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Physicians have apparently been successful in their fight to save the life of Mrs. Ola Irene Harwell, 20,
of Merced, Cal., who gouged out her right eye with a pair of scissors and hacked off her left hand with a
heavy ax during a family prayer session. She is shown above, in hospital in San Francisco. She took
literally the admonition in the Bible to cut off an offending hand, pluck out an offending eye.
(Central Press)
Government Announces Loans
To Be Made On 1938 Cotton
Base Rate for Cotton
Is 8.30 Cents Per
Pound; Corn Loans
Raised from 52 Cents
to 57 Cents; Roosevelt
Accepts Berle’s Resig
nation.
Washington, Aug. 27.—(AP) — The
Agriculture Department announced
today it would make loans on 1938
cotton at the base rate so 8.30 cents
a pound. The department also an
nounced it had revised the loan pro
gram on last year’s corn by raising
the rate from 50 to 57 cents a bushel,
the rate which officials said would
be made available on the corn crop
now being grown.
The 8.30-cent loan rate will apply
to 7-8 inch middling cotton, with dif
ferentials for other grades and staple
lengths. This compared with a base
rate of nine cents a pound on last
year’s crop. Loans are made to grow
ers desiring to hold their crops of
the market for possible better prices
in the future.
The loans actually will range from
5.30 cents a pound on 13-16 inch, or
shorter, low middling to 10.75 cents
on 1 1-8 inch, or longer good middling,
or better cotton.
At Hyde Park, N. Y., meanwhile,
President Roosevelt accepted the re
signation of A. A. Berle, Jr., as assis
tant secretary of state and wrote that
Berle had given the administration
“splendid cooperation.” Berle’s resig
nation is effective September 15. Sum
mer White House authorities said he
would return to his law professorship
at Columbia University.
Other Washington developments:
Chairman Dies, Democrat, Texas,
disclosed that the House un-American
activities committee is investigating
a report eight government workers
were discharged recently for alleged
subversive activities. The chairman
said the committee had a list of eight
employees. He declined to say where
they had been employed, but there
were indications that some former
Justice Department workers were on
the list.
Board Blamed
AboutT obacco
Daiy Dispatch Bureau,
In The Sir Walter Hotel.
Raleigh, Aug. 27. —Bad tobacco sold
well and good tobacco badly on the
opening days, in growers today said,
and they blame the allotment or
equalization board for the prices.
The kick is to be made in Wash
ington as there is nothing that can
be done locally. The complaint of
growers in Wake. Nash, Pitt and
Edgecombe is that the equalization
board is not an eastern body, John
ston county being the farthest east
of all the communities repi’esented.
The point which the displeased
growers make is that there are ap
palling inequalities in the allotments,
that middle counties of the state
which have been growing small quan
tities of tobacco are given larger al
lotments and that the easterners feel
the force of the axe. There is noth
ing which the General Assembly can
do about it, it is said, and only a visit
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THE ASSOCIATED PRESS.
Eastern Leaf Averages
24 Cents First Two Days
Raleigh, Aug. 27. —(AP) —Eastern
North Carolina tobacco growers re
ceived an average price of about $24
per hundred pounds for their tobacco
in the first two days of the auction
season, reports indicated today. The
season began last Thursday, and it
was not until yesterday that the
blocks were cleared at most of the
markets. Indications were that heavy
offerings would be the rule again next
week. The tobacco was mostly prim
ings.
Sales yesterday included:
Williamston, an estimated 230,000
pounds at $24.
Kinston, 1,030,566 pounds; average,
$22.34.
Tarboro, 70,232 pounds; $23.36 aver
age.
Parnell Says
He’s Ignorant
About Killing
Raleigh, Aug. 27.—(AP)—Baxter
Parnell, convicted of the hex slaying
of his sister-in-law, smiled quizzically
today in his Death Row cell and said
that a Negro witch doctor had
brought him plenty of luck, but it was
all bad.
Convicted in Concord yesterday of
plunging an ice pick into the neck of
19-year-old Janie Fink while she
knelt in prayer besid € a pigpen, Par
nell was brought to Central Prison
here this afternoon.
“I don’t remember a thing,” the 32-
year-old husky farmer told newsmen.
"This witch doctor said she was go
ing to change my luck. She gave me
a root to chew on. I chewed like she
told me, and my mind went b ank.
(Continued on Page Five.)
New Business
Increases In
No. Carolina
Daily Dispatch Bureau,
In The Sir Walter Hotel.
Raleigh, Aug. 27.—Eighty-five new
and 52 extensions of old businesses
have been for the first eight months
in the intensive advertising campaign
conducted by the department of con
servation and development.
The division of commerce and in
dustry has wrought the work which
represents 25 new hosiery mills, 17
food and kindred products, 14 mis "
cellaneous firms, three mine and
quarry equipments, three dyeing and
finishing plants, three knit goods,
two warehouses, two chemicals, and
two tapestries. There are three paper
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ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA AND VIRGINIA.
HENDERSON, N. C., SATURDAY AFTERNOON, AUGUST 27, 1938
Ahoskie, 150,000 pounds; $23.74 aver
age.
Wilson, 983,846 pounds, average
$23.41; two days, 2,513,010 pounds,
$23.65 average.
Smithfield, 255,654 pounds; average,
$25.70.
Rocky Mount, 610,690 pounds; aver
age, $23.17.
Wendell, 175,672 pounds; $20.41 aver
age.
Greenville, for two days combined,
2,651,384 pounds; average, 323.15.
Farmville, Friday, 194,212 pounds;
average, $21.86; total for two days,
878,610 pounds; average, $22.68.
Goldsboro, Friday, 251,026 pounds.
Washington, 1801614 pounds, aver
age $22.16; average for both days
$22.36.
Good Living
Best Antidote
to Communism
By CHARLES P. STEWART
Central Press Columnist
Washington, Aug. 27. —On the third
anniversary of the date on which the
Federal Social Security act became
effective Senator Arthur Capper of
Kansas, who was prominent among
the statesmen who co-operated to
draft the law, broadcast a talk in the
course of which he said:
“Unless government recognizes and
helps to make possible the oppor
tunity for every industrious and hon
est individual to own property of his
own, the lack of that opportunity will
do more to spread communism than
any amount of Communist propa
ganda. Unemployment, lack of op
portunity, destitution, distress, de
spair—these, not oratory and pro
paganda, are the breeders of com
munism and revolt.”
Exactly. If conditions are satisfac
tory folk are not going to want to
change them for some new system. If
they are unsatisfactory there is bound
to be a demand for change, and no
investigation of the demand for it is
going to head off that demand.
Hardly Saturated.
I suppose there are some Com
munist missionaries in this country.
And some Fascists and Nazis.
I don’t see how they can be pre
vented from enfiltering into any nor
mally un-Communistic, un-Fascist or
un-Nazi organization, such as the C.
I. 0., the A. F. of L. any church mem
bership or anything else.
Why, I know an esteemed fellow
member of the congressional press
gallery and of the National Press Club
Laurence Todd, Washington corres-
I pondent of the Telegraph Agency of
j the Union of Soviet Republics. Does
i tnat one membership prove that our
1 press gallery and press club are sat
j urated with communism?
j jr or that matter, Nazi and Fascist
newspapers are represented in our
journalistic ranks, too. These boys are
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Sets Auto Speed
Record 345 Miles
Bonneville Salt Flats, Utah, Aug.
-’7.—(AP) —Captain George Eyston
smashed the world’s automobile
speed record to shreds here today,
he os ting his own mark to 345.49
miles per hour.
Roaring through the measured
mile in two directions within one
hour, the retired British army cap
tain far exceeded his own world
land speed record of 311.42 miles,
chalked up here last November.
Eyston’s mighty “thunderbolt”,
painted black to overcome a glar
ing sun which robbed him of a new
record last Wednesday, hit 347.49
miles per hour on the outward trip
and 343.51 miles per hour on the re
turn jaunt.
GOP Talker
Tears Into
Democrats
Wadsworth Tells Mid
west Republican Gath
ering Roosevelt Is
Gambling With Fate
of the Nation; South
Carolina Campaign
Ends; Vote Tuesday
(By The Associated Press.)
Representative James Wadsworth,
Republican, New York, declared at
Washington, Indiana, the Democratic
administration forces had plunged the
nation into economic depression, and
are “gambling with the fate of the
nation,” in the keynote speech today
at the Republican “cornfield con
ference” on a farm near there.
The meeting, held in a 120-acre tent
city near the southern Indiana town
of 10,000 population, opened the Re
publican campaign in eleven mid
western states and the fall campaign
to elect a Republican Congress.
Thousands of party workers were
present, including Republican national
officials, leaders from the midwest
and Indiana adherents, from precinct
committeemen up.
Even as they gathered in Indiana,
Pennsylvania Democrats rallied at
Hershey to open their drive to retain
control of the Keystone State—de
scribed by leaders of both sides as
one of the major battle grounds of
the fall election campaign. Governor
George Earle, senatorial nominee, was
the keynoter.
In California and South Carolina,
meanwhile, primary races of major
national interest were drawing to a
close. The elections will be Tuesday.
South Carolina’s candidates for the
Democratic senatorial nomination,
Senator Ed Smith, Governor Olin
Johnston, and State Senator Edgar
Brown, wound up their formal speak
ing campaigns last night. Johnston
campaigned as a 100 percent Roose
velt supporter, as did Brown. Smith
said he had supported "eight percent”
of the administration measures and
criticized lohnston as a potential
“rubber stamp” senator. Both Brown
and Johnston called Smith an anti-
New Dealer.
Women Place
In More Jobs
Than The Men
Daily Dispatch Bureau,
In The Sir Walter Hotel.
Raleigh, Aug. 27—Women outplaced
men in the ratio that 58.5 beats 41.5
per cent in the semi-monthly employ
ment figures for August 1 to 15.
And private industry far distanced
public placements. The first half of
the month was the best similar pe
riod since June, 1936. For this fort
night in August there were employed
2,470 men and 3.381 women for a total
of 5,851. Os private placements there
were 4,588 and of public 1,263. These
figures are just out from the offices
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WEATHER
FOR NORTH CAROLINA.
Partly cloudy tonight and Sun
day, preceded by scattered show
ers in north and east portions this
afternoon; slightly cooler in north
portion.
WEEKLY WEATHER.
For South Atlantic States: Most
ly fair or partly cloudy weather,
with only occasional scattered
thundershowers in week; temper
atures near or somewhat above
normal.
ASKS OUSTER OF PRISON STAFF
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Top, workmen removing steam pipes from the prison; below, left to
right, William Donovan, John A. Boyle and William Mills
While a triple investigation was launched into the deaths of four
hunger-striking prisoners in the Holmesburg county prison near
Philadelphia, Coroner Charles D. Hersch said he will ask Gov. George
H. Earle to replace every guard and official at the institution with
Pennsylvania motor police. Hersch charged previously that the
prisoners were scalded to death by steam being turned on them.
Warden William Mills denied any steam or physical punishment was
used on the prisoners. Photos show workmen removing steam pipes
from the prison and two officials who are figuring in the investiga
tion talking with Warden Mills, seen at right. The officials are
William Donovan, left, institutional inspector of the Pennsylvania
state department of welfare, and Assistant District Attorney John
Boyle of Philadelphia.
World Meeting On
Agriculture Status
Sought By Wallace
Eletcher Is
Well Fitted
For U. S. Job
Raleigh, Aug. 27 (AP) —A. L.
Fletcher said today he was still
undecided whether to resign as
North Carolina’s labor commis
sioner and accept an appoint
ment as compliance officer of
the new Federal wage-hour ad
ministration.
The commissioner, who has sup
ported the New Deal's labor pro
gram from its inception, said he
probably would not announce his
decision until Tuesday or Wednes
day of next week. He said today
if he resigned his State post, he
would recommend Forrest Shu
ford, now labor inspector, to suc
ceed him.
Also receiving strong support
as Fletcher’s successor was T.
A. Wilson, of the State Industrial
Commission.
FLETCHER WELL EQUIPPED
FOR FEDERAL WAGE POST
Daily Dispatch Bureau,
In The Sir Walter Hotel.
Raleigh, Aug. 27. —All sorts of com
ments have been made upon the fed
eral government’s big tender to Major
A. L. Fletcher, North Carolina com
missidher of labor, who has been of
fered the assistant directorship to
Elmer F. Andrews, in his adminis
tration of the compliance of fair
standards in the wages and hours act.
It was patent that comment should
have been made on the commission
er’s public record regarding child
labor, better hours and better con
ditions under which workers do their
jobs. Major Fletcher has carried to
his office numerous apprenticeships,
so that he finds himself as an admin
istrator several kinds of a commis
sioner.
First, he is a lawyer and dedicated
to legal ways of doing things. That
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EXCEPT SUNDAY
Would Formulate
Principles To Give
Farmer His Fair Share
of World Income; Sec
retary Speaks to Farm
Economists at College
in Canada
St. Anne de Bellevue. Quebec, Aug.
27.—(AP) —Secretary Wallace of the
United States Department of Agricul
ture proposed today that farm offi
cials of all nations meet to formulate
a set of principles designed to assure
farming classes a "fair” shares of
the world’s income.
Such principles, he said, should eli
minate barriers to international trade
and should assure each agricultural
exporting nation its proper share of
the world markets.
Wallace spoke before an interna
tional conference of agricultural eco
nomists at McDonald College.
“I am convinced,” he said, “that all
nations could agree on the desirability
of systems of agriculture which will
maintain soil fertility and which will
tend to give the farm sections of the
population a fair share of the national
income.”
The secretary, urging abandonment
of trade barriers, said:
“In the realities of 1938, we find
numerous countries pursuing their
programs of price-fixing and export
subsidy with little regard to the fact
that when carried to an extreme they
have been mutually self-defeating.
"Such programs, when carried out
by a number of countries at the same
time, bring about an excessive in
crease in the supply of products on
the international market, and waste
human effort which can best be de
voted to producing something.”
CHARLOTTE MAN IS
VICTIM OF CRASH
Charlotte, Aug. 27.—(AP)-Ralph
Jolly, of Charlotte, was killed here to
day when his motorcycle collided with
a car which Police Officer Dixon
said F. C. Lawing, of Charlotte, was
driving. Lawing was injured slightly.
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Appeal Made
For Tension
To Be Eased
Sir John Simond Re
iterates Premier’s Re
cent Warning 'Ger
many Must Lay Off
Central Europe; Lon
don Condemns Aus~
trian Sudeten Move
Lanark, Scotland, Aug. 27.—(AP) —
Sir John Simond, chancellor of the
exchequer, served notice on an an
xious world today that Great Britain
might have to fight if Germany start
ed a war in central Europe.
The former foreign minister repeat
ed, “as ho.ding good today,” Prime
Minister Chamberlain’s declaration
before the House of Commons March
24 that “if war were to break out it
would be unlikely to be confined to
those who have assumed such obli
gations” to aid Czechoslovakia against
aggression.
An hour before the chancellor was
scheduled to speak, he revised his
speech to put his own punch behind
Chamberlain’s March warning that
Britain might be forced to fight.
“The beginning of a conflict is like
the beginning of a fire in a high wind"
he said, “It may be limited at the
start, but who can say how far it
wound spread or how much destruc
tion it would do, or how many may
be called to beat it out.”
The chancellor spoke at a Conser
vative party demonstration in this
Scottish town.
GREAT BRITAIN APPEALS
FOR EASING OF TENSION
London, Aug. 27. —(AP) —Great
Britain issued a plea today to “all
quarters” to lessen the tension in
Czechoslovakia.
A government statement welcomed
the “conciliatory attitude” of the
“conciliatory attitude” of the Czecho
slovak government in offering a new
basis for negotiation with Nazi-sup
port autonomy-seeking Sudeten Ger
mans.
British officials expressly condemn
ed the action of the Sudeten German
party in relaxing the discipline of its
members in a proclamation yesterday
that freed them to use force in “self
defense.”
Os the Praha government’s conces
sion, the statement said:
“It is to be hoped this contribution
may. meet with a constructive re
sponse and that every effort will be
made in all quarters concerned, di
redtly or indirectly, to refrain from
any action which may heighten th*a
tension.”
ABORTION CASE AT
GOLDSBORO PRESSED
Aug. 27. —(AP) —Testi-
mony in the celebrated Britt-Hill cas,*
was well under way this afternoon in
Wayne Superior Court. City Chief
Detective L. O. Rhodes, chief wit
ness for the State, was on the stand
before the luncheon recess, and testi
fied that Mrs. Missouri Britt, her
daughter, Clara Lee, white, and Tom
Hill Negro, had confessed to him
concerning charges of immoral rela
tions and procuring an abortion.
Mrs. Britt is charged with employing
a physician advising her daughter to
submit to an abortion and aiding and
abetting in the relations. Charges
against Hill are carnal knowledge of a
female under 16.
Destroyer Os
Loyalists Is
Hit, 26 Dead
Gibraltar, Aug. 27. —(AP) —Four in
surgent Spanish warships pounded
today on a lone government destroy
er after a week’s cat and mouse game
on the high seas, and smashed it
with a loss of at least 26 lives.
The government destroyer, the 1,-
650-ton Jose Louis Diez, struggled in
to Gibraltar under her own power,
with the bodies oT'Tib of her dead in
her water-logged forward compart
ments. She was down at the bows
and in danger of sinking.
Powerful insurgent shore guns in
Spanish Morocco backed up the over
whelming strength of the insurgent
cruiser Canarias and three insurgent
destroyers. They had lain in wait for
a week before catching the Diez In
waters near where Lord Nelson
fought the historic battle of Trafal
gar.
After guns had thundered two and
a half hours, the crippled Diez made
for port Her funnel paint was burn
ed through by the heat caused by th r .
excessive speed she turned on to es
cape after the battle.