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HENDERSON’S POPULATION 13,873 TWENTY-FIFTH YEAR EXTRA SESSION OF LEGISLATURE PROBABLE Average For Tobacco Far Exceeds 25c Six Georgia Markets Pay Over $1,000,000; Markets Report Very Heavy Sales Valdosta, Ga.. July .'l9.— (Jp) —Buyers paid nearly $1,000,900 to growers in tht first six tobacco markets to re port on total sales in the opening of bright leaf auctions yesterday in Georgia. An average price well above 25 cents was recorded. There was 15 Georgia markets. Crowded warehouses and blocked ta’es marked resumption of the auc tion? today. Moultrie reported 0-19,364 pounds sold for what Sales Supervisor Wal ter Applewhite said was an average of $7.41 per hundred, nearly two cents above last year's opening price. About 2,000,000 pounds of leaf remained on the warehouse floors. Tifton sales amounted to 837,002 pounds for an average of $27.43. Prices ranged from four to forty cents. Valdosta’s sales supervisor, T. Al mand. said 722,788 pounds sold at an average of $25.74. Hazelhurst sold 328,808 pounds for a $26.55 average, government agents reported. The range was from six to 36 cents. One warehouse already was filled for Monday’s sales and blocked sales continued in the second session. Nashville, through Sales Supervisor V. P. Paullette, reported 772,188 pounds at a $28.86 average. The range was six to 47 cents, and an unusually large crowd was on hand for sales today. Adel prices averaged $26.90, Sales Supervisor Guthrie said, with growers selling 339,908 pounds. Bidding was reported strong as today’s sessions started. J. S. Manning Funeral Plans Are Delayed Raleigh, July 29. —</P) —James S. Manning, former attorney general of North Carolina, and former associate justice of the State Supreme Court, died at his home here early today. He was 79 years old. Manning was attorney gentral from 1916 to 1925, when he started practice of law here with a son, John Hall Manning. Before entering public of fice, he had practiced in Durham for many years. He was a native of Fitts fcoro, and attended the University of North Carolina. Funeral arrangements were delayed because of the inability of members of the family and friends to locate Colonel Mnning, who left by motor yesterday for the National Guard maneuvers in Mississippi. Colonel Manning was not traveling with the regular troop movtment and had not bad left his proposed itinerary here. The former jurist, friends said, was preparing to retire when the attack occurred. He fell in the bathroom. His wife, who heard the noise, found him dead. He apparently had been in his usual health and worked at his office yes terday. Planes Kill Hundreds Os The Chinese ■ Japanese Accused of Wanton Bombings of Civilians in Many In terior Cities Shanghai, July 29 (AP) —Japanese fliers were accused in Chinese reports today of causing hundreds of civilian deaths during persistent bombard ments of the middle Yangtze river re gion. Chinese dispatches from Nanking Sa ‘d Japanese raiders spied 3,000 re fugees in some mountains south of Kiukiang and dropped bombs on fheni, killing “uncounted hundreds.” *5 Japanese naval communique charged that Chinese planes bombed |be Japanese hospital ship near Kiu- } i,an S, although she flew a Red Cross ; a g. No mention was made of the aamage. Another report asserted Japanese (Continued on Page Three.i itmtitersmt U atlii Hiatrafrh LEASED WIRE SERVICE OP THE ASSOCIATED PRESS. •• si MpH it N§ ..^,v. . • vicfy ■ A--'-... M : > ill n £ f *hu * If Ifmdl J? yc 1® 1- ill jlllf •; Visiting the British Museum in London, Douglas Corrigan, who flew the Atlantic in a S9OO nine-year-old plane, is pictured as he examined the original Wright Brothers* airplane in which the first heavier-than-air sustained flight was made at Kitty Hawk. American aviation circles have started a movement to bring this plane back to the United States. This picture was flashed by radio from London to New York. (Central Press) Buying Wave Quickening, With Good Business Ahead For Months, Babson Thinks By ROGER W. BABSON, (Copyright, 1938, Publishers’ Finan cial Bureau, Inc.) Babson Park, Mass., July 9. —Mer- chants are selling almost as many goods today as they were last sum mer. This is hard to believe, but it is a fact. Department store sales for the entire country are averaging less than ten per cent below a year ago in dollars. Meanwhile, price tags have fallen almost as much as that. Hence, j unit sales of goods are close to the satisfactory levels of a year ago at this time. Furthermore, in many sec tions trade is actually above the 1937 volume. This, of course, is wonderful news. It means that we are in for a real surge in business this fall. We often forget that retail trade is one of the best forecasters we have of future business. When stores are 'crowded, when goods are moving off the shelves and when cash registers Alaskan Road Over Canada Is Now Urged By CHARLES P. STEWART, Central Press Columnist. Washington, July 29.—Uncle Sam and Canada are flirting again with the idea of building an up-to-date highway through British Columbia from the border, somewhere in Wash ington, to the Alaskan border. This suggestion originally was made about 10 years ago. I got nowhere at the time but occasionally has been semi-revived since then. Now; it is being urged quite vigorously. It was a Yankee notion initially, the theory being that the United States ought to be in touch with its extreme northwesterly territory other wise than by water. Yet it was felt that British Columbia would profit by it also, and Canadians did not dispute this argument. How to finance tht enterprist was (Continued on Page Three.) MOORESVILLE MAN CROSSING VICTIM Mooresville, July 28 (AP)—Clar ence Bumgarner, of Mooresville* was killed today when his auto mobile was struck by a north bound passenger train here. Po lice said the train stopped, but resumed its Charlotte to Taylors ville run after officials learned Bumgarner was dead. He is sur vived by his widow, his parents pud several brothers and sisters. _ONLY DAILY NEWSPAP ER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OF NORTH CAR OLINA AND VIRGINM. Corrigan Looks at a Jalopy HENDERSON, N. C., FRIDAY AFTERNOON, JULY 29, 1938 are jingling, we can be sure that more workers will goon be having jobs in factories, that additional traffic will be moving over the railroads and that investors will be receiving bigger divi dends. On the other hand, when peo ple are not buying goods, a let-down in industrial activity is sure to fol low. Inventories Cleaned Out. Late last summer buying was be ginning to fall off. People had bought all the goods they needed during the winter and spring of ’37. Because of this and because of high retail prices, trade was slowing up by summer’s end. As a result, when last Labor Day rolled around, factories had but few new orders for goods. They had to lay off workers. Then everyone got frightened; stocks broke badly; and we had a discouraging business reces (Continued on Page Five.) SIOO Million Cash Handled By Treasurer Daily Dispatch Bureau, In The Sir Walter Hotel. Raleigh, July 29,. —In the fiscal year ended June 30 the North Carolina treasurer’s office handled more than $110,000,000 in cold, hard cash, ac cording to records of Treasurer Charlts M. Johnsofl. If there were a chart showing com parison with past years, the curve would run almost vertically, for 20 years ago the treasurer’s office han dled only $6,250,000, approximately. The ncrease of the past two decades, amounts to more than 1700 per cent. The treasurer, heading this busi ness, which is, in effect, one of the State’s largest banks, receives a sal ary of $6,000 a year and is bonded for $750,000. Luckily for him, he does not have to pay the premium on the bond, for if he did there’d be little of his salary left. Other figures from the office show the tremendous volume of business that is being done there—largely as a result of the fact that the State of North Carolina has taken over op eration and financing of all roads and schools. Add to the cash handled the bond transactions and securities held by or under control of the treasurer, and the total for the fiscal year shows something more than $216,000,000. More than a million and a half items were handled in the office and these operations required something like nine million operations in order (Continued on Page Five), Clipper Is Missing In The Pacific Search Begun for Pan - American Air ways 26-Ton Plane With 15 Men Aboard Manila, P. 1., July 29 (AP) —Fears for the safety of 15 men aboard the Pan-American Airways 26-ton flying Clipper were expressed tonight when she failed to arrive or report long aft er the scheduled landing time here, from Guam. Nine hours after the last radio re port from the Clipper, army officers expi \jsed belief the $450,000 flying boat was forced down on the Pacific Ocean on its 1,600-mile flight. They laid plans for a widespread aerial search to start at dawn Sat urday (abqut 4 p. m. today, eastern standard time) in cooperation with a hunt already started by army and navy ships. The four-motored Clipper’s last re port was sent at 11:09 p. m. last night, eastern standard time. She was fly ing south of her normal course to escape a tropical storm. At that time she was about half way through her scheduled 12-hour flight and was backing 14-miles-an-hour headwinds at an elevation of 9,000 feet between two cloud banks. Flying conditions and visibility had been generally good, but the plane had flown through scattered showers. No reason was advanced as to why she might have been forced down, but it was pointed out that if she had made a safe landing, she could stay on the Pacific as well as any boat. Bar Approves U. S. Protests On Bombings Cleveland, July 29 (AP) —The Ame rican Bar Association’s House of dele gates adopted a resolution today ap proving the United States govern ment’s protests against bombing of civilians in Spain and China. The resolution urged the govern ment to continue protests against “bombardments of undefended places, causing injury and deaths to thou sands of unarmed civilians, includ ing women and children, in the Span ish conflict and in the hostilities now in progress between Japan and China.” It urged the United States govern (Continued on Page Three.) Plane With 12 Passing Here Drops Sergeant Killed and Pilot Escapes in Para chute ; Other Planes Are Grounded Varina, July 29. (/P) —Sergeant Ernest S. Bowker, a Marine .flier, was killed in the crash of a Marine plane here today, but Pilot Jens C. Aggerbeck, aviation cadet, escaped without injury in a parachute jump. The plane burned and was a com plete loss. Captain R. S. Rhoades, command ing tht squadron of 12 planes, en route from Quantico, Va., to the Paris Island, S. C., base in which Bowker and Aggerbeck were traveling, made the identifications. Earlier the dead man had been tentatively idtntified as E. M. Kissack, of Washington, when a watch bearing that name was found near the body. Eye witnesses told their accounts, us ing the name Kissack before iden tification was made positve. The other planes in the squadron landed at Raleigh, 15 miles from here, and Captain Rhoades said they would stay there tonight. He said the cause (Continued on Page Three.) WEATHER FOR NORTH CAROLINA. Partly cloudy tonight and Sat urday. _ ... . In Mexico’s Political Crisis jSKn&f Disciplinary action against Gen. Ramon F. Iturbe (left) and Col. Bolivai Sierra (right), who refused to remove their signatures from a manifesto condemning both Communism and Fascism, has caused a rift in Mexican politics. The P. R. M. (Mexican revolutionary party) has dismissed them both, branding them as “traitors to the cause of the workers.” The Democratic Front, however, stands behind them. (Central Press) Vance Girl Gets Honors With 4-H Raleigh, July 29 (AP) —Four-H club workers of Cleveland took first honors in club work in the State this year, and today the pla que for 4)681 county records went iVo Cleveland's delegates at the annual short course at N. C. State College. Stanly county had the second ‘ best county record and Alamance third. Margaret Green, of Durham, was second best girl, a*nd Louise Bunn, of Edgecombe, was third. Helen Whitlock, of Stanly county, took first honors in individual prizes for girls. Certificates were awarded State champions among the boys and girls in different phases of club competition as follows: Food preparation, Lou Ella Dick erson, of Vance county; style show winner, Ada Braswell, of Wilson; for raising best pigs, Albert Coates, of Johnston county. Greece Halts Rebellion In Crete Island Athens, Greece, July 29.—(/P) —A re volt against the regime of General John Mataxas, dictator of Greece, ap parently was quickly crushed today. The governor of the island of Crete, where the uprising broke out. cabled Mttaxas that order had been restored in Canea, the Crete capital. All rebel-held government buildings have been re-occupied by authoritits, 'he reported, and the revolutionists have fled. Four hundred armed men reported to be sailors effected the coup by taking advantage of a weakened gar rison at Canea. Most of the troops there had been sent to northern Greece to provide vacation relief for other garrisons. Premier Mataxas ordered army, navy and air forces to the island. Communication was suspended and ships were not permitttd to depart for the island. The official announce ment said: “A group of 400 armed men last night took the city of Canea, on the island of Crete, profiting by the tem porary diminution of the garrison. The cause and object of the desperate revolt are unknown. General Metaxas ordered military, naval and air forces to Crete. In other citits of Crtte ab solute quiet prevailed. Other places in Greece also are quiet.” PATRICK SPEAKS AT PRESS CONVENTION ** Old Point Comfort, Va., July 29 (AP) —Talbot Patrick, of Goldsboro, N. C., president of the North Caro lina Press Association, discussed a plan for bringing “now money” into North Carolina and Virginia before the annual convention of the Virginia Press Association here today. Talbot said the plan, a coopera tive one, developed by the Oklahoma press Association, had been adopted in several states. He said foundation work already had been begun in North Carolina. PUBLISHED EVERY AFTERNOON EXCEPT SUNDAY Separation Os Countess Is Arranged Barbara Hutton and Dan is h Nobleman Husband Reach An Agreement on Terms London, July 29 (AP) —Attorneys for the former Barbara Hutton, five and ten cent heiress, and her es tranged husband, Count Court Haug witz-Reventlow, announced today the couple had reached an agreement for separation. The count was granted “parental rights” toward Lance, their two-year-- old son. They entitled him to. make certain final decisions affecting his son’s education, religion and career. The deed of separation already has been signed by both the coiint and countess. It is subject to approval by the Danish minister of justice, but would be valid both under Danish and English law. Count Court is Danish and the countess has adopted her husband’s nationality. Thus the Woolworth heiress and the spruce dignified Danish nobleman she married in Reno, Nevada, May 14, 1935, came to the parting of their ways. The separation was a far more amicable “agreement to disagree” than had been foreshadowed by the sensational hearing in a Bow street magistrate’s court, the guard around their home and the count’s promise not to sec his wife. Negro Farmer Executed In S. C. Slaying Columbia, S. C., July 29 (AP) —L. G. Goodman, Lake City Negro share cropper, died in the electric chair at the State penitentiary at dawn today for the murder of June 10 of Llewellyn Singletary, 28-year-old Lake City plantation owner. Goodman calmly repeated a part of the 23rd Psalm when asked by Guard Captain C. A. Sullivan for a last statement. “That’s all, I’m ready,” the Negro said, and at a signal from Sullivan the switch was thrown, sending ten amperes of electricity through his body for a full minute. He was pro nounced dead by Prison Physician L. H. Jennings three minutes and 40 seconds after the first shock. The condemned man’s last minute was spent in prayer with a chaplain and a Negro preacher. He walked un assisted into the newly-improved and enlarged death chamber, crowded with 50 spectators, and sat down with out direction. , Hesitating in a silent prayer mo mentarily when asked if he had any thing to say, Goodman answered; “Well, no sir, not exactly, except that I know the Lord is with me.” He then repeated the psalm. 0 PAGES ©TODAY FIVE CENTS COPY Would Meet To Approve PWA Loans Some $10,000,000 of New Stajte Buildings in Prospect With Fed eral Aid Raleigh, July 29 —(AP) —Governor Hoey indicated today that an early special session of the legislature may be called to authorize State participa tion in Federal public works funds for construction at State institutions. “I will not hesitate to call the legis lature into special session, said Gov ernor Hoey, “if it appears after we have threshed out the matter that it is necessary to have a special session to enable the State to get'money for necessary public improvements. , “We are making a survey of needs, and that must be completed first. If it is found that it is necessary to pass new laws to enable the State to get 45 percent grants and to author ize necessary buildings, the legisla ture will meet.” The governor said he had discussed the matter with some legislative lead ers, and will call others tonight. “We notified State institutions a month ago to ascertain what they (Continued on Page Three.) AAA Backing New Bagging From Cotton Washngton, July 9. —(yP) —The AAA announced today financial support of a program to increast cotton consump tion by substituting cotton bagging for jute as covering for cotton bales. F. R. Wilcox, marketing division director, outlined a program calling for manufacture, with aid of govern ment subsidies, of enough cotton bag ging to cover 1,000,000 bales of cot ton. The AAA said the program followed repeated recommendations by the cot ton industry that cotton bagging be given a trial as Jute substitute. It estimated the normjal coton crop would require about 75000,000 yards of cotton bagging, which in turn would divert 135,000 bales of cotton from the market. The AAA said manufacturers would be asked to sell cotton bagging would permit competition with jute. Other dtvelopments. Senator McAdoo, Democrat, Calt (Continued on Page Five) May Discard Both Deane Andßurgin Strange Rumors Reach Raleigh; Flet cher in for Opposition in 1940 Campaign Daily Dispatch Bureau* In The Sir Walter Hotel. By HENRY AVERILJL Raleigh, July 29. —There has been absolutely no official confirmation from any course, but repeated re ports and rumors bob up that neither W. O. Burgin, of Davidson, nor C. B. Deane, of Richmond, will be the Democratic nominee for Congress come this November. This correspondent has been unable to find anybody willing to take even the slightest responsibility for theee reports and they are passed along merely for whatever they may or may not be worth. It may be that back of the rumors is the thought that it might be ex pedient to solve the whole Eighth dis trict row by tossing both Burgin and Deane out on their ears and putting up a third person, untouched by the charges and countercharges of politi cal corruption and connivance. The story is that when the State Board of Elections finally certifies the nominee, the winner will imme diately resign, thus ltaving selection of a candidate to the Democratic con gressional committee in the eighth. No matter how the actual decision goes, there s going to be some inter esting reading in the State Election (Continued on Page Four)
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