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HENDERSON’S
POPULATION
13,873
IWENTY-SIXTH year
BfiITMH DEMIES LOAN DEAL WITH GERMANY
Georgia Belt
Opens Sales
On Tuesday
Warehouses Already
Clogged With Leaf;
Farmers Hope For
Good Prices and Say
Yield Is Over-Esti
mated.
Tilton, Ga., July 22.—(AP) —
Bright leaf tobacco growers of
Georgia Florida and Alabama
packed warehouses with iheir 1939
crop today in preparation for the
first auctions next Tuesday.
At 15 Georgia sales centers and
the two in Florida, trucks, wagons,
passenger cars and an occasional
buggy were parked for the long
wait tor opening day sales to clear
a space for additional leaf.
Despite a Department of Agricul
ture forecast of 1,022,995,000 pounds,
compared with last season’s 785,000,-
000 pounds, growers hoped for
another 20-cent average price, and
in some instances questioned ac
curacy of the estimate on the ground
that average acreage production will
be lower this year.
Some growers cited the rainy
weather in the growing season, and
indicated they believed there would
be no surplus of high quality leaf
as a res Lilt.
Carnivals, medicine men, ped
dlers and pitched men of all types
streamed into the belt this week,
and most market towns announced
employment of extra policemen to
protect growers from crooks. Up
wards of 35,000 growers will sell in
the Georgia-Florida markets. Last
year they received more than $20,-
000,000.
Vance ABC
Men Voted
State Posts
Wrightsville Beach, July 22. —
(AP) —Electing R. L. Corbett, of
Edgecombe county, president for the
ensuing year, members of the North
Carolina Association of ABC Boards
closed their fifth annual conven
tion here today.
George A. Rose, of Vance county,
was elected vice-president, and R.
G. S. Davis, of Vance county, was
re-appointed secretary.
The association will hold its
next monthly meeting at Manteo,
July 25, but the date and place of
the 1940 convention were not de
termined.
Heavy Rains
Will Flood
N. C. Rivers
Five Dead and Minor
Damage to Highways
And Property Laid to
Storms of Pass Few
Days.
Raleigh, July 22.—(AP)— Heavy
-ins wnich Claimed five lives and
caused minor damage to highways
and property have brought the
threat of floods to the Goldsboro
section, H. E. Kichline, director of
the aleigh Weather Bureau, reported
'’day. AH eastern North Caro
lina rivers are rising, he said, with
an jverflow developing in the Neuse
and its tributaries in Wayne and
Johnston counties. A two-foot flood
:| t Goldsboro was expected early
next week.
The flood in the Little river,
which flows into the Neuse near
Goldsboro, was said to be “rather
heavy.” Other rivers remained in
their banks.
i'he rain was general throughout
’no State, but heaviest on and near
the coast. During the 24 hours
which ended at 7:30 o’clock this
morning, Wilmington had five
mches of rain, Hatteras two inches,
and Norfolk, Va., one and a fourth
inches, Kichline reported.
Highway Department employees
fa id there had been little serious
damage to roads. They added, how
h' nr. the full effects of the rain
'ould npt be known for several
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Joseph Bradley (arrow), in New York. Two hundred friends feted him
at the party, and Bradley was the merriest there. Doctors say he will soon
die of a malignant cancer, for which there is no cure.
(Central Press)
Roads, Schools And
Farm Tenancy Loom
As 1940 N. C. Issues
Maxwell Embraces
Highway Spending,
Horton Offers Educa
tion and Broughton
Leans T o Tenant
Farmer; Cooper May
Fight Administration.
Daily Dispatch "Bureau,
In the Sir Waiter Hotel.
BY LYNN NISBET.
Raleigh, July 22.—Two other pros
pective candidates for'the Democratic
nomination for governor next sum
mer have enunciated principles upon
which it is evident they will wage
primary campaigns. Some days ago
Allen J. Maxwell promulgated a
scheme for spending an additional
fifty million dollars on highways
during the next four years without
additional tax levies.
Yesterday, speaking to a group of
Civitans in Charlotte, Lieut. Gov. W.
P. Horton put great emphasis upon
the statement that “the cause of pub
lic education must not lag behind
economic growth of the State.” The
context of the Horton talk indicates
clearly that he proposes to give
schools a major place in his per
sonal platform.
In private conversation, but with
permission to be quoted “in general,”
though not specifically, J. M. Brough
ton, Raleigh attorney, announced
that long-time experience with and
interest in tenant farmers leads him
to think that one of the greatest
needs of the present is for the State
to lend more encouragement and di
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N. C./ Trucker
Races Grade,
Brakes Gone
Uniontown, Pa., July 22.—(AP)-
Piloting a heavily loaded truck
without brakes down a three-mile
mountain grade at a speed ranging
up to 85 miles an hour left 28-year
old Benjamin Bermelson, breathless,
but he came through it ail without
mishap.
A continuous stream of tratlic
moved along the west side of nearby
Mount Summitt last night as the
Clinton, N. C., driver headed down
with his seven-ton truck carrying a
load of peppers.
After going about half a mile,
Bermelson said a sudden explosion
occurred in the engine, “and the
crank case and transmission let go.
His vacuum brakes were useless.
The truck plunged wildly down
the steep mountain highway. Robert
J. Tanner, 29, also of Clinton, leaped
with the vehicle reached the speed
of 60 miles an hour, but Bermelson
clung to the wheel, bearing: down
on the horn as he steered from
one side to the other through
traffic.
Luckily, there were nc bad
curves and he finally reached the
oottom of the grade without losing
a pepper. ;
ONLY DAILY
State’s REA
Begins Year
In Optimism
Daily Dispatch Bureau,
In the Sir Walter Hotel.
Raleigh, July 22.—Dudley Bagley,
named this week for another four
year term as head of the State Rural
Electrification Authority, points with
pride and views without alarm as he
discusses the record and prospects of
his agency. Established by North
Carolina law a year before the New
Deal REA was set up in Washington,
the State authority has sponsored de
velopment of rural electrification
both by utility companies and local
cooperatives to the point where this
State ranks near the top.
Much of the pioneering has been
done. The problem now is one of ex
tension and of making provision for
permanent operation of some units
which may have been unwisely pro
jected. There are several cooperative
units in the State which already
show signs of being unprofitable and
or facing eventual liquidation. One
of the main objectives of the State
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10 Polish Youths
Taken In Custody
By Danzig Police
Free City of Danzig, July 22.
—(AP) —Danzig authorities as
serted today that ten Polish
youths armed with pistols were
taken prisoner last night when
they invaded free city territory
along the western border.
Officials of the Nazified free
city government said that angry
crowd of Danzig citizens gath
ered about the youthful prison
ers in the village of Ochsendorf,
shouting threats and making
menacing gestures.
Serious disorders were avert
ed and the captives taken to
jail at an undisclosed location.
Authorities said the prisoners
belonged to the Polish Academic
Legion, a semi-military or
ganization of students. The
young men asserted they had
been vacationing at a camp
near the frontier and had
crossed the border unwittingly.
NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OFNORTHCAROLINA AND VIRGINIA
HENDERSON, N. C., SATURDAY AFTERNOON, JULY 22,1939
Farley to Confer
With the ‘Chief’
New York, July 22.—(AP) —
Postmaster General James A. Far
ley packed his bags today for a
week-end visit with President
Roosevelt, the man for whose
election and re-election he work
ed tirelessly in 1932 and 1936.
Prior to his departure tomorrow
for Hyde Park, Farley declined
to disclose his own feeling toward
a third term for Mr. Roosevelt.
RFC Making
Plenty Os
Poor Loans
Jesse Jones Admits
Mistakes; Washing
ton Hears Peace For
25 Years Has Been
Arranged in Europe
Under Agreement.
Washington, July 22. (AP)
Jesse Jones, the Federal loan admin
istrator, has advised the Senate
Banking Committee that the Recon
struction Finance Corporation is go
ing to have plenty of losses on the
loans it already has made to busi
ness.
An unrevised record of Jones’ tes
timony qn President Roosevelt’s new
lending bill was circulated among
committee members today. The print
ed text showed the former RFC
chairman was asked by Senator
Townsend, Republican, Delaware,
whether the lending agency has made
all business loans which “were in
any way eligible”.
“We think we have,” Jones an
swered. “We are not infallible. We
make plenty of mistakes and plenty
of bad loans. We will have a very
substantial percentage of losses on
our business loans.”
Other developments:
Peace Pact Rumored.
Secretary Hull said the State De
partment had received no informa
tion through official channels to the
effect that five European powers
were agreed tentatively upon a pact
designed to settle their major pro
blems and preserve peace at least 25
years.
The Philadelphia Inquirer publish
ed a story today from its Washing
(Continued on Page Five)
A. N. C. Lease
Is Unopposed
Washington, July 22.—(AP)—In
terstate Commerce Commission of
ficials said today no opposition de
an application by the Atlantic &
an apprication by the Atlantic &
East Carolina Railway company to
lease the properties of the Atlantic
& North Carolina Railroad Company.
The Beaufort & Morehead Rail
road had intervened, but officials
said a spokesman for that company
reported a “satisfactory arrange
ment” had been made with the At
lantic and East Carolina, and that
it would make no further representa
tions.
It was not indicated how soon
Examiner J. S. Richard, who con
ducted the hearing, would issue his
report. •
CONCORD MAN NOW
BELIEVED SUICIDE
Concord, July 22.—(AP) —Ernest
Thomas, 45-year-old produce ped
dler, died at his'home here today of
what Coroner N. J. Mitchell said
was a dose of poison. Mitchell said
he was informed Thomas had been
despondent, and had told a friend
yesterday he had prepared the
dose. He is survived by his widow.
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Rev. Gerould Goldner
British troops and British fliers
took to the barren hill country be
tween Bethlehem and the Dead Sea
in search for the Rev. Gerould Gold
ner, *29, young American pastor
from Cleveland, Ohio, held for ran
som by Arab bandits. The bandits
demanded $5,000 for his release, ac
cording to Goldner’s father, .who
was also abdiictqd but released.
Delivered Blow to New Deal
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Representative John J. Dempsey (left), of New Mexico, and Senator
Carl A. Hatch (right), of New Mexico, led the fight which resulted in
passage by the House of the Hatch bill, forbidding all federal employes,
including those on relief, from engaging in any political activity. The
President and other policy-making officials of the government are excepted.
(Central Press)
Japs Victorious In
Terms With Britain
On Far East Crisis
Form and Issues of Negotiations Agreed on at
Tokyo and Parleys Will Begin Next Week; But
London Has Not Replied Yet.
London, July 22.—(AP) —
The British Foreign Office
spokesman said today that To
kyo reports concerning Britain’s
attitude in negotiations with Ja
pan on China policies should be
accepted with caution.
Dispatches said Japanese of
ficials hailed as a “great vic
tory” results of a week of nego
tiations between British Am
bassador Sir Robert Craigie and
Foreign Minister Arita.
The spokesman said no re
port had been received from Sir
Robert concerning his talk
yesterday with Arita. He said
Prime Minister Chamberlain
probably would make a state
ment on the British-Japanese
negotiations in the House of
Aged Father
Os Kidnaped
Man Very 111
Jerusalem, July 22.—(AP) —The
elderly father of kidnaped Rev. G.
R. Goldner, of Mokoriore, Ohio, col
lapsed today because of worry and
strain just as ne was preparing to
set out on a personal search for the
kidnap band.
Physicians said they did not re
gard his condition as critical, but
that he was “bowed down with
worry.’
The father, Dr. Jacob Goldner, of
Cleveland, Ohio, also a pastor, had
declared he would seek out the lair
of the abductors himself to negotiate
for release of’ his son, unless some
hopeful development came this
morning.
Doctors said the 67-year-old pas
tor needed rest and quiet. He was
exhausted from loss of sleep and
the strain of attempts to obtain his
son’s freedom.
“I would make a special fatherly
appeal to them to accept 200 pounds
(about $940) for the life of my boy,”
he had said in explaining his in
tention to seek out the band with
the aid of two donkey boys and
an interpreter.
Noon passed without any news.
Then physicians insisted that Gold
ner take to his bed.
lOsudhsA
FOR NORTH CAROLINA.
Partly cloudy, slightly warmer
in central portion tonight; Sun
day fair, warmer in interior and
on extreme northeast coast.
WEEKLY WEATHER. _____
South Atlantic States: Local
showers in Florida most of week;
period of scattered showers else
where Monday and Tuesday ana
again toward end of week; tem
peratures near normal.
PUBLISHED EVERY AFTERNOON
EXCEPT SUNDAY.
Commons early next week, and
meanwhile Britain was in close
contact with the United States
on all For Eastern questions, in
cluding Chinese currency.
Tokyo, July 22.—(AP)—Agree
ment between British and Japan
ese representatives on the form and
issues of negotiations over conflict
ing China policies was announced
today, and Japanese officials hailed
it as a “great victory.”
The cabinet approved the agree
-ment after receiving a report from
Foreign Minister Arita, in which he
was quoted authoritatively as de
claring “Britain has accepted all
Japanese proposals” on subject mat
(Continued on Page Five)
American Is
Shot Dead
At Shanghai
Shanghai, July 22.—(AP) — A. F.
Wilson, formerly of Philadelphia,
and a Chinese were killed tonight
in an attack on two Chinese
language newspapers, one of which
is American-owned.
Wilson, 47-year-old case owuer,
known as “Tug”, was shot five
times when he tried to seize one
of the terrorists. He died soon af
ter being taken to a hospital. Nine
persons were ( wounded.
Both the newspapers involved
have been constant supporters of
the Chinese government of Chiang
Kai-Shek. One is the Chinese-
American News, American-owned.
More than 150 shots were fired,
and several hand grenades thrown
as the terrorists, after raiding the
newspaper offices, engaged in a
running battle with police. All the
terrorists were reported to hcive
(Continued on Page Five)
Gambling Czar Os
Pendergast Regime
Under Indictment
Kansas City, July 22.—(AP) — A
federal grand jury today accused
Charles Carollo, branded the gam
bling czar of Democratic Boss Tom
Pendergast’s regime of collecting
$288,969 protection money in four
years.
The same jurors whose indictment
sent Pendergast to prison for income
tax evasion, indicted Carollo on a
similar charge.
They placed the Italian-born
alien’s net income ip the 1935-38 pe
riod at $654,391, and said he cheated
Uncle Sam of $246,659 by false re
turns. Penalties and interest would
hike his debt to the government to
$420,000 if he is convicted.
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Berlin Much
Pleased At
Latest Turn
Germans Say They
Have Not Changed in
Demand for Full Re
turn of Danzig; Lon
don Foreign Office
Calls Reports “Fan
tastic.”
London, July 22—(AP) —The Brit
ish Foreign Office spoke out in
dignantly today about what it called
“fantastic and irresponsible talk” of
an impending broad agreement with
Germany to save European peace. It
denied here were official negotia
tions of any kind.
“All talk of a large loan to Ger
many in return for partial disarma
ment is absolutely unofficial and
purely academic, and moreover, is
harmful, because it may prejudice
the Anglo-Soviet talks,” a foreign of
fice spokesman said.
Talk about a huge international
loan being granted to Germany to
aid the Reich’s domestic economy and
settle European tension had center
ed about the visit hej:e of German
Trade Ambassador Wohlthat. He con
ferred recently with Sir Horace Wil
son, permanent secretary to the
treasury.
Dr. Wohlthat returned to Berlin
today, and denied having conducted
any negotiations for a general loan
for Germany.
A scheme to grant Germany a loan
of one billion pounds ($4,680,000,-
000), and internationalize colonies in
(Continued on Page Four)
A. C. L. SURGEON OF
30 YEARS IS DEAD
Timmonsville, S. C., July 22.
(AP) —Dr. John Cantzon Foster, 63,
of Tampa, Fla., died today at the
home of his daughter, Mrs. D. O.
Holman, where he and Mrs. Foster
were visiting. He had been in ill
health for several years. He had
practiced medicine at Lake City and
Tampa, Fla. He had served the At
lantic Coast Line as surgeon for 30
years.
Seaboard To
Operate New
Truck Lines
Washington, July 22.—(AP) —The
Seaboard Air Line Railway received
authority today from the Interstate
Commerce Commission to parallel its
lines in Virginia, North Carolina,
South Carolina, Georgia and Florida
with truck routes.
Receivers of the road will substi
tute truck service for the existing
less-than-carload service of the
railway between stations on its lines.
While the plan calls for no reduc
tion in the number of trains now
being operated, the applicants said
that stops at other than set-out
points will be greatly reduced,' and
that such stops will be eliminated in
many instances.
“In a number of cases existing
train schedules will be revised to
permit train movements at night,
thus affording delivery of less-than
carload shipments early in the day,”
the I. C. C. commented in its deci
sion.
Baptists To
Support Free
Worship Idea
Atlanta, Ga., July 22.—(AP) —
Opening a seven-day world meeting,
Baptists of 60 nations prepared today
to throw the full weight of their in
fluence against religious intolerance,
racial persecutions and war.
These questions were topmost in
the discussions of thousands of mes
sengers from national and regional
organizations as they swung into the
sixth congress of the Baptist World
Alliance.
Their sentiment for worldwide re
ligious freedom will find expression
in a pronouncement the executive
committee arrangel to present to the
congress.
Declarations will be aimed speci
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