Tobacco Average Estimated To Be Around 2s Cents HENDERSON’S * POPULATION 13,873 twenty-fifth year CZECHS CUMRHUTMLUWONSIHETEIS * * * * * * * I • * * * * V * * • * * ¥ * ‘ ¥ * * * * * « * * * * * Tydings Wins In Maryland; Republicans Take Maine Offerings For Day Are Placed Close To Million Pounds •» Quality Appears Poorer Than on Last Year’s Market Opening; Some Complaints Heard Over Prices, but no Tags Seen Turned; 'First Row $27.16 at One House. An average price expected to be around 25 cents per pound was the estimate given by Fred Alien, sales supervisor, this afternoon for today’s opening sale on the Henderson tobacco market. He estimated close to one million pounds was on the warehouse floors during the day for the start of the 1938-39 selling season.' The first row sold at one of the two warehouses having first sale averaged $27.16 per hundred for pounds of leaf the supervisor announced ,this being an actual figure. Offerings generally appeared to be of a slightly poorer quality than last year’s opening, which in itself was a depressent to price levels. Some ob servers thought the good grades brought prices much below last year’s opening with the sorrier types con siderable above the first sale last year. Some Complaint. There was some complaint on the part of farmers over the prices being paid, but actual observation of early sales revealed no tags turned and no offerings v/ithdrawn. Tremendous crowds, as usual, were on hand for the start of the selling season here along with the eight other markets in the Middle Belt. The first two sales were at the Banner and Farmers Warehouses. Many farmers brought tobacco for sale, but many others were on hand to observe price trends. Business men, too, mingled (Continued on Page Bight Offerings Heavy Over Middle Belt Durham, Sept. 13 of ferings and strong prices greeted open ings today of North Carolina’s Middle Belt tobacco markets. Reports from all around the belt indicated farmers were highly pleas ed at initial offerings, although esti mates of proceeds of first sales were not available At some of the nine auc tion centers. .% Here at one of the largest markets in the belt estimates said the bright leaf was bringing an average of $23 per hundred pounds. Selling was at a pace calculated to sell at le*st !.- 000,000 pounds go on the block before the close of the day. Fred M. Allen, sales supervisor at Henderson, estimated there were one million pounds on sale there. He said the first row at one warehouse brought $27.16 per hundred for 2,720 pounds, and predicted the day’s average would be around $25. Although mild complaints by some growers were re (Continued or. i age six) Labor Department Field Men Gather With Mr. Shuford Raleigh, Sept. 13. —(AP' —Ten in spectors and field workers of the State Labor Department met for con ferences here today witn Commission er Forrest Shuford, wno took office yesterday, but when ha arranged for the meeting Shuford had planned to attend only in his old capacity of chief inspector. “Yes, it’s my first meeting with the field staff and those working out of Raleigh since I became commission er,” said Shuford. “But the meeting was called before I knew there would be a change. And vou know it doesn't, feel any different meeting with tnem as commissioner than it did when I was chief inspector, but I guess there is a difference, and I’ll have to get used to that.” The staff is called, Shuford said, twice yearly to’ discuss problems and plans. Retired Commissioner A. L. Flet cher left ,for Washington last night a few hours after Shufcid had been sworn in. •Hrnhrrsmt Hatln Dispatch h-EASED WHIP, SERVICE OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS. Beats New Deal |l| |H Jjjjr _ J 1. —' * Senator Millard E. Tydings, Maryland—Democrat Scott Thinks Farmers For Crop Control Daily Dispatch Bureau, In The Sir Walter Hotel. Raleigh, Sept. 13.—A clear major ity of North Carolina farmers are in favor of crop—particularly tobacco— • control, in the opinion of W. ’ Kejj* Scott, State Commissioner of Agri culture. In order to keep this majority in tact. however, administration of con trol laws should be fully explained to the farmers, he told this bureau, in order that growers shall have com plete confidence in the honesty and integrity of the machinery. “I don’t mean that the present ad ministration of control laws isn’t honest or just”, he said, “I mean that the entire system should be explained to growers so that they can know just what’s going on and how it’s be ing done. “Most complaints about control, so far as I can learn, come from dis satisfaction of individuals with indi vidual allotments —ndt from any ob jection to the principle of control,” he continued. ‘A fellow sees his neigh bor get a bigger allotment than he does, doesn’t know how or why that is so and begins to grumble about it.” (Continued on Page Six.) PROMINENT WOMAN OF NEW YORK DIES New York, Sept. 13.-r(AP) Mrs. Harold Strotz, 49, socially prominent mother of young Jay Gould, the great grandson of the famous railroad builder of s he 19th century, died to day at her Park Avenue apartment of illuminating gas poisoning. Emergency rescue crews, called when she was found unconscious in the kitchen with gas, the police said, pouring five jets, had worked vainly for more than four hours to save her life. Her son reportedly was in Anderson, Cal. ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA AND VIRGINIA. HENDERSON, N. C., TUESDAY .AFTERNOON, SEPTEMBER 13, lr3B Roosevelt Is Loser Again With ‘Purge’ Republicans Elect Governor and All Congressmen in Maine in Face of Democratic Chiefs’ Appeals; Geor gians Vote Tomorrow Baltimore. Md., Sept. 13. —(AP) —ln the gubernatorial Democratic primary, Attorney General Her bert O’Connor led Mayor Howard Jackson, of Baltimore, 99,438 to 68,854 in returns from 602 polling places, with only one city pre cinct missing. The other two can didates for the Democratic nom ination were far behind. State Comptroller Wi 1 liam Gordy hart 11,673 and Senate Pre sident L. G. Sasser, had 12,176. For United, States Senate, Sen ator Tydings had 126,330 and Lewis 86,834) in 852 out of 1,288 precincts. (By The Associated Press.) Democrats lost their fight today to unseat four Republican officials in Maine and the Roosevelt adminstra tion apparently was being beaten in its attempt to defeat Senator Tydings of Maryland. In the year’s first election, Maine’s voters gave clearcut majorities to Governor Lewis Barrows and Repre sentatives James Oliver, Clyde Smith and Ralph Brewster. They had done the same + hing in 1936, when the State was one of the two which Presi dent Roosevelt lest. Although New Dealers had held some hope of winning at least one of the main offices, they were disheart ened principally by the growing lead of Senator Tydings in the Maryland Democratic primary. The 48-year-old senator, whom Mr. Roosevelt had denounced as a “be trayer” of the New Deal, was running ahead of Representative David Lewis in most of the State. Returns from 726 of 1,288 precincts gave Tydings 109,308 and Lewis 78,146. A third can (Continued on Page Six.) James Roosevelt Making Progress After Operation Rochester, Minn., Sept, 13 (AP) —President Roosevelt resumed a close watch on the condition of his soni, James, today after an impromptu roadside chat in which he pledged he would do every thing posible to lift farm prices. Mr. Roosevelt visited his oldest son the secretary, a patient at the Mayo clinic, three times yester day. James underwent an opera tion Sunday for a gastric ulcer, and his condition has been report ed satisfactory since. Today’s first bulletin) on James’ condition, issued from the clinic, said: “Mr. James Roosevelt has spent a very comfortable night. His condition is satisfactory at this stage of the convalescence period. Temperature at 8 a. m., central time, 99.6; pulse 90; respiration and blood pressure normal.” Horton Looms As Candidate For Governor , Daily Dispatch Bureau, In The Sir Walter Hotel Raleigh, Sept. 13. —Those who in dulge in the pleasant political pas time of predicting 1940’s line-up of gubernatorial candidates are nowa days assigning Lieutenant Governor Wilkins P. Horton a prominent place in their list. The experienced politician and law maker has kept his intentions quite well to himself, but it has been obser ved that he has recently put himself pretty well in circulation as a maker of speeches on various and sundry occasions where folks are gathered together in goodly numbers —some- thing which almost always put dbwn (Continued on Page Six.) All Lines Lead to Czechoslovakia r *VC'' \ f On the map above, Prague, capital of Czechoslovakia, is shown in the vortex of forces which may engulf Europe in war. While Berlin is threatening the little republic, Rumania has granted Russia the right to move troops through its lands to aid the Czechs in the event of invasion. Sabre rattling on the part of Goering met with word from England that the British would not stand by without action if the Czechs were attacked by Germany. (Central Press) Governor Os Maine Mi --— 4-. - Gov. Lewis O. Barrows • Republican Barkley May Be Unseated By FDR Foes By CHARLES P, STEWART Central Press Columnist Washington, Sept. 13.—Hints of an anti-New Dealerish Democratic plot to oust Senator Alben W. Barkley as majority leader in the upper congress ional chamber when the national legisla ture meets next are not to be taken as indicative of any particular hostility on his fellow solons’ part to the Ken tucky statesman per sonally. No, if “Dear Alben” is demoted from his leadership to the rating of nothing but an ordi nary senator it will be done as a jab at President Roosevelt, not at Alben. For obvious reasons anti-New Deal Democratic sentiment on, Capitol Hill is bound to be bitterer than ever be fore in the 76th Congress. If it can score a mean point against F. D. R. it isn’t going to hesitate to do so out of consideration for Barkley’s feel ings. It must be remembered that when Democratic Senatorial Leader Joseph T. Robinson died, Senators Barkley and Pat Harrison were rivals to suc (Continued on page six) WEATHER FOR NORTH CAROLINA Partly cloudy tonight and Wed nesday, with an occasional show er; slightly warmer in southeast and extreme southeast and ex treme southwest portions tonight. Wage Committee Chosen In The Textile Industry Two North Carolin ians on Body of 21 Named by Administra tor Andrews To Fix Minimum Wage; More PWA Millions Poured Out Washington, Sept. 13.—(AP) —Ea- rner Andrews, administrator of the Federal wage-hour law named a com mittee of 1 members today—the first under the wage-hour act —to recom mend minimum wages for the na tion’s 1,300,000 textile workers. The committee, headed by Donald Nelson, of Chicago, vice-president of Sears, Roebuck & Company, consists of seven representatives of the public seven representing textile employers and seven representing the workers. Employers representatives included Charles A. Cannon, Kanapolis, N. C. Worker representatives on the com mittee include Paul Christopher, Charlotte, N. C. Other developments include: Public Works officials, with only 17 days to go, said they expected an additional 2.000 applications for funds before the September 30 deadline for filing of applications. Seventy-fiva approvals today brought the 1938 total of non-Federal projects to 4,999. To day’s lists carried PWA grants of about $3,400,000, and loans of $714,- 000 for an estimated $7,500,00 of con struction. Allocations announced today, grants only unless otherwise specified, in cluded in North Carolina: Elizabeth (Continued on Page Six.) Dewey Will Try Hines In Court Again New York, Sept. 13.—(AP)—District Attorney Thomas Dewey, obviously chagrined at the mistrial of the State’s four weeks old case against James J. Hines, said today he would bring the veteran Tammany leader to trial again on the same charge. “Hines will be brought to justice,’’ Dewey said. “I will move for a new trial at the earliest possible date.” The prosecutor said it would be the “same identical indictment,” but that he had not yet determined a specific date for the new trial. New York, Sept. 13. —(AP)—Because of a 14-word question, District At torney Thomas Dewey must begin all over again his attempt to convict Tammany district leader James Hines of selling political protection to the underworld. Justice Ferdinand Pecora with a mere verbal slip, had “fatally pre (Continued on Page Six.) Barkley PUBLISHED EVERY AFTERNOON EXCEPT SUNDAY High Point Plant Employees Strike High Point, Sept. 13.—(AP)—Em ployees of the Carolina Container Company went on strike here this morning, charging that the man agement of the firm was refusing to recognize their union organiza tion. The employees in a recent election selected the United Box Makers, CIO affiliate, as their bar gaining agent. C. T. Ingram, general manager of the firm, said he had not been informed as to why the employees were striking, but that the man agement had been bargaining with the workers. Between 35 and 40 em ployees are affected. 2nd Cabinet Meeting For Britain Near London, Sept. 13. —(AP) —Bri- tain’s four defense ministers were called suddenly into conference to day with Prime Minister Cham berlain, who earlier had summon ed a full dress cabinet meeting for tomorrow to consider the cen tral European crisis. London, Sept. IS.—(AP) —The Bri tish cabinet was summoned today to meet at 11 a. m. tomorrow in its sec ond emergency session of the week to consider the European crisis, deepen ed by Adolf Hitler’s defiant Nurnberg (Continued on Page Six.) State Prison Is Quarantined From Case Os Smallpox Raleigh, Sept. 13^—(AP)—State Prison banned all visitors today due to presence in the prison hos pital of a case of smallpox, and around 850 persons here and at the Granville county prison camp received vaccinations against the disease. Warden H. H. Wilson said Sam Graham, 27, sentenced in Person county July 28 to three years for assault with a deadly weapon, had developed smallpox at the Gran ville county camp September 7 and was brought here for isolation. “There are a lot of sore arms around,” Wilson said, “but Gra ham seems to be getting along fine and no other cases have develop ed.” Vaccinations were given 95 pri soners and camp attaches in Gran ville county. r) PAGES 1O TODAY FIVE CENTS COPY Annexation Is Expected By Germans Hijler Not Specific as to Plans for German Minority; Violence in Border Region Prompts Govern ment’s Action To Maintain Order ULTIMATUM! Prague, Czechoslovakia, Sept. 13. —(AP) —The Sudeten German party presented an ultimatum to the Czechoslovakia government at 7:330 p. m. tonight (1:30 p. m, eastern standard time) demanding that th e martial law and extraordi nary police measures Imposed on Sudeten communities be revoked within six hours. The party, in a memorandum to the government* stated if martial law continued, it could not “be re sponsible for developments.” The Sudeten demand came as a climax of a day which saw emer gency measures imposed on eight Sudeten communities following dis orders in which at least eight per sons were killed. CUP IS FULL! Berlin, Sept. IS.—(AP)—A Nazi spokesman today called the action of Czechoslovakia in imposing martial law on eight Sudeten Ger man communities an “outright provocation.” ’ Nazis generally expressed Bit terness over developments in Sudeten areas following last night’s speech by Adolf Hitler at Nurmberg pledging aid in the Sudetens. Tncy took the position that the clamping on of martial law and the deaths of eight per sons—said here to be all Sudetens —in demonstrations after the Hit ler speech, constituted Czecho slovakia’s “answer to Hitler.” Der Angrtff, organ of Pro paganda Minister Goebbelh, de clared: “The cup is full.” Prague, Czechoslovakia, Sept. 13. (AP) —Czechoslovakia im posed martial law in eight Su deten districts, all Sudeten (Continued on Page Six.) Russian Sees Nazi Tactics Mere ‘Bluff’ Geneva, Sept. 13. —