North Carolina Newspapers

"SKK 13,873 year Sign of Eastern Drought Not a drop of water flows over the spillway of the Croton Dam, in New York, as severe drought parches land and ruins crops over the Eastern seaboard. Food prices went up and forest fires raged as rain refused to fall and the water supply diminished. (Central Press) One Killed, 3 Injured Near Creedmoor Roanoke Rapids Youths Involved in Bridge Collision Near Durham- Granville Line Shortly After Midnight Hour. . Durham, July 27.—(AP)—Ed ward Elmore. Harvey Hazlewood and John Willis Smith, Jr., of Roanoke Rapids, who were in jured in an automobile accident near Creedmoor early this morn ing, in which Harvey Norwood, also of Roanoke Rapids, lost his life, were seriously hurt, but none is in a dangerous condi tion. attendants at a Durham hospital announced. All three suffered fractures of both legs and Elmore sustained severe lacerations of the forehead. One of Norwood's legs also was broken, making seven broken legs among the party of four men. Norwood, who (Continued on Pago Two) Dr. Taylor Gives Eight Desires Os Life at 4-H Meet Raleigh, July 27.—(AP) —Dr. Carl Taylor, of the United States Depart ment of Agriculture, told delegates to the annual 4-H club short course today that eight desires of life are conducive to happy and progressive community living. Lour, he said, are the necessities ---food, clothing, shelter and health —with the others being cultural de sire-—education, religion, recrea tion and friends. V.'e solve community problems by joining hands with people in and out irie the community,” counscelled the speaker. Tonight the king and gueen of health will be crowned during tiie pageant of progress. Win ner; in the health contest will not he announced until tonight. Low Prices In Georgia Boost Tobacco Control Foe Says Growers Can Stand This Big Crop, But Few More Like It Will Ruin Leaf Market ing And Bring Catastrophe. Daily Dispatch Bureau, In the Sir -Valter Hotel. Raleigh, July 27.—Lower prices I'Uin 1 ' Uin last year on the opening of the Georgia tobacco markets were “just v/hat was v to be expected” and will k' lve added impetus to the xorces cam J-"ignirig for some sort of control of tobacco production and marketing, ' Clarence Poe, editor of the Pro- Si'essive Farmer and one of the ~ uth’ s leading agriculturalists, said today. be pointed out that prices for one or two days cannot be taken as sure certain indices of anything; but s ided that it is obviously impossible t" produce a quarter-million pounds ' n tobacco in excess of prospective consumption and not have at least a (, > responding drop in prices. •Vhother or not the opening prices Ge o i g 1 a are out of line even with Urnheramt Batin Btanairh SERVICE OF IHE ASSOCIATED PRESS. Dare Stone Used As Prop at Still Raleigh, July 27.—(AP)—Dr. C. C. Crittenden, secretary of the State Historical Commission, re vealed today that one of the 13 “Virginia Dare” stones recently found near Greenville, S. C., had teen used for years to prop up part of a whisky still. Dr. Crittenden quoted Dr. 11. J. Pearce, Sr., president of Brcnau College, and co-discoverer of the stones, which may establish the fate of Manteo’s Lost Colony, as saying that a newspaper adver tisement led the operator of a South Ca-olira still to go to Brenau and to report that he be lieved a stone under part of his still might have some connection with the Lost Colony. The still operator led Dr. Pearce and his son to the 12 other stones. The advertisement was publish ed after another purported “Dare” stone bad been found in Chowan county. Freedom Os Religion Is Championed Baptist Alliance In Atlanta Deplores Persecutions and Re strictions in Russia And Roumania; Free Church Is Urged. Atlanta, Ga., July 27.—(AP) — A resolution asserting state churches and church-states are alike in the principle of religious freedom was •presented today to the sixth con gress of the Baptist World Alliance. Rc-asserting traditional Baptist op position to connection between church and governmental agencies, the resolution insisted “worthy re ligion rests on the conviction that (Continued on Page Four) the prospective crop cannot yet be definitely determined, but it is clear that production of a quarter-billion pounds of tobacco more than likely consumption will inevitably bring lower prices. Maybe we can get away with it for one year, but not for two or three in a row,” he said. It follows that the movement for some sort of control will be greatly strengthened by the decline in prices, he said, though there is still no in dication that the drop this year is so drastic as to lead to closing of the markets or to any immediate demand that something be done at once and without delay. Principal immediate action will be added pressure on the Senate to enact a measure, already approved by the Federal House, un der which it would be possible to call (Continued on Page Four) _ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA AND VIRCINLL HENDERSON, N. C., THURSDAY AFTERNOON, JULY 27, 1939 II.S.ACT UNFRIENDLY, JAPS SIT ********** * * * * * ** * # *****«¥• JOHN LEWIS ASSAILS GARNER Growers In Georgia Clamor For Closing Os The Warehouses Protest Meeting Call ed and Governor Is Urged To Act; Wal lace Silent On Effect On Control Failure For 1939 Tobacco Crop. Douglas, Ga., July 27.—(AP) — Vexed at the comparative lowness of bids for their tobacco, a group of south Georgia growers arranged a protest meeting here today and sought aid of the governor toward a temporary closing of warehouses. Governor E. D. Rivers announced from Atlanta he “could close ware houses if the public good demands it.'’ He did not say how he would propose to effect the closing. Sales in the two opening clays at 15 south Georgia markets ranged from $4 to sl2 per hundred pounds lower than in the 1938 opening, week, the Agricultural Marketing Service re ported. Opening sales averages this year range at 16 to 18 cents per pound average, compared to above 25 cents in 1938. The south Georgia and Florida belt produces a flue-cured bright leaf us ed for cigarettes. The sales are the first leaf auctions of the year. Last year Georgia growers sold pounds for $18,818,763.95 an over-all average of $20.34 per hundred pounds. Florida’s crop is much smaller. Prices were about the same. Prices appears a bit stronger in the Douglas market today, the range of some sales being from 16 1-2 io 20 1-2 cents a pound. One grower, R. W. Griffin, said: “The idea in this (Continued on Page Two) Accused Slayer Os Stepson Told Two Separate Stories Kenansville, July 27.—(AP) — Deputy Sheriff Gurman Powell tes tified in Superior court here today that Sheprose K. Holland, 44, grist mill operator, charged with murder in connection with the death of his stepston, first told him he carried no insurance on the three-year-old child’s life, and then later reversed his statement. The State charges Holland killed the boy, Ray James Goodman, to collect an insurance policy. The body was found in a millstream. H. L. Pierce, State Bureau of In vestigation agent, and Coroner Ralph Jones, of Duplin county, also testified before the noon recess. The State sv/ore in 13 witnesses. Powell said the child’s body still was in the water when he arrived on the scene, and Holland told him he had not attempted a rescue be cause of his inability to swim. The 13-man trial jury, composed entirely of farmers was seated late yesterday. Revenues Os Power Firms Are Related Raleigh, July 27.—(AP) —The Utilities Commission reported to day that six major power com panies operating in North Caro lina said 2,806,825,000 kilowatt hours of electricity last year for $30,555,700.85. Edgar Womble, commission statistician, said minor com panies sold another 31,340,455 kilowatt hours of current. Wom ble said the major companies, Carolina Power & Light, Duke Power, Durham Public Service, East Tennesse Light & Power, Tidewater Power and Virginia Electric & Power, reported total revenue of $35,619,421 for 1938. Gas sales, street railway and bus receipts, water, ice and mer chandise sales were listed in ad dition to electricity sales. The companies had total ex penses of $28,958,892.27, leaving $6,660,527.23 as net income, or profit. v Baptist President Us gSm i .. j||[ j HbL Rev. Dr. Rushbrooke The Rev. Dr. James H. Rushbrooke, of London, general secretary of the Baptist World Alliance since 1928, was elected president at the BWA congress, in Atlanta, Ga. He suc ceeds the Rev. Dr. George W. Truett, of Dallas, Texas. Russian Pact May Be Given In Few Hours Paris, July 27. (AP) —Gen- eral Joseph Edouard Doumcnc, newly appointed member of the superior war council, was de signated today to represent the French general staff in military conversations at Moscow with Russians and British comman ders. General Doumenc will under take tnis mission as soon as negotiations for a British-French Russian mutual assistance treaty has been completed. Advices from Moscow and London indi cated that an agreement was near, and might even be reach ed at a meeting in Moscow late today. French circles expected it before the week-end. When General Doumenc goes to Moscow he will be accom panied by aides from the French general staff. Abandoned Car Is Clue to Convicts F rom Federal Bus Charleston, W. Va., July 27. (AP) —Discovery of an abandoned automobile wnich contained orison guards’ caps and shirts suddenly shifted the search for seven escaped federal prisons into this area to day. Lieutenant C. W. Ray, of the State police, said the clothing in the car, found in South Charleston, belonged to prison guards who were overpowered yesterday near Thorn burg, Va., by seven of the 22 con victs they were transferring from Atlanta to the Lewisburg, Pa., prison. The fugitives had last been re ported near Rapidan, Va., where a posse had searched futilely through the night for them. The abandoned car bore Virginia license plates, and shortly after it was found, State police reported an old sedan was stolen in South Charleston. Still later Kentucky officers said they fired on another car which failed to stop at their command on a bridge between Kenova, W. Va., and Catlettsburg, Ky., 50 miles west of here. (i)&aihnh FOR NORTH CAROLINA. Partly cloudy tonight and Fri day; scattered thundershowers Friday afternoon. ClO’s Head Lays Blame For Attack Calls Vice - President “Poker - Playing, Whisky-Drinking Evil Old Man”; James Fly To Succeed McNinch On FCC by Pick of Roosevelt. Washington, July 27. — (AP) —John L. Lewis, CIO chief, charged today that Vice-Presi dent Garner, whom he termed a “poker-playing, whisky drinking, evil old man”, was re sponsible, for recent attacks on labor in Congress. Lewis accused the vice-presi dent of responsibility for re cent attempts to modify labor legislation, and declared he would oppose Garner “when he seeks the presidency in 1940.” Shortly after Lewis made his ic marks, Garner was found in his of fice adjoining the Senate chamber, where he had been presiding. The CIO’ chieftain’s statements were read to him by reporters. His heavy white eyebrows contracted for a moment, then he chuckled and said: “I have no comment to make.” Lewis remarks about Garner eli (Continued on Page Four) TB Hospital Site Picked By Committee Raleigh, July 27.—(AP) —The site committee for the proposed Eastern North Carolina tuber cular hospital mailed its report today to Lee Gravely, of Rocky Mount, chairman of the board of directors, of the State’s tubercular sanatoriums, with out revealing its decision. Chairman Joe Blythe, of Char lotte, along with O. M. Mull, of Shelby, and L. L. Burgin, of Hendersonville, discussed the matter with Governor Hocy, but the governor agreed with the committee members that the chairman of the board should announce the site. The committee has tendered 123 sites in eastern counties and personally inspected nearly all. The legislature authorized is suance of $250,000 in State bonds to build the sanatorium if the Federal PWA will make a grant for the institution. The bonds will not be issued until the PWA allots its share. More Marketing Experts Promised By Kerr. Scott State Agriculture Commissioner Speaks At Oxford Test Farm Field Day; Free Soil Tests Offered; Umstead Is Also Speaker. By Staff Correspondent. Oxford, July 27. —Free soil tests will be inaugurated by the North Carolina Department of Agriculture about September 1 in order “better to enable farmers to purchase their fertilizers economically”; while ad ditional marketing specialists are to be employed by the department “to aid growers* in preparing their crops better for market”, Commissioner W. Kerr Scott told farmers at the To bacco Experiment Station here today. He lauded the enlarged market ing program and addition of a soils testing laboratory in the department. “They put thousands of dollars in the pockets of the growers in months to come”, he said. “Os course, the addition of a fevtf marketing specialists will not pro vide an adequate marketing program PUBLISHED EVERY AFTERNOON EXCEPT SUNDAY, A Peek at Mars BSiilt mm Mm Iglll This excellent series of pictures made at the Lowell Observatory, Lowell, Mass., leads to an interest ing speculation concerning . the planet Mars, closer to the earth this year than in the past 17 years. Sci entists are studying the white spot at the top of the planet which they believe is an ice cap, melting in the summer while darker vegetation covers the sphere as the warmer weather comes on. (Central Press) Officials At London Under Heavy Guard London, July 27—(AP) —Scot- land Yard put Prime Minister Chamberlain and other cabinet members under special guard to day held three men for examina tion and questioned scores in a search for terrorists following yesterday’s scries of five bomb ings. The explosions, in which one life was lost, occurred as the House of Commons adopted drastic measures to combat the outlawed Irish Republican Army. Extraordinary precautions were enforced today at all railroad stations, including two where bombings occurred in the last 24 (Continued on Page Six) for the State, he said, but additional services rendered in the fruit and vegetable fields this season have brought handsome returns to the growers”. He spoke highly of the depart ment’s market news service, which he declared is rendering invaluable aid to farmers in furnishing them with up-to-the-minute price infor mation on crops and livestock. “We are providing a new service for the first time this season to pros pective cattle buyers, giving them detailed information on cattle avail able for sale by our own producers,” he added. “This service not only will enable Tar Heel farmers to buy from Tar Heel cattle producers but in ad dition to seeking a home market we (Continued on Page Three) 8 PAGES TODAY FIVE CENTS COPY Tokyo Views Termination Os Old Pact Methods of Retalia tion Studied by Nip pon Government; U. S. May Slow Down Purchase of Gold, Sil ver, ' Merchandise From Japan. JAPS WANT NEW TREATY Tokyo. July 28. (Friday)— (AP) —The Japanese Foreign Office declared today that “Ja pan would be glad to conclude a new treaty in place of that de nounced Wednesday by the Unit ed States, if Washington de sires.” In a formal statement on the denunciation, the foreign office indicated, however, its belief that the American move was a politi cal gesture connected with the British-Japancse negotiations on China, now in progress here. Tokyo, July 27.—(AP) The United States’ decision to terminate the 28-year-old com merce and navigation treaty with Japan was regarded today in foreign office and other of ficial circles as an unfriendly act because of its abruptness. The foreign office spokesman de clared that ending of the treaty was “unthinkable.” “Nobody can ignore the political significance of th§ ac tion, which was not preceded by any exchange of notes or previous noti fication,” he said. “Wo fail to under stand America’s real intention.” > It was learned authoritatively that the United States Embassy was as surprised by the swiftness of the State Department’s action as was the (Continued on Page Two) Britain May Drop Treaty With Japs London, July 27. (AP)— The possibility of Britain’s denounc ing her treaty of amity and com merce with Japan and breaking off current negotiations in Tokyo on China policy was discussed in informed circles in London to day. Belief was expressed that the United States’ denunciation of . her 1911 treaty with Japan, and progress in British-French Rus sian negotiations in Moscow for a mutual aid pact might lead Bri tain to take a stronger line with Japan. It was suggested that London might call off the Tokyo confer ence-on the pretext that a Japa nese-inspired anti-British cam paign is continuing in north China. The next step, it was said, might be dcnounciation of the British-Japancse trade treaty of 1911. The foreign office would not comment. U. S. Protests To Japs Over Searchings Hong Kong, July 27.— (AP) — An American protest against Japanese searchings hi Canton was registered today as British officials of nearby Hong Kong declared their readiness to defend that British colony against any attack. U. S. Consul General M. S. My ers made oral and written protests to the Japanese consul general in Canton after the first day of the Japanese blockade of the Pearl river, and restrictions on entry into Shameen island, on which are Can ton’s British and French concessions. Leisurely Japanese search of all Chinese leaving and entering the (Continued on Page Two)