HENDERSON’S
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Delay Approval Os
Huge Lending Bill
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Elizabeth Debruicker
Body of Elizabeth Debruicker, 11-
year-old Attica, Ind., farm girl, was
found buried in a shallow grave
in gravel pit near the Harrison
Hills Country Club. Groundkeeper
Thomas Boyce, 27, held for ques
tioning, was moved from Attica to
State Police barracks after lynch
threats. The girl had been ravished
and strangled.
Says Peace
Hanging By
Slim Thread
Crucial Period From
Now to October, Bap
tists Told; Interna
tional Court Bu 1-
warked B y Police
Proposed at Atlanta
Meeting.
Atlanta, Ga., July 25.— (AP)—Told j
that world peace would hang in a de
licate balance for the next three
months. Baptists of 60 nations pon
dered today the feasibility of a
police-bulwarked international court
as a guarantee against war.
A general session of the sixth Bap
tist World Congress heard a report
from Dr. N. J. Nordstrom, of Stock
holm, Sweden, then pjgfnged into dis
cussion of peace proposals in the
communication, drawn by a com
mission of the Baptist World Al
liance.
Dr. Walter O. Lewis, of Paris, said
he believed in “collective security”,
and termed as a “crucial period” in
universal peace” from now until Oc
tob'T.” A native Missourian, now Eu
ropean representative of the Ameri
e.m Foreign Mission Society, Dr.
l ewis served with the United States
Army in two major offensives of the
"World War.
Calling attention to the reports’
assertion most of the people of for
eign countries did not want to fight
each other, he urged constant ef
iorts to cement amiacble understand
ing between nations. Dr. Lewis
drew a “parable parallel”, suggest
ed when two families became bel
! gerents, neighbors should try to
ease strained relations, bound by
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Hoey Urges 4-H Youths
To Remain On The Farm
Raleigh, July 25.—(AP) —Gover-
nor lioey urged 1,000 farm boys
oriel girls today to stay on the farm,
remain in the State and aid in
building a greater North Carolina.
“There is a greater opportunity on
H lO farm today than ever before,”
, vernor Hoey told the young peo
* ■ a t the first session of the 25th
o! nual 4-H short course at State
o >liege. “The privations of farm
■ e are being greatly reduced/’
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iliE AbbOCIATED PRESS.
Senator Murray
Plans to Attach WPA
Bill For Restored
Wages as Rider to
Lending Measure;
Tar Heel Is Honored.
Washington, July 25.—(AP) — A
new turn in the controversy over
WPA wage scales threatened today
to hamper the administration drive
to obtain speedy Senate approval of
the $2,490,000,000 lending program.
Senator Murray, Democrat, Mon
tana, abandoned an attempt to have
the Senate Appropriations Commit
tee approve a proposal to put the
WPA back on a prevailing wage
basis. He announced he would seek
to attach the proposal as a rider to
the lending bill.
In approving a WPA appropriation
bill last month, Congress adopted a
provision requiring all persons on re
lief to work 130 hours a month for
the same amount of money they had
earned previously with fewer hours
of work.
The War Department awarded the
soldiers’ medal for “extraordinary
achievement” to two air corps of
ficers who had leading roles in de
velopment of the army’s automatic
landing system. Captains Carl Crane
and George V. Holleman were given
the medal for developing and testing
the automatic landing system at
Wright Field, Dayton, Ohio. Captain
Holleman, who is at Wright Field,
was born in Rich Square, N. C.
O. John Rogge, in charge of the
Justice Department’s criminal di
vision; said the federal government
was “intensifying its investigation of
alleged violations of federal statutes
in Louisiana.” Rogge said he was
sending more men to Louisiana to
investigate scores of leads.
Pressed for details at a press con
ference, Rogge said, “All I can say
is I’m going down again and bring
ing- others. Where there’s smoke,
there’s fire.”
Good Sales
Os Securities
Are Reported
Raleigh, July 25. —(AP) The
Local Government Commission made
“excellent sales” of securities today,
Secretary W. E. Easterling said, for
Forsyth county, the town of Graham,
Duplin county and Wilson county.
Duplin’s were taken by Ryan,
Southerland & Company, of Toledo,
Ohio, with the lowest interest rate
ever secured for the .county, going
under four percent. A $40,000 road
and bridge refunding group went at
a $52 premium, with the first $28,-
000 maturities to bear four percent
and the remainder 3 3-4, while $25,-
000 school refunding went at a $32.50
premium, with the first $17,000 ma
turities to bear four percent and the
remainder 3 3-4 percent. Kirchofer
& Arnold, Inc., of Raleigh, and the
Branch Bank & Trust Company of
Wilson took two Stanly county is
sues, $60,500 general refunding, with
the first $25,500 maturities to bear
2 1-2 percent and the remainder
2 1-4, and $24,000 school refunding
to bear 2 1-2 percent interest.
A 90-day $20,000 Wilson county
revenue anticipation note was sold
the Wachovia Bank & Trust Com
pany of Winston-Salem, at a pre
mium of $1.26, with interest at 3-4
of one percent, and the Concord Na
tional Bank took a six months Smith
field SB,OOO note at par with three
percent interest.
The commission authorized Tar
boro graded school district to issue
$22,000 refunding bonds; Moore
| county, $28,000 school bonds.
Archie Prevatt, a Robeson coun
ty farm boy who heads the State
4-H organization, introduced the
governor, and after the governor s
speech pledged him the support ol
the 4-H clubs in building a great
State. .
The governor upheld the sales
tax as the only means through
which each citizen contributes to the
administrative, educational, institu
tional and welfare branches of the
government.
ONLY DAILY
NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OF NOimToAROLINA AND VIRGINLv
HENDERSON, N. C., TUESDAY AFTERNOON, JULY 25, 1939
105 Couples March to Say "I Do!”
Some of the 105 Canadian couples wed in Montreal mass marriage are shown walking down red carpet
for the ceremony. The impressive scene was staged in the Montreal Baseball Stadium, with Rev. Henri
Roy, originator of the idea, celebrating the Nuptial Mass. There were 25,000 spectators. About 300 were
overcome by heat and exertion in the ensuing celebration.
British-Japanese Friction In
China Grows On New Measures
Shanghai, July 25.—(AP) —Anti-
British measures were intensified in
north China and new British-Japan
ese friction arose in Shanghai today,
in the face of Britain’s promise at
Tokyo to stay out of the way of the
Japanese army in China.
The British consul general at
Shanghai protested to the Japanese
consul general against detention of
H. Rose, chief of the international
settlement municipal council’s pub
lic health department by police of
the Japanese-dominated Shanghai
State So Far
Divided Over
A Third Term
Daily Dispatch Bureau,
in Hie Sir Waiter Hotel.
Raleigh, July 25.—Politicians and
those who observe the great game
of politics in North Carolina are real
ly beginning to warm up for the 1940
campaign, but the great mass of Tar
Heel citizenry is still completely un
concerned therewith.
On a vacation trip through the
western part of the State your cor
respondent made it a point to ignore
contacts with political powers but to
lose no chance to engage the average
citizen in conversation about the
governor’s race of 1940, next year’s
presidential campaign with particular
relation to the Democratic nomina
tion, and the complexion of the 1941
General Assembly.
The result was a complete dud so
far as the State campaign is con
cerned, the only expression of any
opinion for or against anything or
anybody coming from a Bryson City
inn keeper who referred to the past
and not the present or future. He is
convinced that “we out to have elect
ed Sandy Graham in 1936.”
Nobody seemed to care a whoop
whether North Carolina has a gov
ernor from 1940 to 1944; a fact which’
is going to make next year’s race
a dull, drab affair unless something
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Heavy Voting
In Asheville
Dry Election
Asheville, July 25. —(AP) —Heavy
voting before noon today brought
expectations that more than 20,000
persons would ballot on proposed
establishment of ABC liquor stores
in Buncombe county.
Both proponents and opponents
said they were confident of victory.
Observers speculated, however, the
city would vote a majority for the
stores, and the outlying areas against
with the result depending upon the
size of these margins.
Church organizations held prayer
services in several precincts before
the polls opened. Prohibition lead
ers said Governor Hoey had urged
western counties to vote against the
stores. Buncombe is the western-
Imost county to vote on liquor stores.
municipality.
Rose, 100 Chinese and a Russian,
all employees of the department,
were detained on orders by the
Chinese mayor. It was reported the
Japanese-dpminated puppet regime
had threatened to hold them until
the international settlement paid
arrears for garbage dumping privi
leges.
Officials of the settlement munici
pal council said the public govern
ment had been demanding a month
ly sum and arrears which were un
derstood to amount to 50,000 Chin
Tobacco Changes
Up Before Senate
Washington, July 25.—(AP)
House-approved amendments to
the tobacco marketing quota pro
visions of the 1938 farm act
went on the Senate calendar to
day after approval by the Senate
Agriculture Committee.
The proposals, endorsed by
grower representatives and the
authorize earlier farm elections
on invoking marketing restric
tions, revise the penalty schedule
for selling beyond quotas, and
permit poundage quotas to be
converted into acreage allot
ments.
Proponents said they expected
no opposition in the Senate.
FDR Senate
Margin Only
Theoretical
Bv CHARLES P. STEWART
Central Press Columnist
Washington, July 25.—The agree
ment by Senators Alben W. Barkley
and Charles L. McNary that Presi
dent Roosevelt can
not at present, get
the neutrality leg
islation he wants
just goes to show
how different the
White House’s
nominally enorm
ous congressional
majority is from
actuality.
On paper the
Democrats cast 69
Senate votes; the
Republicans only
23. Also there are
two Farmer-Labor
Senator Barkley
votes, a Progressive and an Inde
pendent. The Progressive and Inde
pendent two ballots are pretty de
pendably pro-administration, which
should give the President at least a
71-25 favorable margin over his op
position. Theoretically!
Nevertheless, on this vital issue of
neutrality F. D. can’t count on a Sen
ate majority. It isn’t so surprising
that Senatorial Republican Leader
McNary is balky in behalf of his
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('O&aiJwi
FOR NORTH CAROLINA.
Fair to partly cloudy tonight
and Wednesday.
ese dollars ($,500).
At Peiping, a Japanese-sponsored
political party sent instructions to
branches in Shansi, Shantung, Ho
peh and Honan provinces to tighten
anti-British boycotts and demon
strations. That political party an
nounced plans for a widespread
propaganda campaign throughout
China, using theatres, moving pic
tures, posters and cartoons.
The Shanghai Chinese press com
mented bitterly on yesterday’s Brit
ish-Japanese agreement, calling
it “another Munich.”
Vogler Makes
State Survey
Os Politics
Daily Dispute!* Bureau
In the Sur Walter Hotel
Raleigh, July 25.—Mecklenburg’s
two-time (note that this is not two
timing) Representative Jim Vogler
is making a “political survey” of
North Carolina which he claims will
disclose to him, if to nobody else, the
identity of the State’s next governor
and which, he blandly insists, will
be “worth thousands of dollars”.
But so far, the friendly Charlotte
grocer hasn’t reached any quotable
opinion on the situation except that
if Commissioner of Revenue A. J.
Maxwell will run on an anti-sales
tax platform he will “sweep the
State.-”
He did not explain just how Mr.
Maxwell is going to be able to per
form the task of getting out on that
anti-tax limb in view of the fact that
the commissioner, perhaps moje
than any one else, has been forced
to bear the onus of the levy for sev
eral years. He pointed out, however,
that in his 1932 campaign Maxwell
was definitely opposed io the sales
tax. He added that there isn’t on rec
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School Issue
Taken Over
By Maxwell
Daily Dispatch Bureau.
In the Sir Walter Hotel.
Raleigh, July 25.—1 f there were
any last lingering doubt that Com
missioner of Revenue A. J. Maxweli
plans a gubernatorial campaign on
the major issue of highway improve
ment and development, it was re
moved by his address before the Fay
etteville Rotary club last night--an
address in which the commissioner
linked this plank with all the other
“humanitarian activities” of the
State.
“No other one thing we can do will
provide as great a stimulus to o i.r
public health, public schools and oth
er services that bear upon the gen
eral fund of the State as will the im
provement and extension of high
ways,” he declared with particular
emphasis.
Further indications tha4 he is ac
tively and aggressively campaigning
is to be found in another paragraph
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PUBLISHED EVERY AFTERNOON
EXCEPT SUNDAY.
Price Off 7-9 Cents
From 1938 Opening,
Estimates Indicate
Extension Specialist Advises Withholding Of
ferings For Better Prices Due to Damage in
Carolinas; Good Leaf 18-25 Cents.
Valdosta, Ga., July 25. (AP) —Bright leaf tobacco prices
slipped seven to nine cents under last year’s opening average in
Georgia auction centers today, as an extension service tobacco
specialist urged growers to slack off their offerings for about
ten days.
Unfavorable weather conditions in South Carolina and East
ern North Carolina were cited as factors likely to result in “high-
Ohio Governor Is
Not a Candidate
Columbus, Ohio, July 25.-*-
(AP) —Governor W. Bricker is
thinking more about a second
term as governor than possible
nomination as the Republican
candidate for president, he said
today. Bricker declared that
Senator Robert A. Taft, Repub
lican, Ohio, would make a
good President.
“Any presumption that I am
a candidate for president is not
so,” Bricker told newsmen. “I
have had no time to think or
talk about it. I haven’t turned
my hand in the campaign for
president. I have been doing a
job as governor, and I expect to
continue.”
Bricker’s remarks were his
first utterance concerning
speculation that both he and
Taft might seek Ohio delegates
for the 1940 convention. Sena
tor Taft's associates indicated in
Washington today he soon
would have a statement con
cerning his plans.
Japanese To
Close River
Near Canton
Consul Notifies For
eign Nations, Includ
ing United States, of
New Blockade Move.
Hong Kong, July 25.—(AP) —The
Japanese consul at Canton has
notified consular authorities of
other nations, including the United
States, that, “for military reasons”,
the Japanese navy will close the
Canton river for two weeks, starting
at midnight tomorrow.
The move was reliably reported
in this British crown colony to be
in the nature of a blockade to cut
shipping between Hong Kong and
Canton, and in conjunction with this
measure, it was said, the Japanese
planned a blockade of British and
French concessions on Canton’s
Shameen island.
It • was reported that Japanese
sentries would be posted at both
bridge entrances to Shameen, where
the United States consulate and
American business houses are also
located. They will search all persons
entering or leaving the island, a
practice similar to that followed in
the blockade of the British and
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Britain To Smash Irish
Sabotage And Terrorism
London, July 25.—(AP)—Britain
was set today for a lightning-like
drive to thwart any Irish Republi
can Army sabotage and terrorism
with official disclosure that 5,000
suspects were under day and night
surveillance. Official sources said
the “suspects” were being watched
by Scotland Yard and military in
telligence service men. They also
stated there would be an immediate
round-up upon enactment of a gov
ernment emergency bill designed to
crush the Irish Republican Army.
Quick raids on homes of known
I. R. A. • members and known
sympathizers would be made under
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FIVE CENTS COPY
er prices ten days from now.”
The suggestion came as the major
Georgia markets reported sales in
packed warehouses running around
16 to 18 cents. Last season’s opening
day average ran above 25 cents.
Maximum bids in the early sales
were set at 29 cents, compared with
a top near 40 cents last season, while
inferior grades went as low as two
cents a pound in some warehouses.
E. C. Westbrook, specialist with
the Georgia Extension Service, said
farmers are not satisfied with the
prices they ai’e receiving, but added
“they appear to be resigned to lower
prices than they received in 1938.”
“A check of 247 consecutive piles
of leaf in one warehouse this morn
ing showed an average of slightly un
der 15 cents a pound,” Westbrook
said. “Good, ripe tobacco is selling
from 18 to 25 cents per pound. This
compares with a check of 165 con
secutive piles last year, which aver
aged 22 1-2 cents per pound.”
He said tobacco had suffered from
being placed in the warehouses a
week ahead of the sales, with un
favorable weather conditions affect
ing the quality. Westbrook said:
“Crowding of sales has grown
steadily worse in the last few years,”
and blamed this as one reason Geor
gia farmers “have not received full
value for tobacco in the past, nor
are they likely to receive full value
for it until the marketing period is
lengthened.”
FIRST PRICES ARE UNDER
THOSE OF 1938 OPENING
Valdosta, Ga., July 25.—(AP) —
Bright leaf tobacco, used mostly for
cigarette production, sold several
cents a pound below prices of last
year in the first warehouse auctions
of 1939 today.
The average at the first three of
seventeen market centers in Georgia
and Florida to report was approxi
mately 18 cents a pound, compared
with 25 cents on the opening day
1938.
A depressing factor was increased
production throughout the bright leaf
belt, estimated in a government re
port at 1,022,99,000 pounds. The 1938
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Goldner Now
Is Reported
Liberated
Jerusalem, July 25.—(AP) —Rev.
G. R. Goldner, kidnaped a week ago
by an Arab band, was released late
today. He appeared worn and ex
hausted when he reached Jerusalem.
Jerusalem, July 25. (AP) A
nightlong vigil for Rev. G. R. Gold
ner, after he was reported released
last night by an Arab kidnap band,
ended today on a note of disappoint
ment—and continued hope.
Men who spent the night on the
Y. M. C. A. terrace in the hope of
being the first to greet the young
Mogodore, Ohio, preacher, went to
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extraordinary powers granted by
the measure, it was stated, and
many might be deported forthwith.
The bill sped toward final pas
sage before Parliament’s adioum
ment August 4 after a personal ap
peal by Sir Samuel Hoare, who de-
I dared I. R. A. terrorism was
“stimulated by foreign organizations
and timed to coincide with inter
national crises.”
Meantime, reports that H. R. Hud
son, secretary for overseas trade,
might be forced to resign was.
stilled by Prime Minister Cham
! berlain’s praise of him in the House
i of Commons yesterday.