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TWENTY-SECOND YE Alt
STATE ALL TIME AUTO DEATH RECORD SET
School Support Is
Seen y4s Big Issue
Ofl936Campaign
|Vlorc Pay for Teachers and
Longer Terms for All
Schools May Be
Advocated
SALES TAX, LIQUOR
MAY BE SECONDARY
Even Twelfth Grade Hint
ed in Some Discussions;
Revenues of State Are
Now on Increase and
These Things Might Be
Possible With Same Tax
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In (hi* Sir Walter Until,
111 .1. V. IIASKEItimE,
RHlfiuli, Nov. 16. —The question of
Piihlic school support and mainten
ance is going to he the big issue in
t!v 1936 gubernatorial campaign, zath
< r tii in the sales tax. the liquor ques
tion ot the various other issues that
iany Hiirfc. according to most obser
vhh here. Accordingly, opinion is
mmi tiiid more to the effect that the
caiMliihite for governor wiio advocates
thf mu ' sound and sane program for
the public schools of the State, one
tint vi 1 i appeal to the taxpayers and
patrons as well s ato the teachers,
will he tlv one who will win the nam-
Therc tire several reasons for this
belief. One of the foremost reasons
being advanced is that at the present
time more than 66 per cent of all the
Slate's general fund revenue is spent
n support of the public schools, so
tint if any material Increase in the
ro-t of the schools is made, a corres
ponding increase in taxes must be
nnde to yield the revenue necessary.
Out of the present general fund bud
get of $30.500 000 for this fiscal year,
more than $20:000,000 will go to sup
in it of the public, schools, almost $5,-
miM.Mio for debt service, leaving only
bout $1,500,000 for all other state ac
tivities. and institutions.
Still another reason indicating that
the public schools and the size of the
q.prnpi iation for them for the next
two voars will be the principal issues
m tlii gubernatorial campaign, is the
Lot that almost the only contest of
t.\ M tiousncss that developed in the
1935 (Jeimral Assembly was over the
n.i'd of the schools and the size of
'hr school appropriation. The school
forces sat t ied out by insisting that
t'A'.Ofifi 000 was the minimum needed,
thi'ti dropped down to $22,000,000 and
finally compromised—or at least ac
'luit-serd —at $20.000000 the first year
and $20,900,000 the second year, after
>L" general assembly spent four
mouths trying to find more money,
finally deciding this was all it could
find.
I’trsriit indications are that if busi
■ r and economic conditinns con
tinue to improve, or that if they do
not become any worse than they are
now, the 1937 General Assembly can
•qipr'opciate from $22,000,000 to $25.-
"imi.ooo a year for the public schools
(Continued on Page Three.)
Slate Has
Over 8,000
Prisoners
l ew I ,ess Than Sep
tember Shown For
()ctuber; Fewer Es
capes Reported
l)tiil.v l)iM|Mi(cb Itiirraii,
111 tin* Sir Waller Hotel.
liv .i «/. iiAsiiimv ii.i.i';,
Raleigh, Nov. 16 The population
C the State Prison System was 8,516
November 1. as compared with
on October 1, according to the
"i>oit of the prison department for
Libei issued today by Acting Di-
Oscar T. Pitts. The total num
''' of prisoners handled in October
! Va * 1 0.27A as compared with 10,012
•September, or more than 200 in ex
of the number handled in Sep
■ nihci The flight decrease in the
'f h' i of prisoners on hand Noveni
-1 ! ;,s compared with those on hand
,]'/*'’ 1 * s attributed to the fact
I,J ' prusoi rs were released
" 1 ” ' _ *... _ Three.)
_ A %■ HENDERSON. R ■
fimtiteranit Daily Dispatch
ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA AND VIIWINIA. * '
W,R ® aamriCHi ow
the associated press.
Ends Bankers’ Split
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Election of Orval W. Adams
(above), Salt Iyake City, as second,
vice president of American Bank
ers Association, ended rift between
groups in the convention at New
Orleans which developed after E.
i O. Bennett, Ogden, Utah, “New
Dealer,” was nominated for the
post. Adams will automatically be- '
come ABA president in 1937.
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1936 PREDICTIONS !
AT WIDE VARIANCE:
Beth Parties Say Ore Thing
for Publication, Anoth
er “Off Record” :
By CHARLES I*. STEWART
Washington- Nov. 16. —Ask a func
tory of the Republican high command
what he expects the G. O. P. to ac
complish at the 1936 election and he
will answer, for publication, that he
"•xpects it to put a Republican into
the White House and to win a ma
jority in the House of Representatives
He cannot predict Republican control
of the Senate; if the G. O. P. should
win every Senate seat that will be at
stake next year (which is unimagin
able), it still would be four votes
short of a majority.
Your Republican informant, how
ever, will claim (for publication)
everything that is even theoretically
possible.
Better ask him for a confidential
estimate and he’ll be more moderate.
F. I). R. AHEAD NOW
He'll say. if the election were to
be held tomorrow;
1. That President Roosevelt would
win, though by a much narrower
margin than in 1932.
| 2. That the G. O. P. would be lucky
to win three or four Senate seats.
3. That it should gain 75 in the
House of Representatives, which
would leave it still nearly threescore
shy of a majority.
That is assuming an election to
morrow. '
As to what another year will bring
forth one man’s guess is almost as
good as another’s.
DEMOCRATIC VIEW
Ask a Democratic expert for his
forecast and, for publication, he will
not admit the possibility of any losses
(Continued on Page Five.)
Wild Duck
Season To
Open Soon
Daily IJi*|»iit«*li Burenn,
In the Sir Waller Hotel.
BY J. C. HASKEiIVIIiI.E.
Raleigh. Nov. 16 Streaming down
the sky in ever-increasing waves, mig
ratory waterfowl are arriving in
North Carolina to the delight of
hunters who will take the field sot
this type of game Wednesday, No
vember 20. the opening day undei
State and Federal regulations.
Observers have reported to J. D.
Chalk, State game and inland fish
(Oonlinued on Page Five.) ;
HENDERSON, N. C. SATURDAY AFTERNOON, NOVEMBER 16, 1935
BORAH’S OBJECTIVE
IS TO LIBERALIZE
REPOBLICAN PARTY
Roosevelt Says Norris Is
Necessary in Senate for
the Welfare of United
States
IDAHO SOLON WANTS
MORE LIBERAL MEN
Not So Much Interested in
Being Presidential Candi
date as Having Liberal
Candidate and Progressive
Platform for Republican
Party in Next Year’s Elec
tion.
Washington, Nov. 16.—(AP—Sena
tor Borah’s “definite objective’’ for
1936 was put down by political obser
aers today to liberalize” the Repub
can party and present the so-called
“old guard” from controlling the na
tional convention.
The Idaho Republican told report
ers yestezday that whether he entered
the primary himself as the presiden
tial candidate “depends on develop
ments."
Borah's comment were one of three
developments illustrating increased
interest in the 1936 campaign war.
The others were:
1. An extraordinary announcement
by President Roosevelt that Senator
Norris, of Nebraska, was necessary
”in the Senate not only to Nebraska
bu to the United States as long as
he lives.”
2. A warning by Robert H. Lucas,
who was executive director of the Re
publican National Committee during
part of the Hoover administration,
that “unless and forthright and cour
ageous Republican leadership aroused
the old time fire,” the party may suf
fer general defeat.
3. Borah in a press conference said
he had given some hint of his objec
tive at Boise in which it was em
phasized that he was not so much in
terested in the nomination himself as
seeing a liberal candidate fchosen and
a progressive platform adapted.
METELSKI CHARGED
IN TROOPER’S DEATH
N. C. Escaped Convict Fac
ing First Degree Murder
Charge in New Jersey
New Brunswick, N. J., Nov. 16 —
(AP)— -Prosecutor Douglas M. Hicks
disclosed today that Edward Metel
ski has been indicted for first de
gree murder in the slaying of the
State Trooper Warren G. Yenser.
Hicks said Metelski, 26, fugitive
from a North Carolina prison farm,
would plead to the indictment next
Wednesday. Prosecutor hopes to
bring the prisoner to tFial before
Christmas.
Metelskki was indicted last night
by the Middlesex County grand jury.
Yenser was slain a week ago as he
and another trooper pursued two men
in a fleeing auto on New Brunswick
,pike at Avenel.
STATE'S AUTOTAGS
GO ON SALE DEC. 15
Can Be Used Immediately
on Purchase at That
Time Over State
linily »iM|i:it<-li Rnrean,
In the Sir Walter Hotel.
IIY J. C. IIASKEIIVIM.K.
Raleigh, Nov. 16 —' The 1936 auto
mobile license tags will not go on
sale this year until December 15. it
was announced today by Commission
er of Revenue A. J. Maxwell and
Director R. R. McLaughlin of the
Motor Vehicle Bureau. Last year
the 1935 plates went on sale Decem
ber 1, hut could not be used until
December 15, since the lszw specified
that the new license plates shall not
he used until December 15. In 1933.
because of the need for the revenue
from the sale of license plates, they
were put on sale Decembr 1 and
thir use permitted after that date.
Experience the past two years has
shown, however, that only a very f PW
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The new president of the American
Bankers Association is Robert V.
Fleming, of Washington, who start
ed his career at the age of 17 as a
runner for the Riggs National Bank
in the capital-
FINANCIAL WORLCT
IS WORRIED OVER
LIKELYJNFLATION
Administration Likewise Is
Fearful Lest Rising Tide
May Be Too Much
To Stem
PRINTED MONEY IS
A GREATER CONCERN
Bonus Might, After All, Be
Paid That Way, and Once
Presses Start’There May
Be iNipMiStopping of Them
Until Matjor Disaster En
gulfs Nation
By LESLIE EICHEL
New York. Nov. 16. —Inflation or
not? That is the worry of both the
business world and the administration
It is true that government borrow
ing and excess bank reserves (which
some day may break the dam) are a
potent danger. But there is a possi
bility that the government and the
banks, by means of powers within
their hands, may he able to stem
that.
“Printing press” money adherents
cause the financial world more con
cern. They evidently are gaining.
The chief issue rises over the
bonus. Shall it be paid by the issu
ance of bonds, or shall it be paid by
the issuance of currency on the store
of gold and silver the United States
now holds in its vaults?
Bonds —against which the banks
(Continued on Page Five.)
ROCKYMOUNTILL
DAMAGED BY FIRE
Southern Cotton Oil Com
pany Plant Has $15,000
Blaze; Was Insured
Rocky Mount, Nov 16.. — (AP)
Fire in the Southern Cotton Oil Mill
Company here early today caused
damage estimated by officials at
$15,000.
The blaze originated in the base
ment from an undertermined cause
and spread infd the linter room. The
fire department, which fought the
flames for three hours prevented its
spread to the rest of the plant.
OUR WEATHERMAN
FOB NORTH CAROLINA.
Cloudy with occasional rain to
night. probably ending Sunday
morient;; no; eh. ohamre
Mussolini Shakes Up His
Military Command Now
In Ethiopian Campaign
Marshal Badoglio Made
High Commission of
Eritrea and Italian
Somoliland
j GENERAL DE BONO IS
! ALMOST RETIRED NOW
| Fascists Grand Council
Meets at Midnight on Eve
of Sanctions Enforcement
To Set Italy’s Course
j Against Economic Boycott
of Key Products of War.
(By the Associated Press.)
11 Duce effected a general shake-up
today in the high military command
conducting his campaign in Ethiopia.
Marshal Baeiglio. chief of the gen
eral army staff, became high commis
sioner for Ezitzea and Italian Somili
land, which places General de Bono
in the office that cariies leadership
of the Fascist forces in East Africa.
Virtual retirement andd honor seem
ed the lot of 69-year-old white beard
ed de Bono.
Officially, the changes went unex
plained.
With his flare for dramatics, 11
Duce accompanied his military moves
with a final gesture of defiance a
gainst League of Nation’s economic
penalties.
Summoning the Fascists grand
council at midnight—just 24 hours be
fore economic sanctions go into effect
—to set Italy’s course against the boy
cott of key products.
Food economics, shorter working
hours to save light and complete gov
ernment control of foreign trade and
(Continued on Page Three.)
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FUNDS FOR SPUDS
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•Tax Goes on Potatoes Har
vested and Sold After
December 1 of 40c
Washington, Nov. 16. —(AP)— The
AAA, assured of “limited” funds to
enforce the patato law, proceeded to
day with the task of making indivi
dual allotments to growers.
Comptroller General McCarl, they
said, had ruled they could use funds
not regularly appropriated for en
forcement purposes. The official did
not state how much this would allow
but he was “hoping” it would last un
til Congress.
Funds for enforcemezit of the law
were included in the third efficiency
bill which failed to pass in the clos
ing days of the last Congress.
Under the law, all potatoes harvest
ed and sold after December 1, in ex
cess of individual allotment would be
taxed about 45 cents a bushel.
500,000 JOBS WEEK
IS HOPKINS’ AIM
Must Place That Many Per
Week to Get Relief Cases
Off Dole by December 1
Washington, Nov. 16. —(AP) -500,-
900 jobs a week was the task facing
Harry L. Hopkins, Works Progress
Administrator today to reach his
goal of having relief re
ceipients at work by Otjtober 1.
The latest figures showed 290.194
were given employment in the week
ended November 8. This indicated to
some officials Hopkins woitfd not be
entirely successful unless added speed
was shown in getting progress und
er way.
At the last count 2.900.339 were at
work—some 1.490,661 short of admin
istration objective.
Nevertheless Hopkins is proceed
ing with his intention with getting all
direct Federal relief to state by De
cember 1, and has cut off 26 states
from the so called “dole.”
Some encouragement in the employ
ment drive was found in the fact
Comptroller J. R. McCarl yesterday
released $175,000,000 of the last $200,-
OOO.COO set aside for public Works
Amdinistration pfojects under Sec
retar Iyckes.
Ickes a otnee notified state WPA
directors to instruct the municipaii-
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Not content with establishing new
world’s altitude record on flight
near the end of which they are seen
near White Lake, S. D., Capts. A.
W. Stevens and Orvil Anderson are
to make new voyage to stratosphere.
(Central Press)
SLUM CLEARANCE IS
TALKED BY WAGNER
Tel*,Tueslr \ program Would
Cost Billion Dollars but
Would Be a “Boon”
Washington, Nov. 16.—(AP)—A ten
year slum clearance and low ren Pub
lic House Program with an appzopiia
tion close to one billion dollars to
lauzich it, is under discussion in the
Roosevelt administi ation.
Senator Wagner. Democrat, Now
York, who was prominently identified
with the social security, labor dispute
and railway pension measuze. said he
had talked over the idea with Roose
velt and would go izito it in more de
tail when the President returns from
his Thaztksgiving trip to Waira
Spzings, Ga. “This would not he an
emezgezicy proposition but a defeiziite
ten yeaz' plan,” Wagner said in an in
tezview.
He saio such a program had been
“a boozt” to the building industiy and
persons w’ith low incomes in Ezigland
and Europeazi countries and undoubt
edly would have tremendous economic
and social advazitage if undertaken in
the United States.
“It is in slums, where disease and
crime is spread,” he said.
War At A Glance
(By the Associated Press.)
At Rome—Marshal Badoglio,
chief of staffs was named com
mander in chief of Italian forces
in East Africa, replacing Gen
the next month.
With the Italian Army at
Makale, Ethiopia—The Italian in
telligence section reported that
Emeperor Halie Selassie to hold
Amba Alaji at all costs. The Ital
ians prepared to move forward.
Addis Ababa —Ras Nasibu took
command of the Ethiopian forces
on the south under orders to em
ploy mostly defensive tactics for ;
then ext month. |
Hirewa* Ethiopia—Re-enforce- |
ment of thousands of Ethiopians
to defend Harar and Jajigo were i
reported by European refugees.
Paris—Representatives of three
million war veterans and a group
of Lyon business men urged Pre
mier Lxuil to work for postpone
ment of sanctions against Italy.
London —A British ambulance
unit left for active service in
Ethiopia. British officials said
Secretary of State Hull’s warning
of United States exporter* was a
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, OCTOBER DEATHS
ON HIGHWAY REACH
i NEW HIGH OF 113
1 -
Capital Hill Fears The Mo
tor Vehicle Bureau Will
Show More Than That
Figure
EIGHT ARE KILLED
DURING WEEK-END
Four Die in Crash in South
Carolina; Fairmont School
Boy Killed by School Bus;
Two are Killed at Washr
ington; Others Injured wn»
Crashes.
Raleigh. Nov. 16.—(AP)— An all
time record for automobile fatalities
was sot in North Carolina during Oc
tober. State Bureau of Vital Statistics
today reported there were 319 deaths
in motor vehicle mishaps in October,
which exceeds by two the all time
monthly high of 117 in December, 1934
As the Bureau of Vital Statistics us
ually does not list as many fatalities
as State Motor Vehicle, which records
them regardless of residenie of the
injured, it was feared on Capitol Hill
that a final lheck would reveal that
more than 120 persons died in auto
mobile accidents last month.
There were 316 automobile deaths
reported by the Motor Vehicle Bureau
for September and 94 for October,
1934, by the Bureau of Vital statistics.
WEEK-END DEATHS ARE
EIGHT EARLY TODAY
(By the Associated Press.-
Eight persons were killed on high-,
ways of North and South Carolina
yesterday and early today.
Clifton Rush, 21. telephone lineman,
of Greenwood, S. C., and his sisters,
Thelma, 19, Ella, 17, and his cousin.
Lucille Hancock, 21, were killed when
their auto crashed into a parked truck
(Continued on Pajre Three).
FRANK KNOX SAYS
FDR LEFT PROGRAM
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i
Chicago Publisher and Re
publican Says President
On Radical Program
Washington, Nov. 16.—(AP)—-Col
onel Frank J. Knox. Chicago pub
lisher and Republican presidential
possibility said here today that Presi
dent Roosevelt endorsement of Sen
ator Norris, Republican, Nebraska,
was consistent with the course undor
which he had “abandoned his own
party program and taken up the radi
cal program.’’
“It is not at all surprising that the.
President should endorse Senator
Norris, just as he has LaFollette in-
Wisconsin,’’ Knox said, “because on
the face of things, it is obvious, he
thinks much as they do.
“President Roosevelt’s program is
no longer Democratic but radical.
The President has abandoned his own
party program and taken up the radi
cal program. This is consistent with
his own program but not on the pro
gram with which he was elected.’’
Tobacco Off
In Exports;
More Value
Great Britain Buys
Most of Tobacco
Exported With Chi
na Ranking Second
Washington, Nov. 16.--(AP) — To
bacco export during the first nine
months dropped in amount, but rose
in value.
Shipments, the Commerce depart
ment said, today 225,985,954 pounds
valued at $73,515,528, compared with
299,813,219 pounds valued at $72,-
236.381 during the corresponding per
iod last year.
Great. Britian was the best custom
ei taking 100.000,000 pounds, China
ranked second, with 14,355.118 pounds*