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Henderson Tobacco Payments Already Exceed 1936 Season HENDERSON G A.TEWAY TO CENTRAL CAROLINA twenty-fourth year JiP ultimatum asks hanking surrender SWEEPING PURCHASE OF NEW COTTON BY GOVERNMENT URGED Senator Smith Wants Fede ral Baying Up To 6,000,- 000 Bales for 12- Cent Level PENDING FARM BILL FURTHER DENOUNCED Will Cause More Strife Than Ku Klux Klan, Oklahoman Says; Hike in Current Re lief Bill Proposed; Cope land Says Business Slump Urgent Wasnington, Dec. (I.—(AP)— -Sena- | tor Smith. Democrat, Sooth Carolina, j announced today that a group of j southern senators would ask govern ment purchase of cotton in an effort to raise prices to 12 cents a pound. The chairman of the Senate Agri culture Committee said he would of fer an amendment to the pending farm bill to require the Commodities Credit Corporation to buy cotton un til the average market price reached 12 cents a pound on middling seven eighth-inch cotton. Smith announced this plan after a lengthy conference with Southern senators and Chairman Jesse Jones, of the Reconstruction Finance Cor poration. Smith said Jones was “in practical accord with this.” He also claimed support of Senators George, Georgia: Hatch. New Mexico; Bilbo, Mississippi; Bankhead, Alabama; and Thomas, Oklahoma, all Democrats. The chairman explained that the amendment would force the govern ment-controlled Commodities Credit Corporation to enter the open market and buy cotton as long as the price was under 12 cents a pound, with re quired purchases up to 6,000,000 bales. Smith said none of this cotton could j be released or none of the cotton now under government loan be disposed of if prices went below 12 cents, unless (Continued on Page Four.j MODERATE ADVANCE IN COTTON MARKET Prices Are Five to Six Points Net Higher Around Midday Period of Trading New York, Dec. 9. —(AP) —Cotton futures opened steady, up eight points on higher cables, trade and foreign buying. A few local offerings appear ed, but scattered covering developed in sympathy with early firmness of wheat, and March advanced from 8.06 to 8.08, leaving quotations shortly after the first half hour 5 to 9 points net higher. Around midday, March was selling at 8.03, and the list was five to six points net higher. seaboarTTmedical MEN PICK OFFICERS Dr. \v. i. Wooten, of Greenville, Elect ed President; To Meet There Next Year Virginia Beach, Va., Dec. 9t —(AP) — The Seaboard Medical Association of Virginia and North Carolina will install Dr. W. I. Wooten, of Green ille. N. C., as president today before its 12nd annual meeting ends. Other new officers included Dr. G. B. Woodard, of Wilson, N. C. Green ville, N. C., was chosen as the place for the 1938 meeting in a three-day contest with Wilmington and Golds boro. W allace Thinks Most Os Cotton Fanners Anxious For Voluntary Control Washington, Dec. 9.—(AP)—Secre tary Wallace expressed confidence to f'ay that at least 85 percent of the nation’s cotton farmers would coop erate in a voluntary program to hold next year’s crop to 12,000,000 hales or less. He said he believed that gov ernment subsidies to be available to growers next year would be sufficient to achieve a reduction in the cotton acreage from 34,383,000 acres this year to 27,000.000 or less next year. Congress has appropriated $130,000,- &00 for price adjustment payments on this year’s crop to growers who BUrttfipramt Hath; tlisiiatrh lraskd wire service op THE ASSOCIATED PRESS. Farm Income Far Over 1936 Level Washington, Dec. 9.—(AP)—The Bureau of Agricultural Economics estimated today the cash income of American farmers during the first ten months of 1937 was approxi mately s3fc£ 009,000 above income for the son# period last year. If estimated the total income, includ ing government payments, at 87,- C87,('00,090 this year, and $6,336,000,- COO last yoar. October income was placed at 8911.000,000 this year and $904,000,- 000 last year. The bureau said November and December incomes might not equal t horse of the same months last year because of lower prices and smal ler marketing of some major com modities. Estimates for states for the ten month-period this year an 1 last, respectively, included North Caro lina, $188,523,000 and $153,374,000. Hi SPLIT OVER WAGES Meetfrfg To flan Changes hi Bill Unable To Reach Any Agreement Washington, Dec. 9.—(AP) — The House Labor Committee fail ed today to reach an agreement on proposed sweeping changes in administrative provisions in the wages and hours bill. Committee members said the group was “all split up,” but would resume consideration later in the day of the proposed chan ges, which would substitute a sin gle administrator for the present five-member independent board. Coincident with the committee meeting, about 75 House members Continued on Page Two.) RELIgToUS GROUPS TO ENTER POLITICS Amishmen and Mennonites In Penn sylvania Resent Increasing Tax Burdens Harrisburg, Pa., Dec. 9.—(AP) —A group of Amishmen and Mennonites today broke a 161-year-old precedent by proposing to join with “all inde pendent groups of citizens” in form ing a Statewide farmer-labor party. A statement signed by 13 members of the two religious faiths said that for 161 years the Amish and Men nonite tax-payers “had considered po litics beneath the dignity and of little concern to proud independent debt free citizens. But politically controll ed officials have during the past eighteen months imposed taxation without representation and ruthlessly interferred with our religious obser vances. The statement referred to the new consolidated school built near Lan caster, Pa., to which the two groups objected. They proposed in their statement a ticket of candidates for State and district offices which will be filled next year. comply with next year’s acreage re duction program. Soil conservation payments als owould be available. , “Cotton is in for a difficult time next year,” the secretary said, com menting on the government’s final re port placing this year’s yield at 18 746,000 bales, the largest in histo y, to give the nation a total supply of 24,900,000 bales. ioamooO He predicted a surplus of 12,000,000 bales when the 1938 crop starts to market. “Consequently, it is essential that growers reduce their acreage, he said. . _ , ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA AND VIRGINIA. FIFTEEN PERSONS, MOSTLY CHILDREN, PERISH IN BLAZES Seven of Nine Victims in Knoxville Tenement Fire Are Younger Children mother"aneT five DIE IN ILLINOIS Father Gets Out on Roof To Save Them, But Slips On Ice and Falls to Ground; Building at Knoxville Had Been Condemned Before As Fire Trap Knoxville, Tenn., Dee. 9.—(AP) —Firemen dug the bodies of nine victims, seven of them children, from the ruins of a flame-razed tenement house, early today. The long search failed to reveal any other victims in the old two story structure described by Fire Chief C. M. Johnson as a “fire trap.” Fire swept the building shortly after midnight and trapped- the victims as they lay asleep. Twenty-two other oc cupants, most of them children, ran or jumped to safety. Gordon Tate said from a hospital bed that he escaped by jumping front a second story window, suffering on ly minor bruises and shocks. “The others were to have followed me,” he sobbed. “I jumped and thought they were coming out, 'cut they did not. They must have been trapped before they could get to the window.” McKinley Connaster, husband and father of four victims, seized his five months-old son and jumped from a second story window “I screamed for my wife to follow (Continued on Page Four.) TOBACCO MARKETS OPENING UP WELL Auction Centers in Virginia And Tennessee Report On First Sales Wednesday Richmond, Va., Dec. 9. —(AP) — Opening sales on the Abingdon burley tobacco market totalled approximate ly 495,700 pounds at an average of about $22.39 per hundred yesterday. Bennett Hooks, sales supervisor of the market, the fourth largest in the state, said the prices were “higher than anybody expected. Farmers were well pleased with the opening prices.” The Danville bright market sold 617,482 pounds at an average of $16.02 per hundred, with common types pre dominating. The dark-fired market at Lynch burg disposed of 119,740 pounds at $19.12. The average on 30,000 pounds sold on Richmond’s sun-cured market was slightly over ten cents per pound. With the opening of three more bur ley markets in Middle Tennessee the state’s 1937-38 tobacco season was in full progress. Sales were heavy in the five east Tennessee markets yester day, with prices generally lower than on last year’s opening day. Average? in both sections of the state, however, topped the S2O level in most cases. FASCIIIIG GRIPS IN BRAZIL Forces Expulsion Even from Argentina of New York Correspondent By CHARLES P. STEWART ' Central Press Columnist Washington, Dec. 9. —When dic tatorially-governed Brazil becomes so dominant in South America that a North American news correspondent is ordered out of the Argentine Re public tecau.se Brazil disapproves of him the Latin American Fascist trend begins to appear so obvious that one would think Uncle Sam really must start to do some worrying concern ing it. Recent dispatches relate that such an expulsion decree had been issued in the case of John W. White, chief (Continued on Page Four.) WEATHER FOR NORTH CAROLINA. Generally fair, much colder to night, except unsettled on coast; moderate cold wave in east and central portions; below freezing near coast; Friday generally fair but continued cold. HENDERSON, N. C., THURSDAY AFTERNOO N, DECEMBER 9, 1937 Tobacco Market Up To Christmas Will Exceed Entire 1936-37 Season DEMOCRATIC FUND IDEA DISAPPROVED f Not 500 in State Who Would Give $25 To Eat Jackson Day Dinner tally Dispatch Ilnrcan. In the Sir Walter Hotel. Raleigh. Dec. 9.—The plan by which the Democratic National Committee expects to raise $12,500 in North Car olina is by no means approved by all the Democratic hosts of the State. The national group, through Treas urer Quayle, proposes that 500 North Carolinians contribute $25 each, no more, no less. It’s the “no less” fea ture that irks a number of good Dem ocrats whose hearts are right, but whose purses are light—if a lapse into rhyme may be pardoned. The objectors point out that the campaign is to be climaxed by a Jack son Day dinner on January 8, with the subscribers to the fund the par ticipants. There is a decidedly em phatic belief that this sort of thing is discrimination of the rankest sort against the poorer Democrats who are frankly una'cle to put up $25. As a matter of fact things are in something of g. mess as far as the campaign is concerned. R. L. McMil lan, who was named chairman, has been out of the fttate practically ever since he was na'me^7*LSn” Folger, national who is one of the “honorary” chairman of the drive, hadn’t been in evidence around Ra leigh until late Wednesday afternoon. It resulted that everything has been up in the air, though headquarters of the campaign have been opened. Up until last night almost nothing at all had been done, and it was just one month until the Jackson Day date. Another angle that is bothering not only the committee, but many other Continued on Page Two.) RYAN MIGHT SPEND HOLIDAYS IN NORTH Copper Heir from New York Still In Hickory Hospital; Married Morganton Girl Hickory, Dec. 9. (AP)— From the hospital room, Basil (Pat) Ryan, New York copper heir, who recently married a young Morganton girl, the mother of a three-months-old son, dis closed today he might spend the Christmas holidays in New York. Ryan, who has said he remembered nothing of the night of the marriage, added, however, that should he spend the holidays in New York, he would return here soon afterwards. Ryan has been admitted to a hospital here for treatment three times since his marriage the night of November 4 to Miss Martha Barkley, whom he had known only a short while. At Morganton Solicitor Morgan Boger said that Ned Parks, former Morganton store clerk, would be given a hearing January 3 on charges of non-support of Mrs. Ryan s baby. Boger said Parks’ counsel had prom ised to produce him at the hearing. A warrant was issued for Parks sometime ago but has never been served. REFUSAL OF HELP DENIED BY SKIPPER Controversy In Boston Arises Over Foundering of Greek Ship off Cape Hatteras Boston, Mass. Dec. 9 (AP) —Charges that the American tanker Swiftsure failed to lend all possible aid to the Greek steamer Tzenney Chandris when the latter foundered off Cape Hatteras, with the loss of several lives brought a denial today from Captain Albert Allen, of the American vessel. Denying charges of Captain Kouso pantelis, of the Greek ship, that his vessel remained at the scene only ten minutes, Captain Allen told a United States Bureau of Marine and Naviga tion Inspection Board of inquiry that his vessel stood by for more than two and a half hours until relieved by the coast guard. Allen said he did not know the Greek vessel had foundered until he came upon the form of a man in the sea- after a terrific storm. Then, he said, he picked up others. After he was relieved by the coast guard cut ter Mendota, that boat, he said, pick ed up the captain and other members of the crew of the ill-fated ship. The Tzinney Chandris wa senroute to Rotterdam, Holland, from Morahead City, N. C., when she foundered. More Money Already Paid Out Than for Whole Sell ing Period of 1336 Crop PRICES CONTINUING HIGH LEVELS HERE Medium and Better Grades Showing Surprising Strength for This Late In Season: McFarland Gives Credit for Market’s Suc cess by r. w. McFarland, lien ■’era'm Sales Supervisor. When th’T tobacco market halts its mas and New Year ho’idays, it will have sold more tobacco than the mar ket sold during the 1935 season, which ended the latter part of January, 1937. Already it has paid out to the farm ers $282,387.37 more money than they reccited for last year’s crop of to bacco and from best information irVpii the market re-opens in January, 1938, it will sell 2 1-2 or three iuudcu rounds : nore. Judging from the sales of good to bacco made this week, not only the medium grades of tobacco are still commanding fair prices, but the high grades snow an activity on this mar ket unlooked for by the writer. To illustrate, among the many good sales made this week of high class tobacco, as recited in the Dispatch of yester day, was one lot of 2,112 pounds which brought the seller $885.14, making an average for the whole of $41.91, and another lot of 888 pounds, which sold for $400.50, or an average of $45.11. Prices ranged in these market to sell, the owners of this good tobacco had to pass through from three to five markets, still selling tobacco, but were so well pleased with their sales (as they expressed it) that they will sell the remainder of their crops here. Of ficial figures for the sales on the Henderson market through yesterday, are as follows; Season sales, 20,619,762 pounfts; money, $5,468,807.33; average for the Continued on Page Five » INSURGENT DRIVE REPORTED HALTED Government Claims To Have Pushed Back First Rebel Drive In Many Weeks There Madrid, Dec. 9.—(AP) —Fierce in surgent infantry attacks that shat tered weeks of quiet on the Aragon and Madrid fronts were reported to day by government military authori ties to have been beaten back. Dispatches from the Aragon region of the northeast were that govern ment armies have been arrayed for weeks to block the insurgent big push toward the Mediterranean and told of desperate fighting from the Ebro river to Martin del Rio. A half hour of bitter hand-to-hand combat about fifteen miles southwest of Zaragoza ended in an insurgent rout. Later insurgent field guns blasted at government positions at Zapatero. Insurgent positions along the Ebro river were menaced ty floods. Other dispatches reported intensive insurgent activities along the whole line from the Ebro to about 30 miles northeast of Zaragoza. Ninety min utes of severe fighting which brought machine guns, grenades and artillery into play on a salient near Quijorna, about 15 miles west of Madrid, broke the lull on the central front. A government communication said the insurgent attackers were turned back. PUBLISHBD HVBKY ▲FTHJtNOOII EXCEPT SUNDAY Will Destroy City Unless It Gives In By Friday, Is Plan Second Cold Wave Spreads In South Ailarsta, Ga., Dec. 9. —(AP)—The r ocond cold war* of the week mov ed into the south today, marked by snow flurries in many areas. Coming from the northwest, it sent the mercury tumbling in Louisiana, Alabama. Mississippi and Georgia. Weather observers predicted sub freezing temperatures tonight in the northern part of the Florida renin'ula. Recovering from a win tery season that ended yesterday, growers have not determined fully the extent of damage to vegetable crops. Latest information indicated the reliable citrus industry escaped with minor damage. Approximately cne-balf inch of snew fell in Atlanta last night and remained cn the ground in subur ban sections. From Amarillo, Texas, to the Atlantic, sub-freezing temperatures were recorded in many cities. AMERICAN COUPLE ARE MYSTERIOUSLY MISSINEIN RUSSIA Donald Robinson Disap peared December 2 and Wife Was Told He Was At Hospital NOBODY COULD SAY WHERE HOSPITAL IS Then Wife Fades Out of Pic ture Just As Strangely; American Embassy To Take Matter to Soviet For eign Office As Authorities Seem Stalled Moscow, Dec. 9.—(AP) —The mys terious disappearance of “an Ameri can couple who were named as Mr. and Mrs. Donald Robinson, of New York, was reported today to the Unit ed States Embassy. The disappearance was reported un der circumstances which investiga tors found baffling. Acquaintances learned last night that Robinson was missing. Mrs. Robin Up n Ho’.id them her husband disappeared December 2, hut she was not alarmed. Officials at the hotel where they were staying had told her, she said, that her husband had been taken to a hospital where he had developed pneumonia, and had been placed in an “iron lung.” Both Mrs. Robinson and hotel of ficials, however, said they did not know the name of the hospital. The hotel officials declined to discuss the case and said they were unable to Continued on Page Flv* * German In Paris Admits Murder Brooklyn Dancer, Also Four Men As Well Versailles, France, Dec. 9. —(AP)— The body of pretty 22>-year-old Jean Dekoven, Brooklyn dancer, missing since last July, was found today buried under the porch of a St. Cloud villa, to which police were directed by a 29-year-old German. The German, police said, confessed slaying her and four men because ne needed money. The police said the confessed slaver was Eugene Weidmann, who had come to France to escape German military service. He led investigators to the villa outside Paris, saying two of his then victims also were buried there. Weidmann was arrested yesterday o PAGES O TODAY FIVE CENTS COPY Message Dropped rrom Air Promises To Spare Great Capital if It Capi tulates CAPTURE EXPECTED WITHIN 24 HOURS Major Battle Predicted If Chinese Continue Resist ance; Jap Tanks Reported by Airplanes To Be Enter ing Suburbs; Chinese Guns Spray Enemy Shanghai Dec. 9 (AP) —The Japanese command issued an ultimatum today demanding the surrender of China’s capital, Nanking, by noon Friday~(ll p. m. Thursday eastern standard time), and threatening that otherwise the city “will become the scene of the horrors of war” A Japanese war plane dropped a further communication to Nanking. “Abandonment of resistance will spare the chy. its historic relies aad spots of beauty,” it promised. Japanese aerial attackers pounded Nanking all day long, but tonight Chi nese still held positions around the city. Chinese defense artillery hammered steadily at the Japanese, closing in from the south and southeast. Thus far the Japanese have been able to bring only their lightest artillery into play against the capital defenses. The Japanese army spokesman pre dicted capture of the city within 24 hours. He said there would be a major battle if the resistance continued. He declined to state whether Japanese expected the defenders to fight to the last or surrender in order to escape a heavy toll of life and property. A Japanese news agency said obser vers ih airplanes saw Japanese tanks entering the southeast city gates. The agency said the Japanese had enter ed Wuhu, Yangtze river port, 60 miles upstream from Nanking. Chinese artillery, firing from strongly fortified Purple mountain, which overlooks Nanking, kept Ja panese from a frontal attack on the eastern wall of the city, where latest reports were that 14 American re mained. Railroads Demand Freight, Passenger Rates Be Boosted Washington, Dec. 9 (Al*) —The Association of American Railroads today asked the Interstate Com merce Commission for an immedi ate increase in freight rates and passenger fares. The motion was made by R. V. Fletcher, general counsel for the association, during arguments on the carriers’ petition for a 15 per cent flat increase in freight rates and an increase of from two to two and a half cents per mile in passenger fares in the eastern ter ritory. after a gun fight ,with police. He ad mitted the slayings, police said, after long questioning. It was the discovery of a rental agent’s body in the cellar of the villa that put authorities on the trail of a German who had made an appointment with the agent. Detectives finally located Weidmann and three officers were dispatched to arrest him. “I shot him because I needed money,” Weidmann was quoted. After a night of questioning at po lice headquarters, police asked the prisoner, “Who else have you killed?” Then, the investigators said, Weid mann wrote the name of the dancer on a scrap of paper.
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