Henderson daily dispatch., December 16, 1935, Image 1

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HENDERSON
GATEWAY TO
CENTRAL
CAROLINA
|\\ KNTY-SECOND YEAR
Philadelphia Scion \
Believed Victim Os
i V. York Kidnapers
Caleb J. Milner, 4th, Bcenj
Missing Since Last Sat
urday Night From
Apartment
note been received
asking sum money
'
federal G-Men Join In
Search With New York’s
“Scotland Yard” for Mem
ber of Wealthy Philadel
phia Textile Family;
Brother Gets Kidnap Note
y a Ynk. Pec. 10.—(AP) —Spurred
t ■.ilor’.s stow and the grow
„ , i, Hi i ui relatives, Caleb J. Mil
eh nad been kidnaped Cor ran
.•ials today intensified their
.fn: tin' 2 1-year-old scion of one j
j’!:;; i,I 'lpliia's first families.
Tii, ninth's grandfather, Caleb Mil-:
; ,i . letired textile magnate reluc-I
•A id with the kidnap theory.!
If,- ]; i j ’eviously scoffed at abduc- j
\\ : Federal G-Men joined New
Y 1 1. State's “Scotland Yard” in the 1
.n il fin the handsome young actor,
.1 Schwartz, whose tailor shop is!
i in- • the street from the modest;
Mini i\ Hill apartment of Caleb and j
In- brother, Frederick; told how a. j
:;imc man accosted them last Mon- i
,!:iy night. It was through Frederick
"i;. 11 . i in" note indicated Caleb was
kidnaped on his disappearance hist
s in day night.
We have your 'mother in the coun- i
n\ the letter postmarked Pough- ,
krepsic. N. Y., said then added ‘‘keep
touch with your grandfather in
Philadelphia and have a -arge sum of j
< i-n available.”
The note was written in newspaper j
Vllrrs pasted on a sheet. It was sign-;
id also in newspaper type "Zwttler.” '
Clan ne 1 D. McKean. New England
chief of Department of Justice agents,
aid at Poston that Federal men had
In i'ii called in. The investigations
wive eoaduet ed in utmost secrecy.
Kajcial authorities here refused to
discuss the ease.
Patrol To Starr
Punching License
r-» . *
First of the Year
llnil.v |)is|i;ili'h lliircan.
in The Sir Walter Hotel,
in .1. f. II \SK lalt \ 11.1,
llalcigli, l)ee. 1ft —Stale liigli
tuit patrolmen will start ptineli
iitg Hie drivers* licenses of till
drivers wo are arrested, stopped
or warned for various trsiffie law
violation on and after January !•
Captain Charles I). farmer said
today. In addition, the name and
address of every driver, the num
ber of his driver’s license and the
violation will lie taken down and
sent in to the central of the of
fice of the partol here, where it
will be made a part of the record
"f that driver in the files where
the duplicate licenses sire kept.
In addition the driver’s permit
nf every driver arrested or stop
ped will he punctured or insirked
according to a special code so that
an> patrolman in smy part of the
*tnt<> ran look at the driving per
mit and tell whether or not the
driver lias been arrested before
ami if so for what violations.
VERMONT’S ACT ON
INCOMES INVALID
I axed incomes ! From In
vestments Outside High
er than Those Within
Washington, Pec. 10 CAP) --On the
I’l otiud Itu y “violate the life of na
fioiial citizenship,” sections of the
Vermont income and franchise tax
net of 193 J that impose larger tax on
income from investment outside the
tate than on those within the state,
were held invalid today by the Su
preme Court.
Justice Southerland delivered the
>ix-t.hrci opinion. Justices Stone,
Hi audios and Cardozo dissented.
Vermont Supremo Court had upheld
the tax.
Southerland id the section vio
l;ited the constitutional provision
Hi.it no stale should abridge the right
"I citizens of United States.
VIVIMIK
• Oil NORTH CAROLINA.
Partly cloudy, slightly cooler in
central portion tonight; Tuesday
cloudv and unsettled; possibly
fain Tuesday nights
•HnttU'rsmt Batin tltsrwtrh
ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA AND VIRGINIA
J t ; imc l 'a L L w M IIO service of
1 11 L ASSOCIATED I’UESS.
Cuba’s President
mm 11
x : -
Jose A. Barnet
•Jose A. Barnet,, 71, is serving
ns provisional president of Cuba
until May 20, following his selec
tion by tlie cabinet and council of
state meeting jointly as an elec
toral college. A constitutional
president of Cuba will bo elected
Jan. 10, but the victor will not be
inaugurated until May 20. Bar
net, as secretary of state, took
over the reins of government
when Carlos Mendieta resigned.
NO WAY 10 BLOCK
JAPAN’S EXPANSION
Her Nearness to North
China Gives Everything
• In Favny of Program :
WOULD BE EXPENSIVE
Line of Communications Could Hardly
Admit m‘ Clipping; Seizure of
Chinese Territory Offers
Open Road
By Cl IA RULES I*. STEWART
Central I’rcss Staff Writer
Washington, Dec. 16. —Naval ex
perts, asked how Japan’s expansion
in northern China can be stopped,
practically arc unanimous in expres
sion of the opinion that it simply
can't be done.
A glance at a map of the mikado’s
island chain, and of the Asiatic main
land coast opposite, tells the story.
Between the islands and the main
land is the Sea of Japan, a narrow
body of water not much greater in
area than the Great Lakes’ combined
areas. Soldiers “ad lib” can be fer
ried across it from Nippon at the rate
of three or four hours per shipload.
The coaslal mainland soil is Japanese
also; there can he no resistance to
their landing.
At each end of the Sea of Japan
there is a very narrow strait. There
also are a, few narrow, tortuous,
t reacherous, passageways between the
islands. All authorities agree that
tiie.se channels easily could be so min
ed as to make it. suicidal for a hostile
ship to try to run any one of them.
LINE OF COMMUNICATIONS
The Japanese, then have a lino of
communications dependably open to
them, to what they seek to make their
sphere of influence in northern main
land China —a line of communications
which naval officers say couldn’t be
interrupted by the combined sea force
(Continued on Page Eight.)
Rush For New Licenses
Is Heaviest On Record
Dnilj DifUintch Hiircim.
Di The Sir Waller llotei,
Hy .1. C, UASlil4ltVM.fi
Raleigh, He<v 16—Automobile
Owners lire rushing to buy Iheir
new 1936 license plates as never
before and sales by the motor vc
liiele, bureau here Saturday, both
direct to owners and by mail,
were the largest on record for
any opening day, Department of
Revenue officials said today. I lie
lobby of the revenue building is
crowded again today with owners
standing In line waiting to get
their new licenses in spite of the
HENDERSON, N. C., MONDAY AFTERNOON, DECEMBER, 16, 1935.
WPAIO SPEED UP
PAY FOR WORKERS
FAST AS POSSIBLE
State Administration At
tempting To Cut Red
Tape That Is Gum
ming up Operations
PROSPECTS ARE NOT
VERY HOPEFUL NOW
All Pay Checks Written in
U. S. Treasury Disbursing
Office in Raleigh Which Is
Not Directly Under WPA
at All, Bus Is Operated As
Separate Unit
Daily I lispiitrl. Huri-:i«i,
In Tin* Sir \V:ilt«*r lltrlrl
II? ,1. C. ItASK 10It V 11,1.
Raleigh, Dec. 16—The Works Pro
gress Administration offices here arc
doing everything possible to speed up
the issuance of pay checks to work
ers and permission is being sought
from Washington to establish some
htanch disbursing offices so that
every payroll will not have to he sent j
here to Raleigh in ordei to get the |
pay checks made out, it was stated j
at the State WPA offices here today j
by YV. H. James, director of the di
vision of information. But unless the I
authorities in Washington agree to
the establishment of two or three j
branch offices for the writing of pay |
checks, some delay is hound to result :
in the payment of WPA workers, |
James said.
"Under the present system, a min- 1
imurn of five days is required to issue
pay checks to WPA workers after
they have completed two weeks work,”
James said. “This means that they
cannot possibly get their pay checks
in less than IB days after they first
start work on a project, although they
should get their checks every 15 or
16 days thereafter if there is no other
delay. We are ho.ping however that
some plan can be evolved whereby
the pay checks can be issued within
a shorter time.”
The reason five days are now re
quired even with no delays, for WPA
workers to get their checks, are as
follows:
One day is required after the work
ers complete 11 days of work for the
foremen to make out their time
sheets and turn them over to the pay
masters.
These time sheets arc then sent in
to the office of the district director
of the WiPA, who must check them
and approve them and send them to
the Departments of Accounts of the
central WPA office - here in Raleigh,
which requires another day.
One day is required in the Depart
ment of Accounts, to check the time
sheets and to sec if they are
correct.
The time sheets, from which the
checks for the payroll arc made out.
arc then sent to ’ the Disbursing de
partment, where another day is re
quired to make out the pay checks.
•When the checks are finally writ
(Continucd on Page Eight.)
NO DECISION YET
G.O.P. CONVENTION
J
List Narrows Down to Chi
cago, Kansas City and
Cleveland for Meet
Washington, Dcc.v 16.—(AP)—Bid
ding for the 1936 Republican conven
tion definitely nafrowed down today
to Cleveland, Chicago and Kansas
City.
As a decision neared Chairman
Henry P. Fletcher drew applause
from the National Committee with
the assertion that “We all know that
the New Deal is slipping” and we
“got the Democrats on the run.’
Anxious to have convention city
chosen quickly Mark L. Reuna, Cali
fornia committeeman, pushed through
a resolution to have the order of busi
ness changed so applications of the
bidders could be heard this morning.
nearness of Christinas.
“It certainly looks as if the de
pression is over—and it certainly
looks good to me,” said George
Scott, director of the Division of
Accounts. ?A»d every mud is
bringing in thousands of checks
for licenses to be sent by mad. if
this only keeps up, we will be able
to get all the licenses sold and
mailed out to car owners before
January 1 and be able to avoid
the rush that usually develops the
last few days. But that is almost
too much to h n n<; f-ji.’
Great Britain Preparing
Counter Attacks On Critics
Anglo-French Peace Plan
CRITICS SAY PLAN
WILL BREAK DOWN
SELASSIE KINGDOM
British Cabinet Called Into
Emergency Session As
Serious Situation
Arises
FASCISTS TAKE THE
DEFENSIVE IN SOUTH
Italy’s Weary Southern
Forces Brace for Attack of
40,000 Ethiopian War
riors; General Says Henry
Ford Has Held Up Ship
ment of 800 Tractors
(Copyrighted by The Associated
Press.)
A counter attack on critics of the
Anglo-French plan for ending the
Italo-Ethiopian war is in preparation
by the British government.
In receipts of a crescendo of pro
tests against what sharp shooters of
the plan contend is a formula for dis
membering the kingdom of Haile
Selassie, Prime Minister Baldwin, in
formed sources said today in collect
ing material for presentation to the
House of Commons.
The British cabinet, in token of the
seriousness in which Britain has re
ceived the storm of criticism at
Geneva and in various European cap
itals, invoked by publication of the
Paris scheme for ending the war, met
in emergency session.
News of the distinctly different
flavor came meanwhile from the
southern front, the area which Pre
mier Mussolini would garner many
thousands of squaj’A miles if the
Franco-British plan is accepted with
out reservations—that it will not be—
was regarded ds ai foregone con
clusion.
There, where General Graziani a
few weeks ago was pushing persis
tently northward to establish an
Italian corridor between northern
and southern Ethiopia, the Fascists
conceded that it had taken the de
fensive.
From 8010 came a report that
Italy’s weary southern forces were
braced for an attack expected mo
mentarily from a mass of 40,000 Ethi
opian warriors.
The Italian commander on the
Southern front attributed to Henry
Ford, the American automobile manu
facturers “Private sanction,” which
he said, has held up his northern
drive. Ford, he said, railed to deliver
800 catapiller tractors, which had
been contracted and paid for.
Grocer Norris Guilty
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George W, Norri»
Convicted of perjury, “Grocer”
George W. Norris, formerly of
Broken Bow, Neb., faced a maxi
mum penalty of five years im
prisonment and a $2,000 fine. He
was charged with testifying false
ly before a U. S. senate commit
tee which investigated his attempt
to become a candidate against
Senator George W. Norris c* Ne
braska in the 1930 primary elec
tion campaign. He wa» put
bv some of the opponent? of 2: ~
.Lto. Norrij.
FIRE RUINS U. S. DOCUMENTS
Aerial view of new $10,000,000 building
Legislative investigation into possible incendiary origin of an eight
and-onc-half-hour fire which swept through the sixth floor file room
of the now $10,000,000 postoffice department building in Washing
ton, was indicated as government officials began reviewing the dam
age. Forty firemen were overcome by smoke as they battled the
fire, which broke out in the offices of the reclamation bureau of the
lepaitmcnt ol the interior and federal communications commission.
SNATCH VICTIM HAS
BEEN FOUND ALIVE
Nocolas Castano, Kidnaped
Week Ago, Found by
Army Searchers
Havana, Cuba, Dec. 16 (AP)- Nico
las Castano, millionaire, who was kid
naped a week ago and held for $500,-
000, ransom was found alive today by
the Cuban army.
Details of Castano's recovery or
whether the huge ransom had been
paid were not immediately available.
Police believed that the kidnaping
was staged by Leftist revolutionary
groups. Thousands of men had been
called into the search for the wealthy
snatch victim, including national
army, natives and police.
Army headquarters announced sol
diers had found Castano and his
chauffer hidden in a house near the
town Santiago De Las Decas on out
skirts of Havana.
Two men guarding the prisoners
were arrested, it was stated. Castano
appeared to be in good health.
Army officials announced the two
captured were Lilio Esteze and Vin
cent Martinez.
PRISON POPULACE
8,513 DECEMBER 1
Releases Greater Than
Number of Prisoners Re
ceived in November
Daily DispaDH lliircnti.
In The Sir Waller llolel,
It' J. C. BASKEIIVILIi
Raleigh, Dec. 16.—There were 8,513
prisoners in the North Carolina prison
system December 1, while 10,180 pri
soners were handled during the
month of November, according to the
figures made public today by Acting
Director Oscar T. Pitts of the prison
division of the State Highway and
Public Works Commission. A total of
1,594 new.prisoners were received dur
ing November, while 1,667 prisoners
were released, of which only 61 were
paroled.
Only 41 prisoners escaped during
November as compared with 76 es
capes in October, a decrease of 46 per
cent, Pitts pointed out, while 56 es
caped prisoners were captured and re
turned —or 15 more than escaped.
There are several reasons for the re
duction in the number of escapes, ac
cording to Pitts. The first factor is
greater vigilance on the part of
guards and prison camp superinten
dents. Another is better morale among
the prisoners, due largely to the bet
ter food and more carefully prepared
food upon which the prison division is
now insisting. Still another factor is
that it is winter time and the prison
ers are assured of a warm, comfort
able place to sleep and three good
meals a day—more than many would
r\r\ Doff/J TTi crV» f >
PUBLISHED EVERY AFTERNOON
EXCEPT SUNDAY.
Upswing To
$ Continue In
Coming Year
And Higher Prices
Will Prevail, Ayres
Thinks; Would Re-
Elect Roosevelt
liy LESLIE EICHEL
Central Press Staff Writer
New York, Dec. 16.—Business sta
tisticians and economists are predict
ing increased business and higher
prices for 1936. Colonel Leonard P.
Ayres of the Cleveland Trust com
pany, most widely quoted of the busi
ness statisticians, looks for an ap
proximate 10 per cent increase in 1936.
If so, President Roosevelt can go
before the country with the old Re
publican slogan, “A Full Dinncrpail.”
But will prices hold up till Novem
ber, 1936?
Stimulation of business now is look
ed upon by conservative economists
as artificial. When the stimulation
wears out, will prices crash one more?
A few days ago the United States
government failed to support the sil
ver price—and the silver price crash
ed all over the world.
There cannot be an endless support
of artificially.
But the question remains will
prices hold up till after the 3936 clcc
< ion ?
FARMERS BETTER OFF
Farmers now arc better off than
they have been at any time since the
beginning of their depression. Their
depression began immediately after
the end of the World War.
The latest estimates of farmers’ in
come are at hand up to Nov. 1. For
the first 10 months of 1935, farm in
come from marketing was $5,099,000,-
000, an incerase of 5.8 per cent over
last year, according to the Alexander
Hamilton Institute.
And, on top of that, the purchasing
power of farmers showed a .6 per cent
(Continued on Page Eight.)
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JAPANESE SEE
vital mm
Student Demonstration
Breaks Out In Peiping;
Hostilities Renewed
In Chahar
ATTACKERS DRIVE OUT
LAST OF CHINESE
Last Element of Central
Chinese Government Gone
From Hopei, Says Japa
nese; Few Casualties On
Both Sides In Taking Os
Hangku, Vital Seaport
(By The Associated Press.)
Kalian, Chahar Province, China—*
Japan extended its way deeper intq
North China today, incoming troops
armed with bayonets and machine
puns taking posts around the railroad
station of this interior gateway city
on the Great Wall.
Swift coup by Japanese gave them
control of the vital railway here. It
accompanied seizure by arm forces of
the Japanese appointed Hopei au«
tonomous of Hangku, strategic sea*
port and railway center, 300 miles ta
the south.
Student demonstrations against tli€l
establishment of a semi-autonomy
government for Charhar and Hopei
provinces broke out again in Peiping,
Hopei province. Chinese reports said
hostilities weer renewed In eastern,
Chahar between Chinese forces and
forces of the north Japanese advised
state of Manchoukuo.
Action at Hangku brought the mili
tary force of Hopei autonomons state
into action for the first time.
The attackers moved into the port
twenty-seven miles east of Tientsin
after a brief battle with the retiring
garrison. A few men were reported
killed on both sides.
Japanese reports said the result was
complete withdrawal of Chinese
forces from Hangku, removing tho
last element of central Chinese gov
ernment authority.
The leaders of Hopei autonomy
stated a score of counties distinct
from the semi-autoonomy government
set up later for all Hopei and Chahar
provinces, were working in close co
operation with Japanese military. In
formed sources anticipated that Jap
anese wishes would be carried out
speedily under the new Hangku re
gime. - .
ERA SURPLUS FOOD
MAY NOW BE USED,
Hopkins Asked To Permit
Distribution in WPA
Emergency Here
llsiily IJiM|»ti(rh Hurt-nn.
la The Sir Walter Hole*.
II y J. V. II ASK Hit VILI,
Raleigh, Dec. 16.—Not only has the
North Carolina Works Progress Ad
ministration announced that it will
increase the wage scale on city pro
jects 10 per cent effective January 1,
but it is also seeking permission from
Washington to distribute surplus sup
plies, such as food and clothing which
were still on hand when the old Em
ergency Relief Administration closed
up all its activities some ten days ago,
it, was learned here today. WPA of
ficials were reluctant to talk about
this proposal to distribute the left
overs from the old ERA to those who
have teen cut off relief and for whom
no employment has yet been provid
ed, saying that nothing definite haij
been done as yet. But several admit
ed that the request has been sent to
Washington for permission to extend,
sume kind of assistance to those who
have not yet been placed on work pro
jects.
Whether National WPA Adminis
trator Harry L,. Hopkins will agree tc|
this suggestion, no one knows. But in
view of his oft-repeated statements to
the effect that the Federal govern
ment is not going to let any onei
starve or go hungry and similar as
surances by the President, a good
many here believe that Hopkins will
ten, they must be returned to the pay
masters, requiring a fifth day—if the
mails are prompt.
If the district offices could be given
the authority to issue the payroll
checks, or even if two or three branch
offices of the accounting and disburs
ing department could be established,
say, at Asheville, Charlotte and Wins
ton-Salem, to handle the payrolls for
the counties in those sections, the Ra
leigh offices could easily handle those
for all the eastern counties it is point
ed outj. It is estimated that with an
arrangement of this sort, the pay
checks could he issued within a per
iod of two or three days at the most.
Since the writing of all WPA pay
checks is done in the disbursing office
of the U. S. Treasury establishment
here, and is hence not under the
WPA at all, it is regarded as doubtful
if the method of payment will be
(Continued on Pago Eight,),