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Henderson daily dispatch., 1938-08-26
Civilians In
State Toad
InWarGa1ne
1900 Tar Heels To
Join warming Net"
for Imaginary Planes
From Sea

Raleigh, Aug. 26 (AP)-Fifteen hun
dred Tar Heel civilians, serving as
far-flung warning net" will parti-
cipate in the aerial war game in
Eastern North Carolina October to
II, Brigadier-General Fulton Gardner
announced today.
The civilians who will peer into the
sky to observe enemy" planes flying
in from the Atlantic to lombard a
mystical airdrome and munitions
base at Fort Bragg will be organize
by nine leaders appointed by the War
Department. The leaders and the
counties in their districts follow:
First district, Mayor Jerome Flora
Elizabeth City; Camden, Chowan, Cur
rituck, Dare Pasquotank and Perqul-
mans counties.
Second district Frank Miller, Wash
ington; Beaufort, Hyde, Tyrrell,
Washington.
Third district Tom Daniels, New
Bern; Carteret, Craven, Jones, Ons-
low and Pamlico.
Fourth district, H. L. Swain of
Wi liamston; BERTHE and Martin.
Fifth district, June Rose, Granville;
Wilson, Edgecombe and Pitt.
Sixth district, Henry Stevens, War
saw; Greene, Lenoir, Duplin and
Sampson.
Seventh district Colonel r. S. Nc
Clellan, Wilmington; New Hanover,
Fender and Bladen.
Ninth district, r. L. Mcmillan, RAJ
leigh; Johnston, Wake, Chatham, Lee.
Tenth district; Hector Blackwell,
Fayetteville, Robson, Cumberland,
Hoke, Harnett, Moore Scotland and
Richmond.
There is no eighth district.
The warning net most extensive ever
organized in the United States. will
extend over an area bounded by Eliza
beth City, Wilson, Siler City, Rock
ingham and Wilmington.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1938-08-26
Witch Doctor
Patient. Waits
Jury Verdict

Concord, Aug. 26.-(AP)-Testimony
was completed on the stroke of noon
today in the case of Baxter Parnell,
32-year-old Cabarrus county farmer,
on trial in superior court on charges
of murder in the Staying of Martha
Jane Fink, his sister-in-law.
Lawyers summations began imme-
diately. Completion of the testimony
came after the defense had called
Parnell, his mother; and the Negro
witcE doctor from whom the defend
ant claimed he got root which af-
fected him greatly. Parnell testified
he did not. remember having stabbed
the Fink girl, and that he did not re
call being taken to the county jail
after the Staying. 81
Later his mother, Mrs. Sally Par
rell, testified her son had received a
head injury when he was a child and
had not seemed normal since.
Jennie Morris, a little old Negress
wearing a pink-flowered dress, with q
black hat and veil, said she first
treated" Parnell Sunday before the
Staying. She said nine kinds of weed
went into her dust" treatment, but
refused to reveal what they were. Par
nell, she testified, told her he was
down and out and had no friends.
II gave him a little bit of pattle
tongue root, and told him to chaw it
up and spit it out" the ginger-cake
colored Negress said. "The next time
he came, on the day of the killing, I
was scared of him, because of the way
he was acting and doing"
do you think he was crazy" an
attorney asked.
Eyes, he was crazy" she replied.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1938-08-26
Hines Named
AS Escort OF
Dutch Schultz

New York, Aug. 26.-(AP)-Dudley
Brothwell, soft-spoken Connecticut
riding master, resumed the stand to-
day in the conspiracy trial of Tam
many district leader James Hines to
follow up his sensational testimony
that Hines was "the man in the red
tie" who accompanied Dutch Schultz
on a visit to Fairfield, Conn, in 1885.
Appearing yesterday after a parade
of admitted gangsters and racketeers,
Brothwell was one of the first W.T.
resses without faint of racket con-
rection called by the prosecution.
Hines chief defense counsel, Lloyd
Stryker, Immediately took over the
witness for cross-examination. BY a
swift series of questions, he tried tn
show that it had been unnecessary
for Brothwell to let his gaze rove over
the jury and part of the audience late
yesterday before he finally picked out
Hines and identified him as Schultz's
companion.
@. Are you familiar with cour.
rooms, Mr.. Brothwell?"
A. "No."
@. Haven't you ever seen one?"
A. mo"
@. you've seen them in the
movies?"
A. "Well, yes"
@. "And you know defendants don't
sit in the jury box"
A IT didn't know"
@. do you think the defendant Is
seated sometimes in the jury box"
A. II don't know. He could be, as
far as I know"
@. when you were asked to see If
Mr.. Hines was in court you looked
at those spectators over there, then
your eyes swept to the jury box, and
then to Mr.. Hines. Didn't you sec
him when your eyes swept from the
spectators to the jury box"
Brothwell with puzzled frown, re-
piled calmly: well, I might have
seen him then"
"It was all display, wasn't it?"
Stryker demanded
Eyes, 1 wanted to be sure was
right" the witness said.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1938-08-26
New Deal Foes
Make Strange
Party Claims
BY CHARLES p. STEWART
Central Press COlumniSt

Washington, Aug. 26.-If I were an
anti-New Deal Democrat and conse-
quently on the New Deals "purge
list" Cts denied that there is one but
it's perfectly obvious that there isl [
wouldn't insist as most anti-New
Dealers do, that a New Dealer is
what really am.
For one thing, it's an inaccuracy
on the anti-New Deal Democrats, part
however unintentional.
Secondly, it's an unnecessary claim
for them to make; they could make
a better one.
How They Voted.
For candidates like Senators
George. Tydings, Cotton Ed" Smith
and others to assert that they are, in
the main, New Dealers of course is
nightly unconvincing.
They may have voted for admins
tration measures 80 or 40 times to
three or four times that they have
voted against the administration. But
the 80 or 40 times were upon issues
of small consequence and the three or
four times were upon issues of vital
importance to the administration.
In short, they have helped, with
considerable success, to throw a
crimp" into vital New Deal policies;
thew have backed the New Deal nu-
merously, perhaps, but immaterially.
No Discredit.
Why, then, should they argue that,
Henderson daily dispatch., 1938-08-26
Wauace's Farm Program
Hitting Snag; No Cure-Al
For Problem, Babson Says

Suits. Despite this huge outlay, the
program only covers four major pro-
ducts whose share of total farm IN
come is not more than ~ per cent.
For instance, wheat normally contrl-
butes only six per cent and cotton on
lv 10 per cent. This means that nearly
90 per cent of the total farm output
is receiving mo subsidies. Those tar-
mers who are getting nothing put
who are helping to foot the tax piiis'
are unhappy.
Every one recognizes that we have
a real farm problem. Consumption
has been declining and our exports
have been falling. The result is tnat
we have more farm products than we
can use. Consequently, prices are very
low. Meanwhile, Union wages, rising
taxes. and high tariffs have boosted
industrial costs. Hence, the prices the
farmer must pay have gone up wnlle
the prices he gets have gone down. IN
1913. there was a good balance De-
<N1rk;nnad - paOa TWO.l
Henderson daily dispatch., 1938-08-26
Eastern Carolina Exceeds $24
To Top Last Years Opening

429,436 pounds sold yesterday brought
an average of $23.80.
Farmvi4le officials said 678,398
pounds went for $23.49 average.
The Kinston Board of the Trade es-
timated 100000 pounds were sold for
an average of $24.
Sales Supervisor George Arlington
announced 1923 pounds were sold
at Rocky Mount for a $24. 90 average
Sales Supervisor William Moore re-
ported opening day sa1esNa Goldsboro
aggregated 263,532 pounds, netting an
average of $26.29. Il
The official opening day sales on
the Tarboro market listed : 219,76O
pounds sold for an average of $24.31.
A total of 225,148 pounds was sold
at Williamson yesterday for $24.71
average.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1938-08-26

Raleigh, Aug Tobacco
offerings, which blocked sales on sew
eral Eastern North Carolina Bright
Belt markets, today continued to
bring prices which averaged around
$24 per hundred. Lower grades con-
tinued to sell unusually strong today.
At Rocky Mount about 100000
pounds of the weed was on the floors.
Offerings were principally primings,
with some tips..8
Williamson market officials ex-
pressed doubt the block would be
cleared there today.
Offerings on the Kinston market
covered a wide range of quality and
prices remained unchanged.
Offerings on the Wilson market
were estimated at 100000 pounds to-
day, and price trends remained UNI
Henderson daily dispatch., 1938-08-26
Freeze Sentenced
To Twenty Years

Concord, Aug. 26.-(AP)-Judge
Frank Armstrong sentenced Jack
Freeze to 20 to 80 years today after
a Cabarrus county superior jury
convicted the 62-year-Old autOmO-
bile salesman yesterday of second.
degree murder in the Staying OF
Roy Lentz, another automobile
salesman, last May "A.
Freezes expression remained I'M
changed throughout the days pro-
ceedings. r. F. James and G. M.
LlewellyU, defense attorneys, had
asked the mercy of the court for
their Client.
Freeze, white-haired and stock
ily-built, said he shot LentZ after
Lentz had made remarks to him
which he considered threatening.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1938-08-26
Colby Speech
OF Mr.. Bailey
Being Mailed
Daily Dispatch Bureau,
In The Sir Walter Hotel.

Raleigh, Aug. 26.-Large numbers
of "The Democratic Process, the com
mencement address of United States
Senator Josiah William Bailey, have
been found in Raleigh and other
places, raising anew the speculation
whether these copies are being sent
out by friends or foes.
It will be recalled that Senator
Bailey was decorated with doctors
degree by President Johnson of Colby
University in Maine, who, in bestow-
ing the honor, gave praise to Senator
Bailey for his defense of the Consti-
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Henderson daily dispatch., 1938-08-26
changed.

changed.
Raleigh, Aug. 26.-(AP)-The State
Federal Crop Reporting Service said
today that prices for low to good prim
ings showed a good increase over last
years opening day prices on the East
ern North Carolina, or New Bright
Be t, tobacco markets.
The auction season on the IA mar
kets opened yesterday, with prices
ranging above an average Of $24 a
hundred. Blocked sales resulted on
most of the markets, and official aver
ages for the first days sales were no.
available.
At Wilson officials announced to-
day 1529154 pounds were sold yes
terday for a $23.8O average.
Officials at Greenville reported L.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1938-08-26
CABINET
MINISTERS RESIGN

Belgrade, Yugoslavia, Aug. 90
(AP)SThree Yugoslav cabinet mem
hers. including the war minister, re-
stoned today on the heels of the Lit
tie Entente conference which grant
ed Hungary the right to re-arm. The
Yueoslav News Agency said the re-
oercv council accepted the resigna-
lions.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1938-08-26
FLORIDA WOMAN is
DEAD IN COLLISION

Asheville, Aug. 26.-(AP)-Mrs. J.
B. Ballard, IS, of Bradenton, Fla,
was killed instantly in an automobile
truck collision here today. Mrs. w. E..
Ballard, a daughter in-law, and three
children, Doris, Laura Belle and ~lie
June Ballard, were injured.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1938-08-26
Minors Told
To Quit Job
In Castonia
Big Textile Mills Feel
First Effects of Wage
Hour Bill, Soon Appli-
cable

Gastonia, Aug. 26 (AP)-Gaston
county, the nations largest producer
of combed cotton yarns, began today
to feel the first effects of the new
wage-hour law. Several hundred
youths between 16 and Is were being
told that they would have to give up
their jobs in cotton textile mills.
In scores of mills throughout the
country notices were being posted set
ting September % as the deadline for
the work of those under 10.
Among the youths who fell within
that age boundary, and among their
neighbors, there was considerable spe-
culation over what they could do until
they grow old enough to qualify legal
ly for the jobs which they have al
ready done. Most of them are looking
e.ready for jobs in other fields.
Il hate to see them CO." said one
plant foreman, "but there is nothing
1 can do about it. I don't know what
they will do. In many cases that I
know, these youngsters are the sole
support of their families. We have
ten men applying for every job
Discussion of the notices ran
through groups of workers who lott
cred on the grass in front of mills
during the rest period.
ACTION PREMATURE, SOME
SOUTH CAROLINIANS SAY
Greenville, S. c., Aug. 26-(AP)-
,SxyN
Henderson daily dispatch., 1938-08-26
South Studies
No. Cardinals
School System
Daily Dispatch Bureau,
In The Sir Walter Hotel.

Raleigh, Aug. 26.-Three common
wealths have within as many recent
months sent ambassadors to North
Carolina to study it's schools.
The fastest of the mand the one
which interests most was Alabama
whose Governor-Nominate Frank
Dixon, son of the famous Frank Of
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The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1938-11-10
Springfield
To Challenge
Cards Friday
ARMISTICE AFTERNOON
STRUGGLE ONE OF
4 IN CONFERENCE

Armistice day will mark the
end of an only moderately sue
ceSsful Redwood Falls High school
football season with Springfield,
the November IL rival of recent
years, furnishing the opposition
at Memorial Field here. The game
is called for 2 p. m, prelude to
the pro game that evening.
The Cardinals have won five
games and lost three, their defeats
all occurring away from home.
New Ulm, Olivia, Hutchinson,
Glencoe and Montevideo fell be-
fore the Red Wave while the tide
was out when they played at
Tracy, Marshall and last week at
Sleepy Eye
Springfield has had a poor sea-
son with a string of consecutive
setbacks but the Fielders have
) pointed for Redwood in other
years and as was proved Friday at
Sleepy Eye, anything can happen.
Last year Redwood was rated bet
ter than the Sauerkrauters but
lost IL to z. Two years ago they
were easy victims in an open
game As to Is while in 1885 Red
wood also had the edge 18 to IL.
Other Armistice day games
will decide the Little Ten title.
Marshall and Tracy, Glencoe and
Hutchinson and New Ulm and
Sleepy Eye, all ancient grid rivals,
meet again Friday.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1938-11-10
WORK PROGRESSES
ON MILROY SCHOOL
AUDITORIUM ANNEX TO
BE READY FOR USE
BY FEBRUARY l

Milroy-This week will find the
concrete work completed on the
auditorium annex to the Milroy
school. Brick work will follow
Immediately, after which the steel
roof trusses will be raised. The
steel columns and steel beams
over the proscenium arch are al
ready in place. Testing laborator-
les have reported an exceptionally
satisfactory test on the concrete
now in place.
1t is anticipated that the build
ing will be 70 per cent completed
by DecembeF and the Public
Works Administration resident
engineer inspector, w. F. Dodd,
reported to the regional director,
R. A. Radford of Omaha, that this
phase of the job will be completed
well ahead of schedule.
When completed the building
and improvements on the present
school building will represent an
investment of $4,000, of which
PWA provided an outright. grant
of $14,85O.
School board members and the
engineer inspector are co-operat-
ing in every way possible with
the several contractors on the
project. The auditorium is slated
to be ready for use by February l.
About 25 men are employed on
the project and more will be en-
ployed as the work progresses.
Selection of the men on the job
is done by the contractors-how-
ever they employ as many men
from the immediate locality as
possible. :
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1938-11-10
Pafrath Scores
For Minnesota

Bob Paffrath of Redwood Falls
finally got his chance with the
Gophers against Iowa Saturday
and thrilled the Dads day crowd,
including his own dad, by scor-
ing a touchdown, one of the four
which defeated the HaWkeyes %
to 0.
The score was made after re-
ceivino a long pass on the five
yard line, the gain on the play,
80 yards. His record for the day
was 81 yards gained on seven
plays in which he carried and he
was credited with the days long
est return of punt, 13 yards. He
played much of the last half.
Captain Mervale Wolverton's
Winona T. c. team took part in
the Mankato T. c. Homecoming,
losing by the margin of a safety
2 to 0. This week the Winona
Peds play st. Marys College in
the annual intra-city classic at
Winona. Mervale is a tackle on
the Winona team.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1938-11-10
Des Moines Has Slight Edge On Records

neapolis and Christine Lager
strom of Tacoma, Washington
and one brother, Emil of Fitzger-
aid, Georgia.
He was member of the Pres
byterian church of Delhi and SER
we'd as an elder for about 80 years.
For many years he had gem
eral store at Delhi and was post
master. He retired in 1921 and
lived at Delhi until the fall of
1927 when on account of i'll health
he went to live with his daugh-
ter at Minneapolis.
Honorary pail bearers were d.
R. McCorquodale, Peter Mckay,
j. F. Bunting, L. j. Goldberg and
Jacob Hougham. Pallbearers were
d. r. Jacobson, Victor Johnson, o.
H. Peterson, Gus Johnson, Frank
Boeck of Minneapolis and Willis
Holder of Springfield.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1938-11-10
FORMER SHERIFF
DIES IN IDAHO

Charles w. Mead, former Red
wood county sheriff, died at Twin
Falls, Idaho, Thursday, accord
ing to word received by Mr.. and
Mrs. c. d. Thompson.
Born February Is, 1847, he
would have been go years old
next year.
He served as sheriff here from
1895 to 1897, having been APP
pointed to fill the vacancy caused
by the resignation of Casper
Blethen.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1938-11-10
Milroy Couple Have
Silver Anniversary

Milroy-The home of MIR. and
Mrs. John Dolan was the scene of
a happy event Sunday when al
most so relatives and friends
gathered to celebrate their. silver
jubilee. The banquet table de-
corations were in fall colors with
a huge wedding cake. !
With the best man of "a years
ago, Francis L. Dolan, acting as
POSTMASTER, speakers, soloists and
tap dancers performed and Mr..
and Mrs. Dolan were presented
with a purse and many individual
gifts.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1938-11-10
Former Delhi
Business Man
Buried Here
]. A. LAGERSTROM, A
PIONEER MERCHANT,
DIED SUNDAY

Funeral services were held here
Wednesday for John Algoth Lag
erstrom, a pioneer of Redwood
county, who died Sunday after
noon at the home of his daughter,
Mrs. Peter M. Rasmussen of Min
neapolis with whom he has made
his home. Rev. E. E. Test of
Bethel, former pastor of the Pres
byterian church at Delhi was in
charge of the rites.
Born at Geneva, Illinois in 1855
he came to Minnesota with his
parents in 1859 and to Delhi in
1884. He was married in 1880 to
Johanna Anderson at East Union,
Carver county, Minnesota. She
survives him with three sons, Err
nest of Minneapolis, Elmore of
Howard Lake and Oscar of Holly
wood, California, one daughter,
three granddaughter; two sisters,
Mrs. Anna M. Anderson of Min
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1938-11-10
Jersey City. Firm
Congratulates City
On BalkO Victory

Ted BdlkO'S fame is far
flung.
Charles F. Gales got q let
ter Tuesday from an official
of the Rosdnder CLIQUE COM
pany, Jersey City, Ne1 Jer-
seq l1hich said:
sour local newspaper car
ried a picture Of the corn
huSking champion and 1Ue
note Redwood Falls is credit
ed as being his home toaDn.
Here in Hague totDn ,De are
far from husking bees but let
us congratulate you just the
same"
Mr.. Gales is convinced
that the Jersey City company
like Ted, is on its toes.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1938-11-10
'The Magic Piper"
Tuneful Operetta
To Be Given Here

Tuneful melodies, colorful cos
;umes and clever lines will be
oe combined in the grade school
)peretta, "The Magic Piper"
musical version of the old story of
the Pied Piper to be presented
'riday evening, November ID, in
ne high school auditorium.
The mayor and council will be
Impressive in their ermine-trim-
ned robes, the piper, the princi-
pal character, played by James
Kayser will wear a queer long
coat of red and yellow; Robert
Schottenbauer as Fido will be
dressed as dog and wearing a
dog mask and the Town Crier,
taken by Robert Kleinart, is an
outstanding character.
The story follows the old tale
but differs from it in that it ends
as all good fairy stories should
with general rejoicing.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1938-11-10
Rev. Nickels Family
In Auto Accident

Rev. and Mrs. w. c. Nichels
and daughters, Lois, Leah and
Ruth, were involved in an auto
mobile accident at st. Cloud, Oc-
tober 80. Their car was complete
ly demolished but none of the
family sustained serious injuries.
A group of Redwood Falls re-
sidents including Mr.. and Mrs.
Henry Radtke, Leila and Beryl
and Mr.. and. Mrs. August Krae-
mer and Florence learned of the
accident when they visited the
Nickels family at Buffalo Sunday.
Rev. Nickels is a former. pastor
OF st. johns Lutheran church
here.