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HENDERSON I lATEWAY to CENTRA! (Carolina | ~ wknty-kourth year HENDERSON AVERAGE FOR ENTIRE SEASON LEADING THEM ALL S2B 19 Growers on Lo cal Market This Year, Counting All Piles and Grades SEASON TOTAL NOW OVER 13,000,000 LBS. j^ ore Than 3 1-2 Million Dollars Paid Growers; Gain in Pounds, Money and Average Price Over Same Period Last Year, Figures Reveal by r. w. McFarland, Sales Supervisor. Henderson, the untouchable in its high season’s average of $28.19 for it/entire sales, commences its 31st J, in „ day of this season with a note of thankfulness to the farmers of pverv section who have made this high' record possible, and its good wiU to all men and malice toward If any market or markets elsewheie care to feature any single day or day’s average, even though it is done in "box car” letters, should they elect to use that kind, it still remains a fact that, of all the 75 markets, in which are located 298 warehouses, Henderson has the high honor of lead ing them all in its season’s average. During the past week farmers from practically every section of the State have visited the market, from the very foot of the mountains to the counties bordering upon the sea so. in this day of rapid transit these things are possible. Burin" the years of experience that this writer has had on the tobacco market, it is the first time that he has ever seen tobacco brought on bicycles, but it proved a fine con vevance for a nearby friend of the market who rigged up his bic y® le ?? that he could haul on it nearly 400 today the market will have sold over 13,000,000 pounds. The of ficial records through yesterday read. Total pounds 12,684,778; money $3,- 571,531.06; average for the whole, (Continued o n Pag® Seven.) Cities Part Inundated In Heavy Flood Cumberland, Md., Oct. 28 (AP)—- Flood waters washed into lowlying streets in this city of 40,000 today as the Potomac river climbed more than a foot above flood stage. More than 120 families in mining towns above here already had been driven from their homes. WESTON, W. VA„ SWEPT BY FLOODS IN LOW SECTION Weston, W. Va., Oct. 28 (AP) Waters of the West Fork river swept low-lying sections here to day as steady rains throughout the central West Virginia area sent streams surging out of their banks. Route 19 from Clarksburg to Wes ton was under water at nearby Haleville, and motorists were forc ed to detour. More than an inch of rain fell in Clarksburg yesterday and the West Fork was reported rising steadily there. 28.140 Dead From Autos In 9 Months Record for First Nine Months of 1937 Nine Percent Increase Over 1936 Chicago, Oct. 28 (AP)—The Na tional Safety Council reported today 23.140 persons died in traffic accidents during the first nine months of 1937, a nine percent increase over the total for the same period last year. Despite the increase, the council noted "several favorable affects” of the traffic situation. September was the second month in which no in oiea.se over 1936 was registered. The otal for the month, 3,550, represented U P ercen t drop from August. * or the first time this year the in crease in deaths for 1937 was less than (Continued pn Page Seven.) fa---"-' *- 1 mailbag. Henderson’s Season Tobacco Sales Pass 13,000,000 Pounds lirttiirrsmt Batin Btapatrit Youth 14, Accused of Killing Brother h jKKm m j». t I:» * < pm B * I IBk ***** jhh m .is - ■«- AsMSSai Charged with killing his brother, Joseph, because “he beat me up,” 14- year-old Johnny Williams is shown in jail at Raleigh, N. C. He was booked on a murder charge pending an in quest. So LAST DAY ON SOILPROGRAM Floyd Warns Farmers of Zero Hour for Earning Their Payments TURNING TO 1938 NOW Measure Approved by Secretary Wal lace Differs in Many Re spects from Those in Ef fect in the Past Daily Dispatch Iturenn, In the Sir Walter Hotel. Raleigh, Oct. 28. —E. Y. Floyd, of State College, warned farmers today that October 31 is the last date on which soil-building payments under the 1937 agricultural conservation program can be earned. In the tbrief time left growers who have not made the full amount of their soil-building allowance can earn payments; by seeding winter cover crops, turning under legumes, and carrying out other practices prescrib ed by the program. Seeding crimson clover, Austrian winter peas, and vetch in October will count in the soil conserving acreage for 1937 and also as a soil-building practice for which payment will be made at the rate of $1.50 an acre. Soybeans, velvet beans, or cowpeas turned under in October as green Continued on Page Two.) HULL TO VACATION AROUND PINEHURST Washington, Oct. 28 (AP) —Sec- retary Hull has arranged to leave Washington tonight for a short vacation at Pinehurst, N. C. It will be the first he has had in more than a year because of the tense international situation. Mrs. Hull will accompany him. VA ES Says Men Can’t Go To Work Until Money Does; Speaks At Home Grand Rapids, Mich., Oct. 28. —(AP) —iSenator Arthur Vandenburg, Re publican, Michigan, told a joint meet ing of luncheon and community clubs here today “if legitimate American business does not have a fair chance to profitably none of us ha» a chance to survive. ... . ~ In an address which criticized the New Deal’s .business policy, Vanden burg asserted: “It is a fine ideal to ‘share the wealth.' Wealth ough to be as widely shared as possible in a democracy. But wealth has to be cre ated before it can be shared.? US “X has to succeed before it «“ jobs. Money must go to work befo e (Continued on Page Two). ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA AND VIRGINIA. I.EASKI. WIRE SICK VICE ok the associated press HENDERSON, N. C., THURSDAY AFTERNOON, OCTOBER 28, 1937 ONLY AN AIRMAIL STAMP, BUT— I- hmS wMI M t Jw : WMffilflOlii'Tl i* This airmail stamp, Issued recently by the Nicaraguan government, looks harmless enough, but it has caused a South American crisis, which the U. S., Venezuela and Costa Rica have been trying to settle. The stamp presents a map of Nicaragua, but includes 10,000 square miles of territory that Honduras claims belongs to it. —Central Preat Mussolini Asks Return Os Colonies To Germany II Duce Says It Is Necessary I That Reich Have Her Place ir. African Sun Restored SPEAKS ONHIS OWN 15TH ANNIVERSARY Offers Support for Hitler’s Desire; Says Bolshevism Must Be Eliminated If Dur able and Fruitful Peace Is To Be Had For All Os Europe Rome, Oct. 28. —(AP) Premier Mussolini, delebrating the fifteenth anniversary of the Fascist march on Rome, declared today it is “neces sary” that Germany be restored to her “place in the African sun.” II Duce thus voiced support for Germany’s desire for return of her war-lost colonies. He spoke at Mus solini Forum in the presence of 100,- 000 Fascists from all parts of Italy. A German delegation sent to Rome by Adolf Hitler for the celebration 'heard the premier, along with other foreign diplomats. Mussolini turned to what both Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy term the threat of “bolshevism” in Europe. “For durable and fruitful peace, it is necessary that .bolshevism be eli minated in Europe,” he told the mass ed blackshirts and visitors. “It is necessary that some clauses of the (World War) peace treaties be revised,” he went on. “Jt is necessary that a great people, the German peo ple, have once more the place to which it is entitled and which it once possessed in the African sun.” The premier shifted to Italy’s own colonial empire. “It's necessary that Italy be left tranquil because she has created her empire with her own blood, and with her resources without touching a sin gle corner of the empires of others, ’ he said. CABARRUS CONVICT ESCAPES, CAPTURED Ralph Goodman Taken by Officers After Flight from Mount Pleasant Barracks % Concord, Oct. 28— (AP)—Authorities announced today the capture of Ralph Goodman, a Grade A convict who with Willie Brindel ran off late yes terday while working on a road pro ject near the Mount Pleasant prison camp. , , ~ Brindel remained at large, the an nouncement said. Goodman was serv ing 18 months sentence for larceny imposed in Rowan county, and Brin del was sentenced in Cabarrus coun ty to 21 months for receiving stolen goods. New Program For Grange Is Planned Winston-Salem, Oct. 28 (AP) —Com- mittees worked at top speed today to formulate a new program for the North Carolina Grange,* in which it expected to be embodied resolutions calling for compulsory crop control and continuance of the soil conserva-. tion program. Some farm leaders believed the Grange legislative committee would draft a resolution asking a separate tobacco control measure to be pre sented to the special congressional session. The morning session -of the second day of the three-day meeting was con sumed with lction of officers, commit tee meetings and the annual meeting (Continued on Page Two). Nicaragua’s airmail stamp Many Are Dead In Damascus Floods Damascus, Syria, Oct. 28. —(AP) —A great flood rushed down from the hills northeast of here today and swept through the town of Dnieir, where almost all the houses were washed away. Dozens of bodies were recovered by troops and police from Damas cus. One hundred persons were missing. The flood followed a cloudburst. A sheet of water nine feet deep rolled onto the town so quickly the inhabitants had little time to flee to higher ground. The Damascus- Bagdad highway was cut by the rushing waters. FIVE IN GUILFORD ~ EYEINGJONGRESS Opposition To Congress man Umstead of Durham May Develop There Doily Dispatch Bureau, fn the Sir Walter Hotel. Raleigh, Oct. 28. —The political pot is beginning to boil over in the sixth congressional district just as it is on the State front. Already not less than five Guilford county men are being boosted or would like to be boosted—for the Fed eral House seat now held by Repre sentative William B. Umstead, of Durham. It would seem that from this rath er imposing list at least one formid able rival should develop to challenge the incumbent’s supremacy, especial ly in view of the fact that Guilford casts practically as many Democratic votes as the other three counties of the district combined. The 1936 gen eral election figures were 21,449 Um stead votes from Guilford out of a total of 46,329 for the district. Dur ham, Alamance and Orange, there fore, turned in cnly a few thousand more. The five already t< u ed as possible candidates are: (1) Mule dealer and real estate man George Fenny, who possibly has been spurred on by the success of another dealer in the long-eared animals, Tom (Continued on Page Seven.) SERIOUS CHARGE ON DARE SCHOOL HEAD Sheriff Meekins Says Warrant Sent To Brevard for Arrest of J. Lamar Rhyne Manteo, Oct. 28. (AP) Sheriff Victor Meekins said today he had issued a warrant for J. Lamar Rhyne, former Kitty Hawk school principal, charging him with betraying a 16- year-old girl whose sweetheart was found shot to death on the beach near here Tuesday. Meekins said the warrant had been signed by the girl’s mother, Mrs. Bethea Spruill, a few hours before the body of 21-year-old Charlie Rogers, a fisherman’s son, was discovered on the sand dunes, his heart blowij out by a shotgun. The sheriff said the warrant charg ing Rhyne with being the father of the girl’s unborn child, was sent to Brevard, N. C., and the sheriff there was telegraphed to hold Rhyne. The girl, Annie Moss, the sheriff said, was employed as housekeeper at Rhyne’s home for several months re cently. WEATHER FOR NORTH CAROLINA. Partly cloudy, slightly cooler in north and west portions; frost if clear tonight; Friday fair. UNITED STATES AND BRITAIN OFFER HELP TO CHINESE TROOPS Would Help Battalion Trap ped by Japanese To Es cape To Stop Set tlement Menace CHINESE DECLINE AND FACE DEATHS Japs Have Them Virtually Surrounded; Danger To International Settlement as Final Doom of Brave Group Appears Near Being Sealed Nanking, China, Oct. 28. —(AP) —Dr. Wang Chung-Hui, China’s foreign m’nister, declared today China, “like other interested pow ers,” regrets Japan’s decision not to attend the Brussel’s nine-power conference on the Japanese-Chi nese conflict. Paris, Oct. 28.—(AP)—Japan is disposed to accept friendly con versations with interested powers, including particularly the United States, looking toward the even tual restoration of peace between Japan and China, a high Japanese authority said tonight. As the American delegation en trained for Brussels en route to the nine-power conference which Japan has declined to attend, this Japanese authority suggested the Brussels conference might give a mandate to interested powers to open peace negotiations at Tokyo and Nanking. The idea broached was that Am bassador Joseph Grew, American ambassador to Japan, and Sir (Continued on Paprn Seven.) OFFICERS ELECTED BY STATE GRANGE Secretary Wallace Attacks Critics of Administration’s Crop Con trol Program Winston-Salem, Oct. 28. — (AP) North Carolina State Grange conven tion delegates completed the or ganization’s administrative set-up for the year today with the election of four executive committee members. Harry Caldwell, of Greensboro, was named master yesterday, succeeding B. F. Wilson, of Mebane. Secretary of Agriculture Henry Wallace, in an address urging unity of farmers on formulation of a nationwide agri cultural program, lashed at critics of the administration’s farm plan. He termed a “damnaitle lie” the conten tions of “some' who say the agricul ture department advocates a policy of ‘scarcity economics’ and ‘pinching the consumer’.” WARREN TO DEMAND POTATO CONTRACTS First District Congressman Calls On House Agriculture Committee For Action Washington, N. C., Oct. 28 (AP)— Representative Lindsay Warren tele graphed members of the House Agri culture Committee today an appeal for appointment of a sub-committee to prepare a plan for inclusion of commercial potato growing in the pro posed new farm bill. The first district representative said in his telegram potatoes were the only basic commodity not being con sidered for legislative protection, al though, he added, a recent referen dum showed 82 percent of the grow ers favoring control by the govern ment and only one state opposing it. The committee will be asked, he said, to arrange a hearing for the growers. Warren said members of Congress from tobacco growing dis tricts had practically agreed on pro visions to be included in the farm bill. YOIINGROOSEVELT FILLS NEEDED JOB Liaison Man Between His Father and Bureaus Long Been Urgent 9 By CHARLES P. STEWART Central Press Columnist Washington, Oct. 28. —James Roose velt’s selection for the post of liaison man between his father and the heads of the government’s numerous inde pendent administrations, boards, com missions and bureaus naturally causes a certain amount of comment as to a “Roosevelt dynasty.” Yet there is less malice in this kind of talk than one might perhaps have expected. . For one thing .“young James is Continued on Page Two.) PUBLISHED KVBJIY AFTEHNOOM EXCEPT SUNDAY. France's Fear i .fit *. \ «JJf Or MOROCCO! ■*" _ TERRITORY UNDeR ITAUAH FASCIST Gfclp • Ii!!§§! 11l X FRENCH TERRITORY" " . j FRENCH-AFRICAN SHIP- j PING ROUTES. ■■""■■"■""i I .. rrHnnWiMiW Balearics and Spanish Morocco France has threatened to break away from her “united front” with Great Britain unless Premier Benito Mussolini of Italy is forced to aban don his Fascist hold on Spanish-Mo rocco and the Balearic islands. France angered by new “pirate’ attacks on her merchant shipping close to the Balearics, not only seeks withdrawal of all foreign “volunteers” —mostly Ita lian —from Spain, but the curbing of Italian activity in Morocco and the is lands. France’s line of communica tion to French Morocco chiefly is en dangered. RAILROADSTOASiT FURTHER INCREASE DE RECHARGES May Seek 15 Percent Furth er Boost on Top of Re cent Grants By Commission HORIZONTAL RISE TO BE REQUESTED Day’s Conferences by Presi dents and Executives in Chicago Meeting Revolve Around Amount of In creases; Traffic Advisor in Comment Chicago, Oct. 28.—(AP) —Presidents and executives of the nation’s rail roads assembled here today to draft new applications for freight and pas senger rate increases. A prediction that they would appeal to the Interstate Commerce Commis sion for a horizontal percentage in crease in freight rates to apply on all traffic without exception came from J. A. Farmer, Chicago, member of the traffic advisory committee of the American Association of Rail roads. Farmer said the amount of the pro posed increases would be discussed to day by directors of the association, and they would submit a recommen dation tomorrow to the full member ship of the nationwide rail officials’ organization. A recent meeting of rail officials in Washington advocated a 15 per cent general freight rate increase, hut Farmer declared “there has been no previous understanding or agree ment ity the Association of American Railroads as *to the amount of in crease to be sought.’’ New York Man Is Missing 2 Months Alone in a Boat New York, 06t. 28 (AP)— Disap pearance of Victor, Brevoort, 59- year-old scion of a famous Dutch family which once owned a large part of Manhattan Island, was re ported today by his sister, Mrs. Rudolf Eickemeyer, of Yonkers, N. Y. Mrs. Eickemeyer said her broth er started out alone in his 36-foot motor yawl August 7 from Bos ton harbor on a projected trip to the Azores. He carried provisions for 60 days. She described Bre voort, whose home is in Miami, as a powerful man, standing six feet, five inches tall, and weighing 210 pounds. His trip began a day before the Endeavour began its trip, and he must have run into the same storm that ship did, she said. 19 Pages Today TWO SECTIONS. FIVE CENTS COi”i ROOSEVELT GIVES ATTENTION TO NEW ITEMS FOR BUDGET President Trims His Engage ment List in Order To Study Slate of Ex penditures ARRANGES TO SEE MORGENTHAU, BELL Mississippi Representative To Insist on Subsidies For Cotton Exports, Holding That To Be Only Method of Competing With For eign Producers Hyde Park, N. Y., Oct. 28.—(AP) President Roosevelt arranged a light schedule today preparatory to tack ling the national budget problem to morrow. The only persons on his calling list for the day were Will Hays, “czar” of the movib industry, and Professor Nelson Brown, of Syracuse University White House aides did not disclose the purpose of Hays’ visit. Brown was called in to discuss one of the Presi dent’s favorite subjects, reforestation. The budget will be before Mr. Roose velt tomorrow evening, when Treas ury Secretary Morgenthau and Daniel Bell, budget director, come up from Washington. Representative Ford, Democrat, Missippi, head of the House cotton' bloc, said at Washington, meanwhile, he would ask the House Agriculture Committee to include subsidies for ex porting cotton in the general farm bill. “A permanent solution to the cot ton problem,’’ he told reporters, “lies in finding away for farmers to com pete with foreign producers. Our in dividuals can’t do it because of high tariffs. Thus we must have a sub sidy.” Ford’s return to the capital to sub mit his recommendations to the agri culture committee, which yesterday discussed the broad problems Involv ed in preparing farm legislation. The committee will meet again Friday. Other Washington developments: Larger shipments of agricultural products were the main factors in a substantial increase in exports during September, the Commerce Department said. Exports aggregated $296,729,000, an increase of sdven percent over August and 35 percent over Septem ber, 1936. Insurgents AdvanceOn OldMadrid Hendaye, Franco-Spanish Frontier, Oct. 28. — (AP) —An official dispatch reported today Moorish troops had broken through Spanish government lines in the Usera sector of Madrid and advanced 800 yards. These advices, which were not con firmed by war communiques from the former capital or the government defenders, said fighting was general around the city. The government concentrated coun ter attacks in the University City sec tor, on Madrid’s northwest, while the insurgents drove against the south western barricades, the unofficial re port said. Usera is a southwestern suburb. Official communiques indicated fighting was under way at Madrid but gave no details. Minor engage ments were cited on other fronts. Democratic Ladies Hear Some Talks National Woman Worker and Gover nor Hoey Address Raleigh Meeting Raleigh, Oct. 28 (AP)—More than 200 Democratic women from all parts of the State heard an exhortation there today to “become informed upon the measures enacted for a better eco nomic and social order and build an understanding on the part of others” of the program of President Roose velt.' Mrs. Thomas McAlister, director of the women’s division of the Demo cratic National Committee, the speak er, said: “Politics has taken on a new mean (Continued on Page Seven.)
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