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HENDERSON’S POPULATION 13,873 year BORDER TOBACCO ESTIMATED AT 18c POUND $800,000,000 Housing Bill Defeated In The House They Killed Lend-Spend Bill ■ m :•. | > i]B H- • &&S These three Representatives led the fight to kill President Roosevelt’s cherished lend-spend bill in the House. Shown in joyful mood are, left to right: Rep. Mapes, of Michigan, ranking minority member of the rules committee; Rep. Joe Martin, of Mass., and Rep. Jesse P. Walcott, of Michigan, ranking minority member of currency committee. Babson Thinks Congress Has Dene Very Good Job Has Tried to Lighten Tax Burdens in Some Directions; Says Business Rest of Year Will Be Good if Sought and Politics Forgotten. BY ItOGFR YV. BABSON, Copyright 1939. Publishers Financial Bureau. Inc. Gloucester, Mass., Aug. 3.—Con gress has done a pretty good job, con sidering the pressure groups which have harassed it so continually. Na turally. I do not like the huge spend in . plans which have been okayed. On the other hand, the money is not going out of the country. It is merely being shifted from the East to the \Y t or from the employed to the lUi'mpioycd. This policy cannot be mted much longer without dis o r: but what has been done in the p; t few months may have been ji; tied. At any rate, Congress might Is ■■ been much worse. I am delighted at the President’s ar inn on the neutrality bill, although I : eiieve we should —and will if nec e cry—back England and France. T: e surest way to prevent a Euro pean war is to say where we stand before tilings start popping. Yet, tJ ■; < iu e two sides to this question. Tiie democracies and the central powers must get together by peace- Apathy Over Democratic Youth Meet i i I?aaiy Disjuitcn Burpau, In Iho S:r Waltor Hotel. | By HENRY AVERILL Raleigh, August 3.—This year’s ( State convention of the North Caro- , 1 iKi Young Democratic clubs draws • ! ‘ f or under a dark cloud of complete, almost unbroken apath. This is ; kid contrast to the pre-conven b"n situation two years ago, or , 1 1 n 1 ;ist year, for that matter. So far there has been only one b mm .nnouncernent for presidency "f the Slate clubs—an office, along others, which will be ballotted j ’'Pon on the last day of the conven tion m tor Charlotte September 7, 8 , and 'j. Some weeks ago Y. D.’s from the 'dy oi Durham announced that they -Id put forward Forrest Pollard, juriioi member of the Durham dele tion m the House for the 1939 ''■■‘neral Assembly session. Last n, ’M the Durham club, at a special ! '“'-ting enthusiastically, unani -1 "Usly and formally put their seal ‘ ! approval upon the Pollard can didacy. *" t elsewhere around the State mile has been blank silence as to ti «• identity of those who will seek "bice in the younger Democratic ’Whether this has been entirely to absolute indifference or ydicthor motives of deep-dyed trategy have brought the situation W’ouMs a matter of pure specula tion. The fact is as stated, there just - (Continued on Page Two) . MHpSW**** MttxmtKfxn Batlxi Mispntth QNLY DAILY NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA AND VIRGINIA* SD.5 D . cVL RE SERVICE OP IHE ASSOCIATED PRESS. ful negotiation. Many people believe we can help them do this if we keep both sides guessing as to our attitude. Certainly, it is wise to cut off any further public discussions in Con gress which would encourage either side. Start Made On Rail Problem. Congress has done as much as it could for the railroads in this year’s session. It will ultimately pass more helpful legislation, but the railroads must be willing to go further in solv ing their own problems. The solution lies in the abandonment of about one-third of the continent’s railroad mileage. This can be accomplished gradually, without hurting any one, as the workers get older and retire. The national labor relations act has not been amended as I had hoped, but the regulations of its board have been greatly modified. Moreover, their new member, William M. Leiserson, has the confidence of both employers and wage workers. I know this man personally and think highly (Continued on Page Four) Help Rushed To Burning, Sinking Ship Jacksonville, Fla., August 3. (AP) —A radio operator who flashed dramatic but perplexing distress calls that his ship was afire mes-. saged early today the crew had taken to lifeboats and the craft was sinking 90 miles southwest of Miami. “No lives were lost except the second mate, who is the regular wireless operator,” he reported in what he said was a final message. Earlier, he had told how the regular operator had both legs broken in what apparently was an explosion. He sent his first SOS shortly after 10 p. m. A coast guard cutter left from Key West for the last position given b ythe operator, 24:30 north and 79:20 west. A coast guard plane from the Miami base was expected to make a flight over the position. The spot where the ship was finally reported sinking was the fourth position given by the ope Age tor. , . Even the identity of the ship was a mystery. The operator gave the name as Dunkwa. which is the name of a British oil tanker out of Liver pool, but Lloyd’s at London reported the Dunkwa was in Rotterdam. Coast guard officials were frank ly perplexed by the incoherent na ture of some of the messages, and the number of positions given, but said the confusion possibly was due to the fact the sender was inex perienced and working under ad verse conditions. ' HENDERSON, N. C., THURSDAY AFTERNOON, AUGUST 3, 1939 Mr. Wallace Urges Mere Farm Money Agriculture Head Says Entire Farm Program M.enaced by Lack of Funds; Coali tion Beats Housing Bill As It Did Lending Measure. Washington, August 3. — (AP) —A House coalition of Republicans and Democrats to day killed President Roosevelt’s $800,000,000 housing bill fcf this session. The latest rebuff to the ad ministration topped off Tues day’s stunning defeat of the lending program. Today, as then, the House refused even to consider the legislation. The vote was 190 to 170. The housing bill’s defeat cleared away one more barrier to adjourn ment, but the Senate still was faced with a maze of problems on the third deficiency bill. Secretary Wallace’s demand for more farm money headed such a variety of last-minute appeals for funds at the Capitol today that week end adjournment plans once more were threatened. While the House neared a show down vote on the administration’s $800,000,000 housing bill, Wallace and a group of other officials and congressmen besieged the Senate Ap propriations Committee while it studied the session’s third and last deficiency appropriations bill. Approved by the House yesterday, the measure carried $54,000,000, com pared to budget recommendations of $215,000,000. The secretary of agriculture told senators that failure of the House to provide $119,000,000 for the Com modity Credit Corporation, the agency which makes loans on cotton, corn, wheat and other major farm (Continued on Page Six) SECRETARY EURE'S GRANDFATHER DIES Raleigh, Aug. 3.—(AP) —W. D. Langston, 85-year-old grandfather of Thud Eure, secretary of state, died at his lifelong home in Gates county yesterday. Eure planned to leave this afternoon to attend the funeral ser vices tomorrow. Burial will take place at Holy Neck, Va., just across the North Carolina line. Surviving are one child, 15 grand children and five great grandchil dren. CIO Strikers Driven From G-M Factory Detroit, Mich., Aug. 3.—(AP) — Police drove the CIO-United Auto mobile Workers union members and sympathizers away from the area surrounding the strike-bound Gen eral Motors Chevrolet plant today in what they said was the second at tempt to stop factory automobile traffic by spreading tacks and broken glass on the streets. The plant is on Holbrook avenue. The unionists retreated across the city limits line of suburban Ham tramck and booed the several hun dred Detroit police. Two men were arrested. Two pa trolmen said the two had driven a truck through the area scattering large roofing tacks on the pavement. The police pursued the pair to the UAW-CIO headquarters in Ham tramck. There they said they were menaced by a large crowd of men who threatened to take the prison ers away from them until 50 more policemen arrived. Meanwhile, George Booge, AFofL national representative, charged that the UAW-CIO tool-makers’ strike in 12 General Motors plants was “an effort to force building trades work ers out of the American Federation of Labor into the ClO’s new con struction organizing committee. Prospects for settling he strike were reported today to be better than they have been since the walk out of 7,500 workers in the 12 plants 1 began July 5. _ _ ... „ Protector of Two Coasts K 9b \ ii ■. - mk M & %■"¥. : ' ■' ’ : .' "' • ' y-W^vM ■■ ' 111 The giant Army Boeing 22-ton super flying fortress is shown at rest at Floy') Bennett Field, N. Y., a little more than nine hours after it left Los Angeles. The entire flight, topped for speed only by Howard Hughes' slim racer, was made at altitudes over 20,000 feet. Top, left to right, Maj. Stanley Umstead, pilot, William Zint, timer, and Commander D., Smith of the Naval Reserve base, there, check the time. Senator Taft Says He’s Ready To Run As GOP Candidate Washington, Aug. 3.—(AP)—Sen ator Robert A. Taft expressed a will ingness today to become a candidate for the Republican presidential nom ination in 1940. The son of the for mer president and chief justice stat ed his position in a letter to George Eyrich, chairman of the county Re publican executive committee at Cin cinnati, which had endorsed him for the presidential nomination. “I shall be willing when the time comes,” Taft said, “to give my con sent to have my name designated as the first choice by candidates for de legates (to the National Republican Convention) throughout the slate.” Taft told Eyrich that his work as senator was “extremely interesting,” and that he preferred it to any other Broughton Lauds Women In Politics Daily Dispatch Rurcau In the Sir Walter Hotel Raleigh, August 3. —J. M. Brough ton, Raleigh lawyer who is regarded on all sides as an almost certain can didate for governor in next year’s primary, today cited to the 36th An nual Farm and Home Week con vention at State college the growing r and importance of women as voters. “Whether men may all like it or not, women are today a power in our political life”, he said. “In the last general election in North Carolina, for instance, 46 per cent of the votes were cast by women. Since votes are the life blood of political suc cess, many politicians who earlier scoffed have remained to pray.” Entrance of women into politi (Continued on Page Two) tOoaihsJi FOR NORTH CAROLINA. Mostly cloudy, thundershowers in east and central portions to night or Friday; slightly cooler in north central and northeast por tions Friday- job. He added, however, that he would not “run away from a harder job.” “Whether I am a candidate for any other office,” ho wrote, “is certainly up to the Republicans of Ohio.” The “unpleasant job” ahead of the next President, he said, is such that “no sensible man could be eager to assume it.” “Unless the whole present tendency of the government is re-directed,” he declared, “we cannot long main tain financial solvency, free enter prise or even individual liberty in the United States. But leaders against the New Deal fallacies must have the courage to incur the unlimited dis pleasure of every vested interest whose selfish purposes conflict with the radical policy of reform.” Think Lewis Is Sorry For Garner Blast By CHARLES P. STEWART Central Press Columnist Washington, Aug. 3.—ls Vice Pres ident Garner wins the next Demo cratic White House nomination, it’s the consensus in political Washing ton that he’ll have John L. Lewis, more than any other single indivi dual, to thank for it Plenty of news commentators a1 - ready have said as much, but they haven’t made i t strong enough. To be sure, the Texan was a Democratic mentionee when y|| John L. Lewis John L. undertook to jump on him, but he wasn’t an overwhelmingly prominent one. John L., however, turned the limelight on him to such an effect that darned if he isn’t the most conspicuous of the bunch, bar ring third-term possibilities. Indeed, it’s whispered that President Roose (Continued on Page Six) PUBLISHED EVERY AFTERNOON EXCEPT SUNDAY. Growers Optimistic About Prices Paid As Season Is Begun Some Put Level 18 to 20 Cents as Brisk Selling Marks Opening, With Heavy Offerings by Growers; Quality Under Last Year. \ Florence, S. C., August 3. (AP) —Brisk selling marked the opening of the sixteen tobacco markets of the North and South Carolina Border Belt" today, with prices registering an un official average of 18-cents a pound. Although this was approximately five cents under the offi cial average for the whole of last season, growers seemed gen erally optimistic, since the quality was below that of the opening day last year. Only a*very few tags were reported turned, a ges ture indicating refusal to sell because of dissatisfaction with f the price. ■— 11 Britain Ready To Mediate Far East London, Aug. 3.—(AP)—For eign Secretary Lord Halifax de clared tonight that Britain would be prepared to use her good of fices “if and when- they could usefully be employed” to mediate the conflict. He made this statement in a foreign affairs debate in the House of Lords after he had given Japan an indirect warning that anti-British agitation in north China could only worsen relations between Britain and Japan, “with all the that that de terioration must inevitably bring.” The foreign secretary said the government intended to protect British interests in China and to carry out its obligations to third powers. The Tokyo forimila agreed to by Britain July 22 as a basis for negotiations on the Tientsin dis pute indicated, he declared, no change in the Far East. The debate shifted to the upper house the attacks on the govern ment’s insistence that Parliament recess as usual during August and September, a period which many believe will bring international tension. Japs Claim U. S.-Britain I Cooperating Tokyo Seriously Con siders Outright Mili tary Alliance With Rome-Berlin Axis; U. S. Abrogation Fur nishes Fuel for Fire. Tokyo, Aug. 3.—(AP)—A growing conviction in Japanese circles that Great Britain and the United States were cooperating to hinder Japanese policies in the Far East today added impetus to an outright military al liance with the Rome-Berlin axis. It was learned authoritatively that a conference of the five key minis ters in the cabinet had been sum moned, following a meeting last night of members of the Japanese general staff. Informed quarters said America’* abrogation of her trade treaty with Japan had given army and ultra- 1 nationalistic circles fresh ammuni tion for their campaign. Another fac tor in their favor was Britain’s re (Continued on Page Four) DR. J. H. SAUNDERS, WILLIAMSTON, DIES Williamston, August 3. —(AP) — Relatives were informed today that Dr. Joseph H. Saunders, prominent Williamston physician, died at 9:10 a. m. in a Richmond, Va., hospital after an illness of about three weeks. Dr. Saunders was widely known in eastern North Carolina medical circles. He was a major in the American Expeditionary Forces in the World War. Funeral arrangements were not announced Surviving are a widow and two Sons. _ ; 8 PAGES TODAY FIVE CENTS COPY Sales Supervisor J. F. Hawkins announced the average for the first hour’s sales on the Timmonsville market was 18.64 cents. A total of 48,552 pounds was sold, he said. The quality there was about the same as opening day offerings last year. Sales Supervisor W. E. Edmunds estimated the average price paid on the Chadbourn, N. C., market was 18 cents, compared with 25 cents average for the opening day last year. The quality of offerings was poor, he said. He predicted prices would rise when better quality weed was offered. The highest paid dur ing the early morning was 25 cents a pound. Medium Grades Higher At Darlington' the price also averaged 18 cents in unofficial esti mates. Medium grades brought bet ter prices than last year, and farm ers appeared pleased. Supervisor E. B. Lane, of the Pamplieo market, estimated opening prices averaged 18 1-2 cents, compared with 25.01 cents the opening day last year. Of ferings were not as good quality as last year, he said. At Whiteville, N. C., early prices averaged unofficially 18 to 20 cents. Warehouses were filled to capacity, and farmers appeared pleased with payments. No'tags were turned dur ing the early hours. More than 250,000 pounds were on the floors at Dillion, where early prices averaged 20 cents in un official estimates. Prices at Lumberton, N. C., averaged, in unofficial estimates, 18 cents or higher. Offerings were primings, with some scattered bet ter grades. Best price paid during the early hours was 28 cents. Farm ers appeared pleased. 'Prices in opening sales at Tabor City, N. C., were somewhat higher than expected, with upwards of 400,000 pounds offered. Farmers seemed pleased with sales. C. B. Stafford, sales supervisor, announced an average of 18.07 cents was paid for the first hour’s sales on the Fairmont, N. C., market/ A iotal of 108.734 pounds was sold. Growers appeared pleased, he said. M. S. Fowler, sales supervisor at (Continued on Page Five) N Johnston In Appeal For Cotton Uses World’s Largest Grower Addresses Farm-Home Week Group in Raleigh; U. S. Lost Best Foreign Cotton Customers. Raleigh, August 3.—(AP) —Oscar Johnston, president of the Cotton Council and largest grower of cot ton in the nation, pleaded with North Carolina farmers today to back an organized program to in crease world consumption of cot ton. Johnston condemned foreign policies of the United States, as they affect trade, denouncing the Hawley-Smoot tariff act as having cost the country millions\pf dollars. “I am not advocating free trade”, Johnston declared, “but we should have a selective revision of our tariffs. The talk was a feature of a ses sion for men at the Farm and Home (Continued on Page Five)
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