PAGE TWO
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LET TW(X OTHER PEOPLE IN.
THEY WERE PORTLY GENTLE
MEN AND PLEASANT TO BE
HOLD.
RED CROSS TOTAL
STANDSAU3OS.2S
Roll Call Donations Are
About Half Goal of S6OO
Set for Drive
Slightly more than half of the S6OO
quota for the Red Cross Roll Call had
been turned in by this afterrtoon in
the drive which began here last Mon
day, 9- L. Cannon, campaign chair
man, said. He explained that a num
ber of workers had not yet made their
reports.
Those who are carrying on the soli
citation are expected to continue their
efforts into next week until they have
seen their prospects, the chairman
stated. He is very desirous of obtain
ing the goal set for the county.
A part of the receipts will be kept
by the local Red Cross chapter for
home hygiene work with high school
classes, and the remainder sent to the
American Red Cross headquarters in
Washington.
Receipts up to this afternoon were
$305.25, as reported by Mr. Cannon.
SPECIALTIES LEAD
IN STOCK UPTURNS
Farm Implement Shares Some Strong
er; Recent Rally Extended
Only Slightly
New York, Dec. 4.—(AF)—Special
ties, led by farm implements, gave a
quiet display of strength in today’s
stock market. While a few issues got
up as much as six points or so at the
best, most leaders lacked sufficient
buying support to extend the recent
rally by more than fractions. There
also was an assortment of losers at
the close.
Shares approximated 500,000.
Bonds were uneven.
American Radiator 14 1-4
American Telephone 150
American Tob B • 69
Anaconda 32
Atlantic Coast Line 27
Atlantic Refining 21 1-8
Bendix Aviation ... 13 1-8
Bethlehem Steel '. 54
Chrysler 58 1-2
Columbia Gas & Elec ~.. 9 3-4
Commercial 9
Continental Oil Co 9 5-8
Curtiss Wright 33-8
Dupont 118 1-4
Electric Pow & Light . y 13 3-4
General Electric 44
General Motors 36
Liggett & Myers B 90
Montgomery Ward & Co 36 1-2
Reynolds Tob B 42 3-4
Southern Railway 14 1-4
Standard Oil N J 45 1-2
U S Steel 58 t-2
British Steamship
Riddled By Bullets
Near Jap District
from Page One.)
ces twice encountered foreign resis
tance. At the same time a representa
tive of General Matsui, the Japanese
commander, demanded settlement po
lice prevent any repetition of “the
victory march” attack on Japanese
soldiers.
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“SCROOGE AND MARLEY’S, 1 "
| BELIEVE," SAID ONE OF THE
GENTLEMEN. “HAVE I THE
PLEASURE OF ADDRESSING MR.
SCROOGE OR MR. MARLEY?”
“MR. MARLEY HAS BEEN DEAD
THESE SEVEN YEARS," SAID
SCROOGE.
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Poland Also Is In
Market For Colonies
(Continued rrom One.}
fore Delbos’ talk with Polish leaders
actually had begun. The French in
sisted Poland’s troubled relations with
Czechoslovak 5 must ie included in
any discussi' iof means of pacifying
Europe. The reply was that Poland
was accustomed to iron out her dif
ficulties with her neighbors alone.
The Poles also were inclined to
make an issue of the fact Delbos had
a brief talk with German Foreign
Minister Von Nerath when his train
stopped in Berlin yesterday. They said
this introduced an element not fore
seen when the Franco-Polish talks
were planned, and that the program
needed revising.
HENDERSON, <N. C.) DAILY DISPATCH SATURDAY, DECEMBER 4,1987
•No. 5-
-ADAPTED BY C. D. VORMELKER
FIRE-CURED LEAF
OPENINGS HIGHER
Virginia Sales Start Off Better In
First Week as Selling Period
Is Begun
Raleigh, Dec. 4 (AP) —Virginia’s
fire-cured tobacco market opening
prices this season were “slightly high
er’’ than for opening last year, taken
generally.
Thin leaf and lugs were up five to
ten percent .respectively, with head
leaf about stationary. However, the
Agricultural Economics Bureau said
.J oday, compared with 1936 crop aver
ages, opening week prices for all
groups were lower, lugs about 14 per
cent off. and heavy and thin leaf, re
spectively, eight and six cents lower.
Sees Government
In Yielding Mood
(Continued from T*age One.)
serve Board had seen a recession
coming, had investigated and had
made a report, which, he said, was
before President Roosevelt, and fore
shadowed, he asserted, important New
Deal concessions to big business, in
an effort to counteract the threaten
ed ebb in our prosperity tide.
Communications agencies, he pro
phesied, were about to be increasingly
gently dealt with by the FCC. The
railroads, he added, were scheduled
to have certain kindnesses extended
to them bj? the ICC .But his parti
cular interest was, and is, in the
field of power industry. He explained
that our great utilities were anxious
to put a billion into improvement of
their plants, if the government would
“lay off” them sufficiently to permit
them to float more securities to fin
ance their expansion plans. He tort*
casted that the administration would
do so, too. _
Prophecy Comes True. >
A dav or two afterward, while
still was revolving these predictions
in my mindr the ICC boosted the rail
roads’ rates 15 per cent.
Thus reassured, I took a cl Y
and, as we reporters lfc ,', * '
my press agent friends story - And
tZ a fact, he was right. The admin-,
“HIS LIBERALITY, NO DOUBT IS
REPRESENTED BY HIS SURVIVING
PARTNER, AND AT THIS FES
TIVE SEASON OF THE YEAR IT IS
- DESIRABLE TO MAKE SOME
SLIGHT PROVISION FOR THE
POOR AND DESTITUTE,” SAID
ONE.
Illustrated by Alfred J. Buescher
CENTRAL PRESS. ASSOCIATION
• .
istration is coming to terms with the
utilities.
Six months ago it was advertised
that Uncle Sam was on the point or
creating seven “little TVA’s” to sell
nationally - generated hydro-electric
power, here, there and everywhere
throughout the United States, in com
petition # with privately - generated
power.
Placated Corporations.
Communication companies are not
yet placated, but maybe it is their
turn next.
The railroads are partly placated,
though still hollering. *
The utilities are fairly well satis
fied. Their $l,000,iOC ! 0,000 expansion is
reasonably well in sight.
Nnrris Is Furious.
There is a “bloc” in this country
(led by Senator George W'. Norris of
Edward Arnold, Shirley Boss, Johii Trent—Stars of “Blossbhis ort
Broadway” at the Vance Starting Sunday Night.
SHALL I PUTTOujI
“NOTHING!” SCROOGE REPLIED, f
“I DON’T MAKE MERRY AT /
CHRISTMAS MYSELF AND I
HAVEN’T ENOUGH TO MAKE IDLE
PEOPLE MERRY. I WISH TO BE
LEFT ALONE. GOOD AFTERNOON,
GENTLEMEN!” To "be continued
Nebraska) which rates power govern
mentalization almost as a religion.
It is furious at what it deems the
administration’s surrender.
If it is a surrender? •
Motorist Gouged
Going and Coming
(Continued from Page One.)
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pay an ad valorem property tax in the
county, and the city if he lives in one,
wherein he resides. This tax will vary
according to the financial condition
of his home governmental unit, but in
very few cases will it be less than $1
on the SIOO valuation. In many cases,
it will run above' $3 on each SIOO.
Taking a rough average, the car own
er will pay about a.s2 tax rate on a
Grade Alien and Fred Astaire in “Damsel in Distress”
Stevenson Sunday, Monday and Tuesday.
vehicle valued at $250, or about $5.
His state tag last year cost an aver
age of $15.43, this year it will be slight
ly less under the reduced rates put in
to effect by the 1937 General Assem
bly. No exact figure can be given on
this phase, but it may be assumed at
sl4, certainly no less. Then there’s
a city tag for city dwellers —another $1
on the average.
But even after paying the ad valo
rem and the tag takes, the owner has
only started. He may not recognize
his filling station friend as a tax col
lector but every time he fills up with
fuel the attendant willb *e one of A.
J. Maxwell’s efficient tax agents. Ac
cording to 1936 figures, each owner
will pay 539.40 during the year in gas
oline taxes. It will be scattered here
and there, paid a few pennies at a
time, but in the end these pennies will
reach a tremendous figure. In 1936
they made a jackpot of $19,-
994,000.
Add all these items up. Each motor
car owner will pay S6O or more per
year for the privilege of operating
and for the read on which he runs.
10 Infants In Hos
pital Die II Days
fContinuer: from Tage One.")
tal to which the disease is confined.
Dr. Bundesen, city health board pre
sident, conferred with the doctors.
The disease, which killed most of
the babies, within 24 hours, was char
acterized as violent inflammation of
small intestine, and was diagnosed as
acute epidemic diarrhea.
The outbreak began November 23.
Four babies died before the symptoms
were fully recognized. The hospital
immediately declined new obstretical
cases and isolated the other infants,
but six succumbed and eight others
were stricken. The victims ranged
from nine to 24 hours. Seven of them
were girls.
CIO To Open Drive For
Unionizing Ford Plants
In Two Ocher Big Cities
tCortinued from Page One.)
St. Lou's strike, now in its second
week, “is part of a carefully planned
national campaign to unionize Ford. ’
“If it becomes necessary,’’ Franken
steen declared, “we will completely tie
up production by calling out cur men
STEVENSON
SUNDAY MONDAY TUESDAY
Sunday Performances Start at 2:30 and 8:30
in the various material supply com
panies which supply the Ford plants
The reason this method cos not h-m
applied so far is because it involves
the jobs of so many men.”
Roosevelt Going
Home Quickly To
Treat His Tooth
(Continued from Page One.)
I insisted nether the crisis in China nor
the congressional situation was a fac
tor in the decision to return ahead of
time.
The President personally notified
Secretary Mclntyre here by radio of
his decision. He said due to the de
layed healing of his gum he thought
it advisable to return directly to
Washington without filling scheduled
engagements.
RED TERRORS AND
EAGLES WILL MEET
College Station, Raleigh, Dec. 4
Dr. R. R. Sermon will send his State
College cagers against the McCrary
Eagles in Asheboro tonight in the
first test this winter for the State
team.
State met the Eagles last year in a
pre-season game and v/as beaten 41
to 33. The Eagles were led by Stuart
Fly.the, former State star, who scored
25 points. Many other former col
lege stars are on the team.
The STATE
TODAY
Jack Randall —in
“Stars Over Arizona”
Serial Comedy
SUNDAY
Peter Lorre—in
“Think Fast Mr. Moto”
News Novelty
I MONDAY TUESDAY
Otto Kruger—
Douglas Montgomery—
Jacqueline Wells—in
“Council For Crime”
Admission 10 and 25c