Henderson daily dispatch., September 05, 1935, Image 1

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HENDERSON
GATEWAY to
central
CAROLINA
twenty-second year
LIST PASSENGERS TAKEN OFF UNER DIXIE
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Hancock Calls For Government Move To Lift Tobacco Prices
AVERAGE PRICE IS
UNJUSTIFIABLY LOW,
CONGRESSMAN SAYS
Tells Secretary Wallace To
Use Powers Congress
Gave Him To Aid
The Farmers
PRODUCTION COSTS
DECLARED LARGER
Tells Agriculture Head Un
less Something Is Done
There Will Be No Increas
ed Purchasing Power In
North Carolina This Year
Under the Farm Program
Washington. Sept. 5.—(AP)— Re
presentative Frank W. Hancock, of
Oxford, N. C.. today protested to Sec.
retary of Agriculture Wallace what he
described as “unjustifiably” low av
erage prices for flue-cured tobacco on
North Carolina markets.
In a telegram sent the secretary
from Winston-Salem and made public
at the representative's offices here,
Hancock said growers were looking to
Wallace “for protection by proper ex
ercise of power Congress gave you.”
He urged that the matter be placed
before J. B. Hutson, the AAA tobacco
chief.
Latest figures available at the agri
culture department showed an aver
age price this season for flue-cured
tobacco of around 20 cents a pound.
The telegram follows:
.‘Average tobacco prices in my judg
ment are unjustifiably below level
what egneral conditions m trade and
industry warrant. Reasonably certain
that poundage will not come up to
(Continued on Page Five.)
20 Arrests
In Textile
Riot Case
Anderson. S. C.. Sept. 5 (AP) —(P'aul
H. Ross, president of the Pelzer local,
Union, was lodged in the county jail
here along with two other union
members on charges of rioting, con
spiracy and assault and battery with
intent to kill as a round-up of alleged
participants in Monday’s fatal riots in
the Pelzer textile community was con
tinued.
Today’s arrests brought the total
to 20. Nineteen mn were held today,
while one of the group was free un
der 52.000 bond.
Sheriff W. A Clamp said he held
ten more warrants to be served in con
section with the riots.
File Blanket
Applications
In The WPA
Coan To Seek $53,-
000,000 for Projects
I o Be Conducted in
1 his State
Baleigh, Sept. s.—(AP)—The North
CaiolinaL Works Progress Adminis
h'ation will file a “blanket” applica
*K;n with Washington authqirities to
makf the State’s total request for
binds reach at least $53,000,000 George
Loan Jr., administrator, said.
T he $53,000,000 will include some
rlDng like $34,500,000 in individual ap
plications already approved by the
late offices and forwards to Wash
ington.
lr. Coan said he expected the first
u "A work under his office to start
fl'xt week in Concord and Shelby,
"’here between 300 and 400 persons
y.iil he employed on projects costing
•533,000. These are the only projects
In the State for which money has
' ir '“ n allocated thus far.
1 omorrow is the last day for dis
!|int applications to ho submitted to
,h <- State office.
TirttiU'rsmt iUiUu Bisxratrfr
ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OP NORTH CAROLINA AND VIRGINIA.
SERVICE) OF
THE) ASSOCIATED PRISES.
Trades Unions May Move
To Block War In Africa
Liquor Cases In
S. C. Thrown Out
Columbia, S. C., Sept. 5 (AP)The
State Supreme Court set a prece
dent for the dismissal of prosecu
tions pending under the repealed
State dry law today by reversing a
conviction of Grady Spencer in the
Cherokee Superior Court on liquor
law violations.
Court officials estimated that
the decision would result in the
dropping of several hundred old
charges over the State.
fOPUSHWORKOir
GRADECROSSINGS
Program Separated From
Highway Construction to
Obtain More Speed
Daily Dispatch Bareai,
In the Sir Walter Hotel.
BY J C. nASKERVILL.
Raleigh. Sept. s.— The WO?A-Relief
highway construction program and
the grade crossing elimination pro
gram have been eitirely separated in
to two distinct programs as the re
sult of r.ow instructions and regula
tions just received from Washington,
according to Chief Highway Engineer
W. Vance Baise, in charge of these
projects for the State Highway and
Public Works Commission. Regula
tions have also been changed some
what, especially as they apply to the
grade crossing elimination program.
Approximately $4,720,000 has already
(Continued on Page Five.l
MILLS ARE CLOSED
AT BENNETTSVILLE
Bennettsville, S. C., Sept. 5 (AP)
The Marlboro Cotton Mills were
closed today for an indefinite pe
riod, following what officials term
ed dissatisfaction on the part of
mill workers when the mill decid
ed to run one shift instead of
three.
Officials said the mill had been
running three shifts and under
this plan workers had been mak
ing little money. _
Luxurious Liner Dixie, Stranded Off Florida, May Be Total Wreck
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, View* of the Morgan liner Dixie, newest ship «f the ,Mne, which may be a total wreck after pounding on a reef off the Florida ooast during a hurricane. Below are views of
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HENDERSON, N. C. THURSDAY AFTERNOON, SEPTEMBER 5, 1935
Relation of Italy and Ethio
pia in League of Nations
Causing Worries at
Geneva
ITALY IS ON VERGE
OF QUITTING SOON
Spokesman at Rome Says
Mussolini Will Go on With
Program in Africa Regard
less of What League Does;
Ethiopia Pins Faith iini
Pope’s Efforts
(By the Associated Press.)
Indications that the International
Federation of Trades Unions, through
its executive cofmittee, might take
up the possibility of blocking an Italo-
Ethiopian war were seen at Geneva
today.
Just what the relationship of Italy
and Ethiopia may be in the League
of Nations caused anxiety in Geneva.
Italy has indicated that she will not
remain in the League on a .basis of
equal footing with Ethiopia, whom
she accuses of being outside the pale
of civilization. The Ethiopians, on the
other hand, accused Italy of unwill
ingness to follow civilized procedure.
A spokesman in Rome said Mus
solini would carry through his pro
gram in East Africa “with the Lea
gue, without the League or against
the League.”
Emperor Haile Selassie was regard,
ed as hopeful that Pope Pius would
(Continued on Page Two.)
U. S. Exports
With Russia •
Over Double
Washington, Sept. 5 (AP) —United
States exports to Soviet Russia were
shown by Commerce Repartment fig
ures today to have more than doubled
in July over June this year, and to
have almost quadrupled over July,
1934.
The new figures drew special in
terest, her because of the recent ex-
of notes between the United
States and the Soviet government
(Continued on Page Five.)
Dixie’s Master
BPPi |.
Fjgjjg
This is Captain Einar William
Sundstrom, master of the coastwise
liner Dixie which went aground off
the Florida keys with 415 persons
aboard while enroute from New
Orleans to New York.
ICentral Press)
SSI
State School Commission
Calls on Highway Com
mission to Act Now
Dally Dispatch Barca*,
In the Sir Walter Hotel,
BT J. O. nASKEn^II.P,.
Raleigh, Sept. 5. —The State School
Commission may tell the State High
way Commission what it thinks of it
following its session here today and
will urge the highway department to
do something about the many miles
of secondary and county roads over
which school buses should operate,
but over which it is now impossible
for them to operate, it was learned
from an authoritative source this aft
ernoon.
The school commission has just
completed a survey of the school bus
(Continued on Page Five.)
WEATHER
FOR NORTH CAROLINA.
Rain tonight and probably in
east portion Friday morning; gen
erally fair in west portion Friday;
cooler in the interior tonight and
in the extreme east portion Fri
l day,
Estimates Os Deaths In
Florida Storm Moved Up
Governor’s Representative
In Stricken Region Says
Final Count May Be
Near 1,000
WORDS INADEQUATE
TO RELATE HORROR
Injured Moved Out First As
Governor Starts On In
spection of Devastated Dis
trict; Meanwhile, Hurri
cane Moves North Through
Georgia
Miami, Fla., Sept. s.—(AP) —Relief
officials today estimated that the
tlropical hurricane, sweaping terror
and destruction across t> e Florida
keys left in its wake a death of from
200 to 500, and it may reach 1,000.
W. P Mooty advised his chief, Gov
ernor Dave Scholtz, from the center
of the storm area, that fatalities msftr
reach 1,000. Other sources havep lac
ed the number at from 200 to 500, but
the exact figure will probably not be
known until communication has been
re-established with many marooned
points.
“Wlords cannot describe the horri.
ble disaster,” Mooty said in a tele
gram to the governor.
Every one as far south as Carabee
(Continued on Page Five.)
MORGAN INTERESTS
TO START CONCERN
New York, Sept. s.—(AP)—lt was
reliably reported in Wall Street today
that interests identified with J. P.
Morgan and Company would shortly
announce the formation of a concern
to deal in securities.
VETERANS REFUSE TO
DROP THEIR REUNION
Amarillo, Texas, Sept, 5. —(AP)
Age-wearied war veterans of
the Old South straightened and
cheered today the declaration,
“We will meet as long as there
are three of us left.”
Gteneiral Rice A. Pierce, of
Union City, Ten., commander-in.
chief of the United Confederate
Veterans, made t&-» statement in
response to assertions that no
further effort be made to bring
the veterans together in annual
reunion,
FUBLISHBD BVBRY AFTERNOON
IXCHPT BUNDAT.
Tornado Strikes
Into So. Carolina
Florence, S. C., Sept. 5 (AP) —A
tornado ripped across Florence
county about two miles north of
here early today, cutting a swath
200 yards wide and about two miles
long.
The only dwelling in the path
was the home of A. D. Revls, and
it came through the blow without
serious damage.
PASSENGERS TAKEN
FROM BRITISH SHIP
736 Persons Removed From
Vessel in Collisioin Off
Island Coast
London, Sept. 5 (AP) —The 736 pas
sengers of the British S. S. Doric were
taken aboard two other British liners
today after their ship collided in the
cold fog before dawn with the French
S. S. Formigny.
Both ships turned toward land un
der their, own steam.
The passengers, who were on their
way home from a pleasure cruise in
the Mediterranean, told how the
ship’s dance orchestra and a girl
pianist who banged out “Tipperary”
cheered them in the dismal hours be
tween the time the collision awaken
ed them and their departure in life
boats.
The crash came about 3 a. m. The
passengers quit their cabins, hut there
was no panic. Most of them gath_
ered in the main salon and sang as
the girl played songs they all knew.
The dance orchestra alternated with
her in the entertainment.
CHARLESTON FEELS
HURRICANE EFFECT
Charleston, S. C., Sept. S.—(AP)
—A southeast storm with heavy
rains battered Charleston today as
the city felt the effects of the
trof(ical hurricane whSc.h swept
up out of Florida. There was lit
tle damage except to communica
tions lines.
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TODAY
FIVE CENTS COPY
TALES OF COURAGE
BROUGHT ASHORE BY
HUNDREDS RESCUED
Captain Sundstrum, Master
of Stranded Morgan
Liner, and Skeleton
Crew, Remain
FINAL TRANSFERS
WITHOUT INCIDENT
Coast Guard Cutters Advis
ed by Master of Ship They
Are No Longer Needed, as
Storm Blows Itself Out and
Seas Return to Calm Off
Florida Coast
Miami, Fla., Sept. 5. —(AP)—(Swiftly
and uneventfully, the last group of
passengers was removed today from
the stranded and battered liner Dixie,
their perilous prison since last Mon
day night.
In less than three hours, the last
of the 143 marooned passengers was
transferred.
The lifeboats shuttled over placid
waters, the howling hurricane that
crippled the Dixie and ground her
against the talons of French reef,
death trap of the Florida keys, hav
ing spent its force.
Aboard the helpless Dixie, still
pinioned to the reef, remained Cap
tain E. D. Sundstrom and a skeleton
crew. Captain Sundstrom, who thinks
there has been no decadence among
seafaring men—that masters of mod
ern vessels are just as cool and ef
(Continued on Page Five.)
400 PASSENGERS ON
STEAMER TAKEN OFF
Portsmouth, England, Sept. 5. —
(AP) The Southern Railway
steamer Whippingham signalled
distress today seven miles off the
Needles, the three-pointed rock In
the English channel west of the
Isle of Wright.
Company officials said other
steamers had reached the steamer
promptly and that the 400 passen
gers aboard had been transferred
to them.
Hurricane
Inquiry Is
To B e Had
Hyde Park, N. Y., Sept. 5.—(AP)—
President Roosevelt today directed
immediate aid to the Florida hurri
cane district and for an investigation
as to why proper precautions were
not made to protect the veterans
work camps in the disaster region.
IMr. Roosevelt outlined three spe
cific points for the Federal leaders to
perform: ,
First, to see that the injured vet
erans are promptly hospitalzed; seo
(Continued on Page Five.)
Heavy Rains
In Carolinas
Area Coming
Coastal Sections Pre
pare for Backwash
of Hurricane; Winds
Not Serious
Charlotte, Sept. s.—(AP) —Weather
Bureau officials here said the Caro
linas could expect rain today and to
morrow in the interior and rains and
high winds on the coast as the tropi
cal hurricane which swept upward
from Florida seemed to be blowing
itself out ot sea again through Geor
gia.
(Meteorologists added they saw no
reason for more than ordinary pre_
cautions, and that, while winds were
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