HENDERSON’S
POPULATION
13,873
twenty-fifth year
U. S. Makes Protest
To Japs On Plane
Bombing At Canton
Follows Mexico
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Following the lead of Mexico, where
oil lands held by foreigners were
expropriated, President Leon Corts
(above),' of Costa Rica; has ap
proved a bill expropriating the
properties of the American-owned
Electric Bond & Share Corp., serv
ing San Jose, the capital, with light
and power.
(Central Prats)
Minors Told
To Quit Job
In Gastonia
Big Textile Mills Feel
First Effects of Wage-
Hour Bill, Soon Appli
cable
Gastonia, Aug. 26 (AP) —Gaston
county, the nation’s largest producer
of combed cotton yarns, began today
to feel the first effects of the new
wage-hour law. Several hundred
youths between 16 and 18 were being
told that they would have to give up
their jobs in cotton textile mills.
In scores of mi.ls throughout the
country, notices were being posted set
ting September 23 as the deadline sot
the work of those under 18.
Among the youths who fell within
that ag e boundary, and among their
neighbors, there was considerable spe
culation over what they could do until
they grow old enough to qualify legal
ly for the jobs which they have al
ready done. Most of them are looking
e.ready for jobs in other fields.
“1 hate to see them go,” said one
plant foreman, “but there is nothing
I can do about it. I don’t know what
they will do. In many cases that I
know, these youngsters are the sole
support of their families. We have
ten men applying for every job.”
Discussion of the notices ran
Through groups of workers who loit
ered on the grass in front of mills
during the rest period.
ACTION PREMATURE, SOME
SOUTH CAROLINIANS SAY
Greenville, S. C., Aug. 26 —(AP) —
South Carolina textile leaders today
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Wallace’s Farm Program
Hitting Snag; No Cure-All
For Problem, Babson Says
BY IIOGEH W. BABSON,
Copyright 1938, Publishers
Financial Bureau, Inc.
Babson Fark, Mass., Aug. 26.—Sec
retary Wallace and his aides in the
Agriculture Department are unhappy
with the way their farm program is
going. Cotton prices are down below
the loan point. With the exception of
1932-3, wheat prices are the lowest in
three hundred years. Corn prices are
off 50 per cent from the 1937 level.
As a result farmers are losing faith
in the whole AAA program. In fact,
the brass hats at Washington are
carefully avoiding a referendum bn
marketing quotas either for corn or
for wheat. They fear that the New
Deal farm program is failing.
Taxpayer’s Headache.
Hence, many things will be done
between now and election to window
dress farm prices, at the expense of
tax-payers. The promises already
made will cost Uncle Sam about half
a billion dollars with no beneficial re
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LEASED WIRE SERVICE OF
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS.
Vigorous Representa
tions by Ambassador
Grew at Tokyo Over
Destruction of Chi
nese - American Air
Liner, With Loss of
Many Lives
Tokyo, Aug. 26.—(A'P)—United
States Ambassador Joseph Grew pro
tested to the Japanese government to
night against the destruction of a
Chinere-Americ&n. air liner by Japa
nese war planes near Canton, south
China, Wednesday.
The ambassador's representations
wer € made during a half hour confer
ence at the foreign office. It was un
derstood on good authority that the
United Stated eiivoy took the position
that such attacks were likely to jeo
pardize American lives, and that this
attack contravened Japan’s previous
assurance that the lives and property
of neutrals China would be re
spected by the Japanese forces.
(The American pilot of the plane, H.
.L. Woods, of Winfield, Kans., escaped
injury, but 12 Chinese passengers or
members of the crew, are believed to
have perished. Thq plane was ope
rated by the China National Aviation
Corporation, owned jointly by the
Chinese government and private Ame
rican interests.)
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Fletcher May
Accept SB,OOO
U. S. Wage Job
Raleigh, Aug. 26 (AP)—A. L. Flet
cher, North Carolina labor commis
sioner, probably will announce today
or tomorrow whether he will accept
a tendered appointment as assistant
administrator and director of the
Federal
He returned here today from Wash
ington, where he conferred with Ad
ministrator Elmer Andrews.
“I expect to confer with Governor
Hoey and make my decision by to
morrow,” he said. “I haven’t decided
definite.y yet whether I’ll accept the
post.”
If Fletcher accepts the appointment,
he would leave a $5,260 State job for
an SB,OOO federal position.
State-Owned
Railroad Has
Slight Profit
Raleigh, Aug. 26. —(AP) —The State
controlled Atlantic & North Carolina
railroad made a profit of $105.87 in
July, President H. P. Crowell, of
Morehead City, reported to Governor
Hoey today.
The line had an operating revenue
of $25,134.96 and operating expenses
of $19,502.13, Crowlell said. More than
$5,000 went for fixed charges and
vents.
“The revenues for Puly were slightly
below those for June,” Crowell re
ported. “However, we have managed
to keep operating expenses and car
hire payments within the revenues
and avoid running into losses.”
General conditions improve!* late
last month, he said, and should “be
reflected in more favorable earnings
for August.”
sults Despite this huge outlay, the
program only covers four major pro
ducts whose share of total farm in
come is not more than 22 per cent.
For instance, wheat normally contri
butes only si* per cent and cotton on
ly 10 per cent. This means that nearly
80 per cent of the total farm output
is receiving subsidies. Those far
mers who are getting nothing, u
who are helping to foot the tax bills,
are unhappy.
Every one recognizes that we have
a real farm' r problem. Consumption
has been declining and our exports
have been falling. The result is that
•we have more farm products than we
can use. Consequently, prices are very
low. Meanwhile, union wages, rising
taxes, and high tariffs have boosted
industrial costs. Hence, the prices the
farmer must pay have gone up while
the prices he gets have gone down. In
1913, there was a good balance be
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ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA AND VIRGINIA.
HENDERSON, N. C., FRIDAY AFTERNOON, AUGUST 26, 1938
ROOSEVELT, FARLEY IN ACCORD
Downed By Japs
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Pictured above is H. L. Woods, of
Hays, Kansas, pilot of the giant China
National Aviation Corporation plane
forced down by Japanese warplanes
as it flew from Hong Kong to Wu
chow, southwest of Canton. Woods
told authorities at Macao that the
Japanese machine gunned his ground
ed plane, killing or wounding at least
14 of the 17 aboard.
Civilians In
State To Aid
In War Game
1,500 Tar Heels To
Join “Warning Net”
for Imaginary Planes
From Sea
Raleigh, Aug. 26 (AP)—Fifteen hun
dred Tar Heel civilians, serving as a
far-flung “warning net,” will parti
cipate in the aerial war game in
Eastern North Carolina October 3 to
17, Brigadier-General Fulton Gardner
announced today.
The civilians who will peer into the
sky to observe “enemy” planes flying
in from the Atlantic to bombard a
mystical airdrome and munitions
base at Fort Bragg will be organize 1
by nine leaders appointed by the War
Department. The leaders and the
counties in their districts follow:
First district, Mayor Jerome Flora,
Elizabeth City; Camden, Chowan, Cur
rituck, Dare Pasquotank and Perqui
mans counties.
Second district Frank Miller, Wash
ington; Beaufort, Hyde, Tyrrell,
Washington.
Third district ,Tom Daniels, New
Bern; Carteret, Craven, Jones, Ons
low and Pamlico.
Fourth district, H. L. Swain of
Wi liamston; Bertie and Martin.
Fifth district, June Rose, Granville;
Wilson, Edgecombe and Pitt.
Sixth district, Henry Stevens, War
saw; Greene, Lenoir, Duplin and
Sampson.
Seventh district Colonel R. S. Mc-
Clellan, Wilmington; New Hanover,
Pender and Bladen.
Ninth district, R. L. McMillan, Ra
leigh; Johnston, Wake, Chatham, Lee.
Tenth district; Hector Blackwell,
Fayetteville, Robeson, Cumberland,
Hoke, Harnett, Moore Scotland and
Richmond.
There is no eighth district.
The warning net most extensive ever
organized in the United States, will
extend over an area bounded by Eliza
beth City, Wilson, Siler City, Rock
ingham and Wilmington.
FLORIDA WOMAN IS
DEAD IN COLLISION
Asheville, Aug. 26.—(AP)—Mrs. J.
B. Ballard, 55, of Bradenton, Fla.,
was killed instantly in an automobile
truck collision here today. Mrs. W. E.
Ballard, a daughter-in-law, and three
children, Doris, Laura Wlie
June Ballard, were injured.
YUGOSLAV CABINET
MINISTERS RESIGN
Belgrade, Yugoslavia, Aug. 26.
(Ap) Three Yugoslav cabinet mem
bers, including the war minister, re-
today on the heels of the Lit
tle Entente conference which grant
ed Hungary the right to re-arm. The
Yugoslav News Agency said the re
gency council accepted the resigna
tions. . _
Tongue Lashin g Candidates Vie Fo r Senate Honors
Here are the three candidates for the South Carolina Democratic senatorial nomination August 30, pictured as
they spoke from the same p.atform at a rally in Laurens. Left, the veteran Senator Ellison D. (Cotton Ed) Smith
lacks for words, so he looks the part when he tells the crowd his opinion of his two opponents. In center, Edgar
Brown, a state senator, outlines his program, and at right. Governor Olin D. Johnston drives home a point. South
Carolina has a peculiar rule that each candidate must speak from the same platform at every rally and their
caravan moves about the st'ane iilie a :raveling road show.
Eastern Carolina Exceeds $24
To Top Last Year’s Opening
Raleigh, Aug. 26. —(AF) —Tobacco
offerings, which blocked sales on sev
eral Eastern North Carolina Bright
Belt markets, today continued to
bring prices which averaged around
$24 per hundred. Lower grades con
tinued to sell unusually strong today.
At Rocky Mount about 500,000
pounds of the weed was on the floors.
Offerings were principally primings,
with some tips.^
Williamstori "fftlirket ‘officials ex
pressed doubt the block would be
cleared there today.
Offerings on the Kinston market
covered a wide range of quality, and
prices remained unchanged.
Offerings on the Wilson market
were estimated at 1,000,000 pounds to
day, and price trends remained un
-16 Arabs At
Jaffa Killed
By Bombings
Jaffa, Palestine, Aug. 26. —(AP) —
A terrific bomb explosion in the
crowded Jaffa market place today
killed 16 Arabs, wounded 30 and touch
ed off frenzied rioting. While ambu
lances were taking the dead and
wounded to hospitals, enraged Arabs
were trying to set fire to the Jewish-
Anglo-Palestine Bank and other
buildings.
Po.ice and soldiers, however, got the
situation under conrtol. All roads into
this busy seaport were closed, and
the border section between here and
Tel-Aviv were patroled by soldiers
and police.
(British troops dynamited several
houses in Jenin last night as punish
ment for the slaying of British Dis
trict Commissioner W. S. Moffatt by
an Arab, who later was shot when he
was said to have tried to escape from
the Jenin military camp).
Nearly 300 persons have died in
Arab-Jewish strife in the Holy Land
since July 5, when 'the ambushing of
a bus brought on a wave of rioting
and tension.
Colby Speech
Os Mr. Bailey
Being Mailed
Daily Dispatch Bureau,
In The Sir Walter Hotel.
Raleigh, Aug. 26.—Large numbers
of “The Democratic Process”, the com
mencement address of United States
Senator Josiah William Bailey, have
been found in Raleigh and other
places, raising anew the speculation
whether these copies are beinp; sent
out by friends or foes.
It will be recalled that Senator
Bailey was decorated with a doctor’s
degree by President Johnson of Colby
University in Maine, who, in bestow
ing the honor, gave praise to Senator
Bailey for his defense of the Consti
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WEATHER
FOR NORTH CAROLINA.
Partly cloudy tonight and Satur
day somewhat unsettled Saturday.
changed.
Raleigh, Aug. 26. —(AP) —The State-
Federal Crop Reporting Service said
today that prices for low to good prim
ings showed a good increase over last
year’s opening day prices on the East
ern North Carolina, or New Bright
Be t, tobacco markets.
The auction season on the 14 mar
kets opened yesterday, with prices
ranging above an average of $24“ a
hundred. Blocked sales resulted on
most of the markets, and official aver
ages for the first day’s sales were no:
available.
At Wilson officials announced to
day 1,529,154 pounds were sold yes
terday for a $23.80 average.
Officials at Greenville reported 1,-
Freeze Sentenced
To Twenty Years
Concord, Aug. 26.—(AP) —Judge
Frank Armstrong sentenced Jack'
Freeze to 20 to 30 years today after
a Cabarrus county superior jury
corjvicted the 62-year-old automo
bile .salesman yesterday of second
degree murder in the slaying of
Roy Lentz, another automobile
salesman, last May 24.
Freeze’s expression remained un
changed throughout the day’s pro
ceedings. R. F. James and C. M.
Llewellyn, defense attorneys, had
asked the mercy of the court for
their client.
Freeze, white-haired and stock
ily-built, said he shot Lentz after
Lentz had made remarks to him
which he considered threatening.
New Deal Foes
Make Strange
Party Claims
By CHARLES P. STEWART
Central Press Columnist
Washington, Aug. 26. —If I were an
anti-New Deal Democrat and conse
quently on the New Deal’s “purge
list” (it’s denied that there is one but
it’s perfectly obvious that there is) I
wouldn’t insist, as most anti-New
Dealers do, that a New Dealer is
what I really am.
For one thing, it’s ah inaccuracy
on the anti-New Deal Democrats, part
however unintentional.
Secondly, it’s an unnecessary claim
for them to make; they could make
a better one.
• How They Voted.
For candidates like Senators
George, Tydings, “Cotton Ed” Smith
and others to assert that they are, in
the main, New Dealers of course is
mightily unconvincing.
They may have voted for adminis
tration measures 30 or 40 times to
three or four times that they have
voted against the administration. But
the 30 or 40 times were upon issues
of small consequence and the three or
four times were upon issues of vital
importance to the administration.
In short, they have helped, with
considerable success, to “throw a
crimp” into vital New Deal policies;
they have backed the New Deal nu
merously, perhaps, but immaterially.
No Discredit.
Why, then, should they argue that,
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PUBLISHED EVERY AFTERNOON
EXCEPT SUNDAY
429,436 pounds sold yesterday brought
an average of $23.80.
Farmvi.le officials said 678,398
pounds went for a $23.49 average.
The Kinston Board of the Trade es
timated 1,200,000 pounds were sold for
an average of $24.
Sales Supervisor George Arrington
announced '944,328 pounds were sold
at Rocky Mount for a $24.09 average
Sales Supervisor William Moore re
ported opening day
aggregated 263,532 netting an
average of $26.29.
The official opening day sales on
the Tarboro market listed 219,760
pounds sold for an average of $24.31.
A total of 225,148 pounds was sold
at Williamston yesterday for a $24.71
average.
Witch Doctor
Patient Waits
Jury Verdict
Concord, Aug. 26.—(AP) —Testimony
was completed on the stroke of noon
today in the case of Baxter Parnell,
32-year-old Cabarrus county farmer,
on trial in superior court on charg*es
of murder in the slaying of Martha
Jane Fink, his sister-in-law.
Lawyers’ summations began imme
diately. Completion of the testimony
came after the dsfaxLse had called
Parneli, his mother,: and' the Negro
witef: doctor from whom the defend
ant claimed he got a root which af
fected him greatly. Parnell testified
he did not- remem, stabbed
the Fink girl, and that he did not re
call being taken to the county jail
after the slaying. ~
Later his mother, Mrs. Sally Par
nell, testified her son had received a
head injury when he ; was a child and
had not seemed normal since.
Jennie Morris, a little old Negress
wearing a pink-flowered dress, with a
black hat and veil, said she first
“treated” Parnell Sunday before the
slaying. She said nine kinds of weed
went into her “dust” treatment, but
refused to reveal what they were. Par
nell, she testified, told her he was
down and out and had no friends.
“I gave him a little bit of pattle
tongue root, and told him to chaw it
up and spit it out,” the ginger-cake
colored Negress said. “The next time
he came, on the day of the killing, I
was scared of him, because of the way
he was acting and doing.”
“Do'you think he was crazy,” an
attorney asked.
“Yes, he was crazy,” she replied.
South Studies
No. Carolina’s
,• j !
School System
, ‘ .'i .
Daily Dispatch Bureau,
In The Sir Walter Hotel.
Raleigh, Aug. 26. —Three common
wealths have within as many recent
months sent ambassadors to North
Carolina to study its schools.
The lastest of the mand the one
which interests most was Alabama
whose Governor-Nominate Frank
Dixon, son of the famous Frank of
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Farley Asks
FDRToFight
In Maryland
President Re - Names
Donald Smith to La
bor Board for Five
Years; Senate Prob
ers Warn WPA Work
ers Not to Give Funds;
S3O Pension Hit by
FDR
Hyde Park, N. Y., Aug. 26.—(AP —
President Roosevelt today re-appoint
ed D<»nald W. Smith of Pennsylvania,
as a member of the National Labor
Relations Board. Smith will serve a
term of five years. His present term
expires August 27.
President William Green, of the
American Federation of Labor, recent
ly discussed the expiration of Smith’s
term with the President, but said he
had lodged' no specific objections a
gainst Smith. Instead, Green said he
had suggested to the President that
members of the NLItB generally
should be “more judicial minded ”
Also, the President said he and
James A. Farley were “in complete
agreement, as usual,” during a poli
tical conference yesterday. He mad?-
this direct statement in response to
questions at his present conference:
He and Farley were understood to
have gone over the political situations
in every state where the New Deal
is an issue. Farley repeatedly urged
the President to go personally into
Maryland in an effort to defeat Sena
tor Tydings, an administration op
ponent seeking renomination. The
President did not comment on this,
however, saying only that he had no
. engagements besides the two already
announced for patriotic observance in
Poughkeepsie, N. Y., and Chattanooga,
Tenn.
The President also said that a pro
posal being discussed in California
to give S3O weekly pensions to all per
sons over 50 can be described as a
short cut to Utopia.
Chairman Sheppard, Democrat,
Texas, of the Senate Campaign Ex
penditures Committee, advised David
Lasser, president of the Workers Al
liance, at Washington, not to carry
out his plans to raise a $50,000 poli
tical fund from donations made lar
gely by WPA workers. Citing a sec
tion of the criminal code defining
“principale”, the chairman said it
was his personal belief that Lasser
and the Alliance would be violating
the law if the Alliance solicited funds
from relief workers.
Hines Named
As Escort Os
Dutch Schultz
New York, Aug. 26.—(AP)—Dudley
Brothwell, soft-spoken Connecticut
riding master, resumed the stand to
day in the conspiracy trial of Tam
many district leader James Hines to
follow up his sensational testimony
that Hines was “the man in the red
'tie” who accompanied Dutch Schultz
on a visit to Fairfield, Conn, in 1935.
Appearing yesterday after a parade
of admitted gangsters and racketeers,
Brothwell was one of the first wit
nesses without a taint of racket con
nection called by the prosecution.
Hines’ chief defense counsel, Lloyd
Stryker, immediately took over the
witness for cross-examination. By a
swift series of questions, he tried to
show that it had been unnecessary
for Brothwell to let his gaze rove over
the jury and part of the audience late
yesterday before he finally picked out
Hines and identified him as Schultz’s
companion.
Q. Are you familiar with court
rooms, Mr Brothwell?”
A. “No.”
Q. “Haven’t you ever seen one?”
A. “No.”
Q. “You’ve seen them in the
movies?”
A. “Well, yes.”
Q. “And you know defendants don’t
sit in the jury box.”
A. “I didn’t know.”
Q. "Do you think the defendant ii
seated sometimes in the jury box.”
A. “I don’t know. He could be, as
far as I know.”
Q. “When you were asked to see if
Mr. Hines was in court, you looked
at those spectators over there, then
your eyes swept to the jury box, and
then to Mr. Hines. Didn’t you see
him when your eyes swept from the
spectators to the jury box”
Brothwell with a puzzled frown, re
plied calmly: “Well, I might have
seen him then.”
“It was all display, wasn’t it?”
Stryker demanded
“Yes, I wanted to be sure I wa.*
right,” the witness said.