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HENDERSON’S POPULATION 13,873 JSSTV-SIXTHYEAR CONGRESS ADJOURNS IN LATE AFTERNOON * * * * v * * * « Stabilized Leaf Prices Sought Border Belt Trends Up; Georgia Off Farm Bureau To Name Committee To Study Referendum; Meeting on Situation Called For Next Wednesday in Wash ington. i p, v The Associated Press.) Growers and other tobacco mm turned their attention to day to a search of some means of stabilizing bright leaf auc tion prices as markets closed for the regular Saturday holi day. with a five-cent gap be tween the bidding in South Carolina and Georgia. Fractional advances were re corded in South Carolina, but Georgia bids dropped toward the l.'l-14-cent groove. At Raleigh. N. C.. President' J. E. Winslow, of the North Carolina Farm Bureau Federation, said he would select a committee of growers to look into the feasibility of a referendum bv growers on control of the 1940 to bacco crop. He was instructed to ap point the committee by a mass meet ing ot growers yesterday. In Washington, tobacco experts of the Agriculture Department arrang ed for a conference of flue-cured to bacco growers and manufacturers Wednesday on the price and mar keting situation. Governor Rivers, of Georgia, (Continued on Page Five) Election Fraud Is Hunted In Scandal Raid In Louisiana New Orleans, La., Aug. 5. (AP)—A search for reported fraud in an uncon tested con cessional election was added to the government’s varied Louisi ana investigations today, vvliile Attorney General Frank Murphy in Washington arranged a hur ried conference on the State’s political scandals. John Rogge, assistant attorney general, announced before board ing a plane today for the nation’s capital that his agents were prob ing reports of fraud in the con gressional election of November, 1938. Rogge declined to reveal the name of the person whose elec tion was under scrutiny, but it was reported reliably the election had been uncontested. Roosevelt Signs Bill for Greater Veteran Benefits Washington, August S.—(AP) —President Roosevelt signed to day a hill to increase govern ment benefits for 26,000 injured veterans of the army, navy, ma nne corps and coast guard. The Veterans Administration estimated the increases would ‘"“an a federal outlay of $3,- j.OOO. The legislation applies only to those injured in peace uim*. Pndcr existing law, pen sions for such injuries range , lrom SO to 5125 a month. The w scale will be 57.50 to • will amount to ai out 75 per cent of maritine* disability rates. Motor Plants o Resume On Next Monday w!n t,oit ’ Mich -> August 5.—(AP)— r. ' ,lcim -S. Kundsen, president of d-iv 01 otors Corporation, said to "7 that the corporation’s plants ' iMvr* been affected by the ClO and die-makers’ strike bo in operation by Monday aesday, and that 1940 produc - (Continued on Page Four) itmwmm Satin Bismitrfi LKASED WIRE SERVICE nw TH E ASS< ICIATED PRESS State 1 roopers Guard Colorado Dam In Strike j* . " It : ■>- * - ■ ‘ Colorado National Guard troopers and non-strikers who guarded the Green Mountain dam following a sudden outbreak ot labor warfare, are pictured above. When seven were wounded in rioting between strikers and members of a back-to-work movement the state troops moved into the trouble zone with machine guns and tanks and restored at least temporary order. ‘lndignation’ Meeting Os Farmers Is Calm Affair Negro Convict Is Killed by His Pal Raleigh, Aug. 5. (AP) Harold Jones, 34-year-old Negro who was serving a life term for second degree burglary, died at Central Prison this morning of cut wounds inflicted Thursday by another Negro prisoner. Warden H. H. Wilson said Booker T. Watson, who is serving life for murder, admitted doing the cutting with a razor blade, but contended he acted in self-de fense. Prison records showed that Watson was once condemned to die, but that his sentence was commuted in April, 1935. He was sent up from Nash county. Jones was sentenced in Hender son county in October, 1935. Coroner Roy Banks said he would hold an inquest this after noon. 48,000 Ask Information About State Daily Dispatch Bureau, In the Sir Walter Hotel. Raleigh, August s.—The Gover nor’s Hospitality Committee of the Department of Conservation and Development has received more than 48,000 requests for booklets and other information about North Caro lina as a result of the display ad vertising done by the Division of State Advertising, Director R. Bruce Etheridge, of the department, said today. . . This does not include inquiries which have been coming in at a rate of 1,000 per week as a result of the North Carolina exhibit at the New York World’s Fair, Etheridge said. The spring and summer display advertising schedule, which started March 6, brought 12,301 inquiries up to July 22, while in the rest of last month there were 2,787 more inquiries. For the past five months tne re (Continued on Page Five) DR. JAS. H. KIRKLAND, OF VANDERBILT, DIES Nashville, Tenn., August S.—(AP) —Dr. James H. Kirkland, who served as chancellor of Vanderbilt University for 44 years—longer than American institution of higher any contemporary head of ah learning—died today in Magneta wan, Canada. He was 79. _ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OFNORTHCAROLINA AND VIRGINIA HENDERSON, N. C., SATURDAY AFTERNOON, AUGUST 5, 1939 No Great Amount of Applause for Advo cates of Crop Control; Friday Gathering in Raleigh Attended by About 600. Daily Dlspatcn Bureau, In the Sir Walter Hotel. By HENRY AVERILL Raleigh, August s.—North Caro lina farmers may be mad as wet hens about tobacco price prospects. They may, too, favor all kinds of crop control. But if they are either or Doth they failed completely to in dicate it yesterday when what was ballyhooed in advance as a great mass meeting of protest against im pending starvation, turned out to be nothing more or less than a per functory, cut-and-dried annual ses sion of the North Carolina Farm Bureau Federation. Maybe the farmers were just too busy to come to Raleigh. They have tobacco in the fields to prepare for market. Maybe they were more than a little encouraged by opening prices on the Border Belt Thursday, though there is reason to believe there is something “chamber of commerce” about that estimated 18- cent average, which will probably prove officially to have been some thing less than 17. J3ut be all that as it may, the very obvious fact is that not more than 600 none-too-demonstrative farmers attended the mass meeting at the Memorial Auditorium, where as its sponsors had forecast 3,000 or more. Those who did attend listened with apparent interest, but very in continued on Page Five) Parole Is Denied Returned ‘Escape’, A “Model” Citizen Raleigh, August 5.—(AP) — Paroles Commissioner Edwin Gill announced today that a parole had been denied Kohler Holtzclaw, who was once under death sentence in the State, but who escaped and be came a “model citizen” in Michi gan. Officials have concluded, Gill ex plained, that a parole now would be “premature,” and the case has been continued for a year. Holtzclaw was convicted of murder in Catawba county in 1921, and sentenced to die. He received a commutation to life imprisonment and this sentence was later commuted to 23 to 30 years. “We wish to commend the fine attitude of the prisoner since he be gan the service of his sentence af ter his escape”, Gill said. “He is making progress which, if it con tinues, will probably lead to parole at a later date.” 4 Believed Dead In Highway Tube Somerset, Pa., Aug. 5. (AP) John Lowry, an ambulance driver reported today one man was kill ed and four others were believed killed in an aceident in the Laurel Hill tunnel on the State’s $70,000,- 000 express highway near here. Lowry said the four were trap ped under a fall of rock at the base of operations in the tunnel 15 miles west of this western Pennsylvania mountain town. He said it was believed certain they were dead. The victim Lowry brought here died in the am bulance. His arm had been am putated in order to remove him from the rockfall. Identification of the dead man or those reported caught in the rockfall was not im mediately available. McNinch Did Good Job In Tough Spot By CHARLES P. STEWART Central Press Columnist Washington, Aug. 5. —Frank R. McNinch recently quit the chairman ship of the Federal Communication Commission under c i r c u mstances which can’t have been altogether satisfactory to him. For one thing his health broke down He didn’t like that certainly. Add i - tionally, however, his job on that commission, dur ing the few years ne held it, had been enough t o cxack any man’s constit u t i o n. If ever there was a Frank R. McNinch post calculated to wreck the physi que, that’s it —eitner the chairman ship or any of the six associate com missionerships. Frank was no Hercules to begin with. He’s a little mite of an indivi dual, but boiling with energy; tem per also—just the right combination to wear him down to the merest fraz zle, bucking everlasting, unconquer able difficulties. Probably he thought he was equal (Continued on Page Five) (jjsaihsui FOR NORTH CAROLINA. Generally fair tonight and Sunday, except unsettled near the coast. WEEKLY WEATHER. South Atlantic States: Oc casional scattered thundershow ers, but mostly fair during first of week in Carolinas and Geor gia; temperatures near or some what above normal. CHAMBERLAIN HINT OF FLEET IN ORIENT IRRITATES JAPANESE Britain Playing Dan gerous Game, Tokyo Spokesman S. a y s; British-French Mili tary Mission Goes to Moscow; U. S. Next? (By The Associated Press.) A British-French military mission left for Moscow today as Japanese expressed “ex treme irritation” over Prime Minister Chamberlain’s decla ration that a British fleet might steam to the Orient “in certain circumstances.” “Britain is playing a dan gerous game”, said a Tokyo war office spokesman, who in terpreted Chamberlain’s words in the House of Commons yes terday as a “shrewd remark designated to intimidate Ja pan”. Japanese newspapers printed Chamberlain’s statement that Britain has not “in the Far East a fleet superior to chat of the Jap anese’’, but deleted the warning that naval reinforcements might be sent. For the third successive day there was no meeting of British-Japanese negotiators, who have been trying to solve differences between the two nations ;n the Far East. The British-French mis sion is to open staff talks with Sov iet military leaders considering the practical means of collaboration be tween the three powers in case of a European war. Definition of the term “indirect aggression” is the main snag which has held up Mos cow conversations over a British- French-Soviet mutual defense pact. As the military mission left, Britain announced that William Strang, British Foreign Office ex pert who is in Moscow, would re turn to London next week, but de clared “his departure in no way indicates a change in the progress of negotiations.”. Reports from China, meanwhile, indicated that Japan’s anti-foreign campaign was taking on a definite anti-American tinge. United States citizens were said to be preparing to flee Kaifeng, in Honan province, because of such developments, but precise details were lacking because of broken communication lines. Second Princess Born for Juliana, Netherlands Heir Amsterdam, Aug. 5. (AP) —A booming 51-gun salute told the Netherlands today that Crown Prin cess Juliana had presented the nation with another princess and not the son it had hoped for to break the line of femiine ascendancy. The birth of a son to Juliana and her consort, Prince Bernhardt, would have been signalled by 101 guns. A moment after the last report streamers fluttered from every home in wild confusion. Woman Dead, Nine Hurt In Car Crash Clinton, August s.—(AP) —Mrs. Julian Parrish, 50, of Greensboro, was fatally injured, and nine other persons were hurt early today in a head-on collision between two automobiles on the Wilmington highway. Mrs. Parrish died shortly after arrival at a Fayetteville hos pital. The injured are Miss Vivian Beal, 17; Miss Hilda Beal, W. A. Bain, 51, and wife, 48, all of Graham, and occupants of the Parrish car; Brax ton Thornton, Albert Bryan, Lloyd and John Futrell, and Earl Hill, all of Newton Grove. The Beal sisters suffered head injures and the younger was un conscious, Fayetteville hospital at taches said. Bain and his wife were critically hurt, as well as Hill and Bryan. All suffered shocks and bruises. The accident occurred about 4:50 a. m., as the car of Mrs. Parrish was proceeding to Wilmington in com pany with two other automobiles, with occupants bound for an out (Continued on Page Five) PUBLISHED EVERY AFTERNOON EXCEPT SUNDAY. Aids Housing Defeat v iiiiiiiii Rep. Albert Gore 'Representative Albert Gore, 31, Tennessee Democrat, is pictured as he spoke against the administra tion’s housing bill. His oration was considered an important factor in defeat of the $800,000,000 measure. Gore, in his maiden speech, denied projects would be self-liquidating and charged subsidies would boost cost to $4,860,000,000. A&NC Lease Approved By Federal ICC New Operators o f Goldsboro -Morehead Road to Issue SIOO,- 000 Stock to Start Them on Way; State Owns Control. Raleigh, August 5. (AP) Utilities Commissioner Stanley Winborne said today that early next week he would grant his permission for the Atlantic & Eastern Carolina Railroad Co. to lease the railroad properties of the Atlantic & North Caro lina Railroad. Washington, Aug. 5. —(AP) — The Atlantic & East Carolina Railroad Company received permission from the Interstate Commerce Commis sion today to lease the railroad pro perties of the Atlantic & North Caro lina Railroad Company. The Atlantic and East Carolina will pay an annual rental of $60,500. The Atlantic & North Carolina Com pany is controlled by the State of North Carolina through ownership of (Continued on Page Five) Ycuth Leaves Father’s Shop For Week Os Crime New York, August S.—(AP Working for his father bored Leon ard Nugent, 20, a high school gradu ate, so he ran away, and today po lice charged him with having killed a man, wounded his sweetheart and staged nine hold-ups in one time filled week. The curly-haired, neatly dressed fainted when police told him of the death of Isadore Cohen, 42, a button broker, who police said was shot under the heart while grappling with Nugent. Inspector John Gallagher said the frightened boy had * made a com plete confession, and gave this ver sion of his week’s activities: Tiring of working as a “printer’s devil” in the engraving plant owned by his father, he left his Staten Is land home after a bitter family quarrel. He rented a furnished boom, then found his funds running low and turned to robbery to make some 8 PAGES TODAY FIVE CENTS COPY Agreement Reached On Farm Funds Last Deficiency Ap priation Is For $185,- 000,000; House Gives in to Senate Con ferees; Roosevelt Ve toes Bank Measure. Washington, August 5. —(AP) — The way was cleared for prompt ad journment of Congress today when a joint Senate-House committee agreed this afternoon on terms of a $185,000,000 appropriation bill, the session’s last major measure. Conferees agreed to retention in the measure of $119,599,918 for the Commodity Credit Corporation to be used to bolster farm prices. Secre tary Wallace and President Roose belt had both said this appropriation was necessary to maintain the ad ministration’s farm price program. Representative Taber, Republican, New York, said he and Represen tative Ditter, Republican, Pennsyl vania, refused to sign the conference report. “It was awful”, Taber said. “The House members gave in on every thing.” As originally passed by the House, the deficiency measure totaled only $54,000,000. The Senate inserted so many new items, including the Commodity Credit Corporation fund, that the total of the bill went up to $189,900,000. The task before the conference committee was to work out a com promise of the Senate and House version which would be acceptable to both branches. In order to do this, the committee trimmed about $4,000,000 out of the Senate bill. The compromise went first to the House, where leaders expressed be lief that, despite inclusion of many items- opposed by the economy bloc, (Continued on Page Five) COAST GUARD BILL IS SIGNED BY FDR Washington, August 5.—(AP) — President Roosevelt* approved today an act authorizing assignment of coast guard officers to duty in con nection with maritime instruction and training with government or state agencies. The act applies to both state nautical schools and to the training program maintained by the Maritirpe Committi b Hatch Law Is Attacked In Pennsylvania Pittsburgh, Pa., Aug. 5.—(AP) — An attack on the new Hatch law and formal discussion of a third term and rivalry among delegations backing favorite sons for the 1940 presiden tial campaign promised plenty of action for Young Democrats at their national convention next week. State President Joseph Barr, term ing the recently-enacted political practices act as “terrible,” said some delegates had wired him they were afraid to come to the convention, (Continued . on Page Five) “easy money”. Working alone, he pulled off eight hold-ups success fully, in one of them robbing eight men in a wash room. Yesterday Cohen entered the wash room in a building at 28th street and Broadway, where Nugent had just taken $22 from Charles Getzel. Cohen gave Nugent some small change in his pocket, then grabbed suddenly for Nugent’s gun. Nugent stepped back and fired three times, two of the bullets going wild. Panic stricken, he fled to the West 46th street office of Dr. A. M. Mulholland, where his girl friend, Elizabeth Col lins, 18, worked as a receptionist. Shaking with fear, he told her of the hold-ups, and babbled, “it’s the first time I’ve seen blood. Nugent tried to pull the gun from his pocket, but it accidently dis charged in his fumbling fingers. The bullet ripped through the girl’s jaw. She dropped seriously wounded.
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