Henderson daily dispatch., October 31, 1935, Image 1

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CAROLINA
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ITALY IS READY TO NEGOTIATE FOR PEACE
IIIOUS GAIN
IN STATE REVENUE
FOR FOUR MONTHS
M„ rr Than $3,000,000 Over
Similar Period of Fiscal
Year 1934, Reports
Show
GENERAL FUND GAIN
IN OCTOBER 50 PCT.
J 0 Income Since July 1
1, $18,117,365, Against
$15,110,463 Same Period
[a*t Year; 14 Percent Gain
jp Highway Funds for Four
Months
RaHuli. Oct. 31. < AP> —The State
„< Vnith Carolina collected $18,117.-
in revenue during; the first
,months of this fiscal year, a
~,, „f W006.902.fif5. or 19.9 percent
'ih<> $15,110,463.12 taken in the
.j n iljr period of last year.
\ .1. Maxwell. State commissioner
c f rfvptuir. expressed gratification at
ft, continued increase being shown.
Til' general fund October receipts
5 f V’. 112,098.11 were 54.87 percent
. JV „ the October. 1934. total of sl.-
jrf lfl If. while the highway receipts
„/ $1,873,730.20 were 12.11 percent
nior, than the $1,671,274.05 taken in
Genernl fund revenues for the four
months ending today aggregated $lO.-
561,725.36. a gain of 24.6 percent over
rim similar period last year. The
, a | ( .. tax contributed $3,149,730.34 of
tlm total, as compared with $2,245,-
978.35 in the period last year. Fran
chise tax receipts this year aggregat- ,
e,i $5,513,076.05. compared with $5.-
026.24H.21 last year.
The highway fund, with receipts of
*7,3515.1540.32 for this year, showed a
gain of 13.91 percent over last year.
(’■Hyaline taxes contributed $6,614,920.-
2* tip to today, as compared with $5.-
7!5.HM,81 in the similar period of
1934.
Renr taxes in the first four months
of this fiscal year totalled $216,391.94.
compared with $139,423.72 last year.
m CO-OPSBUY !
COTTON OUTRIGHT
Senator McKellar Hurls Ac
cusation at Co-Op Man
ager at Inquiry
Memphis, Tenn., Oct. 31.—(AP)
Senator McKellar, Democrat, Tenn-
re. today charged cotton co-oper
ativc;; with outright buying of cot
t',n from farmer members in com
petition with the private trade.
( Hailes Henry, general manager
es tlie Mid-South Cotton (growers As.
t-ociation, who was on the stand at
!,,p Ume, denied the co-ops buy cot
t,,n at the time of its delivery to
• hem.
‘'‘-tiator McKellar Vs chairman of
•'•net,' sub-committee appointed to
'" v c~tigate the operations of the co
'4'- and theit parent organization, the
American Cotton Co-operative As
suciat ion.
'iiatoi McKellar read from an aa-
T tusement in the Mid-South Cotton
vpWs ’ published by the Memphis As.
(Continued on Page Four.)
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SELF HERE TODAY
Note, Takes Poison
and Cuts Throat at the
Robert Henry
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years . V H ’ Tln k r<in . about 45
uicide at p * oun S*ville, committed
afternoon R^ be,t Henry hotel this
bath ,„ om ab ' , !J t tWO °’ c *°ck in a
»om on the third floor.
and yheed a b ° ttle ° f car bblic acid
bland * ;* u> ’ ular vein with a
for 1
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down.stajt. ! In 'bath, ran
white , " H ” d notif,ed Mr. Satter.
th " loom aßre !’’ who came to
p oliee were ttlß man dying.
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THB ASBOCIATBD PRBIS.
Navy Adds Two More to Fleet
The destroyer Cossm (left) and 11. S. S. Shaw (right) as they were being
launched at Philadelphia Na>, Yard. Simultaneously keel of a new
.cruiser, Wichita, was laid down in the NavyVprogram io build up a fleet
as strong as any nation’*. (Central Fre*s)
JOHNSTON CARRIES
FIGHT TO CAPITAL
South Carolina Governor
Goes to Washington
About Road Funds
Columbia, S. C., Oct. 31. —(AP)—
Governor Olin D., Johnston left for
Washington tori'*, v while bodyguard's
of troops escorted his new highway
board on every move, apparently to
forestall service of court orders.
Reports that the governor had hur
ried to confer with national autho-
I orities ever Federal road funds for
| Sf.uth Carolina could not be confirm
ed. but his action Monday in ousting
the State Highway Commission with
militia was viewed at Washington
as possibly jeopardizing road fund
allotment.
Thousands of party motorists were
perplexed, meanwhile, over whether
to buy 1936 licenses, due tomorrow,
from a highway administration whose
right to sell them was challenged in
the State Supreme Court, and 2,300
highway employees wondered wheth
er they would be paid today, since
road expenditures were banned by
I injunction.
j . VV. Robinson, of Columbia, coun
sel for 13 ousted commissoners, who
obtained the finance injunction and
charged the Johnston board had
“forcibly and illegally seized control,”
said he considered service of the
qourt (Orders completed, although
National Guardsmen had ejected the
server yesterday.
He added that no further attempt
would be made to serve the order
(Continued on Page Four.)
Jimmy Walker Is
I Back Home Again
From Self-Exile
Alward the S. S. Manhattan,
Off Quarantine, N. Y., Oct. 31.
(Al’) —James J. (Jimmy) Walker,
I former mayor of New York, re
turned home today from almost
three years of self-im poised ex
ile in Europe.
Walker, with his wife, the form,
er Betty Compton, musical come
dy star, arrived at Quaraditine on
the liner Manhattan at noon.
An advance guard of a flotilla
of welcoming craft —two pleas
ure yachts—met the Manhattan
shortly after it passed Ambrose
Light.
Their whistles blew a greeting
to be answered by a hoarse sal
ute by the finer. The yachts flew
hearing the inscription,
“Hello, Jimmy,” and “Wel-come
home, Jimmy/*
ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA AND VI^INIA.
Arrests Os
Drivers To
Be Delayed
150,000 Licenses
Malied Out of 1,000-
000 Ap plica nts;
Some Are Denied
<D:iily Burenn,
In the Sir Wiilter Hotel.
KV .1. C. BASKER V11,1,E,
Raleigh, Oct. 31.—Today is the last
day on which those who drive auto,
mobiles may make application for
drivers’ licenses without paying $1
with each application, Commissioner
of Revenue A. J. Maxwell pointed out.
So all those who have not yet sent
in their applications for licenses had
better do so today unless they want
to pay $1 with each'application. The
application blanks may be obtained
from automobile dealers, 'police de
partments, sheriffs’ offices motor club
offices, highway patrolmen of from
the Revenue Department here in Ra
leigh.
Since the Revenue Department has
(Continued on Page Two.)
POTATO"QUOTAS OF
STATES WORKED UP
Farm Administration Fig
ures Will Probably Be
Announced by Night
Washington, Oct. 31 (AP) -The
Farm Administration had ready to
day figures telling each State how
many potatoes its farmers may grow
next year without being taxed.
The figures were closely guarded,
however.
A statement yesterday by Chester
C. Davis. AA. A administrator, that
State quotas under the Warren potato
control law, would be announced be
fore the November 1 deadline gave
credence to reports they would be
out today.
Under the law. subject of sharp
controversy, a tax of three-fourths a
cent a pound goes into effect Decem
ber 1 on all potatoes marketed above
quotas.
Atfe rState quotas have been an
nounced here, they will he broken
down by counties, and then bv frcli
vidual farmers.
HENDERSON, N. C. THURSDAY AFTERNOO N, OCTOBER 31, 1935
New Justice Will
3e Named Tonight
Raleigh, Oct. 31 (AP)—Governor
Tlhringhaus said today he plan
ned to act “with all expediency
possible” in naming a successor to
Assoeiate * .Justice W illis .J. Brog
den of tile State Supreme Court,
who died Tuesday.
The chief i\ a cutive said he hop
ed to announce his selection to
night lint gave no intimation who
it will he.
Capitol llill gossip continued to
place Judge W. A. Devil, of Oxford
in the lead among those being talk
ed of for the place. Six or eight
other persons, including Attorney
General A. A. F. Sea well. Judge
M. V. Barnhill, N. A Sinclair, and
Waller Small; Clyde Moey, of Shel
by and Angus Dim McLean are in
cluded in the speculation.
DEViN CONSIDERED
CERTAIN AS CHOICE
IN SUPREME COURT
His Geography Is Right,
Coming From Same Sec
tion As Deceased
Judge Brogden
RATED AMONG BEST
ON SUPERIOR COURT
Has Been Thought of in
Past Appointments, but
Came From Wrong Section
of State; Barnhill Stands
Ace High, but Is Little tbd
Far to East.
Rocky Mount. Oct. 31 (Al’>—
Declaring his determination not
to “embarrass the governor by
becoming either an active or a re
ceptive candidate,” in view of the
fact that Justice Connor is from
the same judicial district, Super
ior Court Judge M. V. Barnhill,
of this city, today said that he
was not a (candidate now and
would not become a candidate to
succeed Justice Brogden.
Durham, Oct. 31 (AP) 'Hundreds
of lawyers and friends frim all parts
of the State came to Durham today
for the funeral of Willis J. Brogden.
associate justice of the North Caro
lina Supreme Court, who died at his
home here late Tuesday at the age of
58.
Offices of the court and other Cap
ital offices in Raleigh arranged to
close during the hour of the final
rites this afternoon. Over State
buildings flags flew at half staff.
The pastor and two former pastors
of the First Baptist church, scene of
the farewell service, were in charge
(Continued on Page Four.)
HIGHWAYACCIDENTS
COSTING INDUSTRY
Very Expensive, According
to Figures of State In
dustrial Commission
Daily Distwitch Bureau,
lit the Sir Walter Hotel.
BY J. C. BASKERVILLE.
Raleigh, Oct. 31- Highway acci
dents are causing a steadily mount
ing loss to industry with the result
that udirng the past year one-fourth
of the total paid out because of in
dustrial accidents under the work
men’s compensation law in North
Carolina was because of injuries to
employes in highway accidents, fig
ures made public today by the North
Carolina Industrial Commission indi
cate. The figures are for the year
ending June 30, 1935, on which the
(Continued on Page Two.)
OUI WEATHER MAN
FOB north CAROLINA
Partly cloudy tonight and Fri
day; unsettled on north coast; no
Hpcided chanee m tpiMppi'shi??,
U. S. Solons "Spy” Suspects
While Vice President Garner was being received by the .Jananese 'em
pel ol in J okio, two otliei members ot the official 11. S. mission to the Fai
Fast were questioned by Japanese police because photos were taken Os a
lice field in a fortified zone. They were Uep. Her! Lord of New York
(left) and Delegate Santiago lglesia.x of Puerto Uico (right). Their
chauffeur was Detained (('antral F rc&s)
Helena Is Shaken
By Another Quake
Helena, Mont., Oct. 31.—(AIM—
A severe earthquake struck
Helena again today, adding dam
age to a number of downtown
buildings that already had been
shaken by a number of other re
cent tremors.
The office in which The Asso
ciated Press bureau is located was
jarred severely, plastering fell and
a crack was opened in the wall.
Men in the nearby composing
room of the Montana lteeord
llerald ran to escape a downfall of
plaster.
FOUR KILLED WHEN
AIR LINER CRASHES
Dives to Earth Near Chey
eyye, Wyo #) in Zero Tem
peratures There
Cheyenne, Wyo., Oct. 31. —(AP)—A
silver-hued air liner roared out of a
snow-flecked sky last night, hurled
four airmen to death on a tiny hill
top and left a puzzle for investigators
today in an ugly mass or molten
metal.
What caused the 13-passenger j/iane
undegroing a trial flight, to crash
on a low knoll six miles south of
here, while it exploded as it dived
to the earth, and why it leaped again
into the air to burst into a ball ot
flame were questions confronting in
vestigators.
The victims, who had taken the
United Air Lines plane on what was
to have been a leisurely cruise
through zero weather, were M. T.
Arnold, chief of test pilots of the U.
A. L., Cheyenne; Henley G. Coane,
32, veteran Wyoming air service pil
°e, of Denver; Edward Yantis, 28, of
Cheyenne; Haitold Katiffman, 21,
of Cheyenne.
The plane had been alott about
25 minutes when the motor began to
sputter. Two minutes later it plum,
metted with a deafening explosion,
bounded high into the air in a sec
ond explosion and fell in a mass of
flames.
BROADCASTERS ARE
GIVEN A WARNING
Unless Programs Are Clean
ed Up, Government May
Take Stations
• • ■
New York, Oct. 31 < AP) —George
(Henry Payne,, Federal communica
tions commissioner, warned commer
cial broadcasters today they would
have to improve their program and
change their advertising methods if
they wanted to maintain the present
system of privately-owned radio sta
tions.
In an address at Columbia Univer
sity. Payne said:
“If there is evidence on the part of
the broadcasters of intention to in
crease the educational and cultural
of the program; if there is
observable a desire to reform the ad
vertising methods and innovations
with which the public is afflicted, the
present system will be maintained, I
Believe. On the other hand, if there
is an arrogant assumption of politi
(Continued on Page Four ).
r'UBLISUHD BVBiitY AFTBRNOOM
IXCHPTMONDAY
IN aval Meet
To See Sea
Race Start
“Noble Experiment”
of Disa r m ament
Launched in 1921 Is
Now' About to End
Washington, D. C. Oct. 31.—The in-
I ternational naval conference sched
uled to begin in London in early De
cebber undoubtedly will see the end
of a “noble experiment,’’ begun in
1921, to keep world armaments down
to reasonable proportions.
The idea originated with Charles
Evans Hughes—secretary ol' state
then.
It was under his auspices that the
world’s sea powers were invited to
send representatives to Washington
to discuss plans for ending races in
warship-building.
BRITAIN ENTHUSIASTIC
The most enthusiastic acceptance
came from the British.
Britannia, as we know, for gener
ations had been mistress of the
oceans, but, at that junction, she
seemed about to lose this vulership
to Uncle Samuel. As a result of his
war-time efforts, at the war’s end
Uncle Sam was about her equal. 80.
sides, he had several nearly-finished
men-o’-war on hand, which, finished
promised to make him decidedly her
superior. Britannia couldn’t pre
vent it, either. Financially flattened
out by the war, she hadn’t the re
sources to keep up with American
competition.
This was the point at which Secre
tary Hughes offered, not only to do
no more building, but to scrap U. S.
(Continued on Page Six.)
EVIDENCEOFFERED
BY PHONE COMPANY
S
Contesting Rate Order of
Utilities Commission In
volving $321,000
Raleigh. Oct. 31 - -(AP) The South
ern Bell Telephone and Telegraph
Company today started presentation
of technical evidence in Wake Su
perior Court in its suit contesting
a rate reduction order of the Utilities
Commission.
Trial of the suit was started Mon
day, but consideration of preliminary
motions consumed the first three
days. Court was in recess this after
noon. due to the funeral of Associate
Justice W. J. Brogden, of the Sup
reme Court. '
L. W. Hill, depreciations engineer
for the company, was the first wit
ness He explained indetail the meth
ods used in determining inventory
values, unit cost of property, and how
depreciation is figured.
It was indicated the telephone com
pany will contend the reductions or
dered bv the Utiliti s Commission
would result in a loss of revenue of
about $335,000 annually. The Utilities
Commission, said the order would
benefit some 78.000 customers to the
extent of about $321,000 yearly.
The telephone company contends
the reduction would amount to con
fiscatory procedure ‘
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TWO SECTIONS.
FIVE CENTS COPY
MUSSOLINI YIELDS
GROUND IN FACE OF
ECONOMIC PRESSURE
(_
Statement at Geneva Evi
dently Is Answer to Ever-
Tightening War of
Sanctions
STRONG PROTESTS
MADE BY ENGLAND
Ambassador at Rome Tells
Mussolini to Stop Attacks
Against Britain in Fascist-
Controlled Press and on
Radio; Demonstrations
Occur in Rome
(By The Associated Press)
Fa.sci.st Italy, faeced with the threat
of economic isolation from most of
the world, gave ground today and of
sered to negotiate peace with Ethi
opia.
One of Mussolini’s spokesmen at
Geneva said:
“Italy is willing to negotiate.”
This change of front apparently
was Italy’s reaction to the ever
strengthening war of sanstions the
League of Nations is waging against
the aggressor in the East African
conflict.
As the League’s sanctions staff of
<>2 nations convened to lay down the
deadline for the imposition of the
drastic economic sanstions-—the “buy
nothing from Italy” boycott and the
prohibition on exporting key products
to Italy—there was a feeding among
the delegates the deadline would bn
around November 15.
Another development eontrabuting
to the Italian change of front was the
senewal of British representation to
Mussolini against continuing attacks
upon Britain in the Fascist-Controlled
Italian press.
In ondon it was disclosed Sir Eric
Drummond, the British ambassador,
called on II Due yesterday and made
verbal protest against anti. British
(Continued on Page Four.)
STUDENTS IN ROME
ANGRY AT BRITISH
Demonstrations Include
Storming Stores Thought
English-Owned
Rome, Oct. 31 (AP) dem
onstrating against Great Britain
stormed stores they believed to be
British-owned tonight, following a
morning demonstration in front of the
British Embassy.
Shouting “Down With England.”
they broke a big lamp hanging In
front of a tea room on the Via Sistina
and pasted a map of Aduwa, Ethio
pia, on the window. The place is
owned and operated by Italians, but
the students saw signs printed in
English and thought it was a British
restaurant.
A crowd of about 200 students,
cairying effigies of Emperor Haile
Selassie then went to the Embassy
night club, which is operated by
Americans and English. But the man
agers lowered the iron shutters before
the students reached the place.
Police failed to arrive in time to
block the demonstration.
BLOODY BATHE ON
THE SOUTHERN LINE
Italians and Natives Beat
Off Resistance of Ethi
opian Warriors
Adigrak Ethiopia, Oct. .31 (AP)—
Italy’s southern army beat off Ethio
pian defenders in a bloody battle, un
confirmed press said to
day, and penetrated to the vicinity of
its next objr|tive Gorrahei.
The report, issued from Mogadiscio
Italian Somaliland, said the battle rag
ed for several days between Gorrahei
and Scillave, a fortified Italian cen
ter. The dispatches did not estimate
the number of dead or wounded.
Thousands of Italians and native
troops were reported to have engaged
in the combat, and to have swept
aside successfully the Ethiopian war
rior hordes.
The reports were communicated to
this northern front, but could not ha
officially confirmed here immediate
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