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CENTRAL
CAROLINA
I'WENTY-SECOND YEAR
JAPANESE NAVAL EQUALITY IS REJECTED
TIDE OF REBELLION
TOWARD PEACE IDEA
GROWING IN EUROPE
Sanctions Against Italy May
Be Abandoned if Ethi
opia Rejects New
Proposals.
major concessions
TO ITALY OPPOSED
Many Nations Against Re
warding Mussolini’s Ag
gression; Meantime, Eng
land Consents to Constitu
tional Regime in Egypt as
Hostilities Increase.
(By The Associated I’ross)
A tine of rebellion surged against,
• >,' Im i iico-licit ish proposals for peace
Italy and Ethiopia in East
Alt !<• i today as British diplomacy
■ iHi:;lit to allay another crisis tan;;- I
in’ to the war.
Willi London's consent, King Fuad [
nf Kuypl signed a royal decree re- :
ini in: const it ul ional government to
his mil ion.
Tin relations between efforts to set- j
M' the war as quickly as possible and j
pin ll it>oil on the troubled waters of
politics was pictured in j
i i"tie of Nations circles as due to j
British worry over anti-British dc- j
inuiislrations in Egypt, which com-!
jiluMtcd the Mediterranean embroglio.
French sources today raised the I
j.ossihil 11y that sanctions against j
Italy might he abandoned if Emperor j
llaile rejects Franco-Bi itish 1
j" ■; 1 • plan.-.
OlTicinls indicated France and
1 1it,a 1 Britain would seek to persuade j
1 lie monarch 1o accept negotiations
aim the line presented.
I*. 11 ' British diplomacy, given a sur- i
pri.'i turn at Paris in the rapid draft
ing of proposals to end Italo-Ethio- j
|iian conflict apparently was headed j
-tot my weather at Geneva.
Manv states represented on the ;
League sanctions committee of ’B,
■ Tiled to consider additional penal
ties against Italy for having boon the
ngyressor in the African war, took a
firm stand against major concessions
to Italy at the price of any impair
ment of Ethiopia's sovreignty or;
\v il.inim; of the League covenant. 1
Ethiopia itself formally rejected 1
1 lie proposals today when Emperor J
Haile Selassie at his field hendquart
era in J Jessye, said ti Havas News
A etu y di. patch, said:
"We cannot submit to force which
\vi in -%4 ' provoked, because that
would he rewarding violence.”
Kiom Koine came word that ten
iContinucd on Page Five.)
To Condemn
Post Office
Lunds Here
(im eminent to Pro
ceed Toward A c-
Site for Ad
ditions to Offi ce.
Washington. I»ee. 12 (Al*)—The,
joint treasury post office commit
tee announced today that property
offered by A. It. Wester will he
acquired hy condemnation as a
site for the. addition to the post
office at Henderson, N. 0. The
property the present Fed*
era! sjtr on Winder street.
The site involved is the vac-ant
lot to. (he rear of (he present post
office, and is hounded by Winder
and Wycltc streets. Mr. Wester’s
offer was made. as a represmita
tive of the Henderson Masonic,
bodies, which own the site. The
Masons bought it for $10,009
some 15 years ago, with the ob
ject, of erecting a Masonic, temble,
hot they never did Iniild. The
original offer made hy the Ma
sons when the government asked
for a price is understood to have
hern $20,000. They later dropped
tu $ IX,OOO. The government offer
ed $lll,OOO i, r $ j 2,000, and there the
negot ia I ions deadlocked. Mr.
'tester has understood the govern
oo nt was considering condemna
tion proceedings, even before this
announcement was made, whieh
"as tlie first formal statement of
purpos. by Washington he bad
, hear t
HENDERSON. U.U
tuntnrrsmt -Daily Dtstmfclr
ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA AND VIRGINIA *
leased wire service of
JHE ASSOCIATED PRESS.
Rail Magnate Dies
MANTIS J, VAN bWbHINOLNI
Death Calls
Magnate Os
Rail World
M J Van Swearingen
Dies at Cleveland;
He and Brother
j*
Climbed Rapidly.
Cleveland, Ohio, Dec. 12.—(AP)—M.
J, Van Swearingen, who with' his;
brother, O. P. Van Swearingen, rone
from obscure poverty to build a great,
rail empire, died in a hospital here
today after several months of illness.
Physicians announced the immed
iate cause of death as an inflamma
tion of the muscular portions of the
wall of the heart.
Funeral services will be held at
the Van Swearingen residence Sat
urday afternoon.
The brothers, always in separable,
started life near Worchcstor. Ohio, as
newsboys, coming to Cleveland in
their teens. They secured employment
as office boys ncre.
Seeing possibilities in growing Cleve
land for real estate development, they
entered the business, only to fail. Un
daunted, they learned that 2,000 acres
of land was on the market near Cleve
land. Borrowing money, they purchas
ed options and built one of the most
exclusive suburbs.
In 1916 they learned that the New
York. Chicago and St. Louis railroad
was for sale. They oorrowed 2,000,-
000 from Cleveland hanks and pur
chased it. From what was known as
a “streak of rust,” they turned it into
a paying proposition.
From then on their rise in rail
roading was rapid.
Through holding companies they
controlled more than 21,000 miles of
railroad, with a total value of neany
three billion dollars.
In addition, they erected on Clcvee
land’s public square a 52-story rail
road terminal costing $200,000,000.
FOR NORTH CAROLINA.
Rain tonight and probably Fri
day, except rain or snow in west
portion; slightly warmer on coast
tonight.
Plans For Methodist Union'
In America Are Announced
Washington, h)ec. 12. —(AP) A plan
to bring eight million Methodists to
gether in one united church, after
more than 100 years separation was
disclosed in detail for the first time
tiday.
A judicial council with power lo
rule on the constitutionality of church
conferencee actions is an important
part of the plan. The council S func
tions >vnuirt be somewhat -J>
HENDERSON, N. C„ THURSDAY AFTERNOON, DECEMBER 12, 1935
Eight Who Hold Fate of Bruno Richard Hauptmann
W. L. Hctficld Wm. Wolfskeil Geo. Van Buvkirk Gov. Hoffman
Ea;;t, hope of Bruno Richard Hauptmann to escape death in electric chair
is in possible action of New Jersey's Court of Pardons consisting of the
eight men shown here, the governor, the chancellor and six lav mem- 1
SCHOOL ISSUE MAY
BE DOMINANI ONE
IN 1930 CAMPAIGN
Some Think It May be Only
Really Important Ques
tion in Next General
Assembly.
ALL GUBERNATORIAL
GROUP FAVOR BOOST
Higher Salaries and Longer
School Terms Advocated
By Leading Aspirants for
Democratic Nomination;
Two-Thirds of Taxes To
School Now.
Daily Di.spntcb llureaii.
In The Sir Walter Hotel,
Hy .1. IIASKEItVII.I,
Raleigh, Dec. 12. The public
.schools, and especially the amount
which the State should provide for
their maintenance, has already bc
canic a big issue in the' ctimpaigiv for
the Democratic nomination for gov
ernor, with indications that it may be
come the dominant issue in the cam
paign, more and more of those who
are following the trend of thought
over the State agree. Some think the
question of school support is going
to be the only really important issue
both in the campaign and in the 1937
session of the General Assembly, just
as it. was almost the only big issue m
the 1935 session.
That the candidates for governor al
ready realize the importance of the
school issue and the question of
school support, is attested by the fact
that all four of the candidates have
already declared themselves in favor
(Continued on Page Four.)
Ex-Conservator
Os N. C. Bank Held
For Embezzlement
Greensboro, Dee. 12 (AD—Clyde
VV. Jones* former conservator
of North Carolina Hank & Trust
Company here, was under arrest
today charged witii embezzling $4,-
714 of the bank's funds.
Jones was arrested in Wilson
yesterday on a warrant sworn out
by Frank Chapman, Charlotte ae
eountaiik who is auditing the
books of the hank. The warrant
charges the money was abstracted
over a. period extending from
June, 1933, to February, 1935.
Jones, formerly in charge of the
Tarboro unit of the North Caro
lina Hank and Trust Company, is
reported to have confessed the de
falcation in the presence of State
Examiner Hugh Mel cod, Jr., B.
1,. Hume, current conservator of
the bank, and others.
those of the Supreme Court.
The council idea is incorporated in
a “plan of union,” to consolidate the
three main denominational groups
of Methodists in this country under a
new name, The Methodist Church.
The plan recently was ratified at
Cincinnati by representatives of the
Methodist Episcopal Church, the
Methodist Episcopal Church, South
and the Methodist Protestant Church.
Details wer.e ar.nji.ncei toda-? hv
Nearly Five Million Pounds
Tobacco 8ring5103,113,312
Raleigh, Dec. 12.—-(AP) North
Carolina tobacco growers were paid
approximately $103,113,312 for the
192,893,462 pounds of weed they sold
up to December 1, this year.
The Federal-State Crop Reporting
Service today listed the season aver
age this year up to December 1 at
$20.92 per hundred pounds, as com
pared with $29.04 to this date last
year, and a 1934-35 seasonable aver
age of $28.44.
Last year up to December 1, sales
LIBERTY RESTSON
Governor Sweet Tells Ra
leigh Group of Resettle
ment Purposes
Daily lllsixtli'ii Kurrau,
In The Sir Waller Hotel,
ISy J. O. iJASKEItVII.I,
Raleigh, Dec. 12 —It is not a ques
tion of whether economic security is
more alluring than freedom, it is a
matter of whether there will be any
freedom left in America without eco
nomic security, former Governor
William E. Sweet, of Colorado, ob
served before a public luncheon gath
ering at the Sir Waller hotel here to
day.
Communistic feeling and extreme
social theories, he said, are due to
one thing—poverty.
“If we would save our American
liberties, we should sec to it that in
security and poverty are abolished
from the land,” Governor Sweet de
clared.
Governor Sweet’s appearance here
was sponsored by the Resettlement
Administration, in which he holds
the post of special assistant to Ad
ministrator R. G. Tugwell, with the
Raleigh Chamber of Commerce co
operating. He was heard by a large
,gathering of public officials, civic
and business leaders and regional
executives of the resettlement organ
ization. I-lis subject was: “Resettle
ment, a Project in Human Conserva
tion . ”
The speaker said he was not inter
ested just now in whether or not peo
ple are persuaded to vote the Demo
crat ie ticket. “What I want,” he de
clared, “is for people to be socially
minded administration, well and
good.”
Governor Sweet stressed the “im
portance of social planning,” and,
quoted President Roosevelt as saying
“such planning is essential to the
prosperity and happiness of the Ame
rican people.”
“Millions of persons are stranded
on lands that cannot be farmed pro
(Coutiuued on Page Five.)
Dr. Harry E. Wholever, secretary of
the joint commission on Methodist
union.
Before the plan can go into effect,
it must be approved by the general
conferences of the three major de
nominations. Two of these meet next
May and the southern church two
years later. Then the local churches
must ratify through the annual co»-
ferences. Church leaders are certain
of ultimate approval,
Chancellor Campbell H. B, Well* J. A, Dear J, J. Rafferty
bers. The governor must agree with a majority of six before a sentence k
can be commuted or a prisoner can lie pardoned. The court may visit &
Hauptmann m death cell before rendering decision. (Central Press)
aggregated 375,659,580 pounds.
During November, sales totalled
120,410,094 pounds, at an average of
$20.62 per hundred, compared with,
1934 sales in November of 56,139,310
pounds at an average of $28.12 per
hundred pounds.
Sales to December 1 were estimated
at 88 percent of the expected final
sales, while at the same time last year
90 percent of the crop had been mar
keted.
Wilson led all markets in season’s
sales up to this month, with 64,321,554
761,774,000 Ounces
Silver Purchased
Washington, Dec. 12— (AD—-The
Treasury reported today it had ac
quired 761,774,000 ounces of silver
since the beginning of steps taken
to holster the price of the metal.
This announcement was made
shortly after Secretary Morgenthan
not only denied that the Treasury
had stopped silver purchases, bu(
asserted it had bought every day
this week.
The department said it had aAc
quired 56,94.3,000 fine ounces under
the President’s proclamation of De
cember 21, 1033, which authorized
the purchase of the newly-mine«
product.
ISINMMAKING
John L. Lewis’ Movement
Developing Unexpected
Speed Rapidly.
By, CHARLES P. STEWART
Washington, Dec. 12. —When Presi
dent John L. Lewis of the United
Mine Workers of America resigned
bis vice presidency in the American
federation of Labor and set U l> his
committee for the industrial unioniza
tion of the country’s workers I ven
tured the guess that a national labor
party was in the making.
I admit I didn’t suppose progress
would If* so rapid as subsequent
evtnts indicate.
However, the introduction the other
day of resolutions, at a conference
of Pennsylvania’s anthracite miners,
calling on the A. F. of L. to sponsor
a movement for the formation of an
independent labor party, leaves no
doubt that a formidable element of
industrial unionists is bent on push
ing the fight with no loss of time in
mere preliminaries.
It was a conference, by the way,
over which Lewis presided.
LEWIS MEANS BUSINESS
He means business and in a hurry.
And if ever there was a human dyna
mo it is John L. Lewis.
A. F. of L. spokesmanship tries to
bctlittle his campaign.
For example, the railroad brother
hoods’ organ, “Labor,” strongly in
sympathy with the A. F. of L.’s doc
trine of craft (as against industrial)
unionism, contends that the U. M. W.
president’s resignation from his A. F.
of L. vice presidency would have as
tracted little attention except for the
ability with which he advertised lu
Ah! but he di dadvertise it.
A. F. OF L. WILL NOT COMPLY
The A. F. of L. assuredly will com
ply with no demand that it take the
initiative in the formation of a labor
(Con finijgiJ Pas'? Fiyo \
PUBLISHED EVERY AFTERNOON
EXCEPT SUNDAY.
pounds, ami the November aperage
was $21.16 per hundred. Greenville
was next with 52,308,919 pounds and
last month’s average there was $19.97
per hundred pounds.
In the Old Belt, Winston-Salem led
with season sales of 34,067,160 pounts,
with a November average of $20.89,
while Oxford’s average of $22.95 in
November was the best in the belt.
Henderson’s November sales were
6,764,363 pounds at an average of
$22.27 and season’s sales totalled 18,-
570,219 pounds.
551937
Test Flights Between New
York and England to Start
Next Summer.
Washington, Dec. 12.—(AP)—Plans
to begin a regular scheduled trans-
Atlantic air mail service between Now
York and England were announced
tod&y by R. Walton Moore, assistant
secretary' of state, at the close of con
ferences with British, Irish and Can
adian government officials.
Moore’s statement said the regular
ly scheduled service will involve four
round trips per week.
The service will be operated by tnc
Pan-American Airways, an American
concern, and the British Imperial Air
ways, Limited, using two routes, the
northern airway, via Canada, New
foundland and the Irish Free State,
and the southern route byway of
Bermuda and Porto Rico.
Moore said it was expected experi
mental flights for the service would
begun in the summer of 1936.
Gangland Slaying
New Mystery For
New York Police
Paterson, N. J., Dec. 12 (AP) —A
gangland slaying of Sammy Mandel,
known to police as the “sugar king”
sent officers on a wide manhunt to
day, aided by clues provided by a
semi-hysterical woman.
Mandel was found dying late last
night on a sidewalk outside the wo
man’s apartment by neighbors, who
heard two shots and her screams for
help. They saw two men disappear
in an automobile. The woman, sought
as a material witness under the name
of Anna Caillio, alias Kelly, was
beside Mjandel’s prostrate
form.
Mandel, with two bullet wounds in
the back of his head, died while en
route to a hospital.
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British Dominions Stand
With Mother Country
United States, France
And Italy.
U. S. OBJECTS UPON
NAVAL RACE FEARS
Japan's Proposal, Too, Ig
nores Different Naval
Needs of Powers, Would
Upset Existing Equilibrium
When There is no Real
Need For It.
(By The Associated Press )'
A plan devised by Great Bri
tain and France to solve the
Ttalo - Ethiopian controversy
blocked the League of Nations
plans today to impose an oil
embargo on Italy.
The committee of 18 charged with
taking action on imposing the oil
embargo met at Geneva, but decided
that the League Council would have
to take up the matter of peaee plans
before any action would bp possible.
Consequently the committee of 18
did nothing on the oil sanctions and
the Council will_nicct next Wednes
day.
As far as the combatant nations
themselves were concerned, little was
happening. The Italian government
reported no military activity.
London, Dec. 12 (AP)—Japan’s de
mand for equality in naval strength
was rejected at- the international na
val conference today by the four
other great powers and the British
dominions.
American, British and Italian dele
(Coutinued on Page Two.)
New Trial Denied
Girl Convicted of
Death of Father
Wise, Va., Dec. 12.—(AP)—JudgeH.
W. A. Skeen today denied a new trial
for Ldith Maxwell, 21-year-old school
teacher, sentenced to 25 years for tha
murder of her father.
The court granted a CO-day suspen
sion of sentence in order to permit
the defense to file its application tor
a writ of error to the Supreme Court.
The defendant broke into tears
when tiie judge announced his oral
decision after more than three hours
of argument by attorneys.
“There is evidence upon which this
verdict can stand,” Judge Skeens
said. “Therefore, I overrule the mo
tion of the defense for a new trial.
I rule that the verdict of the jury bo
carried out as provided by law.”
Miss Maxwell, who throughout the
long argument had looked, as De
fense Attorney R. P. Bruce describ
ed her, "youthful, worn and wan,”
wept as Judge Skeens uttered the
words of his decision. She sobbed
audibly.
Morgenthau
Still Buying
Much Silver
Purchases Have Not
Stopped And Some
Made Every Day
This Week.
Washington, Dec. 12 fAP) —Secre-
tary Morgnlhau today denied the
United States had ceased purchasing
silver, and asserted he had bought
the metal every day this week.
“I am continuing to carry out the
mandates of the silver purchase act/’
Morgenthau said. “I have bought sil
ver every day this week, on Monday,
on Tuesday and on Wednesday, in
many, different places.” I
It was on Tuesday the London fcll
ver market collapsed because of a
lack of buyers. Brokers attribiju-d
this condition to a Treasury halt} in
purchasers. *
Morgenthau would not say whetmer
any direct purchases were made*, in
China. '<*
Morgenthau hinted that the silver.
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