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HEnukk-sun Lateway to r CENTRA I. CAROiJNA YEAK ITALIANS START BIG PUSH ON TWO FRONTS highway board is FIRED BY GOVERNOR OF SOUTH CAROLINA p oa( | Administration An tagonistic and In State of Insurrection, John ston Says SOLDIERS ENFORCE GOVERNOR’S ORDER All State Highway Police Arc Fired, Then Re-Hired, Wi»h Instructions To Turn In Resignations Effective November 15, Which May Not Be Accepted Columbia. S. C.. Oct. 28.—(AP>— Governor Olin D. Johnson grasped full control of State highway affairs today tiv declaring an antagonistic road administration in a “state of in .••urreef/on." and ordering out Na llpnnl Guard machine gunners. TV governor with a battery of ma chine gun-! planted opposite the State highway offices, announced he had removed the entire road force of If and its chief commissioner, Ben M". Smvyer. Me suspended habeas corpus under his proclamation that the highway executives wer in a state of “rebel, lion and insurgency:” set up a spe cial board to administer highway bus incss. and prepared, through it. to put his $3 auto tages promise into effect. Joe Calus, Spartanburg accountant, whom the governor designated as "executive manager” of highway mat ters, went ahead with plans for a "house-cleaning of the road bureau, m line with the executive’s wishes, Calus ordered all State highway pa trolmen to turn in their side arms with a statement “there will be no patrol on the highway today, tomor row or the day after that.” Summoning the several hundred of fice employees to , a meeting, he an nounced they had beep automatically discharged under the proclamation, were now re-hired, but were expect, cd to übmit their resignations indi (Continued on Page Two.) Seven Union Miners Shot In Alabama Birmingham, Ala., Oct. 28.—(AP) — Seven union miners were brought to ;i hospital here today suffering from gunshot wounds they said were re ceived in an ambuscade near the Mar garet mine in St. Clair county, about -•*> miles caxst of here. One of the miners in the hospital said five cars carrying about 20 mem hers of the United Mine Workers of America w\re cn route to the mine, : 'nd as they drew near the property hots were fired from the side of the mountain. The miners said they had heard •he men working in the Margaret mine, operated with non-union labor, wanted to organize, and they were K°hig there to aid them. ■he men were questioned here by Deputies Sheriff H. C. Pcveler and •'am Arnett, of Jefferson county. Gang Guns Maze Out In Gotham N ew York. Oct. 28 (AP. Gang guns a/u again today, leaving two men j wounded in the doorway of «tr;r lment houa ° at 320 West 84th •itV,'' " an investigation to eijnn ll , f}ie amh uscade had any hue 7n°'\ With last week 8 gang war i„1 lh , whlch fivc ‘ mobsters, includ cxterndi'ated lOUS ° UtCh Schultz ’ were aldo° d 23 8 « V J <stiniß were Hugo Gar licc ’said V ° Jsoph PeM «°- 24 - Po ‘ 6:30 a n 7° re down about buildine l,v> US the y w ere leaving the Two n Pl , e ttle - v had been living, ing one i f | Wh ° oSCa l )ed did the shoot lice. Oai .i WoUn ded men told po bis sidp " ed tw ° bullets in a £,r. ," n f “•« face. Pengo ■ttritnpraim tlatht Htsijatrfil MW VIC* OF thb associated press. 200 Perished In Haitian Hurricane Jjort-Au-Prince, Haiti, Oct 28. —(AP)—At least 2,000 persons are dead or missing in a storm which ravaged the southern peninsula of Haiti last week. Most of the casualties were caus ed by floods, which followed the hurricane a week ago. Thousands •‘•ere reported homeless and hun gry. Populations of valley villages were believed to have been wiped out as rains sent their streams from their banks, demolishing the frail thatched huts of the natives. Information received here indi. eated the bodies of most of the missing were swept out to sea fELEPHONE JURORS HAVE NO TELEPHONE State Wants Men on Rate Trial Who Know Noth ing of Business TRIAL WILL BE LONG Expected To East Probably Three Weeks As Company Contests State’s Order for 5320,- 000 Rate Slash Raleigh, Oct 28 (AP) —Trial of the suit in which tne Southern Bell Tele phoneand Telegraph Company is con testing a telephone rate reduction ord ered in its Norht Carolina Exchanges by the State Utilities Commission, opened in Wake Superior Court today. The State indicated it would seek a jury composed of men having no knowledge of the tclebhone business. Each of the first 12 men tentative ly selected for jury duty said he did not have a telephone in his home. Counsel for the telephone company had not examined the first dozen talesmen this morning as State’s coun scl quizzed each in detail about his knowledge of and possible past con nection with telephone work. Judge G. Vernon Cowper. of Kins ton, presiding at the three weks spe cial term ordered to hear the case, (Continued on Fage Eight.) DEAD MAN’S BODY FOUND IN A DITCH Huntsville, Oct.. 28. —(AP) — An unidentified white man was found shot to death in a ditch beside the road at White Chapel, five miles from here in St. Clair county, this morn ing. The coroner was summoned to conduct an inquest. Conscience Stricken • , I ' H ; K|. JbL Mrs. May Garland Adams (above) walked into Danville, Va., police station and confessed murder of Al bert Rudisill, Charlotte, N. C„ man found hanging to rafter of ware house dressed in woman’s clothes four years ago. She said conscience troubled her. odentrai P *■«##_* ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA AND VIWJINIA Scenes as Malibu Beach Waj Swept by Fire I v f v ' • •■ ■ " • '■« ' : BrrmViMßiriP JL I ■ Roaring flames in Corral canyon lick at the home of Edward Stewart in the photo at the top, the canyon being one of the sections nt Malibu Beach that was in the path of southern California’s forest. 1 $300,000 Telephone Rate Cut Involved In Suit By Bell Company In Raleigh Pork Supply In 1936 Will Be Increased 25 to 30 Percent Raised To Follow Corn-Hog Sign-Up for Coming Year Washington, Oct. 28.—(AP)— AAA officials, expressing delight at the overwhelming endorsement of the 1936 corn.hog control program in a nationwide farm referendum, made plans today to increase pork produc tion next year. They indicated the increase would be 25 to 30 percent over this year. Present high prices of pork have seen much under discussion recently, with critics of the New Deal stressing them, and AAA officials saing that the shortage of hogs was caused by the drought, not by the AAA policy, of controlled production. COURT WILL REVIEW PROGRAM ON SLUMS Washington, Oct. 28 (Ak>—The Supreme Court agreed today to decide whether the government can condemn land for its slum clearance and low cost housing program. It consented to review a case from Louisville, Ky., which was decided against the government by the lower courts. METHODIST LEADER DIES AT SALISBURY Salisbury. Oct. 28 (AP)— Dr. J. e. Crawford, associate secretary of the general board of lay activities of the Methodist Church, with headquarters at Nashville, Tenn., died at a local hospital this morning of P^omor _ HENDERSON, N. C. MONDAY AFTERNOON, OCTOBER 28, 1935 Patrons of That Company Throughout State Will Win or Lose by Ver dict Given COMPANY RESISTS WINBORNE’S ORDER Value of Company’s Hold ings Is Real Issue Behind Trial; Whatever Decision May Be, Case Will Go To State and Maybe United States Supreme Courts Daily Dispatch Bureau, In the Sir Walter Hotel. 11V J. C. BASKBRVILT.E. Raleigh, Oct. 28. —The long-awaited Southern Bell Telephone Company rate case trial, involving a reduc tion of $300,000 a year to Bell tele phone users in North Carolina, start ed in Wake county Superior Court here this morning before Judge G. Vernon Cowper. The trial is expected to last at least two weeks and pos sibly longer. The jury was being se lected today. The jury before which the case will be tried must decide whether the $300,000 reduction in rates to Bell telephone users in North Carolina, as ordered by the State Utilities Com mission in January of this year, shall stand, or whether the telephone com pany is entitled to continue to charge the higher rates now in effect. Tn order to reach a decision on this question, the jury must hear evidence and decide if the valuation fixed by (Continued on Page Three.) OOR WEATHER MAN FOB NORTH CAROLINA. Mostly cloudy, scattered show ers tonight and Tuesday; slightly warmer except in extreme south west portions toniirhfc. fire and storm. Total damage was estimated at $0,000,000. Below is pictured a raging backfire, started in the canyon by CCC workers, foresters and residents to counteract the forest fire. Austria Is Talking Os New King Vienna, Oct. 28.—(AP)—Supporters of Austria’s spectacular vice chan cellor, Young Prince Ernst von Star hemberg, talked freely today of put ting a royal sceptre in his hand. The prince, a friend of Benito Mus solini, and a foe of Adolf Hitler, has opposed immediate restoration of the Hapsburg dynasty with increasing vigor. With his grip on the government strengthened appreciably by the re cent shake-up in the cabinet, the iFasqist leader qf the Heimwehr (home guard) may be installed as re gent “about Christmas time,* pre. dieted friends. To Open Bids on Another Link of Highway in Park Raleigh, Oct. 28.—(AP) —Capus M. Waynick, chairman of the highway and public works commission, said today bids would be opened in Roa noke, Va., Thursday for construction of a third section of the national scenic parkway and proposals for a fourth section will be received De cember 5. The sector on which bids will he re ceived this week is 11.5 miles long, and Waynick did not have the details concerning the fourth sector, N. C. Leads Virginia In Road Work In the Sir Walter Hotel. Daily Dispatch Bureau, lIY J. C. BASKEItVILLE, Raleigh, Oct. 28.—1 n spite of the criticism heard recently because such a small amount of Federal highway work in North Carolina is under con tract, this State has almost four times as much of its Federal PWA high, way program under contract as Vir ginia, Chairman Capus M. Waynick, of the State Highway and Public Works Commission, said today. North Carolina already has at least $1,000,- 000 of this work under contract and $3,237,000 worth of approved by the A pnHnnoH on T>g£r<> PUBLISH.HD BVBAY AFTBRNOOI ■XCHPT SUNDAY. 13th Anniversary Os Fascist Power Being Celebrated II Duce—the Pilot When cares of state press heaviest, Premier Mussolini, shown landing at Rome, seeks relief among the clouds in his own plane. His sons, Bruno and Vittorio, are flying with bombing squadron at Ethiopian front. (Central Press) GIVEN =E Trade Discriminations Won’t Be Tolerated, Delegate Declares REFERS TO MANDATES Says Japan Exports More To Pales tine and Syria Than Either France or Britain, With Mandates Geneva, Oct. 28.— (AP)— The Lea gue of Nations was diverted from its interest in the Italo-Ethiopian war today by a warning from Nobumi Ito, Japanese diplomat, that his coun try will not tolerate trade discrim inations. He expressly warned of discrimina tions against Japan in world regions formerly belonging to Germany and Turkey and now held under mandate by various powers. Japaiy he related, exports more to Paltestine and Syria than to Britain and France, who hold man. dates over those districts. Ito said Japan will insist on equal opportunity in the mandated terri tories, after the question had risen as to whether the Nipponese empire’s resignation from the League of Na tions automatically excluded it from commercial equality in those districts. The League’s mandate commission received Japan’s ultimatum in sil ence, and took no vote one way or another. McDonald To Get Most Os School Votes Daily Dispatch Bureau, In the Sir Walter Hotel. BY J. C. BASKERVILLE Raleigh, Oct. 28.—Whom will the 23,000 school teachers, principals and superintendents in the State support for governor in 1936? This question is beginning to be asked more and more as the com paign for the Democratic nomination for governor advances. The teachers never stick together solidly and vote as a unit for any can didate, it is agreed, but usually a ma jority of them center on one candidate and become a real factor in his nom ination and election. In the present campaign, it is gen erally conceded that State Superin tendent of Public Instruction Clyde A. Erwin and the North Carolina Education Association, which usually stands by the State superintendent, especially in politics, are backing the on P a ! ro - Fi v e ) o PAGES O today FIVE CENTS COPY ‘‘On to Rome” Was Battle cry Years Ago; Today It Is “On to Harar” In Ethiopia TROOPS ADVANCING ALONG WIDE FRONT From Aksum to Adigrat Three Columns of Northern Army Move Forward; Army on Southern Front Still Hampered by Rain*; Making Progress, However (By the Associated Press.) Mussolini’s legions, celebrating the 13th anniversary of Fascist rule in Italy, pushed forward into the Ethi opian interior today on both the north ern and southern fronts. Thirteen years ago today, 11 Duce led his black-shirted Fascist into power. The cry then was: “On to Rome.” Today, seeking colonies to spread this power, the Fascisti shouted: “On to llnrar.” The “big push” toward Harar o.p.i patently was under way. On the northern front three columns march ed on strategic mburitain pass and gateway to the interior. The Roman trioops advanced aJ! along the line from Aksum to Adi grat. Os great importance, the troops gained water early in the advance. The central column, under General Pirdio-Birioli, occupied the Ferres Mai valley to the south of Aduwa on the route to Makale. The engineering (Continued on Page Two.) Raeford Man Is Suspected As Gangster Raleigh, Oct. 28 (AP)—Detective Captain Bruce Poole, of the Raleigh Police, this afternoon announced the arrest in Raeford of a man he said was Curtis Smith, who is wanted here to answer charges of hit and run driv ing. and on suspicion of being a mem ber of a gang of Eastern Carolina safe blowers. Smith, Poole said, was being brougat ( jte. (Continued on Page Eight.) Two Men Killed « In Gang Forays At Chicago, 111. _____ * Chicago, Oct. 28.—(AP) — Two men were slain and two others were seriously wounded today In a mysterious shooting in an of fice occupied by lawyers -liftid court reporters ut 155 North Clark street, in Ch : cago’s L rip. The dead: William R. Fetzer, former judge of the municipal court >. t William L. Hawthorne, a court reporter. Probe Into Death Near Greensboro Nude Body Believed That of Walter A. Costello, On Hi s Way to Boston Washington, Oct. 28 (AP) —Coast Guard headquarters started an in vestigation today into the death at Greensboro, N. C., of a man be lieved to be Walter A. Costello, a chief petty officer. On October 11 Costello was order ed transferred from New Orleans to Boston. Saturday night a mutilated body nude was found in a ravine near (Continued on Page Five.)
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