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Tobacco Average Shade Down In Eastern Carolina
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A quarter of a million German troops were massed on . ’3 250-mile frontier with Poland as the con
trolled Nazi press thundered that the “day of reckoning ... near. Central headquarters for the army was
Zilina, a few miles from Poland through the Jab’unka Pass. Above is a r;c or-1 view of the railway center
from which German troops ar# being deployed to strategic points in the Tatra Mountains.
Plane Crash Kills Four Near
Nashville Shortly After Noon
New Auto Record
Set at Salt Flats
Bonneville Salt Flats, Utah,
Aug. 22. (AP)—John R. Cobb,
of London, drove his 24 -cylinder
Ralton Red Lion over the meas
ured mile at more than six miles
a minute, the fastest man ever
traveled on land, but was forced
t<> postpone his try for an official
record.
.Motor trouble prevented him
from meeting the requirements of
a return trip within the same
hour.
< obb was clocked at 369.23
miles per hour for the north run.
fliis far exceeded the 356.44 the
record holder. Captain George
K.vston, of England, maintained
for the same run last September.
Annenberg Is
Indicted With
Six Others •
. '"‘go, Aug. 22.—(AP) —Moe
millionaire publisher,
f lf| others were charged by a
grand jury today with con
, to defraud the government
' -< 727.30 taxes, penalties and
' 1 on the income of the Con
' ; Publishing Company, a rac
],|S i o' ws service.
~ I'-' 43-page indictment, covering
i 929-3G, inclusive, was re
.„7 11, ' fi !j y the same grand jury
: ‘ on August 11 accused Annen
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Bumper Yields Reported
For Most Os N. C. Crops
" -Station, Raleigh, Aug. 22.
of a bumper crop year
fir Carolina are reports of
~ , ( ~!i Crop Reporting Board
ot , , nrilCa te increased production
CrMj , ‘ i:t;i i°r crop in the State ex
t's. tame hay, and burley
;t was announced today by
" extension studies
j/'j 11 °t State college,
stat(. r j' u :>0( -' ia lly significant, Mann
'he Federal reports in
,, ‘decrease in corn and cotton
i; ~ rom last year, but an in
u: total pioduction. There
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Imtitersmt Datlii tltspatrlt
W alter Tharrington,
Dr. W. O. House,
Harry Hicks, Phil
Koo nc e Instantly
Killed and Plane Is
Demolished.
Rocky Mount, Aug. 22.
(AP) —R. E Lee, Rocky Mount
airport manager, said this af
ternoon that four persons had
been killed in an airplane crash
in Nash county shortly after
noon
The victims, according to
Lee, were: Walter Tharring
ton, of Rocky Mount, pilot of
the plane; Dr. W. 0. House,
Harry Lt. Hicks and Phil
Koonce, all of Tarboro, or near
there.
Newspaper reporters, among the
first to arrive at the scene, reported
that the plane had 'crashed into a
tobacco field, burrowing into the
ground. They said pieces of the
bodies were strewn over the field,
and that the plane was completely
demolished.
Lee said the party had left the lo
cal airport a few minutes before,
enroute to Raleigh. He said the crash
occurred near Sandy Cross, in Nash
county, about ten miles from Rocky
Mount.
All of the victims of the air tragedy
were well known Nash and Edge
combe county citizens. Dr. House,
prominent Tarboro surgeon, was
commander of the Tarboro post of
the American Legion, head of the
State Hospital Association, and farm
ed extensively in the county.
Hicks was a well known insurance
man at Leggetts. Koonce, was a lar
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were 2,442,000 acres of corn grown
in the State last year, with a total
production of 46,398,000 bushels.
In 1939, there is an indicated
2,418,000 acres of corn, but
the total production is expected to
be 48,360,000 bushels.-
There is expected to be a 20,000-
pound smaller burley tobacco crop,
53,000 tons less tame hay, and 468,-
000 bushels less wheat than irj 1938.
All other major crops, including
flue-cured tobacco, cotton, corn,
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ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OFNORTHCAROLINA AND VIRGINIA^
HENDERSON, N. C., TUESDAY AFTERNOON, AUGUST 22,1939
Accuses Nazis
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Dr. John Harvey Sherman, presi
dent of the University of Tampa, is
shown as he testified before the Dies
Committee in Washington. He re
ported that an attempt was made by
Baron Edgar Spiegel von und zu
Peickelsheim, German consul gen
eral at New Orleans, to introduce
Nazi teachings in the Florida uni
versity, This is a phonephoto.
Republicans
May Sit Out
Democrats
Washington, Aug. 22.—(AP)—Re
publicans may try a waiting game to
reverse custom and force Democrats
to nominate their 1940 presidential
candidate first.
With but one exception since the
Civil War, the Democrats have en
joyed the strategic advantage of hold
ing their quadrennial convention
after the Republicans had written
their platform and chosen their
ticket. The exception was in 1888,
when the Democrat? met on June 5
and nominated Grover Cleveland.
The Republicans, meeting on June
19, nominated Benjamin Harrison.
Some Republican politicians said
today Chairman John Hamilton, of
the party’s national committee,
might seek to delay selection of a
convention date until aftei the Dem
i ocrats have fixed theirs.
Price Range
sls to S2O
For Opening
Some Farmer Di s
appointment Ind i
cated as Season
Starts; Heavy Offer
ings on Most Mar
kets; Poorer Grades
Selling Well.
Raleigh, Aug. 22.—(AP)— First re
ports ol' opening sales on the New
Bright Belt tobacco market today
‘-md orices overaged from $14.62 to
$20.21 per hundredweight, compared
with an expected average of $lB per
hundred.
Some farmer disappointment was
mentioned. Offerings were described
as of poorer grade.
In Wilson, the biggest market,
some grumbling was reported, and a
number of tags were turned, indicat
ing rejection of the bids made.
Kinston, however, said farmers
“generally appeared satisfied,” as
there was little good tobacco offered,
and a strengthening trend in prices
was noted.
At Goldsboro, the first 2,800
pounds sold averaged unofficially
$14.62 per hundred pounds. Prices
ranged from $3 to S2B and warehouse
men said they expected prices to im
prove with later sales. Quality of the
offerings was fair. A total of 500,000
pounds was on the floors.
The first rows sold in four ware
houses at Wilson brought prices
which averaged $15.50 per hundred.
A record break of between 3,000,000
and 4,000,000 pounds was offered
and prices ranged from $2 to $32.
One of the first rows sold averaged
sl7, and warehousemen predicted a
better price average later. The poor
grades were going well. The better
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All Army Leaves
Are Canceled By
Belgian Minister
Brussels, Aug. 22. CAP)
The Belgian national defense
minister cancelled all leaves for
army officers today on the eve
of seven small powers’ confer
ence as a precaution against any
turn for the worse in the Eu
ropean, situation.
The order, published tonight,
said officers 'were called hack
from leaves “so all measures
which would be ordered in case
the situation were aggravated
could be taken without delay.”
Further measures to strength
en Belgium’s defenses, if neces
sary, were understood to he al
ready under consideration.
The number of soldiers involv
ed in the orders was not made
known.
Violence In
Milk Strike
In N. Jersey
Camden, N. J., Aug. 22. —(AP) —
Three men were shot and numerous
others bruised today during a distur
bance at the dairymens league milk
plant here, which had been picket
ed by sympathizers of a dairy far
mers’ union strike. Deputy Sheriff L.
A. Jones said the shooting occurred
as a milk truck, driven by Frank
Rice, of Hillsboro, N. Y., was enter
ing the plant.
Taken to Rome, N. Y., city hos
pital were Roman Charney, Boone
ville% and Russell Assont, Lyons
Falls, described by the deputy as
pickets. Hospital officials said Char
ney was shot in the abdomen and
Assont in the leg.
Jones said 50 or 60 pickets rushed
the truck and dumped its milk. A
15-minute skirmish followed, during
which stones were hurled and shots
fired. Spectators and farmers were
bruised when struck by the missiles.
(Osudhsh
FOR NORTH CAROLINA.
Generally fair tonight and
Wednesday, preceded by scatter
ed thundershowers this after
noon; slightly cooler in north
central and northeast portions
tonight. _ __
Accord Not To Ban
Anglo-French Pact
British-French Quarters in Moscow Still Hope
ful, but Gloomy; Von Ribbentrop to Fly to
Moscow to Seal Agreement.
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Moscow, Aug. 22. (AP) —Unofficial Soviet sources said to
day the impending Soviet Russian-German non-aggression pact
(vould not exclude negotiations of a mutual assistance agreement
with Britain and France.
British and French quarters,
however, were gloomy over the an
nouncement that Berlin and Mos- <
cow were coming to an understand
ing.
British and French quarters held
hope the long-delayed mutual as
sistance pact with Moscow might
still be forged.
German circles said Von Ribben
trop would arrive by special air
plane tomorrow with a staff of 32,
including a number of technical ad
visors. By ironic coincidence, he
will be quartered next door to the
house where the British mission is
staying.
There was no information on how
Polish Policy Will
Remain as Hitherto
New Pact to Have
Usual Loopholes
Rome, Aug. 22.—(AP) —The
proposed Soviet-German non-ag
gression pact will contain a pro
vision permitting its denunciation
in the event either party '•ommits
an act of aggression against a
third country, a reliable informant
said today.
The pact, this informant said,
would contain three points:
1. A pledge to abstain from ag
gression against one another.
2. In case one parly is the vic
tim of an attack by a third party,
the other will remain neutral.
3. In case either commits an act
of aggression, the other may de
nounce the agreement.
■ In some pro-Soviet circles, the
agreement as outlined was re
garded as not necessarily incom
patible with an alliance among
England, France and Russia.
Cheap Power
Means Taxes
Will Mount
By CHARLES P. STEWART
Central Press Columnist
Washington, Aug. 22.—Wendell L.
Wilkie, president of the Common
wealth & Southern power interests,
has given advo
cates of the gov
e r n mentalization
of natural mono
polies quite a pro
blem to figure on.
One of Com
monwealth & Sou
thern’s subsidiaries
was the Tennes
see Electric Power
Company. Some
years ago Uncle
Sam’s Tennessee
Valley Authority
broke into com-
Weweß itVUkle
petition with this
latter outfit and began underselling
it. “That,” said public ownership’s
apostles, “is illustrative of public
ownership’s advantages to power
consumers”—meaning, directly or in
directly, nearly everybody.
T. E. I». Sells Out.
Well, the T. E. P. company could
n’t stand the gaff indefinitely. It had
a big plant, however, which it pro
posed to sell to Uncle Samuel, then
getting out of business in T. V. A.’s
favor. The other day this tranaction
was consummated. Wilkie complain
ed that T. E. P. wasn’t paid enough.
Most folk thought he was pretty lib
erally compensated.
Let that pass, though. The nub is
this:
As he scooped in the government’s
money, Wilkie grouchily remarked:
“In the last decade T. E. P. has
forked out more than $25,000,000 in
local taxes. T. V. A., being govern
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EXCEPT SUNDAY.
long von Ribbentrop would stay in
Moscow, but there were indications
he would make every effort to con
clude the negotiations speedily—in
contrast vo the long-drawn French-
British diplomatic and military deal
ings with Russia.,
Russian officials were reported
impressed by the quick method with
which authoritarian Germany con
ducts its diplomatic negotiations, and
still smarting because Britain did not
send a cabinet minister to conduct
the diplomatic talks.
The German foreign minister
will be the first active Nazi cabinet
member ever to visit Moscow.
Warsaw §ays Plans
Have Never Called
* For Asking or Ex'
pecting Russian Aid;
Some See Soviet Aim
To Stay Out of Any
New War.
Warsaw, Poland, Aug. 22.—(AP)
—Official Poland, surprised by Ber
lin’s announcement of negotiations
for a non-aggression pact with Soviet
Russia, maintained a reserved at
titude today, but it was responsibly
stated Germany’s latest move “has
brought absolutely no change in
Polish policy.”
Official comment was withheld
untill all details of the reported pact
are available.
Regarding the problem of Danzig,
however, Polish circles emphasized
that Poland’s “present policy” has
“never involved any question of
seeking or expecting” the assistance
of Russia.
In both Polish and foreign quar
ters, speculation ranged from the
suggestion that the German-Soviet
pact is “no more than a new card
in the game,” to a belief that it may
bring some fundamental changes in
the European situation.
It was held that Russia could “af
ford” to make such a gesture be
cause she is “still satisfied that she
is shielded behind the Polish fence.”
Another popular view, expressed
freely, was that Russia intends to
stay outside any possible European
war, in the beginning at least.
Prison Guard In
Wayne Fired Upon
Prisoner’s Death
Raleigh, Aug. 22.—(AP) —State
Prison officials announced today
dismissal of a Wayne county prison
guard as the aftermath of the
drowning of James Clayton Oliver,
N\gro convict, while swimming in
Little river last week.
The guard, Penal Superintendent
Oscar Pitts said, allowed Oliver to
swim while out on a work party,
an infraction of prison rules. The
Negro’s body was recovered Sun
day.
British Parliament
Will Meet Thursday
London, Aug. 22.—(AP) —The
British government tonight called
an emergency meeting of Parlia
ment for Thursday to take special
defense measures to deal with the
critical European situation.
The decision was announced af
ter the cabinet had concluded a
meeting lasting nearly four hours.
Parliament will be asked to rush
through a bill to give the govern
ment special powers to take any
necessary measures without delay.
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Berlin Hails
Soviet Pact
Advantages
*
Germans Think Brit
ish-French Dream of
Russian Aid Is Shat
tered; Jap Alliance
With Axis Ended,
However; Hitler
Strengthened.
Berlin, Aug. 22.—(AP)—For
eign Minister von Ribbentrop
arrived at the Tempelhof air
port, Berlin, at 6:20 p. m. tonight
enroutc to Moscow to sign a non
aggression pact with Russia. He
had left Salzburg two hours
earlier by airplane. He was ex
pected to remain in Berlin only
a few hours.
Berlin, Aug. 22. (AP)
The momentus handshaking be
tween Germany and Russia
was seen by Germans today
as having the effect of ac
celerating Nazi determination
WITH DEFENSE HEAD
Paris, Aug. 22.—(AP) — Prc
—mier Daladier left a special cab
inet meeting late today for a
long private conference with
General Gamclin, commander
in-chief of all France’s armed
forces.
There was no immediate indi
cation whether the premier and
war minister were discussing
with the generalissimo the call
of even more troops to the colors
« than those summoned before the
cabinet met.
Although the war ministry was
silent on the measures taken,
usually well informed private
sources estimated that between
300,000 and 600,000 had been
called up.
to regain not only war lost
: Danzig but all the rest of pres
j ent-day Poland which once was
Austrian or German.
From the German viewpoint, the
outlook shapes up this way:
Poland is now surrounded by Ger
man troops from the eastern borders
of Slovakia via Bohemia and Mora
via up to the Baltic.
Germany, moreover, has non-ag
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Three Rivers
iOn Rampage
In The East
•
Raleigh, Aug. 22.—(AP) —Three
eastern North Carolina streams, the
Neuse, the Cape Fear and the Roa
noke, were on the rampage today
the result or torrential rains last
week. The Weather Bureau here said
it was too soon to predict how much
damage would result to lowland
crops. Warnings, however, should
reduce the loss to farmers. Flood
ing streams in this area seldom cause
great damage.
A crest of 20 feet, six feet over its
banks, was the forecast for the Neuse
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At the same time, it was disclosed
that further precautionary measures
ment.
As the session ended, United
States Ambassador Joseph P. Ken
nedy, who had been on vacation on
the French Riviera, arrived in Lon
don by plane to get a full report on
developments.
These measures, it was said,
would include the calling up of ad
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