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HENDERSON’S POPULATION 13,873 TWENTY-FIFTH YEAR TOBACCO SALK BEGIN THURSDAY. SEPT. 15 P«yri« JjmnAndNegro Suu ’» Prh<m 1938 STATE INCOME NEAR S7O MILUONS FOR ALL-TIME HIGH Collections and Expenditures in State’s History for Any One Year; Nearly All Funds Show Increase for Fiscal Year Just Closed , NORTH CAROLINA RE VENUE, ALL SOURCES V 1937-8 1936-7 Revenue Division . .*. $37,627,290.46 $37,089,925.98 Motor Vehicle Division 31,948,299.04 31,094,401.06 TnHl 69,575,589.50 68,184,327.04 REVENUE DIVISION Classification 1937-8 1936-7 Inheritance $ 2,114,486.83 $ 4,009,250.52 p rjvile .. e 2,563,373.61 » 2,363,264.14 Franchise •• •• •• 7,940,812.23 7,368,924.21 Inconlc 11,364,598.28 11,013,081.59 Sales 11.143,987.32 11,325,661.48 Beverage 1,537,330.66 ' 1,002,664.83 Intangibles 906,487.48 Gift 47,118.88 Miscellaneous 9,095.28 7,079.21 Tota < $37,627,290.46 " $37,089,925.98 MOTOR VEHICLE DIVISION Classification 193778 „ 1936-7 License Tax $ 7,012,763.50 $7 7,422,723.15 Title Fees 156,487.06 173,953.95 Bus and Franchise 360,031.80 332,942.69 Gasoline Tax 23,317,244.23 22,138,370.80 Inspection Fees 1,100,876.36 1,035,410.47 Tota l . $31,948,299.04 $31,094,401.06 In the Sir Walter Hotel. Daily Dispatch Bureau, Raleigh, July 1. —Tax collectors from the office of Commissioner of Revenue A. J. Maxwell reaped a* rec ord harvest of tax money collected from the citizens of North Carolina during the fiscal year which ended yesterday. In all, they poured into the coffers, of the State the astounding sum of $89,575,589.50, a total which surpassed bv nearly a million and a half ($1,391,- Teague, Burgin Predicted To Win Out for Congress Daily Dispatch Bureau, In the Sir Walter Hotel. Raleigh, July 1. —Tomorrow’s pri mary run-offs. are few and far be tween, but those which will be con tested involve some rather interest ing angles—particularly the congres sional sweepstakes in the sixth dis trict and the solicitor’s handicap xn the sixth judicial. The Congress battle finds two sur vivors of an eight-man field which in dulged in a devil-take-the-hindmost sort of affair in the first primary. Those survivors are Judge Lewis Teague, of High Point, and State Re presentative Oscar Barker, of Dur ham. Teague was high in the first vot in £ and would normally be favored heavily to come through in the sec °nd, but the election fraud issue rais ed against the High Point polling ma chinery and officials has done him no good at all. It has, in fact, united Greensboro factions against him and TOBACCO GRADING NOT TO BE BEGUN No New Markets To Vote In Flue-Cured Area This Year; Wait Courts Washington, July I—(AP) —Govern- / nr;n t inspection of tobacco, manda ,Jl> on markets where two-thirds of '•e growers request it in referenda, ntcrs third year this season with prospects for expansion. harles E. Gage, tobacco division c net & f the agricultural economics riicau, said it was too early to de -1 t oiine the number of referenda to be C' l “d this year, but a number prob ar'ly would be held in burley leaf growing areas. it was doubtful that any (Continued on Page Three.) Bu °ge sweeps all IN TENNIS MATCHES Wimbledon, England, July 1 ' [ flaying in irresistible form Ted -headed Don Budge crushed Henry Wilfred (Bunny) Austin of England 6-1, 6-0, 6-3 today to M . ln the all-England tennis cham pionships for the second year in succession. The great Californian oever gave Austin a chance. •lain caused brief delay with '••luge icoding 4 to 3 in the third Sei - *ttei this pause, Budge pick e<l u 8 Z ht where he left off. Hrxtxtrrsmt ilttthi iHsmttrh L Ms*iJSßa^g‘Bsajr 262.46 to be exact) the previous high touched in the year which ended June 30, 1937. The percentage gain from all sour ces amounted to 2.04, the general fund collections going up 1.45 per cent while the motor vehicle divisions levies soared by 2.75 per cent. the ©grand sum total, general fund colledtionij* amounted to $97,627,- 290.46, up $537,364.48 from last year’s (Continued on Page Three.) has given Barker supporters plenty of ammunition to fire in the other coun ties of the district —Alamance and Orange. A last minute, and somewhat un anticipated development was the vo cal advocacy of Barker by Sandy Graham just about the first overt political move the former Lieutenant Governor has made since his defeat in the gubernatorial primary of 1936. Sandy’s backing will help Barker immensely, make no mistake about that, but it is still quite questionable whether or not Teague can be beaten by the Durham man. The High Pointer, all signs indi cate, has a close-knit organization and has some money to spend. And what it takes to win elections, particular ly runoff primaries where there isn’t any real enthusiasm on the part of the 7 yoters, are organization and money, and this column means no in timation that the money is to be spent for questionable purpose. TSitttSl 4 Appears in London Court To Answer Charges of Threat ening His Wife London, July 1 (AP)A spruce but happy appearing Count Court Haug witz-Reventlow arrived from France today and won his freedom on 2,000 pounds ($10,000) bail when led before a Bow Street magistrate on the charge he threatened his wife, the Ameri can-born, twice-wed Barbara Hutton with “bodily harm.” In his brief appearance in court, he promised not to interfere with or communicate with her and told the magistrate, through his attorney, that he was not carrying a pistol. The gun, he said, was locked up m the mansion in Regint’s Park, where the countess had fortified herself and her two-year-old son, Lance, be hind a guard. The proceeding was part of a quar rel over the future of the boy, who yesterday was made a ward in chan cery, beyond th,§ control of and countess. „ Returning to England after a thre - weeks absence to face the countess charge, the Danish nobleman was met on his arrival on the Paris boat-tram by police and his lawyer, and was sped to the big dingy Bow street po lice court in a big car. A hearing was scheduled for Tues day. _ __ —»— _ONLY DAILY NEWSPAP BR PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OP NORTH CAROLINA AND VIRGINIA 2S , Negro Is Electrocuted For Murder of Alamance Man in Attempted Robbery In 1926 PAYNE AND TURNER DIE VERY SLOWLY Requires Over 15 Minutes for Each; Both Breathe Deeply of Deadly Fumes Soon as Switch Is Turned; Relatives Claim Bodies of Two Dead Men Raleigh, July 1. —(AP) —John Wash ington (Wash) Turner, 35, and Wil liam (Bill) Payne, 41, North Caro lina’s most notorious criminals in re cent years, paid with their lives at State’s Prison today for the killing in Buncombe county August 22, 1937, of George Penn, 22-year-old highway patrolman. Earlier Wiley Brice, 35-year-old Ne gro, was electrocuted for a murder committed in Alamance county. Turner, a native, of McDowell coun ty, entered the gas chamber at 10:30 a .m., and the gas switch was thrown at 10:32 a. m., after Chaplain E. C. Cooper had prayed. It was 16 minutes and 15 seconds before Dr. Felda High tower prison physician, said Turner was dead at 10:48 a. m. Turner inhaled deeply of the gas (Continued on Page Six.) Seven Men Killed By Falling Rocks In Alabama Mine Birmingham, Ala., July I.—(AP) men were killed and sev eral others injured today in a rock fall 3,000 feet underground in the Praco coal mine of the Ala bama By-Products Company. Dr. C. E. Elgin, company phy sician, called company offices here to announce the seven deaths and asked for additional doctors and rescue workers. Two crews attempted to cut through a rock ledge which sep arates the main workings of the mine from the section in which the fall occurred. Dr. Elgin said two injured men had been brought out, but they were not in the sec tion cut off by the rock fall. Praco is 20 miles northwest of Birmingham in an isolated sec tion. $37,848~0f WPA Fund For Vance Raleigh, July 1 (AP)—The WPA announced allocation of Federal and sponsor funds totalling $37,- 848 today for a countywide work relief program of recreational fa cilities for Vance county. Other allocations included: Granville county, recreational fa cilities, $4,445.09; Vanceboro, im proving streets and the city hall, $5,886. ' ' Babson Predicts Farmers Will Lead Business Gains Big Crops Mean Better Conditions and Farmers Hold “Recovery Torch;” Nati on as Whole Has Good Farm Outlook; Farmers To Be Best Customers BY ROGER W. BATSON, Copyright 1038, Publishers Financial Bureau, Inc. Denver, Col., July I.—Good reports constantly reached me this week as I crossed the farm belt. This may be a bad year for the manufacturer, but the farmer is not discouraged. Out through the great farm states of Il linois, Wisconsin, lowa, Missouri, Ne braska and Kansas, the depression is still only a “recession”. Prices, of course, are below a year ago, but above recent lows. My estimate i 3 that total farm income will not be more than 10 per cent less than .1937, while industrial income may be down 25-40 per cent. When I first started collecting busi ness statistics 35 years ago, the most HENDERSON, N. C., FRIDAY AFTEiINOO N, JULY l, 1938 There’s Still Life in the Old Boys Yeti illl %i' : iS - |pilt faSjpgpaßg : s ~j§gßSßS§g§ w ‘' ~~•■y.vw.. •*•>//• Jx , >*K S'' '’•l IpßiMli .Jr r y " < r -A Tim Flaherty, a former Union soldier, dances for mates During the Civil war days there was little time to sit around and take things easy. But now, at Gettysburg, Pa., scene of the famous Civil war battle and site of the present 75th anniversary celebration of the Blue and the Gray, Tim Flaherty, Agreement On Austrian Debt Is Had London, July I.—(AP)—An an nouncement that British and German negotiators had reached an agreement on Austrian external loans was mad? today by Sir John Simon, chancellor of the exchequer. Sir John told the House of Com mons that “without prejudice to the question of legal liability,” the Ger man government will reimburse the United Kingdom for any sums paid in respect of their (Britain’s) guar antee of the Austrian guaranteed loans, and will insure full service of the bonds of these loans owned hy British holders on July 1, 1938,” Defaults on payments of Austrian bond issues since Germany’s annexa tion of Austria have brought protests from the United States, Britain France and other countries. Many Are Killed By Japanese Raid On Chinese City Honig Kong, China, July 1 (AP) Nine big Japanese bombers caused terrific destruction today in a raid on Swatow, south China port, northeast of here<. The raiders, arriving* at 5 a. m., circled over the city for an hour and a half, dropping more than 106 bombs. Casualties ran high and hospi tais were overflowing with wound ed, but trustworthy estimates of the death toll were not immediate ly available. Many women and children wer e believed killed. The raid was believed by the Chinese to be the prelude to large scale Japanese * operations in south China. important figures were crop fore casts. All other barometers, such as carloadings, retail trade, steel opera tions and new financing, were second ary. If crops were good, business was sure to be good. In those days, if fai - mers had a good crop, they had money to spend. This in turn made (Continued on Page Five.) WEATHER FOR NORTH CAROLINA. Tartly cloudy tonight and Sat urday; scattered showers in north portion Saturday afternoon; some what warmer tonight and in cen tral portion Saturday. j 1W37 95, of Miami, Fla., a former Union soldier, finds plenty of time. In fact, Flaherty feels so good he puts on a dance for some friends at the battlefield. President Roosevelt was scheduled to participate in the ceremonies on July 3. —Central Press Roosevelt Seeking Facts On Economic Condition In South Did Not Want To Kill, Turner Says Raleigh, July I—(AP1 —(AP) —Chaplain E. C. Cooper, of State’s Prison, gave out a statement today in which Wash Turner outlined how he and Bill Payne killed George Penn, highway patrolman, last August. Cooper’s statement quoting Tur ner said: “We never had the attitude they claimed we had. We did not want to kill anybody. We did not plan by any means to kill Officer Penn. We only wanted to get away. When I drove up to the barn, I really hoped to be able to drive around it and come baek out when the of ficer had followed around. If we had really wanted to kill, we had an ideal place as we came around the curve in the woods and got out 'of sight of the officer. We could have pulled into the woods and blown him in two. “What we were trying to do with the gun was to shoot down the radiator so that the car would run hot and we could get away.” Indians Climb Jagged San dia Peaks in New Mex ico for Rich Heir Albuquerque, N. M., July 1 (AP) Indians climbed jagged, knife-like Sandia peaks today to return the body of Medill McCormick, 21-year old scion of a political-publishing fam ily, to the heart-broken mother who learned of his fate just after she (Continued on Page Eight. Corbitt Co . Awarded Big U. Si Orders Washington, July 1- —(AP) The War Department awarded a con tract for $99,090 today to The Cor bitt Company of Henderson,. N* C., for nine truck tractors and four semi-trailers. ; ; ■ / PUBLIIITBD IVIIT 4FTMNOOH EXCEPT SUNDAY. Success of Unusual Under taking Will Determine Procedure in Other Parts of U. S. NEEDS, PROBLEMS OF NATION ARE SOUGHT One Governor, Also Utili ties Men, Lawyers, College Presidents, Bankers and Others To Collaborate; $14,433,196 Aircraft Con- tracts Have Been Awarded Washington, July I—(AP) Presi dent Roosevelt, it was learned today, has asked the National Emergency Council, tq report to him on econo mic conditions in the South. The success of the unusual under taking, a high government official said, will determine whether similar will be made of Eng land, the industrial east, the West the farm belt and other areas with common economic interests. Mr. Roosevelt wrote Lowell Mellett, executive director of the council, that the studies should produce “a clear and concise statement” of the needs and problems of the different sections of the country.” The group, which includes one gov ernor, Carl Bailey, of Arkansas, and utilities executives, lawyers, college presidents, bankers, business men, A. F. of L. and CIO executives and oth (Continued on Page Six.) Politicians Hope Market Holds Up Until Election; Then, What Do They Care? By CHARLES P. STEWART Central Press Columnist Washington, July I.—With recent advances in stock market prices, New Deal political optimism, looking to ward coming primaries and election day, has chirked up remarkably in Washington. To be sure, the market has not been exclusively in the ascendant. It has had its sags. Still, it has seemed to be moderately hopeful since Congress adjourned and since the campaign has started. Just how reliable a business baro meter the stock market is I haven’t any idea. I doubt that the average politician has, either. For that mat ter. I surmise that the stock market folk are mere guessers. Who Can Say? A few genuine economists may 8 PAGES TODAY FIVE CENTS COPY OLD BEL! TO OPEN LATER ON SEPT. 27 Sales Start In Georgia on July 28, Border Belt Fol lowing Week Later, August 4 EASTERN CAROLINA STARTS AUGUST 25 James S. Ficklen, of Green ville, Elected President of Tobacco Associatibn At White Sulphur Conven tion; Wage-Hour Bill As sailed OPENING DATES. Georgia, July 28. Border Belt, August 4. Eastern Carolina, August 25. Middle Belt, September 15 Old Belt, September 27, White Sulphur Springs, W. Va., July 1. —(AP) —The Tobacco Associa tion of the United States today an - nounced the tobacco market seasons for next fall would start with the Georgia Market on July 28. The South Carolina-North Carolina border markets will open August 4: the Eastern North Carolina markets August 25; Middle Belt, September 15; Old Belt, September 27, and the dark fired Virginia markets November 28. No recommendations were made as to the closing and reopening of the bright and dark-fired Virginia mar kets for the Christna&s holidays. Barnes S. Ficklen, of Greenville, N. C., was elected president of the as sociation, succeeding E. J. O’Brien, Jr., of Louisville Ky. Three vice-presidents were named J. W. Dunnington, Jr., Farmville, Va.; W. A. Goodson, Winston-Salem, N. C., and A. B. Carrington, Jr., Danville. Va. President O’Brien, in his annual \d dress, termed the best the tobacco (Continued on Page Six.) Battle for East Spain Slackening Hendaye, France, July 1 (AP)—The fury of a week-long battle on Spain’s eastern battlefront appeared to be diminishing today with neither the government nor insurgent troops ap parently able to advance. Both armies, wearied by heavy losses, continued to attack and coun ter-attack, but official statements said all assaults were being repulsed. The battle for the approaches to Valencia, involving 250,000 men, along a 50-mile front, undoubtedly had been one of the most deadly of the 23- months-old war. Against the govern ment’s superior man-power, the in surgents have had more cannon and war planes. Although the government, at least temporarily, has blocked insurgent drives on Valencia, both from the north and west, its success has been at enormous cost in man pawer. The insurgents have been unable to wrest control of the coastal highway to Valencia or the Tcruel-Sagunto road to the coast, their two immediate ob jectives. But on both extremes of the 50-mile front, they have driven de fense troops from many strategic ad vance positions that had taken months to fortify. know what they are talking about. Although, at that (parenthetically!, I have heard “Pete” Witt, the noted Cleveland liberal, say, of a famous economist expert in the Ohio metro polis: “If I were mayor of this city I should have that chap run out of town as an utterly unreliable fortune teller.” ' It May Be. All the same, most of us do reckon somewhat with the stock market. If it bulges we conclude that business is getting better. And if that is what we think, the probabilities are that the wide-spread tendency is upward—maybe not that there is any sense in it, but that good and bad times are so largely a mat (Continued on Page Six.)
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