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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
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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.
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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.)
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EXCEPT SUNDAY.
Asleep 3 Months
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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
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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.. .