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HENDERSON
CA I I.WAY TO
central
CAROLINA
I'W ENTY-SECOND YEAR
NATIONS LINED UP
FOR “SOLID FRONT”
AGAINST MUSSOLINI
Efforts of Britain to Resist
Italian Aggression in Med
iterranean Success
ful,
TURKEY AND GREECE
INVITED INTO GROUP
Anthony Eden’s Appoint
ment Brings Apprehension
And Bitterness in Italy; His
Mandate Given is to End
East African War by In
ternational Pressure.
11ix Th(' AswM’ialt’tl I’ros)
l developing a "aoli'l
ni liiii\ fr>*ut” against possible Ital
_ k>m in Hu' Mediterranctn
, , i,mli'd successful in Riirope
liii|;iJ .
linden came word that, the
I, i h tnd French general staff*
t| , eluded satisfactory consula
. corning mutual support by
;i■ and navies of Great Brlt
, i| France in ease of an Italian
,\i^olialions worn reported opened
I ’mi i among Premier T.nval of
j.'i Mic ;iud Turkey and Greece with
tln .11110 end in mind.
Laval was said to have told tlie
Indian Ambassador that bn would of
no new pence terms to Premier
Mu. adtni.
A for the active military angle,
lb' Lilian government stated its
tyrei's in northern Ethiopia had beat-I
.at rjfr ;m attack of 5.000 Ethiopian
'.vi rriors,
Anthony Eden, the “white knight i
~f ihe League of Nations,” assumed j
euitrol of British foreign policy to-]
H y with a mandate to stop the Jtalo-
Elhicpian war hv international pres
ur\
Ttaly was both apprehensive and
hitter over his appointment as Brit
h foreign minister.
Inform d sources said Eden’s first I
du‘y would he to formulate in detail !
i'.rii h policy for anned resistance I
in the ev id Italy attacked any League
i-it hfi’iiu <• of tlie sanctions siege.
The appi iutment. informed sources
id. ended any dollbt of Britain’s
ini ait ion of turning to Geneva again 1
•i ft or the fiasco of the Frenco-Brit
i.-li plan, for peace, killed last week, ]
tor eiifi.icement of sanctions.
Significance was attached to news.
front I’vris that the French Atlantic)
fie't had been ordered to leave Breat 1
next month to cruise in West Afri
can waters. This would indicate that,
(Continued on Pane Five.)
China-Japan
May join To
w
Resist Reds
Such Communist In
fluence Not Neces
sarily Same as Rus
sia, Tokyo Asserts.
Tokyo. Bee. 23.—(AP)—'The Japan
government has been discussing
with Chinese leaders the “general
principle" ;*r Sino-Japancsc coopera
tion “to prevent a spread of com
munist influence” in China’s northern
territoiy, tt foreign office spokesman
di. closed today.
The spokesman said such conimun
i,T influence was not necessarily
i nonymous with Soviet Russia, al
though his disclosure followed state
ments by militarists indicating tho
army in Japanese-advlse Manchukuo
has launched a campaign for pres
• ure on Soviet-dominated Outer Mon
golla.
The iSIno-Japanese conversations
(Continued on Page Five.)
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Lindberghs Are To
Reside In England
As Safer Country
Hauptmann Plea
Filed at Trenton
Trenton, X. J -t l>ee. 23 (AP)
Bruno Richard Hauptmann's peti
tion for clemency was filed today
with the court of pardons.
The petition was, filed by Colon
el Mark,- O. Kimberling, prineipal
keeper at- the State Prison, who
sent a messenger with six copies
of it to Albert I*. Hermann, 1 l»o
clerk of the nardons eonrt.
The contents of the petition
were not made public, in confor
mity with a rule of the court that
such material must not be publish
ed unless the court so permits by
vote
RAIDS DN DRIVERS
DON’T END DRUNKS
But Highway Patrol is Run
ning Them in Where
Liquor Is Fault.
LOCAL REVOCATIONS
Henderson (Jot Into Latest Lists But
>'ot in Proportion as Pry Coun
ties According to the
Records
Hail> Him*»!«••» llnrcno.
In The S»r Walter Hotel,
tty J. C. BASKISIIA ll»I<
Raleigh. Dec. 23—Highway patrol
raids upon the drunken drivers of
North Carolina produced for the close
of last week nearly 150 revocations of
drivers’ licenses and shifted the losers
of driving permits without lessening
tho drunks themselves.
For instance, Green.-uoro and High
Point produced jointly 33 of these
drivers. High Point led with 19 and (
Greensboro had 14. Charlotte was in
High Point’s class. There were 227 of
these drunks, transporters and hit
and-runners, the actual number of
inebriated drivers being 219. In the
figures given out Sunday morning
there were 228 whose licenses have
been revoked. There were five hitters
and runners, three liquor violators,
one stealing and automobile and of
fense of allowing a drunk to drive
somebody elsc’s car.
Os the first 227 revocations an
nounced 192 were in dry counties and
35 in wet. The wets were worse the
latter portion of the week. They fur
nished 42 of these revocations, but
interstate drunks were charged up to
the wets. Several offenders were resi
dents of other states. But they can’t
travel on North Carolina roads if they
arc identified.
It is notable that Greensboro, High
Point and Charlotte do not pad the
record this time. The per capita
drunks will be small. Henderson a
wet city, got often into the revocar
tions, but in no such impressive array
as the dry towns did the first of the
week. Salisbury, once wettest muni-,
cipality in the United States, lost li
censes on these returns. Shelby, sob
erest city in the State a ?ew years
ago, celebrated in old time style and
lost some licenses. The western coun
ties, irrespective of their boundaries,
furnished the drinking drivers, Mt.
Airy, who isn’t far from Virginia, had
more than its share. But Mt. Airy
(Continued on Pare Tv.'?.)
HENDERSON, N. 0., MONDAY AFTERNOON, DECEMBER 23, 1935.
Colonel and Wife and Baby
Have Already Sailed,
Some Say on Christ
mas Holiday.
COLONEL DISGUSTED
WITH GOV. HOFFMAN
Threats Against Second Son
of Famous Couple Are Be
coming More Frequent and
More Virulent, and Fears
Are Felt for Welfare of the
Infant.
New York, Dec. 23 (AP)—Col
onel and Mrs. Charles A. Lind
bergh and their son, Jon, have
sailed for Europe, his friends
and business associates disclosed
today, giving rise to contradic
tory speculation on whether they
would make their home in Eng
land.
Tho New York Times said in a
copyrighted story that the famous
aviator and his family would estab
lish a permanent residence in Eng
land because of repeated kidnap
threats against his son, Jon.
Business associates of Colonel
Lindbergh in Pun-Amcrican Airways
confirmed his departure for Europe,
but said that his connection with the
line as technical advisor was unchang
ed.
The Times said that the kidnap
threats against Jon was increased
“both in number and virulance re
ccntly.”
Tiie only passengers on the ship,
American Importer, the Times said
tiie Lindberghs quit tl*j United States
for England because of their belief
the “English have greater regard for
law and order in their own land than
Hie people of any other nation on
earth.”
At Englewood, N. J., home of Mrs.
Lindbergh’s mother, Mrs. Elizabeth
Morrow, a close friend of the family
insisted the famous family had gone
away merely for a Christmas holiday
trip.
The insistence of the family friend
at Englewood gave rise to speculation
here on two possible answers to the
question of Colonel Lindbergh’s plans.
One was that the famous couple
preferred to be out of the public view
during tho period immediately pre
ceding January 13, the date fixed for
execution of Bruno Richard Haupt
(Continucd on Page Five.)
Kidnaping Frustrated
By Officers In Newark
Newark, N. J. Dec. 23 (AP) —Two
men, surprised in the act of kidnap
ing an elderly retired Newark dia
mond merchant today, opened fire
on three detectives and escaped.
“ Their car was found half an hour
later, the kidnap victim bound and
gagged and lying in the rear of the
machine.
Lieutenant John Sweeny and Detec
tive Frank Scfcenck and Louis Beck,
of the racket squad, were patrolling
when they saw the kidnapers at the
moment the two men were forcing
William, Keek into their car.
The detectives turned their own car
72d started back- A? hm
B 00 SI DE STEPPING
Neither Will Take Stand
Against Townsendism,
Won’t Favor It.
PLAN HASN’T CHANCE
Silverites Won Their Cause and Upset
Economic Conditions Through
out. the World as the
Result •
By LESLIE EICIIEL
Central .Press Staff Writer
New- York, Dec. 23.—80th old par
ties face a desperate year of side
stepping.
Neither party, of course, faces any
issue squarely. Party leaders always
have - a belief that it; Is unpopular to
face an issue squarely—in other
words, to say “no.”
Thus neither party is likely to take
a stand against Townsendism. Each
party will sidestep it in the most de
vious of manners.
Sometimes that works, sometimes
it doesn’t
The Rev. Charles E. Coughlin has
preached his money plan over the.
radio for some years now .It. is be
ginning to be the satne speech over
and over again. Sidestepping has
worked here. The Coughlin plan
doesn’t seem to “take” so well as the
Townsend plan. The Townsendites
probably won't be sidestepped.
Nor will the bonusites take “no” for
an answer.
The silverites, of course, were first
to refuse a. sidestep ansvrer.
Under the pica of economic recov
ery. they put over their silver pur
chasing act —upsetting economic coo
ditions in nearly the entire world.
TOWNSENDISM
The Townsendites may elect con
gressmen and may defeat a presi
dent.
Yet the men they put. into office
are not likely to put through the
Townsend plan—even though they
have said “yes.”
Politicians are likely to espouse a.
cause to be re-elected. Many will es
pouse Townsendism. But very few
will be for it.
And what presidential possibility
would support it? Landon? Never.
Nor Knox, nor Vandenberg, nor
Hoover, Nor would even Borah,in the
final test.
SILVER
The United States government did
go into the silver-purchasing pro
gram, put over by the silverties and
supported by Father Coughlin.
It is one of those bottomless pit
programs.
Silver—the base of China’s cur
rency—was drained from that unfor
tunate country. A business panic fol
lowed there.
Then, China discarded the silver
(Conliuued on Page Two.)
one of the strangers opened fire. A
bullet hit the police car ■windshield.
The detectives returned the fire, but
their quarry turned a corner and
Vanished.
I.ater other detectives found the car
its right rear wheel smashed. Keck,
hands and fofct bound with wire and
a gag in his mouth, lay on the floor.
The car had New York license plates.
Keek told Lieutenant Sweeny he
was walking along the street when
the car stopped and a man with a
gun told him to jump in. He said he
refused. The man poked the gun
against his side and the other grab
bed him by the coat collar and shov
ed him tc the of th@ roach
15 DEAD IN CAROLINAS
AS ZERO WEA THER AND
SNOW HIT TWO STA TES
Nine Os 14 Victims Os
Bus Crash At Hopewell
Identified At Morgues
Three Separate Investiga
tions Begun or Planned
Into River Tragedy of
Sunday.
NORTH CAROLINIANS
INCLUDED IN DEAD
Driver Was From Raleigh
And Well Known Here;
Hint he May Have Been
i Dead When Greyhound
I Bus Crashed Through Rail
Into Appomattox River.
Hopewell, Va., Dec, 23 (AP) —Nino
; of 14 victims of tiie plunge of a Grey
hound bus into the icy waters of the
Appomattox river had been identified
I today, while; separate investigations
were being conducted or were schc
; duled by citv. state and bus company
; officials.
An autopsy was under wav at Rich-
I mond this afternoon to determine if
bus company officials were correct
i in their belief that L. G. Alford, driv
er of the bus. was dead when the big
vehicle crashed through the guard
lail and dropped 20 feet into tho
1 stream.
I INQUEST THURSDAY WILL
BE ONLY MERE FORMALITY
Hopewell, Va,, Dec. 23 (AP)- An
j inquest was ordered for Thursday in
the death of 14 persons who lost their
lives in the plunge of a. bus into an
open drawbridge into the Appomat
tox river yesterday.
A sixth body, meanwhile, was ten
tatively identified as Mrs. T. H. Fair
fax, of Superior, Wis. Eight, other
bodies recovered from the bus after it
was raised from 30 feet of water
awaited identification,
i Six of those who died in the river’s
icy water were identified before day
break today as Virginians and North
, Carolinians.
Mayor D. L. Elder and Common
wealth’s Attorney John Goodman
(Continued on Page Two.)
nil
Whichever Way it Goes, In
fluence Will be Felt in
Primary.
Louisburg, Dee. 23 (AP) — The
question of legalization of liquor
sale in a county system of stores
was balloted on by Franklin
county citizens today.
At midday tlio vote in the in
corporated municipalities was re
ported as fairly heavy, but in ru
ral precincts it w'as “very light."
A heavy snow yesterday kept the
country folks away from tho poll
ing places.
The 19X5 legislature provided
for elections last summer In
Franklin and In 17 other counties
on county liquor stores. Tho
Franklin county election was en
joined by drys, and the injunc
tion was ruled invalid by the Su
preme court a month ago.
Unity Dispatch Hu re mi.
In The Sir Walter Hotel,
l!y J. C, BASKWBVILL
Raleigh, Dec. 23.— Franklin county
has a lot of Raleigh people today
watching the vote on ABC stores.
With something of a proprietory
interest in the Middlesex house, Ra
leigh doesn’t need Franklin, though
legally made liquor is sold in Raleigh
at a great profit for the blind tigers.
Stores in Franklin would not add spe
cially to the convenience of Raleigh.
But if Franklin goes wet Wake in all
probability will send a deltgation of
that persuasion to the next General
Assembly.
Senator Carroll Weathers, who vot
ed diy every time in the 1935 legisla
ture, isn’t a convert to the county
ABC stores, but he docs lean in the
direction of some effort at State con
trol. a plan that he opposed as sena
tor last winter. His district running
mate, Senator W. B. Horton, had the
honor of burying with a legislative
device known as “the clincher” all
consideration of Statewide liquor
bills. Wake’s three members, Dr. S. E.
oj> Pap'p TWO.}
PUBLISHED EVERY AFTERNOON
EXCEPT SUNDAY.
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Mrs. Albert Einstein (above), wife
of the eminent German scientist,
lies in New York hospital fighting
for her life after being stricken
by heart attack in her Princeton,
N. J., home.
(Central Pres»)
SIZEUPTALMADGE
Not as Volcanic as Huey
Long, But Intense Jeffer
sonian Democrat.
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OPPOSED TO PENSIONS
i Only War Service Should Be So Hon
ored, Ho Says; No Comfort for
Towscndites In His
Reasoning
By CHARLES P. STEWART
Central Press Staff Writer
Washington, Dee. 23 —Governor Eu
gene Taltnadge of Georgia, a recent
visitor in Washington, talking with
! the newspaper boys, gives a first rate
impression at a casual meeting; it is
impossible to say, from a. half hour's
chat, how well he would wear.
One naturally compares him with
the late Senator Huey P. Long, and
lie is somewhat of the Kingfish’s typo
though he doesn’t look like tho Louis
iana solon in tho least. He is not as
volcanic as was Senator Long, either.
He is forceful, but. more restrained
than the senator was. When ho
makes a strong statement it sounds
strong rather because of what bo
I says than because of any particular
| vehemence in his manner of saying it.
! The Kingfish, if a diamond, decidedly
was in the rough. The governor has
a certain amount of poflsli.
He said that he thinks lie and the
senator were aiming at approximate
ly the same objective, but he agreed
that, he eould not indorse the latter’s
share-the-wealth philosophy.
NOT A TOWN SEX DITK
There is no comfort for the Town
sendites in Governor Talmade’s rea
soning, cither.
He was emphatic in his statement
that he believes in pensions for no
one except ex-soidiers. “No man,” he
argued, “who maybe, has bummed ag
round pool rooms until he is 60, is en
titled to be put on a pension.”
The nub of his platform, explained
the governor, is Jeffersonian Demo
cracy. which, be was positive is as
serting, is the anithesis of the New
Deal.
A third party?
The governor doesn’t want one.
What he wants, he made it clear, is
to “reclaim” the Democratic party.
He wants to beat President Roose
velt for renomination. Obviously he
hates to face the contingency that the
White House tenant will be renomi
nated, raising the issue, in his own
mind:
Should the so-called Democratic
i r Continued on pge r c Five)
tc Page*
10 Today
TWO SECTIONS.
FIVE CENTS COPY
SNOW BLANKET IS i
OF FURTHER COLD
White Mantle Deepest from
Raleigh and Columbia to
Eastward. Less in the
West,
| ‘WHITE CHRISTMAS’
APPEARS PROBABLE
More Snow Christmas Eve
Forecast; Zero Here One
Degree Lower Than In
Greensboro; Many Serious
Wrecks Occur, Including
Fatality jHere Saturday
Night.
(By The Asucitiled Press)
Fifteen persons were killed on highj*
ways in the Carolinas over the
end. Seven deaths were reported ip
North Carolina and eight in South
Carolina. 1
The most serious wreck was an
automobile-truck collision myjr Spart
anburg. Five persons w’erc killed. '
Tcy, slippery pavement was listed
as a contributor in several of the ac
cidents as snow blanketed most of
the two states. ; j
The North Carolina toll follows: '
Burlington—Lacy Hugjhes Cooper,
29, fatally injured when automobile
struck abutment at Back, Creek, near
here.
Fayetteville —Auto-truok collision
near here resulted in death of James
Lloyd. 26. of Hpzlehurst, Ga. Abra
ham Lakritz, 70, of New York, fatal
ly injured when automobile skidded
on snow and struck bridge.
Henderson —Automobile of Sam
Pleasants, Dexter farmer, struck by
train at grade crossing here. Pleas
ants was fatally injured, but his wife
and three children escaped serious
hurts.
Wilmington Virginia Mobley, B,
and Hollas Ann Mobley, 2, sisters,
were killed whan auto, skidding on
icy pavement, crashed into bridge,]
(Continued on Page Two.)
NRA Ended
For Good As
Federal Unit
Some of Functions
Given Commerce
Department, O t Ti
ers Labor Office.
Washington, Dec. 23 (AP) — NRA,
once keystone of the New Deal, was
terminated today by executive order
of President Roosevelt.
Part of the functions of the recov
ery administration were transferred
by flic President to the Commerce
Department, while others were turned
over to the Labor Department.
The division, of review, the division
of business cooperation, and the ad
visory council went to the Commerce
Department, under the act approved
at the last session of Congress, e»
tending NRA until April.
The consumers division was trans
ferred to the labor Department, and
its employees will come under the
emergency appropriation act, which
does not expire until June, 1937.
. By the President’s order, signed to
day, the National Recovery Admin
istration, about which the entire gov
ernment seemed to revolve two years
ago, and which governed most of Amo
rican industry, was dissolved.
The executive order terminating
NRA and transferring its functions
to the two departments, becomes ef
fective January 1.
President Roosevelt wrote finish
to the spectacular recovery admlnis
tratioji .in 13 words. They were:
“The National Recovery Adminis
tration and the office of administra
tor thereof are hereby terminated.”
WEATHER
FOR NORTH CAROLINA.
Cloudy und not quite so cold,
possibly snow flurries tonight; j
Tuesday mostly cloudy,