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“Loneliest Monarch” Rul,
Simply In New Jap Empi
Is Virtually A Recluse Since Enthronem
Three Years Ago; Formerly Lived In
Dazzling Splendor
By Associated Press
HSINKING, Manchoukuo—Emperor Kang Teh of
choukuo, the “empire” which Japan has set up in Manch
has been described as the “loneliest and most isolator
arch in the world.” '
Other kings live In great marble
palaces, surrounded by courtiers,
! brilliant members of court and so
I ciety. But Henry Pu-Yi, as the em
| peror was known after he lost the
j renowned dragon throne in China,
lives' quietly and almost alone in
the old salt administration build
ing which the Chinese abandoned
here years ago. ,
This building resembles a barn
more than a palace, yet the demo- J
cratic young emperor is said to be!
against the construction of a more '
suitable domicile until all the other j
state buildings in thi3 new capital, j
are completed. Meantime Japan j
has built a magnificent palace-like ;
home for its own ambassador here j
and he lives in grander style than j
| the emperor.
Virtually A Recluse
Since his enthronement three 1
years ago. Emperor Kang Teh,
whose name in Chinese means "No
ble Virtue,” has been out of Hsink
ing only three times—once to wor
ship at the tombs of his ancestors
in Mukden—again to review Man
choukuo’s army and navy at Har
bin, and finally to pay a visit to
the Emperor of Japan at Toklo.
His majesty, who is 33 years old,
spends the greater part of his life
behind the gray brick walls of the
drab and forbidding salt adminis
tration building near the Chinese
quarter of the town, where he
might well be a -recluse.
The emperor’s Japanese protec
tors apparently feel that if the
"Son of Heaven,” as the emperor
is called, ventures out too much,
he may expose himself to possible
attack by disgruntled Chinese
seeking revenge for the emperor's
alleged betrayal of China in favor
of Japan.
The walls and gates of the em
peror's solitary home are covered
with barbed wire, and charged with
electricity. In reach of the four cor
ners of the royal compound, form
ing a part of the high brick wall
around the enclosure, is a staunch
blockhouse, bristling with machine
guns, barbed wire and hand gren
ades.
Doll Existence
It was suggested by other Jap*
anese Informants that the Chinese
courtiers around the emperor did
not wish him to be bothered by
foreign visitors. The Chinese, on
the other hand, declared his Jap
anese mentors wished to Isolate him
from foreign Influences.
In contrast to the dazzling splen
dor in which he lived in Peking,
when he was ruler over China's
450,000,000 people and had hun
dreds of concubines, eunuchs, cour
tiers, and numerous astrologers
Kang Teh now occupies five small
rooms in the salt administration
building. Virtually his only com
panion is his 30 year old wife who
is said to be a semi-Invalid. And
there are a few antediluvian Chi
nese philosophers and "wise men”
whom the youthful sovereign saved
from the old dynastic regime in
Peking when China became a re
public.
His majesty’s house is furnished
so simply that the visitor might
take it to be the home of an
American workingman in moderate
circumstances. The only ornament
the visitor would look at twice is
the golden throne-chair which was
made in Japan.
Kang Teh’s only recreations ap
parently are tennis, reading and
the radio. He is very studious. When
he Is not absorbed in the study of
problems of state, he is immersed
in the classics of Confucius and
other Chinese sages. Being an ex
ceedingly orthodox Chinese and
having seen nothing of the rest of
the world, the young sovereign or
ders his whole life and guides the
destiny of his subjects by these
classical teachings.
Safety la Feature.
NEW YORK. Oct. 30.—(fP)—The
American automobile driver will
have a harder time breaking his
neck next year.
A preview today of the machines
which the manufacturers will put
on display for the late 1936 and
1937 market indicated a decided
trend toward additional safety fea
tures. New York’s automobile show,
where new models wil.’ be unveiled,
opens in ten day or so.
Automobile shoppers will be con
fronted by new exterior and smooth
er motors, reduced gasoline con
sumption and salesmen with those
self-starting fountain pens.
Trailers are more luxurious than
ever. To running water and elec
tric stoves have been added, for no
mad America, automatic dish wash
ers, softer beds and first, second
and third mortgages.
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Ten homes are being built on the
campus of the West Texas state
college here to furnish homes for
married students. They will cost
$46,000.
Rule CBS Correct
In Vandenberg C
WASHINGTON, Nov.
The communications comai]
has made public lettev in «i
it held the Columbia Broadc
Company acted within its righu]
cutting off some of its stations^
the radio “debate” presented
Senator .Arthur Vandenberg
Michigan October 17.
The commission, in a letter J
| swering a number of prjJ
j ngsinst the action of the compj
I saW the 1934 communications _
i "expressly denies to the comJ
'sion any power of censorship <J
| the radio communications or a]
; nals transmitted by any radio i
1 tion.”
The company cut off some of |
stations in its chain because
denberg's program “included
ograph recording in violation u
broadcasting company * rules,''
commission wrote to one pn
tant, W. R. Church, New
City.
Vandenberg presented reeo
of President Roosevelt's
part of the "debate.”
Church wrote the eon_
that “as an American I
against the censorship laid
Vandenberg’s speech.”
Hie commission replied the
ection and arrangement of
cast programs “in the public
terest is a duty which the con
nicatlons act places solely
licensees" xxx and that the 'n
ter of whether It will
mechanical reproductions is, __
fore, a question for the decision j
each station licensee."
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Confesses Hold Up
Of Lenoir DriveH
R. J. Wilson, 18-year-old yod^^l
was arrested in Charlotte last \
and confessed he shot Grady
ter, Lenoir taxi driver, on the I
nolr-Morganton highway last Mm
day night.
Charlotte police, it seems, had|
tip that Wilson was Implicated I
the hold-up and arrested him
suspicion. His confession folio
He is being held for trial,
IT. S. AND CANADA
FIGHT SMtTGGt
WASHINGTON, Nov. >. - W
Treasury officials disclosed
they are negotiating a close
ing agreement with the Cana
j Royal Mounted Police in a move 1
smash narcotic smuggling
operating along the west coast.
In the past, the royal mou
has cooperated with the cu
service in law enforcement actld
ties, but a closer understand
now is being effected to lend
ed strength to an anti-nan
drive in the Pacific.
COTTON STAPLE THIS
YEAR IS LONG®
WASHINGTON, Nov. J, — (FI ■
The agriculture department rep
ed today cotton from this ye
crop ginned to October 1 "was la
er in staple, on the average,
cotton ginned to the same date l
year.”
The report showed A.033.325
had been ginned to October 1,
about 52 per cent of the estimaU
crop this year. Last year ginni-'
to the same date represented ^
per cent of the estimated
crop.
TERRACING MACHINE
COMES TO LINCOU
LINCOLNTON, Nov. J.-Un
county’s new terracing mach
was unloaded Thursday mo
and the actual construction of i
races was begun on the farm of
Berge Beam In Howard's ere
township under the supervision
Geo. B. Hobson, Assistant couno
agent. Mr. Hobso* comes to
county from the Agronomy dep
ment of the Soil Conservation
vice of the Demonstrations! i
at High Point. He formerly
Vocational Agriculture in he _ I
nelius High School at Cornelias- ■
PERSHING IS BACK
FROM FRENCH
NEW YORK, Nov.
eral John J. Pershing, command |
in chief of'the American
ionary Forces during th* -- I
War, returned home today I
summer in France, 1
splendid health despite his 78 y
He will spend ten devs ,,3
Yolk before leaving <ur *
toil, D. C. for Uie winter.
Thomas Paine,
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writer, once lived in t,rCfD
Village. New York,