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IIUNDMKSON I c ;,\ fLVVAY TO CENTRAL CAROLINA fWENTY-SECOND YEAR Britain Is Seeking Closer Relationships With Hitler Bat Reason Is Not Stated MANEUVER COMES AFTER I MONTHS OF AFRICAN FIGHT Qoncral Discussion of An glo-Gcrman Affairs Had By British Ambassador In Berlin. 4 POWER AVIATION PACT MAY BE AIM Meanwhile, Flame of Re sentment Against British Government for its Peace Proposal is Fanned by Revelation It Had Beer. Pressed on Selassie. ! .Minion. Dec. 14 < AP) A woll-in- I f,,nnril omen disclosed todny that ir.iitain bus suddenly moved to nit'lie elomr relationships with i; isl fii.-hver Hitler of Germany. The move was not explained in of ficial qinrleis. although it came obvi i lv r. ft or six months of European i till moil over the Italian-Ethiopian boa j tilitk’?. Si: Eric Phipps, the British ambus- | ulor to Gei many, was assigned to ! • ,|<(. the iniliativc in Berlin, confer- i in- with Hitler in a general discus- j mu of all Anglo-German problems. The news gave rise to various con i me;, including reports that Great |-.t i! ain was taking the initiative to i, i: inte a four-power aviation pact. There were indications that Sir [•’.l ie’s vi ;it was linked to direct re fri eiiees made by Sir Samuel Hoare. Piiiish foreign secretary, to Anglo i;ei man pioble.ms in his speech of De- j I ember a in the. House of Commons, j Sir Samuel stated that the British j mV' l ament would he. ready to seize j my opportunity which offered itself I fm an .aviation pact and the reduc- | pen us air armaments, which he 1 ci.imied were more urgently needed i Ilian ever. The flume of resentment, against tin* j 't'lvrrmnont for Its Italo-Ethiopian I" ee formula was fanned by the pub li<}tion or a "White Paper” showing lh.it the foreign secretary instruct •il tin British minister to Ethiopia, Sit Sidney Barton, to press Emperor j Haile Selassie urgently for a favor- | able consideration of the “Plan” and | mi no account” to reject it. Make Rigid Probe Over I laupimann (iov. Hoffman De tencls Action in Re opening Case; New Death Hate Fixed. New York. Dec. It fAP)—Governor Harold G. Hoffman of New" Jersey dc el irod today that a searching inquiry into the ease of Bruno Richard Haupt inmm, sentenced to die in the electric '•lniir for the kidnap-murdcr of the l-imlhorgh baby, “is warranted, if only to remove all question of doubt as to his guilt.” Interviewed at the National Repub lican Club, whore he addressed a lun • hron meeting, the New Jersey gover tmi said “in the minds of a great many people there is some doubt whe •he i this case, has been completely 'lived. ” “I am not interested iri nstahlish •ne.iit of Hauptmann’s innocence, but in seeing that New Jersey can render justice without any suspicion of er ror.” The governor defended his action m opening reconsideration of Haupt inann’s case, wlien he visited the con victed Bronx carpenter at the prison "t Trenton, N. J. He would not. how ( v » r, disclose the nature of his con versation with Hauptmann, and re (Continued on Page Six.) weather” n*l{ NORTH CAROLINA. Mostly cloudy tonight and Sun day, followed by rain Sunday ••Kht and in extreme west portion alteration; slightly cooler Oil A,, "Hi i *»asf hioiL r ht. lUrttitersntt -Daily Dtsuatrh ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA AND VIRGINIA WIRE SERVICE OP JHE ASSOCIATED PRESS. U. S. Medical Missionary KiUed In Ethiopia When Inspecting Italian Bomb Sen. Lewis Is Home W&r ife ’ .v.-x. Senator James Hamilton Lewis of Illinois, returns to New York from Russia after recovering from seri ous illness during which his life j hung by a thread for several weeks. | (Central Press) SOCIAL ACT MIGHT BE ALL REDRAFTED ; \ | Money to Finance it Lack ing and Economy Wave Is Surging High Now. BOTH SIDES ANXIOUS Employers and Employes Itching To Know VVliat Their Respective Tax Loads Will Be Under the New Set-Up By CHARLES I*. STEWART C’-entrul Press Staff Writer Washington, Dec. 14. —Both em ployers and employees, I understand, are anxious to know what their re spective tax loads will be when the social security law, enacted at the last session of Congress, begins to take ef fect. The answer is that, the law seems likely to he redrafted at the coming session and never to take effect, in its present form, at all. Money to finance itw as to have come out of the $93,000,000 “third de ficiency bill,” filibustered to death by the late Senator Huey P. Long, just before Congress adjourned the last, time. Until recently it was assumed that tiie 93 millions would he voted upon the legislators’ reassembling in Janu ary, 1936. It doesn’t look so probable now. A Democratic wave of economy has set in. President Roosevelt apparent ly still wants the 93 millions, but the lawmakers, with election day dead ahead, arc unwilling, in considerable numbers, to go on record a.s piling up taxation. A CONGRESSMAN’S REASONING Notably, Congressman James P. Buchanan of Texas speaks for a slash in the 93 millions down to . r >3 or 63. Such a. cut cannot but raise heck with the social security board, which by no means will get all of the 53 or 63 millions, but must split the total with various other emergency setupts. „ . Yes, but, says Congressman Buch anan: , , . “The board has operated, since the social security law was enacted for three months on little or no funds. Why can’t it keep up this econom ical record? makeshift system The board has, indeed, operated on little or no funds” since it was creat- it has borrowed its per sonnel from other New Deal outfite, which had more workers than they needed. It has borrowed office r from the labor department. It has borrowed desks and chairs and filing cabinets and typewriters there as it could gel * p «» ~ ■ j HENDERSON, N. C., SATURDAY AFTERNOON, DECEMBER 14, 1935. Dr. Robert Hockman, Unit ed Presbyterian Worker, Was Handling Unex plodcd Missile. ITALY SEEKING TO PREJUDICE LEAGUE Ethiopia’s Denuncation of Peace Proposal Used As Fulcrum For Propaganda; Cabinet Crisis Develops in London Over Proposal Made For Peace. (By The Associated Press) The death of an American medical j Missionary ii > Ethiopia punctuated today the fretful aftermath of the at tempt by Great Britain and France to formulate terms for peace between Italy and the empire of Haile Selassie j Dr. Robert Vv. Hockman was kill- i ed while handling an unexploded Ital- j ian bomb at Dagg?.h Bur on the south- j am front. Dr. Hockman, who was a United j Presbyterian missionary to Ethiopia, | had removed the detonator and super vised the digging out of the uncxplod projectile recently. He had made a hobby of studying bombs. The Fra neo-British peace proposal, mean while, appeared to have precipitated only a protracted wrangle over the olan between its advocates and those nations aligned solidly against it on the ground that it threatened the foundations of collective security. Britain was in the midst of a poli tical crisis incident to the formula tion of the scheme. from Rome’ indicated the Fascists intended trying to turn the League of Nations against. Ethiopia, using Ethiopia’s denunciation of the peace plan as a fulcrum. Various Italian newspapers assert ed Ethiopia’s “stubbornness” in ap pealing to the League agaipst the pro posals for an exchange of his terri tory with Italy marked it as blame worthy for the East African conflict. The British government crisis was not expected to result in the cabinet’s falling, hut the nation wondered how Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin would he able to support his govern ment’s action before the critical Lab mites and Liberals. Public dissatisfaction with the peace terms extended even to Anthony Eden the “White Knight of the League,” hut the preponderance of speculation centered on the future of Sir Samuel Hoare. the British foreign secretary. Some sources suggested he had no alternative except to resign. Thus. G. Masaryk; Os Czechoslovakia, Quits Presidency Praha, Czechoslovakia, Dec. 14. (AP) —Thomas G. Massaryk, 85 years old, first president of Czechoslovakia, resigned today. Dr. Massaryk was elected first pre sident of Czechoslovakia in 1918 when the nation was granted independence after the World War and the republic as proclaimed. In 1920 the national asesmbly voted him the privilege of remaining presi dent as long as he desired in recog nition of the lifelong works for which he was called the “liberator.” shopping! days until I | I repose I ’ glfe II * Defending Himself a— 1 ■■■" i ■ ■ 1 11 * Gov. Olin Johns tc|i of South Caro lina faces the general assembly in special session tfl) defend himself against charges upon which his im peachment i 3 threatened. ; (Centred Press) OVER ONEfOURTH OF FOOR BILLIONS FUND IS RELEASED $1,068,344,936 Will Be Spent by State Officials Largely in Their Dis cretion. APPROVAL GIVEN BY U. S. COMPTROLLER State Administrators To Have Considerable Lati tude in Expediture of Al lotment Made for Them; North Carolina’s Share Is Sum of $8,226,457. Washington, Dec. 14. —(AP) Lead ers of the relief drive announced to day that Comptroller General J. R. McCarl has released $1,068,344,963 of the $4,000,000,000 jobs fund for ex penditure by State officials of the Works Progress Administration. McCarl, is the arbiter of goverp ment spending. His approval is nec essary before any of the $4,000,000,000 is released). Besides giving the "go ahead” sign on the $1,068,344,963, which is to be expended by states, he also has approved funds for some na tionwide projects under the $4,000,00,- 000 program, Including $40,000,000 for the National Youth Administration. State WPA administrators will have latitude in using projects to prose cute with the $1,068,000,000. McCarl has already approved projects totall ing four times that figure, so the ad ministrators may have leeway in ad justing WPA work to employment op portunities created by other agencies The report of McCarl’s releases showed that New York City had re ceived more than any state. With a quota of about 220,000 jobs, it has been allotted $121,426,872, compared with $50,875,779 for the remainder of New York State. Pennsylvania, with $110,024,164, received the next largest allotment, and the smallest went to Nevada, which received $1,296,416. Other allotments include, North Car olina, $8,226,457. Write Your Letter And Outline Why It Profits To Trade In Henderson Valuable Prizes Will be Given for Best Letters; Simple Rules of the Contest Are Outlined in Double Page Advertisement in This Issue. The Henderson Daily Dispatch to day announces a. letter-writing con test which is open to every person who is a reader of the paper To per sons writing the best letters about our advertisers will be awarded $40.25 in valuable prizes. There is no entrance fee and no red tape of any kind. It is simply an ef fort on the part of the Dispatch to get expressions from its readers as to just what they think of the differ ent firms who are using advertising space in the next few issues. Get your pencil and paper and write a letter of not over 100 words telling why it pays to trade with the firms whose ads appear on pages lour five and six of this issue. You may write * ■~ r ; m letters ,2.s ' f ou desire h Business Races Ahead With Greatest Speed Since 1930, Records For Week Indicate> WPA Workers Will Get Pay Increase In Towns Os 5,000 People And Up Ten Percent Boost in Wages To Become Effective Jan. 2, State WPA Head Says. IT MEANS SIOO,OOO TO 30,000 WORKERS Work Time to Be Cut From 140 to 130 Hours Per Month Next Week; One or More Additional Pay Of fices in; State Also Being Sought by George Coan. Raleigh, Dee. 14.—(AP) —Worker's mi WPA projects in cities and towns over 5,000 population in North Caro lina, who were residents of such com munities December 14, will receive a ten percent increase in pay effective January 2. George W. Coan, Jr., State works progress administrator, estimated the increase would apply to 30,000 of the more than 40,000 now on WPA jobs, and will increase the monthly pay roll by about SIOO,OOO. There has recently been much com plaint over the State about slowness of WPA payrolls and the low wages paid some workers. The increase was not applied for rural workers, Coan said, “for the simple reason that the security wage rate is satisfactory in those rural sec lions, and any increase would be some what competitive with private i ploymcnt and with agriculture.” Workers living outside municipal ities with population over 5,000 but working in the towns or cities, and those working within one mile of the limits of such municipalities, will get tire, increase. Work time for all WPA workers is to be reduced from 140 to 130 hours per month, on December 18, Coan an nounced. He said the policy of paying employees fgo time lost on account of weather, he believed the WPA wages will "compare favorably with prevail ing wages now being paid” to va rious classes of workers according to their skill. The pay increase was ordered by authority of an executive order of President Roosevelt, allowing State administrators latitude in fixing wage schedules. COAN ASKING ADDITIONAL BAY OFFICES FOR STATE Coan today requested Federal au thorities to premit him to establish one or more additional pay offices in North Carolina and to authorize im mediate distribution of food commod ities now stored in ERA warehouses in the State. The request followed many com plaints from all pans of the State that workers on WPA projects were going hungry, due to slowness of dis continued on Fage Six.) they must be written about individual firms and not collectively. You should have little trouble writ ing a nice letter about the business houses who have made this contest possible. They are the leaders in their respective lines and handle only the best. The only requirement is that you must answer the questions asked at. the head of each advertise ment. These ads will appear again next Wednesday and you will be given un til Saturday, December 21, to get your letters to the Dispatch office. The winners, together with the best let ter about each advertiser will be published in a later issue. Get busy today and win one of the f InpoJ n„ TJofrq THl'fl/> \ PUBLISHED EVERY AFTERNOON EXCEPT SUNDAY. Asleep 3 Months 'fg , f . • • . 11 IVIWVa In case paralleling long sleep of Patricia Maguire, Oak Park, 111., ‘sleeping beauty,” Lucille Hartless (above) of Lynchburg, Va., is enter ing the fourth month of coma into which she fell after infantile Daralysis attack. f Central Press) STATE WILL MISS OLD AGE PENSIONS Only Extra Session of Gen eral Assembly Can Put State in Line. OVER 12,000 ELIGIBLES Federal Government Has $49,000,000 Ready A/tcr First of Year, But North Carolina, Act Is Insufficient Daily Dispatch Huresm. In The Sir Walter Hotel, «> J. C. BASK Ell VI 111. Raleigh, Dec. 14.—Although a fund of $49,000,000 will be available Jan uary 1 from which the Federal gov ernment will grant old age assistance to all persons over 65 years old not to exceed sls a month each if the states in which they reside will -.latch whatever the government puts up, those oldesters in North Carolina— between 12,000 and 15,000 of them — who could qualify for this assistance, are not likely to get any of it, in the opinion of Commissioner of Labor A. L. Fletcher. For the Federal old age assistance law specifies that this $49,- 000,000 will be distributed only to • hose states which pass co-operating State laws and which will match the Federal funds dollar for dollar. “The Federal act. does specify tha.t the money used to match the funds which the government will give may be appropriated by counties, cities or towns instead of by the State,” Commissioner Fletcher said. “But it also specifies that this money pro vided by the counties, cities and towns must be raised under a uniform State law, applying alike to all the subdi visions. But at the present time, every county or city raises whatever funds it provides for poor relief according to a different plan and according to its own needs. So it would seem that despite the fact that the various sub divisions are raising hundreds of thousands of dollars by various meth ods for the relief of the poor and aged that none of this money can be used to match allotments from the old age assistance fund.” Accordingly, indications are that unless a special session of the gen eral assembly is called, the 12,000 to 15.000 old people in the state who are more than 65 years old and without any income or means of support, will have to go without this money which the Government has placed almost within their reach. This in turn means that the counties, cities and towns in which they live will either have to assume the full cost of caring for them, since the Government has stop ped direct relief for unemployables, or else let them become dependent upon ; "olunteer t T *oiatcd oiil 8 PAGES TODAY FIVE CENTS COPY TOPS WEEKBEFORE WITH HEAVY GAINS Records Crowded Off As* sociated Press Board To Make Room For New Ones This Week. HISTORY IS WRITTEN BY POWER INDUSTRY Grinds Out Greatest Qu&n* tity of Electricity Ever; Generated in One Week;' Steel Mills Hit Best Mid* December Activity Sincq December, 1930. New York, Dec. 14 (AP) Business jammed a heavy foot on the recovery accelerator this week and raced ahead at the speediest clip since June, 1930. In reaching the highest levels in five years. The Associated Press ad justed index of industrial activity topped its peak of 86.0 last week to finish at 86.7, compared with 65.0 in the like 1931 week. Records were crowded off the board to make place for new ones; the automobile produc tion index, which soared to the pin nacle last week reached in November, 1929, and by the cat-loadings index which jumped to the highest mark since November, 1931. The power industry made history by grinding out the hugest amount of electricity ever generated in one week —1,969,662,000 kilowatt hours, 13 per cent ahead of the corresponding week a year ago. Steel mills struck their best mid- December activity since 1929, al though some slackening occurred, in line with the usual slowing down of operations at the end of the year. Cotton manufacturing, which last week tilted ahead to a new 1935 high, held its pace steadfastly. Construction—one of the steel in dustry’s pillars of hope—reported the sharpest advance over last year yet (Continued on Page Six.) NEW AUTO PLATES ARE PUT ON SALE At State Office in Raleigh And 50 Branch Offices Over State. Unlly lUwpnteh Rurenn, In The Sir Walter Hotel, l!y J. lIASKERVILL Raleigh, Dec. 14.—The new 1936 automobile license plates went on sale this morning at the motor vehicle bureau of the State Department of Revenue here, likewise at the more than 50 branch Offices scattered over the State. The demand for new lic ense plates here was not heavy, but a good many cor owners evidently de cided to buy their new plates before the rush starts. Every preparation has been made by Director R. R. McLaughlin, of the (Continued on Page Three.) N. C. To Get $53,000f0r Child Work Raleigh, Dec. 14 fAP) —Estimating that North Carolina may get $53,000 for child welfare work from the Fed eral government under the social se curity program, representatives of va rious Statewide agencies, with State welfare officials, today had started to work out the comprehensive pro gram for expansion of the work ia the State. The funds are to be allotted to the various states on the basis of plans developed jointly by the State agency and the children’s Bureau, with the ratio of the rural population of each to the total rural population of the United States having a definite bear ing upon the amount each State will receive. The Children’s Bureau has placed this State’s figures at $53,000, thirct highest grant in the nation.. .