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HENDERSON
\ I EWAY TO
CENTRAL
CAROLINA
I'WKNTY-SECOND YEAR
Japs Will Reject
New Naval Accord
At Thursday Meet
Other Delegations Expected
To Express Their Objec
tions Tomorrow or
Friday.
LONG RECESS WILL
LIKELY BE ORDERED
Appears Likely After U. S.
And Italian Delegates Con
fer; Latter Wish To Go To
Rome For Holidays And
Also to Confer With Pre
mier Mussolini.
Poe. 18 (AP) -Great Bri
p|;tn for a new naval agreement
>v Ir. acted tomorrow by the Japa
, , tlion to the international
1 :iv;< | (inference.
delegations were expected to
, v ., r , their opinions on the propo-
f t imnrrt»w or Friday.
Hi, British plan involves public dc-
I*] if 11 ion by each naval power that
,1: in ion of tin eventual equality of
'li i' hotild be dropped at the pre
-iMit ••(.inference.
A recess in the sessions until Jan
n:i.rv •*>, instead of January 2, was
Co;i iilered likely as the result, of
jaivste talks aiming American and
ItHlitni delegates.
If was expected that the confer
ence would have virtually a clean
kite before the planned recess Sat
urday aftefc the expressions have
t'C'ii made on the British p]an.
Thus there would be opportunity
for a fortnight of maneuvering and
private discussions before resump
tioir of attempts to work out other
• i>mjvomisc formulas.
The Italian suggestion for a long
c- leccus than was originally planned
was not. explained, but it was pro
mued tlN'.v desired to return to Borne
Ini the (Holidays and possibly to con
fii with Premier Mussolini. Upon
thi'ir return they were expected to
tike a more important part in the
deliberations. especially when any
• ine lio i concerning the Mediterran
ean arises.
Norman If. Davis, Admiral William
U. and other members of
•In American delegation, called on the
Italian representatives for a general
• xchangc of views. It was undcr
'fuocl no conclusive agreement was
reached on any major aspects of the
am 11 it nation.
GEORGE OLVANY, JR.,
DIES FROM SHOTS
New Yolk, Dec, 18.—(AP)— George
Olvany. Jr., 22, found shot in the
head tn the grounds of a Saranaae.
l.ake hol d the morning of December
to, nftrr leaving a friend a. note in
dicating he planned suicide, died to
day. He was the sou of a former
Tammany Hall political chieftain.
The youth with two bullet wounds
m his head, was brought to a New
York hospital last Friday for an op
• r it ion. aLte yesterday his condition
grew suddenly worse.
hounded Arriving
From Battle Front
In North Ethiopia
Asmara, Eritrea, Dec. 18 (AP) —
fVorrs of wounded, including several
officers came out of the Takkazc riv
er front today. They wer the first
cm aialtios from a. battle which has
been in progress there for three days.
For many hours the outcome of the
engagement, which officers regarded
: 's highly important, was in doubt.
Details were scanty, but the Italians
were confident that reinforcements
would decide the battle in their favor.
Officers suggested the Ethiopians
might ultimately find their retreat
cut off and be compelled to surrender
nr be annihiliated.
It was considered ironic that the
Ethiopian Attack had the holy city of
Aksum, now in Italian hands, would
have been returned to Ethiopia under
I hc terms of the Franco-British peace
plan.
Lindbergh Case Not Yet
Solved, Hoffman Thinks
Trenton, N. J., Dec. 18 (AP)—Gov
'•rnor Harold G. Hoffman said today
he was satisfied the Lindbergh baby
niurder-khiuMp case had not been
fully solved, but that he had never
“xpressed any element of doubt as to
Liuno Richard Hauptmann’s guilt.”
Hauptmann Sands guilty,” he said,
a.i convicted by the courts.”
Asked if he believed the "ultimate
solution 0 f case had been reach
ed, tin governor said..
iirttJiersmt Haflu Diapatrfa
DP A SKI» AVI UK SERVICE Ol
‘Dll, ASSOCIATED PRESS.
Townsendite Wins
For Congress
Ilk
V«r»i*r W. Main
|raß|| Republican
By a large manority, Vernon W.
Main, Republican and advocate of the
Townsend S2OO per month old age
pension plan, won the election rut-
Congress in .one Michigan district
yesterday over Howard W. Cavanagli,
Democrat.
METHOD OF SALES
FOR 1936 BATTLE
E *
Seems Generally Conceded
IS>37 Legislature Will En
' act Some Statewide
i* Measure.
GOVERNOR GROUPS
TO KEEP SILENCE
Expected to Say as Little as
Possible About Liquor,
Other Than to State Their
Individual Positions; Hoey
Reported Willing to Let
Assembly Say.
Daily Di*iuit<*h Bureau,
In ’ll.«• Sir Wiittcr Hotel,
By .1. C, HA3KEItVIL.iI
Raleigh, Dee. 18.—The liquor ques
tion is no longer going to be a major
issue in the campaign for governor,
due to the fact that to all intents and
purposes the State ha.s already voted
on liquor, according to most of the
political observers here. They arc
convinced that, regardless of the posi
lion taken by the various candidates
for governor and of who is nominat
ed and elected, the 1937 General As
sembly will pass some sort of liquor
control and liquor sales law. For even
if Calc K. Burgess and the United
Dry Forces try to elect dry Demo
crats and even dry Republicans to the
1937 General Assembly, as they have
indicated they will try to do, most ob
servers here are already convinced
that the 1937 assembly will be pre
dominantly in favor of liquor control
and liquor stores, with the only issues
whether they shall be under State
control or county control, and which
shall get the revenue, the State or
(Continued on Page Two.i
“In my opinion, it lias not. No
State official is warranted in think
ing that it has, and saying that the
books arc closed. You can’t quote me
however, as there is any ele
ment of doubt as to Hauptmann s
guilt. The courts have passed on
that. ”
Questioned whetfter that statement
meant he believed Hauptmann guilty,
the governor replied:
"Hauptmarv stands guilty as con
victed bv the courts. ’ ..... .
ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA AND VIRGINIA
Italy Claims Huge Victory
In Battle On North Front
Rome, Dec. 18. —(AP) —The Italian
government announced today its
North Ethiopian army had defeated
the Ethiopians in a three-day battle
along the Takkazc river, killing 500
warriors.
The Italian dead in the battle were
announced as 272 officers and men.
The area fought over included the
££ S. Public
Debt Above
30 Billions
Washington, Dec.’lß (AP)*—The
national debt reached $30,555,791.-
907 today passing the 30-billion
dollar mark for the first time in
history.
The new high was caused by
mid-December financing opera
tions. which added $902,039,937 to
the debt.
The debt was near the figure es
timated by President Roosevelt
for the end of the fiscal year next
•June 30—30,723.000.000.
The deficit today stood at sl,-
006.711375, compared with a year
end estimate of $3,281,000,000. F,x
penditlires were $3,307,348,286,
compared with full year estimates
of $7,752,332,000.
These figures indicated to some
the possibility that the public
debt, when the 1936 fiscal year
closes next June, may exceed the
President's September estimates.
Receipts for the present fiscal
year through December 16, were
$1,706,636,910, compared with sl,-
663.891.727 iu the same period last
year, despite a big lag in process
ing tax payments pending court,
challenges of the AAA. Collec
tions of this tax have amounted
to $65,000,000 this year, as against
$263,000,000 last year.
The $3,307,000,000 expenditure
figure compared with $3,243,000,-
000 last year.
“Emergency” spending stood at.
$1,411,000,000, compared with sl,-
723,000,000 in 1934.
HINT SALES TAXERS
URGING DOWELL ON
His Influence Against Levy
Makes Its Foes Want Him
Silenced.
Daily Dispatch Bureau,
In The Sir Walter Hotel
By J. C. BASKERVILL
Raleigh, Dec. 18.—If Willard L.
Dowell yields to the urging he is re
ceiving from many quarters to be
come a candidate for State auditor
in the Democratic primary in June,
the merchants and the anti-sales tax
forces in the 'State will lose the ablest
and hardest fighter they have ever
had here during legislative sessions
watching out for their interests and
opposing the sales tax, most of those
here who know Dowell and have ob
served him in action agree. In fact
Dowell is generally conceded to be the
most potent one-man lobby who has
ever worked a legislative session in
(Ocntiii—cd. on Thro/, \
HENDERSON, N. C., WEDNESDAY AFTERNO ON, DECEMBER 18, 1935..
NEW $1 BILLS HAVE GREAT SEAL OF U. S. ON BACK
| Uncle S*m turn* money for ritir.ent,
1 Iktc u:v only minor changes on the luce ol the
new $1 bills being distributed to banks throughout
the United States, but the backs—well—there's a
imw de, ign on them. The new bill presents both
sides of the great, seal of the United States on the
b'teh |he obverse of the seal is the familiar eagle
design with the motto “E pluribus Unum”. The
reverse, presented for the first time on any money,
has as its motto “Annuit Coeptis" above and
“Novus Ordo Seclorum” below, meaning, respec
tively, "He (God) prospered our endeavors" and
"A new order of the ages." Government printing
presses turning out the bills in Washington and
the new designs on back of bills arc shown above.
villages of Mai Timchet and Demba
Gruine.
The communique was based on a
report made to Rome by General
Badoglio, commander of the Italian
armies in the field. He reported:
“A battle initiated December 15 be
tween Mai Timchet and Demba
Gruine was concluded December 17.
"Our forces attacked an Ethiopian
column which had made a flanking
HANCOCK WILL NO!
OPPOSE 1. BAILEY
;
Oxford Congressman to Run
For and Likely be Re-
Elected to House.
Daily Diapatcli Burma.
In The Sir Walter Hole.,
By J. C. BASKEItVILL
Raleigh, Dec. 18. Congressman
Frank Hancock of Oxford, Granville
county, is not going to oppose Senator
Josiah W. Bailey for the senatorial
nomination in the 1936 June primary,
but instead will be a. candidate for re
nomination to succeed himself in Con
gross, according to the prevailing be
lief both in political circles here and
in his own district. Visitors hero to
day both from Surry and Granville
counties expressed the emphatic be
lief that Hancock would not run a
gainst Bailey, but that he woUiu seek
the renomination to the lower house
of Congress from the fifth district.
Nor will former State Senator John
A. Folger, of Mt. Airy, Surry county,
be a candidate against Hancock for
the congressional nomination in the
district, according to reports from
Surry county heard here. There have
been rumors here for several weeks
that Folger might become a candidate
for the nomination against Hancock,
and that if he did he would give the
Oxford man a real contest.
The only announced candidate in
opposition to Hancock for the fifth
district scat in Congress, so far as is
known here, is Allison Janies, of Win
ston-Salem, Forsyth county, former
member of the legislature from Mor
(Conlinued on Page Two )
AGED PRESIDENT OF
VENEZUELA IS DEAD
Caracas, Venezuela, Dec. 18. —
(AP) General Juan Vicente
Gomez, 78, president of Venezuela
and the nation’s dictator for more
than a quarter of a century, died
at 11:45 p. m. yesterday.
5' shopping
day? until
movement to the Dcmbai Gruine pass
and dispersed them after a violent
combat with swords and bayonets.
The enemy’s known losses arc above
500 men.
"On our side seven officers, 20 non
commissioned officers and national
soldiers, 48 Eritreans and 197 As
karis were killed. Two national of
ficers, two national soldiers and 24
Askaris were wounded.”
King George
Is Author Os
Peace Plans
Foxy O I d British
Monarch Has More
Influence and Pow
er Than Folks May
Think.
By LESLIE EICHEL
Central Press Staff Writer
New York. Dec. 18.—How much
power has the British monarch?
Perhaps more than one Imagines.
It was he who suggested the "com
promise” over Ethiopia, by which
more than one-half, of that nation
would be taken by Italy. At least, so
we hear. The king of Italy is believed
to have appealed.
Perhaps it has been a foregone con
clusion that Great Britain, Franco
and Italy would end by dividing up
the better part of Ethiopia. But Brit
ish Laborites did not believe so. They
made that eloar when Great Britain
secretly changed its policy over night.
They were helpless, however, for
the British electorate had just re
elected a Tory majority on the basis
of protection to the weaker nations.
Even Anthony Eden, Britain’s rov
ing diplomat, a Conservative, threat
ened to quit over the change in front.
But when he heard (directly) that
it was none other than the king who
urged the new policy, he ca.pitulated
—so the story goes.
WHO ADVISES KING?
The question in England for some
time has been: “Who advises the
king?”
Unlike an elected official, a king
may keep his conferences from the
public eye.
Yet, a king may take a hand in
public affairs—behind the scenes.
The British king is supposed to be
(Continued on Page Three.)
SEEK FORCED PEACE
IN SOUTH CAROLINA
Columbia, S. C., Dec. 18. —(AP)—
Measures and moves for the State
legislature to order the militia out of
the State highway department, pro
vide a popular referendum on Jan
uary 7 on highway reorganization,
shut off all action on reorganization
and adjourn sine die tomorrow, came
pellmell today with the first fisticuft
of the extra session.
WEATHER
FOR NORTH CAROLINA.
Fair to partly cloudy tonight
and Thursday; no decided change
in temnero Dire,
PUBLISHED EVERY AFTERNOON
EXCEPT SUNDAY.
Peace Proposal Is
Now Dead, Official
At Geneva Thinks
Dies in Car
Mr v
: . v T- m
Thelma Todd, blonde screen actress,
who was found dead at the steering
wheel of her car parked in the
garage of her Los Angeles home.
Although death was attributed to
eatural causes, an investigation is
being made.
(Central Press)
y. s. bureaTheads
'SvereSery
Gantt Presides Over Con
ference of 45 Emergency
and Permanent Agencies
In State
ALL-DAY GATHERING
STAGED AT RALEIGH
Would Answer Partisan
Criticism of New Deal by
Making It Success; Bailey
Praises Roosevelt and His
Program; Many Congress
men Are Present.
Raleigh, Dec. 18 (AP)—Executive
managers and other officials of 46
emergency and permanent Federal
agehcics in North Carolina, urged to
make a decisive success of America’s
recovery program as an answer to
partisan political criticism of the
Roosevelt administration.
Robert M. Gantt, of Durham, State
director of the emergency council, ar
ranged the meeting. Governor Eh
ringhaus, Senator J. W. Bailey, Con
gressmen J. H. Kerr, Frank W. Han
cock, W. B. Umstcad, J. W. Lamb
eth. and A. L. Bulwinkle, and W. E.
McDonald, secretary to Senator R. R.
Reynolds, were present.
Sonatqr Bailey urged the relief
workers to stand behind the Presi
dent and brush aside criticism, of the
program by making it a decided suc
cess in North Carolina. He urged
unity to attain success through “an
(Continued on Page Two.)
Miss Todd Was Haunted
By Fears Os Gangsters
Los Angeles, Cal., Dec. 18 (AP) —
Fear of gangland bullets haunted
Thelma Todd in the last hours of her
life, the winsome screen star’s chauf
feur told police shortly before a
coroner’s jury was summoned today
to probe the riddle of her death.
The chauffeur, Ernest O. Peters,
said he drove the statuesque blonde
beauty from a Hollywood case to her
seaside apartment at breakneck speed
a few hours before she died under
mysterious circumstances Monday.
“Miss Todd was afraid,” Peters
said, “because she had been the tar
get of extortion threats which had
caused the arrest of two men. She
told me to drive at top speed and not
to make boulevard stops.”
Sometime between 4 a. m. and 4 p.
m. Sunday, after Peters returned to
his Hollywood auto livery stand, the
glamorous comedian died in her lux
urious town car in a garage a few
hundred yards up a steep roadway
near her apartment,,
19 Pages
Today
FIVE CENTS COPY
Declaration Follows Meet*
ing of Committee Consid
©ring Franco British
Plan.
mussolinFdefies
ALL EUROPE AGAIN
Calls Continent Hyporciti
cal and Crooked and De
clares in Speech Italy Will
Fight to the End; Sanc
tions, Ineffective, May be
Abandoned.
Geneva, Dec. 18 (AP) —Great
Britain practically abandoned
the Franco-Brftish peace plan
in the League of Nations Coun
cil today, and Ethiopia indicate
ed it would not accept it apy
way.
Anthony Eden, of Great Britain,
said his government would not stay
with the plan unless Ethiopia, Italy
and the League all accepted it.
The Ethiopian delegate immediately
arose in the meeting to attack the
plan. He made it clear the plan was
not acceptable to his nation.
The Council then adjourned inde
finitely to await definite replies from
Ethiopia and from Italy. The latter
nation had no representative present
at the session.
(By The Associated Press)
The Franco-British formula for set
tling the Italo-Ethiopian war was de
scribed today as “dead” by a repre
sentative of one of Europe’s great
powers at Geneva.
The declaration followed confer
ences by Anthony Eden, British min
ister for League of Nations affairs
with Russian, Spanish and Turkish
•members of the League Council gath
ered to consider the Franco-British
plans among its problems.
The Italian delegation had an
nounced Italy would not be repre
ccnted at the session. At Rome Pre
mier Mussolini, again aggressively
belligerent, defied Europe to stop
his campaign in Ethiopia.
Sharply focused on the diplomatic
front was the replacement of II Duce’s
more amicable utterances, lately inci
dent to peace negotiations, by an at
titude expressed in his description Os
Europe as “crooked.”
tlligh Fascists said the speech, de
livered aL Pontinla, constituted Mus
solini’s reply to the peace plan drawn
up in Paris by Premier Pierre Laval
and the British foreign minister, Sir
Samuel Hoare. It bristled with as
sertions that Italy would “fight to
the end,’* and that Europe was “guilty
of egoism and hypocracy."
The Council of the League met In
a funeral__atinosphere to go over the
Franco-British peace plan, almost un*
itcly opposed by the smaller nations
pf the League, while speculation arose
in League circles over the possibility
of a new covenant based on interna
tional conciliation without provisions
for punitive sanctions. This would
pull the teeht of the League’s autho
rity to enforce its decisions.
League officials hoped faintly Great
Britain might pronounce the Paris
(Continued on Page ’Two.)
BENES IS PRESIDENT
OF CZECHOSLOVAKIA
Praha, Czech oslovaika, Dec. 18.
(AP) — Eduard Benes was elected
second president of the republic
of Czechoslovakia by the national
assembly today) to succeed Dr.
Thomas Masaryk, who resigned
last Saturday at the age of 85.
Roland West, her partner In the
seaside case venture, told police he
had “locked out” Miss Todjd.
The actress’ bereaved mother ar*
ranged private funeral services to be
held in Forest Lawn Memorial Park,
Lyudale, Cal., at 3:30 p. m. tomorrow,
NEGRO MAID DISAGREES
WITH TODD CAFE PARTNER
Los Angeles, Dec. 18. —(AP)— Kay
Whitehead, Negro maid of Thelma
Todd, at the inquest today, disputed
the story told police by Roland West,
case partner of the film actress, that
he "locked her out of her seaside
apartment.”
The maid testifying about the death,
of the blonde comedian, told Coroner
Frank Nance that before Miss Todd
left Saturday evening for a Hollywood
restaurant, she gave him her key to
the side door of the apartment.
West had previously told detectives
that he waited up for Miss Todd un
til about 2 a. m. Sunday, and them
retired having “locked her out.”