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Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1936-10-06
Special Venires Drawn
For Two Homicide Cases
Before Superior Court
Tuck Wheeler Case Set for Afternoon and Ruby Wilder
For Wednesday; Minor asses Are Tried During
Monday Afternoon nd Forenoon Today

When Vance Superior Court re-
convened after the noon recess
this afternoon, the task of draw
ing a jury for trial of Tuck
Wheeler, accused cf murder in
the Staying of Melvin Henle", vas
started. A special ve,lire Of fifty
men was drawn by the county
commissioners Monday from
which to pick the jury. 1t was ex-
pected that a large part of the
afternoon session would be re-
Quired for selection of the jury.
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1936-10-06
Record for Season and
Highest Since 1884 Crop
Scored in Offerings
on Local Floors
MARKET is BLOCKED
FOR THE THIRD DAY
Buyers Pay Out STAG, 287.62
for Weed Monday, With
Growers Greatly Pleased at
Averages Made; Hender-
son Continues One of
States Highest Markets

More than half a million pounds of
tobacco sold here Monday for APP
proximately 80 cents a pound for the
highest average for any day this sea-
son or since the Eigi peaks of the
1884 auction year, and growers were
highly pleased with the Iiices paid
item
]. r. McDuffie, sales supervisor,
announced tne official figures as be-
ing 5O3,OO4 pounds, bringing $146,-
2S7.72 for an average of $2908 per
hundred.
While offerings on the floors were
not entirely cleared, and will not be
today, Mr.. McDuffie said there would
be ample floor space for all offerings
brought in by growers tomorrow. The
local market continues to be one of
the highest anywhere in the State,
and is drawing tobacco from great
distances because of the high prices
being paid.
Mondays sales and prices lifted the
local market close to the 100000
pound figure for the season to date
and an average well up toward the
27-cent level. Good tobacco is selling
at a premium, and the quality in gen
eral is we'll over that for last year in
this territory.
Two sets of buyers are working at
fast PAGES daily to furnish accom-
modations to the farmers in handling
their offerings as rapidly as posi-
BILE, and growers are so well pleased
with the service and the prices OBJ
tanned here that they are bringing
their weed in on additional sales on
the Henderson floors.
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1936-10-06
CAN YOU ANSWER
THESE QUESTIONS?
See Page Four

l. Between which two of the Great
Lakes is Lake Huron?
2. In what part of the world is the
disease known as beriberi preva .
lent?
3. In which sea is the island of Tene-
dos?
Who was Harriet Martineau?
5. What is a cherub?
6. Where is Fordham University?
Z. What is maximite?
8. Who was the father of Mary I.
queen of England, popularity known
as Bloody Queen Mary?"
8. Where is Mt. Etna?
10. What event is called The NATIVITY?
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1936-10-06

The commissioners authorized tb0
turning over of the books to tbO
sheriff by the county accountant with
out a further immediate meeting hv
them for that purpose. The tax list f.
be collected, including payments al
ready made, amounts to $20O,OOO in
round figures.
At it's meeting Monday the board
drew two special venires from which
to select jurors for two murder cases
to be tried at this term of court
Back taxes in the sum of $6.O2 wera
reported collected by r. l. Burroughs
and remittance was made for the q.
mount, less the commission allowed
The board also granted beer licen-
ses to the Gateway Service Station
and the new LXL Cafe
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1936-10-06
WESTER WAS NAMED
HEAD OF SOCIETY

AL. B. Wester, Jr., son of Mr.. and
Mrs. AL. B. Wester, of this city stu
dent at Mars Hill College, Mars Hill,
was recently elected president Of the
Euthalian Literary Society of that
college. Mr.. Wester, who won out
against strong competition, is making
a fine scholastic record as well as {,
fine record in various activities. The
office held by Mr.. Wester is one of
the highest that can be bestowed on
a student at Mars Hill.
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1936-10-06
Over 100000 Lbs. Leaf
Sold For $29.08 Price
In Henderson On Monday
Jail Population
Sets New Record

Monthly Jail days served by pris-
Oners in Vance cOunty's Jail set a
new all-time high record in Sep
TENDER at 1886, and at the end of
the month the unusually large
number of rs prisoners were held
in the Jail, either doing time or
awaiting trial, JailOr w. S. Strange
reported to the Vance Board of
County Commissioners at their
monthly meeting for October held
Monday. The total Jail days was
nearly double that for most recent
months.
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1936-10-06
MINOR WRECK WAS
TO NORTH OF CITY

A minor wreck occurred this morn
ing on the Middleburg highway about
five miles north IF the city with slight
injuries being sustained by one man,
it was stated today. The injured per-
sons name was not learned
Both cars were damaged to some
extent in the crash, it was stated.
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1936-10-06

Two special venires for trial of two
murder cases in Vance Superior Court
now in session, were ordered by
Judge w. C. Harris and the total of
100 men had been summoned, so far
as they could be found, ready for SER
vice, some of them today and others
tomorrow.
Trial was set for this afternoon for
the charge against Tuck Wheeler of
Staying Melvin Henley, alias Monk
Currin, at South Henderson early in
the summer. Ruby Wilder Ellington
will go on trial. according to present
announced plans, tomorrow morning
or afternoon for the fatal shooting of
her husband in a North Henderson
cafe one night several months ago.
The two are the outstanding cases
pending in this term of superior court
A number of minor cases were tried
and cleared from the docket Monday
afternoon and during the forenoon
today, most of them coming up from
the recorders court or the police
court on appeal or binding over. They
included the possession of liquor
drinking and the like.
Lonnie Clark, charged with posses
sion of liquor, was acquitted.
Claude Bentley, white man, charg-
ed with possessing liquor for sale,
was up on appeal from a lower court
sentence of four months in jail or a
fine of $10O, asked that he be allowed
to comply with the judgment, and
this was granted, on payment of costs
in Superior court.
Daniel Ayscue, white, charged with
being drunk, also up on appeal from
a lower court was fined SIS and costs
or the option of 80 days in jail
Haywood Evans and William Cand-
Ter, charged with breaking into the
residence of T. B. Rose, Jr., were al
lowed to enter pleaG of forcible tres
pass, and prayer for judgment was
continued for two years, the boys to
report on good behavior to Mrs. E. r.
Austin, welfare superintendent.
William Norvell, white, charged
with drunken driving, and convicted
in police court, was up on appeal, and
entered guilty plea, being given IL
months on the roads, or the payment
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1936-10-06
Lions Will Meet

Lions will meet Wednesday evening
at Z o'clock at Hill Top tea room in
regular weekly session. An interest
ing program has been planned.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1936-08-07
REPORT FARM
TAX BILL SMl LEST
IN SIXTEEN YEARS

The farm real estate tax bill in
1885 was 5,OOO,O 900, the smallest
in sixteen years, the Bureau of
Agricultural Economics reported
today. The total compares with a
peak of $67,0O0,0OO in 1929, with
$393,000,000 in 1919, and with
$218,OOO,OOO in 1913.
Farm taxes increased annually
with few exceptions for nearly
forty years-from 1890 through
1929, when the average tax per
acre was about six times that in
1890. This longtime upward trend
was broken during the depression.
Last year the tax was about three
and one half times that in 1890.
DR.. Eric Englund, Assistant Chief
Of the Bureau, said that the down
ward trend-repreSenting an ad-
justment to lower levels of farm
income-has been quite general
throughout the nation, with great
er reductions in some parts of the
country than in others.
"The reduction has been made
possible in part by cutting school
budgets, lowering teachers salar-
les, reducing the length of school
terms, and in some instances by
closing schools altogether" DR..
Englund said. "Other reductions
in expenditures also have resulted
in the curtailment in many desir-
able public services in 1slral
areas"
He said that the downtrend since
1929 has probably hit its low point
He expects little change during
the next year or two, and then an
upswing should farm income con-
tlnue to rise.
The Bureau of Agricultural
Economics recently completed tab
ulations on farm real estate taxes
per acre for the years 1890 to 1880
for 1913 representative counties in
% states, based on information
obtained from county tax records
as part of a w. P. A. project ad-
by the bureau.
In 1890 the tax per acre for the
country as a whole averaged about |
10 cents. By 1900 the tax was UP to
IL cents an acre, by 1910 it was 18 |
cents, by 1920 it was 80 cents, and |
by 1929 it was SO cents-an all |
lime peak. Taxes then fell sharply |
breaking the longtime upswing |
and by 1884 averaged 81 cents !
IN acre. Preliminary estimates in
ilcate an average rate Of about 81
cents in 1885 also.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1936-08-07
PORTABLE GALLOWS
TO BE USED IN
ROSEBUD COUNTY

SIDNEY, Aug. 4.-Sheriff All
Papne said today a portable gal
lows, brought from Rosebud coun-
ty, will be set up this week for
the execution Aug. 10 of Pedro
Casaras.
The 45-year-old beet field work
er was convicted Of murder for the
killing of Pedro Gonzales, another
beet field worker, and was sentenc-
ed to be hanged. Cararas is being
held in the Custer county Jail at
Miles City.
Gonzales was a son-in-law of
Casaras and testimony at the nnl1r-
der trial brought out that the men
had been unfriendlv since Coma
les testified against Casaras when
the latter was tried on a Statutory
offense.
Gonzalez was found shot 70
death in a beet field. His BODY had
been pierced by three rifle shots
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1936-08-07
ore Black Legi'n Des 5
Exposed In Inves+;o''

More of the deadly work of tn,
fascist organization called TIN
Black Legion, recently exposed op-
Grating in Michigan, has been dis
closed by Dayton Dean, one of it's
confessed participants.
Dean told detectives on July %
that "seven more bodies" of vic
tins of the Black Legion could be
found in swamp near Pinckney,
Michigan.
Deans statement was made as
he pointed out to Assistant Prose-
cutor William Bowling and homi-
eide squad detectives the spot
where Silas Coleman, forty-two
year old Negro bod carrier, ran
screaming to his death from bullet
wounds inflicted by members Of
the Legion. Dean said the Negro
was murdered by Legion members
Gust to see him die-just for
fun"
The Investigators did not indi-
cate whether they accepted Deans
latest story, but they pointed out
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1936-08-07
HOLIDAY ASSOCIATION ACTS
AGAINST WAR AND FASOy

ST. PAUL, Mimi, August g.
The Women's Committee of the
Farmers National Holiday Con-
vention, which met here recently.
introduced a vigorous resolution
scoring the growth of fascist ten
denotes, and also another resolu-
ton to affiliate nationally with the
American League Against War
and FaScism. Both resolutions
were accepted by the convention.
The women said in part:
Already the mOnied interests
are attempting to demOraIize us
and reduce our standard of liv-
ing by depriving us of our
homes; by establishing CCC
camps for our boys; by demand
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1936-08-07
COMERTOWN
PIONEER DIES
IN MINNEAPOLIS

Dan MCGOWAN, well known far
mer of the Comertown country was
In Plentywood, Saturday on bust
ness matters, reported to the Pro-
ducers News that his brother,
James MCGOWAN, formerly a pio-
ner hOmesteader in the Conner
town community, died in Min
neapOlis where he had been making
his home with sister July 18th.
James MCGOWAN homesteaded
near Comertown early in 1890
where he farmed and resided un-
til 1928 when he went to Min.
neapolis where he had been stead
lily employed until the time of his
death. He still owned his home
stead without cent against it at
the time of his death. James Nc
Gowan is also the uncle of D. J.
Mccall and formely of Comertown.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1936-08-07
STOCKMEN TO
HEAR OUTLINE OF
RANGE PROGRAM

Stockmen of Sheridan County
will have an opportunity to learn
about the suggested plan of the
Agricultural Adjustment Admins
tration Range Conservation Pro-
gram at meeting at Miles City.
Wednesday, August IL, beginning
at 10 A. M. according to informa-
ton received by Extension Agent
Peterson.
No definite program will be an
lnounced but practices which might
De applied for a 1886 program and
suggestions for a range program
will be discussed.
After this meeting a definite
program may be developed and If
so, further meetings will be held
to explain the program to sheen
and livestock producers, says, M. ].
Peterson.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1936-08-07
3 DANGER SEEN IN
= SPANISH SITUATION

= ''The danger of foreign I'M
terventiOn to repress cOmmm-
ism i'm Spain may prove even
greater than in the case of
= Soviet Russia" according to
Raymond Leslie Buell., writing
= in the Foreign Policy Bulletin
= of July 31st. Spain is in the
: middle of things and not on
= the edge of the map. The i'm
perialist nations are disturbed
= by the prospect of a leftist
= Government in the peninsula.
+ In this case Great Britain has
= the largest stake in maintain
= ing the status quo in Spain,
and Germany and Italy are in
= tensiveIy interested also in ex-
= tending the influence of Fas-
*'cism.
: Germany and Italy have been
charged with aiding the rebel
cause, and there are also cOun-
ter charges that France and
+ the Soviet Union have been as
= sisting the Spanish Govern
= ment. In the meantime, ac-
cOrding to Buell., Great Brit
ian, France, Italy, Germany
: and the United States have
: sent about 40 warships to
: Spanish waters, "Obstensibly
FfOr the purpose of evacuating
their nationals. Sl1illful di-
plOmacy may be necessary to
prevent the Spanish civil war
) from developing into an inter-
national cOnfIagratiOn." Ger
; many alone is represented by
two pocket battleships and a
destroyer flOtilla.
p y = ~ = - 50
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1936-08-07
300 ILLINOIS JOBLESS
FACE STARVATION

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. Auo
Three hundred men and Ioroa,,
most Of them from Chicago reach slc :
ed here today and announces tbsT,
intended to scamp on the J 49,
step OF the legislature mil o,,, ~ ~
net demands are satisfied
ob Gnarles Rossio of Duquoin, state
s eIiII?;lrlnan of the Illinois workers
@s ,,,snoJIe spokesman for the
aI ntarcners'" said they would he
r"glnen NE by several hundred
eiob+ Inc Inc Ilrst arrivals came in
tbgyno trucks from Chicago and
c count truck loads from Franklin
state. part OF the
b,.o, ne vanguard of the 'marchers,,
drought food and bedding.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1936-08-07

defense against a possible sH,s
from that direction. The sih,sr
of the fascists was declsra /
have become increasingly difHns
after the city of Cordoba. h A
south, fell to the government
In the north the retreathg +
surgents Of the army Of Can
Emilio Mola left behind Ian
quantities Of equipment and NJ
terial after terrific fighting /
mountain passes. DesertiOns I'm
the fasciSts ranks, it was decaa
accompanied the smashing dsia
administered by government for
es composed of army regulars D
vii and assault guards and civil
ian militia. The recruiting Of ri
litia continued with all eega
men instructed to report to spsai
barracks for enrolment. COrnTi
lists, Socialist and Swdicais o.
CARNATIONS gave united support 3
emergency measures for the Oh
servation Of food and maintenaHs
Of public safety.
President Manual ASana 'P'h
on the radio expressing grstfaa
to the Spanish people for Their q
tense of the republic.
"Those who have tried to inilas
Napoleon have observed the ulnl
ing valor of the Spanish P',&
who are descendants Of those v
opposed Napoleon with t1e
courage and herOisn as tod'h
said.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1936-08-07
Friday, August ; \.

with kadna1ppSilDIe9 i've NV ns i.
man and corrobSorsaa9td ,slayibr o, q
Of Of the Il Negroes dGe eattssd hia q y
OF a Black Lep fieS'1 at tbs
III e almost every ds,ooiEIl nldOg y.
should not take IS mot not large =,
on on this" Sheriff. ff long o to c55s%,e g.
ell twelve miles ) officers Al
5aid as s, they discu 1ss@ PiSsSSo. y,
Ia1d i the marsh. 'O0f siSsaa, pl@' |,
Coleman's bodvln oiary Foa Y
ero9s bullets, was ., pierced bym
i aga INST, a pole in It the eo Iaoi, lre
wa was I listed as unso Syo, The ES.
ton ~ County records. 'SO on uTss
The examinationT' ~,
whether Ea1. five accuse val Id dettsns
Harvey Davis i,9 B I1ce I accused !,
nel"; Erwin D. Lea s'K Legion ri.
John Bannerman -. GSllSsfleS RSs
Torrance. ana James h,
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1936-08-07

ing a Teachers OATH w.,
designed to prevent NV 'n'1 4 :
aPen from learning tbS Su ...S shB
bout matters of yita 'T 'LuIh :
a !:9 by infringing nDo ,ap't'
civil liberties thru the U rpoa o.
gag laws and Depsrtt%nsssSagg 'd /!
Justice Laws in South ''' en-.
by refusing a federal in UaS2a.
ton of the Black Legion D''5'ap
ing our Supreme Court !. y ". y
~ all legislation which y !. nun Y
signed to relieve in t6s : sli.S
est our present deplOrablo' ~ y. Y
dltlOn' and by passing W, ~ ].
proportions which add =" ~, !,
1914 on each man. woman 'oA !,
mild TO our already unbesr' N
tax burden" ''''''
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1936-08-07
JUDGE UPHOLDS
RESTRAINING ORDER

Continued from page onel
Callaghan, the defendant did not
apepar in court. 'iu -'o'
witnesses were introduced h,
me plaintiff, the Union Central
Life Insurance company, and evid-
ence was presented by them.
by plane. '''' "oOu
Attorneys for the pIantiff ,uo~o
Horace s; Davis of Billings and
Grant BLACKWELL of Plentywood.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1936-08-07

Come on, you readers of Ber-
mar MacFadden's TRUE STORY
LETS hear you whOop it up for
the revolution.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1936-08-07
Secretary of State
VIII Rush Official
Canvas State Vote

Continued from page y
The Union Party will probably
have only presidential and possibIv
senatorial and congressional nom.
inees.
Congressman Joseph MONAGHAN
who has already announced that he
VIII run as an independent for
United States Senator with the
backing of DR.. Townsend. is cir
culating his petitions.
There is considerable talk of nth
er independent nominees Int moth
ing definite has developed SO far.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1936-08-07

New York Times. IT. 8. STFFT.
PROFITS BEST IN SIX YEARS
-PERFERRED DIVIDEND DOU-
BLED.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1936-08-07
FASCIST FRONT
DEMOLISHED BY
UNITED WORKERS
Confined from Page u
NEWSPAPERS
ARE USED

The reactiOnary newspapers in
Madrid have been confiscated and
their plants taken over by the lib
eral and radical government fore
es which have started publishing
their own newspapers on them.
In Barcelona, members Of Bar
celonia labor unions have their
members to go back to work in an
effort to overcome the chaotic eff
fects of the revolution.
Workers belonging to the So
called Fascist formations refused
to obey the order, but virtually ali
others resumed their posts.
The local Communist. Socialist
and Proletarian parties decided to
y! under the name of the Uni
lied Socialist Party Of Catalonia
The central committee Of the mar r.
az established headquarters in the
former riding club of the BARGE
lonia aristocracy.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1936-08-07
LABOR LOOKS
AT THE PRESS

been committed without question"
Springfield Republican.
va can't put anything over on
these flatfeet.
Merle Thorpe, editor of Nations
Business: I have often been asked
what in America exemplifies most
nearly my impression of American
life and spirit. have often thot
of it. I answer unhesitatingly: in
surance.
The America of the early piO-
neers, of Lincoln, of Walt Whit
man, of Eugene Debs, doesn't
exist for that pOt-belly-nOr for
any Of the bosses.
Editor and Publisher: Service of |
noted radio news commentators
may be employed by the Republi-
can National Committee in the |
presidential campaign. Presumably |
the Democrats will also marshall a
squad of soothsayers The dear
public, which believes that radio !
news commentators perform the !
purely editorial function of inter |
preting the days news, won't re-
ceive any engraved notice of the |
changed status.
g File that one in the Pot &
Kettle Dept.
Bishop E. Freeman: We will
have no permanent recovery in this
country, no matter what laws are
passed, until we experience from
coast to coast sweeping religious
revival.
There's an arch pessimist for
you.
Henry Ford: There are only two
classes: men who will work and
men who will not.
That's right, Hank-the work
ers and the coupon clippers.
WELL-HAILE SELASSIE CAN
ALWAYS SAW WOOD WITH
THE EX-KAISFR: OR ATTEND
THE HORSE RACES WITH AL
PHONSE.
Mrs. Louis Watkins, Los Angeles
Republican Study club: The trend
on the part of both the old and
young to want security in un-
and not normal.
Looks like most of us are alb
normal immigrants, then. d
Thert is an elemental factor that J
separates the humankind from
the brute. This elemental factor is
what I have chosen to call the
profit motive" urge-Dr. Burton
French, of the Republican National ]
Committee. Is
He'll, if that's the only differ
ence let's 60 back to the Jungle.
Senator Vandenberg: It will sim
plify our thinking if we realize
that when an act of Conoress &c IN
rejected by the Supreme Court. It II
IS the Constitution that is sneak l
ing, That means, in turn, that it
is the people speaking.
It will simplify our thinking
about Senator Vandenberg if we
realize that he is a little simple.
Colonel w. Chevalier: There IS
no unemployment problem in A.
nerica. Tt is merely a re-emplov- !
ment problem. !
o. X. Butch-but there is still
ten million of us.
{
Mrs. Ellis: The Communists IRE
for stocking magazine
with indecent literature I
which breaks down family rela-
.ionships and the morale of youth.
This is the way Communists got
started in Russia.-Quoted in the
New Republic.
Come on. Won readers nf Rnr-
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1936-08-07
MADRID
TRANQUIL

In Madrid, the Minister of In
terlor said that the entire province
was tranquil. Fresh loyal militia
men were drawing a line of