HENDERSON
gateway TO
' CENTRAL
CAROLINA
TWENTY-SECOND YEAR
WAR NEUTRALITY BILL PASSED BY SENATE
BRITAIN MAY SEEK
AMERICAN SUPPORT
AGAINST MUSSOLINI
London Developments Out
lined at Washington by
Message from Lon
don Embassy
AUSTRIA LINES UP
ON SIDE OF ITALY
Official Organ Praises Mus
solini’s Course in Ethiopian
Crisis; Cabinet and Others
of Fascist Hierarchy Await
Bidding of Their Dictator
London. Aug. 21.—(API—A British
bid for American cooperation for so
lution of the Italo-Ethiopian crisis
may be the next move from Down
ing Street, itw as indicated today as
the political drama was intensified
hy preparing for the emergency meet
ing of the cabinet tomorrow.
Any Anglo-American action would
be an addition to League of Nations
measures.
Grave-faced s’atesmen, one after
the other, visited the foreign office
before noon. First was the leader of
His Majesty’s opposition party. John
Lansbury. Then came Lioyu George,
followed by Ramsay McDonald. The
king at BaTmoreal kept in touch
through his official listening post.
Sir Clyde Wigram, private secretary
to His Majesty.
The State Department this morning
has an up-to-the minute British view
from Ray Atherton. American charge
d'affaires. who forwarded a full re
port to Washington after another con
ference last night Britain has yet
made no formal move to enlist Amer
ican cooperation, but it is believed a
way is being prepared for this. fol.
lowing the cabinet session tomorrow.
CABINET AND OTHERS TO
WAIT MUSSOLINI BIDDING
Rome, Aug. 21. (AP) Cabinet
members and other leaders of the
Fascist hierarchy awaited orders to
day for military duties in East Africa
just as if they were privates in the
(Continued on Page Eight.)
Selassie Thinks
Whole World May
Become Involved
Addis Ababa, Aug. 21 (AP)
Weeping as he talked, Emperor
Haile Selassie predicted to The
Associated Press today, in a re
markable interview, that war be
tween Italy and Ethiopia would
not only drench the two countries
in blood but might drag in the
whole world.
Bar Association
Cruise Nears End
At Norfolk, Va.
Aboard S. S. Reliance, En Route to
Norfolk, Va., Aug. 21.—(AP)—Law
yers on the convention cruise of the
North Carolina Bar Association,
irounding out a jaunt to
Nova Scotia, turned their thoughts to
business and administrative matters
today.
New officers were to be elected and
other business transacted at a final
business session. The Reliance is dut»
in Norfolk today *and then the dele
gates will depart for home-
MOIPQENT
OUSTED TROM POST
Tries To Make Himself Dic
tator But Fails and Is
Imprisoned
Guayaquil, Ecuador, Aug. 21.—(AP)
-Joss M. Velasco Ibarra, stripped of
hie office of president, was a military
prisoner today.
His attempt to become dictator was
frustrated when army leaders re
pudiated him in favor of the Con
stitution.
Seizure of the president was accm
plisheci without bloodshed.
Imprisoned with Velasco Ibarra
W(r <' three aides, who were accused
' • being parties to the coup which
' hisco Ibarra intended to bring
Dbout at Uu >’n today.
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Defies Mob Threats
gH jig
mm
liiifii jg|
Judge Merrill E. Otis
Threatened with a beating Vy
mob leaders who blocked tw«
foreclosure sales in northwest Mis
souri, Federal Judge Merrill E.
Otis defied the threats and spoke
at a homecoming gathering in
Hopkins, Mo. Armed department
of justice agents circulated
through the crowd, however.
Judge Otis referred jokingly to
the threats in his speech. He had
decreed the foreclosures.
bmTwillacU
Cabinet Members Favor Fi
nancial and Economic
Pressure at Once
PLAN FOR FIRM STAND
Strong Position To Be Taken At Ge
neva When League Considers
Sanctions; Full Cabinet
To Act Soon
London, Aug. 21 (AP)—Seven
leaders of the British cabinet to
day tentatively approved a policy
demanding financial and economic
action against Italy if that coun
try attacks Ethiopia.
The ministers had been called
into a special informal session hy
Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin.
They conferred two hours.
The decision. although tentative,
calls so- a strong British stand at
Geneva in the forthcoming League of
Nations session for financial and
economic sanctions.
This idea will be taken up by the
full cabinet tomorrow in an emer
gency meeting.
Throughout the day there were in
dications Great Britain might seek
American cooperation outside Geneva
for solution of the Italo-Ethiopian
crisis.
WEATHER
FOR NORTH CROLINA.
Local showers tonight and
Thursday; not much change in
temperature.
Roosevelt To Fix
Cotton Loan Soon
Washington, Aug- 21. —(AP) Presi
dent Roosevelt expressed hope today
that he could soon announce the cot
ton loan figure on the 1935 cotton
Cl ’°He expected to' sign the amend
ment strengthening the agricultural
adjustment administration late today
tomorrow after study by experts.
HENDERSON, N. C. WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON, AUGUST 21, 1935.
J. M. BROUGHTON IS
OF MATE BAR
Elected Aboard Ship As
Summer Convention
Cruise Comes to Close
at Norfolk
STATE DEPARTMENT
JUSTICE APPROVED
Urges Governor’s Naming
of Crime Commission and
Favors Strengthening Os
Anti-Lynching Act; Revi
sion of Corporation Law Is
Also Urged
Aboard ft. S. Reliance, En Route to
'T nr fr,lL Va.. A"*. 21 (AP) —.T. M.
Rronrrhton, of Raleigh, was elected
of tho 'North Carolina Bar
Ar-oojntinn f*">r tho fominn year at
-qpf’ino tipr.f.ion of its convention
nriihp to Nova Scotia.
as were
Irvin Tucker. Whitevil'/: Buv Rob
erts. Marshall, and Frank Heckler
Wilmington. Fr«d Sutton. Kinston,
end Alston Stubbs. Durham, were
Np'-forY to th*» eyemthm comTnitrtee.
Croat.ion of a State Department of
Tnstice. as recommenced by Attorney
General A A. F. Seawell, was en
dorsed by resolutions.
In other resolutions the association
endorsed the National bar program
of the American Bar Association, re
commended appointment of a crime
commission by Governor Ehringhaus
and urged enactment of a summary
judgment act.
The association voted for appoint
ment of committees to make studies
looking toward strengthening )the
anti-lynching act and revision of the
North Carolina corporation law.
The closing convention session was
held on shipboard this forenoon as
the Reliance steamed toward Norfolk,
where it was due today.
Will Move
131 Women
Prisoners
Unity Dispatch Bnrena,
In the S>- Walter Hotel.
BY J. C. lIASKERVILL.
Raleigh, Aug. 21—Within the next
day or two, 131 women prisoners now
in the women’s division of the Cen
tral Prison here will be removed from
the section of the prison in which
they have been imprisoned to th«*
Wake county prison camp Number l,
now being vacated and made ready
for these women, Oscar T. Pitts, act
ing executive director of the prison
division of the State Highway and
Public Works Commission, said today.
Os these 131 women prisoners, 31 are
white women and 100 Negro women.
Many of them are serving long terms
for murder, second degree murder or
for attempted murder, as well as
for larceny. When this move is made
to the Wake county prison camp, it
will be the first time many of thesb
women prisoners have been outside
the prison enclosure in years. The
women prisoners are being moved so
that their part of the prison may be
fireproofed.
The white prisoners who have been
in this prison camp are otday being
moved to Camp Polk prison farm,
west of Raleigh and they will be
housed there and work out of there
just as they did from the prison camp
The Negro prisoners will be distri
buted to other prison camps over the
State. The women prisoners will
then be moved into this camp just
as soon as a few changes have been
made to make it more suitable for
housing the women. The same prison
(Continued on Page Three.)
In his press conference he indicat
ed he would take his time in naming
the directors of the Federal Reserve
Board undre the new banking legis
lation.
Mr. Roosevelt said that James A.
Moffett, Federal housing administra
tor, would be allowed his desire to
return to private business, but would
stay on the job a little longer.
Rogers Family At
Bier Os Comedian
Awaiting Funeral
Test for Huey
—Mi
Unusual importance is attached to
Mississippi gubernatorial election,
August 27, in which Hugh L. White
(1.), wealthy lumberman, opposes
Paul B. Johnson (r.), congressman,
because Huey Long support of
Johnson caused Senator Theo Bilbo
to demand that Long keep out of
campaign.
(Central Press)
M’DIALD BID MAY
RUN - OFF PRIMARY
Raleigh’s State Officialdom
Pirtually All Against
Winston’s Can
didate
WOULD LOAD DOWN
BUSINESS IN STATE
Some 10 to 12 Million Dol
lars Would Be Needed To
Replace Sales Tax, Which
May Mean Trebling of
Franchises, Licenses
Doily Dispatch Itnreim,
In the Mr Walter Hotel.
BV J. C. BASKERVILL.
AiUgJ. 2|L —Whije official
State circles here are almost solid in
their opposition to the candidacy of
Dr. Ralph W. McDonald for the Dem
ocratic nomination for governor, be
cause his platform is almost in di
rect opposition to the prevailing
school of governmental thought, both
here in the capital and over the State
generally, a majority of State offi
cials and political observers her©
agree that he is already a dangerous
candidate- A good many are already
of the opinion that McDonald will
throw the campaign into a second
primary and that the two left in this
second primary will be either Clyde
R. Hoey or A. H. (Sandy) Graham
(Continued on Page Eight.)
New Patrol
Will Start
Duty Sept. 1
In the Sir Walter Hotel.
Daily Di*pnYrh Bnrean,
( J»Y J. C. BASKERVILL.
' Raleigh, Aug. 21.—The enlarged
highway patrol of 121 officers and
men, including the 66 new patrolmen
whose names were announced Tues
day, will go on active duty by Kept
-1 at the latest, and probably by Sat
urday, August 31, Captain Charles D.
Farmer, commander of the patrol
said today. The first shipment of new
uniforms left the factory yesterday
and the final shipment will be made
in a few days, so that all the patrol
men can be completely outfitted by
the end of next week.
“The patrolmen will be out on the
highways and ready to arrest all the
Labor Day drunks that get behind
(Continued on Page Three.)
Train Bearing Wife and
Children Reach Los
Angeles from East
Around Noon
OKLAHOMA TRIBUTE
GIVEN WILEY POST
Body Arrives In Giant Air
plane, Ending Longest Fun
eral Flight in History;
Large Crowd at Municipal
Airport As Death Plane
Arrives
Los Angeles, Cal., Aug. 21. —(AP) —
The Rogers family will be together
again here foday- -with a vast sad dif
ference.
Mrs. Will Rogers and the children,
Will, Jr., Mary and Jim, were hurry
ing by train from the East, due to
arrive about noon.
They were speeding to a funeral In.
stead of a happy reunion after gay
areial adventures
The body of the famous comedian,
who kidded the great and the near
great, and made them like it, await
ed them in a simple bronze casket in
Forest Lawn cemetery.
Thousands of others waited also to
pay final tribute to the actor philo
pher who crashed to his death with
WUley Post in Alaskan wilds.
Tomorrow a guard of honor com
posed of two score army fliers will
attend the casket as the doors of the
chapel are opened to the public.
OKLAHOMA PAYS TRIBUTE
TO INTREPID WILEY POST
Oklahoma City, Okla., Aug. 21.
(AP) —Oklahoma paid solemn silen
tribute today to Wiley Post, whose
home-coming ofr the first time was
not a joyous one.
The body of the dauntless little air
man, who was borne here late yes
terday in a giant air liner ending the
longest funeral flight in history.
A large crowd lined the municipal
airport as the ship arrived and the
body was transferred to a hearse.
Kidnap Group Are
Trying For Bonds
jAwaiting Appeals
Smithfield, Aug. 21—(AP)—Six of
the eight defendants convicted here
of kidnaping three young Johnston
girls and taking them to New York
for immoral purposes sought to ar
range bond today pending appeals to
the State Supreme Court.
A jury convicted the group, all
members of a single family, last night
after four hours deliberation, but two
of them, Margaret Lee Beasley, and
Nellie Beasley, 17-year-old twin sis
ters, drew suspended sentences of a
year and did not appeal.
LOBBYPROBESGO^
—
Black and O’Connor Both
Publicity Hounds and
Very Jealous
By CHARLES P. STEWART
Washington, Aug. 21.—How child
ish lawmakers sometimes can be was
illuminatingly and amusingly demon
strated by the recent desperate fight
between the Senate and the House
of Representatives for possession of
Howard C. Hopson, the public utili
ties magnate, especially of Associat
ed Gas and Electric fame.
The row started over the clause, in
the utilities bill, to abolish holding
companies the “death sentence
clause, as it was called.
The holding Companies naturally
opposed it furiously. The clause’s ad
vocates accused the companies, lobby
q£ various unethical practices. The
companies’ spokesmen counter-charg
ed that the administration, which fa
vored the “death sentence,” also was
lobbying, and that its lobby was un
ethical 100. -
TWO INVESTIGATIONS
Into these charges and counter
charges of unethical lobbying two
congressional investigations were be
gun simultaneously—one by a special
committee of the upper chamber, un
der the chairmanship of Senator
Hugo L. Black of Alabama; one by
the, rules committee of the House of
(Continued on Page Three.)
fr'UHLasuMD avail* aftbrnoom
BXCBPT HONDAV
On 'New Deal’ Dollar
Republicans are insinuating that
“New Deal” propaganda idea
prompted choice of reverse (top),
of Great Seal of United States,
never used before, as design for new
dollar bill. The Latin motto on the
seal means “A new order of the
ages.” The more familiar face of
the seal is shown below.
CONGRESS
M JOLTS ra
Imposition of NRA Terms
on Government Con
tracts Abandoned for
This Session
INHERITANCE LEVY ,
OUT OF TAX BILLS
NRA Proposition Was On
List of “Musts” for This
Session and Had Already
Passed Senate; Congress
Toward Adjourn
men by Saturday
Washington. Aug. 21 (AP) —Con-
gress still is bent going home by
Saturday night, but in their dash to
ward adjournment legislators has de
livered two jolts to major parts of the
Roosevelt administration’s program.
Some hours after a Senate-House
conference committee had approved
a new $250,000,000 tax bill, which em
bodied many administration ideas,
but left out the new inheritance
(Continued on Page Three.)
Paralysis Waning
Rapidly In State;
30 Are Infectious
Raleigh, Aug. 21.—(AP) — The
Ssfaifitrle paralysis epidemic ap
parently is fast dying out in
North Carolina.
Records at the State Board of
Health office showed there were
only 30 of the 549 cases which
have been reported this year are
still in an infectious stage.
Three new cases were report
ed to authorities here today.
Cabinet Group Strong For
Cotton Processing Taxes
Presiden|t’s Committee Urges Control of Japanese Cot
ton Goods Imports by Friendly Agreement; Urges
Further Study of Regional Wage Scales
Washington, Aug. 21 —(AP) —Dis-
continuance of the cotton processing
taxes was opposed today by the spe
cial cabinet committee which has
been studying the ills of the cotton
textile industry.
The committee suggested control of
imports of Japanese cotton goods,
preferably by means cf a voluntary
and friendly agreement” with Japan.
It also recommended establishment
of a continuing committee to study
the problem of regional wage differen
tials in the textile industry.
These and other recommendations
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Roosevelt Is In Favor of
Seven-Point Resolution
Hastily Jammed
Through Senate
MANDATORY BAN ON
ARMS IS PROVIDED
Munitions Makers Would
Be Licensed amd ’ U. S.
Ships Transporting Arms
Would Be Denied Protec
tion; Hopes for Adjourn
ment This Week Dimmed
Washington, Aug. 21.—(AP)— A
seven-point resolution designed to
safeguard American neutrality in
event of a foreign war was adopted
today by the Senate.
Attemtps were already under way
to assure House action
President Roosevelt was reported
in favor of the move, coming as It
does at a time when the Italo.Ethio*
pian situation is causing grave ques
tions for; European governments In
particular.
Spurred into action by omnibus war
signs abroad and a filibuster by mun
itions committee members, the Sen
ate speedily endorsed the foreign re
lations committee compromise resolu
tion.
Representing a compromise be
tween a more drastic program ad
vocated by the Senate special muni
tions investigating committee, headed
by Senator Nye, Republican, Nortß
Dakota, and the State Department
attitude, the resolution provides:
A mandatory embargo on exports
of arms, munitions and implements
of war to all belligerents in a foreign
conflict.
A system of licensing munitions
| manufacture and export as a perma
nent ’policy of this government, along
the lines of the Geneva arms treaty
of 1925, ratified earlier in the ses
sion by the Senate.
A ban against American ships car
rying arms or munitions under em
bargo to any belligerent port or to
any neutral port for the re-shipment
(Continued on Page Three.)
H r™PROSPERITy.
Neither Prosperity Nor Se
curity Today Except for
Privileged Few
By LESLIE EICHEL
New York, Aug. 21.—This part of
our era may be known as the Period
of the Failure of High Prices.
Hitherto, high prices have been
syr/jnymous “prosperity.” To
day we have the return of high
prices—in the stock market, for com
modities, for nearly everything ex
cept land, and land, once it is fore
closed into fewer hands, may follow.
And, today, except for the priv
ileged few, there is neither prosperity
nor security.
The many still areb ruised and
walking in darkness-
If President Roosevelt faces larger
and larger oppositionists votes at
the polls, itw ill not be because h©
desires an amendment to the Con
stitution or because he taxes wealth
or even the man of intermedlat*
(Continued on Page Five.)
were contained in a report submit,
ted to President Roosevelt and trans
mitted by him to Congress.
The processing tax, Japanese im
ports and the North-South wage dif
ferentials were the chief matters
studied by the committee, which re
ceived complaint by the industry at;
extended hearings early in the sum
mer.
Other committee recommendations:
Legislative and administrative ac
tion to meet the problem of excess
(Continued on Page Eight.) t