Miguel Aranda’s shock troops
drove up six peaks west of the moun
tain town of Tarna, and drove the
Asturian, or government, troops from
their strategic entrenchments.
The daily insurgent communique
said Aranda’s men battered their way
across the six-foot barriers on the 5,-
000-foot peak, and, with the rout of
the Asturians, cleared the way for
the river valley advance.
Ship Missing
In Storm Off
State Coast
Left Beaufort Last
Monday; W arning
Issued so r* Small
Craft In Atlantic
Charleston, S. C., Sept. 30.—(AP)—
The Avocet, 65-foot auxiliary yacht
which left Beaufort, N. C., for Char
leston Monday, had noi arrived here
early today and concern was felt for
her safety.
Coast Guard officials said a plane
would be sent to search for the craft.
John Dick, of Santa Monica, Cal.,
the oner, and Herbert Balance, of
Ocracoke, N. C., were known to be
aboard.
WEATHER BUREAU ISSUES
WARNJNG TO SMALL CRAFT
Jacksonville, Fla., Sept. 30.—(AP) —
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