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HENDERSON gateway TO CENTRAL CAROLINA TWENTY-SECOND YEAH ESTIMATE FLORIDA STORM DEAD ABOVE 400 African Tension Is Eased When U. S. Company Cancels Ethiopian Oil Concession ITALY CAN SEE NO CHANGES, HOWEVER, IN THE SITUATION Rome Holds That Ethiopian Grant to American And British Firms Was Not Recognized ROOSEVELT VOICES HIS SATISFACTION Says It Is Further Evidence That Dollar Diplomacy Has Had No Place in American Government Since He Took Office; League Meets To Seek Peace (By the Associated Press.) Italy filed a memorandum with the League of Nations today de claring Ethiopia had placed her self onenly “outside the League.” The memorandum accused the Ethiopian government of partici. pating in slavery, and alleged four different kinds of violations of Italo-Ethiopian relations. Anthony Eden, British cabinet minister, assured the Council there could be no question of any political or economic conflict be tween Great Britain and Italy. <Bv the Associated Press.) The announcement of the with drawal of the Standard Vacuum Oil Company from the Ethiopian oil con cession was greeted with feelings ranging from relief that a dangerous situation had been eased to the be lief in Italy that “there had been no (Continued on Page Four.) Large Membership Os Presbyterians Shown For State Red Springs. Sept. 4 TAP) —The Rev. J, O. Mann, was re-elected di rector of reljgious education for the coming year by the North Carolina Presbyterian Synod today in session at Flora McDonald College here. The statistical report presented to the synod showed it has 354 minis ters. 81 candidates and 79,885 mem bers. A proposal for a Federal Council °f Churches in North Carolina to take the place of the State Sunday School Association, was referred to the com mittee on bills and overtures. money is provided FOR WPA IN STATE Washington, Sept. 4 TAF)—Senator Bajley, Democrat, North Carolina, was notified today that President Roose 'eit had approved allotment of SIOO,- for administration of the Works Progress program in North Carolina. START ISSUANCE OF DRIVER’S LICENSE highway Patrol and Reve nue Department Become Very Active Dnlly Dlnpntch Jlnren^, In the S|r Wnlter Hotel, nv J. c. BASKF.RVILL. Raleigh, Sept. 4.—Applications for be n ,, w driver’s licenses aYe now ”‘ >!n K filled out every day by the State Highway aPtrol in the lobby of the "‘venue Building here. One patrol rn' ui has been assigned to duty to as -1 ' all applicants make out the ap. plication blanks and to notarize these •'■pplications. A long line of applicants vn’ird f o r blanks and filled them out ll(, sday. the first day the blanks 10 available and still more were on i: ’/ f l today. I be application blanks are obtained l' l ' information desk in the lobby. !lH applicant then takes the blank to (Continued on Page Three.) Hx'Lthcrsmt DatUi Biaxrairlf th A k S TJ k sbkyicb 09 THB ASSOCIATED PRBSS. II Duce’s Sons Off for Africa The eldest sons of Premier Mussolini, Vittorio (left), and Bruno (extreme right), board a transport at Naples to sail for East Africa to fly with Italy's air corps in the expected war on Ethiopia. (Central Press) Roosevelt Declares Peak Os Emergency Is Passed Bread Truck Man Reports Robbery Fayetteville, Sept. 4—(AP) The driver of a bread truck from Greensboro told police here today he had been held up and robbed of SI,OOO near Raleigh this morning about 3 a. m. He said a report was made to Raleigh police. Local officers did not have details of the reported hold-up. MAINE MAN NAMED FORA.&N.C.HEAD H. P. Crowell To Operate Goldsboro-Beaufort Rail road for the State Raleigh. Sept. 4. (AP) —Governor Ehringhaus announced today the se lection of H. P. Crowell, of Belfast. Maine, to be general manager of the Atlantic and North Carolina railroad, which will be operated independently in il-e future. Mr. Crowell is now manager of the Belfast and Moose Head railroad kt Maine, and “i.» one of the outstanding shortiine railroad executives in Am erica,” Governor Ehringhaus said. “The general manager is an expe rienced, competent and splendidly re commended executive who will come to take over the management with out any political or other ties with competing railroads.,” the executive said. The State owns controlling inter est in the railroad, which was for. merly leased to the Norfolk Southern. It lies between Goldsboro and More head City. Crowell was selected by a special committee of the directors at a meet ing in Kinston today. ELLIOTT ROOSEVELT QUITS TEXAS PARTY Dallas, Texas, Sept. 4.—(AP) Elliot Roosevelt, son of the Presi dent, said today he had resigned as first vice-president of the Young Democrats of Texas, a post his political foes had contended in bitter word battles that only a na. tive Texan should hold. ROCKY MOUNT MAN IS ELECTROCUTED 'Mlount, Seplt. 4.—(AP)—-S. H. Adams, 40, father of three daugh ters, was electrocuted at a feed stoi e here today ash e was working on an elevator. ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA AND VIRGINIA. Issues Order Putting All Temporary Federal Agen cies Under Budget Regulations PERSONNEL WILL BE CUT UNDER SET-UP Overlapping Would Be Pre vented and Expenditures Slashed; AAA, FERA, NR A, TVA, PWA, Com modity Credit and Railroad Coordinator All Included Hyde Park. N. Y.. Sept. 4 (AP)—- President Roosevelt today ordered all Umergelicy Federal agencies under control of the budget bureau for cur tailment of personnel, with the as sertion that the “peak of the emer gency has passed.” By executive order, Mrs. Roosevelt placed the following seven units un der the budget for control of admin istration expenditures: The Agriculture Adjustment Ad ministration. the Federal Emergency Relief Administration, the National Recovery Administration, the Tennes see Valley Authority, the Public Works Administration, the Commo dity Credit Corporation and the railroad coordinator. This move completed the placing under budget control of all emergency agencies. The Fresident said action contem plated a prevention of overlapping and reduction of unnecessary per (Continued on Page Three.) No Credence ToDoughton Making Race Rumor Revived As Excuse To Slander Gardner and Hoey, Is Raleigh Belief Dolly DlniMiteh Bnren*, In the Sir Wnlter Hotel. HY Z C. riASKERVILL. Raleigh, Sept. 4.—The talk to the effect tat Congressman Robert L. Doughton, is still considering becom ing a candidate for the Democratic nomination tor governor and is by no means out of the race yet, is not given much credence in political circles here (Continued on Page Four.), HENDERSON, N. C. WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON, SEPTEMBER 4, 1935 American Consul Suicide on Liner Washington, Sept. 4 (AP) —The Dollar Steamship Company inform, ed the Slate Department today that George C. Hanson, consul general at Saloniki, Greece, had died on board the steamship Pres ident Polk on September 2 from a self-inflicted gunshot wound. Hanson, a veteran in the Ameri can foreign service, was on his way to the United States for treat ment for a nervous breakdown. NEW DEAL GIVING STATE A RAW DEAL IS RALEIGH’S VIEW Rules and Red Tape Re quirements in Washing ton Change So Fast Can’t Be Followed DEADLINE IMPOSED ENTIRELY TOO SOON Claim State Hasn’t Had Time To r ile Applications, and Those Filed Getting Little or no Attention; Washington Feels State Is in the Bag Anyhow Dally Dlspntck Bareaa, In the Sir Walter Hotel, BJ J. O. BASKEH^IIi'i, Raleigh, Sept. 4.—North Carolina is getting a raw deal from the “New Deal” as far as getting any assistance from the WPA and the PWA is con cerned, in the opinion of most State officials and other observers here. Whether this is due to incompetence to arbitrariness or a deliberate in tention to discriminate against North Carolina and the other southern states because officials in Washing ton believe they will go Democratic anyway next year, no onew ill say for sure. But several high State officials who for months have been laboring to get some PWA cooperation and more recently WPA cooperation, are be (Continued on Page Two.) Offerings Light On Eastern Marts Due to the Rain Kinston, Sept. 4. — (AP) —Rain kept down receipts on the tobacco market here today somewhat, but heavy sales were in prospect as the result of blocks earlier in the week. Official figures for Tuesday’s sales were not available, but weed men estimated 1,000.000 pounds sold at an average of sl9 per hundred. FAIRMONT’S AVERAGE IS REPORTED $22 PER HUNDRED Fairmont, Sept. 4.—(AP) —Receipts were lighter on the tobacco market here today. Estimates were that 950, 000 pounds would be sold at an aver age of $22 per hundred. Tuesday’s sales were 1.077,402 pounds at an av erage of $21.18 per hundred. checkdeOnquents FDR TAX DUE STATE Field Deputies In Raleigh Inspecting Records and Getting Orders Dally Diapntcfc Bareaa, In the Sir Walter Hotel. BY J. C. BASKERVILL. Raleigh, Sept. 4.—Approximately 35 of the deputy collectors of revenue who act as the field men for the Re venue Department, are here this week checking over the records in the de. partment preparatory to a special drive that will be made soon against delinquent sales and privilege tax payers, it was announced today by Commissioner of Revenue A. J. Max well. They are also being given spe cial instructions in the auditing of sales tax returns as well as in the changes in some of the revenue laws. (Continued on Page Three.) WEATHER FOR NORTH CAROLINA. Rain tonight and Thursday; cooler Thursday and Thursday "igM, GRANVILLE COUNTY NEGRO SPEEDED TO PEN AFTER ATTACK John Kingham Alleged To Have Assaulted 12-Year- Old White Farm Girl At Creedmoor DENIES ALL GUILT OF HEINOUS CRIME Highway! Patrolmen Assist County Officers In Getting Man to Safety on Death Row in State Prison; Was Captured at 7 a. m. After an All-Night Search Raleigh. Sept. 4. —(AP) —John King ham. Negro, charged with attacking a 12. year-old white girl near Creedmoor early lastn ight was brought to Cen tral Prison this afternoon by a State Highway patrolman and placed in a “safe keeper’s” cell on Death Row. Governor Ehringhaus sent the pa trolmen to Creedmoor early today after “an individual citizen” had ad vised the governor he feared mob violence when Kingham was caught. The Negro was sought by a posse all night. Captain C. D. Farmer, of the high way patrol, said Kingham was taken near Hester, a small town several miles north of Creedmoor. It had been thought he was surrounded in a swamp near where he is alleged to have attacked a daughter of Bryan Peed. The Negro denied he was guilty. Captain Farmer said. STATE HIGHWAY PATROL ASSISTED IN THE SEARCH Creedmoor, Sept. 4 (AP) —Officers and citizens continued their search today for John Kingham, elderly Ne gro charged wjth attackin ga 12_year old white girl near here, after rain ruined any possible trail bloodhounds might have followed. Captain C. D. Farmer of the State Highway F’atrol, added two patrol (Continued on Page Four.) Blue-Gray Reunion Is Voted For Amarillo, Texas, Sept. 4. —(AP) — Confederate veterans agreed today to forget any differences that might have remained and meet with the Grand Army of the Republic in a joint reunion of Civil War veterans at Gettysburg, Pa., in 1938. The fading remnant of the boys who wore the Gray in the War Be tween the States voted unanimously to accept an invitation to the pro posed Blue and Gray reunion on the Gettysburg battlefield. Paul Roy, of Gettysburg, presented the invitation in behalf of the State. The vote on the joint reunion came after Roy assured the veterans they would be free to carry the “Stars and Bars” of the Confederacy when and where they pleased. Textile Head Seeks Senate Inquiry Soon Gorman Says Ultra- Modern Rifles Used In Fatal Pel ze r Strike Riotings Washington, ultra-modern rifles were used against strikers in a Labor Day shooting af fray at Pelzer, S. C., the United Textile Workers Union plans to seek an investigation by the Senate Muni tions CommitteQ. The outbreak brought death to one woman and injuries to several strik ers and sympathizers. In a statement declaring a well armed private army had been used (Continued on Page Three), PUBLISHED EVERY AFTBJRNOOW EXCEPT MONDAY. Selassie Divides Up? r -j ilresr \ j / KENYA j The shaded portion of this map of Ethiopia is the vast area which Emperor Haile Selassie was re ported to have deeded to Anglo- American oil interests dominated by Standard Oil, for exploitation and development. bickeTt plans ¥ PROCEED SLOWLY IN LYNCHING CHARGES Won’t Be Any More Hear ings of Franklin County Atrocity Unless Evi dence Merits WANTS MORE THAN MERE NINE NAMES Must Be Sufficient Evidence To Sustain Grand Jury In dictment, Solicitor Says; Will Confer With Gover nor and Attorney General As To Future Course Raleigh, Sept. 4.—(AP) —Solicitor William Y. Bickett of the seventh judicial district, said today he did not expect any further hearings to be held in an effort to idenitfy members of mob which lynched Govan Ward, Ne gro slayer, in Franklin county in July “unless there is sufficient evidence to sustain a grand jury indictment.” The solicitor had not received data sent Governor Ehringhaus by the Na tional Association for the Advance ment of Colored People, which pur ported to name nine members of the mob which lynched Ward. “I certainly must have evidence other than the mere mention of the names of nine men suspected of par. (Continued on Page Three.) MOORESVILLE GIRL DIES OF INJURIES Mooresville, Sept. 4.—(AP)—Kath erine Farrell, 15, of Mooresville, died early today in a hospital of injuries suffered near here last night in an automobile wreck which brought in juries to two others. HUEY LONG TQ BE AN ISSUE IN 1936 And It Will Be Herculean Task To Beat Him; Has Lost Some Ground By CHARLES P. STEWART Washington, Sept. 4.—Senator Huey P. Long will not be the sole issue in the 1930 political campaign, but he will be an issue and an important one. Let no one make any mistake about that. The effort to beat the Kingfish will be Herculean. Administrationsts gladly would see a Republican senator elected in Loui siana to eliminate him. Os course, however, that can’t occur. It Is for renomination that adminlstrationists will try to defeat him. They admit it is more than doubt ful that they can do it, but they think 1 (Continued on Page Four.) PAGES TODAY FIVE CENTS COPY SEARCHING PARTY SAYS DESTRUCTION GREATEST ON REYS War Veterans’ Construction Camp In Far Southern Peninsula Is Great, est Sufferer STORM IsHhEADED BACK TO MAINLAND High Tide Forecast At Ce dar Key, and Hurricane Force Will Not Diminish Much Until the Blow Moves Inland and Will Likely Strike Well Up In Georgia Miami, Fla., Sept. 4. —(AP)— The destruction of war veterans’ construc tion camps on the Florida keys, some of them 'struck by high walls of water rolling in from raging seas, brought today rapidly increasing fears of a terrific death toll from the hur ricane roaring over the gulf area. A sSxrching party from Miami re ported by radio to the Red Cross an estimated loss of life between 400 and 500. The devastation was heaviest in the camp of the veterans engaged in build ing a highway on the keys to Key West. One of these camps was completely demolished. Another was a mass of wreckage. A rescue train sent down the keys Monday to bring back the veterans was reported wrecked. This information came from a coast guard plane which surveyed the area early today. . , Gordon E. Dunn, government me. teorologist at Jacksonville, said at 10 a. m., the txopical hurricane, now in the Gulf of Mexico, probably will hit Cedar Key in a short time and may be followed by “a fairly high tide.” The storm, he said, still is of full hurricane intensity (more than 75 miles an hour winds), but probably will start diminishing in intensity as soon as it crosses the coast line into the Florida mainland. He said the storm likely “will be attended shifting gales far up into Georgia.” A message from St. Petersburg, the first since the storm swerved up the west Florida coast, said the tide was (Continued on Page Three.) Wade Declines To Revoke Charter of State Socialists Raleigh, Sept. 4.—(AP) —Stary W. Wade, secretary of state, today ruled that the “Socialist Party of North Carolina, Inc.,” to which his office recently vranted a charter, has a right to the certificate of incorporation un less the courts decide otherwise, in replying to a petition by Jack Fies, of High Point, asking a revocation of the charter. Fies yesterday presented a petition at Mr. Wade’s office asking that the charter to the State party be with drawn on the gronnds the men secur ing the grant were not bonafide North Carolina Socialists, Fies had letters from Clarence Senior, secretary of the Socialist party of the United States, giving him powers of attorney in an action to try to secure the re vocation. Will Remove Passengers From Liner Rescue Ships La y Plans for Taking 372 Persons From Ship off Miami Jacksonville, Fla., Sept. 4. (AP) —The coast guard today ad vised the Iscrantsen Moller Com pany of New York its steamer Leise Macrsk drifted ashore at Alligator Reef Monday night dur ing the hurricane in the Florida keys, hut the crew is safe and the vessel is no danger. Miami, Fla., Sept. 4.—(AP)— Life boats were swung over the side of rescue ships today, ready to he dispatched to the aid of the (Continued on Page Three.)
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