Tobacco Average Estimated To Be Around 2s Cents
HENDERSON’S *
POPULATION
13,873
twenty-fifth year
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Tydings Wins In Maryland; Republicans Take Maine
Offerings For Day
Are Placed Close
To Million Pounds
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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All Lines Lead to Czechoslovakia
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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
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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
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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.
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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. —<AP) —The Lea
gue of Nations round table was clear
ed as a sounding board today for
Great Britain and France after Adolf
Hitler’s attack on Czechoslovakia.
A Russian spokesman called the
Nazi tactics “a bluff to carry the
crisis along until Germany is ready
for action,” and urged Geneva as a
logical place for a “reply to Nurn
berg,” where Chancellor Hitler spoke
yesterday.
French and Dritish sources indicat
(Continued on page six)
France Will
Remain Upon
War Footing
Paris, Sept. 13.—(AP)—The French
government decided today that, in
view of threats contained in Adolf
Hitler’s Nurnberg speech, it was nec
essary to keep France’s military ma
chine keyed to wartime
After analyzing the speech at a two
and a half hour meeting with Presi
dent Lebrun, the cabinet decided un
animously there was no possibility
now of easing the military measures
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