Warring Nations In Dinosaur
Stage, Scientists Are Told
IV\ STEPHEN J. M DONOIGH
Columbus. 0.. Dee. 30.—(AP)—
p Julian S. Huxley says warring
ms of the world are today in
1 t the evolutionary stage of the
i'St brainless dinosaurs which
\ mushed from the earth millions of
vears ago.
The English scientist today re
lded the American Association
the Advancement of Science that
• e dinosaurs had brains little larger
hum a baseball and just about
< ■ ugh sense to eat when they were
■■pry.
Pr. Huxley appealed to “countries
<e the United States” which are
ideally equipped and are not
olved in the present war to “be
building up planned organiza
ns on a large enough scale to
Acre Yield
or Cotton
Up In 1939
C liege Station. Raleigh. Dec. 30
U tton farmers of North Carolina
\ested approximately 75 pounds
o per acre in 1939 than they did
1938. and 10 pounds more than for
: c past ten-year average. J. C. Fcr
. -n, of State College, revealed to
day.
. e havesting season was consid
.o. by both farmers and ginners as
. of the best in years. Ferguson,
» is cotton ginning specialist for
Extension Service, said. Cotton
t:ied early, and the weather gen
. . iy was good for harvesting.
Vet,” the specialist pointed out.
grade was not any higher than
There were several reasons
this. In Eastern Carolina, boll
.il damage was a big factor,
a. too. cotton opened unusually
y and rapidly, resulting in a
. ..e percent of staining.
Another cause.” he continued,
'pecially in the Piedmont, was
:ed ginning. Many ginners were
•aed even more this season than
'.934. when North Carolina pro
: cod its record cotton crop.”
He explained that when ginners
:y the ginning operation so as to
ccommodate all of their customers
~s quickly as possible, they reduce
‘re value of a bale from as little as
ssibly 50 cents to as much as $lO
: • sls a bale.
He cited one example' where cot
n showed a grade reduction in J
lore than 55 per cent of the ginnings
.tiring the rush season. This was due
•'.lively to fast feeding or tight roll
' " ; Cf # ' - |
r reducing the rate of feed and
ating the feed to the gin more
!;v. the cotton which was gin
• n the last few weeks of the sea
'nowed less than 5 per cent dam
-** n preparation.
Mills are becoming more discrim
: -ting in their purchases of lint
'tton." Ferguson said. “and the
Mo must be of a definite length.”
Senator Bailey Is
Sweet Briar Guest
Sweet Briar, Virginia, Dec. 30.
Senator Josiah W. Bailey of North
Carolina and Mrs. Bailey will be
ng the distinguished visitors who
ii attend the ceremonies marking
the establishment of a Carter Glass
P- Cessorship of Government at
•Sweet Briar College on January 4,
eighty-second birthday of the vet
e: mi Virginia Senator.
Senator Glass has been a member
the Board of Overseers of the Col
ege for twelve years, and the Col
ent to honor him with a professor
p of government was started by
e of his colleagues on the board
ad has been supported by his friends
i ad admirers in various parts of the
e . in try.
Dabney S. Lancaster, executive j
• fretary of the Board of Overseers j
the college, has announced a com
aiete list of speakers for the obser
ances on January 4. They include |
‘ae Honorable Jesse H. Jones, Fed- ;
Loan Administrator; Robert V. ;
‘ Jng, president of the Riggs Na
nai Bank in Washington, and Sen
‘o: Harry F. Byrd of Virginia, who
I make the principal address.
Republican Leaders Are
Asked to Jackson Feast
(Continued From Page One)
• i tin, of Vermont, Republican lead
rid assistant leader in the Sen
und Representative Martin, of
■in sachu.setts, House Republican
■ .'iief.
'The President is, of course aware
this letter,” Cummings wrote
hem, “and I am authorized to say
’hat he hopes that you will attend,
••■■ut that his address on that occassion
ill be strictly non-partisan in
f haracter.”
1940 French War
Budget $5 Billions
(Continued From Page One)
249.1 11,000,000 francs $5,480,442,000).
The entire sum, Finance Minister
Paul Reynaud has announced, is to
hr l obtained by public subscription to
rational defense bonds.
In today’s western front action,
French patrols tracked German units
irough the snow east of the Moselle
ver in the fashion of American In
' ms, military sources said.
Nearly all the Finns are Luthrans.
1 unction as a social brain” in order
that civilization proceed normally
alter the war and not end in chaos.
Mankind could learn many les
sons by studying the rise and fall
jot the prehistoric dinosaurs Dr
(Huxley declared. “These animals
| answered bulk with bulk, aggressive
jWith defensive warfare. But they
j were all doomed to extinction as
i soon as the insignificant but brainer
| little mammals their chance.”
The present refugee problem and
i the distortion of truth in science and
• in propaganda of the nations involv
ed in war indicate that the brains of
totalitarian states’ rulers are about
at the stage of the “giant mesozoic
i optiles, he sand. They have might
and powei but do not know how to
use it.
Farm Engineer
dOE S.
College Station. Raleigh, Dee. 30.
—-Joe B. Richardson, native of
Mississippi, has joined the State
I College Extension Service to help
■ with the agricultural engineering
! urogram under Prof. David S.
Weaver.
The new extension worker has
i graduated from Mississippi State
■ College with the B. S. degree, and
received his M. S. degree from
lowa State College in Ames. He
served during the past year as
an instructor at Clemson College
and previously worked with the
Mississippi Extension Service.
Richardson was reared on his
father's farm at Union, Miss. He
fills the vacancy created by the
resignation ot Russell G. Broaddus,
who entered private business in
Raleigh.
Democrats
Decide Date
On February 5
' Washington, Dec. 30.—(AP) —
j Chairman James A. Farley today
: called a meeting of the Democratic
- national committee for February 5
i to settle the much discussed ques
tion of just when the party should
hold its nominating convention.
There has been talk in both ma
jor parties of departing from the
usual practice of fixing the conven
tions for June, with some influen
tial members of each advocating a
much later date and a short cam
paign.
President Roosevelt, for one, has
been represented as believing a late
August convent! ’’owed by a
whirlwind two-month campaign
would be preferable to the old prac
tice of a campaign dragging through
the summer months and not attain
ing full momentum until fall.
On the Republican side, the late
convention idea has an advocate
in the national chairman, John D.
M. Hamilton. He and others of the
party, moreover, have considered
{he possibility of fixing the Repub
lican convention for a date later
than that selected by the Democrats.
This would reverse the old order
of things, which in recent years has
invariably found the Democrats
meeting about a week or 10 days
after the close of the Republican
convention. Some Republican lead
ers, Hamilton among them, have felt
that this yielded an initial advan
tage to the Democrats, enabling
them to act more effectively for
knowing the identity of the oppos
ing candidate and the nature of his
platform.
The Democratic committee also
will select the convention city.
BUILDING AND LOAN
LOANS ARE $1,321,000
Building, savings and loan associa
tions of North Carolina made sl,-
321,000 of home loans during the
month of November, according to
Wheeler Martin of Williamston, Pres
ident of the North Carolina Building
and Loan League.
This represented 878 loans, 308 ot
which were for construction of new
homes, totalling $557,573. More than
158 loans were made for the purchase
of homes, to the amount of $260,000.
In addition, 160 loans, to the amount
of $117,516, were for repairs and
reconditioning of homes. The balance
of 252 loans, totaling $385,215, were
for refinancing and other miscel
laneous purposes, Martin stated.
It must make a dictator pretty
sore when he realizes he ipust wait
until Easter before there is anoth
er world-wide holiday which h
can celebrate by bombing some de
fenseless city.
HENDERSON. (N. C.) DAILY DISPATCH SATURDAY. DECEMBER SO, 1929
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PAGE THREE
Start Probe
Os Slaying
At Prison
Raleigh, Dec. 30.—(AP)—Death
row inmates at Central prison were
questioned at length today as North
Carolina prison officials pushed an
mquiry into an unsuccessful escape
attempt which resulted in the slay
ing of a guard early yesterday.
The guard, J. S. Chesser, 56, was
garroted and bludgeoned by two
condemned negroes who managed to
open the “escape-proof locks on
their cell doors by using a piece
of Christmas twine and some card
board from a matchbox.
After slaying the guard, however,
the two were unable to open a se
ries of metal doors leading from the
death row wing of the prison.
The Negroes are William Young,
22, convicted in Hoke county of
murder and burglary, and Clarence
Rogers, 26, convicted in Durham of
murder. Both signed written con
fessions of the escape audupi ..aa
slaying, Warden H. H. Wilson said.
Young and a co-defendant, Na
thaniel Bryant, were to be executed
this morning, but their deaths were
stayed by Governor lioey to make
possible a full investigation of
Thursday’s killing.
Prison officials said they believed
that Young and Rogers might have
been helped by some other inmates
of death row.
Confined on the row are 17 con
demned men and seven other pris
oners held in solitary confinement
for disciplinary reasons. Rogers has
an appeal pending from his convic
tion in Durham county. If he wins
his appeal, Young and Bryant will
be available, if desired, to appear
in any criminal action which be
brought against him from Cheser’s
killing.
Young and Bryant also would be
available as witnesses if investiga
tion finally involved any other in
mate of the row—particularly any
one of the seven not already under
sentence of death.
FARTH SHOCK FELT.
Tegucigalpa, Honduras, Dec. 30.
(AP) —A three minute earth shock
which caused no great material
damage was reported today at the
town of Colomoncagua in the south
western part of Honduras. The
shock was described as unusually
severe for that section.