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iiknuekson CiATfcJWAY TO CENTRAL CAROLINA f\\ ENTY-SECOND YEAR ETHIqPU DECLINES NEWEST PEACE OFFER Y { ' * * * * Y ' Y * Y * * * * * * * * * * * *Y» Y Y Y V* *Y Y Y Y Y # Japan Formally Demands Equality For Her Navy SEA STRENGTH AS GREAT AS U. S. AND ENGLAND IS ASKED Admiral Nagano is Only ! Speaker at Session, After Which Conference Adjourns. tonnage LIMIT ON equality proposed Limilation Suggested, But .Japan Would be at Top With Rest of Great Na tions; British and Amcri c a r Interests Opposing Ambitions of the Japs. ]/union. Doc. 11 (AP) —Ad- miral Osami Nagano placed Ja pan’s demands l’or a navy as large as that of any major world power squarely before the dele gates to the international naval conference today. The admiral was the only speaker mil the session was adjourned until '. narrow when the American and ! P.ritish delegates will reply to the Japanese demands. Japan's long diplomatic campaign lui a navy equal to any came to a I climax with Admiral Osami Nagano’s ; . mphatic demand to the international: naval conference for equality with the I'nitcd -tates and Great Britain. The Japanese delegation, between j adjournment of the conference yes- ! (Continued on Paee Three.) Silver Marts Lag As U. S. Quits Buying (ll\ The Associiitcil I’ri'i.!') Tlo' London silver market, which offci ia| a I'ollapsc yesterday, was ■till stali'inated today, and one Demo • litii• United States senator hinted j 1•i it i.-1 1 financiers are trying to halt America’;.- silver buying policy. No price on silver was fixed in tbo London market. It was the third j Hiceossive date that the “at the usual 'inn " pi ice went unannounced. Brok- j •! wine awaiting further informa- j 'ion from America. *lovi'i iinient officials in Shanghai, \ wi ll as Chinese bankers, awaited j : l ptoheusively an indication of the j fullin' course of the United States sil- ' '» policy. Anxiety was expressed j J oi <.'hilia's newly-inaugurated monc •ny program if the price of silver •'out in us to drop. The United Status Treasury passed th. word it. was carrying out the sil- V|, i purchase policy laid down by * desipte dispatches from fi nnncial centers that tlie London mar lot was paralyzed by huge quantities nf ilver from the Far East and by tin' American Treasury’s refusal to buy. Prohibition (irowing As Fresh Issue I’oliticians Put on the Fence With Uncer tainty as to Which Way To Flop. r.y CHARLES V. STEWART Washington, Dec. 11. —The average politician views with horror the pros- I" «:t of prohibition’s resurrection as a national issue. I Here are exceptions. •Statesmen from unmistakably wet constituencies see chances of capital lz'l'g a icnewal of the dry threat to men own advantage. Those from un w * inner* p^prf* T 3 mi) rr s m t Daily Dispatch ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OP NORTH CAR OLINA AND VIRGWIA WIRE suitVlUlo Ob IHU ASSOCIATED PRESS. Hoffman Critic Crawford Jamieson Craw-ford Jamieson, Mercer County , member of New Jersey legislature, is demanding investigation of Gov ernor Harold Hoffman’s action in | reopening Hauptmann case, alleg ing the governor is seeking to make political capital out of the Lind bergh kidnaping. (Central Press) GRAHAM TO STRESS HIS LIQUOR VIEWS Bcirg Urged to Make Flat Statement as to Handling of Whisky. REAL BREAK POSSIBLE Friends Want Him to Effect Open Rupture With Present Admin istration To Show He Is Not Its Candidate llail) Dispatch Hurcnu, In The Sir Walter Hotel, 11} J. V. It A SKIOHV II.Ii Raleigh, Dec. 11. —Lieutenant Gov ernor A. H. (Sandy) Graham is ex pected to come out in the open as fa voring either county or State liquor stores and control, depending upon what the counties prefer as indicated in countywide elections, before many more weeks pass by, according to those professing to be keeping in close touch with the campaign plans of this candidate for the Democratic nomina tion for governor. Graham is also ex pected to be sufficiently critical of the present State administration *|s to dissipate the rumors now being put out by followers of the other two lead ing candidates that he is the “admin istration candidate” for the nomina tion, several of his supporters indi cate. It is no secret here that for many weeks some of Graham’s strangests supporters both here and elsewhere have been urging him to take a de finite, out-in-the-open position as fa (Continued on Page Five.) n' shopping days until yChristmas^ HENDERSON, N. C., WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON, DECEMBER 11, 1935 CLIPPER COMPLETES FIRST TRANSPACIFIC HOP I t ; j ( j '^ s // ’»% lif’ jf®Lv m “ Ww W li Ker ... Unloading mail after flight After a record-breaking transpacific flight to the Orient, the huge China Clipper arrives at Alameda, CaL„ airport and its heavy cargo of mail is unload Widespread Revolt Feared Against WPA In This State Raleigh, Dec. 11 (AP) -Men who said they had not been paid for work done n WFA projects three weeks ago, and men who Ip 1(1 down their shovels with the acquiescence of fore men because they were a “too hungry to work,” today threatened a wide spread revolt against the Works Pro gress Administration in North Caro lina. The alleged delays ranged from two days in Raleigh to several days in Gastonia and Wilmington and “three weeks” in Wilson. J. E. L. Wade, commissioner of public works at Wil S. C. LEGISLATURE PUIS OFF ACTION Session Adjourns For Day Without Disbanding Johns ton’s Troops. Columbia, S. C., Dec. 11.—(AP) — The legislature recessed today with out taking action upon measures call ing for withdrawal of troops from State highway department offices after Governor Olin Johnston said in a message he would be willing to re move them when an audit had been made and a temporary controlling agency set up. The governor’s message stirred sharp comment in both branches, but debate blocked edcisive action on re solutions calling for withdrawal of (Continued on Page Two.) LOWER PRICES AND HIGHER PAY URGED That Philosophy Gaining Ground; Fear of U. S. Fascism Rising Again By LESLIE EICIIEL New York, Dec. 11 —Philosophy Uiat prices should 'be cut and pay raised is gaining. The most outspoken ac cepted authority has been Dr. Harold G. Moulton, president of the Book ings Institute, Washington. Dr. Moulton gives the nub of the argument in these words: ,‘The necessity of progressive prices reductions as a means of expanding purchasing power and markets ap fP — --- T? > led. The transpacific plane, completing its first re turn voyage, carried 903 pounds of mail, 200 pounds more than on the outgoing air voyage, mington, took up the cudgel for the workers himself, saying 25 WPA em ployees had reported for work too wiedk to ihcir duties for lack of food. It was the same at the other points. Gaston county workers marched on the city hall at Gastonia threatening a strike after they learned a similar situation had been met by a project sponsor at nearby Ch/arlottc with “tiding over’’ payments pending re ceipt of checks from Raleig'h. Autho rities at Wilson were besieged by complaints that workers had not Borah Strikes At Peace Proposals Washington, Dee. 11 (AP) —Sen- ator Borah, Republican* I d abb. struck out today at the Franco- Britisli proposal to end the Italo- Ethiopian war as a plan which would leave Mussolini “the most powerful figure in Europe,” and give him more than he sought in the beginning. BOOTLEGGERSHAPPY ON COURT’S RULING “Penalty” Taxes of Federal Government Voided by Decision Monday. Daily Dispatch Unreal*. In The Sir Waller Hotel, It, J. C. lIASKKRVILL Raleigh, Dec. 11—North Carolina bootleggers are snickering up their sleeves today as a result of the opin ion handed down by the United States Supreme Court in Washington Mon day holding unconstitutional those sections of the alcoholic tax laws which imposed additional or “penalty” taxes on liquor dealers or manufac turers in states still having State pro hibition laws, and who had not paid the regular Federal taxes on liquor dealers and manufacturers. As a result of this decision, accord ing to several lawyers and one judge consulted here today, the Federal (Continued on Page Three.) WEATHER FOB NORTH CAROLINA. Fair and slightly colder in east and central portions tonight; Thursday increiasing cloudiness rind aiyhilj been p:iid for the last three weeks work. John W. Coon, Jr., State adminis trator, promised action—immediate action -to relieve the need 6f the moment and permanent action to pre vent repetition. He said the time keepers on the projects hereafter would work with the finance division instead of the en gineering sections, thus eliminating red tape in handling reports, vouchers and other exchanges between the two groups necessary before a man could he paid. ’ WILLBEwSs Munition Committee Wants Him to Recite World War Events ’ Washington, Dec. 11 (AP) —The {Senate Munitions Committee prob ably will open an inquiry January 6 into the “currents which drew Ame rica into the World War,” with J. P. Morgan a witness. The New York financier, star wit ness in the Senate Banking Commit tee’s stock market investigation a few years ago, will he called for ques tioning hi connection with financing the Allied forces. Whether he will open the inquiry or will be called lat er has not been finally determined. Events preceding American entry (Continued on Page Two.) STATUS UNCHANGED FOR HIGH SCHOOLS Dropping by Southern As sociation Does Not Affect State Rating. Daily Dkiiatcb Bureon, In The Sir Walter Hotel, 11} J. C. BASKERVILL Raleigh, Dec. 11. —The dropping of 47 high schools in North Carolina from the accredited list by the South ern Association of Schools and Col leges is really not so serious, since all of these 47 high schools are still ac credited by the State Department of Public Instruction so that their grad uates will continue to oe accepted by t f 1 11 /> Dq pm PUBLISHED EVERY AFTERNOON EXCEPT SUNDAY. SELASSIE HARD SET AGAINST REWARDING ROME’S AGGRESSION President Quezon m. x m , : :wllßlttHi ’.'via Wm&mF y* . . ;>v m g? l||ir jBBJj ft- Becoming first president or the new Philippine commonwealth, Manuel Quezon is pictured deliv ering his inaugural speech at Ma nila, P. I* This picture Was flown to the United States by the China Clipper. NEW PRESIDENT IN CUBA MAY GET OUT Mendieta Succeeded by Sec retary of State, Who Might Not Last CABINET IS RETAINED Mendicta’s Ministry Re-Appointed and That. May Precipitate New Trouble Before the Com ing Elections. Havana, Dec. 11. —(AP)— Cuba’s turbulent political situation preeipitat ed the resignation of President Carlos Mendieta today, and catapulated Sec retary of State Jose A. Barnet into his office, apparently clearing away obstacles to the holding of the De cember national elections. Mendieta, yielding to the insistancc of powerful political factions which refused to participate in the elections unless he first stepped down, present ed his resignation to the cabinet as a “patriotic duty.” Barnet, 71-year-old veteran of the diplomatic service, automatically be (Coulinued on Page Three.) 1936 Tags Go On Sale Saturday Daily UiH|ta(<-h Uureaa, In The Sir Wnlier Hotel, By J. C. BASKERYILL Raleigh. Dec. 11. —The new 1936 au tomobile license plates will go on sale Saturday morning, December 14, both at the automobile license bureau here and at the more than 60 branch of fices over the State, due to the fact that December 15 falls on Sunday, Commissioner of Revenue A. J. Max well announced here today. Accord on Z?a fr e Six.) 8 PAGES TODAY FIVE CENTS COPY Ethiopia Will Adhere to Its Principle of Territorial And Political Integrity MUSSOLINI SILENT AS EUROPE WAITS Whe.her He Would Agree or Drop an Explosive “No” I ito Diplomatic Ranks Still Is Question; Government Crisis Develops ini Egyp tian Capital. (By The Associated Press) Ethiopia said “No” today to the latest effort to end its East African war with Italy by nego tiations. Scarcely had peace terms, agreed upon by Great Britain and France, been dispatched to Addis Ababa be fore the empire’s minister in Paris announced his government was un alterably opposed to any proposal for settlement of l\.‘ Italo-Ethiopian war which would “reward” Italian “ag gression.” Ethiopia, he added, will adhere to the principle of its territorial and poli tical Integrity. The program of Great Britain and France for peace in East Africa en countered an early obstaclo, with Ethiopian officials asserting Em peror Haile Selassie would lose his throne if he dared to accept the pro posal . The Addis Ababa government au thorizes said northern Tigre province must be kept by Ethiopia, lest na tive chieftains, ordered to retreat, rise in revolt, on grounds that they could have defended the province suc cessfully. These officials described the peace plan and its reported provisions for exchange of land between Italy and Ethiopia as a “reward for Italy for (Continued on Page Six.) Britain To Default On Debt Again London, Dec. 11.—(AP)—The Brit ish government made public tonight the text of a note delivered by the British Embassy in Washington to the State Department again stating that Great Britain declines to make the semi-annual payment due on it 3 war debt to the United States. The amount due December 15 is $117,670,765.05. In its note calling attention that payment was due, the United States (Continued on Page Six.) Government Seeks Delay On Utilities Cummings To Argue Personally in Dis trict; Philadelphia Dismissal Asked. Washington, Dec. 11 (AP) —Attor- ney General Cummings revealed today he personally will argue in the Dis trict of Columbia Supreme Court to morrow the government’s motion to )hold up Injunction suits of seven holding companies challenging the uti lity law’s constitutionality. The decision served to emphasize the importance placed by the admin istration on the controverted New (Continued oo Pago Siz.J ,